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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: put God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you. 38 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 3: It's always a joy into your homes And if you're 39 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 3: ever in our area, please stop by and be a 40 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 3: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll 41 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 3: make you feel right at home. But thanks so much 42 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: for tuning in, and thank you again for coming out. 43 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 3: And I like to start with something funny, and I 44 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 3: heard about these three sons that left home and went 45 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 3: out and prospered. And they got back together to talk 46 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 3: about the gifts they had bought their elderly mother. The 47 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: first said, I built mom a big house. The second said, 48 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: I got her a fancy car. The third said, since 49 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 3: mother loves to read the Bible but she can barely see, 50 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: I got her a specially trained parrot that can quote 51 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 3: the entire Bible. A few months they got a letter 52 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 3: from their mother said, Milton, the house you built me 53 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 3: is way too big. Gerald, the car you bought me 54 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 3: is way too small. But my dearest Donald, your simple 55 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 3: gift was my favorite. The chicken was delicious. Hold up 56 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 3: your bible, say it like you mean it. This this 57 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 3: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 58 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 3: I have what it says I have. I can do 59 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 3: what it says I can do. Today I will be 60 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 3: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 61 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 3: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 62 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 3: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 63 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: to talk to you today about the. 64 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 5: Rain is coming. 65 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 3: I was in Africa years ago and there was a 66 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 3: severe drought. The ground was so dry that it was 67 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 3: breaking apart. The vegetation had all dried up. The livestock 68 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 3: couldn't survive. It was bearing empty, no life, all because 69 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 3: there had been no rain. And every person goes through 70 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: times of drought, dry seasons when we don't see anything happening. 71 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 3: We've got big dreams, we're standing on God's promises, but 72 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 3: we just don't see anything changing. 73 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 5: It's dry and bearing. 74 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 3: You can be blessed in one area and in a 75 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 3: drought in another. Have a successful career, but you struggle 76 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: in your marriage, a drought in a relationship. Or you 77 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 3: can have a great marriage but you just don't feel well, 78 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: a drought in your health. I know a lady. She 79 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 3: has everything going for us. She's beautiful, talented, successful, but 80 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 3: year after year she struggles with the same addiction. And 81 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 3: it's easy to think this is the way it's always 82 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 3: going to be. I'll always be lonely, I'll always have 83 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 3: to deal with this depression, I'll always struggle in my finances. Now, 84 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 3: I want to announce that in twenty fourteen, that drought 85 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 3: is coming to an end. Any area of brokenness, dryness, loneliness, 86 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,239 Speaker 3: every empty place, if you will stay in faith, God 87 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 3: is going to rain down favor rain, down, healing, rain, 88 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 3: down restoration. Psalm sixty eight says, you sent an abundant reign, 89 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 3: O God, why don't you get that in your spirit? 90 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 3: You're about to see an abundant rain. Every drought is 91 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,799 Speaker 3: only temporary. That dry season is not going to last forever. 92 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 3: Why the rain is coming, That addiction is not going 93 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 3: to be with you your whole life. 94 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 5: Rain is coming. 95 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 3: Struggle and lack is not your destiny. It's temporary. Rain 96 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 3: is headed your way. Some of you have been in 97 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 3: a drought in your health, chronic pain. You don't feel well. 98 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 3: You could easily settle there, or you need to get 99 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 3: your umbrella. 100 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 5: I see clouds starting to form. 101 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 3: Maybe in your career you feel stuck. You can't seem 102 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 3: to get a good break. You got passed over for 103 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 3: the promotion. Don't get discouraged. God has something better for you. 104 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 3: It's not going to be a drizzle, not a sprinkle, 105 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 3: but a downpour, an abundance of rain. When you get 106 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 3: up in the morning, you need to declare it Father, 107 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 3: thank you that the drought is ending and the rain 108 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 3: is coming. Think you that in two twenty fourteen, I'll 109 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 3: see an abundance of your goodness in my life. I 110 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 3: have a friend that lost his wife to cancer a 111 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 3: while back. They'd been married for over thirty years, been 112 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 3: best friend since high school, and their sons had grown 113 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 3: up and were successful. And just when they thought they'd 114 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 3: step into this new season travel and enjoy each other's company, 115 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 3: she came down with this sickness. For months and months. 