My Future (HOPE) 2 Bishop Joel Duncan-Williams 29th Sept 2024 (1st Service)

Amen.

Just before we are seated, I would like to give

honor to whom honor is due, thanking God, thanking God

for the life of our head Pastor is Eminence, the

Archbishop Nicholas Dark and Williams. If you are not clapping,

I don't know why. If you are not praising, I

don't know why. If you are not giving God the

testimony for his life, I don't know why. Come on

and clap your hands, then give God a praise.

Amen.

You may be seated in heavenly places this morning. I

began last week speaking on hope my future, and I'm

continuing this blessed morning. But just before I continue, I

want to run you through briefly what I spoke about

last week. Jerema, that's you, one seventeen NLT. Please put

it on the screen. Jerema, that's you, one seventeen NLT.

Please put it on the screen. There is hope for

your future, says the Lord. Your children will come again

to their own land. And then we discussed what is

hope and from Merriam Webster's Dictionary, hope means to cherish

a desire with anticipation to make something happy. From the

biggest Evangelical Dictionary, Hope is to trust in, to wait for,

desire something, to expect something beneficial in the future. And

I your bishops say, hope is the expectation of something

that is yet to come. Amen, Job fourteen seven. Job

fourteen seven, For the Bible declares, for the Bible declares

PASSI leslie. For the Bible declares for there's hope of

a tree. If it be cut down, it will sprout again,

and the tender branch.

Thereof will not cease. Amen.

The Bible says, for there's hope of a tree, if

it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and

the tender branch thereof will not cease. I love this

scripture so much because have you ever been in a

situation where you've been cut down? Have you ever been

in a situation where you've experienced pain? Have you ever

been in a situation where you have bled and it felt.

Like there was no hope for you?

In God, I came to announce to you that if

you found yourself in such a place before, then there's.

Hope for you.

There's hope for you. There's hope for you. There's hope

for you. There's hope for you. There's hope for you.

There's hope for you. There is hope for you. And

the interesting thing about hope is that it's one of

the quickest things that believer loses in times of despair.

But it's the greatest thing you should have in your

time of despair. It's the greatest thing you should have

in your time of despair. Amen, oh Amen, Amen. Jeremiah

twenty nine and verse eleven. Jeremiah twenty nine and verse eleven.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares

the Lord an Ivy. But I know the plans I

have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you,

not to harm you, plans to give you hope and future.

So please understand this for every born again believer, God's

plan for you is to prosper you and to give

you hope and a future. So any time you find

yourself in a situation where it's like there's no hope

for you, it's impossible because God has already said that

he has plans to prosper you, to give you hope

and a future. And God is not a man that

he can lie, nor the son of a man that

he should repent. So it means that what God has

said about you will surely come to pass. Another thing

I want you to understand. Another thing I want you

to understand. Is that your problem, or your situation, or

the prophecy that God has spoken over your life.

Is that too of a small thing for God not

to make it come to pass.

I'll say it again, your prophecy, your future, your hope,

your faith, your destiny. What God has said concerning these

things is too small for him to accomplish, not to

do it. So any time you find yourself in despair,

don't forget that you have hope, and don't forget that

your hope.

Your hope, your hope.

Will always bring you to your desired point because He said,

I have plans for you. I have plans for you.

I have plans for you, plural, meaning that it's not

just a today's plan. There's a plan for today. There's

a plan for tomorrow. There's a plan for next week.

There's a plan for next month. There's a plan for

next year. There's a plan for two years from now.

There's a plan five years from now, there's a plan

ten years from now. In other words, any situation you

go through in this life. God has a plan for you,

So it doesn't matter how the situation looks. God has

a plan for you. God has a plan for you.

God has a plan for you. God has a.

Plan for you.

If you believe it, can you shout and prophesy and

say God has a plan for me.

You're not prophesying, say shout and say God has a

plan for me.

You are just speaking it prophesied Prophesie prophesiae, Prophesiah, prophesie, Prophesiah, Prophesiah.

God has a plan. God has a plan. God has

a plan. God has a plan. God has a plan

in times of sorrow. God has a plan in times

of despair.

God has a plan.

When it seems like it's nights. God has a plan

when it seems like there's no hope. God has a

plan when it seems like everything is lost. God has

a plan when it seems like you can't go forward.

God has a plan. When it seems like God has

lost you and you've lost God and God can't reach you.

God has a plan.

There's nothing about you that God has forgotten his plan

for you. There's nothing about you that God has forgotten

his will for you. God certainly has a plan for

your life. If you believe in shout and say God

has a plan for my life. Oh, shouting with some authority,

say God has a plan for my life. Shouting like

you mean it, say God has a plan for my life.

