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Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you. Has he brought you over? Has he seen you through? Thank God. What a blessing. We're so thankful for that reminder today. I want to welcome you here to Times Square Church. What a blessing to have every one of you here at 51st and Broadway. We do welcome all those that are watching from around the country and around the world. We want to just tell you you are part. Let me just as we do every single Sunday, just remind you who is with us live. We want to welcome live with us Kenya and Zambia. We say hello to Namibia. Oh, I go, I messed this up. Seychelles. Willie's going, I don't know how do you say it? Seychelles. Botswana. Gambia. South Africa. We welcome Tanzania. Madagascar. We say hello to Nigeria. Ghana, South Korea. We welcome Malaysia. The Philippines. Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates. We say hello to Australia, New Zealand. Then we say hello to the uk, Northern Ireland. Scotland, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Spain, Latvia, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Hungary, Austria. We also say hello to Ukraine. We're believing God to stop that war in Jesus name. We welcome Greece and North Macedonia. Sweden, France, Switzerland, Italy. It's so lame. We welcome Canada, the Navajo Nation, Mexico, Dominica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Cuba, French Guyana, Anguilla, Guatemala, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, British Virgin Islands. We say hello to Paraguay, Guyana, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. We welcome all you that are watching. Not only those 47 states, 65 countries, we also there is a number of countries that we cannot mention because these are under persecution and restricted. But we are praying for you that God would work in those nations so we cannot mention certain countries. And we also like to welcome would you join me in welcoming Penn State, Columbia University, Eastern Wyoming College and Greek Bible College of Athens and Binghamton University. Would you welcome all those that are watching online. I don't want you to miss this Friday night. Cindy and I will be sitting here on Friday night because it's a very important night. It's on guard with Abdul Murray. Friday, November 14th. It'll start at 6:30. We will not be able to post it online until much later so it's an in person event. Folks, this is a moment to bring Abdu came from as a dedicated Muslim and found Jesus Christ believes now in the resurrected Jesus Christ. God is using him all over the world. It is an open mic to take questions, bring friends. I speak to those universities, even those in the area nyc, Columbia, Fordham. Bring friends. It is. It's too powerful a night for you to miss. That's why we provide these opportunities. So I really want you to be here. That's this Friday night. You have to register to make sure. Just to. Just to make sure we have seats at no cost. So you can just scan the code on your armrest and be there. All right, let's talk about. I've got some things that God has put on my heart for today that I want to share with you. In 1750, Jonathan Edwards served in Northampton Church in Massachusetts. Now, that name is very important. Northampton is literally just 162 miles here from New York City. And many believe that it was his preaching, his ministry, that was the catalyst for the first great awakening in America. Is what Jonathan Edwards was used preaching a message called starting. It was the fire, was the spark. Preaching a message called Sinners in the hands of an angry God. And it was so powerful that literally there was weeping and wailing because people felt a conviction under sin. It started to spread all over the nation, and this country experienced a great awakening. It was interesting that he first pastored a church, Presbyterian church in Lower Manhattan on William Street. I'll explain why that's significant. At the end, when Edwards retired, the church did something for him. There was no sound system at that time. Nobody was preaching on a microphone. There was no LED walls or anything. What they used to preach with was a sounding board, a giant board above their head that they were hoping that as he would speak, sound would go up, it would ricochet and go out to the audience, and that would magnify his voice. Well, what they did at his retirement, they put a plaque up there, a scripture to honor the ministry of Jonathan Edwards. I read this. My heart was convicted. My heart was challenged. Let me read to you the verse that they put up there on this, a plaque. Was this Malachi 2 6. True instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many from sin. I just said, God, may that be said of me when I finish my race. May that be said of me. May Malachi 26 be always the legacy of this pulpit. As we get ready in a year and a half to celebrate 40 years, I want to believe that this would always be that place, that true instruction was here, nothing false was found, and that we would walk with him in peace and uprightness, and many would turn from sin to righteousness in Jesus name. And today I want to speak to not only New York City, I want to speak to tsc. We have just finished an election. I want to speak to our new mayor and what we can expect in the coming days. I have a word of encouragement for you today and for those around the world. I think of Spain that we saw in that video. Those that are ministering in difficult places, all the restrictive countries that we can't put your name