116 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 3: He took care of her, treated her like a queen, 117 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 3: and she fought the good fight of faith. Ended up 118 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 3: going to heaven. Was very difficult on him. He's a 119 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: strong man, has a deep faith, but it was harder 120 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 3: than anything he imagined. He told me how at his 121 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 3: house alone at night, he felt so lost, so empty, 122 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 3: reach over in bed, and she wasn't there anymore. He 123 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 3: never dreamed life was going to turn out that way. 124 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 3: He was in a drought. He could have gotten bitter, depressed, 125 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 3: would have been easy to say, settle in that empty place, 126 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 3: but he understood this principle that the drought may come. 127 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 3: There are dry seasons where we feel empty, but that 128 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 3: is not the end of your story. 129 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 5: Rain is coming. 130 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 3: The scripture says, weeping may endure for a night, but 131 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 3: joy comes in the morning. Rain can take a dry 132 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 3: bearing place and bring new life. It may have been 133 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 3: that way for a month, for a year, or for 134 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 3: twenty years. 135 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 5: But when the rain comes, things that seem. 136 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 3: Dead begin to bloom, begin to blossom, begin to flourish. 137 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: They just needed some rain. What you may think is 138 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 3: over and done, the loss of a loved one, loss 139 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 3: of a dream, loss of a relationship. You feel lonely, empty, 140 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 3: like it could never change. 141 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 5: No, all you need is some rain. 142 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 3: The God we serve is saying, I'm going to send 143 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 3: rain to your in places. It's not over. I'm going 144 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 3: to rain down new opportunities, new relationships, new ideas. 145 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 5: New dreams. 146 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 3: Not long ago, my friend met a young lady, never 147 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,679 Speaker 3: been married before. They hit it off and started dating, 148 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 3: and recently they got engaged. Now he's got that spring 149 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 3: back in his steath. Weeping endured for a night, but 150 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 3: joy came. He was in a barn place, but God 151 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 3: rained down favor some of you. Today. 152 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 5: You're in that dry place. 153 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 3: Things haven't turned out the way you've hoped, been through 154 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 3: some difficulties, but that is not the end. 155 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 5: Joy is coming. 156 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 3: You may be in a drought, but rain is headed 157 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,239 Speaker 3: your way. This is your year to bloom, to blossom 158 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 3: to flourish. It's your year to see new growth, new opportunities. 159 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 3: God is about to rain down his favor in abundance. 160 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 3: He's going to turn your mourning into dancing, your sorrow 161 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 3: into joy, your loneliness into love. 162 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 5: He's going to give you beauty for those ashes. 163 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 3: The drought is coming to an end. One Kings, Chapter eighteen. 164 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 3: The Samaritans had been in a great famine for three 165 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 3: and a half years. There had been no rain. The 166 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 3: people barely had food, barely were surviving. The prophet Elijah 167 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 3: showed up and said to King Ahab, I hear the 168 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 3: sound of the abundance of rain. When he said that 169 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 3: there wasn't a cloud in the sky, no sign of rain, 170 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 3: yet he chose to believe what he heard in his spirit, 171 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 3: in spite of what he saw with his eyes. He 172 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 3: saw drought, famine, barrenness. But down in here he heard 173 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,959 Speaker 3: the sound of abundance of rain. This is what faith 174 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 3: is all about. You've got to believe what you hear 175 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 3: in your heart, even when what you see is just 176 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 3: the opposite. Abundance. But you may see lack. You hear health, 177 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 3: but you may see sickness. You hear rain but you 178 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 3: may look around and see drought. I'm sure Ahab thought 179 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 3: old Elijah the heat must be getting to him. Because 180 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 3: there's not a cloud in the sky. It's not gonna rain. 181 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 3: It's easy to talk yourself out of what God wants 182 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,959 Speaker 3: to do. God is saying there's about to be an 183 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 3: abundance of favor in your life. The drought is coming 184 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 3: to an end. You're going to see healing, restoration, new opportunities, 185 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 3: new growth. 186 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 5: Now, don't be like King Gayhab. 187 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 3: Look around. I don't think so, Joel. The medical report 188 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 3: is still bad. My child's still acting up. I'll never 189 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 3: meet the right person. Now, why don't you be like 190 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 3: Elijah and have a boldness to believe what God's put 191 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 3: in your heart. Why don't you start declaring the rain 192 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 3: is coming, Favor is coming. Twenty fourteen is my year 193 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 3: to bloom, to blossom, to flourish, to see you grow. 194 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 3: Elijah went on top of Mount Carmel. He asked his 195 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 3: assistant to go look on the other side of the 196 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 3: mountain and see if there's any sign of rain. He 197 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 3: put actions behind his faith. He was expecting it to change. 