Unlocking a Victorious Life with Pastor Maurice Johnson

What Jesus can do in your life will blow your minds and you need to start saying Jesus blow my mind

Is someone make me so victorious my family and my friends and my church members are going to be shocked make me so victorious

I'm going to praise you until I can't praise you no more and you know Jesus can do that all he needs is your words

Death and life are in the wife power of the town

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

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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

Put your hands together for Pastor Maurice Johnson

Okay, praise the God good morning city light church

Give yourselves a hand you are an amazing church

The way you guys

Worship the way you love your community. You love the world

You're going on your mission trip soon. I just bless you in Jesus' name. You are a great church. How many of you when you got to this church

And you plugged in you saw your life turn around rich and wow look at all those hands

That's the power of being connected to the grace on this house and if you've been coming and just kind of dancing on the outside

I'm going to encourage you get connected during the small groups the summer discipleship groups go on a mission trip

Give Amen and I felt to say this most importantly pray for your pastor his wife and his children

Because and pastimo and his wife and his children because your leadership is the one that's taking you to your next level

And if things are good in their life guess what things are going to be good in your life amen hallelujah praise God

So the first service we warmed up

Now we ready to fly

Today's message is entitled this is my summer of winning

Say that with me this is my summer of winning

Look at your name and say neighbor good morning good afternoon, actually

This is my summer of winning the winning spirit

Come on the winning spirit is on the inside of you the winning spirit is on the inside of me

I am determined to win this summer come on a shout hallelujah

The Bible says you are more than a conqueror through him who loved you one translation says you have gained a surpassing victory

Another translate says you are more than victorious

That's not just a nice thing to say because we're charismatic

That's a reality that we are to live in and walk in

Amen so if you're more than a conqueror you cannot be a depressed person

If you're more than a conqueror you cannot be a loser

Hello

If you're more than a conqueror you can't say I can't get up

The Bible says the righteous will fall seven times and get back up

Amen

Does it make a difference how much you fallen how bad things have been in your life this is your season and your summer of winning

We have entered the second half of the year

And I'm sure it's been good for a lot of you and for some of you as I've been so good

You still have some fears you still have some things you're dealing with you still have some bills that I'm paid you still have some crisis in your life

But I'm declaring to you today

Profitically that this is your winning summer

Your crisis is over your struggle has ended your bills will be paid in Jesus' name

Do you believe that somebody say I believe it's that's what makes it happen somebody say I oh my sister see I heard that voice

Stand up my sister my niece is here

Darryl's here too

Oh just you two look at that. Oh right

Now my stand up keep standing

My sister said she's never been to pass a boy on church and she wanted to come so she's married so forget about her

She's old anyway, but now I'm in style. I'm joking. I'm joking

Now the one with the red hair

She's 24 single and ready to mingle

I won't tell you about all the people that want her when she walks down the streets or no she's visiting from Charlotte

And then stand up past the same this is my one of my sister passes

She's also single stand up stand up stand up

And ready to mingle

This is going to be her winning summer

I know some of you thought that she was my girl. She's not she wish she could be but she's not

So you can approach her and give her your number

Now the Lord is still here. We just having some fun

Because the God of winning likes to have fun. Amen

The Bible says the first John four four he who was in you is greater than he was in the world

Someone says the greater one lives inside of me

So if the greater one lives inside of you, there's nothing outside of you that can defeat you

I said again if the greater one lives inside of you, there's nothing outside of you that can defeat you

The spirit of victory is on your life

You have to believe it you have to receive it and you have to celebrate even when the devil comes with a dark cloud

This mystical dark cloud and you wake up and you don't feel good

Shake yourself and say no, no, no, no, this is the day the Lord has made

I will rejoice and I will be glad in it

Now sometimes you don't feel good because you agree the Holy Spirit with some kind of behavior in your life that you have to repent of

But many times you don't feel good because the devil is trying to encroach you with his spirit of depression and his spirit of heaviness

And what you need to do is put on some praise music and start singing glory to God

Amen and that spirit of heaviness will leave but you also need to start using your words and speak against that spirit and say I am going to have an amazing day today

