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Voice of Victory Strengthening Our Spiritual Resolve

Voice of Victory Strengthening Our Spiritual Resolve
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Season 1
Tune in to hear how embracing the Holy Spirit's power can soften the hardest hearts, including my own. Through a touching conversation with my son about his faith journey, we explore the palpable certainty of God's presence in our lives and the anticipation of our upcoming mission trip to Neba.
 
As we gear up to celebrate CityLight's 22nd anniversary, the power of our words takes center stage. We discuss the importance of vocalizing our faith, especially when facing worldly challenges. This episode is a reminder that our spoken declarations can tap into the victory our faith promises. We also share stories of God's unwavering provision, like navigating the tumultuous waters of a flooding crisis and how perseverance leads to providence, even in the most trying of times.
 
Our podcast aims to equip you with a steadfast readiness for whatever the future holds. If you're seeking a sense of community or looking to reinforce your spiritual foundation, join us at CityLight Church—your beacon of hope in these turbulent times.
Chapters

00:00 - - Experiencing God's Love and Power

Transcript
00:00.281 --> 00:09.890 You're a very physical body this earth, this solar system, this galaxy, the galaxies of galaxies, the universe of universes. 00:10.200 --> 00:14.065 He's upholding every atom, every molecule by the word of his power. 00:14.460 --> 00:21.267 It means that you're in his hand, and Jesus said you're in the palm of my hand and no one can pluck you out. 00:21.640 --> 00:23.126 This is something you gotta believe. 00:23.920 --> 00:25.245 This is something you gotta say. 00:26.320 --> 00:28.388 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 00:28.680 --> 00:34.949 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 00:35.700 --> 00:40.447 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyccom. 00:41.500 --> 00:43.406 That's citylightnyccom. 00:44.840 --> 00:51.908 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 00:52.640 --> 01:02.428 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. 01:06.120 --> 01:08.248 So I'll be honest, I love what the Lord does. 01:08.360 --> 01:10.648 Sometimes I do wish he would do it differently. 01:11.080 --> 01:12.425 It'd make my job a little bit easier. 01:14.400 --> 01:15.882 We might have a higher retention rate. 01:16.042 --> 01:26.496 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. 01:27.237 --> 01:35.901 But I wouldn't quench what he's doing, what he just did in me, what he did to my wife, what I see him giving Paul. 01:35.961 --> 01:36.804 He said I pray. 01:37.980 --> 01:39.265 Paul said this to the Ephesians. 01:40.060 --> 01:44.505 He said I pray that you would know the love of God, which cannot be known. 01:46.440 --> 01:48.367 How do you know something that cannot be known? 01:50.360 --> 01:54.270 Well, that first word for know is actually experience. 01:55.721 --> 02:03.490 I pray that you would experience the love of God, which cannot be merely intellectually known. 02:04.601 --> 02:17.354 So you have to get it in your mm and all it requires is you just letting those walls and that hardness. 02:17.414 --> 02:18.776 I know it's crazy out there. 02:20.402 --> 02:28.544 So you put on the armor, not the armor of God, but the protect myself from all the wolves around me suit of armor. 02:29.221 --> 02:37.547 You put up walls, but I'm telling you, those same walls will keep God out, you come into the Lord's presence. 02:38.505 --> 02:44.651 Let the walls drop like they dropped when the Trump was blown after seven rounds around Jericho. 02:46.741 --> 02:48.547 And don't be afraid, men, especially you. 02:49.420 --> 02:51.566 Don't be afraid to have a soft heart. 02:51.606 --> 03:02.364 Before the Lord, jesus said that new wine can't go into old wineskins. 03:02.364 --> 03:03.320 You know what old wineskins are. 03:03.521 --> 03:06.209 They're tough, they're rigid, they're hard. 03:06.981 --> 03:10.203 You know how they used to get the old wineskins Pliable again? 03:10.223 --> 03:11.067 They'd rub oil in them. 03:12.001 --> 03:14.329 Ah, do I have to go into the symbology? 03:15.984 --> 03:19.232 Oh, rub extra virgin olive oil. 03:22.100 --> 03:30.586 Holy Spirit comes in and he shmirs you and then that old, rigid wineskin of your art becomes soft and pliable again. 03:33.240 --> 03:36.129 And it's what we need today, hallelujah. 03:38.000 --> 03:39.907 And you need an experiential Christianity. 03:41.424 --> 03:43.189 I highly recommend God Encounters. 03:45.300 --> 03:47.789 You say do I have to behave like some of the things I'm witnessing? 03:48.100 --> 03:55.866 No, don't compare your experience with anybody else's and go ahead and have it in the privacy of your own home. 03:57.200 --> 04:00.403 I mean, you could have one here, I don't mind, the Lord doesn't mind. 04:01.440 --> 04:03.443 But go ahead and have one in the privacy of your own home. 04:05.849 --> 04:10.374 Open up your mouth to the Lord, cry out and say Lord, I will not let go of you until you bless me. 04:11.146 --> 04:11.829 I want to know. 04:11.909 --> 04:14.471 You Look, sometimes you just get to get tired. 04:14.685 --> 04:20.472 Lord, I don't want an itty bitty Christianity, I don't want an intellectual. 04:22.805 --> 04:24.030 The world doesn't need that. 04:24.485 --> 04:26.652 That's not what's going to get us through this year. 04:27.725 --> 04:32.397 It's got to be a mighty, rushing wind, experiential. 04:32.585 --> 04:33.388 I know that. 04:33.468 --> 04:34.151 I know that. 04:34.251 --> 04:40.346 I know Hallelujah, hallelujah, I pray. 04:40.386 --> 04:46.248 The Holy Spirit becomes so real to you that you can stand on His word. 04:46.328 --> 04:53.367 But also you know that you know that you know John wrote. 04:53.407 --> 04:54.289 He said these things. 04:54.429 --> 04:57.756 I write to you that you may know that you have eternal life. 04:58.745 --> 05:00.750 He's talking about, yes, the word of God. 05:00.790 --> 05:05.970 But you got to know, as the old timers used to say, in your inner knower, in that place. 05:06.131 --> 05:08.215 That's deep your spirit. 05:09.945 --> 05:12.813 I question my kids about their salvation all the time. 05:14.325 --> 05:15.952 I put the gospel in every prayer. 05:16.045 --> 05:20.375 The dinner prayer is we include thank you, jesus for dying on the cross for our sins. 05:21.945 --> 05:26.454 And now Victor is nine and a half and so I'm just, I just want to know where he's at with the Lord. 05:26.525 --> 05:29.875 I mean, he comes out all the time, but I so I'm asking him questions. 