WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.560 2025 is going to be the year of promotion, of acceleration, of breakthrough, of getting 2 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:15.600 to that next place. God is causing us to come and possess the land. That's what 2025 3 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:21.560 is about. Taking new ground for the Lord, that stuff that's been in you, locked inside 4 00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:26.480 you. God is going to get it out of you. God is going to cause it to be made manifest. 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 --> 00:00:48.680 that citylightnyc.com. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy 9 00:00:48.680 --> 00:00:54.960 Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember 10 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:00.560 that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace and that He has 11 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:09.120 a real hope and a future for you. Say this with me, I'm getting better. Christ is 12 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:16.680 perfecting me. This is my year. Amen. And speaking of the year, what a year we've had so 13 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:24.680 far. We're off to a great start. Just finished 21 days of prayer and fasting. Hallelujah. 14 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:34.440 Yeah. Meeting every night and praying. Fasting as He leads us. We just had John Arnold 15 00:01:34.440 --> 00:01:43.120 with us. That was just incredible three days. What a guy. What an amazing Christian. And 16 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.880 that's what I said to my wife. This is the most unique Christian I've ever met. I didn't 17 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:53.040 say this is the most unique minister just as a Christian. Just his own relationship with 18 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:59.400 the Lord, which is so constant, which is all the time. We dropped him off at LaGuardia 19 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:06.560 Airport last Sunday. And you know, they were talking about snow, but there were no cancellations. 20 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:10.800 So we dropped him off and everything looked fine. My phone never rang. He never called to 21 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.460 tell me his flight got canceled. But when we started snowing, I said, let me just make 22 00:02:14.460 --> 00:02:20.360 sure he got out. And his flight was canceled. And I couldn't get a hold of him. I got a 23 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:24.600 hold of his assistant. I said, okay, we already rerouted him. He's going to Atlanta where he 24 00:02:24.600 --> 00:02:28.400 got canceled again yet to spend the night in Atlanta. When I finally got through to him, 25 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:34.000 you couldn't have found a happy man. Yeah. I'm in Atlanta. I'm going to have to spend the 26 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:42.720 night. God is good, isn't he? I'll get in Tulsa by tomorrow. 84 years old. I mean, I'm 27 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.560 49. And when, you know, it's like I'm at terminal B. Oh, the transfer is in another terminal. 28 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:54.000 You start confessing scripture. You know, the Lord is my strength. He's the help of my 29 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:01.560 life. Lord, I know your hand came upon Elijah and he ran so many miles. Supernaturally 30 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:07.840 made your hand. Come on for physical endurance and strength. Meanwhile, 84-year-old John is 31 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:16.080 like, praise the Lord. It's all wonderful. What a message of God's love he brought, which 32 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:22.160 I'm delighted in having him because that's one of the core messages that comes hopefully 33 00:03:22.160 --> 00:03:32.080 from this pulpit as well. I hope, hopefully, and my wife's like, yeah, encouraging. Hopefully 34 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:37.840 it wasn't too much. We never heard this before. God calls us friends. Wow. No, because 35 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:48.080 Jesus is our everything. And relationship with him is the greatest. And intimacy with him 36 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:54.040 is what this is all about. It's a restoration of what we lost in the Garden of Eden, the 37 00:03:54.040 --> 00:03:59.080 intimacy that was broken because of sin. And now we're restored back to the Lord through 38 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:05.440 the blood of Jesus. And we can have a friendship with him and enjoy him. Yes, salvation should 39 00:04:05.440 --> 00:04:11.760 be enjoyed, not endured. He didn't save you from an eternal hell to give you hell on 40 00:04:11.880 --> 00:04:20.480 earth. Amen. And so if you're a guest, I want to welcome you especially. And I want to welcome 41 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:28.760 those people that are online. And just before I begin today's message, I just want to just want 42 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:35.680 to restate that, that our foundation here is Jesus and relationship with him, knowing him and 43 00:04:35.760 --> 00:04:41.600 making him know. All right, I wanted to say that because the rest of what I'm going to talk about 44 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:49.360 is going to be about money. Hallelujah. Because if you come midway, you know, you're like, this is what 45 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.920 went to this church and the pastor just talked about money the whole time. I knew it. That was my 46 00:04:53.920 --> 00:05:01.280 some guestist thing and that was my worst fear. You'll be glad you came today. Unless you really, 47 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:08.400 really love poverty. Then the next hour or so is going to be tough for you. And there are some 48 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:20.240 people like that. But 20, 25, I'm telling you is a special year. I have never ever said something 49 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:26.800 like that at the start of a new year. I've never been excited for a year like 2025. 2025 is going 50 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:35.200 to be the year of promotion, of acceleration, of breakthrough, of getting to that next place. 51 00:05:35.200 --> 00:05:44.160 God is causing us to come and possess the land. That's what 2025 is about. Taking new ground for 52 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:48.720 the Lord, that stuff that's been in you locked inside of you. God is going to get it out of you. 53 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.080 That stuff that's just so far been on a vision board or in your journal or in your inner musings. 54 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:59.920 God is going to cause it to be made manifest. So we have to know and be grounded in what the 55 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:11.280 word of God has to say about money. Why? I'll show you from the word of God. Proverbs chapter 56 00:06:11.280 --> 00:06:22.240 something. And verse another. But it's in Proverbs because it's not. It's in Ecclesiastes. 57 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:29.520 Hester, did I do that to you in the first service too? And then it didn't go up and I said can 58 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:34.720 you please put that verse from Proverbs up? And then you still figured it out and put up Ecclesiastes? 59 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:45.040 God bless the media team. Ecclesiastes 10, 19. Why did I come to church today and the pastor is 60 00:06:45.040 --> 00:07:00.800 going to talk about money? Because I'm evil. Selfish. Because I love you and the Lord loves you way 61 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:07.200 more and he cares about your life. And on this side of heaven you're going to have to deal with 62 00:07:07.200 --> 00:07:13.600 money. It's only in church that people have like an allergic reaction to discussion about money. 63 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:20.320 Jesus didn't have such an allergic reaction. He talked about it all the time. You say I don't 64 00:07:20.320 --> 00:07:25.280 remember that exactly. That's why I'm preaching it this Sunday because you don't remember that 65 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:31.200 because when you got to all those parts you zoned out. Satan made sure. Got you distracted. 