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Speaker 4: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about room enough.
Speaker 4: We all have things in life that come against us,
Speaker 4: situations that aren't fair, people that do us wrong. It's
Speaker 4: easy to get discouraged and think that's the way it's
Speaker 4: always going to be. But just because you have opposition
Speaker 4: doesn't mean you're not in God's will. Paul said in Corinthians,
Speaker 4: A wide door of opportunity is open, and there are
Speaker 4: many adversaries. Anytime you're going to move forward, anytime you're
Speaker 4: about to take new ground, there will be opposition, people
Speaker 4: trying to discourage you. Things you don't understand. The people
Speaker 4: that reach their destiny aren't moved by what's not working out.
Speaker 4: They know God is in control, that he's directing their steps,
Speaker 4: that what was meant for hat he's going to turn
Speaker 4: to their advantage. They know the setback is really a
Speaker 4: setup for God to do something greater. Now. Opposition is
Speaker 4: a sign that promotion is coming, healing is coming, New
Speaker 4: levels are on the way. When God was going to
Speaker 4: promote David, take him from the shepherd's fields, a teenager
Speaker 4: taking care of his father's sheep, and give him the
Speaker 4: respect and influence of the whole nation. He didn't send
Speaker 4: David a friend, he didn't have. King Saul say, I
Speaker 4: see potential in this young man. Let's give him a chance. No,
Speaker 4: God sent David an enemy. He sent him a giant.
Speaker 4: David could have thought, God, I don't understand it. Samuel said,
Speaker 4: I'd be the next king. He anointed me in front
Speaker 4: of my family, but he didn't say anything about this giant. No,
Speaker 4: David understood this principle. With the opportunity, there would be opposition.
Speaker 4: When he defeated Goliath, he became an overnight hero. All
Speaker 4: of Israel took notice. Not because Samuel anointed him. Nobody
Speaker 4: celebrated David. When the prophet poured oil on his head
Speaker 4: and said he would be the next king, they thought,
Speaker 4: no big deal, it's just David. Pour all the oil
Speaker 4: you want. Doesn't change anything. David even went back to
Speaker 4: the shepherd's fields after he was anointed. It didn't look
Speaker 4: any different. But when he defeated Goliath, that one victory
Speaker 4: gave him instant respect from all of Israel. The giants
Speaker 4: you face weren't sent to defeat you, but to show
Speaker 4: people the anointing on your life. It's one thing to
Speaker 4: say you're anointed, but God is going to prove you're
Speaker 4: anointed when you defeat that giant, when you break the addiction,
Speaker 4: when you beat the cancer, when you pay your house off,
Speaker 4: when your business takes off. There won't be any doubt.
Speaker 4: People will see the favor of God on your life.
Speaker 4: They're going to have a new respect for you. They
Speaker 4: may have dismissed you in the past, not paid much attention.
Speaker 4: Oh it's just David, a teenager. He doesn't have much
Speaker 4: to offer or get ready. God is about to show
Speaker 4: out that giant may be bigger, stronger, more powerful, but
Speaker 4: it is no match for our God. Don't run away
Speaker 4: from the giant. Run to the giant. The giant is
Speaker 4: not going to defeat you. It's going to establish you.
Speaker 4: The giant is going to give you a new level
Speaker 4: of influence. It's going to cause people to see that
Speaker 4: you're favored. They may not like you, they may never
Speaker 4: be for you, but they won't be able to deny
Speaker 4: the fact of the blessing that God put on your life.
Speaker 4: After David defeated Goliath, you don't read any more about Goliath.
Speaker 4: Goliath's whole purpose was to establish David. Don't complain about
Speaker 4: your giants. Without that giant, you couldn't take your throne,
Speaker 4: so to speak. Without that opposition, you wouldn't see the
Speaker 4: fullness of your destiny. And none of us, of course,
Speaker 4: like difficulties, but keep the right perspective. On the other
Speaker 4: side is a new level. You have to outlast the opposition.
