DOUBLE JOB BREAKTHROUGH!

I will tell you that if God had answered my prayer for promotion

a couple of years ago,
I would not have been equipped

to handle the challenges
that come with this blessing.

Because when we receive blessings,
they also come with challenges.

If you are not doing a job
in line with your calling,

in line with your destiny, pray that 2025
would be a year of relocation.

Even if you have to go through
a little discomfort

to get to your destined job,
be prepared for it.

We cannot continue to simply work for
the sake of mere material resources.

No, we must work in line with our calling.
We must work in line with our destiny.

We must work in line with what God has
promised and purposed for us.

If it needs be, let 2025 be a
year of relocation

from where you are to where
He wants you to be.

Let us offer that prayer.

My name is Ian and this
is my beautiful wife, Ashley.

Around seven years ago, I was
hired at an irrigation district

and my job title was Water Manager
which means I was responsible

in the summertime for making sure
that the water flows to the farmers

so they can irrigate their crops and
speaking with the farmers to

make sure that they have what they need
and that the water is the right amount.

But in the winter time when the water
would go off for the season,

the nature of the job would change
to maintenance on the canal.

That time, it felt like my employer

didn't really know what to do with me
because there was no water.

When I first started seven years ago, as
a less experienced construction worker

at the time, usually I would be put
on crews where I would be

digging mud for ten hours a day
or cutting trees all day.

There were a lot of very hard
labour jobs that I would do.

And during that time, I did not appreciate
the nature of the work I was doing.

I thought it was below what I should be doing
because I felt like I had more to offer.

My heart would become a little bit
resentful towards my employer

and I started to feel a little bit bitter about
my job - where I didn't want to go.

I was introduced to God's Heart TV about
a year and a half ago by my wife.

As I had been attending the Interactive
Prayer Services every month,

something changed in my heart.

Because I was seeking God and
my relationship with Him,

I was learning to go to work and
be content in my situation.

And instead of working for men, I was
going to work and working for the Lord.

This made my job more
pleasant and enjoyable.

It made my opinion of my boss and
the people around me change.

Instead of seeing them as people
who were mean or didn't like me,

I'd look at them as people who needed
prayer and needed the Lord in their lives.

Although my experience at
my job was improving,

I still felt like the Lord had a greater
calling for my life with my career.

We joined the Interactive Prayer Service
around the new year of 2025.

We were sitting here on the couch and praying.

When the topic came up of praying
for the position in our careers,

I was praying fervently to the Lord and
in my heart I was telling God,

'I'm ready. This year, I know that You
have a plan for me and it's good -

whether it's another job or whether it's
making me more content in this position.

I believe, Lord, that You are going to make
a way for me and open doors for me.'

A month before that service,
I did have a phone call.

I was praying at work, and one of my customers from my other job called me.

He's a farmer, and he said, 'What
are you doing right now, Ian?'

I said, 'Well, I'm still working at
the company I was at before.'

And he said, 'I'd like you to apply
for this job over here.'

He said, 'I don't really see any applicants
that I'm very excited about.'

That was around November 2024.

But then I didn't hear any follow up
after I submitted my application.

As time went on, I began to get
a little bit discouraged

and thought that maybe this
was not going to happen.

Well, in February, I received a phone
call from the company I applied to,

and they wanted to give me
an interview for the job.

I went to the interview and I'm a
person who gets pretty nervous

about public speaking or
in job interviews.

If you give me a guitar and asked me
to sing a worship song, no problem.

But talking in front of people
is not my speciality.

At the interview, the Lord gave
me all the words to say.

The job I applied for was in
another irrigation district,

but instead of being a Water Manager, this time
I'm the Manager of the whole irrigation district.

I was hired to run the company.

My name is Ashley and this is
my wonderful husband, Ian.

We're from the United States of America.

I had first found God's Heart TV
over a year and a half ago.

At that time, I had stagnation in my life.
I wasn't working at all; I was unemployed.

Previously I had lived a very sinful life

but the Lord had delivered me from
criminal activity and a drug addiction.

It was hard for me to find a job
because of my criminal record.

There were a few times where I had gotten
hired and then afterwards when

they had done my background check, and
saw the charges that were on my record,

they didn't want me to be a part of the
company, which is understandable.

And so the Lord gave me the verse to
'not lean on my own understanding

but to acknowledge Him in all of my
ways and He will direct my path.'