You see.

Take me to ask fourteen eight. Take me to ask

fourteen eight. There's something I want to show you briefly

before I move on that you have to understand. Just

before that, please make sure you have the message translation

as for NLT.

I know you have it and have MeV as well.

So message MSG and then MeV as well.

Me okay, so asks fourteen and eight.

The Bible says in LISTRA there sat a crippled man

in his feet who was laying from bed next verse

and had never worked. He listened to Paul as he

was speaking full stop. Paul look directly at him, saw

that he had faith to be healed next verse and

called out, stand up on your feet at the man.

The man jumped up and began to walk. Please understand,

Please understand. That's your faith, Your belief, your hope in

God is what God is going.

To use to rescue you and to set you free.

He's not going to use your neighbor's hope, or your

mother's hope, or your father's hope, or your sister's hope,

or your brother's hope. He's going to use your hope

to set you free. Look at the neighbor and tell

them your hope sets you free. Say it with some authority,

say your hope sets you free. Said like you are prophesying,

say your hope sets you free. So this man's sitting

at minstra, Paul looked at him and saw that he

had faith to be healed. And Paul, saying that he

had faith to be healed, spoke at him and says,

stand up on your feet. And the Bible says, he

jumped up. He jumped up, don't go to eleven, there's stay,

there's stay with ten. And he jumped up on his

feet and sorry.

And the man.

Jumped up and began to walk. The man jumped up

and become become began to walk. The more faith you have,

the more hope you have, the more belief you have,

the greater the blessing that is coming to your life.

Because listen to this, listen to this, The Bible says.

The man jumped up and began to walk. He would

have needed help to get up. Somebody should have helped

him get up. Somebody should have aided him standing up.

Because this man was laying from bed, he's never walked

before in his life.

He might have needed help with a few steps.

So it's understanding as a logician that this man could

have needed help. The Bible says his faith was so

strong that he jumped up and began to work. Made

blessings jump up in your face, made testimonies jump up

in your face, May open doors jump up in your face,

May new breakthroughs jump up in your face. In the

name of Jesus, you are not shouting like you believe it.

You are not shouting like you believe it. You are

not shouting like you believe it. Please listen to this.

At next gen we are. We are an army of believers.

We are an army of opus, and we are army

that has faith in God.

At next gene change. That's who we are.

So when you are sitting down, you have to profess

these things. You can't just sit down and watch the

preacher quietly. You must profess these things, and these things

begin to work.

And activate things in your life.

Amen, So look at your neighbor, and tell your neighbors say,

don't just sit there, be active. Say you are prophesying

your breakthrough. You are prophesying your miracle. You are prophesying

your next open door. Say you are prophesy it not

the preacher. So follow along and prophesy.

Amen.

Now turn with me to Second Corinthians, chapter two and

verse fourteen. In the message translation. In the message translation.

In the message translation, good okay. And when I arrived

in Taros to proclaim the message of the Messiah, I

found the place wide open. God had opened the door.

All I had to do was walk through it. Now

listen to this when it comes to hope. God has

already opened the door. All you have to do is

have enough hope to walk through it. When I say

have enough hope to walk through it, it means that

not giving up on the journey. The journey of a

thousand steps begins with one step, so it's not giving

up on the journey. So you are sad today, but

you keep on hoping. You are in despair tomorrow, but

you keep on hoping. You are gloomy today, but you

keep on hoping. You think that all hope is lost,

but you keep on hoping. You think that God can

rescue you, but you keep on hoping. You think that

God has nothing left for you, but you keep on hoping.

You think that God has forgotten you, but you keep

on hoping. You think that God has left you, but

you keep on hoping. All your friends have left you,

but you keep on hoping. All your family has left you,

but you keep on hoping. The people who said they

love you have left you, but you keep on hoping.

The people who said they are with you have left you,

but you keep on hoping. Your friends, people who were

like brothers and sisters to you, have left you, but

you keep on hoping. A journey of keep stepping. It's

a journey of keep walking. It's a journey of keep moving.

It's a journey of keep stepping. It's a journey of

keep walking. It's a journey of keep moving. And you

don't have to be you don't have to be ashamed

that when you get to the door, the door won't

open for you, because that is on God, not you.

That is on God knocks you, that is on God,

not you. All you have to do is keep on stepping.

And as you keep stepping, and as you keep stepping.

By the time you get to your door, you will

find that the door is wide open, and all you

have to do is keep moving.

