Fasting Is Seeding The Clouds For Future Generations | Fast 2026 | Jentezen Franklin

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Podcast Summary

Podcast: Jentezen Franklin at Free Chapel
Episode: Fasting Is Seeding The Clouds For Future Generations | Fast 2026 | Jentezen Franklin
Date: January 11, 2026
Host: Jentezen Franklin

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode centers on the spiritual principle that fasting is not just a personal discipline, but an act of “seeding the clouds” for blessings, breakthrough, and revival in future generations. Jentezen Franklin uses the biblical story of Elijah as a foundational example, illustrating how persistence in prayer and fasting releases generational impact. The message is interwoven with personal stories and modern parallels, challenging listeners to see beyond immediate results and to believe that today’s spiritual investments mold destinies for years to come.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Biblical Inspiration: Elijah and the Cloud

[00:33–09:47]

• Scripture Reference: 1 Kings 18:41-46. Elijah prophesies rain after a three-and-a-half-year drought.
• Elijah’s persistence—sending his servant to look for a sign of rain seven times—mirrors the perseverance required in fasting.
• “Go again... another day, another day. I’m glad he didn’t stop on six. I’m glad he didn’t stop on three.” — Jentezen Franklin [00:45]
• “All he had was a cloud the size of a man’s hand... now he’s making a prophetic declaration.” — Jentezen Franklin [01:36]

2. Fasting as Spiritual Cloud-Seeding

[04:20–12:08]

• Franklin draws a parallel between scientific cloud-seeding (with dry ice to produce rain) and spiritual cloud-seeding—persistent prayer and fasting leading to breakthrough.
• "You sow today what you want to see tomorrow. And that’s what we're doing on a fast." — Jentezen Franklin [04:46]
• Small beginnings matter: One tiny cloud led to an outpouring; one act of fasting can alter generational trajectories.

3. The Power of Prophetic Declaration

[09:54–14:48]

• Even when results seem invisible ("a cloud the size of a man's hand"), declare God’s promises with faith.
• “I hear the sound of an abundance of rain.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [10:39]
• Speaking life over families, businesses, and future generations—refusing to acquiesce to negative voices or give up.

4. Persistence and Patience in Fasting

[11:38–13:51]

• Encouragement to not quit during times when prayers seem unanswered.
• “Every day that you fast, every day that you pray, you’re seeding the clouds for future generations.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [11:51]

5. Generational Impact and Spiritual Inheritance

[13:14–19:42]

• Daily disciplines (Bible reading, worship, fasting) produce blessings not just for the individual, but their descendants.
• “Everything he’s doing for you is to seed the clouds for future generations.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [13:58]
• Example of Franklin’s own daughter: the fruit of persistent, faith-filled declarations led to doors opening in her career.
• “Your testimony is somebody else’s prophecy because they’re in what you were in.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [14:50]

6. Vision and Longevity in Faith

[18:42–19:31]

• “With a vision, people don’t perish. You never age out as long as you got a vision. Caleb was 85 because he had a vision. He was still taking mountains for his family. He was seeding the clouds for his five daughters.” — Jentezen Franklin [18:46]
• Maintaining spiritual vision is key to seeing generational promises fulfilled.

7. The Ripple Effect: Modern Parallels and Family Legacy

[25:58–34:10]

• Story of Elon Musk’s grandparents, Joshua and Winfred Haldeman: their pioneering flights set an example of risk and achievement that inspired future generations—culminating in Musk’s innovations.
• “If your grandparents are crazy enough to get on a transatlantic or world trip, then they were seeding the clouds for the grandson to one day come on the scene.” — Jentezen Franklin [32:13]
• Our choices create stories and spiritual momentum for those who come after us.

