Preparing for my next season through fasting and prayer
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 8/7/20231 Corinthians 2:9
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez challenges believers to move from passive hope to active preparation for their next season by breaking cycles of dysfunction through the power of fasting and prayer.
Key points
- •Preparation is the bridge between God's promises and their manifestation; without it, you may lose what you prayed for because you cannot manage it.
- •The enemy uses trauma, feelings, and ignorance of God's purpose to keep believers in a cycle of unproductivity.
- •Success requires 'detouring' from toxicity, laziness, and generational dysfunction to break repetitive cycles of failure.
- •Spiritual breakthroughs for the next season often require the specific discipline of fasting and prayer to access supernatural resources.
Scripture
Spiritual Growth
Purpose
Perseverance
Discipline
Restoration
Life application
Commit to a designated day of fasting this week, refraining from social media and secular entertainment to focus entirely on hearing God's instructions for your upcoming season.
Reflection questions
- In what areas of my life am I currently 'unprepared' for the blessings I am asking God for?
- What 'cycles' or repetitive behaviors am I following simply because they are familiar or inherited from others?
- How have my feelings or past traumas caused me to abandon divine connections or opportunities?
- What is one specific 'detour' I need to take this week to move toward my purpose?
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0:00I want to talk to you on the subject
0:02quickly
0:04preparing for my next season through
0:07fasting and prayer
0:09preparing for my next season through
0:13fasting and prayer
0:15many of you are looking for a
0:17breakthrough you're looking for doors to
0:20be open you're looking for great
0:23opportunities to seize
0:26and I have to tell you that in order for
0:30you to seize those opportunities
0:33you're going to have to do some
0:36preparation
0:38now is not the time for you
0:42to be hope in and to be living
0:45passively thinking that stuff's going to
0:48change without your preparation
0:50so the Apostle Paul is saying for what
0:53God is releasing in your life in the
0:56next season
0:58your eyes have not seen
1:03so if that's true why are you panicking
1:08why are you doubting why are you having
1:11this sense of Abandonment that God has
1:14abandoned you
1:16that he has forsaken you because you
1:19haven't seen the manifestation of it yet
1:23but Paul says eyes have not seen
1:26you haven't seen it yet all the stuff
1:28you've been praying for all the stuff
1:30we've been declaring you haven't seen it
1:32yet
1:34you haven't heard it yet there's some
1:36Revelations you have not yet heard
1:39that's why we got to keep our mind in
1:41you I played two video clips this
1:43morning because it's a reminder because
1:45we we tend to forget the Bible in fact
1:47even states that faith comes by hearing
1:51and hearing and hearing you've got to
1:53constantly hear the word of God
1:58and then he says it haven't even entered
2:00into your heart
2:02what God has
2:04prepared for those who love him
2:07so I want to talk to people who honestly
2:10this morning you're not perfect God
2:13knows it you hadn't gotten everything
2:15right
2:17but God you love him
2:21man you love God
2:24that's why when you do dumb stupid stuff
2:26that nobody knows about you feel it and
2:29you you know you feel ashamed and you
2:32feel bad and you go to God and you
2:34always ask him to forgive you
2:37it's not that you don't care about God
2:38you care about him
2:40you love him
2:42right so because you love him
2:46you need to now embrace the fact that
2:49God has prepared some stuff for you
2:53but here's what the enemy wants to do he
2:56wants you to feel
2:57that that God doesn't love you and that
3:00he's a liar and that maybe this stuff
3:03doesn't work for you maybe it'll work
3:05for somebody else but the scripture says
3:07that God has past tense
3:12prepared things for you it hasn't even
3:16entered into your heart you are so
3:19bombarded with the fact that you screwed
3:21up that you messed up
3:24that you're not perfect
3:27you don't even see
3:31and conceived
3:34man
3:37he got some good stuff
3:40into August September October November
3:46December
3:482024
3:502025 five years from now he got
3:55good stuff
3:57who stored for you
