Embracing the Wilderness Journey: Unveiling Truths and Overcoming Temptation through Scripture

The wilderness was a dead a kill, and it was dead a reveal hit.

Oh, you're stronger than you think you are!

You're more anointed than you think you are!

I know you went into the season filled with the Holy Spirit,

but you're about to set out in the power of the Spirit!

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.

We have a special guest for you today, renowned author,

evangelist, prophet, goes all across this nation,

just edifying and building up the saints of God

and He's a friend of this house.

He's preached at our pulpit for over a decade,

and we just want to give honor and thanks for who God has made him to be.

Father of two, husband of Christline, come on.

Friend of Pastor Boyan Jansik.

Let's welcome our brother, Nathaniel St. Alois.

Can we just lift up our hands and give Jesus a shout of praise?

Come on, can we give Jesus?

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Is there any way, is there like a monitor?

I can hear myself just a little bit more.

Oh, that's perfect. Thank you.

I'm ready for this word.

It was your pastor's birthday this past week,

so if you forgot to bless him,

when he comes back, make sure you give him a penicostal handshake.

Some of you are like, you're new to church.

You don't know what a penicostal handshake is,

but I've been in church for over 20 certain years,

for about 21 years,

so I know what a penicostal handshake is.

Do you guys want to know?

You know?

Some of you haven't in church for like 80 years.

Of course, you know.

Tell them about the new people.

Penicostal handshake is,

it's when you take money, you put it in your hand.

You ball it up like this,

if you act like there's nothing in your hand, right?

And then you go to your pastor,

because it says birthday.

And you go, pastor, thank you so much.

I love you, man of God.

And you give him like a handshake,

and he thinks it's just a handshake,

but guess what it is?

It's a penicostal handshake.

No, but I said that jokingly,

but you know, the Bible says,

those who preach and teach the word are worth double honor.

They're worthy of double honor.

And the Greek double honor means good pay.

So make sure you bless the man of God on his birthday, right?

We were texting,

and I found pictures of different boyans.

Boyan by Donovan,

she's a basketball player.

This soccer player, boyan,

I don't know his name,

and then a movie star.

And then I did like a whole collage.

And then I put him as the biggest one,

and I was like, you're still my favorite boy.

So that still rings true.

He's still my favorite.

I can be into the word.

How many y'all been on this 21-day prayer fasting journey?

Okay, I'm glad some of y'all didn't lie.

And so y'all was like, not me.

I've been eating like a pig.

Oh!

Now, but whether you did one day,

21 days, you did it,

the Lord gave me a word.

And I feel like this is the perfect word

to end your 21-day fast with.

And even if you haven't been a part of it,

you can get something in this word

that's really going to minister to you and encourage you.

And can I be honest,

most of the sermons I preach,

I prepare it for the people of God.

That's not my personal devotion.

Right?

That's like, I'm preparing it for the people

and I have my own personal devotion.

This that I'm sharing is my own personal devotion.

I usually don't preach my personal devotion.

So it makes me like,

it's a little bit out of place.

Back to three points in the perfect symmetry

around this sermon,

but it's literally the Lord speaking to me

in my own personal time.

And so this word is special to me.

Y'all ready?

Yeah.

Now, first service was lit.

I don't know.

Second service,

people come late and they don't want to say amen.

First service everyone is on time.

Everyone is militant there.

People are just staying on play.

Okay, Luke chapter four.

Let me not lose the people of God before the word Luke chapter four.

Thank you guys for having me.

By this time, most of y'all know me.

Who doesn't know me here?

You can be honest.

There's like three people.

You almost say I'll know me.

So you know, I'm a little different.

But Luke chapter four verse one.

Let's get into this.

I'm going to read a lot.

All right.

Luke chapter four verse one.

Then Jesus,

then Jesus being filled with the holy spirit returned from the Jordan

and was led by the spirit into the wilderness.

Can I just stop right there and give you guys some context

of what's happening?

Because in order to understand Luke chapter four,

this is good Bible reading just for anyone who wants to know.

