The Transformative Power of Divine Anointing

0:01 Jesus had a touchy ministry. He touched people everywhere. The anointing flows through touch. It can come other ways, but one of the ways a frequently used way is touch is through the laying out of hands. Come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she will live. 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 CityLightNYCcom.

0:41 That's CityLightNYCcom. Pastor Boyan Jansik 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. Welcome to City Light Church. My name is Bo Bo knows Jesus. My name is Bo Jansik, and those of you joining us online, welcome.

1:31 We had an amazing picnic yesterday. It was so awesome. Pastor Mo, our community pastor, the whole team was involved, but he spearheaded that. What a phenomenal job, first class all the way. I mean it really felt like being in a sanctified amusement park, an ice cream truck in New York City, without prices, reminding me of that scripture whosoever will come drink of this water, whosoever will come partake of this softie, free to all.

2:14 But we're in the middle of this series. That kind of just happened. I didn't know I was going to do a series until I just sensed the Lord wanting to take us on a journey and get some of you opened up to His hand moving in your life. And so the first message was just called the anointed and His anointing. And then, when I didn't know what the Lord would be doing in the second service, I just said call it part two. And so this is now part three. That was a phenomenal man of God and he said I have really one message with 50 different titles.

3:01 And I thought, yeah, that's kind of true, but the Lord wants to bless you, he wants to heal you, he wants to love on you. And what is crucial in getting to that place of receiving Because that's really what it is you have to get to the place of receiving. God has no trouble giving. He is a giver. Giving is His very nature. He doesn't have to kind of get in the mood to give. He's a giver, he's a blessing.

3:42 And so we need to be able to slip into a place where we can receive. And that's really where the trouble starts, because a lot of us are not good receivers. We get encumbered with the things of the world. Doubt and unbelief and cynicism come in, or we just get stuck in a rut. You know what getting stuck in a rut is Is that you're just used to the same thing and then you don't expect anything different. You're just, you're a dead fish floating downstream. You're caught in the humdrum of life and then it crushes your hope and your expectancy, and so then it's just. Your prayer becomes oh Lord, help me make it through another day. God forbid that ever be your song and your prayer.

4:27 Pray it once in a while, like once a year, is enough for me, but I don't want weeks where my prayer is oh Lord, help me make it through the day. I want you to ride high in Jesus. That's what he wants for you. And so the Lord is just coming to us, and what is crucial for us to become good receivers is an understanding of how God gives. And how God gives is in and through his anointing. And isn't it amazing that, although Jesus' title is Jesus, the Christ, jesus the anointed, that the church as a whole really doesn't have an understanding of any kind concerning the anointing?

5:14 There's pockets, but as a whole, when you go up to your average Christian and say, tell me about the anointing, you're just good. Well, you know, it's the anointing, it's you know. No, I don't know. Tell me, well, bertoli, no, bertoli's an olive oil brand. But we should know, we should be intimately acquainted with the anointing, because that's how Jesus ministered, that's how he got people their breakthrough, that's how he healed their bodies, that's how he visited people. What is the anointing?

5:54 Most people don't know the definition or even how to describe it. The anointing simply is the manifest presence of God. It's God's presence active, doing something in the moment, because there is an omnipresence of God. He's everywhere, but he's not everywhere. In the same way. He was everywhere in the desert when Moses was walking, but his anointing was in the burning bush. He was presence was everywhere in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, but the anointing was in the upper room. His anointing is here, but what's required is a hungry and thirsty heart with faith who will pull on it and receive it, and that's what brings transformation and life change.

6:37 Amen, and God has something up His sleeve for, city like church. I'm telling you, I feel it. I feel it myself are pulsating. He's going to give us a surprise and what is necessary is there to be a large number of people. Everyone is a good number, but call it critical mass. A large number of people. I like everyone, but there's always new people. There's always going to be works in progress, sitting in the corners or whatever. You're welcome. That's awesome. The majority you know to have an understanding of the anointing.

