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Welcome to the International Visitors Service with Prophet Jerome Fernando. This special online service is designed especially for our international guests, just like you. Let the word of God transform your life, receive your own breakthrough, and live a blessed life. Stay tuned till the end for an unforgettable experience with Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Praise the Lord, everybody! Welcome, welcome, nations! Welcome to everyone that's watching us all over the world. We are so excited that you are here with us, and we are not alone. We have a studio audience that's looking, looking, looking all good.
It's wonderful to be back with you, giving you the attention you deserve. So those in the studio can be seated. Let's get into the word of God. This first service is focused on you, giving you the needed attention after a long, long time.
Genesis chapter 16, verse number one. I want to talk to you about something very important in this year of unusual breakthroughs. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children, and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. Let's keep going. And Sarah said to Abraham, or Abram, "Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing. I pray thee, go in unto my maid." What an idea! "Go in unto my maid. It may be that I may obtain children by her." And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. Abraham is a prophet, and he's listening to the voice of his wife.
Verse number three: Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. Now you might think you know this story, but you might be in for a surprise. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived. She conceived! So it looks like Sarah's idea worked because the maid conceived.
So it looks like Sarah is more prophetic than Abram because her idea worked. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. That means Hagar's conceiving of Ishmael made Sarai feel intimidated. Sarah said to Abraham, "My wrong be upon thee! My wrong be upon thee! I have given my maid into thy bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The Lord judged between me and thee."
I want to read verse five again. Sarah said to Abraham, "My wrong be upon thee! I have given my maid into thy bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The Lord judged between me and thee."
Read verse six. And Abram said unto Sarai, "Behold, thy maid is in thine hand. Do to her as it pleaseth thee." When Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
I have titled this message tonight, or this revelation that I'm going to give all of you watching us globally, "The Illegal Breakthrough." The illegal breakthrough. Give me 20 minutes of your time. The illegal breakthrough. Every breakthrough is not legal. Wow!
So there is a breakthrough that you might look at and say, "Look, we've accomplished the outcome. This is what we wanted. This is what we've really wanted all our life. We needed a child." So here is a child. That's the case in Abram and Sarah's case. They've been waiting for a promised child, and it's being delayed. Suddenly, the wife of Abraham has this intuition, this thought: "Why not, Abraham? You go in unto the maid, Hagar. I will hand over Hagar to you. You do as you please. I give you permission."
So you go ahead and do what you need to do, and Abram doesn't argue. [Music] Abraham doesn't argue. He's a prophet, and he doesn't argue. He doesn't argue. "Okay, let me do this." Voila! And the woman realizes, "Man, I've conceived!" And Sarah realizes, "It actually worked! My idea worked!"
Church family, in 2025, the Lord has sent me to you as your prophet to warn you that just because your idea works, that doesn't mean it's a legal breakthrough. Come on now! You can have a testimony that is illegal. You can have a breakthrough that God has not ordained. You can have something that you say, "Wow, look at what I accomplished! Look at what God did for me! Look at what happened in my life! God is awesome!"
And the Lord says, "No, this is not the way I wanted it to happen." When God has intended for you to have a breakthrough in a certain area, that means a certain period of time, there is a pattern, a design, a demarcation, a dimension—a framework. That's the word! Thank you, Holy Spirit! A framework by which you have to receive your breakthrough.
If you work outside of that framework, it is illegal. It's an illegal breakthrough. Wow! Now Sarah has got what she wanted, and Abraham has got what he wanted, but it is not in the pattern God had designed.
There is such a thing as divine patterns. There is a framework by which the Lord wants you to do things. There is a design, there is a demarcation. These words I'm giving you now are so, so vital for you to put your mind on. The power of a prophet is in his words. Don't take these words lightly.
I know you want to be inspired. I'm not here as a cheerleader. I'm here as an informant. I'm informing you. Thank you! You are about to get an illegal breakthrough! Oh, I got my visa! Hey! I got married! I got my breakthrough! How? To whom? Hey! I got healed! By? Hey! I sold my seed, and I got a return! Return from? Hey! Yes, I received the prophecy through!
There are many Christians today who are celebrating illegal breakthroughs—breakthroughs that are of the flesh. The child that Abram and Sarai produced through Hagar was through the flesh. You can produce testimonies for yourself through your flesh—illegal breakthroughs by the flesh, by wise ideas.
"I think this is a good idea." A good idea you have heard is not always a God idea. "Maybe we should do this. Maybe we should orchestrate it this way." And then you get what you want, and you think, "If God was not in it, then how did I get it? If God wasn't in the prophecy, how did I get that prophecy? If God wasn't in it, how did I get married?"
When it comes to the flesh, listen, people of the spirit, when it comes to the flesh, He will leave you alone. That's the mystery of God. If you're operating in the flesh, He will leave you alone. He will leave you to your wise ideas until you learn. But by the time you learn, it might be too late.
