You’d Be Surprised What Grows in the Winter I Pastor Manouchka Charles I Social Dallas

Summary

Social Dallas Podcast: “You’d Be Surprised What Grows in the Winter”

Guest Speaker: Pastor Manouchka Charles (VU Church, Miami)
Date: October 13, 2025

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Main Theme

This episode centers around the message that God can bring growth, fruitfulness, and blessings in even the most unlikely or challenging seasons of life—symbolized as “the winter.” Pastor Manouchka Charles bridges Scriptures from Psalms and Ezekiel, drawing insights from a personal story, agricultural metaphors, and her own journey of faith. The encouragement is clear: do not count yourself out in your “winter”; God specializes in bringing new life where the world sees barrenness.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Power of Being Planted

• Psalm 92 (00:49): The community’s anchor scripture for the year centers around the promise of flourishing for those “planted in the house of the Lord.” Pastor Manouchka highlights, “God gives us a supernatural advantage… even in seasons where people will count you out and say that it’s over for you… God promises that even in your old age, you will still be fresh, you will still flourish.” (03:10)
• Emphasizes longevity and the refusal to allow difficult seasons or age to steal hope for fruitfulness.

2. You’d Be Surprised What Grows in the Winter

• Through an anecdote involving a restaurant waiter and a winter farm visit (07:04), Manouchka illustrates, “You’d be surprised what grows in the winter.” She reflects, “There are certain crops that don’t just survive, but develop their best flavor in it. There are vegetables that get sweeter after the frost.” (08:45)
• Parallels are drawn to life: “God can use any environment. He can use every delay, disappointment, heartbreak, and turn it for His good.” (09:55)
• Refrain: “You’d be surprised what grows in the winter”—applied to ministries birthed from pain, successes from unlikely backgrounds, and hope after loss.

3. A Prophetic Declaration of Fruitfulness

• Citing Ezekiel 47:12, she announces, “Every month, you shall produce fruit… No matter the month or the season.” (11:49)
• Leads the congregation in a declaration: “January, you’ve got to produce fruit… October—fruit… November—fruit. December—fruit. As I step into 2026, fruit.” (12:13)
• Encourages listeners: “Everything attached to me has got to win” (13:40), prophesying generational blessings.

4. Fruitfulness Is for Generations

• “Your grandkids will benefit from it… It’s a generational thing… God is releasing generational blessings all over this room.” (14:40)
• Distinguishes between brief, self-contained success and lasting, legacy-building fruit.

5. Seeds Must Be Sown Before There Can Be Fruit

• “You can’t have fruit unless you sow seed. If I never sow a seed, I won’t see the harvest.” (19:44)
• Outlines three crucial kinds of seed:
  • Seeds of Time: “Time is the most valuable commodity… We are not to waste our time. We must invest our time wisely—spending time in the Word, prayer, serving, community.” (21:05)
  • Seeds of the Word: The Word only produces if given ground in our lives. “Every time you open up your Bible, you are holding seed in your hand.” (23:48)
  • Seeds of Gratitude/Praise: “My praise is not just contingent upon my season. My praise is contingent on the fact that God is good.” (33:01)

6. Personal Testament: God’s Word Brings Life

• Shares a near-death experience and how recalling the promises and specific Word of God “woke me up from a coma” (26:40). “The thing that woke me up was the Word of God.” (28:13)
• Challenges listeners: “There’s some people in this room—you are still spiritually in a coma and God’s word is getting ready to wake you up.” (28:42)

7. The Power and Potential in God’s Word

- “What you need is his Word… If you could just get this Word in you for real…” (29:54)
- Offers a gentle critique: “You think ChatGPT could be your therapist? God said, open up the greatest thing you could ever do for your life: Get God’s Word in you.” (30:42)
- Emphasizes that maturity and breakthrough come from prioritizing Scripture.

