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When you rebel, it seems like you're so far off where God wants you to be.

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But when you repent, you realize, like Jonah did, that fish was actually his underwater

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uber ride to get him to where God wanted him all along anyway.

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So when he repented, he just ended up where he should have been all along, amen?

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This is to somebody here, you think you're so far gone, you're not that big and that bad,

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I'm sorry to break it to you.

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Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast, thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's

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

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If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com,

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that citylightnyc.com.

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

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working in our hearts and minds.

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As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you

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are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

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Welcome to those of you joining us online.

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Before I continue ministering, can I just ask a small favor, this is just a personal thing,

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I feel like Moses came and split the church, and so there's this like canyon, you see

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it, right, right in the middle, and if you're a flexible individual and you're not already

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married to the seat that you picked, maybe you're like, I didn't pick this seat, it picked

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me and I will stay here, but if you're not married to your seat, I'd love it, yeah,

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if you could, some people could just fill up that center spot.

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Otherwise I have to be like a chameleon, you know, that has the eyes on the sides of

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its head, and then all of you are on the sides.

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Thank you, man, I'm, wow, hallelujah, let's keep drawing on the presence of God.

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We're celebrating Christmas, so Merry Christmas everybody.

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We're celebrating Emmanuel, God with us.

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We're celebrating the incarnation of God being made flesh, dwelling among us.

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One of Jesus's names is Emmanuel, God with us, and of course Emmanuel, he provided

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a way for it to be Emmanuel all the time.

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By going to the cross and dying in place of us, receiving in his body the punishment for

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sin.

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That's a great deal, I should be punished for my own sin.

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Yet Jesus took my punishment on himself, and he did the same for you.

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And so because of that and his death, burial and resurrection, the Holy Spirit came.

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The Holy Spirit is available, and to every believer the Holy Spirit is available all the

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time, so God is with you.

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So because of God becoming with us, giving his life for us, now it's Emmanuel all the time.

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So we're celebrating Christmas and really pursuing the presence of God, because the presence

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of God is the answer to every single problem that you have, hallelujah.

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The presence of God is everything, the presence of God satisfies you, it causes a divine contentment

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to percolate out of your spirit, the presence of God delivers you, the presence of God

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heals you.

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The presence of God meets every need.

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How many of you have doubt that if Jesus came to your house, he'd meet every need that

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you have?

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Of course he would.

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He's come to your house, amen.

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It's about tapping into his presence.

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And it's important to be a church that doesn't just give lip service to the presence of God,

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but actually host the presence of God, pursue the presence of God.

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I don't want Jesus to be outside the seven golden lamp stands of city light, knocking,

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saying, hey, will you let me in?

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He should be Emmanuel, God with us all the time.

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And so that's like number one.

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That is so important.

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And that is why Satan makes it his assignment to attack churches so they put the presence

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of God on the back burner because your breakthrough, your promotion, your life's contentment,

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satisfaction, you receiving your destiny from the Lord and walking in it.

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It's all contingent on the presence of God.

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So what does Satan do?

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He comes in and he makes churches void of the presence and they get caught up in all

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the other stuff and believe me, there's plenty of other stuff.

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So you can just schedule the presence of God right out.

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There's no waiting in his presence.

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There's no lingering.

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God forbid somebody lift their hands.

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God forbid somebody get a breakthrough.

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Usher's come and quiet him down right away.

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I mean, you can't be a church and say you're actively pursuing the presence, but you haven't had any

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laying out of hands in the last six months.

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There's a laying out of hands.

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Why is laying out of hands so important?

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The Bible in Hebrews 6 actually says it's a principal doctrine.

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It's very important.

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You look at Jesus' ministry at a very touchy ministry, laid hands everywhere he went.

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The Bible says Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses laid hands on him.

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Laying out of hands is a way of transferring the beautiful presence of Jesus.

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That's why Satan attacks that.

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That's why it's always so mocked in movies and culture, but the presence of the Lord comes

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through the laying one of the ways it comes is the laying out of hands.

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So every single service, we have a ministry team.

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There's laying out of hands, hallelujah.

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That's why we've taken these weeks and we are going into an extended time of worship.

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And when we come into that worship, we've got to come with our best.

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Remember, I taught a few weeks back on the first fruits and I was talking about how in the

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book of Malachi, see every time.

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In the book of Malachi, Malachi chapter 1, the prophet is rebuking the people because

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they were bringing like their worst animals to give as an offering to the Lord.

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Like they're going to fool God.

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Like they have 20 sheep and they find the blind one with the wobbly ears, with the limp.

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They're like, well, I'm going to sacrifice this one to the Lord.

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What's the big deal?

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It's going to die anyway.

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And God said, no, I want your best.

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That's not just about the offering, it's about your worship as well.

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When you come into God's house, bring your best.

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You sleepy, slap yourself.

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Go use one of our bathrooms.

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The water's always ice cold.

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There is no hot water.

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There's just some, you know, as contemporary of a city in New York is, right?

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You always got all these buildings, hot water, maybe, sometimes if you're blessed, if you're

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lucky.

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Things of the time, though, it's like Moldova.

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My wife has been all over the world.

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You'd never guessed it, but when she was young, she went, spent six months in Moldova, six

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months in Argentina, six months in Italy.

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She said, she's still traumatized in Moldova.

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You know that there is a country called Moldova, okay, yeah, right?

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She's like, I'm traumatized there.

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No hot water ever.

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It was just ice water.

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You know what, get that ice water on your face.

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Whatever you got to do to come passionately to the Lord and bring him your best, because

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that's how you're going to receive God's best.

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I'm after your breakthrough.

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I'm after you receiving all that Jesus has for you.

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And if you come in and you're like, whatever, whatever, you know, you know, I mean,

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what are you waiting for?

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God to attack you?

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Because that's the attitude.

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Some people have, to me, if you're going to wake up and come all the way here, why then

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come with a case, Sarah, Sarah, whatever will be, will be attitude.

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Come aggressive, give God your best.

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My family, they know the kids.

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We actually never had to teach them, but you get them to pray.

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They're not going to pray weak, man be pamby prayers.

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They don't pray like they're bored, they're Lord.

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We just want to thank you.

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We just, because you're just so good, and we just, that we just, we just, just, just,

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just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just as the most often word used in boring

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prayers.

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They come to God with passion.

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There's something alive in them.

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That's how they're going to tap in.

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Where did it, they learned that from me and my wife.

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Amen.

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If we're going to pray, I don't care if I'm blessing the broccoli at dinner time, I'm

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going to be talking about it and thinking, I'm like, I'm in fact talking to the living

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God.

