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Faith's Triumph Over Adversity: A Tale of Paul and Silas

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  1. I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David.

  2. He shall open. This is talking about Jesus.

  3. When Jesus comes, there's a key that's going to be laid on him.

  4. And it's going to be the key of the house of David, which is the key of intimacy.

  5. It says the key is going to be laid on him on his shoulder.

  6. It says and he shall open.

  7. There's a door that's getting ready to open.

  8. Welcome to the City Light Church podcast.

  9. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and truth that he has for us.

  10. If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at citylightnyc.com.

  11. That's citylightnyc.com.

  12. Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds.

  13. As you listen to today's teaching, remember that you are deeply loved by God,

  14. that you are surrounded by His grace, and that He has a real hope and a future for you.

  15. All right, let's get to Acts chapter 16, Acts the 16 chapter.

    Acts 16 chapter mention

  16. And I'm going to read two verses. It's going to be 25 and 26.

  17. And I'm going to get into the Word.

  18. It might start off slow, but it's going to end strong, amen?

  19. Y'all with me?

  20. Okay, I can't have the first service with 85 people.

  21. Be louder than y'all with like 200 people in here.

  22. Okay, I see, I see y'all were like, y'all, you're not going to play me, man, a God?

  23. Acts chapter 16 verse 25, here's what it says.

    Acts 16:25

  24. At midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God.

  25. And the prisoners were listening to them at midnight.

  26. The darkest time, the most challenging time, it was midnight.

  27. It was midnight. It was a dark season.

  28. It was a dark season.

  29. It was a dark moment.

  30. Our nations had a dark place.

  31. Our seasons had a dark, our nations had a dark moment.

  32. It's a dark season.

  33. But guess what?

  34. They decided to pray and praise anyway.

  35. It says, and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them.

  36. Verse 26, it says, suddenly, there was a great earthquake so that the

  37. foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all.

  38. Hold on, two people were praising, but

  39. let's try that one more time.

  40. Everyone was there in the prison, but only two people were praising.

  41. But because they were praising, the Bible says,

  42. all of my sermon is all the doors are going to open this year.

  43. Hallelujah.

  44. I don't care how impossible it looks.

  45. I declare the doors are opening.

  46. Some have been waiting on contracts and I declare that the door for the contracts opening.

  47. Some have been waiting on a job and I declare the door for employment is opening.

  48. Some have been waiting for salvation for your family members.

  49. I declare that the door of salvation is opening.

  50. Some of you have been in a financial crunch and a financial dry season.

  51. I declare the door of blessing and prosperity is getting ready to open for you today.

  52. After today, every door that's been shut by faith is getting ready to open.

  53. I declare there's a door of healing opening.

  54. I declare there's a door of glory opening.

  55. I declare there's a door of power opening.

  56. I declare there's a door of opportunity.

  57. If you believe it, shout.

  58. That's a faith pill church right there.

  59. In order to understand what was happening here with Paul and Silas,

  60. we need to go back a little bit into the book of Acts, one of my favorite books in the entire Bible.

  61. And what was happening was that Paul was on his second missionary journey.

  62. He already did his first and this was his second time going out and preaching the gospel

  63. and ministering the gospel in different cities and in different places all around the

  64. Northern world at that time.

  65. And Paul got into a little scuffle with his friend, Barnabas,

  66. over his nephew, John Mark, and they decided not to do ministry anymore.

  67. So Paul decides to connect with Silas.

  68. And him and Silas were about to go into Asia Minor, but as they tried to, in the first service,

  69. I really went in on this, but this service, I don't feel like I should.

  70. See, that's why every service is different.

  71. And as they were trying to go into Asia Minor, the Bible says that the Holy Spirit

  72. prevented them from going and Paul gets a dream to go to Macedonia.

  73. Paul gets a dream that there's help that's needed in the region.

  74. Paul gets a dream.

  75. See, we need spirit led preachers.

  76. We need spirit led people who are not just going to do what they always do and expect a different

  77. resort. We need people who, when the Holy Spirit tells you to go right, you go right.

  78. When the Holy Spirit tells you to go left, you go left.

  79. Because when you do it, God's way, you can be saving a life and not even realizing.

  80. The problem is that many of us are doing things based off what it can do for us financially.

  81. My God, the connections it can bring us and the Holy Spirit is completely left out of the equation.

  82. But we need to get back to the place where we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us,

  83. even if it doesn't seem financially beneficial to us, even though it may not open the doors,

  84. even though it may not be the biggest opportunity, you need to be led by the Holy Spirit.

