WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.000 When Jesus taught us to pray and said, give us this day our daily bread, he said the fresh bread, that fresh out of the oven, not yesterday's loaves, that stale and fresh bread, what's he speaking to you now? 2 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:26.000 And by the way, the Rema will never ever contradict the logos. They flow hand in hand. And you need a Rema for your own life. 3 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:35.000 Welcome to the City Light Church Podcast. Thanks for joining us today, as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that He has for us. 4 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:44.000 If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com, that's citylightnyc.com. 5 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds. 6 00:00:52.000 --> 00:01:03.000 As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God, that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you. 7 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:13.000 Continuing from last Sunday, preaching part two on faith that breaks through barriers. 8 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:24.000 Faith will bring breakthrough in your life. Faith will propel you to the next level. Faith will cause you to actualize and receive the promises of God. Amen. 9 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:34.000 And it's good for us to get good with faith. When it comes to faith, there are a lot of misunderstandings in the body of Christ. 10 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:44.000 And people confuse faith for hope. People don't really know how to use their faith. They really don't even know what faith is. They think, oh, have faith. 11 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:56.000 Oh, that just means like believe real strong, right? And it gets this like misty, wispy quality to it and faith is like a fog that kind of just, uh, faith is stuff. 12 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:08.000 The Bible says faith is the substance. It's stuff. Faith is the stuff. It's the substance of things hope for. The evidence of things not seen. 13 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:16.000 Faith is a force. When I first got saved, the person who led me to the Lord, I asked him, what's faith 16 years old? 14 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:26.000 And he gave me an answer that for many would seem crass. It seemed crass to me. I was saved one day, and he kept talking about faith, and I said, what's faith? And he goes, faith is money. 15 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:35.000 And I thought in my head, I knew it. These graph, I knew it. They were so nice to me, so kind to me. I was wondering when they'd go for my wallet, and he tells me faith is money. 16 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:43.000 And I was wondering what, what he meant was he said, faith is money. What do you mean? He said faith is currency. 17 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:55.000 Faith is what goes out into the invisible realm and makes the promises of God materialized in this physical realm. Yeah. 18 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:10.000 Faith is the force, the substance, the currency that'll cause the promises of God in the spirit realm to be actualized here on earth. 19 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:22.000 That's why Jesus was the ultimate faith preacher, always provoking people to a place of faith, commenting on their faith. 20 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:37.000 O you of little faith, where is your faith? To some great is your faith. The Bible talks about having weak faith. It talks about having strong faith. That means we got to get good at using faith. 21 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:44.000 Because everything you'll ever receive from heaven, it's going to be by faith. 22 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:55.000 So I want to be a Christian who knows how to use my faith. As opposed to how I was before, which was whenever I'd go to pray, it was always, there was a lack of confidence. 23 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:02.000 And I was just kind of sort of hoping God would hear me. And I didn't know the rules that govern faith. 24 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:14.000 Well, let's quickly just recap them from last week. Let's go to Romans 10, 9. Number one, number one, it's called the ABCs of faith. 25 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:27.000 For you to easily memorize, ABCs A for acknowledge, B is believe and C is confess. Number one, A, you've got to acknowledge the word and guess what? You've got to acknowledge the word as God's word. 26 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:38.000 Not as the word of man, but as it is indeed the word of God. I've got to acknowledge the word. I've got to believe the word. And then I've got to confess the word. 27 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:50.000 I've got to agree with the word. That's what that song was about. Confesting the word of God. I'm a child of God. I'm forgiven. Did you all catch that? We were singing that. 28 00:04:50.000 --> 00:05:07.000 And you see that applied in Romans 10, 9 as it pertains to your salvation that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, 29 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:27.000 you will be saved. So you receive salvation by faith. But when? When you out loud, confess Jesus as your Lord and Savior. That means that faith is one half in your heart and one half in your mouth and faith is released through your speaking. 30 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:34.000 Over and over again in the scriptures, you see that faith is released through speaking. 31 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:41.000 Don't be the Christian that has locked up faith in your heart, but release it by opening up your mouth. 32 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:56.000 So you once upon a time saw the scriptures, someone sat down and read them to you and told you the gospel, told you how Jesus died on the cross for your sins, how he was crucified, how he was buried in a tomb, how he was resurrected on the third day. 33 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:15.000 And your heart leapt and you believe that in your heart and out loud you said, Lord, I believe I believe you took away all my sins. I confess that I am a sinner, but I also confess that you have now given me your righteousness and place of sin and I'm not guilty and I'm forgiven of all my sins and you experienced it and you birth. 