 Last Sunday we talked something about seasons, and I want to share with you today in the continuation of that, and I'm going to talk about Joseph, we talked about Jacob and Joseph, and today we're going to touch a little bit further into Jacob's line, where we're going to talk about the children of Israel and how they were entering the Promised Land. I have only two points and two big ideas that I wanted to share with you. If you have your Bible with you, would you go to Joshua chapter 1 and verse 2? The notes to this message are on our YouVersion Bible app, if you click on events. And while you are on YouVersion Bible app, we also have reading plan from hungry generation, two of them, that you can read with your friends and with your family. Joshua chapter 1 and verse 2 says the following, Moses, my servant is dead. Now, therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all the people, to the land which I am giving to them, the children of Israel. When Joshua entered the Promised Land, excuse me, before he entered the Promised Land, two things started to take place. One of them is that God removed Moses. And the second one is that God removed Manna. So two Ems, very easy to remember, Mo and Manna. God removed Moses. God switched Moses or replaced Moses. And secondly is God replaced Manna. Manna was a miracle from him. It supplied their needs for 40 years and God took Manna off of the menu. They no longer had it available for them. And these are the two things that caused their season to change. And that's what I want to talk about today this morning. When God removed Moses. Moses was a great blessing to them. Moses was a man of God. Moses was full of God. He's full of miracles, full of insight. As great as Moses was, he was not able to bring them into the Promised Land. And God, I can say removed Moses, but Moses died. And when he died, God comes to Joshua and say, hey, Moses is dead. I want you to see this. God doesn't say after that, well, he died. Go back to Egypt. God doesn't say Moses is dead. Well, so is the Promised Land. God never attaches your future to the people who live your life. God never attaches your destiny to someone who leaves you. God never attaches your calling to someone who abandons you. Never put your future in the hands of someone who walk away from your life. Even if who they are is Moses. Even if who they are is great. They are the best. Honestly, I mean, maybe it's a husband or maybe it's a wife and they left you. And it wasn't your fault and you feel like so is my life. My life is gone. Your life is not connected to those who leave you. It's connected to God who stays with you. God says to Joshua, I am with you, even though Moses is dead. Last week, as I was being dropped off at Charlotte's airport, a woman was sitting in the back seat of the car and she was going to some kind of a meeting with the land developer or the builder. And she said that a few years ago, her daughter died. And then six months later, her husband died in a car accident. And she pretty much lost in one year, lost her child and lost her husband. And so I'm asking her, I'm like, how are you doing? She said, you know what? I'm doing better than I thought I could be doing. She's like, I'm actually going in to close on the land, on the house in Charlotte, but I live in California. I said, how are you? Are you into some kind of a business or anything? She's like, no. And in fact, when my husband died, I had four children and I knew that I could stay and cry or I realized that God is still with me. I couldn't stop what happened to him, but at the same time God is with me. She said, I pulled myself up. I went back to school. I got an accounting degree. I didn't have money, she said, to even pay for my bills. But I had a dream that one day I will support the ministry, particular ministry that she made reference to. She says, I had a big dream from God. She says, one thing led to another. I finished the school. I got a better job. Now I invest in other states. She's like, I don't even know about nothing about investing. She says, I'm an investor now and I build houses in Charlotte where I live in California. My future was not connected to someone who died as precious as Moses is, as valuable as he is, as attached as Joshua was to Moses. It was his mentor, but God's plan was not connected to Moses. It was connected to his word. And because Moses died, the mission did not. Because Moses died, the calling did not. In fact, it launched Joshua into his own calling when Moses died. I just want to encourage someone who had someone leave your life. I want to encourage someone who maybe lost someone and you feel like, I don't know where to go from this. I don't know, my life is over, but your life is not over. That person maybe has left you or maybe they died, but God's purpose and plan is still active. In fact, when God changes seasons, he does so sometimes by removing people. I don't want to come off as saying that you should start celebrating somebody who passed away. That is not an anyway indication of my message. But if some people left you, that means that they were not supposed to be there permanently. Let them go. When you build a building, you put on scaffolding. And scaffolding is there to build a building. You cannot build a building without a scaffolding. But once you finish building a building, you remove the scaffolding. When God removes the scaffolding, it means a certain season of your life has come to an end. You cannot attach yourself to the scaffolding and say, I want that back. Scaffolding does not belong all the time in your house. There are people in your life that come for a reason and they come for a season. And if God