Too Good to Stay Hidden

100:00:00.220 --> 00:00:05.060You're going to get to heaven one day and somebody that you don't know is going to approach you, tears200:00:05.060 --> 00:00:08.020in their eyes, and they're going to say, thank you so much.300:00:08.440 --> 00:00:12.020And the reason you're not going to know them is because you never met them a day in your life.400:00:12.080 --> 00:00:16.520But the reason that they're so grateful and thankful to you is because you are a member of CityLight500:00:16.520 --> 00:00:21.980Church and you sowed consistently into the work that was founded and blessed them.600:00:22.100 --> 00:00:25.480We've been sending people to Guatemala since 2009.700:00:26.200 --> 00:00:28.120Welcome to the CityLight Church podcast.800:00:28.620 --> 00:00:34.720Thanks for joining us as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for900:00:34.720 --> 00:00:35.060us.1000:00:35.680 --> 00:00:41.160If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com.1100:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.100That's CityLightNYC.com.1200:00:44.820 --> 00:00:51.160Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts1300:00:51.160 --> 00:00:51.900and minds.1400:00:52.480 --> 00:00:58.740As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His1500:00:58.740 --> 00:01:02.600grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.1600:01:05.940 --> 00:01:07.560So again, my name is Muhammad.1700:01:07.680 --> 00:01:08.840I'm one of the pastors here.1800:01:11.380 --> 00:01:13.280Pastor Bo will be with us next week.1900:01:14.200 --> 00:01:14.860Pray for him.2000:01:16.640 --> 00:01:20.380He's not feeling too well today, but we know that the Lord is his healer.2100:01:20.480 --> 00:01:20.620Amen.2200:01:24.240 --> 00:01:29.980Before I have the team come up and share, I wanted to express some things specifically.2300:01:30.340 --> 00:01:36.020I know that we sent a team of close to 20 to Guatemala, and it was a powerful and amazing2400:01:36.020 --> 00:01:38.720thing for them to be out there and to do that work.2500:01:39.280 --> 00:01:41.000But the caveat is this.2600:01:41.040 --> 00:01:45.440I need you to understand you went to Guatemala.2700:01:46.380 --> 00:01:49.620I know you might think to yourself, oh man, they're missionaries now.2800:01:49.680 --> 00:01:50.200Praise God.2900:01:51.060 --> 00:01:53.160Super status Christian right there.3000:01:54.320 --> 00:01:56.520They're not just life group leaders or life group members.3100:01:56.700 --> 00:01:57.800They're like missionaries.3200:01:58.160 --> 00:01:59.440They've gone into the field.3300:01:59.900 --> 00:02:03.500They've ministered the Word of God that cannot be hid, nor should it be hid.3400:02:03.520 --> 00:02:03.700Amen?3500:02:04.120 --> 00:02:05.320They've done the work.3600:02:07.940 --> 00:02:15.880But you know that the Scripture actually teaches that as the sending house that we're missionaries as well.3700:02:16.080 --> 00:02:16.620Did you know that?3800:02:17.960 --> 00:02:18.980All right, Pastor Brian.3900:02:19.020 --> 00:02:19.700Of course you knew.4000:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.360Big resounding yeah in the second row.4100:02:22.460 --> 00:02:22.700Yeah.4200:02:24.220 --> 00:02:25.300Well studied man.4300:02:25.440 --> 00:02:26.300I understand you knew.4400:02:26.640 --> 00:02:27.920I was talking to everyone else.4500:02:30.260 --> 00:02:34.220But there is this idea in Scripture that we learn.4600:02:34.320 --> 00:02:36.060It was a principle set up by David.4700:02:36.700 --> 00:02:44.420David, after the battle of Ziklag, they went to recover their family, their stuff, because the city of Ziklag had4800:02:44.420 --> 00:02:45.100been burned.4900:02:45.920 --> 00:02:49.560And their wife, their wives, and their children had been kidnapped.5000:02:49.940 --> 00:02:51.460And they went to go recover it.5100:02:51.480 --> 00:02:55.900But half of the army was too tired to complete the entire journey.5200:02:57.300 --> 00:03:00.940So some of them went on and some of them stayed with the stuff.5300:03:02.020 --> 00:03:08.520And upon returning, because they returned successfully having done the will of the Lord, they recovered their wives, recovered their5400:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.520children, and they also recovered a great deal of spoil.5500:03:13.220 --> 00:03:13.820Amen?5600:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.560But there was some fellows among them.5700:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.020The Bible calls them a few wicked fellows.5800:03:22.360 --> 00:03:26.920Let me read you what the Scripture says and David's loving response to them.5900:03:28.800 --> 00:03:30.880This is in first Samuel 30.6000:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.380I'm going to start at verse 21.6100:03:36.540 --> 00:03:41.780And David came to the 200 men who were so exhausted and faint that they could not follow him and6200:03:41.780 --> 00:03:44.900had been left at the brook Besor with the baggage.6300:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.600They came to meet David and those with him.6400:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.060And when he came near to the men, he saluted them.6500:03:50.540 --> 00:03:56.360Then all the wicked and base men who went with David said, because they did not go up with us,6600:03:56.460 --> 00:04:02.100we will give them nothing of the spoil we have recovered, except that every man may lead away his wife6700:04:02.100 --> 00:04:03.440and children and depart.6800:04:04.340 --> 00:04:06.640David said, you shall not do so my brethren.6900:04:07.020 --> 00:04:12.480With what the Lord has given us, he has preserved us and has delivered into our hands the troop that7000:04:12.480 --> 00:04:13.440came against us.7100:04:13.940 --> 00:04:15.899Who would listen to you in this matter?7200:04:16.519 --> 00:04:21.760For as is the share of him who goes into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by7300:04:21.760 --> 00:04:22.380the baggage.7400:04:22.840 --> 00:04:24.220They shall share alike.7500:04:24.860 --> 00:04:30.420And from that day to this, he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel.7600:04:33.160 --> 00:04:33.940Oh, praise God.7700:04:35.580 --> 00:04:36.700Listen, I'm going to lie to you.7800:04:38.140 --> 00:04:43.160I didn't budget for a trip to Guatemala this year, but the Lord made it so that I would receive7900:04:43.160 --> 00:04:43.740my reward.8000:04:44.060 --> 00:04:44.620Come on somebody.8100:04:46.300 --> 00:04:52.300So here's the thing on a practical level, you're going to get to heaven one day and somebody that you8200:04:52.300 --> 00:04:58.000don't know is going to approach you, tears in their eyes, and they're going to say, thank you so much.8300:04:59.780 --> 00:05:04.060Now, knowing you the way that I know you, you're going to be like, who aren't you?8400:05:05.660 --> 00:05:08.480Do I know you from the left side or the right side of the pearly gates?8500:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.380The reason you're not going to know them is because you never met them a day in your life, but8600:05:14.380 --> 00:05:19.000the reason that they're so grateful and thankful to you is because you were a member of CityLight Church8700:05:19.000 --> 00:05:24.740and you sowed consistently into the work that was founded and blessed them.8800:05:24.840 --> 00:05:29.080Again, we've been sending people to Guatemala since 2009.8900:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.860That's 17 years of ministry.9000:05:33.540 --> 00:05:37.780Some churches get a mission team together, and they send a place.9100:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.580I've heard a comedian say this before, but it's actually very true.9200:05:40.680 --> 00:05:42.640They work on a doorknob for 10 years.9300:05:43.460 --> 00:05:45.120Not so with CityLight Church.9400:05:45.840 --> 00:05:52.400We've built close to 50 churches that double as community centers in Nabak, Guatemala.9500:05:53.440 --> 00:05:54.920That is not a light work.9600:05:55.000 --> 00:05:56.960That is not a minuscule nor a