Manifested Abundance – Part 3

There's a message for you. The message is get ready for the harvest that's coming. Get ready

for the abundance of 2025. Get ready for the business opportunities. Get ready for the promotion.

Get ready for the open doors. Get ready for the unexpected checks. Get ready for the bonuses.

Get ready for the increase. Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. 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 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. Nathaniel, I think they're ready for you because I'm getting

nothing right now. I'm getting very, very dead. Obviously the Lord has taken his hand off of me.

I'm just here to be an usher and so the hand of the Lord is on you Nathaniel. So once you come

bring us the Word this morning. Praise the Lord. Praise the... John the Baptist,

preparing the way of the Lord. Y'all can laugh, I'm joking, but I'm serious. Y'all ready?

Amen. So can I get a little bit more juice on this mic? It's really hard for me to hear

myself or hear anything on the monitors maybe. Yeah, okay, perfect. Praise God. So I just came back

from Israel. I was there for 11 days. It was an amazing time. I learned a lot. One of the things I

learned is the way Jewish people greet each other, they usually do a greeting of Shalom.

Right, we're talking about prosperity, right? We're talking about a life of abundance. Amen.

So they greet each other with Shalom. Most of us know that Shalom means peace,

but it means more than peace. It means peace and it means prosperity in every area of your life.

So even just the way they introduce just the beginning of the conversation with someone doesn't

start with, man, things are so bad. I'm just barely holding on and struggling. I just wish

that things would be better for me. I can't pay my bills. The first greeting that they hear is

prosperity in every area of your life. So I'm going to give you the greeting that they gave me when

I was in Israel, Shalom to you, which means prosperity in every area of your life. That means

abundance and overflow. I just need about three witnesses because I feel like I want to preach about

this abundance thing. Prosperity for every area of your life in Jesus' name, if you believe

us, say amen. I believe this is your year to prosper. We said amen. I think first server,

we need to get them first service people back. I believe this is your year of abundance.

I believe this is your year of overflow. And you want to know why? It isn't because we've deemed it.

It's because heaven already deemed it. And all I'm doing is coming into agreement with heaven

and saying that this is your year of the best. This is your year of the biggest blessing. This is

your year of supernatural abundance. Do you believe in saying amen? You know, it's so easy for us

to believe God for salvation, the redemption of our soul. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Oh, you saved me

out of the pit. You saved me out of hell. You saved me out of destruction. You saved me out of

that horrible place. It's so easy. Man, we got enough faith for that. A lot of us, we even got

enough faith. Lord, thank you for healing my body. I was sick and you healed me. We got

enough faith for that. But what we struggle with is believing that God not only wants to redeem

our soul and our body. He wants to redeem our finances. From the beginning in Genesis chapter 1,

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it was always God's intention for you to be blessed. You know where everything got confused and

convoluted and everything just got all messed up. It's the devil. Because God's plan from the

beginning was life and life more abundantly. The thief comes to kill steel and

which means in the beginning when God blessed his people in Genesis chapter 1 verse 28, he said,

Genesis 1:28

be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. That word fruitful means has a few

meanings. But one of the meanings is fertilizer, something that causes things around it to grow.

So inside of every single person, there's a blessing from heaven. There's a word that's spoken

over your life that you are divine fertilizer. That when you step in a place that can't have any

growth or production or as barren, when you step on the scene, you have the ability to make it a

fruitful place. So think about your job. That's all messed up. When you step on the scene, you got

ability to bring life to it. Oh man. Think about an area of finances. Think about an area of your

life that's not producing. When you step on the scene, things have to change. Somebody saying,

man, God bless them and sit to them, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it,

have dominion over the fish. If you don't, if you don't already have that, God given blessing

inside the blessing of being fruitful, that means the ability to be like fertilizer,

multiply, which means when things get around me, they just don't stay at the same place.

This is good. When things get around me, they just can't stay at the same place. There has to be

growth. When people get around me, they can't stay the same. They have to grow. Because what's

in me is multiplication. So even my money has to multiply because God's already spoken a word

of blessing over every area of my life to multiply. So I prophesy over every area where you've

been stagnant, where you've been in lack, where you've had less than you're supposed to. I decree

and declare you will walk into the blessing of Genesis chapter 1 verse 28. The blessing that says,

Genesis 1:28

you will multiply. Multiplication is not for the person next to you. It's for you. It's your portion.

