Sowing Seed in Times of Famine: Watch God Turn a Crisis into an Opportunity

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.

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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.

Well, I'm so pumped to be here this morning because God is already here, and God is here, you don't have to do anything to just spice it up.

I don't have to bring my curry anointing. I tell people, I am from the land of curry, and I live in the land of curry.

And this morning, I feel extra special because I am rolling in with some coffee in my hand, and just because you know that you are American, you truly American is when you have coffee with oat milk, hallelujah.

Super anointed, right?

How things have changed so quickly with this Indian boy in our family.

We've said no to milk. Milk has now become an allergine, and oat milk is rocking cool.

It's like you just, it's the coolest thing that's happening.

How you all doing people? How you all doing? Come on.

We're going to have a lot of fun this morning because the word of God, listen, this morning, listen, I'm not Pastor Boyan for your kind information, I'm Bonnie Andrews.

I got a memo last night at 1.38 p.m. I'm sorry, am.

I was just about like, you know, I was just like, you know, today I was planning to do something else, and you know, I got a call from Pastor Boyan, and you know, the story that's happening last night that was raining, and you know, his house is flooded, and he's like, bros, can you preach?

I didn't have to say, you know, you don't have, you know, you just, yeah, come on, let's go, bro, let's go.

So from 1.38 onwards to 2 o'clock, I'm like settling into the idea, all right, I will be preaching tomorrow or today.

And then you're trying to go to sleep because you have to wake up in the morning because, you know, it's like the exam that you're going to go.

So from right from 2 o'clock onwards, I'm trying to sleep, and when I'm not able to sleep, I'll try to wake up everybody.

I'll be holding my wife up, I'll be like giving us some general cases, I'm like, I love you, she's already sleeping, but you know, I'm not able to sleep, you know, her husband's all right.

I don't know how you guys do it, but you know, that's maybe it's a little corny thing that we do in India.

But you know, so I'm, you know, I'm here by the timing of God.

God never makes any mistakes. So I honor the man of God and the house Pastor Boyan is like my brother. I feel like every time I'm here, I feel like I'm home, home away from home.

And then you have these good looking passes out here. You know, every time I come in, like I just have to put on my A game on. Look at these passes here.

You know, getting young by the day. So I'm so excited to be here this morning.

And I want to just start off by saying thank you because this church is a welcoming church. Look at this coffee in a hospitality generosity.

You know, the last time I was here, you probably would have heard me, but you know, I was just sharing about what we're doing on college campuses.

And I said this that I come from India where India was a, is still a massive mission feel.

And how America has been such a blessing by sending missionaries and resources and people and all of that.

But now America is the biggest mission feel that people looking like us is coming from India on mission to America.

So I'm your curry brother, your missionary brother. And we've been going to college campuses. And the last time I was here, you guys blessed the socks out of me.

You blessed us so much that we are able to not share the gospel with so many people.

So the following weekend that I was here, we were here downtown. You want to hear some testimonies?

All right. All right. Let's roll. All right. So the following weekend, we were in downtown in Alliance University.

And you guys prayed for us and you sowed into us in generosity. And all that happened is that we had a full house, 150 athletes from different parts of the world who are here in New York City to be part of the program.

Some are from Europe, some are from different parts of the country, some are from different parts of the city. They're all there plus we had probably about 200 plus people in that room.

And guess what happened? We preached the gospel. We had hip hop. We had conversations around mental health. And at the end of the day, we had 27 documented decisions of salvation.

The Bible says all of heaven rejoices when one person comes to know Jesus.

We had 14 people sign up for the campus internship program. We had 34 people say that we want to be part of being trained to share our faith with other people in our families and our friend circle.

So it's phenomenal. And the following week, as you know, that the evangelist brings the gospel and we got to do the follow-up, right?

So we had the awesome privilege to work with this ministry called Navigators, which is probably the top five campus ministries in all of America.

And the following Wednesday, we launched a navigators group on campus.

If you can show some of those pictures here, it'll be fantastic. So this is hip hop artist, Angie Rose is dub nominator, dub nominator clamor of the billboard charts.

And then, you know, she went through major substance abuse, relationships, funner, caught three times on the highway, went to mental hospital two times.

And now coming out of that journey back into faith and serving the Lord and God is healed her and in the process of restoring her.

And she's now able to share her music and a story through hip hop. You got to check her out. Angie Rose is phenomenal.

And then we had guys like Sheena Prater and that in that the African-American friend of mine, brother of mine, he is a current chaplain to the New York Jets.

He was a former NFL player, former football player. And he shared about how being on screen as an NFL player is so crazy.

You get filmed, your mistakes get filmed and it gets replayed again and again. And everybody has a command and how that affects your mental health.

And he said about how his faith in Jesus and now he's a pastor as well as being a chaplain of the Jets, he's able to share his faith and he's talking about how Jesus has been helpful in his relationship with Christ has been healing and restoring.

And then we went to some of the people out there. This is Dr. Tony Rivera. She's now the dean of counseling of the school.

But before that, she was raped by a family member at the age of 16. She got pregnant and for some reason, God's guidance on her life.

She was able to keep the baby, you know, beautiful baby boy. And then the Lord, you know, supernaturally brought her to a friend to Brooklyn tap and she gave the life to the Lord.

And then finally finds a husband and then she goes back to high school, does a bachelor's a master's and a doctorate.

Now the Lord has turned it full circle to come in on the platform and share her story for many people.

She is prof or Dr. Tony Rivera. She just took, you know, she just uncovered the real story of healing and restoration in her life.

Now, let me tell you something, right? Story stick.

Okay, I can tell you five points.

I'm really hoping that somebody, I mean, a lot of people told me like, I remember the last sermon and somebody gave me a high fives.

I remember that you sang, I believe I can fly. I'm glad you guys are.

Okay, but, but let me just tell you some stories have people have high recollective power over stories.

