 And today I just want to talk shortly on, hopefully shortly, last service wasn't so short. But shortly talk about working together with God and four different stages, how and when we work with God, how we achieve the things that God has, how do we achieve things that God has put on our heart, the dreams, goals and desires. Today is our Sunday breakthrough service. So today we're praying for breakthrough. We already prayed, we're going to continue to pray some more. We believe in God for jobs and better jobs. We believe in God for promotions. We believe in God for new businesses to start, for new innovations to be birthed out of this house. We're not a ministry that only will attract millionaires, but we're a ministry that will produce millionaires out of this house. Amen. Your amen is weak, so I'll take it for myself. If you believe that this ministry will produce millionaires, let me hear you shot I receive. Come on. Amen. And so we, we are here to work together with God. We're here to empower you and to teach you how to work with God, to achieve the things that God has put in your heart. There's people here that you haven't, you haven't wrote the book that God has called you to write yet. There's people that are here that you haven't stepped into the fullness of your calling and the anointing that God has for you. There's people that are businessmen and business women that are here in this place that you have yet to open your business and to step in to the promise that God has for you. There's people here that God has schooling for you, going to school, getting educated. You will be the first in your family to graduate with the, with the diploma and have, and have a, have education, have something that you can be proud of and break that cycle of poverty and low thinking in your, in your family and in your, in your life. And so today I want to talk to you and help you discover how to go through that process together with God and how to step by step work with him to achieve that what God has in store for you. Amen church. And so life, someone said this life is a battlefield that only serious minded have a chance at victory that if you want to win, if you want to succeed in life, if you want to achieve things in your life and success is a very relative term for somebody's success would be to make a million dollar a year. For somebody's success would be to make $50,000 a year. So when I say success, when I, when I say achieving your goals and dreams in your future, it will all, it will be all relative to what you have and what God has in store, what God has instilled in your heart and for you to achieve it. We're all on different levels. We all have different skills and talents and different columns, but God wants us to, what God wants us all to work through those things that God has in store for us. Amen. And life is not a, life is not like what we see today in many different schools and even in circles of society and in some places that we, we read online where, you know, they, they hand out participation trophy, whether you came first or eight, you get a trophy and there is nobody, there is no one, no one better and no one worse. But unfortunately, life is not that way. Unfortunately, life doesn't give you a participation trophy. Business doesn't give you a participation trophy. Life is, life is brutal. Life is, life has a lot of twists and turns. Life sometimes throws a curveball. You get married and you, you, you get married with a dream to live happily ever after and then sometimes something happens. Spouse dies, you get divorced, things happen. You go through hardships and then what do you do then? Or you open a business, you have a dream. I'm going to be, I'm going to be doing this and this and that. And you open a business and then you hit a wall and you're facing bankruptcy. What do you do then? Or you, you had kids and you, of course, everybody wants their kids to do this and that and be great and be awesome. And then all of a sudden something happens and life take a turn and then you're fighting a battle with, with your, with your child, with your children being addicted or your child being addicted to drugs, being living promiscuous life or, or, or doing different things that you did not see them do. So what do you do then? What do you, how do you proceed there? How do you fight and what do you, how do you, how do you work through it? And that's today what I want to talk about. Anything worth having in life, you have to fight for it. There's nothing free in this life. The, my grandpa used to say this. He said that the only thing that is free in this life is cheese in a mousetrap, everything else you have to work for in life. So if a politician or somebody else comes out and says, free this, free that, um, it's a trap. At the end of the day, somebody has to pay for it. Don't be fooled by that. Okay. Uh, anyways, there's nothing free in life. I'll give you a story. Um, and I've shared a story sometime back, but it's a good to refresh, you know, there's one time I decided to buy myself some 15 years ago, decided to buy myself some jeans and I wanted, I had, I had jeans, uh, but I wanted to buy something nicer, something that fits nice and, uh, so that I can wear to a nicer events, uh, to use service and places like this. And so I decided to go to buckle buckle was cool back then. I don't know if it's cool now or not, but it was cool back then. And I went and picked out a pair of jeans I really liked and they looked nice and they fit very well. Uh, and better quality, of course, um, as before the holes and stuff like that, they had in the jeans. So, um, there were more, there were more expensive nowadays budget, you know, they cut them out and stuff, but, uh, but back then, and so 75 bucks, you know, it was just quite a bit of money. You probably could buy back then jeans for 15, 20 bucks at Walmart. Probably still can do that now. That's Walmart for you. God