1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: blessing and. 5 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: Share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 6 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. God bless you. 7 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope 8 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 9 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media, and you can come 10 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: visit us in person. We'd love to have you be 11 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I like to 12 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this lady. 13 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: She was on an airplane reading her Bible. The guy 14 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,200 Speaker 1: next to her said, you don't believe all that stuff 15 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: in there, do you? She said, of course, IDU, it's 16 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: the Bible. He said, well, what about that guy that 17 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: got swallowed by a well? She said, you mean Jonah. Yes, 18 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: I believe that too. He said, well, how could he 19 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: possibly survive all that time inside of a well? She 20 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: thought about it in a moment, said I don't know. When 21 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: I get to Heaven, I'll have to ask him. He 22 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: laughed and said, what if he's not in heaven? She said, 23 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: then you'll have to ask him say like you mean it. 24 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 25 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do 26 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be 27 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 28 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 29 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want 30 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: to talk to you today about expecting a fever filled future. 31 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: It's easy to lose our passion in life when we've 32 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: been through disappointments, dreams are taken longer than we thought, 33 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: We're dealing with a challenge. If we're not careful, we'll 34 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: become complacent. Well, we're not believing for things to turn around. 35 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: It not expecting good breaks. But Paul said in Romans, 36 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: be glad for all that God is planning for you. 37 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: If you could see what God has planned for you, 38 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: if you knew the doors he's going to open, the 39 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: people you're going to meet, the gi you're going to defeat. 40 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: Did you go out each day with a spring in 41 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: your steps, excited about your future, expecting God to show 42 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: out in your life. That expectancy is what allows God 43 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 1: to do great things. That's your faith at work. You 44 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: may be in a difficult time and thoughts will whisper 45 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: it's never going to change. You've seen your best days. 46 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies. God has a comeback for every setback, 47 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: a new beginning for every loss, mercy for every mistake. 48 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 1: He's already planned to bring you out better, to promote 49 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: you in front of those that did you wrong, to 50 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: heal you. Despite that diagnosis, there are good breaks in 51 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: your future that will catapult you ahead. When you realize this, 52 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: it changes your perspective. You won't get discouraged over problems 53 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: thinking a dream is too big, these people are too powerful. 54 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: There'll be a passion, an expectancy. You know God is 55 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: on the throne, You know his plans for you are 56 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: for good. That He's already lined up the right people, 57 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: the breaks you need, the favor. There's not a problem 58 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: you'll face that God hasn't already lined up a solution. 59 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: It's not a goliath that will try to stop you 60 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: that God hasn't already lined up a slingshot in a 61 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: smooth stone, not a dream in your heart that God 62 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 1: hasn't already arranged the wisdom, the creativity, the funding. When 63 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: you know God has good plans, you'll live out of 64 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: a place of rest, not uptight wondering how it's going 65 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: to work out. You know it's already been planned. The 66 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: schedule has already been set, not by people, not by oppositions, 67 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: not by the enemy. The Most High God has planned 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: out your days. Psalm thirties says that God's favor is 69 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: not for a season, but it's for a lifetime, not 70 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: for a few years. Maybe in your twenties, your thirties 71 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: you have a few good breaks. No, as long as 72 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: you're breathing, there's favor on your life. And we can 73 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: all look back and see these moments of favor where 74 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: God opened the door we could have never opened. He 75 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: had you at the right place, and you met that 76 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: person and fell in love. He promoted you when you 77 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: weren't next in line. He healed you when the expert 78 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,919 Speaker 1: said there was no way. You've seen God's favor in 79 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: the past. The good news is God never does his 80 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: greatest feats in your yesterdays. They're always in your tomorrows. 81 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: God doesn't want us to live off of old victories. 