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And so today I want to speak to you about blessed in the famine.
Blessed in the famine. Yeah.
I'm talking about thriving. Thriving, OK?
I'm not talking about just getting by.
I'm not talking about scraping by or just barely getting there
or barely surviving. I'm talking about thriving.
Thriving. Somebody.
Hallelujah. Are you ready for this church?
Because I feel the anointing stirring already.
I feel something stirring in the atmosphere already in this
place. OK.
And I just believe that God is about to drop something
supernatural in this place. I'm sensing it right now.
The atmosphere is thick, it's heavy.
It's pregnant with the glory of God.
Hallelujah, ready to touch somebody's life.
And so this place is about to shake, shake our lives.
And I'm just thinking God is about to stir faith in our
hearts, faith in our lives. Break, lack, release, abundance,
thrive. Driving from somebody, shout
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. And so this isn't just a sermon.
This is a divine announcement. You are blessed.
Are you receiving this this morning church, you are blessed
from the front room of God. God send me to tell you that you
are blessed, OK? Blessed in the famine, not when
the famine is over, not after the famine, but in the frighting
it. You 5 You blessed in right in
the metal smack pack in the middle of the famine, right
there fiving placed in the middle of the dry ground.
You are placed in the midst of it, you are blessed.
Hallelujah, somebody shot. Hallelujah.
Give God some praise. If you believe that you are
blessed, Hallelujah. Come on, sell your neighbor and
say you are blessed, you are blessed, you are blessed, you
are blessed, you are blessed. The blessing of God is in this
place. Church, get ready.
Something is about to happen in this place.
Oh my God, oh Hallelujah, Are you ready for this?
Because when God puts his hand on your life, when the favour of
heaven comes upon your life, you don't just survive through the
famine. You don't just get by scraping
by, but you 5 when the blessing of you are blessed, Hallelujah,
you flourish in the pressure, you multiply, you bless when the
hand of God is on your life placed in the famine.
And so today we're going to have a look in the book of Psalms.
And so open there with me or we'll put his, the the
Scriptures up on the screen as well.
In the book of Psalm, Psalm chapter 37, let me tell you what
the word says and we will read from verse 19, Psalm 37, verse
19. In times of disaster, they will
not weather. In days of famine, they will
enjoy plenty. Let's pray.
Father, we come before you with hungry and open hearts.
Lord, I thank you that your word is powerful.
Your word is alive, and Lord now speak through me.
Lord, I pray annoyed every year to year, every heart to receive,
every life to be transformed. Move Holy Spirit, have your way,
take over and do what only you can do.
Saturate this place with your glory.
In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray somebody say a So the
scripture says that in the days of famine we will enjoy plenty.
Hallelujah, plenty means more than enough.
In the days of that we will enjoy more than enough.
OK, now notice that the Bible did not say that you will
through the in the times of famine, you will just barely
scrape by. You will just get through.
You will just survive the famine.
Now the Bible says that you will enjoy plenty during the time of
famine. Now that is the power of
blessing, OK, the power of blessing that you enjoy, you are
blessed. You enjoy overflow, abundance
during the time of famine. Blessed with come on, somebody
shot plenty. OK, shot it with baldness.
Shot like you mean it. Come on.
But I prayed to tell your neighbors, shot plenty.
OK, Plenty is the plenty. That is the word of my God.
How? What a powerful word we are
receiving this morning from heaven about plenty and famine
time, my Lord, I mean that that defies logical word, but it's
the word of God. So I thank God for the blessing.
Because you see, the blessing in your life is not dependent upon
the economy, the climate, the conditions.
It's not dependent upon the circumstances, the blessing of
God upon you. You see, you are not tied up and
connected to a wildly system. You are tied up and connected to
a heavenly, a higher realm, the realm of God's Kingdom, a
heavenly source. You are connected not to the
worthy surface level, but a deeper level in the realm of
God's Kingdom, God's Kingdom that never runs dry.
Oh my God. Hallelujah, somebody shall I may
OK. The economy might crash, things
change, circumstances check. The job may change, OK.
But the blessing that is on your life, it doesn't change.
You see it doesn't fluctuate going up and down, OK, Like
economy, like the the climate, OK.
The blessing of God on your life is not seasonal.
It is supernatural. Hallelujah, somebody.
