 If you have your Bible, let's go with me to 2 Chronicles chapter 20, and I'm going to read one verse, verse 12, but that whole chapter, and the chapter preceding that is where the story that I'm going to share with you today and draw some points, and I believe the Lord is gonna build our faith today in this place. 2 Chronicles 20 verse 12, O our God, will you not judge them? For we do not have power against this great multitude that is coming against us. Nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon you. I wanna speak today a message about marching into your miracle. What do you do when you don't know what to do? This is about a Jewish king. This happened in Israel. This is not a fairytale. It's a real story of happened to a king that Israel had, his name was Jehoshaphat. He was a mighty king. This was not a weak king, but when the problem came against him, a big problem of three nations coming together against him, he assembled together with God's people and he started to pray. And this prayer, this part of the prayer that I have used as a reference personally in my life, anytime I am in the place where I just don't know what to do. I just don't know which way to take. And he prayed this prayer. He says, Lord, this multitude is too big for us. Our power is too small. And we don't know what to do. It's not the worst stupid. We're uneducated. We don't have military cabinet. We do, but the problem we're facing right now, we are ill-equipped to face. We don't know what to do. I wanna share with you four things that you must do when you don't know what to do. Number one, when the enemy attacks, assemble with your family. Somebody say assemble. Second Chronicles 20 and verse four, so Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord and from all the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord. If you read the next verse, it says, then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly, somebody say assembly, assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court. When Moabites, Ammonites and Edomites are coming against you, the first thing you must do is what Jehoshaphat did. Yes, he said, I don't know what to do, but he did something. He assembled. He didn't assemble with his military commanders. He assembled with a family of Jewish people. Assemble. That means when you don't know what to do, go to church. When you don't know what to do, go to your small group. When you don't know what to do, go to a prayer meeting. Jehoshaphat, twice we see, gathered together, assembled together. Earlier this year, I preached a message, assemble required, what I presented a chair, disassembled in the box, and I said, this chair is useless if it's not assembled. You don't sit on the box, you sit on the chair, but that chair has to be put together. Each one of us are members of Jesus, but we're not the body individually, we are the body collectively. That's why as Christians, we cannot go around and say things like, I know they're popular, especially during COVID days, like I am the church. The word church means ecclesia, it means an assembly. You are not the assembly, we are the assembly. You have to understand, as a Christian, as strong as you are in Jesus, when hard times come against you, you are like a snowflake. Not a, yes, feeble, weak. But you know one thing about snowflakes, and I usually diss on snowflakes, but today I'm gonna give them some credit. You put snowflakes together, and they shut down schools. You put them weak, feeble, melt under the sun, little thingies together, and they stop traffic. You put them together, and they are forced to be reckoned with. Big, strong people slide and fall. Why? Because when they come together, that's why when you are alone by yourself, fighting against more bites, maybe it's an addiction you're facing, maybe you got some edomites, a physical illness, attacking your body, or perhaps you got some other ammonites, a financial issue that is attacking your life, and you're like, I don't know what to do. Do what Jehazaphat did, get together, assemble, get yourself another brother and another sister. And you realize you're not the only one that's facing some edomites and ammonites and some other aides. And when we group together, the Bible says where two or three are gathered in my name, God begins to come in, and no weapon formed against you can prosper. Greater is he that is in you than the one that's in the world. When you don't know what to do, assemble together. When you see a predator attacking a prey, and you've seen probably enough of movies and videos online, they usually seek to isolate the prey from the herd. Your first instinct when you face a problem bigger than you is to hide instead of assemble. The enemy will whisper to you and say, nobody understands what you're going through. You know, Pastor Vlad just had a baby and you're going through this, everybody's rejoicing, nobody cares about your weeping situation. But my friend, our life is more than our Instagram post. We all have battles, we're fighting. And that's why when you join a small group, you realize our life is not just victories, sometimes it has challenges. And there is strength in unity. 