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Speaker 6: you we'll make you feel right at home. I like
Speaker 6: to get started each week with something kind of funny,
Speaker 6: and I heard about this pastor and song leader that
Speaker 6: we're not getting along and it started to spill over
Speaker 6: into the services. One Sunday, the pastor spoke about being
Speaker 6: willing to change. Afterwards, the song leader got up and
Speaker 6: led the song I shall not be moved. The next
Speaker 6: week he spoke on being a giver. The song leader
Speaker 6: got up and led, Jesus paid it all. Next week
Speaker 6: he talked about gossip and how you have to watch
Speaker 6: your tongue, and the song leader led, I love to
Speaker 6: tell the story. The pastor got so frustrated he finally resigned.
Speaker 6: He said, Jesus brought me here, and Jesus has taken
Speaker 6: me away. The song leader then led, what a friend
Speaker 6: we have in Jesus. All right, hold up your bible.
Speaker 6: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 6: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 6: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 6: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 6: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 6: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 6: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 6: about developing an overflow mentality. Our God is a running
Speaker 6: over God, and we're not supposed to just have our
Speaker 6: needs supplied.
Speaker 5: We're supposed to be so blessed when other.
Speaker 6: People get around us, it overflows onto them. We should
Speaker 6: be so blessed in our finances that we cannot only
Speaker 6: pay our bills, not only accomplish our dreams, but we
Speaker 6: can be a blessing to others. And if we're going
Speaker 6: to live this abundant life, we have to have an
Speaker 6: overflow mentality.
Speaker 5: You've got to know it's God's dream that you prosper.
Speaker 6: Just like as a parent, I love to see my
Speaker 6: children doing well. I love to see them looking good
Speaker 6: and see them excelling. It's the same way with God.
Speaker 6: He takes pleasure in prospering you. We were never created
Speaker 6: to barely get by, created to have to constantly struggle.
Speaker 6: God made us to be the head and not the tail.
Speaker 6: He said we would lend and not borrow. We may
Speaker 6: not all be there just yet, but don't settle where
Speaker 6: you are all through the day. Reminds yourself. God takes
Speaker 6: pleasure in prospering me. His favor surrounds me.
Speaker 5: Like a shield.
Speaker 6: His blessings are chasing me down. Promotion and increase are
Speaker 6: coming my way. And of course we all go through
Speaker 6: times of testing.
Speaker 5: There are seasons where we.
Speaker 6: Don't see any increase, we're not getting any good breaks.
Speaker 6: We have to dig our heels in and press through
Speaker 6: the difficult times. But the way God designed it is
Speaker 6: that seasons always change. That means we're not supposed to
Speaker 6: constantly struggle. It is not your destiny to always be
Speaker 6: in lack and never have enough. At some point, the
Speaker 6: test will come to an end. At some point you
Speaker 6: go from sowing into reaping. But if we're not careful,
Speaker 6: because we've struggled so long and not seen the results
Speaker 6: and the increase that we've hoped for, it's easy to
Speaker 6: lose our fire, lose our passion, and think, all, man,
Speaker 6: it's never going to happen to me. I'm never going
Speaker 6: to rise any higher. No, don't settle where you are.
Speaker 6: You've gone through sowing. Now you need to start believing
Speaker 6: that harvest is coming your way. And some of you
Speaker 6: have been so faithful. You've gotten up each day and
Speaker 6: done your best. You've given even when you didn't have enough.
Speaker 6: You've kept that attitude of faith. And God is saying
Speaker 6: today it's your time to come into harvest. It's your
Speaker 6: time to start reaping all those seeds that you've sown,
Speaker 6: why don't you get a vision for it, not to
Speaker 6: barely get by. Maybe one day I'll have enough. Maybe
Speaker 6: one day I'll be able to send my children to college.
Speaker 5: Maybe one day I'll be able to afford that house
Speaker 5: that I really want.
Speaker 6: No start thinking overflow. You're a child of the most
Speaker 6: high God. He wants to do more than you can
Speaker 6: even ask or think. And I know I've had people say, well, Joel,
Speaker 6: my family's always struggled. My parents never had enough. My
Speaker 6: grandparents were always in lack and defeat. That may be true,
Speaker 6: but this is a new day. You can set a
Speaker 6: new standard. God wants you to be the one to
Speaker 6: break the curse of lack in your family line. You
Speaker 6: have seeds of greatness on the inside of you right now.