66 00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:37.280 And you didn't realize and this is a real stat that Jesus spoke about hell twice as much as he did 67 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:44.800 about heaven. But he spoke about money, giving, talents, lands, good stewardship. He spoke about 68 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:50.080 those things more than heaven and hell combined. But only in church do you hear people, why is it always 69 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:55.440 about the money? First of all, it's not always about the money. But I'm going to make sure you're 70 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:00.640 not robbed of an essential truth. Nobody goes to the dentist and then goes to the receptionist 71 00:08:00.640 --> 00:08:06.080 and they hand him the bill. Why is it always about the money with this guy? Going to whole foods, 72 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:09.920 come on. Oh, you're ringing me up. What do you know you people? It's always about the money. 73 00:08:10.880 --> 00:08:15.760 They're fine with living in a world that requires money. But come into church and the pastor shouldn't 74 00:08:15.760 --> 00:08:19.360 talk about the most important thing you're going to deal with. How could he say that the most 75 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:27.200 important thing? Because the anointing, the manifest presence of God is power. That's real power. 76 00:08:27.200 --> 00:08:32.640 That's power in the spirit. I want more of his anointing. I can do more good and relieve more 77 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:40.320 suffering. But money is the power in the natural realm. You say money is power and Christian. 78 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:46.240 Rappers in the 90s got it right and Christians said they still, well, money is power. 79 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.080 Shit, it's not what I'm really. I don't. Yeah, money is power. 80 00:08:53.200 --> 00:09:00.080 Yet Christians have systematically cut themselves off from earthly power by loving 81 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:06.400 poverty for some reason, getting theology that tends to poverty. You say, no, and not me. 82 00:09:06.400 --> 00:09:12.880 Yeah, some of you. I just got done 21 days of prayer and fasting, praying with you every night, 83 00:09:13.760 --> 00:09:22.720 and some of you scared me. No, it comes in. It sneaks in there. You're praying and then you 84 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:27.200 praying this great prayer for 60 seconds and last 10 seconds, stuff comes out of your mouth and 85 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:33.600 you undo the whole prayer. We're reading verses on biblical prosperity, like specifically, 86 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:39.920 prosperity that has to do with material wealth and provision. And then people will turn it into, 87 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:45.840 but not just financial prosperity, Lord, you know, you give me peace and you give me joy and you 88 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:50.880 give me contentment. You know, I love those things too, but specifically the scripture, 89 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:55.600 there's talking about money, honey. Your silence is going to make me more offensive. 90 00:09:56.560 --> 00:09:59.440 The quieter you are, the more offensive I get. 91 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.400 Money, honey. Dojo. Bread, Fred. 92 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:16.000 And Christians run from it. Because Satan made it a dirty word. Why? Why would he do that? 93 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:22.080 Because he hates you and he wants to cut you off from power. At the same time, you've rationalized 94 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:27.520 it and developed some kind of theology around it that makes you seem up at E and special. No, 95 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:38.640 being broke is not special. Money is a terrible master, but a wonderful servant. 96 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:45.920 And here's what the word of God has to say about money. A feast is made for laughter and wine makes 97 00:10:45.920 --> 00:10:54.320 Mary, but money answers everything. Now we saw that real time just now with the L.A. fires. 98 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:03.200 A lot of people lost their homes. Millionaires lost their homes. But if you were a centa millionaire 99 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:11.360 with a hundred million or more or a billionaire, somewhere in the 9 to 10 figure range, have you 100 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:19.840 seen this? They hired private firemen, private fire force. Because it's not so much about the 20 101 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:27.280 million dollar villa as it is about the 50 million dollar Monet inside. Next to that, 102 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:33.840 jewelry or great grandfather stole from the royal crown or whatever it is, the pieces that can't 103 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.120 be replaced. So other people's houses burnt down, but for them money answered everything. 104 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:48.720 I saw that in 2020 during COVID. We were all shut up, locked down, 105 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:57.920 kids bouncing off four walls, masked up, some people double masking. I'm going to PTSD just 106 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:02.880 remembering those times. Some people triple masking. But you know, if you had money, you didn't have 107 00:12:02.880 --> 00:12:09.840 to go through any of that. A minister friend invited, he flies private. So he said, come meet me while 108 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:15.360 I'm in town at the airport. I go to a private airport. Nobody's wearing a mask. Well, the flight 109 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:20.080 attendance I wear in masks and some of the pilots are wearing masks. But the people with money, 110 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.400 they didn't feel like it. Who's going to tell them to wear a mask? I bought the plane. I charted it. 111 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:32.880 I don't feel like wearing a mask. This message might be for five people, but bless God. 112 00:12:32.880 --> 00:12:55.360 Hallelujah. God is in the problem solving business. And it's okay to understand that we live on 113 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:00.720 earth right now, on our way to heaven. And while we're on this side of heaven, we can do more good 114 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:05.680 with money and solve more problems with money. And money in and of itself is not evil. 115 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:14.960 Hallelujah. All right. I want to just read to you some stats. These are fresh off the press. 116 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.800 Why why I'm talking about this? Well, for one thing, I got to be I got to tell you I feel like 117 00:13:26.800 --> 00:13:34.880 this is going to go on for weeks. Because that's that's what it takes. If I was making a meal, 118 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:41.040 this would be just like I'm putting the oven on preheat. No, because this thing, you know, 119 00:13:41.040 --> 00:13:45.600 when God does a deep work and you don't get one sermon and go praise God and I know you got to be 120 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:50.560 marinated in the word of God. You got to be stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey with the word of God. 121 00:13:50.560 --> 00:13:56.880 It's got to be over and over and over again and your mind has to be changed and faith is produced 122 00:13:56.880 --> 00:14:04.640 from the word of God. I'm not letting this year slide by. This is the year I feel it in my bones. 123 00:14:05.680 --> 00:14:14.480 I know and like I know my own name, both of them. This is the year of breakthrough and acceleration. 124 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:25.360 Hallelujah. Right now, total household debt is at 7.98 trillion as of Q1 2024. It says that a lot. 125 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:30.880 Yes. It's a lot and this isn't like national debt. You know, you have the national debt clock and it 126 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:35.600 shows the debt of the country than it divides it by every family, every person says this is your family. 