If You Tell It, They Will Come
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 1/8/20241 Chronicles 4:9, John 12:32
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez encourages believers to move beyond average living by embracing the 'Year of Significant Opportunities,' using the life of Jabez to demonstrate how prayer and divine influence can break generational barriers and draw others to Christ.
Key points
- •The Year of Significant Opportunities requires moving beyond average living to embrace influence for God's Kingdom.
- •Jabez was born in pain and into a dysfunctional lineage, yet he chose to pray for expansion and divine favor rather than settling for his environment.
- •Authentic influence is built on being a 'proven product' of God's power; you cannot testify to what you have not experienced personally.
- •Discipleship and soul-winning are the primary goals of God's blessing, moving beyond personal comfort to global impact.
- •The next generation must be intentionally covered in prayer and trained to take the baton of faith to prevent a future of spiritual emptiness.
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Purpose
Prayer
Blessing
Discipleship
Spiritual Growth
Life application
Identify one area where you have become comfortable with 'average' or restricted by your past, and specifically pray the prayer of Jabez this week, asking God to enlarge your influence for His glory.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have you allowed society or your family history to define the limits of what God can do through you?
- Jabez's mother associated his birth with pain; what 'painful' processes in your life might actually be the birthing of a significant opportunity?
- Are you seeking God for personal prosperity alone, or are you seeking the influence necessary to draw others to Christ?
- What steps can you take this week to ensure you are not just a 'hearer' of the Word, but a 'proven product' of its power?
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0:00[Music]
0:03if you don't mind would you stand for
0:06prayer before
0:09we get into what God would have us to
0:12hear for a brief
0:16moment in the Book of John 12 verse
0:2132 very interesting passage of
0:25scripture it says and I when I am lifted
0:29up up from the
0:31earth will draw all people to
0:38myself did you hear what I just
0:42said Jesus speaking these
0:46words to his
0:50disciples he said when I am lifted up
0:55not when your problems are
0:58magnified not what's trending on social
1:03media not the negative things we hear
1:07every
1:08day he
1:10says
1:12disciples when
1:15I am lifted up being
1:19elevated above everything when I become
1:23the king and
1:25Lord of all areas of your life when I am
1:30first he says that's how I attract
1:34people that's how people will be drawn
1:35to
1:37me people are not going to come into the
1:40kingdom when church people magnify
1:49garbage when we feed on
1:52negativity it's going to push people
1:54away from the
1:56church so he says if I be lifted up when
2:00I be lifted
2:03up from this
2:06Earth I'll pull
2:09people man there's a lot of people who
2:12have yet to come into the
2:15kingdom and he loves
2:17them
2:19ah he loves
2:22[Music]
2:25them as jacked up as they
2:28are confused
2:31he loves
2:33them the people that you and I look down
2:36on he loves
2:38them oh
2:40how he
2:42loves them how do I know that because he
2:47first loved
2:50me who can love
2:54me who can love
2:57me nobody like God and he said if you
3:02lift me
3:03up I'll do the drawing so father thank
3:07you I've
3:09spent time on this word making sure that
3:12I preach it according to your
3:16will cuz we're living in a crucial time
3:21and you've given us some significant
3:24opportunities to tap into and this time
3:27we can't miss it
3:30this year has to be
3:33different has to be
3:36different so father I
3:39pray that your people will
3:43listen not only be hearers of the word
3:45but be doers of the
3:47word bless this sacred moment now I pray
3:52in Jesus name amen come on let's praise
3:56him one more time as you take your
3:58seat
4:01let me for a moment use the
4:05subject if you tell
4:07it they will
4:11come if you tell it they will come tell
4:19what not the
4:21chaos not the
4:23dysfunction if you tell it they will
4:27come so today on the first day of our
4:32fast I would like to draw our attention
4:36to the theme of this
4:38year and it is the year of
4:42significant
4:44opportunities significant opportunities
4:47what does this
4:48mean you see the year of significant
4:51opportunities means that God has already
4:55placed on our calendar
5:00opportunities that will be worthy of
5:04attention that would be worthy of
5:09attention when he spoke that to me it
5:12hit me
5:14because like you I'm the same there's
5:19there's a lot of people are intimidated
5:21about your influence right
5:25now they that they they don't want to
5:27see you expand they don't want to see
5:29you grow they don't want to see you
5:32blessed what God is
5:35saying this year he has placed on the
5:38calendar many
5:41opportunities for us to experience
5:46things that are worthy of
5:51attention so for those of you who don't
5:54want to upset
5:56anybody when God bless you
6:00that you don't want your life to go to
6:03the next level well this year is not
6:06your year you don't have to worry about
6:09it but if you want God to do something
6:12different if you want God to elevate you
6:16and to bring you to a level where you've