  85. I pray as a preacher, I'd never get big enough to say no to the small churches.

  86. Because I feel like they don't have the resources to take care of me.

  87. I want to be led by the Holy Spirit.

  88. That if he tells me to go to a church with three people, I know that there's a miracle

  89. getting ready to happen in that place.

  90. If God told, tells me to go and preach on the street,

  91. it's because there's a soul that needs to be saved.

  92. We need spirit led people.

  93. That's how revival is going to break out.

  94. And so what happens is that Paul and Silas, as they're on their way to do what God told them to do,

  95. they end up in a place called Philippi, the first city in Macedonia, the first city and they land

  96. there. Before they even start preaching any sermons, even before they start ministering to

  97. anyone, they go into prayer. Because prayer is the foundation for anything that God's going to do

  98. on the earth. Three people said amen. Prayer is the foundation for everything that God is going to

  99. do on the earth. Even before Jesus, Jesus, we're talking about Jesus, the son of the living God.

  100. We're talking about a hundred percent man, a hundred percent God when he was on the earth.

  101. Even Jesus prayed and fasted for 40 days before he started ministry.

  102. But some of you want to do ministry void of prayer.

  103. Ooh, they could say ow. They know what said amen on the heaven said ow.

  104. Before he could even be launched out into ministry, 40 days, 40 nights fasting in prayer.

  105. If Jesus had to do it, how much us? How much more you and me have to get into the mode of

  106. seeking God? Before we launched out, prayer has to be your food.

  107. You know what birthed my ministry? It was the carpet.

  108. I was on the carpet on my face. That's what birthed me in ministry.

  109. I didn't get birthed in ministry because I was a great preacher.

  110. There's preachers a million times better than me. But what birthed me in ministry was I had a

  111. ministry of prayer for the nations. Anything on the earth great that God wants to do.

  112. He's looking for someone to begin to pray and intercede.

  113. Can I get to the text? I'm almost there. You see, I had like a strict time restriction

  114. in the first service. It's not strict, but it's still a little bit strict.

  115. All right. So I'm going to try my best to keep an alignment.

  116. So Paul and Silas go to Philippi and they go to the city and the first thing they do is they

  117. go into prayer every day. And every day as they're going into prayer, the Bible says that there was a

  118. woman who was demon possessed. She was a sucess. She was a divination. She worshiped false gods

  119. and she was able to tell people's future. She was a fortune teller. She was able to tell people's

  120. future. She was a palm reader. She was able to tell people's future. And as Paul and Silas walked

  121. every day to prayer, this girl will begin to cry out. These are servants of the most high god.

  122. These are servants of the most high god. And it wasn't her words that were wrong. It was her spirit.

  123. That was wrong. And Paul and Silas, they let it go on a few days and the Bible says one day Paul

  124. gets annoyed. You see, God is looking for some people who would just get annoyed by the devil.

  125. The devil has been harassing your family, bringing sickness in your body, bringing confusion all

  126. around you. You need to start getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. You need to get sick

  127. and tired of the enemy throwing shots and arrows at you and say it's time to fight back.

  128. And what's interesting is Paul didn't counsel the demon out of her.

  129. Some of you need counseling. Some of you, the demon needs to be casted out.

  130. Oh, I knew there wasn't going to like that. But the church has become so accustomed that

  131. when something's wrong, why don't we just talk and have a conversation?

  132. Some things are not meant for a conversation. Some things are meant for Rapa Koso Tonaka.

  133. Yeah, come out in the name of Jesus. You have no authority here.

  134. Devil. There's some stuff you can't counsel out. You got to cast out. You got to say devil.

  135. You have no authority here, my family. You can't stay in my house any longer. This rebellion is not

  136. from my God. It's not from God. And it can't stay any longer.

  137. Come on. Where are some Holy Ghost people? Let's say I'm ready to cast out some devils.

  138. I'm ready to cast out some demons. I'm ready to tell the devil you've got no power here in my

  139. family, in my church, in my life.

  140. Can I tell you something? It is not just me who has that power, each and every one of you.

  141. Jesus already told you in Mark chapter 16, you will cast out devils.

    Mark 16 chapter mention

  142. Some of you got some devils on your job. You will cast out devils.

  143. Some of you, your boss is a devil. You will cast some of you, your kids got devils. You will cast

  144. wherever I step into whatever region I step into, hell should be afraid.

