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hello and welcome to Kingdom connection
I’m so excited that you’re joining us
today I’m coming to you from the Holy
Land I’m in the beautiful nation of
Israel as a matter of fact behind me is
a very famous mountain it’s called Mount
Gilboa and in what I’m going to share
today I’m gonna share a revelation and a
secret that you never heard is connected
to our 2019 fast you know we as a
ministry and as a church every year
began the year with a 21-day fast we we
seek the Lord on the Daniel Fast and we
we abstained from meat we abstained from
bread and from sweets anything with
sugar in it and we just eat healthy we
as vegetarian basically vegetables and
fruit and we seek God’s face just like
Daniel did he fasted and prayed ate nope
read ain’t no meat ain’t no sweets for
21 days and in the scripture the Bible
said God sent break through to his life
and I believe he’s going to send it to
your life and I’m so excited for the
thousands upon thousands of you who are
joining us on this fast today’s message
is going to connect the power of fasting
with humbling yourself fasting is
humbling yourself there’s a profound
revelation and lesson that I’m gonna
share today on the telecast about King
Saul in this very place where I’m
standing that I don’t think you’ll ever
forget so stay tuned and by the way if
there’s a need in your life there will
be a number on the screen we have an
army of people I’m not exaggerating tens
of thousands of people are fasting and
praying and we’re in a special season of
fasting in prayer so send us your prayer
request we would love to pray for you
listen 2019 is going to be the year of a
thousand times more Deuteronomy said
that the Lord our God will bless you a
thousand times more and we just felt to
just decree over our families and our
lives and our calling and our purpose
and our businesses a thousand times more
just like Deuteronomy one promises
wouldn’t you like to have a thousand
times more of God’s presence more of
God’s favor a thousand times more in
your church and
your ministry reaching souls helping
people lifting lives that’s what I’m
believing for and I’m believing it for
your life you say well I I don’t know
that sounds pretty big God is a big God
and sometimes we have not because we ask
not and we’re on this fast and we’re
saying God give us a thousand times more
of you than we’ve ever had before
I’m not asking for little things I’m not
asking for you know just just a the the
crumbs under the table I want a thousand
times more of God in 2019 than I’ve ever
had in my life and that’s why we’re
fasting and praying and seeking God’s
face so open up your heart and let God
now speak to you and if you’re not
fasting with us jump in and let’s do
this together we’ve got unbelievable
material that’ll help you and I know
that I’m gonna be your fasting coach and
as we enter in together listen the
scripture said when you humble yourself
through fasting in prayer and I’m gonna
teach that to you in just a moment when
you humble yourself before the mighty
hand of God in due season he will he
will exalt you I believe that we’re
moving in to a season right now this
year I think God’s hand is coming up
under you and your life and your family
your purpose and he’s going to exalt
he’s going to raise up it’s not for your
glory it’s not for vain glory it’s time
you’ve come to the kingdom for such a
time as this is there not a cause it’s
time for a thousand times more of God’s
favor of God’s blessing of God’s
anointing of God’s presence in our life
in just a moment I’m gonna teach you the
connection of fasting and humbling
yourself before the hand of God it’s a
powerful powerful lesson I’m gonna come
right back here in this spot I know this
message is a word in season for your
life before I do that I want you to
listen to my announcer I’m so excited
about what he’s going to share he’s
going to tell you about some exciting
things in 2019 you and I together are
going
discovered this secret discipline of
fasting and the powerful rewards that
come with it
our annual corporate fast begins January
6 2019 and we want to see your fasting
experience go to the next level when you
send a gift of $50 or more we’ll send
you the brand new fasting of 101 kit
including Jenson Franklin’s New York
Times best-selling book fasting along
with a new 2019 study guide and the book
fasting 101 most ask questions if you
can send a gift of $100 or more today
will also include a personalized legacy
certificate to honor your investment
into lives of Holocaust survivors living
in Israel or with your gift of $1,000 or
more we want to send you a personalized
Israel blessing plaque to honor you as
well as your generosity in blessing
Holocaust survivors and the nation of
Israel in addition your name will be
placed on a special wall of honor at the
Holocaust Center in Jerusalem join us on
the 21-day fast and stand with us with
your generous gift today call the number
on the screen or visit us online at
Jensen Franklin TV
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you
well welcome to another day of fasting
in prayer I just agree with you today
for God to do something mighty in your
life you know when you’re talking about
fasting fasting is a way of humbling
yourself the scripture said humble
yourself in the book of James humble
yourself before the mighty hand of God
and in due season he will exalt you if
you humble yourself God will exalt you
the hand of God will exalt you one of
