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Speaker 5: start with something funny. And I heard about this lady
Speaker 5: that died, and she was at the pearly gates. Saint
Speaker 5: Peter said, you can't come in yet. You have to
Speaker 5: correctly spell a word. She said what word? He said,
Speaker 5: any word, So she spelled the word love l ovee.
Speaker 5: Peter said, welcome to Heaven. Then Peter asked her if
Speaker 5: she would take his place for a moment. He instructed
Speaker 5: her that if anyone came, just to follow the same procedure.
Speaker 5: In a few moments, she sees her ex husband walking up.
Speaker 5: She can't believe it. She said, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5: He said, I just had a heart attack. Did I
Speaker 5: really make it to heaven? She said, not yet. You
Speaker 5: have to correctly spell a word. He said what word.
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Speaker 5: say like you mean it. This is my Bible. I
Speaker 5: am what it says I am. I have what it
Speaker 5: says I have. I can do what it says I
Speaker 5: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.
Speaker 5: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about
Speaker 5: God is your source. It's easy to look to people
Speaker 5: as our source or look to our job as our source.
Speaker 5: And yes, God uses people, he uses jobs, he uses contracts,
Speaker 5: but they are not the source. They are simply a
Speaker 5: resource that the source uses. And if you're seeing other things,
Speaker 5: then God is your source. The problem is if something
Speaker 5: happens to them, you'll think, what am I going to do?
Speaker 5: The source has been cut off. No, the source is
Speaker 5: just fine. God is still on the throne. The scripture
Speaker 5: says that every good gift comes from our Father in
Speaker 5: heaven above. That good gift may come through people, but
Speaker 5: it came from God. Your salary may come through your company,
Speaker 5: but it came from your heavenly father. He's the one
Speaker 5: that caused them to hire you. He's the one that
Speaker 5: calls you to stand out. He's using them as a resource.
Speaker 5: Or that contract may come through a friend, through a connection,
Speaker 5: but it came from God. That's why you don't have
Speaker 5: to play up to people compromise to get a good break.
Speaker 5: People are not your provider. God is your provider. That
Speaker 5: job is simply the resource God chose to bless you.
Speaker 5: If you don't understand this, you can make people your God. Well,
Speaker 5: if this supervisor doesn't like me, if this contract doesn't last,
Speaker 5: if these clients are not good to me, how am
Speaker 5: I going to make it? Take people off the throne.
Speaker 5: People are not your source. God is your source. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's good when people are nice to you. It's nice
Speaker 5: when they recognize your value. But don't become so dependent
Speaker 5: on them that you start seeing them as your provider.
Speaker 5: Recognize behind the resource is the source, Behind the salary,
Speaker 5: behind the opportunity, behind the favor, is the most tied
Speaker 5: God causing people to be good to you, causing doors
Speaker 5: to open, causing clients to seek you out. Be grateful
Speaker 5: for the resource, but keep your eyes on the source.
Speaker 5: When Peter didn't have money to pay his taxes, Jesus
Speaker 5: told him to go to the lake and catch a fish.
Speaker 5: The first fish he caught had a gold coin in it,
Speaker 5: enough to pay his taxes. God was showing us how
Speaker 5: he can use different resources. If a contract at work
Speaker 5: comes to an end, looks like you're going to be
Speaker 5: set back, don't be discouraged. God has another fish. He
Speaker 5: has ways that we've never thought of. As long as
Speaker 5: you're keeping him first place, you are connected to a
Speaker 5: supply line that will never run dry. You are not
Speaker 5: at the mercy of the economy or your boss or
Speaker 5: who likes you. God has all kinds of resources he
Speaker 5: can use. I talked to a man after thirty two
Speaker 5: years the company he worked for was sold. He was
Speaker 5: without a job, and he was so discouraged. He never
Speaker 5: dreamed at his age he would have to be starting over.
Speaker 5: I told him what I'm telling you. That job was
Speaker 5: simply the resource that God chose to bless you. It
Speaker 5: is not the source. The source is fine. I saw
Speaker 5: him about six months later, and he was so happy.
