 Hi there! This is Pastor Vlad, and before we go into this week's content, I would like to invite you to become a part of what God is doing at Hungry Generation today. This year we've seen a great blessing of the Lord, an anointing of God, God's healings and salvations and deliverances, and in 2019 I know that God wants to take us further. And many of you who are watching this video right now and watching this message, you've been receiving from Hungry Gen, you've been growing, your world has been changing, and we give to God all the glory. But we would like you in 2019 to become a part of what God is doing, and you can do that by sowing your best gift into this ministry, or maybe doing something monthly, like a partnership, a reoccurring gift. This will help us to go further in 2019 and bring more of what we're bringing to you to many, many more people. Me and my wife, we do that every single year. Our church does that every single year. Well, once a year we give a special offering to God, and then we also become partners of this ministry by our monthly contributions. And I give you that opportunity today to become our partner and to become somebody who contributes to what God is doing today. Below is a link where you can make that happen. So, why don't you ask God, what would God have you give this year to this ministry to help us go further in God? And now, let's go into this message. A lot of time has been taken, and so we're going to combine two sessions into one. But before we do that, I do want to mention Andrei asked me to not forget. I do have a break-free book out. We sold them out already. So Andrei's books are still available. I on purpose bought less so that they can be bar out. It's good feeling. We also have a, that book is available on Amazon. If you're reading your version of Bible app, I have a Bible reading plan there, and it's called Break Free. I think it's over 9 or 8,000 people have already subscribed to that one. So you can also join that plan. For those of you, how many of you here, you got a break-free book? Okay, pretty much most. How many of you, okay, keep your hands up. How many of you, you read it? So the rest of you put your hands down. Who read it? Okay, so keep your hand just for a second. I would love, it would mean the world to me. If you could be kind enough to go on your next bathroom break, you're sitting on the toilet and you pull out your phone and there's no more new posts on Instagram. You will go to your Amazon and leave me an honest review. I read all of them, but the way Amazon works is you can get the book and be known around the world based on two things. Either the amount of people that bought it or the amount of people that reviewed it. And so I heard a lot of testimonies of people who read it and I would just ask for your favor. It would mean a lot to me, but if you don't do it, I'm still thankful that you read it. God is good. Amen. This morning service, Pastor Sergey, so powerful. When I look at him, I just want to speak in Russian. Bring me up a little bit more. These speakers, because I can't hear them. I'm so sorry. Oh, perfect. Thank you. My wife told me I can't preach in Russian. Wow. What is that? Who's there? Come on, racist people. And then when I heard that Pastor Andrzej is going to be preaching in English in two years. I've already want to preach in Spanish. Wow. But such a powerful testimony of prayer and fasting is so impactful to me. And, you know, he talked about buying cities and lakes and countries. I'm like, God, I just want to say one soul. And so, but one day we'll get there. Yeah, it was difficult for me to preach after that. I was like, Lord, I have no testimonies. Everything, nothing comes close. But God uses all of us for His glory and for His kingdom. What I want to talk about for the next few moments is the culture of revival. It's pretty much what you heard already. It's pretty much what you heard Pastor Andrzej and Pastor Sergey. And some of you maybe have heard this from me before. I want to talk about the three things that I believe have to become a culture in our life and as normal as breakfast, lunch and dinner. And it's prayer. It's fasting and sacrifice. These things, they create a spiritual climate. In which the presence of God, the promises of God begin to flourish in our life. I see that change in other men of God. And now I begin to see slowly that change in my own life. And so, for those of you who are taking notes, I have a different way of preaching than the rest of the guys. They call me not being spiritual led, but I can't flow. I can't flow. I can't flow. Everything for me has to have points. Just easier for me. And so what we're going to talk about this afternoon is the three benefits of building a culture of prayer and fasting as a habit in a Christian life. I know the flame of fire ministry practices this every month. I see Pastor Dima's church also every month, they announce how they have prayer and fast. Pastor Sergei, he just doesn't stop. He always fasts. And so we see that and we see the results of that. And I want to challenge you today to do that with us for this coming year. In Ecclesiastes, it says that a three-fold cord is not easily broken. I believe that these three cords is the prayer, fasting and giving, and when we combine them together, God begins to work in our life. When Jesus talked about in Matthew chapter 6, he addressed three main issues. It was giving, it was fasting, it was prayer, and then he talked about sacrifice. It's