WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.920 You hate this, you hate that, you hate the sickness. 2 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:06.080 All these things, but then God uses those things as a setup to get you where He wants you to be. 3 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:11.360 So we have to learn how to praise God not for everything, but in spite of everything. 4 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:15.280 Set up your memorial stone, be a person of gratitude and thanksgiving. 5 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:18.400 David, who was about to face Goliath, a giant. 6 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:21.120 Think about what he used as his weaponry. 7 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:22.960 It wasn't just a sling and a stone. 8 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:25.120 It was the testimony of God's resume. 9 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:28.480 Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. 10 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:35.440 Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us. 11 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:41.360 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com 12 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:43.920 that citylightnyc.com. 13 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:52.400 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 14 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:56.800 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, 15 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:02.400 that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 16 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:08.800 Today we are talking about the day after pill. 17 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:12.880 Amen. 18 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.240 See that awkward silence right now? 19 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:19.440 Like some of you are like, Pastor Mocha Mocha, man, I brought a guest today, bro. 20 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:24.160 Well, they are in for a good time, praise God. 21 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:27.840 Here is the thing. 22 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.960 As heavy as that subject matter is, just know that we are not afraid to talk about it, 23 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:38.160 amen? 24 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:43.120 Man, you guys look so nervous. 25 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:58.240 Before we get there, how many people were here, not last Sunday, but the weekend before last, 26 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:00.160 when we had Prophet David Wagner here? 27 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:04.640 Oh, you can clap, praise God, it was mighty moving out of you man. 28 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:08.160 It was like, nervous, like, no, no, it was a blessing, it was a blessing. 29 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:12.640 It was a blessing because if you weren't here, so we had a guest minister by the name of David 30 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:16.000 Wagner, he actually sits in the office of a prophet. 31 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:21.680 Now that's significant because the Bible is very clear that all Christians are prophetic, 32 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.400 but not every Christian sits in the office of a prophet. 33 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:28.480 The Bible speaks about that saying that to those that sit in that office, 34 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:33.760 they are given a more sure word of prophecy, meaning the connection lines a little bit more accurate, 35 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:35.520 a little bit more strong, amen? 36 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:40.400 And what prophecy does is it strengthens you, it edifies you, it builds you up, 37 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.760 it gives you a sense of comfort and exhortation, it pushes you in the right direction. 38 00:02:46.640 --> 00:02:52.000 And this happens at a great level when you have someone who's sitting in the office of a prophet. 39 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:58.240 I've probably never met a minister who has more of the father's heart for the local church 40 00:02:58.480 --> 00:03:00.400 and in David Wagner. 41 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:05.680 And he came and he ministered mightily throughout the house, gave prophetic words, 42 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.040 not just to Pastor Bo, but to many of you in the room, amen? 43 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.880 And the thing is, I wanted to preach this message last week, but last week was Pentecost Sunday. 44 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.120 So it only made sense for us to minister the message of Pentecost Sunday on Pentecost. 45 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.640 Like, you know, ministering a message on Pentecost Sunday the week after Pentecost, 46 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:25.840 it doesn't quite fit, amen? 47 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:29.040 So Pastor Bo ministered an amazing message. 48 00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:33.040 If you have never been baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, 49 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:37.040 I suggest you go back and you watch that on YouTube or one of our podcasts, 50 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.520 because you're going to need that, you're going to step into the next level in your faith, amen? 51 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:48.000 But there's a thing about when you receive a prophetic word that you need to know what to do with 52 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:53.920 that. And specifically, that's why I wanted to minister this message about the day after pill. 53 00:03:53.920 --> 00:03:59.040 Because sometimes, with the day after pill, what really happens is something takes place 54 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.760 and you've got to make a decision about what's going to come next. 55 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:09.680 Oh, they nervous again. Oh, I thought he stopped talking about it. He's back on it again. Yeah. 56 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:16.640 See, again, some things happen. Some adults get together and they do these things. We're not even 57 00:04:16.640 --> 00:04:21.680 to get into the logistics and the legality of whether you have a license or not to engage in such 58 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:29.600 behaviors. But whether you have the license or not, there are some people that engage in 59 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:40.160 what's the polite term, coitus. And then some things happen where a seed is planted and a woman 60 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:44.800 is impregnated. And now there's a decision that needs to be made because that thing is going to 61 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:50.480 keep growing and it's going to turn into a person, amen? See, there are some Christians today that I 62 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:53.680 don't know. They feel a little uncomfortable because they've engaged in things that maybe they 63 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:58.560 shouldn't have engaged in. Let me give you some freedom right now. Let me remove the ambiguity, 64 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:05.040 if you will. It is a sin if you are taking the day after pill to kill that which is growing. 65 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:12.720 Maybe your last pastor didn't tell you upfront. I'm telling you, you are engaging in murder. 66 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:24.880 Oh, the past, there is no but pastor mo. If you leave that which is growing, it will turn into a human. 