bless them. That's an awesome storm. And, um, so anyways, uh, I bought. I bought those jeans to fit nice. And then one time I had to go someplace and, uh, I need to be dressed up for it, but I knew that there's probably some work that I have to do in this chance of me getting dirty. So I thought like, okay, I want to look nice, but if I do some work there and probably it's going to get dirty. Uh, I don't know if I want to wear those pants. Let me rewind, missed the spot. Um, shortly after I bought those jeans, mom, when I come home, my mom was like, Hey, my coworker from my work, uh, her son moved out and she had some spare, she had some clothes that she's giving away. Cause he moved out already. Look through the bag that I brought home from her and see if there's anything that fits you and it fits you, you take it, right? So I go through the bag and I find exactly same jeans that I just bought from buckle, even still had a tag on it and my size glory to God. I have two pairs of jeans thought of returning the other ones, but they have 14 days, uh, you know, can't return it. So anyways, fast forward that now a few months into the, uh, into the future I'm facing with a dilemma to wear the jeans or not to wear the jeans. Well, I still want to look nice. So guess which jeans I wore the free ones, not the ones I paid. Why? Because they were free, but they were the same quality. As a matter of fact, they were brand new, just like the other ones. As a matter of fact, they were exactly the same kind dot for dot. Same. Why? Because anything that we don't pay price for, we don't value anything that anything that we don't, we don't put an effort that we don't struggle through, we don't value it because those of us that are healthy and we're sitting here, we don't value health until we get sick. Those of us here that maybe you're sitting and, you know, and you have enough to pay bills and some leftover, you don't value that unless you work hard for it and you, uh, you struggle through it, right? That's why if, uh, if you watch that documentary, which I would recommend you all of you to watch it, it's called the curse of la, la, la, lottery. And it follows people from different, uh, different countries in different continents, those that won lottery and what happened with them. Shortly after, like some, even within a year, they burned through all their money and were in the worst state that they were before some even committed suicide because of pressure. So that shows that anything that you get for free is, we don't value it. We don't value it. And so that's why God wants to not just hand us over things for free because God understands, he designs it. He designed us this way. He knows what, who, how we made, how we tick. And so that's why God, instead of just handing out things for free, he wants to engage with you and I to work through the process, through the struggle, through the fighting, through the tears, through resistance to develop a character and perseverance and appreciation for the things that God is about to bring in your life. So don't view challenge in your life as God punishing you. Don't view challenge in your life as that you are on a luck, uh, you're unlucky, you were born on the wrong side of the tracks. You came from the right side of the family seat as an opportunity for God to work through you, develop you and help you to achieve the goals and the dreams that he has for you and appreciate and enjoy it. Amen. There are two types of struggles in life. Struggle you can't avoid. Struggle is something that's part of life. Whether you are born somewhere, whether you're trying to achieve something or whether, honestly, you just go with the flow. Just remember, first of all, the only dead fish goes with the flow. Life fish, it goes to the destination in a place that it desires. But regardless, there are struggles in life. Even if you say, you know, I'm not ambitious. I don't want to have any goals. I don't want to have any dreams, whether you just because of your disappointments in your life or because of whatever it is. But there are struggles in life regardless. And the, the first step of struggle is when you struggle in bondage, when you struggle in limitation, in this bondage, you are a slave. You confined to your reality. You confined to your limitation, to your background, to your wisdom, to your knowledge, to your resources. And you can only do so much and you still struggle in life. You struggle not being able to pay the bills, struggling with health, struggling in marriage, struggling in what children, struggling with an area of finances, whatever it is. You already struggling. And there is the other type of struggling. There's a struggle when you're trying to achieve somewhere. There's a struggle when you're trying to go push forward and achieve something in life to get to your promised land. And that's a different type of struggle. It's same. It's, it's still a struggle, but it's different type of struggle. And the first one, you are a slave confined to your reality. In the second one, you are a soldier conquering your promised land. You have no limits. You, as far as you willing to go with God, God will use you and how God will take you to the place that you work with him. You allow him to work through you. So my friends, life is a struggle regardless, but you must choose to struggle into the direction of your calling. You just need to choose to fight in the direction of your, into the direction of your passion, of your desires, your goals and dreams. See the two different, that the difference between the first and the second category is that first ones struggle mindlessly, meaning whatever happens to me, I go through it. I just kind of flow through it. Second one as a soldier, when you struggle, you're being strategic. You being focused, you keeping a dream alive, you being motivated. You keep pushing yourself, you, uh, whether to start a business