Speaking Victory Into Existence A Tale of Transformation and Triumph

I'm not pasturing because I had nothing else to do. I got saved. I got delivered. My sins were

forgiven. And the reason I got into this, of course the call of God, but I was excited was

I want to share this with others because they're dying all around me. And we got to pull them out.

Amen. And we got a lifeline. God forbid that we keep the truth to ourselves.

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.

Are you ready for the word this morning? Amen. I believe God really wants to get something to you.

You're going to walk out of here better than how you came in. Let's begin in Matthew chapter 8

Matthew 8:5–13

verses 5 through 13. This is a familiar passage to many of you, but there's so much truth that can

be withdrawn from this passage of Jesus encountering the centurion. It's really so rich. Of course,

the whole word of God is rich for this passage. It's like pregnant pulsating with revelation.

Now when Jesus had entered cappernum, a centurion came to him pleading with him,

saying, Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.

And Jesus said to him, and this is something that he often would say, I will. I will come.

I will physically go there and he's establishing his will. I will come and heal him.

One of the first encounters that Jesus had after his baptism was a leper coming down the mountain.

And he said, Lord, if you're willing, you can make me clean. Because when life is

clobbering you over the head with a hammer. And again, by life, I mean, I say life, the enemy is behind

that. And the enemy is a person. He's a being. I feel like I have to say that now because I take

for granted that everybody understands, but we're in New York City. There's so many different

ideologies, so many different backgrounds into a lot of people. Satan is just like an abstract

concept that just means darkness or negativity. No, he is a created being who fell from heaven.

And Jesus said he wants to steal, kill, and destroy. He hates you. And when the enemy is clobbering

you over the head, what happens to us is we don't doubt God's ability, but we doubt his willingness.

Because the voice in the back of our minds is saying, well, Lord, if you're willing, why am I going

through this? Why am I feeling this way? But the will of God clashes with our own faith level,

with the enemy's attacks. He said, well, God wills it. It has to be no. He requires our cooperation.

Amen. Hallelujah. But Jesus' answer was always, I will. Never once did he say, well, not for you,

because my father is teaching a very special lesson. You're going to be sick a couple of more decades.

He's really a long lesson. And so come back in 20 years. His answer is always, I'm willing. I'm

willing. Amen. When it comes to your victory, he's willing. When it comes to your prosperity, he's

willing. Anything he already bled for on the cross, he's willing. And you must be sure of the will of

God if your prayer is to have confidence. Jesus said to him, I'm willing. I will come and heal him.

And the centurion, this is where it gets very interesting. Because the centurion didn't ask him to

physically come. But Jesus, because he had a very touchy ministry, if you notice, Jesus was always

laying hands on people. He was transmitting, transferring the anointing via the laying out of

hands through touch. He said, I will come and heal him. But the centurion says, Lord, I'm not even worthy

that you should come under my roof. But only speak a word. You don't even have to physically be

there. Only speak a word. And my servant will be healed. What what faith? And then the centurion

explains why he believes this. He says, for I also am a man. Next verse, please. For I also am a man

under authority, having soldiers under me. The centurion is saying, I'm under the authority of

Caesar. And I've been given authority. And I have soldiers under me. And I say to this one, go.

And he goes. And to another come. And he comes. And to my servant, do this. And he does it. Now,

the centurion is saying, I recognize how this thing works. I'm under the authority of Caesar. And

because I'm under this authority, I can command soldiers. And if I say go left, they go left. If I

say go right, they go right. And I recognize you, Jesus, you're under the authority of God.

So you don't even have to physically come. But only speak the word. If you command my servant to

be healed, who's back at home paralyzed, he'll be healed. Amen. And that's why Jesus now in the

next verse compliments his faith. But let me just say that that same authority Jesus has given you.

