1 00:00:00,540 --> 00:00:02,740 Speaker 1: It's another great day to be alive, and we are 2 00:00:02,779 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: so blessed to be here with you today, Victoria, my 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,020 Speaker 1: beautiful wife, and we're just praying for you guys to 4 00:00:08,060 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: have a blessed summer. I sure hope you enjoy the podcast. 5 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:14,580 Speaker 1: I know I always enjoy these messages. They're so uplifting 6 00:00:14,620 --> 00:00:17,870 Speaker 1: and encouraging and inspiring, so we hope you enjoy the 7 00:00:17,910 --> 00:00:20,790 Speaker 1: message today. God bless you. It's great to be with 8 00:00:20,810 --> 00:00:23,369 Speaker 1: you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us 9 00:00:23,410 --> 00:00:27,550 Speaker 1: during the week through our daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media, 10 00:00:27,970 --> 00:00:30,470 Speaker 1: and you can come visit us in person. We'd love 11 00:00:30,490 --> 00:00:32,530 Speaker 1: to have you be a part of one of our services. 12 00:00:33,260 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny. I heard about 13 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,380 Speaker 1: this pastor that was in the lobby after the service 14 00:00:38,460 --> 00:00:41,260 Speaker 1: greeting people. He saw a man that he hadn't seen 15 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,380 Speaker 1: in a long, long time. He pulled him aside and said, sir, 16 00:00:44,860 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: you need to join the army of the Lord. The 17 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:49,300 Speaker 1: man said, what are you talking about? I'm in the 18 00:00:49,460 --> 00:00:52,020 Speaker 1: army of the Lord. The pastor said, well, how come 19 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: I only see you on Christmas and Easter? The man 20 00:00:54,980 --> 00:00:59,350 Speaker 1: whispered back, I'm in the secret service. Say it like 21 00:00:59,390 --> 00:01:02,620 Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 22 00:01:02,660 --> 00:01:05,459 Speaker 1: it says I am. I have what it says I have. 23 00:01:05,940 --> 00:01:08,660 Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today, 24 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly 25 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:15,830 Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I 26 00:01:15,870 --> 00:01:20,009 Speaker 1: will never be the same in Jesus name. God bless you. 27 00:01:20,030 --> 00:01:23,910 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about rivers in 28 00:01:23,950 --> 00:01:28,070 Speaker 1: the desert. We all go through dry seasons and times 29 00:01:28,110 --> 00:01:32,410 Speaker 1: we don't see any growth. Our relationships feel stagnant. Our 30 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:36,030 Speaker 1: health is not improving. We're doing the right thing, but 31 00:01:36,069 --> 00:01:39,490 Speaker 1: it's like we're in a famine, a barren place. It's 32 00:01:39,650 --> 00:01:42,950 Speaker 1: easy to get tired and lose our passion. And this 33 00:01:43,020 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: is the way the Israelites felt. They had been exiled 34 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: to Babylon for 70 years. They're forced to leave Jerusalem. 35 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,660 Speaker 1: Now God brought them out and they were headed back home. 36 00:01:54,340 --> 00:01:57,310 Speaker 1: But in the desert, there was no water. Even though 37 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: they were free, they were in this desolate place, parched. 38 00:02:01,220 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: It would take weeks to make it home. It looked 39 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,620 Speaker 1: like this was the end. But God said in Isaiah 41, 40 00:02:08,620 --> 00:02:12,140 Speaker 1: when the needy search for water and there is none 41 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:16,980 Speaker 1: and their tongues are parched with thirst, I, the Lord God, 42 00:02:17,060 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: will answer them. I will not forsake them. When you're 43 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: in a dry season, you're searching for water, but there 44 00:02:24,620 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: is none. You're believing for your healing, but not getting better. 45 00:02:29,740 --> 00:02:33,790 Speaker 1: Hoping to accomplish a dream, but doors keep closing. Praying 46 00:02:33,810 --> 00:02:36,930 Speaker 1: to meet the right person, but you're still lonely. When 47 00:02:36,950 --> 00:02:40,290 Speaker 1: you're thirsty and you can't seem to quench it, God 48 00:02:40,350 --> 00:02:44,109 Speaker 1: makes this promise, I will not forsake you. I see 49 00:02:44,150 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: what's happening and I will answer you. He knows what 50 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: you're going through. Those times you feel left out, you're 51 00:02:52,260 --> 00:02:55,739 Speaker 1: going the extra mile, but not getting the credit. You 52 00:02:55,780 --> 00:02:59,460 Speaker 1: see doors opening for others, but you're still struggling. God 53 00:02:59,620 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: sees that barren place and he's coming to do something 54 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,670 Speaker 1: about it. When you can't find water, you're on God's mind. 55 00:03:08,590 --> 00:03:13,550 Speaker 1: That desert, that barren season is not permanent. Thoughts will whisper, 56 00:03:13,750 --> 00:03:19,130 Speaker 1: you'll always be lonely, always be addicted, always not have enough. No, 57 00:03:19,310 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: water is coming. Healing is coming. Freedom is coming. The 58 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: spouse is coming. Victory is coming. Here's the beauty. God 59 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,090 Speaker 1: doesn't have to bring you out of the desert to 60 00:03:31,130 --> 00:03:34,549 Speaker 1: bless you. He doesn't have to take you to another location, 61 00:03:35,270 --> 00:03:39,290 Speaker 1: change a job, give you a different medical team. No, 62 00:03:39,350 --> 00:03:42,530 Speaker 1: he can bless you in the desert. He went on 63 00:03:42,570 --> 00:03:46,370 Speaker 1: to say, I will open rivers in the desolate heights. 