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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 37 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray put God's very best in 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 5: your life. 39 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 3: Well, God bless you. It's always a joy. 40 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 5: Come into your homes and if you're ever in our area, 41 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 5: please stop buying be a part of one of our services. 42 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 5: These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, 43 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 5: right here at Lakewood and I'll promise you will make. 44 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 3: You feel at home. But thanks for tuning in today, 45 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 3: and I like. 46 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 5: To start with something funny, and I heard about this man. 47 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,959 Speaker 5: He was driving through an intersection that was monitored by cameras. 48 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 3: If you ran the light or broke the law in 49 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 3: any way, it. 50 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 5: Would take your picture and you'd receive a ticket in 51 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 5: the mail. So he made sure to go extra slowly 52 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 5: through the intersection, not break the law. But he noticed 53 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 5: the camera flashed, thought that's not right, turned around and 54 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 5: he drove through it again, even more slowly. Once again 55 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 5: it took his picture. He thought, this thing is messed up. 56 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 5: They can't send me a ticket. Out of spite, he 57 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 5: drove back through the intersection three more times, each time 58 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 5: waving at the camera with a big smile. A week later, 59 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 5: he received five tickets in the mail for not wearing 60 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 5: his seat belt. Hold up your Bible, say it like 61 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 5: you mean it. 62 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 63 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 64 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 65 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 66 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 67 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 68 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about how you cannot be defeated. 69 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 5: We all face situations where. 70 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 3: The odds are against us. 71 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 5: We don't see how we could get well, how relationship 72 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 5: could be restored, maybe how we could ever break an 73 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 5: addiction In the natural. It seems impossible, and it's easy 74 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 5: to just accept it and think this is my lot 75 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 5: in life. But David said in Psalm forty one, the 76 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 5: favor of God keeps my. 77 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 3: Enemies from defeating me. 78 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 5: When you walk in God's favor, honoring him with your life, 79 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 5: knowing who you are and who you are. 80 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 3: You cannot be defeated. 81 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 5: You may suffer a temporary setback, a disappointment, an unfair situation, 82 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 5: but if you'll keep moving forward, it won't be permanent. 83 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 5: One touch of God's favor can turn any situation around, 84 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 5: and what you're facing may seem bigger, stronger, more powerful. 85 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 5: But deep down, don't be intimidated. You've got to know 86 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 5: you cannot be defeated. The creator of the universe has 87 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 5: put his favor on your life. And this is what 88 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 5: Joseph did. He had one bad break after another. His 89 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 5: brothers betrayed him, sold him into slavery. He spent years 90 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 5: in prison for something that he didn't do. It looked 91 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 5: like that had ruined his life. Joseph could have become 92 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 5: bitter angry. God is not fair. No, he understood this principle. 93 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 5: He knew because of God's favor on his life, those 94 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 5: enemies could not keep him defeated. He just kept being 95 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 5: his best, honoring God. I can hear him in the prisons. Lord, 96 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 5: thank you that your favor is turning this around. Thank 97 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 5: you that this is not my destiny in the end. 98 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 5: In spite of his brothers trying to hold him back, 99 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 5: in spite of Potiphar's wife lying about him, in spite 100 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 5: of being sold into slavery, God not only delivered him. 101 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 3: God not only. 102 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 5: Vindicated him, but God paid him back for all that trouble. 103 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 5: He was promoted and put second in command. 104 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 3: Of the whole nation of Egypt. What am I saying? 105 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 5: The enemy of betrayal couldn't defeat him, The enemy of 106 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 5: being lied about and falsely. 107 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 3: Accused couldn't defeat him. 108 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 5: The enemy of injustice, bad breaks, being put in prison 109 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 5: couldn't hold him down. 110 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 3: Why the favor of God. 111 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 5: Kept his enemies from defeating him. You too may have 112 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 5: had a rough pass. Maybe you've had some bad breaks. 113 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 5: The good news is it's not over. God is not finished. 114 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 5: God always ends in all is well. If all is 115 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 5: not well, it simply means it is not the end. 116 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 5: You haven't seen what God is about to do. God 117 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 5: is about to take what's meant. 118 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: For your harm and use it to your advantage. 