How to Prosper in Famine: Part Two

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No more shallow Christianity.

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No more shallow living.

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No more living just so people can see I'm doing this thing.

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I want it to be deeply rooted in my soul.

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Where God, the hope of glory, lives in me.

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And breathes in me and moves in me and has his way in me.

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I don't want shallow living.

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I want living by the Holy Spirit's power.

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No more shallow Christianity.

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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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Put your hands together for my brother and my friend in this house.

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Nathaniel St. Lord.

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Lord.

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Praise the Lord.

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Thank God.

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My oldest son is here in the front with me and made me think of a story.

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His name is Makai.

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I think most of you guys have seen him or know him.

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He's a teenager now.

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So I got to embarrass him.

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Humble him a little bit.

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No, but I was thinking of a story.

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I bought him this toy.

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And it was like this ball, but it was controlled by coding.

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And you put certain stuff in there, and it works.

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It changes colors.

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It, like, rolls around different places.

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It was actually really cool.

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But...

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You know, as a dad, I take pride in every toy that comes in the house.

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I change the batteries.

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I fix it.

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So I'm like, I got this, son.

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I'm going to fix this toy.

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And he's like, okay, dad.

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So I'm like trying to figure this thing out.

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But I'm going to be honest.

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I've never done coding before.

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So I'm like, I don't have any idea what I'm doing here.

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And he's like, oh, dad, I got it.

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I know how to fix it.

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And I'm like, nah, I'm good.

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I got this.

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I got this.

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I'm trying to fix it.

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And then finally, maybe after 20 minutes, you remember this?

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I said, all right, you can try.

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Within two minutes, the toy's fixed.

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It's rolling around, changing colors, doing all this stuff.

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And the Holy Spirit gave me a revelation.

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I'm like, oh, God, I'm going to fix it.

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And the revelation was, I didn't know the language that that toy spoke.

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There was a language that was different from the language that I knew.

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And the Holy Spirit spoke to me and ministered to me right at that moment and was like, there's a language that heaven responds to.

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It's called the language of praise.

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And if you want God to do anything in your life, you got to come to him right.

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I came with my mindset.

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I know how to do this.

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But I believe.

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That God is saying, if you come with a mindset of praise, you're going to see me do things in your life that you could never imagine.

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So can we just for the next minute lift up our hands and there's a language heaven responds to.

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It's not the language of complaining.

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It's not the language of bitterness.

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It's not the language of anger.

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It's not the language of hurt.

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It's the language of praise.

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So can we for the next 30 seconds lift.

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Just open our mouths and give Jesus a praise in this house and release the language that attracts heaven, that attracts God to our situations.

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Hallelujah.

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Come on.

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For the next 20 seconds, give God a praise with the fruit of your lips.

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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Come on, invite heaven in the room.

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Invite heaven to invade earth.

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Invite Jesus to come in your situation and set you free and deliver you and to bring breakthrough into your life, to break off the spirit of depression, to break off the spirit of hurt, to break off the mundane cycle.

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Come on, give him a praise right now.

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Hallelujah.

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Genesis chapter 26.

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Y'all ready?

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There's a language heaven responds to.

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If you want heaven to respond to your situation, you got to speak the language of heaven and his praise.

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A lot of you speak the language of the world and that's the language of complaining.

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That's the language of anger and bitterness.

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That's the language of this world.

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I'm speaking the language of heaven.

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In all things, it is his will to give thanks in Christ Jesus.

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I'm going to speak the language of heaven.

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Psalm 107 verse 6 says, They cried out to the Lord.

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He heard them and he delivered them from all of their trouble.

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All right, let's get into this word.

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So before I even read Genesis 26, can I say something about...

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this particular series that I've done in the last couple of weeks.

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If you didn't hear the first part, please go back and listen to it because it's imperative for you to even understand what's happening here.

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So, and I'm gonna just do a quick review for all those who weren't here.

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Are y'all okay with that?

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All right.

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So Genesis chapter 12 is what we talked about last week and we talked about the famine that came during the time of Abraham.

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What's very interesting is that God calls Abraham in Genesis chapter 12.

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That's the first time we hear Abraham's name.

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That's the first account we have of Abraham.

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That's the first time we hear God gives him a promise.

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Abraham, I'm going to bless those that bless you.

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I'm going to curse him who curses you.

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Abraham, through your descendants, the families of the earth will be blessed.

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Look at the stars of the sky.

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That's how much I'm going to bless you.

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Look at the sand on the seashore.

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That's how much I'm going to bless you.

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I'm going to allow your descendants to be blessed.

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And he even said that through you, the families of the earth will be blessed.

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I'm talking about blessing after blessing after blessing that was spoken and released over Abraham's life.

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And guess what happens after Abraham gets all those blessings?

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The scripture says it in Genesis 12 verse 10.

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It says as soon as Abraham gets these amazing promises, he gets his breakthrough.

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He comes to church.

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He comes to the altar.

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He falls out.

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He speaks in tongues for the first time.

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He prophesies for the first time.

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God uses him.

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I mean, seriously.

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supernatural things start happening in his life.

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God blesses his family and his finances and he gets married and he has children and there's great things happening.

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The next thing that happens in Abraham's life after getting the promise, the miracles, the blessing, the favor, the open door, God speaking to him, God showing up in this situation, God calling him out of an old season to a new season, calling him out of bitterness and bringing him into a place of freedom, calling him out of hurt and bringing him to a place of restoration.

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happens in the life of Abraham in verse 10 the Bible says there was a famine in the land it seems like God you said all these things you promised all these things but I'm not seeing the manifestation of what you promised you said that you were gonna bless me you said you were gonna bless my marriage you said you were gonna bless my children I'm at odds right now with my husband I'm at odds with my wife God you told me that

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That you're going to open mega doors for me.

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And you're going to do miracles in my business.

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But my business is struggling.

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And I don't see the solution.

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I want to let you know something.

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Famine is not the end for you as the child of God.

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You may be in famine, but famine won't be in you.

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You are going to prosper in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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Whatever you put your hands to by faith, God's going to put his hand on you and give you supernatural blessing and abundance.

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If you believe it, say yes.

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All right.

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So now that we saw what happened with Abraham, and if you want the full story, then you have to go back to next last week or you can read it in the text.

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I think the sermon is even better.

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Because not only did we read the word, it was preached and taught.

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So I think that you're going to get something from it.

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So we're going to now look at Abraham's son.

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Isaac in Genesis chapter 26, because even though Abraham went through a famine, Isaac also went through a famine.

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And then, you know, it's crazy.

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A few chapters later in Genesis chapter 43, 44, there's another man.

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His name is Jacob.

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He's the son of Isaac.

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He's the grandson of Abraham.

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And they go through a famine.

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And you see three generations going through a famine.

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And what you have to do in order to overcome and win and prosper in the midst of famine, you will not die in this famine.

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spiritually you will not decline in this famine financially you will not decline in the famine god's gonna bless you and keep blessing you and keep blessing you and keep blessing you and keep blessing you and not just bless you he's gonna bless you and your children and your children's children everything you touch by faith will be blessed all right genesis 26 1 look at this

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There was a famine in the land besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.

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We just talked about that.

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And Isaac went to Abimelech, the king of the Philistines in Gehar.

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Verse 2.

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Then the Lord appeared to him and said to him, do not go down to Egypt.

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What was Abraham's mistake?

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If you were here two weeks ago, you remember?

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He went down to Egypt.

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Egypt symbolically, when you see it throughout the scriptures, always symbolizes the world's system.

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Right.

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During famine, what people want to do is run to the world's system, the way the world does things and the way the world handles things.

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And God specifically tells Isaac the way the world does it is not how I want you to do it.

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The world goes to Egypt because if you know anything about Egypt, it is a very prosperous place.

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It was a place where there was much blessing.

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Egypt had something called the Nile River, which was very productive, which brought a lot of life and sustenance and goodness around it.

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And guess what?

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The natural, normal thing was to go to Egypt to the point where we don't even know if Isaac wanted to go, but God was like...

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I know the temptation.

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I'm going to warn you because I know the temptation.

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I know what happened with your father Abraham when he went down there.

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Don't go to Egypt.

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Live in the land which I will tell you.

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Verse 3.

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I got to hurry up.

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Dwell in this land and I will be with you and bless you.

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For to you and your descendants, I will give these lands and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham, your father.

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Hey, the land that you're in right now, stay here because that's the land that I'm eventually going to give you and your entire family to possess.

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It looks like a land of famine, but it's actually the land of promise.

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Oh, I could preach that.

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What looks like your land of famine is the place of promise that God's going to bring you into.

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Hey, my business seems like it's not doing well, like I'm in famine.

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That's going to be the place of promise.

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Oh, my, it looks like my kids are going crazy.

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No, no, your kids are not going crazy.

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Your husband's not going crazy.

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Your wife is not going crazy.

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Your life is not in chaos.

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That's the place of promise.

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Just stay in the land.

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Just stay in the land.

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Just stay where he called you.

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Just stay.

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Park the car right there.

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Stop trying to go.

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All right.

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That's for the first point.

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Okay.

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And I will perform.

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Oh, they're like, you need to hurry up.

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We're not even going to let you read the rest of the verse.

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And I will perform the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

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Verse 4.

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And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven.

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And I will give your descendants all these lands.

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And in your seed the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

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Verse 5.

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And then we'll read the next stuff after.

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Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, and my statutes, and my laws.

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Okay, we're done.

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So when we see the story, we see Isaac is in a very similar situation to his father Abraham.

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This is 150 years later.

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And he's in a very similar place to his father.

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There is a famine in the land.

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And he gets a word from God in the midst of the famine.

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The first thing that he has to do to prosper in the famine.

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The first thing that he has to do.

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The first principle is he had to stay where God called him.

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This is so good.

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You see, this is the point I stayed on the whole time and wasn't able to finish preaching my sermon because it was so good.

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He had to stay where God told him to be.

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Everything in him wanted to go to Egypt.

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Everything in him wanted to follow the system of the world and the way the world did things when famine came.

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And God says, don't move back.

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Don't go to Egypt.

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Stay where I've called you to stay.

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I want to ask you a question.

