 Hello, I'm Bryson here with Hungry Generation internship. Thank you guys for being with us today right now I have with me pastor Vic Fomenko from California Coast Bible College He was here with us these past couple days teaching our interns. It was just been an amazing time God is moving I came into the class today and saw a bunch of people crying power of the Holy Spirit was moving It was an amazing time. And so Vic, thank you so much for being here with us. Thank you for having me I love it. Yeah, love this place. Well, we love having you here. Thank you So before we get any further within this interview We want to ask you people want to know here Tell us a little about your story. Tell us a little about how you got saved. How you came to know the Lord cool Yeah, I grew up in a Christian home. My dad was a minister grew up going to church a lot Age seven is I think the time when I made a decision to feel like consciously like God I think I want you to be the Lord of my life But by the age of 12 Is when really I felt like the call of God almost all my life through through a prophetic word through a few things That were spoken from my grandma to parents to some leaders in my life But specifically a prophetic word at the age of 12 I got filled with the Holy Spirit at the age of 12 and that's kind of really where I started developing actual like personal relationship with Jesus Yeah, and so but yeah, so I'd say from 12 and then since then it's just grown and I've grown so much I feel like every year it's just it's getting better and better and Yeah, loving it man. Love love love being with Jesus It used to be my parents faith my my dad's faith and now it's like man, it's my own faith in Jesus. So it's cool That's awesome. That's so awesome to hear. So then in this whole journey, you say you got saved at 12 and now You know, you're much older than 12. Yeah, how did you find yourself? Getting into ministry. What did that look like for you? Yeah at 12 the word I got was Vic You're gonna start Studying the Bible because you're gonna preach and teach the word and so I remember that really impacting me at the age of 12 And I remember going back from that service actually coming home Picking up my Bible for the first time and actually picking up a pen and a paper and saying, okay, Lord If I'm gonna study the Bible to preach and teach it like I want you to teach me I remember opening up at 12 years old. Wow. So I remember actually opening up my Bible for the first time I went to the parable of the sower in the seat and that was the first time I ever opened the Bible I was like God start teaching me. So I started writing stuff down. I felt like God was giving me some revelation on the scripture At 12 and then from that point on like I actually started to even even use my bedroom as a place where I've met I've met with the Lord and I would back in the day. That was like, I don't know I'm 34 now was born in 85. So this was like early mid mid 90s or so and Whatever worship music you had back then like I forget like Michael W. Smith DC talk those guys, but like I would just turn it on Oh, yeah, totally like turn on audio cuz tapes in my room I remember waking up early in the morning and saying lift in my hands just walking in my room saying Jesus I want to meet with you. I want to worship you and And just at that young age, I think End of middle school high school guys are really encountering me and I started kind of developing that so ministry is not something I ever wanted to go into I thought God picked the wrong guy I remember at 12 when I got the word that like you're gonna preach and teach the word I was like God, I think you got the wrong guy. Like I was shy. I was a stutter. I wasn't smart But then by the time I was in high school I really felt the hand of Lord on my life and I Wanted to actually study so I should end up going to college and since then like I've never opened up a door I've just been like God, whatever you tell me to do. I'm just gonna be obedient. I'm gonna step into it And so it's kind of always been that way like I've been From Spokane Washington to Seattle Washington to Dallas, Texas to Ventura, California now Kind of all over the place, but God's really divinely directed us And so it's kind of just been a place of like God I don't feel qualified, but if you call me I'm gonna say yes, yeah And I'm just gonna go wherever you tell me to go. So that's kind of how it's been It's been a daily obedience, you know, wow, that's so awesome. That's so awesome, you know You were telling me how at the the Bible college that you teach it now that you oversee One of the things you really teach and focus on is spiritual formation Yeah, for those who are gonna be watching this or listening now Can you dive into that a little bit? What is spiritual formation? What is what does that mean and? How can that benefit us give us some insight? Yeah, yeah, yeah So I've been teaching at our Bible college and this is our eighth year in May We're gonna graduate our eighth year of students and I love it. It's a passion of my life I love to impart into generation the things that God's been putting in me But I teach several classes one of my favorite one is spiritual formation and it's a class that has been evolving and developing It used to be called Personal disciplines and then it's evolved from there because it's way more than just the discipline life is but really it's a It's an impartation of like How God transforms us. How do we have fellowship with him? How do we starting from like identity like who are we in Christ? Like how do we have intimate intimacy with him? Like what are some of those Christian practices that we do called Bible reading prayer fasting Journaling, you know hearing God's voice all that kind of stuff So we kind of go in through a lot of different things But I love it because I love seeing students come in maybe even with like a religious Perspective about like what it is to like have fellowship with God like, you know Maybe a structured time or whatever it's like I just you know It's always like looks like this and to see how where they start to understand not only that The Christian practices as like a tradition or a structure or religion, but really like seeing God for who he is I think understanding the nature of God and understanding the nature of who we are in Christ I think those two revelations are some of the most significant So I really try to unpack like the nature of God his goodness. How much he loves us. What he What he thinks about us and then who we are in Christ has really the foundation for letting the things that we talk about like Intimacy with the Holy Spirit how to have fellowship with him and then finally how do we put some of those things like fasting? Bible reading praying Sabbath, you know rest all those things into now a real fellowship in relationship with God Because I think for me for so many years I went into like the Christian practices without really understanding how good God was yes nature and then also Did a lot of Christian practices without understanding who I am in Christ I didn't realize that like how much of an orphan I was in the Lord Yeah, it's still begging for stuff when we're actually on my son And so to me spiritual formation to me it starts with hey, let's understand who God is let's understand who we are in Christ We're sons and daughters Yeah And