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Thanks for listening to 37 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 38 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 40 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 41 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 5: your life. 42 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 3: God bless you. 43 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 5: It's always a joy to come into your homes and 44 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 5: if you're ever in our area, please stop by and 45 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 5: be a part of one of our services. I promise 46 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 5: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks 47 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 5: so much for tuning in, and thank you again for 48 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 5: coming out today. And I like to start with something funny. 49 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 5: I heard about this airplane that was about to crash. 50 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 5: There were four passengers, but only three parachutes. The first 51 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 5: passenger said, I'm a leading heart surgeon. My patients need me. 52 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 5: Took the first parachute and jumped. The second passenger said, 53 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 5: I'm a rocket scientist, one of the smartest men alive. 54 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 5: My country needs me. He took the second parachute and jumped. 55 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 5: The third passenger, Pope John Paul said to the fourth passenger, 56 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 5: a ten year old boy scout, son, I'm old and 57 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 5: freil I don't have much time left. 58 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 3: You take the last parachute. 59 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 5: The boy scout said, don't worry about it, sir, there 60 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 5: are still two parachutes left. You see the smartest man alive. 61 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 5: He just jumped out with my backpack. Hold up your Bible. 62 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 5: Say it like I mean it. This is my Bible. 63 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what 64 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says 65 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 66 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my 67 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 5: heart is receptive. 68 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 69 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 3: bless you. 70 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about being a 71 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 5: magnet for blessings. When you honor God with your life, 72 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 5: when you keep him first place, God puts something on 73 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 5: you called a commanded blessing. The commanded blessing is like 74 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 5: a magnet. It attracts good, breaks, the right people, contracts, ideas, resources, influence. 75 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 5: You don't have to go after these things trying to 76 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 5: make it happen in your own strength, just your own talent. 77 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 3: Hoping that life works out. 78 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 5: All you've got to do is keep honoring God and 79 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 5: the right people will find you. The right opera tunities 80 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 5: will come across your path. The favor, the wisdom, the 81 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 5: vindication will track you down. Why you become a magnet 82 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 5: for God's goodness? You may have seen on the news 83 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 5: these heat seeking missiles. The military programs a target into 84 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 5: the computer and fires the missile off. It can travel 85 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 5: thousands of miles. The intended target can be flying in 86 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 5: the air, zigzaging here, and they're trying to lose it. 87 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: Doesn't have a chance. 88 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 5: That heat seeking missile fallows it everywhere it goes and 89 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 5: eventually overtakes it and accomplishes its purpose. In the same way, 90 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 5: when you keep God first place, just like that heat 91 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 5: seeking missile finding a target, God will send blessings that 92 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 5: chase you down, favor that overtakes you out of nowhere, 93 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 5: a good break, Suddenly your health improves, Suddenly you're able 94 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 5: to pay your house off. Unexpectedly, a dream comes to pass. 95 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 5: That's not a lucky break, that's not a coincidence. That's 96 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 5: the commanded blessing on your life. Like a magnet, You're 97 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 5: attracting the goodness of God. That's what it says in 98 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 5: Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight. When you walk in God's ways, 99 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 5: you make pleasing him your highest priority. All these blessings 100 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 5: will chase you down and overtake you. One translation says 101 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 5: you will become a magnet for blessings. That means because 102 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 5: you're honoring God right now, something is attracted to you. 103 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 5: Not fear sickness, depression, bad breaks, nor like a heat 104 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 5: seeking missile, Favor is tracking you down. Promotion is headed 105 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 5: your way. Divine connections are searching you out. You're attracting 106 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 5: the goodness of God. Now you may be facing an 107 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 5: illness and instead of thinking, well, I'm never gonna get well. 108 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 5: You should see the medical report. No, your attitude should be. 109 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,119 Speaker 5: Healing is looking for me. Restoration is tracking me down. 110 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 5: You're struggling in your finances. I'll never get out of debt. 111 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 5: I'll never accomplish my dreams. No abundance is looking for me. 112 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 5: Favor is in my future. Good breaks are tracking me down. 113 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 5: You're single, I'll never get married. I'm too old, it's 114 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 5: been too long. No, the right person is looking for me. 115 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 5: Divine connections are tracking me down. They're already in my future. 