Finding Hope and Restoration in Life's Valleys with Pastor Bonny Andrews

Nobody tells on social media how crazy their day was.

They will always talk about their work crying

till they lift it up that cup and say, oh my god, that coffee.

And they're going to talk about the bagels in New York

and they're going to talk about their style and stuff

but they've been going through the valley.

Let me tell you the scripture says,

God meets you in the valley.

The valleys are the making places.

Every time that God has done something in my life

it has been in the valley, not on the mountain top.

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.

Bonnie Andrews is with us here this morning.

Open up your heart.

By the way, welcome to those of you joining us online.

I didn't forget about you.

Open your hearts too.

Open your laptop wide and your heart extra big.

And put your hands together one more time

as we welcome Pastor Boyan.

Thank you.

Morning City Light, make some noise.

Come on, as Pastor said, I hear the sound of victory.

Let me tell you one more sound that I hear

is the sound of restoration church.

Did you hear me right?

I hear the sound of restoration.

Did you hear me right?

I hear the sound of restoration.

Everything that is broken, everything that is dead,

it is coming back to life.

And if you believe it, say amen and amen.

I'm telling you I'm so honored to be here in this church.

This is one of my favorite places to preach.

And you're going to help me preach, right church?

And in ministry, you know that you have, you know,

you feel like, you know, I was checking my contact list the other day

on my phone is over 5,000 people out there.

And many times you know that you have many of them are acquaintances

and you have few friends.

And this is my brother right here, Pastor Boyan.

You know, we've been, we've been joined in the spirit,

joined in mission, you know, and I get to hang out.

We're neighbors and we get to hang out for coffee.

I haven't been here for a, for a New York minute, right Pastor James?

It's been a New York minute since I got here.

But Pastor and I, you know, we get to hang out.

We do life. We talk stuff.

And he's my valley brother.

He's my brother that I can talk and chat and pray.

And I'm so grateful.

I want you guys to put your hands together for Pastor Boyan.

Annoying to handsome, good looking.

Put your hands together one more time.

And the most elegant graceful Emily, come on, give it up.

And I want to say, hey, listen, I want to, I'm so grateful.

I just want to start off with Graham just rubbing on to Pastor Boyan right here.

But I want to say, I'm so grateful for the leadership of this church.

I want to honor the deacons, the leaders, the, the people that serve in this church.

You know, they bring me the best coffee, hallelujah.

They know that if it's good coffee, it's good anointing.

Amen.

I want to thank God for the pastors, the good looking pastors out here.

Every time I come here, I feel, I feel convicted in my spirit about uping my, my, my shoe game.

Like many circles I go to, they're like, bro, and I come here and I'm like, bro, I'm,

I'm repenting, Lord, I'm repenting.

I need to go to the next level.

So if you need that impartation, these pastors will be here to pray for you

and upgrade your, your shoe game.

But, uh, and then I tell people I come from the land of curry.

I'm officially known in some circles as the curry men.

And I was in NYU and I said some jokes and the guys call up and said,

I want to thank God for curry and he thought my last name is curry.

Listen, I tell people I come from the land of curry.

I live in the land of curry, but today we're going to, we're going to receive from the Holy Spirit.

And that reminds me to, you know, thank God for the worship team.

Come on, guys, listen.

Oh my God.

Some churches that I go, it's like a boom, those are, I'm like, you know,

the worship reader is like, it's like trying to take everybody on a journey.

Here, I'm telling you, they are, they come prayed in.

They come prepared in and they come to the altar.

They don't have to wake up to five.

There's already fire in the altar.

There's a hungry group of people.

I want to thank God for Sean.

I love him more because we come from the same holy land.

And, uh, you know, Sean, thank you.

Thank you for yourointing.

Thank you for your heart.

Thank you for, uh, you know, he's got three girls.

I've got three boys.

I said, at some point, we're going to be talking.

