1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: God bless you. 7 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 2: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 9 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can 10 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 2: come visit us in person. 11 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one 12 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: of our services. 13 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 14 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: about this airplane that was about to crash. There were 15 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 2: four passengers but only three parachutes. The first passenger said, 16 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: I'm a leading heart surgeon. My patients need me, and 17 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 2: he took the first. 18 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: Parachute and jump. 19 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,559 Speaker 2: Second passenger said, I'm a rocket scientist, one of the 20 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: smartest men alive. 21 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: My country needs me, took the second parachute and jump. 22 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 2: The third passenger, Pope John Paul, said to the fourth passenger, 23 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: a ten year old boy scout son, I'm old and 24 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 2: I don't have much time left. You can have the 25 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: last parachute. The boy scout says, sir, don't worry, there 26 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: are still two parachutes left. You see the smartest man alive. 27 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 2: He just jumped out with my backpack. Say it like 28 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 2: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 29 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 2: it says I am. I have what it says I have. 30 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do. Today 31 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 32 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 33 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: I will never be the same. 34 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 35 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 2: to you today about keep the faith. God has a 36 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: great plan for your life, something more than you've imagined. 37 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 2: But that plan won't come to pass without opposition and 38 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: things you don't understand, things that are not fair. God 39 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 2: doesn't take us in a straight line. There will be detours, delays, 40 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: even some dead ends. Come to you a red sea, 41 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: you face a goliath. It seems like a setback, but 42 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 2: really it's a set up. Feels like it's stopping your destiny. 43 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 2: The fact is it's leading you to your destiny. The 44 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 2: test is to keep the faith. You'll be tempted to 45 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,919 Speaker 2: get discouraged, give up on your dreams. God, why did 46 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 2: this happen. God wouldn't have allowed it if it was 47 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 2: going to stop your purpose. His ways are not our ways. 48 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: Faith is trusting when you don't understand. It's believing when 49 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 2: all your circumstances. 50 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: Say it's never going to work out. 51 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 2: It's knowing that God is on the throne, that his 52 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: plans for you are for good. 53 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,839 Speaker 1: That what He has purpose for your life will come 54 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: to pass. 55 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 2: That door that closed, you didn't like it, but God 56 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 2: was ordering your steps. That person that walked away, it 57 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: was painful, but it was a part of God's plan. 58 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: You didn't need them for your destiny. 59 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 2: At contract, you lost the child that's difficult to raise, 60 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: that tough season at work. It may not be good now, 61 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 2: but if you'll keep the faith, all things. 62 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: Are going to work together for your good. God knows 63 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,279 Speaker 1: how to bring good out of a bad situation. 64 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: You have to have a made up mind that you're 65 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 2: in it for the long haul. No matter what comes 66 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: your way. You're going to keep believing, keep trusting, keep praising, 67 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 2: keep dreaming, knowing that God has you in the palm 68 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 2: of his hand, that he's working behind the scenes, that 69 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 2: he has the final say. He said no weapon formed 70 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: against you will ever prosper. He said, what was meant 71 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: for your harm, he would turn to your advantage. God 72 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 2: being for you is more than the world being against you. 73 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: Don't be moved by what you see. What you see 74 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: is only temporary. 75 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: When it all comes together, then it will make sense. 76 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: And I've found the enemy is not fighting you for 77 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: where you are, you. 78 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: For where you're going. He knows there's greatness in you. 79 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: He can sense you're a. 80 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 2: World changer, a giant killer, a history maker. If you 81 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: weren't a threat to him, he'd leave you alone. That's 82 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: why he'll bring difficulties, bad breaks, things that. 83 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: Are not fair. He's trying to get you discouraged. 84 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: Where you live, doubting, thinking that God has forgotten about you. 85 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: Don't fall into that trap. 86 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 2: This is when you have to dig down deep and 87 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: make this decision that you're going to keep the faith. 88 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: You lost a loved one, but you kept the faith. 89 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: You lost a position, you kept the faith. 90 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 2: Your health went down, you had a set back in 91 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 2: your finances, but you kept the faith. God sees you 92 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: doing the right thing when it's hard. He sees you're 93 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 2: believing when you could be discouraged, praising through the pain, 94 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 2: being good to people that have not been good to you. 95 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: Your time is coming. 