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August 7, 2025 • 51 mins
Season Shift // Pastor Vlad by HungryGen
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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the best is yet to come.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Without further ado, I would like to share with you
the message that I do have on my heart to
share with you, and.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'll start. I'll start with this.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Many of us in this room are in a transition
or a different season. Our weather has four seasons. We
dress according to those seasons, and many times people experience changes.
We're about to experience the biggest change Hungry Jen has
had in twenty years. We're going to move into a
different place. Things are going to look kind of bigger

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and more spacious. Most of us have seen changes we've
seen at this church in the last twelve months. For example,
one of our pastors you moved to a different place.
He happens to be my best friend. Another pastor moved
to a different city who was a director at our church.
You've seen our worship director who is currently in a

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different country where he's going to be transitioning back there,
and we're praying for God to be doing something special
in that nation. You're seeing another worship leader on the stage.
This is just in a nutshell about what's happening in
the church. But if we look closer in our own life,
some of you are in the change of seasons because
you just went to school, you went to college. Others

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of you you graduated and you're trying to find a job.
There's some of you you just got married. And while
exciting that is, it also created kind of complications and
it's new, it's exciting, and it's different. Others of you
and that is becoming more common in our growing church.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Is you got a baby.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
And while that was exciting, and you kept saying to
everyone that you can, you know, sleep like a baby,
and do you got a baby? And you realize like
they don't sleep or they don't sleep good and then
you're adjusting to what that looks like. And half of
the time you look like a zombie because you sleep deprived,
but kind of on the edge.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
There's others of yous.

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You got like a third baby, and that's also challenging
because it's a new season. There's some of you you
just get fired.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's challenging.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Others of you you just started a business, and some
of you riffs and what happened with COVID really took a.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Toll on your business.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Some of you you're nervous about the future of your
finances because of where AI is doing, where your job
could be taken. And so changes in our life and
in our seasons are real, and in this message, I
want to share with you how to navigate through a
season change without going cuckoo crazy, without losing your mind,

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without losing your life.

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First, personally, in my.

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Life, I've noticed, and I have scriptures to back this
up with ten signs that your season or your life
is changing.

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And here are they. The first one is.

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There's a shift in your desires, your priorities took a shift,
you feel different.

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Passions and interest.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
The second one is you noticed new doors are opening
and some doors of opportunity are closing. The third one
is your current experiencing unusual opposition and it just kind
of came out of nowhere. The fourth one is a
sense of restlessness. You've been walking around the same mountain
and there's this thing of like you're just sick and

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tired of begin sick and tireding you just got to
do something that could be a sign something is changing.
The fifth one is you have relationships that are changing.
Not that somebody may be left you, but you notice
the relationships you've had they're changed. I've experienced this last
year with my best friend for twenty years that we've
been leading this church together and now he's in a

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different city. At the same time, a person that has
been very crucial in my ministry for four years helped
me to scale it.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
He felt led to.

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Go to a different country to pursue higher education and
more theological training. And so I lost two people in
one year, and it was challenging.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
I had to navigate that.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
The sixth one is when you get hit with new
levels all responsibility, whether it's because of you got a child,
you just go into school, navigating school and a full
time job and a few other things, but you have
new responsibility. The seventh one is you have a renewed
sense of hunger for God. This is this like ache,

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It's almost like just something just inside. You want to
pray more, you want to fast more.

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You're entering a new season.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
The eighth one is your life is going crazy, but
for some weird reason.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
It's not because you're mental, but you have peace.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
And it's not because you're oblivious and you buried your
head in the sand, but you actually have peace that
doesn't have understanding. The Bible calls it peace that passes understanding.
It could be a sign that something is happening in
your life, a season is changing. The ninth one is
there's a change in a financial supply, meaning you're in
between jobs, you're in between careers, starting a business or

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one is closing down, and you're seeking God's direction in
what's next. And the last one is you sense a
call to step out into the unknown, and your logical
person you usually have your ducks in the row, but
you sense that this is what you need to do.
Your mind sets you crazy. Your spirit says trust me,

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meaning God says trust me and step in today. In
this message, i will share with you five things that
are both biblical wisdom and practical advice to navigate the
vicissitudes of life. To navigate when your spring turns into summer,
or your summer churns into fall, or your or your
life's fall turns into winter, or your winter churns into spring.

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It's not only the year that has different seasons. Your
life also has different seasons. And God is in control
of every season. But I've noticed when seasons change, some
people tend to get sick. And sometimes when you're life
season changes, some people tend to get extremely lost.

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And we will help with that today.

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The foundation of this message will be built around Joshua's story.

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So if you have your.

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Bible, would you go together with me to Joshua Chapter one,
And I'm going to be camping there for the remaining
of this message.

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The verse that I would like to start with.