God has divinely placed everything inside of you. You need to multiply. So I don't know what you

do for work. I don't know what you do for a living. I don't know what you're invested in,

but everything that you touch has to multiply. Can we go into our text, Luke chapter 5,

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Luke the fifth chapter. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I'm not just going to believe

a salvation this year. I'm believing for abundance. Yeah, I'm going to believe for unsafe family

members to get saved. Yes, I'm going to pray hard for it. I'm going to fast hard for it, but you

know what I'm also going to believe for money, wealth, because it's the Lord that gives us the

power to be wealthy. And if God's giving me the power to be wealthy, I want everything that God

has for me. God's plan to Genesis chapter 1, blessing. The devil comes, Adam and Eve sin,

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get kicked out of the garden. What was supposed to be there, they weren't able to walk into it.

And God, he cursed Adam and Eve. Ain't no, the curse was. The curse was Eve was going to

multiply, but she was going to multiply in sorrow. So there was going to be a multiplication,

but it was going to be the wrong type of multiplication. She was going to multiply in pain.

She was going to multiply in sorrow. That's how I know multiplication of pain and sorrow is not

from heaven. It's a result of a curse. Amen. Here's the second thing, Adam, everything you do,

you're going to have to work super hard to get it. There's going to be a multiplication of hard work.

Some of you think hard work is a blessing. A lot of times hard work is a curse, especially when

you work hard and you have nothing on the other side of your hard work. That's literally a curse.

I don't believe we should be lazy as believers. We should work hard. But when you work hard,

you have nothing on the other side. You're living under the curse of Adam. The curse of Adam is,

I'm going to keep working hard just to produce a little bit. The blessing of the kingdom is,

I'm going to work hard and I'm going to live in abundance. Amen. He even said, Adam, by the sweat of

your brow, by the sweat of your brow, you're going to be able to eat. Then Jesus came and said,

I got one better. He said, put the crown of thorns on my head by the blood on my brow.

Okay, three people said, amen. Y'all didn't catch it. The curse was by the sweat of your brow.

And Jesus said, I got one better. I'll break the curse, not with the sweat of my brow,

but with the blood on my brow. And that blood is going to bring you life and life more abundantly. Amen.

All right, Luke, chapter five, verse one. Let's go because y'all weren't with me on that. So I

got to switch gears. It was like, amen, amen. Do better. Do you know who my pastor is? Do better.

Luke, chapter five, verse one, here's what it says, so it was as the multitudes pressed about him to

hear the word of God that he stood by the lake of the Genniferat. I was just there. I was just there

wasn't this real. I was there. I was like, yeah, so now I get it. And so two votes standing by the

lake, but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then he got into one of

the boats, which was Simon's and asked them to put to put out a little bit from the land. And he

sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. Verse four, when he had stopped speaking, he said

to Simon, launch out into the deep and let your nets for a catch. Verse five, but Simon answered

and said to him, master, we've told all night we've caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word,

I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and

their net was breaking. Verse seven, so they signaled to their partners and the other boat to come

help them. And when they had come and filled both boats, so that they began to sink. Verse eight,

when Simon saw it, he fell down at Jesus' need, saying, depart from me for I am a sinful man,

O Lord. Verse nine, for he and all who were with him were astonished, astonished at the catch of

fish, which they had taken. May God bless the reading of his word. Can I just say something

very pivotal, important and essential when we talk about prosperity, when we talk about abundance,

when we talk about the blessing of God, I just want to say something so important for us to get

as a foundation. And I think the foundation principle is that prosperity and abundance

was not instituted by man. Man did not come up with the idea of blessing. Man did not come up with

the idea of prosperity. Man did not come up with the idea of favor. God instituted it in Genesis

chapter one. It was God's intention from the beginning that his people would be blessed.

Even after Adam and Eve sinned, God said, all right, like your pastor said, I'm going to put a

fur coat on you. Then he came a few chapters later in Genesis chapter 12 and he's like, yeah,

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my people kind of disconnected from me, but I want to restore some of that blessing back to you.

Here's how I'm going to do it. Abraham, leave your mother and father's house and go to a land

which you've never seen. And I'm going to promise you three things Abraham. I'm going to promise

you land. I'm going to promise you a seed. Children, you know, children are blessing.

Land is a blessing. Amen. I know you live in New York City, but land is a blessing.

I believe that even in New York City, God has land for you.

You're not meant to be broke, busted and discussed. I believe God has territory for you in New

York City. Land that's yours. Land in heritances that belong to you in Jesus name.

And in the last thing God promised Abraham, blessing. Three things. Land, children,

blessing, financial blessing. You know, the Bible says about us. By faith, we are the seed of

which means if God promises to Abraham as his seed, it's our inheritance as well.