not a coincidence he talked about that, because as humans we have three main enemies. It's pride, it's greed, and it's lust. And these three habits of prayer, fasting and giving, they cancel our three main temptations. Prayer defeats pride, sacrifice defeats greed, and lust, and fasting destroys lust. And so that's why these three habits has to become a culture in your life this year. For the reason number one, and write this down, you must bind the devil before he binds you. Pride, lust, and greed is the devil's chains to bind us. And many people even in this room, you're bound by one of these three things, and therefore prayer and fasting and sacrifice is not an option for you. Sometimes we think that's for the ministers, but the ministers are not the only ones that fight the devil. Everybody fights the devil. Everybody has a flesh, and therefore everybody gotta do that. Are you with me? In Esther, chapter 9 verse 1, it says the following. And Tim, if you could just read it in Russian for us. Haman was dead. Haman was dead, but the plot that he had to destroy the Jewish people was still active. And in Esther chapter 9, it says that the enemy planned to do something, but the Jewish people, they did the opposite to the enemy. So instead of the enemy binding them, destroying them, when their enemy's main boss was dead, through prayer, through fast, and through Esther's sacrifice, God empowered the Jewish people to bind the enemy, destroy the enemy before he destroys them. The enemy will destroy you. You're only one chance. Destroy him first. Pornography will destroy you. Pornography will destroy your manhood, greed will destroy your business, and there is only one way not to be destroyed. Bind the devil first, and destroy him. And there's only three robes that can do that. Prayer, it's what the Jewish people did. Mardechai cried out, it's fasting, as they fasted three days. And third one is Esther, she sacrificed her life to be in the presence of a king. I believe prayer, fasting, and sacrifice is not an option for people who have a devil as the enemy, and who have a flesh that's still alive. The Satan has been defeated. He's destroyed, but the evil in this world is still real, and God will now remove certain things from your life. He will leave them on purpose. And your prayer, fasting, and sacrifice will empower you to resist those things. Many people look for deliverance. They want God to set them free, but what if God wants to empower you to have a victory instead of deliverance? What if God, this year, he wants to bind your enemy? Maybe you're sitting here right now, and you're bound, you're bound by some demonic thing, perhaps some curses, maybe an addiction, or maybe you have certain things, you know it's not from God, it's not from you, it's straight from the devil. This year, make a decision to stop praying and fasting, and sacrifice. There is a God in heaven. When he sees your hunger, he will empower you, and he will overcome your enemy. When my brother was delivered from drugs, he still struggled with smoking and drinking. He comes to my home group, and so one time he was sharing, he said, Vlad, I tried everything to quit smoking and drinking, and we practiced deliverance. So he was at every prayer light. He says, God delivered me from drugs, but the smoking and drinking, no matter how hard I tried, I kept slipping in. And then he says, in one of the services, I shared a message. What I challenged people to stop seeking freedom, but to start seeking to be filled, and that freedom will come as a result. Walk in my spirit, the Lord says, and you will not fulfill the last of the flesh. D'Almudhi said to his students, he says, how do you get the air out of the glass? You can't vacuum it. There's only one way. Is you fill it with water, and then the air comes out. Sometimes the way to our freedom is not through shaking and baking. It's not only through deliverance. It's when you put as much focus on being filled as you are putting in to being free. And stuff will come out. The Bible says, perfect love, casts out fear. It's the same word there that it says Jesus cast out a demon. It means, as I mature, as I grow, as I pray and as I fast, I'm mature, my maturity drives out demons. It drives out certain problems by itself. There is freedom. There is deliverance when you live that kind of a life. A lot of people in pursuit of freedom, they obsess with open doors. I believe in open doors. And if I'm not mistaken, there's a chapter in my book called Open Doors. There are open doors to the devil. But when you begin to seek open doors, why am I addicted to this? Why am I struggling with this? And your main seeking is looking for a door. It's not scriptural. No, we're in the Bible. Do I see Jesus before he cast out a demon? He went into their ancestry. I believe in that. I think we need to do that. But everywhere in the Bible it says for people who are oppressed to seek his face, not an open door. When you see him, he will show you an open door. But he will be the one to help you close it. If you only seek an open door, you will find so many open doors. You will spend your three lives trying to close them. And you'll never close them. Because there is only power in the Holy Spirit. And that comes when we seek his face. I want to encourage every person. You know, when I shared this in the book, when I was exposed to pornography, at the age of 11 or 12, in the Ukraine, but grabbed the hold of my life in America. And then there was a demon that was