We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast.
We are a church based out of Chennai, India.
We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will
be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear.
Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of
purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus.
We have guest speaker Jeremy Aaron with us who helps unlock
for us a few Kingdom secrets. We hope you are encouraged to
begin to dig deeper in the world to discover your God-given
calling and purpose in the Kingdom.
Well, good morning everyone. I'm so honored to be here today
and it's a joy for us to escape the Varanasi heat and come to
Chennai and experience some humidity.
Amen. Look at your neighbor and say
welcome to church. Amen.
I love church. I just want to take this time to
honour and thank Karshav and Christine and the church here
and the community here. Thank you for having us over and
taking a risk and asking me to speak.
Amen. Somebody said it's good to be
where God is. Amen.
It's very, very dangerous to be where he was.
We need to be where God is. Where is God for you today?
Amen. Where is the Holy Spirit leading
you? Amen.
He leads in green pastures. He leads us beside quiet waters.
We become too complicated for the Kingdom.
Jesus said my yoke is easy and my burden is like, if your
burden and your yokes are there, its because of you.
Somebody asked what's the greatest challenge in Varanasi?
Because when you think about Varanasi, like for some people
little scary, for some people don't we don't know what is in
Varanasi, but I see the greatest challenge in Varanasi is me.
I am my greatest challenge because there are things that
God wants to do in and through my life.
There are things that he wants to accomplish.
There are people he wants to reach in and through me.
And if I'm not sensitive to His Holy Spirit, if I am not
experiencing Pentecost every day, I won't be able to
accomplish what He wants me to accomplish, Amen.
God listens to the cries of our heart, Amen.
Sometimes this has small things made you angry, Small things
that don't actually matter. Somebody press the toothpaste in
the middle, you get angry. Food is cold, you get angry.
There's so many things we get upset about.
What we don't get upset that there are people in the world
that have not experienced a touch from Jesus.
Amen. I was installing when we first
moved to Varanasi, I was installing my Internet on top
because my kids were doing online school.
So as I and in Varanasi, everybody sticks closer than a
brother. Everybody is very close because
the walls are attached to each other.
Their houses like your list. Everybody knows what's happening
in your house. You don't need ZTV, you don't
need MTV, you don't need a Netflix and all over there
because everybody's entertainment is there around
you. So one my neighbor looked out
and he asked me in Hindi, what is your password?
I'm installing my Internet. He's asking me what?
My password. I gave him my password.
My wife was a little scared. So you don't know who they are,
All these young boys. I said if we can't share our
password, how can we share Jesus?
Amen. God has shared heaven with us
and we can't even share one small thing, correct.
How many of you like to be called a son and daughter of
God? Everybody yes till we see what
God did to his own son, then we want to be his cousin so don't
want to be son because unnecessarily why you have to go
on the cross, but that's the call over our lives is going to
be hard and difficult because everything we feel is ours.
That is why today I'm going to speak a little bit about the
secrets of the Kingdom Amen. There are secrets that God wants
to give us and if we walk in this seek secrets you won't get
by listening to a sermon, secrets you won't get by
listening to a podcast, secrets you won't get for me.
Also, I can give you only a partial revelation of what God
wants to give you. You have to thirst and hunger
for it. Amen.
How many of you are hungry today?
You're already planning lunch, where to eat.
At least I am doing that. I don't know about you because
they told me where they're taking me.
I'm very excited, OK, But in the earth today, the more hungry get
we get, the more we eat, correct?
Sometimes we are very hungry, so we tend to eat more.
But in the realm of the Spirit, the more we eat, the more hungry
we get. And God wants to keep us in that
space of hunger. Few people love God.
Many people love, many people serve God.
Few people love Him. God wants to bring us back to
our first love. God wants us to bring us back to
that day of Pentecost where we experience something.
If you have not experienced it, we are missing out on something.
We are missing out on one of the greatest treasures on the earth.
And today I want to talk about the secrets of the Kingdom.
The Bible is very clear. Its the devil.
Devil is not a problem. Devil is not a problem.
What kills us? Hosea is very clear.
He said the lack of knowledge. People perish.
People don't perish because of because the devil is attacking
them. People perish because they don't
know how to deal with the devil. The two kinds of people, one
person who's not afraid of the devil, correct.
We want to want to be that one, but for me the devil is should
be afraid of me. That's the kind of person God
has created you to be. If I introduce you to your real
self, you will be afraid of meeting you.