Speaker 6: God has equipped you with everything you need to succeed.
Speaker 6: And the fact is your parents, grandparents, ancestors, they may
Speaker 6: have been good people, but maybe they didn't understand this
Speaker 6: truth that God takes pleasure in prospering you. Or maybe
Speaker 6: they sowed the seeds, they made the sacrifices so that
Speaker 6: you could live a better life. In either case, God
Speaker 6: wants you to go further than your parents. He wants
Speaker 6: every generation to increase, and if you'll rise up in faith,
Speaker 6: you can affect your family line for generations to come.
Speaker 5: This is what my father did.
Speaker 6: His family was one of the poorest families around.
Speaker 5: They had nothing.
Speaker 6: But at the age of seventeen, when my dad gave
Speaker 6: his life to the Lord, he made a decision that
Speaker 6: his children would never be raised in the lack and
Speaker 6: poverty that he was raised in. He drew the line
Speaker 6: in the sand and said, this is where we are,
Speaker 6: but this is not where we're staying.
Speaker 5: We are coming up higher. What happened he developed a
Speaker 5: new mindset. Up to that.
Speaker 6: Point, he had had a poverty mentality. That's all he
Speaker 6: had ever known, Barely able to get by, barely have
Speaker 6: enough to pay the bills. He could have easily settled
Speaker 6: there and just thought, this is who I am, this
Speaker 6: is my lot in life. If he had had done that,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be where I am today. The decision he
Speaker 6: made way back in the nineteen thirties is still affecting me,
Speaker 6: my children, even future generations. But my father knew deep
Speaker 6: down he was supposed to live this abundant life, developed
Speaker 6: this overflow mentality, and it didn't happen overnight.
Speaker 5: But he and my mother stayed faithful.
Speaker 6: They kept giving, serving, believing, and over time God did
Speaker 6: more than they could even ask or think.
Speaker 5: They came in to overflow.
Speaker 6: You may be in poverty today, but don't ever let
Speaker 6: poverty get in you. Hold your head up high, know
Speaker 6: that you're a child of the most High God. That
Speaker 6: may be the way it's been, but that's not the
Speaker 6: way it's gonna stay. You are coming up higher. You're
Speaker 6: gonna see God's favor in a greater way. You're gonna
Speaker 6: see your gifts and talents come out like they've never
Speaker 6: come out before. I believe you're gonna be given supernatural
Speaker 6: opportunities that, just like a rocket, can launch you into
Speaker 6: a new dimension. If you'll stay in faith, it's just
Speaker 6: a matter of time before it comes to pass. That's
Speaker 6: what the scripture says in Psalm sixty five, verse eleven.
Speaker 6: God will crown the year with a bountiful harvest. Your
Speaker 6: carts will overflow with abundance. That's my prayer for each
Speaker 6: one of you, that you will see God's blessings like
Speaker 6: you've never seen them before. That you will come into promotion,
Speaker 6: increase bonuses, raises, even inheritances. God likes to do unusual things.
Speaker 6: It talks about in the Bulk of Malachi. If you'll
Speaker 6: be a giver and keep God first place, he will
Speaker 6: open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings
Speaker 6: that you cannot contain. That sounds to me like it's
Speaker 6: supposed to be running over. After all, he's called El Shadai,
Speaker 6: the God who is more than enough, not el Chipo,
Speaker 6: the god of barely enough. Don't ever go around talking
Speaker 6: about how high prices are and how you're never gonna
Speaker 6: make it. If you have a poor mouth, you're gonna
Speaker 6: live a poor life. And you may be so broke
Speaker 6: that you can't even pay attention. You may have so
Speaker 6: many things coming against you. But if somebody asks you
Speaker 6: how you're doing, don't give a twenty minute explain nation
Speaker 6: of how bad things are and gases so high, and
Speaker 6: my business is slow, my dishwasher.
Speaker 5: Broke, my dog died. He knows if all that up.
Speaker 6: Don't speak defeat over your life, no matter how it
Speaker 6: looks in the natural. You need to start saying it
Speaker 6: by faith. I am blessed. I have the favor of God.
