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Oh God bless you. 42 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 4: It is always a joy to come into your homes. 43 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 4: We love you and we're believing that this year is 44 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 4: going to be your best year so far, and we 45 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 4: just appreciate you tuning in. If you're ever in our area, 46 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 4: come out and be a part of one of our services. 47 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 4: These are the finest people in all of Houston right 48 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 4: here at Lakewood, and we'd love to have you be apart. 49 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 4: But thanks for tuning in today. I like to get 50 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 4: started each week with something kind of funny. And I 51 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 4: heard about this burglar that broke into a home one night, 52 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 4: and as he was stealing the stereo, he heard a 53 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 4: voice saying, Jesus is watching. He froze in his tracks. 54 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 4: He shined the flashlight around the room and he noticed 55 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 4: over in the corner there was a parrot. He said, 56 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 4: did you say that? The parrot said, yep, I'm just 57 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 4: trying to warn you. He looked kind of confused and 58 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 4: said warn me. What do you mean? Who are you? 59 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 4: The parrot said, my name is Moses. He laughed and said, 60 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 4: what kind of crazy people would name a parrot Moses. 61 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 4: The parrot replied the same kind of people that would 62 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 4: name a one hundred and fifty pound rockweller. Jesus, All right, 63 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 4: hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 64 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 4: This is my Bible I am, and what it says 65 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 4: I am? I have what it says I have, I 66 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 4: can do what it says I can do. Today, I 67 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 4: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess 68 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 4: my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 69 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 4: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 70 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about having the 71 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 4: God kind of faith. And when we hear the word faith, 72 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 4: many times we think of it in a general sense. 73 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: If I ask you if you had faith, every one 74 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 4: of us would say yes. But there are different types 75 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: of faith. There's a faith for our everyday life, where 76 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 4: we have faith to get to work safely in faith, 77 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 4: to provide for our family, faith to be healthy. That's 78 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 4: the way we typically think of faith. But Jesus said 79 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 4: in Mark eleven, have the faith of God. Notice that 80 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: little word of it tells us where it originates from. 81 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 4: And I know people that have faith in God. They 82 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 4: believe God can do anything. But this is saying we 83 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 4: can have the faith of God. In other words, God 84 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 4: wants to take some of his faith and deposit it 85 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 4: on the inside of you. It's a faith that doesn't 86 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 4: originate with ourselves. One translation calls it the God kind 87 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 4: of faith. What type of faith is this? It's a 88 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 4: faith that stretches, a faith that makes us believe we 89 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 4: can accomplish things that we once thought were impossible. It's 90 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 4: a faith that challenges us to go beyond the barriers 91 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 4: of our past and to do things that we've never 92 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 4: done before. You'll know it's the faith of God when 93 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 4: something rises up in you and you don't really know 94 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 4: why you're believing it's totally over your head. It seems 95 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 4: like it's out of your reach, but deep down, something 96 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,280 Speaker 4: keeps telling you, now it's going to happen. God's going 97 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 4: to bring this to pass. That's the God kind of faith. 98 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 4: A faith that tells you you're going to get well 99 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 4: even though medical science says it's impossible. Where did you 100 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 4: get that didn't originate with you? God deposited that on 101 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 4: the inside. The God kind of faith will tell you 102 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 4: you're going to accomplish your dreams even though you may 103 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 4: not think you have the connections, the resources, or the education. 104 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 4: It's a faith that says, even though no one in 105 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 4: my family is doing right, as for me and my house, 106 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 4: we will serve the Lord. The God kind of faith 107 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 4: gives you a spark of hope, a reason to believe 108 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 4: you can accomplish every dream and overcome every obstacle. When 109 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 4: you have this faith of God, it's as if you're 110 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 4: allowing God to believe through you. He takes some of 111 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 4: his faith and puts it on the inside, and because 112 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 4: you get in agreement with it, that allows God to 113 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 4: bring it to pass. But here's the whole key. You 114 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 4: have to let it take root. It comes up out 115 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 4: of your heart. That's God speaking to you. That's his faith. 