 The looming recession is making headlines in America and around the world. But the question is, is this season divinely appointed by God? God is going to allow the economies of the nations to tank. And when the Lord does it, it will be a period of a transfer and a transition within the world and within the body of Christ. Come on, somebody. There's a special message coming up from apostle Joshua Giles about the economic downturn and why it's providing a window of opportunity for the church. Plus, how is this recession going to be another test for the church? And as the markets tumble, what can you do to be prepared? And guess what? Pastor Connie Brooks is in the house. I'm telling you what, listen, you better stop everything you're doing right now because there's a word in the house and she's going to break down the wisdom and insight and how you can not just survive but thrive. Are you ready? I sure am. Signs of the Times. How to Recession Proof Your Life starts right now. Well, we're so glad you're joining us for Signs of the Times. We're talking about what God is saying in the prophetic now. We want to provide you with prophetic and a spiritual perspective of the days we're living in so you can be prepared and know what to do in the days ahead. Listen, the state of the markets are making news all around the world but what does this shaking mean for me and for you? Coming up on this show today, you're going to receive prophetic insight from Pastor Connie Brooks and Apostle Joshua Giles about why we're in a season of testing and what are God's marching orders for the body of Christ. Well, the question is, what's God speaking? How's he trying to get our attention with this economic downturn? I want you to take a look at this video from this amazing man of God who's making headlines all around the world. He's got a word for us and I want you to listen to Apostle Joshua Giles and what he's saying about what God is doing in this economic downturn. The Lord said to me, get ready for economic changes all around us. You've heard me, some of you that follow this ministry. You've heard me sharing this for some time now but the Lord said to say it again, God is going to allow the economies of the nations to tank. God is going to allow and some people are not going to like this word but I'm going to say it anyway. I've been sharing it but the Holy Spirit said, say it again. God is going to allow the economies of the nations to tank and when the Lord does it, it will be a period of a transfer and a transition within the world and within the body of Christ. It's going to be like suddenly, even though these things have been happening over time it's going to feel as though suddenly the economies of nations and the monetary systems of nations are in transition and they are in travail. When this happens, the Lord said to me, tell the people to rejoice. He said when they announce a recession and I've shared this word over the past two years but the Lord said, say it again. When they announce a recession, the Lord said tell the people to rejoice. He said because what I'm doing, it's not going to make sense in the natural. It's not going to seem like it lines up in the natural but in the middle of a recession, you are going to expand and you are going to increase. In the middle of a recession, the Lord said you're going to step over into a chiro's time. You're going to step over into a suddenly where the Lord's going to allow the prices of things to come down drastically. You're going to see the prices of property come down drastically. You're going to see the prices of houses and land come down drastically. You're going to see commercial property come down. You're going to see houses that they were building for some. People are going to have to step out of the deals because for this time they cannot afford it but then it's going to crash down. And why would the Lord cause the prices to come down? Yes, we've seen inflation all around us and we've seen hyperinflation but the Lord said tell the people to rejoice because you're going to see a plummet in this natural system and when you see the plummet it is a sign of another wealth transfer and when you see the prices begin to tank some of you where the land would have cost you three million dollars it's going to be cut in half for you. You're going to get it for a steal. Some of you that have been expanding in ministry and you're saying Lord how are we going to take the new territory? The Lord says I have ordained a recession in order to transfer it into your hands and somebody's panicking because they're saying well Lord what about the interest rate and what about all of these things and the Lord says I'm going to use what you see in the natural to cause you to expand and increase spiritually. You're going to rejoice in the middle of a recession because the Lord is moving and you're going to see wealth changing hands. Now somebody should rejoice over that word right there. It's already happening. It's already happening but you're going to see it accelerate over the next several months. The latter part of this year is going to be a very difficult and challenging time in the world's economy but for the church for those that are within the kingdom I'm talking about believers you are going to expand you are going to increase and you're going to walk in a place called wealth so that you can help advance the kingdom of God in your community in your sphere of influence and in the places that the Lord is pushing you into get ready to expand you will be like a tree that is planted by the rivers of living water and in your prosperity you shall never be moved. That's right. Welcome to signs of the times y'all. This is a place where you get a chance to hear what God is saying in the prophetic. Now listen you can't look at what's happening at the economy through a natural lens. That's why God has sent prophetic voices here for this moment so you know how to gauge the moment. This show has on it the anointing of the sons of Isacar. They knew how to discern the signs and the times and this is why we are here and I am so excited to have with us Pastor Connie Brooks from Plum PA right home grown in our own backyard a voice that the devil's got to reckon with every day and I'm so glad that you get an opportunity to hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying through her Pastor Connie it's so good to have you. It's good to be here. I'm excited. That clip really got me excited. You know what the devil's fighting. Oh my goodness. We know but it's the right time. We're in the right time in the right season and we are the right people for what God is doing. Amen and I'm so excited. You know I heard in my spirit as he was ministering and I hope you caught this video. Listen DVR