little thing.9700:05:57.080 --> 00:05:58.700That is powerful.9800:06:00.160 --> 00:06:05.780But the Scriptures are teaching us that that's not just the missionary team that went over there.9900:06:05.940 --> 00:06:07.040That's you as well.10000:06:07.740 --> 00:06:09.220So, I need you to get comfortable with that.10100:06:09.280 --> 00:06:17.240I need you to know that every time you give two missions, you are effectively pushing forward the gospel on10200:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.280this earth to places that you can't physically go yourself.10300:06:21.140 --> 00:06:22.420That is powerful.10400:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.760Know that you do that by faith every single time you give.10500:06:26.020 --> 00:06:30.680On a practical level, this is something that I just want to boast on our church a little bit, because10600:06:30.680 --> 00:06:34.020not everybody can say stuff like this because they don't run their business the way that we do.10700:06:37.320 --> 00:06:44.700Normally, with non-for-profit organizations, when they give to an international ministry, there are overhead costs to pay for10800:06:44.700 --> 00:06:46.420their staff to do different things like that.10900:06:46.500 --> 00:06:52.500So, when you give, let's say, $10, five of those dollars would be the overhead for the organization, and then11000:06:52.500 --> 00:06:57.680the five that's left over they would eventually send to the place that you originally wanted to donate $10.11100:06:57.940 --> 00:06:58.600Does that make sense?11200:06:59.140 --> 00:07:00.860So, that doesn't happen at CityLight Church.11300:07:01.500 --> 00:07:04.300We have this arm of CityLight Church called Global Compassion.11400:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.100We already, as CityLight Church, have a staff.11500:07:07.560 --> 00:07:13.180Our staff is a select, small group of elite Navy SEAL Christians that do everything.11600:07:14.840 --> 00:07:16.320I should know I'm one of them.11700:07:18.440 --> 00:07:25.520So, that means that every dollar that is donated to the missionary work that happens, whether it's in Guatemala or11800:07:25.520 --> 00:07:29.620Ethiopia, every single dollar goes directly to the work.11900:07:30.440 --> 00:07:34.220So, we've supported the McCombs, who they actually have put boots on the ground.12000:07:34.320 --> 00:07:40.620They've been there for over two decades ministering to the Esheel people, which, another side note, the Esheel people are12100:07:40.620 --> 00:07:42.320direct descendants of the Maya.12200:07:43.100 --> 00:07:44.900These are people that have never left that mountain.12300:07:45.120 --> 00:07:50.360Sometimes they witness white people for the first time, and they're like, "'Oh.'" They're also very short people.12400:07:50.400 --> 00:07:51.080That's why I'm looking up.12500:07:54.020 --> 00:07:58.300I can only imagine what it was like the first time Pastor Bo rolled up, because you know he's very12600:07:58.300 --> 00:07:59.640gregarious and very loud.12700:08:00.600 --> 00:08:10.000There's blessing in many ways, but I can imagine them just being shocked like, "'Oh.'" But no, it's a powerful12800:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.300and a beautiful thing.12900:08:12.760 --> 00:08:18.880I'm trying to get it through your heart that you have given tremendously to the work that is happening and13000:08:18.880 --> 00:08:23.060the gospel being shared, not just abroad but also locally as well.13100:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.720This is not something where you need to hop on a plane in order to be a missionary.13200:08:27.100 --> 00:08:31.179In Queens alone, we have over 180 different nations represented.13300:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.100You're a missionary right here on the ground, and guess what?13400:08:35.179 --> 00:08:38.419This gospel is too special for you to hide it in your coat.13500:08:39.720 --> 00:08:44.780The reason we are willing to send people and pay for people to go is because we know that they13600:08:44.780 --> 00:08:46.280need to hear this message.13700:08:46.540 --> 00:08:48.100It is too good to be hid.13800:08:49.560 --> 00:08:50.040Amen?13900:08:51.660 --> 00:08:54.580So just know that the Lord thanks you.14000:08:54.980 --> 00:09:02.240He honors you for the work that you've done in Guatemala, even if you've never been to Guatemala.14100:09:03.180 --> 00:09:05.920Now, with that being said, I'm going to invite up Sarah Klinger.14200:09:06.020 --> 00:09:07.260She's our City Kids director.14300:09:11.860 --> 00:09:14.900She's one of the missionaries who actually went on this trip.14400:09:14.980 --> 00:09:17.880Despite her many roles that she had to do here, she was like, "'You know what?14500:09:18.600 --> 00:09:21.740I'm going to go do this work.'" So let you hear from Sarah.14600:09:23.520 --> 00:09:23.960Awesome.14700:09:24.440 --> 00:09:25.940Well, good morning, everyone.14800:09:26.820 --> 00:09:30.020It was such a privilege to be able to go with the team.14900:09:30.140 --> 00:09:34.780We sent 20 of us down to Guatemala this year.15000:09:35.760 --> 00:09:41.400And just so you have an idea of what we were doing while we were down there, during the day15100:09:41.400 --> 00:09:47.160we would work on a construction project where we're actually physically building churches.15200:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.480And one of the construction projects was actually in a village that was the first church in that village that15300:09:53.480 --> 00:09:54.800was being built.15400:09:55.260 --> 00:09:56.520And so we got to be a part of that.15500:09:57.140 --> 00:10:01.400And then we also did VBS, which is Vacation Bible School with the children.15600:10:01.560 --> 00:10:06.500So the kids would come and we would do a lesson with the children.15700:10:06.780 --> 00:10:10.140And then in the evenings, we would have church services.15800:10:10.700 --> 00:10:15.040So everyone would come and we would get to minister to people and lay hands on them and really just15900:10:15.040 --> 00:10:16.880see the Lord move.16000:10:16.980 --> 00:10:19.240So I'm going to invite the team to come up.16100:10:19.320 --> 00:10:24.960And if media team, if you can play the video for us, you guys can get an idea of what16200:10:24.960 --> 00:10:25.240we did.16300:10:25.260 --> 00:10:28.060And then we'll share some testimonies of what the Lord has done.16400:11:00.230 --> 00:11:02.590We will carry.16500:11:14.950 --> 00:11:20.400We bring Jesus Christ.16600:11:21.200 --> 00:11:26.360Hope eternal, forever bright.16700:11:27.300 --> 00:11:33.020Love unending, forever in our sight.16800:11:34.100 --> 00:11:40.080Gospel power, igniting every night.16900:11:40.880 --> 00:11:43.620Holy Spirit, we bring Jesus Christ.17000:11:43.620 --> 00:11:43.720Hope eternal, forever bright.17100:11:43.720 --> 00:11:43.820Love unending, forever in our sight.17200:11:43.820 --> 00:11:43.920Gospel power, igniting every night.17300:11:43.920 --> 00:11:44.020Holy Spirit, we bring Jesus Christ.17400:11:44.020 --> 00:11:44.120Hope eternal, forever bright.17500:11:44.120 --> 00:11:44.220Love unending, forever in our sight.17600:11:44.220 --> 00:11:44.320Gospel power, igniting every night.17700:11:44.320 --> 00:11:44.420Holy Spirit, we bring Jesus Christ.17800:11:44.420 --> 00:11:44.520Hope eternal, forever bright.17900:11:44.520 --> 00:11:44.620Love unending, forever in our sight.18000:11:44.620 --> 00:11:44.720Gospel power, igniting every night.18100:11:44.720 --> 00:11:44.820Holy Spirit, we bring Jesus Christ.18200:11:44.820 --> 00:11:44.920Hope eternal, forever bright.18300:11:44.920 --> 00:11:45.020Love unending, forever in our sight.18400:11:45.020 --> 00:11:45.120Gospel power, igniting every night.18500:11:45.120 --> 00:11:45.220Holy Spirit, we bring Jesus Christ.18600:11:45.220 --> 00:11:45.320Hope eternal, forever bright.18700:11:45.320 --> 00:11:45.420Love unending, forever in our sight.18800:11:45.420 --> 00:11:45.520Gospel power, igniting every night.18900:11:45.520 --> 00:11:45.620Holy Spirit, we bring Jesus Christ.19000:11:45.620 --> 00:11:45.720Hope eternal, forever