116 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 4: It didn't originate with you. He's trying to plant it 117 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 4: on the inside. But if you're not careful, your mind 118 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 4: will try to talk you out of it. Your mind 119 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 4: will tell you all the reasons why it's not going 120 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 4: to happen, and how you don't have the right connections 121 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 4: and you're too old or too young, or here's a 122 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 4: common one, you've made too many mistakes. God's mad at you. Man, 123 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 4: You're never going to see your dreams come to pass. Now, 124 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 4: if you're going to have the God kind of faith, 125 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 4: you've got to come to a point where you so 126 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 4: to speak, turn your mind off. You've got to quit 127 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 4: listening to all the negative discouraging. Can't do it, thoughts, 128 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 4: if you're constantly dwelling on all the reasons why it's 129 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 4: not going to happen, and how you don't have enough, 130 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 4: and how you'll never get out of debt. That seed 131 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,239 Speaker 4: is not going to take ruth. And sure you'll still 132 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 4: have faith, but when you have the faith of God, 133 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 4: you're allowing him to believe through you. And it may 134 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 4: not make sense to your mind, but you've got to 135 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 4: just shake it off and say, God, I am bold 136 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 4: enough to believe you can do anything. And even though 137 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 4: this looks impossible, I know this faith didn't come from me. 138 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 4: It came from you, and you created the whole universe. 139 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 4: And so if you say it can happen, I'm going 140 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 4: to get in agreement with you and believe that it 141 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 4: will happen. When you learn to have the God kind 142 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 4: of faith, you'll find yourself at times believing for things 143 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 4: that you know it's not your faith, and you'll think, 144 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 4: I don't even know why I think this is going 145 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 4: to happen. I don't know how I'm being so bold. 146 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 4: I don't know where I'm getting this confidence, but somehow, 147 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 4: some way, deep down in here, I know it is 148 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 4: going to happen. That's the God kind of faith. I 149 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 4: can look back in my own life and see times 150 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 4: where I know my faith didn't come from me. It 151 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 4: didn't originate from my own thinking. Something down in here said, Joel, 152 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 4: you can accomplish this dream. You have what it takes. 153 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 4: I've learned to let that take root. That's God trying 154 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 4: to believe through us. In other words, the God that 155 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 4: lives in you right now, the Holy Spirit on the 156 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 4: inside is trying to connect with your spirit. And if 157 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 4: you'll allow him and not talk yourself out of it, 158 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 4: God can believe through you. This is what happened when 159 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 4: my father went to be with the Lord. What gave 160 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 4: me the confidence to step up and pastor the church. 161 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 4: I had only spoken one time. I'm smart enough to 162 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 4: know you cannot pastor a church if you've only spoken once. 163 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 4: You need sermons, you need training, you need material in 164 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 4: the natural. It didn't make sense. I had never been 165 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 4: to seminary. I didn't feel qualified. But deep down in here, 166 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 4: something kept saying, Joel, this is your time, this is 167 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 4: your destiny. You've got what it takes. I let that 168 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 4: seed take root. There wasn't so much that I was confident, 169 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 4: but I was allowing God to believe through me. It 170 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 4: was his faith I let it flow by simply coming 171 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 4: into agreement with him. Again. The thing that stops the 172 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 4: God kind of faith is when we talk ourselves out 173 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 4: of it. My mind was telling me the whole time, Joel, 174 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 4: you better not get up there and try to minister. 175 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 4: You're not gonna know what to say. You're gonna look 176 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 4: like a fool. You're not been trained, you're not qualified. 177 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,679 Speaker 4: On and on. I had to turn my mind off 178 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 4: and listen to my heart. That's where God speaks to you. 179 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 4: Up here, all I heard was it's a big mistake. 