8. Practical Spiritual Application

[07:00–24:18]

• “Seed the clouds with worship... No worship, no rain.” — Jentezen Franklin [22:07]
• Encouraged to choose a Bible verse for the year, worship regularly, and make prophetic declarations over families and communities.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Fasting is seeding the clouds for future generations. You sow today what you want to see tomorrow.” — Jentezen Franklin [04:46]
• “Just because you can't see it, faith sees the unseen and hears the unheard and believes what God says above what their natural senses tell them.” — Jentezen Franklin [06:30]
• “Speak it, declare it. Oh devil, you won’t have my children. You won’t have my family. Every day that you fast... you’re seeding the clouds for future generations.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [11:00]
• “Seed the clouds... despise not the day of small beginnings.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [12:25; paraphrased from Zechariah]
• “Anytime God blesses you, it’s not just about you. It’s about future generations.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [13:58]
• “Your brave is someone else’s breakthrough. Your testimony is someone else’s prophecy.” — Co-Pastor/Worship Leader [34:40]
• “Kiss the wave that throws you against the Rock of Ages.” — Charles Spurgeon, quoted by Jentezen Franklin [27:40]

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:33–09:47 — Exposition of 1 Kings 18 & cloud-seeding metaphor
• 10:18–12:08 — The role of prophetic declaration and persistent faith
• 13:14–14:48 — Daily spiritual discipline and generational impact
• 16:11–17:47 — Personal testimonies illustrating generational breakthrough
• 18:46–19:31 — Importance of vision, referencing Caleb
• 25:58–34:40 — Story of Elon Musk’s grandparents; “Your brave is someone else’s breakthrough”
• 22:07, 23:55 — Practical call: Worship as cloud-seeding, praise as intercession

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Takeaways and Applications

• Don’t underestimate the power of fasting, prayer, and worship, even if immediate results seem small.
• Make prophetic declarations over your family and future generations.
• Persistence in faith and spiritual disciplines has ripple effects beyond your lifetime—your acts are seeds for a harvest you may not personally witness.
• Embrace and share testimonies; your story becomes prophecy and inspiration for someone else.
• Maintain a vision and spiritual purpose at every stage of life.

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Conclusion: The Call to Action

Jentezen Franklin encourages listeners to engage in sustained fasting, prayer, and worship—not just for their own breakthrough, but as a spiritual legacy for their children, grandchildren, and communities. “Keep seeding the clouds,” he urges, reminding listeners that today’s faithfulness fuels tomorrow’s miracles, often reaching into unknown futures and shaping destinies yet unwritten.

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For more biblically based inspiration and teachings, connect with Jentezen Franklin at jentezenfranklin.org.

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Transcript

[Jensen Franklin]

Hello, this is Jensen Franklin, and thank you so much for joining us for this week's podcast. Our goal is to provide you with biblically based teachings that will challenge, inspire, and equip you to live for Jesus. If you haven't already, I'd love for you to go ahead and subscribe today to this podcast so you can get the latest updates from us and you don't ever have to miss a new message. Let's go right into the service. Record it at Freechapel. I believe it's going to bless you today.

