Unlocking a Victorious Life with Pastor Maurice Johnson

00:00 - Speaker 1 What Jesus can do in your life will blow your minds, and you need to start saying Jesus, blow my mind this summer. Make me so victorious. My family and my friends and my church members are gonna be shocked. Make me so victorious. I'm gonna praise you until I can't praise you no more. And you know Jesus can do that. All he needs is your words. Death and life are in the what Power of the tongue. 00:26 - Speaker 2 Welcome to the CityLight 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 CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you. Put your hands together for Pastor Maurice. 01:07 - Speaker 1 Johnson Okay, praise God. Okay, praise god. Good morning, CityLight Church. Give yourselves a hand. You're an amazing church, the way you guys worship, the way you love your community, you love the world. You're going on your mission trip soon. I just bless you in Jesus' name. You are a great church. How many of you, when you got to this church and you plugged in, you saw your life turn around? Raise your hand Wow, look at all those hands. That's the power of being connected to the grace on this house. And if you've been coming and just kind of dancing on the outside, I want to encourage you, get connected. Join the small groups, the summer discipleship groups. Go on a mission trip, give Amen and I felt to say this most importantly pray for your pastor, his wife and his children, and Pastor Mo and his wife and his children, because your leadership is the one that's taking you to your next level. And if things are good in their life, guess what Things are going to be good in your life? Amen, hallelujah, praise God. So the first service we warmed up. Now we're ready to fly. 02:43 Today's message is entitled this is my Summer of Winning. Say that with me. This is my summer of winning. Look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, good morning, good afternoon. Actually, this is my summer of winning the winning spirit. Come on. Summer of winning the winning spirit, come on. The winning spirit is on the inside of you. The winning spirit is on the inside of me. I am determined to win this summer. Come on and shout Hallelujah. 03:28 The Bible says you are more than a conqueror through him who loved you. One translation says you have gained a surpassing victory. Another translation says you are more than victorious. That's not just a nice thing to say because we're charismatic. That's a reality that we are to live in and walk in Amen. So if you're more than a conqueror, you cannot be a depressed person. If you're more than a conqueror, you cannot be a loser. Hello, if you're more than a conqueror, you can't say I can't get up. The Bible says the righteous will fall seven times and get back up. Amen Doesn't make a difference how much you've fallen, how bad things have been in your life. This is your season and your summer of winning. 04:23 We have entered the second half of the year and I'm sure it's been good for a lot of you. And for some of you it hasn't been so good. You still have some fears. You still have some things you're dealing with. You still have some bills that aren't paid. You still have some crisis in your life, but I'm declaring to you today, prophetically, that this is your winning summer. Your crisis is over, your struggle has ended, your bills will be paid, in Jesus's name. 04:50 Do you believe that? Somebody say I believe it, that's what makes it happen. Somebody say, oh, my sister's here. I heard that voice. Stand up. My sister and my niece is here. Daryl's here too. Oh, just you two. Look at that. All right, now my stand up, keep standing. My sister said she's never been to Pastor Boyan's church and she wanted to come. So she's married. So forget about her. She's old anyway. But no, let me stop, I'm joking. I'm joking Now, the one with the red hair. 05:26 She's 24, single and ready to mingle. Ha ha, ha, ha ha. I won't tell you about all the people that want her. When she walks down the streets of Newark, she's visiting from Charlotte, and then stand up. Pastor Sam, this is one of my assistant pastors. She's also single. Stand up, stand up, pastor Sam. This is one of my assistant pastors. She's also single. Stand up, stand up. Stand up and ready to mingle. This is going to be her winning summer. I know some of you thought that she was my girl. She's not. She wish she could be, but she's not. So you can approach her and give her your number. No, the Lord is still here. We're just having some fun, because the God of winning likes to have fun. Amen, amen. 06:14 The Bible says in 1 John 4, 4, he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. Someone say the greater one lives inside of me. So if the greater one lives inside of you, there's nothing outside of you that can defeat you. I'll say that again If the greater one lives inside of you, there's nothing outside of you that can defeat you. The spirit of victory is on your life. You have to believe it. You have to on your life. You have to believe it, you have to receive it and you have to celebrate it, even when the devil comes with a dark cloud, this mystical dark cloud, and you wake up and you don't feel good, shake yourself and say no, no, no, no. This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and I will be glad in it. 07:10 Now, sometimes