WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, Christians, where's the Spirit of God? 2 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:10.960 Where does it live? Where does it dwell? Inside. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:17.280 not as many as are led by the prophets of God. Not as many as are led by external signs. 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:25.280 But the Spirit of God who lives inside of you, those are the real children of God. Hallelujah! 5 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:31.840 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word 6 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:37.840 and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, 7 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:44.000 feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 8 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:50.800 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our 9 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:56.800 hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, 10 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:02.400 that you are surrounded by his grace, and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 11 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:10.880 We have a birthday here today, Kate the Great turns 18 today. 12 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:14.800 Happy birthday, Kate the Great. 13 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.880 And we have another birthday here today. Where are you? Who else has your birthday here today? 14 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:28.720 Today, not yesterday or today, another person. My wife, it's her birthday. 15 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:31.760 It's her birthday also. 16 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:36.000 Happy birthday. 17 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:44.960 We celebrated on Friday, though, because we wanted a full day, so I took off. 18 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.520 We started bright and early, I told everybody in the house to wake up half an hour early, 19 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:54.800 and so we met it early in the morning, presented some gifts. 20 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:59.680 And then by 7.30 a.m., we were in the car, took off. 21 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.640 To drop the kids off, then grandma is going to pick them up and we were going to have a whole day 22 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.400 in the city. Amen. Like we used to. 23 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:16.960 43 years I lived in the burrows, and then moved away, told myself I'd be in three, four times a week, 24 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:23.040 never did that. I'm only half an hour away, but never did that. 25 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.800 Long Island has the way of just sucking you in, like the mafia, sucks you in. 26 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:33.200 I keep trying to get out, but long Island keep pulling me back in. 27 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:41.920 And we had a day, went to the movies, walked around stomp, like we used to all around the upper west side, 28 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.800 then when it was lunchtime, the long island didn't be kicked in, and I was like, let's go to 29 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:51.360 tavern on the green, baby. When was the last time you were at it? It's like, New Yorkers never 30 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:55.520 go to tavern on the green, but the long island now is calling out. And you know who was all 31 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.880 around us? Other long islanders. Who here has ever gone to tavern on the green, you know, 32 00:03:00.880 --> 00:03:05.840 in Central Park West, right? Like once, right? Here, there, just because you saw Ghostbusters, 33 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:12.880 and then you wanted to go. The original Ghostbusters, kids, has this great scene at tavern on the green. 34 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:19.120 And then it was so delightful. I'm like, baby, let's just stay. This is awesome. I don't want to go 35 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:24.240 back, because now would be rush hour. And I didn't quite plan the day, I just wanted to be, you know, 36 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:31.200 let it, let it take its own shape. So I looked up a hotel lab hotel for the night. You ever, 37 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:35.360 you ever do a hotel for the night? Because you get six, eight hundred dollar hotel rooms for a 38 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.520 couple of hundred bucks sometimes, one sixty. And I look it up and have this great room in the 39 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:47.840 harder times where I'm a real tourist now. Like 65% off. And we're able to get a hotel room, 40 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:54.160 and now men, now men, happens our oyster, right? No kids. You got your hub right there. And 41 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.640 we just start walking all over the place and enjoying. And like a tourist, I get hit up by the 42 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:05.520 comedy club guy, hey, do you, do you want to laugh tonight? Well, I was like, call me gosh, who 43 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:12.800 doesn't, sir? What do I got to do to laugh tonight? And I, we got the comedy club tickets. And now 44 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:21.440 it's getting into the evening. And I'm slapping my knees. And right as the comedy show is ending, 45 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:27.840 I hear whoo. And my, my phone, which I had silenced, because you have to have it silenced, 46 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:33.840 because you're in the comedy club, it starts blaring a siren. And I think what could this be? 47 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:40.560 I pull out my phone, it's ADT security. And it says front door open. And now we're stuck in the 48 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:50.400 city, front door open. And luckily we were just leaving the club. Now I'm coming out. And I think 49 00:04:50.400 --> 00:04:56.880 this can't be good. Maybe the sensor fell off. I'm trying to think positively. Maybe the little 50 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:04.720 sensor fell off. But I access my, my homes outside video surveillance from my phone and good old 51 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:10.640 nestle county police within minutes for cop cars. I've had my ADT alarm go off in Brooklyn, 52 00:05:10.640 --> 00:05:16.400 like two and a half hours later, the cop comes like, is there no alarm here? Within minutes, 53 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:21.600 four squad cars, eight guys could come out. Now I'm looking on the camera. Of course, I don't 54 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:25.840 have cameras inside the house, but I have on the outside of the house. And I'm seeing this train of 55 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:31.280 cops and they're, I can see they're going in through my front door. So it was open. And they're 56 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:36.160 going in. You can see flashlights. Two of them are going all around the perimeter