WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.560 There's a message for you. The message is get ready for the harvest that's coming. Get ready 2 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:14.400 for the abundance of 2025. Get ready for the business opportunities. Get ready for the promotion. 3 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:20.880 Get ready for the open doors. Get ready for the unexpected checks. Get ready for the bonuses. 4 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:27.440 Get ready for the increase. Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. Welcome to the City Light 5 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:33.440 Church Podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and 6 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:39.120 truth that He has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at 7 00:00:39.120 --> 00:00:48.080 citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of 8 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:54.400 the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, 9 00:00:54.400 --> 00:01:00.560 remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that He has 10 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:07.040 a real hope and a future for you. Nathaniel, I think they're ready for you because I'm getting 11 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:12.000 nothing right now. I'm getting very, very dead. Obviously the Lord has taken his hand off of me. 12 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:19.440 I'm just here to be an usher and so the hand of the Lord is on you Nathaniel. So once you come 13 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:24.640 bring us the Word this morning. Praise the Lord. Praise the... John the Baptist, 14 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:34.560 preparing the way of the Lord. Y'all can laugh, I'm joking, but I'm serious. Y'all ready? 15 00:01:36.160 --> 00:01:43.040 Amen. So can I get a little bit more juice on this mic? It's really hard for me to hear 16 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:52.640 myself or hear anything on the monitors maybe. Yeah, okay, perfect. Praise God. So I just came back 17 00:01:52.640 --> 00:02:00.320 from Israel. I was there for 11 days. It was an amazing time. I learned a lot. One of the things I 18 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:08.480 learned is the way Jewish people greet each other, they usually do a greeting of Shalom. 19 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:13.680 Right, we're talking about prosperity, right? We're talking about a life of abundance. Amen. 20 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:19.280 So they greet each other with Shalom. Most of us know that Shalom means peace, 21 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.720 but it means more than peace. It means peace and it means prosperity in every area of your life. 22 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:32.880 So even just the way they introduce just the beginning of the conversation with someone doesn't 23 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:39.920 start with, man, things are so bad. I'm just barely holding on and struggling. I just wish 24 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:44.720 that things would be better for me. I can't pay my bills. The first greeting that they hear is 25 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:55.840 prosperity in every area of your life. So I'm going to give you the greeting that they gave me when 26 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:04.800 I was in Israel, Shalom to you, which means prosperity in every area of your life. That means 27 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:10.160 abundance and overflow. I just need about three witnesses because I feel like I want to preach about 28 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:16.720 this abundance thing. Prosperity for every area of your life in Jesus' name, if you believe 29 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:24.480 us, say amen. I believe this is your year to prosper. We said amen. I think first server, 30 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:31.120 we need to get them first service people back. I believe this is your year of abundance. 31 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:38.880 I believe this is your year of overflow. And you want to know why? It isn't because we've deemed it. 32 00:03:38.880 --> 00:03:44.640 It's because heaven already deemed it. And all I'm doing is coming into agreement with heaven 33 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:52.000 and saying that this is your year of the best. This is your year of the biggest blessing. This is 34 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:59.280 your year of supernatural abundance. Do you believe in saying amen? You know, it's so easy for us 35 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:07.040 to believe God for salvation, the redemption of our soul. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Oh, you saved me 36 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:12.160 out of the pit. You saved me out of hell. You saved me out of destruction. You saved me out of 37 00:04:12.160 --> 00:04:16.960 that horrible place. It's so easy. Man, we got enough faith for that. A lot of us, we even got 38 00:04:16.960 --> 00:04:21.760 enough faith. Lord, thank you for healing my body. I was sick and you healed me. We got 39 00:04:21.760 --> 00:04:27.920 enough faith for that. But what we struggle with is believing that God not only wants to redeem 40 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:36.480 our soul and our body. He wants to redeem our finances. From the beginning in Genesis chapter 1, 41 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:44.640 it was always God's intention for you to be blessed. You know where everything got confused and 42 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:53.600 convoluted and everything just got all messed up. It's the devil. Because God's plan from the 43 00:04:53.600 --> 00:05:00.400 beginning was life and life more abundantly. The thief comes to kill steel and 44 00:05:01.760 --> 00:05:06.240 which means in the beginning when God blessed his people in Genesis chapter 1 verse 28, he said, 45 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:14.560 be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. That word fruitful means has a few 46 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:22.160 meanings. But one of the meanings is fertilizer, something that causes things around it to grow. 47 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:30.080 So inside of every single person, there's a blessing from heaven. There's a word that's spoken 48 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:37.200 over your life that you are divine fertilizer. That when you step in a place that can't have any 49 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:43.200 growth or production or as barren, when you step on the scene, you have the ability to make it a 50 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:49.680 fruitful place. So think about your job. That's all messed up. When you step on the scene, you got 51 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:58.800 ability to bring life to it. Oh man. Think about an area of finances. Think about an area of your 52 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:04.800 life that's not producing. When you step on the scene, things have to change. Somebody saying, 53 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:14.080 man, God bless them and sit to them, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it, 54 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:21.200 have dominion over the fish. If you don't, if you don't already have that, God given blessing 55 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:31.680 inside the blessing of being fruitful, that means the ability to be like fertilizer, 56 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:37.360 multiply, which means when things get around me, they just don't stay at the same place. 