WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.440 So I'm challenging people under some city lights. 2 00:00:03.440 --> 00:00:05.920 If you want to see that classic breakthrough, 3 00:00:05.920 --> 00:00:08.800 if you want to see your work, your prayers being answered, 4 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:10.560 you've got to pray. 5 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:13.280 What? Pray firmly. 6 00:00:13.280 --> 00:00:15.600 Pray until something happens. 7 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:16.720 Push in prayer. 8 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:17.840 Travelling prayer. 9 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:19.200 Perseverant prayer. 10 00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:23.040 Keep praying and keep praying and keep praying 11 00:00:23.040 --> 00:00:25.360 till the breakthrough happens. 12 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:28.640 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 13 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:31.920 Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word 14 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:35.520 and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 15 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:37.840 If you want to connect with City Light Church, 16 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.360 feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com 17 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:44.720 that's citylightnyc.com. 18 00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:49.280 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit 19 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:52.480 is already working in our hearts and minds. 20 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:54.400 As you listen to today's teaching, 21 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:57.360 remember that you are deeply loved by God, 22 00:00:57.440 --> 00:00:59.760 that you are surrounded by His grace, 23 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:02.400 and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 24 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:06.320 God is in this place. 25 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:08.320 Amen. 26 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:10.160 As you see, I'm not Pastor Boyan. 27 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.360 In fact, both our names start into the first two letters of our word. 28 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:19.040 You know, our names are like the same. 29 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.520 So it's like, bo-yan-bonny. 30 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:27.200 And so happy that He lets me speak. 31 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:29.200 You know, and most of the time in short notice. 32 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:31.840 God bless him. 33 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.200 I just got off the plane from California. 34 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:39.520 So that's why I'm wearing all the Cal gear. 35 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:41.280 Is anybody from California? 36 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.400 Come on Cal. 37 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:43.760 So Cal, no Cal. 38 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:45.440 Right? 39 00:01:45.440 --> 00:01:46.400 All the cool places. 40 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:47.520 I just got off the plane. 41 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:50.080 Man, those planes are long. 42 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:53.040 It's almost like how many hours is that? 43 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.520 It was almost six and a half hours just to get a San Francisco. 44 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:00.480 I spent the last 10 days there. 45 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:01.680 It might be thing I was on holiday. 46 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:02.800 No, we were on a mission. 47 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.400 We were at the University of Berkeley, 48 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:08.720 University of California, Berkeley. 49 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:11.120 Why am I saying this? 50 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:12.880 Because this church is my church. 51 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:15.440 This church has been a praying church. 52 00:02:15.440 --> 00:02:17.680 This church has been a giving church. 53 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:19.920 This church has been ascending church. 54 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.440 And you guys have sent us to be on this mission. 55 00:02:24.320 --> 00:02:25.760 To see every student, 56 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:27.200 in every nation, 57 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:29.280 gospelized and mobilized. 58 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:31.920 And we've been on this, 59 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:35.360 on this tour in the University of California, 60 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:37.520 Berkeley, fantastic place. 61 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:39.920 I mean, we hear all these kind of narratives. 62 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:41.760 I'm not saying those narratives are not true. 63 00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:44.240 You know, those are facts. 64 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:47.840 But the truth is that Jesus loves Berkeley. 65 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:52.160 So we were there for the last 10 days just serving the students 66 00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:54.000 and working to get this outreach. 67 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:55.760 I don't know if you have heard this 68 00:02:56.880 --> 00:02:58.720 movie called God's Not Dead. 69 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:03.280 Right? So we were out there doing this apologetics event 70 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:04.960 with my mentor, Dr. Rice Brooks. 71 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:06.800 We are officially collaborating. 72 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.040 Lifes家 is bringing this to different campuses. 73 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:09.760 And we were there. 74 00:03:10.880 --> 00:03:15.360 And men, I want to just say that we had a record-breaking crowd 75 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:17.840 in the history of Berkeley in the recent times. 76 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:24.320 478 students right packed up in this place standing room only. 77 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:28.160 This is historic because this is the same campus 78 00:03:28.880 --> 00:03:32.320 that Martin Luther King stood on the steps and made a big speech. 79 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.720 It was also the same place that Billy Graham went to in 1956. 80 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:38.800 And there was a massive revival. 81 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:42.560 And thousands of students were touched and impacted. 82 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:46.400 And campus through Santa Big Ministries were launched into this campus. 83 00:03:47.440 --> 00:03:50.240 And most of the time we hear about stories that happened in the past. 84 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.760 But I was like, man, we've got to see that right now. 85 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.320 Right here because the God that we serve is the God of the right now. 86 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:00.800 Amen. He's also the God of the yesterday. 87 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:01.920 He's done some great things. 88 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:05.360 But he's the best, I tell people the best is yet to come. 89 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:06.000 Amen. 90 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:08.720 So we were there for 478 students back up in this place. 91 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:15.600 And 107 responded out of that 23 students gave their lives to Jesus. 92 00:04:18.960 --> 00:04:21.920 The captain of the football team gives his life to the Lord. 93 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:25.120 Walks up to us and says, God touch me today. 94 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:28.000 This is not like a revival service. 95 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:29.520 It's a college campus. 96 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:31.280 So we're asking questions. 97 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:34.640 You know, I want you to know that 60 to 70 percent of the students 98 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:39.440 that walk into a college campus walk out of that place losing their thing. 99 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.160 I often tell the story about this young girl just like on fire for God. 100 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:49.360 Like most of us are when on, you know, she was given this opportunity to study 101 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.920 in any campus, you know, her parents wanted her to go to a Christian school. 102 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.000 She said, now I want to go to UNC Chapel Hill. 103 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:02.480 And she goes there with a mission to change the campus upside down. 104 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:06.800 And six weeks later, she calls up at that and says, I don't believe in God anymore. 105 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:09.280 This is the truth that we're facing. 106 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:14.080 So we've got to go beyond that campus, engage with them, answer some of the questions. 107 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:15.760 So we talked about the three ease. 108 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:19.840 We talked about the fact that there is evidence to what is written in this book. 109 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:22.400 This is not just a fable. 110 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:24.080 This is not just a story. 111 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:28.960 This book has got more evidence than any historic book in the world. 112 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.760 So we just laid out all of those things. 113 00:05:31.760 --> 00:05:33.440 Jesus rose from the grave. 114 00:05:33.440 --> 00:05:37.280 It was not just like somebody just told somebody, oh yeah, that's a good idea. 115 00:05:37.280 --> 00:05:40.880 Let me just get, you know, Jesus rose, you know, Jesus rose from the day 116 00:05:40.880 --> 00:05:44.960 and over 200 people saw him rose from the dead alive. 117 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.520 So it's 200 witnesses. 118 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:48.880 So, you know, just talking to this. 119 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:49.920 We talked about evolution. 