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I want to let you know right now that God is not coming back for a bunch of Christians who were defeated and hiding and living in the ground, or in caves, slurping old soup, waiting for Jesus to come.

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He's coming back for a church in power, in glory, in prosperity, a bride glowing white without spot, without blemish or wrinkle or any such thing, amen.

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Welcome to the City Light Church Podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

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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.

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I want to preach to you five things that you will see in this current move of God that we see beginning and bubbling up and stirring up in our country, amen.

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Five things. Now, before I begin with the five things, I know from doing this a while, that people when they're hurting, people when they're desperate, because of the hurt, because of the desperation, they tend to view everything through a lens of, well, what's in it for me?

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You know, the favorite radio station is WIFM radio. What's in it for me, radio? And if it doesn't immediately minister to their felt needs, they kind of check out.

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Don't do that. Even if you're new and you just came yesterday to the Lord to City Light Church, don't check out when you become obsessed.

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I'll use that word, obsessed with the things of God. You will see those areas in your life that you want God to fix. That's when He does them.

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When you're not looking at those areas, but when you're looking to Him, and you want to build His kingdom, you want to build His house.

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Just the other day for fun, I was rereading for the hundredth time, the book of Haggai. How many of you have ever read the Book of Haggai?

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Too many people don't even know where the Book of Haggai is. They go to the Table of Contents Eye to find the Book of Haggai.

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But Haggai chapter 1 opens up with a bang. Haggai, the Prophet, is rebuking the people. And He says, is it now time to dwell in your own paneled houses?

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See, the Lord had blessed them. The Lord had multiplied the silver and gold. He blessed them with goodly homes, with wood paneled houses.

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He said, you're doing great living in your wood paneled houses, but what about the house of the Lord? It's in ruins. This was after the Babylonian captivity.

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And He said, because you're neglecting God's kingdom, and you're so focused on yourself, He said, you're going out, you're laboring much, you're gathering and grabbing whatever you can, only to put it in a bag with holes in it.

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And He says, what little you can manage to scrounge together, I sent a wind and blew it all away. He says, repent. Jesus, He echoes that same sentiment.

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When He says, seek He first, the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these other things. God's not against you having things, but He is against things having you.

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But when you're focused as Jesus, the gospel, expanding His kingdom, all that other stuff, it'll just be added unto you. Amen.

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And when you're actually focused on Jesus, you won't even care. That's why in that day, when you get that crown, your immediate reflex is to lay that crown at His feet, because it doesn't matter. All that matters is Him, amen.

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So for a moment, put your own needs aside and focus on the kingdom of God. We're actually going somewhere. The Holy Spirit is leading us. And when I say, wait, I don't mean city light church. I mean, the international body of Christ, the church universal, the beautiful bride of our God.

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There's an awakening coming. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And we're overdue. Oh, it's knocking even at the door. Hallelujah. It's got one foot in.

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Number one, five signs, five, five characteristics of this move of God. Number one is found in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 17 through 19. Every believer.

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This is when you know that the Lord is moving and the body of Christ is in revival. Every believer gladly accepts the responsibility of evangelism.

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Now, I remember I moved to New York City in 1981. I was only five years old. Don't do the math. I'm 49. I was only five years old, but because we didn't have this informer, you can solve your all throughout the 80s and some of you long time New Yorkers back me up here. You remember all throughout the 80s. It seemed like there was a preacher in every subway car. I couldn't remember that. Somebody's not anybody else remember that. You went out anywhere. There were corner street corner preachers everywhere.

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What happened? That was still the afterglow. The embers of the Jesus movement in the 70s where personal evangelism. Nobody had to tell him to do it. They were set ablaze and they had to share their faith. They had to share their faith. Emily was just telling me the story of how her mom. She was saved during the Jesus movement. And she got attract from in campus crusade for Christ and the four spiritual laws. And she said to this day.