57 00:06:39.760 --> 00:06:44.800 This is good. When things get around me, they just can't stay at the same place. There has to be 58 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:50.640 growth. When people get around me, they can't stay the same. They have to grow. Because what's 59 00:06:50.640 --> 00:06:59.840 in me is multiplication. So even my money has to multiply because God's already spoken a word 60 00:06:59.840 --> 00:07:07.280 of blessing over every area of my life to multiply. So I prophesy over every area where you've 61 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:12.960 been stagnant, where you've been in lack, where you've had less than you're supposed to. I decree 62 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:19.440 and declare you will walk into the blessing of Genesis chapter 1 verse 28. The blessing that says, 63 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:27.760 you will multiply. Multiplication is not for the person next to you. It's for you. It's your portion. 64 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:38.240 God has divinely placed everything inside of you. You need to multiply. So I don't know what you 65 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:43.600 do for work. I don't know what you do for a living. I don't know what you're invested in, 66 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:55.520 but everything that you touch has to multiply. Can we go into our text, Luke chapter 5, 67 00:07:56.320 --> 00:08:02.960 Luke the fifth chapter. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I'm not just going to believe 68 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:09.120 a salvation this year. I'm believing for abundance. Yeah, I'm going to believe for unsafe family 69 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.440 members to get saved. Yes, I'm going to pray hard for it. I'm going to fast hard for it, but you 70 00:08:13.440 --> 00:08:20.000 know what I'm also going to believe for money, wealth, because it's the Lord that gives us the 71 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.240 power to be wealthy. And if God's giving me the power to be wealthy, I want everything that God 72 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:38.000 has for me. God's plan to Genesis chapter 1, blessing. The devil comes, Adam and Eve sin, 73 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:42.480 get kicked out of the garden. What was supposed to be there, they weren't able to walk into it. 74 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:50.160 And God, he cursed Adam and Eve. Ain't no, the curse was. The curse was Eve was going to 75 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:56.080 multiply, but she was going to multiply in sorrow. So there was going to be a multiplication, 76 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:00.720 but it was going to be the wrong type of multiplication. She was going to multiply in pain. 77 00:09:01.520 --> 00:09:07.040 She was going to multiply in sorrow. That's how I know multiplication of pain and sorrow is not 78 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:16.000 from heaven. It's a result of a curse. Amen. Here's the second thing, Adam, everything you do, 79 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.880 you're going to have to work super hard to get it. There's going to be a multiplication of hard work. 80 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:29.920 Some of you think hard work is a blessing. A lot of times hard work is a curse, especially when 81 00:09:29.920 --> 00:09:35.040 you work hard and you have nothing on the other side of your hard work. That's literally a curse. 82 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:40.080 I don't believe we should be lazy as believers. We should work hard. But when you work hard, 83 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:46.000 you have nothing on the other side. You're living under the curse of Adam. The curse of Adam is, 84 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:51.520 I'm going to keep working hard just to produce a little bit. The blessing of the kingdom is, 85 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:58.400 I'm going to work hard and I'm going to live in abundance. Amen. He even said, Adam, by the sweat of 86 00:09:58.400 --> 00:10:07.440 your brow, by the sweat of your brow, you're going to be able to eat. Then Jesus came and said, 87 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:14.320 I got one better. He said, put the crown of thorns on my head by the blood on my brow. 88 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:23.040 Okay, three people said, amen. Y'all didn't catch it. The curse was by the sweat of your brow. 89 00:10:23.040 --> 00:10:27.840 And Jesus said, I got one better. I'll break the curse, not with the sweat of my brow, 90 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:34.720 but with the blood on my brow. And that blood is going to bring you life and life more abundantly. Amen. 91 00:10:36.160 --> 00:10:41.120 All right, Luke, chapter five, verse one. Let's go because y'all weren't with me on that. So I 92 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:51.920 got to switch gears. It was like, amen, amen. Do better. Do you know who my pastor is? Do better. 93 00:10:53.200 --> 00:11:01.280 Luke, chapter five, verse one, here's what it says, so it was as the multitudes pressed about him to 94 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:08.160 hear the word of God that he stood by the lake of the Genniferat. I was just there. I was just there 95 00:11:08.160 --> 00:11:19.120 wasn't this real. I was there. I was like, yeah, so now I get it. And so two votes standing by the 96 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:26.160 lake, but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then he got into one of 97 00:11:26.160 --> 00:11:32.320 the boats, which was Simon's and asked them to put to put out a little bit from the land. And he 98 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:38.240 sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. Verse four, when he had stopped speaking, he said 99 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:43.440 to Simon, launch out into the deep and let your nets for a catch. Verse five, but Simon answered 100 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:47.360 and said to him, master, we've told all night we've caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, 101 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:52.880 I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and 102 00:11:52.880 --> 00:11:57.120 their net was breaking. Verse seven, so they signaled to their partners and the other boat to come 103 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:02.560 help them. And when they had come and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. Verse eight, 104 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:07.760 when Simon saw it, he fell down at Jesus' need, saying, depart from me for I am a sinful man, 105 00:12:07.760 --> 00:12:15.760 O Lord. Verse nine, for he and all who were with him were astonished, astonished at the catch of 106 00:12:15.760 --> 00:12:24.560 fish, which they had taken. May God bless the reading of his word. Can I just say something 107 00:12:24.560 --> 00:12:32.000 very pivotal, important and essential when we talk about prosperity, when we talk about abundance, 108 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:38.080 when we talk about the blessing of God, I just want to say something so important for us to get 109 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:44.640 as a foundation. And I think the foundation principle is that prosperity and abundance 110 00:12:45.760 --> 00:12:56.320 was not instituted by man. Man did not come up with the idea of blessing. Man did not come up with 111 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:04.960 the idea of prosperity. Man did not come up with the idea of favor. God instituted it in Genesis 112 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:11.840 chapter one. It was God's intention from the beginning that his people would be blessed. 113 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:18.880 Even after Adam and Eve sinned, God said, all right, like your pastor said, I'm going to put a 114 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:25.440 fur coat on you. Then he came a few chapters later in Genesis chapter 12 and he's like, yeah, 115 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:31.040 my people kind of disconnected from me, but I want to restore some of that blessing back to you. 116 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:35.360 Here's how I'm going to do it. Abraham, leave your mother and father's house and go to a land 117 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:40.000 which you've never seen. And I'm going to promise you three things Abraham. I'm going to promise 118 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:47.600 you land. I'm going to promise you a seed. Children, you know, children are blessing. 