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Nobody tells on social media how crazy their day was.

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They will always talk about their work crying

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till they lift it up that cup and say, oh my god, that coffee.

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And they're going to talk about the bagels in New York

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and they're going to talk about their style and stuff

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but they've been going through the valley.

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Let me tell you the scripture says,

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God meets you in the valley.

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The valleys are the making places.

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Every time that God has done something in my life

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it has been in the valley, not on the mountain top.

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

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Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's word

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and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

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If you want to connect with City Light Church,

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feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com

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that's citylightnyc.com.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit

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is already working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching,

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remember that you are deeply loved by God,

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that you are surrounded by His grace

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and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Bonnie Andrews is with us here this morning.

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Open up your heart.

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By the way, welcome to those of you joining us online.

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I didn't forget about you.

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Open your hearts too.

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Open your laptop wide and your heart extra big.

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And put your hands together one more time

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as we welcome Pastor Boyan.

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Thank you.

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Morning City Light, make some noise.

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Come on, as Pastor said, I hear the sound of victory.

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Let me tell you one more sound that I hear

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is the sound of restoration church.

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Did you hear me right?

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I hear the sound of restoration.

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Did you hear me right?

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I hear the sound of restoration.

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Everything that is broken, everything that is dead,

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it is coming back to life.

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And if you believe it, say amen and amen.

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I'm telling you I'm so honored to be here in this church.

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This is one of my favorite places to preach.

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And you're going to help me preach, right church?

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And in ministry, you know that you have, you know,

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you feel like, you know, I was checking my contact list the other day

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on my phone is over 5,000 people out there.

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And many times you know that you have many of them are acquaintances

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and you have few friends.

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And this is my brother right here, Pastor Boyan.

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You know, we've been, we've been joined in the spirit,

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joined in mission, you know, and I get to hang out.

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We're neighbors and we get to hang out for coffee.

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I haven't been here for a, for a New York minute, right Pastor James?

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It's been a New York minute since I got here.

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But Pastor and I, you know, we get to hang out.

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We do life. We talk stuff.

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And he's my valley brother.

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He's my brother that I can talk and chat and pray.

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And I'm so grateful.

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I want you guys to put your hands together for Pastor Boyan.

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Annoying to handsome, good looking.

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Put your hands together one more time.

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And the most elegant graceful Emily, come on, give it up.

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And I want to say, hey, listen, I want to, I'm so grateful.

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I just want to start off with Graham just rubbing on to Pastor Boyan right here.

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But I want to say, I'm so grateful for the leadership of this church.

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I want to honor the deacons, the leaders, the, the people that serve in this church.

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You know, they bring me the best coffee, hallelujah.

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They know that if it's good coffee, it's good anointing.

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Amen.

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I want to thank God for the pastors, the good looking pastors out here.

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Every time I come here, I feel, I feel convicted in my spirit about uping my, my, my shoe game.

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Like many circles I go to, they're like, bro, and I come here and I'm like, bro, I'm,

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I'm repenting, Lord, I'm repenting.

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I need to go to the next level.

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So if you need that impartation, these pastors will be here to pray for you

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and upgrade your, your shoe game.

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But, uh, and then I tell people I come from the land of curry.

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I'm officially known in some circles as the curry men.

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And I was in NYU and I said some jokes and the guys call up and said,

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I want to thank God for curry and he thought my last name is curry.

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Listen, I tell people I come from the land of curry.

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I live in the land of curry, but today we're going to, we're going to receive from the Holy Spirit.

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And that reminds me to, you know, thank God for the worship team.

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Come on, guys, listen.

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Oh my God.

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Some churches that I go, it's like a boom, those are, I'm like, you know,

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the worship reader is like, it's like trying to take everybody on a journey.

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Here, I'm telling you, they are, they come prayed in.

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They come prepared in and they come to the altar.

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They don't have to wake up to five.

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There's already fire in the altar.

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There's a hungry group of people.

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I want to thank God for Sean.

