WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Some of you don't have that expansive view about who you are, about who God is, about your 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:13.080 purpose, about your calling, about your influence, about what God wants from you, and God says, 3 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:20.240 I need you to repent, not come onto the altar and cry, but to change how you think about 4 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:26.480 me, my word, my promises, and the destiny I placed on the inside of you. 5 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:31.480 Welcome to the CityLight Church Podcast, thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's 6 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:35.800 Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 7 00:00:35.800 --> 00:00:41.600 If you want to connect with CityLight Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, 8 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.920 that citylightnyc.com. 9 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:50.120 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already 10 00:00:50.120 --> 00:00:52.720 working in our hearts and minds. 11 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:57.720 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you 12 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:06.400 are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 13 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:17.680 Without further ado, Prophet Pastor, friend, brother, Nathaniel, Saint-Aloy, praise the Lord. 14 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:23.720 Can we give Jesus some praise in this place? 15 00:01:23.720 --> 00:01:24.720 I'm ready for this Word. 16 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:25.720 I am ready. 17 00:01:25.720 --> 00:01:26.720 I'm ready. 18 00:01:26.720 --> 00:01:27.720 I'm ready. 19 00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:28.720 God is going to do something fresh. 20 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:32.960 Help people are ready for God to do something fresh. 21 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:39.280 I woke up and immediately the Holy Spirit just like punched me and said, I'm going to release 22 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.120 a ramal word to my people today, and I know what a ramal word means. 23 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.440 When you've been saved for more than 10 minutes in a Pentecostal or charismatic church, 24 00:01:48.440 --> 00:01:50.400 you've heard the word ramal before. 25 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.520 There's two words in Greek that talk about the word. 26 00:01:54.520 --> 00:01:58.480 The first one is logos, and that has to do with the written word. 27 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:05.520 But the word ramal has to do with a prophetic word, or like a word that's spoken in season 28 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:10.920 that shifts you from one place to the next place, from one dimension to the next dimension, 29 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:17.400 from one level to the next level, is a specific word that God uses to kind of punch you in 30 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.520 the gut and awaken the sleeping giant on the inside of you. 31 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:26.200 And the Holy Spirit said, I'm going to release a ramal word on my people, a word that's 32 00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:32.880 going to awaken the gifts, awaken the anointing, awaken the calling, awaken the fire, come 33 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:36.880 on, awaken the grace and the glory over their lives. 34 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:37.880 Come on. 35 00:02:37.880 --> 00:02:38.880 I just need about three people. 36 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:43.600 God, I don't just want a word that I go home and I'm the same person. 37 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:50.680 I need a word to activate the power and fire and anointing on the inside of me. 38 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:57.540 That's why the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by ramal, not logos, not the 39 00:02:57.540 --> 00:03:03.400 written word, but that word that comes and activates something on the inside of you. 40 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.480 The scripture says about Mary, you know what it says about Mary? 41 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:10.000 It says that Mary received the word from the angel. 42 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:15.560 This was a word that was already written 2,000 years before, but when she received the 43 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:24.040 word, she said, Lord, let it be according to your ramal, which means this word was written 44 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:27.600 and now it's being activated in my life. 45 00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:30.040 And I want to prophesy to three people. 46 00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:36.280 The written word is getting ready to be activated and manifested in your life. 47 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:37.280 Do you believe it? 48 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:38.280 Say yes. 49 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:39.280 All right. 50 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:40.280 I'm ready. 51 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:50.080 2nd Kings, chapter 6, I was like my own personal devotion to Lord woke me up with this morning. 52 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:58.880 2nd Kings, chapter 6, and I'm going to start reading at verse 1, 2nd Kings 6, and I'll 53 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:04.360 start reading at verse 1 and we'll end at verse 7. 54 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:05.360 Hallelujah. 55 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.960 Can you just lift up your hands and just tell Jesus how good he is. 56 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:12.040 You're worthy, Lord. 57 00:04:12.040 --> 00:04:13.840 You're awesome, God. 58 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.000 Oh, you're just amazing. 59 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:21.040 Oh, mighty are you, Lord, from the rising of the sun to the going down to the same. 60 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:23.600 Your name is worthy to be praised. 61 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.680 If you don't know what to say about God, just talk about him. 62 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.880 Tell him how good he is. 63 00:04:29.880 --> 00:04:31.240 Talk to him according to his word. 64 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.440 You know the reason why some of you don't have a worship is because you don't have the 65 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:34.440 word in you. 66 00:04:34.440 --> 00:04:37.360 When you have the word inside of you, guess what? 67 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:42.640 You start worshipping him from that well, from that stream, from that river that's inside 68 00:04:42.640 --> 00:04:43.640 of you. 69 00:04:43.640 --> 00:04:44.800 Oh, Father, you are good. 70 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:45.800 You are sovereign. 71 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:46.800 You are mighty. 72 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.040 You are holy. 73 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:49.040 You are matchless. 74 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:50.840 Thank you, Jesus. 75 00:04:50.840 --> 00:04:51.840 All right. 76 00:04:51.840 --> 00:04:52.840 Let's get into it. 77 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:56.480 If you don't like me, I won't be here next week. 78 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.720 So you probably won't see me for the next few. 79 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.920 So come back here and pass the boy on. 80 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:05.560 If this is your first time, you're probably going to like him a lot more than you like 81 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:06.560 me. 82 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:13.040 So I'm just saying, y'all can laugh, I like to laugh. 83 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:14.040 Y'all better like me. 84 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:15.040 All right. 85 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:16.840 You have no choice. 86 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:17.840 All right. 87 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:18.840 Let's go. 88 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:19.840 Second King, chapter six. 89 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:22.600 We're going to start reading at verse one and we're going to end at verse seven. 90 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:23.600 Look what it says. 91 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.320 And the sons of the prophets said to Elijah, see now the place where we dwell with you is 92 00:05:27.320 --> 00:05:28.920 too small for us. 93 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:29.680 This is good. 94 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:37.040 And one, please let us go to the Jordan and let every man take a beam from there and let 95 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:39.680 us make there a place where we may dwell. 96 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.400 So he answered, go. 97 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:48.840 Then one said, please consent to go with your servants and he answered, I will go. 98 00:05:48.840 --> 00:05:57.200 So when, so he went with them and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 99 00:05:57.200 --> 00:06:04.840 But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron axe had fell into the water. 100 00:06:04.840 --> 00:06:10.080 And he cried out and he said, last master for it was borrowed, verse six, we're almost 101 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:11.080 done. 102 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:17.880 So the man of God said, where did it fall? 103 00:06:17.880 --> 00:06:23.120 And he showed him the place and he cut off a stick and threw it in there and he made 104 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.680 the iron float, verse seven. 105 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:27.920 And before he said, pick it up for yourself. 