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Amen.

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It's a release of faith.

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So why wake up and go through all that and then come in and just, like, all right, I'm

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here.

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Get what you need to get.

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It starts in praise and worship.

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Forgive him your best.

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We make it so easy.

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Like even if you don't know anything about anything, all you've got to do is read the

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words.

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You said, do I have to know how to sing?

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No, you have me as an example.

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Can I have an anti-innointing when it comes to singing?

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Just read the words.

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You said, well, I try that.

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It doesn't do anything.

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Try longer.

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Keep reading the words.

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Then as you're reading them, read them to Jesus.

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Then add your version of some melody and harmony to it.

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And you're real.

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Oh, by like the third song, oh, something's happening here.

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My heart is coming alive.

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I'm sensing something.

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The wind, the God is coming in and you see He's forming you and making you alive on

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the inside.

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All of a sudden, 20 minutes later, you're like, man, that crud that was hanging on me.

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It's like hooks, nasty, medieval, rusty hooks that were in my back, got dislodged and

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I feel better.

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I feel stronger.

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Later, I'm alive with the Zoey life of God.

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Hallelujah.

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Oh, I didn't know what to do.

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I was worshiping.

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Boom.

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All of a sudden the answer is crystal.

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Where did that come from?

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I'm so glad you asked.

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The Holy Ghost.

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It happens in worship, amen.

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But He's not going to attack you.

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Some people are waiting for that.

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You know why?

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Because you're not that special.

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Hallelujah.

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I'm not that special.

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No, because people look at the Apostle Paul.

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The Apostle Paul got attacked.

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When he was saw, mining his own business, actually it wasn't mining his own business, it's

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on his way to kill some Christians.

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Right in the donkey.

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Got attacked him.

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Blast him off his beast of burden.

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Reveals himself.

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Now, you could argue Paul really was hungry.

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He said I was zealous, but in ignorance, but he was very zealous for Yahweh God.

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And God attacked him with his presence, turned his whole life around.

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In other words, when I say God attacked, God initiated.

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But you know why he did that?

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Because Paul's pretty special.

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But you look at all the other examples in the Bible.

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You never see Jesus running after somebody and say, please, let me bless you.

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Can I lay hands on you, please?

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Just come here for a second.

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Can I just pray for you real quick?

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No.

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They chased after him.

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In other words, God is a God that must be sought.

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You do the pursuing.

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Your life will be a miracle.

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A series of miracles.

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Hallelujah.

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There's nothing like when you're living with one foot in the world because you've got

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it in your life, but one foot in heaven, one foot in the supernatural, and you're walking

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in beat with God's drum, and it's just like a portal of divine goodness is over you.

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That comes from His presence, but it comes when you pursue Him.

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So when we come together, come early, give your best, open your mouth.

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That's always a good start, opening your mouth.

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Don't let the worship team do the worshiping for you.

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Hallelujah.

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Thank you, Jesus, and then learn how to cultivate the presence of God.

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You learn that as you pursue Him.

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He will teach you one of the best ways, because there's lots of ways to get the anointing

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in a place.

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You can give the anointing into the place.

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Because when you give and you give sacrificially the anointing, you can obviously sing to

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the Lord and worship the anointing upon you.

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You can read the word of God, and the anointing comes upon you.

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Lots of ways.

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But if you were to ask me, what's the best way to become susceptible to the Holy Ghost,

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to like open myself up so that I'm tapping into God's presence all the time, I personally

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would say soaking in God's presence, soaking, also known as waiting on the Lord, also

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known as meditative prayer, aka contemplative prayer, aka sitting at his feet and hearing

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his word.

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You get what I'm saying.

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I'm using a lot of synonyms describing the same thing.

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Many blessings are promised to the person who will wait on the Lord, and yet your typical

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Christian doesn't even know what weight means.

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Like how do you wait on the Lord?

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Somebody's like, I've been waiting for the Lord for six years.

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Waiting on the Lord, one of the root words of that word, weight is tassel.

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That tassels as a reminder, it means to intertwine like two chords, and it's hard to even put

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It's hard, but when you've experienced it, you know exactly what it means.

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When you're just not speaking and you're waiting on the Lord, and it's like your spirit

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is being intertwined in His and His in Yours and He's right there, and now you're waiting

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on the Lord.

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That is a powerful thing.

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That's why it's so uncomfortable, because it's so powerful.

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It's excruciating at first, right?

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No, we just got people who wait on the Lord three, four hours a day every day.

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God bless you.

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One day I'll be like you, but for me, I find it's painful when I haven't waited on

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You know why it's painful?

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Because you're used to doing stuff.

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You're not even speaking.

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He's like, I want to talk, don't talk.

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Just soak.

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Aaron's rod butted when he threw it down on the floor, and it just butted and produced

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life when it was doing nothing and laying still on the floor.

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The Bible says it gives us beloved gifts when they sleep, when they're in rest.

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When you see everything about you and me as humans, we want to do stuff.

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We want to perform.

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We want to always be doing, doing, doing, and there's good doing, but sometimes you

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got to not do anything so God can be God, and you can just be a human being and be and

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stop with the doing.

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This was, I find that's compounded and multiplied and amplified today, because we have telephones.

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So the thought of actually being still in God's presence longer than 60 seconds is excruciating,

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terrifying even.

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Because in that place of stillness, right, so many things happen.

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Satan tells you you're a fool.

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My mind is wandering.

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Does God even appreciate this?

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I know you're not, but just keep doing it.

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Keep doing it no matter what you feel.

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Any of your mind wanders?

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It's all right.

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Have it wander back.

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Take a mind.

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Come here and bring it right back and just think of Jesus and just worship Jesus.

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Don't even talk.

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Just like make your heart like a sponge and receive from Him.

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In the beginning, you might not get anything.

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You see, how long should I do that for?

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I don't know.

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However long.

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Some of you have never done it, so 30 seconds is a marathon.

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Do it for 30 seconds.

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It's like a 500 pound person going, I'm going to get to the gym.

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How long should I work out for?

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Just get in the gym.

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Clean up other people's weights.

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They left behind.

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That's a good enough workout as it is.

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So how long should I work out?

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You never work out before?

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It'll be a marathon for you.

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Then the next day, do two.

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Hallelujah.

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And you will see your spirit begin to open up and the presence of God will increase on

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you.

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I believe God set this up because it's so counterintuitive.

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It's like, what do I got to do to increase in the anointing, the precious anointing, the

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supernatural anointing?

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Surely, I got it.

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How about a 40 day fast?

