WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.080 You want to get the grease, you want to get a nice house, you want to get all this stuff, 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:09.200 you want to be self-sufficient, you want to have all these resources get oil. 3 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:13.520 You know what? It's going to keep you in the last days. It's not your money, it's not your 4 00:00:13.520 --> 00:00:18.960 reserve in Bitcoin, even our these are our reserves in Bitcoin and reserves in gold and all of that 5 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:25.120 stuff. What's going to keep you in the last days is oil. You need the anointing. 6 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:31.440 Welcome to the city light church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's 7 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:37.200 Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with city light 8 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:44.000 church feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com. 9 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:50.400 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working 10 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:56.480 in our hearts and minds. As you listen to today's teaching remember that you are deeply loved by 11 00:00:56.480 --> 00:01:02.480 God that you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you. 12 00:01:05.520 --> 00:01:08.000 All right put your hands together for Nathaniel St. Lloyd. 13 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:19.760 Praise God that was better than the eloquent day. Here's what he did. I was like is he 14 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:29.760 introducing the right person? They cheer for you not for me. I promise. 15 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:41.200 Man God is good. Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing mothers out there. Some of you didn't stand up. 16 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:47.520 Some of you are stepmothers, bonus mothers, aunts who raise kids, grandmothers who raise kids. 17 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:51.840 Some of you may have not even had kids of your own but you were there and you stood in the 18 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:57.200 gap and I just want to say I appreciate each and every one of you guys and all the hard work you 19 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:03.920 put in for real. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. I kind of it's kind of a mother's day sermon. 20 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:07.440 What do you guys call it? Who were it in the first service? Kind of a mother's day sermon. 21 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:12.480 Kind of it felt like a woman in empowerment but men were getting stuff from it too. 22 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:17.200 Right? Could you say something like that? Yeah, I feel like it was really good and 23 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.680 you want to know why because I just feel like the Holy Ghost took over and I was preaching and I was 24 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:32.800 like this is good but it wasn't me. It was God just flowing the way he flows so I believe. Let me 25 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:36.400 say something. One thing I love about this church is that women aren't kicked to the back and 26 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:41.920 told to be quiet like some other churches. Women are empowered in this church because you guys are 27 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:48.000 the crown of God's creation. You guys have a powerful ministry and in these last days God's not 28 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:54.160 just pouring out his spirit on men. God's pouring out his spirit on women. I believe that there's 29 00:02:54.160 --> 00:02:58.800 God is going to raise up women in this generation who's going to turn the tide of how women are 30 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:03.520 even looked in this generation. They're going to break the back of this demonic feminism that's hit 31 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:10.080 the Western world and they're going to bring a biblical perspective of how women should look, 32 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:19.040 walk, talk, live, preach, do ministry, do business. I believe it. I believe it's some powerful women 33 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.160 being raised up in these last days. Amen. Y'all didn't say amen like you really believe it. 34 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.760 I believe there's some battle access and some weapons of war that God are raising up. There's 35 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:34.960 some temperors that God's raising up. There's some chocobens that God's raising up. There's some women 36 00:03:35.040 --> 00:03:41.280 of value. You're like, I don't even know who that is. That's Moses mama. The same woman who saw 37 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:47.120 Moses and the Bible says she saw the beauty in him and said he cannot die at the hands of Pharaoh. 38 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:52.880 I'm going to protect him and save him because he's going to change the generation. There's some women 39 00:03:52.880 --> 00:04:02.080 like that. Man, I let's get into the word. Look how I say something. My favorite type of woman in 40 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:07.200 the Bible is not even the one who has a name because throughout the scripture, there's all these 41 00:04:07.200 --> 00:04:12.960 women with names. There's even there's Sarah and there's Mary and there's Elizabeth and there's 42 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:20.320 Chocoban and there's women. Their names are clear here but then there's women who they don't 43 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:28.880 even have a name. It just says the woman with the issue of blood. No name but her face shifted 44 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:33.360 something. You know what the Bible even says about that woman? She has so much faith that she 45 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.560 touched the hem of Jesus garment and then from that time on, other people started doing the same 46 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:45.040 thing and being healed. Her faith provoked people. I believe there's all type of women. Yeah, you 47 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:49.840 may not feel like everyone knows who you are. You're not social media famous. Yeah, you don't have 48 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:57.680 25,000 people following you. Yeah, your TikTok's not popping. Yeah, you're not known by everyone, 49 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:03.360 but guess what? You're known by heaven and I'd rather be known by having been known by the 50 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:09.200 masses. I'd rather Jesus know who I am so that when I get to heaven, he doesn't go. I don't know you 51 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:15.760 and I believe there are those type of women who have an intensity and prayer and intensity of 52 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:20.960 fasting and intensity and seeing their family saved and delivered and intensity and seeing the 53 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:28.000 kingdom of God advanced on the earth as we raised up in this last days and men too. 54 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:39.760 But the Bible says your sons and daughters shall prophesy. Amen. 55 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:46.400 All right. I told I said this in the first ever. Let me say it again. I my 56 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:53.680 my middle child. His name is Judah. He's just different. Everyone who means he's just different. 57 00:05:54.400 --> 00:05:58.160 Like that's my guy. I don't want to say he's my favorite. 58 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.600 Because you know, you get in trouble. You can't say stuff like that as a parent. But he's my favorite. 59 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:11.440 But he's not my favorite. All my favorite. It's nothing about this kid. He's different. 60 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:18.080 He doesn't move like the other one. He's just different. And yesterday we celebrated his birthday. 61 00:06:19.200 --> 00:06:24.320 We had a birthday party for him. His birthday is a few days from now. And I just kept reminiscing, 62 00:06:24.320 --> 00:06:28.960 thinking back because he had like a severe speech delay and he couldn't say a lot of words. 63 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:31.680 And now I can't get him to stop talking. 64 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:45.040 I'm like, baby, I'm tired. I love you. But 28 minutes straight. I just, I'm good. 65 00:06:46.640 --> 00:06:49.280 You want to talk to Jesus? He's always. 