4:02you're not preparing for it
4:05you're not preparing for it
4:08can I tell you this if God wants to give
4:10you the stuff you desperately need right
4:13now if he was to give it to you now you
4:17would lose it
4:19you would lose them why you're not
4:21prepared
4:25you're not prepared
4:27because when he gives them to you
4:29because your eyes couldn't see it
4:32you didn't hear it before it just
4:34shocked you and because you couldn't
4:36conceive it in your heart you don't even
4:38know how to handle it that is why people
4:41pray for our spouse and when they get
4:44the spouse they damaged them
4:49they pray for a job God if I could just
4:52get this job and you got the job and now
4:56you're about to lose the job because you
4:59cannot manage success
5:02but you did not prepare for
5:06the act of preparation is something that
5:09that's that's really not difficult for
5:12all of us to do it's not difficult the
5:15act of preparation is something that's
5:18really not difficult for us to do
5:22in fact preparation is something we do
5:26on a daily basis absolutely
5:30for most of you you constantly prepare
5:33for Spiritual Development which is your
5:36time spent at church
5:39by selecting what outfits you know you
5:44would wear
5:46what time you would awake to get dressed
5:50or log on to stream
5:53you prepare each week to get to the your
5:58place of employment if you will or a
6:00place of business to complete your
6:02duties preparation is nothing new we do
6:05it all the time we prepare for that most
6:09people live through their day
6:12by what was planned in their calendar
6:17some women have
6:19a diary a calendar that contains their
6:24plans for the type of man they will date
6:30they have it in their diary some of you
6:32are crazy enough that you also put a
6:35date of when you should get married
6:39you plan for it to plan for a husband
6:41you plan for children how many children
6:43you will have you plan your career you
6:46plan to have Financial Independence and
6:50physical wellness this is something we
6:52plan for
6:54plan for it
6:56you plan to go to college and get a
6:58degree or to get a trade and a
7:00certification in some program so you can
7:03have Financial Independence and you plan
7:05for your Wellness how many of you've got
7:08what you call gym membership
7:12and you go to the gym and you put on all
7:15these sexy clothes
7:17and you take pictures in the mirror when
7:19you post it on social media and you show
7:22every side of you come on now you do it
7:25is preparation
7:27likewise men too have their own plans
7:32for the type
7:34of woman they would date
7:37plans for children their career
7:40Financial stability
7:43and physical wellness
7:46we also plan for the four seasons of the
7:50year
7:51and how we celebrate them for example
7:54Valentine's Day Spring Break Easter
7:56summer Thanksgiving and Christmas we all
8:00make plans some of you in church right
8:02now planning what you're going to eat
8:03after church
8:06where you gonna go after church we all
8:08are planning it's it's planning is not
8:10difficult for us
8:12I could go on and on to explain to you
8:15how we all make plans to prepare for
8:18things and events yet
8:21we find very little time
8:24preparing for the things God promised us
8:29and the things he wants us to do
8:33In Our Lifetime on the Earth
8:38we fail
8:39but I'm playing
8:41and Satan loves it
8:43yes
8:45he loves it when you do not prepare
8:49he loves it
8:51he doesn't mind you talk all I want to
8:53do this I want to do that I'm going to
8:55give my life to God one day or I'm I'm
8:57gonna get married one day you know I'm
8:58gonna have children one day you know I'm
9:00gonna go finish and get that degree I'm
9:02going to go back to school he loves when
9:03you
9:04talk
9:06just as long as you don't do
9:09Satan is absolutely elated when you fail
9:13to plan
9:16because that makes it very easy for his
9:20plans for our lives to succeed
9:25so you must understand that Satan
9:26doesn't want you to have what God has
9:29for you you've got to get that in your
9:31mind he will do anything to keep you
9:34ignorant to God's will for your life he
9:37will keep you ignorant to that
9:40he'll do everything
9:43to make you sit there and complain and
9:46doubt and have a negative mind
9:49just as long as you don't focus and
9:53prepare for what God is bringing to you
9:56in the next season
9:57they will let you get into your feelings