120 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.120 We talked about evil. 121 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.040 Why do bad things happen to good people? 122 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.560 And now we share the gospel. 123 00:05:54.640 --> 00:05:57.840 There was this girl who came as a skeptic. 124 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:01.280 She was arguing with this friend of mine that we know at that event. 125 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:03.040 And she's like, you know, I don't like all this stuff. 126 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:07.760 But I'm just here to drill some holes and into the middle of this event, 127 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:10.320 she starts crying at the end of this event. 128 00:06:10.320 --> 00:06:13.120 She gives a life to the Lord and says, show me. 129 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:16.000 Tell me where the next services I want to be there for that. 130 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.320 There was another guy who was there. 131 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:20.080 He didn't want to come. 132 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:22.560 His dad pushed him and forced him to come. 133 00:06:23.280 --> 00:06:27.040 He had been robbed, you know, just a little bit about California. 134 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:29.520 The moment I landed and got a brand of car, 135 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:33.760 the red car person said, make sure that you don't put anything in the car. 136 00:06:33.760 --> 00:06:35.520 Because there's a lot of break-ins in this area. 137 00:06:35.520 --> 00:06:39.520 So this guy got point-blank robbed the week before it's shaken, 138 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:41.280 shaken up and he was there. 139 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:43.680 And God touched him and he gave his life to the Lord. 140 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:46.080 You know, so many stories like this. 141 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:49.840 So I just want to say thank you for praying for us. 142 00:06:50.400 --> 00:06:52.160 Thank you for sending us. 143 00:06:52.640 --> 00:06:57.440 Thank you for giving us the resources and the finances 144 00:06:57.440 --> 00:06:59.040 for us to preach the gospel. 145 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.360 So I've got a QR code right there. 146 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:02.640 And then there's some city kids. 147 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:03.360 Some Nordic kids. 148 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:04.400 I hope it's not my voice. 149 00:07:07.200 --> 00:07:08.160 Mama Mia is here. 150 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:09.920 My beautiful wife is there. 151 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:11.040 Wave your hands up in the air. 152 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:15.280 Best things happen to me. 153 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:18.080 So you can't stand this QR code. 154 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:22.160 And be part of the praying team. 155 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:24.160 You can just pull up your phone, 156 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.960 scan this code and get you signed up. 157 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:29.360 And if you want to, you know, I know this is a free church. 158 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:30.560 It's given me freedom. 159 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.200 If you want to financially give to these campaigns, 160 00:07:33.200 --> 00:07:35.520 cost thousands of dollars to be on these campus. 161 00:07:35.520 --> 00:07:36.800 If you want to be a partner, 162 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:38.960 partnering with us in this ministry, 163 00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:42.000 you can even do that by this QR code and talk to us 164 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:43.360 or talk to Pastor James. 165 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:45.520 And he'll make sure that the money gets to us 166 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:47.440 so that we can be on the campus. 167 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:49.920 We've been dreaming about Stanford right next to it. 168 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.200 We've been praying into it. 169 00:07:51.200 --> 00:07:52.560 So it's been all the good things happening. 170 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:54.560 It's been some great things happening in India 171 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:55.840 as well with our global teams. 172 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:57.600 Show some of those pictures. 173 00:07:58.160 --> 00:07:59.600 Yeah, these are students, 174 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:00.400 thousands of students. 175 00:08:00.400 --> 00:08:01.840 So this whole campaign, 176 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:04.720 there will be 100,000 students all over 177 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:06.080 in about 20 cities. 178 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:10.000 Students like this will hear the gospel directly 179 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:12.880 or indirectly through some of our initiatives. 180 00:08:12.880 --> 00:08:13.920 We have a chat line. 181 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.760 We have a big Christmas campaign coming. 182 00:08:15.760 --> 00:08:18.400 So we're not just reaching students in America 183 00:08:18.400 --> 00:08:20.080 but we're reaching students around the world. 184 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:22.000 Look at those thousands of kids. 185 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.440 You know, I'm telling you, 186 00:08:23.440 --> 00:08:24.560 I tell people, 187 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.000 you can count the number of seeds in an apple 188 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:30.320 but you can never count the number of apples 189 00:08:30.320 --> 00:08:31.520 that'll come out of a seed. 190 00:08:32.160 --> 00:08:33.920 Somebody share the gospel with me. 191 00:08:33.920 --> 00:08:35.680 The guy didn't have no clue. 192 00:08:35.680 --> 00:08:38.320 The God is going to birth a movement 193 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.200 out of this guy that will reach over three million students 194 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:42.560 with the gospel. 195 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:44.800 The next Pastor James, 196 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:46.160 the next boy on, 197 00:08:46.160 --> 00:08:47.520 the next president, 198 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:50.720 the next, you know, the influences, 199 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:53.040 the next CEO of the biggest tech company 200 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:54.960 is sitting on those campuses 201 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:56.800 and they need to hear the gospel. 202 00:08:56.800 --> 00:08:58.640 So pray with us, partner with us 203 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:01.840 to take this gospel to the ends of the world 204 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:03.440 and in American campuses. 205 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:04.880 Are you excited for the word of God? 206 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:06.640 All right. 207 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:09.840 You know, I want to say this message 208 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:11.680 that I'm sharing with you this morning 209 00:09:12.800 --> 00:09:15.200 is really my life message. 210 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:16.720 This is, I live this message. 211 00:09:17.520 --> 00:09:20.560 I don't, I don't, I'm not, I'm not just trying to 212 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:23.040 give you something that I, I'm trying to do. 213 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:24.160 I live this. 214 00:09:24.160 --> 00:09:25.600 This is part of me 215 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:29.280 and I want this to become an impartation 216 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.120 as you receive this word. 217 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.120 I said, God, I want to receive this 218 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:34.720 into the DNA of my life 219 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.560 that my life will never be the same. 220 00:09:36.560 --> 00:09:37.520 Amen. You believe it? 221 00:09:37.520 --> 00:09:38.000 Say amen. 222 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:39.200 All right. 223 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.320 So this is a message. 224 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:45.600 The title of my sermon is called Prayer Power. 225 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.880 Many of us are praying prayers 226 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:52.480 and you're wondering why your prayers are not answered. 227 00:09:53.920 --> 00:09:55.840 There are formulas in the Bible 228 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.320 that we need to use and unlock 229 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.120 to see the breakthroughs that we need to see in our life. 230 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:02.320 Amen. 231 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:03.120 Have you ever wondered? 232 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.360 I've been praying and I'm not seeing breakthroughs. 233 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:07.440 Let's just relook into some of the things 234 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:09.120 that are in the scriptures 235 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.520 so that we get a glimpse of it. 236 00:10:11.520 --> 00:10:12.240 Okay. 237 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:13.360 Backtracking a little bit. 238 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:14.720 Last year, 239 00:10:14.800 --> 00:10:16.480 my wife and I, the Lord spoke to us, 240 00:10:17.760 --> 00:10:19.520 the scripture from the Bible, 241 00:10:19.520 --> 00:10:22.640 Abraham walked the length and breadth of this land. 242 00:10:22.640 --> 00:10:23.600 Remember that? 243 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:24.560 God spoke to Abraham. 244 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:25.840 Walk the length and breadth of this land. 245 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:26.640 I'll give it to you. 246 00:10:26.640 --> 00:10:28.320 A little bit of a story about us. 247 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.640 We are just four years into America. 248 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.680 We are missionaries into this great nation. 249 00:10:33.680 --> 00:10:36.080 We are originally from the land of curry. 250 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:38.320 Does anybody know what that is? 251 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:40.720 India, right? 