Navigating Life's Seasons with Grace

I love how Christians do that. They take the culture of the world, they dress it up, make it look like it's a Christian, put a nice outfit on it, ooh, it looks cute.

But it's still the culture of the world. It's still the system of the world. It's still the way the world does things. I won't marry myself to the culture of the world. I will marry myself to the culture of the scriptures.

And the culture of the spirit.

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 Nathaniel, saying hello.

I have to go on without one thing. I love Him and His family, so they're amazing. Can you just make some noise for your senior leaders?

And what the Lord's doing with them, they are, they are, aren't they just a good-looking family? Y'all laughed at you to say amen.

These kids, they're cute, like God is good. Amen. I'm excited to be here, man. There's a word that is burning in my spirit. I preached it this morning, but I just feel such a stirring for this church.

That this church is at the precipice of something supernatural, something different, something fresh. It's an awakening happening. It's a revival culture, and I'm so grateful that I get to be a part of that and a part into the revival culture that the Lord is building here.

How people believe that God is doing something fresh here at City Light Church. How people are glad to be a part of what the Lord is doing here at City Light Church.

And if you have not connected, you need to connect with this house. This is a house of favor and blessing, and I'm telling you, everyone who connects with this house, their spiritual life goes to the next level, their prayer life goes to the next level, their hunger for souls goes to the next level.

They just get a passion for the things of God, and for the Word of God and the Spirit of God. I don't know, I just say that, and I say this in first service, but I really feel like there are people here you're not connected yet to this house. You're kind of on the outskirts, you're kind of dating.

You're flirting, how you look good, you're cute. Stop flirting, make the commitment by the ring.

Samuel your partner's house, start giving your money. Tides for those who don't know, 10%.

All right, let's get into the work, because I'm about to lose the people very quickly, because I'm talking very pastoral right now. They said, we called an evangelist, not a pastor.

Let's get into it. Let's open up to Hebrews chapter 11. Before you get there, it's going to be up on the screen. Can you just lift up your hands, and I just want to speak a blessing over you.

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I declare that this is your season of increase, overflow, and multiplication. As this word comes forth, you will reign and rule on the earth. You will experience the blessing of the Lord. You will walk in the blessing of Abraham, and you will encounter the presence of God in a fresh way.

In Jesus name, and everyone say, all right, let's get into this. Hebrews chapter 11, I'm going to read two verses, Hebrews 11, and I'm going to read Genesis chapter 8, verses 16 to 19, and then we're going to get into this word.

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I'm just going to accept it. I will not accept my life, not looking like what the word says. I will not accept my purpose, not being exactly what God spoke over my life.

I have an expectation that everything that does it match God's word, that does it match God's promise, that doesn't look like what God spoke over my life, that before this service is over, something is shifting in the spiritual realm.

That's about to affect me in the natural, and I'm going to see things completely turn around in my life. My family's getting ready to be delivered. My situation's getting ready to shift and to change, and God's getting ready to bring me into a new place.

How many expected faith filled Holy Ghost people do I have in the house say, I believe this is my season of breakthrough. Come on, I don't need you to be stoic today.

I need some Holy Ghost people who will lift up their hands and open up their mouth and say, God rise.

Right, let's go. Hebrews 11, verse 7 here says, by faith, the Bible says in the book of Romans, if you don't do it by faith, it's sin.

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Anything not done by faith is sin. Anything you do has to be done by faith. The Bible says without faith is impossible to please God.

If you come to him, must come knowing that he is in the use of the word of those who diligently seek him. So everything I do has to be by faith.

The Bible says we walk by faith and not by. So y'all with me on this faith then. This is the faith chapter. This is Hebrews 11.

If you've never read it before, you gotta go read it when you get home. This is the chapter of faith. This is where God is like, let me tell you a little bit about a few people who walk by faith and how you can emulate their lives and walk by faith.

And if you have something that most of these people don't have, you have the Holy Spirit inside of you.

Inside the Holy Spirit, come on them for specialty. You got the Holy Spirit in you. You got a river of living water deep in your home. My gosh.

The Bible says there is a spring, spring up in you in John chapter 4, springing up to eternal life. I'm not dead. There's life on the inside of me. Resurrection power.

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That's what I'm talking about. You are living. You got life on the inside. The devil telling you, man, just accepted. Oh man, this situation is never going to turn around. No, no, no. When I open up my mouth, everything got to turn around.

