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I like to sart with something funny 46 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 5: and I heard about this man. He was quietly reading 47 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 5: the newspaper when his wife snuck up behind him hit 48 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 5: him on the head with a frying pan. 49 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 3: He said, what was that for? 50 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 5: She said, that was for that piece of paper I 51 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,959 Speaker 5: found in your pocket with the name Mary Low on it. 52 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 5: He said, oh, honey, that's just one of the horses 53 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 5: that I bet on at the racetrack last week. She apologized, 54 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 5: went about her business. Two days later, she hit him 55 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 5: on the head with a bigger frying pan. After he 56 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 5: woke up, he said, what in the world was that for? 57 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 5: She said, your horse just called. All right, y'all, there's 58 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 5: no spiritual value. But anyway, here we go. Ready, this 59 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 5: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 60 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 61 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 62 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 63 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 64 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 5: the same. In g Us name, God bless you. I 65 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 5: want to talk to you today about upstream blessings. We 66 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 5: all have situations where we're praying and believing, but we 67 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 5: don't see anything happening. Our health isn't improving, our child 68 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 5: isn't turning around. 69 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 3: We haven't met the right person. 70 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 5: And it's easy to get discouraged and think that God 71 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 5: didn't hear us. 72 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 3: Maybe it's not meant to be. 73 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 5: But what you can't see is God is working upstream. 74 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 3: He said in Isaiah, I will go ahead. 75 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 5: Of you and make crooked places straight. There are things 76 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 5: He's already done. The moment you prayed, he set the 77 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 5: miracle into motion. He lined up the healing, the right people, 78 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 5: the breaks you need. 79 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 3: Now. 80 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 5: The key is you have to stay in faith until 81 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 5: those upstream blessings make it down to you. Of course, 82 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 5: thoughts will tell you it's never going to happen, nothing's changing. 83 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: Don't get your hopes up or don't get talked out 84 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 3: of it. 85 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 5: If you're going to see upstream blessings, you have to 86 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 5: have upstream faith. 87 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 3: I'm not moved by what I see. I know God 88 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 3: is working. I know things have changed in my favor. 89 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 3: I know this answer is on the way. 90 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 5: When you have that kind of attitude, it's just a 91 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 5: matter of time before you see what God has done upstream. 92 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 5: And this is what Joshua had to do. Moses had 93 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 5: just died. Now Joshua was leading the Israelites toward the 94 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 5: promised land. They were camped at the Jordan River. They 95 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,799 Speaker 5: needed to cross, but it was harvest season. The Jordan 96 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 5: was overflowing. Its banks was nearly a mile across. 97 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 3: The current was so strong, so forceful, there was no way. 98 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 3: But God told Joshua to tell the priest to take 99 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: the ark of the Covenant that represented the presence. 100 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 5: Of God and to walk into the Jordan River. This 101 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 5: was the first test of Joshua's leadership. Two million Israelites 102 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 5: were watching with great anticipation, believing that the waters were 103 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 5: going to part like the Red Sea. The priests were 104 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 5: slowly walking toward those banks, people praying, believing, God let 105 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 5: it happen. As they got closer and closer, was more 106 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 5: and more intense, this incredible drama. Finally their feet touched 107 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 5: the water, this big moment, and nothing happened. 108 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 3: Everything looked just the same. They went in ankle. 109 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 5: Deep, nothing, knee deep. Still nothing. What do you do 110 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 5: when you've done the. 111 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 3: Right thing but it doesn't work out. 112 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 5: You took steps of faith, you prayed, you went the 113 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 5: extra mile, but the waters didn't part, You didn't get 114 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 5: the contract, your health didn't improve. 115 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 3: The problem hasn't resolved. That's right where Joshua was. 116 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 5: He could have thought, God, where are you, Why isn't 117 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 5: it parting. 118 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 3: I did what you told me to. I put the 119 00:05:59,000 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 3: priest out front. 120 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 5: I can hear people whispering, We're never going to cross 121 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 5: this river. Joshua was sure, not like Moses, he doesn't 122 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 5: have it. They didn't see any sign of things changing. 123 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 5: Nothing looked any different, Rivers still swollen, current just as strong. 