67 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:34.640 Did you know that the day after pill is designed? It finds its origin, its technological and 68 00:05:34.640 --> 00:05:42.560 scientific origin in the Nazis. They created it in order to kill more Jews. 69 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:52.960 And the later this technology was used by a planned parenthood as eugenics to eliminate those that 70 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:58.640 look more like me. And then it was more broadly used by everybody in the world who just don't know 71 00:05:58.640 --> 00:06:09.440 Jesus. Amen? Yep, real quiet. But I just, you know, we got to get the ambiguity out of the way, 72 00:06:09.440 --> 00:06:15.360 like it is a sin and I don't want you to think that it's not. Here's the thing, sometimes we justify 73 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:20.800 things in our minds. We do the mental back flips that say, if I think about it, if I look at it just 74 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:30.400 from this way, then maybe it's okay. No, it's not. It is murder. Because again, if you leave what 75 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:38.720 is growing, it'll live and turn into something. But past the moment, you was just talking about 76 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.880 prophecy. How you switching between prophecy and abortion? Well, here's the thing. When you get a 77 00:06:42.880 --> 00:06:49.120 prophetic word and you get a promise from God, there is something that starts to grow. And we got 78 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:54.320 to think about what to do with that thing. Now, it's a very actually unfortunate thing, but 79 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:59.120 the natural inclination of humans when you get a prophetic word, the thing that is more prone to 80 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:06.400 grow naturally without any help is doubt and unbelief. How do I know that? I know that from the 81 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:12.080 scriptures because even when something like an angel from heaven appears in bodily form and he 82 00:07:12.080 --> 00:07:18.160 gives you a direct message from God, because this is what Gabriel said, I am God who stand in the, 83 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:24.080 I am an angel who stands in the very presence of God. And I'm telling you that this thing is about 84 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:29.920 to happen and your only response is, but how's that going to go down, gee? That tells me that the 85 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:36.240 natural response when you get these type of promises and messages from God is doubt and unbelief. 86 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:44.560 So I'm going to let the cat out the bag. The one and only exception where you as a Christian are 87 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:53.520 allowed to use the day after pill is to kill the doubt and unbelief that will be born in you 88 00:07:53.520 --> 00:07:59.360 when you get a prophetic word. Because again, that thing is naturally occurring and if you leave it 89 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:07.520 alone, it will grow into something. Now, the scientific one will grow into a baby. The spiritual one 90 00:08:07.520 --> 00:08:12.000 will turn into doubt and unbelief. And what you need to do is you need to strangle the doubt and 91 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:17.520 unbelief and you need to let the humans live. Come on, somebody say amen. Okay, okay, we're on the 92 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:28.320 same page. Look at you all nervous. So what do we do with prophecy after it's given? 93 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:31.760 First Timothy 118 says this. 94 00:08:37.920 --> 00:08:41.760 See, that's normally the part where we take out the cell phone that's blaring and we turn it off. 95 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:47.440 Amen. First Timothy 118 says this charge I commit to you, 96 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:54.400 Sun Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you that by them you may wage the 97 00:08:54.400 --> 00:09:03.120 good warfare. Wage the good warfare. What is going on right now? Raise your hands by a show of 98 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:11.360 hands. How many of you know who John the Baptist is? Almost everybody. Do you know what the Bible says 99 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:18.080 about John the Baptist? This is by the account of Jesus. Jesus testifies that John the Baptist was 100 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:24.640 the greatest prophet among men. The greatest Old Testament prophet ever was John the Baptist. 101 00:09:25.680 --> 00:09:30.640 Now, just to put things in context, it says everybody who's a New Testament believer who puts their 102 00:09:30.640 --> 00:09:39.920 trust in God is greater than John the Baptist. Just throw that out there. But when it comes to 103 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:46.960 prophets, the Bible says that there is no greater man than this man. Amen. This is a man who literally 104 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:55.040 from his infancy being in the womb, he experienced and was filled with the Holy Ghost so much so that 105 00:09:55.040 --> 00:10:00.320 his mother began to experience the presence of God because she had him inside of her while he was 106 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:06.720 filled. Imagine you get the Holy Ghost just because your feet is dancing in the Lord. 107 00:10:10.560 --> 00:10:21.920 All right. So this is a mighty man of God, right? And he receives a message directly from God 108 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:27.040 about things that are going to take place. How many know that prophecy is not just encouragement. 109 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:31.840 It's not just exhortation. Sometimes it's forth telling. It's sometimes telling you things that 110 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:36.320 are going to happen and giving you a promise of what is going to take place. Amen. 111 00:10:36.400 --> 00:10:44.080 But the thing is we have to know how to properly receive these things so that we don't let them drop. 112 00:10:45.520 --> 00:10:53.520 I found that most prophecies actually are like dreams. As a famous minister that said one time he 113 00:10:53.520 --> 00:11:00.320 asked the question, he said, where are the greatest treasures in the world? You know, different 114 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.320 peoples that began to throw up their hands answering about different stock markets and different 115 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:08.480 places like that. He said, no, the place that has the greatest riches is the grave. 116 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:13.760 Because that's where the unrealized dreams and visions go to die. 117 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:22.720 And in those graves with the dreams and the visions are the prophetic words about the future. 118 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.720 Because if they're not stewarded well, they actually won't come to pass and they won't happen. 119 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:35.280 So we got to know what do we do with these words. And I love it because we're actually in good 120 00:11:35.280 --> 00:11:40.400 company because we find in the scripture many people who were just like us where they get a word 121 00:11:40.400 --> 00:11:46.240 and they don't exactly know what to do with it. So we can learn a lot from looking at John the Baptist. 122 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:52.560 Because again, this is a man where God spoke to him directly about what was going to take place. 123 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:59.440 And in part and parcel, he saw some of it. He experienced some of it, but not all of it. 124 00:12:01.760 --> 00:12:02.720 Let's look at the scriptures. 125 00:12:07.280 --> 00:12:15.520 John 1, 32, and John Boer witness saying, I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove 126 00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:21.680 and he remained upon him. I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 127 00:12:21.680 --> 00:12:27.440 upon whom you see the spirit descending and remaining on him, this is he whom baptizes 128 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:33.520 with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God. Now keep this up 129 00:12:33.520 --> 00:12:45.360 here. I have seen and testified. This is the Son of God. God speaks to him and tells him what's 130 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:52.160 going to take place. He had the unique experience of seeing the invisible on earth. He saw the Holy 131 00:12:52.160 --> 00:13:01.840 Spirit come down from heaven and rest on Jesus at his baptism. God gives him a word. You are going to 132 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:11.760 open up the doors for the Messiah. What? I'm going to open the neck. Oh, Jesus. He starts his 133 00:13:11.760 --> 00:13:17.440 ministry on this prophetic word. He's baptizing, calling people to repentance, only all of this, 134 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:22.000 just so that that one man could be revealed to the nation of Israel. And then lo and behold, 135 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:29.600 it happens to be his cousin, no less. Yo, cousin. Oh, that's in the Pastor Mo paraphrase Bible, 136 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:37.680 by the way. Yeah, I don't want you to get confused. Because he's like, I want you to baptize 137 00:13:37.760 --> 00:13:43.440 me. And Jesus playing it real cool. It's like, come on, man. Just let it be. Let's do it. Let's do it. 138 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.000 It do because he's like, you want me to baptize you. What? I want you to baptize me with fire. 139 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:51.120 Let's go. Jesus is like, just do the thing. Okay. I'll do the thing. 