up there, the universities. I'm gonna speak to those that are ministering, living in difficult places as we are in New York City. I wanna talk to you about this. This is what God put on my heart as I was in prayer. It's going to get darker and brighter at the same time. It's going to get darker and brighter at the same time. So I want to give you two promises. When it seems to be grim, I want to give you two promises for the church. Let's pray. Father, in these next few moments, I know what you put on my heart. I am assured, God. All I'm asking is that I would not get in the way of what you're wanting to say. May true instruction be in my mouth, nothing false found on my lips. I believe I'm walking with you in peace and uprightness. Turn many away from sin, bring many to righteousness today, to a mighty work in this place. There are people that are here today, God, online and in person that you have brought by your holy spirit work a miracle. I pray for our city that has just experienced a change this Tuesday. Father, allow me to speak to that and what we can expect ahead. I do believe it's going to get darker, but I also believe it's going to get brighter in these up and coming years. So, God, we need a miracle today in Jesus name. And everybody said amen. God bless you. You may be seated. Thank you. Thank you, team. Thank you, Willie. Thank you, Judah. There was a light in Goshen when every other place in Egypt experienced darkness. There was a light in Goshen when every other place in Egypt experienced darkness. Goshen never went dark in dark times. Goshen was the city where the Jewish people lived during their 400 years of enslavement in Egypt. It's an important name to remember. There'd be 10 plagues that would come to Egypt that would come that God would send to break the power of this tyrant Pharaoh that would not yield to God's command and God's word. And right before that final plague that would come that would snap the chains of bondage where the firstborn would die. And those who had but those who had the blood of the lamb on their doorposts, would be exempt. There was what we would call plague number nine. In fact, the Bible calls it not just darkness, but a felt darkness would come over the land. There'd be this intense darkness that would precede freedom, that would precede the snapping of chains and a breakthrough that would come to a nation that would keep it under idolatry. Listen to these words of plague number nine. When God spoke to Moses, then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hand toward the sky that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt. Listen to this last part. Even a darkness which may be felt, they said it was such a profound darkness. The next verse even uses the word, it would be thick. Listen to this. So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. Now, let me just say this before I read the next verse. There had to be something so hellish and so intense about this that God, this is one of the only plagues that you're given. The amount of time it lasted, like we're not really sure how long the river was turned to blood or the frogs came over the land. This one was so intense they can only take three days. It was that profound of a darkness. And in fact, the Bible says in the next verse, they did not even see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But notice this. But all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings. Hallelujah. The people of Egypt could not see a person standing next to them. It was this hellish darkness that made you feel all alone, though you were around thousands and tens of thousands of people, and you could not even see the person next to you. But if you could just look. A few miles away, historians tell us, was a city called Goshen, just a few miles from where the children of Israel would go to work every day under chains and bondage. A few miles away, you could see a light in the horizon. That was Goshen. All of the homes of those Jewish people had a light. While Egypt was in darkness, while things were getting darker, light was shining upon God's people. There is a darkness that can be felt, I'm telling you, that is going to come over this city. But there is a new horizon that God will begin to show, spots of light of what he is getting ready to do. There is no need I'm speaking to you here and around the world. There is no need to be afraid. My. My mind went back to what one of my spiritual fathers said, Leonard Ravenhill, when he said These words about fear. He said, I have the Father on my side, Jesus on my side, the Holy Spirit and 2/3 of angels of heaven on my side. He says, what do you think I'm gonna do? Sit down and cry? He said, I've got joy. I've got the power of God and the presence of God. Almost six, 16 years ago to this Week, on November 15, 2009, David Wilkerson preached the sermon that I was brought to this week. And I listened to it. 30 minute sermon. I'd encourage any of you to read it. It was called the Right Song on the Wrong side. The Right Song on the Wrong side. And he mentioned what Israel did as he stood where I'm standing now after crossing the Red Sea. Listen to these words at the end of chapter 14, verse 31. When Israel saw the great power which the Lord had used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord. They believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. And then they burst into a song. Listen to 15:1 moving into the next chapter. Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord. He said, I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. The horse and its rider has been thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God. I will praise him, my Father's God. I will extol him. Extol him. The Lord is a warrior and the Lord is his name. David Wilkerson said it was the right song, but they sung it on the wrong side. God wanted that song sung by before the sea opened up. God just proved himself faithful and a promise keeper and delivered them from Egypt with 10 miracles. He brought them this far. And God was wanting his people to learn to sing on the battle side of the Red Sea, not on the answer side of the miracle. He was teaching his people something. And folks and I kept thinking that anyone can sing I After the miracle, anyone can sing after God has provided. Anyone can sing after you've been healed. Anyone can sing after you've seen God show up. But who can sing when there's a Red Sea in front of you? Who can sing when the battle is straight, when darkness comes, who still has a song inside of them? I want to sing up. I want to sing on 51st and Broadway before miracles come. I want God to hear this voice, this place right here on this street. Why God has been faithful, why God has kept his promises? We can sing now. Sing loud. Sing on this side because God is good. Hallelujah. On Tuesday November 4th, New York City voted in a very controversial mayor. I will explain at the end that my message is not against him at all. And I'll explain what I mean by that. I've been called and texted from all over the country after Tuesday. Christian leaders and pastors, how do you feel about the election? How do you feel about this new mayor? Texts from Texas, Illinois, California, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio, Europe. They're checking, saying, we know you're in huge trouble. They don't have any song asking me, what are we gonna do since we elected this kind of mayor? I have to be honest with you, before the election on Tuesday. I woke up Tuesday morning, and this is what I told God, because God had to convict me. This is why I even listened to that message, have never heard it before. I woke up Tuesday and I told God. I said, I'm tired. I said, I started to face the reality I had the right song, but on the wrong side. Fix the stuff, God, and I'll sing a song. I told this to God. I said, lord, ever since coming to this place, you've not allowed me to catch my breath. I said, I show up here and we can't open up the church for 18 months. I. I said, so you hand me a church with a global pandemic. I said, if that's not enough, then you threw in. You threw in racial riots that were taking place in the middle of this, and many of you don't even know because you were in your homes. There was all the stores right here on Broadway, and around here, all the windows were broken, everything was boarded up. Then when that's not enough, then we have a volatile election between Biden and Trump, and the city is waiting for more riots to take place. And if that's not enough, I get January 6th. And if that's not enough, I get two wars. I get Ukraine and Russia, and then I get Gaza and Israel, the Hamas and Israel in October 7th. I'm going, God. And now we're facing this whole mayor situation. I said, can you give me a break just one time? Just let there be just peace and prosperity, just for a second. I asked God this on Tuesday morning before I voted. And that morning, God Instead gave me two promises for this church. From Exodus 7 and 8. God was giving me the lyrics to my song. He was giving me my song on the right side. He would give me the words that I would be able to sing. No matter who's in office, no matter who is in D.C. no matter who's sitting as mayor or governor. It doesn't matter because God says, you'll have a song no matter what happens around you. God spoke to me and said, I will make you Goshen in the middle of New York City. He said, I will send light. When it seems to be darkness all around you. You will have light while darkness increases, and people will see it and clearly acknowledge it. There is a young pastor in Europe that he and I try to talk at least every other month. We talked on Thursday and he said to me, what is God speaking to you? And I told him about this issue of Goshen. I said, because he was asking about the election, I watched him put his hands on his head on a FaceTime call, and he says, you're not gonna believe this. I wanna read to you the words that he. That he sent to me. In fact, I put the text on the screen. He sent these words to me. He said, this is what I wrote for you, that I needed to tell you that. I've been praying that God would make TSC a land of Goshen, a city on a hill. In the darkness, while the hail falls, Egypt will be struck, but not tsc. People will see, know the Lord is real, fear him and come running to you as a city of refuge. He said that the name of the Lord will be declared in New York City and across the world, louder than the name of Allah or any other false God. Jesus will be lifted up in this city. The second line, my next lyrics that God gave me to my song on the right side was, hardness will be increased so miracles can come. Hardness will be increased, so miracles can come. God told me, he said, it's going to get harder so I can do more. Let me say that again. It will get harder so I can do more. Listen to the promise. God spoke to Moses and said, I will harden Pharaoh's heart that I may multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. Let me before you forget that you better pull your phones out and take a picture of that to be reminded. I will harden. I will make it difficult. I will