Like Jesus when he stood on that boat and he looked at the storm and said, peace be still because he had a river of a life on the inside of him and a storm could not stand in the way home. I'm preaching to early.

People's eleven seven. Let me read the verse. I got excited. Yes. I'm talking about. I like you need to come up closer. You too far. People in the front looking at me like a daring headlamp. Say he's in the back. Yes, I'm like, yes, come closer, man.

I'm just kidding, but I'm serious. By faith, know what built a ship in the middle of trial, in the middle of trial, in the middle. I don't know why that just hit me. Sometimes the Holy Spirit tells you in the middle of the driest season of your life, build.

In the middle of your, start the business. In the middle of the driest season. Now it's time for another church plant. In the middle of the driest season. Now I want you to expand. This doesn't make sense. I'm in a dry land.

He was warned about something he couldn't see and acted on what he was told. The result. His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.

Let's go to the Genesis. We're going to read from 16 to 19. I want you to look at this. I'll probably stop by 18, but let's see how far we go. Is that cool, everyone? Go out of the arc. You and your wife and your sons and your sons wise with you.

Verse 17, bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you. Birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth so that they may abound on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth. Verse 18, so Noah went out and his sons and his wife and his sons wife with him. Let's go back to verse 16. I want to read that one more time.

Here's what the Lord commanded him. He said, go out of the arc. So the title of my sermon is get out of the arc. All right. Y'all ready? All right. So reading these two texts. The first text, like I said, is from Hebrew chapter 11, which is the faith chapter, which shows me that what Noah did in building this arc took something called.

It took something called faith. You know, it's very interesting because when I look at Noah's situation, it never rained before. It didn't rain yet on the earth. And God was telling Noah to build an arc because rain was about to come.

It doesn't make sense in the natural. When God tells you to do certain things, but you've never seen why God told you to do it. Where God says, I want you to move to this city. And I want you to marry this person. I want you to go to this church. And I want you to be a part of this thing.

But the Holy Spirit has a purpose, even in the midst of what he's telling you to do. But in the time you're doing it, it doesn't make sense until you take a step back. And you see heaven strategically puts you in the place he puts you to because he wants to do something in your life. I have you ever been in the place where heaven tells you to do something that's radical, that's crazy, that's out the box. And then everything he tells you to do matches with the divine purpose and call that God placed on your life.

I even told you to build in the midst of dry land, to build in the midst where nothing is going right. You're in wilderness. God, why do I want to build in the midst of wilderness. I never seen rain before. Why am I going to build an arc. This doesn't make sense.

Here's the thing. A lot of the times the Holy Spirit will place in your heart to build when nothing looks like your future.

Because a lot of the times here's how we build. We build based off where we are while the Holy Spirit is trying to make you build prophetically. What that means is the Holy Spirit wants you not to just build for where you are but to build for your future.

That's why he will say I want you to go to school, go back to school. But God, I already got I'm not having you built for now. I'm having you built for five years from now because the doors are about to open. You need this particular degree in order to walk in it. It doesn't make sense in the natural.

Lord, why am I moving to this particular city. Why am I moving to this apartment. Why am I moving into this house because there's a divine purpose. You don't realize that your destiny is attached to this.

I'm not talking like I did in the first service, but here's my point in all of this is that when the Holy Spirit tells you to build a lot of the time there's going to be opposition.

There's going to be opposition of the flesh because your flesh is going to tell you you're crazy. This doesn't make sense. There's going to be opposition of people. People are going to criticize you anytime.

You're doing something great for God. Just be watchful because there's going to be people who are going to tell you you can't do it. You don't have the resources. You don't have the skills. You don't have the pedigree. You don't have the money. You don't have what it takes to do it.

You see, even when Jesus was on the cross, they said, Jesus, he was doing something great for God. He was doing something great for humanity. He was literally shifting the culture, shifting the world, shifting generations.

And they looked at him and said, if you were God, you would call 10,000 angels from heaven. They didn't realize his assignment looked crazy at the moment, but it was exactly what God wanted him to build at that time.

Look at Nehemiah. He came back to build a wall and the Bible says, Sam Ballet and Tobias stood up on the wall and said, even if a fox climbs up on this wall, you will fall down. What you're doing Nehemiah, you don't have the capacity to do it. You don't have the strength to do it. You don't have the wisdom to do it. You see, when you're called to do something great for God, there will be opposition.

There will be people telling you, why are you doing it? Why are you going there? Why are you speaking that? Why are you moving into that community? City like church, I believe that this is your season to build.

