1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life. 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: God bless you. 7 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 9 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, and you 10 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 2: can come visit us in person. We'd love to have 11 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 2: you be a part of one of our services. I'd 12 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: like to start with something funny, and I heard about 13 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 2: these five relationship tips for women. Number one, it's important 14 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 2: to find a man that loves you and is loyal. 15 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: Number two, it's important to find a man that's fun 16 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: and makes you laugh. Number three, it's important to find 17 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: a man that's a hard worker provides a good living. 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: Number four, it's important to find a man that's a 19 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 2: great father and good with children. And number five, it's 20 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: important that none of these four men know each other. 21 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: All right, y'all say it, I mean it. This is 22 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: my Bible. 23 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 2: I am what it says, I am, I have what 24 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: it says, I have. 25 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today. 26 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. 27 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 28 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God 29 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 30 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 2: you are blessed. When you gave your life to Christ. 31 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 2: He puts something on you that causes you to stand out, 32 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: to overcome obstacles, to accomplish dreams. 33 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: It's a divine enablement. 34 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: I can do power a favor that propels you into 35 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: your destiny. And it's simply called the blessings. With this blessing, 36 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: you'll go up when others are going down. You'll recover 37 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: from an illness when the medical report says you won't 38 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: get well. 39 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: You'll accomplish goals that were over your head. 40 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 2: Wasn't just your talent, your skill, your determination that will 41 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: take you so far, but to reach the fullness of 42 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 2: your destiny. 43 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: God put on you the blessing. See when he chose you, 44 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: he didn't say good luck, you're on your own. Let's 45 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: see what you can do. 46 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: No, he anointed you. The word anoint means he marked you. 47 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: He sets you apart. How did he do it by 48 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 2: putting this blessing on you. You're a marked man, a 49 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,679 Speaker 2: marked woman. Not marked for defeat, negativity, failure. You are 50 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: marked for favor where people would be good to you 51 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 2: and they don't even know why. Where doors will open 52 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 2: that weren't supposed to open. Where you'll be promoted when 53 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: you weren't the next in line. Well, opportunity will come 54 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: looking for you. It's not a lucky break, it's not 55 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: a coincidence. It's the blessing on your line. You are 56 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 2: marked to break generational limitations that have held your family back, 57 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: mark to put an end to dysfunction, anger, poverty. May 58 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 2: have been that way in the past, but God raised 59 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: you up to do something about it. 60 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: You're the difference maker. 61 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,839 Speaker 2: You're the one to set a new standard. Thoughts will 62 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: whisper it's never gonna change. 63 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: You're not that strong. You don't have the talent. Don't 64 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: believe those lies. You've been marked for this time. 65 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 2: God has put his blessing on your life, a divine empowerment. 66 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 2: You're not doing things on your own. There is a supernatural. 67 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: Force breathing in your direction. What others have done in 68 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: your family line may have. 69 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: Put you at a disadvantage. They left you with negative 70 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: baggage to deal with. The good news is the blessing 71 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 2: always overrides the curse. That is not how your story ends. 72 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 2: You're about to see a shift. Strongholds that have held 73 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 2: your family back are coming down. Negativity, lack, compromise, addictions, 74 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 2: those forces are being broken. 75 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: You're going to step into a new. 76 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 2: Level of freedom, joy fulfillment, abundance. 77 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: It's the blessing God put on your life. 78 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 2: You've been marked to excel in whatever environment you're in. 79 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: When people are for you and when people are against you, 80 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 2: when the economy is up, and when COVID hits and 81 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 2: things shut down, when you're getting good breaks, doors are opening, 82 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: and when doors have closed. 83 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: The contract didn't go through, you lost. A client says. 84 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 2: In Psalms, even in famine, the righteous will have more 85 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 2: than enough. It doesn't say that God will get you 86 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 2: out of the famine so you can have more than enough. 87 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: He'll stop the people at work from doing you wrong, 88 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 2: stop the injustice. Then you'll be blessed. No, you are 89 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: blessed in the trouble. You are blessed in the famine. 90 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 2: The blessing is why the enemy cannot defeat you. The 91 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 2: blessing is why that trouble is. 92 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: Not softened your destiny. 