Speaker 6: Everything I touched prosper Yes, prices may be high, but
Speaker 6: God always supplies my needs. Yes, the economy may be
Speaker 6: a little slow, but I'm not going under.
Speaker 5: I'm going over.
Speaker 6: God always causes me to tryumph. A while back, this
Speaker 6: young couple ask me to pray and agree that this
Speaker 6: furniture they wanted to buy would go on sell. They
Speaker 6: had been watching it a long time and they knew
Speaker 6: if it went on sale they'd be able to buy it.
Speaker 6: And I had to think about that a minute, and
Speaker 6: I finally said, instead of praying that it'll go on sell,
Speaker 6: I would rather pray that God would bless you in
Speaker 6: such a way that, even if it doesn't, you would
Speaker 6: still be able.
Speaker 5: To purchase it.
Speaker 6: It's not about trying to make things come to so
Speaker 6: we can afford it. It's about us believing to come
Speaker 6: up higher where we're.
Speaker 5: Supposed to be.
Speaker 6: After all, the same God that can cause it to
Speaker 6: go and sale can cause you to be blessed in
Speaker 6: such a way that you're not sitting around waiting for
Speaker 6: a discount. And I'm all for getting good deals. I'm
Speaker 6: for being frugal and not wasting. In fact, when I
Speaker 6: order a pizza over the phone, I still use the
Speaker 6: coupon out of the paper. I'm not against any of that,
Speaker 6: but some people, and I say this respectfully, they've got
Speaker 6: a cheap spirit. They won't buy anything unless they can
Speaker 6: find it on sale.
Speaker 5: I've known people that.
Speaker 6: Will drive across town and spend ten dollars on gas
Speaker 6: to save three dollars on a box of detertion. They
Speaker 6: don't realize their time is valuable. Years ago, a friend
Speaker 6: of mine went to a family reunion in another state
Speaker 6: and the next day a cousin of his was flying in.
Speaker 6: But this cousin flew to a city that was two
Speaker 6: hundred miles away so he could save sixty dollars on
Speaker 6: his airplane ticket. My friend drove five hours to get him,
Speaker 6: waited two hours at the airport, five hours to get.
Speaker 5: Back to the family reunion.
Speaker 6: When he got back, the cousin offered him one hundred
Speaker 6: dollars for coming to pick him up, and my friend,
Speaker 6: of course he wouldn't take it, but he thought to himself,
Speaker 6: I wish you would have just spent the sixty dollars
Speaker 6: on your ticket, so you would have saved us both
Speaker 6: a whole day and a lot of other headaches. What's
Speaker 6: my point this cousin? It wasn't that he couldn't afford it.
Speaker 6: He had just programmed himself to think cheaply. I don't
Speaker 6: have enough. I got to get the bargain basement flight,
Speaker 6: even if I've got to go through Tokyo first. No,
Speaker 6: you need to be set free from that cheap spirit.
Speaker 6: You are a child of the most high God. Your
Speaker 6: time is valuable. You are a person of excellence. If
Speaker 6: you don't realize who you are and get rid of
Speaker 6: that barely get by mentality, it'll keep you from coming
Speaker 6: into overflow. I remember when I was growing up, just
Speaker 6: a little boy. I was with my father and he
Speaker 6: was buying a suit, and the man selling it to
Speaker 6: him found out that he was a minister and kind
Speaker 6: of demeaning, almost like we were second class.
Speaker 5: He said, well, you know, we can give.
Speaker 6: You a minister's discount if you need it. I could
Speaker 6: tell my father did not like that. That rubbed him
Speaker 6: the wrong way. He thought to himself, I am not
Speaker 6: a beggar. I'm not looking for a handout. I'm a
Speaker 6: child of Almighty God. I don't need a minister's discount.
Speaker 6: And understand, my father loved to get good deals. He
Speaker 6: came out of the depression. He was very conservative. I'm
Speaker 6: not talking about being arrogant or being wasteful. It wasn't
Speaker 6: out of pride, but rather out of a boldness of
Speaker 6: who he was and what he represented. He put his
Speaker 6: shoulders back and said, no, sir, I don't take a
Speaker 6: minister's discount.
Speaker 5: Do you know who my father is? That salesman stepped.
Speaker 6: Back, looked at him kind of differently. He thought that
Speaker 6: he came from a well to do, in fluid family.