124 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 5: But the scripture says the moment the feet of the 125 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 5: priest touched the water at the river's edge, the water 126 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 5: began piling up at a town upstream called Adam. Adam 127 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 5: was twenty miles from where they were. The miracle had happened, 128 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 5: they just couldn't see it yet. Twenty miles upstream, God 129 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 5: had damned up the waters. 130 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 3: He stopped the flow. 131 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 5: It was just a matter of time before the Israelites 132 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 5: would see the effects of what God had already done upstream. 133 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 5: The priest stood in the water and waited and waited. 134 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 5: I can imagine in a couple of hours, as all 135 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 5: the Israelites were standing there kind of disappointed, thinking they 136 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 5: were stuck, one of them said, is it my imagination 137 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 5: or is the current not as strong? 138 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 3: Doesn't look like it's flowing as fast. 139 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 5: Now. This spoke up and said, I think you're right. 140 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 5: Doesn't look like it's as swollen as it was. I 141 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 5: think it's gone down a little. It kept getting slower 142 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 5: and slower, less and less water, until finally the whole 143 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 5: river bed was dry. The Israelites were able to walk 144 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 5: across like with them. There are things God has done 145 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 5: in your life upstream. He's already taken care of what 146 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 5: you're worried about. He's already dammed up those waters. Stop, 147 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 5: the sickness broken, the addiction lined up the right person. 148 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 5: Now you may not be able to see it, yet 149 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 5: all the circumstances look. 150 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 3: Just the same. 151 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 5: The river's still swollen, your business is still struggling. 152 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 3: The medical report hasn't changed. Your loved one still off course. 153 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 5: Don't let what's happening downstream talk you out of what 154 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 5: God has done upstream. If you're going to see that 155 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 5: upstream blessing, you have to keep believing, keep praising, keep expecting. 156 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 5: Walk by faith and not by sight. I don't see 157 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 5: any sign of it. Nothing's improving. 158 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 3: But God, I know. 159 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 5: You're working, I know you're faithful. I know what you 160 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 5: promised me is already on the way. What's significant is 161 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 5: the priest stayed in the water with the ark of 162 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 5: the Covenant until the water's receded. 163 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 3: They could have waited five minutes and thought, well, we 164 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 3: did what we were told to do. Nothing happened, let's 165 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 3: go back home. 166 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 5: After ten minutes, they could have thought we're wasting our time. 167 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 5: Thirty minutes. Come on, man, we look like fools out here. 168 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 5: Joshua didn't hear from God. He had too much pizza 169 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 5: last night. After an hour, I'm tired. My feet are freezing. 170 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 3: It's not meant to be. 171 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 5: No, these priests stayed there in faith, as they were 172 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 5: standing in these waters that didn't partircumstances, that weren't changing 173 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 5: every thought saying it's not going to happen. I can 174 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 5: hear them declaring the Lord is good and his mercy 175 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 5: endures for generations. I can hear them singing, Waymaker, promise keeper, 176 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,719 Speaker 5: you're the light in the darkness. I can hear one 177 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 5: of them saying, God, you've done it in the past. 178 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: We know you're doing it this time. You being forced 179 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: is more than what's against us. We will make it 180 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 3: into our promised land. 181 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 5: They stood there in faith. They stood there knowing God 182 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 5: was working. They stood there expecting things to change. They 183 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 5: didn't see how, they didn't know when. But one thing 184 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 5: they knew was that God was faithful, that he was 185 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 5: in control, that what he purposed would come to pass. 186 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 5: When you're standing in those waters believing for things to change, 187 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 5: waiting for what God promised, the way you're going to 188 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 5: stay in the water and not give up is by 189 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 5: keeping the presence of God on your life, by praising 190 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 5: Him when you don't see anything changing, by thanking him 191 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 5: that it's on the way when there's no sign of it, 192 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 5: by declaring his promises in the middle of water. 193 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 3: That's not moving. 194 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 5: This medical report says I'm not going to get well, 195 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 5: But God, I believe you're restoring health back into me. 196 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 5: My child's off course, But Lord, I want to thank 197 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 5: you that. As for me and my house, we will 198 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 5: serve the Lord. 199 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 3: Business is low. 200 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 5: I lost that contract, But God, you said even in famine, 201 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 5: the righteous would have more than enough. Lord, I think 202 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 5: I will lend and not borrow that I will have 203 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 5: a bountiful year. 204 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 3: Don't come out of that water. 