6:19experienced him in a greater way then
6:22this is the year for you to believe him
6:25for all
6:28things the these opportunities that God
6:30will give us this year will cause us to
6:33have influence at a larger
6:37scale
6:39influence this fast will remind I should
6:42say this fast will remind us of a man
6:46name in the Bible called
6:51Jaz as it relates to his life his
6:54struggles and his
6:57victories we've read it so much about J
7:00Bez and we we focus so much on his
7:03prayer life what he
7:06prayed but we fail to understand there's
7:08a backdrop to Jaz
7:11story Jaz was a descendant of Judah and
7:16Judah was a people with a long history
7:19of walking away from the will of God and
7:22ladies and gentlemen they paid a huge
7:25price for
7:28that that though we've heard so much
7:31about Jaz and his prayer he was
7:33connected to a generation that
7:36constantly violated the will of
7:39God and they paid dearly for their
7:43Disobedience so
7:46Jes according to the Bible in first
7:49Chronicles chap 4 it listed the
7:53descendants of Judah and how jaz's
7:57Brothers pay attention here now his
8:00brothers were not honoring God compared
8:04to JZ himself they weren't honoring
8:08God and I want you and I to understand
8:10that you and I are among a generation
8:12today of people who are not honoring God
8:15if you're not careful it may look
8:19attractive well they're doing that so we
8:22can do it too in verse 9 the Bible says
8:26jabz was more honorable than his
8:30brothers and his mother pay attention
8:33now his mother called his name Jaz
8:40saying because I bore
8:43him in
8:45pain
8:48man there was something special about
8:52jabz out of all of his brothers Jaz was
8:56the only one that caused his mother to
8:59have a painful birth
9:03experience read
9:05it out of all of his brothers who were
9:08born through the same
9:10womb jabz was the one that caused his
9:15mother to testify out of all my children
9:20the one
9:21kid that made me go in real severe labor
9:27pain was
9:30Jaz his mother was in pain during the
9:34birthing process and Jaz was born into a
9:39system that limited his ability to have
9:43increase in his
9:46life he was born in a
9:49system that limited him the ability to
9:53have increased he was born through an
9:57odd
9:58circumstance his mother remember the
10:01pain that she had with this young man
10:04and can you imagine jz's brothers were
10:08born watch this without pain follow me
10:11now without
10:15complications but they Dishonored
10:19God be careful when you're seeking a
10:23happy life without any
10:28confrontation
10:30be careful as a
10:31believer that you want to wake up every
10:34day you don't want no drama in your life
10:37you want everybody to like you and you
10:39just want to live
10:41happily ever
10:45after because when you seek for that you
10:50will have a tendency to become
10:53complacent if you're not going through
10:56any battles if you're not struggling in
10:58life life there's a tendency that you
11:01may forget
11:03God and let's be honest some of us the
11:06only reason why we're still in the faith
11:08is because of the struggles we've been
11:10through and we're currently going
11:15through because we know if we were to
11:19have everything when we wanted it how we
11:22wanted it we may not even serve
11:27God
11:29his
11:30brothers were doing
11:33well his brothers were
11:36complacent the Bible says though their
11:40beginning was not painful like
11:44Jaz Bible says they
11:48Dishonored God I'm going somewhere with
11:51this and yet they were not praying for
11:54God to lay his hands upon them his
11:59brothers were not praying for God to lay
12:02his hands upon them like
12:05Jaz his brothers weren't even praying
12:08there's nowhere in the Scripture it
12:10suggests that his brothers were praying
12:13and I know it it's it's it's it's very
12:15easy for you to get sucked into a
12:17society who's not
12:22praying it's very easy to want a life oh
12:26well I just want to be birthed into
12:28something that's great I don't want no
12:30trauma I don't want no drama I don't
12:32want to have nothing that that that
12:34would birth pain in me and so because
12:37you get so complacent to the point where
12:40you don't pray you don't read your Bible
12:42the way you should you see the sad part
12:46about JB's story is this his brothers
12:49were very comfortable with average they
12:52never prayed to God for
12:57increase I don't know who this word is
13:00for
13:01today be careful how you get
13:07comfortable with
13:11average be
13:13careful be careful how you get
13:16comfortable with just one in average you
13:18don't want to be challenged you don't
13:21want God to take you to the next level
13:23you be careful how you just want to live
13:25in a box that people and Society has
13:28created for
13:31you you must understand that you are
13:33living in a time where some people are
13:37comfortable where they
13:39are and God sent me here today to stir
13:44some of you
13:45up to get you to feel
13:48uncomfortable to get you to not miss
13:51what God has in store for you I don't
13:55care your what your past experience was
13:58like I don't care how painful it was I
14:01don't care what the last 10 years have
14:04been for you I don't care what kind of a
14:06family you were birth out of I don't
14:09care what kind of a financial dilemma
14:11you've had the last 10 years I don't
14:13care how much you have walked and
14:15strayed away from God the question is