That's happened to me. I woke up with a feeling great. I'm always waking up happy

But sometimes the devil will try you, tempt you and you have to say no, I don't receive this

I don't receive the spirit of melancholy. I don't receive the spirit of depression. I don't receive the sadness

I only receive the spirit of victory that's already on my life

Amen

So the Bible says that we are to go from glory to glory from faith to faith and so that means we should go from winning to winning

No defeat the Bible says in some Corinthians that we are that God is always causing us to triumph

With the word always so that's your word that victory should always be in your life every single day

Now there's theology out there that will tell you you can't have a winning day every day. Who says so?

Did Jesus have a winning day every day? Did Jesus have a winning day? Did Jesus have a down depressed day?

Oh, this is not my day today

Now he made the day, but it's not his day today, right?

Did Jesus ever have a down depressed day?

No, he may have moments of sadness, moments, Jesus wept, but his day, his 24 hours was always awesome

And the Bible says he has left us an example that we should follow

So if Jesus is winning, I'm winning

And the Bible says as he is

So are you in this world? Is Jesus ruling and raining and victory?

So guess also should be ruling and raining and victory

Romans 5 says those who received the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness

shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ

The Bible says you shall reign as kings in this life

There's too many believers not raining as kings, they're not raining as the royalty they are

But that's going to be your story this summer, amen?

So I say this is my summer of winning

You want to make more money than you ever made before?

Do you believe that? Come on

Come on, I just say you want to make more money than you ever made before

You have more opportunities than you ever had before

You have more favor flowing your life than you ever saw before

Amen

You have breakthrough healings

Amen, you have prophetic dreams, it's going to bless your life

This is your summer of winning, you've got to be determined to win

I have few somebody with supernatural strength today in Jesus' name

When I was praying earlier at home for the service, I felt there was a personal person who has a fear of Alzheimer's dementia

If that is you, the Lord says do not be afraid

Rebuke the fear, resist the fear and say it will not happen to me

Now you may have relatives, a parent, a cousin and aunt who was experiencing this because it is spreading like a plague

But you're going to say I'm in covenant with Almighty God and it will not touch my life

Amen

And if you're a person, I'm going to give you a secret

If you're a person who says I'm always forgetting, stop saying it

Because you're sealing your faith

The devil is using your words to open his opening door where he can come and get you

You know how the devil gets you by your words

Death and life

You know the scripture, you can't read it

Death and life

What?

What?

What?

Now notice what he didn't say

The power of death and life is in the tongue

Some people have quoted it that way

There's a difference

Because the Bible is not saying that life or death has power

It says your tongue has power

And whatever you are speaking is what is going to produce

One of the reasons why I am...

By the way, I've lost like 25 or 30 pounds

Hey

I'm working on more because I'm determined to win

I've had enough warning dreams, enough encouragement dreams

It's been like crazy

Even to lose this weight, boy

So I'm working on it

Why did I tell you that?

There's a reason why I told you that

But him saying, hey, just knock me out the anointing

Anyway

Power to tongue, thank you

But I still don't know why

That's okay

Lord, bring me back into this space

I'll come back

I stepped into your anointing, alright

I don't think so

It's his emergency

Your members have stepped into you

I'm not your member, raise your guide

I'm the apostle of grace

I'm actually older than you, so I'm your apostle

Wow

Oh

Okay, guys, let's stop playing around

The freedom in the spirit, thank you Jesus

So

If you're going to lose weight

You have to refuse to make excuses

So when you are going to win this summer

You have to tell the Lord, I offer you no excuses

The spirit of losing is tied to the excuses of man

And you have to say, I will not make any excuses for anything

For being a bad husband, being a bad wife, being a bad parent

Being a terrible person with money

You're going to say, Lord, no

You're going to turn this around for me

I'm going to turn this around in my life

And I'm going to be an amazing husband, a glorious wife

A great parent

And I'm going to be a money master in Jesus' name, amen?