I know it doesn't feel like it in the moment, but I believe this is the season, the Holy Spirit says, if you build, I'll send them.

Because when I read the text, I didn't share this in the first service, so y'all getting something really special. It says, straight into text, Genesis chapter 7, you probably not going to find a verse, but it's okay.

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I'm talking about people in the back. They're amazing, so they're probably going to find it in life at me. Because they always find it in the verses, I say a verse and they're like, yeah, we got it.

But here's what it says. It says, Noah built the ark and the animals came to Noah two by two. I always thought, I always thought that he went out and got the animals. No God commanded the animals to come to Noah.

And this is what the Holy Spirit told me. You built and I'll send them. You built and I'll send the clients. You built and I'll make it a million dollar business. You built and I'll send the husband.

You built. Oh, I feel this in my spirit. Citylight, if you would just build, I'll bring the souls. If you would just build, I'll bring harvest. If you would just build, I'll do my part because I'm the God.

Some of you are like, man, I don't got what it takes. I'm just going to wait for God to send the people. If you don't build first, God ain't sending no one.

I love people. Man, the Lord wants me to build a church and He wants me to plant a church that He's going to send the people. No, you build and then He sends them.

This is good stuff right here. Oh, Lord, send them first. Send the money first. No, you build and I'll send the money. Send the resources. I'm going to send it, but you build first because if you build, I'll do my part.

You do the natural and He'll do the super. You want supernatural in your life. You do the natural and let the Holy Spirit do the super. Yep, yep, yep, yep, I do my part and then the Holy Spirit got to step in and do the rest.

Because there's some stuff that the Holy Spirit wants you to do and there's other things He wants you to wait. And you got to be able to discern when the Holy Spirit saying, this ain't your time yet, this ain't your season.

Rest, wait. All right, so look at this. Noah is building this ark and when you read the Bible and you read the scriptures, Noah was literally building this ark for 100 years.

This is not no one day assignment. There's not a bunch of builders coming in a two months later, houses up. I don't know how they're doing it these days. These houses have no.

Ain't got nothing because it'd be like two weeks later. There was nothing. How did they build that in two weeks? Oh, the house is definitely coming down if there's a storm. God, I don't want to live there.

But this was a hundred year project for 40 days of rain. It's a it's a hundred year project for 40 days of rain. Imagine a hundred years, the Bible says Noah was a preacher of righteousness, second Peter, chapter 2 verse 5. He says he was a preacher of righteousness. Imagine preaching for a hundred years, imagine building for a hundred years and you see no fruit in what you're building.

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Imagine heaven gives you instructions to do something and then you don't see the rain yet, but he's promising you rain. Imagine you keep doing what God told you, but there's no rain to it. You know, sometimes we don't have a lot of long suffering and what heaven told us to do.

We want instantaneous results because we live in a culture where everything happens exactly the way we want it. And we have not mastered the art of waiting on the Lord.

That's how we get into relationships. But Lord, I'm already 35. I should have ready up. No, no, wait on me.

Because I got something for you that's going to be a blessing, but you out of weight. It's an awaiting that heaven shows up. So he's building this thing, he's building this thing, he could imagine a hundred years, the criticism, a hundred years, the naysayers, a hundred years, the people talking about him, a hundred years.

People saying, oh, Noah, you're crazy. It's never rained before. We've never seen this thing you're talking about. Imagine a hundred years. What I realize is that the people who say the most about what you're building have never built anything.

I realize in church, the most critical people are the people who have no investment.

Can I say something? And I don't care if it gets me in trouble, it gets me canceled or people get upset at me because that's why I'm a guest speaker.

I say the things your pastor wants to say, but y'all are going to get all sensitive and send them emails about.

So I can send you my email address and you can forward it to me. Amen. Don't go to him. Don't go. I'm warning you. Don't go to him. I still got some Brooklyn in me. Don't go to him.

Email him. Email me. All right. We'll have a conversation in the name of the Lord. Amen. Amen.

I'm just kidding. Y'all could laugh. Y'all's like you've been baptized in lemon juice.

I'm a smile on your face. Now, but here's what I want to say. A lot of the times in church, the people with the most to say have no investment.

It's all the people who are in givers. Yeah, I think we should do things like this. You don't have enough investment.

It's like when you go to a share me a share of shareholders meeting, right? Who has the most votes?