14:18today do you want God to expand you do
14:22you want God to do the supernatural in
14:25your life do you want God to take you to
14:28the next
14:30level you have to understand that
14:32there's some people are comfortable
14:33where they are and please I want to
14:36encourage you do not disturb them don't
14:41disturb them don't disturb people who
14:44are telling you leave me alone I'm good
14:50would you look at your neighbor and say
14:51I'm not good I'm not most of you won't
14:54say it most of you won't say it but if
14:57if if you know you're are bigger than
14:59who you are if you know that God got
15:01something greater for you right now you
15:04ought to look at somebody else and tell
15:06them I I'm not doing so well I'm not
15:09doing there's got to be more to me than
15:12what you see right
15:14now there's got to be more there's got
15:18to be more God's got to have more for me
15:22I refuse to settle for where I am I'm
15:26not doing well EXP and my territory
15:37God so While
15:39others are dishonoring
15:42God by doing their thing you on the
15:45other hand should be praying to God for
15:49him to break you out of the
15:53box that is restricting you from
15:56expanding can you imagine JZ was born
16:00into a family and a system where his
16:03brothers were comfortable with average
16:06and he got sick of it one day and he
16:08prayed to God and he said God lay your
16:12hands upon me and bless me bless me I
16:16don't know who I'm preaching to this
16:19hour but I want about 300 of you to lay
16:23your hands on yourself and say God
16:26whatever you're doing in this season
16:29bless me bless me bless me bless me
16:33whatever you're doing in this season
16:36expand to
16:41me God told me to come and tell you
16:47today that you must break the
16:51barriers that have kept you from
16:54succeeding it's time to break it man
16:58it's time time I don't care if your
17:00brothers and your sisters are living
17:02with average I don't care if your
17:04neighbors are living with average it's
17:06time you break the cycle of
17:09average Oh Glory to God I don't know who
17:12this is
17:16for it's time you
17:19expand it's
17:21time you go big go big for God it's time
17:26you go big it's time you live in the
17:30Overflow you see we have lost our
17:34influence we've lost our power and our
17:37ability to effectively give people hope
17:42that prayer changes
17:44things we've lost our
17:46influence we become so complacent as a
17:49people we have allowed Society to Define
17:52who God is and the relevance of his
17:56kingdom and therefore we live an average
17:59life not knowing there's
18:02more to who you
18:04are than what you're currently
18:07living and you've got to see that God is
18:10saying it's time for you to go big go
18:19big oh God God I wish you could see the
18:22expression of some of these people
18:24looking at me they're looking at me with
18:26a blank look like what what are you
18:29talking about it's time you go
18:33[Music]
18:38big don't lose your
18:41influence see that I'm telling you today
18:45our God wants you to bring honor to him
18:50and when you bring honor to him he will
18:53give you influence to advance his kingom
18:57what's the purpose of of him blessing us
18:59so that we can
19:00brag are you kidding
19:03me you think that God wants to bless you
19:06and this is where a lot of people get it
19:08wrong and that's why they kind of rebuke
19:10sermons like this oh this is this
19:12Prosperity Gospel I'm not trying to tell
19:15you oh God just want you to get rich or
19:17blessed this ain't got nothing with
19:18money you need to understand this the
19:21way for you to have influence you have
19:23to be a proven product of what you're
19:27preaching
19:30don't tell me he's a miracle worker if
19:34you don't have any testimony of the
19:36Miracles that God has done in your
19:42life there's a reason why he wants to
19:45expand you there's a reason why he wants
19:47to bless you so that when he blesses you
19:50you can stand tall and you can say Look
19:53What the Lord Has Done in my life I know
19:57him from myself I've experienced him for
20:01myself when I was down and out he picked
20:04me up has God ever picked up anybody
20:07from the bottom and brought you to the
20:16top glory to
20:19God glory to
20:22God God wants to give you influence so
20:25you can go out there and testify to the
20:28the world come
20:31taste don't you knock down my God if you
20:35haven't taste and see that God is good
20:38you don't know nothing about my God he
20:41healed my body glory to God he regulates
20:45my
20:51mind would you look at the name and say
20:53you have no idea what I've been
20:57through you have no
20:59idea I am
21:01proof that I am an
21:04overcomer I am proof that God Will Make
21:08A Way when there is no way I am proof
21:13that God is a deliverer I am proof that
21:17God will shut the mouths of your enemies
21:20down I'm
21:25proof I'm proof
21:29so watch
21:30[Music]
21:31this this is actually what happened in 1
21:35Chronicles chapter 4 the Bible says that
21:39jabz was born into a family of
21:43generations who Dishonored God careful
21:47who you're hanging out
21:49with
21:52careful careful the people you keep
21:55company with people who dishonor honor
21:58God talk bad about God talk bad about
22:01his church you listen I have an
22:03announcement to make on the behalf of
22:05God you better leave his church
22:09alone I don't care what happens in the
22:11church you better leave it alone you