116 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 3: Like a magnet. I'm drawing them in. 117 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 5: When I look back over my life, most of the favor, 118 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 5: most of the good breaks, I didn't go after them. 119 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 3: They came to me. 120 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 5: I was simply honoring God being my best, and God 121 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 5: did more than I could ask or think. I never 122 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 5: thought I could get up in front of people in minister. 123 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 5: I spent seventeen years behind the scenes here at Lakewood 124 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 5: doing the television production. Now, I'm not bragging, but during 125 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 5: those seventeen years, I was faithful. 126 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 3: I gave it my all. 127 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 5: I made my father look the best I possibly could, 128 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 5: go the extra mile to make sure the lighting was 129 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 5: perfect camera anglers were just right. I would even go 130 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 5: over to my parents' house every Saturday night and pick 131 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 5: out a suit and a tie for my father to 132 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 5: wear the next day on television. My mother would say, Joel, 133 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 5: Dad is a grown man. You don't need to come 134 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 5: over every week. He can pick out his own clothes. 135 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 5: Problem is, I had seen what my father picked out 136 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 5: before him. Let's just say he liked a lot of color, 137 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 5: and I wanted that broadcast to be perfect. I wasn't 138 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 5: looking for this position. I was content where I. 139 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: Was behind the scenes. 140 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 5: But when my father went to be with the Lord, 141 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 5: this opportunity came looking for me. 142 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 3: Never planned on doing it, but it chased me down. 143 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 5: God's dream for your life is so much bigger than 144 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 5: your own. If you will keep being your best right 145 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 5: where you are, you will come into favor, promotion, opportunity 146 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 5: bigger than you ever imagined. You won't have to go 147 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 5: after it. It will come to you because you're honoring God. 148 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 5: Like a magnet, you'll draw it in. When I was 149 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 5: in my early twenties, I walked into a jewelry store 150 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 5: and met Victoria for the first time. Like a magnet, 151 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 5: she couldn't keep her hands off of me. This is 152 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 5: my side of the story anyway. But we went out 153 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 5: on our first date and had so much fun. Actually 154 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 5: here at the Compact Center. The next week, she invited 155 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 5: me to come to our house and have dinner, and 156 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 5: we laughed and had a great time. I called her 157 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 5: the next day at work to thank her, but she 158 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 5: was busy and not able to talk. Called her that 159 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 5: evening at home and she wasn't there. Called her the 160 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 5: next day and the next, and the next and the next, 161 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 5: but she was always either busy not available, but for 162 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,439 Speaker 5: some reason she couldn't talk. Finally I got the message 163 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 5: she's avoiding me. She doesn't want to see me. I'm 164 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 5: thought that that's fine. 165 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 3: I won't call her anymore. 166 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 5: About two weeks later, I was sitting in a little 167 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 5: diner eating breakfast early one morning, all by myself, and 168 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 5: Victoria comes walking in. She saw my car out in 169 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 5: the parking lot. She came and sat at the table 170 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 5: and said, Joe, I'm so sorry I keep missing all 171 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 5: of your calls. 172 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 3: She came back to her senses and came looking for me. 173 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 5: She ate breakfast and then made me pay for it. 174 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 5: But friends, God has the right people in your future. 175 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 5: When you honor God like a magnet, the person God's 176 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 5: designed for you, the right one, will come across your path. 177 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 5: You don't have to worry. You don't have to play 178 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 5: games and try to convince. 179 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 3: Somebody to like you. If they don't like you, let 180 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 3: them go. 181 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 5: If they don't, celebrate you and see you as a gift, 182 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 5: a treasure, as. 183 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 3: One of a kind. Move forward. 