bright.19100:11:45.720 --> 00:11:45.820Love unending, forever in our sight.19200:11:45.820 --> 00:11:45.920Gospel power, igniting every night.19300:11:45.920 --> 00:12:10.500Holy Spirit, we bring Jesus Christ.19400:12:12.420 --> 00:12:29.780Hope eternal, forever bright.19500:12:29.800 --> 00:12:29.900Love unending, forever in our sight.19600:12:30.580 --> 00:12:33.080And I was immediately like, oh, where's this baby?19700:12:33.420 --> 00:12:36.660And I saw a mom that she had a baby like on her back.19800:12:36.680 --> 00:12:39.420And I asked her, you know, how old is your baby?19900:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.080And she said the baby was two months old.20000:12:41.080 --> 00:12:42.420And I was like, oh, congratulations.20100:12:42.880 --> 00:12:45.220And, you know, then we went to the service.20200:12:45.440 --> 00:12:49.760And then when we were ministering and praying for people, she was sitting like all the way, you know, in20300:12:49.760 --> 00:12:50.200the back.20400:12:51.660 --> 00:12:55.220And, you know, I went over to her and started praying for her.20500:12:55.260 --> 00:12:57.860And I felt like the Lord gave me a word of knowledge.20600:12:57.880 --> 00:12:59.340And he just spoke to me.20700:12:59.340 --> 00:13:00.980He said, postpartum depression.20800:13:01.260 --> 00:13:06.500And I, you know, just started praying for her and speaking freedom over her.20900:13:06.520 --> 00:13:11.620And I felt like the Lord said to me, tell her that I love her and she's a good mom.21000:13:12.140 --> 00:13:15.380And I don't speak a lot of Spanish, but I was able to say that.21100:13:16.740 --> 00:13:19.040And so I said that to her.21200:13:19.460 --> 00:13:21.960And she just looked at me and just started weeping.21300:13:22.340 --> 00:13:25.120And I just kept praying for her and hugging her.21400:13:25.160 --> 00:13:30.300And I felt like the Lord really just in that moment, just spoke to her exactly what she needed to21500:13:30.300 --> 00:13:30.640hear.21600:13:31.720 --> 00:13:39.980And the Lord moved through, you know, a language barrier and, you know, just such a simple, simple moment to21700:13:39.980 --> 00:13:41.500really like touch her heart.21800:13:41.560 --> 00:13:45.580So I just wanna encourage you guys that, you know, when the Lord speaks to you something so simple, it21900:13:45.580 --> 00:13:49.600can be so powerful and to just speak out and to say those words.22000:13:49.740 --> 00:13:50.880So, awesome.22100:13:56.300 --> 00:13:59.160So I'll invite Cassandra and Eduardo.22200:13:59.160 --> 00:14:00.440You both can come up together.22300:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.200If you guys wanna share.22400:14:10.440 --> 00:14:13.580Hi everyone, I'm happy to be here to share with you today.22500:14:13.860 --> 00:14:19.300So one thing that I experienced on the trip was being able to pray for a woman.22600:14:19.460 --> 00:14:22.020We prayed for healing for a group of people in a church.22700:14:22.700 --> 00:14:26.020And at the end, the pastor had asked who got healed.22800:14:26.160 --> 00:14:27.900I saw her raise her hand, I kept my eye on her.22900:14:27.980 --> 00:14:31.200I just felt like the Lord was impressing something upon me about her.23000:14:31.580 --> 00:14:32.780And he gave it to me at the last minute.23100:14:32.780 --> 00:14:35.460And I made sure I went and chatted with her after.23200:14:35.680 --> 00:14:39.180And I said, are there other people in your family who need healing?23300:14:39.280 --> 00:14:41.160I feel like the Lord's impressed that upon me.23400:14:41.260 --> 00:14:42.060She said, yes.23500:14:42.640 --> 00:14:45.540And so I knew she'd already received her healing.23600:14:45.940 --> 00:14:52.520And then I told her that the Lord wanted to use her to bring healing to the other people in23700:14:52.520 --> 00:14:54.220her family that needed healing.23800:14:54.320 --> 00:14:59.740So once the Lord heals us of something, of anything, and he doesn't necessarily have had to have healed you23900:14:59.740 --> 00:15:05.080for it for him to work through you, but especially when he's done something in your life, healed you from24000:15:05.080 --> 00:15:12.800something, he will use you and wants to work through you to bring that same blessing, that same healing, whatever24100:15:12.800 --> 00:15:15.320he gave you, to give it to others.24200:15:15.740 --> 00:15:16.740So I'm gonna share that.24300:15:20.460 --> 00:15:21.100I'm sorry.24400:15:22.660 --> 00:15:27.400And at the end, when I told her that, just her eyes, when she looked at me, I just wanted24500:15:27.400 --> 00:15:29.940to share this part, this look came over her eyes.24600:15:29.960 --> 00:15:31.920She looked at me, her whole countenance had changed.24700:15:31.920 --> 00:15:34.960And she said, es cierto, which is it true?24800:15:35.220 --> 00:15:37.060And I told her, yes, it was true.24900:15:38.880 --> 00:15:40.080Amen, amen.25000:15:40.260 --> 00:15:41.240Amen, awesome.25100:15:42.220 --> 00:15:42.640My turn?25200:15:42.980 --> 00:15:43.260Okay.25300:15:45.860 --> 00:15:46.980Good morning, church.25400:15:48.960 --> 00:15:53.240I'm gonna share a little bit of a testimony from a slightly different angle.25500:15:53.780 --> 00:15:59.360And it's from the angle of the work that was done there in those villages.25600:15:59.760 --> 00:16:06.140And it's because of the way this church, all of you included who give to missions, that's been able to25700:16:06.140 --> 00:16:09.440help and really help those villages out.25800:16:09.620 --> 00:16:14.000You know, when we were out there, so my first time ever going on a mission trips was two years25900:16:14.000 --> 00:16:14.840ago in 2024.26000:16:15.760 --> 00:16:22.480And I was seeing the work for the first time, seeing the group come together, helping out with construction, building26100:16:22.480 --> 00:16:23.020the churches.26200:16:23.100 --> 00:16:24.020And I was like, all right, cool.26300:16:24.180 --> 00:16:25.640It's, you know, they're laying the foundation.26400:16:26.340 --> 00:16:33.760So going back this year was even more eyeopening because we went to about five or six villages and two26500:16:33.760 --> 00:16:36.380of them were the same that we went to in 2024.26600:16:36.920 --> 00:16:39.440And there's actual churches there fully built.26700:16:40.240 --> 00:16:48.320And it's so cool to see the finished product of what was started because of the funding that goes into26800:16:48.320 --> 00:16:48.560it.26900:16:49.020 --> 00:16:53.700You know, these people have never had a church before and now they have a building there.27000:16:53.860 --> 00:16:54.860Now they have a sanctuary.27100:16:55.250 --> 00:17:02.480Now kids are growing up in that community, actually seeing the work of God, actually going forth, seeing it's a27200:17:02.480 --> 00:17:03.960safe haven, a community.27300:17:05.060 --> 00:17:07.319Man, it's so many great things that are coming out of it.27400:17:07.460 --> 00:17:12.300And we're starting to see it expand in these villages and it's so awesome to see.27500:17:12.460 --> 00:17:18.300So I just wanna encourage you guys, when you guys take part in giving for missions week and the mission27600:17:18.300 --> 00:17:21.140projects, just know you're doing so much more work.27700:17:21.490 --> 00:17:29.000You are, man, you're helping in such a greater way than maybe you even realize because these people's lives are27800:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.540being changed because of what they're doing over there.27900:17:31.800 --> 00:17:32.500So thank you.28000:17:33.160 --> 00:17:34.780Awesome, thank you both.28100:17:35.380 --> 00:17:43.480But before Cassandra sits down, she shared a powerful testimony, but this woman also led our entire VBS team the28200:17:43.480 --> 00:17:52.040whole week and she did it so well and was just such a gift to all of us to have28300:17:52.040 --> 00:17:56.640her be such a blessing, to see all the kids' lives get changed and through her leadership.28400:17:56.840 --> 00:17:58.480So thank you for that.28500:18:00.920 --> 00:18:01.360Awesome.28600:18:02.280 --> 00:18:04.680Matt, will you come on up and share next?28700:18:09.150 --> 00:18:10.150Hey guys, how are you?28800:18:10.290 --> 00:18:13.570So yeah, my experience was different.28900:18:13.730 --> 00:18:20.570I was asking the Lord to give me a word for you guys and the two words was spoiled and29000:18:20.570 --> 00:18:21.610struggle.29100:18:21.610 --> 00:18:28.170And the spoiled is spoiled in love and how spoiled we are here at CityLight to have a community29200:18:28.170 --> 00:18:29.530that love us.29300:18:29.590 --> 00:18:36.650I mean, we went out to Mike McComb's compound and we really spent a lot of time.29400:18:37.430 --> 00:18:44.030The men were in this far cabin and we got really close with some people that we met here.29500:18:44.790 --> 00:18:49.690And for me, it impacted me when I came three years ago, I wanted nothing to do with anybody.29600:18:49.970 --> 00:18:55.550I would sit all the way in the back and Pastor Boyant would say goodbye and before bye would come29700:18:55.550 --> 00:18:56.470out, I would be out the door.29800:18:57.690 --> 00:19:04.650And I went from that to really finding people that love God and projected the fruit of the spirit towards29900:19:04.650 --> 00:19:08.450me and allowed me to appropriate that same fruit to myself.30000:19:08.990 --> 00:19:10.110It was really, really healing.30100:19:11.230 --> 00:19:21.310So yeah, it really impacts me the way that these people from Guatemala, they're from the Yashil, as Pastor Mo30200:19:21.310 --> 00:19:23.550was saying, from the Aztecs and the Mayans.30300:19:24.450 --> 00:19:29.630And the Yashil people, they don't have, and this is why I said spoiled, they don't have a word for30400:19:29.630 --> 00:19:30.050forgiveness.30500:19:30.890 --> 00:19:33.090They don't have a word for grace or mercy.30600:19:34.490 --> 00:19:43.010So Pastor Mike McComb, he's been out there for 35 years and just trying to drill into these people who30700:19:43.010 --> 00:19:48.670they've praised and worship false Gods.30800:19:49.460 --> 00:19:57.190And now we bring Jesus, we bring forgiveness, we bring the gospel and it was just wild that they don't30900:19:57.190 --> 00:19:58.490have that word of forgiveness.31000:19:58.790 --> 00:19:59.590Well, that's the whole thing.31100:20:00.630 --> 00:20:05.590So that's why it's taken generations and generations of people worshiping false Gods.31200:20:06.710 --> 00:20:12.530And then the struggle was just really how easy we actually have it here at CityLight.31300:20:13.310 --> 00:20:19.910And really in New York and in America that God is here, the Holy Spirit is here and we make31400:20:19.910 --> 00:20:22.550it so easy because we can all relate to forgiveness.31500:20:22.770 --> 00:20:24.550We can all relate to grace and mercy.31600:20:25.050 --> 00:20:28.370We have Google, if you're really not sure how it works and what that is.31700:20:29.630 --> 00:20:31.530So yeah, it's just transformative.31800:20:31.830 --> 00:20:37.210If you're new here, this is a place that you can come to, get to meet people that love God31900:20:37.210 --> 00:20:39.030and we'll project that same spirit.32000:20:40.670 --> 00:20:43.350Awesome, thank you Matt for sharing.32100:20:44.590 --> 00:20:50.950Just that Matt shared of how when he first came to CityLight was sitting in the back and left32200:20:50.950 --> 00:20:55.010and now a few years later he's up here and that could be one of you in a few years,32300:20:55.170 --> 00:21:01.190the next missions trip, you're up here and sharing that same testimony of how you really got rooted and plugged32400:21:01.190 --> 00:21:02.890in to the church.32500:21:02.990 --> 00:21:07.250I believe that there's so many of you ready to just take that next step here.32600:21:08.130 --> 00:21:10.310So awesome, thank you Matt for sharing.32700:21:11.390 --> 00:21:12.970Josh, will you come on up next?32800:21:12.970 --> 00:21:14.090Hi everyone.32900:21:21.380 --> 00:21:24.600I have some notes but I just feel like I'm gonna speak from the heart.33000:21:25.040 --> 00:21:31.920But yeah, so yeah, this is my second time being able to go to Guatemala and just coming this time33100:21:31.920 --> 00:21:39.700around, definitely one a lot more confident and assured in myself knowing that I'm sent on this trip for a33200:21:39.700 --> 00:21:40.240reason too.33300:21:40.420 --> 00:21:45.440And so just going in with that expectation but to also just be very transparent, like the past couple of33400:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.160months leading up to this trip were probably some of the most difficult times and some of the most challenging.33500:21:50.200 --> 00:21:54.940Where I personally was just not have, I didn't have much faith for myself and what God was doing in33600:21:54.940 --> 00:21:55.380my life.33700:21:55.480 --> 00:22:00.900And so I was leading up to this trip, I was like, Lord, you're leading us to minister to other33800:22:00.900 --> 00:22:04.680people but how can I do that when I myself, I feel very empty.33900:22:07.460 --> 00:22:09.100But in faith, I still went.34000:22:09.800 --> 00:22:14.800I remember the first night of worship, I remember just getting this picture of Jesus and then I just saw34100:22:14.800 --> 00:22:18.160Jesus in the streets of Neba and I kept hearing the words, behold the throne.34200:22:18.620 --> 00:22:23.580And in that challenge, I was just like, let me just focus on Jesus.34300:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.560And let me just do that, let me just, cause like with that, yeah.34400:22:29.440 --> 00:22:33.420I was, you know, there's like with that, with that, like, you know, why isn't anything happening for me?34500:22:33.460 --> 00:22:35.980It just puts so much pressure on myself to make something happen.34600:22:36.100 --> 00:22:40.060But I was just like, you know, let me just focus on Jesus for this trip and let me just34700:22:40.060 --> 00:22:41.240see what he has to do.34800:22:41.660 --> 00:22:46.200And I remember there was this one day that, one service, there was somebody, I just felt led to pray34900:22:46.200 --> 00:22:46.400for.35000:22:46.760 --> 00:22:50.180Normally we're just going through the crowd, I would just say, bless you in Jesus' name, bless you in Jesus'35100:22:50.320 --> 00:22:50.420name.35200:22:50.420 --> 00:22:52.740Just like, if you didn't really get a word, you just move on to the next person.35300:22:52.940 --> 00:22:57.200But this person I thought was just one person, I was like, I was just gonna like, bless, let's move35400:22:57.200 --> 00:22:57.380on.35500:22:57.440 --> 00:23:03.480But like, when I laid my hands on him, I just felt this tremendous pain for him.35600:23:03.540 --> 00:23:08.040This person had just been through trauma, just from the minute he was born all the way up to where,35700:23:08.100 --> 00:23:09.840he's a full grown adult now and he has a family.35800:23:09.880 --> 00:23:15.240And I remember just feeling so much, like feeling that pain for him, but then also feeling hope.35900:23:15.820 --> 00:23:20.440And it was so interesting that I felt those two things at the same time, because that was just something36000:23:20.440 --> 00:23:21.600I felt this entire trip.36100:23:21.780 --> 00:23:26.020Like, there is still a lot of work that has to be done, but there's just so much hope.36200:23:26.080 --> 00:23:28.000There's just a difference I noticed this time around.36300:23:28.140 --> 00:23:33.540There's an opening that the Holy Spirit is just really taking and just like, there's less of that religious spirit,36400:23:33.600 --> 00:23:36.160it's still there, but like I see it and there's so much hope.36500:23:37.320 --> 00:23:41.640But that in turn did a lot for me, I could now have hope for myself.36600:23:41.640 --> 00:23:51.240There've been breakthroughs that I received, like from the minute I landed, like transparently got my first client for a36700:23:51.240 --> 00:23:51.880business I'm starting.36800:23:52.100 --> 00:23:54.680So like that started, yeah.36900:23:55.120 --> 00:23:57.940So like, it's just been awesome.37000:23:58.220 --> 00:24:01.700And then just like, just being able to just go on this trip has just been incredible.37100:24:01.840 --> 00:24:06.800So if it's even on your part to even like think