64 00:03:47,170 --> 00:03:50,950 Speaker 1: I will make fountains in the valleys, the wilderness pools 65 00:03:50,990 --> 00:03:55,470 Speaker 1: of water and streams in the barren places. Well, Joel, 66 00:03:55,490 --> 00:03:58,510 Speaker 1: I'm in the desert, man. That's why I'm discouraged. God 67 00:03:58,570 --> 00:04:01,590 Speaker 1: makes rivers in the desert. You're right where God works. 68 00:04:02,190 --> 00:04:05,470 Speaker 1: There's a river coming. A flow of his favor is 69 00:04:05,550 --> 00:04:08,830 Speaker 1: on the way. Well, I'm stuck in this valley. It's 70 00:04:08,930 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: low place, overlooked, left out. God makes fountains in the valleys. 71 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,100 Speaker 1: He's about to cause something to suddenly spring up. A 72 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,580 Speaker 1: good break. Your child turns around. Your health improves. I 73 00:04:22,620 --> 00:04:26,550 Speaker 1: feel like I'm in the wilderness. Lost. No direction. Kind 74 00:04:26,580 --> 00:04:31,169 Speaker 1: of tired. Feel overwhelmed. God sees you. He knows the struggles. 75 00:04:31,650 --> 00:04:34,529 Speaker 1: He said, I'm going to make pools in the wilderness. 76 00:04:35,010 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: Refreshing is coming. An anointing of ease. Doors opening. Clear direction. 77 00:04:41,690 --> 00:04:46,130 Speaker 1: supernatural strength so you can step into your purpose. Joel, 78 00:04:46,190 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: I'm in a barren place, no fruit, no productivity. They 79 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 1: say I can't have a baby. I can't give birth 80 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: to my dreams. Being barren is not how your story ends. 81 00:04:57,540 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: God makes streams in the barren places. God is going 82 00:05:01,370 --> 00:05:06,890 Speaker 1: to bring opportunity, resources, healing. So even in the barren places, 83 00:05:07,050 --> 00:05:10,490 Speaker 1: you'll be blessed. Even though experts say you're barren, you 84 00:05:10,510 --> 00:05:13,770 Speaker 1: can't have that baby. It doesn't come from people. It 85 00:05:13,810 --> 00:05:18,970 Speaker 1: comes from God. He's going to take what looks desolate, dry, 86 00:05:19,089 --> 00:05:22,860 Speaker 1: no growth, and cause it to bloom, to blossom from 87 00:05:22,950 --> 00:05:26,860 Speaker 1: barren to bountiful. Look at the words God uses when 88 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:34,820 Speaker 1: we're in dry seasons, when we're thirsty, we can't find water, rivers, fountains, pools, streams. 89 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:39,430 Speaker 1: What's significant? is none of these things are found typically 90 00:05:39,510 --> 00:05:44,620 Speaker 1: in a desert. Rivers and deserts don't go together. Fountains, springs, pools, 91 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: you don't expect them there. God is saying, when you're 92 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,700 Speaker 1: in the desert, I'm going to bring you unexpected blessings. 93 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,409 Speaker 1: You're going to see fountains in the desert. Fountains means 94 00:05:57,990 --> 00:06:01,110 Speaker 1: a new source springing up. You didn't see it coming. 95 00:06:01,870 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: The medical report was the same month after month. The 96 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: treatment didn't seem to be helping. Then God created a 97 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: fountain in the valley. Good health sprung up. Suddenly, there 98 00:06:12,020 --> 00:06:16,260 Speaker 1: was no explanation. Nothing you did changed. You were in 99 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: that dry place, just being your best, trusting God was 100 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: in control, and he gave you water in the desert, 101 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: a fountain of healing. Maybe in your business, things were stagnant. 102 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,490 Speaker 1: You got passed over for the contract, turned down for 103 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: the promotion, and No thoughts tell you, you're too old, man. 104 00:06:35,180 --> 00:06:37,600 Speaker 1: It's too late. Too many people in front of you. 105 00:06:38,580 --> 00:06:41,380 Speaker 1: In one sense, that was all true. There was no water, 106 00:06:42,020 --> 00:06:45,909 Speaker 1: no good options. Then out of nowhere, a fountain sprung up, 107 00:06:46,490 --> 00:06:50,570 Speaker 1: a good break, a phone call, a contract. Now you're 108 00:06:50,610 --> 00:06:53,890 Speaker 1: flourishing in the desert. You have an abundance in what 109 00:06:54,010 --> 00:06:57,070 Speaker 1: used to be a barren place. God knows how to 110 00:06:57,190 --> 00:07:00,610 Speaker 1: quench your thirst. He knows how to bring water to 111 00:07:00,710 --> 00:07:05,690 Speaker 1: difficult places where it's not likely, not natural. You don't 112 00:07:05,730 --> 00:07:07,969 Speaker 1: go to the desert and say, man, let's go see 113 00:07:07,990 --> 00:07:10,970 Speaker 1: the fountains out there. Let's go hang out in the pool. 114 00:07:11,010 --> 00:07:15,180 Speaker 1: Let's go swim in the streams. Water and deserts are opposite. 