127 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:40.720 No, this is credit card debt, student loan debt, mortgages, that kind of stuff. So this is the 128 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:47.440 highest it's ever been. So as the people were the most indebted we ever were, average debt per 129 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:55.760 person, $104,215. The sheer amount can cause significant stress with individuals feeling trapped 130 00:14:55.760 --> 00:15:02.720 by their financial obligations, leading to depression and a lowered sense of self-worth as they struggle 131 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:10.800 to see a way out of debt. This is why the Bible says you're the head and not the tail above only 132 00:15:10.800 --> 00:15:15.760 and not beneath. You'll be the lender, not the borrower because God does not want you living in 133 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:21.120 that state of anxiety and that state of oppression and that state of feeling these horrid negative 134 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:27.520 emotions about yourself. He wants your cup to overflow. Amen. But that second stat that the 135 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:33.840 average debt per person is 104 grand per person, that's the highest we've ever been. You know, 136 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:41.360 the Bible says there is a form of godliness but they deny the power thereof. Talked about like a 137 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.760 religious church and they have the songs and the motions but there's no anointing there. They 138 00:15:45.760 --> 00:15:52.320 have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. America has a form of prosperity but denies 139 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:59.920 the actual money they're off. So there's this form of prosperity but the people are broke 140 00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:10.000 in general, in debt and this is the year for change. This is the year. Why this year? I don't know 141 00:16:11.920 --> 00:16:20.400 and I don't prophesy over years but there's something about this year. God's always in the abundance 142 00:16:20.400 --> 00:16:25.280 business. God's always in the blessing business. It's just this year business is going to be a 143 00:16:25.280 --> 00:16:38.560 woman. It's going to be awesome. Hallelujah. Credit card debt, 1.66 trillion in Q3 of 2024, the highest 144 00:16:38.560 --> 00:16:44.240 it's ever been. High credit card balances often lead to constant reminders of financial strain 145 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:49.600 through interest rates and minimum payments. This can result in emotional turmoil. No, that's not 146 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:56.880 peace. Including guilt, overspending fear of credit or calls and the stress of managing monthly 147 00:16:56.880 --> 00:17:06.880 finances. The link we see rates are at 8.9%. That means almost one out of 10 people. So the credit card 148 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:12.480 bill and said, you know what, I'm stopping paying this thing. Rex your credit, Rex your self-esteem. 149 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:18.320 God has a better way and this is also just for folks and you should be asking why is 150 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:34.080 pastor talking about this? To avoid this. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's read, let's read Deuteronomy 8.11 151 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:41.440 because we need, we need to see the heart of God and how God operates and receive it for ourselves. 152 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:49.840 There is an anointing here. I feel it. Sometimes I go by faith. It's always by faith but it's 153 00:17:49.840 --> 00:17:56.240 nice when you can feel it. I feel it. Up and down my back, down my arms and it's coming on you 154 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:02.720 and he's shifting, he's rearranging and if I were you, I would make like a sponge and just receive. 155 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:10.880 I'll let the word of God renew my mind because we all have unbiblical thinking, stinking thinking. 156 00:18:11.840 --> 00:18:19.200 We all, we, we get it. We pick it up and then we pray and it kind of comes out. 157 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:31.040 When the music fades and all is stripped away, what do you really believe about God's will for 158 00:18:31.040 --> 00:18:38.400 you? Is this will just to keep you alive? Just to keep you alive? I'm barely get along 159 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:44.560 street or you look at the scriptures and you see that his will is always grand and he's the 160 00:18:44.560 --> 00:18:50.080 God who makes the cup overflow. He's the God when he feeds five thousands, they take up 12 baskets of 161 00:18:50.080 --> 00:18:56.080 leftovers. He's the God when he makes them catch fish, then that breaks the boat sinks. He's the God 162 00:18:56.080 --> 00:19:01.680 who blessed Abraham and then Abraham was like, I don't, the grass can keep up with how quickly my, 163 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:08.960 my flocks are multiplying. That's the God we serve. So what we're doing is we're just undergoing 164 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:15.120 some programming here, deprogramming and reprogramming. It reminds me when I first got saved, my 165 00:19:15.120 --> 00:19:18.480 parents were like, you've been brainwashed. I'm like, I know, I needed my brain to be washed. 166 00:19:23.040 --> 00:19:28.960 Those of you joining us online, welcome to the brainwashing session. We've been brainwashed, 167 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:36.080 we've believed a lot of lies. Now let the word of God undo the lies and let the lies be replaced 168 00:19:36.080 --> 00:19:42.960 with his truth. Verse 11, beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his 169 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:48.320 commandments, his judgments and his statutes, which I command you today. So this is just for you to 170 00:19:48.320 --> 00:19:55.680 catch the character of God. What is God like? That's a great question. You can only use the scripture 171 00:19:55.680 --> 00:20:01.120 to support what you believe are the qualities of God. God is holy. Yes, we see the scripture, 172 00:20:01.120 --> 00:20:07.600 God is love. We see the scriptures about that. This will show you that God is a God of multiplication, 173 00:20:07.600 --> 00:20:15.840 of abundance, of prosperity and of blessing. And it's for you. Not some time in the distant future. 174 00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:23.360 Now, now, it's going to begin now. Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not 175 00:20:23.360 --> 00:20:28.000 keeping his commandments, his judgments and his statutes, which I command you today, 176 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:35.920 lest when you are eaten and are full, shout full and have built beautiful houses, shout beautiful 177 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:42.960 houses and dwell in them. And I was just going to say that part. And when you're heard, 178 00:20:43.360 --> 00:20:58.720 and you're flocks, shout multiply. See, we like addition. Don't like subtraction. God likes 179 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:06.720 multiplication. And when you're heard and you're flocks multiply and you're silver and your gold 180 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:16.080 are multiplied. And all that you have is multiplied. That's God's wealth. And 2025 is the year of 181 00:21:16.080 --> 00:21:30.160 multiplication. Hallelujah. Verse 14, when your heart is lifted up, because he's multiplied. You 182 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:36.640 so much there's a temptation to be proud. And you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of 183 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:41.600 the land of Egypt from the house of bondage, who led you through that great and terrible wilderness 184 00:21:41.600 --> 00:21:47.520 in which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirst the land where there was no water who brought 185 00:21:47.520 --> 00:21:55.040 water for you out of the flinty rock. Say what's God's like? That's what he's like. Someone looks 186 00:21:55.040 --> 00:22:02.160 at a flinty rock. It's funny. It doesn't just say rock. Flinty rock. Like not that there's usually 187 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:09.280 much moisture in a rock. But a flinty rock is particularly devout of H2O. You know, devoid of H2O. 188 00:22:11.040 --> 00:22:16.640 But God will get water out of a flint. You say, my job, pastor, is a flinty rock. One, he gets water 189 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:21.360 out of a flinty rock. Two, stop looking at your job. One of the biggest problems you're looking at 190 00:22:21.360 --> 00:22:26.480 your job. You're looking at your paycheck and you're bound by that. God wants to come outside of the 191 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:33.200 box and shake things up. Get out of your job and you're steady every two week, drip, drip, drip. 192 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:39.840 God is going to bring you avenues of revenue. Holy goes surprises. Ravens, unexpected sources of 193 00:22:39.840 --> 00:22:50.720 supply. Open yourself up to it. Hallelujah. That he might humble you and that he might test you to do 194 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:56.240 you good and then, oh, he fed you wilderness in the wilderness with mana. Be careful that then you 195 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:06.480 don't say in your heart, my power and the might of my hand have gained me this. What? This is the 196 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:17.120 heart of God. Notice what God didn't, let me just take a pause here. Notice what he didn't say 197 00:23:17.760 --> 00:23:23.040 there. Some of you Hebrews, in fact, the majority of you have gotten really wealthy and I, the Lord, 198 00:23:23.040 --> 00:23:27.680 your God, don't really like that. So give it all away. I mean, did you know there's poor people? 