You always have to go back and read Luke chapter three

and sometimes even read Luke chapter five in order to understand

and get like a sandwich.

It's like an Oreo sandwich of the word.

Right?

You take one piece of the Oreo out and you eat it by yourself.

All right.

You take another piece of the Oreo out and you eat it by yourself.

All right.

You do the cream by yourself.

That's disgusting.

You're a serial killer.

Just kidding.

No, but seriously, you are.

But when you take the two pieces of the Oreo,

with the cream on the inside and you eat it together,

it's perfect symmetry.

You see the way I talk about food I love to eat.

Food is my love language.

All right.

Then Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit

returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit

into the wilderness.

All right.

So let me tell you what was happening in Luke chapter three

in order for us to understand what was happening in Luke chapter four.

So Jesus got baptized by John the Baptist

and during his baptism something insane happened.

I'm talking about life changing, mind blowing,

destiny altering, experience happened.

The Bible says that the heavens opened up

that the Holy Spirit descended.

Y'all got the verse up and everything.

What if I lie?

They would have called me out right there.

The heavens opened up.

Now I got a look to make sure that everybody happened.

Then the Holy Spirit descended like a duck

and the Bible says lightning, lightning was upon him.

I'm talking about craziness happened

and then God the Father spoke from heaven and said,

this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased.

I'm talking about the greatest encounter you could have.

God literally opened up the heavens and spoke to Jesus.

This is not just a regular church service.

This is one of those church services.

You go home and you're never the same.

This is the type of encounter Jesus just had.

Then Jesus immediately after that experience

the Holy Spirit brings him into the wilderness.

Oh my God, this is good already.

I've got to report you into an uncomfortable place.

A place that doesn't make sense.

But everything's good.

I told you we're cool, God.

I got on but I've been praying.

I've been fasting.

I've been singing you what?

Send me to the wilderness.

And then that's when the Holy Spirit told me

the wilderness was not meant to kill you,

was meant to reveal you.

It was meant to bring something out of you

that you didn't even know was there.

Let's go to verse two.

I don't understand what you're saying,

but you're going to get it.

I'm being tempted for 40 days by the devil

and in those days he ate nothing.

So he was fasting 40 days.

No food.

Not like turning off the Netflix for five minutes

and then call it fasting.

Well?

That's not fasting.

That's just called discipline.

That's what every believer should have.

It's not fasting.

Not watching Netflix is not fasting.

That's all.

Come on out.

Ooh, I didn't watch Netflix for a week.

I'm sacrificing so much for the Lord.

All right.

Okay.

Can I say something about verse one?

Is that somehow the Holy Spirit will lead you to a place

that doesn't look like it's him,

but it's exactly where he wants you to be.

Because there's lessons there.

And then he was hungry.

Right?

40 days.

Fast.

Hungry.

Verse three.

And the devil said to him,

if you are the son of God,

command this stone to become bread.

Verse four.

But Jesus answered him saying,

it is written.

Man shall not live by bread alone

but by every word of God.

Then the devil, taking number on a high mountain,

showed him all the kingdoms of the world

in a moment of time.

Verse six.

And the devil said to him,

all this authority I give to you and their glory

for this has been delivered to me.

And I give it to whoever I wish for seven.

Therefore, if you will worship before me,

all will be yours.

Verse eight.

And Jesus answered and said to him,

get me behind me Satan.

For it is written,

you shall worship the Lord your God

and him only shall you worship.

Then he brought him into Jerusalem,

set him on a pinnacle of the temple,

and said to him,

if you are the son of God,

throw yourself down from here.

Verse ten.

For it is written,

he shall give his angels

charger for you to keep you.

Verse eleven.

And in their hands,

they shall bear you up,

lest he dash your foot against the stone.

Verse twelve.

And Jesus answered and said to him,

it has been said,

you shall not tempt the Lord your God.

Verse thirteen.

Now when the devil had ended every temptation,

he departed from him until an opportune time.

