Take A Leap of Faith & JUMP

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my my leaders leaders listen at some point in your life when you're on the edge of the cliff and you're looking down and you're wondering should I take this jump and you realize that when you look back the only thing that's back there is a place that you no longer want to go no longer want to be in can no longer be in that environment and you've been praying to God and you feel that you know that Jesus Christ is telling you to take the leap of faith jump just jump and as you jump and you're now Free Falling don't understand what you're doing it doesn't feel comfortable just pray

that God since you already made your decision to jump and there's no going back for many of you all that there's a soft cushion at the bottom or God will miraculously give you the wings of an angel or just better yet God is going to go before you and protect you that's what today's message is about my lead if you're watching this video more than likely you've taken the leap of faith you moved forward in a direction that you've made a decision you allowed the stagnation of not making a decision to no longer be something that is going to hold you down keep you oppressed and shackle you you stop

listening to the to the lies of Satan remember not the lies of people God uses people Satan misuses people to give you messages and Li but we love people you've been listening to the voice of God he's been giving you dreams your daydreaming he's been giving you scriptures and you're wondering if now in this journey the leap of Fate that you took if you should have jumped in the first place well I want to say this and I want to say this straight off the bat if you took a leap and you took it in the direction of Faith you took the right leap I'm going say that again if

you took the leap of faith and you truly did it in faith that is pleasing to God in any stagnation that you've had that has been in fear is not of God one as the Bible says that God did not give us a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind two we know that in Hebrews 11:6 it says that it is impossible to please God without faith one of my favorite verses okay and I'm going to read Genesis real quick because in Genesis 12 verse one this is what is instructed by the Lord to Abraham who we know is the father of Faith here's what he

says it says this I'm reading out the KJV version it says now the Lord had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and from thy Kindred and from thy Father's House unto a land that I will show thee we're going to speak about this in today's video let's let's pray dear Lord heavenly father in the mighty name of Jesus Christ father I'm coming to you today with just just humility humility I don't know really how to give this word today but I do know that somebody needs to actually hear this specific word it wasn't my plan and so God I pray that you would use me today to

speak to this individual that has taken a leap of faith and since this person has taking a leap of faith and they're in environments and in territories that are kind of unfamiliar and they're going down a journey that kind of feels like it could breede insecurities and it could breede doubt Lord God father I want you to use this word today as a a confirmation as a affirmation as something that is comforting that is something that is reassuring that you the God is with us the one that created the heavens the one that created the Earth the one that gave them the word in the first place and put the

conviction inside them father I pray that this is the word today that's going to speak to him Jesus Christ however long you want this video or however short let this video get to the leader who is ready for this message if they're watching this video they're ready for this message they need to hear this message so father I pray that you will use me Holy Ghost go before me right now we magnify the name of Jesus Christ Lord lead me in your word and in what I'm saying today to your leader open their mind and their soil right now that they may receive this word today in Jesus mighty name

amen amen amen my leader is on my heart to speak about Abraham in the leap of fate that you're taking or some of you are about to take because I got on the phone with a phenomenal individual that I truly believe in and right now oh yeah he's on a journey taking the leap of faith and I remember too vividly my own journey of truly taking a leap of faith when I went to New York City I was chilling in the comfort of my father's father's crib and the Lord continued to speak to me me Michael I need you to go and it was two places that the Lord was

sending me eventually I was going to get to what was known as my Promised Land here in Austin Texas but before the promised land I had to take a Jesus Christ Journey to the Wilderness which was New York City New York City my leaders was some place that was a magical land to me it was filled with so many different things that I have to do a whole separate video matter of fact I don't have it with me it's in my book and I speak about this and it's very important that I speak about this Wilderness Journey because in the Bible we know in the account of Luke the way

he explains it is that Jesus Christ was tempted for 40 days and for 40 nights of the devil and then we see the three great Temptations after Jesus Christ hungered New York was that but before going there I had to take a leap of faith like God you calling me um I ain't got no money I don't have no client set up for for my videography photography service I'm doing YouTube videos I ain't even got a th subscribers I'm not getting paid from YouTube Lord I had to take a leap of faith and you know what my dad didn't want me to do it he sat me down at the