198 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 3: The assistant came back and said no, Elijah there's not 199 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 3: a cloud in the sky. It's not going to rain. 200 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 3: Elijah didn't get discouraged. He didn't think, well, I must 201 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 3: have heard God wrong. He told him to go back 202 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 3: and look again. He went and came back with the 203 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 3: same report. Nothing, no clouds. This happened six times. If 204 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 3: you're going to see abundance, you can't let people talk 205 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 3: you out of what God put in your heart. Don't 206 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 3: let words of doubt and discourage you take root. People 207 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 3: may tell you things like, you really think you're going 208 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 3: to get well, my grandmother died of that same disease. 209 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 3: You think you're going to get that position. I don't 210 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 3: think you're really qualified. Let that go in one ear 211 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,680 Speaker 3: and out the other. People don't determine your destiny. God does. 212 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 3: What you hear in your spirit is more powerful than 213 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 3: any negative words that have been spoken over you. If 214 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 3: you will listen carefully, you'll hear the sound of abundance, 215 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 3: the sound of increase, the sound of new levels. That's 216 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,359 Speaker 3: the creator of the universe calling out your seeds of greatness. 217 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 3: God does not want you to stay where you are. 218 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 3: He's got new levels. But you got to get into 219 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 3: agreement with him. You got to agnite this moment and say, yes, 220 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 3: this is from me today. My child may be off course, 221 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 3: but I'm not worried. I hear the sound of restoration. 222 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 3: I know the rain is coming. I may not feel well, 223 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 3: I'm not discouraged. I hear the sound of healing. I 224 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 3: went through a loss. I'm not living depressed. I hear 225 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,080 Speaker 3: the sound of new beginnings. I know the drought is 226 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 3: ending and the rain is coming. When I look out 227 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 3: at you, you know what. I hear the sound of 228 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 3: dreams coming to pass. The sound of marriage is being restored, 229 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 3: the sound of that baby you've been believing for, the 230 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 3: sound of divine connections. 231 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 5: You're meeting the right person. 232 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 3: I hear the sound of new opportunities. It's the sound 233 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 3: of abundance. On the seventh time, the assistant came back 234 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 3: and stead alike. At this time I saw a small 235 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 3: cloud in the sky. Was it much? Don't get your 236 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 3: hopes up. It was just about the size of a 237 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 3: man's hand. One thing I love about God is he 238 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 3: can take something small and turn it into much. God 239 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 3: doesn't need the whole sky to be filled with clouds. 240 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 3: He can take a tiny, little cloud. Most people would 241 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 3: dismiss it it's nothing, it's insignificant. Yet God can bring 242 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 3: a downpour out of it. 243 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 5: What am I saying? 244 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 3: You don't need a bunch of people behind you. You 245 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 3: just need the right person behind you. You don't have 246 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 3: to be the most powerful, the most influential. God used 247 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 3: a teenage girl named Esther, an orphan, to save all 248 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 3: of Israel. God used a donkey to speak to a prophet, 249 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 3: no offense, but most of us don't pay any attention 250 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 3: to a donkey. It's insignificant. God used a slingshot and 251 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 3: a few stones to defeat Goliath and put David, a 252 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 3: shepherd boy with no training, on the throne of Israel. 253 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 3: Don't discount the little cloud. God can take something small 254 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 3: and turn it into something great. That's how Lakewood got started. 255 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 3: Nineteen fifty nine, my dad decided to leave the. 256 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 5: Church he was pastoring. 257 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 3: He felt limited by the denomination he was in. He 258 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 3: heard the sound of something bigger on the inside. Dad. 259 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 3: He wanted to start a new church, but he didn't 260 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 3: have any money. He didn't have a building, there wasn't 261 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 3: a cloud in the sky. But one of his neighbors said, John, 262 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 3: I've got an old, run down feed store that we're 263 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 3: not using anymore. You're welcome to hold your surfaces there. 264 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 3: This little wood frame building had holes in the floor, 265 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 3: still had hay and feed in it. My parents and 266 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 3: some others they cleaned it out, put ninety wooden chairs 267 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 3: and started Lakewood Church. We come a long way, baby, 268 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 3: don't despise that they are small beginnings. Some of you, 269 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 3: like Elijah, all you can see is a little cloud, 270 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 3: a little glimmer of hope. It doesn't look like much. 271 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 3: Every voice tells you don't get your hopes up, You're 272 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 3: gonna be disappointed again. 