8. The Significance of Tears and Brokenness

• “Maybe you feel you can’t sow seeds of praise and gratitude—all I have is tears. Tears are seeds too… The Bible says God bottles up all of your tears.” (34:54)
• Promises: “God said that if you would just bring it to me, if you would just surrender it to me, I could use every tear, I could use every heartache… If you can use anything, Lord—you can use me.” (35:06)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On God’s Sovereignty in All Seasons:
  “You’d be surprised what grows in the winter. Do not count out your winter season. God can use it for His glory.” — Manouchka Charles (10:38)
• Prophetic Declaration of Fruitfulness:
  “Everything attached to me has got to win. I believe that God’s giving somebody long-lasting fruit. Your grandkids will benefit from it.” (13:40)
• On the Role of God’s Word in Crisis:
  “The thing that woke me up was the Word of God… When I began to speak the Word of God, how good is God’s word that it could find me even in a coma?” (28:13)
• On Maturity:
  “If you could just spend time with God for real. If you could put the phone down for two seconds and open up God’s word and allow Him to speak to you, you would step into a level of maturity that you would never think. God says, ‘Open up my word.’” (29:54)
• On Tears as Seeds:
  “Can I tell you that tears are seeds too? Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.” (34:54)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:49 — Reciting Psalm 92: Anchor scripture
• 07:04–10:38 — Story: “You’d be surprised what grows in the winter”
• 11:49–14:40 — Proclamation and prayer for monthly and generational fruitfulness
• 19:44–23:48 — Teaching: Sowing seeds of time and the Word
• 26:40–28:42 — Personal testimony: Awakening from a coma by recalling God’s Word
• 29:54–31:06 — Emphasis on feeding on God’s Word vs. worldly wisdom
• 33:01–35:06 — The power of gratitude, praise, and even tears
• 35:34–end — Closing prayer and call to salvation

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Conclusion

Pastor Manouchka Charles delivers a heartfelt prophetic message: God is not restricted by seasons. Even in winter, which often represents barrenness or disappointment, God brings sweetness and growth that may surprise both you and those around you. The episode calls listeners to invest time and the Word intentionally, to hold onto gratitude—and even use their tears as seeds—believing that what God starts in the humble, hidden, or hard seasons will result in visible, generational, and healing fruit. The message ends with a prayer for renewed commitment, bold faith, and the invitation to accept Jesus, reinforcing the podcast’s heart: everyone is welcome to flourish in God’s house and bring hope to the world.

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Transcript

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Well, I'm so excited for what God is gonna do through the power of the name of Jesus this morning. Are you glad you came to church? Come on. Hey, if you are new, if it's your first time here in the room with us, would you just wave a good long wave? Hey, come on, make some noise, Social, for all of our first time guests, so incredibly grateful that you are here with us this morning. For those of you who are new in the room today, every single year, we come around a word, and this year that word is planted. And it comes from Psalm 92. Every Sunday, together with unified voices, we uplift it. We speak that verse. So it's going to come up on the screen and we're going to do that together. Here we go. Those who are planted in the house.

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Of the Lord flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age. They shall be fresh and thirsty to declare that the Lord is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in me.

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Come on, make some noise for yourself. You sound amazing this morning. Social, family, we are in for a blessing this morning. We have an amazing guest in the house, and she has such a unique connection to us. She hails from VU Church in Miami.

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Come on.

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Her amazing lead pastors, Pastor Rich and pastor Don Cherie have poured into our house over the years. And so this. This morning, I'm excited because we have another rising voice from that house for our house in the capital C church. So this morning, would you help me welcome pastor Mnuchka Charles as she makes her way? Come on, Social.

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Come on. All over this room, can we just.

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Lift up a sound and a shout.

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Of praise to Jesus?

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If you're glad that he woke you.

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Up this morning, if you're thankful that.

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He put breath in your body, Come on, just for a few more seconds, could we just raise up praise in this room? The Bible says that he inhabits the.

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Praises of his people.

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And so something tells me if you get your praise right.

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Ha.

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Oh, that he'll flood into this room like never before. That if you could raise up your voice in the midst of your situation, that he could show up right where you are. We worship you, Jesus.

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We give him all the glory and all the honor and the praise. The psalmist says, I was glad when they said unto me, let us go in into the house of the Lord. And that's exactly how I feel this morning. I feel the joy of the Lord. Grateful to be here to worship in this house. This is a special place And I'm so thankful for your pastors. They have been voices in my life for years and been able to listen to their teaching and been able to lean into the way that they lead. Can you thank God for pastors Robert and Taylor Madu?

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I think you could do a little bit better than that.

