Jesus Wants His Stuff Back

We want to be heard.

We want to have an opinion.

We want what we think to matter.

And there are some things where the Lord is saying, you don't talk about it, you just move.

And I'm telling you that we've been in the season of talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

Podcasts and online messages and all of it good and helpful.

Most of it good.

But there is a moment where I have to go, hey, I can't just eat.

I can't just listen.

I've actually got to do something with what I have.

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.

If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

That's citylightnyc.com.

Pastor Boyan Jancic and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

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.

Why don't you put your hands together as we welcome David Wagner as he ministers the Holy Ghost to you.

Come on, will you give Jesus a shout of praise this morning?

Jesus, we love you.

We lift you up.

We magnify you.

We declare there's no one like you.

There's no one but you.

And Lord, we know that if you'd be high and lifted up in New York City, right here in Queens, that you would draw all men to yourself.

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying that this is the season of the great drawing.

For I'm drawing people unto me.

I'm going to use you, but I'm bringing them to me.

And I felt like the Lord said that he's about to envelop this city with his heart.

He's about to envelop this city with its heart.

And even though everything here seems to move fast, the Lord says that I'm coming and I'm releasing divine timing and perfect peace.

For the Lord says there's going to come an unusual peace, not the absence of conflict, but the peace of the Lord that passes all understanding.

I have a friend who says it like this.

Sometimes I have the peace that passes all understanding.

You've got to give up your right to understand.

And the Lord's going to do things that are about to be mind-blowing and earth-shaking at the same time.

We're in that season where everything that can be shaken is being shaken.

But it's with purpose so that the unshakable kingdom can remain.

And so, Lord, I thank you that your word comes, that the prophetic word comes, the scripture comes to shake everything in us that's not like Jesus.

So, Lord, would you cause some things to shake off of us this morning?

Lord, some of us are going to get breakthrough.

Some of us are going to have shaked through.

Lord, where you're just shaking things off that we've carried that you never called us to carry.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Amen.

You can be seated.

What a great day to be alive.

Amen.

There's never been a day like today.

I saw a corny Hallmark card who said it like this.

Today's a gift.

That's why they call it a present, right?

Come on.

Some of the dudes are like, bro, turn in the man card, man.

Right?

But it is a great honor and privilege to be with you.

I get the privilege of being a friend of Pastor Boyan.

And, you know, there's people in your lives that are like drains.

He's not that.

You ever been around people that just kind of drain the life out of you?

But then you get around other people, and all of a sudden, it's like a fountain.

Your faith goes up.

Your expectation goes up.

Your hope goes up.

Your love for life goes up.

And that's what Pastor Bo is to me.

He's actually been an answer to my prayers for over 11 years because I have great opportunities and ministry events that I can do.

But I stopped praying long ago for messages to speak or churches to go to.

And I just said, Lord, I don't need any more obligations or commitments, but I'll take as many friends as you give me.

And the Lord answered that prayer within a few weeks and gave me Pastor Boyan.

And him and Emily and their two kids have been a vibrant part of my life.

And you know you're good friends when you can text, call every once in a while.

But when you get together, it's like you've never been apart.

And that's the way the body of Christ is designed to work, by the way.

That every joint supplies.

I love these words of King David.

He said, I was glad when they said unto me, let us go in the house of the Lord.

He was happy to go to church.

It was never an obligation for him.

He knew everything that he needed was in the house.

I have a crazy word for you.

Everything you need is in the house.

It's in the house of the Lord.

Why?

Because when the Father's present, every need is met.

When the Father shows up, every chain can be broken.

Every striving can cease.

You're fully protected.

You're fully loved, fully surrounded.

It's the place where we get to not only go, but it's the place we actually get to grow.

Right?

I love this.

In Isaiah chapter 66, verse 1, it says, Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool, but who will build me a house?

Isaiah 66:1

Basically, the Lord is saying, I have everything I need, and if I need anything else, I can just create it.

But he actually gives an invitation to us to build him a place to dwell.

How many know this was never designed to be a place where you visit God, but a place where you get to dwell with God?

I like the name City Light Church.

I wouldn't tell you to change it at all.

But I think God has a nickname for you, and that's his dwelling place.

Right?

I was sharing last night in the meeting.

I used to always pray this prayer.

Holy Spirit, come.

Lord, won't you come?

Lord, Holy Spirit, come.

And I think it's a good prayer and a powerful prayer.

But a few weeks ago or a couple months ago, I was praying that prayer, and the Lord said, who invited who?

Like, you're inviting me.

I think he appreciates that.

But how many know before the foundation of the earth, the Lord was standing in this moment at 1211 on August the 23rd, 2026, waiting for us to get here.

And he already set the table.

He already created the atmosphere for you to step into what you need in this very hour that we're living in.

Here's what I love about the Lord.

He always has fresh bread.

And the Lord gave me a message for first service.

I'm not going to preach that same message because there's fresh bread for second service.

And here's why.

There are these moments in God that we miss because we get repetitive.

There's moments in God that we get because we actually come to a place where we become familiar and we think we've got it figured out.

But how many know sometimes the Lord wants to surprise us?

And so I believe we're stepping into a season of supernatural surprises.

I believe the Lord's really about to blow our mind because we're thinking things are going to go like this.

But God shows up.

Things look like this is what's happening.

And all of a sudden, miracles begin to manifest.

Cities begin to turn their hearts towards God.

I don't believe it's fairy tale.

I don't believe it's just some kind of great revelation or a dream or a vision.

I believe it's actually the reality of God.

How many know when God says something, it's already happened?

It's already in motion.

We're actually needing to catch up to it.

I believe the Lord's called this church to be forerunners, to actually go ahead.