removes the scaffolding, listen, cry a river, build a bridge, and walk over that bridge because you're walking into a new season of your life. I like what God says in here. He says, Moses, my servant is dead. Now, therefore, arise. The funeral is over. The crying is done. He says, now, arise. And what did he say? And he says, arise and go over. That's why I say, cry a river, build a bridge, and go over this Jordan into the land that I have promised you. What does that mean? That means that when God removes someone, it's time to move forward. I remember this sermon from our pastor a long time ago. I was a teenager. Our church just started. We had this family. We were very, very small. But this particular family was very influential in tri-cities. And this family, they were, the wife was a prophetess. So she gave prophecies. Now, in the Russian culture, a prophet is another word for the pastor, apostle, evangelist, combined into one. A lot of times in the Russian culture, a prophet controls the pastor, the church, God, and everybody. In a lot of cases. Okay. Just saying. In American culture, the prophet is completely different. I feel like they got it right. In our culture, it's a little bit different. This lady, I was there at the meetings when I was 14 and 13 years of age, when our church was forming, and God used her to prophesy our church into existence. Meaning, she gave prophetic words to our pastor. She gave prophetic words that our church will exist, that God will use our church to impact the community and the world. Our pastor was strengthened because of the prophetic words she'd given. But then something happened. She did not like the pastor. She did not like the church. She did not like her style of worship. In fact, her and her husband, mainly her husband, they caused so much headache to our pastor. And they were really speaking negative things. They always, they were never happy in the church. Our church was so small, so you can, you can see who's not happy because there's like, you know, two rows. And so very difficult to miss the unhappy faces. Now you can just put your head down and not be seen. And so, and I remember tensions that I was hearing, you know, because it was very small church. I heard this rumors, the gossip, what they were saying. And then one day they decided to announce that there do not like where this church is headed to and that they are going to leave. See, right now if somebody leaves, it won't be noticeable. But at that time, it's a whole road that's gone. And we only have three of them. It's very noticeable. It's very painful. What will others think? And I heard about the fact the pastor on one Friday night spent all Friday in prayer. And he got up on Sunday morning. I still remember that sermon. He preached a sermon that says the sword of the Lord and the sword of a Gideon. And he preached this. He says, if somebody cannot say in our church, the sword of God and the sword of Pastor Vasili, you can go. And well, and they left. And I remember sitting, I'm a young guy. I'm just watching all of this and I was like, oh my God, what did pastor do? I was like, maybe we should have changed the vision for them. But pastor did not shift the vision of the church that they prophesied about just because their perspective, their ideology changed. And he did not allow their exit to stop the vision of the church, to stop what God called him to do. It was painful. Did it hurt? Oh, yeah. It brought a lot of rumors. It brought a lot of gossip against the church. It brought different things because everywhere they went, they said negative things about our church. But one thing that did not happen is pastor felt like just because they left. But they helped to strengthen the church in the beginning. And now it hurts. Arise and go over. And I am thankful to the pastor that he did not allow what they said to bring their church down. And to realize that they helped us up to this point. But just because they want to leave, that does not mean that what God is doing has to stop. It just means they're just scaffolding. We don't hate him. We take him apart and say, God bless you. Go build someone else's house, but we have to move forward. I want to encourage somebody in this room who maybe was there to help you to get to this point. And right now you feel intimidated. You feel scared because they just announced that they're leaving your business. They just announced that they're no longer want to be associated with you. Maybe they just announced that I'm leaving you and I want to do nothing with you. I want to encourage you. Arise. Don't live in rejection. Don't live in poor little me. Don't live with God abandoned me. If God took the Moses, that means he's taking his promise. No, no, no. Maybe it is your time. Maybe the season has shifted. Maybe God is planning something. You don't see it yet. Arise and go over. It's time to move. It's time to wipe those tears. Pull yourself up and stand on the promise of God and say, What man meant for evil? God will use it for his good. Jeremiah 29, 11, it says, For I know the thoughts that I think of you, says the Lord. The thoughts of good and not of evil to give you future and to give you hope. In Romans chapter 8 verse 28, the Bible says is that God plans good things for those who love him and to those who are called according to his purpose. And so we have to stand our ground that God is up for something good. You may say, but I got left, but he died, but he walked away. He gave me a divorce papers, but he already moved on with someone else. My life is over. It's not over because it's not connected to him, her and them. It's connected to God who says to Joshua, as I was with Moses, I will be