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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 35 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 36 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 3: put God's very best in your life. 38 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 5: Oh God, bless you. It's always a joy to come 39 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 5: into your homes. You're in our area. 40 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 3: Stop buying see us. I promise you will make you 41 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 3: feel right at home. But thanks for tuning in. Thanks 42 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 3: again for coming out. I'd like to start with something 43 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 3: funny each week, and I heard about this church service 44 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 3: on Sunday morning. Everything was going great until a big 45 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 3: bolt of lightning hit. When the smoke cleared, Satan himself 46 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: was standing behind the podium. People panic ran out as 47 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 3: fast as they could, all except one lady. She was 48 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 3: sitting on the front road just as calm as could be. 49 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 3: Satan was appalled. He said, lady, do you know who 50 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 3: I am? She said, sure, I do. He said, aren't 51 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 3: you afraid of me? She said nope, not the least bit. 52 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 3: He said why not? She said, why should I be? 53 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 3: I've been married to your brother for thirty years. All right, 54 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 3: hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 55 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 56 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 3: I have what it says I have. I can do 57 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 3: what it says I can do. Today I will be 58 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 3: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 59 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,520 Speaker 3: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 60 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 3: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 61 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 3: to talk to you today about having uncommon faith. Uncommon 62 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 3: faith is not average faith. It's not ordinary. It's above 63 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: and beyond. It's where you have a boldness and a 64 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 3: confidence to believe for the extraordinary. Average faith, says God, 65 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 3: help me to survive this recession. Uncommon faith says God, 66 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 3: I believe you'll prosper me right in the midst of 67 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 3: this recession. Average faith says maybe one day I'll get 68 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 3: out of this problem. I don't know, it's pretty bad. 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 3: Uncommon faith says I know I'm not only coming out, 70 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 3: I'm coming out better off than I was before. 71 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 5: When you have uncommon. 72 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 3: Faith, you don't just believe to make your monthly house payment. 73 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 5: You believe to totally pay your house off. You don't just. 74 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 3: Ask God to help me to control my addiction, ask 75 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: God to totally set you free. Uncommon faith is radical faith. 76 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 3: It's extreme where you believe God can do anything. You 77 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 3: don't make little plans. You don't say God, just let 78 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 3: me go as far as my parents did. Let me 79 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 3: do as much as they did, then I'll be okay. 80 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 3: Then I'll be successful. 81 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 6: No. 82 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 3: Uncommon faith says God, give me a double portion. Let 83 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 3: me do twice as much as those that went before me. 84 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:29,559 Speaker 5: Let me give twice as much. 85 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 3: Let me have twice the influence, twice, the wisdom twice, 86 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 3: the friends twice, the creativity, twice the income. Well, you say, Joel, 87 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 3: that's kind of bold. Who do you think you are? 88 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 3: Here's who a child of the most tigh God. It's 89 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 3: full of uncommon faith in some of you today. You 90 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 3: have average faith, and that's good. You love God, you 91 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 3: believe to make it through. But if you want to 92 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 3: see God amaze you with his goodness, you need to 93 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: take it one step further and come over into uncommon 94 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 3: and faith. Take the limits off of God. Believe you 95 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 3: can rise higher. Believe you can overcome every obstacle. 96 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 5: Our faith is what pleases God. 97 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 3: If you want to be more pleasing to God, one 98 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 3: way is to simply release your faith in a greater way. 99 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 5: I read a story about a little seven year old girl. 100 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 3: Her name is Jamie, and she lives on a farm 101 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: with her parents. They had a cow that was about 102 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 3: to give birth, and the father had already told the 103 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 3: family that they were not going to keep any more cows. 104 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 3: They had enough, and any time a new little calf 105 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 3: was born, they would either give it away or sell it. 106 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 3: But for some reason, little Jamie really wanted to keep 107 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 3: this cow. She had it set in her heart, and 108 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 3: so she began to plead and plead with her father 109 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 3: day after day, Daddy, please make an exception, Let me 110 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 3: keep this cow, just one more little calf from me. 111 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 3: After a couple of weeks, she wore her father down. 112 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 3: He said, Jamie, I'll make a deal with you. If 113 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: the calf is born black, then you can keep it. 114 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: But if it's brown or spotted like our other cows, 115 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 3: then we're going to get rid of it. 116 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 5: They agreed they had a deal. 117 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 3: Well, little Jamie didn't know any better. She started praying 118 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 3: and asking God that that calf would be born black. 