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And she said to this day she remembers what page of the track it was for her that stood out to her and convinced her. And she met her friend who said that same track. I came to the Lord via that track. And I remember pages different than your page, but I remember just evangelism was as natural as breathing. That's where the Lord wants to bring us back to. But unfortunately right now the stats are not too good. 2% is what the number is. That 2% of Christians are

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actively sharing their faith with their social circle. I didn't say you should get on a subway car in preach. Stand on a corner. Go hold a mass crusade in a foreign land. You're not responsible for the whole world, but you're responsible for your circle of influence. And because, listen, we all know what Hollywood's been doing. Do this Hollywood ever show a normal pastor? Never. You will never see a normal godly on fire pastor. You will never hear about him in the news. The report on somebody who's embezzled

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the money or you know the stories. And Christians have been shamed and mocked and a lot of Christians have been beaten down in a closet. Hey, come out of the closet. It's time to come out of the closet. Jesus didn't die in a closet. He died on a mountain for everybody to see. A boldness is going to come upon God's people. You'll see with this move of God. You have been put down in shame for too long. Who cares what the world thinks? Who cares what people have to say? There's people's eternal destiny.

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There's that hang in the balance. Hallelujah. Second Corinthians 517. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. Now, all things are of God who has reconciled. That means he's made peace. With us to himself through Jesus Christ. Well, thank God for that. We were once enemies of God. Before we receive Jesus,

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that was our spiritual standing, enemies of God. The wrath of God was abiding on us. But now we have peace with God our maker and God our father through Jesus. And he has given us what? The ministry of reconciliation. That's what you have. The ministry of reconciliation. What does that mean? That means that your job, you have an unbeliever, an unsafe friend, coworker, family member. They're lost.

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They're not going to heaven because they've never gotten all of their sins forgiven through Jesus' substitutionary death on the cross. But God, the father has loved for them. God has already forgiven them in Christ, but they don't know it yet. Somebody has to tell them. And so you come as a bridge maker and you take the hand of that lost person. And then there's God, the father who's already forgiven them in potential format, but they must receive that forgiveness. And you take their hands and bring them together. What is that?

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The ministry of reconciliation. The ministry of reconciliation. I'm going to tell you right now. It doesn't Instagram well. It doesn't Facebook well. It's not that glorious. Every time somebody shows a successful minister, they're always standing over a field, preaching a quarter million people. That's nice. But that's not how most of the work actually gets done. You know how most of the work actually gets done? Lots and lots of coffees in diners, in coffee shops, meeting people and sitting with them in a park bench, sharing your life.

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And getting in there and helping them because you may be the only Jesus they ever encounter. Jesus. He's given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

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By the way, I often come across people who want to quote unquote get into ministry. How do I get into ministry? There's only one way I've seen people effectively get into ministry.

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They first start with the ministry of reconciliation. By the way, that never ends. But they're not looking for a position. They're not looking for a title. They just start helping people right where they're at, sharing the gospel right. And they actually minister their way into full time ministry.

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Oh, Jesus. Anybody here wants to get into full time ministry? Get a Starbucks gift card for yourself. Have lots and lots of coffees.

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This is how I got saved in a Burger King. That's where in a three hour long conversation, 1992 bed style Burger King, 1992 bed style. It had the bullet proof things where I couldn't even get my whopper.

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The plexigthe thing. You put in your money, little swivels, I'll get my whopper. Somebody loved me enough to spend three hours with me there. I went through the whole canister of Burger King, napkins. They could have been doing other things. They were patient. They answered my stupid questions. Like, well, if the Bible's true, what about the dinosaurs? That was my 16 year old rebuttal to the gospel.

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Oh, Jesus. It takes a village. They say to raise a child. It takes a church of on fire, radical Christians to raise up the new believers that are coming. You know how you know on you're on fire. You looked at that video and marked the people who were getting baptized and they went on your list. They went on your prayer list. They went on your when I see them. I'm going to hug them. I'm going to encourage them. I'm going to speak words of life to them. Hallelujah. Number two.

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Five things you're going to see in this current move of God. Number two. These are no particular order, but you will see supernatural financial increase. Why will you see supernatural financial increase?

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Because God's kingdom is an ever increasing kingdom. Jesus taught us that. It started off as a mustard seed and it's grown into a tree where all the other birds are there can come and nest in it. But in order for the kingdom of God to grow.

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It requires money. Son, come up here for a second. I just want to let you know my son. He knows he knows his mission. I've never suggested he go into the ministry like me. The Lord has to do that. Otherwise, he'll be miserable. But technically, and he knows this right. I've told you this. You've got two choices. You can either become a full-time minister or you're going to become a multi-deca millionaire and build at least a dozen churches. Amen. Amen.