106 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.360 So he reached out his hands and he took it. 107 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:35.040 May God bless the reading of his word. 108 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:42.120 The, you know, when you're a Bible college and you take preaching classes, they tell you 109 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:47.480 never have a negative title in your sermon because it turns people off. 110 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:54.240 But today it's kind of a, I've been preaching too long, right? 111 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.280 I'm going to have a negative title. 112 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:04.440 So I want to talk about the enemy of expansion, the enemy of expansion. 113 00:07:04.440 --> 00:07:11.240 Y'all know me, I'm never going to preach negativity, amen? 114 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:15.880 I may preach something that hurts your feelings because it's in the word. 115 00:07:15.880 --> 00:07:21.000 I may preach something that steps on your toes a little bit because it's in the scriptures. 116 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:27.040 And my job as a man of God, as a prophet of God, as a mouthpiece of God is to say what 117 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:28.760 he's saying. 118 00:07:28.760 --> 00:07:34.840 And to just echo heaven's voice, I'm not the preacher, he's the preacher, I'm the repeater. 119 00:07:34.840 --> 00:07:38.840 Oh, no one said amen. 120 00:07:38.840 --> 00:07:44.240 So let's get into this, the enemies, so I want to talk about a few enemies of expansion. 121 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:50.520 When I think about the word expansion, biblically, there's a few concepts about the word 122 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:53.080 expansion in the Bible. 123 00:07:53.080 --> 00:08:00.120 It usually relates to growth, increase, and the broadening of influence are territory. 124 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:04.280 So expansion had to do with you, broadening your territory, burning the way you think, 125 00:08:04.280 --> 00:08:09.120 burning your mindset, your mentality about something, and throughout the scripture it reflected 126 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.800 both like a physical and spiritual dimension. 127 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:17.560 So expansion had to do with you, expanding not only physically, but spiritually. 128 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:22.200 You look through the both the old and the New Testament, the theme of expansion is there 129 00:08:22.200 --> 00:08:24.360 over and over. 130 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.840 Expansion is God's will for your life. 131 00:08:27.840 --> 00:08:33.080 It's part of God's prophetic agenda for each and every person in here. 132 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.160 God did not call you to stay at one place, he did not call you to stay at one level, he 133 00:08:37.160 --> 00:08:39.040 did not call you to stay at one dimension. 134 00:08:39.040 --> 00:08:44.560 Come on, I just need someone, he did not call you to stay stagnant and dead with no life. 135 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:48.840 The Holy Spirit is not in you like a lake, the Holy Spirit is in you like a river which 136 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:53.600 means there's a constant movement, constant momentum, constant growth. 137 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:58.080 And so when the Holy Spirit is talking about expansion in your life, he's talking about 138 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:04.480 every area in your life, even the areas that seem like it's dead and it's dormant, but 139 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:11.600 the Holy Spirit is about to breathe his breath into it and every dead thing on the inside 140 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:17.920 of you is getting ready to live again, every dead dream, every dead vision, every dead 141 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:24.040 idea, everything the enemy has whispered in your ears for the last 20 years and told you 142 00:09:24.040 --> 00:09:25.520 to give up on it. 143 00:09:25.520 --> 00:09:32.040 God is about to resurrect it again, Lazarus come forth, I prophesy that whatever is dead, 144 00:09:32.040 --> 00:09:38.400 his resurrection power hit the room and is coming alive again, I decree and declare that 145 00:09:38.400 --> 00:09:43.720 whatever has died on the inside of you, there's a resurrection power. 146 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:51.320 The Holy Spirit is putting his jumper camels on your dead battery and say come alive. 147 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:59.800 A Holy Spirit put them jumper camels on my dead vision, on my dead finances, on my 148 00:09:59.800 --> 00:10:05.320 dead marriage, come alive. 149 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:13.080 When I'm talking about expansion, I'm talking about God taking you from glory to glory, from 150 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:20.280 faith to faith, from one level to the next level, see I'm not the person that wants to 151 00:10:20.280 --> 00:10:23.960 be the same person I was last year. 152 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:28.640 If last year when someone cut me off, I used to cut, I don't want to cut this year. 153 00:10:28.640 --> 00:10:36.560 You know that's you moving from glory to glory. 154 00:10:36.560 --> 00:10:39.720 You know what moving to glory to glory really looks like because we think it's like some 155 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.800 whew mystical and I'm falling out all the time. 156 00:10:42.800 --> 00:10:51.760 It means that when someone has an attitude with you, you respond in love. 157 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:53.040 You know what it looks like? 158 00:10:53.040 --> 00:10:57.080 It looks like when you used to complain, when things didn't go your way and you said, 159 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.200 I ain't gonna complain no more, I'm gonna start giving God thanks. 160 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:06.720 As you know, the Bible says, giving God thanks in every circumstance is the will of God. 161 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:12.960 So you know you're not doing the will of God if you're complaining in any circumstance. 162 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:13.960 That sounds tough. 163 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:14.960 That's who, God. 164 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:15.960 I'm convicted on that. 165 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.720 Holy Hose, help me because the level of a complaining that comes in my life when things 166 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:26.120 don't go my way, oh man, and then I'm blaming everyone. 167 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.840 Oh my kids, my wife, it ain't dumb, it's you. 168 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.000 God's trying to fix your attitude. 169 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.680 He wants you have an attitude of gratitude. 170 00:11:34.680 --> 00:11:39.920 He wants you have an attitude of gratefulness, a gratitude where you don't look at your situation 171 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:45.040 but you look at how good your God is, how big your God is, how mighty your God is, how 172 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:49.720 much your God is a deliverer, how much your God is a healer, how much your God is a 173 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:54.840 God of breakthrough, how much your God is a God who shifts situations and turns things 174 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:55.840 around. 175 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:59.800 You're not looking at what I'm going through, I'm looking about where I'm going to and 176 00:11:59.800 --> 00:12:06.640 I'm going to destiny because expansion is my portion. 177 00:12:06.640 --> 00:12:09.560 But there are enemies of expansion. 178 00:12:09.560 --> 00:12:11.880 Can I say this one thing? 179 00:12:11.880 --> 00:12:15.200 Expansion was God's design from the beginning. 180 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.520 I know you like this crazy preacher is talking about expansion. 181 00:12:18.520 --> 00:12:20.240 Where is that in God's timeline? 182 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:25.760 It was God's will for you to grow, for you to expand, for you not to stay at the same 183 00:12:25.760 --> 00:12:26.760 place forever. 184 00:12:26.760 --> 00:12:32.400 He told Adam and Eve, hey, Adam, hey, Eve, you know why I created you so that you could 185 00:12:32.400 --> 00:12:40.720 be fruitful, expansion, so that you can multiply, expansion, so you could fill the earth, expansion, 186 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:48.320 so you could subdue it, expansion, every possibility I placed inside of you was the possibility 187 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:49.920 of expansion. 188 00:12:49.920 --> 00:12:53.600 I didn't put anything inside of you that was death. 189 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.120 That came through sin. 190 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:01.560 When God created you, He breathed His breath in you, He put His spirit in you, His spirit 191 00:13:01.560 --> 00:13:03.840 is the spirit of expansion. 192 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:08.240 The Bible says, He hovered over the face of the deep and He looked at nothing and created 193 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:13.040 something, that's called expansion. 194 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:21.800 See nothing and out of nothing, ex nihilio, out of nothing came something, out of nothing 195 00:13:21.800 --> 00:13:25.680 came something, you know, that's going to be your testimony in the next season. 196 00:13:25.680 --> 00:13:31.720 Oh, three people said amen, that you see nothing going right for you, you see nothing 197 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:36.200 happening in your finances, you see nothing happening in your relationship and the spirit 198 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:40.520 of God that lives on the inside of you is getting ready to speak up and say, whatever 199 00:13:40.520 --> 00:13:46.960 was nothing is becoming something now, whatever was dead is becoming alive now, whatever was 200 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:52.240 sick, healing is coming to it in Jesus name. 201 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:53.640 Expansions your portion. 202 00:13:53.640 --> 00:13:58.800 From the beginning, God wanted His people to walk and live in expansion. 203 00:13:58.800 --> 00:14:00.840 I'm proof it to Abraham. 204 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:06.520 So you know, Adam and Eve, they said, they kicked out the garden, you're thinking God's 205 00:14:06.520 --> 00:14:11.360 plan of expansion is over, it's not, it was just the beginning. 