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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny and I heard
Speaker 5: about this older lady. She came to church one Sunday morning,
Speaker 5: and a friendly usher met her at the back door
Speaker 5: and asked her where she wanted to sit. She said,
Speaker 5: I want to sit on the very front row. He said, oh, no, ma'am,
Speaker 5: you don't want to sit there. Our pastor is very boring.
Speaker 5: He'll put you to sleep. Let me find you another seat.
Speaker 5: She looked appalled. She said, sir, do you know who
Speaker 5: I am? He said no, ma'am. She said, I am
Speaker 5: the pastor's mother. He hung his head in embarrassment. He
Speaker 5: finally looked up and said, ma'am, do you know who
Speaker 5: I am? She said no. He said, Thank God, say
Speaker 5: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I
Speaker 5: am what it says.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 5: to talk to you today about recognizing God's goodness. When
Speaker 5: you look back over your life, you can see the
Speaker 5: faithfulness of God times where he made away where you
Speaker 5: didn't see away. He opened a door and a dream
Speaker 5: came to pass. You were at the right place. You
Speaker 5: met that person and fell in love. Even when you
Speaker 5: made mistakes, he showed you mercying, coveraging, brought you out
Speaker 5: and here you are, blessed and moving forward. You didn't
Speaker 5: get to where you are by yourself. Wasn't just your talent,
Speaker 5: wasn't just good breaks. It was the hand of God.
Speaker 5: He's been working behind the scenes in your life, pushing
Speaker 5: back forces of darkness, lining up the breaks that you need.
Speaker 5: Even before you were born in your family line, God
Speaker 5: was orchestrating things in your favor. A grandmother that always
Speaker 5: prayed for you, She spoke faith into you and told
Speaker 5: you what you could become. That wasn't a coincidence. That
Speaker 5: was the goodness of God putting the right people in
Speaker 5: your life. Or maybe a great great grandfather that you
Speaker 5: never met. But he lived a life of integrity, He gave,
Speaker 5: he served because he honored God. He put you in
Speaker 5: a position to be blessed. God has been working on
Speaker 5: your behalf for generations. Some of the favor that you're
Speaker 5: seeing didn't have anything to do with you. You stepped
Speaker 5: into opportunity, good breaks, promotion because of those who went
Speaker 5: before you. Other people worked harder, but they didn't get
Speaker 5: the position. They were more talented. I had more experience,
Speaker 5: but the door didn't open. Your reaping from what your
Speaker 5: relatives sowed, seeds of favor that didn't start with you.
Speaker 5: Salm one five says they harvested what others planted. Someone
Speaker 5: in your family line made it easier on you. They
Speaker 5: made sacrifices, They got up early, They went the extra
Speaker 5: mile to do the right thing. They may have never
Speaker 5: seen the fullness of what they were believing for, but
Speaker 5: God never lets a seed be sown without a harvest.
Speaker 5: They sowed it so you could benefit. That's what the
Speaker 5: scripture says. You will live in houses that you didn't build.
Speaker 5: You will reap from vineyards that you didn't plant. It's
Speaker 5: talking about generational blessings. I know I'm reaping from the
Speaker 5: seeds that my parents and grandparents have sown. My grandmother
Speaker 5: on my father's side of the family made ten cents
Speaker 5: an hour washing people's clothes. During the Great Depression, she
Speaker 5: worked twelve hours, made a dollar twenty a day. She
Speaker 5: never really had much, but God is faithful. Those seeds
Speaker 5: didn't go unharvested, And some of the abundance that I'm
Speaker 5: seeing today is not so much what I've done, it's
Speaker 5: simply where God put me in my family line. I'm
Speaker 5: reaping what she sowed. It didn't happen in her generation,
Speaker 5: but it happened in my generation. That's why I take
Speaker 5: time every day to say, God, I recognize your goodness.
Speaker 5: I know I didn't get here by myself. You chose
Speaker 5: to bless me, you chose to show me mercy. It's
Speaker 5: easy to think, well, Joel, I'm successful because I'm talented.