119 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:58.320 Land is a blessing. Amen. I know you live in New York City, but land is a blessing. 120 00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:04.000 I believe that even in New York City, God has land for you. 121 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:11.920 You're not meant to be broke, busted and discussed. I believe God has territory for you in New 122 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:19.040 York City. Land that's yours. Land in heritances that belong to you in Jesus name. 123 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:28.960 And in the last thing God promised Abraham, blessing. Three things. Land, children, 124 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:36.000 blessing, financial blessing. You know, the Bible says about us. By faith, we are the seed of 125 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:44.160 which means if God promises to Abraham as his seed, it's our inheritance as well. 126 00:14:45.920 --> 00:14:51.760 All right. Let's get into the text. Luke chapter 5. Look at this. This is very important text. 127 00:14:51.760 --> 00:14:56.320 Most of us know what we've read the story before, but there's elements of the story. I guarantee 128 00:14:56.400 --> 00:15:00.000 you've never read that I'm going to try to help illuminate. Are you all ready? 129 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.760 All right. How many abundant people are ready? 130 00:15:06.880 --> 00:15:11.040 You know what's interesting? They didn't talk like they were abundant. They talk like they might 131 00:15:11.040 --> 00:15:18.160 be abundant. How many abundant people are in the house? All right. Because you know, you only 132 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:23.840 get as much as what you speak. Life and death is in the power of your tongue. So if you speak 133 00:15:23.920 --> 00:15:29.040 lack and not having enough and I'm struggling, you'll always live a life of lack. When you want 134 00:15:29.040 --> 00:15:34.480 a prosper, you start talking like you want a prosper. Amen. All right. So I need you to see this. 135 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:44.240 Luke chapter 5. So you know, Jesus is, he has not revealed himself yet to the disciples. 136 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:54.320 He's just starting his ministry. And the Bible says that a few of his disciples won a particular 137 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.000 Simon Peter. You know Peter. Peter's the one with the big mouth. Peter's the one who's always 138 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.920 talking. Peter's the one who's always coming out of line. Peter, but he was a great fisherman. 139 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:07.040 That was his job. And if you understand anything about the Galilee fishing industry at that time, 140 00:16:07.040 --> 00:16:13.360 it was a very legit industry. And only a few people were able to get licensed to be fishermen at that 141 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:20.400 time because the the lake of Galilee was in some major place. I went there. So I saw it. I can 142 00:16:20.400 --> 00:16:25.440 testify. It's very small. And so they limited the amount of fishermen who would actually get these 143 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:30.480 licenses. So it was very lucrative to be a fisherman, which shows me Peter was not poor. 144 00:16:32.800 --> 00:16:37.920 Peter was not struggling. He had a family business where the license was passed on. It was like a 145 00:16:37.920 --> 00:16:47.520 liquor license. Now a valuable liquor license is someone tells you liquor license is what in the 146 00:16:47.520 --> 00:16:56.560 millions now, right? You can buy them. That license was very, very valuable. And so Peter had this 147 00:16:56.560 --> 00:16:59.760 license to fish. They didn't let anyone fish. It was not like, hey, I'm just going to go out there 148 00:16:59.760 --> 00:17:08.480 with a line. Nope. You had to have the business. So Peter had the business, the fisherman business. 149 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:16.560 And so he goes out and the Bible says, all night he's trying to catch fish. He's an expert. Nothing, 150 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:30.560 nothing. The Bible says he toiled all night and caught nothing. Right? Let's go back. Let's go 151 00:17:30.560 --> 00:17:39.200 back two verses because you guys making me go ahead. Verse two, look at this. If you want to have 152 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:45.040 a mindset of abundance, here's the first thing you need to do. You're ready? He saw two boats 153 00:17:45.040 --> 00:17:48.560 standing by the lake, but the fishermen had not gone from them and they were watching their nets. 154 00:17:48.560 --> 00:17:53.760 Look at this. Then he got into one of the boats, which was Simon's and he asked him to put it out 155 00:17:53.760 --> 00:17:58.880 a little bit from land and he sat down and told the multitudes from the boat. If you want to have 156 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:05.840 a mindset, a mentality for abundance, the first thing is you have to let Jesus on your boat. 157 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:13.680 Let me break that down with that means because some of y'all don't get it. Peter's boat was his 158 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:24.320 business. Peter's boat was his money. Jesus being on Peter's boat means I can't make no more 159 00:18:24.320 --> 00:18:32.880 money right now. You're stopping me from being able to produce and Jesus goes, cool, I want to 160 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:40.560 sit on your boat. I want to mess up your plans a little bit. I want to tell you to give when it's 161 00:18:40.560 --> 00:18:46.960 not comfortable for you to give. I want to tell you to go places where it's not comfortable for 162 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:52.080 you to go. I want to sit on your boat. When was the last time you said Holy Spirit said on my boat? 163 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.760 Rock the boat a little bit, shake the things up in my life a little bit. 164 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:05.600 If you want to walk in abundance, the first thing you have to do is you have to allow Jesus 165 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:13.520 in to your boat. God mess up my plans. If my plans don't match heavens plans, mess it up. 166 00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:24.400 See, part of our problem is Jesus, you have my heart. You have my mind. You have my body 167 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:26.800 and then Jesus goes, but I want your money. Oh no. 168 00:19:26.800 --> 00:19:37.600 Took it too far, God. I'm giving you everything and God's like you're giving me some of it, but I want 169 00:19:37.600 --> 00:19:46.480 your money. Why? Because where your treasure is, that's where your heart is. So does God really have 170 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:53.360 your heart if he doesn't have your money? Oh my God. I knew they were going to get quiet here. 171 00:19:54.960 --> 00:20:05.520 No, but I want to say this. Does God really have your heart if he does not have your money? 172 00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:11.920 If you have a church people, they like to steal. God never said anything about church folk. 173 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:19.840 He's asking about your obedience. You know, I love people. Yeah, I'm very generous. I give 10%. 174 00:20:19.840 --> 00:20:24.800 10% is obedience. 11% is where you start being generous. 175 00:20:26.800 --> 00:20:30.560 Oh boy. They got tight. It's tight, but it's right. 176 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:41.040 Because 10% is where God requires. That's not being generous. I know it seems like it's being 177 00:20:41.120 --> 00:20:53.440 generous. Even at restaurants, they start at 18%. God is asking for less than the restaurant is asking for. 178 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:05.840 I'm so generous. God will give you 10% of something that already belongs to you. 179 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:14.000 That's not being generous. Generosity starts where obedience stops. 180 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:22.480 Oh, that's good. The obedience is 10%. Anything else you can start saying you're generous. 