273 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 5: Nothing's gonna change. 274 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 3: I want to tell you just the opposite. Get your 275 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 3: hopes up, find your umbrella, put your raincoat on. God's 276 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 3: about to rain down an abundance of favor. There's gonna 277 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 3: be an abundance of goodness in your life. God has 278 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 3: done it in the past, He's gonna do it in 279 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 3: the future. That drought is coming to an end. Elijah 280 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 3: told King Aheb, you better get in your chariot and 281 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: take off, because the sound of abundance that I've heard 282 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 3: on the inside is about to come to pass on 283 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 3: the outside. They had took off in his chariot. Elijah 284 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: took off running. This was before there was any sign 285 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 3: of rain. Notice Elijah's faith. He was making plans for 286 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 3: abundance when all he saw was a little cloud. If 287 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 3: you wait around, discourage negative, I'll believe it when I 288 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 3: see it, You'll be waiting your whole life. You got 289 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 3: to do like Elijah and start making plans for abundance. 290 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 3: Start making plans for increase. Start talking like it's gonna happen. 291 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 3: Not if I get well, but when I get well. 292 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 3: Not if I break this addiction, but when I break 293 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 3: this addiction. Not if I start my business, but when 294 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 3: I start my new business. You got to show God 295 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 3: that you're trusting him. This is what Elijah did. As 296 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 3: he was heading out. The heavens opened up, the rains 297 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 3: came poor down, the three and a half year drought 298 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 3: was over. Well, Joel, that sounds great, But I don't 299 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 3: even see. 300 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 5: A little cloud in my sky. 301 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 3: I've been believing to meet the right person, but I 302 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 3: hadn't had a date in twenty seven years. I don't 303 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 3: see how it could happen. Just because you don't see anything, 304 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 3: does it mean God's not working? You don't know what 305 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 3: God is up to behind the seeds a few months ago, 306 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 3: I was in my backyard. It's a beautiful day, sunny, 307 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 3: blue and clear, and I was in a lawn chair, 308 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 3: just relaxing, enjoying the day. All of a sudden, out 309 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 3: of nowhere, it began to rain. 310 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 5: I did not see one cloud in the sky. 311 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 3: It was as blue as can be. The sun was 312 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 3: out very bright. But for about three minutes there was 313 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 3: this downpour. I thought, where is this rain coming from. 314 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 3: It was like God said, Joel, I can make it 315 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 3: rain whenever I want to. I can use a little cloud, 316 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 3: a big cloud, or no cloud. I'm God. I'm the 317 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 3: all powerful creator of the universe. When I say rain, 318 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 3: I don't need a cloud. When I say healing, I 319 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 3: don't have to have medicine. When I say promotion, I 320 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 3: don't need your boss's approval. When I see abundance, I 321 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 3: don't need a bank. I'm not limited by the natural. 322 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 3: I'm a supernatural God. All of your circumstances may say 323 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 3: you'll never get well, you'll never get out of that, 324 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,239 Speaker 3: you'll never accomplish your dreams. There's not a cloud in 325 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:39,680 Speaker 3: the sky. But take heart, he's still God, He's still 326 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 3: on the throne. He doesn't need a cloud to make 327 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 3: it rain. I met a man after our services a 328 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 3: while back, and he'd had ninety percent of his vocal 329 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 3: cords removed, had some kind of infection. It wouldn't go away, 330 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 3: and finally the doctors had to remove them. 331 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 5: He was told that he. 332 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 3: Would never be able to speak, that he might be 333 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 3: to make some sounds, but he would never be able 334 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 3: to speak. But he talked to me just like I'm 335 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 3: talking to you. I didn't know anything was wrong. The 336 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 3: doctors couldn't explain it. They said, medically speaking, you. 337 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 5: Shouldn't be able to talk. What was that? 338 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 3: God making it rain without a cloud. God can do 339 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 3: what medical science cannot do. Don't talk yourself out of it. 340 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 3: Don't let your circumstances discourage you. Everything doesn't have to 341 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 3: look the way you think it should look. God's ways 342 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 3: are not our ways. God brought water out of a rock. 343 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 3: Jesus told Peter to go catch a fish, open his mouth, 344 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 3: and there was the money he needed for taxes. God 345 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 3: caused a young lady named Mary to have a baby 346 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 3: without knowing a man. God healed my mother from terminal 347 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 3: cancer without treatment. God put me up here in front 348 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 3: of a lot of people, without going to seminary. God 349 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 3: gave me a beautiful wife without find a mate dot com. 350 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 5: He's God. 351 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 3: He can use those things, or he can do it 352 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 3: another way, without a cloud, without a bank, without the treatment, 353 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,400 Speaker 3: without the experience. God has ways to make it rain 354 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 3: in your life that you've. 355 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:20,480 Speaker 5: Never dreamed of. 356 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 3: You don't have to figure everything out. 357 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 5: All you've got to do is believe. 