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How about I got to evangelize the subways three hours a day?

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I'm going to read 20 chapters of the Bible.

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All those things are great, but He set it up in this weird way where all you got to do

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is be.

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Remember when Martha was all busy doing, was she doing bad things?

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No, she was doing great things.

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Growing up, fixing meals, nice Jewish meals, you know, good Jewish woman can't leave you

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hungry, making that matzabal soup.

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Excuse me, that was Martha.

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Mary, she's just sitting at Jesus' feet doing nothing.

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So much so that Martha's like, hey Jesus, are you going to rebuke my sister?

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The lazy bones.

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Not doing a thing, I'm here cooking up a storm.

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And Jesus actually rebukes the busy, Martha says Martha, Martha, you're just so worried

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about so many things.

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Mary has chosen the bad or the part, the primary part, the first thing, to sit at my feet

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and what, do a bunch of stuff, no, to receive, to sit at my feet and hear my word.

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And it really is counter-intuitive.

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It comes against our human pride where we want to achieve and perform and do things for

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God.

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And he's saying, I'm teaching you that when you just be in me, just rest in me, I will do

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the work for you, hallelujah.

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You should see my Sunday mornings, I'll wake up early this morning, I'll wake up at three.

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What do you think I do?

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I mean, you think if you like snuck up on me, I'd be in my office going, ah, devil,

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and I'll bind you up, hey, I'll rebuke you up, and I'll bless you, no, I'm actually,

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it looks so boring.

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I'm sitting in my chair in my home office, it's like that, but I'm getting full, getting

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fed, hallelujah, hallelujah.

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See I pray God comes, I call it a can opener anointing, where he comes and he opens every

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person and it's like when that lid pops and you're open to the presence of God, and he

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do that in your life.

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And that's what these meetings are about and have been about, and that's what really

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city light is about, his presence, hallelujah.

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Of course the baptism in the Holy Spirit helps tremendously, that's the doorway to the

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supernatural.

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I guess there's an assumption here, Tiffany, I'm assuming that people actually want the

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presence of God, that's just silly me.

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Of course that is most people, and I wouldn't have it any other way, we're not an in-bred

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church where it's the same people every single Sunday.

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Thank God we get guests, we get people seerching and seeking, and so some people just don't

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even know what I'm talking about.

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They think I'm about to give the announcements, wonder when the real pastor is going to come

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up.

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I don't, you know, who's this guy, this guy's coming up like Rainbow Bright, talking about

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this, talking about that.

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Even as the old guy come, a real serious like and point his index finger at me.

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I'm just assuming you know to value the presence of God, they presence of God good, it can

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bother, glory has departed bad.

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Thank you Jesus, the Baptist and the Holy Spirit, and because we have so many people and people

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get saved and people come and go and there's still people who don't even know what it is,

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even though we talk about it pretty often.

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And I got books about it, it's the first thing you see at the hospitality table, and they're

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free.

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But still, I'll ask people, hey, have you been baptized in the Holy Spirit?

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I'll get all sorts of answers, like yeah, you baptized me last September.

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No, that's baptism in water, baptism in the Holy Spirit is, you're not immersed in water,

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you're immersed in the Holy Spirit, you're filled with the Holy Spirit, and then there

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is this evidence, this manifestation, you start speaking a language, you never, ever

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taught, you never, ever heard.

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You mean like speaking in tongues, exactly like speaking in tongues, yeah, you'll speak

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in tongues, it's powerful, life changing, oh, I don't know about that, once you read

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some booklets, hallelujah, they'll change you, and it'll open you up to the supernatural,

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otherwise you're just going to live in this natural world, and all you know is what you

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can touch, what you can see, and you won't be able to figure out what God is doing behind

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the scenes.

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But when you're filled with the Holy Spirit, now the door opens wide, and that's when,

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you know, Jesus said the Holy Spirit will tell you things to come.

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He will lead you around, he'll show you what's around the corner, and the next bend, and

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he will lead and guide you through life.

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So if what I just said is brand new to you, and you're like, I mean, I kind of heard

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about that, but not really, you can get filled with the Holy Spirit any time after service,

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we have a whole ministry team, also you can do it alone, but I recommend you start off

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with some people, because they're going to help you, they're, we say, what are they

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going to help me with, they're going to help you get past you, and all the doubts that

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come up, and they'll just help you be filled with the Holy Spirit, read the two booklets

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first.

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Remember the matrix?

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There's a blue pill and a red pill?

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One is a blue collar?

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See I was wondering why didn't Neo take both pills?

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I would have taken both, take both pills, take the red booklet, the blue booklet, they're

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like a 15 minute read each, read them both, then read them again, and then don't just

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wait, pursue the Lord, and watch what it does, hallelujah, God is so good, His presence

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is life to me.

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This question I was with a group of friends, and this question came up amongst a bunch of

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other random questions, the question was, how many times have you been under general anesthesia?

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Most people were like, well never, one guy was like, yeah, I was once, someone else was

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like, yeah, once, another guy twice, most never.

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And I said, well, I've been under over 30 times.

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And they thought I was messed, they said, they thought I was confused, they said, well,

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no, that's local, and I'm talking about general when you're completely, I'm like, what do

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you think I'm talking about when the dentist stuck me in the mouth?

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No, general, you're completely out.

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Each time you feel like you're dying, come backwards, 10, 9, 8, over 30 times, I'm going

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over 30 times.

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And then I told them my testimony, I said, I fell into a deep, deep, catatonic depression,

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twice.

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I used to not know what depression was.

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I thought it just meant someone is sad.

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They got a bad case of the Mondays, the blues.

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So I'd say something stupid, like, I'll go on your way, you know, rejoice by choice.

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You can't rejoice by choice, you're not.

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Depression isn't, you feel sad.

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Depression is, you feel nothing.

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And I felt nothing other than paralyzing anxiety.

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You said, what must have been going through a rough time?

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No, everything was awesome, my wife was awesome, kid's awesome, church awesome, life awesome,

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somehow it was just, you know, at the end of the day, we're living these jars.

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The jars of clay, these, the Bible says, we're earthen vessels, jars of clay, we're flesh,

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and a whole lot of chemicals, and one of those chemicals goes off, and I'm in the corner

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in the fetal position going, minister, minister, minister, and I couldn't do anything.

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This might be TMI, but I would have to use the restroom, and I'm like, I've got to walk

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from here to the bathroom.

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So everything in my life is great, I'm praying, and of course, all my pastor friends, they

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want to rebuke the demons, you know.

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And yes, I understand demons can cause that, but a lot of times it's not demonic.

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It's just what you're living in this world.