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Can you thank God for your leaders and your pastors? I bring you greetings from Miami, Florida, and my pastors and your pastors are great friends and been hearing about the amazing things that are happening in this house. And it's beautiful to see it with my own eyes. And I'm believing that God's going to speak. Can we just lift our hands in this atmosphere? We're gonna pray before we get into the word. Father, we thank you. We thank you that you are here. Your presence is in the room and you have come to meet with us. You have come to speak to us. And my prayer is that, God, that you would prepare our hearts to hear the word. That you would speak a word that people need in season. People who've walked in here weary and tired. I pray that you would be strengthened, God, that you would speak to their season. We believe that only you can speak the word that we need. And so we are ready to receive it in Jesus name. Amen. And amen. Come on. Can we celebrate Jesus? You can be seated. Usually when speakers come up, they introduce their family and their kids. I'm not married and I don't have any kids, so I'm gonna jump right into the word. Is that all right? I have been tuning in and hearing the anchor scriptures for the year, Psalm 92, that even in your old age, you would be fresh and flourishing. And that's such a beautiful promise that God gives us a supernatural advantage, that even in seasons where people will count you out and say that it's over for you or it's not your season to produce. God promises that even in your old age, you will still be fresh, you will still flourish. And I think somebody needs that reminder because you might feel like you're in a season where your production has dried up, maybe your dream has dried up. But I come to tell you that you serve a God that could revive dead things, that you serve a God that could take things that seem like it's over and he can give it a brand new start. God is just getting started. And I believe he's just getting started with you. And what encouraged me about your anchor scripture is that it echoes the same promise that God anchored in my heart this year. I've Held the words of Ezekiel 47:12 all year long. And this is what it says. It says, fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month, somebody say, every month they will bear fruit because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing. Isn't that a great promise? I really had this scripture highlighted to me towards the end of last year. I always take some time as I close out a year to really just evaluate how that year went. It's a practice and a rhythm of mine to just sit and to evaluate, to evaluate my spiritual health, to evaluate my mental health, my physical health, to evaluate what God spoke to me. And so I took two days in the mountains just to spend with the Lord. And the first day of this rhythm of mine, I usually take some time to pray and to fast and just to thank God. And I spent the entire day doing just that. And it got towards the evening, and I went to a local restaurant in the area. And when I got to the restaurant, I'm hungry and I'm ready to eat. And the waiter was like, hey, can I walk you through the menu? I said, sure. And he said, do you like vegetables? And I don't know why I lied to him the way that I lied to him. It was as if I spent no time with God at all. I said, I love. I love vegetables. And he was like, that's amazing. Let me tell you all about them. And so he proceeded to tell me about every vegetable on the menu, how it was cooked. This one is flash fried. This one is julienned. We stir fried this one. He gave me every detail about every single vegetable on the menu. And when he was done, he's like, all right, I've given you a lot to chew on. I'll come back. I was like, listen, I'm hungry now. I'm ready to order. He's like, all right, what do you want? I said, I'll have the steak. He was so confused. But what I loved about our conversation is he kept on saying something over and over again. He said, you'd be surprised what grows in the winter. That as he described the different vegetables, he just kept saying, you'd be surprised what grows in the winter. He didn't know it at the time, but he was preaching to me. And I want to preach that message to you. You'd be surprised what grows in the winter. And so in this conversation we're having, he's like, you have to go out to the farm, and I want you to walk around the property. You have to see all the things that we have growing on this local farm. And now it is the middle of winter. It is snowing outside. I really had very little expectation of what I was going to see. I don't usually equate winter as a season of fruitfulness. I haven't always lived in Miami, Florida. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, so I'm very well acquainted with winter. And I know what it feels like in the winter. It is dull. It gets dark too soon. I mean, winter is so bad. They've coined a term to talk about how people feel sad during the winter, and that is seasonal depression. And so when I think about winter, I'm not like, you know what? That's a season of fruitfulness. I don't think about it that way. So when I walked out to the farm, I. I began to see things that shocked me. Saw carrots and beets and collard greens and kale. I saw all of these things that were growing. And what I learned was that there are certain crops that don't just survive the winter, but they develop their best flavor in it. There are some vegetables that get sweeter after the frost. And I believe that God gives us a prophetic picture through agriculture. He shows us, through creation, that he is capable to do things in our lives, in seasons that we have written on. And I want to tell somebody in this room that no matter what season you find yourself in, God has the ability to cause something to grow. That no matter what the conditions look like, no matter what the environment is around you, you, your production will not stop because of your environment. Oftentimes we think that. I don't think I'm in the right environment to grow. Do you know that God can use any environment? Do you know that God could use any of your season of life to cause growth? Then maybe your surroundings, it might look like it's frozen or dead. But God can use every condition. He can use every delay, so he could use every disappointment. He can use the heartbreak. He can use the heartache. He can use it all for his glory. And so God has a beautiful way of taking something that to our natural eye is seemingly useless and cause great use to come out of it. And I'm grateful that I serve a God that can take every condition and turn it for his good. And I believe that for your life, that people will look at your life and wonder, how in the world did you produce what you produced? And you can look at them and you can say, you'd be surprised what grows in the winter. They'd look at your life and wonder, how could a miscarriage produce a ministry? And you can tell them you'd be surprised what grows in the winter. How in the world did you become what you became looking at the family that you came from? And you can tell them you'd be surprised what grows in the winter. I believe this about God, that he could take your life that to the world looks like it's messed up, jacked up and unable to be used. And he can do something great with it. You'd be surprised what grows in the winter. Do not count out your winter season. Do not count out the seasons that seem dark and dull. God can use it for his glory. And so when we look at Ezekiel 47:12, it confirms the word of the Lord, because the word of the Lord does not say that fruit will just grow when the seasons are favorable. But Ezekiel 47:12, God tells the prophet, every month you will bear fruit. Can I speak that same word to you over your life? Can I tell you that every month you shall produce fruit? When I saw that word, I said, God, I'm taking that and I'm speaking over the year of 2025. And I said, every month I shall produce fruit.