119 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 5: God is about to pay you back for the unfair 120 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 5: things that have happened. And just like with Joseph, when 121 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 5: you keep a good attitude when it's not fair, when 122 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 5: you do the right thing when the wrong thing is happening, 123 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 5: the favor of God on your life will cause you 124 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 5: to rise above every difficulty. May not happen overnight, but 125 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 5: God promises those enemies cannot keep you defeated. 126 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 3: Are you facing a situation that seems. 127 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 5: Permanent, a sickness, an addiction, a relationship issue. Don't sit 128 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 5: around in self pity. God is saying that bad break, 129 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 5: that disappointment is not going to stop your destiny. That 130 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 5: sickness cannot snatch you out of God's hands. That addiction, 131 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 5: that trouble, that lack is not permanent. God has put 132 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 5: his favor on you, and his favor always causes you 133 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 5: to triumph. Now you've got to get in agreement with 134 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 5: God all through the day, instead of thinking, oh, Joe, 135 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 5: I can't get well. Have you seen the medical report? 136 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 5: I'll never accomplish my dreams. No, Lord, thank you that 137 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 5: your favor is turning this around. Thank you that your 138 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 5: favor is vindicating me, restoring me, opening. 139 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 3: Up new doors. 140 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 5: When you're tempted to be discouraged under your breath, just 141 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 5: keep declaring it. The favor of God keeps my enemies 142 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 5: from defeating me. I've learned the more you brag on 143 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 5: God's favor, the more of his favor you're going to see. 144 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 5: We've all heard little boys bragging on their father is 145 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 5: stronger than your dad. My dad can run faster than 146 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 5: your dad. Well, my dad can whoop your dad. That's 147 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 5: the way we should be concerning our heavenly father. Instead 148 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 5: of talking about how big the problem is, how impossible 149 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 5: it is. No, start bragging on the favor of God. 150 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 5: This is what Nehemiah did. A man in the scripture. 151 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 5: He had a dream to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. 152 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 3: He didn't have the money, the. 153 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 5: Supplies, the man power. He had incredible opposition. The city 154 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 5: leaders weren't for him. The critics tried to talk him 155 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 5: out of it. He could have gotten discouraged and thought, 156 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 5: these obstacles are too big. 157 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 3: I'll never overcome these enemies. 158 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 5: No, right in the middle of the difficulty, he said, 159 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 5: I can do this because the gracious hand of God 160 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 5: is on my life. He was saying, the favor of 161 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 5: God is making away. Again and again he made this 162 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 5: same statement, the gracious hand of God will help me overcome. 163 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 5: He was constantly bragging on God's goodness. In the end, 164 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 5: he not only rebuilt the wall, but he did it 165 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 5: in record time. Should have taken a year or two, 166 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 5: but he did it in just fifty two days. When 167 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 5: you're always talking about God's goodness, Lord, thank you that 168 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 5: your favor is turning this around. God, think you that 169 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 5: your favor is defeating my enemies. Then you're going to 170 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 5: see his favor, his goodness, his protection in new ways. 171 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,479 Speaker 5: You may be in a tough time, but don't magnify 172 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 5: your problem. 173 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 3: Magnify your God. 174 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 5: The bigger you make God, the smaller your problems will become. 175 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 5: And it's interesting when David faced Goliath, he never called 176 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 5: him a giant. Other people did, but not David. He 177 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 5: didn't brag on the enemy's power He didn't magnify the obstacle. 178 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 3: He did just the opposite. 179 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 5: He called him an uncircumcised philistine. Not only did he 180 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 5: not acknowledge who Goliath was, his strength, his power, his experience, 181 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 5: he took it one step further and he diminished him. 182 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 5: When he said he's an uncircumcised philistine, he was saying, 183 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 5: this man is not in covenant with my God. He's 184 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 5: not in covenant with Jehovah. In other words, he doesn't 185 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 5: have the favor on his life. 186 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:27,119 Speaker 3: That's on my life. 187 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 5: I know the favor of my God causes my enemies 188 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 5: to not be able to defeat me. So when he 189 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 5: went to face Goliath, he said, this day I will 190 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 5: defeat you and feed your head to the birds of 191 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:46,199 Speaker 5: the air. How could David, a teenager practically half his size, 192 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 5: no military experience, go out with such confidence and face Goliath, 193 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 5: a skilled warrior wearing. 194 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 3: A full set of armor. 195 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 5: It's because he understood this principle. 196 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 3: David is the world one that said. 197 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 5: The favor of God keeps my enemies from defeating me. 198 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 5: I can imagine him running to the battlefield. Negative thoughts 199 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 5: were bombard in his mind, saying, David, this is a 200 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 5: big mistake. 