1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast today. Want 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: you to know that Victoriaan and I are praying for 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: you and your family this summer and just asking God 4 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: to bring you more peace and joy and victory than 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: you've ever seen before. Know that God's for you has 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: got you in the palm of his hand, and I 7 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: hope you enjoy the message today. 8 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 2: God bless you. 9 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if 10 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop by be a 11 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll 12 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to start 13 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this single man. 14 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: He'd been living at home with his elderly father, who 15 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: was very wealthy. He decided he needed to find a 16 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: wife so he could enjoy the fortune he would inherit 17 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: when his father died. One evening at an investment meeting, 18 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: he saw the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. She 19 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: took his breath away. He said to her, I know, 20 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: I look like just an ordinary guy, but in a 21 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: few years, when my father passes, I will inherit hundreds 22 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. Impressed, she took his business card. 23 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: Three months later she married his father. Say it like 24 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 25 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: it says I am. 26 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. 27 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today 28 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 29 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 30 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 31 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about supersized. A 32 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: few years ago, I went to a fast food restaurant 33 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 1: with our children. We pulled into the drive through and 34 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: placed our order. Just when I was about to pull 35 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: up to the main window where you pay, the young 36 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: lady said, would you like to supersize that. 37 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 2: I didn't know what that meant. I asked her about it. 38 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: She said, that means you'll get more French fries, a 39 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: larger drink, a bigger hamburger instead of the normal portions. 40 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: It will be supersized bigger than expected. That's what God 41 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: wants to do for you. His dream for your life 42 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: is much bigger than your own. He's going to take 43 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: you further than you're expecting. He's going to open doors 44 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: that you could have never opened. He's going to give 45 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: you more influence than you thought possible. Paul said in 46 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: Ephesians three, God will do exceeding abundantly above all we 47 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: can ask or think. He's saying in today's language, God 48 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: is going to supersize your life. Whatever you're dreaming about, 49 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: whatever you're believing for, God's going to take that and 50 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: make it bigger, better, more rewarding than you've ever imagined. 51 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 2: Maybe your dream is. 52 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: To get out of debt, to be able to pay 53 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: your house off. That's good, but God is going to 54 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: supersize it. He's going to bless you in such a 55 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: way that you cannot only pay off your house, but 56 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: you can help other people pay off their house. 57 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: Where you don't just have enough for yourself, You. 58 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Have an abundance, so you can be a blessing to 59 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: somebody else. That's what happens when God supercizes Your prayer. 60 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: May be for your son to get back on course. 61 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: He's running with the wrong crowd, making decisions that are 62 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: not good. You'd be happy if he just got back 63 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: to where he was. But when God supercizes it, he's 64 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: not only going to bring him back to the right course, 65 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: he's going to use him to help other people. In 66 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: that same situation, you're going to be amazed at the 67 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: difference that your son will make. 68 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: Maybe you're single, your dream is to meet the right person. 69 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: You have this specific criteria that you're looking for, these 70 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: qualifications that you would be happy with. But when God 71 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: supercizes it, he's going to bring you somebody. 72 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 2: Better than you've imagined. 73 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: That's what happened to me when I met Victoria in 74 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: my early twenties. 75 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 2: She exceeded my expectations. 76 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: Is not only smart, talented, funny, beautiful, but she had 77 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: the best taste in men. She was a supersized blessing. 78 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: Your dream may be to work your way up to 79 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: management to one day lead that department. But when God 80 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 1: supersizes it, you're not going to be working for that company. 81 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 2: You're going to own your own company. 82 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: You're going to look up and say, this is exceeding 83 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: abundantly above anything I could ask or imagine. 84 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 2: What you're dreaming about may seem big to you. 85 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: You don't see how it can happen, how you could 86 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: get out of debt, break the addiction, accomplish that goal. 87 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: You have to stretch your faith to just believe that 88 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: it will happen. But what you're believing for is just 89 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: the starting point. God is going to exceed your expectations. 