The people with the most, the people with the most invested in the company. Their vote has more weight than the people who have one share.

You have one share. Cool. I have one share of Nike. They call me. Hey, we want to know what your vote is. If you have this perspective, we want to know what your vote is.

But what cool? I give my vote. My vote means nothing, but the personal is 50, 60, 30, 40% of the company. When they vote, their vote has weight.

Some people who criticize give the lease. They serve the lease. They invested the lease. Oh, I knew it was going to get quiet. It's tight, but it's right.

I was talking to someone this week, literally, I was having a conversation. They're like, all these preachers are thieves. All these preachers, all they want is money. All these preachers. And they were so critical of the church.

And I said, what church do you go to?

Bedside Baptist. I said, who's your pastor in your spiritual covering?

Pastor Sheets.

So you're not invested in something that you think you can criticize. People who are not building anything are the biggest critics.

They're the ones who will talk the most about what you're building. City like church, don't get discouraged when they talk about you, keep on building.

When they criticize, keep on, you have an assignment. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Keep your eyes focused. Keep your feet flat footed in firm and your face turned like flint toward the promise of God. And don't stop doing what Jesus told you to do.

The winds are going to come. The rain is going to come. The warfare is going to come. The enemy is going to attack, but you have a promise from God. Stay faithful.

Is there nothing like the first service, right? But I think it's good. It's what the Lord is trying to say. 100 years building. This thing for 40 days of rain.

To me, it doesn't make any sense, God. But I want you to build. I want you to build. I want you to build. And so he builds. And the Bible says the animals come into the ark.

And as soon as his whole family is in there, can I say this one thing? Because I think we've weighed success wrongly.

You know what made Noah successful? It wasn't that he was able to save the world. Is that he was able to save his family? And most of you see ministry as success as how many people are in your church or how many members you have. And yet that's a form of success. But real success is for your families on the ark with you.

You have to be baptized not because you're a pastor, but because I love God. If you could bring your family in the ark, you are successful. The Bible says there was a sharp line between him and the world because he was able to bring his family in.

You have to look at this. Imagine Noah never seen rain before. Never seen anything. And he's persuading his family. Something's about to come. Something's about to come. I'm looking at this nation right now. And I'm saying something's about to come. Have you built your ark yet?

I know we sound crazy when we talk about it. I know we sound crazy when we say that there's going to be a fight in this nation. I know we sound crazy when we say that there's a shifting happening in the nations of the world.

When we say that there's wars and rumors of wars. When we say we're in the last days, when we say things are shifting. When Jesus said, he said it, he said in Luke chapter 17, he was talking about the days of Noah. And he says in these last days are going to be like the days of Noah.

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They're going to be just like the days of Noah. They're going to be eating. They're going to be drinking. They're going to be marrying wise. They're going to be doing all of this stuff until Noah and to the ark.

I don't want you to get so distracted with carnal things that you don't realize you're building a spiritual ark. Through your prayers, every time you pray, you're building a spiritual ark.

I know you're not like Noah. You're not coming with a hammer. You're not coming with instruments. But you're coming with spiritual things and you're building a spiritual ark.

Every time you fast, you're building a spiritual ark. Every time you read the word, you're building a spiritual ark. Every time you go to life, you're building a spiritual ark. Every time you connect with godly people and you decide not to succumb to the system of this world.

succumb to the flesh and carnal desires. You are building a spiritual ark.

He's building this spiritual, he's building this natural ark, but you're building a spiritual ark. He says it's going to be just like the days of Noah.

People are going to get so distracted with what they eat, what they drink, what they wear, marriage, life. They don't realize a flood is coming.

They don't realize what's happening is just prophetic. God already spoke it. There's a flood coming. But some of you are so blinded, you can't see that the flood is coming. The flood is coming.

I want to warn America, the flood is coming. I want to warn the nations of the world. A flood is coming. I want to warn you. These are the last days. There's a flood coming. But I have good news for you.

While the world dies in the flood, you live in the flood. While the world has destruction in the flood, you have protection in the flood. That's why I want to get as many people on the spiritual boat as I can.

And say, if you were just repent, you will be saved from the wrath to come. I'm so glad I'm a Christian because the wrath is not for me.

But if I leave it like that, there's a world out there that's going to die. I've got to tell them that there's salvation in the name of the Lord.

I don't let them know. Every day I'm building my ark. And I'm going to be like Noah. Second Peter chapter 2 verse 5, I'm going to be a preacher of righteousness. I'm going to let them know.

