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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 37 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray put God's very best in 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 5: your life. Well, God bless you. It's always a joy 39 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 5: to come into your home. And if you're ever in 40 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 5: our area, please stop by and be a part of 41 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 5: one of our services. 42 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 3: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 43 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you 44 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 5: again for coming out today. And I like to start 45 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 5: with something funny in I heard about this family that 46 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 5: lived way out in the backwoods. They never left their 47 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 5: little town, never watched television, never listened to the radio, 48 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 5: and one day they decided to take a. 49 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 3: Vacation to New York City. 50 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 5: The first day, the father took his son to see 51 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 5: a famous skyscraper. They were so impressed. They were especially 52 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 5: intrigued by the elevator. They didn't know what it was. 53 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 5: This older woman walked up and punched the button. 54 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 3: The walls opened up. She stepped into this little. 55 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 5: Room, and the walls closed back. They sat there contemplating 56 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 5: what they had just seen. A few seconds later, the 57 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 5: same walls opened back up and outstepped this beautiful twenty 58 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 5: four year old woman. Almost in disbelief, the son said, Dad, 59 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 5: what just happened. 60 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 3: The dad said, I don't know, son, but go get 61 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 3: your mother. Hold up your bibles. 62 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 63 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what 64 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says 65 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 66 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 67 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 68 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you about 69 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 5: today is your day. A lot of times we have 70 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 5: faith for the future. We believe one day we'll get 71 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 5: a good break, one day will feel better, one day 72 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 5: the problem will turn around. 73 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 3: And if we're not careful, we're. 74 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 5: Always putting our faith off, believing that in the future 75 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 5: something good is going to happen. But true faith is 76 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 5: always in the present. God is called the Great, I am, 77 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 5: not the great I will be. He wants to show 78 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 5: you his goodness, his faith, or his mercy today. And 79 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 5: if this is going to happen, you can't just have 80 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,119 Speaker 5: faith for the future. 81 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: You have to. 82 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 5: Believe today is my day. This could be the day 83 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 5: my health improves. This could be the day I get 84 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 5: the phone call I've been waiting for. This could be 85 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 5: the day. 86 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 3: My child comes back home. 87 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 5: There has to be an expectancy that something good is. 88 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 3: Going to happen. 89 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 5: Not next week, not next year, not in the sweet 90 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 5: by and by no. Today I could be promoted today, 91 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 5: I could break this addiction. Today, I could get a 92 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 5: contract on the house I've been trying to sell. Today 93 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 5: I could meet the person of my dreams. You don't 94 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 5: know it could happen before you leave this auditorium. Quit 95 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 5: looking around. When we get up in the morning, we 96 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 5: should make the declaration something good is going to happen 97 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 5: to me today. You need to set the tone at 98 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 5: the start of the day. You may have been dealing 99 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 5: with the problem for twenty years. Your attitude should be today. 100 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 5: I'm expecting it to turn around today. I'm expecting good 101 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 5: breaks to chase me down. Today, I'm expecting to see 102 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 5: God's goodness. When you have this expectancy, this now faith, 103 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 5: then God will do things suddenly. Suddenly you get the 104 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 5: break you need, Suddenly you feel better, Suddenly your marriage 105 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 5: is restored. God has some suddenlyes in store for you. 106 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 5: And Second Corinthian sixth says now is the time for 107 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 5: God's favor. God wants to do something amazing in your 108 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 5: life now. And some of you believe that God's going 109 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 5: to do something good one day. 110 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,719 Speaker 3: You've got big dreams. 111 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 5: You know one day you'll meet the right person, one 112 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 5: day you'll get that break. 113 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 3: And that's fine. 114 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 5: But I'm asking you to get out of a one 115 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 5: day mentality and come over to a today mentality. If 116 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 5: God can do it one day, he can do it today. 