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And so I begin to speak to my mother. I didn't meet January yet, but I said, january, you've got to produce fruit. February, I don't know what you hold, but you've got to produce fruit. And I know there's only three months left in the year, but can I speak to your October and speak fruit? I'm talking to your November. I know you're not there yet, but I speak fruit. December, fruit. As I step into 2026, fruit. I'm stepping into the most productive decade of my life. I need somebody just to grab hold of the prophetic word of the Lord and saying, in my life, I shall produce fruit. There will be no barren season in my life. There will be no season of lack in my life. Even in my old age, I will be fresh and flourishing. I just need a few people who would come in agreement and say, that's my word. That's my word. That's my word. Okay, let me talk to this side. That's my word. That's my word. That's my word. I shall produce fruit. I know they said the business would fail, but I serve a God who said, every month I will produce fruit. The business gotta do well. My family's gotta do well, no matter what the month is, no matter what the season is, I shall produce fruit. Even in the back. I believe that God is saying fruit is coming to you. If you would just grab a hold of it, stop looking at what the enemy told you and believe the word of the Lord that you shall produce fruit. Come on, somebody. Take about 20 seconds to thank God in advance. I haven't seen it yet, but I believe it. The promise hasn't showed up yet, but I believe it. Fruit is coming in my life, every area of my life, over my mind, over my body. Fruit, every area of my life shall be. Everything I touch. Gotta be blessed. I wish I had somebody that had enough faith, that said, if I touch you, you're blessed. If you're around me, you're blessed. If you're in my family, you're blessed. If you're in my city, you're blessed. If you're on my row, you're blessed. Tell somebody and tell them you're blessed. You're blessed. You're blessed because you're on my road. You're blessed because you're sitting next to me. You're blessed because you have my last name, you're blessed. Everything attached to me has got to win. Proof. I speak that over this church. Proof. Proof for generations. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I believe that God's giving somebody long lasting fruit. Yeah. It's not going to just be a one time, one thing. This fruit's gonna be so good. Your grandkids will benefit from it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just need somebody with a little bit of faith that believe what God is producing in me is not just for me. In this season, my family is benefiting from this fruit. My kids who I have not met yet, will benefit from this fruit. It's a generational thing. It's a legacy. We're not passing down generational curses. God is releasing generational blessings all over this room. The curse has been broken over your life and God is releasing. Oh, he's releasing a generational blessing. Not long now. Will you see it? Fruit. Fruit. It's coming to you. It's coming to you. It's coming out of you. Because God knows what he's planted in you and it's got to flourish. God has placed an investment on you and he is saying that what I place in you has got to come out. Oh, you won't have fruit on your job. You gonna walk in on Monday and they're gonna say, did you do something different with your hair? Did you lose some weight? What's different about you? And you can tell them I've got new fruit. Oh, he's releasing to you fruit. Lift your hands all over. I believe God is releasing something right now in this room. To those who would grab hold of it. God say that, behold, I'm doing a new thing. Eyes have not seen and ears have not heard what God is getting ready to do in your life. He said, attach yourself to me for being planted in the house of God and you will flourish. You're getting ready to flourish. You're getting ready to flourish. It's a new season. It's a new season. This fresh anointing. There's a fresh wind and it's being released to you right now. So receive it all over this room. God, we receive it. God, we receive it. God, we receive it. God, we receive it. God, we receive what you want to do in this city. God, we receive what you want to do in this nation. May people look at this church and all they see is fruit. I can come here, and if I'm hungry, I can eat from the fruit of this house. And if I'm sick, sick, I can benefit because there's healing in this house. That is the promise of the Lord. It is the word of God. He said that your fruit will serve as food and the leaves bring healing, and so people will be healed when they get around you. People will be filled when they get around you. What God wants to produce in you is not just for you. And so, God, we receive it because it is for your glory. This is not for my benefit, but it's so that the kingdom of God would advance in a dark and evil time. God needs people to produce fruit. He said you've been barren for too long, but he needs you to produce fruit because the people around you need it. There's a world that's hungry and needs the fruit that he wants to produce in you. And so, God, whatever it takes, whatever I gotta break, God, whatever I gotta shake, I will do so I can produce fruit. God, whatever I gotta break, whatever I gotta shake, Lord, whatever I gotta do. Ay yi yi yi yi yai ya. God's breaking some things off of you so you can produce. He's pruning some things off of you so you can produce fruit. He's shaking some things off of you so that you can produce fruit. I'm shaking myself loose. It's coming to you. It's coming to you.