Because the things that God has put inside of us, the things
that he has equipped us with, man, we are not created in the
image of Shahrukh Khan. We are created in the image of
God. Amen.
We don't have to do like this and get worry about anything.
We don't have to bow our head to anybody.
We need to understand what has God put inside of us that He can
create us in, not just in His image, but His likeness.
We have been created in that and that is what we need to walk in.
And when we walk like that, even though I walk through the
valleys of the shadows that I will fear no evil, I'm not going
to be anxious about anything. Being anxious is OK Staying
anxious is the problem. Yes, there are things that
recently, just few, few weeks ago, the doctors listened to my
sons heart. He's only three years old.
I don't know. You have a picture of our
family. He's there.
OK. This is our family.
Fortunately, unfortunately, all of these people live in our
house. Praise God, if Jesus invited us
to his house, we have a revolving door.
Anybody can come. But when people have to go see,
Jesus led the way. He showed the way.
Then he got out of the way. We need to get out of the way.
There are seasons of life where we have to lead the way, we have
to show the way. So one of my youngest sons, the
middle right, the small, they told us there is a chance you
might lose your son because he has, he had a very critical
heart problem. We didn't know what was going to
happen. And also these few weeks have
been very, its been hard because it couldn't be detected before
we went to Maranasi, but after Varanasi, suddenly it came alive
because the devil wants to destroy us.
Why? The devil attacks those who are
a threat. He doesn't touch those who are
not a threat. And I know that my son has
become the biggest evangelical tool we have in our house
because all our neighbors, they won't step into a Christians
house. But because of my son, the
people have started coming to our house.
Why? Because he's always running
around, always playing around with people.
People want to come. And so the devil is attacking
him because if he attacks him, he we will lose our peace.
But we know that he who is in US is greater than he is in the
world. People keep idols outside our
house trying to threaten us. People have done a lot of things
against us. The other people can be
possessed by the enemy and destroy your peace.
But God wants you, you to attach yourself to the Kingdom of God.
And when you attach yourself to the Kingdom of God, you can walk
in authority. Doesn't mean you will not walk
into trouble, Doesn't mean you will not have attacks, doesn't
mean you will not have battles, Doesn't mean the devil will not
try to lose your peace. But in those moments, you will
rest in the knowledge that he who created 126 billion acres of
land, he's given this up to you. I researched how much land there
is on the earth. Why?
Because it's part of my inheritance and no man can give
it to me, the God who created me directly Go there only if you
lift your face to the Father, you won't need facelift correct?
We all worried about so many things in life at stress has put
changed our face. But when Moses saw God, his face
changed correct? He had to put a cloth on his
face. There is an anointing, its not
kept for in heaven when you go, there's not a special line for
pastors. Then they say no, no, no
prophets, another line, no, all will come in the same line
because we all created in the image of God.
We all created for a time such as this.
We all created for a destiny. So don't let the devil lie to
you that you have to function in only four modes, work, work,
sleep, eat, repeat. There is more inside you that
God wants to bring out of you. And today we are going to dive
deep into the knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom because
that is why he said that is why I have come.
I'm going to give you some verses because I have to preach.
You say he's not, He's just saying something not say quoting
the Bible. So I will quote the Bible.
Are you having a good time today?
Amen. We are going to learn together.
Sometimes I say some things which I don't.
It is not in my notes. Then I know the Holy Spirit is
there. So we are going to learn
together, Amen. So Matthew chapter 4 verse 17
says from that time on, Jesus began to preach repent for the
Kingdom of heaven has come here. OK, from that time on, he made
the statement when he just got baptized.
He just came out of the villages that the first statement he made
the first statement he made of what is repent for the Kingdom
has come near. That means I am come to
represent the Kingdom and Luke 443 he says but he said I must
proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God to others towns
also because that is why I was sent.
Why was Jesus sent to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom?
Amen. In Matthew chapter 24 verse 14
it says and this the gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in
the whole world as a testimony to all the nations and then the
end will come. Jesus did not come to preach
prosperity. Jesus did not come to preach
healing. Jesus did not come to preach
hell and heaven. Jesus came to preach the gospel
of the Kingdom. The prosperity is mentioned 17
times. Healing is mentioned 23 times.
