Speaker 1: What a joy to be with you today. We're praying
Speaker 1: for you and your family. I know God has great
Speaker 1: things in store. You wouldn't be alive if there weren't
Speaker 1: more victories in front of you. So now that we
Speaker 1: love you, we're praying for you. Hey, I hope you'll
Speaker 1: stay tuned to the very end. We've got some special
Speaker 1: resources to help you stay encouraged and inspired. Well, God
Speaker 1: bless you. It is always a joy to come into
Speaker 1: your homes. We love you, and we're believing that you're
Speaker 1: going to have a blessed, prosperous year, that you're going
Speaker 1: to see God's.
Speaker 2: Goodness in new ways.
Speaker 1: If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by.
Speaker 2: And see us.
Speaker 1: I promise you will make you feel right at home.
Speaker 1: But thank you for tuning in. Thanks again for coming
Speaker 1: out today. I like to start with something funny each week,
Speaker 1: and I heard about this lady. She was on an
Speaker 1: airplane reading her Bible, and the man sitting next to
Speaker 1: her said, you don't believe all that stuff in there?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 2: She said, of course I do. It's the Bible.
Speaker 1: He said, well, what about that God that got swallowed
Speaker 1: by a well? She said, you mean Jonah. Yes, I
Speaker 1: believe that too. He said, well, how could he possibly
Speaker 1: live all that time inside of a well. She thought
Speaker 1: about it a moment, said, I don't know. When I
Speaker 1: get to heaven, I'll have to ask him.
Speaker 2: He kind of.
Speaker 1: Said sarcastically, Well, what if he's not in heaven. She
Speaker 1: smiled and said, then you're gonna have to ask him.
Speaker 1: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you
Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it
Speaker 1: 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 boldly confess.
Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about the outstretched
Speaker 1: hand of God. As believers, you and I have an advantage.
Speaker 1: We don't have to go through life just depending on
Speaker 1: our own talent, our own ability, our own strength. The
Speaker 1: scripture talks about how God's hand is outstretched toward us.
Speaker 1: That means there is a supernatural power behind every believer.
Speaker 1: God's outstretched hand will help you accomplish dreams that you
Speaker 1: thought were impossible. His outstretched hand will cause you to
Speaker 1: get well, even when the medical report says there's no way.
Speaker 1: The outstretched hand of God will help us to prosper,
Speaker 1: even when the economy is down. Now, all through the day,
Speaker 1: you need to imagine, not that God is mad at me.
Speaker 1: I've made so many mistakes. I'll probably never get out
Speaker 1: of this problem.
Speaker 2: No, get a new perspective.
Speaker 1: Imagine God's hand is outstretched towards you.
Speaker 2: It is a.
Speaker 1: Hand of healing, a hand of favor, a hand of restoration.
Speaker 1: You may have some obstacles in your path. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: facing a sickness, an addiction. Perhaps another person is trying
Speaker 1: to hold you back. Do you have to realize there
Speaker 1: is a force that is for you, that is great
Speaker 1: than any force that will ever be against you. Your
Speaker 1: attitude should be I am not settling where I am.
Speaker 1: I know I have an advantage as a child of
Speaker 1: the Most High. I know God's hand is outstretched towards me.
Speaker 1: You're saying, I know favor is on its way.
Speaker 2: I know healing is coming.
Speaker 1: I know God is fighting my battles for me. When
Speaker 1: we release our faith like that, the creator of the
Speaker 1: universe breathes in our direction. The scripture says here in
Speaker 1: Isaiah fourteen twenty seven, the Lord of Host has purposed,
Speaker 1: and who can annul it?
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: It's saying God has a purpose for your life. He
Speaker 1: has already planned out your days for victory. He's got
Speaker 1: a comeback already lined up for every setback. He's got
Speaker 1: a solution for every problem. The right people, the right breaks,
Speaker 1: the right opportunities, all your days have been written in
Speaker 1: God's book. Notice it says who can annul it? God
Speaker 1: is saying who can.
Speaker 2: Stop my plan?
Speaker 1: Sickness can't stop it, The economy can't stop it, A
Speaker 1: bad break can't stop it. An accident can't stop it.
Speaker 1: God has preordained you to be victorious. You need to
Speaker 1: get this on the inside. Does it matter what it
Speaker 1: looks like in the natural. No matter how many setbacks
Speaker 1: you've been through or how many obstacles are in your path.