82 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: Yes we can celebrate, Yes we should be grateful for 83 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: what God has done, but He has some new victories 84 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: for you. He's taken you from glory to glory. What's 85 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: in your future is going to supersede anything you've seen 86 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: in the past. That's why we can live with expectancy, 87 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: excited when others are down, hopeful when others are discouraged, 88 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: praising when others are complaining. We know His favor is 89 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: for a lifetime that we haven't seen our best days. 90 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 1: I'm sure you can say, like me that God's been 91 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: good to you, You've been blessed, but the scripture says 92 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: you haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in 93 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: store for those that love him. You've seen favor, but 94 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: you haven't seen the favor that's coming. You've seen breakthroughs 95 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: God turned things around, but you haven't seen the breakthroughs 96 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: that are coming. You've seen promotion, but you haven't seen 97 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: the levels that God is about to take you to. 98 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: Paul said, to be glad for all God is planning 99 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: for you. He's inferring if you're not glad, you're not hopeful, 100 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: not expecting, then you're not going to see it. You'll 101 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: miss the favor, the blessing that belongs to you. Well, Joel, 102 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: I've seen God's goodness in the past, but this problem 103 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: with my health, this child, my finances. I don't see 104 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: how it can work out. Don't talk yourself out of it. 105 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: If you could see what God has planned, if you 106 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: could see what He's about to do, you'd get your 107 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: passion back. God sent me to relight that fire. Yes, 108 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: he's been good to you in the past, but there 109 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: are new victories coming. Just because you haven't seen anything 110 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: in a long time doesn't mean God is not going 111 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,119 Speaker 1: to do it. The scripture says there is a set 112 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: time for God to favor you. There are marked moments 113 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 1: where God has already planned to suddenly promote you, suddenly 114 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 1: turn it around, suddenly open a door. David said, what 115 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: would have happened to me? If I had not believed 116 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: that I would see the goodness of God? He was saying, 117 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be where I am. I wouldn't have defeated Goliath. 118 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have outlasted King Saul. I wouldn't have taken 119 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: the throne if I had not believed that the favor 120 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: of God was on my life, that he had already 121 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: lined up the breaks protection the promotion that would take 122 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: me into my destiny. See, when David was a teenager, 123 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: he was out in the shepherd's fields taking care of 124 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: his father's sheep. He had a big dream for his life, 125 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: but nobody paid attention to him. He was stuck out there, 126 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: cleaning up after sheep, protecting them, feeding them. His brothers 127 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: were in the army, they had a prestigious position. It 128 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: seemed like David had been left out. He was at 129 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: a disadvantage, almost like God had forgotten about him. He 130 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: could have been discouraged. This isn't fair. Why did I 131 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: get stuck out here? But out there in the lonely 132 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: shepherd's fields when he could have been complaining. Maybe that's 133 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: where he wrote, Surely goodness and mercy will follow me 134 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: all the days of my life. He was saying, the 135 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: odds may be against me, doesn't look like I can 136 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: accomplish my dreams. But surely goodness is coming. Surely new 137 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: doors are going to open. Surely the right people will 138 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: show up. He had such a confidence in God. He believed, 139 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: despite the circumstances, despite how long it had been, despite 140 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: who didn't believe in him, that he would leave his 141 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: mark one day unexpectedly, the prophet Samuel came to his 142 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: father's house to anoint one of the sons as the 143 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: next king of Israel. His father, Jesse, didn't even bother 144 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: to call David in from the shepherd's fields. He thought, 145 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: David's too young, too small, He's not that talented. He'll 146 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: never do anything great. People may overlook you, but God 147 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: sees you. They may judge you, discount you, leave you out. 148 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: They can't see the greatness God put in you. He 149 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 1: loves to take what some consider weak and cause them 150 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,959 Speaker 1: to confound the wives. Samuel said to Jesse, it's none 151 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: of these sons. Do you have any other? He said, yes, 152 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: I have a son named David, but I'm sure it's 153 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: not him. They brought David in. Samuel took one look 154 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: at him and said, that's the one. God had already 155 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: planned for David to be the king. What God has 156 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: planned for you, people cannot stop. Betrayals, can't