  145. I'm talking to the wrong side, maybe this time. Wherever you step, hell should be afraid that you step

  146. on the scene because greater is you that will live within you than he that is in the world.

  147. Hell should be afraid because there's power on the inside of you. Hell should be afraid.

  148. Hell should be afraid when you step into a region because you got power.

  149. You know why there's some stuff you're like, why is this person always angry when I'm around?

  150. It's because you stir up their demons.

  151. You can ask my wife and I promise I'm not lying. I walk down the street and people just start.

  152. Am I lying? Leave me alone, get out of here.

  153. Sir, I don't even know you.

  154. Man, I never met you before but they know me by the spirit.

  155. Oh, you got power. Somebody say I got power. I got Holy Ghost power.

  156. That means you're armed and dangerous. That means you're armed with power.

  157. You're armed with the full armor of God. You got the sword of the spirit.

  158. You got the helmet of salvation. You got the breastplate of righteousness.

  159. Your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

  160. Come on, somebody. I'm armed and dangerous.

  161. So they cast out this demon out of this girl and here's the thing.

  162. After casting out the devil, she made lots of money for the people in that region.

  163. You know when the people of God start arising into our God-given authority,

  164. we start disrupting demonic commerce and demonic economy. Let me say that again.

  165. When we start moving in our divide, let me tell you the strip club is going to have to get shut

  166. down because we're going to step in there and we're going to destroy the economic ecosystem

  167. of every satanic steam and plot.

  168. So many people are going to start getting saved. They're not going to have business anymore.

  169. Okay, three people are shouting. It's happened before I believe that this city is going to

  170. hit such revival that the demonic infrastructure is going to have to be torn down.

  171. That's a demonic system.

  172. You're going to collapse under the weight of God's glory and God's power and God's anointing

  173. somebody shouting here.

  174. I was actually looking something up because I know some people have made this into a political thing,

  175. but I do think it's really powerful and I think if kingdom people start tapping into this reality,

  176. we'll see God do more than we've ever imagined. As a church, the Lord told me, as a church,

  177. we have powered a bankrupt demonic systems, sorry, systems. And the Lord began to show me Disney.

  178. They were promoting LGBTQ agenda to children.

  179. They're promoting demonic. You see, that's what I'm talking about in systems.

  180. Some of you just look at Disney as innocent. Oh, they just do movies.

  181. You don't see the spirit behind it.

  182. Desermant helps you look beyond the words and the message and see the spirit.

  183. And what's happening is that there's the spirit that's being disseminated upon this generation

  184. that says everything's okay. Just live the life the way you want it. Don't listen to your parents.

  185. They're a little bit crazy. Something y'all are, but you know, that's just kidding, but I'm serious.

  186. But we need to beg up these demonic systems. Look at this. Disney lost $50 billion of its market cap.

  187. Come on church, it's time for us to arise. We're going to be the righteous standard on the earth.

  188. You know what? We're going to come up with our own entertainment systems.

  189. As the systems of the world collapse, we're going to come up with our own system.

  190. There is going to be called the Kingdom system.

  191. And what is going to disseminate on the earth is righteousness, holiness, good morals, love, peace, come on somebody.

  192. I don't promote alcohol, right? Because I don't drink and I just don't personally.

  193. Some, some, there's sipping saints, but not me.

  194. Some of the old school saints are going to understand that joke.

  195. The new school says like, oh my god, she's so condemning.

  196. But the old school say there was a book literally written called sipping saints.

  197. Back in the days, you couldn't do everything with a sin. You breathed too loud, you were sinning.

  198. You were a carpenter, sin, sin.

  199. Now nothing's a sin. I just don't get it.

  200. Like it's like, we went from one level to the next.

  201. Everything was a sin. Now nothing's a sin. I'm like, God, bring us back to the balance of your word.

  202. Budweiser, $27 million lost.

  203. Target, $15 billion lost.

  204. The monarch's systems are collapsing all around us.

  205. We can't see in the spirit enough to realize what's happening.

  206. That as a church, because we're starting to unite and it's not a racial thing.

  207. We're united around more than a race, more than our culture, more than where you grew up.

  208. You know the uniting force for the church, Jesus.

  209. You know the uniting force, the kingdom of God.

  210. So I don't care how you look.

  211. We're united on one thing.

  212. And it's the power of the gospel of Jesus.

  213. That makes hell scare.

  214. We need a church that really has power.

  215. We need a church where demons can't hide, where witches can't hide.

  216. We need that power again.

  217. Let me get to my point.

  218. Because I'm talking about all the doors being open.

  219. And I didn't really get to touch on it the way I wanted to in the last service.

  220. Paul, after he does what he does, he faces persecution.

  221. The Bible says they take him into the marketplace.

  222. The place he disrupted.

  223. That's the place they took him into to persecute him.

  224. See, this Christian company is being persecuted in the place that they're disrupting,

  225. the marketplace.

