1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:05,960 Welcome to the Revival church Bracknell Podcast joins us 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,200 asbestos, Will and Michelle Rose share inspiring insights that 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,080 help you discover and leave out your God-given purpose. 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,560 Don't forget to subscribe and connect with us on Facebook and 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:23,360 YouTube for even more resources. Get ready and God bless you. 6 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,360 And so today I want to speak to you about blessed in the famine. 7 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:30,960 Blessed in the famine. Yeah. 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,000 I'm talking about thriving. Thriving, OK? 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,480 I'm not talking about just getting by. 10 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:41,280 I'm not talking about scraping by or just barely getting there 11 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,480 or barely surviving. I'm talking about thriving. 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:47,120 Thriving. Somebody. 13 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,480 Hallelujah. Are you ready for this church? 14 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,880 Because I feel the anointing stirring already. 15 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,200 I feel something stirring in the atmosphere already in this 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:55,920 place. OK. 17 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,640 And I just believe that God is about to drop something 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,160 supernatural in this place. I'm sensing it right now. 19 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,319 The atmosphere is thick, it's heavy. 20 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,200 It's pregnant with the glory of God. 21 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,360 Hallelujah, ready to touch somebody's life. 22 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,160 And so this place is about to shake, shake our lives. 23 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,400 And I'm just thinking God is about to stir faith in our 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,520 hearts, faith in our lives. Break, lack, release, abundance, 25 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,960 thrive. Driving from somebody, shout 26 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:26,320 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. And so this isn't just a sermon. 27 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,280 This is a divine announcement. You are blessed. 28 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,040 Are you receiving this this morning church, you are blessed 29 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,960 from the front room of God. God send me to tell you that you 30 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:41,440 are blessed, OK? Blessed in the famine, not when 31 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:46,560 the famine is over, not after the famine, but in the frighting 32 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,200 it. You 5 You blessed in right in 33 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,760 the metal smack pack in the middle of the famine, right 34 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,240 there fiving placed in the middle of the dry ground. 35 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,800 You are placed in the midst of it, you are blessed. 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,840 Hallelujah, somebody shot. Hallelujah. 37 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:06,760 Give God some praise. If you believe that you are 38 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,759 blessed, Hallelujah. Come on, sell your neighbor and 39 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:14,480 say you are blessed, you are blessed, you are blessed, you 40 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,200 are blessed, you are blessed. The blessing of God is in this 41 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,200 place. Church, get ready. 42 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,120 Something is about to happen in this place. 43 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:26,960 Oh my God, oh Hallelujah, Are you ready for this? 44 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:30,440 Because when God puts his hand on your life, when the favour of 45 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:35,520 heaven comes upon your life, you don't just survive through the 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,080 famine. You don't just get by scraping 47 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,640 by, but you 5 when the blessing of you are blessed, Hallelujah, 48 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:49,080 you flourish in the pressure, you multiply, you bless when the 49 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,200 hand of God is on your life placed in the famine. 50 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,080 And so today we're going to have a look in the book of Psalms. 51 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,520 And so open there with me or we'll put his, the the 52 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,320 Scriptures up on the screen as well. 53 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,200 In the book of Psalm, Psalm chapter 37, let me tell you what 54 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:20,680 the word says and we will read from verse 19, Psalm 37, verse 55 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:25,680 19. In times of disaster, they will 56 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,240 not weather. In days of famine, they will 57 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,400 enjoy plenty. Let's pray. 58 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,680 Father, we come before you with hungry and open hearts. 59 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,120 Lord, I thank you that your word is powerful. 60 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,960 Your word is alive, and Lord now speak through me. 61 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:47,200 Lord, I pray annoyed every year to year, every heart to receive, 62 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,920 every life to be transformed. Move Holy Spirit, have your way, 63 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,080 take over and do what only you can do. 64 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,200 Saturate this place with your glory. 65 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,920 In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray somebody say a So the 66 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:07,480 scripture says that in the days of famine we will enjoy plenty. 67 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,680 Hallelujah, plenty means more than enough. 68 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,040 In the days of that we will enjoy more than enough. 69 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,800 OK, now notice that the Bible did not say that you will 70 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,320 through the in the times of famine, you will just barely 71 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,040 scrape by. You will just get through. 72 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,760 You will just survive the famine. 73 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:35,400 Now the Bible says that you will enjoy plenty during the time of 74 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,960 famine. Now that is the power of 75 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:43,560 blessing, OK, the power of blessing that you enjoy, you are 76 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,960 blessed. You enjoy overflow, abundance 77 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,560 during the time of famine. Blessed with come on, somebody 78 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,600 shot plenty. OK, shot it with baldness. 79 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,280 Shot like you mean it. Come on. 80 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,920 But I prayed to tell your neighbors, shot plenty. 81 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:04,400 OK, Plenty is the plenty. That is the word of my God. 82 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,720 How? What a powerful word we are 83 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,960 receiving this morning from heaven about plenty and famine 84 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,720 time, my Lord, I mean that that defies logical word, but it's 85 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,720 the word of God. So I thank God for the blessing. 86 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,640 Because you see, the blessing in your life is not dependent upon 87 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,000 the economy, the climate, the conditions. 