Speaker 1: Right now, the Most High God has destined you to
Speaker 1: live a life of victory. And some of you today
Speaker 1: you need to get a new vision. At one time
Speaker 1: you were excited about your future. You had big goals,
Speaker 1: big dreams, but you went through some disappointments. Life didn't
Speaker 1: turn out like you to hope, and now you've just settled,
Speaker 1: you're not expecting God's favor. But understand, God's plan for
Speaker 1: your life didn't go away just because you had some disappointments,
Speaker 1: just because somebody treated you unfairly. God didn't write us
Speaker 1: off just because we made some poor decisions. God knew
Speaker 1: every mistake we'd ever make. He knew every person that
Speaker 1: would do us wrong. And the good news is none
Speaker 1: of that stopped God's purpose for your life. Nothing can
Speaker 1: annul it. No matter what has happened in your past.
Speaker 1: God still has a bright future in store for every
Speaker 1: one of you. And if you will get your hopes
Speaker 1: back and get your vision in line with God's, then
Speaker 1: the rest of your life is going to be the
Speaker 1: best of your life. It goes on to say, my
Speaker 1: hand is outstretched, and who can stop it? God is saying,
Speaker 1: as long as my hand is outstretched, you are headed
Speaker 1: for victory. As long as I've got my hand stretched out,
Speaker 1: then I have favor that nobody can stop. I have promotion,
Speaker 1: I have increased, I have supernatural breaks that cannot be
Speaker 1: held back. If you will get in agreement with God
Speaker 1: and get up each day knowing that his hand is
Speaker 1: outstretched towards you, then you might as well get ready.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time before you see explosive blessings,
Speaker 1: blessings that thrust.
Speaker 2: You to a new level.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time before you get the
Speaker 1: break you need, the right person comes across your path.
Speaker 1: Just a matter of time before your health turns around,
Speaker 1: that sickness leaves.
Speaker 2: Your strength is restored. How could this happen?
Speaker 1: God's hand is outstretched towards you, and nothing can stop it.
Speaker 1: In other words, when God gets ready to bless you,
Speaker 1: no obstacle, no sickness, no person, no government, all the
Speaker 1: forces of darkness cannot stop it from happening, we should.
Speaker 2: Have the attitude.
Speaker 1: The economy may be down, but I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1: I know I have an advantage. God's hand is outstretched
Speaker 1: toward me. He is supplying all of my needs. He's
Speaker 1: prospering me, even in a recession. I am blessed in
Speaker 1: the city and blessed in the country. Why the hand
Speaker 1: of God.
Speaker 2: A friend of.
Speaker 1: Mine told about this man. He knows business associate. He
Speaker 1: was living a perfectly healthy life. Everything was going great,
Speaker 1: but one day he started having these unusual headaches.
Speaker 2: And he began to get a little disoriented.
Speaker 1: Finally he had to go to the doctor and they
Speaker 1: checked him in the hospital and ran some test and
Speaker 1: long story short, they discovered that he had a large
Speaker 1: tumor in his brain. And this top neurosurgeon, one of
Speaker 1: the best in the country, said, all we can do
Speaker 1: is operate.
Speaker 2: All we can do is try.
Speaker 1: To remove it. They didn't give him a lot of hope.
Speaker 1: He got that bad news on a Friday. They scheduled
Speaker 1: the operation for first thing Monday morning, and they wanted
Speaker 1: him to stay in the hospital and just relax and
Speaker 1: not take any chances. But this man was very determined
Speaker 1: to go home over the weekend. They tried and tried
Speaker 1: to talk him out of it. He said, no, I've
Speaker 1: got to go home because I watch a young minister
Speaker 1: on television and I need to make sure I watch
Speaker 1: him this week. They said, when we have televisions here.
Speaker 1: That wasn't good enough. He wanted to watch in his
Speaker 1: own home. Well, that week, on the program I'm made
Speaker 1: the statement it doesn't matter what the medical report says.
Speaker 1: God can turn the situation around. When he heard that
Speaker 1: something leaped on the inside. He said I knew at.
Speaker 2: That moment God had touched me.
Speaker 1: He went back on Monday and had the operation, or
Speaker 1: when he woke up, the first thing the surgeon said
Speaker 1: to him was, I want to know whose prayer list
Speaker 1: are you on. He went on to tell how he
Speaker 1: didn't have this massive tumor. It was just a little
Speaker 1: bit of blood. He said, Listen, I've been doing this
Speaker 1: long enough to know the difference between what I see
Speaker 1: on the X rays and what I saw in person.
