Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer. Know that we're praying
Speaker 1: for you, and we know God has awesome things in store.
Speaker 1: So great having you with us. Enjoyed the message today. Well,
Speaker 1: God bless you. It's always a joy to come into
Speaker 1: your homes. And if you're ever in our area, please
Speaker 1: stop by and be a part of one of our services.
Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again
Speaker 1: for coming out today. I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 1: and I heard about this elderly minister. He was dying.
Speaker 1: He sent for two of his members, an our s
Speaker 1: agent and a lawyer to come to his house. When
Speaker 1: they arrived, he motioned for both of them to sit
Speaker 1: on each side of the bed. They were very moved
Speaker 1: to be with the minister in his final moments. At
Speaker 1: one point, the lawyer said, very sincerely, sir, why did
Speaker 1: you choose both of us? The minister mustered up some
Speaker 1: strength and said, Jesus died between two sinners. That's how
Speaker 1: I want to go up. Your Bible, say it like
Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what
Speaker 1: it says, I am, I have what it says I have.
Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today,
Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I'll boldly
Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I
Speaker 1: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about strategically ordered steps.
Speaker 1: God is not a random God. He's not vague approximant.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do this, maybe I'll do that. God is precise, exact.
Speaker 1: He's already laid out the plan for your life down
Speaker 1: to the smallest details. And just as God will strategically
Speaker 1: bring good breaks, promotion the right people, God will also
Speaker 1: use adversities, disappointments, closed doors to move us toward our destiny.
Speaker 1: At the time, we may not understand it. This couldn't
Speaker 1: be God. I lost my biggest client, I'm in a
Speaker 1: legal battle, my friend turned on me. No, God wouldn't
Speaker 1: have allowed it unless he had a purpose for it.
Speaker 1: God doesn't just randomly say, let me give them some heartache,
Speaker 1: a bad break, let this person reject them. No. God
Speaker 1: is strategic. He may not have sent it, but if
Speaker 1: he allowed it, he can use it to your advantage.
Speaker 1: God sees the big picture for our life. He knows
Speaker 1: what we're going to need in a month, in a year,
Speaker 1: and in twenty years. In the scripture, Samson wanted to
Speaker 1: marry a young lady from another tribe. His parents didn't
Speaker 1: want him to do it. God had instructed them to
Speaker 1: not get involved with foreigners, to stay with their own clan.
Speaker 1: But the scripture says his parents didn't realize the Lord
Speaker 1: was at work in this, creating an opportunity to disrupt
Speaker 1: the Philistines, who ruled Israel at that time. This is
Speaker 1: a situation doesn't necessarily fit into our theology. God told
Speaker 1: them not to marry foreigners, Yet God was the one
Speaker 1: that led Sampson to do it. God knew years down
Speaker 1: the road he needed an insider in the Philistines camp
Speaker 1: to carry out his plan. Here's my point, We're not
Speaker 1: always going to understand why something happens. True faith is
Speaker 1: trusting God when it doesn't make sense, believing that he's strategic,
Speaker 1: that he knows what he's doing. It may be uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: we don't understand it, but deep down we have to
Speaker 1: know that if God allowed it, that somehow it's going
Speaker 1: to further us ultimately toward our divine destiny. Proverbs twenty
Speaker 1: puts it this way. Since the Lord is directing our steps,
Speaker 1: don't try to figure out everything that happens along the way.
Speaker 1: Why did my business go down? Why did my child
Speaker 1: i'll get into trouble? Why did my relationship not work out?
Speaker 1: You may never know why, but you can come back
Speaker 1: to this core truth that God knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: His plan for your life is good, and even in opposition,
Speaker 1: like with Samson, God is creating opportunity somewhere down the road.
Speaker 1: It's not going to work against you. It's going to
Speaker 1: work for you. And if you don't understand this principle,
Speaker 1: you'll live frustrated because there are times in God's divine
Speaker 1: plan where it will look like you're going the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: Your back is facing your goal. You know you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be going this way, but you're headed just the opposite.
Speaker 1: This is what faith is all about. Will you trust
Speaker 1: him when it seems like you're going the wrong way.
Speaker 1: Will you keep a good attitude when you're praying for
Speaker 1: increase but seeing decrease? Will you stay in faith when
Speaker 1: you were the most qualified but you got passed over? Friends,
Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. He would have never allowed
Speaker 1: that if it was going to keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 1: He's too strategic to just randomly put that into the
Speaker 1: plan for your life. It may not seem good, but
Speaker 1: if you'll keep moving forward, one day you will see
Speaker 1: what God was up to. I've seen in my own life.