148 studies involving 308,849 participants between 1980 and 2014, investigators concluded that social isolation was roughly equivalent to the negative effects of smoking one pack of cigarettes per day. Online today caused us to have thousands of friends virtually and zero friends personally. Since the rise of internet and social media, most of us have more followers, but less friends. Most of us talk to people in other nations and no longer talk to our own family. And that has given the rise of a smaller church attendance is while we became isolated, we also became an easy prey for Ammonites, Philistines. Philistines, I mean, drugs, alcohol, depression, anxiety, the spike, you see a generation that's more connected to everyone online. And this is the generation that has least mental good health. Why? Because isolation, according to these studies, is equivalent to smoking. On your health, another study that was done, Claire Young from the National Academy of Sciences examined social relationships and psychological markers across two decades of more than 14,000 participants. Her findings were that socially isolated individuals have increased blood pressure, body mass index, heart disease, cancer, waste circumference, and inflammation when compared to individuals who were socially connected. So we're not only talking about our emotional state, even on your physical state, these researches found, you know, all they found is what God said in the first book of the Bible. It is not good for men to be alone. When you're under an assault, you will be tempted to run. You will be tempted to say, I can't join a small group this week. Why I just fell into this sin. I feel guilty. I'm just gonna bench watch and watch just Netflix. But that is the enemy wanting to isolate you because he knows if you come to that group against your desires and guilt and shame, you'll come out different. Somebody will have a prophetic word. Somebody will pray for you. Somebody will encourage you. Somebody just being there sometimes. Same thing happens on Sunday morning. The enemy will say, well, you've done bad. Look, you're not feeling good. You're under attack. Your family is not doing good. Your health is not doing good. Just stay home. But Jehazaphat, when he didn't know what to do, he assembled together. Come on, somebody. We gotta assemble together. In Hebrews chapter 10, it says, verse 25, not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together as is the matter of some, but exhorting one another. And so much the more as you see the day approaching. I want you to write down the second thing that we must do when we don't know what to do. Prayer should be our first response, not our last resort. The Bible says Jehazaphat gathers together with his people. Again, let me remind you, this was not a military strategic meeting. This was a prayer meeting because the scripture tells us Jehazaphat, he was not an intercessor. He was a king. Jehazaphat did not have the keys to church to open the church at five o'clock, like Jose is, and open the church and pray. Jehazaphat was a military commander, but he gathers people together and he says, I don't know what to do, but I know how to pray. I don't know if I should move to that city or not, but I know how to get on my knees and ask God for help. I don't know if I should marry this person or walk away from this relationship, but I know how to pray. I don't know if I should take this offer or not, but I know how to pray. I don't know what to do with this sickness that is advancing in my body, but I also know how to pray. You might not know what to do, but if you know how to pray, God will find the way. How do you pray? It's not that hard. Four things Jehazaphat did in his prayer. He praised God for his power. He praised God for his gifts. He complained about his invaders and he asked for help. When you don't know what to do, learn the power of short prayers. Some people think their prayers have to be sophisticated. If you can be sophisticated with God, God can understand PhD students as well. If you can be Shakespeare's with God, knock yourself out. But if you're one of those people you're like, I don't know how to put those two words together, you praise God for his power. That means prayer focuses my attention from my problem to his power. Even though I am down, God is still on his throne. And Jehazaphat didn't know what to do. He said, God, you're still a great God. You're a powerful God. I'm down, you're up. That's why I'm calling you. I'm not calling them gods that are deaf, mute, and dumb and that we make in our own image. I'm calling the God of heaven, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Take a moment and acknowledge God's power. And then he acknowledged God's gifts. He says, God, you gave us this land. It was a gift from you. Take a moment and acknowledge what you have instead of what you don't have. Take a moment and acknowledge a little bit of health that you have instead of just start praying for the ones that you don't have. We must remain grateful and we can't be grateful if we don't thank God for what we have. And then he complains. Complaining is good in prayer. After you worship. It's