88 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,480 It's not dependent upon the circumstances, the blessing of 89 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,160 God upon you. You see, you are not tied up and 90 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,040 connected to a wildly system. You are tied up and connected to 91 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,800 a heavenly, a higher realm, the realm of God's Kingdom, a 92 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:42,400 heavenly source. You are connected not to the 93 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,080 worthy surface level, but a deeper level in the realm of 94 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,760 God's Kingdom, God's Kingdom that never runs dry. 95 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,520 Oh my God. Hallelujah, somebody shall I may 96 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,280 OK. The economy might crash, things 97 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:00,920 change, circumstances check. The job may change, OK. 98 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,280 But the blessing that is on your life, it doesn't change. 99 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,480 You see it doesn't fluctuate going up and down, OK, Like 100 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,920 economy, like the the climate, OK. 101 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,960 The blessing of God on your life is not seasonal. 102 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,000 It is supernatural. Hallelujah, somebody. 103 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,280 OK, now I don't know what your situation looks like this 104 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,840 morning. Maybe the doors of shut or the 105 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:25,400 answers are the light, the pressure is mounting. 106 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,600 But I have come with a prophetic word from the word of the Lord 107 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,520 for you today that you are not withering, you are not drying 108 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,880 up, but you are thriving. Come on, somebody sharp, 109 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,840 thriving, thriving, Yes, you are thriving, OK, Because the 110 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:45,600 promises of God are still yes and Amen. 111 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:48,880 Circumstances may change. The blessing of God is on your 112 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,880 or stays on your life. And so the river of God always 113 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,040 flows. It never stops. 114 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,840 It always keeps on moving and keeps on flowing. 115 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,920 And so the blessing of God on your life, it floods every 116 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,560 drought part of your soul, causing you to thrive. 117 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,280 You thrive in difficult. You thrive in famine. 118 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,080 Somebody shot on thriving. Come on, shot on thriving. 119 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,120 Open your lips and say I am thriving. 120 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,920 This is the word of the world, the Clement of your life. 121 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,680 I am thriving. Put your eyes together. 122 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,400 Praise God. Somebody make some noise. 123 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,760 Yeah. Hallelujah. 124 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,640 There's a flower. It's known as the red desert 125 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,320 flower. And so this desert rose flower, 126 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,880 it grows in the desert regions, one of the harshest, driest 127 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,960 regions on the earth. And so the conditions are 128 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,440 brutal. That's heat during the day, cold 129 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:51,400 at night, rough, dry ground, rocky places, and so almost no 130 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,000 water. In fact, everything around it 131 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,480 says that you shouldn't survive here. 132 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,960 But somehow this flower doesn't just survive, it thrives. 133 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,400 While other plants and other flowers they weather in the 134 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,680 drought, the desert rose, it pushes it roots deep down into 135 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:15,120 the earth and so it reaches and it draws water from the streams 136 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:20,160 on the on the ground. And so because it grows in 137 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:27,960 harsh, difficult conditions, it's colour is deeper, it's 138 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:33,840 sweet fragrance is stronger, it blooms more beauty, it blooms 139 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:38,000 beautifully, more than other flowers that grow in perfect 140 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,240 conditions. And so the battalis will tell 141 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:50,960 you that the desert rose doesn't bloom in spite of the famine, it 142 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,920 blooms because of the famine. That's what it means to be 143 00:08:55,920 --> 00:09:00,160 blessed in famine. OK, now you might be planted in 144 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,400 a dry place. You might feel surrounded by 145 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:07,760 famine, emotionally, financially, relational, 146 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,720 everything around. She says that you should be 147 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,640 drying up. But by the blessing of God on 148 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,360 your life, you are not drawing on surface level, you are 149 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,600 drawing deeper. You are keep drawing on the 150 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,560 rivers of God deeper, which is the river of the Holy Spirit. 151 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:31,000 You are drawing from that. And so while others are 152 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,360 shrinking, you are stretching. While others are panicking, you 153 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,160 are praising, OK, while others are. 154 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,320 And, and so you come and you are blooming with beauty, with 155 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,000 faith, with favors, because you have got roots, because of the 156 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,360 blessing of God on your life, you've got deep roots. 157 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,160 That is acid and it reaches into the rivers of God. 158 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:56,840 Hallelujah, somebody. And so even when the dry, the 159 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:01,880 ground is dry, you flourish. Even in times of famine, you 160 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,960 thrive. Hallelujah, somebody. 161 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,640 Shout Hallelujah, man, please God, put your hands together and 162 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:18,440 tell your neighbor you thrive. You thrive, you thrive, you 163 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,520 thrive. Now you might feel like you're 164 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:24,080 in dry land, but heaven is not silent. 165 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,720 Heaven is speaking the heavenly language in the heavenly is 166 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,720 speaking abundance. When earth says lack, heaven 167 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,280 says overflow. When your situation says not, 168 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:40,720 not enough, God, Heaven says I am more than enough. 169 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,640 OK. And so you don't have to fear 170 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:47,760 the famines, you don't have to run from the droughts because 171 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:52,360 you were bold for hard places. You were anointed for pressure. 172 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,600 You were called to have a testimony, A testimony that 173 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,560 looks like what what it looks like to be placed in the middle, 174 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,920 not after the famine, not after the storm, but right in the 175 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,960 middle. You are placed in the famine. 176 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,120 Somebody say placed in the famine, placed in the famine. 