GEORGE: Hey everybody, this is
pastor George Pearsons. Welcome
to the believers voice of
victory. So glad that you're
watching today and I want to
make mention Kenneth and Gloria,
thank you for allowing me
to be on this week of these
broadcasts. This is a special
time that I have been able to
have with partners and friends
of those who are watching us
from around the world and the
Lord had put something very,
very important on my heart and
thank you for allowing me to
deliver this and that is that no
matter what the economy is like,
we can prosper. We prosper in
tough times. We prosper in great
times. We prosper all the time.
How about that? We just prosper
all the time. Now listen, all
of the outlines to these studies
look for the picture of pastor
George on there and click onto
it and it will take you to the
outlines of prospering in tough
times. Let's go back through and
just a quick, quick summary of
what we've been talking about
since the beginning of the week.
We read this scripture on
Monday, and we talked about
Colossians chapter one and
starting in verse 12, giving
thanks unto the father, which
has made us able to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints
in light. Who has delivered us
from the power of darkness.
And it's translated us into the
kingdom of his dear son. In whom
we have redemption through his
blood, even the forgiveness of
sins. We talked about being ,
uh, translated into the kingdom
of God's dear son. We've been
delivered from the kingdom of
darkness. Praise God, we've been
delivered from the kingdom of
darkness and we're living on
that kingdom here on earth. We
don't have to wait until we get
to heaven to experience the
goodness of God and all that he
wants to do in spite of
what's going on in spite of the
situations that are taking place
around us. And let me just read
a couple of highlights of what
we talked about and then we'll
finish up with the message for
today. But we talked about the
fact that we don't have to live,
we no longer have to live under
the dominion, the rule, the
control or the influence of
whatever direction the economy
and the world system is going at
the moment. No, we are not
subject to the times that we
live in. We're not subject to
the ups and the downs and the
all arounds. We're not subject
to the curse of the law and the
curse of the law, as
sister Gloria has taught us, is
everything that is bad. So we
are not subject to that. Jesus
became a curse for us. Galatians
3:13 so that that we could be
redeemed from the curse of the
law law in order to walk in the
blessing of Abraham. We are
subject to the blessing. You and
I are subject to the blessing
and the blessing of the Lord is
be fruitful, multiply, replenish
the earth, subdue it and have
dominion over it. That's the
blessing of the Lord and the
blessing really means to
empower, to prosper, to enlarge,
to increase, to grow, to develop
and to progress in our lives and
to be successful in whatever he
has called us to do. We are now
subject to and governed by
another economy and another
system and it's called the
kingdom of God. The times are
subject to us. We are subject to
the authority of God's word, the
blood of Jesus and the name of
Jesus. So we don't just survive
in tough times. We prosper and
we thrive and he our God will
lift us up and over every
economic situation that we face.
I'm thinking right now about the
children of Israel and when they
took the Passover lamb, they
were all gathered together. They
painted the blood over the
lintels and the doorposts of
their homes and the death angel
passed over. Well, that's the
way we live. Death passes over,
poverty passes over, sickness
passes over, all of that passes
over us. We're separated out
from the kingdom of darkness and
we walk in the kingdom of God's
dear son. And so we talked about
flourishing and and the and the
fact that we live in a time of
same conditions but different
results. There are conditions
that are going on, but they
affect people differently.
Different things take place. So
what I want to share with you
today, this is very interesting.
I want to talk to you
about a supernatural economic
turnaround. That you can have a
supernatural economic turnaround
in your life. And I'm using
this account of Jesus with his
disciples in Luke five in verses
starting in verse one and I'm
telling you, you get, you
get Jesus on board and your
situation will turn around. You
get him in your boat and things
will go well. You get him with
you, you bring him into your
situation and he will turn it
around. Jesus turned around an
entire economic system. Pastor
George, how did he do that?
Listen, here it is. So it was as
the multitude pressed about him
to hear the word of God, that he
stood by the Lake of Gennesaret,
and he saw two boats standing by
the Lake, but the fishermen had
gone from them and were washing
their nets. Then he got into one
of the boats, which was Simon's
and asked him to push a little
from the land and he sat down
and taught the multitudes from
the boat. Now notice here it
says that the people pressed
upon Jesus to hear the word of
God. In the NIV it says, people
were crowding around him
and listening. The message
translation, the crowd was
pushing in on him. What am I
saying? The people were hungry
for the word of God. They were
hungry to hear what he said, but
in verse two the fishermen were
washing their nets instead of
pressing into God, they were
having a hard time. They
were toiling. It says they were
toiling and they were having a
hard time. And they were like
Martha, they were under great
pressure about many things. The
market was tanking. The
fish market of the Galilee was
tanking. It wasn't just this...