Hallelujah

All the things that devil says you're terrible at

All the things you may be bad at

You're going to say, no, no, no, no

This is not going to be in my life

I'm not going to be an emotional wreck

I'm not going to be happy and clappy

Amen

Happy and what?

If you happy and you know it

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands

If you're happy and you know it

And you really want to show it

If you're not being and you know it, clap your hands

If you're happy and you know it's stuck

You're going to be happy

I'm going to be crying because the devil is attacking me

I'm going to take authority over the devil

And tell him no more

No more

One of the persons I was praying for

She was saying the stress is not leaving me

And I said no, no, no, no, no, no, no

The stress is going to leave you

And we rebuked the stress

And then I gave her some scriptures to meditate on

But you do not let stress or the spirit of melancholy

Or the spirit of heaviness come and stay on you

You say devil, you've got to go

Amen

Because if you open that door

Satan's coming

He's coming with sickness and disease

And all the things that attach to allowing him to rule

That's why God says give no place to the devil

That word place comes from a Greek word that means landing ground

And there's too many believers that are losing

Not because they don't have the spirit of victory

The spirit of victory lives inside of you, it's the Holy Ghost

But because they give too much place to the devil in their natural lives

And you're going to say I'm closing the door in the devil

I'm making no excuses, amen

Look at me at John 5, 1 to 9

This is the story of the gentleman at the pull of Bethesda

And verse 1, he says, after this, there was a feast of the Jews

And Jews went up to Jerusalem

Now they're going to Jerusalem by the sheep gate

A pool which is called in Hebrew Bethesda

Having five porches

In these lay a great multitude of sick people

Blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water

There's a lot of people with problems

And they're just waiting

Don't sit and wait

You've been seated in heavenly places

Go and make things happen

The Holy Spirit lives inside of you

The paracletos, the one called alongside to help you

Go and make things happen

You've been redeemed by the blood

You stand as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus

It doesn't just mean that you have right standing with God

It means that God's righteous natures inside of you

And righteousness makes you strong

The Bible says the righteous are as bold as a lion

So we got born again, boldness was imparted to you

You're going to release that boldness and say, I'm a lion in Jesus

What does Jesus categorize as for the tribal Judah?

The peasant for the lion, for the tribal Judah?

No, the lion of the tribal Judah

The roaring lion, the raging lion

You're going to let the devil know I'm a raging lion

I'm in Christ Jesus

And I'm going to roar

He wants you to be, I said in the early service

He wants you to be a silent sufferer

But you have to be determined

I'm going to be a talking warrior

Oh, that was better than your respondents

So I said, I'm going to be a talking warrior

You're going to get a warfare mindset

One day, the Lord told me, tell when it's church

The people, I'm going to tell you, this is a word for the body of Christ

Don't become a casualty of spiritual warfare

We're all in spiritual warfare

But you can choose to be the winning warrior or the defeated casualty

The choice is yours

I said before you, death and life

Choose what life that you and your seed may live

Blessing and cursing

What you want to choose? The cursing of the blessing

You see the cursing all out there

You may even see it in your family

You want to say, it ends with me

The blessing will come upon me and overtake me

And I'm going to win

That's due to 128

So the blessings of God

Come on, talk with me

The blessings of God

Will come upon me, overtake me

And I'm going to win

Hallelujah

The Bible says in Proverbs 10, blessings on the head of the righteous

Are you righteous?

There's no cursing in your head, there's a blessing on your head

The prophet said about Israel

There's no sentence of divination against them

There's nothing that devil can be doing out in the world that can cause you to lose

And when you believe it, you're going to have streaks of victory

You're going to be winning in everything you do

You're going to step and doors will just be opening

You know, like you go to the mall now, you don't even have to open the door or the nice malls

They get them all

They get them once they get open

The nice ones, you're just walking the doors open

That's a kind of power and authority and favor you walk with

Do you know you have an angel walking with you every day?

Some of you got angels looking at you when you wake up

Like, oh my God, here we go again

21 years

And I'm right here

And I tap into no angelic ministry

And I say, oh, I feel sorry for you, see you, I'm going back to heaven

There's language in the realm of the spirit about you

Demons know about you, angels know about you

And it's conversations about you

Based on how you're behaving

Remember when Jesus came to that man who was demon possessed?