115 00:07:15,860 --> 00:07:20,580 Speaker 1: The desert is hot, dry, barren, but God does things 116 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. He's not limited to the natural. 117 00:07:25,060 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: When you're in the desert, God says, because you're my child, 118 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: because you called on my name, I'm not going to 119 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,180 Speaker 1: leave you in a dry place. I'm going to make 120 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:37,340 Speaker 1: rivers in your desert. I'm going to create streams in 121 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: your barren place. I'm going to make pools in your 122 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,930 Speaker 1: wilderness where you should dry up. You should be overcome. 123 00:07:45,230 --> 00:07:47,650 Speaker 1: God is saying, I'm going to cause you to flourish, 124 00:07:48,210 --> 00:07:53,170 Speaker 1: to prosper, to excel despite what comes against you. You 125 00:07:53,210 --> 00:07:55,830 Speaker 1: may be in a desert today and looks like it's 126 00:07:55,890 --> 00:07:59,780 Speaker 1: never going to change. Barren and lonely, a child is 127 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,860 Speaker 1: weighing you down or business seems stuck. God has heard 128 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:07,730 Speaker 1: your cry. He sees what you're going through and he 129 00:08:07,790 --> 00:08:10,970 Speaker 1: will not forsake you. It's dry now, but get ready. 130 00:08:11,290 --> 00:08:17,270 Speaker 1: Water is coming. Rivers, streams, fountains, pools, not a little trickle. 131 00:08:18,130 --> 00:08:21,110 Speaker 1: Not a few drops here and there, but a flood 132 00:08:21,230 --> 00:08:26,250 Speaker 1: of God's goodness. Rivers in the desert. Not one, but multiple. 133 00:08:27,070 --> 00:08:31,810 Speaker 1: Fountains in the valley. Good breaks springing up. Came out 134 00:08:31,860 --> 00:08:35,220 Speaker 1: of nowhere. A fountain is a new source of blessing. 135 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,980 Speaker 1: Something that wasn't there before. A new relationship, new position, 136 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: a new baby, a new standard for your family. How 137 00:08:44,380 --> 00:08:48,610 Speaker 1: did this happen? You should have been stuck. Limited, barren, 138 00:08:48,950 --> 00:08:51,770 Speaker 1: but God stepped in and made rivers in the desert. 139 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: That's what God did for Moses. You remember, he brought 140 00:08:55,540 --> 00:08:59,219 Speaker 1: water out of a rock. God knows how to provide 141 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: for you when you're in a dry season. You're searching 142 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,209 Speaker 1: for water, but you can't find anything. You're parched, you're thirsty. 143 00:09:07,910 --> 00:09:10,870 Speaker 1: You'll be tempted to get discouraged. I don't think I'll 144 00:09:10,890 --> 00:09:13,890 Speaker 1: get out of this difficulty. So much for my dream, 145 00:09:13,950 --> 00:09:16,569 Speaker 1: no doors are opening. I don't think this problem will 146 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,610 Speaker 1: ever turn around in my health. Don't believe those lies. 147 00:09:19,950 --> 00:09:22,750 Speaker 1: When you're in a dry season, keep looking for water. 148 00:09:23,390 --> 00:09:27,130 Speaker 1: Keep declaring God's promises. Keep thanking him that it's changing. 149 00:09:27,570 --> 00:09:31,770 Speaker 1: Keep expecting fountains to spring up. See, the scripture says 150 00:09:32,150 --> 00:09:37,270 Speaker 1: these people were searching for water, but finding none. There's 151 00:09:37,290 --> 00:09:43,300 Speaker 1: a difference when you're searching, believing, trusting, but nothing's happening. Verse, 152 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,230 Speaker 1: you're negativing. passive. It's not going to work out. I'm 153 00:09:48,260 --> 00:09:52,250 Speaker 1: too late. It's too barren. Everything about my environment is dead. 154 00:09:52,929 --> 00:09:57,270 Speaker 1: The scripture says those who hunger and thirst after righteousness 155 00:09:57,330 --> 00:10:01,620 Speaker 1: will be filled. There needs to be a thirst. a faith, 156 00:10:02,150 --> 00:10:06,100 Speaker 1: an expectancy that says this desert is not where my 157 00:10:06,140 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: story ends. Yes, it's hot. It's dry. I don't see 158 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: anything improving, but God, I know you have water coming. 159 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: You make rivers in the desert. You make fountains in 160 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,819 Speaker 1: the valleys. Let faith rise up and you'll see God 161 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:32,359 Speaker 1: do unusual things. How can you have a fountain in 162 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,900 Speaker 1: the desert? How can there be streams in barren places? 163 00:10:36,660 --> 00:10:39,059 Speaker 1: How could you have that baby when the experts said 164 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 1: you were barren? How could my mother still be alive 165 00:10:42,740 --> 00:10:45,460 Speaker 1: when she was told she had terminal cancer 44 years ago? 166 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,270 Speaker 1: How could my father impact so many people when he 167 00:10:51,309 --> 00:10:54,970 Speaker 1: was the least of these? He came from poverty. He 168 00:10:55,010 --> 00:10:59,330 Speaker 1: had no education to speak of, no training, no one 169 00:10:59,390 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: to encourage him. Yet at 17 years old, he gave 170 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,260 Speaker 1: his life to Christ, the first one in our family. 