signed to my life. I did not know much about demons or deliverance at the time. But I knew something was wrong with me. Because I was a disciplined guy. And I fasted regularly, even as a teenager. And no matter how hard I tried, once a month, especially before some kind of big event at church, it would chop me down into that sin. And I became desperate. So I started to, I think, at that time I went for seven days on fast. And I told God, you got to deliver me. You got to help me. Because I can't afford, I'm already a youth pastor. I'm 17 or 16 years of age. And I'm addicted to porn. I'm struggling with this. I hate this. But no matter how hard I tried, once a month, I would fall. And you know, when you're desperate, when you're sick and tired, fasting is easy. You don't worry about food. You don't want to live. So that was the easiest fast I've ever had in my life. And during that fast, God opened the door. He showed me that was an open door in my life. But listen to me, young man, I wasn't looking for open doors. I was seeking God's face. I want to challenge you. This year, go crazy for prayer and fasting. And you begin to see God's face. You may say, I can't do the Vlad because I'm still addicted to something. You can't afford not to do it because you're addicted. Bind the enemy before he binds you. And God delivered me at that time. He brought me freedom. But the best part is I continued that seeking of God. When Jesus talked about defeating pornography or lust, he never used deliverance from another minister as a way to deliverance. A lot of times, people hear my story and it's embarrassing to share it for me. But I get over myself and I know that I want to help other people. So young men would come and they said, pray for me. The same demon you had, I have. I said, great. We're fasting next week. Three days. He said, no, no, no. I want you to pray for me. I said, Jesus told guys who struggled with lust to cut their hands off, not to have somebody lay a hand on them. I said, which hand are we cutting today? No, no, no, no. You don't understand Vlad. I need deliverance. And this is the question I usually ask. Have you endured discipline equivalent to chopping off your own hand? Has the pain of discipline equal to chopping off your own hand? Not somebody do it for you on accident. You're doing it on purpose. And they said, let me ask you a few other questions. In the last 30 days, how many times you fasted? Usually zero. What is your prayer life like? Usually it's five, ten minutes a day. Are you in God's word? Let me check the settings on your phone how much time you spend on Instagram. So you're allowing this much pain tolerance when Jesus who knows more about demons than every guy who casts out demons in the world put together. He said that your problem, that's with the devil, can be crushed by the level of your prayer, your fasting, and your sacrifice. And when I usually present that to them, like, well, never mind. Like, do you want to be free? You're going to have to cut off your hand symbolically speaking. You're going to have to pray. You're going to have to fast. And there's a certain level of price that has to be paid. Somebody say amen. There was a president, 20th president of America, James Garfield. He can put up his photo. He was shot after four months of being a president. On the train station, it was during that time in America that medicine wasn't very advanced. I think over 12 doctors without gloves on their hands started to go into his body, trying to find a bullet. They didn't find it. At one inventor who invented a metal-detecting machine, wanted to try to experiment with his machine on this president to find the bullet. So he put the machine over the president. He just forgot that the bed he was on was made of metal. So the machine showed him that the bullet was on one side. So doctors cut that part open. They found out that the bullet wasn't there. So they kept probing around, looking for a bullet. A few months later, he died. The news article wrote this. A shooter shot him. Doctors killed him. Why? They were looking for a bullet. They should have left that bullet alone. He would have survived. Sometimes digging into your past, when the Holy Spirit is not leading you, will open more problems than you will know what to do with. I'm all for going into our past, only when the Holy Spirit leads us. If you have problems that keep repeating, and you hear a message on curses, or about demons, right away your mind starts to focus. Which demon do I have? Which curse do I have? And then you start looking for a demon and for a curse. And my Bible says, you will always find what you look for, and many times you start poking around. And it's not the devil. It's the fact that so much attention is given to him. It gets your problem. Infected. So my challenge to you even if you know there is a bullet in your body. And you don't know how to get rid of it. Live. Pray. Fast. Stick his face. He will help you. He will remove it. He will come out by himself. I had an uncle. He passed away now to be with the Lord. When he was 17 years old, he was a hooligan. He was a hooligan. He wasn't a good boy. So he decided to make a little bomb to help all the fish come up to the surface faster. Because he was didn't want to catch all of them individually. He wanted all of them to come up. And the science wasn't his strongest suit. And he miscalculated a few chemicals. So it blew up in his house. It blew up the whole roof. The glass from the bottle went