205 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 5: Your obedience, stepping into the water is what activated the miracle, 206 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 5: and it's going to be your obedience of staying in 207 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 5: the water that will cause you to see what God's 208 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 5: done upstream. 209 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 3: The miracle will set in motion when you pray. 210 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 5: God dispatched the angels with the healing, the favor, the freedom. 211 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 5: But you may not see it right away. The waters 212 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 5: may not part immediately. This is a test of your faith. 213 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 5: A lot of people get out of the water. You'r 214 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 5: nothing happened. This doesn't work for me. No, the upstream 215 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 5: blessing is there, but you have to have upstream faith, 216 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:19,839 Speaker 5: know one that is coming. 217 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 3: For it to get to you. Daniel, Chapter ten. 218 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 5: Daniel had been praying and fasting, asking God to help him. 219 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 5: Didn't seem like anything was happening. Nothing was changing. He 220 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,239 Speaker 5: was tempted to come out of the water, get discourage, 221 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 5: and give up on what he was believing for. But 222 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 5: one morning he was out by the river and he 223 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 5: had a vision. An angel appeared unto him and said 224 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 5: in verse twelve, Daniel, from the first day you prayed, your. 225 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 3: Request was heard in heaven. 226 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 5: When we don't see anything happening, we can think God 227 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 5: must not have heard us. Nothing's changing. No, the moment 228 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 5: you prayed God heard your request. The angel went on 229 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 5: to say, God sent me with the answer, but for 230 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 5: twenty one days, the Prince of Persia blocked me. Then Michael, 231 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 5: the archangel came and helped me break through the opposition. 232 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 5: Notice the first day he prayed, something happened upstream. God 233 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 5: set the miracle into motion, but for twenty one days 234 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 5: the waters didn't recede. So to speak, for twenty one days, 235 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 5: every thought told Daniel. 236 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 3: Would have happened. By now, it's not meant to be. 237 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 5: Daniel could have been talked out of it, but he 238 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 5: had upstream faith. His attitude was, I know there are 239 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 5: things God has already done that I can't see right now. 240 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep believing, expecting, praying, knowing that it's on 241 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 5: the way. Like with Daniel, the moment you prayed according 242 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 5: to God's word, he did something upstream. He dispatched the angel. 243 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 5: He set things into motion. I can't see it right now, 244 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 5: but upstream things have. 245 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 3: Changed in your favor. Upstream. 246 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 5: Healing has been released upstream, the right people have been 247 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 5: lined up upstream. The breaks you need, the restoration, the 248 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 5: vindication has been put in place. 249 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 3: It's in your future. 250 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 5: Don't let what's happening downstream? Talk you out of the 251 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 5: blessings that are upstream. Angels have been dispatched with your 252 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 5: name on them, bringing healing, favor abundance. Now do your 253 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 5: part and have upstream faith God. I believe the moment 254 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 5: I prayed, you not only heard me, but you answered 255 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 5: my prayer. I'm not moved by what I don't see. 256 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 5: I'm moved by what I know. I know you're faithful. 257 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 5: I know I'm healed. I know I'm blessed. I know 258 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 5: my children are mighty. 259 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 3: In the land. 260 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 5: I know my latter days will be better than. 261 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 3: My former days. 262 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 5: When Joshua was standing at the Jordan River, I'm sure 263 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 5: his mind went back to a time when he was 264 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 5: much younger. He and the Israelites had just come out 265 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 5: of slavery. They were at the Red Sea, but the 266 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,439 Speaker 5: Pharaoh changed his mind and came chasing after them. It 267 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 5: was a dead end, the sea on one side, the 268 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 5: Pharaoh and the other armies on the other side. He 269 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 5: saw his mentor, Moses hold up his rod. There was 270 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 5: this great wind with such force that it pushed back 271 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 5: the water. Instantly it parted. Those two million people walked 272 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 5: through this dry path with walls of water twenty feet 273 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 5: high on each side, the hand of God supernaturally making 274 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 5: a way. 275 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 3: Well. Fast forward many years later, when. 276 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 5: Joshua was at the Jordan he sent these priests into 277 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 5: the water. 278 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 3: I'm sure he was expecting this. 279 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 5: Huge wind, something supernatural, to instantly push the water back, 280 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 5: make walls where they could pass through. 281 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 3: This time, nothing happened. 