206 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:15.320 Because they didn't realize that God had a plan that far surpassed their plan and He knew 207 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.560 that they were going to fail and He had a different plan of expansion that even went 208 00:14:18.560 --> 00:14:22.640 greater than He was going to give Adam and Eve. 209 00:14:22.640 --> 00:14:26.960 And so He decides, I'm going to call Abraham, He calls Abraham, you know the promise He 210 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:31.440 gives to Abraham, goes Abraham, you're one person, you're no one. 211 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.480 I called you out of your family, I called you in a place where you don't know anything, 212 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:36.480 you don't know anyone. 213 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.800 But guess what, I put inside of you expansion. 214 00:14:39.800 --> 00:14:44.240 He said, Abraham, look up, Abraham looks up, he says, see the stars in the sky, can you 215 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:45.240 count them? 216 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:51.960 That's how much I'm going to expand, look at the sand on the seashore, can you count 217 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:52.960 to Abraham? 218 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:58.160 That's how much I'm going to expand, so Abraham, after a lot left him, he said, Abraham, 219 00:14:58.160 --> 00:15:02.040 I want you to just look around, look to the North, South, East and West, I don't know where 220 00:15:02.040 --> 00:15:03.200 that is right now. 221 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:08.560 Because I know some people are lying, I'm like, no to North, it's just, all right, point 222 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:09.560 dexter. 223 00:15:09.560 --> 00:15:19.320 But look at the North, South, East and West, Abraham, I want you to look all around you, 224 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:26.560 do a panoramic view, 360, wherever you can see, I'm expanding you. 225 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:31.480 As far as you can see, I've given you and your descendants to land. 226 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:36.440 So expansion was always God's plan and always God's will, and guess what? 227 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:40.360 Because we by faith are the seed of Abraham. 228 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:47.120 That means every promise that God gave to Abraham is for us as the church. 229 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:54.000 So that means if the promise of land was for Abraham, the promise of expansion was for 230 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:58.440 Abraham, the promise is for me and Christ. 231 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.680 So here's the greater thing, Abraham only was limited in the expansion God was giving 232 00:16:03.680 --> 00:16:04.680 him. 233 00:16:04.680 --> 00:16:06.520 He was only able to expand in land. 234 00:16:06.520 --> 00:16:10.480 God doesn't only give us expansion in land as new covenant believers. 235 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:12.920 We can expand in our mindset. 236 00:16:12.920 --> 00:16:15.160 That's what repentance is. 237 00:16:15.160 --> 00:16:17.360 Repent to words. 238 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.960 Remes to turn, pet like the top floor of a building. 239 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.720 And he's turning to a higher perspective. 240 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:28.600 More expansive view. 241 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:30.920 Can I talk right now? 242 00:16:30.920 --> 00:16:36.520 Some of you don't have that expansive view about who you are, about who God is, about your 243 00:16:36.520 --> 00:16:44.800 purpose, about your calling, about your money, about your influence, about what God wants 244 00:16:44.800 --> 00:16:45.800 from you. 245 00:16:45.800 --> 00:16:48.080 And God says, I need you to repent. 246 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:56.240 Not come to the altar and cry, but to change how you think about me, my word, my promises 247 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.360 and the destiny I placed on the inside of you. 248 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:01.960 I'm about to have an expansive view. 249 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.600 Somebody say, I got an expansive view. 250 00:17:04.600 --> 00:17:06.920 I'm going to look different this season. 251 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:08.880 I'm going to walk different this season. 252 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.160 I'm going to have a different swag in this season. 253 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:15.120 I'm going to have a different speech in this season because I know who God created me 254 00:17:15.120 --> 00:17:16.120 to be. 255 00:17:16.120 --> 00:17:19.040 I just need some people who are going to change their speech a little bit. 256 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:21.240 I'm not broke, busted and disgusted. 257 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:22.480 I'm not poor. 258 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:23.760 I'm not struggling. 259 00:17:23.760 --> 00:17:24.760 I'm not in lack. 260 00:17:24.760 --> 00:17:26.560 I got a different perspective. 261 00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:28.560 I got an expansive view. 262 00:17:28.560 --> 00:17:31.840 I see myself the way heaven sees me. 263 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:35.000 And heaven sees me as the righteousness of God. 264 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:39.000 Heaven sees me as blessed in the city and blessed in the field. 265 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:42.080 Heaven sees me as a child of God. 266 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:43.480 Not a slave. 267 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:44.480 Not in bondage. 268 00:17:44.520 --> 00:17:45.640 Not in sin. 269 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.040 I am a son of the living God. 270 00:17:48.040 --> 00:17:55.920 I see myself the way God sees me. 271 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:00.000 So I'm seeing this theme of expansion. 272 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.960 Jesus even talks about it in Matthew chapter 16. 273 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.680 One Peter goes, you're the Christ, the son of the living God, and then Jesus goes, 274 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:11.560 flesh and blood didn't reveal that she owes up here. 275 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:13.160 He's like, flesh and blood didn't reveal. 276 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:16.920 I like the way the message Bible says, books and teachers didn't teach you that. 277 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:20.800 Peter, my father in heaven got himself, 278 00:18:20.800 --> 00:18:23.240 let you into a secret of who I really am. 279 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:26.920 And now I'm going to tell you who you really are, Peter, a rock. 280 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:29.080 This is the rock that he goes back to himself. 281 00:18:29.080 --> 00:18:34.560 Jesus is the rock on which I will put my church together, my church. 282 00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:39.880 A church so expansive. 283 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:43.720 You see, when you read it in different versions, it says it completely different. 284 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.720 Where it says, on this rock, I'll build my church and the gates of hell should not prevail against it. 285 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:48.960 Y'all probably know that version. 286 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:50.520 You heard that version a million times. 287 00:18:50.520 --> 00:18:53.960 That's not what that verse is saying when you look at the original language in the Greek. 288 00:18:53.960 --> 00:19:00.400 It's not saying like the church is here barely holding on while hell is coming at the church 289 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:05.440 and trying to fight the church and the church is like, whew, this is so tough. 290 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.200 Oh man, the devil is almost taking us out. 291 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.880 I think that's the mentality we have when we read the verse. 292 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.800 There's a gates of hell attacking the church. 293 00:19:12.800 --> 00:19:14.440 That's not what Jesus is saying. 294 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:16.320 Jesus is saying the complete opposite. 295 00:19:16.320 --> 00:19:18.360 Jesus is saying hell is standing there. 296 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:21.280 The gates of hell, you have to see what gates are, gates don't move. 297 00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:26.400 So the idea of, oh hell is moving. 298 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:29.200 No, the gates of hell has this territory. 299 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.200 They have this land, they have this much. 300 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:35.000 The church is moving fast and taking land. 301 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:40.760 The church is moving with power and taking territory. 302 00:19:40.760 --> 00:19:43.960 We're taking territory in media. 303 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:46.160 We're taking territory in politics. 304 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:47.200 Come on somebody. 305 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.920 We're taking territory in New York City. 306 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:51.680 I don't care how liberal it is. 307 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:53.240 We're taking territory. 308 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.040 I don't care if my dummy becomes mayor. 309 00:19:56.040 --> 00:19:58.000 We're taking territory. 310 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:02.360 Some y'all be mad, I said it. 311 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:06.600 That man is a socialist, communist. 312 00:20:06.600 --> 00:20:10.840 If you're a business person, you should be terrified. 313 00:20:10.840 --> 00:20:13.720 When he said, I only want to text white people in white neighborhoods. 314 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:15.040 He said it not my words. 315 00:20:20.040 --> 00:20:21.720 I ain't white, but I know that's crazy. 316 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.160 See, I'm a black man. 317 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.560 But that's crazy. 318 00:20:33.560 --> 00:20:35.800 I don't care if he becomes mayor. 