Because from where I come from, there is the dowry and we don't give men just like that.

We got a talk, right?

We're going to talk.

What is it?

It's going to come in houses and cars.

Bitcoin, is that Bitcoin?

I mean, we don't know.

I mean, we, I'm just learning.

So, uh, I'm, I'm so happy to be here.

I feel like I just, I told the Lord God, you know,

help me to have fun preaching the gospel this morning.

I just want to bring greetings from a ministry before that of my wife.

And my, uh, my, this is my wife's roommate here.

If she was here, we came with my boys, uh, you know,

I keep reading the word and the Bible says,

be fruitful and multiply.

That word multiply just keeps popping up to me.

And I'm like, baby, we got a multiply and she's like,

we got three boys and she's like, we time out.

You can say no.

She said, time out.

So, uh, she's here.

She was here, uh, you know, and a couple that shares a coffee,

lives together happy ever after.

So, uh, the guys got me the coffee and just like shared it with her.

And she was, she's good.

And also have my great family visiting from Philadelphia,

John Paulus and, uh, the family.

Give it up for these guys.

You'll, sometimes you're friends for two years, five years.

And, uh, I remember my mentor Dr.

Aaron Bernard says, some people coming for a season,

some coming for a reason and some coming for a lifetime.

This is the over 25, uh, I don't know if it's over 25 years.

Of friendship and doing life together.

Life means like I don't have to hide anything.

Everything is bare open.

So, I'm so grateful for this great family business leader, uh,

leads a corporation.

Now, sits on our board.

So, just giving you a quick update, uh, I'm doing the elongated version

because we got time right past James.

Okay, the timer's working.

The last time I was here, it was like,

Joshua, he prayed and he, the sun stood still.

The timer was still at 30.

Lang, I'm like, Lord, you have done it again.

Uh, so, uh, I'm so grateful for what God is doing.

Listen, I'm an evangelist, uh, evangelist, go.

Okay, uh, so, uh, we keep going and preaching the gospel.

I'm a missionary from India to America.

Okay, God loves America so much that he's pushing people that look like us

when your parents are in their 70s and you want to hang in tight with them

and you want to be closer to them.

God has taken us away to be on mission.

So, here we are in New York and reaching the college campuses.

For the last 20 years, we've reached over 3.2 million students

in 186 cities around the world.

And then here, come on, give it up for the Lord.

Each of those numbers represent a person.

Right, uh, you know, and those kids I've been listening and heard the gospel

about in this season, we've been here in America.

God's given us a deep burden for the college students.

Over 70% of the kids, my kids are going to school.

Like in the next three years, my eldest one,

he's just officially a teenager, he's going to be in college.

70% of the kids that walk in from a, from a Christian home will lose their fate

when the moment they step into a college.

I heard a Catholic father say, it's not about even 70%.

He, he, he caught even a higher number of the, the Catholic priest

telling about the status of the, of the American church and the kids.

So we get to go to these college campuses and share the gospel.

So we were in Queens College, anybody from Queens College right around the corner here.

You know, uh, uh, one of the reasons are we, we got to share the gospel, uh,

and uh, over 250 students came to this event and the campus ministries and that

college said, this is for the first time we have done such a large event.

A big production, you know, and, and, and, and publicly proclaiming the gospel and 17

documented decisions and working with some of the top five campus ministries,

crew, university, navigators, Chi Alpha, uh, and, uh, you know, and all of these great guys,

we had a great time and October 9th, uh, we're going to be in Stanford University.

Praise the Lord. On the other, on the side of the world, like we're in the West Coast,

like I told, telling somebody, it's like a seven hour flight to get to SFO.

You know, it's like on this side, I'll probably in London eating some scones and sip

and some tea, right? But we are here on the West Side, preaching the gospel.

We're going to be in, uh, in the Bahamas in one of the key universities, the university,

Bahamas of October 28th and November 2nd, we're going to be in Hong Kong,

we're going to the Middle East, we're going to be in India before the end of the year.