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Some of you are frozen. I can't believe you just said that. What else? Either he's going to preach or he's going to fund the gospel or both. Can you get more glorious than that? If you got offended at that, you're the one who should be saying, that's me. Lord, bless me that I could expand the gospel. Amen. That I could build the kingdom.

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Oh, Lord. Proverbs 13, 22. I'm glad I didn't drive my may back today. Some of you would have thrown eggs at it. You could have been really upset. I'm not preaching theory right now. The Lord did it in me as a sign and a wonder and to provoke you. Amen. He wants to do it. He'll get stuff to you if he knows he can get it through you.

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Hallelujah. This verse that I'm about to read to you, I memorized 20 years ago, 20 years ago when I was broke, broke, broke, couldn't rub two dimes together. But I read it and I said, yes, I cooperated with the truth of God's Word. When you're presented with the truth of God's Word, don't reject it. You may not be living it, but that doesn't mean you reject it. Allow the Word to transform you. Don't let your situation try to transform the Word of God.

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It's not budging. It's forever and it's here to stay. Amen. And this is the Word of the Lord. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous. If you're a believer in Jesus, you have been made righteous. That means that a portion is coming to you.

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We find ourselves even now at a very unique time in history. Tens of trillions of dollars are locked up right now with even believers. And God says there's going to be a whole lot of shaking going on. I'm going to come and I will shake and there will be a transfer of wealth.

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I've shared with you, my life has financially been transformed in the last year. Where do you think that money came from? Statistically speaking, it was not Christians.

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It got shaken. From people who have rejected the Lord for decades, been self-obsessed, been greedy, God said, this far no further enough, shake and bake you a little bit and see who catches the rest. Amen.

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Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Job 27 verses 16 through 17. I stopped watching Christian television. I mean, never was a big fan because it's tacky.

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But still, sometimes, looking on. Thank you for those three laughs, some honesty. You've always thought it. It's okay to say.

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But I stopped completely when I noticed there were more ministers out there selling soups.

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And stuff like no kidding. There's entire ministries on the one side that talked to you about how good God is. On the other side, they're selling you like protein bars at the last 100 years because they believe the end of the world is coming.

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They're going to end up being all scattered and they're going to end up living in caves drinking 30-year-old soup cans.

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I'll let you know right now that God is not coming back for a bunch of Christians who were defeated and hiding and living in the ground or in caves, slurping old soup, waiting for Jesus to come.

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It's coming back for a church in power, in glory, in prosperity, a bride and glowing white without spot, without blemish or wrinkle or any such thing. Amen.

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We're not going to be in a defeated state. We're going to be at our apex, at our best. Your faith should be out there. Lord, let it be me. Amen.

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And the way you qualify for it to be you is by showing trustworthiness today. If you're a good steward of the money he's given you today, if you're generous with the money he's given you today, if you're submitted, the Lord is looking for a submitted heart.

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He's not looking for a perfect person, but a yielded submitted, whose heart scribes, Lord, I do whatever you want. For me to do, I go where you tell me to go, I say what you tell me to say, the Lord says, mm.

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And then he tries with a little. And then if you're faithful with that, he gives you more. And when you're faithful with that, he gives you even more. And when you're faithful in the little, he makes you ruler and master over much. Amen.

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Though he, the unbeliever, heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothing like clay. He may pile it up, but the just will wear it. Hallelujah. And the innocent will divide the silver. Hallelujah. Ecclesiastes 226.

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For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in his sight. Now listen. None of us should ever say, oh, Lord, I know in and of myself I'm good in your sight. No.

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Bow by himself wicked in the sight of God. Bow wrapped in the righteousness of Jesus. You wrapped in the righteous of Jesus. You're perfect in God's sight. You are good in his sight and you qualify.

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A lot of the Old Testament makes sense when you read it through the lens of the New Testament. And you realize that the blood of Jesus has qualified you for every promise in the Old Testament. Do we have any people who are good in his sight in Jesus? Amen.

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But to the sinner, he gives the work of gathering and collecting that he may give to him who is good before God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Hallelujah.

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Number one, number one, believers are going to evangelize. They're going to boldly share their faith. Number two, there's going to be a supernatural financial increase.

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Number three, and we're already seeing this. The youth and the children are coming and unprecedented numbers. Yesterday was so glorious. Teenagers who got saved and then kids. Is that 10-year-old boy? He's not here, right? The one who got baptized. He's come here. Come here. Oh, come here, man. Look at it. Come to Uncle Bow.