stop, rejection, 157 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: can't stop. God's plan will override what other people want. 158 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: His plan will supersede those that try to push you down, 159 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: leave you out, tell you that you're not qualified. And 160 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: it's significant that David didn't go after Samuel. Samuel came 161 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: to him. David didn't have to campaign try to convince 162 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: Samuel to be for him, play up to him. Samuel 163 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: came knocking on his doors. There are blessings in your future, 164 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: good breaks, the right people that are going to come 165 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: looking for you. You don't have to go after them. 166 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 1: God's going to cause them to find you. These moments 167 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: of favor that God has already lined up to thrust 168 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: you into your destiny. And I know you've I've seen 169 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: some in the past. The good news is His favor 170 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: is for a life round. There are more favor moments 171 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: come in your way. There are more samuels, blessings, promotion, 172 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: healing still on your schedule. Now do your part and 173 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: be glad for all God has planned for you. Live 174 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: with expectancy, excited about your future, thanking God for what's 175 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: in store. Pastor friend of mine wanted to build a 176 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: new sanctuary and he'd tried for several years but couldn't 177 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: find any property. In a couple of times, he found 178 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: a place, but it was way too expensive, he didn't 179 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: have the funds, and nothing was coming together. He could 180 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: have been discouraged and thought, Ellen, it's not meant to be. 181 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: But his attitude was God, I know you already have 182 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: the right place for us. God, I trust you. One day, 183 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: the mayor of his city unexpectedly called. He'd never met 184 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: this pastor, but he'd heard that they were looking for 185 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: a building. He told about this group that built a 186 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: huge building for a casino. It was just a few 187 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: miles from his church. Before they moved in, they went bankrupt. 188 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: It had over forty acres of parking. The building could 189 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: fit four football fiells inside. The mayor asked the pastor 190 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: he was interested in purchasing the building. Pastor thought it 191 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: cost fifty million dollars. They couldn't afford that. The mayor said, no, 192 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: we can sell it to you for under two million dollars. 193 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: Pastor never dreamed he would have a facility like that. 194 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: This was one of those favor moments that God had 195 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 1: already planned. Now, God has some of these explosive blessings 196 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: in your future moments that will catapult you further. You 197 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: couldn't make it happen. You didn't have the resources, the funding, 198 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: the connections. But the favor of God will open the door. 199 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: The favor of God will bring the right people the 200 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 1: favor of God will turn that problem around. Instead of 201 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: living worried, frustrated like David, Surely goodness is coming. He 202 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: didn't say I hope it comes, Maybe it comes. There's 203 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: a chance it may show up. He said, Surely it's coming. 204 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:16,199 Speaker 1: Our attitude should be. Surely breakthroughs are coming. Surely promotion 205 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,719 Speaker 1: is on the way. Surely, healing, restoration, new levels are 206 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: in front of me. David said in Psalm twenty seven, 207 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: I am confident I will see the goodness of God. 208 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: Look at his attitude in the midst of trouble, people 209 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,839 Speaker 1: coming against him, left out in the shepherd's fields. You 210 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: would think he'd be discouraged, giving up on his dreams. 211 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 1: Yet he said, I am confident God will turn this around. 212 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: I am confident good things are ahead of me. I 213 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: am confident my latter days will be better than my 214 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: former days. He was convinced that God had good things 215 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: planned for him, that he wasn't at the mercy of 216 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: other people, his environment. What he didn't get. He knew 217 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: that God had the final saying, what would happen if 218 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: we would live with that same attitude. I am confident 219 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: I will see God's goodness. How much further will we 220 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: go if we had this mindset, Surely good things are 221 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: in my future. Yes, business may be slow now, struggling 222 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: with my finances, but I am confident Jehovah Jihrah, the Lord, 223 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: my provider, will bring increase, promotion, new clients, abundance. I'm 224 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: still single, haven't met anyone yet, but I am confident 225 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: the right person is on the way. I'm still fighting 226 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: this battle in my health, but I am confident Jehovah Rapha, 227 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: the Lord, my healer, is restoring health back into me. 228 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: I am confident I will live and not die. Or 229 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: maybe this addiction has been in my family for years, 230 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: but I am confident freedom is coming. This is not 231 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: how my story ends. I am confident this generational curse 232 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: is being broken and a generational bliss is beginning. Proverb 233 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: thirteen puts it this way. Trouble chases the wicked, but 234 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: blessings chase the righteous. When you honor God with your life, 235 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: you keep in first place. Something is chasing you. Not defeat, bad, break, sickness, depression, No, 236 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: you're the righteous. Blessings are chasing you. Healing, promotion, the 237 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: right people, breakthroughs. When you look in your rear view mirror. 