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I love him more because we come from the same holy land.

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And, uh, you know, Sean, thank you.

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Thank you for yourointing.

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Thank you for your heart.

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Thank you for, uh, you know, he's got three girls.

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I've got three boys.

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I said, at some point, we're going to be talking.

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Because from where I come from, there is the dowry and we don't give men just like that.

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We got a talk, right?

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We're going to talk.

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What is it?

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It's going to come in houses and cars.

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Bitcoin, is that Bitcoin?

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I mean, we don't know.

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I mean, we, I'm just learning.

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So, uh, I'm, I'm so happy to be here.

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I feel like I just, I told the Lord God, you know,

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help me to have fun preaching the gospel this morning.

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I just want to bring greetings from a ministry before that of my wife.

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And my, uh, my, this is my wife's roommate here.

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If she was here, we came with my boys, uh, you know,

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I keep reading the word and the Bible says,

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be fruitful and multiply.

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That word multiply just keeps popping up to me.

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And I'm like, baby, we got a multiply and she's like,

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we got three boys and she's like, we time out.

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You can say no.

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She said, time out.

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So, uh, she's here.

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She was here, uh, you know, and a couple that shares a coffee,

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lives together happy ever after.

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So, uh, the guys got me the coffee and just like shared it with her.

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And she was, she's good.

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And also have my great family visiting from Philadelphia,

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John Paulus and, uh, the family.

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Give it up for these guys.

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You'll, sometimes you're friends for two years, five years.

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And, uh, I remember my mentor Dr.

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Aaron Bernard says, some people coming for a season,

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some coming for a reason and some coming for a lifetime.

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This is the over 25, uh, I don't know if it's over 25 years.

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Of friendship and doing life together.

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Life means like I don't have to hide anything.

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Everything is bare open.

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So, I'm so grateful for this great family business leader, uh,

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leads a corporation.

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Now, sits on our board.

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So, just giving you a quick update, uh, I'm doing the elongated version

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because we got time right past James.

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Okay, the timer's working.

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The last time I was here, it was like,

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Joshua, he prayed and he, the sun stood still.

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The timer was still at 30.

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Lang, I'm like, Lord, you have done it again.

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Uh, so, uh, I'm so grateful for what God is doing.

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Listen, I'm an evangelist, uh, evangelist, go.

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Okay, uh, so, uh, we keep going and preaching the gospel.

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I'm a missionary from India to America.

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Okay, God loves America so much that he's pushing people that look like us

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when your parents are in their 70s and you want to hang in tight with them

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and you want to be closer to them.

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God has taken us away to be on mission.

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So, here we are in New York and reaching the college campuses.

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For the last 20 years, we've reached over 3.2 million students

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in 186 cities around the world.

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And then here, come on, give it up for the Lord.

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Each of those numbers represent a person.

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Right, uh, you know, and those kids I've been listening and heard the gospel

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about in this season, we've been here in America.

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God's given us a deep burden for the college students.

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Over 70% of the kids, my kids are going to school.

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Like in the next three years, my eldest one,

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he's just officially a teenager, he's going to be in college.

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70% of the kids that walk in from a, from a Christian home will lose their fate

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when the moment they step into a college.

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I heard a Catholic father say, it's not about even 70%.

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He, he, he caught even a higher number of the, the Catholic priest

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telling about the status of the, of the American church and the kids.

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So we get to go to these college campuses and share the gospel.

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So we were in Queens College, anybody from Queens College right around the corner here.

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You know, uh, uh, one of the reasons are we, we got to share the gospel, uh,

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and uh, over 250 students came to this event and the campus ministries and that

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college said, this is for the first time we have done such a large event.

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A big production, you know, and, and, and, and publicly proclaiming the gospel and 17

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documented decisions and working with some of the top five campus ministries,

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crew, university, navigators, Chi Alpha, uh, and, uh, you know, and all of these great guys,

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we had a great time and October 9th, uh, we're going to be in Stanford University.