or maybe you're in school, you got, you want to get that degree. Do you want to get a diploma? You're focused. You struggling towards something. Maybe you, you, uh, you married and things are, you know, you're in the rocky places right now. You can struggle there out of just, just because you're miserable, or you can struggle towards a better marriage. See the difference between the two is one is focused to get out. The other one just in self-pity. Somebody said that, um, that thinking is hard to do. That's why so little people do it. Think about it. Thinking is hard to do. That's why so little people do it. Because it requires a mental focus. It requires it to determination. It requires planning. It requires an effort to go after the things that God has put on your heart, the things that you want to achieve in life. You got to, you can't just, it's easy to be employed. And I'm not looking down on employment. Uh, being employed is a blessing from God, but you can be literally mindless doing your job, especially the jobs that require routines. Like I love working construction. You know why? Cause my mind rests when I work construction. My body works and I get physically tired. But after that I go home, I fall asleep and my body rests. But owning a construction company and trying to figure out how to manage employees, how to manage your subs, how to pay the bills, how to schedule things I had, how to do this and this and that. At the end of the day, you come home. You want to shut down by your mind keeps working. You go to bed, you put your head on the pillow. You're, you're tired as it could be, but you can't sleep because your mind won't let you rest. So two different struggles, but one is going, one is stuck in routine. Other one is achieving something. So choose what you struggle with. Um, stages. I want to talk to you about stages of struggle, four stages that I've kind of come to identify in my personal life. And hopefully maybe you find yourself in, in, in, in one of those four stages. And I can inspire you and I can encourage you to move to the next stage. And I know there's business, uh, business people in this place. I know there's business people watching. Uh, I know there's people here that maybe just starting, maybe there's people here that maybe have troubles in the relationship. Some of you have already gone through the struggle in your relationships and you're doing well. I want to encourage you to go to the next level. And so I hope that these four things you can identify yourself in them. And you can figure out what can you do next? Where can you go next together with God? Because God is willing to give you everything that you're willing to fight for. Amen. First stage, um, is a fighting of struggle is when God fights for you. It's honestly grace. I'm going to look at the life of Israelites coming out of Egypt. So Israelites, they were in bondage. They cried out to God. They had a desire to leave. God actually had to, they actually were actually comfortable in their, in their, in their bondage. God had to turn up the heat in order for them to begin to desire to leave the bondage and to be free. And honestly, they had nothing to do with them being free. They had nothing to do outside of their own desire. And even that was like iffy, like halfway in between. They're like, Moses, get out of here. We're good, you know, just leave us alone. And so in this first stage is where God fights for you. It's first stage. When you get to the bottom of yourself, you don't know where else to go. You don't know where else to turn. And God comes and knocks on your door of your heart. And he says, come to me and he saves you. He rescues you. You have nothing to do. It's by his grace. It's by his sovereign will. The only thing that you have to do is desire is you have to open your heart, surrender to God, listen to his voice. Let him in and letting me carry you out out of your bondage. Let him carry you out of the predicament that you find yourself in. This is the stage where God fights for you. And I know there's people in here and the people that are watching you. You might find yourself in the stage. Honestly, you're hopeless. You are at the bottom. You are at the lowest of the low. You know, you don't even have a strength to fight for yourself. I have a good news for you today. God will fight for you. God will bring you through. God will rescue you. God will pick you up and he will carry you out out of the bondage that you find yourself in. Out of that cycle that you can't break out. He will help you to break that habit that you promised yourself on the people around you and your wife and your parents that you break. He will help you. He will deliver you and rescue you, amen. But there is there is more. If you if you find yourself in, you know, in a situation where, you know, you're overwhelmed, overwhelmed with debt, overwhelmed with with with just just not having enough. Today, we're going to be praying and God's going to see through. You're going to get a job. We don't believe for for supernatural debt consolations. We're going to believe for miracle money. But this is not where God wants you to be all the rest of your life. This is just a rescue stage. This is just to to it's like a jumpstart when the battery is dead and the car can't crank on its own. It's like you put it on, you crank it just to get you started. You're going to have to steer the wheel, push the pedals and keep it going after this. But this is the first stage. So oftentimes people get rescued by God. They get saved, they get delivered and they're like, wow, I feel so good. I used to be there, now I'm here. Woo, good. And they settle and they live their life expecting that God will care. If it's God's will, it's God's bill. They receive a prophecy that they're going to be wealthy and they're going to be. They're going to have more than enough. Oh, that's awesome. If God said it, he's going