bad when you start with complaining. But if you start with worship, you start with praise and then you end up a little bit complaining. And he said, he was honest. He said, Lord, that's not fair. These nations came attack us. We didn't mean them harm. We didn't do anything wrong. Lord, that's not right. They're paying us for something we didn't do. God, that is not fair. He's not blaming God. He's blaming them. Sometimes it's okay to get a little bit emotional. You're not a little drama in prayer. Sometimes it's okay to let the tears roll and say, God, that's just not fair. I'm hurt. This is not right. Why is this happening to me? Read Book of Job. God is not intimidated with your grieving. God included one book in the Bible called Lamentation. Meaning it's okay to lament. But when you only lament, but you don't praise God for who he is, you might find yourself in bitterness. But if you start with some praise and say, God, I'm down, you are up. God, things look bad, but there's still a few things that are good in my life. And I thank you for the few good things in my life. And God, my life just sucks. Man, it's been hard. It's been always like this. I don't know what's happening to me. Why is this happening to me? Again and again and again. What am I gonna do? I don't know. And then you gotta finish on this. Can you help me? Don't finish with whining. You don't want the situation to be like that. We need help. Prayer is not to tell God we have a problem. God knows that. Prayer is to invite God into our problem so that his power can show up and he can change things around. And Jehoshaphat says, you are great. I thank you for the land you've given us. That's the fear. How these people are treating us and God, could you help us? We look to you. Successful prayer changes your focus before it changes your circumstances. How do you know if you prayed successfully? If you walk out and your focus is different. Not your situation is different yet. Jehoshaphat said this, you're great. You've given us this land. God help us. And then he says this. We don't know what to do. But our eyes are on you. I started this prayer having my eyes on these edomites, on these ammonites, on these otherites. I started with them. But when I got into prayer, I started to focus on God. I focused on my situation. I asked him for help. And I'm walking out of prayer saying, Lord, I just wanna let you know my eyes are now on you. I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go, but I know where to look. And I'm looking to you. And prayer started rough. It was turbulent. It was like a roller coaster. My emotions were over the place, but God's peace came in and he stabilized me before my circumstances changed. My heart became stable. That's why the Bible says in Philippians chapter four verse six, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. So God says, I want you to also be thankful. Let your requests be known to God. And then he says this, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Before God releases his power, he releases his peace. And you walk out of that prayer. Your life is the same. Your heart is not. It used to be troubled. And now you know, the king of the universe has heard your case and he's working on it. There is this assurance, this peace that comes. I don't know how, I don't know when, but I know who. And I'm looking to him. I don't know how God will save my kids. I don't know how God will change my spouse. I don't know how God will provide for me. But I know a God who can. And I look to him, and he will. That's the successful prayer. Successful prayer is not when you come out and you get a text message right away that your problem got resolved. It's when you get something in your heart that shifted and you walk out. And usually within 24 hours to 72 hours, you notice a change in the circumstances as well. Number three. God gives his promise before he brings his provision. Jehazaphat prayed, and the Bible says this, then the spirit of the Lord came on Jehazil, the son of Zechariah, the son of Baniah, the son of Jalil, the son of Matthew. Man, how many generations does this go to? And a Levite of the sons of Asaph in the midst of the assembly. I want you to notice this. God's answer comes by a word before it comes by God's works. What many people miss about God is they think if I ask God for help, he right away comes and changes my circumstances. It's not always how God works. Sometimes when you ask God for help, he comes and gives you a word. That's God already moving in your life. But because we're such a big addicts for no, everything needs to change around me. But see, God's word is like a check that God gives you. Now if I come and I give you a check, do you thank me when you cash the check or when you get the check? Now if you know that I have the money in my bank account and I don't make fraudulent checks and I give you a check and say, I just wanna bless you. Now I didn't give you the money, I gave you a check. You don't wait to cash the check to thank me. You take the check, put a smile on it and say, why would you wanna do that? Did I deserve to thank you so much before you even cash the check? Why? Because that