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267 ~ SECRETS OF THE KINGDOM - JEREMY AARON

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  1. We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast.

  2. We are a church based out of Chennai, India.

  3. We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will

  4. be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear.

  5. Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of

  6. purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus.

  7. We have guest speaker Jeremy Aaron with us who helps unlock

  8. for us a few Kingdom secrets. We hope you are encouraged to

  9. begin to dig deeper in the world to discover your God-given

  10. calling and purpose in the Kingdom.

  11. Well, good morning everyone. I'm so honored to be here today

  12. and it's a joy for us to escape the Varanasi heat and come to

  13. Chennai and experience some humidity.

  14. Amen. Look at your neighbor and say

  15. welcome to church. Amen.

  16. I love church. I just want to take this time to

  17. honour and thank Karshav and Christine and the church here

  18. and the community here. Thank you for having us over and

  19. taking a risk and asking me to speak.

  20. Amen. Somebody said it's good to be

  21. where God is. Amen.

  22. It's very, very dangerous to be where he was.

  23. We need to be where God is. Where is God for you today?

  24. Amen. Where is the Holy Spirit leading

  25. you? Amen.

  26. He leads in green pastures. He leads us beside quiet waters.

  27. We become too complicated for the Kingdom.

  28. Jesus said my yoke is easy and my burden is like, if your

  29. burden and your yokes are there, its because of you.

  30. Somebody asked what's the greatest challenge in Varanasi?

  31. Because when you think about Varanasi, like for some people

  32. little scary, for some people don't we don't know what is in

  33. Varanasi, but I see the greatest challenge in Varanasi is me.

  34. I am my greatest challenge because there are things that

  35. God wants to do in and through my life.

  36. There are things that he wants to accomplish.

  37. There are people he wants to reach in and through me.

  38. And if I'm not sensitive to His Holy Spirit, if I am not

  39. experiencing Pentecost every day, I won't be able to

  40. accomplish what He wants me to accomplish, Amen.

  41. God listens to the cries of our heart, Amen.

  42. Sometimes this has small things made you angry, Small things

  43. that don't actually matter. Somebody press the toothpaste in

  44. the middle, you get angry. Food is cold, you get angry.

  45. There's so many things we get upset about.

  46. What we don't get upset that there are people in the world

  47. that have not experienced a touch from Jesus.

  48. Amen. I was installing when we first

  49. moved to Varanasi, I was installing my Internet on top

  50. because my kids were doing online school.

  51. So as I and in Varanasi, everybody sticks closer than a

  52. brother. Everybody is very close because

  53. the walls are attached to each other.

  54. Their houses like your list. Everybody knows what's happening

  55. in your house. You don't need ZTV, you don't

  56. need MTV, you don't need a Netflix and all over there

  57. because everybody's entertainment is there around

  58. you. So one my neighbor looked out

  59. and he asked me in Hindi, what is your password?

  60. I'm installing my Internet. He's asking me what?

  61. My password. I gave him my password.

  62. My wife was a little scared. So you don't know who they are,

  63. All these young boys. I said if we can't share our

  64. password, how can we share Jesus?

  65. Amen. God has shared heaven with us

  66. and we can't even share one small thing, correct.

  67. How many of you like to be called a son and daughter of

  68. God? Everybody yes till we see what

  69. God did to his own son, then we want to be his cousin so don't

  70. want to be son because unnecessarily why you have to go

  71. on the cross, but that's the call over our lives is going to

  72. be hard and difficult because everything we feel is ours.

  73. That is why today I'm going to speak a little bit about the

  74. secrets of the Kingdom Amen. There are secrets that God wants

  75. to give us and if we walk in this seek secrets you won't get

  76. by listening to a sermon, secrets you won't get by

  77. listening to a podcast, secrets you won't get for me.

  78. Also, I can give you only a partial revelation of what God

  79. wants to give you. You have to thirst and hunger

  80. for it. Amen.

  81. How many of you are hungry today?

  82. You're already planning lunch, where to eat.

  83. At least I am doing that. I don't know about you because

  84. they told me where they're taking me.

  85. I'm very excited, OK, But in the earth today, the more hungry get

  86. we get, the more we eat, correct?

  87. Sometimes we are very hungry, so we tend to eat more.

  88. But in the realm of the Spirit, the more we eat, the more hungry

  89. we get. And God wants to keep us in that

  90. space of hunger. Few people love God.

  91. Many people love, many people serve God.

  92. Few people love Him. God wants to bring us back to

  93. our first love. God wants us to bring us back to

  94. that day of Pentecost where we experience something.

  95. If you have not experienced it, we are missing out on something.

  96. We are missing out on one of the greatest treasures on the earth.

  97. And today I want to talk about the secrets of the Kingdom.

  98. The Bible is very clear. Its the devil.

  99. Devil is not a problem. Devil is not a problem.

  100. What kills us? Hosea is very clear.

  101. He said the lack of knowledge. People perish.

  102. People don't perish because of because the devil is attacking

  103. them. People perish because they don't

  104. know how to deal with the devil. The two kinds of people, one

  105. person who's not afraid of the devil, correct.