Speaker 5: He said, Joel, I not only got another job, I
Speaker 5: got my dream job, had better benefits, better income, closer
Speaker 5: to his house. When the door closes you a setback,
Speaker 5: you have to remind yourself it's not the resource blessing you,
Speaker 5: it's the source. The scripture says you will prosper even
Speaker 5: in the desert. Your lief will not wither. Even in famine.
Speaker 5: You will have more than enough. It's showing us that
Speaker 5: even though the circumstances may change, the source never changes.
Speaker 5: Because you're connected to that source, you will be blessed.
Speaker 5: In the famine. You will increase when others are decreasing
Speaker 5: all through the day, Lord, I recognize you're the source
Speaker 5: of my life. Yes, this job gives me a paycheck,
Speaker 5: but you're the source of the income. Yes, this company
Speaker 5: gave me a good position, but you're the source of
Speaker 5: the favor. In the scripture, Ruth and her mother in
Speaker 5: law were both widows. They were very poor, struggling to survive.
Speaker 5: Ruth would go out into the fields each morning and
Speaker 5: pick up the leftoverat that the workers had missed. One day,
Speaker 5: the owner of the field, a man named Boaz, noticed Ruth,
Speaker 5: and for some reason he decided to be good to her.
Speaker 5: He told his workers to leave handfuls of wheat on
Speaker 5: purpose for Ruth. Eventually Ruth found out it was him.
Speaker 5: I could hear her telling her mother in law, this man, Boaz,
Speaker 5: this owner, he's being so good to me. He's leaving
Speaker 5: me so much wheat. Ruth thought it was Boaz being
Speaker 5: good to her. The truth is it was God being
Speaker 5: good to her. Boaz was the resource, but God was
Speaker 5: the source. God was the one speaking to Boaz giving
Speaker 5: him that desire to be good to her. How many
Speaker 5: times has God spoken to people to be good to us?
Speaker 5: And we didn't even know it for no reason. They
Speaker 5: decided to help us. They opened a door, they gave
Speaker 5: us a position, they introduced us to a friend, and
Speaker 5: they were a resource that the Source was using. The
Speaker 5: longer I live, the more I recognized God's goodness in
Speaker 5: my life. Things that I thought were a coincidence, I
Speaker 5: thought were people just wanting to be good to me.
Speaker 5: I realize now it was the source. Doors that opened
Speaker 5: that you couldn't open. Somebody decided to give you a
Speaker 5: good break. You were at the right place at the
Speaker 5: right time, met that person and fell in love. That
Speaker 5: wasn't a coincidence. That was the source, that person that
Speaker 5: put in a good word for you, and you got
Speaker 5: the promotion. You weren't lucky. That was God speaking to them,
Speaker 5: like he spoke to Boaz. Every good thing comes from
Speaker 5: our Father above. They may not have even known it
Speaker 5: was God speaking to them. They just suddenly had a
Speaker 5: desire to be good to you, to stay laid, and
Speaker 5: introduce you to the client, to waive the policy and
Speaker 5: put the loan through. Are you recognizing the source? Are
Speaker 5: you thanking God for every good gift? Do you realize
Speaker 5: you wouldn't have waken up this morning. Without the source,
Speaker 5: you wouldn't have air to breathe without the source. Your
Speaker 5: eyes wouldn't see without the source. You wouldn't have that
Speaker 5: person to love without the Source. Don't get so caught
Speaker 5: up in the resources that you forget it's the most
Speaker 5: tied God working in your life. It's God protecting you
Speaker 5: from that accident. It was God healing you from the cancer,
Speaker 5: not just the medicine. It was the Source. When you
Speaker 5: look back over your life, nothing was a coincidence. There
Speaker 5: were no lucky breaks. What you thought was just Boaz
Speaker 5: being good to you, leaving you handfuls on purpose, that
Speaker 5: was the hand of God, the Source, working behind the scenes,
Speaker 5: telling them to be good to you. When we were
Speaker 5: trying to acquire this facility, the former compt Center, it
Speaker 5: was owned by the city, so we had to get
Speaker 5: the city council members to vote to approve it. I
Speaker 5: had never been involved in any kind of politics and
Speaker 5: convincing council members. This was way out of my expertise.