Speaker 4: You have to have a made up mind. You are
Speaker 4: in it to win it. God didn't bring you this
Speaker 4: far to leave you. He knows what's happening. He sees
Speaker 4: the medical report, he sees who's not treating you right.
Speaker 4: If you'll stay in faith like David, you'll not only
Speaker 4: come out, you'll come out better, promoted to a new
Speaker 4: level of your destiny. This is what happened with Isaac
Speaker 4: in Genesis chapter twenty six. He faced all kinds of opposition.
Speaker 4: Isaac was very successful. His crops had produced record amounts
Speaker 4: that year, and he was honoring God doing the right thing.
Speaker 4: But his neighbors, the Philistines, when they saw how blessed
Speaker 4: he was, how his crops had taken off, instead of
Speaker 4: being happy for him, they were jealous. They didn't want
Speaker 4: him there anymore. Don't be surprised when God blesses you
Speaker 4: if everyone doesn't celebrate you. Some people can't handle your success.
Speaker 4: They're fine as long as you stay at their level,
Speaker 4: they'll be for you. But when God takes you to
Speaker 4: the next level, when He shows out in your life,
Speaker 4: they may not be happy for you. Instead of getting discouraged.
Speaker 4: Remember that opposition is a sign that promotion is coming.
Speaker 4: You're blessed now, But God has something greater, something that
Speaker 4: you haven't seen. The Philistines were so jealous they clogged
Speaker 4: up Isaac's wells with dirt. He didn't have any water
Speaker 4: for his animals or any way to water his crops.
Speaker 4: The king told Isaac that he was too blessed, too powerful.
Speaker 4: He had to leave that area. Isaac could have fought him, thought, no,
Speaker 4: this is where God blessed me. I'm staying here. But
Speaker 4: after he prayed, Isaac knew he was supposed to leave,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure he was disappointed. He never dreamed he'd
Speaker 4: have to start all over. But when you do the
Speaker 4: right thing, when the wrong thing is happening, you're so
Speaker 4: in a seed for God to bless you. It may
Speaker 4: look like somebody's getting the best of you. It was unfair,
Speaker 4: Like Isaac, you did what was right, but it puts
Speaker 4: you at a disadvantage. Don't worry. Your time is coming.
Speaker 4: They think they're pushing you down, Really they're pushing you up.
Speaker 4: Isaac took the high road and moved to the valley
Speaker 4: of Gerar. It looked like he was going the wrong direction.
Speaker 4: He'd been up on the high places so blessed. Now
Speaker 4: he was going down to the valley. But the blessing
Speaker 4: is not on your location. The blessing is on you
Speaker 4: wherever you go. The blessing goes when you take the
Speaker 4: high road and make adjustments to keep the peace. It
Speaker 4: may look like you're going backwards, having to start all over,
Speaker 4: but when you do the right thing, you will never
Speaker 4: end up with less, less resources, less influence, less joy.
Speaker 4: There may be a season of less, but increases coming.
Speaker 4: Promotion is coming, Abundance is coming. Isaac moved to the
Speaker 4: valley and had his men redig the wells that belonged
Speaker 4: to his father. He was on his old property. The
Speaker 4: local shepherds came up and said, what are you doing.
Speaker 4: You can't redig these wells. They belonged to us. They
Speaker 4: started arguing with Isaac's men. Isaac could have made a
Speaker 4: big deal about it, after all, it was his property,
Speaker 4: it belonged to his father. Instead, Isaac told his men
Speaker 4: to stop digging and let them have it. Another disappointment.
Speaker 4: Verse twenty says Isaac named those wells argument. He knew
Speaker 4: if he'd have stayed, it would start a big fight.
Speaker 4: Even if he won, it would be an ongoing battle
Speaker 4: with strife and conflict. And yes, sometimes you need to
Speaker 4: stay and fight the good fight, take what belongs to you.