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Are you planted where God's called you to be planted?

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Are you staying where God's called you?

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Because the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

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The grass is greener where you water it.

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A lot of you are complaining about your church.

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I don't like it.

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I don't like this.

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When was the last time you served?

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Are you planted here?

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Because many of you are not experiencing the benefits of the blessing of where you are because you're not planted there.

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There's a difference between going to a church and being planted in a church.

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Some of you are not planted where God called you to be planted.

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You are just an attendee, you come once a week, you come once a month, you come three times a year, you come for Easter and Christmas and when there's a guest speaker, but you're not planted.

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Being planted is the place where God's able to prosper you and meet you and bless your family.

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Well, my marriage isn't good.

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Are you planted in the marriage?

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Are you looking at other women and other men and other situations?

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Are you planted?

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Well, nothing's going right in my job.

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Are you actually planted when you're there for the eight hours?

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Are you actually working hard?

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Are you actually doing your assignments?

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Are you actually listening to your boss?

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I want to ask you a question.

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Are you planted?

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Where you're planted is the place where God can prosper you.

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Many of you have not decided and made a decision to be planted.

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The planted people are the people who are going to be blessed by heaven.

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Are you planted?

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A lot of you are not planted.

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And when a tree and when a plant isn't planted, it dies.

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Because the root system can't grow where you're not planted.

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Oh, it's beautiful.

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Once you take any flower...

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out of the place where it was planted, it immediately starts dying.

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You can't see it yet.

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But give it a few days.

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Give it a few weeks.

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Give it a few months, it'll start dying.

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Because it's not where it's supposed to be.

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But I come to prophesy to you and let you know that God says, as you're planted where you're supposed to be, that's going to be the place of prosperity for you.

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That's going to be the place of open doors for you.

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That's going to be the place of blessing for you.

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Isaac had a word from God.

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Be planted here.

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Don't leave this place because this is the place of your promise.

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This is the place I'm giving to your descendants.

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This is the place I'm giving to your children.

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Are you planted?

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Planted people are blessed people.

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Planted people are people who God will allow to do anything in your life.

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Are you planted?

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All right.

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I want us to look at this verse.

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Jeremiah chapter 7, 17, verse 7 and 8.

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Look at this.

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Are y'all here with me?

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Second service is mad serious.

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They're looking like they've been baptized in lemon juice.

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I was like, what happened?

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Oh, it's a word.

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They can't say amen.

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They can just say, ouch.

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When the word hurts, sometimes you go, ouch, Lord.

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Ah, that hurt me.

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Are you placed?

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Jeremiah 17, verse 7.

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Look what it says.

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Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.

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So, can we go back a little bit?

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Because there's going to be two different types of people.

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Yeah, let's go to verse 5.

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There's going to be a case study here in Jeremiah chapter 17.

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I really love this case study.

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The case study is between two different people.

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One who trusts the Lord, who puts their faith in the Lord, and one who doesn't.

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And you're going to see the blessing and the curse of each person.

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Look at this.

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It says, Jeremiah 17 verse 5.

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Thus saith the Lord, cursed is the man who trusts in man.

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So we're starting off really bad here.

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This is someone who's putting their faith in people, putting their faith in other humans.

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And it says this and makes flesh his strength.

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So there are people who put their faith in other people and put their faith in their own abilities and their own strength to get it done.

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It says whose heart departs from the Lord.

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Look what verse six says.

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What happens to that man?

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Look at the case study for he will be like a shrub in the desert.

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A shrub is very small.

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And it says, when you put your faith in other people...

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And you put your faith in your own abilities, not God's abilities through you, not God's spirit through you, not God's strength through you.

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In your own abilities, look what happens.

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You're going to be like a shrub.

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A shrub is small.

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It's limiting.

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It doesn't have fruit on it.

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It doesn't have any ability to really produce.

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It says you're going to be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when good comes.

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This is my favorite part of the verse because there's people, they can never see anything good that's happening.

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They're so stuck on what's wrong and what's bad and what's happening in the government and the economy and the world and the system.

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They're so stuck.

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They can never see what goodness God is actually pouring out on his people.

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Stop focusing on all the bad things happening.

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how bad your life is, how bad your marriage is, how bad your situation is, how bad things are.

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Because your focus on what's bad is one of the things that's holding you back from walking in the favor and the blessing of God.

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Today, I'm changing my attitude.

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When bad things come my way, the Bible says, I will not fear bad news.

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For my heart is steadfast trusting the Lord because my hope is in him.

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When bad things come your way, God wants to change your perspective.

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I think the issue is,

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We think that God wants to change the conditions on the outside when God wants to change the condition of our hearts.

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What he's really trying to do a work in is the work on the inside, the inner man.

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God, there's a famine all around me.

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Please change my circumstance.

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And God goes, perfect.

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I'm going to change you.

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Perfect.

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Because before I can change your circumstance, I got to change your attitude.

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Before I can change the famine, I have to do an internal work of cleansing by the Holy Spirit.

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Before you can do the external work, there's an internal revelation you need of transformation and change that can only come by the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Lord, do the internal work.

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Do the work that no one can see.

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A shrub could be seen.

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Do you want to be seen?

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Or do you want God to do the work?

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Most of you, you'd rather be seen by man than to allow the Holy Spirit to do that internal work and cleansing.

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When you have this mentality, you could never see when good comes.

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God is pouring out goodness all the time on his people.

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I'm telling you, there is goodness all around.

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Because when you're a child of God, he says, I give good gifts to my children.

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He said, if you ask me for bread, I will not give you a stone.

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If you ask me for a fish, I'm not going to give you a serpent.

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I'm not that kind of God who does you dirty like that.

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I'm here to give you good gifts.

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I'm here to bless you with good things.

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But some of you, your mindset is so stuck on what's negative and what's bad and what's toxic that you're not even able to see when good comes.

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so much goodness God's pouring out.

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The Bible even says this, goodness and mercy shall follow me all not some of the days, all the days of my life.

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God's plan and purpose is to allow you to live in the goodness of God.

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Yeah, I'm not living according to what the system of the world is or according to what's happening around me.

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I'm living based off the revelation that I serve a good God who has good gifts, good things in store for me, good things in store for my family, good things in store for my marriage, good things in store for my finances.

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I will experience the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

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Somebody say yes.

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How can a good father give you bad things?

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He's a good God.

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Somebody better praise God on that.

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He's a good God.

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But it says they will not see when good comes.

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Literally, there's a block.

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Some of you have a veil over your eyes.

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You have a veil over your spirit that you only attract bad things.

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I'm going to say amen.

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Because y'all don't want to say amen.

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Say ouch.

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And the reason why you're attracting bad things is because you have a bad attitude.

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You have a bad perspective about everything.

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Everyone's trying to do me wrong.

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Everyone's trying to hurt me.

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It's because of things that you've gone through.

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You still haven't been healed from the past seasons you were in.

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My God, this is good.

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And so because of that, everything you see is from the perspective of negativity and toxicity and hurt and pain.

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And the Lord says, today's the day of your freedom.

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Today is the day where I cleanse you from that stuff.

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Today is the day where I wash you.

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Today is the day where I do an internal work on the inside of you.

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Because this is not about God getting you out of the famine.

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This is about God prospering you in the midst of the famine.

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This is not about God bringing me out of my situation.

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This is about me being right in the middle of all hell.

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And being prosperous and blessed.

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And not bitter and not angry.

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Having joy and peace and goodness and mercy and favor all over.

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All around me.

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Hallelujah.

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That's his will.

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Look what happens to people who don't trust in the Lord.

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They're going to be in famine.

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Because you know what's interesting?

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We're going to read in verse 7 about the man who trusts in the Lord.

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They're both in famine.

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Can I tell you something?

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I don't care how righteous you are.

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When famine comes, famine comes.

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Yes.

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I don't care how much you pray.

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You can pray 30 hours.

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When famine comes, famine is coming.

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If the nation's facing famine, we're all facing it.

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But guess what?

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God can prosper you in the midst of famine when you trust in him.

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So both of them are experiencing the same thing, but there's different results.

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I want to prophesy to three people.

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You could be experiencing what everyone around you will experience.

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But the Lord says you will have different results.

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You will have results of favor and peace and goodness and prosperity.

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While they're struggling, God says you're going to be blessed.

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Somebody say, I'm blessed.

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All right.

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It says, they keep moving these verses on me.

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Like, you better hurry up.

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I wasn't done yet.

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It says...

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But shall inhabit the parched places...

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So they're going to live in dry places, dry land.

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That's what the Bible says.

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Parched places, dry wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

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Look at this.

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I need you to see the picture, the case study of the person who put their trust in themselves in the midst of famine.

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Those who put faith in their own abilities.

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Those who put faith in other people.

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Look what happens to them, the scripture says.

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They're going to be like a shrub in the desert, which means small things.

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They won't have any reach.

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They won't be able to be influential because they're going to be small and they're going to start dying right in the desert.

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It says they will not see good.

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They will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness and they'll be in a salt land which is inhabited.

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They're going to be alone, depressed, hurt in their apartment crying about how bad everything is and how bad everyone is.

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And this guy broke my heart and this girl broke my heart and I don't know what to do and I'm depressed.

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and I'm fearful and I'm angry and God, how come things never work out good for me?

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That's what happens when you put faith in yourself and you put faith in your own abilities.

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You get small, shriveled.

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You get no life.

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You get no productivity.

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You're depressed.

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You're anxious.

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You're angry all the time.

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You're mad at the world.

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You don't even know why you're mad.

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You wake up angry.

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You wake up depressed.

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You wake up just feeling like I don't even know.

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I'm so alone and no one is with me.

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But here's the difference between someone who puts their faith in themselves and put their faith in God.

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Look at verse 7.

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Blessed is the man who trusts the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.

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Look what it says happens to that person.

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They will be like a tree.

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Planted.

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My first point, and I'm still on it.

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Are you planted?

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Planted.

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The shrub is not planted.

478
00:27:50.058 --> 00:27:50.238
Planted.

479
00:27:51.972 --> 00:27:53.213
You know, the scripture talks about it.

480
00:27:53.253 --> 00:27:54.054
Jesus says it.