199 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:32.720 So give it all away and I bless you but now go back to broke because that's my way. Notice he didn't 200 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:40.720 say that. There are so many scriptures that Christians abuse and twist so they can stay broke. It's 201 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:51.680 needed a healing. I mean, I need a hug, Emily. You don't know what they do to themselves. They'll 202 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:58.480 they'll take one scripture in the book of Acts, how the apostles held all things in common and go 203 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:06.720 full communist on you. Like this one unique thing that happened in this one point in history and 204 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:10.640 they think God's will is for all of us to just share everything and live in a commune and 205 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:17.200 Kumbaya and God. That's one example. People who love poverty. Well, they know all the scripture, 206 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:23.120 they don't know of any scripture, nothing except the poverty scriptures. Well, you know, Jesus said 207 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:32.000 it's it's easier for a camel to go through or die of a needle than it is for rich man to enter 208 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:37.600 into the kingdom of heaven. They love that verse. They have it in a plaque over their entry way. 209 00:24:41.600 --> 00:24:47.680 The eye of the needle was actually a gate in Jerusalem, Jerusalem at 12. It was actually a gate 210 00:24:49.360 --> 00:24:55.520 and camels heavy laden with treasures, spices and everything nice and all that would come and 211 00:24:55.520 --> 00:24:59.360 they would have to get on their knees and the bags would have to be taken off of them and then 212 00:24:59.760 --> 00:25:05.440 they could look it up. Google eye of the needle gate. It's a very narrow gate. So Jesus is just saying 213 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:11.440 it's easier for that if you're a rich person and you're unwilling to bow down and bend your knees 214 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:16.640 and be free to have the stuff taken from you, you hold it loosely, then it's actually easier for 215 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:20.880 that camel to going through the eye than it will then for you to enter the kingdom of heaven. 216 00:25:22.800 --> 00:25:26.880 And of course the most famous one, well money is the root of all evil. That's that's like 217 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:32.400 their foundational verse for their life and the scripture says the love of money is the root of 218 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:44.640 all evil. Not money. Next verse please. And you shall remember the Lord your God. What about him 219 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:55.120 for it is he who gives you power, power, anointing, creative ability. It comes from heaven 220 00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:01.920 and God wants to give it to everyone and his people. You say okay, he wants to. Why hasn't he then? 221 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:08.720 Well, it's not his problem. It's our problem. I found that the Lord will entrust you how much 222 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:14.560 you're capable of handling. That means there's a responsibility to number one to be a giver 223 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:23.360 because if you're a giver, he'll get you more to give. Amen. Also not just and this is where I had 224 00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:30.800 a problem with some prosperity teaching, they just stop at giving, like just give. And that's it. 225 00:26:30.800 --> 00:26:36.880 That's a very important part, a vital part, but it's not the only part because if you've never 226 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:43.120 read a book, really, you don't read books, you don't take any risks, you're not going to experience 227 00:26:43.120 --> 00:26:50.400 biblical prosperity. You're alone, scrolling your phone in your house. There's other important steps 228 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:56.000 here. Another important step is, we're talking about showing trustworthiness to the Lord so he 229 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.880 can bless us, is what are you doing with the money you have now? If you're just acting like a drunken 230 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:12.800 count, that isn't pleased with that. Handle it now with respect. Spend it the way he wants you to 231 00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:18.000 spend it. Give how he wants you to give it. And then what you're communicating is Lord, I don't 232 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.240 treat this like my money, but as it is in truth your money and he'll entrust you with more. 233 00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:31.680 Hallelujah. You shall remember the Lord your God for it is he who gives you power to get wealth 234 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:39.200 that he may establish his covenant, which he swore to your fathers as it is this day. Now listen, 235 00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:51.360 this means that part of the covenant is wealth. And you know who's life you see this covenant 236 00:27:51.360 --> 00:27:59.760 in working in? Well, all of that patriarchs, all of your biblical heroes, but especially Jesus. 237 00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:07.840 Now this is what I want to talk about because so many believers, depending on where you've come from, 238 00:28:09.600 --> 00:28:15.360 they're affected in their ability to receive increase from heaven because they have the wrong 239 00:28:15.360 --> 00:28:23.520 picture of Jesus. They believe that Jesus was a homeless brok hippie, a vagabond. 240 00:28:27.840 --> 00:28:33.920 I wish you felt what I just felt. You have no idea. I say that and you just feel 241 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:40.160 like this spirit just screeching like a stuck pig. 242 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:48.720 Some of you you love broke Jesus. You do. Don't dare anybody tell me he wasn't broke. 243 00:28:49.600 --> 00:28:56.240 I like him broke because then he reminds me more of me. I'm sorry he wasn't. 244 00:28:56.400 --> 00:29:02.880 You're going to get offended, but you're going to get set free. 245 00:29:07.280 --> 00:29:12.640 All right, let me just let's go to John chapter 8 or Luke chapter 8. I could have said 246 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:18.320 anything you would have gotten it. You're so good. Hester actually writes all my sermons for me. 247 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:29.520 Luke chapter 8. This is so important. We have to have the right view of God and His operations and 248 00:29:29.520 --> 00:29:37.280 Jesus. How else will we believe for it? Now it came to pass afterward that he went through every 249 00:29:37.280 --> 00:29:42.880 city and village preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God and the 12 were with 250 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:50.480 Him and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities Mary called Magdalene 251 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:56.000 out of whom had come seven demons. You know again speaking about how religion messes us up and 252 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:01.120 traditional teaching. How many of you heard that Mary was a prostitute? But the scripture never 253 00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:09.040 says that. They just assumed because she had seven demons. Maybe she was just at home scrolling all day. 254 00:30:09.040 --> 00:30:17.040 Then she would have had 12 demons, not seven. Just letting you know there's some things we 255 00:30:17.040 --> 00:30:23.520 believe you have to scripture silent on. She says seven. Only seven by today's standards. 