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You're about, you know, you get a flu, you don't rebuke demons.

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How come you get a depression, it's immediately demonic?

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Sure they can come in afterwards and lean in on that, but anyway, I ended up in the mental

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hospital where they greeted me by taking away my shoelaces and my belt.

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My wife teased me, I had this whole new lingo, she was like, why do you got all this

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stubble?

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I was like, well, they have a no sharps policy, she's like, sharps, yeah, no sharps here.

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You got all this mental hospital lingo.

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You know, I love sharing the story, because whenever I do, I always a bunch of testimonies

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like, oh, thank you, you know, people I would never expect saying I was going through

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something, thanks for sharing that, but that's not the main reason I love sharing, that's

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the second day we reason, the primary reason I love sharing it is because it cleanses

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the church a little bit.

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Some people like I don't know, he was in the mental hospital twice, I don't think I can

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handle a pastor like that, I'm out of here.

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But there is an upside, because if anybody tells you your pastor is crazy, you can say,

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no, he's not, he's got the paperwork to prove it.

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He's certified 100% mentally healthy now, he'll show you, he'll show you the bills.

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How do you got great insurance and still, oh, 30 grand, but that's a whole another story.

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So, I had to have ECT treatments, that's electro-convulsive therapy, because I was in this

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catatonic state, I mean, I really, I wouldn't move, I was sleeping 15 hours a day, and it's

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lasted for months, they had to pass an electro-current multiple times over 30 times through my brain,

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each time putting me under anesthesia, to wake up parts of my brain that had fallen asleep.

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The first time that happened, it happened because I was overly, overly medicated, you got

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to be careful with all the stuff you put in your body.

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And then I got back home, it's wonderfully woke up certain parts of my brain, you still

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feel all sorts of wonkiness, but it, like, it races whole swaths of your life, you can't

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remember.

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So I forgot how to drive to church, I'm not kidding, I had to put in Google Maps how to

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get back to church, I couldn't have done it on my own.

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00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:45.100
A very vivid memory stepping into my home shower for the first time and being absolutely

468
00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:48.620
confused by all the potions and lotions, you know, that are in the shower caddy in the

469
00:29:48.620 --> 00:29:49.620
corner.

470
00:29:49.620 --> 00:29:51.900
I was like, mesmer, I was like, what is all that?

471
00:29:51.900 --> 00:29:53.860
Why would anybody need all this stuff?

472
00:29:53.860 --> 00:29:58.860
Oh yeah, I'm married, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

473
00:29:58.860 --> 00:30:02.580
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

474
00:30:02.580 --> 00:30:07.500
I'm like, I know I have a shower routine, everybody have a shower routine or is it different

475
00:30:07.500 --> 00:30:08.500
each time?

476
00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:11.060
I have a shower routine, right?

477
00:30:11.060 --> 00:30:18.200
I forgot the routine, I was like, what do I, I think I'll start with the hair, shampoo.

478
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:22.980
Oh my daughter's here hearing this story.

479
00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:28.100
Oh, I didn't expect to share this with you till you were about 15 but oh well, now,

480
00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:29.100
now you know.

481
00:30:29.100 --> 00:30:36.300
God, you should be in city kids, yet here you are, okay.

482
00:30:36.300 --> 00:30:47.820
I need to hear about Daddy's exes that live in Texas, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

483
00:30:47.820 --> 00:30:50.940
I wish you could see her, she's having a time of her life here.

484
00:30:50.940 --> 00:30:52.500
What's she eating?

485
00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:53.660
Popcorn?

486
00:30:53.660 --> 00:31:03.940
She's sitting crisscross applesauce smiling like the Kool-Aid picture eating popcorn.

487
00:31:03.940 --> 00:31:09.700
I'm sharing this because I thought the kids would never have a dad again.

488
00:31:09.700 --> 00:31:14.780
I definitely thought I would never ever minister again, I've memorized hundreds of scriptures

489
00:31:14.780 --> 00:31:18.300
throughout the decades, I forgot them all.

490
00:31:18.300 --> 00:31:23.060
The first time preaching, I think I passed your moh was like a rock during that time, like

491
00:31:23.060 --> 00:31:24.860
a rock.

492
00:31:24.860 --> 00:31:29.620
He would always encourage me, not overtly, but encourage, then I would go to preach, not,

493
00:31:29.620 --> 00:31:36.100
I mean, sermon, it's all scrambled eggs upstairs, forgot every scripture, yet I come in and

494
00:31:36.100 --> 00:31:41.820
the anointing would come, that's why many of you didn't even know it.

495
00:31:41.820 --> 00:31:47.620
And the presence of God changes everything, hallelujah.

496
00:31:47.620 --> 00:31:53.060
And there is no pit too deep, I'm telling you, and that's why I actually don't mind,

497
00:31:53.060 --> 00:31:58.140
I know, this is an, it could be potentially an embarrassing testimony, somebody could

498
00:31:58.140 --> 00:32:01.060
take it from online, just isolate that, just isolate the clip.

499
00:32:01.060 --> 00:32:06.300
I was in a mental house, we just prayed on, you know, I was in a mental house.

500
00:32:06.300 --> 00:32:10.540
And then the voice goes, is this who you want to be your pastor?

501
00:32:10.540 --> 00:32:17.460
Look at the colors in his sweater, see the unstable things he is sharing, not a healthy

502
00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:18.460
man.

503
00:32:18.460 --> 00:32:24.060
Well, I don't care if it'll benefit one person.

504
00:32:24.060 --> 00:32:33.980
And the point is, it doesn't matter how low you fall, God is a restoreer, he's a redeemer,

505
00:32:33.980 --> 00:32:39.700
and he really does pay you back.

506
00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:47.100
He pays you back, he gives you double for your trouble, hallelujah.

507
00:32:47.100 --> 00:32:54.340
You need to know that, that you can temporarily even swerve off God's path.

508
00:32:54.340 --> 00:32:56.700
You know he has a plan for you, right?

509
00:32:56.700 --> 00:33:03.660
He has a purpose, he has a destiny, sometimes you swerve off that path, and it's nothing

510
00:33:03.660 --> 00:33:06.660
for God to bring you back.

511
00:33:06.660 --> 00:33:10.860
In fact a lot of times people who swerved off the path don't want to come back to God

512
00:33:10.860 --> 00:33:16.140
because they think it'll be an agonizing and excruciating process to come back to the

513
00:33:16.140 --> 00:33:23.620
Lord and over time plug back in to the path that he said before you, it's actually as quick

514
00:33:23.620 --> 00:33:25.340
as you want it to be.