May God bless the reading of his word.

Tell of my sermon is,

y'all remember it from the first service?

Oh, I like y'all.

You see it?

It's something we were listening.

You're coming out stronger.

Can I be transparent with you?

I feel like 2023 was a major wilderness here

for me.

Can I be completely transparent?

Is that sometimes when you go through a wilderness,

you wonder if God is even with you.

How have you ever been through a wilderness before?

Y'all are quiet in this service.

You've got, like,

a man's praise the Lord is going to help me preach in 20 minutes

and send your home happy.

I don't get amazement.

I'm like, I've got to preach more because of that.

I guess it's not that good.

If you have not been through a wilderness,

and you're a believer,

you will go through one.

We can't keep paying this rosy picture of Christianity

that there's no such thing as wilderness.

You will go through wilderness.

You will go through trials.

You will go through storms.

You will go through temptation.

You will go through things as a believer.

But I have the best news for you.

God is with you.

Now only as God with you,

He says, I will never leave you.

I will never forsake you.

And He allows His Holy Spirit to come on you

to strengthen you so that you will be able to go through the fire

and not get burned.

Go through the water and not drown

and be an overcomer on the other side of what you're going through.

I need about three overcomers.

You to lift up your hands

and thank God for the overcomers

so that they give it on me.

The same power that won't Jesus Christ from the dead

is only inside of you

and is giving you victory over death, health,

and the great is giving you victory

over every exactly the enemy

and giving you victory over every sickness.

I need some overcomers to lift up your hands

and say, I will never come.

I will never come.

I will never come.

I will never come.

I will never come.

I will never come.

Verse 1 is very powerful for me

because it says that when Jesus went into the wilderness,

He went in the power,

He went in the, He went being filled with the Holy Spirit.

So, He leads us in counter,

filled with the Holy Spirit

going into the wilderness.

Isn't that a good way to go into the wilderness?

Fill with the Holy Spirit?

He goes into the wilderness,

filled with the Holy Spirit

and He fasts for 40 days and 40 nights

and then the devil comes to Him

after the fast.

Can I speak to some people who have been

in this prayer of fast for 21 days?

You may come out,

filled with the Holy Spirit.

Just know that the devil is waiting on the other side

to bring temptation,

to bring heartache and pain.

So, we are going to go through the three temptations.

Sit with me for one minute

because the Holy Spirit is about to do something.

I feel such an anointing.

I have to say this in the first place.

For those who have been oppressed,

you have been under a weight of oppression

and the enemy has had you in a cycle,

year after year,

the spirit of the Lord says that there is an anointing for breakthrough

that is getting ready to hit this house.

Oh, I just need three people.

And there is going to be a weight of glory

and a yolk breaking anointing

that is getting ready to hit this house.

From every person who needs a breakthrough

and a deliverance and a healing,

God is getting ready to blow through this house.

I have to say that in the first place.

I feel the weight of this thing so heavy.

Let's look at verse three.

Let's look at the first thing that happens here.

It goes into the power of the Holy Spirit

and the devil comes and tempts him.

And the devil says to him,

if you are the son of God,

command this song to become bread.

Look at verse four.

But Jesus is sent to him.

It is written,

man shall not live by bread alone,

but by every word that proceeds out the mouth of God.

So Jesus didn't eat forty days,

forty nights,

and the first temptation to devil gives him is food.

God is breaded to song.

But then the Holy Spirit started speaking to me

and saying,

it's more than physical food.

The devil's temptation to Jesus

was telling him that something carnal and fleshly

could fulfill and satisfy him.

Then you like proof it to me.

Let's go to do the ronomy.

Let's go to the scripture and do the ronomy.

Verse two.

Jesus wasn't quoting a scripture

just from the back of his mind.

Jesus was actually looking at the Old Testament

and was quoting Moses

when he was talking about the children of Israel

and their wilderness.

Okay, they were in the wilderness for forty years.

Jesus was in the wilderness for forty days.