  106. We want to want to be that one, but for me the devil is should

  107. be afraid of me. That's the kind of person God

  108. has created you to be. If I introduce you to your real

  109. self, you will be afraid of meeting you.

  110. Because the things that God has put inside of us, the things

  111. that he has equipped us with, man, we are not created in the

  112. image of Shahrukh Khan. We are created in the image of

  113. God. Amen.

  114. We don't have to do like this and get worry about anything.

  115. We don't have to bow our head to anybody.

  116. We need to understand what has God put inside of us that He can

  117. create us in, not just in His image, but His likeness.

  118. We have been created in that and that is what we need to walk in.

  119. And when we walk like that, even though I walk through the

  120. valleys of the shadows that I will fear no evil, I'm not going

  121. to be anxious about anything. Being anxious is OK Staying

  122. anxious is the problem. Yes, there are things that

  123. recently, just few, few weeks ago, the doctors listened to my

  124. sons heart. He's only three years old.

  125. I don't know. You have a picture of our

  126. family. He's there.

  127. OK. This is our family.

  128. Fortunately, unfortunately, all of these people live in our

  129. house. Praise God, if Jesus invited us

  130. to his house, we have a revolving door.

  131. Anybody can come. But when people have to go see,

  132. Jesus led the way. He showed the way.

  133. Then he got out of the way. We need to get out of the way.

  134. There are seasons of life where we have to lead the way, we have

  135. to show the way. So one of my youngest sons, the

  136. middle right, the small, they told us there is a chance you

  137. might lose your son because he has, he had a very critical

  138. heart problem. We didn't know what was going to

  139. happen. And also these few weeks have

  140. been very, its been hard because it couldn't be detected before

  141. we went to Maranasi, but after Varanasi, suddenly it came alive

  142. because the devil wants to destroy us.

  143. Why? The devil attacks those who are

  144. a threat. He doesn't touch those who are

  145. not a threat. And I know that my son has

  146. become the biggest evangelical tool we have in our house

  147. because all our neighbors, they won't step into a Christians

  148. house. But because of my son, the

  149. people have started coming to our house.

  150. Why? Because he's always running

  151. around, always playing around with people.

  152. People want to come. And so the devil is attacking

  153. him because if he attacks him, he we will lose our peace.

  154. But we know that he who is in US is greater than he is in the

  155. world. People keep idols outside our

  156. house trying to threaten us. People have done a lot of things

  157. against us. The other people can be

  158. possessed by the enemy and destroy your peace.

  159. But God wants you, you to attach yourself to the Kingdom of God.

  160. And when you attach yourself to the Kingdom of God, you can walk

  161. in authority. Doesn't mean you will not walk

  162. into trouble, Doesn't mean you will not have attacks, doesn't

  163. mean you will not have battles, Doesn't mean the devil will not

  164. try to lose your peace. But in those moments, you will

  165. rest in the knowledge that he who created 126 billion acres of

  166. land, he's given this up to you. I researched how much land there

  167. is on the earth. Why?

  168. Because it's part of my inheritance and no man can give

  169. it to me, the God who created me directly Go there only if you

  170. lift your face to the Father, you won't need facelift correct?

  171. We all worried about so many things in life at stress has put

  172. changed our face. But when Moses saw God, his face

  173. changed correct? He had to put a cloth on his

  174. face. There is an anointing, its not

  175. kept for in heaven when you go, there's not a special line for

  176. pastors. Then they say no, no, no

  177. prophets, another line, no, all will come in the same line

  178. because we all created in the image of God.

  179. We all created for a time such as this.

  180. We all created for a destiny. So don't let the devil lie to

  181. you that you have to function in only four modes, work, work,

  182. sleep, eat, repeat. There is more inside you that

  183. God wants to bring out of you. And today we are going to dive

  184. deep into the knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom because

  185. that is why he said that is why I have come.

  186. I'm going to give you some verses because I have to preach.

  187. You say he's not, He's just saying something not say quoting

  188. the Bible. So I will quote the Bible.

  189. Are you having a good time today?

  190. Amen. We are going to learn together.

  191. Sometimes I say some things which I don't.

  192. It is not in my notes. Then I know the Holy Spirit is

  193. there. So we are going to learn

  194. together, Amen. So Matthew chapter 4 verse 17

    Matthew 4:17

  195. says from that time on, Jesus began to preach repent for the

  196. Kingdom of heaven has come here. OK, from that time on, he made

  197. the statement when he just got baptized.

  198. He just came out of the villages that the first statement he made

  199. the first statement he made of what is repent for the Kingdom

  200. has come near. That means I am come to

  201. represent the Kingdom and Luke 443 he says but he said I must

  202. proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to others towns

  203. also because that is why I was sent.

  204. Why was Jesus sent to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom?

  205. Amen. In Matthew chapter 24 verse 14

    Matthew 24:14

  206. it says and this the gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in

  207. the whole world as a testimony to all the nations and then the

  208. end will come. Jesus did not come to preach

  209. prosperity. Jesus did not come to preach

  210. healing. Jesus did not come to preach

  211. hell and heaven. Jesus came to preach the gospel

  212. of the Kingdom. The prosperity is mentioned 17

  213. times. Healing is mentioned 23 times.