Speaker 5: Someone randomly introduced us to a man that had been
Speaker 5: in city politics his whole life. He'd worked for different
Speaker 5: mayors for many years. He wasn't the typical white collar
Speaker 5: professional that you might envision. He was kind of rough,
Speaker 5: he liked to party, he liked to drink, didn't always
Speaker 5: use good language. But for some reason, he really liked us.
Speaker 5: He really wanted us to get the building. He went
Speaker 5: overboard to make things happen. He used his favor, his
Speaker 5: influence to sway people. Early on, there was a council
Speaker 5: member that was against us. He said, don't worry, he'll
Speaker 5: vote for us. He owes me. I didn't ask for
Speaker 5: any details. I just said, thank you Jesus here. This
Speaker 5: man had not been in church his whole life, but
Speaker 5: he was doing all he could to help Lakewood get
Speaker 5: the building. I realize now that wasn't just him deciding
Speaker 5: to help us, him just deciding to do a good deed.
Speaker 5: He was a resource that the Source was using. He
Speaker 5: may not have even known that was God speaking to him.
Speaker 5: After we got the building, he came to a service
Speaker 5: years later. He was being interviewed about the process and
Speaker 5: about why he had helped us. He said, I don't
Speaker 5: go to church. I went to Lakewood one time, and
Speaker 5: I don't like the circus. He referred to us as
Speaker 5: the circus. And yes, our services are fun and exciting
Speaker 5: and in a few minutes, the elephants will be coming out,
Speaker 5: and at the end Victoria is going to walk the
Speaker 5: high wire. Followed Baba brother Paul being shot out of
Speaker 5: a cannon. So stay for that. None of that bothered,
Speaker 5: But he went on to save And I'm not telling
Speaker 5: you this to brag on me, just to make the point.
Speaker 5: He said, I help them because I've never met anyone
Speaker 5: like Joel. I would walk through a fire for that man.
Speaker 5: I would love to think that I'm that charming, I'm
Speaker 5: that dynamic. Can I tell you I'm not. I hardly
Speaker 5: even knew him. That was the source. That was God
Speaker 5: putting the right people in our path, causing them to.
Speaker 4: Want to be good.
Speaker 5: To Second King's chapter four, there's a story about a lady.
Speaker 5: She and her husband were friends with the prophet Elisha,
Speaker 5: but the husband had died. Years had passed. Now this
Speaker 5: lady didn't have any money to pay her bills. It
Speaker 5: was so bad the creditors were coming to take her
Speaker 5: two sons as payment. You can imagine how distraught she was.
Speaker 5: The prophet Elisha came by and asked what she had
Speaker 5: in her house. Her first answer was nothing at all.
Speaker 5: She was saying a lot. I'm done. It's too late.
Speaker 5: The odds are against me. Sometimes when we look at
Speaker 5: what we have compared to what we need, we think,
Speaker 5: like her, I'll never accomplish my dreams. I don't have
Speaker 5: what I need. I'll never get well, I'll never get
Speaker 5: out of debt. We look at the circumstances, at the resources,
Speaker 5: the medical report, the bank account. Here's the key. The
Speaker 5: resource may have dried up, but the source is still
Speaker 5: alive and well. She finally said, Elisha, I do have
Speaker 5: one thing in my house, but really it's nothing, just
Speaker 5: a little bottle of olive oil. She thought. It's really
Speaker 5: not worth mentioning. I have this huge debt. All I
Speaker 5: have is something worth a few dollars. Don't discount the
Speaker 5: small things you have. Don't discount small opportunities, small gifts,
Speaker 5: small income. May seem small to you, but God knows
Speaker 5: how to multiply. The script says, if you have faith
Speaker 5: the size of a mustard seed, that's one of the
Speaker 5: smallest seeds. You could say to this mountain, be removed,
Speaker 5: and it will move. God doesn't expect us to have
Speaker 5: great faith all the time. It's nice when we do,
Speaker 5: but God is so merciful. He knew there would be
Speaker 5: times like this, lady, we would think this is impossible.