66 00:06:49.280 --> 00:07:03.600 But there was one word. He's about to be seven years old. And I promise he's probably like 32 pounds soaking wet. 67 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:12.000 Skinny. I didn't get them genetics. God. Why? I don't get it. You don't love me that much. I want to be skinny. God. 68 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:22.000 But I'm talking about, he got that from my wife, right? He's skinny. I see his bones. I tell him eat more, eat more. 69 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:29.840 Skinny. But when he was a baby, he didn't know. I mean, young too. He didn't really know a lot of words a year and a half. 70 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:33.680 He didn't know many words. But there's one word he knew. Eat. 71 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:39.360 Eat. He knew the word. He didn't know anything else. But eat. He knew. Eat. 72 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:49.840 Right? Eat. Eat. He just tapped you over and over. Eat. Eat. Eat. Eat. 73 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:57.840 He's done. He's like, eat. And I remember this one particular day. I'm on the stove and I'm cooking for him. 74 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:02.800 I think like craft mac and cheese. I know it's terrible for your kids. I don't care judge for me if you want to. 75 00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:11.520 I'm cooking craft. I'm like cooking for him. Getting everything ready. Eat. Eat. Eat. 76 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:22.720 I'm like, bro, I'm making the food right now. You don't have to tap me 8,000 times. Look, the food I'm making the food. 77 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:32.960 Eat. Eat. Eat. Finally, I get annoyed. And I'm like, you know what? I lift him up and I show him the 78 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:43.280 food that I'm making. Look. Look. I'm making you the food right now. And that's when heaven gave me a 79 00:08:43.280 --> 00:08:50.240 revelation. There's a lot of people out there that go into their heavenly father. Eat. Eat. 80 00:08:52.400 --> 00:09:01.600 Save my family. Do the miracle in my body. Heal me. Change my situation. And the father today, 81 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.680 here's what he's going to do through this word. He's going to lift you up and he's going to show you 82 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:12.400 his perspective. I'm already working it out for you. You don't got to cry. You don't 83 00:09:12.400 --> 00:09:18.640 got to fret. You don't got to be afraid. You don't have to keep tapping me. I am already working 84 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:25.120 it out for you. Divine provision is coming. The blessing of God is being released and God's going 85 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:31.440 to do what he promised. All right, let's get into the word. Second King, chapter four, 86 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:37.440 second Kings, the four chapter. I want to talk about one of these women who basically have no name. 87 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:43.680 Like, it's interesting because when I read it, it says a certain woman of the wives, of the 88 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:49.040 fact, a certain woman, they just seem so informal. I know the Bible sometimes doesn't mention the 89 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:55.200 person's name, but at least the woman with the issue of blood, at least you know her by what she's 90 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:02.640 going through. The woman with the spirit of infirmity, at least you know, she's sick. That's the sick 91 00:10:02.640 --> 00:10:08.800 woman right there. When with the issue of blood, oh, that's when we got the blood issue. Right? And 92 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:14.240 the Bible says about the serifredition woman. You don't know her name, right? But you know where she's 93 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:19.360 from. You know the shoot of my woman. You don't know her name, but you know she's from shoot of them. 94 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:24.000 You know, you know, you know at least their title. You know, at least it's like looking at 95 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:31.120 a woman like, yo, that's a chick from Brooklyn. At least you know, like, this is where she's from. 96 00:10:31.760 --> 00:10:38.640 This woman doesn't even get any of the pleasantries. Not only does she get a name, it's just a certain 97 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:48.720 one random certain who certain woman right there. But you're going to see how her faith shifts 98 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:54.080 her family from a death sentence to a place of life. You're going to see how this woman who 99 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:59.520 doesn't even have a title because God doesn't care in these last days about titles and names and 100 00:10:59.520 --> 00:11:05.600 reputations. He's going to raise up a nameless faceless generation. The generation that no one knows 101 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:11.680 who you are, but your faith is going to literally shift the trajectory of this nation. Your prayers 102 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:16.240 are going to have such impact on your family that not just you are going to be saying your kids 103 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.760 are going to be saying your kids kids are going to be saying you're going to have so much equity 104 00:11:19.760 --> 00:11:30.640 and prayer that is going to shift generations. So much equity and prayer that is not just going 105 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:34.720 to impact your kids are going to impact their kids and then theirs kids kids and then and great, 106 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:38.960 great, great, great, great, great grandkids are going to be impacted because of your prayers. 107 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:43.520 Raise up a generation of God loving God, 108 00:11:43.520 --> 00:11:49.680 fearing, powerful women and men of God. Man, I believe it for you. 109 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:56.800 A certain woman, see if so a former of the wives of the sons of the prophet. 110 00:11:56.800 --> 00:12:03.280 All right. Y'all got dinner plans, right? You better be taking your mama. If you're not taking 111 00:12:03.280 --> 00:12:10.960 your wife out, we're going to fight. At least cook her a meal, do something, right? So, 112 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:20.000 I ain't going to be long. Right? Next time I come, I lay hands, I don't know, we can do all that. 113 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:28.960 This time preach, boom. I go see my wife, okay? Get me in trouble. Man, a God lay hands, 114 00:12:29.680 --> 00:12:32.000 pray by faith, the Lord could do it. I don't have to lay hands. 115 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:43.360 All right, let me knock you myself in. Any more so. A certain woman of the wives 116 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:50.720 of the sons of the prophet cried out to a large person saying, your servant, my husband is dead 117 00:12:50.720 --> 00:13:00.720 and you know that your servant feared the Lord and the creditor is coming to take my two sons to 118 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:12.400 to be his slaves, verse two. So Alisha said to her, what shall I do for you? Tell me what do you have 119 00:13:12.400 --> 00:13:22.640 in the house? And she said your maid servant has nothing in it she remembers. I don't have nothing. 120 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:29.520 I've got something. It's not a lot, but she remembers. I have nothing in my house, but 121 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:39.600 a small jar of oil, a little bit of oil. One version literally says a little bit of oil. 122 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:52.800 Not a lot, but enough that God can use. Then he said go borrow vessels from everywhere, from your 123 00:13:52.800 --> 00:13:59.280 neighbors empty vessels do not gather a few. Verse four, and when you have come in, you shall shut the 124 00:13:59.280 --> 00:14:04.160 door behind you, you and your sons and then poured into the vessels and set aside the full ones. 125 00:14:04.800 --> 00:14:09.120 Verse five, so she went from him, shut the door behind her and her sons and brought the vessels to 126 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:14.880 her and she poured it out. Now it came to pass when the vessels were full that she said to her sons, 127 00:14:14.880 --> 00:14:20.320 bring me another vessel and he said to her there's not another vessel, so the oil ceased. 