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All right, hang on right now. Hang on. All right. I want to do a little interview with this guy. All right. So his mother on fire, Christian, and she came to me, but just concerned, she said, you know, my son, he's 10 years old and he just keeps talking about baptism. He really wants to get baptized. What do you think? I said, I think you got a great problem right now. And I said, can I meet him? And so she goes downstairs to city kids.

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And brings him up. And this, I remember in the first episode, his face was glowing. Look, I mean, come on. Look at this. This guy looks like he woke up with the hand of Jesus on him. The Holy Spirit's all over him.

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It's just a beautiful thing. You're the future, man.

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I really feel, I don't want to be tacky. I feel to do this. I just felt that right now. Man, Lord Jesus, you got to sew into this. Now, we don't have to do a whole thing. I wanted, this is for your future. You take this. And when you see him, give him a little something. Or if you want to run right now, give him a little something. I'm serious.

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We've never done this, by the way. If you're new, you'll learn what's wrong. But the hand of God is on this young man. I'm not going to stay up here forever. So if you got something, now you might wonder what's happening here. Good ground gets good seed. And we're believing for multiplication.

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A multiplication for you. That the hand of the Lord would increase on your life. And everyone who gives you money, what they're saying is I believe in the hand of God that's on you.

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May the Lord raise up more and more. Thank you, Jesus. If I had planned this, it wouldn't have worked. I'm telling you, I would never.

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But this is what the good Lord is doing. Touching the heart. Victor, won't you just come on here? Give him a hug and bless him.

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The Lord is touching. Nice. Yeah, buddy. Yeah. Oh, man, you're taking all your friends out for pizza and coke.

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How was baptism yesterday? Great. Jesus. Go with blessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now. That's it. You can go back to your mom. Be blessed. You're awesome. You're welcome. Thank the Lord.

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Children, it's beautiful pastoring such a generous church. I'm so glad you instantly obey the voice of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2 verses 14 through 17. We're going to see more and more that people think when Christianity immediately goes along with that rebellious teenager.

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Oh, we have we've had teens given over to the things of God. Love Jesus. You're going to see more and more that because what they have right now, they see their smart enough. It's not working. It's not working.

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And when kids get filled with the Holy Spirit, you can't downplay it. They don't get a pint-sized Holy Spirit. They don't get like a lesser version of the Holy Spirit. It's not like we have the full version of the Holy Spirit and they get the beta test version. They get the same Holy Spirit as us. The Lord can talk to them. They can hear his voice. They can prophesy. They can pray. They can lay hands. They can see the sick healed. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Acts chapter 2 verse 14. But Peter standing up with the 11 raised his voice and said to them, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed my words. For these are not drunk as you suppose since it is only the third hour of the day.

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That has nothing to do with my message, but let me just pause and say that it's fascinating that on the day that the church was birthed, that Peter's first sermon, his opening line was, hey, these Christians aren't drunk.

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I want to be able to have to apologetically declare that over you. Because what do drunk people look like? They don't have a care in the world. They're laughing. They're happy. They're free. Of course, when you're drunk in the natural, you have to pay for that the next day and it's sin. But when you're drunk in the Holy Spirit,

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you're full of joy. There's laughter because joy has a sound. You don't care what people think. I want to get reports there's a group of city lighters stumbling down Steinway. The police have been called people think they're drunk and I have to go there. Whoa, whoa, whoa. People of Astoria. These city lighters, they're not drunk as you suppose. I'm not going to say they're not drunk. They're just not drunk as you suppose, but they're filled with the Holy Ghost. Amen.

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Did we lose power? Oh, awesome. Just go back to that one verse. For these are not drunk as you suppose, since it is only the third hour 9 a.m. of the day. But this is what was spoken by the Prophet Joel. And it shall come to pass in the last day says, God, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.

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Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. I call every backslidden child home right now. We break the power of Satan over their lives that their eyes would be illuminated with the light of Jesus. Come back home. I'm speaking there for every one of you as kids who aren't serving the Lord that they would be radicalizing Jesus.

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Made on fire for him. No compromise. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream dreams. Amen.

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And I think that's why every time we see a young person who loves Jesus, celebrate that. Encourage that. Get behind that. Hallelujah.

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Number four. Founding Ephesians. Oh, wait, hold on. Don't go to Ephesians that because immediately people will have a knee jerk reaction. Number four that's going to mark this revival is not just a return to.