check is already me blessing you. See, when God gives you a promise, when he gives you a word, when he quickens a word, it is God giving a check. It is God already working on your behalf. The sickness is still in the body. The financial problem is still there. The family crisis is still there. But God's word gets quickened. That prophetic word gets quickened and it's as sure as done. We had a situation one time when me and my wife decided to bless this couple from our church with the car. They just had a car accident and they lost their car and we had this nice car, Toyota Camry. It was like the first car that I bought out of a dealer because, you know, from Slavic, we buy used cars and so we used, not just used cars but junkyard cars, fix them and then sell them. And so this particular car, I bought them out of the dealership, brand new car. I've already used it for like five years, nice car. I took pride in this car. And on Saturday, it was the day before Sunday, the Lord put on both of our hearts to bless this couple in our church with this car. But you know, I drove like a Jehu in the Bible. So my tires wore out and then my bumper had a lot of bugs. So we meet with this couple on Sunday after church and we say, hey, I just wanted to bless you guys with a car. So they broke down, they started crying. They said, really? We only had one car. So they're like, so which car? We're like, well, the one that we have, they're like, well, that's your only car and that's a nice one. I'm like, yeah, I know. And they just said, thank you so much. I said, but I can't give you the car yet because I wanna change my tires, change the oil and change the bumper. Like, oh, pastor, take all the time that you need. You can change the engine too while you're at it. They left the house with the car and without a car. They left the house, stopped shopping for the car. They called their family members and they said, we got a car. And the family members says, where? Well, it's kinda complicated, but we got it. So where is it at? It's not like here yet, but it's like right here. Do you see what I'm saying? Now I could have lied. I could have changed my mind, but see, they trusted their friend that they knew that this promise wasn't me throwing words to make them excited. This was me working already to word their good, not by giving the car, but by giving a promise. And then I went working on the car that they're supposed to get. See, when God gives you a promise, sometimes then he goes behind the scenes and starts working on the miracle behind the scenes. Or he works on you behind the scenes. But God's promise, God's word, the Bible says does not return void to God. God's word is like a sword. God's word is like oil. God's word is like a hammer. God's word is like rain. God's word is like seed. It does have power sharper than any do at sword, piercing through the divisions of soul and spirit, bone and marrow. My friend, God with his word said, let there be light and light was there. What we usually think is that God works with his hands first, but God works first with his word. God said, let there be light. Four days later came the sun. The world I live in, you cannot get the light without the sun. God is opposite. First is the light and the sun. The world I live in, you don't become a father until you have children. God makes Abraham a father and then he gives him children. The world I live in, you don't become righteous until you do right things. God's world is he makes you righteous so you can do right things. I wanna tell you something God does at the opposite. He starts with his word. He creates something here. That's why the Bible says the faith is the assurance of things. Hope for faith is the substance of things. Hope for and the assurance of things unseen. God releases his word and Jehoshaphat is there praying to God, seeking God. And God came through a prophet and says, Jehoshaphat, don't be afraid. Tomorrow, go out, stand and you will see the salvation. Jehoshaphat says, yeah, God is moving. Everything's gonna be okay. We're gonna win. Why? Because prayer is the response to a problem. Praise is the response to a promise. This couple that I gave this promise to, they didn't thank me when they got the keys. They thanked me when they got the promise. And they left rejoicing. No, they didn't have a car. Their life was still the same. But everything changed. Why? Because a person they trust gave him a word. A month and a half later, on Friday night prayer, I handed the keys. And now they received that, which they received a month and a half before. See, when God sends his word, he's not bluffing. He's not exaggerating. He's not throwing words on the wind. When he says, I'm with you, I'll never leave you. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. When he says, I'm the Lord who heals you. When he says, by my stripes you were healed. I bore your transgressions. I bore your iniquities. When he says, you are new creation and all things have passed away, he did include your all things as well. When the Lord says that you can do all things through him who strengthens you, greater is he that is in you than the one that's in the world, God was not exaggerating. He wasn't filling up the book with empty words. His words have power. All of his words are God's breath. You can bank on it. We pray and God answers. But he doesn't answer first with the miracle. He answers first with the message. He doesn't answer first with the power demonstration, with the promise. He gives you a promise. When I was a kid, just a teenager at 16, God gave me a promise, a vision at 16 on the parking lot of Winkle. The one day our church will be a church that will impact nations. He didn't bring that. He just brought the promise. And I believed it. I don't know if I didn't have experience, but I believed it. And I started to learn to believe, I didn't see the promise for a long time, but that's not what matters. What matters is God is faithful. And during the process, he develops the person he gives the promise to. Some God is working on someone. Sometimes it's on your miracle or sometimes it's on you. He's working when he gives you the promise between the fulfillment, the provision and the promise is a process of God developing you. And that's exactly what happened to Jehoshaphat. God gave a promise and said, I got you, you're not gonna die. You're not gonna get destroyed by these enemies. I know you're smaller than you think. I am with you and you don't have to fight this battle. Last thing, you have to show up. You don't have to fight, but you have to show up. Miracles are God's job. Marching is ours. Second Chronicles chapter 20, 16 and 17. I'm gonna read, not the full verses. I'm just gonna skip a few parts of it. Tomorrow, somebody say tomorrow. So today we pray, tomorrow we slay. Today we meet, tomorrow we march. It's important that today's faith has tomorrow's steps. Because if all we do is simply pray, but we don't slay, meaning we don't do something out of our faith, we might find ourselves in the place of expecting a miracle, because miracle doesn't show up where you pray. It shows up when you act with God. It shows up because you pray, because God is good, but doesn't always show up in the prayer meeting. It shows up in the marketplace. It shows up in the meeting. It shows up in the march. The Bible says this tomorrow, go down against them. You will not need to fight in this battle. Lord, since I'm not gonna fight, can I not go? Can you just go by yourself? I'm kinda scared of those people. Plus, just in case you don't show up and they attack me, it's gonna be safer for me not to go. Just for my personal safety, Lord, can I just not go tomorrow? But I want you to notice what God says. Tomorrow, go down against them. You will not need to fight this battle. Tomorrow, go out against them for the Lord is with you. I don't get it, God. So I don't need to fight, but I need to show up. I don't need to fight, but I can't stay in the prayer meeting. I have to step out and take some steps of faith. What would you do if you know God is with you? Do those things. When you don't know what to do, you pray about it. You get in God's word. And guess what you do next? You have to do what you would do if you knew God is with you. Why? Because he's with you, but you won't see his miracles if you only stay in the place where you prayed. You have to apply for that job. You have to go to that meeting. Sometimes you have to take those steps. You have to take those steps. You can't just stay in that place and say, I'm just gonna pray and God will fight. God says, I will fight, but you have to walk. But Lord, it's kind of scary. God says, I got you. I am with you and you are going to win. Keep on walking with me. Jesus tells the lepers, he says, go and show yourself to the priests. Why would we want to do that? The people who show up to the priests are people with the testimony. We are sick. And the Bible says, as they went, they got healed. The scripture says about Abraham that the Lord says, move out of the earth, caldeans and go to a land I will show you. And in Hebrews 11, it says this, and Abraham obeyed God by faith, went not knowing where he was going. How's that for a five-year plan? What is your five-year plan? God told me to go where he didn't specify. So where are you gonna go? I don't know, but I'm gonna go. And if I take the wrong turn, he'll show if I'm wrong. And the scripture says, now I'm not saying every step of your life has to be like that. If that's like that, you need the liberal wisdom. Because Christianity is not just faith. It's faith and wisdom. Wisdom says, have a plan, go to school, figure this out, have a budget, and that's important. The Bible is the book of wisdom, but our God is also the God of faith. Meaning, there are seasons and there are situations and there are things you have no experience for. You've never done this before. Like Joshua told the people of Israel, the path we're about to walk on, none of us ever walked in before. We're gonna have to walk by faith. Why? Because we don't have experience in that. Tomorrow, march against them. And God says, I am with you. I will show up, but you have to go. The servants come to Jesus and Jesus tells them, I want you to take water and fill it with these vessels and then take this water to the person that is in charge of the