to settle it. He's going to do it. I'm going to sit, watch Netflix, eat cheros and God's going to drop a bag of gold on my couch and I'm going to be wealthy. That's not the way it works. Oh, God said God's promise was for me to be happily married. But you don't read any books. You don't put in your effort. You don't work on it. You don't work on yourself. You don't let God deal on it. And you think that just because you had grace period for first three months of your marriage, that it's going to go till the end until you die. There is going to be, you're going to have to switch into the second stage where, honestly, not the best stage, but you have to go through it. And that's why I believe that's where the majority of the people are. It's the stage of fighting to survive. Every person that embarks on something great, every person that starts to work towards the goal and dream, their desire, their vision that God put in them will have to go through the stage where you fight to survive, where you had a job and you started a business and you're excited, wow, I'm going to have, I'm going to be my own boss. Nobody's going to tell me what to do. I'm going to control my own time. I'm in charge of my own destiny and you're excited and you start working in it until you realize that you have to look for your own job now. Until you realize you're the one that has to put everything together and make it work now. The boss doesn't just apply you with a job and you came to work from eight to five, but you actually have to be the one to make sure things run properly, make sure this is paid, that is paid, make sure government gets a chair, make sure employees are doing its job. And then at the end you feel like you thought you're going to have more time to spend with your family, but you're working twice as much as you used to before you were, before you when you were employed. You thought you're going to have more money left in your bank account, but in the beginning stages you had to invest into your business to expand it and now you're looking at account, you got zero in your account and you're in debt. And this is a stage where a lot of people, this is the stage of wilderness. This is a stage where Israelites entered into the wilderness. This is a stage where many people die. This is a stage where the wilderness breaks them instead of being broken by it and then surviving and moving out of it into the promised land. This is a stage where oftentimes people in marriage, in family, people in business, people that are pursuing college careers and things like that, they get broken. They thought it would be awesome to be a doctor until they got three years into college and they realized they still got seven to go, struggle to survive. They start a business and the numbers look great on a paper. You open a business and for the next three months you can't find a job and you wonder and did God speak to me, did I make a mistake, sure I've done it. And then even worse you go further and you make more mistakes and get yourself even deeper than you start even blaming yourself. And there is that a struggle, internal struggles, there is this fight for survival, there is this fight to try to stay afloat and that's the part, that's the stage that everybody in life, in every area of your life will have to go through. I just want to encourage you that in that stage you don't give up. I want to encourage you that in that stage you trust God and trust the process. See in the first stage all you have to do is have a desire and God rescued you. All you have to do is just run up to God and say, yes Lord, I receive into my heart, yes Lord, I'm going to embark on this, yes Lord, I'm going to start doing this. The first stage was easy, it's supernatural, it's almost like God gives you grace for it. But there comes a season where your yes will have to follow up with some grind, with some grit, with some character, with some effort, with some struggle and some fight. And that's the stage that's, it's a weird stage because you left unknown and now you left the comfortable unknown and now you're in the unknown. You thought you knew you were going but when you ended up in desert you're like, where am I going now? You question everything about yourself, you question things about your prophecies, you question things about your calling, you question whether you've been anointed or whether you should even be doing what you're doing. That's the stage of fighting for survival. But I want to tell you that even in this stage God doesn't leave you on strength. If you look at Israelites, when they walked around the mountain for 40 years, walk into their promise and every battle God helped them supernaturally. Bible says that the nations around them feared Israel when they were coming nearby them. I want to tell you that even though you're going to have to, Joshua, you're going to have to go and fight but I want to tell you that Moses is lifting his hands up on the mountain and you're getting supernatural victory. You will get through each process, each step. In this stage you will have to learn how to trust the process and trust God. This is the stage is where you get purified like gold by trials and tribulation. This is a stage where God begins to remove impurities. This is a stage where God begins to remove the old types of thinking. This is a stage, a lot of times the biggest battle on this stage is internal. This is what God begins to work on in you and begins to develop a soldier and he begins to remove slave out of you. Amen. Nehemiah in the Bible also had a dream to rebuild Israel. They were in captivity for many years and then finally they were returned to Jerusalem. He had a dream to rebuild Jerusalem, that's right. And Nehemiah, he was serving in King's Palace. He was good, he was sad. And now all of a sudden Nehemiah gets this idea, gets this dream, gets this burning desire to go build, help rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. He leaves his comfort, he leaves his known and he goes on to the unknown and he tries to unite people. He tries to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and he's struggling because he's getting attacked. And this stage fighting for survival, what often the reason why this stage is so difficult because you have to do two things at the same time. In one hand you have to build, in another hand you have to fight. In one hand you have to grind and put hours, physical hours and sweat and thinking and strategizing and working and plowing and just working tirelessly. And on the other side you're fighting, what if this is not it? What if I married the wrong person? What if he's not the one? What if this business will fail? What if this contract is not going to come through and you're fighting internally while you exhausted externally? That's why the stage is hard, but I want to encourage you. You will build a wall. You will fortify your city. You will build an empire. You will build a legacy. You will achieve your goals and your dreams. It will cost you everything, but you will get there. And the bigger the dream, the more you're going to have to put in. The longer it will take you to go through it. But if you don't give up halfway, if you don't quit, if you don't break, if you don't back down you will see how God will take you to the other side and you will treasure and value what God will give you on the other side. You will not walk around prideful and arrogant. You will not walk around with your nose up, look what I did. But you will walk in humility. You will walk in gladness knowing that if we wouldn't be for God, I would have died there. But now I'm standing as a witness unto God. And you will treasure it. You will value it. You will be thankful to God for it. You will not whine and complain like those people that left Egypt and whining and complaining in the desert. You will become positive. You will become grateful and you will be a person of humility. If you don't break your process but you bend and work together with God, amen? This process is very necessary, but it is a process of fighting for survival. The next step, next stage of fighting. It's a stage of fighting in the promised land. There are people here in this place that in your life, in your marriage, you turn the corner. Honestly, you're not maybe exactly where you want to be, but things are good. You know, there's peace, there's harmony, there's still some disagreements here and there. But you kind of went through your grind. You worked out a lot of issues and you are starting to catch traction. You're starting to get ground. I want to tell you that this season is a tricky one. It seems like everybody seems it is tricky, but this one is tricky. One, you don't survive on this one can trick you and it's kind of like that's life for you. But in this season, there's a temptation to settle for a little bit. In this season, there is temptation to settle on this side of the Jordan. God gave a vast amount of land as a promise to Israel. And he said, you go and take that land. It's all yours. But I want to tell you that God will give you only as much as you're willing to fight for. The temptation in this season is because, listen, the prior season, you exhausted yourself. The prior season, you fought mentally and physically. And the temptation in this season, the temptation is to come into this season tired. Come in, worn out, fought for your marriage for 10 years. Finally, it's getting traction, but you deplete it and you tie it. And honestly, you don't even want it anymore. That's why one of the biggest, the statistic, I don't know the exact numbers, but the statistic goes something like this, that after couples survive big, like maybe terminal illness like cancer or this and that, and after some years of fighting, that just by the end they end up in being divorced because you think they'll get closer, but it's because they're just depleted and exhausted by the end of it. There is, in this season, there is a part where you can get exhausted and come into the season, not like Joshua and Caleb. When they walked around the mountain for 40 years and when they came back, Caleb said to Joshua, give me that mountain. I am strong as the young, I have the youth in me and my strength is as when I was young, give me that mountain, I'm going to go conquer. To maintain that attitude, to maintain that strength, to maintain that this vigourlessness about yourself and this kind of attacking life with the fresh, fresh New Zealand, it can die in the previous season. And I want to warn you and I want to caution you about this season, that if you started catching some ground in your business, don't start settling, keep pushing, keep pushing, keep going further. Finally, kind of start making some money, start thinking bigger, something you can further ahead, start investing, start setting aside, start hiring employees, start working toward bigger, greater future. Start working towards what God has in store for you. Same in your marriage, in your family. The moment you start catching some ground, the moment you start gaining some ground, it's not a moment to give up and relax, it's the moment to renew your strength in the Lord and continue to fight. Let me give you two distinct stories. Israel, God gives them this vast land that now is Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, all these areas there, but Israelite, they settled for the little peace that you see now as Israel today. That's all they've gotten, but the promise was so much more. And because they did not fight to the fullness of what God had in store for them, they, their children continue to fight the fight after them. Until this day, it's been thousands of years, Israel is still fighting the wars that should have been won with the Joshua's generation, or the generation after that. Let me give you another