34 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:22.000 You were born again, you became a Christian, you got saved, faith the dead, hallelujah. 35 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:39.000 Please note that this verse isn't only about salvation, that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that he's the God of abundance and prosperity, you will experience abundance and prosperity in your life. 36 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:52.000 That if you believe in your heart that the God is good and surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, that's what you're going to have in your life. 37 00:06:52.000 --> 00:07:04.000 That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus that by his stripes I was past tense, was healed, I'm going to live in divine health, hallelujah. 38 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:12.000 Let's take a look at a scripture verse, a sister scripture verse to this found in Corinthians. 39 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:25.000 This is why it's so important to know the Word of God, to speak the Word of God, second Corinthians 413. 40 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:41.000 And since we have the same spirit of faith according to what is written I believed and therefore I spoke, we also believe, this is the Apostle Paul, we also believe and because we believe we what? 41 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:52.000 We post online, we mull about, we mull it on the inside only, we quietly journal it in our prayer journal, no, we speak it. 42 00:07:53.000 --> 00:08:01.000 Show me what you're speaking, I'll show you what you're believing. And I asked you last week, what are you believing God for? 43 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:08.000 What you're believing God for is going to be coming out of your mouth. Now think about that and the people you hang out with and the stories you hear. 44 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:23.000 Complaining, it's like always been in style, not in a good fashionable way, but it's just always what's popular whenever people come together it's immediately let's start complaining and let's get in with this like unspoken competition of who has it worse right now in this present moment. 45 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.000 Oh yeah, you think you got it bad. 46 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.000 Happy Father's Day, how many kids I have? 47 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:44.000 What are you believing for? Like this year, you know, you you get to partner with God and you get to decide how we close out 2024. 48 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:52.000 I'm believing God that God is going to multiply city light church. I'm believing I'm believing that thousands will be added unto us. 49 00:08:52.000 --> 00:09:00.000 I also know that in order for thousands to be added unto us hundreds of us that are already here have to get more solid in the word of God, have to get more on fire. 50 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:11.000 I'm believing for that, I'm believing that leaders will rise up all over this congregation that will have a strong foundation, a strong net to catch all the new believers that the Lord will be bringing in here. 51 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:17.000 I see it. I don't care what they say about New York City. Do you know what the rest of the country thinks of New York City? 52 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:25.000 I mean, they, it's really what they've always thought of New York City. You really mean New York City is like anywhere else in the country. 53 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:32.000 It's the wack part of the country, the kooky part of the country, the part that you have to put up with, but don't necessarily like. 54 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:43.000 And then I witnesses that 9-11 happened and then all of America came and just like a mom just grabbed us like a newborn infant and held us tightly in her arms. 55 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:49.000 And God bless America and we love New York. Remember that? And that was short lived and now again New York. 56 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:58.000 Why was I talking about that? What was I saying right before about New York? 57 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:10.000 Yeah, I know that part. I'm just wondering why I landed on that. 58 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:16.000 Can you live, edit this part right out? Vlad just edited right out. I was going somewhere with that. 59 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:24.000 Let's let the Lord let me circle back. 60 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:33.000 Oh, I would say it's coming to me now as I look at the verse. They have, they don't have faith for New York. 61 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:50.000 The New York City is just kind of considered like the armpit of America. No, they think that the moment you land in New York City, they're too much on social media, they think you're going to get mugged, stabbed. 62 00:10:50.000 --> 00:11:00.000 I believe and I speak. And we're going to see a mighty revival come through New York City. Again, I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't believe that with my whole heart. 63 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:08.000 And I'm asking you, what are you believing about your life? 64 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:15.000 God's going to whisper to you and I'm going to use this word impregnate you because that's what the word of God does. 65 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:32.000 It is a seed that goes into the fertile soil of your heart and he's going to whisper to you about you and about the remainder of 2024 and beyond and give you a promise to hang on to that will activate your faith. 66 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:39.000 Let's look at this verse, please, in 1 Corinthians 1557. 67 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:48.000 I'm giving you some faith basics right now because in order for faith to work, you have to know the word of God. 68 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:54.000 Faith only comes one way. It comes by the word of God. Can I just repeat that again? 