wedding banquet and tell them it's wine. If I would be a servant and I said, Jesus, could you do that? I don't wanna get fired. My family depends on me. I don't wanna go tell, say, hey, sir, this is wine. When I know it's water, how is that gonna turn into wine from water? Jesus didn't tell them the details. He just told them to obey. And the scripture says as they put water into those vessels and they brought that water to the main person in charge of the wedding banquet, he says, man, this is such a good wine. Where did that miracle happen? Let's see, that's not our job. Our job is not to do the miracle. Our job is to obey. Your job is not to change your spouse. Your job is to honor your spouse or love your spouse. Your job isn't to change your children. It is to raise your children. Your job is not to bring about healing. Your job is to believe for healing. It is God's job to bring the healing to pass. Your job is not to deliver yourself because you can do that. It's only Christ who sets the captives free. Your job is to come to Christ and he says, I will set you free. Miracle is God's job. Marching is mine. So many of us missed the miracle because we are trying to take on God's job. You cannot produce a miracle. You can't heal a fly and you can't save yourself. That is God's job. Let God be God and you be you. You obey and trust and God will do the rest. Build an ark and the rain will come. Fill oil with those empty vessels and God will do the miracle. I love this story because the Bible says in verse 22 of chapter 20, when they began to shout and praise, the Lord suddenly attacked the Ammonites, Moabites and the men of Mount Seer who were invading Judah and they were defeated. Now, interesting part is the word suddenly attacked in Hebrew is set ambushers against them. Some people say that actually God released his angels to attack those enemies. So as they were walking the people of God, obeying God, not knowing what's going to happen, not being fully sure except God's promise, the scripture says they were not walking to their funeral. They were walking to their feast. They were walking to their breakthrough and God releases some kind of a spiritual force, confuses these enemies. They attack each other and now they came to a place of victory and breakthrough. I want you to notice this. Now on the fourth day, they assembled in the Valley of Berahach for there they blessed the Lord. Therefore, the name of that place was called the Valley of Berahach until this day. So the Valley that this was happening became the Valley of Blessing. That word that I probably mispronounced is called the blessing. I love that because when you march with God by faith, even the valleys hold victories. Even the places others say, this is a valley, you say yes, but with God it can be a place of victory. This sickness kills people, but with my God I can experience healing and my valley can become a place of my testimony. They could say that, but this struggle never ends, but for you this struggle can become a place of spoil, a victory and a blessing. People said in Washington churches don't grow, it's a graveyard, but with God a valley can have a victory. A public school, kids don't wanna hear anything about God, these Gen Zs don't wanna hear anything about God, but if we trust God is the God of miracles and we're gonna walk in our obedience, we will see our valleys become places of blessing. You may come from a family where nobody amounted to anything and they struggled and they told you that, listen, our family, we don't go to school. Our family, we don't break through financially. We're just honestly always struggling, divorced, sick, struggling, listen and you walk with God, I wanna tell you something, you belong to the family of Abraham. I wanna remind you today, we break that poverty mentality, we break that sickness mentality, it's okay if you are sick, but don't be sick in your mind. Have in your mind the promise of God, don't always live with this expectation, I'm going to die, the devil will show up, the worst thing that will happen to me. See, faith is expecting God will show up tomorrow, fear is expecting the devil will show up tomorrow. Faith is expecting, listen, I know that my parents are responsible for my history, but my faith is responsible for my destiny. I know I had things traveling in the bloodline, but listen, it's like a loaded gun, the jeans load the gun, my choices, my faith pulls the trigger, I refuse to pull the trigger on sickness, I refuse to pull the trigger on poverty, I refuse to pull the trigger on trauma, I refuse to pull the trigger on the why, because in Christ I'm a new creation and this valley can become a place of victory for me. I can see a change in my family tree, not because I'm some great, but because someone is great with me. This valley was supposed to be a place of their defeat, but the Bible says they walked in and they saw the victory in the valley and they were gathering spoil for days for the glory of God. Your current problem can become a testimony and you can testify to the glory of God. What are you expecting? You know, faith and fear have something, same thing in common, they both ask you to believe