128 00:14:22.560 --> 00:14:29.040 Then she came and told the man of God and he said go sell the oil and pay your debts and you and 129 00:14:29.040 --> 00:14:34.400 your sons will live off the rest. May God bless the reading of his word. See this story is very 130 00:14:34.400 --> 00:14:40.400 interesting to me because like I said it's about a woman and she has no name. She doesn't even have 131 00:14:40.400 --> 00:14:46.560 a title. You don't even know her by her situation. She's just just random woman. She's married to the 132 00:14:46.560 --> 00:14:54.400 prophet, married to the man of God and he ends up dying and she ends up impoverished. She ends up with 133 00:14:54.400 --> 00:15:02.320 nothing. It's even worse than nothing. She ends up in debt. Debt to the point where creditors want 134 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:08.400 to come and take her children and make them slaves. I'm talking about this as a woman who's in a 135 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:14.720 desperate situation with her family and a desperate situation in her life and she understands 136 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:20.240 something that I need a prophetic word that's going to break me out of my funk and break me out of 137 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:25.840 my situation. Can I just say something that I've realized in church is that we have great motivational 138 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:30.080 speakers. We have great people who can communicate but we don't have prophetic words anymore. 139 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:35.360 We don't have words that go right into the depth of what you're going through and speak right 140 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:40.880 into the core of who you are, the core of your pain, the core of your agony, the core of your defeat, 141 00:15:40.880 --> 00:15:46.080 the core of the things you're going through and speak to the situation and bring a breakthrough 142 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:52.320 into your situation. It comes like a two edges sword that pierces the vision of soul and spirit. 143 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:57.840 I'm talking about the type of word you get from God that you come in one way and you leave another 144 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:02.560 way. I'm talking about the type of word from God where you come in despondent and broken and 145 00:16:02.560 --> 00:16:07.680 rejected and depressed and you leave with the joy of the Lord being your strength. I believe 146 00:16:07.680 --> 00:16:14.160 that God's going to raise up those type of preachers again, those type of prophetic voices again 147 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:20.560 who are going to speak right into the soul of people and watch them go from darkness to light, 148 00:16:20.560 --> 00:16:26.800 watch them go from poverty to prosperity, watch them go from darkness to God's presence 149 00:16:26.800 --> 00:16:35.360 overflowing on the inside. I believe it. You need a word from God. You need a prophetic message from 150 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:40.960 God to break through your situation. You need a ramour word. There's two words in the word for 151 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:45.520 Greek. There's one logos. It means the written word and ramour means a word spoken into your 152 00:16:45.520 --> 00:16:51.600 situation that brings breakthrough. I believe God's going to give you ramour words. Words that go 153 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.240 right directly into your childhood and break breakthrough for what happened to you when you were 154 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:01.040 eight years old. I'm talking about the type of prophetic words that's spoken that you're like, 155 00:17:01.040 --> 00:17:06.400 man, did the preacher know what I went through this week? I'm talking about the prophetic words 156 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:13.760 that just don't hit your mind, but they get deep into your soul and they bring resurrection 157 00:17:13.760 --> 00:17:20.160 life to you. Resurrection power to you. They quicken the things that were dead on the inside of 158 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:27.600 you. The dreams and the visions start coming alive. Like, like, things that you felt like, man, 159 00:17:27.600 --> 00:17:32.400 I couldn't do. Once you hear a word that pierces you like that, you're like, man, I could do it. 160 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:38.800 Y'all 90 years old, but I could still accomplish it. You start feeling like you're Caleb. 161 00:17:38.800 --> 00:17:43.760 No, the Bible says about Caleb. Caleb was 80 years old. He had the strength of a 45-year-old. 162 00:17:43.760 --> 00:17:49.600 He was like, I got this. I believe there's that kind of word coming from heaven. That's going to 163 00:17:49.600 --> 00:17:54.720 break through. And anytime we get rid of the prophetic word in the church and we start just doing 164 00:17:54.720 --> 00:18:02.240 nice homilies and we start doing nice, a prissy stuff, we miss the power of God. Amen. 165 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.680 Amen. Amen. Amen. We got a lot of nice great preachers, but we need prophets again. We need 166 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:11.920 people who can look at what's going on in the nation and speak a word that's going to bring 167 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:17.200 breakthrough in the White House, breakthrough in Congress, breakthrough in the Senate, breakthrough 168 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:25.200 in New York City, break go right into City Hall and bring breakthrough. I believe it. There's some 169 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:31.520 people God's raising up with a voice like that. We're not just afraid, but we're going to speak 170 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:41.040 God's word with power and conviction and strength. We need it again. We don't need all of this stuff. 171 00:18:41.040 --> 00:18:54.240 We need God's power again. So this woman, the Bible says her husband, the prophet died. You know 172 00:18:54.240 --> 00:19:01.040 when the prophetic dies in a region, in a church, in a community, that's the grounds for the enemy to 173 00:19:01.040 --> 00:19:09.200 come in and for lack and poverty to come in. Anytime you remove God from a nation, from a people, 174 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:18.320 from a generation, that's when a generation falls and dies. I'm a prover to you biblically. There's 175 00:19:18.320 --> 00:19:22.320 a man his name was Joseph. He was the prophet of his family. He's the one God was giving dreams 176 00:19:22.320 --> 00:19:25.440 to. I don't know if you remember in Egypt. If you don't know the story, please go read it. Read 177 00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:33.520 the whole thing in Genesis. It's very powerful. Joseph's story is profound. He gets these dreams 178 00:19:33.520 --> 00:19:38.160 from God. His brothers get jealous of him. Even his parents are like, we don't know if this 179 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:45.120 is really like you might be forcing this a little bit. And eventually his brothers get so jealous 180 00:19:45.120 --> 00:19:50.160 of him. They take him. They put him in a pit. And then when they see these traders, these media 181 00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:56.960 night traders, they sell him. These Ishmaelites traders. They sell him into the land of Egypt. And he 182 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:02.640 goes into the land of Egypt. And you know what the Bible says happens not too long after his family 183 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:09.760 ends up in poverty. They end up in a famine and they don't know what to do. And guess what? In Egypt, 184 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:16.640 they're actually in prosperity. Egypt ain't no godly nation. This is a pagan evil nation. But it 185 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:22.560 was one that accepted the prophet. And because they accepted the prophetic word and the prophetic voice, 186 00:20:22.560 --> 00:20:26.880 they were blessed while one kicked the prophetic word out and the perfect. That's why you look at 187 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.240 some churches and some of these churches, you're like, man, I church is dead. It's because they don't 188 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:38.160 allow God to speak anymore. They don't even believe God speaks anymore. They're called non-profit churches. 189 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:51.280 I ain't talking about 501c3 either. See, that's some Christian jokes, y'all ain't gay. If y'all 190 00:20:51.280 --> 00:21:00.480 would save long enough, you may not get it. But enough of these non-profit churches, we need 191 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:11.280 churches with a PhDs, prophesy, heal and deliver. God's raising them up. I don't care about how many 192 00:21:11.280 --> 00:21:16.960 degrees you have. If you don't have the PhD, then I don't want to be there. I don't want a church. 