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A Season Of Opportunities | Pastor Harpreet Khosa | Sun. Jan. 19, 2025
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A Season Of Opportunities | Pastor Harpreet Khosa…
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No title sermon. That's okay. We'll find out at the end of a service what the title sermon should be. Because I couldn't figure it out. Poor Peter called me, texted me last night, early this morning before service start. He said anything? I said, no. We'll see at the end of service what the title should be. Amen. I want to like this prophecy was I'm gonna talk something related to that. I'm not continuing what Pastor Craig said about speaking more. He will come back and he'll. He'll keep his siddhis on and he'll share more about that. But what I'll share what I have been. God has been dealing with me personally. That is when Pasnancy says, if you don't find anything settling in your heart, speak. What is God speaking to you personally? Or when you come on the pulpit, that is. That should be the sermon. So the season of increase, the year of increase. I've been looking at it, studying about it, and I want to share a few scriptures about it. That the season and the time. Whenever the Bible talks about time and season, it always talks about opportunities. It always talks about opportunities. You have to be smart enough. That's why Jesus said you have to have ears to hear. You don't just hear with these ears, you have to hear with these ears also. That goes in. But you have to have ears here in your spirit so you can grab what is said. So time and season, as always referring to majority of time in the Old and the New Testament about opportunities. And whenever God talks about opportunities, it's a person's responsibility to take it or to leave it. Because God is a very, very gentle man. He's a very gentle man. He never forces people. You don't want to be filled with the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues. You. He will not come on you and force you. You don't want it. You don't want it.
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Hallelujah.
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There are tons of people, there are tons of churches, there are tons of pastors preaching at this time in the morning, even who are not filled with the Holy Ghost. Why they don't want it and God doesn't force them. He will not come upon him and say, no, no, no, I'll hold your tongue and ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. You will speak much. No, he doesn't do that. He doesn't do that. He's a gentleman. So he gives people opportunities. He gives people time. He gives people that. You get it, you want it, you ask for it, you have it. So time and season are Always opportunities according to Bible. And when those opportunities come, it is like something above you has opened up. I can say that way only I can say that like windows of heaven has opened upon you now spiritually. Jesus has opened the windows of heaven upon every single person in respect to that. Anybody can go to heaven if they receive him as a Lord and Savior. If they say, jesus, come into my life and they receive him, they can go to heaven. They become the citizen of heaven living on earth. But when they die, when they leave the earth, they will go to heaven. I became that 25th May 25th April 2011 when I said, jesus, I need you. I'm a sinner. I want you in my life. That day I became, I have not gone to heaven till now, but I will when I leave the earth. Because that's the surety I have because of the Bible in me. So in that regard, windows of heaven are open upon every single person.
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Hallelujah.
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But upon Christians, that windows, upon churches, that windows open, open in a, in a particular way. That's why Pastor Keg says, I don't believe in sometimes pastors. Sometimes people say, oh, this is the year for this. Like there are pastors, there are prophets, there are people who just come on the pulpit and say, this is a year for this, for all the body of Christ. Not all are accurate. Now, I'm not saying Brother Copeland, I'm not saying Pastor Nancy, because they have proven their, their 50, 60 years of worth in the ministry. You can take that to bank. But they never come out. And especially Pastor Nancy, she never comes out and says by. Because God in the last days is doing what is building strong local churches. What are strong local churches? A strong believer sitting and taking his place in that chair in that local church where he is planted. That's why Dr. Eddie used to say, church tramps, church people who are just going from here to here, they will never know God the way they should know God. They will never experience the best from God the way they should. Why? Because they are looking for better more in different places. You will have more if you are planted where God wants you to be. They are looking for more. They are not experiencing more. Why? Because they are looking quick in a way that I don't have to do my part and I will just experience. You never do that with God. You will never do that with God. Everything is a system. Everything is a system. And that system, the operator by Father Jesus purchased for you. And Holy Ghost leads you into that Hallelujah. But there is still you have to work certain things, you have to position yourself, you have to do certain things in order to experience that more, in order to experience that increase, in order to experience that what God has for you and your family. So windows of heaven, they open upon churches as a saying, like pastor comes and say, this year God has been dealing with me last year that repair the altar, build the altar. It was not to tell outside though generally a person can take and say, you know what, I'm sinning, I should not be sinning. I'm watching this thing. And my pastor has been saying I should be. That is a repairing of altar. That is basically leaving certain wrong sins or wrong things in your life and moving towards close to God. That is a general Christian term, that is a general Christian attitude. That is a general Christian should walk by. But when pastor comes on, if you are planted, a pastor comes and says, I want, I'm saying this by the Spirit, that this is a year of building an altar, repairing an altar. If you are planted, you must pay attention. And now when she comes up and he said, God said according to Elijah parallel, that this is a year of. This is a year of prayer. And then according to the parallel of vineyard, he said, this is a year of increase. So put two together, put two together. You don't have to be super smart, you don't have to be genius or a scholar, you don't have to know Greek language. Then only you will experience Hallelujah. Now I'm not saying that you will never experience increases for everyone for all the time. But there are opportune times, there are opportunities that you must seize.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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When God said to Noah, the first time refer about the windows of heaven is when God said to Noah that I'm about to take away the earth. I'm about to destroy the humanity. I'm about to. I'm done with them because they are evil. They are doing this. So he said, I'm about to pour out the water. And that is the first time in Genesis 7:11, he said that in 600 year of Noah's life, in the second month, the 17th day of the month, on that day, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. That was the first time referred to about the windows of heaven. Why he has been saying from time that I will open up, I will do something. It's 100 years. But that was an opportune time when he said, today is the day, Today is the day. This is the year that on the 600th day year of Noah's life, he said, this is the year I'm going to open up. Boy, make sure your boat is ready and your whole family is in the boat, because you'll be done. So it was the first time when he said that. Now, with that open window, what came forth? Supernatural supply the earth has not seen. There were seas, there were oceans at that time, but earth has not seen supernatural water in that abundance, in that way which that. That day it came. So that was the first time. Now I'm talking few things. Let's go before I put. I'm just laying a foundation here for something. Now, this was the first time he said that. Now, second time, what did he say was, you know, Exodus 16. The people of Israel called out from the. From the place, from the slavery, and they went out into the wilderness, 40 years into the wilderness. It was not supposed to be that time, but stayed there that time. And. And God provided specially for them when they were complaining what they did, what God did, he prepared for them. What a manna for them. Let's go to 78 Psalm, verse 23. 78 Psalm, verse 23. The passion says, still he spoke on their behalf, and their skies opened up and the windows of heaven poured out food. The mercifred manna, the grain of grace fell from the clouds. Now these are the people who are complaining. These are the people who are not supposed to be where they are. But yet God being merciful, said, you know what? I'll give them something. What I'll give them is I'll open up the heaven itself for them and pour out something that is never happened before. Nobody had eaten angels food. Nobody had experienced this kind of supernatural power. Nobody has seen actually or heard even what I'm about to do. And he did. What he did was he opened up the heavens.