69 00:11:54.000 --> 00:12:00.000 Because I did in the first service and at the end I said, how do you get faith and have the people just look at me? 70 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:08.000 Look, faith can only come by the word of God. If you answer the altar call for the ministry team to pray for you and you say, please lay hands on me. 71 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:16.000 I need strong faith. It's not going to happen. You can't transfer faith through the laying out of hands. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 72 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:24.000 You can't ask for someone to pray for you to have more faith. You can't hope to have more faith. They came to Jesus and said, Lord, increase our faith. 73 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:33.000 And you know what Jesus's response was? He gave them the word of God. Oh, you want an increase in faith? Have some word. The word will increase your faith. 74 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:49.000 The biggest problem we run into though is that we are living in some of the most biblically illiterate times since like the dark ages in America, which is crazy when you think about it because we have more Bible now than we've ever had before. 75 00:12:49.000 --> 00:13:05.000 You got 600 translations right on your phone. You have the Greek. You have the Hebrew. I was saved back in the day where even just to get a Bible, you could go to the local bookstore and they only had the small, print, old King James for like six dollars. 76 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:11.000 They don't have any variety or you could go far away to some Christian bookstore in New York City. We had two, two decent ones. 77 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:28.000 And now you have it in everywhere. We used to have something called a concordance as a companion to your Bible. And when I got saved, there was this thing. It was unspoken, but it was like the bigger your Bible, the more spiritual you are. 78 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:47.000 So I had a giant yellow page of size Bible that I'll carry on the subway with me on the way to church 16 years old. I was not ashamed. I wanted to live the world and the devil. No, I'm not playing around. Got my big Bible. You could choke a donkey with. 79 00:13:48.000 --> 00:14:04.000 But there is this disease of biblical illiteracy because there's so much Bible. People aren't as much into the Bible. And back then, you actually really needed the Bible back then, like I'm talking about centuries ago, like 30 years ago. 80 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:21.000 You read your Bible because the only time you were going to get preached, preach to was on Sunday. But now people are listening to preachers and podcasts on the way to work, on the way back from work, on TikTok, on Instagram. And there's so many people talking to you about the word. 81 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:48.000 There's a temptation to not get in the word yourself. So you can actually have people going to church for years and absolutely biblical illiterate. I've seen Bible school grads. They don't know the basics of the Bible. They'll quote you what their preacher tweeted yesterday. They'll quote you their isms. Well, you know what so and so says about that. And I don't know the book of so and so. The first book is a person is a great man of God, but it's not Bible. 82 00:14:48.000 --> 00:15:05.000 So quiet in here. You receive the promises of God by faith, but in order for it to work, you got to get the word in you. Hallelujah. So for example, how to have faith. This is just general stuff. Faith for victory. 83 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:21.000 You ever have a bad season? No, just me. Everyone freezes up. No, I mean a season where you are afflicted where it seems like like you're just like I need it's Lord. You know that Lord helped me get out of bed and make it through another day. 84 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:39.000 Feels like nothing's popping. Everything is dead. Things are morose. Nothing's moving. You're getting sullen. Faith seems weak. You just you need to release your faith for victory. Well, the first thing you need is God's word concerning victory. 85 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:53.000 There's hundreds of scriptures on it. I'm using this one, but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now reading that once isn't going to do it. You just took a nibble. 86 00:15:53.000 --> 00:16:14.000 You're spirit man. Are you catching this? I'm not preaching some theory or some philosophy or this is stuff. I wouldn't do that to you. This is stuff that I've seen that works to work in my life. I've seen the work in members lives. You take the verse and you let it sink into your spirit. 87 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:27.000 You read it once. You read it twice. Read it again. Let the word be made flesh. How's the word made flesh by reading it and rereading it and merging with it. 88 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:48.000 You got to acknowledge it. Believe it. Believe it as God's word. You say thanks be to God who gives us the victory gives us. No, I'm going to personalize it gives me because for me. I know you're saying it out loud. Thanks be to God who gives me the victory through my Lord Jesus Christ. 89 00:16:49.000 --> 00:17:10.000 And then you say it again. And then you get a little swagger while you said you say the louder. Oh, in the name of Jesus. It doesn't matter what I'm seeing. It doesn't matter what I'm experiencing. God, I thank you. I have the victory. I have the victory in my home. I have the victory in my job. I have the victory in my finances. 90 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:29.000 I have the victory. Lord, I see your way in the Bible and your ways from glory to glory to glory. And I believe you're taking me to another place of glory right now. Oh, God, I'm releasing my faith. I trust that I'm on the up and up because you're with me. You're inside of me. 91 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:48.000 Faith is one half in your mouth and one half in your heart. That's why when you're going through it, when you're going through a dark season, you'll notice that it's like Satan came and put some crazy glues, some super sticky glue on your lips and shut it together. He doesn't want you speaking. 