  226. You don't think that Twitter has an agenda,

  227. or Facebook, or Instagram, when they block certain Christian, certain companies that have

  228. Judeo-Christian values.

  229. Oh, no, just normal, just regular.

  230. No, no, it's a form of persecution that's about to increase as the days become more evil.

  231. As wickedness begins to increase on the earth,

  232. the persecution of the saints are only going to get worse.

  233. I know that's not a good news message, but it is a good news message.

  234. Because a good news message is this, that even as the persecution increases,

  235. the church is going to grow.

  236. I prophesied this right now, and you can see it all throughout scripture.

  237. Every time the church is persecuted, that's the hour where the church grows the more,

  238. that's the hour where there's more miracles, and more signs, and more wonders, and more glory,

  239. and I declare as America begins to persecute Christians, because they don't want to succumb

  240. to the LGBTQ-T-A-F-G-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T agenda.

  241. That's how confusing it is.

  242. Not even a plus and minus equals time.

  243. Because we want to succumb to it, there's a persecution coming.

  244. And guess what?

  245. It's not time to say, I'm just going to do what my job tells me to do.

  246. Yeah, if they want he-she, I'm going to say he-she, don't call you by your name.

  247. I don't want to get fired, so I'm not going to use pronouns.

  248. I'll just say your name, hey, Jim.

  249. Because I'm not going to feed into craziness and insanity.

  250. We ought to take a stand as a church, and some people may not like it, but I don't care.

  251. Because the system of the nuclear family of men and women was not something that I created,

  252. it's something that God created.

  253. The Bible says at the beginning, he created a male and feed-and I don't care who tries to change it.

  254. I don't care what they say about it.

  255. I don't care what scientists comes out.

  256. They're all wrong and God's right.

  257. So, his persecutive, he's whipped.

  258. Can't I tell you what's interesting?

  259. This is Silas' first trip.

  260. Imagine I'm like, yo, Passimo.

  261. I'm be traveling, preaching, come with me.

  262. First trip!

  263. They take us out to the marketplace.

  264. Start being us throws in jail. He's like I'm never traveling with this dude

  265. My friend that's a call a baptism right there

  266. My first drug it

  267. They beat me. I'm just imagining how to beat down happen, right?

  268. Stop

  269. Oh, I'm gonna beat down my first trip

  270. Someone said I know

  271. But but

  272. This was a story gets a little bit interesting

  273. Can't pause right here to just talk about a couple of the doors that God's getting ready to open for you

  274. Is that cool with everyone? I know it's not like

  275. Perfect in the way you're supposed to preach a sermon and my points. I don't really care

  276. I'm gonna flow with the Lord

  277. Can I tell you the first door that's gonna open for you this year?

  278. Okay, y'all didn't want to hear it

  279. This is the year of open doors

  280. The first door that God is getting ready to open for you is called wide and active doors

  281. In the midst of opposition

  282. They're doors that are gonna open even while

  283. Opposing forces are coming against you and they're gonna be so big. They're gonna be so powerful

  284. They're gonna be so wide. All right. Let's open up to the scripture first Corinthians chapter 16

    1 Corinthians 16 chapter mention

  285. And I only want to look at the last verse verse nine

  286. Here's what it says and this is Paul speaking because he was trying to get to Ephesus and get to the people

  287. Verse eight says that he was trying to get to them in Ephesus, but he says let's go to verse eight

  288. Let's read read that but I will Terry in Ephesus until Pentecost because he was trying to get to them in Corinthians

  289. So he got stuck in Ephesus and he goes man, I got to wait in Ephesus until Pentecost

  290. But here's what he said he says for a great

  291. That word great literally means wide

  292. To the door you're about to walk into you won't just be barely getting into it

  293. It's Taylor made even though you put on a few pounds

  294. Then here's the second thing it says it's an effective door which means an active door

  295. You know what happens when a door is active that means things just keep coming and keep coming and keep can I prophesy?