  214. Heaven is mentioned 80 times. Hell is mentioned 54 times, the

  215. gospel of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is mentioned 195

  216. times in four gospels. There is something that we need

  217. to pay attention. If Jesus was talking about

  218. Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom, he didn't say

  219. synagogue, synagogue, synagogue, synagogue.

  220. He said Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom.

  221. We need to pay attention. What is this Kingdom, God?

  222. What is this Kingdom you're talking about?

  223. So we want to know God, what are you talking about when you say

  224. the Kingdom? Matthew chapter 13 verse 19.

    Matthew 13:19

  225. This is a dangerous verse. I love Scripture because it

  226. makes us uncomfortable. Scripture is important because

  227. it cuts out what is comfortable and makes us focus on what is

  228. important. He said when anyone hears the

  229. message about the Kingdom and does not understand it, the evil

  230. one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart, the seed

  231. that is sown along the path. When he talks about the evil

  232. one, it talks about the devil. The devil did not send his minor

  233. prophets, major prophets. The devil himself will come and

  234. try to steal the Kingdom. Because if you are part of the

  235. Kingdom that God created, you're a threat to him today.

  236. You're not part of a church, you're part of a Kingdom.

  237. Zion is not a church, its part of the Kingdom of God.

  238. The Kingdom is so much more bigger and powerful than these 4

  239. worlds. Yes, the Kingdom is more

  240. powerful than these 4 worlds. It is here where you get fuelled

  241. and refuelled and you go out and you do the things of the

  242. Kingdom. It is here when you learn, when

  243. you grow together, learn from each other, ask each other what

  244. the needs are, ask, pray for each other, minister to each

  245. other. You're in this community not to

  246. attend and mark your attendance and feel good about yourself.

  247. This community is here so that you can be a blessing to those

  248. around you and you can go and tell your neighbors your

  249. Internet password. Amen.

  250. God said man, what are you doing?

  251. You don't even know your neighbors name.

  252. There's something wrong with you.

  253. Sometimes I forget my neighbors name because we all are so

  254. bothered about us. See in life now, we are so

  255. intentional about building our life, building our career,

  256. building our future, building this.

  257. We have no idea about building the Kingdom.

  258. We are not intentional about that.

  259. And God says it is time that you are intentional about why I put

  260. you on this. Otherwise you're going to go

  261. from one stress to another stress, from one anxiety, from

  262. one disappointment from one desire to come and be at a

  263. certain level and then it falls short.

  264. Why? Because you're not part of His

  265. Kingdom. You're part of your Kingdom.

  266. The Kingdom of heaven is very different from the Kingdom of

  267. God. Psalms 115 verse 14 to 16 says

    Psalms 115:14–16

  268. may the Lord cause you to flourish.

  269. Amen. God wants us to flourish.

  270. OK, both you and your children. May you be blessed by the Lord.

  271. The makers of the heavens and the earth, the have highest

  272. heavens belong to the Lord. The highest sevens belong to the

  273. Lord. But the earth is given to you.

  274. The earth has been given to you. See, religion is one of the most

  275. demonic things on the earth, because religion postpones the

  276. Kingdom to another dimension, correct?

  277. We all want to go to heaven, but I am sorry to say in heaven you,

  278. you are useless. In heaven you cannot say how can

  279. I pray for you? In heaven you cannot say hey can

  280. I help you with this? Hey how can I be there for you?

  281. Hey who should I tell about Jesus?

  282. Your job is done when you go to heaven you'll be enjoying Gods

  283. presence but you will never be fulfilling your purpose.

  284. We all like to go to heaven, why no loans?

  285. We used to pray when you're on 10th standard.

  286. God come now fast, take us and go, correct?

  287. See, the most selfish thing to pray is pray.

  288. Jesus come. The most selfish thing to pray

  289. is Jesus come. Because it says that I do not

  290. love those who don't know him because I don't care about them.

  291. I want to go to heaven. That's all bothers.

  292. That's all I'm concerned with. But Jesus says let's live

  293. differently. If I really love Jesus, I will

  294. love people. And if I really love people,

  295. I'll say God, keep him. Keep me here even though the

  296. valleys get darker and deeper and get the mountains get higher

  297. and things get difficult. Keep me here as long as I can

  298. because somebody needs to encounter you.

  299. That is what the Kingdom is. The Kingdom is all about

  300. reflecting Jesus to as many people as I can in my lifetime,

  301. and it's my responsibility to do that.

  302. You cannot operate what you postpone.

  303. If you think the Kingdom of God is in heaven, you cannot operate

  304. it on earth. Don't postpone it.

  305. It is here. So a few things I want us to

  306. leave. Few principles, Amen.

  307. Few principles about how can we access the the Kingdom of God

  308. and we take it from the life of Jesus.

  309. Amen. No matter what your personality

  310. type is, introvert, extrovert, whatever, how many ever.

  311. Now more personality types are coming because we have more

  312. excuses not to do what we are supposed to do.

  313. Nobody said Amen. OK, why?

  314. See there is only one personality type, Jesus.

  315. Be like him. Know when to keep your mouth

  316. shut, know when to stay quiet, know when to climb up the

  317. mountain, know when to come down the mountain, know when to heal,

  318. know when to touch, know when to do what he did because he didn't

  319. come to show off. He came to show you how you can

  320. walk. That is why he came.