481
00:27:54.294 --> 00:27:57.777
He says it in Mark chapter 4 where he's talking about the parable of the sower.

482
00:27:57.997 --> 00:28:03.061
He said there's some people, they grow really quick, but because they have no root system, they're not planted.

483
00:28:03.301 --> 00:28:05.483
It says the sun is going to come and scorch them.

484
00:28:05.763 --> 00:28:18.773
And there's a lot of you, you come here, you get excited about the word, but you don't have a root system in God, a root system in prayer, a root system in community, a root system with someone who will look at you and tell you, you're dead wrong here.

485
00:28:19.053 --> 00:28:21.055
And you need God in this situation.

486
00:28:22.708 --> 00:28:24.169
You need to be rooted.

487
00:28:24.189 --> 00:28:28.190
Is the place of being rooted is the place of your blessing?

488
00:28:29.050 --> 00:28:29.911
Are you rooted?

489
00:28:31.191 --> 00:28:33.332
Have you allowed the Lord to plant you?

490
00:28:34.412 --> 00:28:35.673
Are you planted here?

491
00:28:36.273 --> 00:28:38.514
Are you just someone who comes once in a while?

492
00:28:41.075 --> 00:28:43.996
Because I'm going to tell you what happens when you're someone who's not planted.

493
00:28:44.736 --> 00:28:50.138
Is that when the storms come and the winds come and the famine comes, who you are gets really revealed.

494
00:28:51.417 --> 00:28:52.338
Oh, amen.

495
00:28:52.378 --> 00:28:53.298
That was so good.

496
00:28:54.059 --> 00:28:58.442
When you are not planted, when the storms come, you can see the difference.

497
00:28:58.782 --> 00:29:06.028
That person who comes with the excitement and they're excited and then something happens in their lives and you don't see them for six months, they haven't been planted.

498
00:29:07.569 --> 00:29:15.334
When you're planted, you don't allow the environment of the outside to determine what's happening on the inside.

499
00:29:16.255 --> 00:29:20.218
You start saying, there's a storm happening on the outside and I'm going to sleep on the back of the boat.

500
00:29:22.010 --> 00:29:28.095
Yeah, there could be famine all around me, but I'm still going to have joy and peace, and I'm still going to be blessed in the midst of famine.

501
00:29:28.855 --> 00:29:29.836
Somebody say, I'm blessed.

502
00:29:31.097 --> 00:29:35.060
It says, this is what it says about the person and how God's going to bless them in the midst of famine.

503
00:29:35.080 --> 00:29:39.123
It says, you shall be like a tree planted by the...

504
00:29:41.064 --> 00:29:41.965
Hold on, but there's a famine.

505
00:29:43.446 --> 00:29:44.067
But there's a famine.

506
00:29:44.087 --> 00:29:44.447
Famine.

507
00:29:47.758 --> 00:29:48.459
How you got water?

508
00:29:48.499 --> 00:29:49.339
There's a famine.

509
00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:52.162
Famine means no food, no water.

510
00:29:53.563 --> 00:29:57.487
The root system is so deep that the water's not coming from the external.

511
00:29:59.869 --> 00:30:01.931
The water's coming from the internal.

512
00:30:02.712 --> 00:30:09.178
And some of you are looking for stuff on the outside in the midst of famine, and God said, everything you already need, I put it inside of you by the Holy Spirit.

513
00:30:09.198 --> 00:30:09.418
Amen.

514
00:30:10.803 --> 00:30:14.445
Stop looking for outside sources, outside people, outside influence.

515
00:30:14.766 --> 00:30:17.407
Everything you need to be rich, I already placed it in you.

516
00:30:17.747 --> 00:30:20.049
Everything you need to conquer, I already placed it in you.

517
00:30:20.289 --> 00:30:22.831
Everything you need to overcome this, I already placed it in you.

518
00:30:22.871 --> 00:30:30.756
By the Holy Spirit, everything you need for life and godliness to live productive, to be everything God called you to, you don't need any external forces.

519
00:30:30.976 --> 00:30:33.978
You already got the Holy Spirit that has all the answers.

520
00:30:34.178 --> 00:30:37.040
The Bible says the anointing will teach you all things.

521
00:30:37.160 --> 00:31:04.761
things God will give you the tools and the metrics you need to succeed and to prosper I want to let you know something you don't have to go on the outside to get something from anyone else God placed everything inside of you that you need to win and prosper it's so interesting the forest is not in the future the forest is in the seed and

522
00:31:06.730 --> 00:31:09.632
Some of you are looking, oh God, how are you going to bless me?

523
00:31:09.972 --> 00:31:10.672
What are you going to do?

524
00:31:11.212 --> 00:31:12.673
Your future is in seed.

525
00:31:12.733 --> 00:31:15.675
Your future is not in something that you can see externally.

526
00:31:15.895 --> 00:31:19.517
God's already placed everything in seed form that you need inside of you.

527
00:31:20.638 --> 00:31:21.958
My God, this is good stuff.

528
00:31:22.499 --> 00:31:26.761
God placed everything in seed form and all he needs you to do is water the ground.

529
00:31:28.060 --> 00:31:29.541
Like I said, the grass isn't greener.

530
00:31:30.042 --> 00:31:32.304
On the other side, it's greener where you water it.

531
00:31:32.604 --> 00:31:34.506
Have you been watering the ground of your heart?

532
00:31:34.847 --> 00:31:37.129
Have you been watering the ground with the word of God?

533
00:31:37.389 --> 00:31:39.471
Have you been watering the ground with fasting?

534
00:31:39.711 --> 00:31:44.416
Have you been watering the ground with sowing and giving and being a part and serving?

535
00:31:44.616 --> 00:31:50.578
Because when you begin to water the ground with those things, then you give the Holy Spirit room to make you productive and to grow.

536
00:31:50.798 --> 00:31:57.139
The Bible says that the man who doesn't trust in the Lord is like a shrub, small, confined, shriveling.

537
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:01.941
But the man who puts his faith in the Lord is like a tree planted by the rivers.

538
00:32:02.121 --> 00:32:04.161
And it says his roots will spread out.

539
00:32:04.381 --> 00:32:06.262
That means he won't stay at the same place.

540
00:32:06.522 --> 00:32:08.062
He's not focused on what?

541
00:32:08.562 --> 00:32:10.403
Anything else but just growing himself.

542
00:32:10.583 --> 00:32:12.324
He's focused on being better.

543
00:32:12.364 --> 00:32:18.227
He's focused on just increasing and enhancing and prospering.

544
00:32:18.427 --> 00:32:20.828
He's not focused on things that don't matter.

545
00:32:21.028 --> 00:32:27.551
He realizes that the source of his strength and the source of his root system has nothing to do with him.

546
00:32:27.731 --> 00:32:31.713
But it has to do with the living water that's flowing on the inside of him.

547
00:32:31.993 --> 00:32:35.115
And his roots start going out so that he can get living water.

548
00:32:35.355 --> 00:32:36.595
She can get living water.

549
00:32:36.815 --> 00:32:39.757
Because I need God in order to prosper and win.

550
00:32:40.983 --> 00:32:42.444
Where's your root system?

551
00:32:44.265 --> 00:32:49.548
When your root system is connected to the well of God, the river of God, you're going to prosper.

552
00:32:50.689 --> 00:32:56.812
And it says, they will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green.

553
00:32:57.853 --> 00:33:03.336
And it says, and will not be anxious in the year of drought.

554
00:33:03.756 --> 00:33:04.517
That means famine.

555
00:33:05.378 --> 00:33:11.163
That means when there's nothing happening that you can see on the external, you're still going to be able to prosper.

556
00:33:12.565 --> 00:33:15.728
Man, can I prophesy this to three people in the room?

557
00:33:16.268 --> 00:33:18.710
That even when you don't see it, God's doing it.

558
00:33:20.512 --> 00:33:23.315
Even when you can't see it, Lord, we're praying for a child.

559
00:33:23.515 --> 00:33:24.736
Lord, we're praying to have a baby.

560
00:33:24.956 --> 00:33:26.738
You may not see it, God's doing it.

561
00:33:27.822 --> 00:33:29.483
You're praying for your business.

562
00:33:29.763 --> 00:33:30.464
You don't see it.

563
00:33:30.704 --> 00:33:31.545
God's doing it.

564
00:33:32.225 --> 00:33:33.886
Yeah, you're praying for your situation.

565
00:33:34.107 --> 00:33:38.210
It seems impossible, but God is doing it.

566
00:33:39.130 --> 00:33:44.074
Everything you believe for, because you're a righteous man, God is doing it.

567
00:33:44.314 --> 00:33:53.841
You will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will you cease from yielding fruit.

568
00:33:53.881 --> 00:33:54.822
You're going to be fruitful.

569
00:33:56.032 --> 00:33:58.115
Everything you touch by faith is going to produce.

570
00:33:58.495 --> 00:33:59.477
It's going to be prosperous.

571
00:33:59.777 --> 00:34:01.619
It's going to be blessed because you're planted.

572
00:34:02.921 --> 00:34:03.662
Are you planted?

573
00:34:05.765 --> 00:34:06.826
That's my question for you today.

574
00:34:07.066 --> 00:34:09.209
Because you want to overcome the famine.

575
00:34:09.529 --> 00:34:12.814
The first thing Isaac had to do was stay where God told him to stay.

576
00:34:14.079 --> 00:34:15.500
I'm not looking to move to a different city.

577
00:34:15.520 --> 00:34:16.920
I'm not looking to move to a different place.

578
00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:21.182
I'm not looking for greener grass and better pastures on the other side.

579
00:34:21.382 --> 00:34:22.903
No, I'm going to stay where God called me.

580
00:34:23.163 --> 00:34:24.603
I'm not going to try to look for another wife.

581
00:34:24.843 --> 00:34:26.684
God's going to bless me with the wife that I have.

582
00:34:27.144 --> 00:34:28.685
I'm not going to look for another husband.

583
00:34:28.905 --> 00:34:31.126
God's going to bless you with the husband you already have.

584
00:34:31.166 --> 00:34:31.986
Come on, somebody.

585
00:34:32.547 --> 00:34:33.387
Somebody say amen.