256 00:30:23.520 --> 00:30:32.400 Those are rookie numbers. And Joanna the wife of Husa Herod Stewart and Susanna and many others 257 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:44.480 who provided for him from their substance. So Jesus was a money magnet. I wish we had an organ 258 00:30:44.480 --> 00:31:00.160 right now. Jesus was a money man. He was a magnet for money everywhere he went. 259 00:31:01.840 --> 00:31:10.720 He couldn't help it. Husa was like, ah, I want to give you. Why? We just read why in 260 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:20.880 Deuteronomy 818 because it's part of the covenant. And God said, I will give you power to create wealth. 261 00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:28.800 That is his way. You'll just draw it. That's his way. Now you said, no, not Jesus, especially Jesus. 262 00:31:28.800 --> 00:31:38.000 Satan fears this because it costs money to build church buildings and fund orphanages and hire 263 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:45.760 staff and propagate the gospel. He loves Christians broke and harmless, but anointing is power in 264 00:31:45.760 --> 00:31:52.080 the spirit and money is power in the natural. And when he's lost duty anointing, he wants to keep 265 00:31:52.080 --> 00:32:03.360 you broke. Well, this ends 2025. Hallelujah. I see it so clearly. There is an anointing coming 266 00:32:03.360 --> 00:32:14.480 up on city like church. There's going to be breakthrough. Hallelujah. I'll go through my 10 267 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:19.120 points here quickly. This isn't like the sermon 10 points. Just 10 points that show you that 268 00:32:19.120 --> 00:32:27.200 Jesus wasn't broke. Yet you know how many people believe this. Number one, at his birth, 269 00:32:28.080 --> 00:32:33.040 they brought him enough gold to support his family in Egypt. I want to show you how he was a 270 00:32:33.040 --> 00:32:38.240 money magnet from when he was born to even after his death. Number one, he's like a little baby. 271 00:32:39.280 --> 00:32:45.440 All right. They match. I are coming. How many of them? We don't know. They always show three. 272 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.320 It's three gifts. They didn't travel in groups of three. They traveled in groups of 300. You're 273 00:32:50.320 --> 00:32:55.760 coming from India, the Far East. You come in a caravan. When they came in, all the herod and everybody 274 00:32:55.760 --> 00:33:01.680 knew, hey, they're here. There's three dudes. No one would have noticed. When the whole caravan 275 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:07.920 comes in, oh, the whole city was in an uproar. They bring Jesus gifts. Gold, frankincense, and more. 276 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:12.880 All right. The more valuable of all those is gold. How much? We don't know. But I know how much it 277 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:19.600 wasn't. It wasn't like the old artist portray or even today. You get a hallmark card for Christmas. 278 00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:26.480 And it's always about the size of a shoe box. They're magized there and he's opening up a little 279 00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:31.520 shoe box thing and there's like this little stack of gold. We don't know how much it was but we 280 00:33:31.520 --> 00:33:38.320 do know that his stepdad Joseph took Mary and his new virgin birth son and they fled to Egypt for 281 00:33:38.320 --> 00:33:48.000 several years. How do you think they pay for that? Gold. So he can't even speak yet and the 282 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:55.680 annoying thing is working and magnet that thing in. Hallelujah. Number two, all right, it is a big 283 00:33:55.680 --> 00:34:02.960 one. Well, you know, Jesus was homeless, right? Oh, and another verse they have memorized. 284 00:34:04.080 --> 00:34:10.080 Jesus said, it's funny because you said they get excited. They get excited to fight you. 285 00:34:11.040 --> 00:34:16.480 Don't rob me of my poverty. So one thing I have left. 286 00:34:20.240 --> 00:34:28.480 Well, Jesus said the birds of the air have nests and the foxes have holes but the son of man is homeless 287 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:38.640 you know and has nowhere to lay his head. You read that in context. He was in Samaria. He was 288 00:34:38.640 --> 00:34:43.680 talking to the Samaritans to the woman at the well who was a Samaritan. He just flat out said, 289 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:49.520 hey, I've come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel first. He was just passing through. So he 290 00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:54.160 said, I'm just passing through in Samaria. But look at John chapter two and they said, where do you 291 00:34:54.160 --> 00:35:02.080 live? He didn't say nowhere because I'm a bum. He said, come and see. Come and see. Amen. 292 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:08.480 Amen. Some of you are more frozen out because they said, bum and you missed the point of what I'm 293 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:20.960 saying, which is bummy behavior. Number three, we read that wealthy influential woman financially 294 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:27.200 provided for him. You never see Jesus ever go, you know, I'd like to do this but I can't because 295 00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:34.640 we can't afford it. And that's what prosperity is. Say, what's prosperity? Prosperity is you having 296 00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:42.160 more than enough. God's ways more than enough to fulfill your assignment from heaven. 297 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:48.720 Jesus had more than enough to fulfill his assignment from heaven. So number one, gold at birth. 298 00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:55.200 He wasn't homeless. Three wealthy people gave to him from their substance. Four, Judas could steal 299 00:35:55.200 --> 00:36:01.840 from the treasury and nobody noticed. You know that? Judas was in charge. If you read the 300 00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:08.640 gospel, you'll know that. He was in charge of the money bag and he was stealing. Now if you have 301 00:36:08.640 --> 00:36:15.200 five coins in a money bag and someone steals one, all the other 11 disciples are going to know, 302 00:36:15.200 --> 00:36:22.400 huh, but if you have lots of, lots of coins and there's clinkage and jingle, jangle, 303 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:27.760 lage, galore, there's lots of coins and someone skims off the top. Nobody notices. 304 00:36:29.520 --> 00:36:32.880 I don't know. This was a big deal to me when I stumbled upon it. I didn't hear this preach 305 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:37.840 anywhere. This list of 10. I was 20 something years old. I was in prayer. I sat down. The anointing 306 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:42.240 hitting me. I still have the list. The Lord spoke to my heart and said, I will show you how I was a 307 00:36:42.240 --> 00:36:46.800 money magnet. One of the most, I wish I always got sermon. Topic matter like that. 308 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:52.960 And he led me through and I went boom, boom, boom. Lord, this is, it's right there in the word. 309 00:36:53.840 --> 00:37:00.160 Always just drew it to himself. And I like saying Jesus was a money magnet because it just 310 00:37:00.160 --> 00:37:04.960 irks the poverty spirit, you know. There's like, there's like a more sophisticated way of saying it. 311 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:17.520 I'm choosing the baser out. Hey, number five, he wore costly garments. How do we know that? 312 00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:23.840 Because Roman soldiers gambled for his clothing. Why did they gamble for his clothing? 313 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:27.680 Someone said, someone once said, well, you know, it was a collector's item. 314 00:37:29.600 --> 00:37:33.360 They were going to put it on eBay that night, signed autographed robes of the Messiah, 315 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:39.360 sell it at a huge premium. They didn't respect him. They thought he was a common criminal. 