252 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:43.040 So I tell people, I come from the land of curry 253 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:44.320 and I live in the land of hurry. 254 00:10:44.400 --> 00:10:44.880 New York. 255 00:10:46.560 --> 00:10:48.880 So God brought us here on a mission 256 00:10:48.880 --> 00:10:51.200 and we didn't know a lot of people. 257 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:52.320 So we said, God, 258 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.880 you want us to touch the lives of young people 259 00:10:54.880 --> 00:10:55.520 in this nation. 260 00:10:55.520 --> 00:10:56.560 So we don't know where to start. 261 00:10:56.560 --> 00:10:58.160 So whenever you are in doubt, 262 00:10:58.160 --> 00:10:59.280 start praying. 263 00:10:59.280 --> 00:10:59.840 Okay. 264 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:01.280 So God spoke to this world. 265 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:02.640 So we got excited. 266 00:11:02.640 --> 00:11:05.040 And the idea was to drive 267 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:08.480 the length and breadth of America. 268 00:11:09.280 --> 00:11:11.040 So we got on a mini van. 269 00:11:11.040 --> 00:11:12.000 Anybody loves a mini van? 270 00:11:12.640 --> 00:11:13.360 I mean, I'm the guy. 271 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:14.960 I'm not the driving. 272 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:16.480 You know, I'm not the guy that likes to drive. 273 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:17.840 I mean, if I'm driving for three hours, 274 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:19.120 I probably take two breaks. 275 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:20.800 Coffee breaks, Starbucks break, 276 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:21.520 you know, all that. 277 00:11:21.520 --> 00:11:24.240 But this was driving for hours. 278 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.240 So we drove 9,000 miles, friends. 279 00:11:26.880 --> 00:11:28.960 New York to LA, the width. 280 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:30.400 The length, go up to Seattle, 281 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:32.480 down to Miami, back to New York. 282 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.680 9,000 miles of praying over 30 cities. 283 00:11:35.680 --> 00:11:38.160 Every city we found somebody to pray with us. 284 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.800 And we said, we're going to ask you for money. 285 00:11:40.880 --> 00:11:42.800 We're not asking if anything will you give us one hour 286 00:11:42.800 --> 00:11:44.720 so that we can pray for your city 287 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:47.280 so that your young people will come to know Jesus. 288 00:11:47.280 --> 00:11:48.400 And all of them said yes. 289 00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:50.080 So we drove through. 290 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:51.840 And my kids got to see America. 291 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:53.200 More of America on 30 days 292 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:54.480 and most of America put together. 293 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:55.520 All right. 294 00:11:55.520 --> 00:11:56.960 So at the end of 30 days, 295 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.960 we're like, God, what are we doing? 296 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:00.480 We're saying, God, give us this land. 297 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.560 The Bible says wherever the soul of your feet 298 00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:03.680 shall tread, I will give it to you. 299 00:12:04.560 --> 00:12:06.240 Ask me and I will give you the nation 300 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:07.680 to answer the other's obsession. 301 00:12:07.680 --> 00:12:09.120 We prayed all these words 302 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:12.800 and we were praying in the spirit, in the car. 303 00:12:12.800 --> 00:12:15.040 We have a global team, some of the places. 304 00:12:15.040 --> 00:12:17.280 Like I was the University of Michigan, 305 00:12:17.280 --> 00:12:20.160 I switched on a Zoom call with all of our team sitting 306 00:12:20.160 --> 00:12:21.280 on the other side of the world. 307 00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:23.360 And I switched the camera around. 308 00:12:23.920 --> 00:12:25.360 Those guys sitting in India 309 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.520 are actually praying for the University of Michigan 310 00:12:27.520 --> 00:12:28.880 while we drive around the place. 311 00:12:28.880 --> 00:12:29.520 How cool is that? 312 00:12:30.160 --> 00:12:33.600 And some of those kids got excited and inspired 313 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:36.400 that one of our interns just came into Columbia University. 314 00:12:36.400 --> 00:12:37.040 How cool is that? 315 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:39.760 Getting inspired to come on the other side of the world. 316 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:42.800 So 30 days later, I'm like, Lord, we are in this location 317 00:12:42.800 --> 00:12:45.200 and I remember being in DC, Washington, DC. 318 00:12:45.760 --> 00:12:47.280 We got there and then I was in a, 319 00:12:47.280 --> 00:12:50.880 I rented a little scooter, the electric scooter 320 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.800 and from a hotel all around Capitol Hill. 321 00:12:55.280 --> 00:12:58.480 Just drove around the key places saying, God, here I am. 322 00:12:58.480 --> 00:12:59.280 Here we are. 323 00:12:59.280 --> 00:13:00.080 We need a breakthrough. 324 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:00.960 We need open doors. 325 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:02.320 We need, we need this. 326 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:03.760 We need, we need to see this nation. 327 00:13:03.760 --> 00:13:05.120 This is the most defining place, 328 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:06.400 the most influential place. 329 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:09.600 A few months later, God did this, show that picture right there. 330 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:15.520 Yes, that's me, the good-looking me, 331 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:19.200 with the Surgeon General of America. 332 00:13:19.760 --> 00:13:21.680 He's the highest ranking official 333 00:13:21.680 --> 00:13:25.680 under the President of America in charge of the health and 334 00:13:27.680 --> 00:13:30.960 human services, I mean, human departments of all of America. 335 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.120 Now, you know that we would work in college campuses 336 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:34.560 around the theme of mental health. 337 00:13:34.800 --> 00:13:36.480 He came, he came to know about it. 338 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:40.000 And I love to say, we walk into what you pray into. 339 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:41.040 Say that with me. 340 00:13:41.040 --> 00:13:43.280 You walk into what you pray into. 341 00:13:43.280 --> 00:13:45.920 A few months before, I was cycling around that place 342 00:13:45.920 --> 00:13:47.360 and that electric scooter saying, 343 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.440 not knowing a lot of people in DC saying, God, 344 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.200 give us open doors. 345 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:54.000 A few months later, boom, 346 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.760 we are having the meeting with the Surgeon General 347 00:13:57.760 --> 00:13:59.680 talking about some of the things that we're doing. 348 00:13:59.680 --> 00:14:02.080 And he's like, all right, love what you're doing. 349 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:03.280 I want to come and be a part. 350 00:14:03.280 --> 00:14:06.080 So he actually wants to come and attend one of our events. 351 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:07.040 Number one. 352 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:09.520 Number two, the next day, the White House 353 00:14:10.400 --> 00:14:12.720 put this picture out there and tweeted it 354 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:16.080 on their partnership in Twitter ID, 355 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.640 government partnerships on the Twitter ID. 356 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:19.920 How did this happen? 357 00:14:19.920 --> 00:14:22.800 You walk into what you pray into. 358 00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:24.960 You walk into what you pray into. 359 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:26.560 What am I doing in California? 360 00:14:26.560 --> 00:14:28.080 What am I doing in Stanford? 361 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.160 What am I doing in Berkeley? 362 00:14:30.160 --> 00:14:31.200 I've never heard of that place. 363 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:32.400 I've never been to that place. 364 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:33.440 But guess what? 365 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:35.520 You walk into what you pray into. 366 00:14:35.520 --> 00:14:38.560 I was praying all over California in Los Angeles 367 00:14:38.560 --> 00:14:41.120 and God gave us California for Jesus. 368 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.000 So you walk into what you pray into. 369 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:45.840 Not doors are opening everywhere we went. 370 00:14:46.640 --> 00:14:46.960 Right? 371 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:47.760 So what am I saying? 372 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:48.800 I'm just giving you a recipe. 373 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:50.400 Recipe. 374 00:14:50.400 --> 00:14:51.120 Recipe. 375 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:52.720 For the last one year, God's been given 376 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:54.960 as a zip code, one, one, five, four, five. 377 00:14:56.400 --> 00:14:58.240 I was here for a meeting and I saw this place 378 00:14:58.240 --> 00:14:59.840 and something in my heart said, 379 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:01.280 this is where you're going to be living. 380 00:15:01.280 --> 00:15:02.560 We will live in right next door here 381 00:15:02.560 --> 00:15:03.440 in Roosevelt Island. 382 00:15:04.560 --> 00:15:06.080 And we're feeling in our heart 383 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.160 for the last one year, every month, 384 00:15:08.160 --> 00:15:09.680 sometimes every other week. 385 00:15:09.680 --> 00:15:11.680 My wife is like, what are we even doing here? 386 00:15:11.680 --> 00:15:13.920 Just circling around one, one, five, four, five. 387 00:15:14.560 --> 00:15:16.000 Long Island areas and God, 388 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:17.840 this is the place that you're giving us 389 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:18.880 and you're going to give it to us. 390 00:15:18.880 --> 00:15:20.560 I don't know where it's going to happen. 391 00:15:20.560 --> 00:15:21.520 It's expensive. 392 00:15:21.520 --> 00:15:23.520 All the logical reasons why there's 393 00:15:23.520 --> 00:15:25.280 there's no way that we can get to that place. 