They failed in the wilderness,

but Jesus passed a test in the wilderness.

So what Jesus is saying is

because I overcame the wilderness

and I overcame the world,

then you got the power to overcome the wilderness.

You don't have to fall to the same track

as the children of Israel

because I overcame the wilderness

and because I live on the inside of you,

you have the same power to overcome every wilderness.

So Jesus goes back and he quotes

where Israel fails.

He says they failed in the area of food.

They failed in the area of cursing God

because they didn't have enough food

and they wanted to go back to Egypt

and eat the cucumbers in Egypt.

They might not be in slavery

but have something that physically fills up.

See, that's how crazy flesh is.

Flesh will make you go back to areas

that God already set you free from.

Just to satisfy a temporary need

that can only actually be satisfied

by the Holy Spirit.

This is good.

Some of you have placed so much attention

on this void that's only inside

but you've tried everything to fill the void.

Like he can fill it.

He can't.

Like she can fill it.

She can't.

Like the necklinks and chill can fill it

but it can't.

Like broken relationship after broken relationship can fill it

but it can't.

Like you make it more money

and your job can fill you but it can't.

You're hungry for something

but here's where the true hunger

is supposed to be.

Look what it says.

And you shall remember the Lord your God

led you all these years,

40 years in the wilderness

to humble you and to test you

to know whether what was in your heart

or whether you would keep this command

but you're not looking verse three.

So he humbled you,

allowed you to hunger,

allowed you to hunger.

Why?

Because he wants to feed you.

So he fed them with mana

but that's not the real food

that he was trying to give them.

The lesson was a spiritual lesson.

Mana only temporarily fills you.

Mana, you eat it one day.

This is what they have to do with the mana.

They ate it one day

and the next thing it turned into worms.

It could not bring satisfaction

beyond the temporary moment.

It couldn't bring satisfaction

beyond the second that it was eaten.

After that moment they became hungry again

but here's what the scripture says.

But man lives by every word

that precedes out the mouth of God.

So the real satisfaction is real.

Is it the mana you're getting?

It's the word of God.

Because that brings true satisfaction.

It brings true illuminations.

It brings true fulfillment.

It brings true satisfaction to your soul.

You don't need the mana.

You need the word.

You don't need the temporary task.

You need the word.

You don't need the temporary.

Temporary stuff.

The word is enough.

I will do it.

I have a void.

The word will take it.

Natural things are needed.

But the word of God

is the only thing that can satisfy.

Look at the second one.

Look at the second temptation.

Look at the fourth verse five.

There's a surrender devil

taking him up on a high mountain

showed him all the kingdoms of the world

in a moment of time.

All right.

Can I stop right there?

Because that's really deep.

The devil allowed in one second

for Jesus to see every thing in this world.

One moment in time.

The black before his eyes

he saw everything in this world.

And the devil gave them an offer.

And he says,

then the devil taking him up on a high mountain

showed him all the kingdoms of the world

in a moment of time.

Verse six.

And the devil sent to him

all this authority.

I will give you

and their glory

for that's been delivered to me.

And I will give it to whoever I wish.

Or if you will worship before me

all will be yours.

So the second temptation

that comes in the wilderness is

if you worship

you bow down to me

everything will be given to you.

This is the temptation of taking a short call.

Can I explain why?

Because when Adam and Eve sent

the Bible says that

the minion of the earth was given over to Satan.

Amen?

Before the foundations of the earth,

Jesus already

was being sent by the Father

to fulfill the plan of salvation

to be born of a woman

to die,

nails in his hands in his feet,

a crown of corn on his head,

die and resurrect and ascend.

That was a whole process.

What the devil saying here is

Jesus, you can have a shortcut.

The shortcut is

I'll give you all this stuff.

You just got to bow down.

You don't got to die.

You don't got to resurrect.

You don't got to ascend.

All you have to do.

All you have to do is bow down.

Take a short cut.

See?

The enemy would love

to make you take the easy way to destiny.