90 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 1: He has a supersized life in front of you. I 91 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: know a young lady that came from a low income family. 92 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: Her parents and relatives had always struggled to make it. 93 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: Her father worked the night shift as a janitor cleaning 94 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: large buildings. Her mother would get odd jobs here and there, 95 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: babysitting children. All she had seen growing up was lack 96 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,039 Speaker 1: and mediocrity. Her dream was to one day work in 97 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: a professional environment. She thought, if she could just get 98 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: something better than those low level jobs that her parents had, 99 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: she would be doing good. A friend of hers worked 100 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: at a movie studio. She said there was a position 101 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: available as a secretary. This young lady had put herself 102 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: through college, the first one in her family to get 103 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: a degree. 104 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 2: She applied for that position and she got it. She 105 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 2: was on cloud nine. 106 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: Not only did she work in a professional office, but 107 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: she made twice what her parents made combined. In her mind, 108 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: she had accomplished her goal. God had blessed her in 109 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: incredible ways. She was satisfied. But God wasn't satisfied. He's 110 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: in the supersizing business. What he has for you is 111 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: bigger than you've imagined. She got one promotion, and another promotion, 112 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: and another. Today she's the vice president of one of 113 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: the largest movie studios in the world. 114 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 2: She has incredible influence. 115 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: She decides which movies will be made, works with the 116 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: biggest names in Hollywood. 117 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 2: She told me Joel, I can't even fathom where I am. 118 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: Every day I go to work, I have to pinch 119 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: myself to make sure this is real. 120 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 2: That's God's dream for you. 121 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: If you will keep honoring Him being your best right 122 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: where you are, then get ready for a supersized life. 123 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 2: Get ready for. 124 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: Doors to open that you couldn't open. Get ready to 125 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: go places that you've never dreamed. One day, you're going 126 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: to say, like her, I can't even fathom that I'm here. 127 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: Never dreamed I'd be running my own business. Never dreamed 128 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 1: I'd be living in this house. Never dream my children 129 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: would be this successful. I never dreamed I'd be this 130 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: healthy again. Every time I'd drive up to the Compact Center, 131 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: this place like that, lady, I have to pinch myself. 132 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 2: I had season. 133 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: Tickets growing up to watch the Rockets play basketball. I 134 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: never dreamed one day this would be Lakewood never dreamed 135 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: that I would be a minister. Never dreamed after thirty 136 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: five years of being diagnosed with terminal cancer, my mother 137 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: would still be alive today. What is that the exceeding, 138 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: abundantly above and beyond favor God has in store? In 139 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: Acts chapter three, there was a crippled man that was 140 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: carried to the temple each day, and they put him 141 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: next to the main door. He would sit there and 142 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: ask for money. This is how he survived. Year after 143 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: year people would give him donations. Look like this was 144 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: his lot in life. He didn't complain about it. He 145 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: was doing his best with what he had. But one afternoon, 146 00:07:58,600 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: Peter and John came. 147 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 2: To the temple. 148 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,559 Speaker 1: As they were about to walk in, this man asked 149 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: them for money. He must have been looking down, because 150 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: Peter said, look at us. The scripture says the man 151 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: looked up, expecting to receive a gift. Peter said, I 152 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: don't have any money for you, but I can give 153 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: you something better in the name of Jesus, Rise and walk. 154 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: Peter took him by the hand. He helped the man up. 155 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: When he did, instantly his legs were healed. He started walking, running, leaping, 156 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: so grateful for what God had done. 157 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 2: But here's my point. 158 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: When Peter said I have something for you, the man 159 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: expected the ordinary. He expected what he had always seen. 160 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: It had happened again and again the same way. He 161 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: would ask people would give him a few donations. But 162 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: this day God came along and did something out of 163 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: the ordinary. He was expecting a few coins, but God said, 164 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: in effect, I'm going. 165 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 2: To exceed your expectations. 166 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to do above and beyond what you're asking for. 167 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: That one moment of favor thrust him to the next level. 168 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: Like this man, you may be expecting the ordinary. You're 169 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: going through the routine of life being your best with 170 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 1: what you have. But where you are looks like that's 171 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: the way it's always going to be. There's no sign 172 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: of anything changing. You're expecting more of the same. But 173 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: God is saying, I'm about to exceed your expectations. 