He said, holy one of God

He absolutely knew who Jesus was

He's been watching you

Have you come to torment us before the time?

Oh, we know

You're a bad memory jammer

And you're going to kick out butt, but is it now?

He said, just shut up

Jesus gives the devil no respect

He just said, okay, let's talk about theology

No, shut up

That's what you do to the devil, don't talk to me

You don't have a right to talk to me, you're a bum

Oh, you're scared to tell the devil that?

I do it, I'm not just preaching like to sound good, I do it

You're a bum, you're a dog, you're nothing, you're unforgiven

I'm seeing the devil in places you're not

You're a damned, I'm blessed

Why are you talking to me?

Why are you bothering me?

You foul, unclean spirit, go now

And the devil goes running with his tail under

You got to know who you are, man

Jesus, I'm going to win

So I say, Jesus, I'm going to win

Verse 4, for the angel went down a certain time

He went up the water then whoever stepped in first after the storm of the water was made well or whatever disease he had

Verse 5, now certain men was there who had an infirmity 38 years

Doesn't make a difference how long your problem has been

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time

Jesus doesn't want you lying down and defeat

And even if you've been in defeat for a long time, he's there to tell you get up

He said to him, do you want to be made well?

The sick man answered him, sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up

But while I'm coming another step down before me, that's an excuse

Someone gets it before I get it

Jesus, and ask you, does someone step down before you?

I didn't ask you that

Most of the time people giving excuses of things he never asked

Remember that time when he had used his boat to preach

Peter saw the night seed and Jesus was about to give him a nice harvest

And he said, catch your net, your nets for a catch

And he begins to say, we've toiled all night and caught nothing

In other words, I'm the professional fisherman, you're not your carpenter, you're a miracle worker, stay in your lane

That's what his flesh started to say

We, me and my partners, we know what we're doing

You don't know about this, but he didn't realize for a moment who he's talking to

The Lord of glory, the winning God

And then he said, nevertheless, you started remembering some stuff

At your word, I will let down the net, but Jesus said nets

So he still was an error

That's why the Bible says the net began to break

That's why Jesus said, because I know what I'm about to do for you, I'm about to blow your mind

And the Bible says that he was greatly astonished at the catch of fish

What Jesus can do in your life will blow your mind

And you need to start saying, Jesus blow my mind this summer

Make me so victorious, my family and my friends and my church members are going to be shocked

Make me so victorious, I'm going to praise you until I can't praise you no more

And you know, Jesus can do that

All he needs is your words, death and life are in the what? Power of the time

You know, we're skipping a lot of my notes by the way

This is a glorious service

I told one pastor who was going through whatever he's going through, you know, pastors go through stuff sometimes

I said, what you need to do is what I'm doing

He says, what are you doing, pastor?

I said, I'm starting to say, without emotion, I'm on fire for God

You know, many times people are just crying to be on fire for God, and I want to be on fire for God

Stop saying I want to be on fire for God, just stop saying it

So I say, I am on fire for God

Jesus wasn't trying to be the light of the world, He said, I am the light of the world

He was trying to be the son of God, He said, I am the son of God

I'm not trying to be the son of man, I am the son of man

I am the son of David, I am the miracle worker, I am the bread of life

Listen to your, listen to your roasting, use the power of I am

You mad?

So one thing you need to do is say, I am on fire for God

And all of a sudden, your words are going to start producing things inside of you

That you had resistance to because you used your words, you're going to want to start fasting

You're going to want to start praying more, you're going to start reading the Bible more

You want to start going to revival services more

And the next thing you know, you are actually on fire for God

The pastor that I told to do this within about 24 hours, his whole mood had changed

He said, I did what you said, as I said, I am on fire for God

Let your mouth do its duty

One day the Lord told me, you can't win the voice of the Spirit said to me

You can't win with your mouth closed

So open your eyes and open your mouth

Because what you see determines the direction you go

And if we are going to have a winning summer, we have to see clearly

Lord, give us a spread of wisdom and revelation, open our eyes

To see who we really are in Christ Jesus, to see who you really are as a true and the living God