177 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,680 I meant the placing on your life. 178 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:24,360 It's not a once of feeling once in a while. 179 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,600 The placing on of on your life is not a doesn't fluctuate the 180 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,080 blessing on your life. OK, it's not a feeling. 181 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,760 The blessing art on your life is not a mood swim. 182 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:44,160 The blessing of on your life is your identity. 183 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,560 That is who God says who you are Hallelujah. 184 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,520 And so you're not just blessed now and then. 185 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:59,560 You are not blessed sometimes you are blessed all the time. 186 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,920 Come on, somebody, give God some praise. 187 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:08,440 Now let me show you a powerful story in the life of Joseph. 188 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:14,600 In Genesis 39, verse 2, it says the Lord was with Joseph so that 189 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,280 he prospered. Now notice something powerful. 190 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:25,040 Yet Joseph, he wasn't prospering because of the economy, the 191 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,720 surroundings, the situation around him, OK. 192 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,560 The Bible says that the reason that he prospered is because of 193 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:36,080 the presence of the Lord that was with him, the blessing of 194 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,760 God. And so he was placed in the pit, 195 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:43,360 he was placed in the prison, he was placed in the palace, he was 196 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:46,080 placed because of the praises of God. 197 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:51,680 And so Joseph's environment, the economy did not define him, but 198 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:55,360 the blessing of God did. And so I came to tell somebody 199 00:12:55,360 --> 00:13:00,320 to die, that you are placed right now, right where you are 200 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,960 in the struggle, in the difficulty, in the delay, you 201 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,400 are placed all the time because God is with you. 202 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,520 And he promises us in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5, God has 203 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:20,720 said, never will I leave you, never will I forsake you. 204 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,840 That's a powerful word right there. 205 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,320 Oh God, that's a spamming all on its own. 206 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:27,280 I could preach for hours on just that. 207 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,480 First, Hallelujah. There's so much in there. 208 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,400 We got to say, listen, OK, I will never leave you. 209 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,160 I will never forsake you, OK? That means God is with us all 210 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,720 the time. He's with us always, Hallelujah. 211 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,360 And if God, I promise that God is, he will be with you always. 212 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,640 That means that we are blessed always. 213 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:53,400 OK, God's with us all the time. So we are blessed all the time, 214 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:56,520 OK, All the time. That means OK, you are not just 215 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:57,880 blessed on a Sunday morning in church. 216 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,600 You are blessed on Monday and Monday in the traffic. 217 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,240 You're blessed on Tuesday. You're blessed on Wednesday. 218 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,160 You are blessed on Thursday when the polls are due. 219 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:10,960 You are blessed all the time. You are blessed when you feel 220 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:12,960 overlooked. You are blessed when it seems 221 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,520 like nothing is changing or nothing is going well. 222 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,760 You blessed because God is with you all the time. 223 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:25,440 You are blessed all the time. So I'm not waiting for someday, 224 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,760 someplace in the future, when there comes a moment that I'm 225 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,600 going to be blessed. No, I am blessed already. 226 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,280 Right now. You are blessed. 227 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,120 We are blessed right now. Somebody shot. 228 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,720 I'm blessed right now. Yeah, I'm blessed right now 229 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,200 you've got some prize. Clap your hands. 230 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,440 Are you receiving this? Where should I? 231 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,680 Now then you share about Isaac, and this is very powerful, how 232 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:53,160 he prospered in famine. Blessed in famine. 233 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:55,680 Now this is a powerful revelation. 234 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:58,880 Catch this today in Genesis chapter 26, because there was 235 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:03,040 this famine and say, yes, Isaac and the famine. 236 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,240 And so people are packing up their bags and people are, 237 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,560 they're running away, OK, there's famine running, people 238 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,040 are giving up. People are throwing in the 239 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,720 towel, OK, huge famine. But Isaac did not follow the 240 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,760 crowd. He followed God. 241 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,120 And so lean in and get this because the Bible says, and this 242 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,000 is the key. This is the revelation in the 243 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:32,640 days of famine, in the middle of the famine, in famine, Isaac 244 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,240 sowed seeds. That's the revelation. 245 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:39,080 Church grabbed that today. In the time of famine, he sowed. 246 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,240 OK, in the same year, he reaped A hundredfold. 247 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:50,600 Now say that with me, same year, OK, Now that means the same 248 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,320 year. It means that God didn't need 249 00:15:55,080 --> 00:16:01,600 the conditions to change. God didn't need the weather to 250 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:06,520 change, God didn't need the famine to change. 251 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,400 God just needed a seat. Oh my God, I feel the launching 252 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:16,720 in this place. Hallelujah, Genesis 26 verse 12. 253 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,880 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped A 254 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:23,480 hundredfold because the Lord blessed him. 255 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,440 That was in a time of famine. He planted. 256 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,200 Listen that you catch that Isaac planted seeds in a time of 257 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,080 famine, in a difficult time. OK? 258 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,960 So listen, you don't have to wait for conditions to be right 259 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,720 in order to flourish, in order to be placed in your life. 260 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:49,280 Plant your 5 seeds right now in the pressure, in the difficulty, 261 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:54,760 in the frustration planted right now, and watch God cause you to 262 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:59,240 flourish and multiply because your circumstances don't dictate 263 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,320 your destiny. Your environment does not 264 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,599 dictate your destiny, OK? It is your faith seeds. 