515
00:33:25.340 --> 00:33:26.340
You want proof?

516
00:33:26.340 --> 00:33:27.340
Jonah.

517
00:33:27.340 --> 00:33:33.940
Jonah was so, I want to be like this one day, he was so confident in the anointing on

518
00:33:33.940 --> 00:33:38.220
his life and his preaching that he didn't like these people in Nineveh.

519
00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:41.780
And God said, go preach to them, and Jonah is actually, no, because if I preach to them

520
00:33:41.780 --> 00:33:44.580
they'll repent, and I don't like them, I don't want them to repent.

521
00:33:45.580 --> 00:33:46.940
Isn't that, that'd be amazing.

522
00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:51.300
I want to get to that level, where if I don't like somebody, I'm like don't come next

523
00:33:51.300 --> 00:33:55.140
Sunday, I'm preaching I'm prosperity, and everybody who hears it, their whole financial

524
00:33:55.140 --> 00:34:04.340
life is going to change around, and I don't want you there, I don't like you.

525
00:34:04.340 --> 00:34:10.300
First time guest that's a joke, I actually like everyone here, okay man, I'm actually

526
00:34:10.300 --> 00:34:16.340
very blessed to like the people that I pastor, hey man, hallelujah.

527
00:34:16.340 --> 00:34:21.380
So listen to this, Jonah, he rebels against the plan of God as many of us have, and of

528
00:34:21.380 --> 00:34:27.460
course judgment comes and he swallowed by a great fish, ends up in the belly of a whale,

529
00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:30.940
which I won't get into all that, but you know, on the surface it sounds like a children's

530
00:34:30.940 --> 00:34:33.780
story, like he was swallowed by a whale.

531
00:34:33.780 --> 00:34:39.260
The Bible says that it was a great fish, and it actually the Hebrew word, you could look

532
00:34:39.260 --> 00:34:44.580
this up, in the English it says God caused a great fish to swallow Jonah.

533
00:34:44.580 --> 00:34:47.900
It actually means that God created a great fish.

534
00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:52.940
So people who speculate, oh, was it Shamu, or was it a great white, or what kind of a fish,

535
00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:54.820
you know, was it really crowded?

536
00:34:54.820 --> 00:34:59.100
God could have created a fish the size of the Titanic.

537
00:34:59.100 --> 00:35:03.660
It was one singular fish, God caused the fish, and when his job was done, God said,

538
00:35:03.660 --> 00:35:05.260
I'd come back to heaven.

539
00:35:05.260 --> 00:35:06.780
We got seas up here.

540
00:35:06.780 --> 00:35:08.940
Hey man.

541
00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:14.340
So he gets swallowed by this great fish, and he has this great prayer.

542
00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:18.740
You should even pray over your life, because he prays it as though it was already answered.

543
00:35:18.740 --> 00:35:21.540
Learn how to pray prayers that sound like they were already answered.

544
00:35:21.540 --> 00:35:24.980
In the prayer while he's in the fish's belly, he said, I cried out to the Lord and he heard

545
00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:25.980
me.

546
00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:30.020
He didn't hear him yet, but he did have said it by faith.

547
00:35:30.020 --> 00:35:33.260
And he said, you know, he's lamenting, so see we eat his wrapped around my head.

548
00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:37.020
I remember thinking, that's what happens when you rebel against God, you're made into

549
00:35:37.020 --> 00:35:38.020
sushi.

550
00:35:38.100 --> 00:35:41.700
See we wrapped around my head.

551
00:35:41.700 --> 00:35:48.020
And he cries out to God, repents, and the great fish spits him, spits him right out

552
00:35:48.020 --> 00:35:50.780
onto the beaches of Nineveh.

553
00:35:50.780 --> 00:35:53.540
Now, isn't that something?

554
00:35:53.540 --> 00:35:57.300
Didn't spit him out like 50 miles away.

555
00:35:57.300 --> 00:36:05.500
In other words, when you rebel, it seems like you're so far off where God wants you to be.

556
00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:10.940
But when you repent, you realize, like Jonah did, that fish was actually his underwater

557
00:36:10.940 --> 00:36:15.820
uber ride to get him to where God wanted him all along anyway.

558
00:36:15.820 --> 00:36:20.460
So when he repented, he just ended up where he should have been all along, amen.

559
00:36:20.460 --> 00:36:25.100
This is to somebody here, you think you're so far gone, you think that you're so powerful,

560
00:36:25.100 --> 00:36:29.220
you messed up God's plans and purposes and destiny over your life, you're not that big

561
00:36:29.220 --> 00:36:30.220
and that bad.

562
00:36:30.220 --> 00:36:33.740
I'm sorry to break it to you, you're not that bad.

563
00:36:33.740 --> 00:36:42.820
You think you are, but you're not, who's bad, not you, you're not that bad, you're not

564
00:36:42.820 --> 00:36:44.820
better than God.

565
00:36:44.820 --> 00:36:57.100
When you fall to your knees and repent, he brings you to where you need to be, hallelujah.

566
00:36:57.100 --> 00:37:04.100
Let's read from the word, Psalm 16.

567
00:37:04.100 --> 00:37:08.740
Hallelujah, hallelujah.

568
00:37:08.740 --> 00:37:15.940
How a calante le revivantolo, la la manda, la la vasta, sarante le rechessonto.

569
00:37:15.940 --> 00:37:20.580
Jesus move on your people.

570
00:37:20.580 --> 00:37:32.100
I want you to just, on the inside, expect the supernatural, expect it, the interruptions

571
00:37:32.100 --> 00:37:36.540
of God, the surprises of God.

572
00:37:36.540 --> 00:37:40.900
You know what word is all, peppered throughout the gospels in the book of Acts, the word

573
00:37:40.900 --> 00:37:49.340
suddenly, suddenly, suddenly that's how God comes suddenly, he changes everything around.

574
00:37:49.340 --> 00:37:53.540
If you haven't had a suddenly in a while, I venture to say it's because you're not

575
00:37:53.540 --> 00:37:55.740
expecting a suddenly.

576
00:37:55.740 --> 00:38:03.140
Satan loves to whisper to you, you're just a dull person, with a dull life, and all you

577
00:38:03.140 --> 00:38:06.260
will have is dullness, I've heard that voice many times.

578
00:38:06.260 --> 00:38:11.340
You reject that voice, don't partner with that voice, they know Lord, I trust you for

579
00:38:11.340 --> 00:38:21.540
your suddenly's, and then God will come with a suddenly, hallelujah, hallelujah.