96 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: Favor, healing, break through's victory is on the way. Nobody 97 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 2: had more come against them than the apostle Paul. He 98 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 2: faced all kinds of betrayals, rejections, hardships. Second Corinthians, chapter eleven. 99 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: He lists some of them. 100 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 2: He said, three times he was beaten with rods. This 101 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 2: was for sharing his faith. Five times he was given 102 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 2: thirty nine lashes. Once he was stoned by an angry mob. 103 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: He was falsely accused and put in prison. On top 104 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 2: of that, when he first became a believer on the 105 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 2: road to Damascus, the church wouldn't accept him. They didn't 106 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 2: think he really changed. For years he was rejected by 107 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 2: the leaders. At his trial, he said, nobody stood with me. 108 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: All my friends, colleagues, people I was counting on, they 109 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 2: weren't there. 110 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: He had all. 111 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 2: These opportunities to be bitter, angry, But at the end 112 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 2: of his life, sitting in a prison cell, he gives 113 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 2: the secret to living in victory. He said, I have 114 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 2: kept the faith. I have finished my course. He was saying, 115 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 2: people betrayed me. That didn't stop my destiny. Alexander did 116 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 2: me wrong, but God will fight my battles. I got 117 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 2: put in prison. I'm not sending around in self pity. 118 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 2: I can't travel and speak. They took away my freedom, 119 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 2: but they didn't take away my pen. They can't keep 120 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 2: my words from going out. He wrote much of The 121 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 2: New Testament from a prison cell. What a great testimony 122 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 2: to come to the end of life and be able 123 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: to say with Paul, I have kept the faith. 124 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: Went through a rough. 125 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 2: Childhood, but I kept the faith. Didn't get that scholarship, 126 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: but I kept the faith. Friend walked out on me, 127 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 2: boss got on my nerves, went through cancer, but I 128 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 2: kept the faith. 129 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: Paul said in Acts twenty. None of these things moved me. 130 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 2: You have to get to the point where you're not 131 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: moved by disappointment, not move by opposition, not move by 132 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,719 Speaker 2: the medical report. Yes it doesn't look good, but there's 133 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: another report. God says he's restoring health back into me. 134 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 2: You can stay in peace knowing that God has the 135 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 2: final saying this is what I had to do. 136 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: I lost my father, but I kept the faith. People 137 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: said I couldn't minister, but I kept the faith. The 138 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:24,679 Speaker 1: expert said. 139 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 2: We'd never get the compact center, but we kept the faith. 140 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: A company filed a lawsuit to try to keep us 141 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 2: from moving in. I would wake up in the middle 142 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 2: of the night in a cold sweat thoughts telling me, Joel. 143 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: You're gonna look like a fool. 144 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 2: You've already told the people it was yours. What if 145 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 2: you don't win the lawsuit. I was tempted to worry, 146 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 2: live upset, but I made this decision. I'm gonna keep 147 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: the faith. We saw God step in and do what 148 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: we couldn't do. You may be facing things now and 149 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 2: you don't see how it's gonna work out. Your finances, 150 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: your health, relationship. You could be stressed, lose your passion. 151 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 2: If Paul were here today, he would tell you keep 152 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 2: the faith. God is still on the throne. He has 153 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 2: a way, even though you don't see away. Life may 154 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 2: have thrown you some curves, but it's not a surprise 155 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 2: to God. The enemy didn't somehow overtake the plan. 156 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: For your life. 157 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: He didn't get your steering will, and now he's in control. 158 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: God is still ordering your steps. He's with you in 159 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 2: the trouble, in the sickness, in the lass. 160 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: That's a critical time. 161 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 2: You could get discouraged, start Dowdy, No, have a new perspective. God, 162 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 2: I trust you, I know what you have purpose for 163 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 2: my life will come to pass that. 164 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: This setback is really setting me up for new levels 165 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:49,599 Speaker 1: of my destiny. 166 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: As we celebrate my mother's ninetieth birthday to day, we 167 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 2: can look back and. 168 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: See how she has kept the faith. 169 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 2: You don't live ninety years with hardships, disappointments, and things 170 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: you don't understand. 171 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: It's a little girl. She had pollioed. 172 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 2: One of her legs is much smaller than the other. 173 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: She couldn't run and play like the other children. She 174 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: could have lived thinking she is at a disadvantage, a handicap. 175 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: That never stopped my mother. She took the hand she 176 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: had been dealt and made the most of it. 177 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 2: My father was pastoring a church when my sister Lisa 178 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 2: was born with a birth injury, something like cerebral Paul's 179 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: in it. 180 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: Of course, my parents were devastated. 