now we can have the intimacy and fellowship and now we can add some of those things that like we teach about in terms of Spiritual disciplines and now it's no longer a structure now. It's like actually free life-giving, you know So yeah, but yeah, that's one of my favorite courses to teach and it's it's cool to see Students come in and then leave just you know six months or you know a semester later Few months three four months later and just transform. It's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome I love I love that you said that you started You started the class as a personal discipline and it's turned into spiritual transformation Yes, I think that's just so beautiful because oftentimes and I think those who are watching they've probably been in a situation Whether they're a you know a beginner Christian or someone who's been a Christian for a long time learning how to navigate how to live the Christian life and then Without having a true understanding of who God is and who he says you are These disciplines can just honestly be destructive for us. Yeah, and so I just I love I love what you're doing over there In California and and just imparting imparting identity into people and and showing them who they are in Christ And so that's that's amazing. What is one thing? Maybe one thing that you can share With those who are watching who may be listening who is saying hey I don't actually feel like I I know my identity in Christ What's one thing do you feel like and I'm putting you on this ball a little bit man? I love it, but what's one thing that you might be able to say to them that that really is key to their identity in Christ Yeah, totally. I think Identity is so important. I think it's the foundational thing like knowing who you really are But I think what's happened is we have gotten into even a culture and a time where the identity message Just preached everywhere like you can go to almost any church any denomination and people are talking about identity Who I am in Christ we sing songs about it like I am who you say I am I am a child of God And it's become almost like we've adopted the lingo and the words So people now are even saying like, you know, I'm a child of God like who are you? Well, and they learn the answer I'm a child of God. I'm righteous. I'm holy. I'm accepted and yet the problem that I've found is that actually It's not revelation. It's it's information Actually, it's not revelation because information only makes you more religious But it's the revelation of that. So what I've found is that I don't actually want to just teach identity What I want to to show people is that they can actually go to the secret place with the father and hear him say Hey, I love you. Yeah, you're my son. You're my daughter. Like I'm proud of you. I'm pleased with you And so I think it's it's not an identity message I think it's actually being intimate with the father and letting him speak to you what that is So I would say like if you've struggled with that, I would say Go to the secret place the place where it's just you and God and just say God Will you show me who I am like when you open up your word? Don't go try to read just the logos the written word of God but say God what this is living This is active like can you show me who I am? What do you think about me? How much do you love me and start asking questions of God and let him answer because when he tells you something Game over you could go to all the Bible colleges in America and hear the message memorize and even preach it Yeah, because I actually became good at like even preaching the message that I didn't necessarily even live like yeah I preached the intimacy message. I preached some of the revelations of the Sunship when I got them as like a Theme and a message, but it wasn't from like personal revelation. So I would my highest recommendation is Don't go seek knowledge in and of itself, but go seek the Lord and he will give you revelation knowledge And so that's just my recommendation, but that's powerful. No, that's so true. The only way to really he get That this kind of knowledge into this kind of knowledge through prayer. Yeah, it's through spending here I'm hearing God. I love you said the secret place because it's it's in that place when you're just alone with God Totally when you're able to just have him speak to you. Yeah one word from him could Totally just transform your life compared to a thousand words in a school or in a class or anything like that So exactly so good. Yes, that's awesome. Well. Thank you so much for sharing that with us I would I like to ask you actually to pray for the people who are watching people who may feel like you know what? I really want I really want to begin to step Into my full identity. I want to I want to step into my calling as a Christian Then I want to But I need I need prayer. Yeah, pray for people. Just I want to just impart into them. Okay, identity. Come on. Awesome. Let's do it Father, we just thank you for every single person that is watching live right now or is gonna watch this God, I just speak to that person that's right there behind that phone that screen God And I just declare God that they're not just gonna know that they're called God But they're gonna just feel the fire and the power of God I just speak even right now. I speak to that to that young man to that young woman I speak to that to that man and woman of God that that is right there and I just declare father that they're not just gonna hear it It's not just gonna be information. God, but I just declare Revelation from God. God, I thank you father that even the secret place is not just gonna be a place God where we just go and it's not just a place of discipline It's not just a place where just there's a closed door But God I just thank you father that that sons and daughters of God are gonna understand that you're with them all The time that you're that you're inside them that they are the temple that carries you God And I just declare that they are gonna know and understand and hear your voice God I just declare over a generation that feels like they haven't heard you that has felt distant from you that has felt like They can't even approach you because of guilt shame and condemnation. I break off guilt shame Condemnation feeling less than God and I just speak right now God that that sons and daughters are gonna be revealed that hear the voice of God I declare open ears to you right now. I declare your ears are gonna hear God Your eyes are gonna see him in Jesus name that it's no longer gonna be just a book It's gonna be Jesus showing up in your room. It's no longer gonna just be a song that you sing It's gonna be a cry of your heart that God's gonna meet So I just declare that over you your may your eyes be opened may your ears be opened May God give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation to know him deeply May everything compared to knowing God be like what Paul said total garbage rubbish trash compared to knowing him Personally so I just speak that over you may you know him hear him and see him And I just declare a hearing of faith over you right now in Jesus name from this day forward everything is gonna shift and I declare revelation and truth and intimacy with God Jesus name Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. 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