140 00:13:53.680 --> 00:14:01.840 Guess this amazing word. He sees the Spirit of God. He sees what no other Old Testament 141 00:14:01.920 --> 00:14:07.920 prophet has ever seen. They experienced the presence of God back then. This is a man, the first 142 00:14:07.920 --> 00:14:13.200 person on earth filled with the Holy Ghost. Because back then, the Holy Spirit would come over a 143 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:19.040 prophet or over a king or over the priest. But this is the first person on earth filled. 144 00:14:20.400 --> 00:14:26.000 Because remember, he was born before Jesus. That's just a little Bible nerd stuff, just throw that 145 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:33.920 out there for you. He sees and he testifies this is the Son of God. You would think from there 146 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:38.080 that he understands exactly what is going to take place next, amen? 147 00:14:40.640 --> 00:14:45.520 But we find that that is not the case. What we find is that in the Scriptures, 148 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:54.160 this is a man just like us who doesn't always know how to appropriately steward the promises 149 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:59.840 of God. And if you don't appropriately steward them, you can let them fall and you yourself can fall 150 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:06.640 into doubt and unbelief and depression based on your circumstances. Am I talking to anybody yet? 151 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:13.520 How many times has God spoken something powerful and good to you only for you to look at your 152 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:24.080 life and go, this is not what God said. Matthew 111 says this, 153 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:30.960 now it came to pass when Jesus finished commanding his 12 disciples that he departed from there to 154 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:35.920 teach and preach in their cities. And when John had heard in prison, what? 155 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:44.880 This is the man who saw the Holy Ghost. The first one on earth declared that Jesus Christ is Lord, 156 00:15:44.880 --> 00:15:52.560 the Son of God. But he's in prison. What type of ministry is that? 157 00:15:55.760 --> 00:16:00.400 And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples 158 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:05.040 and said to him, are you the coming one or do we look for another? 159 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.680 Wait, wait, wait. Do you see the dichotomy here? Do you see the switch? 160 00:16:11.040 --> 00:16:18.000 He sees and testifies you are the son of God. And now it's, I need to write this man. Let me 161 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:28.240 hit up this man's DM. I'm in some trouble. So I'm just wondering, are you the guy? 162 00:16:29.920 --> 00:16:34.720 I mean, I know I proclaimed you to be the guy because I saw the Spirit of God on you and everything 163 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:38.880 and in that moment it felt really good to get the word because how many know when you get the word, 164 00:16:38.880 --> 00:16:46.640 it feels good. But every day that goes beyond that, you have to deal with what's growing on the inside. 165 00:16:48.800 --> 00:16:54.720 And it's the opposite of what God said, but you have to move past the mundane of normalcy 166 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.480 and remember what God said so that you can get what John is trying to give. 167 00:17:01.040 --> 00:17:06.080 Because what he said and what he testified is not what he experienced after the fact. 168 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:12.800 So he goes, are you the one or should I keep looking for another? 169 00:17:12.800 --> 00:17:20.880 Look at how far the slope is. And it's not because he wasn't a good Christian. 170 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:25.760 It's not because he wasn't a man of faith. The Bible says this is the greatest of the prophets. 171 00:17:25.760 --> 00:17:31.360 I need you to understand the logist. He saw the Holy Spirit. 172 00:17:31.360 --> 00:17:36.960 Well, it was the last time you saw the Holy Ghost because some of you judging him like, 173 00:17:37.360 --> 00:17:40.160 what didn't have been made? No, sir. 174 00:17:42.800 --> 00:17:47.200 You see what the Holy Ghost does and you're still like, he saw the Holy Spirit. 175 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:55.440 And he still ended up in a place of doubt. This is why we have to be careful and make sure that we take 176 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:58.160 our day after. Oh, y'all ain't saying that yet. 177 00:18:03.280 --> 00:18:04.240 But look what Jesus says. 178 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:10.640 Verse four, Jesus answered and said to them, go and tell John the things which you hear and see. 179 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:14.400 The blind see and the lame walk. The lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear. 180 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.840 The dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 181 00:18:17.840 --> 00:18:20.560 And blessed is he who is not offended because of me. 182 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:28.720 He was reminding him. I don't care what it looks like. 183 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.200 Know that what God said is. 184 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:40.880 What has God said about you? What is? See, the thing about the is part, this is where faith 185 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:48.400 is required. Now, faith is the substance of that which is hope for, right? Faith is. 186 00:18:49.360 --> 00:18:53.120 It's a current thing. It's not a, often we think of faith as a looking, looking forward. 187 00:18:53.120 --> 00:18:57.760 But none of the Bible says that faith is currently today, right here, now. 188 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:05.520 Faith is. What has God said is about you? 189 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:09.120 Did he call you a victor? 190 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:13.840 Did he say that you were healed from all of your diseases? 191 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:16.640 Did he say that you were powerful? 192 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:18.640 Did he say that you were rich? Did he say that you were blessed? 193 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:20.080 Did he say that you weren't single? 194 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:25.040 Oh, let me get, let me get, you got to get personal for the people. 195 00:19:27.120 --> 00:19:30.640 Did he say that that barren womb was eventually going to give forth a child? 196 00:19:33.520 --> 00:19:36.240 Did he say that you were not going to be stuck in that basement forever? 197 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:44.160 Come on, what did God say about you? What did God say is? What is the truth? 198 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.640 And what lie are you believing because of your current circumstances? 199 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:54.960 Because what God said is sometimes doesn't look like what is surrounding you. 200 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:59.680 But which one are you going to believe that things that you see or the things that God said? 201 00:20:06.560 --> 00:20:07.440 Is still quiet. 202 00:20:11.520 --> 00:20:16.400 We have to properly steward the prophetic word of God that is given to us. 203 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:23.760 You got to properly steward it. When God speaks something to you, you got to know how to handle it. 204 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:26.000 You got to know how to receive it. 205 00:20:29.120 --> 00:20:31.920 It takes wisdom, hope, and perseverance. 206 00:20:32.560 --> 00:20:36.000 Wisdom because we have to correctly discern how to walk it out with the Lord and 207 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.760 accurately step into bringing it to pass under His direction. 208 00:20:39.760 --> 00:20:42.880 AKA, you can fumble the bag if you do it by yourself. 209 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:48.080 You ever heard of an Ishmael? That was a fumbling of the bag. 210 00:20:49.280 --> 00:20:53.280 We got some issues happening in Iran right now. That is an Ishmael problem. 211 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.520 That's when God promises you something and you feel like, you know what? 212 00:20:57.520 --> 00:21:01.040 I'm going to go ahead and just, you said, this is what it is. I'm going to do it. Let's go. 213 00:21:01.040 --> 00:21:04.960 Let's go. No, no, no. You have to do things according to the wisdom of heaven, amen? 214 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:09.680 Just because God says you're going to be married doesn't mean that you go pick up the first 215 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:11.600 pretty face that you see. Come on. 216 00:21:15.040 --> 00:21:20.000 Listen, I've done some marriage counseling before and I've seen some people wreck themselves 217 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:25.200 because they went for the first pretty face. Just hold on. Let God bring you the one with 218 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:29.440 character and integrity, amen? That proverbs 31, woman, Jesus. 