Speaker 4: But there are times, like with Isaac, you need to
Speaker 4: walk away and let God make it up to you.
Speaker 4: You could win, but it's going to do so much
Speaker 4: damage and cause so much ongoing trouble. It would be
Speaker 4: better to just let it go. And this is what
Speaker 4: Isaac did. He moved to a different place and dug
Speaker 4: some new wells. Same thing happened. The local people came
Speaker 4: up and opposed him. Isaac named those wells opposition. He
Speaker 4: could have thought, God, I'm done. I've been faithful. I
Speaker 4: got kicked out of my own land. I redugged the
Speaker 4: wells of my father's that didn't work out. Is never
Speaker 4: going to happen. No, Isaac had a made up mind.
Speaker 4: He knew on the other side of the adversity was
Speaker 4: a new level. He found a different place, dug some
Speaker 4: more wells. This time the water not only freely flowed,
Speaker 4: but the people left him alone. The scripture says Isaac
Speaker 4: named these wells room enough. One translation says it was
Speaker 4: a wide open, abundant place. Notice the principle, if you'll
Speaker 4: pass these tests and go through the well of argument,
Speaker 4: through the well of opposition. Then you will come to
Speaker 4: the well of room enough, the well of wide open places,
Speaker 4: the well of abundance. The mistake we make too often
Speaker 4: is we get stuck at the well of argument trying
Speaker 4: to prove our point, convince somebody that we're right. Those
Speaker 4: first set of wells, they belonged to Isaac's family, right
Speaker 4: to them. But there are some battles that are not
Speaker 4: worth fighting. When you're a peacemaker, you let somebody else
Speaker 4: be right, even though you know they're wrong. Everything in
Speaker 4: your mind will say you're weak. You're letting them get
Speaker 4: the best of you. You're going to have to go
Speaker 4: down to the valley. But in the valley is where
Speaker 4: room enough is. That's where the place of abundance is.
Speaker 4: Don't get stuck at the will of argument. Well, Joel,
Speaker 4: it's not right. They did me wrong. Why don't you
Speaker 4: let God fight your battles? Why don't you let God
Speaker 4: be your vindicator? I can assure you God will vindicate
Speaker 4: you better than you can vindicate yourself. We're not called
Speaker 4: to straighten everyone out. They may be wrong. You know
Speaker 4: you're right, but you have to ask yourself. If you
Speaker 4: win the argument, what is it going to accomplish? Is
Speaker 4: it going to move you forward or is it just
Speaker 4: going to make you feel good. You could win, but
Speaker 4: in the big picture, it took your time, your energy,
Speaker 4: your focus, things you should be using for your own dreams.
Speaker 4: We fight too many battles that don't matter. If that
Speaker 4: battle is not between you and your God given destiny,
Speaker 4: it's a distraction. It's the enemy trying to lure you
Speaker 4: off course, to get you stuck at the will of argument,
Speaker 4: when the will of room enough is waiting for you.
Speaker 4: You have to learn to let things go, let somebody
Speaker 4: else be right for the sake of peace. Jesus said
Speaker 4: in Lukes six. Ignore insults, don't bother to retaliate, maintain
Speaker 4: your dignity. We would go a lot further, We would
Speaker 4: enjoy life a lot more if we would simply ignore things.
Speaker 4: Somebody is talking about you. Don't try to straighten them out.
Speaker 4: Ignore it. Somebody did you wrong, don't retaliate. Let God
Speaker 4: fight your battles, ignore it, and keep moving forward. They
Speaker 4: can't stop your destiny. I've been speaking in public now
Speaker 4: about seventeen years since my father died, and of course
Speaker 4: the more people you're in front of, the more critics
Speaker 4: you have. But I've found a critic has never been
Speaker 4: able to stop me. Somebody that doesn't like me, that
Speaker 4: may try to discredit me or even say things that
Speaker 4: are not true, they've never been able to keep me
Speaker 4: from rising higher. I didn't try to prove to them
Speaker 4: who I am. Answer my critics, convince them to like me.