05:29.985 --> 05:32.252 And I said son, do you know that you're saved? 05:33.585 --> 05:34.067 He says yes. 05:35.965 --> 05:36.769 I said how do you know. 05:37.525 --> 05:39.453 I said because Jesus died on the cross for my sins. 05:39.585 --> 05:41.247 Great, great answer. 05:42.265 --> 05:42.987 That is really. 05:43.930 --> 05:44.813 That alone is enough. 05:45.525 --> 05:46.690 But then I just pressed a little more. 05:46.765 --> 05:47.086 I said how? 05:47.247 --> 05:48.190 How else do you know? 05:49.005 --> 05:50.752 I said do you, do you sense the Lord with you? 05:50.825 --> 05:55.386 He said you don't want a child, says it, he goes, yeah, and he points like this he goes. 05:55.727 --> 05:59.671 I just know, I just know he's in school all day. 05:59.751 --> 06:00.333 He's with me. 06:00.465 --> 06:13.631 I just know, hallelujah, you have in you a hope, you have in you a glory. 06:15.942 --> 06:28.464 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, jesus. 06:31.232 --> 06:32.576 Can somebody give me a tissue? 06:32.725 --> 06:35.934 I can't use my, my rag, anybody. 06:37.307 --> 06:37.890 Oh, thank you. 06:38.725 --> 06:39.367 Always, uni with the. 06:40.249 --> 06:41.612 And look, she always gives. 06:41.732 --> 06:42.615 Ask for one tissue. 06:43.725 --> 06:46.090 We're the kind of family that always gives a double portion. 06:50.186 --> 06:50.707 I want to. 06:51.068 --> 06:54.717 I want to invite everyone who's going to Guatemala this Wednesday to come on up to the front. 06:54.785 --> 06:56.951 We're going to have just a commissioning prayer right now. 06:59.367 --> 07:04.705 So we've been ministering in Guatemala since 2009. 07:05.169 --> 07:06.664 This makes 15 years. 07:07.547 --> 07:10.476 Over the last 15 years, we have helped City Light Church. 07:10.865 --> 07:16.574 When I say we, that means you, that means you, tithers, who have come to that place of maturity where you give the first 10th. 07:16.745 --> 07:17.829 Wow, look at this team. 07:18.965 --> 07:25.938 You've come to the place of maturity where you give the first 10th of your income to the Lord. 07:26.745 --> 07:30.095 We've been able to build over 40, not four, four, zero. 07:30.845 --> 07:37.211 And the reason I say over 40, we used to say the specific amount and then we actually we had it all on paper and the last trip we lost track. 07:37.785 --> 07:38.927 So I don't want to say 42. 07:38.987 --> 07:40.991 I don't want to lie before the Lord, but it's 40 plus. 07:42.313 --> 07:44.317 Churches slash community centers. 07:46.006 --> 07:58.725 I'm not crying about that, I just it's nice when you're ministering and the Lord is ministering to you and we go and we preach in the churches. 07:59.228 --> 08:01.685 This is the indigenous Mayan people. 08:02.267 --> 08:06.685 When we go to Guatemala, the Yishio people direct descendants of the Maya. 08:09.352 --> 08:11.116 They all recently came to the Lord. 08:11.176 --> 08:16.693 In the last 40 years is when we missionaries started going, and so this is a region. 08:16.785 --> 08:29.685 I mean you feel like you're in a different planet and we have a team of they're not all up here, but it looks like all of them are up here 26 fiery city lighters. 08:30.367 --> 08:34.497 This Wednesday we're going and we're going to have the greatest trip we've ever had. 08:35.868 --> 08:40.330 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 08:42.986 --> 08:46.516 We're not going over there to play games and hand out little tracks and play. 08:46.725 --> 08:49.514 We're going in there to see the glory of God. 08:49.986 --> 08:52.981 We're not just going to be building, we're holding services in the night. 08:53.021 --> 08:58.033 People are going to get saved, they're going to get filled with the Holy Spirit, they're going to be set free. 08:59.351 --> 09:00.725 The children are going to be ministered too. 09:01.146 --> 09:06.725 They're going to have the seed of the eternal gospel planted in their heart, and much more than I could name. 09:07.066 --> 09:08.572 That's why we're praying right now. 09:08.725 --> 09:10.876 Will you stretch your hands towards us? 09:12.243 --> 09:12.725 We leave this Wednesday. 09:13.388 --> 09:14.552 Keep us in your prayers. 09:14.765 --> 09:16.210 Prayer makes the difference. 09:18.908 --> 09:31.237 Father, in the name of Jesus, a heavy, heavy anointing upon every single one of us, we pray in Jesus' name that you would be round about us like a wall of fire. 09:31.965 --> 09:37.797 Also, your word says that, with favor, you'll encompass us round about as with a shield. 09:39.368 --> 09:43.308 Hallelujah, that you would butter our steps, god. 09:43.348 --> 09:51.236 Your word says that we will open our mouth and you will fill it, that we would speak your words of life with your authority. 09:52.006 --> 10:00.191 We are Christians, which means little, christ, god, that we would be your hands, we would be your feet, we would be your mouthpiece. 10:01.106 --> 10:06.221 Father, let the fruit of this trip have far-reaching effects. 10:06.522 --> 10:11.752 In Jesus' name, and may that region never be the same again. 10:12.474 --> 10:13.516 In Jesus' name. 10:14.798 --> 10:24.725 Now just point it, stretch your hands at him and just bless him three times Be blessed, be blessed, be blessed, hallelujah. 10:25.066 --> 10:28.034 Give him a big hand because we honor them. 10:28.135 --> 10:28.395 Also. 10:28.786 --> 10:29.331 You may be seated. 10:31.447 --> 10:35.095 Oh, it's going to be a fun eight-hour bus ride to Neba with you guys. 10:37.186 --> 10:41.567 Hallelujah, hallelujah. 10:45.725 --> 10:55.656 One of the ways you can gauge the health of a church is you have a missions trip and the thing fills up, like in a week or however long it took, and we had to set a cap because we can't accommodate anymore. 10:57.647 --> 11:08.458 And so part of the way you gauge is that you're not just consumers, just you know, and you come to church with an attitude, with what have you done for me lately? 11:09.968 --> 11:12.974 And if the product is no longer serving me, I'll just switch products. 11:15.548 --> 11:18.729 But they're looking to pour out, they're looking to give and really thank you. 11:19.725 --> 11:21.772 It's going to be 22 years for City Light, thank you. 11:22.725 --> 11:29.368 I mean I just say I thank you because it would get pretty old for me if I didn't see that Thank you. 11:30.805 --> 11:39.613 Thank you for trusting in the Lord to maintain the fire, thank you for being givers, thank you for being kingdom-minded, not being of this world. 