you don't feel good because you grieve the Holy Spirit with some kind of behavior in your life that you have to repent of. But many times you don't feel good because the devil's trying to encroach you with his spirit of depression and his spirit of heaviness, and what you need to do is put on some praise music and start singing glory to God, amen, and that spirit of heaviness will leave. But you also need to start using your words and speak against that spirit and say I am going to have an amazing day today. That's happened to me. I woke up, wasn't feeling great. I'm always waking up happy, but sometimes the devil will try you, tempt you, and you have to say nope, I don't receive this. I don't receive the spirit of melancholy, I don't receive the spirit of depression, I don't receive the sadness. I only receive the spirit of victory that's already on my life, amen. 08:01 So the Bible says that we are to go from glory to glory, from faith to faith, and so that means we should go from winning to winning, no defeat. The Bible says in 7 Corinthians that God is always causing us to triumph. What's the word Always? So that's your word, that victory should always be in your life, every single day. 08:29 Now there's theology out there that will tell you oh, you can't have a winning day every day. Who says so? Did Jesus have a winning day every day? Did Jesus have a winning day? Did Jesus ever have a down, depressed day? Oh, this is not my day today. Now, he made the day, but it's not his day today, right? Did Jesus ever have a down and depressed day? No, he may have moments of sadness, moments, Jesus wept, but his day, his 24 hours, was always awesome, and the Bible says he has left us an example that we should follow. So if Jesus is winning, I'm winning. And the Bible says, as he is, so are you in this world Is Jesus ruling and reigning in victory? So guess who else should be ruling and reigning in victory? 09:24 Romans 5 says those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. The Amplified says you shall reign as kings in this life. There's too many believers not reigning as kings. They're not reigning as the royalty. They are, but that's going to be your story this summer, amen. Somebody say this is my summer of winning. They're not reigning as kings. They're not reigning as the royalty. They are, but that's going to be your story this summer, amen. Somebody say this is my summer of winning. 09:50 You want to make more money than you ever made before. Do you believe that? Come on, come on. I just say you got to make more money than you ever made before. You got to have more opportunities than you ever had before. You got more favor flowing, more opportunities than you ever had before. You're going to have more favor flowing in your life than you ever saw before. Amen. You're going to have breakthrough healings, amen. You're going to have prophetic dreams. That's going to bless your life. This is your summer of winning. You've got to be determined to win. 10:21 I have fused somebody with supernatural strength today in Jesus' name. When I was praying earlier at home for the service, I felt there was a person or persons who has a fear of Alzheimer's dementia. If that is you, the Lord says do not be afraid. The Lord says do not be afraid. Rebuke the fear, resist the fear and say it will not happen to me. Now you may have relatives, a parent, a cousin, an aunt who is experiencing this because it is spreading like a plague, but you're going to say I'm in covenant with almighty God and it will not touch my life, amen. 11:06 And if you're a person. I'm going to give you a secret. If you're a person who says I'm always forgetting, stop saying it, because you're sealing your fate. The devil's using your words to open, is opening a door where he can come and get you. You're going to say no, no, no, you ain't going to fool. You know how the devil gets you by your words Death and life. You know the scripture. You charismatic Death and life. What A what A what? Now notice what it didn't say. It didn't say the power of death and life is in the tongue. Some people have quoted it. That way there's a difference, because the Bible's not saying that life or death has power. It says your tongue has power, and whatever you are speaking is what it's going to produce. 12:08 One of the reasons why I am, by the way, I've lost like 25 to 30 pounds. Hey, I'm working on more because I'm determined to win. I've had enough warning dreams, enough encouragement dreams. It's been like crazy. You're going to lose this weight, boy, so I'm working on it. Why did I tell you that? There's a reason why I told you that. But him saying hey, just like knocked me out the anointing anyway. Power of the tongue, thank you, but I still don't know why I said that. That's okay, lord, bring me back into the spirit. He'll come back. It's my anointing. I stepped into your anointing. All right, I don't think so. It's his anointing. Your members have stepped into you. I'm not your member. Praise God, I'm the apostle of grace. I'm actually older than you, so I'm your apostle. Wow, oh, okay, guys, let's stop playing around the freedom and the spirit. Thank you, Jesus. 