and I'm 57 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:41.040 bracing now. I don't want to see on my videos surveillance a little flash. You know, that's the 58 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:48.160 gunshot flash. And they're in there for 10, 15 minutes. I'm glued to the screen. And then I just 59 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:58.160 see them all converge, leave and drive away. So I call up. What happened? Now I got to call up. 60 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:03.120 I can't reach the cops, but I call up my village public safety, whatever they're going to rent 61 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:08.000 the cops that the village has. And they're like, they searched the whole house. Nothing was rifle 62 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:15.040 through. Everything is fine. Just the front door was wide open. And I'm going, that's a bad criminal 63 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:19.280 tactic. What happened there to just open your front door and then not go for the gold? You know, 64 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:26.320 that's, this is broadcast. There is no gold inside my house. I meant go for what you think is the gold. 65 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:36.560 There is nothing. Amen. People don't realize you're one Google away from people knowing your 66 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:44.000 home address, phone number, everything. There is just a legal shotgun and other artillery. 67 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:51.840 Where's the camera waiting for you if you have ulterior? And I have a big scripture that says, 68 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:57.600 poach Jesus where he says, take up a sword also. And another one by David that says, 69 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:04.080 this blessed be the Lord, my God, who teaches my hands to war. Amen. I think I lost them with that. 70 00:07:04.080 --> 00:07:09.120 People are, no, really, there is a shotgun. Good one. Combat. 71 00:07:11.280 --> 00:07:16.400 Beretta. I was going to go for the Benelli, but the Beretta. Anything that ends in a vow is 72 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:23.040 going to be good when it comes to firearms. 1301 tactical, seven plus one, just in case. 73 00:07:24.640 --> 00:07:29.760 I feel the need to say all that because of that one person that's watching. Anyway, 74 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:36.160 I just noticed the whole time my wife is not as nervous as me. And I go, what do you think this? 75 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:40.320 And she turns to me. We had the best date. It still was the best day. She goes, 76 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:47.040 in the excitement of the birthday morning, I may have forgotten to lock the door. 77 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:55.200 And Augusta Wind came, right as we were leaving the common and blew the door open. 78 00:07:55.200 --> 00:07:59.200 I then checked the ADT security. It tells you everything. And I noticed it says front door open, 79 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:07.440 but none of the motion detectors were going off. Amen. So it was that. That night, I mean, 80 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:14.960 forget now at NYC, we came home that night. It was all good. I had a wait in the car, 81 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:19.120 searched every room, every closet in every room, underneath the sink, everywhere. It was all clear. 82 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.880 Hallelujah. We just have more time, so I thought I'd share that story with you. 83 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:30.880 I didn't share that with the first service. 84 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:43.200 You know why she forgot to close the door? Because God has recently overdone it in my life. 85 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.000 He just really overdid it. So I overdid it for her on her birthday. 86 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:58.400 And God is good. Hallelujah. I'm feeling a little provoked by the Lord right now. 87 00:08:59.280 --> 00:09:05.520 You know, a lot of preachers, and I can relate to this, they keep any blessing of the Lord's 88 00:09:05.520 --> 00:09:10.480 secretive, because they're afraid of what people might think or what people might assume. 89 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:18.000 And so there's pastors who get financially blessed outside of the church, but they keep it all so 90 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:23.440 quiet. So it's not to inspire envy. But if you have a church of people who would be envious of 91 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:27.280 you, then you don't, there's aren't sheep. Those are goats and wolves. There's something. They're not 92 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:36.720 sheep. Amen. Or if you if if if you're ever afraid to wear the coat of many colors that your father 93 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:42.960 got you. And there's a problem. You know, Joseph was given a coat of many colors. He didn't 94 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:47.760 leave it in the closet because he was afraid of what his brothers might think. He proudly wore that 95 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:58.960 coat of many colors. Hallelujah. So she's been driving. I'm just going to say it. She's been driving 96 00:09:59.520 --> 00:10:11.280 this my old car, this 2011. And she's so amazing. She never complains. The air conditioner 97 00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:17.600 doesn't work. So she just rolls the windows down and just just drive with the with the wind blowing, 98 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:21.200 you know, old school like how we used to do in former Yugoslavia all through the 80s and 90s. 99 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.240 And the Lord I'll say that it's not that it manages that it's outside the church. I believe pastors 100 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:35.920 should be blessed, but outside of the church through the through investments, he just overdid it. 101 00:10:36.640 --> 00:10:46.240 So I got her a brand new Porsche Cayenne. Amen. After let me just say this, 102 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:52.960 after I had given tides and offerings and blessed other ministries, blessed other people directly, 103 00:10:52.960 --> 00:11:00.640 after the giving tank was full, then I went to town. Amen. Spund her head around and the cops 104 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:09.120 had to come in because she forgot to lock the door. Hallelujah. Yeah, let's not back off of the 105 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:20.160 blessing of God. In destruction and famine, you shall laugh. I'm feeling more bold. Let me just 106 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:26.400 say this because I just preached on no debt last week. Cash. Out right. No fine. Not a lease. 107 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:40.160 Done. Done and done. Zero debt. Amen. Praise God so that when you know that when I preach don't 108 00:11:40.160 --> 00:11:48.640 get into debt, I mean, just get into debt. Hallelujah. He'll do it. Let's begin in second 109 00:11:48.640 --> 00:11:59.360 Samuel 21. Thank you, Jesus. The title of his message is King David secret. 