238 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: You have a tailgater. Favor is about to overtake you. 239 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: Samuel is about to show up that baby you've been 240 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: dreaming about. It's headed your way. Healing is tracking you 241 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: down right now. Freedom has almost caught up with you. 242 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: Just a matter of time before you see the goodness 243 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: of God. Now do your part and be glad for 244 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: what God is planning for you. Every day. Live with expectancy. Lord, 245 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: I believe something good is going to happen to me. Father, 246 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: thank you that my best days are not behind me, 247 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: but they're still out in front of me. See Isaiah said, 248 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: God is longing to be good to those who look 249 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: for who expect his goodness, his favor, and his blessing. No, 250 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: God wants to be good to you. He wants to 251 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: show you his favor, but there's a condition. He's looking 252 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: for people that are expecting his goodness, expecting his favor, 253 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: people who will believe that healing is coming, that breakthroughs 254 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: are on the way, that their future will be brighter 255 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: than their past. Could it be that God is longing 256 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: to be good to you, but you're not seeing it 257 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: because you're not looking for his goodness. You become passive complacent. 258 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: Joe has been this way a long time. I think 259 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: I'm stuck out here in the shepherd's fields. These people 260 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: didn't treat me right either. No, God has an awesome 261 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: future planned for you. His favor is for a lifetime. 262 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: Here's the whole key. You have to be looking for it. 263 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: You have to be expecting things to turn around, even 264 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: that good breaks are coming, thanking him that the best 265 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: is still ahead. A passive attitude will keep you from 266 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: the fullness of your destiny. It's easy to become complacent. 267 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: I've seen God's goodness. I have no complaints. I've been blessed. 268 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: Don't put your faith on autopilot. God didn't create you 269 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: to reach a certain level and get stuck. He said 270 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: your path will get brighter and brighter, that your latter 271 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: days will be better than your former days. Now, you 272 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: may have had some great former days, that's awesome, But 273 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: God has some greater days of ahead. There are moments 274 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: of favor you're about to come into that are going 275 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: to catapult you ahead. Something you can't explain. You didn't 276 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: work for it, you weren't qualified. It's never happened in 277 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: your family. It's just the goodness of God. It's Samuel 278 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: showing up. It's the mayor calling, it's the building finding you. 279 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: It's favor on that slingshot to where God thrusts in, 280 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: the influence resources, leadership that you've never imagined. Paul prayed 281 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: in Ephesians that the eyes of our heart would be 282 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 1: flooded with light so that we would know the awesome 283 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: future God has in store. Paul knew our mind would 284 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: try to talk us out of it and we'd get passive. 285 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: Let disappointments, setbacks cause us to quit believing, settle where 286 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: we are. That's why he prayed that we would be 287 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: flooded with light. Flooded means overwhelmed, not overwhelmed with dow trouble. 288 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: Look what I'm up against. I've reached my limits. No 289 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: flooded with light, flooded with hope, flooded with faith, flooded 290 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 1: with expectancy. Like David, I am confident I will see 291 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: the goodness of God. When Moses was at the end 292 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,400 Speaker 1: of his life one hundred and twenty years old, he 293 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: was about to pass. The Scripture says his eye was 294 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: not dim and his natural force was not baited. This 295 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: was talking about his physical eyes, but I believe it's 296 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: symbolic his eyes of faith, the eyes of his heart, 297 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: were still flooded with light, one hundred and twenty years old, 298 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: and he was still expecting God's goodness. This was significant 299 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: because Moses, as a baby, had seen God's favor. The 300 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: king had issued a decree that all the male Hebrew 301 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: boys two years of agent under were supposed to be killed. 