in something you cannot see, choose to believe in God. Think of your car, you have the drive and you have the R and you have the D. Doesn't take a lot to turn to R or to D, but the directions change. One click to R and you're going backwards. One click to D and you're going forward. It takes same faith to believe for your miracle as it is to believe for your failure. It takes same expectation to believe in God, to show up as it is to take faith to believe the devil will show up and ruin your life. Don't expect the devil, expect God. I'm not saying devil won't show up, he will, but that will be his defeat. God wants to show up in your future. So when I'm marching in obedience, I'm not marching to my funeral, per se. I'm marching to God's victory. I'm expecting God to show up. What if God doesn't show up? Well, he promised to be with me. So if I walk with God to a fire, this fire won't kill me. David says I walk with God through the valley of the shadow of death. I fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. And then it says, you anoint my head with oil, my cup runs over, you prepare a table in the presence of my enemies, surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. What does this mean? I choose to live by faith. I choose to walk by faith. I choose to take a step of faith. Why? Because as long as there is breath in my nostrils, there is hope in me. This disease doesn't have to be the end of me. This situation doesn't have to define me. This problem doesn't have to keep me stuck. Why? Because I believe in God. I believe in the miracle. There was this lady, I shared this story in my book, Break Free, where she had a phobia of thieves in her house. She gets married to her husband, and on the wedding night she wakes up and wakes up her husband and says somebody's in the house. We have a thief in the house. Can you go check? And so he goes in, of course, and faithful, wonderful, loyal, sacrificial husband, checks and comes back, comforts his wife and says, honey, everything's okay. There is no thief in the house. So she kept doing this every single night to the point where it became automatic for him to blindly walk around the house, just to come back and do his tour of the house and comfort his wife. Nobody's here. After 30 years, he was doing his routine check. And lo and behold, there was a thief. He kind of got excited. Finally, you're here. The guy points a gun at him and says, you know, give me all of your belongings. So he gives him all the belongings. And right before the thief leaves, he tells the thief, he says, you gotta meet my wife. She's been expecting you for 30 years. You finally came. Let me ask you a question. What are you expecting? Jesus said to a blind man, according to your faith, let it be to you. Every day you wake up, you can turn your faith into reverse or drive. You can turn your faith. The devil will show up. The worst thing will happen to me. I'm expecting the worst today. Or you can turn your faith into drive and say, greater is he who is in me. I know the enemy are greater, greater than me. I don't know what to do, but I know who is with me. And I'm taking step every day as though God is with me. You know why? Because he is with me. The people will say, well, this valley, nothing ever grows here. Listen, you're in tri-cities. Get out of this place. You know, you really want to be successful. Go to some kind of a bigger city. Nothing wrong with that. But see, God can give you a breakthrough in the valley. Some of you are actually in the lower valley, in sunny side or crosser. And maybe you'll think, man, I need to get out of here and go somewhere else where the green passers are. Your God grows lilies in the valleys. Your God can give you water in the valleys. He can give you breakthrough in the valleys. If he doesn't move you, listen, trust in him to move in the valley. So many friends of mine were like, well, so when are you planning to get out of that old tri-cities? I was like, why? My God can move in tri-cities and he can turn tri-cities into a beautiful place of revival as he is doing. Why? I don't need another place to see the move of God. I need faith to see the move of God. And it can happen in tri-cities. It can happen in my job. It can happen in my marriage. It can happen with my children. It can happen in my health. I choose to trust in God. I wanna challenge you today to trust in God. If you gave up on that and you're just cruising through life and every day you maybe you're like, I'm not driving in reverse. My life is neutral. I just wake up and kind of whatever happens. Come on, snap out of that. You're a believer. You're not a feeler. You belong to a house of faith. You have the word of faith, the spirit of faith, the gift of faith to live a life of faith. Live a life with your head up, your square shoulders wide. Not because Donald Trump is coming back. Jesus is moving with you. Not because you're just hopeful that everything is gonna be better in this world. No, because you have faith that Jesus Christ is with you. Lord, I am with you to the end of age. And God can do the miracle. You believe. God can change your financial situation. God can change your health.