181 00:21:23.520 --> 00:21:27.920 So you start at 1%. Lord, I've been 1% generous if you give over. 182 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:42.800 But as Jesus on your boat for real, have you allowed him into every area? You want abundance, 183 00:21:43.600 --> 00:21:50.480 but it takes Jesus being on the throne of your money life. Do I have a seat on the throne of your 184 00:21:50.480 --> 00:22:00.080 money? Are you at the seat telling me what to do? Oh God, I got control of this part. 185 00:22:00.800 --> 00:22:05.760 I got my budget set up. Well, I love about the Holy Spirit. It's when he sits on the boat, 186 00:22:05.760 --> 00:22:12.560 he messes up your budget. Yeah, but I'm going to say for five years, and after the fifth year, 187 00:22:12.560 --> 00:22:15.280 and then God's like, that's not even an avenue I wanted to bless you through. 188 00:22:15.280 --> 00:22:22.960 You see, because some of you think the avenue God wants to bless you through is your works. 189 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.040 Well, if I do it like this, and I do it like that, then God's going to come into my plans, 190 00:22:27.040 --> 00:22:31.840 and he's going to figure out how to come in my box, and I got to be married by the time I'm 33, 191 00:22:31.840 --> 00:22:36.160 and I got to have children by 35, and I got to have this business, and God's like, I don't even want 192 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:43.840 to bless you like you think you should be blessed. I want to do abundantly. I want to exceed your 193 00:22:43.840 --> 00:22:50.240 expectations. All right, so let me tell you how to bless me with my first house, and I had $1,236 in 194 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:58.480 my bank account. All right, I don't want to hear it. I'm leaving. 1,000, I'm not talking about just 195 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:03.200 checking account, talking about checking and saving. You know, broke, broke. 196 00:23:03.280 --> 00:23:13.360 This is years ago. Me and my wife were living in the two bedroom apartment. We, I just started 197 00:23:13.360 --> 00:23:20.000 preaching full time. My wife was working as a nanny. We did not have money. And I remember God 198 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:29.600 telling me specifically, he said, I want you to sow $1,000 seed. I had $1,286 or 36. I can't 199 00:23:29.600 --> 00:23:35.520 remember. Don't fault me. All right. If I say 36, one time, say 86, the next time, well, he's 200 00:23:35.520 --> 00:23:45.280 lying. I'm not lying. And my wife left. She can't even testify. I remember, the Lord say, take 201 00:23:45.280 --> 00:23:50.320 $1,000 out because my pastor at that time, he was buying his first house, but I was living in a 202 00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:56.400 two bedroom apartment. See, sometimes God will have you sown into something you're not yet 203 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:05.520 walking into. That's good. So I get the $1,000 out. Let me have $200, $1,000 left in my bank account. 204 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:10.960 And I give it to my pastor. And I was like, the Lord told me to give this for your house. 205 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:15.840 And then he prayed for me. He blessed me a couple of weeks later, maybe a week and a half 206 00:24:15.840 --> 00:24:22.480 later. I get a phone call from my mom. She's like, I was thinking about your son. I said, okay. 207 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:30.960 The Lord wants me to do something for you. I said, okay, that's cool. Like what? She said, 208 00:24:33.280 --> 00:24:43.600 I need to give you the house in New York. I said, I ain't got money for that house. 209 00:24:43.760 --> 00:24:55.600 That house is way beyond my budget at this time. I got $236 in my bank account. 210 00:24:58.640 --> 00:25:03.600 I don't have money for a down payment. I don't have money for closing. I don't have money for 211 00:25:03.600 --> 00:25:13.120 the mortgage. No. She said, I never said anything about closing or a mortgage or anything. I 212 00:25:13.120 --> 00:25:20.720 want to give it to you as a gift. And in the Holy Spirit said, you remember when you gave your 213 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:27.600 pastor $1,000 for his house? You thought I was going to bless you in the way you thought I would 214 00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:33.120 bless you. You would have to save for five years and you would have to work hard. No, I bypassed 215 00:25:33.120 --> 00:25:39.920 all of that because of seed. All right. Three people said amen. Seed will have you bypass seasons 216 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:44.960 that you were supposed to walk into. There were things that were supposed to take you 10 years, 217 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:49.760 but you're going to throw into it and be able to walk into it in a year. There are things that 218 00:25:49.760 --> 00:25:57.760 were supposed to happen 15 years from now, but your seed is about to bypass seasons. Oh, baby, 219 00:25:57.760 --> 00:26:06.080 I got seed in the ground. I must walk in harvest. I must walk in overflow. I got seed in the ground. 220 00:26:06.080 --> 00:26:14.960 I can't be in lack. I got seed in the ground. I love how seed made me bypass the season. I didn't 221 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:22.160 have to do the whole five year plan. The Holy Spirit had a two week plan. Oh, I just need someone 222 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:31.520 to shout right there. I decree and declare that God's going to bring unusual supernatural speed to 223 00:26:31.520 --> 00:26:38.720 your harvest. Things that were supposed to take forever are going to happen now in Jesus name. 224 00:26:41.840 --> 00:26:48.480 All right. So Jesus is in the boat. Messes up. Peter's whole entire plan. And here's the mess 225 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:53.280 of things. Jesus in the boat and he's like, push me out a little bit. I don't know you. He doesn't 226 00:26:53.280 --> 00:26:58.640 know Jesus at this day and friends yet. They don't know each other. They don't have that kind of 227 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:04.480 relationship. Yeah, push me out a little bit so I could teach. Who's this random man coming in my boat? 228 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:11.680 Some of you say you know Jesus and don't even let him in your boat. 229 00:27:13.760 --> 00:27:18.720 Oh, that was good. God just gave me that one right there. 230 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:30.320 He starts teaching. And as he's teaching, the Bible says he stopped speaking. Oh, you see this 231 00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:34.160 terminology really messes me up. And I didn't say this in the first service. So y'all get in some 232 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:40.480 extra nuggets. Verse, verse four. Go to verse four. So he's teaching and says when he had stopped 233 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:50.080 speaking, he said. Hold on. He goes from teaching and then he has another speech that he starts 234 00:27:50.080 --> 00:27:59.600 giving. He goes, he has stopped speaking. He said, so he had a sermon for everyone. 235 00:28:02.560 --> 00:28:06.160 He had a message for the crowd because the Bible says there was a crowd. There's multitude 236 00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:13.120 there. And then he has a prophetic word for Peter. So he stopped the message for everyone and he 237 00:28:13.120 --> 00:28:25.840 said since I'm on your boat. You know, that's why sometimes you can hear a message and everyone 238 00:28:25.840 --> 00:28:31.840 can hear the same message and everyone has different results because the message was different 239 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:40.320 for the person who allowed Jesus on his boat. That word to launch out wasn't for everyone. It was 240 00:28:40.320 --> 00:28:47.840 for the person who said, all right, God, you could chill on my boat. This is why we can all be in 241 00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:52.080 the same place here in the same faith message and we can receive different things from it because 242 00:28:52.080 --> 00:28:57.680 some of you don't have Jesus on your boat. And so you don't get that internal witness on the inside 243 00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:03.280 that says, all right, when you show right here, I'm going to bless you. But when Jesus is on the boat, 244 00:29:03.280 --> 00:29:10.160 you get a message that everyone else doesn't get