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Praise the Lord. On the other, on the side of the world, like we're in the West Coast,

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like I told, telling somebody, it's like a seven hour flight to get to SFO.

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You know, it's like on this side, I'll probably in London eating some scones and sip

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and some tea, right? But we are here on the West Side, preaching the gospel.

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We're going to be in, uh, in the Bahamas in one of the key universities, the university,

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Bahamas of October 28th and November 2nd, we're going to be in Hong Kong,

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we're going to the Middle East, we're going to be in India before the end of the year.

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We believe that either you go big or you go bigger.

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We don't go home. We just go bigger. Amen. So, you know, and so that's just a quick update about

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all that's happening in the ministry. Are you ready for the word of God?

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I'm excited because I feel like I'm bringing a word from the Lord for you this season.

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And, uh, when I, when I was praying for this church and as person I was talking,

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you know, I heard the word restoration. I have no idea what you're going through,

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but let me tell you something at the end of the service. There's only one word that you

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would take back. It would be the word. Can you say that again? The word is restoration. She can

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do better. The word is this side, this side, this side. All right, the word is restoration. I want

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you to get your attention to Ezekiel chapter 37. This is, uh, you know, let me just give you the

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big picture. This is about the people of Israel. You know, the people of Israel were in captivity

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in Babylon. You know, they've been separated. They've been beaten and they've been like scattered

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all over the place. And Ezekiel begins to prophesy. Every time a prophetic word comes,

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it is probably the prophetic word is always the opposite of what you're going through.

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When you're broke, there's going to be a word about abundance. Amen. When you're full,

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there's going to be a word about generosity. Amen. And you've got to like, you feel like,

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oh, Lord, thank you for blessing me. And then the next time that you walk in, you're hearing about

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generosity, I was listening to the happiness guru, which is a group. I mean, I forgot his name. He

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is, uh, he's based out of Harvard. And he said, just forget about the scripture, just logic,

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just logic calculation. Every time you give a dollar for charity, not just for church, just

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cross the board. Every time you give a dollar, it comes back as 1.6. So not just the Bible saying,

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given, you know, Pastor James tell them about it, like, you know, give and it will come back to you.

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This is just that's around. Every person that is generous to people, you know, it comes back.

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It comes back 1.6. So here we are talking about the fact that, you know, we are, we are together,

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this word, the prophetic word is coming. And Ezekiel prophesies over the people of Israel that you are

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going to, no matter how dead you are, you're going to come back together. Now, look at this,

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1947. There was no nation called Israel. There was no official state. And in 1947, all of these

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custod coming together. And finally, we have an official state, which is the nation of Israel.

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This is the fulfillment or partial fulfillment of this scripture. So I'm here to tell you,

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every word that you're going to hear is going to be the word of God. And the word of God,

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as it has been declared, and as you receive it, it will not come back until it has accomplished

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the purpose for which it has been sent. Amen? And for all the people who are the first service,

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help me preach the word, say, hallelujah, more. Amen. Do you believe it? Amen. So here we are in

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this book. So let's just pray together. Father, thank you in the name of Jesus. I ask every

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heart to be open right now in the name of Jesus. Every mind-lining spirit, every distraction,

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every thought about tomorrow that is weighing them, every depressing thought, every anxious thought,

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everything I cancel it right now in the name of Jesus. I pray for open hearts, for this word

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to be falling in fertile soil to bring about an exponential harvest in Jesus' mighty name.

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Amen. All right. Let's go to Ezekiel chapter one. Let's start reading the scripture. I want you

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to read with me. Let's go. Ezekiel 37 was one. The hand of the Lord was on me. And he brought me

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by the spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. Okay? Let me

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tell you something. The Bible says, those who are led by the spirit of God are the sons,

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and if you want to say sons and daughters of the living God. Amen. So if, you know, I'm telling

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I feel like I need to talk to a few people here. You grew up in such abusive backgrounds,

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or you grew up in environments that people said names over you, that declared things over you,

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they had nicknames for you, and you have been a recipient of the words that have been spoken

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over you. And this morning I want to declare with the authority that is on me that you are not

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what other people think you are. You are not what you think you are. You are what God thinks you are.