Speaker 5: I'm blessed because I'm wise, I'm smart, I'm a hard worker.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you where did you get that talent?
Speaker 5: It came from your in heaven. Where did you get
Speaker 5: the wisdom? Where did you get the funds to go
Speaker 5: to school? How could your parents afford it? Why did
Speaker 5: the scholarship go through? Why did the loan go through?
Speaker 5: Because God favored you. He chose you to succeed, He
Speaker 5: chose you to go further than those before you. You
Speaker 5: could have been born generations back. Perhaps when your family
Speaker 5: struggled and made sacrifices, didn't see the increase that you're seeing.
Speaker 5: You are living in the day they dreamed about. In
Speaker 5: one sense, it didn't have anything to do with you.
Speaker 5: It's just the hand of God putting you here at
Speaker 5: this time where you can reap what others have sown.
Speaker 5: My father was raised in a family that didn't know
Speaker 5: anything about God. They were good people, but they just
Speaker 5: didn't have any kind of faith. For several generations back
Speaker 5: as far as we can see, it was the same thing.
Speaker 5: This could have continued on been passed down to me
Speaker 5: and my children. But God, in his mercy, put a
Speaker 5: man by the name of Sam Martin in my father's life.
Speaker 5: They were friends growing up in high school. Sam would
Speaker 5: get there early and write scripture verses on the chalkboard.
Speaker 5: My dad was so embarrassed he tried to distance himself.
Speaker 5: Sam was determined. He kept talking to my father about
Speaker 5: the Lord. Didn't seem like he is doing any good
Speaker 5: because my dad wouldn't listen. But you never know when
Speaker 5: a seed is going to take root. You don't have
Speaker 5: to convict people. The Holy Spirit is the one that convicts.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 5: Just keep sowing the seed, and at the right time,
Speaker 5: when the soil of their heart is softened, the seed
Speaker 5: will take root. A seed can live for years. You
Speaker 5: may not see anything happening your loved ones, with your friends,
Speaker 5: no sign of them changing. Don't worry. The seed is
Speaker 5: still alive. When my father was seventeen years old, one night,
Speaker 5: at two o'clock in the morning, he was walking home
Speaker 5: from a nightclub. He looked up at the stars and
Speaker 5: began to think about his destiny and what he would
Speaker 5: do with his life. He didn't know anything about religion,
Speaker 5: but he could feel God was drawing him that night.
Speaker 5: The next morning, he called his friend Sam said he
Speaker 5: wanted to go to church with him. They sat on
Speaker 5: the very back road. The end of the service, the
Speaker 5: pastor invited people to the front to receive Christ. My
Speaker 5: father wouldn't go. He was too afraid. Sam leaned over
Speaker 5: and said, John, if you'll go, I'll go with you.
Speaker 5: My father stood up and walked down the aisle with
Speaker 5: his friend Sam Martin. His life was never the same.
Speaker 5: I often think about where would I be without Sam Martin.
Speaker 5: What if God had not put him in my father's path.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't be up here, I wouldn't be married to Victim,
Speaker 5: wouldn't have my children. Many times, when I'm praying I
Speaker 5: say Lord, thank you for Sam Martin, thank you for
Speaker 5: putting him in our life. I recognize that your goodness.
Speaker 5: If you knew all the things God has been orchestrating
Speaker 5: behind the scenes to get you where you are, people, promotion, protection, opportunities,
Speaker 5: you would be amazed. If this one person had not
Speaker 5: been at the right place and interacted with someone in
Speaker 5: your family, you wouldn't be here today. God's been thinking
Speaker 5: about you long before.
Speaker 4: You got here.
Speaker 5: The scripture says, God chose you before you could choose him.
Speaker 5: You didn't get here on your own. The creator of
Speaker 5: the universe chose you. When I think about all that
Speaker 5: God has done, the things I know about and the
Speaker 5: things I don't know about, I can't keep it to myself.
Speaker 5: I have to say, Lord, thank you for your goodness.
