WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.360 God is concerned about the heart, man looks on the outwards, but God looks at the what, 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:14.000 heart. If you knew what I meant, I designed your mercy. God is a God of mercy, He's a God of love, 3 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:18.960 He's a God of hope, He's got to list you up and not put you down. And if you want to have a great 4 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.160 rest of the year with the halfway mark, you got to always plug into the positive, even when the 5 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.080 negative is around you. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, 6 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:34.960 as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 7 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:41.360 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, 8 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:49.280 that citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit 9 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:55.280 is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you 10 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:02.000 are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future 11 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:10.480 for you. I'm honored and excited to welcome the man of God, the friend of this house, Pastor 12 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.560 Maurice Johnson, to bring the Word. Let's give him the warm city light. Welcome. 13 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.720 Praise God. Thank you for that warm welcome. 14 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:29.760 It's the second service. You know, it's the hot service. I'm warmed up now. Y'all warmed up. 15 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:34.720 Glorative God. God is good and God is gracious. Amen. 16 00:01:35.440 --> 00:01:38.800 Send it with me. Well, after the minute quote, the scripture to you. 17 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:49.360 Psalm 145 verse 9 says, the Lord, and you should memorize the scripture. It's a powerful scripture. 18 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:57.600 The Lord is good to all and it's tender mercies of all His works. The Lord is good to who? 19 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:06.800 And his tender mercies of all the how many of his works? So everybody gets to experience the 20 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:16.400 goodness of God and his tender mercies. Praise God. God not just yanking you around. He's tender 21 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:25.520 with you. Amen. Send it with me. The Lord is good to me and his tender mercies are over me. 22 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:36.480 Say this with me. I am blessed. Coming in and going out. I'm blessed in the city and I'm blessed in 23 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:48.800 the field. The Lord makes me the head and not the tail. I'm above only and not beneath. I'm on 24 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:59.760 the top, only and never on the bottom. All things are working together for my good because I'm 25 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:11.280 all that. No. Sorry, sorry, because I love God. And of the call, according to his purpose, 26 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:23.600 the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. I shall not lack. I shall not go down. I shall only go up. 27 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:35.520 He makes me to lie down by green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul. 28 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:45.440 He leads me in the past of righteousness, the past of victory, the past of prosperity for his 29 00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:55.280 name's sake. Yay. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. 30 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:07.040 For you are with me, you are art and your staff. They comfort me. You prepare a table for me 31 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:20.080 in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil, ideas, concepts, insights are coming 32 00:04:20.080 --> 00:04:32.240 to me swiftly, speedily and in abundance. My cup, my bank account, my wallet, my pocket books, 33 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:44.800 the real ones and the fake ones. They overflow. Hallelujah. Wealth and riches shall be in my house. 34 00:04:45.760 --> 00:04:53.840 Surely, somebody say surely, over this, say surely, over here, say surely, over here, say surely, 35 00:04:54.560 --> 00:05:03.520 goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell on the house 36 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.480 of the Lord forever. Come on and shout about that. 37 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:20.000 That's a demonstration of quoting the word and plugging into the positive. Today we're talking 38 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:28.000 about plugging into the positive. You and I both know if you look at the news, if you look at 39 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:34.480 YouTube, if you look at Instagram, if you look at Facebook, there's a lot of negative. 40 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.560 There's some funny stuff, there's some good stuff, but there's a lot of negativity in the earth 41 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:48.560 around. But you have a choice to plug into the negative or to plug into the positive. 42 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:57.120 And if you're going to have an amazing rest of the year and amazing summer and amazing fall 43 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:01.360 and amazing winter, you got to plug into the positive. 