See, I think in the kingdom there's two kinds of people.

There's pioneers and there's settlers.

There's settlers.

Settlers settle into what somebody else pioneered.

But there is a grit and a glory of God that comes upon those who actually don't just settle for here, but whose minds are always fixed that God's taking us there.

Even when you don't know where there is or what it looks like.

I think one of the keys, and I said it last night, is this, is that the Lord is inviting us to learn how to live being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

If I can have it all figured out, I should just stay home and watch online.

But there's something that happens when we begin to assemble.

We begin to come and we bring our faith in together.

It changes everything.

And so I believe there's really a new perspective taking place.

What I felt was this.

What the enemy distorts, he destroys.

And what the enemy confuses, he controls.

How many know that the enemy has distorted the narrative over New York City

He's distorted the word of the Lord over New York City.

He has no power over the word, but he does try to control what we hear about it.

And there's many people right now walking around in dire confusion.

I was talking to a young man a few weeks ago and he was just saying, I'm this and I'm this and I'm this and I associate with this and I identify with this.

And he just went on with all the things that he thought about himself.

And I just said, you're not this and you're not this and you're not this.

I think you're just confused.

And that confused him.

Because I accepted him for who he was, but I wasn't going to affirm the lie in him.

Because here's the truth about lies.

Lies in your head will always create an issue in your heart.

A lie in your head will create an issue in your heart.

So if I believe something wrong about you, if I don't see you the way the Lord sees you, I'll actually believe a lie that you're different than what God said.

How many know it's true?

Because a lie will tell you that your best friend is actually your worst enemy and you'll miss out on friendship.

Because you're not seeing them the way the Lord sees them.

And I'm telling you the Lord is bringing us to that place of great clarity.

God is bringing us out of our old comfort zones.

It's sad to say we actually get comfortable in church.

It's sad to say that preachers actually get comfortable in the pulpit.

And I will tell you that I never get comfortable preaching the word of the Lord because I still have the fear of the Lord.

And the fear of the Lord isn't being afraid of God.

It's just being afraid of doing anything without him.

And if you'll let that marinate in you for a few moments, the fear of the Lord will actually provoke you.

It will actually release wisdom in your life, but it will also keep you aware of the awe and the wonder of God.

we can't lower him to the commonplace.

We actually have to see him rightly.

He's ruling and reigning on the throne.

That throne has never been in jeopardy.

And I believe we're about to see him come in an amazing new way.

I want you to know that the Lord is bringing us to a place called there.

It's a place we haven't seen, fathomed, known, or even dreamed of yet.

It's an Abraham moment where,

It says, by faith, Abraham left her.

He left everything he knew, not even knowing where he was going, but he was looking for a city whose builder and maker is gone.

So if I think with a kingdom mind, I would go like this.

New York City is God's idea.

If I think like a New Yorker, like an American...

Sometimes we think it's a mayor's idea or a governor's idea or, or wall street's idea or, but, but, but there is this place that God by his divine providence, uh, and love made to be a melting pot, a gathering place for people from all tribes, tongues, and nations gathered in one place just here in the borough of Queens.

Like, well, you know what I love about Queens?

It ain't vanilla.

Like, like Maurice, uh, Mauricio was bringing me for a cup of coffee and I thought he's going to bring me to St. Arbuck's or Duncan or, you know, or five bucks, whatever you'll call it.

Um, uh, or, you know, some, some of the, but he brings me into this Brazilian coffee shop.

He double parks.

He breaks the law, puts his flashers on.

He doesn't even lock the door.

Somebody could have taken me, you know, way to go, man of God.

I'm watching people.

I'm praying in tongues.

And I hope they're hearing it in their own language, you know?

But I'm looking around and it's like, man, there was everything.

And everyone from everywhere.

And I'm thinking, Lord, you call us to go to the harvest.

And some people haven't gone to the harvest.

So you're actually sending the harvest to us.

That's how I'm rightfully...

discerning the time and the season that we're living in.

Isn't it amazing?

Just look in this room.

It looks like the kingdom.

I mean, there's some vanilla sprinkled in here.

It's all right, but it's kind of Neapolitan too, you know?

I love that.

Listen, I believe that we have to actually change the way we look.

I'm not talking about physically.

because how can you improve on this?

But we have to change what we're looking at.

And a lot of times, like we were singing it in the song, I said it last night, that your destiny is greater than your history.

And I don't want to see New York City according to its history.

I want to see it according to its destiny.

But the truth is this, that I cannot look or see the past and the future at the same time.

And some of us are stuck looking at the past.

Some of us are stuck looking at what we haven't seen yet.

But God's about to give us eyes to see.

Don't believe that the lie that your past is greater than your future.

Every season has a purpose.

In the prophetic word I was giving to Pastor Muhammad yesterday, the word was like, the Lord sees your roots growing down and bearing fruit in and out of season.

And then I realized most people don't like winter.

We would prefer summer.

We would prefer spring or the beginnings of autumn when everything is colorful and bright and warm and all of those things.

But in winter, we're burdened down with boots and coats and snow and all kinds of stuff.

And it's kind of like we don't like winter.

But actually in winter, when the roots grow deep,

And if you didn't go, if they didn't, if trees didn't endure winter, they would never be able to bear the weight of new growth or fruit.

They would bend over.

They would break.

And I realized that we don't like seasons.

The church really doesn't like seasons much.

Every prophetic guy, you're in a season, about to be a season and a season and a season.

And I've sang seasons more than the song Seasons.

But the truth of the matter is, I think we like some seasons more than others.

Like, I think most people like spring because we like strawberries.

But how many know that we have to change our spiritual appetite?