117 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 5: If he can do it in the future, he could 118 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 5: just as easily do it now. And I realize there's 119 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 5: a perfect timing. God knows when. 120 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 3: It's best for us. 121 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 5: But what if the reason it's not happening is because 122 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 5: we're not releasing our faith for today. When you have 123 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 5: this attitude, today is my day God, I believe right 124 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 5: now you're at work in my life. Right now, you're 125 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 5: lining up the right people. Right now, you're making my 126 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 5: cooked places straight. Right now, you're fighting my battles for me. 127 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 5: When you have this right now faith, this today is 128 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 5: my day. Faith, That's when you'll see not the great 129 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 5: I will be, but the great. 130 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 3: I am show up and do amazing things. 131 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 5: That's when you'll see suddenly is in your own life. 132 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 5: But too many people live with this one day mentality. 133 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 5: The problem with one day is it's always in the future. 134 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 5: What if God answered your prayer and said, Okay, one day, 135 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 5: I'm going to do it next month, rose around. God 136 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 5: says one day, next year, one day, twenty years from now, 137 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 5: one day, friends, one day never comes. 138 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 3: It's always tomorrow. 139 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 5: Why don't you have a boldness to say, God, I 140 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 5: believe today is my day. Today, I will see your 141 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 5: favor today this problem will start to turn around. Today 142 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 5: I'll meet the right person. This is what David did 143 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 5: said in Psalm one eighteen, this is the day the 144 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 5: Lord has made He was making this same declaration. 145 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 3: Today is my day. 146 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 5: I'm expecting something good to happen to me. We see 147 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 5: his attitude in the next verse. He said, Oh Lord, 148 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 5: I beseech you send prosperity now. He could have said, God, 149 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 5: please send your favor next week or next month when 150 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 5: my bills are due, or God at the end of 151 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 5: the year, at least when I have to pay my taxes. Now, 152 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 5: David didn't have a one day mentality. He had a 153 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 5: right now mentality. He had the boldness, the audacity to say, God, 154 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,119 Speaker 5: I'm asking you to do it today. Have you ever 155 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 5: asked God to do something now to show. 156 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 3: You his favor today? 157 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 5: Well, Joel, I wouldn't be that bald, that presumptuous. 158 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 3: That wouldn't be right. 159 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 5: David did it, and he's called a man after God's 160 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 5: own heart. The scripture says we have not because we 161 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 5: ask not. Sometimes we're too passive, we're too timid, we 162 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 5: don't want to be pushy. 163 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 3: Seemed like that we're proud. 164 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 5: But when you have this boldness to say, like David, 165 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 5: God do it today. Heal me today, restore me today, 166 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 5: show me your favor today. God doesn't say, who do 167 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 5: you think you are? Get back down in your place. 168 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 5: It's just the opposite. Your faith gets God's attention. One 169 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 5: time Jesus was walking through a town. This man came 170 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 5: up and said, my assistant at home. 171 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 3: He's like my son. 172 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 5: He's very, very sick. Jesus, would you please pray for him. 173 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 5: Jesus said, yes, I'll come to your house. The man said, 174 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 5: I'm a captain in the army. I have a lot 175 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 5: of authority When I speak. My soldiers obey me. You 176 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 5: don't need to come to my house. Just speak the 177 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 5: word and my assistant will be healed. This man had 178 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 5: now faith. He believed that today is my day. 179 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 3: Like David. He was saying, Lord, send healing now. 180 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 5: Jesus didn't get offended and say, you got a lot 181 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 5: of nerve asking me to do. 182 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 3: It right now. 183 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 7: Now. 184 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 3: Jesus looked at the man and. 185 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 5: Said, I haven't seen this much faith in all of Israel. 186 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 3: You can go back home. Your assistant will be perfectly well. 187 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 5: That's what happens when you have the boldness to say, God, 188 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 5: do it today. You will seize some suddenly in your 189 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 5: and some of you have been praying by a situation 190 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 5: for a long time. You know one day God's gonna 191 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 5: work it out. You've got to come over into now faith. 192 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 5: Dare to say, God, heal me, now, deliver me, Now, 193 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 5: bring my child back home. Now, God show me the 194 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 5: abundance of rain. Now, God has now blessings for you. 195 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 5: But you have to be bold enough to have now faith. Well, Joel, 196 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 5: what if I do this and get my hopes up? 197 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 5: I believe today is my day and it doesn't happen, 198 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 5: then I'll go to bed, all discourage, all disappointed. No, 199 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 5: that's the wrong approach. You should go to bed saying Father, 200 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 5: thank you. Now I know I'm one. 201 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 3: Step closer to seeing it come to pass. 202 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 5: You get up in the next morning, be bold enough 203 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 5: to say it again, Lord, sin favor today. 