7:21 Note that Jesus this is how important the anointing is that that's Jesus's title and so many people think it's his last name. Christ is not Jesus's last name. That's his title. Jesus, the anointed one and his anointing. Did you ever think about that? I don't know if that blows your mind the way it blows mine, but if that's his name, that means we should know something about the anointing, yet on average most Christians don't. That's a whole in our understanding, a very foundational thing that we should be aware of. There's a whole there and that Jesus didn't do anything apart from the anointing after he was anointed.

8:09 Before he was anointed at his baptism he didn't do any miracles. I remember going to Ethiopia to visit our orphanage there, the Grace Center, and they took me around to some old churches and there was a 600 year old, a very old Orthodox church is there and there were old drawings not even paintings but like carved in the sides of the wall of like a 12 year old Jesus and there were these shards of clay and they showed him coming up and touching the shards of clay and they would fly up as doves Pretty carving, not scriptural. He didn't do that. Why didn't he do that?

8:49 Because he wasn't anointed yet. He was anointed when he was 30 at his baptism. It's a mystery. Here Jesus is 100% God, he was 100% man, but he laid his power down when he came to earth. He was still divine, he was still God it's a mystery. But he laid it down until he got anointed. The Bible says, got poured out his spirit and without measure, upon him. You know what can throw some people off that he was. You know, when he got lost he was 12 years old.

9:30 Well, he didn't get lost, he just he was a precocious child. And it says that he was talking to the doctors of the law and confounding them with his questions. And some people think, well, that was God in the flesh, omniscient, all knowing, and that he was really just puzzling the Pharisees then and the doctors of the law with his understanding of the Torah. But the scripture doesn't say that he did that as a man. Now, granted, he was born without sin, so he had a soul and a mind that was not stained by sin. So what does that look like? We don't know, because all of ours is stained by sin.

10:13 But that means that as a 12 year old he would have had a pure and deep and really profound understanding of the scriptures. But it doesn't mean he did it supernaturally. Are you following me here? But after his baptism, the Bible says he came up out of the water, the Holy Spirit came upon him, he was anointed and that began the miracle ministry of Jesus. What was the necessary ingredient, the anointing, and when he was anointed, then he healed them, everyone. Then his first miracle the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, by the way a miracle of provision. The very first miracle of Jesus is the miracle of provision.

10:54 There's a wink from heaven where God is just saying I have all of your needs in mind and it's nothing for me to provide for you. Even when it was extra wine at a wedding, it doesn't really seem like a need, it seems like a want. You're following me. They would have been okay without extra wine. They would have made it. We're still been married. The guests would have still been happy. But he said oh, you need wine. Huh, get a bunch of jugs, each one with a capacity of 20 to 30 gallons. Six of them, it's anywhere from 150 to 180 gallons of water that he turned into wine.

11:35 That's a lot of vino. What's the Lord saying? The Lord is saying I'm opulent and I care about your needs and I will meet them. And I will meet them by my anointing. Look at Acts 10, 38, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good. If you're expecting bad from God or if you're ascribing something bad that happened to you, to God, please go back to the drawing board. I say that with love in my heart. Go back to the drawing board and rework some things, because Jesus went about doing good.

12:18 Deep thoughts today. God, good, devil, bad, amen. And Jesus, he moved in the anointing and he went about doing good and healing all who are oppressed, not possessed, here. He did that too. But really demonic possession, that's rare, it's not. Well, it's a lot more common than we may think, but you know it's not every third person. It's not walking around cutting themselves with stones. Most people who think they're possessed, they're really oppressed. What's possessed is the thing is in you and your spirit. By the way, christian has the Holy Spirit in their spirit. They cannot then have a demon in their spirit, but you can't have people who are oppressed that's from the outside in.

13:00 You ever get one of that. You know what? We have A gravity blanket. You ever, anybody ever, get the gravity blanket? My wife loved it. For me it was too oppressive. I want the goose down, the fluffy Siberian goose. Oppression is like a gravity. It's a weighted blanket. The blanket weighs like 60 pounds. It's supposed to knock you out. You go to sleep. It's like of course you're going to fall asleep. It's like a dude sitting on top of you. That's what oppression is. People walk around and they're oppressed. You can be oppressed physically, oppressed mentally. It's just a weight that's on you.