92 00:17:48.000 --> 00:18:03.000 Because if you're not speaking, then you're not creating. Hallelujah. Yeah. If you're not speaking, you're not creating. So where's that in the scriptures? 93 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:21.000 Right at the beginning. You know, you were made in the similitude of God. And right in the beginning, at creation in Genesis 1, God spoke. When he spoke, you know what the Holy Spirit was doing? 94 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:38.000 The Bible says, hovering over the deep. That's the Hebrew word, Maraheif, brooding, like a henwood over its young. Really, he was in the modern vernacular. He was chilling. 95 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:53.000 What was he doing? Really nothing. He was chilling, hovering. We don't even know how long that was for. That could have been a billion years and it's just Holy Spirit's hovering over the face of the deep. 96 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:02.000 And then God said, God, the father said and the word came forth. Who's the word? Jesus in the beginning was the word. 97 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:21.000 And the word was with God and the word was God without him was not anything made that was made. So you see all three active at creation in Genesis 1, God, the father speaking, the word coming forth. But only when the word came forth that the Holy Spirit get activated and good stuff happened. 98 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:38.000 Creation happened. That's how it is in your life. Man, there's people. They've never, they've never partnered with the word agreed with the word and spoken the word. And they're wondering why the life is just stalling like a bad engine. 99 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:48.000 You have the choice right now. You get to decide. You get to decide on 2024 is going to finish. Hallelujah. 100 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:55.000 I know there's a little work going on. 101 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:08.000 As a pastor when the Lord begins to bless you, like he's always blessed me, but this last year, year and a half, he's just completely outdone himself. 102 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:24.000 You say, what happens next? I yearn for my kids. I yearn. I was, you remember just a year ago, I kept getting chronic flooding. 103 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:42.000 Chronic flooding in my Williams, Burkando just had fix it and flood again. And then we saw the Lord in a matter of months, provide finances, get us a brand new house in Long Island, just too much. 104 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:56.000 I've seen how this works. When I say too much, I just mean where you get, oh God, wow, you're overdoing it. Don't stop though, but I just want to say, it seems like you're overdoing it. 105 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:04.000 You're doing exceeding abundantly above what I'm asking or thinking. Like I believe her. 106 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:13.000 So, I'm beyond happy right now. And the Lord's cooking up some stuff I haven't even shared with you yet, because I want to share when I cross the finish line. Amen. 107 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:20.000 And that's wise, by the way, don't always share when you're in the mix and in the process. But when you cross the finish line, then look what the Lord has done. 108 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:31.000 But I want to hear some more of these stories from you. And you can begin by releasing your faith. And that'll begin when you're getting in the Word of God. And then you're agreeing with the Word of God. 109 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:58.000 Hallelujah. Psalms 35, 27. Faith for finances. I like this verse so much over 20 years ago. That's why we printed it on the offering envelope. Faith for prosperity. Some people don't like prosperity. That's fine. You can still keep coming. You can have faith for poverty. Enjoy that. I'll have faith for prosperity. 110 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:12.000 You can just make a decision and then really commit to that decision, though. So, which is always funny to me, because you have people with multiple cars and houses in America. I don't believe all that prosperity stuff. 111 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:31.000 Okay. But if you don't, then you really got to, I mean, give it to the cars. You got shoes on your feet. Give it to those clothes from ACES. Too prosperous. Put on a sackcloth. Go live under a bridge and really commit to your theology. 112 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:44.000 Let them shout for joy and be glad. See, I'll go around my house. I'll go around my house and I'll just shout. I shared this once before and I'll just share it again. Sometimes I wonder if I shared too much. 113 00:22:44.000 --> 00:23:01.000 I am believing God to tie $500,000 this year. Yeah. And we're on our way. But in order for me to tie $500,000, I did the math and I realized, oh, that means I have to increase by $5 million if it's just a tie. 114 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:12.000 So, throughout our house, even the kids, little Vivian, five years old, and we just have a saying, at least five. And we all know what that means and we all lift our hands and say, hallelujah. 115 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:25.000 So, randomly throughout the house, at least five, and you'll hear her, at least five. And then Victor in another room, at least five. And just throughout the day, Jesus, thank you, at least five. 116 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:53.000 Some will call me crazy, but they're not going to be writing a $500,000 check by the end of the year. Amen. I believe with all my heart, I will. At least five. And we just shout and be glad who favor the Lord's righteous cause and let them say, do you see the emphasis on say? Some of you will not continually, mentally, ascent continually, like the post continually. 117 00:23:53.000 --> 00:24:14.000 But you got to say it. You got to say it. And not in general for you, let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified, who has pleasure in me, in the prosperity, in my prosperity, of His servants. Hallelujah. 118 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:24.000 Some of you, your faith for finances just went up just from hearing me say it. Imagine what happens when you start preaching to you in your house. 