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Speaker 4: Now it's time to go be a blessing. Look around,
Speaker 4: where is a need you can meet? Go pray for
Speaker 4: that neighbor that's not feeling well. Go encourage that coworker
Speaker 4: that's struggling. Go help that friend accomplish their dream. As
Speaker 4: you're helping others, you may not be able to see it,
Speaker 4: but God is helping you. He's lining up the promotion,
Speaker 4: the breakthroughs, the healing. You can't sow a seed without
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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 4: about this pastor and song leader that weren't getting along,
Speaker 4: and it started to spill over into the services. One Sunday,
Speaker 4: the pastor talked about the importance of being a giver. Afterwards,
Speaker 4: the song leader got up and led the song Jesus
Speaker 4: paid it all. The next week, the pastor talked about
Speaker 4: not gossiping and watching your tongue. The song leader god
Speaker 4: up in lad, I love to tell the story. Another week,
Speaker 4: he talked about being willing to change. The songleader got
Speaker 4: up and lad, I shall not be moved. The pastor
Speaker 4: was so frustrated he resigned told the congregation, Jesus brought
Speaker 4: me here, and Jesus has taken me away. The song
Speaker 4: leader then led, what a friend we have in Jesus.
Speaker 4: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 4: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 4: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 4: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 4: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my
Speaker 4: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 4: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 4: about the secret to solving problems. We all face challenges
Speaker 4: and things we're believing will turn around. A child that's
Speaker 4: off course, a sickness, we're dealing with, a dream that
Speaker 4: seems impossible. Been praying, believing, but nothing is changing. Sometimes
Speaker 4: God won't allow you to solve your own problem. The
Speaker 4: secret is you have to help someone else solve their problem.
Speaker 4: You have to take the focus off yourself and be
Speaker 4: good to others in your time of need. As you
Speaker 4: sow that seed, that's what's going to bring the harvest
Speaker 4: that you're waiting for. But you'll be tempted to think
Speaker 4: I can't help them Joel have my own problems. I
Speaker 4: need to spend my energy to try to fix my situation.
Speaker 4: But if you'll take your hands off of your problem
Speaker 4: and be good to someone else, God will put his
Speaker 4: hands on your problem and make things happen that you
Speaker 4: couldn't make happen. While you're working on their situation, God
Speaker 4: is working on your situation. A friend of mine struggled
Speaker 4: for many years with his teenage son. It was like
Speaker 4: they were on different wavelengths. He tried his best to
Speaker 4: be loving, kind, understanding, they just didn't get along. Invariably
Speaker 4: end up in an argument. Everything was so contentious. He
Speaker 4: had prayed about it quoted scripture, asked God to help him,
Speaker 4: but nothing was getting better. He was the coach of
Speaker 4: the neighborhood baseball team. There was a young man on
Speaker 4: his team that came from a single parent family. He
Speaker 4: wasn't doing good in his schoolwork. When this father learned that,
Speaker 4: he took that young man under his wing. He started
Speaker 4: bringing him home from baseball practice with his son and
Speaker 4: he would help him do his homework. He tutored him,
Speaker 4: mentored him, became a father figure in his life. That
Speaker 4: young man looked up to him, admired him in a
Speaker 4: great way. About six months after this father started doing that,
Speaker 4: his relationship with his own son began to improve. They
Speaker 4: got closer, started doing things together. Today they're the best
Speaker 4: of friends. You can't keep them apart. The secret to
Speaker 4: solving his problem wasn't in praying more, wasn't in working harder.
Speaker 4: It was in helping someone else solve their problem. The
Speaker 4: scripture says, when Job prayed for his friends, his healing
Speaker 4: quickly came. Don't you know how many times Job prayed
Speaker 4: for himself when he wasn't feeling well. God, please restore
Speaker 4: health back into me. God, please free me from this pain.
Speaker 4: And that's good. That's releasing your faith. I'm simply saying,
Speaker 4: don't stop there, because there are times your breakthrough is
Speaker 4: connected to helping someone else get their breakthrough. Now, maybe
Speaker 4: you've been praying diligently, standing in faith so strong, but
Speaker 4: nothing is improving. Now it's time to go be a blessing.
