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So I'm challenging people in this room City Light.
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If you want to see that classic breakthrough, if you want to see your works, your prayers being answered, you got to pray what Pray, fervently Pray until something happens.
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Push in prayer, travail in prayer, persevere in prayer, keep praying and keep praying, and keep praying until the breakthrough happens.
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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 CityLightNYCcom.
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That's CityLightNYCcom.
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Pastor Boyan Jansic 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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God is in this place, amen.
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As you see, I'm not Pastor Boyan.
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In fact, both our names start into the first two letters of our Word.
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Our names are like the same, so it's like Bo Yan Bonnie.
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I'm so happy that he let me speak, and most of the time I'm a short notice.
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God bless Him.
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I just got off the plane from California, so that's why I'm wearing all the Cal Gear.
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Does anybody from California come on?
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Cal, so Cal, no Cal, no Cal.
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All the cool places.
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So I just got off the plane.
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Man, those planes are long.
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It's almost like how many hours is that?
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It was almost six and a half hours just to get to San Francisco.
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I spent the last 10 days there.
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You might be thinking I was on holiday.
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No, we were on a mission.
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We were at the University of Berkeley, university of California, berkeley.
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Why am I saying this?
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Because this church is my church.
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This church has been a praying church, this church has been a giving church, this church has been a sending church and you guys have sent us to be on this mission to see every student in every nation gospelized and mobilized.
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And we've been on this, on this tour, in the University of California, berkeley Fantastic place.
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I mean, we hear all these kind of narratives.
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I'm not saying those narratives are not true, you know those are facts.
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But the truth is that Jesus loves Berkeley.
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So we were there for the last 10 days just serving the students and working to get this outreach.
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I don't know if you have heard this movie called God's Not Dead, right.
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So we were out there doing this apologetics event with my mentor, dr Rice Brooks.
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We are officially collaborating LifeJumps bringing this to different campuses, and we were there.
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And, man, I want to just say that we had a record-breaking crowd in the history of Berkeley in the recent times 478 students right packed up in this place, standing room only.
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This is historic because this is the same campus that Martin Luther King stood on the steps and made a big speech.
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It was also the same place that Billy Graham went to in 1956.
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And there was a massive revival and thousands of students were touched and impacted and campus crusader big ministries were launched into this campus and most of the time we hear about stories that happened in the past, but I was like man.
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We got to see that right now, right here, because the God that we serve is the God of the right nows, amen.
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He's also the God of the yesterday.
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He's done some great things, but he's the best.
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I tell people, the best is yet to come, amen.
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So we were there 478 students packed up in this place and 107 responded.
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Out of that, 23 students gave their lives to Jesus.
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The captain of the football team gives his life to the Lord, walks up to us and says God, touch me today.
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This is not like a revival service, is a college campus.
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So we are asking questions.
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You know, I want you to know, that 60 to 70% of the students that walk into a college campus walk out of the place losing their faith.
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I often tell the story about this young girl just like on fire for God, like most of us are, went on.
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You know she was given this opportunity to study in any campus.
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You know her parents wanted her to go to Christian school.
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She said now I want to go to UNC, chapel Hill.
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And she goes there with a mission to change the campus upside down and six weeks later she calls up her dad and says I don't believe in God anymore.
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This is the truth that we're facing, so we got to go beyond that campus.
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Engage with them, answer some of the questions.
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So we talked about the three E's, we talked about the fact that there is evidence to what is written in this book.
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This is not just a fable, this is not just a story.
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This book has got more evidence than any historic book in the world.
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So we just laid out all of those things.
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Jesus rose from the grave.
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It was not just like somebody just told somebody oh yeah, that's a good idea.
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Let me just get you know Jesus rose, no, jesus rose from the dead and over 200 people saw Him rose from the dead alive.
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So it's 200 witnesses.
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So you know, just talking this.
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We talked about evolution, we talked about evil why do bad things happen to good people?
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And then we shared the gospel.
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There was this girl who came as a skeptic.
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She was arguing with this friend of mine that we know at that event and she's like you know, I don't like all this stuff, but I'm just here to drill some holes and into the, into the middle of this event, she starts crying.
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At the end of this event she gives her life to the Lord and says show me, well, tell me where the next services.
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I want to be there for that.
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There was another guy who was there.
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He didn't want to come.
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His dad pushed him and forced him to come.
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He had been robbed.
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You know just a little bit about California.
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The moment I landed and got a render car, the render car person said make sure that you don't put anything in the car, because there's a lot of break-ins in this area.
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So this guy got point blank robbed a week before.