We believe that either you go big or you go bigger.

We don't go home. We just go bigger. Amen. So, you know, and so that's just a quick update about

all that's happening in the ministry. Are you ready for the word of God?

I'm excited because I feel like I'm bringing a word from the Lord for you this season.

And, uh, when I, when I was praying for this church and as person I was talking,

you know, I heard the word restoration. I have no idea what you're going through,

but let me tell you something at the end of the service. There's only one word that you

would take back. It would be the word. Can you say that again? The word is restoration. She can

do better. The word is this side, this side, this side. All right, the word is restoration. I want

you to get your attention to Ezekiel chapter 37. This is, uh, you know, let me just give you the

Ezekiel 37 · chapter mention

big picture. This is about the people of Israel. You know, the people of Israel were in captivity

in Babylon. You know, they've been separated. They've been beaten and they've been like scattered

all over the place. And Ezekiel begins to prophesy. Every time a prophetic word comes,

it is probably the prophetic word is always the opposite of what you're going through.

When you're broke, there's going to be a word about abundance. Amen. When you're full,

there's going to be a word about generosity. Amen. And you've got to like, you feel like,

oh, Lord, thank you for blessing me. And then the next time that you walk in, you're hearing about

generosity, I was listening to the happiness guru, which is a group. I mean, I forgot his name. He

is, uh, he's based out of Harvard. And he said, just forget about the scripture, just logic,

just logic calculation. Every time you give a dollar for charity, not just for church, just

cross the board. Every time you give a dollar, it comes back as 1.6. So not just the Bible saying,

given, you know, Pastor James tell them about it, like, you know, give and it will come back to you.

This is just that's around. Every person that is generous to people, you know, it comes back.

It comes back 1.6. So here we are talking about the fact that, you know, we are, we are together,

this word, the prophetic word is coming. And Ezekiel prophesies over the people of Israel that you are

going to, no matter how dead you are, you're going to come back together. Now, look at this,

1947. There was no nation called Israel. There was no official state. And in 1947, all of these

custod coming together. And finally, we have an official state, which is the nation of Israel.

This is the fulfillment or partial fulfillment of this scripture. So I'm here to tell you,

every word that you're going to hear is going to be the word of God. And the word of God,

as it has been declared, and as you receive it, it will not come back until it has accomplished

the purpose for which it has been sent. Amen? And for all the people who are the first service,

help me preach the word, say, hallelujah, more. Amen. Do you believe it? Amen. So here we are in

this book. So let's just pray together. Father, thank you in the name of Jesus. I ask every

heart to be open right now in the name of Jesus. Every mind-lining spirit, every distraction,

every thought about tomorrow that is weighing them, every depressing thought, every anxious thought,

everything I cancel it right now in the name of Jesus. I pray for open hearts, for this word

to be falling in fertile soil to bring about an exponential harvest in Jesus' mighty name.

Amen. All right. Let's go to Ezekiel chapter one. Let's start reading the scripture. I want you

to read with me. Let's go. Ezekiel 37 was one. The hand of the Lord was on me. And he brought me

by the spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. Okay? Let me

tell you something. The Bible says, those who are led by the spirit of God are the sons,

and if you want to say sons and daughters of the living God. Amen. So if, you know, I'm telling

I feel like I need to talk to a few people here. You grew up in such abusive backgrounds,

or you grew up in environments that people said names over you, that declared things over you,

they had nicknames for you, and you have been a recipient of the words that have been spoken

over you. And this morning I want to declare with the authority that is on me that you are not

what other people think you are. You are not what you think you are. You are what God thinks you are.

For all the women in the room, that feels like everybody that you are looking at social media

and all of these things and putting on the craziest makeup to be attractive. You are not what the

makeup says you are. You are not what social media says you are. The Bible says, let me just tell

you, for every woman in this room, you are precious and priceless. You are beautiful.