13:42 Jesus went about doing good and, by the anointing, healing all who are oppressed of the devil. Hallelujah, hallelujah. The anointing is tangible, it can be felt. Isn't it an utter shame that in America this mystical faith called Christianity has been so just front-lobianized, made into this bookish thing where people can know all about God but never truly meet God?

14:23 You can describe God, you can know God, but never truly encounter Him and experience His anointing. You are called Christians. What does that mean? That means little Christ, little anointed ones. How can you have a little anointed one who doesn't know the anointing of the bigly anointed one and yes, he was bigly anointed without measure, and he pours out that anointing on us and we're little Christs, and so we should be intimately acquainted with and familiar with the moving of the Holy Spirit and the anointing the old preachers, they would say a lot of churches today.

15:10 The Holy Spirit could walk in with a 10 gallon hat and two, six guns at his side and they wouldn't recognize him. Little is lost in translation, saying it in 2023 in New York City, but the gist of it. How do we be Christians and not know the Holy Spirit? So the Lord is wanting to reveal that in a deeper way to us. I want to just ask some people who haven't been prepared so don't look at me bug-eyed, just come up. I want you to share on how you have encountered the anointing and the love of God and what it's done for you.

15:54 Amen, luke, could you share? Share a story, luke, come here, tell us a story. I'll help you. I'll help you. Tell us a story about how the Lord came to you with his anointing and his love. So in February 2021, I started reading the book of Acts and I grew up in a church, but not a Holy Spirit type of church, and so when I started reading it I don't know why this happened when it did or how, but I started feeling like a little bit of warm in my chest.

16:39 And the book of Luke talks about the road to Emmaus and the disciples said we're not our hearts burning within us, but, growing up when I heard Bible stories, I read the Bible. I just kind of because the atmosphere that I was around they always assumed that those things were kind of more figurative and not a literal experience. But I started having this literal experience where my heart was burning within me, but I wasn't sure if it was something I ate or if it was what I was reading. So I was testing it out, so I was reading a little bit and it would start and then that would stop and then it would go away, and one day it didn't really happen, but I just stayed there for like an hour and a half and then it started happening again.

17:22 So I was like I think this is God and I read through the whole New Testament, having this experience, and then by the time I got back to the gospel. So, even though I had read it my whole life, it was like I'd never read it before and I could just hear him saying it to me, you know. So when I read, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, it was him and he was there and he was saying it to me like never before. And then, you know, I had all these things in my life that I just thought were like parts of my personality, that I struggled with, you know, and I didn't realize that it wasn't actually me. I just thought that was me. Hey, I have problems with this, this and this, and I'm doing my best, but you know, I guess you know, this is what it's going to be like, this is what life is like for me, and I had tried to change those things about myself, but it just it never.

18:14 I wasn't able to, you know, and I wasn't thinking about it. But then this whole thing happened and then I, one day, I just realized, you know, I haven't had these thoughts, I haven't. All these things that I thought were part of my personality were just immediately, supernaturally gone, you know, and I was the new person and it happened without me trying or without me doing anything, and that was just the beginning and I, you know, I couldn't even recognize myself, for I literally don't identify with the person that I was two years, two and a half years ago, like in any way, like I think that wasn't me, you know, and yeah, that's about it. Yeah, Just lift your hands In Jesus' name, continue the work tenfold Filled, filled, filled up to the brim with the richness of Him.

19:10 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Kate, come on up here, marisa, would you help her? So, by the way, when God comes to you with His anointing, it's really hard to look cool, so don't try. Are you all there If you feel like you're going to look dignified?