It wasn't just this one night
they'd been experiencing this
for quite some time. The Galilee
they had, this was another
nonproductive bad night and they
had nothing to show for it. The
Galilee fishing industry was in
a serious slump and the market
was failing and they were facing
bankruptcy. See, we you read,
you see things into this that
this is not just a one off
thing. This is they were
struggling. They were struggling
with their very lives. The
answer to their problem was
right in front of them, but they
weren't listening. Listen, the
answer is right in front of you.
The word of God and the
materials that we make available
free from this ministry. All of
those materials are available to
you and to me. Well, the answer
was right in front of them, but
they weren't listening. In
verse three, Jesus asked Simon's
permission to use his boat, and
I'm kind of seeing the how this
was acting out. Simon was
frustrated. He was frustrated,
he was frustrated because
they'd gone another night. Being
unproductive, not flourishing,
not thriving, not catching fish.
And I kind of imagine Simon
saying something like, yeah,
whatever, go ahead. Go ahead.
Use the boat. So Jesus got up
into the boat and he talked the
word from Peter's boat. And he
began to teach them about the
anointing, the anointed one. And
he said, this day is this
scripture fulfilled in this year
that all in your ears, all debts
were about to be released. But
Peter's over there mad, upset,
trying to fix his nets. That had
to be fixed from the night
before of the nonproductive
night. So Jesus keeps on
teaching. He just keeps on
teaching the word. These guys
are working over here, Jesus is
teaching. And in verse four it
says this, when he had stopped
speaking, he said to Simon,
launch out into the deep and let
down your nets for a catch.
But Simon Peter and said to him,
master, we have toiled all night
and caught nothing. I am tired.
I'm tired. And I don't feel like
doing that. Nevertheless, at
your word, I will let down the
net. Mm, the net. Jesus said,
nets because you know Jesus
knew it was coming. Jesus was
operating in his place, uh, from
the late, uh, from, uh, Genesis
chapter one, verse 28. Be
fruitful, multiply, replenish
the earth, subdue it, and have
dominion over the fish of the
sea. He had dominion over the
fish of the sea. And when he had
done this, they caught a great
number of fish and their net was
breaking. So they signaled their
partners in the other boat to
come and to help them. And they
came and filled both boats so
that they began to sink
overflow, overflow. This is
overflow going on. And I just
have this, this picture in my
mind of what took place that
day. And I would love to do, I'd
love to do some kind of an
animated film about this, but I
can see Jesus in the boat and
he's talking, and those guys are
over here. They're working on
cleaning up their nets. And I
don't know, maybe Jesus turned
around, they weren't listening.
They're not listening to him.
And Jesus turns around and he
looks out to the Galilee and he
said, I am blessed of the Lord.
And I speak to every fish in
this Lake and I command you, I
command you to come to me right
now because I have dominion over
the fish. Well, I envisioned
this. And so Jesus talks to
Peter. He's talking with him
about um, letting down the nets.
So Peter says, at your word.
I'll do that. And so they let
down their nets and all of a
sudden I can hear this Jaws
music, Jaws. You know what I'm
talking about? Bum, bum, bum,
bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum,
bum. And Peter's looking out
over the Galilee and all of a
sudden you can see the waters,
the waters are moving. It's like
they're moving in, they're all
converging into this one place
and you can't really see it, but
it looks like the waters are
moving closer and closer to
Peter and all of a sudden as
he's looking, he's seeing fish.
There are fish everywhere, fish
are starting to jump, fish are
all over the place. What did
Jesus do? He called every fish
in the Galilee. They were headed
Peter's way. They were headed
his way and they are just
converging on him. And Peter.
Peter is, he's seeing all of
this take place and and there
were was, I can't find the place
where I was, anyway. Oh yeah.
And their boats, their boats
began to sink, bump, bump, bump,
bump, bump, starting to sink.
And so it says, when Simon Peter
saw it, he fell down at Jesus'
knees. Well, let me tell you
this, I got a revelation about
this. Or let me just read this.