22:13know why Upon This Rock Jesus says I
22:17build my church and the Gates of
22:20Hell won Prevail against it leave his
22:24church alone leave his church alone the
22:28the Bible says Jaz was
22:30born into a family that Dishonored
22:35God yet one man
22:39Jaz turned to God and God blessed
22:44him y'all can do what you all want to
22:48do I'm turning to
22:51God I don't care the foolishness that's
22:54happening
22:55around I'm looking to the KS from which
22:59comeing my
23:01help see I believe the blessing that JZ
23:04prayed for had Global
23:08impact he was saying God let me be a
23:12world
23:13changer I don't care what my siblings
23:15are doing God I I want to be different
23:19it don't make no sense all of us live up
23:21in the same CB it don't make sense we
23:24live up in the same crib of average I
23:28want to be
23:34different can I just go Urban in you for
23:37a minute look at your neighbor and tell
23:38your neighbor it's time to move out of
23:40this crib it's time to move out this
23:45crib is too small for me where God is
23:49taking
23:51me y y'all not ready for this man yall
23:54not ready for this I said you all not
23:56ready for this man
23:59please note that the scripture placed
24:01emphasis on the circumstances of jz's
24:04birth and this is really really what I
24:06really want all of you who are streaming
24:08and in the house here the Bible Place
24:11really emphasis there's a reason why it
24:13was placed
24:15there the Bible painted this picture
24:18that ja's
24:20mother while given birth
24:24experience
24:26extensive or excessive that's
24:29pain
24:32pain she giving birth to a man who's
24:35going to honor
24:37God yet it was
24:40painful why would all of his
24:43brothers his mother never recorded that
24:46it was painful giving birth to them but
24:49with this man who will follow
24:52God she said it was
24:55painful you see it it was different from
24:59his
25:00brothers scripture says the mother said
25:03these words
25:04because I bore
25:07him in
25:10pain let that settle in your spirit for
25:13a
25:15minute she gave birth to he it had to be
25:23a horrible
25:25experience for this woman
25:28to have said in the midst of Judah and
25:32their
25:33craziness see that one there
25:37jbes when I was having him out all his
25:41sibling he the
25:44one that made me think I was going to
25:49die I'm not a woman don't plan to be a
25:54woman I have no idea what it feels
25:59like giving
26:02birth so ladies who have given birth
26:05work with me
26:07here and not just who have given birth
26:10but those who have given painful birth I
26:13see a few
26:15hands it must have been a horrible
26:19[Music]
26:20experience for his mother to have said
26:25this
26:26boy all almost killed
26:29me I don't know who I'm preaching
26:32to but somebody in this room and
26:35streaming is giving birth to something
26:39that is causing you
26:45hell something that is pain in you but I
26:49need you to keep on
26:51pushing because that thing that is
26:53hurting you is going to come out to give
26:57God some
26:59Glory I don't know who I'm preaching to
27:02keep on pushing not your neighbor and
27:04say keep on
27:07pushing because the one son that gave
27:10her
27:12pain the Bible says he the one who
27:16turned around and prayed to God and said
27:21God lay your
27:23hands upon me now you see why why his
27:28entrance into the world was so painful
27:31and lifethreatening
27:33Jaz was a
27:35dreamer he was a Believer for bigger
27:39things that he could not see because he
27:42had Kingdom on his
27:45mind he says I am going to break the
27:48spirit on Judah Judah is too
27:52comfortable Judah is settling for
27:55average I want to be the one he must
27:58have been a bold guy to say God I'm
28:02going to pray a prayer different from
28:05everybody else I'm going to pray a
28:08prayer that God I don't want the elders
28:10I don't want the deacons I don't want
28:12the missionaries I don't want the priest
28:15the prophets to lay their hands on me
28:17God I want a bypass protocol you got lay
28:21your
28:23hands upon me and bless me so I've come
28:28to tell you today that what you are
28:31feeling right
28:32now is a very different thing cuz it's a
28:37different time God is allowing you to
28:40give birth to something that will bring
28:42honor and glory to him even when it is
28:45painful to birth because it has Global
28:48impact it is about you becoming a person
28:52who will testify to people that God is
28:55still real that God is still alive that
28:58God will still do wonders in your
29:02life Jaz was born through a painful
29:05process we know that by now and I want
29:08you to know that the birthing that that
29:12birthing anything I should say that is
29:16God ordained will be
29:19painful so let's settle this for those
29:23of you just want to go through
29:252024 without pain
29:29I don't want no drama in my life I want
29:31everything to be
29:33okay
29:35nonsense not if you want really want God
29:38to expand
29:39you you see that desire that God placed
29:42in your heart some of you are struggling
29:45to sleep at
29:46night cuz you're
29:50dreaming you see
29:52beyond the situation that you're
29:55in and you're restless and and one
30:00moment you were like I don't if I
30:03should and then somehow the spirit of
30:05God won't let you rest because he's
30:08telling you can do this this is what I
30:11purpos for you I don't care how painful
30:14it
30:15seemed you can do this some of you are
30:19just like