into the fireplace. And then another glass went into his eye. So he lost his vision right away. The second glass went into his other eye. So he wasn't able to see. So he was only able to see halfway through one eye. Three or four fingers on one side was cut off right away. And glass went into his body. He went to the hospital. They removed whatever they could. And then he continued to live. Had many children. When we moved to America, Stefan told me one time. He said, till this day, every so and so, glass comes out of my body. I'm not looking for it. He says, it's just growing. My body is growing. It pushes stuff out by itself. I just want to encourage every person. Make prayer and fasting and sacrifice. Bigger goal than finding the glass. Getting out of the bullet. Finding some kind of an open door. Seek his face. And when God reveals an open door, the best part, he'll right away shut it. Bind the devil before he binds you. Through prayer, fasting and giving. Amen? Number two. In Ecclesiastes, it says that, let's read the verse, though one may be overpowered, Ecclesiastes 412. If you can overcome one, two will stand against him. The second thing that I want you to notice that this year prayer, fasting and sacrifice will do to your life. And if you can put a point up, it will build your spirit. So you will not have a broken life. It says in here that when you put these three cords together, you will not be easily broken. Many people's lives get broken. I believe one of the main reasons is because their spirit is not built. When your spirit is not built, your life will get broken. Prayer fasting and sacrifice builds you on the inside, which many times protects us from being easily broken. I am not saying we will never have problems. I am not saying your boyfriend won't dump you. He's from the devil. It's good that he doesn't. I'm not saying you'll never have financial challenges. But there is something about your life that's going to be different because your spirit is built. Prayer fasting and sacrifice builds you on the inside. You can't explain it. What Pastor Sergei shared this morning, unless you experience that word faith, word something gets deposited. It's a very strange topic. You know, when we had a sacrifice yesterday from many of you who sacrificed, you felt something in your spirit way deeper than the level of your emotions. Because it builds your spirit. It builds your spirit. And when your spirit is built, it's hard to break your life. It says of Jesus that he grew in the spirit. Meaning, your spirit can be built. Your spirit can grow. I go to gym. Not as often as my wife. She is very committed. I just go to gym the way most Christians go to church. Just for the check mark. And my pastor always says so that I'll be able to see my feet without being overshadowed by my king well. So, benching is not one of my strongest things. And one time I remember, I was going for a while and decided to try to do a plate, a plate 45 pounds. And so, I knew that I wouldn't be able to do it by myself. I invited a guy who was in the gym who goes to my home group. So, he can be my spotter. And the only reason why I invited him, because I knew that I know the power of peer pressure. When somebody watches you, you do way better. And so, he was sparring me. And I did 3 sets of 10. And at the end, I just praise God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Alleluia. So, I felt proud. I almost wanted to just like, you know, give a praise report. So, he looks at me and he said, next time just add more weight. And I didn't want to admit to him that it took every ounce of my faith to lift that. But see, right now to lift that for me is peace of cake. I don't add any more weight, because I don't like to be challenged. I don't go to the gym to be buff. What, six months ago, stretched my muscle. Today is not doing anything to me. That's why these things don't grow. The routine that brought you revival, if they're kept too long, they'll bring you into a rut. Many of you spiritually, you're stuck. And the only way they will get you unstuck, is you gotta put a little bit more weight on your bar. For those of you who don't live a life of fasting, and who simply say, well, I live by faith. That's good. I challenge you once a month to take three days to fast. If you've been fasting, and you say, Vlad, last year, I did it every month for three days, with FFM. Can I challenge you something this year? Cut away coffee from your fasting. I know FFM drinks coffee during. I used to too, until my fasting hit a plateau. So I went in all five days, and the Lord challenged me. And he says, turn off your social media, and give up caffeine. I said, Lord, I can fast for 21 days. I feel nice for that. Change your routine. This coming here. If you're fasting, has gotten a plateau. Same thing with prayer. If your prayer hit a plateau this year, change things up. Is there pray more? Or pray less? Or some other time? But one thing I want to challenge you, is something that Pastor Sergei shares a lot. And Pastor Andrzej shares a lot, is to take time during a month, where you separate yourself with God. I used to do that when I was in high school, and I took every Wednesday off to fast and pray. So I would lock myself in church, and I would pray from about six to about five. From morning till evening. And I was a high school student. The crazy part, the more school I missed, the better my grades became. Now, don't try that at home. I did not miss because I was sick. I wasn't