Speaker 1: God doesn't always take us the most logical way. We
Speaker 1: think we'll go from A to B to C. That
Speaker 1: makes sense, that's logical. But God's ways are not our ways.
Speaker 1: He may take it from A to B all the
Speaker 1: way up to R and then back to C, then
Speaker 1: to M, then to F. If you could see the
Speaker 1: plan God has for your life on a map, it
Speaker 1: would not be in a straight line. Imagine a bunch
Speaker 1: of stepping stones. They would start off straight towards your goal.
Speaker 1: Then there's a turn and another turn. Now you're headed
Speaker 1: back to where you started. Direction doesn't make sense. Then
Speaker 1: there's a U turn, goes back up a little higher
Speaker 1: than it dips down, on and on. At some point,
Speaker 1: you could be on a stepping stone God ordained for you.
Speaker 1: He strategically placed it before the foundation of time. But
Speaker 1: the stone you're on is facing the opposite direction of
Speaker 1: your goal. It's easy to think, Joel, this is not
Speaker 1: God's plan. I'm going the wrong way. Why do these
Speaker 1: things keep happening to me? Stay in faith. God's plan
Speaker 1: is not straight. There are curves, detours, u turns, shortcuts.
Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. He's strategically directing your steps.
Speaker 1: It may be uncomfortable, but God's the one that put
Speaker 1: the stepping stone there. It's all a part of his plan.
Speaker 1: And we all want to go to a higher level.
Speaker 1: We all want to see more of God's favor. But
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to come off the mountain that you're
Speaker 1: on and go down into the valley, not to stay,
Speaker 1: not to live, but so you can go up to
Speaker 1: a higher mountain. God has something better, something bigger. You
Speaker 1: haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in store.
Speaker 1: But too often we think God, I'm going backwards. You
Speaker 1: said higher, and I'm going lower. You said rain, I'm
Speaker 1: seeing drought. Now, don't get discouraged. God is simply bringing
Speaker 1: you down that one mountain so you can go up
Speaker 1: to a higher mountain. He is strategically positioning you to
Speaker 1: see more of His goodness. And if you will stay
Speaker 1: in faith, one day you will look back and say
Speaker 1: it was good that I got pushed out of that job,
Speaker 1: or I would have been stuck in a limited environment.
Speaker 1: It was good that person left me, or I would
Speaker 1: have never met the love of my life. It was
Speaker 1: good I went through the difficulty. Not only made me stronger,
Speaker 1: not only developed a greater confidence in God. But in
Speaker 1: the opposition, God was creating opportunity. He was putting me
Speaker 1: in position for something bigger, something better, something greater. We
Speaker 1: see this principle in the life of Joseph. God knew
Speaker 1: there was going to be a famine in the land.
Speaker 1: The Israelites couldn't survive without food from the Egyptians. So
Speaker 1: years earlier, God put a dream in the heart of
Speaker 1: a young man named Joseph that he would rule a nation.
Speaker 1: As a teenager, he had the promise from God. His
Speaker 1: goal was in front of him. He started out great.
Speaker 1: He was his father's favorite child, wearing his coat of
Speaker 1: many colors, headed toward his destiny. But his brothers were
Speaker 1: very jealous of him. They threw him into a pit
Speaker 1: and eventually sold him into slavery. I'm sure Joseph thought, God,
Speaker 1: where are you? You said I would lead a nation,
Speaker 1: but now I'm a slave. This doesn't make sense. The
Speaker 1: truth is he was in God's perfect will. He was
Speaker 1: just on one of those stones facing the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: Here's the key. Those stones are temporary. That's not where
Speaker 1: you're permanently headed. Don't stay focused on where you are.
Speaker 1: If you isolate one stone, one bad break, one disappointment,
Speaker 1: one dry season, you'll get bitter sour. That stone is
Speaker 1: simply one step in the plan God has for your life.