10:01so you won't be led by the Holy Spirit
10:04and that's what hurting a lot of you you
10:07are allowing your feel
10:09drive you
10:11you're too sensitive
10:15your feelings have caused you to lose
10:18good people in your life
10:21your feelings has caused you good
10:24connections and good relationships your
10:27feelings of cost
10:30Financial Independence and stability
10:34because you left jobs you had no
10:36business leaving
10:38because of your attitude
10:45you left people who God has put in your
10:48life
10:49to help you gain Financial Independence
10:53but your feelings
10:55your feelings
10:57get in the way what if Jesus had gotten
11:01into his feelings when them folks at the
11:05food
11:07where would we be today
11:09where would we be today
11:12if when the disciples were inconsistent
11:15with their attitude
11:18and he said
11:20no I ain't doing this
11:23no
11:25all you all going to hell
11:29but he didn't
11:30he understood his purpose
11:34he will do everything to keep you
11:35ignorant he will let you get into your
11:38feelings he will let you dwell on past
11:42trauma
11:44so that you are incapable of moving into
11:48new opportunities
11:51he let you dwell on how you got hurt
11:56got robbed
11:58got disrespected
12:02just as long
12:03as you focus on what was done to you
12:09and not what was put in front of you
12:14this is where you're missing it
12:17the eyes of not seen
12:20heard it you can't even conceive it
12:22you're so broken and wounded over the
12:25trauma
12:27that you can't even hear
12:29can't even feel
12:32that yes though you were born in a
12:35broken home yes even though you were
12:38molested and violated yes even though
12:41your daddy was not in the picture yes
12:44even though you had a divorce yes even
12:47though somebody betrayed you and you've
12:50lost everything and you filed for
12:52bankruptcy and yes you endure hardship
12:54as long as you just dwell on the trauma
13:01and never Focus
13:04on the opportunities
13:08he loves it
13:10that's where he gets you
13:13he loves it
13:15when you're not Holy Spirit driven
13:18he will let you hold grudges and Malice
13:21and become envious and full of jealousy
13:24so you live in your own destruction and
13:29dysfunction
13:31that you have created
13:35and all of this
13:43bound to the cycle of failure bound to
13:47always see yourself as a victim but I
13:52come to tell somebody today that some of
13:54the trauma that you have experienced God
13:57will turn it around
13:59oh you're good
14:02if you let him
14:04he'll turn it around for your good for
14:07some of you you are blaming people for
14:10where you are in life and I'm here today
14:13to tell you no one can stop
14:17one can
14:21can Spar committed to the process
14:25no one can stop your progress
14:29come on now if you're committed to the
14:31process nobody
14:33nobody
14:35listen to me young lady nobody I don't
14:38care who's fighting against you I don't
14:40care what situation you've come up
14:42against no when you are a child of God
14:45nobody can put their mouth on you nobody
14:48can work obia nobody can put a spell
14:51nobody can dog you and criticize you and
14:55win if God be for you
14:59[Applause]
15:02who in this world
15:05can be against you
15:07nobody
15:09if you know the god that you're serving
15:11you'd recognize that nobody can stop
15:14your progress nobody if God says you are
15:17blessed if God says I've got favor
15:20written on you nobody can stop that
15:24nobody can stop you from finishing your
15:27education and getting that degree nobody
15:29can stop you from Raising that child
15:31whether he gives money or not the Lord
15:35shall supply nobody can stop you from
15:38getting the approval for that mortgage I
15:41don't care how much money you earn or do
15:44not earn God will always make a way
15:47because nobody can stop the word of God
15:51over your life and somebody ought to
15:53give him a praise
15:55nobody
15:58I dare you to look at your neighbor and
16:00say you can't stop this
16:02you can't stop my progress you can talk
16:05about me all you want you can set traps
16:08from me all you want nobody I dare you
16:11to look at somebody and tell them nobody
16:14can stop my progress
16:17nobody try all the stuff you want to try
16:20but when God has put an edge of
16:23protection around us
16:25nobody can stop it
16:28nobody
16:32so God sent me here today to tell
16:35someone the canyon is where he's taken
16:39you in the next season
16:40[Applause]