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Hallelujah.
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He's talking about naturally, not only spiritually, you say, I have. I had a vision. I saw with my. Not this flesh, but I saw in the spirit. He said, open up the heaven itself. And the manna came down. And what they did was they. They were satisfied. They were satisfied with that manna. They ate that manna for not one day, not two days, for years, for years. That was the satisfaction God gave them. Wow, how he opened up the windows for them. Windows of heaven for them.
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Hallelujah.
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Now, I'm gonna give you a few scriptures. If you read the Second King, chapter six, chapter seven, Second Kings, chapter six and chapter seven, it talks about the city of Samaria what happened there? That city was seized. The enemy kings came around and they seized it. When the city was seized, there was no supply going in. There was no supply going in. Their natural situation was the worst any person can human can experience. The food was not there. They had money, so they were buying with their money what they were buying. Donkeys head, dull's dung. They were eating those things because they were nothing. And the poor people, what they were doing? They were eating their own children. That was the situation that has come down to that. So imagine how desperate those people were. You don't eat your children for the first day if you're hungry. I don't care how much you eat. If you don't get food for one day, you will not say, boil my son and eat. No, you will not do that. You will be so desperate enough gone so far, enough, so demonic that you will say, no, no, I'm too hungry, I don't care. I want to eat. So whatever give me, I'll eat donkey's head. I'll eat doves dung. Like they were gone so bad. They were gone so far. Why? Because the supply was cut. The shortage of supply. They had money. They had money, but the supply was cut. The supply was short. So what happened? The king got mad and he said, bring out the prophet. Kill the prophet. It's because of him. It's because of him that has been happening to us. But if you read Second Kings, chapter 7, verse 1, Second King, Verse, Second Kings, chapter 7, and verse 1. Then Elisha said, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord. Tomorrow about this time, a shake of the fine flour shall be sold for a shekel. And two says of barley shall be for a shekel at the gate of Samaria. So an officer, a right man of the king said, whose? On whose hand the king leaned, answered the man and said, look, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, could this thing be only hallelujah? What he's saying, basically, what you are talking is impossible. What you are talking is. Doesn't make sense. What you are talking is. You are out of your mind. Don't you see people are dying around? Don't you see? Don't you see what's happening around us? Don't you see what has happened in the neighborhood? No, you don't understand that. But when the word comes, it supersedes your situation. It always supersedes your situation. And you need to understand what you will look at your natural situation or at the Word. The word will not come to you when you are flying high. The word comes to you when you are low under the barrel. It takes real faith to believe when you are just under the barrel, when you are barely, not even have anything in life, then God says to you, by this time tomorrow you will have this. God. Do you don't see me? Don't you know last two months, have you seen? Last two years, have you seen? Have you seen what our neighborhood has been going through? Are you serious, God? Do you even have a clue how we are living here? And you are saying by this time tomorrow everything will be in abundance? People didn't say, but the guy, he had a genuine question. I'll say, here's a genuine question. Like how? How will it happen? How will it happen that by tomorrow we'll have abundance? How? Hey, I understand, Elisha. You're an emotional guy. I understand you pray. I understand. Sometimes you close your eyes and do things. But. But how? Only if your Lord makes windows in heaven and from there something falls on the ground, only then it is possible. Elisha says, it will be like I said, but you will not participate in it. You will see also. You will see with your own physical eyes the food. You will see with your own physical eyes the abundance. But you will not participate in it.
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Hallelujah.
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That's what Christians are today. When God says, this is a year of increase, they say, do you know God my job? Do you know God where I work? Do you know God my boss? Do you know where my bills are? Do you know where I'm standing personally? And you are telling me this is a year of increase. God doesn't care about your situation from a perspective. He cares for your situation from one perspective. He knows your situation more than you even know. And he's trying to tell you, don't look at your situation, look at me. I am telling you that I am about to do anything. I'm telling you I'm about to open the windows of heaven. I'm telling you, I'll pour out abundance on you. But certain Christians, they are like that king's right, man. They see the others prosper. They see the others experience. They see the others benefit. They don't themselves. Why? Because they are critical. They are judgmental. They are jealous. They are jealous. Listen one thing. Never celebrate somebody's fall and never be jealous of somebody's success. You don't know what that man has done behind the scenes. You don't know how many hours that man has prayed to stand where that person stands today. Don't judge that person. Don't judge that person. And don't judge somebody who falls either. And don't celebrate that person who falls. It is between him and God.
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Hallelujah.
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I'm not called to judge. I'm called to preach. I'm not called to judge or be jealous. I'm called to love.
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Hallelujah.