Heaven is mentioned 80 times. Hell is mentioned 54 times, the
gospel of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is mentioned 195
times in four gospels. There is something that we need
to pay attention. If Jesus was talking about
Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom, he didn't say
synagogue, synagogue, synagogue, synagogue.
He said Kingdom, Kingdom, Kingdom.
We need to pay attention. What is this Kingdom, God?
What is this Kingdom you're talking about?
So we want to know God, what are you talking about when you say
the Kingdom? Matthew chapter 13 verse 19.
This is a dangerous verse. I love Scripture because it
makes us uncomfortable. Scripture is important because
it cuts out what is comfortable and makes us focus on what is
important. He said when anyone hears the
message about the Kingdom and does not understand it, the evil
one comes and snatches away what is sown in his heart, the seed
that is sown along the path. When he talks about the evil
one, it talks about the devil. The devil did not send his minor
prophets, major prophets. The devil himself will come and
try to steal the Kingdom. Because if you are part of the
Kingdom that God created, you're a threat to him today.
You're not part of a church, you're part of a Kingdom.
Zion is not a church, its part of the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom is so much more bigger and powerful than these 4
worlds. Yes, the Kingdom is more
powerful than these 4 worlds. It is here where you get fuelled
and refuelled and you go out and you do the things of the
Kingdom. It is here when you learn, when
you grow together, learn from each other, ask each other what
the needs are, ask, pray for each other, minister to each
other. You're in this community not to
attend and mark your attendance and feel good about yourself.
This community is here so that you can be a blessing to those
around you and you can go and tell your neighbors your
Internet password. Amen.
God said man, what are you doing?
You don't even know your neighbors name.
There's something wrong with you.
Sometimes I forget my neighbors name because we all are so
bothered about us. See in life now, we are so
intentional about building our life, building our career,
building our future, building this.
We have no idea about building the Kingdom.
We are not intentional about that.
And God says it is time that you are intentional about why I put
you on this. Otherwise you're going to go
from one stress to another stress, from one anxiety, from
one disappointment from one desire to come and be at a
certain level and then it falls short.
Why? Because you're not part of His
Kingdom. You're part of your Kingdom.
The Kingdom of heaven is very different from the Kingdom of
God. Psalms 115 verse 14 to 16 says
may the Lord cause you to flourish.
Amen. God wants us to flourish.
OK, both you and your children. May you be blessed by the Lord.
The makers of the heavens and the earth, the have highest
heavens belong to the Lord. The highest sevens belong to the
Lord. But the earth is given to you.
The earth has been given to you. See, religion is one of the most
demonic things on the earth, because religion postpones the
Kingdom to another dimension, correct?
We all want to go to heaven, but I am sorry to say in heaven you,
you are useless. In heaven you cannot say how can
I pray for you? In heaven you cannot say hey can
I help you with this? Hey how can I be there for you?
Hey who should I tell about Jesus?
Your job is done when you go to heaven you'll be enjoying Gods
presence but you will never be fulfilling your purpose.
We all like to go to heaven, why no loans?
We used to pray when you're on 10th standard.
God come now fast, take us and go, correct?
See, the most selfish thing to pray is pray.
Jesus come. The most selfish thing to pray
is Jesus come. Because it says that I do not
love those who don't know him because I don't care about them.
I want to go to heaven. That's all bothers.
That's all I'm concerned with. But Jesus says let's live
differently. If I really love Jesus, I will
love people. And if I really love people,
I'll say God, keep him. Keep me here even though the
valleys get darker and deeper and get the mountains get higher
and things get difficult. Keep me here as long as I can
because somebody needs to encounter you.
That is what the Kingdom is. The Kingdom is all about
reflecting Jesus to as many people as I can in my lifetime,
and it's my responsibility to do that.
You cannot operate what you postpone.
If you think the Kingdom of God is in heaven, you cannot operate
it on earth. Don't postpone it.
It is here. So a few things I want us to
leave. Few principles, Amen.
Few principles about how can we access the the Kingdom of God
and we take it from the life of Jesus.
Amen. No matter what your personality
type is, introvert, extrovert, whatever, how many ever.
Now more personality types are coming because we have more
excuses not to do what we are supposed to do.
Nobody said Amen. OK, why?
See there is only one personality type, Jesus.
Be like him. Know when to keep your mouth
shut, know when to stay quiet, know when to climb up the
mountain, know when to come down the mountain, know when to heal,
know when to touch, know when to do what he did because he didn't
come to show off. He came to show you how you can
walk. That is why he came.