Because strawberries are fruit of spring, but we've created artificial environments to create something that we want to eat all year round.

So we never fully eat of the season that we're in.

Listen, I believe that we're about to see that the Lord's about to bring forth fruit in its time.

And there's some seeds you sown way back then you're about to eat the fruit of now.

There's seeds you're sowing today that you're about to eat the fruit of tomorrow or next week or a month from now or a decade from now.

But the fruit's coming.

And I believe we're in a season where there's not only fruit coming, but it's fruit that remains.

I've been focusing a lot on how God answers prayer.

And I realize he answers prayer like five different ways.

Sometimes he answers prayer yes.

Sometimes he answers prayer in ways I don't like, like no.

Sometimes his answer is wait.

I don't like that one.

Sometimes the answer is go.

And sometimes the answer is grow.

And I believe we're in a season where some of you, you're in that place where God is anointing you to go and to grow, but you've got to navigate the time and the season you're in.

A lot of us don't feel like we're ready for what God's called us to.

But here's what I've discovered about the Lord.

He never asked me what I don't have.

And he goes, hey, David, I want you to go to Mozambique.

Well, Lord, I don't have, no, I didn't ask you that.

I just told you to go.

He never asks us what we don't have.

He only asks us what we do have.

And sometimes all I have is a little bit of faith.

Sometimes all I have is my obedience.

Sometimes all I have is my yes to whatever God said.

And whatever you have, God will use.

How many know we're all useful to God?

We're all valuable to God.

We all have the same value.

It doesn't matter if you hold the microphone.

My value is not in the microphone.

My value is that I am a child of God, that I've been washed in the blood.

I've been bought by the blood of the lamb, just like you.

And when I understand that, it changes everything.

Here's some good news, right?

Are you ready?

Most of you right now are in some sort of battle.

If you're not in some sort of battle, you've probably been in a battle.

And if you haven't been through a battle or going through a battle, you're gonna go through a battle.

And the good news in all of it is this, is that the battle is the Lord's.

It's not your battle.

I've got good news for you.

You want some good news?

The dark season of the soul has come to an end.

I woke up with that burning in my heart, my spirit this morning.

The dark season of the soul is coming to an end.

Where you're just stuck.

Anybody ever feel stuck?

Like I'm stuck in the same job.

I'm stuck in the same situation.

My finances are stuck.

My marriage is stuck.

My kids are stuck.

Right?

And it's like, I'm just stuck.

But I'm telling you right now, the Lord's about to shift you out of stuck and there's about to be forward momentum coming to you.

The dark season of the soul is about to come to an end.

Listen, everything God has for you is not behind you.

It's right in front of you.

And you have to go forward.

And I felt like the Lord said that there's a word coming over city like this morning and the word is forward march.

there's a moving forward.

It's not falling back, it's moving forward.

God always responds to faith.

I have a word for you, please don't get mad at me.

If you are mad at me, don't worry.

Pastor Boyan will be speaking next Sunday, you can get over it.

But the Lord is calling us not to be complacent.

Let me give you another word for being complacent, being spiritually lazy.

to let somebody else read the scripture for you, to let somebody else pray for you.

But if we'll actually engage with what God's doing, we're about to watch his kingdom come and his will be done like never before.

Listen, God isn't gonna let you fail.

Why?

Because he's good, he's faithful, and he's true.

He keeps his word.

I was reading the scripture, and when I read the scripture, I had a laugh.

In Exodus 14,

The Bible says these words.

God said to Moses, why cry out to me?

Speak to the Israelites, order them to get moving.

Hold your staff high and stretch your hand out over the sea.

Split the sea.

The Israelites will walk through the sea on dry ground.

Meanwhile, I'll make sure the Egyptians keep up their stubborn chase.

I'll use Pharaoh and his entire army, his chariots and his horsemen to put my glory on display so that the Egyptians will realize that I am God.

Okay.

That's a good thing.

He's like, you're going to have victory.

It's time to go.

All these great things are going to happen.

And I read that first.

Cause here's the funny part.

Ready?

In verse 14, it says this, God will fight the battle for you and you, you keep your mouth shut.

And the hardest thing about a kid from the South side of Chicago, like me and New Yorkers like you is keeping your mouth shut.

Right?

Because we want to be heard.

We want to have an opinion.

We want what we think to matter.

And there are some things where the Lord is saying, you don't talk about it, you just move.

And I'm telling you that we've been in the season of talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

podcasts and online messages and all of it good and helpful.

Most of it good and great and helpful, but not all of it.

But there is a moment where I have to go, hey, I can't just eat.

I can't just listen.

I've actually got to do something with what I have.

Because revelation requires a response.

It requires me to do something beyond what I've seen and known.

And if you keep doing what you've always done, you're going to keep getting what you always got.

Yeah.

That's why God is breaking cycles.

He's breaking cycles of defeat.

I shared these things in the first service.

I'm just going to give you the overture.

But I believe the Lord is breaking some things off of us.

Number one is distraction.

We live in a distracted culture.

And I'm telling you, this is going to be a season of great focus.

He's healing us, setting us free from distraction.

The second thing he's setting us free from is disappointment.

Because if we're honest, some of us have been disappointed in ourselves, in our kids, in our mate, in our family, in the church, with our parents, all of those things.

But can I tell you something?

He's the God who never disappoints.

Because Romans 5 and 5 says that hope doesn't disappoint.

It doesn't when your hope is in the Lord.

I think the other thing is discouragement.

There are a lot of people that are discouraged because they feel stuck.

They're discouraged because I was talking to somebody that I prayed for for a long time and this is what they kept saying to me.

Nothing is happening, nothing is happening, nothing is happening.