110 00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:08.720 King David, I think we can all agree when you look at his whole life, though it was filled with 111 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:16.160 many mistakes, it was a life of great victory and it was a life of great success. So much so that 112 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:23.120 even after all of his mistakes, God still thought it good that Messiah should come through David's line. 113 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:30.160 And you read first Samuel and second Samuel and once again, though David committed sin and made 114 00:12:30.160 --> 00:12:36.560 huge blunders and mistakes, their stories of victory and there's something special about David. 115 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:44.400 It's like he had a secret like he had a key and I want to discuss the secret key of David today. 116 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:52.240 Second Samuel 21. It happened after that. David inquired of the Lord. Shout that. David inquired of 117 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:59.680 the Lord. David inquired the Lord. Saying, shall I go up to any of the cities of Judah and the Lord 118 00:12:59.680 --> 00:13:06.320 said to him, go up. David said, where shall I go up? And he said to hebron. Second Samuel 519. 119 00:13:07.520 --> 00:13:11.840 There's close to a dozen of these kinds of verses. I want to just show you three. 120 00:13:11.920 --> 00:13:22.480 So David, what does it say? Shout it loud. He asked the Lord a question. He sought the Lord. 121 00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:32.720 He submitted to the Lordship of Yahweh God. He showed his humility by showing his dependence on God. 122 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:38.400 He wasn't saying, well, I killed a lion, I killed a bear, then I killed Goliath, 123 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:46.320 then I outraged Saul. I'm all that. I got this king thing down. No, he always saw God and he inquired 124 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:51.520 of the Lord. Let's look at that next verse also in second Samuel 21.1. 125 00:13:54.800 --> 00:13:59.440 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year and David did what? 126 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:06.000 He inquired of the Lord. In fact, David inquired of the Lord. 127 00:14:06.800 --> 00:14:13.520 Is the phrase that's most associated with the life of David. Nearly a dozen times more so 128 00:14:13.520 --> 00:14:19.440 than any other character in the Bible, any of the ancient patriarchs. David was a man who sought 129 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:24.960 after the Lord. In fact, the Bible says that David was a man after God's own heart. What does that 130 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:34.320 really mean? Besides that he loved God's presence. It means that he was after what was important to 131 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:42.720 God. He was after the will of God. God has a heart to do something in the world and David was after 132 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:50.240 God's heart. He was a man whose will was surrender to the will of his Lord. And that's the secret 133 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:58.880 of David. And that's what the Lord is inviting us to. Any success you have in life that's lasting 134 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:04.160 that's real success will be because of the Lord's leading, because of the Lord's guidance, 135 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:09.520 because his will was accomplished in your life. But an old man of God back in Bible school changed 136 00:15:09.520 --> 00:15:13.920 my life forever when he said this phrase because I knew it to be true. I just couldn't, you know, 137 00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:18.160 sometimes you got a truth brewing on the inside of you. But when someone articulates that the 138 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:24.400 lights go on and you take that truth home with you. And he said this, ask the Lord a lot of questions 139 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:31.680 because it seems to me that the Lord seldom offers up information. And I want, you know, that's true. 140 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:38.880 It seems that whenever you would come with something directional in my life, it's after I asked 141 00:15:38.880 --> 00:15:45.840 them, after I sought him, very rarely that he just coming out of the blue. He's a God that must be 142 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:54.160 sought. Let's look at that scripture in Hebrews, please. He's a God that must be sought. 143 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:01.920 And I don't want to go left if he doesn't tell me go left. I don't want to go in a particular 144 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:07.680 direction in my life just making directional choices that will impact months or years of my life, 145 00:16:07.680 --> 00:16:14.160 impact my wife, impact my kids, impact the church just because I think it's a good idea. Or because 146 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:18.400 I think I really got it going on upstairs and I go in a direction and then all of a sudden I find 147 00:16:18.400 --> 00:16:24.000 myself naked and alone. And I don't feel that that favor and that presence and that weight of 148 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:30.160 glory that hand sustaining me and pushing me along. And then I go, Lord, once you come this way 149 00:16:31.040 --> 00:16:36.400 and he said, no, I'm over there where you used to be. That's the blessed place. You chose to leave 150 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:44.400 it and do your own thing. Hebrews 116, but without faith it is impossible to please him for he who 151 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:51.440 comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder. It's good to get comfortable with 152 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:57.680 God being a rewarder. There's this religious thing that goes around where people are, I just 153 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:04.800 do it, you know, like I just pray to pray. No, God said, Jesus said, when you pray, 154 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:13.280 you do it privately. The Father will reward you openly. Hallelujah. When you give and don't blast 155 00:17:13.280 --> 00:17:20.560 the trumpet and tell everybody that you gave, then God will reward, reward, reward you publicly. 156 00:17:21.360 --> 00:17:29.920 Here the scripture says he is a rewarder, an increaseer of, an adder, untur, not a subtractor of, 157 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:38.320 a particular kind of person, the person who diligently seeks him. In the Greek that phrase 158 00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:48.960 diligently seeks means inquires of. Inquires of and requires his presence as their vital and 159 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:55.360 necessary need. It's talking about the person who takes their will and submits it to the Lord and 160 00:17:55.360 --> 00:18:06.640 asks God questions. I'm encouraging you this morning because God is a living God and he's alive 161 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:16.560 and well and he speaks to his people now. And I want you to be open to his voice, but if you're not 162 00:18:16.560 --> 00:18:22.720 talking to him and asking him and inviting him to speak into your life and we'll get into how he 163 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:28.640 speaks, but the first step is inviting him to speak into your life. It's almost like you got to give 164 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:35.600 him a legal right to speak into your life. You notice Jesus wasn't very nosy in his earthly ministry. 