180 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 4: It's never gonna happen. But down in here, when I 181 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,839 Speaker 4: got quiet, I could hear the faith of God saying 182 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 4: you can do all things through Christ. You are strong 183 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 4: in the Lord, you are annointed, equipped and empowered. When 184 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 4: the God kind of faith rises up, there will always 185 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 4: be two voices competing for your attention. It will never 186 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 4: happen unopposed the voice of doubt telling you you can't, 187 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 4: you're not able, it's been too long. That'll rise up. 188 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 4: But at the same time, if you'll get quiet and 189 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 4: listen to your spirit person, you'll hear a voice of hope, 190 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 4: a voice of victory saying, now you are well able. 191 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 4: Those that are for you are greater than those that 192 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 4: are against you. If you're going to let the God 193 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 4: kind of faith take root, you've got to learn to 194 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 4: always choose that voice of hope. About eight months ago, 195 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 4: all of a sudden, I had this strong desire to 196 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 4: make a large donation to the ministry. I don't know 197 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 4: where it came from. I was just minding my own business. 198 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 4: I wasn't praying, I wasn't feeling spiritual, but all at 199 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,439 Speaker 4: once this desire dropped in my heart to give this 200 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 4: large gift. And at first, like we do many times, 201 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 4: my thought was, I can't give that amount. I don't 202 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 4: have it, where would I get it? All these reasons 203 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 4: telling me why it wasn't going to happen. There would 204 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 4: have been a time in my life where I just 205 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 4: kind of shaking that off, thought well, I'm just feeling 206 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 4: generous today, that'd be nice to do one day, and 207 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 4: just kind of ignored it and gone on. But now 208 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 4: realize that wasn't something that I just thought up. That 209 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 4: was a desire God deposited into my spirit, and at 210 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 4: the same time he was trying to put some of 211 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 4: his faith to go along with it. Understand God will 212 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 4: never give you a dream without giving you the faith 213 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 4: to accomplish it. He'll never give you a desire. He 214 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 4: won't put a promise in your heart without taking some 215 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 4: of his faith and putting it on the inside. And 216 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 4: I felt this desire so strongly, and I simply said, God, 217 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 4: I'm going to get in agreement with you and believe 218 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 4: that I'm going to be able to give this gift. 219 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 4: And I normally don't do this, but I just felt 220 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 4: like I was supposed to give it that year. And 221 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 4: this was a large stretch for our family. We didn't 222 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 4: have it in the natural. I didn't know where I 223 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 4: was going to get it, but I let the seed 224 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 4: take root. That's the main thing. God doesn't ask us 225 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 4: to figure it all out. He simply asked us to believe. 226 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 4: Month after month went by, I didn't see anything happening, 227 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 4: but I just kept thanking God that he was making 228 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 4: away the good news. When you realize it's the faith 229 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 4: of God, it takes all the pressure off of you. 230 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 4: I knew I didn't have to stir anything up. I 231 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 4: just relaxed and stayed in faith. Time. My mind was 232 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 4: telling me, Joe, this is far over your head. You're 233 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 4: never going to be able to give it. You're just 234 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 4: wasting your time. No, I just shook that off and said, 235 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 4: with God, all things are possible. I kept letting his 236 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 4: faith rise up. Well. Two weeks before the end of 237 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 4: the year, I got a call out of the blue 238 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 4: from someone asking me to be a part of a 239 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 4: certain project. And normally I would never do it, but 240 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 4: I really liked what they were doing. It wasn't gonna 241 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 4: take any of my time. I wasn't going to have 242 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 4: to do any work, so I agreed to do it. 243 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 4: I didn't even know they were going to do this, 244 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 4: but they were so happy. They said, Joel, to express 245 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 4: our appreciation, we're going to make a large donation to 246 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 4: your ministry. The amount they gave was the exact amount 247 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 4: to the penny of what God had put in my heart. 248 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 4: What am I say, If you'll let the faith of 249 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 4: God rise up, you'll see God do amazing things. If 250 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 4: you're bold enough to believe, God will be bold enough 251 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 4: to bring it to pass. And I know we all 252 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 4: have faith in God, we all know God can do anything. 