The Enemies of Expansion

Some of you don't have that expansive view about who you are, about who God is, about your

purpose, about your calling, about your influence, about what God wants from you, and God says,

I need you to repent, not come onto the altar and cry, but to change how you think about

me, my word, my promises, and the destiny I placed on the inside of you.

Welcome to the CityLight 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.

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Pastor Boyan Jansik 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.

Without further ado, Prophet Pastor, friend, brother, Nathaniel, Saint-Aloy, praise the Lord.

Can we give Jesus some praise in this place?

I'm ready for this Word.

I am ready.

I'm ready.

I'm ready.

God is going to do something fresh.

Help people are ready for God to do something fresh.

I woke up and immediately the Holy Spirit just like punched me and said, I'm going to release

a ramal word to my people today, and I know what a ramal word means.

When you've been saved for more than 10 minutes in a Pentecostal or charismatic church,

you've heard the word ramal before.

There's two words in Greek that talk about the word.

The first one is logos, and that has to do with the written word.

But the word ramal has to do with a prophetic word, or like a word that's spoken in season

that shifts you from one place to the next place, from one dimension to the next dimension,

from one level to the next level, is a specific word that God uses to kind of punch you in

the gut and awaken the sleeping giant on the inside of you.

And the Holy Spirit said, I'm going to release a ramal word on my people, a word that's

going to awaken the gifts, awaken the anointing, awaken the calling, awaken the fire, come

on, awaken the grace and the glory over their lives.

Come on.

I just need about three people.

God, I don't just want a word that I go home and I'm the same person.

I need a word to activate the power and fire and anointing on the inside of me.

That's why the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by ramal, not logos, not the

written word, but that word that comes and activates something on the inside of you.

The scripture says about Mary, you know what it says about Mary?

It says that Mary received the word from the angel.

This was a word that was already written 2,000 years before, but when she received the

word, she said, Lord, let it be according to your ramal, which means this word was written

and now it's being activated in my life.

And I want to prophesy to three people.

The written word is getting ready to be activated and manifested in your life.

Do you believe it?

Say yes.

All right.

I'm ready.

2nd Kings, chapter 6, I was like my own personal devotion to Lord woke me up with this morning.

2nd Kings, chapter 6, and I'm going to start reading at verse 1, 2nd Kings 6, and I'll

start reading at verse 1 and we'll end at verse 7.

Hallelujah.

Can you just lift up your hands and just tell Jesus how good he is.

You're worthy, Lord.

You're awesome, God.

Oh, you're just amazing.

Oh, mighty are you, Lord, from the rising of the sun to the going down to the same.

Your name is worthy to be praised.

If you don't know what to say about God, just talk about him.

Tell him how good he is.

Talk to him according to his word.

You know the reason why some of you don't have a worship is because you don't have the

word in you.

When you have the word inside of you, guess what?

You start worshipping him from that well, from that stream, from that river that's inside

of you.

Oh, Father, you are good.

You are sovereign.

You are mighty.

You are holy.

You are matchless.

Thank you, Jesus.

All right.

Let's get into it.

If you don't like me, I won't be here next week.

So you probably won't see me for the next few.

So come back here and pass the boy on.

If this is your first time, you're probably going to like him a lot more than you like

me.

So I'm just saying, y'all can laugh, I like to laugh.

Y'all better like me.

All right.

You have no choice.

All right.

Let's go.

Second King, chapter six.

We're going to start reading at verse one and we're going to end at verse seven.

Look what it says.

And the sons of the prophets said to Elijah, see now the place where we dwell with you is

too small for us.

This is good.

And one, please let us go to the Jordan and let every man take a beam from there and let

us make there a place where we may dwell.

So he answered, go.

Then one said, please consent to go with your servants and he answered, I will go.

So when, so he went with them and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron axe had fell into the water.

And he cried out and he said, last master for it was borrowed, verse six, we're almost

done.

So the man of God said, where did it fall?

And he showed him the place and he cut off a stick and threw it in there and he made

the iron float, verse seven.

And before he said, pick it up for yourself.

So he reached out his hands and he took it.

May God bless the reading of his word.

The, you know, when you're a Bible college and you take preaching classes, they tell you

never have a negative title in your sermon because it turns people off.

But today it's kind of a, I've been preaching too long, right?

I'm going to have a negative title.

So I want to talk about the enemy of expansion, the enemy of expansion.

Y'all know me, I'm never going to preach negativity, amen?

I may preach something that hurts your feelings because it's in the word.

I may preach something that steps on your toes a little bit because it's in the scriptures.

And my job as a man of God, as a prophet of God, as a mouthpiece of God is to say what

he's saying.

And to just echo heaven's voice, I'm not the preacher, he's the preacher, I'm the repeater.