And I want you to go to First Kings, chapter 18. First Kings, chapter 18. I'll begin reading with verse 41. Then Elijah said to Ahab, go up and eat and drink, for there is the sound of an abundance of rain. So Ahab went up to eat and drink, and Elijah went up to the top of Carmel. Then he bowed down on the ground and put his face between his knees, and he said to his servant, go up now, look toward the sea. So he went and looked, and he said, there is nothing. And seven times he said, go again, go again, go again, go again, go again, go again. It's kind of like a 21 day fast. Again, go again, go again. Another day, another day. I'm glad he didn't give up. I'm glad he didn't stop on six. I'm glad he didn't stop on three. Then it came to pass the seventh time that he said, there is a cloud as small as a man's hand rising out of the sea. So he said, go up and say to Ahab, prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you. All he had was a cloud the size of a man's hand. And now he's making a prophetic declaration, you better move and get off this mountain while you're still alive. There is coming a gully washer like you wouldn't believe. And if you don't go now, you may not get off this mountain. Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became Something's happening in the meantime. When you're going after God for 21 days, you don't see may be very small. Seemingly. Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with the clouds and wind and there was a heavy rain. After three and a half years of no rain, no moisture even in the mornings, no dew, A heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel. Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. One of the footnote, great wonderful things about that verse is Jezreel is 30 miles from that valley and he outran the horses. Can you hear the music of Chariots of Fire right there? And see him running past Ahab's Arabian stallions? So I'm talking today and I'm preaching today. Something that I want to share with you is inspired by a book I've been reading in. The seventh chapter of this book tells this story and it really is really going to, I hope, register with you. It sure has with me. I'm preaching today on seeding the clouds for future generations. Fasting specifically. What I'm preaching on is fasting is seeding the clouds for future generations. You sow today what you want to see tomorrow. And that's what we're doing on a fast is you're sowing today not one day today and the next day and the next day for what you want to see God do that is in his word to do. And tomorrow sow today, reap tomorrow. On November 13, 1946, a plane took off from New York. It had six pounds of dry ice. Its mission, to seed the clouds with solidified carbon dioxide in hopes of creating enough condensation to cause precipitation. For many months prior to the flight, a chemistry named Vincent Schaefer conducted a clandestine experiment for General Electric. In their laboratory in GE freezers chilled to sub zero temperatures, Schaeffer created clouds using his breath and seeded them with different chemical substances. After many thousands failed attempts on a hot July day, Schaefer added some dry ice to his crystals to his freezer. I should say the dry ice caused a chemical reaction. Catalyzed snow crystals appeared. A few months later, he takes off in a single propeller plane into a cloud in the middle of the summer dumped the dry ice. And eyewitnesses on the ground said that they that it seemed the clouds seemed to explode. The subsequent snowfall was visible for 40 miles. The headlines of the newspaper in New York the next day said Schaeffer's breakthrough quote. Schaeffer made it snow this afternoon over Pitts Field. Now next week he will walk on water. The science of seeding clouds is a modern day marvel that has happened just in our lifetime. But it is an incredible thing and it is a powerful first in the natural, then in the spiritual. That they literally have discovered how to see the clouds and make them rain or make them snow. That actually is real and it's not even disputable. This was the man who discovered that. But it didn't start with him spiritually. It started with the text that I read this morning in First Kings, chapter 18. It's the story of Israel being in a famine for three and a half years. And the prophet Elijah sensed that this was the time for God to break that famine. He climbed up the mountain like the man went up in an airplane. He climbed up Mount Carmel. I've been on top of that mountain many, many times in my life. And I've stood on top where he had to have stood. It's a very real place. And when he got on top of that mountain, he said, I'm going to seed. The only problem was there was no cloud to seed. There was nothing to see. It started spiritually with a man praying a bold prayer. God, it's time for the famine to end. The children are dying. The people are hungry. The crops have failed. The animals are dying. The God let it rain. Let it rain. The Bible said he put his body posture changed. He put his head between his knees. He got down on all fours and put his head between his knees, and he began to pray for rain, praying fervently for rain. And then he said to the man that was standing there, his servant, go to the cliff and look out and see if you see a cloud coming from the coast. And seven times, the Bible said he would go one time, two times, three times, four times. Just like fasting, we're doing it day after day. And each time he would go, nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. Oh, but something was changing. And just because you can't see it, faith sees the unseen and hears the unheard and believes what God says above what their natural senses tell him. So the scripture said, he says to him, on the sixth time, after saying, I see nothing, go again. And this time, after Elijah has seated spiritually the clouds over his nation and over his family and over the kingdom of God, after he seeded it and filled it up with prayers that are the seedbed of spiritual clouds that pour down the rain of blessing. The seventh time, he comes back and he says, I see a cloud. After three and a half years, all.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

We'Ve got over our whole nation is.

[Jensen Franklin]

A cloud the size of a man's hand.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

And that's when I love this part of the story. He did not wait until the next.

[Jensen Franklin]

Verse where it says, the sky grew dark and the clouds and thunder, and all of a sudden it rained very hard. The text said, you read it yourself in this message.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

But before that happened, when it was just a hand.

[Jensen Franklin]

I mean, come on.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

That size of a cloud.

[Jensen Franklin]

And he goes with a prophetic declaration. This is how you see the clouds for future generations over your family is prophetic declarations.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

He says, I hear the sound.

[Jensen Franklin]

Of.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

An abundance of rain and it's about to hit every family and every home and every. Every dry company and business that's going on.