And so we need to be like Jesus. The first thing I want to say is
how you can access is the secrets of the Kingdom is you
have to leave your net. We are all holding on to the
net. If you don't leave your net you
will fall into one net. Whether its the Internet or not
I don't know, but you will fall into it because we all have
Nets. We all have next and we want to
hold on to the net. See, unless you are your
disciple, you cannot follow Jesus.
In Luke chapter 14 verse 33, it says in the same way those of
you who do not give up everything, look at the neighbor
and say everything, OK, because this is a keyword.
If you don't give up everything, you will.
You cannot be my disciples. You cannot be a disciple if you
don't know how to leave what you have.
If your job is your security, sorry, you will be, you will go
from 1. You will, you might have
temporary highs, but you will be in the lowest of lows because
you are holding still holding on to that net, Jesus.
The first thing Jesus told his disciples is leave your net.
Follow me. So what is the net that you are
holding today? Don't ask for the Holy Spirit to
come. He won't come to people who are
holding on to something else. He cannot fill us.
We have to know what it is to leave the net and I love this.
This was in Matthew chapter 13 verse 10 and 12.
It says, listen to this very carefully.
It's very powerful. OK.
The disciples came to him and asked him, why do you speak to
the people in parables? And this is Jesus reply,
beautiful reply. He said, because the knowledge
of the secrets of the Kingdom of heaven has been given to you,
but not to them. Wow, the knowledge of the
secrets of the Kingdom of heaven.
The knowledge again, the knowledge of the secrets of the
Kingdom of heaven can be only given to a disciple.
Amen to the others, Life is always a Riddle.
Who to marry pastor? You decide.
You talk to God and see who you want me to marry.
Pastor, do I need to take this job?
Everything becomes a Riddle in life, even What Car to buy.
Do your research, you will know What Car to buy.
Amen. Life should not be a Riddle for
a disciple life. When we moved to Varanasi, it
was not a Riddle to me. In an instant I saw a video like
nothing spiritually, no heaven opened, no dove came down and
told me to go to Varanasi. It was a small video, 2 minute
video. Immediately I said we are going.
God is not a confu God of confusion, He is a God of
clarity. Amen.
When God speaks, he doesn't need your opinion, He needs your
obedience. Amen.
So get up and do what he's calling you to do.
You might have temporary troubles, but its only temporary
because God reminds you that is he who has LED you, and He will
provide for you. He will sustain you, He will
chase all these monkeys Are we prayed?
When the monkeys came next day, all standing on the border of
our house, nobody entered in, correct?
Why? Because we have a God who's much
more bigger than the monkey. Amen.
God wants to speak through you. God wants to use our voice.
He wants to give us a voice. Amen.
I have a photograph of a donkey on my phone.
Because I said, always reminded. If God can speak to a donkey, he
can speak through me, correct? If God can speak through a
donkey, why can't he speak through me?
He can speak through US. God wants to use us.
Amen. There we are.
Nobody is more special than anybody.
We all are created equally in the image of God.
We just do not have the knowledge of God.
The knowledge of the secrets of the Kingdom has been given to
you as a disciple. If you as a disciple, learn how
to leave your net, then you can follow this God, leave your net.
Why? Why do we leave our net?
Because there's something so much bigger that God has for us.
He doesn't want us to live in that small net and catch these
fish. It says here in Matthew 633.
It says but seek first the Kingdom of God and his
righteousness and all these things will be handed unto you.
We love this was because of the second part correct?
We only if we had if this was did not have the second part,
none of us would know this was we know this was because of the
second part. Does God wants to give us
things? Yes.
Does God want to bless us? Yes.
Does he want to favor us? Yes.
Does he want to bless you more than anybody in your
organization? Maybe yes.
Because God has designed us to be like him in his image and he
blessed us. When God created the earth, he
did not have a budget meeting correct?
If we were there no part of the planning team, you would have
said God, why creating so many mango trees?
2 mango trees are enough. Now we have hundreds and
hundreds of different mangoes. Why?
It comes out of his love for us because he knows my wife likes
this mango. I like another mango.
That's why he created it. He wants us to enjoy the earth
that he has created us is given for you and me too, to enjoy it.