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But a passion for the traditional family model. Satan has been attacking the family. Always, but in the last 80 years, it's been incessant to break down God's family model. God, the God ordained hierarchy and marriage.

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The beauty of the family because if he can get and crack that family, the whole thing will disintegrate and that affects churches, that affects cities, that affects states, that affect an entire nation.

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My son and I, we watch shows. We like to get our lows on in the evenings. And we were talking about the men in the shows. And I said, son, can you think of any one of the shows that you like where there was a man that you would want to be like.

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And then I said, but they have to be like a normal human. Don't talk to me about Spider-Man or Captain America. Remember we talked about this the other night? Is there any man that's like an aspirational figure for you? And he went, no, there is no man that I say I want to be like that.

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I at least had James Bond, you know, I had, I saw my first 007 in America, I was like, wow, that guy is, I want to be like that. Thank God I became greater than that because James Bond never settled down, got married and had a family.

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But when you look at, just do this as it does. Look at any time a man is shown. He's like a bubbling bathroom. He doesn't know whether he's coming or going. He's always goofy. He can't be a provider. He can't be a leader of the family. His wife is always kind of looking at him sideways like, oh, you're cute, but I'm going to have to pick up the pieces after your disaster.

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That's not by accident. That's by design. It's by satanic design. Now this passage that I'm about to read to you from Ephesians, people think that it's a wedding passage. Just like people think Psalms 23 is a funeral passage and it's not.

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This passage from Ephesians, it's not a wedding passage. It's Paul's instructions on how to live a victorious spirit-led life for everyday Christians. That's what this is. I'm going to use it in a wedding. I'll be using it in your wedding in Puerto Rico next week.

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And we're so excited. And I just want to thank you for firing that just me, but they were so generous. They said, doesn't your wife want to go? I said, I believe she does.

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Then we got some texts a couple of weeks later. Well, two nights isn't enough. Why don't you just stay a little longer? I said, don't mind if we do. Thank you very much. It's very, very kind to you.

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Ephesians 5-22 through verses 33. That will relax. Because it says wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, but just ladies just chill.

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Because I'm going to tell you what that really means in the Greek. In the Greek, what that really means is submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

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If you can't look her out and see that modern day feminism has destroyed this country, you're blind. You're blind.

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I'm all for, you know, the first, it always starts off nice. Great. Equal pay for equal work. I'm all behind that. Now it's morphed into this monster.

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And people don't know who's running the family. Listen, I don't care what smart thing you have to say that you picked up on the latest Netflix special, but anything without a head is a monster.

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And anything with two heads is a freak. And so, are my wife and I equal in value to the Lord? You better believe it.

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We're equally loved and we're equal in value. And the woman was taken out of Adam's rib out of his side. Not out of his toe that he should stomp on her and rule over her.

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Not out of his skull that she's over him. She's equal to him. But we have why why this shouldn't be controversial to say we have different responsibilities.

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There's a part of me. I would love to grow a baby inside of me. That would be awesome. That's awesome. But I don't get to do that. And there might be a part of a woman. I would love to lead a family, but you don't get to do that.

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Unless if you have a husband and husbands, your job is to be so loving and have your act before the Lord in order and position yourself to receive the Lord's grace and favor that she would want to follow you.

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If you ever have to bust out this verse to her, you're already lost. You can't bust out the moment you start using the scripture as a weapon against anybody, you're already lost.

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You should lead your life in such a way under the Lord that she can't wait to get underneath your protective covering amen.

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And I know I had a friend I had led her to the Lord whenever this verse came up literally in the sanctuary her body would freeze up.

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Because her dad left and she saw how her mom struggled and was hurt and I get that if there's ladies here, you're like what I'm saying to you probably deep down inside you know resonates is true, but what you've experienced causes you me saying that even causes you great pain.

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There is an answer there and the answer isn't for you to get cold, get bitter, lock up and say I don't need no man or I'm going to run my own life. That's not the answer either.

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But could you believe that there are men who love Jesus out there men who submit their lives to God and that God wants to when you do the same put you together with such a man amen.

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Anything that good that can be said about me anything first of all the honor goes to Jesus second and I tell my wife this all the time I would be living under a bridge if it wasn't for Jesus and her.

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She has inspired me she has motivated me she has looked up to me in a way where I had no choice but to lead and it caused me to rise up and become the man of God he called me to be.