Oh, man, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Oh, I hope I'm not talking to a bunch of

quiet Christians because when you're quiet, you're going to be slowly dying. If you're not speaking,

you're not creating. If you're not speaking, you're not releasing faith. This is not some new

ageism. Faith is one half in your heart and one half in your mouth. Man, I feel like I had a

wall compared to the first service. How do we get saved? Do we get saved in silence? No, we speak

out. If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50 percent in your

heart. But if it's locked up in your heart, it does you know good. It has to be released when you

open your mouth. Hallelujah. When Jesus heard it, when he heard the centurion understanding these

deep spiritual concepts and he's even a Gentile and he's saying, I get how this works and there's

commanding power in our mouth. I know it because I'm a captain of a hundred. That's what centurion

means. And I see that your God's captain and you can speak and it'll be done. When Jesus heard

it, he marveled and said to those who follow assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith,

not even in Israel. And I say to you that many will come from east and west. He's prophesying

about us Gentiles, non Jews from all over the world and sit down with Abraham. Isaac can

Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom, not the kingdom of heaven, but the

sons of the kingdom was a Jewish term for the Israelites. But the sons of the kingdom, those

who won't believe, of course many did believe and all the original Christians were Jewish. But the

sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of

teeth. And surely there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. And just as Satan is a real being,

not just a concept, hell is a real place. Jesus spoke of it often. He spoke about heaven twice

as much as he did about hell. But he warned people about hell. And I didn't even get into this

in there because this isn't even having anything to do with my points. I'm just breaking down this

passage. But somebody here needs to hear this. Jesus didn't die on the cross to just give you a

better life. Definitely didn't die to give you religion, didn't die to give you church service

on Sundays. He died to take away your sins. That by believing in him through faith in him, your sins

can be completely taken away and you would escape hell because sin must be punished. All sin must

be punished. Jesus took that punishment on himself if you receive that. If you don't, then it's

eternal punishment because the wages of sin is death. Somebody, if we don't warn people, we do

them a great disservice. I'm not here for my health, amen? I'm not, I'm not pasturing because I

had nothing else to do. I got saved. I got delivered. My sins were forgiven. And the reason I got

into this, of course, the call of God, but I was excited was I want to share this with others

because they're dying all around me. And we got to pull them out. Amen. And we got a lifeline.

God forbid that we keep the truth to ourselves. Paul said, whoa, whoa, if I don't, whoa, a calamity.

What an utter calamity it would be if I don't preach the gospel.

Then Jesus, verse 13, really getting to my point now, then Jesus said to the centurion,

go your way. And this is what's for us this morning. And as you have believed, so let it be done

for you. As you have believed, as you believe, that's how it's going to be done for you.

In proportion to your faith, that's how your life will go. In accordance with what you believe

about God, his character, his nature, who he is, that's how it'll be for you.

So I want to ask you an important question this morning. What are you believing?

What are you believing about you right now and where you are in life?

God's attitude towards you. God's plan for you. See if you're under that hammer of the enemy

because there's people right now who are going through it. Your faith is being challenged.

You never escape. Every single year, at least a dozen times, I have to build myself up and

rise up in faith. If you think it's easy peasy when you come to a certain, like he's a pastor,

it must be whoo, he's just, are you kidding? That hammer of life. And when I say life,

you know what I mean. The journey of life, not the Zoe life of God, of course.

And when you're under that hammer, it's very loud and it can cause you to forget some

essential truths about who God is. See, the enemy wants to shake your confidence.

Everything that I preach, everything is linked to the grace of God, the cross of Jesus,

why so that you would have this precious thing called confidence before God.

Sin or a sin consciousness makes cowards out of men. When you're conscious of sin,

you'll be a coward. The very first thing that Adam did once he sinned was what? He ran behind

the bushes, yeah, and hit himself. And it was the first time we hear that word fear. I was afraid,

afraid of God because I was now aware of my nakedness. But when you're righteousness conscious,

when you're aware that you're forgiven, that when God looks at you, he doesn't see one

speck of sin in you, that there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ,

you'll have a roar, you'll have a confidence, you'll have a boldness.

And if you're going through it, I get it. And it's okay to admit, it's a challenge right now.

I know God is good, but whoo.

You're like that man in the Bible, Lord, I believe, helped out my numb belief.

But in your heart of hearts, again, I ask you, what do you believe?

Because in accordance with what you believe, that's what you're going to get. Jesus said so himself.

In fact, I just want to show you just in the next chapter, chapter 9, verse 27,

I want you to see that this was a common theme with Jesus.