174 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 2: Yes it's been routine, but you pass the test. 175 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: Now you're coming into a new day where I'm about 176 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: to thrust you to a new level. I'm about to 177 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: increase you beyond your normal income. Blessings are about to 178 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: chase you down. Good breaks are going to come finding you. 179 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: God is going to supersize what you're believing for. You 180 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: didn't ask for it, you aren't expecting it, you didn't 181 00:09:58,920 --> 00:09:59,680 Speaker 1: see it coming. 182 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 2: It's just the goodness of God. 183 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: The scripture talks about how will be blessed, pressed down, 184 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: shaken together, and running over. You're going to come in 185 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: to those running over blessings, running over with influence, running 186 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: over with creativity, running over with resources, running over with 187 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: good health. God is a running over God. He's not 188 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: a git by God. He's a more than enough God. 189 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: You may not see how this could happen, but God 190 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: has ways to bless you that you've never thought of. 191 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: In the scripture, when Peter needed money to pay his taxes, 192 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: Jesus told him to go down to the lake. The 193 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: first fish he caught had the money in it that 194 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: he needed. When the Israelites wanted meat out in the wilderness, 195 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: God shifted the winds and caused millions of quell to 196 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: come into their camp. These two million people had a 197 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: steak dinner out in the middle of the desert. Experts 198 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: tell us quall don't normally travel that far away from water. 199 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 2: That goes against. 200 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: Their natural instinct. This was God making something happen that 201 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: should have never happened. Friends, God controls the whole universe. 202 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: You don't have to figure it out. Just dare to 203 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,719 Speaker 1: believe all through the day. Lord, thank you for supersizing 204 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: my life. Thank you for exceeding my expectations. Thank you 205 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: for those running over blessings. I talked to a man 206 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: that owns a landscape company. Their specialty is bagging grass 207 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: clippings and disposing of them. He had an agreement with 208 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: a local farmer where he would take those grass clippings 209 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: and feed his herd of cattle. 210 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 2: This worked well for many years. 211 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: Everything was going great until this farmer became sick. He 212 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: was an older gentleman and decided to sell his farm. 213 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 1: Man got bids of getting rid of his grass clippings 214 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: in conventional ways, but the lowest one was tens of 215 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars a year. He couldn't afford that kind 216 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:11,479 Speaker 1: of overhead. 217 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 2: Looked like he was stuck, like he didn't have any options. 218 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: But instead of getting discouraged, instead of complaining, his attitude 219 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: was God, I don't see a way, but I know 220 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 1: you have a way. I know You're a running over God, 221 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: a more than enough God, and overflow God like the 222 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:33,319 Speaker 1: blind man. He was expecting something ordinary, something usual. Maybe 223 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: the farmer would change his mind, maybe he'd find another. 224 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 2: Farm where he could feed their cattle. But God's ways 225 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 2: are not our ways. 226 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,599 Speaker 1: There are set times where God is going to exceed 227 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: your expectations, where he is going to supersize your life. 228 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 1: And several major developers were interested in this farm. It 229 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: looked like it would sell quickly and maybe even turn 230 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: out to be a bidding war. They found out the 231 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: property was in a floodplain, even though it had not 232 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: flooded there in years and years, no bank would give 233 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: anyone a loan. This farmer didn't have any options, so 234 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: he sold the property to this man for hardly anything. 235 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 2: It has several tenants on it. 236 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: Their rent not only pays his monthly payment, but there's 237 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: profit left over each month. So instead of having to 238 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: put his money out to purchase the property, now they're 239 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: actually paying him to take the property. God can make 240 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: things happen that you could never make happen. One touch 241 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: of his favor will put you at another level. You 242 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: may be thinking ordinary. God's thinking overflow. You're thinking the 243 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: way it's always been. God is about to exceed your expectations. 244 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 2: He's about to do a new thing like this. 245 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: Man, you're going to come into these running over blessings. 246 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: You didn't have anything to do with it. 247 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 2: It's just the favor of God. It's what the scripture 248 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 2: talks about. 249 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: How you'll live in houses that you didn't have to build, 250 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: How you'll read from vineyards that you didn't plan. This 251 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: is what happened in the scripture to a young lady 252 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: named Ruth. Her husband was killed in a battle. She 253 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: moved back to her mother in law's hometown to help take. 254 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 2: Care of her. They barely had enough food to survive. 