193 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:23.840 I come in sick and I leave sick. I come in broken. I leave broken. I come in in chains and I leave 194 00:21:23.840 --> 00:21:29.440 in chains. It'll work like that. I gotta come to a place where I leave and I'm liberated from 195 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:41.760 the chains. It can't be the same old, same old. I'm just here every Sunday. No resurrection powers 196 00:21:41.760 --> 00:21:47.680 here. The same power that rolled Jesus Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you. I said this 197 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:54.480 in the last service. The Holy Spirit is in you like a river, not like a lake. Which means there's 198 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:59.920 a constant flow. A lake, things die. A lake, things are stagnant. But a river, things are constantly 199 00:21:59.920 --> 00:22:05.600 moving. And the Holy Spirit is in you like a river. Can I get to my first point? Because I spent 200 00:22:06.560 --> 00:22:12.560 way too much on that intro. But I felt God on that. How people were there with me? Like 201 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:23.200 so she goes to the prophet and let me tell you in this generation you don't need to go to a prophet. 202 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:30.720 You want to know why? Because everything you need isn't the Holy Ghost that's in you. 203 00:22:32.080 --> 00:22:38.080 When I need a word I'm like oh man of God can you get a word? No, no, no, no. Lord what are you 204 00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:45.360 trying to say to me? Give me a word that's going to change my situation. So she goes to the prophet. 205 00:22:45.360 --> 00:22:54.800 She goes to Alisha, right? She says Alisha, man of God. My husband's dead. 206 00:22:56.640 --> 00:23:04.560 And they're about to take my kids as slaves. What should I do? And then he says something to 207 00:23:04.560 --> 00:23:07.600 react to her question. He asked her two questions. But the second question is the most relevant. 208 00:23:07.600 --> 00:23:11.360 He's like what should I do for you? It's pretty obvious what she wants done. But the second 209 00:23:11.360 --> 00:23:14.400 question is the one that's really interesting to me. Because the second question she says, 210 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:22.480 what do I have? What do you have in the house? The prophet asked her a very pointed question. 211 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:30.240 Hey, I know you're in debt. I know you have nothing. But you've got to have something in the house 212 00:23:31.040 --> 00:23:37.520 that I could work with. Because you know, God just needs something to work with. 213 00:23:37.520 --> 00:23:48.880 Some of y'all don't give God nothing to work with. At least give me 10 minutes in the morning and pray. 214 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:58.720 Did I give you some direction about your day? But some of you give God nothing to work with. 215 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:06.720 Oh, just obey me on this small instruction. Go to church every Sunday. 216 00:24:11.520 --> 00:24:18.560 But some of us give God nothing to work with. It's so interesting that she didn't have much 217 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:23.360 all she had in her house. You got to see this level of being just poor. 218 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:34.960 You got to see the level of poverty she was at. She had nothing. All she had was a little bit of oil, 219 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:42.160 a small jar of oil. And the prophet goes perfect. Yep, definitely could use that. 220 00:24:43.840 --> 00:24:50.320 Some of you may be looking at yourselves, especially a lot of women. Every time I talk to my wife, 221 00:24:50.320 --> 00:24:56.160 there's just this guilt all the time with women. Like mom guilt. And I don't feel like I'm doing enough. 222 00:24:57.280 --> 00:25:03.040 She's always like, man, I want to do more for my kids. I want to do more. I want to do more. And I'm like, 223 00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:07.360 you do everything here. I barely do anything. 224 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:17.200 And I tried my hardest, but I'm like, how do they do this? Does she sleep? 225 00:25:21.280 --> 00:25:24.480 No, we don't. 226 00:25:29.760 --> 00:25:34.880 But this woman is looking at her situation. And she's like, I got nothing left. 227 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:43.280 I got nothing else to give. I got nothing else to give, God. I've given people my time, 228 00:25:43.280 --> 00:25:48.080 my energy, my reason I give them everything. And you know what? Some of you, it's right. You've given 229 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:54.000 stuff to everyone. You gave your heart to the man. You gave your money to friends. 230 00:25:55.680 --> 00:26:04.720 Ooh, they can't say amen, say ouch. I give it all my resources. It's my job. I have nothing else, 231 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:15.280 God. I was like, you do have something, oil. And the answer to what you're looking for is not 232 00:26:15.280 --> 00:26:24.080 money. It's oil. Oil symbolizes the anointing. And you may not have many resources, 233 00:26:24.080 --> 00:26:27.280 but can I tell you something? You got in your house. You got the anointing. 234 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:32.480 Oh, yeah, but I can't preach. And I don't pray like they do. No, no, no, as long as you're a 235 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:40.720 believer and the Holy Spirit lives inside of you, you have the anointing. And you have enough oil 236 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:48.000 for your miracle. You got enough oil to see God do something special in your life. You know, 237 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:57.040 the Bible talks about 10 virgins and five packed enough oil and five didn't. And all night, 238 00:26:57.040 --> 00:27:01.520 they're burning the lips and the five who ran out and like, can we borrow some of y'all? No, no, no. 239 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:06.880 I got my oil here. And when the bridegroom comes and he knocks on the door, 240 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:10.960 guess who's left in the house, the five with the oil? So I want to tell you something, 241 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:15.520 in all you're getting, you want to get the grease, you want to get a nice house, you want to get 242 00:27:15.520 --> 00:27:21.120 all this stuff, you want to be self-sufficient, you want to have all these resources, get oil. 243 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:26.560 You know what? It's going to keep you in the last days. It's not your money, it's not your 244 00:27:26.560 --> 00:27:31.680 reserve in Bitcoin, even though I think you have reserves in Bitcoin and reserves in gold and all 245 00:27:31.760 --> 00:27:38.160 of that stuff, what's going to keep you in the last days is oil. You need the anointing. 246 00:27:41.760 --> 00:27:44.640 And she didn't have anything but she had oil in the house. 247 00:27:47.520 --> 00:27:50.800 It's the oil that's going to keep you. You got enough oil. And I know some of you're looking at 248 00:27:50.800 --> 00:27:57.760 she's like, but me? With my education, with my background, with my failures, with my short 249 00:27:57.840 --> 00:28:02.080 comedies, with my shame, with my combination, with what happened to me when I was a child, 250 00:28:02.080 --> 00:28:06.720 and how I grew up and what I've been through, maybe I don't have it. And God's like, no, you got 251 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.920 it. Everything you need, he's already placed the side of you. Agabobus is everything 252 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:18.000 pertaining to life and godliness. He's put it already in you. You don't got to go look at the 253 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:26.000 outside for it. It's already in you. All the powerful things you need, all the resources you 254 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:29.920 need, God's already placed the side. All the resources for you to be a millionaire, it's already 255 00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:34.720 in you. All the resources you need to be prosperous and to be blessed and to live your best life and 256 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:40.080 to do everything God's called you to do and commission you to do on this earth. It's already 257 00:28:40.080 --> 00:28:45.360 inside of you. The thing is that you look at it and you're like, I have nothing. I have nothing 258 00:28:45.360 --> 00:28:51.040 because that's our first response. Our first response was in like, I got oil. She's like, I got 259 00:28:51.040 --> 00:28:54.720 nothing. And some of you are looking at some of the gift things and some of the things God 260 00:28:54.800 --> 00:29:00.160 places. I didn't like, I didn't got nothing. And God's like, but what about this? If you just use 261 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:08.400 this, I can use this because I don't need much. All I need is a little bit. All I need is a 262 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:12.640 mustard seed of faith and you can tell them out to be removed from here to there and that has to 263 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:17.360 be removed. All I need is just a small amount and I can do a miracle. All I need is just a little 264 00:29:17.360 --> 00:29:23.200 bit. All I need is five loaves and two fish and you can put it in the hands of a big God and 265 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:28.960 wash the five loaves and two fish multiply and feed five thousand men not including women 266 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:35.280 and children. All I need is something small in the hands of a big God and it can do mighty miracles. 