Speaker 5: He didn't know.
Speaker 6: He wasn't talking about his earthly father. He was talking
Speaker 6: about his heavenly father. That day, something just rose up
Speaker 6: in my dad. He was saying, in effect, this is
Speaker 6: a new day. We've stepped out of poverty, in lack.
Speaker 6: We've gotten the Christmas basket long enough. Because we were
Speaker 6: the poorest family, I went to high school with holes.
Speaker 5: In my pants.
Speaker 6: All I could ever afford going up was half a
Speaker 6: glass of milk. But Daddy was saying, this is a
Speaker 6: new day. Don't tell me the God I serve has
Speaker 6: to have a discount. He's well able to take care
Speaker 6: of me. He's Jehovah, Jirah, the Lord, my provider. If
Speaker 6: there's anything that must make God sad is for his
Speaker 6: sons and daughters to go around with a barely get by,
Speaker 6: defeated mentality.
Speaker 5: I gotta have a discount. All I can.
Speaker 6: Afford is the day old bread. All I can afford
Speaker 6: is the leftovers. Now, you need to get a bigger
Speaker 6: vision of who you are. You need to start reminding yourself.
Speaker 5: I am blessed, I am prosperous.
Speaker 6: I may not be able to afford it right now,
Speaker 6: but my time is coming. I may be on welfare today,
Speaker 6: but this is not where I'm staying. I don't need
Speaker 6: a handout, even if you have to stand against.
Speaker 5: That your whole life.
Speaker 6: You should never give into the fact that you're supposed
Speaker 6: to live in lack and always be at the mercy
Speaker 6: of other people.
Speaker 5: You need to make up your mind.
Speaker 6: You may be taking a handout now, but one day
Speaker 6: you're gonna be given the handout. One day you're gonna
Speaker 6: lend and not borrow. You're coming in to overflow. That's
Speaker 6: God's dream for each one of you, and you may
Speaker 6: not see how it can happen.
Speaker 5: But that's okay. That's not your job.
Speaker 6: Your job is to believe God can give you one
Speaker 6: idea that can totally change your life. He can cause
Speaker 6: you to bump into one person that will offer you
Speaker 6: a position that'll take you to a new level. He
Speaker 6: can give you an inheritance from a long lost relative
Speaker 6: you didn't even know you had.
Speaker 5: He's God, He's got it all figured out.
Speaker 6: The other day, he told me how he had reached
Speaker 6: his limits in his career.
Speaker 5: He didn't think he can go any higher.
Speaker 6: The man in front of him, his supervisor, had just
Speaker 6: gotten the big promotion that he was hoping to get.
Speaker 6: And this supervisor was a young man, looked like he'd
Speaker 6: be there for twenty or thirty years. This other man
Speaker 6: was so discouraged, and I told him, just stay in faith.
Speaker 6: God's still in control. You never know what could happen.
Speaker 6: About six months later, that man all of a sudden
Speaker 6: decided to move to another city, this supervisor, to be
Speaker 6: with his family. And now they offered this man the
Speaker 6: same position. He was on cloud nine.
Speaker 5: It put him into overflow.
Speaker 6: If you'll stay in faith, God will move people around
Speaker 6: to get you to where he wants you to be.
Speaker 5: I know this couple.
Speaker 6: They bought a home in another state, and a couple
Speaker 6: of months after they purchased it, they got a certified
Speaker 6: letter notifying them that a company had discovered oil underneath
Speaker 6: the whole neighborhood. They offered them an incredible amount of money,
Speaker 6: not to purchase the property, not to disrupt their living,
Speaker 6: but simply to be able to go underground and.
Speaker 5: Drill for that oil. He was so happy.
Speaker 6: I mean, you would have thought he was Jed Clampett
Speaker 6: the Beverly Hillbillies. But you think about it a couple
Speaker 6: of months later, and those owners would have never sold
Speaker 6: him the property. God had it all arranged, moving one
Speaker 6: out to move another end the right place the right time,
Speaker 6: that comple stepped into their season of harvest. You don't
Speaker 6: have to figure it all out. Just stay in faith,
Speaker 6: believing that God takes pleasure in prospering you. He wants
Speaker 6: you to come in to overflow, not just so you
Speaker 6: can be blessed. There's a purpose for our prosperity, and
Speaker 6: that is to be a blessing to others. If all
Speaker 6: you have on your mind is yourself, that's going to
Speaker 6: limit what God can do.