Speaker 2: What is that God's outstretched hand releasing healing, doing what
Speaker 2: medical science cannot do.
Speaker 1: You may be facing a sickness today, maybe it's something
Speaker 1: you've had for a long time, but you need to
Speaker 1: imagine right now, God's hand is outstretched towards you, releasing healing, health, wholeness, restoration.
Speaker 1: When you believe, nothing can stop it. If it's not
Speaker 1: your time to go, you're not gonna go. If you
Speaker 1: have not fulfilled your.
Speaker 2: Purpose, nothing can annul it.
Speaker 1: You need to start talking to yourself all through the day,
Speaker 1: over and over in your mind. Healing is flowing into me.
Speaker 1: I'm getting stronger, I'm getting healthier. My youth is being renewed,
Speaker 1: my strength is being restored. This sickness didn't come to stay,
Speaker 1: it came to pass. When we release our faith like that,
Speaker 1: it's just like we're reaching up our hand connecting to
Speaker 1: God's hand.
Speaker 2: The good news is there is healing in his hand, there.
Speaker 1: Is restoration, There is supernatural power in God's outstretched hand.
Speaker 1: I think about how when Moses was leading the people
Speaker 1: of Israel, he came to a dead end at the
Speaker 1: Red Sea. They had nowhere to go, looked like it
Speaker 1: was over. We all face situations in life where we come.
Speaker 2: To the end of our own ability.
Speaker 1: In the natural, we don't see any way out that
Speaker 1: men with a medical report or maybe a dream has
Speaker 1: died some kind of setback. But if we can just remember,
Speaker 1: God's hand is still outstretched toward us, and God told Moses,
Speaker 1: do what I'm doing. Moses, stretch forth your hand, hold
Speaker 1: out that rod as an act of faith. Moses stretched
Speaker 1: out his hand representing God's outstretched hand, and that's when
Speaker 1: the water's parted and the people went through on dry ground.
Speaker 2: What am I saying?
Speaker 1: When we stretch out our hand, when we release our faith,
Speaker 1: that's when supernatural things are going to happen. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how many times Victorian I. When we were
Speaker 1: trying to acquire this facility, we would walk around the
Speaker 1: building at night when nobody could see us. In the natural.
Speaker 1: We didn't have a chance. All the odds were against us.
Speaker 1: It was David verse Goliath. But we'd go around with
Speaker 1: our hands outstretched, saying, Father, thank you that you are
Speaker 1: turning things in our favor. Thank you that you are
Speaker 1: fighting our battles for us. Thank you that you're giving
Speaker 1: us the breaks that we need. What happened, our outstretched
Speaker 1: hands connected with God's outstretched hand, and he made a
Speaker 1: way when it looked like there was no way. You
Speaker 1: may be struggling in your finances. You need to stretch
Speaker 1: out your hand toward that business, stretch out your hand
Speaker 1: toward that house you're trying to sell, or maybe just
Speaker 1: stretch out your hand toward your checkbook and say, Father,
Speaker 1: as an act of my faith, I am stretching out
Speaker 1: my hand, believing that I'm connecting with your outstretched hand,
Speaker 1: knowing that right now you're releasing supernatural increase, supernatural promotion.
Speaker 1: You need to go around talking to yourself, Father, thank
Speaker 1: you that your blessings are chasing me down and overtaking me.
Speaker 1: Thank you, that whatever I touch prospers and succeed. I know, God,
Speaker 1: You're causing me to be at the right place at
Speaker 1: the right time.
Speaker 2: When you do that, that allows God to release what's
Speaker 2: in his hand.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have a child that's not doing right. Just
Speaker 1: stretch out your hand toward his room. Or maybe he
Speaker 1: lives in another city, Well stretch out your hand toward
Speaker 1: his home. God you said, as for me and my house,
Speaker 1: we will serve the Lord. And as an act of faith,
Speaker 1: with my hand outstretched, I believe right now you are
Speaker 1: breaking every negative influence, breaking every addiction, breaking every wrong habit,
Speaker 1: and you're releasing your favor, your increase, your promotion, your restoration.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just need to look in the mirror and
Speaker 1: stretch out your.
Speaker 2: Hand toward yourself.