201 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 3: This jine is too big. You better turn around. 202 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 5: David not only dismissed Goliath size, he dismissed those negative 203 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 5: thoughts in difficult times, it makes a difference what you're 204 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 5: thinking about. If you're telling yourself this sickness is too big, it's. 205 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 3: Going to be the end of me. 206 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 5: I'll never get out of debt, Joel, my marriage is doomed. 207 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 5: We don't have a chance. That's going to limit what 208 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 5: God can do. You have got to do like David 209 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 5: and switch over to an attitude of faith. In other words, 210 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 5: this sickness is no match for me. This trouble doesn't 211 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 5: have a chance. I have a secret weapon. I know 212 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 5: the favor of God keeps my enemies from defeating me. 213 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 5: I know God's favor causes me to come to outlast, 214 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 5: to accomplish what I could not accomplish on my own. See, 215 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 5: in tough times, you're going to be saying something. Don't 216 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 5: talk about how big the problem is. Talk about how 217 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 5: big your God is. Say like David, I will defeat you. 218 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 5: Say like Nehemiah, the gracious hint of God, His favor 219 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 5: is on my life every day. You need to declare 220 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 5: this not only so that you can hear it, not 221 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 5: only so that God can hear it. You need to 222 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 5: say it so the enemy can hear it. Look at 223 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 5: that negative medical report and say to the enemy of sickness, 224 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 5: the favor of God is causing me to defeat you. 225 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 3: Look at that check book. 226 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 5: Say to the enemy of debt, the favor of God 227 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 5: is defeeding you. 228 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 3: That child is off course. 229 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 5: Instead of complaining, he's never going to straighten up. No, 230 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 5: say to the enemy, you can't have my children. As 231 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 5: for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 232 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 5: When you have this attitude of faith, all the forces 233 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 5: of darkness cannot stop you. You may have seen on 234 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 5: the news this week a man was working in a 235 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 5: convenience story. This robber came in with a gun. He 236 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 5: told the man to open up the safe. The man 237 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 5: was so nervous. 238 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 3: He couldn't open it up quickly enough. 239 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 5: The robber got upset and shot him in the chest 240 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 5: point blank range. 241 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 3: Ran out of the store. 242 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 5: Other customers that were hiding rushed over to help the man. 243 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 5: They noticed there wasn't any blood. Come to find out, 244 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 5: the man had his cell phone on the inside pocket 245 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 5: of his jacket. 246 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 3: When the robber shot him. 247 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 5: The bullet hit the cell phone and ricocheted off. The 248 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 5: paramedic said, you a one lucky man. The truth is 249 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 5: you and I know that wasn't a lucky break. That 250 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 5: was the favor of God causing the cell phone to 251 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,839 Speaker 5: be at the exact place. If it's not your time 252 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 5: to go, you're not going to go. Why the favor 253 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 5: of God keeps your enemies from defeating you. I read 254 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 5: an article about a man that was cleaning his hunting 255 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 5: rifle when it accidentally went off. The bullet went up 256 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 5: through his chin and was headed toward his brain, but 257 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 5: along the way, the bullet hit the man's denters and 258 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 5: it slightly changed the course. The surgeon said that that 259 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 5: bullet missed the main part of his brain by less 260 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 5: than a millimeter. Had it not had that slight change 261 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 5: in path, it would have certainly ended his life. You 262 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 5: may not like your dentures, but you better thank God 263 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 5: for your denters. 264 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 3: Some of you have teas. 265 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 5: Like the stars they come out at night. 266 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 3: But God, I know that's corning you. Listen. 267 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 5: God can use your cell phone, your false teeth, your wig, 268 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 5: your bleed to spare your life. 269 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 3: You don't have to live in fear. The favor of 270 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 3: God is like a shield. 271 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 5: It's a hedge of protection that the enemy cannot penetrate. 272 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 5: Don't go around worried, nervous, anxious, intimidated. The creator of 273 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 5: the universe has you in the palm of his hand. 274 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 5: Nothing can snatch you away. I saw on television this 275 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 5: group was filming a movie. The man the lead actor. 276 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 5: He was in a helicopter flying over the ocean. In 277 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 5: this scene, he was supposed to hand something to the 278 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 5: people on the boat below. The helicopter came real close 279 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 5: toward the water. All of a sudden, there was a 280 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 5: huge burst of wind. You could watch all this take place. 