Speaker 4: Look around, where is a need you can meet. Go
Speaker 4: pray for that neighbor and it's not feeling well. Go
Speaker 4: encourage that coworker that's struggling. Go help that friend accomplish
Speaker 4: their dream. As you're helping others. You may not be
Speaker 4: able to see it, but God is helping you. He's
Speaker 4: lining up the promotion, the breakthroughs, the healing. You can't
Speaker 4: sow a seed without reaping a harvest. When I was
Speaker 4: ten years old, Lakewood was in an auditorium that held
Speaker 4: a thousand people. The church was growing. We needed to
Speaker 4: expand the building. My father asked the congregation to be
Speaker 4: praying about what they could give toward it. And there
Speaker 4: was a small Spanish speaking church about six blocks down
Speaker 4: the road from Lakewood. They had started construction on a
Speaker 4: new building. It was an auditorium to hold one hundred people.
Speaker 4: My father noticed that the construction had stopped for several months.
Speaker 4: No one was working. He didn't know anyone there. He
Speaker 4: had never met the pastor. But one after afternoon, leaving Lakewood,
Speaker 4: he pulled in and talked with some people. They told
Speaker 4: how they started construction but had complications. It was costing
Speaker 4: more than they thought. Now they had run out of
Speaker 4: funds and the building was just sitting there indefinitely. Well,
Speaker 4: my father was believing to raise the funds to expand Lakewood.
Speaker 4: We needed the finances, but he told the congregation instead
Speaker 4: of giving money for our building. He was going to
Speaker 4: take up an offering for their building. Lakewood gave the finances.
Speaker 4: It was enough to finish their auditorium. In the natural,
Speaker 4: it didn't make sense. We needed the finances. We had
Speaker 4: the problem. But my father understood this principle. When you
Speaker 4: helped solve somebody else's problem, God will help solve your problem. Now,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's not going to make sense. Proverbs says it
Speaker 4: is possible to give a way and have more. It
Speaker 4: is also possible to hold on too tightly and lose everything.
Speaker 4: God's ways are not our ways. Everything in you will say,
Speaker 4: stay focused on getting out of my problem, Joel, I
Speaker 4: can't help others until this problem is solved. No, helping
Speaker 4: others is what's going to cause that problem to turn around.
Speaker 4: Giving your time, energy, resources, that's what's going to open
Speaker 4: the windows of heaven and cause your dream to come
Speaker 4: to pass. You would have thought giving away those funds
Speaker 4: would have kept Lakewood from expanding the building. It was
Speaker 4: just the opposite. The funds came in for the foundation.
Speaker 4: We paid it all. The funds came in for the steel,
Speaker 4: the lights, the chairs, the sound system. The building was
Speaker 4: built debt free, no delays, no complications, and not just
Speaker 4: that building. Over the years, my father built building after building,
Speaker 4: expansion after expansion. He paid cash every time. He never
Speaker 4: lacked resources, never lack the funds. I believe it all
Speaker 4: started when he helped that Spanish church. He had a need,
Speaker 4: he had a problem. He didn't just pray about it,
Speaker 4: he didn't just believe. He helped solve someone else's problem.
Speaker 4: When you make sacrifices to help other people's dream come
Speaker 4: to pass, God will make sure your dream comes to pass.
Speaker 4: Don't live only focused on yourself, my goals, my problems,
Speaker 4: my trouble at work. Get your mind off yourself and
Speaker 4: go be a blessing. Sow acede doesn't have to be finances.
Speaker 4: You can sow encouragement. Go visit that loved one in
Speaker 4: the hospital. Cheer them up, Call that friend and speak
Speaker 4: life into their dreams. Take that elderly neighbor dinner each night.
Speaker 4: Make an extra plate for them. The scripture says, when
Speaker 4: it's in your power to do good, don't withhold it
Speaker 4: from others. That means, when you know you can be
Speaker 4: a blessing, you have the resources to help that person
Speaker 4: in need, you can teach them the skills that you've learned.
Speaker 4: Don't put it off. When you help solve their problem.