319 00:20:35.800 --> 00:20:40.920 Him becoming mayor has nothing to do with how fast the church is going to span. 320 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:44.280 The body of Christ is getting ready to push with such an energy. 321 00:20:44.280 --> 00:20:45.400 Look what it says. 322 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:47.920 It said the gates of hell are standing there. 323 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:54.920 And the church is moving with such expansive energy that not even the gates of hell 324 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:57.240 shall be able to keep it out. 325 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:03.200 All right. 326 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.600 So can we get to the text? 327 00:21:05.600 --> 00:21:06.560 I want to preach the text. 328 00:21:06.560 --> 00:21:07.800 I know I preach for like 15 minutes. 329 00:21:07.800 --> 00:21:11.640 They're like, my God, he already preached. 330 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:15.280 My time literally says 10 minutes up here. 331 00:21:15.280 --> 00:21:18.600 I hope I have a few more minutes. 332 00:21:18.600 --> 00:21:20.800 But I want to talk about some enemies of expansion. 333 00:21:20.800 --> 00:21:25.120 Some things that are going to hold you back from the story here in 2 Kings, Chapter 6. 334 00:21:25.120 --> 00:21:28.880 Some things that are going to hold you back from expanding. 335 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:33.760 Some things that are going to hold you back from growing and being everything God's called 336 00:21:33.760 --> 00:21:38.280 you to do and not living the fullness of the potential and the destiny that God has for 337 00:21:38.280 --> 00:21:39.280 you. 338 00:21:39.280 --> 00:21:42.040 Are you ready to hear some of the enemies and how to combat those enemies? 339 00:21:42.040 --> 00:21:46.000 Here's the first enemy of expansion, complacency. 340 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.520 This is a good one because a lot of you are complacent. 341 00:21:49.520 --> 00:21:50.520 You're just a man. 342 00:21:50.520 --> 00:21:56.160 I got my 95 job and cool and God's like, well, I told you to start that app. 343 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:59.960 That app was going to make you a millionaire, but you're complacent. 344 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:03.680 So instead of going home, taking care of the kids, letting them go to sleep and working 345 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:08.040 on the dream God gave you, let me just go to sleep and get comfortable. 346 00:22:08.040 --> 00:22:09.440 You're complacent. 347 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.880 Even in your physical body, you're complacent. 348 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:13.800 I'm okay not working out. 349 00:22:13.800 --> 00:22:15.720 I'm okay not looking right. 350 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:19.600 I'm okay not taking care of myself and you're complacent because you know what? 351 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:20.600 It's all right. 352 00:22:20.600 --> 00:22:21.800 I'm not worth it. 353 00:22:21.800 --> 00:22:24.920 You have this mentality that you don't deserve more. 354 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:26.040 You don't deserve better. 355 00:22:26.040 --> 00:22:31.000 You're complacent where you are and God doesn't want you to be complacent. 356 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:34.000 Complacent people never sees the promise of God. 357 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:36.080 They never walk in destiny. 358 00:22:36.080 --> 00:22:39.080 They never are able to possess the land. 359 00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:44.720 It's only people who are aggressive, people who are forthright and people who are not afraid 360 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:46.240 who can possess the land. 361 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:48.240 Acts Joshua. 362 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:54.880 Joshua looked at an angel of the Lord and was like, if you don't get out my way, 363 00:22:54.880 --> 00:23:01.200 because I got a word from God, then I was going to take this land. 364 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:08.720 Are you for us or against us and if you tell us you're against us, I'm ready to fight. 365 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:14.280 I'm ready to strap up my boots, put on my back. 366 00:23:14.280 --> 00:23:18.000 I'm ready for war. 367 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:26.720 We need people who are ready to fight because the violence taken by force, not those who 368 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:34.400 are weak and tired and complacent, no, we need some warriors in the house of God. 369 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:37.480 We need some giddy and if you ain't with me, it's cool. 370 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:43.720 I'll take my 300 and we'll ride out. 371 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:46.800 Who's ready to fight with me? 372 00:23:46.800 --> 00:23:52.640 That was on the Lord's side, let's go because the devil ain't sleeping. 373 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:59.040 He's working overtime to destroy people's lives, to rob people of the fullness of God. 374 00:23:59.040 --> 00:24:00.920 I'm not going to sleep. 375 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:05.320 I'm going to do what the scripture says and I say, take no rest and give the Lord no rest 376 00:24:05.320 --> 00:24:12.200 until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it the praise of the earth. 377 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:16.680 You can't get complacent. 378 00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:24.160 In the story, 2 Kings chapter 6, there was a whole group of school of prophets who would 379 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:30.880 meet together and the original leader and founder of the school of the prophets was Elijah. 380 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:38.040 Then Elijah comes and gets the double portion of what Elijah has and Elijah says, looks 381 00:24:38.040 --> 00:24:43.760 at the group and one of the members stands up and says, the place we're living in is too 382 00:24:43.760 --> 00:24:45.520 small for us. 383 00:24:45.520 --> 00:24:47.720 It's time for us to expand. 384 00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:49.720 It's time for us to grow. 385 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.360 It's time for us to not be stuck in this small place. 386 00:24:53.360 --> 00:24:57.480 Look what it says, the sons of the prophets are Elijah, see now the place we dwell with 387 00:24:57.480 --> 00:25:02.520 you is too small for us. 388 00:25:02.520 --> 00:25:06.680 It takes faith talk like that to see results. 389 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:12.800 It takes faith talk like this one bedroom apartment is too small for me. 390 00:25:12.800 --> 00:25:21.320 It takes faith talk to say, God, I don't got the money but I got the favor. 391 00:25:21.320 --> 00:25:26.960 I'm looking at my big account and the math thing, math thing. 392 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:31.560 But I know that you're the God who owns cattle on a thousand hills. 393 00:25:31.560 --> 00:25:35.600 I know you're the God who said you will supply all of my knees according to your riches 394 00:25:35.600 --> 00:25:38.120 and glory by Christ Jesus. 395 00:25:38.120 --> 00:25:42.560 I know you're the God who said that I won't have to worry about a thing because you're with 396 00:25:42.560 --> 00:25:43.560 me. 397 00:25:43.560 --> 00:25:44.560 You'll never leave me. 398 00:25:44.560 --> 00:25:46.040 You'll never forsake me. 399 00:25:46.040 --> 00:25:51.200 When you start making those kind of confessions, this is too small for me. 400 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:53.880 I was not called for small. 401 00:25:53.880 --> 00:26:00.400 See some of you can't say amen because you believe you're called for small. 402 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:05.720 You call, man, my business is just never going to take off. 403 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:06.960 I live in New York. 404 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.080 You know New York is so tough. 405 00:26:09.080 --> 00:26:11.280 That's your confession. 406 00:26:11.280 --> 00:26:13.040 New York City is so expensive. 407 00:26:13.040 --> 00:26:14.760 I don't care how expensive New York gets. 408 00:26:14.760 --> 00:26:20.040 If you call me here, I'm blessed here because I'm not blessed based off location. 409 00:26:20.040 --> 00:26:23.480 I'm blessed based off revelation. 410 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:27.720 So you can be in New York City and they could jack up the prices on the rent. 411 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:28.720 And guess what? 412 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:34.120 You will still be blessed because if God called you here, he's going to do what he promised. 413 00:26:34.120 --> 00:26:35.520 He's not a man that he should lie. 414 00:26:35.520 --> 00:26:37.800 He's not the son of a man that he should repent. 415 00:26:37.800 --> 00:26:42.640 What he promised, he is faithful to perform his word. 416 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:44.920 He is faithful to deliver. 417 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:51.000 He is faithful to complete what he's, I just need about three people who know. 418 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:52.920 This place is too small. 419 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:54.960 This mindset is too small. 420 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:56.640 I got to start thinking higher. 421 00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:57.960 I got to start thinking. 422 00:26:57.960 --> 00:26:59.320 How can I give more money? 423 00:26:59.320 --> 00:27:00.320 I got to start thinking. 424 00:27:00.320 --> 00:27:01.320 How can I so more? 425 00:27:01.320 --> 00:27:02.800 I got to start thinking. 426 00:27:02.800 --> 00:27:10.720 How can I increase from the place I'm at because it's not my final destination? 427 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:14.880 So the first thing you can't get complacent, they're like, no, we can't get complacent. 428 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.280 This place is too small. 429 00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:19.360 So here's a second point. 430 00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:24.120 It's that I got three minutes. 431 00:27:24.120 --> 00:27:38.480 My second point is this, this is good, this is really good, oh thank you Jesus, hallelujah. 432 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:46.200 My second point is this, don't be presumptuous, here's the issue with some of us. 433 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:51.800 We want to do something for God but we want to do it without God. 434 00:27:51.800 --> 00:27:54.520 You will never be blessed that way. 435 00:27:54.520 --> 00:28:00.120 God I want to do this for you but then you leave God out of the picture, God, can I give 436 00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:01.120 you a good example? 