Oh, no one said amen.

So let's get into this, the enemies, so I want to talk about a few enemies of expansion.

When I think about the word expansion, biblically, there's a few concepts about the word

expansion in the Bible.

It usually relates to growth, increase, and the broadening of influence are territory.

So expansion had to do with you, broadening your territory, burning the way you think,

burning your mindset, your mentality about something, and throughout the scripture it reflected

both like a physical and spiritual dimension.

So expansion had to do with you, expanding not only physically, but spiritually.

You look through the both the old and the New Testament, the theme of expansion is there

over and over.

Expansion is God's will for your life.

It's part of God's prophetic agenda for each and every person in here.

God did not call you to stay at one place, he did not call you to stay at one level, he

did not call you to stay at one dimension.

Come on, I just need someone, he did not call you to stay stagnant and dead with no life.

The Holy Spirit is not in you like a lake, the Holy Spirit is in you like a river which

means there's a constant movement, constant momentum, constant growth.

And so when the Holy Spirit is talking about expansion in your life, he's talking about

every area in your life, even the areas that seem like it's dead and it's dormant, but

the Holy Spirit is about to breathe his breath into it and every dead thing on the inside

of you is getting ready to live again, every dead dream, every dead vision, every dead

idea, everything the enemy has whispered in your ears for the last 20 years and told you

to give up on it.

God is about to resurrect it again, Lazarus come forth, I prophesy that whatever is dead,

his resurrection power hit the room and is coming alive again, I decree and declare that

whatever has died on the inside of you, there's a resurrection power.

The Holy Spirit is putting his jumper camels on your dead battery and say come alive.

A Holy Spirit put them jumper camels on my dead vision, on my dead finances, on my

dead marriage, come alive.

When I'm talking about expansion, I'm talking about God taking you from glory to glory, from

faith to faith, from one level to the next level, see I'm not the person that wants to

be the same person I was last year.

If last year when someone cut me off, I used to cut, I don't want to cut this year.

You know that's you moving from glory to glory.

You know what moving to glory to glory really looks like because we think it's like some

whew mystical and I'm falling out all the time.

It means that when someone has an attitude with you, you respond in love.

You know what it looks like?

It looks like when you used to complain, when things didn't go your way and you said,

I ain't gonna complain no more, I'm gonna start giving God thanks.

As you know, the Bible says, giving God thanks in every circumstance is the will of God.

So you know you're not doing the will of God if you're complaining in any circumstance.

That sounds tough.

That's who, God.

I'm convicted on that.

Holy Hose, help me because the level of a complaining that comes in my life when things

don't go my way, oh man, and then I'm blaming everyone.

Oh my kids, my wife, it ain't dumb, it's you.

God's trying to fix your attitude.

He wants you have an attitude of gratitude.

He wants you have an attitude of gratefulness, a gratitude where you don't look at your situation

but you look at how good your God is, how big your God is, how mighty your God is, how

much your God is a deliverer, how much your God is a healer, how much your God is a

God of breakthrough, how much your God is a God who shifts situations and turns things

around.

You're not looking at what I'm going through, I'm looking about where I'm going to and

I'm going to destiny because expansion is my portion.

But there are enemies of expansion.

Can I say this one thing?

Expansion was God's design from the beginning.

I know you like this crazy preacher is talking about expansion.

Where is that in God's timeline?

It was God's will for you to grow, for you to expand, for you not to stay at the same

place forever.

He told Adam and Eve, hey, Adam, hey, Eve, you know why I created you so that you could

be fruitful, expansion, so that you can multiply, expansion, so you could fill the earth, expansion,

so you could subdue it, expansion, every possibility I placed inside of you was the possibility

of expansion.

I didn't put anything inside of you that was death.

That came through sin.

When God created you, He breathed His breath in you, He put His spirit in you, His spirit

is the spirit of expansion.

The Bible says, He hovered over the face of the deep and He looked at nothing and created

something, that's called expansion.

See nothing and out of nothing, ex nihilio, out of nothing came something, out of nothing

came something, you know, that's going to be your testimony in the next season.

Oh, three people said amen, that you see nothing going right for you, you see nothing

happening in your finances, you see nothing happening in your relationship and the spirit

of God that lives on the inside of you is getting ready to speak up and say, whatever

was nothing is becoming something now, whatever was dead is becoming alive now, whatever was

sick, healing is coming to it in Jesus name.

Expansions your portion.

From the beginning, God wanted His people to walk and live in expansion.

I'm proof it to Abraham.

So you know, Adam and Eve, they said, they kicked out the garden, you're thinking God's

plan of expansion is over, it's not, it was just the beginning.