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He was shaken, shaken up and he was there and God touched him and he gave his life to the Lord.
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You know so many stories like this.
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So I just want to say thank you for praying for us, thank you for sending us, thank you for giving us the you know, the resources and the finances for us to preach the gospel.
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So I've got a QR code right there and there's some city kids, some naughty kids.
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I hope it's not my voice.
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Mama Mia is here.
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My beautiful wife is there.
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Wave your hands up in the air.
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Best thing, best thing's, happened to me.
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So you can scan this QR code and, you know, be part of the praying team.
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You can just pull up your phone, scan this code and get you signed up and if you want to, you know, I know this is a free church.
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It's given me this freedom.
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If you want to financially give to these campaigns it costs us thousands of dollars to be on these campus.
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If you want to be partner, partnering with us in this ministry, you can even do that via this QR code and talk to us, or talk to Pastor James and he'll make sure that the money gets to us so that we can be on the campus.
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We've been dreaming about Stanford, right next to it.
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We've been praying into it.
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So it's been all the good things happening.
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It's been some great things happening in India as well, with our global teams.
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Show some of those pictures.
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Yeah, these are students, thousands of students.
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So this whole campaign.
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There will be a hundred thousand students all over in about 20 cities.
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Students like this will hear the gospel directly or indirectly through some of our initiatives.
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We have a chat line.
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We have a big Christmas campaign coming, so we're not just reaching students in America, but we're reaching students around the world.
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Look at those thousands of kids.
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You know I'm telling you, I tell people you can count the number of seeds in an apple, but you can never count the number of apples that will come out of a seed.
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Somebody shared the gospel with me.
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That guy didn't have no clue that God is going to birth a movement out of this guy that will reach over three million students with the gospel.
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The next Pastor James, the next Boyan, the next president, the next you know the influencers, that the next CEO of the biggest tech company is sitting on those campuses and they need to hear the gospel.
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So pray with us, partner with us to take this gospel to the ends of the world and in American campuses.
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Are you excited for the Word of God?
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All right, you know I want to say this message that I'm sharing with you this morning is really my life message.
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This is I live this message.
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I don't I'm not just trying to give you something that I'm trying to do.
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I live this.
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This is part of me and I want this to become and impartation.
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As you receive this word and say God, I want to receive this into the DNA of my life, that my life will never be the same.
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Amen, you believe it?
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Say amen, all right.
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So this is a message.
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The title of my sermon is called prayer power.
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Many of us are praying prayers and you're wondering why your prayers are not answered.
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There are formulas in the Bible that we need to use and unlock to see the breakthroughs that we need to see in our life.
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Amen, have you ever wondered?
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I've been praying and I'm not seeing breakthroughs.
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Let's just relook into some of the things that are in the scriptures so that we get a glimpse of it.
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Okay, backtracking a little bit, last year my wife and I, the Lord spoke to us the scripture from the Bible.
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Abraham walked the length and breadth of this land.
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Remember that God spoke to.
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Abraham walked the length and breadth of this land.
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I'll give it to you A little bit of a story about us.
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We are just four years into America.
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We are missionaries into this great nation.
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We are originally from the land of curry.
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Does anybody know what that is?
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India, right?
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So I tell people I come from the land of curry and I live in the land of curry, new York.
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So God brought us here on a mission and we didn't know a lot of people.
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So we said God, you want us to touch the lights of these young people in this nation.
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So we don't know where to start.
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So, whenever you are in doubt, start praying.
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Okay.
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So God spoke to this word.
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So we got excited and the idea was to drive the length and breadth of America.
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So we got on a mini van.
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Anybody loves a mini van.
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I mean, I'm the guy, I'm not the driving.
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You know, I'm not the guy that likes to drive.
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I've been.
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If I'm driving for three hours, I probably take two breaks, coffee breaks, starbucks break, you know all that.
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But this was driving for hours.
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So we drove 9,000 miles, friends, new York to LA, the length go up to Seattle, down to Miami, back to New York.
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9,000 miles of praying, over 30 cities, every city.
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We found somebody to pray with us.
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We said we're gonna ask you for money, we're gonna ask you for anything.
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Will you give us one hour so that we can pray for your city, so that your young people will come to know Jesus?
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And all of them said yes.
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So we, you know, we drove through and my kids got to see America more of America in 30 days than most of America put together.
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All right, so at the end of 30 days we were like God, what are we doing?
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We're saying God, give us this land.
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The Bible says wherever the soul of your feet shall tread, I will give it to you.