181 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: They were tempted to get discouraged. God, why did this happen? 182 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 2: This is not fair. But in those tough times, don't 183 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 2: turn from your faith. 184 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: Turn to your faith. God is the one who will 185 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: help you get through it. 186 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 2: My father had been taught in seminary that the day 187 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 2: of miracles was over. That was for back then, when 188 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 2: Jesus was alive on the earth. He went to a 189 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 2: hotel downtown for a few days to be alone, and 190 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 2: he read the script like. 191 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: He was reading it for the first time. 192 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 2: He saw how Jesus went around healing people and doing 193 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 2: so much good. He realized there never was a day 194 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 2: of miracles. There's a God of miracles, and he's still alive. 195 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 2: He and my mother prayed over Lisa and asked God 196 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 2: to heal her. They were told she would never be 197 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 2: able to feed herself, never be able to walk, But 198 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 2: little by little she got better and better, and today 199 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 2: Lisa is perfectly healthy. But God may not have scented 200 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: the storm, but He will use the storm to move 201 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 2: you into your destiny. The storm will take you where 202 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:42,719 Speaker 2: you couldn't go on your own. That's why, in difficulties, betrayals, 203 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 2: things you don't understand, you have to keep the faith. 204 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 2: God is up to something. It may be painful, it's 205 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 2: not fair, but God is still in control. 206 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: You can't see what he's doing right now. You don't 207 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: know where that's leading you to. 208 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 2: My father came back to his church with a new 209 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 2: fire and a new passion. He started sharing about how 210 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 2: God is a healer and how he wants us to live. 211 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: A life of victory. 212 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 2: And he thought everyone would be excited, but some of 213 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,719 Speaker 2: them didn't like it didn't fit into their tradition. There 214 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 2: was so much contention in discord that my parents had 215 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 2: to leave. They'd poured their heart and soul into those people, 216 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 2: never dreaming it would come to an end like that. 217 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: My mother was twenty six years old. 218 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 2: She had friends she had known for years that never 219 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 2: spoke to her again. My parents felt that sting of rejection. 220 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 2: They could have been bitter offended, but they trusted when 221 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 2: it didn't make sense. They didn't understand why the door closed, 222 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 2: why they would be pushed out, They were doing the 223 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 2: right thing. The truth is that storm wasn't the enemy. 224 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 2: It was the hand of God moving them to a 225 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 2: new level of their destiny. My parents went out started 226 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 2: Lakewood in an abandoned feed store, this little rundown building 227 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 2: with ninety people. 228 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: The critics said, we have. 229 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 2: Never make it, but here we are today, sixty four 230 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 2: years later and still going strong. But God knew my 231 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 2: parents couldn't fulfill their purpose in that limited environment. They 232 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 2: would have never left that church on their own. God 233 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 2: had to force them out. Sometimes God will push you 234 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: into your destiny. He loves you too much to let 235 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 2: you miss your purpose. What looks like a disappointment, a betrayal, 236 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: a setback, could be God's storing things up to get 237 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 2: you in position for something greater. Now, the key is, 238 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 2: what are you doing the tough times when things don't 239 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 2: make sense, you don't understand it. 240 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: Do you get upset, lose your passion? Don't keep the faith. 241 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: God is in control. If he allowed it, He's going 242 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: to somehow use it for your good. Even so, being 243 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: born with that birth injury, we can. 244 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 2: Look back now and see how it was all a 245 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 2: part of God's plan. Without that difficulty, my father would 246 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 2: have never searched the scriptures and seen God in a 247 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 2: new light. It's very powerful when you can say, God, 248 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 2: I trust you in the good. 249 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: Times, and I trust you in the tough times. 250 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: God, I'm going to keep the faith when I understand it, 251 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 2: when things are going my way, when I'm seeing your favor, 252 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 2: and I'm going to keep the faith when doors close, 253 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 2: when sickness shows up, when people betray me, when it 254 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: doesn't seem fair. 255 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: That's what Paul said. None of these things move me. 256 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 1: Paul was a prisoner on a boat headed to Rome. 257 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 2: An angel told him that he was going to stand 258 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 2: before Caesar. 