OK, now I don't know what your situation looks like this
morning. Maybe the doors of shut or the
answers are the light, the pressure is mounting.
But I have come with a prophetic word from the word of the Lord
for you today that you are not withering, you are not drying
up, but you are thriving. Come on, somebody sharp,
thriving, thriving, Yes, you are thriving, OK, Because the
promises of God are still yes and Amen.
Circumstances may change. The blessing of God is on your
or stays on your life. And so the river of God always
flows. It never stops.
It always keeps on moving and keeps on flowing.
And so the blessing of God on your life, it floods every
drought part of your soul, causing you to thrive.
You thrive in difficult. You thrive in famine.
Somebody shot on thriving. Come on, shot on thriving.
Open your lips and say I am thriving.
This is the word of the world, the Clement of your life.
I am thriving. Put your eyes together.
Praise God. Somebody make some noise.
Yeah. Hallelujah.
There's a flower. It's known as the red desert
flower. And so this desert rose flower,
it grows in the desert regions, one of the harshest, driest
regions on the earth. And so the conditions are
brutal. That's heat during the day, cold
at night, rough, dry ground, rocky places, and so almost no
water. In fact, everything around it
says that you shouldn't survive here.
But somehow this flower doesn't just survive, it thrives.
While other plants and other flowers they weather in the
drought, the desert rose, it pushes it roots deep down into
the earth and so it reaches and it draws water from the streams
on the on the ground. And so because it grows in
harsh, difficult conditions, it's colour is deeper, it's
sweet fragrance is stronger, it blooms more beauty, it blooms
beautifully, more than other flowers that grow in perfect
conditions. And so the battalis will tell
you that the desert rose doesn't bloom in spite of the famine, it
blooms because of the famine. That's what it means to be
blessed in famine. OK, now you might be planted in
a dry place. You might feel surrounded by
famine, emotionally, financially, relational,
everything around. She says that you should be
drying up. But by the blessing of God on
your life, you are not drawing on surface level, you are
drawing deeper. You are keep drawing on the
rivers of God deeper, which is the river of the Holy Spirit.
You are drawing from that. And so while others are
shrinking, you are stretching. While others are panicking, you
are praising, OK, while others are.
And, and so you come and you are blooming with beauty, with
faith, with favors, because you have got roots, because of the
blessing of God on your life, you've got deep roots.
That is acid and it reaches into the rivers of God.
Hallelujah, somebody. And so even when the dry, the
ground is dry, you flourish. Even in times of famine, you
thrive. Hallelujah, somebody.
Shout Hallelujah, man, please God, put your hands together and
tell your neighbor you thrive. You thrive, you thrive, you
thrive. Now you might feel like you're
in dry land, but heaven is not silent.
Heaven is speaking the heavenly language in the heavenly is
speaking abundance. When earth says lack, heaven
says overflow. When your situation says not,
not enough, God, Heaven says I am more than enough.
OK. And so you don't have to fear
the famines, you don't have to run from the droughts because
you were bold for hard places. You were anointed for pressure.
You were called to have a testimony, A testimony that
looks like what what it looks like to be placed in the middle,
not after the famine, not after the storm, but right in the
middle. You are placed in the famine.
Somebody say placed in the famine, placed in the famine.
I meant the placing on your life.
It's not a once of feeling once in a while.
The placing on of on your life is not a doesn't fluctuate the
blessing on your life. OK, it's not a feeling.
The blessing art on your life is not a mood swim.
The blessing of on your life is your identity.
That is who God says who you are Hallelujah.
And so you're not just blessed now and then.
You are not blessed sometimes you are blessed all the time.
Come on, somebody, give God some praise.
Now let me show you a powerful story in the life of Joseph.
In Genesis 39, verse 2, it says the Lord was with Joseph so that
he prospered. Now notice something powerful.
Yet Joseph, he wasn't prospering because of the economy, the
surroundings, the situation around him, OK.
The Bible says that the reason that he prospered is because of
the presence of the Lord that was with him, the blessing of
God. And so he was placed in the pit,
he was placed in the prison, he was placed in the palace, he was
placed because of the praises of God.
And so Joseph's environment, the economy did not define him, but
the blessing of God did. And so I came to tell somebody
to die, that you are placed right now, right where you are
in the struggle, in the difficulty, in the delay, you
are placed all the time because God is with you.