All right. Let's get into the text. Luke chapter 5. Look at this. This is very important text.

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Most of us know what we've read the story before, but there's elements of the story. I guarantee

you've never read that I'm going to try to help illuminate. Are you all ready?

All right. How many abundant people are ready?

You know what's interesting? They didn't talk like they were abundant. They talk like they might

be abundant. How many abundant people are in the house? All right. Because you know, you only

get as much as what you speak. Life and death is in the power of your tongue. So if you speak

lack and not having enough and I'm struggling, you'll always live a life of lack. When you want

a prosper, you start talking like you want a prosper. Amen. All right. So I need you to see this.

Luke chapter 5. So you know, Jesus is, he has not revealed himself yet to the disciples.

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He's just starting his ministry. And the Bible says that a few of his disciples won a particular

Simon Peter. You know Peter. Peter's the one with the big mouth. Peter's the one who's always

talking. Peter's the one who's always coming out of line. Peter, but he was a great fisherman.

That was his job. And if you understand anything about the Galilee fishing industry at that time,

it was a very legit industry. And only a few people were able to get licensed to be fishermen at that

time because the the lake of Galilee was in some major place. I went there. So I saw it. I can

testify. It's very small. And so they limited the amount of fishermen who would actually get these

licenses. So it was very lucrative to be a fisherman, which shows me Peter was not poor.

Peter was not struggling. He had a family business where the license was passed on. It was like a

liquor license. Now a valuable liquor license is someone tells you liquor license is what in the

millions now, right? You can buy them. That license was very, very valuable. And so Peter had this

license to fish. They didn't let anyone fish. It was not like, hey, I'm just going to go out there

with a line. Nope. You had to have the business. So Peter had the business, the fisherman business.

And so he goes out and the Bible says, all night he's trying to catch fish. He's an expert. Nothing,

nothing. The Bible says he toiled all night and caught nothing. Right? Let's go back. Let's go

back two verses because you guys making me go ahead. Verse two, look at this. If you want to have

a mindset of abundance, here's the first thing you need to do. You're ready? He saw two boats

standing by the lake, but the fishermen had not gone from them and they were watching their nets.

Look at this. Then he got into one of the boats, which was Simon's and he asked him to put it out

a little bit from land and he sat down and told the multitudes from the boat. If you want to have

a mindset, a mentality for abundance, the first thing is you have to let Jesus on your boat.

Let me break that down with that means because some of y'all don't get it. Peter's boat was his

business. Peter's boat was his money. Jesus being on Peter's boat means I can't make no more

money right now. You're stopping me from being able to produce and Jesus goes, cool, I want to

sit on your boat. I want to mess up your plans a little bit. I want to tell you to give when it's

not comfortable for you to give. I want to tell you to go places where it's not comfortable for

you to go. I want to sit on your boat. When was the last time you said Holy Spirit said on my boat?

Rock the boat a little bit, shake the things up in my life a little bit.

If you want to walk in abundance, the first thing you have to do is you have to allow Jesus

in to your boat. God mess up my plans. If my plans don't match heavens plans, mess it up.

See, part of our problem is Jesus, you have my heart. You have my mind. You have my body

and then Jesus goes, but I want your money. Oh no.

Took it too far, God. I'm giving you everything and God's like you're giving me some of it, but I want

your money. Why? Because where your treasure is, that's where your heart is. So does God really have

your heart if he doesn't have your money? Oh my God. I knew they were going to get quiet here.

No, but I want to say this. Does God really have your heart if he does not have your money?

If you have a church people, they like to steal. God never said anything about church folk.

He's asking about your obedience. You know, I love people. Yeah, I'm very generous. I give 10%.

10% is obedience. 11% is where you start being generous.

Oh boy. They got tight. It's tight, but it's right.

Because 10% is where God requires. That's not being generous. I know it seems like it's being

generous. Even at restaurants, they start at 18%. God is asking for less than the restaurant is asking for.

I'm so generous. God will give you 10% of something that already belongs to you.

That's not being generous. Generosity starts where obedience stops.

Oh, that's good. The obedience is 10%. Anything else you can start saying you're generous.

So you start at 1%. Lord, I've been 1% generous if you give over.

But as Jesus on your boat for real, have you allowed him into every area? You want abundance,

but it takes Jesus being on the throne of your money life. Do I have a seat on the throne of your

money? Are you at the seat telling me what to do? Oh God, I got control of this part.