missing because I was chilling with my homies. I really felt that God wants me to seek His face. And my grades became better. But then when I graduated, this habit of separating yourself unto God, for a long time, became spontaneous. It became like when the God will lead me. I found out he did lead me around. Sometimes God leads you. But in Corinthians it says, give as your purpose in your heart. You don't have to be led. So when I came to Kingdom Domain, I heard Andrei talk about separating yourself for a few days and going like into like outside of city. I started remembering my high school days. And I did that as a youth pastor, but very sporadically. I got so fired up. I came back to church. And in February, I remember I booked my hotel for two days. And so I went there just with my Bible with an iPad. No text messages and left my phone at home. And I told my wife, if after three days I don't come back, call FBI. So I went there. You know, you're like excited. Big gallons of water, prayed first hour, second hour, third hour, ran out of things to say. After the first day, I started to understand what mental disorder looks like. You have a headache, you have four walls, and you can do nothing. Because I've read the book that you read 20 times. And so I still have one more day. And there will be times I would experience break through there. But there were times I just went to Applebees. I said, God, I'm sorry. But if I don't need some chicken right now, you're not going to like it. Nobody going to like it. And so after about five times or four times, I stopped going outside of town. I said, why am I torturing myself? I'll be honest with you. I stopped until not long ago. The Holy Spirit challenged me again. And he says, I want you to start taking time to spend one day with me. Ten or twelve hours of prayer. And he said, don't pray. He said, don't pray. Just be with me. I'm sorry. God, the thought scares me. He said, what scares you is a hotel. Stay home. Stay in your church. Why do you have to hide somewhere outside of town? He says, you're not mature for that level. You're not Andrei. And you're not Shedlovsky. So I started to do that. Just the church. You know, on the third day of our fasting. Because if I do the first two days fasting, the headache hurts. Half of a day just rebuking the headache. So I wait for the headaches to finish. And the third day to just take that from five to six, just take that whole day and just be with God. Why am I sharing this with you? That maybe your prayer got stuck. Prayer is not the problem. But you're pulling the same weight you've been doing for the last three years. When God led Elijah to a brook, it was revival. But after a while, it became drought. The things you did three years ago, that brought you revival, most likely right now, those very things make you stuck. I challenge you. Be creative. Take your prayer life to another level this year. Many of you go on vacations. Many of you spend a whole day somewhere. What if once a month? And if you're able, if you may be in ministry once a week, you take the whole day. And as you would work eight hours a day that you would worship and wait for eight hours a day. I know that maybe this freaks you out. Avatar is three hours long. Avengers is two and a half or three hours long. Nobody gets a heart attack by going and watching those. And the Hollywood keeps making them longer. Stranger things season one has 10 episodes. That's about 10 hours. People watch all those 10 episodes straight in one setting. And they're completely fine. The way I build my spirit, I use five steps. The first one starts with my desire. Desire says I want, meaning I want to live a life of prayer this year. And this is the step every person is in this room is on right now. I remember when I was here, people talk about sacrifices. When I read Robert Morris' book and blessed life, how he would give cars away, houses, something inside of me said, I want that. But the want doesn't do anything. It goes to the second step. When you have to go from I want to I will, meaning I will do this. And some of you right now in this message, you need to make a decision and move to step two and said, I will fast three days a month. You must say, you're creating a religion. You brush your teeth twice a day. It's a religion. Relax. Everything is fine. And eat three times a day. You don't worry, that's a religion. So fasting three days a month, it's a good religion. You have to make I will. Not say I will see. If nobody at my workplace brought crispy cream donuts, but I will. Whether somebody's birthday is on that day, I will. But many people die because they never make it to step three. It's where you have to have discipline and you have to say I must. For me it took me a while to get to that point. I must. No matter how I feel, I must. Jesus said I must at the age of 12. That's what formed his spirit. It's not that he wanted only. He must. It's that you know that you know you got to do it. Your flesh doesn't want it. Everything comes against you. There's a black caviar, a pastor's meeting. But you must. You must. And if you don't develop that muscle of must, you have to have that. Many people are afraid of I must. They say, well, it means I don't have a passion. I must stage. It doesn't last very long. Because when you through that, you will enter into the stage of delight, where you will, I love. The Bible says Jesus loved righteousness. He didn't just say I have to be righteous. Which meaning if I am