255 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: She would go out in the fields and pick up 256 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: the leftover wheat that the workers had missed. One day, 257 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: the owner of the field noticed Ruth. He told his 258 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: workers to leave handfuls of wheat on purpose for Ruth. 259 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 2: Now she didn't have to work nearly as hard. 260 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: She could gather up the wheat they needed in a 261 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: fraction of the time. When Ruth went out each morning, 262 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 1: she was expecting more of the same. She was grateful 263 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: God was meeting their needs. But God is full of surprises. 264 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: Just when you think you've reached your limits, God, God's 265 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: been good to you. 266 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 2: You're satisfied. 267 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: But God has something bigger in mind. The owner of 268 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: that field, Boaz, was one of the wealthiest men in 269 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: that area. He fell in love with Ruth. They ended 270 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: up getting married. Now, instead of working in the. 271 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 2: Field, Ruth owned the field. 272 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: What happened, God supersized her life. This is especially important 273 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: because Ruth had gone through a lot of heartache and pain, 274 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: losing her husband at an early age. I'm sure she thought, Wow, 275 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: life's not fair, God, Why did this happen to me? 276 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: Look like she had seen her best days. If she 277 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 1: would have heard this message, she could have said, Oh, Joel, 278 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: this sounds good, but God's not going to supersize my life. 279 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: I've been through too much. Things haven't turned out the 280 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: way I had planned. I'm content to just survive. You 281 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: may feel that way, but like Ruth, God hasn't forgotten 282 00:15:58,680 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: about you. 283 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 2: He's seen the heartache you've endured. 284 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: He's seen the lonely nights, the unfair situations. You may 285 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: have accepted it, but God has not accepted it. He 286 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: not only has some handfuls on purpose for you, he 287 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: has some boazes, some explosive blessings that are going to 288 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: make up for the difficulties you've been through. God knows 289 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: how to balance the books. You may have taken a 290 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: big hit over here, a big loss, will get ready 291 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: for some big blessings. 292 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 2: God is a just God. 293 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: When he supercized is your life, You're going to be 294 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: so amazed at where you are. 295 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 2: You don't even think about where you've been. But many 296 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 2: of you. 297 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: Can say, like me, that you're living a supercized life. 298 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: God's been good to you. You never dreamed you would 299 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: be where you are. But can I tell you haven't 300 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: seen anything yet. You're on the runway about to take off. 301 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: You're just getting your end up. Your rockets haven't kicked in, 302 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: your boosters haven't activated. 303 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 2: God never performs his greatest. 304 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: Victories in your past. They're always in your future. Why 305 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: don't you get your hopes up? You may not see 306 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: how it can happen. Here's the whole key. You can't 307 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: see what God sees. You don't know what God knows. 308 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: Ruth could have said, it's not gonna happened to me. 309 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: I'm a widow taking care of another widow. We don't 310 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: have a job, we don't have any retirement, we don't 311 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: have any income. We're done but what you don't have 312 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 1: doesn't stop God. He is not limited by what you 313 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: think you're lacking. Well, I don't have the resource, I 314 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: don't have the talent, the education, the experience. 315 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 2: You may not, but God does. He has everything you need. 316 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,199 Speaker 1: To get you to where you're supposed to be. 317 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 2: All the odds were against Ruth. 318 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: It looked like she was done, but she came in 319 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: to those running over blessings. She went from having barely 320 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: enough to heaven more than enough. Here's how amazing God is. 321 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: Ruth married Boaz. They had a son named Obed. Obed 322 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 1: had a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son named David. 323 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: That means this young lady that looked like her life 324 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: was over, a widow barely making it, God not only 325 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,719 Speaker 1: blessed her with abundance, but she ended up in the 326 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 1: family line. 327 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 2: Of Jesus Christ. 328 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: God knows how to make more out of your life 329 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: than you've ever imagined. Quit making excuses. Quit thinking you've 330 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: reached your limits. God has something big come in your way. 331 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: What He's going to do in your future is like 332 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: nothing you've seen in your past. It's going to exceed 333 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: your expectations. It's going to be above and beyond what 334 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: you're thinking now. The real question is will you let 335 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: this seed take root. The scripture says Jesus couldn't do 336 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: any miracles in his hometown because of their unbelief. It 337 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: doesn't say he wouldn't do it. It says he couldn't 338 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: do it. I wonder how many times we're stopping God 339 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 1: from supersizing our life because we don't believe it will happen. 