16:42but you have to prepare for it
16:44[Music]
16:45if not you will not get there
16:48you got to prepare for the next season
16:51here are five things the devil doesn't
16:53want you to prepare for
16:55and I hope to God you write them down
16:57and rehearse them all week
16:59five things the devil
17:03doesn't
17:04want you to prepare for
17:07number one life after death
17:13he doesn't want you want your power for
17:15your day
17:16to finally meet your creator
17:21so he wants you to live your life
17:22loosely
17:24want you to live your life thinking that
17:27there is no life after death and you
17:29don't have to stand before God
17:31and give an account for every decision
17:33that you've made on the Earth
17:35so that's why he pollutes this thing
17:37with religion and church
17:41here it is you get ticked off with
17:42church because of dumb stuff preachers
17:44and people doing the kingdom of God as
17:46if your relationship and journey with
17:49Jesus Christ is tied to a man or woman
17:54and if the truth be told every one of us
17:56in the Kingdom
17:57got some type of issue going on in our
18:00lives
18:04so when you sit there
18:06and watch other people's mistakes and
18:08the things that they do to
18:10to judge it based on on the fact that
18:14based on what they do will determine if
18:17you serve God
18:20he doesn't want you to prepare for the
18:22second coming of God he doesn't want you
18:24to prepare for life after death number
18:26two he doesn't want you to to discover
18:28your Earthly purpose
18:31that's knowing why you are on the planet
18:35because you are not a mistake
18:38nor did you get here accidentally
18:41because I want you to know that he
18:43doesn't want you to know who's your wife
18:46who's your husband
18:47he doesn't want you to meet your
18:49children
18:50those people that God has ordained to be
18:54in your life
18:56he wants to keep you ignorant to that
18:59and I get it everybody won't get married
19:01I get that
19:03but if you desire to get married
19:06he doesn't want you to
19:08find that right person
19:11he doesn't want you to prepare for your
19:14children
19:16the children that God has given you the
19:18responsibility of training to become
19:20their best self in the future
19:24number four he doesn't want you to
19:26prepare for your wealth that is
19:28available in all the resources on the
19:30planet he doesn't want you to prepare
19:32for your wealth
19:35so therefore here's what he does
19:38he puts you in the mindset to work all
19:42your money and use it to impress people
19:45that you look good
19:53so you buy stuff that depreciates
19:59some of you just need to go in your
20:02closet and have a sale day and take the
20:06money and go put down on a house
20:08[Applause]
20:15talk to me here now I don't want to get
20:17into your business but just let's just
20:19just love me or hate me it don't matter
20:21no more I'm just a postman I just
20:23deliver the mail you read it if you want
20:25some of you it's certified too cause you
20:28gotta own it you gotta own it man
20:32I mean think about it man
20:34he doesn't want you to prepare for your
20:36wealth he'll he'll want you to look like
20:39you're wealthy
20:41[Music]
20:42come on now and if Jesus so he'll he let
20:46your brothers have all kinds of stuff in
20:48your garage all kinds of stuff in your
20:51house oh your your car is all fine got
20:54gold Stripes everything like that I mean
20:56you've got all these things and yes you
20:58look really good out there you go to the
21:01gym man and you're all pumped up and you
21:04got all the muscles and you give pay for
21:07your gym membership 300 a month 200 a
21:11month but ain't got no house
21:13[Applause]
21:15have no money in the bank saved up
21:21because he doesn't want you to prepare
21:25so that day when you decide to be with a
21:27man with a woman
21:29that you are prepared
21:31that you're not just going to go and
21:33live and live alone
21:35with sex alone
21:37but you're going to go
21:39packaged correctly
21:43some of you ladies need to go in your
21:45closet
21:47and last time I checked wigs are
21:49expensive
21:53[Applause]
22:01[Applause]
22:06one Sunday we just need to have a wig
22:08offering man
22:10that's the wig offer
22:15expensive can you make and I'm not
22:17listening I'm not saying you ought not
22:18to buy them but think about this and
22:21this is you can you you can rebuke me if
22:23you want
22:26but can you imagine the amount of money