So her story is phenomenal. And then some of the other things that are happening. What are the other stories that?

Yeah, this is the current president of Alliance University, Mr. Matthews. And you know, this is, this is a crazy story.

How God has seen things before the foundations of the world. And you feel it's a cliched statement.

This gentleman right here has been a family friend to the family.

So his wife and my dad kind of grew up together and then they migrated to the US and then he became the CEO of, you know, he came to India to set up the first AT&T overseas.

He became the CEO of the village. And the last assignment was a $37 billion conglomerate operation for the last 10 years.

He was an Indian on assignment. And he was actually part of the sending team to send us to America as a missionary.

And six months later, I get a text saying that, oh, my coffee.

Six months later, I get a text saying, hey, Bonnie, we're here. We're just going to chill around and play some golf and just chill.

And the next thing you know is he got posted or he got given this massive, high capacity role being the president of this university.

And now we're on the same stage just talking about how the Lord has put us together in the city for such a time as this.

So it was phenomenal. And then we had this, the last picture probably would be about, this is the group. You know how it is? You put that funnel. It's like the sales funnel.

You put like hundreds into it. And then you finally get. So when we had the launch of this group, this is a, this is on my left is Peter Trotman, the director for New York City director for navigators.

And we launched this group. This has become a weekly group on the campus. When I was talking to Peter, he said, we've been praying and asking the Lord for open door in this university.

How the Lord brought us together and we had some Korean barbecue. Hallelujah. How Korean barbecue brings us all together? You know, I'm saying, God does amazing things for funny stories.

So we're friends and we talked and then now we are launched this group that happens every week on campus that kids are being discipled every week.

This is not amazing. All because of your prayers, all because of your generosity. I just want to say that I didn't think that I'd get the opportunity to probably come back a year later and share, but this is fresh.

It's like hard curry coming out. Right. So it's like garlic non story. You know, I'm saying anybody hungry now. So this is, this is what it is.

So I just want to say thank you to you guys, your generosity, your prayer. Some of you guys have been part of the prayer team and you know, we've been texting you a little bit over, but just to let you know that we need your prayer because your prayer opens doors.

Your prayer opens doors. Your prayer calls on the heaven and brings down the breakthrough. And if you want to be part of that prayer team, if you can put that number up there, you just need to send the word prayer text the word prayer prayer or pray to this number of friends you have that.

Pray to you can take a screenshot of this. Some of you guys did that last time. You know, all that we're going to ask you to do is just pray. Okay. So text pray to 833228 Pfizer 744 and we're going to keep you posted about all that. So the last two weeks, I have my travel partner with me here. Come on.

Stand up. He's my new travel partner.

Well, this young man and I we've been traveling. So we went to Boston. We were at MIT. We're hanging out with some cool people. I'm like, how in the world did we get here? Everybody's like, there was some Nobel prize guy.

There was like, you know, there was some people with doctorate and some, I mean, I'm in telling him I was like, oh, Jesus, how do we get here? But this man Jesus said you got to be like little children. So he's like high fine with everybody. I'm like doctor. And he's like, yo, what's up? Are you on discord? Let's play, you know, let's do some gaming. So he's become a new part of travel partner. We've been on to Penn State. We've been to MIT on our way back. We did a prayer tour across Yale University. You know, the Yale wasn't revival for three years.

And a row. So it's phenomenal that these schools have actually became. It was started as Christian schools to pursue theological education. And now it's become where it is right now. And God is calling all of us to go reopen the father's wells. Amen. So this young man and my family, my beautiful wife is at the background. She's, I don't know. She's becoming more and more prettier by the day. It's maybe hanging out with me. You know, I'm saying. So thank you, son. Thank you. This guy is all about generosity. He's like, you know, when we take some, we want

to go out for coffee. He's like, he makes a statement. We're going to be paying for it. I'm like, you know, we're trying to, we were trying to buy something. We're at Yale and the student that we've taken out for coffee. I'm like, you know, we got a, hey, we got a soul of sea. We got to, we got to bless this child. You know, we, we were looking for, let me tell you, we're always looking for opportunities of soul. So here I'm taking this student friend. And then we are outside. I'm like, maybe we need to get a Yale t-shirt or a book. And then lo and behold, why are we are

walking by the Apple store and my son's like telling her, maybe you need an iPhone. I'm like, Jesus. He's got more faith to saw some sea. So anyway, we saw some sea, right? So, so that's, that's partnering with my son. So keep praying for us. Keep praying for us. Keep praying for me that, that I have the money. He's got the faith and I got to find the money. Right? I'm saying. So that's what it is. Well, this morning, I want to get your attention. Are you ready for the word of God?

Let me tell you something. This morning, the word is going to be prophetic. It is going to be like talking to people. You're waiting on decisions. You're waiting. This word, I'm not just hyping it up because this is a fresh word. It came at 138. And this is like, I mean, I don't know. No, someone knows. I'm just flowing, baby. This morning, Genesis 26, get your Bible. If you have your Bibles, if you don't have it, please download the Bible app for over 500 million downloads. We have many devotional as a ministry on that. And I was recently on the,

the verse of the day and if you've seen it, a lot of people saw it and they were blessed. So, yeah, here we go. Genesis 26, it starts off by saying, can we read it together? Can we stand up and read it? It's good. Good to read the word together. Are you ready? Let's go. One, two, and three. Now there was a. Okay, let's just stop right there. You guys may be seated. Okay, we got a lot. We're going to.

We're going to roll like a candle like this morning. Okay, it starts off by saying there was a famine in the land. Famine, this is not the opening sequence of the movie. There is a famine in the land. It's not like Cinderella. I was like living in a palace or something. The word starts off with a famine. This morning, I'm asking, what do you do when you are in the middle of a crisis? Somebody told me once, either you are in a storm.