with you. Another thing that I want to bring to you is in Genesis chapter 13 verse 14. It says, the Lord said to Abraham after, somebody say after, after a lot had separated from him, lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are. Northward, southward, eastward and westward. Watch this. Genesis 1310, it says this, Lot lifted his eyes and saw Solomon Gomorrah and he thought it was like a garden of Eden. Lot lifted his eyes. But when Lot leaves Abraham, God said to Abraham, lift your eyes. It's not something Abraham is seeing on his own. It's God changing his vision. God give him a new dimension because see, Lot was making up his own dreams and visions and they turned out to be a nightmare because Sodom was not a garden of Eden. It was a garden of disaster. But see, when somebody walks away from your life, the word lot in original means veil. Sometimes God has to remove certain people because they are lots in your life. They are veils. And you cannot see your true vision. You cannot see your true identity. You cannot see your true future. And when they are removed, God says, lift up your eyes. Meaning you're walking down and saying, Lot left me. I must be a bad uncle. Oh, this person left me. Something is wrong with me. And God says, lift up your eyes. Arise, Joshua. And look this way, this way, and this way. Why? Because I did not connect your future to those who left you. I connected your future to my word and my promise. Walk with me. Stand with me. Because I am on your side. I just want to encourage somebody in this room today. That when people leave, God's vision and calling is still on your life. In fact, it has gotten closer. Some of you remember last year at our conference, during our race to deliver conference, it was a crazy, crazy week. When Apostle John Shee, who's a friend of this house, who was coming for a few years already and did race to deliver conferences, and God used them powerfully. People were healed and delivered. And then a year before race to deliver, he got denied visa. We knew that that's just a little hiccup. He will come. He got denied visa second time. Ah, it's not a big deal. He'll come. Because we're optimists. We're prisoners of hope. But we decided to do our part and do our work. As we reached out to a few of people in the government and had a letter from a Congress, United States Congress. I remember I looked at that. That's the first time I even saw a letter from the Congress. I was like, oh my gosh, this is how it looks like. This is beautiful. Where a congressman of the United States signed a letter to the embassy, United States embassy in Cameroon inviting Apostle John Shee. I mean, if that doesn't do it, there's just, you know, that it's just not going to work then. On Monday, Apostle John Shee goes to see the ambassador. And then on Friday, we have a conference. We have thousands of people already registered and coming to the conference. We are fasting on Monday till Wednesday. And he's seeing an embassy on Monday. We are sure he's going to get the visa because he has a letter from the embassy. Congress, from the congressman. And the congressman in Richland also signed his as well. So, I mean, we got the authorities on our side. God is going to move. He goes in there. They denied him before he even came into the office. And this is when we knew. Fasting doesn't end on Wednesday. It's going all the way till Friday. We knew. It's not that we didn't want him here. It's not that the U.S. Congress did not want him here. Something was up. And I had the word from the Lord that week, from this verse, that the time of Apostle John Shee coming to the conference, it has come to an end. And it doesn't mean to cancel the conference. It means to rise up and go over. Pray, heal and deliver. Please understand. Even at that conference, we still had an offering that we sent to Apostle John Shee for what God used him to do. But we knew that it was our time to step up. And God showed up in a mighty way. And then when we went to Seattle as a church, and we saw what the Lord did, and so I sensed that there is a shift of season that happened to Hungry Jen when God pulled somebody who helped us to get to the point that we are at right now. And so what if it's in your life as well, that there's somebody who walked away, or maybe some things that happened and you feel like, man, God abandoned you. No, he is actually propelling your growth. He is rising you up. It's your time. It's your season. God has shifted the wind in the realm of the Spirit. And he is telling you, rise up. Oh, man, I was so scared of race to deliver until God showed up. Until God showed up. And then we were like, my God, why didn't the Lord did it earlier? Praise be. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I just want to encourage somebody here today that what God did in our church, he's doing it maybe in your life. God is not removing Moses because he's planning your disaster. It's because he's propelling your destiny. You might say, but Joshua was like, Lord, but Moses is gone. Who do I depend on? And God said, me. When someone you depended on left you, you know what God is doing? He's making you to be the person others will depend on. See, Joshua thought God will send him Moses version two. Little did he know is that when someone you depended on left, it's because God is making you to be the person others will depend on. And you will say, but what about me? You will depend on God in a way you've never depended on him before. I'm going to tell you one thing. That week, the way we pray and fasted, we've never prayed and fasted like that. We fasted. We fasted longer. We fasted more. In our meetings that we pulled up that week, I