119 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:35.000 There's a vibration happening. Say, what's that? That's faith that's been sleeping and snoring inside your spirit for three years, actually waking up a little bit. 120 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:50.000 Amen. Matthew 8. Thank you, Jesus, just giving you some verses and showing you how this applies. Faith for healing. 121 00:24:50.000 --> 00:25:02.000 Whatever you need, it's covered in the Word. Now, of course, you know the scriptures are full of examples of God healing. Here's a good one. 122 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:19.000 You know why it's good? In particular, because typically Christians don't doubt God's ability to heal. Oh, yeah, God can heal. He just won't heal me. They don't doubt His ability. They doubt His willingness. 123 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:32.000 Healing is always for someone else. Not for me, though. No, it's for you. And the leper came with that kind of a complex to Jesus. Lord, you know, if you are willing, you can make me clean. 124 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:45.000 And Jesus, in the next verse, he just said, I am willing. Be cleanse immediately. His leprosy was cleansed. So if you're struggling in your body, this is what I had to speak. I told you I couldn't even turn around in my bed a month ago. 125 00:25:46.000 --> 00:26:01.000 My back, people say my back was out. No, my back was out. I couldn't turn over. I didn't even share. I went to a whole medical system is so messed up now. I went to the chiropractic. It's so hilarious. It's changed so much in the last 10 years. 126 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:09.000 Well, now you got to go to urgent care. I'm like, it hurts just looking at you. You're sending me to I got to go to urgent care and urgent care is hilarious. 127 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:20.000 At least the ones in the city are full. They're actually busy. But out in Long Island, our car was the only one in the parking lot. And I can barely move. 128 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:26.000 And I get in the front. And there's a woman who has me fill out all these forms. Thank God Emily's with me. She's filling out the form. I'm just waiting. 129 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:41.000 And then they send me to somebody else. And then they send me to somebody else. None of them are doctors. There was actually a fan, not only one doctor in the place, but they put up this like this facade of where we're like a mini hospital. No, that doctor could have seen me half hour ago. How do I know? 130 00:26:41.000 --> 00:27:00.000 Because as I was sitting down, one of my nerves just went out and I collapsed to the floor. And I'm not too proud to say I howled. I mean, I howled. I shrieked. It was not. It was involuntary. You've never heard anything like it. It was like a bison being shot down. I said, I'm on the just clap. 131 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:10.000 All of a sudden the doctor comes running and I'm like, where are you this whole time? I'm sitting down. You're making me go through the whole rigour morote to appear like you have this big thing. 132 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:17.000 He was chilling in the back. He was mere happy thing over some scripts. 133 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:45.000 So while I'm in this state, pain is a very loud speaker. Pain is talking to you. Even in the state of pain, I'm going, Lord, I thank you. You're going to break me out of this because you are the healer because healing is the children's bread because healing is already a part of salvation. It's a part of the so-so fullness of your deliverance. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 134 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:59.000 Let's go to Romans chapter four, verses 17 through 21. Faith is coming alive here. 135 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:14.000 You know, we got the Holy Ghost. I wait for that. It doesn't come all the time. But I said it before. The snortle-chortle is the show for our blast of city light. 136 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:27.000 And when the chordle snortle is released, whoo, Rikata Samafara Bashanda. Thank you. Lord. Hallelujah. 137 00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:47.000 Those of you, if this message is new to you, start with the little things in your life, partner with the Lord and his word and begin to release your faith by speaking and speaking the word of God and agreeing with the word of God. 138 00:28:48.000 --> 00:29:05.000 Let's take a look at the granddaddy of faith. This guy knew how to release his faith and actually receive the promises of God. Nothing is more depressing to me than to see Christians, all their life, and nothing's changing. 139 00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:17.000 I have some friends. It's like the same picture for 40 years. I joke with them like you're like the Lord. The Bible says, I'm the Lord, I change not. That's good for the Lord. He doesn't have to change, but we should be changing. 140 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:32.000 Like our lives shouldn't be static. There should be some kind of dynamic activity in our lives. As it is written, this is the promised Abraham. I've made you a father of many nations in the presence of him, 141 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:53.000 whom he believed I have made you a father of many nations. There's God utilizing these same principles because Abraham had zero children and God changed his name to Abraham. Get this. His name means father of many nations. 142 00:29:54.000 --> 00:30:16.000 That made it very, very awkward when Abraham had to meet new people. He would go into the marketplace and the guy filling his sack with wheat was, hey, I'm OSHA. What's your name? Oh, me? Oh, I'm Abraham. Oh, wow. You know, that means father of many nations. Yeah, I know. How many kids do you got? Oh, zero. 143 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:43.000 Yet he went around continually speaking the truth of God's word, ignoring the circumstances. I'm father of many nations. I'm father of many nations. In the presence of him who believed God, who gives life to the dead, Abraham needed that. I'm going to ask to awkward the first service. 144 00:30:47.000 --> 00:31:05.000 He keeps, because, you know, they didn't have pills back then. And Abraham was 100 years old and he had entered a deep slumber below the waist. 