Speaker 5: If you'll just say, God, all I have is this
Speaker 5: little bit of oil, All I have is mustard seed. Faith,
Speaker 5: Watch what God will do. Elisha told her to go
Speaker 5: out and borrow as many large containers as she could find.
Speaker 5: I can see this lady knocking on door after door,
Speaker 5: carrying those empty containers back to her house. Don't you
Speaker 5: know God saw her faith. God saw her being obedient,
Speaker 5: doing what she could. When you're in difficult times, don't
Speaker 5: sit around in self pity. Do something where God can
Speaker 5: see your faith. Make play to get well, make plans
Speaker 5: to come out of death. Are you gathering up any containers?
Speaker 5: Are you taking steps of faith to show God that
Speaker 5: you're ready for favor. Neighbors started asking, why do you
Speaker 5: even need these empty containers. You don't have anything to
Speaker 5: put in it, just a little bit of olive oil.
Speaker 5: She answered, I may not have it yet, but I
Speaker 5: know it's on the way. I know the prophet wouldn't
Speaker 5: have asked me to do it if God wasn't up
Speaker 5: to some thief. Faith started to rise in her heart.
Speaker 5: All the circumstances were against her friends trying to talk
Speaker 5: her out of it her own thoughts, telling her no way.
Speaker 5: Her attitude was, I may not see how this can happen,
Speaker 5: but I know a secret. God is my source. He's
Speaker 5: my provider. I'm connected to that supply line that won't
Speaker 5: run dry. Lysia said to her pour the little bit
Speaker 5: of oil into the first container. That didn't make sense.
Speaker 5: What good was it going to do to trainans for
Speaker 5: oil from one container to the other. What God asked
Speaker 5: us to do many times is more about the obedience
Speaker 5: than the actual thing that we're doing. It's a test.
Speaker 5: If you'll obey, you'll see God's favor. In the scripture,
Speaker 5: Naeman was an army captain, but he had leprosy. God
Speaker 5: told him to go wash in the Jordan rivers seven
Speaker 5: times and he would be healed. Naeman didn't want to
Speaker 5: do that. He came up with all these excuses, God,
Speaker 5: the water's too dirty, we have better rivers back at.
Speaker 1: Home, on and on.
Speaker 5: He almost talked himself out of it. The last moment
Speaker 5: he decided to do it. When he came up the
Speaker 5: seventh time, his skin was perfectly normal. The healing wasn't
Speaker 5: in the water. The healing was in the obedience. Are
Speaker 5: you doing what God is asking you to do? Are
Speaker 5: you gathering the containers? Are you pouring the oil? This
Speaker 5: lady could have said, Elisha, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a waste of time. She would have
Speaker 5: missed her miracle. When she poured the little oil into
Speaker 5: the first container, the oil never stopped flowing. She filled
Speaker 5: the first one up, then the second, then the third.
Speaker 5: That doesn't make sense. Where was the oil coming from
Speaker 5: the source. When you do what God asked you to do,
Speaker 5: that doesn't make sense. God will do things for you
Speaker 5: that don't make sense. He'll show out in your life.
Speaker 5: This lady kept pouring oil until all the containers were full.
Speaker 5: Then she went out and sold it. She was able
Speaker 5: to pay all of her bills. She had plenty left
Speaker 5: over to live on. That little bit of oil should
Speaker 5: have run out. But God has supernatural provision. He knows
Speaker 5: how to not only sustain you, but to increase you
Speaker 5: to where you defied the odds. You may have areas
Speaker 5: in your life that are dry. Now. You haven't seen
Speaker 5: much good, breaks, seen any favor, any increase seems like
Speaker 5: it's permanent. No, get ready, The flow is coming. God
Speaker 5: is about to do something unusual. You couldn't have made
Speaker 5: it happen. The odds were against you. But the Source
Speaker 5: is going to send a supernatural flow. It may look
Speaker 5: like your dream has died up. Fever is about to flow,
Speaker 5: Finances are about to flow. Good breaks are about to flow.