harden Pharaoh's heart that I may multiply signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. It will get harder so I can do more. He says, when Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring out my host, my people, the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt. By great judgments the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. When I stretch out my hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst, Egypt would not Listen to the words of Moses. So now they will have to take notice of the power of God. That's what's going to happen. This is the time to sing for us to sing the right song on the right side to start singing. Now that we're going to have some red seas in front of us, we're going to have some difficulties in front of us. It's going to get darker and brighter than at the same time it's going to get darker and brighter in New York City. It's going to get darker and brighter in London and Lima. It's going to get darker and brighter in the United States. But God is going to begin to shine brighter in the dark. There are things you cannot see unless God turns the lights off. Every night God turns the lights off so you can see stars and things in the sky that you cannot see unless God turns off the lights. And I'm telling you something is about to happen. There's something I need just to present to you. I'll make it quick as we get close to this new year and I'll give you update on what has happened this last year from what God has done and what we have built and what we have done from the language channels and everything else. We'll give you the update in January. I want to encourage you and challenge you today. First I want to mention to you about this LED wall on Broadway, the 24 hour gospel in Times Square. I want to talk to you about that. With God's grace and with your help, we'll do it in two phases. It looks like we can start in January on the marquee that will begin to show the gospel 24 hours a day. I want to respond to every billboard. And phase two will be the side of that faces Times Square and the Broadway side. By God's grace, we're gonna see that construction take place in January. Thank you for beginning to help us with that. I wanna believe that right across as Wicked is being promoted across that Jesus is being promoted across from Wicked on the very same street. I believe that and it looks like that this is gonna happen. I wanna give you one quick challenge though as we're moving and what God is and I'll share with you more for next year of what we're gonna begin to do in Jerusalem and on the border of Gaza. I wanna share with you what we'll be doing in Nigeria and I'll be sharing with you what we'll be doing in Puerto Rico and some of the other places around the world. But we just got hit with a bill, and I felt so strongly to present it to you today. I wasn't gonna do it until I prayed about it, talked with Pastor Carter, and he says, you tell them. So we got hit with a bill. We have to update our alarm, our flight fire alarm system in this church, or we can't be insured for this building in 2026. They said, you have to update it. And the problem was, per the fire department and insurance company, the current system is out of date because it was done decades ago. And instead of the company coming in and updating it, the company is out of business since it was like 60, 70 years ago, and they should be out of business. And so we're sitting there thinking to ourselves, okay, what do we have to do? And, folks, I'm just telling you what it is. They came to us and we've got estimates from 500,000 to 900,000 that we've got to do this thing. I'm gonna leave it in your hands. Let me just tell you this. I'll sing a song. God will provide. We're not shutting down. It'll all be taken care of. But here's the thing. When I knew that that was in front of us, I'm just telling you, I said, God, I'm gonna sing about your provision. I'm going to sing that you're going to begin, that the enemy is going to try to stop us from moving forward in what we're supposed to do around the world. But I'm telling you, I'm going to start singing on this side. So many people wait for God's provision to sing. I'm thanking God now. He has been faithful. We have seen God work miracles around the world, and so we're so grateful. Let me just dive in these next few moments just a little deeper. It's going to get darker and brighter at the same time. And it's going to get much harder and more miraculous at the same time. Also, let me say that again. It's going to get darker and brighter at the same time. These were my lyrics. I'm going to lend you my lyrics to my song on the Other side of the Red Sea. It's going to get darker and brighter, and at the same time. It's going to get much harder and more miraculous at the same time. Let me talk to you about those promises, Promise number one that I was given. It's going to get darker and brighter at the same time. That was Exodus 8. God will make you light when all around darkness seems to prevail. Goshen is God's unusual and distinct protection that gets noticed by non Christians. It will be an attractive light that will draw people. This is the moment that God protects and shelters his people. You will see some of the fallout of what this city is about to face, but God will make this Goshen. There are people that have already presented their exit strategy. There are billboards now in New Jersey welcoming all the New Yorkers that are trying to get out of New York City. They said, we love you. Welcome to New Jersey. Well, folks, let me just tell