about going, I would just lean into that.37200:24:06.860 --> 00:24:10.880And I would just really just trust the Lord that he'll do something for your life.37300:24:10.880 --> 00:24:11.640So, yeah.37400:24:12.200 --> 00:24:13.860Awesome, thank you, Josh.37500:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.940And hold on, so you're trying to say that you put your hand to the plow, not worrying about your37600:24:19.940 --> 00:24:21.900business, but worrying about his business.37700:24:22.140 --> 00:24:23.880And then he profited your business.37800:24:24.240 --> 00:24:29.320Oh, that'll preach.37900:24:30.780 --> 00:24:32.320The Lord is so good like that.38000:24:32.420 --> 00:24:38.420You know, we step out and you know, we do something for him and then he's like, I'm just gonna38100:24:38.420 --> 00:24:41.560bless you back even more than you've given.38200:24:41.560 --> 00:24:43.480Yeah, awesome.38300:24:43.680 --> 00:24:44.300Thank you, Josh.38400:24:45.220 --> 00:24:47.380Eudelka, will you come on up and share?38500:24:51.950 --> 00:24:53.110Hi, CityLight.38600:24:53.930 --> 00:24:56.230I'm a little nervous, as you can tell.38700:24:56.910 --> 00:25:06.650But before I go into the testimony, I just wanna encourage others to, you know, make time to do something38800:25:06.650 --> 00:25:07.570beautiful for God.38900:25:07.910 --> 00:25:14.350Like, I've also been really busy and had a lot of things to do, but it's really nice to serve39000:25:14.350 --> 00:25:14.770others.39100:25:16.490 --> 00:25:18.570So don't be scared like I was.39200:25:18.770 --> 00:25:20.790Just have a leap of faith and do it.39300:25:21.170 --> 00:25:25.650And then it'll bring you a lot of joy because this trip brought me a lot of joy.39400:25:26.370 --> 00:25:29.750I got to work with the VBS team and the kids were so beautiful.39500:25:30.230 --> 00:25:31.630And they were waiting for us.39600:25:31.690 --> 00:25:36.270Each time we came to the church, they were so eager to like hear the word of God.39700:25:36.330 --> 00:25:38.250And when we worshiped, they were always smiling.39800:25:38.530 --> 00:25:41.650And that made me feel really happy to be able to be there.39900:25:41.650 --> 00:25:45.150And, you know, and help them.40000:25:45.930 --> 00:25:49.870And it was, it kind of reminded me of God when he told us that, you know, we need to40100:25:49.870 --> 00:25:54.630be like little kids because they were just so open and receiving.40200:25:55.670 --> 00:26:04.070And the most beautiful part was when the pastor came and he read to them the book of Romans where40300:26:04.070 --> 00:26:08.550he said, you know, declare that Jesus is Lord and then to accept God into your heart.40400:26:08.690 --> 00:26:12.690And they were so openly, all gave their life to Jesus.40500:26:13.030 --> 00:26:14.130And so it was really beautiful.40600:26:14.410 --> 00:26:16.350And I got to witness that.40700:26:16.490 --> 00:26:23.350And so I encourage everyone to like, you know, don't be afraid and be able to go and have God40800:26:23.350 --> 00:26:25.510do what he wants with you.40900:26:25.850 --> 00:26:26.410Thank you.41000:26:26.870 --> 00:26:27.350Awesome.41100:26:27.550 --> 00:26:28.230Thank you, Eudelka.41200:26:28.410 --> 00:26:29.710Don't go back yet.41300:26:29.870 --> 00:26:30.950Stay here for a moment.41400:26:32.250 --> 00:26:35.270So Eudelka, you know, came on the mission trip.41500:26:35.390 --> 00:26:39.110And before, you know, I remember you were nervous and I'd encouraged everyone.41600:26:39.110 --> 00:26:43.730And I was like, you know, if you, you know, haven't had a lot of experience praying for people, you41700:26:43.730 --> 00:26:47.490know, join the healing rooms and you'll get to learn and experience that there.41800:26:47.650 --> 00:26:54.290And this woman here took that upon herself and she has been coming to the healing rooms and allowing the41900:26:54.290 --> 00:26:57.670Lord to just equip her before she went out and do it.42000:26:57.850 --> 00:27:02.850And just to see, you know, what the Lord has done in you is really just so beautiful.42100:27:03.290 --> 00:27:11.510So Eudelka, why don't you come on up next?42200:27:15.810 --> 00:27:18.390The mama bear of the trip, right here.42300:27:21.010 --> 00:27:22.430Hola, buenos dias.42400:27:24.650 --> 00:27:25.830Hello, good morning.42500:27:28.410 --> 00:27:29.430Oh man.42600:27:29.990 --> 00:27:30.590Okay.42700:27:30.850 --> 00:27:32.970I'm going to watch the clock and I'm going to be good.42800:27:33.170 --> 00:27:33.430Amen.42900:27:34.630 --> 00:27:35.350Praise God.43000:27:35.490 --> 00:27:43.150A few things is I think from the first service and even now, some of these people back here behind43100:27:43.150 --> 00:27:47.070me have been very humble about how God has used them.43200:27:47.830 --> 00:27:50.370So I'm going to try to keep it short.43300:27:51.350 --> 00:27:57.870So what God has spoken to me and just, I went in 2024 and I think this trip was just43400:27:57.870 --> 00:28:08.990a really knitting of just to the Guatemalans and the Yeshua people in their heart and having compassion for them,43500:28:09.110 --> 00:28:11.370seeing them in a different way, right?43600:28:11.370 --> 00:28:17.830And a few things that stand out to me, there was one service in particular where we were, you know,43700:28:17.950 --> 00:28:23.810pastor, we'd been released to just pray for people, go through the crowd and pray.43800:28:24.030 --> 00:28:29.090And I went all the way to the back and I could see these four young girls, like preteens, maybe43900:28:29.090 --> 00:28:32.710the oldest could have been 15, but they were standing in the doorway.44000:28:32.930 --> 00:28:36.890I could see their silhouette at the door and they were all kind of bunched together.44100:28:37.130 --> 00:28:39.310And so I was telling them to come here.44200:28:39.750 --> 00:28:41.950And so I didn't know if they saw me or not.44300:28:42.010 --> 00:28:45.350So I went further and I went up to them and I said, come here so I could pray for44400:28:45.350 --> 00:28:45.590them.44500:28:46.230 --> 00:28:50.370Long story short, I, you know, they came up and I told them to raise their hands and they were44600:28:50.370 --> 00:28:52.550kind of giggling, you know, a little girlish giggling.44700:28:52.750 --> 00:28:54.610And I was like, okay, are they laughing at me?44800:28:54.910 --> 00:28:56.650You know, I didn't know.44900:28:57.150 --> 00:29:04.950But the Lord was, began to show me that I truly believe that there was, that they had been sexually45000:29:04.950 --> 00:29:05.550violated.45100:29:06.190 --> 00:29:11.930And so I began to speak and pray over them and declare freedom and we'll get into all of that.45200:29:11.970 --> 00:29:13.590But I was speaking some things over them.45300:29:14.010 --> 00:29:20.170And one by one, they just began to profusely cry and everything, they were willing, they're holding on to each45400:29:20.170 --> 00:29:20.410other.45500:29:20.590 --> 00:29:22.830I don't even know if they understood me in the language.45600:29:23.230 --> 00:29:28.450And so I began to declare some things, but just a little different note, how the enemy can work.45700:29:28.630 --> 00:29:32.990We had one gentleman step up and it was like he wanted to interrupt that.45800:29:33.490 --> 00:29:36.090And I was like, could he be the verbiage reader?45900:29:36.190 --> 00:29:36.890No, let me stop.46000:29:36.890 --> 00:29:43.650But anyways, and so he was trying to ask them, do you want to like go somewhere else?46100:29:43.750 --> 00:29:47.630They're looking at him like, you know, we want to stay with her, right?46200:29:47.930 --> 00:29:52.190So anyways, long story short, so I prayed for them and I believe there was deliverance and I declared some46300:29:52.190 --> 00:29:53.010things over their lives.46400:29:53.370 --> 00:29:58.190Another moment was where I called one of the, I think it was a bass player.46500:29:58.270 --> 00:30:00.350I called him off the platform to pray for him.46600:30:01.270 --> 00:30:03.910And I had Nelson help me to translate.46700:30:03.910 --> 00:30:08.830And his prayer request was that he needed just the strength of the Lord.46800:30:09.090 --> 00:30:10.670He