Speaker 5: The right people are going to flow. You're not going
Speaker 5: to have to find them. They're going to find you.
Speaker 5: The medical report may not look good. You feel stuck
Speaker 5: in your health. Receive this into your spirit. Healing is flowing,
Speaker 5: restoration is flowing. Strength is flowing. You haven't been able
Speaker 5: to get ahead in your career. People have held you back,
Speaker 5: left you out. Don't get discouraged. The flow is coming.
Speaker 5: Promotion is going to flow, Ideas are about to flow,
Speaker 5: Creativity is going to flow. Everything that has stopped your flow.
Speaker 5: I believe right now those forces have been broken. You
Speaker 5: are coming into supernatural provision, supernatural healing, supernatural connections. You've
Speaker 5: heard the saying it's showtime. God is saying it's flow time.
Speaker 5: He's about to open the windows of heaven pour our
Speaker 5: blessings that you could not contain. One touch of God's
Speaker 5: favor will take you from famine to flourishing, from barely
Speaker 5: enough to more than enough. Now get in agreement with
Speaker 5: God Father. Thank you that this job is not my source,
Speaker 5: but you are my source. Lord. I'm grateful for the medicine,
Speaker 5: but I know you're my healer. Lord. I don't see
Speaker 5: how I can accomplish my dreams, but I know you
Speaker 5: have a way where I don't see away. I talked
Speaker 5: to a couple that wanted to buy a house in
Speaker 5: another state, and they were looking in this particular neighborhood.
Speaker 5: They had found this one house that they really liked,
Speaker 5: but every time they tried to move forward, they didn't
Speaker 5: feel peace about it. After several months, they found a
Speaker 5: much larger piece of property right on the outskirts of
Speaker 5: the neighborhood. In the natural, being in the subdivision would
Speaker 5: have been a better investment. The property values were higher,
Speaker 5: but even though they could afford it, because they didn't
Speaker 5: have peace about it, they bought this property right outside
Speaker 5: the neighborhood. Several months later, two men knocked on their door.
Speaker 5: They were geologists. They told how they had been studying
Speaker 5: that area for years. They had discovered a massive amount
Speaker 5: of oil under the subdivision. The problem was the houses
Speaker 5: were too close together for them to drill. They said,
Speaker 5: if you'll let us lease part of your property so
Speaker 5: we can drill into the neighborhood, we'll give you a
Speaker 5: commission not only off your land, but off of all
Speaker 5: the properties in the neighborhood. There were twelve hundred homes
Speaker 5: in that subdivision. Isaiah said, God knows where the hidden
Speaker 5: riches are found.
Speaker 4: You know why.
Speaker 5: He's the one that put them there. He's the source,
Speaker 5: the creator of the universe, the most hi God. And
Speaker 5: things may not be flowing in your life right now,
Speaker 5: but God knows where all the treasures are. He knows
Speaker 5: how to put you at the right place at the
Speaker 5: right time. He may not have you strike all, but
Speaker 5: he can give you one idea that will catapult you ahead.
Speaker 5: He can cause one person to come across your path
Speaker 5: like he did for us. You'll accomplish a dream that
Speaker 5: seems impossible. He knows not only what you need, but
Speaker 5: he knows when you're going to need it. Nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 5: I was walking through the lobby before service one Sunday morning.
Speaker 5: A man stopped me and said that his cousin had
Speaker 5: a construction permit for the last full power commercial television
Speaker 5: station in Houston off the permit and put the station
Speaker 5: on the air. I thought that's what I would do
Speaker 5: with my life. I loved production cameras and editing, and
Speaker 5: having a station seemed like a perfect fit. But two
Speaker 5: years later, my father went to be with the Lord.