Speaker 1: Just say, Father, as an act of faith, I'm stretching
Speaker 1: out my hand declaring that I am blessed, I am prosperous,
Speaker 1: I am anointed, I am appointed, I am approved, I
Speaker 1: am forgiven, I am redeemed.
Speaker 2: I am well able. When we release our faith like that,
Speaker 2: we can just.
Speaker 1: Imagine God's outstretched hands is releasing favor, healing, restoration, whatever
Speaker 1: we need. This is especially important when we're tempted to
Speaker 1: get discouraged when things aren't going your way, and those
Speaker 1: never lies come telling you that you're never gonna get well,
Speaker 1: never accomplish your dreams. Don't drag around with your head down. Now,
Speaker 1: that's when, more than ever, you need to look up
Speaker 1: and through your eyes of faith, see God's outstretched hand.
Speaker 2: If you get a negative medical report, don't dwell on it.
Speaker 1: Look up and see that healing flowing into you.
Speaker 2: If you face a red sea.
Speaker 1: An impossible situation, don't sink into self pity. Oh I'll
Speaker 1: never get out of this. No, look up and get
Speaker 1: a vision of God turning it around. Whatever you need,
Speaker 1: it's in God's hand, and the good news is his
Speaker 1: hand is outstretched towards you. This is what the mother
Speaker 1: of Moses did. She was facing an impossible situation when
Speaker 1: Moses was born. The king ordered that all the male
Speaker 1: babies be killed. She could have easily thought, oh, just
Speaker 1: my luck, wouldn't you know it? I have a baby
Speaker 1: and look what happens. No, she understood this principle. She
Speaker 1: knew God's hand was outstretched toward her, and if she
Speaker 1: would release her faith and connect with his hand, supernatural
Speaker 1: things would happen. She hid Moses as long as she could,
Speaker 1: but when he got too big, she put him in
Speaker 1: that basket and sent him down the Nile River. And
Speaker 1: it just so happened that Faro's daughter went down to
Speaker 1: the river to take a bath. God caused her to
Speaker 1: be at the right place at the right time. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when we believe God releases favor. She heard
Speaker 1: the little baby crying in the basket, and she opened
Speaker 1: it up. She thought, Wow, what a beautiful little child.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take him as my own. She said to
Speaker 1: her assistant, we need to find somebody that can nurse
Speaker 1: this baby. The assistant said, I know just who to find.
Speaker 1: She went and got Moses's mother, and would you believe it,
Speaker 1: moses mother was able to not only raise her own child,
Speaker 1: but on top of that, she got paid for doing it.
Speaker 1: Only God could orchestrate that. That was his outstretched hand
Speaker 1: releasing protection favor increase. Psalm one eighteen says there are
Speaker 1: shouts of joy and victory in the home of the Godly.
Speaker 1: The strong arm of the Lord has done amazing things.
Speaker 1: I believe God is saying that to each one of
Speaker 1: us in the coming days. You're gonna see the strong
Speaker 1: arm of the Lord do amazing things. That means God
Speaker 1: is gonna turn around situations that you thought were impossible.
Speaker 1: God is gonna help you break addictions that have held
Speaker 1: you back for years. God is going to bring people
Speaker 1: across your path supernatural opportunities that will thrust you to
Speaker 1: the next level. You're gonna discover talent on the inside
Speaker 1: that you didn't even know you had. There are gonna
Speaker 1: be shouts of joy and victory in your home. Why
Speaker 1: because of the outstretched arm of the Lord. Let that
Speaker 1: seed take root today. Remember a few years ago I
Speaker 1: was doing a book signing in another state. There were
Speaker 1: a few hundred people in the line, and this lady
Speaker 1: at one point came up. Looked to be in her
Speaker 1: mid fifties. There was a young lady next to her,
Speaker 1: maybe in her thirties, and they were both crying and crying,
Speaker 1: and of course I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: The lady began to explain how this was her daughter.
Speaker 1: They had been estranged for twelve years. They had gotten
Speaker 1: at odds with each other. They wanted to make things right,
Speaker 1: but there was just too much water under the bridge.
Speaker 1: They had not spoken to one another in over twelve years.
Speaker 1: But what they didn't realize was they both had been
Speaker 1: watching our program on television and independently they decided to
Speaker 1: come to the book signing that night. When they saw
Speaker 1: each other, it was like God melted away all the unforgiveness.
Speaker 2: A healing began to.
Speaker 1: Take place, that relationship began to be restored. The mother said,
Speaker 1: with big tears coming down her cheeks, this is the happiest.