265 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,640 Thus, yeah, the seeds of faith. That's it. 266 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,400 So stop waiting for conditions to get better. 267 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,599 Stop waiting for the economy to change. 268 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,920 Stop waiting saying listen, I will worship when things get 269 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,160 better. I will enjoy my life later when 270 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,560 things get better or we're postponing. 271 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,800 And I will give and I will so see when I get more. 272 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:36,880 No, plant right now. Plant in the pressure, plant in 273 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,840 the difficult situation, plant in the pain, plant in the 274 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,720 famine. Because God is about to breathe 275 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,360 on your opinions. Hallelujah. 276 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,920 Listen, the economy is not our sustainer, OK? 277 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:56,120 God uses different reasons, but ultimately Jehovah Jireh, the 278 00:17:56,120 --> 00:18:00,160 Lord, our provider, is our source, the alkaline. 279 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,800 Now I thank God for a boss and a job, and I thank God for that, 280 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,560 but ultimately who is above our boss? 281 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,400 God Almighty victory. And I want you to hear that 282 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,360 because we don't just look to a paycheck to a monthly, we look 283 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:18,720 to God our source. Jehovah Jina is our provider. 284 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,000 God is our source. So the economy goes up and down 285 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,240 and changes all the time, but not our God is still the same 286 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,760 yesterday to die forever. And if God has promised you to 287 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,000 bless you, he will do it. Hallelujah. 288 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:38,680 Somebody shout Hallelujah. Yeah, man may fail you, but God 289 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,400 will never fail. He will never forsake you. 290 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,680 God is our soul. Somebody come on, put your eyes 291 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,160 together for Jehovah Jireh. He's our provider. 292 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:56,360 These are our provider. The power of the blessing, it 293 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:58,360 doesn't go smaller in the famine. 294 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,720 The power of it doesn't straight small in hardship. 295 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,080 It intensifies. The darker it gets, the brighter 296 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,560 it dries. So the more the difficult the 297 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:10,200 pressure around you, the more power flows through you. 298 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:16,440 OK, now I want to show you this famous verse, Jeremiah 29. 299 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,840 We quote that all the time, but I want to show it to you today 300 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,920 in context. And I really believe we're going 301 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:22,840 to see something deep, powerful in here. 302 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,520 Jeremiah 29 because it's a story of God's people building under 303 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:31,120 pressure. It says Jeremiah 29, verse 11, 304 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,840 famous verse for I know the plans I have for you declares 305 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,000 the Lord plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give 306 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,040 you a hope and a future. What a powerful promise from the 307 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,880 Word of God. Now let me give you the context. 308 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:48,040 God speaks to his people that is in captivity. 309 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,920 They are in Babylonian captivity in exile. 310 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,520 They have been removed from their homes, from their land and 311 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:04,200 in that miss hopeless situation, God say something in the 312 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,000 previous verse just before verse 11, verse 5 and 6, God say 313 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,920 something that defies logic. He tells them bold homes. 314 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,880 Palm Cottage, eat the potties fruit, marry gay children, sons 315 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:25,120 and daughters increase there in Padlo. 316 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:31,000 Now wait a minute. How is it possible to multiply 317 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:37,520 and flourish in captivity? How is it possible to thrive in 318 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,080 limitation, in pressure, in difficult times? 319 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,880 How is it possible? Because God says both plant, 320 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,360 marry, multiply. That's what God says in a land 321 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:50,120 of captivity. OK. 322 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,960 It's exactly what God promised it. 323 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:58,640 Because when the blessing of God is upon your life, the blessing 324 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,800 is not tied down to just a location, but to a revelation. 325 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:08,760 And God wants to show his people that, listen, you are not just 326 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,560 placed in Jerusalem, you can be blessed in Babylon. 327 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:21,480 Hallelujah, placed in Babylon, still blessed even in captivity. 328 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:28,560 Hallelujah, blessed in a crisis, blessed in the courtroom, in the 329 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:33,240 drought, in the dry land, in the difficult time, in a famine, 330 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:38,280 blessed, thriving in a storm. When everything in the world is 331 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,640 shaken and there's chaos in the world. 332 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:45,280 But God is my people. Even though you find yourselves 333 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,480 above, you can still be blessed. You don't have to be a 334 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,520 Jerusalem. You can be even in Bangalore. 335 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,400 Because the blessing of God struggles with you. 336 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:59,280 The blessing of God is mobile. Where you go, the blessing goes. 337 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:06,240 Somebody should even in your toughest season, even in your 338 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:10,880 greatest limitation, the blessing of God, it can cause 339 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,560 you to thrive even in the difficult times. 340 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:21,440 Hallelujah, somebody that video clip we watch Heidi Baker, Irish 341 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:27,200 global God called him to minister in one of the poorest 342 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,960 countries in the world, Mozambique, an area, they called 343 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,360 it useless land. Barham dry land, OK, it's 344 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,680 impossible, but you know, it's amazing. 345 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:46,960 Roland and Heidi Baker, they obeyed and they bought land in 346 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,440 in that place for the ministry and for the children's centre. 347 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,720 They bought land, OK. And I mean, this land came with 348 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,960 problems. They were told this, that you 349 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,840 cannot go anything there, OK? The soil is poor, there's no 350 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,640 natural water irrigation. OK, this is nothing thrives in 351 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,520 that region. No crops, no water, no hope. 352 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,640 But Heidi wasn't moved by the conditions. 