when I read this and blew my mind because I'm like, 245 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:16.960 hold on, Jesus is speaking and then he stopped speaking and then he said, which means within a 246 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:22.560 sermon, he got two sermons going on at once. There was a sermon for the multitude and it was, 247 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:30.240 God bless you, bless all the peacemakers for you. That's a good message, right? But then he had a 248 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:37.440 message for Peter and it was the gospel of the kingdom. He had a message for Peter that was 249 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:43.120 different than the message he had for everyone else. Everyone else bless you. Good things are going 250 00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:53.920 to happen. Peter, you're about to, you're about to reap crazy harvest. Peter, you're about to walk 251 00:29:53.920 --> 00:30:02.240 in crazy abundance. Peter, get ready for the supernatural grace that's coming over your life. 252 00:30:03.120 --> 00:30:09.600 Rule the reign of heaven, torrential rains are coming over your life. I hear the sounds of the 253 00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:15.600 abundance of rain. City light, let me tell you, there's a message for everyone and today God 254 00:30:15.600 --> 00:30:21.840 sent me to let you know there's a message for you. The message is get ready for the harvest that's 255 00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:30.320 coming. Get ready for the abundance of 2025. Get ready for the business opportunities. Get ready for 256 00:30:30.320 --> 00:30:36.880 the promotion. Get ready for the open doors. Get ready for the unexpected checks. Get ready for 257 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:44.640 the bonuses. Get ready for the increase. Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. Something big is on 258 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:55.120 its way. I love it. I got two different words, general word and a prophetic word. Oh, that's, 259 00:30:55.120 --> 00:30:58.960 you see, that's good preaching. Good preaching. Got general word. Then I got a rainbow word. 260 00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:05.360 You know, when he was preaching, it tells you in Mark 4. The gospel of the kingdom. 261 00:31:05.360 --> 00:31:14.160 He was preaching specifically on the power of seed. He was giving the four different seeds. 262 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:21.360 You're helping me preach my sermon. You need to grab this mic and preach. 263 00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:29.360 It's true. Mark chapter four. The four different types of seeds. And then he was like, 264 00:31:29.360 --> 00:31:35.600 let me do an illustrative sermon here. Let me illustrate what it looks like when 265 00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:47.360 seeds in a good place. You help me. I'm stealing that. Let me illustrate this for a second. 266 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:52.480 Oh, I did a good little teaching. The bird comes and takes the seed and then some fall fall on 267 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:57.200 thorny ground and then someone rocky and then the ones that fall on good ground and then here's 268 00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.800 the harvest that comes to the ones. All right, let me illustrate it right now. Peter, 269 00:32:00.800 --> 00:32:06.240 launch your net out. I'm going to show you what it looks like when harvest comes. 270 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:11.920 I declare and decree your life will be an illustrative sermon. 271 00:32:13.280 --> 00:32:20.000 God will begin to illustrate abundance and blessing and use your life as a witness and a conduit 272 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.560 where the world's going to look at your life and say, why are you so blessed? Why are so many 273 00:32:24.560 --> 00:32:30.800 doors open for you? How come where you're located? Doesn't match your resume? How come where you live? 274 00:32:30.800 --> 00:32:36.000 Doesn't match your bank account, baby? I'm blessed. It's called being blessed. I'm blessed in the city. 275 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:41.520 I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed when they come. I'm blessed when they go. I am the head and not 276 00:32:41.520 --> 00:32:51.600 the tail. When he had South speaking, he said to Simon, launch out into the deep and let your 277 00:32:51.600 --> 00:32:57.760 nets for a catch. Look at verse 5. But Simon answered and said to him, master, we've told all night 278 00:32:57.760 --> 00:33:02.480 and caught nothing. All right, so here's the second thing. Here's what's going to happen. 279 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:09.840 When God tells you to do something that's going to take faith, that's going to take you stretching 280 00:33:09.840 --> 00:33:16.560 out and doing and believing for the impossible, your past is always going to stand in the way. 281 00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:24.800 Look at this. He answered. He said, I've toiled all night. We've tried everything and it hasn't worked. 282 00:33:24.800 --> 00:33:32.800 But I gave already God. But I prayed already God. But I believed already God. But I hoped already God. 283 00:33:32.800 --> 00:33:38.640 And I caught nothing. Not like I got one or two fish. Not that I got a little 284 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:49.200 eye tried everything. I tried this marriage thing before. I caught nothing. I tried this life thing 285 00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:56.640 before. I caught nothing. I've given to you before and I believe and I caught nothing. And God's 286 00:33:56.640 --> 00:34:04.320 like, here's what I want to tell you. This season will not look like your last season. 287 00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:12.240 I don't care how bad it was because here's the difference between your last season and this 288 00:34:12.240 --> 00:34:18.240 season and it's right here in the text. Never the less at your word. Can I tell you the 289 00:34:18.240 --> 00:34:26.080 difference between last season and this season? You got a word? See, it's not by accident we're 290 00:34:26.080 --> 00:34:30.480 preaching on abundance because God is stirring something in the body of Christ to let us know we're 291 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:35.600 not meant to be broke. The world is not meant to prosper while we're struggling. No, 292 00:34:35.600 --> 00:34:41.440 no, that's not our portion. You were not meant to die in that one bedroom apartment. No, no, no. 293 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:49.840 Cramped up with a bunch of stuff. The devil is a liar. That is not God's best for you. 294 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:59.840 You got a word. You know what makes things completely different for everyone else in the world? 295 00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:05.600 You got a word. When the markets try to scare you and the economists try to scare you and 296 00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:13.360 Trump has tariffs and all this stuff. I got a word. I don't care who is president. If 297 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:21.680 come of the one, I got a word. Trump's the winner. I got a word. I don't care who's in office. 298 00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:27.440 I don't care who's in charge of whatever departments. I got a word. They're cutting federal funding 299 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:33.440 for everything. I got a word because my money is not predicated on the government, this 300 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:42.800 earthly government. I'm part of a kingdom that cannot be shaken. I'm part of that kingdom. 301 00:35:44.640 --> 00:35:49.360 So they can cut everything. Cut it. I don't care because I got a promise. I got a word. 302 00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:55.440 I got a word. I just need three people to say I got a word. 303 00:35:59.200 --> 00:36:03.040 And you know what the word does the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the 304 00:36:05.520 --> 00:36:11.120 so what does the word do? It instills a level of faith in you. It activates your faith where you 305 00:36:11.120 --> 00:36:14.640 are like, man, I'll just believe it for so small. I'll just believe it. I just want three 306 00:36:14.720 --> 00:36:18.080 clients this year, God. And God's like, I'm trying to do exceeding abundant. 