  321. And so we need to be like Jesus. The first thing I want to say is

  322. how you can access is the secrets of the Kingdom is you

  323. have to leave your net. We are all holding on to the

  324. net. If you don't leave your net you

  325. will fall into one net. Whether its the Internet or not

  326. I don't know, but you will fall into it because we all have

  327. Nets. We all have next and we want to

  328. hold on to the net. See, unless you are your

  329. disciple, you cannot follow Jesus.

  330. In Luke chapter 14 verse 33, it says in the same way those of

    Luke 14:33

  331. you who do not give up everything, look at the neighbor

  332. and say everything, OK, because this is a keyword.

  333. If you don't give up everything, you will.

  334. You cannot be my disciples. You cannot be a disciple if you

  335. don't know how to leave what you have.

  336. If your job is your security, sorry, you will be, you will go

  337. from 1. You will, you might have

  338. temporary highs, but you will be in the lowest of lows because

  339. you are holding still holding on to that net, Jesus.

  340. The first thing Jesus told his disciples is leave your net.

  341. Follow me. So what is the net that you are

  342. holding today? Don't ask for the Holy Spirit to

  343. come. He won't come to people who are

  344. holding on to something else. He cannot fill us.

  345. We have to know what it is to leave the net and I love this.

  346. This was in Matthew chapter 13 verse 10 and 12.

    Matthew 13:10

  347. It says, listen to this very carefully.

  348. It's very powerful. OK.

  349. The disciples came to him and asked him, why do you speak to

  350. the people in parables? And this is Jesus reply,

  351. beautiful reply. He said, because the knowledge

  352. of the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you,

  353. but not to them. Wow, the knowledge of the

  354. secrets of the Kingdom of heaven.

  355. The knowledge again, the knowledge of the secrets of the

  356. Kingdom of heaven can be only given to a disciple.

  357. Amen to the others, Life is always a Riddle.

  358. Who to marry pastor? You decide.

  359. You talk to God and see who you want me to marry.

  360. Pastor, do I need to take this job?

  361. Everything becomes a Riddle in life, even What Car to buy.

  362. Do your research, you will know What Car to buy.

  363. Amen. Life should not be a Riddle for

  364. a disciple life. When we moved to Varanasi, it

  365. was not a Riddle to me. In an instant I saw a video like

  366. nothing spiritually, no heaven opened, no dove came down and

  367. told me to go to Varanasi. It was a small video, 2 minute

  368. video. Immediately I said we are going.

  369. God is not a confu God of confusion, He is a God of

  370. clarity. Amen.

  371. When God speaks, he doesn't need your opinion, He needs your

  372. obedience. Amen.

  373. So get up and do what he's calling you to do.

  374. You might have temporary troubles, but its only temporary

  375. because God reminds you that is he who has LED you, and He will

  376. provide for you. He will sustain you, He will

  377. chase all these monkeys Are we prayed?

  378. When the monkeys came next day, all standing on the border of

  379. our house, nobody entered in, correct?

  380. Why? Because we have a God who's much

  381. more bigger than the monkey. Amen.

  382. God wants to speak through you. God wants to use our voice.

  383. He wants to give us a voice. Amen.

  384. I have a photograph of a donkey on my phone.

  385. Because I said, always reminded. If God can speak to a donkey, he

  386. can speak through me, correct? If God can speak through a

  387. donkey, why can't he speak through me?

  388. He can speak through US. God wants to use us.

  389. Amen. There we are.

  390. Nobody is more special than anybody.

  391. We all are created equally in the image of God.

  392. We just do not have the knowledge of God.

  393. The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom has been given to

  394. you as a disciple. If you as a disciple, learn how

  395. to leave your net, then you can follow this God, leave your net.

  396. Why? Why do we leave our net?

  397. Because there's something so much bigger that God has for us.

  398. He doesn't want us to live in that small net and catch these

  399. fish. It says here in Matthew 633.

  400. It says but seek first the Kingdom of God and his

  401. righteousness and all these things will be handed unto you.

  402. We love this was because of the second part correct?

  403. We only if we had if this was did not have the second part,

  404. none of us would know this was we know this was because of the

  405. second part. Does God wants to give us

  406. things? Yes.

  407. Does God want to bless us? Yes.

  408. Does he want to favor us? Yes.

  409. Does he want to bless you more than anybody in your

  410. organization? Maybe yes.

  411. Because God has designed us to be like him in his image and he

  412. blessed us. When God created the earth, he

  413. did not have a budget meeting correct?

  414. If we were there no part of the planning team, you would have

  415. said God, why creating so many mango trees?

  416. 2 mango trees are enough. Now we have hundreds and

  417. hundreds of different mangoes. Why?

  418. It comes out of his love for us because he knows my wife likes

  419. this mango. I like another mango.

  420. That's why he created it. He wants us to enjoy the earth

  421. that he has created us is given for you and me too, to enjoy it.