you, people will try to find comfort and protection in a place like Florida and New Jersey. But I'm telling you, God is going to send light to Goshen right here in Egypt. There's a Goshen in Egypt, folks. That's why the promise from Isaiah 32 is so important. Don't miss this promise. He said, a man, a man, a man will be a hiding place from the wind. That's Jesus. And a cover from the tempest. As rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadows of a great rock in a weary land. It's a man, a person, that becomes our hiding place. There is a pastor that prays the most unusual prayer for me, and he sends it to me about twice a week, and he prays. It is somewhat of a Goshen prayer. He prays that as I walk these streets and pray that God would make me invisible. Let me read it to you. Thank you. They agree over there. Listen to these words he said. And he sent me this verse. He said, all the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up and drove him, that's Jesus out of town. And they took Jesus to the brow of the hill on which the town was to be built in order to throw him off. They were about to kill Jesus before the cross, but he walked right through the crowd and went on his way. Folks, let me just tell you something. He said, I'm praying that you will be walking and no one can see you but God. He said, I'm praying, folks. You know what that is? That's a Goshen prayer. That's a prayer to say no matter what is getting darker, you would walk and God would cover you. And not just me, but God would cover you that you would go in those subways. I want to speak to every New Yorker, every person that's in this city. God will cover you. We went through moments where Jews were targeted, where Asians were targeted. I'm telling you, there's coming a time that believers, Bible believing Christians are going to be targeted. But I'm praying a Goan prayer over you that God make you invisible. Look at the person next to you and say, I can't even see you. Tell them that right now. The 10 plagues were not random things that God was doing. He was attacking the gods that they worshiped and deepened and. And God was going after those. He was going after them. It wasn't just random things. The ten plagues from God against Egypt were all strategic. Plague number one, from water to blood. Hapi was the God of the Nile. God was going to start to dismantle that God and say, I'm God of the Nile. I'm the one who does it. Plague number two, the frogs. Het was the frog goddess of fertility. And God goes, I'm going to come in and, and I'm going to go ahead and send those frogs that you worship. He says it in the Bible, I'm going to cover your land. I'm going to send it in your bedrooms. In fact, he says, I'm going to put them in your ovens and your kneading bowls. He says, you won't worship them anymore. You're going to hate those frogs when it's all over. Plague number three. Gnats Geb was the God of the earth. And God takes the dust of the earth of this God and turns it into gnats and bites and irritates the people. And at this moment God says, after this plague, he says, I'm about to distinguish Goshen. He says, on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen where my people are living. And he says there will be from. From plague number four on, there will be no swarms of flies. In order that you may know I the Lord, I'm in the midst of the land. I will put a division between my people and your people. Tomorrow this day sign will occur. And the Lord did so. Put up that first verse. Put up verse 22 for me a second because I started to laugh. On that day I'll set apart the land of Goshen where my people are living, that no swarms of flies will be there. This is the first no fly zone in history that's taking place. God goes, go to Egypt. Stay out of Goshen. Hallelujah. Plague. Plague number five. Cattle. Hat hot is the cow goddess. The Lord kills the Egyptians. Donkeys, camels, horses and sheep. All the livestock. The plague slows transportation, fieldwork and depletes another food source for Them God goes after them with boils. Heka was the God of magic and medicine and God sends boils onto everyone in Egypt. And the Bible is clear and says he even put it on the magicians in Egypt and they couldn't. The Bible says the magicians had it and couldn't even stand before Moses because they were embarrassed. Plague number seven, fiery hail. The God of none, the sky goddess. Everyone in Egypt got hail and fire except Goshen. Plague number eight, locusts, the God of air. The God, his name was she. Yahweh uses the wind that they worship to bring in a large swarm of locusts to eat everything that the plagues of. So they would finish them off. And then we talked about plague number nine, darkness, the God of Re, the sun God. They worshiped the sun. And God goes, I'm going to turn the lights off on the sun. And then finally, plague number 10, the death of the firstborn. This is God going after Pharaoh, the man that considered himself a God. I want to tell you about something that God started to do in my heart. There was a second awakening that happened in this nation. The first great great awakening I told you about was Jonathan Edwards. The second great awakening that many of us don't realize and for those that are watching around the world, this may be new to you, but in 1857, right here in New York City, there was a second great awakening. Millions and millions of business people every day around the United States would stop at 12 o' clock and begin to pray. It was called the noon prayer meeting and it happened in lower Manhattan. And it was interesting