259 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:48,719 Speaker 1: He had this. 260 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 2: Promise from God. But on the journey they encountered a 261 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 2: huge storm. For fourteen days, they didn't see the sun 262 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 2: nor the stars. The waves were so big and the 263 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 2: winds so strong. They started throwing cargo overboard to keep 264 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 2: the boat from sinking. The crew was so depressed they 265 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 2: quit eating. The scripture says, all hope that they would 266 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 2: be saved was gone. 267 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: Paul could have thought, God, you said I was going 268 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 1: to Rome. 269 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: I must have heard you wrong. We're all about to die. No, 270 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 2: Paul told the crew, don't worry. 271 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: We're all gonna make it to the shore. Not one 272 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: life will be lost. 273 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 2: After two weeks of being battered by the storm, they 274 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 2: saw an island off in the distance. The winds blew 275 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 2: them closer and closer. The boat finally hit a huge 276 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 2: sandbar and broke apart. The scripture says they all grabbed 277 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 2: pieces of the boat and used it to swim to 278 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 2: the shore. In a few hours, all two hundred and 279 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 2: seventy six passengers made it safely to the island, but 280 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 2: when the boat broke apart, I'm sure some of them panicked, 281 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 2: thinking that's it. We're done out here the water. We 282 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 2: can't swim that far. But God will always leave you 283 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: something to make it to the shore. 284 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: They didn't have what they thought they needed. 285 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 2: They didn't have a boat, but they had pieces of 286 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 2: wood to make it to the island. You may not 287 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 2: have what you think you need, but there will be 288 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 2: pieces to get you to where you're supposed to be. 289 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 2: You're gonna make it without what you lost. Paul got 290 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 2: to the island, he reached down to grab some firewood, 291 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 2: and a poisonous snake bit his arm. 292 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: The natives knew that. 293 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 2: In a few hours he would swell up and die. 294 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 2: They'd seen it happen time and time again. Paul shook 295 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 2: it off and went about his business. 296 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: It never affected him. They were so amazed they thought 297 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: he was a god. Paul went over and prayed for 298 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: sick people. 299 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 2: And they got well, and he shared his faith. 300 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: The whole island came to know the Lord. Sometimes God 301 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: will take you on a detour to your destiny. 302 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 2: He said, you're going to roam, but you find yourself 303 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 2: on a deserted island thinking this doesn't make sense. It's 304 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 2: not just about you, It's about what God needs you 305 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 2: to do. He has people he wants you to impact, 306 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 2: people that need your law, people that need your healing. Well, 307 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 2: doorl I'm not an apostle like Paul, Yes, but as 308 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 2: a believer, there's healing in your hands, there's healing in 309 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 2: your words. 310 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: Sometimes we can get. 311 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: So caught up in our plans and our storm and 312 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 2: our bed break that we miss the miracles along the way. 313 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 2: It's a divine detour. You're not going to understand it. 314 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 2: You have to trust that God knows what he's doing. 315 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 2: He's ordering your steps, the delays, the detours, things that 316 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 2: don't make sense. 317 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: You're not thereby accident. 318 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 2: Look for opportunities to be good to people as you 319 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 2: help others. 320 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: That's a seed God will use to help you. 321 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: My mother was diagnosed with terminal care answering nineteen eighty one, 322 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 2: given a few weeks to live, no treatment they could 323 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 2: give her. She could have come home from the hospital 324 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 2: bitter God, after all these years of serving you, you 325 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 2: mean this is how it's going to end. I never 326 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 2: heard her complain all through the day going through the house, 327 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 2: I will live and not die. God is restoring health 328 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 2: back into me. Forty two years later, she's still healthy 329 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 2: and strong. But out of that sickness, God birth the 330 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 2: healing ministry in my mother. Often out of pain comes purpose. 331 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 2: Out of difficulties comes destiny. The enemy means it for harm, 332 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 2: but God knows how to make it backfire. He'll use 333 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 2: it to thrust you into your purpose. Nineteen ninety nine, 334 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 2: my father passed unexpectedly, and now my mother was a 335 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 2: widow without her husband of. 336 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: Over forty years. Would you get depressed? Discouraged? She did 337 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: what she always did, She kept the faith. 338 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: A couple of months after daddy died, I called a 339 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:07,400 Speaker 2: check on her. I heard all this noise and commotion 340 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 2: in the background, said mother, where are you? 341 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,880 Speaker 1: Are you all right? She said, yeah, Joel, I'm fine. 342 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 2: I flew to Colorado with some of the girls to 343 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 2: watch the Astros play baseball. I thought, man, you're supposed 344 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 2: to be mourning. You're out to partying. But since my 345 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 2: father has died, she's written two books, gone on two 346 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty nights of hope prayed for thousands of people, 347 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 2: come to three services A weekend. That's what it means 348 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,360 Speaker 2: to keep the faith. That's when you're going to live 349 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 2: life to the full. You're not moved by bad breaks, disappointments, 350 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 2: medical reports. You just keep on keeping home, keep on believing, 351 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 2: keep praying, keep dreaming, keep serving. 