44 00:06:02.640 --> 00:06:10.080 Season's change, not only physically, but in the realm of this world. Prices go up, prices go down. 45 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:15.440 This political person comes into office, that political person comes into office. It doesn't matter 46 00:06:15.440 --> 00:06:21.520 what's going on around you. You have a covenant with God, a new covenant, establish on better 47 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:28.480 promises, and you have the right and you have the responsibility to plug into the positive. 48 00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:35.920 Amen? Do you realize the kingdom you're in is a positive kingdom? The Bible says the kingdom of 49 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:40.080 God is not just eating and drinking. It actually says it's not eating, you know what it is? It's 50 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:46.720 righteousness, positive, peace, positive. And what joy in the Holy Ghost? That's positive. 51 00:06:47.280 --> 00:06:54.000 Everything about our God, everything about the kingdom you are in is positive. You know 52 00:06:54.000 --> 00:07:01.600 who should be smiling the most? You. Nothing comedians? You and some of you need to watch some 53 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:08.560 comedy, even the crazy comedy. So laughing, get yourself jolted a little bit. The Bible 54 00:07:08.640 --> 00:07:14.640 David said he's a lifter of my head. The Bible says in a book of Acts times of refreshing. 55 00:07:14.640 --> 00:07:20.800 What? Times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. With his worship, you should 56 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:26.560 feel refreshed. Hallelujah. The presence of God is over you. The presence of God is inside of you. 57 00:07:27.200 --> 00:07:30.640 And you shouldn't just be plugged into the positive in church. You're plugged into the positive 58 00:07:30.640 --> 00:07:34.560 in your home. I don't care who lives there. I don't care what's going on. You standing at 59 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:38.800 the shower and you declare no weapon for me against me shall prosper. Every time that rises against 60 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:45.600 me shall be condemned. I believe I receive everything that God has for me. I believe that you're 61 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:53.920 dealing with benefits. I will have heaven on earth in my life no matter what. Amen. Oh, you 62 00:07:53.920 --> 00:08:00.240 don't know the kind of husband I got. But I do know what kind of words you got. And it kind of 63 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:06.480 saved you, you got. It was his death and life or what? And the power of your tongue. And those 64 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:15.680 who love it shall eat the fruit thereof. I remember I was preaching recently and I felt 65 00:08:16.400 --> 00:08:23.280 by the spirit to say something to one of my members. And I said, the Lord says to tell you, 66 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:31.360 it shall be in your house as you say. And I began to minister to him afterwards. I found 67 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:36.000 that something had transpired in his home with one of his children that I didn't even know about. 68 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:46.400 And little turmoil. But that word encouraged him. That word reminded him. It's not the behavior of 69 00:08:46.400 --> 00:08:53.040 your kid that you look at is what you're saying that you look at. If God said your children, 70 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:58.240 shall we throw the Lord and grace you by their peace. That is what you believe. It's a say 54. 71 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:04.640 Amen. If the Bible says whatever whoever seems against you shall fall for your sake. You believe 72 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:10.480 that. You don't believe. Oh, my, my boss. She trying to get me. My coworker trying to get me 73 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:17.920 at. Who are they? The Bible says in Deuteronomy 28, they shall come out against you one way 74 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:24.480 and flee before you seven ways. Seven means complete defeat. So you tell your boss, your 75 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:29.680 coworker trying to sabotage you, say, you're walking on dangerous ground. You're coming against 76 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:37.280 Isaiah 54 in my life. And before I fall, you will fall. Come on. Y'all, y'all, y'all scared, y'all 77 00:09:37.280 --> 00:09:43.280 scared. Come on. Get out of here. Guess I've been scared, y'all. That'd be a little hurt. Great. 78 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:49.520 Amen. That'll walk in there like you on the joint. Amen. Praise God. 79 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:58.240 That's called the spirit of dominion. Oh, that's pride. No dominion. The boss of God has given 80 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:06.160 dominion to us, not just to the CEO, but to every believer on the planet. So I don't care if you 81 00:10:06.160 --> 00:10:10.960 washing cars. I don't care if you cleaning the hotels. I don't care if you're an executive or 82 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:16.320 you're not executive. You hold your head up and you walk in dominion and you plug into the 83 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:25.520 positive and you say, my life will be great. My life will be good. Amen. There's a lot of negative 84 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:38.720 Nancy's out there. A lot of them. A lot of hating carrots. A lot of bozos. But the American 85 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:43.200 difference is a bozo or not. You plug into the positive. If you have an encounter with somebody 86 00:10:43.200 --> 00:10:47.360 in the retail store and they give you attitude, they cut you in the line, they do something that 87 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:53.920 offends you, don't even curse them out. Like I know you want to. Just simply plug into the positive 88 00:10:53.920 --> 00:11:04.400 and say, God bless you. I remember reading a story by Joel Osteen many, many years ago and 89 00:11:04.400 --> 00:11:08.880 it basically was about, it was talking about just being good to people. So I remember this is 90 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:13.520 when I was driving. So this is a long time ago because I just ride in Uber's now and get driven. 