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Exceedingly Abundant

This was recorded at the Granite Bay Hilltop SDA Church, located in Granite Bay, California.

Hope you are blessed by the message and that it draws you closer to God.

It's been a while since I've been around.

We finished our AFCO, we did a series up in Lincoln.

Was in Singapore, then came back here quickly, then went to Puerto Rico, no, Singapore, Puerto Rico, came back here, then went on vacation to Guatemala, then my vacation got paused.

I went to GYC in Orlando, and then went back to Guatemala to finish my vacation.

So it's been supposed to be vacation, but I feel like I need another vacation.

Anyway, it's a blessing to be here with all of you to talk about the power of prayer in my life.

Father, thank you again for the blessing and the privilege of being here today.

We could be doing anything, we could be anywhere, but we have come together, Lord, because we wanna spend time in your presence.

And when we spend time in your presence, then that reflects in our time wanting to spend time with your family and your children, as we all are.

And so we thank you for this privilege, and I just ask, Father, that you bless us as you promised to those that come to seek your face and want to draw closer to you.

We thank you and we ask this in Jesus' name, amen.

If you have your Bibles with you, please open your Bibles with me to the book of Ephesians chapter 3.

The title of this presentation is called Exceedingly Abundant, Ezekiel chapter 3, and when you're there say amen.

If you have a phone you shouldn't be saying mercy on a phone.

Now Ezekiel chapter 3 is 1 of my favorite chapters in the Bible.

See, it's a little bit of jet lag, a little bit of everything.

Ephesians chapter 3 is 1 of my favorite chapters in the Bible.

It talks about the mystery, The great mystery that God has revealed to humanity.

And it's not a mystery because God is trying to conceal it.

It's because humanity is not aware that they need it.

And so once humanity realizes it, then God reveals this mystery, which is Christ in us, the hope of glory.

So we're not going to read the chapter, but we're going to go to the end of the chapter and we're going to go to verse number...

It says, For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man, which is, Christ may dwell in your hearts, that's the mystery, through faith, that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width the length and the depth and height of that love to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God now here's the verse verse 20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly, beyond our comprehension, beyond what we understand, beyond what we know, above all that we ask or think, so God says that he is able to do abundantly, exceedingly abundant, beyond what we ask or what we even think according to the power that works in us, that is Christ in us, the hope of glory through the Holy Spirit, to Him be glory where?

So in other words what God is doing exceedingly abundantly in us, beyond what we ask or think, which is the power of God working in us, which is to be glory to the Church by Jesus Christ to all generations.

So in a way it's talking about sharing our testimony.

So today I want to share with you a part of my testimony that I rarely get to share because there's so much to share about, but there is 1 aspect of when I was thinking about what to share that I wanted to not only share, but more than anything, inspire and encourage and help many of us with the struggles that we have in our Christian experience, things that are very basic, very common, and that at a very early Christian age, God showed me and revealed to me through very interesting situations.

And so you can call this also learning to live by faith.

1 is the difficulties and the other 1 is learning to follow in God's will.

And so for those that are not aware, my testimony, you can see my testimony, Secrets Unsealed recorded my testimony.

My testimony with Pastor Boar interviewed me.

But I was baptized in 2008, for those that weren't aware.

And when I became baptized, as soon as I began in my Christian experience, I already knew I wanted to be a pastor.

I think it's interesting that this week we had the revelation of Armageddon, the new video, which is a runoff of final events, right?

And so seeing that video was 1 of the things, I was a Christian and I just knew that I wanted to share the word of God.

I knew I wanted to dedicate, I found my calling, as most of you know, or I've heard my testimony, I was empty, without purpose, without no reason to live, just to live and live la vida loca.

And so when I became a Christian, I said this is what I want to do.

God has called me to share this wonderful message and I found my purpose and my reason.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking too.

And if you know what happened in 2008, It's a small event.

I was living in Puerto Rico in this time.

Puerto Rico, there's a university, an Adventist university.

And there was a problem is that I was because of my worldly living I had accumulated so much debt that to go study theology to do my, I was gonna do a master's because I already had a bachelor's degree in pre-law and criminology, And so to do my bachelor's I was going to have to pay and I was making enough money in Puerto Rico just to barely pay my debt.

And so I was like, I'm not going to get into more debt to study.

You would have thought, oh, it's the Lord's will.

I'm going to get into debt to do the Lord's will.

And so I prayed about it, and God told me very clearly, go back to New York City, right?

Now, even though there was a great recession in New York City, if you want to work, you will find work, right?

I need to make more money than I was making in Puerto Rico.

And so I went back and I started to look for work.

I applied in 1, NYPD, because my background is in criminology and pre-law.

And the other thing I applied was there was a special program in New York City.

It's called New York City Fellowship and it's a program where they take people that have degrees in other areas aside from education and what they do is there are certain gaps in the city in regards to certain areas like math, science, Spanish, certain specific areas that they're not able to fill those gaps.

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10 Days of Prayer

Exceedingly Abundant

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