580
00:38:21.540 --> 00:38:29.260
Psalm 16, preserve me, oh God, for in you I put my trust, oh my soul, you see David,

581
00:38:29.260 --> 00:38:34.660
he spoke to his soul, he spoke to it like it was outside of him.

582
00:38:34.660 --> 00:38:38.140
Your soul is your mind, your will and your motions, but it's not the real you, it's just

583
00:38:38.140 --> 00:38:41.660
a part of you, the real you is your spirit man.

584
00:38:41.660 --> 00:38:46.860
You know, he would command his soul, bless the Lord, what are you doing, mind and complainants?

585
00:38:46.860 --> 00:38:53.100
So, that being such a silly soul, be a smart soul, bless the Lord, oh my soul and all

586
00:38:53.100 --> 00:38:54.580
that is within me.

587
00:38:54.580 --> 00:38:58.940
Here he's saying, oh my soul, you have said to the Lord, you are my Lord, my goodness

588
00:38:58.940 --> 00:39:02.300
is nothing apart from you, we all know that, don't we?

589
00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:09.300
We have no goodness of our own, all our righteousness is as a filthy rag, we have nothing, nothing

590
00:39:09.300 --> 00:39:12.020
good apart from Jesus.

591
00:39:12.020 --> 00:39:18.140
As for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my

592
00:39:18.140 --> 00:39:23.620
delight, that's the Psalm is taking pleasure in the people of God, amen, that's a good thing

593
00:39:23.620 --> 00:39:24.620
to do.

594
00:39:24.620 --> 00:39:30.060
I'm glad that I really, really like the people of city light, and thank you for being

595
00:39:30.060 --> 00:39:31.300
so easily likable.

596
00:39:31.700 --> 00:39:35.440
No really, there's pastors, I've heard this is a pastor joke, they're like, pastoring

597
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:40.700
is great, if you weren't for the people, you know, it's like this, but that must think

598
00:39:40.700 --> 00:39:43.540
to live like that.

599
00:39:43.540 --> 00:39:48.620
In fact, when I wanted to get encouraged by older pastors about being a pastor, I'd ask

600
00:39:48.620 --> 00:39:52.500
him, so what it's like, and I would nine out of ten times always hear the most sad,

601
00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:54.140
depressing stories.

602
00:39:54.140 --> 00:40:00.300
One of them was like, be careful of sheep, because sheep buy, I'm 21 years old, tell me

603
00:40:00.300 --> 00:40:04.500
something positive, launch me into my future, man.

604
00:40:04.500 --> 00:40:12.020
She bite, all right, I mean they're not wolves, they're not lions, they bite, it's more

605
00:40:12.020 --> 00:40:15.340
gum than teeth.

606
00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:19.140
Some of them get confused, you know, you're feeding them and they get a little of the thumb,

607
00:40:19.140 --> 00:40:23.980
it's all right.

608
00:40:23.980 --> 00:40:27.700
You guys make it easy, you know, you're the kind of Christians are awesome people when

609
00:40:27.700 --> 00:40:30.340
it's baked in the Holy Spirit.

610
00:40:30.340 --> 00:40:34.120
You guys are the kind of people that a few weeks back, we can take a spontaneous two-minute

611
00:40:34.120 --> 00:40:40.020
offering to help with an adoption and how much came in 18,000, 18,000 dollars comes in.

612
00:40:40.020 --> 00:40:42.700
That's who you are, amen.

613
00:40:42.700 --> 00:40:46.300
You're the kind of Christians that when it's, I'm not going to call what happened a few

614
00:40:46.300 --> 00:40:51.220
weeks back, a snow storm, but when it's snowing, but most churches were shut down, you

615
00:40:51.220 --> 00:40:53.500
come in, amen.

616
00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:54.500
Hallelujah.

617
00:40:54.500 --> 00:41:04.380
And you're very kind, I'm always getting reports of kindnesses and ministering and looking

618
00:41:04.380 --> 00:41:06.660
out for one another.

619
00:41:06.660 --> 00:41:11.980
Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another God, their drink offerings of

620
00:41:11.980 --> 00:41:21.700
blood I will not offer nor take up their names on my lips, oh Lord, you, you, the presence

621
00:41:21.700 --> 00:41:27.140
of God, oh Lord, you are the portion of my inheritance and my cup.

622
00:41:27.140 --> 00:41:30.980
You maintain my lot.

623
00:41:30.980 --> 00:41:35.300
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.

624
00:41:35.300 --> 00:41:36.300
What does that mean?

625
00:41:36.300 --> 00:41:38.980
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.

626
00:41:38.980 --> 00:41:42.340
Yes, I have a good inheritance.

627
00:41:42.340 --> 00:41:45.420
That's actually a real estate land term.

628
00:41:45.420 --> 00:41:47.980
He's saying, you're a lot mint.

629
00:41:47.980 --> 00:41:54.900
The boundaries that you've drawn for me, I receive them, I accept them, and I'm thankful

630
00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:55.900
for them.

631
00:41:55.900 --> 00:41:57.780
He's saying, my allotment is good.

632
00:41:57.780 --> 00:42:01.140
Do you know every single one of us has an allotment?

633
00:42:01.140 --> 00:42:07.420
I, because you know, we're, we're, we're fond of saying things like, hey, there's skip,

634
00:42:07.420 --> 00:42:09.620
you can be whatever you want to be.

635
00:42:09.620 --> 00:42:14.900
If you'll just look to the stars, that's not really true.

636
00:42:15.900 --> 00:42:19.540
You know, you can't be whatever you want to be.

637
00:42:19.540 --> 00:42:25.740
You can be with the Lord promised you you'd be and put inside you to be, hey man, I understand

638
00:42:25.740 --> 00:42:30.420
the motivational aspect of it, but that's why there's a lot of miserable people still trying

639
00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:35.580
to be something that God never created them to be.

640
00:42:35.580 --> 00:42:36.580
Hallelujah.

641
00:42:36.580 --> 00:42:37.580
Hallelujah.

642
00:42:37.580 --> 00:42:43.940
You know how many back in the day, would you believe that like 80%, I'm not exaggerating

643
00:42:43.940 --> 00:42:49.940
back in 2007, 2006, 2000, because we only had a church in the East Village.

644
00:42:49.940 --> 00:42:56.020
So over 80% of city life church was actors and actresses, and most of them terribly,

645
00:42:56.020 --> 00:43:01.780
terribly frustrated, terribly because although they were actors and actresses, they were tired

646
00:43:01.780 --> 00:43:06.060
of waiting tables, 60 hours a week.