mean, God wasn't like, Jesus, if you show up, if you don't show up, bury us alive. We don't want to live. It was dependence on God was God became everything. Why? Because your dependence on God changed when you're disconnected from depending on someone else whom you depended for a long time. And sometimes God is waiting for that to try your dependence on him. And we over there crying and say, God, but I need someone else to depend on God. Depend on me. And if you depend on me, I'll have people depend on you. I'll make you reliable. I'll make you dependable. I'll make people pray for you because they depend on you. Before you depended on others, God says, I want to promote you where people will depend on you. You must say, but I'm not ready. If God says you're ready, by removing Moses, that means you're ready. Can somebody say amen? God will give you a sign sometimes to leave Laban so that he can change your life. Sometimes God doesn't remove anyone, but he creates circumstances where you have to walk away from certain people or remove certain people from your life. Now this is going to get a little bit painful and you only need the Holy Spirit to help you digest this because this does not mean that somebody that you don't like, you have to remove from your life. I'm going to read to you a verse. Now Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons saying, Jacob had taken away all that was our fathers and from what was fathers he had acquired all of his wealth and Jacob saw the continents of Laban and indeed it was not favorable toward him as before. Then the Lord said to Jacob, return to the land of your fathers and to your family and I will be with you. Watch this. God did not remove Laban from Jacob's life. Laban still had a lot of years. God didn't have a problem with Laban but I want you to see the three things happen. Laban's sons started to talk behind Jacob's back and Jacob heard it. Somebody on accident sent him the text message and he was sent to the wrong person. Have you ever did that before where you were saying something about someone and you sent it actually to them? The worst thing that could happen to you was the world. I had it happen. There was one person a long time ago on our worship team and I was trying to send a feedback. It was pretty much a correction of this person needs to change their dress and they need to change this and this and instead of sending it to the worship leader I send it to that person. Oh my God, I pray that one of us will go to heaven next week because I cannot see this person again with the rest of my life and that's kind of what happened to Jacob. Jacob heard what they said about him. Okay, bad. People don't like me. I'm successful. People hate is going to hate. Second thing I want you to see that Jacob looks at Laban and Laban his father-in-law no longer has a favorable face toward him. Let's bring it down to 21st century. It's when your workers talk about you. When your boss no longer has a favorable continence toward you. And this is a good moment to say, you know what? I'm done. But that's not why Jacob left. Jacob did not leave Laban because they talked bad about him behind his back and he did not leave Laban when his face was not favorable toward him. The Bible says, and the Lord spoke. Don't leave because of drama. Leave because God speaks. Now sometimes God will use the gossip and the drama as a soil in which he will speak. And sometimes people are confused and say, oh no no no the reason why I'm hearing God say to leave and to switch this job or to switch this career or to leave this business and go into someone else is because there's drama and all this stuff. But be willing to understand that God will use the shift. Season has shifted. The season has shifted. That's why they're talking behind his back. That's why Laban is not looking favorably because the season has shifted. He is not supposed to be in Laban's house all his life. And God says to Jacob, he says move. Leave. Walk away and go to where you're supposed to be. Now of course Jacob makes a mistake. He packs all the bags and he doesn't give Laban two week notice. You have to do the right thing. If it's your time to shift jobs you're noticing the gossip in the office. You're noticing that the management is not looking at you the same way it used to look at you. Don't just leave because it's a toxic environment because you don't know if God wants to use you to change that environment. But if God begins to speak to you already based on the things you're noticing in your work environment I'm going to ask you that you obey the voice of God because he has a plan and a purpose for your life. And probably Laban's house is not where you're supposed to stay permanently. It's where you're supposed to find your wife. It's where you're supposed to find your livestock. It's where you're supposed to learn certain things but you need to move forward to the promise land that God has for you. And I just ask when you sense a seasons are shifting and it's your time to leave your job it's your time to shift the business that you don't drop everything. Don't do what Jacob did because the way he exited that season was wrong that you exit properly that you exit graciously and that you exit Christ like that you exit in a way that glorifies Christ and that those people can still find you if they need you. Come on somebody and somebody say praise be and come on somebody give the Lord a round of applause for His goodness and favor. John 16 verse 7 says nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away for if I do not go away the helper will not come to you but if I depart I will send him to you. It's interesting that Jesus also left