281 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 5: The pilot lost control of the helicopter, started spinning around 282 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 5: a couple times, hit the water, and quickly sunk. About 283 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 5: thirty seconds later, the pilot surfaced. 284 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 3: He was okay. 285 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 5: Everyone was relieved, but there was no sign of this 286 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 5: other man, the lead actor. A minute went by, seemed 287 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 5: like an eternity. Two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, five 288 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 5: minutes later, his head popped up out of the water. 289 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 5: He told how he was unconscious. When he came to, 290 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 5: he didn't know where he was totally confused, he said, 291 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 5: I want to thank all the rescuers, and especially the 292 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 5: one that grabbed the back of my shirt, pulled me 293 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 5: out of the helicopter and gave me that big push 294 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 5: toward the top of the water. The people that were 295 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 5: watching they were amazed. They said, what do you mean 296 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 5: there were no rescuers. You were down there by yourself. 297 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 5: He looked up and said, then, I want to thank God. 298 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 3: I know it was him that lifted me out. 299 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 5: Friends, God has the final say. The enemy is not 300 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 5: in control of your life. God is in control. It 301 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 5: may look like that difficulty is going to defeat you, 302 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 5: but you need to keep telling yourself this sickness can't 303 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 5: take my life. 304 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 3: This cancer can't defeat me. 305 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 5: No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second. 306 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 3: Of my divine destiny. 307 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 5: Isaiah said, when you go through the water, you will 308 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 5: not drown. 309 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 3: When you go through the rivers, you won't go under. 310 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 3: When you go through the fire, you'll come out without 311 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: the smell of smoke. 312 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 5: You may be in the fire today, God is saying 313 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 5: you're coming out, and you're not gonna come out beat 314 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 5: up but draggled, barely making it. 315 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 3: You're gonna come out. 316 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 5: Without a bruise, without a scratch, without a blending, better 317 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 5: off than you were before. Now you gotta dig your 318 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 5: heels in and say that's it. I'm done living worried, depressed, discouraged. 319 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 5: I know I have a protector. I have a defender. 320 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 5: I have a deliverer. I have a waymaker. 321 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 3: I have a vindicator, a healer. 322 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 5: A provider, a dream giver, a promise keeper. No weapon 323 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 5: formed against you can ever prosper Psalm eighty nine says 324 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:11,360 Speaker 5: our power is based on His favor. If you want 325 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 5: to be powerful, you got to tap into God's favor. 326 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 5: If you want to overcome challenges, you want to break 327 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 5: free from bondages. It doesn't just happen in your own strength, 328 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 5: in your own effort. It happens when you go through 329 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 5: the day bragging on the goodness of God, acknowledging his power. Lord, 330 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 5: thank you that your favor is defeating my enemies for me. 331 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 5: That's when God will do things for you that you 332 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 5: could never make happen on your own. I remember when 333 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 5: we were trying to acquire this facility, the former Compact Center. 334 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 5: We needed ten votes from the city council members. We'd 335 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,360 Speaker 5: worked on it for nearly three years, and we had 336 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,479 Speaker 5: our ten votes. We were very excited. But two days 337 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 5: before the main vote, one of the council members got 338 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 5: so much pressure from the other side they decided to 339 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 5: be out of town. 340 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 3: Him not being there was basically a no vote. We 341 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 3: wouldn't get the facility. In the natural. It didn't look good. 342 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 3: We could have. 343 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 5: Gotten discouraged, but we knew it's not over until God 344 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 5: says it's over. We stood on this same promise, the 345 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 5: favor of God keeps our. 346 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 3: Enemies from defeating us. 347 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 5: Instead of complaining, Lord, we recognize our power is based 348 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 5: on your favor. 349 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 3: God. 350 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 5: We know you can do what we can't do. You 351 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,239 Speaker 5: can make a way where we don't see away. What 352 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 5: were we do in acknowledging God's goodness, bragging on his power, 353 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 5: magnifying his greatness. The day before the main vote, a 354 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 5: young Jewish council member who had been against us the 355 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 5: whole time, he decided to change his vote, and instead 356 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 5: of voting against us, he voted for us and we 357 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,120 Speaker 5: got the facility. I asked him afterwards what caused him 358 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 5: to change his vote. He told how an elderly Jewish 359 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 5: lady that he had grown up with called him out 360 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 5: of the blue. He hadn't spoken to this lady in 361 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 5: over twenty years, but he always admired and respected her, 362 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 5: and she told him, in no uncertain terms, you are 363 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 5: to vote for Lakewood Heaven the Compact Center. He said, Joel, 364 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 5: you were very persuasive. Your team put on a good presentation, 365 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 5: but you didn't convince me to change my mind. It 366 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 5: was that phone call, that one lady. She's the one 367 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 5: that caused me to change my vote. What's interesting is 368 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 5: I don't know that lady. I'd never talked to her. 369 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 5: I didn't ask her to call. But when you go 370 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 5: around bragging on God's goodness, He'll make things happen for 371 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 5: you that you could never make happen on your own. 372 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,679 Speaker 3: He'll put the right people at the right place. 