647
00:43:06.060 --> 00:43:09.660
And some, some, well, you know, one said, God showed me I'm going to get an Oscar.

648
00:43:09.660 --> 00:43:12.100
You know, what do you say when someone says that?

649
00:43:12.100 --> 00:43:18.700
Then she became a mother, never happier.

650
00:43:18.700 --> 00:43:24.900
That's it, that's all I got to say, less than in there somewhere, you're thinking of one

651
00:43:24.900 --> 00:43:32.180
example, but because somebody told her you can be, you can do it, shoot for the stars,

652
00:43:32.180 --> 00:43:33.180
and she was miserable.

653
00:43:33.180 --> 00:43:36.460
This is, and when I say she, I'm actually thinking of like six different people rolled

654
00:43:36.460 --> 00:43:37.460
into one.

655
00:43:38.460 --> 00:43:46.900
One became a teacher, so happy, got married, became parents, it wasn't for them, and

656
00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:53.820
there's a contentment when they realized, oh, this is who I was made to be, amen.

657
00:43:53.820 --> 00:43:58.940
And it's also wisdom to figure out why on earth you're here for, what has God created

658
00:43:58.940 --> 00:43:59.940
you for?

659
00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:01.260
Say, how do I do that?

660
00:44:01.260 --> 00:44:02.780
I'm so glad you're asked.

661
00:44:02.780 --> 00:44:06.460
Let's rewind the sermon 30 minutes because your answer is there.

662
00:44:06.460 --> 00:44:11.860
Being on the Lord, you got to spend time in His presence so He can lead you and guide

663
00:44:11.860 --> 00:44:12.860
you.

664
00:44:12.860 --> 00:44:18.540
None of what I'm doing today was like a good idea that I had.

665
00:44:18.540 --> 00:44:21.900
God came to me, I was six, you remember that mom?

666
00:44:21.900 --> 00:44:28.180
What was I raised to be all of my life?

667
00:44:28.180 --> 00:44:35.860
Every time, I did it every time I put the mic, are you sure, are you sure you're my mother?

668
00:44:36.460 --> 00:44:41.940
Okay, I know I'm turning 50 in a few weeks, but this wasn't that long ago.

669
00:44:41.940 --> 00:44:46.220
You and Dad pumped me with that, air all the time, you were a classic immigrant.

670
00:44:46.220 --> 00:44:47.220
You doctor yet?

671
00:44:47.220 --> 00:44:50.500
Come back when you doctor.

672
00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:54.460
I know I did the accent, it's funny.

673
00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:55.460
Huh?

674
00:44:55.460 --> 00:44:57.580
No, nothing.

675
00:44:57.580 --> 00:44:59.900
I thought you were saying something.

676
00:44:59.900 --> 00:45:04.620
And then I come to you, I become a Christian, I've had crazy church out in Brooklyn.

677
00:45:04.620 --> 00:45:08.220
And two weeks later, I'm telling you, I want to be a pastor.

678
00:45:08.220 --> 00:45:11.700
Did you like that?

679
00:45:11.700 --> 00:45:17.660
Of course, there wasn't a Christian mom and dad, they thought I'd lost my mind.

680
00:45:17.660 --> 00:45:21.820
And guess what, there is no pathway to being a pastor.

681
00:45:21.820 --> 00:45:25.580
You don't go to pastor school and there's no one who's not going to give you the keys

682
00:45:25.580 --> 00:45:26.580
to a church.

683
00:45:26.580 --> 00:45:28.740
Oh, you got your degree here, have a church.

684
00:45:28.740 --> 00:45:32.780
There's no, you know, a apostle opera, you get a church and you get a church and everybody

685
00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:35.940
gets a church.

686
00:45:35.940 --> 00:45:40.660
So I have the calling, it's in my spirit, how do I do this thing?

687
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How do I fulfill it?

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There's no track, there's no.

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And every pastor I shared it with, they would just go awesome, praise the Lord.

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And I'm like, that's it?

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See, I wanted, I wanted a Mr. Miyagi to come along, I needed a mentor, I needed a Obi-Wan

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to my Luke to show me, it's like, I'm lost, I'm 22 years old, I'm about to graduate

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college, totally secular education, how do I become a pastor?

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Obi never came, Mr. Miyagi was too busy trimming the bonsai and catching the flies with

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the chopsticks, never came.

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Who came?

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The Holy Ghost came.

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He will teach you, I had no, you know, you have, you're at point A and God is showing

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you point B.

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The only problem is there's like a hundred little steps for May to be, right?

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Everybody knows what I'm talking about.

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How do you cross that great divide for May to be, being in his presence, listening in

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your spirit and doing whatever he puts in your spirit to do?

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And some of the stuff I was taught to do was crazy.

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When I say crazy, don't get too carried away, I just mean not conventional, illogical,

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weird and abnormal, yet you learn how to depend on the Lord, you learn and he leads you and

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guides you and there is nothing I would, there is nothing, I can honestly say there's nothing

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I would change about my life, nothing so grateful, so blessed, hallelujah, he will lead you and

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guide his presence will teach you and take you step by step.

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So why aren't so many people living in what the Bible calls their wealthy place?

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Kenneth Hagen wrote a whole book about it, read it, you're frustrated where you are,

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read plans, purposes and pursuits by Kenneth Hagen, a true prophet of God and the Lord

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appeared to him and he showed him, he said, I'm taking you into your fourth and final stage

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of ministry and Kenneth Hagen said there were three other phases and the Lord showed him,

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three previous distinct phases of his ministry and is now entering into his fourth and he said,

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many of my ministers never ever leave the first phase and the whole theme of the book he teaches

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in that book how to hear from God, he teaches how to be led by God but he explains that many people

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never leave the first phase because they don't seek the Lord. See right now I'm actually

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as content as I am and God gave me enough wisdom to know I'm actually in a dangerous place

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because many pastors fall asleep in their fifties especially when you're as happy as me.

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See look the reality is some pastors are incredibly incredibly insecure, they don't know they're

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loved in the Lord, they really don't, you think that they would but they don't know and so they're

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always achieved, they're trying to achieve, they're trying to win God's love, win God's approval

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and they'll work 18 hours a day, they'll do so much all hoping to get a pat on the head from the

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Lord not knowing that he already gives his pat for free any time they'll receive him.