307 00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:24.720 A word from God activates your faith. It stirs you up to go, I got to believe for more. 308 00:36:25.680 --> 00:36:31.840 I got to believe for more. I got a word. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net. 309 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:41.120 Verse six. And when they had done this, they called a great number of fish and their net was 310 00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:46.320 breaking. Go back. Can we go back a little bit? Because I don't know if you saw this in the text, 311 00:36:47.120 --> 00:36:53.120 but I thought Peter obeyed God, but he didn't. I'm proven to you. Like, nah, he did. Look, 312 00:36:54.560 --> 00:37:01.600 let me prove it to you. Go back. Go back. Right there. When he has stopped speaking, he said to Simon, 313 00:37:01.600 --> 00:37:07.120 he's given Simon a prophetic word, Simon. Here's what I want you to do. I know you didn't catch 314 00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:14.720 anything, but you know what? Launch your nets into a deeper part. He let his net down, 315 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:27.760 he said, launch out into the deep and let your nets. Something has an S at the end. It's what. 316 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:38.640 Go to verse five. But Simon answered and said to him, master, I've told all night and called 317 00:37:38.640 --> 00:37:41.600 nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the 318 00:37:41.600 --> 00:37:57.440 net. Hold on a second. The whole time reading the text, I thought Peter fully obeyed God. 319 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:03.200 And he let down the net. But Jesus didn't say let down the net. 320 00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:11.040 Jesus was saying there's an abundance that's in store for you. Okay, can I teach you all a little 321 00:38:11.040 --> 00:38:17.760 bit about net fishing for a second? It was very challenging to do net fishing because once you put 322 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:23.440 your net in the water, it was like a two hour process just to clean the nets because you had to 323 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:28.080 clean it in a way where you got all the saltwater off of it. If you didn't, it will begin to get 324 00:38:28.080 --> 00:38:32.880 hard and it won't be malleable anymore. So when you try to catch another fish or catch multiple 325 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:38.080 fish, what would happen is your net was so hard that it could not expand and it will begin to break 326 00:38:38.080 --> 00:38:43.760 and then all the fish will start falling out of the net. So, Peter's like, I don't want to go through 327 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:52.160 the process anymore because last time it didn't work out the way I thought it would. Last time, 328 00:38:52.160 --> 00:38:58.720 God, I gave and you didn't bless me. Last time I sold and I didn't see a harvest. Last time I 329 00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:04.480 believed you and I didn't experience what you said I was going to experience. I'm not doing this 330 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:12.720 again. Let me just put down one net. Playing it safe. You know, when you play it safe, you get a safe 331 00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:23.120 harvest. Amen. When you play it safe, you only get a limited harvest. You want to walk in abundance, 332 00:39:23.120 --> 00:39:28.720 you can't play it safe. You see, I'm not going to leave this earth not getting everything God has 333 00:39:28.720 --> 00:39:33.520 for me. I'm not going to leave this earth not walking in the fullness of what God has ordained 334 00:39:33.520 --> 00:39:40.160 for my life. No, I'm not leaving this earth without walking in abundance. The abundance got 335 00:39:40.160 --> 00:39:49.680 promised me in his word. Because, oh, can I say prosperity was not promised by some preacher on TV. 336 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:57.680 It was not contrived by the word of faith movement. It was not contrived by humans. It was divine. 337 00:39:58.560 --> 00:40:05.040 God instituted blessing and prosperity. And if he instituted it, I want to walk in it. 338 00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:13.440 I don't care how many people abuse it and use it and misuse it and misappropriate it. I want 339 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:19.440 everything God has for me. And that's when we do a lot of times in the church, right? People use 340 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:23.840 things and misuse it and abuse it so we just throw it to the side like it's not needed. That's when we 341 00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:29.680 do a prosperity because there's a lot of preachers on TV not realizing that's the point 1% of preachers 342 00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:34.960 on this earth. Yeah, there's people that abuse this. I don't care about those that abuse it. 343 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:41.120 This is a real biblical principle that allows you to walk into harvest. You can't miss it because 344 00:40:41.120 --> 00:40:47.760 of the few people that take advantage. I'm not going to give to church because church people still, 345 00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:55.280 okay, we know the three people that steal their faces all over the place. But I'm not missing my 346 00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:06.240 harvest because of past hurts. Look how Peter didn't want to put all the nets down because of 347 00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:13.280 the past. I don't want to give them. I don't want to be involved. I don't want them because I've 348 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:20.960 been through this. That's how we sound. And God's like, I have a plan of abundance and all I'm asking 349 00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:27.760 is for your full obedience. We don't talk about obedience anymore in church because there's two 350 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:34.320 things that bring harvest. Faith and obedience. And they work in tandem. It's like they're a married 351 00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:43.760 couple. They hold hands. Can't have one without the other. If you're willing and obedient, 352 00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:53.680 you'll eat the good of the land. They walk in tandem. You believe and you obey. And then that's how 353 00:41:53.680 --> 00:42:00.000 you walk into harvest. It took Peter two things. He had to believe this man who was talking on the 354 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:06.640 boat had a specific prophetic word for him. And then he had to obey. And then he believed partially 355 00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:11.040 and then he obeyed partially. The Bible says, nevertheless at your word, I will let down the 356 00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:15.440 I'm going to need y'all to do that again because y'all died on me right there. 