Sowing Seed in Times of Famine: Watch God Turn a Crisis into an Opportunity

Welcome to the city light church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with city light church, feel free to visit us at https://citylightnyc.com. Pastor Bojan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the holy spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 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. Well, I'm so pumped to be here this morning because God is already here. And God is here, you don't have to do anything to just spice it up. I don't have to bring my curry anointing. I tell people, I am from the land of Curry and I live in the land of Curry. And this morning, I feel extra special because I am rolling in with some coffee in my hand. And just because we know that you're American, you're truly American is when you have coffee with oat milk. Hallelujah. Super anointed. Right? How things have changed so quickly? With this Indian boy in our family. We've medicines who said no to milk. Milk has now become an allergent. And oat milk is rocking cool. It's like you just it's the coolest thing that's happening. How are you all doing? People? Are y'all doing? Come on. We're gonna have a lot of fun this morning because the word of God, listen this morning. You know, listen, I'm I'm not past a boy in for for your kind information. I'm Bonnie Andrews. I got a memo last night at one thirty eight PM. I'm sorry. AM. I was just about, like, you know, I was just, like, you know, today I was planned to do something else and, you know, I got a I got a call from past a boy in and, you know, the story that's happening last night, it was raining, and his house is flooded, and he's like, broskey, can you preach? I'm like, I didn't have to say, you know, you don't you don't have You don't You just yeah. Come on. Let's go, bro. Let's go.

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So from one thirty eight onwards to two o'clock, I'm, like, settling to the idea. Alright. I will be preaching tomorrow or today. And then you're trying to go to sleep because you have to wake up in the morning because, you know, you know, it's like the exam that you're gonna go. So so from right from two o'clock onwards, I'm trying to sleep. And when I'm not able to sleep, I'll try to wake up everybody.

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Be whole in my wife, but be, like, giving us some general cases. I'm, like, I love you. She's already sleeping. But, you know, I'm not able to sleep. You know, how husbands are? I don't know. How you guys do it.

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But, you know, that's maybe it's a little corny thing that we do in India. But, you know, so I'm I'm, you know, I'm here by the timing of God. God never makes any mistakes. So I honor the man of God and the house pastor boy and he's like my brother. I feel like every time I'm here, I feel like I'm home, home away from home, And then you have these good looking passes out here, you know, every time I come in, like, I just have to put on my a game on. Look at these passes here. You know, getting young by the day. So so I'm so excited to be here this this morning.

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And I wanted to just start off by saying thank you because this church is a welcoming church. Look at this coffee. In a hospitality, generosity, you know, the last time I was here, you probably would have heard me, but, you know, I was just sharing about what what we're doing on college campuses. And I say I said this that I come from India where India was is is still a massive mission field and how America has been such a blessing by sending missionaries and resources and people and all of that. But now America is the biggest mission field that people looking like us is coming from India on mission to America. So I'm your career brother, imaginary brother. And we've been going to college campuses. And the last time I was here, You guys bless the socks out of me. You bless us so much that we are able to now share the gospel with so many people.

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So the following weekend that I was here, We were here downtown. You wanna hear some testimonies? Yeah. Alright. Alright. Let's roll. Alright.

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So the the following weekend, we were in downtown. In Alliance University and you guys prayed for us and you sold into us in generosity and all that happened is that we had a full house, a hundred and fifty athletes from different parts of the world who are here in New York City to be part of the program. Some are from Europe, some are from different parts of the country, some are from different parts of the city. They're all there plus we have probably about two hundred plus people in that room. And guess what happened? We preached the gospel. We had hip hop. We had conversations around mental health. And at the end of the day, we had twenty seven documented decisions of salvation. The bible says, all of heaven rejoices when one person comes to know Jesus.

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We had fourteen people sign up for the campus internship program. We had thirty four people say that we wanna be part of being trained to share our faith with other people in our in our families, in our friends circle. So it's phenomenal. And of of the following week, as you know, that, you know, the evangelist brings the gospel and we gotta do the follow-up. Right? So we had an awesome privilege to work with this ministry called Navigators. Which is probably the top top five campus ministries in all of America. And the following Wednesday, we launched navigator's group on campus. If we can show some of those pictures here, it'll be fantastic. So this is hip hop artists.

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Angie Rose's dubbed nominate dubbed nominate climbed up the the the the Billboard charts and then, you know, she went through major substance abuse, relationships, punner, car three times on the highway, went to mental hospital two times, and now coming out of that journey, back into faith and serve in the Lord and God has healed her and in the process of restoring her and she's now able to share her music and a story through hip hop. You got to check her out. Angie Rose is phenomenal. And then we had guys like Sheena Prater on that in that the African American friend of mine, brother of mine, he is a current chaplain to the New York Jets. He was a former NFL player, former Foot football player. And he shared about how being on screen as an NFL player is so crazy. You get filled, your mistakes get filled, and it gets replayed again and again, and everybody has to come in and how that affects your mental health and he said about how his faith in Jesus and now he's a pastor as well as being a chaplain of the jets. He's able to share his faith and he's talking about how Jesus has been helpful. His relationship with Christ has been healing and restoring.

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And then we went to some of the people out there. This is doctor Tony Rivera, she's now the dean of counseling of the of the school. But before that, she was raped by a family member at the age of sixteen. She got, you know you know, well, she she got she got pregnant. And for some reason, God's guidance on her life, she was able to keep the baby you know, a beautiful baby boy, and then the Lord, you know, supernaturally brought her through a friend to Brooklyn TAP. And she gave the life to the lord. And, you know, and then finally finds a husband, and then she goes back to high school does a bachelor's, a master's, and a doctorate. Now the Lord has turned it full circle to come in on the platform and share her story. For many people, she is prof or doctor Tony Rivera. She just took you know, she just uncovered the real story of healing and restoration in her life.