And then I made them mad.

I said, when you feel like nothing is happening, that's when everything is happening.

Because you can't see it.

You're like in the, you're in the hurricane and all you can see, you're just holding on for dear life.

But behind the scenes, God is working all things together for good.

And I think the other thing that we're caught up in is in delay.

So things aren't happening in our time frame.

Or, you know, I think the word should come to pass tomorrow.

And sometimes it does.

But there's something that God develops in the waiting.

And the Lord's bringing us into that place.

So I love...

everything about Jesus.

But what I really love about him is anything Jesus touches changes.

Anytime Jesus shows up, everything changes.

And I said it last night, you cannot improve on the methods of Jesus.

We should read through the Gospels over and over again.

Because you think you suffered, then you realize what Jesus Christ went through.

And you realize, wow, wow,

What he did, how he lived, what he said is so relevant to me today.

But what I also love is this.

Is that Jesus never told anybody come back tomorrow.

Because he said today is the day of salvation.

And I believe that today is the day of salvation.

How many know he doesn't just save your soul so that if you die tonight you can go to heaven?

Amen.

But he's able to save your circumstance, your situation, your family, your spouse, your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, your great grandmother.

Like he's able to save your finances, he's able to save your body.

Like it is all inclusive, like paid in full is paid in full.

Otherwise it would be, I paid it in par.

And I still owe interest.

But Jesus actually paid it all.

I realize there's things that I carry that don't belong to me.

A few years ago, I was in ministry.

Things were great.

I was on some of the greatest stages with some of the greatest men and women of God, thriving in it.

But I've always dealt with a couple of things in my life.

Those things are fears.

And how many of you think that I look nervous this morning?

Scared to death.

Because one of my biggest fears is public speaking.

And God has this amazing sense of humor to let me face my fear on almost a daily basis.

My second biggest fear is the fear of rejection, which really feeds into the public speaking thing.

And the reason I had a fear of public speaking is I used to have a stutter.

and a lisp, and I wasn't very easy or good to listen to.

But there came a moment where God didn't focus on my weakness, he said, I'm gonna take that, and I'm gonna heal you.

And then I had the fear of man, like, you know, I used to, after every service go, is that all right, Pastor Bo?

You know, can you give me some feedback?

Like, and some of it I would say from a spiritual way, I wanted to grow.

But from a very fleshly way, I'm like, hey, stroke my ego and tell me that's the best message you ever heard.

Because I'm human, right?

And there are things in our life that we struggle with.

And so I'm in this conference, I'm in Australia, and the first night, man, it was like, I felt like I hit it out of the park.

The next day, I'm up speaking, and man, it's silent.

I'm hitting people's buttons.

They don't like what I'm saying.

They're just staring at me.

like pastors falling asleep, guest speakers falling asleep.

It wasn't jet lag like, but I'm giving them what the Lord told me to do, right?

I'm supposed to speak that night.

I go home in the afternoon.

And really what I want to do is pack up quietly, call a taxi, go to the airport, fly back to America and let them figure out that I was raptured or something.

And my body's racked with pain and I've got a headache and my neck hurts.

And I'm trembling in fear because I feel like I'm not even called to preach.

And I'm laying in the bed.

And if I'm honest, I was having a little bit of a pity party.

And I sent the invitation to the Lord to come to the pity party.

And he didn't RSVP.

And so I'm laying there in my own misery because he's not responding to my pity.

He only responds to my faith and my obedience.

He's moved with compassion.

It's not like he doesn't care about me in those moments, but he's like, hey, Wagner, that's not you.

And so I'm laying there and I'm like, oh, Lord, get me out of here.

I promise you get me out of here alive.

I promise I'll never come back.

That's what some of you have been praying about living in New York.

Lord, if you get me out of here alive.

Mauricio was checking if I believed in raising the dead yesterday.

If they kill you, you're going to... Just kidding.

I actually feel so safe in this city.

You know, the funny thing is, I have no natural fears.

Meaning about physical stuff.

I don't fear a storm.

Tornadoes were actually coming over my house last April.

And my friends and neighbors around me were like pounding on the door like, is everybody okay?

And going to storm cellars.

I was sleeping.

I always figure if I'm going to go up, I'm going to go up like Elijah, you know?

But I don't fear that stuff.

I've been held at gunpoint, not in New York, but it hadn't bothered me.

I've been stabbed in the chest.

It doesn't bother me.

Like, I don't fear, like, you understand that?

Like, I don't fear physical stuff.

But I fear a lot of things up here.

Because this thing right here is my best friend and my worst enemy.

With it, I dream the dreams of God, and I talk myself out of them like 30 seconds later.

Right?

And so it's all up here.

And I'm laying in the bed, I'm having this pity party and I'm in pain and agony internally.

And the door's kind of cracked open.

It's an old, super old Victorian kind of house thing with a wooden staircase.

And I hear this noise, like deliberate footsteps coming up the stairs.

And I don't know if I was dreaming or vision, it was so real to me.

And Jesus is walking up the stairs and he's got, you know, it's not like beaming with love and compassion, like he's

coming to do business.

And like in this moment, dream vision, I don't know, felt real to me.

The door comes open.

Jesus walks in, points his finger at me and says, I want my stuff back.

And I go, you can have the house, the car, the bank accounts, the dogs, please take the dogs.

Like, like, like it all belongs to you anyway.

He said, no, not that stuff.

I gave you that stuff.

But that pain in your body doesn't belong to you.

It belongs to me.

I paid for it.

I want my stuff back.

That fear you're dealing with right now, that's not your fear.

It doesn't belong to you.

It belongs to me.

I have the crown of thorns on my head for your sound mind.