because I'm telling you you're going to be drinking from a fire hose here. You're not going to get it all right now but there's so much that's going to come forth and you're going to need to download this into your spirit. You're going to have to break this down a little bit at a time and as he was talking I felt the Lord speaking to me saying this is a time pastor for divine reversal. We cannot look at the natural to determine what God is doing but he is going to use the natural economic downturn the rise of inflation, the recession we're in in order to bless the body of Christ. Absolutely. It's time for the church. It's time. When we talk about the transfer of the wealth like pastor did the fact is that it's time. It's the time. Everything God does has a time in connected to it and it's time for the church to be that bread basket that we are the ones that God is going to allow the money can trust us with it. He's been preparing us for this. This is not going to be like a surprise moment. He didn't wake up this morning and say no, this has been in the mind and the heart of God that his church would be the light would be the salt and he's going to give us everything we need to be that. You know, you said something just a little bit ago while we were talking watching during the clip that Joseph this first of all this recession and famine and all these things didn't take God by surprise. He had prepared Joseph 30 years before it ever happened. How do you think God is preparing? Let me say not preparing has been preparing people for such a time as this. Well, God's working behind the scenes all the time. It's not like it's a surprise and so when you look at Joseph at 16 getting the word that he would be a family would be bowing to him. He would be a leader. It's not until 46 that he's actually becomes an administrator but all the time look at all of the testings. So anytime God gives you a prophetic word there are devils every level there are devils connected every time God gives you a word the enemy is going to come to try to distract you. The Bible says many great work were not done because of unbelief. The devil wants us not to believe God getting to a posture of complaining and frustration and anger and bitterness so when God is ready to move we're not positioned to move with him. But when we know that testing comes with every prophetic word if you give a word you might as well say okay what's going to happen here because I know if God's given me this the enemy does not want this word to manifest and so when we hear the word recession it's like okay what we're going to do now God you know and God is saying to us go back to my word whether you go back to Genesis chapter 26 and see what God does with one man in the middle it opens up it was a famine in the land Genesis 26 opened that the first thing God tells us there was already a recession going on so recession is not nothing new God has dealt with that and so when you open up that chapter you see that there's a famine in the land but God gives instructions and he says to him do not go down to Egypt do not go to the world system stay in Jira I am with you I'm going to go with you at the end of that chapter you see God walking him through every test when strife came when envy came you see God moving him through everything so we have to be aware of that and it's no different in America I was just saying the kingdom of God still stands at the end of 45 presidents they've been recessions before 1945 to 1949 we had a recession at the end of that recession pastor they talked about just being sold 2.4 million cars being sold at the end of the recession it shows that how so many people became wealthy because like he said land is going to be cheap cars are going to be cheap because it's a recession and that's when God is saying to my people use wisdom stop spending frivolously so that when doors open you can walk through and become a blessing the church will have what it needs to be a blessing because God has allowed us to be the bread basket my good God now listen ladies and gentlemen she just gave you a little taste of this right here and we've got a whole lot more because I want to go into how God is using I want to even change it a little bit I feel the Lord is saying there are people that have been prepared you've been being tested for this time this is the time we're going to have the answers for the things we're going to walk through because you've already been where we're going listen you're going to want to stay tuned you are going to be so blessed but listen while we take a short break I want to let you know we have a free gift for you called God is my source by pastor Gloria Copeland I want you to call in if this show has been a blessing to you and you've already been blessed so far dial the phone 888-665-4483 let the prayer partner know this book we're going to send it right to and let them know also that you've enjoyed signs of the time we're going to take a short break and we're going to be right back for more signs of the times here at the flight 93 memorial in Somerset County there is great testimony given to the faithfulness of Almighty God that's right because you see it was on this flight that had been rerouted on its way to the power center of America in Washington that the passengers began to pray led by Todd Beamer he began with the Lord's Prayer and then went into the 23rd Psalm and all of the passengers were just saying to God yea though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we will fear no evil because God we know that you are with us thank you dear God and no matter what your circumstance is today no matter what your challenge what your heart ache or your pain we need not be afraid because yea though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death God is with us well we're really about to go in on this because I believe the devil is nervous and there is a blessing there is a window of opportunity that God has you positioned for you know Pastor Connie you had mentioned about Joseph and how he was 16 when he received the dream God knew when he was 16 how he needed to prepare for this moment can you just kind of when you said that it just jumped out at me of like wait a minute we don't even realize sometimes why we're in what we're in and how this window of opportunity is going to make everything we've been through make sense that's why we can't complain when we're being tested because the test is a part of the process and when Joseph got thrown into the pit he could have become angry and bitter he got sold into slavery he could have been mad about that then got into jail but if you notice every part of it was God doing something in him to prepare him for where he was going even when he got to prison and they