faithful, if I pay the price, I'm not going to dread giving, praying and fasting for a long time. I will delight in it. I love. And the last thing, when you do it for long, it becomes your default. It becomes your automatic. It becomes your I am. It becomes who you are. When you think of Pastor Sergei today, one word comes to your mind. It's who he is today. It's not only something he does. It's not only something he has to do. It's not only something he loves to do. It is defined him. It's automatic. It becomes default. Your spirit can change you. But it's not because I'm just going to breathe on you. Because you have to go from I want to I will, from my will. And this is where many of us die. I must. When the headache kicks in, and that second day of fasting, and you didn't read your Bible, and you're looking like God, this is not helping anybody, that you step back. You said no. I'm going to finish this. I must. And God will give you breakthrough. It will change who you are. It will transform you. And God will give you breakthrough. You become a new person. Amen. Lastly, we're going to pray. Are you receiving something? Amen. I like to speak very practically. I'd like to speak about things that are not going to relate to your everyday after you leave the kingdom. So please forgive me if I don't give you some very deep profound things. I just want you to know what to do after the kingdom domain is done. And for those of you that if I share personal stories that offend you, deal with it. Amen. Last thing that prayer and fasting does, not only it binds my flesh, not only it builds my spirit, but it births breakthrough. It births breakthrough. If we look at Cornelius, he was praying, he was fasting, and he was also sacrificing. And it's interesting when God's angel came. He highlighted these things. And there is this verse that it says over there in Book of Acts. It says, your prayers and your alms have come up before God. That tells me this wasn't his first prayer. This wasn't his first fasting. He's been doing this for some time. They come up to God, and God saw them. The crazy part in the Cornelius was praying, and fasting, and giving, being not a follower of Christ. And he got God's attention. If some of you think, well Vlad, I'm still addicted to stuff, I can pray. You can't afford not to. I can fast. You don't understand. I struggle with smoking. I struggle with anger. What's this will do? You need God's help, and these things come up to God. But it's not just one time. When it's consistent, when you do this on a regular basis, you're pregnant. You're growing, and it will birth. A breakthrough. Breakthrough is different from a miracle, because a miracle blesses you. But a breakthrough opens the way for everybody behind you. Cornelius did not just have an angel come to him. Many people had that. Cornelius had something that happened to him. They're open the veil for billions of people today to follow after him as Gentiles into the kingdom of God. He broke through the glass of thousands of years' promise that all the nations will be blessed in the seat of Abraham. Abraham couldn't break through. David couldn't break through. Solomon couldn't break through. Even Jesus just went to a few countries. But there was no breakthrough. Apostles stayed only in Jerusalem. But one man prayed, fasted, and sacrificed being outside of even knowing God. It came up before him, and there was a breakthrough. And he was the first Gentile convert. Prayers and fasting and sacrifice. Binds my flesh. Secondly, it builds my spirit. And thirdly, it births breakthrough. I've shared a story a lot of times about how God led me to sacrifice. We sacrificed the missions and one particular ministry when we came back from where we sacrificed at that time. The lady who was in charge of the partners' department in that ministry called us. And she says, we're praying for you and thank you for your sacrifice. Praise God. She says the whole team, eight people is praying for you. I said, what is God saying? She says, God told us to tell you. So I'm expecting they're going to give me a strategy for our church to grow for us to have a breakthrough. We just gave at the time was $10,000. So all the money we had we were saving for many, for a few years. And this lady has the audacity over Skype to tell me that what God told them, for me to become a partner. I was like, I thought you're going to say something good. And I was like, well, I'll pray about it. I'm thinking compassion child was $30. Compassion child when you support is $30. I'm going to give $35. And the Skype she calls again. She says, we feel like God gave us a number that you should give. I have this alert Jezebel. Jezebel controls you to run and run. But I'm being polite. So I was like, what did God say? She says, well, in our department, you know, people just give like $500 as VIP partners. I said, what? I can't give that. She said, well, we prayed. We feel you should give double of that. I said, you know, I have another call right now. I'll call you later. And so I am mad. I'm thinking, what is this Christianity going into manipulating? She's telling me what I should give and none of our business. I go to prayer next morning and I'm telling God how he needs to change his church and I feel this thing in my heart. Vlad, what if you will do that for a year? Give $1,000 as a partnership. I say, God, but I don't have that kind of money. He said, well, what if I will help you? I said, God, but what about me? What about my