Speaker 5: I recognize your favor in my life. As you've heard today,
Speaker 5: my parents founded Lakewood on Mother's Day in nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 5: sixty years ago, with ninety people in an old Rundown
Speaker 5: feed store. They cleaned out the building and borrowed some
Speaker 5: old wood pews. Didn't look like much, but the scripture says,
Speaker 5: don't despise the day of small beginnings. Don't get discouraged
Speaker 5: because where you are is much smaller than what's in
Speaker 5: your heart. As a young man, my father knew one
Speaker 5: day he would pastor a church with thousands. But you
Speaker 5: have to be faithful with the small before God will
Speaker 5: trust you with much. That's a time of testing, a
Speaker 5: time of proving. It's easy to think, well, Joel, when
Speaker 5: I see some growth, when I get some good breaks,
Speaker 5: then I'll give it my all. No, you have to
Speaker 5: give it your all. Right where you are, God is watching.
Speaker 5: He sees what's not growing. He sees when you're in
Speaker 5: a feed store and others are in a nice building.
Speaker 5: Stay faithful. Your time is coming. Sometimes now, when I
Speaker 5: pull up to the Compact Center and I see this
Speaker 5: huge building on the freeway with all the people, I
Speaker 5: feel a tear running down my cheek. It's because I
Speaker 5: remember where I came from. My mind flashes back to
Speaker 5: the feed store as a little boy, sitting on the
Speaker 5: front row with the ninety people watching my father minister.
Speaker 5: I think about my grandmother that made ten cents an hour,
Speaker 5: my grandfather that worked at the factory all those years,
Speaker 5: And when I realized how far God has brought us,
Speaker 5: how he's opened doors I never dreamed would open how
Speaker 5: He's taken us further than we ever imagine. I can't
Speaker 5: help but say, Lord, thank you for what you've done
Speaker 5: in my life. Thank you for taking me further than
Speaker 5: I could go on my own. When you look back
Speaker 5: over your life and see the faithfulness of God, the
Speaker 5: times he protected you, promoted you, healed you, favored, you
Speaker 5: don't take it for granted. It wasn't a lucky break,
Speaker 5: It wasn't an accident. That was the goodness of God.
Speaker 5: In Deuteronomy chapter eight, God told the Israelites he was
Speaker 5: bringing them into the Promised Land. It described it as
Speaker 5: a land of abundance, flowing with streams and rivers. The
Speaker 5: clusters of grapes were so large it took two people
Speaker 5: to carry. There was so much iron and copper in
Speaker 5: the ground it was as common as stone. After promising
Speaker 5: all this increase and favor, God gave them a warning.
Speaker 5: He said, in verse eleven, beware that in your plenty
Speaker 5: you do not forget the Lord your God. For when
Speaker 5: you have become full and prosperous, when you have built
Speaker 5: nice houses, when your gold and silver has multiplied, do
Speaker 5: not forget the Lord your God. Rescued you out of slavery.
Speaker 5: Do not forget he led you through the wilderness with
Speaker 5: poisonous snakes. Do not forget he gave your water out
Speaker 5: of the rock. He fed you with manna, which your
Speaker 5: father's knew not. God was saying in today's language, when
Speaker 5: your business takes off, when your health turns around, when
Speaker 5: you have that baby I promised when you get the
Speaker 5: compact center, don't let it become so common that you
Speaker 5: don't recognize it was my goodness that you don't take
Speaker 5: time to thank me for what I've done in one
Speaker 5: area of our lives. We're all in the Promised Land.
Speaker 5: We've seen God do amazing things. Free you from an addiction,
Speaker 5: give your healthy children, Bless you in your career. You
Speaker 5: know it was God's favor at the time, you were
Speaker 5: so grateful. My challenge is, don't lose that sense of awe.
Speaker 5: Live with that amazement at what God has done. Go
Speaker 5: back over the times where He made a way, protected you,
Speaker 5: opened that door that shouldn't have opened. If you don't
Speaker 5: remember what God has done, then it's easy to start
Speaker 5: taking the credit and think we got here by ourselves.