Speaker 4: I found something more effective. Ignore it, don't pay it
Speaker 4: any attention, don't try to retaliate. Don't seem down to
Speaker 4: their level. Maintain your dignity. Be a egle and rise
Speaker 4: above it. See an egle can fly at heights that
Speaker 4: a crow cannot reach. There will always be some crows
Speaker 4: in your life pecking at you, trying debate you into conflict.
Speaker 4: You probably have some crows at the office. One of
Speaker 4: your relatives may be a crow, your spouse. Maybe I'm
Speaker 4: just kidding. The only way to argue with the crow
Speaker 4: is to sink down to their level. If you find
Speaker 4: yourself in conflict upset trying to prove your point, that's
Speaker 4: a sign you've come down too low. You need to
Speaker 4: go back up where you belong. You're an eagle. Quit
Speaker 4: wasting time with that crow. The crows cannot go where
Speaker 4: you're going. Don't waste any emotional energy on that rise
Speaker 4: above it. God sees what's happening. He'll take care of
Speaker 4: your crows. The scripture says God opposes the people that
Speaker 4: oppose you. But if you go in and try to
Speaker 4: do God's work, God, let me oppose them, let me
Speaker 4: straighten them out. I got a good insult for them.
Speaker 4: God will step back and say, Okay, you do it
Speaker 4: on your own, you can handle it. But if you'll
Speaker 4: make a better decision and turn it over to God,
Speaker 4: he'll oppose who's opposing you. And when the most high, God,
Speaker 4: the creator of the universe, opposes, nothing can stand against him.
Speaker 4: But when you're an eagle, when you take the high road.
Speaker 4: Some people will mistake that for weakness. The truth is
Speaker 4: it's a sign of strength. It takes a strong person
Speaker 4: to overlook an insult. It takes maturity to not get
Speaker 4: in an argument. Some people will try to bait you.
Speaker 4: They feed off of arguing on purpose. They'll do things
Speaker 4: to try to get your riled up. If you take
Speaker 4: that bait, if you give in, you're allowing them to
Speaker 4: control you. They know if they push this button. You'll
Speaker 4: get upset if they push that button, you'll start arguing.
Speaker 4: Do yourself a favor, turn those buttons off. Quit taking
Speaker 4: de bait the next time that happens, Just smile and
Speaker 4: keep moving forward. You have a destiny to fulfill. You
Speaker 4: don't have time to waste playing those games. One time,
Speaker 4: this man came up to me and he was very uptight,
Speaker 4: very stressed out, and he asked me what I believed
Speaker 4: about a certain scripture. I could tell he was ready
Speaker 4: to argue. I was young. I didn't understand what everything
Speaker 4: meant back then, still don't today. He read this scripture.
Speaker 4: I wasn't familiar with it. I asked him what he
Speaker 4: believed it meant. He started telling me very intensely, going
Speaker 4: on and on. It sounded right, I said, I believe
Speaker 4: what you believe. He no more heard that. It went
Speaker 4: in one ear and out the other. He started his
Speaker 4: whole argument up all over, getting more riled up, trying
Speaker 4: to convince me. When he paused, I said it again,
Speaker 4: I believe what you believe. He looked at me. Puzzle
Speaker 4: started up all over here. He had won the argument
Speaker 4: three times. The problem was he didn't want to have peace.
Speaker 4: He wanted to argue. Your time is too valuable to
Speaker 4: waste it with people that don't want to have peace.
Speaker 4: Don't argue doctrine with people. Don't argue politics, things you're
Speaker 4: never going to agree on. For the sake of peace,
Speaker 4: let somebody else be right. Proverbs twenty says avoiding a
Speaker 4: fight is a mark of honor. Only a fool insist
Speaker 4: on arguing it. Doesn't say winning a fight is a
Speaker 4: mark of honor. Proving your point, straightening somebody out, No,
Speaker 4: avoiding a fight, being an eagle, overlooking some things. Letting
Speaker 4: somebody else be right for the sake of peace, that's
Speaker 4: a mark of honor. This is especially important in our homes.