Speaker 5: We need to have the attitude.
Speaker 6: God give me ways that not only my family can
Speaker 6: be blessed, but help me to make a bigger difference.
Speaker 5: Help me to impact more people.
Speaker 6: God has blessed Victorian I beyond our wildest dreams, and
Speaker 6: I say this humbly.
Speaker 5: I think you know my heart.
Speaker 6: But we've always had a desire to help others. We've
Speaker 6: talked about for years being able to build hospitals in
Speaker 6: needy countries, having orphanages to support less fortunate children. Right
Speaker 6: now we're in the planning stages of helping to underwrite
Speaker 6: a home for troubled teens here in the Houston area.
Speaker 5: We're not supposed to be.
Speaker 6: We're not supposed to be a reservoir to hoard everything up.
Speaker 6: We're supposed to be a channel where God's blessings can
Speaker 6: flow through us. And if you will keep God first
Speaker 6: place and have a desire to help others, there's no
Speaker 6: limit to what God can do in your life. He
Speaker 6: can give you one good break that will put you
Speaker 6: into overflow.
Speaker 5: He can give you one dream at night that.
Speaker 6: Can revolutionize your life. Growing up, my parents knew a
Speaker 6: man by the name of Henry Kraus House was a
Speaker 6: farmer in the natural, just an average ordinary person. He
Speaker 6: didn't have a college degree, he didn't seem to be
Speaker 6: super talented, looked like he would just live a normal
Speaker 6: life and make a modest living.
Speaker 5: But God is not limited by our.
Speaker 6: Education, He's not limited by our profession. He likes to
Speaker 6: do unusual things. And one night God gave mister Kraus
Speaker 6: a dream.
Speaker 5: And in this dream he.
Speaker 6: Saw a certain kind of plow, a plow like he
Speaker 6: had never seen before. He got up the next morning
Speaker 6: and wrote it all down. Over time, he engineered it,
Speaker 6: He designed it, later had it patented. It became known
Speaker 6: as the famous Krause plow. It went on to help
Speaker 6: revolutionize the farming industry. Mister Kraus was one of my
Speaker 6: father's biggest supporters. Just one idea, just one dream. The
Speaker 6: good news is God hasn't run out of ideas. He
Speaker 6: hasn't run out of ways to put you into overflow.
Speaker 6: One scripture talks about how God can give us witty inventions.
Speaker 5: Stay open, don't settle where you are.
Speaker 6: You're not supposed to live in the land of barely enough.
Speaker 6: That's where you're always struggling, always trying to make ends meet.
Speaker 6: You're not supposed to live in the land of good enough.
Speaker 6: That's where you can pay your bills. But there's no abundance,
Speaker 6: there's no overflow. God wants you to come in to
Speaker 6: the land of more than enough. That's where you can
Speaker 6: not only pay your bills, but you have plenty left
Speaker 6: over to be a blessing to others.
Speaker 5: That's the abundant life. A lady was telling me the other.
Speaker 6: Day how she brought a friend to the service and
Speaker 6: at the end, that friend stood up to make a
Speaker 6: decision for Christ. She was so happy for And afterwards
Speaker 6: they got to talking and she found that this friend
Speaker 6: didn't have a Bible. In fact, her friend had never
Speaker 6: owned a Bible of her own. And this lady knew
Speaker 6: she was supposed to go up to the bookstore and
Speaker 6: buy her a Bible, but her funds were very tight.
Speaker 5: If she did that, she wasn't sure she.
Speaker 6: Was going to make ends meet for that month, but
Speaker 6: she went up there anyway. They picked out a nice
Speaker 6: leather Bible. In fact, it was an expensive Bible, and
Speaker 6: while she was in line waiting to pay for it,
Speaker 6: a man walked up to her out of the blue, said,
Speaker 6: I don't know you, but I just feel like I'm
Speaker 6: supposed to give you this.
Speaker 5: He handed her one hundred dollar bill. That's the way
Speaker 5: God works.
Speaker 6: If you'll be obedient, God will always meet your knee.
Speaker 6: When you walk in overflow, you can be a blessing
Speaker 6: wherever you go. You won't be looking for a miracle.