Because they didn't realize that God had a plan that far surpassed their plan and He knew

that they were going to fail and He had a different plan of expansion that even went

greater than He was going to give Adam and Eve.

And so He decides, I'm going to call Abraham, He calls Abraham, you know the promise He

gives to Abraham, goes Abraham, you're one person, you're no one.

I called you out of your family, I called you in a place where you don't know anything,

you don't know anyone.

But guess what, I put inside of you expansion.

He said, Abraham, look up, Abraham looks up, he says, see the stars in the sky, can you

count them?

That's how much I'm going to expand, look at the sand on the seashore, can you count

to Abraham?

That's how much I'm going to expand, so Abraham, after a lot left him, he said, Abraham,

I want you to just look around, look to the North, South, East and West, I don't know where

that is right now.

Because I know some people are lying, I'm like, no to North, it's just, all right, point

dexter.

But look at the North, South, East and West, Abraham, I want you to look all around you,

do a panoramic view, 360, wherever you can see, I'm expanding you.

As far as you can see, I've given you and your descendants to land.

So expansion was always God's plan and always God's will, and guess what?

Because we by faith are the seed of Abraham.

That means every promise that God gave to Abraham is for us as the church.

So that means if the promise of land was for Abraham, the promise of expansion was for

Abraham, the promise is for me and Christ.

So here's the greater thing, Abraham only was limited in the expansion God was giving

him.

He was only able to expand in land.

God doesn't only give us expansion in land as new covenant believers.

We can expand in our mindset.

That's what repentance is.

Repent to words.

Remes to turn, pet like the top floor of a building.

And he's turning to a higher perspective.

More expansive view.

Can I talk right now?

Some of you don't have that expansive view about who you are, about who God is, about your

purpose, about your calling, about your money, about your influence, about what God wants

from you.

And God says, I need you to repent.

Not come to the altar and cry, but to change how you think about me, my word, my promises

and the destiny I placed on the inside of you.

I'm about to have an expansive view.

Somebody say, I got an expansive view.

I'm going to look different this season.

I'm going to walk different this season.

I'm going to have a different swag in this season.

I'm going to have a different speech in this season because I know who God created me

to be.

I just need some people who are going to change their speech a little bit.

I'm not broke, busted and disgusted.

I'm not poor.

I'm not struggling.

I'm not in lack.

I got a different perspective.

I got an expansive view.

I see myself the way heaven sees me.

And heaven sees me as the righteousness of God.

Heaven sees me as blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

Heaven sees me as a child of God.

Not a slave.

Not in bondage.

Not in sin.

I am a son of the living God.

I see myself the way God sees me.

So I'm seeing this theme of expansion.

Jesus even talks about it in Matthew chapter 16.

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One Peter goes, you're the Christ, the son of the living God, and then Jesus goes,

flesh and blood didn't reveal that she owes up here.

He's like, flesh and blood didn't reveal.

I like the way the message Bible says, books and teachers didn't teach you that.

Peter, my father in heaven got himself,

let you into a secret of who I really am.

And now I'm going to tell you who you really are, Peter, a rock.

This is the rock that he goes back to himself.

Jesus is the rock on which I will put my church together, my church.

A church so expansive.

You see, when you read it in different versions, it says it completely different.

Where it says, on this rock, I'll build my church and the gates of hell should not prevail against it.

Y'all probably know that version.

You heard that version a million times.

That's not what that verse is saying when you look at the original language in the Greek.

It's not saying like the church is here barely holding on while hell is coming at the church

and trying to fight the church and the church is like, whew, this is so tough.

Oh man, the devil is almost taking us out.

I think that's the mentality we have when we read the verse.

There's a gates of hell attacking the church.

That's not what Jesus is saying.

Jesus is saying the complete opposite.

Jesus is saying hell is standing there.

The gates of hell, you have to see what gates are, gates don't move.

So the idea of, oh hell is moving.

No, the gates of hell has this territory.

They have this land, they have this much.

The church is moving fast and taking land.

The church is moving with power and taking territory.

We're taking territory in media.

We're taking territory in politics.

Come on somebody.

We're taking territory in New York City.

I don't care how liberal it is.

We're taking territory.

I don't care if my dummy becomes mayor.

We're taking territory.

Some y'all be mad, I said it.

That man is a socialist, communist.

If you're a business person, you should be terrified.

When he said, I only want to text white people in white neighborhoods.

He said it not my words.

I ain't white, but I know that's crazy.

See, I'm a black man.

But that's crazy.

I don't care if he becomes mayor.

Him becoming mayor has nothing to do with how fast the church is going to span.

The body of Christ is getting ready to push with such an energy.

Look what it says.

It said the gates of hell are standing there.

And the church is moving with such expansive energy that not even the gates of hell

shall be able to keep it out.