You don't have to be weighing down by the spirit of comparison, which is the spirit of this world,

it's more so in the spirit of New York. For all the men you feel like beaten down, let me tell you

something, you are bold and handsome and you are more than a conqueror in Jesus name.

But the Scripture says the hand of the Lord was upon me and he brought me by the spirit right

in the middle of a valley. Now listen, we live in this world where social media glorifies

witchfries, right? Every Instagram reel, I mean I was telling somebody in the first service,

I'm going through major formal right now. What is formal for all the Gen Z people? Fear of,

fear of missing out, yeah. Fear of missing out. So all my mates, all the people that I know

that in the larger world, across the world, they're all at this place called the Lausanne gathering,

having 5,000 leaders coming in from 225 countries and this is probably the largest gathering every

decade that Billy Graham started and they're all there and everybody and I prayed much for it for

the last couple of months, God should I go, I don't get a word from the Lord to go. So I stayed

back but now I cannot even switch on Instagram because they're talking about Korean barbecue,

people are sending me videos of the large giant LED screens and they have like spiritual

tongue, it is going to be like the taste of heaven, it's going to be like every people from every tribe

and tongue and you know all of that stuff and I'm going to so I deleted the Instagram app

because I don't want to be, you know I'm telling that is the plan of the enemies to always get

you distracted. You've got to live in the now, the obedient now, I've got to do what God is asking

me to do, I cannot be distracted by the people, I cannot be distracted, everything else.

The devil and everything else in this world wants to stay and take you away from the focus.

Hebrews chapter 12, looking at Jesus, the author and the perfector, sometimes that means

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention

I have to say no to a lot of things. If I need to say yes to something that God wants me to do

and now in the last one week, in the last 10 days I know why I didn't go because there's

greater things happening in the life of my family that is happening now that I need to be here,

not in so Korea, talking about the greatest Korean barbecue. So we live in a world that people

talk about victories than valleys. Nobody tells on social media how crazy their day was.

They will always talk about, they were crying till they left it up that cup and say oh my God,

that coffee and they're going to talk about the bagels in New York and they're going to talk about

their style and stuff but they've been going through the valley. Let me tell you the scripture says

God meets you in the valley. The valleys are the making places. Every time that God has done

something in my life, it has been in the valley, not in the mountain tops. The mountain tops

are places to celebrate. You know our passage is to wave the flag and say we got here, we climbed

out of the valley but let me tell you the valley is a right place. The valley is a dark place.

The valley is a place where you're running alone sometimes. A valley is a place where God is

is like you in the processing room back in the day before digital photography. They had to actually

take, click a film, take it into the back end and develop it right and you know turn the negative,

you are that going through in the life of God. It is a valleys that make you. My first point is

God meets you in the valley. God meets you in the valley. The word valley in the Hebrew word is

the word emek. It just doesn't describe, not just describes it to geographical location.

It talks about our lives, our place of difficulty, suffering, spiritual dryness,

is anybody feeling that? I felt it. I felt the way my spirit is dry. I feel like I can't

pray anymore. I feel like I don't have the energy to read the word but let me tell you something.

You are going through a valley where God is working in use. Anybody with me?

Four things that happen in the valley. The valley is the most fertile place. The valley is where

the growth is. The valley is where God builds you. The number one thing I want to say is that God

reveals his presence in the valley for all the people making notes. God reveals his presence

in the valley. You feel like you're all alone but God is saying my hand is upon you as you go through

the valley. Some 23, even though I walk through the valley of shadow of death, I will fear no evil

because you are with me. God is literally, hold my hand, Basimo, don't leave me hanging.

God is holding you hand as you go through this valley because his presence is more than enough.

His presence is more than enough. I feel like I'm telling you I prayed more when I go through the valley.