  422. But we are living in only a certain type of level of

  423. satisfaction when God wants to give us some things that are way

  424. beyond us. So here's the principle of this

  425. verse. Seek first the Kingdom of God

  426. and his righteousness, not your righteousness.

  427. Don't say you well you prayed extra to us, doesn't mean you

  428. become holy because its his righteousness upon me.

  429. I do not, I do not pray because I am.

  430. I want to be spiritual. I pray because I'm hungry for

  431. God. I'm hungry for God to move in my

  432. city. I'm hungry for God to move in

  433. and through me in that city that when I walk God will lead me to

  434. people and those people I will lead to Jesus.

  435. That is why I'm there. I'm not there for anything else.

  436. Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all

  437. these things will be added. You do the seeking, let Him do

  438. the adding. Amen You your job is to do the

  439. seeking, His job is to do the adding.

  440. You add, somebody will steal it. I just recently, one year ago I

  441. bought 1 new phone in in 2 days it got stolen.

  442. I'd planned so nicely the cover and this and that.

  443. When God adds, no devil in hell can touch it.

  444. Amen. When God adds to you, there are

  445. things that God has suddenly you will, you will have.

  446. God will add to you. No one can touch it.

  447. Why? Because he's added and he who if

  448. he adds Satan cannot even put one, only one one finger on it.

  449. Why? Because when God wants to add

  450. something in your life, it is there to remain forever.

  451. God doesn't bless us temporary, He doesn't add temporary.

  452. His things remain. Amen.

  453. God wants to add so you do the seeking, He will do the adding.

  454. Its simple. Its simple the complicated way

  455. you try to add and see what you what happens in your life.

  456. You add what you can add in 10 years God can add in 10 seconds.

  457. Amen. See, learn to be content.

  458. This is the problem. One bedroom is not enough,

  459. correct? We want more, but no God wants

  460. wants us to have more. But we have to see.

  461. I told in the morning I was talking to the young people.

  462. God will not give you what you pray for.

  463. God will give you what you manage.

  464. Sorry, it's not so spiritual, but just because you pray for

  465. it, God won't give it to you because you don't know how to

  466. manage what you have. If you don't know how to manage

  467. ₹100, How will you manage ₹10,000?

  468. If you don't know how to manage ₹10,000, How will you manage

  469. ₹10,00,000? If you don't know how to manage

  470. ₹10,00,000, how good God is a God of promotion.

  471. He always takes us from glory to glory, from strength to

  472. strength. That is who He is.

  473. He is, it's His nature. Even God can't help it.

  474. You understand God has designed the earth in such a way and you

  475. in such a way that if you follow the principles you will get

  476. blessed. Why are the those principles?

  477. Whether you like it or not, those principles are not just

  478. for the Christians, its for everyone who's made in his

  479. image. That's why there's certain

  480. people prospering a lot. Why?

  481. Because they know how to manage what we have, what they have we

  482. have lost that. We don't know how to manage what

  483. we have, we have. When Adam fell, he lost

  484. management rights. He lost, he just didn't lose

  485. intimacy. He lost management rights on the

  486. earth. Learn how to manage, learn how

  487. to make your bed, learn how to take care of the bodyguards

  488. given you. However much I like beef, I

  489. can't, I cannot eat half KG beef alone and expect expect God to

  490. spiritually fill me. I need to know how to manage

  491. what he's given me. And a lot of times we lose the

  492. greatest things because we lose the ability to manage what we

  493. have. And God has given us certain

  494. things to manage and we need to manage it well.

  495. Amen. So don't worry if the Bible is

  496. very clear, it says each day has enough trouble.

  497. Same wasn't feeling each day has enough trouble.

  498. Why you are worried about tomorrow?

  499. Why you are worried? Somebody told me, man, you have

  500. to start saving. I said I save order of

  501. discipline, not out of fear, correct?

  502. I said 16 people are there, I have to feed them.

  503. Amen. Somebody is talking about mutual

  504. funds. I said all my funds are mutual.

  505. Amen. According to Acts 4242, as a

  506. disciple, all my funds are mutual.

  507. I live on a different. Let's see, this is the thing.

  508. I live in a different Kingdom. In that Kingdom, you don't

  509. understand how powerful God's mathematics is.

  510. Your calculator is not big enough for it.

  511. God has given us so much. He's put inside of us.

  512. Don't work on function on four things.

  513. Amen. There is something bigger that

  514. God has for you. Don't let what you have have

  515. you. That is the devils plan.

  516. He wants what you have to have you.

  517. We have. We are living in so much fear.

  518. We're living in so much peer pressure looking at what others

  519. have and how much they have. You will never be happy and

  520. never be satisfied even if you get all of that multiplied by

  521. 10. Why?

  522. Because you've not. You're not functioning under the

  523. identity of Gods created you in. You're not functioning under His

  524. government. You're not functioning under

  525. what He has for you, Amen. There is so much more that God

  526. has for us, Amen. Secondly, this is a powerful

  527. one, Amen. The second principle is how do

  528. you access the secrets of the Kingdom?

  529. By getting into the secret place, correct?

  530. God doesn't sell His secrets openly, He tells his secrets in

  531. the secret because God was before the beginning began.

  532. And if you want to meet the man who began the beginning, you go

  533. to the beginning. Amen.