All right.

So can we get to the text?

I want to preach the text.

I know I preach for like 15 minutes.

They're like, my God, he already preached.

My time literally says 10 minutes up here.

I hope I have a few more minutes.

But I want to talk about some enemies of expansion.

Some things that are going to hold you back from the story here in 2 Kings, Chapter 6.

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Some things that are going to hold you back from expanding.

Some things that are going to hold you back from growing and being everything God's called

you to do and not living the fullness of the potential and the destiny that God has for

you.

Are you ready to hear some of the enemies and how to combat those enemies?

Here's the first enemy of expansion, complacency.

This is a good one because a lot of you are complacent.

You're just a man.

I got my 95 job and cool and God's like, well, I told you to start that app.

That app was going to make you a millionaire, but you're complacent.

So instead of going home, taking care of the kids, letting them go to sleep and working

on the dream God gave you, let me just go to sleep and get comfortable.

You're complacent.

Even in your physical body, you're complacent.

I'm okay not working out.

I'm okay not looking right.

I'm okay not taking care of myself and you're complacent because you know what?

It's all right.

I'm not worth it.

You have this mentality that you don't deserve more.

You don't deserve better.

You're complacent where you are and God doesn't want you to be complacent.

Complacent people never sees the promise of God.

They never walk in destiny.

They never are able to possess the land.

It's only people who are aggressive, people who are forthright and people who are not afraid

who can possess the land.

Acts Joshua.

Joshua looked at an angel of the Lord and was like, if you don't get out my way,

because I got a word from God, then I was going to take this land.

Are you for us or against us and if you tell us you're against us, I'm ready to fight.

I'm ready to strap up my boots, put on my back.

I'm ready for war.

We need people who are ready to fight because the violence taken by force, not those who

are weak and tired and complacent, no, we need some warriors in the house of God.

We need some giddy and if you ain't with me, it's cool.

I'll take my 300 and we'll ride out.

Who's ready to fight with me?

That was on the Lord's side, let's go because the devil ain't sleeping.

He's working overtime to destroy people's lives, to rob people of the fullness of God.

I'm not going to sleep.

I'm going to do what the scripture says and I say, take no rest and give the Lord no rest

until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it the praise of the earth.

You can't get complacent.

In the story, 2 Kings chapter 6, there was a whole group of school of prophets who would

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meet together and the original leader and founder of the school of the prophets was Elijah.

Then Elijah comes and gets the double portion of what Elijah has and Elijah says, looks

at the group and one of the members stands up and says, the place we're living in is too

small for us.

It's time for us to expand.

It's time for us to grow.

It's time for us to not be stuck in this small place.

Look what it says, the sons of the prophets are Elijah, see now the place we dwell with

you is too small for us.

It takes faith talk like that to see results.

It takes faith talk like this one bedroom apartment is too small for me.

It takes faith talk to say, God, I don't got the money but I got the favor.

I'm looking at my big account and the math thing, math thing.

But I know that you're the God who owns cattle on a thousand hills.

I know you're the God who said you will supply all of my knees according to your riches

and glory by Christ Jesus.

I know you're the God who said that I won't have to worry about a thing because you're with

me.

You'll never leave me.

You'll never forsake me.

When you start making those kind of confessions, this is too small for me.

I was not called for small.

See some of you can't say amen because you believe you're called for small.

You call, man, my business is just never going to take off.

I live in New York.

You know New York is so tough.

That's your confession.

New York City is so expensive.

I don't care how expensive New York gets.

If you call me here, I'm blessed here because I'm not blessed based off location.

I'm blessed based off revelation.

So you can be in New York City and they could jack up the prices on the rent.

And guess what?

You will still be blessed because if God called you here, he's going to do what he promised.

He's not a man that he should lie.

He's not the son of a man that he should repent.

What he promised, he is faithful to perform his word.

He is faithful to deliver.

He is faithful to complete what he's, I just need about three people who know.

This place is too small.

This mindset is too small.

I got to start thinking higher.

I got to start thinking.

How can I give more money?

I got to start thinking.

How can I so more?

I got to start thinking.

How can I increase from the place I'm at because it's not my final destination?

So the first thing you can't get complacent, they're like, no, we can't get complacent.

This place is too small.

So here's a second point.

It's that I got three minutes.

My second point is this, this is good, this is really good, oh thank you Jesus, hallelujah.

My second point is this, don't be presumptuous, here's the issue with some of us.

We want to do something for God but we want to do it without God.

You will never be blessed that way.

God I want to do this for you but then you leave God out of the picture, God, can I give

you a good example?

God, I want you to bless me financially but you don't pay tides.

So you left God out of the equation but you still want God to bless you.

God, I want to get married and I want to have a husband and they say just like that.