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Is verse five, and it says the following, no man
shall be able to stand before you all the days
of your life as I was with Moses. So I
will be with you. I will never leave you nor
forsake you. If you're taking notes, write this down new season,
same source. God remains the same in your ever changing life,

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but your experience of God will be fresh.

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In every season.

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I remember a season of my life with my wife's
when we were challenged by the law Lord to give
all of our savings away every month for twelve months.
I know it sounds crazy. It was not my idea
because I'm not that generous. I knew it was from
the Lord. It was January. We decided to give that
and I started to have financial challenges. I had a

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rental property, couldn't find rent, and so I'm going, Lord,
give me money and renters.

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And here I made a promise.

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To give above our normal giving to a particular ministry overseas.
I go to preach at the church in Massachusetts, and
at that time, when I would preach as a youth pastor,
you know, they would bless me with a few hundred
bucks to cover some of my stuff. And that was normal,
and I was very grateful. I don't preach for money.
I preach for the purpose, but if they blessed me,

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I receive it in etc. This time, I remember the
church flew me and my wife across the United States.
It was a youth event and it was a Slavic
church Slavic Church youth event. Put the two things together,
you shually know what you're gonna get at the end,
not a lot. They handed over three thousand dollars check

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for me, and this was mind blowing. It was enough
to pay my bills, and it was enough to pay
to the ministry or bless the ministry.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
I felt led.

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I held this at the airport and I started to
cry because I've had a new experience of God, and
I felt the Lord spoke to me at the airport
and he said this. He said, I am introducing to
you myself as Jehovah Jirah. The word Jehovah jira in
the context is God asked Abraham to bring a sacrifice,

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and then he provided one. God didn't provide for Abraham's needs.
He provided for Abraham's sacrifice that he requested.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
See.

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Up to that point, I knew God, my Savior, my peace.
But this time the season changed and I started to
have a fresh encounter with the Lord. We were meeting
with the family this week and a young lady that
attends our church, she recently lost her husband and she
we asked her, how did you go through that? And
they relocated with her family to try cities and to

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hungry jan And she says something that's stuck with me.
She said, in those first few months when my husband
passed away, I leaned on him, and you know, they
have some properties and etc. And she says, anytime I
would ask my husband to prepare me and what to
do with all of that stuff, he wouldn't tell me
what to do.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
And he passed away.

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And she says, then when he passed away, I had
to lean into the Lord. And she said this word
as my husband. See, Jesus was her savior. But when
the season changes, you see a new facet of Jesus.
When you walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
he becomes the lily in the valleys. When you begin

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to experience uncertainties of life, he becomes the rock of ages.
When you experience loss, he becomes your comfort. When you
experience grief, he becomes your shield. When you are in war,
he becomes Jehovah and easy, the Lord my banner. When
life is stressful, he becomes Jehovah shaloon. It's not that

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God changes, it's your experience of Him gets upgraded. God
doesn't change when you do God doesn't change when your
circumstances do, but God begins to be experienced by you
in a new way. See Moses encountered God at the

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burning bush. Joshua encounters him, not at the burning bush
in front of Jericho, and Joshua encounters the Lord as
a commander of the Lord's army. Moses encounters the Lord
as a burning bush. I want to tell you this.
Your life will change. God remains the same. If you

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lean into the Lord, experience with God will be new.
You will come out of that season. You will say this,
It's like I've met God for the first time, because
you will meet discover a new dimension, a new facet
of who he is.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
The second thing that I would like to mention, and
that is this, in the new season, you will have
to discover new strength. Why because new season brings new stress.
And instead of asking God to remove the stress that
the new season brought, I want to teach you today
to lean into God and ask him to increase your strength,

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not to remove your stress.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Look at Book of Joshua and Book of Joshua.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
The Lord says to Joshua in verse six, be strong
and of good courage. Verse seven only be strong and
very courageous verse nine. Have I not commanded you be
strong and of good courage. See when Joshua was ushered
into the new Shoes to fill in for Moses, Joshua
did not have the experience. Joshua did not have the

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characteristics I mean Moses to follow Moses, to take over
Moses's job.

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That's a lot of pressure.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Like Moses talked to God face to face, like he
actually facetimed God. Imagine following a leader that has God
on the speed dial. And God even himself said he
I don't talk to anybody like I talked to Moe.
And there you are stepping in. You've been only Moses's assistant.
You're just the guy that's kind of you know, bringing
him coffee, helping him out a little bit. And then

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God says, now it's you here, Like, Lord, I don't
even have your numbers saved in my phone.

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I don't know you like that.

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Plus, these people are a bunch of complainers there. They're
like they're just kind of weird a little bit. You know,
you had to even like get rid of some of
them in a wilderness because they were so whiny. And
now I'm in charge of leading the Lord. No, no,
thanks God, that's pretty stressful. Please understand, every new season
that happens in your life will add a new stress.
And this is why many people fail in the new season.