savings? What about like a house for me? What about me? I said, what if for one year you don't focus for you? You've done it for 10 years as a youth minister. You stuck. And this is what the building of the spirit began. You won't believe it. I actually agreed with a crazy lady. I called her and I said, for a year. I said, I don't know who you got some hookups over there because you talked to me too. I'm so glad Andres' ministry doesn't do that. First month, I've never experienced miracles in my finances before that. I was a tider all my life and I was blessed, but I never seen miracles. That month, I saw my first miracle. A girl named Ifra from Facebook. I think she's Ethiopian. She said, God told me to send you something in the mail. It was exactly $1,000. So I made the first month. I started to have rental properties, problems on the month number two. And not only I didn't have money to sew, I didn't have money to pay for my rents, but things in the church were not moving. So there's the part of me that says, God, I thought that things would change, but they're getting worse. I see, but God was trying to form a spirit first. The second month. And Pastor Tokarev doesn't know this. I got invited to the youth group and I came there with my wife. I was at their youth ministry before. Prior to that year, in most of my travels, I would be blessed, and I'll be honest with you, I'll be blessed with maybe $200, $300. It was just enough to pay for gas for a McChicken and a Starbucks coffee, and 10% of the church. And so I didn't expect anything. I don't expect anything when I go. So me and my wife went there, and it was the youth ministry that organized the event. To be honest, I expected nothing. And they blessed us. And I opened it at the airport, and I saw $3,500. I broke down crying, because there's no way they knew. That's exactly what I needed to pay for the property and exactly what I needed to sell. And right there at the airport, God says, I'm Jehovah Jairo. Not the one who provides for your needs, because Abraham had no needs. I'm providing for your sacrifice. I started seeing miracles. The fourth month, when things got to worse, and I believe and I've shared this before, but I feel to share it again. What I believe, I die. I was going to Walmart because the $1,000 I was sending through Western Union to the missions overseas. I had a few people in front of me, and I finally got the $1,000. Nothing is changing in my life, except I see miracles for money that I'm giving away. Many issues not changing. Nothing supernatural is taking place. And this is where a huge pressure came upon me. There I'm an idiot. There I'm a fool who believed some crazy woman, and I'm losing my mind. So there's a few more people in front of me holding out that envelope. And part of me says, Vlad, you tried. Well, it didn't work. This doesn't work. It's manipulation. Run. You need that money. But the other part that was dissatisfied with how my life was, something just cried out. I say something is harder than what I'm feeling right now. It's for me to live for the rest of my life. Wondering, what would have happened if I would have went till the end? I know what will happen if I'm going to give up. Same thing that's been happening for 10 years. But I don't know what's waiting behind when I will finish what God asked me to do. And right there in Walmart, I said, God, if I didn't hear you correctly, I'm a fool. But I'm yours. I'm your fool. Just letting you know. I was trying to hear you. I was trying to give to you. If I made a mistake, it was a mistake in seeking you. I just want to let you know that. Within a week, things started to change in the ministry and in my finances. Within about a few years, when I was in Ukraine, I had a jet leg. So I couldn't sleep at night. And I was praying. And I had two rental properties. One, I had it for 10 years. The other one had for four years. And as I'm praying, seeking God, I feel this prompting in my heart to get rid of them and to sell them, give most of the proceeds away. And I felt God's real estate is not your thing. You're scared of toilets and sewer pipes. So just sell and give the money most of the way. And I was like, okay. And this is where God said, I felt He said to me, when you do that within a short time, I will give you an idea. It will give you the same income that came from real estate. But it will be connected. To your calling. I felt it in my heart. Came back home. I said, baby, this year we're going to sell one. Next year, we're going to sell the second one. So we sold it. It went year without it. And last year, in January, I'm talking about breakthrough, I started to feel this thing that I need to write a book. Of course, I rebuked the devil. I don't even know what to write about. I don't even know what to write about. I don't know any publishing companies. And who's going to read my book? I mean, what am I, an expert as a deliverance? So I brushed it off for about two months and then it became very strong. With the point where anytime I prayed, God just started to like pound on my heart. It became an issue of obedience. So that God would leave me alone. I decided to write a book. And I self-published it last month. I calculated the proceeds from each month. It was way more each month than it was coming from rental properties. And so this month, toward the end of the month, we're actually giving all the proceeds away to the ministry. So for those of you who bought the books, it's not going to me actually. It's