You're not living by biblical principles of living holy.

But you want God to do it.

Don't be presumptuous, make sure you go with God.

The only way you can expand for real is if you do it God's way.

God's way or the highway.

And guess what, the highway, you're going to speed and get a ticket.

Because the highway, you always going at a speed you shouldn't go.

I'm prophesying to some people.

Some of you are moving at a pace heaven didn't call you to move.

That's why the Bible says they were led by the cloud by day and the fire by night.

You have to move at heaven's pace.

You have to move when God moves.

You have to move when heaven tells you to move.

You can't move at your own rhythm.

Some of you heaven is like this and you clapping.

You don't have the rhythm of heaven.

The way God blesses you is when you move according to how he moves.

You know Moses, they're in the wilderness.

Moses goes, Lord Exodus chapter 33, he says, Lord, we don't want to go unless you go

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with us.

We're in the wilderness.

I'm willing to stay here in the wilderness.

If the promised land means you're not there, I don't even want the promise.

Because presence is more important than the promise.

Oh my God.

That was step on some church people's feet because they think the end goal is the promise.

The end goal is the presence.

But within his presence wrapped up in his presence is the promise.

So I don't want the promise if it means I don't have the presence.

Some of you are so married to having the promise that you're willing to not have his presence.

Some of you cheat, still lie, climb the corporate ladder, lie on people, deceive, manipulate

so that you could have the promise and then you lose his presence.

I will not lose the presence.

Even if that means I give up everything on this world, the most important thing is his

presence.

David even said it, David the king had everything.

He goes, Lord, take not your Holy Spirit from me.

I can lose the kingdom.

I can lose everything else, but I want your presence more than anything.

That got to be our cry.

Don't get complacent.

They're like, they looked at the prophet and the prophet if you know anything about the

Old Testament.

The prophet always symbolized the word of the Lord and the presence of God.

And so they're like, Elijah, if you don't come with us, we don't even want to go.

Come with us to build.

And so they go, and then the scripture says, they go to a place called the Jordan.

And the Jordan is the lowest place on the earth, literally, I'm not exaggerating.

The Jordan is the lowest place on the earth.

And the Lord begins to speak to me and says, the only way you can effectively build is when

you allow God to bring you to the low place.

In this world system, everyone is trying to climb higher.

In the kingdom, the only way up is down.

We live in the opposite kingdom.

In this world, you're trying to claw your way to the top.

In the kingdom, you're trying to humble your way to the top.

You're trying to get as low as you possibly can get to because that's the place of elevation

in the kingdom.

The Bible says, if you humble yourself in the sight of the Lord, he will lift you up

and do time.

Some of you want people to lift you up.

That's only temporary.

Once the new boss comes, they'll fire you.

That's why I don't need people's promotion.

I need God's promotion.

Because if God gives you something, you don't got to fight for it.

You don't got to call for it.

You don't got to war for it.

You're just walking it.

I just need someone to say amen.

I'm walking in it.

If God gave it to you, you just got to walk in it with boldness, with favor, just walk

in it.

All right.

Y'all ready for the third point?

Was that okay?

That's the second point?

Because I feel like I'm losing some of y'all.

Some of y'all like this.

I don't know if you're drunken to Holy Ghost or all right.

Here's the third point.

This is really good.

I had other points here, but my time is, I got 15 more minutes.

Preach.

Okay.

All right.

My third point is this.

Hmm.

The third enemy of expansion is your comfort zone.

Man, this is this is for me.

When God tells you to do something that you hate to do, and He's going to bless you

in that, do it.

When He tells you, I want you to go online every day, and I want you to speak to people

and encourage them.

I hate social media, God.

I don't want to do this.

That's the place where you're blessing us.

Woo.

This is good.

I want you to make that album, God, I'm too nervous, I'm too scared, I don't want to do

it.

I don't want to do that.

And God say, nope, this is your place of expansion.

When you step out of your comfort zone, see, you have to understand.

The Bible says, they get to the Jordan, and they're surrounded by all these trees, and

guess what God tells them, start cutting down the trees.

Hold on, but the trees are providing, because if you go to around the Jordan, it becomes

desert in Israel.

It's hot.

And God's like, cut down the trees.

Whatever is comfortable, it can't sustain you in this season.

It's always at the point where you feel like, I'm just getting comfortable, God goes,

I want you to sew that major seed.

It's always at that point where you feel like, I'm really comfortable, and God goes, I want

you to start the business.

It's at that place where you really feel like everything.

And God's like, all right, now it's time for you to get married.

Now it's time for you to have children.

But I was good, God.

God's like, this is the place where I can expand you.

In a place where you're not comfortable, but I'm comfortable.

See, church has to make a decision.