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Don't be jealousy of somebody. That's the problem. Oh, pastors are rich. Pastors are getting it. Why? Because they believe the word. They act on the word. They do the word. They do not say, Lord, do you understand my situation? They say, lord, if you have said we'll do it. If you have said that I will fly a plane. Brother Jesse said in 1960s or 70s when God said, you will fly a plane and do my thing. He said, lord, I don't even have money to fill a full tank in this five gallon van. You are telling me I will fly a plane? You. You believe. That's the situation. Either you believe or you just reject. You don't have to understand the Word with this here, guys. If you are trying to, you will always lose in your life. Because the Word will never make a sense here. You know how many people from India has read the Bible, has even spoken about the Bible, has even sang the songs about Bible and Jesus. Yet they are not born again. What? They benefit nothing. The windows of heaven are still closed upon them. They will not go to heaven. Why? Because they sang a song and audience and some Christians say, oh wow, what a beautiful song they sang. They are not born again. The windows of heaven are closed upon them.
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Hallelujah.
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Similarly, the windows of heaven, which is the opportune and the time and seasons of life, they open upon people. But the people, if they are sleeping, people. People, if they are busy judging others, people, if they are busy jealousy, people, if they are busy condemning others, they will never experience what God is about to pour upon them.
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Hallelujah.
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I care less what you drive. You drive better than me. I'm glad. Why? Because I see God's bigness on you. Why should I be jealous if you are wearing better clothes? Why? I know that God will provide one day for me too. God can provide for me too. Why? I should be. Wow. He know. I don't know why. How he did. No, no. Maybe he knows God more than you. Copy his actions, copy his behavior, copy see what he does, See what she does and follow that. That's why Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ. Don't be jealous, Peter. Don't be jealous that I'm coming behind you coming after you and still progressing before you. Don't be jealous. Don't be jealous, Peter. Don't be jealous. John, I knew that you were having your intimate time with the Lord. I didn't have that time. But, hey, I know the Lord better than you. I'm not judging you. I'm not condemning you. But follow me as I follow the Christ.
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Hallelujah.
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We are not to condemn people. We are not to. If Christian gets busy in condemning whether a spouse, whether a person, whether a pastor, whether a local church, whether a neighbor, whether a boss or anybody, he has closed that window. He has closed that opportunity of prosperity that God is about to pour upon them.
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Hallelujah.
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God is a true God. He will never be mocked. He will never be mocked. He gives opportunities to every single Christian to go, up, up, up, up, up. He gives every single person same opportunities. That's why he's called a fair judge. That's why he's called a fair judge. Why he's a fair. He gives opportunities to every single person. That's why he said, the end will not come until everybody has heard about me. Until everyone has heard the windows of heaven are open for them. They can come to me without doing the natural things. Just by believing in their hearts and saying, jesus, I need you. They can come to heaven.
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Hallelujah.
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He will never be mocked. Nobody will come before God and sit on his throne and say, God, you never gave me opportunity to hear. He'll say, aha. Let's show you how many. Actually, you got more opportunities than this guy. At first opportunity. He grabbed it. He seized it. He took it. And you took 15 and still rejected me. Throw him out.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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You want to move fast in your life. You want to go further in your life. You want to be quick. Not quick God's world's way, but quick God's way. Blessings and experience. God's best. You have to be so keen student of hearing what the pulpit is saying. You have to be so keen what the pulpit is preaching because you will never grow beyond what pulpit is saying from here.
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Hallelujah.
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Because if you are not. That's why I personally say to people, when you come to church, don't come. I have a plan, but I'll just go. But your mind is in the plan. I have prepared a lunch. Let me go quickly touch it and then I'll come because I'm. Hey, that fish looks good, eh? What are you. What are you eating, baby? What are you eating? Fish or what do you want Rice, your mind is where the food. What? You will get nothing. What you will get nothing. When you come to church, come in a way that I don't care if this is four hours, if this is five hours, if this is two and a half hours, you will get the best. God is so fair. He said, the way you measure, I'll measure back it to you. You give me this much, you'll get this much. You give me this attention. I'll give this attention to your prayer. When you are crying. Not that I'm mean, not that I am bad, but how will I give because you gave me so little. When you give me the best, I'll give you the best. When you give me all, I'll give you all. That's why he said, love the Lord with all your heart, not let your heart stay out. And you come in the church. How many people, how many Christians, they come to church, their mind is out, their bodies are here, their heart is out, their thinking is out on tomorrow or yesterday or last year or what things happening in their personal life for the next year. No, you have to be present fully here to understand the word, what is given to here. And then hook up your faith, that fishing net to that word and say, hey, this is mine. I will take it. Then you will grab the best out of it. We are starting. We are starting, guys. We are starting the revival. The revival is about to pour out upon this land. We will see it, we will see it, we will experience it. If you can handle 2 hour church, how will you handle 5 hours? Because there will be no time for the revival. When there will be revival, then there will be time. There will be. There will be no time to say, hey guys, 12 or 25, let's happy. Don't make large announcements. Quick, let the people go. You won't have those times. Then will you say, I'll go out lunch and come back. No, what you will do, you have to arrange your schedule according to what will be that opportune time that God is pouring out and you don't want to miss out when God is here. And then your friends come to you in the evening and say, hey, by the way, did you see that guy with a deaf ear? He opened. Oh, did it open? But I didn't see. I don't believe it. Where were you that time? Oh, that's okay, don't worry. My boss called me and he said, I'll give you $2 extra, $5 extra per hour to work or I'll give you double even. Will you miss God for the double? Will you miss God for that? Will you miss God? No. You don't want to miss God. Why? God can overcome 12 years pay in a short amount. In one shot. He can overcome your one whole year's pay. One whole year. You will give hours, a monthly 200 yearly. How much? 2400 hours, 2500 hours you will give. But God said in one shot, in one day, I will give you what I can give you.
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Hallelujah.
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Guys, we serve a big God. We serve a huge God. We don't serve a chintzy God like the sinners serve that can only take and give back bad stuff. We serve a good God and gives good gifts to us. The best we can experience is in God's hand.
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Hallelujah.