171 00:11:06,820 --> 00:11:10,540 Speaker 1: What happened? In that barren place, a fountain sprung up, 172 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: something uncommon, out of the ordinary and Daddy went on 173 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,540 Speaker 1: to minister to people all over the world. Started Lakewood 174 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,780 Speaker 1: with my mother, pastored here almost 40 years. What am 175 00:11:21,820 --> 00:11:26,860 Speaker 1: I saying? God specializes in bringing water to unusual places, 176 00:11:27,380 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: things that you didn't see coming. I met a man 177 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,260 Speaker 1: in the lobby a while back. He was in town 178 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,990 Speaker 1: to go to the medical center for treatment. He had 179 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,670 Speaker 1: cancer of the vocal cords. The doctors had treated him 180 00:11:39,730 --> 00:11:43,189 Speaker 1: for some time, trying to save his voice, yet take 181 00:11:43,230 --> 00:11:47,310 Speaker 1: care of the cancer and Unfortunately, they weren't successful. They 182 00:11:47,330 --> 00:11:50,070 Speaker 1: were gonna have to remove his vocal cords, wouldn't be 183 00:11:50,110 --> 00:11:53,750 Speaker 1: able to speak anymore. This has been a five-year battle. 184 00:11:54,290 --> 00:11:57,580 Speaker 1: He'd prayed and stood in faith, but it hadn't turned 185 00:11:57,650 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: out the way he had hoped. He was in a 186 00:12:00,460 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: desert season, a barren place, about to lose his voice. 187 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:08,820 Speaker 1: But God says, when you're thirsty, when you're searching for water, 188 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,820 Speaker 1: but you can't find it, I will not forsake you. 189 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,260 Speaker 1: I hear your cries and I will answer you. God 190 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,500 Speaker 1: is with you in the barren places. He's with you 191 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,940 Speaker 1: in the lonely nights, the hospital room, the times you 192 00:12:22,980 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: don't see how you can go on. And this man, 193 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:28,900 Speaker 1: he had a good attitude. And the natural, he was disappointed, 194 00:12:28,940 --> 00:12:31,450 Speaker 1: but he still believed that God was in control. And 195 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,829 Speaker 1: we prayed that the surgery would go well. There wouldn't 196 00:12:35,870 --> 00:12:39,710 Speaker 1: be any complications. Three weeks later, he came up to 197 00:12:39,750 --> 00:12:42,150 Speaker 1: me after the service and said, Joel, how are you? 198 00:12:43,150 --> 00:12:45,489 Speaker 1: I said, I'm doing great, but what happened? You didn't 199 00:12:45,530 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: have the surgery? He smiled real big and he said, yes, 200 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,580 Speaker 1: I did have it, but I can still talk. The 201 00:12:51,620 --> 00:12:57,220 Speaker 1: doctors were baffled. They couldn't explain it. They removed 90% 202 00:12:57,220 --> 00:13:00,540 Speaker 1: of his vocal cords. His main doctor said in his 203 00:13:00,540 --> 00:13:04,500 Speaker 1: 30 years of practice, he'd never seen or heard of 204 00:13:04,540 --> 00:13:07,350 Speaker 1: this ever happening. He wrote on his chart, there is 205 00:13:07,429 --> 00:13:12,230 Speaker 1: no medical explanation as to why you can speak. God 206 00:13:12,330 --> 00:13:17,370 Speaker 1: knows how to make rivers in the desert, fountains springing 207 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:22,189 Speaker 1: up in the valley, unexpected blessings, healing you can't explain, 208 00:13:22,650 --> 00:13:26,630 Speaker 1: promotion you didn't see coming. Your child suddenly turns around, 209 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: springs in the barren places. You may be in a 210 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: dry place now. Your health, your finances, a relationship, you're 211 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: searching for water, doing what you can, but finding none 212 00:13:39,980 --> 00:13:42,710 Speaker 1: is I know thoughts whisper, hey, this house is always 213 00:13:42,730 --> 00:13:47,270 Speaker 1: going to be for you. Lonely, addicted, turmoil in your marriage. 214 00:13:48,030 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: God is saying to you what he said to the Israelites, 215 00:13:51,410 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: I'm about to make rivers in your desert, pools in 216 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,740 Speaker 1: that wilderness, a fountain in your valley. You're going to 217 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: go from dry, thirsty parts to blessed, promoted, healed, restored, 218 00:14:04,780 --> 00:14:07,780 Speaker 1: and In those barren places, you need to keep these 219 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:14,590 Speaker 1: words down in your spirit. Rivers, fountains, streams, pools. These 220 00:14:14,650 --> 00:14:22,430 Speaker 1: indicate refreshing, favor, new opportunities, lack turned to abundance, struggle 221 00:14:22,470 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 1: turned to ease, addicted turned to freedom, lonely to great relationships, 222 00:14:28,140 --> 00:14:31,300 Speaker 1: not enough to more than enough. Now, instead of having 223 00:14:31,340 --> 00:14:36,030 Speaker 1: a desert mentality, a barren mindset, I'll never get out 224 00:14:36,050 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: of this famine. I'll always be thirsty. Turn it around. Lord, 225 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,380 Speaker 1: I know you make rivers in the desert. I may 226 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,740 Speaker 1: be in a valley, but Lord, I thank you that 227 00:14:45,780 --> 00:14:48,660 Speaker 1: a fountain is about to spring up, something that I 228 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:54,100 Speaker 1: didn't see coming, streams in my barren places. See, verse 229 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: 19 says, God will open rivers in the desolate heights. 