Speaker 4: It's easy to argue over petty things, things that really
Speaker 4: don't matter. I've seen people get a divorce not over
Speaker 4: something big. They're great people, they loved each other, but
Speaker 4: they argued over small things where their strife and division.
Speaker 4: Little things turn into big things. That's when our families
Speaker 4: can be torn apart. When you live with someone, you're
Speaker 4: not going to see eye to eye all the time.
Speaker 4: They're going to do things that get on your nerves,
Speaker 4: but you do things that get on their nerves. You
Speaker 4: have to make this decision. I'm not going to allow
Speaker 4: strife in I'm going to do what I can to
Speaker 4: keep the peace. That means you're going to have to
Speaker 4: overlook some things what normally would upset you. The next
Speaker 4: time that happens, why don't you be an eagle and
Speaker 4: rise above it? Well, Joel, I'm waiting for her to change.
Speaker 4: God is waiting for you to change. Well, if he'll
Speaker 4: quit aggravating me, then I'll quit arguing. Why don't you
Speaker 4: be the peacemaker and rise above it? Years ago, Victoria
Speaker 4: and I were leaving the Astros ballgame their stadium downtown,
Speaker 4: and when I pulled out, I asked Victoria which way
Speaker 4: I needed to go right or left. She looked around
Speaker 4: and said we need to go right. I looked and said, no, Victoria,
Speaker 4: we need to go left. She said, Joel, I'm positive
Speaker 4: we need to go right. I said, Victoria, our house
Speaker 4: is this way. I pulled out and turned left. She said,
Speaker 4: you're going to see you're going the wrong way. I
Speaker 4: zigzagged all over downtown. I had no idea where I
Speaker 4: was going, but I didn't tell her. I drove so
Speaker 4: confidently I could have won an academy award. She said, Joel,
Speaker 4: we are just driving in circles. I said, we're not
Speaker 4: driving in circles. I'm going straight home. I was saying
Speaker 4: it by faith, but my faith wasn't working. About ten
Speaker 4: minutes later, I made a right turn and we were
Speaker 4: right back at the stadium. I couldn't believe it. What
Speaker 4: am I saying? I thought I was right, but I
Speaker 4: found out later I was wrong. And sometimes even when
Speaker 4: you think you're right, you need to swallow your pride
Speaker 4: and let somebody else be right. I would rather let
Speaker 4: the other person be right and have peace than for
Speaker 4: me to be right and not have peace. Now, when
Speaker 4: I'm going somewhere, I just say, honey, darling, sweetheart, which
Speaker 4: way would you like me to go? I don't ask questions.
Speaker 4: I don't check my GPS. Victoria is my GPS. If
Speaker 4: you're going to get to the well of room enough,
Speaker 4: you have to go through the well of argument, where
Speaker 4: you're tempted to get into strife and conflict, through the
Speaker 4: well of opposition, where things come against you, things you
Speaker 4: don't understand. You may be at a difficult place. Now,
Speaker 4: something is happening that's not fair. Don't get discouraged you're
Speaker 4: right where Isaac was. That's all a part of the process.
Speaker 4: You're at well number one, maybe well number two. The
Speaker 4: good news is well number three is coming. The will
Speaker 4: of room enough, the will of abundance. Now, don't get
Speaker 4: stuck at the first two wells. We all have opposition,
Speaker 4: we all have people that come against us. But if
Speaker 4: you'll keep moving forward like Isaac, you'll see God vindicate you,
Speaker 4: promote you. He'll take you where you could not go
Speaker 4: on your own. This is what happened with Job. Everything
Speaker 4: was going great, then the bottom fell out. He lost
Speaker 4: his health, his family, his business. He was at the
Speaker 4: well of opposition. He didn't understand it. He was doing
Speaker 4: the right thing, but the wrong thing was happening. His
Speaker 4: friends told him that it was his fault. His wife said,
Speaker 4: Joe just cursed God and die. He came to the
Speaker 4: well of argument, the well of strife. Job looked around
Speaker 4: and said, I could not find God. I went forward
Speaker 4: and he wasn't there. I went backwards and he wasn't there.