I got my budget set up. Well, I love about the Holy Spirit. It's when he sits on the boat,

he messes up your budget. Yeah, but I'm going to say for five years, and after the fifth year,

and then God's like, that's not even an avenue I wanted to bless you through.

You see, because some of you think the avenue God wants to bless you through is your works.

Well, if I do it like this, and I do it like that, then God's going to come into my plans,

and he's going to figure out how to come in my box, and I got to be married by the time I'm 33,

and I got to have children by 35, and I got to have this business, and God's like, I don't even want

to bless you like you think you should be blessed. I want to do abundantly. I want to exceed your

expectations. All right, so let me tell you how to bless me with my first house, and I had $1,236 in

my bank account. All right, I don't want to hear it. I'm leaving. 1,000, I'm not talking about just

checking account, talking about checking and saving. You know, broke, broke.

This is years ago. Me and my wife were living in the two bedroom apartment. We, I just started

preaching full time. My wife was working as a nanny. We did not have money. And I remember God

telling me specifically, he said, I want you to sow $1,000 seed. I had $1,286 or 36. I can't

remember. Don't fault me. All right. If I say 36, one time, say 86, the next time, well, he's

lying. I'm not lying. And my wife left. She can't even testify. I remember, the Lord say, take

$1,000 out because my pastor at that time, he was buying his first house, but I was living in a

two bedroom apartment. See, sometimes God will have you sown into something you're not yet

walking into. That's good. So I get the $1,000 out. Let me have $200, $1,000 left in my bank account.

And I give it to my pastor. And I was like, the Lord told me to give this for your house.

And then he prayed for me. He blessed me a couple of weeks later, maybe a week and a half

later. I get a phone call from my mom. She's like, I was thinking about your son. I said, okay.

The Lord wants me to do something for you. I said, okay, that's cool. Like what? She said,

I need to give you the house in New York. I said, I ain't got money for that house.

That house is way beyond my budget at this time. I got $236 in my bank account.

I don't have money for a down payment. I don't have money for closing. I don't have money for

the mortgage. No. She said, I never said anything about closing or a mortgage or anything. I

want to give it to you as a gift. And in the Holy Spirit said, you remember when you gave your

pastor $1,000 for his house? You thought I was going to bless you in the way you thought I would

bless you. You would have to save for five years and you would have to work hard. No, I bypassed

all of that because of seed. All right. Three people said amen. Seed will have you bypass seasons

that you were supposed to walk into. There were things that were supposed to take you 10 years,

but you're going to throw into it and be able to walk into it in a year. There are things that

were supposed to happen 15 years from now, but your seed is about to bypass seasons. Oh, baby,

I got seed in the ground. I must walk in harvest. I must walk in overflow. I got seed in the ground.

I can't be in lack. I got seed in the ground. I love how seed made me bypass the season. I didn't

have to do the whole five year plan. The Holy Spirit had a two week plan. Oh, I just need someone

to shout right there. I decree and declare that God's going to bring unusual supernatural speed to

your harvest. Things that were supposed to take forever are going to happen now in Jesus name.

All right. So Jesus is in the boat. Messes up. Peter's whole entire plan. And here's the mess

of things. Jesus in the boat and he's like, push me out a little bit. I don't know you. He doesn't

know Jesus at this day and friends yet. They don't know each other. They don't have that kind of

relationship. Yeah, push me out a little bit so I could teach. Who's this random man coming in my boat?

Some of you say you know Jesus and don't even let him in your boat.

Oh, that was good. God just gave me that one right there.

He starts teaching. And as he's teaching, the Bible says he stopped speaking. Oh, you see this

terminology really messes me up. And I didn't say this in the first service. So y'all get in some

extra nuggets. Verse, verse four. Go to verse four. So he's teaching and says when he had stopped

speaking, he said. Hold on. He goes from teaching and then he has another speech that he starts

giving. He goes, he has stopped speaking. He said, so he had a sermon for everyone.

He had a message for the crowd because the Bible says there was a crowd. There's multitude

there. And then he has a prophetic word for Peter. So he stopped the message for everyone and he

said since I'm on your boat. You know, that's why sometimes you can hear a message and everyone

can hear the same message and everyone has different results because the message was different

for the person who allowed Jesus on his boat. That word to launch out wasn't for everyone. It was

for the person who said, all right, God, you could chill on my boat. This is why we can all be in

the same place here in the same faith message and we can receive different things from it because

some of you don't have Jesus on your boat. And so you don't get that internal witness on the inside

that says, all right, when you show right here, I'm going to bless you. But when Jesus is on the boat,

you get a message that everyone else doesn't get when I read this and blew my mind because I'm like,

hold on, Jesus is speaking and then he stopped speaking and then he said, which means within a

sermon, he got two sermons going on at once. There was a sermon for the multitude and it was,

God bless you, bless all the peacemakers for you. That's a good message, right? But then he had a

message for Peter and it was the gospel of the kingdom. He had a message for Peter that was

different than the message he had for everyone else. Everyone else bless you. Good things are going

to happen. Peter, you're about to, you're about to reap crazy harvest. Peter, you're about to walk

in crazy abundance. Peter, get ready for the supernatural grace that's coming over your life.

