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I'd like to talk with something funny. 46 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 4: And I heard about this young man and one day 47 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 4: he was talking to God and he said, God, what's 48 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 4: a million years like to you? God said, a million 49 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 4: years to me is like one second to you. He said, well, God, 50 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 4: what's a million dollars like to you? God said, a 51 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 4: million dollars to me is like one penny to you. 52 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 4: He thought about it in a moment, said God, will 53 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 4: you give me a penny? God said sure, just a second, 54 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 4: saying like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 55 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 4: am what it says I am. I have what it 56 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 4: says I have. I can do what it says I 57 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 4: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 58 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 4: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 59 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 60 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 61 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 4: your future is set, it's easy to worry about tomorrow 62 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 4: and how is everything going to work out? I'm concerned 63 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 4: about my children. I have this problem at work. The 64 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 4: uncertainty can bring anxiety where we live. Stressed and uptight, 65 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 4: we look at things on the short term. But God's 66 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 4: been working on you for generations. He didn't just start 67 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 4: when you got here, long before you were born. He 68 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 4: was lining up what you need, arranging things to fall 69 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:26,639 Speaker 4: into place so you can fulfill your purpose. God told Abraham, 70 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: your children will be in Egypt for four hundred years, 71 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 4: then I will bring them out with great abundance. God 72 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 4: had a four hundred year strategy. We're praying about tomorrow, 73 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 4: believing for this week, hoping for next month. God's way 74 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 4: ahead of you. He was thinking about you hundreds of 75 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 4: years ago, before your father and mother even knew each other. 76 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 4: God was working on your behalf generations back, bringing everything 77 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 4: into alignment, the right people, good breaks, solutions to problems, 78 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 4: for mistakes. It's already planned out. When the Israelites came 79 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 4: out of slavery, loaded down with treasure, just like God promised, 80 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 4: it looked like that just suddenly happened. God just decided 81 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 4: to bless them. The truth is that blessing had been 82 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 4: lined up for four hundred years. God had planned to 83 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 4: let Phedro capture them. He'd already planned they would go 84 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 4: through things that weren't fair, have to endure that suffering, 85 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 4: but the plan didn't stop there. There was a plan 86 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 4: to bring them out, a plan to make the enemy pay, 87 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 4: a plan to turn around the injustice, a plan to 88 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 4: thrust them into their purpose. Yes, we all go through 89 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 4: disappointments and things we don't understand. We make mistakes and 90 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 4: bring trouble on ourselves and we don't see how we 91 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 4: could accomplish our dreams. Now we feel like we're in captivity. 92 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 4: We've had these bad breaks. That's not the end of 93 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 4: the story. Like with the Israelites's back, God was working 94 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 4: on your behalf. That bad break can't stop you how 95 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 4: you were raised. Even the mistake you made that didn't 96 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 4: catch God off guard. He knew about it. He's already 97 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 4: taken it into account, and that's why we can stay 98 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 4: in peace. That's why we can sleep well at night. 99 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 4: You're not doing life on your own. You're a part 100 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 4: of a much bigger plan that God has purpose things 101 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 4: for you that he started generations ago. Now thoughts will whisper, 102 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 4: there's nothing special about you. You're not important. You're just 103 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 4: one of the seven billion people on the earth. No 104 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 4: God chose you to be here. He has an assignment 105 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,919 Speaker 4: for your life. You need to feel this sense of destiny, 106 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 4: this sense of purpose. Your life matters. You are strategic. 107 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 4: There's something significant for you to accomplish. And at times 108 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 4: it'll feel like you stop. Obstacles too big, the sickness 109 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 4: too great, the pressure too much. You have to remind 110 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 4: yourself that the creator of the universe is not only 111 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 4: with you right now, but he's been orchestrating things in 112 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 4: your favor for generations. God wouldn't have given you breath 113 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 4: to breathe if he didn't have an amazing future for you. 114 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 4: Sometimes you have to go through the pain to get 115 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 4: to the purpose, through the weeping, to get to the joy, 116 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 4: through the struggle to get to the abundance. You keep 117 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 4: being faithful, and you're going to see what God's been 118 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 4: working on for generations. You're going to come into houses 119 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 4: that you didn't build, vineyards that you didn't plan, promotion, 120 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 4: you didn't deserve mercy when you should have received judgment. 