19:51 Lord, I want you. I'm so hungry, I'm so thirsty, I'm so desperate. Can you touch me in a way where, if someone takes a photo on me, it's Instagrammable, please? No, it's going to be messy. You will, that's part of the deal. Your dignity goes out the window. That's why that Syrian commander, who was told to dip in the Jordan seven times, his pride came up. He didn't want to. He said they have crystal clear rivers in Syria, but the Jordan is filthy. Why should I? To humble yourself, amen, and God will come upon you and he won't allow you to dictate how he comes to you.

20:36 He just won't. He's not going to dance for you, you're going to dance for Him. That's how it works, amen, and you have to enter in through the door of humility and, if you're so proud and the door of trust, in that you have to let go. You can't say Lord, I will let you touch me, but I will never, ever cry, I will never, ever laugh, I'm never going to shake Lord. I'm going to be touched quietly and secretively. You do not. He doesn't come to you with a menu. This isn't burghaking your way right away, how you like. No, you come hungry and you take what he gives you, like what the sacri-coach tells our kids.

21:16 You get what you get and you don't get upset. Amen, hallelujah. So, just share, like being touched by the annoying thing. What is it like? So this past July I attended a few conferences and Christian conferences, both for music ministry and just another one in Tampa. That was on the fire of God and I had walked into the first conference with expectation but almost a fear of not being able to receive everything that God had for me.

22:01 But really, through that experience in those two weeks, god showed me so much about surrender, how important it is to surrender. And it was when one of the preachers said would you be okay? And this was a revelation that the Holy Spirit had given her. But he dealt with the same thing in those two weeks for me. The Holy Spirit had asked her if you were to lose it all, if you were to lose your dream of worship, leading, of marriage, of having a family, of pastoring a church, of everything, all these desires that I put in your heart, that are so precious to you, would you be okay, knowing that I am your provider, knowing that I, that I have you in the palm of my hands, that you could lose everything in the world and be okay because you have me?

22:52 And it was when I said yes, scott, when I truly surrendered because I've been saved since I was a little girl, I was in elementary school, but this was a new point for me. It was when I truly surrendered everything to the Lord, when I said, lord, you can have my life, you can have it all, or take it all and use it all for your glory. That was the opening door for me to receive, because he wants everything. He wants us to give all the glory back to him, every single thing, the good, the bad, all our hurt, all our joy, everything is his. This life is his, our lives are his, and he wants us to just give it all to him.

23:38 And it was when I said, yes, lord, that he just, the fire of God hit me and his anointing, his manifest presence becomes so, so, so tangible, even right now. And it's for you too. Jesus, continue cooking her Lord. God bless you, hallelujah, hallelujah. That's a good word surrender.

24:19 We're learning so much this morning. You poshed yourself to receive. There's the door of humility. You gotta walk through that door and then the door of surrendering. You have to. And here's the thing with surrendering. I don't know if you've seen videos of what happens when you surrender a little. I'm just saying cops don't like when you surrender a little. They want. The Lord doesn't like when you surrender a little either.

25:06 Look, some people surrender a little and they think they're doing God a favor. God, I'm gonna give you 55%, the majority, ooh, last of the big time surrenderers, but the Lord's like 99 and a half won't do. I want 100% Hallelujah. You will be frustrated if you surrender a little, total surrender, hallelujah, that opens the door for him to do extraordinary things in your life. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

25:48 Can you share something? The Lord? Yeah, come on up. Come on up, just but share about the anointing, share about the anointing and the Lord coming to you with his anointing. What's that like? Yeah, there was one specific time where I was in a small I was in Colorado with a few, with like about 10 to 15 other Christians and I was. We were put in a place of just. We were led to just stand there and just receive the presence of God, and I never taken the time to do that before.

26:30 And so I just stood there and I was very, like you know, skeptic and kind of like like what is this, what's gonna happen? Like I just feel so awkward standing here, and so I just closed my eyes and I stood there for like a good 10 minutes and I saw. I saw just Jesus and like the embodiment of his love just standing in front of me and I just felt this like this weight just drop on me and I like I just started weeping and I never cried like that before and for the next two weeks I just felt like I just experienced, you know just, the weight of his love and his anointing on me and it was just.