353 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,880 She wasn't discouraged by what the negative reports that was 354 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,040 going on. She believed that where the 355 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:25,280 blessing goes, life flows. And so against all odds, they 356 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,720 planted anyway in a famine place. 357 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,680 They sowed in drought. And the miracle happened. 358 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,880 The land started to flourish. Crops sprouted up in the middle 359 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,160 of famine. Over time, the same barren land 360 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:45,960 became agricultural, A thriving agricultural place to feed the 361 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,360 children and thousands, you know, helping even the 362 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:52,680 surrounding communities there. Thousands of children, orphans. 363 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,520 They're not just only being fed there, but they are being taught 364 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:00,040 farming. And here the skeptics and the 365 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,600 critics, they're scratching their heads wondering how can 366 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,920 crops grow in famine when a famine like the answer is simple 367 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,160 blessing of God. It's a blessing of God. 368 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,840 We don't operate just under the natural resources. 369 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,480 We operate under the higher Kingdom principles where the 370 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,480 impossible becomes possible. The blessing will cause you to 371 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,840 succeed in the struggle. What caused you to thrive in 372 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,640 famine? Hallelujah, somebody praise God. 373 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,120 Are you getting this glory to God now? 374 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:41,480 Just like Isaac, he sowed in famine land and he read a 375 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,200 hundredfold. Just like Joseph prospered in 376 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:52,040 the pots in the prison, Heidi Baker flourished in a land in 377 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,200 Muslim where they labeled it as useless land, poor. 378 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,400 But she flourished and they still flourishing. 379 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,400 And I'm here to tell somebody that you can prosper right where 380 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,440 you are. You don't have to wait for 381 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,200 things to change. You don't have to wait until the 382 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,680 report changes. Now, you're not waiting to be 383 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,360 placed sometime in the future. You are placed right now right 384 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:23,280 where you are already placed, right in adversity, placed, 385 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,280 right in difficulty, placed. The placing is still working. 386 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,880 Regardless of the crown or the surroundings that you are in, 387 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,200 the placing is still working. And so it's easy to fall into 388 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:43,360 this trap of delay thinking like put everything somewhere in the 389 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:46,600 future. One day when things get better, 390 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,440 I'll enjoy life and I'll get in be my best. 391 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,960 When I get out of this, when I get out of this situation, then 392 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,040 I'll be my best. OK. 393 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:03,080 And so when this stress is over, then I will get my joy back. 394 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,920 You know when this problem is over then I will enjoy my life 395 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,080 always delaying things for the future. 396 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,040 What a trap of the enemy to wait for the conditions to change. 397 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,320 But God didn't call you to just barely scrape by every problem 398 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,800 and just sit in survival mode. God calls you to 5 in the 399 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,680 famine. Thrive in the problems and the 400 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,120 difficulties in this world and thrive and rejoice regardless of 401 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:37,000 the chaos around us somebody. And so God wants to show you his 402 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,240 blessing through it all. He wants to show you the joy in 403 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,760 the journey. He wants to give you favour in 404 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:50,320 the famine. OK and so God is not waiting to 405 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:56,760 get you out before placing you now He wants to place you in it. 406 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,560 Hallelujah, somebody. So what's the greater testimony? 407 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,160 Let me ask you this, what's the greater testimony? 408 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:10,760 God that removed the famine or you that reaped a harvest in the 409 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,800 famine? What's the greater testimony? 410 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,680 God removed the fiery furnace or you walking through the fire 411 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,960 under a bird. You see, the greater testimony 412 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:25,360 is that you got God caused you to thrive in the famine. 413 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,640 Hallelujah, somebody in the difficulty and so let me give 414 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:35,520 you I want to throw this in another powerful story of 415 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,800 thriving in a famine and it's the one in first Kings chapter 416 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,040 17. Remember the the hopeless widow 417 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,200 and she faced this severe famine and all that she's got, she's 418 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,360 literally up to now she's got 1 handful and full of flour and 419 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:56,520 one drop of well, barely enough to make one last meal for 420 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:01,200 herself and her son. And so all of a sudden, I mean, 421 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,880 she's down to nothing. But this prophet showed up, and 422 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,680 then he gives a request that just didn't make sense. 423 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,040 Make me a bread first. OK, Now let's just be honest. 424 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,360 That doesn't sound very fair. Make me a bread first. 425 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:17,720 OK. Last meal. 426 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:18,560 Right. OK. 427 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,720 The request seems unreasonable. But she chose obedience over 428 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,760 fear. And so this woman, she made the 429 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,760 decision. Again, we see the same 430 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,160 principle. She made the decision to sow in 431 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,960 famine. It defies logic. 432 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,440 Church, you see, it defends the natural mind, but that's why we 433 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,640 are spiritual to sow in a time of famine. 434 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,960 And so she gave before she had extra. 435 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,200 She released before she saw results. 436 00:28:53,960 --> 00:29:00,760 OK, so she trusted before the provision showed up. 437 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:06,600 That's sowing by faith. And so the moment she did, she 438 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,840 released the, the miracle was released. 