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There's a flood coming. There's destruction coming. You can be saved. There's destruction. Look what it says. It says, and did he not spare the ancient world?

But he did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah. One of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.

You want to know how people become, go from being ungodly to being godly. Jesus. Not good works. Not perfection. Jesus. No, I had an assignment. I have to preach righteousness.

You know what? The New Testament. Believer. New Testament preacher. That's every one of you guys. Amen.

Services do the work of an evangelist. Every one of you guys are preachers. You know what your assignment is? It's to let the world know righteousness has come.

And if you're connected to Jesus, you're no longer a sinner, but you're righteous. So I don't talk that talk. I'm just a sinner. I'm not a sinner. I was a sinner. Oh, I know you're going to say, Amen.

Now I'm the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus. I messed up. I'm still the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus. I said yesterday, I'm still the righteousness of God and Christ Jesus. Why? Because my identity is not what I do. My identity isn't what Jesus did.

I know people didn't say Amen because they think their identities and how good they are. I didn't mess up this week. So I'm righteous. I'm holy.

Holiness has nothing to do with what you did. It has everything to do with what he did. And because he died, he made you 100% righteous. It's not like a 90% scale and 85%. You're 100% righteous. You can make a decision to be a tormented righteous person like lot.

Or be a happy righteous person. You have a choice. You can be a tormented Bible says lot was a tormented righteous person because he wanted to live like the world. You can be righteous and be tormented. Or you can be righteous and you can be like Abraham. Bless.

Is that good? Y'all with me? I promise you give me 10 minutes and I'm going to get to the point that I want to get to. Y'all think I could do it?

They don't got faith. They don't know.

No one gets in the ark with his whole entire family. The next thing that happens is pretty crazy. The Bible says God closes the door of the ark. No one did not close the door of the ark. God closed the door of the ark.

And I'm like, this is insane. No one in closes the door. God closed the door. And I want to just encourage some people because some of y'all been discouraged about certain relationships that have been worked out in situation. If God closes the door, let us stay closed.

If God closes the door on the friendship, the relationship, the connection, the business, just it's okay. Let us stay closed. Because if God closes the door, guess what? He has a bigger door for you.

If God closes the door, like Paul the Apostle, he was preaching all over and he said there was much opposition. But then he said this, he says, but great and effective doors are open for me. And some of you have been facing much opposition, much attack, much warfare.

The enemy's thrown everything he can't ask you, but I have good news for you. This is your season of great and effective doors opening. I declare, like it says in the book of Isaiah, double doors are getting ready to open for you.

Doors that no man can close are getting ready to open for you. Doors for your family. Doors for your business. Doors for your ministry. Doors for your situation. I declare, this is the season of open doors that you believe in shout.

I believe the doors are opening for you. It's okay if the Lord closes the door. It's all right. Let that door stay closed. Amen.

Because here's the thing. On the other side, there's something better. On the other side of the closed door is a miracle with your name on it.

I believe that there's some doors that closed on you. You are supposed to go here and supposed to go there and supposed to do this. And we are thinking about this and the door closed. It's okay. Let us stay closed because there's something that God wants to do in the closed door that is going to blow your mind.

So now I'm reading the text. Do our closes, rain starts, and how long did the rain for? Okay. I read the Bible. And how long would Noah and his family in the ark?

Yeah, we're here in first service. Y'all cheated. Because tell me I was like four days and some y'all for my neighbors at a year. He was in first service.

No, he was in the ark for 40 days and 40 nights and rain for 40 days and 40 nights. But he was in the ark for over a year. You have to see how uncomfortable this place is. Imagine being stuck in an ark with dirty animals.

Not being able to shower. The level of uncleanness in that place. Imagine eating the same food. Looking at the same people over and over.

But this is exactly where heaven wanted them to be. It seemed like this place was punishment. It wasn't punishment. It was consecration. It wasn't punishment. It was preparation for their next level.

It wasn't punishment. I know you look at the ark and you're like, man, God, why would you put me here for an entire year? Have you ever been in that place in your spiritual life? You're praying, you're fasting, you're seeking. And it's like God didn't tell you anything new.

Same old word. I'm sitting on this promise. Noah had a promise. It's going to rain. And he's still sitting in that promise a year later. A year after a rain. He's still sitting in it.

A year after a rain. And there's still no husband.

I knew y'all were saying, man, y'all going to like that point.