91 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:26.160 So there was a parking lot I was waiting for. Spacing was crowded and then I saw another car come 92 00:11:26.880 --> 00:11:32.320 and I remembered that story, that article that I read from Joel about being good to people, 93 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:39.600 just blessing people. So I was in a good space. Headspace. I said, hey, I need something to take 94 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:45.840 the space. You got to look at me. You know, people usually think you're going to rush in. I said, 95 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:51.440 no, take the space. Now, this is an empty car space, right? You know what he said to me? What's wrong 96 00:11:51.520 --> 00:12:03.040 with it? I'm like, okay, bro, it's a car space. There's nothing there. But he was so trained in 97 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:10.240 the negative that he literally said, and he was serious. What's wrong with it? Because he wasn't 98 00:12:10.880 --> 00:12:17.360 expecting somebody to let him have the space instead of them taking it. Isn't it incredible? 99 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:24.320 It shocked me that he said that. But I said, oh, that's the mind trained in the negative. 100 00:12:25.760 --> 00:12:29.680 That's that New York City mind. We got to get mine. No, no, no, you can have it. 101 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:35.440 God will provide. Amen. So you're in the line. So I want to cut you to head. No problem. Go. 102 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:42.640 You can go ahead of me. No problem. I don't think so. No, do it. You'll be surprised how it 103 00:12:42.640 --> 00:12:52.240 changes your scope that I don't have to claw my way to the top. I don't have to fight for victory. 104 00:12:52.240 --> 00:13:00.560 I already have it. Amen. I'm already winning. When you're number one, you don't have to fight to be 105 00:13:00.560 --> 00:13:18.240 number one. Hello, somebody. Glory to God. So I say I serve a positive God. Look at me at Matthew 106 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:26.480 chapter 12. I just quoted verse seven last time. But let's look at the entire 107 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:33.440 passage, the beginning of it, the context. I kind of quoted it, but I want you to read it. Verse 108 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:41.440 one, at that time Jesus went through the grain fields of the Sabbath on the Sabbath and his disciples 109 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:48.800 were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. And when the Pharisees, the religious negative 110 00:13:48.800 --> 00:13:57.040 Nancy's, sorry, they said to him, look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the 111 00:13:57.040 --> 00:14:06.240 Sabbath. But he said to them, have you not read what David did when he was hungry? He and those 112 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:12.800 who were with him, how he entered the house of God and ate the show bread, which is not lawful for 113 00:14:12.800 --> 00:14:20.880 him to eat. Uh-oh. Nor for those who were with him, but only for the priest or have you not 114 00:14:20.880 --> 00:14:26.320 read in the law that on the Sabbath, the priest in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless. 115 00:14:27.040 --> 00:14:32.640 Yet I say to you that in this place, there was one greater than the temple. But if you had known 116 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:40.320 what this means, whoa, come on, Jesus. I desire mercy and not sacrifice. You would have, you would 117 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:46.320 have not condemned the guiltless for the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath. 118 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:55.840 So he was saying, you are a religious leader and you're worried about the law more than them being 119 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:05.360 hungry. What was happening, the religious leaders were plugging into the negative, the rules 120 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:12.320 instead of human compassion. He said, if you are known what I meant by the scripture, 121 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:17.840 I desire mercy, you wouldn't even be talking right now. You can dim the guiltless while they're 122 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:23.680 guilty. First of all, I'm the Lord giver. And if they're doing something that's breaking my 123 00:15:23.680 --> 00:15:29.840 law and I'm bothered by it, why are you bothered by it? Have you met people who are bothered by 124 00:15:29.920 --> 00:15:37.280 things that they should be bothered by? That's concerning your life. And that's what Jesus was saying. 125 00:15:37.280 --> 00:15:43.440 He says, a greater than the temple is here. And if you knew how to plug into the positive, 126 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:48.960 you would not have condemned the guiltless. There's people all over who will condemn you for even 127 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:53.280 like dressing how we dress down. No, there's a dresser church. Who are you? 128 00:15:53.360 --> 00:16:02.640 God is not concerned about the heart. Man looks on the outward, but God looks at the what? 129 00:16:02.640 --> 00:16:15.200 Heart. Come on somebody. If you knew what I meant, I desire mercy. God is a God of mercy. 130 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:20.160 He's a God of love. He's a God of hope. He's a God that lists you up and not puts you down. 131 00:16:20.880 --> 00:16:24.640 Amen. And if you want to have a great rest of the year with the halfway mark, 132 00:16:24.640 --> 00:16:29.520 you've got to always plug into the positive. Even when the negative is around you. 133 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:35.440 Let's look at the story of David. David was surrounded by the negative. 