Speaker 5: We did it in our own power. The problem with
Speaker 5: forgetting is that God won't share his glory. He'll take
Speaker 5: it incredible places, he'll open amazing doors. But if you
Speaker 5: don't recognize it's his goodness, the same God that opened
Speaker 5: the door can close the door. That's why God gave
Speaker 5: them such a strong warning. He said, I am taking
Speaker 5: you into a land where you will lack nothing. You
Speaker 5: will have beautiful houses, businesses that are blessed, resources more
Speaker 5: than you could imagine. My only requirement is that you
Speaker 5: don't forget. It was my favor that brought you here.
Speaker 5: It was my angels protecting you in the desert. It
Speaker 5: was my power keeping enemies from defeating you. I was
Speaker 5: the one that pushed back the red sea. I was
Speaker 5: the one that gave your water out of the rock.
Speaker 5: I was the one that brought you in to this
Speaker 5: land of abundance. That's why I never get tired of
Speaker 5: thanking God for what He's done in my life. You
Speaker 5: hear it all the time. Lord, thank you for giving
Speaker 5: us the compact center. I realized we didn't get this
Speaker 5: in our own strength. This is the hand of God. Lord,
Speaker 5: Thank you for healing my mother from terminal cancer back
Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty one. Well, Joel. That was almost forty
Speaker 5: years ago. Yeah, but I'm not gonna forget. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: keep thanking God, Lord, thank you for leading me into
Speaker 5: that jewelry store where I met Victoria for the first
Speaker 5: Thank you that she couldn't keep her hands off of me.
Speaker 5: That was a lie, but that wasn't a coincidence. That
Speaker 5: was God directed my steps, the same God that led
Speaker 5: the Israelites through the desert and didn't let poisonous snakes
Speaker 5: harm them. Think about all the times God has protected
Speaker 5: you on the freeway that car swerved at the last
Speaker 5: moment barely missed you. That wasn't a lucky break. That
Speaker 5: was His angels protecting you. You weren't next in line,
Speaker 5: but somehow you got the promotion. Then another good break,
Speaker 5: and another, and now you're living at a level you
Speaker 5: never dreamed. Like me, you've seen God show out in
Speaker 5: your life. You have some compact centers, family members that
Speaker 5: God's healed, a person you met that changed your life
Speaker 5: for the better. Have you forgotten what God has done?
Speaker 5: Have you convinced yourself it was just vain? It would
Speaker 5: have happened no matter what. That's what causes blessings not
Speaker 5: to last. It's like this man I heard about. He
Speaker 5: pulled into a crowded parking lot and he couldn't find
Speaker 5: a parking space anywhere. He prayed, God, please help me
Speaker 5: to find a place to park. He pulled around the
Speaker 5: next aisle right on queue. This car up front backed out.
Speaker 5: He said, never mind, God, I found one. Sometimes we
Speaker 5: have short memories. We forget. God is the one that
Speaker 5: opened the door. He's the one that caused that college
Speaker 5: to accept you. He's the reason your company chose you
Speaker 5: over somebody else. Here's the reason your health turned around. Sure,
Speaker 5: the medicine help, but God is the healer. Don't forget
Speaker 5: about all the prayers he's answered for you. Take time
Speaker 5: to acknowledge his goodness. Not only are you thanking him,
Speaker 5: but you're reminding yourself. I didn't get here by myself.
Speaker 5: You're keeping the right perspective, giving God the credit. This
Speaker 5: is where King Nebeka Nezzar in the scripture got off course.
Speaker 5: He said in Daniel chapter four, how great is our God?
Speaker 5: How mighty are his wonders? His kingdom is everlasting. He
Speaker 5: started off good, giving God the credit, talking about his power,
Speaker 5: and God continued to increase him. But somewhere along the
Speaker 5: way he started taking the credit. He forgot it was
Speaker 5: God who was giving him the power to succeed. And
Speaker 5: in verse twenty nine, he looked out over the city
Speaker 5: and said, is this not the great Babylon that I
Speaker 5: have built by my might and by my power for
Speaker 5: the honor of my glory and my majesty. Listen to
Speaker 5: all the minds my might, my power, my glory, my majesty.