said, I just need the strength of God.46900:30:11.470 --> 00:30:13.530You know, it's just little things, right?47000:30:13.630 --> 00:30:17.450And we were in just seeing him receive like that and be set free.47100:30:18.390 --> 00:30:27.130Thirdly, I truly believe that God has catapulted our church into another level when he used many of our young47200:30:27.130 --> 00:30:29.990men to preach and bring the word of God.47300:30:31.150 --> 00:30:34.850Nelson, Luke, Eduardo, all of them, you all would just be amazed.47400:30:34.990 --> 00:30:38.330God was just, it was just really amazing.47500:30:38.590 --> 00:30:42.010And I truly believe that there was a cap that came off that day, right?47600:30:42.390 --> 00:30:44.670So, amen.47700:30:45.350 --> 00:30:50.650And so I just believe that we all have to get beyond ourselves of, oh, you know, I'm too shy47800:30:50.650 --> 00:30:51.010to go.47900:30:51.110 --> 00:30:51.890I don't want to lay hands.48000:30:52.130 --> 00:30:54.730God doesn't have time for that because he's coming soon.48100:30:55.270 --> 00:30:55.710Right?48200:30:56.350 --> 00:30:57.750God, he's coming soon.48300:30:57.810 --> 00:31:01.270And he needs all of our hands on deck to get the work done, right?48400:31:01.950 --> 00:31:08.270And what I found about this mission trip for me is that I wish I could say that my last48500:31:08.270 --> 00:31:12.430highlight was on their soil, but it wasn't.48600:31:12.450 --> 00:31:15.410Because as we bring that fire back, right?48700:31:16.370 --> 00:31:22.370Yesterday was an amazing day ministering with the Love Life and the women that were trying, you know, going in48800:31:22.370 --> 00:31:23.270for the abortion clinic.48900:31:23.630 --> 00:31:24.670That was amazing.49000:31:24.930 --> 00:31:30.410But afterwards, I did some errands and I went to a store and there was a young woman there and49100:31:30.410 --> 00:31:32.250she was, I was checking out.49200:31:32.450 --> 00:31:34.950It wasn't like she was outside on a smoke break.49300:31:35.130 --> 00:31:37.930I was in the line checking out with her, right?49400:31:38.390 --> 00:31:42.870And word of knowledge, it was very prophetic and prophetic, very strong.49500:31:43.090 --> 00:31:44.590And I spoke it to her.49600:31:44.770 --> 00:31:46.410I didn't care who was around.49700:31:46.950 --> 00:31:51.390She begins to weep uncontrollably, checking me out.49800:31:52.270 --> 00:31:54.850She literally, and so forth.49900:31:54.990 --> 00:31:57.550And so I was like, okay, well, the boss isn't doing anything.50000:31:57.550 --> 00:32:00.570Her fellow cashiers, no one's doing anything.50100:32:00.690 --> 00:32:02.490No one's saying, move the line along.50200:32:02.810 --> 00:32:05.130And we just had church right in the, in the.50300:32:07.310 --> 00:32:13.470Long story short, I almost left her with a God loves you.50400:32:13.730 --> 00:32:15.910But I went after I prayed for her.50500:32:16.150 --> 00:32:19.230I asked her about accepting Jesus Christ.50600:32:19.290 --> 00:32:22.990And she said, yes, she said, yes.50700:32:23.590 --> 00:32:25.490She repeated after me.50800:32:25.490 --> 00:32:26.810There was no rushing.50900:32:26.990 --> 00:32:30.150It was just as if someone came over after service and said, can you pray for me?51000:32:30.550 --> 00:32:33.750And I prayed for her, letter to the Lord, got her phone number.51100:32:33.870 --> 00:32:35.770Maybe one day she will join us here in church.51200:32:36.190 --> 00:32:40.810And it all started when I was checking, you know, when I was checking out.51300:32:41.090 --> 00:32:44.130But I asked her, has anyone ever shared Jesus with her?51400:32:44.450 --> 00:32:49.670And she gave me an answer that people tell me all the time when I minister, just as I go51500:32:49.670 --> 00:32:51.510in my daily life, when I witness to people.51600:32:51.710 --> 00:32:53.830And she said, my parents are religious.51700:32:54.670 --> 00:32:56.430And then that opened the flood gate.51800:32:56.590 --> 00:32:57.550So I'm going to stop.51900:32:58.010 --> 00:33:01.470And I'm just going to say, praise God, to God be the glory.52000:33:01.670 --> 00:33:05.770So it all starts with all of us getting involved.52100:33:05.850 --> 00:33:06.130Amen.52200:33:06.370 --> 00:33:08.870So like Pastor Mo said, life groups are starting.52300:33:09.110 --> 00:33:10.070Let's go.52400:33:10.270 --> 00:33:23.940And now that I have the mic, my life group, my life group, preparing for the glory, Wednesdays on Zoom,52500:33:25.420 --> 00:33:40.000life group number eight, life group number eight, Wednesdays at 7.30. Who is your pastor with that bad example?52600:33:42.160 --> 00:33:51.780So besides being a walking advertisement for her life group, you could see how, you know, the anointing, you know,52700:33:51.840 --> 00:33:59.220flowed through Erica, whether it was, you know, at a service where she didn't speak the language and the Lord52800:33:59.220 --> 00:34:01.640just came through and did something.52900:34:02.240 --> 00:34:07.080Or she's, you know, in the line at the supermarket and starts praying for somebody.53000:34:07.940 --> 00:34:10.120And the Lord's anointing came.53100:34:10.239 --> 00:34:15.760So wherever you are, no matter what you're doing, that the Lord's anointing can flow through you when you step53200:34:15.760 --> 00:34:18.860out in faith and when you're in tune to what He's doing.53300:34:19.219 --> 00:34:23.620And you just take that step of obedience to just follow Him and listen.53400:34:23.620 --> 00:34:27.040And He's going to do something so powerful and miraculous.53500:34:27.659 --> 00:34:33.380And you're going to be standing up here with a list of testimonies, not being able to choose which one53600:34:33.380 --> 00:34:35.900to share because the Lord's going to do something so powerful.53700:34:36.159 --> 00:34:38.900So thank you, Erica, for sharing some.53800:34:41.489 --> 00:34:43.850Sherry and Nelson, will the two of you come up together?53900:34:50.710 --> 00:34:57.430I want to reference a, like a sermon that Pastor Bojan preached, I think at the beginning or towards the54000:34:57.430 --> 00:34:58.170end of January.54100:34:58.170 --> 00:35:00.830It was like his message for 2026.54200:35:00.930 --> 00:35:03.370And he called it Peace for Pursuit, right?54300:35:03.450 --> 00:35:05.810And about resting and receiving when you're resting.54400:35:06.490 --> 00:35:15.310And I felt like that was my experience in Guatemala was receiving direction, was receiving opportunities, was receiving even answer54500:35:15.310 --> 00:35:15.770to pray.54600:35:15.890 --> 00:35:21.330I mean, some of you might know, like Sherry and I are purchasing a home and a big thing that54700:35:21.330 --> 00:35:23.670we were waiting for happened while we were in Guatemala.54800:35:23.870 --> 00:35:25.790We got this successful news.54900:35:26.330 --> 00:35:34.370So it's just like things were happening and the Lord was giving me opportunities to translate something I've never done,55000:35:34.510 --> 00:35:39.010at least in that kind of setting, translating for Pastor Bojan into Spanish.55100:35:39.010 --> 00:35:45.490That was nothing that I ever thought would happen during this trip, but it started simply, there's a theme, right,55200:35:45.510 --> 00:35:46.870of saying yes to the Lord.55300:35:47.090 --> 00:35:50.410And it started with me simply saying yes to joining this trip.55400:35:50.590 --> 00:35:52.870And then everything else came from it.55500:35:53.010 --> 00:35:57.910I walk away feeling like, you know, I don't deserve or earn any of these opportunities.55600:35:58.530 --> 00:36:01.490It was simply acknowledging that God does have a plan for my life.55700:36:01.610 --> 00:36:02.810God has a plan for your life.55800:36:02.910 --> 00:36:06.310And aligning yourself with saying, God, let your will be done in my life.55900:36:06.450 --> 00:36:10.790And the joy that will come from that and the rest that comes from that too, of being like, wow,56000:36:11.210 --> 00:36:12.570I didn't have to do anything.56100:36:12.690 --> 00:36:13.870God just opened the doors.56200:36:14.250 --> 00:36:18.110I walked right through it and I got testimonies to share because of that.56300:36:18.270 --> 00:36:20.310So yeah, be encouraged by that.56400:36:20.870 --> 00:36:22.790Today, pray, Lord, what is your will?56500:36:22.790 --> 00:36:24.610Let your will be done and you'll see.56600:36:25.030 --> 00:36:25.610You will see.56700:36:26.430 --> 00:36:26.830Amen.56800:36:27.150 --> 00:36:27.810Thank you, Nelson.56900:36:27.870 --> 00:36:29.050I'm gonna chime in here.57000:36:29.110 --> 00:36:33.770I said at the first service, but, you know, Nelson's being a little humble here.57100:36:33.830 --> 00:36:42.110He was not just a translator, you know, during the services, but he, you know, the first service he had57200:36:42.110 --> 00:36:47.390shared his testimony and then, you know, the next day, Mike McComb, you know, the missionary, he would always do57300:36:47.390 --> 00:36:54.350the translating during the services, but he went hard on that construction project and, you know, asked Pastor Bo, someone57400:36:54.350 --> 00:36:58.530from the team could translate and he prayed about it and he, you know, asked Nelson to do it.57500:36:58.970 --> 00:37:07.770And Nelson wasn't just a translator, but he ministered with every person that was speaking and the anointing just flowed57600:37:07.770 --> 00:37:09.910as a team and in such unity.57700:37:10.350 --> 00:37:15.550And it was really awesome to see, you know, as Erica said, seeing, you know, some men rise up, but57800:37:15.550 --> 00:37:20.950to really see, you know, the Lord use you, Nelson, and, you know, build you up, that was just really57900:37:20.950 --> 00:37:22.230wonderful to see.58000:37:22.470 --> 00:37:23.630So, awesome.58100:37:27.040 --> 00:37:28.300Sherry, it's your turn.58200:37:29.180 --> 00:37:29.800All right.58300:37:30.280 --> 00:37:32.380I can share, well, hello, church.58400:37:33.440 --> 00:37:40.920I can share from the perspective that seeing Nelson, like being in that position, I think we all have seen58500:37:40.920 --> 00:37:45.200a lot of things in our life, in our spouse, in our friends, that like, you know, God is going58600:37:45.200 --> 00:37:48.620to do something in their life, but you're like, when is that coming?58700:37:48.760 --> 00:37:49.840Is that really coming?58800:37:49.940 --> 00:37:51.780But in your spirit, you know, that's coming.58900:37:51.780 --> 00:37:57.480And I just want to encourage all of us to have faith and knowing that, you know, when that happened,59000:37:57.620 --> 00:37:59.220like it will happen in God's timing.59100:37:59.380 --> 00:38:03.140It will happen, like in the eternity timeline, it already happened.59200:38:03.560 --> 00:38:08.520And what we need to do is really hold on to it and then continue to pray for it, continue59300:38:08.520 --> 00:38:12.520to say, God, may your will be done, like in all the friends in my family.59400:38:13.380 --> 00:38:19.060And the second thing that I also want to share is kind of like what Erica was sharing, like it's59500:38:19.060 --> 00:38:20.880God overcome the language barrier.59600:38:21.400 --> 00:38:27.660So one night when we're doing the VBS, I don't speak, personally, I don't speak Spanish at all.59700:38:27.880 --> 00:38:29.700Like all I do is hola and then goodbye.59800:38:31.800 --> 00:38:33.120I really try hard.59900:38:33.200 --> 00:38:34.900I can't say what's my name, but that's it.60000:38:35.940 --> 00:38:41.500But God really overcome the language barrier because it was like seven of them, seven of us, I think, doing60100:38:41.500 --> 00:38:43.700the VBS, but there was over a hundred of children.60200:38:44.500 --> 00:38:51.280And in the Asian culture, like they are, they're not very like outgoing kind of people.60300:38:51.540 --> 00:38:58.000They are very, I can say a little bit shy and like gentle, just because what has happened in the60400:38:58.000 --> 00:39:02.900past, like they are kind of in a very, very lower rank even, but among the Mayan people.60500:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.760So it's like, you don't really see them like very confident, like American.60600:39:10.460 --> 00:39:17.120So when we are serving like over a hundred kids, there is a one activity we're doing like a crafting60700:39:18.120 --> 00:39:21.720and we have to help the kids to cut the stuff and then make the things.60800:39:22.240 --> 00:39:28.140And there are a couple like teachers from the church that are around, but then again, I don't really speak60900:39:28.140 --> 00:39:28.580the language.61000:39:28.760 --> 00:39:32.500I can tell they're like helping the kids, little kids trying to do it.61100:39:32.880 --> 00:39:34.940And in my head, I was just like, you know what?61200:39:35.020 --> 00:39:39.700I'm just gonna do something, ask them to do it because they probably do a better job than me trying61300:39:39.700 --> 00:39:40.960to explain this to the kids.61400:39:41.560 --> 00:39:47.700So I use, I of course got improved my body language than the Spanish.61500:39:48.100 --> 00:39:52.380And I was able to teach them how to do it just by showing them and then getting them the61600:39:52.380 --> 00:39:52.700tool.61700:39:53.100 --> 00:39:57.560And they were just feel so like, they were shocked in the beginning that like I tell them what to61800:39:57.560 --> 00:39:57.820do.61900:39:58.300 --> 00:39:59.640And then they started doing it.62000:39:59.740 --> 00:40:04.860And then I saw them like doing such a better job than me, like to serve the kids, to serve62100:40:04.860 --> 00:40:05.520the community.62200:40:05.940 --> 00:40:09.180And in the end, they were able even just tell the kids what we are doing.62300:40:09.700 --> 00:40:12.560So at the end, like I sneak a couple of the gift.62400:40:12.860 --> 00:40:14.340I just acknowledge that.62500:40:16.540 --> 00:40:20.680To give to the teacher and actually thank Dan for helping me to translate.62600:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.460I was just telling them like, I see so much in them.62700:40:23.840 --> 00:40:28.300They're so capable and they can do so much than what they think they can do.62800:40:28.740 --> 00:40:33.760And I feel like there's just a lot of us that we don't know that we can actually do so62900:40:33.760 --> 00:40:34.060much.63000:40:34.280 --> 00:40:38.820And we just need someone in our life to tell us that God has already give that to you.63100:40:38.820 --> 00:40:40.440And you can do that completely.63200:40:40.760 --> 00:40:42.460You're capable because of God.63300:40:42.880 --> 00:40:43.620So, yeah.63400:40:44.400 --> 00:40:46.240Awesome, thank you, Sherry.63500:40:47.240 --> 00:40:51.820It's beautiful to see how the Lord moves through the kids.63600:40:52.240 --> 00:40:57.340And if any of you have ever worked with kids or have kids, you just see what a gift it63700:40:57.340 --> 00:41:00.520is to see Jesus through their eyes.63800:41:01.760 --> 00:41:04.240So Vlad, will you come up and share?63900:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.120I love your testimony of what the Lord did.64000:41:08.820 --> 00:41:09.120Thank you.64100:41:09.780 --> 00:41:11.480Yeah, good morning.64200:41:12.640 --> 00:41:15.140This is my first missions trip I've ever gone.64300:41:16.300 --> 00:41:20.140And such a unique experience I will forever treasure.64400:41:21.480 --> 00:41:22.980So let me read my notes.64500:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.700I was doing VBS with the kiddos.64600:41:27.880 --> 00:41:30.500I enjoyed myself with the kids and the activities.64700:41:31.040 --> 00:41:33.300We were wrapping up the VBS service.64800:41:33.480 --> 00:41:39.980I was putting away the supplies when a kid appears out of nowhere and gives me a very tight hug.64900:41:40.440 --> 00:41:44.300Normally, when someone gives me a hug, I don't get emotional.65000:41:45.120 --> 00:41:46.680I just see it as a hug.65100:41:46.940 --> 00:41:50.300But this one hit me on a very different level.65200:41:50.860 --> 00:41:52.120It brought me to tears.65300:41:52.600 --> 00:41:58.260After I said goodbye to the girl that gave me a hug, I asked God, why did that happen?65400:41:59.040 --> 00:42:04.900After several hours asking God, he told me he was demonstrating his love to me, to her.65500:42:05.460 --> 00:42:07.520I