But we are living in only a certain type of level of
satisfaction when God wants to give us some things that are way
beyond us. So here's the principle of this
verse. Seek first the Kingdom of God
and his righteousness, not your righteousness.
Don't say you well you prayed extra to us, doesn't mean you
become holy because its his righteousness upon me.
I do not, I do not pray because I am.
I want to be spiritual. I pray because I'm hungry for
God. I'm hungry for God to move in my
city. I'm hungry for God to move in
and through me in that city that when I walk God will lead me to
people and those people I will lead to Jesus.
That is why I'm there. I'm not there for anything else.
Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all
these things will be added. You do the seeking, let Him do
the adding. Amen You your job is to do the
seeking, His job is to do the adding.
You add, somebody will steal it. I just recently, one year ago I
bought 1 new phone in in 2 days it got stolen.
I'd planned so nicely the cover and this and that.
When God adds, no devil in hell can touch it.
Amen. When God adds to you, there are
things that God has suddenly you will, you will have.
God will add to you. No one can touch it.
Why? Because he's added and he who if
he adds Satan cannot even put one, only one one finger on it.
Why? Because when God wants to add
something in your life, it is there to remain forever.
God doesn't bless us temporary, He doesn't add temporary.
His things remain. Amen.
God wants to add so you do the seeking, He will do the adding.
Its simple. Its simple the complicated way
you try to add and see what you what happens in your life.
You add what you can add in 10 years God can add in 10 seconds.
Amen. See, learn to be content.
This is the problem. One bedroom is not enough,
correct? We want more, but no God wants
wants us to have more. But we have to see.
I told in the morning I was talking to the young people.
God will not give you what you pray for.
God will give you what you manage.
Sorry, it's not so spiritual, but just because you pray for
it, God won't give it to you because you don't know how to
manage what you have. If you don't know how to manage
₹100, How will you manage ₹10,000?
If you don't know how to manage ₹10,000, How will you manage
₹10,00,000? If you don't know how to manage
₹10,00,000, how good God is a God of promotion.
He always takes us from glory to glory, from strength to
strength. That is who He is.
He is, it's His nature. Even God can't help it.
You understand God has designed the earth in such a way and you
in such a way that if you follow the principles you will get
blessed. Why are the those principles?
Whether you like it or not, those principles are not just
for the Christians, its for everyone who's made in his
image. That's why there's certain
people prospering a lot. Why?
Because they know how to manage what we have, what they have we
have lost that. We don't know how to manage what
we have, we have. When Adam fell, he lost
management rights. He lost, he just didn't lose
intimacy. He lost management rights on the
earth. Learn how to manage, learn how
to make your bed, learn how to take care of the bodyguards
given you. However much I like beef, I
can't, I cannot eat half KG beef alone and expect expect God to
spiritually fill me. I need to know how to manage
what he's given me. And a lot of times we lose the
greatest things because we lose the ability to manage what we
have. And God has given us certain
things to manage and we need to manage it well.
Amen. So don't worry if the Bible is
very clear, it says each day has enough trouble.
Same wasn't feeling each day has enough trouble.
Why you are worried about tomorrow?
Why you are worried? Somebody told me, man, you have
to start saving. I said I save order of
discipline, not out of fear, correct?
I said 16 people are there, I have to feed them.
Amen. Somebody is talking about mutual
funds. I said all my funds are mutual.
Amen. According to Acts 4242, as a
disciple, all my funds are mutual.
I live on a different. Let's see, this is the thing.
I live in a different Kingdom. In that Kingdom, you don't
understand how powerful God's mathematics is.
Your calculator is not big enough for it.
God has given us so much. He's put inside of us.
Don't work on function on four things.
Amen. There is something bigger that
God has for you. Don't let what you have have
you. That is the devils plan.
He wants what you have to have you.
We have. We are living in so much fear.
We're living in so much peer pressure looking at what others
have and how much they have. You will never be happy and
never be satisfied even if you get all of that multiplied by
10. Why?
Because you've not. You're not functioning under the
identity of Gods created you in. You're not functioning under His
government. You're not functioning under
what He has for you, Amen. There is so much more that God
has for us, Amen. Secondly, this is a powerful
one, Amen. The second principle is how do
you access the secrets of the Kingdom?
By getting into the secret place, correct?
God doesn't sell His secrets openly, He tells his secrets in
the secret because God was before the beginning began.
And if you want to meet the man who began the beginning, you go
to the beginning. Amen.