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Thank you, Jesus. I believe somebody's getting free of something right now. I don't even know what it is, but I feel like freedom just entered in this room. I'm trying to move on, but I feel like freedom just stepped into this room. God's freeing you so you can produce fruit. You can be seated for just a moment. Something's taking root. Here's the thing about fruit. You can't have fruit unless you sow seed. And I could shout about fruit all day, but if I never sow a seed, I won't see the harvest. Because sowing seed requires intentionality, requires consistency. Consistency takes hard work to so seed. But if we are going to see a harvest, there are seeds that we are to sow in every season. The first seed that we must sow in every season are seeds of time. God wants your time. Time is the most valuable commodity. You cannot buy it, you cannot sell it, you cannot trade it. There are people in the hospital that wish they had more of it. Psalm 90, verse 12 says, Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. The way that I like to look at time is like money in the bank. You probably have a good gauge of how much money you have or lack thereof. And if there was anybody who went into your bank account and took money unauthorized, you, you wouldn't just let it slide. But we don't treat time the same that we allow people to rob from our time, take from our time, and it goes unnoticed, it goes unchecked. And what the enemy will do is that he will take your time little by little. He said that you would wake up and pray at 6am and the alarm went off and you just said, 10 more minutes. Just, I'll snooze for 10 more minutes. Or you're in your time of prayer and your friend sends you a message. It's like, you gotta check out this video on TikTok. And you're just like, I'm in prayer. And they're like, it'll be one minute, two hours later. You haven't read one verse. See the enemy, just little by little, he will take up our time if we do not take inventory of it. And so we are not to waste our time. We must invest our time. We have to sow our time wisely. And the way that we sow our time wisely is by spending time in the Word, by spending time in prayer, time serving others, time building the kingdom of God, time developing the gifts, time being in community, that we must sow seeds of time. But we also have to sow seeds of the word. In Luke 8. Jesus speaks a parable to his disciples. He says, a farmer went out to sow seed. As he scattered seed, it fell on different kinds of ground. Some landed on the path and it got trampled. Some fell on rocky soil, some fell among thorns. But some fell on good ground and produced a harvest of a hundredfold. Then Jesus, he explains the mystery behind the story. In verse 11, he tells his disciples, this is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God. He's showing them and showing us that the Word works where it is welcomed. It only grows where it is given ground. And so it's important for us to make sure that our soil, that our lives, are conducive to actually carry the seed of the Word. Hosea speaks of this. He talks about, talks about breaking up the unplowed ground or the fallow ground. And when we break up the unplowed ground, it allows God to sow the seeds of his Word. We must prepare our soil so that seeds could take root. Every time you open up your Bible, you are holding seed in your hand. Every verse, every promise, every line is potential waiting to be planted. But a seed can only grow if it's sown. Seed does not grow in your hand. If I had a seed and held it in my hand, it would never grow. A seed only grows when it is. What's your word of the year? Seed only grows when it is planted. And so God's word is not meant to sit on your notes. It's not meant to stay here in this room. It actually needs to be planted so that it could take root in your life. That this is when it grows, when it has ground that is conducive to carry it. And there was a season in my life where that became more than just theory. It actually became my testimony. In the year 2018, I was on my way to a wedding in Mexico. It was supposed to be a 24 hour trip. And before I even got to my hotel, the car that I was in hit into a minibus. Now I remember being in more pain than I had ever felt in my life and just simply praying, God, I don't want to die. I was transported to the hospital where they realized that my injuries were life or death. And I was in a coma for 10 days. And I was in this coma for 10 days, fighting for my life. My family flew in. Friends are praying and believing God had machines that were keeping me alive. But some of the medication that they had put me on caused hallucinations. And so while in reality I'M fighting for my life, but I'm also in this comatose alternate state and I feel like I'm fighting for my life in my mind and. And I remember feeling close to death. Although I did not know what was happening to my body physically in my mind I felt like I was close to death. And I was in a moment where I'm like, God, this doesn't look like what you said. And so I begin to remember the words that were spoken over my life. I was like, God, you said that I would preach the gospel. I haven't seen it yet. God, there's prophecy and promises that I. That I have not seen yet. And so even in this comatose state, I begin to recount and recall the Word of God said. God, your word said that you were not a man, that you should lie, nor the son of man, that you should change your mind. I know that you haven't lied about what you said. The Bible says that as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, so is my word that it would not return to you void, that it would accomplish what it was set out to do. And so in my mind I begin to recall the Word of the Lord. And I promise you, it was as if the moment that I began to remember God's word that my eyes open in reality and I woke up from this coma. And I can tell you the thing.