394 00:15:26.400 --> 00:15:27.200 Guess what, guys? 395 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.240 We live there right now. 396 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:30.160 One, one, five, four, five. 397 00:15:30.160 --> 00:15:31.440 It's my zip code. 398 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.840 You walk into what you pray into. 399 00:15:34.400 --> 00:15:36.400 You walk into what you pray into. 400 00:15:36.400 --> 00:15:38.320 I'm just building some faith in this room. 401 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.120 Guys, you pray, you ask, you knock, you seek. 402 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.400 The scripture says, ask and you keep on asking. 403 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:49.760 Seek and you keep on seeking. 404 00:15:49.760 --> 00:15:52.960 Knock and you keep on knocking and it will. 405 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:54.000 No, it shall be. 406 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.080 It will be open. 407 00:15:56.640 --> 00:16:00.080 So I want to impart this to you because I live this. 408 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:01.680 The other day, the last 10 days, 409 00:16:01.680 --> 00:16:03.440 there was some friends of mine who was hanging out with me. 410 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.280 They don't probably believe in the same things that I believe. 411 00:16:05.920 --> 00:16:09.680 So it's like, you know, I'm praying and we praying around Berkeley. 412 00:16:09.680 --> 00:16:10.880 We're standing on the balcony. 413 00:16:10.880 --> 00:16:12.160 We're standing every high place. 414 00:16:12.160 --> 00:16:13.200 We're walking around the place. 415 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:14.560 We're going, you know, every place. 416 00:16:14.560 --> 00:16:16.000 And we could find ourselves and we said, 417 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.160 God, give us Berkeley in Jesus' name. 418 00:16:18.880 --> 00:16:20.320 So then the other day they asked me, 419 00:16:21.040 --> 00:16:24.160 so are you praying in an Indian language or are you praying? 420 00:16:24.160 --> 00:16:24.960 And what are you praying? 421 00:16:25.040 --> 00:16:26.960 I'm like, brother, this is my moment. 422 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:28.720 I know this is a church that believes in this stuff. 423 00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:31.680 I'm praying in tongues, brother, because the Bible says, 424 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:35.680 when you speak in tongues, you speak not unto man, 425 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:36.640 but you speak under God. 426 00:16:36.640 --> 00:16:38.000 So are you ready, people? 427 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.560 Are you ready for the formula, for the breakthrough? 428 00:16:40.560 --> 00:16:42.000 Let's go to the book of Nehemiah. 429 00:16:43.520 --> 00:16:48.320 The book of Nehemiah, if you are pregnant 430 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:51.600 and you found out that it's going to be a boy 431 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.560 and looking for a name, Nehemiah is a great name. 432 00:16:55.360 --> 00:16:57.600 Nehemiah means God comforts. 433 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.160 You can call him at home, Nemo, and of course, 434 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:03.840 we watched plenty of finding Nemo in our home 435 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:06.560 that is almost like, yeah, you know what I'm trying to say. 436 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:09.440 All right, all right, all right. 437 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.880 So here is the breakthrough. 438 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.280 Let me just get to the, you know, I'm getting, 439 00:17:15.280 --> 00:17:17.840 I'm, this is spoiler alert, okay? 440 00:17:17.840 --> 00:17:22.400 Nehemiah is praying and he found out the information 441 00:17:23.120 --> 00:17:27.920 that the walls of Jerusalem are broken, right? 442 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:32.080 And everything is in a mess and he has a mandate now 443 00:17:32.080 --> 00:17:33.680 to see these walls being broken. 444 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:41.200 The spoiler is that in, he built the walls in 52 days, never done before. 445 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:43.200 Never done before. 446 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.840 So the breakthrough was that he was able to build the walls 447 00:17:45.840 --> 00:17:48.720 of Jerusalem in 52 days. 448 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:51.840 How did he get to that breakthrough is what we're going to figure out. 449 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:53.040 Are you ready, Pastor James? 450 00:17:53.040 --> 00:17:54.000 Let's go. 451 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:58.560 All right, number one, Nehemiah, here's about what's happening 452 00:17:58.560 --> 00:18:01.360 and they said to me that Remnant was number three. 453 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:03.200 They said to me that Remnant there in the province 454 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:06.560 having survived exile is in great trouble and shame. 455 00:18:06.560 --> 00:18:09.520 I think these days we just need to wake up 456 00:18:09.520 --> 00:18:12.480 and open up our eyes and see what is happening around us. 457 00:18:13.360 --> 00:18:17.120 I could be in Berkeley looking for the coolest, 458 00:18:17.120 --> 00:18:19.120 hey, what are the five things that we say? 459 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:21.440 Man, what's the coolest eating joints out here? 460 00:18:21.520 --> 00:18:24.480 Tell me the Korean barbecue, tell me the hardest part 461 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.840 and as an Indian, I'm looking for what's the best Indian spot here in Berkeley. 462 00:18:27.840 --> 00:18:30.640 These are four or five questions that we want to ask people, right? 463 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.240 Because eating is very important for us, right? 464 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:38.000 But instead of asking them for the five things that make me happy, 465 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.200 I just ask you, what are the big crisis on this campus? 466 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:44.960 Because I know that every crisis is an opportunity. 467 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:48.160 Winston Churchill, I don't like everything about him 468 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:50.480 and I like his code, this code that says, 469 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:53.760 do not waste a good crisis. 470 00:18:54.320 --> 00:18:58.480 So every time there is a crisis, God's about to show up, right? 471 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.160 So we just ask her on what's happening. 472 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.720 So mental health is off the roof. 473 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:04.480 There's crime on campus. 474 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:08.960 There's anti, there's rallies from pro-Israel, pro-Palestine. 475 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:10.720 You talk about everything that's happened. 476 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:14.480 I mean, I've never seen a campus with so much activity going on. 477 00:19:14.560 --> 00:19:16.000 You got the LGBTQ right? 478 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.480 You have everybody doing something out there. 479 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.240 But you're not just looking at it and just walking away, just like they admire. 480 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:25.680 As soon as I heard those words, what's number four? 481 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.680 I sat down and wept and mourned for days and I continued fasting and 482 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:31.360 praying before the God of Heaven. 483 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:32.480 You know that I like to fast. 484 00:19:33.280 --> 00:19:35.360 America loves fasting. 485 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.680 The intermittent fast, the coolest thing, the fat fast. 486 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:41.440 I mean, the sugar fast. 487 00:19:41.520 --> 00:19:44.320 I mean, every year you come up with the coolest thing. 488 00:19:44.320 --> 00:19:45.600 Last year, it was sugar. 489 00:19:45.600 --> 00:19:47.200 This year, it's about oil. 490 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:48.880 Next year, it's going to be about something. 491 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.680 Everybody's on some sort of fast to make you look good. 492 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:57.040 But I'm talking about fasting that kills the flesh and makes your spirit alive. 493 00:19:58.080 --> 00:20:01.040 Some challenging people in this room, guys, it's time to fast. 494 00:20:01.760 --> 00:20:03.680 I think I say that all the time and I come here. 495 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:04.640 Fasting is good. 496 00:20:05.280 --> 00:20:06.000 Fasting is good. 497 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:06.640 Now they have. 498 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:11.600 All right, he fasts and prays and mourns for days and continue fasting and praying 499 00:20:11.600 --> 00:20:13.120 before the God of Heaven. 500 00:20:13.120 --> 00:20:16.000 And I said, oh, Lord, God of Heaven, the great and awesome God, 501 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:18.400 who keeps his covenant. 502 00:20:19.600 --> 00:20:22.320 And set fast love with those who love him and keep his commandments. 503 00:20:22.320 --> 00:20:23.520 What's number six? 504 00:20:23.520 --> 00:20:27.520 Let your your be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayers of your servant. 505 00:20:27.520 --> 00:20:29.600 I now pray before you day and night. 506 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.280 Number one way to see the breakthrough and increase your chain, 507 00:20:33.280 --> 00:20:34.960 the climate of your prayer life. 508 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.760 Number one, you pray fervently. 509 00:20:37.760 --> 00:20:38.480 Say that with me. 510 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.480 Pray fervently. 511 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.320 You know, I was in the labor room with my wife for all three of her boys. 512 00:20:44.320 --> 00:20:45.280 Oh my God. 513 00:20:45.280 --> 00:20:47.360 That's for one of the reasons why I'm more out of the apartment. 514 00:20:47.360 --> 00:20:48.800 They were kicking those walls. 515 00:20:49.520 --> 00:20:51.040 The walls were about to break. 516 00:20:51.040 --> 00:20:52.640 Neymar is building up the wall. 517 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.160 I had to like pay the management because they were like super active in that 518 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:56.960 New York apartment. 519 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:58.240 So guess what? 520 00:20:58.240 --> 00:20:59.680 I was in the labor room with my wife. 521 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:03.440 And it's not a jazz concert in the labor room. 522 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:06.800 It's not Kennedy playing saxophone. 523 00:21:08.800 --> 00:21:10.240 It's not Eric Clapton playing. 