22:28you spend in looking beautiful
22:31but have nothing
22:35and women are quick well you know a man
22:39I want a man who's got to have a job and
22:40he's got to bring something to the table
22:42[Music]
22:43what are you bringing to the table
22:45[Applause]
22:53if you come to the table watch this if
22:56you come to the table with nothing
22:59and want him to come to the table with
23:02everything
23:03you're a thief
23:05[Applause]
23:14let me get back into the word here
23:18the fifth thing the devil doesn't want
23:20you to prepare for watch this is your
23:22peace and happiness oh
23:26[Applause]
23:27and this can never be found in a man or
23:29a woman it can never be found in your
23:32career it can never be found in your
23:34friends
23:35excursions that you take
23:37no money
23:39was popular today people are posting oh
23:42they have a girls trip or a guy's trip
23:45and people are searching for happiness
23:48but Satan doesn't want you to prepare
23:50for your happiness
23:52he will let you do things today
23:56that feels and look happy
24:02at the price of true happiness
24:05you ask all them people go on vacation
24:07all the time and so forth
24:09when the vacation is over
24:13to come back to reality
24:16is what's scary
24:19he doesn't want you to know these things
24:21so the devil knows if you prepare for
24:25all of these areas of your life the next
24:26season of your life watch this is on
24:29Unstoppable
24:32the issue with us is simply this we hear
24:35God every day speaking to our minds
24:37Spirit through his word and his
24:40appointees pastors Prophets
24:43the people who is sent in our lives yet
24:46we still fail to plan
24:49what was told to us Proverbs 24 27 it
24:53says watch this prepare your Works
24:55outside get everything ready for
24:59yourself in the field
25:02and after that build your house
25:05that's an interesting verse because
25:07we're told here to prepare our works to
25:10prepare our works that's the duties
25:13assigned to us what's the sign to you
25:17what is assigned to you young lady sir
25:19what's a sign to you what are the things
25:22that are assigned to you scripture is
25:24telling us prepare
25:26our works
25:28prepare for Duty
25:31what are you doing
25:32to prepare for the hustle that you have
25:35to do through life
25:38the assignment given to you the
25:40responsibility given to you
25:43that you must do them not in a
25:46restricted environment that limits your
25:48ability to acquire all that God has for
25:51you because the second part of the verse
25:54it says do everything
25:56for yourself in the field
25:59prepare yourself
26:01don't just restrict yourself in your own
26:05little bubble your own little creative
26:07mind that you have created
26:10one of the reasons why a lot of us
26:12cannot have real success we live in a
26:15bubble that we've created with our own
26:17self our own self-righteousness and way
26:21of thinking
26:23we don't trust people
26:26because we've been bruised and hurt and
26:28offended
26:30so the struggle is how do I come out of
26:32my shell and go work in the field and
26:37prepare everything
26:39allow myself to go through life and sort
26:42through Who belongs to me
26:45who God sent in my life as a lesson
26:48because you have to take risks in taking
26:51risks watch this if you win you
26:55celebrate
26:57but if you lose it's a lesson
27:01it's a lesson
27:03so you go through life working in the
27:06field do your work outside in the open
27:10do it in the field an environment that
27:13doesn't restrict your limit or limit you
27:15or limit your potential then he says
27:18watch this and that's the part I love
27:21go ahead and build your house
27:25after you prepared yourself
27:28go ahead and build
27:30why would God want you to prepare and
27:33you not construct
27:35something after that
27:37he's saying go ahead and build so stop
27:39sabotaging your blessing and your your
27:43productive season that's ahead of you
27:46all because
27:47you failed to prepare in this current
27:49season
27:51I want you to know that God told me to
27:53tell many of you that you have one
27:55listen this was scary when I wrote this
27:58down
27:59this is really scary
28:02there's a few people watching right now
28:04it's gonna hit you when I say it
28:07God told me to tell many of you
28:11that you only have
28:14one last opportunity
28:19in your lifetime
28:22to get out of your circle
28:26of unproductivity