27:12 It was just such like a, a tangible feeling, and I never felt anything like that before and I just I never experienced such a love from the Father in that way and it was. Lord, get it on the people. Jesus Bless. This is a great time for a cover girl to come. Ah, there was one hiding in the shadows. Whooo, be blessed, be blessed, hallelujah, hallelujah.

28:14 Jesus. Jesus, mmm, beautiful Jesus. You say what is the Lord doing about you? He's doing something about you. He's doing something about you. He's doing something about you. You say what is the Lord doing? Good things, whatever he wants. But I specifically hear in my heart he is going ahead of you, forging a path for you, carving, carving a path for you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

28:56 Just lift your hands, just say Lord Jesus, come to me, jesus, come to me, fill me with your Holy Spirit. Hallelujah, continue to say the name of Jesus, hallelujah, hallelujah. You, madam, can you come out here real quick? The Lord's been falling on you. The whole service, lord, that which you began in her. I thank you. You will complete it. Increase Blessing, blessing, be blessed in Jesus' name, and we cancel the plans of the enemy over your life.

29:44 Put the blood on you, put the blood of Jesus on you. Just put your hands on your tummy right now. That's it. Unplugged, unplugged, I said unplugged. In Jesus' name, free. You're doing just fine. Just keep drinking. More drinky, less inky, always the way to go. You're doing just fine, be blessed.

30:26 Let's sing that song. Jesus, hallelujah, hallelujah. Jesus is a heart doctor and for a lot of us, the problem is it's inward. In fact, when Jesus described his ministry, reading from Isaiah 61, which was prophesying of him, the Spirit of the Lord, god, is upon me to set at liberty those who are held captive, to heal the brokenhearted. Do you know who the enemy is? I mean, there is an enemy, there is a Satan, but really we're not in competition with everybody, except the person in the mirror that stares us back every morning.

31:10 That's who? If you think you've got enemies at work, maybe probably not. You're the one. You're your own biggest competition, and the reason why we get in the way so much is we can easily become people who oppose themselves. The Scriptures talk about people who oppose themselves, constantly tripping themselves up, people who oppose themselves. It's like taking a jug of water to a fountain, filling it up and then pricking it with holes, and by the time they get back to where they came from, there's no water in the jug and they're like oh, but you did that. Oh, yeah, I did. That's a lot of us.

31:52 Why are we so messed up? Because there's a lot of junk on the inside that we've picked up on the highway of life that the Lord wants to come in and heal, and His sweet spirit, his love will go where no therapist can go, no psychiatrist can go, no drug can go. He will go. In the end he will rework your heart, he will rework your insides, heal you up. I heard the testimony of a woman who was raped years before and came under the anointing. She stayed there for hours, manifesting for hours, laughing.

32:33 She said I felt like it was a crew of firemen dousing me with water and washing all the muck and the dirt and the shame and the guilt away, and when I got back up I was a new person. Only Jesus's anointing can do that, she said. Then it was like a distant memory. It was like I read about it in a book, about somebody else the anointing will set you free. You just subscribe to that motivational guru, slash life coach, slash entrepreneur 10 sessions going to help you out. You're still a person who opposes himself or herself.

33:15 The Lord's got to come in and unlock you, and he does that by his anointing Hallelujah. Let's read Mark 5, shall we, are you all right? Some people, sometimes they slip into this weird defensive mode when a service doesn't go as they think it should or as usual. Relax, you're in a good place, happy place. You know, the day after the big picnic is always a little different. Right, we had all of our core city lighters, all of them, put in a 12 hour day and then they were like Jesus, you know, I love you, but I shared the word yesterday and a fellowship yesterday.

34:06 I had Koinani and community yesterday. You don't mind if I don't, it's like no, I don't mind. So what that happens is then shifts the atmosphere in the place, because then you have too many lucky lose and not the core people who can slide into the river. And the Lord doesn't mind lucky lose, but they take time to take hours, really not hours. That's why you then have a series of meetings, days of the Lord, chipping away at all of their preconceived ideas and notions and their bad theology and their understanding of the very person of God over days, and then they can slip into the river of God, one service that just kind of provokes them.