302 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 1: But Moses's mother put him in that basket and sent 303 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: him down the Nile River. Just so happened, the pharaoh's 304 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,679 Speaker 1: daughter was there taking a bath. She saw him and 305 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: took him in. She raised Moses as her own child. 306 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: Now Moses knew he was supposed to deliver the Israelites 307 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: out of slavery, but he got out of God's timing. 308 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: He saw an Egyptian foreman mistreating a Hebrew slave. He 309 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 1: didn't think anyone was watching, and he killed that foreman. 310 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 1: He had to flee for his life, spent forty years 311 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:04,400 Speaker 1: hiding in the desert. I'm sure he felt forgotten alone, 312 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: like he had missed God's plan. It was own fault, 313 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: he blew it. But God's favor is not for a season, 314 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: It's for a lifetime. God has mercy for every mistake. 315 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: He's already planned to come back. Forty years later, at 316 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 1: eighty years old, God showed up in a burning bush, said, Moses, 317 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: now want you to go and deliver the Israelites after 318 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: his mistake. After he thought he was done, he went 319 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 1: on to part the Red Sea to bring water out 320 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: of a rock, to see all these supernatural signs. Now, 321 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: at one hundred and twenty years old, his eye was 322 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,199 Speaker 1: not dim. He was still confident he would see the 323 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: goodness of God. If Moses were here today, he would 324 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: tell you God's favor is not for a season, It's 325 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: for your lifetime. You haven't made too many mistakes. The 326 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: obstacles are not too big. What God promised you he's 327 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: still going to bring to pass. Now get your fire back, 328 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: start expecting his favor. He's longing to be good to you, 329 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: but you have to be looking for his goodness. I 330 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: talked to a young lady after the service. She had 331 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: lost her arm in an accident. She became very depressed, 332 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: wouldn't leave the house, and many days she wouldn't get 333 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: out of bed. Her mother God her listening to our messages, 334 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 1: and she heard me talking about how God has good 335 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: things in store, and how what was meant for harm? 336 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: He can turn to your advantage. Little by little she 337 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: got her passion back. She told me how. She said, God, 338 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. I don't have any plans for my life. 339 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: But God, I know you have good plans for me. 340 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: You may not see anything good in your future. That's okay. 341 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 1: Like her, you can thank God for what he has 342 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: planned for you. His plans are bigger, better, more rewarding 343 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: than you could ever imagine. Proverb says, hope deferred makes 344 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: the heart sick. One definition of hope is happy anticipation 345 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 1: of something good. If you're anticipating something good, brings your joy, 346 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: gives you passion. When you believe the best is in 347 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: front of you, God is arranging things in your favor, 348 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 1: lining up the samuels, the property, the solution. You believe 349 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: he has explosive blessings on your schedule, then you're going 350 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: to be excited about life. It'll affect your attitude, your relationship, 351 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: your productivity. But if you're not anticipating anything good, if 352 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: you think you're stuck, the problems permanent, you've reached your limits, 353 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: that will drain your energy stifle your creativity. Take your 354 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: joy and you'll just drag through the day. Endure line. 355 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: God created you to have something to look forward to. 356 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: This is what faith is all about. God. I believe 357 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: you have good plans for me, that you're taking me 358 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: where I've never been. That the best days in my health, 359 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: my family, my relationships are still in front of me. 360 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: That's not just being positive, that's getting in agreement with God. 361 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: That's what allows him to do amazing things. My prayer 362 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: is that you will be like Moses, that your eyes 363 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,200 Speaker 1: will not become dim, that you will not lose sight 364 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: of the awesome future God has in store. That you 365 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: will keep your faith stirred up to live with expectancy 366 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 1: looking for God's goodness. Paul said, be glad for all 367 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: God has planned for you. The next part of that 368 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: same verse says, be patient in trouble. It's not a 369 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: coincidence that God connected the two because in trouble, in difficulties, 370 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: you'll be tempted to get discouraged, think it's never going 371 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: to work out, medical reports, too bad, had this set 372 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: back in my career. None of that is a surprise 373 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: to God. He's already planned the solution. Be patient in trouble. 