I want my stuff back.

And he just went through the list.

And I realized that I carry things like they're my own.

Even sometimes I'll carry them like this is my cross to bear.

But he already bore the cross.

He already crucified my sickness and my rejection and my abandonment.

All of that stuff was nailed to the tree.

He took it because he paid for it.

But I keep trying to steal it back because I think it makes me more spiritual.

And I'm telling you right now, if I have a word for you, it's this word.

The Lord wants his stuff back.

That's what he's crying out in New York City.

I want my stuff back.

I paid for it.

Man, it changes my perspective.

Because I realized, Jesus, I am actually your representative in the world.

I should have a smile on my face because I was just a sinner.

I was a mess.

Alcoholic, schizophrenic, depressed, suicidal, dead.

And you came in, it changed everything.

Isn't it something?

Like we give the Lord everything.

On the day we get saved, we get on fire like, ah, never felt so great.

And for the rest of our life every day, we're trying to carry what Jesus took.

And I'm telling you right now, the Lord is saying to us, I want my stuff back.

Can you hear that this morning?

So one of my favorite stories in the Bible, I'll end here, try to do it as quick as I can.

It's a story in Mark chapter 10 and verse, around verse 42.

Mark 10 · chapter mention

There's a man there that they call Blind Bart.

Okay.

Blind Bartimaeus.

And this guy, man, he's born blind.

He has a beggar's garment.

He sits by the gate to Jericho every day.

And that beggar's garment identifies him.

It actually is his license to go, I have permission to beg because there's no other hope or provision for me.

And he's sitting there day in, day out doing the same thing over and over again.

But Jesus has begun to move around the countryside and through Jericho and all these places

And people are coming back through that gate and he's hearing, did you see that Jesus healed the blind?

Did you see that Jesus set those people with demons free?

Did you see that?

Like the man with no legs, the legs grew up.

Did you see that?

The lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear.

And he's hearing this testimony.

And I think he starts rehearsing in his head, I may be blind and begging today, but there's gonna come a day.

I don't know when it is, but Jesus is coming through the gate.

And when he does,

I'm going to get what he has for me.

The Bible says one day Jesus came from the multitudes with a great multitude following.

And they're going through the gate of Jericho.

And Bartimaeus perceives that it's the Lord.

Isn't that a funny word for a blind man?

He didn't say he heard it was the Lord, thought it was.

He perceived.

He saw something that this is Jesus coming.

And he does something.

He begins to cry out in a loud voice, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

And the disciples were tired and they were ornery and they wanted Jesus to themselves for a while.

And they said, shh, shut up.

Kayate.

I just wanted to show you I was multicultural, a little bit multilingual.

be quiet, shut up.

Jesus is tired, man.

You should have been on the hillside last night.

Every blind guy got healed.

You should have been in the meeting, right?

And they're trying to talk him out of his miracle.

They say, shut up.

And the Bible says, but he would not, but he cried out all the more.

So he got even louder.

Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

Don't you ever let somebody with a religious spirit talk you out of your miracle.

Don't you ever let somebody with a religious, I don't care how anointed they are, how full of scripture they are, don't you ever let anybody talk you out of your moment and gone.

And all of a sudden the Bible says, so Jesus stood still.

Multitudes thronging, chaos everywhere, and Jesus just stops.

And he commands for the blind man to be called.

So the same people that he said, not for you today, be quiet, have to go back to him, probably Peter.

Right?

Hey, get over here.

Jesus will see you now, but hurry up.

Places to go, things to do.

People to see.

And the Bible says immediately he threw off his garment and he threw off his garment

The thing that identified him, marked him and gave him permission to stay where he was.

Immediately he threw it off.

He wasn't healed yet.

And he goes running to Jesus.

How many know that's blind faith?

And he gets to Jesus, goes, just takes off running.

He saw something in the spirit.

He saw something in his mind.

He saw something without seeing something.

And he goes running to Jesus.

How did he not run into him?

Could have knocked the master over.

Goes running to Jesus.

And then Jesus has the gall to ask him this question.

What is it you want me to do for you?

I have some blind friends.

I don't need a word of knowledge to know they're blind.

I can see it in their eyes.

I can see it in their eyes.

I can see it in how they walk and how they're trying to feel out of room.

Jesus is really saying to him, hey, I ain't felt faith like this in a long time.

What do you want?

I think he could have asked for anything he wanted in the moment.

I'll take a five bedroom tent with indoor plumbing.

I'll take that Mercedes Camel.

I'll take that horse, that Porsche horse, man.

I'll just take it.

But he's an old rabbi teacher that I might receive my sight.

And then Jesus says these words to him.

Go your way.

Your faith has made you whole.

And that blows my mind because he didn't just go say some other words.

He didn't say my faith.

He said your faith.

And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road.

I think what I want you to hear from this story is this.

Is that no longer how long you've been waiting at the gate, Jesus is about to come through.

And when he does, don't you let anybody talk you out of your miracle.

Because there is an appointed time and an acceptable moment for the miracle to manifest.

I think greater than the miracle of his eyes is probably the miracle of his mind.

He began to think differently.

because he threw off that garment, I'm not gonna need it anymore.

And he went running to Jesus.

And I believe this, that there is a grace and an anointing upon your life and a love that he has for you that causes him to stand still.

Like he won't pass you by.

And the reason I'm saying that is sometimes we have this picture that sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't.

But I'm telling you that the Lord's not up there shooting craps.

And if the right number comes up and the right prayer is prayed and the right scripture is quoted and the right song is sung, you get healed.

There is something when you just go, Lord, I don't know how it's going to happen.

I just know that you're able.

I just know that you're willing.