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That woke me up was the Word of God. When I begin to speak the Word of God, how good is God's word that it could find me even in a coma? Can I tell you there's some people in this room, you are still spiritually in a coma and God's word is getting ready to wake you up. It's getting ready to snatch you out of that dead state that you can speak the word of God over your situation and find life, that you can begin to recount and recall God's word over your life and all of a sudden your situation can change. God, you said that I could lay hands on the sick and watch them recover. You said, by your stripes we are healed. You said, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. Lord. God, you said that I'd be the lender, not the borrower. God, you, that you would keep my mind in perfect peace. God, you said it. And so you've got to do it. Some of us just need to get God's word in us so that when we are in our winter season we can recall the seed of God's word. Lord, you said you'd never leave me Nor forsake me. Father, you said that you would be with me always. God, you said that I would be a blessing to the nation. God, you said, 1,000 will fall at my left and 10,000 at my right, and they will not come near me. God, I know your word, so I'm believing your word. To do what it said it would do. We need a church that's got the word inside of them. David said, thy word have I hidden in my heart so I would not sin against you. What you need is his word. What you need is God's word. I know you've been listening to podcasts, and I know you've been getting a lot of opinions, but God said, if you would just open up my word, if you would just hear what I would say, all of a sudden things would come back to life. Dead dreams would come back to life. Your Amber would say, if you would just know my word. The promises are in his word. The blessing is in his word. Your future is in the word of God. He said, if you could just study this day and night, if you could just meditate, if you could just eat this book, if you could just get it in you, you wouldn't have to wait till Sunday. If you could just get this word in you for real. If you could just spend time with God for real. If you could put the phone down for two seconds and open up God's word and allow him to speak to you, you would step into a level of maturity that you would never think. God says, open up my word.

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And.

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Hear what I have to say to you. You've been listening to too many voices. You think chatgpt could be your therapist? God said, open up. The greatest thing you could ever do.

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For your life is get God's word in you. To hide his word in your heart. Gotta sow seeds of time. We need to sow seeds of the word. But these two seeds, they go hand in hand. Psalm 100 says, Enter his gates with thanksgiving, in his courts with praise. We must sow seeds of gratitude and seeds of praise. In that same season of my life, spent 17 days in the hospital of Mexico, made my way back to Miami to start my journey of recovery, only to go to the doctors to find out that my back was broken. The doctors had been doing everything to save my life, and so they missed the fact that I had a broken back. And. And the doctor said, you. You need to go to the emergency room immediately, because one wrong move and you can be paralyzed. And so I found myself in a season where I'm back in the hospital, and I had to make a decision, God, am I going to let this take me out, or am I going to give you the glory and the honor and the praise? And so in the darkest season of my life, I said, I'm decided. I'm not waiting to get out the hospital. I'm not waiting to fully recover. God, I'm going to praise you now. And so in that season, I just begin to thank God. I begin to praise him. I begin to thank him for what he had already done. There was still so much left to do.