his disciples and they got sad. They say you're leaving us and I want you to see this. Jesus says it's because something better is coming when your best people leave you your best days are still ahead of you even when Jesus left he said someone better is coming he says I'm not leaving you as orphans he says I'm leaving you but better things are gonna come I want us to be hopeful and optimistic you know being in the church ministry now for some time I have learned one thing if the best people leave our church that does not mean that best days has gone with them the best days are not attached to the best people. The best days are attached to our God and if he is with us our best days are still ahead of us some of those best people maybe talented, maybe super educated and maybe have incredible influence in our city and they might feel like Gideon we are so little left because so many left us it might feel like disciples of Jesus but Jesus he's like man he left us Jesus says nevertheless it's better that I leave because he cannot come sometimes God will remove good so he can give you the best and I just want to encourage you be hopeful this year if people are moved from your life expect something better that's coming I am not saying to hate on people that leave I'm not saying to gossip about them I'm saying let them go graciously let them go in peace to simply say God I trust you that my best days are still ahead of me my best days are still ahead of me we have a sign that says that the best is yet to come does anybody believe in that if you believe in that give the Lord a round of applause right now your best days are ahead of you touch your neighbors say your best days are ahead of you touch your other neighbors say don't worry about those who left you God is still with you the last thing I wanted to share with you is when God removes manna Joshua chapter 5 verse 12 it says the following then the manna seized on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land and the children of Israel no longer had manna but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year in the beginning God promised to Abraham, Jacob, Joseph Moses Aaron he didn't promise the manna he promised them milk and honey manna was not God's plan or God's promise it was God's process and a temporary provision what do you do when God gives you something that provides for your needs it stops manna was not God's plan the reason why is because it fed nobody else except the people who received it milk and honey was an overflow manna is just enough manna was miraculous it was from heaven but God's real promise is for the blessing and prosperity to come from the earth manna required folding hands and no work manna requires creativity planning, hiring thinking, doing, digging doing something that is why manna is not God's plan for your life it's God's temporary provision until you get to the season where God wants you to be manna is when you get free stuff coming from heaven and we love that we love the welfare mentality we love that when somebody God just gives it to us the problem with manna is it's not what God promised you when you were a child it's not what God promised you when you were a teenager and you encountered God manna cannot help orphans it only helps you manna cannot help the city it only helps me and manna requires me not to work that's why Israel complains all the time in Egypt in wilderness because they didn't work they didn't occupy anything they didn't fight anybody they didn't fight any battles that's why they complained all day the only thing they had is miraculous manna and God knew I cannot build sons and soldiers if they only eat manna that's why the first thing that God does in a promised land is he removes that which he gave them and he stops manna why? because the produce of the land was ready the vineyards were ready the wells were ready provision is when you have just enough but I want to tell you something some of you in this season, in this year you are moving out of manna where some of the jobs even you had that supplied for your needs and you were grateful to God at one time you thanked God for that job and that's going to come to an end and it's not because God hates you it's not because God is going to throw you under the bus it's because your season has shifted and you're stepping into the promised land hallelujah what is a promised land? promised land is when God doesn't give it to you and you do nothing promised land is where you work promised land is where you write, create, build promised land is where you think promised land is where you take classes because promised land you don't get stuff given to you you work and a lot of us have felt like work is a curse no no no my friend, work is not a curse work came before curse God created you to work in fact God works when we will go to heaven we will also work with God your work utilizes your creativity it utilizes your education it utilizes your gift and your personality promised land will not work without you working that means you're going to have to write you're going to have to dream you're going to have to create you're going to have to build a business you're going to have to get land you're going to have to rent you're going to have to work the beautiful part is that God won't give you manna that's just enough for your family God will give you milk and honey that's enough for others and for you I want to encourage every person today if you're living unjust enough and God is supplying your needs I want you to get ready because God is going to shift your season get off or you get fired now if you get fired because you show up late and you don't do your work that's not God taking