the greatest stories in the Bible
happened here one of the greatest
lessons that I think on pride happened
here scripture talks about in Proverbs
that pride goes before a fall
let me tell you the story of a man that
that was that ended in in right behind
me on the mountain that you can see
behind me that’s Mount Gilboa his name
was Saul he was the first king of Israel
the Bible said he stood a head and
shoulders above all the other men in
Israel and when he began he was
extremely humble the reason I know he
was humble was when the Bible said that
they called for him to be anointed the
king of Israel he was hiding among the
staff he was so humble and so feeling as
though he was unworthy of that high
lofty position that he was hiding
feeling his own insecurity feeling his
own insufficiency and the Prophet poured
oil on King Saul and the Bible said and
he was turned into another man I love
that about Solace a powerful verse when
the anointing of the Holy Spirit comes
on you he can turn your weakness into
strength he can turn your defeat into
victory listen to this
the Bible said that Saul was born on
Mount Mizpah Mizpah in Hebrew means to
be bent low he started out in humility
he started out low he started out
humble he started out meek hiding among
the stuff that’s the kind of leader God
can use but he died
Mount Gilboa and the word Gilboa means
to be exalted to be exalted now you
think about that a man started on Mount
miss but being bent low totally
depending on God totally humble hiding
feeling like if God doesn’t help me I
can’t do this but the more that God
raised him and the more that God blessed
him and actually one of the most
powerful verses in the Bible in the Old
Testament is God before he removed salt
from office and replaced him with David
said these words over Saul when you were
little in your own eyes you were of
great value to me what a lesson that
that when you become big in your own
eyes God says pride is is something that
will cause your downfall pride goes
before a fall when you were little in
your own eyes there’s nothing wrong with
good self-esteem and believing in
yourself but don’t ever get to the place
that you feel like you can do it your
talent is enough your education your
gifting you need the anointing you need
God’s presence the more he raises you
the more you need to seek Him one time
the Lord spoke to me about our ministry
and he said it’s dangerous we were
really growing and I was getting so busy
I didn’t have time to pray and read the
Bible like I needed to and the Lord said
to me it’s dangerous to have a growing
ministry and a shrinking passion for me
some of you have growing businesses
growing families growing careers
don’t let your passion shrink because he
ended up on Mount Gilboa the mountain of
pride the mountain are being exalted and
they hung him and his sons on that
mountain the whole story of a man’s life
can be told by the two mountains one he
was born on in humility and the one he
died on in pride it cost him everything
cost him his family cost him his
children and it cost him the kingdom so
what’s powerful about fasting is that as
you fast
you’re humbling yourself you’re humbling
yourself before God
and you’re saying God use me again God
feel me again
god bless me again god I I’ve grown I’ve
come a mighty long way I started out
with little to nothing and your presence
and your power and your favour has
raised me but I need you more now than I
did then that’s the right spirit I’m
more desperate for you now than I was
then
now that you’ve given me much than much
is required of me and I need you like
I’ve never needed you before and there’s
nothing that says that more to God
people don’t understand why we do this
every year people don’t understand those
of you who are watching this right now
you know you you you I’m sure people
have said you’re crazy
why are you doing that but it’s our way
of saying one of the big themes of
fasting is so consistent throughout the
scripture is it’s um it’s a way of
humbling yourself it’s a way of saying I
don’t want pride to get a death grip on
me in my life and you don’t know pride
as insidious’ pride is pride is there
and you don’t know it’s there you know
that the first sin and the Bible was
pride the first sin in in creation was
pride pride got turned an angel into a
devil because Lucifer was was according
to the scripture an arch angel that was
in an exalted high place he said I will
ascend above the throne I will be like
the Most High
it’s all about me it’s all about me
that’s pride and he was cast out of
heaven think about it pride can turn an
angel into a devil and I don’t want
pride to get a hold of me I don’t want
it to get a hold of you and it certainly
has I mean if we would be honest we’d
all have to say there are times where we
begin to become self-sufficient more
than God
you know desperate and that’s why
fasting is so so so powerful it’s us
coming again at the beginning of a new
year
and saying holy spirit I need you Holy
Spirit fill me again and I humble myself
there’s there’s only two ways of being
you know you got a choice
he said humble yourself before the
mighty hand of God that’s what you’re
doing in fasting or God will humble you
so you can humble yourself or God’s
gonna humble you and that’s why when I
fast and when I pray in thousands and
thousands and thousands of people are
doing it as we’re on this fast one of
the greatest things God will do is
humble you you’ll see it you you you
won’t you you’ll think I can’t I can’t