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For all the women in the room, that feels like everybody that you are looking at social media

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and all of these things and putting on the craziest makeup to be attractive. You are not what the

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makeup says you are. You are not what social media says you are. The Bible says, let me just tell

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you, for every woman in this room, you are precious and priceless. You are beautiful.

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You don't have to be weighing down by the spirit of comparison, which is the spirit of this world,

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it's more so in the spirit of New York. For all the men you feel like beaten down, let me tell you

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something, you are bold and handsome and you are more than a conqueror in Jesus name.

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But the Scripture says the hand of the Lord was upon me and he brought me by the spirit right

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in the middle of a valley. Now listen, we live in this world where social media glorifies

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witchfries, right? Every Instagram reel, I mean I was telling somebody in the first service,

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I'm going through major formal right now. What is formal for all the Gen Z people? Fear of,

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fear of missing out, yeah. Fear of missing out. So all my mates, all the people that I know

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that in the larger world, across the world, they're all at this place called the Lausanne gathering,

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having 5,000 leaders coming in from 225 countries and this is probably the largest gathering every

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decade that Billy Graham started and they're all there and everybody and I prayed much for it for

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the last couple of months, God should I go, I don't get a word from the Lord to go. So I stayed

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back but now I cannot even switch on Instagram because they're talking about Korean barbecue,

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people are sending me videos of the large giant LED screens and they have like spiritual

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tongue, it is going to be like the taste of heaven, it's going to be like every people from every tribe

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and tongue and you know all of that stuff and I'm going to so I deleted the Instagram app

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because I don't want to be, you know I'm telling that is the plan of the enemies to always get

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you distracted. You've got to live in the now, the obedient now, I've got to do what God is asking

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me to do, I cannot be distracted by the people, I cannot be distracted, everything else.

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The devil and everything else in this world wants to stay and take you away from the focus.

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Hebrews chapter 12, looking at Jesus, the author and the perfector, sometimes that means

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I have to say no to a lot of things. If I need to say yes to something that God wants me to do

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and now in the last one week, in the last 10 days I know why I didn't go because there's

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greater things happening in the life of my family that is happening now that I need to be here,

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not in so Korea, talking about the greatest Korean barbecue. So we live in a world that people

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talk about victories than valleys. Nobody tells on social media how crazy their day was.

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that coffee and they're going to talk about the bagels in New York and they're going to talk about

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their style and stuff but they've been going through the valley. Let me tell you the scripture says

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God meets you in the valley. The valleys are the making places. Every time that God has done

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something in my life, it has been in the valley, not in the mountain tops. The mountain tops

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are places to celebrate. You know our passage is to wave the flag and say we got here, we climbed

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out of the valley but let me tell you the valley is a right place. The valley is a dark place.

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The valley is a place where you're running alone sometimes. A valley is a place where God is

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is like you in the processing room back in the day before digital photography. They had to actually

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take, click a film, take it into the back end and develop it right and you know turn the negative,

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you are that going through in the life of God. It is a valleys that make you. My first point is

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God meets you in the valley. God meets you in the valley. The word valley in the Hebrew word is

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the word emek. It just doesn't describe, not just describes it to geographical location.

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It talks about our lives, our place of difficulty, suffering, spiritual dryness,

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is anybody feeling that? I felt it. I felt the way my spirit is dry. I feel like I can't

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pray anymore. I feel like I don't have the energy to read the word but let me tell you something.

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You are going through a valley where God is working in use. Anybody with me?

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Four things that happen in the valley. The valley is the most fertile place. The valley is where

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the growth is. The valley is where God builds you. The number one thing I want to say is that God

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reveals his presence in the valley for all the people making notes. God reveals his presence

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in the valley. You feel like you're all alone but God is saying my hand is upon you as you go through

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the valley. Some 23, even though I walk through the valley of shadow of death, I will fear no evil

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because you are with me. God is literally, hold my hand, Basimo, don't leave me hanging.