forgot him after they said they would remember him they forgot him and so many times people are going through things right now and they're wondering why me why am I being tested why did I have to go through cancer it was to mature you it was to grow you up it was to establish your faith because every promise of God is conditional it's positional and it's geographical are you where you are when God promises you something or is there a shift that needs to take place into where God wants you to go and then God's promises are conditional God says I'll do this you do this am I in the place where God wants me to be to see what God is doing I know now pastor Jay that a few years I didn't know because I didn't understand all that God was doing but now I see the hand of God I see the collaboration that he's doing the people that he's bringing into your sphere of influence for what he's about to do so God has been working for many years I tried to leave the city of Pittsburgh and I was like God I love the warm I want to be in Florida by the beach but there's three rivers in the city of Pittsburgh that is going to be impactful for the move of God so just like Joseph God is working with me in my frustration wanting to leave but God is saying no there's a move I brought you here for a purpose and that purpose has been established and so in the process of getting that purpose to be God is working on my maturity my growth my faith and that's the same thing he did with Joseph so by the time he becomes an administrator at 46 he can now let go his brothers you didn't do this to me you're not the reason that I went through this this this you can look at that person that walked away from you and said no no don't be angry you walked away but God had a plan you couldn't go where I was going so the people out there that are hurting that are disappointed that have gone through a divorce someone walked away someone hurt them and they're thinking what have I done no they can't go where you're going they're not a part of your future they will not stand when you become a great administrator because they don't deserve it they couldn't walk through the process with you so those that are going through all these testing times don't look at it as God's mad or the devil it's a part of my process to make me into the greatest person that God wants me to be I've got to learn to evolve and becoming the greatest me that God wants me to be and that happens through testing. Wow you know as you're talking I was thinking about Joseph and I believe there's many people that are watching right now because when you said said why me and there's many of you that are watching they're saying why me why did I go and you are going through now hear me well I hope you heard the prophet here you have been going through all of these things and everybody else was okay because you know how it is pastor you know at times you're going through and you're like why is the devil picking on me you lose your job everybody else is getting promoted you lose your car breaks down someone else gets a new one you're single for 45 years everybody gets everybody's getting blessed but I hear the spirit of the Lord saying the season is changing when everybody was watching you go through and they were going up God says I'm turning it now that people are going to watch you go up and you're going to have the answers for everybody that's going through and isn't that what happened to Joseph he went through the pit he went to Potiphar's house he was really accused of rape thrown into the prison but everywhere he went he learned to dig himself out of the famine do you believe that God has been using these times to prepare people so then we will now the body of Christ will have the answers and the wisdom for the recession we're currently in absolutely God has no surprises it's not like he wakes up and is a surprise when you look at Joseph's life you see how God orchestrated every area of his life and then you see the change of heart you don't see that little boy 16 that couldn't wait to boast to every bond about his dream and they made everyone hating but not only that his dad gave him a coat his coat was prophetic his coat represented all the nations that he would reach if you remember it was a coat of many colors and what that coat represented is that Joseph you were never just a city you were called to nations and God is going to take you through nations what going through the nations is going to cost you something and so his own father mantled him with a prophetic mantle that you would reach nations and once he got that mantle on him it just began to just pin right all the way to Egypt and that is so important for us to understand God had already mantled him for where he was going and the nations he would reach when he got to Egypt he wasn't just dealing with the Jews he was dealing with every person in the world that needed food Egypt was the bread basket the church is the bread basket of the world we are God's source because God is the source and we're now the resource that God is using and we've got to learn to collaborate because as Pastor Giles said there's a transference of wealth I just said to someone yesterday that was saying to me how he's gone through a divorce and he couldn't understand Pastor why I'm gone through I said you know what's happening also men that have been mistreated and have been not been well and have not been taken care of God is even transferring in relationships women who have not been treated well God is not just transferring monies he's transferring relationships so you may say oh that person was married twice and they never had a husband because God used them to prepare him for you because God is transferring not just wealth but if you look at everything else there's a transference of relationships taking place because God is the source of everything God said I'll give you the desires of your heart he wouldn't promise you that and don't fulfill what you asked him and so we're seeing a great move of God like never before and God is giving people an opportunity to get it right because once you get into that level of leadership you don't have time to fix it then no you've got to be prepared when he got to be an administrator he could not have jealousy and anger and bitterness all of the things he had to be healed he had to learn how to let go quickly after they betrayed him then he gets to prison here comes the butler and the baker forgetting him again you know what I'm saying and so he could have been angry there but he kept on working and the Bible says and God was with him and that's what we have to understand no matter what you face in this season God is with you because there's a greater purpose and a greater destiny being ordained for you right