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They're operating on the old strength. Let me say that
again to the neighbor who's sitting right behind you. One
of the reasons we fail in the new season is
not because the new season is too stressful. It's because
we're operating and yesterday's strength. In Proverbs, it says if
you fall in the day of trouble or in the

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day of adversity, your strength is too small.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Have you noticed?

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It doesn't say it's because your wife is too whining,
your children are too crazy, your husband is too demanding,
your boss is to demand. We like to blame all
of our season stress on someone else, but sometimes the
challenge is that you're operating and yesterday's strength trying to
enter into tomorrow's season. And so what we tend to
retreat to and this is our default position, and that

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is and if you're a religious person, you're a spiritual person,
you tend to come to God and you say, Lord,
what is the first prayer we pray?

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Lord?

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Remove my stress. Lord, I got anxiety from this. I
have stress from this. And that used to be me
when I became a lead pastor at the age of thirty,
and I was a youth pastor before. Youth ministry is stressful,
but it's not like it's manageable stress. I built to it,
like I grew into it. I kind of grew up
with those people and they stopped driving me crazy, stop

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getting under my nerves. And Pastor Martin repented and all
of this stuff, and so everything was good until I
became a lead pastor. And then they said, do you
have a board? I said, I am not bored. No,
I don't have a board. I'm not bored. And they said, no,
like a board of trustees.

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What is that?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
The kids minishing needed check ins, every single thing. Our
church had nothing figured out. It was so stressful first
six months. This is what I said during the first
few months. I don't have what it takes.

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I'm not enough. This is too hard, Lord. I quit
remove the church.

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And it was around the time that I was married.
And then my wife added to the stress. Because you know,
wives could be stressful, Husbands can be stressful, children can
be stressful. Anything in this world can cause you stress.
Husbands do not say amen, quietly nod your head. So

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my initial response to the Lord was this, Lord, remove
my stress. And I felt like the Lord started to
speak back to me, and he says, then I have
to remove the church. He said, no, God, I know
you called me there. I have to remove your wife. No,
I love her, I have to remove and I fell.
Lord says, how far do you want me to remove?

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I said, well, all of these things you called me
to do, but why is this so hard?

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And that's when I was learned. That's what I learned.
The problem isn't that the weight is too heavy.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Is the weak I'm operating with yesterday's strength. In the
new season, when Joshua was an assistant, he had enough
strength to be an assistant. When he steps to be
a leaders, God says, be strong, be strong. Why is
God saying be strong because Joshua was not. He didn't
feel strong? And may I submit something to you. I

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had to learn this, and this something you already know.
If you've been walking through this, you don't have what
it takes. And that's okay. God's got you.

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I know.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
The self help guru and the Instagram motivational posts will
say you got what it takes. But listen, if you
got hit in the new season, you're like no, and
God didn't come to Joshua and see Joshua, my man, Joshua, you.

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Got what it takes.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
God doesn't lie. God not gonna exaggerate. God never once
said here you have what it takes. God simply said
I got you. So it's okay to admit I don't
have what.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
It takes, but God's got me. God is with me.
It's okay to admit I am.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Not enough, but God told Paul, my grace is enough.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
My grace is sufficient. It's okay to admit that you just.

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Got a brain, new baby and you're like, man, this
is too hard. It's okay to admit that you don't feel.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Like you have what it takes.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
But with God's strength, he has new strength for this
season in your life. The problem isn't always that the
burden is too big. Sometimes it's the inner man that
needs to be recharged. Isaiah forty, verse thirty one says,
but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.
It's interesting it does not say, but those who wait

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upon the Lord shall remove their stress. See most of
us because we were heavy on therapy, heavy and counseling
and heavy and self help stuff. Most of us have
learned our boundaries remove the things that stress you out.

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And that's why we got divorced.

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That's why we don't want to do anything, drink soil
latte and want everybody to work and money to be
given to us. We don't want to do carry any pressure,
and we become and I'm just gonna go there right now,
we become snowflakes. We're weak, and God is not into
building you into a snowflake. He wants to make you strong.

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This does not mean that if there is a toxic
and bad relationship you should endure it. There are things
you need to walk away from, but the very life
and season of life that you are in. You have
a family, you have a job, you have a responsibility.
You're gonna be stressed. Stress is not a sin. Notice
it always demonic. Sometimes it's a sign that the strength

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you have doesn't match with the responsibility placed on you.
And God isn't coming in and say, oh, I'm so
sorry I put too much on you, And can I also,
while I'm at it, go into this thing where people
will say God will never give you more than you
can handle. First of all, the Bible says God will
not let you be tempted when it comes to God

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giving you, may I submit to you. He will always
give you more than you can handle because He doesn't
expect you to handle it yourself. He will never give you, though,
what he and you cannot handle. So don't be surprised
if life throws you a curve ball and you're like, man,
it's more than I can handle. It's not more than
you and him can handle. But it will always be