437 00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:06.040 God, I want you to bless me financially but you don't pay tides. 438 00:28:06.040 --> 00:28:11.560 So you left God out of the equation but you still want God to bless you. 439 00:28:11.560 --> 00:28:20.840 God, I want to get married and I want to have a husband and they say just like that. 440 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:27.560 You're not living by biblical principles of living holy. 441 00:28:27.560 --> 00:28:30.600 But you want God to do it. 442 00:28:30.600 --> 00:28:34.200 Don't be presumptuous, make sure you go with God. 443 00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:38.200 The only way you can expand for real is if you do it God's way. 444 00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:41.440 God's way or the highway. 445 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:47.920 And guess what, the highway, you're going to speed and get a ticket. 446 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.840 Because the highway, you always going at a speed you shouldn't go. 447 00:28:51.840 --> 00:28:56.960 I'm prophesying to some people. 448 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:01.400 Some of you are moving at a pace heaven didn't call you to move. 449 00:29:01.400 --> 00:29:07.560 That's why the Bible says they were led by the cloud by day and the fire by night. 450 00:29:07.560 --> 00:29:09.880 You have to move at heaven's pace. 451 00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:12.520 You have to move when God moves. 452 00:29:12.520 --> 00:29:15.040 You have to move when heaven tells you to move. 453 00:29:15.040 --> 00:29:18.960 You can't move at your own rhythm. 454 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:23.120 Some of you heaven is like this and you clapping. 455 00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:34.120 You don't have the rhythm of heaven. 456 00:29:34.120 --> 00:29:39.400 The way God blesses you is when you move according to how he moves. 457 00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:42.280 You know Moses, they're in the wilderness. 458 00:29:42.280 --> 00:29:52.240 Moses goes, Lord Exodus chapter 33, he says, Lord, we don't want to go unless you go 459 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:53.240 with us. 460 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:55.600 We're in the wilderness. 461 00:29:55.600 --> 00:29:58.920 I'm willing to stay here in the wilderness. 462 00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:04.200 If the promised land means you're not there, I don't even want the promise. 463 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:07.800 Because presence is more important than the promise. 464 00:30:07.800 --> 00:30:09.800 Oh my God. 465 00:30:09.800 --> 00:30:17.360 That was step on some church people's feet because they think the end goal is the promise. 466 00:30:17.360 --> 00:30:20.600 The end goal is the presence. 467 00:30:20.600 --> 00:30:25.280 But within his presence wrapped up in his presence is the promise. 468 00:30:25.280 --> 00:30:30.880 So I don't want the promise if it means I don't have the presence. 469 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:38.200 Some of you are so married to having the promise that you're willing to not have his presence. 470 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:43.880 Some of you cheat, still lie, climb the corporate ladder, lie on people, deceive, manipulate 471 00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:52.840 so that you could have the promise and then you lose his presence. 472 00:30:52.840 --> 00:30:55.440 I will not lose the presence. 473 00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:00.120 Even if that means I give up everything on this world, the most important thing is his 474 00:31:00.120 --> 00:31:01.120 presence. 475 00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:03.800 David even said it, David the king had everything. 476 00:31:03.800 --> 00:31:08.120 He goes, Lord, take not your Holy Spirit from me. 477 00:31:08.120 --> 00:31:09.760 I can lose the kingdom. 478 00:31:09.760 --> 00:31:14.840 I can lose everything else, but I want your presence more than anything. 479 00:31:14.840 --> 00:31:16.600 That got to be our cry. 480 00:31:16.600 --> 00:31:17.600 Don't get complacent. 481 00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:21.920 They're like, they looked at the prophet and the prophet if you know anything about the 482 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:23.320 Old Testament. 483 00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:27.360 The prophet always symbolized the word of the Lord and the presence of God. 484 00:31:27.360 --> 00:31:32.680 And so they're like, Elijah, if you don't come with us, we don't even want to go. 485 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:34.160 Come with us to build. 486 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:39.480 And so they go, and then the scripture says, they go to a place called the Jordan. 487 00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:44.640 And the Jordan is the lowest place on the earth, literally, I'm not exaggerating. 488 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:47.360 The Jordan is the lowest place on the earth. 489 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:52.160 And the Lord begins to speak to me and says, the only way you can effectively build is when 490 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.360 you allow God to bring you to the low place. 491 00:31:56.360 --> 00:32:02.840 In this world system, everyone is trying to climb higher. 492 00:32:02.840 --> 00:32:06.480 In the kingdom, the only way up is down. 493 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.320 We live in the opposite kingdom. 494 00:32:08.320 --> 00:32:11.800 In this world, you're trying to claw your way to the top. 495 00:32:11.800 --> 00:32:16.440 In the kingdom, you're trying to humble your way to the top. 496 00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:21.440 You're trying to get as low as you possibly can get to because that's the place of elevation 497 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:22.760 in the kingdom. 498 00:32:22.760 --> 00:32:27.080 The Bible says, if you humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, he will lift you up 499 00:32:27.080 --> 00:32:29.960 and do time. 500 00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:33.120 Some of you want people to lift you up. 501 00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:34.280 That's only temporary. 502 00:32:34.280 --> 00:32:38.400 Once the new boss comes, they'll fire you. 503 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.600 That's why I don't need people's promotion. 504 00:32:40.600 --> 00:32:43.120 I need God's promotion. 505 00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:47.120 Because if God gives you something, you don't got to fight for it. 506 00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:48.560 You don't got to call for it. 507 00:32:48.560 --> 00:32:49.800 You don't got to war for it. 508 00:32:49.800 --> 00:32:50.800 You're just walking it. 509 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:52.640 I just need someone to say amen. 510 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:54.240 I'm walking in it. 511 00:32:54.240 --> 00:33:00.440 If God gave it to you, you just got to walk in it with boldness, with favor, just walk 512 00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:01.440 in it. 513 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:02.440 All right. 514 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:04.440 Y'all ready for the third point? 515 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:05.440 Was that okay? 516 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:06.440 That's the second point? 517 00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:08.320 Because I feel like I'm losing some of y'all. 518 00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:10.320 Some of y'all like this. 519 00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:15.560 I don't know if you're drunken to Holy Ghost or all right. 520 00:33:15.560 --> 00:33:17.080 Here's the third point. 521 00:33:17.080 --> 00:33:18.480 This is really good. 522 00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:25.800 I had other points here, but my time is, I got 15 more minutes. 523 00:33:25.800 --> 00:33:26.800 Preach. 524 00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:27.800 Okay. 525 00:33:27.800 --> 00:33:28.800 All right. 526 00:33:28.800 --> 00:33:29.800 My third point is this. 527 00:33:29.800 --> 00:33:30.800 Hmm. 528 00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:35.040 The third enemy of expansion is your comfort zone. 529 00:33:35.040 --> 00:33:41.880 Man, this is this is for me. 530 00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:48.440 When God tells you to do something that you hate to do, and He's going to bless you 531 00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:52.040 in that, do it. 532 00:33:52.040 --> 00:33:56.400 When He tells you, I want you to go online every day, and I want you to speak to people 533 00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.080 and encourage them. 534 00:33:58.080 --> 00:33:59.080 I hate social media, God. 535 00:33:59.080 --> 00:34:00.080 I don't want to do this. 536 00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:02.160 That's the place where you're blessing us. 537 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:03.160 Woo. 538 00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:04.160 This is good. 539 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:08.840 I want you to make that album, God, I'm too nervous, I'm too scared, I don't want to do 540 00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:09.840 it. 541 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:10.840 I don't want to do that. 542 00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:13.320 And God say, nope, this is your place of expansion. 543 00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:17.880 When you step out of your comfort zone, see, you have to understand. 544 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:21.520 The Bible says, they get to the Jordan, and they're surrounded by all these trees, and 545 00:34:21.520 --> 00:34:24.400 guess what God tells them, start cutting down the trees. 546 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:30.480 Hold on, but the trees are providing, because if you go to around the Jordan, it becomes 547 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:33.840 desert in Israel. 548 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:35.600 It's hot. 549 00:34:35.600 --> 00:34:38.600 And God's like, cut down the trees. 550 00:34:38.600 --> 00:34:45.080 Whatever is comfortable, it can't sustain you in this season. 