184 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 5: Don't hang on to things that are not attracted to you. 185 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 5: The right one will not be able to live without you. 186 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 5: The one God designed will think. 187 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 3: You're the greatest thing in the world. 188 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 5: You keep being your best right where you are honoring God, 189 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 5: and God will do for you what he did for me. 190 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 5: He'll cause you to be at the right place at 191 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 5: the right time. Those divine connections will come across your path. 192 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 5: But what God has planned for you is much bigger 193 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 5: than anything you've ever dreamed of. If God were to 194 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,560 Speaker 5: show you right now where He's taken you, the favor, 195 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 5: the promotion, the influence, it would. 196 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 3: Boggle your mind. 197 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 5: You may think, like I did, that you're not the 198 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 5: most qualified. 199 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 3: You don't have the personality, the talent. 200 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 5: That's okay, it's not going to happen just because of 201 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 5: your talent, your personality, your hard work. It's going to 202 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 5: happen because of the commanded blessing on your life. God's 203 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 5: anointing on you is more important than your talent, your education, 204 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 5: than what family you come from. You can have less talent, 205 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 5: but with the favor of God, you will go further 206 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:11,080 Speaker 5: than people that. 207 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 3: Have much more talent. 208 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 5: You may not see how this can happen. Does it 209 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,559 Speaker 5: seem possible? You don't have to figure it out. If 210 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 5: you'll just keep being your best right where you are, 211 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 5: getting to work on time, doing more than you have to, 212 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 5: being a person of excellence and integrity, the right people 213 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 5: will find you. The right opportunities will. 214 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 3: Track you down. 215 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,439 Speaker 5: Now, don't be frustrated if it doesn't happen on your timetable. 216 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 3: You've got to pass some tests. 217 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 5: You've got to prove to God that you'll be faithful 218 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 5: right where you are. If you're not faithful in the wilderness, 219 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 5: how can God trust you to be faithful in the 220 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 5: promised land. You've got to keep a good attitude when 221 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 5: you're not getting your way. You've got to be your 222 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 5: best when you're not getting any credit. Do the right 223 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 5: thing when it's difficult. That's when your character is being developed. 224 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 5: If you will pass these tests, you can be certain 225 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 5: God will get you to where you're supposed to be. 226 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 5: The right people are in your future, the right opportunities, 227 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 5: the good breaks, the wisdom, the contracts, the houses. 228 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 3: God said, no good thing will he withhold because you 229 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 3: walk up rightly. 230 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 5: I've learned one touch of God's favor can take you, 231 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 5: in a split second further than you could go in 232 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 5: your whole lifetime on your own. Quit thinking, oh, I'm 233 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 5: getting behind. I'll never accomplish my dreams. No, God has 234 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 5: explosive blessings in your future. 235 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 3: He has blessings that will thrust you years and years ahead. 236 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 5: Now you say, Joel, this all sounds good, but I 237 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 5: don't really have the talent, I don't know the right people, 238 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 5: I don't have the money. 239 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 3: That's okay, God does. 240 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 5: He's already lined up everything you need. There are good 241 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 5: breaks right now that have your name on it. There 242 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 5: are contracts, buildings, businesses that have your name on it. 243 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 5: There are ideas, inventions, books, movies, songs that have your 244 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 5: name on it. As you keep honoring God being your best, 245 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 5: like that magnet you're going to draw in what already 246 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 5: has your name on it? When is this going to 247 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 5: happen at the exact right time. If it hasn't happened yet, 248 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 5: don't get discouraged. God knows what he's doing. If it 249 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 5: would have happened earlier, it wouldn't have been the best time. 250 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 3: Just keep being. 