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And let me tell you something. Right? Stories stick. Okay? I can tell you five point sermon. I'm really hoping that somebody I mean, a lot of people told me like, I remember the last sermon. And if somebody gave me high fines, I remember that you're saying I believe I can fly. I'm glad you guys are k? But but but let me just tell you some stories. Have people have high recollective power over story. So a story is phenomenal and then some of the other things that are happening, one of the other stories that yeah. This is the current president of Alliance University, mister Matthews. And, you know, this is this is a crazy story. How God has seen things before the foundations of the world? And you feel it's a cliched statement.

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This gentleman right here has been a family friend to the family. So his wife and my dad kind of grew up together. And then he they migrated to the US, and then he became the CEO of You know, he came to India to set up the first AT and T overseas operation. He became the CEO of a village. And the last assignment was a thirty seven billion dollar conglomerate operation for the last ten years. He was an India on an assignment. And he was actually part of the sending team to send us to America as a missionary.

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And six months later, I get a text saying that, oh my coffee. Six months later, I get a text saying, hey, Bonnie, we're here. We're just gonna chill around and play some golf and just chill. And the next thing you know is he got posted or he got given this massive high capacity role being the president of this university. And now we're on the same stages talking about how the Lord has put us together in the city for such a time as this. So it was phenomenal.

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And then we had this the last picture probably would be about, this is a group. You know how it is. You put that funnel. Like the sales funnel. You put, like, hundreds into it, and then you finally get so when we had the the the launch of this group, this is This is on my left to speed atropin Nash the director for New York City director for Navigators, and we launched this group. This has become a weekly group on the campus.

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When I was talking to Peter, he said, we've been praying and asking the Lord for open door in this university and how the Lord brought us together and we had some Korean barbecue, hallelujah. How Korean barbecue brings us all together? You know what I'm saying? God does amazing things for funny stories. So we're friends and we talked and then now we have launched this group that happens every week on campus that kids are being discipled every week. Is that amazing? Or because of your press or because of your generosity. I just wanna say that I didn't think that I'd get that opportunity. Probably come back a year later and share, but this is fresh. Like hot curry coming out. Right? So it's like garlic, non story. You know what I'm saying? I am very hungry now. So this is this is what it is. So so I I just wanna say thank you to you guys, your generosity, your prayer.

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Some of you guys have been part of the prayer team And, you know, we've been texting you a little bit over, but just to let you know that we need your prayer because your prayer opens doors. Your prayer opens doors. Your prayer calls on to heaven and brings down the breakthrough. And if you wanna be part of that pray team. If you can put that number up there, you just need to send the word prayer. Text the word prayer or prayer to this number of friends. You have that. Yeah. Pray to You can take a screenshot of this. Some of you guys did that last time. You know, all that we're gonna ask you to do is just pray. Okay? So text, pray two eight three three two two eight five zero seven four, and we're gonna keep you posted about all that.

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So the last two weeks, I have my travel partner with me here. Come on, son. Sandup is my new travel partner, Levi. Hi. Hi.

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Well, this young man and I, we've been traveling. So we went to Boston. We were at MIT. We're hanging out with some cool people. I'm like, how in the world did we get here? Everybody's like, there was some Nobel Prize guy. There was like, you know, there were some people with doctorates and some I mean, I'm telling him, and I I was like, oh, Jesus. How do we get here? But this man, Jesus said, you gotta be, like, little children. So he's, like, high flying with everybody. I'm, like, doctor. And he's, like, Yo, what's up? Are you on Discord? Let's play. You know, let's do some gaming. So he's become a new partner, a travel partner. We've been on to Penn State. We've been to MIT on a way back We did a prayer tour across Yale University.

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You know, the Yale was in Revolver for three years in a row. So it's phenomenal that these schools actually became it will start as Christian schools to pursue theological education, and now it's become where it is right now. And God is calling all of us to go reopen the father's wells. Amen. So this young man and my family, my beautiful wife is at the background. She's I don't know if she's becoming more and more prettier by the day. It's it's maybe hanging out with me. You know what I'm saying? So thank you, son. Thank you.

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This guy is all about generosity. He's like, you know, when we take some you know, we're going out for coffee. It's like he makes a statement. We're gonna be paying for it. I'm like, You know, I was trying to we were trying to buy something. We were yelling, the student that we'd taken out for coffee. And I'm like, you know, we gotta hey, we gotta sow a seed. We gotta bless this child. You know, are looking for I mean, let me tell you, we're always looking for opportunities or so. So here I'm taking this this this student friend and then we are outside. I'm like, maybe we need to get a Yale a t shirt or a book or And then lo and behold, why are we walking by the Apple store? And my son's like, telling her, maybe you need an iPhone. I'm like, Jesus! He's got more faith to source some sea. So anyway, we you saw some seeds. Right? Sun so so that's that's that's partnering with my son, so keep praying for us. Keep praying for us, keep praying for me, that that I have the money, he's got the faith, and I gotta find the money. Right? You know what I'm saying? So That's what it is.

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Well, this morning, I wanna get your attention. Are you ready for the word of God? Let me tell you something. This morning, the word is gonna be prophetic. It is gonna be like talking to people. You're waiting on decisions. You're waiting. This word I'm not just hyphen it up because this is a fresh word. It came at one thirty eight. And this is like I mean, I don't know. No. Someone knows. I'm just flowin' baby. This morning.

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Genesis twenty six, get your bibles. If you have your bibles, if you don't have it, please download the bible app for over five hundred million downloads. We have many devotionals as a ministry on that. And I was recently on the worst of the day. I don't know if you've seen it. A lot of people saw it and they were blessed. So, yeah, here we go.