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God is holding you hand as you go through this valley because his presence is more than enough.

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His presence is more than enough. I feel like I'm telling you I prayed more when I go through the valley.

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I fasted more when I go through the valley. I feel the presence of God more when I'm going through

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the valley. Number two, God refines you in the valley. It's anybody know what I'm talking about. The

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valley is a place where you feel like there's nothing left. You feel like in the dumps. You feel

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depressed. You feel lonely. You feel frustrated. Every fourth person in New York is going through

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depression. This is stats. But when you are going through it, I want to let you know that God is

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with you and he's not against you. He's for you. He's with you and he's holding your hand and the

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Bible says he will never leave you. No forsake you. People will leave you. Husbands will leave you.

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Friends will leave you. The Bible says he will never leave me. No forsake me. Somebody needs to

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hear that if you believe it's an amen. Number three, God refines. Number two, God refines you in

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the valley. Refining, refining, refining. It's like when you see the original form of the diamond,

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it's a piece of rock. But when it gets cut and it gets cut and it gets cut and finally comes to

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that final product and it gets stuck on a ring and it lands up at 5,000 at Tiffany's. It becomes

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like a $50,000 ring that somebody is going to use a credit card and get into debt. That's New York.

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Because they wanted that packaging the green box. That's all it is brother police. You buy a green box.

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I put your ring in it and make you feel like and use a printer. Tiffany and cold. Don't get into

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debt. All right. But before you've got into that ring, God has been shaping you. He's been cutting

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you. He's been like I tell people you the private testings will be turned into public testimonies.

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But when you go through testing the scriptures as in James, you know, consider it pure joy when

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you go through trials because out of it comes perseverance out of perseverance comes maturity. God

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is maturing you in the valley. God restores you. I was telling people the other day early this

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morning. I feel like the other day early this morning that the Lord recently led me through a fast

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attempt 20 when they fast. And during this time for the most of my fast, I was like fully surrendered.

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When you're fasting, you are you are surrendering. You are you are humbling yourself and you say,

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God, not my will, your will, not my plans, your plans. But for the most of my fast, I was saying

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that until the Lord began to speak to me, but one thing that I was holding on so tight.

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And I said, Lord, you know what? This is how you are going to use. I'm telling God how this

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thing that I'm holding so close and I'm telling God, I'm hard to let go because I feel that I'm

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teaching God that he will use this tool to help me. I'm teaching God. Hallelujah. Oh my God, my

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plans, my brain, his brain. I'm telling him that I am telling him a strategy that you are going to

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use this too. I mean, not just change my life. I mean, I'm talking about everything that we do is

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about changing the world. It's about preaching God. I'm telling God, God, how are you going to use this?

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How are you going to use a city? How are you going to use this tool to change the world?

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Until the last few days, the Lord said, you know, he used, I use his people. He used a very

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wise man around me and I was talking, listen, get mentoring, get coaching, get people to speak

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and you're like, I said, you know, he just brought another perspective, like, oh my God. At the next

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four or five days, I just began to be fully surrendered. And some of the decisions that I'm making

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right now come from the last five days of being fully surrendered and being aligned. So let me tell you

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something. Hold. Let go. Let go and let God take over the reign of your life.

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You're saying, God, it is this girl. I know it. I feel it. I know it's this guy. And the Lord,

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you know that the Lord is telling it is not. And you're like, Lord, this is how you're going to use

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her. You're going to use him. And you know, this is how we're going to change the world.

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But God is telling you, let go. Oh, no, I'm in New York. This is a land of single people.