will forever treasure those moments.65600:42:07.700 --> 00:42:08.340God bless you.65700:42:09.320 --> 00:42:09.760Awesome.65800:42:10.020 --> 00:42:10.840Thank you, Vlad.65900:42:11.880 --> 00:42:18.340I just, every time you share that, I just love that testimony of how, you know, the Lord just in66000:42:18.340 --> 00:42:20.720such a, just a hug, you know what I mean?66100:42:20.740 --> 00:42:23.080Just ministered and showed his love.66200:42:24.020 --> 00:42:26.160So we've got just a little bit of time left.66300:42:26.240 --> 00:42:27.340So we're gonna have one more testimony.66400:42:27.460 --> 00:42:29.360So Luke, will you come up and share?66500:42:32.240 --> 00:42:32.680Hallelujah.66600:42:36.100 --> 00:42:37.060Vlad was my roommate.66700:42:37.060 --> 00:42:38.700So we had such a good time together.66800:42:39.600 --> 00:42:45.800He was such a good sport because everybody in this, praise the Lord, everybody experienced perfect divine health this entire66900:42:45.800 --> 00:42:47.420trip, except for me.67000:42:49.060 --> 00:42:55.460So, big thanks to Vlad for his patience and his love.67100:42:55.860 --> 00:42:57.120He loved me through it.67200:42:59.080 --> 00:43:03.680But something that was so impressed in my heart is the same thing, kind of want to jump off what67300:43:03.680 --> 00:43:07.220Vlad was saying because I wasn't in the VBSs at all.67400:43:07.240 --> 00:43:09.840So I didn't develop a relationship with the children at all.67500:43:10.160 --> 00:43:14.840But on the last meeting that we had, we kind of had this blowout, Holy Ghost service, and it was67600:43:14.840 --> 00:43:15.380so cool.67700:43:15.860 --> 00:43:17.100And all these amazing things happened.67800:43:17.200 --> 00:43:21.740And then as we were getting on the bus, all the kids came out of the VBS and they started,67900:43:22.720 --> 00:43:26.780you know, running towards us, giving us hugs and sort of said, kind of, don't leave.68000:43:26.860 --> 00:43:28.640And I hadn't even talked to any of the kids.68100:43:28.740 --> 00:43:30.700So I hadn't built a relationship with any of them.68200:43:31.620 --> 00:43:35.080And it was so unusual to see, like, their defenses were so down.68300:43:35.220 --> 00:43:38.500They were so, their hearts were so open to us.68400:43:38.740 --> 00:43:40.540And I was kind of like, what's going on?68500:43:40.700 --> 00:43:47.100And the Lord impressed in my heart that they could see Christ in me, Christ in us, right?68600:43:47.100 --> 00:43:48.360The hope of glory, you know?68700:43:48.380 --> 00:43:52.120And I think that's can be so hard for us to believe about ourselves.68800:43:52.220 --> 00:43:55.980Sometimes that Jesus really is in us and his light is coming out of us.68900:43:56.020 --> 00:43:57.500It was like moss coming to light.69000:43:57.680 --> 00:43:59.060They were grabbing onto us.69100:43:59.240 --> 00:44:02.220And I was, you know, cause you know, you can have all these thoughts about yourself.69200:44:02.760 --> 00:44:05.260And, but even as Erica was saying, we kind of need to get over ourselves.69300:44:05.420 --> 00:44:06.840And I was just realizing, you know what?69400:44:06.880 --> 00:44:12.400If these kids can see Jesus in me and are drawn to that and are touched by that and want69500:44:12.400 --> 00:44:17.340more of that, then we need to believe that wherever we go, just the light of Christ is coming out69600:44:17.340 --> 00:44:17.840of us.69700:44:18.200 --> 00:44:22.300You know, it's not really about us, but it's about Jesus in every one of us, right?69800:44:22.380 --> 00:44:26.780And Jesus in me, in us is enough to change the world, right?69900:44:26.920 --> 00:44:28.020That started happening.70000:44:28.020 --> 00:44:35.880And I, on this trip, I saw Jesus in every single person that's here at the front, but he's in70100:44:35.880 --> 00:44:36.940every single one of us here.70200:44:37.080 --> 00:44:41.280So I just want to encourage you, believe in the Christ in you in your workplace and wherever you go,70300:44:41.380 --> 00:44:42.920know that that light is coming out of you.70400:44:43.000 --> 00:44:48.520Even as those kids were coming up to us, even if you can't see the effect, the word says that,70500:44:48.560 --> 00:44:52.500you know, the wind, you can't see where it's coming from or where it's going, but you could feel the70600:44:52.500 --> 00:44:52.760effect.70700:44:52.880 --> 00:44:56.440So even if you can't see it, you can feel the effect of the Holy Ghost in you wherever you70800:44:56.440 --> 00:44:56.980go in your life.70900:44:56.980 --> 00:44:58.220So thank you, Lord.71000:44:58.500 --> 00:44:58.760Amen.71100:44:59.340 --> 00:44:59.740Awesome.71200:45:00.020 --> 00:45:00.740Thank you, Luke.71300:45:02.020 --> 00:45:08.300So as Luke said, he was not a part of the VBS, but so I don't even know if you71400:45:08.300 --> 00:45:13.580knew this, but the end of the lesson and the craft that we did with the kids was making a71500:45:13.580 --> 00:45:18.620lantern, talking about how Jesus is the light of the world and how, you know, we get to go out71600:45:18.620 --> 00:45:21.500and be the light of Jesus to everyone.71700:45:21.580 --> 00:45:27.620So all of the kids, you know, at the end of the lesson and they made these, you know, lantern71800:45:27.620 --> 00:45:30.720crafts and it said, you know, on there that Jesus is the light of the world.71900:45:30.760 --> 00:45:33.920And we encourage them to go out and to share that love.72000:45:34.040 --> 00:45:40.240And so they, I didn't even know that, but they took that literally and did it like seconds after, you72100:45:40.240 --> 00:45:44.200know, they heard that message and received that, you know, from the Lord.72200:45:44.360 --> 00:45:53.700So let's just give the Lord another hand for what he did this week in Guatemala.72300:45:55.220 --> 00:46:01.760Worship team, if you guys wanna come on up, I know I missed saying that in the first service, but72400:46:01.760 --> 00:46:02.220I got it.72500:46:02.260 --> 00:46:04.540I saw Pastor Mo's little motion.72600:46:04.800 --> 00:46:05.800So I got it for this one.72700:46:06.800 --> 00:46:07.960So yeah, worship team, come on up.72800:46:08.480 --> 00:46:13.740And team, if you wanna sit down, I'm gonna turn the service back over to Pastor Mo.72900:46:18.080 --> 00:46:18.920Praise God.73000:46:19.540 --> 00:46:21.860Again, give yourselves another round of applause.73100:46:25.150 --> 00:46:29.930And I say give yourselves because again, I'm trying to hammer home this message that as much as they went73200:46:29.930 --> 00:46:31.650on this trip, you went on this trip.73300:46:33.390 --> 00:46:40.330There's something too good about the gospel that it cannot be hid and it needs to be shared in every73400:46:40.330 --> 00:46:41.450facet of your life.73500:46:42.130 --> 00:46:47.530I love some of the testimonies because there's a theme that goes among it that they went to this thing,73600:46:47.650 --> 00:46:52.490they did the work, but now they can't hide it and it has to continue even though they got back73700:46:52.490 --> 00:46:52.990to the States.73800:46:53.850 --> 00:46:59.190Whether you're at the supermarket, whether you're at work, it doesn't matter.73900:47:00.190 --> 00:47:04.930You are carrying some very valuable, valuable intel.74000:47:05.390 --> 00:47:10.670And that's the gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news that there is forgiveness, that there is hope, that there74100:47:10.670 --> 00:47:11.130is healing.74200:47:11.510 --> 00:47:12.770Make sure you share that.74300:47:13.430 --> 00:47:17.810It was so much so that we couldn't hide it that we had to send people to another part of74400:47:17.810 --> 00:47:19.630the globe to make sure they heard that message.74500:47:19.810 --> 00:47:21.750How much more the people in your own life?74600:47:23.610 --> 00:47:26.730This message is too good to hide.74700:47:27.430 --> 00:47:28.810So make sure you share.74800:47:28.970 --> 00:47:29.230Amen?74900:47:29.750 --> 00:47:29.890Amen.75000:47:30.270 --> 00:47:31.570All right, praise God.75100:47:31.970 --> 00:47:33.890This is the CityLight Church Podcast.75200:47:34.590 --> 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