You, or maybe you are coming out of a storm or maybe you are about to go through a storm. This is our cycle. Okay, Psalms 23 is not about like, whoa, I love the mountain tops, baby. Even though I walk through the. Everybody wants to be on the. But the growth is on the. The valley is what shapes you. The valley is where God speaks to you. The valley is where you are from.

The valley is the process to the promise. There is no promise without the process. We are so used to fast food and drive through in America. And we just want to like, now, baby, now, want to know clock sticking. What's going on? That's not how Jesus rolls. It takes a bit of time because he's waiting. Most people don't have the character.

To handle the fame and the breakthrough that is happening in your life. It's talking the other day to Dr. Air Bernard and he said, most pastors in this recent time are tasting success. What we took 30 and 40 years. They're seeing it in five to 10 years and they do not have the character to sustain the breakthroughs that are coming their way.

So let me just tell you something. If you are in a crisis, somebody looks up somebody said, thank God, it's a crisis. Thank God, you know why? Because the word crisis in the Chinese dictionary, when you look for the word crisis, there is no word for crisis. The word is opportunity.

So the title of my sermon is there is an opportunity in the middle of the opposition. Opportunity, come on. It's about excited about that. And you don't like the crisis stuff, but it's some good stuff coming. All right.

The opportunity in the opposition, Genesis 26 starts out by there was a famine in the land. Nobody likes a famine. And guess what happened? There was a famine in New York some time ago, right? It was called COVID 800 people dying every single day. People are sticking around in apartments and they're like, you know, some cool people went to Poconos.

Some cool people, you know, this is what happened and everybody's like, everybody's panicking and they're like, you know, I don't know what's going to happen with my die here, whatever, whatever. And then became the whole thing about the whole political thing, the blue and the red and the whole thing. I mean, and then what everybody's like, oh, no, we can need to go to Florida. Hello.

Some people are going to Florida, some people are going to Texas because everything is big in Texas, right? You can't Uber out in Texas. You know what I'm trying to say?

I'm going to be in Texas next weekend. So this is you're going to Texas, then you're going to Nashville, Tennessee, yo.

People are just like, let me just let me just get on the next plane out of here. And if God spoke to you, praise the Lord. If not, you're in trouble.

The Bible says there was a famine in the land and guess what happened? The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, do not go down to Egypt.

The Bible says we are in this world, but we are not of this world. We don't react and we don't make decisions based on market predictions.

Research is prophetic, but I got to tell you, you got to put the voice of God when there is a crisis, you always got to seek the face of God.

Don't make decisions based on the instant reals that you're seeing, based on real estate investments based on market trends.

As a child of God, we got to always watch for what God is speaking. You know why? Because I want the God deal.

So when it's a good time to buy the house, when God tells me to buy the house, interest will go up, interest will come down. I don't care because it's not like we operate in that world.

God's printing it out there, you know, it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's go. Now it's the time. Oh my God, it's at 7%. No problem.

It's going to happen. So you make decisions based on what God is speaking to you. And guess what happens?

Isaac, God spoke to Isaac and says, do not go to Egypt. Go down to Egypt. Egypt is a symbol, is a sign of the world and the ways of the world, the predictions of the world.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be doing a friend called Bob Doll who makes the, you know, financial projections on many television channels every year.

But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about seeking God's face. When you hit a crisis, I want God to be your first resort and not your last resort.

After you exhausted all the people on your speed dial list, after you've exhausted everybody on your phonebook list, after you have emailed everybody and still don't have a solution, then you're like, oh, pastor, please pray for me.

And you're still delegating prayer and not for wanting for you to get on your knees. And there's a petrol song that says, get on your knees and fight like a man.

When it's the last time you fasted. When it's the last time that you prayed. And I'm telling you in this season, I've kind of revamped and rammed up my time of prayer and fasting.

Tomorrow morning, I'm off to Florida and I'm going to be in the delta lounge in the morning. But guess what I'm fasting, no matter how cool the stuff is on that counter, I'm going to be having my oatmeal coffee. That's all I'm going to have.

Because I'm fasting Monday is a day of fast. I'm not here to boast about fasting. I'm just trying to challenge you by saying it's high time the children of God fast and pray.

When you fast, you're not twisting the hand of God. You are changing you. You got to kill the flesh. And you got to ignite the spirit.

So guess what God spoke to Abraham? Do not go down to Egypt. Stay in this land for a while. I will be with you. Let me just tell you something. The Lord's promise is on your life. He's going to be with you all seasons of your life.

And then you then it gets downloaded into covenant friendships when you have 138 call to preach in the morning. You're like brother. It's not about preaching. It's not about the offering. It's about my covenant, brother relationship.

I'm up broski needs me to pray and preach. I'm going to get there and make sure I'm going to be there and stand with the man of God.

And that's what you guys are called to stand with the man of God in the vision of the house. Right for you and your descendants. I will give all these lands and I will confirm and it goes on as talks about the blessings that God is about to do.

Because Abraham obeyed and Jesus is God is just telling him to listen. Your dad. He was a dude. He was a man of faith. He obeyed and guess what happened? He was blessed. God's always. Let me tell you something. Every time you got asked you to do something. There's no free meals.

There's some lifestyle buffet waiting for you on the other side of the promise. And guess what happened? The scripture says.

This is the shortest scripture that we have here. Was number six. Was number six. Can we read this together? So Isaac dwelt in Gerard. The word Gerard means a very dry place. Everybody's gone to Florida. Everybody's gone to Nashville. Everybody's gone to Texas.

And God spoke to you. Let them go. You stay. And you stayed. And that's what exactly what Isaac did. Let me just tell you if you want a tweetable moment this morning is obedience is blessing. Look at somebody and say, obedience is blessing. If you're a math guy.

Some Asian friends like math guys like my sons likely math dude like obedience equals blessing. Every time you obey. Every time you obey God. Watch out for the blessing that's coming. It's better than the voice of your boss. It's better than the it is better than the offer that your company gave you. It is better than the shares that the company said he's going to give you.