253 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 4: But I want us to learn to receive the faith 254 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 4: of God. He's constantly trying to plant new seeds in 255 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 4: your heart. You have a desire to accomplish a new dream, 256 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 4: a desire to get out of debt, a desire to 257 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 4: overcome an addiction. The first thought that comes to your 258 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 4: mind is impossible. No, that's God trying to deposit some 259 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 4: of his faith. That's God trying to believe through you. 260 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 4: Why don't you get in agreement with him? You say, Joel, 261 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of faith. I wasn't raised 262 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 4: in church like you. I don't know all these scriptures, 263 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 4: or I've been through a lot of disappointments. I've had 264 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 4: a lot of setbacks in life. I don't have all 265 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 4: this faith that you're talking about. No, you don't have 266 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 4: to have great faith. You don't have to understand all 267 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 4: the theology and know all the scriptures. Jesus said, if 268 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 4: you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you 269 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 4: can say to a mountain, be removed, and it'll be 270 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,080 Speaker 4: taken away. A mustard seed is one of the the 271 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 4: smallest seeds. It's about that big. If I ask you, 272 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 4: do you have that much faith? Do you have an 273 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 4: eighth of an inch of faith? Every one of you 274 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 4: would say yes. Well, God is saying you have enough 275 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 4: faith to overcome every obstacle. You have enough faith to 276 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 4: accomplish every dream. You have enough faith to break every addiction. 277 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 4: You have the faith to live a victorious life. Quit 278 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 4: telling yourself, my problems are too big and I just 279 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 4: can't believe I don't have enough faith. No, it's not 280 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 4: your faith anyway. It's the faith of Almighty God. And 281 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 4: the good news is our God is all powerful. He 282 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 4: can turn any situation around. He can restore your marriage. 283 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 4: He can cause you to be at the right place 284 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 4: at the right time. One touch of his favor can 285 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 4: thrust you to a new level. God has already lined 286 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 4: up in your future the right people, the right breaks, 287 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 4: the right opportunity. He had the solution before you ever 288 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 4: even had the problem. He would not give you the 289 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 4: desire if he had not already made a way to 290 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 4: bring it to pass. Dare to believe. Draw that line 291 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 4: into sand and say that's it. This is a new day. 292 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 4: I've settled for defeat and mediocritly long enough. I'm done 293 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 4: with little dreams, little plans, little goals. I'm a child 294 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 4: of the Most High God. I'm gonna start tapping into 295 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 4: his faith. You've got to put on a new attitude. 296 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 4: You may not feel like you can do it in 297 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 4: your own strength, but God will give you the strength. 298 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 4: You may not have the wisdom, but God will give 299 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 4: you the wisdom. It may look impossible to you, but 300 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 4: God specializes in doing the impossible. Why don't you let 301 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 4: some of these seeds of hope take root? God's trying 302 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 4: to deposit some of his faith on the inside. 303 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 5: Now. 304 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 4: I know some of you have been through a lot 305 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 4: of disappointments. You've had unfair things happen in life. And 306 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 4: if you're at tempted to just sit back and kind 307 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 4: of settle where you are and think, oh, Joel, I'll 308 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 4: never really be happy, I'll never really accomplish my dream. 309 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 4: But I believe today you're feeling hope rising on the inside. 310 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 4: That's the God kind of faith trying to tell you 311 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 4: that your best days are still out in front of you. 312 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 4: And every dream that you've given up on, every desire 313 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 4: you push down, God still has a way to bring 314 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 4: it to pass. Your mind will tell you no way, 315 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 4: I've been through too much. But if you can just 316 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 4: shake off that negative, defeated mentality and let the faith 317 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 4: of God take root, then something will rise up on 318 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:33,359 Speaker 4: the inside, and instead of dragging around defeated and discouraged, 319 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 4: you will know that you know you are a victor 320 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 4: and not a victim. And it may not make sense 321 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 4: to your mind. You may have a lot of problems. 