230 00:14:58,060 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: One translation says in the high places. Now, the higher 231 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,820 Speaker 1: you go up a mountain, the more desolate it is. 232 00:15:04,420 --> 00:15:08,580 Speaker 1: Less greenery, less vegetation. We all know a river doesn't 233 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: flow up a mountain. A river flows down. But God 234 00:15:12,590 --> 00:15:16,150 Speaker 1: is saying, I'm going to bring rivers to the desolate heights. 235 00:15:16,730 --> 00:15:20,330 Speaker 1: I'm going to cause water to flow to unexpected places. 236 00:15:21,110 --> 00:15:24,430 Speaker 1: Water flowing up when it should go down. It's going 237 00:15:24,470 --> 00:15:28,150 Speaker 1: to defy the odds. Water flowing to areas that don't 238 00:15:28,210 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: make sense. See, sometimes we're doing good. God's blessed you. Health, family, success. 239 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: You're in that high place, but in some area there 240 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,230 Speaker 1: can be barrenness, a dry season. I talked to a 241 00:15:44,530 --> 00:15:48,290 Speaker 1: very well-known person last week. He called from another city 242 00:15:48,330 --> 00:15:51,230 Speaker 1: and seems like he's on top of the world, but 243 00:15:51,270 --> 00:15:54,180 Speaker 1: he has a child that's estranged and won't talk to him. 244 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:58,580 Speaker 1: It's breaking his heart. We've all seen God's blessing in 245 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: certain areas and we're grateful for what he's done, but 246 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: But just because you're in a high place doesn't mean 247 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:08,700 Speaker 1: you're not going to have some desolate areas. Areas we 248 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,660 Speaker 1: need favor. We need breakthrough. We can't do it on 249 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: our own. We've used our talent, our influence, our connections, 250 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,359 Speaker 1: but this famine won't go away. Don't worry. God is 251 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: going to have water flow up to you. He makes 252 00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:26,940 Speaker 1: fountains in the valley, but when you're on the mountain, 253 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:31,140 Speaker 1: he'll send water up the hill. Water you can't explain 254 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: coming up that mountain. God knows how to quench your thirst. 255 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,619 Speaker 1: He knows how to turn your child around, how to 256 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:42,260 Speaker 1: cause you to talk without all of your vocal cords, 257 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,180 Speaker 1: how to promote you when you weren't next in line, 258 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:48,300 Speaker 1: how to take you from the shepherd's fields with only 259 00:16:48,380 --> 00:16:52,100 Speaker 1: a slingshot and put you in the palace. You may 260 00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: have been in that dry place a long time, praying, believing, 261 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:59,300 Speaker 1: doing the right thing. Can I encourage you? Water is 262 00:16:59,340 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: about to flow to you. It's going to be unexpected. 263 00:17:03,020 --> 00:17:06,780 Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. You can't explain it. Water flowing 264 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:12,179 Speaker 1: up the hill. Isaiah said, God will open rivers in 265 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: the desolate heights. It's like when you open a door 266 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: to let something out. This implies that what God has 267 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,379 Speaker 1: for you is already in place. He's about to open 268 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:27,330 Speaker 1: a door and release the river with your blessings, your healing, 269 00:17:27,790 --> 00:17:32,610 Speaker 1: your freedom. Psalm says, God has blessings stored up for 270 00:17:32,619 --> 00:17:36,870 Speaker 1: the righteous. There are blessings that already have your name 271 00:17:36,970 --> 00:17:41,490 Speaker 1: on them. The healing, the baby, the business, the ministry, 272 00:17:41,530 --> 00:17:45,929 Speaker 1: the freedom, the spouse. When God opens the door and 273 00:17:45,990 --> 00:17:50,570 Speaker 1: releases those blessings, that river will flow upstream if it 274 00:17:50,630 --> 00:17:54,610 Speaker 1: has to. That fountain will suddenly spring up. You didn't 275 00:17:54,670 --> 00:17:58,260 Speaker 1: see it coming. That's a stored up blessing God has 276 00:17:58,300 --> 00:18:01,540 Speaker 1: to quench your thirst, to cause you to flourish in 277 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:05,780 Speaker 1: the famine, to blossom in the barren season, to prosper 278 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,570 Speaker 1: in the wilderness. I don't believe the thoughts that, hey, 279 00:18:09,590 --> 00:18:13,850 Speaker 1: the drought is permanent. Water is coming. Pools are coming. 