1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: share it with a friend. Reappreciate you and pray for 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Will God bless you. 6 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. And if 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be a 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. But thanks so much 10 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: for tuning in today, and thank you again for coming out. 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,159 Speaker 1: And I'd like to start with something funny, and I 12 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: heard about this old country cowboy. He went to church 13 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: one rainy Sunday and the weather was so bad. Only 14 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: he and the minister showed up. The minister didn't know 15 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: what to do. He asked the old cowboy if he 16 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: should go ahead and speak. The cowboy said, listen, Preacher, 17 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,159 Speaker 1: I'm not that smart, but if I went out to 18 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: feed my cattle and only one cow showed up, I 19 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: would sure feed him. The minister launched into his sermon 20 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: two and a half hours later. When he finished, he 21 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: asked the old cowboy what he thought said preacher. Let 22 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: me put it this way. If I went out to 23 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: feed my cattle and only one cow showed up, I 24 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: sure wouldn't dump the whole load on him. Hold up 25 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: your bible. Say it like you mean it. This is 26 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 27 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what 28 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught 29 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 30 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 31 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 32 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: to you today about making room for increase. Before we 33 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: see increase on the outside, we have to make room 34 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: for it on the inside. If you have a small vision, 35 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: you will have a small life. If you think you've 36 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: reached your limits and you'll never get out of debt, 37 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: you've gone as far as your parents. That's going to 38 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: keep you from God's best. And Jesus said, you can't 39 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,639 Speaker 1: put new wine into old wine skins. A wine skin 40 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: was a leather container. When it got old, it would 41 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: become hard and rigid, not able to expand. And if 42 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: you put new wine into it, when the wine expanded, 43 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: it would burst the wine skin. God is saying you're 44 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 1: not going to see increase if you're stuck in old 45 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: ways of thinking. If you think you'll never get out 46 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 1: of debt, then you won't. If you think your obstacles 47 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: are too big than they are, you are setting the 48 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: limits to your life with your thinking. You've got to 49 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: give God permission to increase you. You've got to stretch 50 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: your faith. God has unlimited supplies. The only thing that 51 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: limits him is our ability to receive. If I had 52 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: a thousand gallons of water to give you, but you 53 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: only had a one gallon container, the problem is not 54 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: with the supply, it's with your ability to receive. If 55 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: you'd get rid of the small container and get something larger, 56 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: I could give you much more. It's the same principle 57 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: with God. If we think the economy's too down, I 58 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: could never afford that house I really want. My business 59 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: will never expand I don't have the funding, I don't 60 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: have the people behind me. Now you've got to get 61 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: rid of that one gallon bucket, get rid of that 62 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: small container. The God we serve is a big god. 63 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: He has an ocean and unlimited supply. And Jesus said, 64 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: according to your faith, it will be done unto you. 65 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: It's not according to God. God has all the power, 66 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: all the resources in the world. It's according to what 67 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: we believe. Second Kings. There's the story about a widow. 68 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: Her husband is diying. She doesn't have money to pay 69 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: her bills. Now the creditors are coming to take her 70 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: sons as payment. The only thing she has of any 71 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: value is a small pot of oil to cook with. 72 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: The prophet Elishah showed up at her house and told 73 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: her to do something that seemed strange. He said, go 74 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: out to the neighbors and borrow as many of these 75 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: big empty pots that hold oil that you can possibly find. 76 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: He said specifically, borrow, not a few, get as many 77 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: as you can. He was saying, in effect, don't short 78 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: change yourself. Make room for abundance. She went out, and 79 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 1: I can imagine she found five or six of these 80 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: big empty pots. When she came home, Elisha told her 81 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: to pour her oil into one of the empty containers. 