165 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:40.240 He didn't like invade people's houses and go, so what do you got going on here? You know, 166 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:46.400 I think I can help you out. No, he just went preaching the word and then those who proactively, 167 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:55.120 even aggressively sought him, then he would bless them. Hallelujah. So that means the impetus is on me 168 00:18:55.120 --> 00:19:00.560 to be proactive and aggressive in seeking God's will. You say with what? With everything, 169 00:19:01.760 --> 00:19:08.320 everything. And the primary way that he will direct us, there's over like 20 different ways that 170 00:19:08.320 --> 00:19:20.880 God speaks in the Bible. And Charismatics have a real problem here. We're officially a 171 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:25.120 non-denominational church. You say, what does that mean? Nothing. That's why we say non-denominational, 172 00:19:25.120 --> 00:19:30.560 it just means these days it means absolutely nothing. You know, you got to clarify, well, we're a 173 00:19:30.560 --> 00:19:38.960 Bible believing, Bible believing, non-denominational, but still what does that say? You still could, 174 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:44.320 but you look at our statement of faith, it's very Pentecostal, we believe in the Holy Spirit's 175 00:19:44.320 --> 00:19:51.040 baptism with evidence of speaking in tongues. And then you have the, and I am in that movement 176 00:19:51.840 --> 00:19:56.400 in a way. And I have many colleagues and minister friends who are in that movement, but when we 177 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:04.080 speak, we all agree on one thing. There are weird exises now that have really hurt the body of Christ. 178 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:11.360 And really, in the leadership, I still see a commitment to the Lord, a biblical balance, 179 00:20:11.360 --> 00:20:15.840 but somehow the disciples or the disciples of the disciples or the, maybe there's just too much 180 00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:21.360 YouTube content. Maybe some people just need to stop podcasting and stop with their Facebook 181 00:20:21.840 --> 00:20:26.480 ministry, but there's like this error that's being propagated and people have like lost their minds. 182 00:20:27.040 --> 00:20:34.480 And they're always looking outward, outward for God to speak to them. If you're at a place where you 183 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:40.640 collect prophetic words, I see this, this is why we don't have so many guest speakers. Have you ever 184 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:47.040 wondered why we don't have anymore? We used to. I got a lot of friends. We could have the who's 185 00:20:47.040 --> 00:20:51.920 who in the charismatic zoo. We can line them all up. And we've done that. And the church is packed 186 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:57.680 out. And you know who it's packed out with? People who collect prophecies, people who collect words 187 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:03.040 and knowledge, their conference junkies, they hop from conference to conference. They're really like 188 00:21:03.040 --> 00:21:10.480 heroin addicts that come in. Let me get another hit. I need to know what God is doing in my life. I need 189 00:21:10.560 --> 00:21:16.800 you should not be running around looking on the outside for God to speak to you. You're his sheep. 190 00:21:16.800 --> 00:21:22.880 You hear his voice. Amen. I've never seen anyone like that with a fruitful life where I'm like, 191 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:28.240 you know what? I'd like to emulate that. Their life is always a mess. They can't hold a job. They 192 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:32.800 can't pay rent. They're always, why is your life like this? You know, I'm letting the spirit. 193 00:21:33.840 --> 00:21:39.840 No. You look like a train wreck. The Holy Spirit did not lead you into looking like a train wreck. 194 00:21:40.560 --> 00:21:47.200 If you claim to hear from God on a regular basis, your life should be somewhat aspirational, 195 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:52.080 somewhat of an advertisement for the goodness of God. Not, oh, Lord, dear, help. I can't even. 196 00:21:55.760 --> 00:22:01.520 They collect prophecies. You know, a prophetic word is like a key. Now you're in New Yorkers. You 197 00:22:01.520 --> 00:22:06.000 know your supers key set. We used to have a guy like this and you know you're super, right? You 198 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:11.360 have a super, right? You could hear him coming down the hallway because he's got that big key chain. 199 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:18.080 We used to have a fella in the church. He was a super. And his key chain, his key ring had key rings. 200 00:22:19.120 --> 00:22:23.200 And it really, we could hear him before he would enter the church on 7th Street. He sounded like 201 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:31.520 Santa's reindeer. The slay had come down. You hear like the intro to Christmas time in Hollis 202 00:22:31.520 --> 00:22:41.280 Queens. And he'd be coming with 800 keys around that ring. That's how some charismatic start in 203 00:22:41.280 --> 00:22:49.840 the spirit from collecting prophetic words. This one below the dust off. This one's from 2006 when 204 00:22:49.840 --> 00:22:59.120 the speaker said I was going to go to the nations. This, this key, this key is from when that one 205 00:22:59.120 --> 00:23:09.440 guy said I'm called to marketplace ministry. If anybody ever says to you you're called to 206 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:17.200 marketplace ministry, just tell him please leave me alone. See why? That's not a prophetic word. 207 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:24.480 You're all called to marketplace ministry. Yeah. If you're not in full-time ministry, 208 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:29.520 you're in the marketplace. You're doing a job. And you should be ministering there. There you go. 209 00:23:30.320 --> 00:23:34.720 Hallelujah. You say how do I get into that full-time ministry? You get really, really good at 210 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:39.840 marketplace ministry. And you minister yourself out of a job. That's actually how you get into 211 00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:45.760 full-time ministry. That's a whole other sermon on its own. But the looking outside. 212 00:23:47.760 --> 00:23:51.760 Let me get you this scripture just because I'm kind of jumping around here but we're on to 213 00:23:51.760 --> 00:24:04.960 something here. We're cooking. Proverbs 2027. How God leads. The spirit of a man is the lamp 214 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:12.960 of the Lord. Not the spirit of God. The spirit of a man. See you have a spirit. You have a human 215 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:18.320 spirit. It's actually inaccurate to say you have a spirit to be fully accurate. You are a spirit. 216 00:24:19.120 --> 00:24:28.000 That's the real you. You live in this jar of clay. The human body. You have a soul but you are a spirit. 217 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:33.120 And the Bible says your human spirit is the lamp or the candle of the Lord. What does that mean? 218 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:41.600 That means he will guide you and illuminate you through your human spirit. It's on the inside. 