That's how the Bible says,

the way to destiny,

the way to the kingdom is narrow

and is difficult

and only few find it.

Because it takes time.

I realize something about cooking food.

You can cook a meal that takes you 20 minutes

and you can cook a meal that takes you four hours.

Those meals have two different results

and they have two different methods

and two different processes.

I like the 20 minute meals

when I'm in a rush.

My kids are coming back from school.

They're about to be hungry.

They're going to yell at me.

I just need to eat right now.

Okay.

Let me just boil some pasta

and put some Alfredo sauce on it from a can.

But that works.

But when I really want to cook, there's a process.

I go to the store.

I don't just get whatever is in my cabinet.

I get the carry gold butter.

Oh!

I get some fresh garlic.

Fresh herbs.

Oh no.

Right?

I get all my ingredients together

because the process is different

because the result is going to be different.

Everyone can see the difference between the meal

that took 20 minutes

and it may not be bad

but the process

that took three hours

because I needed to go

and get everything and prepare it.

You see,

Jesus comes just the easy way out.

Here's 20 minutes.

Version.

Jesus goes,

I'm willing to go through the whole entire process

to make sure you have eternal life.

I'm making sure

that I suffer

so that you don't have to suffer.

I'm making sure

that they beat my body for a bloody pulp

so that by my stripes

you are healed.

I'm making sure that I'm wounded

for your transgressions.

So they're putting sin on me

so sin doesn't have to be on you.

Oh Jesus!

I'm so glad we went through the process

and didn't cut the line.

Who said, do everything you do to me

so that they can be sent free.

All right.

Let's go to the third one.

I'm almost done.

Wow, that was great.

I think the first service

made you preach a little bit more.

Let's go to the next

Luke, I mean,

you have Luke,

Luke chapter four percent.

So he talks about the two.

I said this in the first service.

The devil is going to attack you

with three things.

First John chapter two verse 16.

The lust of the flesh

and that was turning bread into stone.

The lust of the

okay, I know the word.

I'm happy.

The lust of the eyes

and that was

he showed him the world

and then here's the third one.

The pride of life.

He brings it on to the pinnacle

and he says,

if you're the son of God, jump.

He says, jump.

Just throw yourself down from here.

Look what verse 10 says.

For it is written.

So now the devil is so tricky

that he's quoting scripture.

The devil starts quoting scripture to Jesus.

Here's what the word says.

See, that's why you're going to be careful

what you listen to and who you listen to.

Because some people would twist scripture

to make you do things that harm God will.

That's why the truth is a study

to show yourself approved.

A workman needed not to be ashamed

correctly dividing the word of truth.

This is why I was born to know the word.

Because you don't need anyone manipulating you.

The Holy Spirit will teach you all things.

The Holy Spirit will guide you.

Passes are just there to live and release.

Help direct as the Holy Spirit leads you.

They're not there to be your Holy Spirit.

Passes are not there to do Bible study for you.

I don't like this church

because they don't teach me.

Yeah, teach yourself.

You don't like when you're a student.

The professor is not there at your house.

Yeah, let me show you how to do this and this and that.

No, you get the book. You read it.

And if you need help, you go,

yeah, I don't understand this segment

of what's happening here.

Sometimes you don't even go to the teacher.

You go to Google first.

Because you don't want to live down.

Let me go to Google first.

I don't want to look crazy going to the professor.

Send me out every little thing.

But past, I just need to know how to

the Holy Spirit will teach you.

When it gets to the point where you need direction,

guess what the Holy Spirit is going to target past the moment.

It's going to target past the boy arm.

It's going to target your spiritual leaders and say,

here, help guide them.

I didn't say this the first time.

Someone needs to hear this.

Because some of you are still drinking milk.

When you should be having the meat of the word.

Amen.

You still have the milk.

You're still doing elementary,

spiritual exercises.

When you should be teaching the word yourself.

You've been here for 20 years.

And as people who came for two years.

Many teaching life groups.

They're ready to teach your Bible studies.

They're ready leaders.