267 00:29:35.280 --> 00:29:40.960 All I need is something small in the hands of a mighty God and it can change your generation. 268 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:47.360 It can shift the generation. It can shift the people out of darkness. All I need is your small 269 00:29:47.360 --> 00:29:56.160 obedience. It's a little bit of oil. Just a little bit because you have to look at that culture. 270 00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:04.480 Oil was essential. They used it for soaps. They used it to cook. They used it to clean. 271 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:13.040 Almost everything needed olive oil. Almost everything needed oil. For consecrations when they were 272 00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:18.160 consecrating the priests, they'll denote them with oil. A sign of favor is when they will pour oil 273 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:23.360 on your head. Oil was significant. And so she looked at it. I just got a little bit of oil. God's 274 00:30:23.360 --> 00:30:30.080 like, oh, where? Y'all can use that. God's here. God's here. That's it. It's like the talents, 275 00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:36.160 the parable of the talents. I mean, I'm going to got one talent. Just try to hide it and then you lose 276 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:44.160 it. This is the Bible says, if you don't use it, you lose it. That ain't me. That's the Bible. 277 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.880 Man had one talent. He's like, I'm going to have one talent. I ain't going to use this talent. 278 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:53.440 I'm just going to keep it here. And you know the Bible says, the person who had five talents, 279 00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:57.280 Jesus looked at that person because they multiplied it to 10. Jesus looked at that person and said, 280 00:30:57.280 --> 00:31:01.120 hey, this person who had one who hit it, I'm going to give it to the person with 10. 281 00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:10.000 Because you look at what you have, it's not enough. Let me try to hide it. It's not enough. Let me not 282 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:15.600 talk about it. It's not enough. It's not enough. It's so easy to have a laundry list of what you 283 00:31:15.600 --> 00:31:23.440 don't have. It's so easy to talk about. Man, but I don't have the connections. Well, I don't have 284 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:27.760 the resources. Well, I don't have the people backing me up. Well, I don't have a big family like 285 00:31:27.760 --> 00:31:33.920 they have. Well, I don't have the support of certain people, right? I don't have the money that they 286 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:38.480 have. I don't have the creativity they have. I don't have the wisdom they have. I can't preach like 287 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:41.840 them. I can't pray like them. I can't prophesy like them. I don't speak in tongues like, look, 288 00:31:41.840 --> 00:31:48.080 they just, they speak fancy tongues. I have beginner tongues, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 289 00:31:48.080 --> 00:31:53.920 black sheep. How have you any wool? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Three bags full. I watched too many kids 290 00:31:54.000 --> 00:32:00.080 stuff. But I don't have what they have. They got the advanced tongues. Oh, God, 291 00:32:01.600 --> 00:32:11.920 they're fancy with it. Like, and God's like, it's so interesting that God when he picks people 292 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:19.840 is usually the ones who don't have it all together is usually the ones who have been a mess, 293 00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:26.240 who had the babies out of wedlock, who got a divorce, who's broken, who, who things happen to them 294 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:31.760 when they were a child, who, who had a rough upbringing is the one's those God. He chooses the 295 00:32:31.760 --> 00:32:36.960 fullest things of the world to confound the wise. He looks at those with the rough book backgrounds 296 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:47.200 and he goes, I want to use you for my glory. Not misperfect, not Mr. Get everything all together. 297 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:53.520 It's the ones who are like, blah, blah, I don't know. I can't even speak Moses. Oh, God, 298 00:32:53.520 --> 00:32:56.720 I'm starting to rock. I can't even say, oh, yeah, you the perfect candidate. Come here. 299 00:33:00.560 --> 00:33:04.240 Someone God wants to use. Look at it. Saul, man, I'm killing Christians. 300 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:10.080 You like that right here? I got some moves. 301 00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:21.040 Go look, you're killing Christians. God goes, you're the one who's been anointed to 302 00:33:21.040 --> 00:33:26.480 preach the gospel to the Gentiles. You're going to write 75% of the New Testament. 303 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.320 And then you're talking about God can't use you. You didn't even kill no one. 304 00:33:30.320 --> 00:33:38.480 Well, some, yeah, I don't know. If you did, just no God can use you still. 305 00:33:50.560 --> 00:33:54.480 The first thing the prophet was like, what you got in the house? I got some oil. 306 00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.880 Here's the second thing. And this one, you gotta listen to this instruction. 307 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:10.800 The prophet was like, you got oil. But now you need something. Go borrow vessels from all your neighbors. 308 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:20.160 And he gave a specific instruction, empty vessels. And he says, do not gather just a few. 309 00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:26.720 Get as many vessels as you can. And then this second point kind of blew my mind. 310 00:34:27.600 --> 00:34:33.680 Because like, what does this mean? Okay, we need to oil, but go borrow vessels. And the Lord was like, 311 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:42.000 the second way I'm going to bless you is not because of you. It's because of those you are connected with. 312 00:34:43.200 --> 00:34:47.440 And one thing I realize about what the devil's tried to do in this generation 313 00:34:48.160 --> 00:34:52.000 is make you so connected with people, but at the same time, disconnected with people. 314 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:58.960 We're so connected. Like, man, there's friends from elementary school that I found online. 315 00:35:00.160 --> 00:35:08.160 Like, I have not seen you in ex amount of years. I tell you on my age, no, I don't care, I'm 30, 316 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:16.160 30. Well, the month, 30, 20. Lord, I can't lie. You lie, you die. 317 00:35:18.080 --> 00:35:19.840 In the spirit, I'm 25. 318 00:35:25.120 --> 00:35:27.360 They're like, you got all this gray, you ain't no 25. 319 00:35:30.160 --> 00:35:35.040 But 38, people I haven't seen in 30 years, I go online and it's like, connector, 320 00:35:35.040 --> 00:35:43.200 hold on, we're in third, fourth grade together. This is insane. It's a generation you're so connected. 321 00:35:43.200 --> 00:35:48.800 You go online, you can't figure anything out. You can connect with people around the world. 322 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.000 Back in my days, we went to connect with someone, remember we had pen pals. 323 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.960 I get to write a letter, it took six weeks for that letter to reach the Philippines. 324 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:03.120 And you had a pen pal in the Philippines and in that pen pal, wrote you back 30 years later. 325 00:36:03.200 --> 00:36:08.800 You had kids, a beard, everything. You finally get a letter back. 326 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:17.840 It seemed like back then it was easier to connect with people, 327 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:22.960 but it was also harder to connect with people, but you can actually connect with the real person. 