Rule the reign of heaven, torrential rains are coming over your life. I hear the sounds of the

abundance of rain. City light, let me tell you, there's a message for everyone and today God

sent me to let you know there's a message for you. The message is get ready for the harvest that's

coming. Get ready for the abundance of 2025. Get ready for the business opportunities. Get ready for

the promotion. Get ready for the open doors. Get ready for the unexpected checks. Get ready for

the bonuses. Get ready for the increase. Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. Something big is on

its way. I love it. I got two different words, general word and a prophetic word. Oh, that's,

you see, that's good preaching. Good preaching. Got general word. Then I got a rainbow word.

You know, when he was preaching, it tells you in Mark 4. The gospel of the kingdom.

He was preaching specifically on the power of seed. He was giving the four different seeds.

You're helping me preach my sermon. You need to grab this mic and preach.

It's true. Mark chapter four. The four different types of seeds. And then he was like,

let me do an illustrative sermon here. Let me illustrate what it looks like when

seeds in a good place. You help me. I'm stealing that. Let me illustrate this for a second.

Oh, I did a good little teaching. The bird comes and takes the seed and then some fall fall on

thorny ground and then someone rocky and then the ones that fall on good ground and then here's

the harvest that comes to the ones. All right, let me illustrate it right now. Peter,

launch your net out. I'm going to show you what it looks like when harvest comes.

I declare and decree your life will be an illustrative sermon.

God will begin to illustrate abundance and blessing and use your life as a witness and a conduit

where the world's going to look at your life and say, why are you so blessed? Why are so many

doors open for you? How come where you're located? Doesn't match your resume? How come where you live?

Doesn't match your bank account, baby? I'm blessed. It's called being blessed. I'm blessed in the city.

I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed when they come. I'm blessed when they go. I am the head and not

the tail. When he had South speaking, he said to Simon, launch out into the deep and let your

nets for a catch. Look at verse 5. But Simon answered and said to him, master, we've told all night

and caught nothing. All right, so here's the second thing. Here's what's going to happen.

When God tells you to do something that's going to take faith, that's going to take you stretching

out and doing and believing for the impossible, your past is always going to stand in the way.

Look at this. He answered. He said, I've toiled all night. We've tried everything and it hasn't worked.

But I gave already God. But I prayed already God. But I believed already God. But I hoped already God.

And I caught nothing. Not like I got one or two fish. Not that I got a little

eye tried everything. I tried this marriage thing before. I caught nothing. I tried this life thing

before. I caught nothing. I've given to you before and I believe and I caught nothing. And God's

like, here's what I want to tell you. This season will not look like your last season.

I don't care how bad it was because here's the difference between your last season and this

season and it's right here in the text. Never the less at your word. Can I tell you the

difference between last season and this season? You got a word? See, it's not by accident we're

preaching on abundance because God is stirring something in the body of Christ to let us know we're

not meant to be broke. The world is not meant to prosper while we're struggling. No,

no, that's not our portion. You were not meant to die in that one bedroom apartment. No, no, no.

Cramped up with a bunch of stuff. The devil is a liar. That is not God's best for you.

You got a word. You know what makes things completely different for everyone else in the world?

You got a word. When the markets try to scare you and the economists try to scare you and

Trump has tariffs and all this stuff. I got a word. I don't care who is president. If

come of the one, I got a word. Trump's the winner. I got a word. I don't care who's in office.

I don't care who's in charge of whatever departments. I got a word. They're cutting federal funding

for everything. I got a word because my money is not predicated on the government, this

earthly government. I'm part of a kingdom that cannot be shaken. I'm part of that kingdom.

So they can cut everything. Cut it. I don't care because I got a promise. I got a word.

I got a word. I just need three people to say I got a word.

And you know what the word does the Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the

so what does the word do? It instills a level of faith in you. It activates your faith where you

are like, man, I'll just believe it for so small. I'll just believe it. I just want three

clients this year, God. And God's like, I'm trying to do exceeding abundant.