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But.

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But I said, you know what? The Bible says that I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth. So that means that my praise is not just contingent upon my season. My praise is contingent on the fact.

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That God is good. And so I praise him in the.

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Good, I praise him in the bad.

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I praise him in the hospital, and I could praise him in the church house. The Bible says, let everything that has breath praise the Lord. And so because I was still breathing, even though I was laying on a hospital bed, I said, God, you get all the glory. God, you get all the honor. I've already decided to praise you. And some of you need to decide to praise him. You don't need to wait for your favorite worship song or your favorite preacher. I came with my own praise. I came with my own song. I came into this house ready to. To give God praise. It says, enter into his court with thanksgiving. And so that means I'm coming with it already. I wish people underneath understood that promise that you come with your praise already. I'm not waiting to get in the room to praise him. I came in with it. Anybody come in the room with a praise. Did anybody come in the room with their own sound? Did anybody come in the room with their own worship? I'm not waiting. I will praise you. I will bless you at all times in all circumstances. Distance in all seasons. It could be winter. Imma praise you. I'll praise you in the fall. I'll praise you in the spring. God, I'll praise you in the summer. God, I give you praise no matter the season, that he's worthy of the praise and the glory and all the honor.

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And maybe like I. I feel like I can't sow seeds of praise and can't sow seeds of gratitude. I've just been so heartbroken. All I have is tears. Can I tell you that tears are seeds too? Since those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. The Bible says that God bottles up.

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All of your tears.

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And. And so it might only be tears that you can. Can sow in this season. God sees them. God sees every tear that you cry.

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The ones that people don't know about.

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The ones in your private.

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But God sees it all. And he says that if you would just bring it to me, if you would just surrender it to me, I could use every tear. I could use every heartache. I know what they did to you. You didn't deserve it. But God said that if you bring every tear, I can use it. God, if you can use anything, Lord, you can use me. You can use my story. No matter how broken and no matter how messed up. God said if you would just plant the seed.

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If you would just plant the seed. I don't want to just hold on to it. I want to plant it. And his promise is joy. Even in seasons that feel unfavorable, that the joy of the Lord could be your strength. Can I pray for you all over this room, everyone standing. I pray that the seeds that you would sow would be food from many and healing for others. And so, God, in this atmosphere, we thank you that even when we see our seed and it. It seems like it's too small to become anything, that there's a promise that you could take our seed and it grow a hundredfold. So, God, I pray over every seed in this room, God, that you would create a space in us that is conducive to carry what you have called us to do. And God, we pray that you would send rain in its season. I pray that their ground will yield crops and their trees fruit. Lord God, I pray that they would increase in number. God, I pray that they would have to make room for the blessings that you're getting ready to release over them. God, I pray that there would be an overflow that is released in this house. God, I pray this overflow over this house. But God, also over their house, that they would receive God the fruit of their obedience. And so, God, we thank you for what you have released today. If you're in the room and you have not made the decision to follow Jesus, I want to make that invitation now. Then we can only see the promises of God when we're attached to him. That Jesus died on a cross so that we could step into partnership with him to redeem you, to restore you, to heal you, to make you whole. He loved you that much that God said, I'll send my son. The Bible says in Romans believe in your heart and confess with your mouth and you will be saved. And so if you're that's you in the room, I'm going to count to three. You could just lift up your hand if you want to make Jesus the Lord of your life. We're going to pray a prayer together. Together. 1. Jesus died so that you could have new life. 2. You don't have to wait for another moment. You don't have to wait for another Sunday. 3. If that's you, just lift your hand all over this room saying, that's me. I want to make Jesus the Lord of your life. I see your hands. Let's pray this prayer together. Say, dear Jesus, I believe that you died so that I could have new life. And today I receive all that you have have for me. I receive your blessing. I receive your favor. I receive your forgiveness. I am made new. In Jesus name, amen and amen. Come on, let's celebrate all over the room.