And he promises us in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5, God has
said, never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.
That's a powerful word right there.
Oh God, that's a spamming all on its own.
I could preach for hours on just that.
First, Hallelujah. There's so much in there.
We got to say, listen, OK, I will never leave you.
I will never forsake you, OK? That means God is with us all
the time. He's with us always, Hallelujah.
And if God, I promise that God is, he will be with you always.
That means that we are blessed always.
OK, God's with us all the time. So we are blessed all the time,
OK, All the time. That means OK, you are not just
blessed on a Sunday morning in church.
You are blessed on Monday and Monday in the traffic.
You're blessed on Tuesday. You're blessed on Wednesday.
You are blessed on Thursday when the polls are due.
You are blessed all the time. You are blessed when you feel
overlooked. You are blessed when it seems
like nothing is changing or nothing is going well.
You blessed because God is with you all the time.
You are blessed all the time. So I'm not waiting for someday,
someplace in the future, when there comes a moment that I'm
going to be blessed. No, I am blessed already.
Right now. You are blessed.
We are blessed right now. Somebody shot.
I'm blessed right now. Yeah, I'm blessed right now
you've got some prize. Clap your hands.
Are you receiving this? Where should I?
Now then you share about Isaac, and this is very powerful, how
he prospered in famine. Blessed in famine.
Now this is a powerful revelation.
Catch this today in Genesis chapter 26, because there was
this famine and say, yes, Isaac and the famine.
And so people are packing up their bags and people are,
they're running away, OK, there's famine running, people
are giving up. People are throwing in the
towel, OK, huge famine. But Isaac did not follow the
crowd. He followed God.
And so lean in and get this because the Bible says, and this
is the key. This is the revelation in the
days of famine, in the middle of the famine, in famine, Isaac
sowed seeds. That's the revelation.
Church grabbed that today. In the time of famine, he sowed.
OK, in the same year, he reaped A hundredfold.
Now say that with me, same year, OK, Now that means the same
year. It means that God didn't need
the conditions to change. God didn't need the weather to
change, God didn't need the famine to change.
God just needed a seat. Oh my God, I feel the launching
in this place. Hallelujah, Genesis 26 verse 12.
Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped A
hundredfold because the Lord blessed him.
That was in a time of famine. He planted.
Listen that you catch that Isaac planted seeds in a time of
famine, in a difficult time. OK?
So listen, you don't have to wait for conditions to be right
in order to flourish, in order to be placed in your life.
Plant your 5 seeds right now in the pressure, in the difficulty,
in the frustration planted right now, and watch God cause you to
flourish and multiply because your circumstances don't dictate
your destiny. Your environment does not
dictate your destiny, OK? It is your faith seeds.
Thus, yeah, the seeds of faith. That's it.
So stop waiting for conditions to get better.
Stop waiting for the economy to change.
Stop waiting saying listen, I will worship when things get
better. I will enjoy my life later when
things get better or we're postponing.
And I will give and I will so see when I get more.
No, plant right now. Plant in the pressure, plant in
the difficult situation, plant in the pain, plant in the
famine. Because God is about to breathe
on your opinions. Hallelujah.
Listen, the economy is not our sustainer, OK?
God uses different reasons, but ultimately Jehovah Jireh, the
Lord, our provider, is our source, the alkaline.
Now I thank God for a boss and a job, and I thank God for that,
but ultimately who is above our boss?
God Almighty victory. And I want you to hear that
because we don't just look to a paycheck to a monthly, we look
to God our source. Jehovah Jina is our provider.
God is our source. So the economy goes up and down
and changes all the time, but not our God is still the same
yesterday to die forever. And if God has promised you to
bless you, he will do it. Hallelujah.
Somebody shout Hallelujah. Yeah, man may fail you, but God
will never fail. He will never forsake you.
God is our soul. Somebody come on, put your eyes
together for Jehovah Jireh. He's our provider.
These are our provider. The power of the blessing, it
doesn't go smaller in the famine.
The power of it doesn't straight small in hardship.
It intensifies. The darker it gets, the brighter
it dries. So the more the difficult the
pressure around you, the more power flows through you.
OK, now I want to show you this famous verse, Jeremiah 29.
We quote that all the time, but I want to show it to you today
in context. And I really believe we're going
to see something deep, powerful in here.