now don't let your pain stop you from fulfilling your promise every promise it's always conditional it's always got a position where God positioned you for this promise you've got to remember promises are geographical he said he started out in Israel but look at where he wound up in Egypt the promise of the fulfillment of the promise was still Egypt the word came here but the manifestation wasn't here you know as you're talking I sense that this is the season for the manifestation I go back to what Apostle Giles was saying or what you're saying and you know as you're talking about the coats the revelation come back to me Joseph had three jackets he wore actually technically he had four he had the one with the coat of many colors but when they threw him into the pit it got stripped off and then when he went to Potiphar's house his Potiphar's wife stripped that off him he put on a new one when he went into the prison and the Bible says he took that off in order to go to Pharaoh and then he was wrapped with a robe come on I believe this is the season that those that have been prepared we're saying today this is the season that you take off the coat forget everything from the pit forget everything from Potiphar's house in the prison God's about to wrap you in the robe of the calling of the destiny there is a new anointing that's getting ready to come upon your life and I believe that leads us right into Genesis 26 absolutely that this is the time that we are in the middle of a famine talk to us about how the famine, recession inflation how they're all the same to me it is because what happens is it really talks about this when it comes to recession it's an economic downclimb something's happening in about two or three quarters they determine we're going into a recession a recession is nothing new for God when you go into the Bible you see famine which is also the same thing an economic downclimb things are not as producing like it usually is when you get to Genesis 26 the Bible opens up there's a famine in the land God takes one man Isaac and he says to him, don't go to Egypt now you see Joseph goes to Egypt but he says to Isaac you don't go to Egypt you stay right here in Jirah and I'm going to go with you and so he's staying right there but there's a famine in the land but what gets me excited about that is that God had positioned him your breakthrough is you stay here you don't go down to the world system looking to fix this you stay right here and I'm going to go with you we saw that even in the pandemic we lost over 300,000 people in the pandemic but the church is still here we are still here we're still here and God has blessed us in the pandemic there's some of us that increased in the pandemic instead of decreasing when I speak to people during the pandemic they prospered our church did better in the pandemic than when people were coming to church before because people were scared they were frightened, they wanted to obey God they wanted to fix it so those that weren't tithing were making sure they tithed because they didn't know what was going on and so we saw this move for God and it's the same thing when you look at Genesis 26 the Bible says God promised him I'm going to go with you and he begins to move forward in the things that God has called him to do in Genesis 26 but then you hit strive and envy you don't ever think easy there's always something that wants to pop off to get you off track to get you out of the will of God and as the famine is increasing in the land the Bible says that he began to dig wells and when he gets to a certain area here comes envy but what I love pastor he left the wells for them when people hurt us and wound us the first thing we want to do is shut down ignore them how about God calling you to bless those who have despitefully used you those who have wounded you those who have brought envy and strive into your life here now God says to you feed them that's what the church has to do we have to learn to let go the things of yesterday the strive who left our church and who joined another church and who do this that's not even relevant here's what God is saying to you bless you no you be a blessing and so you watch him he moved on dug another well here comes another opposition but he never stops to argue or fight over the well you don't have time you're going somewhere and you've got to get to a place where you understand everything I'm a steward everything I own belongs to God I'm not going to fight over a well just imagine if he had stopped in one of those wells and decided yeah I'm going to argue with these men and I'm going to take my well back he would have never gotten to his real birth he would have never gotten and that's what the enemy wants us to do stop and argue and fight and bicker among ourselves miss the collaboration miss the fact that together we can do more than by ourselves in coming and working with you on the set a few months ago I didn't know Pastor Jay but then look at the collaboration of what God is doing in our lives and just gleaning from you the nuggets that God has sheared and we see what God wants to do in the recession it's the same way here God takes this man through this journey and the Bible says and he became great and it didn't stop there and became very great this is what God will do in the middle of a recession is raising up his people to do great and mighty things for him the Bible said he sowed a seed in that year and the family majority of the time when you hear family nobody wants to give they want to hold on I'm going to hold on to everything I have but what they don't realize the only voice that a harvest responds to is that of a seed there is never a harvest without a seed so the time you do want to sow is in preparation for the recession so that even in the middle of a recession God has to honor his word because seeds are in the ground there is a recession, there is a famine whatever you want to name it never lacking I built a home in the middle of our pandemic we paid off our church in the middle of all that is going on God shows you I am your source not the world, not who is in the White House not the political arena I am your source and I say it all the time the kingdom of God has outlived 45 presidents the kingdom of God has outlived recessions before 1945 to 1949 recession we are still here you just preached a whole sermon I have to go back and unpack some of this because something that you said all of it is all good but what you said earlier and I think a lot of people need to grasp this the two people that God used the greatest analogies we are talking about you think of Joseph and you think of Isaac both had to labor for the people that did them wrong can I take a minute ladies and gentlemen I need you to understand