This idea that in accordance to your faith is common. When Jesus departed from their two blind men

followed him crying out and saying, son of David have mercy on us. And when he had come into the house,

the blind men came to him and Jesus said to them, do you believe that I'm able to do this?

And they said to him, yes, Lord. Then he touched their eyes saying, according to your faith,

led it be to you. Once again, do you see it? He's letting you know again.

In proportion to your faith and in accordance with what you believe, this is why it's so important

to know him. To really know him and the only way you can know him is through the word.

Smith Wigglesworth famously said, I cannot know God through what I feel about him. I cannot know him

through my emotions. I cannot know him through the opinions of others. Everybody's got an opinion,

everybody's got an idea where New York City, to some people, God is a tree, is a hanging crystal,

an energy force. We used to have a rule in our home groups. I'm hoping it's still in force,

but it was just that when I used to do the teaching rather than Pastor Moe, it was just because I used to

be a part of every life group. And there's always someone who says, well, how were they worded? It was

like, well, I think, and again, we all have our thoughts and opinions, but let's replace, I think,

with the Bible says. You can give me your thoughts on what you think, but the foundation has to be

the word. The plumb line for everything we do, the measuring stick has to be the word of God.

Always it was this way, but now when people are trying to recreate God in their own image and

everything is so flimsy and emotional and I feel and however I feel, well, that's my truth. No,

it's not. There's no such thing as my truth. There is the truth, the Bible truth. Amen.

I didn't get saved because I was living according to my truth. My truth was sending me straight to

hell. I was confused and messed up, but God's word is infallible forever settled in the heavens.

Oh, and let God be true and every man a liar. Hallelujah. Second Timothy 112.

Oh, glory to God. Paul, for this reason, I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not a shame

for I know whom I have believed. I know whom I have believed and I'm persuaded that he is able to

keep what I have committed to him until that day. That's what I want you to be able to shout out.

I know whom I have believed. Once again, that's why we're preaching Christ and Christ crucified.

Why we're preaching the glories of the new covenant. So you know him. So you know what belongs to you.

Forgiveness of sins is yours. Healing is yours. Blessedness is yours. Victory is yours. And then when

that hammer comes, there needs to be an adequate response. See, for too many, when the hammer comes,

they just go, oh, what mean is this? And then the hammer doesn't go away and the response is all.

And Satan comes and whispers, God, God, it's God doing it, testing you, growing you, is heaven so bankrupt

that it must rely on the tools and resources of hell to mature the saints. You know how God

matures me through his word. Amen. Not through unleashing the devil on me. Amen. So many people are

going through hell and go, well, maybe God, no, you're supposed to resist that. Otherwise, we're

just confused. And then when hell comes on my life, I go, Lord, send more. Please mature me,

grow me. Lord, I really want to go high in you. And why don't you just kill me, Lord, then I

can't get any higher. I'll just be right with you in heaven. There's got to be a cry out of our heart

of what belongs to us and what doesn't belong to us. Sickness, disease does not belong to you.

Confusion does not belong to you. Depression does not belong to you. Defeat does not belong to you.

Amen. Luck does not belong to you. Hallelujah. And so it must be rejected.

Not passively accepted. And that means that you are actually doing some talking. Hallelujah.

I really feel like the Lord prepped me almost like I was going to be an evangelist in my own church.

I saw it's like going with a hot poker and there's some people and I get my heart goes out

there and the one side you're going through it. But also I see something you don't see in the spirit.

You're actually so close to victory. You just don't know it because of the hammer. It's loud but you

just keep going. Hallelujah. I go through stuff. I end up feeling when the word of the Lord is

I feel recklessly transparent. This morning, this morning, and my wife is going to get a little bit nervous

maybe. I don't know. This morning you saw, son, we pulled out of our driveway and the Holy Spirit hit the

car and I started laughing and weeping and now listen. This is challenging for me to say but

it's going to bless some people a week before Guatemala. Do you remember I had missed some services in