Speaker 5: His attitude was, I'm something great. The problem is we
Speaker 5: weren't creat to contain glory. We were created to give
Speaker 5: God glory. God will show you his favor as long
Speaker 5: as you let that glory flow through you and back
Speaker 5: up to Him. But the moment you start keeping the glory,
Speaker 5: that's when the favor is going to stop. As Nebukanezzar
Speaker 5: was up there bragging to everybody about how great he was.
Speaker 5: First thirty one says, while he was still speaking, a
Speaker 5: voice came down from heaven and said, neber Canezzar, this
Speaker 5: day you have lost the kingdom. Why is that? God
Speaker 5: won't share the glory. If you're going to keep it,
Speaker 5: he'll step away. But when you're constantly bragging on God's goodness,
Speaker 5: thanking him for what he's done, giving him the honor,
Speaker 5: you're going to continue to rise higher. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: God opposes the proud, but gives favor to the humble.
Speaker 5: When you humble yourself and say, God, I know it
Speaker 5: was your goodness that got to me to where I am.
Speaker 5: It was your mercy that brought me out of these mistakes.
Speaker 5: It was your power that kept these enemies from defeating me.
Speaker 5: It was your favor that opened these doors. God, I
Speaker 5: recognize your goodness. When you give God the credit, he'll
Speaker 5: take your places that you've never dreamed. When I have
Speaker 5: friends come to see this building, first thing I always
Speaker 5: tell them is, look what the Lord has done. When
Speaker 5: I see my mom healthy in whole still after all
Speaker 5: these years, Look what the Lord has done. When I
Speaker 5: see our son Jonathan up here ministry. Now I didn't
Speaker 5: even think I would be a minister. Now my son
Speaker 5: is a minister. It's three generations. Look what the Lord
Speaker 5: has done. That's the goodness of God. What has he
Speaker 5: done in your life? Are you recognizing it? Are you
Speaker 5: living amazed filled with gratitude? Or you let it become common.
Speaker 5: Don't forget how he freed you from that addiction, how
Speaker 5: he brought the right person across your path, how he
Speaker 5: led you through the desert. Times you were discouraged, he
Speaker 5: made away, He brought you out. He gave your water
Speaker 5: out of the rock he provided when you didn't see
Speaker 5: how Remember how he delivered you from a few pharaohs,
Speaker 5: people and circumstances that had to in bondage. If you're
Speaker 5: going to continue to go further, you have to remember
Speaker 5: it is the Lord your God that got you to
Speaker 5: where you are, and it is the Lord your God
Speaker 5: that's going to keep you going. Thank him for the
Speaker 5: doors he opened, and thank him for the doors he closed.
Speaker 5: Thank him for the people that stood with you, and
Speaker 5: thank him for those that walked away. You may not
Speaker 5: have liked it, but they weren't a part of your destiny.
Speaker 5: You didn't need them to become who you were created
Speaker 5: to be. Verse sixteen says he fed you with manna,
Speaker 5: which your fathers knew. Not. God is going to do
Speaker 5: things for you that your parents never saw. My father
Speaker 5: dreamed of building a twenty thousand seat auditorium. He said
Speaker 5: even one time that we were going to purchase the
Speaker 5: Compact Center. He had this in his spirit, but it
Speaker 5: never came to pass in his lifetime. God put it
Speaker 5: in his spirit for his children. God has things in
Speaker 5: your future that your parents and those that went before
Speaker 5: you couldn't even fathom, favor that your fathers knew. Not
Speaker 5: I say this in humility, but if my father were
Speaker 5: here now, he would be amazed, not just at me
Speaker 5: being up here, but at the growth the influence. God
Speaker 5: has done things for me that he never experienced. My
Speaker 5: father used to call me sometimes so excited. He would
Speaker 5: tell me the income for the ministry that week. The
Speaker 5: giving was a certain amount. My father came out of poverty,
Speaker 5: never was raised with marchins. He was so in awe
Speaker 5: and so filled with gratitude he'd have to share it
Speaker 5: with someone else. As amazing as that was, what we
Speaker 5: see now is more than ten times what my father
Speaker 5: would call me about. He couldn't even fathom this. That's
Speaker 5: the way God is. He's going to increase you in
Speaker 5: ways that your parents never saw. Influence, income, creativity, opportunities, resources.