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more than you can handle. Why new season, new stress?
How to deal with the stress. Don't pray away the stress,
pray into new strength. What most of us do, though,
is we're better at charging our phones than charging our spirits.
What would happen if you would charge your phone like
you're charging your spirit, we wouldn't be able to reach

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you to the second Coming of Christ. Most of us
charge our spirits once a month. We charge our phones
the way some of us use our phones. We charge
them twice a day. We're like by noon, like my
phone is already a one percent, and we carry another
charger just attached to the phone, because it's like this
baby needs some fuel. I want you to see your

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spirit as like your phone. You're constantly using your soul.
You're constantly pouring out, pouring out if you don't renew
your strength. So the point when your phone's battery is
dying is not always to replace the phone or to
start using it less. It's to charge it more, charge
it more. And so when it life feels too hard

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because the burden is too heavy, may I submit to
you as a Christian. God's option is not always Oh
I am so sorry. Let me tone down the weight.
God says, let me increase the strength. Be strong, Joshua.
He didn't say you have what it takes. He didn't
say you are enough. He simply said, I'm with you.
Be strong. I command you to be strong.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Now.

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The amazing part is the New Testament gives us an
opportunity how to get strong. And this will come as
a surprise to some of us. First Corinthians, Chapter fourteen,
verse four, it says he who speaks in the tongue
builds himself up. So how do you get strong physically?
You go to the gym for the phone. You're connected
to the power outlet, do you know how you build

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yourself spiritually according to the New Testament. This may come
as a surprise and for those of you maybe come
from a background where this idea of like tongue speaking
and spiritual manifestations is like the weird Uncle and Thanksgiving,
like like, yeah, just does the weird stuff we don't
like go there. Just stick with Jesus in the Bible,
all the Holy Spirit stuff, like it's just just weird.

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I want to submit to you, there is nothing weird
about the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is wild, not weird. Now,
some people he uses are weird. I do have to
say that so, and Holy Spirit gets the bad rap
because some of the people he touches aren't weird. But honestly,
those people are weird by themselves.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Without the Holy Ghost.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Anyway, Do not blabel the Holy Spirit that's weird just
because you've encountered somebody who claims to be filled by
the Holy ghosts and they're just kinda have a little
little weirdness about that. If you want to be strong
in your spirit. Paul's emphasis is this pray in the tongue.
Jude says the same thing. He says that we belove it.

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Building ourselves up. So charge your batteries on your most
holy faith. Praying in the Holy Spirit to edify means
to build up, recharge, or strengthen, just like charging a
drain battery. Speaking in tongues is the gift from God
for spiritual self building. When stress drains you, praying in
the spirit strengthens you. Within the Bible says in Psalm

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eighty four, verses five through seven, Blessed is the man
whose strength is in you. For they pass through the
valley of Bacha, and the original it means weeping, They
make it a spring. They go from strength to strength.
See your valleyes won't destroy you. They'll become wells if
you draw your strength from God. The deeper the valley,
the deeper the well. God never told Joshua lower your expectations,

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told him be strong, be courageous. I am with you.
You don't need a smaller load, You need a stronger spirit.
Don't pray for the stress to go away, Pray for
God to strength your spirit, expand your heart, and fuel
you with supernatural strength for seasons ahead. On a practical level,

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wait upon the Lord, meaning it takes some time to
be with God. On a practical level, speak in tongues.
For those of you who have the prayer language, just
open your mouth. And the Bible doesn't say those who
complain will get renewed, but pray in a spirit. Pray
in a spirit, and you will begin to experience new
strength for the new season. The new season you enter

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doesn't have to put you in the er. The new
season that you enter doesn't have to cause you to
get so depressed and down that you cannot get out
every single morning. The new season that you're in doesn't
have to cause you to pull your hair because you're
just overwhelmed. You can live out of the overflow and
don't ask God to lower the pressure. You've been faithful

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and little How do you think God rewards people for faithfulness,
giving them more responsibility.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
You should have been thinking about that when you were faithful.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Nobody told you that that when you're faithful in little things,
God gives.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
You more responsibility.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
You were faithful with five talents, he gives you more cities.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's a lot of pressure. Five talents is one thing.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Five cities that's a lot of pressure. And you must say,
how does God expect me to survive by strengthening your spirit.
Charge your batteries the same way you charge your phone.
Do it regularly, amen. Number three, I feel like this
fly is camping around the pulpit right now we're gonna

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have to delete from the live stream. Yeah, And it's
like like, for a minute, I was hoping that they
will like die getting on by, but it's not dying.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Intercessors, keep me in prayer. The Lord is a killer
of lies.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
It'd be so weird if I start killing a flight
during a sermon, people like, what the heck.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Is happening with him?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
I got a different world right here that I'm trying
to navigate, breaking distractions. Number three, New season, new separation.
Sometimes before you cross into a new season, someone you
leaned on won't be crossing with you. Some exits are
necessary for you to enter. Look at Joshua Joshua one,

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verse one. It says after the death of Moses, the
servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the
Lord spoke to Joshua, the son of None, Moses's assistant, saying, Moses,
my servant is dead.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Now.