But you've been here for 20 years.

Sitting down lazy.

Okay, let me get out of here.

He's getting hot in here.

Who's getting hot in here?

Some of you are babes and you should be more mature than you are.

You come here every Sunday.

You sit with your family.

And you think you've done your spiritual duty for the week.

And the devil keeps attacking you because you don't know the word.

You know what gave Jesus victory over the devil.

Even when he quoted scripture.

Is that he knew the right context of the word.

The context of the word makes it very important.

Jesus goes back to the proper context.

Look at verse 11.

Look at the proper context.

He goes right back to wilderness.

And he says, I'm going to quote something that's going to make sense here.

Because while I'm in the wilderness.

The devil wants to quote a scripture that has nothing to do with what's happening here.

But I'm going to quote a scripture that has everything to do with what's happening here.

So he goes back and he quotes Deuteronomy while they're in the wilderness.

He quotes Moses' sermon that Moses was preaching while they were in the wilderness.

It's a devil.

Look, I'm using the scripture in its proper context to tell you to beat it.

Oh, tell me you have the devil in Matthew with your mind.

Matthew with your money.

Matthew with your help.

Matthew with your help.

Get the word I'm going to tell the devil beat it.

Tell me you have a point.

Over some practice.

Go against me.

And over all the power of people.

You have power of taking.

You are the power of the kingdom of goodness.

You are the power of the world of God.

Just speak, please.

There'll be none.

So they will.

So you think you are talking right now.

And tell the devil, leave my kids alone.

Leave my husband alone.

Leave my finest alone.

I'm more than a conqueror.

Come on, we're so good.

You have a conqueror in the house.

You're not a weakling.

You're not a weakling.

You're not a built toast.

You're not a king.

We heard me.

You're strong and a lord.

And a problem is mine.

You got to know who you are.

This is why the word is important.

Because the word will be to show you who you are.

You know why the devil had victory?

And you know why God had victory over the devil in the wilderness?

Because he knew who he was.

Jesus goes, this is my beloved.

When you go into any wilderness with that context, you'll have victory.

When you go into any wilderness with the context, I'm a son.

I'm a daughter.

Anything that comes your way.

I'm a son.

It don't matter how tough it is.

I'm a son.

And here's what's funny.

Jesus didn't do one lick of ministry yet.

And he was already a son.

But I don't preach.

I don't care.

You're a son.

Because he's not for you to be a son.

You're a daughter.

Because he's not for you to be a daughter.

There's nothing to do with your works.

There's nothing to do with your goodness.

There's nothing to do with your abilities.

You are a son of God.

Because Jesus died in the cross.

And when children are accepted, he said,

You give to the honor and your privilege to become a son of God.

That's an honor.

All right.

I'm almost done.

Are you all good or cool?

All right.

So we're at the last one.

So Jesus is quoting Moses.

We'll put that back up there here.

And Jesus answered and said to him,

You should not tap the Lord your God.

He goes back and quotes that whole sermon.

Because the children of Israel, they were tempting God.

So he quotes, I'm doing around here, chapter six,

where it says that they tempted God.

Don't tempt the Lord your God as they tempted him and mass up.

And that's when they didn't have enough water.

And so they were like, God's not really with us.

He's like, God, they complain like us.

God, but you say you're going to be with me.

I don't understand God.

And so he quotes this and he's like,

Where Israel failed, I'm not going to fail.

I'm not going to fail the lesson of not trusting God when things get tough.

I'm not going to fail in not believing that God actually has my back.

And that he's going to do what he said.

And that he's faithful to his word.

I'm not going to fail in that lesson.

All right.

First, let's go back to Luke.

We're almost done.

So this is the part where I was like, okay.

Y'all still with me?

Why? Why the wilderness?

Why? Why go through all this?

Why 40 days of fasting, no food?

Why 21 days?

I'm calling every day at seven o'clock and I'm not eating food.

Some of y'all lie, though.

With the Lord loves He needs for giving you His gracious, compassionate, I'm going to eat you a salad.