586
00:34:33.547 --> 00:34:35.228
I'm not looking for a better church.

587
00:34:35.608 --> 00:34:36.148
Guess what?

588
00:34:36.368 --> 00:34:37.509
My church is good enough.

589
00:34:37.789 --> 00:34:42.671
God placed me here, and if he placed me here, this church must prosper because I'm here.

590
00:34:43.717 --> 00:34:44.177
Amen.

591
00:34:44.477 --> 00:34:46.978
I must yield fruit because I'm here.

592
00:34:47.198 --> 00:34:51.459
And if God called you to a place, it must be blessed because you're there.

593
00:34:51.799 --> 00:34:53.760
It must yield fruit because you're there.

594
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:58.981
Wherever you are, you're like a tree and trees don't only think about themselves.

595
00:34:59.261 --> 00:35:01.282
Trees provide shade for other people.

596
00:35:02.282 --> 00:35:03.983
Trees provide fruit for other people.

597
00:35:04.343 --> 00:35:07.324
Our focus on ourselves is the thing that's killing us.

598
00:35:07.564 --> 00:35:13.646
When you start worrying and focusing only on you, you become a shrub, small, contained, limited.

599
00:35:13.786 --> 00:35:18.868
But when you become like a tree planted by the river and you start saying, my life is not just for me.

600
00:35:19.148 --> 00:35:21.249
My life's gonna be a blessing for the nations.

601
00:35:21.509 --> 00:35:23.769
My life's gonna be a blessing for this generation.

602
00:35:24.089 --> 00:35:28.491
I'm gonna use my gifts to impact women and impact men and impact children.

603
00:35:28.751 --> 00:35:35.116
and touch the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ, I'm not going to try to just hold on to my money and hold on to my stuff.

604
00:35:35.396 --> 00:35:36.617
I'm going to be one that gives.

605
00:35:36.897 --> 00:35:38.498
If you need fruit, I got it.

606
00:35:38.758 --> 00:35:40.520
If you need sustenance, I got it.

607
00:35:40.740 --> 00:35:42.441
If you need shade, I got it.

608
00:35:42.621 --> 00:35:47.565
Because my sustenance and shade and my fruit doesn't come from me.

609
00:35:47.905 --> 00:35:49.747
It comes from the God of heaven.

610
00:35:50.087 --> 00:35:53.329
He's blessed me, and my root system is strong.

611
00:35:53.650 --> 00:35:57.933
And because of that, whatever I do will prosper.

612
00:36:00.912 --> 00:36:02.753
Because I got a strong root system.

613
00:36:03.133 --> 00:36:04.034
It's in God.

614
00:36:04.814 --> 00:36:09.117
And famine will not stop me or detour me from my destiny.

615
00:36:10.738 --> 00:36:11.419
All right.

616
00:36:11.439 --> 00:36:12.860
This is way different than the first service.

617
00:36:14.060 --> 00:36:14.581
But it's good.

618
00:36:14.601 --> 00:36:16.582
All right, look at this.

619
00:36:17.543 --> 00:36:18.463
Psalm 92.

620
00:36:20.044 --> 00:36:20.765
Psalm 92.

621
00:36:22.265 --> 00:36:22.946
Are you planted?

622
00:36:24.847 --> 00:36:26.128
Oh, now I'm getting some amens.

623
00:36:27.329 --> 00:36:29.370
When I asked the question before, everyone was like...

624
00:36:33.264 --> 00:36:34.845
If you're not planted, today's the day.

625
00:36:36.166 --> 00:36:36.786
Today's the day.

626
00:36:37.527 --> 00:36:40.248
I'm going to start doing my devotion every day.

627
00:36:41.289 --> 00:36:43.350
See, some of y'all think it's some deep thing to get planted.

628
00:36:43.911 --> 00:36:44.811
It's just the simple things.

629
00:36:45.091 --> 00:36:49.094
I'm waking up 20 minutes earlier every day, and I'm going to pray before I go to work.

630
00:36:50.995 --> 00:36:51.395
You know what?

631
00:36:52.276 --> 00:36:55.638
Instead of going to church every week, one week, I'm going to sign up to serve.

632
00:37:02.435 --> 00:37:03.616
Because they got silent on me.

633
00:37:04.617 --> 00:37:06.919
I'm always here to receive and receive and receive and receive.

634
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:08.681
And then you realize you're like a shrub.

635
00:37:09.601 --> 00:37:10.262
You're dried up.

636
00:37:10.582 --> 00:37:11.123
You're alone.

637
00:37:11.923 --> 00:37:12.764
You don't got community.

638
00:37:13.725 --> 00:37:14.486
No life groups.

639
00:37:14.746 --> 00:37:16.147
No connection with other believers.

640
00:37:16.508 --> 00:37:20.451
That's, you know, you know the reason why a lot of people just continue and sin?

641
00:37:21.052 --> 00:37:22.673
Because they got no community.

642
00:37:23.914 --> 00:37:24.575
No community.

643
00:37:24.835 --> 00:37:27.838
You know, a lot of people don't want community because they don't want people to know their stuff.

644
00:37:27.938 --> 00:37:28.078
Yep.

645
00:37:29.174 --> 00:37:30.514
Oh, I'm going to say amen for that.

646
00:37:31.235 --> 00:37:32.235
I've been in church for too long.

647
00:37:32.255 --> 00:37:33.495
I know how you church people move.

648
00:37:35.676 --> 00:37:37.116
You stay isolated.

649
00:37:37.376 --> 00:37:40.297
You stay to yourself because you want to stay in your secret sin.

650
00:37:41.358 --> 00:37:43.998
And you know church people got enough discernment to be like.

651
00:37:46.939 --> 00:37:49.060
So y'all come into church together.

652
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:54.281
Same car, same address when I mail out the stuff.

653
00:37:55.662 --> 00:37:56.802
And y'all not married.

654
00:38:02.485 --> 00:38:03.786
I don't want no one to know my business.

655
00:38:03.826 --> 00:38:05.888
No, you don't want anyone to call you out on your sin.

656
00:38:05.908 --> 00:38:07.629
Oh, this is good stuff.

657
00:38:07.649 --> 00:38:09.390
You don't want anyone to call you out on your mess.

658
00:38:09.671 --> 00:38:12.132
And so you stay isolated and you stay away from people.

659
00:38:12.152 --> 00:38:13.393
And you try to use it as an excuse.

660
00:38:13.594 --> 00:38:14.754
I'm just guarding myself.

661
00:38:14.955 --> 00:38:16.656
No, you're just protecting your sin.

662
00:38:18.938 --> 00:38:19.678
This is good.

663
00:38:19.698 --> 00:38:20.799
And everyone's going to say amen.

664
00:38:21.660 --> 00:38:24.922
If you don't like it, Pastor David Wagner's coming next to you.

665
00:38:26.724 --> 00:38:29.486
And he's going to be like, the love of the Father, the Father's heart.

666
00:38:32.067 --> 00:38:33.308
I didn't come with that message.

667
00:38:37.590 --> 00:38:38.991
The father's heart for you.

668
00:38:39.011 --> 00:38:43.954
David Wagner's going to hit you with that next week.

669
00:38:46.035 --> 00:38:47.796
We need different facets of the word.

670
00:38:56.501 --> 00:38:57.042
Amen.

671
00:38:58.298 --> 00:39:02.343
But it's the Holy Spirit doing that digging work, digging work, digging work, digging work, digging work.

672
00:39:02.464 --> 00:39:05.828
Because you know for the root system to be strong, dig deep, dig deep, dig deep.

673
00:39:06.008 --> 00:39:07.070
The Holy Spirit got to dig deep.

674
00:39:07.210 --> 00:39:11.356
You got to dig deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper in your heart and your soul.

675
00:39:11.616 --> 00:39:15.701
So that restoration can happen and healing can happen and real growth can happen.

676
00:39:16.482 --> 00:39:17.583
Not that you're shallow.

677
00:39:17.663 --> 00:39:19.704
No more shallow Christianity.

678
00:39:20.325 --> 00:39:21.926
No more shallow living.

679
00:39:22.306 --> 00:39:25.548
No more living just so people can see I'm doing this thing.

680
00:39:25.968 --> 00:39:29.130
I want it to be deeply rooted in my soul.

681
00:39:29.651 --> 00:39:33.073
Where God, the hope of glory, lives in me.

682
00:39:33.433 --> 00:39:34.434
And breathes in me.

683
00:39:34.454 --> 00:39:35.555
And moves in me.

684
00:39:35.575 --> 00:39:36.835
And has his way in me.

685
00:39:37.176 --> 00:39:38.677
I don't want shallow living.

686
00:39:39.097 --> 00:39:42.279
I want living by the Holy Spirit's power.

687
00:39:43.139 --> 00:39:44.861
No more shallow Christianity.

688
00:39:44.881 --> 00:39:44.941
No.

689
00:39:46.328 --> 00:39:49.068
Barely able to lift up my hands because I'm bound.

690
00:39:49.389 --> 00:39:51.909
Barely able to serve God because I'm bound.

691
00:39:52.129 --> 00:39:54.409
Barely able to give because I'm bound.

692
00:39:54.609 --> 00:39:56.610
Barely able to serve God because I'm bound.

693
00:39:56.870 --> 00:39:58.410
No more being bound.

694
00:39:58.950 --> 00:40:00.650
Today's my day of freedom.

695
00:40:00.670 --> 00:40:04.931
Hallelujah.

696
00:40:05.011 --> 00:40:07.472
We got this weak, pusillanimous Christianity.

697
00:40:08.032 --> 00:40:09.112
No backbone.

698
00:40:10.632 --> 00:40:11.592
God doesn't want that.

699
00:40:11.632 --> 00:40:14.673
He wants strong men and women in his house.

700
00:40:14.693 --> 00:40:15.333
Hallelujah.

701
00:40:15.763 --> 00:40:16.704
Men of valor.

702
00:40:17.504 --> 00:40:19.065
Women of integrity.

703
00:40:20.306 --> 00:40:22.808
People who are going to serve him with their whole hearts.

704
00:40:23.068 --> 00:40:24.189
Not just give half.

705
00:40:24.749 --> 00:40:25.890
He wants it all.