524 00:21:13.120 --> 00:21:13.440 Right? 525 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:17.040 Yeah, it's not Beethoven. 526 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:20.240 It is like a metal concert there. 527 00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:22.160 It's bloody. 528 00:21:23.120 --> 00:21:24.640 Nurses up and down. 529 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:30.960 And all I can hear the doctors screaming and my wife is push, push, push, push. 530 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:34.320 And finally that big push. 531 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:37.120 And the beautiful baby comes out. 532 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.520 Somebody once gave me this wristband to wear. 533 00:21:41.520 --> 00:21:46.000 And it said push, pray until something happens. 534 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:49.760 Many of our prayers have been one minute prayers. 535 00:21:51.040 --> 00:21:53.120 Many of our prayers have been good night prayers. 536 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.000 Many of our prayers have been one week prayers. 537 00:21:56.560 --> 00:21:58.480 Many of our prayers have been one month prayers. 538 00:21:58.480 --> 00:21:59.120 Guess what happened? 539 00:21:59.120 --> 00:22:00.800 We live in one, one, four, five, four, five. 540 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:03.600 To a point that my wife is like, what are we doing here? 541 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:05.280 We've done praying. 542 00:22:05.840 --> 00:22:06.640 We've done God. 543 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:11.040 I mean, one day, let me just say the last piece of this journey. 544 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:13.360 One day for two hours. 545 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:16.160 I could not see a breakthrough. 546 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:17.760 Not an open door. 547 00:22:17.760 --> 00:22:20.000 Not a, not a, not a, not a, not a, not a, not a, not a, not a, I mean, 548 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:21.920 I was like, God, God, give me a sign. 549 00:22:22.800 --> 00:22:25.360 That day morning for two hours. 550 00:22:26.080 --> 00:22:27.600 I was driving around this place. 551 00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:30.160 Jericho, Glenhead, Brookfield, Upper Brookfield, 552 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:34.240 modern town, going around in circles for almost two hours plus. 553 00:22:35.280 --> 00:22:36.800 God, give me a breakthrough. 554 00:22:39.120 --> 00:22:41.440 And then the breakthrough happened. 555 00:22:42.560 --> 00:22:46.320 You're throwing in the towel too early on your prayers. 556 00:22:47.120 --> 00:22:49.920 You're stopping before just before the breakthrough. 557 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.880 I'm telling you guys, you gotta pray, 558 00:22:53.040 --> 00:22:57.920 Fatherly, you gotta pray until something happens. 559 00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:58.880 Guess what? 560 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:03.360 Nehemiah got the walls built in 52 days. 561 00:23:03.360 --> 00:23:04.560 Cool, everybody around me. 562 00:23:04.560 --> 00:23:07.440 Tell me the, the greatest startup story in the world. 563 00:23:08.320 --> 00:23:09.840 Tell me the mantras. 564 00:23:09.840 --> 00:23:11.200 Tell me the things that you did. 565 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:13.120 Tell me the, the VCs that you got. 566 00:23:13.120 --> 00:23:15.200 Tell me the, uh, the advices that you had. 567 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:17.040 His advice was from the Holy Spirit. 568 00:23:17.600 --> 00:23:18.560 And guess what? 569 00:23:18.560 --> 00:23:20.640 He prayed for four months. 570 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:26.000 He prayed and fasted for four months before he actually showed up in front of the king. 571 00:23:27.040 --> 00:23:29.920 We are praying for one day and I show now in front of a decision maker. 572 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:31.040 Give me something. 573 00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:34.800 He doesn't even like you now because you haven't prayed enough. 574 00:23:34.800 --> 00:23:36.560 You haven't made your investment enough. 575 00:23:36.560 --> 00:23:38.080 So I'm challenging people in this room. 576 00:23:38.080 --> 00:23:38.720 City light. 577 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:42.320 If you want to see that classic breakthrough. 578 00:23:42.320 --> 00:23:45.200 If you want to see your work, your prayers being answered. 579 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:46.160 You gotta pray. 580 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:47.280 What? 581 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.680 Pray fervently. 582 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:52.080 Pray until something happens. 583 00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:53.200 Push in prayer. 584 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:54.320 Travelling prayer. 585 00:23:54.320 --> 00:23:55.680 Perseverant prayer. 586 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:59.520 Keep praying and keep praying and keep praying. 587 00:23:59.520 --> 00:24:00.960 Till the breakthrough happens. 588 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:05.200 Is God speaking to somebody in the room? 589 00:24:07.120 --> 00:24:08.880 Number two was, what's number seven? 590 00:24:10.080 --> 00:24:13.840 We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commands 591 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:17.520 and the statutes and the rules that you've commanded your servant Moses. 592 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:20.320 Right? 593 00:24:20.320 --> 00:24:21.040 What is he saying? 594 00:24:23.120 --> 00:24:25.120 He's making some honest prayers. 595 00:24:25.120 --> 00:24:26.160 I'm telling you something. 596 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:27.280 It's time to repent. 597 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:32.480 It's time to say that God, I tried with all my might, 598 00:24:33.760 --> 00:24:35.360 I tried with all my power, 599 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.760 with all the people that I know, 600 00:24:37.760 --> 00:24:39.600 with all the influence that I know, 601 00:24:39.600 --> 00:24:40.800 and it hasn't worked. 602 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:44.480 So it's time to get on the floor, face down and say, 603 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:46.560 God, I am sorry. 604 00:24:47.600 --> 00:24:48.800 I repent. 605 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:51.200 I've done it my way. 606 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:53.280 Now I want to do it your way. 607 00:24:55.600 --> 00:24:56.880 And this is not just for you. 608 00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:59.680 These prayers are not just for you and your family. 609 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:02.720 Most of our prayers are about my credit card bills, 610 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:07.280 my food, my clothing, my favorite parking when you walk up into 611 00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:09.760 Macy's Lord, give me a good parking. 612 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.560 Get me the discount coupon. 613 00:25:13.760 --> 00:25:15.760 These are the levels of our prayers. 614 00:25:15.760 --> 00:25:18.320 I'm talking about prayers that shake nations. 615 00:25:19.520 --> 00:25:23.120 The queen of England said, I fear the prayers of John Knox 616 00:25:23.120 --> 00:25:26.080 than all of the armies of England. 617 00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:29.440 Your prayers matters. 618 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:31.680 Now listen, why your prayers matter? 619 00:25:31.680 --> 00:25:34.080 I love this San Augustine's prayers. 620 00:25:34.080 --> 00:25:36.160 San Augustine's quote, he said, 621 00:25:36.800 --> 00:25:39.200 let me get that right before I don't want to mess it up. 622 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:43.680 He said, without God, man cannot. 623 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:48.240 And without man, God will not. 624 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:50.000 Can I say that again? 625 00:25:50.800 --> 00:25:57.280 Without God, man cannot and without man, God will not. 626 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:00.000 God wanted a saved mankind. 627 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:00.880 Who did he use? 628 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:01.920 He used Moses. 629 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:06.240 And asked him to make, not Moses, sorry, Noah. 630 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:10.560 And asked him to make an ark. 631 00:26:10.560 --> 00:26:12.720 People I've never seen an ark in their entire life, 632 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:14.960 not like, you know, what are you trying to build, brother? 633 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:17.840 God always uses a man. 634 00:26:20.560 --> 00:26:21.760 And he wants to use you. 635 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:26.720 And if he wants to use you, you need to understand why he wants to use you. 636 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:28.720 You know, why I have authority in prayer? 637 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:31.760 My authority is connected to my identity. 638 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:35.680 If a guy just walks up and tells me, tell me your name, show me your ID. 639 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:36.800 I'm like, who are you? 640 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:39.760 How dare you ask me for the ID? 641 00:26:39.760 --> 00:26:43.520 But he would go back to his car, change his uniform, 642 00:26:43.520 --> 00:26:47.680 and comes in as NYPD guy and shows his ID and says, 643 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:49.680 NYPD, show me your ID. 644 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:50.800 Now should I show my ID? 645 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:53.360 My Indian me was sort of tremble. 646 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:56.400 I'm still working on my green car right now. 647 00:26:57.360 --> 00:26:59.200 I don't want anything to mess around. 648 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:00.160 So here you go. 649 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:01.200 This is my ID. 650 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:03.760 In my bank statement, my credit card statement. 651 00:27:04.560 --> 00:27:06.640 You know what, you know, you're ready to go. 652 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:10.400 Authority comes from your identity. 653 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:12.400 How do you have authority in prayer? 654 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:14.240 It is locked in your identity. 655 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:15.040 Who are you? 656 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.520 You are the son and the daughter of the most high god. 657 00:27:19.520 --> 00:27:22.720 You need to know who you are and who you are. 658 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:24.240 And when you begin to pray, 659 00:27:25.040 --> 00:27:26.400 boom, there is prayer. 