93 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 2: The blessing is why that's can't take you out. The 94 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 2: blessing is the reason you keep rising up when circumstances 95 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: have tried. 96 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: To keep you down. 97 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 2: The blessing doesn't stop the adversity, doesn't stop the famine, 98 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 2: but it causes you to prosper in the famine, to 99 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: triumph in the trouble, to have a smile in the sickness, 100 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 2: to keep praising when nothing seems like it's working out. 101 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: Deep down, you know that. 102 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 2: God being for you is more than what's trying to 103 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: stop you. Isaiah said, God will make streams. 104 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:32,799 Speaker 1: In the desert. 105 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 2: We all want to get out of the desert, out 106 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: of this difficulty, but sometimes God will leave you in 107 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 2: an uncomfortable situation. He won't turn around what you don't like, 108 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 2: but he'll make a stream in that desert. He'll bless 109 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 2: you in the middle of the trouble. The blessing on 110 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 2: your life doesn't come and go. You're blessed when you 111 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 2: see in good breaks people are for you. 112 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: That's good. 113 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 2: But this blessing is on you in the desert, in 114 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 2: the hospitals, in the trouble, in the fiery furnace facing Goliath, 115 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: when Pharoh is chasing you down, says in Deuteronomy. 116 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: When you honor God, you. 117 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 2: Are blessed in the city and blessed in the country. 118 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 2: You are blessed when you come in and blessed when 119 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 2: you go out. You are blessed in your uprising and 120 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 2: in your down city. 121 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: That means in the good times and in the tough times. 122 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 2: Says the fruit of your womb is blessed. Your cattle, 123 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 2: your livestock is blessed. That's your business. 124 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: This is saying the blessing. 125 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 2: Is not dependent on the circumstances, whether they're good or bad. 126 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 2: It's not dependent on the environment, the location where you are. 127 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 2: Whether you're in a fertile place or a famine, you 128 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 2: are blessed. Whether you're around friends, people that love or 129 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 2: support you, or enemies trying to make you look. 130 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 1: Bad discredit you. You don't have to go somewhere else 131 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: to have the blessing. The blessing is on you. When 132 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: you get the blessing gets there now. You may work 133 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: in a negative environment. 134 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: There's jealousy, backstabbing, politics, joy When God moves me out 135 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 2: of this place, then I'll be blessed. 136 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: When he gets rid of these jerks, I mean. 137 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 2: These coworkers, then I'll have a good attitude. No, you 138 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: are blessed in the famine. The blessing didn't lead because 139 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: of the environment. Sometimes God will assign you to difficult people. 140 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 2: He'll put you in a situation with people that are 141 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: hard to get along with. Compromise it, take the easy 142 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: way out. You're not there by accidents. God has you 143 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 2: there to shine brightly. He's counting on you to be 144 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: a good influence, to be grateful when they're complaining, to 145 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 2: have integrity when they're compromising, to show mercy when they're judgmental, 146 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 2: to see the best in people when they're finding fault. 147 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: Light has the greatest impact in darkness. 148 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 2: If you're in the light all the time, you're not 149 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 2: going to be that effective. Quit complaining about the dark 150 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 2: and let your light shine. They didn't stop the blessing. 151 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 2: They're not keeping you from your potential. God has you 152 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 2: there on purpose. He's not waiting to change your environment. 153 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 2: Then he's going to bless you. He's going to bless you. 154 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: In the famine. He's going to make you a stream 155 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: in the desert. 156 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 2: You're going to be an example of his goodness so 157 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 2: other people can see the hand of. 158 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: God on your life. 159 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 2: In the scripture, God told Abraham to leave his country 160 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 2: and go toward the promised land. 161 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: Traveled a great distance and came to this area and 162 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: set up camp. 163 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: He had thousands of cattle and sheep, and his nephew 164 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: Lot was traveling along with him. He had a large 165 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 2: number of flocks as well, and after a few weeks 166 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 2: they realized the land couldn't support all the animals. Abraham 167 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 2: and Lot shepherds begin to argue over who should get 168 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 2: the land. 169 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: There was strife and division. 170 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 2: Abraham said the Lot, we need to separates wherever you 171 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: want to live, and I'll go somewhere else. 172 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: Abraham took the high road. He was older. He brought 173 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: Lot along out of the goodness of his heart. Should 174 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: have been his choice, but he let Lot choose well. 175 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: Lot looked around, studied the terrain, and he found the 176 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: best part of the land. 177 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 2: The scripture says it was like a garden with lush pastures, 178 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 2: beautiful streams, quiet valleys. 