219 00:21:33.520 --> 00:21:37.040 That came from a mother whose son she taught how to wait on the right one. 220 00:21:41.360 --> 00:21:44.400 You need wisdom. You also need hope because at the end of the day, 221 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:48.800 regardless of how good it felt to hear and receive that word, it's still something invisible 222 00:21:48.800 --> 00:21:53.120 that has been released to you that now forces you to utilize your faith. 223 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:56.240 The substance of things hope for the evidence of things yet unseen, 224 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:02.880 according to Hebrews 111 and Perseverance because the honest to God truth is that we are subject 225 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:11.040 to the timing of the Lord. I wish that every time a prophetic word went out, it would just happen 226 00:22:11.040 --> 00:22:18.640 like that. This is not controversial at all but you just need to know this. When you get a 227 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:28.240 prophetic word, it's not new information. It's confirmation, amen? Listen, if I come and I tell 228 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:33.360 you a word that you supposed to be a missionary in China and you have never thought about that in 229 00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:39.760 your life, put that in your back pocket and see what God does with it. Amen? Stop shipwrecking your 230 00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:44.560 life because you want some magical fantasy about what God wants to do with you. No, God is going to 231 00:22:44.800 --> 00:22:51.840 do with you what he's already been speaking to you about. I don't know why I felt the need to say 232 00:22:51.840 --> 00:22:58.800 that with such work, but there are some people looking to shipwreck themselves. Transient 233 00:22:58.800 --> 00:23:05.360 and fuzzist, enthusiast. Constantly Holger, you got a word? You got a word? Got a word? Got a 234 00:23:05.360 --> 00:23:13.440 word? Oh, tell me a word? Oh yeah, I'm going to go to the nation. You're going to go to the nations 235 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:26.400 and do what? You can't even serve here in your own church. Because you know what it is yet? 236 00:23:27.360 --> 00:23:31.920 I feel like I'm skipping around like, oh, let me tiptoe off of that. No, we want to stay right here. 237 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:36.800 If you want to come up, we could deal with that too. I got Chris and Jose stand up. Let him show 238 00:23:36.800 --> 00:23:46.720 me guns, baby. Show me guns. All right. This word that God gives you is not going to be this supernatural 239 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:56.000 thing out of heaven that makes no sense to nobody. God told me I was going to be a pastor and I worked a 240 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:01.440 regular nine to five job that I hated for many years. And I knew that I was called to be a pastor. 241 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:08.480 I saw it on the inside of me every day. And then words would come that would coincide and agree 242 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:12.880 with that word. And if you looked at it from the outside, you would think that I was so disrespectful 243 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:18.560 to the man and the woman, the guy coming with the word is like, and brother, she cutting on the 244 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:25.440 I feel like the Lord is going to use you. You're going to be a prophet. You're going to minister the 245 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:30.400 word of God. You're going to be a pastor. Don't you run from it? And I'd be like, yeah, amen. 246 00:24:32.560 --> 00:24:39.360 Because it wasn't new. I've been spending time with the Lord already. He had already showed me. 247 00:24:39.360 --> 00:24:48.160 This is what I got for you. And I was stuck in life. Unable to man it. Because remember, you take 248 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:53.840 this thing, but you can't make this thing. You got to receive this thing. And I'm talking about 249 00:24:53.840 --> 00:25:06.720 his promise and his word. Amen. Okay. Number one, we have to let life happen. I know this is the 250 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:13.120 most boring, prophetic instruction you've ever received. You want to see the promises of God 251 00:25:13.120 --> 00:25:21.120 fulfilled in your life. Let life happen. Time and balance. It happens to everybody. 252 00:25:21.840 --> 00:25:33.920 Genesis 12 1. Come on. Now the Lord said to Abram, get out of your country from your family and 253 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:39.680 from your father's house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will 254 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:45.600 bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you 255 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:51.360 and I will curse him who curses you. And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed. 256 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:58.000 So Abram departed as the Lord God had spoken to him and lot went with him. And Abram was 75 257 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:05.600 years old when he departed from Iran. Did you know that this is not the first time that God spoke to 258 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:12.560 Abram? It's actually the second time that God makes a promise to Abram via prophecy. 259 00:26:13.520 --> 00:26:18.960 In the book of Acts, we learn from a Holy Spirit-filled Stephen that God gloriously appeared to him back in 260 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:24.800 Chaldea or Mesopotamia. That's modern day Iraq. When God speaks to us, it's piecemeal. 261 00:26:28.480 --> 00:26:35.040 How can I put it? It's piecemeal for a very specific reason. Because if he gave you the 262 00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:39.600 full detailed step of everything that he wants you to do, you would get up and move to China. 263 00:26:39.600 --> 00:26:48.240 Anybody ever heard of? Everybody ever heard of Jonah? What, you want me to go, 264 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:59.680 do what? No, I'm out. Let's look at Acts 7. Acts 7 verse 2. And he said, brethren and fathers, 265 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:04.960 listen, the God of glory appeared to our father, Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia before he 266 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:10.160 dwelt in Iran and said to him, get out of your country and from your relatives and come to a land 267 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:15.760 that I will show you. Then he came out of the land of the Caldeans and dwelt in Iran. And from 268 00:27:15.760 --> 00:27:20.960 there, when his father was dead, he moved him to this land in which you now dwell. And God gave 269 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:26.720 him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, 270 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:34.800 he promised to give it to him. He what? To give it to him for a possession and his descendants 271 00:27:34.800 --> 00:27:41.760 after him. Completed prophecy comes about with a combination of word and deed. Now, now let's 272 00:27:41.760 --> 00:27:49.520 stop for a minute. So think about what Abraham is going through. You live in a land of idolatry 273 00:27:49.520 --> 00:27:56.320 with a pantheon of multiple gods. Idol worshipers, everybody got this other thing, 274 00:27:56.320 --> 00:28:01.760 different thing that they're listening to. And then the God of gods, the God of heaven appears to 275 00:28:01.760 --> 00:28:06.480 you, reveals himself and speaks to you and says, I want you to leave your father's home, 276 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.800 I want you to leave your nation. And I want you to go to Canaan because I'm going to give you the 277 00:28:10.800 --> 00:28:20.880 entire land. Okay. And he doesn't know what to do with that word. He is under the direction of 278 00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:26.400 his father at this point to leave his father's household in that position having no child and no 279 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:32.400 inheritance. That was a big move. But he gets this word and he doesn't know what to do with it. 280 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:37.200 But this is why I said you have to let life and time happen. Because look at what the scripture 281 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:42.720 says in the book of Acts says that the God of glory revealed himself to him. But then we learned 282 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:52.080 from the scriptures that he got home and his dad was like, we're going to Canaan. Okay. God says, 283 00:28:52.080 --> 00:28:56.240 hey, I need you to leave everything and go to Canaan. Now he's struggling trying to figure out, 284 00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.480 well, how do I do that? And then the moment he gets home, his dad is like, you know, we're going 285 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:07.120 to get up and go to Canaan. And it's so funny because his dad never even made it to Canaan. 