660 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:28.320 There is power in prayer. 661 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:33.440 Somebody said, a prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian. 662 00:27:35.280 --> 00:27:38.400 If you don't pray, you don't have power. 663 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:40.160 Even the devil's like, oh, that guy, 664 00:27:41.360 --> 00:27:42.880 don't even worry about it. 665 00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:43.280 He's fine. 666 00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:45.200 Let's go for somebody else. 667 00:27:46.320 --> 00:27:48.800 Even the devil's not scared of you because you don't pray. 668 00:27:48.800 --> 00:27:49.760 You don't read the word. 669 00:27:49.760 --> 00:27:50.960 You don't walk with Jesus. 670 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:53.760 You just had the Christian tag on and you show up in church 671 00:27:53.760 --> 00:27:56.320 with two hours and then go to lunch and have some fun 672 00:27:56.320 --> 00:27:57.680 and then go back to your normal life. 673 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:02.320 God is not calling you to the cross line Christianity. 674 00:28:03.280 --> 00:28:05.760 He's not calling you to sign up into the cruise ship. 675 00:28:05.760 --> 00:28:07.920 He's asked you to get on the warship. 676 00:28:09.520 --> 00:28:11.200 It is a recruitment process. 677 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:17.040 You know why I get on the road and pray because the Bible says we don't fight against flesh and blood. 678 00:28:17.760 --> 00:28:20.000 We fight against principalities and force of darkness. 679 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:20.960 When you walk into a house, 680 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:22.560 your wife doesn't want to talk to you. 681 00:28:22.560 --> 00:28:23.360 There's stuff going on. 682 00:28:23.360 --> 00:28:24.720 Your boss is screaming at you. 683 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:25.680 Guess what's happening? 684 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.360 It's a freaking devil plane at the back room. 685 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:31.600 You need to know that you are not fighting against that boss. 686 00:28:31.600 --> 00:28:33.360 Your husband, your wife, your kid, 687 00:28:33.360 --> 00:28:36.560 you're fighting against the spirit of confusion, 688 00:28:38.080 --> 00:28:43.120 of manipulation that is working at the background against you. 689 00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:47.600 So you put that devil where it belongs and you walk in authority 690 00:28:47.600 --> 00:28:50.000 because of her identity as a son of God. 691 00:28:50.080 --> 00:28:52.560 That is why he said without God, 692 00:28:52.560 --> 00:28:56.560 man cannot and without man, God will not. 693 00:28:56.560 --> 00:28:59.120 So number one, you pray furanly. 694 00:28:59.120 --> 00:29:00.320 Number two, you pray honestly. 695 00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:04.000 He said, God, I'm standing on behalf of the sins of my people. 696 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:06.800 I'm standing on behalf of my husband that doesn't believe in you. 697 00:29:06.800 --> 00:29:09.760 I'm standing on behalf of my son who doesn't believe in you. 698 00:29:09.760 --> 00:29:12.240 I'm standing on behalf of my boss who doesn't believe in you. 699 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:16.480 I'm standing on behalf of all my friends and employees at my workplace on behalf of you. 700 00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:16.880 You know why? 701 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:19.040 Because near Maya was not a pastor. 702 00:29:19.040 --> 00:29:20.240 He was a marketplace guy. 703 00:29:21.120 --> 00:29:23.440 He probably worked in a city group which he was here. 704 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:26.480 Probably in Wall Street. 705 00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.560 Right? 706 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:32.800 Near Maya was a marketplace guy. 707 00:29:33.520 --> 00:29:37.200 Many times we want to delegate prayer to the pastors. 708 00:29:37.840 --> 00:29:38.320 You know why? 709 00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:39.440 Because we pay them to pray. 710 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:41.280 Too bad. 711 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:43.040 You're missing out. 712 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.000 You will never graduate. 713 00:29:46.080 --> 00:29:48.080 You will never upgrade your Christian life 714 00:29:48.080 --> 00:29:49.680 by delegating things to other people. 715 00:29:51.280 --> 00:29:53.280 Start owning up your mess. 716 00:29:53.840 --> 00:29:56.160 Start owning up your breakthrough and say, 717 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.240 if I don't pray, nothing's going to happen. 718 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:02.160 Number one, pray furanly. 719 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.080 Number two, you pray honestly. 720 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:06.160 Say, God, I can't do it. 721 00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:09.520 If I may use these crude words, I say, Lord, I have screwed up. 722 00:30:10.080 --> 00:30:10.960 I have messed up. 723 00:30:11.600 --> 00:30:13.920 Let me, let me, I am repenting. 724 00:30:14.560 --> 00:30:16.160 Changing the way that I think. 725 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:17.600 Changing the way that I operate. 726 00:30:17.600 --> 00:30:20.080 I want to take a U-turn and walk in the ways. 727 00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:22.640 Now I'm praying some honest prayers. 728 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.760 Hey, guys, listen, you cannot hide anything from God. 729 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:27.360 Did you know that? 730 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.560 Many times you feel like, no, no, you know, he can't see it. 731 00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:32.240 Not that stuff. 732 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:33.760 Not that stuff that I watched last night. 733 00:30:33.760 --> 00:30:35.440 Not the website that I went to last night. 734 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:37.600 Not the conversation that I had in my chat right now. 735 00:30:37.600 --> 00:30:39.040 Not the calls that I made last week. 736 00:30:39.520 --> 00:30:42.480 You feel like you don't know that he can see everything. 737 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.840 And you still just try running your life the way you want it. 738 00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:52.080 It's time to be honest and blatant and be humble and repent and put your face down and say, 739 00:30:52.080 --> 00:30:55.360 God, I want to make some prayers that are honest saying, God, 740 00:30:55.360 --> 00:30:57.440 without you, I cannot do it. 741 00:30:58.560 --> 00:31:00.640 I need your grace. 742 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:02.640 What's number eight and nine? 743 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:08.240 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses saying, 744 00:31:08.320 --> 00:31:12.000 if you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the people. 745 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:15.680 But if you return to me and keep my commands and do them, 746 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.680 through your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven. 747 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:25.200 From there, I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen to make my name 748 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:26.320 to hell there. 749 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:30.640 When I wake up in the morning, I have two things that I can do. 750 00:31:31.360 --> 00:31:33.760 If I'm hungry, I can do two things. 751 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:38.800 The first thing I can do is find two slices of bread, throw it in that toaster. 752 00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:42.160 And then try to put some sort of... 753 00:31:44.560 --> 00:31:46.320 What is that? Spread. 754 00:31:46.320 --> 00:31:47.120 That's right. 755 00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:48.160 Thank you for helping me. 756 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:55.600 Put some sort of spread on those light spread, on those toes and grab a coffee, whatever the 757 00:31:55.600 --> 00:31:59.680 coffee is, like... and you just keep going. 758 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:04.240 But if you are like me, I love a great breakfast. 759 00:32:05.360 --> 00:32:11.040 So I stop down, I toast some bread, then I look for some bacon, hallelujah. 760 00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:14.080 Fry some bacon right now. 761 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:18.720 Then I'm looking up, trying to make cook some eggs right now. 762 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:23.760 And then I'm looking for some ham, pulling that ham on, slicing it, 763 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:29.440 making it symmetrical to the sides, because I don't want anything outside, right, 764 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:36.720 passage aims, all the OCD people, nothing outside, clean and nice, straight, cut it into pieces. 765 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.600 And load up that sandwich, and what I call is a club sandwich in the morning. 766 00:32:43.600 --> 00:32:47.200 If you have a club sandwich, bro, you don't have to have lunch till two o'clock. 767 00:32:48.320 --> 00:32:52.480 That's a packed out breakfast, that's like a brunch, that's like you got bacon, you got hand, 768 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:58.720 you got eggs, you got lettuce, you got veggies, you got... I mean, to be more healthy, 769 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.360 some more avocados. How about that? How about that? Right, we need that, we need that. 770 00:33:06.560 --> 00:33:12.480 And then some avocados, and you put that all into this crazy club sandwich, and I know everybody's 771 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:21.280 hungry, we are all going to have lunch today. But guess what? Our prayers are often like the first 772 00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:27.040 type of prayer that I've made, it's like the two slices of those dry toes with some sort of 773 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:33.120 some sort of spread, and off you go. And guess you're not having any breakthroughs. 