And finally the guy who gave make the offer is going to leave and it didn't make you to the IPO and you didn't make no money. The Bible says he is not a man that he should lie on the son of man that he changes word. If he says he will do it. Don't think you don't think the voice of God is like the girlfriend who left you halfway.

Don't think the voice of God is like the promises of God is like the is like your parent who didn't do what they were supposed to do.

Don't think that the voice of God is like a promise that somebody in your family made a promise and they didn't fulfill it.

God is going to do what he says because he is God. His promises are yes and amen.

Many people ask me oh brother listen listen listen I got you I got you I mean I'm saying let me send me and then let me just go one one step forward.

Abraham had a lot of covenant promises from the Lord. Now Jesus is I mean God speaking to Isaac and say listen if you do this you're going to let me just say obedience unlocks the covenant promises of God on your life.

You can have all the promises you can have all the prophecies let me tell you something I got to I got to spend a little bit of time on prophecy right now or maybe you come back later but you got all the promises you got all the prophecies but I'm telling you unless you obey unless you step out unless you do it nothing's going to happen.

So this morning God is saying it's time to obey so guess what happened Isaac stayed in Gerard good decision look at somebody's a good decision.

Good decision if you listen to the voice of God it is a good decision now people ask me hey listen preacher you guys a pro people you're fast and pray because you got to do that.

I mean it's part of your it's part of your crew I mean it's part of your you know you know you're your style you know what have you do it but let me just tell you something let me.

People ask how do you how do you make decision how can you hear the voice of God in the middle of a decision have you guys thought about that.

Do you want five steps to find the voice of God here the voice of God number one.

Make some notes or reference so I've been away all night you know I'm saying.

For you for you for you this coffee is keeping me and the Holy Ghost is helping me I'm telling you.

Number one when you need to make a decision and you're like God I don't know how do I'm going to do it number one.

What is the Lord speaking through the word of God when you think about this decision so the first book that you open is this book.

And you start praying and you start reading and when you start reading God begins to speak to you from the word of God.

So what is God speaking to you when you think about making a decision number two what is God speaking to you through the opening and closing of doors.

Say that with me opening and closing of doors you're praying about the decision what is happening you see a closed door and you see an open door.

You know that open door means go closed door means no I mean that's like basic science God is never trying to complicate things.

So number one what is God speaking through the word number two what is he speaking through the opening and closing of doors.

Number three what is the peace or what is the feeling that you have peace or lack of peace in your inner man when you think about this decision.

You're getting anxious listen there is a fear factor in this there's a risk factor in always obedience.

Right I'm telling you if you don't I mean there is a risk but that's what I'm talking about I'm talking about you're anxious not able to sleep.

You're like you know fear and you got like you know you all kinds of stuff I'm telling you got to be sometimes we're about to make some crazy big decision.

I remember we were supposed to feel a stadium.

I'm a board walked up me man says listen this is on you okay we're not backing it up.

If you get into a liability right if the money doesn't show up.

We are not going to sign off on this.

Okay this is about filling a seven eight thousand cedar stadium.

We're doing a big event and we're looking for sponsors and I feel in my heart like I'm telling you I feel in my heart that we should go ahead.

But the board's like we're not going to sign off on it.

We're not going to be held responsible for it's on you.

I'm like I'm going to sell my car.

I'm going to do whatever it takes because I know God will show up.

I know we're supposed to preach the gospel and we're supposed to go ahead with it and guess what happened.

We stepped out in faith even though it was a crazy risk.

No care back in the day no kill remember no care no care was there.

They had a policy in India that they will never invest into anything political religious.

They became the title sponsor of our event and money showed up.

The wealth of the wicked was stored for the righteous for us to preach the gospel.

So I said when you obey you unlock the goodness in the covenant the breakthrough that we are talking about.

We're talking about obedience.

Look at somebody and say obedience is blessing.

Look at somebody and say look at you know look at somebody and say it's better to obey.

It's better to obey all right all right.

Here we go.

So guess what happened.

So we're talking about number one.

What is God speaking to the word number two opening and closing of doors.

Number three.

Peace a lack of peace in you in a man.

Number four.

What are the prophetic voices in your life speaking to you when you're about to make a decision?

Like random people show up and like whoa listen bro I couldn't sleep last night right.

You've been on my mind.

This is what I feel from the Lord.

I mean you didn't ask for it.

It's coming to you.

It's like this this this Indian guy you showed up in church thinking there's going to be Pastor Boyan

and this is another guy with the crazy accent speaking and God is speaking prophetically through the word and you're receiving it.

It is a confirmation for something that you're speaking about.

This morning you're like should I do it or not should I stay in or not.

I mean you go through a crisis.

You're in the middle of a relationship.

You're saying maybe I should go ahead and divorce and God says don't do it.

You're in the middle of an offer.

You're middle of leaving the job and the Lord says just like God spoke to Isaac.

Stay.

Stay.

Not stay forever.

God spoke to your eyes.

Stay here for a while.

And I will bless you.

So maybe God is speaking to you prophetically.

So I'm talking to you know on the other side you have prophecies in 4K quality.

Right.

It's filling up your eye cloud.

You're paying a lot of money every month for that.

You have 4K promises.

Prophecy somebody was praying for you like make sure it's 4K.

Make sure you're filming and 4K.

So it's 4K quality.

Somebody filming somebody.

Somebody giving you a prophetic word.

Then you have HD quality.

Then you have MP4 quality.

Then you have stereo quality.

You have so many prophecies in your hard drive.

But you're still hungry for the next one when you haven't done nothing about the last one.

You're hungry for the word of God because let me tell you something.

Every prophecy that you have received needs obedience from your end.

Can be the coolest prophecy.

I'm like some prophecies.