11:41.407 --> 11:42.811 It would be very, very difficult. 11:43.192 --> 11:44.034 Pastor James right. 11:44.725 --> 11:46.693 Can you imagine if we had to stretch your hands? 11:46.725 --> 11:51.373 There's four of us going and none of them could even pay for it? 11:51.393 --> 11:55.413 We had to pay for them to go, we had to raise money for them and you so forward to. 11:55.493 --> 11:56.616 I mean, did you see what? 11:56.785 --> 11:59.734 You could just see the radiance of the Lord on that whole line of people. 12:00.745 --> 12:01.571 I'm grateful for that. 12:03.167 --> 12:07.086 Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 12:09.406 --> 12:13.815 Well, the title of my message is God is going to see you through. 12:18.173 --> 12:26.725 I have been recounting the many times God has seen me through and one thing I'm convinced of is that he's going to see you through. 12:29.635 --> 12:32.725 He's faithful to his word and he's on your side. 12:35.170 --> 12:50.725 And I will just say this many times the biggest enemy many times is us, because you can know some aspects of God's nature and God's character. 12:51.527 --> 12:57.058 But if you don't appropriate it by faith, then it'll do you no good. 12:58.046 --> 13:04.576 And I do see sometimes believers just get a little lackadaisical with actually exercising their faith. 13:07.006 --> 13:17.705 They just get ho-hum-ish and they allow their lips to stay crazy, glued, gorilla, glued together, and your faith isn't going to be active unless you're speaking. 13:18.147 --> 13:19.191 I just want you to know that. 13:20.629 --> 13:21.633 How do you get saved? 13:21.805 --> 13:34.578 The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 13:34.658 --> 13:38.834 Yeah, that means that faith is one half in your heart and one half in your mouth. 13:40.166 --> 13:43.275 So it does a Christian no good to just quietly believe. 13:44.250 --> 13:49.436 You got to speak these truths out of your mouth and Satan hates that because that's actually what gets the job done. 13:49.745 --> 14:02.055 And when you start doing that, he starts attacking your mind, starts telling you're being silly, fanatical, weird, goofy, whatever it is, but I'd rather be that way and see results. 14:03.167 --> 14:03.468 Amen. 14:05.227 --> 14:09.733 So you got to speak out of your mouth, declare the promises of God over your life. 14:12.147 --> 14:16.173 Let me just start off with this First, john 5.4. 14:19.906 --> 14:21.151 First, john 5.4. 14:31.558 --> 14:34.062 For whatever is born of God how many of you are born of God? 14:35.285 --> 14:35.505 Amen. 14:35.967 --> 14:41.508 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcome the world. 14:42.245 --> 14:52.632 Our faith, your faith, is going to get you through Even how is faith released With your speaking? 14:55.365 --> 14:59.456 So you get to decide and nobody can do this for you. 15:00.566 --> 15:02.411 Oh man, I really feel you right now. 15:03.815 --> 15:04.316 It's wonderful. 15:04.885 --> 15:06.269 You know, sometimes you just minister by faith. 15:07.111 --> 15:14.052 And today the Lord is just dumping His presence out and I feel His love for you, I feel His compassion for you. 15:14.845 --> 15:19.305 I feel, when I say God is going to see you through, I feel he's going to see you through. 15:19.847 --> 15:25.933 Would you please just cooperate and so agree with what His word says about Him. 15:26.795 --> 15:38.509 Agree, not internally, meekly, quietly, out loud, like, actually do this, like open your mouth and say God, I believe you're with me, god, I believe you're on my side. 15:39.885 --> 15:41.912 Whatever comes out of your spirit, I'm the head and not the tail. 15:42.345 --> 15:43.450 I'm above and not beneath. 15:44.166 --> 15:45.890 Lord, I'm more than a conqueror. 15:45.951 --> 15:50.551 Through Him, who loved me, you make all things work together for the good for me. 15:52.325 --> 15:53.531 Take authority over the devil. 15:53.645 --> 15:54.889 The devil is not a concept. 15:56.205 --> 16:04.708 He's actually a person, an entity with a personality who hates you, and he comes to steal, kill and destroy. 16:05.365 --> 16:08.575 So it is okay to take authority over him. 16:09.085 --> 16:13.536 Not only is it okay, jesus highly recommends it, because he did it himself. 16:14.005 --> 16:18.613 If Jesus had to address the devil, how much more do we? 16:22.125 --> 16:23.350 Yet many Christians don't ever do that. 16:23.765 --> 16:28.828 It's like there's two camps those that never, ever addressed the devil, and then the other ones that all they do is talk to the devil. 16:30.928 --> 16:40.750 And you can be a healthy Christian who's in love with the Lord and talks to the Lord and at times says Satan, the blood of Jesus is against you, your powers broken over my life, this family, this house. 16:41.825 --> 16:44.053 I draw the line with the blood in Jesus' name. 16:44.305 --> 16:45.749 Say those words out of your mouth. 16:49.791 --> 16:52.570 Congratulations, you've been invited into the faith walk. 16:53.565 --> 16:55.652 That's why Jesus was the ultimate faith preacher. 16:56.605 --> 17:03.251 Everywhere he went he preached faith, he examined people's faith, he commented on people's faith. 17:03.465 --> 17:09.953 Can you imagine if Jesus right now came up and down the aisles and he would say oh, you have little faith. 17:12.730 --> 17:14.554 To some he said great is your faith. 17:15.485 --> 17:18.628 To even others he said what you don't want to hear when is your faith? 17:22.651 --> 17:23.913 It's like he had a faithometer. 17:26.465 --> 17:38.148 No faith, because your faith is going to see you through and you'll know whether your faith is working by what you're saying and when you're in that pressing. 17:38.930 --> 17:46.912 Sometimes you can begin to curse your own life and that's when you got to zip it and maybe you've said something that goes against the word of God. 17:47.885 --> 17:48.930 Just go and repent to the Lord. 17:49.525 --> 17:52.534 Say Lord, I spoke in my sincere stupidity. 17:53.185 --> 18:08.226 I'm so sorry I rendered those words powerless, lord, that was because the Bible says death and life are in the power of the tongue, and then that love, it will eat the fruit thereof and then begin to speak life over yourself and agree with this is. 18:10.992 --> 18:21.287 This is vital, and this walk of faith, I want to just tell you it's forever Hallelujah. 18:23.145 --> 18:28.037 I've recently come into a place in my life for myself personally, not for the church. 