774 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:40.000 You're hungry by the time you get in the car. By the time you reach your office, you're like, 775 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:47.280 oh, I need a bagel right now. But it's time for you to load up your prayers with scriptures and 776 00:33:47.280 --> 00:33:54.320 make it a club sandwich prayer. Load up the promises, that's what Neymar is doing. What is Neymar 777 00:33:54.320 --> 00:34:04.000 doing? God, if God is bound by anything, he's bound by his own word. Right? So he's reminding God, 778 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:07.840 which is what you do when you hire a lawyer, you don't know the law, so you hire a lawyer to 779 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:13.280 plead your case in the court of law. Your Highness, it is written in your honor, it is written in 780 00:34:14.080 --> 00:34:19.440 this book, and because it's in this rule number one, two, three, four, whatever the number is, 781 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:26.320 it has to be so that the judge has to look into what is written, and he cannot go beyond our 782 00:34:27.120 --> 00:34:32.080 backwards to what's already written in the rule book. So you've got to get your door, I mean, 783 00:34:32.080 --> 00:34:36.960 you've got to get your God excited about the prayers that you're making. You're loading it up 784 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:41.360 with prayers. You're praying for your husband to get saved. You say, God, me and my household, 785 00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:45.520 we will serve the Lord. You said that Lord, me and my household save the Lord. Number two, 786 00:34:45.520 --> 00:34:49.680 you said God, that none should perish, but all should come to the saving knowledge of Jesus. 787 00:34:49.680 --> 00:34:55.520 Every scripture about salvation, you're going to put that into that club sandwich prayer in the 788 00:34:55.520 --> 00:35:01.280 morning. If you pray for financial breakthrough, you said, God, you are my provider. You will 789 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:06.480 provide for me according to not my bank of America balance, but according to the bank of America, 790 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:13.440 not bank of heaven. You're telling God if you pray in God, asking God for healing, you're telling 791 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:19.360 God, God, guess what? Your name, one of your names is Jehovah Rafa by the stripes of Jesus, 792 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:27.360 I was already healed. So you load up your prayers with what club sandwich prayers. And that's what I 793 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:35.040 call biblical prayers. Number one, you pray fervently. Number two, you pray honestly. Number three, 794 00:35:35.040 --> 00:35:43.120 you pray biblically. Pray at things that are already, God's like, who is this Indian guy? 795 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:48.080 Getting up in the morning and coding my word, I better pay attention to that guy. 796 00:35:49.520 --> 00:35:52.960 Rather than telling him, oh God, you know, I'm not in a good mood today. 797 00:35:53.760 --> 00:36:00.320 Help me, you know, the usual Starbucks prayers. We're not talking about that. We're talking about 798 00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:06.720 club sandwich prayers. Can we load up our prayers in the morning with the scripture and tell God 799 00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:11.840 what is written in the word? Remind him and tell him that, Lord, if you said we will come back and 800 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:17.040 return and repent, you said you will send me a breakthrough. You said, Lord, if you're written in the 801 00:36:17.040 --> 00:36:20.640 word that you will heal me, you're written in the word that you will cancel my debt. If it is 802 00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:25.440 written in your word that you will heal me, God is going to pay attention to those prayers. 803 00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:30.880 Do I have a witness here? Say it. Number four, what's number 11? 804 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:37.280 Oh, Lord, let your ear be attended to the prayer of your servant and the prayer of your servants 805 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:41.920 who delight to fear your name and give success to your servant today and ran a mercy in the sight 806 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:46.960 of this man. Now I was the cup bearer to the king. He's just about to show up. Now, listen, 807 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:54.560 boys, if you've been thinking about buying a car, you probably have all the men in the room, 808 00:36:54.560 --> 00:36:59.760 you've been googling for the last 20 years about the car that you're going to buy. You've been 809 00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:06.400 googling the size of the rims, the tires, the engine size, and the muffler, the tuning, 810 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:12.000 that the car seats, it's got to be leather. It's got to smell. You've already been smelling it while 811 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:19.120 sleeping in the night. I can smell the leather. You are so specific about the car that you want. You 812 00:37:19.120 --> 00:37:23.360 don't walk up into a car show. I'm saying, hey, I need a car like what car do you want? No. 813 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:30.960 They're going to ask, you already got it mapped up. Some folks here need a mini van, right? 814 00:37:31.600 --> 00:37:38.880 Thank God for mini vans. I hated the look of those mini vans. So bulky, I'm like, God, I don't have 815 00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:46.880 an option. And then the Lord created this marble called the Kia Carnival. Kia should be paying 816 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:55.200 me for this. It looks like a mini van, but it functions like a mini van. It looks like an SUV. 817 00:37:56.160 --> 00:38:05.680 I feel like the man again. What am I trying to say? You make so vague prayers. God even doesn't 818 00:38:05.680 --> 00:38:10.880 understand what you're trying to pray. You're specific about your car, you're specific about your 819 00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:16.480 computer, you're specific about everything else. But when it comes to praying, your prayers are so 820 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:23.120 wide and vague and nothing to specify. Let me tell you something. Niamh Maya had a specific prayer. 821 00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:29.040 He prayed for four months. He prayed fervently. He prayed honestly. He prayed diplomically. He knew 822 00:38:29.040 --> 00:38:35.840 that he needed timber. He needed approval. He needed people. He had it all specified and prayed 823 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:39.920 him so that when he showed up in front of the king and the king asked, what do you want? 824 00:38:40.720 --> 00:38:44.800 Wait a minute, so let me just plot from my phone. Here is the 10 things that I want is already on 825 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:51.520 my notes because I've been praying for that for the last four months. And that four months of prayer 826 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:59.200 got him to get the 52 days of breakthrough. You want the 52 day breakthrough and you make that one 827 00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:07.680 minute prayer too bad. Backtracking a little bit. Number one, you've got to pray fervently. You've 828 00:39:07.680 --> 00:39:12.720 got to pray till something happens like my wife in the labor room pushing until something happens 829 00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:17.680 to get that baby out. Like me praying number one, one, five, four, five for the last one year that my 830 00:39:17.680 --> 00:39:22.400 wife and my kids were like crazy. Like what are you trying to do? Now we don't say that again because 831 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:29.040 they live in that house. What is your zip code? One, one, five, four, five. Right? You walk into what 832 00:39:29.040 --> 00:39:36.640 you're praying to. Number two, you pray. Honestly, you say, God, I give up. I repent. I've done it my way. 833 00:39:36.640 --> 00:39:42.000 But if you weren't says what? If you repent, you will turn away from your wicked ways. Then I will 834 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:48.560 heal the land. Number three, you pray. Biblical prayers at club sandwich. Don't forget that club sandwich. 835 00:39:49.520 --> 00:39:54.960 Every time you get up in the morning and think about that slice, that dry toast. You said the devil 836 00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:00.400 isn't this toast. I need to get my, I need to get my club sandwich prayer. I'm going to load it with 837 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:05.680 bacon and avocados and ham and eggs and cheese and I forgot about the cheese. 838 00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:17.120 Pepper Jack cheese only guys. I'm trying to be American now, right? I was like, we just had one 839 00:40:17.200 --> 00:40:22.000 cheese, one libra cheese. When before we got here, like 10 types of cheese. See us. You're like 100 840 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:30.080 seedles in the, what is this? All right, you're spoiled. Number four, pray specifically, 841 00:40:30.720 --> 00:40:35.440 write it down for all the single people in the room. I heard New York as the largest 842 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:43.040 single population in all of America. I wouldn't say the world. I had friends of mine at a 843 00:40:43.040 --> 00:40:49.920 friend of mine who used to fast every Wednesday for his wife. Fast and pray so specifically, 844 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:54.000 write it down. This is what I want my wife. This is what I want my wife. This is what I want, 845 00:40:54.000 --> 00:41:00.080 praying specifically. Last time I visited, I mean, he's in Kuwait. Long behold, he's married to 846 00:41:00.080 --> 00:41:05.280 exactly what he prayed into. So you walk into what you pray into. You pray into that. You 847 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:12.160 pray through. You make prayer specific prayers. Now, let me just jump into some of the new testman 848 00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:18.400 stuff. You know, we are people. The Bible says, what happened in the, in the upper room? 849 00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:23.760 Acts chapter two. How are we doing? Time, Pat? Good. Just giving me a thumbs up. So, all right, 850 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:30.640 we're good. All right. So just what happened the upper room? Fire of God fell, right? Everybody's 851 00:41:30.640 --> 00:41:36.720 hired to speak, speak in tongues. And let me just get the scripture right so that I get it right. 852 00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:42.800 When you pray in tongues, God's given us the gift to speak in tongues. Paul says, I pray in the 853 00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:47.920 spirit. I pray in the understanding. I pray in tongues more than I pray in the, in the understanding. 854 00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:52.160 He talks about it. It's a, it's a lifestyle. It's a gift. I'm not imposing it on anybody. But if 855 00:41:52.160 --> 00:41:57.280 you want it, I can earn it. It's a gift. But I can ask for it. I can desire for it. And he will give 856 00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:02.320 it to you. So I have the gift to speak in tongues like most of the people in the room. So here I am 857 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:07.840 on a five-city prayer tour because I told you this is my life, right? I want to see a breakthrough 858 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:12.640 in the Middle East. Don't have the money. Don't have the people. But I knew I had connections. 