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Genesis twenty six, it starts off by saying, can we read it together? Can we stand up and read it on us? It's good. Good to read the word together. Are you ready? Let's go one, two, and three. Now there was Okay. Let's just stop right there. You guys may be seated. Okay? We got a lot. We're gonna we're gonna roll like a cat like this morning. Okay? It starts up by saying there was a famine in the land. Famine, this is not the this is the opening sequence of the movie. There is a famine in the land. It's not like Cinderella was like living in a palace or something. The word stops over the famine.

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This morning, I'm asking, what do you do when you are in the middle of a crisis? Somebody told me once, either you are In a storm, you or maybe you are coming out of a storm, or maybe you are about to go through a storm. This is our cycle. Okay? Psalms twenty three is not about like, whoa, I love the mountain tops baby. Even though I walk through the, everybody wants to be on the, but the growth is on the, the valley is what shapes you. The valley is where God speaks to you. The valley is where you are formed. The valley is the process to the promise. There is no promise without the process. We are so used to fast food and drive through in America. And we just wanted like now, baby now. We want it now. Clock sticking. What's going on? That's not how Jesus rolls. It takes a bit of time because he's waiting.

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Most people don't have the character to handle the fame and the breakthrough that is happening in your life. Stuck in the other day to doctor Eurnard, and he said, Most pastors in this recent time are tasting success. What we took thirty and forty years that they're seeing it in five to ten years and they do not have the character to sustain the breakthroughs that are coming their way. So let me just tell you something. If you are in a crisis, Somebody looks or somebody said, thank god. It's a crisis. Thank god. You know what? Because the word crisis In the Chinese dictionary, when you look for the word crisis, there is no word for crisis. The word is opportunity. So the title of my sermon is there is an opportunity in the middle of the opposition. Opportunity coming. Somebody excited about that. I know you don't like the crisis stuff, but there's some good stuff coming. Alright? The the opportunity in the opposition.

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Genesis twenty six starts away. There was a famine in the land. Nobody likes a famine. And guess what happened? There was a family in New York some time ago. Right? It was called COVID, eight hundred people died every single day.

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People are sticking around in apartments and they're like, you know, some cool people went to pocky nose. Some cool people, you know, this is what happened. Everybody's like, everybody's panicking, and they're like, know, I don't know what's gonna happen with my die here, what I wanna what I want, and then became the whole thing about the whole political thing, the blue and the red, and the the whole thing, I mean, And then what everybody's like, oh, no. We can either go to Florida alone. Some people are going to Florida, some people are going to Texas because everything is big in Texas. Right? You can't Uber around in Texas. You know what I'm trying to say? Going to be in Texas next weekend. So this is You go to Texas. Then you go to Nashville, Tennessee. Yo. People are just like, let me just let me just get on the next plane out of here.

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And if God spoke to you, praise the Lord.

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If not, you're in trouble.

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The bible says there was a famine in the land and guess what happened?

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The Lord appeared to Isakim said, do not go down to Egypt. The Bible says, we are in this world, but we are not of this world. We don't react and we don't make decisions based on market predictions. Research is prophetic but I gotta tell you, you gotta put the voice of God when there is a crisis. You always gotta seek the phase of God. Don't make decisions based on the instant reels that you're seeing. Based on real estate investments, based on market trends.

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As a child of God, we gotta always watch for what God is speaking. You know what? Because I want the God deal. So when is a good time to buy the house? When God tells me to buy the house? Interest will go up, interest will come down. I don't care because It's not like we operate in that world. God's printing it right there. You know? It says like, whoa, whoa, let's go. Now is the time Oh my God is at seven percent. No problem. It's gonna happen. So you make decisions based on what God is speaking to you. And guess what happens, Isaac. God spoke to Isaac and says, do not go to Egypt. Go down to Egypt. Egypt is symbol is a symbol, is is a sign of the world, and the ways of the world, the predictions of the world.

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I'm not saying you shouldn't be doing. I have a friend of friend called Bob Dorr who makes the, you know, financial projections on many television channels every year, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about seeking God's face. When you hit a crisis, I want God to be your first resort and not your last resort. After you exhausted all the people on your speed dial list, after you have exhausted everybody on your phone book list, after you have emailed everybody and still don't have a solution, Then you're like, oh, pastor, please pray for me. And yet, that you're still dedicating prayer and not for wanting for you to get on your knees, and there's a petrol song that says, get on your knees and fight like a man.

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When is the last time you fasted? When is the last time that you prayed? And I'm telling you in this season, I've kinda revamped and ramped up my time of prayer and fasting. Tomorrow morning, I'm off to Florida. And I'm going to be in the Delta lounge in the morning. But guess what I'm fasting no matter how cool the stuff is on that counter, I'm going to be having my oatmeal coffee. That's all I'm going to have. Because I'm fasting.

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Monday is a day of fast. I'm not here to boast about fasting. I'm just trying to challenge you by saying, it's high time the children of God, fast, and pray. When you fast, you're not twisting the hand of God. You are changing you. You gotta kill the flesh. And you've got to ignite the spirit.

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So guess what God spoke to Abraham, do not go down to Egypt. Stay in this land for a while. I will be with you. Let me just tell you something. The Lord's promise is on your life. He's gonna be with you all seasons of your life. And then you Then it then it gets downloaded into covenant friendships.

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When you have one hundred and thirty eight call to preach in the morning, you're like brother, It's not about preaching. It's not about the offering. It's about my covenant brother relationship that Amap Brovsky needs me to pray and preach. I'm gonna get there and make sure that I'm gonna be there. And stand with the man of God. And that's what you guys are called to stand with the man of God in the vision of the house. Right? For you and your descendants, I will give all these lands and I will confirm and it goes on and talks about the blessings that God is about to do.