134 00:16:36.560 --> 00:16:39.680 First Samuel 17 goes me there. 135 00:16:40.640 --> 00:16:48.960 Verse 26. You know this amazing story of David and Goliath. 136 00:16:49.680 --> 00:16:55.920 David has just been anointed as the next king. He's a big deal, but everybody doesn't know it yet. 137 00:16:55.920 --> 00:17:00.640 They're about to find out. Then David spoke to the man who stood by him saying, 138 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:06.720 what shall be done for the man who kills the Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel. 139 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:16.560 So the verse before it shows that the armies of Israel and King Saul are running from this giant. 140 00:17:16.560 --> 00:17:22.800 Now they've had victories already. They were an amazing military, but there's always something 141 00:17:22.800 --> 00:17:27.840 that tries to rise up to say, I don't care how many victories you had. I don't care how victorious 142 00:17:27.840 --> 00:17:33.200 you think you are. I'm going to be the thing that's going to defeat you. And the Bible says they 143 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:39.440 were afraid. Now I've preached this many times in different ways, and I didn't bring this out in 144 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:46.240 the first service. I'm going to bring this out in this service. Now David is a Hebrew just like 145 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:52.400 them. He's not trained in the military. He's not part of King Saul's army. And they're running 146 00:17:52.400 --> 00:18:00.800 afraid, but he's confident. Let's see. Well, I'm going to show you. Let me ask you a question. 147 00:18:00.800 --> 00:18:07.360 Why do you think David's brother and the rest of the army were afraid, but David's 17 year old 148 00:18:07.360 --> 00:18:16.160 boy was confident? Did you ever think about that? We talked a story that he was confident. 149 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:21.600 Does anybody have an answer? You can talk back. We're teaching more now. Let me tell you. Let 150 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:30.000 me send me to you, but I believe. And what is obvious, they were focused on their fighting skills. 151 00:18:31.520 --> 00:18:33.840 David meditated on the covenant. 152 00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:45.680 Your natural abilities can take you only, but so far. But the word can take you over the top. 153 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:53.840 He had a covenant mind. You don't get a covenant mind just by all Hebrews, but he was the one 154 00:18:53.840 --> 00:19:00.960 that said, who is this Philistine? Who is this unsurken size Philistine? See, 155 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:07.680 covenant that he should defy the armies of the living God. In other words, this shouldn't be happening. 156 00:19:09.120 --> 00:19:13.920 And there's things in your life that you're going to have to denounce, that you're going to have 157 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:20.160 to resist and say, this shouldn't be happening. When the devil tries to put sicknesses on disease 158 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:27.200 on you, you're going to say, this should not be happening. Who are you to touch the temple 159 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:35.200 of the Holy Ghost? Who are you to come on this great wine? You see all this glory? Get off 160 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:45.040 of me in Jesus name. The Bible says, at he is, so are you in this world talking about Jesus. 161 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:51.920 If Jesus is not, doesn't it have breast cancer? I don't have breast cancer. If Jesus doesn't have 162 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:59.600 bone cancer, I don't have bone cancer. It's illegal in my body. I don't care if it's a pain, 163 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:03.440 I don't care if it's back pain, I don't care if it's my brain headaches you've had for years, 164 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:09.040 you stand against it. The Bible says, resist the devil. And he will what? 165 00:20:09.040 --> 00:20:16.480 flee from you. But you can't be negative and then resisting. You've got to be a positive 166 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:27.360 Maurice. Amen. And then you have to resist the devil. That's from James. Peter comes now and says 167 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:34.960 the devil walks about like a roaring line like a roaring line. He's not a roaring line. He's 168 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:44.480 a nobody. He's a defeated foe. Seeking. What is he doing? Seeking. He's looking. He's lurking. 169 00:20:45.280 --> 00:20:52.480 He's a bummer. He's like that he's out there. They're looking and they're lurking. Oh, 170 00:20:52.480 --> 00:21:00.960 who's the weak grandma I can rob? The devil is lurking seeking whom he may devour. Which means 171 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:07.840 that your devouring is not automatic. You have to give him legal rights to devour. You know how 172 00:21:07.840 --> 00:21:17.200 you break his legal right to devour you? Stay positive. The devil works and moves in the realm of 173 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:25.280 the negative. So you see, these guys were afraid and terrified because they were not staying 174 00:21:25.280 --> 00:21:31.120 positive. They weren't thinking about the great God that delivered them. The great God that 175 00:21:31.120 --> 00:21:37.520 got their people out of Egypt. The great God that split the Red Sea. They weren't thinking about 176 00:21:37.520 --> 00:21:41.680 that. They weren't thinking about the covenant that God made with Abraham. They were thinking about 177 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:47.520 their circumstances and they got afraid and they were losing. But you're going to do that. Are 178 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:53.120 you going to be like David and you're going to speak positive? Amen. Now look what he said 179 00:21:56.080 --> 