357 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:25.680 Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the good, the net. And then look what 358 00:42:26.160 --> 00:42:33.120 I'm so good. Look what verse 6 says. And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish 359 00:42:33.120 --> 00:42:41.520 and there was a breaking. You know, if they had nets there, 360 00:42:41.520 --> 00:42:58.960 because they had one net, it could not handle the harvest that God had already pre-ordained for 361 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:09.920 them to walk into. There's pre-ordained blessings that God has for you pre-ordained opportunities 362 00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:19.360 open doors. But one net is not enough. But God, I don't want to start that business. That's 363 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:25.760 another net. But God, I don't want to apply for that job. That's another net. Well, I know you're 364 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:31.440 telling me to move, but I don't want to move because I'm comfortable. My rate is only $1,500. I'm 365 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:43.920 grandfathered in all the New Yorkers know what I'm talking about. That's a net. And God said, 366 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:56.080 I want to give you nets. Will you obey me and launch out into the deep? Will you obey me and 367 00:43:56.080 --> 00:44:02.240 completely do everything I tell you to do? It's to the point where they could have gotten more, 368 00:44:02.240 --> 00:44:07.360 but look what verse 7 says. So they signaled to their partners. It was a harvest that was supposed 369 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:14.000 to be all for Simon. And now he had to share his harvest. You know, has a Holy Spirit ever given 370 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:17.680 you an idea and then like a year or two years later, you see someone develop the app for it? 371 00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:25.200 Or is he someone came up with the concept and you're like, darn, I just missed it. That was a net. 372 00:44:28.080 --> 00:44:32.880 That was, hey, I want a buttoness to hit this area of your life. I gave you that idea for a reason, 373 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:36.320 not to just sit on it and it for me to give it to someone else. 374 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:43.680 Harvest that was supposed to be for Peter. He had to share it. 375 00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:56.800 Because he didn't let down the nets. Hey, let's hurry up because my net's breaking. It was supposed 376 00:44:56.800 --> 00:45:06.400 to be nets. And I never understood this verse until now, verse 8. When Simon Peter saw it, he 377 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:13.760 fell down at Jesus and he's saying, depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord. I never got that 378 00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:19.680 verse until now. He was saying, I'm sinful because there was a harvest I was supposed to walk into 379 00:45:19.680 --> 00:45:34.320 God, but I missed it by not completely obeying you. Imagine the God who holds cattle on a thousand 380 00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:43.440 hills, the God of the universe who created all things has prepared blessing for you and he's like, 381 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:51.120 just obey me and you'll be able to walk into it. Just believe me. You'll be able to walk into it. 382 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:55.120 And then you go to heaven and God's like, you only got one fifth. 383 00:45:59.120 --> 00:46:02.000 Yeah, you'll get a mansion up here, but you supposed to have a mansion down there. 384 00:46:04.640 --> 00:46:10.000 Boy, that feels good. Oh, you're impressed with the streets paved with gold. You supposed to have gold 385 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:20.000 all over. Oh, you're impressed by the grandeur and the opulence. Your life was supposed to be filled 386 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:28.880 with grandeur and opulence, but you didn't let your nets down. So you missed out on the harvest. 387 00:46:30.240 --> 00:46:37.040 I'm sorry, God. See, this is the moment to be like, God, I see the opportunities you've given me 388 00:46:37.040 --> 00:46:41.680 and I miss them. I will not miss the next moment. 389 00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:51.680 Can I share testimony and then we're good to go? Is that cool with everyone? Oh, let's do this last 390 00:46:51.680 --> 00:47:01.040 verse, verse 9. For he and all who were with him were astonished. Hold on, Peter, this is his job. 391 00:47:01.680 --> 00:47:06.640 He's a fisherman and he's like, I'd never seen this much fish before. 392 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:15.680 Because one word from God. You don't need anything but one word from God. 393 00:47:17.200 --> 00:47:22.320 You think you need man's approval. You don't even need man's approval. One word from God can turn 394 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:32.000 everything around. I remember at the end of 2019, I shared this testimony at the earlier service. 395 00:47:32.640 --> 00:47:37.360 The Lord challenged me to sow a five figure seed. At the end of the year, me and my wife 396 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:42.080 we tried to sow a seed, a significant seed. It was a five figure seed. We were saving up to buy a 397 00:47:42.080 --> 00:47:46.400 house. We already had that first house that was given to us, but we weren't we weren't to buy 398 00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:50.080 another house, so we were saving up some money to buy a house. We have money saved up in the 399 00:47:50.080 --> 00:47:55.680 Lord said, take all that money that you have saved up and I want you to sow it. Five figures. 400 00:47:55.680 --> 00:47:59.280 I'm not talking about something small. I'm not talking like crying over a hundred dollars. 401 00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:07.840 Amen. There's a church for you. Oh my gosh, I'd give two hundred dollars today. My life is over. 402 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:19.600 I'm talking about life altering giving. Giving that means it cost you something. 403 00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:27.680 You remember when David wanted that land and he was like, King, you can have it. It's yours. 404 00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:34.880 And he goes, I will not give God something that cost me nothing. 405 00:48:37.040 --> 00:48:40.000 And that was the same land that they built the temple on. 406 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:50.240 The land he said, I'm going to pay full price plus. Was the land that God used as worship? 407 00:48:53.680 --> 00:48:57.440 You think you're giving is nothing. No, you're giving is the place where God can show up. 408 00:48:58.160 --> 00:49:05.360 All right, let me get back to my story. You're all ready for the story? So, Lord, 409 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:09.920 tell me the soul, this five figure seed and I was like, okay, God. So I want, I actually want 410 00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:14.240 tomorrow, if I said, the Lord told me to sow this significance seed, all the money we have in 411 00:49:14.240 --> 00:49:20.480 savings. She said, all right, I've got to tell you to do it. Do it. I love this woman. I mean, 412 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:25.760 she's the best. Her name is Christ line. She's a line to Christ. 413 00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:31.600 Her name says it all. I don't care. You don't have to believe it. I believe it. This woman, 414 00:49:31.600 --> 00:49:36.720 she's the closest person to Jesus that I know. I'm like, God, can I know you like she knows you? 415 00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:45.040 So she's like, okay, yeah, if the Lord told you, she said, you know, here's the thing. You got to 416 00:49:45.040 --> 00:49:50.320 have a resume. Some of you like, my wife doesn't trust me because you go out and spend your money or 417 00:49:50.320 --> 00:50:04.000 not since. I got a resume. I say, babe, the Lord's telling us to do this and guess what happens on 418 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:09.840 the other side of it. It may be rocky, but then on the other side, abundance. And she's like, 419 00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:16.000 oh, yeah, I think God did tell you that. So next time I say, the Lord told me, and I don't play 420 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:21.200 around with the Lord told me, I don't do that often, right? But when I do it, it's always something 421 00:50:21.200 --> 00:50:29.040 that's like, ooh, uncomfortable. God told me. I'm like, God told me, I, babe, I remember last time 422 00:50:29.040 --> 00:50:36.240 he came through. So I'm ready. So look, this five-figure seed. And I sowed it three ways. 423 00:50:37.040 --> 00:50:42.080 I sowed it to my spiritual father. I gave him a part of the seed. I sowed it to someone on my level 424 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:46.720 in ministry. And then I sowed to someone who was up and coming in ministry. So I sowed in three 425 00:50:46.720 --> 00:50:54.720 levels. And I sowed at 10,000. It wasn't a tie. It was an offering. And the beginning of 2020, 426 00:50:54.720 --> 00:51:00.240 oh, my gosh, blessing, favor. I'm like, oh, God, I got a sow like this all the time. 427 00:51:00.560 --> 00:51:08.320 Things were just blooming, blossoming, amazing. March comes. COVID, boom. Everything shuts down. 428 00:51:09.680 --> 00:51:16.560 Ooh, okay, God. I started doubting. God, I could have saved my 10,000 dollars. For this time, 429 00:51:16.560 --> 00:51:22.080 how come you had me give it? And God's like, you don't got to worry. You got seed in the ground. 