Do we want people to be comfortable, or do we want God to be comfortable?

We sing all the songs you like.

We get all the preachers you like.

We do everything we got to like you like, we get all the stuff you like, but does Jesus

like it?

I don't ever want to be in a church or a ministry that makes everyone feel comfortable.

Does these little patty cake sermons, that make everyone feel good about themselves,

but God ain't even comfortable in the room.

I want to be in a church where the number one focus, the number one perspective is putting

God's comfort first.

Because heaven, please, is God, please, is this what He wants, because if it's what He

wants, it's what I want.

Gotta get out the comfort zone, because that's the place of blessing.

That's the place of expansion.

You know, a lot of us were like lots wife.

This wife was in Sodom and Gomorrah, but Sodom and Gomorrah had a lot of money.

You got to read it.

You got to read beyond the Genesis account, and you have to read the accounts that talk

about Sodom and talk about the wealth of Sodom, the money that Sodom had, the influence

that Sodom had.

Sodom, we just think of one aspect when we think about Sodom, but we don't think about

how influential and powerful that city was to live in that city was a moniker.

It was a mark of how much grander and how much money you had, and how much influence

you had.

The Bible even says that when Lot went there, He went to the land that looked the best,

and it looked like the hood.

What's the nicest place in the city?

Upper West Side?

What's the nicest place in the city?

Upper East?

No, no, no, no.

It's like, you know, I'm living New York and I'm like, Upper East Side, it was some upper

East Side type joint.

I have to say it was some slain, because so y'all could get it.

But God wasn't there.

Is it about your comfort or is it about where God's comfortable?

And Lot, get out the land, take your whole family, Lot's wife.

No, it's too, turns into a pillar of salt, because I want to go back to what's comfortable.

I don't want to go up to the mountains where God says, because it's uncomfortable there,

but God's there.

All right, can we get to the next point?

I just, I know, I know some people are like, here's my fourth point.

The fourth enemy of expansion is disappointment.

Is disappointment.

If you don't learn how to effectively deal with disappointment, it will destroy you.

Because can I tell you something?

I don't care how much you pray.

I don't care if you on a thousand day fast.

You don't watch anything that's secular on TV.

You're the holy of the holiest.

You're always in the third heaven.

Every time we see you, ha, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

Most spiritual person I know, disappointment will come.

And what you do during disappointment determines what's going to happen in the next season of

your life.

What you do with disappointment determines what the next area of your destiny looks like.

There was a woman with the issue of blood disappointment, what's every doctor disappointment,

still bleeding disappointment, couldn't touch anyone because she was unclean disappointment,

but every disappointment is actually God's appointment.

So she didn't look at the disappointment as something that was going to hold her back.

She looked at the disappointment as an opportunity.

How can I get to Jesus?

The Bible says she presses through the crowd.

She doesn't let disappointment dictate her destiny.

Are you letting disappointment dictate your destiny?

Are you letting your pursuit dictate your destiny?

What are you doing in the midst of disappointment?

Let's go back to 2nd Kings chapter 6, right?

The Bible says they start building.

One of the prophets has an axe and he's hitting a tree and in the midst of hitting the tree,

the Bible says that the axe had flies into the water, disappointment.

But God, we're doing what you want us to do.

What happens when you're doing what God wants you to do in disappointment comes?

That could be the most disheartening thing.

Can we be honest?

When you're like, God, but I'm really trying to live for you.

I used to be like, oh, nasty, now I'm trying.

I know I used to be like, oh, man, it's not, I don't even cost no more, God.

I'm really trying to love people and forget people.

Like this person did me wrong and I'm still here and trying to love.

But then disappointment hits you.

In the middle of you doing the will of God, this is what's happening.

We're building and in the midst of building, in the midst of growing, in the midst of expanding,

in the midst of doing what God called you to do, disappointment comes.

How do you handle it?

Do you shrink back in unbelief?

The Bible says, we are not of those who shrink back in unbelief.

We are those who believe in our saved.

When disappointment comes, you have two reactions.

You can either shrink back or you can push forward.

You can either shrink back and fear our push forward and fake.

It's a God, I believe your promise.

I believe your word.

I believe what you said.

I'm not crying about the disappointments of the last season.

I'm pushing forward toward this season.

I know I didn't catch anything all night, but I'm casting my net on the other side.

All right.

You can't let disappointment hold you back.

So this acts had falls into the water.

And this is, this is where the story gets really powerful.

And my favorite part of the story.

I had to rush through this in first service.

But can I take just a few minutes with you guys here?

The acts had falls into the water.

And so this man, one of the sons of the prophet, comes to Alisha and says,

this acts had that I was using, I borrowed it.

And the acts had fell into the water.