I fasted more when I go through the valley. I feel the presence of God more when I'm going through

the valley. Number two, God refines you in the valley. It's anybody know what I'm talking about. The

valley is a place where you feel like there's nothing left. You feel like in the dumps. You feel

depressed. You feel lonely. You feel frustrated. Every fourth person in New York is going through

depression. This is stats. But when you are going through it, I want to let you know that God is

with you and he's not against you. He's for you. He's with you and he's holding your hand and the

Bible says he will never leave you. No forsake you. People will leave you. Husbands will leave you.

Friends will leave you. The Bible says he will never leave me. No forsake me. Somebody needs to

hear that if you believe it's an amen. Number three, God refines. Number two, God refines you in

the valley. Refining, refining, refining. It's like when you see the original form of the diamond,

it's a piece of rock. But when it gets cut and it gets cut and it gets cut and finally comes to

that final product and it gets stuck on a ring and it lands up at 5,000 at Tiffany's. It becomes

like a $50,000 ring that somebody is going to use a credit card and get into debt. That's New York.

Because they wanted that packaging the green box. That's all it is brother police. You buy a green box.

I put your ring in it and make you feel like and use a printer. Tiffany and cold. Don't get into

debt. All right. But before you've got into that ring, God has been shaping you. He's been cutting

you. He's been like I tell people you the private testings will be turned into public testimonies.

But when you go through testing the scriptures as in James, you know, consider it pure joy when

you go through trials because out of it comes perseverance out of perseverance comes maturity. God

is maturing you in the valley. God restores you. I was telling people the other day early this

morning. I feel like the other day early this morning that the Lord recently led me through a fast

attempt 20 when they fast. And during this time for the most of my fast, I was like fully surrendered.

When you're fasting, you are you are surrendering. You are you are humbling yourself and you say,

God, not my will, your will, not my plans, your plans. But for the most of my fast, I was saying

that until the Lord began to speak to me, but one thing that I was holding on so tight.

And I said, Lord, you know what? This is how you are going to use. I'm telling God how this

thing that I'm holding so close and I'm telling God, I'm hard to let go because I feel that I'm

teaching God that he will use this tool to help me. I'm teaching God. Hallelujah. Oh my God, my

plans, my brain, his brain. I'm telling him that I am telling him a strategy that you are going to

use this too. I mean, not just change my life. I mean, I'm talking about everything that we do is

about changing the world. It's about preaching God. I'm telling God, God, how are you going to use this?

How are you going to use a city? How are you going to use this tool to change the world?

Until the last few days, the Lord said, you know, he used, I use his people. He used a very

wise man around me and I was talking, listen, get mentoring, get coaching, get people to speak

and you're like, I said, you know, he just brought another perspective, like, oh my God. At the next

four or five days, I just began to be fully surrendered. And some of the decisions that I'm making

right now come from the last five days of being fully surrendered and being aligned. So let me tell you

something. Hold. Let go. Let go and let God take over the reign of your life.

You're saying, God, it is this girl. I know it. I feel it. I know it's this guy. And the Lord,

you know that the Lord is telling it is not. And you're like, Lord, this is how you're going to use

her. You're going to use him. And you know, this is how we're going to change the world.

But God is telling you, let go. Oh, no, I'm in New York. This is a land of single people.

You know, my, you know, I'm advancing in age and I don't think I don't think you can find another

suitable person for me. So I need to help God using bumble.com and some, you know, site to help God

find the right match for me. Let go. I don't know if I'm preaching to somebody, it is a hurting

message. But let me tell you something, bro, two weeks from now, you'll be hugging me like, thank

you, Jesus. That Indian curry boy came that word and I was released and set free. But let me tell you

something. All I'm trying to say, the Bible, you know, after I got married to my wife, I'm telling you,

your life, your, your marriage, your life partner after your salvation is the most important

decision of your life. It's a make it or break it. And I want to say after I got married to my

beautiful wife, you know, we went three to five cities. But in the last 10 years after I got

married, we scaled it to 186 cities around the world, reaching millions of kids. One will change

thousand, two will chase 10,000. So God is speaking to people in the room. Let go and let God

let the Holy Spirit lead your decisions. Let the Holy Spirit direct you. The Bible says, I will

instruct you in the way you should go, whether you should take to the left or to the right.