121 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 4: Think about Zachias. He was a tax collector, and they 122 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 4: were known for being dishonest and cheating people, and he 123 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 4: was the chief tax collector, the worst one. Everyone looked 124 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 4: down on him, saw him as a fraud. Seems like 125 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 4: God wouldn't have anything to do with him. Zakias, you're 126 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 4: making poor choices. If you live better, quit cheating everyone, 127 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 4: have a little integrity, then I'd help you. But God 128 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 4: doesn't judge the way we judge. We look at people 129 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 4: how they are, but God sees what they can become. 130 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 4: We see the dirt. God sees the treasure, We see 131 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 4: the mess. God sees the miracle. Jesus was passing through 132 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 4: the town, and when zachi has heard about it, something 133 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 4: came alive on the inside, this desire to see Jesus. 134 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 4: Even though Zachaius knew he was doing wrong, even though 135 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,239 Speaker 4: he knew he was off course, God, in his great mercy, 136 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 4: begin to draw Zachius. He felt this longing, I've got 137 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 4: to see this man. God never writes anyone off. No 138 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 4: matter how many mistakes you've made, how many failures, how 139 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 4: many times we've blown it. God is full of mercy. 140 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 4: He still has a purpose for your life. What I 141 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 4: love about God is he never consult your past to 142 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 4: determine your future. What you've done in the past does 143 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 4: not stop what God has planned for you now. Sometimes 144 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 4: religion will try to beat you down, make you feel 145 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 4: like you're not worthy. The enemy is called the accuser. 146 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 4: He'll try to convince you that nothing good is in 147 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,679 Speaker 4: your future. Don't believe those lies. God's calling is still 148 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 4: on your life. You can still become who you were 149 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 4: created to be. When Zachius arrived, he was so crowded 150 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 4: and people had lined the street to see Jesus and 151 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 4: Zachias were short, well hundreds of people in front of him. 152 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 4: He could have gone back home, thought too bad, didn't 153 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 4: work out. But he looked over and saw this sycamore tree. 154 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 4: He had an idea. If I get up in that tree, 155 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 4: I'll be able to see Jesus. He went and climbed 156 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 4: the tree, grabbed this branch, another branch, crawled up higher, 157 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 4: then higher. Now he had a perfect view. He could 158 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 4: see everything so clearly. In a few moments, Jesus came 159 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 4: walking by. This is what everyone was waiting for, tin 160 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 4: to get Jesus' attention, waving, shouting. Zach Kius was taking 161 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 4: it all in. About that time Jesus stopped. He turned 162 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 4: and looked up in the tree. I'm sure, zach he 163 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 4: has nearly passed out. Now all the eyes were on him. 164 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 4: You could hear a pin drop, Zach He has thought, oh, man, great, 165 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 4: he's gonna let me have it. He knows I'm a sinner, 166 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 4: he knows a cheap people. He was feeling so guilty. 167 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,839 Speaker 4: But Jesus said, zach Kius, come down out of that tree. 168 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 4: I want to go to your house and have dinner. 169 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 4: First thing zach he has thought, was how does he 170 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 4: know my name? I've never met him. I don't run 171 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 4: in his circles. I'm not a religious person. Can I 172 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 4: tell you God knows your name. You may have never 173 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 4: spoken to him, but he'll speak to you. He doesn't 174 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 4: hold your faults against you. He doesn't say, man, you 175 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 4: hadn't performed well enough. I'm not gonna have anything to 176 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 4: do with you. No, he's calling your name. What's significant 177 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 4: is the name Zachius, mean means pure one. Jesus could 178 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 4: have said, hey, mister up there in the tree, hey sir, 179 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 4: But on purpose he called his name, Hey, Zachius. He 180 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 4: was saying, hey, pure one. He was calling him not 181 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 4: who he was, but who he could become. The religious 182 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 4: leaders they were offended. They said, why would Jesus go 183 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 4: eat with such scum? Notice the people called him scum, 184 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 4: but Jesus called him pure one. Don't go by what 185 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 4: people call you, go by what God calls you. Zichius 186 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 4: came down out of the tree, went to dinner. That 187 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 4: was the turning point in his life. He repented. Repent 188 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 4: means to change your ways, quit being dishonest, He quit 189 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 4: cheating people, and started making decisions that honored God. But 190 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 4: none of this would have happened if Zachius hadn't climbed 191 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 4: that tree. There are sycamore trees that have lived over 192 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 4: two thousand years. Here's how strategic God is. Way before 193 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 4: Zachias was born, God knew I have to plant a 194 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 4: tree here because in a few hundred years a man's 195 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 4: gonna come along named Zachias. That's, of course that needs 196 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 4: my mercy. This tree is going to be necessary to 197 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 4: bring him into his purpose. That tree didn't happen overnight. 