I will tell you this, that God would rather have you question his can than his will.

Because if he can do it, he will do it.

I'll end with a funny story.

I have a son named Josh, and Josh was born with a cord wrapped around his neck, didn't breathe for about four minutes.

God gave him life just supernaturally.

So I've always called him my miracle boy.

A few years ago when he was about four years old, I'm preparing a message for a conference we're doing in our home church, and the name of the conference is called Hope Rising.

And so I'm sitting there, it's about 6 a.m., I'm writing notes, the Lord's talking to me, and Josh gets out of bed and he comes and he cuddles up next to me.

And all of a sudden as he's cuddling, he just goes, dad, with this horrific morning breath.

Like the Lord brought him to life but didn't heal his breath, I don't understand.

Dad, I love you.

You're the best dad in the whole wide world.

I love you too, Joshie.

Can I have a popsicle?

I said, son, it's 6am.

You can't have a popsicle, right?

Five minutes goes by dad.

You're the best dad in the whole wide world.

Can I have a popsicle?

No, I can't have a popsicle every five minutes for an entire hour.

I love you.

Best dad in the whole wide world.

Can I have a popsicle?

So I tell the kid no for like the 12th time.

And all of a sudden, he looks at me with his eyes and goes, but daddy, I feel hope wising.

Now you may call it manipulation.

But.

But for the sake of this message, I call it faith.

And I said, son, go ahead in there and you get you one and get me one.

Because my mama never let me have a popsicle before morning ever either.

And we had this popsicle party with Jesus at 6.55 in the morning.

And the reason I'm sharing this story is what he was saying to me is, dad, you can.

You have the power and the authority to give me what I'm asking.

And I know you can.

And if you can, I know you will.

It wasn't about wearing me down, although he did.

Because I'm not El Shaddai, I'm just El Shadad.

What are you saying?

Dad, I know if you can, you will.

And I'm telling you right now, the Lord's about to put his can and his will on display in New York City, in this house and in your life.

Are you hearing me?

So what are you carrying that doesn't belong to you?

That depression doesn't belong to you.

That anxiety doesn't belong to you.

Those voices spitting lies out at you like rhymes don't belong to you.

That blood disease doesn't belong to you.

That pain, that nerve pain, that sciatica doesn't belong to you.

That headache, that cancer, that heart disease, that diabetes, that blood pressure issue doesn't belong to you.

It belongs to him.

And I'm just telling you right now in faith today that the Lord wants his stuff back.

The Lord wants the pain back.

Well, Lord, I thought you only wanted good stuff.

No, no.

He wants whatever is hindering your life, hindering your walk with him.

He wants his stuff back.

Very simple today.

If you're carrying stuff that don't belong to you, it's time to unload it today.

It's time to unload the poverty, the fear, the anxiety, the pain, the sickness, the disease, the unknown, the doubt.

He took it all with a crown of thorns on his head, the stripes on his back.

He bore it all on the tree for you and I.

And I'm telling you right now, it's never been more true as it is today.

It's same as it was 2000 years ago because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

The repetitive sin, he wants his stuff back.

The porn issues wants his stuff back.

The self-medication wants his stuff back.

The anger wants his stuff back.

The anger wants his stuff back.

The disappointment wants his stuff back.

The rage, he wants his stuff back.

The divorce, he wants his stuff back.

The betrayal, he wants his stuff back.

The shame, he wants his stuff back.

Get the picture?

Because if you could be at that place called Jericho, carrying all this stuff that has somehow become an identity to you, because a lie in your head created an issue in your heart, he wants his stuff back.

And if you're willing to throw out that garment and that label and that tag and all of that stuff and go running to him, Jesus is standing still.

He's commanding that you be called today because he wants his stuff back.

Simple message.

It's the gospel.

It's the good news.

I've got good news for you.

I got good news for all of us.

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me.

And the spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon you.

He has anointed me.

He's anointed you to preach good news to the poor, to bind up the brokenhearted and set the captive free.

It's the mandate.

It's the message.

It's the miracle on our lives and in the room this morning.

And there are some of you this morning that need to lay it all at the cross.

For some of you, you may need to surrender your life and lay it at the cross and receive the free gift of salvation.

If you've never made Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of your life, the Bible says in Romans 3 and 23, we've all sinned, fallen short of the glory of God.

It's bad news because that means we all deserve to die and go to hell.

But we can't stop there.

It continues to say, but while we were yet sinners, Christ came and died for us.

Not when you were perfect, not when you had it all worked out, not after you made catechism, got confirmed or baptized.

He said, while you were yet sinners, when you were my enemies, I loved you and I died for you.

Isn't that powerful?

The Bible says, whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Paul the apostle said, you believe in your heart, confess with your mouth, then you become children of God.

Jesus took it a step further, said, if you confess me before a man, I'll confess you before my father.

And here's the beautiful thing.

It's free.

I don't know about you.

I like free.

But we live in such an age that if I offered you something, you're like, what you want from me?

And the fact is that Jesus paid it all.

He didn't just need you.

He wants you.

Can you think about that?

That God doesn't just love you, but he likes you.

He loves you.

He likes you.

He wants you.

He chose you.

He called you.

He adopted you.

Even after he created you.

And he wants his stuff back this morning.

If you're in this room today, you've never made Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of your life.

And you would know it's you, because you know you're empty.

You wouldn't know if you died tonight, would you be in heaven or hell?

But you can know for sure before you leave this building, I need to give my life to the Lord.

Or maybe you're away from God and you're like, once I walk with him, I find myself away from him.

I want to give my life back to him this morning.

I don't want to embarrass you, but I do want to pray for you if you want me to include you in that prayer.