28:28this is it
28:30one last opportunity
28:34to get out of the circle of
28:36unproductivity
28:38this is it
28:40this is it for you
28:42you have to seize the moment
28:45and if you don't seize this moment you
28:47will die in the wilderness of doing
28:50things your way and following wrong
28:53people and never see nor live in the
28:56Promised Land
28:58this is it for you now
29:00it's time to break the cycle and seize
29:02this moment in history in order to
29:05change your life which
29:07will prepare you to hear God say to you
29:12well done
29:15you can only do this
29:18when you detour
29:20oh that's shock it detour
29:25if there's ever a Time
29:29we need to talk about detour and it's
29:31appropriate it's now
29:35things you should detour
29:37but if there's ever time you need to
29:39detour it is now if it listen to me if
29:43there's ever a time you need to detour
29:45is now
29:48it is now
29:51because your path that you're on
29:56is allowing you to end up the same place
30:00you were
30:02two years ago
30:04five years ago
30:06and you are not getting better
30:11CB would you come here please
30:13uh sir would you come here Black come
30:17here ma'am in the black in the middle
30:19right there could you come here come and
30:20stay sir would you come here come here
30:22quickly quickly quickly uh Sylvia would
30:25you come here
30:26come quickly quickly uh to I knew I need
30:30uh two more uh yes the red and the red
30:34at the end yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
30:36yes good all right do me a favor do me a
30:40favor quickly
30:56here's what's happening to many of us
30:59right
31:01we are dying in the wilderness
31:06of repetitive unproductive Behavior
31:11so like the children of Israel
31:13keep in a circle just going around just
31:15keep going around
31:17like in the children of Israel
31:20right keep tighten the circle tighten
31:22the circle keep going around tighten the
31:24circle
31:24keep going around in a circle
31:27All We Do
31:29is
31:31we we fail
31:34to take a stand
31:36we like following people
31:41no matter what
31:44we like following what our parents did
31:47our grandparents did our co-workers did
31:50our friends did what other Generations
31:52did and nobody have the guts to say
31:56let's stop this madness it's not
31:59producing anything good
32:00[Applause]
32:03somebody has got to break the cycle
32:05somebody look at your neighbor and say
32:07somebody's got to break the cycle
32:10we got to break it
32:13if we're going to have what God has for
32:15us in the next season we've got to break
32:17it it's time we stop following people
32:20who are going the wrong way it is time
32:22we do we deter from toxicity it's time
32:26we deter from dysfunction it's time we
32:28deter from procrastination it's time we
32:31need to be uh deter from bad
32:33relationships it's time we deter from
32:36bad connections that God never ordained
32:39it's time we deter from laziness it's
32:42time we deter from poverty
32:45[Applause]
32:48the day you decide I'm coming out of
32:51this keep going keep going I'm delivered
32:54I break the chain of poverty the time
32:56you say to yourself I'm done with this
32:59all the dysfunction in my life I'm done
33:02with it the time you say I'm not dealing
33:04with that drama no more the circle and
33:08the cycle get less and less the time
33:11each of you say I'm breaking this I'm
33:14detouring this the generational curse is
33:17broken
33:19[Applause]
33:21oh somebody ought to give God a praise
33:28why are we constantly choosing
33:32to permanently live at a place
33:38where we will die in the wilderness
33:42rather than detouring and say you know
33:45what I am following the rest
33:49I'm going to do what God has called me
33:51to do because I do not want to miss God
33:54in this season so here's what I would do
33:56as I conclude this look into your life
34:00and ask yourself this serious question
34:02today
34:05have you truly truly made progress
34:09in the last five
34:1110 15
34:1420 30 40 years
34:17of your life
34:20have you have you broken
34:23the cycle
34:25perhaps what you need to do in this
34:27moment is to return to God
34:31and this time prepare for what God has
34:34already placed and the calendar
34:38for you to have in the next season
34:44I'm going to ask you to read Hosea 4 the
34:48entire chapter but I read one verse
34:51for time's sake I read one verse
34:54Isaiah 4 14s excuse me
34:57Hosea 14 sorry Hosea 14.