00:22:01.040 verse 27 and the people answered him in this manner saying, so shall it be done for the man who 180 00:22:01.040 --> 00:22:06.480 kills him? Now, Lee Ab, the oldest brother heard when he spoke to the man and Eliab's anger was 181 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:11.920 aroused against David. When you're positive, everybody's going to be happy for you. Sometimes people 182 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:16.480 will be angry at your positive. Have you ever been positive or someone was angry about it? Why 183 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:21.520 are you so positive? Anybody have experienced that? Yeah, yeah. It's in the Bible and it happens in 184 00:22:21.520 --> 00:22:29.040 real life. You have to ignore that and look what he says. He did. And he said, why did you come down 185 00:22:29.040 --> 00:22:35.200 here, sibling rivalry and with whom have you felt let those few sheep in the wilderness be 186 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:40.320 little in him? Yeah, you're a little sheep. I know you're pride and the influence of your heart 187 00:22:40.320 --> 00:22:46.720 for you have come down to see the battle. Okay, and if he did so what? Hating it. And David said, 188 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:52.640 what have I done now? So you know that they've been in this battle, sibling rivalry for some time. 189 00:22:53.280 --> 00:22:59.360 Is there not a cause? There's a reason I'm here that he turned from him and that's what they do when 190 00:22:59.360 --> 00:23:05.760 somebody's negative turn from them. You don't have to entertain negativity turn from it. And by 191 00:23:05.760 --> 00:23:11.200 us as he turned from him toward another and said the same thing and these people answered him as 192 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:19.440 the first one did. Now when the words which David spoke were heard, the what? When the what? When the 193 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:29.040 what? Everybody. Okay, class. When the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to 194 00:23:29.040 --> 00:23:35.440 Saul and he sent for him. Your words are always heard in the natural and in the spread world. 195 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:41.760 Angels are listening to your words. Demons are listening to your words. God is listening to your 196 00:23:41.760 --> 00:23:47.760 words. The devil is listening to your words. Jesus needs you to plug into the positive. The 197 00:23:47.760 --> 00:23:57.200 Bible says he's the high priest of your what? He's the high priest of your what? 198 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:05.600 Of your confession. Now do you know what a high priest is? One who represents you before the throne 199 00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:13.040 of God. And so if you're saying I'm healed, guess what happens? Healing manifests. If you're saying 200 00:24:13.040 --> 00:24:19.440 I'm going to die, guess what's going to happen? You're going to die. If you're saying I'm broke, 201 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:26.320 angels wings are closed and the demons are probably are coming. But if you say wealth and 202 00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:32.960 riches shall be in my house, those angels are like yeah, let's give him some money. If you say 203 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:42.000 money coming to me now, like I do, abundantly, frequently and speedily, guess what? Angels 204 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:51.120 go to work. Your words determine your destiny. Your words determine your outcome. 205 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.960 Get all the new ages speak your positive and manifestin. You have the saints in church crying. 206 00:25:01.520 --> 00:25:07.600 It's time to go from wanting to winning. Hello somebody. Too much word in you. Too much 207 00:25:07.600 --> 00:25:13.360 covenant over your life. Too much prophetic things said to you for you to be losing. Hallelujah. 208 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:20.640 Paul said in all these things, we are more than what conquerors through him who love me. You 209 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:29.120 must be obsessed with winning. And that comes when your mind is in the covenant renewed. Come on 210 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:40.720 somebody. Hey, where's my organ? Then David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him. 211 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:48.880 This Palestinian nobody, your servant will go and fight with this Palestinian. And Saul said to 212 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:54.720 David, you are not able see now Saul is not being a hater. He's just talking facts he thinks 213 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:59.440 it's true. So that sometimes you have people, maybe a parent, maybe an aunt, maybe an uncle, 214 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:05.200 maybe a grandparent who loves you. They have good intentions, but they're still speaking negative. 215 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:10.240 They're still diminishing your ability with their words. 216 00:26:13.280 --> 00:26:18.960 Maybe it's a coworker. You are not able to go against this Palestinian to fight with him for 217 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:28.240 you are a youth and he a man of war from his youth. Okay, aunt. But David said, but David said to Saul, 218 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:33.120 your servant, he's giving his resume now, used to keep his father's sheep. And when a lion or a bear 219 00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:39.200 came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it and delivered the lamb from 220 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:45.840 its mouth. And when it rose against me, I caught it by its bed and struck and killed it. Your 221 00:26:45.840 --> 00:26:52.000 servant has killed both lion and bear and this uncircumcised Philistine. He keeps calling the 222 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:58.960 enemy a nobody. He has no covenant. He