A word from God activates your faith. It stirs you up to go, I got to believe for more.

I got to believe for more. I got a word. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net.

Verse six. And when they had done this, they called a great number of fish and their net was

breaking. Go back. Can we go back a little bit? Because I don't know if you saw this in the text,

but I thought Peter obeyed God, but he didn't. I'm proven to you. Like, nah, he did. Look,

let me prove it to you. Go back. Go back. Right there. When he has stopped speaking, he said to Simon,

he's given Simon a prophetic word, Simon. Here's what I want you to do. I know you didn't catch

anything, but you know what? Launch your nets into a deeper part. He let his net down,

he said, launch out into the deep and let your nets. Something has an S at the end. It's what.

Go to verse five. But Simon answered and said to him, master, I've told all night and called

nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the

net. Hold on a second. The whole time reading the text, I thought Peter fully obeyed God.

And he let down the net. But Jesus didn't say let down the net.

Jesus was saying there's an abundance that's in store for you. Okay, can I teach you all a little

bit about net fishing for a second? It was very challenging to do net fishing because once you put

your net in the water, it was like a two hour process just to clean the nets because you had to

clean it in a way where you got all the saltwater off of it. If you didn't, it will begin to get

hard and it won't be malleable anymore. So when you try to catch another fish or catch multiple

fish, what would happen is your net was so hard that it could not expand and it will begin to break

and then all the fish will start falling out of the net. So, Peter's like, I don't want to go through

the process anymore because last time it didn't work out the way I thought it would. Last time,

God, I gave and you didn't bless me. Last time I sold and I didn't see a harvest. Last time I

believed you and I didn't experience what you said I was going to experience. I'm not doing this

again. Let me just put down one net. Playing it safe. You know, when you play it safe, you get a safe

harvest. Amen. When you play it safe, you only get a limited harvest. You want to walk in abundance,

you can't play it safe. You see, I'm not going to leave this earth not getting everything God has

for me. I'm not going to leave this earth not walking in the fullness of what God has ordained

for my life. No, I'm not leaving this earth without walking in abundance. The abundance got

promised me in his word. Because, oh, can I say prosperity was not promised by some preacher on TV.

It was not contrived by the word of faith movement. It was not contrived by humans. It was divine.

God instituted blessing and prosperity. And if he instituted it, I want to walk in it.

I don't care how many people abuse it and use it and misuse it and misappropriate it. I want

everything God has for me. And that's when we do a lot of times in the church, right? People use

things and misuse it and abuse it so we just throw it to the side like it's not needed. That's when we

do a prosperity because there's a lot of preachers on TV not realizing that's the point 1% of preachers

on this earth. Yeah, there's people that abuse this. I don't care about those that abuse it.

This is a real biblical principle that allows you to walk into harvest. You can't miss it because

of the few people that take advantage. I'm not going to give to church because church people still,

okay, we know the three people that steal their faces all over the place. But I'm not missing my

harvest because of past hurts. Look how Peter didn't want to put all the nets down because of

the past. I don't want to give them. I don't want to be involved. I don't want them because I've

been through this. That's how we sound. And God's like, I have a plan of abundance and all I'm asking

is for your full obedience. We don't talk about obedience anymore in church because there's two

things that bring harvest. Faith and obedience. And they work in tandem. It's like they're a married

couple. They hold hands. Can't have one without the other. If you're willing and obedient,

you'll eat the good of the land. They walk in tandem. You believe and you obey. And then that's how

you walk into harvest. It took Peter two things. He had to believe this man who was talking on the

boat had a specific prophetic word for him. And then he had to obey. And then he believed partially

and then he obeyed partially. The Bible says, nevertheless at your word, I will let down the

I'm going to need y'all to do that again because y'all died on me right there.

Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the good, the net. And then look what

I'm so good. Look what verse 6 says. And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish

and there was a breaking. You know, if they had nets there,

because they had one net, it could not handle the harvest that God had already pre-ordained for

them to walk into. There's pre-ordained blessings that God has for you pre-ordained opportunities

open doors. But one net is not enough. But God, I don't want to start that business. That's

another net. But God, I don't want to apply for that job. That's another net. Well, I know you're

telling me to move, but I don't want to move because I'm comfortable. My rate is only $1,500. I'm

grandfathered in all the New Yorkers know what I'm talking about. That's a net. And God said,

I want to give you nets. Will you obey me and launch out into the deep? Will you obey me and

completely do everything I tell you to do? It's to the point where they could have gotten more,

but look what verse 7 says. So they signaled to their partners. It was a harvest that was supposed

to be all for Simon. And now he had to share his harvest. You know, has a Holy Spirit ever given

you an idea and then like a year or two years later, you see someone develop the app for it?