30:20JZ you're becoming watch this you're
30:23becoming whomever God wants you to be is
30:29painful
30:32painful and you want to lie to yourself
30:35that that can't be God because it was
30:37God why am I going through all this
30:38drama it's
30:43God that's just the devil's plot to mess
30:46you up to knock you off track for you
30:49not to continue what God has called you
30:52to
30:54do you have to understand here that
30:58becoming is painful and the enemy of
31:01your soul has restricted your ability
31:04like JZ to become greater than the Box
31:08you live in don't accept the
31:12limits of other people's
31:16Norm what other people call normal don't
31:19accept that 2024 is not a year for you
31:25to
31:26live not testing
31:29God it's not a year for you to sit there
31:33passively and say I won't step out in
31:36faith you need to cry out to God and ask
31:39him to lay his hands upon you and
31:41enlarge your territory if you are
31:44wondering why you're feeling so
31:47restricted to the limits people and
31:50Society of placed on you it could be an
31:53indication that God is up to something
31:56big in in your
31:58life so let me quickly try to tell you
32:03what God wants me to share with you and
32:05I'll get out of your way in 1 Chronicles
32:084:10 here's what JZ said the Bible says
32:12and JZ called on the god of Israel he
32:15called on the god of Israel why would
32:17the Bible even go through such extreme
32:21length to say who did he pray
32:23to he prayed to the god of Israel here's
32:28what he said oh that you would bless me
32:31indeed and enlarge my territory that
32:34your hands would be upon me and that you
32:37would keep me from Evil that I may not
32:41cause pain wait a minute watch this he
32:46said Lord lay your hands upon
32:49me he said lay your hands upon me so you
32:52can keep me from Evil not the evil
32:55people do to me keep
32:59me from practicing
33:07evil because when you camp out with evil
33:11people and you're among evil people it
33:13can rub
33:15off when you live in a system where
33:18people are evil God lay your hands upon
33:21me so I don't become like
33:25them
33:29so the Bible says that God granted him
33:31everything he prayed for ladies and
33:34gentlemen when you fast and you pray and
33:36this is what this fasting is all about
33:39you and I should understand fasting will
33:41get your results that's why Ezra
33:438:23 it says so we fasted and sought
33:48help from who from our God concerning
33:52this matter and he heard us what matter
33:55are you putting before God these eight
33:56days
34:00we have a whole world to bring to
34:04Christ you cannot be an effective
34:08disciple while you're so
34:12broken broken people have a
34:15tendency to break other
34:20people you want to effectively preach
34:22this gospel and let people know that
34:25your encounter with God is real get
34:32healed get healed of your
34:35Brokenness and when you get healed of
34:38your Brokenness you can effectively
34:40preach the gospel so we fasted that's
34:44what we're doing we sought the Lord for
34:48particular matter what are the matters
34:50what are your concerns put it before God
34:54for me I'm fasting that God will expand
34:56and his people's
34:58influence so that we can be the best
35:02representatives of his kingdom Jaz stood
35:06up in Judah different from everybody
35:10else that he said God I cannot do this
35:14without your
35:15anointing I need
35:18you beyond the prayer that he prayed
35:20look at the content of his prayer I lay
35:25your hands on me Keep Me From Evil cuz a
35:29lot of f my brother's hands are
35:32dirty they don't even pray they're
35:35comfortable where they are you're doing
35:38a new thing I perceive it I see it so
35:41therefore God I need you to lay lay your
35:44hands on me so I don't practice the evil
35:47I see my brothers
35:50do when you pray that when you fast for
35:54influence so you can be a world changer
35:58Mighty stuff will happen in your life
36:00you see this year we will have many
36:03opportunities to do a few things and I
36:05want to share them with you few
36:07opportunities please pay attention to
36:09this this may be boring to some of
36:11you maybe boring CU as long as I'm
36:15exciting you and you're feeling good you
36:17can hey fine but but are you ready for
36:20this this year can be different because
36:23it can be different it's an opportunity
36:26for us us to increase our knowledge of
36:30who Jesus
36:33is can I just be honest can I just be
36:36honest and please don't don't don't
36:39don't throw stones at me
36:42now please can I be honest look at me
36:45everybody those of you stream look at me
36:46real quick most of us who call ourselves
36:50Christians watch
36:52this we know about the pastor
36:57we know about
36:59church more than we know about
37:05God okay they didn't
37:09hear most of
37:11us who are in the faith we know more
37:16about church pastors and church
37:20shanans or that we know about
37:25him
37:27here's the reason why I know that let's
37:29be
37:30honest we don't read our Bible a
37:37lot how in God's name are you going to
37:39show up for a test that you never
37:41studied
37:45for are you wonder why you still getting
37:49FS you never took out the
37:53textbook the Bible so we have an
37:55opportunity like Paul Paul when he said
37:57in first in in Philippians 3:10 that I
38:00may know him and the power of his
38:03resurrection and the fellowship of his
38:05suffering number two we have an