82 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: Looked like she would just transfer it from one container 83 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: to the other, but the scripture says her oil never 84 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: ran out. She kept pouring and pouring. God supernaturally multiplied 85 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: it until all of those containers were completely filled. Here's 86 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: my point. She was the one that determined how much 87 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: oil she would have. If she had have borrowed one container, 88 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 1: she'd had one full, she'd have barred ten. She'd had 89 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: ten four. If she'd have barred fifty, she'd have had 90 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: fifty four. It wasn't up to God how much she increased. 91 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: God has unlimited supplies. It was up to her. That's 92 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: why the prophet said, borrow not a few. My question today, 93 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: how many containers are you borrowing? What kind of vision 94 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,359 Speaker 1: do you have for your life? Some people have a 95 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: barely get by container. They think, oh man, business is 96 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 1: so slow. I'm hoping to just make it through this year. 97 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: They've got a tiny little container. God says, all right, 98 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: I'll feel your barely get by container. Some of you 99 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: like this lady, you got five or six containers. You're 100 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: believing to pay your bills, feed your family, have a 101 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: little bit left over. That's good. God will fill those containers. 102 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: But some of you have been coming to Lakewood. You 103 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: are dangerous. You've got radical faith. You don't have one, 104 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: you don't have five. You're calling home depot. I need 105 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: a couple thousand empty containers. You know God can do 106 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. You know he's el shady, 107 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: the God of more than another. You're making room for 108 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: far and beyond favor. You're positioning yourself under the open 109 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: windows of heaven. God is saying you need to get ready. 110 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to fill your containers. It may not have 111 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: happened in the past, but God has favor in your future. 112 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: He has new opportunities, good breaks, blessings that will chase 113 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: you down. You may not see how this could happen, 114 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: but God has a thousand ways to increase you that 115 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: you've never thought of. God has explosive blessings, blessings that 116 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: can thrust you years ahead, like this woman. God wants 117 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: to bless you beyond your normal income, beyond your salary, 118 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: beyond your retirement. God can give you one good break, 119 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: one promotion, one idea, one inheritance, and all those containers 120 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: are filled to overflow him. Now make sure you don't 121 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: shortchange yourself. God is saying borrow not a few. Don't 122 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: have a narrow, limited vision. You may not see how 123 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: it can happen, but that's not your job. Your job 124 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: is to believe. I know a man that was believing 125 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: to pay his house off. It was a standard thirty 126 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: year mortgage and he had twenty three years left in 127 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: the natural. There was no way he could do it. 128 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: All the circumstances said it would take him years in years, 129 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: but he was bold enough to do what I'm asking 130 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: us to do. Instead of thinking this is impossible, there's 131 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: no way it's going to take me twenty three years. Now, 132 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: he'd go around saying, Father, I want to thank you 133 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: that you're Jehovah Jirah, the Lord, my provider. I know 134 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: my job is not my source. You are my source. 135 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: It may look impossible, but I know you can do 136 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: the impossible. He borrowed not a few containers, but many containers. 137 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: Several years ago, he received an inheritance from a family 138 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: member that he had never met before. He didn't even 139 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: know they were related. He was able to not only 140 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: pay his house off, but he paid a friend's house 141 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: off as well. What was that explosive blessings? My prayer, 142 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: God give us relatives like that. Tell you say, Joel, 143 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: I don't think I should focus on what God can 144 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: do for me. That wouldn't be right, that'd be selfish. 145 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: Listen to Psalm thirty five. Let them say continually, let 146 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: the Lord be magnified, who takes pleasure in the prosperity 147 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: of his children. They were supposed to go around saying continually, 148 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,079 Speaker 1: let God be magnified, he takes pleasure in prospering me. 149 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: I believe one reason they were supposed to say it 150 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: all the time is so it would get down on 151 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: the inside. When we hear something long enough, we start 152 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: to believe it starts to affect our vision. Now, I 153 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: wonder what would happen if all through the day, instead 154 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: of dwelling on these negative, defeated thoughts like I'll never 155 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: get out of death, my business will never expand how 156 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: can I send my children to college? It's so expensive. No, 157 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: zip that up and start dwelling on God takes pleasure 158 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: in prospering me. Good breaks are in my future. Explosive 159 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: blessings are come in my way. I have some friends 160 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: that bought property out in the country. They've had it 161 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: for years and years, and they hardly paid anything for 162 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: It's out in the middle of nowhere. Now while back, 163 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,319 Speaker 1: they got informed that the state was putting a new 164 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: freeway that would go right through their property. They not 165 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: only sold part of that for a substantial profit, but 166 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: now they have several developers bidding on the rest of 167 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: it because they're going to have so much freeway frontage. Overnight, 168 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: that property went from being worth hardly anything to being 169 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: extremely valuable. That one good break put that family at 170 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: a new level. The apostle Paul talks about this. He 171 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: said in Ephesians two seven, in the ages to come, 172 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: we would see the unlimited, immeasurable, surpassing greatness of God's favor. 173 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: We need to start believing for this far and beyond favor. 174 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: Don't go around expecting the same thing the same way 175 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: year after year. Where you are is not where you're 176 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: supposed to stay. God has new levels. Get a bigger vision. 177 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: It's like this man I heard about. He was out 178 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: fishing one day and he noticed a man on the 179 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: other side of the bank fishing as well. And every 180 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: time this other man caught a big fish, he would 181 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: throw it back in the water, but when he caught 182 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: small fish he would keep them. This went on all day. 183 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: He became so curious. He finally went over to the 184 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: man said, I don't mean to be nosy, but I 185 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: can't help. But notice you throw back all the big 186 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: fish and you keep all the small fish. Why is that? 187 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: The man said, Oh, that's easy. All I have is 188 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: a ten inch frying pan. It's sad to say, but 189 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: there are a lot of people like that today. Instead 190 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: of making room for increase, instead of believing that God 191 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: can do something bigger, they go around with this ten 192 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: inch frying pan. It's been in their family for generations. 193 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: Mama used that frying pan. Great granddaddy used that frying pan. 194 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: It's an attitude that says, I could never afford that 195 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: nice house, I could never attend that college, will never 196 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: be that successful. We always struggle. We're just ten inch 197 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: frying pan people. That's the way my father was raised. 198 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: All he was exposed to was poverty, lack defeed, mediocrity. 199 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: In high school he got the Christmas basket that went 200 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: to the poorest family in the school. When he is 201 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: growing up, all he could afford to drink was something 202 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: called Blue John milk, real cheap milk, half milk and 203 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: half water. My father couldn't stand it. To make matters worse, 204 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 1: his name was John, thought, why did they have to 205 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: name it? My name Blue John? Why didn't they name 206 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,400 Speaker 1: it blue Bill, blue Mark, blue Lee Roy. He was 207 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: tempted to think that was his lot in life. Every 208 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: circumstance said he had a ten inch frying pan. But 209 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: when he was seventeen years old, he gave his life 210 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,199 Speaker 1: to Christ, and something rose up on the inside, a 211 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: boldness of faith, a confidence that said, my children will 212 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: never be raised in the defeat that I was raised in. 213 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: What was he doing getting rid of his ten inch 214 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: frying pan? He went on to live a blessed, abundant, 215 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: victorious life. No matter what environment you were raised in, 216 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: no matter or what may be trying to push you 217 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: down or hold you back, God is saying I created 218 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: you as the head and not the tail. I made 219 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: you to lend and not borrow. I take pleasure in 220 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: prospering you. Friends, God has some big fish in your future. 221 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor. Get rid of that ten inch 222 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: frying pan. Who says you can't rise out of that 223 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: limited environment. Who says that you'll never own that home 224 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: that you really want, Who says you can't send your 225 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: children to a great college, Who says you'll never get 226 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: out of debt, You'll never meet the right person, You'll 227 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: never start that business All it takes is one touch 228 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: of God's favor, get an agreement with him. God has 229 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: explosive blessings in your future, blessings that will thrust you 230 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: years ahead. Second Peter says to God, a thousand years 231 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: is like one day, and one day is like a 232 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: thousand years. I heard somebody say, if you will stay 233 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: in faith, God can take a thousand years of blessing 234 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,200 Speaker 1: and release it in one day. Are you bold enough 235 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: to dare say, God, I'm asking you to release any 236 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: blessings that my ancestors may have missed out on. Well, Joel, 237 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: that's kind of far out. Yeah, we serve a far 238 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: out God. I know this couple. They bought a house 239 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: in another state and several months later they got a 240 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: certified letter letting them know that a company had discovered 241 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: oil under the whole neighborhood. They were offered an incredible 242 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: contract not to sell their property, but to just let 243 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: that company come and drill on a part of the property. 