Speaker 6: You can become someone's miracle. And really, that's what life
Speaker 6: is all about. Buying someone's dinner, helping a single parent mom,
Speaker 6: supporting a less fortunate child, making a difference.
Speaker 5: Friends.
Speaker 6: It's okay to have money as long as money doesn't
Speaker 6: have you if you have a desire to help others
Speaker 6: and a desire to leave your children's children and inheritance
Speaker 6: like the scripture talks about, and you're living a life
Speaker 6: of excellence and integrity with a big vision, and you're
Speaker 6: in prime position to come into overflow. It may not
Speaker 6: have happened yet, but don't settle where you are.
Speaker 5: It's never too late.
Speaker 6: Have the attitude this is where I am, but this
Speaker 6: is not where I'm staying. My God is a running
Speaker 6: over god. I know he takes pleasure in prospering me.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna keep giving, serving, believing knowing that I'm
Speaker 6: headed for overflow. I'm coming into that land of more
Speaker 6: than an hour. And I say this respectfully, but sometimes
Speaker 6: a religious attitude tries to make us think we're supposed
Speaker 6: to be poor and broke and depressed, so we can
Speaker 6: prove to people that we're humble.
Speaker 5: But when we're poor and broke and.
Speaker 6: Depressed, all that proves is that we're poor and broke
Speaker 6: and depressed.
Speaker 5: That doesn't prove anything. Nobody's gonna want what we have.
Speaker 6: We're supposed to be examples.
Speaker 5: Of what it means to live for our God. We
Speaker 5: represent Christ here on this earth.
Speaker 6: I called my children up today, and their clothes were
Speaker 6: torn and wrinkled, and they had holes in their shoes.
Speaker 6: Their hair was all messed up. You would look at
Speaker 6: me and think, man alive, What kind of father is he?
Speaker 6: It would be a poor representation on me. It's the
Speaker 6: same way with our God. When we drag around with
Speaker 6: a defeated, barely get by mentality, having that false sense
Speaker 6: of humility, that's not bringing any honor to God. You
Speaker 6: want to honor God, have an abundant life mentality. You
Speaker 6: want to put a smile on God's face. Don't settle
Speaker 6: until you come into the land of more than enough.
Speaker 6: One time, Victoria and I found these two acres that
Speaker 6: we really wanted to buy. It was close into the
Speaker 6: city and a very valuable piece of property.
Speaker 5: And God's blessed us through our.
Speaker 6: Books and other things, and we not only give, but
Speaker 6: we try to invest our funds.
Speaker 5: We're not supposed to give everything away.
Speaker 6: We're blessed so we can accomplish our dreams, so we
Speaker 6: can leave an inheritance to our children, and so we
Speaker 6: can be a blessing to others. And I was debating
Speaker 6: whether or not we should invest in this real estate,
Speaker 6: and I thought to myself, we don't really need two
Speaker 6: acres to live on.
Speaker 5: We're happy where we are.
Speaker 6: And I was kind of feeling guilty, like I'm supposed
Speaker 6: to be poor to show people that I'm humble, but
Speaker 6: that's far from the truth. And one day I was
Speaker 6: on an airplane thirty five thousand feet in the air.
Speaker 6: I was looking out the windows, a clear, beautiful day,
Speaker 6: and I just kind of thinking about that property, and
Speaker 6: I felt God say something to me. I don't mean
Speaker 6: out loud, but write down in here more of an impression.
Speaker 6: He said, Joel, you're wondering if you should buy that
Speaker 6: property or not. Well, what do you think those two
Speaker 6: acres look like?
Speaker 5: To me?
Speaker 6: What do you think they look like from my perspective
Speaker 6: way up where I am well, just where I was,
Speaker 6: thirty five thousand feet two acres looked like a little dot.
Speaker 6: I mean, just like you took a pen and dotted
Speaker 6: a piece of paper. It was nothing, and I felt
Speaker 6: God say, Joel, I give you permission. It's okay to
Speaker 6: have enough land the size of a penhad to me. See,
Speaker 6: we think so small, we think limited. God owns it all.
Speaker 6: The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof He
Speaker 6: made it for his children. You need to expand your horizon.
Speaker 6: Don't get stuck in a rut thinking that you've reached
Speaker 6: your limits. God has so many great things in your future.