Speaker 1: It is not the final peace. God says his plans
Speaker 1: for you are for good and not evil. The end
Speaker 1: of your path is victory, dreams fulfilled. Promise is coming
Speaker 1: to pass. Now. Don't judge your future by one negative
Speaker 1: stepping stone. Joseph kept being his best, kept honoring God
Speaker 1: even though things weren't going his way. He ended up
Speaker 1: second in command of all of Egypt. The dream came
Speaker 1: to pass. Here's how strategic God is. There was a
Speaker 1: great famine in the land. Jacob, Joseph's father, thought that
Speaker 1: Joseph was dead, hadn't seen him in many years. Jacob
Speaker 1: told his other sons to go to Egypt and see
Speaker 1: if there's any way they could possibly buy food. They
Speaker 1: were about to starve to death. God used the famine
Speaker 1: to send them to Egypt. They would have never gone
Speaker 1: that way without the adversity. In the same way, God
Speaker 1: will use dry seasons, disappointments, closed doors to reposition us,
Speaker 1: to get us to where He wants us to be.
Speaker 1: God knows what's best for us. The brothers showed up
Speaker 1: at the palace, and there was Joseph in charge of
Speaker 1: the food supply running the whole nation. Some twenty years earlier,
Speaker 1: God strategically orchestrated Joseph to be inside a foreign country,
Speaker 1: not only so his dream could come to pass, but
Speaker 1: so that God's people could flourish in a time I'm
Speaker 1: a famine. That's how precise God is. He's looking years
Speaker 1: down the road. We can see a little way, but
Speaker 1: God knows what you're gonna need thirty years from now.
Speaker 1: The good news is God is lining up people today
Speaker 1: that years later will be instrumental in you fulfilling your destiny.
Speaker 1: Nothing randomly happens. If Joseph's brothers hadn't rejected him, he
Speaker 1: would have never made it to the throne. Now, quit
Speaker 1: losing sleep over people that don't accept you, people that
Speaker 1: try to make you look small, disrespect you, dismiss you.
Speaker 1: Listen if they weren't in your life, you couldn't make
Speaker 1: it to your throne. God ordain them not to hold
Speaker 1: you back, but to move you forward. They may think
Speaker 1: they're pushing you down. Really they're pushing you up. You
Speaker 1: may be on one of those stepping stones facing the
Speaker 1: wrong direction. It may set you back for a season,
Speaker 1: but don't worry. A u turn is coming. At some
Speaker 1: point You're going to step past the stone of being
Speaker 1: rejected in light about You'll pass step past the stone
Speaker 1: of a bad break, a disappointment, a closed door, and
Speaker 1: like Joseph, you will step into promotion, into abundance, into
Speaker 1: new levels, into the fullness of your destiny. Now my challenge,
Speaker 1: don't get stuck on one of those negative stepping stones.
Speaker 1: People say, well, Joel, if God's so good, why did
Speaker 1: I have the bad break in the first place? Why
Speaker 1: did my child get off course? Why am I still
Speaker 1: struggling at work? This, that adversity, that difficulty, is simply
Speaker 1: a test. God strategically placed you there. He would have
Speaker 1: never allowed it if you couldn't handle it. It may
Speaker 1: be a big challenge, but it is no match for you.
Speaker 1: You are a child of the most high God. You
Speaker 1: have been armed with strength for every battle. You have
Speaker 1: the most powerful force in the universe breathing in your direction. Now,
Speaker 1: don't complain about the difficulty. Dig your heels in. Have
Speaker 1: the attitude. I am in it to win it. I
Speaker 1: am not going to let what somebody said about me.
Speaker 1: This rejection, this breakup, this closed door, this disappointment, this
Speaker 1: sickness caused me to get sour. I know it's a
Speaker 1: part of God's plan. He strategically placed me here. When
Speaker 1: it's all said and done, it's not going to work
Speaker 1: against me. It's going to work for me. You have
Speaker 1: that kind of attitude, you better get ready like Joseph.
Speaker 1: You're not going to stay in the pit in defeat,
Speaker 1: in depression, in lack. You're headed to the throne. You're
Speaker 1: headed to victory. You're headed to the fullness of your destiny. Listen,
Speaker 1: people can't stop it. Bad breaks can't stop it. Disappointments
Speaker 1: can't stop it. All the forces of darkness cannot stop
Speaker 1: what God has strategically ordained for your life. Think about
Speaker 1: some of the stepping stones in Joseph's life. He had
Speaker 1: the promise, the dream that he would rule a nation.