244 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: Then they got a commission off of all twelve hundred 245 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: homes in that neighborhood. That was years of blessing being 246 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: released in one day. Well, that would never happen for me. 247 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: I never get any good breaks. You're right, it's not 248 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: going to happen for you. Why a ten inch frying pan. 249 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm asking you to enlarge your vision. Believe that you 250 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: can rise higher and not only accomplish your dreams, not 251 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: only pay off your house, but believe that you can 252 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: pay off somebody else's house. Believe that you can build 253 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: an orphanage somewhere. Believe that you can further the kingdom 254 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: in a greater way. The God we serve is not 255 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: a barely get by God. He's not a hold on 256 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: till we make it to the sweep by and by. 257 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: He is a more than enough God, a running over God, 258 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: and exceedingly abundantly above and beyond God. The scripture talks 259 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: about how God has blessings stored up for those that 260 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: honor him. God has contracts, houses ideas good breaks that 261 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: already have your name on them. They've been stored up 262 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: for you. Now, how do you see them released? Number 263 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: one by honoring God by keeping him first place, and 264 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: then number two by making room for it in your thinking. 265 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: You've got to believe that something big is in your future. 266 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: When you take the limits off of God and say, God, 267 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: I don't see how this could happen in the natural. 268 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: But I know you are a supernatural God. I know 269 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: you have blessings that already have my name on it. 270 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: So Lord, I just want to thank you for your 271 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: far and beyond favor. You live like that, and you 272 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: will see God amaze you with his goodness. And it's 273 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: time for us, as God's people to rise up as 274 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: the head and not to tell. It's time for us 275 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: to rise up and lend and not borrow. We are 276 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: not supposed to be second class and kind of just 277 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: take all the leftovers. We are children of the Most 278 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: High God. In the coming days, there is going to 279 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: be a trendsfer of wealth, a shifting of law, large 280 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 1: amounts of resources into God's people's hands. If you will 281 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: be faithful with what you have and prove to God 282 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: that you can be trusted to further His kingdom, then 283 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: you're going to be a part of this transfer. You're 284 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: going to see unusual increase. And that's what this beautiful 285 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: facility is. When they built it back in the early 286 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies, they thought they were just building it as 287 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 1: a sports arena. They didn't realize they were building it 288 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: for Lakewood Church. It already had our name on it. 289 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: This is a part of that transfer. For years, Lakewood 290 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: was on the other side of town. We started off 291 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: in small wooden buildings, the original feed store. Then we 292 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: went to metal buildings and they were all right, but 293 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: you can see people kind of look down on you, 294 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 1: see as second class. But one day we came into 295 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: an explosive blessing. We saw the surpassing greatness of God's favor. 296 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: Now we're in one of the premier facilities in all 297 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: the world. That's what God's doing. He's stepping it up 298 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 1: a notch. You need to get ready. There are buildings 299 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: that have your name on it. There are contracts and 300 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: good breaks, promotion ideas. Almighty God has stored up for you. 301 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 1: Now do your part and make room for it in 302 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: your thinking. Victoria and I can look back over our 303 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: life and see time and time again blessings God had 304 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 1: stored up for us. All we did was dare to 305 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: believe for big things. We got rid of our ten 306 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: inch frying pan. We didn't listen to all the negative 307 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: voices that tried to talk us out of it. We 308 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: didn't get discouraged when we didn't see anything happening. We 309 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: just kept making room for it in our thinking. We've 310 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: seen God's blessings chase us down. When you have a 311 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: big vision, you honor God with your life, you won't 312 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: be able to outrun the good things God has in store. 