January? I was hit. You say with what? Something physical. We're looking into it. I don't want to

get into it. I believe it's related to gut health and whatever and it hit me and I mean the

lethargy that was one service where I couldn't make it. Bonnie Andrews was preaching I couldn't

make it through the second service. I was hit. This is a week before Guatemala. So we're talking about

the first either last week of January or first week of February and so it's Saturday and we're

going for a walk. I needed to get out of the house and move and we're going for a walk and this

was my reality in that moment. I turned to Emily and I said you know because we have a home in the

Poconos. I said we can just you know sell everything we have and live in the home in the Poconos

and this was you're going to laugh. It's funny now saying it but this was my reality. I said

and there's because I don't want to just sit in the Poconos. I want to be active. Minister to

people. I said I can get a job at the Walmart Super Center. No but I meant it. I actually said it.

Is it how bad did you have to know? It was like a spell and I said you thank you and I said you

know nothing not for the money but at least then I'm not I can't be sitting at home collecting dust

at least then I said it I said it to another pastor friend you know and he goes why Walmart's

like do boat rentals or something and I'm like no no no no no that's this is what I said I said

first of all that seasonal secondable that's too complicated. My mind was fried. I said no I

Walmart because I could just stand there at the register smile bless people talk maybe engage

but as to be real simple then we had a great oh then we now I remember we came here the next day

and the Holy Spirit came in that was a service way came in here and you my wife started getting

touched it was like one of the biggest touches ever she gets she gets touched internally I get

touched externally but this time she got touched externally she's getting to and now so I was

already getting blessed now I'm looking at her she's losing and she's crying I'm gonna even more

blessed and it was like it was like something just got snatched right off of me just taking away just

snatched and then that Wednesday we went to Guatemala and those of you who weren't Guatemala I was

right as rain and past James noticed I shared this with the staff I said I can't believe that a few

days ago I had the Walmart dream like how ridiculous is that I mean it's funny now but an Emily's face

when I shared it with her because remember she's she's normal I'm going through it and I'm walking

where then I say you know this is our future hun and you look at me and you're so good and what

you've endured hanging around me thank you we're in the trenches and you get some of that

when I wonder if in heaven they'll have awards like we have you know for our volunteers and like

Gabriel will go and the long suffering award goes to Emily Janssen come on up the perseverance long

suffering cross the finish line award goes to today God is good you know here's the thing

and and right now it's like whatever I was going through that month of January we have in reverse

the the blessings and I've said this before I feel like I feel like it's going to be a theme in my life

quitting is a permanent solution to a temporary problem please remember that the devil is trying

to get you to quit to tap out to move on to the next to just change things and

and you got to just keep going with the Lord holding his hand when you're going through it it feels

like it's going to be forever it will not be forever the sun come up tomorrow tomorrow it'll

be a brighter day tomorrow hey man hallelujah so so today march the 17 is not just same Patrick's day

for the one Irish person if any Irish people here this is are you okay Emily acts like she's

100% Irish we're gonna get a 23 in me she just I want to she just doesn't trust the government

enough to send her DNA by mail but I'm really I'm curious because she's not but she's excited I'm

taking her to Dublin this summer for a few days but it's not just St Patrick's day today's the 20

second birthday today march the 17th of city light church amen

and I was reminiscing with the Lord and I was reminded about how when we began

full of faith and also so full of silliness and presumption and goofiness

I was 26 years old I was so ignorant I didn't even know what I didn't know yet

I had preached six or seven times maximum in my life before I launched city light church

half of those times were in the children's church and you guys are enduring two services in a row

sitting in the same place you guys and the second long-suffering award goes to Andy and Whitley

no you guys they sent me their mother was the children's pastor at the church where I had preached

to the kids and they had the cassette of me from when I was 22 and 23 years old preaching and they

blessed me with that cassette and we're so kind they also blessed me with a cassette player because

who has one of those anymore so I could play it half the time was preaching to kids the other half

was in a maximum security prison which it's not wow it's a captive audience it was very nice no

one was going anywhere I had not I just could preach right but I preached like six seven times in

my life maximum a no more than ten for sure and I'm launching a church and I have no money

and I'm living back with my parents in the little Queens apartment and I rented a hotel ballroom

and we started with a hundred people and saw a phenomenon called negative church growth