179 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: All that was left for Abraham was a dry place 180 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: bearing hot, dusty nothing beautiful. You would think Abraham would 181 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: be worried, thinking, how are we gonna make it? 182 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 2: He got all the fertile land, all the streams, I'm 183 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 2: stuck out here in the desert. No, Abraham understood this 184 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 2: principle that the blessing wasn't on the location, the blessing 185 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 2: was on him, that wherever he went, the blessing was there. 186 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: He knew the land was not his source, but God 187 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 2: was his source. 188 00:09:58,400 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: In the natural. 189 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: He should have struggled, had hardships, seen his crops dry up. 190 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: It's just the opposite was in any time before that 191 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: barren land turned into a beautiful oasis. 192 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: His flocks and herds multiplied. 193 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 2: The scripture says Abraham was one of the wealthiest men 194 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 2: of that day. But we think, man, if I can 195 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 2: get that position, Joel, then I'll be blessed. If I 196 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 2: can get into this friend group, if I can move 197 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 2: into this neighborhood. 198 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: Oh, here's the whole key. The blessing is on you. 199 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 2: It's not dependent on your circumstances, your environment, who you know. 200 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 2: Quent looking to people, places, positions, and look to God. 201 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: He's the source. 202 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 2: He's the one that makes streams in the desert He's. 203 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: The one that knew you before you were formed in 204 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: your mother's wound. 205 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: He's the one that called you, that anointed you, that 206 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 2: march you for favor. This blessing will cause you to 207 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 2: blossom when you should be drying up. 208 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: It'll cause you. 209 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 2: To excel when you should be stuck. The blessing will 210 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 2: make uppe when people do you wrong. When lot chooses 211 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 2: the best part of the land, someone you were good 212 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 2: to put you at a disadvantage. They may have taken 213 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 2: your land, so to speak, but they didn't take your blessing. 214 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 2: They took the position, but they didn't take the favor 215 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 2: on your life. The blessing will cause you to flourish 216 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 2: in the famine, to succeed in the struggle, to excel 217 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 2: despite what tried to hold you back. 218 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: A few years ago, I went to Africa. 219 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 2: To visit this orphanage and the man that started it, 220 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: he showed me around. They have several hundred acres and 221 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 2: they take care of five hundred children. 222 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: When they were looking for land. 223 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 2: To build the orphanage, they were told that they wouldn't 224 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 2: be able to grow any crops on this property because 225 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 2: the soil was not healthy enough, and there wasn't enough. 226 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: Water all around them for miles and miles. That was true. 227 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: There are no crops, no livestock. It's dry and barren. 228 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 2: But when he saw this property, he felt good about it. 229 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 2: He knew it was supposed to be theirs, And against 230 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 2: the advice of all the experts, he purchased the property. 231 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: Not only built the orphanage, but he planted over one 232 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 2: hundred acres of crops. 233 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: He designed his own irrigation system. 234 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 2: The neighbors, the local people, they thought he'd lost his mind. 235 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: Nobody could grow crops. 236 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 2: But this man knew when he got there the blessing 237 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 2: got there. He knew the land wasn't his source. God 238 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:33,239 Speaker 2: was his source. That the blessing wasn't dependent on the environment, 239 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: the rain, the people, the economy. The blessing makes streams 240 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 2: in the desert. The blessing gives you more than enough 241 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 2: in a famine. See, the blessing is not natural, it's supernatural. 242 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: It defies the odds. 243 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 2: When the experts said he's wasting his time, making a 244 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: big mistake. Now they're all scratching their heads out there 245 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 2: in the middle of this barren dry land. 246 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: You come to his property and it's like an old 247 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: way esis. It's so green and fertile, all these crops 248 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: and animals. 249 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 2: The university sent experts out to take soil samples to 250 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 2: try to figure out how he can grow crops, and 251 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 2: next door they won't grow how his soil can be 252 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 2: so rich and healthy. But across the street it's just 253 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 2: the opposite. 254 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: Their land is so successful. 255 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 2: They are not only self sufficient, but they produce so 256 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 2: many crops that they sell part of their produce to 257 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 2: the local grocery stores. That's how they fund their orphanage. 