Speaker 1: A stone in the right direction, then he was thrown
Speaker 1: into a pit. A stone the opposite way, still part
Speaker 1: of God's plan. Potterphar's wife lied about him, They put
Speaker 1: him in prison. Two stones go in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: In prison, a friend, another inmate. When he got out
Speaker 1: forgot all about Joseph. Another stone the wrong way. Joseph
Speaker 1: could have thought, this is a pattern, this is my destiny.
Speaker 1: These stones are going the wrong way. Thirteen years, disappointments, betrayals, injustice.
Speaker 1: Surely he missed God's plan. Now God is directing our steps,
Speaker 1: not just when things are going our way, not just
Speaker 1: when the door's open. We're promoted, people are good to us,
Speaker 1: but even when the doors close, people are good to us.
Speaker 1: The report wasn't good. Those stones going in the wrong
Speaker 1: direction are still the hand of God. My question is
Speaker 1: will you trust them even when you don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Will you keep a good attitude, knowing that it's going
Speaker 1: to turn to your advantage, Just like with Joseph, you
Speaker 1: will come into your u turn. The same God that
Speaker 1: orchestrated him being betrayed, light about thrown into a pit,
Speaker 1: orchestrated him being promoted, vindicated, taking the throne, fulfilling his dream.
Speaker 1: Listen don't be discouraged by what you're going through. Your
Speaker 1: time is coming. Where you are is not where you're staying.
Speaker 1: You may be in the valley, God allowed you to
Speaker 1: go there, not to stay, but so you could come
Speaker 1: up to a higher mountain. God has new levels in
Speaker 1: store for you. In Genesis chapter fifteen, God told the
Speaker 1: Israelites that he was taking them into a foreign land.
Speaker 1: They would be mistreated and suffer hardships. He was saying,
Speaker 1: there will be negative stepping stones going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: You'll be tempted to think it'll never work out. But
Speaker 1: God gave them the promise. You'll go through difficulties, but
Speaker 1: afterwards you will come out with great abundance. Friends, there
Speaker 1: will always be and afterwards. Every person goes through unfair situations,
Speaker 1: uncomfortable times. We don't like it, but it's a part
Speaker 1: of God's plan. If you'll keep passing the test, doing
Speaker 1: the right thing when the wrong thing is happening, afterwards
Speaker 1: you will come out promoted, increased, stronger, healthier, happier, blessed
Speaker 1: with great abundance. Now, don't get discouraged by the problem.
Speaker 1: It's all a part of the process that God uses
Speaker 1: to bring about the promise. God is not just going
Speaker 1: to bring you out, He's going to bring you out better.
Speaker 1: He's directing your steps. He's still in control of your life.
Speaker 1: Nothing that's happened to you is a surprise to God.
Speaker 1: He allowed that difficulty not to defeat you, but to
Speaker 1: promote you. God is saying to us what he said
Speaker 1: to the Israelites. If you will keep moving forward after
Speaker 1: the hardship, after the breakup, after the disappointment, there will
Speaker 1: be great joy, great opportunities, great health, great relationships, great
Speaker 1: abundance come in your way. A few years after Victoria
Speaker 1: and I were married, we received an unexpected tax bill
Speaker 1: in the mail. Person we hired to do our tax
Speaker 1: returns lived in another state. He was unfamiliar with a
Speaker 1: certain tax law in Texas. Now we owed thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1: We were a young couple saving up for a down
Speaker 1: pay for a home, and this was going to take
Speaker 1: all of our funds. To make matters worse, more than
Speaker 1: half of what we owed was because of penalties. I thought, God,
Speaker 1: this is not fair. I hired a professional. He made
Speaker 1: a mess. Now I'm having to pay for his mistakes.
Speaker 1: And this all happened around Christmas of that year, and
Speaker 1: we did our best to have a joyful spirit, but
Speaker 1: in the back of our minds we could always feel
Speaker 1: the weight of this problem. We ended up finding a
Speaker 1: man to help us get it straightened out. He was
Speaker 1: a tax attorney. For a couple of weeks, he was
Speaker 1: at our house every night going over documents, filling out
Speaker 1: new forms. We would eat together, run errands together. We
Speaker 1: ended up becoming good friends. Ten years later, I was
Speaker 1: working here at the church at Lakewood in the television ministry.
Speaker 1: My parents were the pastor. After one service, a man
Speaker 1: came up said, Joel, my cousin has a construction permit
Speaker 1: for the last full power commercial television station in Houston.