I'm releasing on people and I'm like whoa I like that prophecy on me.

But God is speaking.

So you don't put prophecy on top.

The greatest prophecy is the word of God.

Prophecy could make mistakes because they're speaking in pages like I'm doing it.

You can't take a profit to the bank but you could take this to the bank.

Right.

Heaven and earth will pass away but this book.

Some of those pages are fallen out.

Isaiah 61.

I mean I can just take it off and just like fan it and put it back.

I mean read it so many times.

I feel like sometimes I need to eat this Bible because like this is the only thing I can hold on to.

I cannot hold on to people's word.

I cannot hold on to people's promises.

But I know if I can hold on to this.

If this book has it.

If it isn't the book you can have it.

If God is spoken to the word he will show up because he has to show up and he is God.

And if there is one thing that he's bound, he's bound by his own word.

Come on somebody.

Coffee is working.

Holy Spirit is working.

So the last one.

Number one.

Word of God.

Open doors.

Piece of lack of peace.

Last.

Fourth one is prophetic.

Number five.

What is the level of agreement between you and your spouse?

If you're not married.

Between you and a mentor.

Between you and a person that's mentoring you.

Speaking into your life.

Let me tell you something.

I'm challenging people in this room.

You've got to be under-mentored by somebody.

You've got to be discipled by somebody.

I don't want to follow no pastor that is not discipled by somebody.

I don't want to run after any superstar that is not mentored or discipled or speaking or submitted

to some sort of authority because authority and the flow and authority it is in the word of God.

No man is so annoyed that he cannot be under authority.

Bad news.

Run if you see one.

Run.

Might have all the gimmicks been going to get into trouble soon.

Right.

All authority.

Right.

So the last piece is what is, I mean, the decision, decisions that my wife and I go back like 99% of the time my wife says yes to most of the decision.

But it make a major gift.

I'm feeling excited.

I'm like, I've seen the number.

I'm ready to write that check but I know that I have to go back and 99% of the time my wife says yes.

But one time every time she has that 1% I tremble.

Not because, you know, I'm scared of my wife.

It's like because I do not have agreement at home.

If I don't have agreement between my wife and I on the decision that I'm making, I'm going to be in trouble because this is God ordained in my life.

Your wife is not a burden.

Your wife is a blessing.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

I was expecting some amence.

Breach.

Your wife is a blessing.

Your wife is a blessing.

One will change thousand, two will change ten thousand.

Before I got married, we were in a couple of cities every, you know, after we got, not every time, after we got married.

In the next 10 years, I've minister grew to 184 cities around the world touching over 3 million people after I got married.

Marriage is God's plan for your life.

You don't want to be single like most New Yorkers.

Pray and get married.

Pray fast.

Find the one, get married.

So we're talking about how to hear the voice of God.

So guess what happened?

Isaac obeyed.

And guess what happened?

Let's go to the scripture.

We don't have time to go through it.

Isaac planted, was number 12.

Isaac planted crops in that land.

And the same year, a hundredfold because the Lord had blessed it.

Number one.

God has given you seed in your hand.

Everything that you see in this world.

If you're back like it.

My son is gone.

It comes back to seed for him.

That avocado that you like to have for breakfast.

It was once a seed.

That apple that you love, an apple a day keeps a doctor away.

It was once a seed.

Everything that you see in this world was a seed.

And God has given you seed in your hand.

How do you get your way out of a crisis?

You saw your way out of a crisis.

You saw your way out of a crisis.

I'm always carrying seed in my hand.

I'm always carrying seed.

This is not a financial giving message.

I'm just challenging people on the roof.

I'm like, what do I have in my hand?

Sometimes I'm not.

I don't have the money.

Maybe have a watch in my hand.

Yes, I was dropping somebody to the airport.

I'm like, I've got a blessed man.

I'm like, looking.

I've got Cologne.

Hey, man.

It's a Ralph Lauren Blue here.

Here we go.

I've got to find something.

I've got to have.

You always got to carry seed in your hand.

You know why?

Because the seed that God has given you,

if you put it in a locker,

nothing is going to be happening.

It's going to look the same.

It was 10 years ago.

But when you put it into the ground,

it brings forth a harvest.

And let me tell you, if you have got brains,

the harvest is always greater than the seed.

So Holy Spirit is going to tell you

where you're going to drop that seed.

We're in the Yale.

I'm like, we've got to drop a seed, man.

And my son's got more faith.

Maybe you need an iPhone.

I'm like, Lord.

But we dropped a seed.

We sowed a seed in the Yale.

We were sewing a seed and saying,

God, we're putting a seed on the ground saying,

Yale for Jesus.

Every student in Yale should come to the saving knowledge of Jesus.

It is your plan.

Every person in MIT should come.

We're walking through the corridors of MIT.

That's why they're working on the latest Cheetah robot.

We can see through, I'm like, what are we doing here

from a small little town in India walking through MIT?

How did that happen?

The gospel brought us there.

So when you obey, God is giving you a seed.

So I said, guess what happened?

He decided to not hold under the seed.

The ground is cracked.

He puts his ground seed on the ground.

And boom, what happens?

In the same year, say that again with me.

In the same year, he reaped a hundredfold breakthrough.

So what do you do in crisis?

You sow.

Number one, number one,

what do you do in crisis?

The crisis is the opportunity.

What do you do in crisis?

You obey.

Obedience is blessing.

And then you step out and sow the seed.

And I don't know sometimes it's like a,

you know, I don't know what God is speaking to you.

Sometimes it's a book.

Sometimes it's something.

I don't even know.

I mean, I've done crazy things.

I mean, see, let me just tell you to all the people in the room.

If you do unusual things,

you will get unusual results.

If you do the usual things that everybody is doing,

you're going to get the usual results.

And I'm not in the business of usual things.

I want to be crazy.

I want to be doing something crazy.

I mean, my name's going to be coming in some books

that people are going to read 10 years, 20 years from now talking about this.