251 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 5: Faithful right where you are, and keep living with this 252 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 5: attitude that something good is coming your way. When you 253 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 5: do that, like a magnet, you're going to draw in 254 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 5: what already has your name on it. 255 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 3: There's healing with your name on it. 256 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 5: You single people, there's a husband a wife with your 257 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 5: name on it. Some of you couples are believing to 258 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 5: have a child. There's a baby with your name on it. 259 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 5: God has already chosen them to be yours. You pastors, leaders, 260 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 5: you need a large auditorium. There's a new sanctuary with 261 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 5: your name on it. There's a business with your name 262 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 5: on it. There's a number one movie with your name 263 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 5: on it. There's an invention that will touch the world 264 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 5: with your. 265 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 3: Name on it. Now here's the whole key. 266 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 5: You don't have to seek the blessing, seek God, and 267 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 5: the blessings will seek after you. 268 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 3: This is where we miss it. 269 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 5: Very often we think I got to get this promotion, 270 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 5: I got to meet this person, I gotta get my. 271 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 3: Career going faster. 272 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 5: Joel, and yes, we have to use our talent, be determined, 273 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 5: take steps of faith. 274 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 3: But you can stay in peace. 275 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 5: You can live at rest knowing that because you're honoring God, 276 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 5: the right people will find you, the right opportunities will 277 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 5: track you down. Proverbs thirteen says the wealth of the 278 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 5: ungodly will eventually find its way into the hands of 279 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 5: the righteous, for whom it has been laid up for. 280 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 5: It's because you're the righteous. There's something God has laid 281 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 5: up for you. The good news is at the right time. 282 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 5: Eventually it's going to find you. That means right now, 283 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 5: something's looking for you, not defeat, struggle, lack. 284 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 3: You are the righteous. 285 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 5: Favor is looking for you, good breaks are looking for you, 286 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 5: healing is looking for you, Influence is looking for you. 287 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 7: Now. 288 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 5: You may not have seen it yet, but don't get discouraged. 289 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 5: Keep honoring God, and he promises some of these eventuallyes 290 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 5: are going to track you down. This beautiful facility, the 291 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 5: former compact center. 292 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 3: You know what this is. 293 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 5: And eventually it was laid up for us. It had 294 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 5: our name on it and at the right time it 295 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 5: found us. This building was built back in the early 296 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 5: nineteen seventies. It was first called the Summit, then they 297 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 5: changed the name to the Compact Center. But I believe 298 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 5: if you would appeal back the names. When it was 299 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 5: built way back then, you looked underneath, you would have 300 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 5: seen the name Lakewood Church. 301 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 3: God had us in mind when they built it. 302 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 5: Eventually, God said, all right, it's time to hand it over. 303 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 3: Friends. 304 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 5: There are some eventuallyes in your future. The great thing 305 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 5: is you don't have to go after them. 306 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 3: Just go after God. 307 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 5: Keep him first place, live a life of excellence and integrity, 308 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 5: and God promises the eventuallyes will. 309 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 3: Find their way into your hands. 310 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 5: This is what Jesus said, Seek first the Kingdom, and 311 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 5: all these things will be. 312 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 3: Added under you. 313 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 5: Everything you need to fulfill your destiny has already been 314 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 5: laid up for you. Now you just have to make 315 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 5: pleasing God your highest priority. In other words, before you 316 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 5: give into temptation, no, I'm going to please God and 317 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 5: walk away. I want to fulfill my destiny. I want 318 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 5: to come into my eventualies. Before you tell that person off, no, 319 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 5: I'm going to please God and keep my mouth closed 320 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 5: at the office. They're not treating you right. You feel 321 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 5: like slacking off. No, I'm gonna please God and keep 322 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 5: being my best. I know I'm not working under people. 323 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 5: I'm working under God. You live like that, and all 324 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 5: the forces of darkness cannot keep you from your destiny. 325 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 5: The amazing thing about this building is I didn't go 326 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 5: after it. 327 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 3: It came to me. 328 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 5: I tried to buy land twice and build a new sanctuary, 329 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 5: but both times the property was sold out from under us. 330 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 5: I thought, we're stuck. There's no more room, there's no 331 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 5: way to grow. But one day an old friend out 332 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 5: of the blue, unexpectedly called and said he wanted to 333 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 5: talk to me about something. 