551 00:34:45.080 --> 00:34:50.440 It's always at the point where you feel like, I'm just getting comfortable, God goes, 552 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:53.960 I want you to sew that major seed. 553 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:58.000 It's always at that point where you feel like, I'm really comfortable, and God goes, I want 554 00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:59.000 you to start the business. 555 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.800 It's at that place where you really feel like everything. 556 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:05.600 And God's like, all right, now it's time for you to get married. 557 00:35:05.600 --> 00:35:07.680 Now it's time for you to have children. 558 00:35:07.680 --> 00:35:09.680 But I was good, God. 559 00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:13.760 God's like, this is the place where I can expand you. 560 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:18.880 In a place where you're not comfortable, but I'm comfortable. 561 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:22.080 See, church has to make a decision. 562 00:35:22.080 --> 00:35:27.360 Do we want people to be comfortable, or do we want God to be comfortable? 563 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.160 We sing all the songs you like. 564 00:35:30.160 --> 00:35:32.640 We get all the preachers you like. 565 00:35:32.640 --> 00:35:37.000 We do everything we got to like you like, we get all the stuff you like, but does Jesus 566 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:38.000 like it? 567 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:45.440 I don't ever want to be in a church or a ministry that makes everyone feel comfortable. 568 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:52.240 Does these little patty cake sermons, that make everyone feel good about themselves, 569 00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:55.320 but God ain't even comfortable in the room. 570 00:35:55.320 --> 00:36:03.400 I want to be in a church where the number one focus, the number one perspective is putting 571 00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:05.720 God's comfort first. 572 00:36:05.720 --> 00:36:12.240 Because heaven, please, is God, please, is this what He wants, because if it's what He 573 00:36:12.240 --> 00:36:17.480 wants, it's what I want. 574 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:21.640 Gotta get out the comfort zone, because that's the place of blessing. 575 00:36:21.640 --> 00:36:23.600 That's the place of expansion. 576 00:36:23.600 --> 00:36:30.080 You know, a lot of us were like lots wife. 577 00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:35.800 This wife was in Sodom and Gomorrah, but Sodom and Gomorrah had a lot of money. 578 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:36.800 You got to read it. 579 00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.400 You got to read beyond the Genesis account, and you have to read the accounts that talk 580 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.280 about Sodom and talk about the wealth of Sodom, the money that Sodom had, the influence 581 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:46.800 that Sodom had. 582 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:50.920 Sodom, we just think of one aspect when we think about Sodom, but we don't think about 583 00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:57.160 how influential and powerful that city was to live in that city was a moniker. 584 00:36:57.160 --> 00:37:02.520 It was a mark of how much grander and how much money you had, and how much influence 585 00:37:02.520 --> 00:37:03.520 you had. 586 00:37:03.520 --> 00:37:08.880 The Bible even says that when Lot went there, He went to the land that looked the best, 587 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:14.880 and it looked like the hood. 588 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:16.200 What's the nicest place in the city? 589 00:37:16.200 --> 00:37:17.200 Upper West Side? 590 00:37:17.200 --> 00:37:18.200 What's the nicest place in the city? 591 00:37:18.200 --> 00:37:19.200 Upper East? 592 00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:21.520 No, no, no, no. 593 00:37:21.520 --> 00:37:24.400 It's like, you know, I'm living New York and I'm like, Upper East Side, it was some upper 594 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:28.000 East Side type joint. 595 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:34.000 I have to say it was some slain, because so y'all could get it. 596 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.600 But God wasn't there. 597 00:37:37.600 --> 00:37:42.320 Is it about your comfort or is it about where God's comfortable? 598 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:46.560 And Lot, get out the land, take your whole family, Lot's wife. 599 00:37:46.560 --> 00:37:55.160 No, it's too, turns into a pillar of salt, because I want to go back to what's comfortable. 600 00:37:55.160 --> 00:37:59.120 I don't want to go up to the mountains where God says, because it's uncomfortable there, 601 00:37:59.120 --> 00:38:00.760 but God's there. 602 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:04.480 All right, can we get to the next point? 603 00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:16.040 I just, I know, I know some people are like, here's my fourth point. 604 00:38:16.040 --> 00:38:23.000 The fourth enemy of expansion is disappointment. 605 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:24.000 Is disappointment. 606 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:31.360 If you don't learn how to effectively deal with disappointment, it will destroy you. 607 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:32.680 Because can I tell you something? 608 00:38:32.680 --> 00:38:34.760 I don't care how much you pray. 609 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:40.120 I don't care if you on a thousand day fast. 610 00:38:40.120 --> 00:38:43.040 You don't watch anything that's secular on TV. 611 00:38:43.040 --> 00:38:44.880 You're the holy of the holiest. 612 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:50.120 You're always in the third heaven. 613 00:38:50.120 --> 00:38:59.880 Every time we see you, ha, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. 614 00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:09.400 Most spiritual person I know, disappointment will come. 615 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:15.840 And what you do during disappointment determines what's going to happen in the next season of 616 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:18.960 your life. 617 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:26.920 What you do with disappointment determines what the next area of your destiny looks like. 618 00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:33.360 There was a woman with the issue of blood disappointment, what's every doctor disappointment, 619 00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:41.080 still bleeding disappointment, couldn't touch anyone because she was unclean disappointment, 620 00:39:41.080 --> 00:39:45.000 but every disappointment is actually God's appointment. 621 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:48.320 So she didn't look at the disappointment as something that was going to hold her back. 622 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:51.640 She looked at the disappointment as an opportunity. 623 00:39:51.640 --> 00:39:53.280 How can I get to Jesus? 624 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.320 The Bible says she presses through the crowd. 625 00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:59.920 She doesn't let disappointment dictate her destiny. 626 00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:03.800 Are you letting disappointment dictate your destiny? 627 00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.840 Are you letting your pursuit dictate your destiny? 628 00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:10.160 What are you doing in the midst of disappointment? 629 00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:12.440 Let's go back to 2nd Kings chapter 6, right? 630 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:14.400 The Bible says they start building. 631 00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:20.280 One of the prophets has an axe and he's hitting a tree and in the midst of hitting the tree, 632 00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:25.040 the Bible says that the axe had flies into the water, disappointment. 633 00:40:25.040 --> 00:40:29.080 But God, we're doing what you want us to do. 634 00:40:29.080 --> 00:40:33.360 What happens when you're doing what God wants you to do in disappointment comes? 635 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:35.360 That could be the most disheartening thing. 636 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:36.360 Can we be honest? 637 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:39.640 When you're like, God, but I'm really trying to live for you. 638 00:40:39.640 --> 00:40:46.160 I used to be like, oh, nasty, now I'm trying. 639 00:40:46.160 --> 00:40:56.480 I know I used to be like, oh, man, it's not, I don't even cost no more, God. 640 00:40:56.520 --> 00:41:00.000 I'm really trying to love people and forget people. 641 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:06.720 Like this person did me wrong and I'm still here and trying to love. 642 00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:08.360 But then disappointment hits you. 643 00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:12.680 In the middle of you doing the will of God, this is what's happening. 644 00:41:12.680 --> 00:41:19.680 We're building and in the midst of building, in the midst of growing, in the midst of expanding, 645 00:41:19.680 --> 00:41:22.600 in the midst of doing what God called you to do, disappointment comes. 646 00:41:22.600 --> 00:41:24.760 How do you handle it? 647 00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:27.400 Do you shrink back in unbelief? 648 00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.640 The Bible says, we are not of those who shrink back in unbelief. 649 00:41:30.640 --> 00:41:34.000 We are those who believe in our saved. 650 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.160 When disappointment comes, you have two reactions. 651 00:41:37.160 --> 00:41:41.520 You can either shrink back or you can push forward. 652 00:41:41.520 --> 00:41:44.800 You can either shrink back and fear our push forward and fake. 653 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:48.840 It's a God, I believe your promise. 654 00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:51.360 I believe your word. 655 00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:53.880 I believe what you said. 656 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:58.040 I'm not crying about the disappointments of the last season. 657 00:41:58.040 --> 00:42:02.120 I'm pushing forward toward this season. 658 00:42:02.120 --> 00:42:08.320 I know I didn't catch anything all night, but I'm casting my net on the other side. 659 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:10.200 All right. 