322 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 4: You may be deeply in debt, your health may not 323 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 4: be very good, and in the natural you should be 324 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 4: kind of down, discouraged, worried, frustrated. But if you'll listen 325 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 4: deep down in here, you'll hear that old song we 326 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 4: used to sing. I've got a feeling everything is going 327 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 4: to be all right, you're saying. I know, so, somehow, 328 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 4: some way, God is going to make a way. I 329 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 4: know God is fighting my battles for me. I know 330 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 4: right now he's arranging things in my favor, and when 331 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 4: it's all said and done, he's gonna bring me out 332 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 4: with the victory. What is that. That's the god kind 333 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 4: of faith rising up in your spirit. Let it take root, 334 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 4: you say, Joe, you don't know how impossible my dreams are. 335 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 4: I don't see how my marriage could be restored. I 336 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 4: don't see how I could ever get out of debt. 337 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 4: My faith is just not that strong. No, your faith 338 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 4: may not be that strong, but you have to realize 339 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 4: you have the faith of Almighty God. His faith is 340 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 4: plenty strong. He can do anything. Why don't you start 341 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 4: tapping into that. That's what the apostle Paul had to do. 342 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 4: He'd been through all kinds of adversity. He'd been shipwrecked 343 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 4: and thrown into prison, beaten, mistreated. Yet in spite of 344 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 4: all these obstacles, in spite of all these people coming 345 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 4: against him, he said, I am more than a conqueror. 346 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 4: He went on to write over half of the New Tests, 347 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 4: he accomplished his dreams. How could he have had such 348 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 4: a good attitude and fulfilled his destiny with all these obstacles. 349 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 4: I believe he gives us the secret of his success 350 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 4: He's found in Galatians two, verse twenty. He said, the 351 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 4: life I now live, I live by the faith of 352 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 4: the Son of God. Notice he was saying, I've learned 353 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 4: not to live by my own faith. I haven't made 354 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 4: it just because I had a strong will and I 355 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 4: was determined and I worked up some kind of emotion. 356 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 4: He said, the reason I could overcome every obstacle, the 357 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 4: reason I accomplished my dreams, was because I learned how 358 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 4: to tap in to the faith of Almighty God. And 359 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 4: if we're going to become everything God's created us to be, 360 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 4: if we're going to fulfill our God given destiny, we too, 361 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 4: like Paul, have to learn to let the faith of 362 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 4: Almighty God take root on the inside. I know this 363 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 4: man that was raised in a small town out in 364 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 4: the country. He was the youngest of many children. During 365 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 4: his teenage years, instead of playing sports like all of 366 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 4: his brothers, his parents got sick. He spent most of 367 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 4: his time taking care of them. And in his early 368 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 4: twenties he married a young girl from the community. And 369 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,439 Speaker 4: this young lady was really into fashion. She had a 370 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 4: special thing for shoes. She really loved wearing high heeled shoes. 371 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 4: And one day after they had just got married, they 372 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 4: were driving back home. The roads were kind of wet 373 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 4: it had been raining, and a truck coming in the 374 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 4: other direction didn't see them and turned right in front 375 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 4: of them. This young man tried to stop, but he couldn't, 376 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 4: and he plowed into that truck. He hit so hard 377 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 4: the person in the back seat was thrown out of 378 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 4: the vehicle. He couldn't get his door open, so he 379 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 4: tried to crawl out the window. He encouraged his wife 380 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 4: to do so as well. She said, I can't, my 381 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 4: legs are hurt. He looked down and saw both of 382 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 4: her ankles had been crushed. He could see the bones 383 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 4: coming out of the skin. They rushed her to a 384 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 4: hospital in a larger city. After several days and several surgeries, 385 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 4: the doctor came in and said to that young couple, 386 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 4: I hate to tell you this, but your wife will 387 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 4: never walk again. Her ankles have been so messed up. 388 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 4: Maybe we can fit her with some kind of brace 389 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 4: to help stabilize her, but she'll be confined to a 390 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 4: wheelchair the rest of her life. You can imagine how 391 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 4: devastated they were. That young man took his wife home. 392 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 4: When they got to the house, he physically carried her inside. 