Genesis chapter 6. When Sarai realized that her idea worked, they could have aborted the child. Because now, when you birth something out of the flesh, it's difficult to abort. [Music]
My God! Let me go deeper and tell you this: spiritual things are easier to abort than fleshly things. Wow! Wow! Say that again! When it is of God, it's easy to abort. When it is not of God, it takes four generations. Wow!
Okay, let me ask you a question. Who did this fleshly act birth? Ishmael! Wow! Ishmael! Huh? Okay, difficult to abort. Not difficult—impossible to abort! That's what happens when your flesh gives birth to your dreams. When your flesh gives birth to a marriage, now you don't know how to get out of this. When your flesh gives birth to a job, when your flesh gives birth to a relationship, when your flesh gives birth to an idea, when your flesh gives birth, you are settled with a problem that you cannot abort.
That's how strong the flesh is. Verse 14: God speaking to Noah, and He said, "I want you to make an ark of gopher wood. Rooms shalt thou make in the ark." Family, follow this! "And shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." Pitch was something like a glue.
Verse 15: "And this is the fashion." There you go! Fashion means pattern. So when God wants you to make something out of your life, there's a pattern to it. There's a design. Every design has a demarcation. If you miss this, you miss everything.
To say that there's a design for your life means there's a demarcation. That means there's a certain boundary. Beyond, I can't go beyond it. You can't. There is not a borderless breakthrough. Breakthroughs come within a framework.
In this year of unusual breakthroughs, don't get an illegal breakthrough. You'll suffer for the rest of your life. Refuse to be led by the flesh. Refuse it! Because you'll be settled with a problem that you can never get over for the rest of your life. You will die with it. You wonder, "What did I go and do? What did I go?"
So when He told Noah to build the ark, "This is the fashion. This is the fashion. This is the design." Now see, the clothes you're wearing, is it limitless? Is it borderless? Does it fill the whole earth? No, it has demarcations. Yes, sir! Yes, sir!
In fact, let me explain. I wore something different. Okay, I wore it, and I realized it was big on me. I removed it and I wore this. Why? Because every design has its—every pattern has its demarcation. I'm giving you key words that you're missing.
The breakthrough is illegal based on the demarcations. The breakthrough is illegal because you crossed a certain line. It was a wise idea. It worked, but it wasn't the pattern. It wasn't the design. It wasn't the demarcation. It wasn't the framework. It is not the way God wanted you to get your breakthrough. You forced it. You put your flesh into it, and now you will suffer the consequences for a long time.
Family, watching me on TV, you in your homes, you on your mobile devices, open your heart to this. This is the fashion which thou shalt make it of. Look at this! The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits. There's a demarcation, Noah! If you have extra wood, attach it! Are you getting this? Yes, Prophet! Yes, we are getting!
There's extra wood here; it's going to waste. Add it! Demarcation! Framework! There's a measurement! If you don't understand the framework, you'll go and do something out of it, and you say, "God, what did I go and get myself into?"
There is a pattern. There is a framework. Talab family, if Noah didn't follow the demarcations—can you see? I'm going back to those important words: the design, the dimension, the demarcation, the framework, the boundary within which the breakthrough must happen. If Noah didn't follow those measurements, he would have sunk.
You get the point? He would have gone down simply because he didn't follow the measurements, the measurements, the demarcations, the framework, the design. All of that was given because God knew what was coming. There's a flood coming! I know the strength of the flood. I know what you need to take care of yourself. Do this! Design your life like this!
Family, there's a financial famine coming. There's an agricultural famine coming. The world is not going to get better, no matter who is president. You are foolish to think, "If president, everything is going to be okay." Maybe everything will not be okay.
So what are you going to do? What is God saying to you? How are you going to plan for the next ten years of your life? What's the framework? What's the dimension? What's the design that has to be given to you? You just can't see. Some of you just packed your bag and went to a certain country. Is it part of the framework? Temporarily, it might be okay. Maybe long-term, you'll think, "What did I go and do?"
Maybe you didn't go to the country you were supposed to go. Psalm 103, verse number 7: "He made known his ways unto Moses and his acts unto the children of Israel." Do you know how potent that verse is? When it says, "He made known his ways to Moses," the ways of God being made known to a prophet is to say that the prophet knows the demarcations.
Yes! The prophet knows the dimensions. The prophet knows. Noah also was a prophet. Abraham was a prophet. They knew this is the way God had intended it. Let's not do it any other way and involve our flesh. If we involve the flesh, illegal breakthrough!
There's a child, but it came the wrong way. There's a car; it came the wrong way. We built a house; it was built the wrong way. I got a prophecy the wrong way. I joined the church the wrong way. I left the church—come on now—the wrong way!
If you operate in the flesh, you will not last long, but the outcome of the flesh will last very long. It lasts very long. Romans chapter 8, verse number 8 says, "So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
Why? Why? Why? Why can't you please God when you're in the flesh? Because your flesh gives you ideas that God is not involved in. And there is a strong connection between your flesh and your mind. Your flesh and your mind, they are living next door to each other. Anytime your flesh is fleshly, your mind is in trouble.