18:28.165 --> 18:36.531 For the church, we're still believing for a lot of things, but in the natural there is nothing that I'm lying, there's no natural thing that I want. 18:37.605 --> 18:40.468 God has blessed us, god has rescued us, god has delivered us. 18:41.105 --> 18:42.871 He's just, there is nothing. 18:43.745 --> 18:46.216 And then I think back and I would think many times to the Lord. 18:46.276 --> 18:50.191 Lord, if I only got into this place, then I could relax. 18:51.685 --> 19:01.324 And really what I meant was not walk by faith, because you know when the battle is raging, I mean I can tell you that's the good spot and it is. 19:01.365 --> 19:06.711 And it's wonderful to be in the fire because there's a fourth man in the fire, but also, at the same time you're in the fire. 19:07.965 --> 19:15.491 You know it's like, on the one side it's so great, on the other side there's a reason why we're saying Lord, get me out. 19:18.745 --> 19:23.376 But then he got me out and then he blessed me and he blessed me and he blessed me. 19:24.065 --> 19:24.345 And then what? 19:24.365 --> 19:34.170 I find that really, no matter where he brings me and my cup overflows, I still have to walk by faith. 19:35.265 --> 19:36.310 I still need him. 19:36.805 --> 19:41.593 I'm so dependent on him and it'll be this way until I'm on the other side of heaven. 19:42.465 --> 19:43.429 That's how he designed it. 19:44.245 --> 19:53.766 This is how we get to know him, and we're supposed to walk by faith and not by sight, and daily overcome the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world Overfaith. 19:53.947 --> 19:54.609 Hallelujah. 19:55.432 --> 19:56.355 You all all right with that? 19:56.565 --> 19:58.031 I'm sorry to bust your bubble. 19:58.585 --> 20:06.995 I'm sorry if you think that if you just won the power ball, if you just got that promotion, if you, then you can just, you can serve the Lord from your lofty throne. 20:08.025 --> 20:08.748 It's never going to happen. 20:10.325 --> 20:15.125 You might be sitting on a throne, but you're going to walk by faith, hallelujah. 20:17.189 --> 20:19.634 And walking by faith, you know you can do it from a place of rest. 20:23.368 --> 20:30.653 Yeah, the only time it's not rest is when you haven't used your faith in a while. 20:32.045 --> 20:41.906 Then you got to rev up that old engine and it's kind of like not going to the gym for a while and you know what's waiting for you that first day back Pain. 20:44.845 --> 20:50.613 But just like there's muscle memory, there's faith memory and you'll plug in very much quicker than you think you will. 20:51.706 --> 20:53.928 Amen, let's go to Genesis. 20:55.372 --> 21:01.114 Just say this God's going to see me through Genesis 22, 12, through 14. 21:04.165 --> 21:10.226 This is the story of Abraham who for many, many years believed for this child of promise, isaac. 21:11.269 --> 21:18.691 And then Isaac was given to him, and then he received the word of the Lord to climb up the mountain and sacrifices one and only son. 21:20.586 --> 21:39.625 And Abraham moved in obedience and faith and at that moment, on the top of the mountain, with the altar already built and the branches for the fire already collected, and Isaac laid upon the altar and he said do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything for him. 21:39.786 --> 21:48.352 God is speaking to Abraham, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me. 21:50.353 --> 21:59.205 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its thorns. 22:00.008 --> 22:01.173 What are the chances? 22:04.332 --> 22:06.305 Have you ever seen a ram or a goat move? 22:07.254 --> 22:15.065 There's these awesome videos Watch them on YouTube when goats and rams go up a nearly 80 degree incline. 22:16.356 --> 22:19.445 You know when the Bible says he makes my feet like Heinz's feet, like deer feet. 22:19.867 --> 22:20.991 We're talking about these animals. 22:22.010 --> 22:25.352 You don't see them act this way so much if you go to a Pennsylvania forest. 22:25.465 --> 22:28.215 But they are agile, they are nimble, they are quick. 22:28.375 --> 22:32.191 They'll go up a mountain the greatest climbers couldn't go up. 22:33.626 --> 22:36.912 What I'm trying to say is a ram doesn't typically get caught in the thicket. 22:38.446 --> 22:47.211 This is the provision of the Lord, and they needed, now that Isaac wasn't gonna get sacrificed, they needed to sacrifice. 22:47.867 --> 22:53.195 So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 22:54.426 --> 23:07.956 And Abraham called the name of the place the Lord will provide, jehovah, jireh, as it is said to this day, in the mount of the Lord, it shall be provided. 23:08.425 --> 23:15.214 This is so much a part of God's nature and his character that he revealed it in his own name. 23:15.666 --> 23:17.052 It's not a pretty song. 23:17.446 --> 23:18.370 It's who he is. 23:18.826 --> 23:19.790 He's Jireh. 23:20.166 --> 23:23.031 He's the one who provides and he always will. 23:23.405 --> 23:26.153 It's not something he has to become or pull out of his pocket. 23:26.915 --> 23:29.549 It's who he is, hallelujah. 23:30.146 --> 23:39.273 And so, by the way, if you have a need, just knowing this and just mentally acquiescing oh, that's nice, that's a good point Pastor brings up, it doesn't mean it's gonna be real to you. 23:40.865 --> 23:42.412 You gotta say it out loud. 23:42.988 --> 24:00.993 You gotta, in the time, you know when it really works well, in the time of crushing, when you get that bad email, when you get that ugly text, when it seems like there's a hornet hive in your head and you're just, you're getting stricken, and then the devil comes and says you know what? 24:01.034 --> 24:05.293 Why don't you just escape the way you used to escape out of pain? 24:05.666 --> 24:09.651 But instead you say no, no, no, lord, you're coming through for me. 24:10.005 --> 24:11.993 Lord, you'll never leave me, nor forsake me. 24:12.425 --> 24:16.477 Lord, you are Jehovah Jireh, my provider, hallelujah. 24:17.326 --> 24:18.892 And do you notice when he showed up? 24:20.406 --> 24:28.897 He seems to always show up at that time, not before, not during, at 11.59. 24:30.406 --> 24:31.431 That's just his style. 24:32.505 --> 24:38.258 You notice, when he parted the Red Sea, it wasn't right away, it was like when the Egyptians. 24:38.528 --> 24:41.089 They could practically feel the breath of their horses on their back. 24:43.094 --> 24:43.937 Why does he do that? 24:44.585 --> 24:45.968 To torture you more. 24:46.048 --> 24:57.410 No no, not Hallelujah, the 11.59 God. 24:58.313 --> 25:05.614 In the midnight hour Paul and Silas began to sing and praise God and in the midnight hour he came through. 