286 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:12.480 They got to a place called Haran and they got stuck there. They were there for about five years 287 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:19.600 and it's only after his father died that Abel was like, we got to make it to Canaan. Come on. 288 00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:30.960 You see what the scriptures is teaching us here. Life and time, part of receiving a prophetic word 289 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:36.880 and letting it come to pass is actually letting life unfold. I know we want it to be more spectacular 290 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:41.920 than that, but sometimes part of your receiving has to be you getting up and going back to your life. 291 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:47.920 Yes, David was anointed to be king over Israel and guess what he did the next day? He went back to 292 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:55.600 the sheep. Oh, you got some sheep to deal with tomorrow, y'all. Listen, sheep happens. 293 00:30:01.040 --> 00:30:05.760 Completed prophecy comes along with a combination of word indeed. Life circumstances let him 294 00:30:05.760 --> 00:30:11.360 part of the way as it will with you. So there's timing. Remember, this all didn't happen in one day. 295 00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:16.720 This isn't when you know the word isn't your heart. I'm rereading my notes that I just finished 296 00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:24.480 that to your praise the Lord. It's timing and balance. You know why I say balance? Because Jesus 297 00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:30.880 being our example, right? He is the perfect epitome of balance. You know, it's not just because 298 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:36.880 he's God and man. But there's something beautiful that we can learn from Jesus and his approach of 299 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:45.200 how he handled things. I like to think of Jesus as my own personal velvet brick. You might say, 300 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:50.560 a velvet brick, why would you compare Jesus to a velvet brick? Well, here's the thing. Velvet, 301 00:30:51.280 --> 00:30:57.120 there's something like joyous and smooth and soft about it. You want it on your skin, it feels so nice. 302 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:05.120 But I say a velvet brick because Jesus is firm. Jesus is going to tell you the truth and not 303 00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:12.960 compromise at every instance. Have you ever been corrected by Jesus? Only the faithful will say, 304 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:17.040 he's like, I know how to break his rules, praise God. 305 00:31:17.120 --> 00:31:24.240 What? Obedience is key, guys. But Jesus is a velvet brick because there's something about 306 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:34.000 that unbending, unyielding strength, but it's also coupled with the soft luxuriousness of velvet. 307 00:31:34.800 --> 00:31:39.760 Imagine getting hit by a velvet brick. It would knock you off your feet, but it would be so soft, 308 00:31:39.760 --> 00:31:45.920 you'd be like, do it again. And I see Jesus in that way. Eve, you've ever been corrected by God? 309 00:31:47.040 --> 00:31:51.840 He corrects you in such a way where you're like, you know what? Thanks. I needed that. 310 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.320 Listen, if you get in correction and it doesn't feel like that, it's probably not God. 311 00:31:57.760 --> 00:32:02.320 I know that because I have children and I correct them all the time and I'm proud to say, 312 00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:08.800 sometimes it's not Jesus. It's a lot of Muhammad in there, but I'm learning. I'm learning. 313 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:15.520 Right, Isabella? Come here, baby. I gotta show you to the people. 314 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:25.520 So this is my baby girl. She's nine years old. She is the reason I'm a dad. 315 00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:30.320 She helped usher that prophetic word into being by coming forth. 316 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.360 All right, all right, get out of here. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 317 00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:43.520 So we let life happen one, right? Time and balance, too. We praise God for what's coming, 318 00:32:43.520 --> 00:32:52.480 what is and what was. This is key. Genesis 12, 6 says, Abram passed through the land to the 319 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:57.440 place of Shechem, and as far as the terabend tree of Morey, and the Canaanites were there in the land, 320 00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:01.600 and then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, so your descendants, I will give this land, 321 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:06.000 and there he built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him, and he moved from there to the 322 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:11.360 mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and AI on the east. 323 00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:17.840 There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. So Abram 324 00:33:17.840 --> 00:33:24.560 journeyed going on still toward the south. Your altar today? Because I don't expect you going 325 00:33:24.560 --> 00:33:31.200 around building up these stone altars everywhere you go, these monuments of memorization. 326 00:33:31.280 --> 00:33:38.240 Your altar today is praise. Your altar today is that point when you remember, 327 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:41.680 because back in the days you set up an altar so that every time you walked by it, 328 00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:50.480 you had a memory stone of, that's when God did that. I wish we would set up altar stones 329 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:57.280 in our hearts. You know, the last time I was up here preaching, I spoke about gratitude. 330 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:06.080 23,000 breaths, how many of them did you thank God for? How often do you thank God for the things 331 00:34:06.080 --> 00:34:11.760 that have happened in your life instead of complaining about them? Because we all know this from 332 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:14.880 experience that there are certain things that we never would have picked for ourselves, 333 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:19.600 but those things have set us up for the beautiful futures and the presence that we have right now. 334 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:24.480 But going through it, we would never say that, I hate this job. 335 00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:27.520 You hate that job. That's where you met your wife. 336 00:34:30.720 --> 00:34:35.360 You hate this job. You met your business partner there. You hate this. You hate that. 337 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:39.280 You hate the sickness. All these things, but then God uses those things as a setup to get you where 338 00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:46.720 He wants you to be. So we have to learn how to praise God in spite, not for everything, but in spite 339 00:34:46.720 --> 00:34:52.640 of everything. Set up your memorial stone. Be a person of gratitude and thanksgiving. That's 340 00:34:52.720 --> 00:34:58.960 part of how you hasten the promises of God. Didn't David talk about this? 341 00:35:00.640 --> 00:35:07.920 David, who was about to face Goliath, a giant, think about what he used as his weaponry. It wasn't 342 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:17.920 just a sling and a stone. It was the testimony of God's resume. He said, I've conquered a lion 343 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:23.760 and a bear. And this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them. 344 00:35:26.560 --> 00:35:30.800 You're supposed to look at the circumstances in your life and go, I remember when 345 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:38.960 God did A, B and C. And this thing in front of me can't stand because the God whom I serve 346 00:35:40.560 --> 00:35:42.960 don't fail. Oh, come on. Yeah, I ain't saying nothing today. 347 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:54.400 You gotta get like David and sing a song, 18, where it talks about all the things that he brought 348 00:35:54.400 --> 00:36:07.200 you through. Man, I wish we had some Marvin sat me here today. Now you ain't getting no more 349 00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:15.280 than that. Look at that. Look at that person. My wife is like, stop. 350 00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:24.240 Listen, I'll be the first one to tell you guys. And this has nothing to do with my message. 