[Jensen Franklin]

I.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

The sound of an abundance of rain. How do you hear it? There's just a cloud the size of a man's hand. It is a prophetic declaration. That's what you're supposed to do when you're fasting and praying. You're seeding the clouds. You don't have to see it right now. Speak it, declare it. Oh, devil. You won't have my children. You won't have my family. Every day that you fast, every day that you pray, you're seeding the clouds for future generations. That prophetic declaration. And then there's that patient, that patient persistence.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Go again.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Go again. And every voice this week in the world and inside your head and outside of your head has said, quit.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Just stop.

[Jensen Franklin]

It's not working. Don't fast.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Don't do it.

[Jensen Franklin]

Break it.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Quit. Quit, Quit. But there it is. It's a prophetic declaration. And then he adds to that this powerful patient persistence that says, try it again.

[Jensen Franklin]

Look again.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Look again.

[Jensen Franklin]

It's coming.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Look again. Do you see that?

[Jensen Franklin]

It's powerful.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

And then I love the fact that what he is doing with that patience, that persistence and with that prophetic declaration.

[Jensen Franklin]

He is seeding the cloud. It is so small. Despise not the day of small beginnings.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

He's seeding the cloud. You say, I just don't see any change. Seed the cloud.

[Jensen Franklin]

A prophetic declaration. Persistence while you're fasting. I'm telling you today that he said, I hear the sound of an abundance of rain. You see, the word of knowledge on the fast will come to you. Of what to pray for people. The word of wisdom will come to you what to pray. You'll be reading the Bible and you can read this Bible and see the clouds for future generation.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

If you'll just read three chapters a.

[Jensen Franklin]

Day, you'll read 92% of this book and you just throw in a few chapters here and there and you'll have.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

The whole Bible read in one year, three chapters a day.

[Jensen Franklin]

That's all it takes. You can read the Bible through this.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Year, every one of you.

[Jensen Franklin]

I charge you. I'm going to do it because you'll thank me for it when you stand before the throne of God because he sends you letters every day and you don't read them. And he says, get in a habit. Now, this is a daily thing that I need from you.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Give me this day my daily bread. Give me three chapters. I'm going to read three chapters.

[Jensen Franklin]

It'll take me 10 minutes.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

But I'm going to give. And I'm not going to do it in a. I'm going to get a.

[Jensen Franklin]

Loan and I'm going to open the.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Book and I'm just going to read three chapters. Can you do that? You'll see the clouds for future. Can you do that for your babies? Can you do that for your grandchildren? Anytime God blesses you. It's not just about you. It's about future generations. Everything he's doing for you is to see the clouds for future generations. Generations. That's why we praise and worship. We're filling up the clouds, seeding the clouds, but it will bless you. But we get all about here and now. He's thinking generations and nations while we're thinking here and now.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Hallelujah.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

I'm so glad that. That my bold praise and my bold fasting right now is proclaiming breakthrough to my children and children's children. Then I'm so thankful that my testimony is a prophecy to somebody.

[Jensen Franklin]

El.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Your testimony is somebody else's prophecy because they're in what you were in. And when you see the cloud with the word of God and you see the cloud with prophetic declarations and stop talking the negative stuff and stop saying the bad stuff and declare the prophetic declaration of the Lord over that situation.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Come on.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

This is what Christians do. We talk to mountains. We command mountains to get out of the way.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

And I'm looking at miracles all over.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

This room that the enemy said, I will have them and I will destroy them. But somebody got down on their knees and started seeding the clouds. And somehow that cloud got so full that it began to rain down freedom and deliverance and purpose and destiny and calling. Oh, somebody give him a mighty shout of praise.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

We can change things if we'll read.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

This word, pray fast and declare that.

[Jensen Franklin]

Word is seeding the clouds. There ought to be some moments in our life where people think we're crazy.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

My daughter Caroline, sitting down here on the front row, and she came to.

[Jensen Franklin]

Me last year and she said, dad, God told me this. I just feel it. She didn't say it quite that strong.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

But I tried to talk her out of it. I told her, probably not very small percentage, almost certain probably not.

[Jensen Franklin]

Don't think so. Don't think so. Something got a hold of her and said, this is my will.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Believe for it. And she said, I'm going for it whether you help me or not. You know what?