34:49 So I'm delighted to do that today. Amen, mark, chapter five I want to still talk about the anointed one, the Christ. At least we'll have some understanding Now. When Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a great multitude gathered to him and he was by the sea. You know why Jesus often spoke by the sea, and you'll hear all throughout the Scriptures he spoke by the lake of Ganeserit or the sea of Galilee. Sea of Galilee is actually a large, large lake. Both terms are used in the Bible. You know why? Because he didn't have one of these, and so he would stand with his back to the sea and the wind current coming off the sea would carry his words onto the multitudes.

35:40 And behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue came, jairus by name, and when he saw him, he fell at his feet and begged him earnestly, saying my little daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her. Why did he ask Jesus to lay his hands? Lay his hands. I was like two years saved. And then I was a freshman in college, two years saved, and somebody on my floor had asked what I was doing. I said I'm going to church. What kind of churches did I try to tell them? And then they said do they do the laying out of hands there? And their face was like in a grimace.

36:23 And I was. And that was my first. I realized oh, somehow, because of 3 am, televangelists and the media and Hollywood movies, the laying out of hands had such a bad rap. But it's actually holy, it's beautiful, it's biblical. There was Jairus, a ruler of the Jews. He knew the Torah, he knew that the laying out of hands was powerful, that there is a transference through the laying out of hands. He read in the book of Joshua how it said that Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom. Why? For Moses had laid hands on him and there was a transfer.

37:03 Even the entire sacrificial system that pointed to the Messiah, to Jesus, was set around the laying out of hands, where the sin of the nation would be transferred. The laying out of hands is biblical, the laying out of hands is powerful. The laying out of hands God can use to transform your life. There is an impartation, there is a transference. Even at Jesus' resurrection, before he went up to present his blood to the Father, mary was excited and Jesus stepped back and said touch me not, for I've not yet ascended. Why we don't really know, but there would have been some kind of transference which was not lawful for her to have at the time.

37:44 Jesus had a touchy ministry. He touched people everywhere. The anointing flows through touch. It can come other ways, but one of the ways a frequently used way is touch is through the laying out of hands. Come and lay your hands on her that she may be healed and she will live. He understood it scripturally and he probably had heard and seen Jesus' ministry that Jesus laid hands on people everywhere he went. Look up Jesus' ministry, the miracles of healing, and see how many times does he actually touch the person. It's over 90% of the times.

38:26 Sometimes he just speaks the word, but over 90% of the time he puts his hands on them. Why? Because the Christos, the anointing that's upon him, would be transferred over to the hungry and thirsty heart. So Jesus went with him and a great multitude followed him and thronged him. So now people realize also that Jesus is powerful. He's the miracle worker and they're thronging him, which means they're touching him. Note that nothing happens. Imagine that. Imagine if you had a time machine. It would be awesome to see him.

39:09 A lot of us were like Lord, if I could, just if you would reveal yourself. But they were there in the presence of Jesus, touching him, but nothing was happening. Why? Because they were cheap touches. There was no faith behind them, there was no expectation behind them, they were just, you know. You know the way a fighter comes down the aisle and then everybody just wants to touch him. Everyone wants to touch a fame, touch a glory. Maybe it was a curious touch, maybe, jesus, you know, he was a carpenter, so he was Swole. So they were like oh, carpenter, son, nice, we don't know.

39:50 But nothing was happening. Yet Everybody was touching him. Verse 25 you know, I always thought when he says Jesus was a carpenter, so I got saved when I was 16, to me what that meant was like he had a tool, belt and a hammer and wore, you know, like he put nails and wood, but a carpenter. Back then, you know, you rolled big logs, big stones, big. So then I realized all those paintings of an 80-pound Jesus were not accurate. The skin and bones, hippie Jesus, not scriptural. Did you know that? Did you just learn that today? Right, jesus wasn't skinny, jesus had a six pack.