351 00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:32.640 I just want to shout out my wife. So I told the first service, I married up. 352 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:39.840 Listen, let's take a moment with Pastor Moe, man, if you will. 353 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:50.960 So when it comes to prophecy, you have to be able to navigate and receive things that don't 354 00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:57.680 make sense. It did not make sense for me to be able to marry up, but I did have the word of the 355 00:36:57.680 --> 00:37:03.680 Lord that he was going to give me a spectacular woman. Listen, your current circumstances will not 356 00:37:03.680 --> 00:37:14.800 look like they're not going to look like any of what God said. But God did something beautiful 357 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:20.080 in that he shaped the environment around me to make me prepared for what was coming. 358 00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:26.480 He even fooled my wife. 359 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.480 Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. The anointing makes you attractive. 360 00:37:36.160 --> 00:37:39.680 Listen, I am well aware. I'm an attractive man. I understand. 361 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:45.440 I don't, there's no false humility. I look in the mirror every day. I see what you see. 362 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:51.120 I am attractive. I get it. But, let's be clear. I'm all puffy. 363 00:37:53.680 --> 00:37:59.920 Listen, when I got married, I was nearly 400 pounds. Oh, yeah, you didn't know. Oh, my Jesus. 364 00:38:03.040 --> 00:38:11.440 That's a little more than puffy. But the anointing came on me in such a way that she was able to see 365 00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:15.920 the good. And then the Lord started slimming me down. 366 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.120 But imagine, the Lord gave her a prophetic word too about the type of man that was coming. 367 00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:29.360 And it didn't look like what was promised. 368 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:38.400 But she said, God, the character, the mind and the heart that's in this man. 369 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:41.360 Oh, Yalene, saying nothing, church. 370 00:38:44.640 --> 00:38:46.000 See, that was your chance to shout. 371 00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:55.280 We find a way to praise God not for everything, but 372 00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:04.400 Lastly, we speak what he spoke as we expectantly wait. Genesis 1210. 373 00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:10.160 Now, there was a famine in the land and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there for the famine 374 00:39:10.160 --> 00:39:16.080 was severe in the land. So, immediately, there are two things. Notice, God just finished telling him 375 00:39:16.080 --> 00:39:21.200 in Acts 7, I'm going to give you this land. The first word will show you the land and then the 376 00:39:21.200 --> 00:39:26.400 second word was give. Prophecy builds peace by peace. Really does God come and drop down a fully 377 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:30.160 defined minute by minute word that details every step of what is going to happen in your life. 378 00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:34.880 Again, he's not trying to shock in all you because if he does that, you will not know how to handle it. 379 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:40.480 At worst case, you will mess it up if you're not too scared to try to fulfill it yourself. 380 00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:46.800 But the second thing is God says, I'm going to give you the land and then boom, 381 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:49.920 the land is in famine and he's forced to leave the land. 382 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:54.960 There will be these circumstances that are contrary to what God said and I'm not talking 383 00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:59.840 about slight variations, I'm talking about the absolute opposite thing of what God said. 384 00:40:03.680 --> 00:40:08.880 So, it's in those moments where you got to pull out the day after pill. 385 00:40:11.600 --> 00:40:18.640 Because what do you do when this thing comes and it's going to start growing if you don't do 386 00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:25.040 something about it? Because when you get the prophetic word, I'm telling you it's just, 387 00:40:25.040 --> 00:40:29.040 I don't want you to think of yourself as a bad person just because it's hard to navigate 388 00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:32.160 through doubt and unbelief. That's a natural part of human life. 389 00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:38.320 You ever notice that sometimes somebody tells you something good about you and part of the thing is 390 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:52.000 who me? Yes you. I'm going to preach, yes you. We have to start taking that as our new mindset, 391 00:40:52.000 --> 00:41:01.520 yes me. I'm not going to be single anymore. I'm not going to be sick anymore. I'm not going to 392 00:41:01.520 --> 00:41:13.120 be broke anymore. I'm going to walk in victory. I'm going to walk in the favor and the might of the 393 00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:17.680 Lord. Goodness and mercy is going to hunt me down and overtake me all the days of my life. 394 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:25.280 Where did church at? Aren't we called believers? 395 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:37.680 Yeah let me say it now this morning. Something happened and we only have a short amount of time to 396 00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:44.720 determine what's going to happen next. You get the prophetic word. The word is given to you and the 397 00:41:44.720 --> 00:41:49.360 natural byproduct of the human existence is doubt and unbelief sometimes. The natural one. 398 00:41:49.680 --> 00:41:56.320 This is the only instance as a Christian where you get to use the day after pill. 399 00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:05.040 You have to kill that doubt that's growing. You have to remind yourself that the promises of God 400 00:42:05.040 --> 00:42:15.840 are yes and amen. Amen. Now how about this because I know that's super controversial and so many of 401 00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:21.600 you are just nervous like the day after pill. What does he mean? I'll give you a little less 402 00:42:21.600 --> 00:42:28.720 strenuous wave. Think about it like this. Prophecy is a tour guide. What do you mean prophecy is a 403 00:42:28.720 --> 00:42:33.760 tour guide? Well here's the thing. What does a tour guide do? In the most general sense a tour guide 404 00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:39.040 provides assistance and information about where you're going and it gives context to what you're currently 405 00:42:39.040 --> 00:42:47.280 seeing. So for many years my family and I we've gone to Philadelphia and we've taken many a tour 406 00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:51.920 before. We've adopted Philadelphia as like a second home if you will. We try to vacation there at 407 00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:57.280 least once a year and I remember the first time we went we were like walking around the city for 408 00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:02.320 like hours and then finally gone to tour and it's funny because if you don't pay attention your 409 00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:08.640 tour guide will say some things and you will miss it. But again your tour guide is to put in 410 00:43:08.640 --> 00:43:16.880 yes I know metaphor upon metaphor follow me. Prophecy is a tour guide. Amen. You're still with me. 411 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:26.160 All right. You can only activate your tour guide with faith. That's how you pay for it. Amen. 412 00:43:26.160 --> 00:43:33.920 So now as you're going your tour guide it is helping you. It is explaining things to you. It is 413 00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:40.400 giving you the historical context behind what you see. Sometimes you start dealing with family 414 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:46.160 and you're like why is this person this way? Well hello I'm your tour guide, your prophetic ace. 415 00:43:46.160 --> 00:43:50.720 Let me tell you the person right now you're seeing they're dealing with traumatic stress from their 416 00:43:50.720 --> 00:43:54.560 childhood. This is the way that they are but don't worry God is going to make them the man and the 417 00:43:54.560 --> 00:44:02.000 woman of God that will stand beside you in faith. Praise him because you see and you experience 418 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:08.480 things in the natural and go there's no way. How am I going to keep working here with these people? 419 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:17.120 I can't stand these people. You're only here for another eight months. God is going to connect you 420 00:44:17.120 --> 00:44:20.400 with your business partner and from here you're going to create a business that's going to take you 421 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:28.480 out of this God forsaken place. Praise him. Thank you prophetic tour guide. 422 00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:34.560 Because when the prophecy comes over your life your life doesn't look like what the prophecy is saying. 423 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:37.840 I'm no lonely. 