Speaker 2: Day of my life.
Speaker 1: God has brought my daughter back to me. What was
Speaker 1: she saying?
Speaker 2: The strong arm of the Lord has done amazing things.
Speaker 1: Now there are shouts of joy and victory in her home.
Speaker 1: That's what God is going to do for each one
Speaker 1: of us, says in Psalm one thirty eight. Though I
Speaker 1: am surrounded by trouble, you will bring me safely through.
Speaker 2: Your fist is clensed against my enemies. Think about this.
Speaker 1: God's hand is open and outstretched towards you, but his
Speaker 1: fist is clensed against your enemies. That's not just talking
Speaker 1: about people. Sickness is an enemy. Depression is an enemy,
Speaker 1: Poverty is an enemy. You may be struggling with an illness,
Speaker 1: but you need to imagine right now, God's fist is
Speaker 1: clensed against that cancer, is clensed against that heart disease,
Speaker 1: but his hand of healing is open towards you. God's
Speaker 1: fist is cleansed against that depression, it's clensed against that poverty.
Speaker 1: But his hand of abundance, his hand of joy, his hand.
Speaker 2: Of peace is open towards you.
Speaker 1: Or maybe somebody is treating you unfairly, doing you wrong.
Speaker 2: Stay on the high road. Be the bigger person.
Speaker 1: You don't have to get even God's fist is cleansed
Speaker 1: against them, but his hand of favor is opened towards you.
Speaker 1: I had this lady tell how her supervisor at the
Speaker 1: office was so insecure that she was jealous and just
Speaker 1: intimidated by her.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't give her any credit.
Speaker 1: She was always trying to put her down, make her
Speaker 1: look bad doing something that annoyed her. This went on
Speaker 1: month after month. I told the lady what I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: You got to stay on the high road and let
Speaker 1: God fight your battles for you. This supervisor was a
Speaker 1: relatively young lady. She was in a good position, a
Speaker 1: fortune five hundred company. It looked like this lady would
Speaker 1: be under her forever. But one day the CEO of
Speaker 1: the company, the man that ran the whole business, came
Speaker 1: to this lady that I was talking to, and he said,
Speaker 1: we've been watching you and we are very impressed.
Speaker 2: We want to offer.
Speaker 1: You one of our positions as a senior vice president.
Speaker 1: That was like five positions over her old supervisor.
Speaker 2: Friends, God knows how to get you to where you're
Speaker 2: supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Nothing can stop it. If somebody is trying to hold
Speaker 1: you back, don't worry about it. God can go over
Speaker 1: their head. If they're trying to make you look bad.
Speaker 1: Just keep doing your best. God is keeping the records.
Speaker 1: He's the one that brings promotion. He can either go
Speaker 1: over their head, he can move them out of the way,
Speaker 1: or he can even change their heart and cause them
Speaker 1: to be good to you. That's what happened to this
Speaker 1: one man. He was trying to get his family over
Speaker 1: to the States. He's an American citizen, but his wife
Speaker 1: is not, and he was working on the visas and
Speaker 1: the proper paperwork.
Speaker 2: He told how he went to the government office, but
Speaker 2: this man there was very rude.
Speaker 1: To him, not helpful at all, just made it very confusing,
Speaker 1: very difficult. After a few weeks he got his paperwork done,
Speaker 1: got it all know to rise. He went back and
Speaker 1: that man was just as rude to him, and some
Speaker 1: other authorities had already told him it should take about
Speaker 1: six months for the paperwork to go through, but this
Speaker 1: man said, no, no, no, we're all backed up.
Speaker 2: It'll be at least five years.
Speaker 1: We're not going to get to your paperwork for a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 2: This man was just disheartened, so discouraged.
Speaker 1: He's tempted to get a little bit upset, but he
Speaker 1: just kept his cool. He understood this principle that God's fist.
Speaker 2: Is cleansed against our enemies. He blessed him and moved on. Well.
Speaker 1: About three weeks later, he got a call back from
Speaker 1: that same man said, come on in, your paperwork has
Speaker 1: all gone through.
Speaker 2: He was so excited. It was a miracle.
Speaker 1: He went back and said to the man, I thought
Speaker 1: you said it was going to take five years.
Speaker 2: To go through.
Speaker 1: The man said, well, it should have, But ever since
Speaker 1: I met you, I can't get you off my mind.