280 00:18:14,290 --> 00:18:17,669 Speaker 1: Fountains about to spring up. Rivers flowing up a mountain. 281 00:18:18,750 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: God doesn't have to bring you out of that desert. 282 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: He's going to bring you water in the desert. Something 283 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense. Where you know it's the hand 284 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,899 Speaker 1: of God doing what only he can do. That's what happened. 285 00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: Second Kings chapter three, the people of Judah had been 286 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,550 Speaker 1: traveling through the wilderness for seven days on their way 287 00:18:37,590 --> 00:18:41,030 Speaker 1: to battle an enemy army. When they ran out of water, 288 00:18:41,850 --> 00:18:45,230 Speaker 1: they took a longer route than expected. And now nothing 289 00:18:45,290 --> 00:18:48,580 Speaker 1: to drink for them or their animals. Verse 10, one 290 00:18:48,619 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: of the leaders said, what are we going to do? 291 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,899 Speaker 1: Has God brought us out here to let the enemy 292 00:18:53,980 --> 00:18:58,210 Speaker 1: defeat us? They were discouraged, thinking we're in the desert. 293 00:18:58,670 --> 00:19:03,510 Speaker 1: We miscalculated, didn't bring enough water. Now we're stuck. King 294 00:19:03,550 --> 00:19:07,210 Speaker 1: Jehoshaphat called for the prophet Elijah, said, we're going to 295 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: see what the Lord says. When you're in a desert place, 296 00:19:11,570 --> 00:19:14,530 Speaker 1: Don't do like that one leader and complain. Talk about 297 00:19:14,590 --> 00:19:17,450 Speaker 1: how bad it is. God, why did this happen? Do 298 00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:21,130 Speaker 1: like Jehoshaphat. Go to God and ask him to help you. 299 00:19:22,330 --> 00:19:25,889 Speaker 1: Elisha said in verse 16, this is what the Lord says. 300 00:19:26,310 --> 00:19:30,410 Speaker 1: You will see neither wind nor rain, but this valley 301 00:19:30,530 --> 00:19:34,070 Speaker 1: will be filled with water. You can imagine what they thought. 302 00:19:34,450 --> 00:19:37,450 Speaker 1: Come on, Elisha. You're telling us we're gonna have all 303 00:19:37,490 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: this water without any rain? That doesn't make sense. Where's 304 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,570 Speaker 1: it going to come from? Where's the source? God is 305 00:19:45,630 --> 00:19:49,990 Speaker 1: the source. He controls the universe. He may not do it. 306 00:19:50,070 --> 00:19:54,260 Speaker 1: it a traditional way. What you were expecting, what you've 307 00:19:54,300 --> 00:19:57,340 Speaker 1: seen in the past, God knows how to bring water 308 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,939 Speaker 1: without rain. He can make a river flow up a mountain. 309 00:20:01,550 --> 00:20:04,689 Speaker 1: He healed my mother without medicine. There was no treatment 310 00:20:04,730 --> 00:20:07,650 Speaker 1: at the time. He put me up here without the training, 311 00:20:08,010 --> 00:20:12,590 Speaker 1: without the experience. That's water without rain. You can't calculate 312 00:20:12,750 --> 00:20:16,650 Speaker 1: how God's gonna do it. His ways are not our ways. 313 00:20:16,710 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 1: They are higher and better than our ways. The next morning, 314 00:20:20,780 --> 00:20:23,780 Speaker 1: the men woke up, looked off in the distance, and 315 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,500 Speaker 1: they see all this water coming into the valley. Didn't rain. 316 00:20:29,390 --> 00:20:31,859 Speaker 1: There wasn't a big heat wave to melt the snow. 317 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: This was the hand of God making streams in the desert. 318 00:20:36,580 --> 00:20:39,500 Speaker 1: Not only that, when the enemy army came to attack 319 00:20:39,619 --> 00:20:43,030 Speaker 1: the people of Judah, they saw the water with the 320 00:20:43,109 --> 00:20:45,949 Speaker 1: sun hitting it. They thought it was blood that the 321 00:20:45,970 --> 00:20:49,189 Speaker 1: people had already been defeated. So they rushed in to 322 00:20:49,230 --> 00:20:53,810 Speaker 1: gather the spoils, had their guard down. Much to their surprise, 323 00:20:53,869 --> 00:20:57,730 Speaker 1: Jehoshaphat and his men were standing there strong and ready 324 00:20:57,770 --> 00:21:01,429 Speaker 1: to go. They easily defeated the enemy and went on 325 00:21:01,450 --> 00:21:05,390 Speaker 1: to fulfill their purpose. Now you may be like Jehoshaphat 326 00:21:05,490 --> 00:21:08,810 Speaker 1: in a dry valley. Things didn't turn out the way 327 00:21:08,869 --> 00:21:13,230 Speaker 1: you thought. You had good intentions, but doing the right thing, 328 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,420 Speaker 1: there's no water in that valley. You don't have the resources. 329 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: You didn't get that scholarship. The experts say you can't 330 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,500 Speaker 1: have a baby. When you're in a barren season, you 331 00:21:23,540 --> 00:21:26,980 Speaker 1: have to remind yourself that God has ways to bring 332 00:21:27,060 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: water that you can't see. He can make a fountain 333 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,169 Speaker 1: suddenly spring up. He can cause water to flow to 334 00:21:34,210 --> 00:21:39,090 Speaker 1: your valley with no rain, no sign of it, no clouds, 335 00:21:39,330 --> 00:21:41,970 Speaker 1: no storm. Well, Joel, man, I'm discouraged because I don't 336 00:21:42,109 --> 00:21:45,969 Speaker 1: see anything happening. That doesn't mean that God is not working. 