Jeremiah 29 because it's a story of God's people building under
pressure. It says Jeremiah 29, verse 11,
famous verse for I know the plans I have for you declares
the Lord plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give
you a hope and a future. What a powerful promise from the
Word of God. Now let me give you the context.
God speaks to his people that is in captivity.
They are in Babylonian captivity in exile.
They have been removed from their homes, from their land and
in that miss hopeless situation, God say something in the
previous verse just before verse 11, verse 5 and 6, God say
something that defies logic. He tells them bold homes.
Palm Cottage, eat the potties fruit, marry gay children, sons
and daughters increase there in Padlo.
Now wait a minute. How is it possible to multiply
and flourish in captivity? How is it possible to thrive in
limitation, in pressure, in difficult times?
How is it possible? Because God says both plant,
marry, multiply. That's what God says in a land
of captivity. OK.
It's exactly what God promised it.
Because when the blessing of God is upon your life, the blessing
is not tied down to just a location, but to a revelation.
And God wants to show his people that, listen, you are not just
placed in Jerusalem, you can be blessed in Babylon.
Hallelujah, placed in Babylon, still blessed even in captivity.
Hallelujah, blessed in a crisis, blessed in the courtroom, in the
drought, in the dry land, in the difficult time, in a famine,
blessed, thriving in a storm. When everything in the world is
shaken and there's chaos in the world.
But God is my people. Even though you find yourselves
above, you can still be blessed. You don't have to be a
Jerusalem. You can be even in Bangalore.
Because the blessing of God struggles with you.
The blessing of God is mobile. Where you go, the blessing goes.
Somebody should even in your toughest season, even in your
greatest limitation, the blessing of God, it can cause
you to thrive even in the difficult times.
Hallelujah, somebody that video clip we watch Heidi Baker, Irish
global God called him to minister in one of the poorest
countries in the world, Mozambique, an area, they called
it useless land. Barham dry land, OK, it's
impossible, but you know, it's amazing.
Roland and Heidi Baker, they obeyed and they bought land in
in that place for the ministry and for the children's centre.
They bought land, OK. And I mean, this land came with
problems. They were told this, that you
cannot go anything there, OK? The soil is poor, there's no
natural water irrigation. OK, this is nothing thrives in
that region. No crops, no water, no hope.
But Heidi wasn't moved by the conditions.
She wasn't discouraged by what the negative reports that was
going on. She believed that where the
blessing goes, life flows. And so against all odds, they
planted anyway in a famine place.
They sowed in drought. And the miracle happened.
The land started to flourish. Crops sprouted up in the middle
of famine. Over time, the same barren land
became agricultural, A thriving agricultural place to feed the
children and thousands, you know, helping even the
surrounding communities there. Thousands of children, orphans.
They're not just only being fed there, but they are being taught
farming. And here the skeptics and the
critics, they're scratching their heads wondering how can
crops grow in famine when a famine like the answer is simple
blessing of God. It's a blessing of God.
We don't operate just under the natural resources.
We operate under the higher Kingdom principles where the
impossible becomes possible. The blessing will cause you to
succeed in the struggle. What caused you to thrive in
famine? Hallelujah, somebody praise God.
Are you getting this glory to God now?
Just like Isaac, he sowed in famine land and he read a
hundredfold. Just like Joseph prospered in
the pots in the prison, Heidi Baker flourished in a land in
Muslim where they labeled it as useless land, poor.
But she flourished and they still flourishing.
And I'm here to tell somebody that you can prosper right where
you are. You don't have to wait for
things to change. You don't have to wait until the
report changes. Now, you're not waiting to be
placed sometime in the future. You are placed right now right
where you are already placed, right in adversity, placed,
right in difficulty, placed. The placing is still working.
Regardless of the crown or the surroundings that you are in,
the placing is still working. And so it's easy to fall into
this trap of delay thinking like put everything somewhere in the
future. One day when things get better,
I'll enjoy life and I'll get in be my best.
When I get out of this, when I get out of this situation, then
I'll be my best. OK.
And so when this stress is over, then I will get my joy back.
You know when this problem is over then I will enjoy my life
always delaying things for the future.
What a trap of the enemy to wait for the conditions to change.