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Therefore arise and go over the Jordan. Joshua's new season
begun with the loss the leader. He had followed for
forty years. His hero was God God. Instead of bringing comfort,
you would think God would come and just comfort Joshua.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Comfort was over.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Now God was bringing clarity and saying it's time to rise.
In other words, the past has passed. Now it's time
to move forward. What makes new season often difficult is
the people you leaned on are not there, and.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
You're trying to navigate that. What do I do?

Speaker 2 (27:30):
The person you were married to maybe and they went
on to be with the Lord, and now you're trying
to navigate that. The person who led you, gave you
direction is no longer there, a friend perhaps, or a
relationship that has ran its course. Some people come into
our life for the reason. Some people come for a season.
Some people are like scaffolding. God brings him into your

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life to help build something, and when it's over, he
transitions them. And a lot of times what happens is
that we get so attached to the scaffolding instead of
enjoying the building. God has done building, and so we
can't navigate into the new thing because well, Moses died
and Moses was my best friend, Moses was my leader,
Moses was my man, Moses was my hero. And God

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comes to Joshua and saying mo is gone. It's time
to step in, and now you become the person others
will lean on. And this is where it's stressful, because
it's one thing to deal with I lost a leader.
It's another thing too, I am a leader. I'm not
ready to let Moses go. And now people are looking

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to you as the new Moses. You're like, I'm not Moses.
And God says, well, you have to step up. You
can't retreat. You gotta advance. And that's hard, and that's
painful for some people. And I just want to speak
into someone who is going through that right now. God
never told Joshua you got this, but he says I
got you. He never told Joshua you're enough, but he

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said I will be with you, and I will walk
with you. When people leave your life, don't blame God,
don't curse them, don't stop walking. God will bring others,
and most importantly, he will walk with you in the
new season. Grieve the past, but look, don't let the
grief paralyze you. Honor what was, but don't idolize it.
God's purpose in your life is not attached to Moses.

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God doesn't align your calling to someone who leaves you.
And this is huge. I cannot tell you how many
people I've had through twenty years of our ministry who
when they left, they said these words in my direction,
when I leave, God's grace will leave. And when I
was younger, that hurt me, I was like, oh my gosh,
please don't leave. It's almost theynate themselves equal to God.

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But I've lived long enough through a lot of those words,
and I can stand here to say, when God calls
the person, he doesn't put his grace on those that
leave them. He puts his grace on that person. And
if everybody else leaves, grace is on that person. And
I am a testimony that when God has a calling

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on my life, he doesn't attach that calling to someone
who transitions. He attaches that grace to him who stays
with me, with you, with you, with you, with you.
You were leaning, but now you're going to be leading.
You were assisting, but now you're gonna be advancing. You

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may not feel like you have what it takes, but
you do have what God's.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Going to use.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
He will be your strength, he will be your guide,
and he will be your confidence. Don't cling so tightly
to what was that you will miss what's ahead. Moses
is God, but God is not. The season has changed,
but God remains. And this is what he's saying to you.

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Now arise, Now it's your time. I remember when we
had deliverance conferences with a powerful deliverance minister from outside
of the United States who would come every year, and
we were assisting that deliveredance minister. When he got his
visa declined three times and there was five days before
the conference. This is the verse that changed the trajectory

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of my life at that time. But I was like, Lord,
but we don't have what it takes. But this guy
has it. This guy got it. We I mean, you
know it's just gonna. I mean, we do like prayer lines,
but like now, like on that level. But Holy Spirit
started to speak to us that week and he said,
now arise, and I've experienced that when you know my

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best friend who's now pastoring a different campus, who has
been my really like a confidant, my close friend here
at Hungry jan a person that was leading helping me
to direct the personal ministry, Vladimir subject ministry. When the
time came for him to go and study in a
different country. And this all happened in one year.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Last year, I was.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Like, Lord, this is hitting me a little bit, and
I felt to lean into the Lord and he said,
I'm going to brain new people. Number one and then
number two is that you're gonna be stepping into a
different role. I was like, God, but I don't want to.
He says, but this is what I'm bringing you. Grieve,
but move forward, cry, build a bridge and get over it.