  296. That the blessing is just gonna keep coming that the abundance is gonna keep coming that the

  297. Opportunity come on somebody the opportunities are gonna just keep coming

  298. You won't even be able to keep up with how big the blessing is gonna be

  299. And here's what he says this is my favorite part of the passage great ineffective doors has opened to me and there are many adversaries

  300. He's saying in the midst of warfare. I'm still experiencing open doors

  301. Can I tell you I know you've been facing a lot of warfare and a lot of attacks but even in the midst of it

  302. I declare God is opening great and effective doors for you in Jesus name

  303. I can I tell you the second door that God's getting ready to open for you

  304. I'll just kidding the second door that God's getting ready to open for you is a door that no man can close

  305. This is this is one of my favorites because I don't care what anyone tries to do your boss may try to stop you from getting a promotion

  306. They can't even stop you

  307. I

  308. How much power they think they have the board will look at them and tell them no they must get the job

  309. Look at this Isaiah chapter 22 verse 22 and our place on his shoulder

    Isaiah 22:22

  310. The key of David I'm reading from the the ESV even though the and and KJVs up there. Don't worry. I'm doing my own thing

  311. I

  312. Will place on his shoulder and I told them to end KJV, but this is just me doing my own thing

  313. Don't judge the media people. It's me judge me

  314. Right they're amazing judge me. I

  315. I'm judge. Thank you

  316. I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David

  317. He shall open this is talking about Jesus this talking about Jesus is talking about Jesus when Jesus comes

  318. There's a key that's going to be laid on him and it's going to be the key of the house of David

  319. Which is the key of intimacy?

  320. It's just the key of the house of David right the key of the Messiah the key of the ruler the master

  321. It says the key is going to be laid on him on his shoulder. It says and he shall open

  322. There's a door that's getting ready to open and the Bible says and no one shall

  323. All right, here's the third door

  324. A door into good things

  325. All right, let's let's open up there Matthew chapter 7

    Matthew 7 chapter mention

  326. We'll look at verse 7 then we're going to look at I think verse 11

  327. Here's what it says ask and it'll be given to you seek and you shall find knock

  328. And it will be open to you then verse 11 tells you what you're going to be

  329. What you're going to get the benefit of it being open look at this if

  330. If they're being evil know how to give good gifts to your children how much more will your father who is in heaven

  331. Give good

  332. Man god don't want me to be blessed

  333. He don't want me to have good things, you know, he just wants me to just barely be able to pay my bills the devil is a liar

  334. The Bible says

  335. How much more will your father who is in heaven give

  336. Man, I'm just barely holding on and barely surviving and barely and barely and broke busting and discuss no

  337. No

  338. He wants to give you

  339. There's a door of good things coming to you

  340. Good opportunities

  341. All right

  342. Here's I didn't spend a lot of time on these because I've already taken too long

  343. Here's the third one oh fourth one a door into financial increase

  344. All right, let me say to layman sir a door into money a door into wealth

  345. A door into real estate a door into owning property

  346. I declared the door be open for your business

  347. Come on somebody I declare the door of promotion be open for you

  348. Oh three people are shouting I need some real states who believe it

  349. The door is getting ready to open in Jesus name

  350. Look at this let's go there Isaiah chapter 45

    Isaiah 45 chapter mention

  351. We're gonna look at verse one and then look at verse three look what it says

  352. That says the Lord to his anointed Cyrus whose right hand I've held to subdue the nations before him and to lose the armor of kings to open before him the

  353. Lord

  354. Hold on

  355. Hold on

  356. He just opened in the door for you

  357. He's getting ready to open a double door for you

  358. In my room there's a double door and I remember when we were moving there was certain things that couldn't fit in the regular door