Speaker 5: I never dreamed that I would become the pastor. Now
Speaker 5: my focus had changed. Two thousand and three, we acquired
Speaker 5: the Compact Center, and we need one hundred million dollars
Speaker 5: to renovate, so we decided to sell the station. We
Speaker 5: listed it at a certain price. All the experts said
Speaker 5: that we would never get that much. One man had
Speaker 5: sold more television stations in the US than anyone else.
Speaker 5: He said, we were wasting our time asking that amount.
Speaker 5: A year later, we sold it for more than we
Speaker 5: were asking, over five times what we purchased it for.
Speaker 5: We used those funds to renovate this facility. What am
Speaker 5: I saying? God has already lined up everything you're going
Speaker 5: to need. He's the source, He's the provider. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: no good thing will he withhold because you walk up
Speaker 5: right there. He's not going to withhold the finances, the health,
Speaker 5: the ideas, the connections, quit worrying about how it's going
Speaker 5: to happen. God has it figured out. He knows how
Speaker 5: to get you to your destiny. Now, maybe you've been
Speaker 5: trying to do this only in your own strength. You
Speaker 5: put forth your best effort. You've tried to get people
Speaker 5: to help you. It's time to go to the source. God.
Speaker 5: I can't do it on my own. I'm asking you
Speaker 5: to bring this dream to pass. God, I'm asking you
Speaker 5: to turn my health around. I'm asking you to help
Speaker 5: me to conceive to have this baby. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: call on the name of the Lord, and he will
Speaker 5: answer you. Sometimes we call on people, we call on friends,
Speaker 5: we call on our spouse. They can only do so much.
Speaker 5: But when you call on the source, the creator of
Speaker 5: the universe, that's when things will happen that you couldn't
Speaker 5: make happen. God wants us to depend on him. When
Speaker 5: we recognize we can't do it on our own. We
Speaker 5: are limited, we have restrictions by ourselves. Will get stuck.
Speaker 5: But when you ask God to help you, when you
Speaker 5: call on your creator, supernatural things will happen. God is unlimited,
Speaker 5: He controls the universe. The good news is he wants
Speaker 5: to help you. He wants to heal you, to increase you,
Speaker 5: to take you where you couldn't go on your own.
Speaker 5: He's longing to be good to you. Look to him
Speaker 5: as your source. John chapter twenty one. Peter was out
Speaker 5: fishing with some of the disciples. Jesus had been crucified
Speaker 5: and just risen from the dead. You can imagine how
Speaker 5: discouraged Peter must have been and even confused now that
Speaker 5: Jesus was not there. Peter went back to doing what
Speaker 5: he knew how to do. That was fishing. He had
Speaker 5: done that his whole life. Well, they had fished all
Speaker 5: night and caught nothing. Early the next morning, Jesus appeared
Speaker 5: to them. He came walking up on the beach and said,
Speaker 5: have you caught anything? They said no. He said, throw
Speaker 5: your nets on the right side of the boat and
Speaker 5: you'll catch some fish. When they did, they caught a
Speaker 5: whole net full of fish. Instantly Peter recognized that it
Speaker 5: was Jesus. He jumped out of the boat and swam
Speaker 5: to the shore. Jesus had fish cooking over a fire.
Speaker 5: He gave Peter some to eat what Peter was trying
Speaker 5: to catch. Jesus not only had waiting for him, but
Speaker 5: he had it cooked and ready to eat. God is saying,
Speaker 5: what you're trying to accomplish on your own, if you'll
Speaker 5: look to me, if you'll recognize I'm the source, you'll
Speaker 5: see I have it cooked and already prepared, it already
Speaker 5: waiting for you. Like Peter, you may have done it
Speaker 5: in the past, you were good at it. But there
Speaker 5: are times that God will not let what worked in
Speaker 5: the past continue to work because he knows we'll think
Speaker 5: we're doing it in our own strength, our own ability.
Speaker 5: God wants us to see him as the source, to
Speaker 5: recognize his blessings. But too often we're striving to make
Speaker 5: it happen, trying to beat down a door, discourage because
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