You go to the beginning. What happened in the beginning?
You were in your mother's womb. What was it?
All dark? What was it you had no sense of
hearing, listening, seeing nothing.
Go back to that place. Matthew chapter 6.
Its amazing that if see the disciples were Jewish men.
OK? The Jewish men knew how to pray.
If you go today to the Jewish wall, they'll all be like, this
is how they pray and they'll go for hours.
That's why they don't have any back problem.
They're flexing their lower back.
But the disciples didn't ask Jesus how to multiply fish and
bread. I was saying, Jesus, if that is
their own anointing, give me because 16 people have to fail.
No, Jesus didn't say. The disciples didn't say.
He said teach us how you pray. Teach us how you do it, because
your prayers and prayers are very different.
Jesus prayed very differently. So they said, OK, come on, I'm
going to tell you, I'm going to tell you a secret.
How do you do it? But when you pray, go into your
room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen.
Then your Father who sees what's done in secret will reward you.
He will reward you. Why?
Because you have taken the time to get up when everyone is
sleeping and you've gone to a place which is your womb, where
you were created, which is the secret place and you kill the
senses that are functioning, the sense to talk.
We want to 1st advise God what He should do in our life.
God doesn't need our advice, God needs us to.
I tell people shut the door and shut up.
Sorry this is church, but this is God also.
God wants us to keep our mouth shut because we have lots to say
and sometimes a lot about others.
Also. God says Baba, keep quiet so so
you stop, so God can start only if you stop, God can start the
The thing is the devil, it says the devil will keep you from
that place. He doesn't want you to be the
the hardest thing you'll ever do in your life is trying to get
into that secret place. The hardest thing because that's
when the most attack comes, the most attack comes.
That's why you need to study Jesus is prayer life.
It's very clear how what time you study, you have to study it
and you get it. You have to study it for
yourself because if you're not hungry, you won't go and do it.
Nothing is ready made in the Kingdom.
You have to seek for it. Seek edited all your all your
heart. And he went into the closet and
he said the I mean imagine the father who is in the secret
place. The father when we are in the
secret place, the father who created the heavens and the
earth suddenly appears next to you.
There is no other place that happens in the Bible but its
there for you. There's no other place.
If you do this, then Father will come.
No, no, no. It's when you are in the secret
place. Master the secrets of the secret
place. You know prayer is.
I don't go to the office to pray.
Prayer is my office. If you want to move the hand
that moves the world, you move yourself into the secret place.
If you can take one thing from here today, master the secret
place, because that's when secrets are said.
That's when suddenly things will start happening in your life
that you didn't ever expect it to happen.
Why? Because God doesn't just give us
the desires of art. God blows our mind by giving us
what we win we don't need. Because he's a God who loves us
and he's a blesses us. And if we can manage the secret
place, we can manage anything. God wants us to learn, learn how
to fast and pray. See the first see why did the
Israelites, God didn't give them food.
He delivered them such so many miracles.
He didn't give them food. They were crying, they were
hungry, they were hungry. They think give us something to
eat. God did not want them to eat
because they were still Egypt inside them.
You're crying for onions and garlic.
And because why fasting is the mode to accelerate your destiny.
Jesus when the open, when the heavens opened, the dove came
down. It doesn't say Jesus went into
the wilderness very beautifully spiritually went inside.
It says, no, the Spirit of God pushed him into the wilderness.
He did not feel like fasting. He fasted because the Spirit of
God pushed him inside there. You will never feel like
fasting, but it says certain things happen in your life only
by prayer and fasting. Is there a sin in your life
today that you've been dealing with over and over again?
Same problem. Is there an issue in your
family? There's certain things that are
not maybe have property that's not selling.
Maybe you have things that are not moving.
Maybe, maybe things are not moving the way you wanted to
move and you're just one fast away from your breakthrough,
just one faster when you fast. See listen, I, if there's
anything I love to do is I love to cook, OK, I'm a
self-proclaimed master chef, OK, I love to cook and I couldn't, I
would have never fasted in my life before that.
But there was a season in Varanasi many months ago where I
knew if I did not fast, things would not change.
Because you hit a block, you hit, you hit the mundane right?
It's like God, I need to fast. And if I can do it 40 days
without eating, somebody who loves to eat, somebody who's
very excited to cook. We need to understand that
there's something that God wants.