119 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,919 Speaker 3: Every night before she went to bed, she said, Father, 120 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 3: I want to thank you that this little calf is 121 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 3: going to be as black as can be, and that 122 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 3: there won't be any doubt about it that it belongs 123 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 3: to me. That's uncommon faith. Most of us adults would 124 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 3: never pray for anything like that. We would think that's 125 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 3: far out. You can't pray about a cow. That's radical, 126 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 3: that's extreme. But here's what I've learned. Radical faith gets 127 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 3: radical results. Extreme faith gets extreme results. A few weeks later, 128 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 3: the little calf was born. It was not only black, 129 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:56,679 Speaker 3: but right between their eyes there was this jame remember 130 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 3: her name is Jamie. It's like God put a big 131 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 3: stamp on it. God said, I want to make sure 132 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 3: you understand this little calf belongs to Jamie. What am 133 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,239 Speaker 3: I saying? When you release your faith in uncommon ways, 134 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 3: you're going to see God begin to do uncommon things. 135 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 3: The medical report may say it's impossible for you to 136 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 3: get well, but there is another report that says, with God, 137 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 3: all things are possible. When you have this uncommon faith. 138 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 3: You rise up and say, you know what that's for me? 139 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 3: Even though I don't see a way, God, I know 140 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 3: you can make a way. So I want to thank 141 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 3: you for restoring health back into me. In your finances, 142 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 3: it may look like you'll never get out of debt, 143 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 3: you'll never see your business take off. But there's another 144 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 3: report that says God's favor surrounds you like a shield. 145 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 3: It says you are blessed and whatever you put your hands. 146 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 5: To, we'll prosper well. You say, Joel, I don't think so, 147 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 5: not with this economy. 148 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 3: My business is so slow. I'm just trying to make 149 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 3: it through. Now, that's average faith that's going to keep 150 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 3: you right where you are. You've got to come over, 151 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: like little Jamie, into uncommon faith. Our attitude should be God. 152 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 3: You said that I would lend and not borrow. You said, 153 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 3: because I'm a giver you would open the windows of 154 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 3: heaven and pour out blessings that I cannot contain. So, God, 155 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 3: I'm asking for your supernatural favor. Draw new clients to me, 156 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 3: cause me to stand out in the crowd. Let my 157 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 3: gifts and talents come out to the full. God give 158 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 3: me breaks. 159 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:33,199 Speaker 5: That I don't even deserve. 160 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 3: When you tap into that uncommon faith, there's a boldness 161 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 3: and a confidence to ask for God's goodness in greater ways. 162 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 3: This is what allows God to do the unusual. I 163 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 3: know people say, Joel, I don't want to bother God. 164 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 3: If he wants me blessed, then he'll bless me. If 165 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 3: he wants me well, then he'll make me well. Now, 166 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 3: the scripture says you have not because you ask not. 167 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 3: My question is, do you ever ask for the uncommon? 168 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 3: Do you ever go beyond asking for your daily needs 169 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: to ask for God's extraordinary favor and unusual breaks so 170 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 3: you can accomplish your dreams overcome obstacles. This is just 171 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 3: what Joshua did. He was in the midst of a 172 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 3: great battle. He and his men were trying to finish 173 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 3: off this army, but. 174 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 5: The sun was going down. 175 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 3: They were running out of daylight and Joshua knew that 176 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 3: if he couldn't get this army totally defeated, then later 177 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 3: on they would rise up and cause him problems. He 178 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 3: could have easily gotten discouraged, thought it's not going to happen, 179 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 3: too bad for me. But Joshua had this uncommon faith. 180 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 5: He was bold. He said, God, I know this is unusual. 