258 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 2: When this man was telling me this, he smiled real 259 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 2: big and said, Joel, it's the blessing of God on 260 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 2: our life. This blessing will cause you to defy the odds. 261 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: The blessing is not dependent on the land, on the position, 262 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 2: on what the experts say. 263 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: The blessing is on you. 264 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 2: It's the power of the most high his favor causing 265 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 2: you to excel. That's what it says in Psalms, that 266 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 2: whatever you touch will prosper and succeed. 267 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: That land may be. 268 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 2: Bearing, but when you touch it it'll come to light. 269 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 2: That job you're at may be difficult, but when you 270 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 2: get there, the blessing gets there. That sickness may look 271 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 2: like it's going to defeat you. The experts say you're 272 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 2: not going. 273 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: To make it. 274 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 2: What they don't realize is there is something on you 275 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 2: that defies the odds, that causes you to overcome, that 276 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 2: moves sickness out of your body, that prospers you in 277 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: a dry place, that turns people who are against you 278 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 2: into being for you. You can't explain it, it doesn't 279 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 2: make sense. It's the blessing of God on your life. 280 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: And here's the great news. You're not waiting to be blessed, 281 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 2: hoping to one day get this blessing. 282 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 1: You are blessed. It's already happened. 283 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 2: When you understand that you have the blessing, you'll put 284 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 2: your shoulders back and pray bold prayers. 285 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:58,479 Speaker 1: You'll believe for things that seem. 286 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 2: Impossible, bitter over who did you wrong, and upset over 287 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: that door that closed. You know, the blessing overrides every 288 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 2: bad break. The blessing will cause you to flourish in 289 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 2: the famine, to succeed despite the negative report, to blossom 290 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 2: when the odds are against you. 291 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: Well, what about Ruth. She was a widow, she'd lost 292 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: her husband and was. 293 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 2: Out gathering grain in a foreign country, trying to survive. 294 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: When a man named bo As, the owner of the field, 295 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: saw Ruth. 296 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 2: They eventually fell in love and were married. They had 297 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 2: a baby boy. Ruth became the great great grandmother of 298 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 2: King David. 299 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: Here. She'd gone through a big disappointment, losing her husband. 300 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 2: Looked like she was stuck in the fields, no future 301 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 2: to speak of. But the disappointments, the setbacks, the loss, 302 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 2: they don't stop the blessing. The blessing will cause the 303 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 2: right people to notice you. The blessing will take it 304 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: from working in the company to own in your comfort. 305 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 2: The blessing will give you a legacy. 306 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: Greater than you've ever imagined. 307 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 2: Out in those fields, picking up leftover grain. That was 308 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: just an ordinary place until Ruth got there. When she 309 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 2: showed up, the blessing showed up. That's when supernatural things 310 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 2: begin to happen. The co workers dropped left. 311 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: Over wheat on purpose for Ruth, uncommon increase. Bo Az 312 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: noticed Ruth. He could have been busy out of town 313 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: looking the other way. 314 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 2: But the blessing on your life will cause the right 315 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 2: people to not only see you. 316 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: But to be good to you. 317 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 2: The apostle Paul was shipwrecked on a deserted island. He 318 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 2: went to pick up some firewood when a poisonous snake 319 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 2: bit his arm. The natives had seen it happen again 320 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 2: and again in a few minutes. 321 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: He should swell up and die. When Paul just shook 322 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: it off went about his business. It never did affect him. 323 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 2: Those natives were so and all that they thought he 324 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 2: was a god. How could you be bit by something 325 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 2: poisonous and it not harm you. 326 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: That's the blessing of God. 327 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 2: They had seen many people die from snake bites, But 328 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 2: there's a difference between you and people that don't honor God. 329 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: Part of this blessing is protection. It's God pushing back. 330 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 2: Darkness and keeping you from evil, and angels guarding you 331 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 2: and defending you. It says in Exodus, the only spot 332 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 2: without hell in all of Egypt that day was the land. 333 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 1: Of Goshen, where the Israelites lived. 334 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: There was this huge hailstorm, wiping out people, animals, destroying 335 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 2: the crops, but the only place that wasn't harmed was 336 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 2: where the Israelites were. That's the blessing. It's not on 337 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 2: the land, it's not on the position. 338 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: The blessing is on you. 339 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 2: The more you recognize it, the more peaceful you're going 340 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 2: to live, faith you're gonna have, and the more favor you're. 341 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: Going to see. 342 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 2: In the amplified version of the Bible, when it says 343 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 2: the word blessed, many times it describes the word in parentheses. 344 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 2: It says happy, fortunate, prosperous. 