198 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 4: Generations back, God was thinking about Zychias. There are blessings 199 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 4: you're going to come into mercy, favor opportunity that God 200 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 4: has been working on for you for generations. You don't 201 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 4: have to worry about the right doors opening, the right 202 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 4: people showing up. How is it going to work out? 203 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 4: God has already planted your trees. He's already lined up 204 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 4: what you need for your purpose. There may be things 205 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 4: that look impossible. How you could accomplish that dream, how 206 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 4: your child will get back on course, how you'll overcome 207 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 4: that heartache. God's already been working on it. You're going 208 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 4: to come into a tree something that you couldn't make happen. 209 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 4: It's the hand of God moving you into your purpose. 210 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 4: When you understand this, it takes the pressure off. You 211 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 4: can live in peace knowing that as long as you 212 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 4: keep God first place, your future is said. God has 213 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 4: it all lined up. Back in the eighteen hundreds, a 214 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 4: seventeen year old girl was sent from Norway to America 215 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 4: by her family. They were very poor and could only 216 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 4: afford to send one person. They send her with high 217 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 4: hopes that she would somehow get a good education and 218 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 4: be able to support the family so they could all 219 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 4: come over. After the long boat ride, she got off 220 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 4: the bus downtown Chicago, and you can imagine how she felt. 221 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 4: Not able to speak the language. Why did I have 222 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 4: to leave my family? Now I'm here all alone? She 223 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 4: had no money and no place to stay. She walked 224 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 4: around the block and saw this home with a porch 225 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 4: light on, and knocked on the door. And asked if 226 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 4: she could stay for a night or two, and the 227 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 4: family graciously took her in the next day, she saw 228 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 4: this charity that took care of babies with no mothers. 229 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 4: She was so drawn to it she went in and 230 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 4: they hired her. She worked there for years and eventually 231 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 4: got married had a daughter. That daughter would come to 232 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,079 Speaker 4: the charity and take care of the babies as well. 233 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 4: Fast forward one hundred and fifty years. Friend of mine 234 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 4: pastors a successful church downtown Chicago, and they've been seeing 235 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 4: growth and favor and they needed a larger auditorium. He 236 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 4: didn't want to leave downtown, but finding property there seemed impossible. 237 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 4: Kept looking and looking. He finally found a one acre 238 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 4: tract of land right next to the United Center the 239 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 4: basketball arena. He inquired about it and things started falling 240 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 4: into place. The land is incredibly valuable, but he had 241 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 4: favor with the mayor city officials. Against all odds, they 242 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 4: sold him the property to build a sanctuary, first new 243 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 4: church to be built in downtown Chicago in over fifty years. 244 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 4: He was so excited before he announced it to the church, 245 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 4: he wanted to take his grandmother by. When they pulled 246 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 4: up to the property, She started weeping and weeping. She said, 247 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 4: this is the same property where your great great grandmother 248 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 4: worked in the baby's home. This is where I came 249 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 4: as her granddaughter to take care of the children. That 250 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 4: seventeen year old girl from Norway. She wondered why she 251 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 4: had to come, why she had to leave her family. 252 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 4: It didn't make sense. But she was a tree. She 253 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 4: was fulfilling a divine purpose. Now, my friend stepped into 254 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 4: blessings that started four generations back, one hundred and fifty 255 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 4: years earlier. God was orchestrating things that would propel him 256 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 4: into his purpose. You don't know what God is up to. 257 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 4: You don't know what you're about to step into, the 258 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 4: doors that will open, the opportunity that will come, the 259 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 4: favor that will find you. God's been working for generations 260 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 4: to move you into your purpose. You haven't seen, heard, 261 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 4: or imagined what He has in store. See, we think situationally. 262 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 4: I have this problem. This obstacle looks too big. How 263 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 4: could I ever get that property? But God thinks generationally. 264 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 4: He says, don't worry. Before you got here, I started 265 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 4: lining up good breaks that you could never make happen. 