can say this Philistine. He said, no, this uncircumcised 223 00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:08.000 Philistine, no covenant bomb will be like one of them seeing he has defied the armies of the living 224 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:14.000 God. So he said, when the devil comes against you, he's come against the living God. 225 00:27:18.560 --> 00:27:22.720 Then he says verse 37, moreover, David said, the Lord, who? 226 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:32.320 Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and put on the full arm of God. 227 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:38.400 The Lord who delivered me from the poor the lion and from the poor the bear, he will deliver me 228 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:46.560 from the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, okay, now go and the Lord be with you. 229 00:27:47.600 --> 00:27:54.960 He's like, whoa, you sound very confident, very convinced. And he was. And Paul said, I am persuaded 230 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:59.360 that nothing shall separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Another 231 00:27:59.360 --> 00:28:08.160 translate says, I am convinced. What are you convinced about in the world? The Bible says a good 232 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:18.880 man. I mean, a man, I'm not saying now, now let's say it up. A man finds a good thing. I 233 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:24.800 don't quote it. Now I know all these scriptures and I'm missing up this one. He that, thank you. 234 00:28:24.800 --> 00:28:31.440 He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. And so if you're a single 235 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:36.000 woman and you want to be found, you know, would you be confessing? I'm a good thing to be found. 236 00:28:37.040 --> 00:28:43.520 Come on, where you at husband? I see you. I see you in the spirit. Amen. If you're a man who 237 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:48.480 single looking for a wife, you say, I'm going to find my good thing. And I'm going to receive 238 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:53.760 favor from the Lord. I know this is New York City. They say this is the single city. No, you don't 239 00:28:53.760 --> 00:28:59.440 have to be single. You can be married in New York City and be happily married. Amen. But you have 240 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:05.760 to be more covenant-minded than circumstance-minded. You're going to plug into the positive and not 241 00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:14.640 the negative. Oh, everybody's cheating. All the men and dogs. Come on. He probably DL, listen, listen. 242 00:29:15.120 --> 00:29:24.480 I'm done with this dating thing. Dating, the dating pool is crazy. You're plugging into the negative. 243 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:31.200 Can't got no money. I always get the guys who are broke and I got to pay for the dinner. Stop saying that. 244 00:29:34.800 --> 00:29:36.560 Stop saying I'm getting the guys who got money. 245 00:29:36.560 --> 00:29:48.320 Praise the Lord. Jesus said, you shall have what you want. Come on. David had what he said. 246 00:29:48.320 --> 00:29:59.760 Glory to God. Verse 45, skip down. Then David said to the Philistine, you come to me. Now he's 247 00:29:59.760 --> 00:30:05.760 taking to the enemy himself, the mount in himself, the problem itself. You come to me with a sword 248 00:30:05.760 --> 00:30:12.960 with a spear and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the 249 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:20.240 army of Israel, whom you have defied this day. Somebody say this day, the Lord will deliver you 250 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:27.120 into my hand and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the 251 00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:33.840 carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth 252 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:41.200 that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know 253 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:48.400 that the Lord does not save with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord and he will give you 254 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:56.960 into our hands. That's called plugging into the positive. Plugging into the covenant, 255 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:04.080 plugging into the word. So it was when the Philistines arose and came and drew near to me, David, 256 00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:10.000 that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. You'll know whether you're 257 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:15.920 in faith or not by how fast you're running to the problem or running from the problem. 258 00:31:17.360 --> 00:31:20.800 See I'm running to the obstacle because I know I already have the victory. 259 00:31:21.760 --> 00:31:30.080 Come on somebody. Then David put his hand in his back and took out a stone and he slung it 260 00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:35.440 and struck the Philistine in his forehead so the stones sank into his forehead and he fell 261 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:41.520 on his face to the earth. Every problem, every obstacle will fall on his face before you 262 00:31:42.320 --> 00:31:50.720 in Jesus name. Do you believe that? Shall I believe it? Rejoice like you believe it. 263 00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:03.600 Verse 50. So David put your name in there. So Maurice, whatever your name is. So David prevailed over 264 00:32:03.600 --> 00:32:09.680 the Philistine with a sling and a stone and struck the Philistine and killed him but there was no 265 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:15.680 sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stood on the Philistine. Took his sword. 