706
00:40:28.772 --> 00:40:30.353
My God, he wants it all.

707
00:40:32.614 --> 00:40:34.115
That's what I mean being planted.

708
00:40:34.395 --> 00:40:37.297
I mean like not just doing the halfway Christian thing.

709
00:40:37.457 --> 00:40:39.078
And then I smoke weed on Saturday.

710
00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:44.242
But I'm drinking Henny on Monday.

711
00:40:44.262 --> 00:40:44.362
Amen.

712
00:40:45.544 --> 00:40:46.024
Amen.

713
00:40:46.084 --> 00:40:47.605
Y'all ain't gonna say nothing, but I don't care.

714
00:40:52.969 --> 00:40:54.470
But I'm gonna live with my boyfriend.

715
00:40:54.490 --> 00:40:55.671
I'm gonna live with my girlfriend.

716
00:40:55.891 --> 00:40:57.252
That's not Christianity.

717
00:40:59.613 --> 00:41:02.876
You can go to church and do that, but you can't be a real kingdom person and do it.

718
00:41:03.856 --> 00:41:07.398
Because when the Holy Spirit starts convicting you, he gets down to your business.

719
00:41:07.759 --> 00:41:12.442
I want you, I want this, the part of you that you don't want anyone to even know about.

720
00:41:12.702 --> 00:41:13.943
That's the part that I want.

721
00:41:15.296 --> 00:41:20.080
I was reading, this is way off, but this is where the Holy Spirit is telling me to go.

722
00:41:21.862 --> 00:41:31.110
I was reading the story of Gideon the other day, just in my own personal devotion, and the Lord began to speak to me, because Gideon, he had a promise from God.

723
00:41:31.150 --> 00:41:32.971
God called him a mighty man of valor.

724
00:41:32.991 --> 00:41:36.674
He goes, I'm the weakest in my tribe, weakest in my family, weakest in everything.

725
00:41:36.934 --> 00:41:39.096
I have nothing to give you, God, and God says, you do.

726
00:41:39.437 --> 00:41:43.040
Go to your father's house and tear down the idols that are in your father's house.

727
00:41:44.243 --> 00:41:45.725
Me, they're going to beat me down.

728
00:41:46.065 --> 00:41:47.326
They're going to kill me if I do this.

729
00:41:47.587 --> 00:41:49.128
God said, all right, do it at night then.

730
00:41:49.949 --> 00:41:52.332
Gideon decides to do it at night while no one's watching.

731
00:41:52.532 --> 00:41:54.394
He takes the idols in his father's house.

732
00:41:54.634 --> 00:41:55.655
He tears them down.

733
00:41:55.855 --> 00:41:57.777
And then God tells him to do something very interesting.

734
00:41:57.797 --> 00:42:01.021
He said, on top of the idols, I want you to build an altar.

735
00:42:01.882 --> 00:42:06.607
And the Holy Spirit began to speak to me and say, the only way to deal with an idol is to build an altar.

736
00:42:08.454 --> 00:42:10.435
I ain't going to say amen, but I know what I'm talking about.

737
00:42:10.715 --> 00:42:18.779
Some of you have idols to things, idols to pornography, idols to fear, idols to anxiety, idols to unforgiveness and bitterness.

738
00:42:18.979 --> 00:42:22.460
And the Holy Spirit said the only way to get rid of an idol is to build an altar.

739
00:42:23.421 --> 00:42:25.602
When was the last time you built an altar in prayer?

740
00:42:25.982 --> 00:42:29.924
When was the last time you built an altar in seeking God and saying, God, I want you?

741
00:42:31.352 --> 00:42:34.374
Yeah, it's time for us to start building altars again in the church.

742
00:42:35.115 --> 00:42:36.956
And I'm not talking about the front of a building.

743
00:42:37.157 --> 00:42:38.097
That's not an altar.

744
00:42:38.257 --> 00:42:43.622
An altar is a place where you've dedicated to spend time with God and know God for real.

745
00:42:45.003 --> 00:42:46.864
Not just what the pastor says about God.

746
00:42:47.144 --> 00:42:49.066
I have my own experience with God.

747
00:42:51.528 --> 00:42:54.870
Stop coming up on my intimate moment and saying you're intimate with him.

748
00:42:57.492 --> 00:42:59.374
Imagine a marriage like that.

749
00:43:03.715 --> 00:43:05.057
You need your own intimacy.

750
00:43:05.698 --> 00:43:06.819
You need your own time.

751
00:43:07.100 --> 00:43:08.502
You need your own prayer language.

752
00:43:08.682 --> 00:43:09.964
You need your own seeking.

753
00:43:10.004 --> 00:43:13.729
You need your own not shallow Christianity being planted.

754
00:43:14.771 --> 00:43:15.592
Look what it says.

755
00:43:15.872 --> 00:43:18.015
The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree.

756
00:43:20.286 --> 00:43:22.227
He shall grow like the cedars of Lebanon.

757
00:43:22.327 --> 00:43:25.388
I went to Israel and I saw the cedars of Lebanon when I went to Israel.

758
00:43:25.588 --> 00:43:27.909
These are the tallest trees you've ever seen, like hundreds of feet.

759
00:43:28.069 --> 00:43:31.970
You're looking like this and you're looking up and you're seeing the cedars of Lebanon.

760
00:43:32.190 --> 00:43:32.930
It's tall.

761
00:43:33.170 --> 00:43:34.751
It's not small like a shrub.

762
00:43:34.791 --> 00:43:36.391
It's not contained.

763
00:43:36.472 --> 00:43:37.192
It's tall.

764
00:43:37.452 --> 00:43:41.593
And then one thing about the palm tree is that the palm tree, it flourishes.

765
00:43:41.913 --> 00:43:45.655
Whatever season comes, it's still there and it's still flourishing.

766
00:43:45.915 --> 00:43:48.436
And I talked about this earlier.

767
00:43:48.816 --> 00:43:49.536
I went to Florida.

768
00:43:51.060 --> 00:43:52.421
Can I tell you my favorite thing about Florida?

769
00:43:54.281 --> 00:43:57.002
I know I'm preaching seriously, but can I tell you my favorite thing?

770
00:43:57.943 --> 00:43:59.503
It's when you come out and you see the palm trees.

771
00:43:59.583 --> 00:44:01.684
My God, you know you're in a different world.

772
00:44:04.005 --> 00:44:05.706
You ain't in Kansas no more.

773
00:44:07.687 --> 00:44:08.807
Some of y'all don't understand that reference.

774
00:44:08.827 --> 00:44:13.509
You're too young.

775
00:44:14.009 --> 00:44:16.230
When I see the palm trees, I go to the Caribbean first thing.

776
00:44:16.250 --> 00:44:18.571
I say, baby, this is going to be nice.

777
00:44:20.035 --> 00:44:21.637
Ooh, we out of this cold New York.

778
00:44:21.677 --> 00:44:22.879
Thank you, Holy Ghost.

779
00:44:24.962 --> 00:44:26.544
And I'm in the Caribbean, and the palm trees.

780
00:44:27.345 --> 00:44:28.687
You know what is crazy about Florida?

781
00:44:28.767 --> 00:44:30.309
I was telling people this in the first service.

782
00:44:31.170 --> 00:44:32.371
I remember one time going to Florida.

783
00:44:33.813 --> 00:44:35.095
It was raining right here.

784
00:44:35.115 --> 00:44:37.358
I was standing right here, and I was dry.

785
00:44:38.872 --> 00:44:42.514
It rains all the time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

786
00:44:42.554 --> 00:44:45.295
If you live in Florida, you will get rain on all the time.

787
00:44:45.615 --> 00:44:48.297
It's like 10 minutes, no rain, 30 minutes, rain.

788
00:44:48.637 --> 00:44:50.778
15 minutes, no rain, 10 minutes, rain.

789
00:44:50.838 --> 00:44:52.699
It's constantly raining.

790
00:44:56.961 --> 00:45:04.004
But the thing about the palm tree is that whatever conditions, hot, rain, cold, the palm tree, consistent.

791
00:45:05.105 --> 00:45:06.566
Palm tree, not moved.

792
00:45:07.459 --> 00:45:09.621
Because I did research on the palm tree.

793
00:45:09.881 --> 00:45:12.563
The reason why is because the palm tree has such a strong root system.

794
00:45:13.464 --> 00:45:15.606
They're rooted, they're grounded and they're rooted.

795
00:45:16.026 --> 00:45:20.310
So it's like, you're gonna flourish like, why?

796
00:45:20.550 --> 00:45:23.332
Because you have a root system.

797
00:45:23.913 --> 00:45:26.635
So I'm not flourishing.

798
00:45:26.975 --> 00:45:27.876
Do you have a root system?

799
00:45:29.457 --> 00:45:35.563
Famine comes and I keep, it's like, I lose my peace and my joy and it seems like nothing's going right in my life.

800
00:45:36.295 --> 00:45:37.136
Do you have a root system?

801
00:45:38.156 --> 00:45:40.398
Because God will flourish you if there's a root system.

802
00:45:41.819 --> 00:45:42.619
I was in Florida one time.

803
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:43.240
It's raining.

804
00:45:43.560 --> 00:45:46.462
I mean, the wind comes out of nowhere.

805
00:45:47.703 --> 00:45:50.184
And it's like, the wind's like 50, 60 miles an hour.

806
00:45:50.204 --> 00:45:51.145
It's not even a hurricane.

807
00:45:51.185 --> 00:45:52.126
It's just regular wind.

808
00:45:52.446 --> 00:45:54.467
And the wind came out of nowhere.

809
00:45:54.627 --> 00:45:55.328
We're just chilling.

810
00:45:55.348 --> 00:45:56.148
The wind comes out of nowhere.

811
00:45:56.408 --> 00:45:57.669
And the palm tree's like this.

812
00:45:59.210 --> 00:46:00.831
In my mind, I said, well, that palm tree's done.

813
00:46:01.032 --> 00:46:01.532
It's over.

814
00:46:05.674 --> 00:46:12.500
I've read this about the palm tree, that the wind and the bending actually strengthens the palm tree.

815
00:46:14.341 --> 00:46:16.583
It strengthens the palm tree's whole root system.