  534. You go to the beginning. What happened in the beginning?

  535. You were in your mother's womb. What was it?

  536. All dark? What was it you had no sense of

  537. hearing, listening, seeing nothing.

  538. Go back to that place. Matthew chapter 6.

    Matthew 6 chapter mention

  539. Its amazing that if see the disciples were Jewish men.

  540. OK? The Jewish men knew how to pray.

  541. If you go today to the Jewish wall, they'll all be like, this

  542. is how they pray and they'll go for hours.

  543. That's why they don't have any back problem.

  544. They're flexing their lower back.

  545. But the disciples didn't ask Jesus how to multiply fish and

  546. bread. I was saying, Jesus, if that is

  547. their own anointing, give me because 16 people have to fail.

  548. No, Jesus didn't say. The disciples didn't say.

  549. He said teach us how you pray. Teach us how you do it, because

  550. your prayers and prayers are very different.

  551. Jesus prayed very differently. So they said, OK, come on, I'm

  552. going to tell you, I'm going to tell you a secret.

  553. How do you do it? But when you pray, go into your

  554. room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen.

  555. Then your Father who sees what's done in secret will reward you.

  556. He will reward you. Why?

  557. Because you have taken the time to get up when everyone is

  558. sleeping and you've gone to a place which is your womb, where

  559. you were created, which is the secret place and you kill the

  560. senses that are functioning, the sense to talk.

  561. We want to 1st advise God what He should do in our life.

  562. God doesn't need our advice, God needs us to.

  563. I tell people shut the door and shut up.

  564. Sorry this is church, but this is God also.

  565. God wants us to keep our mouth shut because we have lots to say

  566. and sometimes a lot about others.

  567. Also. God says Baba, keep quiet so so

  568. you stop, so God can start only if you stop, God can start the

  569. The thing is the devil, it says the devil will keep you from

  570. that place. He doesn't want you to be the

  571. the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life is trying to get

  572. into that secret place. The hardest thing because that's

  573. when the most attack comes, the most attack comes.

  574. That's why you need to study Jesus is prayer life.

  575. It's very clear how what time you study, you have to study it

  576. and you get it. You have to study it for

  577. yourself because if you're not hungry, you won't go and do it.

  578. Nothing is ready made in the Kingdom.

  579. You have to seek for it. Seek edited all your all your

  580. heart. And he went into the closet and

  581. he said the I mean imagine the father who is in the secret

  582. place. The father when we are in the

  583. secret place, the father who created the heavens and the

  584. earth suddenly appears next to you.

  585. There is no other place that happens in the Bible but its

  586. there for you. There's no other place.

  587. If you do this, then Father will come.

  588. No, no, no. It's when you are in the secret

  589. place. Master the secrets of the secret

  590. place. You know prayer is.

  591. I don't go to the office to pray.

  592. Prayer is my office. If you want to move the hand

  593. that moves the world, you move yourself into the secret place.

  594. If you can take one thing from here today, master the secret

  595. place, because that's when secrets are said.

  596. That's when suddenly things will start happening in your life

  597. that you didn't ever expect it to happen.

  598. Why? Because God doesn't just give us

  599. the desires of art. God blows our mind by giving us

  600. what we win we don't need. Because he's a God who loves us

  601. and he's a blesses us. And if we can manage the secret

  602. place, we can manage anything. God wants us to learn, learn how

  603. to fast and pray. See the first see why did the

  604. Israelites, God didn't give them food.

  605. He delivered them such so many miracles.

  606. He didn't give them food. They were crying, they were

  607. hungry, they were hungry. They think give us something to

  608. eat. God did not want them to eat

  609. because they were still Egypt inside them.

  610. You're crying for onions and garlic.

  611. And because why fasting is the mode to accelerate your destiny.

  612. Jesus when the open, when the heavens opened, the dove came

  613. down. It doesn't say Jesus went into

  614. the wilderness very beautifully spiritually went inside.

  615. It says, no, the Spirit of God pushed him into the wilderness.

  616. He did not feel like fasting. He fasted because the Spirit of

  617. God pushed him inside there. You will never feel like

  618. fasting, but it says certain things happen in your life only

  619. by prayer and fasting. Is there a sin in your life

  620. today that you've been dealing with over and over again?

  621. Same problem. Is there an issue in your

  622. family? There's certain things that are

  623. not maybe have property that's not selling.

  624. Maybe you have things that are not moving.

  625. Maybe, maybe things are not moving the way you wanted to

  626. move and you're just one fast away from your breakthrough,

  627. just one faster when you fast. See listen, I, if there's

  628. anything I love to do is I love to cook, OK, I'm a

  629. self-proclaimed master chef, OK, I love to cook and I couldn't, I

  630. would have never fasted in my life before that.

  631. But there was a season in Varanasi many months ago where I

  632. knew if I did not fast, things would not change.

  633. Because you hit a block, you hit, you hit the mundane right?

  634. It's like God, I need to fast. And if I can do it 40 days

  635. without eating, somebody who loves to eat, somebody who's

  636. very excited to cook. We need to understand that

  637. there's something that God wants.