table I remember I had this leather jacket on for one of my brothers and we're sitting down and he's he's like Michael you know this uh this decision now I'm Nigerian this decision now to uh to go to New York man hey I don't know you know you can be sitting in this uh environments now and if you want to pay rent now you can pay you know about 300 a month and uh you'll be good you know you'll be taking care of certain bills now hey and I looked at them I said Dad man I gotta love you I really do love you but if I if I stay

here I can't grow my fate I can't really experience the reality of life if I stay here that when I miss the rent and I can't pay rent cuz mind you I didn't have a job at the time I'm trying to do my my entrepreneurship I'm making money here and there but I'm not making a lot of money I wanted to experience what it going to feel like to live at that Cliff I wanted to be at that cliff and I wanted to jump and I wanted to be free Faller and I wanted to see the hand of God it's crazy when you want to see the hand of God

move I want to jump off that Cliff I want to say God I'm leaning on you that's all I got not to test God okay but to just trust God I want to learn to trust you because I'm hearing all these stories of Faith from all these Believers and I don't feel like I Really Ever push my fate I don't feel like I ever really did that I kind of been keeping it safe up until this point so I'm telling my dad dad if I don't pay this $300 for rent you're not going to kick me out on the streets you're not going to put me out now there's some

fathers that would do that but I have a very loving father phenomenal one of the most patient if not the most patient man on the planet how do I know for me to be your son you got to be patient you got to be patient and I remember just ah dad I I had that conversation with and then my mother as well too she did not want me going into New York City I a have no money so I say this to say I took a leap of faith and I went to New York City and I was in my Wilderness and so here's where I got to start because

if we read Abraham it says now the Lord has said unto Abram get thee out of thy country so ABR had to get out of his country it said from thy Kindred and from thy Father's House unto a land that I will show thee God was showing me in the spirit a land and the first one was New York City he showed me Austin for sure that was where I'm I need a head but look in the Bible as the children of Israel are called to go to the land of Canaan Canaan has so many obstacles that they have to overcome enemies in the territory they're going through the Wilderness

Journey they're tempted they're backsliding they're believing in God again they're serving other gods they're believing in God again it's this it's a poetry that happens on the journey to the the promised land Abraham go to the land that I'm going to send thee it says and I will make thee a great nation and I will bless thee and I will make thy name great and thou shall be a blessing you're going to go out into this land Abraham and you're going to learn whatever I need to teach you and you're going to be a blessing somebody that is a blessing is this verse three I will bless them that bless

thee and I will curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed somebody that is a blessing is a blessing to all people one of the first things that happens when you go on your journey and you're just obedient and you take take the leap of faith we're not promised that we're not going to go through a a problem free journey in fact Jesus Christ tells us along this journey we're going to suffer many things trials and tribulations persecution but the fact of the matter is we go on this journey with Christ but one thing that happens as you learn in this journey

you're going to become a blessing look at Joseph Joseph was sold into slavery by the very his own brothers that wanted to to kill him and what ends up happening as he's sold into slavery because one of the brothers decided to say let's not kill him but let's sell him when he gets to where he needs to get to what happens he becomes a man of authority a man of power a man that has provision and when he sees the time to bless his family He blesses his family he has Grace like God he has Mercy like God has on us so why am I saying this you have already

taken the leap of faith you've already gone on this journey you're there now and so many of y'all who are going and are kind of afraid all I can do is God before I go to New York City I need you to just bless the land bless new I'm praying God go before me and bless new New York open up doors open up opportunities protect me from the arrows and the darts of the enemy protect me from the principalities that are in high places that are in Dark Places the spiritual world I need your protection I need your guidance I need your favor I need doors to open up I'm

praying these things before I get to New York in the moment I make the decision to go to New York finan provision my father blesses me with like 500 the very same day I get a client for my videography photography service a a nonprofit have shears will travel shout out to Barbara Barbara held your boy down she just opened up a school God sends provision my way like he promised and so you going down this Journey you want to take god with you and you want to pray to Jesus Jehovah Gyra God you go before me and if I'm in the Valley of the shadow of death and if it

feels like that and if I make my bed there the word says that where can I hide from God I can't hide from his presence he's going to be there with you and how do we know if you woke up today and you still breathing he was definitely there with you and as I woke up every single day in New York City he was there with with me as I as I as I went broke the first 30 days and had no money and I had to go into the streets of New York City and find a hostel that would allow me to sleep there he was there with me