38:07opportunity to be fully committed to
38:09Christ know him on a personal level and
38:12to be committed to him number three to
38:14practice
38:16discipleship jabz stepped out and said
38:20God lay your hands on me in other words
38:23expand my territory read it up read many
38:25translations
38:27increase my
38:29influence for the advancement of the
38:31kingdom of God number four to break
38:34generational barriers you bet every one
38:37of us in here and those of us who are
38:40streaming there's some generational
38:42barriers we need to
38:45break number five to break poverty and
38:49to begin the Journey of creating watch
38:51this generational wealth so I'm telling
38:55you today what was God saying when in
39:00the word of God when he talked about JZ
39:02when Jaz prayed to him what was God
39:05saying to all of us he's saying to all
39:07of us pray for a special anointing this
39:10season of your life an anointing that
39:13will change the
39:15atmosphere an anointing that will do
39:18different things in your life so pay
39:22attention to what is before you today
39:25here it here is pay attention to what is
39:28it what is before you today put God
39:31first watch this and you will never lack
39:39anything number one number two commit to
39:42discipleship grow his
39:45church we've lost that passion grow his
39:50church number three embrace the blessed
39:54life that's his path for you your life
39:58don't get
39:59distracted I'm not going to spend a lot
40:01of time on this I got to move
40:03on don't get
40:06distracted the Holy Spirit spoke to me
40:08and I shared with a few people this
40:11week one of most one of the
40:15most
40:17um unfortunate thing that's going to
40:19happen to a lot of us please hear this
40:22this
40:24year is the fact that
40:27we allow the enemy to distract
40:30us distraction is a
40:34killer some of you are starting out the
40:37year right you're in this fast you're
40:38doing well but I I I'm not trying to put
40:42bad news on the sermon but you're not
40:44going to make
40:46it you're not going to make it
40:48throughout the
40:49year because you're going to get
40:53distracted you're going to get
40:54distracted by all kinds of
40:57stuff instead of walking the path that
41:00God has in store for you Matthew 6:33
41:03says but seek you first the kingdom of
41:04God in his righteousness and all these
41:06things will be what added onto you
41:10here's what God shared with me and
41:12Mickey you can go ahead and play as I
41:15close here's what God shared with me
41:17about this
41:19fast I look at the life of
41:25JZ and how based on his birthing
41:28experience how his mother gave birth to
41:31him and the description that the Bible
41:34gave of her
41:36experience how Jaz stood up in the midst
41:39of a
41:41nation that was going against the will
41:43of God and he said Lord lay your hands
41:45upon me bless
41:48me expand my
41:53territory I thought about it and I said
41:58God I think you're saying to a lot of
42:01us it's time we make
42:05room for what you're about to
42:08do and
42:12instantly I know he spoke to me if you
42:15got an issue with this part of it you go
42:17talk to him you didn't hear him I heard
42:21him and God gave me a 24mon plan for
42:25this church 24 months two
42:29years he said in two years
42:33son let this be your
42:37focus one of the things he told me to
42:40tell you
42:42is which I've been preaching all these
42:4433
42:45years put him
42:48first get in your word put him
42:52first second thing he told me to tell
42:54you is
42:56is and I know some of you may not
42:59Embrace this
43:02but start owning your
43:16property I was talking to a guy this
43:18morning and he was telling me he just
43:21start looking now for his place and I
43:22said how long you've been renting 10
43:25years
43:26I said you've been renting for 10
43:29years can you imagine if 10 years ago
43:31you went ahead and purchased your
43:34home how you would have purchased for
43:37less and build up all these equity in
43:40your house and now you'll be further and
43:42somebody said wait why why are we coming
43:44to church and pastor's talking about
43:46getting your property oh so you want to
43:47follow God
43:50broke how you going to have
43:53influence you mean to tell me scripture
43:55your rewriting scripture when Israel was
43:58in bondage for 400 plus years in Egypt
44:01and God liberated them and sending them
44:04he was not sending them to a Revival
44:08yes he was not sending them to get to
44:12heaven he was sending them to a piece of
44:15real estate called
44:17Canyon and one of the thing that we the
44:21word of faith charismatic whatever you
44:23want to call us Pentecostal whatever
44:25Church has done to our
44:28people we excite you too much to the
44:31point where you miss out on what God's
44:33got for you on the
44:34[Applause]
44:40earth so my fast will consist of this I
44:44ask God for Kingdom
44:48growth I know if I open my mouth and
44:50tell
44:52it there's a number he gave me
44:541,700
44:5626 new
45:01converts the next two
45:04years I don't know why he placed that in
45:06my
45:08heart my time is winding
45:12down I turned 60 this year 33 years of
45:17ministry I'm going to be like the
45:19Apostle
45:21Paul I have
45:23fought a good fight
45:27I have kept the
45:30faith and I
45:32finish my
45:34course I'm going to finish what
45:37God put in
45:40me I don't know anybody in this room if
45:43you would join me praying God you lay on
45:47your pastor's
45:49heart that an additional