35:02it says to Israel
35:04the cycle
35:07return Israel to the Lord your God
35:12your sins
35:15have become
35:17your downfall
35:20your sins
35:23have become
35:25your downfall
35:28what's causing you to have a meltdown
35:32and cause you not to be productive
35:35the sin of rebellion
35:38the sin of doing things your way over
35:40and over so God sent me here today to
35:43tell you to stop listening to the voices
35:45that have no anointing on them
35:52stop it
35:54stop getting distracted by the
35:57strategies of the devil and fix your
36:01eyes
36:02on what God has told you
36:04all of the predictions
36:06of the Earthly experts
36:09cannot change nor stop God's plan from
36:13happening in your life I don't care what
36:15the system of the world is saying
36:17I don't care what people are saying
36:19cannot change it so this is what God has
36:22been saying to us
36:24number one he told us that we will
36:27experience a huge spiritual Revival he
36:30told us that he says we will have
36:32Supernatural acquisition
36:35Supernatural so you can sit there
36:39and you can try to pull out your
36:42calculator to figure out how this is
36:44going to be possible
36:45the word Supernatural is saying it's
36:48above the natural
36:51don't expect it to come the natural way
36:53and that you will have uncommon and
36:56unexpected resources
37:00so are you preparing yourself
37:04for the next season
37:07that's why I'm going to ask you to join
37:08me in a fast next week
37:12I know God spoke to me and he told me he
37:15said get the church to fast
37:18because certain things this is scripture
37:20now if you know your Bible certain
37:22things come
37:24through
37:26pray and fasting
37:29some things are only going to happen
37:32When you pray and you fast
37:36so here's what I'm going to challenge
37:37this church to do is to prepare
37:40as we are closing out the seventh month
37:44the the first month in the second half
37:47of the year
37:49that's going to fast why are we fasting
37:51these are the reasons and we make sure
37:53we get on our website our social media
37:55platforms so you know you don't have a
37:58fast without a reason
38:00don't ever we're fasting
38:03to be prepared for the spiritual Revival
38:06our loved ones to be saved
38:09for us to have a god encounter number
38:12two we're fasting to be mentally and
38:15physically prepared for the economic
38:19uh the economical Supernatural
38:23Acquisitions that come in our way
38:27I never planned with Barbara today to
38:29bring her up
38:31I never I didn't I don't remember maybe
38:33she told me but I don't remember those
38:35other two stories
38:37as she told
38:39and I'm standing here listening to
38:41Barbara talking and one part of my mind
38:43is saying okay God
38:47all that
38:50I'd love for somebody to put a car in my
38:53driveway
38:56human Park
38:59infinite
39:02natural acquisition
39:05wouldn't you like God to just come in
39:07your driveway and drop something off
39:13I'm putting my order in now
39:17right now and next Sunday I'm putting my
39:20order in I do it all the time I go on
39:23the internet
39:25and I go on Amazon
39:28and I pick my item
39:31and I put in the cart
39:35and every day I'm looking out for Amazon
39:37truck
39:39come on now
39:40and whoo thank you Holy Spirit
39:44I love Amazon I'm not promoting them
39:47what I think I love about them is when
39:49my delivery is on its way
39:52send me an email
39:54[Music]
39:56your package is on
40:00[Applause]
40:02I hear God sing to somebody today you're
40:11on the way
40:14it's underway
40:16would you just tell three people and
40:18tell them your package is on the way
40:19your package is on the way your package
40:22is on the way your package is on the way
40:27and then after that after that
40:31[Music]