334 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 3: We had lunch. 335 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 5: He said, Joel, the Houston Rockets basketball team is about 336 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 5: to move out of the Compact Center. That would be 337 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 5: a great facility for Lakewood. When he said that, something 338 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 5: came alive on the inside. Now I never dreamed we 339 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 5: could have something this beautiful, the premiere facility in the 340 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 5: fourth largest city in America, the second busiest. 341 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 3: Freeway in the nation. 342 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 5: Just like with us, the eventually is God has lined 343 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 5: up for you are going to boggle your mind. 344 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 3: It's going to be more than you can ask or think. 345 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 5: God has not only already arranged them, he's taking it 346 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 5: one step further. He's already put your name on them. 347 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 5: They've already been marked as a part of your divine destiny. 348 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 3: What's your part? Worry? 349 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 5: Struggle, Try to make it happen. Manipulate this person, maybe 350 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:34,360 Speaker 5: they'll do me a favor. 351 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 3: No, you don't have to play up to people. I 352 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 3: have to beg people, hope that they'll throw you a 353 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 3: crumb here or there. You are not a beggar. You 354 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 3: are a. 355 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 5: Child of the most tied God. You have royal blood 356 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 5: flowing through your veins. You are wearing a crown of favor. 357 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 5: God has called you, equipped you, empowered, you, chosen you 358 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 5: the creator of the universe. All you've got to do 359 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 5: is keep honoring God, and the blessings will find you. 360 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 5: The right people will show up, the ones that want 361 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 5: to help you. The good breaks, the businesses, the contracts 362 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 5: will track you down. One phone call, one person God 363 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 5: has ordained to help you can change the. 364 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 3: Course of your life. 365 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 5: How is this going to happen? Just your talent, your ability, 366 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 5: your hard work. That's part of it, But the main 367 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 5: key is By honoring God, that's what puts you in 368 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 5: a position for His blessings to overtake you. That's what 369 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 5: makes you a magnet for His favor. And I know 370 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 5: today I'm looking at a lot of. 371 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,199 Speaker 3: Strong, powerful magnets. 372 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 5: Some of you are very close to attracting what you've 373 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 5: been praying and believing for. You've honored God, you've been faithful. 374 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 3: Now God is about. 375 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 5: To release and eventually in your life, it's going to 376 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 5: be bigger than you imagine. When you meet that person, 377 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 5: they're going to be better for you than you ever 378 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 5: dreamed of. You waited a long time, but when they 379 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 5: show up, you're going. 380 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 3: To say you were well worth the way. 381 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 5: Well, Joel, you're just getting everybody's hopes up today. 382 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 3: You're right. 383 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 5: You can't have faith if you don't first have hope. 384 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:19,199 Speaker 5: And some of you, some of you, have gotten stuck 385 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 5: in a rut. God's been good to you. You've got 386 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 5: a good family, a good job, You've seen God's blessings. 387 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 5: But let me tell you, you haven't seen anything yet. 388 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 5: You haven't touched the surface of what God has in store. 389 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 5: Don't become complacent thinking that you've seen your best days. 390 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 5: God never performs his greatest feats in our yesterdays. You 391 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 5: may have seen God's goodness in the past, but it's 392 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 5: nothing compared to what God is about to show you. 393 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 5: Some of you are going to write a book, a movie, 394 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 5: a song that will touch the world. The idea will 395 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 5: come to you, you don't have to go after it. 396 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 5: Some of you are going to start a business will 397 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 5: become a global force. Some of you are going to 398 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 5: have a ministry that will shape nations. Some of you 399 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 5: will raise a child that will become a president, a 400 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 5: world leader, a history maker. The eventuallyes God has in 401 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 5: your future are going to boggle your mind. 402 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 3: It's like nothing you've seen before. God has raised you up. 403 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 5: To take new ground for the Kingdom to go where 404 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 5: others have not gone. Dream big, believe big, pray big. 405 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 5: Make room for God to do something new in your life. 406 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 5: If you would have told me years ago that one 407 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 5: day I would be ministering around the world and have 408 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 5: books translated into different languages, I would have thought not me. 409 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 5: I don't have anything to say. But God knows what 410 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 5: He's put in you. The gifts, the talents, the potential. 