660 00:42:10.200 --> 00:42:12.400 You can't let disappointment hold you back. 661 00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:16.280 So this acts had falls into the water. 662 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:22.680 And this is, this is where the story gets really powerful. 663 00:42:22.680 --> 00:42:24.200 And my favorite part of the story. 664 00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:26.720 I had to rush through this in first service. 665 00:42:26.720 --> 00:42:31.600 But can I take just a few minutes with you guys here? 666 00:42:31.600 --> 00:42:35.040 The acts had falls into the water. 667 00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:40.720 And so this man, one of the sons of the prophet, comes to Alisha and says, 668 00:42:40.720 --> 00:42:43.560 this acts had that I was using, I borrowed it. 669 00:42:43.560 --> 00:42:47.560 And the acts had fell into the water. 670 00:42:47.560 --> 00:42:51.360 And Alisha goes, OK. 671 00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:54.800 And he acts in a specific question. 672 00:42:54.800 --> 00:43:01.480 And this is where I really want you to tune in and listen to the sermon. 673 00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:05.920 Because this is the point where God can really start using you. 674 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:10.440 He goes, where did it fall? 675 00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:12.960 Where did the acts had fall? 676 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:17.800 And that's when the Holy Spirit, it's like he arrested my spirit in that moment. 677 00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:21.080 And he was like, you know why a lot of people can't get deliverance and break through 678 00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:26.960 when healing and God is not able to penetrate beyond the walls that they've set up in their lives? 679 00:43:26.960 --> 00:43:31.280 Is because they're not honest about where they fell. 680 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:34.360 So my next point is you got to be honest. 681 00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:40.680 A lack of honesty, dishonesty is one of the things that's going to hold you back from expanding. 682 00:43:40.680 --> 00:43:43.080 Some of you ain't honest with God. 683 00:43:43.080 --> 00:43:46.480 You're not honest with anyone. 684 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:50.360 It's in your nature to not be truthful. 685 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:56.920 But I realize something, real deliverance happens when you're honest. 686 00:43:56.920 --> 00:44:01.360 You know the devil has no cards to play anymore when you're honest. 687 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:04.720 You know you take all the devil's ammunition out of the gun and he got a gun. 688 00:44:04.720 --> 00:44:08.480 He's trying to shoot it, but he has no ammunition when you're honest. 689 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.560 This gets out like a crazy story, but can I tell you about Dr. Martin Luther King? 690 00:44:12.560 --> 00:44:19.360 So Dr. Martin Luther King, I know we praise him, he was a very flawed individual, right? 691 00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:21.040 He was a very flawed individual. 692 00:44:21.040 --> 00:44:25.480 He had an affinity for women, especially for white women. 693 00:44:25.480 --> 00:44:29.480 And in that time, it was frowned on. 694 00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:36.600 And there were guys from the FBI who called him and said, 695 00:44:36.600 --> 00:44:44.320 we know about your struggles with women and white women. 696 00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:47.480 We're going to expose you to the world. 697 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:51.120 We're going to tell everyone about who you really are. 698 00:44:51.120 --> 00:44:54.200 And Dr. King starts laughing. 699 00:44:54.200 --> 00:44:55.680 This is what the story is. 700 00:44:55.680 --> 00:45:00.960 He starts laughing and then he turns over to the guys he's with and he's like, 701 00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:07.880 these guys say they want to expose me because I'm into women and into white women. 702 00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:11.720 And they all start laughing and they're confused. 703 00:45:11.720 --> 00:45:14.320 And he's like, why are you laughing? 704 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:23.760 He goes, everyone who's important to me already knows. 705 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:29.360 He had accountability partners already. 706 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:34.640 Tell everyone because everyone who's important already knows my struggle. 707 00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:37.520 You've got to be honest where you fell. 708 00:45:37.520 --> 00:45:43.280 Because the only way the Holy Spirit can restore you. 709 00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:49.080 The only way God can really deliver, he can't deliver the thank you. 710 00:45:49.080 --> 00:45:53.000 He can't deliver the person you pretend to be. 711 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.640 So in church you put on this mask and you act like you're someone God deliver me. 712 00:45:56.640 --> 00:46:00.120 And that's not really you, just be you. 713 00:46:00.120 --> 00:46:09.360 And then you leave church and take off the mask and God during the week is looking for the person I was in church and it ain't there. 714 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:19.680 You take off the mask that's really Freddy Krueger in the spirit. 715 00:46:19.680 --> 00:46:21.520 We got to be honest. 716 00:46:21.520 --> 00:46:23.960 Be honest where you fell. 717 00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:25.760 Be honest the areas. 718 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.080 You need the Holy Spirit to really do it in her work inside your life. 719 00:46:29.080 --> 00:46:29.920 Be honest. 720 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:32.680 Yes, when my dad left when I was seven, it hurt. 721 00:46:32.680 --> 00:46:36.240 Yes, when I got abused when I was 12, I still never got healed. 722 00:46:36.240 --> 00:46:39.920 Yes, I've been toxic in my relationships. 723 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:44.480 Because of this situation that happened, that's how God can heal you. 724 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:49.440 I'm a deceiver, God, you know, that's why I love about the story of Jacob. 725 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:52.800 Because when God came to Jacob and said, Jacob, what's your name? 726 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:53.800 Jacob could have lied. 727 00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:57.680 Jacob said, my name's Jacob, I'm a liar. 728 00:46:57.680 --> 00:47:01.040 You know, his name meant deceiver, trickster, liar. 729 00:47:01.040 --> 00:47:10.160 He could have been like, I'm, I'm Joe, I'm Jake, no, I'm Jacob, it's me, I'm the liar, 730 00:47:10.160 --> 00:47:11.160 God. 731 00:47:11.160 --> 00:47:13.960 And at that moment God goes, that's not your name no more. 732 00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:14.960 Yeah, Israel. 733 00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:21.400 Because God can't bless the fake you, He can only bless the real you. 734 00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:31.720 And later on, He goes, the God of, not Israel, the God of Jacob, the floor to you. 735 00:47:31.720 --> 00:47:37.800 He said, the God of Israel, he said, the God of the messed up you, because I'm not just 736 00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:45.200 the God of the good areas in your life, I'm the God of the messed up areas, but I just want 737 00:47:45.200 --> 00:47:47.200 you to be honest. 738 00:47:47.200 --> 00:47:52.800 That's a real repentance, that's real coming to God is, it's like, I'm being real about 739 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:59.680 who I am, God, and that I can't do this without you, all right, my last point, and I'm done. 740 00:47:59.680 --> 00:48:01.400 Was that okay? 741 00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:09.160 This someone gets something out of it, all right. 742 00:48:09.160 --> 00:48:11.720 So the prophet comes now, he's like, where did it fall? 743 00:48:11.720 --> 00:48:16.000 And then the son of the prophet pointed at the place where it fell. 744 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:21.560 So he takes a piece of a branch, and he throws it into the water. 745 00:48:21.560 --> 00:48:25.640 And then the Bible says, the ax head begins to float, and that's when the Holy Spirit gave 746 00:48:25.640 --> 00:48:31.080 me revelation, and was like, who's the branch? 747 00:48:31.080 --> 00:48:35.960 Look throughout scripture, Isaiah 11, who's the branch? 748 00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:36.960 Jesus? 749 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:39.440 Look at, hold on, what are the other verses? 750 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:43.200 Jeremiah 23, who's the branch? 751 00:48:43.200 --> 00:48:44.560 Jesus? 752 00:48:44.600 --> 00:48:50.280 You get Zachariah chapter 3 verse 8, who's the branch? 753 00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:54.280 Okay, y'all not doing some good, you're doing terrible with the calling response. 754 00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:56.960 Who's the branch? 755 00:48:56.960 --> 00:49:04.520 So show me where you fell, and all I got to do is put Jesus there. 756 00:49:04.520 --> 00:49:07.520 Come on! 757 00:49:07.520 --> 00:49:09.600 You want restoration to happen? 758 00:49:09.600 --> 00:49:14.200 Just be honest where you fell, and then Jesus, like, I'm a show up right there. 759 00:49:14.200 --> 00:49:19.480 I'm a show right where you messed up, and I'm going to fully restore everything, and 760 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:23.640 what seems impossible is going to be made possible. 761 00:49:23.640 --> 00:49:24.640 You want to expand? 762 00:49:24.640 --> 00:49:27.120 God's just looking for honesty. 763 00:49:27.120 --> 00:49:31.120 He's looking for some real people, and then here's the last thing the prophet said, you 764 00:49:31.120 --> 00:49:35.880 pick it up. 765 00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:41.280 Can I tell you the last thing God's saying, I did everything already. 766 00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:44.560 From the cross 2,000 years ago, I did everything. 767 00:49:44.560 --> 00:49:48.760 Your axe head was all the way in the ground, I put Jesus in the situation. 768 00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:52.720 Everything I was dead and used coming alive, coming up to the surface. 769 00:49:52.720 --> 00:50:00.120 Now you do your part by faith, you take it. 770 00:50:00.120 --> 00:50:04.680 Hope gives you the ability to believe, faith gives you the ability to receive. 771 00:50:05.680 --> 00:50:07.640 I'm going to say that again. 772 00:50:07.640 --> 00:50:14.560 This word came to give you hope to believe, but after you have hope to believe, now you 773 00:50:14.560 --> 00:50:17.720 need faith to receive. 