313 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 1: That's what happened to a friend of mine. He's a 314 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: member of Lakewood. About ten years ago, he started his 315 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:06,719 Speaker 1: business with just one employee himself. Today he has a 316 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: whole floor in a downtown office. Recently, he was awarded 317 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: a contract to build one of the biggest refineries in 318 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: the world, a multi billion dollar contract from China. He 319 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: told how he was the least likely one to receive it. 320 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: The other companies that were bidding were bigger, more qualified, 321 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: more experienced. Some of them had been in business for 322 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: decades and decades. Yet somehow God caused his company to 323 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: stand out. Now he's seen as one of the leaders 324 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: in the field. That's a part of this transfer. Just 325 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: like him, God can cause contracts to come your way. 326 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,120 Speaker 1: He can cause you to stand out. In the natural, 327 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 1: you may feel the least likely, but with the blessing 328 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,719 Speaker 1: of God on your life, the odds dramatically change. You 329 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: and God are a majority. You need to get ready 330 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: There's going to be an explosion of God's goodness. It's 331 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: going to be far and beyond anything you've ever seen before. 332 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: What is that. It's what Paul talked about, the unlimited, immeasurable, 333 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: surpassing greatness of God's favor. Here's how Proverbs thirteen twenty 334 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: two puts it. The wealth of the ungodly will eventually 335 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 1: find its way into the hands of the righteous, for 336 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: whom it has been laid up for. Notice. God has 337 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 1: already laid up contracts, houses, businesses, promotions, good breaks. They 338 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: already have your name on them. If you'll keep honoring 339 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 1: God making room for it, then eventually they will find 340 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: their way into your hands, the hands of the righteous. 341 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: That means, right now, something is looking for you. Not 342 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: bad breaks, not disappointments, not lack, not mediocrity. You are 343 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: the righteous. Increases looking for you, is looking for you. 344 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: Good breaks are looking for you. My question, are you 345 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 1: making room for it? Are you gathering up enough empty 346 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: containers to receive it? You've got to take the limits 347 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: off of God, get rid of any old wine skins 348 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: that are telling you you've gone as far as you 349 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: can you never get any good breaks. This sounds good today. 350 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: But this is not for you. This is for everybody else. 351 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: You've made too many mistakes. You come from the wrong family. 352 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,199 Speaker 1: There will always be voices that try to talk you 353 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: out of it. When you look at it in the natural, 354 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: your own thoughts may tell you it's impossible, there's no way. 355 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 1: But this is what faith is all about. You have 356 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: to believe it before you see it. You've got to 357 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:50,200 Speaker 1: go around knowing that Almighty God puts something on you. You 358 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: have an advantage. It's his favor. It causes you to 359 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 1: stand out, It causes people to be good to you. 360 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: It puts you at the right place at the right time. 361 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: It may look impossible, but don't ever rule out the 362 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: favor of God. Isaiah said, Arise, shine, for the glory 363 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: of the Lord is upon you. It doesn't say that 364 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 1: it's going to come on you one day, maybe when 365 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,120 Speaker 1: the economy gets better, when you graduate from college, when 366 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 1: you get that good break. No, it says God's glory 367 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: is already on you. And the word glory in the 368 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 1: original language indicates God's favor, God's blessing, and God's splendor 369 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: is on you in a heavy way. It indicates weight. 370 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: If you're going to make room for increase. You have 371 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 1: to have the right image. You are not less than 372 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 1: intimidated weak. You are heavy with God's favor. You are 373 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 1: dripping with God's goodness. Our attitude should be there's no 374 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: telling what's in my future. I am weighted down with burdens, 375 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: not with problems. I am weighted down with the favor 376 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: of God. And when you really understand that you are 377 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 1: heavy with favor, then it's easy to be heavy with expectation. 