  638. I fasted and prayed. There were things that happened

  639. that I did not expect to happen. There are there were things that

  640. happened that I wanted to happen that God gave us.

  641. There are attacks that happened that I never expected to happen

  642. that happened. So you get both.

  643. Why? Because that man God sent you

  644. fast again, correct? You fast again for another

  645. victory. We have to learn if Jesus

  646. fasted, we need to fast, fast and pray.

  647. Fasting cleans up. Amen.

  648. Fasting cleans up. Therefore I tell you, do not

  649. worry about your life. Matthew chapter 6, what you will

    Matthew 6 chapter mention

  650. eat and what you will drink about your body, what you will

  651. wear. Isn't life more than food and

  652. the body more than clothes? Fasting brings clarity,

  653. connection and communion with God.

  654. If you want clarity, connection and communion, learn to fast if

  655. you have an exam. If you have an exam, fast.

  656. If you eat too much, you won't be able to think properly.

  657. It's naturally proven that if you go for an exam full stomach,

  658. it clouds your memory. If you fast, it accelerates your

  659. memory. If you have that interview, fast

  660. and pray not fast to get the job.

  661. Fast and praising God. I know see I don't I, you know

  662. what fasting says? Fasting says God, I can't do

  663. this without you God. I cannot see people come to know

  664. Jesus without you. Fasting shows that I love God

  665. and I want him to move in my life.

  666. Fasting shows I love others more than I love myself.

  667. Fasting shows I love my my spirit more than I love my body.

  668. Fasting shows that I'm more concerned with the things of the

  669. Kingdom than I'm concerned with my Kingdom.

  670. Fasting does something and takes you to a level that very few

  671. people people can take you to. Amen.

  672. The last thing today is get back to where it all started.

  673. So you have to know your original design.

  674. So you are not created to find your purpose.

  675. You are created with your purpose.

  676. So don't find yourself. Now we have many people finding

  677. themselves. You don't have to find yourself.

  678. He says what he says in Jeremiah.

  679. Before you were formed, I knew you and I appointed you.

  680. God has already appointed things to happen in your life, your

  681. purposes, before you were born. So don't go and find a purpose.

  682. Your purpose is already inside you.

  683. The reason you like to do certain things is because God

  684. put it inside of you. Why do you think about certain

  685. things all the time? Because as God put it inside

  686. you, it is installed in your, in your software, preinstalled by

  687. God. You don't have to go and find

  688. it. It's already there.

  689. Go back to where it started. God wants to use us.

  690. Amen. See, John Wesley says this very

  691. beautifully. Man cannot do anything without

  692. God, correct? But God will not do anything

  693. without man. God wants to use us and it's our

  694. original design. In Matthew chapter 18 verse

    Matthew 18 chapter mention

  695. three and four, it says tell you this, unless you change correct

  696. and become like children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God

  697. Unless you change and become like children.

  698. That means you become like how you originally were, correct how

  699. you originally were. If you do not become like how

  700. you originally were, God cannot help you enter the Kingdom of

  701. God. You know the difference between

  702. adults and children. Children obey.

  703. Adults negotiate. We want to negotiate with God.

  704. If you do this, God, I will do that.

  705. God is waiting for your proposals.

  706. God is not. God is not interested in your

  707. offer letter. God is interested in those who

  708. obey Him. Don't negotiate with the one who

  709. created you because whatever you're negotiating is less.

  710. Whatever you're negotiating is less than what He created you to

  711. be. See, we, we are.

  712. I'm going to end soon. We live on this earth, No, And

  713. we do not understand what God has created us for.

  714. He's created us not to own things.

  715. See, we all like to leave our name.

  716. You know, this house is my house, my name.

  717. But not gods, not quality for ownership.

  718. Gods called you for rulership. If you live always wanting to

  719. own, you will never rule. Make Jesus your king today.

  720. Let him rule on you. The Israelites were didn't

  721. understand that they wanted their own king, even though

  722. Samuel said if you have this king man, he'll take you, he'll

  723. take you, tax you, he'll do all of this.

  724. But we want physical kings. We want the physical things in

  725. our lives so badly because we are living so much in the flesh

  726. that if we don't have these things, it won't make us happy.

  727. And God is saying, hey, there is something bigger.

  728. It is called the Kingdom of God. And if you have the Kingdom, you

  729. have everything. You have rulership.

  730. So don't settle for ownership, settled for rulership.

  731. I'm not in Varanasi just to start something.

  732. I'm there in Varanasi to rule. I'm there in Varanasi to kill

  733. the devil. I'm there in one has to cut the

  734. powers and the principalities that are there because why?

  735. Isaiah says the sons contend with the enemy at the gates.

  736. I'm a son I contend with. I'll ask Jesus where the enemy

  737. I'll go and finish him off. Why?

  738. Because I know who I am. Who am I?

  739. I'm created in the image of God. Who am I?

  740. I'm the man who's left his Who's left his net.

  741. Who am I? I'm the man who knows the

  742. secrets of the secret place. Who am I?

  743. I know who the What is my original design?

  744. I know it. And I'm not afraid.

  745. And you and me are built the same way.

  746. We are not afraid of what anybody says about us.

  747. We are not afraid about what anybody does.

  748. But why? Because we are called for

  749. rulership, not ownership, Amen. But we all sense sometimes Jesus

  750. is away, correct? Sometimes we don't.