774 00:50:17.720 --> 00:50:23.160 That means everything that's in the word that's supposed to be mine, I pick it up. 775 00:50:23.160 --> 00:50:24.960 I take it. 776 00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:32.000 That means if I'm sick in my body, buy his stripes, I'm here, I'm taking it. 777 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.560 If financial situations are coming and I'm dealing with issues on my job and I don't 778 00:50:35.560 --> 00:50:40.840 know how to handle, greater is he that's within me than he that I'm picking it up. 779 00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:42.000 And I'm taking it by faith. 780 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:44.680 How many people are about to pick it up by faith? 781 00:50:44.680 --> 00:50:50.400 I want you to stand to your feet, we're about to go. 782 00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:54.520 I hope this word charged you. 783 00:50:54.520 --> 00:50:57.840 I hope it really charged something on the inside. 784 00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.760 And it's a spark. 785 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:07.720 It's jumper cables in the spirit to awaken whatever was dead inside of you. 786 00:51:07.720 --> 00:51:13.400 So here's the perfect moment for us to be honest with God. 787 00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:15.600 God this is where I failed. 788 00:51:15.600 --> 00:51:17.960 This is where I fall in short. 789 00:51:17.960 --> 00:51:21.600 This is where I haven't been diligent. 790 00:51:21.600 --> 00:51:24.600 This is where I haven't put you first. 791 00:51:24.600 --> 00:51:27.720 This is where I've lost my first love. 792 00:51:27.720 --> 00:51:33.600 This is where I've put my attention on idols, on things that don't matter, on things that 793 00:51:33.600 --> 00:51:42.640 have no life and no substance and I want to put you first. 794 00:51:42.640 --> 00:51:44.840 I need Jesus in this situation. 795 00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:49.000 I need to branch in this situation. 796 00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:50.440 And I'll care how long you've been saved. 797 00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:54.240 You got an area in your life where you need Jesus. 798 00:51:54.240 --> 00:51:55.240 This area is in my life. 799 00:51:55.240 --> 00:51:56.240 I'm like, oh God. 800 00:51:56.240 --> 00:51:59.560 I'm so cornered in that area, God helped me. 801 00:51:59.560 --> 00:52:00.560 People cut me off. 802 00:52:00.560 --> 00:52:03.120 I'm like, in the name of Jesus. 803 00:52:03.120 --> 00:52:09.640 I don't cuss, but I, yo, uh-huh, woo, boy. 804 00:52:09.640 --> 00:52:14.200 You have a cuss in our cuss in? 805 00:52:14.200 --> 00:52:17.240 And you didn't say no cussers, but you cussed that person. 806 00:52:17.240 --> 00:52:18.640 Ow, cold. 807 00:52:18.640 --> 00:52:20.320 When you guys saved long enough, you learned that art. 808 00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:22.920 Y'all that haven't been saved long enough. 809 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:23.920 And cuss them out. 810 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:27.640 You do it so professionally. 811 00:52:27.640 --> 00:52:36.120 You know like Jesus like not operating love because even that is a false humility. 812 00:52:36.120 --> 00:52:40.280 You're not being honest about where you fell. 813 00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:47.440 And the Holy Spirit wants to capture your heart. 814 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:49.680 Most important thing. 815 00:52:49.680 --> 00:52:51.160 Lift up your hands. 816 00:52:51.160 --> 00:52:59.840 Let's close our eyes and we're going to surrender it to Jesus. 817 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:03.400 We're going to give it completely to him. 818 00:53:03.400 --> 00:53:04.520 Father, we lay it down. 819 00:53:04.520 --> 00:53:15.680 We lay down our own inhibitions, our self-preservation, our pride. 820 00:53:15.680 --> 00:53:19.760 We say, Lord, we replace it for you. 821 00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:27.280 The oil of joy, the grace, the fire of the Holy Spirit, the anointing of God. 822 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:29.880 We want that. 823 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:31.080 We want your character. 824 00:53:31.080 --> 00:53:33.360 We want your love. 825 00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:40.080 We don't want the root of bitterness as it speaks in Hebrews 12 to rise up in us. 826 00:53:40.080 --> 00:53:45.760 Every root that is not of you, we cut it down in the name of Jesus. 827 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.280 Every root that is not of you, we do what Jesus did. 828 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:52.000 We curse it by the root. 829 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:57.560 Whatever is not producing in our lives, we say, go now in Jesus' name. 830 00:53:57.560 --> 00:54:00.800 We cut off all ties with toxicity. 831 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:07.240 We cut off all ties with pain and hurt and lies and bitterness and anger and resentment 832 00:54:07.240 --> 00:54:15.120 and we say, Holy Spirit, make us alive. 833 00:54:15.120 --> 00:54:25.760 Let the river of living water, Roma Shamba Kassata, let the spring rise up in us, honda radia 834 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:32.160 sabako Shata and give us life. 835 00:54:32.160 --> 00:54:42.040 Shata rababa Kata, you know, I can see just a healing river flowing through this house. 836 00:54:42.040 --> 00:54:50.280 Healing the wounds, healing the pain, healing the areas where you're honest about, where 837 00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:56.320 you're saying, God, I fell here and I need Jesus in this situation. 838 00:54:56.320 --> 00:55:01.920 God, we invite you into the hardest, most difficult, most challenging situations. 839 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.040 Come in now. 840 00:55:04.040 --> 00:55:08.080 Show yourself strong. 841 00:55:08.080 --> 00:55:16.440 Come in now, Holy Spirit and manifest your power. 842 00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:23.200 Come in now, Spirit of the living God and breathe your breath into us. 843 00:55:23.200 --> 00:55:37.920 We receive it, Husha La Baka, le le le le kusa, rema mamamasha, li le le le besu, urabamandia, 844 00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:46.640 rima bababase, the breakers in the room. 845 00:55:46.640 --> 00:55:56.560 The breakers in the room, the breakers in the room, break every chain, break every wall, 846 00:55:56.560 --> 00:56:02.320 break every limitation, break every restriction, even the ones we've put on ourselves, break 847 00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:11.200 it off now, break off our small thinking, break off our small mentality, God, make us conduits 848 00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:12.440 for expansion. 849 00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:18.680 Yeah, make us portals for expansion. 850 00:56:18.680 --> 00:56:23.440 Make us instruments of expansion, Lord. 851 00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:29.880 We want to see the kingdom of God expand on the earth and we want you to use us as your 852 00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:31.880 vessels. 853 00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:49.360 Do it, Lord, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, I'm going to invite people to the altar. 854 00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:51.680 People are saying I need a breakthrough. 855 00:56:51.680 --> 00:56:56.360 I need God to do something and Sean is going to sing a song for us as we do that. 856 00:56:56.360 --> 00:57:00.000 And I want to pray for people who are like, man, this word was for me. 857 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:04.920 I've got to be honest about where I fell because I need the Holy Spirit to restore some 858 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:06.360 things that were dead in me. 859 00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:08.880 I stop building because of sin. 860 00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:10.840 I stop building because of fear. 861 00:57:10.840 --> 00:57:13.080 I stop building because of doubt. 862 00:57:13.080 --> 00:57:17.200 I stop building because of church hurt or because something that happened to me in the 863 00:57:17.200 --> 00:57:20.720 past and I need God to set me free. 864 00:57:20.720 --> 00:57:22.360 I need breakthrough. 865 00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:26.200 I want you to run up to this altar right now if that's you, Lord, I need you to do something 866 00:57:26.200 --> 00:57:28.920 fresher in my life and I need a touch from heaven. 867 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:30.120 I need a touch from heaven. 868 00:57:30.120 --> 00:57:31.640 I need a touch from heaven. 869 00:57:31.640 --> 00:57:34.440 I want you to come up here with your hands lifted up. 870 00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:40.920 I want you to come up here expecting to receive, expecting to receive. 871 00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:43.160 Come on, Sean. 872 00:57:43.160 --> 00:57:50.760 Sean is going to sing this song and as he sings it, I believe that heaven is going to 873 00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:51.760 meet us. 874 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:57.760 I believe that Jesus is going to manifest his power in this room and that when you need 875 00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:00.840 healing, if you're in need of healing, healing is going to come. 876 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:03.160 If you're in need of breakthrough, breakthrough is going to come. 877 00:58:03.160 --> 00:58:06.040 If you're in need of deliverance, deliverance is going to come. 878 00:58:06.040 --> 00:58:11.080 If you're in need of joy, God is going to give you the oil of joy. 879 00:58:11.080 --> 00:58:15.000 Ha-Shaktala, let telebasis. 880 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:17.440 This is the City Light Church podcast. 881 00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:21.360 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about 882 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:30.240 Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church, visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 883 00:58:30.240 --> 00:58:36.160 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime, we would love to connect with you. 884 00:58:36.160 --> 00:58:40.560 We pray that you have been encouraged today, that you have been reminded how much God 885 00:58:40.560 --> 00:58:44.560 loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace. 886 00:58:44.560 --> 00:58:46.040 Thank you for listening. 887 00:58:46.040 --> 00:58:50.000 Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite 888 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:51.480 podcasts worldwide.