Speaker 4: You're not just being good to them, you are setting
Speaker 4: a miracle in motion for yourself. When you show favor.
Speaker 4: The scripture says, fever will come to you. And here's
Speaker 4: the beauty. When you help others, what you give is
Speaker 4: going to come back to you, but not in the
Speaker 4: same proportion. Pressed down, shaking together, running over. My father
Speaker 4: helped that Spanish church that one time, but the blessing
Speaker 4: from that obedience is still coming. When you're in a
Speaker 4: difficult time, more than ever, you need to look for
Speaker 4: opportunities to do good. When your dream seems impossible, find
Speaker 4: someone and help their dream come to pass. It's good
Speaker 4: to pray, believe, work hard, but some things are not
Speaker 4: going to happen if you're only focused on yourself as
Speaker 4: you bless others, God will bless you. As you show favor,
Speaker 4: favor will come to you. The last Sunday that we
Speaker 4: had services at our old location, I was driving down
Speaker 4: the road that final time, leaving the services, feeling so
Speaker 4: grateful for all that God had done. My mind was
Speaker 4: flooded with good memories and overwhelmed with where God was
Speaker 4: taking us. I looked up and saw a beautiful rainbow
Speaker 4: in the sky. It's as if God was smiling on us,
Speaker 4: saying this chapter is finished, but another great chapter is beginning.
Speaker 4: About that time, I passed that small Spanish church that
Speaker 4: my father and Lakewood at help over forty years earlier.
Speaker 4: Their little sign outside said thank you Lakewood for giving
Speaker 4: us our building. My mind flashed back to that time
Speaker 4: when I was a little boy. I wondered would I
Speaker 4: be going to the Compact Center if my father had
Speaker 4: not helped them in their time of need? Would I
Speaker 4: be seeing the favor, the growth, the influence that it
Speaker 4: could have thought? We got big problems. We need it
Speaker 4: more than they do. We have all these challenges. But
Speaker 4: he didn't withhold the good when he had the opportunity.
Speaker 4: Much of this comes down to trusting God, Joel. I
Speaker 4: can't help somebody else. I got my own problems. I
Speaker 4: can't give away what I need from my dreams. I'm
Speaker 4: counting on that when you give your time, your energy,
Speaker 4: your resources, your talent, you will never end up with less.
Speaker 4: That is a seed you're sewing that's going to keep
Speaker 4: coming back to you. I am reaping a harvest from
Speaker 4: seeds of obedience that my parents sowed fifty years ago.
Speaker 4: When you live a life of generosity, making sacrifices for
Speaker 4: others to come up higher, that's not only going to
Speaker 4: impact you for the good. It's going to impact your children,
Speaker 4: your grandchildren. Those seeds are going to keep on producing.
Speaker 4: Second King's nineteen King, Hezekiah was on the throne of Israel.
Speaker 4: He was one of David's descendants. The Assyrian army had
Speaker 4: surrounded the people of Judah and were about to attack.
Speaker 4: They were much bigger and stronger. Hezekiah didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 4: Isaiah the Prophet told him, the Assyrian army will not
Speaker 4: enter Jerusalem. They will not shoot their arrows over the
Speaker 4: city wall, but they will return home in defeat. That night,
Speaker 4: the Angel of the Lord destroyed one hundred and eighty
Speaker 4: five thousand of the enemy troops. The rest of them
Speaker 4: went back home, just like Isaiah prophesied. Hisekiah was so thrilled.
Speaker 4: I can imagine he wondered why God blessed him in
Speaker 4: such a way and why he showed him so much favor.
Speaker 4: Isaiah said in verse thirty four, Hisekiah, God didn't do
Speaker 4: this because of anything you did, he protected you for
Speaker 4: the sake of his servant, David. This was three hundred
Speaker 4: and five years after David had died. Yet those seeds
Speaker 4: of obedience, seeds of being good to people were still
Speaker 4: producing in their family line. Every time you help someone
Speaker 4: in need, it's not only going to help you, but
Speaker 4: you are storing up blessings for your children. Every time
Speaker 4: you helped solve someone's problem, every time you make sacrifices
Speaker 4: to help them go further, you're so in a seed
Speaker 4: not only for you to go further, but for those
Speaker 4: that come after you in your family line to go further.