But God didn't call you to just barely scrape by every problem
and just sit in survival mode. God calls you to 5 in the
famine. Thrive in the problems and the
difficulties in this world and thrive and rejoice regardless of
the chaos around us somebody. And so God wants to show you his
blessing through it all. He wants to show you the joy in
the journey. He wants to give you favour in
the famine. OK and so God is not waiting to
get you out before placing you now He wants to place you in it.
Hallelujah, somebody. So what's the greater testimony?
Let me ask you this, what's the greater testimony?
God that removed the famine or you that reaped a harvest in the
famine? What's the greater testimony?
God removed the fiery furnace or you walking through the fire
under a bird. You see, the greater testimony
is that you got God caused you to thrive in the famine.
Hallelujah, somebody in the difficulty and so let me give
you I want to throw this in another powerful story of
thriving in a famine and it's the one in first Kings chapter
17. Remember the the hopeless widow
and she faced this severe famine and all that she's got, she's
literally up to now she's got 1 handful and full of flour and
one drop of well, barely enough to make one last meal for
herself and her son. And so all of a sudden, I mean,
she's down to nothing. But this prophet showed up, and
then he gives a request that just didn't make sense.
Make me a bread first. OK, Now let's just be honest.
That doesn't sound very fair. Make me a bread first.
OK. Last meal.
Right. OK.
The request seems unreasonable. But she chose obedience over
fear. And so this woman, she made the
decision. Again, we see the same
principle. She made the decision to sow in
famine. It defies logic.
Church, you see, it defends the natural mind, but that's why we
are spiritual to sow in a time of famine.
And so she gave before she had extra.
She released before she saw results.
OK, so she trusted before the provision showed up.
That's sowing by faith. And so the moment she did, she
released the, the miracle was released.
And so the oil kept on flowing and the flower didn't stop.
OK, didn't run out. So watch this now.
God didn't remove the famine. God stepped in.
And so not just one day, not just once off, every single day
of the famine, God sustained her.
Come on, somebody come on, somebody, come on.
God did not remove the famine, but he provided for her.
He sustained her every day during the famine.
Hallelujah. And some of us have been saying,
God, when you breakthrough, when you provide, then I'll give.
That's not the Kingdom way Church.
OK, some of us have been waiting and saying God, I'm waiting for
the breakthrough. When you provide then I will
give. Some of us will be saying listen
when things get better in my life then I'll abide.
God says obey me now. God says honour me now on siege
of faith right now. Trust me in the famine, trust me
in the difficulty situation right now and watch me release
overflow. And so that anointing did not
stop in the Old Testament. It's still moving.
It's still happening today in our lives every day.
Let me share one with you powerful Testament again, Heidi
Baker. They were in Mozambique and they
were ministering there in famine, war, crisis is going on,
starving children, orphans around, no food.
And so there's no help, no way forward in the natural.
All the rice was gone. No more rice, no more food.
The team's desperate, but Heidi Becker, full of faith.
My God, Cathars, the children, Oh my Lord, I feel the presence
of God in this place with empty pots and empty plates.
And she thanked God in advance. Listen, people, there's nothing.
No food. Nothing.
They're starving. She's holding empty pots before
Almighty God. And she praised God.
You multiply. You're the God that multiplies
food. Do it again.
Yeah, today. Do it again, Lord, do it again.
And yes, a supply. Somebody came and they dropped
off rice, the bag of rice. But it wasn't enough until God
touched it, my Lord. Until God touched.
Until God intervened. Because when they started
serving the food, it kept on flowing.
Yeah, Hallelujah. Every bowl was filled with food,
starving. Hundreds of every child was fed.
That's our God. That's our God.
It's hard for fun and he will not let us down.
Regardless of what's happening in this world church, regardless
of the eight times that's happening, God will look after
his people. God will multiply our resources.
He still releases more than enough.
And Heidi said in that moment, they saw the food multiplied,
but not in a flashy way, in a humble, holy way as they kept on
serving. It just kept on.
Somehow there was just always enough.
My God, Hallelujah. Just you may be down to a
handful of hope, just the oil of strength, a small little bit of
oil. Just trust God in your famine.
Trust God in the difficulty. God is about to breathe on it
and multiply you and flourish you multiply you.
Hallelujah, somebody Hallelujah. See, God doesn't have to change
the circumstances. He doesn't have to change the
economy. God doesn't have to change the
famine. He can provide for you in it.