Speaker 4: Times in life you can't see what God is doing.
Speaker 4: You're praying, but it's not working out. Like Isaac, it
Speaker 4: was your land, but they asked you to leave it's
Speaker 4: easy to make a judgment based on one season, to
Speaker 4: look at one period of your life and think that's
Speaker 4: the way it's always going to be, that determines the
Speaker 4: rest of your future. No, that's just one well. You
Speaker 4: can't see where God has taking you. All those clogged
Speaker 4: up wells, those wells of opposition, they are leading you
Speaker 4: to the well of room enough. Don't make a judgment
Speaker 4: based on a moment. Where you are is not your
Speaker 4: final destination. It's just a season. Job understood this. He
Speaker 4: didn't get discouraged. He didn't give up. He could have
Speaker 4: stopped at well number one, could have stayed at well
Speaker 4: number two. Instead, he kept moving forward. He stayed on
Speaker 4: the high road, overlooked some things. He came to well
Speaker 4: number three, to that place of abundance. He not only
Speaker 4: saw his health restored, but he came out with twice
Speaker 4: what he had before. A man told me recently how
Speaker 4: God had failed him. He prayed and believed, but his
Speaker 4: business didn't make it. He was judging his future on
Speaker 4: that one bad break. I told him what I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: God didn't fail you. That's just well number one. Room
Speaker 4: Ing up is up ahead. Abundance is in your future,
Speaker 4: but you'll never see it if you stop where you are.
Speaker 4: Like him, you may have had some clogged up wells.
Speaker 4: He did the right thing. You worked hard, but you
Speaker 4: had a setback, a disappointment. God is saying, keep digging.
Speaker 4: Those clogged up wells are not the end. When we
Speaker 4: were trying to buy property for a new sanctuary, we
Speaker 4: found this large tract of land that we really liked.
Speaker 4: It seemed perfect. We were making plans. Then the owner
Speaker 4: sold it out from under us. He didn't keep his word.
Speaker 4: It was like he clogged up our well. I was
Speaker 4: so disappointed. A few months later, we found another large
Speaker 4: piece of property. It seemed better than the one before.
Speaker 4: We knew God was saving that for us, But the
Speaker 4: same thing happened. It was sold out from under us.
Speaker 4: It was like the enemy clogged up another well. We
Speaker 4: could have made a judgment based on those two bad breaks. Instead,
Speaker 4: we believed that God was still in control, that he
Speaker 4: was directing our steps. So we kept digging. We kept believing,
Speaker 4: thanking God that the right doors would open. Six months later,
Speaker 4: we received word that this place, the former Compact Center,
Speaker 4: was coming available. Things began to fall into place. Here
Speaker 4: we are today, in room enough in a wide open space,
Speaker 4: in an abundant place. The first two wells were discouraging,
Speaker 4: but well number three was the charm. What am I saying?
Speaker 4: In God's will you will have stopped up wells. You
Speaker 4: can't pray away all the position, pray away all the
Speaker 4: people that do you wrong. That's all a part of
Speaker 4: the process. You may have dug a well and it
Speaker 4: didn't work out. You dug another well and something clogged
Speaker 4: it up, a person walked away. Stay in faith. Well
Speaker 4: number three is coming. The third well is when opportunity
Speaker 4: freely flows. It's when good breaks chase you down, when
Speaker 4: the right people come looking for you. Well number three
Speaker 4: is more than you can ask or think. It's where
Speaker 4: God will pay you back. He'll make up for those
Speaker 4: two wells that didn't work out. Now you may be
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