I fasted and prayed. There were things that happened
that I did not expect to happen. There are there were things that
happened that I wanted to happen that God gave us.
There are attacks that happened that I never expected to happen
that happened. So you get both.
Why? Because that man God sent you
fast again, correct? You fast again for another
victory. We have to learn if Jesus
fasted, we need to fast, fast and pray.
Fasting cleans up. Amen.
Fasting cleans up. Therefore I tell you, do not
worry about your life. Matthew chapter 6, what you will
eat and what you will drink about your body, what you will
wear. Isn't life more than food and
the body more than clothes? Fasting brings clarity,
connection and communion with God.
If you want clarity, connection and communion, learn to fast if
you have an exam. If you have an exam, fast.
If you eat too much, you won't be able to think properly.
It's naturally proven that if you go for an exam full stomach,
it clouds your memory. If you fast, it accelerates your
memory. If you have that interview, fast
and pray not fast to get the job.
Fast and praising God. I know see I don't I, you know
what fasting says? Fasting says God, I can't do
this without you God. I cannot see people come to know
Jesus without you. Fasting shows that I love God
and I want him to move in my life.
Fasting shows I love others more than I love myself.
Fasting shows I love my my spirit more than I love my body.
Fasting shows that I'm more concerned with the things of the
Kingdom than I'm concerned with my Kingdom.
Fasting does something and takes you to a level that very few
people people can take you to. Amen.
The last thing today is get back to where it all started.
So you have to know your original design.
So you are not created to find your purpose.
You are created with your purpose.
So don't find yourself. Now we have many people finding
themselves. You don't have to find yourself.
He says what he says in Jeremiah.
Before you were formed, I knew you and I appointed you.
God has already appointed things to happen in your life, your
purposes, before you were born. So don't go and find a purpose.
Your purpose is already inside you.
The reason you like to do certain things is because God
put it inside of you. Why do you think about certain
things all the time? Because as God put it inside
you, it is installed in your, in your software, preinstalled by
God. You don't have to go and find
it. It's already there.
Go back to where it started. God wants to use us.
Amen. See, John Wesley says this very
beautifully. Man cannot do anything without
God, correct? But God will not do anything
without man. God wants to use us and it's our
original design. In Matthew chapter 18 verse
three and four, it says tell you this, unless you change correct
and become like children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God
Unless you change and become like children.
That means you become like how you originally were, correct how
you originally were. If you do not become like how
you originally were, God cannot help you enter the Kingdom of
God. You know the difference between
adults and children. Children obey.
Adults negotiate. We want to negotiate with God.
If you do this, God, I will do that.
God is waiting for your proposals.
God is not. God is not interested in your
offer letter. God is interested in those who
obey Him. Don't negotiate with the one who
created you because whatever you're negotiating is less.
Whatever you're negotiating is less than what He created you to
be. See, we, we are.
I'm going to end soon. We live on this earth, No, And
we do not understand what God has created us for.
He's created us not to own things.
See, we all like to leave our name.
You know, this house is my house, my name.
But not gods, not quality for ownership.
Gods called you for rulership. If you live always wanting to
own, you will never rule. Make Jesus your king today.
Let him rule on you. The Israelites were didn't
understand that they wanted their own king, even though
Samuel said if you have this king man, he'll take you, he'll
take you, tax you, he'll do all of this.
But we want physical kings. We want the physical things in
our lives so badly because we are living so much in the flesh
that if we don't have these things, it won't make us happy.
And God is saying, hey, there is something bigger.
It is called the Kingdom of God. And if you have the Kingdom, you
have everything. You have rulership.
So don't settle for ownership, settled for rulership.
I'm not in Varanasi just to start something.
I'm there in Varanasi to rule. I'm there in Varanasi to kill
the devil. I'm there in one has to cut the
powers and the principalities that are there because why?
Isaiah says the sons contend with the enemy at the gates.
I'm a son I contend with. I'll ask Jesus where the enemy
I'll go and finish him off. Why?
Because I know who I am. Who am I?
I'm created in the image of God. Who am I?
I'm the man who's left his Who's left his net.
Who am I? I'm the man who knows the
secrets of the secret place. Who am I?
I know who the What is my original design?
I know it. And I'm not afraid.
And you and me are built the same way.
We are not afraid of what anybody says about us.
We are not afraid about what anybody does.