off the manna that's God disciplining you for not doing your job but don't go ahead praising God I just want to praise God no no no you're not punctual and you're not doing a good job you're lazy that's not praising God you need to be at the altar repenting because something is better is coming up that's connected to your gift your potential and what God has for you in Jesus name there was a story of 1 Kings 17 verse 7 and it happened after a while that the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land then the word of the Lord came to him Elijah saying arise go to Zeraphat which belongs to Sidon and dwell there I have commended a widow there to provide for you maybe you're like Elijah you lived on manna it was providing for your needs and you're like man I'm so grateful for manna but the brook dried up the manna stopped and God speaks to Elijah and he doesn't say I want you to right now pray for the brook to have more water God did not instruct Joshua to say pray for more manna to come God says shift things move on there's something better that's waiting for you don't sit there and wait for the brook to have more water move forward to the widow's house because I have commended her to provide for you watch this when Elijah was at the brook Ravens fed him and the brook gave him water but nobody else was affected because of his provision provision doesn't help others it only helps you and while you have a praise report other people cannot join you to praise your God the prosperity is when he went to the widow's house and not only he was provided the widow was provided and the son was raised from the dead that is prosperity that's why God will take us from the brook to the widow's house why? because God is not just interested that your bills are paid for God is interested that you hire others and their bills are paid for see God is not just interested that you have life John 10-10 but that you will have it more abundantly because if you are filled it's for you if you overflow it's for others if I pour water into a cup and it comes to an end anything that's overflow spills outside of the cup God wants you to have overflow because anytime you have overflow you hire more people anytime you have overflow God knows as a Christian when your cup runs over other people will drink from your overflow and that's why God takes Elijah that says your brook is dry but I want you to go and help a widow I want you to go and raise her son I want to supply her needs as well as yours and many of us were scared of the overflow some of you you come from a religious mindset where you are like the word overflow throws you into a cold heat or cold sweat or disparity if you're afraid of overflow the root of that fear is pure selfishness pure laziness because overflow tells you and teaches you to think differently when you were an employee it was very easy show up at 9 leave at 5 but when you become a boss that's not that easy because now you have to create things it requires you to step out of your laziness and it requires you to be a blessing to others God created you to have overflow the Lord is my shepherd I shall not lack that's just enough, that's manna but then when I go to verse 2, verse 3 and then verse 4 going through the valley I go to verse 5, Psalm 23 my cup runs over that is God's promise God's plan is not manna God's plan is milk and honey God's plan is not that enough, it might be where you are it might have been where you've been for 40 years in any way am I saying that is not God moving in your life, he is moving in your life he is supplying your needs according to your riches and your glory I'm just asking if he pulls manna off of menu don't panic he has something better he has his ultimate plan for you where you will have more than enough for others to help others in your life and be a blessing to those around you who don't have you will be somebody's miracle you will be somebody's answer to prayer somebody will be applying for a job and your company will be the company God will use to answer their prayer and there you had a miracle in here you become a miracle and that's why between here and there is a season of confusion is a season of where is God why did they fire me why was manna was removed why did the brook dry up why did the opposition God remove what do I need to do do I go back and look for manna more or do I press in and trust God and say that God has got it in control and God doesn't remove something he doesn't plan something better the optimist have faith trust in God I believe with Jesus our best days are ahead of us we will sponsor others I believe with Christ we will be a blessing to our city we will believe to the poor families in our community I believe with Christ we are gonna rise up and maybe some of you who didn't even finish school you had a bad record but God is gonna raise you up you're gonna be a hard working person you're gonna be creative and God is gonna open doors for you that maybe have never been open to any of your family members and you will be a blessing to your family you will be a blessing to your marriage you will be a blessing to your school in Jesus name I want you to rise to your feet I wanna read to us the last verse then he took the five loaves and two fish looking up to heaven he blessed and broke them gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude and when they had all ate and were filled somebody say all ate somebody say filled and 12 baskets of left over somebody say left over 12 baskets of left over of fragments were taken up by them they did not have enough to feed the multitudes can I have a little napkin or something they did not have enough to feed the multitudes and maybe