People are nodding their head. I feel like God is moving. God is speaking in the room. I feel

don't sleep on me. God resurrects the dreams in the valley. When you begin to surrender and say, God,

I don't have it in me. It is not my plan is your plan. And guess what? God does it. We haven't

even reached the next 11. Let me go. The next scripture says, Ezekiel chapter 37, 2 to 3.

Ezekiel 37 · chapter mention

Right? Ezekiel chapter 37. He said, he let me back and forth among them and I saw great many

Ezekiel 37 · chapter mention

bones. Guess what, guys? Somebody's been looking at, I got some bones here. My Pentecostal mother

was almost getting ready to rebuke it. I said, no, mommy, this is for me to preach the gospel.

Don't rebuke me and don't rebuke the devil. This is for the priest. You know, this is where your life

looks like. Your finances are dead. I know it's funny. Let me just get to the point here.

Your finances are so dry and so dead. Your marriage is so dry and dead. It was two years of great

stuff, but it came dead and crashing down. Your career looks dead. And the scriptures, he's

let me back and forth and I saw a great boy. Man, you're looking at your balance sheet of your

company. You're looking at your ministry bank account. You're looking at your balance sheet of

your enterprise. You're looking at your personal resources. You're looking at the relationship. It

is dead. And it is dry. And the scripture says, can these bones come to life? Can these bones

come to life? And sometimes you just have to say, God, I don't know. You know. And the next

scripture, he says, Lord, only you know. Let's get, let's get going. I'm telling you something,

you go through places. I feel like I'm speaking to people in this room where your relationships,

your marriage, your womb, somebody telling you, let me just telling you something. I've got a

prophesied of somebody in the room. There is room in your womb for more. But it now looks like

Sarah's womb. Sarah was nine, what's the age? Ninety. Her uterus was probably shrunk like a

raising. There was no room for nothing in that. Can these bones live? And the Lord spoke to Abraham,

you're going to be the father to nation's womb prophetic word, womb reality prophetic word,

you know, craziness prophetic word. What do you want to believe? Are you with me?

West number three, West number four, let's keep going. Ezekiel chapter 3746, then he said to me,

prophesied to these bones and say to these bones, I will make breath into you and you will come to life.

God wants to give the key to your breakthrough in your mouth. He wants you to declare the word of

God over your life. You don't need no man of God this morning. I'm training you. There will be no

call that you need somebody to pray for you. You will prophesy over yourself. You will prophesy,

what is prophecy? It is speaking in faith, the word of God to a situation that doesn't exist.

Speaking in faith, the word of God to a situation doesn't exist. Speaking in faith, the word of God

to a situation that doesn't exist, you're going to speak the word of God. He wants your word.

His word in your mouth is as if God is speaking. So Ezekiel, God speaks to you and say, I want you

to prophesy. And this morning, I'm saying, I feel like looking at people and saying, you need to start

prophesying. We are bank accounts. You need to prophesy over work situation. You need to prophesy over

your relationship. You need to prophesy over your living condition. You need to prophesy life

into those dead situations in your life. I was telling people this morning, like I was in living in

a small town in India. God spoke to me. I will take you to the nations of the world.

No money, no contacts. I got my passport. Okay. I got my passport. I'm like, Lord, what am I going

to do? Read the scripture. The scripture says, prophesy. Guess what happened? I took my mother,

my partner in crime. And I said, Mom, I'm believing God for the nations because the Bible says, I will,

you know, ask of me and I will take you to the nations of the world. So I'm like, here we are.