337 00:21:46,869 --> 00:21:50,370 Speaker 1: He's heard your cry and he's promised he's not going 338 00:21:50,410 --> 00:21:53,710 Speaker 1: to leave you thirsty. If he has to, he'll cause 339 00:21:53,770 --> 00:21:58,689 Speaker 1: water to flow up the mountain, an unexpected blessing, good breaks. 340 00:21:59,090 --> 00:22:02,730 Speaker 1: You didn't see coming the right people knocking on your door. 341 00:22:03,010 --> 00:22:05,310 Speaker 1: You didn't have to go to them. The water flowed 342 00:22:05,330 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: to you. I know there's a couple that own a 343 00:22:08,619 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: scrap metal business and they're very generous and always supporting 344 00:22:12,940 --> 00:22:17,380 Speaker 1: the ministry. They had a desire to build an orphanage overseas, 345 00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:20,070 Speaker 1: but it's going to cost way more than they had. 346 00:22:21,020 --> 00:22:23,550 Speaker 1: Even though it was over their head, they dared to 347 00:22:23,609 --> 00:22:27,409 Speaker 1: pray bold prayers and ask God to help them. They 348 00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:29,910 Speaker 1: were blessed in many ways. God had been good to them, 349 00:22:30,650 --> 00:22:32,689 Speaker 1: but when it came to this dream, they were in 350 00:22:32,710 --> 00:22:37,260 Speaker 1: a barren place. They didn't have the funds or Logically speaking, 351 00:22:37,380 --> 00:22:39,860 Speaker 1: they would never have enough. Even if their business had 352 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:42,540 Speaker 1: a banner year, it would still not be what they needed. 353 00:22:43,020 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: But God is not limited by what you don't have. 354 00:22:46,619 --> 00:22:51,060 Speaker 1: He's supernatural. He brings water without rain. He caused a 355 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,650 Speaker 1: man to talk without most of his vocal cords. Don't 356 00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:57,050 Speaker 1: put God in a box or you can talk yourself 357 00:22:57,170 --> 00:23:00,150 Speaker 1: out of it. A better attitude is, God, I don't 358 00:23:00,210 --> 00:23:02,730 Speaker 1: see a way, but I know you have a way. 359 00:23:02,990 --> 00:23:05,970 Speaker 1: You make rivers in the desert. And one day this 360 00:23:06,050 --> 00:23:10,949 Speaker 1: man bought a huge supply of old discarded batteries. It's 361 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,980 Speaker 1: hundreds of truck loads, car batteries, motorcycle batteries, and they 362 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: were piled up several stories high, a football field long. 363 00:23:19,340 --> 00:23:21,510 Speaker 1: One night he had a dream and he saw this 364 00:23:21,609 --> 00:23:25,590 Speaker 1: certain battery, very distinct looking. When he woke up, something 365 00:23:25,630 --> 00:23:29,050 Speaker 1: said to him, there's treasure in that battery. He was 366 00:23:29,109 --> 00:23:31,409 Speaker 1: intrigued by it and he and his son went out 367 00:23:31,430 --> 00:23:35,070 Speaker 1: and started digging through the batteries. Much to his surprise, 368 00:23:35,109 --> 00:23:38,010 Speaker 1: he found that same battery that he saw in his dream. 369 00:23:38,830 --> 00:23:41,570 Speaker 1: He took it to a local expert and asked him 370 00:23:41,609 --> 00:23:44,890 Speaker 1: to examine it. He said it's nothing, just an old 371 00:23:44,930 --> 00:23:49,730 Speaker 1: World War II motorcycle battery, probably worth two cents. The 372 00:23:49,750 --> 00:23:52,310 Speaker 1: man wasn't convinced. He asked him to open it up 373 00:23:52,450 --> 00:23:55,970 Speaker 1: and look inside. When he did, he found that it 374 00:23:56,030 --> 00:24:00,260 Speaker 1: wasn't made of lead, but of silver. These were batteries 375 00:24:00,340 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: that the Germans tested to see if the silver would 376 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: withstand the cold better than lead. The expert said, I 377 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 1: was wrong. This isn't worth a couple cents. It's worth 378 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,470 Speaker 1: hundreds of dollars. It's full of silver. This man had 379 00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:17,730 Speaker 1: tens of thousands of those batteries piled up. It's like 380 00:24:17,770 --> 00:24:21,070 Speaker 1: he won the lottery. He went on to build that orphanage. 381 00:24:21,990 --> 00:24:25,730 Speaker 1: What am I saying? God knows how to make rivers 382 00:24:25,859 --> 00:24:29,389 Speaker 1: in the desert. fountains springing up in a valley, an 383 00:24:29,530 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: unexpected source. You didn't see it coming. Like my friends, 384 00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: you may have a big dream, but you don't have 385 00:24:36,859 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: the resources. God knows how to quench your thirst. He 386 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,660 Speaker 1: has ways you've never thought of. One touch of His favor, 387 00:24:45,140 --> 00:24:48,300 Speaker 1: you'll come out of that drought into abundance, from not 388 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,060 Speaker 1: enough to more than enough. Numbers 21, the Israelites were 389 00:24:53,180 --> 00:24:57,780 Speaker 1: traveling through the desert in the They were tired and 390 00:24:57,859 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: thirsty and just when they thought they couldn't go on, 391 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,620 Speaker 1: they came to this well. They were