story in the Bible. David, David was a man of valor. He was a, he had a fighting spirit in it. I think that's why God liked him so much, despite of his mistakes. He fought, he fought, Bible says he fought all his life. And there came one moment where David, he was, Bible says when there was time for kings to go to war, David stayed back because he fought all his life. I can only imagine he's older now, you know, his strength maybe not as much as he used to be, but Bible says it was time for kings to go to war and he didn't. And in that time that he decided to kind of stay back and not fight, he committed adultery that's followed with killing another, and taking innocence man's life. Which if you compare David to before a warrior, David, he was guilty for the fact that he cut a robe of Saul. And now a man that's not fighting was willing to kill an innocent man. Fighting is, not fighting is deceptive. Settling for less than what God has in store for you is deceptive. But David quickly realized his mistake and recovered. And he continued to fight as long as he had strength. And Bible says Solomon saw time of peace and prosperity. I want to tell you today that everything you fighting for today, don't just think today, don't just think now, don't just think for myself, think for your next generation. Think about your children, think about your grandchildren. Think about a stage that you're setting up for others in your life, for your next generation. Because the demons that you don't fight today, your sons and daughters will have to face them tomorrow. But the victories that you will acquire today will be a stage that your children will stand upon and they will go further and conquer more for Jesus Christ. Amen? I just want to encourage you that don't settle for less, less than what God has in store for you. If you're tired, if you're exhausted, we're going to pray today. We're going to believe that God's going to renew your strength and you will soar on the winds like eagles. Bible says you will run and you will not get weary. Don't get settled for the little that you got. Don't get settled for a little promotion that you got. If God has put on your heart to be a manager or for God has put on your heart to own your own company or God has put in your heart to do some great exploits for God. If God put on your heart to be in the ministry and doing great things for God, don't settle for a little bit and begin to manage it. Continue to conquer more and more for God. In your business, in your marriage, in your family, in your career, in your education. And the last stage is the stage of dominion. It's a place where you fight in the promised land. This is a stage where you dominate. This is where you capture your market share. This is where people know who you are when your name is mentioned in a city. Where you are forced to be reckoned with. Where you are a giant in the land. Where you take over completely what God has in store for you. Where you build that platform, that foundation, not only for yourself but you set an example for the next generation how to fight and conquer, how to achieve what God has in store for you and how to get what God has in fullness. And so I want to encourage you. This is, dominion is a place where you are not just blessed but you are a blessing. This place is not only where your marriage is good and you experience peace and utopia in your marriage, but this is a place also where you help other marriages to rise up. This is a place is not when you're only free from the addictions from the past and past patterns of thinking, but this is a place where you help other drug addicts and other coming out from other addictions. This is a place of not only you are a survivor but you are conqueror more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ where you don't only benefit your life but you benefit the people around. You know, in my life in the area of finances and I've shared throughout different sermons and different messages I spoke, different stages of fighting in my life. It was a struggle for me. It was a struggle for me to make it really. Every step of the way in every business came with a lot of, a lot of grinding, a lot of hardship, a lot of failures, a lot of just felt like I was pushing a boulder up the hill and oftentimes the boulder would run me back over and had to start over. And, you know, in this struggle it was easy to give up and I'll be honest with you many times I give up but because of God, because of His strength I was able to pick myself back up and to move forward and year after year after year after year continue to push towards the goal and the mark that God had set in store for me and it's only the beginning what I see now but I'm looking as we were preparing for, preparing our taxes for last year and looking through our business and just kind of seeing what God has done in my life and seeing that I not only was able to build what I've built over the last four, five years in business but just seeing that my life has become, not only this has not only become a blessing to me but I became a blessing to others and those that are working for my business. Looking through these two businesses we have over 30 employees that are employed by the business. Last year we paid out over $700,000 in payroll alone and just to see that so many families 30 plus families that are blessed because I did not give up and I kept pushing forward and kept pushing forward year after year after year that's not even including all the other businesses and subcontractors that are benefiting from the business that today I have and we're doing it. So I wanna encourage you is that don't give up keep pushing forward your ministry, your calling whatever God has in store for you God will use you not only to bless you God will use those means not only to bless you but for you to be a blessing to others. Don't give up, don't give in, don't back down