340 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 2: We let our. 341 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 1: Circumstances, what we can see, what's happened in the past, 342 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: talk us out of it. Your mind may tell you 343 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: that you've reached your limits, you've gone as far as 344 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: you can go. But if you'll listen down in here, 345 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: you'll hear another voice saying increase is coming, favor is coming, 346 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: healing is coming, promotion is coming. That's why when you 347 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: hear a message like this, something comes alive on the inside. 348 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 2: It's the seed that God put in your spirit. 349 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: When you live with this expectancy, you go through the 350 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: day saying, God, I believe you can take me where 351 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: I've never dreamed. 352 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 2: I believe you can. 353 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: Do what medicine cannot do. God, I believe you can 354 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: supersize my life. That's when you'll see the surpassing greatness 355 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: God's favor Luke. Chapter one, an angel appeared to a 356 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: teenage girl named Mary. 357 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 2: He told her that she was highly favored. She was 358 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 2: going to have a. 359 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: Baby without knowing a man. Mary was kind of taken aback. 360 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: This seemed far out unusual. It had never happened before. 361 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: She asked the angel how could this be? He explained 362 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: how the spirit of the Lord would come on her 363 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 1: and she would conceive. 364 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 2: Mary accepted it. She believed, but. 365 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: I'm sure there were times that she started to doubt, 366 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: thinking is this really going to happen? This seems too 367 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,679 Speaker 1: good to be true. See, Mary didn't come from an 368 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: influential family. She wasn't wealthy, she didn't have an impressive resume. 369 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: She was a poor girl living in a low income neighborhood. 370 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 2: As she was doubting a. 371 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: Little bit confused, the angel said to her in verse thirty, Mary, 372 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: don't be frightened. 373 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 2: God has decided to blomeless you. When you hear this 374 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 2: promise that God is going to do exceedingly abundantly above 375 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 2: and beyond that, He's going to supersize your life in 376 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 2: a way. It's like what Mary heard it seems. 377 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 1: Far out unusual, and it's easy to think of all 378 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: the reasons why it's not going to happen. But if 379 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: that angel were to show up today, he would. 380 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 2: Say the same thing to you that he said to Mary. 381 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: God has decided to bless you. You may not see 382 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,919 Speaker 1: how it can happen. You may not think you deserve it. 383 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: You've made too many mistakes, you're too young, you're too old, 384 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: you come from the wrong family. Instead of dwelling on 385 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: all that, why don't you say, by faith, God, I 386 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: want to thank you that you've decided to bless me. Lord, 387 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: thank you that you've decided to be good to me. 388 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 2: See, it's one thing. 389 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: When we decide we're going to take hold of God's promises. 390 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,959 Speaker 1: We decide we're going to live a blessed, abundant life. 391 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: That's good, that's important. But when you realize the creator 392 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: of the universe, the God who spoke worlds into existence, 393 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: the God. 394 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 2: Who flung stars into space, he has decided to bless you. 395 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 1: He has decided to forgive you, he has decided. 396 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 2: To favor you. Here's the key. 397 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: God's idea of blessing you is very different than what 398 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: you think being blessed is we think natural. 399 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 2: God thinks supernatural. 400 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: We think, let me find another farm to put these 401 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 1: grass clippings. God thinks, how about I give you that 402 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 1: farm and have them pay you instead of you paying them. 403 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: We think handfuls on purpose are a great blessing, and 404 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: they are. But God thinks, how about I give you 405 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: the whole field so you own all the week. 406 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 2: To begin with. 407 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 1: We think practical terms signing a sixty year lease with 408 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: the City of Houston for the Compact Center is pretty amazing, 409 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: and it is. But God thinks, how about I get 410 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: rid of that least so you could have the building 411 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: for generations. 412 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 2: To come like God did for us. That's the running 413 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: over God. 414 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: The more than enough God, the exceed your expectations God. 415 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: A few days after the angel appeared, Mary went to 416 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: see her cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth said, Mary, you are blessed 417 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: because you believed God would do what he said. God 418 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 1: decided to bless Mary. But what activated the blessing, what 419 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 1: allowed it to happen, was. 420 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 2: She believed she would be blessed. 