so excited thinking 392 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,239 Speaker 1: that they finally were gonna get some water and they 393 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:10,940 Speaker 1: rushed over to it, but the well was dry, hadn't 394 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,369 Speaker 1: been used in years. God told the people to gather 395 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,310 Speaker 1: around and he would give them water. Verse 17 says, 396 00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:22,970 Speaker 1: the people begin to sing, spring up a well. They 397 00:25:23,030 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: were singing over a well. thanking God that water was 398 00:25:26,820 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: coming when there was no sign of it. Wasn't long 399 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,990 Speaker 1: after that, till the well began to gush forth with water. 400 00:25:34,770 --> 00:25:37,590 Speaker 1: When you're in a dry season, it's easy to complain. 401 00:25:37,609 --> 00:25:41,170 Speaker 1: I never get good breaks. My health is not going 402 00:25:41,190 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: to change. I wish God would give me some of 403 00:25:43,859 --> 00:25:47,340 Speaker 1: those batteries, Joel. All I have are dura cells. Try 404 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,070 Speaker 1: a new approach. Spring up a well. God let the 405 00:25:51,150 --> 00:25:54,950 Speaker 1: water flow in my life. You have to sing before 406 00:25:54,990 --> 00:25:58,500 Speaker 1: the well opens up. You may be in a dry 407 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,700 Speaker 1: season now, but that is not where your story ends. 408 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:05,700 Speaker 1: God is not going to leave you thirsty. He sees 409 00:26:05,740 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: what you're dealing with. He knows how long it's been. 410 00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:12,939 Speaker 1: how you persevered. You've done the right thing. Even when 411 00:26:12,980 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: you felt overlooked, water is coming. God is about to 412 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: send streams in your barren place, a fountain in that valley, 413 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: a new sense of joy and favor and opportunity, water 414 00:26:26,510 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 1: flowing up the mountain, things you can't explain. Now all 415 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 1: through the day, keep singing to that promise, thanking God 416 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: that he's working, knowing that he will not forsake you. 417 00:26:37,619 --> 00:26:41,330 Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe and declare that dry 418 00:26:41,380 --> 00:26:44,669 Speaker 1: season is coming to an end. God is about to 419 00:26:44,730 --> 00:26:50,810 Speaker 1: surprise you. Water without rain, healing, promotion, favor, the right people, 420 00:26:51,330 --> 00:26:55,869 Speaker 1: a flood of God's goodness in Jesus' name. And if 421 00:26:55,890 --> 00:26:59,909 Speaker 1: you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to 422 00:26:59,930 --> 00:27:02,710 Speaker 1: give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of 423 00:27:02,750 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, 424 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:11,179 Speaker 1: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 425 00:27:11,260 --> 00:27:14,450 Speaker 1: make you my Lord and Savior. If you prayed that 426 00:27:14,510 --> 00:27:18,220 Speaker 1: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd love 427 00:27:18,260 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: to send you some free information on your new walk 428 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:22,820 Speaker 1: with the Lord. You can go to the website or 429 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,380 Speaker 1: text the number on the screen. But I hope you'll 430 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,669 Speaker 1: get into a good Bible-based church and keep God first place. 431 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,380 Speaker 1: The scripture says, write the vision and make it plain 432 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,980 Speaker 1: to see. There's something powerful about writing down what you're 433 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,570 Speaker 1: believing for. That's why I'd love to send you my 434 00:27:46,609 --> 00:27:49,710 Speaker 1: new I Believe Planner. It's a place to write down 435 00:27:49,730 --> 00:27:53,290 Speaker 1: your dreams, your prayers, and the promises you're standing on. 436 00:27:53,869 --> 00:27:56,669 Speaker 1: What stays before your eyes has a way of staying 437 00:27:56,710 --> 00:27:59,570 Speaker 1: in your heart. Every time you see what you've written, 438 00:27:59,930 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: let it be a reminder to thank God that He's 439 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: already at work behind the scenes, even when you can't 440 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: see it. As you keep your faith in front of 441 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,619 Speaker 1: you day after day, you'll be encouraged, your expectation will grow, 442 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,979 Speaker 1: and you'll begin to see God bring those dreams to pass. 443 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,130 Speaker 2: The I Believe Planner is a beautiful new resource designed 444 00:28:19,150 --> 00:28:22,109 Speaker 2: to help you believe God for more in your health, 445 00:28:22,390 --> 00:28:26,310 Speaker 2: your family, your future. 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