345 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: And to be envied. 346 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 2: If you want to activate the blessing, then you need 347 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 2: to have a blessed mindset. You're not gonna see the 348 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 2: blessing if you go around thinking I never get any 349 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 2: good breaks and these people at work are never gonna 350 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 2: treat me right. You can cancel out the blessing with 351 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 2: the wrong mentality. Try a new approach, a blessed mindset. 352 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: I'm happy. 353 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 2: I'm not going to go around discouraged, bitter over what 354 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 2: didn't work out, and upset over who hurt me. I 355 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 2: know God's on the throne. I know he's fighting my battles. 356 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 2: I'm fortunate. That means I have an advantage. God's favor 357 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 2: is on my life. He's going before. 358 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: Me, opening the right doors and bringing the right people. 359 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: Part of the blessing is you are to be envied. 360 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: That means you should be so blessed, so peaceful, so kind, 361 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 2: so generous, so influential that people want what you have. 362 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 2: God wants to make you an example of his goodness. 363 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 2: Abraham was so blessed that people that didn't even know God, 364 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 2: people that didn't worship Jehovah, they prayed to the God 365 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 2: of Abraham. 366 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob. They thought, we want what he has. 367 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 2: We want his peace, his joy, his attitude, his resources. 368 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 2: Don't have a limited mentality, a defeated mediocre let me 369 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 2: get by in life attitude, have a blessed mindset. I'm happy, 370 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 2: I'm fortunate, I'm to be envied. And I don't mean 371 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 2: this arrogantly, but there's a big difference between I'm fortunate 372 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 2: and nothing good ever happens to me. 373 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm to be envied verse, I never get any good breaks, 374 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: nobody would want what I have. 375 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 2: I'm prosperous. Verse I don't know how I'm gonna make it. 376 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: Things have gotten so high. You have to change your mindset, 377 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 2: get in agreement with God all. 378 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: Through the day in your thoughts. 379 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 2: I'm blessed, I'm fortunate, something good is going to happen 380 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 2: to me. I'm expecting God's favor. You're gonna draw in 381 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 2: what you're continually thinking about. 382 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: Do you have a blessed mindset or a limited mindset. 383 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 2: When Joseph was a teenager, God gave him a dream 384 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 2: that he would be in leadership and he'd do great things. 385 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 2: But his brothers were jealous. They didn't like his big dream. 386 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 2: They were in another city taking care of flocks, and Jacob. 387 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: Send his son Joseph to check on them. When they 388 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: saw him in the distance, they said, here comes the dreamer. 389 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 2: Sometimes the dream God put in you will stir up 390 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 2: jealousy in others. Some people can't handle where God has 391 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: taking you. Small minded to celebrate the favor and blessing 392 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: on your life, they think God blessing you means that 393 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 2: they're going. 394 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: To be left out. 395 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,719 Speaker 2: They don't realize what God has for you doesn't lessen 396 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 2: what God has for them. But you will never see 397 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 2: the fullness of what God has if you're jealous of 398 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 2: other people. Now test we all have to pass is 399 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 2: to celebrate those that are going further, be happy for 400 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: people that are seeing increase in favor. That doesn't mean 401 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 2: you're being left out. If you'll pass that test. Then 402 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 2: your time is coming. Then God can take. 403 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: You to new levels. I've never seen jealous people really succeed. 404 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 2: People that find fault, criticize, try to discredit others. I've 405 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 2: never seen them really take off. It's because of their 406 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 2: narrow mindset. That's what limited Joseph's brothers. They were so 407 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 2: jealous that they threw Joseph into a pit. They were 408 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 2: going to leave him there to die. They took his freedom, 409 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 2: but they couldn't take his blessing. They took his coat 410 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 2: of many colors, but they couldn't take his calling. Sitting 411 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 2: in the bottom of the well, betrayed alone, no way out, 412 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 2: the brothers thought the location determined whether or not Joseph 413 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 2: was blessed. They didn't realize the blessing was on Joseph. 414 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 2: That's what God said. You're blessed in the city and 415 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: blessed in the country. You're blessed when people speak well 416 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 2: of you. 417 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: And you're blessed when they throw you into the pit. 418 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: Here's the key. 419 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 2: They didn't give the blessing. That means they can't take 420 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: the blessing. The blessing was put on you by your 421 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 2: heavenly father. 422 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: No person can stop the blessing, the purpose, the. 423 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 2: Destiny that God has laid out for your life. One 424 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 2: time in the scripture, these people hired Balim the prophet 425 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 2: to curse the people of God to speak against them. 426 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 2: They kept offering him more and more money. But three 427 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 2: times Balim said, I cannot curse what God is already blessed. 