145 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:26.000 I'm just staring at the online camera. I'm just, I'm waiting for the cringe to settle in real good and deep. He gives life, who gives life to the dead. Now, this is a key and calls those things which do not exist as though they did. 146 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:27.000 Do you know your salvation? It actually hasn't fully been culminated yet. It will be on that day. But you don't go around saying, I'm half saved. And then, you know, it'll be finally culminated on that day where we're standing before him. And it's all wrapped up and we're, you know, I'm saved right now. And that's accurate. That's correct. That's legal. You're calling the things which be not as though they are. That's what faith is. Abraham got really good. It's you releasing his faith because it was. 147 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:26.000 Let's talk the way in hidden in his name. Let's go to the next verse. Who contrary to hope in hope believed so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken. So shall your descendants be and not being weak in faith. So you can be weak in faith. He did not consider his own body already dead since he was about 100 years old. Let me just also say this. When you're believing. 148 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:55.960 God. For big things, you have to have like a holy stubbornness to you where you consider not the natural. God called me to plant city light church. I had no money and that it came from a movement that didn't really help with church planting. So it was really no money. And I was 26 years old. I was at the time. The youngest pastor in all five boroughs of New York City completely wet behind the years. And the only times I'd ever preached before was in children's church or to maximum security prison. 149 00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:25.960 That was my preaching practice. That's the only two places that allow me to come in and preach or what I'm trying to say is I'm paper. It didn't look good at all. Every Sunday, I was shocked that people actually crossed the street to hear me preach. And it wasn't much. It was a couple of dozen people. That was a blow out crowd couple of dozen people. They stayed away by the thousands. So you know what I had to do. I had to consider not. Consider not my age. Consider not my total. 150 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:36.000 A total lack of experience. Consider not that I'm trying to do something in one of the most expensive cities I'm planted earth and I have no money. Consider not. 151 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:47.960 So right now there is a promise from the Lord for you. And in the natural it doesn't look like it could ever be fulfilled. You have to consider not. That means don't even pay attention to it. 152 00:33:47.960 --> 00:34:07.960 This old 100 year old man got a promise. He was going to be a father. And he said yes, I believe it. And I'll receive the name change. And everywhere I go, I'll be mocked because I'll tell them I'm a father of many nations. Even though in the natural I have zero children. Can you partner with this? Can you get in on this? Hallelujah. 153 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:25.960 I'll consider not. You know one thing I didn't do when I blew out my back a month ago. I didn't go. I didn't immediately go and I didn't go on Google at all, which is the exact opposite of most people what they do is to go on Web MD to not go on Web MD. 154 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:45.960 You will leave with the sickness you have in like 20 other sicknesses. You will see like oh, I have that. I have that. Oh, check. I have this symptom. No, don't give yourself more things to consider. Consider not. Consider not the natural. Consider not that the chips are stacked against you. 155 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:56.960 Don't consider your body already dead or the deadness of Sarah's womb. Verse 20, he did not waver at the promise of God. Oh, did we finish 19? 156 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:10.960 Verse 20, he did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief. But was strengthened in faith. How did he go from not being weak in faith to being strengthened in faith? 157 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:30.960 He gave glory to God. He praised the Lord. And he was fully convinced that what he had promised he was also able to perform. Hallelujah. He was convinced that what he had promised he was also able to perform. 158 00:35:31.960 --> 00:35:47.960 So what has he promised you for your life? Hallelujah. Well, you can find out two ways what he's promised you. One is what his word says. 159 00:35:48.960 --> 00:36:01.960 His written word. That's the logos. He's promised to give you the victory. Yeah. He's promised to be your father. You'll be his child. He's promised to see you through. He's promised to keep you from falling. 160 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:21.960 It was all nice, but the rather general, when you say, like there is no promise in the Bible that says, though you're young and dumb and inexperienced and only 26, I will lay my hand upon you and you will plant the church in New York City. I couldn't find, I needed one like that, but I couldn't find it in the Bible. 161 00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:34.960 That's when you need God to speak to your heart directly. This is, if you get this man, it'll make all the difference. It'll make all the difference in how you pray and how you receive after you pray. 162 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:46.960 There is the logos, which is the written word of God that does not change. There is the Rema word of God. That's the now spoken word of God. That's the flowing word of God, the preceding word of God. 163 00:36:46.960 --> 00:37:00.960 When Jesus taught us to pray and said, give us this day our daily bread. He said the fresh bread that fresh out of the oven, not yesterday's loaves, that's stale and fresh bread. What's he speaking to you now? 164 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:11.960 And by the way, the Rema will never ever contradict the logos. They flow hand in hand. And you need a Rema for your own life. 165 00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:21.960 Sometimes it'll come, like for me, that Psalm 35, 27, I was just reading that. I'd read it a hundred times before. You know, you can read and not eat. 166 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:41.960 And the Bible never says to read the Bible. It says to eat the Bible. So I've read it a couple of dozen times, but then one day I read it and it's like it leapt off the page and it hit my heart. What was that? That was God taking his logos and breathing on it and the logos became Rema to me. 167 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:49.960 So now it's not just a generic verse on God is going to make some 4,000 year old Hebrews wealthy. 