While crazy Indian guy did something that nobody ever did

and God showed up and God's miracle happened.

That's what we want.

Because the testimony of our life,

how do you overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb

and by the testimony?

You've got to have a testimony.

If you want to have a testimony,

you've got to go through a test.

And you've got to come out of that test.

And you come victorious.

It becomes a story.

I tell people,

it is your private testing that becomes a public testimony.

My wife and I,

we believe in God for something is a private test.

We're crying and believing and praying

and boom, and the breakthrough happens.

Whoa, it's hit the ceiling.

It's like on YouTube,

people are talking about it.

Franklin Graham is retweeting it.

I mean, it's like he's gone all over the place.

Every Christian media channel is talking about why?

Because a private testing became a public testimony.

And you stepped out in fear.

I said,

planted crops in the land.

And the same,

you reaped a hundred for the Lord, blessed him.

And guess what happens?

You know,

I'm going to hear the preach,

prospered to the what?

Bless means to be envious of.

To be envious of.

I'm like, whoa.

People are looking like,

one plus one is two,

but this is like ten.

They're not able to do the math

when they look at you.

He's been here for three years.

Immigrant people,

okay, they're one year to do this.

Second year you do this.

Then you save money.

You buy a house.

And you do this.

I mean, they've got a full plan.

I mean, I'm telling you,

every Indian that's coming through the tech corridor,

they have a plan.

They stay in the outskirts,

save money,

work hard,

and then they buy a house,

and then they, you know,

blah, blah, blah.

It's a full route.

I mean, people look at us and like,

it's not matching.

The math is not working.

You know why?

Because this math is the world math.

The kingdom math is exponential.

Somebody said the word exponential.

Somebody needs to work here.

The word today.

God is releasing that exponential blessing on you

if you were to obey.

Guess what happened?

Let me just tell you some success stories.

The man became rich.

Uh-huh.

And as well, continue to grow until he became very wealthy.

He had so many flocks and herds and servants

at the first time,

envied him.

So all the wells that his father's servant had dug in the,

you know,

and then guess what?

16.

The king.

The local king is saying,

boys, I said, my man, bro, listen,

broski,

you become too powerful.

The highest level of wealth is power, right?

He's crossed the threshold of wealth,

and now he's become powerful.

He's going to become a powerful lobbyist right now.

So the king is like, bro, listen,

you leave.

You leave.

So I said, good, I've said, listen.

Now, this is the land that God blessed me.

This is the place.

I'm going to hold onto this house.

I'm going to hold onto this place.

This is my, you know, let me just tell you something.

The blessing is not on the land.

The blessing is on you.

You are the password.

You are the blessing.

God's covenant is not on the land.

It is on you.

And wherever you go,

you will be blessed.

Whatever you touch,

you will be blessed.

You know why?

Because God's hand is on you.

And how did God's hand come upon you?

Because you obeyed.

Because you didn't go to Florida.

I'm just kidding.

You stayed and you said, God,

I'm going to say, I'm going to do whatever you want me to do.

Recently, we had like a thousand dollar increase on our rent.

Thousand dollar increase.

Oh, my God.

It's crazy.

Lord, it's the time to move.

Because it's not, I mean, we're already in the red right now, right?

I mean, it's like messed up the whole map.

I don't have a word.

My wife almost like sold everything.

We're like ready to go.

We don't have a word.

And thank God we have paid maybe earlier rent

than even on the first or second every month.

The Lord has continued to provide why?

Because He has to prove that He is God.

And whatever He says, He will have to deliver.

He is bound by His promise.

So we don't leave because I've got thousand dollar increase.

I'm talking about sewing seed here.

Sometimes you are the seed.

Some place you go, you're like, God, no money now.

God's not speaking to me about the watch.

He's not speaking to me about that jacket

that you spent two hours to look for

and find the deal that may cease.

He's not speaking to you about giving any of the stuff that you have.

God is saying you are the seed.

So I'm going to tell you a story that's hot off the press.

Are you ready?

So the other day I got invited to speak at a Zoom meeting.

Preach at a Zoom meeting.

So the Zoom meeting is about speaking to leaders

on the other side of the world.

It's developing world, South America,

India, Pakistan, Africa, all these leaders out there.

And I'm telling you man, I had like fever.

And on top of the place that I was sitting,

it was freezing cold.

I think they forgot how to put on the heater or whatever.

Man, once you start preaching,

you can go back and switch on the heater.

You're on, right?

It's on, the show's on.

So you're preaching, I preach for like two hours,

fully understanding that some of these meetings,

you end up being that side, right?

This is not like a meeting that you go

and they're going to give you a big check, right?

You're sowing and you are the seed.

And I'm putting myself into that screen,

reaching and telling you,

you are the brown guy.

I'm the brown guy.

If God can bless his brown guy,

he can bless Pakistani.

He can bless African.

He can bless South American people.

I'm just challenging them to say,

you are looking at me.

If God can do it for me, he can do it for you.

People got encouraged.

At the end of two hours,

I'm like, Morrow,

I don't know, I need coffee.

I don't know what I need.

So the leader on the call suddenly says,

you know, at the end of the call,

I feel in my heart that we need to buy a car for Bonnie.

Well, it doesn't make sense because the math is not making,

this is the developing world on the other side, right?

It's not like New York, New York, New York is not.

It's not like the Wall Street guys are on the call.

Now, nobody.

So, I'm like, and we've been praying for a car.

In fact, I did something crazy.

I've been paying parking for the last couple of months

without a car.

Unusual things will bring about unusual results.

So suddenly, there's a lady on the call.

She's like, I was just wondering,

what should I do?

The Lord just spoke to me that, you know,

I have a down payment that I was wondering,

I need to put it for my car.

But we need to go get this guy's car first.

People started jumping on that call.

And people get excited.

And the leader gets excited.