many people are going to disqualify themselves because they have ingested the venom of the back biting they have ingested the venom of the things that have done you have allowed the bites in the wounds you received to fester and develop a spiritual gain green in your life not understanding that is the devil's plan to disqualify you from Rahobith where Isaac eventually gets to you cannot allow the envy and the strife look Joseph's brothers threw him in the pit Potiphar's wife threw him falsely accused him of a rape I mean the butler forgets about him Joseph makes an impact in his brothers he makes Potiphar's house better he's constantly doing for other people but every time he finds out something's bad let me ask you a question can you do the right thing even when you get the wrong results my good God Almighty because many people only want to do right thinking well I'll do it as long as I get what I want when I want but let me say this I hear the spirit of the Lord saying there are many of you that are watching right now that people have done you wrong people have hurt you and you've done the right thing but God says they are not your source they are not the ones that are going to bless you but the spirit of the Lord is saying I have kept the books and I am going to bless you for such a time as this do not look to man for your reward for it is not man that is going to reward you for it is not man that has put you where you've been man is not the one that ordered your steps but it is I the Lord that has ordered your steps and in this season the same God that ordered your steps into the pit the same God that ordered your steps into the potter for itself the same God that ordered your steps into the prison is the same God that is ordering your steps to be before Pharaoh in this season but do not allow those that have hurt you and wounded you to allow those wounds to fester but God saying in this season I will put favor and blessing in your life do not look to man and do not look to those that have hurt you or those that is going to bless you but it is I and those that have hurt you are the ones that you are going to bless I am not going to bless them but I am going to bless you and you are going to bless them says the Lord I sense in my spirit right now the power of God Pastor Connie that many people do not understand that those Isaacs I feel the glory of God those Isaacs he was digging wells and envy us against them those that were jealous but isn't that just like Jesus he died for a people I don't mean to preach I am sorry go ahead let him use you the Lord was the same way though he died for a bunch of people that didn't deserve us and this is the opportunity for the body of Christ to be the greatest demonstration of the love of Christ to become the bread basket for the world and people are hurting and they need the church that's why we were not created to just have a service we are to be the bread basket we are able to forgive we are able to let go we are able to be able to sow we are able to be able to have our churches what you and your wife are doing starting a program that help young women that are going through something this is what we were created to do and we have wasted so many times it is our time ladies and gentlemen I want you to understand God is moving right now there are many of you that have been digging wells like Isaac and I think about Joseph all that he went through every person that did him wrong he had to bless everyone he had to bless his family during the time his brothers ended up coming back to him man I feel the glory of God right now listen there are people if you have the right heart in this season God is going to send back the very people that did you wrong that are going to need you not in a way of look at y'all needed me you did me or not you can't be elevated like that you can only be elevated when you've got the right heart and that's what Joseph did didn't he Pastor Connie he said you meant it for evil but God meant it for our good and that's what we have to understand you are going through all of that to take all of the carnality out of you to take all of the stuff out of you so that when God gets you to that place humility is what goes with you caring and love because he said the greatest commandment is love and that's what God wants us to give to one another we got to get the ego and all of that out of the way the arrogance and say listen I love my brother I love my sister I know what you said but that doesn't matter now we need to feed you we need to walk you through deliverance do you know me because I work in a ministry of deliverance how many people have walked away for me in years and I've come back to my church and the Lord said to me they need to walk through healing and I said but God they left me and he's like you have to answer the call upon your life those people need you right now and that's what God is doing to the church we have to let go the past to become everything God calls us with we have to evolve into being more like Christ and we've got to willing to pivot we've got to do it on the drop of a hat without trying to figure it out think it out but show the love of God because that's who he is and Pastor Connie you know think of those people that have done the people wrong that have hurt and set them back did all those things if they can't deal with the bitterness the right way and serve them in the bitterness they'll never serve the people when they get the glory on them. No absolutely and pastor we can't use our pulpit as a place to cut we can't take our anger and our bitterness and our frustration and who left our church and who did this to us to the pulpit we've got to be pouring in the wine and the oil into the people we've got to pour into the lives of the people they are hurting they weren't matured enough they didn't know any better and so now that we are the leaders who have come through our own healing and our own deliverance and watch how God preserved us and kept us even when we blew it when we made mistakes God still used us do the same thing for someone else be a blessing to someone else and I think that's what we're seeing happening in the church today this recession is going to bring out the best of God in this church because it was all about him in the first place Do you understand ladies and gentlemen where you are right now in this moment that God is trying to position you for the greatest blessing that's why you have gone through and I sense people right now just weeping under the power of God we're speaking right to where you are you have been hurt you've been broke busted and disgusted you pulled knives out of your back people have lied on you they've mistreated you you've given your heart to people and they wounded you