Speaker 4: Like Hezekiah, they will see blessings, favor protection because you
Speaker 4: made decisions that honored God. In the scripture, Joseph had
Speaker 4: a big problem. As a teenager. God gave him a
Speaker 4: dream that he would be in leadership and do great things.
Speaker 4: But his brothers were jealous of him. They didn't like
Speaker 4: his big dream. They threw him into a pit. They
Speaker 4: were going to tell their father that he was eaten
Speaker 4: by a wild animal. They ended up selling him into slavery.
Speaker 4: Joseph worked for a man named Potterphar in Egypt, and
Speaker 4: even though Joseph had a big problem. Even though his
Speaker 4: dreams were shattered, What did he do sit around in
Speaker 4: self pity blaming God? Know In the midst of that problem,
Speaker 4: he started helping Potterphar with his problem. He ran his
Speaker 4: whole household, organized all his staff, made sure the grounds
Speaker 4: were clean, the property secure, the supplies in place. Instead
Speaker 4: of just focusing on his problem, he was being good
Speaker 4: to someone else. At one point, Joseph was falsely accused
Speaker 4: and put in prison. Surely now he would be bitter, discouraged.
Speaker 4: But in the prison, two of his cell mates had
Speaker 4: a problem. They had a dream and didn't understand what
Speaker 4: it meant. Joseph didn't say, too bad for you. I'm depressed,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be here. I don't like you anyway.
Speaker 4: He said, I can interpret dreams. Let me help you
Speaker 4: with your problem. He interpreted their dreams. One of the
Speaker 4: cell mates was released from prison. Two years later, the pharaoh,
Speaker 4: the leader of the country, had a dream that he
Speaker 4: didn't understand. The former cealmates said, I know someone that
Speaker 4: can interpret dreams. Joseph came before the pharaoh and told
Speaker 4: him how the dream had to do with the food
Speaker 4: supply and how there were years of famine coming and
Speaker 4: how important it was to store up grain and get
Speaker 4: everything prepared for the drought. Pharaoh looked at him and said, Joseph,
Speaker 4: you're the right man for the job. Nobody could do
Speaker 4: it better than you. He made Joseph second in command
Speaker 4: of Egypt. What was Joseph doing for Pharaoh? Solving a
Speaker 4: problem strategically getting everything lined up, using his talent, his skill,
Speaker 4: his expertise to help the people that were holding him captive.
Speaker 4: He was so excellent that people from other nations came
Speaker 4: to study his operation. And I'm sure Joseph was grateful
Speaker 4: to be out of prison to have this influential position,
Speaker 4: but he still missed his family. Deep down, he thought
Speaker 4: he would never see his father again, whom he loved
Speaker 4: so much. He'd already accepted it was too late. But
Speaker 4: as he was helping Pharaoh with his problem. Back home
Speaker 4: in Israel, his brothers were loading up their camels about
Speaker 4: to head to Egypt to look for food. They had
Speaker 4: heard the only place that had supplies was at the
Speaker 4: palace where Joseph was in charge. Noticed what was happening.
Speaker 4: While Joseph was working on Pharaoh's problem, God was working
Speaker 4: on Joseph's problem. He couldn't see it at the time.
Speaker 4: Everything looked just the same. But what Joseph didn't know
Speaker 4: was the camels were coming. His brothers were on the way.
Speaker 4: I can imagine one evening, there was a knock on
Speaker 4: the palace gates. The guards looked outside and saw this
Speaker 4: caravan of camels. They asked the people what they wanted.
Speaker 4: They said they were looking for food. One of the
Speaker 4: guards went to Joseph, said there's a group that just arrived.
Speaker 4: They want to purchase some grain. It was late in
Speaker 4: the Dayjoseph was tired. He was about to say tell
Speaker 4: them to leave, don't bother us, But for some reason
Speaker 4: he changed his mind and went out to meet them.