Or is he someone came up with the concept and you're like, darn, I just missed it. That was a net.

That was, hey, I want a buttoness to hit this area of your life. I gave you that idea for a reason,

not to just sit on it and it for me to give it to someone else.

Harvest that was supposed to be for Peter. He had to share it.

Because he didn't let down the nets. Hey, let's hurry up because my net's breaking. It was supposed

to be nets. And I never understood this verse until now, verse 8. When Simon Peter saw it, he

fell down at Jesus and he's saying, depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord. I never got that

verse until now. He was saying, I'm sinful because there was a harvest I was supposed to walk into

God, but I missed it by not completely obeying you. Imagine the God who holds cattle on a thousand

hills, the God of the universe who created all things has prepared blessing for you and he's like,

just obey me and you'll be able to walk into it. Just believe me. You'll be able to walk into it.

And then you go to heaven and God's like, you only got one fifth.

Yeah, you'll get a mansion up here, but you supposed to have a mansion down there.

Boy, that feels good. Oh, you're impressed with the streets paved with gold. You supposed to have gold

all over. Oh, you're impressed by the grandeur and the opulence. Your life was supposed to be filled

with grandeur and opulence, but you didn't let your nets down. So you missed out on the harvest.

I'm sorry, God. See, this is the moment to be like, God, I see the opportunities you've given me

and I miss them. I will not miss the next moment.

Can I share testimony and then we're good to go? Is that cool with everyone? Oh, let's do this last

verse, verse 9. For he and all who were with him were astonished. Hold on, Peter, this is his job.

He's a fisherman and he's like, I'd never seen this much fish before.

Because one word from God. You don't need anything but one word from God.

You think you need man's approval. You don't even need man's approval. One word from God can turn

everything around. I remember at the end of 2019, I shared this testimony at the earlier service.

The Lord challenged me to sow a five figure seed. At the end of the year, me and my wife

we tried to sow a seed, a significant seed. It was a five figure seed. We were saving up to buy a

house. We already had that first house that was given to us, but we weren't we weren't to buy

another house, so we were saving up some money to buy a house. We have money saved up in the

Lord said, take all that money that you have saved up and I want you to sow it. Five figures.

I'm not talking about something small. I'm not talking like crying over a hundred dollars.

Amen. There's a church for you. Oh my gosh, I'd give two hundred dollars today. My life is over.

I'm talking about life altering giving. Giving that means it cost you something.

You remember when David wanted that land and he was like, King, you can have it. It's yours.

And he goes, I will not give God something that cost me nothing.

And that was the same land that they built the temple on.

The land he said, I'm going to pay full price plus. Was the land that God used as worship?

You think you're giving is nothing. No, you're giving is the place where God can show up.

All right, let me get back to my story. You're all ready for the story? So, Lord,

tell me the soul, this five figure seed and I was like, okay, God. So I want, I actually want

tomorrow, if I said, the Lord told me to sow this significance seed, all the money we have in

savings. She said, all right, I've got to tell you to do it. Do it. I love this woman. I mean,

she's the best. Her name is Christ line. She's a line to Christ.

Her name says it all. I don't care. You don't have to believe it. I believe it. This woman,

she's the closest person to Jesus that I know. I'm like, God, can I know you like she knows you?

So she's like, okay, yeah, if the Lord told you, she said, you know, here's the thing. You got to

have a resume. Some of you like, my wife doesn't trust me because you go out and spend your money or

not since. I got a resume. I say, babe, the Lord's telling us to do this and guess what happens on

the other side of it. It may be rocky, but then on the other side, abundance. And she's like,

oh, yeah, I think God did tell you that. So next time I say, the Lord told me, and I don't play

around with the Lord told me, I don't do that often, right? But when I do it, it's always something

that's like, ooh, uncomfortable. God told me. I'm like, God told me, I, babe, I remember last time

he came through. So I'm ready. So look, this five-figure seed. And I sowed it three ways.

I sowed it to my spiritual father. I gave him a part of the seed. I sowed it to someone on my level

in ministry. And then I sowed to someone who was up and coming in ministry. So I sowed in three

levels. And I sowed at 10,000. It wasn't a tie. It was an offering. And the beginning of 2020,

oh, my gosh, blessing, favor. I'm like, oh, God, I got a sow like this all the time.

Things were just blooming, blossoming, amazing. March comes. COVID, boom. Everything shuts down.