  359. Our

  360. Bad our mattress couldn't fit when the door was just

  361. One of the doors was open. So what we had to do is we had to take the lock off and then we had to open

  362. The double door and what couldn't fit before

  363. Can I tell you there's a blessing so big that one door isn't enough

  364. There's a miracle so big that one door isn't enough

  365. I declare double doors over you

  366. I declare double the wealth

  367. I declare double the salary

  368. I declare double the square footage

  369. I declare double the clients or I need someone to shout like they believe it

  370. Oh

  371. Double is coming on you now in Jesus name

  372. Double for your trouble double for the warfare I declare double in Jesus name

  373. It says double doors and the gates would not be shut liqueur verse 3 says it's gonna tell you

  374. Why the double door has to open because of the amount of what's coming in I will give you the treasures of darkness

  375. That means

  376. money

  377. treasures wealth

  378. That were in dark places

  379. I mean money that was

  380. In the grip of evil people

  381. I'm gonna give that to you

  382. There's no way the people of God should be suffering and the wicked should be prospering

  383. and

  384. Hidden riches

  385. Hold on so there's money

  386. That's hidden

  387. That only an open door can bring to you

  388. See this is why I don't play around if God says open door I'm believe in open door

  389. Because I need that hidden money to start hitting my cow

  390. Amen

  391. It says hidden riches of secret places that you may know that I the Lord who called you by your name

  392. Am the God I'm not doing this for any reason except to boast in how good I am

  393. All right

  394. Can we get back to the tax?

  395. Is that all right with everyone?

  396. All right, so let's get back to act chapter 16 and then

  397. I should be done with the preaching part and then I want to lay hands on every single person in the house

  398. Yeah, like I like the people who be provoking me amen

  399. One person I'm a lay hands on that one person since all y'all said nothing

  400. One person amen, I'm like I lay hands even you babe you name man. I'm not laying here

  401. My own wife I thought she was gonna at least say amen

  402. But when you go back to act chapter 16 something interesting happens Paul and Silas are currently in

  403. prison

  404. bound up

  405. Chains around them

  406. prison doors closed

  407. Around hardened criminals

  408. But here's the crazy thing

  409. They don't stop praising

  410. They don't allow what they're going through to become their identity

  411. You can be in prison and not have a prison mindset

  412. You can be going through hell and hell not get into you

  413. Oh, I like this right here. This is my type of preaching

  414. You can be going through storms and the storm doesn't get into you and doesn't affect who you are

  415. You can be going through some stuff and still have a good attitude

  416. And still worship and still praise and still everyone doesn't have to know you're going through a hard time

  417. How did I say why don't I know you're angry and upset and going through put a smile on your face Jesus rose from the dead

  418. I

  419. Don't want to look like what I'm going through

  420. You know that you have power that no matter how crazy

  421. Your region your home your community is

  422. You have atmosphere shifting power

  423. I

  424. Want to try that one more time you have atmosphere shifting power

  425. That because you step on the scene even though crazy things are happening it won't get in you

  426. There was a storm

  427. There was a really crazy storm to the point where professional fishermen got scared

  428. People who had been out in the water every day they were like nah, they say no, no, I'ma die

  429. I'ma die

  430. Jesus didn't even let it get inside of him

  431. They let the storm affect their eternal reality

  432. They started speaking death instead of life when they saw what was happening externally

  433. Some of you have allowed external circumstances to affect so much of what who you are internally

  434. So everything that happens on the outside starts seeping into your spirit seeping into your soul

  435. And it starts becoming a part of who you are

  436. And you start thinking man just life is just terrible

  437. You start making those confessions man life is just not good for me is good for other what

  438. You got to start changing the way you talk

  439. Life and death is in the power of your tongue

  440. I don't care how bad it looks

  441. I ain't speaking that I'm going through struggle and pain. No God is with me

  442. Nope greater is he that's within me than he that is in the world

  443. Nope wealth and riches are in my house. I start speaking the word

  444. So look at this I I read this and and Paula Salas they

  445. They start praising

  446. And the miss they start praising they start singing there's gyra you are enough

  447. I wish I could sing like Sean and I could play the saxophone like that. What's your name young? Oh my god

  448. Jordan. Oh my gosh. She killed it

  449. Yo the worship team

  450. Y'all went higher. It was crazy

  451. Man y'all they killed it

  452. I mean killed it was urban colloquial terms. They were amazing

  453. Gosh I was like yo, what should I play nice saxophone? I was like so smooth jazz right

  454. I was still in the spur but I was like oh yeah

  455. They've we need to go to a jazz club

  456. Next y'all need a horn section because if one

  457. If the sax could sound that good imagine you get the trumpet in the oh man

  458. trumpet player arise to your destiny and start playing

  459. Okay, so they were praising

  460. It was midnight

  461. It was the darkest time

  462. Of the night when it says midnight. That's literally what it means

  463. Because it's usually that darkest time where you can grow the most

  464. Because that's why you really learn who God is because you can't depend on anyone else you can't

  465. Says Paula Salas were praying and singing him to God and the prisoners were listening. They weren't even praising

  466. Look what it says what look what their praise did

  467. First 26

  468. Suddenly there was an earthquake

  469. Okay, I don't think you realize the power of your praise

  470. They prayed so hard

  471. That it literally changed the dynamic of what was happening on the earth

  472. Baby I believe that if you would just praise that you'll begin to shift what's happening in the nations

  473. If I could just find two people in the house like Paul and Silas to praise no matter how dark

  474. Things look in the nation no matter how dark things look in your family no matter how dark things look in your situation