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And because Abraham O'Bader, Jesus is God is just telling him, dude, listen. Your dad, he was a dude. It was a man of faith. He obeyed and guess what happened. He was blessed. God's always let me tell you something. Every time you God asked you to do something, there's no free meals. There's some lifestyle buffet waiting for you on the other side of the promise. And guess what happened? The scripture says, This is the shortest scripture that we have here. Was number six. Was number six. Can we read this together? So Isaac dwelt in Jarrah. The word Jarrah means a very dry place. Everybody has gone to Florida everybody's gone to Nashville, everybody's gone to Texas, and God spoke to you, let them go, you stay. And you stayed and that's what exactly what Isaac did.

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Let me just tell you, if you want a tweetable woman this morning, is obedience is blessing. Look at somebody and say, obedience is blessing. If you're a mad guy, some Asian friends are like mad guys, like my sons like mad dude, like obedience equals blessing. Every time you obey every time you obey God, Watch out for the blessing that's coming. It's better than the voice of your boss. It's better than the it it is better than the offer that your your your company gave you. It is better than the shares that the company said he's gonna give you. And finally, the guy who gave made the offer is gonna leave and It didn't make it to the IPO, and you didn't make no money.

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The Bible says, he is not a man that he should lie on the son of man, that he changes word. If he says, he will do it. Don't think your don't think the voice of God is like the girlfriend who left you halfway. Don't think the voice of God is like the promises of God is like the is like your parent who didn't do what they were supposed to do. Don't think that the voice of God is like a promise that somebody in your family made a promise and they didn't fulfill it. God is gonna do what he says because he is God. His promises are yes and amen.

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Many people ask me, oh oh oh, brother. Listen. Listen. Listen. I got you. I got you. I mean, I'm a say, Let me say, man. And then let me just go one step forward.

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Abraham had a lot of covenant promises from the Lord. Now Jesus is I mean, God speaking to Isaac and saying, listen, if you do this, you're gonna let me just say, obedience unlocks the covenant promises of god on your life. You can have all the promises. You can have all the prophecies. Me tell you something. I gotta I gotta spend a little bit of time on prophecy right now or maybe we'll come back later. But you got all the promises and you got all the prophecies But I'm telling you, unless you obey, unless you step out, unless you do it, nothing's gonna happen. Nothing is gonna happen. So this morning, God is saying it's time to obey. So guess what happened? Isaac stayed in Gerard. Good decision. Look at somebody's a good decision. Good decision. If you listen to the voice of God, it is a good decision.

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Now people ask me, hey, listen, preacher. You know, you guys are pro people. You fast and pray because you gotta do that. I mean, it's part of your it's part of your crew. I mean, it's part of your, you know, you know, your your style, you know, whatever you do it. Let me just tell you something. People ask, how do you how do you make decision? How can you hear the voice of God in the middle of a decision? Have you guys thought about that? You want five steps to find the voice of God. Here are the voice of God. Number one, make some notes of reference. So I've been awake all night. Do you know what I'm saying? For you. For you. For you. This coffee is keeping me and the Holy Ghost is helping me. I'm telling you.

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Number one, when you need to make a decision and you're like, God, I don't know how to how I'm gonna do. Number one, what is the Lord speaking through the Word of God when you think about this decision? So the first book that you open is this book, and you start praying, and you start reading, and when you start reading, God begins to speak to you from the Word of God. So what is God speaking to you when you think about making a decision? Number two, what is God speaking to you through the opening and closing of doors? Say that with me. Opening and closing up doors. You're praying about the decision. What is happening? You see a closed door and you see an open door. You know that open doormones go closed doormones, no. I mean, that's like basic science. God is never trying to complicate things. So number one, what is God speaking you through the word? Number two, what is he speaking through the opening and closing up doors? Number three, what is the peace or what is the feeling that you have? Peace or lack of peace in your inner man when you think about this decision.

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You're getting anxious. Listen. There is a fear of fact this. There's a risk factor in always obedience. Right? I'm telling you, if you don't I mean, there there is a risk, but that's all I'm talking about. I'm talking about you're anxious. Not able to sleep. You're like, you know, fear and you got like, you know, all kinds of stuff. I'm telling you you got to be sometimes we're about to make some crazy big decision.

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I remember we were supposed to fill a stadium. And my board walked up me and says, listen, this is on you. Okay? We're not backing it up. If you can do a liability, Right? If the money doesn't show up, we are not gonna sign off on this. Okay? This is about filling seven eight thousand Cedar Stadium. We're doing a big event and we're looking for sponsors and I feel in my heart like I'm telling you, I feel in my heart that we should go ahead. But the board's like, we're not gonna sign off on it. We're not gonna be held responsible for it. It's on you. I'm like, I'm gonna sell my car. I'm gonna do whatever it takes because I know God will show up. I know we're supposed to preach the gospel and we're supposed to go ahead with it. And guess what happened? We stepped out in faith even though there was a crazy risk. Nokia. Back in the day, Nokia. Remember Nokia? Nokia was there. They had a policy in India that they will never invest into anything political or religious. They became the title sponsor of our event, and money showed up the wealth of the wicked was stored for the righteous for us to preach the gospel.

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So I said, when you obey, you unlock the goodness in the covenant, the breakthrough that we are talking about, obedience Look at somebody who says, obedience is blessing. Look at somebody and say, look at, you know, look at somebody and say, it's it's better to be. It's better to be. Alright? Alright. Here we go. So guess what happens?

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So we're talking about number one, what is God speaking to the word? Number two, opening and closing them doors. Number three, peace, a lack of peace in in a man. Number four, What are the prophetic voices in your life speaking to you and your bar to make a decision? Like random people show up and like, whoa. Listen bro, I couldn't sleep last night. Right? You've been on my mind. This is what I feel from the Lord. I mean, you didn't ask for it. It's coming to you. It's like this this this Indian guy, you showed up in church thinking there's gonna be pastor boy Anne, and this is another guy with a crazy accent speaking. And God is speaking prophetically through the word and you're receiving it, it is a confirmation for something that you're speaking about.