816
00:46:22.668 --> 00:46:23.769
Why this storm, God?

817
00:46:25.710 --> 00:46:26.971
I'm trying to strengthen you.

818
00:46:28.237 --> 00:46:31.218
There's a part of you that needs strength and here's how I'm going to do it.

819
00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:34.940
I'm going to bend you to the point where you feel uncomfortable.

820
00:46:35.741 --> 00:46:38.022
I'm going to bend you in serving.

821
00:46:38.042 --> 00:46:40.083
I'm going to bend you in praying.

822
00:46:40.103 --> 00:46:41.924
I'm going to bend you in fasting.

823
00:46:42.224 --> 00:46:43.985
I'm going to bend you up in giving.

824
00:46:44.165 --> 00:46:45.766
Oh God, it don't feel good.

825
00:46:47.967 --> 00:46:48.747
Chiropractor.

826
00:46:48.767 --> 00:46:52.649
You walk out, oh my God, that felt good.

827
00:46:52.669 --> 00:46:55.291
That's what the Holy Spirit does.

828
00:46:55.311 --> 00:46:57.572
He's just like adjusts you.

829
00:46:58.750 --> 00:47:00.812
So that he can get the best out of you.

830
00:47:02.093 --> 00:47:03.914
It's not for your destruction.

831
00:47:04.415 --> 00:47:06.156
It's for the blessing of God.

832
00:47:08.198 --> 00:47:09.218
Alright, let's go to verse 13.

833
00:47:09.238 --> 00:47:10.900
You're going to grow like the cedars in Lebanon.

834
00:47:11.200 --> 00:47:13.221
I already told you about how tall those trees are.

835
00:47:14.903 --> 00:47:15.844
Verse 13, look at this.

836
00:47:16.884 --> 00:47:22.709
Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

837
00:47:22.989 --> 00:47:23.269
What?

838
00:47:24.010 --> 00:47:24.430
How?

839
00:47:25.731 --> 00:47:25.952
What?

840
00:47:27.227 --> 00:47:28.288
Those who are what?

841
00:47:28.828 --> 00:47:31.809
Planted.

842
00:47:31.829 --> 00:47:34.151
Are you planted?

843
00:47:36.372 --> 00:47:38.253
I mean, are you really planted?

844
00:47:43.856 --> 00:47:48.398
Because if you're planted, you're going to flourish.

845
00:47:48.418 --> 00:47:55.622
I always see the difference between believers who are flourishing and prospering and doing well by how much you're planted.

846
00:47:56.915 --> 00:47:58.135
You know what the devil always tries to do?

847
00:47:58.476 --> 00:48:00.176
He always tries to get you disconnected.

848
00:48:02.177 --> 00:48:04.518
Because he knows that place of disconnection is the place of your death.

849
00:48:06.198 --> 00:48:07.959
You know the quickest way to kill a plant?

850
00:48:08.759 --> 00:48:09.900
Take it out of the root system.

851
00:48:11.300 --> 00:48:12.061
Take it out of the plant.

852
00:48:12.301 --> 00:48:15.462
Once you do that, you start the first day of the plant's death.

853
00:48:16.562 --> 00:48:18.303
And you may not see it for days or weeks.

854
00:48:18.563 --> 00:48:20.784
The plant may still be alive and still doing well.

855
00:48:20.944 --> 00:48:26.246
But once you take it out of the root system, it's eventually going to die.

856
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:30.662
How many of you are dead spiritually because you're not planted?

857
00:48:31.363 --> 00:48:36.947
How many of you famine came and storms came and trials came and it took you out because you weren't planted?

858
00:48:38.409 --> 00:48:39.830
Holy Spirit saying, get planted.

859
00:48:41.051 --> 00:48:45.095
Because that's the place, that's how you prosper in the midst of famine when you're planted.

860
00:48:45.635 --> 00:48:46.636
Isaac got a word.

861
00:48:46.876 --> 00:48:48.157
Don't go to Egypt.

862
00:48:48.317 --> 00:48:51.220
Stay planted.

863
00:48:53.021 --> 00:48:54.543
But Egypt has better stuff.

864
00:48:56.517 --> 00:48:58.218
You know, Lot looked all around.

865
00:48:58.398 --> 00:49:01.900
He saw what was good to the eye, and that wasn't where God was.

866
00:49:03.901 --> 00:49:07.783
Are you planted where God wants you to be?

867
00:49:09.364 --> 00:49:10.785
That's the place of blessing.

868
00:49:11.885 --> 00:49:16.388
That's the place where Jesus can maximize your usage for his kingdom.

869
00:49:16.928 --> 00:49:25.773
That's the place where heaven can use you to the utmost is when you're planted in the place God wants you to be.

870
00:49:28.622 --> 00:49:29.723
Are you planted?

871
00:49:30.623 --> 00:49:36.986
I want to be like a tree planted by the river that's going to produce wherever I go.

872
00:49:37.006 --> 00:49:38.326
Here's what it says.

873
00:49:38.687 --> 00:49:41.608
Those who are planted in the house of God shall flourish in the courts of their God.

874
00:49:41.628 --> 00:49:42.048
Look at this.

875
00:49:43.229 --> 00:49:46.330
They shall bear fruit in old age.

876
00:49:49.231 --> 00:49:50.552
So your age doesn't even matter.

877
00:49:52.993 --> 00:49:53.833
You're going to prosper.

878
00:49:54.053 --> 00:49:54.914
You will be fresh

879
00:49:56.470 --> 00:50:22.950
and flourishing people listen to you man you always got something good to say you always got to work you look good all the time yeah I'm planting I have no choice but to be fresh and flourishing no it's not a it's not a pride thing it's in I know where I'm planted my root system's in God so I can't look broke busted and disgusted hallelujah

880
00:50:24.560 --> 00:50:26.262
can't look down and out and depressed.

881
00:50:26.282 --> 00:50:28.023
No, my root system's in God.

882
00:50:28.284 --> 00:50:30.205
I got to be fresh and flourishing.

883
00:50:30.986 --> 00:50:33.348
When they look at you, they can be like, oh man, you aged a lot.

884
00:50:33.428 --> 00:50:34.770
No, I look young.

885
00:50:35.010 --> 00:50:36.952
My youth is being renewed like the eagles.

886
00:50:37.773 --> 00:50:41.336
I decree and declare the same anointing on Caleb is coming on you.

887
00:50:41.616 --> 00:50:45.480
The Bible says when Caleb was four, when he was 80 years old, he had to

888
00:50:45.860 --> 00:50:47.162
strength as a 40 year old.

889
00:50:47.543 --> 00:50:51.689
I decree and declare supernatural divine strength is coming on you.

890
00:50:51.930 --> 00:50:55.094
You're not going to look tired and old and beat up.

891
00:50:55.315 --> 00:50:58.159
You're going to look better and better as your years go by.

892
00:50:58.740 --> 00:50:59.421
Come on somebody.

893
00:50:59.441 --> 00:51:00.623
You're going to look renewed.

894
00:51:01.003 --> 00:51:02.784
invigorated, strengthened.

895
00:51:02.984 --> 00:51:05.245
No, I'm not doing an ad for a facial cream.

896
00:51:05.606 --> 00:51:08.908
You have the anointing of God on the inside of you.

897
00:51:08.928 --> 00:51:11.209
So you gotta look young and fresh.

898
00:51:11.529 --> 00:51:12.870
I don't care what the devil says.

899
00:51:13.010 --> 00:51:16.472
You better lay hands on your face and say, no wrinkles in Jesus' name.

900
00:51:16.832 --> 00:51:18.513
I'm gonna look fresh and flourishing.

901
00:51:18.793 --> 00:51:20.434
No more fat in this body.

902
00:51:20.734 --> 00:51:22.335
I'm gonna look fresh and flourishing.

903
00:51:22.615 --> 00:51:24.917
No more looking like a mess.

904
00:51:25.257 --> 00:51:28.238
I'm gonna look fresh and flourishing.

905
00:51:30.248 --> 00:51:30.989
Because I'm in God.

906
00:51:31.009 --> 00:51:34.212
I ain't going to look like what I'm going through.

907
00:51:36.695 --> 00:51:39.318
I may be going through famine, but I'm going to look like prosperity.

908
00:51:40.399 --> 00:51:43.643
I may be going through pain, but I ain't going to look like sickness and disease.

909
00:51:43.983 --> 00:51:47.027
I'm going to look strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

910
00:51:48.216 --> 00:51:50.757
I am not going to look like what I'm going through.

911
00:51:50.797 --> 00:51:51.638
Come on, somebody.

912
00:51:51.658 --> 00:51:57.741
I ain't going to look like, I know I ain't going to, I'm not going to look like, I may be in the fire, but I ain't going to look like it.

913
00:51:57.941 --> 00:52:03.323
The Bible says when Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out the fire, they didn't even smell like the smoke.

914
00:52:03.703 --> 00:52:07.185
I decree and declare you will not even look like what you went through.

915
00:52:07.445 --> 00:52:26.681
you won't even look like your last season yep you had a bad messy breakup you won't look like a mess yes you got fired from your job but you're still going to look good yes you went through some stuff in your family yes you're going to look good yes you've been through a divorce you're still going to look good yes you've been through some pain you're still going to look good why?

916
00:52:26.701 --> 00:52:35.549
because greater is he that's within me than he that is in the world alright I'm going to end with this

917
00:52:36.570 --> 00:52:37.451
This is not how I intended.

918
00:52:37.471 --> 00:52:42.074
I had a bunch of points, even in the first service, but this is how God wanted it to be.

919
00:52:43.875 --> 00:52:45.136
Let's go back to Genesis.

920
00:52:46.997 --> 00:52:47.957
Genesis chapter 26.

921
00:52:50.579 --> 00:52:52.360
So now, we know the context.

922
00:52:53.021 --> 00:52:54.202
Isaac is planted.

923
00:52:54.922 --> 00:52:59.205
Next thing that happens is that God comes to Isaac and speaks to him.

924
00:52:59.805 --> 00:53:00.606
Don't go to Egypt.

925
00:53:01.006 --> 00:53:01.546
Stay here.