But why? Because we are called for
rulership, not ownership, Amen. But we all sense sometimes Jesus
is away, correct? Sometimes we don't.
Everything is based on feeling. So you say Jesus, I don't feel,
but he says, hey, I have something beyond feeling.
You know when the I'll end with this?
When the, when the disciples, when Jesus died and went to
heaven and the, and the disciples went back fishing, the
net that they left, they went and they got it.
They went back fishing and it says all night, look at your
neighbor and say all night, all night, very important part of
the story. All night they were fishing.
They knew where to fish, how to fish, what to fish, everything
they knew, but they didn't catch anything.
Then they put the boat in reverse gear.
They went to park it and then they saw somebody on the show.
They didn't recognize who he was.
And what did that voice say? Cast your net on the other side.
And the Bible is very specific, is not specific like that about
fish ever. It says they caught 154 large
fish. They caught 154 large fish.
Wrong place, wrong time, right voice, correct, wrong place,
wrong time. You don't fish in that time.
You don't fish next to the shore.
You have to go deep. And in that, that place which
doesn't have any fish, had the largest fish and they got 154 of
them. And then Peter saw it was Jesus
and he was not Jesus. Can I walk on water?
He see? When you see Jesus, you forget
about miracles. When you see Jesus, you forget
about what you miracles. He jumped and ran to Jesus.
And here's the secret of the story.
What did Jesus, what was Jesus doing?
He was flying fish. Today you can waste your whole
life trying to catch something Jesus already has ready for you.
It's not just fish. He had bread and it's just not
bread. There's his presence.
Jesus himself comes and eats with you.
What? Not what you have made, what he
has made for you. But we want to fight all night
in frustration for things that we want and lose out toward what
Jesus wants to give us today, even as Gosham comes in, even as
we get into a time of just reflecting, you know, it's there
a lot of things that can be said, correct?
Maybe tomorrow you'll listen to many more other messages that
100 times better than this. But what is same right
throughout is God's presence. See, God's presence is so much
more powerful than a word of a man.
And he tells you today I have fish, I have bread ready for
you. All I want you to do is come and
sit with me and I will tell you things about your life because I
created you. I didn't create you to lift that
burden. I didn't create you to lift a
weight. Amen.
Stand up. What is your name?
Roni?
Roni, God wants to lift your weight today.
You've been carrying it a lot. And God says rest.
There's a verse in the Bible that says be still and know that
I am God. And God says if you're not
still, you will never know. And God says, today I set you
free. Today your weight is lifted.
Today your burden is light. Why?
Because today Jesus has a table with fish for you and you're
worried about tomorrow. Is it man?
There's fish, there's fish for you, there's bread for you.
So God, we thank you for Ronnie. We don't thank you for her life,
not even as we move into a time of just asking you, God, Lord,
you're giving this word to a lot of us today that some of us are
exhausted and tired of running in circles.
Some of us are exhausted and tired of running after things
that are not filling our hearts. And today God you says I have
given you dominion and authority.
I have given you the ability to rule wherever you go, a rule not
for what you want, a rule over the people, a Gods blessing you
look at the scriptures. Gods blessing was always more
people. He always blessed people with
people. He blessed people to to be
delivered. He blessed people to be to be
shepherded. He, he constantly gave more
people. And the blessing today is not
your bank account. The blessing today is not your
land, your house, your inheritance.
The blessing today is God wants you to love more people.
He wants you to lead more people.
He wants you to serve more people.
He wants you to serve and give off what he has given you.
And today he breaks the bread, he breaks the fish, and he says,
come on, let's eat together. So Holy Spirit, we welcome you.
We know that you are here. You are moving in our midst.
But we pray God that today that not just lives would be changed,
but lives would be not just challenged, but lives would be
transformed in the name of Jesus.
Lord, we just come against any power, any principality, every
generational cause. And if you're here and you're
saying that you feel this weight over your heart, weight over
your life, you can stand up. And we're going to, and we're
just going to call on the name of Jesus.
We're going to you can stand in the gap for somebody who can
stand for your family, you can stand for the generation, you
can stand for this nation and we're going to say God, there is
power in your name. And we believe God that today
that you can break bondages, that you can set people free
that we don't have. We don't have to breathe
uncomfortably, that we can breathe freely today.
But because your word says with the spirit of the Lord is there
is freedom in Jesus name? Thanks for listening to this
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