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You know, Bible talks about Abraham. When he called Abraham, he said Abraham 17. When 99 year old in Genesis 17, he said Abraham, Abraham. Let be your name be Abraham. By the way, I am God Almighty. You know what that word means? Means El Shaddai. The self sufficient. The one who is so almighty. Almighty ness is around him. He's so self sufficient that you don't look in the natural. Boy, you don't look in the natural. What you will hear, what you will see, what you will wear, what your kids will be. I am the God. If you serve me faithfully and follow my plan completely, I'll make you like no other man has ever been. What did Abraham do? No, no way, Lord. Sorry, I have to go. Cattle are calling me. He heard, he followed. And there was no man like Abraham. There's no man like Abraham. There's no man. The world's total wealth. The world's total wealth. Total wealth of world majority is in his children's hand. Jews, Arabs, spiritual, natural or Christians. The majority wealth is in whose hand? His. His children. He served that God. What do you think we are? What we should do? Serve him. How? How? That's what I'm telling you. Be planted. Be there all the time. Open your ears when you come here. Don't come for a friend. Don't come for a boyfriend. Don't come for a girlfriend. Come for God. Come for yourself. And you will have what God has promised you. The worst thing you can do is you can come to the church for your friend. You know what are you doing? You're fooling yourself. Because the friends changes like season changes. I've seen boys who have dated the other girls for five years, 10 years, 15 years. And brother, you know what they did? They ditched that church. Because they didn't have the girl anymore in their life. You left the plan of God for that girl. Wait, did you know that you had a. You were following the plan or you were following that girl all the time? You gave 10 years. If you had given that two years to God, where would your life would have been? Brother? You had given 10 years of girl and you gone now from. From the place of plantation and where your life is now. If you had given only one year out of 10 to God, you would have been married, had kids, had a blessing, had a life where God has planned for you. People don't recognize. People don't recognize. There are opportunities, guys. There are opportunities for people either to be blessed or to throw their life away. Your life is precious. Your life is way precious because God created you. Your life is way precious to impact other people. Your life is too precious that you go out and tell others. But how will you tell if you're not even satisfied here? If you're not even settled here, if you're not even planted here, if you are not even being nurtured here.
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Hallelujah.
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Nurture or being growing spiritually only comes when you are planted rightly.
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Hallelujah.
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So this windows of heaven which God is talking here, that I will open the windows of heaven. And the man said yeah, if you open the windows of heaven, aha. You will not experience but everybody else else will they experience. But he didn't. In Second Kings, chapter 7, verse 1 and 2, the windows of heaven did open. The food did came, the supply did came. Through lepers, through other people unknown. You know, sometimes we believe God, we want God and we want God to bless us our way. God I'm believing for thousand dollars extra this month. And by the way, I see Ms. Su is carrying a very nice purse. Maybe he has. He has $1,000. Hi Ms. Sue, how are you? No, no, it is not the way God has. You don't tell people, I want to be blessed and you bless me. No, no, that is not God's way. You pray secretly and you receive secretly and say God, I have it. You don't tell and say, by the way, I'm believing for a new car and it's coming, it's coming. Aha. It's coming. You don't go tell out the more spiritual people. They never come out and express what they're doing. Personal insights, huh? It's just basically saying if you spare $500, just put on my towards my car. God doesn't do that way. And even if you have planned. And maybe a person is fool enough to give you. Maybe you were satisfied by 500. Maybe God had some other person his way who wanted to pay off your car. So God says, okay, take 500 and go. Go. Take it and go. I have not listened to that guy, guys. I listened to him when I came new to here, Canada, not church.
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Hallelujah.
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God had a bigger plan. You are satisfied for small plan. God wanted to pay off. You were like, this guy is like, maybe he'll give you 400, 500 or 200. Small thinking, small thinking. Those who are not rightly planted, their thinking will always stay small. And you will never grow beyond your thinking. You will never experience God's best beyond your thinking. Before that comes, you have to expand this. You have to look at the money differently. You have to look at the prayer principle differently. You have to look at receiving differently. You don't decide and tell God, God, by the way, I want to be blessed and this is the only way you can bless me. Come on, man, He's a God Almighty. You can put him in a box. You cannot put him in a box. He's God Almighty. He created this earth. He created the universe. You cannot dictate to him. God, this is the only one way you can bless me. Otherwise I don't need a blessing. No, you cannot. God gives you opportunities. You follow those opportunities. God plans you in local. You stay faithful in that church. You do what you know how to do, what you are learning from the world. You are following after your man of God. You, you keep doing, keep doing, keep doing. You don't know that one day is coming. You don't know the season is coming. But the seasons always come. The seasons of opportunities, they always, always, always come upon every single believer who is rightly planted. And this year she has said, and God has said from through, before him, even this year, that you shall see increase. Now, I'm not after increase. I'm after God. Yes, I'm after God. I don't like to say this, but what if he has said, you will never see increase? Will you still serve me? What will you do? What will you do? What if he says, I will never heal you? That's not the character of God. I'm just saying, what will you do? What will you do? You know, in our back home cultures, when a lot of converts are coming and those pastors, they have to tell them, they have to tell them, lord, if I'm healed or not, I'll still stay here. You will still be my Lord. Because they are putting in them that it is not the healing you are after, it's the God who healeth you are after. It's not the increase you're after, it's the God who increases you after. If you're after with the right heart towards him, he will increase, he will heal. Because that's his character, that's the father, that's the flow he has to give. So that's. They tell them why, because they don't want them, that they come for two months and they don't experience. And then they say, oh, by the way, this so and so called person who sits in a mountain who has not eaten from last six days, he can heal people. He gives something and he heals people. And they say, you know what? I want healing. I'll go to the bathroom. They will be demon possessed. Why? Because they are following the need. They're not following the God. We don't follow the need, we don't follow the words. But we make sure when they come, we judge our spirits. We judge with our spirits. We open our ears and say, lord, if this is you and you are saying in this pulpit, this is a year to increase. I'm not after increase. Though I need increase, I won't increase. I'm after you because you said so. I shall experience increase.