316 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:44.400 These were the same people just finished spitting on him and beating him, blindfolding him and 317 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:48.480 smacking him and saying, prophesied, son, a man, which one of us was it that hit you. There was 318 00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:58.880 nothing but this name. And then they wanted to take his Armani. Six, he was such a money magnet 319 00:37:59.600 --> 00:38:07.200 that when the IRS came and his tax bill was due, he said, Peter, go fishing. The first coin, 320 00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:11.440 first fish you catch looking at his mouth, there's gold in the mouth, pay my taxes and yours. 321 00:38:12.720 --> 00:38:16.800 That's how money magnet operates. Never stress, never worry. 322 00:38:22.160 --> 00:38:27.040 Which one, which number are we on? Which point? Seven, six. 323 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:39.920 Hallelujah. I know what it's like to be in debt. I know the pain of it. I know the stress of it. 324 00:38:41.040 --> 00:38:50.320 I had, I shared 16 credit cards over $20,000 of debt. It was nightmare. It was torturous. 325 00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:54.960 I kept getting new cards and I would do the transfer, you know, robbing Peter, paying Paul, 326 00:38:55.040 --> 00:39:01.920 get the 0% APR transfer until it isn't zero until it goes up to 29.9, which would make, you know, 327 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:08.800 Vinnie on the corner blush, because even the mafia doesn't charge interest rates like that, 328 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:12.720 but they will when you get your free six-month introductory period out of the way. 329 00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:19.760 I love you, sweetie. 330 00:39:20.080 --> 00:39:32.640 What God has done in our lives sometimes, when we share about it, it's difficult to share 331 00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:39.120 sometimes because some people may misconstrued as bragging, as showing off. And it's not 332 00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:42.880 that I care so much, I just don't want you to miss the message. I really, if you don't know 333 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:46.800 that I don't care what people think by now, you don't know me, but I just don't want you to 334 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:52.320 make, because some people you mention what God has done, people are so awful. No, I want you to 335 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:59.520 know that what I am preaching is that philosophical and I'm not in the place of still believing, but 336 00:39:59.520 --> 00:40:08.160 I've experienced it. And I shouldn't have, just like in the natural, I shouldn't have, but I did 337 00:40:08.160 --> 00:40:15.280 because he put his super over my natural. And he did that and I was open about it so that you know, 338 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:20.800 hey, God is no respecter of man and what he did for him, he'll do for me. And I believe with all 339 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:29.120 of my heart, he's doing it in our church. What you, first of all, what you preach about, you bring 340 00:40:29.120 --> 00:40:35.040 about. And as we go on this journey for several weeks and actual anointing will cultivate, it'll 341 00:40:35.040 --> 00:40:40.640 brew here where it'll just get on you and you'll start things popping into place in your life. 342 00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:48.400 So I want to just, I want to just skip some of the details, got a house, huge mortgage, nearly 343 00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:54.240 seven figure mortgage. I almost felt bad paying off the mortgage because it cost me 90 grand just 344 00:40:54.240 --> 00:41:00.640 to get the mortgage, but I didn't feel bad. But for my, look, I just, I got this mortgage like eight 345 00:41:00.640 --> 00:41:05.360 months ago. And of course, if you never bought a house, it's not just the interest they get 346 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:10.080 trying. It's the upfront closing car. They have, the more syllables are in the definition, 347 00:41:10.080 --> 00:41:14.000 the more they're just stealing from you. Well, close it. We'll break down the closing cost. Okay, 348 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:19.360 all I see is the cost of me 90 grand to get this loan. That the Lord then supernaturally paid off 349 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:27.120 eight months later. Amen. Oh, oh, oh, wait, wait, wait. So let me not, so I actually don't like it 350 00:41:27.120 --> 00:41:31.120 with ministers. The Lord's supernatural, you're like, what, what are the details? It's always 351 00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:36.400 like what? You know, did he send a dog with a paper bag full of $100 bills scratching on your 352 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:43.280 door at 3 a.m. Specifically, I bought call options and micro strategy, micro strategies, a 353 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:47.440 corporation that's the single biggest holder of Bitcoin moves in tandem with it, but I bought 354 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.080 far out call options in the middle of the bear market when everybody was saying Bitcoin is dead. 355 00:41:52.080 --> 00:42:00.720 And you're not in like, you know, no, he knows. And do you smell lettuce? I smell. No, 356 00:42:05.200 --> 00:42:16.240 they want exponential. Thank you. I'm not that smart. He did that. And then the first thing we did 357 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:21.440 was time. Then we gave offerings. Then we gave to other men, whoever God said give to, I would give 358 00:42:22.080 --> 00:42:27.920 it. There were several times envelopes with 10,000 cash here. God said, boom, boom. Then I bought 359 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:34.880 a car for, wait, first, then I bought a car for my wife. And you know how wonderful, how 360 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:42.000 wonderful it is when you're not leasing. And it's not used. Also, Jesus went in on a cult 361 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:45.280 on which never man sat. That means he doesn't believe in previously owned. 362 00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:56.080 God, I got her some things that I've always wanted to get her, but couldn't. 363 00:42:56.800 --> 00:43:00.960 Like I once, and she never asks for anything. Ladies, that's, there's a lesson there. 364 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:07.280 But, but she doesn't get a certain sparkle. And there was some movie. And someone was, I didn't know 365 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:11.920 what a tennis bracelet was. I don't get it. And I saw the sparkle. I was like, you want one of those? 366 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:17.920 She said to you. So this was years ago. I looked it up and went, whoa. I mean, we can get you the 367 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:27.120 QVC version, you know. I can do four payments of 1995. But then the Lord does this. I get the tennis 368 00:43:27.120 --> 00:43:32.480 bracelet. And then, but this is all going somewhere just to show you the goodness of God. And, 369 00:43:32.560 --> 00:43:38.640 and no, God is. He's over the top. He is. You look at the miracles. All of them over the top. 370 00:43:38.640 --> 00:43:47.280 You look at the miracles of provision. They're over the top. Why did Jesus make 120 to 150 gallons of 371 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:55.280 wine? That's enough for a small town and entire village times 10. He did it for one wedding. Why? 372 00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:00.560 Because he's too much. He's too much. That's his heart. 373 00:44:04.720 --> 00:44:10.640 So we did some more. Then, then, then, then he put him a heart to purchase another minister 374 00:44:10.640 --> 00:44:18.320 a car, $100,000 for a Tesla. I'm not saying this to be cheesy or anything. But I just remember when 375 00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:23.440 giving somebody 20 was a big deal. But when you're faithful in that, God will build you up and build 376 00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:27.520 you up and build you up. And then, and I'm not kidding. I don't care. I love you, but I don't 377 00:44:27.520 --> 00:44:32.480 care what you think. But if you believe me, you'll catch something. Then I felt the Lord tell me 378 00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:38.960 to buy a certain car. Now, I'm driving a Toyota now. Very happy with it. I actually love it because 379 00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:48.400 you don't care. Something on the 495 they called a Long Island swipe, you know, ever driven on the 380 00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:56.800 L.I.E. But I felt I needed to get a statement car. And there's no other way to put this, 381 00:44:56.800 --> 00:45:02.160 unless someone can help me with my vocabulary. I felt I'm not blaming God. I'll take all the 382 00:45:02.160 --> 00:45:07.040 roof, but I felt he wanted me to get a car that made a statement of something you're not supposed 383 00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:18.400 to have, like basically a middle finger. To Satan, to religion, to that whole system that says, 384 00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:24.240 we like you broke, we like you harmless, ineffective, quiet, Christian, just know your place, 385 00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:34.080 tucked away in a corner. So I bought a my back SUV. You got to, you got to see this thing. 