13:21 So if you're going to lose weight, you have to refuse to make excuses. So when you are going to win this summer, you have to tell the Lord I offer you no excuses. The spirit of losing is tied to the excuses of man and you have to say I will not make any excuses for anything, for being a bad husband, being a bad wife, being a bad parent, being a terrible person with money. You got to say Lord no, you're going to turn this around for me. I'm going to turn this around in me, I'm going to turn this around in my life and I'm going to be an amazing husband, a glorious wife, a great parent, and I'm going to be a money master. In Jesus's name, amen, Hallelujah. 14:17 All the things the devil says you're terrible at or things you may be bad at. You're going to say no, no, no, no. This is not going to be in my life. I'm not going to be an emotional wreck. No, I'm going to be happy and clappy Amen. Happy. And what? If you happy and you know it. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands If you're happy and you know it. Clap your hands If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands If you're happy and you know it. Okay, you got to be happy. I'm not going to be crying because the devil is attacking me. I'm going to take authority over the devil and tell him no more, no more. 15:11 One of the persons I was praying for. She was saying the stress is not leaving me and I said no, no, no, no, no. The stress is going to leave you. And we rebuked the stress. And then I gave her some scriptures to meditate on. And we rebuked the stress, and then I gave her some scriptures to meditate on. 15:28 But you do not let stress or the spirit of melancholy or the spirit of heaviness come and stay on you. You say, devil, you've got to go, amen, because if you open that door. Satan's coming. He's coming with sickness and disease and all the things that attach to allowing him to rule. The Bible says give no place to the devil. That word place comes from a Greek word that means landing ground. And there's too many believers that are losing, not because they don't have the spirit of victory the spirit of victory lives inside of you, it's the Holy Ghost but because they give too much place to the devil in their natural lives. And you're going to say I'm closing the door on the devil, I'm making no excuses, amen. 16:12 Look with me at John 5, 1 to 9. This is the story of the gentleman at the pool of Bethesda, and verse 1, he says after this, there was a feast of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there was in Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, a pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. There's a lot of people with problems and they're just waiting. Don't sit and wait. You've been seated in heavenly places. Go and make things happen. The Holy Spirit lives inside of you. The paracletos, the one called alongside to help you. Go and make things happen. 17:00 You've been redeemed by the blood. You stand as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. It doesn't just mean that you have right standing with God. It means that God's righteous nature is inside of you and righteousness makes you strong. The Bible says the righteous are as bold as a lion. So we got born again. Boldness was imparted to you. You're going to release that boldness and say I'm a lion in Jesus. What is Jesus characterized? As for the tribe of Judah, the peasant from the tribe of Judah, no, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the roaring lion, the raging lion. You're going to let the devil know I'm a raging lion. I'm in Christ Jesus and I'm going to roar. He wants you to be. 17:46 I said in the early service he wants you to be a silent sufferer, but you have to be determined. I'm going to be a talking warrior. Oh, that was better than y'all responded. Somebody said I'm going to be a talking warrior. Yeah, you got to get a warfare mindset. One day the Lord told me tell the people. I'm going to tell you. This is a word for the body of Christ. Don't become a casualty of spiritual warfare. We're all in spiritual warfare, but you can choose to be the winning warrior or the defeated casualty. The choice is yours. I said before you death and life. Choose what Life that you and your seed may live. 18:37 Blessing and cursing. What you gonna choose, the cursing or the blessing? You see the cursing all out there. You may even see it in your family. You're going to say it ends with me. The blessing will come upon me and overtake me, and I'm going to win. That's Deuteronomy 28. So the blessings of God come on, talk with me. The blessings of God will come upon me, overtake me and I'm going to win, hallelujah. 19:09 The Bible says in Proverbs 10, blessings are on the head of the righteous. Are you righteous? And there's no curse on your head? There's a blessing on your head. The prophet said about Israel there's no sentence of divination against them. There's nothing the devil can be doing out in the world that can cause you to lose. 19:35 And when you believe it, you're going to have streaks of victory. You're going to be winning in everything you do. You're going to step and doors will just be opening. You know like you go to the mall now, you don't even have to open the door. Well, the nice malls, the ghetto malls, the ghetto ones still got to open, but the Roosevelt Field and the nice ones, you just walk in the doors open. That's the kind of power and authority and favor you walk with. Do you know? You have an angel walking with you every day. Some of you got angels waking looking at you. When you wake up like, oh my god, here we go again 21 years and I'm right here and I tap into no angelic ministry. The other angels that come by say, oh, I feel sorry. See you, I'm going back to heaven. There's language in the realm of the spirit about you. Demons know about you, angels know about you and there's conversations about you based on how you're behaving. 