that it happened on William street where Jonathan Edwards was pastoring. New York City was in a dark place and a young 38 year old man named Joseph Lamphere decided to rent an old church on Fulton street and William street and begin a new prayer meeting. It was going to be Goshen. God was going to begin to light something up right down there. The condition of New York City reminded me of what we're faced with now. They said in 1857 the city was experiencing social and economic distress. It was characterized by a major financial crisis. They said the unemployment was skyrocketing and there was widespread poverty and crime. And there was a spiritual decline. They called it the panic of 1857. Banks were closing down, they said businesses were going, were bellying up. They. They said 100,000 of the 800,000 population of Manhattan were out of work. 100,000 people in 800,000 population all lost their jobs. Poverty in slums. They Said it was very interesting. They said there was all these things that were happening. There was crime that was being poured in. They were preying on immigrants that were coming into the city. There was also this agitation of racial tension. The. The Civil War has not taken place yet. And there was this racial. This racial tension that was coming up that would eventually lead to a civil war. And then this young man at 38 years old said, I'm gonna open up a prayer meeting on William street and Fulton street in Lower Manhattan. And they said when he opened it up at noon, nobody showed up for the prayer meeting. Nobody came. He said 30 minutes into it, he heard the door open up and six people walked in for the first time. It was just a one hour prayer meeting. He said six of us prayed. It wasn't anything amazing. Met next week. He said 10 people showed up. Met the following week. 40 people showed up, folks. In a few months, they had prayer meetings in eight places morning, noon and night all over New York City. They said in six months, there were millions of people praying all over New York City. They said in eight months, they said ships were coming into New York City, felt the conviction of the Holy Spirit, and revival was hitting the ships. Before they docked into New York City, they said something was beginning to take place. I felt strongly on Friday to go down to Fulton street and William Street. I sat there on the four corners and looked. The building no longer exists. And I started to walk those four corners and said, oh, God, you can do it again. God, you can pour out your city. I said, our city is in a very dangerous place. We need a miracle in this city. God, I just need you to do something. I need you to do something. You made it Goshen in 1857. Would you make it Goshen on 51st and Broadway? And God began to move in my heart that we are to start the same thing in January that right here in this sanctuary. Every Wednesday afternoon, this place will be open. And this will be a light in the middle of darkness that we're going to believe, we're going to do, folks. And it will be nothing but prayer. It will be nothing but prayer. There is no music. There is nothing. We will come to this place. We're going to open it up for New York City. We'll advertise it on the marquee as the Marquis is going out and say, at noon, this will be Goshen. This will be a new horizon while darkness is around, there will be light on 51st and Broadway in this dark city. Folks, I'M telling you that prayer works. I just got this week, I just found out this church will stand for life. This church will always stand for life. And I just found out that we have been supporting. Not that I didn't found this out, but I just heard the great reports that we have, many of you. There are people in our church that have been working with an organization called Love Life, and they've been going on Saturdays to one of the largest abortion clinics right here in lower Manhattan. And folks, what we just found out was that on Saturdays this we knew on Saturdays, the team would meet in a Ukrainian church and they would pray and hold prayer walks over that abortion clinic. And we just found out that two weeks ago or one week ago, they shut down the abortion clinic, that God has shut that down. And we thank God for that. I'm telling you right now, folks, they said for six years, we pray 200 women chose life is what we believe, what we saw God do. I'm telling you, prayer works. I'm telling you, if you can stay in prayer, it becomes Goshen that God begins to do something. Let me give you this. Finally promise number two. Don't be deceived by finally promise number two. It's going to get much harder and more miraculous at the same time. That's Exodus, chapter seven. It will get harder so God can do more. One of the texts I received after the election was from a church leader, and his text was so negative, I won't even read it to you because I don't want him to know. But he'll know. He was writing, your city's in trouble. It's about to be irrelevant and destroyed. And he's writing all this. And I'm reading this text going like, you're wow. And I just. I just texted back to him. I said, we're getting ripe for a revival and an awakening. I said, when it gets darker, God starts doing more. It gets brighter. At the same time, when it gets harder, the miraculous comes. God tells Moses, and in Exodus 7:3, I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that I may multiply my signs and wonders. When you see difficulty in a city, when you see difficulty in your city, wherever you're living, I'm speaking to those in the Ukraine, to those that are right now