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You know, my, you know, I'm advancing in age and I don't think I don't think you can find another

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suitable person for me. So I need to help God using bumble.com and some, you know, site to help God

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find the right match for me. Let go. I don't know if I'm preaching to somebody, it is a hurting

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message. But let me tell you something, bro, two weeks from now, you'll be hugging me like, thank

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you, Jesus. That Indian curry boy came that word and I was released and set free. But let me tell you

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something. All I'm trying to say, the Bible, you know, after I got married to my wife, I'm telling you,

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your life, your, your marriage, your life partner after your salvation is the most important

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decision of your life. It's a make it or break it. And I want to say after I got married to my

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beautiful wife, you know, we went three to five cities. But in the last 10 years after I got

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married, we scaled it to 186 cities around the world, reaching millions of kids. One will change

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thousand, two will chase 10,000. So God is speaking to people in the room. Let go and let God

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let the Holy Spirit lead your decisions. Let the Holy Spirit direct you. The Bible says, I will

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instruct you in the way you should go, whether you should take to the left or to the right.

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People are nodding their head. I feel like God is moving. God is speaking in the room. I feel

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don't sleep on me. God resurrects the dreams in the valley. When you begin to surrender and say, God,

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I don't have it in me. It is not my plan is your plan. And guess what? God does it. We haven't

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even reached the next 11. Let me go. The next scripture says, Ezekiel chapter 37, 2 to 3.

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Right? Ezekiel chapter 37. He said, he let me back and forth among them and I saw great many

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bones. Guess what, guys? Somebody's been looking at, I got some bones here. My Pentecostal mother

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was almost getting ready to rebuke it. I said, no, mommy, this is for me to preach the gospel.

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Don't rebuke me and don't rebuke the devil. This is for the priest. You know, this is where your life

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looks like. Your finances are dead. I know it's funny. Let me just get to the point here.

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Your finances are so dry and so dead. Your marriage is so dry and dead. It was two years of great

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stuff, but it came dead and crashing down. Your career looks dead. And the scriptures, he's

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let me back and forth and I saw a great boy. Man, you're looking at your balance sheet of your

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company. You're looking at your ministry bank account. You're looking at your balance sheet of

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your enterprise. You're looking at your personal resources. You're looking at the relationship. It

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is dead. And it is dry. And the scripture says, can these bones come to life? Can these bones

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come to life? And sometimes you just have to say, God, I don't know. You know. And the next

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scripture, he says, Lord, only you know. Let's get, let's get going. I'm telling you something,

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you go through places. I feel like I'm speaking to people in this room where your relationships,

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your marriage, your womb, somebody telling you, let me just telling you something. I've got a

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prophesied of somebody in the room. There is room in your womb for more. But it now looks like

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Sarah's womb. Sarah was nine, what's the age? Ninety. Her uterus was probably shrunk like a

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raising. There was no room for nothing in that. Can these bones live? And the Lord spoke to Abraham,

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you're going to be the father to nation's womb prophetic word, womb reality prophetic word,

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you know, craziness prophetic word. What do you want to believe? Are you with me?

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West number three, West number four, let's keep going. Ezekiel chapter 3746, then he said to me,

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prophesied to these bones and say to these bones, I will make breath into you and you will come to life.

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God wants to give the key to your breakthrough in your mouth. He wants you to declare the word of

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God over your life. You don't need no man of God this morning. I'm training you. There will be no

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call that you need somebody to pray for you. You will prophesy over yourself. You will prophesy,

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what is prophecy? It is speaking in faith, the word of God to a situation that doesn't exist.

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Speaking in faith, the word of God to a situation doesn't exist. Speaking in faith, the word of God

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to a situation that doesn't exist, you're going to speak the word of God. He wants your word.

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His word in your mouth is as if God is speaking. So Ezekiel, God speaks to you and say, I want you

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to prophesy. And this morning, I'm saying, I feel like looking at people and saying, you need to start

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prophesying. We are bank accounts. You need to prophesy over work situation. You need to prophesy over

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your relationship. You need to prophesy over your living condition. You need to prophesy life

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into those dead situations in your life. I was telling people this morning, like I was in living in

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a small town in India. God spoke to me. I will take you to the nations of the world.