[Jensen Franklin]

She got that thing, and she's working.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

In the White House, and I didn't have much to do with it. God did it. And it's amazing the people she's bumping into every day. Oh, come on here.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

I'm talking about a prophetic declaration.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

I didn't clear that with you, but I'm so proud of it.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Hallelujah. What the devil told me about her. When the enemy thought that he would win. But I just want to proclaim over.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

All of our young people, we're seeding the clouds at Freechapel. You don't have a chance to stray from God.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

You don't have a chance to stay out there in the polluted streams of this world. God has a purpose for your life, and you will walk in it. Give him a shout if you're a mama or a daddy oh, you better praise him if you've already seen prodigals.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Change Give him a shout. Seed the clouds. And every once in a while, there ought to be a moment in your life. If you read this book on a consistent daily basis and you pray and you fast like this for 21 days, there will be moments in your life when people will think you a cray cray. You were crazy good. You're getting in God's territory. He's tired of little puny prayers. He wants somebody with some courage and.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Some vision and to say, my God can do anything.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Exceedingly, abundantly. Above all that I could ask or even think. And it doesn't matter how complicated it.

[Jensen Franklin]

Is to get you there. Hallelujah.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Whoo. Without a vision, people perish.

[Jensen Franklin]

And the opposite is true. With a vision, people don't perish. You never age out as long as you got a vision. That's what's wrong with some of you old people. You've lost your vision. You're sitting in a rocker all day. Get a vision and you'll stay Alive. Caleb was 85 because he had a vision. He was still taking mountains for his family. He was seeding the clouds for his five daughters. Seed the clouds. Listen. For the fourth and fifth generation, the.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Bible said, see, said we are to touch the blessing of the Lord. Bless us unto the third and fourth generation.

[Jensen Franklin]

We should believe that what we're doing.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Right here on this fast is going to go to the third and fourth.

[Jensen Franklin]

Generation of every one of our families.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

We're stacking the deck. Bring Antichrist Spirit on. Greater is he that is in us. We're fasting and praying. I know there's troubled times. There's no telling what's coming. I know the Lord is coming back. But should he tarry? If we fast and we pray, we are the Triumphant Church. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against us.

[Jensen Franklin]

You see, we sow today what we want to see tomorrow. We see the clouds in many ways, through prayer and through fasting. When Elijah said, get off this mountain or else, it was a prophetic declaration. His physical posture and his profound humility, his extreme intensity. That's what fasting is, isn't it?

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

It's great humility.

[Jensen Franklin]

It's expressing it even in our posture. It is something about it that is. That is incredibly, extremely intense prayer and fasting and the clouds are getting loaded.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Hallelujah. And the miracles are going to rain, and the blessings are going to reign. And freedom and grace and mercy is going to reign instead of judgment and destruction. God's story. This book is here to produce God's family. It started with Abraham, and it goes all the way up through the Bible, and it goes from God's story to God's family. And you are the rest of the story. You are Now Revelation, chapter 23. There is no Revelation 23 in here. It stops at 22. But you're Revelation 23. You are Acts, chapter 29. It stops in 28. But you're 29. You're Living Epistles. And he's still writing your story. And he's writing the story. Every one of us. Every one of us are here because somebody seeded our cloud. And there were people who went before.

[Jensen Franklin]

You who seeded the cloud.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

You ought to choose a verse for this year and write it down and believe God for that verse. And seed that cloud for future generations. Pray that they will grow in grace. Pray that God will bless you as you seek him on this fast. Seed the clouds with worship. I preached a sermon many years ago. No worship, no rain. It's from Zechariah, the 14th chapter. And it says this. It says, and it shall be in those days, those who will not come up of the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the Lord of hosts. Even they will have no rain. He's saying no worship. I preached it 20 years ago. No worship, no rain. The more worship goes up on a family, especially in seasons like this. Worship God. Sit down and worship God. Or worship him in Your car. But worship and see the clouds for future generations. See moves of God and fresh touches of God. See the clouds for this church all year long. Over in March and all over in September and over. We're seeding the clouds. And he said, the families that don't send up worship, they'll have no rain. The families that send up worship, they've seated the clouds and the rain will fall on them. The more you send up, the more falls down. And if nothing goes up, nothing comes down. So sit there like a frog on.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