352 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: The boat may break apart, but you grab a. 353 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 2: Piece and swim to shore. You know it's not a 354 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 2: surprise to God. He didn't bring you this far. 355 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: Leave you. 356 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 2: Maybe today you need to dig down a little deeper. 357 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 2: You're letting doubt, delays, detours, what someone said cause you 358 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 2: to live sour, discouraged. You need to get your passion back, 359 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 2: get your joy back, get your vision back. What happened 360 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 2: may not have been fair, but God has beauty for 361 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 2: those ashes. 362 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: He'll pay you back for the wrongs. 363 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 2: The mistake you made did not stop God's plan for 364 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:29,719 Speaker 2: your life. 365 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: Receive the forgiveness and move on. 366 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 2: Your destiny is calling, your assignment is waiting. Yes, there 367 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 2: may be big obstacles, but we serve a big God. 368 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: He wouldn't have let you get in that difficulty if 369 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 2: he couldn't. 370 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: Bring you out. Now do your part and keep the faith. 371 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 2: Paul had a young man that he mentored named Timothy, 372 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 2: and he was on the verge of getting discouraged and 373 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 2: missing his purpose. Paul said to him, Timothy, stir up 374 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 2: your gifts, fan the flame, get your passion back. 375 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 1: He was telling him to keep the faith. He went 376 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 1: on to say something significant. 377 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 2: He said, Timothy, the faith I saw in your mother 378 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 2: Eunice and in your grandmother lois that faith I'm now 379 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,199 Speaker 2: see in you. Paul was telling us that when you 380 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 2: keep the faith, that faith is not just impacting you 381 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 2: making your life better, but it's transferred to your children, 382 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 2: to your grandchildren. Paul saw the faith of Timothy's grandmother 383 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 2: in him. Every time you stand strong, do the right 384 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 2: thing when it's hard, believe for your dreams. Even though 385 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 2: circumstances are against you. You grab that piece of wood 386 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 2: and make it through the storm. You are making it 387 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 2: easier on your children and on your grandchildren. 388 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: It's not just personal, it's generational. 389 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 2: How that should inspire us to live a life of faith. 390 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 2: I want to make it better on my children, easier 391 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: on my grandchildren. I want them to have a foundation 392 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 2: of faith, knowing that we serve an awesome God, that 393 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 2: he can take your places that you've never dreamed, that 394 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 2: he can give you a compact center, that he can 395 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 2: heal you from terminal cancer, that he can sustain you 396 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 2: in a storm, that he can bring gifts out of 397 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 2: you that you didn't know you had. I think about now, 398 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 2: how I'm a Timothy. I had a mother and a 399 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 2: grandmother that dared to believe, that prayed, that loved God, 400 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 2: that helped others. 401 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: None of us got to where we are on our own. 402 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 2: The faith of your mother, faith of your grandparents, the 403 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 2: faith of the people that raised you. Someone in your 404 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 2: family line had faith and it was passed on to you, 405 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 2: or you wouldn't be hearing this. Now it's our turn. 406 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 2: Are we just going to make it through life? Sour 407 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 2: over the disappointment, bitter over the loss, nor keep the faith. 408 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 2: God is in control. He's ordering your steps. It may 409 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,959 Speaker 2: not be good, but God's not finished. You keep the 410 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 2: faith and you're going to see what God is up to. 411 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 2: My mother dealing with polio, child with a birth injury, 412 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 2: having to lead the church, terminal cancer, losing my father. 413 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 2: I didn't even tell you the hardest one, raising my 414 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: brother Paul. That was like dealing with fourteen children. I 415 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 2: love how God said He'll pay you back double for 416 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 2: the unfair things. Well, eight years later I was born. 417 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 2: We all know what an amazing leader David was. How 418 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 2: he overcame being rejected by his father, looked down on 419 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 2: by his brothers, mistreated by King Saul. Despite all the 420 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 2: bad breaks, he kept the faith, did the right thing 421 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 2: when it was hard. It's interesting to go back three generations. 422 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 2: His great grandmother was Ruth. Ruth was an amazing woman. 423 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 2: Her husband died at a young age and she became 424 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 2: a widow her mother in law, Naomi, when she lost 425 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 2: both of her sons. 426 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 1: She became bitter. She's going to move back home to Bethlehem. 