I skipped all over this. But we
toiled all night with absolutely
no results. We worked hard. We
were fatigued. I'll let down the
net one broken net. He let down
faith plans for more than enough
faith plans for more than
enough. If we expect the
supernatural, we will get it.
And so it says they enclosed a
great number of fish and their
net broke. Well, if you look at
John 21:11 it tells you that one
net will hold 153 big fish. So
in that particular net there
were 153 big fish and they were
overflowing. What was this? This
was actually Peter's harvest of
sowing his boat into Jesus.
Into... Jesus knew what he was
doing. He knew exactly what he
was doing. He knew Peter. He
knew John. He knew these
families. He knew the struggles
that they were under. He knew
the problems that were going on.
He knew that the fish market had
gone way down. They were going
down and down and down. He knew
these people. And Jesus got up
there to preach about it that
day. And he was demonstrating.
He was demonstrating the
blessing of the Lord, that in
the midst, in the midst of an
economic fish market downturn,
he could get in the middle of
that thing, declare the word of
God, call those fish in and
turn around that family's life.
That's what he was doing. It's
exactly what Jesus was doing.
And so when Peter saw it, he
fell down at Jesus' knees.
Depart from me. I am a sinful
man. Oh Lord. He was convicted.
This was huge, so huge. This
was so massive. This was so
gigantic. He was, he was, uh,
convicted by it for he and all
who were with him were
astonished. They were absolutely
shocked. They've never seen
anything like this before. They
were totally astonished by it.
And they said, where am I? Where
am I? They were astonished.
Um, uh, they, they were them
astonished at the catch of fish
what they had taken, I'm getting
so into this and I'm losing my
place. And so were James and
John, the sons of Zebedee, all
of these guys who were partners
with Simon and Jesus said to
Simon, do not be afraid from now
on, you will catch men. So
when they brought their boats to
land, they forsook all and they
followed him. I wrote down here
in verse eight, he said, I'm
a sinful man. He realized how
foolish he was to not listen
to Jesus. It's foolish to not
listen to Jesus in bad economic
times, cause he's going to show
you what to do. He'll show you
what to do, he'll show you what
to invest in. He'll show you
where to sow your money. He'll
show you how to call the harvest
out on it. He'll show you. He's
not oblivious to the financial
condition. He knows all about
it. And then in verse nine
the commercial fishermen and
everyone else were astonished at
the catch of fish. They'd never
seen anything like this before.
They had never seen a catch like
this in the history of their
fishermen lives. Never, never,
and never seen it with their
daddies either. This was a
first, this was a major
first. And as I said, Jesus was
operating from the blessing
of Genesis 1: 26 to 28 he took
dominion over the fish. He
changed the Galilee fishing
industry by operating the
kingdom of God principles. This
was a huge supernatural economic
turnaround and you can believe
for that in your own life. If
you listen and you obey and you
hear the voice of the Lord and
you feed on the word of God and
your feed on it and you feed on
it and your feed on it, he will
turn that around. He will turn
that around and I believe that
there, there are people in
Washington, D.C. Including the
president and the vice president
who pray. They pray they are
seeking the Lord. I was watching
Bishop Harry Jackson at Passover
in the oval office. He called
brother Copeland before he went
into the white house, they
invited Bishop Harry Jackson to
come and to pray in the Oval
Office, and I'm watching this
and he's using the book of
Exodus and then he's talking
about Covid 19 passing over the
Passover and relating that to
the blood of Jesus. And there's
the president sitting at his
desk and there's the vice
president standing next to him.
These people in the high offices
of our nation are praying and
they're inviting us to come in.
They're inviting men and women
of God to come in and have
influence. So I'm telling you
right now for any president, and
even a few days before that, it
was the president of Brazil
that was asking for prayer and
fasting over his nation. We're
seeing it more and more. We're
seeing it more and more take
place that these leaders of
these nations are realizing that
they need to call upon the Lord.
They need to call upon him
for help to get them out of the
situations they're in. And the
you need to know today that our
president and vice president and
there are other people, other
people in Washington D.C.
Who are praying and they're
believing God and they're
calling upon the leaders of this
nation to help them and because
of that, there will be an
economic turnaround in the
United States of America. We
declare it, declare it, we
declare it, declare it in the
name of Jesus. We decree it in
the name of Jesus and we stand
for every nation that's watching
us right now, your nation. We
pray for your leaders. We pray
for your Kings, your presidents,
those in leaderships, your prime
ministers and believe that their
call upon the Lord, the word of
the Lord and the ministers of
God. There's changes taking
place in Canada. There are
changes taking place in
Latin America. There are changes
taking place in Europe, in
China, in Asia, all over the
world. There are changes taking
place. And we see a turn. We see
a turn to, Oh father, we release
our faith right now, especially
here in the United States for
an economic turnaround that is
going to be so huge. It's going
to be so massive. We will be
astonished just like those
fishermen were. Father! Jesus!