Speaker 1: He would like you to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: A TV station in a major market like Houston is
Speaker 1: extremely valuable. I was young. I didn't know anything about
Speaker 1: negotiating a contract for a television station. Then I thought,
Speaker 1: I'll call my attorney friend, the one I met during
Speaker 1: the tax issue. Three months later we had a contract,
Speaker 1: We put the station on the air. My father went
Speaker 1: to be with the lord. I became the pastor. Four
Speaker 1: years later, we acquired this place, the former Compact Center
Speaker 1: was going to cost about one hundred million dollars to renovate.
Speaker 1: We decided to sell the station. We sold it for
Speaker 1: a huge profit. Those funds were instrumental in us being
Speaker 1: able to renovate this facility. But it all started with
Speaker 1: that tax issue. What I thought was a setback was
Speaker 1: really a set up for God to do something greater.
Speaker 1: For a season, I was going the opposite direction. But
Speaker 1: if I had not had that problem, I would have
Speaker 1: never met the tax attorney. Without my attorney friend, I
Speaker 1: would have never pursued the television station. Without the station,
Speaker 1: we may not have had the funds to move into
Speaker 1: this facility. That difficulty was strategically orchestrated by God. At
Speaker 1: the time, I didn't understand it, thought, God, this is
Speaker 1: ruining our Christmas. This is not right. I could hear
Speaker 1: God whispering, Joel trusts me. I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: It may be uncomfortable, you may not like it, but
Speaker 1: it's ultimately going to work to your advantage. The longer
Speaker 1: I live, the more I realize everything is working for
Speaker 1: our good. We don't like the disappointments. We don't like
Speaker 1: when a friend betrays us. We don't like a closed door.
Speaker 1: But if it didn't happen, you wouldn't make it into
Speaker 1: the fullness of your destiny. I know a gentleman. He's
Speaker 1: in his it's late seventies, and he was in his
Speaker 1: bedroom on a ladder taking a heavy mirror off the wall.
Speaker 1: He got the mirror off, but when he did, he
Speaker 1: lost his balance and began to fall backwards. He threw
Speaker 1: the mirror over. When he fell, he hit the dresser
Speaker 1: and he broke a bunch of his ribs. They took
Speaker 1: him to the hospital. The doctor just so happened to
Speaker 1: notice the main artery in his neck was ninety eight
Speaker 1: percent blocked. Any moment he could have a major stroke,
Speaker 1: probably not survived. The cardiologist told him, you're a walking
Speaker 1: time bomb. We've got to do a procedure right now.
Speaker 1: They did the procedure and everything went well. My point
Speaker 1: is if he had not had the fall, without that difficulty,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have known that he was in great danger. See,
Speaker 1: every setback is not the enemy. We don't like the disappointments,
Speaker 1: the uncomfortable times. But when you realize God is strategically
Speaker 1: directing your steps. Nothing can happen without God's permission, then
Speaker 1: you will not be frustrating. Friends, the enemy is not
Speaker 1: in control of your life. God is in control of
Speaker 1: your life. And yes there are forces of darkness that
Speaker 1: come against us. But like with Job, Satan had to
Speaker 1: ask permission to even test Job. If that disappointment, that
Speaker 1: bad break was going to serve no purpose, God would
Speaker 1: have never allowed it. Quit fighting everything that doesn't go
Speaker 1: your way. God has you in the palm of his hand.
Speaker 1: Nothing can snatch you away. You may not like what
Speaker 1: you've gone through, but every difficulty has deposited something on
Speaker 1: the inside. You wouldn't be who you are today or
Speaker 1: where you are today without the difficult times. In that opposition,
Speaker 1: God was creating opportunity. He was developing you, repositioning you,
Speaker 1: getting you prepared for greater abundance. A while back, Victoria
Speaker 1: lost a ring that her mother had given her. It
Speaker 1: was a diamond band that had been in the family
Speaker 1: for several generations, and sometimes when we would travel, Victoria
Speaker 1: would hide the ring different places in the house. So
Speaker 1: for months and months we searched everywhere. We looked in
Speaker 1: every drawer, every cabinet, every pocket. I took out every
Speaker 1: seat cushion, looked in the seat, in the couch, under
Speaker 1: the couch, under the bed. That ring was nowhere to
Speaker 1: be found. At one point, Victoria's mom noticed that she
Speaker 1: hadn't been wearing the ring and asked about it. Victoria said, oh, Mom,
Speaker 1: I've got it put away in a real safe place. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: so safe. We can't even find it. About three years later,
Speaker 1: we were driving home late one night from Victoria, Texas.