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Hallelujah.
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Brother Copeland's dad said to Dr. Jerry Sewell one time, what if Dr. Jerry said, what if the God who asked you to tithe and says the tithing was wrong, we were doing wrongly, it was not supposed to be. He said, even if it was like that, you have said that I don't have to tithe. And we were tithing wrongly. He said, I would have still enjoyed to give. Why? Because it satisfies me. It pleases me to give God. It brings joy inside of my soul. When I say, lord, I want to bring this money to your house. It brings joy. He said, even if he has said that I will not do anything, I will still do it. Why? It satisfies me from inside.
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Hallelujah.
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What satisfies us? What satisfies us? You have to understand these things. Because we live in this society cocooned with a worldly system, cocooned with so many different things around us, pressuring us all the time. What your desires, what your insides are, what you want, how you are looking at God, how you are picturing him, how you are thinking about him, how you are following him. Are you following only because of need? Are you following because you want only something from God? Are you following from a pure desire that I love God with all my heart. I want God with all my heart. I want no one want anybody but God. God judges that. That's why Bible talks about he checks the reins of the heart. He checks the reins of the heart. He checks what your heart is. Is your heart for me or the blessing? Is your heart for me or the increase? My heart is for you, Lord, But I, oh, I judge oh, because he knows your heart. He sees the heart and says, oh, his wide increase shall come to him.
- [36:13]
B
Hallelujah.
- [36:15]
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So the windows of heaven, they are basically the opportune times. And I'll tell you in ecclesiastic third chapter, the first two verses, it says that. Now, I told you at the starting, the time and season. The word time and season. If you look into Greek and if you Hebrew words, they both show opportune or opportune time or opportunity. They always tell that. So let's read this. To everything there is a season and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven. A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to pluck up what is planted. These are the first two verses. Now let's put opportunity in place of time and season. To everything there is opportunity and opportunity for every matter and purpose under heaven. Opportunity to born, an opportunity to die. Opportunity to plant, an opportunity to pluck what is planted.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- [37:30]
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There's always opportunity for you. There's always. When you come on Sunday morning, there's opportunity. Whether the bucket passes by you or you put something in it. When you go home, there's always opportunity to pray two hours, to pray one hour. Either the opportunity comes or passes by you. Either you lay hold and seize that opportunity or that goes by you. Why? There's a time, there's a season, there's an opportunity that comes to all this year we have received the opportunity to be blessed beyond our own natural capacity. That's why she said that it's a supernatural thing that God wants to do. It's a supernatural. What is windows of heaven means that that not natural. They couldn't eat food. They had gold from Egyptians, they had gold, yet they couldn't buy food. God gave open the windows and gave manna. Huh? These Sumerian people, they have nothing to eat, yet they have money. They were eating animals and their own children. God said, I'll give in a day what you can have it. His windows opened and the supply came. Why? Because there is a season of supply. Always. If you close your ears this year you will not experience what God has for you. It is not God's responsibility to force into you. It's your responsibility to receive it. It's my responsibility to hear and say, lord, I open my ears. This is a year, this is an opportunity. This is a time. This is a sensitive thing. I'm not letting it pass by me. I'm not letting it pass by me. I am gonna seize this opportunity. I'm not gonna let it pass by me. I'm like David. Huh? You say I'm like David. David, the least of chosen, the least among all. Rejected by his family. Rejected by his family. Not even in the. In the family functions Called went to the war because his father said, go and bring some food. And then there he hears soldiers talking among and they are saying, you know what? That 9ft guy that comes out and talks about God like this way, he didn't hear anything. First he didn't hear any perks of killing that guy. First he heard that he is blaspheming God. This guy who is not circum, who is not even covenanted with God. He has nothing to do with Christians, he has nothing to do with Jews. He has nothing to do with God. He has nothing to do with Jesus. This guy is coming out and talking so badly about God and his people. I'm gonna kill him. And by the way, what did you say? Yeah, I'm getting King's daughter. I'm getting money. No taxes. Give it on. I'll do it. But he didn't do it for that money. He didn't do it for the money. He would have killed Goliath. Even he said, you will stay poor all your life. He would have still killed. Why? Because he loved God so much. Where are the Davids of this generation? Where are the Davids? Why there are everybody after Increase? There should be people after God and Increase shall follow them. Increase should follow you. Increase must come to you. He said blessing will overtake those who are faithful. Who faithful to what? Faithful to God, to God, to his system. His system is local church. His system is praying home. His system is study the Bible. His system is live clean. His system is commune with me. His system is that live as clean and holy as you can. As I want you to be.
- [41:02]
B
Hallelujah.
- [41:04]
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David constituted, David lived. David showed us what a Christian should do. When nobody saw, only sheep saw. He was praising God. When nobody saw he was praying towards God. He was lifting his hand and saying, I love you, Lord. I love you. In the darkest moments you answer Me, when I call you, you're near to me. I love you, Lord, all the days of my life. I'll worship you all the days of my life. I love you. I'm not after anything at that time, nothing even has any opportunity, even has not even surfaced yet. He is saying that, lord, I will love you all the days of my life. And he's following God. He's following God. And the opportunity came that there's a thing, the guy, nine feet, somebody can kill and he'll get this thing. He said, I'll do this, I'll do it. Why the confidence came? Why that confidence came in him? From communion with God, being living alone with God all the time, that faith, that communion brought, that confidence in God, that I don't care what situation looks like, I don't care what opportunity has come to me. And I don't care how natural looks like I'm 5ft 5, he's 9, he's double my size. I don't care. God is with me. Nature looks impossible. But God said, elisha, open up the windows of heaven. I'll open and pour out the increase. And people shall eat, feast and be blessed because they are my people. And he said, no, it can happen. You will not only experience because of yourself, not because of God. If people don't experience the best, it's because of people's fault. It's not. God is holding back. God gives everybody opportunity. He gives the opportunities to everybody. It's, you either receive it, either you seize it, or you let it go. Either you seize it or you let it go.