439 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:15,360 And so the oil kept on flowing and the flower didn't stop. 440 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,160 OK, didn't run out. So watch this now. 441 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,440 God didn't remove the famine. God stepped in. 442 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:34,560 And so not just one day, not just once off, every single day 443 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,000 of the famine, God sustained her. 444 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,000 Come on, somebody come on, somebody, come on. 445 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:47,160 God did not remove the famine, but he provided for her. 446 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,280 He sustained her every day during the famine. 447 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,280 Hallelujah. And some of us have been saying, 448 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:00,640 God, when you breakthrough, when you provide, then I'll give. 449 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,360 That's not the Kingdom way Church. 450 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,120 OK, some of us have been waiting and saying God, I'm waiting for 451 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,920 the breakthrough. When you provide then I will 452 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,160 give. Some of us will be saying listen 453 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,840 when things get better in my life then I'll abide. 454 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:23,120 God says obey me now. God says honour me now on siege 455 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:29,680 of faith right now. Trust me in the famine, trust me 456 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,520 in the difficulty situation right now and watch me release 457 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,400 overflow. And so that anointing did not 458 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,120 stop in the Old Testament. It's still moving. 459 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,640 It's still happening today in our lives every day. 460 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,360 Let me share one with you powerful Testament again, Heidi 461 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,840 Baker. They were in Mozambique and they 462 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,280 were ministering there in famine, war, crisis is going on, 463 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,880 starving children, orphans around, no food. 464 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,720 And so there's no help, no way forward in the natural. 465 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,880 All the rice was gone. No more rice, no more food. 466 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:09,680 The team's desperate, but Heidi Becker, full of faith. 467 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,920 My God, Cathars, the children, Oh my Lord, I feel the presence 468 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,880 of God in this place with empty pots and empty plates. 469 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:26,480 And she thanked God in advance. Listen, people, there's nothing. 470 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:27,520 No food. Nothing. 471 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,920 They're starving. She's holding empty pots before 472 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,360 Almighty God. And she praised God. 473 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,480 You multiply. You're the God that multiplies 474 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:39,080 food. Do it again. 475 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,400 Yeah, today. Do it again, Lord, do it again. 476 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:48,520 And yes, a supply. Somebody came and they dropped 477 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:54,200 off rice, the bag of rice. But it wasn't enough until God 478 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:58,520 touched it, my Lord. Until God touched. 479 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,440 Until God intervened. Because when they started 480 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,760 serving the food, it kept on flowing. 481 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,400 Yeah, Hallelujah. Every bowl was filled with food, 482 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:14,360 starving. Hundreds of every child was fed. 483 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,080 That's our God. That's our God. 484 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,920 It's hard for fun and he will not let us down. 485 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,320 Regardless of what's happening in this world church, regardless 486 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,320 of the eight times that's happening, God will look after 487 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,880 his people. God will multiply our resources. 488 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,920 He still releases more than enough. 489 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,440 And Heidi said in that moment, they saw the food multiplied, 490 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:52,320 but not in a flashy way, in a humble, holy way as they kept on 491 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,400 serving. It just kept on. 492 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,720 Somehow there was just always enough. 493 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:04,480 My God, Hallelujah. Just you may be down to a 494 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:10,280 handful of hope, just the oil of strength, a small little bit of 495 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,320 oil. Just trust God in your famine. 496 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,880 Trust God in the difficulty. God is about to breathe on it 497 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,280 and multiply you and flourish you multiply you. 498 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:28,840 Hallelujah, somebody Hallelujah. See, God doesn't have to change 499 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,400 the circumstances. He doesn't have to change the 500 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,040 economy. God doesn't have to change the 501 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,640 famine. He can provide for you in it. 502 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,920 We'll provide in it. So just trust God with your 503 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,800 situation, with what you've got, with the not enough, just a 504 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,560 little and give it to him and trust him and he will release. 505 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,720 He's more than enough. He will multiply just like the 506 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,760 widow. She just what she had. 507 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,960 She trusted God with that and she just gave that. 508 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,960 And when she did, God multiplied and she walked out into 509 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,080 overflow. Overflow. 510 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:14,080 God didn't bypass the famine, the crisis, the difficulty. 511 00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:17,199 He stayed right into it and he provided there. 512 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,320 He didn't come and rescue the widow out of the famine. 513 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,120 He didn't go and go into Musabi and rescue that you're out of 514 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,800 Musabi. No, we didn't a lift or rescue 515 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,800 the God provided right there in the famine. 516 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,880 Hallelujah. Somebody shot Hallelujah. 517 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,760 He released the provision in the famine that is our garden. 518 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,400 I came to tell somebody today that the same miracle working 519 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,719 power of God, OK, he's walking into your situation right now. 520 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,639 He's stepping into the middle of your difficulty, of your not 521 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:53,840 enough of your challenge, right in the middle of your 522 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,400 depression, right in the middle of your negative anxiety, right 523 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,760 in the middle of your lack of your challenge of your family, 524 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,080 right in the middle of your midnight crisis. 525 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,400 The God of the universe is stepping right now into your 526 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,080 situation. And so don't delay your 527 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,040 obedience, Hallelujah, because until the famine ends, because 528 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:18,160 your miracle is not waiting for until the famine ends, your 529 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:22,400 miracle is really to be released on your obedience today. 