40:33 He was because of all the work. I Believe it was the enemy who made him look in In the art and made him look so effeminate and so skinny. And they paint him like he never stopped fasting. But he fasted for 40 days. He ate afterwards. They they make it out like he never stopped. And they gave him the pretty blonde hair and the surfer look and made him all hippie like. And Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for 12 years and had suffered many things from many physicians.

41:26 She had spent all that she had and was no better but rather grew worse. She was out there illegally, by the way, under Levitical law a woman couldn't have any kind of flow of blood and be out in public. But she had this Physical issue for 12 years and she was desperate. She was hungry. Listen, I don't know how I can get this through to you, but God will respond to desperation. God, I'm telling you, some of you you think you're dead. You're not desperate enough. You got to get a little nuts. No, really, I shaved off all my hair one time because I was hungry and thirsty, for God Didn't even know the word that well, I was like, say, four years at the time and I read in the ax how Paul shaved off all his hair because he took a note and I was like all right, and I, just, I was totally like a bowling ball.

42:17 Bald, my junior year of college shaved it off. Was it scriptural? No, did God honor it? Yes, do something you've never done before. You got to really get desperate. Why, listen? You can get desperate now, or you can get desperate when it's really desperate. See, when people are in the midst of a crisis, the whole world is crashing around, and then they're desperate. Well, now you're starting from scratch. Now you're in the depths of the pit and now you're gonna begin building a desperate relationship with the Lord. No, do it wherever you're at and be hungry.

42:58 Stir yourself up. It's not called, it's not being fake, it's not hype, it's not emotional sentimentalism. Paul wrote Timothy's and stir up the gift of God that is within you, by the way, through the laying on of my hands. Stir it up. You got to stir up a desperation and then, when you think you're hungry and thirsty and desperate, get more desperate. Do something wild. Yes, look, god's gonna love you no matter what. He loves you. He's for you, but sometimes you have to get his attention.

43:39 Catch what I'm saying. It's not that his attention isn't on you, but you got it. You got to get his attention. His attention is on you, but I want his attention, attention. For example, an angel appeared to Cornelius and Said he was selected, he, out of all the people on planet earth, he was gonna be the one that Essentially, the gospel would come to the Gentiles. And Cornelius was like me. And the angel says your prayers and your giving have come up as a memorial before God.

44:19 He got God's attention with his giving and with his praying. There's a way to get God's attention. You're not buying it, you're not Trading an exchange for it. It's by faith. And when it's true faith, there will be a manifestation of that faith. You cannot sit in a corner twiddling your thumbs and say I'm in faith. There's always an action to faith. That's what James says when he says you have. You say you have faith. You say you have works, blah, blah, blah. I'll show you my faith by my works, by my actions. Anybody can come in talking about faith.

44:59 There's got to be an evidence. You said I don't know, I don't want to become wild and go too far. We'll cross that bridge when we get there. We got a great pastoral staff. We'll keep it. If you start to go, we'll get you. You just have to listen when we do For most of you. Don't be worried about what happens if you get a little too radical. You need a dose of that's that, that first century radical commitment? Amen, that's how you see God in your life today. Yes, hallelujah.

45:41 So she heard about Jesus. She's doing something she's never done before. You know why? Because she was so sick and tired of being sick and tired. My exhortation before was don't wait to get to that place, don't why. Why wait for things to be falling apart? All are you, so that can't be me. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said if only I may touch his clothes by the way, that was the continuous tense of the verb. She kept saying Over and over again power in her words.

46:22 If I only may touch, there it is again touch. She understood there would be a transfer. If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well". Immediately, the fount of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. She felt again, she felt. She felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction. What happened. Jesus didn't press the anointing into her, she snuck it. She came up behind him secretly once again because it was illegal for her to be there and when no one was looking she just let me just get a little dose.