- [42:58]
B
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- [43:01]
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We have opportunities this year. We have opportunity this year. The opportunity to pray, the opportunity to give, the opportunity to sow, the opportunity to receive. The opportunity to experience the best that I ever had. How will you say that? Boldly. That I will have what God has planned for me. And God will not plan what you want. God will only plan what he has already planned for you. He can ask you, Reverend Greg, he can ask you what you make. Hundred, thousand, you will say, yes, that's natural. That's not faith. And if you say, I'm satisfied you're not communing with God. Why? Because God is ever increasing. The people with God will ever increase. They will keep forth. That's why she said that this is the year to break forth. This is a year to spill over. This is the year to go from here to here, in places, in the spirit, but in a natural experience, the best God has. For how will you experience that if you have not communion with God, why? Because the confidence will never come to you. Without communication, you will never, ever have confidence. You may confess in front of two people and say, yeah, this is a year. This is a year. And go out and say, I don't know what I'm talking. God, what year? Which year? This is 2025. I don't know. You saw me where I was. You saw me what I have experienced in the past. I don't think so. This will ever happen to me. No. Why? What's the lack? Is it God holding back from you? If he has opened the windows, what's the matter here? Your lack of commune, your lack of prayer, your lack of reading and studying the Bible, your lack of fellowship with God, that will hinder your confidence. And if your confidence is at low, you will never experience the high God. Amen. Amen. That's why those guys have been hearing for 40 days. Goliath comes out and says, I'll kill you. I'll do this, I'll do that. 40 days, bro. Nobody thought that. Like, it's 20 days. Somebody should go out and talk to a. Talk to Samuel, talk to somebody else and say, bro, bro, bro. Look at that. This guy, nine feet, he's talking a lot. What do you suggest? Can you pray to your God? The last time you prayed, something happened. Can you do something? This time nobody thought spiritually. All was looking. Naturally, all were focused. Naturally. All were looking. What, in these I saw? No, you want to experience God. These eyes have to be enlightened. These eyes have to be opened. That's why he said in Ephesians 1:17 that pray that my eyes be enlightened. Because if you can see here, you cannot touch in this. If you cannot receive inside, you cannot feel or have it in the outside. And David comes the first time, the first minute. He's bringing some food for the boys, and he's like, wait, wait, wait. What did he say? What did he say that shows that fellowship? Intimacy. That shows intimacy. That shows intimacy.
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B
Hallelujah.
- [46:09]
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Success to you doesn't come because you're Christian. Success comes to you because you're intimate with God, because you're close with God. And then when that opportunity comes, you are in that position that you say, not leave it. I'll take it. I'll take it. God. You said the Eden priest, I'll take it. I don't know. Years ago, Pastor Nancy said something about in her church, I believe so that God, Pastor Nancy said, I don't know about somebody here believing For God, for a house. I have a sense in my heart there is a house for somebody and nobody came up. And somebody lady who didn't even was believing, but she has a commune with God so strong she said, oh, I take it. Why? Opportunity. I'll seize it. If you are sleeping, I don't care, I'll take it. Who doesn't mind extra money? Who doesn't mind some extra income? Who doesn't mind some extra cash flow coming into your hand? I'll take it. I'll take it. But that needs confidence to jump out. That needs confidence. That needs. The confidence only comes because of not that you are dressed nice. That confidence doesn't come because you are in promise of life. That confidence doesn't come because you have achieved something in the natural. That only comes because you are alone with him when nobody is seeing you.
- [47:32]
B
Hallelujah.
- [47:34]
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And most people miss here. Most people miss here. Most people say, oh, that's fine, that's fine. No, your communication with God is the most important thing.
- [47:43]
B
Hallelujah.
- [47:45]
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This year I've started doing. I'll keep on doing like this they do or this they do. I don't know. Something they do that I'll continue. That is, I don't go in bed with phone. I don't wake up with phone. I go to bed without phone. My phone, how long it will stay? Don't laugh at me, Mr. Zita. It's been 20 days. It's been on 19 days. And I will continue. I leave my phone on the kitchen, both phones on the kitchen and go up. Because I said the last thing going into my spirit is the word. The last thing going into my heart will be what God is communicating to me. Not what, sorry, my pastor or my boss or your boss or your friend or whatever you think is important. That is communicating. No, last thing is the most important person. That is Jesus to you. That what he's saying into my heart you go to bed. That I'm not lying. The Bible talks about your spirit never sleeps. Ecclesiastic 5. I think so. Second verse, it says that your spirit, I think song Songs of Solomon. It says, my heart longeth for my lover. My heart longeth for my lover. In my sleep I'm searching him. If you sleep like that, you will flow. You will wake up with that personality. Say it this way. The flow you sleep with, the flow you wake up with. I want to sleep in God's flow. And I wake up in God's flow. Why? Because God has the best for me. No, mom, no man has the best. No company has the best. No job has the best. No, no friend has the best. Nobody has the best. No tv, no plan, nothing has the best. But God has the best for me. So I'll put all devices, I'll put all distraction away. Why? Because I want to be ready when the opportunity comes. I am at that position. I am ready to say, oh, I'm here Lord. Look nobody else but look at me. He said, my eyes go to and fro, to and fro, looking for, looking for the ready one. Looking for the one who has seized the opportunity, who has positioned himself, who has positioned in a way that an opportunity comes. He will not think two times. If somebody comes to you and say, I want to sell house million dollar for 500,000, will you? Will you think two times. But if you don't have money, you will, will you? But if you have faith and God's leading is upon it, you will not double time think you will say, I'll take it. God will provide. God will arrange. Give me not stupidity, but God will arrange. God will provide. Why? Because you stepped, you were in that place to hear God. You were in that place of communication to say, like David said, uh huh, I will kill that guy. And I will get all that. Not because of that. I'm killing, I'm killing because of God. But I will get all that tax free. The house, the money, the wealth, the wife. I'll get everything. But because of God, he was ready. He was ever ready.