374 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,880 Speaker 1: The trouble is not permanent. The trouble is not how 375 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: your story ends. God wouldn't have allowed the difficulty if 376 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: he wasn't going to bring you out better. The scripture says, 377 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: God makes all things beautiful in its time. Give God 378 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: time to work it out. Just because you don't see 379 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: anything happening doesn't mean God is not working behind the 380 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: scenes right now. He's lining up everything that you need. 381 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: He's not going to bring you out the same. He's 382 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: going to bring you out better. But while you're waiting, 383 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: negative thoughts will come try to talk you out of it. 384 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: That's when you have to dig down deep and say, 385 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: like David, I am confident I will see the goodness 386 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 1: of God. Surely favor is coming, Surely healing is coming. 387 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: Surely breakthroughs are on the way. Instead of dwelling on 388 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: all the reasons it's not going to work out, start 389 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: thanking God that he's turning it around. Lord, you said, 390 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: many are the afflictions of the righteous, but you deliver 391 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 1: me out of them all. You said you will lift 392 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: me out of this pit, set my feet on a rock, 393 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: put a new song in my heart. Lord. I thank 394 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: you that I'm coming out better, promoted at a new 395 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: level of my destiny. In the scripture, Ruth went through 396 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: a great disappointment. Her husband unexpectedly passed. She was a 397 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: young woman. She never dreamed she would be a widow 398 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,120 Speaker 1: at this age, and her whole life was turned upside down. 399 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: Didn't seem like God had good plans for her. Call 400 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: that heartache and pain. But being a believer doesn't exempt 401 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: us from difficulties. There will be things that are not 402 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 1: fair we don't understand. This is when you have to 403 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 1: trust that God is still in control. If you'll be 404 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: patient not get bitter, God will give you beauty for 405 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 1: those ashes. Ruth and her mother in law, Naomi, they 406 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:06,360 Speaker 1: moved back to Naomi's hometown. They were both widows, very poor, heartbroken. 407 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 1: Ruth would go out in the fields each morning and 408 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: pick up left over wheat. One day, the owner of 409 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: all those fields noticed Ruth, a man named Boaz. Long 410 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 1: story short. They ended up falling in love and getting married. 411 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: They had a little baby boy. I can see Ruth 412 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: holding that baby, never imagining she would be that happy, 413 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: that fulfilled. She didn't have to work in the fields anymore. 414 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: Now she owned the fields. They named their son Obed. 415 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 1: Obed had a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son 416 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: named David. Now Ruth was in the family line of Jesus. 417 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: Be patient in trouble. You don't know what God has planned. 418 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: You don't know where He's taking you. The enemy would 419 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: love for your eyes to become dim. Where you live 420 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: discouraged look at all these bad breaks. No, there are 421 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 1: boases out there for you. There is restoration, healing, abundance. 422 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 1: God has things in your future that you can't conceive 423 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: right now. Sometimes you have to go through the disappointment, 424 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: through the hardship, but on the other side, you're going 425 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: to see favor that you would have never seen. My 426 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: question for you today is are you expecting a favor 427 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 1: filled future? Are you anticipating anything good? Are the eyes 428 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: of your heart flooded with light? Or had they become dim? 429 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: You think you've seen your best days. The only thing 430 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,959 Speaker 1: that's stopping some people is what they're expecting. I'm asking 431 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,360 Speaker 1: you to be a David. Have that attitude. I am 432 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: confident I will see the goodness of God. Surely favor 433 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: is come in my way. If you'll do this, I 434 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: believe and declare. You're about to step in to one 435 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: of those moments of favor. God's about to do something unusual, 436 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: Blessings chasing you down, healing about to overtake you. Samuel's 437 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: about to show oh good breaks that catapult you ahead 438 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: a new level of your destiny in Jesus' name, And 439 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 1: if you receive it, well, you say amen. I'd like 440 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord 441 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,120 Speaker 1: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 442 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 1: I repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I 443 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that 444 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 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