in Russia, to believers in Russia, for those that are watching from the Middle east right now, we have people that are watching from their closets because they can't know. People can't know that they're watching a gospel service. I'm here to tell you when it gets harder, it's because God is about to work. Greater miracles are about to take place. And I'm telling you that not only for your city, not only for where you're at, but even for your personal life. Listen to these words. I got a personal testimony, a powerful testimony sent to my office from one of our online TSC congregants that gave us permission to tell her. Her name is Linda. She was in nursing school in Florida and asked for our prayers each week related to passing her classes. It says that she just graduated from nursing school and submitted an online praise report that she passed on her first try to become an rn. Now listen. But you have to understand why this is a miracle. She wrote. She said this is her testimony. She said, good afternoon. God is so good. He's taken care of me throughout my journey and every day it makes me cry. Tomorrow I have orientation as an RN and I passed my test on the first try. He says, Tell my testimony to the church. Twenty years ago, at the age of 26, 26, my ex boyfriend broke into my house and hit me over the head with a hammer. The story was told to me by my aunt because I lost my memory. I couldn't remember what happened. I was hospitalized in Long island icu. I had. I'm gonna probably mispronounce. I had a tracheostomy and I had a depressed skull on the left side, a feeding tube. But thank God I wasn't paralyzed. Later, I was moved to a rehab and a nursing home where I would be there for months. I had a physical therapy, speech therapy, until I was able to begin to gain strength, to walk, even have a conversation. And I started to remember things slowly. And then all of a sudden, I decided I was going to enroll myself back into school at a college in Queens. But since I lost most of my education knowledge during that phase, I forgot. I forgot everything that I've learned. But prayer kept me moving. I relocated down south. I enrolled in an RN nursing school. And she said not only did I graduate on my first attempt, but graduated at 46 years old. God is so good. We thank God for what he has done for you folks. When things get hard, miracles get multiplied and people get saved. Let me say that again. When things get hard, miracles get multiplied and people will get saved. As the musicians come, I want to say New York City has some tough days ahead and New York City is going to see miracles. Also. When I prayed on Tuesday, I was blindsided with both peace and a promise and a song on the right side. I'm not angry or heartbroken for the people. I'm not angry, but I'm heartbroken for the people of our city. And I'm going to tell you why. My heart hurts for the people of our city. Just wanting something. Wanting an answer for something. They had a liberal mayor and it didn't work. A conservative mayor. It didn't work. Now we have a socialist mayor and I'm going to tell you it doesn't matter who you put in that office. You're looking at the wrong thing. Listen to me. They're groping in the dark for some answer. That's where my heart's broken. This is now the moment for an awakening. I told you what revival is during our prayer and fasting. Tozer defined it as the intensification of God. It's when God, I have a friend that defined it like this. What's revival? It's when God gets sick and tired of being misrepresented that he shows up himself. So sick and tired of how the church is representing, God goes, I'll take it from here. Listen. Isaiah 59. We grope along the wall like blind men. We grope like those who have no eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight. Among those who are vigorous, we are like dead men. All of us growl like bears, moan sadly like doves. We hope for justice, but there's none for salvation. But it's far from us, for our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are with us and we know our iniquities transgressing and we've denied the Lord. We turned away from God. We're speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words. Justice is turned back. Righteousness stands far away, for truth has stumbled in the street and uprightness cannot enter. Folks, these are our cities. Listen to this. Yes, truth is lacking. And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey. Don't miss that phrase. The people that are trying to make themselves right with God now become a target. He who turns aside from evil, make himself a prey is what he says now. The Lord saw, and it was displeasing in his sight that there was no justice. And he saw that there was no man. And he was astonished that no one was interceding. Then his own arm brought salvation and his righteousness upheld him. He put on righteousness like a breastplate and a helmet of salvation on his head. God goes, I can't even get my church to Intercede for this. I'll show up myself. Groping is such a. Is such a strong word. When Isaiah talks about grace, groping means to feel around blindly and with uncertainty. You're just trying. You'll vote for anybody. You're just going, maybe this can help us. The Republicans can, the Democrats can. Maybe a socialist mayor can. Folks, I want you to understand. I'm not mad with Mayor Mamdami. I'm praying for him now. That's what I'm doing. I want you to understand. But, but, but do you understand? Truth has fallen in the streets. Everybody's afraid that if you stand for truth, you're going to be protested