219 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:48.720 It's not on the outside. Why am I saying this? I'm not answering a question. No one's asking. 220 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:55.280 I promise you. I hear a lot of things. I hear people who say, you know, I saw a license plate. 221 00:24:55.280 --> 00:25:03.360 I keep seeing license plate with the numbers 374. I feel like God is trying to communicate to 222 00:25:03.360 --> 00:25:13.280 me 374. No, you're just seeing a random license plate. It's that simple. Look how quiet it is. 223 00:25:14.080 --> 00:25:19.920 People love to think you're like the main character in your own movie where God puts cars in 224 00:25:19.920 --> 00:25:24.960 front of you because he's trying to communicate a message to you. Do you think he's limited? He's 225 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:31.760 got to send more code out? Do you think he just enjoys making you suffer by sending you really 226 00:25:31.760 --> 00:25:41.600 hard to decipher coded messages? Nobody, nobody heard in the Bible from the Lord that was a child 227 00:25:41.600 --> 00:25:48.560 of God and then didn't know what to do. Had to get a book on dream interpretation. Had to call 228 00:25:48.560 --> 00:25:56.800 the 1-800 number for reveal a prophecy. They immediately knew. Holy cow, where are we going with 229 00:25:56.800 --> 00:26:04.400 this? There are Christians, love Jesus, but they're trying to decipher the will of God from the 230 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:14.960 external. I really, really feel like God is calling me to Kurdistan and I told the Lord, 231 00:26:15.520 --> 00:26:19.760 I told the Lord, he needs to give me a sign and then you won't believe it. I was in an Uber 232 00:26:19.760 --> 00:26:24.400 and I noticed my driver had nine syllables in his name and I asked him, where are you from? 233 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:29.760 And he said, Kurdistan and I knew I should sell everything I own and become a missionary to 234 00:26:29.760 --> 00:26:42.480 Kurdistan. Hallelujah. You're now alone in Kurdistan. And you're wondering what went wrong with 235 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:47.440 hearing the voice of God and deciphering the will of God. You're looking at the external, 236 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:54.320 the Holy Spirit lives within you. Now everybody who loves to look at the external and there's 237 00:26:54.320 --> 00:26:58.320 a lot of them probably in the service right now because it's a lot quieter here right now than it 238 00:26:58.320 --> 00:27:03.760 was in the first service. A lot, a lot of her. You're going to, I'm telling you, you're going to 239 00:27:03.760 --> 00:27:08.240 miss your life up if you keep doing that. I've been around the block a few times. Quit playing 240 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:14.640 Bible roulette. You know the roulette table? People play Bible roulette. They want to know what the 241 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:18.880 will of God is and they just randomly, this is the real thing. They open up the Bible and boom, 242 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:24.640 they put their finger in, what does it say? And whatever it says, God is speaking to me. And 243 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:39.680 your finger lands on Judas hung himself. What then? Then you try again. And it lands on that 244 00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:46.240 which thou's do is do is now quickly. There's a better way, amen. 245 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:59.520 Oh hallelujah. Listen, people who love this stuff, they can't give you any new covenant, 246 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:05.680 scriptural support for living like this. You will never see anybody in the new covenant living 247 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:11.200 like this. You go to the old covenant, you'll see it, but you know there's a big thing that 248 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:16.160 happened between the old and the new. It's called the Cross of Jesus Christ. And when Jesus died, 249 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:21.520 he cleansed us of all of us and made it possible for the Holy Spirit to live in us. And now the 250 00:28:21.520 --> 00:28:30.160 Holy Spirit can live in our human spirit and be our internal guide. So you have Gideon in the old 251 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:37.440 covenant. And Gideon, when he wanted to decipher the mysterious will of God, he put out a fleece 252 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:42.640 before the Lord, a sheep's fleece. And the word was so challenging to him. He said, well here, 253 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:48.800 I'll put this fleece out on the grass. And if there's do on the fleece, you know, the morning do 254 00:28:48.800 --> 00:28:54.320 the wetness, do on the fleece, but the grass is all dry, I'll take it as a sign from you. And God 255 00:28:54.320 --> 00:28:59.440 did that, but he wasn't to be satisfied. So he said the next day, Lord, now make it to where the 256 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:05.040 dew is all on the grass, but the fleece is dry. First time the fleece had to be wet with dew. 257 00:29:05.040 --> 00:29:12.320 And God did it just because that's what Gideon needed. But under the new covenant, you don't ever see 258 00:29:12.320 --> 00:29:18.320 God doing stuff like that. Why? Because now we have the Holy Spirit inside of us. Under the old 259 00:29:18.320 --> 00:29:24.000 covenant, they never did. They never did. They could be anointed by the Holy Spirit, but he never 260 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:30.640 came and lived in them because Jesus hadn't taken away all their sins yet. In fact, the last time 261 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:36.720 you've seen nonsense like that is in Acts 1, right before the Holy Spirit is given. And you see 262 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:42.720 the first century apostles, because Judas hung himself, as we already quoted from the Holy 263 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:48.880 Scriptures a few minutes ago, they needed to replace him. So the Bible says they cast lots. 264 00:29:49.760 --> 00:29:57.120 You're all with me, right? They gambled. They went to Vegas. They let the dice roll on who would 265 00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:02.480 be the 12th apostle. Now the Judas was out. And you never heard from that guy or of that guy ever 266 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:10.640 again. So tells you how successful they were. Because that's how they tried to decipher the will of 267 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:17.680 God, external, external, but then in Acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit comes and he fills everyone. 268 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:24.960 And now he's filled all of us. And now he wants to guide you from the inside out. Hallelujah. 269 00:30:25.760 --> 00:30:32.320 From within, you don't have to look in the external, external, external. You're looking for somebody 270 00:30:32.320 --> 00:30:38.480 to come and ring your doorbell and do a certain song and dance. Satan can't send that person to you 271 00:30:39.520 --> 00:30:44.720 and take you out of the will of God. But what Satan can do is enter my spirit and talk to me from 272 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:53.920 within. Romans 8.14. I feel like I'm touching on some emotional topics this morning. 