A year after the promise. And guess what? My business still hasn't taken off. A year after the promise. And my kids are still acting crazy.

You said, look, as for me in my house, we will serve the Lord. You gave me that promise. You spoke it into my spirit. He said, my children shall be taught by the Lord and great shall be the peace of my children. You spoke the word of my life.

He said, my children are like arrows in the hand of a warrior. And I can turn it which way I will. How come nothing's turning around? Have you ever been sitting in the ark? You're just like, you said something, God, and I'm not seeing it manifest.

But guess what? You're sitting right in the promise. But it don't feel like a promise because it's tight. It's uncomfortable.

You got eight other people with you. It doesn't seem right. You got all these animals around you and you're trapped up in an ark.

And she's like, God, where are you in the midst of all this? But I want to prophesy something to you. Your season to get out is here.

And on the other side of what you've gone through in the ark is favor like you've never imagined.

All people, three people said, amen, but I know there's more people who know. Right now I feel like I'm in a tight place. But the Holy Spirit is about to bring me into a large place, into a favorite place, into a place of glory, into a place of open doors, into a place where these menial small things won't hold me back anymore.

Imagine this. He's in this ark. One year. And then the Bible says, Genesis chapter eight verse one, it says, the Holy Spirit, God remembered him. God remembered you, all your prayer, all your seeking.

He's remembered you. And here's what the Bible says, just a verse one. It says, God remembered him in every living thing that was in the ark. And God made a wind pass over the earth and the water started subsiding.

I declare this is the hour where God's sending his wind in your life. City like church, God's remembered you. Oh my God, everything in your life that's been out of order and chaotic. I decree and declare that the waters are getting ready to subside in your life.

Oh man, I believe the wind of the Holy Spirit is getting ready to be released over your life. Like it did in Ezekiel chapter 37 when there was a valley of dry bones. And the Bible says that the wind of God came from the North, the South, the East, and the West, and it blew and a mighty army came.

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I believe the same wind like in Acts chapter two verse one and two where it says on the day of Pellacos, there was a mighty rushing wind that filled the whole house where they were sitting and then tongues of fire came on their heads. And they were filled with the Holy Spirit. I believe that the same wind of the Holy Spirit is getting ready to blow now in your situation.

Getting ready to blow now in the nations, getting ready to blow now in city life and everything that's been out of order. God's getting ready to bring back into alignment.

Oh somebody say holy ghost send the wind. I want the wind of the spirit. I want the ruac of the spirit. I want the same wind that Adam had no life in him. And he breathed the ruac into him and he became a living soul.

So everything that's dead in you. I prophesied the wind of heaven's getting ready to blow on you. You know what made because guess what Adam was a body but had no life had no soul. You know what put life into here.

The wind of God. I declare everything that has damaged your soul. Whether it's sin. Whether it's things in your past. Whether it's rejection. I declare that God's getting ready to blow on you.

And everything that didn't live is coming alive now in the name of Jesus. Come on somebody say God blow on me.

Even Jesus. The Bible says he blew on his disciples at the end of the scriptures in Luke chapter 24. He blew on his disciples and he said be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Luke 24 · chapter mention

I declare that as the spirit of God blows on you. There's a fresh wind of the Holy Ghost coming in this house in this church in this ministry. There's a fresh wind. Oh I believe three people believe it in the house. There's a fresh wind coming to this church.

And the Holy Ghost says you're going to win in the wind. Okay three people said amen. You're going to win in the wind as his wind begins to blow. That's when your victory is coming.

Oh say Holy Spirit blow on me. I want the wind of the spirit. I want the wind of the Holy Ghost. Blow your breath in me. Blow your breath on me. Blow your breath on my family. Blow your breath on my wife. Blow your breath on my husband. Blow your breath on my ministry. Blow your breath on my business. I need to live.

Let's get him ready to blow on you. My God. I feel that. Come on lift up your hands. I feel a mighty rushing wind. Get him ready to fill.

I feel a fresh wind of break through healing and deliverance. One two three shout. Send the wind. Send the wind. Send the wind. Come on send the wind.

The Bible says God send the wind and he released man on the earth. I promise that he's sending the wind and everything you need is being provided for right now. I declare he's sending a wind over this church.

You're going to win in the wind. You're going to win in the wind since the Lord. I felt that. So think about it. They're in this contained place. They're in this limited place. They're in this place where nothing seems like it's going the way they expected it. God sends the wind in the water starts society.