And Alisha goes, OK.

And he acts in a specific question.

And this is where I really want you to tune in and listen to the sermon.

Because this is the point where God can really start using you.

He goes, where did it fall?

Where did the acts had fall?

And that's when the Holy Spirit, it's like he arrested my spirit in that moment.

And he was like, you know why a lot of people can't get deliverance and break through

when healing and God is not able to penetrate beyond the walls that they've set up in their lives?

Is because they're not honest about where they fell.

So my next point is you got to be honest.

A lack of honesty, dishonesty is one of the things that's going to hold you back from expanding.

Some of you ain't honest with God.

You're not honest with anyone.

It's in your nature to not be truthful.

But I realize something, real deliverance happens when you're honest.

You know the devil has no cards to play anymore when you're honest.

You know you take all the devil's ammunition out of the gun and he got a gun.

He's trying to shoot it, but he has no ammunition when you're honest.

This gets out like a crazy story, but can I tell you about Dr. Martin Luther King?

So Dr. Martin Luther King, I know we praise him, he was a very flawed individual, right?

He was a very flawed individual.

He had an affinity for women, especially for white women.

And in that time, it was frowned on.

And there were guys from the FBI who called him and said,

we know about your struggles with women and white women.

We're going to expose you to the world.

We're going to tell everyone about who you really are.

And Dr. King starts laughing.

This is what the story is.

He starts laughing and then he turns over to the guys he's with and he's like,

these guys say they want to expose me because I'm into women and into white women.

And they all start laughing and they're confused.

And he's like, why are you laughing?

He goes, everyone who's important to me already knows.

He had accountability partners already.

Tell everyone because everyone who's important already knows my struggle.

You've got to be honest where you fell.

Because the only way the Holy Spirit can restore you.

The only way God can really deliver, he can't deliver the thank you.

He can't deliver the person you pretend to be.

So in church you put on this mask and you act like you're someone God deliver me.

And that's not really you, just be you.

And then you leave church and take off the mask and God during the week is looking for the person I was in church and it ain't there.

You take off the mask that's really Freddy Krueger in the spirit.

We got to be honest.

Be honest where you fell.

Be honest the areas.

You need the Holy Spirit to really do it in her work inside your life.

Be honest.

Yes, when my dad left when I was seven, it hurt.

Yes, when I got abused when I was 12, I still never got healed.

Yes, I've been toxic in my relationships.

Because of this situation that happened, that's how God can heal you.

I'm a deceiver, God, you know, that's why I love about the story of Jacob.

Because when God came to Jacob and said, Jacob, what's your name?

Jacob could have lied.

Jacob said, my name's Jacob, I'm a liar.

You know, his name meant deceiver, trickster, liar.

He could have been like, I'm, I'm Joe, I'm Jake, no, I'm Jacob, it's me, I'm the liar,

God.

And at that moment God goes, that's not your name no more.

Yeah, Israel.

Because God can't bless the fake you, He can only bless the real you.

And later on, He goes, the God of, not Israel, the God of Jacob, the floor to you.

He said, the God of Israel, he said, the God of the messed up you, because I'm not just

the God of the good areas in your life, I'm the God of the messed up areas, but I just want

you to be honest.

That's a real repentance, that's real coming to God is, it's like, I'm being real about

who I am, God, and that I can't do this without you, all right, my last point, and I'm done.

Was that okay?

This someone gets something out of it, all right.

So the prophet comes now, he's like, where did it fall?

And then the son of the prophet pointed at the place where it fell.

So he takes a piece of a branch, and he throws it into the water.

And then the Bible says, the ax head begins to float, and that's when the Holy Spirit gave

me revelation, and was like, who's the branch?

Look throughout scripture, Isaiah 11, who's the branch?

Jesus?

Look at, hold on, what are the other verses?

Jeremiah 23, who's the branch?

Jesus?

You get Zachariah chapter 3 verse 8, who's the branch?

Okay, y'all not doing some good, you're doing terrible with the calling response.

Who's the branch?

So show me where you fell, and all I got to do is put Jesus there.

Come on!

You want restoration to happen?

Just be honest where you fell, and then Jesus, like, I'm a show up right there.

I'm a show right where you messed up, and I'm going to fully restore everything, and

what seems impossible is going to be made possible.

You want to expand?

God's just looking for honesty.

He's looking for some real people, and then here's the last thing the prophet said, you

pick it up.

Can I tell you the last thing God's saying, I did everything already.

From the cross 2,000 years ago, I did everything.

Your axe head was all the way in the ground, I put Jesus in the situation.

Everything I was dead and used coming alive, coming up to the surface.

Now you do your part by faith, you take it.

Hope gives you the ability to believe, faith gives you the ability to receive.