against or here. Here it comes. Or they'll unfollow you. We will always stand for what this book says. I want you to understand that. I want you to understand this. We will stand with Israel. We will stand with the Jewish people. Folks. I will. I will. And listen, I thank God. I know I'm probably biased because I grew up in this. I thank God. I shake their hands every week to thank those incredible policemen that are over here, that are outside there. I thank God for them. I believe there's one way to heaven and it's through Jesus Christ. I am not budging on any of that. Well, what if they protest? Let them protest. It doesn't matter. This is going to be Goshen. This is going to be a place where God, we're in the middle of darkness. There's going to be light on the horizon. It's going to get darker and brighter at the same time. And it's going to get much harder and more miraculous at the same time. Let me just say these final words. My Tuesday prayer meeting gave me that song. Darker and brighter at the same time. Harder and more miraculous at the same time. My prayer time gave me a song. Moses, I think, had the same experience that I had. And something pretty profound happens when Moses. I want to read to you his Tuesday morning prayer meeting. Much like my Tuesday morning prayer meeting. I want to read to you his words when it wasn't going so well and he didn't realize and he didn't have his lyrics yet. I've got my lyrics, I've got my marching orders. Darker and brighter at the same time. Harder and miraculous at the same time. Folks, it's going to get darker, but God is going to keep you. God is going to keep you. It's going to get harder so he can multiply his miracles. Let me read to you, Moses, Tuesday morning prayer meeting. Stand with me. As I read it to you. And then I'm gonna read to you God's response. Moses prayed, this. This is. He sounded like me. Here is what he said. Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, oh, Lord, why have you brought harm to this people? This is before the plague started. Why? Why did you ever send me? I said that ever since I came. Ever said that before? Ever since I came to this city. Don't look at it, but just look straight ahead. Ever since I came to this church. Listen. Ever since I said, yeah. Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done harm to this people. And you have not delivered your people at all. Why did you ever send me? Ever since I came, that was me. That was my prayer. I'm going like, hey. It was like somebody was listening to me. It was amazing because just like Moses, God responded and said, I'm gonna give you lyrics for this side. It's going to get brighter. It's gonna get darker and brighter at the same time. Harder and miraculous at the same time. He said, I'm gonna give you your lyrics to your song on the right side. Side. Right song. Right side. And this is what's amazing. As soon as Moses said that, the very next verse, God steps in and I want you to see two words that changed everything. The two words. In fact, he says it. You ready for this? Eight times in these verses. Eight times. So he. So Moses knew what was about to happen. Here it comes. Eight times. In fact, I capitalized it so you can see it. And this is what God said. Then the Lord said to Moses after his Tuesday morning prayer meeting, now you shall see. Here comes the first one. What I will do to Pharaoh. For under compulsion, he will let them go, and under compulsion, he will drive them out of the land. God spoke, furthermore. Then said to him, I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty. But by my name, Lord, I did not make myself known to them. I have established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they sojourn. Furthermore, I've heard the groanings of the sons of Israel because the Egyptians are holding them bondage. And I have remembered my covenant. Here it comes, folks. Say therefore to the sons of Israel, I am the Lord. And what does it say? I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And what deliver you from the bondage and also redeem you with an outstretched arm with great judges. Then what? I will take you from the people. And what I Will be your God. And you shall know that I am the Lord who brought you up. And verse 8. I will bring you to the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and what I will give you to a to. For a possession. I am the Lord. God says, I will. I will. I will. I will. I. I'm the one who's gonna do it, not you. Do you remember what Moses tried to do? To deliver the people? He kills an Egyptian and buries them in the sand. And God is just going, you're so dumb. If we do it your way, we'll be here for centuries. God goes, I'll bury them in the Red Sea in one day. I'll take care. While you're trying to do it one by one, I'll take care of this whole army in a moment, in the middle of a miracle, I will do what only I can do. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, close your eyes. Close your eyes. Lift your hands for just a moment. Oh, God, it's going to get darker and brighter. But, God, we're gonna sing a song to you, God, it's going to get harder and more miraculous at the same time. But God is in charge. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, there's this old song I kept singing and it just says, through it all I've learned to trust in Jesus through it all I've learned to trust in God through it all I've learned to depend upon his word Come on, let's just begin to lift our hands Begin Just to declare it right now through it all Hallelujah. Sing it to him right now.