393 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 4: He looked her in the eyes and said, listen to here, honey, 394 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 4: everything that man just said to us. I want you 395 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 4: to ignore. You will walk again. I don't know. I 396 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 4: don't know if it'll take a month, it may take 397 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 4: a year, it may take twenty years, but you are 398 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 4: going to walk again. What was it that caused that 399 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 4: young man to believe that his wife could defy the 400 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 4: laws of medicine and somehow walk again. How did he 401 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 4: the nerve to think that he knew more than a 402 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 4: trained professional, a man that has spent years studying the bones, 403 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 4: the joints, how the body works. That didn't make any sense. No, 404 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 4: that wasn't his faith, It didn't originate from him. It 405 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 4: was the faith of God rising up on the inside, 406 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,360 Speaker 4: saying I can do what men can't do. I can 407 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 4: make a way, even when it looks like there is 408 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 4: no way, he let it take root. He didn't know 409 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 4: how it was going to happen. It seemed like it 410 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 4: was just wishful thinking. But deep down in here, something 411 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 4: kept saying to him, if you believe all things are possible, 412 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 4: I will restore health and heal you of your wounds. 413 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 4: What am I saying? The god kind of faith will 414 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 4: stir you to believe for the extraordinary. But too often 415 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 4: we just push it down. We've been through setbacks, we 416 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 4: tried and fell, or we had a friend that didn't 417 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 4: make it, and so our minds starts going into overtime 418 00:21:55,720 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 4: telling us impossible, no way. You heard the experts. The 419 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 4: battle is taking place right here. When this young man 420 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 4: would come home from work, he would find his wife 421 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 4: sitting in the closet. She had scooted her way there, 422 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 4: just staring at her shoes, so down, so discouraged. He 423 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 4: would pick her up and say, okay, honey, let's try 424 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 4: take a step. One step after another. Month after month, 425 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 4: they kept trying, kept believing, kept releasing their faith, thanking 426 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 4: God for her healing. She got to a place to 427 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 4: where she could wear tennis shoes, then flat sole shoes, 428 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 4: then shoes with a small hill. Eventually she could wear 429 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 4: her high heels once again. Today she can not only walk, 430 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 4: she can run, she can jump, she can dance. She's 431 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 4: stronger now than she was twenty years ago when it 432 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 4: first happened. But too many times we settle for second best. 433 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 4: The God kind of faith is trying to stretch us 434 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 4: and dare us to believe. But we think of all 435 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 4: the reasons why it's not going to happen. How the 436 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 4: experts have said it's impossible. We think we have to 437 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 4: see away. But all we have to do is believe, 438 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 4: if we'll let the God kind of faith rise up. 439 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 4: There's no situation. God can't turn around. There's no sickness 440 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 4: too big, no problem too great, no enemy too powerful. 441 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 4: Our God is all powerful. He has you in the 442 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 4: palm of his hand, and he's saying, if you'll allow me, 443 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 4: I'll use my faith to believe through you. All you've 444 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 4: got to do is get an agreement with what you're 445 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 4: feeling down in here. That's the God kind of faith 446 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 4: rising up in your spirit. Now, I know every one 447 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 4: of you, like me, you can look back in your 448 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 4: life and see times where you think, where did I 449 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 4: get this faith? How did I have the nerve to 450 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 4: believe I could be well when the medical report said 451 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 4: it was impossible. How did I have the boldness to 452 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 4: take that position where really I kind of felt like 453 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 4: I wasn't qualified. Or how did I ever think I 454 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 4: would be happy again and have a bright future after 455 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 4: I had been so hurt in that relationship. It's because 456 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 4: you let the God kind of faith take root. You 457 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 4: got in agreement with the God that lives on the 458 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 4: inside of you, and that's the same God that controls 459 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 4: the universe. When you believe he can do incredible things. 460 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 4: I remember when Victoria and I first got married, we 461 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 4: were out walking through this nice neighborhood and it had 462 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 4: these beautiful two story homes. At that time, we were 463 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 4: living in a small town home just as happy as 464 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 4: can be. But as we were walking, Victoria pointed at 465 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 4: this one house. It was just finished being built. It 466 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 4: had a beautiful two story windows and had high ceilings. 