168 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:58.960 In general, no, no, he takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. That wasn't just for back then, it's for now. And the Rema hit me when he said, 169 00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:10.960 and this is what I'll do with you. Trust me. Take my hand. See where I take you. That's what I'm hearing in my spirit. And I go, yes, Lord, I believe. And then I feel something. No, yes, Lord, I believe. 170 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:26.960 Yeah, Lord, I take this for myself. And now the logos has become Rema and safe is exploding now because of the word of God for me. Hallelujah. 171 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:42.960 Let's go to Psalm 25, 14. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Your situation is only temporary. Yeah. 172 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:58.960 And I can't really prove it, but I smell it in the air. I believe with all my heart, God has something wonderful up his sleeve. 173 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:18.960 Wonderful. Wonderful. Coming in as we close out 2024 and the elections and the nonsense and the mess and the symbols clanging and all that, you know what he's really concerned with, who he's really concerned with his body, his bride, the church. 174 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:30.960 He's going to release, release and anointing to exalt his people, to empower his people so that our final stretch, our final run is a glorious one. 175 00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:45.960 Somehow Christians got bad doctrine from funky movies and pulp fiction Christian novels. And they feel like the church is going to be huddled and hiding in bunkers and in caves and with food rations up in the mountains waiting for the trumpet to blow. 176 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:55.960 No, he's not coming for a bride that's cowering in a corner. He's coming for a glorified spotless bride that's kicking butt and taking names on earth. 177 00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:11.960 Let's go and preaching the gospel, reaching the loss. Hallelujah. We'll be so busy experiencing the glory and we'll hear that trumpet blast and we'll go, oh, and the transition from what we're experiencing now to heaven won't be that great. Hallelujah. 178 00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:23.960 So here's a great passage, great verse because we're talking about how to hear the ramens of God and I've preached just several weeks ago on hearing the voice of God. 179 00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:37.960 How to attune your spirit to hear the voice of God, but this is a special verse because it says the secret of the Lord is with those who fear him and he will show them his covenant. 180 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:52.960 Now, I was I was 19, 20 years old on my dorm room flooring college. That's where I would study the Bible and I kept coming across this word secret like in Psalms 91. 181 00:40:52.960 --> 00:41:01.960 It says that you have specific promises when you're in the secret place of the most high and then says the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him. 182 00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:17.960 What is the secret? What is the secret place? What is the secret of the Lord? These are good questions, right? There's worship leaders who sing all about the secret place. You ask them what the secret place is and they're like, well, you know, it's like that place. 183 00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:31.960 It's that place that I take you to take you to that secret place. My pastor used to joke, I can't tell you where the secret place is because it's a secret. And I'm like, that's funny, but still doesn't help me out here. 184 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:45.960 That word for secret is sod. It's where the Israeli secret service must sod gets its name from. 185 00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:58.960 So it means clandestine, secretive, private. It's also a word that's used for a couch where you sit down and have a close intimate conversation together. 186 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:11.960 Secret means friendship, intimacy. That's why some other Bible versions just show them they leave out the secret place, the secret part. By the way, the secret place, you can call it the friendship place. 187 00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:23.960 The secret place is the intimacy place. It's where your heart is connected with his. By the way, this is where a lot of faith people miss it. Can I just pause on this? 188 00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:31.960 I found that a lot of people who study the principles of faith, they're divorced from a real affectionate intimate relationship with the Lord. 189 00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:43.960 Because they're so focused on the principles, it's like they've tried, it just happens over time and by accident, they try to bring God down to a method and a formula. 190 00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:54.960 And then I have friends like this and their faith isn't working by the way, it can't work like this. And the whole relationship with those is like, I thank you God right now in the name of Jesus. 191 00:42:54.960 --> 00:43:15.960 I am blessed. And then that is kind of like a witch just saying a spell because there's no intimacy. There's no, they're just saying it, but they're not spending any time with him. They're not opening up their heart. They don't even know their loved really. They'll say it, but faith is what it says in Galatians. Faith works by love. 192 00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:27.960 Not like how you love one another, that too, but when you know his love for you, when you know all your sins are forgiven, when you know that he's crazy about you, he thinks about you, he has your best interest in his heart. 