And guess what.

It's not just one door, but it's several doors that

were open. Can I prophesy over your life? That's several

doors are about to open.

Over your life.

Oh no, I'm prophesying. I'm prophesying. I'm prophesying. That's several

doors I'm beginning to open over your life. The door

of hope, the door of faith, the door believe, the

door of testimonies, the door of finances, the door of

a clean bill of health.

The door the door of promotion on your job, in

your education at school. Doors doors are all about to open.

If you believe and rise up on your feet, shall

and say open door, Open door.

Open door.

Now, now turn with me. Let me explain this first

before you turn with me. Please visiting the heavenly places.

Let me explain this first before you turn with me.

You have you understand, as a believer who is living

a spiritual experience, that you get to a place in

your work with God that before you even step out

on hope, there are corresponding effects that must happen to

show you that your hope was not misguided, and your

hope in the Lord was not misguided, emotional or a

decision taking with no ability or trust in God, but

rather that you stepped out on your hope and you

reap the rewards of your hope. Oh, I didn't get

an amen. I didn't get an amens that you don't

understand on what I said. I didn't get how many

of you understood what I said? Wave at me? How

many of you understood what I said? Wave at me? Okay,

a large portion of the church didn't understand what I said.

I said, you get to a place in God that

before you even step.

Out on your hope.

There are corresponding effects that must happen to show you

that your hope was not misguided, that your hope in

the Lord was not an emotional decision, but rather you

step out on hope and you reap the rewards of

your hope. In other words, if God wants to get

me from here to the back there, and it takes

doors to get there, once I step out on hope,

it means that the first door must open for the

second door to open, for the third door to open.

For the fourth door to open.

There must be an automatic, sorry, an automatic opening of doors.

To show you that you're hoping God was not misguided,

To show you that we are rewards in hoping in God.

To show you that there's a testimony of opening God.

To show you a sign that when you moped in God,

he didn't just.

Leave you, but he stayed with you. He walked you

through and he walked you out. That is what I

was saying. How many of you understand what I was saying?

Now?

All right with thank God?

With thank God, turn with me to Second Corinthians two

fourteen Nltalty.

And ealty. But thank God he has made us.

His captives and continues to lead us alone in Christ.

Triumphiul procession.

Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ

everywhere like a sweet perfume.

Please listen to this. But I thank God he.

Has made us his captives and continues to lead us

along in Christ. Trium fould procession procession. If you know

anything about a procession, you understand that a procession is

not a short walk. It's a long walk. And a

procession has many caves and many bends, and a procession

has many way points. When I say way points, a

procession has points it gets to and something is happening

there and you have to finish what is happening there

and get to the next thing. So it's like victory

after victory after victory after victory after victory after victory.

Now watch this, watch this. The Bible says that.

He has made us captives and continues to lead us

in Christ's triumphal procession. Now, how many of you know

that Christ was victorious and you won. Christ was victorious

and he won.

So if you.

Are being led in hope through Christ's triumphal procession, it

means that nowhere you get to in the procession, are

you going to feel because your God has already won

the battle for you. He's already won the battle for you.

He's leading you. So when you think that you can

see God and God is nowhere for you, just remember

he's in front of you leading you. Just remember that

he's ahead of you leading you. He's strengthening the road,

he's clearing the road. He's moving things from the road,

he's moving obstacles, he's moving stumbling blocks, he's moving all

kinds of things that were in your way that would

have brought you down, but.

He's leading you, and he's leading you through a triumphi procession.

So at every way stop you are going to have

a victory, and every way stop you're going to have

a blessing. And every way stop you're going to have

a testimony. And every way stop you're going to have

a new open door. And every way stop we are

going to have a new blessing. Because when it comes

to God, Christ is leading us through his triumphal procession.

So we are winning not because we deserve it. We

are winning not because we merited it. We are winning

not because we have to win, but we are winning

because of Christ. It's because Christ is ahead of us.

It's because Christ is in the lead. It's because Christ

is leading us. Clap your two ant hill and say

I'm being led by Christ. Say it like you mean

They say I'm being led by Christ. Can you say

like you believe it? Say I'm being led by Christ.

Christ is leading you. I wish you understand the scripture.

I don't have time to go deeper into it, but

I wish you understand. Now understand this in you hope

you are not being let alone. And Christ continues to

lead us alone in his triumphi procession. Please write it

down and never forgets that you are not being let alone,

but you are being led by Christ, and you are

being led by Him in his triumphi procession. In other words,

you cannot feel, You cannot feel, you cannot feel. Number two,

Now he uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ

everywhere like a sweet perfume. He uses us to spread

the knowledge of Christ everywhere like a sweet perfume. Please

watch this and please understand this. Please watch this, and

please understand this. If Christ needs you to go everywhere

and preaches word and spread it like a sweet perfume,

it means that you will go and you cannot feel.