Speaker 4: He couldn't believe it. It was his brother's You would
Speaker 4: think that Joseph would want to get revenge. The truth
Speaker 4: is he was so grateful to see them. He was
Speaker 4: overwhelmed with emotion. They didn't recognize him. Eventually he told
Speaker 4: them who he was, and they all wept together. He
Speaker 4: asked them if their father was still alive. They said
Speaker 4: that he was. All those years Joseph spent working on
Speaker 4: other people's problems, doing the right thing, even when it
Speaker 4: wasn't fair that whole time God was watching. God sees
Speaker 4: your faithfulness. He sees you helping others when you need help.
Speaker 4: He sees you encouraging that friend when you need encouragement,
Speaker 4: praying for that neighbor that's not well. When you're fighting
Speaker 4: in illness, may seem like nothing is happening, but God
Speaker 4: is working. What you can't see is the camels are
Speaker 4: being loaded up. What you thought would never happen is
Speaker 4: still on the way. Joseph's father and whole family came
Speaker 4: to Egypt to live with Joseph. His father thought that
Speaker 4: Joseph was dead. Joseph thought that his father had already passed.
Speaker 4: Now the two of them are embracing, weeping. It's a
Speaker 4: dream come true. Joseph's problem is finally solved. It didn't
Speaker 4: happen the way Joseph thought. He didn't go back home
Speaker 4: to Israel, but his family came to Egypt. They were
Speaker 4: able to enjoy all the blessings and honor that God
Speaker 4: had given Joseph. But none of this would have happened
Speaker 4: if Joseph would have lived in grown. Not gonna help
Speaker 4: this man, Potiphar got my own problems. Help these prisoners.
Speaker 4: They've never done anything for me. I'm not going to
Speaker 4: interpret the pharaoh's dream, use my expertise to run the
Speaker 4: food supply. They need to do something for me. Joseph
Speaker 4: understood this principle. When you're working on someone else's problem,
Speaker 4: God is working on your problem. It may seem like
Speaker 4: you could never get well, never break the addiction, never
Speaker 4: accomplish your dream. It's been too long. But if you'll
Speaker 4: do like Joseph and just keep being good to people,
Speaker 4: keep helping solve their problems, keep helping their dreams come
Speaker 4: to pass. What you can't see is the camels are coming.
Speaker 4: What God started, he's going to finish. It's going to
Speaker 4: surprise you. There's going to be a knock at the door.
Speaker 4: You didn't see it coming, Like when Joseph's brother showed
Speaker 4: up unexpectedly. Healing is going to come to you unexpectedly,
Speaker 4: freedom from addictions, unexpectedly. Suddenly the right person finds you,
Speaker 4: Suddenly that door of opportunity opens. You thought it was
Speaker 4: too late, But the whole time you were helping others,
Speaker 4: the camels were en route. God has not forgotten about you.
Speaker 4: Those seeds you've sown have not gone unnoticed. Those times
Speaker 4: you've come to church, served in the kids ministry while
Speaker 4: you had problems at home. Those times you've sung in
Speaker 4: the choir ushered, prayed for others when you were fighting
Speaker 4: in illness. You could have stayed home. God, when you
Speaker 4: do something for me, then all be my best. But
Speaker 4: you just kept being your best, kept making sacrifices to
Speaker 4: help others, giving away what you really needed for your dreams.
Speaker 4: Get ready for some surprises. Get ready for God to
Speaker 4: show out in your life. Get ready for something that
Speaker 4: you haven't seen. It's going to be unusual, uncommon, and
Speaker 4: it's going to thrust you into your destiny. When I
Speaker 4: were for my father here those seventeen years doing the
Speaker 4: television production, my goal was to make my father look
Speaker 4: the best that I could. When I started, I didn't
Speaker 4: have a lot of experience, so I found the best
Speaker 4: lighting consultants, the best camera people. The first year, we
Speaker 4: hired an older gentleman that used to produce the Today Show.
Speaker 4: I was with him every minute he trained me how
Speaker 4: to put the program together. I would spend hours trying
Speaker 4: to improve the lighting and making sure the platform looked
Speaker 4: the best that it possibly could. At one point we
Speaker 4: were going to remodel the platform area. We had some
Speaker 4: top designers come in to help us. We were going
Speaker 4: to make a new podium as well, so I had
Speaker 4: them mock up a temporary podium just so we could
Speaker 4: check the size and see how it fit my father.