328 00:36:24.080 --> 00:36:26.320 Now you cannot even connect with people for real. 329 00:36:26.640 --> 00:36:33.360 Everything is a DM. Everything is TikTok. Everything is social media. 330 00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:39.520 It's like no one has real conversations. A lot of my friends, I don't, I refuse to answer their 331 00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:46.080 texts because I call them and they try to text me. I'm not texting you. I want to hear your voice. 332 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:53.440 I want real connections because a lot of the breakthroughs in your life are not going to happen 333 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:58.400 through social media. They're going to happen through real connections. That's why coming to church 334 00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:05.120 every week. That's why going to small groups. That's why connecting with other believers throughout 335 00:37:05.120 --> 00:37:11.840 the week is so valuable and important. Why? Because it brings real connection. 336 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:19.760 The Bible says do not forsake the coming together of one another. Why? Because God sees the 337 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:25.680 importance of connection and this woman was about to experience a miracle but it couldn't happen 338 00:37:25.680 --> 00:37:31.040 without other people. This woman was about to experience a breakthrough like she'd ever seen before 339 00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:36.320 but it took other people and I believe God sending you your tribe. I believe God sending you your people. 340 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:40.880 I believe God sending you the prayer warriors who are going to stand around you in a circle and say 341 00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:44.400 we're not going to stop praying until you get breakthrough for your children. We're not going to 342 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:48.880 stop praying until your marriage gets restored. We're not going to stop praying until you get 343 00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:54.640 breakthrough in your body and the cancer shrivels and when you go to the doctor they say no more 344 00:37:54.640 --> 00:38:03.760 cancer in your body. You need people. This mentality I don't need community. I don't need people. 345 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:10.000 It's a lie. It's one of the biggest tricks of the enemy to make you some lone ranger and think 346 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:16.320 that you have superpowers because what happens when we live like that and when we think like that 347 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:22.640 we start treating our situation like it's the most unique situation in the world. Man no one's 348 00:38:22.640 --> 00:38:28.880 ever been through what I've been through. Start being like Elijah no one and then I have the 349 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:34.960 young me one who didn't bow down and then God's like there's a bunch of people. What are you talking 350 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:41.760 about? You're not the only one. It's something like man but what happens if you and I was a child 351 00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:45.680 start talking to some of the people here. They may not look like what they went through but they 352 00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:54.320 been through some stuff. I'm going to be through some stuff stuff stuff and God pulled them out 353 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:59.200 and thank God that he has enough power to pull people out of stuff and they don't even smell like 354 00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:03.440 the fire they've been in. They don't even look like the storm they've been through. They don't 355 00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:09.360 even look like the trials. My God my God I feel something in here. Has anyone God just pulled you 356 00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:13.760 out of something and you even look like what you went through. If you told someone they're 357 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:19.040 like you should be in their G building. You should be dead. Your family should be a mess. No 358 00:39:19.040 --> 00:39:26.880 even had not been for the Lord on my side. Man I don't look like what I went through. 359 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:37.680 A lot of gray hair but I still look good. All right we need people. I have two minutes. 360 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:49.520 neighbors. We need community. You know there was a man in the Bible. The Bible says he was paralyzed. 361 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:57.200 He couldn't walk. He couldn't move. He needed a miracle. Jesus was in the house. 362 00:39:59.040 --> 00:40:03.840 Peter's mother-in-law's house. You know what the Bible says? 363 00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:14.240 He walked there and got his miracle. No. No we didn't say that because not everything you get is 364 00:40:14.240 --> 00:40:20.640 because of you or your hard work or your grinding. I know this generation man I grind it for this. 365 00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:27.840 Yeah you've got about the thousand people that supported you. Don't forget there's people who 366 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:33.520 prayed you where you are. There's people who supported you where you're at. Don't be so 367 00:40:33.520 --> 00:40:38.640 prideful to think you did it all on your own. I'm so grateful that I know where I am in life and 368 00:40:38.640 --> 00:40:43.760 I am in ministry isn't because of anything I've done. First of all is the grace of God. Secondly 369 00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:49.600 is the prayers of the saints that pushed me to where I'm at. They'll tell me I'm doing this no 370 00:40:49.600 --> 00:40:55.840 more God. I'm tired. Ministry these church folk began on your nerves. 371 00:40:57.520 --> 00:41:01.680 Not y'all y'all are good the good church folk. I'm talking about the other church folk. 372 00:41:08.720 --> 00:41:15.520 But you want to quit but I can I can feel the times I want to quit the prayers of the saints 373 00:41:15.520 --> 00:41:19.840 hitting me and then someone calls me out of the blue or says me a message like I've been praying 374 00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:26.320 for you and I'm like I know I felt it because I was about to just lose it and something hit me 375 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:32.960 and it wasn't me I was in praying I was in super spiritual. They're prayers just intercepted and did 376 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:40.720 something. The power of having to write people around you. People who aren't hating because you're 377 00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:44.880 doing well. They're not jealous because you're doing well. They're actually happy. I can't wait 378 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:51.360 till you get your breakthrough. So this man lame. You know the Bible says cut the roof of the house. 379 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:57.840 That's called property damage. You can go to jail for that. But they were so desperate for their 380 00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:03.200 friend to get a breakthrough. They didn't care what it took. They broke through the roof the Bible says 381 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:11.280 and they lowered the man down and then the Bible says Jesus saw the friend's faith and healed the man 382 00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:16.240 because of his friends. So not everything you get is because of you sometimes it's because 383 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:22.000 someone else's faith stood in the gap for your lack of faith. I can't get to my last point 384 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:29.280 and I'm over by 23 seconds so far. Can y'all give me five more minutes? I know you got the 385 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:40.560 mother's day plans. Not everyone didn't clap so I'm going to clap on the inside. Okay they're like 386 00:42:40.560 --> 00:42:46.640 I'm shy. I don't want to clap. Y'all are funny. 