where we started March the 17th and by August I'm preaching to three people

and I'm still preaching actually actually stood up on the chairs like I was I was half upset half

in faith that there was only three people so I got up in the chairs and I'm preaching like there's

a thousand people and it's three people like this looking at me and so it's not it's not even a

failed church it's a badly attended life group you know that's what I was pastoring a poorly

attended whole house group and I went for a jog the next day like a prayer jog

and I so I've been carrying the vision of city light church for ten years from when I got saved

when I was 16 to 26 preparing praying fasting only to have what appeared to be the spectacular

failure and I go for this prayer jog and in the middle of the jog I hear I'm the God of the turn

around I'm the God of the turn around I will turn this thing around and the next Sunday I preach

that message on the God of the turn around from 2nd Kings chapter 6 about how God turned the entire

situation in this besieged city of Samaria that was struck by famine within 24 hours he turned it

around completely only for me it wasn't 24 hours I like the biblical miracles that take 24 hours

except for me I was being slow-basted and so he turned it or the first thing he told us was get

out of midtown Manhattan there's nobody who lives there so I'm here with the he's to get him to

a neighborhood and I'm a New Yorker I shouldn't own that but for it's just where the hotels were

and where do you you're gonna start in a hotel ballroom you can't graduate right away to the

Greek community center no no no that's gonna take time hotel ballroom he says go into the east

village that's a real neighborhood people actually live there it's not just offices surrounding you

and so some of you remember our seventh street location it was 20 feet wide by 80 feet long 20 feet

about from where the pulpit is to that wall by 80 feet long we would jam 100 people in there when

we actually got to 100 people but in the beginning I'm ministering now to 20 25 people and I'm

living there window lists I live there for five and a half years and I just remember this very

clearly as I was reminiscing with the Lord about her 22nd birthday laying in my bed people staying

away by the thousands and I'm looking at the ceiling and I'm just pondering my life the church

is broke I'm broke nobody even know you know what it feels like nobody even knows you exist nobody

even knows I would preach on the subways and this interest was palpable nobody cares that you

exist now you know New York City everybody's blowing a trumpet and clanging a symbol and making

lots of noise nobody cares anymore I felt I mean I actually felt like Moses when he was like

Lord have you brought us out here that we should die that's what I thought Lord did you bring

and and I had to thought I just ruined my life you know I got good grades my parents wanted me

to be a doctor I'm the one who had the bright idea of going into ministry that freaked them out

I had to have my way and what have I done here now I'm just gonna like slowly

fade away into nothingness no impact for the Lord no impact for the kingdom and the chairs were out

because remember I'm living in the church sometimes I put the chairs away all against the wall

and sometimes probably I was too depressed too and the chairs were out and now I'm pacing and I'm

looking at all the empty chairs this isn't probably sometime in the middle of the week I'm alone

all the empty chairs and the empty chairs are like mocking me we're empty and we're gonna stay empty

and something from within me hint it was the Holy Spirit began to churn have you ever been at a place

where you know that you stand at a fork in the road that's the place where Satan wants you to keep

quiet to shut up and just go gently and fade into that good night but something from within me

roared and I began to prophesy to the chairs prophesying isn't only fourth telling it's

foretelling it or not only foretelling it's foretelling I'm commanding these things to be and I

began to speak to the chairs and say be filled be filled I command people from the north south east

and the west come to city light church come and hear the gospel may your eyes be opened may your

heart be softened you will come and you'll be filled with the Holy Spirit hallelujah you are right

there at the gate I'm trying to provoke you this morning God is not cheap he's not bad he doesn't

have mixed feelings about you he is good he's the God of victory hallelujah hallelujah

and I want you to know him but you can only know him through his word that way you have confidence

and when you approach him so I'm gonna give you just real quick three steps real quick list

but it's this is like if if somebody came to me and said listen I need a miracle

tell me what do I need to do I need I need I need divine intervention yesterday

this is what I would tell them number one first John 514

here's a key to prayer

now this is the confidence remember this is what we're looking for we got to be confident

it's the first thing let me just say this it's the first thing that I noticed when I first got saved

with the young Christians there were around me when they talked to God they talked to him as though

he were a friend because he is me even just thinking about God in an unsaid state I would push him out

of my mind because I was terrified I was afraid but they had this confidence not a callous familiarity

but they had a confidence in believing that they were loved and that they were heard we need

the confidence this is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask anything according to

his will he hears us now this verse really trips some people up depending on their angle their lens

it either trips them up or greatly empowers them because if you read that part if we ask anything

according to his will and your attitude is especially when you're under the hammer well the will

of God who can know it who can fathom his ways his mysteries are beyond comprehension maybe what