A log all through service if you want to.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Or you can send up those spiritual vapors that form the clouds. That see the clouds that sends the rain not just for you, but for your children and your children's children.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Everybody give a shout.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

That'll go four generations.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Jesus. I'm not crazy and I don't care what you think. I'm telling you, we seated the clouds over on Brown's Bridge. And look at what the Lord has done. We seated it when we didn't have nothing. And look what the Lord has done.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

And we're seeing generations to come. Turn to somebody and say, if you'll praise him, I'll join you.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Because it's unbiblical.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

If the person beside you praises and you don't, he said, rejoice with them that rejoice.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Anybody praising on your row, you are being unbiblical, not shouting and praising God. Rejoice with them that rejoice. No, we're going to take a praise break right here. We're going seed the clouds. Even for this service, I hear the sound. I've given a prophetic declaration. Rain is coming to your house. Rain is coming to your family life giving. Rain is coming to your marriage, it's coming to your children.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

It's coming to your business, your purpose, your calling.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Send it up. Send it up. Partly cloudy. Send it up.

[Jensen Franklin]

Now.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

See, and that's the atmosphere that we ought to be preaching in right there.

[Jensen Franklin]

See? Someone else seeded the cloud for you.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Somebody else seeded the cloud for you.

[Jensen Franklin]

My father died at 56, but he seeded clouds that he would never see the fulfillment of. But I'm seeing them, and my children are seeing them and my children's children are seeing them. Underestimate the power of a single seed. A single prayer, a single Praise, a single 10 minutes spent in this word, prioritized. Now, I want to give you this incredible story. Listen to this. Joshua Haldeman grew up in the prairies of Canada, the forest of Canada. And he was a successful man that had a great farm up there and it was a 5,000 acre farm in Canada. But when the Great Depression hit in America, it had a ripple effect in Canada and he lost everything, including the 5,000 acre ranch. He had to start from scratch. But out of that came a magnificent blessing. It was Charles Spurgeon who said, I'm going to tell this story another time. But listen to this line. Somebody needs to hear it even as I'm speaking now. Kiss the wave that throws you against the Rock of Ages. Even if a bad storm comes and a wave of adversity overwhelms you and froze you, cut you the coal green Tears you to pieces. Kiss the wave. Spurgeon said, you won't believe the story behind that verse. I'm going to tell it to you soon. But kiss the wave that throws you against the Rock of Ages.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Whoo. Felt something go through me right there the very things that I don't understand when you learn to kiss them and.

[Jensen Franklin]

Understand I'm not in control now I would never choose to be here but if it's coming it's to push me against the Rock of Ages Closer than I've ever been. Now listen to this story. This man starts from scratch in Canada after losing his farm. But he discovered his passion. The thing he really wanted to do was not be a farmer. He wanted to fly. His passion was flying an airplane. A single engine airplane. You see, in 1950, he uprooted his family, moved halfway around the world to South Africa. He and his family, with his wife of his. The help of his wife and his family, he had. His airplane was the only thing he retained. And that's the thing he loved the most. And he had it sent in compartments in crates to South Africa. And he taught his family, they all did it as a family project, how to put the plane back together. And all of his kids learned how to put with their hands a plane together. A single engine prop plane. A few years later, that man and his wife, whose name was Winfred, embarked on a 30,000 mile trip in that same plane from Africa to Australia and back to South Africa. 30,000 miles. Y' all don't understand. Flown over to Australia. That's a what? 18 hour, 18 hour flight on a single engine plane.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

Just. Oh, this man and his wife, they got little glasses on. Hey, this is fun. You think Junior put the. Put the right thing on the propeller. You think everything, you think everything's good, honey? I think everything's good. Good.

[Congregation Member or Worship Leader]

Let's go.

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

30,000 miles across the ocean Storm. I mean, on big old 747 jets, it's scary. Sometimes you're doing like, it doesn't matter how nice where you are. It's a little. Can you imagine? This really happened. To put it in perspective, Charles Lindbergh, who did the transatlantic flight, flew 3,600 miles and everybody went crazy. But 27 years later, Joshua and Winford.