424 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:45.520 Jesus I'm tired of going to sleep without pies and pies Lord help. 425 00:44:49.120 --> 00:44:55.520 Help me. You didn't give me the gift to say go to this Jesus. I read about it in the 426 00:44:55.520 --> 00:45:04.720 description if you gave it to me I don't want it. The Lord will bless you with a help me. 427 00:45:06.720 --> 00:45:15.280 Praise him. And then it prepares your heart so that in the longing and the loneliness you have 428 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:20.560 an expectation of what is to come and you get to step outside of yourself and this is where you 429 00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:26.800 exercise the faith. God I can't see what you've promised but thank you because I believe 430 00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:34.240 that it's coming. I trust that what you're saying is going to happen because it doesn't look like 431 00:45:34.240 --> 00:45:43.760 it right now. All I see is a loneliness. And then God comes through eventually. 432 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:47.920 Only the baby could say amen. 433 00:45:53.920 --> 00:46:01.840 Worship team you can come on up. You have to actively be alert to what the guide is directing 434 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:06.560 you to or you will miss it by distracting yourself with worry and unbelief and doubt. 435 00:46:07.200 --> 00:46:13.120 Actually I want to read this. It's the same verse that we read earlier but there's something 436 00:46:13.120 --> 00:46:17.760 about the King James version that I always find that really soos me and prepares me. 437 00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:25.520 First Timothy 118 is this charge I commit unto the Son Timothy and forgive me because I cannot 438 00:46:25.520 --> 00:46:29.680 read the King James unless I read it this way that's just how I was raised praise God. 439 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.520 So this charge I commit unto the Son Timothy according to the prophecies which went before on the 440 00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:45.680 vow by them might woo a good warfare. Paul told Timothy to use the prophecy placed on his life 441 00:46:45.680 --> 00:46:54.640 to fight and win. You're supposed to take the things that God promised you and that arms you 442 00:46:54.720 --> 00:46:58.560 that equips you to knock if you buck. 443 00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:12.800 See I have to cry out it's like knock if you buck I don't understand the colloquialism there. 444 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:18.320 Well that means because sometimes God is playing. So that means that you put your knuckles like 445 00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:24.400 this in a fighting position and if any crazy situation may happen or enter your circumstances 446 00:47:24.400 --> 00:47:30.320 or circumference you find yourself ready to do battle praise God. Knock if you buck. 447 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:42.880 No I'm going to use the things that God said about me to fight against the feeling that I have 448 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:48.720 fight against the circumstances that look opposite and contrary because I got enough 449 00:47:48.720 --> 00:47:53.040 doubt growing on the inside that says can I inherit the promise of God I don't need you coming 450 00:47:53.040 --> 00:47:58.160 and telling me something different. So no I need to fight in the spirit. I need to fight to 451 00:47:58.160 --> 00:48:05.120 appropriate the things that belong to me. Let go of my stuff devil. I believe the Lord. He is good 452 00:48:05.120 --> 00:48:10.560 and faithful. He is the Redeemer. He is the same yesterday today and forever back above me. 453 00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:20.000 How many of you honestly trust what God is saying about you? See I get it because it's a dual 454 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:26.320 attack. It's an attack from outside and it's an attack from the inside because you have the 455 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:32.000 enemy who knows that if you fulfill your God-given destiny you're going to be the key that unlocks 456 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:37.280 so many prison doors for so many people in the will of God. Your destiny is going to bless people 457 00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.640 so the enemy sees that and he tries to discover doing any way that he can and unfortunately your flesh 458 00:48:42.640 --> 00:48:49.120 gets in on it too and says we ain't never going to be nothing. And you got to fight that. 459 00:48:50.720 --> 00:48:55.920 You got to fight that you have to believe every last thing that God has said about you. 460 00:48:57.200 --> 00:49:01.040 Listen you might think that you are a screw up. I'm not disagreeing with you 461 00:49:02.640 --> 00:49:07.920 but what I'm asking you to do is agree with what God said about you. 462 00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:13.200 He called you more, I didn't call you more than a conqueror. He called you more than a conqueror. 463 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:18.400 He said that no weapon formed against you would prosper. He said that. 464 00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:26.720 So now you do like, like past the moment, you take the screwed upness, 465 00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:36.960 the insufficiency and you go, hey God this is currently who I am but you said I'm up here so 466 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:40.400 I'm going to go with your testimony because the Bible says let the redeemed of the Lord say 467 00:49:41.680 --> 00:49:48.080 so who's going to say so with me? I'm going to say so. I am the redeemed. I have been bought 468 00:49:48.080 --> 00:49:59.040 with a price I am called and chosen. I am a particular people. Come on. See all of this is really 469 00:49:59.040 --> 00:50:04.480 to stir you up to get you to a place where you would start appropriating the promises of God for 470 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:10.480 your life. You know I had somebody they told me after the David Wagner meetings they were discouraged 471 00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:16.400 because they really set their faith for God speaking to them. They wanted to be called out 472 00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:23.680 among the sea of people. I said oh no you're missing it because there were so many words that were 473 00:50:23.680 --> 00:50:31.920 spoken over this house and I said you better go ahead and grab one of those and take it for yourself. 474 00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:38.160 Listen there were words that were spoken that were not even too specific words spoken to specific 475 00:50:38.160 --> 00:50:44.080 people and I was like thank you and it's not that they weren't excited enough about that word but 476 00:50:44.080 --> 00:50:50.000 I was smart enough to know oh no that's mine. Passed a bow sat right here in this seat 477 00:50:51.680 --> 00:50:57.280 and God gave him a word that he could host a move of God in New York City. I was sitting over here. 478 00:50:57.280 --> 00:51:04.080 I said thank you. Put that right there because if he don't want it listen I'm going to take that 479 00:51:05.200 --> 00:51:10.880 but here's the beautiful part. I know he wants that and and guess what I live in New York City. 480 00:51:11.520 --> 00:51:16.320 Guess what he's the senior pastor of the church that I pastor. That means there's a move of God 481 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:22.240 that we're going to host. Hey do you want a move of God where we see people getting saved by the 482 00:51:22.240 --> 00:51:27.200 hundreds and thousands where we see the presence of God moving like a wave. 483 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:34.160 But that's the promise that has been given to the shepherd that's over the house that you're 484 00:51:34.160 --> 00:51:47.280 a part of. What is God spoken that you're not taking heed to. There are things that have been 485 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:52.960 spoken that you just need to say God I trust you. I believe that you will do this. 486 00:51:55.760 --> 00:52:05.520 I will see the promises of the Lord fulfilled in the land of the living. 487 00:52:05.600 --> 00:52:16.720 When Abram was this is Genesis 171. When Abram was 99 years old the Lord appeared to Abram and 488 00:52:16.720 --> 00:52:22.000 said to him I am almighty God. Walk before me and be blameless and I will make my covenant between 489 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:27.680 me and you and will multiply you exceedingly. Then Abram fell on his face and God talked with him 490 00:52:27.680 --> 00:52:32.800 saying as for me behold my covenant is with you and you shall be a father of many nations no 491 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:38.160 longer shall your name be called Abram but your name shall be Abraham for I have made you a father 492 00:52:38.160 --> 00:52:44.720 of many nations. As Abram got closer to the appointed time of the promises the promised 493 00:52:44.720 --> 00:52:49.920 manifestation God changed his name to make sure that he kept speaking according to the prophecy. 