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This morning, you're like, should I do it or no? Should I stay or not? I mean, you're going through a crisis. You're in the middle of a relationship. You're saying, Maybe I should go ahead and divorce and God says, don't do it. You're in the middle of an offer. You're middle of leaving the job and the Lord says, just like God spoke to Isaac. Stay. Stay. Not stay forever. God spoke to Jirah, Isaac, stay here for a while, and I will bless you. So maybe God is speaking to you prophetically, so I'm talking to You know, on the other side, you have prophecies in 4K quality.

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Right? It's filling up your iCloud. You're paying a lot of money every month for that. You have four k promises prophecy. Somebody was praying for you, like, make sure it's four k. Make sure you're filming it in four. So it's four k quality. Somebody filming somebody somebody giving you a prophetic word. Then you have HD quality. Then you have MP four quality. Then you have stereo quality.

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You have so many prophecies in your hard drive. But you're still hungry for the next one when you haven't done nothing about the last one. You're hungry for the word of God because let me tell you something. Every prophecy that you have received needs obedience from your end. Can be the coolest prophecy. I'm like, some prophecies and I'm I'm really some people. I'm like, whoa. I like that prophecy on me. A God is speaking. So you don't put prophecy on top.

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The greatest prophecy is the word of God. Profit could make mistakes because they're speaking in faith just like I'm doing it. But you can't take a profit to the bank, but you could take this to the bank. Right, heaven and earth will pass away, but this this book, some of those pages are falling out. Like Isaiah sixty one, I I mean, I can just take it off and just like fan it and put it back. I mean, read it so many times.

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I feel like sometimes I need to eat this bible because, like, this is the only thing I can hold on to. I cannot hold on to people's word. I cannot hold on to people's promises. But I know if I can hold on to this. If this book has it, if it is in the book, you can have it. If God has spoken to the word, he will show up because he has to show up and he is God. And if there is one thing that he is bound, he is bound by his own word. Come on somebody. Coffee is working. Holy Spirit is working. So the last one. Number one, what have got? Peace, open doors, peace, a lack of peace. Last fourth one is prophetic, was number five.

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What is the level of agreement between you and your spouse? If you're not married between you and a mentor, between you and a person that's mentoring you, speaking into your life. Let me tell you some challenging people in this room. You gotta be under mentored by somebody. You gotta be discipled by somebody. I don't wanna fall on no pastor that is not discipled by somebody. I don't wanna run off for any superstar that is not mentored or disciple or speaking or submitted to some sort of authority because authority and the flow of authority, it is in the Word of God. No man is so anointed that he cannot be under authority. Bad news. Run if you see one. Run. Let have all the gimmicks then. Gonna get into trouble soon. Right? All authority. Right?

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So the last piece is what is I mean, this the decision decisions at Ma'am, my wife and I go back, like, ninety nine percent of the time, my wife says yes to most of the decision. We but it make a major gift. I'm feeling excited. Oh, I'm like, I'm seeing the number. I'm I'm ready to write that check, but I know that I have to go back at ninety nine Plus into the time, my wife says yes. But one time, every time she has it, one percent, I tremble. Now because, you know, I'm scared of my wife is like because I do not have agreement at home. If I don't have agreement between my wife and I on the decision that I'm making, I'm gonna be in trouble because this is god ordained in my life.

0:33:27
Your your wife is not a burden. Your by your wife is a blessing. Oh my god. I was expecting some amends. Preach, Your wife is a blessing. Your wife is a blessing. One will say his thousand, two will say his ten thousand. Before I got married, we were in a couple of cities every you know, after after we got not every time. After we got married, In the next ten years, our ministry grew to a hundred and eighty four cities around the world touching over three million people after I got married.

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Marriage is God's plan for your life. You don't wanna be single like most New Yorkers? Pray and get married. Praay fast. Find the one. Get married. So we're talking about how to hear the voice of God.

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So guess what happened, Isaac obeyed and guess what happened. Let's go to the scripture. We don't have time to go through it. Isaac planted was number twelve, Isaac planted crops in that land. And the same year, a hundred four because the Lord had blessed it. Number one. God has given you seed in your hand. Everything that you see in this world If you backtrack it, my son's gone, it comes back to seed form. That avocado that you like to have for breakfast it was once a seed. That apple that you love, an apple a day keeps her, doctor away was once a seed. Everything that you see in this world was a seed, and God has given you seed in your hand. How do you get your way out of a crisis? You saw your way out of a crisis. You saw your way out of a crisis.

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I'm always carrying seat in my hand. I'm always carrying seat. I'm this is not a financial giving message. I'm just challenging people in the room. I'm like, what do I have in my hand? Sometimes I'm not I don't have the money. Maybe have a watch in my hand. Yes.

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I was dropping somebody to the airport. I'm like, I gotta bless his man. I'm like, looking I got Cologne. Hey, man. It's a Ralph Lauren Blue here. Here we go. I gotta find something I gotta have you always gotta carry seed in your hand. You know what? Because the seed that God has given you, if you put it in a locker, nothing's gonna be happening. It's gonna look the same. It was ten years ago.

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But when you put it into the ground, it brings forth a harvest, and let me tell you if you have got brains The harvest is always greater than the seed. So holy spirit is gonna tell you where you're gonna drop that seeds, how we're in the yale. I'm like, You gotta drop a seat, man, and my son's got more faith. Maybe you need an iPhone. I'm like, Lord, But we dropped a seat. We we saw the seat in a year. We were suing sowing a seat and saying, God, we're putting a seat on the ground, saying, Yale for Jesus. Every student in Yale should come to the same knowledge of Jesus. It is your plan. Every person in MIT should come, we're walking through the corridors of MIT, that's why they're working on the latest Cheetah robot. We can see it through a I'm like, what are we doing here from a small little town in India? Walking through MIT, how did that happen? The gospel brought us there. So when you obey, God is giving you So I said, guess what happened? He decided to not hold onto that seat. The ground the ground is cracked. He puts his ground, seat on the ground. And boom, what happens? In the same year, say that again with me. In the same year, He reaped a hundredfold breakthrough.