Speaker 5: It says he fed you with manna. The word mana
Speaker 5: means what is it? They had never seen it before.
Speaker 5: It was bread that formed on the ground out there
Speaker 5: in the desert. God has some manna for you. He
Speaker 5: has some of these what is it things where you
Speaker 5: think I didn't see this coming. I never dreamed I'd
Speaker 5: be running this business, handling these resources, living in this high.
Speaker 5: You may not see how it can happen. Don't worry.
Speaker 5: God has the manna. He has things that you've never seen,
Speaker 5: doors that have never opened, someone you've never met, influence
Speaker 5: at new levels. Get ready. Things are about to shift
Speaker 5: in your favor. Unexpected opportunity, unexpected promotion, unexpected breakthroughs. God
Speaker 5: is preparing the manner right now. He's getting things ready
Speaker 5: to show out in your life. What he's done in
Speaker 5: your past is going to pel in comparison to what
Speaker 5: he's about to do. Now here's the key. When you
Speaker 5: see the manna favor that you've never seen, always remember
Speaker 5: it is the Lord, your God that's causing you to increase.
Speaker 5: He's the one that's giving you the power to live
Speaker 5: an abundant, victorious life. Now, as we celebrate sixty years
Speaker 5: here at Lakewood, I can sum up how I feel
Speaker 5: with one phrase to God, be the glory. Let him
Speaker 5: increase and let us decrease. God, may we make your
Speaker 5: name famous. Let us shine brighter. Let us take new ground.
Speaker 5: Let us affect the culture in a greater way. God,
Speaker 5: we commit we will always remember where you brought us from.
Speaker 5: We remember how you've defeated giants that were much bigger,
Speaker 5: how you didn't stop all the opposition, but you blessed
Speaker 5: us because of it. God, we remember how you sustained
Speaker 5: us for sixty years. May generations to come be still
Speaker 5: be telling of your goodness from this very building. May
Speaker 5: it be a continuous lighthouse of hope. What's interesting is
Speaker 5: after King nebucha Nezar lost the kingdom because he thought
Speaker 5: he had done it all in his own strength, he
Speaker 5: changed his mind. He realized God had given him the
Speaker 5: favor that God was promoting him. He humbled himself. Here's
Speaker 5: how amazing God is. He's so merciful. He put Nebukanezzar
Speaker 5: back in power. Verse thirty seven says, now, I Nebkaneszar,
Speaker 5: give praise and honor to the King of Heaven. A
Speaker 5: few verses earlier he was saying my glory, my honor.
Speaker 5: Now he was saying, I praise the King of Heaven.
Speaker 5: Instead of taking the glory, he started giving God the glory.
Speaker 5: When he did, God gave him another chance. I wonder
Speaker 5: if there are areas in your life like him. You
Speaker 5: think you've done it in your own strength, and it's
Speaker 5: limiting how high you can go. If you will start
Speaker 5: recognizing God's favor, thanking him for what he's done, giving
Speaker 5: him the honor, then God will open new doors and
Speaker 5: take you further. He won't share the glory, but when
Speaker 5: you're quick to give him the glory, there's no limit
Speaker 5: to how high you will go. I'm asking you to
Speaker 5: recognize God's goodness in your life. Remember how he led
Speaker 5: you through the desert, brought you through those difficulties. How
Speaker 5: you met the right person. Wasn't a lucky break. That
Speaker 5: was the Lord, your God. He's been working in your
Speaker 5: life even generations back. Why don't you get up every
Speaker 5: morning and say Lord, thank you for your goodness. If
Speaker 5: you'll do this, I believe and declare, you're about to
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