204 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 3: See. 205 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 5: I'm not talking about something that you try for a 206 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 5: couple of weeks. I'm talking about a lifestyle where you 207 00:10:58,520 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 5: live with expectancy. 208 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 3: You go out each. 209 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 5: Day looking for God's goodness. The truth is we all 210 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 5: have to wait. I'm not saying everything will change in 211 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 5: twenty four hours. It might, but it might take a 212 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 5: much longer. 213 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 3: The key is to wait the right way, with expectancy. 214 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 5: Knowing that it could happen today. That's what a young 215 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 5: couple did that I know. They were trying to have 216 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 5: a baby for many years with no success. They went 217 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 5: through all the fertility treatments, still nothing. Instead of getting discouraged, 218 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 5: they got up every morning and said, Father, thank you. 219 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 5: Today could be the day we conceive a child. Today 220 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 5: could be the day you bless. 221 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 3: Us with a baby. 222 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 5: Month after month went by, they didn't see anything changing. Year, 223 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 5: two years, three years, four years. They just kept saying, Lord, 224 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 5: send healing, Now send that baby, now, send favor. Now, 225 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 5: living with expectancy, now faith. Five years later, after being 226 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 5: told they couldn't have a baby, they brought their beautiful 227 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 5: baby daughter for us to dedicate right here. They were 228 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 5: so excited about it. But I wonder what would have 229 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 5: happened if they had a thought, well, just our luck 230 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 5: just not meant to be. They had this attitude, Today 231 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 5: is our day. Nothing happened. The first month didn't matter. 232 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 5: Today is our day. Nothing happened the first year. They 233 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 5: didn't get discouraged, didn't. 234 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 3: Change their mind. Today is our day. 235 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 5: Those five years, it didn't look like anything was happening. 236 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 5: But the truth is God was working behind the scenes. 237 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 5: Eventually they came into there suddenly. And it's easy to 238 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 5: get discouraged. I think, well, my marriage is never going 239 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 5: to improve. It's been this way too long. I'll never 240 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 5: get out of debt, I'll never be well. 241 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 3: No, God is a god of the suddenlies. 242 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 5: One touch of his favor, and it suddenly turns around. 243 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 5: You suddenly get the break you need, suddenly feel better, 244 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 5: you suddenly meet the right person. 245 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 3: You may not. 246 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 5: See anything happening, but that doesn't mean that God is 247 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 5: not working. As long as you believe, as long as 248 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 5: you know today is my day. Behind the scenes, God 249 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 5: is at work getting it all lined up. In fact, 250 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 5: every time you say, Lord, send favor, now, send healing, now, 251 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 5: send freedom now. 252 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,239 Speaker 3: In the unseen realm, God dispatches the angels. 253 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 5: They're arranging things in your favor, moving the wrong people 254 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 5: out of the way, lining up the breaks that you need. 255 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 3: It's just a. 256 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 5: Matter of time before your suddenly shows up. It's like 257 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,079 Speaker 5: this man. He was in his yard with a big 258 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 5: sledge hammer trying to break apart this huge boulder. 259 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 3: He swung at it. 260 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 5: Again and again with all of his might. Didn't see 261 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 5: the smallest dent, not even a little crack. But every day, 262 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 5: for a couple of hours, he would go out and 263 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 5: hit that boulder as hard as he could, never seeing 264 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 5: any sign of things changing. A few weeks later, he 265 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 5: hit it, and all of a sudden, the whole rock 266 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 5: split right apart. 267 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 3: He was surprised. 268 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 5: He didn't think he was making any progress. What he 269 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 5: didn't realize was on the inside of the rock. 270 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 3: Every time he hit. 271 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 5: It, it was weakening the integrity of the rock. There 272 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 5: were no signs on the outside, but on the inside 273 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 5: changes were taking place. When that rock finally split apart, 274 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 5: it wasn't that last blow that did it. 275 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 3: It was a. 276 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 5: Culmination of all the times he had hit it before 277 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 5: in the same way. Every day you get up, praying, believing, expecting. 278 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 5: You may not see anything happening. It all looks the same. 279 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 5: Thoughts will tell you it's never going to change. Your 280 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 5: child's never going to straighten up, You'll never be able 281 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 5: to afford that house you want. Your health is never 282 00:14:58,600 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 5: going to improve. 283 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 3: Believe those lives. 