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Move forward. God is not stalking your past. And don't
let nobody lie to you that somehow God is ended
with you because they walked away. God's purpose is connected
to you. It's not connected to them. God is gonna
move in their life, but he's not gonna abandon you.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
He's gonna move in your life. Get a big dream.
Don't live in the memories of the past, live in
the dreams of the future.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
God is with you, He is taking you, and you're
about to advance.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
The fourth thing about the season changes. New season brings
about new supply. When God stops man, it is not
to starve you, but to stretch you into the season
of milk and honey.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Joshua five twelve says.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Then the man sees on the day after they had
eaten the produce of the land, and the children of
Israel no longer had menna, but they ate the food
of the land of Canaan that year. For forty years,
manna was God's daily provision. It was a miraculous but
temporary food supply in the wilderness. God never promised actually

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his people mana. He promised them milk and honey. Manna
sustained them in the desert, but it was never meant
to be permanent. When they stepped into the promised land,
watch this. God didn't keep manna and added milk and honey.
He removed manna off of the menu, which could be
pretty frustrated. If you developed a good, healthy diet of

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manna for forty years, you got.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
A little rhythm going on.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Every morning you go gather manna, and then you come
into a new season.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
You think in.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Milk and honey will be on the top of manna,
and God takes the mana off of the menu. And
that's when most of us freak out and were like,
what is happening?

Speaker 3 (33:55):
What did I do wrong? Why did God purnish me?
Took away the.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Mana, and God said, well, you're in the Promised Land,
and I promised you milk and honey, not manna.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
You know what manna is.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
It's when God supernaturally provides for your daily needs.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
You know what milk and honey is.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
It's when you work very hard and God blesses you
with more than what you need so you can share
with others, your family and others. You know what you
need to do to get manna? Absolutely nothing. Do you
know what you need to do to get milk and honey?
You need to get a cow and be hives. Let

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me poke the socialist cow in the room, because some
of us have bought this idea. I don't need to work,
I don't need to be entrepreneur, I don't need to advance,
and all the government needs to take care of.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Me and all those greedy rich people.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
They need to have money taking from them and given
to me. Behave yourself, lad, that's not biblical. God is
not a socialist. God gave talents five, three and two.

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That's not socialism. He gave responsibilities according to people's ability.
Please understand where God is taking you. Your idea of
depending on God only to get checks in the mail
or miracle money. Somebody is sleeping envelope somebody that is great,
and that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Praise be to God for that.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
When you have a need and somebody comes in and
blesses you, that's Manda, that's great. Praise God for that.
Don't be surprised if God removes that off of the menu.
Because you're able working person, you're a young person, thirty five.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Years of age.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
There's still ideas, there's still strength. What if God wants
you to find a cow, a j oh b.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
A business.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
What if God doesn't just want you to sit and
soak in His presence five hours a day and supernatural
provision to come. This might be the season you are in.
God bless you, but there are many of you. This
season God's gonna take is He's gonna.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Have you learn how to work with bees.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Symbolically speaking of course, learn how to work with cows
symbolically speaking of course, because to have milk and honey,
you don't get that from heaven. You get that from
a cow. For forty years, they simply came out of
their ten boot. God gave a mana they ate anytime
they wanted to store. God says no worms grew in

(36:46):
that manna. They stepped into the Promised Land and God changed.
He's like milk and honey. He's like, where's the milk?
Why is he not coming from heaven. God's like, milk
don't come from heaven. Milk comes from cows. That means
you need to get a cow. You need to feed
the cow, have a place for the cow, milk the cow,
and then churn the milk if you want to put

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it in a fizzer. If you want to, you can
turn it into cheese. You can make a business out
of it. And God's like, the sky is the limit.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
You're like, Lord, but that's too much stress.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I need to figure out everything about where do I
put the cow, Where do I feed the cow. I
can't just see it right now and just worship. I
actually have to go take the cow to a pasture,
and I got to like work, and then I have
to have people who will help me deliver the milk
and sell the milk.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
So I have to learn sales.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Then I have to pay taxes on it, and I
have to do employment stuff. God, that's just too much stress.
Why can't you just give me checks in the mail.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Business is stressful.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
That's called milk and honey. You've been dreaming of the
promised land. Well, that's what promised land is. It's working.
It's having people work for you so you provide for
their families. And it takes a lot of partnership with
God in creation. When you are only in manna, God
just supernaturally supplies your needs. But that is not God's

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promise for your life.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Amen.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I know a lot of parents are like, thank you,
pastor for this message for my children. Don't panic when
God stops doing what he used to do. If the
brook dries up, it's not the end. It's a signal
provision is moving. Then you supply may not look like
the old one, but it will be deeper, stronger, and sustainable.
You will be provided for, but now your hands will

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have to be a part of the harvest. If God
stopped the manna, start looking for cows and bees, opportunities, ideas.
Don't just sit on your hands and expect God to
only supply like he did in.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
A previous season.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
That book, launch that blog, start that business, clean up
your garage and churn that you have an extra five
rooms in your house, turn it into airbnb. You got
six other cars churn him into some other turo or duro,
whatever uru that they have. Right now, you gotta start thinking.
But most of us, what we do is because we're