430 00:51:22.080 --> 00:51:35.360 You know, I declare that even in the midst of famine, that the Lord's going to bless you so 431 00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:44.960 big, it's going to blow your mind. What does the Bible say about Isaac? He sowed in the time of 432 00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:54.560 famine and he received 100 fold. I declare that in the midst of whatever economic issues hit this 433 00:51:54.560 --> 00:52:02.400 nation, no matter how bad it gets, no matter how bleak it gets, no matter how challenging it gets, 434 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:10.240 because your seed is in the ground. You will reap harvest even in the midst of famine in Jesus name. 435 00:52:10.240 --> 00:52:22.400 Okay, so I'm like, oh, God, I started doubting. Listen, going fast, first day I'm fasting. Baby, 436 00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:28.240 remember, right? Second day I'm fasting. And I'm not just fasting, not eating food. It's not a 437 00:52:28.240 --> 00:52:35.120 diet. I'm pressing into the presence of God. And it's not about money. I'm just pressing in 438 00:52:35.120 --> 00:52:39.600 like God, you got to speak. God, you have to move. God, you have to speak. And I'm pressing, 439 00:52:39.600 --> 00:52:44.000 pressing, pressing. I'm praying six, seven hours a day, pressing, pressing, pressing, 440 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:49.280 on the third day your pastor calls me. He didn't know this story until I shared it earlier. 441 00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:56.640 He called me and it shocked me. He called me and said, I want to do something for you. 442 00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:08.880 Okay, God. He said, I want our church to take up an offering for you. He says, and I want you 443 00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:13.360 to share the offering with all your friends and your family and whatever is given, the church will 444 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:25.040 double it. Church raised close to $20,000, doubled it, gave me a check for $40,000. I said, okay, 445 00:53:25.040 --> 00:53:34.880 God. I see you showing out. Let's go. Lord says, keep fasting. I said, all right, I fasted 446 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:40.720 the fourth day. It was either the fourth of the fifth day. I get a phone call. Someone called 447 00:53:40.720 --> 00:53:49.760 me and said, hey, I have some money here from a retirement. I got all my money from retirement. 448 00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:54.960 I wanted to give you some of the money. I was like, okay, cool. I'm thinking like a couple of 449 00:53:54.960 --> 00:54:10.640 thousand, whatever. Yeah, I'm going to write you a $60,000 check. I fasted fifth day, six day. 450 00:54:10.640 --> 00:54:15.120 I was getting calls every day, baby. Remember this? Every day, one of my ministry partners called 451 00:54:15.680 --> 00:54:23.040 me, hey, I just wanted to give you $8,000. Okay. Other ministry partners, here's 5,000. Here's 452 00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:31.680 2,000. By the time the week was over, I made more money in that week than I ever made in a whole 453 00:54:31.680 --> 00:54:50.560 entire year of work. Toiling, working or believing, you got a choice to make. Let one net down and 454 00:54:50.560 --> 00:54:56.880 get some or God, I don't have any other choice but to trust you. I'm going to give like I really 455 00:54:56.880 --> 00:55:04.480 believe that you're the God of breakthrough and you're the God of abundance and you're the God 456 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:09.360 of more than enough. I'm not just going to give something that doesn't cost me something. 457 00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:15.200 I'm going to give believing that you're the God who owns cattle on a thousand hills 458 00:55:16.640 --> 00:55:22.000 and that you're the God of overflow. That's the way to walk into this. 459 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:32.560 It's not a gimmick. It's not a get rich, quick scheme. It's a principle in the kingdom that 460 00:55:32.560 --> 00:55:41.600 blesses people that God instituted from Genesis all the way to Revelation. If you want to be blessed, 461 00:55:42.160 --> 00:55:49.760 if you want to walk in abundance, live my faith and obey me in every area and you will be blessed. 462 00:55:52.000 --> 00:56:01.200 It's something you like but I live in New York. Your blessings not predicated on location. It's 463 00:56:01.200 --> 00:56:07.440 predicated on Revelation. You can live in Timbuktu. You got this revelation. You'll be blessed. 464 00:56:08.640 --> 00:56:15.120 You can live in the most Muslim country in Indonesia. You got this word inside of you. You'll be blessed. 465 00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:23.520 You can live in the poorest of the poorest and you got this word on the inside of you. It will bless you. 466 00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:29.520 This is not about location. It's about revelation. That's why the scripture says, 467 00:56:29.520 --> 00:56:32.240 you'll be blessed in the city. You'll be blessed in the field. You'll be blessed when you come. 468 00:56:32.240 --> 00:56:36.880 You'll be blessed when you go, hey, I'm not letting anything out of the line. Anywhere you go, 469 00:56:36.880 --> 00:56:49.600 blessing God to follow you. Let's lift up our hands. Father, I release the blessing of Abraham 470 00:56:49.600 --> 00:56:59.920 on every one of these people. You promise Abraham three things. Land, children, and blessing. 471 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:07.040 And I declare it and speak it over every one of these people. Lord, I decree and declare that 472 00:57:07.040 --> 00:57:13.120 they're stepping out into harvest like they've never seen before. I speak Deuteronomy 8 verse 18 over 473 00:57:13.120 --> 00:57:20.800 them that you are giving them power to be wealthy and to walk into abundance. I decree and 474 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:25.840 declare that their cup runs over and that goodness and mercy follows them all the days of their 475 00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:31.360 lives. They're living in a land of abundance. Wealth and riches are in their house and they 476 00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:38.800 shall see the goodness of the Lord and the land of the living. God, I believe that you're pouring out 477 00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:46.160 fresh oil on your people, that their vats are being filled with fresh wine. I decree and declare 478 00:57:46.160 --> 00:57:51.600 that harvest is coming to their homes, to their businesses, to their family, to everything that 479 00:57:51.600 --> 00:57:57.840 they put their hands to. I speak the blessing of Joshua over them that wherever they put their feet, 480 00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:08.000 they shall be blessed. They shall dwell in a land flowing with milk and honey in Jesus' name. 481 00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:15.440 If you believe it, say yes. Now, can you give God just a shout for the next 30 seconds? 482 00:58:15.520 --> 00:58:18.560 Hallelujah! 483 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:26.640 Come on, thank you for the abundance that's coming. Thank you for the open doors that's coming. 484 00:58:27.200 --> 00:58:33.040 Thank you for the supernatural he's releasing. Come on, lift up your hands and give him a praise. 485 00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:42.880 This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message, 486 00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:47.360 or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, 487 00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:56.880 visit us at citylightnyc.com. That's citylightnyc.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. 488 00:58:56.880 --> 00:59:02.320 We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today. That you have 489 00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:09.200 been reminded how much God loves you and that you are surrounded by grace. Thank you for listening. 490 00:59:09.200 --> 00:59:14.080 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts 491 00:59:14.080 --> 00:59:18.400 worldwide.