Speaker 1: I go to bed thinking about you, I get up
Speaker 1: thinking about you.
Speaker 2: I eat lunch thinking about you. He said, I am
Speaker 2: so tired of seeing you.
Speaker 1: You are making me miserable, Take your paperwork and leave.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: That's God's fist cleansed against our enemies. You don't have
Speaker 1: to fight your battles. God knows how to apply pressure
Speaker 1: to people. He knows how to make someone uncomfortable. You
Speaker 1: just stay in peace. When somebody's doing you wrong, you
Speaker 1: can think to yourself, boy, you are messing with the
Speaker 1: wrong person. God has his hand outstretched toward me, but
Speaker 1: his fist is cleansed towards you.
Speaker 2: It says in Exodus.
Speaker 1: Six, I will bring you out from your burdens. I
Speaker 1: will free you from your bondage. I will rescue you
Speaker 1: with my outstretched arm and by my mighty acts of power,
Speaker 1: no matter how how somebody is treating you, no matter
Speaker 1: what's going on in your life. If you'll stay in faith,
Speaker 1: then you're going to see God's mighty acts of power.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: Explosive blessings, supernatural turnaround, supernatural breakthroughs, supernatural promotion, supernatural deliverance.
Speaker 1: God is saying, I'm gonna free you from the bondage
Speaker 1: of poverty and lack. I'm gonna free you from the
Speaker 1: burden of depression and discouragement. I'm gonna free you from
Speaker 1: those people that are holding you back. Or how about this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna free you from every addiction, every bad habit.
Speaker 1: How is this going to happen by God's mighty acts
Speaker 1: of power? Had a young lady tell me last week
Speaker 1: how she was a cocaine addict for fourteen years. She'd
Speaker 1: tried everything she could to stop. She knew it was
Speaker 1: destroying her life, destroying her health, her family. She's about
Speaker 1: to lose a job again, and she wanted to quit,
Speaker 1: but didn't seem to have the power. But she said, Joel,
Speaker 1: one day after I I tried everything on my own,
Speaker 1: I got down on my knees and said, God, please
Speaker 1: help me.
Speaker 2: She was not a religious person.
Speaker 1: She didn't come to church, but just like a little child,
Speaker 1: she looked up and called out to.
Speaker 2: God and said I need you.
Speaker 1: When she did, all of a sudden, she felt a
Speaker 1: warmness come over her like she had never felt before.
Speaker 2: It was a supernatural peace. Now she sat there and
Speaker 2: wept and wept.
Speaker 1: It was like a cleansing was taking place, a healing
Speaker 1: on the inside. From that day forward, she had no
Speaker 1: desire for cocaine.
Speaker 2: She was totally set free.
Speaker 1: She began to gain her weight back, her skin cleared up,
Speaker 1: her hair got thick. She looked like a different person,
Speaker 1: a beautiful young lady. What was that God's outstretched arm
Speaker 1: breaking every bondage, destroying every yoke. No matter how long
Speaker 1: you may have struggled with some kind of addiction, you
Speaker 1: need to get a new viv today. The Most High
Speaker 1: God has his fist clenched, not against you, but against
Speaker 1: that addiction. You don't have to live in bondage. God's
Speaker 1: arm is outstretched towards you. It is an arm of deliverance.
Speaker 1: And if you'll dare do like that young lady and
Speaker 1: just call out to God, then when your faith meets
Speaker 1: God's power, supernatural things are going to happen. Isaiah fifty
Speaker 1: nine says, surely the arm of the Lord is not
Speaker 1: too short to save. Isaiah was saying, make sure you
Speaker 1: understand this. Don't have a doubt in your mind. There
Speaker 1: is no addiction that God cannot turn around. There is
Speaker 1: no sickness too big, no problem too great. It may
Speaker 1: look impossible to us, but with God all things are possible.
Speaker 1: I remember this gentleman growing up. He was an executive,
Speaker 1: had a very good job, very successful, but alcohol was
Speaker 1: destroying his life. It was tearing his family apart. He
Speaker 1: and his wife got divorced. He got so low, so distraught,
Speaker 1: he contemplated ending his life. One day, he was in
Speaker 1: a closet on the floor and he said, God, I
Speaker 1: can't take it anymore.
Speaker 2: Please help me.
Speaker 1: That was the first time he could ever remember acknowledging God.
Speaker 1: But our God is full of mercy. He is a
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