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So ladies you can provoke your man to greatness and men you can love your wives and have peace and be stable so that they actually want to follow amen.

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For the husband is the head of the wife has also Christ is the head of the church and he's the savior of the body therefore just as the church is subject to Christ so let wives be to their own husbands and everything.

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Husbands love your wives just as Christ also love the church and gave himself for her that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word that he might present her to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that she should be holy and without blemish.

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So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies he who loves his wife loves himself by the way once again great passage to use for weddings Paul isn't doing a wedding here he's teaching the Ephesian church how to live a victorious Christian life.

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These are the first steps so is it any wonder why Satan has attacked the family why he's caused gender and role confusion people don't know who they are what they want what they should want and getting brainwashed by the media and the the immense and horrible changing culture that's happened in the last 15 years and it's not working it's not working for no one ever hated his own flesh.

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But nourishes and cherishes it just as the Lord does the church for we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh this is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

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Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself notice how often Paul says love your wife love your wife love your and by the way love your wife doesn't mean have positive vibes towards her and doesn't mean nodding your head like a simping just saying yes to everything love your wife means be willing to die be willing to sacrifice be with the after Jesus this is your number one priority amen.

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And then then when you're doing that and it start everything starts with men this shouldn't be controversial everything starts with men people are quick to point at all look at our only fans and look at this culture and you know look at all those Jezebel's where were those Jezebel's father that it became Jezebel's pornography wouldn't be it's not three guys consuming all the time.

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All the pornography out there pornography wouldn't be the octopus monster with its tentacles wrapped around so many people that it is if it wasn't for men men I will say this men drop the ball also around 80 years ago and things got out of control and out of hand and it's okay and I'm preaching a little bit of my message that I was going to preach today but it is okay it is okay to say you know I woman are different from men and men are different from women and somehow in the last

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five minutes of human history that actually became controversial to say because culture wants us to think that we're interchangeable and we're not there is the glory of a man there is the glory of a woman amen hallelujah oh Jesus listen to this and why I'm saying this is a part of the current move of God because there's

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historical precedent that this always happened when revival came 1904 the Welsh revival drunkenness and domestic abuse abuse plummeted men return to their homes as godly fathers the first and second great

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awakenings produce not only conversions but moral reforms including renewed emphasis on marriage parenting and community values the Jesus movement of the 1970s many wayward young people

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were reconciled with parents and built Christian homes of their own because revival it may begin in the altar but it's

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sustained in the sanctuary of the house the sanctuary of the dinner table and God's spirit restores families that's

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good news isn't it not just individuals he didn't tell Noah to build a canoe said build an ark for all the

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animals and your whole house amen confusion around gender parenting roles and marriages a spiritual attack and God is undoing it in this hour the next

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generation depends on what we build in this one revival that skips the family is not sustainable the family is not a social construct it is a divine

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assignment by the way you know humans did not come up with the idea of marriage God did in the garden it's actually his idea a really

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brilliant and good idea and when you follow God's idea prosperity happens yeah so you know there's people they can call a lot of

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things marriage it's not marriage I don't know what it is it's whatever they want to think it is but God has an idea of what

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marriage is and it's a man and a woman coming together and being married and then having godly offspring amen thank you for the three people

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clam clapping some of your either lazy or you have been New Yorkified your brain has turned to mush I don't know if you

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watched morning programming or whatever but your programming is showing a little bit by your lack of enthusiasm I'm kidding but just

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though most of my jokes are 90% true amen all right it's really funny you could see it you know some people you're speaking truth it's it's

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biblical truth and it's historical truth you look at any high functioning society or civilization this is the basis all the world

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around but then you have people who were raised right know this to be true but they've been programmed you don't need so subtle it's

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everywhere you see programmed every time you stream something and then you got the truth hitting in your belly and your

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mind is like and that's how you're sitting right now I'm mad at him this is does not compute does not compute error system 503

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number five radical boldness acts 431 why boldness matters boldness breaks silence and a silencing culture the spirit

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empowers truth speaking in an age of compromise this is a mark of revival no timidity god has not given you a

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spirit of fear but of power and of love and a sound mind acts 431 this is the early church was like a few weeks old at this

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point notice what happened to Peter weak feeble minded Peter foot and mouth syndrome Peter who denied Jesus three times when he was just a few feet