284 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 5: Keep saying Lord sin favor, Now keep believing today is 285 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 5: my day. Keep expecting God's goodness every day you do that. 286 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 5: Whatever's holding you back is getting weaker. The sickness is 287 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 5: getting weaker, the addiction is getting weaker, the depression is 288 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 5: getting weaker, the lack is getting weaker. The family problem 289 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 5: is getting weaker. One day you're going to get up 290 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 5: and say today is my day. 291 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 3: You're not going to say it by faith. 292 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 5: Suddenly it'll turn around, Suddenly the dream comes to pass. 293 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 5: Suddenly you get the break. But it wasn't just that 294 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 5: one time. It was all those days you chose to 295 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 5: live with expectancy, believing that God was working even though 296 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 5: you didn't see anything happening. 297 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 3: I met a lady a few years ago out in 298 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 3: the lobby. 299 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 5: She was in town at the medical center, and she 300 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 5: had just been approved to be on the list for 301 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 5: a liver transplant. She was told it would take between 302 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 5: three and five years. There were many people on the 303 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 5: list ahead of her. 304 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 3: She didn't know if she could live that long. 305 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 5: I told her, God, can heal you with the transplant 306 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 5: or without the transplant. Just keep believing today is my day. Lord, 307 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 5: send healey, now, send favor now. About three months later, 308 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 5: she was back at the services. I noticed she had 309 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 5: a wristband on her wrist from the hospital. Thought maybe 310 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 5: she had to have some additional test. She had the 311 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 5: biggest smile on her face. She said, Joe, you're looking 312 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 5: at a lady with a brand new liver. Two days 313 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 5: after she went on the list, she received a call saying, 314 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 5: we have a liver available for you. Supposed to take 315 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 5: years and years. She had the operation, the transplant. Everything 316 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 5: went well. Today she's healthy and whole. 317 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 3: What was that suddenly? You may think it's going to. 318 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 5: Take years for you to get well, years to get 319 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 5: out of debt, years to accomplish your dreams. How do 320 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 5: you know, like with this lady, that God doesn't have 321 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 5: a suddenly lined. 322 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 3: Up for you. 323 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 5: You don't know what God has around the corner. You 324 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 5: need to get ready. God is about to turn some 325 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 5: things around. He's about to release an abundance of rain. 326 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 5: He's going to speed up what should have taken years. 327 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 2: Now. 328 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 3: You've got to get up every. 329 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 5: Morning in faith saying God, I want to thank you. 330 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 5: Today is my day. Then go out expecting one of 331 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 5: these suddenlys to chase you down. 332 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 3: There was a man in the scripture that was crippled. 333 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,919 Speaker 5: He'd been lying by the pool of Bethesda, and whenever 334 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 5: an angel stirred the waters, the first person that got 335 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 5: in would be healed. Now I can imagine the first 336 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 5: week he was there, he was very excited, thinking, today 337 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 5: is my day. I'm going to be the one to 338 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 5: get healed. But a month goes by and he doesn't 339 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 5: see anything happening. A year goes by, still nothing. He 340 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 5: gets a little more discouraged. In five years, well, he's 341 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 5: finally completely convinced that it's never going to happen. One day, 342 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 5: Jesus shows up and says to the man, do you 343 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 5: want to get well? Instead of saying, of course I do. 344 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,959 Speaker 5: I knew it was going to happen, he started making excuses. 345 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 5: He said, Jesus, I've been here a long time. I 346 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 5: don't have anybody to help me get in the water. 347 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 5: You know, my legs don't work. 348 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 2: Here. 349 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 5: The son of God, Jesus, stands before him, the one 350 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 5: that has the power to make him home. But the 351 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 5: man is so focused on all the reasons why it's 352 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 5: not going to happen. 353 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 3: What am I saying? 354 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 5: You can be at the right place, in the wrong 355 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 5: frame of mind and miss what God wants to do. 356 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 5: You may have been praying, believing about a situation for 357 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 5: many years. 358 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 3: You don't see anything changing. You could easily talk yourself 359 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 3: out of it. 360 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 5: But I believe, like with this man, God is passing 361 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 5: by today. You're at the right place. Here's the real question. 