387 00:42:52.400 --> 00:43:03.920 But here's the last thing. It's woman desperate. In need her family already severely damaged by 388 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:08.880 her husband's death and now her kids are going to be taken away. That means she's going to lose 389 00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:14.240 everything. You have to understand something about that culture as well. When your kids die, 390 00:43:14.240 --> 00:43:18.240 that means you're essentially dead because your kids were next in line to take care of you if your 391 00:43:18.240 --> 00:43:25.120 husband passed away. So essentially this was not just her kids losing their lives but she was going 392 00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:31.520 to lose everything. She was going to end up on the streets impoverished and eventually dead. 393 00:43:31.680 --> 00:43:41.200 She knew the point that she was at. Man you know what I love about church 394 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:52.320 and what I loved about old school church is that when things got to the point of desperation, 395 00:43:53.280 --> 00:44:03.840 you know who the church usually called? The old church mothers who said I mean the saints, 396 00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:11.360 the women. I'm not saying they weren't men there but there was something about the cry of a woman 397 00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:21.120 for a generation. It was like this maternal spiritual instinct that God placed in women. 398 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:28.080 Where they could just pray things through and they could reach heaven and it's like they're like 399 00:44:28.080 --> 00:44:33.680 that woman who the scripture says one injustice from the judge and who knocked on the door and kept 400 00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:37.360 knocking and the Bible says even when the judge was trying to use the bathroom she's knocking on 401 00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:42.560 the door and finally the judge gets to the point of annoyance and he says I wasn't going to do 402 00:44:42.560 --> 00:44:49.200 this for you but because of your audacious attitude I have to bring the breakthrough. 403 00:44:50.160 --> 00:44:56.000 Where are the audacious attitudes in church again? I'm not going to stop knocking. I'm not going to 404 00:44:56.000 --> 00:45:00.720 stop seeking. I'm not going to stop praying. I'm not going to stop fasting. I'm not going to stop 405 00:45:00.720 --> 00:45:12.320 going after God until I see the breakthrough. So the last structure she was given was interesting. 406 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:20.720 Get your sons, get the oil, get the vessels, go into a room and shut the door behind you. 407 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:28.720 The prophet goes I'm not even going to be in the room but you know it's interesting even though 408 00:45:28.720 --> 00:45:36.560 he was in the room God was in the room. Shut the door behind you and then you're going to see your 409 00:45:36.560 --> 00:45:44.880 miracle. Jesus talks about this. He talks about it in Matthew chapter seven when he talks about 410 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:51.520 how you should pray. What does he say? He said there's some people the only prayers they do is out 411 00:45:51.520 --> 00:46:01.920 loud for everyone to see. Thou thy righteous savior, master supreme, omnipresent, omnipotent, 412 00:46:03.040 --> 00:46:08.720 righteous one so everyone can see them. Impressed with their rhetoric, impressed with their 413 00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:14.880 verbiage, impressed with their syntax, impressed with their abilities. Ah God's like not we good with 414 00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:24.240 that. Said when you pray let me tell you how to pray go into your secret place like that word in 415 00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:28.720 the Greek secret place right. I had a few different meanings. First it meant like a safety deposit 416 00:46:28.720 --> 00:46:38.160 box. You know safety deposit boxes. What do you put in there? Your most valuable possessions, 417 00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:46.240 your treasures, right? You put your most important biocurribian, right? When my mom came here, 418 00:46:46.240 --> 00:46:49.920 there was no safety deposit. The most valuable stuff you put that during under your mattress. 419 00:46:52.160 --> 00:46:56.080 Mama need my birth certificate because I'm trying to get a passport. She left up that mattress. 420 00:46:56.640 --> 00:47:05.680 Damn. Got it right here. But as you graduate, right? You like not I didn't wisdom. 421 00:47:05.680 --> 00:47:12.640 I don't make sense. So you get that you know that one safety deposit the one they got to handle on 422 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:19.680 it. Y'all act like you don't. Y'all too bougie. You know what I want to handle? Got a little lock. 423 00:47:19.680 --> 00:47:23.680 That's the one. Yeah. And then when you really start getting money, then you get one of the nice ones. 424 00:47:23.680 --> 00:47:27.600 You go one of them nice joints. It's like big. And then when you really got money, 425 00:47:27.600 --> 00:47:30.320 that's how I know you got money. If I see this in your house, I know you're rich. 426 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:41.120 When it's installed in the wall. You got some money. I'm going to get there in Jesus' name. 427 00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:50.560 I'm having a nice big safe installed in my wall. But no, but seriously, that's what it meant. 428 00:47:50.560 --> 00:47:54.320 A safety deposit box. A place where you put your most important. Then it changed over time. 429 00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:00.720 And it the word became known as the bedroom chambers. The bedroom chambers. 430 00:48:02.080 --> 00:48:06.960 I'm not talking about any room in the house, right? You got the kitchen. You got the 431 00:48:09.600 --> 00:48:15.200 for me, I have never put cameras in my house. When people usually put cameras in their house, 432 00:48:16.160 --> 00:48:20.960 what's the one place or the couple of places they don't put the bad, the them in the house, 433 00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:29.360 the bathroom, and the open, common space. You better make sure you got your clothes on. 434 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:35.840 Open, common space, you better not be talking no foolishness because I can hear you on the camera. 435 00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:43.200 Because those places are common and they're open and anyone can be there. 436 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:48.000 When you invite someone to your house, you invite them to the open, common areas. 437 00:48:48.880 --> 00:48:52.640 You could chill in my living room, but if they start sneaking up, 438 00:48:55.120 --> 00:49:02.240 what you're doing in here? This is an intimate place. This is not a common place. 439 00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:11.440 When Jesus uses the word for the secret place, He's saying, this is not a common place. 440 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:19.440 This is not a regular place. This is not a place where even people who ain't your friends, 441 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:24.640 they come to your house, and I'm trying to sell you this vacuum. You don't invite that guy to your 442 00:49:24.640 --> 00:49:30.000 bedroom. You want to stay in my living room. I don't know you. 443 00:49:35.040 --> 00:49:40.240 But you invite in your bedroom those you're intimate with. 444 00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:46.080 I don't know if you got kids, but kids are mad nosy. 445 00:49:48.080 --> 00:49:53.360 They're the church saying, man, they hear everything, even things that aren't for them. 446 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:56.400 You like talking low to you, oh, really be going to six flags? 447 00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:59.360 But I wasn't talking to you. 448 00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:03.440 Oh yeah, how are we going to Disney World? 449 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:04.240 I don't know. 450 00:50:08.720 --> 00:50:13.200 So when I want to tell my wife something very important, intimate, 451 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:19.920 I tell her where all the kids get here. I go up to the third floor, because that's 452 00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:22.640 what my bedroom is. Mad steps. I got a lot of steps. 453 00:50:22.640 --> 00:50:28.640 Go up to the third floor, I'm out of breath. 454 00:50:29.600 --> 00:50:34.000 Cool, babe. Yo, babe, I tell you something crazy. 455 00:50:37.600 --> 00:50:42.240 That's how I always serve. It's like, yo, and my face is just like this, yo. 456 00:50:45.600 --> 00:50:47.200 She's like, babe, what, what, what? 457 00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:52.320 And I'm like, yo, I'm still doing yo for like six minutes later. 458 00:50:55.280 --> 00:51:03.120 And I tell her, hey, babe, here's what's going on. I tell her to drama, 459 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:08.400 because I don't want anyone else to hear because it's an intimate place. 460 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:14.160 This woman was right at the brink of her miracle. She had the oil, she had the vessels, 461 00:51:14.160 --> 00:51:18.240 empty vessels. She had everything she needed, but there was one thing I was missing. 