today that is exactly where you are at you don't have enough to feed your family you don't have enough to pay your bills you know what Jesus asked when they had not enough tell me what you have can I ask you right now can you put Jesus first in that not enough can you still in that season say lord I'm gonna still tithe I'm gonna still trust and I'm gonna still work hard cause God doesn't bless lazy and the Bible says when Jesus touched it they all ate watch this they were filled and when Jesus touched it who some people believe in here He only gives you just enough that's not God He wants to give you also left over and then He says these fragments they need to be collected meaning when you have left over it's not a time to get a new iPhone it's not a time to oh that's it we need to go and get a new car now because we have left over we need to now get a bigger house because we have left over we need to store the extra to manage it well to invest it well to leverage it well not just wasted like poor people do buying nicer shinier things and then they're poor again this is the year where God will take us from not enough to trusting in Him putting Him first and we will eat we will be filled and we will have baskets left let's begin to pray right now we're going to pray in just a moment our team is going to sing a song we're going to pray that this year be the year of overflow this would be the year I want to pray specifically for people who lost someone or who are going through a very painful season where somebody walked away from your life maybe scaffolding was removed and you are hurting right now I want to have a word to be spoken over your life today that God is stepping in right now for those of you that season has shifted and you in Jesus' name let's lift our hands right now begin to worship Jehovah Jehre begin to worship the Lord our Shepherd begin to worship the one who supplies all of our needs according to His riches and His glory in Jesus' name for people that maybe you're going through a season where the scaffolding was removed from your life maybe some people that you depend on that you trusted in they left you that God is going to strengthen you in this season that God is going to give you grace to continue to look at God's promise that God is going to help you to move on from that season from whatever left you or maybe said certain things about you maybe betrayed you that God's strength will begin to assist you God's grace will begin to overpower you to look towards His promise and not what you have lost and not what somebody said somebody left you or did this or did that maybe you need prayer just lift up your hands and we're going to pray for you we're not going to ask anybody to come front if you're saying right now I need prayer in this season it's a painful season in every life we might not know what you're going through but God knows we want to pray for strength, wisdom and grace and God's love to overpower you right now in this season if that's you just lift up your hands I'm going to pray for you right now in Jesus' mighty name Father we pray for every single person if you see somebody's hands raised we need to pray for strength and if you see leaders you see them just begin to pray for them right now Father we ask Lord that you're going to give them strength Father we ask you that you're going to Father remind them of your promises remind them of the good thoughts that you think towards them the plans that you have for them to prosper them not to abandon them but to make them Father reach the promise that we ask you give them strength Lord we ask you Lord that you're going to Father trust in you that you are a faithful God that you are a good God Father the thoughts you think towards them Father are to prosper them to give them hope to give them a future Father we ask you to give them a steadfast spirit not to give up not to give in but to continue to go forward to continue to move on Lord as those people and those things maybe opportunities has left them as doors have been shut in front of them Lord to continue to move forward and to raise as your mercy is new for them every morning in Jesus mighty name in Jesus name right now I want to pray for those people that are here in this place that maybe you had men not in your life maybe you were like prophet Elijah you were at the brook and you had provision you had enough to pay your bills you had enough to get by it wasn't anything extreme but you know you were happy you were satisfied your feathers kind of got in your nest got roughed up and then you're like you're wondering what's going on in this season of confusion you have conflict at work maybe you got fired you got laid off the company closed down and you're in this place where you don't know what to do next you don't know where to go next you don't know whether you should be looking for another job whether you should be going back to school you don't know if you should be starting a business you're just in a place of confusion you don't understand what happened you don't even know if it was God it was you whether it was company you're just in this place and you need direction you need guidance right now I want to pray that God will begin to move on your behalf that God will begin to give you ideas that God is going to begin to visit you in dreams in visions that when you pray and you have a devotional time that God will begin to give you promptings that God will give you some ideas what to do next God provided that God will come to this point but God is taking you to the next level and the next level will not be will not be in your comfort zone it will be uncomfortable but you're gonna have to trust God in this