427 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: She and her husband and two sons left during a 428 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: famine years before and went to Moab. 429 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: That's where Ruth met her son. 430 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 2: Now the husband and sons had died, Naomi said, I 431 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 2: went out full, but I'm. 432 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: Coming home empty. 433 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 2: Ruth told her that she was going to go back 434 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 2: with her and help take care of her here. Ruth 435 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 2: was disappointed gone through loss, but she wanted to make 436 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 2: sure that her mother in law was okay. She'd go 437 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 2: out in the fields every morning and gather up the wheat. 438 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 2: That's how they survived despite all the loss and heartache, 439 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: she still believed that God was in control. 440 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: She ended up marrying a man named. 441 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 2: Bo As he owned all those fields. God gave her 442 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 2: a new beginning. On top of that, they had a 443 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 2: baby boy. 444 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,239 Speaker 1: She was so thrilled. They named him Obed. Obed had 445 00:23:59,240 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: a son named Jess. 446 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:00,679 Speaker 2: See. 447 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: Jesse had a son named David. No wonder. David was 448 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: so strong, confident, full of faith. It started back. 449 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:13,400 Speaker 2: With his great grandmother Ruth. You can make a generational 450 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 2: difference by keeping the faith, Paul said in Galatians five. 451 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 2: You were running so well. 452 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: Who has hindered you? Have? You let something hinder you today? 453 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 2: Disappointments, bad breaks, delays. You used to be passionate, You 454 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 2: used to pursue your dreams. 455 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: You had a heart for God. But now you've lost 456 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: that fire. 457 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 2: Something happened like Naomi, where you've gotten discouraged. 458 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: You're just making it through life. The good news is 459 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 1: you can get it back. It's not too late. God 460 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: is saying to you what he said to Timothy. Stir 461 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: up your faith, fan that flame. God's calling is still 462 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: on your life. His purpose is waiting. 463 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 2: For you and still become who you were created to be. 464 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 2: My prayer is that when we come to the end 465 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 2: of life, we'll be able to say, like Paul, we 466 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,719 Speaker 2: have kept the faith. Yes we had difficulties, Yes we 467 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 2: went through things we didn't understand, but we knew God 468 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 2: was in control, that he was fighting our battles, that 469 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 2: it was all working for our good friends. 470 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: God has you in the palm of his hand. He's 471 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: ordering your steps. There are awesome days up ahead. 472 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 2: I believe and declare because you're keeping the faith, your 473 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 2: children and grandchildren will be better off. 474 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: Like Ruth. 475 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 2: God's going to turn mourning into dancing like Paul. You're 476 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 2: gonna come safely through every storm like my mother. 477 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: You will see the faithfulness of. 478 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 2: God from generation to generation. In Jesus' name, And if 479 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 2: you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to 480 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 2: give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord. 481 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: Of your life. Would you pray with me? 482 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 483 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior. 484 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe. 485 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: You got born again. 486 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 2: We'd like to send you some free information on your 487 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 2: new walk with the Lord. 488 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: You can text the number on the screen or go 489 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: to the website. 490 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,439 Speaker 2: But I hope you'll get into a good Bible based 491 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: church and keep God first place. 492 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 3: Are you in a situation where you feel lost, afraid, hopeless, 493 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 3: where there seems to be no solutions, no answers, no 494 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 3: way out. It's time for your turnaround. 495 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 2: We all face situations that look like they'll never change. 496 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 2: It's easy to get discouraged. I love to send you 497 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 2: my book turn Around, How God can take you from 498 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 2: a setback to a comeback, where you'll discover how God 499 00:26:55,160 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: can turn sickness into health, lack into abundance, addictions into freedom. 500 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 2: It'll inspire you to keep believing and have an expectancy 501 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 2: for things to turn in your favor. Recent weeks, we've 502 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 2: been celebrating the incredible life of my mother, her miraculous 503 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 2: turnaround story of overcoming terminal cancer over forty years ago. 504 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 2: It's a testimony of the power of God's promises. Just 505 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 2: because you don't see a way doesn't mean God doesn't 506 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 2: have a way. Stay in faith, your turnaround is on 507 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 2: the way. 508 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 509 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 3: of any amount this month, we would like to send 510 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joel's brand new book, turn Around 511 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 3: How God can take you from setback to come Back. 512 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 3: Through biblical examples, real life applications, and practical encouragement, you'll 513 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 3: learn to see challenges through a faith filled perspective. 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