because the devil was hoping to destroy that heart and I hear the Lord saying it is that heart that I've given you of why I'm going to promote you it was your heart from the get go and you trusted people and they hurt you you reached out to people and they hurt you you served people and they took advantage of you but God saying if you can realize that that's the exact same way that I was I laid down my life for a people that didn't deserve it and if you will serve those people in this season the anointing that was on Joseph that Rehoboth blessing is going to come into your life in a super natural way listen ladies and gentlemen the power of God is here there is a divine reversal that is happening and we're going to take a short break here for just a moment and we're going to come back for more with Pastor Connie Brooks as we discuss what God is getting ready to do in this recession how he's going to take you from the back door and place you before great kings in this season happens here with the very vested inspirational programming start your new season with cornerstone television network ahead of you God will prepare the way God will change the heart of the other person God will do things that will absolutely surprise you find hope for a better day and sample the best of local Christian TV on cornerstone television network the anointing in the power of God is here on signs of the times we're here with Pastor Connie Brooks I feel such a weight of the anointing right now my good God there's a shift that is happening there's an anointing that is falling right now in your living room in that hospital room I'm telling you you are in miracle territory right now that God is doing a divinely you are in a kairos moment in this season that God is stepping in there's a divine interruption that is happening in your life you've been walking down a certain journey and in the middle of this recession God is stepping in right now pastor Connie and telling people this is the moment that I'm getting ready to do some new things we just take a minute and just minister to the people in their homes as the spirit of the Lord leads you I was just saying to Pastor Jay I heard someone say in the spirit why did I have to go through cancer why did I have to go through a divorce why did I have to go through is you're asking yourself the why why can you imagine that Isaac God and the whales were being clogged up or the envy stopped they said but why am I going through God said he's with me God told me to stay here why did I am I am I going through this I mean obedience to God because everything you go through is a part of where you're going it's making you who you are it's delivering you you don't even know sometimes what you're being delivered from and so if right now where you are you say God forgive me for complaining forgive me the Bible said do everything with a murmuring and complaining I promise you if you say right now to God God forgive me for complaining and murmuring about what I'm going through I lost my job and other people had their job God here's what God say I have a better job for you and more a young lady at my church was saying to me the other day that she needed a job I said by the end of August you'll have one and she called me and she said pastor I got the job and I got the money that I wanted we've got to understand when you lose something God has a greater coming for you he walked away from the well in Sydney he walked away from Essex but there was a Rehoboth coming what I don't want to do past the J is miss my Rehoboth by being angry and bitter and frustrated at life and church and people when there's a major move coming this recession was not created in a just a drop of God knew it was coming and what are you saying I am going to use it to transfer the wealth I'm going to use it to push you into your Rehoboth because if I didn't do it you would remain stuck and I need you to get where I have you to because you are going to be the bread basket you are going to supply the food you are going to be able to minister in the middle of the pandemic we fed 200 families every week because God told us to partner with the Heart Association we did it and we were able to feed families and we were going to tell his leaders what to do but we've got to you said something this morning calling leaders to pray in fast they don't want to do that they don't want to do that but that's where you're going to learn the voice of God and what to do for your church it's time out for three songs and a message and it's time out for getting into pulpit broken and hurt and wounded and spewing our bitterness it's time to heal the nation so that the people are ready to walk through this recession and get their transference of wealth to get the things that they've always wanted to do but could never afford to do and you know pastor kind of do you believe also that many people that are going through this time that everything that they have gone through was for the purpose of teaching them the Rehoboth their time in front of Pharaoh it's not about us no it's not you know a lot of time we're like how do I get my car how do I get my breakthrough when you're in Sitna God's burning all of that out so that when he really promotes you you understand first of all you ain't that cute because you've repented on every single one of those times you realize that anointing ain't yours that blessing is not yours and that in the midst of us and our brokenness and frailty as human beings we are called to serve one another and what I'm sensing maybe you could speak more to this is that there are many people that have walked through all of that and God wants them to see that it wasn't ever about them just like Joseph knew it was never about them and neither is this next level it's about us ministering to the world so this recession is a setup for those that have been processed that understand it's not about themselves but it's about serving the world with the love of Jesus Christ Pastor you have to understand we had come to a place even before the pandemic where preachers wouldn't come to a church that was small because they couldn't pay them there were leaders that would not come and bring your gift that God gave you bring the message that God gave you to a church because they only had 50 members and you don't preach anywhere unless you get 10,000 20,000 would not come now there's no churches hiring nobody there's no churches having them now because there's no money to give you that to you now that's over that season has come to an end God shut everything down those are the things that we have to understand God is moving because God needs the word to get to everyone the gift things your gift will bring you before kings but you've got to start somewhere you can't