I'm going to say that again.

This word came to give you hope to believe, but after you have hope to believe, now you

need faith to receive.

That means everything that's in the word that's supposed to be mine, I pick it up.

I take it.

That means if I'm sick in my body, buy his stripes, I'm here, I'm taking it.

If financial situations are coming and I'm dealing with issues on my job and I don't

know how to handle, greater is he that's within me than he that I'm picking it up.

And I'm taking it by faith.

How many people are about to pick it up by faith?

I want you to stand to your feet, we're about to go.

I hope this word charged you.

I hope it really charged something on the inside.

And it's a spark.

It's jumper cables in the spirit to awaken whatever was dead inside of you.

So here's the perfect moment for us to be honest with God.

God this is where I failed.

This is where I fall in short.

This is where I haven't been diligent.

This is where I haven't put you first.

This is where I've lost my first love.

This is where I've put my attention on idols, on things that don't matter, on things that

have no life and no substance and I want to put you first.

I need Jesus in this situation.

I need to branch in this situation.

And I'll care how long you've been saved.

You got an area in your life where you need Jesus.

This area is in my life.

I'm like, oh God.

I'm so cornered in that area, God helped me.

People cut me off.

I'm like, in the name of Jesus.

I don't cuss, but I, yo, uh-huh, woo, boy.

You have a cuss in our cuss in?

And you didn't say no cussers, but you cussed that person.

Ow, cold.

When you guys saved long enough, you learned that art.

Y'all that haven't been saved long enough.

And cuss them out.

You do it so professionally.

You know like Jesus like not operating love because even that is a false humility.

You're not being honest about where you fell.

And the Holy Spirit wants to capture your heart.

Most important thing.

Lift up your hands.

Let's close our eyes and we're going to surrender it to Jesus.

We're going to give it completely to him.

Father, we lay it down.

We lay down our own inhibitions, our self-preservation, our pride.

We say, Lord, we replace it for you.

The oil of joy, the grace, the fire of the Holy Spirit, the anointing of God.

We want that.

We want your character.

We want your love.

We don't want the root of bitterness as it speaks in Hebrews 12 to rise up in us.

Every root that is not of you, we cut it down in the name of Jesus.

Every root that is not of you, we do what Jesus did.

We curse it by the root.

Whatever is not producing in our lives, we say, go now in Jesus' name.

We cut off all ties with toxicity.

We cut off all ties with pain and hurt and lies and bitterness and anger and resentment

and we say, Holy Spirit, make us alive.

Let the river of living water, Roma Shamba Kassata, let the spring rise up in us, honda radia

sabako Shata and give us life.

Shata rababa Kata, you know, I can see just a healing river flowing through this house.

Healing the wounds, healing the pain, healing the areas where you're honest about, where

you're saying, God, I fell here and I need Jesus in this situation.

God, we invite you into the hardest, most difficult, most challenging situations.

Come in now.

Show yourself strong.

Come in now, Holy Spirit and manifest your power.

Come in now, Spirit of the living God and breathe your breath into us.

We receive it, Husha La Baka, le le le le kusa, rema mamamasha, li le le le besu, urabamandia,

rima bababase, the breakers in the room.

The breakers in the room, the breakers in the room, break every chain, break every wall,

break every limitation, break every restriction, even the ones we've put on ourselves, break

it off now, break off our small thinking, break off our small mentality, God, make us conduits

for expansion.

Yeah, make us portals for expansion.

Make us instruments of expansion, Lord.

We want to see the kingdom of God expand on the earth and we want you to use us as your

vessels.

Do it, Lord, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, I'm going to invite people to the altar.

People are saying I need a breakthrough.

I need God to do something and Sean is going to sing a song for us as we do that.

And I want to pray for people who are like, man, this word was for me.

I've got to be honest about where I fell because I need the Holy Spirit to restore some

things that were dead in me.

I stop building because of sin.

I stop building because of fear.

I stop building because of doubt.

I stop building because of church hurt or because something that happened to me in the

past and I need God to set me free.

I need breakthrough.

I want you to run up to this altar right now if that's you, Lord, I need you to do something

fresher in my life and I need a touch from heaven.

I need a touch from heaven.

I need a touch from heaven.

I want you to come up here with your hands lifted up.

I want you to come up here expecting to receive, expecting to receive.

Come on, Sean.

Sean is going to sing this song and as he sings it, I believe that heaven is going to

meet us.

I believe that Jesus is going to manifest his power in this room and that when you need

healing, if you're in need of healing, healing is going to come.

If you're in need of breakthrough, breakthrough is going to come.

If you're in need of deliverance, deliverance is going to come.

If you're in need of joy, God is going to give you the oil of joy.

Ha-Shaktala, let telebasis.

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