373 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 5: Our power is based on his favor, and that's why 374 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 5: it's so important that you activate your faith in this area. 375 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 5: There are enemies that you cannot defeat in your own strength. 376 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 5: There are obstacles that you can't overcome by yourself. There 377 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 5: are doors that need to open for you for you 378 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 5: to reach the fullness of your destiny, but you can't 379 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 5: open them in your own talent, your own strength, your 380 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 5: own ability. 381 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 3: It's going to take the favor of God. 382 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 5: And when you have this attitude of faith, bragging on 383 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 5: God's goodness, God will make things happen for you that 384 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 5: you couldn't make happen on your own. He will defeat 385 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 5: enemies that you could have never defeated. God will open 386 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 5: doors that you could have never opened. He'll cause you 387 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 5: to live even when the medical report says you don't 388 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 5: have a chance. His favor can defeat cancer. His favor 389 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 5: can change. 390 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 3: Your council member's mind. 391 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 5: His favor can cause the bullet to hit the cell phone. 392 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 5: His favor can take you from the pit to the 393 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 5: palace like it did for Joseph. 394 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 3: Every day we should say, Lord. 395 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 5: I recognize my power is based on your favor. So Lord, 396 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 5: I want to thank you that your favor is defeating 397 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 5: my enemies for me. I talked to a young lady. 398 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 5: She'd been addicted to cocaine for fourteen years. She's been 399 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 5: through rehab, counseling, different. 400 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 3: Clinics again and again. 401 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 5: She would get out and stay clean for a couple 402 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 5: of weeks and then go right back to it. 403 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,640 Speaker 3: The reason is you cannot. 404 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 5: Break bad habits and addictions, just in your willpower, just 405 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 5: in your own strength. Those strongholds are not just physical. 406 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 5: Those are unseen forces that are holding you back. 407 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 3: And it's good. 408 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 5: To do your part in the physical, but you have 409 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 5: to deal with the spiritual side as well. You've got 410 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 5: to humble yourself and ask God to help you. You've 411 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 5: got to recognize your power is based on his favor. 412 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 5: Without his favor, you'll stay addicted. Without God's favor, our 413 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 5: life will be limited, will get stuck. And I told 414 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 5: her what I'm telling you every day, declare, the favor 415 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 5: of God is defeating my enemies. The favor of God 416 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 5: is breaking every stronghold, every addiction. She got out of 417 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 5: this defeated mindset. I can't do it, it's too hard. 418 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 5: I tried and failled. She switched over to a favor mindset. 419 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 5: The last time I saw her, she had been cleaned 420 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,120 Speaker 5: for nine months, the most she's ever gone in those 421 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 5: fourteen years. She looked like a different person. She had 422 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 5: gained weight back, her skin had cleared up. She had 423 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 5: a big smile on her face. She was radiating with 424 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 5: God's glory. That's what happens when you tap into God's favor. 425 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 5: He'll help you overcome challenges that you could never overcome 426 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 5: on your own. 427 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 3: Some forty four says it this way. 428 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 5: They did not get the land in their own strength 429 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 5: or by their own sword, but because you favored them. 430 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 5: You may be up against a big challenge today. You've 431 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 5: done everything you can in your own strength, in your 432 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 5: own ability, and that's important. But let me encourage you 433 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 5: when you come to the end of your ability, when 434 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 5: you don't see away, when all the odds are against you, 435 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 5: don't get discouraged. Don't let the negative thoughts keep playing 436 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 5: in your mind. Just keep thanking God for his favor, 437 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 5: and God will do for you what he. 438 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 3: Did for these people. 