money started and provision started pouring in as I got the first New York apartment literally walked in that thing a rat is a rat is waiting for me on the floor bed bugs was all over the bed spiders were all over the ceiling walls roaches scouted across the floor no kitchen well a kitchen a bathroom no living room in a in a in a a window that only looked down into a pit I was in hell in that room and though I lay in no bed cuz I threw out the bed because of the bed bugs that were there and I'm sleeping on my FL floor with the clothes that's

in my my luggage and I'm getting bit up by these bed bugs every day I'm guarding the dang I ran the rat outside my room and I got a I got a dang jacket on the floor and I got a jacket on the floor that's covering the hole in the floor so the rat won't get in at night when it gets dark I never been in this type of cold and I and I'm out in the world in New York City 26 degree weather my toes are freezing freezing feel like I'm about to have a frostbite but yet the Lord is with me and I'm going on this journey and

I'm growing and I'm developing and I'm learning about God in a way that I have never known God this is exactly what I asked asked for I ain't ask for everything to be peachy cream what did I say God I want to I want to learn how it feels to trust you oh so so I got to I got some assignments I got some struggles and trials and TR I may have to go through you took the leap of faith and so now that you took the leap of faith it's to trust God in this season that's all it is believe that he's with you when nobody else believes in

you I love my mom I love my dad they didn't want me to do that not understanding that I needed that see God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts and his ways are higher than our ways I needed that I'm forever thankful for my New York experience because if I can handle that I can handle anything I can handle this marriage I'm married I can handle marriage I love my wife but it's nothing that we can get into and we haven't been through already in this in this year of two miscarriages I lost two daughters in this marriage already already uh-huh yep but God is faithful even now what you

going to recognize is when you take this leap of faith there may be a psychological warfare you're going through you ain't never been through a psychological Warfare the enem is going to play with your mind and make you doubt this journey to the point where you feel like giving up that is the spirit of fear enem is going to make you have in your mind that you need to be angry you need to be upset you need to you just why you even do it you goingon to be mad at God at times when things ain't going your way it ain't supposed to go your way that's what he told

me he spoke to me just like that I said God hold on man God I thought you'd be talking in Whispers I thought you'd be whispering just crying he said it ain't supposed to go your way it's supposed to go my way my thoughts are higher than your thoughts my ways are higher than your ways the way that I do things is to build you you don't know how to build yourself if you knew how to build yourself you would be building yourself how does that work so far J it ain't but when I when my loving hand build you you always come out more refined like gold the question

is is it is it love if I rebuke my child from putting his hands on the stove no if you love your child maybe that first time is going to burn but the second time you going to tell hey don't do that hey look both ways before you cross the street what my parents would always tell me they giving me correction and I do something bad they putting a rod to me they putting a belt to my behind is that love cuz they putting a belt to my behind absolutely that's discipline I need that belt to my behind if my he if my Earthly parents could discipline me like this

why can't my heavenly father do this questions they need answers My Le look my be got out of hand cuz I got so fired fired up so my leers man you're on this journey journey Abraham Genesis 12 let's read this again now the Lord had said unto Abraham who did he say it to he said it to Abraham Abraham got the revelation God is speaking to Abraham Abraham is the one that's getting this direct word from the Lord hallelujah get thee out of thy country from thy Kindred and from thy Father's House unto a land that I will show you and so if he's telling you to go to a

land that he will show you he's prepared the land just like he did in Genesis God prepared the land he made the heavens and he made the Earth he brought the herbs from the ground he made the sun he made the Stars he brought all of these things forth and then what does he do he brings Adam then when he brings Adam he takes Eve from his rib God prepares the land before he sends the human so if he sent you somewhere he's prepared that place for you to do whatever it needs to do and to give you an assignment if I'm speaking to you let me know I'm speaking

to you if this is talking to you share this with somebody else I ain't even ask you to like the video Even though if it's speaking to you go ahead and do that let me know to keep going in this direction this video is more so if I was sitting down with you and I was coaching you I'm going be I'm going be speaking to you just like this CU some people need it like this we ain't sugarcoat or nothing you are a child of God don't mean you a weak person person he the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 27 you know what he says I'mma read this to you