181 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 3: I know this is out of the ordinary, but I'm 182 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 3: asking you to stop the sun so I can have 183 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 3: more daylight and totally complete this task. Imagine the nerve 184 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 3: of Joshua. He asked God to do something that it 185 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 3: had never been done before. God could have said, Joshua, 186 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 3: who do you think you are. I Am not going 187 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 3: to stop the sun. That's kind of selfish. That might 188 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 3: disrupt other people. Now, when you have this uncommon faith, 189 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 3: it brings a smile to God's face. I can see 190 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 3: God turn to the angels and say, listen to what 191 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:24,199 Speaker 3: this man is saying. He's extreme, he's radical. He believes 192 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 3: I can do anything. He's asking me to stop the sun. 193 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 3: God said, in effect, Joshua, you're bold enough to ask 194 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 3: it that I'm bold enough to do it. 195 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,479 Speaker 5: The scripture says the son. 196 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 3: Stood still until he completely finished off that army. It 197 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 3: goes on to talk about how there had never been 198 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 3: a day like that before. The people stood there in 199 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 3: utter amazement. 200 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 5: What happened. 201 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 3: God interrupted the entire universe just because one man had 202 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 3: uncommon faith. I remember when I first started ministering, right 203 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 3: after my father to be with the Lord. I was 204 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 3: very concerned that the crowds were going to stay up 205 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 3: and people were going to continue to come. I was 206 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 3: doing my best every week, praying, believe in studying, but 207 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 3: I knew from years past that anytime it rained on 208 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 3: Sunday mornings. 209 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 5: The crowds would be down. 210 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 3: At our older facility, the parking was spread out on 211 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 3: thirty acres all around the building. It's not covered like 212 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 3: it is here, and so if it ever rained, it 213 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 3: was almost impossible to get in the auditorium without being 214 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 3: totally drenched. And this was all very new to me, 215 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 3: being up in front of people. I'm naturally more quiet 216 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 3: and more reserved, but for some reason back then, I 217 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 3: especially had this uncommon faith, this unusual boldness, and every 218 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 3: week I would pray that it would not rain during 219 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 3: our Sunday morning services. 220 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 5: I never told anybody about it. 221 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 3: Only Victoria I know other people would think that's far out, Joel, 222 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 3: that's extreme. You can't pray that it's not going to rain. 223 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 3: You think you are. But God is my witness. For 224 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 3: two years, on the Sundays I was ministering, it might 225 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,839 Speaker 3: rain an hour before the service or two hours after 226 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 3: the service, but it never once rained during those Sunday services. 227 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 3: There were times when I would leave my house thirty 228 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 3: minutes away and it would be raining very heavily. But 229 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 3: when I got close to the church a couple of 230 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 3: miles away, it was like somebody had a big umbrella 231 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 3: over the property. It was just as dry as could be. 232 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 3: I would start on Wednesdays watching the weather reports. I 233 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 3: know more about high pressure low pressure du points. 234 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 5: I could fill in for a weather man. 235 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 3: But if I saw any sign of bad weather on 236 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: the weekend, i'd go to work. I'd start praying, God, 237 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 3: I'm asking you to hold this rain off. I would bind, 238 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 3: i would loose, i'd rebuke, i'd confess, i'd sing, I'd 239 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 3: shout no rain. One time, there was a major storm 240 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 3: predicted for Sunday morning, ninety percent chance of rain, thunder 241 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 3: and enlightening. I could hardly sleep the night before, but 242 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 3: I got off on that Sunday, and Lord and behold 243 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 3: it was just as clear and beautiful as can be. 244 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 3: The front had gotten delayed. And some people think, oh, 245 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 3: that's just a lucky break, that's just a coincidence. But 246 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 3: I'm bold enough to believe that was the hand of 247 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 3: God holding back the rain. It's funny on the weekends 248 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 3: that I wasn't speaking, I wouldn't pray, and time and 249 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 3: time again it would rain. I thought, that's okay, I 250 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,560 Speaker 3: am not using my faith for somebody else's services. Now. 251 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 5: I know this may sound far out, but we. 252 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 3: Serve a far out God. He wants to do exceedingly, 253 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 3: abundantly above. 254 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 5: All we can ask, think, or imagine. 255 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 3: When you have uncommon faith, you will see uncommon results. 256 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 3: And you may not need something as trivial as good weather. 257 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 3: Maybe you need for God to heal a child. Maybe 258 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 3: you need a relationship restored, you need favor at work 259 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 3: with a client, you need a break in that legal situation. 260 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 3: Are you releasing your faith for the extraordinary for the uncommon? 261 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 3: I have a friend that has a daughter, and years ago, 262 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 3: when she was about three years old, she was involved 263 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 3: in an accident. 