believe I was thinking that way I can’t
believe I was acting that way I can’t
believe I talked to that person that way
because pride can can blind you but when
you fast God will show you those areas
of your life that pride is creeping in
and you know just humble yourself a
speed let’s be people who give God the
glory nothing wrong with succeeding
nothing wrong with being super
successful but give God the glory
that’s humility humility is not putting
yourself down humility is lifting Jesus
up now I just said something right there
a lot of people think that humility is
is just you know putting yourself down
all the time that’s not humility
humility is lifting Jesus up not putting
you down and so god I give you the glory
God I you you deserve the honor you
deserve the praise every achievement
every success in my life to God be the
glory for the things he has done
discovered this secret discipline of
fasting and the powerful rewards that
come with it
our annual corporate fest begins January
6 2019 and we want to see your fasting
experience go to the next level when you
send a gift of $50 or more we’ll send
you the brand-new fasting of 101 kit
including Jenson Franklin’s New York
Times best-selling book fasting along
with a new 2019 study guide and the book
fasting 101 most asked questions if you
can send a gift of $100 or more today
will also include a personalized legacy
certificate to honor your investment in
the lives of Holocaust survivors living
in Israel or with your gift of $1,000 or
more we want to send you a personalized
Israel blessing plaque to honor you as
well as your generosity in blessing
Holocaust survivors and the nation of
Israel in addition your name will be
placed on a special wall of honor at the
Holocaust Center in Jerusalem join us on
the 21-day fast and stand with us with
your generous gift today visit us online
at Jensen franklin TV
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you
as we continue on their teaching today I
just believe that what God is doing on
this fast for many of you and I really
want to encourage you if you have not
decided to fast I have had so many
reports everywhere I go all over the
world of people who said I watched you
on television you challenged me to fast
I never fasted before I did the 21-day
Daniel fast with you and I’m telling you
my life was forever change there’s a
reason why God has has has blessed us to
to share this message with you today
I’ve written books on fasting and
there’s a reason why is because it is a
principle in God’s Word Jesus fasted
Elijah fasted Moses fasted on and on and
on and it’s a form of humbling yourself
you as you’ve heard me teach today and
as you continue to hear me teach I
believe that the Lord calls us at times
in our life to say come back to me come
back in humility come back in dependency
come back in hunger and thirst for me
come back and seek me you’re so busy
you’re so busy do you really want to
have just another year of activity and
busyness this is a brand new year it’s
the best time of the year to say God I
want more of you I don’t want to have a
growing business and a shrinking passion
for you I don’t have I don’t want to
have a growing family with more stuff
and less of you I need you like I’ve
never needed you before you got children
that need to experience the power of God
you’ve got grandchildren that were not
raised in in in situations like you were
where where you were taken to church and
and all your life and experienced the
power of God and the gospel and I tell
you we need to get a burden for the next
generation and the generation after that
and what you’re doing when you fast and
pray for 21 days
and you say god bless my family I’m
humbling myself all God needs is one
listen to this the scripture said in
Psalms that he sets the solitary in
families solitary means 1 it says he
sets 1 in families to bring out those
who are held in Chains when God can find
one in a family who will say Lord I want
you to bless me and I want you to bless
my family with your presence with your
deliverance with your with your
supernatural anointing God said I set
solitary one in a family to bring out
all who are bound with chains all God
needs is one in your family
why don’t you fast for your family why
don’t you humble yourself in fasting and
say god I want you to break every
addiction off every one of my family
members my loved ones I want you to save
them I want you to see I want to see you
move in my family like never before and
when you begin to humble yourself and
fasting when you begin to humble
yourself in prayer when you begin to say
to the God whose bless you I need you
more than I’ve ever needed you before
I’m telling you I believe a thousand
times more favors gonna come on your
life a thousand times more of God’s
wisdom and God’s anointing is going to
come on your life I don’t want my life
and my ministry to die on Mount Gilboa
that mountain behind me is where King
Saul died and it means to be exalted
he started out humble as I’ve taught you
he started out hiding among the stuff
when he started he’s born on Mountain
Mizpah which means to be brought low and
that amazing
started out low but God said to him when
you were little in your own eyes you
were of great value it’s possible for
God to take people and raise them up and
bless them and they get big in their own
eyes they get prideful they get arrogant
they treat people wrong and ugly I tell
you what we’ll break that off of you
when you