stand firm on God's word, stand firm on His promise you will see your family being saved you will see your marriage being restored you will see your children serving Christ you will see how you will finish and be the first one to finish college in your generation, in your family you will see how you're gonna be the first one to own a business and not just to own a business just for the sake of owning a business but you'll be successful in it you will see how God's gonna use you in different areas of influence in politics, in ministry, in an area of art and music in other places if you don't give up and settle for the little that you got if you don't break through the process if you don't die in the wilderness you will get into the promised land like Caleb and you're gonna be strong even in your old age you're gonna be courageous you're gonna be a warrior and conqueror for Jesus Christ in Jesus' name in Manchurch as the worship team comes to the stage and we're gonna worship God a little bit and then we're gonna pray I want you right now as we sing this song God is able to do whatever stage you are in in your life you can get up on your feet whatever stage you are in in your life I wanna tell you that God is interested in helping you through God is interested in taking you through the situation you're facing is not there to destroy you is there to strengthen you and give glory to God the sickness you're facing is not there to kill you is there to give glory to God and show God who's the healer in your life the struggle and the financial hardship that you're facing right now is not there to bankrupt you but is there to show God's goodness and mercy in your life and take you into the next level right now as we declare that we've seen that just lift your hands and begin to worship Him begin to ask Him for strength begin to recommend to follow Him if you give up pick up the dream the thing that you buried and the thing they give up on and begin to walk after God you'll see God will see you through in Jesus' name come to God and say God I surrender my desires, my dreams my passion to you, let your will be done in my life Lord you place the dreams and desires in my heart and I'm yielding it to you you know the desires of my heart and the path that you have towards me Father I surrender to you to be able that your will is accomplished in my life is it maybe Father to write books is it maybe to be the first one to graduate out of high schools is it the first one to have the great marriage is it the one to be one with the difference in my city Father whatever it may be I'm surrendering my life my will and emotions and my strength and my desires to you begin to pray that right now begin to say Father do your will in my life whatever you want me to do Lord let that be accomplished in my life in Jesus' name so let me just pray Just father I've come before you Lord and I ask you God I've got to surrender myself to you Lord and I ask you Lord that you would take over God God that you'll take over God every area of my life Lord I hand it over to you God and I surrender God that my will God will be your will God that your will for my life God is the only thing God that matters God I surrender myself to you Lord and I ask you God that you will use me God when it comes to school God I surrender myself to you Lord when it comes to my one comes to church Lord In Jesus mighty name. Yes, in Jesus mighty name. In church right now we're going to pray. I don't know what season of life you are in, but my Bible says God is the God of the mountains and he's the God of the valleys. God didn't bring you through the season just to abandon you. God wants to see you through. I don't know, maybe you're going through a wilderness. Maybe it's in your marriage. Maybe it's in your finances. Maybe it's in your relationship. We're going to declare and we're going to speak life into whatever situation we're going through. God said to Ezekiel, do you see this valley of dry bones? Can these bones live? Ezekiel look at those bones and he says, Lord, you know. And God says, prophesy to those bones. Speak life into those bones. Bones come together again and bone to bone started coming together and there was a large army. I want you to start speaking into your situation. I want you to start speaking life into your marriage, into your business, into your career, into your desert situation. God wants to see you through in the season of your time. I want you to declare. Declare, I will not die. I will live and I will testify to the glory of God in my business, in my marriage, in my career, in every area of my life. My God will see me through in this season of my life. In Jesus mighty name. Begin to open up your lips. Begin to speak life into the season of dryness. In Jesus mighty name. In Jesus mighty name. Lord, we bring up to you. Got our situations. We bring up to you. Got our issues. Got our family situations. And we speak right now church as a family. God, we speak life into it, God. We ask you, God, any dry bones in our marriage. Jesus, God, any dry bones in our family. Jesus, I speak life into the dry bones. You begin to bless every area of our business. Christ, we pray. In Jesus mighty name. Right now, it's a breakthrough song. We're going to be praying for our financial needs. I want to pray, since we had a testimony and I believe your faith has lifted up about you moving in into your own house. It's great to live on rent and it's awesome to pay off somebody else's property. But it's better when you pay for your own and it's your own house and your own home. Amen. So if you're here in this place and you believe in God to have your own house this year, lift your hand and we're going to pray with you. Come on now. If you believe in God to be in your own house this year, we believe God have miracles. God will open opportunities. You have to go to the bank. You're going to have to go and get pre-approved. You