266 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 4: Before you were born. I was arranging things in your favor. 267 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 4: You don't have to worry about your future. Your future 268 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 4: is sad. Everything you need is already in motion, it's 269 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 4: already strategically orchestrated. The good news is it's going to 270 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 4: be better than you thought, more rewarding, more fulfilling than 271 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 4: you can imagine. What's interesting is when they tore down 272 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 4: the Children's Home to build the United Center, they left 273 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 4: that one acre undeveloped. That doesn't make sense. Why would 274 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 4: when they used that land. They could have made the 275 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 4: building larger, built a pavilion, built a food court, They 276 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 4: could have sold it to retail restaurants, clubs. That land 277 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 4: is so valuable. But what God has for you is 278 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 4: not going to go to anyone else. What has your 279 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 4: name on it is going to come to you. That 280 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 4: means what hasn't worked out, what you didn't get, the 281 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 4: contract that didn't go through, that wasn't supposed to be yours. 282 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 4: If it didn't happen, God has something better. He hasn't 283 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 4: been working for generations to let you miss what was 284 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 4: supposed to be yours. He told Abraham, after four hundred years, 285 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 4: I'm going to bring your descendants out with great abundance. Well, 286 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 4: his descendants were slaves. They had no money, no resources. 287 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 4: Nothing looked like they would leave with abundance. But on 288 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 4: their way out, God caused them to have favor with 289 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 4: their oppressors. They gave the Israelites their gold, their jewelry, 290 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 4: their clothing. Didn't make sense. You're giving us your valuables. 291 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 4: We're the slaves. God has some things in your future 292 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 4: that are not going to make sense, things that are 293 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 4: going to boggle your mind. He knows how to give 294 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 4: your property that seems impossible. He knows how to turn 295 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 4: that child around, how to restore your health, how to 296 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 4: cause people to favor you at open doors that you 297 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 4: couldn't open. What I want us to see is He's 298 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 4: been working for generations, getting us ready for this moment. 299 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 4: You're going to come into some generational blessings, generational favor, 300 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 4: generational increase. It's the hand of God doing things you 301 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 4: never saw coming. When you know your future is set, 302 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 4: it's easy to stay in faith When you know that 303 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 4: God works generationally and not just situationally. Then you won't 304 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 4: get upset when things happen that you don't understand. Disappointments, 305 00:17:56,320 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 4: closed doors like that young woman from Norway. You're a 306 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 4: part of the bigger plan. God is using you to 307 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 4: not only fulfill your purpose, but to bring about His 308 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 4: purpose in others. That's why you shouldn't fight everything you 309 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 4: don't like. Live upset over the betrayal, bitter over the 310 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 4: door that closed, frustrated because the dream hasn't come to pass. 311 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 4: God knows what he's doing. We're not going to understand 312 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 4: it all right now. We can only see a small 313 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 4: part of his plan. God's looking back four hundred years. 314 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 4: He's looking ahead four hundred years. You can be confident 315 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 4: that His plans for you are for good. They may 316 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 4: not look good at the time, but if you'll stay 317 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 4: in faith, you'll see what God is up to. You'll 318 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 4: come into these moments of fever that catapults you ahead. 319 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 4: This is what happened with Ruth in the scripture. Life 320 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 4: was good. She was going along fine, then her husband 321 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 4: suddenly passed. She never dreamed she would become a wido 322 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 4: at a young age. You can imagine how heartbroken she was. 323 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 4: Sometimes life doesn't seem fair. If you'll keep moving forward, 324 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 4: God says he has beauty for those ashes. In these 325 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 4: difficult times. God is up to something. He's doing things 326 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 4: that we can't see right now. Ruth's mother in law, Naomi, 327 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,120 Speaker 4: was a widow as well, and now both of her 328 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 4: sons had died, she decided to move back to her 329 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 4: hometown of Bethlehem. She told Ruth and the other daughter 330 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 4: in law, Orpah, to go back to their hometowns Orpah left, 331 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 4: but Ruth said, no, Naomi, I'm going with you. You 332 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 4: a god will be my god. Your home will be 333 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 4: my home. Ruth was from Moab. She wasn't the same 334 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 4: nationality as Naomi or the same faith, but she wouldn't lead, Naomi, 335 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 4: the people that are supposed to stay with you you 336 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 4: won't be able to get rid of if they walked away. 337 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 4: They weren't supposed to stay. Quit trying to hold on 338 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 4: to people that don't want to be there. If you 339 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 4: needed them to fulfill your destiny, they couldn't have walked away. 340 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 4: You can imagine Ruth and Naomi traveling back to Bethlehem. 