266 00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.760 Sounds like the wealth of the sinners laid up for the just. Come on somebody and it's finding 267 00:32:21.760 --> 00:32:29.680 his way into his hands, amplified version. Took his sword and drew it out his sheep and killed him 268 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:38.160 and cut off his head with it. It's time to cut off the head of your problems. Those long standing 269 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:43.760 problems, those long standing situations, it's time to take off the sword of the spirit, 270 00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:52.000 which is the word of God, Ephesians 6, and speak to the mountain. Not whine about the mountain. 271 00:32:53.200 --> 00:33:00.400 Now talk about the mountain. Girl, you know, no. Girl, you know what the word says, right? 272 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:08.000 She says speak to the mountain and it'll be removed. Talking about the mountain, talking about the 273 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:13.440 problem is not changing anything. Oh, pass away. I have to keep it real. No, you're keeping it wrong. 274 00:33:15.360 --> 00:33:23.760 Because in the covenant of God in Jesus said, speak to the mountain. Cancer, go. Depression 275 00:33:23.760 --> 00:33:28.560 leaves me now. Are you against therapy? No, have your Jesus in therapy, but you still got to speak 276 00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:33.760 to the mountain. I don't care how much you talk to the therapist. Speak to your mind. 277 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:40.160 When David was depressed, he said, why are you cashed down all my soul? Hope that went God. 278 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.760 He commanded his mind, will, and emotions to be a certain way. You can command yourself to be 279 00:33:45.760 --> 00:33:52.000 happy. You can command your body to be well. You can command your finances to go up. Say the 280 00:33:52.000 --> 00:34:01.120 money's going up. Hallelujah. You have the power. The devil wants you to believe that. The 281 00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:04.640 world is going to believe that you have the power. That's just the power of your vote, the power of 282 00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:15.120 your mouth. Amen. Okay. How much of gas goes up? How much of price goes up? Okay. You are not 283 00:34:15.120 --> 00:34:24.480 of this world. You're just in it. Amen. And my God shall supply all of your needs according 284 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:34.560 to my dummy's tax plan. According to a president Trump's tax plan. No? According to his riches 285 00:34:34.560 --> 00:34:44.000 and glory, what? By Christ Jesus. Plug into the positive and everything in your life will change. 286 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:56.480 Do you believe that? Hallelujah. Praise God. I didn't do an altar call in the first 287 00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:00.400 years I'm doing this one. Everybody about your head. Close your eyes, please. If you're in this 288 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:06.640 place today and you've never given your life to Jesus, you've never plugged into the positive one. 289 00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:10.880 I want you to raise your hand high and we're going to give you the opportunity to plug into the 290 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:18.160 positive one to plug into the sacrifice of the lamb and be born again and be saved and turned 291 00:35:18.160 --> 00:35:23.280 from your sins and make heaven your home. If that's you today, raise your hand high and we're 292 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:27.120 going to pray with you. I'm going to ask you to join this church. I'm just giving you an 293 00:35:27.120 --> 00:35:32.960 opportunity to receive Jesus as your savior and plug into the real positive one. Raise your hand 294 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:37.680 high and say, Pastor Marie, that's me. I want to be saved. I want to be born again. I want to 295 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:42.960 go to heaven. Raise your hand high so I can see it. I see that one hand. I see two hands, 296 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:48.720 anybody else. I see three. I see four. I see five. Come on. Raise your hand. Say, Pastor Marie, 297 00:35:48.720 --> 00:35:55.840 that's me. I need to give my life to Jesus. It's crazy to go to church and then go to hell. No, 298 00:35:55.840 --> 00:36:01.200 you're here. You're hearing the good news of Jesus Christ. The positive life is yours. The positive 299 00:36:01.200 --> 00:36:06.080 advantage is yours. Give your life to Jesus. All those who raise your hand and those who didn't raise 300 00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:11.040 your hand, but you know that's you. Stand to your feet. Stand to your feet. Stand to your feet. 301 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:18.960 Stand to your feet. Yes, thank you. Stand to your feet. Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. Praise 302 00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:24.640 the Lord. Praise the Lord. Okay, give them a hand, guys. Look at these. One, two, three, four, 303 00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:29.520 five. Look at this little boy coming to you. Oh, you standing up in the back too? Praise the Lord. 304 00:36:29.520 --> 00:36:37.360 Six, six souls. Hallelujah. Anybody else, you need to give your life to Jesus. 305 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:43.440 Keep standing. Don't sit down. Keep standing. Keep standing. Praise the God. Anybody else. 306 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:49.360 Praise the God. Six souls. Say this prayer to me. Like I said, your words matter. Your words 307 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:56.480 is going to change your destiny. Take you from hell to heaven right now. Amen. From sinner to 308 00:36:56.480 --> 00:37:03.440 saint right now. Okay, all of you don't don't look at me. Just say the words with me. All right. 309 00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:11.040 Say Lord Jesus. No, you guys. I want you guys. I want them to say it. You say it, guys. 310 00:37:11.040 --> 00:37:19.200 Lord Jesus. I am a sinner. I don't want to be a sinner no more. I want to be a saint. 