282 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 5: They didn't feel any wind, see any water moving, hear 283 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 5: anything different. But just because God did it one way 284 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 5: doesn't mean he's going to do it that way every time. 285 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 5: Sometimes the miracle is going to take place, but it's 286 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 5: going to be upstream. It was no less of a miracle. 287 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 5: It just didn't happen where they could see it right there. 288 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 5: If they would have had cell phones, someone would have called, Hey, 289 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 5: it happened, the Jordan quin flowing. 290 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 3: See. 291 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 5: It's easy to have faith when you have a red 292 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 5: sea miracle, when God instantly turns it around, you can 293 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 5: see it, feel. 294 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 3: It, touch it. 295 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 5: It's easy to say God, you're good, thank you for 296 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 5: what you've done. But real faith is when you don't 297 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 5: see anything happening, nothing's improving, but you thank God that 298 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 5: he's working upstream. You know the moment you prayed, things 299 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 5: shifted in your favor. You say, God, I don't see it, 300 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 5: but I believe you're working. I don't feel any better, 301 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 5: but I know I'm healed. The Angel hasn't shown up yet, 302 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 5: but I know my breakthrough is on the way. See 303 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 5: downstream faith says, I'll believe when I see things changing, 304 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 5: when my health starts to improve, when I get that promotion, 305 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 5: when my boss begins to treat me better, Joe, then 306 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 5: I'll thank God. 307 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 3: Then I'll have a good attitude. Here's the problem. 308 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 5: You won't see upstream blessings if you only have downstream faith. 309 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 3: And yes, God is good. 310 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 5: I know sometimes you'll see a red sea park. God 311 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 5: does it instantly begins to turn it around. But there 312 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 5: will be times that you come to a Jordan river. 313 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 5: You prayed, you stood in faith, you declare his promises, 314 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 5: but the waters didn't part, the wind didn't blow, the 315 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 5: angel didn't show up. Are you gonna get discouraged, give 316 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 5: up on what you're believing for only have downstream faith? 317 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 5: Or are you gonna dig your heels in and say, 318 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 5: I'm not moved by what I don't see, and I 319 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 5: know upstream you've already changed things you've already damned up 320 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 5: those waters. Stop this sickness, lined up the promotion, set 321 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 5: the right people. 322 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 3: Lord, I thank you that it is on the way. 323 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 5: God has upstream blessings for you, things that you're believing for. 324 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 3: He's already set in motion, but he's looking for upstream faith. 325 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 3: Don't get talked. 326 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 4: Out of it. 327 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 5: Don't let what hasn't happened, how long it's been, how 328 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 5: unlikely it. 329 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,480 Speaker 3: Looks, convince you to quit believing. 330 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 5: Stay in those waters and keep the ark of the 331 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 5: covenant with you, keep the presence of God. 332 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 3: Lord. 333 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 5: I thank you that you're fighting my battles. Thank you 334 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,239 Speaker 5: that what you've promised me is on the way. I 335 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 5: know your favor surrounds me. Goodness and mercy are following me. 336 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 5: What you have purpose for my life will come to pass. 337 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 5: When my mother was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer back 338 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty one, the doctors gave. 339 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 3: Her own a few weeks to live. There was no 340 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 3: treatment that they could give her. 341 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 5: They sent her home at forty six years old, basically 342 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 5: to die. On December eleventh, she and my father laid 343 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 5: on the ground in their bedroom and asked God for 344 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 5: a miracle. 345 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 3: They prayed the prayer of faith, not God. Why did 346 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 3: this happen? God? 347 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 5: Just let her die in peace. It must be her 348 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 5: time to go. No, they said, God, we know you're 349 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 5: the healer. We know you can do what medicine cannot do. God, 350 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 5: were asking you to give her more years to restore 351 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 5: health back to her. God, you said, with long life, 352 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 5: you would satisfy us. They prayed a bold prayer like Moses. 353 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 5: They held up that staff. But the waters didn't part. 354 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 5: She wasn't at a red sea, she was at a 355 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 5: Jordan river. Nothing happened. She didn't feel any better, look 356 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 5: any better. The medical report didn't change. My mother could 357 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 5: have been Thoughts were telling her, you're done. You heard 358 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 5: what the doctor said, a few weeks to live, just 359 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 5: accept it. But my mother believed that when they prayed, 360 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 5: God did something upstream, that the tide began to turn, 361 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 5: that the. 362 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 3: Miracle was set into motion. 