273 00:30:56.080 --> 00:31:00.960 See, this kind of message it requires humility because maybe you're here going, 274 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:05.120 who is this guy and why is he messing with the last 20 years of my life? 275 00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:11.680 It's very hard for people to say, maybe I was doing it wrong for several years. 276 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:17.920 But we have to have that level of humility. I've had to go back to the drawing board many, many times. 277 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:26.160 They'll point to the one time their way of hearing God worked out. They have survivors by us. 278 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:31.760 They'll point to the one time it worked and forget about the 20 other times that they completely missed 279 00:31:31.760 --> 00:31:40.880 it that they forget. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, Christians, where's the Spirit 280 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:47.280 of God? Where does it live? Where does it dwell? Inside. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 281 00:31:47.280 --> 00:31:53.600 not as many as are led by the prophets of God, not as many as are led by external signs. 282 00:31:54.720 --> 00:32:01.600 But the Spirit of God, who lives inside of you, those are the real children of God. Hallelujah. 283 00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:07.760 And it requires humility, which is dependent. This is where success comes from because now you're 284 00:32:07.760 --> 00:32:11.920 in the perfect center of his perfect will. And you say, when should I do this all the time? 285 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:17.440 Well, let me rephrase that because some people get carried away and then they get frozen, 286 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.040 obsessed with the will of God, and they can't even get off their bed because they're still looking 287 00:32:21.040 --> 00:32:26.400 at the dresser asking God, should I wear the yellow socks or the blue socks? And you think this is a 288 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:33.040 weird exaggerated example, but I've known people. They now become like religious OCD and can't even go 289 00:32:33.040 --> 00:32:36.800 left to right literally. When I say left to right, I mean metaphorically in my life, 290 00:32:36.800 --> 00:32:42.560 directionally. Like, don't be that. But for example, you know, we go on an annual trip 291 00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:50.080 to Montenegro and you always, there's no direct flights. You always have to stop some European 292 00:32:50.080 --> 00:32:53.360 city. And this time for whatever reason, the hardest for the first time ever going through Dublin. 293 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:59.120 And my wife has Irish ancestry and I knew she's always wanted to see Ireland. So I wanted to 294 00:32:59.120 --> 00:33:04.480 surprise her because I think since we're passing through Ireland anyway, you can stay a few days 295 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:11.840 in Dublin, but I didn't just immediately book that ticket because this is, I mean, it's important 296 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:15.520 what country I'm in. How long I stay with my wife and kids with me. 297 00:33:18.560 --> 00:33:24.480 So I just took a moment and I submitted it to the Lord. He said, Lord, can I do this? 298 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:31.200 Will you be with me if I go? I want to make sure this is you. And then I sense that peace, 299 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:36.320 let peace be your empire. I didn't say Lord, if this is you, make the lights flash three times on 300 00:33:36.320 --> 00:33:40.800 and off in the house. Lord, if this is you, I know. And Irish person's going to text me by the 301 00:33:40.800 --> 00:33:46.240 end of the day. If it's you, that is not the way to discern the will of God. He's in you. 302 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:53.280 Lives in your spirit. He will whisper in your spirit. He'll give you the still small voice of 303 00:33:53.280 --> 00:33:58.400 the inward witness. I didn't even need the still small. It's just the inward witness. It was 304 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:06.800 like a green light that came on. A smooth velvety feeling of release. And I knew I could book 305 00:34:06.800 --> 00:34:14.080 those tickets and we'd be safe and sound and no ADT alarms would be going off. After we finished 306 00:34:14.080 --> 00:34:21.280 kissing the Blarney Stone. That's a real thing. I didn't know. She was like, we're going to kiss 307 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:27.440 the Blarney Stone. I was like, we'll kiss whatever stone you want. This is your trip, baby. 308 00:34:31.680 --> 00:34:39.200 It's two years ago. Two years ago now, spring of 22. Pastor James and I went on a trip 309 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:44.320 and we were chitchatting about everything. And he had just casually mentioned 310 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:51.120 how in Long Island, I didn't want to live in Long Island. I never thought of living in Long Island. 311 00:34:51.120 --> 00:34:55.280 Really, the tax is, I keep hearing about those taxes. Now I know it gets you four squad cars 312 00:34:55.280 --> 00:35:02.080 within three minutes. Hey guys, but he just casually mentioned in spring of 22. He said, 313 00:35:02.080 --> 00:35:06.880 you know, there's a clergy exemption tax in Long Island. I said, really? 314 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:14.640 You know, how much more? He said, I don't know how much more, but there is one. And I go, oh, 315 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:20.720 let me look into that. Let me, let me, let me look into Trulia. What do you use? Trulia, Zillow? 316 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:26.560 When you're depressed and you want escapism, what, what apti open up? You know you do it. 317 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:33.440 So my default is Trulia. And I think, I think to myself, let me see what's happening 318 00:35:33.520 --> 00:35:41.520 out in Long Island, just to know. And as I think about it, oh, I just feel so uneasy, uneasy 319 00:35:41.520 --> 00:35:46.400 isn't the right word. Almost like sick in my spirit. Not physically, but just on the inside, 320 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:52.240 I sense that red light that, oh, like I was going to be really grieving the Lord. From what? 321 00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:57.680 From just going on Trulia? But maybe he knows me. And if I go in one direction, I'm hard to stop. 322 00:35:57.680 --> 00:36:03.520 Please don't even look. Don't even turn this engine on. Forbid me to look. So I went, okay, 323 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.280 I would have never thought a year later. 324 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:15.120 Because we actually, we didn't want to leave Brooklyn. We made an offer on the condo above us. 325 00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:21.120 And they said, no. So I thought, what are we going to do now? I thought, maybe Long Island? 326 00:36:21.200 --> 00:36:26.320 Lord, is it okay if I open Trulia now? And it was a completely, immediately, it was like, 327 00:36:29.200 --> 00:36:37.200 open up the gates of Trulia, son. Do I have a surprise for you? That's the sense I had on the inside. 