341 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 4: So discouraged, Naomi got bitter. She said, I went out 342 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 4: full with my husband and two sons. Now I'm coming 343 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 4: home empty. She was saying, this is not how I 344 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 4: thought things would turn out. This is not what I 345 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 4: had planned for my life, But all this time God 346 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 4: was up to something. She couldn't see it right then, 347 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 4: but God was positioning her in Ruth. He had to 348 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 4: get them back to Bethlehem. That's where Ruth would meet 349 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 4: a man named Boaz. He owned all the field, very influential, 350 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,959 Speaker 4: very wealthy. This caused Naomi to come back to life. 351 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,120 Speaker 4: Instead of sitting around bitter, she started giving Ruth relationship advice, 352 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 4: telling her how to get this man. Put on this perfume, 353 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 4: wear this dress when you see him, talk to him 354 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 4: less way, telling her how to flirt. Why was she 355 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 4: so passionate about helping Ruth win this man over. She 356 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 4: wasn't just doing a girl thing. This was a part 357 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 4: of God's divine plan. Ruth ended up marrying Boas. They 358 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 4: had a son named Obed. Obed had a son named Jesse. 359 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 4: Jesse had a son named David. Ruth became the great 360 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 4: great grandmother of David. Without Ruth, we wouldn't have David. 361 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 4: Without David, we wouldn't have Jesus. He came through the 362 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 4: lineage of David. The loss, the disappointment, the setback, it 363 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 4: was all a set up. Ruth had to get to Bethlehem. 364 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 4: She had to meet Bo as she had to give 365 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 4: birth to Obaed. God was working generationally. Sometimes we can't 366 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 4: see it doesn't seem fair. Why did I go through 367 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 4: this loss? Why did this door close? Why did this 368 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 4: person walk away? We get discouraged when we only look 369 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 4: at things situationally, when we isolate it by itself, it's 370 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 4: not fair. But when we understand that God works generationally, 371 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 4: at times we step into generational blessings. We see things 372 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 4: that started long before us that catapault us into our destiny. 373 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 4: Other times, God is positioning us for other people to 374 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 4: be blessed. But you have to know your life matters. 375 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 4: You are important to God. He thought you are so 376 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 4: valuable that he took time to plan all of your 377 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 4: days before you were born. You have a divine assignment. 378 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 4: The scripture says he's working all things according to the 379 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 4: counsel of his will. That means he has the final say. 380 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 4: He said his plans for you are for good. He 381 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 4: said he will do exceedingly, abundantly above all you can imagine. 382 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 4: Now keep in first place, Keep honoring him with your life. 383 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 4: Eight thing. When it's hard, don't try to figure everything out. 384 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 4: He's doing things that you can't understand right now. It 385 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 4: won't make sense. If you have to know everything, you're 386 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 4: going to be frustrated. Leave it in God's hands. God, 387 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 4: I don't know what you're doing, but I trust you. 388 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 4: I know you're in control, that you're moving me in 389 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 4: to my divine purpose. There was a family that did 390 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 4: missionary work in Mexico back in the nineteen fifties, and 391 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 4: they had young children that would go around with them 392 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 4: singing and ministering. These children were very talented, great musicians. 393 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 4: One of the sons, in his teens, left the church 394 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 4: and started singing in clubs and bars. Struggled with addictions, 395 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 4: knew his off course. He could feel the call of 396 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 4: God on his life, but he kept being pulled away. 397 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 4: My mother would see his name up on the Marquees 398 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 4: Bill Nash in concert. She knew his background, how his 399 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 4: family were missionaries, and so she would always pray for him. 400 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 4: She never met him, didn't know the family, but for 401 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 4: years she had this burden. God, bring him back to church, 402 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 4: let him shine for you. Years later, he was at 403 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 4: a very low point, so distraught, he decided to get 404 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 4: his life turned around. Wanted to go to church, but 405 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 4: he thought, nobody want me. I've made mistakes, I've lived 406 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 4: a rough life. I don't fit in the church. Turned 407 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 4: on the television and there was my father talking about 408 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 4: the mercy of God, how you're never too far gone, 409 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 4: how God is always standing with arms open wide, ready 410 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 4: to receive you back. That Sunday, he walked into Lakewood, 411 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 4: first time he'd been to church in years. Someone recognized 412 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 4: him in the very back and took him down to 413 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 4: see my mother and she told how she'd been praying 414 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 4: for him all those years. Big tears were running down 415 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 4: his cheeks. That day was a turning point. A few 416 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 4: months later, Bill gave his first Christian concert at Lakewood. 