362 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 5: Are you in the right frame of mind? Do you 363 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,959 Speaker 5: believe that today could be your day? Do you believe 364 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 5: that God. 365 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 3: Could still turn it around? Still bless you? Still restore You. 366 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 5: Don't be like this man and come up with a 367 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,719 Speaker 5: bunch of excuses why you can't be successful, why you 368 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 5: can't get well, why you'll never get married. No, shake 369 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 5: off the doubt, turn off the negative voices, have the 370 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 5: attitude today is my day. It may not have happened 371 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 5: in the past, but I know now is the time 372 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 5: for God's favor. I'm expecting some suddenlies in my life. 373 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 5: See the scripture tells us to be prisoners of hope. 374 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 5: That means we're chained to hope. We can't get away 375 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 5: from it. In other words, I should be discouraged. It's 376 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 5: taken a long time, but I can't help it. I 377 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 5: still believe God can turn it around. I still believe 378 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 5: a suddenly is coming. I still believe that today could be. 379 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 5: That thought says, you're never going to get out of debt. 380 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 5: Business is slow, looks like you're going to go under 381 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 5: Just answer back, yes, that may be true in the natural. 382 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 5: I don't see a way. But you've got to understand. 383 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 5: I'm in a prison, not physically but mentally, a prison 384 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 5: of expectancy. I believe now God is working in my life. 385 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 3: Now is the time for God's favor. 386 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 5: Whenever those thoughts try to talk you out of it, 387 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 5: just tell them you're too late. I've already seen suddenly's 388 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 5: in my life. And go back and remember all the 389 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 5: things God has done for you. I've seen God heal 390 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 5: my mother of terminal cancer. 391 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 3: I've seen God. 392 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 5: Give us this beautiful facility when all the odds were 393 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 5: against us. I've seen God increase me in ways that 394 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:51,679 Speaker 5: I've never imagined. 395 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 3: Listen, if God did it for us once, he'll do 396 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 3: it for us again. That's a prisoner of hope. You 397 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 3: don't get talked out of it. 398 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 5: Isaiah thirty says God is longing to be good to you. 399 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 5: God wants to show you his favor, but there's a requirement. 400 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 5: God is going to be good not necessarily to everyone. 401 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 5: The rest of the verse tells us who blessed are 402 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 5: those who look for, who long for, who expect his goodness, 403 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 5: his favor, his victory. God is going to be good 404 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 5: to the people that are looking for his goodness, people 405 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,959 Speaker 5: that are expecting his favor. Now, my question, what are 406 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 5: you looking for? What are you expecting to barely get 407 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 5: by this year? Or are you expecting an abundance of rain? 408 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 5: Do you think your situation will never change or do 409 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 5: you know that now is the time for God's favor. 410 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 3: Well, Joel, I've had a. 411 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,439 Speaker 5: Lot of disappointments. I never get any good breaks. I 412 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 5: don't see how it could get well. No, if you're 413 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 5: not looking for God's goodness, if you don't develop this attitude, dude, 414 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 5: that today is my day, then even though God is 415 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 5: longing to be good to you, he'll back off and 416 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 5: put his blessings on hold. Faith causes God to act 417 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 5: your expectancy believing that things are changing, saying Lord, send favor, now, 418 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 5: send healing, now, send restoration. 419 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 3: Now. 420 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 5: That's not just being positive, that's your faith being released. 421 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 5: That's what causes the creator of the universe to go 422 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 5: to work in your life. Now I've heard the saying 423 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 5: you probably have to don't expect too much. That way, 424 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 5: when it doesn't happen, you won't be disappointed. 425 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 3: That's no way to live. 426 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 5: God meets you at the level of your expectations. If 427 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 5: you expect this to be an ordinary year, it'll be 428 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 5: an ordinary year. If you expect the problem to get worse, 429 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 5: it will get worse. If you expect the sickness, the trouble, 430 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 5: the lack, the depression to continue, it will continue. 431 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 3: You've got a change what you're expecting. 432 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 5: God wants to be good to you, but he's waiting 433 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 5: for you to start looking for his goodness. Our attitude 434 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 5: should be I'm expecting this year to be better than 435 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 5: last year. I'm expecting good breaks to chase us down 436 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 5: and overtake us. I'm expecting divine connections, the right people 437 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 5: to show up. I'm expecting our children to be mighty 438 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 5: in the land, to excel in school. I'm expecting us 439 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 5: to live debt, free, to lend and not borrow, to 440 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 5: be the head and not the tail. I'm expecting to 441 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 5: overcome every challenge that no weapon formed against us will prosper. 442 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 5: I'm expecting some suddenlies Suddenly you get promoted, Suddenly you 443 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 5: get well, Suddenly you're thrust into overflow. Listen, you can 444 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 5: wake up one morning with the same problem you've had 445 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 5: for the last twenty years. 446 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 3: Nothing looks any different, But then today. 