And there are a few reasons why. Number one. Number one,

the Bible says, I'm building my church and the gates

of hell.

Shall not prevail.

So it means that it means that if Christ needs

you to go everywhere and preach, it means that the

corresponding grace, the corresponding strength, the corresponding finances, the corresponding wispond,

the corresponding greece, the corresponding ability to rise up and

to get yourself and to go out and preach will

be granted onto you because He wants you to spread

his word like a sweet perfume. Number two, you cannot

fail because God has a vested interest in you winning

and succeeding. Because if you don't win, and if you

don't succeed, his work does not get spread. So because

he is serious about his word, he came, lived for

thirty years, did ministry for three years, died at thirty

three on the cross.

Because he is so serious about his word.

When you take his word seriously, nothing about you will fail.

Because he needs his word to be spread. Are you

listening to me? He needs his word to be spread.

He needs his word to be spread. That's why, that's

why in this church we are raising up christ like

prayer for believers who know that the God is with

them and their God is raising them up. That's what

we are raising here. We are not raising anything, but

that's we are. We are we are.

We are not.

Raising anything, but that's that's what we are raising here now.

Of course, when it comes to.

The Next Gen Institute, we are raising politicians, businessmen, doctors, lawyers,

all kinds of profession. But when it comes to Next

Gen Church, we are raising christ Like believe prayer for believers.

That's what we are raising.

Because if you go through a situation and you don't

have prayer on your side, and you don't know how

to fight in prayer, and you don't know how to

push in prayer, chances are the situation will overtake you.

But if you know how to pray just a little bit,

if you know how to believe God just a little bit,

if you know how to lift up your voice and

say some tongues, then cast some links out and prophesy

some things in, you will surely overcome that situation. I said,

you will surely overcome that situation. I said, you will

surely overcome that situation if you believe it. Shout and

prophesy and say I'm overcoming that situation. No, shouted like

you meanis say I'm overcoming that situation.

Can you walk out of.

Your seat, walk to three people and tell them I'm

overcoming that situation. Walk out of your seat, walk to

three people and tell them I'm overcoming that situation. In fact,

make it five people and tell them, I'm overcoming that situation.

I'm overcoming that situation. I'm overcoming that situation. I'm overcoming

that situation. I'm overcoming that situation. I'm overcoming that situation.

I'm overcoming that situation. And if you believe it, can

you begin to shout and give God the glory. Come

on and show and give God the glory. Come on

and show and give God the glory. Come on and

show and give God the glory. That you are overcoming,

that you are overcoming, that you are overcoming, that you

are overcoming. Lift up your voice and give God the glory. Judge,

we've reached a very crucial point in today's message, because

without what I'm about to call for, the message.

I've reached means nothing. It means nothing.

Because you must have a foundation to be able to

build on that foundation. You must have a foundation, and

that foundation is Christ. You must have a foundation, and

that foundation is Christ. Now, if you are here, oh

eyes closed, and you've not given your life to Christ,

or you say, Preacher, I gave my life to Christ,

but I backslided, and today I want to read dedicate

my life. Please step out of your seat and walk

to me. Please step out of your seat and walk

to me. Please step out of your seat and walk

to me. Please step out of your seat and walk

to me. I'm counting just three. Just walk out of

your seat. Come step out of your seat and come

one step out of your seat.

And come to me.

To step out of your seat and come to pray. Well,

we give God the praise that everyone here is a

born again Christian. Don't forget that Jesus said, if you

deny me before men, I'll deny you before the family.

So if you are here you're not born again, and

you are worried about people who are going to watch you,

please be more concerned that Jesus is watching and he

one day will also deny you the same way.

You denied him.

So if you are here and you want to step

out and believe God, always do it. Never be concerned

about who is to the left, the right, or who

is in the front or the back of you.

Amen.

Now repeat after me and say, Father, I repent from

being a sinner. Take my name out of the book

of Death and places in the Lamb's book of life.

Say Father, from today, use me, guide me, lead me,

direct me in Jesus' name, I pray in Jesus name,

I pray.

Amen. Oh, go ahead and clap your hands. Are you

not excited.

Are you not excited about what you've done? Are you

not excited about what you've done? Are you not excited

about what you've done. If you're excited, clap your hands.

I want the next church type of club.

Amen.