And the other people on the call get excited about it.

So there's like a role on this call.

And lo and behold, if you walk out,

you will see that brand new car right outside.

That I didn't break the bang for.

What am I trying to say?

I am the seed.

All I was doing for two hours,

finally, they put a blanket on me,

because they were like, it's not coming out.

I'm like, I'm like, you know, I'm having a cold

and blah, blah, blah, and all that.

But at the end of the two hour,

you're not expecting an offering from that,

because you're just challenging people.

You're talking to Pakistani people.

You're talking to Indians.

You're talking to Africans.

You're talking to people in Colombia and Brazil.

And they don't have an offering.

And you're investing.

You became the seed in obedience.

You know, looking at saying that my new book,

my short book I'm going to come up is,

what good can come out of a Zoom call?

What good can come out of a Zoom call?

You know, let me just tell you something.

You never know who's on the other side.

You never know what God is speaking to somebody in this room.

You never know, because I just came here last time, you know?

We're just going to preach.

I mean, God's going on door.

I'm going to bring some seed.

The seed is here.

The Word of God.

I'm going to release it here.

And boom, God didn't know that.

I mean, you guys planted it.

And you guys sold it.

And whoa, it just sustained the seed for us to go back to campuses.

Now, we need a car.

Every time I rent a car, it's like 200 bucks a day.

And you're thinking, oh, my God.

Oh, maybe I should not think about Boston, right?

Or maybe next week or maybe the week after.

Now it's like Boston.

No problem.

We're off to Boston now.

We're off to Boston.

We're going MIT.

We're going to Yale.

Tomorrow you want to go.

Do you pen?

No problem.

We're ready to go.

Why?

Because we got wheels.

And I did something unusual.

I've been paying for parking.

It's been going off my car.

$260 every month.

Boom, boom, boom.

And sometimes I'm like thinking that rental just was here for like a couple of hours in my favorite parking slot.

It's been empty.

And my son and I, we just walked around and said, come on, car.

It's time to come.

It's time to come.

I'm asking, which car do you want?

I'm like, what car do you want?

Because I'm like, I am not getting into debt for something that God's about to do and use for the kingdom of God.

I don't have money to get another loan payment, another debt, another burden.

No.

So this is the heart of the press.

I can see it right here.

They've given me some good parking.

So that you can see it.

What God can do out of a Zoom call.

Where the seed was me, sometimes you are the seed.

When you call the person and you encourage somebody, when you pray for somebody, when you share the gospel with somebody, what are you doing?

You are the seed and you are sewing your time and your effort.

And guess what happened?

Who thought was going to happen from that call?

And God has done that breakthrough.

Pastor, how are you doing?

I was standing. Praise the Lord.

Doing a time.

Keep sewing seed.

All right.

Now the last piece I want to talk about is that what do you do when somebody starts to attack you?

What do you do when somebody starts to get into conflict with you?

Now listen, Isaac is blessed right now.

Yo, what's up?

He's rolling.

But he now has to relocate and guess what happened?

Then I'd be malec, came to Isaac's.

Isaac's not ready for conflict.

You know why?

Because he's like, this is a waste of time.

Getting my blood pressure high.

I'm a beeping up.

I'm a blood sugar high to fight with this guy.

Because you know, I just need to hear the voice of the Lord.

And the Lord is telling him to go somewhere else.

So he just moves off.

And guess what happened?

So Isaac moved away from there and came the valley of Gerar and settled there.

And number 18, this is a key words for somebody in this room.

It says, what is it?

It's an Isaac reopen.

Can you get that scripture, brother?

Isaac dug the wells of water which they had dug in the Abraham.

Okay, blah, blah, blah.

Okay, this is what we do.

What's happening is, Isaac went and reopened his father's wells.

Some people in this room, God is going to ordain you to go open some of the things that God is working in the city.

Like I went to, I went to Yale to pray, you know why?

Because that was an old well where revival fell.

And today the enemy is coming, closed it and put some stones on it.

But God is raising up some curry, anointed people to go out and pull out the rocks and say it is time to reopen the father's wells.

I went to Alliance University because 150 years ago,

A.B. Simpson stepped out from a high-paying job as a minister of a Presbyterian church in Manhattan,

probably about 120,000 of current salary.

He said, I'm going to step out and work for the marginalized.

What am I doing in Alliance University?

I am reopening the father's wells.

I'm going to Fulton Street.

Guess what happened? Fulton Street had a revival.

And it is over.

What am I doing in Fulton Street?

I am re-opening the father's wells.

And some people in this room, God is saying I am causing you to go out there and re-open the father's wells.

I'm telling you, pastor, God is going to use you to re-open some of the old wells in this city.

If you believe it or not.

I said a word or not, I'm a prophet, I know people are right.

God is like, go look for that well because he's already dug in his half and he's just some rocks.

You pull it out, boom, water.

Water is like the oil of Saudi Arabia.

In a famine, the greatest thing that you want is water.

To find water is a big thing.

But God has given you an anointing to go re-open.

So I'm landing on the last piece of the script I felt.

I told somebody, stay here in the service.

And it goes on and says, I agree open.

And guess what happened?

When you re-open the wells and you begin to dig some new wells, guess what?

The boy showed up.

The boy showed up and said, hey listen, Isaac, this is our well.

The husband of Gerard, what do they do?

They quarreled with Isaac's husband saying, the water is ours.

So guess what, Isaac said, I'm not going to, this is, I don't want to get my BP up high.

I'm not going to get into this battle with you guys because my battle is up there.

Right? I'm not going to waste my time, my energy on this.

So guess what happened?

He called the well as sec because they quarreled with him.

And that in stop, Isaac, Isaac knew that his anointing on his life is to go dig.

So he goes and digs another well.

Guess what happened?

They dug another well.

They quarreled over that one also.

So he called it Sitna.