season you're gonna have to pray more you're gonna have to see God more you're gonna have to trust God more so if that's you you're in between seasons you know it's something shifted but you don't know where and what you have to do lift your hands and I want to pray for you right now come on lift your hands I want to pray for you next we're gonna agree and pray we're gonna ask God that God's gonna visit you that God's gonna give you dream and vision that God's gonna give you guidance that God's gonna give you directions it can come in many different forms but God will do it for you in Jesus' name if you see hand lifted nearby you just put your hand on their back we're gonna pray for them on their shoulder and we're gonna encourage and stand in faith with them leaders those of you that are here at the church if you see people near or by you just go out and search like this some people on the back there leaders let's just surround those people every hand lifted let's pray for them those of you that are watching us online right now if you're in between seasons your season is shifting God wants to move you forward God wants to prosper you he wants to take you into the promised land right now let's pray together let's believe God for miracle in your life in Jesus' name Father I pray for every person that is here to raise them for direction God I pray for provision I pray for capital God I pray for funds to go back to school I pray God for capital to start the business for capital to expand I pray God Lord for ideas where to apply next God which company to go into Lord Lord I pray Lord in Jesus' name that you send your angels to pave the way forward in Jesus' name Father we pray that by your spirit you will move us God in night God in visions and dreams that you will prompt us God as we meditate on your word God as we pray in Jesus' name that you will glean us God Lord I pray Lord that you shut the doors that need to be shut and I pray God that you open the doors that need to be open Lord we speak open doors God we speak this year God to be a year of open opportunities and open doors in Jesus' name I declare your provision God I declare your direction I declare your spirit God Lord your wind God to blow into our sails to move us into the direction that you have for us this year in Jesus' mighty name we declare your release Father the release of finances God release of open doors resources in Jesus' mighty name come on let's just lift those hands right now we get to declare that over your life the promises you carry will become true he's gonna fulfill every promise every promise he will take you from wilderness to promise land put your trust in him right now lift your eyes Abraham lift your eyes Joshua I am with you says the Lord I will walk with you you will pass through the Jordan he is with you we praise you Lord Lord we thank you all Israelize to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord for the fillies sins you see today you will see no more forever again I thank you Father for your promise because you said for I know the thoughts that I think of you says the Lord the thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and to give you a hope Lord I thank you that all things work out together for those who love you and for those who are the cold according to your purpose Lord we thank you Father for your promise today we stand we look forward with the eyes of faith of this year that this will be our best year that this year Lord God those people who dreamed of having a house that they will have a house this year Lord we pray that this year that those who believe for documents to be sorted out in the courts God and there will be a favor in that area Lord Lord I believe that this year will be the year Lord God for those who dreamed of having a business that they will launch into the deep and have a miracle catch in Jesus name Lord I pray that this will be the year for those that did not have enough and they will see Jesus do a miracle and not just fill them but give them overflow that they will be a blessing and they will support causes and they will increase their giving and they will increase their serving and they will increase going to mission strip God and doing what you call them to do Lord we believe in breakthrough we believe that you are going to use us and put people around us better because of your goodness and your favor Father in Jesus name every head bowed and every eye closed I would like to give an invitation to anyone in this room today who have not yet made Jesus the Lord and the savior of their life if you are far away from Christ if you are not giving your life to the Lord I want to tell you that Jesus loves you so much God loved the world that he gave his only begotten son who is in him shall not perish but have everlasting life no man can come to God but by Jesus Christ if you need to get right with the Lord today if you need to surrender and submit your life to Jesus if you maybe grew up in a religious home but you do not know Jesus as your personal Lord and savior today I'm going to give you that opportunity when I count to three I'm going to ask you to just raise your hand high and say Vlad I would like to get saved I would like to have Jesus forgive me all my sin I would like to join the team Jesus I would like to join his kingdom I would like him to change my life one, two, three raise your hand high and say hey I would like to get saved today I would like to give my life to the Lord today I would like to come back to Christ I thank you Jesus for your grace I thank you Jesus for your mercy I thank you Jesus for your love and for your kindness in Jesus mighty name thank you for watching God bless you