Speaker 4: I had him come down and he stood behind it
Speaker 4: and we looked at it on camera and made several adjustments.
Speaker 4: I wanted it to fit him just right. I wanted
Speaker 4: the stage area to be as perfect as can be.
Speaker 4: When we finished the remodel, it looked so beautiful on camera.
Speaker 4: I was so proud. It made my father shine. A
Speaker 4: year later, my father went to be with the Lord.
Speaker 4: I never dreamed one day I would be standing behind
Speaker 4: that podium. One day I would be the one on
Speaker 4: that beautiful platform. I thought I was building it for
Speaker 4: my father. Really I was building it for me. When
Speaker 4: you're helping other people, you think you're doing them a favor.
Speaker 4: Really you're doing yourself a favor. As you help someone
Speaker 4: else shine, God is going to make sure that you shine.
Speaker 4: As you help others come up higher, God will cause
Speaker 4: you to come up higher. That's a seed you're sewing
Speaker 4: for where you're going. My friends, Robin Laura Coke, pastor
Speaker 4: a great church in Austin, Texas. Years ago, their sixteen
Speaker 4: year old son was killed in an automobile accident. It
Speaker 4: wasn't easy, but they didn't get bitter. They didn't give
Speaker 4: up on life. They kept moving forward. Eventually they started
Speaker 4: a charity in his name called the Caleb Foundation. They
Speaker 4: built hospitals, schools, orphanages, done great work all over the world.
Speaker 4: One of their orphanages in Haiti called Caleb's House. Some
Speaker 4: young men grew up there and were about to graduate
Speaker 4: from high school. They were going to bring a few
Speaker 4: of them to Austin to be interns at their church.
Speaker 4: One of those young men that came noticed Rob and
Speaker 4: Laura's daughter. They started dating, ended up falling in love. Now,
Speaker 4: a few years ago their daughter married the young man
Speaker 4: that grew up in the orphanage that they started in Haiti.
Speaker 4: All birthed out of the loss of their son. But
Speaker 4: what if Rob and Laura wouldn't have reached out to
Speaker 4: help others in their time of need. They could have
Speaker 4: been better. We're not going to help somebody. We lost
Speaker 4: our son. We're in pain. Somebody needs to help us. Instead,
Speaker 4: their attitude was yes, we're hurting. But God, we know
Speaker 4: when we help others, you will help us. We know
Speaker 4: when we work on their problems, you'll work on our problems.
Speaker 4: They started sowing all these seeds, taking care of orphans,
Speaker 4: giving an education to the less fortunate, being good to
Speaker 4: people without expecting anything in return. When they built that
Speaker 4: orphanage in Haiti, they never dreamed their son in law
Speaker 4: would grow up there. They never dreamed he would marry
Speaker 4: their daughter and become a part of their family. When
Speaker 4: you're helping others, you think you're just doing good for them,
Speaker 4: but you don't know what God is up to. You
Speaker 4: can't be good to others without God being good back
Speaker 4: to you. You don't know the favor and blessings that
Speaker 4: are connected to you helping others rise higher. I wonder
Speaker 4: how much we miss by living in grown. We only
Speaker 4: focus on what we lost and how we've been hurt.
Speaker 4: And God, I've got this big problem. You've got to
Speaker 4: help me. Go be a blessing. Your miracle is waiting
Speaker 4: for you as you help others. Sometimes the reason you
Speaker 4: can't solve your problem is because what you need is
Speaker 4: found in solving someone else's problem as you help them succeed.
Speaker 4: Like with Robin Laura, your son in law will show up.
Speaker 4: Things will happen that you weren't expecting. Now. I know
Speaker 4: many of you have been doing this, going out of
Speaker 4: your way to be good to others, making sacrifices to
Speaker 4: help solve their problems. Get ready, the camels are coming.
Speaker 4: What you've been praying about is already in route. I
Speaker 4: believe and declare those seeds you've been sowing are about
Speaker 4: to come back to you. Press down, shaking together, running over.
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