And then open your mouth and declare some stuff

Now I know, as word of faith carries many people, we've been told we know about speaking

But sometimes we just hear it, but we're not doing it

You start doing it every day, having your affirmations

You know the world is using this

And they get in stuff, they're conquering mountains and the church is still crying

No, no more crying

Look at them and say no more crying

Look at your neighbor and say no more crying

Your weeping days are over

Now point to yourself and say no more crying

No more crying, no more whining

Your weeping days are over

Today is your day of victory

And you're going to win today, tomorrow, next week, next month

And for the rest of your life, come on a shout about that

Hallelujah

So I say I believe, so I say I'm a money magnet

So I say I'm going somewhere that happened

So I say this is my life, not the devil's life

This is my life and I'm going to win in Jesus' name

Because I said so

Amen

Jesus said you shall have whatever you say

Those of you who are single and you've been single for a long time, it's time for that to end

If you want to be married, see in my case, I like being single

I like just being with me

Some of you not, you need somebody touching you hugging you

Come on, that's you, that's good

Jesus made you to be with somebody

It's like saying my single days are over

If you're a woman, say I'm a good thing to find

Now make sure you brush your teeth and you call me here

And follow that up

Go to the gym

But say I'm a good thing to find

And if you're a man, you say I'm going to find my good thing

And obtain favor from the Lord

You have angels waiting for you to release them

Father, let your angel go before me and bring me my husband

Father, let your angel go before me and lead me to my wife

We have to start looking at some stuff

I don't even have the time

But the theology of today, not in every circle, in some circles, has destroyed the confidence of the believer

So instead of winning, we keep talking about struggling

From the songs to the sermons, not here at this church

But many others that are social media

But the reality is, I said, when was the last time any of those people talked about God's covenant?

With us

Do you understand what it means to have a covenant with God?

That the Abrahamic covenant is on your life

That the blessing of Abraham is on you

The blessing of Abraham is for you to be the heir of the world

You are to live in the best, drive the best, have the best, sleep with the best

Amen

Go to the best church

This church is flying high, look at y'all

Filled up to the rafters, amen

It's going to be overflow soon, amen

And we're going to three services, then four

Receive

Somebody say I'm going to win

In Jesus' name

Amen

Hallelujah, come on rejoice

Everyone bow your head real quick, I'm going to do an altar call for those who may not be saved

If you're in this place and you say Pastor Maurice, great message, I'll say thank you

But the reality is you're not winning if you're not born again

I don't care what you have, I don't care what you think you've accomplished

You said what is the profit of man to gain the whole world and lose his soul

So if you want to go to heaven, now ask you to join this church, there's a great church to join

Go to heaven and be born again, you must be born again, Jesus said

God loves you, he wants to be your father, he wants to be your daddy, and he wants you to be a part of his kingdom

That's you, say Pastor Maurice, I need to be saved, I need to be born again

Raise your hand high and we're going to pray with you to be saved

I see one hand, anyone else, Pastor Maurice, I'm not saved

I've never received Jesus, I've never received the forgiveness of sins, but I want to be saved

Raise your hand high now, I see the one hand, anybody else

I know we have a lot of believes but sometimes we have unbelievers here, anyone else

Raise your hand high so I can see it

Okay, that one person who raise your hand stand up, stand up

Raise your hand, come forward, raise your hand, everybody give them a hand

And just someone else, come forward, someone else, come forward

You're not saved, stand right here sir, raise your hand high

Whole day was for you, Jesus loves you and you matter to him

I'm going to lead you in what is called the prayer of salvation

You're going to receive Jesus as your savior, you're going to have your ticket to heaven

And so no matter if I never see you again, I want to see you in heaven

And you're never going to lose this salvation, are you excited about that?

Yes sir

Amen, okay you seem a little powerful, all right?

Give me your hand, you coming too?

Raise your hand, come on, hallelujah!

Raise your hand, God bless you

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