  475. I guarantee that God's gonna send a divine earthquake and begin to shift. Oh Ramakostatana my the foundations of things

  476. The Bible says of the prison and it was shaken and

  477. Immediately and is the last door

  478. Oh

  479. So if I told you about the four doors and it didn't fit anything that you wanted cannot prophesy something to you

  480. oh

  481. Okay, I need some praises in here

  482. Who know that all the doors means the doors in your marriage that means the doors in your finances

  483. That means the doors in your prayer life

  484. That means the doors in writing the book that means the doors in completing the assignment

  485. That means the doors of contracts that means the doors of your education

  486. That means the doors of your purpose that means the doors of your calling

  487. I declare and decree that all the doors are getting ready to open for you

  488. Today come on. I need you to shout in this place. If you really believe it

  489. Every door that's been held up every door that's been limited

  490. It's about to open for you now in Jesus name

  491. I'm gonna end with this last thing

  492. um

  493. I'm from New York, but when I moved to Pennsylvania. I realized that um Pennsylvania moved

  494. Completely different when it came to guns

  495. Um

  496. Oh, those random right

  497. I'm always there. I'm so random, babe

  498. You forgot I'm a preacher. Okay, I'm gonna tie it in

  499. She'd be forgetting sometimes like you'd be forgetting who I am

  500. Don't forget who I am girl

  501. I'm sorry. That's my that's my woman

  502. I got distracted um

  503. Okay

  504. So Pennsylvania the gun laws are completely different like people move different like it's it's it's

  505. It ain't Texas

  506. But it ain't New York

  507. And so I was like you know what new state new lifestyle

  508. Oh God's gonna protect you yep and my nine

  509. and

  510. We used to about to move to New Jersey. I said now babe. We can't do it

  511. So

  512. I'll go to the gun store

  513. I didn't even make a point. I was in there today. Yep. Yep

  514. As a gun novice I have tons of questions

  515. And thankfully this gun store isn't judgmental because some of them are like you don't know anything

  516. Your 30-year-old man. You don't know about guns

  517. Um, I ain't from here right country bumpkins out here

  518. But he was kind you so kind he went through the process. Yeah, so I say yeah um

  519. So like I want like a nine to protect my family. He was like oh, that's a good gun for like self-protection

  520. I like what he said if you really want to protect your family

  521. You

  522. He said you need a shotgun

  523. Say why I need that big gun to protect my family. He says you don't understand

  524. Why you use a shotgun you use a shotgun so that you don't have to use a shotgun

  525. I

  526. What do you mean he said

  527. What someone's trying to break down your door and they hear

  528. That sound alerts them that something's happening in the house

  529. And that if they stop in the house is gonna be trouble for them

  530. Then the holy spirit started speaking to me and said do you know what the church's shotgun is

  531. It's praise

  532. Okay, I need about three people

  533. You got a shotgun in the spirit and the devil's trying to get entry

  534. But all you gotta do is go

  535. All you gotta do is go hallelujah all you gotta do is praise the Lord all you gotta say

  536. Thank you Jesus and guess what the devil goes running because there's power in your praise

  537. I just need three prazers to stand to your feet open up your mouth and shout

  538. Yeah

  539. You want to make hell afraid stop praising

  540. So here's what we're gonna do on the count of three we're gonna release this crazy radical in same praise

  541. And it's gonna begin to shake the region and shake the nation and shake every prison

  542. And it's gonna begin to open every door one two three

  543. Oh

  544. South the sound of victory

  545. South the sound of victory

  546. South the sound of fire

  547. Oh

  548. Hallelujah

  549. I just saw some devils running out of this place

  550. I just saw some demons have been harassing your family run out of this place

  551. I just saw some sickness that been on your body running out of this place

  552. I just saw the spirit of fear leave and say I ain't coming back and messing with those prazers

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