Lay hands on every page in that brand new passport and speaking nations, speaking the word of God,

Isaiah 55 and verses 5, it says, you will go to nations that you do not know and nations that

did not know you will come to you. Begin to prophesy the word of God. Today, by the grace of God,

every time I go to a immigration counter, I carry books of passport with me and the immigration

guys looking for a place to put a stamp because it is filled with weasers and stamp for the glory of

God because these dry bones will come to life. You're looking at the living testimony of dry bones

coming to life and if God can do it for me, he can do it for you. But it will only happen when you

begin to prophesy, when you begin to speak over the dry situation, you are speaking over death

situation, you are looking at the impossibility and God is asking, is anything too hard for the Lord?

Nothing. The Bible says, I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me.

God spoke to Joshua, nobody will be able to stand before you all the days of your life.

Be strong and courageous. Say, anybody listening to my word. So this morning, the Lord is asking you to

speak and is it you'll begin to speak and guess what happened? There was a sound. All these bones started

rattling and it started falling into place and it started lining up and I'm telling you,

when you begin to speak over your situation, boom, boom, boom, boom, things are going to start

lining up and it's going to start falling into order because it has to respond to the frequency

of the word of God. You don't need no man of God, you speak to your situation, you prophesy over

your situation, you prophesy over your dry bones. Amen. And the last piece is a kill chapter 37,

9 to 10. It all started lining up and then finally it was already, it's like everything is falling

into place but there's no life and the scripture says, can we go to, he said prophesy to the bread,

prophesy a son of man and say to it, this is what the sovereign Lord says, come breathe from the

forewinds and breathe into these slains that they may live. The word is Rua, the wind of the Holy

Spirit, the wind that we breathe, the breath of God, you need to ask the Holy Spirit, Lord,

I have prophesied, I have done everything in my capacity, now I want the Holy Spirit to breathe

over these situations. This morning are you ready to love the Lord, love the Holy Spirit,

to breathe, to bring and blow the wind of the Holy Spirit into those places so that it will

lay to life, worship team, I want you to come up here. And this morning I'm feeling my heart,

I feel in my heart that the Lord is going to restore things that I've been broken, things that

I've been dead, things that you've thrown as useless, God wants to turn it around. The Bible says,

I will restore the years, there's only one person in this world who can redeem time.

Nobody because God is outside time and he's the only one who can, you feel like, oh God,

I've wasted my time, I've lost time, I've wasted time, I feel like I don't have enough things in

me, I'm growing, I feel like my time's up, but God is saying, I am going to restore,

I'm going to restore the years that the enemy has stolen from your life.

But all you need to do is to prophesy and I love the wind of the Holy Spirit to breathe

over your dead situation. Now when everybody's standing up right now,

I want you to get into this moment, I want you to get into this moment,

when you're saying, God, here I am surrendering my plans to your plans,

my brain that's trying to cook up ideas and strategies, but there is nothing compared to what

you can do. I want every hand lifted up right now and just say, God, here I am, one more time,

surrendering. Just being in a talk of Jesus, Lord, my life, my family, my children,

my finances, my situations, Lord, I'm surrendering. Come on all over this place.

Come on, all over this place. Just saying surrender,

verbally say open up your mouth. I believe the Holy Spirit is telling you situations,

things that you've been holding so tight. God is saying let go. God is saying surrender.

Yes, Lord, I surrender my ministry, surrender my finances, my plans, my donors, my partners,

my board, it's not of me as a you, Lord, I'm surrendering.

This is the City Light Church podcast. If you've missed any part of today's message,

or if you would like to find out more about Pastor Boyan Jansik in City Light Church,

visit us at citylightnyc.com that's citylightnyc.com. Feel free to visit us online or in person anytime.

We would love to connect with you. We pray that you have been encouraged today,

that you have been reminded how much God loves you, and that you are surrounded by grace.

Thank you for listening. Make sure that you subscribe to City Light Church podcast wherever you

find your favorite podcasts worldwide.