We'll provide in it. So just trust God with your
situation, with what you've got, with the not enough, just a
little and give it to him and trust him and he will release.
He's more than enough. He will multiply just like the
widow. She just what she had.
She trusted God with that and she just gave that.
And when she did, God multiplied and she walked out into
overflow. Overflow.
God didn't bypass the famine, the crisis, the difficulty.
He stayed right into it and he provided there.
He didn't come and rescue the widow out of the famine.
He didn't go and go into Musabi and rescue that you're out of
Musabi. No, we didn't a lift or rescue
the God provided right there in the famine.
Hallelujah. Somebody shot Hallelujah.
He released the provision in the famine that is our garden.
I came to tell somebody today that the same miracle working
power of God, OK, he's walking into your situation right now.
He's stepping into the middle of your difficulty, of your not
enough of your challenge, right in the middle of your
depression, right in the middle of your negative anxiety, right
in the middle of your lack of your challenge of your family,
right in the middle of your midnight crisis.
The God of the universe is stepping right now into your
situation. And so don't delay your
obedience, Hallelujah, because until the famine ends, because
your miracle is not waiting for until the famine ends, your
miracle is really to be released on your obedience today.
So your faith today and watch God step in and multiply and
move on your behalf. Come on, just grab hold of this
word today. The blessing of God on your life
is bigger than any famine. The blessing of God is stronger
than any famine. Now let me throw this one in an
Isaiah chapter 43. It says here.
They walk for miles to get water.
They are. It's incredible how God is
blessing them going from community to community, drilling
water and the community and the villages.
Listen church. It's happening at such a farce
rate. It's incredible.
They are planting churches in villages.
People have never even heard the gospel.
They are planting churches. Hallelujah.
Refund is breaking loose. Listen.
And by the way, church attendance is up even in the UK.
Come on, somebody. What's the what's the stats?
Is it up? It is the percent, yeah.
OK. People are running back to
church because they understand there's a revival happening.
OK. It's happening.
Church. It's happening.
This is the time for the UK. That's right.
And it won't be proven with signs, wonders and miracles, The
God of multiplication, miracles, documented healings that cannot
be denied by doctors or medical that will only give credit to
God. This can only be God and people
walking in meetings like this and nobody even prayed for them,
just walking into the place they got healed of cancer.
Come on, come on church, God is about to practice the river of
God. Now it says here in Isaiah 43
verse 19, I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in
the desert. So God's just offering survival,
OK, He is releasing a supernatural supply.
God is giving you a river in the dry place, in the famine, in the
difficult challenge. God is giving you a a river, a
supply, an overflow. That is more than enough,
abundantly right there in the dry place, releasing a river.
Now the enemy may try and come against you, but he cannot stop
the river, the flood of God. He cannot stop that.
The enemy cannot stop the river, it's too strong.
The river of God is destroyed, is flooding.
The Bible says when the enemy comes in like a fraud, the
spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him.
Hallelujah for the river of God. So even when there's fun, as God
has got a river where we tap in God's river, it breaks every
chain, God's river, it breaks every limitation, God's river,
it pushes back the darkness, the river of life pushes the enemy
away. It releases favour and placing
upon your life the river of God. And so I speak prophetic of
every dry area, every barren land, every difficult, every
limitation. God is releasing rivers in your
desert, rivers in your famine, rivers in your family, rivers
into your life, rivers breakthroughs into your
wilderness. You are not breaking down, you
are breaking fruit with somebody, breathe, somebody
short. Hallelujah.
He's got praise and made some noise and rejoice, yes.
So inclusion Joseph in his suffering, he did not name his
second son Lettanis. Bondage, OK.
Betrayal, he named him Ephraim. Ephraim means fruitful in the
land of my suffering. OK, now Genesis 41 verse 52, the
second son he named Ephron, he said it is because God has made
me fruitful in the land of my suffering.
So Joseph knew there's principle that he didn't wait to get out
before he got blessed. I got fruitful in my suffering.
I got blessed. In my suffering, in the land of
my sorrow, in my difficulty, I got blessed.
Joseph understood this principle, fruitful in myself.
And this is a word for somebody. Maybe you feel restricted, maybe
you feel trapped, but God sent me to tell you today that you
can make you fruitful in the land of your suffering.
OK, Fruitful in the land of yourself.