462 00:51:20.560 --> 00:51:29.600 Shut the door. There's a generation that the brink, I'm telling you, the enemy wants to destroy 463 00:51:29.600 --> 00:51:35.120 this generation. It wants to bring gender confusion, wants to bring fear, wants to bring doubt, 464 00:51:35.120 --> 00:51:38.880 wants to bring all types of sexuality into this generation. 465 00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:47.280 Once people tonight even understand who they are, and the only way this generation is going 466 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:54.000 to be saved is we could find people to close the door. Close the door in prayer. 467 00:51:55.600 --> 00:52:00.400 Get back to your secret place. If you've lost it, get back. If you've never had it, this is the 468 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:04.800 moment where you say, God, I'm going to wake up 30 minutes early every day because I want to 469 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:08.880 develop that secret place with you. I want to know you. I want to have a relationship with you 470 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:13.600 because you know the interesting about the secret place. The Bible says that God's already there 471 00:52:13.600 --> 00:52:18.160 waiting for you in the secret place. It says the Father who's already in the secret place, 472 00:52:18.160 --> 00:52:24.000 which means he's not out there in the ether. He's at the place of intimacy waiting for you to show up. 473 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:29.840 He's on the bed like this. You finally came in. I've been waiting for you all this time. 474 00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:38.720 Thank you for showing up. Now we could talk. Now I can change your life. Now I can change you 475 00:52:38.720 --> 00:52:45.360 more than I change your situation. Because once he changes you, then guess what? You have the power 476 00:52:45.360 --> 00:52:50.800 to change your situation. That's how the act of a God to change a situation. God's like, if I change 477 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:56.080 you, then I can empower you to change your situation. Pick up your bed and walk. 478 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:03.440 Jesus is not like, Jesus ain't going, I'm going to pick up your bed. I'm going to do all the work 479 00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:10.400 for you. Just like, I'm giving you enough power to pick up your own mess. Imagine a man living on 480 00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:15.840 the ground for 30 years. His bed isn't just a bed. It's a whole mess. Get your mess together and 481 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:26.160 get out of here. Be free. The Lord wants you to close the door. So today, if you didn't get 482 00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:32.160 anything, shut the door. Get into the place of prayer. Wherever that is, if that's at night, 483 00:53:32.160 --> 00:53:38.400 I don't know how y'all people do stuff at night. I sleep at night. Right? These people, they 484 00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:43.840 be up like three o'clock in the morning. I can't do it. But if that's your time, get your time 485 00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:48.800 with God. If it's the morning, you got to wake up early and sacrifice. I know you get on the 486 00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:55.120 train at 5.30. Right? I know you got to wake up at 5. But wake up at 4.30. Make that commitment to 487 00:53:55.120 --> 00:53:58.880 the Lord. Lord, I'm going to close the door because I want to spend time with you and I want to 488 00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:02.480 know you and I know you're waiting for me in the secret place. And I'm going to meet you here so 489 00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:07.360 that we can have intimacy so that we can pray so that we can get to know each other. God, I want to 490 00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:13.360 know you. And you know what the Bible says? She closed the door behind her and then she starts 491 00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:18.160 pouring the oil, the little jar of oil. How did that little jar of oil start filling vessels? 492 00:54:21.120 --> 00:54:25.200 That little jar of oil, that's what I told you. You got enough for your miracle. Everything you 493 00:54:25.200 --> 00:54:30.080 need for the miracle is already in you and God is waiting for that secret place because that's what 494 00:54:30.080 --> 00:54:35.840 activates what's already inside of you. That's what activates and awakens what's already inside 495 00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:40.720 of you. And so she starts pouring and pouring and pouring and the oil only stops because she runs 496 00:54:40.720 --> 00:54:48.560 out of empty vessels. That oil would have still been pouring like, yeah. And Holy Spirit wants to 497 00:54:48.560 --> 00:54:53.440 keep pouring oil in you and he's saying, where are the empty vessels in the secret place? Are you 498 00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:58.160 an empty vessel in the secret place? Because then he could keep pouring and pouring and pouring and 499 00:54:58.160 --> 00:55:02.160 pouring and pouring. I mean, you going to be so oily, you're going to slip all over the place. 500 00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:07.360 May you go to your job, you're going to be so oily, think of like saying it's different about you. 501 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:12.800 You got to oil a joy instead of sadness. You what? There's oil oil. They don't look at you. I'm 502 00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.240 like, you need to pray for me because there's something about you. You're going through, but you 503 00:55:16.240 --> 00:55:22.400 just happy. Yeah, it's called the joy of the Lord. It's my strength. I got oil. Somebody say, I got 504 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:29.680 oil. I mean, I got all the money, but I got oil. I mean, I have all the resources, but I got oil. 505 00:55:29.680 --> 00:55:36.240 And all I need for my miracle is oil. You got a number on the inside of you for the breakthrough 506 00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:41.840 you've been praying for. The Holy Ghost is in you like a river. Come on, stay up to your feet. We're 507 00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:48.640 about to go father. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for what you've done in this place. Thank you. 508 00:55:48.640 --> 00:55:54.400 Thank you. Thank you for these amazing people at this amazing church. Thank you for these amazing 509 00:55:54.400 --> 00:56:01.360 women. I pray that they'll begin to uncover and discover who they really are in you. Lord, I thank 510 00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:06.400 you. I thank you. I thank you for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I'm going to flow through this 511 00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:17.680 church. Untap in wells. Untap into wells. Be discovered in this place. Wells of revelation. Wells 512 00:56:17.680 --> 00:56:24.400 of insight. Wells of gifts. Untap potential come forth out of these people. I pray, Lord, 513 00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:29.040 there'll be reservoirs that they didn't even know that we're on the inside of them that become 514 00:56:29.040 --> 00:56:36.240 uncovered by the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord, for doing it for your people in Jesus' name and 515 00:56:36.240 --> 00:56:43.600 all God's people shout. The best part of the story is the Bible says she had enough oil, 516 00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:51.680 not only for herself. She had enough oil to get rid of all of her debt and then the Bible says 517 00:56:51.680 --> 00:56:59.120 she lived off the rest for her entire life. I just want to give someone a word right now who feels 518 00:56:59.120 --> 00:57:04.720 like they don't got enough resources. I want to let you know you got enough oil for the breakthrough 519 00:57:04.720 --> 00:57:11.280 and not just enough you're about to live on overflow. Let me try to say it again for some real 520 00:57:11.280 --> 00:57:15.120 believers because if you really believe that you will lift up your hands and shout like you're 521 00:57:15.120 --> 00:57:22.400 about to hit the season of overflow and abundance. You're about to inch be introduced to a new season. 522 00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:34.720 Your new address is called overflow. Your new address is overflow. Somebody say my new address is 523 00:57:34.720 --> 00:57:45.440 overflow. If you believe it, shout yes. This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any 524 00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:50.560 part of today's message or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light 525 00:57:50.560 --> 00:57:59.840 Church visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person 526 00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:05.760 anytime. We would love to connect with you. 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