411 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,640 Speaker 5: You have, seeds of greatness on the inside because you're 412 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 5: honoring God. He's going to open doors that no man 413 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 5: can shut. He's going to bring talent out of you 414 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 5: that you didn't know you had. He's going to connect 415 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 5: you with the right people, present you with opportunities that 416 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 5: will thrust you. 417 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 3: Into a new level of your destiny. 418 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 5: In two thousand and four, we were holding one of 419 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 5: our first Night of Hope events in Madison Square Garden 420 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 5: in New York City. Earlier that year, I had written 421 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 5: my first book and it was doing really well. That night, 422 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,919 Speaker 5: there was a publisher from one of the largest publishing 423 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,239 Speaker 5: companies in the world walking by the garden on his 424 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 5: way to the train station to go home. He saw 425 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 5: all the people lined up to go into the arena. 426 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 5: He'd seen people going to basketball games and concerts before, 427 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 5: but he said he had never seen people that excited 428 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 5: about going to a meeting. He asked people what was 429 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 5: going on. They told him it was our Night of Hope. 430 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 5: The next morning, first thing, he called his main literary 431 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 5: agent and asked if she knew. 432 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:53,360 Speaker 3: Me Joel Ostein. 433 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 5: She said, I don't know him personally, but seen his book, 434 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 5: seen him on television. 435 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 3: He said, you need to find. 436 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 5: Him because I'm going to publish his next book. 437 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 3: She tracked me down, set up a meeting. 438 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 5: He made an offer that boggled my mind that I 439 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 5: could not refuse. That company preprinted more copies of my 440 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 5: book than any book they had ever published in the 441 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 5: company's history. That's what happens when you simply honor God. 442 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 5: He'll cause people to be at the right place at 443 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 5: the right time. You won't have to seek them out. 444 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 5: They'll seek you out. Well, Joel, that's cause you're on television. 445 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 3: You had that book, you got all this gold. No, 446 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,360 Speaker 3: don't talk to yourself out of it. 447 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 5: Because you honor God, you have the same commanded blessing 448 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 5: on your life. 449 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 3: Just like that. He'd seeking missile finding a target. 450 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 5: Right now, God has favor tracking you down. Good breaks 451 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 5: are looking for you, divine connections, the right. 452 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 3: People are in your future. 453 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 5: When my father was alive, Victoria and I used to 454 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 5: go to India with him a couple of times a year. 455 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,479 Speaker 5: One time we met this young pastor that came from 456 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 5: an extremely poor family. They didn't have electricity or running water. 457 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 3: They lived out. 458 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 5: In this open field, in this little hut that they 459 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,479 Speaker 5: had built. The men next door was very wealthy. He 460 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 5: owned a huge farm, had thousands of cattle and all 461 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 5: these different crops, and he would sell milk and vegetables 462 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 5: to the village people. But he was kind of greedy 463 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 5: and charged more than he should. Many people couldn't afford it. 464 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 5: One day, about ten of his cows got out and 465 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 5: came over to the little hut where the pastor and 466 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 5: his family lived. 467 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 3: Having a cow was a big deal. 468 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 5: You could have milk and other products to sell to people. 469 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 5: The workers came and got those ten cows, put them 470 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 5: back in the owner's fence. The next day, the same 471 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 5: ten cows got out came back over. 472 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 3: This happened again and again and again. 473 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 5: The owner got so frustrated he told his workers tell 474 00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 5: the pastor he can have those ten cows given to 475 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 5: him as a if. 476 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 3: That pastor was so thrilled. 477 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 5: He started selling milk and other dairy products to the 478 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 5: people in the village, but he sold them for much less. 479 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 3: Before long, people. 