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So what are you doing, crisis? You solve. Number one. Number one, what are you doing? Crisis? The crisis is the opportunity. What do you do in crisis? You obey. Obedience is blessing. And then you step out and sow the seed.

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And I don't know. Sometimes it's like a you know, I don't know what God is speaking to you. Sometimes it's a book. Sometimes it's something I don't even know. I mean, I've done crazy things. See, let let me just tell you to all the people in the room.

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If you do unusual things, you will get unusual results. If you do the usual things that everybody is doing, you're gonna get the usual results. And I'm not in the business of usual things. I wanna be crazy. I wanna be doing something crazy. I mean, my name's gonna be coming in some books that people are gonna read ten years, twenty years from now talking about this, wild crazy Indian guy did something that nobody ever did, and God showed up, and God's miracle happened. That's what we want. Yeah. Because the testimony of our life How do you overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb and by the testimony? You gotta have a testimony. If you wanna have a testimony, you gotta go through a test. And you gotta come out of that test and you come with Torres, it becomes a story.

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I tell people, it is your private testing that becomes a public testimony. My wife and I, we're believing God for something. He's a private test. We're crying and believing and praying and boom and the breakthrough happens, whoa. It's hit the ceiling. It's like on YouTube, people are talking about it. Franklin grandma's retooling it. I mean, it it's like it's gone all over the place every Every Christian media channel was talking about why because a private testing became a public testimony and you stepped out and said, I said planted crops in the land.

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And the same you reaped a hundred four, the Lord blessed him. And guess what happens? You know, I'm a hear preached, prosperity. The word blessed means to be envious of. To be envious of, I'm like, whoa. People are looking like, one plus one is two, but this is like ten. They're not able to do the math when they look at you. He's been here for three years. Immigrant people, okay, one year to do this, second year you do this, then you save money, you buy a house and you do this and do I mean, they've got a full plan. I mean, I'm telling every Indian that's coming to the tech corridor, they have a plan. They say in the outskirts, save money, work hard, and then they buy a house, and then they, you know, blah, blah, it's a full route. I mean, people look at us and, like, it's not matching. The math is not working. You know why? Because this math is the world math. The kingdom math is exponential. Somebody say the word exponential. Somebody needs a word here, the word today. God is releasing that exponential blessing on you if you would obey.

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Guess what happened? Let me just tell you some success stories. The man became rich. Uh-huh. And his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. He had so many flocks and herds and servants at the first times and read him. So all the wells that his father serving had dug in the, you know, and then guess what?

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Sixteen, the king, the local king is saying, boys. I suck my man. Bro. Listen. Brokey, You become too powerful. The highest level of wealth is power. Right? He's crossed the threshold of wealth, and now he's become powerful. He's gonna become a powerful lobbyist right now.

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So the the king is like bro, listen, you leave. You leave. So I said, what I've said? Listen. No. This is the land that God blessed me. This is the place. I'm gonna hold on to this house. I'm gonna hold on to this place. This is my you know, let me just tell you something. The blessing is not on the land. The blessing is on you. You are the password. You are the blessing. God's covenant is not on the land. It is on you. And wherever you go, you will be blessed. Whatever you touch, you will be blessed. You know why? Because God's hand is on you and how did God's hand come upon you because you obeyed? Because he didn't go to Florida. I'm just kidding. You stayed and you said, God, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna do whatever you want me to do.

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Recently, we had like a thousand dollar increase on our rent. Thousand dollar increase. I'm like, oh my god. That's crazy. Lord, is the time to move? Because it's not I mean, we're already in the red right now. Right? I mean, it's like, messed up the whole map. I don't have a word. My wife almost like sold everything. We're like ready to go. I mean, we can We don't have a word. And thank god, we have paid maybe earlier rent than even on the first or second. Every month. The Lord has continued to provide. Why? Because he has to prove that he is God. And whatever he says, he will have to deliver. He is bound by his promise. So we don't leave because I've got a thousand dollar increase.

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I'm talking about the sowing seed here. Sometimes you are the seed. Some place you go, you're like, God no money now. God's not speaking to me about the watch. It's not speaking to me about that that jacket that you spent two hours to look for and find the deal at Macy's. He's not speaking to you about, given any of the stuff that you have, God is saying you are the seed. So I'm gonna tell you a story that's heart of the press. Are you ready?

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So the other day I got invited to speak at a Zoom meeting, preach at a Zoom meeting. So the Zoom meeting is about Speaking of leaders on the other side of the world, it's developing world, South America, India, Pakistan, Africa, all these leaders out there. And I'm telling you, man, I had, like, fever. And on top of the the place that I was sitting, it was freezing cold. I forgot. I think they forgot how to put on the the heater or whatever. Man, it was And once you start preaching, you can go back and switch on the heater. I mean, you're on. You're on. Right? It's on. The show's on. So you're preaching.

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I preached for, like, two hours. Fully understanding that some of these meetings, you end up paying that side. Right? This is not like a meeting that you go and they're gonna give you a big check. Right? You're sowing and you are the seed. And I'm putting myself into that screen, reaching and telling you, you are the brown guy. I'm the brown guy. If God can bless his brown guy, you can he can bless Pakistan. He can bless African. He can bless South American people. I'm just challenging them to say, you are looking at me. If God can do it for me, he can do it for you. People got in Christian. At the end of two hours, I'm like, Moe, I need I don't know. I need coffee. I don't know what I need.

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So the leader on the call suddenly says, at the end of the call, I feel in my heart that we need to buy a car for Bonnie. It doesn't make sense because the math does not make this is the developing world on the other side. Right? It's not like New York, New York. New York is not it's not like the Wall Street guys are on the call. No. Nobody.