25:06.308 --> 25:09.345 He comes in the midnight hour, when I think about all the midnight hours. 25:09.647 --> 25:10.374 He'll come through for you. 25:12.089 --> 25:15.404 Some of you, right now you need to know God is going to see you through. 25:15.890 --> 25:19.625 You're saying I hear dung, dung, I'm about to turn into a pumpkin, it's about to strike midnight. 25:20.232 --> 25:21.465 He's going to come through for you. 25:22.156 --> 25:26.270 Will you believe that I'm trying to get a little bit of faith out of you, Provoke you a little bit? 25:28.666 --> 25:33.876 Some of you just need to say out loud yeah, no, no, no, no, he's coming for me, he's coming through for me. 25:34.706 --> 25:39.338 He's coming through for me, Hallelujah. 25:41.505 --> 25:52.438 Last year right about this time, after living in this condo in Williamsburg a very nice, arid, dry condo we just started to flood. 25:53.106 --> 25:56.035 Every time it would rain little rain, medium rain, big rain. 25:56.607 --> 26:07.905 It was like a geyser coming out of a hole that didn't used to exist and then the pressure of the water just had various, some pumps all working, ejecting the water out. 26:08.770 --> 26:13.465 So we kept flooding over and over and over again, had a parade of plumbers coming through. 26:14.714 --> 26:18.985 It was kind of like the woman with the issue of blood who went to all these doctors and none of them could help her. 26:20.191 --> 26:34.778 We went to all these plumbers but just spent money and, yay, verily, I say unto thee, none of them could help us, Except we got wetter and wetter and broker and broker, and the Lord came and delivered us. 26:37.126 --> 26:39.113 God has this house in Long Island. 26:40.569 --> 26:41.365 And then we used to flood. 26:41.587 --> 26:43.305 When I say flood, I mean it was like one or two inches. 26:43.486 --> 26:44.731 Doesn't sound like a lot, but this is. 26:44.926 --> 26:48.616 It was a two floor condo and we were all sleeping on the lower floor. 26:49.926 --> 26:59.545 So the carpet we had carpet, I know a very 1980s thing, but we wanted to make the basement cozy Got all drenched and you just don't want to. 27:00.109 --> 27:02.185 I mean, no amount of water is a good amount of water. 27:02.185 --> 27:04.662 So it was one or two inches, but every time it rained, who wants that? 27:05.447 --> 27:05.748 Who wants? 27:05.808 --> 27:14.035 But then in September, one month after we moved, I don't know if you remember there was that storm in New York City and there were certain parts in New York City that flooded. 27:14.095 --> 27:18.177 Williamsburg was a certain you know, all of Williamsburg is a flood zone. 27:18.771 --> 27:23.523 We were two feet underwater At a contractor there remodeling the place and he sent me a video. 27:24.490 --> 27:24.994 He said is this okay? 27:25.860 --> 27:26.585 I'm like, no, that is very not. 27:27.250 --> 27:28.600 That is far from okay. 27:29.465 --> 27:34.264 What I'm trying to say is in the midnight hour God, God, I sound I didn't even know what was waiting for us. 27:35.355 --> 27:38.345 I mean, really, if I had lived through that, our mattresses would be soaked, our beds would be soaked. 27:38.506 --> 27:40.095 It took months to get it back to how it should be. 27:41.405 --> 27:46.142 Try pastoring a church in New York City and having that in the back of your head. 27:46.845 --> 27:50.320 I'm wondering where your kids are gonna sleep, where they're gonna do homework. 27:50.340 --> 28:04.224 How are you, you, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God came through, I think, about this space. 28:06.070 --> 28:30.025 You know, one of the greatest hindrances to church plans like ours is space, and so, while I would love our own building and that's what I'm believing for and contending for I'm very, very grateful for this space, hundreds of seats, but you know, we have a lease to renew all the time and the people that we rent from very awesome, but they don't need us to rent from them. 28:31.047 --> 28:31.649 They really don't. 28:32.751 --> 28:37.229 They only do it, I mean, out of the goodness of their heart and not because I believe. 28:37.289 --> 28:49.531 Every time it's time to renew their lease, the Lord just softens their heart and touches them, and earlier this year the lease was up for renewal and I had enough going on. 28:50.033 --> 29:07.914 Pastor James is such an awesome man of God in many, many capacities as a teacher, as a preacher, but as an executive pastor I mean just smokes the house and just took, as really every administrative thing, took it on his back and he said would you like me to keep you? 29:08.014 --> 29:10.432 I said just let me know the outcome please. 29:10.592 --> 29:20.617 I'm going this way, I'm thinking about this, and he's so great with just taking on burdens and it was back and forth, back and forth. 29:21.570 --> 29:26.478 You understand how not fun it would be if they just said we're not renewing your lease, what are we gonna do? 29:26.790 --> 29:28.974 Go to the little house on the prayer re-church and go to five services. 29:30.710 --> 29:31.815 I had a friend, God bless him. 29:31.930 --> 29:32.875 He lost his space. 29:32.990 --> 29:35.837 He was preaching in the subways, preaching in the parks, God bless them. 29:35.930 --> 29:37.696 But he's a new church plan. 29:37.736 --> 29:38.619 We're 22 years in. 29:38.750 --> 29:44.297 I don't wanna be in a story of park in a bouncy castle Pre-. 29:47.290 --> 29:48.675 And then the word of the Lord came. 29:49.890 --> 29:51.938 Two more years, hallelujah. 29:53.350 --> 29:54.354 A little more breathing room. 29:55.910 --> 29:57.035 Lord, now get us a building. 29:59.410 --> 30:00.013 Hallelujah. 30:00.370 --> 30:01.655 Do you believe he's gonna come through for you? 30:04.150 --> 30:04.954 Thank you, Jesus. 30:08.919 --> 30:09.901 He bruised one three. 30:15.850 --> 30:19.311 He bruised one three, Number one. 30:19.753 --> 30:23.694 He's the God that'll cause you to have a ram caught in the thicket. 30:24.530 --> 30:25.615 He's Jehovah Jireh. 30:26.370 --> 30:27.997 How many of you right now you'd lift up your hand? 30:28.070 --> 30:29.617 You'd say I know what you're talking about. 30:29.710 --> 30:32.971 He came through for me, he supplied, he provide. 30:32.991 --> 30:34.095 Look at the hands around here. 30:37.790 --> 30:42.979 He doesn't run out, and what he did yesterday he'll do again for you today. 30:44.330 --> 30:45.074 Hallelujah. 30:49.170 --> 30:52.655 You see the ministry of Jesus and you see, through the gospels. 