530 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:28,120 So your faith today and watch God step in and multiply and 531 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,680 move on your behalf. Come on, just grab hold of this 532 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:36,400 word today. The blessing of God on your life 533 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,680 is bigger than any famine. The blessing of God is stronger 534 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,120 than any famine. Now let me throw this one in an 535 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,200 Isaiah chapter 43. It says here. 536 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,840 They walk for miles to get water. 537 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,120 They are. It's incredible how God is 538 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,160 blessing them going from community to community, drilling 539 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,960 water and the community and the villages. 540 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,720 Listen church. It's happening at such a farce 541 00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:15,760 rate. It's incredible. 542 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,000 They are planting churches in villages. 543 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,000 People have never even heard the gospel. 544 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,040 They are planting churches. Hallelujah. 545 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:26,720 Refund is breaking loose. Listen. 546 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:29,600 And by the way, church attendance is up even in the UK. 547 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,480 Come on, somebody. What's the what's the stats? 548 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,480 Is it up? It is the percent, yeah. 549 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,560 OK. People are running back to 550 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,080 church because they understand there's a revival happening. 551 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,080 OK. It's happening. 552 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:43,600 Church. It's happening. 553 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:50,360 This is the time for the UK. That's right. 554 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:56,320 And it won't be proven with signs, wonders and miracles, The 555 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:03,320 God of multiplication, miracles, documented healings that cannot 556 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,560 be denied by doctors or medical that will only give credit to 557 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:13,560 God. This can only be God and people 558 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,880 walking in meetings like this and nobody even prayed for them, 559 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,320 just walking into the place they got healed of cancer. 560 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:27,880 Come on, come on church, God is about to practice the river of 561 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,920 God. Now it says here in Isaiah 43 562 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:34,520 verse 19, I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in 563 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,960 the desert. So God's just offering survival, 564 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,560 OK, He is releasing a supernatural supply. 565 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:48,000 God is giving you a river in the dry place, in the famine, in the 566 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,320 difficult challenge. God is giving you a a river, a 567 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,760 supply, an overflow. That is more than enough, 568 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,760 abundantly right there in the dry place, releasing a river. 569 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:06,800 Now the enemy may try and come against you, but he cannot stop 570 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,760 the river, the flood of God. He cannot stop that. 571 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,680 The enemy cannot stop the river, it's too strong. 572 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,280 The river of God is destroyed, is flooding. 573 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,360 The Bible says when the enemy comes in like a fraud, the 574 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,400 spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him. 575 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:32,480 Hallelujah for the river of God. So even when there's fun, as God 576 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,640 has got a river where we tap in God's river, it breaks every 577 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:42,280 chain, God's river, it breaks every limitation, God's river, 578 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:47,760 it pushes back the darkness, the river of life pushes the enemy 579 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,640 away. It releases favour and placing 580 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,440 upon your life the river of God. And so I speak prophetic of 581 00:38:54,440 --> 00:39:00,040 every dry area, every barren land, every difficult, every 582 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:04,560 limitation. God is releasing rivers in your 583 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:10,120 desert, rivers in your famine, rivers in your family, rivers 584 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,640 into your life, rivers breakthroughs into your 585 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,400 wilderness. You are not breaking down, you 586 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,320 are breaking fruit with somebody, breathe, somebody 587 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:20,640 short. Hallelujah. 588 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:27,720 He's got praise and made some noise and rejoice, yes. 589 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:39,040 So inclusion Joseph in his suffering, he did not name his 590 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:45,920 second son Lettanis. Bondage, OK. 591 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:54,400 Betrayal, he named him Ephraim. Ephraim means fruitful in the 592 00:39:54,400 --> 00:40:00,080 land of my suffering. OK, now Genesis 41 verse 52, the 593 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,880 second son he named Ephron, he said it is because God has made 594 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,440 me fruitful in the land of my suffering. 595 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:14,320 So Joseph knew there's principle that he didn't wait to get out 596 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:21,400 before he got blessed. I got fruitful in my suffering. 597 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,320 I got blessed. In my suffering, in the land of 598 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,640 my sorrow, in my difficulty, I got blessed. 599 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,040 Joseph understood this principle, fruitful in myself. 600 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,720 And this is a word for somebody. Maybe you feel restricted, maybe 601 00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:43,000 you feel trapped, but God sent me to tell you today that you 602 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,520 can make you fruitful in the land of your suffering. 603 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,320 OK, Fruitful in the land of yourself. 604 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:53,960 Fruitful, blessed in the difficulty. 605 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:58,240 Look at our example. Apostle Paul, chained alone, 606 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,080 locked up in prison. Instead of complaining, he 607 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,640 started speaking, he started writing. 608 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:15,000 Out of the prison came letters that would shake the world from 609 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,720 prison. Stuck in prison, fruitful in the 610 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:25,560 land of my suffering, a pistols of revelations that is still 611 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:31,240 transforming lives today. Church, listen as we come to the 612 00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:33,200 end of the measure. I believe God is about to 613 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:39,200 prosper you in the pressure, prosper you in the difficulty, 614 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,840 in the challenge. So don't wait for things to 615 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,160 change. The don't wait for change to 616 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:49,520 fall. Let your hearts cry be this 617 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,520 morning, Lord, make me fruitful, right? 