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spiritually lazy and we were programmed. The only way God
supplies your needs is just supernaturally. So we entered the
new season and the supernatural things rise up and we're like, man,
the devil is attacking me. Maybe it's God transitioning you.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
That's good. Amen.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
And the last thing and I'm gonna wrap it up,
and that is new season means new strategy. New seasons
require fresh strategies. What worked in the wilderness won't work
in the Promised Land in the new season. You have
to put God first. That's the strategy, and he leads
you with the rest. Joshua six seventeen. God tells Israel
when they entered the Promise Land, to give the first

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city to him.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
The first city was Jericho.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
They were not to keep that city, but to completely
surrender it to God. No spoils, no gold, no silver,
no personal gain meaning no profit. So you worked on
the project, you're not keeping the prophet, You're giving the.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Prophet to the Lord.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Why God was teaching them the priority the principle of
the first In Egypt, they were given wealth by others.
In the wilderness, they received water, as I mentioned, from
the rock men from heaven. For forty years, God supplied
their needs. So they entered the Promised Land. They're thinking,
this is just going to be a bunch of stuff.
God's going to be throwing it from heaven to make
us healthy and wealthy. That's not how the Lord worked.

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He says, the first city, I want you to give
it to me to practice stewardship and priorities. They were
no longer recipients. They were now responsible. The principle didn't
start with Joshua. It started in Genesis. The first few
verses of the Bible says in the beginning, in the beginning, Oh,

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come on, we read that verse million times, because that's
when Bible reading plans starts, and then they end in
Leviticus in the beginning God. So that means the Bible
starts this way in the beginning God. So if you
put God in the beginning, he begins to be involved
in the rest. So the Promised Land they entered, the
first city they win is Jericho. So think of this

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in financial terms. Like, this is your first big contract,
this is your first big salary. This is like, yay,
finally we've been waiting for this.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Four hundred years.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
We suffered in Egypt, forty years, we went through the wilderness.
We finally get our first profit blessing breakthrough. And God says,
not so fast, that is mine. You're like, I'm gonna fight,
and you take the prophet. That's not fair. But God
was teaching these new people a new way to live.
God comes first. It's not about the law. It's about

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the principle that God comes first. Now Jericho represents the
things in your life and in my life where we
should put God first in Now, let me give you
practically how to put God first in your life. Number one,
put God first in your day by spending time with
Him early in the morning. That could be an hour,

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that could be ten minutes, that could be five minutes.
That's between you and God. But spend time with Him
early in the morning. Because the Bible says, seek first
the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be
added to you. You can start your day with news.
I would encourage you to start your day with the
good news. You can start your day with caffeine, or

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you can start your day with the scripture. You can
start your day scrolling through Instagram. You can start your
day scrolling through TikTok, checking the text messages and in themselves.
Those things are not wrong. But if you don't have
time for God in the beginning of your day, those
first few moments, and maybe you're working in some kind
of a job where you wake up you need to
take care of your kids right away, and when you
get to work you're like, nod, I don't have time.

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You know, you can park your car in front of
your work, pull out the Bible and read the Word
before you go to work. You know, if you show
up and let's say you work in in construction, before
you get out and go to work, you can take
next seven minutes pray for your family, thank God for
all the good things He's done in your life, and
begin to pray for your day and interceed. Take time
to put God first. Give God the jericho of your time. Secondly,

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how to put God first? Put God first by going
to church on the first day of the week. Calendar wise,
the first day of the week is actually Sunday. The
Bible says on book of Acts, chapter twenty, verse seven,
that on the first day of the week, the church
would gather to take the communion and to worship together.
Make a decision that your family will put God first.

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By taking the family together to church an hour and
a half a week, coming together as a family, it
sets a precedent for your family. This family, in this family,
family is not the center.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
The Lord is.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
And for those of you who are parents, may I
submit to you. You don't wake up on Sunday morning
and ask your children what do you guys want to
do the same way in many ways. You make them
eat things they don't want to eat. You make them
wake up at the time and go to sleep they
don't want to. You don't let them touch certain things
they shouldn't have. You lead them because you're the parents.