Ooh, okay, God. I started doubting. God, I could have saved my 10,000 dollars. For this time,

how come you had me give it? And God's like, you don't got to worry. You got seed in the ground.

You know, I declare that even in the midst of famine, that the Lord's going to bless you so

big, it's going to blow your mind. What does the Bible say about Isaac? He sowed in the time of

famine and he received 100 fold. I declare that in the midst of whatever economic issues hit this

nation, no matter how bad it gets, no matter how bleak it gets, no matter how challenging it gets,

because your seed is in the ground. You will reap harvest even in the midst of famine in Jesus name.

Okay, so I'm like, oh, God, I started doubting. Listen, going fast, first day I'm fasting. Baby,

remember, right? Second day I'm fasting. And I'm not just fasting, not eating food. It's not a

diet. I'm pressing into the presence of God. And it's not about money. I'm just pressing in

like God, you got to speak. God, you have to move. God, you have to speak. And I'm pressing,

pressing, pressing. I'm praying six, seven hours a day, pressing, pressing, pressing,

on the third day your pastor calls me. He didn't know this story until I shared it earlier.

He called me and it shocked me. He called me and said, I want to do something for you.

Okay, God. He said, I want our church to take up an offering for you. He says, and I want you

to share the offering with all your friends and your family and whatever is given, the church will

double it. Church raised close to $20,000, doubled it, gave me a check for $40,000. I said, okay,

God. I see you showing out. Let's go. Lord says, keep fasting. I said, all right, I fasted

the fourth day. It was either the fourth of the fifth day. I get a phone call. Someone called

me and said, hey, I have some money here from a retirement. I got all my money from retirement.

I wanted to give you some of the money. I was like, okay, cool. I'm thinking like a couple of

thousand, whatever. Yeah, I'm going to write you a $60,000 check. I fasted fifth day, six day.

I was getting calls every day, baby. Remember this? Every day, one of my ministry partners called

me, hey, I just wanted to give you $8,000. Okay. Other ministry partners, here's 5,000. Here's

2,000. By the time the week was over, I made more money in that week than I ever made in a whole

entire year of work. Toiling, working or believing, you got a choice to make. Let one net down and

get some or God, I don't have any other choice but to trust you. I'm going to give like I really

believe that you're the God of breakthrough and you're the God of abundance and you're the God

of more than enough. I'm not just going to give something that doesn't cost me something.

I'm going to give believing that you're the God who owns cattle on a thousand hills

and that you're the God of overflow. That's the way to walk into this.

It's not a gimmick. It's not a get rich, quick scheme. It's a principle in the kingdom that

blesses people that God instituted from Genesis all the way to Revelation. If you want to be blessed,

if you want to walk in abundance, live my faith and obey me in every area and you will be blessed.

It's something you like but I live in New York. Your blessings not predicated on location. It's

predicated on Revelation. You can live in Timbuktu. You got this revelation. You'll be blessed.

You can live in the most Muslim country in Indonesia. You got this word inside of you. You'll be blessed.

You can live in the poorest of the poorest and you got this word on the inside of you. It will bless you.

This is not about location. It's about revelation. That's why the scripture says,

you'll be blessed in the city. You'll be blessed in the field. You'll be blessed when you come.

You'll be blessed when you go, hey, I'm not letting anything out of the line. Anywhere you go,

blessing God to follow you. Let's lift up our hands. Father, I release the blessing of Abraham

on every one of these people. You promise Abraham three things. Land, children, and blessing.

And I declare it and speak it over every one of these people. Lord, I decree and declare that

they're stepping out into harvest like they've never seen before. I speak Deuteronomy 8 verse 18 over

Deuteronomy 8:18

them that you are giving them power to be wealthy and to walk into abundance. I decree and

declare that their cup runs over and that goodness and mercy follows them all the days of their

lives. They're living in a land of abundance. Wealth and riches are in their house and they

shall see the goodness of the Lord and the land of the living. God, I believe that you're pouring out

fresh oil on your people, that their vats are being filled with fresh wine. I decree and declare

that harvest is coming to their homes, to their businesses, to their family, to everything that

they put their hands to. I speak the blessing of Joshua over them that wherever they put their feet,

they shall be blessed. They shall dwell in a land flowing with milk and honey in Jesus' name.

If you believe it, say yes. Now, can you give God just a shout for the next 30 seconds?

Hallelujah!

Come on, thank you for the abundance that's coming. Thank you for the open doors that's coming.

Thank you for the supernatural he's releasing. Come on, lift up your hands and give him a praise.

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