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Ask of me and I will give you, the nations, and to the other supercession.
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We prayed all these words and we were praying in the spirit in the car.
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We have a global team.
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Some of the places, like I was at the University of Michigan, I switched on a Zoom call with all of our team sitting on the other side of the world and I switched the camera around.
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Those guys sitting in India are actually praying for the University of Michigan while we drive around the place.
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How cool is that?
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And some of those kids got excited and inspired that one of our interns just came into Columbia University.
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How cool is that, getting inspired to come on the other side of the world.
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So 30 days later, I'm like Lord, we are in this location.
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And I remember being in DC, washington DC.
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We got there and then I was in a.
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I rented a little scooter the electric scooter and from our hotel all around Capitol Hill, just drove around the key places and saying God, here I am, here we are.
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We need a breakthrough, we need open doors, we need this, we need to see this nation.
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This is the most defining place, the most influential place.
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A few months later, god did this Show that picture right there.
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Yes, that's me, the good looking me With the Surgeon General of America.
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He's the highest ranking official under the President of America in charge of the health and human services I mean human departments of all of America.
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Now you know that we've been working in college campuses around the team of mental health.
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It came to know about it and I love to say we walk into what you pray into.
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Say that with me.
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You walk into what you pray into.
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A few months before, I was cycling around that place in the electric scooter saying, not knowing a lot of people in DC, saying God, give us open doors.
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A few months later, boom, we are having the meeting with the Surgeon General talking about some of the things that we're doing and he's like all right, love what you're doing, I want to come and be a part.
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So he actually wants to come and attend one of our events.
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Number one, number two the next day, the White House put this picture out there and tweeted it on their partnership Twitter ID government partnerships on the Twitter ID.
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How did this happen?
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You walk into what you pray into.
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You walk into what you pray into.
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What am I doing in California?
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What am I doing in Stanford?
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What am I doing in Berkeley.
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I've never heard of that place, I've never been to that place.
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But guess what you walk into, what you pray into.
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I was praying all over California, in Los Angeles, in God, give us California for Jesus.
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So you walk into what you pray into.
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Now doors are opening everywhere we went.
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So what am I saying?
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Just give me your recipe, recipe recipe For the last one year, god's been given us a zip code, 11545.
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I was here for a meeting and I saw this place and something in my heart said this is where you're going to be living.
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We will live right next door here in Roosevelt Island, and we're feeling in our heart For the last one year, every month, sometimes every other week, my wife was like what are we even doing here, just circling around 11545, long Island area, saying God, this is a place that you're giving us and you're going to give it to us.
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I don't know where it's going to happen.
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It's expensive All the logical reasons why there is no way that we can get to that place.
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Guess what guys.
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We live there right now.
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11545 is my zip code.
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You walk into what you pray into.
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You walk into what you pray into.
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I'm just building some faith in this room.
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Guys, you pray, you ask, you knock, you seek.
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The scripture says ask and you keep on asking, seek and you keep on seeking, knock and you keep on knocking and it will.
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No, it shall be, it will be open.
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So I want to impart this to you because I live this.
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The other day, the last 10 days, there were some friends of mine who was hanging out with me.
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They don't probably believe in the same things that I believe.
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So it's like you know, I'm praying, we're praying around Berkeley, we're standing on the balcony, we stand in every high place, we're walking around the place, we're going.
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You know every place so we could find ourselves and we said God, give us Berkeley in Jesus' name.
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So then the other day they asked me so are you praying in an Indian language, or are you praying?
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And what are you praying?
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I'm like, brother, this is my moment.
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I know this is a church that believes in this stuff.
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I'm praying in tongues, brother, because the Bible says, when you speak in tongues, you speak not unto man, but you speak unto God.
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So are you ready, people?
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Are you ready for the formula for the breakthrough?
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Let's go to the book of Nehemiah, the book of Nehemiah.
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If you are pregnant and you found out that it's going to be a boy and looking for a name, nehemiah is a great name.
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Nehemiah means God comforts.
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You can call him at home Nemo and of course, we've watched plenty of Finding Nemo in our home.
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That is almost like, yeah, you know what I'm trying to say.
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All right, all right, all right.
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So here is the breakthrough.
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Let me just get to the I'm getting.
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This is a spoiler.
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Nehemiah is praying and he found out the information that the walls of Jerusalem are broken, right, and everything is in a mess, and he has a mandate now to see these walls being broken.
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The spoiler is that in.
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He built the walls in 52 days never done before, never done before.
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So the breakthrough was that he was able to build the walls of Jerusalem in 52 days.