- [51:04]
B
Hallelujah.
- [51:04]
A
He was ever ready. This is a year to be ready. Year to be ready. You cannot sow and sleep. You cannot give and sleep and say, God, I hope one day somebody will increase you. No, that doesn't fly with God. That doesn't fly with God. If you have been sowing and saying, God hope one day God will increase me or bring somebody or somebody will give me something. No, no, no, no, no. With God, it's I. So I shall not. I shall I reap God. I have sown and I'm reaping God. My seeds have been gone into the ground, but harvest is mine now. My harvest. You come to me in the name of Jesus. It is mine. Nobody can stop it, nobody can withdraw it, nobody can withhold it. I am the child of God. It is mine because God said it is mine. You come to me from where your mind will start saying, oh wait, this neighbor person will give you this will give you your boss, will give you your income, your mom, mom, daddy, your friends, your co workers. Don't go that route. You have lost already what you have received if you go that route. That's why disciplining mind, it only comes by communication with God. This mind is so, so conditioned in this system that it wants to figure out everything. It wants to figure out everything. Let God figure it out. Let God figure it out. Let God figure out who your wife is. Let God figure out who your husband is. You don't have to figure out, Whoa, that girl looks cool. That boy looks good. He's alone, he's single. I think so. He's mine. No, man, let God figure it out. I'm not in church for girl, you say I'm in for Bo, my Lord. Not a boy, not a girl. I mean for my Lord.
- [52:57]
B
Hallelujah.
- [52:58]
A
And I will receive whatever it is and he will bring it.
- [53:01]
B
Hallelujah.
- [53:02]
A
Don't try to figure it out. Don't try to figure it out. This is a season of blessing. This is a season of increase. Get this prophecy and say, lord, this is my year. And be extra bold to say, lord, I will experience the best. I will experience the best. For that I will be inclined to check my walk, to check my health, to check my spiritual walk, to check my love walk, to check everything that's inside of me, not outside, inside of me. I'll check everything and I'll say, I want to be ready. When that opportunity of that moment comes, I want to seize it. For that I will be ready, Lord. I'll checking inside. You always check. You always check. Don't have a love issue with anybody. Don't have jealousy with anybody. Don't have competition with anybody. Don't have these things with your co workers, with your church people, with anybody. Don't have those things. Always say, lord, I have nothing. Nothing. Always check. If you see something is say, lord, no, no, no, I don't want these things. Why? Opportunity is big. Blessing is great. That window you are about to open and you have opened upon me is so precious that I don't want these little things that somebody offended me last year, two years ago. That. That to hinder that blessing. No, that is more precious, Lord.
- [54:21]
B
Hallelujah.
- [54:22]
A
How many people lose their healing because of one people didn't hug them. How many people lose their financial breakthroughs. Why? Because pastor said, oh, one extra offering is taken. Oh, how many people lose these blessings? Precious things God has stored and prepared for them for. For what? What cause? What for little things. Don't let little foxes ruin don't let little foxes ruin the big, big thing. Big things God is big. We are called to do big things. We are not called to do little things. We are Christians. We should think big. We should expand ourselves. This is the year to expand. To expand your thinking, to expand your faith, to expand your flow. To expand and say, lord, last year I was not able to afford. This year I'm gonna stretch my faith. I'm gonna do the right thing, which feels right, seems right in my spirit. And I'll do that. And God, I know you will put your hand when my feet touches the ground. Trust God here. Trust God. We serve a big God. There is no limit to Him. There's no limit to his power. There's no limit to his finances. There's no limit in him that he says, only this can be happened to you. No, no, there's no limit. According to. According to. According to. According to your faith, according to your confidence, according to what you can handle inside, I can give you. But how we. The daily life. The daily life. It matters. The daily life. That's why you need to have a routine in your daily life, a lifestyle in your daily life. Commune with God on a daily purpose. Don't search God only on weekends. Why? Because whole week you won't be able to find him then. Huh? David said early morning, I will seek him. And I found Him. Those who seek only on Sundays, whole week they can't find. Because God has a nature of hiding. Not hiding from you, for you, because he wants you to find. Why? Because it takes effort to find something. Next Sunday I will hide $5 here. Send your kids what they'll do. They'll uproot everything. And if I say hundred dollars, some of adults will come. ,thousand dollars or 1,000, $500 or $2,000 will hide under this stage. You will uproot this stage, guys. You will just tear it apart for that $2,000. And we have to put invest 5,000 50,000 to repair it for your 2,000. Why you will. That's the nature human beings have. We find. We find. Why not finding the precious thing that is your Jesus? Why not finding Him? Why not finding His. His. His will? Why not finding what's the best for you through Him? Not deciding and saying, I want this and you give me this? No. Why not finding him through him, from Him? Why? Because he is a God who gives opportunities to all. He gives opportunities to all.
- [57:32]
B
Hallelujah.
- [57:35]
A
Galatians 6 chapter. See, Peter, that's why I said I don't know the topics, brother. Galatians 6, chapter, verse 6. Let him who is Taught the word, share all good things with him who teaches. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the spirit will reap of the spirit everlasting life. Let us not grow weary while doing good. For in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially those who are of the household of faith. Now, you see the word opportunity in 10, and you see the word due season in nine. In Greek, they are the same word. In Greek, they are the same word. Exact same word. So what does it mean? If you read carefully. Let us not grow weary while doing good. For an opportune time we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
- [59:01]
B
Hallelujah.