45:521,726 more
45:54souls must come through this ministry
45:59and be introduced to Christ how are we
46:02going to do it if we tell
46:04it what are you walking away with today
46:07when you exit these doors what are you
46:09going to your house to say what are you
46:12going to a workplace to say this week
46:15what are you going to tell people are
46:17you going to tell people about what
46:19never happened since the beginning of
46:20the year how you have had bad
46:22experiences how 23 was this are you
46:25going to now be like JZ
46:28Lord expand my
46:30influence man I went to
46:33church pastor preached a message from
46:36the book of 1 Chronicles man that thing
46:40blessed me I saw it in a whole different
46:42light I want my life to be an example
46:45for what are you going out of here
46:48saying if you go out there and tell
46:52it those people will come to God
46:57if you go out there and stop talking
47:00about what you see on this and talk
47:04about what you read in the
47:07Bible they'll
47:10come they will
47:12come your children will
47:15come your family will
47:18come While others are praying for a
47:21house this year God bless you God bless
47:22you get it while you're praying for
47:24whatever healing in your body whatever
47:27money in your pocket you know what my
47:28prayer is during this eight days of
47:31fasting cuz God has blessed me my prayer
47:35man is all
47:38about increase your
47:41church and when I said that to God he
47:44then said to me well Henry what are you
47:47going to do about
47:48it what are you going I'm not coming
47:51down to do it if I be lifted up Henry
47:57if you every time I give you an
47:59opportunity to stand on this stage or
48:02wherever whatever environment I placed
48:04you in will you open your mouth
48:08Henry and will you tell others of my
48:11goodness because Henry if you tell
48:15it they'll
48:17come don't be afraid to use your stage
48:21and tell it bow your heads with
48:24me I want to pray this morning thank you
48:26for your overtime today it's a fast
48:28we're in it's a fast if you got to go to
48:32work and so for we understand but it's a
48:36fast ain't going to kill you if you just
48:38give us a few more
48:40minutes but if you are below the age of
48:4625 and you
48:49believe that your
48:51generation must step up to the plate to
48:53take the Baton over
48:56and tell of the goodness of
48:59God if you're in the balcony you're here
49:03on the first floor and you say
49:06Pastor I want to be like
49:10JB God increase
49:13me and if you want to
49:15join this Army of people who will go and
49:19tell of what God is doing would you
49:22please sir ma'am you're below 25 you
49:25know your
49:27age if you really want to get on fire
49:30for Jesus Christ I want you to leave
49:32wherever you
49:34are I want you to come down here and
49:36join Pastor
49:38Fernandez because I
49:41believe you are the
49:43generation that is going to transform
49:46this world for the glory of God for the
49:50glory of God come
49:52on come on come on Church
49:56let's encourage these young
49:58people let's encourage these young
50:04people if we don't pray for them the
50:06enemy is going to snatch
50:08them I said if we don't pray for them
50:10the enemy is going to snatch
50:14[Music]
50:14[Applause]
50:16them we're going to
50:19pray ministers come on I need you in
50:22position to help get them down to the
50:24front get them down to the front as
50:25you're streaming if you're 25 and under
50:28please go ahead and post your first name
50:29that's all I want you to do po post your
50:32first name I want to pray for you this
50:34morning I want to pray for you this
50:37morning I know we're we're way over time
50:41but like I said it's a fast we got to
50:42get this done we got to get this done
50:45today I know you're going back to school
50:47tomorrow but we got to get this
50:50done I want all of you young people that
50:53are standing here we're getting ready to
50:54pray I want the the congregation would
50:56you stand but I want you to listen to me
50:59carefully and I'm going to pray with
51:02you I gave my life to the Lord Jesus
51:05Christ when I was
51:0710 I never forget it when I was 10 young
51:12boy grew up in
51:14church I know nothing else but the
51:17church
51:19seriously it doesn't mean that I'm
51:21better than people who who was outside
51:24the church I just don't don't I grew up
51:27in
51:28church I started this church at the age
51:31of 27 wow when I had hair you
51:37know
51:3927 did I know what I was doing
51:43no I know what I was doing all I know
51:46God called
51:49me all I know he called
51:51me and he said Henry I'm going to give
51:53you a stage and if you open your mouth
51:55them preach it they'll
51:57come they'll come has it been a painful
52:0133 years oh
52:05God don't let this fool you and think
52:08that Bishop just got here
52:14overnight my birth in this was
52:19painful but I'm
52:22here I know listen I know at my age I'll
52:27be 60 this year at my age I know without
52:32a doubt I haven't done everything right
52:34I'm not a perfect
52:36man but I know based on me following the
52:40will of
52:41God I
52:43know that God's got a reward for me
52:46man I
52:49know that's why I don't care how I feel
52:53I don't care what I am going through
52:56through when I come to
52:58church there's just a different
53:02excitement because I got to tell
53:06it my generation when I was 27 they
53:09needed a voice like
53:11Fernandez they needed my