618 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,880 Yes, make me fruitful in my situation. 619 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,320 Maybe I don't like the job. Maybe I don't like the economy, 620 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,120 that I like what's going on, but make me fruitful in my home, in 621 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,840 my family in this situation, make me fruitful in the land of 622 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,120 my suffering, right? Get in the pressure, make me 623 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:14,920 fruitful in the pain, in the difficulty, in the delay, 624 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,840 fruitful in the land of my suffering, blessed in famine. 625 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,360 Amen. Let's all stand together. 626 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,040 Praise God, somebody, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 627 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,880 Stand to your feet right now. I believe God speaking into 628 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,480 hearts, lives and this message, it's a divine invitation to 629 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:38,040 trust God in your famine. Trust God in your dry places. 630 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:42,720 See, trusting to see provision in your darkest hour. 631 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:46,560 Some of you've walked in here today feeling overwhelmed, over 632 00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:50,000 burdened, overtired, stressed out, discouraged. 633 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,680 You've been struggling, wondering if God even see you in 634 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,120 your drought. You've prayed, you've wondered 635 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:59,280 God, do you see me? Yes, He, God knows what you're 636 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,960 going through. God knows the drought you've 637 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,520 been going through and is not ignoring you. 638 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,880 He's calling you. He loves you and he's standing 639 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,840 right beside you ready to pour out his favor and his blessing 640 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,760 upon your life. So this altar call is for anyone 641 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:18,960 who is ready to thrive. If that's you today and this is 642 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,200 your hearts cry and it's stirring in your spirit today. 643 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,960 And you say, God, I'm ready to thrive. 644 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:32,200 OK, Because it's coming to a place where we like, I'm fed up 645 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:37,320 of just surviving survival mode through another difficult, 646 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,960 another challenge. This goes longer survival. 647 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:45,320 God wants us to thrive and be placed in the famine. 648 00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,880 So if this altar core is for you and you say that is you, you 649 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,080 want to thrive, put up your hand right now. 650 00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,360 If your heart says God, I trust you in the famine and make me 651 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,080 fruitful in this dry plane, lift your hands, open your heart. 652 00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,040 I'm going to pray. Father, I thank you that your 653 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,560 blessing is greater than any famine, stronger than any 654 00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,200 drought. And right now, Lord, I speak to 655 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,080 every person under the sound of my voice. 656 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:10,920 I declare that no matter what dry season they might be walking 657 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,720 through, no matter what famine they might be facing, Lord, that 658 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:18,160 I will not just survive, but I will thrive. 659 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:23,040 Father, release supernatural provision into their lives right 660 00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,840 now. Let them experience the fine 661 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:31,920 abundance, overflow, multiply their resources, multiply their 662 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:36,160 strength, multiply their faith. Can't, like Joseph, prosper Your 663 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,640 people like Isaac caused them to reap a hundredfold like the 664 00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:45,800 widow who trusted you. Let they say fly, never run dry. 665 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,880 I buy every spin of fear. I buy every spin of 666 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:53,000 discouragement, doubt in the feet, I pray every curse, every 667 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,440 negative word that is spoken against God's people. 668 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,960 I come against every evil religious spirit of stealing, 669 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,760 killing and destruction. Every spirit of Goddess vicinity 670 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,000 is surviving, it's just getting by. 671 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,760 God I pray that you will release and lose upon us. 672 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,760 How the flow? Lord, we declare we are Privy, 673 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:17,440 we are fruitful, we are placed in Jesus mighty name. 674 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,120 Somebody shine. Hallelujah. 675 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,680 Now let's all declare out loud with boulders. 676 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,360 Everybody say rubbers are springing up in my desert. 677 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,360 I'm not just surviving, I am thriving. 678 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:40,720 I'm not waiting to be blessed. I'm already blessed right here, 679 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:46,160 right now, even in famine. I am thriving because God is 680 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,120 with me. Even in famine I have more than 681 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,480 enough. I am blessed. 682 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,040 I am fruitful. Fry me. 683 00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:06,080 The mighty name of Jesus Christ the Son on conversation are 684 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:11,840 Jesus Christ Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. 685 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:18,800 Jesus Christ is not enlightened. Hallelujah, we celebrate what 686 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,040 God's doing right now. Lives are changing, miracles are 687 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,280 manifested, all destinies are changing. 688 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,600 You're no longer just surviving, you are thriving. 689 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:32,680 I'm decree and declare by fire in your forest in the name of 690 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:38,560 Jesus, you thrive, you thrive, you thrive in Jesus name. 691 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:41,400 Now, just before I close, if you've never invited Jesus into 692 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:45,920 your life, if you need a fresh start, the clean slate, this is 693 00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:50,440 your time right here, right now. Let today be your story where 694 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,840 your story changes. Let this be your moment. 695 00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:56,000 I want to give you an opportunity to give your life to 696 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:57,680 Jesus. So if that's you, I invite you 697 00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:59,880 to lift up your hand. If you say yes, this is my 698 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:02,680 moment. Let's pray out loud. 699 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:08,240 Jesus, I invite you to come into my life, dear my Lord, and my 700 00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:10,800 sight. I repent of my sin. 701 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,960 Come into my heart. I give you my life for me with 702 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:16,640 your spirit.