Now I know you didn't get it, but rewind a couple of verses. You get to verse number 6 of the same chapter. What does it say? "For to be carnally minded..." Why is it talking about the mind in the same chapter it's talking about the flesh? That's right! Because to be fleshly means to be carnally minded.
But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Verse 7: "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God." That means if you think like Sarai, God is against you. Your mind is against the things of God. You cannot walk with God. It's not possible.
Family, watch this! You might be watching me now and thinking, "Ah, but Prophet, this is too harsh." Your flesh will take you down a journey. That's right! You wish you heard this teaching before, but at least you're hearing it on—what's the date today? 2nd of February!
You thank God! Thank you, Prophet! Now watch this. Do you want a breakthrough in your health? Yes, sir! Yes, sir! Don't use the fleshly route. I've seen people go down just using carnality to get healed. And by carnality, I don't mean medicines, please.
You might want a breakthrough in your finances. Are you willing to do whatever it takes? That's the danger! You're willing to do whatever it takes! Wow! Wow! You didn't hear it! I just gave you wisdom to save you this year.
When you are possessing a spiritual mind, you can't do whatever it takes to get whatever you want. People who say, "I will do whatever it takes to get whatever I want," you are sadly in Sarah's bucket. Spiritual people like you, like me, we don't do whatever it takes to get whatever we want.
We do what God has expected of us, in the design He has asked of us, in the way He wanted us to get our breakthrough. There is a path that seems right to a man; it leads to death. But we take the path He has prepared for us, slowly, slowly, step by step, in the speed God has intended—not forcing the flesh.
When we talk about design, we're talking about a pattern. When we talk about demarcations, we're talking about patterns. Look at this lectern. Look at this pulpit. It has a pattern. It has a framework. It has a demarcation. It has a design.
Anything that has a design has a demarcation. Anytime there's a design, there's a boundary. Do you believe God has a design for your life? Yes, sir! Then there has to be boundaries! Hey! Wow!
Do you believe God has a plan or a pattern for your life? Then there are boundaries! You can't go beyond it. The breakthrough has to be within the framework. Let me show you how serious God is when it comes to following patterns.
Let's read Exodus 25:9. What does it say? "According to all that I show thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it." Look at that! Did you see it? Yes, Prophet!
Like I'll call you in advance, Pastor Nan. Now, you have a business. What is your business, sir? Blinds and curtains. Blinds and curtains! So, interior? What does that involve? Explain the business in, like, you know, home decor. Home decor! Okay, yeah, or like, you know, window furnishing.
And you've done that for how many years now? Twelve years! Does it have patterns? Yes, exactly! So which means there are frames? Yes! Right? Framework! That means there's a design! Yes! That means there's a demarcation! Yes!
So when you hang a curtain, the curtain doesn't end up in the garage or the main road! Yeah! Are you getting this? Same thing! So whenever you want to provide curtains or whatever for a house, who gives you the design? We go to the client's house! Exactly! Who tells you what they want? The client!
God is Moses's client to build the tabernacle. The church at large in the whole world is violating God's design. One man is one woman—framework, demarcation! So Moses, when you build the tabernacle for me, do it according to the pattern!
"According to all that I show thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it." There's a pattern, family! There's a pattern!
What's the next verse? I gave you some scriptures, right? Exodus 25:40: "Look thou that thou make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount." That God shows a prophet, "This is the way I want things done. Make sure you do it that way."
Don't give me the end result; give me the end result with the process I asked for! Wow! That's why even in accounting, you just don't go for, you know, this basic P&L. You go for forensic audit! That's right!
As a ministry, for the last two years, we've spent money on forensic audits just to show people, "Look, we are not playing!" And then they saw the forensic audit, "Oh, okay! It's not just this and this, but you showed us how!"
Look at that! God is interested in the how! How did you get married? How did you get healed? How did you prosper? How did you make your money? How did you build that house? How did you buy that thing? How did you get this? How did you? Tell me how you did it!
Imagine Abraham and Sarah, or Sarai, carrying the baby to the house of God to be dedicated, and they quoting, "Every child is a blessing from the Lord." And God will ask Abraham and Sarah, "How? How did this happen? How did this happen? This is an illegal breakthrough!"
Last scripture, okay? And then we officially can say we had our first international service from the Hallelujah! Hey! Hallelujah! Hey! I'm waiting for the verse! Hebrews chapter 8, verse number 5. That's it! Let's go!
"Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For see, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount."
These are New Testament scriptures, and patterns are still spoken of. You're going to build something? Do it according to the pattern! The pattern! There's a pattern! There's a pattern! Don't make it an illegal breakthrough!
International Visitors Service with Prophet Jerome Fernando. Join us next Sunday at 7 p.m. Indian Standard Time, streaming live on all our usual platforms. To join on Zoom, visit www.profit.com/zoom.