328 00:36:38.160 --> 00:36:44.800 And do you know you can get better at this? So of course, I opened up the gates of Trulia. And here we are. 329 00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:53.840 He's worked a wonderful thing. Some things we miss, but our closets have closets. Amen. And that's 330 00:36:53.840 --> 00:37:05.040 always a plus. Missed the corner, Bodega, missed the walkable city. But now, I can buy 12 windicks 331 00:37:05.040 --> 00:37:13.200 as instead of just one at a time. I mean, you should see my garage. We're never running out of anything. 332 00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.720 409s, bounty, you know, you know, you know, you know, for some things, you just hate to run out of. 333 00:37:23.520 --> 00:37:31.040 Right? Like toilet paper. Listen, if Jesus really, really Terry's, really Terry's were good with 334 00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:38.240 TP at the Janssen House. I'm telling you. He brews 514. 335 00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:48.800 What the Lord is doing here is just making us better at hearing his voice so that we could be like 336 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:56.560 David and inquire of the Lord and hear correctly. Now, here's the truth. Nobody hears from the Lord 337 00:37:56.560 --> 00:38:05.600 accurately 100% right on all of the time. Why? Why is that? Well, it's not because the Lord 338 00:38:05.600 --> 00:38:14.880 stuttered. It's because we miss hear him. We miss hear him because our spirit is the candle of the 339 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:21.360 Lord. And he speaks to us in our spirit. But we have this thing called a soul. And our soul is our 340 00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:30.000 mind will and emotions. And our emotions are volatile and prone to the external. 341 00:38:31.600 --> 00:38:36.320 So that's why we miss it sometimes. We get excited in our emotions. That's a good time to have 342 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:41.200 two or three people who also love the Lord, who are submitted to as well, who have a good track 343 00:38:41.200 --> 00:38:46.400 record of hearing from the Lord. And if it's a big decision, invite them in on it. Pray with them. 344 00:38:46.640 --> 00:38:52.400 You get the inward witness, but you're like, hmm, it could be because it's just me and the 345 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:58.640 natural. I really, really wanted so bad. What do you guys think? That's healthy. Oh, you Christian 346 00:38:58.640 --> 00:39:04.880 cowboy who just wants to do it alone. It's healthy. There's no big decision that I don't make without 347 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:08.080 consulting the elders, talking it through, hearing feedback. 348 00:39:08.080 --> 00:39:17.680 Because there's this scripture, you know, it says in the multitude of counselors, there is safety. 349 00:39:18.560 --> 00:39:22.560 And there's too many charismatic wacky dues living very unsafe lives, 350 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:29.760 wrecking their lives, all in the name of being spiritual and hearing from God. 351 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:38.640 And they got no fruit, never let anyone to the Lord, broke, hurting people as they go along, 352 00:39:38.640 --> 00:39:42.800 as they bounce from church to church. That's, if I didn't finish my thought, that's why we stopped 353 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:48.640 with the guest speakers because it really created more of a mess than a blessing because people would 354 00:39:48.640 --> 00:39:57.440 come in and they would just infuse us with that circus. Come up all wide eye to me after service, 355 00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:03.120 trying to prophesy to me. I don't want a prophetic word from you. So how do you know, 356 00:40:03.120 --> 00:40:08.240 Pastor, God could use anyone. He can, and he does, but I'm telling you, not that person. 357 00:40:10.640 --> 00:40:14.640 I knew it in my spirit. Man, right? Mauricio. 358 00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:24.640 God could use Balam's donkey. I would listen to Balam's donkey, not that person though. 359 00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:32.400 So because we can't miss it, we need to get better. Now this is a key verse. Listen, 360 00:40:33.520 --> 00:40:39.600 solid food belongs to those who are full age, that is to those who buy by reason of use. 361 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:51.680 By reason of use, have their senses, their spiritual senses exercised to discern good from evil. 362 00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:58.400 So just newsflash, you can exercise your spiritual senses so they get better, 363 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:06.720 so you can hear better, but that requires admitting it to yourself and to God when you misheard him, 364 00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:13.360 which for some reason I found in the church is almost impossible for some people to do. 365 00:41:14.560 --> 00:41:20.160 They won't admit it. They can miss here the voice of God ten times in a row and say, 366 00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:25.360 you know, God told me to move. It's always God told me. You won't hear me. You often say, 367 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:30.960 God told me. I'll say, I believe I sense in my spirit. I believe the Lord is leading me right now, 368 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:36.560 because it's still always working it out and keeping in touch with the Lord. But God told me to, 369 00:41:36.560 --> 00:41:40.480 and it's miss after, miss after, miss, and then never stop and say, let me go back to the drawing 370 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:48.000 board and find out why I missed him. You have to go back and admit, okay, this one thing I thought 371 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:56.480 was God? That wasn't. Now God didn't make a mistake. I did why? And you will begin to learn about 372 00:41:56.480 --> 00:42:02.400 yourself and learn how God relates to you. Learn how God speaks to you. You will learn when you're 373 00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:10.160 prone to missing it. I'm prone. You're prone whether you know it or not to miss it when your 374 00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:16.000 emotions are involved. If you're very emotional about something, you're not going to hear the voice 375 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:24.080 of the Lord. I made my first trade when I was 18. I still remember the ticker. INTC, Intel. 