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No money, no contacts. I got my passport. Okay. I got my passport. I'm like, Lord, what am I going

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to do? Read the scripture. The scripture says, prophesy. Guess what happened? I took my mother,

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my partner in crime. And I said, Mom, I'm believing God for the nations because the Bible says, I will,

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you know, ask of me and I will take you to the nations of the world. So I'm like, here we are.

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Lay hands on every page in that brand new passport and speaking nations, speaking the word of God,

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Isaiah 55 and verses 5, it says, you will go to nations that you do not know and nations that

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did not know you will come to you. Begin to prophesy the word of God. Today, by the grace of God,

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every time I go to a immigration counter, I carry books of passport with me and the immigration

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guys looking for a place to put a stamp because it is filled with weasers and stamp for the glory of

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God because these dry bones will come to life. You're looking at the living testimony of dry bones

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coming to life and if God can do it for me, he can do it for you. But it will only happen when you

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begin to prophesy, when you begin to speak over the dry situation, you are speaking over death

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situation, you are looking at the impossibility and God is asking, is anything too hard for the Lord?

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Nothing. The Bible says, I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me.

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God spoke to Joshua, nobody will be able to stand before you all the days of your life.

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Be strong and courageous. Say, anybody listening to my word. So this morning, the Lord is asking you to

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speak and is it you'll begin to speak and guess what happened? There was a sound. All these bones started

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rattling and it started falling into place and it started lining up and I'm telling you,

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when you begin to speak over your situation, boom, boom, boom, boom, things are going to start

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lining up and it's going to start falling into order because it has to respond to the frequency

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of the word of God. You don't need no man of God, you speak to your situation, you prophesy over

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your situation, you prophesy over your dry bones. Amen. And the last piece is a kill chapter 37,

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9 to 10. It all started lining up and then finally it was already, it's like everything is falling

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into place but there's no life and the scripture says, can we go to, he said prophesy to the bread,

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prophesy a son of man and say to it, this is what the sovereign Lord says, come breathe from the

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forewinds and breathe into these slains that they may live. The word is Rua, the wind of the Holy

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Spirit, the wind that we breathe, the breath of God, you need to ask the Holy Spirit, Lord,

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I have prophesied, I have done everything in my capacity, now I want the Holy Spirit to breathe

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over these situations. This morning are you ready to love the Lord, love the Holy Spirit,

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to breathe, to bring and blow the wind of the Holy Spirit into those places so that it will

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lay to life, worship team, I want you to come up here. And this morning I'm feeling my heart,

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I feel in my heart that the Lord is going to restore things that I've been broken, things that

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I've been dead, things that you've thrown as useless, God wants to turn it around. The Bible says,

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I will restore the years, there's only one person in this world who can redeem time.

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Nobody because God is outside time and he's the only one who can, you feel like, oh God,

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I've wasted my time, I've lost time, I've wasted time, I feel like I don't have enough things in

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me, I'm growing, I feel like my time's up, but God is saying, I am going to restore,

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I'm going to restore the years that the enemy has stolen from your life.

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But all you need to do is to prophesy and I love the wind of the Holy Spirit to breathe

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over your dead situation. Now when everybody's standing up right now,

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I want you to get into this moment, I want you to get into this moment,

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when you're saying, God, here I am surrendering my plans to your plans,

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my brain that's trying to cook up ideas and strategies, but there is nothing compared to what

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you can do. I want every hand lifted up right now and just say, God, here I am, one more time,

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surrendering. Just being in a talk of Jesus, Lord, my life, my family, my children,

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my finances, my situations, Lord, I'm surrendering. Come on all over this place.

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Come on, all over this place. Just saying surrender,

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verbally say open up your mouth. I believe the Holy Spirit is telling you situations,

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things that you've been holding so tight. God is saying let go. God is saying surrender.

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Yes, Lord, I surrender my ministry, surrender my finances, my plans, my donors, my partners,

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my board, it's not of me as a you, Lord, I'm surrendering.

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This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message,

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that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

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