fast there’s a brokenness that comes
when you fast there is a there is a
returning back to the fact that God gets
the glory in my life God gets the praise
for every achievement for every success
that’s what happens there’s a sweet
presence of God that’ll come I’m just
telling you we just felt like to decree
that as you fast and as you pray
Deuteronomy chapter 1 a thousand times
more a thousand times more of God’s
presence of God’s joy of God’s freedom
of God’s grace on your life on your
family on your business on your career a
thousand times more of his presence in
your life why don’t we ask God for big
things I think God’s saying you you
asked me for little things but I want to
do a thousand times more with your
children I want to do a thousand times
more with your marriage I want to do a
thousand times more with your ministry
or your business which is your ministry
and I’m setting myself in agreement with
everybody who’s watching this program
that 2019 is not going to be just
another average normal mediocre year
it’s the year of a thousand times more
hallelujah praise God I think we’re
about to see increase I’m praying it
over America I’m praying it over our
nation I’m praying for God to do
something in America and in the world
that brings us together that causes us
to humble ourselves again before the
mighty hand of God so that he can raise
so that he can exalt so that he can
restore lives and families and and God’s
plan and purpose in our life and I want
to encourage you you say well I just
don’t know how to fast
well you just start you just start I’ve
done these 21 they Daniel fasts for so
many years have done the other ful faste
many times that I’m telling you it’s
just a discipline it’s just a discipline
and it’s just am having a made up man
and making a vial to God and saying well
here I go I’m gonna do this for the next
21 days and you will be amazed at how
you’ve drawl – god I’ve never gone on a
fast that I didn’t get closer to Jesus
aren’t you tired of ankle-deep religion
you know there was a river and the book
of ezekiel and ezekiel got out there and
said he got up to his ankles and he kept
going deeper and he got to his knees and
he kept going deeper and he got to his
waist went out a thousand cubits a
thousand cubits that’s what it says a
thousand cubits he kept saying I want a
thousand times more I want a thousand
times more and it went from his ankles
to his knees don’t you want the River of
Life the river of the Holy Spirit
getting deeper in your house getting
deeper in your ministry he said I’m not
satisfied with ankle-deep I’m not
satisfied with knee-deep he kept saying
I want a thousand times more I want a
thousand times more until the fourth
time the Bible said he went on out
another thousand cubits into that river
and there was water to swim in and he
that scripture said he lost control and
the river took him I believe that it’s
time for the Holy Spirit flood to hit
your life and things that you haven’t
been able to do the Holy Spirit can just
get you in its current and take you to a
whole new level of a thousand times more
in 2019 praise God somebody’s moving
from ankle-deep blessing to knee-deep to
waist-deep – it’s over your head it’s
over your head your your you’re just
overwhelmed your being overwhelmed
that’s what he said what happen in the
book of Deuteronomy he said all of these
blessings will overtake you hallelujah
like a tidal wave you ever stood out in
the ocean not been paying attention and
turn your back on the ocean and suddenly
a big old wave hitch and it just
overtakes you there is a wave of God’s
blessing that is coming a thousand times
more than we’ve ever seen and it’s going
to overtake our churches and our lives
and our families a thousand times more
in Jesus name what a powerful verse what
a powerful powerful prophecy over your
life today I’m speaking humble yourself
I want to pray for you father in the
mighty name of Jesus this
is a brand new year and I believe it’s a
year when you want to visit your people
with a thousand times more power from
the river of the Holy Spirit so we say
yes Lord we agree and I know you’re
calling thousands of people to join us
on this fast this year we agree together
for a thousand times more souls to be
saved in lives to be changed
use this ministry as we humble ourselves
again at the beginning of the year and
in due season you will you will raise us
up you will exalt us for your glory and
for your name say in Jesus name and our
closing moments together I want to say
thank you listen if you don’t know Jesus
as your Savior and you’re tired of
living like you’re living just say Jesus
come into my heart there’s power in that
name just say Jesus come into my heart
and I’m jumping in I’m jumping in I want
a thousand times more of your presence
than I’ve ever had I promise you he
won’t turn you away and call the number
that’s on the screen we would love to
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we’ll help you in your brand-new walk
with Jesus in a brand new year I love
what God is doing through this telecast
right now thank you for watching this
program father speak to your people I
need your help to do this and I know you
know how to speak to people and Lord I
know what they will receive in return
will be a eternal blessing that that I
know will change lives and families in
Jesus name Amen
keep on fasting join us on this fast
we’re believing for a thousand times
more in your life
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