and then I'mma close this video off you know he you know he says in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 that just goes against our understanding like what are you talking about I'm going to do a whole video on this okay 1 Corinthians 1 ver 27 it says but God had chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God had chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are Mighty so he chose the weak things so I'm going to do a whole message on this but what I'm going to say is if you feel weak along this fith journey at times you may feel

weak we ain't got to get prideful and say we don't feel weak I I feel weak sometimes on this journey sometimes I fall short of the glory I find myself in sin or in anger or frustration or confused but God is not the author of confusion that's the Flesh and the lies of the enemy but he chosen this weak vessel of mine to confound the W the mighty and in this weak vessel of mine I have to realize that God's grace is sufficient and his grace goes where I can't my Reliance on him goes places My Flesh can't go like my My Flesh My Flesh can't go to heaven but

it's my faith that knows that my spirit is gone because of my Lord Jesus Christ dying on the cross for my sins and giving me salvation and eternal life for me confessing that Jesus is Lord and receiving him in my heart and knowing that God Rose him from the dead he died for my sins and I trust that I received the Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit does things that I can't do so my leader as I close this video trust that the holy spirit is guiding you and is going to do things that you can't do going to give you wisdom that you can't obtain by yourself it's

going to give you protection that you don't even know how you've been protected God is with you Jesus Christ is interceding on your behalf but keep your faith on him and any move that you make moving forward just like the leap of faith that you took and like the on some of you are about to take after this video as a confirmation you just have to take Christ with you I can't do this marriage just because I went to the New York experience I I can pursue and succeed in this marriage because New York taught me to take the Holy Ghost I have the Holy Spirit moving in this relationship

I have the Holy Spirit showing me how to correct my wrongs I need a whole bunch of correcting I got the Holy Spirit sh showing me what to speak about who to serve how to do ministry work I got the Holy Spirit that's showing me how to do all these things when eventually I have a child in the future the holy spirit is going to show me how to be a father I still need to learn how to be a better Brothers to my sisters and my brothers but the holy spirit is showing me all things so my leaders who are taking this leap of faith understand that the holy

spirit is with you and if you feel like you've been you about to quit it says weary not and wello I need you to keep pressing forward with the Holy Ghost y'all seen the message about Gideon if you haven't watched the last message about Gideon God has called you a mighty man of Valor I suggest that you watch that video it's going to speak to you all right let's pray dear Lord heavenly father in the mighty name of Jesus Christ father we thank you right now for your love and your presence Lord we thank you for your grace and your mercy Lord we thank you that you're the god that

guides us into the correct path making our crooked way straight father we acknowledge that you are the one that has sent us on this fith journey you're the one that called us and draw Us near you and as we Proclaim Jesus and accept them as our Lord and our savior father we thank you that right now along this journey you are with us and for those who have forgotten Lord let them remember that right now you are are with them and where two or three are gathered your word says that you are here in the midst and anybody that's coming into agreement God Is Right Here hearing your cries hearing

your prayers and he wants to meet you where you are right now and he wants to remind you that he's going forth with you he's guiding you he's not worried about what you've done in the past you've repented he's moved on from it he's looking at you as to where you need to go where he wants you to be and who you are to become he wants to use you for a specific assignment and he's only building you I pray for a strength Heavenly Father for my leader right now to keep moving forward in strength in power to keep moving forward in faith your word says that is impossible to

please you without faith so I'm praying that this leader takes faith and not just any faith not fith of the universe not faith in some other false god not faith in some false Doctrine but faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ your word says that there is no other God you are the way you are the life you are the truth so God I'm praying as my leader who took that leap of fith knowing that you were going to be there with them that they remembered you are with them right now and although it may not feel perfect although it may not always feel sweet although we may get

frustrated and angry you are there right now to calm our storms so for the leader that's been going through a storm right now father I'm praying that you will calm this storm in Jesus name is that that storm that they've been experiencing God you will calm it right now in Jesus name father you be magnified and you give them encouragement I believe that after this word they will be encouraged this was a confirmation for them to keep going in that path as long as they take you Jesus so father we love you thank you for hearing this prayer it's in your precious son in Jesus mighty name that we pray

amen amen amen My Le I love you but Jesus Christ loves you more all right if you're in the need of any type of prayer requests links in the description below to my email JJ Global atgmailcom okay I'm here for you also created a book for you as well too in the descript destion below pick up your calling this calling just to help you along this fi Journey keep going all right you took the the leap God is with you remember that we are

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