447 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 5: Is your day and you go to bed and the 448 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 5: whole situation is resolved. One touch of God's favor. One 449 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 5: suddenly are you expecting it? Some of you are stuck. 450 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 5: You're not expecting enough. You need to get your expector out. 451 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 5: You haven't used that thing in fourteen years. 452 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 3: It needs to be overhauled. Start expecting to rise higher. 453 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 5: Start expecting every enemy in your life to be defeated. 454 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 5: Start expecting your mountains to be flattened into mole hills. 455 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 5: Start expecting new doors of opportunity, Favor in your career, 456 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 5: favor in your health, favor in your finances. God is 457 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 5: longing to be good to you. He's looking down from 458 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 5: the heavens right now. But you have to be in position. 459 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 5: What's the position expectancy? Believing that today is my day, 460 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 5: something good is going to happen to me. That's what 461 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 5: gets God's attention. Somebody says you're still not feeling well. Yes, 462 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 5: that's true. But this could be the day it's turns around. 463 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 5: You're still looking for that job, yes, but this could 464 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 5: be the day I find it. You're still struggling with 465 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 5: that addiction, Yes, but this could be the day I 466 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 5: break it. You're still in a drought, yes, but this 467 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 5: could be the day the heavens opened up. This could 468 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 5: be the day I see an abundance of rain suddenly 469 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,440 Speaker 5: in my life. Today a dream could come to pass. Today, 470 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 5: a marriage could be restored. Today, you could be thrust 471 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 5: into overflow. Friends, our God is the Great. 472 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 3: I am present, tense. 473 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 5: He's saying, I am healing, I am restoration, I am breakthroughs, 474 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 5: I am abundance, I am victory. Now, if you're going 475 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 5: to see the Great I am show up, you can't 476 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 5: treat him like the great I will be. 477 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 3: You can't have a one day faith. You got to 478 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 3: have a today faith, a now faith. That's what a 479 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 3: lady did in the scripture. 480 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 5: She had been sick for twelve years with a bleeding disorder. 481 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 5: She spent all of her money, went to many doctors, 482 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 5: but continued. 483 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 3: To get worse. 484 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 5: She could have gotten discouraged and thought, well, just wasn't 485 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 5: meant to be. 486 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 3: I guess that's it. No, this lady must have been 487 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 3: coming to Lakewood. Her attitude was, today is my day. 488 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 3: I may not see how it can work out, but 489 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 3: Lord send healing, now, send favor. Now. 490 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 5: She heard that Jesus was traveling through her city. She thought, 491 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 5: if I can just get to him, I know. 492 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 3: I will be healed. She had this expectancy. 493 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 5: She knew God could suddenly turn it around. She pressed 494 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 5: her way through the crowd. I can hear her saying, 495 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 5: excuse me. I don't mean to be rude, but today 496 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 5: is my day. This is my time. Things are about 497 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 5: to change in my favor. As Jesus passed by, she 498 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 5: reached out and touched the edge of his robe, and 499 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 5: instantly she was healed. Jesus stopped said to the disciples 500 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 5: who touched me. He said, Jesus, everybody's touching you. It's 501 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 5: crowded around here. He said, No, somebody touched me with 502 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 5: such faith, with such expectancy, that they drew the miracle 503 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 5: working power right out of me. About that time, Jesus' 504 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 5: eyes met this woman's eyes. He smiled and said, daughter, 505 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 5: your faith has made you home. Notice it wasn't God's faith. 506 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 5: God has all the faith in the world. When you believe, 507 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 5: your faith can stop the Son of God in his tracks. 508 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 5: Your expectancy can cause the creator of the universe to 509 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 5: do amazing things in your life. My question, what are 510 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 5: you expecting right now? Not tomorrow, not next week. Now 511 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 5: is the time for favor. Don't have a one day faith. 512 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 5: Do like this, lady, have a now faith. Go out 513 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 5: each day looking for God's goodness. It may not have 514 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 5: happened yet, but be a prisoner of hope. It can 515 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 5: still happen even today. And if you will develop this 516 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 5: attitude that today is my day, then you better get ready. 517 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 3: Some suddenlyis are coming your way. 518 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 5: God is going to suddenly bring a dream to pass, 519 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 5: suddenly restore what's been stolen, suddenly thrust you into overflow. 520 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 5: My prayer for each of you is what David prayed 521 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 5: in Psalm one eighteen. Lord, send favor now to your people. 522 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 5: Send healing now, Send restoration now, Send abundance now, Send 523 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 5: victory now. I believe and declare is come in your 524 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 5: way in Jesus's name. If you receive it, can you 525 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 5: say him in today. 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