494 00:52:52.160 --> 00:52:54.400 We see this concerning John the Baptist dad. 495 00:52:55.120 --> 00:53:03.840 John the Baptist dad was a seasoned priest who had an understanding of the spiritual realm 496 00:53:05.600 --> 00:53:13.440 and he got a prophecy and the angel that ministered that prophecy to him understood this guy's 497 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:20.240 going to mess it up. He's going to screw the whole thing up because he's already not talking 498 00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:25.520 you understand the gangsterness with which the angel was speaking to him this is not just the 499 00:53:25.520 --> 00:53:31.200 past and more paraphrased by like this is in the Bible. Gabriel said to him 500 00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:45.440 I'm Gabriel angel I stand in God's face bro I told you what he said Matt you know what matter 501 00:53:45.520 --> 00:53:53.760 that don't talk anymore you won't be able to talk until God fulfills his promise it wasn't a 502 00:53:53.760 --> 00:54:00.880 punishment it was a precaution because you have this is how you align yourself because some people 503 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:07.520 are like well how do I appropriate the promises of God align yourself say what he said about you 504 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:16.640 how about instead of I'm ugly my back is so big 505 00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:31.200 now you got to say I'm comely and ready like David before me I am beautiful blessed and highly 506 00:54:31.200 --> 00:54:38.400 favored of the Lord I mean I dare you to start talking like you are a victor and not a victim 507 00:54:39.600 --> 00:54:44.480 I dare you to align yourself with the ways of God with the words of God 508 00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:51.360 you know what we have a perfect opportunity before us I want you to hand out the communion elements 509 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:59.040 what we'll close with this see it's a funny thing you know why we take communion the way that 510 00:54:59.040 --> 00:55:07.360 we do at least once a month the Bible says that when you proclaim the Lord's death you do show 511 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:12.800 forth his coming and glory what does it mean to proclaim the Lord's death 512 00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:26.480 so when you're proclaiming the Lord's death you're basically saying I agree 513 00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:30.880 with what you say about your death well what does the Lord's death say 514 00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:38.320 when you agree with the Lord's death you say I agree that it is by your stripes that I'm healed 515 00:55:40.640 --> 00:55:45.520 you agree and you say that all my sins have been forgiven and I am now as the Bible says in the 516 00:55:45.520 --> 00:55:53.440 book of Hebrews made perfect you agree that you've been given joy that cannot be taken from you 517 00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:59.440 you've been given an emotional health and a stability you agree that he became poor that through 518 00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:05.680 his poverty you would gain riches so that there's a financial health in your life you agree to all 519 00:56:05.680 --> 00:56:12.480 of the things that he suffered on the cross he did in exchange for you he took your imperfection 520 00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:19.920 he took your sin and your wickedness my sin my wickedness and there was this beautiful divine exchange 521 00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:28.400 but how many of us are willing to say I receive that by faith it now belongs to me because you did 522 00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:36.480 this on the cross I'm proclaiming the Lord's death you need to proclaim every promise of God 523 00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:45.360 over your life listen God only has to tell me something one time it's not that I'm going to be 524 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:49.520 perfect in my obedience but I'm going to keep that thing in my back pocket and keep reciting it 525 00:56:49.520 --> 00:56:59.120 in memory until I can step out in faith you know I told the first service at the beginning of the 526 00:56:59.120 --> 00:57:07.200 year we had this whole series called manifested abundance we were believing for God to do something 527 00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:13.280 in particularly spectacular in the financial realm this year how many people remember that 528 00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:17.200 it was a series of meetings that we had right how many are you already forgot 529 00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:23.280 you not believing for that that was a message that was preached they came and it went not me 530 00:57:25.040 --> 00:57:31.680 I'm holding on God promised that there was manifested abundance coming I said thank you very much 531 00:57:32.640 --> 00:57:38.480 boop right in the back pocket I am actively believing for God to do that listen before the end of 532 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:46.560 this year I will live in a home that I did not buy and I'm not talking hyperbole like there's 533 00:57:46.560 --> 00:57:52.560 a spiritual setting no no no I'm going to live in a house that I did not buy it's already in the works 534 00:57:54.720 --> 00:58:00.480 how did that happen I agreed with God I don't know how this thing works 535 00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:07.360 because somebody come up to you and goes hey I'm going to give you my house and I want you to live in it 536 00:58:10.160 --> 00:58:16.080 okay because what do you really say to that like you you don't you don't call them on the 537 00:58:16.080 --> 00:58:22.880 Tuesday and go so you're ready to give me your house now no that's like patting somebody's pockets 538 00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:32.400 but what you do is go God I agree with you you say that manifested abundance is coming to this house 539 00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:39.040 I'm a member of this house I believe and I trust that when you say something it shall come to pass 540 00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:42.880 I believe when you say that the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous 541 00:58:43.600 --> 00:58:47.040 and I'm not saying the person who gave it to me is wicked not by any means praise God you can't be 542 00:58:47.120 --> 00:58:55.680 wicked giving out blesses like that Jesus but there is this transference of wealth where God is 543 00:58:55.680 --> 00:59:01.120 trying to get his people things and stuff so that we can more better be equipped to do the work of 544 00:59:01.120 --> 00:59:09.280 the gospel so I'm appropriating and I'm taking by faith but I need you to do the same thing in 545 00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:15.200 every single area of your life listen that weekend two weeks ago other people were getting 546 00:59:15.200 --> 00:59:22.160 prophetic words and I was in the front row bawling because here it is this man doesn't know you like 547 00:59:22.160 --> 00:59:28.160 I know you I pray for you I counsel you I walk with you so when I hear these words going out that 548 00:59:28.160 --> 00:59:34.240 specifically talk about the stuff going on and they're like I'm like yes God do it 549 00:59:36.240 --> 00:59:40.880 and then I just I look around this sanctuary at the different things that I see popping off 550 00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:50.000 already and I'm like God you're so faithful look at you Jesus and it gives me the faith to take 551 00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:56.480 that encouragement for myself for the things that he said about me I want you to do the same for 552 00:59:56.480 --> 01:00:04.240 yourself take the communion elements in your hand Father God we look to you we look who we proclaim 553 01:00:04.240 --> 01:00:10.560 your death we appropriate every promise that is in your word and we say yes and amen 554 01:00:12.080 --> 01:00:17.280 we receive the forgiveness of sins the healing of our body the restoration of our soul and our 555 01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:25.520 relationships Lord and everything that you've promised have your way in us Father in Jesus name 556 01:00:26.160 --> 01:00:28.160 please eat and drink 557 01:00:37.120 --> 01:00:43.440 we let life happen as we intentionally step into what God is doing we praise God for what's coming 558 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:49.680 what is and what was and we speak what he spoke and agree as we expectantly wait rise to your 559 01:00:49.680 --> 01:00:54.480 feet city light we're going to sing the God and we're going to sing the God in faith and worship 560 01:00:56.240 --> 01:01:01.760 we're going to sing partnering with God that the things that he has promised he is well able to 561 01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:08.000 provide this is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message or if 562 01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:13.280 you would like to find out more about pastor boy on jansk and city light church visit us at city 563 01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:21.680 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