Dave, I want to make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of my life.

I want to give him all this stuff I've been carrying.

If that's you in this room, when you just put your hand up, you put it right back down.

I don't want to embarrass you, just want to pray for you.

I see your hand back there.

Thank you, honey.

See your hand back there, sir.

Thank you.

See your hand.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's the beautiful thing about Jesus.

He comes and he seeks us out.

He's not waiting for you to find him.

He's been pursuing you your whole life.

for those of you that just raised your hand, I'm going to ask you to do something really bold.

Again, not going to embarrass you.

Just want to pray for you and make it easier on me.

It's going to ask you to get out of your seat and just come stand right to my right here.

I promise you, we're not going to cost you.

This is not about joining a church.

It's not about, you know, anything else, but, but they're stepping out.

Well, Dave, can I pray in my seat?

Absolutely positively, but there's something about you leaving where you are and coming to where he is.

It changes everything.

No embarrassment, no judgment.

I believe with all my heart today that this is the greatest miracle you'll ever see.

I love when arms grow out.

I love when blind eyes are open.

I love when deaf ears are hearing.

I love all of that.

But the greatest miracle is when you see one person go from death to life.

When they receive Jesus, the Bible says that there's a party in heaven.

Y'all are responsible for a big party today.

Okay.

Right?

There's a banquet.

There's a celebration.

All the angels are celebrating.

Because today you don't just get saved or rededicate your life to the Lord.

You get a new song and it's called the song of the redeemed.

And that's a song that angels don't know.

Just think about that for a moment.

So those of you who've come, I'm going to ask you just to either hold out your hand like you're receiving a gift because that's what salvation is.

You can lift your hands as a sign of surrender.

I like to look at it like this.

I'm coming like a little boy or girl running to his father, jumping into his arms.

It's not a spiritual stick up where I say, put all your money and wallets in the thing, okay?

It's not that part of Queens, all right?

Just kidding.

Listen, I'm gonna lead you into a prayer and I'll tell you this, the prayer doesn't save you.

It's just a tool to get you there.

It's what you believe in your heart right now.

And that prayer is this.

So just repeat after me.

Maybe everybody in the room, you can pray this with us.

Say, Lord Jesus Christ, today I give you everything.

I give you my past.

I give you my present.

And I give you my future.

I believe that you're the son of God.

That you died on the cross for my sin.

And that God raised you from the dead.

I admit, confess, I'm a sinner.

In the past, I've broken your heart and your law.

But today I declare and believe that you're my perfect savior.

I invite you today, Jesus, to come into my life, to be my Lord, be my savior, and my very best friend.

And from this moment on, I want to do my best to live for you in Jesus' name.

I'm just going to come and lay hands on you quickly.

And when I do, I believe this, that the fullness of all that he is is coming on the inside of you.

If you prayed that prayer, the Holy Spirit's already on the inside of you.

But he's not just coming inside of you, he's coming upon you.

From this moment on, if you'll grab this truth,

That in this very moment, you're not receiving baby Jesus in the manger.

You're not receiving an idea of Jesus.

You're not receiving a beat-up Jesus or a teenage Jesus.

But you're receiving a full-grown, resurrected, filled with power from on high Jesus to live on the inside of you.

He's putting his hands inside of your hands, his feet inside of your feet.

He's giving you the mind of Christ, the heart of God.

And Lord, right now, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you, Lord, for these amazing men and women, Lord, that have come to declare who you really are to them.

And Lord, right now, I release the anointing of God upon this son.

Lord, I thank you for what you're about to produce in him.

Lord, I thank you right now, Lord, for the gifts of God, the creativity, the production on the inside of him.

The things that are going to come out of his mouth that you're going to create with his hands.

Lord, I thank you right now for the purity of it.

Lord, I thank you for a heart after God.

Lord, I ask right now that you would fill him.

You would baptize him with your Holy Spirit and fire.

In Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

Father, I just thank you for this amazing man of God.

Brother, I don't play golf, but when I put my hand in your hand, I heard the word for, like when a golfer's getting ready to tee off.

And I was like, Lord, what's that about?

And I need to show me Galatians 4.4.

When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son.

And I'm telling you right now that you're stepping into a fullness of time moment.

There's a fullness of time moment.

And I'm telling you right now, my friend, I don't know where you've been, what's gone on in your life, but this is how the Lord sees you as righteous and integrous.

And Lord, I just thank you right now for the fullness of time and the fullness of God rising up, filling him to overflowing in Jesus name.

Father, I thank you right now for this amazing woman of God that Lord, you have Lord made just a little bit lower than the angels.

Lord, according to your word in Psalms 8 verse 5, you've crowned her with glory and with honor.

Psalms 8:5

So Lord, let that crown, not just a princess to your, but the crown to rule and reign with you come upon her.

Lord, right now, I thank you for every place where she thought was broken.

Lord, you're about to build.

You're about to build with broken pieces.

You're about to build.

You're about to restore.

You're about to redeem.

You're about to renew.

Lord, I thank you for the season of the renewing of the mind and even changing the way she thinks about herself today.

In Jesus name,

I saw Jesus beaming from ear to ear, holding your hand, having you on his arm.

And it was like wherever he went, it was like he wanted to introduce you because he was happy to be seen with you.

And I just felt like the Lord wants you to know that if you only knew how important you were.

I have these pictures of you walking with him and then all of a sudden jogging with him, running with him, marathoning with him.

Some people get into this thing thinking it's a sprint.

But you're gonna, like the Lord's gonna expand the capacity of your heart and your spirit to run this marathon, this miraculous marathon of miraculous faith out with him.

And Lord, right now in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you that you make all things new.

You make all things new.