He opens up the windows of the ark and he sends a raven out. He sends two animals out. He sends a raven and after the raven he sends a dub.

The Bible says the raven is going to and fro and fro. Something about ravens is that ravens are vultures. They feed on dead things. They feed on garbage. You can never know when to come out of the ark if you're still living a life of raven.

There's a lot of Christian ravens. This is good. Oh, man, a God. You preach it tough, but you feed on dead things in the culture. You're a culture of vulture. You know, they say that, you know, you still in people's culture. You keep stealing the world's culture.

You're trying to dress it up in Christianity and present it to God. This is good. My God. I love how Christians do that. They take the culture of the world. They dress it up. Make it look like it's a Christian. Put a nice outfit on it. Ooh, it looks cute. But it's still the culture of the world. It's still the system of the world. It's still the way the world does things. I won't marry myself to the culture of the world.

I will marry myself to the culture of the scriptures and the culture of the spirit. Think about it. The raven just keeps going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And then the raven is just feeding on dead things, eating dead things, focusing his attention on dead things, seeking dead things, going after dead things.

I want to ask you what kind of Christian are you? Are you a raven Christian? Are you a dove Christian? Some of you are raven Christians, where God lives in you, the Holy Spirit, where you grieve the Holy Spirit because all you're doing is vulture, culture, vulture.

Oh, this is what the world likes. Yeah, this is what I'm going to do. And you try to dress it up in Christianity and nice, christianese.

You put all the Christian lingo around secular things. I love how gospel artists. They love dressing up, doing all these collabs with ungodly people and say, oh, yeah, but we're trying to represent Christ.

You're a culture vulture. And the culture you're stealing is the culture of the world and trying to dress it up like it's church and like it's God.

Oh, they got quiet on me. I lost my people. There has to be at least three y'all still with me.

My sister right there. Thank you. Am I preaching?

Yes. Raven our dove. He says the dove out and the dove doesn't go to and fro. He's not all confused. He's not. You know something about ravens. They're loud. They're obnoxious. They make a lot of noise. No substance but noise.

Always learning would never be able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Back and forth, back and forth.

A raven they can never find a home church. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. A raven one day they're here next month. They're not.

A raven they look to gossip. It's always about what we're not doing and not focusing on what we are doing.

Not focusing a bunch of people get baptized every year in this church. This church gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to missions. Not focusing on the good things.

Oh, yeah, but see like this and do this and this and this and that. My old church didn't go back to your old church. You're not there for a reason.

That's boy. I don't want to say he meant to loud but he's like, yes, Lord. He said like this. Yes, Jesus. Yes. Thank you for the man of God.

God. God make a decision. So now, now the raven never comes back as the raven's feeding on all the dead stuff. Like so rest his feet on dead stuff.

He says out the dove and guess what the dove? There's no place for me to rest my feet. Everything is dead there. He comes right back.

So he goes, I'm going to send the dove out again. He sends the dove out again. The dove comes back. There's no place for me to rest my feet. There's only dead things here. The raven's happy. I'm eating all the dead things.

But the dove's like, no, no, no, no. I'm a Christian who's going to live by the dove. I can't feed off dead things. Finally, the third time he sends out the dove when he sends out the dove, the Bible says that the dove takes an olive from the tree.

He has the olive and the tree from his mouth and he gives it to Noah. And we all know what the olive represents in the oil from the olive represents. It represents the anointing.

And at that moment when the dove was sent out and came back with the olive and then the dove leaves and he never comes back, it was a sign.

The Holy Spirit was letting them know it's time to get out the ark.

Look at what it says. Genesis chapter 8 verse 17. Look what it says. Let's go back to verse 16.

Genesis 8:17

Get out of the ark. It's time now because you're not just being led by yourself. You're being led by the dove. You're being led by the anointing. You're being led by the spirit.

Some of you, you've been in that contained place for too long, but I have a word for you. This is your season now. The Holy Spirit sent me as a spiritual midwife to let you know.

This is your season to step out of the ark. I don't want you in that type contained city life. Step out of the ark. It's time for you to grow and build and move to the next. It was good.

The ark was a place of training. It was a place of preparation because the earth was not ready yet for what was about to be released.

Think about it. When the flood came, it shifted the entirely how the earth looked. Sometimes God has to allow you to stand the ark.

And the reason why he does that is because he's shifting the earth to be ready for what he's about to do in you and through you.

And the earth would not be able to receive you in the condition that it was in. And so God said, stay in the ark until the earth is ready.