Fruitful, blessed in the difficulty.
Look at our example. Apostle Paul, chained alone,
locked up in prison. Instead of complaining, he
started speaking, he started writing.
Out of the prison came letters that would shake the world from
prison. Stuck in prison, fruitful in the
land of my suffering, a pistols of revelations that is still
transforming lives today. Church, listen as we come to the
end of the measure. I believe God is about to
prosper you in the pressure, prosper you in the difficulty,
in the challenge. So don't wait for things to
change. The don't wait for change to
fall. Let your hearts cry be this
morning, Lord, make me fruitful, right?
Yes, make me fruitful in my situation.
Maybe I don't like the job. Maybe I don't like the economy,
that I like what's going on, but make me fruitful in my home, in
my family in this situation, make me fruitful in the land of
my suffering, right? Get in the pressure, make me
fruitful in the pain, in the difficulty, in the delay,
fruitful in the land of my suffering, blessed in famine.
Amen. Let's all stand together.
Praise God, somebody, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Stand to your feet right now. I believe God speaking into
hearts, lives and this message, it's a divine invitation to
trust God in your famine. Trust God in your dry places.
See, trusting to see provision in your darkest hour.
Some of you've walked in here today feeling overwhelmed, over
burdened, overtired, stressed out, discouraged.
You've been struggling, wondering if God even see you in
your drought. You've prayed, you've wondered
God, do you see me? Yes, He, God knows what you're
going through. God knows the drought you've
been going through and is not ignoring you.
He's calling you. He loves you and he's standing
right beside you ready to pour out his favor and his blessing
upon your life. So this altar call is for anyone
who is ready to thrive. If that's you today and this is
your hearts cry and it's stirring in your spirit today.
And you say, God, I'm ready to thrive.
OK, Because it's coming to a place where we like, I'm fed up
of just surviving survival mode through another difficult,
another challenge. This goes longer survival.
God wants us to thrive and be placed in the famine.
So if this altar core is for you and you say that is you, you
want to thrive, put up your hand right now.
If your heart says God, I trust you in the famine and make me
fruitful in this dry plane, lift your hands, open your heart.
I'm going to pray. Father, I thank you that your
blessing is greater than any famine, stronger than any
drought. And right now, Lord, I speak to
every person under the sound of my voice.
I declare that no matter what dry season they might be walking
through, no matter what famine they might be facing, Lord, that
I will not just survive, but I will thrive.
Father, release supernatural provision into their lives right
now. Let them experience the fine
abundance, overflow, multiply their resources, multiply their
strength, multiply their faith. Can't, like Joseph, prosper Your
people like Isaac caused them to reap a hundredfold like the
widow who trusted you. Let they say fly, never run dry.
I buy every spin of fear. I buy every spin of
discouragement, doubt in the feet, I pray every curse, every
negative word that is spoken against God's people.
I come against every evil religious spirit of stealing,
killing and destruction. Every spirit of Goddess vicinity
is surviving, it's just getting by.
God I pray that you will release and lose upon us.
How the flow? Lord, we declare we are Privy,
we are fruitful, we are placed in Jesus mighty name.
Somebody shine. Hallelujah.
Now let's all declare out loud with boulders.
Everybody say rubbers are springing up in my desert.
I'm not just surviving, I am thriving.
I'm not waiting to be blessed. I'm already blessed right here,
right now, even in famine. I am thriving because God is
with me. Even in famine I have more than
enough. I am blessed.
I am fruitful. Fry me.
The mighty name of Jesus Christ the Son on conversation are
Jesus Christ Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is not enlightened. Hallelujah, we celebrate what
God's doing right now. Lives are changing, miracles are
manifested, all destinies are changing.
You're no longer just surviving, you are thriving.
I'm decree and declare by fire in your forest in the name of
Jesus, you thrive, you thrive, you thrive in Jesus name.
Now, just before I close, if you've never invited Jesus into
your life, if you need a fresh start, the clean slate, this is
your time right here, right now. Let today be your story where
your story changes. Let this be your moment.
I want to give you an opportunity to give your life to
Jesus. So if that's you, I invite you
to lift up your hand. If you say yes, this is my
moment. Let's pray out loud.
Jesus, I invite you to come into my life, dear my Lord, and my
sight. I repent of my sin.
Come into my heart. I give you my life for me with
your spirit.