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So I'm like, we've been praying for a car. In fact, I did something crazy. I've been paying parking for the last couple of months without a car. Unusual things will bring about unusual results. So suddenly there's a lady on the call. She's like, I was just wondering, what should I do? The Lord just spoke to me that, you know, I have a down payment that I was wondering. I just I need to put it from my car But we need to go get this guy's car first. People started jumping on the car. And people get excited when the blender gets excited, when the other people on the call get excited about it. So that's like a roar on the score and lo and behold, if you walk out, you will see that brand new car right outside. That I didn't break the bang for him.

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What am I trying to say? I am the seed. All I all I was doing for two hours, finally they put a blanket on me because they were like, it's not coming out. I'm like, I'm like, you know, I'm having a cold and blah blah blah and all that. But at the end of the two hour, you're not expecting an offering from that because you're you're just challenging people. You're You're talking to Pakistani people. You're talking to Indians. You're talking to Africans. You're talking to people in Colombia and Brazil. And they don't have an offering. And you're investing you became the seed in obedience.

0:45:34
You know, I'm looking at saying that what am I my new new book, in my short book I'm gonna come up with, what good can come out of a Zoom call? What good can come out of a Zoom call? Let me just tell you something. You never know who's on the other side. You never know what God is speaking to somebody in this room. You never know because I just came here last time, you know. We're just gonna preach. I mean, God's going door. I've gone and bring some seed. The seed is here. The word of God, I'm gonna release it here. And boom, God didn't know that. I mean, you guys planted and you guys sold it and, whoa, it just sustained the sea for us to go back to campuses.

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Now we need a car every time I rent a car, it's like two hundred bucks a day and you're thinking, oh my god. Oh, maybe I should not think about Boston, right, or maybe next week or maybe the week after. Now it's like Boston, No problem. We're off to Boston now. We're off to Boston. We're going MIT. We're going to Yale. Tomorrow, you wanna go to UPenn? No problem. We're ready to go. Why? We got we got wheels?

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And I did something unusual. I've been paying for parking. It's been going off my car. Two hundred and sixty dollars every month. Boom. Boom. Boom. And sometimes I'm like thinking that rental just was here for like a couple of hours in my favorite parking slot. It's been empty. And my my son and I, we just walked around as a come on car. Time to come. Time to come, I'm asking, which car do you want? I'm like, he's like, what what car do you want? Because I'm like, I am not getting into debt. For something that God's about to do and use for the kingdom of God. I don't have money to get in another loan payment, another debt, another burden. No. So this is heart of the press. I can see it right here. They've given me some good parking. So that you can see it.

0:47:19
What God can do out of a Zoom call? Where the seed was me? Sometimes you are the seed. When you call the person and you encourage somebody, you pray for somebody, when you share the gospel with somebody, what are you doing? You are the seed and you are sowing your time and your effort. And guess what happened? Who thought what's gonna happen from that call? And God has done that breakthrough. Pastor, are we doing? Outstanding. Praise the Lord. During the time. Keeps on seat. Alright.

0:47:56
Now the last piece I wanna talk about is that what do you do when somebody starts to attack you. What do you do when somebody starts to get into conflict with you? Now listen, Isaac is blessed right now, yo, what's up? He's rolling. Rolling, but he now has to relocate and guess what hap happened Isaac, then I'd be malech. Came to ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! ICE! I'm a blood sugar high to fight with this guy because, you know, I just need to hear the voice of the globe. Lord and and the Lord is telling him to go somewhere else, so he just moves off. And guess what happened? So Isaac moved away from there and cam the valley of Jirah and settled there.

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And number number eighteen, this is a key was for somebody in this room. It says, what does is Isaiah reopen? Can you get that scripture brother? Isaiah dug the wells of water, which they had dug into Abraham. Okay. Blah blah blah. Okay. This is what what we do.

0:48:53
What's happening is Isaac went and reopened his father's wealth. Some people in this room, God is gonna ordain you to go open some of the things that God is working in the city. Like, I went to I went to Yale to pray, you know what? Because that was an old well where revival fell. And today, the enemy has come and closed it. And put some stones on it. But God is raising up some curry anointed people to go out and pull out the rocks and say it is time to reopen the father's wells.

0:49:24
I went to Alliance University because hundred and fifty years ago, AB Simpson stepped out from a high paying job in as a prespit as a minister of a presbettering church in Manhattan probably about a hundred and twenty thousand of current salary. He said, I'm gonna step out and work for the marginalized. What am I doing in Alliance University? I am reopening the father's wells. I'm going to Fulton Street. Guess what happened? Fulton Street had a revival. And it is over. What am I doing in Fulton Street? Praying over Wall Street, I am reopening the father's wells.

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And some people in this room, God is saying I am causing you to go out there and reopen the father's voice. I'm telling you pastor God is gonna use you to reopen some of the old wells in this city. Do you believe it or not? Said a word or not? I'm prophets. I know people are right. God is like go look for that well because he's already dug in his half ends, just some rocks. You pull it out, boom water. Water is like the oil of Saudi Arabia. In a famine, the greatest thing that you want is water. You find water is a big thing, but God has given you an anointing to go reopen. So I'm I'm I'm landing on the last piece of the script. I felt I told somebody stay here in the in the service. It goes on as eyes are reopened.

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And guess what happened? When you reopen, wells and he began to dig some new wells. Guess what? The boys showed up. The boys showed up and said, hey, listen. Isaac, this is our well. The husband of Jirag, what did they do? They quarreled with Isaac's horsemen saying the water is ours So guess what Isaac said, I'm not gonna this is a I don't wanna get my BP up high. I'm not gonna get into this battle with you guys because my battle is up there. Right? I'm not gonna waste my time, my energy on this. I guess what happened? He called the whale a sec because they quorled with him. And that in stop Isaac Isaac knew that his anointing on his life is to go dig. So he goes and digs another well. Guess what happened? They dug another well. They called over that one also, so he called it sitna. The word sitna is also the word. The root word is Satan.