428 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 2: Can I tell you? God has already blessed you. People 429 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: can try to stop you, limit you discredit you don't 430 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 2: pay it any attention. They might as well be talking 431 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 2: to the wall. God has already blessed you. He's already 432 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 2: anointed you. He's already marked you, empowered you, destined you 433 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 2: to fulfill your assignment. People can't stop you. The enemy 434 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 2: can't stop you. The only one that can stop you 435 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 2: is you. If you get bitter discouraged. 436 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: Why did this happen? My own family turned on me. 437 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 2: If you'll stay on the high road and keep doing 438 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 2: the right thing, everything that was meant for your harm, 439 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 2: God will turn to your advantage. The blessing will always 440 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 2: override the curse. But they brought Joseph out of the 441 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 2: pit and sold him as a slave in Egypt, and 442 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 2: he worked for a man named Potterford running his household. 443 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: Joseph was so excellent in what he did that he 444 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: was put in charge of all the affairs of this house. 445 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 1: Potterphar's wife lied. 446 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 2: About Joseph and said he was making advances at her. 447 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 2: Joseph was put in prison for something he didn't do. 448 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: Could have been bitter, God, where are you? Why did 449 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: this happen? 450 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 2: But he kept being his best, so much so that 451 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 2: he was put in charge of the whole prison. Eventually, 452 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 2: he interpreted a dream for the fay Roh. He was 453 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 2: so impressed that he made Joseph the prime minister of Egypt. 454 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 2: Thirteen years after Joseph had that dream as a teenager. 455 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,159 Speaker 1: He saw it come to pass. 456 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 2: Joseph was assigned to a difficult place with difficult people, 457 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 2: but none of that stopped the blessing. He was blessed 458 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 2: in the pit when his brothers betrayed him. He was 459 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 2: blessed in Potterphar's house. As a slave in a foreign country. 460 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 2: He was blessed in the prison, falsely accused and unfair. 461 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 2: The blessing on his life not only sustained him and 462 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 2: kept him from being defeated, but it caused him to 463 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 2: keep rising to the top. And yes, we all go 464 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 2: through disappointments and betrayals, people that do us wrong. But 465 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: nothing that's happened to you has taken the blessing. Joel, 466 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 2: they threw me into a pit, they put me into 467 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 2: a hard place. The blessing is not dependent on your location. 468 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 2: The blessing is on you wherever you are. The blessing 469 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 2: is there in these difficult times. You have to keep 470 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 2: reminding yourself. 471 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: I am blessed. 472 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,199 Speaker 2: I am blessed in the palace, and I'm blessed in 473 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 2: the pit. I'm blessed when it's fair, and I'm blessed 474 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 2: when it's unfair. I'm blessed when people are for me, 475 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 2: and I'm still blessed when they. 476 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: Are against me. 477 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 2: Maybe someone has put you at a disadvantage. 478 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: It doesn't look like it's ever going to change. 479 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 2: But can I tell you, like Joseph, You're about to 480 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 2: see the blessing override the curse people that tried to 481 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 2: push you down. 482 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: It's going to backfire. Vindication is coming. 483 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 2: That sickness has been difficult, it's taking your energy. The 484 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 2: tide is about to turn. Health and wholeness is coming. 485 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 2: Are your child's been making poor choices. The enemy is whispering. 486 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 2: It's permanent. They're never gonna change. 487 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: No, get ready, things are about to shift. God is 488 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: working behind the scenes. You've been marked for favor. 489 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 2: Mark to overcome, mark to outlast, mark, to rise from 490 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 2: the pit to the palace. 491 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: Now do your part and have this blessed mindset. No more. 492 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 2: I never get any good breaks. No, I'm fortunate. I'm 493 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 2: to be envied. I'm prosperous. 494 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: The blessing of God is on my life. If you'll 495 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: do this, I believe in. 496 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 2: Declare like Abraham, You're gonna flourish in the dry places. 497 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: Like Joseph. 498 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 2: You're gonna excel in the midst of the trouble. Like 499 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 2: my friends at the orphanage. You're gonna defy the odds 500 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 2: and see abundance, favor, breakthroughs, healing, the fullness of your 501 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 2: destiny in Jesus. 502 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 1: And if you receive it. 503 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,959 Speaker 2: Can you say amen, I'd like to give you an 504 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 2: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 505 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? 506 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 507 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 508 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got 509 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 2: born again. We'd love to send you some free information 510 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 2: on your new walk with the Lord. 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