20:44 Remember when Jesus came to that man who was demon possessed, he said holy one of God. He absolutely knew who Jesus was. He'd been watching him. Have you come to torment us before the time? Oh, we know you're a bad mama jammer and you're going to kick out butt, but is it now? He said just shut up. Jesus gives the devil no respect. He didn't sit there and say, okay, let's talk about theology. No, shut up. That's what you do to the devil. Don't talk to me. You don't have a right to talk to me. You're a bum. Oh, you're scared to tell the devil that I do it. I'm not just preaching to sound good, I do it. You're a bum, you're a dog, you're nothing, you're unforgiven. I'm seated in heavenly places. You're not. You're damned, I'm blessed. So why are you talking to me? Why are you bothering me? You foul unclean spirit. Go now and the devil goes running with his tail under. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got to know who you are. Man, Jesus, I'm going to win. Somebody say Jesus, I'm going to win. Jesus, I'm going to win. Somebody say Jesus, I'm going to win. 22:04 Verse 4 for the angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. Then whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. Verse 5 now a certain man was there who had an infirmity 38 years doesn't make a difference how long your problem has been when Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time. Jesus doesn't want you lying down in defeat. And even if you've been in defeat for a long time, he's there to tell you get up. He said to him do you want to be made? Well, the sick man answered him. Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me. That's an excuse. Someone gets it before I get it. Jesus didn't ask you. Does someone step down before you? I didn't ask you that. Most of the you, I didn't ask you that. Most of the time, people giving excuses of things he never asked. 23:02 Remember that time when, um um, he had to use peter's boat to preach? Peter sold a nice seed and Jesus was about to give him a nice catch and he begins to say, uh, we've toiled all night and caught nothing. In other words, I'm the professional fisherman. You're not, you're a carpenter, you're a miracle worker. Stay in your lane. That's what his flesh started to say we've, we've, me and my. We know what we're doing. You don't know about this. 23:41 But he didn't realize for a moment who he's talking to, the Lord of glory, the winning God. And then he said nevertheless, he started remembering some stuff. At your word, I will let down the net. But Jesus said nets. So he still was in error. That's why the Bible says the net began to break. That's why Jesus said net, because I know what I'm about to do for you. I'm about to blow your mind, and the Bible says that he was greatly astonished at the catch of fish. What Jesus can do in your life will blow your mind and you need to start saying Jesus, blow my mind this summer. Make me so victorious. My family and my friends and my church members are going to be shocked. Make me so victorious. I'm going to praise you until I can't praise you no more, and you know Jesus can do that. All he needs is your words. Death and life are in the what Power of the tongue. You know we're skipping a lot of my notes. By the way, this is a glorious service. 25:01 I told one pastor who was going through whatever he's going through. You know pastors go through stuff sometimes. I said what you need to do is what I'm doing. He says what are you doing, pastor? I said I'm starting to say without emotion I'm on fire for God. You know how many times people are just crying to be on fire for God and, oh, I want to be on fire for God. Stop saying I want to be on fire for God. Just stop saying it. Start saying I am on fire for God. Jesus wasn't trying to be the light of the world. He said I am the light of the world. He wasn't trying to be the son of God. He said I am the son of God. I'm not trying to be the son of man. I am the son of man. I am the son of David. I am the miracle worker, I am the bread of life. Listen to Joel Osteen. Use the power of I am Amen. 25:50 So one of the things you need to do is say I am on fire for God and all of a sudden, your words are going to start producing things inside of you that you had resistance to. Because you use your words, you're going to want to start fasting. You're going to want to start praying more. You want to start reading the bible more. You want to start going to um revival services more. And the next thing you know, you are actually on fire for god. 26:15 The, the pastor that told to do this. Within about 24 hours, his whole mood had changed. He said I did what you said, and so I said I'm on fire for God. Let your mouth do its duty. One day, the Lord told me you can't win. The voice of the Spirit said to me you can't win with your mouth closed. So open your eyes and open your mouth, because what you see determines the direction you go. And if we're going to have a winning summer, we have to see clearly. Lord, give us a spread of wisdom and revelation. Open our eyes to see who we really are in Christ Jesus, to see who you really are as a true and a living God, and then open your mouth and declare some stuff. 