I'm going through is just something in his great plan meanwhile you're being beaten to a pulp

that's not the plan of God it wasn't a plan of God that I be

wistfully thinking about a job at the super center but life happens stuff happens

people you know and I've got some stuff like this before and people would say you know it's demonic

yeah I let it could be but I'm telling you it wasn't you know how I know because demons are

not afraid of the gym I would go to the gym and that emotion would completely fade

it was something happening internally but the moment I would break a sweat and the endorphins

would be released that whole yucky thing we just fade that's just a ps for someone just saying

to some people everything's a demon they're so devil conscious sure the devil can come in and

press in but not everything is sometimes we just need to change our lifestyle

so we have to know his will how do we know his will because we want to be confident when we pray

the word of God so I want you to think of one thing that you need from the Lord

one area is a physical healing is it financial help are you lonely and find scriptures

that cover your need now this is what breaks my heart right now it's knowing that not everybody's

going to take this advice almost everybody right now is nodding their heads and going this sounds

really good but you're going to just go on and have a regular Monday through Saturday and come

back here on Sunday and I've done nothing please don't let that be you please this actually requires

you doing a little arts and crafts project summer camp at city light church you're going to find

scriptures that cover your need if it's finances you're going to look up scriptures on prosperity

there's hundreds of them and find the ones that that bring you joy find the ones that spark you

and you're going to write them down or type them in and print them out and you're going to break out

the scissors and the Scotch tape and you're going to cut them up and you're going to decorate

you're going to decorate your bathroom mirror or your kitchen cabinet or something that your

face is in front of a lot and you're going to get this wholly incorruptible powerful word of

God through your eye gate and it's going to go down in your spirit where faith is produced faith

doesn't come from encouragement faith doesn't come from a good song faith according to the Bible

comes by hearing and hearing the word of God one way you get the word of God in you your spirit

produces this substance called faith and faith is the invisible hand that grows into heaven and

brings down what you need here to earth hallelujah hallelujah I'm not preaching theory I had 16

credit cards then up to my eyeballs in debt and this is what I did I didn't wish that it would go

away there was some practical things let me not be I had to I mean I had to stop spending more than

I made that was good first step but at first yeah I mean though you got to do the practical stuff

but even just to activate the discipline and the strength to do the practical stuff I got the

scriptures out and whatever you're going through get the scriptures out so that they're feeding

you and so that you know the will of God do not ever be going around going well you know what's

the will of God his word is his will and you know him and know his character and his nature and his

will through his word hallelujah step number two mark 1124

Jesus said this so it's true and he said therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you

pray believe that you receive them and you will have them this is your foundation for the prayer

of petition asking God for something when are you supposed to believe that you have it when you get

it when you pray when you ask you said but it's not there yet I know but he said it is as far as

God's concerned it's as good as done here's something I've practiced for many years that actually the

Lord himself taught me back in college when I was wrestling with him there's so many more resources

available now than just even in the 90s I wanted to learn how to pray effectively you know what

pray effectively means doesn't mean pray pretty it means pray and get results I want to not just be

I want to see stuff happen when I pray and I'm wrestling with the Lord Lord teach me to pray I'm

studying the scriptures and I remember one of the first times he really spoke to me in my heart

and he said you're doing too much talking when you ask me for things and to this day I'm convinced

that there is too much yacking you know why we talk so much because we don't really believe he's

hurt us and that it's done and we're trying to pay him with our words and he got me to a place where

he said 10 seconds tell me what you need in 102 sentences there is no need for oh Lord because you

know how I feel and Lord you know I tried and just and you know the most frequent word God here is

it's just oh I just I just Lord we just you don't know that you've never been to a prayer meeting huh

we just say pastor you only pray for 10 seconds like only 10 seconds a day no I talk to the Lord

all the time I have breakfast with him we have breakfast with him I go for walks with him I drive

my car with him fine I'll say it I shower with him he's with me all the time I'm always talking