859 00:42:12.640 --> 00:42:17.200 And I said, can I come into your country to pray? And they're like, when are you, what about 860 00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:20.720 preaching? No, no, no, no. I said, we're not on the preaching tour. We're on the praying tour. 861 00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:26.640 So five nations in five days, land into the place, find a car depending on the people in the 862 00:42:26.640 --> 00:42:30.800 people in the room. They're like sometimes they had a minivan. They're like a like a spring 863 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:35.280 tour kind of thing. Sometimes they have cars. So we're praying in different places. Dubai, 864 00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:39.600 Qatar, Bahrain, and we're in Oman and we're praying in front of this grand mosque. 865 00:42:41.040 --> 00:42:45.200 And I've lost. They give me some understanding prayer. So I pray that I've run out of words. 866 00:42:45.200 --> 00:42:48.160 You know, the thing about praying in the understanding is you run out of words and you get so bored. 867 00:42:48.160 --> 00:42:53.360 I'm like, I run out of words praying for America five minutes of praying. I'm like, what else? 868 00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:59.200 I don't know. But when I'm praying in the spirit, I can be praying for an hour, two hours 869 00:42:59.200 --> 00:43:03.840 because I am not tired praying in the spirit. Because when I'm praying in the spirit, 870 00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:10.240 I have a direct link to heaven. It's a decoded language. Hallelujah. Not even the devil can understand 871 00:43:10.240 --> 00:43:17.520 what you are praying. He's like, what is going on here? It's encrypted. It has got the highest 872 00:43:17.520 --> 00:43:23.360 level of security. And you're praying in the spirit. So here I am in the car in front of the 873 00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:27.680 grand mosque. And that is where all the major decisions are made in some of these Muslim countries. 874 00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:32.320 And we're praying in the spirit. I'm praying in spirit. I'm praying in Tanzorra, 875 00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:36.640 al-Aba, Shah-Torobo, and suddenly the guy at the back just touched me. Pastor Bonnie, 876 00:43:36.640 --> 00:43:40.640 Pastor Bonnie. I think I was a pastor then. Oh, no. Pastor Bonnie, just checking. Hey, what's 877 00:43:41.040 --> 00:43:46.640 happened? Pastor, do you speak in Arabic? I'm like, I don't speak in Arabic. But he said, 878 00:43:46.640 --> 00:43:53.680 no, you are fluently speaking in Arabic right now. And the prayers that I was praying was way 879 00:43:53.680 --> 00:43:58.720 beyond my paycheck. In a sense, I have no idea the kind of things he was telling me when I was 880 00:43:58.720 --> 00:44:05.040 praying. It was way, way, way, way up high level of prayer when I was praying in the spirit. 881 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.440 So the highest level, you're talking about praying fervently, 882 00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:19.200 you're talking about praying, honestly, biblically, specifically, the last one, the upgraded version. 883 00:44:19.200 --> 00:44:26.480 The encrypted version is praying spirit-led prayers. When you pray in the spirit, this is what 884 00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:32.160 happens. First Corinthians chapter 14 was this too. I'm switching to the King James here. That's 885 00:44:32.160 --> 00:44:40.000 how you get something across. For he that speak at in an unknown tongue, speak at not unto men, 886 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:47.520 but unto God. So when you're praying in tongues, you're not speaking to people, you are speaking to God. 887 00:44:48.080 --> 00:44:52.960 That is the greatest level of prayer. So here I am praying in Berkeley. Here I'm praying in Stanford. 888 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:58.000 Here I'm praying in Colombia. Here I'm praying in different parts of the world. I don't know a lot 889 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:03.440 about it. I know some things about the city. I'm praying into it, but the 80% of my prayers 890 00:45:04.160 --> 00:45:08.320 about from being all the four things that we talked about, I am praying in the spirit. 891 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:14.800 And I'm challenging people in this room to start praying and operating in the spirit. 892 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:19.600 I'm praying in the first Corinthians 14 in the West 4. He that speak in an unknown tongue 893 00:45:19.600 --> 00:45:26.960 edifies himself. Every time I pray in tongues, I just feel like, you know, it's like I've had 894 00:45:27.680 --> 00:45:33.280 couple of those energy drinks. What's Red Bull? You can fly. What does that tagline? 895 00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:40.320 Gives you wings to fly. Brother, I don't have wings. I'm on a rocket right now. Every time I pray in 896 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:46.320 the spirit, I'm praying in tongues, I feel like, come on, give me something. Let me pray for something. 897 00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:51.200 I'm like, I'm praying for somebody and going to this prayer meeting and somebody's driving me 898 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:55.360 to the meeting. I'm like, I have to use this power. With great power comes great. 899 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:17.360 How can I exercise this wings power that I prayed in the tongues in the morning? 900 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:22.400 I am feeling charged up, fired up. I want to be used for something as a boom. Why do miracles 901 00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:26.640 happen? Because you're charged up, fired up, prayed up and then you're ready to go. 902 00:46:28.160 --> 00:46:35.200 How can you get a 52 day miracle, supernatural miracle that nobody has ever seen before, building 903 00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:43.200 walls of Jerusalem or a whole city in 52 days, never heard before. Before you did the 52 day 904 00:46:43.200 --> 00:46:50.240 miracle, the four months of praying, praying number one, fervently. Oh, you looking at me like 905 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:57.840 fervently. Come on, pass James. Number two, brother. Honestly, number three, 906 00:46:58.720 --> 00:47:04.640 biblically, don't forget the club sandwich. Number four, you're making specific press, 907 00:47:04.640 --> 00:47:09.280 think about the boys in the room, getting those rims and praying into that car, you know, 908 00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:16.880 back in the day. Number five, one, praying spirit led press. I'm telling you, your breakthrough 909 00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:23.120 is on the way. All of heaven is going to be like, no, who is that Indian boy there? Let me, 910 00:47:23.120 --> 00:47:29.280 let me angles of God send a hundred one to that, that boy there. Give him breakthrough. 911 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:35.280 Give him breakthrough in Berkeley. They haven't seen an even of this size in a long time, 912 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:40.800 but average prayer meetings are 10 and 20 minutes, 20 people in the room. We had 478 people in the room. 913 00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:44.640 And now we understand we're going to take Berkeley and then we're going to go to Stanford. 914 00:47:45.520 --> 00:47:51.360 Why? Because our heart is now filled with faith. Whenever you're going to pray, Bible, 915 00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:56.560 scripture-based prayers, the Bible says, you know, faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of 916 00:47:56.560 --> 00:48:02.560 God. Take somebody next to you. Nobody sleep on me today. But this morning is a land discernment. 917 00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:08.560 I want to pray for an impartation because the service we have time to do that. If you want to see 918 00:48:08.560 --> 00:48:14.960 an upgrade in your prayer life, if you want to see that 52-day miracle happening, and I want to see 919 00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:20.560 an upgradation that prayer climate of my life, I want to change the way that I pray. Now that I have, 920 00:48:20.560 --> 00:48:27.440 I have the mantras, now I have the five-step rule to pray better. I cannot pray what fervently, 921 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:35.040 I cannot pray honestly and biblically and specifically and spirit-led prayers. My breakthroughs 922 00:48:35.040 --> 00:48:41.040 on the way, look at somebody, my breakthroughs on the way, watch out. When you begin to pray like 923 00:48:41.040 --> 00:48:46.880 this two weeks from now, I mean, I'm talking now about going to Stanford. But the next time here, 924 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:51.920 I'll be saying, we just came from Stanford, a thousand people show, 500 people came in on the Lord. 925 00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:58.800 Yes. You walk into what you pray into. Everybody, the worship team up here. 926 00:49:00.640 --> 00:49:06.640 We're going to be praying. And I want to make a call right now. If you want to receive an 927 00:49:06.640 --> 00:49:13.520 impartation of this new dimension of prayer, an impartation, say, God, I have got the steps right 928 00:49:13.520 --> 00:49:18.080 now, but I need an impartation, the laying on of hands, and I want to see something happen 929 00:49:18.160 --> 00:49:22.000 like this in my life. Not just for me. Hey, guys, this prayer is not just for you and your car 930 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:28.320 parking. I'm talking about for you and your family, your neighborhood, your kids, your colleagues, 931 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:33.440 your boss, your neighbor. I mean, whoever is next to you is not for you. The anointing on your 932 00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:40.320 life is not for you, it is for others. So this prayer download is not for you and for your 933 00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:47.360 Macy's coupon, I'm talking about a breakthrough that has got the capacity to change the life of a city. 934 00:49:48.560 --> 00:49:54.640 Of a neighborhood. And look at these empty chastings. I father in the name of Jesus. I'm going to be 935 00:49:54.640 --> 00:50:00.560 responsible. I'm praying people in. I'm working people in. I'm going to share people the message 936 00:50:00.560 --> 00:50:06.880 of the gospel. I'm going to invite people in. You're latch going to be different. Everybody's 937 00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:12.240 standing up right now. And I'm going to open up this altar right now. If you need a breakthrough, 938 00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:20.640 if you need an impartation of this dimension of prayer like Nehemiah, like this accelerated breakthrough 939 00:50:20.640 --> 00:50:26.800 of 52 days, I've seen the walls of Jerusalem build. Come forward. 940 00:50:43.200 --> 00:50:48.640 You're free to visit us online or in person anytime. We would love to connect with you. 941 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:53.920 We pray that you have been encouraged today. That you have been reminded how much God 942 00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:59.920 loves you and that you are surrounded by grace. Thank you for listening. Make sure that you 943 00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:07.600 subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.