overlook the 50 because you want 50,000 that 50 also needs the word how do you know there was not one leader in that 50 that was going to impact the whole world if I choose where I take my gifts if I choose where I bring deliverance to where I come to you because you can't pay me enough what about that little boy in that congregation that's the next pastor J where's that little boy that's the next T.D.Jakes or Bishop Jiles who will bring that word to him of deliverance if the prophets choose where they're going to prophesy the Bible says the prophets and the priests are in bed together we can't collaborate and keep the word away the people need the word pastor we have got to come together and bring the word to the people so they're ready for this recession that the people are strong their giftings are elevated they're doing great and mighty things pastor we cannot keep the word of God from the people we've got to get it to them get them energized tell somebody you're going to make it you've gone through this because of God getting ready to use you mightily we've got to share it and I think in this recession is too you've got the big entourage and 50 people coming in they come in 45 minutes late they're not ready they can't be touched and can't be around the people and all that stuff you're right I think in 2020 God got rid of all of that and now he's putting the people that are going to be elevated in this season are the people that care about the one God has dealt with me even in my own world about the one listen we have gauged we have gauged ministry growth by numerics it is wrong because if that's the case when the 5,000 left Jesus he failed God is not looking hear the story it is wrong it is wrong it is wrong it is wrong it is wrong it is wrong it is wrong God is not looking hear this preacher well God is not looking for numbers he's looking for fruit see we are gauging it by the numbers of people I would watch this I would rather have 10 people with 50,000 pieces of fruit hanging off their tree than 50,000 people with 50 pieces of fruit Jesus will say you will know them by their numbers He said you will know them change lives. Numbers will come. Absolutely. If you change people want to be the best, themselves that they can be, we've got to get back to ministering to people, even in this recession is the opportunity to meet their needs and be a blessing to them. Pastor, I went to Florida on vacation. I was on vacation. I was telling Sister Sidney, I went to Florida on vacation. I found 80 children that had no book bags, not ready for school, drove into their neighborhood. The crack, the prostitution, I had never experienced that before in my life. And so someone said to me, well, it's in Pittsburgh. Why did it affect you like that? I never saw it. But once God showed it to me, I knew I had to do something. I came back. My assistant took all the book bags and things, bath and body products. We shipped it. When God shows you something, it's for you to do something because he's given you the money to do it. And like I said, if you want more of a harvest, you've got to plant more seeds. We took the book bags down. We took the food down. We sent water, juices. We realized, Pastor, they were struggling and the church has to become the bread basket. We've got to do something when we see something and we can't just walk away from it and act like we didn't see it. And that's what God is bringing us to, into that place of Rehoboth where we're not just taking for ourselves, but we have been fully prepared now to be a blessing. God never blessed us just to bless our four and no more. We've got to become the bread basket. We've got to minister and pour out to all those. That's what Joseph did. That's what Isaac did. Isaac kept on moving, kept on growing, kept on feeding everyone that he left there in Jura. That whole town was fed. Everyone there was fed all because he allowed them to keep those whales and he did not take them and fight over them. He kept on moving because he knew there was a bigger well coming. You know, as you're talking, it's so powerful because I think that's the key to unlocking this wealth transfer. See, and I have to be honest, we've all thought it probably, I'll speak to myself, if I thought like, you know, you're going to get this big wealth transfer and have all these zeros in your bank account. And you know, it's all right because that's what, but the reason why we wanted it is changing. And I believe in this recession, there are more troubles that are coming. Apostle Giles said it. The economic systems are going to tank. Why? God, he has prepared a people that are ready to, some of you, you said something earlier. You said, some of you don't even know what you're being delivered from. Sometimes we're in the middle of the fire. We don't even know what's being burned out of us. We have no idea. God does. God does. And he has prepared a people. And I believe you're watching right now because you have been prepared because you are going to start seeing things in the earth, in the recession, when the money tanks, when the economy tanks, there are problems everywhere. And guess who's going to show up? The church of the living God that has been processed like Joseph 30 years prior for such a time as this pastor coming. It is. And it's exactly that. Pastor Jay, you're not in Pittsburgh by accident. Pittsburgh is going to be one of the greatest movers God in the world. When the Lord said to me in this city where the three rivers meet, there was going to be a major move of God. Like I said, I've tried to ask God, why can't I just go somewhere warm and live? And the Lord said, this is where the move of God is coming. This is where I have you here. And so all the time, and you're going through the process of coming to Pittsburgh, or you've been going through all the tests to be here. And you're like, God, why Pittsburgh? And all of a sudden you'll begin to see now the revelation of why God has brought you here because it was for such a time as this. You are going to be such a catalyst of drawing leaders together for the next move of God because you are concerned about prayer. You're concerned about fasting. You're concerned about collaboration. Let's do this together. It's not about you anymore. It's about the kingdom of God and he wants us to do it together, working together to make the kingdom of God visible so that people can attain it. They can go after it, not a church, not a building, but we're a part of the kingdom of God. And God is going to use, whether it's like Joseph or Isaac, you're going to stand before great kings because he can trust you. And that's what you've been going through at home. You've been tested. You've been going through, and God can trust you in the season to do