(44:24):
In same way, so many parents have not led their
family to put Jesus first, but they let everything else.
Sports first, family activities first.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Put the Lord.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
First in your week by going to a church on
Sunday morning.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
If it's not.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
Hungry, gen church, choose the church that is best for you,
but go to a church. Bring your family to a church.
Why Because Sunday is the first day of the week.
It's not a football Sunday, it's a church Sunday. You
can enjoy the football, but make God first in your family.
Bring your family to church, and make that as non
negotiable when you're healthy and you're able to bring your

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family to church. Why because that's the way we put
God first. The last way of how to put God
first in your life, and this might trigger some of you,
and that is bring to God the first fruits. In
your finances. We call that tithing offering. When you get
paid a lot of times, we have a lot of

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bills that are scheduled. It could be pud, it could
be the waste management, the people who pick up our garbage,
people who supply electricity to our house, the mortgage company,
the phone company, the internet company, and everybody needs their
little slice from our paycheck. And for some Christians, the
way they treat their finances is this way is they

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treat it like I call it, they're tipping God. They
kind of like, see at the end of the month,
if I have something left over and I go and
I'm really in a good mood, and Pastor did not
get on my nerves like I'm gonna throw it twenty,
you know. But the way that people who put God
first live in their finances is differently. When you get
paid first, knowing you have a lot of bills, knowing
you have a lot of responsibilities, you make a decision

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what percentage of that goes to God first. You do
that not because God's gonna strike you. You do that
because you believe when God is involved, he seems to
make the rest of it go better. In the beginning,
God not in the beginning, at and t not in

(46:25):
the beginning, inter that company, not in the beginning, my
very important savings account, on retirement account. All these things
have their place, and so you make a decision by
giving God your jericho.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
In the new season.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
This is what I found in my family when my
dad and my mom the way they raised us up
and we grew up in the church in Ukraine. They
didn't practice tithing. My dad always instructed us. When I
was sixteen and I got my first paycheck and he's
a son, I want you to take the first ten
percent and I want you to give it to the church.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
And my mind you my.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
First paycheck wasn't from work. It was a payment from
an accident when a guy ran me over and broke
my leg. Okay, so the lawyers got involved and I
got a payout. So my dad took the money and
he's like, I'll buy you a car. Here's the ten percent,
and this you need to bring to church. And I
remember looking at my dad's like, Dad, I paid for

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this by breaking my leg, Like that's not a job,
Like I'm not gonna bring it to church. Church doesn't
need that's my money. I do was six hundred bucks.
Pay it tithe. And I was like, dadd you know
what I can buy for six hundred bucks. This was
twenty years ago. I could buy half of the world.
And my dad will look at me and he say, son,

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we're immigrants in the United States. He says, we have
a lot of things against us, a lot of odds
against us.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
He says, mark my word, son, if.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
You put God first in your finances, he says, ten years,
twenty years down the road, you will look back and
you will see invisible hand that was helping you. And
he says, and I've seen that in the visible hand
help our family. He says, When I want that invisible
hand help you as well, It's not about six hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
He said, it's about telling the Lord you first. I
value doesn't care about those money.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
The church does, but God a lot less and so
God cares about your heart, what your heart is, and
your heart pretty much, you gotta put somebody first.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Anyway, you might as well. I'm gonna tell you one thing.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Your internet company doesn't have the power to help you.
Your mortgage company, the one that you're faithfully paying for,
doesn't have the same power to help you. And so
you may say a lot I'm gonna stretched in. I
don't have enough money to cover the bills. And that's
one way of living. I found out another way, and
that is this when I invite God in. I said,
the Lord, help me with the rest, give me wisdom

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not to buy stupid stuff, protect me from stupid things.
By the end of the month, I would see in
some way I cannot explain. And this is a common
thing with every person who I know. Put God's in
the finances first. They say, it's weird, it seems like
I always have enough. Now, let me tell you the
testimony of people who don't tide because they don't have enough.

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The common testimony is the same, I can't afford to
my encouragement to you. This is not about tithing that
The last thing I care about.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
My concern is this.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Would you invite God into your family by bringing your
family to church once a week? Would you invite God
into your day by talking to him? And would you
invite God into your finances by putting Him first. Now,
the finances part is the only part you can actually
test God.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
And after those stop doing that.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
So, for example, you can set the time you can
do twelve months, six months, three months. You say, you
know what, for three months, I'm gonna do this. And Lord,
if this is your will, then it pleases you. I
want to see your hand in that. If you don't
see anything, you can stop doing that. And God actually
is the only time in the Bible he gives you
permission to do that. I've done that quite a few
times in my life, and i can tell you one thing,

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God has always been faithful. As a pastor. I want
to share those secrets with you. Put God first in
your day, Put God first in your week in some way,
shape and form. Put God first in your finances, and
see God show up in the beginning. God, may he
be in the beginning in your finances. May He be
in the beginning in your family, and may he be

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in the beginning in your day and in your week.
You're facing season change. God remains the same. You're facing
season change. He wants to give you new strength. You're
facing a shift in seasons and people left you. He'll

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empower you to take the new role You've never thought
you have the strength and the power and ability.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
He'll give you the strength and the grace.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
You're facing a season change because of finances. God is
able to move you from manna to milk and honey.
You're facing a season change. Let me give you a
secret for how to navigate to Put God first and
watch him be involved with the rest.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
Rise to your feet.
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