311 00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:30.080 I don't want to go to hell. I want to go to heaven. I believe that God sent you to die for my 312 00:37:30.080 --> 00:37:42.400 sins and you rose from the dead for me. I receive you Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior. 313 00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:53.200 Save me from my sins. In Jesus' name, I've just been born again. I've just been saved. Thank you, 314 00:37:53.200 --> 00:38:05.360 Jesus. Come on, everybody. Hallelujah. I believe there's a card they can fill out. What can they do? 315 00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:17.520 Okay, so please fill out this connection card. If you don't have it in your seat, get one and then 316 00:38:17.520 --> 00:38:22.320 there's a Bible in front that you can get and you'll be contacted and they'll let you know 317 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:28.560 what your next steps are. All right. Come on. Congratulations. Welcome to the family of God. 318 00:38:28.560 --> 00:38:33.920 Hallelujah. Make sure you love one of these people who give their life to Christ as a lady. 319 00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:37.680 Waiting back. Make sure you love one of her and congratulate her and welcome to the family of 320 00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:46.000 God. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. All right. My time is up and we're going to take the offering. 321 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:52.000 How many ready to give? Can I say, I'm ready to give. I'm ready to plug into the 322 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:56.480 anointing to prosper. I'm going to tell you a real quick story and then we're going to turn 323 00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:02.320 back over to our awesome worship team. I have been given a lot. Now I tied them tens of 324 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:08.240 15 and God's blessed me. My life is very blessed and I've been given a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot recently 325 00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:15.280 to people and I was like, okay, Lord, this, I'm giving too much and I need some, some return. 326 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:21.600 And so I talked to a lot about it. You said, if I was so, that you would multiply the seat 327 00:39:21.600 --> 00:39:25.520 zone. You said, do good to all especially to those of the household of faith. I've been blessing 328 00:39:25.520 --> 00:39:34.560 your people and so I need to see some return. Shortly after that, someone sent me 329 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:45.120 Zell for $1,500. Two days later, a lady from my church texted me who's only ever giving 330 00:39:45.120 --> 00:39:50.560 me like maybe 100, 200, my birthday, Christmas, praise God for years. I've known her for years. 331 00:39:50.560 --> 00:39:55.280 But she said, the Lord told me to give you this money and I just want to tell you a text that 332 00:39:55.280 --> 00:40:03.040 I'm sending it to your Zell and she sent me $3,000. Within three days, $4,500 and I was getting paid 333 00:40:03.040 --> 00:40:13.920 two days later and I could pay good. Glory to God. Hallelujah. God is not a liar. I've been 334 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:18.160 testifying about that and this is and I'll give you, I have a whole bunch of other stories of money 335 00:40:18.160 --> 00:40:23.680 coming into my hand because I'm a sower and I want to encourage you. I know you hear this every 336 00:40:23.680 --> 00:40:30.720 week. You can see it on TV, but let me tell you something. It's real. Sewing is real, reaping 337 00:40:30.720 --> 00:40:35.280 on harvest is real. I actually didn't tell it's on the first day. I was going to tell this and then 338 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:42.320 we're done. I told a couple that gives a lot of money to my church and gives a lot of money to 339 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:49.440 people and gave a whole lot of money during this past year. That tax person said, wow, I said, 340 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:55.200 but you're not receiving. I said, you know why? Because your hearts think that you should just get 341 00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:03.280 from your jobs. Your heart is not open to receive from people. You need to repent and they agreed. 342 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:07.360 They looked at their lives because they're high earners and I said, just because your high earners 343 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:12.560 in me that God can't use people to bless you. I said, I opened my spirit wide this morning. I went 344 00:41:12.560 --> 00:41:19.600 to bless you and I could feel nothing. And I said, I know that means you're not a receiver. They 345 00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:29.680 repented. The next day, the husband got a call from Yale University. He works for what's that 346 00:41:29.680 --> 00:41:38.880 thing called health and hospitals. They gave him an offer double what he's making now. And he's 347 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:51.360 making a lot of money. Double. Amazing, right? Since you don't know how I tell you the thing, $80 348 00:41:51.440 --> 00:42:00.320 is an hour. So you know what that comes to because he just made a switch in his heart. 349 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:08.800 Give and open your heart to receive when it comes to people, through a job promotion, 350 00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:15.680 a new job. God is faithful. Amen. You ready to give? You can give these three ways. 351 00:42:16.640 --> 00:42:23.280 Online. This is the City Light Church Podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message or if 352 00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:28.160 you would like to find out more about Pastor Van Janssen and City Light Church, visit us at 353 00:42:28.160 --> 00:42:37.040 citylightenlicey.com. That's citylightenlicey.com. 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