386 00:45:34.160 --> 00:45:43.040 It hasn't arrived yet. They're building it. You know about it. It bounces, but not like, you know, 387 00:45:43.040 --> 00:45:48.080 in a California way. But it does bounce. Not I'm not going to be out there, you know. 388 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:56.320 But it does. And then the cup holders, they'll cool it. They'll warm it. 389 00:45:56.320 --> 00:46:05.440 I'm a sash chair, not just for me, but for everyone, a fridge in the back. The rear seats are 390 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:11.760 the seats from a first-class passenger airplane. They come all the way out. Like my kids are going 391 00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:18.080 to be horizontal in the back. The only thing, the only thing I said no to, I got it fully low, 392 00:46:18.080 --> 00:46:24.080 the only thing I said to no to was the screens. No screens. Amen. Look how long it takes 393 00:46:24.080 --> 00:46:33.760 something to high five. So this is so wonderful because I pay for it with holy money. 394 00:46:34.720 --> 00:46:40.640 Money that's been tied down, money that's offerings have been given from it. I bought other people 395 00:46:40.640 --> 00:46:50.480 cars. And it's not from the ministry. And still people will be upset. And that's okay. 396 00:46:51.200 --> 00:46:55.920 Some people love poverty. By the way, if you don't like, just for no reason, 397 00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:01.440 quote-unquote, wealthy people, that's a good way to stay broke. A lot of times people just, 398 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:04.320 I don't like women because they believe whatever they read. 399 00:47:09.200 --> 00:47:16.000 There's evil wealthy people, very good Christian wealthy people, evil poor people, very good poor 400 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:30.320 people. Hallelujah. So God is doing that. And it's a sign and a wonder to us. And I feel funny 401 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:38.880 saying all this out loud, but it's actually preposterous. I'm funny how God works. 402 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:46.000 I'm preaching this, this place is packed, but it's like my laptop's resting on a $20 side table. 403 00:47:48.240 --> 00:47:54.080 The paint is peeling off this. What looks like, this is the same color wood my public school in 404 00:47:54.080 --> 00:48:03.120 Regal Park had. That chandelier in these seats are straight out of the 70s. And your God is doing 405 00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:17.520 this to me personally. He's putting me in a place that's ahead. He's showing the church it's 406 00:48:17.520 --> 00:48:23.200 going to come along. And he's doing this on full display because it's your part and your portion 407 00:48:23.200 --> 00:48:31.760 too. And you must believe that and receive that. It's your part of abundance. Don't take my word 408 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:37.440 for it. Take it as the word of the Lord spoken from Moses who said, he will give you power, 409 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:44.480 anointing, creative ability for wealth. This is part of the covenant. Look at the life of Jesus 410 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:50.160 and see how he just attracted providence and provision and abundance to himself. What number 411 00:48:50.160 --> 00:48:57.440 were we on? Six. Goldfish to pay taxes. Seven was actually the cult, the triumphant entry, 412 00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:02.720 which we just look at Jesus and we think, oh, he wrote in on a donkey. No. He wrote in on a cult, 413 00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:08.560 and he was the top 0.01 percent in doing that because nobody else could do that, only the very 414 00:49:08.560 --> 00:49:15.440 wealthy. When he needed it, he didn't beg, he didn't plead. He said just lose the cult. If anyone 415 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:23.040 asks you say the master has need of it. What's that? What's that operation there? The anointing to 416 00:49:23.040 --> 00:49:33.840 get wealth. The money magnet anointing. Eight. Looking at the life of Jesus. He got the upper room 417 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:38.720 where the last supper was. Did you know that's the same up a room in Acts chapter 2? How many 418 00:49:38.720 --> 00:49:45.440 did it fit in Acts chapter 2? 120. So that's a big room that he got for just him and his 12. 419 00:49:48.640 --> 00:49:54.560 I think it's hard to get good rental space in NYC in Jerusalem too during Passover. Not even 420 00:49:54.720 --> 00:50:04.800 a much advanced notice the night before. Nine. He was such a money magnet that he was anointed with 421 00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:12.320 a year's worth of wages. We skip over this part, but look at the nature of God. A woman came 422 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:18.000 broken alabaster box to perfume cost a year's worth of wages. Jesus didn't stop her. She poured 423 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:26.320 it over his feet. Judas right away. Oh look at this waste. That's what some people thought when 424 00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:34.640 I told them about the new car. Oh the waste. What about the poor? What have you done for the poor? 425 00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:43.280 I know what I've done for the poor. I've done a lot for the poor my whole life. Now I'm doing this 426 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:48.640 and guess what it's going to do? It's going to bring me to a higher place and I'll be able to do 427 00:50:48.640 --> 00:50:53.200 even more for the poor. But Judas is always trying to tell you how you should spend your money. 428 00:50:55.680 --> 00:51:03.200 Really what's behind it is jealousy and envy and a poverty spirit of smallness and lack. 429 00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:09.280 By the way when somebody gets blessed by you that's an opportunity for you. God is watching you 430 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:15.680 rejoice. If you ever suffer from envy, jealousy, that emotion what you're really saying is oh God I 431 00:51:15.680 --> 00:51:21.920 believe you're going to run out. So you gave to someone else now there's less for me. 432 00:51:23.600 --> 00:51:29.120 And I know maybe that was how it was when you were growing up. Your brother got the bigger size of 433 00:51:29.120 --> 00:51:34.560 cookie. He ate it all and now there's not enough for you because mom ran out. Well God isn't like 434 00:51:34.640 --> 00:51:43.120 her. He's not like your dad who ran out. He has a limitless supply amen. Hallelujah. 435 00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:58.400 And then ten he dies and is on his way to get buried where in the pottersfield where criminals 436 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:05.200 get buried a no name grave and Joseph of Arimathea jumps in and says no he's going to be buried in 437 00:52:05.200 --> 00:52:11.600 a rich man's tomb. This is Jesus who you thought was poor because you believe the propaganda 438 00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:18.400 that he was a homeless hippie who just slept in the dirt and you actually look at his life and 439 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:24.480 you'll see miracle provision following him all throughout at birth and then even after his death 440 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:30.160 regular people didn't get tombs. You know Christians never ask hey why was Jesus buried in the tomb? 441 00:52:30.160 --> 00:52:33.600 Well they hated him they didn't respect him they were going to throw him in a hole in the in the dirt. 442 00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:39.840 A tomb was somebody who had generational wealth. They bought a tomb not just for themselves but for 443 00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:43.040 the children and the children's children and that's what was going to be that's where he was 444 00:52:43.040 --> 00:52:49.120 buried all by himself. Joseph of Arimathea recognized who he was but that same anointing to 445 00:52:49.120 --> 00:52:58.560 attract wealth into him was an operation. Hallelujah. Amen. 446 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:08.560 Lots more scriptures here but I feel like that's good. 447 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:12.560 Where's your team? Will you come up? 448 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:21.280 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. 