376 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:29.680 Back in the mid-90s, you know, tech boom, so it was impossible not to make money, so I thought I 377 00:42:29.680 --> 00:42:37.680 was a genius. And then I heard these stories about investors who heard from the Lord, 378 00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:46.960 that would make millions. And I thought I knew it. I knew it. How do you go wrong when you know 379 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:57.760 the God who knows the end from the beginning? So now I start praying. I'm seeking God. I lost so much 380 00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:04.480 money. I lost so much money. I'm sorry if you were waiting for that story to end with, 381 00:43:05.200 --> 00:43:10.960 God's whispering to me, ticker symbols, and whether they're short or long, he's not. 382 00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:20.640 Can he sure? Has he for some? Probably. But I'm too emotional. When you start seeing those 383 00:43:20.640 --> 00:43:28.320 numbers go up and up. I'm going to invent all sorts of things up in my head that God is saying 384 00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:34.160 that he didn't say. I mean, I would have dreams. I would see the chart. I would see it spike up. 385 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:40.080 I would see it. I would wake up like, yeah, I'm going to pay off all my student loans early. God 386 00:43:40.080 --> 00:43:44.080 is the God of abundance, baby. I lost so much money being a fool. 387 00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:53.600 But it was a good lesson learned. And so know this. You will mishear the voice of God to the 388 00:43:53.600 --> 00:44:00.640 degree that your emotions are involved. That's why when you're in love, quotes and love, don't 389 00:44:00.640 --> 00:44:05.840 trust that you're hearing from God. You're not. You're not. You're not. I'm telling you. 390 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:17.200 The God told me she's the one. You're so emotional. And you want that smooth, 391 00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:21.440 velvety, good, green light feeling? You have it all the time. You're in love. 392 00:44:22.160 --> 00:44:26.960 It's you're going to go, God, should I be with this person? I don't know, but I feel so good. 393 00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:31.600 And it's just I feel energized and I almost feels like my feet aren't touching the ground. I 394 00:44:31.600 --> 00:44:35.440 believe God saying, yes, no, you're just drunk on the silly juice of love. 395 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:50.320 The reason why this is so awesome is because I never heard God tell me to marry Emily. 396 00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:58.800 He never said do it. And so many preachers mess people up because they give their testimonies and 397 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:04.400 they I guess they want to feel like Moses. So they give these testimonies of the moment I saw her. 398 00:45:05.040 --> 00:45:11.200 I knew that she was sounds romantic, but it misses a lot of people up. And the moment I saw her, 399 00:45:11.200 --> 00:45:16.880 I knew she was fine. That's all I knew. I didn't know anything beyond that. I wanted to get to know 400 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:22.080 more. That's all I didn't hear God. See her in a white robe. You know the bridal. 401 00:45:24.080 --> 00:45:30.400 But what I had was I had peace. And then he also gives you wisdom and he gives you a brain. 402 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:37.200 And then yes, you consult with him over time. Amen. I just feel like I also need to issue a warning 403 00:45:37.200 --> 00:45:42.320 to somebody. If you're taking forever to make a decision and saying I'm waiting on the Lord, 404 00:45:43.120 --> 00:45:48.080 chances are he's waiting on you and you're not waiting on the Lord. Amen. Gotta make a move. 405 00:45:52.240 --> 00:46:03.120 Huh? Amen. Hallelujah. Oh wow, I could close right now. Time was. 406 00:46:03.200 --> 00:46:10.960 It goes quick in the little house in the prairie church. 407 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:25.520 All right, worship team. Are you here? Hey, praise God. 408 00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:31.440 The falafel place will be here. Still have to watch. 409 00:46:41.200 --> 00:46:44.320 Praise God. Did this help you this morning? 410 00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:54.000 God speaks to you through your human spirit. He will lead you in guide you and he will lead you to 411 00:46:54.000 --> 00:47:06.160 success. But we have to get better at hearing or training our human spirit. 412 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:15.520 The number one way to align your human spirit to the voice of God is to read the written word of 413 00:47:15.520 --> 00:47:20.560 God. And that also eliminates the terrible flakiness where you start hearing something that 414 00:47:20.560 --> 00:47:24.480 contradicts the written word of God. Throw any voice like that right out the window. 415 00:47:25.680 --> 00:47:30.000 And the more his word that you put in you, the more than he can withdraw and speak to your spirit. 416 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:36.160 Spirit actually starts to eat and get healthy and comes on the same vibration as the Holy Spirit. 417 00:47:36.160 --> 00:47:40.000 So you can hear that starts with the word of God. So eat the word of God. 418 00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:41.440 Praise God. 419 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:48.880 Praying in heavenly tongues, praying in your other language, that aligns your spirit. 420 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:51.600 It trains your human spirit. 421 00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:58.640 Asking him questions. Note this by the way. Almost never does he answer right when you ask. 422 00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:02.640 I've asked them important questions and then two weeks later, 423 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:07.200 when I'm doing something silly like opening a door, he speaks. 424 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:13.520 And it's just like I know that I know that I know. But I invited him in 425 00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:18.000 two weeks before then. And what he's looking for is that you invite him in. 426 00:48:18.640 --> 00:48:24.800 So inquire of the Lord and use this key of David to have the success and prosperity that David 427 00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:26.960 enjoyed. Hallelujah. 428 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:34.720 Hallelujah. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, 429 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:39.520 thank you, Lord, that you align our spirits to hear from you. 430 00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:44.960 Thank you, Lord, that we become good hearers. We are your sheep. We hear your voice. 431 00:48:45.520 --> 00:48:51.120 May you eliminate all unbiblical, flaky, strange ways of trying to discern your will. 432 00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:57.840 Lord, that's what the pagans used to do. Pagans would put chicken innards and things like that 433 00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:02.080 to try to discern your will. We're not pagans where your children. 434 00:49:04.240 --> 00:49:08.560 And you will speak to your people and you will leave them into a place of plenty. 435 00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:15.440 Psalm 23 says he will lead you to still water. You know what still water is, a place of no drama. 436 00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:23.040 And green pastures, green pastures, it's a place of abundance and provision. 437 00:49:23.200 --> 00:49:31.200 Praise your faith right now. Some of you, listen, I'm not doing this for my health. 438 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:36.560 Some of you, you're locked up. God's going to unlock you. 439 00:49:39.120 --> 00:49:44.560 Be awakened in Jesus' name. This is the City Light Church podcast. 440 00:49:44.560 --> 00:49:49.040 If you've missed any part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about pastor 441 00:49:49.040 --> 00:49:57.360 boy on Jansk and City Light Church, visit us at CityLightNYC.com. That's CityLightNYC.com. 442 00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:02.480 Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime. We would love to connect with you. 443 00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:07.840 We pray that you have been encouraged today. 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