Speaker 1: Was after midnight. I was very tired, ready to get home.
Speaker 1: Victor saying, Joy, you better slow down. You're going to
Speaker 1: get a ticket. I said, I am not going to
Speaker 1: get a ticket. I was just barely going over seventy
Speaker 1: The speed limit was sixty five. I was out in
Speaker 1: the middle of the country, the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a car on the road. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: look in my rear view mirror and here's these red
Speaker 1: light flashes. I looked at Victoria and said, you made
Speaker 1: me get this ticket. She called it into existence. The
Speaker 1: officer came up and I handed him my driver's license.
Speaker 1: He said, I need to see your proof of insurance.
Speaker 1: Victoria opened the glove compartment and started looking. We could
Speaker 1: find every document except our current insurance. She finally pulled
Speaker 1: everything out of the glove compartment started digging around back
Speaker 1: in there, and you got the officer standing right there,
Speaker 1: very nerve wracking. The middle of the night. You couldn't
Speaker 1: see anything. She was maneuvering her hand back and forth,
Speaker 1: and one point she felt something sharp way down in
Speaker 1: a crack. What is this? She struggled and struggled, finally
Speaker 1: got it out. It was the ring she had been
Speaker 1: looking for for three and a half years.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I still don't understand why God used my pain to
Speaker 1: find her ring. That doesn't make sense. Victoria was so
Speaker 1: excited she forgot all about the insurance card. She was
Speaker 1: over there rejoicinging, here I was about to go to jail.
Speaker 1: She ended up finding the current insurance card that we
Speaker 1: needed on the very top of the stack. It was
Speaker 1: one of the first things she looked at. It was
Speaker 1: almost like God caused her to overlook it. I handed
Speaker 1: it to the officer. He said, are you that minister?
Speaker 1: I said I am. He said, if I come to Houston,
Speaker 1: will you save me a seat in your church? I said,
Speaker 1: I'll save you a whole section. He handed it back,
Speaker 1: said good night, be careful, you can go. Sometimes what
Speaker 1: we think is a set back is really a set
Speaker 1: up for God. To do something great. God knew we
Speaker 1: would never dig way back in that glove box unless
Speaker 1: there was a police officer standing there in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night. God works in mysterious ways. Everything about
Speaker 1: your life has been strategically ordained. You may not understand it,
Speaker 1: it may not make sense. That's what faith is all about.
Speaker 1: Some of you are living frustrated, upset because of what
Speaker 1: somebody said, what didn't work out. Come back to that
Speaker 1: place of peace. It's not going to work against you.
Speaker 1: It's going to work for you. Like God promised the Israelites.
Speaker 1: I believe and declare you're coming into an afterwards, after
Speaker 1: the storm, after the difficulty, there will be great joy,
Speaker 1: great health, great relationships, great opportunities, great abundance. Come in
Speaker 1: your way in Jesus' name. If you receive it, Can
Speaker 1: you say it in today? We never like to close
Speaker 1: our broads without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus
Speaker 1: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?
Speaker 1: Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come
Speaker 1: into my heart. I'll make you my lord and savior. Friends,
Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep
Speaker 1: God first place. He'll take your places that you've never
Speaker 1: dreamed of.
Speaker 2: Our negative thinking can short circuit God's power and blessing
Speaker 2: in our lives. When you say, I always seem to worry,
Speaker 2: I can't forgive what was done to me. I pray,
Speaker 2: but it feels like God doesn't hear. I won't have
Speaker 2: enough to provide for me and my family. How do
Speaker 2: you overcome this type of negative thinking that limits you
Speaker 2: from God's best.
Speaker 1: Our thinking sets the limits for our life. Every morning.
Speaker 1: You have to power up your mind, get it going
Speaker 1: in the right direction, but dwelling on what God says
Speaker 1: about you. When you think we ought to faith, hope
Speaker 1: and victory, you'll tap into blessing and favor that belongs
Speaker 1: to you. Now, I'd love to send you my newest book.
Speaker 1: It's called Power Up. I'll show you how to delete
Speaker 1: negative thoughts and focus on the promises rather than the problems.
Speaker 2: You can discover God's unprecedented power in your life. As
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