467 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 4: It was so nice. She said, Joel, one day we're 468 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 4: going to live in a house just like that. I 469 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 4: couldn't even fathom what she was saying. I said, Victoria, 470 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 4: are you kidding? You know how much these houses cost. 471 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 4: We will never be able to afford anything like that. 472 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 4: I mean, in my mind, I calculated we could work 473 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 4: till we were one hundred and twenty years old and 474 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 4: still not have enough. And me, being the great man 475 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 4: of faith that I am, I did my best to 476 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 4: talk her out of it. I said, Victoria, we don't 477 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 4: make enough money, on and on all the reasons why 478 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 4: it wasn't going to happen. It was like I was 479 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,880 Speaker 4: talking to a brick wall. I couldn't phase her. She said, no, Joe, 480 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 4: write down in here. I know one day we're going 481 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 4: to live in a house just like that. What was that? 482 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 4: That was not normal? That was the God kind of 483 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 4: faith being deposited into her spirit, and she was bold 484 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 4: enough to come into agreement with it. Sure Enough, several 485 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 4: years later, through God's supernatural favor, we were living in 486 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 4: a house just like that. I remember when my brother 487 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 4: in law, Kevin, he's our administrator, he told me that 488 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,959 Speaker 4: to renovate this new facility, the former Compact Center, it 489 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 4: was going to cost seventy five million dollars. I didn't 490 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 4: bat an eye. That didn't bother me. I said, no problem, 491 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 4: let's do it. Looking back now, I think to myself, 492 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 4: was I crazy? What was I thinking? I had never 493 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 4: raised one penny before, I'd only been the pastor for 494 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 4: four years. The last building my father built costs six 495 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 4: million dollars, and here I didn't think twice about taking 496 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 4: on something ten times out of mount I can tell 497 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 4: you that wasn't my faith. It didn't originate with me. 498 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 4: That was the God kind of faith. I simply allowed 499 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 4: it to take root. That's what I'm asking you to 500 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 4: do today. Throughout life, God is going to try to 501 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,919 Speaker 4: stretch you the natural. It may not make sense, but 502 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 4: if you can just get past what your mind is 503 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 4: telling you and let it take root on the inside, 504 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 4: you'll see God do amazing things some of you. Right now. 505 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 4: God's trying to plant a new seed in your heart, 506 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 4: just like he gave me faith for the renovation. Just 507 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 4: like He gave Victoria faith for that new house. This 508 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 4: is one of those moments for you. On the inside, 509 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 4: something is saying I can rise higher, I can accomplish 510 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 4: every dream, I can overcome this addiction. I can be 511 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 4: well again. That's the God kind of faith rising up 512 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 4: on the inside. Let it take root. Just say, God, 513 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,479 Speaker 4: I receive what you're saying to me. I know some 514 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 4: of you the doctors have said there's nothing more they 515 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 4: can do. But God is saying, I'm not limited by 516 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 4: the laws of medical science. I can do what men 517 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 4: can't do. Some of you have given up on your 518 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 4: dream it's been so long, but God is saying I 519 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 4: still have a way to bring it to past. Dare 520 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,400 Speaker 4: to believe. Some of you think that you've been through 521 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 4: too much to ever be happy. But God is saying 522 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 4: I can give you a new beginning. Your future can 523 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 4: be brighter than your past. Receive that faith today. Remember 524 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 4: God will never give you the desire without giving you 525 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 4: the faith to accomplish it. So if you have the 526 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 4: desire on the inside, if something is quickening in your spirit, man, 527 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 4: then you can be bold enough to say I can 528 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 4: be free, I can be well, I can be restored. 529 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 4: I know it's not by my mind, it's not by 530 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 4: my power, but it's by the spirit of the Living God. Friends, 531 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 4: if you'll learn to get in agreement with the creator 532 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 4: of the universe and let his faith take root, nothing 533 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 4: will be impossible to you. God will open up supernatural doors. 534 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 4: He'll break down barriers of the past. And I believe 535 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 4: and declare that every dream, every desire, every promise God's 536 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 4: put in you, he will bring that to fulfillment. Amen, 537 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,959 Speaker 4: you receive it today. We never like to close our 538 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 4: broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 539 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 4: Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 540 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 4: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 541 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 4: make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed 542 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 4: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 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