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So when you're trying to do something, you're thinking, oh, it's gonna be open doors. It's like, oh, what's up? Enrolling the red carpet. The Cadillac is coming in, the black time fellow is coming to open no way. You're gonna see some opposition in some of the things that you're about to do. But let me tell you, watch out, You What is your attitude? You don't fight, but you don't keep on digging.

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Look at somebody say, keep on digging. I'm gonna keep on digging. No matter what the devil does, no matter what people tell me, I'm gonna keep on digging. I'm gonna pursue that business idea. I'm gonna keep going in the direction that God has called me to do. I'm gonna pursue that career. Everybody else wants me to do something else, but I wanna do what God wants me to do, and I'm gonna keep on digging. Somebody said that with me, I'm gonna keep on digging. Oh, I'm gonna keep on digging. Jesus.

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And then guess what happened the next one. And he moved from there and dug another well. This is about what's gonna happen to some people in this room if you believe it. Or maybe all of them. He did not call over so he called. So he dug another well and they did not call over it. So he called it Rabad.

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Say that word with me. Rabad. What does it say? Because he said for now, the Lord has made room for me and we shall be fruitful in this land. So this morning, God is taking you from the well of Essak God is moving you on from the well of Sitna to land you at Rajabat. You know what is Rajabat? It is wide open spaces. You're gonna be fruitful. You're gonna flourish in the land, not because I said it. God has spoken to you. And this is a word for somebody. If that is what you just say, hallelujah, I received that word.

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This is a season of rabbit. This is a seasonal wide open spaces. This is a season where I will be fruitful. This is a season I will take over. This is a season I will conquer because God is on my side and all I did was keep digging. Keep digging. Keep digging. Keep digging. Keep digging until I reach a rabbit. I'm prophesying over this church, wide open spaces.

0:53:52
Wide open spaces. People quarrel over you. Let go of them and run for your life. Run to the next assignment. You don't have time to fight over these petty things because what you're fighting over is petty things, is fleshly things. Stay focused on what God is calling you to do.

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When you do what God is calling you to do, Jesus said, look at Jesus. Therefore, I'm gonna lay off every sin. That so easily entangles me. I'm gonna let go of it fixing my eyes on Jesus the author and the perfector of my faith. When I get excited, I'm gonna jump on this chair. I don't know what I'm gonna do. But I wanna tell you something. This is the time and the season for wide open spaces. Wide open spaces. Wide open spaces. Wide open spaces. Why it opens spaces for you? I'm telling you, man. God's gonna open doors. He's like he's like fling in your you had to pursue it. Some people have been after you. You had to go from well to well to well, but here we go.

0:54:53
Well number three, rabbit. I am making a room for you. I will make you fruitful in this land. I'm gonna prosper in New York. I don't need to go to Florida. I don't need to go to Nashville. I don't need to go to Antarctica. I'm gonna flourish in New York. New York is the land that God has called me to, and I will flourish in this land. There'll be history of books written about you and me because we kept on digging. Oh, I love that. Let's keep on. We're gonna keep on. We're gonna keep on. Keep on. Until we reach our wide open space, and which is not too far away. That's the next one that you're coming up to. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, come on men, sow in famine, obey in famine, move in famine.

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And I'm telling some people in the room, this is my last point for you. Do something crazy. Do something crazy. Pay for a parking that with a car that doesn't exist. I mean, do something crazy. I mean, back in the day, I mean, when I need a cell phone, I don't have the money to buy a new cell phone. I've got a new cell phone case. It's a thousand dollars for a phone. It's a ten dollars for the case. Okay. I got money for ten dollars for the case. And I'm gonna call I'm gonna believe God and say God, this is a phone that I need to serve the lord. Or whatever you need it for, you sow in famine. You obey in famine. When your opposition becomes your opportunity. So don't fear when you are in the middle of the opposition, keep on digging. Keep on digging.

0:56:46
I'm telling you, prophesying over city light church, over the worldwide web, over the digital space as God is making room, you got a new logo, get ready to blow up. Get ready. Get ready because the Lord is gonna put wide open spaces. People with conflict level come and go. Let the ones that need to go let them go. Don't hold on to them. Don't waste time holding on to people that are that are messing up your mental health. You're popping pills and going to therapists because of some people in your life. Let go of them. Move on to the well and keep digging. And then you hit the the well of wide open. Let's get the worship team up here. And I want every hand every person up right now. And just saying, God, I'm ready.

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So I'm challenging people in this room saying, who wants to do something crazy for Jesus? Crazy. Crazy sowing, crazy obedience, crazy things, not the usual things. If you know the usual things, you get usual results. If you get unusual things, you will get unusual results. Without faith, it is impossible to please God.

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Come on. Lift up your hands one of you and say, yes, Lord, I'm ready. Come on, stand up. You can stand up. You can stand up and say yes, Lord.

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Come on, get that worship team up and say Lord, here I am ready. I'm ready to step into my promise. I'm ready to step into my into my into my well number three. I'm ready for rabbit. Somebody scream and say, rabbit. Wide open space us. God is gonna make me flourish in this land.

0:58:21
The Lord is making room for me. I'm prophesying with somebody. You're not able to have children. Somebody told you the doctors told you you got peace and you already got fibroids. And I'm prophesied and I'm telling you, God is making room in your womb. God is making room in your womb. He is opening up plumes right now in the name of Jesus. Children of covenant come out in the name of Jesus. God is increasing the capacity for you to dream. The Lord is giving you intellectual ideas. The Lord is connecting you with supernatural connections. The Lord is making room for you. You are stepping into the season of robots.

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