53:13voice I'm getting older now listen to me
53:18the Next Generation got to hear your
53:21voice they have
53:24to they have
53:28to if you don't pray to God for God to
53:31bust you out of the confines of society
53:34if you don't pray to God and say God
53:36increase me you'll get swallowed up into
53:40society they will mess you up you will
53:44get pulled away from the word of God and
53:47I am telling you you name me listen to
53:49me carefully you name me one young
53:51person who has turned their back on God
53:54and it turned out well
53:57God's not
53:59mocked whatever you
54:01sow you going reap
54:04it you can go out and do do your thing
54:06with you know whatever you want to do or
54:08your Club in or whatever you call it and
54:11keep doing that go
54:14fine carrying your
54:17gun cuz you
54:20bad you keep joining them
54:23gangs you keep letting them people suck
54:26you into smoking all that
54:30[Applause]
54:34weed come on
54:37now and somebody standing right here you
54:40got weed right now your
54:43pocket that's how accurate God
54:46is and if you keep on fooling I'll point
54:48you
54:51out don't play with this you got we weed
54:55right in your pocket cuz you get sucked
54:57in cuz it feels
54:59good you get all these quick fixes and
55:02you get
55:04high what it is was has what has it done
55:07for
55:10you get your life
55:13right please if you don't tell it the
55:17next generation is
55:20hopeless hear me all of us who are
55:23standing in our seat
55:26who are older than you myself 20 years
55:29from now I will be 80 and I swear to you
55:32I will not be the pastor of this
55:37church who going to take
55:39over who going to be
55:42deacons who going to be missionaries who
55:45go who go cuz we all going to get old
55:47and I hate to say they don't want to
55:49tell you we all going to
55:52die and if you don't get your act
55:55together so we can train you so we can
55:57develop you we'll have a lost
56:05world so get your act together young
56:08girls get your act together listen to me
56:11get your act
56:13together get out of them boys heads with
56:16your attitude the way you dress the way
56:19you carry
56:21yourself take some pride in
56:23yourself be a holy woman of
56:28God because the next Generation they
56:31need you they need
56:35you if you tell it they'll
56:40come lift your hands and I want to pray
56:42with
56:43you I want all the seniors and mothers
56:46and fathers stretch your hands towards
56:47these
56:49children I don't know why God has led me
56:51to do this
56:52today but we got to cover these these
56:56children we got to pray for
56:59them we got to fast all week for
57:02them cuz 20 years is going to go by real
57:05quick I'm telling you 20 years going to
57:08slip up on me real quick and if we don't
57:10keep them in the church we going to have
57:13an empty
57:14building that is no longer relevant to
57:16the Next
57:18Generation and right in this group they
57:20are ministers God is calling you to
57:23Ministry are you got to stop running
57:25from
57:27it father we bring these young people to
57:30you
57:32today we pray that the spirit that was
57:36upon
57:37JZ when he cried out to you to say I
57:40want to be different I want you to
57:42expand
57:43me I don't want to be average I don't
57:46want to be normal that that same spirit
57:48will come upon these young ladies and
57:50these young
57:52men I pray that you will take the the
57:55taste of the world away from them take
57:58it out of their mouth take it out of
58:00their
58:01Spirit transform
58:03them the devil knows that your hands is
58:06upon them and he's going to do
58:07everything to destroy them but by the
58:10spirit of God I pray today that as we
58:14cover them that you would lay your hands
58:17upon
58:18them bless them I pray all week long
58:21we're praying for them that your spirit
58:23will rest upon them that they will
58:25become carriers of the Gospel that they
58:27will tell it and as they tell it other
58:30people will
58:31come that 20 years from now when some of
58:34us are transitioned have transitioned
58:37into the next life or maybe we're still
58:38on the planet but we can't move the way
58:40we're moving today that we can look back
58:43and see these young people continuing
58:45the ministry the word the word of faith
58:49and encouraging their generations to
58:52walk in the righteousness of God I pray
58:54today
58:55that your blessings will be upon them
58:56and finally God we pray for an edge of
58:59protection around
59:01them no evil will come near them we
59:05break that Spirit of control over them
59:07now whatever addiction that they have
59:11going on in their lives we break it now
59:14just like JZ broke that tradition over
59:17his family that Spirit of Disobedience I
59:20break it over them now in the mighty
59:23name of Jesus send s this young lady
59:25back home as a transformed woman of God
59:28send that young man back home as a
59:31transformed man of God bless and
59:34strengthen him now I pray and father for
59:38all of us we streaming in the house as
59:41we go and as we continue for the rest of
59:44this week give us strengthen our
59:46body that as we fast and we pray and we
59:50read your word that your holy spirit
59:53will visit us in a very unique way we
59:56thank you we thank you for your grace
59:59upon all of us and as we release your
60:01people may your blessings be upon them
60:04now and we declare that faith in God
60:08will always move mountains out of our
60:11lives