Oh, that was good. Y'all saying amen better than I'm preaching. Get out of the ark. Get out of the ark. Now I want you to see this because this is the part that really blew my mind.

As soon as they got out of the ark, look at the next thing that God does. As soon as they get out the ark, no one, he offers a sacrifice. The Bible says there was a sweet smelling of Rome.

So God made a promise. I'm never going to flood the earth again. I'm going to do this. I'm going to send a rainbow as a sign.

Look at the next thing that God does after they leave the ark and they obey him. Chapter 9 verse 1.

So God blessed. So God.

So God. What came directly after leaving the ark was the blessing. It says he blessed Noah and his sons and he said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth as soon as they leave the ark.

The next thing that God says is I'm going to allow you to multiply. I'm going to allow you to be fruitful. I'm going to allow everything that comes from you to be blessed.

I'm going to allow everything that comes from you to start producing again. Now the earth is ready to give you all of his produce. Now all the evil has because the Bible says the earth was filled with evil.

Now evil has been flooded out and now it's ready for the blessing of God that I'm getting ready to release over you.

City like church through your city wasn't ready. But I prophesied that this is your hour to step out and faith because you're not just stepping out on your own.

You're stepping out in the blessing of God. And as you step out, you'll be fruitful. You'll be multiplying. God's favor and hand will be on you.

Can I give you all a word for this hour? You are blessed. You're blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. You are blessed and not cursed.

You are blessed in the city. You are blessed in the field. You are blessed when you come. You are blessed when you go. It's more than money.

And everywhere you step your feet, I'm giving you the land like Joshua. Everywhere you step your feet, you're getting ready to walk into promise.

Everywhere you step your feet, I'm getting ready to give you as a possession. Everywhere you step your feet, I'm the creator of the city like you just stepped into a season of supernatural, abundant blessing and favor.

If you believe it, say yes. How are you coming out of this season? I'm gonna say, how are you coming out of this season?

I'm not coming out messed up. I'm coming out.

You were just in the season of stress, but I declare your season of stress is over. Now you're stepping into a season of bliss.

I declare that you're stepping into blessing. Look at this. God said, blessed, he blessed Noah and his sons and he said, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

I want everyone to lift up your hands because city light is at a precipice. City light is at a shifting place. City light is at a place where I'm gonna use this church to reach nations.

I'm gonna use this church to reach the city. And guess what? Now I'm gonna use the church to use every individual who's here.

And he's gonna use you as a blessing on the earth and wherever you go there's gonna be multiplication, there's gonna be fruit, there's gonna be blessing, there's gonna be goodness, there's gonna be mercy, there's gonna be love, souls are gonna be one.

People are gonna be transformed. I see it. It's so clear. The next season of this church is called blessed. The next season of this church I'm opening your eyes. I'm taking the scales off so that you can see how big, how mighty, how powerful this place is.

I'm opening your eyes so that you can see the goodness of God. Yeah, I've been in this ark for a year. Yeah, it seems like there's been nothing new but here's a word for you.

As soon as he stepped out the ark, here was the word of the Lord, your blessed. The cycle is over.

Ready to walk in the blessing of the Lord. Lift up your hands. Father, I release a blessing over every person in this house.

I declare that there will be a perpetual blessing, not one that could be stopped by human endeavors, not one that could be stopped by human expectations, not one that could be stopped by demonic disturbance, not one that could be stopped by generational curses, not one that could be stopped by anything that man places in the direction or the path of your path.

They are blessed, always blessed in this city, always blessed in the field, always blessed when they come, always blessed when they go, I declare the blessing over them, they are blessed, they are blessed, they are blessed because they're seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.

They are blessed and they will multiply and they will be fruitful. Can I just say one last thing about the text right after this God makes a promise to Noah. He says Noah, the promise that I'm making is not for a week is not for a day is not for a month.

It's one that's going to bypass you and your kids, not bypass, let me use another word. It's one that's going to be fulfilled and manifested beyond just you and your kids.

It's one that's for generation after generation after generation. It's one for generation after generation. The promise I'm making is not just for you, it's for everything that's attached to you, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not just for you.

Your kids, your children's children are going to be blessed, everything attached with your name on it, with your DNA. If you got my DNA, you have to be blessed.

He said this blessing is not just for you and for your children. This blessing I'm making and this covenant I'm making is for every person in your bloodline. Every person on the earth is going to experience this.

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