what God has called you to do. Your business is going to be restored. Your health is going to be restored. If you lay hands on your body right now, you're going to feel the miracle of God. God, you have been waiting for such a time as this to see the move of God. Don't be worried. Don't complain. Don't be dismayed about the fact that you've had to go through this. Yes, you lost a spouse. Yes, you went through some things. You have suffered losses, but you're going to be able to tell someone, but I got up again. God brought me through. God took me through and look at it. There's nobody that can restore like God. No, but the Bible says he is a restorer and God wants to restore. The Bible says there's going to come a day of great recompense of reward. There's a payday coming for each and every one of you who have gone through that testing time, that hard time. But now you know why have you been going through it? There is a Rehoboth. There is a place where you're going to stand before kings. You will not be going through this alone. God is with you. He was with Joseph. He was with Isaac and he is with you. Pastor Connie, we wouldn't even still be here if God wasn't with us. The fact that you're after the pandemic and all the stuff we've been through. And listen, there are many of you're still here and you're in your right mind. You know, as many people that have hurt you, you should be better, but for whatever reason, you still love them. And you know what I heard the Lord say? There is a Rehoboth in the recession. Absolutely. There's a Rehoboth in the recession. This is the turning point of what God is doing. Listen, see, we've got this whole thing about the whole focus is off. And even in my own world, the reason why we did the pregnancy center, I was actually here at Cornerstone and some things were going on here at Cornerstone. And God was shifting my season and had the things coming up with the pregnancy center and in order to get this pregnancy center off the ground, we had to take some time away from here. And I'm on my way home after having a meeting. He said, I need to take a little bit of time away. And I said, God, the pregnancy center wasn't even on my radar. You know what the Lord said to me? He said, that's the problem. The things that are on my heart are not on my people's heart. The things that are important. The reason why I'm blessing my church is not why the people want the blessing, but what's happening right now is people are beginning to get a heart for the things that grieve the heart of God. And this recession is going to be used to pull out of the people that have been prepared for such a time as this, the things that God has worked in them. And if you have been going through and you are still here, the anointing of Rehoboth is coming upon your life because you are going to be used as a vessel to minister in this end time harvest. Now listen, we are going to take another short break. I know we keep breaking in the action, but you know, if we leave you wanting more, you'll be back for more. Come back and we're going to share some of our final takeaways and we're going to minister to you as the spirit of the Lord leads on how you can continue to thrive in this recession. God's got a great plan for you. Stay tuned for more. Now we've only got a little bit of time left. And listen, we're going to minister to you for the time that we have left. I want you to call in, get this book. God is my source by Gloria Copeland. Free gift for just calling in and let us know if this show has been a blessing due to how it's made an impact. You know, Pastor Connie, as we're closing up here, I just want you to take a minute. However, the Lord leads you. You just minister to the people of God as the Lord sees fit. My God, only thing I kept hearing the Lord said, walk in obedience to me. That's what's critical right now. Walk in obedience to God. Forgive, repent, whatever you need to do. Get a line so that when God comes, he is ready to bless you and there's no blockage. Don't let anything block you in this season. No envy, no strife, no bitterness. Some of you have been in disagreement with your family. Some of you have been disagreement in your marriage and your job right now. Take time. Ask God to forgive you. Repent of it. Get yourself positioned for what God is about to do. Don't let anything cause you to miss your blessing in this season. It's so critical, Pastor, that we let go of things we need to let go. Do not allow anything to block us from our blessings. And sometimes I just felt like somebody had been holding something. They were hurt. They were wounded and they don't know how to let it go. This is a good time to let it go because God wants to move. I just see God moving on your house. I know you're going to call the studio and I believe in my heart that there's breakthrough coming for your house, that you forgive them right now. Somebody was molested as a child. Somebody was raped, just like we see in the Word of God. Just look at all that Joseph had went through. Look at all when Potiphar's wife took his coat and accused him of something he didn't do. You have been accused of something. We have somebody sitting in prison today that didn't do it and now God is saying, but I'm bringing you out. I am bringing you out with a high hand. And so today I ask you as we prophesy over you, live and not die. Live. Do you know how you make the enemy mad live when he wanted you to die? Live and declare the whole counsel of God. Declare what God have brought you out of. Declare the testimony of God. I went through something, but God's brought me out. The doctors, one of my assistants was just telling us in the back, the doctors told him he was going to die that night. He said, not tonight. I know I'm going to die, but not tonight. You need to tell the enemy, not today, not on my watch. I am going to see the blessings of the God and I'm going to walk in my Rehoboth. I am going to stand before kings. My gift is about to open doors. I understand clearly now why I've been through what I've been through because God is doing a great, almighty work and nothing is impossible for my God. You need to get up from there right now. Make the call and say, listen, I just need them at the station just to pray for me and we pray right now for the blessings of the Lord to overtake you. Thank you so much, Pastor Connie, for this word and for this anointing that is on your life. And I hope that you have been blessed and I want you to understand that there is a Rehoboth for you in this recession. All that you have been through has prepared you Esther, has prepared you Joseph, has prepared you for such a time as this. Remember that there is a Rehoboth in this recession. 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