421 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,360 Speaker 1: If she'd have gone around thinking, Oh, this is impossible, 422 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: it's never going to happen. I never get any good breaks. Besides, 423 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: I'm not even qualified. She could have talked herself out 424 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: of what God had already decided. When God says he's 425 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: going to do exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond. 426 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: When he says, as for you and your house, you 427 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 2: will serve the Lord. 428 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: When he says he's going to restore health back into you, 429 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: that means God has already decided it. 430 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: Now, my challenge is, don't. 431 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: Talk yourself out of what God has already decided for you. Hey, 432 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 1: you said, Joel, this sounds good, but I'm seventy five 433 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: years old. I still hadn't been supersized. There's still time 434 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 1: for you. Moses was eighty when he started to deliver 435 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: the Israelites. 436 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 2: He didn't see the Red. 437 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: Sea part, those supernatural signs that God showed the Pharaoh 438 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: until much later in life. You wouldn't be alive unless 439 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: God had something amazing up in front of you. 440 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,360 Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to get my hopes up that way. 441 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 2: If it doesn't happen, I won't be disappointed. 442 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: The problem with that approach is if you don't get 443 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 1: your hopes up, you will be disappointed. You'll miss the 444 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: exceeding greatness of God's favor that belongs to you. 445 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 2: I've seen this in my own life. 446 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: God has taken me from behind the scenes all those 447 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: years and brought gifts out of me that I didn't 448 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,920 Speaker 1: know I had. Put me in front of a lot 449 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 1: of people. I can tell you first hand. God knows 450 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: how to supersize your life. It wasn't because I have 451 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: all this talent, experience ability. It's because I've done my 452 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 1: best to honor God, and I've dared to believe what 453 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 1: God has already decided for me. When my dad went 454 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: to be with the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, I could. 455 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 2: Hear God saying, Joel, step up pasture the church. 456 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: I didn't think I could do it. Every voice said, 457 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: you're making a mistake. But deep down I knew that 458 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: if God had decided it, I wasn't going to go 459 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 1: by what I felt, by what I saw, by what 460 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: people were telling me. I simply chose to get in 461 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 1: agreement with God to believe what he had already decided 462 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: for me. That's when God will supersize your life. That's 463 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: when he'll take you places that you've never dreamed. Friends, 464 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: God has already made his decision. He's already decided to 465 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 1: bless you, to forgive you, to take you further than 466 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 1: you can imagine. 467 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 2: Now it's up to you. 468 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: What you decide will determine whether or not it happens. 469 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: I'm asking you to take the limits off of God. 470 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 2: Quit making excuses. 471 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe and declare you're about 472 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: to come in to those running over blessings. God is 473 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: going to supersize what you're believing. For you may be 474 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: expecting the ordinary like that blind man. God's going to 475 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: do something out of the ordinary. He's going to exceed 476 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: your expectations. In Jesus' name, if you receive it. 477 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 2: Can you say, men today, we never like to. 478 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: Close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 479 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: Jesus the lord of your life. 480 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? 481 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 482 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 483 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 484 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 485 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 1: God first place. It's easy in life to wear labels, 486 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: mistakes we've made and what people have said, disappointments we faced. 487 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: Those labels can diminish our sense of value and cause 488 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: us to forget who we really are. And have a 489 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 1: new book called Made by God. Know it, receive it, 490 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: and live it. It'll help you see yourself the way 491 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: God sees you, valuable, talented, worthy, a masterpiece. You've been 492 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: fearfully and wonderfully made. I'd love to send you by 493 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 1: new book plus the Maid by God T shirt from 494 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: a good friends at Copper Fit. When you know who 495 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: you are and who you are a child of the 496 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: most High, you can live with confidence and step into 497 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 1: who you were created to be. 498 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 499 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 3: of any amount this month, we would like to send 500 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joel's brand new book Made by God. 501 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 3: Know it, receive it, live it. You were not made 502 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 3: by your mistakes. You were not made by what people said. 503 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 3: You were not made by your hardest season. You were 504 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 3: made by God on purpose, with purpose, and nothing can 505 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 3: change that. 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