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Haldeman flew eight times as far in a single engine plane. You never heard of them and you don't care. I can see by the look of your face, but you have heard of their grandson named Elon Musk. And Elon Musk, in the biographers who wrote his story, said that, listen to this. That he was inspired because he would sit and watch the. They had these little machines that they used to do and they take a picture and you could put a screen up on the wall and it would click and you.

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It was pretty cool. Cut all the lights off and you go click.

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And all the young people are like.

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But we didn't have computers and all that. And you go click. We used to use them in church. It was really cool.

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Click.

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Click. We thought we were really bad.

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Click.

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And a new picture would come up automatically.

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Isn't that amazing? Click.

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It's on a little circle.

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Why y' all make me work so hard?

[Co-Pastor or Worship Leader]

You know what's it called? Has it got a name? Projection.

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Thank you. Projection screen. That's on you. That's five minutes your time.

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You should have.

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So get this. Now, Elon Musk has turned aerospace industry upside down with his SpaceX headquarters. He has a picture of Mars, barren, just like it is. And on the other side of the headquarters room, he has a picture of it colonized and humans living there. And a guy you talk about shooting for the moon. That wasn't enough. If your grandparents are crazy enough to get on a transatlantic or world trip, then they were seeding the clouds for the grandson to one day come on the scene. And the stories that he heard about his grandparents and the pictures that he looked at the slideshow, the exploits of his grandparents became the seed bed in Musk imagination.

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And the knowledge that was transferred became the seed bed about aviation that would cause him to send a rocket up and have the technology to help bring.

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It back down and use it all over again. You know why I learned this? Because one day I'm going to get to preach to him.

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One day I'm going to tell him about one Savior and one Lord and one name that is above every name. And he.

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I'm Believing for that.

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The family story should keep going on in your family. And you should see the cloud spiritually, so that down the road, you don't even know what God is doing. That family, all of us, are born into somebody else's story. For good or for bad, you're born into that story. And every move you make and every risk you take sounds like a steam song.

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Come on.

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It's not.

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I'll be watching you. But every move you take and every.

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Risk you take, setting the stage for somebody else in your family to take the same steps of faith that you're taking. So seed the clouds, and God will find your children.

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Hallelujah. Seed the clouds, and the rain cannot be held back. See the cloud, no matter how small.

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It is, little is much when God is in it. Your brave is somebody else's breakthrough. Your testimony is somebody else's prophecy.

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And whatever God does for you is never just for you. It's always the third and fourth generation. And I'm done. But I'm simply telling you this morning that means I'm done. And I'm simply telling you this morning. I don't understand because y' all were in the first service. You know, I'm done.

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What doth hinder. That's a Bible verse.

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Hallelujah. Does this sermon make sense? If you get this, then he said, make sure that you faint not, lest your labor be in vain, but just keep fasting, just keep praying. Just keep seeding the clouds. Even the the again saying no to this and no to that. It's a seed going, and you don't know what God is doing. Even in the next generation and the next generation and the next generation, there's going to be spiritual Elon Musk.

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That what he has. He's the richest man in the world. But what if the greatest anointing on.

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The planet has never been seen yet in someone's life that totally is pure.

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And clean and gives all glory to Jesus? No telling what.

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Those little prayer meetings, when you clean in the house, they're seeds for future generations. Seed those clouds. This is what I felt led to tell you. I hear the sound. I'm making a prophetic declaration over your home and over your family and over your life. In this new year, I hear the sound of an abundance, abundance of rain. And you.

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If you don't know, if you don't move now, you might miss it. He said, ahab, if you don't move.

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Now, this, this, this is going to be a blessing.

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But if you get left behind, this, this thing. You could, it could, you could sink in this. I feel that for somebody in this service, at every campus, all over, whoever you're watching me, this is a divine appointment and somebody has seeded your cloud and you can't go into another year.

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Like you've been going.

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And this is your moment and this is your hour and this is your day.

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I really want to say thank you for joining us this week. If you haven't already, make sure you click on the subscription button and leave us a review. It helps this podcast reach each more people when you comment, when you give us your feedback. For more messages and inspirational materials, download the Jensen Franklin app or you can head over to JensenFranklin.org I want to thank all of you who give generously to help us produce weekly content like this to reach the world with the message of Jesus. God bless you and we'll see you next time.