358 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 3: In fact, it says in Proverbs, lean not to your 359 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 3: own understanding. Sometimes there is no logical solution. You got 360 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 3: to turn your mind off. If you're constantly trying to 361 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 3: figure it out, that's just going to make you discouraged, depressed, frustrated. 362 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 3: Just because you don't see a way doesn't mean that 363 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 3: God doesn't have a way. I heard a story about 364 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 3: a little girl that wanted a kitten so badly. She 365 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 3: kept asking her mother week after week. But her mom 366 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 3: didn't want any more pets. She told her no again 367 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,120 Speaker 3: and again. This little girl old wouldn't let up. For months, 368 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,479 Speaker 3: she continued asking for that kitten. Finally, her mother said, listen, honey, 369 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 3: if God gives you a kitten, I'll let you keep it. 370 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 5: The little girl didn't know any better. 371 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 3: She went out in her backyard, got on her knees 372 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 3: and said, God, please. 373 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 5: Give me a kitten. 374 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 3: When she finished praying with her mother watching, this kitten 375 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 3: came flying out of the air and landed unharmed, right 376 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 3: beside her. The mother thought she was seeing things. She 377 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 3: went outside, looked around. There was no tree overhead. It 378 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 3: was like this kitten had been rained down from the heavens. 379 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:37,719 Speaker 5: Little girl picked it up. 380 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 3: Thank you Lord for my kitten. Several weeks later, the 381 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 3: mother learned that one of her neighbors that lived behind 382 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 3: her and about four houses down, was trying to get 383 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 3: this little kitten out of a small tree. The father 384 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 3: couldn't reach it with his ladder, so he tied a 385 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 3: rope around the tree and the other end to the 386 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 3: bumper of his car. He began to pull forward to 387 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 3: bend the tree over. When he got it bent far 388 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 3: enough over where he thought he could get it, the 389 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,520 Speaker 3: rope broke and the tree acted like a slingshot. It 390 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 3: slung that kitten over two hundred yards away, landed right 391 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 3: by that little girl. Friends, God knows how to make 392 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 3: it rain in your life. He doesn't need a cloud. 393 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 5: He may not do it in an ordinary way. 394 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 3: Quit trying to figure out how it's going to happen, 395 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 3: and just. 396 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 5: Believe that it will happen. 397 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 3: I received a letter from a young lady named Alana. 398 00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 3: She and her parents brother. They've been a part of 399 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 3: Lakewood for about ten years. Alana was born with spina bifida. 400 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 3: At several months old, she had to have surgery to 401 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 3: untether her spinal cord. Her parents were told she would 402 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 3: probably never be able to walk, to run, or do 403 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 3: any kind of physical activity, but they believe that God 404 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 3: can make a way even when we don't see anyway. 405 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 3: Every day her mother would do leg exercises with little Alana. 406 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 3: Much to the doctor's surprise, at seven months old, she 407 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 3: started walking. He's like God put an exclamation point on it. 408 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 3: She grew up and joined our children's choir, loved to sing, 409 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 3: loved to dance. 410 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 5: Life was good. 411 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 3: But at ten years old, she had complications with her 412 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 3: spinal cord had to have an emergency surgery. When she 413 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 3: woke up, she was paralyzed from the neck down. The 414 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 3: doctor's told her, I'm sorry, Elana, you'll never be able 415 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 3: to walk again. She could have gotten depressed, thought, well, 416 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 3: just my luck. I knew this was coming. 417 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 2: No. 418 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 3: At ten years old, she said, doctors, God did it 419 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 3: for me once. 420 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 5: He'll do it for me again. 421 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 3: She said, I walked in here on my own, and 422 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 3: I'll walk out of here on my own. She was 423 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 3: in a drought, but like Elijah, she heard the sound 424 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 3: of rain. Every circumstance said you're paralyzed. Just accept it. 425 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 5: Your life is limited. 426 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,479 Speaker 3: But on the inside she heard God saying, this is 427 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 3: not the end of your story. You will walk again. 