30:52.790 --> 30:56.873 What he was often doing was provoking people to get to a place of faith. 31:02.544 --> 31:07.699 Hallelujah, when you're feeling crushed, just know he's with you. 31:11.830 --> 31:12.674 And that's the best time. 31:14.470 --> 31:19.217 When I say the best time, I mean the time it matters, the time it works, the time. 31:19.257 --> 31:29.854 It'll be recorded forever in heaven what you said and what you actually believed, when it was hard to say the Bible thing and was hard to believe the promise of God, and you said, in spite all unbelief and that swirl in my head. 31:30.475 --> 31:36.138 I believe, Lord, you are good, you are on my side, you will provide, and keep saying it. 31:37.450 --> 31:39.437 And then that voice comes again and tells you you're nuts. 31:39.637 --> 31:40.259 Keep saying it. 31:41.770 --> 31:43.015 Your friends think you've lost it. 31:43.095 --> 31:43.778 Keep saying it. 31:46.610 --> 31:46.831 You know. 31:46.871 --> 31:48.617 You can say it and not be weird about it. 31:49.410 --> 31:51.196 You can say it and not be religious about it. 31:52.150 --> 31:54.037 You can say it conversationally, out loud. 31:54.910 --> 31:56.256 You can say it in a prayer to the Lord. 31:57.634 --> 31:58.758 You could sing it on the subway. 32:00.030 --> 32:00.653 It's New York City. 32:01.330 --> 32:04.820 No one's gonna think you're crazy, comparatively speaking, if you just sing it. 32:08.490 --> 32:09.453 Hebrews 1.3,. 32:09.513 --> 32:17.542 Who, being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding? 32:18.272 --> 32:23.525 He's upholding all things by the word of his power. 32:25.510 --> 32:30.917 When he had, by himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. 32:31.370 --> 32:34.279 But I want you to focus on that one sentence in that passage. 32:34.730 --> 32:52.476 He's upholding all things by the word of his power, All things, that chair that you're sitting on, You're very physical body this earth, this solar system, this galaxy, the galaxies of galaxies, the universe of universes. 32:52.810 --> 32:56.675 He's upholding every atom, every molecule by the word of his power. 32:57.050 --> 33:03.877 It means that you're in his hand, and Jesus said you're in the palm of my hand and no one can pluck you out. 33:04.230 --> 33:05.736 This is something you gotta believe. 33:06.510 --> 33:07.855 This is something you gotta say. 33:08.910 --> 33:11.374 This isn't a good truth that you just need to nod your head to. 33:11.870 --> 33:16.580 Out of your mouth needs to come Lord, I believe I'm in the palm. 33:16.970 --> 33:21.137 You're gonna see me through because you died on the cross for me. 33:21.630 --> 33:22.434 You love me. 33:24.690 --> 33:29.236 Jesus said that the father has taken the time to number every hair on my head. 33:30.730 --> 33:33.094 And Jesus said you're in the palm of my hand and no one can pluck you out. 33:33.390 --> 33:35.798 Now, the greatest encounter I ever had with the Lord. 33:36.790 --> 33:38.196 I was 17 years old. 33:38.450 --> 33:40.457 I've had various God encounters. 33:40.578 --> 33:49.443 Once again, they're highly recommended and the good news is you don't have to compare yours to anyone. 33:49.930 --> 33:56.734 You don't even have to talk about yours, but just get to that place where God is in a theory in your head. 33:57.750 --> 33:58.875 Do you know he wants to meet with you? 34:01.330 --> 34:06.834 Yeah, he wants to show himself to you If you let go and yield. 34:07.496 --> 34:08.178 Not be afraid. 34:08.770 --> 34:09.734 You know it's a scary thing. 34:11.973 --> 34:24.158 That's why, when I preach on the baptism of the Holy Spirit, making point after point after point from the book of Acts, everybody's on fires, and then I make an altar call for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and then I see 20 people come up, but I preach to 300. 34:26.190 --> 34:30.197 And I see the look on the face Because all of a sudden the rubber's gonna meet the road. 34:32.351 --> 34:33.194 It's about to get real. 34:34.550 --> 34:35.574 That's something you can't fake. 34:36.372 --> 34:40.148 In other words, you're crossing over from the flesh into the spirit. 34:40.168 --> 34:40.390 It is scary. 34:40.471 --> 34:48.762 That's why every angel that appears says fear not, Because crossing over is this scary thing, but go ahead and take the bungee, jump in Christ. 34:51.036 --> 34:52.382 Watch what happens on the other side. 34:54.857 --> 34:55.581 I got encounter. 34:59.963 --> 35:00.750 I mean, how more biblical can you get? 35:02.341 --> 35:03.750 You know what every character in the Bible had in common? 35:05.055 --> 35:06.038 They had a God encounter. 35:06.817 --> 35:09.937 There's not one who read something in a book and went you know what I believe? 35:09.957 --> 35:12.737 What's written in a book, and that's no. 35:14.193 --> 35:17.616 They had a God encounter, my greatest one. 35:17.777 --> 35:21.109 I'll make it quick Because I've shared it so many times, but some of you just need to hear this. 35:21.150 --> 35:23.644 I was 17 years old, I was saved. 35:23.685 --> 35:36.350 For one year I went on a youth retreat, upstate New York, and in between the morning and evening session, this sweet pastor, sweet youth pastor, he just said does anybody want to worship the Lord? 35:36.350 --> 35:46.550 And I, along with five, six, seven, I can't remember how many other teenagers, said sure, and we went into the hotel room and he's there strumming his guitar just one guy on a guitar. 35:46.752 --> 35:54.350 I was the last one to come in and I went to sit on the floor, crisscrossed, applesauce, with my legs crossed. 35:55.460 --> 36:03.327 And as I'm coming down on the floor, the moment I touched the floor I felt like I was in another place and I began to weep and I began to shake. 36:04.319 --> 36:05.350 That encounter lasted for four hours. 36:06.076 --> 36:07.750 It felt like anywhere from five to 10 minutes. 36:08.598 --> 36:14.550 When I came out of it, my whole shirt was wet, my pants were wet, the carpet on the hotel room floor was wet from my tears. 36:15.474 --> 36:16.638 And we said what did you see? 36:16.913 --> 36:22.523 The moment I came down, I saw myself in a giant palm, in the palm of the Lord. 36:26.240 --> 36:27.150 I began to shake uncontrollably. 36:27.393 --> 36:28.750 You know you don't become a different person. 36:29.392 --> 36:30.837 You're still you, with your same thoughts. 