Speaker 6: If he showed you right now, your jaw would drop.
Speaker 6: You would be amazed. But sometimes we think, is it
Speaker 6: wrong for me to want to have a nice house?
Speaker 6: Is it selfish for me to want to leave my
Speaker 6: children and inheritance? Is it okay for me to believe
Speaker 6: for the funds that my God given dreams would come
Speaker 6: to pass. God's saying to you what he said to me,
Speaker 6: It's okay. He takes pleasure in prospering you.
Speaker 5: He wants to give you the.
Speaker 6: Desires of your heart, as long as you will keep
Speaker 6: God first place and not let those things become idols.
Speaker 5: God will do the extraordinary. He's a running over god.
Speaker 6: I remember, back in early two thousand and four, I
Speaker 6: had a desire to take our services on the road
Speaker 6: and events in other cities, and I was discussing it
Speaker 6: with our team members and one of them asked what
Speaker 6: size auditorium was I thinking about? And I had no
Speaker 6: idea if a thousand people would come or ten thousand.
Speaker 6: We'd been on television a few years, but I'd never
Speaker 6: been on the road.
Speaker 5: I had nothing to judge it by.
Speaker 6: And my mind was telling me you better get a
Speaker 6: little amphitheater that holds about five hundred people, because nobody's
Speaker 6: gonna show up, and you're gonna be embarrassed and it's.
Speaker 5: Gonna look bad. And I had to fight that for
Speaker 5: several days.
Speaker 6: I finally decided I wasn't gonna act in fear. I
Speaker 6: wasn't gonna act in doubt and unbelieve.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 6: God is a running over God, and so I told
Speaker 6: our team members, we need to just go ahead and
Speaker 6: rent the basketball arenas in those cities, and it usually
Speaker 6: holds fifteen or twenty thousand people. I figured if nobody
Speaker 6: showed up, we'd turn all the lights off and just
Speaker 6: do it right down in front.
Speaker 5: Make it look the best we could. Well.
Speaker 6: That day came for our very first event summer of
Speaker 6: two thousand and four in Atlanta, Georgia, a Friday night.
Speaker 5: That day, I was so us hoping somebody would show up.
Speaker 6: About two in the afternoon, I got a call from
Speaker 6: one of our team members saying the line to get
Speaker 6: in was already wrapped around the building. When they opened
Speaker 6: the doors at six o'clock, the building immediately filled up
Speaker 6: some twenty thousand people.
Speaker 5: We had to turn thousands and thousands away. Friends. God
Speaker 5: is a running over God. He wants to do more
Speaker 5: than you can even ask or think. But here's the key.
Speaker 6: I had to make room for it in my thinking.
Speaker 6: I had to rent the building first, and then.
Speaker 5: God filled it up.
Speaker 6: Some of you, if you could just make room in
Speaker 6: your own thinking, God would do extraordinary things. If you
Speaker 6: don't have a savings account, you need to open one up.
Speaker 5: Well, he you said, Joel, I wouldn't have anything to
Speaker 5: put in it. Do it as an act of faith.
Speaker 5: If you open it, God will fill it.
Speaker 6: God doesn't want any of us to stay in barely
Speaker 6: enough or in good enough. God wants us to come
Speaker 6: into a land of more than enough. Put your shoulders back.
Speaker 6: Don't have a cheap mentality afford it. No, your father
Speaker 6: owns it all. He takes pleasure in prospering you. You
Speaker 6: may not have seen it happen in the past, but
Speaker 6: it can still happen. Let me speak it by faith
Speaker 6: over you. You're gonna see God's favor in a greater way.
Speaker 5: You're gonna come.
Speaker 6: Across supernatural opportunities.
Speaker 5: You're gonna be at.
Speaker 6: The right place at the right time, and get the
Speaker 6: right breaks.
Speaker 5: You may not know how, but you are gonna lend
Speaker 5: and not borrow.
Speaker 6: You're gonna leave an inheritance to your children's children because
Speaker 6: you walk in obedience. God's blessings are gonna chase you
Speaker 6: down and overtake you.
Speaker 5: Get ready for promotion, increases, bonuses, raises.
Speaker 6: It's headed your way. Amen, Do you receive that today?
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Speaker 6: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, come
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Speaker 6: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that
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