428 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 3: I've got a destiny for you to fulfill. When she 429 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 3: told the doctor, I walked in here and I'll walk 430 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 3: out right then, for the first time since the surgery, 431 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 3: she felt her toes begin to move. Her therapist told her, 432 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 3: out of all of my patients with spina bifida, you're 433 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 3: the only one that can walk without leg braces. Her 434 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,360 Speaker 3: doctors wrote on her report, there is no scientific explanation 435 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 3: as to why Alana is the way she is. What 436 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 3: was that God making it rain without a cloud. Her 437 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 3: doctors are so impressed they call her God's rock star. 438 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 3: Alana recently graduated from an early college program and is 439 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 3: about to get her nursing degree. Her dream is to 440 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 3: become a pediatric neurosurgeon to help other children in her 441 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 3: same condition. Here's Alina in her family right here on 442 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 3: the front road. Come on, Atlanta, where you stand up 443 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 3: for us. We're proud of you. You may be in 444 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 3: a drought today, you don't see any cloud in the sky. 445 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 5: But remember God doesn't need a cloud. 446 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 3: He did it for Alana. He can do it for you. 447 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 3: Now you got to get in agreement. Start saying Father, 448 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 3: thank you that the rain is coming. Think you that 449 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 3: healing's coming, Think you that restoration is on its way. 450 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 3: Dare to make some declarations of faith like she did. 451 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 3: I walked in here on my own, and I will 452 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 3: walk out Why the God I serve is a rain 453 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 3: making god. This is what Abraham did when he was 454 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 3: waiting for the child that God promised him. He was 455 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 3: way too old. It looked impossible, but the scripture says 456 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 3: he grew strong in faith by giving praise to God. 457 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 3: He got up every morning and said, Lord, thank you 458 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 3: that your rain is coming. Think you that my baby 459 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 3: is on its way. Thinking that you're. 460 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 5: Faithful to your word. 461 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,399 Speaker 3: He kept thanking God for what he heard in his spirit. 462 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 3: Like Abraham, God has put dreams in your heart. He's 463 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 3: spoken promises over you. Deep down, you know you'll get well, 464 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 3: you know you'll break that addiction. You know you will 465 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 3: accomplish your dreams. But in the natural it looks impossible. 466 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 5: You don't see how the odds are against you. 467 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 3: It's been so long. God is saying what I started 468 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 3: in your. 469 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 5: Life, I will finish. 470 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 3: Rain is coming. The clouds are starting to form. I 471 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 3: can hear some thunder rumbling in the distance. Now, keep praying, 472 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 3: keep believing, keep expecting one touch of God's favor, one downpour, 473 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 3: and like Atlanta, you'll be able to walk again. Like Abraham, 474 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 3: the baby will suddenly be conceived. The drought will come 475 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 3: to an end. I have a pastor friend. He needed 476 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 3: a larger auditory. His church was really growing, but he 477 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 3: didn't have any way to expand he was landlocked. Year 478 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 3: after year, he kept searching, looking at the real estate listings, 479 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 3: driving the city, but nothing was available. Door after door 480 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 3: had closed. He could have gotten discouraged, but he just 481 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 3: kept praying, kept believing, kept thanking God that the rain 482 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 3: was coming. Last fall, a large retail store about two 483 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 3: miles from his church unexpectedly went out of business, broke 484 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 3: their lease. The owners of the property came to him 485 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 3: and said would you like to lease our building for 486 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 3: your church. Now he has four times the space, four 487 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 3: times the parking in a premier location. He said, Joel, 488 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 3: it's better than anything I ever imagined. 489 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 5: What was that? 490 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,679 Speaker 3: A downpour of God's goodness? Suddenly the drought came to 491 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 3: an end. 492 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 5: You need to get ready. In twenty fourteen, rain is. 493 00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 3: Going to come looking for you. You're not going to 494 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 3: have to go after it. Good breaks, opportunities, restoration, divine 495 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 3: connections is going to track you down. Friends, I hear 496 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 3: the sound of an abundance of rain. You need to 497 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 3: get your umbrellas. God is about to show you a 498 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 3: downpour of his favor. Every drought in your life is 499 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 3: coming to an end. The dry places, the barren spots 500 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 3: are about to see new life. This is your year 501 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 3: to bloom, to blossom, to flourish. Now get up every 502 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 3: morning expecting it. Lord, thank you that your rain is coming. 503 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 3: If you do this, I believe and declare, you're going 504 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 3: to see not a trickle, not a sprinkle, but a 505 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 3: downpour of God's goodness, an abundance of rain in twenty fourteen. 506 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 3: In Jesus's name, if you receive it, can you say it? Men? 507 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 3: Today We never like to close our broadcast without giving 508 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 3: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 509 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? 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