  751. Everything is based on feeling. So you say Jesus, I don't feel,

  752. but he says, hey, I have something beyond feeling.

  753. You know when the I'll end with this?

  754. When the, when the disciples, when Jesus died and went to

  755. heaven and the, and the disciples went back fishing, the

  756. net that they left, they went and they got it.

  757. They went back fishing and it says all night, look at your

  758. neighbor and say all night, all night, very important part of

  759. the story. All night they were fishing.

  760. They knew where to fish, how to fish, what to fish, everything

  761. they knew, but they didn't catch anything.

  762. Then they put the boat in reverse gear.

  763. They went to park it and then they saw somebody on the show.

  764. They didn't recognize who he was.

  765. And what did that voice say? Cast your net on the other side.

  766. And the Bible is very specific, is not specific like that about

  767. fish ever. It says they caught 154 large

  768. fish. They caught 154 large fish.

  769. Wrong place, wrong time, right voice, correct, wrong place,

  770. wrong time. You don't fish in that time.

  771. You don't fish next to the shore.

  772. You have to go deep. And in that, that place which

  773. doesn't have any fish, had the largest fish and they got 154 of

  774. them. And then Peter saw it was Jesus

  775. and he was not Jesus. Can I walk on water?

  776. He see? When you see Jesus, you forget

  777. about miracles. When you see Jesus, you forget

  778. about what you miracles. He jumped and ran to Jesus.

  779. And here's the secret of the story.

  780. What did Jesus, what was Jesus doing?

  781. He was flying fish. Today you can waste your whole

  782. life trying to catch something Jesus already has ready for you.

  783. It's not just fish. He had bread and it's just not

  784. bread. There's his presence.

  785. Jesus himself comes and eats with you.

  786. What? Not what you have made, what he

  787. has made for you. But we want to fight all night

  788. in frustration for things that we want and lose out toward what

  789. Jesus wants to give us today, even as Gosham comes in, even as

  790. we get into a time of just reflecting, you know, it's there

  791. a lot of things that can be said, correct?

  792. Maybe tomorrow you'll listen to many more other messages that

  793. 100 times better than this. But what is same right

  794. throughout is God's presence. See, God's presence is so much

  795. more powerful than a word of a man.

  796. And he tells you today I have fish, I have bread ready for

  797. you. All I want you to do is come and

  798. sit with me and I will tell you things about your life because I

  799. created you. I didn't create you to lift that

  800. burden. I didn't create you to lift a

  801. weight. Amen.

  802. Stand up. What is your name?

  803. What is your name? Roni?

  804. Roni, God wants to lift your weight today.

  805. You've been carrying it a lot. And God says rest.

  806. There's a verse in the Bible that says be still and know that

  807. I am God. And God says if you're not

  808. still, you will never know. And God says, today I set you

  809. free. Today your weight is lifted.

  810. Today your burden is light. Why?

  811. Because today Jesus has a table with fish for you and you're

  812. worried about tomorrow. Is it man?

  813. There's fish, there's fish for you, there's bread for you.

  814. So God, we thank you for Ronnie. We don't thank you for her life,

  815. not even as we move into a time of just asking you, God, Lord,

  816. you're giving this word to a lot of us today that some of us are

  817. exhausted and tired of running in circles.

  818. Some of us are exhausted and tired of running after things

  819. that are not filling our hearts. And today God you says I have

  820. given you dominion and authority.

  821. I have given you the ability to rule wherever you go, a rule not

  822. for what you want, a rule over the people, a Gods blessing you

  823. look at the scriptures. Gods blessing was always more

  824. people. He always blessed people with

  825. people. He blessed people to to be

  826. delivered. He blessed people to be to be

  827. shepherded. He, he constantly gave more

  828. people. And the blessing today is not

  829. your bank account. The blessing today is not your

  830. land, your house, your inheritance.

  831. The blessing today is God wants you to love more people.

  832. He wants you to lead more people.

  833. He wants you to serve more people.

  834. He wants you to serve and give off what he has given you.

  835. And today he breaks the bread, he breaks the fish, and he says,

  836. come on, let's eat together. So Holy Spirit, we welcome you.

  837. We know that you are here. You are moving in our midst.

  838. But we pray God that today that not just lives would be changed,

  839. but lives would be not just challenged, but lives would be

  840. transformed in the name of Jesus.

  841. Lord, we just come against any power, any principality, every

  842. generational cause. And if you're here and you're

  843. saying that you feel this weight over your heart, weight over

  844. your life, you can stand up. And we're going to, and we're

  845. just going to call on the name of Jesus.

  846. We're going to you can stand in the gap for somebody who can

  847. stand for your family, you can stand for the generation, you

  848. can stand for this nation and we're going to say God, there is

  849. power in your name. And we believe God that today

  850. that you can break bondages, that you can set people free

  851. that we don't have. We don't have to breathe

  852. uncomfortably, that we can breathe freely today.

  853. But because your word says with the spirit of the Lord is there

  854. is freedom in Jesus name? Thanks for listening to this

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