378 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: It's easy to believe for big things when you know 379 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: God has favored you in a big way. There's a 380 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: couple that attends Lakewood and they were believing to have 381 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,159 Speaker 1: a child for a long time with no success. The 382 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: lady finally became pregnant with triplets. They were very excited, 383 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: very grateful. She had complications during the pregnancy and had 384 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: to be admitted to the hospital. When the babies were born, 385 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,479 Speaker 1: they were very premature. They had to stay in the 386 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: hospital for nearly six months. The doctors weren't even sure 387 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 1: they were going to make it, but with much prayer 388 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: and God's goodness and great care, eventually they were able 389 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: to go home, healthy and home. And these parents had 390 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: insurance for part of the medical cost, but not all 391 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: of it. Three months later, they got a bill from 392 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: the hospital for two million dollars. They didn't know that's 393 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: what they thought. They didn't know how they could pay that. 394 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 1: Looked like they could be paying that off their whole lifetime. 395 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: If they didn't get discouraged. They didn't start complaining. Their 396 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 1: attitude was God, our life is in your hands. You've 397 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: given us these beautiful babies. We know you can make 398 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: a way where there is no way. They stayed in faith. 399 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: When the lady was in the hospital and wasn't able 400 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: to attend our services, they would always send their tithes 401 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: and offerings in faithful people honoring God didn't want to 402 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 1: miss an opportunity to give. One day, the administrator of 403 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: the hospital called said, We've never done this before, but 404 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: we've decided to cancel your two million dollar death. You 405 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: know what, that was heavy favor. That was the surpassing 406 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: greatness of God's power. I'm asking you to believe for 407 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: some of these explosive blessings. Stretch your faith, not just 408 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,440 Speaker 1: making room for God to get you through this year. 409 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: God to help you survive. God wants to catapult you 410 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: to a new level like this. Couple, one good break 411 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: and you're totally out of death. One person in your 412 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: career takes off one touch of God's favor in your 413 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: fifty years down the road. Now, don't go around thinking, Wow, 414 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: this never happens for me. I never get any good breaks. 415 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: Know all through the day, Father, I know you take 416 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: pleasure in prospering me. I know I'm heavy with your favor. 417 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: You told the widow to borrow not a few, So God, 418 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: I take the limits off of you, and I make 419 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: room for you to do something big in my life. 420 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: I arise, shine, I know your glory is upon me. 421 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: You have that kind of attitude, and you won't be 422 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 1: able to outrun God's goodness. And when I look out 423 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: at you today, not with my physical eyes, but through 424 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: my eyes of faith, can I tell you you are heavy? 425 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: Not heavy with problems, not heavy with burdens. You are 426 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: heavy with God's favor. You are dripping with God's goodness. Now, 427 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: if you happen to have come in here with a 428 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: ten inch frying pan, do me a favor. Drop it 429 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: off at the door before you leave. We'll take you 430 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: back to Walmart for you. You go out of here with 431 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: a big vision. Take the limits off of God. If 432 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: you will make room for his increase, then I believe 433 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: in declare you're going to see explosive blessings far and 434 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 1: beyond favor. You will accomplish your dreams, overcome your obstacles, 435 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 1: and become everything God's created you to be in Jesus' name, 436 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 1: If you receive it, can you give the Lord a 437 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: chat of praise today? We never like to close our 438 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 439 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 440 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 441 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you've prayed 442 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get 443 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. 444 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 445 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 2: Life throws so much at us disappointments, failures, challenges. We 446 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 2: can feel so out of touch that we no longer 447 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 2: recognize ourselves. 448 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: Life has a way of changing us. At one time 449 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: we were outgoing and excited about our dreams. But when 450 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: we go through disappointments and people do us wrong, it's 451 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: easy to lose that positive, passionate person that we used 452 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: to be. In my new book, Rediscovering the Forgotten You, 453 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: I'll help you get back to who you really are, 454 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 1: the joyful you, the confident you, the talented you. It's 455 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: not too late. You haven't been through too much. You 456 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: may have lost part of yourself, but you can find yourself. 457 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: God is in the business of restoring what was lost, 458 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,199 Speaker 1: healing what was broken. 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