449 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:28.640 Break small mindedness off of us. The blood of Jesus. 450 00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:41.040 Lord help us get out of your way. Position us. Position us for your increase. 451 00:53:43.120 --> 00:53:54.640 Hyperbolic increase. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I just feel like the Lord is saying 452 00:53:54.720 --> 00:54:02.880 trust my times and seasons. Sometimes it'll seem only seem like he's taken forever. 453 00:54:03.520 --> 00:54:07.760 Sometimes it'll seem like everything you're praying about is happening to the person next to you 454 00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:13.920 and you're like Lord. You're not even jealous but you're like Lord you know what about me? 455 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:23.360 Just trust him. Ignore that noise. God will cause years to happen in weeks. 456 00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:28.560 Some of you I see in the spirit right now laughing your heads off hugging your husband. 457 00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:32.400 I sort of just saw my spirit laughing your head off. 458 00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:44.160 And how God just came in and hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 459 00:54:44.160 --> 00:54:53.280 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 460 00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:58.480 Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. 461 00:54:59.680 --> 00:55:01.440 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 462 00:55:03.760 --> 00:55:05.520 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 463 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:12.400 It's coming off of you hindrances to the full blessing of God. 464 00:55:13.200 --> 00:55:18.160 Ripped off of you in Jesus name. I hear the word of the Lord. 465 00:55:18.160 --> 00:55:21.920 Extend your 10 pegs. You've made that 10 too small. 466 00:55:23.680 --> 00:55:28.320 You made it for three. I'm stretching it out to fit a dozen. Extend your 10 pegs. 467 00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:32.880 Break out to the north, the south, east and west. 468 00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:40.960 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 469 00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:49.040 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 470 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:30.720 Hallelujah for God so loved. He's so loved the world that he gave. He's a lover and he's a 471 00:56:30.720 --> 00:56:43.920 giver. What's your God like? Well, he's a lover and he's a giver. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 472 00:56:46.640 --> 00:56:55.600 Yeah, Lord, we open ourselves up to the year of the miraculous. A year of divine promotion. 473 00:56:55.600 --> 00:57:03.360 Yes. I just heard the Lord say and I'm helping. Some of you you're afraid you're going to mess it up 474 00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:10.160 because you know you. You know when he called you, he factored in your silliness. I'm so glad 475 00:57:10.160 --> 00:57:15.840 that's true for me. He factored in my stupidity, my goofiness, my fact and said you know what I'm 476 00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:22.960 going to make it happen anyway. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 477 00:57:32.080 --> 00:57:39.360 Thank you Jesus. Well, if you're really addicted to poverty, you're probably going to want to stay 478 00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:44.640 away the next few weeks because I'm surfing this wave. I really believe with all my heart, 479 00:57:44.640 --> 00:57:55.680 this is what the Lord wants because the future is bright. And I won't be held responsible 480 00:57:55.680 --> 00:58:03.760 because I kept quiet or was afraid to speak God's truth. I didn't want someone to misinterpret me 481 00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:06.960 where we're all going with the Lord. We're not going to miss out. 482 00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:16.320 Hallelujah. Oh yeah, we should receive the tides and offerings too. 483 00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:22.240 So give with a glad heart, the giving information is on either screen of me. 484 00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:35.120 Thank you Jesus. You know what I'm going to read this scripture is the one from 2 Corinthians 485 00:58:35.120 --> 00:58:48.320 in the amplified and then we'll close. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. 486 00:58:50.560 --> 00:58:58.560 Thank you Jesus. Can you just put that? I believe that's the only scripture I got right today. 487 00:58:58.560 --> 00:59:05.520 2 Corinthians chapter 9. This is Paul finishing off a 2 chapter long offering. 488 00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:19.520 Thank you Lord. I just challenge you to jump out of bed no matter how you're feeling every 489 00:59:19.520 --> 00:59:25.520 morning and say, God, I thank you. This is my year. You're good. Your way is abundance, 490 00:59:25.520 --> 00:59:29.920 your way is prosperity. You're working behind the scenes. 491 00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:38.320 How many wonderful things in your life happened and you think back and you go, man, 492 00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:42.320 if I didn't respond to that email, that wouldn't have happened. If I didn't go to that event and 493 00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:48.320 shake those hand, that wouldn't have happened. God is going to have you. I'm going to make sure as 494 00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:55.840 you yield to him and believe him, it's going to make sure you're in the right place at the right time 495 00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:05.600 saying the right thing, executing the right move. Fear not. Remember this, he who so sparingly 496 01:00:05.600 --> 01:00:12.000 and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly and he who so generously the blessing may 497 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:19.360 come to someone will also reap generously and with blessings. Let each one give as he has made 498 01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:25.280 up his own mind and purposed in his heart, not reluctantly or sorrowfully or under compulsion. 499 01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:32.160 And this is the part I want you to focus on. For God loves, he takes pleasure in, 500 01:00:32.720 --> 01:00:41.440 prizes above others and is unwilling to abandon or do without. God is unwilling to abandon or to 501 01:00:41.600 --> 01:00:48.480 do without a cheerful, joyous, prompt to do it giver whose heart is in his giving. 502 01:00:52.080 --> 01:01:00.560 So God is unwilling to do without a joyous, prompt to do it giver whose heart is in his giving. 503 01:01:00.560 --> 01:01:04.640 Do you know what the Greek word for joyful there is? Hilarious. 504 01:01:05.520 --> 01:01:11.920 Forgive my Greek accent, it's more like Hilaria but it's where we get the word hilarious from. 505 01:01:14.480 --> 01:01:21.360 So a joyous giver is a hilarious giver. When you give and your spirit is so filled with joy 506 01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:26.560 that it's almost preposterous and hilarious to you, that's where I want you to be in your giving. 507 01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:33.760 Hallelujah. You ready for a good week? 508 01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:35.840 Amen. 509 01:01:37.200 --> 01:01:43.040 ministry team won't you go over to the blue lights if you want prayer hands laid on you the ministry 510 01:01:43.040 --> 01:01:49.600 team to minister to you. They'll meet you over there. If this message didn't make total sense 511 01:01:49.600 --> 01:01:55.520 to you, just hang on. That's how it was when I first heard a message on God's abundance. 512 01:01:56.160 --> 01:02:02.480 It's like does not compute does I mean I see it I hear it but the wheels in my head needed 513 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:10.480 heavenly WD 40 the gears just couldn't turn it was like tilt tilt error code 404 you know 514 01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:19.120 file that found it took some time. So come back next Sunday we love you again if you want prayer 515 01:02:19.120 --> 01:02:24.560 go over to buy the blue lights there'll be a altoid filled mouth smiling over there to pray for 516 01:02:24.560 --> 01:02:32.720 you and bless you. Go with joy. 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