36:32.250 --> 36:43.179 But I recognized something very special was happening and most of the sermons that I had heard thus far was you're saved, you're forgiven, but you need to work on this. 36:43.430 --> 36:46.714 You know it was always presented from an angle of you. 36:46.734 --> 36:52.198 Guys still need to achieve and I understand we're all works in progress, but you can present things one way. 36:53.331 --> 37:04.595 Hopefully, the way we presented here is in an it is finished way but still hang on to Jesus and allow him to do the work from the inside out without you feeling like a hamster on a wheel all the time. 37:05.270 --> 37:06.275 So that's all I had heard. 37:06.651 --> 37:10.517 So, as the hand is being lifted up to his face, I'm bracing for impact. 37:10.610 --> 37:14.255 I'm terrified because what I think God is going to do is reprimand me. 37:15.131 --> 37:15.873 I'm 17. 37:16.436 --> 37:17.319 I'm saved from one year. 37:17.491 --> 37:20.138 Certain sins dropped right off of me had a lot more work to do. 37:20.924 --> 37:23.698 So I'm thinking here we go, he's going to he's going to here's the list. 37:23.830 --> 37:30.054 It's going to be a divine scroll that's going to roll out and he's going to tell me all the areas I need to adjust in my life. 37:32.730 --> 37:40.795 And he brings me up to his face and all I sense is love and I see a big smile and then I become undone. 37:40.855 --> 37:45.595 Then I'm how, ah, it's like when Paul said were you in the body or out of the body? 37:45.635 --> 37:46.679 I do not know, I didn't know. 37:46.770 --> 37:47.895 I just know I was becoming. 37:48.230 --> 37:53.550 I'd never, ever, experienced anything like this before, Really since had other kind of God encounters. 37:53.650 --> 38:00.938 But this was, this was special, special and then the only rebuke right away. 38:02.070 --> 38:03.375 Really the only thing he said to me. 38:06.888 --> 38:08.774 Now that I think about it, it's the only thing he said to me. 38:10.590 --> 38:12.378 He confirmed some things, but not with words. 38:12.550 --> 38:17.105 He would just show me then pictures, but he just said why. 38:17.165 --> 38:18.734 He asked the question why do you worry? 38:20.191 --> 38:21.056 You worry too much. 38:22.486 --> 38:32.417 Why do you worry and you know how silly that sounds when you're overwhelmed, currents of glory going around your body and you're sitting in a giant palm the size of a New York City block. 38:42.603 --> 38:52.924 It feels very funny preaching that today why do you worry? 38:53.833 --> 38:57.870 You're in the palm of his hand. 39:00.560 --> 39:01.404 He's going to see you through. 39:01.424 --> 39:03.895 Will you just say that he's going to see me through, John 637. 39:09.734 --> 39:15.366 Worship team, come on up, John 637. 39:18.521 --> 39:45.926 When you're going through it, when you have what's known as that evil day, when you're in a tough spot, if you'll notice, there is a voice that comes and says something like he did it before, but he won't do it again and really you're cast off, you're rejected If you're not going through it right now. 39:46.020 --> 39:52.247 You don't know what I'm talking about, but there's a voice that comes and says no, he's forsaken me. 39:53.600 --> 39:54.504 Things have changed. 39:55.560 --> 39:57.207 He came and wrote Ichabod on my life. 39:57.360 --> 39:58.385 The glory has departed. 40:00.300 --> 40:00.621 Do you know? 40:00.681 --> 40:06.027 Rejection is a common satanic theme over and over and over again. 40:06.740 --> 40:08.961 That's why the Bible has to do so much with. 40:09.322 --> 40:10.627 Now you are approved. 40:11.000 --> 40:12.266 Now you are accepted. 40:12.680 --> 40:16.464 You who are far off are brought near by the blood of Jesus. 40:18.601 --> 40:26.010 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out. 40:26.560 --> 40:31.847 You are accepted, you are approved, and God will see you through. 40:32.201 --> 40:34.488 He won't forsake the work of his own hands. 40:36.285 --> 40:40.788 Hallelujah, Psalm 2710,. 40:43.320 --> 40:48.265 When my father and my mother forsake me, if even that were to happen, then the Lord will take care of me. 40:50.160 --> 40:54.226 I wanna just pass out communion right now and just hang on to the communion elements. 40:54.306 --> 40:57.508 Please Say this out loud the Lord will see me through. 40:58.182 --> 41:00.960 The Lord will see me through. 41:01.000 --> 41:01.663 Hallelujah. 41:04.908 --> 41:05.631 Oh, thank you, babe. 41:10.580 --> 41:11.323 Thank you, Jesus. 41:13.800 --> 41:19.588 Just hang on to your communion elements, even if you're hungry I know it's tempting just hang on to them. 41:26.660 --> 41:27.524 Thank you, Jesus. 41:29.343 --> 41:34.785 Cover your people, reveal yourself to your people, strengthen your people. 41:36.400 --> 41:38.006 Thank you for the finished work of the cross. 41:41.100 --> 41:47.744 Some of you, as you're holding the communion elements, you need to tell the Lord, Lord, help me, to get more serious about you. 41:50.451 --> 41:50.912 You need to. 41:52.960 --> 41:55.347 I say this with love, I really do. 41:56.660 --> 42:11.507 If I didn't care, listen, if I wanted to play the games and I didn't care, I could so easily play the games and be very liked and be very well thought of and you'd feel real good in the service and then real life would hit you and you would get crushed. 42:12.980 --> 42:13.804 So I say this with love. 42:14.687 --> 42:18.709 Some of you, some of you, you're frying your brain scrolling through TikTok. 42:19.700 --> 42:24.091 You're frying your medulla ablongata. 42:24.640 --> 42:29.726 Your cerebrum, your cerebellum, is roasted and toasted as you're going through Instagram mindlessly. 42:30.700 --> 42:44.186 It's become today's crack pipe and all it's breeding is a love of the world and a love of the wicked world system and all of the pain that brings. 42:45.580 --> 42:48.028 And if you're there, you might even be addicted. 42:49.020 --> 42:54.324 You won't tell it to anybody, but deep down inside you know I'm not even talking about social media, I'm talking about to the world. 42:56.360 --> 43:02.471 Right now is a good time to say Lord, help me, you don't have to work, God will do the work. 43:02.780 --> 43:09.326 But what you do have to do is get to a place where you acknowledge sin is sin and you're disgusted with sin. 43:10.160 --> 43:11.084 So I don't want any part of it. 43:15.887 --> 43:17.331 Now, why is that so important? 43:17.380 --> 43:18.144 It's always important. 43:18.164 --> 43:20.126 It's important because the Bible says it's important. 43:20.680 --> 43:23.489 But we are in 2024. 43:28.900 --> 43:34.787 What are the chances that you think, just percentage wise, we're just gonna have a regular old year? 43:35.620 --> 43:47.488 You know, kind of like the 1988 election, the 92 election, the 96, you know it was just a regular election and just, in other words, no global events. 