Lord, right now, I thank you that you're about to take her from grace to grace, glory to glory, faith to faith.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Lord, I thank you right now, Lord, for your healing hand.

Lord, I thank you that, Lord, you're not just touching her, but you're changing her.

Lord, I thank you for the transformation that's taking place.

Lord, I thank you for, Lord...

I don't want to read into it.

That sounded like an alarm.

And when alarms do something, they wake us up.

And I feel like the Lord is releasing that anointing on your life to wake people up to life.

To wake people up to life.

And Lord, right now, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you even for the physical touch of God for healing her body.

Lord, you said that the same spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead is living on the inside of us and will quicken, will give life even to our mortal body.

And so, Lord, I pray that you would even heal every hole and every cell of her body today.

In Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

Lord, thank you for this man of God.

Lord, I thank you, Lord, for the gift of God over his life, for how much you love him.

And Lord, you've been hovering over him, but today I see you covering.

And Lord, I thank you for, Lord, putting him underneath the shadow of your wing.

Lord, I just kept seeing that scripture from the book of Amos.

It says, and the son of righteousness, I'm sorry, Malachi, and the son of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.

Lord, I thank you for that.

Lord, I thank you for the divine protection.

Lord, I thank you for his sound mind, his right mind.

That, Lord, you're going to use him to minister to some people that think they're crazy.

Lord, but I thank you right now that, Lord, he's going to walk in an anointing that sets captives free and brings deliverance wherever he goes.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Father, I thank you right now for this son.

That, Lord, you see him.

Lord, you know his heart.

You've searched him and you've known him.

Amen.

And Lord, I thank you even for the things that he's walked through that didn't make sense and were hard.

But Lord, I pray that you would show him right where you were in the midst of it.

Lord, I thank you that, Lord, there's a thundering in the heavens over his life.

Lord, and to me that sounds a whole lot like celebration.

Lord, that you love who he is.

Lord, you see where he is, but you also know where you're taking him and who he's becoming.

And Lord, I just thank you that you're a friend who sticks closer than any brother and that Lord, he would know true friendship with God.

In Jesus name, amen.

Can you give God a shout of praise for one of the greatest things you'll ever see?

If you're here today, Jesus wants his stuff back.

You've got stuff you've been carrying and you've been holding on to that.

Doesn't matter what it is.

Doesn't matter big, small, but you know you need like, Jesus, I want to give you your stuff back.

Could have been stuff I've listed, stuff I never listed.

I'm telling you, I'm the first one up here today because as much as I know this and I experienced it, there's still things that I try to carry on my own.

But when you realize that he said, come unto me all who are weary and heavy laden.

And I will give you rest.

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

If you unload this stuff, I'm telling you, his yoke is easy.

His burden is light.

And I just felt like if you got stuff you need to unload and lay down today, would you just stand to your feet?

And just, you know, you're just giving it to him.

So Lord, I just give you that fear.

I gave you that anxiety.

I give you my finances.

I give you my marriage.

I give you my kids.

I give you my pain.

I give you my sickness.

I give you my doubt.

I give you my depression.

There's not one thing that he didn't pay for at the cross.

He's familiar with our sufferings.

A man of sorrows.

And he bore it all on the tree so that you and I can be free.

And I just feel like even some of you may need to make a declaration over your life prophetically and in faith today that I'm finally free to be me.

My past doesn't define me.

My future is greater than my past.

I just declare over you the greatest days aren't behind you, they're in front of you.

So Lord, I just thank you for that balm of healing that you're releasing over your people today.

Lord, of blessings and breakthroughs and testimonies that will come out of it.

Lord, I thank you for the miracles you want to release in all of our hearts, all of our minds.

Lord, I just thank you right now for the new thing you're doing in all of us.

In Jesus' name.

Brother, on the third row with the beard, now I have beard envy, man.

Amen.

the whole time I've been looking at you, the thing I've, so this is, what I'm about to say first is not prophetic, it's just observation, okay?

It's like your eyes have been wide open the whole time.

And what I love about that and what the Lord loves about that is you're not gonna miss anything.

And what I think is most powerful is that you have something that most people that have been saved their whole lives never asked for and don't have.

It's called discernment.

Because in the depths of your heart, you just want what's real.

Like, Lord, if it's a word from you, I want what's real.

If it's a touch from you, I want what's real.

And there may even be parts of you like, I don't even know what I want.

But I am telling you that the Lord is drawn to you like a magnet, man.

And when I was looking at you, I kept hearing words like, I'm about to captivate him.

I'm about to fascinate him.

And what I felt was that you're about to get caught up in his love.

You're about to get caught up in the fact that there is a God who loves you.

And that love is about to be poured out through you like wildfire in ways that you can't even comprehend or know.

And I felt like today when I was preaching, if God didn't change my message for anybody else, I believe he changed it for you.

And I don't know if it makes sense to you or not.

And hopefully at some point it will.

But I just believe right now that everywhere I go, people know me here.

I pray this prayer all the time.

Lord, show me the person I came for.

And I'm glad that I came for everybody that's been in the room the last few days.

But I believe the Lord sent me so that you would hear this word.

Not talking about just what I preached.

But to hear this word I've just given you.

Because in a room full of people, God knows where to find you and he'd stop anything for you.

And that's just the truth of his goodness and who he is.

He'll stop a freight train for you.

He'll stop a meeting for you.

He'll send a guy with a messed up accent from Chicago by way of Pensacola and Nashville to find you in Queens.

And Lord, I pray that, Lord, even if none of it makes sense and he forgets all of it, Lord, I pray that he would feel your love cascading over him like a waterfall today.

In Jesus' name, amen.

God bless you.

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