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So I understand there's also a danger, I'm ministering some people who you're older

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and you're like well this you know I kind of missed it if I didn't do this in my 20s,

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it's never too late I'm at a place now where I'm seeking the Lord, Lord

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and now I'm at I'm at I'm at point D how do I get to E you know E is us having our own building

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E is us multiplying by about three four hundred percent

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and how to do that and still have contented staff who can raise families

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because my staff is blessed. Amen. Yeah, no really that's important you check the staff,

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you know how you know the health of a church, check the employees, check the staff, usually the

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pastor is great because he's got like six assistants somebody's massaging his feet in the back room

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carrying his Bible for him and the staff are like miserable they totally pale giant bags underneath

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their eyes they're working 60 hours a week all you know you got to work for Jesus you got to do

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it for the Lord and the burnout rate is so quick no I don't believe that's healthy amen.

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So I'm seeking the Lord of fresh will you join me?

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I'm excited about the potential of 2026 anything can happen

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hallelujah I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel

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he's talking about the allotment that God has given him he's talking about the presence of God

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and he's linking it to the voice of God the leading of the Holy Spirit I will bless the Lord who

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who has given me counsel if you ever feel like saying I don't know what the Lord wants say this

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instead someone asks you what are you going to do don't say I don't know what what I'm going to do

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say I'll bless the Lord who's given me counsel and then he goes even further my heart what is

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heart mean call it louder wait were you in the first service louder it's good answer but

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somebody in the back what's your heart your organ boom boom boom boom boom no but these are important

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things right you can't just lump it all together heart so people do that all the time they quote Jesus

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wrong you know Jesus said love the Lord your God with all that stuff you know the heart mine soul

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spirit throw in one of the you know esoteric thing in there they actually all mean something your

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heart is your spirit how do you hear God in your spirit he's saying my heart instructs me in the

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night seasons that could mean literally when he's sleeping also during the dark times when you

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don't know what to do where does instruction come from council is good that's all fine and Andy

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but God will instruct you in the night seasons hallelujah he will lead you in the way that you

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should go he will whisper to you what to do next and that's why it's important to start developing

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those spiritual senses quickly so that you don't try to develop them when you're already in a dark

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season hey man learn how to hear God if you're having a great time right now you're not going through

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a tough time perfect learn now hallelujah I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my

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right hand see the intimacy there the Lord is at my right hand I shall not be moved don't say I

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don't know if the Lord's with me say the Lord is at my right hand oh how are you so arrogant to say

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that well I'm not he said that he said I'll never leave you no forsake you therefore my heart is

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glad and my glory rejoices worship team come on up my flesh also will rest in hope for you will not

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leave my soul and she'll nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption now let's just

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stay that one verse this was obviously talking about Jesus as well and it's quoted in Acts

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but none of these prophetic verses have only one application they have a two way application

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one is this applies to the Messiah to Jesus God promised I won't allow you you know because Jesus was

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in that sense he became sin and he became a curse the Bible says Jesus became a curse on the

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cross so you could become blessed but the promise was you won't leave this his soul and she'll

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nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption but the other application is for you

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not just for the Messiah for you that God will protect you he will preserve you

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when I was going through it my head was saying you're cooked you're done you're toast you're

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finished there's there's no coming can anybody relate to me I wish I could just make you feel

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what I felt you just completely just stick a fork in me I'm done one of that's why when I get

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to heaven he's going to say well done though good because I'm well done

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but he won't leave your soul in the place of the dead and he won't allow you to see corruption

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verse 11 you will show me the path of life in your presence his fullness of joy shout this

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out loud Lord you will show me the path of life in your presence his fullness of joy

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at your right hand are pleasures forever more now shout a big hallelujah hallelujah

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I pray you have a blessed blessed Christmas that it's sopping wet with the presence of God

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I pray that you would become more more open to his presence that you would go on adventures and God

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yeah and May 2026 be a tremendous year for you personally for the whole church

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and that we increase in the glory hallelujah more testimonies more miracles more life transformations

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more people getting blessed and promoted and that's what pushes God's buttons he's awesome hallelujah

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well let's honor the Lord and worship him with our tides and offerings amen I want to just

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draw your attention to the first fruits campaign that's separate from our tides and offerings

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that's just a way for you to specifically give before it's even 2026 you're giving the first

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which is the best and it's important our goal is a hundred thousand we just started this after

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Thanksgiving right or right before Thanksgiving we're ready at 77 percent so this is what I ask

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because it would be nice if we just got the whole hundred percent plus before January 1

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so just ask the Lord what he'd have you give that's all I have to do I don't have to play the

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games I don't have to be like mmm there's a woman here and you forgot how you raised your child

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but the Lord is telling you to give a hundred thousand dollars right now there's a woman here

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right now you need to give a hundred thousand dollars I can just ask you to ask the Lord

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what what does he want you to give amen and then of course the giving information

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hallelujah you remember some of the churches I took you to

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when first God saved and I let my mom to the Lord they had this meeting the who's who in the

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charismatic zoo at the javits this is early 90s you would know what kind of meetings if I said

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the names but people Christianity was wild back then everybody in a 17-piece suit

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pompadores and why did he insist on always having plants on the altars just you had it's like you

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weren't having church unless you had a jungle behind you all plans decorating at the javits

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and then it would be like a 45-minute offering teaching which I don't mind the two-hour offering

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teaching when it's pure I'll take a six hour I love offering messages when when they're from

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the word and there's no manipulation or hype or guilt and it's amazing really if you don't believe

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in God you're silly because the fact that Christianity survived through all of that is a miracle

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you have to believe in God the fact that I can take my mom who was saved like five minutes and

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take her one of those meetings and she'd have to sit through that and then still believe in the

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Lord and serve him is a miracle hallelujah yeah so give with a glad heart

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heavenly father pour out on your people thank you that nothing is too difficult for you

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thank you that you bless both the sower and the seed giver you multiply back to them thank you

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for Holy Ghost surprises Lord and just like provoke some people through Jesus you told to Peter

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you said to Peter I prayed for you that your faith failed not I prayed for them Lord

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that their faith failed not they'd be open to the surprises of God in Jesus name amen hallelujah

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ministry team if you would go on to that Christmassy lit area and if you want ministry by the

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laying on of hands maybe you're intrigued by this baptism in the Holy Spirit thing I mentioned

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I highly recommend it Jesus he went further than me of course he commanded it he didn't say I

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really recommend you go to Jerusalem and wait he said go to Jerusalem and wait until you're in

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dude with power from on high he told them wait because the Holy Spirit wasn't given yet you don't

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even have to wait he's waiting for you amen and I encourage you to just stay with one more song

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if you got to run run but let's sing one more song I made the Holy Spirit increase upon your life

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Merry Christmas everybody be blessed this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any

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part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in city light

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church visit us at citylight NYC dot com that's city light NYC dot com feel free to visit us online

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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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