43:48.600 --> 43:49.303 What are the chances? 43:52.288 --> 43:52.730 I think zero. 43:56.480 --> 44:00.145 I was gonna say what are the chances that we won't have a peaceful one? 44:00.220 --> 44:01.566 Are they greater than 0%? 44:01.680 --> 44:07.191 I don't even wanna you know I know you're saying 0% the other way, but I don't wanna terrify some people. 44:07.560 --> 44:15.169 But I'm believing for the best and I believe for us, for the people of God, in destruction and famine. 44:15.200 --> 44:17.949 You shall laugh and you will be blessed. 44:18.400 --> 44:37.547 But I feel for you, if you haven't figured out already that the media is not your friend, that's right and that it really hurt my feelings when I realized that the government is not my friend. 44:37.820 --> 44:38.463 It bothered me. 44:38.583 --> 44:45.426 I was sad because my family and I, we immigrated to this country to get away from that nonsense. 44:47.485 --> 45:04.826 And it really bothered me when I realized that things have changed and I'm talking to people, unsaved people, from my doctor to my hairdresser, to some older gentleman where I live now, and they're all saying the same things. 45:04.980 --> 45:08.409 They're saying never in our lives have we seen it like this. 45:09.340 --> 45:10.806 It's like they're lying all the time. 45:13.360 --> 45:16.164 Never in our lives have we seen the country in such a bad state. 45:21.520 --> 45:23.587 You know the Dow is at an all-time high. 45:24.620 --> 45:26.346 Do you know the Nasdaq is at an all-time high. 45:27.180 --> 45:29.227 Do you know the S&P is at an all-time high. 45:30.200 --> 45:34.806 And why do a lot of people that I know are broker than ever Sure doesn't feel like everything's at an all-time high. 45:35.760 --> 45:44.886 Then you scratch underneath the surface and you realize there's just four to seven companies that are doing all of that and that if you look at the other companies that were down 10% year over year. 45:47.380 --> 45:59.046 And then you see January jobs report Best one, I mean through the roof and I see people highly educated, intelligent people, not prone to conspiracies they're lying. 46:01.251 --> 46:04.724 They're lying, Pumping those numbers up. 46:05.540 --> 46:07.587 The one of my saying I'm not trying to get you to be afraid. 46:08.420 --> 46:26.310 I'm just asking you to maybe look back in the last four years and realize some buttons are being pushed and not to just blindly trust anything you hear Any narrative that's established, but lean on Jesus like never before. 46:26.440 --> 46:27.781 You say what is the answer, Pastor? 46:27.821 --> 46:28.624 I don't like what you're saying. 46:28.645 --> 46:29.267 What is the answer? 46:29.720 --> 46:34.933 Jesus, knowing him, depending on him every single day. 46:35.860 --> 46:46.174 And I would love for it to just be just a regular old election year, like 20 years ago, like 30 years ago, but it may not be. 46:48.380 --> 46:50.347 And so you want to have a strong anchor now. 46:51.000 --> 46:59.003 You don't want to be going into emergency tongues when it hits and then Lord forgive me, I should have been praying, I should have been look. 46:59.505 --> 47:03.046 Ah, Just be in the Jesus zone already. 47:03.086 --> 47:03.888 Is what I'm saying? 47:04.029 --> 47:07.825 Amen, Everybody okay with what I just said? 47:09.040 --> 47:09.341 All right. 47:10.160 --> 47:16.248 And if you're wondering why I'm saying this, I know YouTube now uses algorithms and if you say certain things, it just cuts the feed. 47:18.360 --> 47:25.044 But if you're wondering, if you're still not wondering, why I'm saying this, just remember four years ago they shut down the world. 47:27.350 --> 47:28.152 Maybe you don't have friends. 47:28.260 --> 47:30.989 I do have friends who are financially wrecked. 47:31.160 --> 47:32.726 Their businesses have been destroyed. 47:33.640 --> 47:34.444 They shut down the world. 47:34.680 --> 47:41.069 Home Depot stayed open, Walmart stayed open, but the world was shut down. 47:43.000 --> 47:44.546 Okay, but past year was a pandemic. 47:45.580 --> 47:48.629 Yes, 7 million people died of COVID globally. 47:49.540 --> 47:51.387 700 million people were infected. 47:51.800 --> 47:54.068 Yes, that's 1%. 47:57.800 --> 47:59.546 1% does not a pandemic. 47:59.606 --> 48:04.227 Make Feel terrible for the 7 million that died, but 1% is not a pandemic. 48:06.386 --> 48:12.424 The Lubanik plague, Western Europe 35% of the population died that's a pandemic. 48:18.100 --> 48:19.325 You said well, what are you saying? 48:19.365 --> 48:20.148 What was the purpose? 48:20.300 --> 48:21.205 Look, I don't know all the purpose. 48:21.320 --> 48:32.664 All I know is I know when I'm being lied to, I know when somebody's smearing my eyes yeah, that's it. 48:33.280 --> 48:36.069 I know when I'm being manipulated and controlled. 48:40.440 --> 48:42.461 And it never I mean, there was always lies any place. 48:42.501 --> 48:45.505 That's not heaven, but not like four years ago. 48:50.693 --> 48:51.414 But what's the answer? 48:51.514 --> 49:00.007 Jesus and I believe the potential is there Listen for us to have our greatest year ever, as a church and individually. 49:01.122 --> 49:04.663 The Lord will reward those who, in the time of trouble, look to him. 49:05.486 --> 49:08.568 Hallelujah, Are you ready, on that note, to receive communion? 49:09.140 --> 49:12.346 Hallelujah, Just say this in the name of Jesus. 49:13.440 --> 49:15.768 I receive communion by faith. 49:16.440 --> 49:20.985 I also receive all of the benefits of the finished work of the cross. 49:21.840 --> 49:30.585 I am blessed, I am healed, I am prosperous, I have intimacy with God, my sins are forgiven. 49:31.120 --> 49:32.746 I'm led by the Holy Spirit. 49:33.480 --> 49:36.550 2024 is gonna be my best year ever. 49:38.160 --> 49:42.826 In Jesus' name, amen, Go ahead and partake of communion. 49:44.420 --> 49:46.548 This is the City Light Church podcast. 49:46.980 --> 49:55.606 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansic and City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyccom. 49:56.620 --> 49:59.278 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 49:59.761 --> 50:00.966 We would love to connect with you. 50:01.920 --> 50:09.509 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. 50:10.480 --> 50:11.778 Thank you for listening. 50:11.980 --> 50:21.025 Make sure that you subscribe to CityLight Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.