363 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 5: Like those priests, my mother never got out of the water. 364 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 5: She didn't see anything improving, but that didn't change her mindset. 365 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 3: I would hear her going through the. 366 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 5: House, I will live and not die, and declare the 367 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 5: works of the Lord. 368 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 3: God is restoring health back into me. What he started 369 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 3: in my life, he will finish. She had upstream faith. 370 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 5: I don't see it, feel it, no sign of it, 371 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 5: but I believe it's already done. I believe upstream things 372 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 5: have changed, that the angel has been dispatched. Months went 373 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 5: by and nothing really happened, no sign of improvement. But 374 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 5: we begin to realize she's still here. They said a 375 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 5: few weeks, and it's been six months. She's not any worse. 376 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 5: It's been nine months. 377 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 3: She hadn't gone downhill. 378 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,800 Speaker 5: We realized the waters were receding, the healing was coming. 379 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 5: Little by little, she got better and better, until one day, 380 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,680 Speaker 5: a few years later, she was back to normal, completely healthy. 381 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 5: No medical explanation, no logical solution. Was the hand of God. 382 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 3: But here's my point. It was upstream. 383 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 5: The miracle had taken place, but it hadn't flowed down 384 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 5: to her yet. 385 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 3: If you only have downstream. 386 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 5: Faith, Joel, I believe it when I see it, that's 387 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 5: going to keep you from upstream blessings. The things you're 388 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 5: concerned about now, dreams, you want to accomplish, situations you 389 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 5: need to turn around. You'll be tempted to get discouraged. 390 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 5: Think that God hasn't heard you. Why hasn't it happened? 391 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 3: Can I encourage you? It's upstream. 392 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 5: God has already taken care of it. Now, stay in 393 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 5: faith while that flows downstream. 394 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 3: Don't get talked out of it while you're waiting for 395 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 3: things to change. 396 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 5: When Moses was one hundred and twenty years old, he 397 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 5: was about to die, he told the Israelites that he 398 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 5: wasn't going to cross the Jordan River and go into 399 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 5: the Promised Land, but that Joshua was their new leader 400 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 5: and they were to follow him. He said in Deuteronomy 401 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 5: thirty one, the Lord himself will cross over. 402 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 3: Ahead of you. 403 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 5: He will destroy the nations and give you the land. 404 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 5: He was saying, you're going to face situations. Well, you 405 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 5: don't think you can make it. 406 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 3: The people are too big, the opposition too strong. 407 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 5: But don't worry. God is going ahead of you. He's 408 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 5: going to cross over and do what you can't do. 409 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 5: He was telling them they are going to be upstream 410 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 5: blessings waiting for you, things that you can't see right now. Favor, 411 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 5: influence resources. The Lord, your God is going ahead of you. 412 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 5: He was getting them prepared in their thinking to not 413 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 5: let the circumstances talk them out. 414 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 3: Of what God had already done. He said in. 415 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 5: Verse eight, do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord, 416 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 5: your God is the one who. 417 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 3: Goes before you. He will never fail you or forsake you. 418 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,679 Speaker 5: Three times in six verses he said, God will go 419 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 5: ahead of you. God is saying to you what he 420 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 5: said to the Israelites. 421 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 3: You're going to come in. 422 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 5: To some upstream blessings, things that God has already made happen, Opportunity, healing, abundance. 423 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 3: God is going before you right now. Here's the key. 424 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 5: Don't let downstream doubt keep you from upstream blessings. Instead 425 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 5: of thinking about how big the obstacle is, how you 426 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 5: never pay your house off, never meet the right person. 427 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 3: Why don't you have upstream faith? God? 428 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 5: I thank you that you go ahead of me, opening 429 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 5: doors that no person can shut, doing what medicine cannot do, 430 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:06,840 Speaker 5: taking me where. 431 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 3: I cannot go on my own. 432 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 5: Father, I thank you for your upstream blessings. A few 433 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 5: years ago, my brother Paul was in Haiti right after 434 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 5: a big earthquake, and he and a team of surgeons 435 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 5: were operating on all the injured people. At one point, 436 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 5: the main monitor they were using during surgery to see 437 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 5: the patient's blood pressure and vital signs went out. Without 438 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 5: that monitor, they couldn't do any more surgeries. The men 439 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 5: in charge started searching the hospital. They looked everywhere, couldn't 440 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 5: find one. Paul and his team started making calls, but 441 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 5: nothing was available. It would take several days to have 442 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 5: one flown in from the States, and. 443 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 3: Look like they were at a standstill. 