I'm a sweet fellowship with him but when it comes when you need something make it succinct make it

quick and release your faith and this isn't just my opinion this is something that Jesus himself

addressed Matthew 6.7 this by the way has been a theme he's taught me this years ago and now I'm

running into pastors got it was all last week they're saying the same thing and that's how I

know there's a confirmation they're all saying you know the Lord is just bringing us back to

we just forgot it's so easy to forget an essential truth and then you go off into emotionalism

and anxiety does all weird things and you feel like you got a wrestle with God and talk to him but when

it comes to his will you don't there's no convincing it's settled in heaven and again his word is

as well I know that he wants me to have the victory you say where everywhere he's not the God of

defeat he's the God of victory that's why we named our son Victor as a constant reminder it's

true it was a accident he's the God of victory this is so important that Jesus actually brought it up

when teaching people to pray and when you pray do not use vain repetitions I did you just think

like half the prayer meetings you've attended in your life as the heathen do why do they use

all these repetitions for they think that they will be heard for their many words a lot of the

problem in the prayer of petition is too many words betray that you don't really believe he's hearing

you you're talking so much because you don't believe that one sentence you can have such an

intimacy with the Lord that you and you don't have to keep repeating it that he actually heard you

and heaven is responding but Jesus paid a price with his holy blood that you would have that intimacy

and his ear is bent down low and he hears you you won't distract him when you bring up your problem

he's not going oh I forgot about you you're kidding you're going through that he's with you the

whole time you've got to come to him with faith that's based on his word and then succinctly

asked him what do you want remember this was with Jesus asked people all the time what do you want

he went up to a man who was lame the man by the pool of Bethesda it says he was lame for 38 years

and he said what do you want me to do for you

and he's like well Jesus I don't have a headache you know I've been

unable to walk for 38 years why why do you ask because I want you to tell me I want you to

specifically tell me what do you want me to do for you and he's asking you that what do you want

me to do for you tell him in one sentence two sentences release your faith which then leads us to

number three and that's in Philippians 4.6 this is the natural flow if you actually believe

that he's heard you and that's praise and thanksgiving be anxious for nothing but in everything by

prayer and supplication with thanksgiving with thanksgiving see if you really believe that he's heard

you and he's responding you're naturally going to be grateful aren't you then how come so many

times when we finish our prayer we're just as depressed as when we started it that same span in

college when God was teaching me the prayer was going through something I was aware of my countenance

and it was you know the poop face and I went down I went down I'm an ease to pray and I poured out my

heart and I asked right and I got up from I said in Jesus name amen after a couple of minutes and I

got up and the Lord froze me and I still had the same poop face and he said you don't believe that

I'm going to do anything that you just asked me your countenance is proof if you really believed

you would now be grateful and I went Lord thank you

Lord thank you thank you you're moving you heard me you're faithful to your word

hallelujah hallelujah I praise you recover the lost art of praise praise is the language of heaven

God no speak complaining God no speak whiny God speak praise amen praise him so much after you

pray that you all praise that when it finally manifests you're like hey man let's not be like

the people who were praying for Peter's release in the book of Acts they're praying for Peter's

release Peter comes to them and they're like now that must be his angel hallelujah worship team come

on up God he's moving in our church he's moving in your life you're going to be okay hallelujah

and you're not just going to survive you're going to thrive hallelujah hallelujah

we have a good good God I want you to just close your eyes for a minute

and just ask the Lord what he wants you to believe him for and my prayers you would start that

arts and crafts project tonight decorate with scripture verses that'll get inside your spirit

that'll produce faith that'll make your prayers powerful and give you something to praise him about

hallelujah Lord Jesus speak your servants are listening hallelujah hallelujah

some of you don't have to pray long the Goliath has been looking at you waving at you taunting you

you know exactly what you need let me tell you that uncircumcised Philistine is going to fall

just like the lion and the bear hallelujah this is the city light church podcast

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