47:06 And a hungry heart, a faith-filled heart, she made a withdrawal. She made an anointing withdrawal. You know, you can make anointing withdrawals any time of the day and you can get good at it. You can practice it. In the beginning you might just be singing and all you feel like I'm just singing in my room. No one's listening, not even God, and my voice is just about. You have to learn how to be stubborn and shut those thoughts down. I believe God is hearing and you go completely by raw faith and you can train your spirit to be in tune with the Holy Spirit so that eventually, over time, you lift your hands and the moment you lift your hands you're overwhelmed. You end up on the floor because God just whoosh, comes upon you.

47:49 Hallelujah, living, a drop away from drunk at all times. Hallelujah, immediately okay and Jesus okay. So she immediately felt within herself and Jesus immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out of him. So she felt the anointing go into her and he felt the anointing, the virtue, come out of him. The anointing is stuff I don't know how else to say it. When I say anointing you immediately think of like haze and fog and little glitz and stardust coming down.

48:32 Ooh, no, it's not something that's symbolic or fantastic in that way. It is stuff, it is the stuff of God, it is weighty stuff, holy stuff, and that stuff will get on you and that stuff will get in you and that stuff will do you good and that stuff will bring you in order and that stuff will heal you. It will heal you, it will when you, when you come in contact with the anointing of God, you get aligned. And a lot of our problems are because we're not aligned with the Lord.

49:14 We're out of bounds, we're out of order. We've gone in different ways and we're saying Lord bless me, but you're over here, I can't bless you over there. You gotta become aligned and the anointing will help line you up, aligned with the order of heaven For us. That sounds like great news For some people when I say that you're terrified because you've been so misaligned for so long. Being aligned with God is scary for you. You have an idea of what that looks like and it doesn't seem fun at all. I don't know what to tell you. How's your current thing working out for you? I've tried it both ways. I've tried it three, four, five different ways.

49:54 God is the one who offers abundant life. The Bible says the way of the sinner is hard. The way of the sinner is hard and full of sorrow. We like to pretend it's fun, but we all know consequences come, and that way is hard and full of sorrow. God's way is better. I'd rather fall on him and be broken than he fall on me and grind me to a powder. Jesus immediately, knowing in himself that power had gone out of him, turned around in the crowd and said "'Who touched my clothes' Remember how everybody was touching him? His disciples point that out.

50:37 But there was were cheap touches, curious touches. But he was referring to a special touch, the touch of faith, the touch of hunger, the touch of desperation that activated the power. Isn't it a shame, a crime, that potentially hundreds of people touched Jesus that day and walked away completely unchanged? Touched God in the flesh, the Messiah. They touched him and got nothing, because there was no faith or hunger, or thirst or desperation attached to their touch. But along came one woman, and she did it by faith, with that hunger, and her whole life was turned around.

51:19 Hallelujah God is offering you more, he wants to take you from glory to glory, but we are our own greatest enemy. There has to be a work done on the inside of us. That can happen in a service. Yes, that can happen in your own home. In fact, whatever begins in a service, it should continue on in your home, continue on in your car, yes, even in the subway. Let it continue on. He'll do a deep work in you. Hallelujah, worship him. Come on up. You're up, I wanna do this. Pastor James, will you help us with the tithes and offerings and any announcements?

52:01 Then I wanna invite our ministry team up, our ministry team. Notice we don't call them a prayer team, they're a ministry team. There is a difference. People say come and pray for me. Well, what do you want me to pray about? Oh, enough, you know whatever comes to your heart. I know what they're saying. They don't know what they're saying. I know what they're saying. They're saying I need help. And if I were to tell you everything, I'd give you a list of several dozen things. What I really want is ministry. I want the Holy Spirit, I want its power, I want the anointing. Jesus did actually very little praying for people. Count the number of times he prayed for people, but he ministered to people by the anointing all the time.

52:44 Our ministry team is called the ministry team because it's not the words they say, it's they're laying hands on you and releasing God's anointing upon you. You get the difference. Our ministry team. They're not special, neither am I. They're just open. God will flow through an open and yielded vessel. Hallelujah. This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansic and City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyccom. That's citylightnyccom. Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime.

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