going to go into the ministry. We feel that from God. But what I want to share with you is that that book, it wasn't just a book. It became a breakthrough for other authors to publish a book. When Andrei heard that I was writing a book, he said, yeah, I've been wanting to write a book too. I was like, I got you covered, bro. And after that, you know, he's published the book. George David Duke, he's like, man, if you could do it, anybody can do it. Thanks, George. I was like, thank you for a compliment. But I feel that now, even within the Slavic community, there's going to be authors that are going to be risen up. And I will help them to publish it for free. Well, I'm not going to publish it. Amazon will. But I believe there's a breakthrough and second, nobody in my family has ever published a book. I believe prayer fasting and sacrifice makes you birth something that nobody has ever had in your family. That nobody has ever had in your city. Nobody has ever had in your church. But the best part is you're not the only one. You're only going to be the first one. Because a miracle is you're the only one. But breakthrough, you're only the first one. And others will come. And they will go further. Can somebody say amen? I believe this year you're going to bind the devil. I believe this year you're going to build your spirit. I believe this year you will birth a breakthrough. My only advice to you, something happened right now as I was speaking. You became pregnant. Don't have an abortion next month. And don't be scared in March. Carry it through. Do it till the point. It comes up before God. And God sends something back. Don't quit when it gets hard. Don't quit after seven months. I don't see the changes until you birth it. Hold it. Let's rise. If the worship team can come up, oh Holy Spirit, I ask you that right now you will touch us for this year to be the year where we pray, where we fast and where we give, not just on kingdom domain. Lord, I know there are so many people in this room. For them it's just the information. As it was for me for many years. And therefore I ask you for a revelation. I ask you that their heart will respond that there will be a shift in the culture of their life in Jesus' name. If you're saying Vlad this year, I want to go from I want to I will. From I will to I must. But I need God's help. I praise your hand. Let's pray. Begin to pray in the Holy Spirit. Say Holy Spirit, help me. It's not about religion, it's not about discipline. It's about Holy Spirit placing a desire and making you live a life. When the year is over, there are changes on your level, on the level of your business, on the level of your ministry, on the level of your family, on the level of your dream, on the level of your calling, just on the level of your life. It will be different than Pastor Sergei. It will be different than Pastor Andrej. It will be different than Pastor Demas. It will be different than mine. But it will be yours. It will be something that you will know. That you will know. It was God. It was his spirit. That your spirit is going to be built. That your flesh is going to be bound. And you're going to burst something. This coming year. In Jesus' name. Father, I release your blessings. The same grace to have given me. I pray for every young man. I pray for every young woman. I pray for those who are fighting right now. Those who feel trapped. Those who feel hopeless God. Lift their eyes, God. Lift their eyes. To begin to seek your face. Not to seek the devil. Not to seek demon of God. But to seek your glory. Father, build our spirit. We will be finishers. There are so many people who have started. They stopped praying. I will change this year. In Jesus' name. Father, I pray for those who maybe yesterday felt your prompting to sacrifice. But they talk themselves out of it. I pray there will be a change right now. That they will not go into this year without faith and without laying a sacrifice. They lay their life down. For the glory of God. We pray for all the pastors. We pray for all the leaders. We pray for all the home group leaders. We pray for all the missionaries. Fathers and mothers. In Jesus' name. Let this be the year where we begin to enjoy your presence. We begin to go from glory to glory. From victory to victory. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Guys, thank you for receiving this word. And I just ask you that you don't just listen and take notes, but that you do that. If you're a young person, and your mama tells you you need to be home by 11. How many of you know you don't need to find a Greek version of that? How many of you know you don't need a bible study to discuss what does that mean, be home by 11? And how many of you know you don't need to memorize it? All she said was I need to be home by 11. I need to be home by 11. I need to be home by 11. No, it just simply means you need to be home by 11. What we talked about right now, what makes it uncomfortable, is you got to do it. I just talk about it. I just read it. So you got to do it. And today on your way out, our students will give you a brochure. It's about internship. I would love for you to pick it up. Don't throw it in the garbage in the lobby. Make them make me feel really bad. Just throw it in the garbage in your room. You can throw it away. But it's for those who want to be a part of growing in Christ. Not bless you. Thank you for watching this content. I know this was a blessing to you. 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