926
00:53:01.887 --> 00:53:02.827
And gives him a promise.

927
00:53:02.867 --> 00:53:04.588
The same promise as Abraham.

928
00:53:04.608 --> 00:53:05.409
He goes, hey.

929
00:53:05.429 --> 00:53:05.509
Hey.

930
00:53:05.669 --> 00:53:06.490
You're going to be blessed.

931
00:53:06.910 --> 00:53:07.911
Look at the stars in the sky.

932
00:53:07.951 --> 00:53:09.312
That's how I'm going to bless you.

933
00:53:09.392 --> 00:53:10.953
Same promise he gave to Abraham.

934
00:53:11.314 --> 00:53:16.978
Uses different words, different terminology, but exactly the same promise he gives to Abraham.

935
00:53:17.238 --> 00:53:20.140
He says, if you stay here, you're planted here, I'm going to bless you.

936
00:53:20.361 --> 00:53:21.081
Look what happens.

937
00:53:21.421 --> 00:53:23.683
Look how interesting this is.

938
00:53:23.903 --> 00:53:24.824
Let's go to verse 12.

939
00:53:25.645 --> 00:53:26.546
What does Isaac do?

940
00:53:27.686 --> 00:53:29.528
Isaac stays in the land God calls him.

941
00:53:30.349 --> 00:53:34.472
And then the scripture says, Isaac sowed in that land.

942
00:53:36.153 --> 00:53:36.853
hold on, hold on.

943
00:53:37.354 --> 00:53:39.155
This is the land of famine.

944
00:53:41.436 --> 00:53:45.018
Why would I sow in the land of famine?

945
00:53:48.020 --> 00:53:54.224
Because the land of famine is not the land... Let me say it like this.

946
00:53:54.844 --> 00:53:58.566
Just because you're in a land of famine doesn't mean you can't prosper in it.

947
00:54:01.128 --> 00:54:05.030
The only thing that would make you not prosper in the land is not being where God wants you to be.

948
00:54:06.651 --> 00:54:10.995
Isaac gets right perfect in the will of God and goes, I'm going to sow in that place.

949
00:54:12.436 --> 00:54:13.637
It looked a mess all around.

950
00:54:13.917 --> 00:54:14.478
It don't matter.

951
00:54:14.858 --> 00:54:17.420
It looks a mess all around, but what's on the inside is what matters.

952
00:54:19.002 --> 00:54:21.203
There's famine, but I know what this ground is like.

953
00:54:21.404 --> 00:54:22.825
This ground has been worked on.

954
00:54:23.826 --> 00:54:25.247
This ground has been worked on.

955
00:54:26.028 --> 00:54:27.088
This ground has been worked on.

956
00:54:27.148 --> 00:54:30.331
So I know if I put seed in the ground, it's going to produce something.

957
00:54:30.691 --> 00:54:34.595
It says he sowed in the land and reaped in the same land.

958
00:54:35.998 --> 00:54:38.540
Year.

959
00:54:38.560 --> 00:54:40.222
100fold.

960
00:54:40.842 --> 00:54:43.044
When you see 100fold in the Bible, you have to understand.

961
00:54:43.305 --> 00:54:44.866
It doesn't mean he couldn't count.

962
00:54:45.266 --> 00:54:46.287
There's 100 more trees.

963
00:54:46.347 --> 00:54:47.829
No, that's not what it means.

964
00:54:47.889 --> 00:54:49.750
100fold means the highest level of return.

965
00:54:49.950 --> 00:54:50.891
The scripture talks about it.

966
00:54:51.071 --> 00:54:52.813
It talks about 30fold, 60fold, and...

967
00:54:54.858 --> 00:54:56.199
Because 100-fold is the cap.

968
00:54:56.259 --> 00:54:56.859
It's the highest.

969
00:54:56.899 --> 00:54:57.660
It's the most you can get.

970
00:54:57.860 --> 00:54:59.341
So he put an investment in the ground.

971
00:54:59.541 --> 00:55:00.381
He sold it in the ground.

972
00:55:00.421 --> 00:55:00.882
And guess what?

973
00:55:01.062 --> 00:55:05.044
He got the highest level of return back he could possibly get.

974
00:55:05.224 --> 00:55:08.306
And the Bible says, and the Lord blessed him.

975
00:55:08.366 --> 00:55:10.708
Don't listen to these people telling you God don't bless people.

976
00:55:11.871 --> 00:55:12.731
That's a lie from hell.

977
00:55:12.811 --> 00:55:14.792
God blesses people.

978
00:55:15.373 --> 00:55:18.994
He says, I delight in the prosperity of my servants.

979
00:55:19.355 --> 00:55:22.476
The blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow.

980
00:55:22.716 --> 00:55:25.978
The Bible says the blessing won't only be on you, it'll overtake you.

981
00:55:26.218 --> 00:55:30.920
You'll be blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when you come, blessed when you go.

982
00:55:31.120 --> 00:55:34.822
The Bible says all these promises, I'm not going to listen to man's words.

983
00:55:35.142 --> 00:55:40.585
The Bible says Jesus Christ became poor so that through his poverty we may be rich.

984
00:55:41.915 --> 00:55:42.275
Read it.

985
00:55:43.756 --> 00:55:44.156
Read it.

986
00:55:45.716 --> 00:55:48.077
So I'm not living like the world lives.

987
00:55:48.518 --> 00:55:51.259
I have to prosper even in famine.

988
00:55:51.459 --> 00:55:52.679
The economy don't look good right now.

989
00:55:52.979 --> 00:55:55.100
I got to prosper in the midst of famine.

990
00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:59.622
Yeah, the price of gas and the price of everything is skyrocketed.

991
00:55:59.822 --> 00:56:02.543
We're in war, rumors of war, all hell breaking loose.

992
00:56:03.183 --> 00:56:08.005
I have to prosper because I got a promise from God.

993
00:56:09.168 --> 00:56:10.128
And look what the scripture says.

994
00:56:10.469 --> 00:56:11.649
Next verse, and we're almost done.

995
00:56:13.110 --> 00:56:17.552
The man began to prosper and continued prospering.

996
00:56:18.412 --> 00:56:18.672
Whew.

997
00:56:19.613 --> 00:56:20.493
That's my testimony.

998
00:56:21.794 --> 00:56:22.714
Can I say this over you?

999
00:56:22.994 --> 00:56:24.915
You just won't begin to prosper.

1000
00:56:25.556 --> 00:56:29.757
Because a lot of you, you start, like your business starts doing good, and then it just falls off.

1001
00:56:30.058 --> 00:56:31.798
In Jesus' name, that won't be your testimony.

1002
00:56:31.818 --> 00:56:33.159
Amen.

1003
00:56:33.179 --> 00:56:33.819
Oh, this is good.

1004
00:56:33.839 --> 00:56:36.280
I don't know why some people ain't saying amen.

1005
00:56:36.361 --> 00:56:36.981
Some people are like...

1006
00:56:37.683 --> 00:56:40.067
Like they want to just prosper for five minutes.

1007
00:56:43.913 --> 00:56:48.420
The mark of real success is when you're able to prosper beyond infancy stage.

1008
00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:48.781
Okay.

1009
00:56:49.817 --> 00:56:55.442
And I decree and declare that you will prosper beyond infancy stage, that excited moment where things are good.

1010
00:56:55.462 --> 00:56:59.626
You know that moment where, oh, you just launched and you just do this and things look good.

1011
00:56:59.847 --> 00:57:02.649
In the name of Jesus, you're going to prosper beyond that season.

1012
00:57:02.949 --> 00:57:08.154
You will continue to prosper and you will become very prosperous in the name of Jesus.

1013
00:57:10.697 --> 00:57:11.137
Verse 14 says.

1014
00:57:15.230 --> 00:57:21.851
Look at verse 14 says, for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants.

1015
00:57:22.191 --> 00:57:23.651
So the Philistines hated on him.

1016
00:57:24.072 --> 00:57:24.512
Haters.

1017
00:57:26.852 --> 00:57:29.052
That's the Nathaniel St. Lloyd translation.

1018
00:57:30.393 --> 00:57:31.393
That's what envy mean.

1019
00:57:31.433 --> 00:57:34.053
They were hating.

1020
00:57:34.293 --> 00:57:35.354
They were haters.

1021
00:57:37.774 --> 00:57:38.914
God bless him to the point.

1022
00:57:39.174 --> 00:57:40.154
He started getting haters.

1023
00:57:42.375 --> 00:57:43.475
God bless me like that.

1024
00:57:44.910 --> 00:57:47.032
When people start looking at me like, I don't even like you.

1025
00:57:47.192 --> 00:57:50.394
Oh, that's how you know you're very prosperous.

1026
00:57:54.757 --> 00:57:58.400
Because you know, they think they're hating on you, but they're actually hating on the goodness of God.

1027
00:57:59.801 --> 00:58:02.623
And they don't have the revelation yet that it's accessible for them.

1028
00:58:07.626 --> 00:58:08.427
You're going to prosper.

1029
00:58:11.949 --> 00:58:14.171
Isaac sows in the land...

1030
00:58:16.922 --> 00:58:17.842
The land of famine.

1031
00:58:19.903 --> 00:58:21.543
And the Lord supernaturally blesses him.

1032
00:58:24.804 --> 00:58:26.365
I believe this is the perfect time to give.

1033
00:58:29.466 --> 00:58:31.506
Some of you are in a famine right now.

1034
00:58:31.546 --> 00:58:35.127
You're like, man, spiritual famine, financial famine.

1035
00:58:35.907 --> 00:58:37.288
There's a famine in your marriage.

1036
00:58:37.988 --> 00:58:39.108
There's a famine at work.

1037
00:58:39.208 --> 00:58:40.769
There's a famine in your finances.

1038
00:58:40.789 --> 00:58:42.889
You're just, you're in a famine.

1039
00:58:43.930 --> 00:58:45.250
And can I tell you the way out the famine?

1040
00:58:47.067 --> 00:58:50.250
First, be planted where God called you to be planted, and then do what Isaac did.

1041
00:58:51.631 --> 00:58:55.254
Sow in the land.

1042
00:58:56.755 --> 00:58:58.136
God called you to City Light Church?