- [59:02]
A
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do this. He said in an opportune time. Due season, opportune time. We always think, when, Lord, when I'll reap, when I'll. I've been sowing, I've been doing this. When Opportune time. This year is our opportune time. This year is our opportune time. Guys. This year. Speak. Spoken through Pastor Greg. Spoken through Pastor Jenny. Spoken and prophesied. Confessed. You take it to the bank and say, this is a year of my opportunity here. This is an opportune time means this is the year. If I do not lose heart, I do not lose hope. I do not lose from inside. I will reap that God has for me. I will reap that God has prepared for me. I will reap what I am sowing. I will reap this year. Because this year, he said, is an opportune time. And this is the time. This is a time of reaping. This is a time of receiving, of gathering, of going out and expanding. This is an opportune time. Don't miss your opportune time. Jesus visited a town and he said people were crying. And remember what he said? They missed the time of Jesus cried. He said they missed the time of their visitation. What was that? They missed the opportunity. Same opportunity doesn't give stay all the life. Huh? Same opportunity doesn't come you all the life. All days of your life increases for always. But certain seasons, there's an increase that will shock you. Blessings are always because you are a Christian. But certain years are such that you will say it was greatest ever. You will say in 10 years, that year was the greatest healing is everywhere, all the time you can receive. But remember in healing days in 40s, 50s and 60s, they said that healing was in the air. What was that? Opportunity. Whatever. Whoever touches, they'll receive it. This is the year, opportune year. Don't sleep, don't fall back. Don't get lazy. Don't get so easy peasy. And saying like that's okay. It's another word. No. Active your faith. Sharpen your faith. Sharpen your faith every day. Sharpen and release your faith every day. I'm not that. That's why you have to be in church all the time on Sunday and Wednesdays. If you are on work on Wednesday, make sure you listen at home. Why? Because he preaches important things on Wednesdays. That's why he has been talking about worry. Worry, worry. Why? Worry is a number one enemy to your blessings. Worry is number one enemy to how? When I don't think it will happen. And that robs from you what God has prepared for you. And he has been preaching in the last two months. Worry. Release your faith. Worry. Activate your faith. Worry and increase your faith. Why? Bigger blessings are coming to you. Bigger blessings are coming to you. And you need more big faith to receive it. Tiny hands can hold tiny balls basketball like boys hands can hold basketballs. Why? Because you have to receive it always with your faith. That's why he said, don't worry, but increase your faith. Don't worry. Elastic of faith. Expand, expand, expand. Believe more, believe more, believe more. Why? He's saying, because God has so much in store for us as a church. God has so much in store for us as Christians. God has so much. He said, greater works will they do than I. Why? Because they believe in me. And then Jesus said in John 6, 30, 27 that when he fed all those people, they came after him and they said to him, oh, how about how come you are here? How did you cross the river? And he said, you didn't come to me looking for me. You came to me because I fed you yesterday. I fed you yesterday. You came for the food. You didn't come for me. Come for me then. I'll show you. But because you are those who look for perishable things. Those you are who are looking and eyeing and thinking always about material things, natural things, perishable things. But greater is he that that looks for me. Huh?
- [63:19]
B
Hallelujah.
- [63:21]
A
We are those ones. Let it be. Then you can say, lord, I'm not for anything, but I'm for you. But because this opportune time I'm not sleeping either. I'll release my faith. I'll activate my faith.
- [63:32]
B
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- [63:36]
A
Who said that you cannot buy home in this market? Come on, come on. Who said the young people have to save for 30 years, then they can buy. Who said that you will not have enough to buy in this city? If God planted me here, I'll buy here. And I'll buy in my time. Not in Trudeau's time, not in other prime minister's time, not in anybody's time. Who said that, huh? Who's that there? Who said it? Those people who don't even know God. I know God. I serve God. I love God. I honor God. And he said, I will honor you. Are you the same way? Are you young people the same way? Or you are those. Oh, maybe the property is, say, easy. In five hours I'll buy there and watch livestream. No, it is not the same. It will never be the same. You want blessing more than God of blessing.
- [64:38]
B
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- [64:42]
A
I want God. I have him. I will want him more and more every day. And he will give, keep on giving me more and more every year. He'll keep on giving you more and more every year. Why? Because you serve and love him with the purity of your heart.
- [64:55]
B
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- [64:59]
A
I'll share one more testimony. There was a guy, years ago in somebody's church. He had opportunity. He always wanted a banking, banking job and high chief financial officer in the bank. And he had planted in a church. He came to a city in somebody's church, and he was in that church. And he started growing spiritually, started blessed, started expanding spiritually, growing more and more. And opportunity came to him that you can become what you want, but you have to go to different city altogether, different state altogether. And you will be that chief CFO if you want. And he had just started another business on the side. So he went to his wife and the partner, he said, what should we do? The partner said, well, you can go into the bank and have that CFO outside your door or and leave the city, or you can keep with me in this business and we expand this business and that those, those bankers come after you. He said, it's hard to swallow this pail because the big check is looking, but I'm planted here. 13 years I've been in this church. 13 years I've been this. I have to leave this church to go there. He said, you know what? I don't want that opportunity. I don't want that opportunity. I want this business. I want God, I want this local church. You know what happened Every day of his life from that, that one year he went to the bank to deposit every day of his life for that same year he went to bank to deposit the increase he God gave him. Because he honored the local church and God honored him. The bank in two years was sold to the different countries bank and it went out. If you had followed that, Hallelujah.
- [66:51]
B
Hallelujah.
- [66:53]
A
I don't follow increase, I follow God. If God said, Abraham, I'll give you this land here, don't go out. Isaac, I'll give you hundredfold here, don't go out. Elisha will open windows of heaven here, don't go out. He will open for us here too. Just be open with your ears, eyes and receive it. Father, we thank you for this word and thank you for the. For the opportunity. Father, this is the year. And we will not leave, will not go back and just, just be in our own clueless mind. But we will be, Father, in our righteous, in righteous character. Father, we will pursue you and Father, that increase you have for this church. That and for individual members and families of this church. We will experience, Father. We will experience. We will take this word to the bank and say, this is a year of increase. We'll speak boldly, proclaim and say this year we will experience whatever we have experienced past, Father, we'll experience way more than this because we put our faith to it, Father. We expand our vision, we expand our insights and we will experience the best you have for us, Father, we thank you for it, Father.