Y'all feel that I'm joking.

I fasting and fail too, so I just pick it back up.

All right, Lord.

Let's try this again.

There's my stomachs smoke a language.

But I said, why?

Why all this?

40 days, no food, 40 days fasting, being tempted by the devil, going through the wilderness?

Why? There has to be a reason gone through all this.

There's to be a reason I'm saying no to my flesh.

There's to be a reason why I feel overwhelmed.

There has to be a reason and then I read it straight in the text and it blew my mind.

Because I've never read this verse in this context before.

So the Bible says in Luke chapter 4 verse 1, can we go to verse 1?

Luke 4:1

For a second, back to verse 1.

Jesus being filled with the Holy Spirit.

So how did he go into the wilderness?

How did he go into the wilderness?

Fill with the Holy Spirit.

All right, he goes through all of this stuff, tempted by the devil, not eating 40 days, 49th.

All this stuff.

And then look at Luke chapter 4 verse 14.

Luke 4:14

It says, then Jesus returned in the house.

Whoa, hold on.

There's a difference in being filled and happy.

So all of that that Jesus went through was not a punishment.

It was an invitation from promotion.

The wilderness wasn't there to kill him.

It was there to reveal him.

Oh, you're stronger than you think you are.

You're more anointed than you think you are.

I know you went into the season filled with the Holy Spirit,

to step out in the power of this thing.

All of this is not in vain.

All of it.

Yeah, I can't go out with you.

You know, turn it over to play.

I'm not going to watch Netflix.

It's not in vain.

Because you're stepping out of the season of just being filled with the Holy Spirit,

and then turn to a season of.

You thought the sass was here to devour.

It was here to empower.

I'm going to say it again.

You thought the wilderness and the sass was meant to devour.

No, it was meant to empower.

So look what happens after Jesus gets empowered.

The next thing he does, he casts out demons.

He heals the sick.

He rains the dead.

He climbs the leopard.

He preaches the kingdom.

He sees people saying he goes into places that no one else wants to go.

And he sees the glory of God manifests.

Can I tell you something?

This season only bringing you into greater glory.

In greater power, in greater anointing.

Your family is going to get saved after this.

Your ministry is going to catapult after this.

Your life is going to take off after this.

It's not in vain.

All of the sacrifices get ready for the power of the Holy Spirit.

Moving in your life, moving in your family, moving in your business.

Get ready for your dreams that come true.

Get ready for you to finish the program.

Get ready for the funding to come.

Get ready for the glory of the manifest.

This is your hour of power.

Lift up your hands and show them that you really believe in.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

All right.

Let's say it's who I think you got to go.

It's your hour of power.

I read that I was like, whoa.

So all of that.

That was a lot Jesus went through.

But he was tempted with all types of temptations.

But guess what it brought?

It brought another dimension in power.

That Greek word for power is the word doonimus.

It means miraculous working power.

So he moved from your fields to now your American worker.

You see, some of them are shouting because you saw those just for Jesus.

Notice for you after this 21 days, you went and built with the Holy Spirit

you're leaving as a miracle worker.

Another translation for doonimus is dynamite.

Something that explodes and creates a lot of destruction.

Can I tell you something?

You're about to create a lot of destruction to the kingdom of darkness.

Oh, three people said amen.

How many people are about to create a lot of destruction?

To be my existence.

To be my anthropologist.

To be my existence.

To generate some experience.

You got power.

To say no to the enemy.

You're about to disrupt some stuff.

It won't stop.

You're about to trust that anything.

You hear the disruptors in the house.

We're the Holy Ghost.

You've picked on the wrong one.

You don't even know, Demo.

All your temptation was just my promotion.

Go father, I thank you for being anointed and the power of the Holy Spirit.

I receive a fresh impartation, a strength, a glory, a glory, and an anointing.

My family shall be saved.

My family shall be saved.

My body shall be healed.

In Jesus' name, not in Jesus' name, but in Jesus' name.

Amen.

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