193 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:36.960 He scanned your whole life over from beginning to end and he wants to bless every avenue of your life. Then faith will work. 194 00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:46.960 By the way, then in this great field called Christianity, you have another camp and that's the prophetic charismatic camp. I got friends in that camp too, awesome people. 195 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:56.960 They love to roll around on the ground, kick their feet up in the air, you know, pop a God daddy. God love that stuff. What are you doing? I'm just soaking. What about your job? Well, you know, the Lord. 196 00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:15.960 I'm living by faith now. I just soak eight hours a day and wonderful. Great intimacy with the Lord. But then I notice also a pattern there like your bill is due, your massive credit card debt, like you have no, there's a practical side to life and you're not receiving. 197 00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:29.960 Yeah, but that a God will provide and then he does, but here's the thing, you're not supposed to live from miracle to miracle to miracle to miracle. That's like the worst bassist way to live. That means your butt needs rescuing every two weeks. 198 00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:42.960 Like you need a miracle when you're in danger. Well, the rest of the time he wants to take you up above the clouds, sorting it around 50,000 feet so you don't need a miracle every two weeks. Amen. 199 00:44:43.960 --> 00:45:05.960 So that's me just summing up two of the many camps we have in Christianity. You say, what's what's a good balance? Well, you see it in the scriptures really and you see it in Paul who knew how to use faith and knew the word of God and released his faith and also knew the love of God and the heart of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 200 00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:21.960 The secret, let's see those other verses. Same, same verse, different translations. Let's see it out of the NLT. Pastor James's version, he wrote that. The Lord is a friend. 201 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:36.960 The Lord is a friend. Faith will get popping when you receive the friendship of the Lord. Yeah. Some of you have been smacked by the devil and when he smacked you, he whispered in your God. 202 00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:48.960 And you have this wonky relationship with the Lord where you'll kind of love him, but you fear him more and you never know when he's going to just pop you one for no reason. It's not God who popped you. It was Satan. 203 00:45:48.960 --> 00:46:00.960 Lord's good. He's a friend. The Lord is a friend to those who fear him. He teaches them his covenant. Let's see it out of the ESV worship team. You can come on up. 204 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:17.960 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him and he makes known to them his covenant. Why am I preaching this? Because in the friendship place, he's going to whisper to you about you. 205 00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:33.960 He's going to impregnate you with his word, his promises. Yeah, like right now, in this service, or confirm what you heard the other week. He's going to show you what's around the corner, what's around the bend. 206 00:46:33.960 --> 00:46:47.960 And when he shows you either through a picture or a movie in your spirit or the still small voice, this is a simple thing that happened about 15 years ago when city light was in a really bad place. I was in a bad place. 207 00:46:47.960 --> 00:47:08.960 I asked my mom to pray for me. She said, okay, she called up like 30 seconds later. She said, I wanted to pray just like every other time, but the moment I closed my eyes, I saw just for a few seconds, two giant God hands coming and city light was this fear and God's hands just covered up city light church. 208 00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:31.960 And I know that that man everything was going to be fine and God is with you. And I'm like, that's it. That's the word of the Lord. That's the Rema word of God. That's the word that's going to feed my faith. He says everything's going to be okay. Everyone else says you're going down like the Titanic, but let God be true in every man a liar. Hallelujah. 209 00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:46.960 So during this song, he's going to speak to you. Don't push him away when he does. You say, is that possible? Yeah. 210 00:47:47.960 --> 00:48:06.960 Zachariah, John the Baptist dad, he was visited by an angel who told him, hey, John the Baptist is coming supernaturally. Oh, this is a good story. He said, oh, you know, he had his doubts. So you know what the angel did? He struck a mute. 211 00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:25.960 Like, all right, if that's how you're going to be, if I'm going to give you a promise and you're going to abort that promise with your words, this thing we're doing here with the Messiah coming. It's kind of important business. So we can't have you sabotaging that. 212 00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:42.960 So let's just eliminate all risks. You're mute now. So he wouldn't abort the promises of God. Next chapter, Mary is getting a visit by the same angel. And Mary just says, how can these things be saying that I don't know a man physically? 213 00:48:43.960 --> 00:49:00.960 An angel said, well, the Holy Spirit will overshadow you. You'll be overshadowed by the power of the most high. And all you have to do is explain a little bit. And she went, oh, be it unto me according to your word. See the difference. So God is going to come to you now. 214 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:19.960 May your heart's response be with whatever you hear or see. Be it unto me. In fact, lift your hands right now. Say this, Lord Jesus, I am your child. You're my father. I believe you speak to me. You will give me the word to activate my faith for the weeks and months to come. 215 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:45.960 I'm finishing 2024. Strong in a better place than how I started. So speak now for your servants is listening. Be it unto me according to your word. Yes, Holy Spirit come. Talk to your people in Jesus name. 216 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:22.960 Thank you for listening. Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you find your favorite podcasts worldwide.