40:33you get that email if you're like me
40:36another email will pop up and it shows
40:40the picture of my front door with my
40:44package there somebody's about to enter
40:47into their season where they're gonna
40:50see what the Lord has done it is
40:54marvelous
40:59in your eyes
41:02stand everybody
41:05so I want you
41:07to believe God
41:10to prepare you for the uncommon
41:12unexpected resources that's what we're
41:15fasting for
41:16so here's how you're going to do the
41:18fast
41:20put it on your calendar to remind
41:21yourself
41:23because this is a matter of life and
41:24death as always
41:26check with your doctor first before you
41:28enter any fast use wisdom
41:31but here's how we're going to do it
41:34for those of you from
41:36midnight Saturday next Saturday it's the
41:41break-in from Saturday into Sunday
41:43midnight no food all day to midnight
41:48Sunday night watch this now wait wait
41:52because you're going to fast at your
41:54level
41:55those who can go without food for the
41:58entire day plenty of water of course
42:01if you can't do that
42:04then I want you to do a Daniel Fast
42:07what is it Daniel Fast
42:09it is just strictly vegetables and
42:12fruits
42:14all day
42:16if you're a young Christian you don't
42:17you're not used to it do that
42:20or you can choose to skip one meal one
42:23meal a day
42:30at our level
42:33let's do that
42:35so I want you to come prepared for the
42:37fast
42:38refrain from media that's not spiritual
42:41in nature
42:43a whole day Sunday
42:46when you get up off your bed do not go
42:48on social media to scroll if it ain't
42:50the scripture you're going for shut
42:52everything down
42:53no TV for the day
42:56let's lock in next Sunday come with
43:00everybody you know
43:01let's get in this fast and we're going
43:03to close the service and we're going to
43:05go home we ain't going to no brunch
43:07thank you
43:09mango no restaurant we ain't going to
43:12hide no food in the closet and so forth
43:14nothing
43:16we're just gonna shut down for a day
43:19and if there is a God
43:23and if you truly call this fast
43:27watch what's going to happen in your
43:28life
43:29[Applause]
43:30[Music]
43:32are you ready for this fast everybody
43:33[Applause]
43:35for those of you are streaming everybody
43:37in the building lift your hands together
43:40as I close this service
43:44as I challenge you to prepare
43:47for what's coming next father
43:50I pray for your people today
43:54as I release them
43:57that God
43:58they'll prepare themselves From This
44:01Moment forward until next week
44:06that spiritually they'll get their minds
44:08in place
44:10they'll watch out for the tricks of the
44:12enemy this week
44:15because the last thing he wants them to
44:17do is to fast to consecrate themselves
44:20so I pray for my brother my sister today
44:23I pray for all the streamers and in the
44:26mighty name of Jesus
44:28I sense what you're telling these people
44:31and I am not afraid to say it
44:34they haven't seen their best days yet
44:37[Music]
44:40I decree it in every area of
44:45and I thank you that for those who don't
44:48know you as Lord and savior
44:51will make that connection today
44:54by saying the sinner's prayer and if
44:56that's you
44:57I want you to shout it out say Lord
44:59Jesus
45:01I am a sinner
45:03I Repent of my sins I receive Jesus as
45:07my Lord and Savior and I confess with my
45:10mouth
45:12I Believe In My Heart
45:14that I'm born again
45:16in Jesus name amen come on let's give
45:20God praise remember faith in your
45:25always move mountains out of your life
45:28we'll see you God bless you thanks again
45:31for coming
45:32go see the realities and the brokers in
45:36the lobby I appreciate you coming today
45:38thank you so much God bless you thank
45:40you God bless you