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away from him denied him three times but when he gets filled with the Holy Spirit that same day he stands up and preaches to a huge crowd we don't

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know how big the crowd was but we know 3,000 people got saved in that crowd what is that that's the boldness that comes from the Holy

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spirit there's people you're here right now you know who you really are and it's like you've sunk in and you're you've fallen in and you're viewing the world

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through your two eyes and you know you're just like 20% expression level and God made you wonderful God made you beautiful and he wants to restore

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that other 80% but you've been intimidated you've been put down you believe lies and so you've you've shrunk back it's like you're just using your body as an

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avatar no no I break that off of you in Jesus name the boldness of God comes upon you you were fearfully and wonderfully made that you can freely express the

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beautiful you the glory of you that he put inside of you amen and when they had prayed the place where they were assembled together was

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shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God with shouted boldness amen worship team come on up

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boldness is not arrogance it's alignment with heaven it flows from being full of the spirit and not being full of self

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there's a lot of correlations you know that's why the Bible talks about being drunk with the Holy Spirit

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then I'd be drunk with wine where in his dissipation but be full of the Holy Spirit the implication is be drunk in the Holy

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Spirit I've seen the most timid people four beers later I'll tell you another thing so what happened to you look at all that

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boldness take a sip of the new wine of heaven take a sip of God's Holy Spirit and watch Holy

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boldness come upon you hallelujah well church is good to be alive it's good to be alive in May of

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2025 God's not dead he's very much alive he's moving in our midst and we're contending for more amen

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let me pray for you father in the name of Jesus we thank you for what you're doing with us we don't

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deserve it but we're you're so much better to us than we are to you may you continue lay your hand

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upon every person increase the flow of the Holy Spirit and the anointing multiply your people and

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let us see New York City and America bend the knee to Jesus we thank you for it Lord amen amen

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hallelujah are you all ready to honor the Lord with your tides and offerings give a big hallelujah if you are

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always give with a glad heart know that you're sowing expect to reap this is how we demonstrate to

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the Lord that we're trustworthy that we're good stewards and my prayers that the Lord would

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multiply it back to you that message from Hagiae I used to preach an offering message called

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Papa's got a brand new bag remember James Brown Papa got a brand you know what I heard about James

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Brown I heard that he you know who's very happy some of those musicians are very deep where's John okay

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very deep James Brown's whole stick was that he was smiling happy right and this is really from

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somebody who knows the business he said when James Brown would turn around that he'd be looking at

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everyone all of these musicians and if every single one of them wasn't smiling he docked their pay

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does that break your heart did you that's strong leadership and good management

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let's say when you look at the videos all of them are really happy

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you want to get docked by James what does that have to do with anything oh yes

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Papa's got a brand new bag and Hagiae he tells them when you're not honoring the Lord first

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it's like you're putting your stuff in a bag with holes in it like my wife and I we said that when

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we first got married she actually said that to me she said you know when you don't have you lose

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it anyway the dishwasher goes bad your refrigerator breaks down your car gets tickets you

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and then you tie and then that stuff doesn't happen and so you never really miss out on the 10%

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because Papa's got a brand new bag amen I don't want a bag with holes in it I want a

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holy bag but not with holes in it one that actually keeps the treasures inside let's all stand

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ministry team won't you go to my left you're right if you want prayer for anything listen now if

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you want prayer by the laying out of hands maybe you've never received prayer go over to my left

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in that bluely lit area you're going to find some men and women of God there they love the Lord

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they love people they're going to lay hands on you they're going to pray with you and for you

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and we're going to release our faith and see miracles happen so don't be shy I always go buy back

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there oh by the way let me also say this I've never actually said this maybe years ago I have

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the reason I'm not over there is for the first I don't know how many years I was doing all the

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praying and laying out of hands and Lord said stop it you need to multiply ministry but if you

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ever want me to pray for you you notice I'm here so you can always I never I'm here to pray for

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you if you want me to pray for you I'm always here to pray for you always love to pray for you

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but we just multiply that and you can go over there and you don't maybe have to wait as long

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amen and by the way different people have different anointings different gifts yeah that's okay to

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say and so sometimes you want different people to pray for you that's cool and that's good

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this week may it be blessed may you see the favor of God as you put your eyes on his kingdom may

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also see how he's working in your life you focus on Jesus and he'll take care of all the things

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go church and be blessed in Jesus name amen this is the city light church podcast if you've missed

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