27:08 Now I know as Word of Faith charismatic people. We've been told we know about speaking, but sometimes we just hear it but we're not doing it. But if you start doing it every day, having your affirmations, you know the world is using this and they're getting stuff. They're conquering mountains and the church is still crying. No, no more crying. Look at your neighbor and say no more crying. Look at your neighbor and say no more crying. Your weeping days are over. Now point to yourself and say no more crying, no more crying, no more whining. Your weeping days are over. Today is your day of victory and you're going to win Today, tomorrow, tomorrow, next week, next month and for the rest of your life. Come on and shout about that Hallelujah. Somebody say I believe. Somebody say I'm a money magnet. Somebody say I'm going somewhere to happen. Somebody say this is my life, not the devil's life. This is my life and I'm going to win in Jesus's name because I said so. Amen. 28:27 Jesus said you shall have, whatever you say, those of you who are single and you've been single for a long time. It's time for that to end. If you want to be married, see, in my case I like being single, I like just being with me. Some of you not. You need somebody touching you, hugging you. Come on. If that's you, that's good. Jesus made you to be with somebody. It's like saying my single days are over. 28:59 If you're a woman, say I'm a good thing to find. Now make sure you brush your teeth and you comb your hair. Go to the gym but say I'm a good thing to find. And if you're a man, you say I'm going to find my good thing and obtain favor from the Lord. You have angels waiting for you to release them. Father, let your angel go before me and bring me my husband. Father, let your angel go before me and lead me to my wife. 29:35 We have to start looking at some stuff. I don't even have the time, but the theology of today. Not in every circle, in some circles, has destroyed the confidence of the believer. So, instead of winning, we keep talking about struggling, from the songs to the sermons Not here at this church, but many others that are on social media. But the reality is, I said, when was the last time any of those people talked about God's covenant with us? Do you understand what it means to have a covenant with God, that the Abrahamic covenant is on your life, that the blessing of Abraham is on you and the blessing of Abraham is for you to be the heir of the world? You are to live in the best, drive the best, have the best sleep with the best Amen. Go to the best church. This church is flying high. Look at y'all. Filled up to the rafters, amen. It's going to be overflow soon, amen. And we're going to three services, then four Receive. Somebody say I'm going to win In Jesus' name, amen, hallelujah, come on, rejoice Everyone. Bow your head real quick. I'm going to do an altar call for those who may not be saved. 31:11 If you're in this place and you say, pastor Maurice, great message. I'll say thank you. But the reality is you're not winning. If you're not born again, I don't care what you have, I don't care what you think you've accomplished. You said what is a prophet of man? To gain the whole world and then lose his soul? So if you want to go to heaven and I ask you to join this church, this is a great church to join but if you want to go to heaven and be born again, you must be born again. Jesus said God loves you, he wants to be your father, he wants to be your daddy and he wants you to be a part of his kingdom. That's you Say, pastor Maurice, I need to be saved, I need to be born again. Raise your hand high and we're going to pray with you to be saved. I see one hand, anyone else. Pastor Reese, I'm not saved. I've never received Jesus, I've never received the forgiveness of sins, but I want to be saved. Raise your hand high now. I see the one hand, anybody else. I know we have a lot of believers, but sometimes we have unbelievers here. Anyone else? Raise your hand high so I can see it. Okay, that one person who raised your hand stand up. Stand up, amen. 32:24 Praise God, come forward. Praise God, everybody. Give him a hand. If there's someone else, come forward. If there's someone else, come forward. You're not saved. Stand right here, sir. Come forward. You're not saved. Stand right here, sir. Praise God. Whole day was for you. Jesus loves you and you matter to him. I'm going to lead you in what is called the prayer of salvation. You're going to receive Jesus as your savior. You're going to have your ticket to heaven, and so no matter if I never see you again, I'm going to see you in heaven and you're never going to lose this salvation. Are you excited about that? Yes, sir, amen. Oh, okay, you seem a little tough. All right, give me your hand. You coming too. Praise God. Oh, come on. Hallelujah, praise God, god bless you. 33:12 - Speaker 2 This is the CityLight Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jancic and CityLight Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace. Thank you for listening. Make sure that you subscribe to CityLight Church Podcast Wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.