And so I would continue to attend God's
Heart TV Interactive Prayer Services,

and I started to see breakthrough
in my life.

I was praying and asking the Lord for
Him to open an opportunity for a job

where I can share how God
has changed my life.

And as I was searching online,
I found a job title.

It's called a Peer Support Specialist
and this is so awesome.

It literally said that we want to hire someone
that has lived experience with either

substance use disorder or who has gone
through mental health challenges

and we want them to use their story as
an inspiration of hope to help others

and to encourage them and let them
know that it's not hopeless

and that they can get out
of the grips of addiction.

So I ended up praying, and applying for
this job at a health care company,

and I ended up getting hired for it.

And so I had been working at my job
for close to a year and a half and it

was shortly after I had started attending
the Interactive Prayer Services.

I had gotten hired part time at my job.

And the other thing, too, is that I had
never been able to maintain a job

for over a year, and I'm
over that mark now.

Being able to excel in my workplace
has been so wonderful

and not have these hindrances in my life.

On the New Year's Service, on December 28,
we were praying fervently

for promotion and breakthrough
in our careers.

A couple of months after, my supervisor
called me into her office.

First, she nominated me for employee of the
month out of my team and she said,

'We notice how well our clients are responding
to you and you are doing very well.'

All glory to God!

And she said, 'We want to convert
your contract to work full time.'

And on top of that, the people that we work
with at my health care company,

it's a program of assertive
community treatment,

and so the people that we help are people
that have high incarceration rates,

that have mental health challenges.

We have about ninety people in our caseload
and every single one of them

has experienced coming out of
a mental hospital.

And so we get to integrate them back into
society and help them with wellness tools.

And my supervisor said that she wanted me
to lead two of the wellness management

recovery groups because of how well
the clients are responding to me.

I learnt that our problem
is spiritual in life so

I get to go into these meetings
and before meeting my clients,

I pray and intercede for them that
God will move mightily in their lives.

And a portion of the caseload,
I have about fifteen of them,

and almost all of them now
are either going to church

or reading the Bible or
going to Bible studies.

And the wonderful part about my
job is I'm allowed to share

that Jesus changed my life
because it's my testimony.

He turned my mess into a message and
He turned those tests into a testimony!

And my clients, even though they have
those mental health challenges,

and are struggling with those things,
they see that there's something

different about me and getting to encourage
them and see the progression

that the Lord has done in their
lives is incredibly rewarding.

I never thought that it would even
be possible to have a job like this

because the enemy would come in and try
to bring guilt and shame from my past

that the Lord had forgiven me of since I had
repented and completely turned from my ways.

That's the wonderful breakthrough that God
has brought into me and my husband's life

after joining the Interactive Prayer
for deliverance.

And also just having the joy of the Lord.

I've never experienced life
in such a wonderful way,

and I'm so grateful for such
an amazing living ministry.

I'm so thankful and appreciative!

My advice would be that no matter
what situation you're in,

and no matter how the physical appearance
of things around you may seem,

God is bigger than all of our problems
or all of our situations,

and He has us in a certain position for
growth so He can develop our character.

Even though you may not see God working in
your life and listening to your prayers,

even though you may not
hear Him in the moment,

He is always listening and He's always
watching you and He cares,

and He wants to answer your prayers.

I'll tell you that if God had answered
my prayer for promotion

a couple of years ago, I would
not have been equipped

to handle the challenges that
come with this blessing.

Because when we receive blessings,
they also come with challenges.

All glory to Jesus that through the
struggles and the trials

that I had to go through to get to this point
in my life, I am now more equipped

and prepared to handle the situations
that arise before me, and also

to be a blessing to those around me
and help direct them towards Jesus.

Overall, just keep your faith in Jesus and
don't worry about what things look like

and how long it's going to take because
God's perfect timing is going to

make everything okay for you.

My word of advice would be, after deliverance
following Interactive Prayer Services,

it is important to maintain your deliverance
by staying in the Word of God

and meditating on it day and night.

One of my favourite verses is where
King David in the book of Psalms said,

'Lord, hide Your Word within my heart,
so that I might not sin against you.'

So that would be my word of advice
- to have our daily bread.

You know we can't live without
the Word of God.

His Word revives us.
It gives us life.

It helps us to renew our mind.
So that would be my word of advice.