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You know, I'm reminded today that God 39 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 6: always starts small. 40 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 5: God takes the small. 41 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: And goes big. 42 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 6: You know, God's got a way of doing things with 43 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 6: seeds that multiply. 44 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 5: And today I just want to remind every one of us. 45 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 6: You may feel small, you may feel like you don't 46 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 6: have enough, or there maybe some small things in your 47 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 6: life you don't know if you really can handle. But 48 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 6: I want to tell you something. When you put those 49 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 6: small things in the hands of Jesus, you know what 50 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 6: he can go from small to big. He can go 51 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 6: from small to big. You see, God told the Israelites 52 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 6: when they were going to possess the land in Deuteronomy, 53 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 6: he says, I'm going to decrease your. 54 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 5: Enemies so that you can increase. He said it like this, 55 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 5: He says, little by little, I AM. 56 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 6: Going to decrease the enemies in the land so that 57 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 6: you can increase and take possession of the entire promise 58 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 6: in this land. 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 5: You see, God started small and wanted them. 60 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 2: To go big. 61 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 6: So he wanted them to have the capacity to be 62 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 6: able to handle what he was going to give them. 63 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 6: He didn't want the land to overtake them. He wanted 64 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 6: them to overtake the land. But he had to decrease 65 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 6: the enemies small slowly so that they could increase. So 66 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 6: that means that God was increasing them incrementally throughout their journey. 67 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 5: And do you know That's what God wants to. 68 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 2: Do for you today. 69 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 5: He wants to increase you. What you think is small 70 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 5: and insignificant. 71 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: God wants to go big with it. 72 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 6: But you got to learn to handle the small first. 73 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 6: Many of you know the story in Matthew for and 74 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 6: the Gospels when Jesus was preaching and teaching to the multitudes. 75 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 5: They'd been with him all day long. 76 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 6: He had healed the sick among them, and he was 77 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 6: just loving on them all day long. 78 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: The disciples came to Jesus and they said, Jesus, the. 79 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 6: People haven't eaten all day, and it's starting to become evening, 80 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 6: and they need to leave, and they need to go 81 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 6: find food. Would you release them, Jesus, so that they 82 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 6: can go to the villages and find the food. We 83 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 6: don't have enough food to feed them. And Jesus said, 84 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 6: it's not necessary for me to release the people. 85 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 5: You feed them. 86 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 6: They said, we don't have enough to feed them. We 87 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 6: only have five loaves and two fish. It is not 88 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 6: enough to feed the multitude. It's too small. I love 89 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 6: the way Jesus said, you feed them. Now, he'd been 90 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 6: doing miracles all day. Wasn't going to be difficult for 91 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 6: Jesus to just multiply the food. The disciples hadn't done 92 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 6: any miracles, But yet he looked at them and said, 93 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 6: you feed them. You see what they thought was small, 94 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 6: what they thought they couldn't handle. See, they couldn't handle 95 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 6: feeding this many people with such a small thing. 96 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: He said, bring it to me, and you know the story. 97 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 2: They brought it to Jesus. 98 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 5: He broke it, he blessed it, and he gave it 99 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 5: back to them so. 100 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 6: That they could feed the multitudes. You see, Jesus took 101 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 6: that small and let them go big. He let them 102 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 6: be a blessing that day. He let what they had 103 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 6: in their hands. 104 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 2: Feed the multitude. 105 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 6: I want you to know that God thinks the small 106 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 6: is very important. Oftentimes we overlook the small because we 107 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 6: want to go big. Oftentimes we don't think we have 108 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 6: to deal with the small because it's not gonna make 109 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 6: that much difference anyway. 110 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 2: But I believe Jesus was telling us in this story. 111 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 5: The small things matter. Don't overlook the small things. 112 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 6: You see, too often we think that the complaining doesn't 113 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 6: really make a difference. We think because we're not treating 114 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 6: our spouse right, it doesn't really matter. 115 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 5: It's not what we're wanting to do anyway. 116 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 6: The lack of integrity, maybe leaving the office early, sneaking out, 117 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 6: it's okay, my boss isn't looking. See, those are small 118 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 6: things that matter to God. They're small things. He's saying, 119 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,679 Speaker 6: how you handling the small things observe the small things. 120 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 6: Then too often we say. 121 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 5: We don't have enough. 122 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 6: They don't match the dream, they don't match my desires. 123 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 6: I don't have the right education, I don't have the 124 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 6: proper finances. I don't have the resources. I didn't come 125 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 6: from the right family. 126 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 5: I can't do what I would like to do. That's 127 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 5: small stuff, too. See, all of this stuff is small. 128 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 6: But God likes to take the small and he likes 129 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 6: to go big. But we've got to put the importance 130 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 6: on the small. You know, I believe that's what God 131 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 6: gives us babies, because. 132 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 5: They're small, then they go big. Can you imagine Him 133 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 5: giving us this grown baby. We wouldn't know what to 134 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 5: do with it. 135 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: God, a holy. 136 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 6: Starts with the seed. He wants us to go big, 137 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 6: But we gotta handle the small stuff. Like the Disciples. 138 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 2: They had it in their hand, they didn't know how 139 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 2: to handle it until Jesus gave them the secret. 140 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 5: Bring it to me. 141 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 6: Listen, you've got some problems in your life, you got 142 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 6: some unforgiveness in your life. See, those small things can 143 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 6: go big if you don't bring them to Jesus. The bitterness, 144 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 6: the root of envy, jealousy, those things can all go 145 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 6: big if you don't bring them to Jesus. You want 146 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 6: him to multiply, you want him to give you promotion. 147 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 6: You got to work the small things. You gotta not 148 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 6: overlook the small things. You know, we're sitting in this 149 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 6: auditorium today, and it's amazing. 150 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 2: It's beautiful. 151 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 6: We get to gather together, we get to sing, we 152 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 6: get to worship God in such a magnificent place. But 153 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 6: you know when what I remember about this building over 154 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 6: thirty two years ago, sitting up there by the flag 155 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 6: watching the Rockets play basketball. It was my very first 156 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 6: state with my husband, Joel. You see, it looks one 157 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 6: way to you, but Gosh, looks another way to me. 158 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 2: You see, it started with a seed. But can I 159 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 2: tell you there was a. 160 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,719 Speaker 6: Lot of small stuff along the way. And can I 161 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 6: tell you this, We'll never ever get rid of the 162 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 6: small stuff. It doesn't matter how big you go. There's 163 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 6: always the small stuff you have to bring to Jesus. 164 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: There's always the small stuff. 165 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 6: When we learn how to handle the small stuff, God 166 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 6: will give us more stuff to handle. 167 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 2: He'll enlarge our capacity. 168 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 6: You see, thirty two years ago, Joel and I could 169 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 6: never handle what's going on in our life today, it 170 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,439 Speaker 6: would have overtaken us. Instead of us possessing it, it 171 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 6: would have possessed us. We did not have capacity. We 172 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 6: were not in that place that we could deal with it. 173 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 6: And see, that is what God is saying to you. 174 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 6: He is saying, I want you to possess, but I 175 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 6: want you to start with the small stuff. 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