1043
00:58:58.977 --> 00:58:59.698
Did he call you here?

1044
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:02.860
I heard two people.

1045
00:59:04.321 --> 00:59:05.462
Who called you here, the devil?

1046
00:59:07.404 --> 00:59:09.406
Because if he did, I bind you in Jesus' name.

1047
00:59:09.446 --> 00:59:09.906
Get out!

1048
00:59:11.187 --> 00:59:11.648
Get out!

1049
00:59:15.512 --> 00:59:17.553
So how many people, God called you here?

1050
00:59:21.795 --> 00:59:29.138
If God called me to be in a place, that means God is going to prosper me in that place.

1051
00:59:30.879 --> 00:59:36.021
And even if there's some famine that looks like, oh man, everything is not exactly the way I want it to be.

1052
00:59:37.482 --> 00:59:41.724
It's going to be in the place where God planted me, where he's going to bless me.

1053
00:59:44.005 --> 00:59:44.185
So,

1054
00:59:45.703 --> 00:59:48.525
Isaac gets planted and then he sows.

1055
00:59:49.526 --> 00:59:53.389
He realizes here's the key to me walking out in my blessing.

1056
00:59:54.730 --> 00:59:56.171
So I'm going to ask every person to give.

1057
00:59:57.172 --> 00:59:57.352
Right?

1058
00:59:57.532 --> 00:59:58.913
I know everyone's giving their tithe.

1059
01:00:00.354 --> 01:00:01.395
And I've said this before.

1060
01:00:01.995 --> 01:00:07.019
Generosity starts after 10%.

1061
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:08.961
10% is tithe.

1062
01:00:09.001 --> 01:00:10.642
11% starts generosity.

1063
01:00:11.082 --> 01:00:12.063
It starts sowing.

1064
01:00:12.083 --> 01:00:12.243
Right?

1065
01:00:13.545 --> 01:00:15.426
Some of you are like, I gave my 10%.

1066
01:00:15.726 --> 01:00:18.748
I have it marked every week.

1067
01:00:18.768 --> 01:00:21.570
And you're like, I'm in a dry season right now.

1068
01:00:22.330 --> 01:00:23.451
I'm in a famine place.

1069
01:00:24.371 --> 01:00:26.512
I don't feel like I'm where God wants me to be.

1070
01:00:26.813 --> 01:00:30.795
I'm going to sow in the place God called me to.

1071
01:00:32.476 --> 01:00:39.580
I want everyone to say, I'm not going to allow the economy, the season, what I'm going through to determine what I give to God.

1072
01:00:41.757 --> 01:00:49.424
When I see the famine, that's the opportunity for blessing, for open doors, for God's goodness.

1073
01:00:51.165 --> 01:00:51.886
Hallelujah.

1074
01:00:53.808 --> 01:00:54.788
So I want everyone to give.

1075
01:00:54.949 --> 01:00:56.110
There's three different ways to give.

1076
01:00:56.430 --> 01:00:59.873
You can give online, citylightnyc.com slash give.

1077
01:01:00.914 --> 01:01:03.476
You can use the offering baskets.

1078
01:01:03.576 --> 01:01:04.357
They say boxes.

1079
01:01:04.397 --> 01:01:06.439
I say basket because I'm from old school church.

1080
01:01:07.319 --> 01:01:08.801
You call them offering baskets.

1081
01:01:10.417 --> 01:01:12.540
It's offering baskets, boxes in the back.

1082
01:01:14.363 --> 01:01:21.033
And then you can scan the QR code and they're going to give you all the information you need to give.

1083
01:01:22.895 --> 01:01:25.119
How do people believe this is their season of prosperity?

1084
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:32.540
How many people believe there's unexpected money coming their way?

1085
01:01:33.121 --> 01:01:35.982
Unexpected doors, contracts.

1086
01:01:37.002 --> 01:01:44.906
Come on, contracts for your business, blessing for your family, salvation for your children.

1087
01:01:46.706 --> 01:01:47.447
I'm speaking it.

1088
01:01:49.067 --> 01:01:51.888
My son, he's going to serve the Lord like he never served him before.

1089
01:01:54.049 --> 01:01:54.730
He said, amen.

1090
01:01:54.810 --> 01:01:55.350
He believed it.

1091
01:01:56.995 --> 01:02:00.378
Today we were in the car, he's like, Dad, I want to listen to some music on my headphones.

1092
01:02:00.418 --> 01:02:01.979
I was like, nah, let's focus on the Lord.

1093
01:02:02.260 --> 01:02:04.021
He's like, nah, I want to listen to worship music.

1094
01:02:06.143 --> 01:02:07.524
I said, oh, let's play it out loud.

1095
01:02:08.425 --> 01:02:10.807
I was playing a song, I got that song off so quick.

1096
01:02:11.027 --> 01:02:12.448
I said, my son want to listen to worship?

1097
01:02:14.790 --> 01:02:15.671
Hallelujah.

1098
01:02:16.692 --> 01:02:18.894
He said, oh, I heard this in youth group the other day.

1099
01:02:18.914 --> 01:02:21.316
I said, oh, thank you, Jesus.

1100
01:02:23.878 --> 01:02:25.039
My kids are going to prosper.

1101
01:02:26.608 --> 01:02:27.529
I live in Philadelphia.

1102
01:02:27.549 --> 01:02:28.690
There's a famine.

1103
01:02:31.392 --> 01:02:32.913
You should hear the way these kids talk.

1104
01:02:34.675 --> 01:02:35.936
But my kids are gonna prosper.

1105
01:02:37.237 --> 01:02:38.518
A lot of y'all live in New York City.

1106
01:02:38.538 --> 01:02:40.960
You see the environment, it don't look right.

1107
01:02:42.161 --> 01:02:44.423
Your families are broken up.

1108
01:02:45.024 --> 01:02:46.145
Things are in chaos.

1109
01:02:46.325 --> 01:02:48.026
People are in financial ruins.

1110
01:02:49.087 --> 01:02:50.088
You're gonna prosper.

1111
01:02:51.610 --> 01:02:53.852
Because that's gonna be a mark that God is with you.

1112
01:02:54.887 --> 01:02:58.470
That God's going to bless your family, bless your business, bless your life.

1113
01:02:59.230 --> 01:03:02.272
Everything you touch by faith is going to be blessed.

1114
01:03:07.556 --> 01:03:11.539
Let's read this verse and then I'll let you guys go.

1115
01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:13.821
Let my people free.

1116
01:03:17.043 --> 01:03:18.164
One more verse in Psalm.

1117
01:03:18.184 --> 01:03:19.305
Let's read Psalm 34, 37.

1118
01:03:19.385 --> 01:03:19.745
Verse 37.

1119
01:03:21.162 --> 01:03:24.124
Verse 18 and 19, let's look at it up on the screen.

1120
01:03:24.144 --> 01:03:29.749
It says, the Lord knows the days of the upright.

1121
01:03:29.829 --> 01:03:31.470
God knows all of your days.

1122
01:03:32.731 --> 01:03:34.873
And their inheritance shall be forever.

1123
01:03:35.893 --> 01:03:37.415
Look what verse 19 says.

1124
01:03:38.535 --> 01:03:43.339
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time.

1125
01:03:44.980 --> 01:03:47.763
And in the days of famine,

1126
01:03:48.771 --> 01:03:53.334
They shall be satisfied.

1127
01:03:53.414 --> 01:03:54.775
I want that to be your confession.

1128
01:03:55.876 --> 01:03:59.959
Even in famine, I will be satisfied.

1129
01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:02.761
Let's stand to our feet.

1130
01:04:02.821 --> 01:04:04.562
Everyone who's given, stand to your feet.

1131
01:04:09.806 --> 01:04:11.928
I'm going to do some old school stuff before we start singing.

1132
01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:25.590
If you have your, however you're giving, if you're giving digitally, you could just lift your phone up in the air, but if you have the envelope, the check, money order, EBT card, however you're giving, you can laugh, I'm just being funny.

1133
01:04:27.111 --> 01:04:32.835
I want you to lift it up in the air and I want you to make a confession over this seed you're sowing.

1134
01:04:35.437 --> 01:04:36.978
And I want you to say something.

1135
01:04:39.980 --> 01:04:41.942
Cause you know, life and death is in the power of your tongue.

1136
01:04:43.835 --> 01:04:52.962
So as you speak and you confess, you give heaven an opportunity to meet you and to prosper you in the midst of famine.

1137
01:04:52.982 --> 01:04:54.163
I want you to say this.

1138
01:04:54.223 --> 01:04:59.427
Lord, I need you to say it with some boldness like you really believe it.

1139
01:04:59.447 --> 01:05:09.254
Lord, I will not succumb to the system of this world.

1140
01:05:10.595 --> 01:05:13.057
Egypt system system

1141
01:05:14.055 --> 01:05:15.095
will not hold me.

1142
01:05:16.536 --> 01:05:20.517
I'm under a new kingdom, the kingdom of heaven.

1143
01:05:22.198 --> 01:05:23.738
I will prosper.

1144
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:30.380
I will prosper and be blessed.

1145
01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:42.724
According to God's word, everything pertaining to me, my family, and my destiny.

1146
01:05:43.774 --> 01:05:44.696
Shall be blessed.

1147
01:05:45.959 --> 01:05:47.202
In Jesus name.

1148
01:05:48.525 --> 01:05:49.507
All God's people shout.

1149
01:05:51.411 --> 01:05:51.732
Amen.

1150
01:05:51.752 --> 01:05:51.993
Amen.

1151
01:05:53.957 --> 01:05:56.138
This is the City Light Church podcast.

1152
01:05:56.539 --> 01:06:05.844
If you've missed any part of today's message, or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jancic and City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com.

1153
01:06:06.164 --> 01:06:08.885
That's citylightnyc.com.

1154
01:06:09.346 --> 01:06:12.387
Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime.

1155
01:06:12.848 --> 01:06:14.389
We would love to connect with you.

1156
01:06:15.289 --> 01:06:22.896
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.

1157
01:06:23.677 --> 01:06:24.617
Thank you for listening.

1158
01:06:25.098 --> 01:06:30.583
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