417 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 4: Well fast forward ten years. I was in the front 418 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 4: lobby of the old church. The service was about to begin. 419 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 4: My father was the pastor, and I was running up 420 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 4: the stairs to the television area. They're open to the 421 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 4: lobby you can see out, and Bill came around the 422 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 4: corner at just the right time said, Hey, Joel, my 423 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 4: cousin has a construction permit for the last full power 424 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 4: television station in Houston. He would like you to be 425 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 4: a part of it. We ended up purchasing the permit, 426 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,439 Speaker 4: putting the station on the air. I thought that's what 427 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 4: I'd do the rest of my life, be in production, 428 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 4: run the station. Eighteen months later, my father suddenly passed 429 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 4: and I became the pastor. Three years after that, we 430 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 4: got the Compact Center. We took out one hundred million 431 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 4: dollar loan to renovate this place. We had a balloon 432 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 4: payment due before we could move in. We'd been raising 433 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 4: the money, doing our best, but we weren't going to 434 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 4: make it. We were significantly short. We decided to sell 435 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 4: the station's old in sixty days for fifty percent more 436 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,479 Speaker 4: than the leading experts told us we could get. It 437 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 4: was those funds that allowed us to move into this building. 438 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 4: Now look at how God was working. Sixty years earlier, 439 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 4: a little boy was singing in a church in Mexico. 440 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 4: I'm sure his family thought, God, we raised him right. 441 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 4: Why did he get off course? Why is he not 442 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 4: making good decisions? But God knows how to use everything, 443 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 4: even things we don't understand. Had he not gotten off course, 444 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 4: he wouldn't have seen my father. He wouldn't have ended 445 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 4: up at Lakewood. I wouldn't have met him in the lobby. 446 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 4: We would have never purchased the station. We wouldn't have 447 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 4: the funds for this place. God is doing things that 448 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 4: you can't see right now. We're looking at it situationally. 449 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 4: He's working generationally. He can see the big picture. 450 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 5: Now. 451 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 4: There may be things that don't make sense to you. 452 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 4: You did the right thing and the wrong thing happened. God, 453 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 4: God is still in control. Don't judge your life by 454 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 4: one season. Let it unfold. You're going to see the 455 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 4: hand of God doing things you didn't see coming. I 456 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 4: didn't see that station coming, but God put it in 457 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 4: motion seventy years before I got here. He was working 458 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 4: on my behalf, orchestrating things in my future before I 459 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 4: was born. You don't know what God is up to. 460 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,680 Speaker 4: It looks like a setback, but really it's setting you up. 461 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 4: It's positioning you for new levels of your destiny. David 462 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 4: said in Psalm thirty one, God, I trust you. My 463 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 4: future is in your hands. Quit worrying about tomorrow. Your 464 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 4: future is in God's hands. It's already been said. What 465 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 4: God has purpose will come to pass. It's already lined 466 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 4: up your good breaks, the right people, solutions to problems. 467 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 4: What you're worried about, He's already worked out to part 468 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 4: of his divine plan. Why don't you come back to 469 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 4: a place of peace, a place of faith. He didn't 470 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 4: bring you this far to leave you. What he started 471 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 4: He's going to finish now. I believe in declare like 472 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 4: zach Kias, you're going to come into some of these trees, 473 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 4: generational blessings, things God has been working on before you 474 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 4: got here. Doors opening you couldn't open the right people 475 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 4: finding you negative situations, turning around the fullness of your 476 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 4: destiny in Jesus' name, if you receive it, Can you 477 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 4: say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity to 478 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 4: make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray 479 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 4: with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 480 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 4: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 481 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 4: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 482 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 4: born again. We'd love to send you some free information 483 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 4: on your new walk with the Lord. 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