439 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,679 Speaker 5: What you couldn't make happen on your own, what you 440 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 5: couldn't fix in your own ability, because of the favor 441 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 5: of God, he will make it happen for you. See, 442 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 5: I couldn't change that council member's mind. I tried my best. 443 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 5: I worked on him again and again. I told him 444 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 5: all the reasons why Linkewood would be good for the 445 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 5: Compact Center. We would help people, We'd be a lighthouse 446 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 5: of hope. This would be good for the city. It 447 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 5: went in one ear and out the other. But what 448 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 5: I couldn't do, God could do what am I saying. 449 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 5: God knows how to solve your problems. God knows how 450 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 5: to change people's minds. God knows how to restore your health. 451 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 5: He's the one that made your body. It may look 452 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 5: like that financial situation is never going to turn around, 453 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 5: but one touch of God's favor can put you into overflow. 454 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 5: You'll have more than enough. God is not limited by 455 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 5: what you're facing. He's limited by what you're believing. When 456 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 5: you believe, all things are possible. When you go through 457 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 5: the day saying Lord, thank you for your favor, that's 458 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 5: when God can do things for you that you could 459 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 5: never do on your own. 460 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 3: Psalm forty four. 461 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 5: Same scripture in the Message translation says, we didn't have 462 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 5: to work for the land. 463 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 3: You freely gave it to us. 464 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 5: You sent our enemies packing and gave it to us smiling. 465 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 5: You may have struggled in an area for a long time. 466 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 5: You need to get ready. God is about to send 467 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 5: that enemy packing. Just imagine that sickness, that cancer, that 468 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,399 Speaker 5: chronic pain packing up and leaving your body. God is 469 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 5: going to send that addiction packing. He's going to send 470 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 5: that debt, that struggle, that lack packing for How about 471 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,360 Speaker 5: that relationship problem, the legal issue, the infertility. It's not 472 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,199 Speaker 5: going to be with you your whole life. God is 473 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 5: not only going to send it packing, but he's going 474 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 5: to release the healing, the breakthrough, the baby you've been 475 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,719 Speaker 5: praying about, the business you've been wanting to start, the 476 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,439 Speaker 5: person you've been dreaming to me. Notice how God is 477 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 5: going to do it? It says, God gave it to them, smiling. 478 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 5: That's the way God is. 479 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 3: He wants to be good to you. 480 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 5: God wants you to live in victory, healthy, whole, free 481 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 5: and abundant life. Why don't you get in agreement with 482 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 5: God and say, Lord, I want to thank you that 483 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 5: you're sending my enemies packing. 484 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 3: That you're doing for me I could not do on 485 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 3: my own. 486 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,160 Speaker 5: First, Peter says, hope to the end for the divine 487 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 5: favor that is coming. In difficult times, negative thoughts will 488 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 5: tell you it's never going to change. You're never going 489 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 5: to get out of this problem. Now, down deep, you've 490 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 5: got to know favor is headed your way. Keep reminding yourself. 491 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 5: Healing is coming, breakthroughs are coming, restoration is coming. Hope 492 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 5: to the end That means keep believing for God's favor. 493 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 5: Get up every morning expecting it to turn around. Go 494 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 5: out during the day knowing that you have a secret weapon. 495 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 5: You cannot be defeated. The favor of God is on 496 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 5: your life. You may be in a tough time, but 497 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 5: that setback is simply a setup for. 498 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 3: A greater comeback. 499 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 5: The winds that are trying to stop you, all God 500 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 5: has to do is shift the direction, and instead of 501 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 5: holding you back, they will push you forward. 502 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 3: Some of you are about to see this shift. 503 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 5: You're about to see God defeat an enemy. 504 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,360 Speaker 3: You're about to break an addiction. You're about to see 505 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 3: a relationship restored. 506 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 5: You're about to be thrust into the fullness of your destiny. 507 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 5: And if you will have this attitude of faith, knowing 508 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 5: that you cannot be defeated, and I believe and declare 509 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 5: that God is going to send your enemies packing. 510 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 3: He's going to do for you what you couldn't do 511 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 3: on your own. 512 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 5: Favor is coming, Healing is coming, breakthrough is coming, Victory 513 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 5: is coming. You're going to rise above every obstacle and 514 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 5: become everything God's created you to be in Jesus's name. 515 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 3: If you receive it. Can you say? And then today. 516 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 517 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 518 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? 519 00:28:55,040 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come 520 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 5: into my heart. 521 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 3: I'll make you my Lord and savior. 522 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 523 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 5: got born again. 524 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 3: Get in a good Bible based church. 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