444 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 5: A few hours later, the hospital administrator, a local Haitian man, 445 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 5: came in carrying a brand new monitor still in the 446 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 5: They opened it and it was exactly what they needed, 447 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 5: had all the right connections. Paul and the other surgeons 448 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 5: were so surprised that he would have that exact monitor. 449 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 5: He told how two years earlier he was at a 450 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 5: hospital administrator's conference in the States. Everyone that attended was 451 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 5: entered into a contest for a door prize. Out of 452 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 5: several thousand people. It just so happened that he won 453 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 5: this monitor. He had no need for it at the time. 454 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 5: It was still in storage. But God is going ahead 455 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,919 Speaker 5: of you. He knows what you're going to need in 456 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 5: the future. That was an upstreme blessing. God had the 457 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 5: solution before they had the problem, he said in Isaiah, 458 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 5: Before you call, I will answer you. 459 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 3: That's why we can. 460 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 5: Live in peace, not worried about our children, stressed over 461 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 5: our health, losing sleep over our finances. 462 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 3: God is going to ahead of you. 463 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 5: There are things he's doing right now that you can't see. 464 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 5: Maybe the waters are not parting. You don't see any 465 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 5: sign of things changing. 466 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 3: That's okay. Have upstream faith. God is working. 467 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 5: He's taking care of what you're concerned about. The Angel 468 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 5: has already been dispatched with the answer, there are upstream 469 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 5: blessings coming your way. Genesis twenty four, Abraham was living 470 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 5: in the land of Canaan. He told his main assistant 471 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 5: to go back to his original hometown, which was four 472 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 5: hundred miles away, and find a wife for his son. 473 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 3: Isaac. 474 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 5: You can imagine the pressure on this man. You want 475 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 5: me to find a wife for your son, he said 476 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 5: in verse five. What if I can't find a young 477 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 5: woman that will travel that far from home? Abraham said, 478 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 5: the Lord, my God, will send his angel ahead of you, 479 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 5: and he will see to it that you find the 480 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,919 Speaker 5: right wife for my son. Notice how Abraham believed in 481 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 5: upstream blessings. 482 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 3: He could have thought, you're right, man, good luck. 483 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,239 Speaker 5: Just do the best you can know. His attitude was, 484 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 5: God is going before me. He's already arranged what I need. 485 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 5: I know the right person is on the way. This 486 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 5: man arrived at Abraham's hometown and he was waiting out 487 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 5: at the stream. He prayed, God, let the right girl 488 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 5: for Isaac not only give me a drink of water 489 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 5: when I ask, but let her ask to water my 490 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 5: camels as well. That way I'll know she's the one. 491 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 5: This beautiful young woman came to the stream. He said, 492 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 5: I'm traveling through town. Would you mind getting me a drink? 493 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 5: She said sure, and let me get water for. 494 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 3: Your camels too. The first girl that showed up was 495 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 3: a divine connection. 496 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 5: Her name was Rebecca. She became Isaac's wife. It's easy 497 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 5: to go through life. Worry how's it going to work out? 498 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 5: I don't see anything happening. What if I don't meet 499 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 5: the right person? Stay in peace. God has upstream blessings 500 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 5: waiting for you. 501 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 3: He's going before you right now. 502 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 5: He's already sent the angel ahead of you, lining up 503 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 5: the right people, the good breaks, the healing. Now do 504 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 5: your part and have upstream faith. The Jordan River may 505 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 5: not be partying. You don't see anything changing. 506 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 3: But upstream the miracle has already taken place. God has 507 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 3: stopped the water. 508 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 5: Just a matter of time before you see things change 509 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 5: in your favor. Don't let what you can't see talk 510 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,959 Speaker 5: you out of what has already happened. Walk by faith 511 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 5: and not by sight. Keep believing, keep expecting. 512 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 3: Keep praising. 513 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 5: If you'll do this, I believe and declare, you're about 514 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 5: to see upstream blessings. Like the Israelites, those waters are 515 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 5: about to receive. What you've been praying about is on 516 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,239 Speaker 5: the way. Like with Abraham, the right people are going 517 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,440 Speaker 5: to be waiting for you. 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