might have to get a little creative. You might have to do something out. You will have to do the work, but God will open the door. All it takes is a desire. Okay. If you want to move in to your own house, lift your hands. Those of you that are watching online, if you believe in God to move into your own house right now this year, just stretch your hands towards the screen. We're going to pray in Jesus' name. We're going to release God's power. We're going to release God's anointing right now to work on your behalf in Jesus' name. Father, we release your power in Jesus' name. Father, we release your anointing God. You see your people. God, you said that, Lord, we will live in the houses that we did not build. Right now, God, we claim that promise. We claim that promise for our life in Jesus' mighty name. Father, we release homes in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Father, we release homes right now in Jesus' mighty name. Lord, your people, Lord, your children, God, will live in their own houses in Jesus' mighty name. Receive it in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, Lord, bring forth God. People are awake. Lord, bring forth resources in Jesus' name. Lord, bring things to our attention in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, make a way where there is no way. Surprise us this year, God, in Jesus' name. Surprise your people in Jesus' name. Father, we speak. Lord, supernatural speed, God. Supernatural speed, God. Prophetic speed, Lord, in Jesus' mighty name. In purchase of homes in the mighty name of Jesus. We release your power in the mighty name of Jesus. Receive in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, in Jesus' name. Right now, I want to pray for those that are looking for a job or you're looking for a promotion in your job. Every single person that is working should be lifting their hands by now, except those that are on church staff. I'm just kidding. If you are in need of a job, you may be lost a job or in between jobs or something like that or whatever your case situation might be, or you're just believing God for promotion. If you're working for some time, you've been diligent in your work, but you're still getting paid the same and you're just believing God for promotion, lift your hands and we're going to pray. Let's pray. Father God, we release your grace and your favor. Father, we release your anointing in Jesus' name. We release jobs and opportunities in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, we pray that these job applications will stand out amongst all of them in Jesus' name. I pray, Father, that people that are looking to change jobs to get a better job, I pray for favor in Jesus' mighty name. Receive your grace. Receive your grace. Receive God's favor in your life, in Jesus' mighty name. Father, we release your anointing in God for jobs. Father, we pray for promotions, God, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Lord, I pray, God, that you bring promotions in Jesus' name. Father, that your people will prosper. Father, that your people will become Lord self-sustained. I pray, God, that your people will become blessed and become a blessing in Jesus' name. We release your anointing for jobs in Jesus' name. Those of you that are watching online, just stretch your hands towards the screen if you believe in God for a job or for a better job. Father, we release your anointing. Touch people wherever they are at right now in Jesus' name. Lord, increase in Jesus' name. Bring increase in Jesus' name. Bring jobs and new opportunities in Jesus' mighty name. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Last thing I want to pray is for those of you that need a vehicle. We live in a country where you need, we need a vehicle to move around. Well, everywhere you need a vehicle to move around. But in other countries, public transportation is a little bit more developed than sometimes here. And so it's always good to have your own vehicle, regardless. And so if you believe in it, if your vehicle is struggling, you believe in God for a new vehicle. Or if you need a vehicle so you can get around. Lift your hands and we're going to pray. And we're going to take this prayer. We're going to believe God for miracles. We believe God that God will put things on its right path. And then just because you're going to drive by a brand new car dealership after church, don't be claiming that unless you have cash to pay for it. But then I wouldn't even recommend buying brand new cars. But regardless, your grace, your anointing, we're going to pray, we're going to pray to God that God will use you. And God will give you a means to get around, to go to work, to come to church, to bring people to church. Amen. How many of you believe that? Come on, just lift your hands and let's pray, church. Father, we pray, Lord, for vehicles in Jesus' name. Father, we pray for those God that are struggling with their vehicle. God, they have issues. Father, we pray, Lord, that supernatural God that will be fixed in Jesus' name. Or God that you will supply a new vehicle, a newer vehicle in Jesus' name. We pray for those that are watching online. We pray in God to release a vehicle in Jesus' name. Father, release God. We believe for supernatural miracles, God. We believe for great deals, God, on vehicles, Lord. We pray, God, that the vehicles that we'll purchase next, God, good vehicles, reliable vehicles without problems in Jesus' name. Father, we release your grace, we release your anointing. Lord, release your God, angels to work on our behalf in Jesus' mighty name. Father, we pray for your people, God, that your people will prosper. That your people, God, will live God in prosperity and abundance and there will be a blessing to the ones that are around us in Jesus' name. Father, we thank you for your grace. We thank you for your mercy and we thank you for your spirit in Jesus' mighty name. Be blessed.