480 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 5: Were lined up at his door. He was able to 481 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 5: buy more cows. His business kept growing so much so 482 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 5: that that other owner came over and said, you're putting 483 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 5: me out of business. I can't compete with you. Why 484 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,479 Speaker 5: don't you take over my company. This pastor purchased his 485 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 5: company for a fraction of its value, and today he 486 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 5: has a very successful company with several hundred employees. But 487 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 5: it all started when those cows came looking for him and. 488 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 3: Wouldn't go home. What is that? 489 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 5: Like a magnet, he attracted the goodness of God. Now 490 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 5: you don't have to worry about how it's all going 491 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 5: to work out. God knows how to have the cows 492 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 5: find you. What has your name on it, the real estate, 493 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 5: the good breaks, the businesses. The favor will eventually find 494 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 5: this into your hands. Proverbs puts it this way. Trouble 495 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,679 Speaker 5: chases sinners, but blessings chase the righteous. You are the 496 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 5: righteous right now, Favor is chasing you, Promotion is chasing you, 497 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 5: Healing is chasing you. 498 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 3: Cows are looking for you. Victory is coming your way. 499 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 5: I don't ever say I'll never get out of debt, Joel, 500 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 5: I'll never get married, I'll never be well again. You 501 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 5: know what that's doing, demagnetizing your magnet. It's taken away 502 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 5: the attraction power. I used to have a magnet when 503 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 5: I was growing up that I played with when I 504 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 5: was a little boy. One day I woke up and 505 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 5: the magnet had no power. I had left it by 506 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 5: something that had demagnetized. It looked the same, but it wouldn't. 507 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 3: Attract anything in the same way. 508 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 5: When we dwell on negative can't do it not able 509 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 5: to never. 510 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 3: Going to happen, thoughts. 511 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,919 Speaker 5: That is demagnetizing our magnet. You are taking away its 512 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 5: power to pull in what belongs to you. You know 513 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 5: what I'm doing today. I'm helping you to turn up 514 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 5: the power on your magnet. When you realize God has 515 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 5: put a commanded blessing on your life, you go out 516 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 5: each day with the attitude that something good is going 517 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 5: to happen to you. That's when God can do exceedingly 518 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 5: abundantly above and beyond, and every one of you can 519 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 5: look back over your life and remember a time like 520 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 5: I can, where you unexpectedly saw God's favor. You didn't 521 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 5: go after it, It came after you. God has done 522 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 5: it in the past. The good news is He's not 523 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,959 Speaker 5: only going to do it again in the future, but 524 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 5: what he's going to show you is going to pale 525 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 5: in comparison. 526 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 3: To what you've seen in the past. 527 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 5: God has explosive blessings come in your way. They are 528 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 5: going to thrust you to a level greater than you've imagined. 529 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 5: You're going to look back and say, like I do, 530 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 5: how in the world did I get here. I'm not 531 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 5: the most qualified, the most talented. I don't have all 532 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 5: the experience. You may not, but God does. He knows 533 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 5: how to get you to where you're supposed to be. Now, 534 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 5: I believe and declare today because you're honoring God, because 535 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 5: you're keeping Him first place. 536 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 3: The power of your magnet is being turned up. 537 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 5: You're about to draw in good breaks, promotion, healing, favor, ideas, contracts, creativity. 538 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 5: God is about to release what already has your name 539 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 5: on it. 540 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 3: You're not going to have to go after it. It's 541 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 3: going to come after you. 542 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 5: It's going to be bigger than you imagined. It's going 543 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 5: to happen sooner than you thought. You're about to step 544 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 5: into the fullness of your destiny and become everything God's 545 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 5: created you to be. 546 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 3: In Jesus' name. 547 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say him in today? 548 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 549 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 550 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord? 551 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,959 Speaker 3: Jesus, I repent of my sins. 552 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 5: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 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