Come into our boat. Come into
the boat of our nation. come
into the boat of our president.
And we receive flourishing
prosperity once again in the
United States of America. And
Lord, we believe it. We believe
it for other nations, every
nation, every nation, every
nation where Kenneth Copeland
ministries is in the offices,
in every nation upon this earth,
for if Corona virus can get the
attention of the entire world.
So can Jesus. We declare that
Jesus is Lord over this world.
Father, we thank you. We
honor you. We praise you
for the turnaround in the
nations and in our
very lives, amen. And
I'll be right back.
ARTYOM: My name is
Artyom and this my
beautiful wife Maryna.
We are pastoring in
Ukraine and we have a beautiful
Church. This Church start,
maybe you know him as
Rick Renner he started this
Church and now we're
pastoring this Church and it's a
beautiful, gracious people.
Before my meeting with Pastor
Rick this program,
it's only one food,
spiritual food for me. MARYNA:
It was the only spiritual food
he had, the Believer's Voice
of Victory. And he started,
he's like, growing in faith with
this program. We got hold of
this word of prosperity, the
word of faith. And we began to
look it up in the word and
we found the scriptures,
and we began to stand
on these scriptures,
to stand on the word of God and
just to proclaim and do what the
word of God says. MARYNA: We
began to sow and then God told
us, just, he stretched
hands and he said,
"Sow more if, because the one
who sows generously will reap
generously." And we began to sow
more and we began to see such
miracles in our lives. We
were just given a car in a
restaurant, we sat with
a family and they said,
"God told us three times to
bless you with this car."
And they give us
the key and,
but it was such glorious time
because we believed God for car
for a couple of years and,
because we couldn't afford to
buy it. And we did
and my husband said,
"No, that's no. No,
we don't go to bank,
we just believe
God." I said okay,
"We believe God, okay, let's
believe God." And so we
understood that
only God, he is our,
the only way. Here
everybody has car,
and there not
everybody has car,
not everybody. And plus we had
two children and we needed car,
because we use taxi a
lot, we use transport,
buses and so on. But we need
the car and God is faithful,
he was, he is and he will be
faithful. And when we
got pregnant with
our third child,
we rented a flat, I said, "God,
we need our own house please."
And God said,
"Okay, just believe,
just trust in me, just
proclaim the word." And then,
we listen to programs with
pastor George and sister Gloria
about how to believe...
ARTYOM:...a large place,
like in Psalms, God put us a
large place. MARYNA: And we
started to
believe for own house,
just proclaiming
saying this word,
decreeing the right scriptures
and of course sowing. When we
came to Minister
Conference 2018,
we brought our seed
with us of course,
and we sow the seed.
And I remember God,
I heard God and my
spirit's saying,
"Now you bought a
house." I was like,
"Wow! Can we buy houses
for this seed?" He said,
"Yes, my kingdom works not like
this world. In my kingdom you
can buy a house for this seed,
because harvest will come."
Miracle started, just
miracle happened because the,
one week before
the birth of our,
Benji, we were blessed
with the house. ARTYOM: Yes,
and it's like supernatural.
MARYNA: It's supernatural
because, counting
that, to buy this house,
he would have needed 200
years. ARTYOM: 200 years,
yes. MARYNA: He would have
needed to buy this house. So,
and we just were given, but we
know that it was God because
nobody could do it without him
because he is almighty God. He
can do anything if he,...
ARTYOM: In any country. MARYNA:
In any country, if you believe
him... ARTYOM: In Ukraine,
in Russia, in United States,...
nothing is impossible with our
God. MARYNA: If you trust
him, if you trust his word,
you will do what his word says,
because if you know that it's
true, you will do what it says.
And when you do what it says,
it just brings the results of
the word of God. ARTYOM: It's
like, an honor for us to be a
part of this and have this sort
of partners with brother
Copeland and sister Gloria. This
message to bring results
and we've seen it not
only in this country
but in our country too.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries, and
remember Jesus is Lord.