The word Sitna is also the word, the root word is Satan.

So when you try to do something, you think it, oh, it's going to be open doors.

It's like, you know, what's up?

It rolling the red carpet.

The cat lag is coming in.

The black tie fellow is coming to open no way.

You're going to see some opposition in some of the things that you're about to do.

But let me tell you, watch out.

You, what is your attitude?

You don't fight, but you don't keep on digging.

Look at somebody say, keep on digging.

I'm going to keep on digging.

No matter what the devil does, no matter what people tell me, I'm going to keep on digging.

I'm going to pursue that business idea.

I'm going to keep going in the direction that God has called me to do.

I'm going to pursue that career.

Everybody else wants me to do something else, but I want to do what God wants me to do.

And I'm going to keep on digging.

Somebody said that with me, I'm going to keep on digging.

Oh, I'm going to keep on digging.

Oh, Jesus.

And then guess what happened?

The next one.

And he moved from there and dug another well.

This is about what's going to happen to some people in this room, if you believe it.

Or maybe all of them.

He did not call over, so he called.

So he dug another well, and they did not call over it.

So he called it.

Rahabat.

Say the word with me.

Rahabat.

What does it say?

Because he said, for now, the Lord has made room for me, and we shall be fruitful in this land.

So this morning, God is taking you from the well of S.A.K.

God is moving you on from the well of Sitna to land you at Rahabat.

You know what is Rahabat?

It is wide, open spaces.

You are going to be fruitful.

You are going to flourish in the land, not because I said it.

God is spoken to you.

And this is a word for somebody.

If that is for you, just say hallelujah.

I received that word.

This is a season of Rahabat.

This is a season of wide open spaces.

This is a season where I will be fruitful.

This is a season I will take over.

This is a season I will conquer because God is on my side.

And all I did was keep digging, keep digging, keep digging, keep digging, keep digging until I reach Rahabat.

I am prophesying over this church wide open spaces.

Wide open spaces.

People quarrel over you.

Let go of them and run for your life.

Run to the next assignment.

You don't have time to fight over these petty things.

Because what you are fighting over is petty things, is fleshly things.

Stay focused on what God has called you to do.

When you do what God has called you to do, Jesus said,

looking at Jesus.

Therefore I am going to lay off every sin that so easily entangles me.

I am going to let go of it, fixing my eyes on Jesus, the author and the perfect of my faith.

When I get excited, I am going to jump on this chair.

I don't know what I am going to do.

But I want to tell you something.

This is the time and the season for wide open spaces.

Wide open spaces.

Wide open spaces.

Wide open spaces.

Wide open spaces for you.

I am telling you man, God is going to open doors.

He is like flinging your, you had to pursue it.

Some people have been after you.

You had to go from well to well to well.

But here we go.

Well number three.

Rahabat, I am making a room for you.

I will make you fruitful in this land.

I am going to prosper in New York.

I don't need to go to Florida.

I don't need to go to Nashville.

I don't need to go to Antarctica.

I am going to flourish in New York.

New York is the land that God has called me to.

And I will flourish in this land.

There will be history of books written about you and me.

Because we kept on digging.

Oh, I love that.

Let's keep on.

We are going to keep on.

Keep on.

Keep on.

Keep on.

Until we reach our wide open space.

And we are just not too far away.

That's the next one that you are coming up to.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Come on man.

So in famine.

Or bay in famine.

Move in famine.

And I am telling some people in this room.

This is my last point for you.

Do something crazy.

Do something crazy.

Pay for a parking with a car that doesn't exist.

Do something crazy.

Back in the day, when I need a cell phone,

I don't have the money to buy a new cell phone.

I got a new cell phone case.

It's $1,000 for a phone.

It's $10 for the case.

Okay, I got money for $10 for the case.

And I'm going to call.

I'm going to believe God.

I said, God, this is the phone that I need to serve the Lord.

But whatever you need it for.

You so in famine.

You obey in famine.

When your opposition becomes your opportunity.

So don't fear when you are in the middle of the opposition.

Keep on digging.

Keep on digging.

And I'm telling you,

prophesying over city light church.

Over the worldwide web.

Over the digital space as God is making room.

You got a new logo.

Get ready to blow up.

Get ready.

Get ready because the Lord is going to put wide open spaces.

People with conflict level come and go.

Let the ones that need to go let them go.

Don't hold onto them.

Don't waste time holding onto people that are messing up your mental health.

You're popping pills and going to therapists because of some people in your life.

Let go of them.

Move on to the well.

And keep digging.

And then you hit the well of wide open.

Let's get the worship team up here.

And I want every hand, every person up right now.

And just saying, God, I'm ready.

So I'm challenging people in this room saying,

who wants to do something crazy for Jesus?

Crazy.

Crazy soul and crazy obedience.

Crazy things, not the usual things.

If you do the usual things, you get usual results.

If you get unusual things, you will get unusual results.

With that faith that is impossible to please God.

Come on, lift up your hands.

One of you and say, yes, Lord, I'm ready.

Come on, stand up.

You can stand up.

You can stand up.

And say, yes, Lord.

Come on, get the worship team up and say, Lord, here I am ready.

I'm ready to step into my promise.

I'm ready to step into my into my well number three.

I'm ready for Rahabat.

Somebody scream and say, Rahabat!

Wide open spaces.

God is going to make me flourish in this land.

The Lord is making room for me.

I'm prophesying over somebody.

You're not able to have children.

Somebody told you, the doctor's told you,

you got BCO, you got fibroids.

And I'm prophesying, I'm telling you,

God is making room in your womb.

God is making room in your womb.

He is opening up wombs right now in the name of Jesus.

Children of covenant, come out in the name of Jesus.

God is increasing the capacity for you to dream.

The Lord is giving you intellectual ideas.

The Lord is connecting you with supernatural connections.

The Lord is making room for you.

You are stepping into the season of Rahabat.

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