264 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 5: Something fell on. 265 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 3: Two of her fingers and cut the very tips of 266 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 3: them off. They rushed her to the emergency room, and 267 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 3: after they stopped the bleeding, a leading plastic surgeon came 268 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 3: in and examined the little girl's fingers. He said to 269 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 3: the father, I'm sorry to tell you this, but there's 270 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 3: nothing we're going to be able to do to restore 271 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 3: your daughter's fingers totally back to normal. The bone has 272 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 3: been cut, there'll always be a little bit shorter, and 273 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 3: she'll never have fingernails on these two fingers. All they 274 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 3: could do was a skin graft to try to smooth 275 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 3: things over. And this father was very respectful, but he said, doctor, 276 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 3: I believe that God can restore my little girl's fingers 277 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 3: and make them normal once again. 278 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 5: The doctor looked at him very odd. 279 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 3: He was from another country and didn't have any kind 280 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 3: of religious upbringing. That was very strange to him. The 281 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 3: doctor said, well, sir, you can believe like that if 282 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 3: you want to, but I'm just telling you the facts. 283 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 3: The bone has been cut, they will always be shorter, 284 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 3: and for sure she will not have fingernails on those 285 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 3: two fingers. A little later, the man's wife came in. 286 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 3: The doctor got her off to the side and said, 287 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 3: your husband. 288 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 5: Is in shock. 289 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 3: He won't accept the fact that the tips of your 290 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 3: daughter's fingers have been cut off. She said, that's fine, 291 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 3: I'll talk to him about it. They did the skin 292 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 3: graft surgery, and six weeks later they went back for 293 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 3: the checkup. 294 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 5: When the doctor removed. 295 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 3: The bandages from the little girl's fingers, the first words 296 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 3: out of his mouth were, oh my God. The husband 297 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 3: was alarmed. He said, doctor, what's wrong. He said, nothing's wrong. 298 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 3: Your little girl has fingernails and it looks like the 299 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 3: link is the exact right length. Criends. God can do 300 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 3: what some people cannot do. God's laws supersedes the laws 301 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 3: of nature. And I'm not saying for us to be 302 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: flaking go around denying reality, but too often we just 303 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 3: accept things as the way it's always going to be. Joel. 304 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 3: This is what the expert told me. That may be true, 305 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 3: and I respect that. But there is another expert that 306 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 3: breeds his life into you. 307 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 5: God created your body. 308 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 3: He holds you in the palm of his hand. And 309 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 3: just like he can keep the rain back, God can 310 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 3: heal a little girl's fingers, just like he stopped the 311 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 3: sun for Joshua, he can help you overcome your obstacles. 312 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 3: Just like he caused a cow to be born black 313 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 3: with the white jay, God can give you favor to 314 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 3: accomplish your dreams. The question is are you bold enough 315 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 3: to ask? Are you releasing your faith in radical ways? 316 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 3: This is what my father did. He was raised in 317 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 3: extreme poverty. His parents were cotton farmers. They lost everything 318 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 3: they had during the Great Depression. My father had no money, 319 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 3: no education at the time, no future to speak of. 320 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,479 Speaker 3: But at the age of seventeen that he gave his 321 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 3: life to Christ. God put a dream in his heart 322 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 3: that one day he would minister the people around the 323 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 3: world in the natural. It looked totally impossible. You might 324 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 3: as well have said that he was going to go 325 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 3: to the moon. He had no connections, no way to 326 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 3: get out of that limited environment. All he had was 327 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 3: this uncommon faith. He dared to ask God for the 328 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 3: right breaks, the right opportunities to open up the right doors. 329 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,640 Speaker 3: Years later, as we would travel to India together, everywhere 330 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 3: we went, when the young Indian minister saw my father, 331 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,959 Speaker 3: they would hold up their Bibles and say, in their 332 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,880 Speaker 3: own language, this is my Bible. 333 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. 334 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 3: We were way back in the jungles of Thailand, walking 335 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 3: by this little hut, and we saw a family in 336 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 3: there watching a video of my father ministering from Lakewood 337 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 3: going down the Amazon River. Back in the villages, we 338 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 3: saw people reading my father's books in Spanish. How could 339 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 3: it be that a young boy with no resources, no 340 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 3: connections could fulfill his dream and not only touch people here, 341 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 3: but people all over the world. It was because he 342 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 3: had this uncommon faith. My father didn't settle where a 343 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 3: lot of people would have settled when all the odds 344 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 3: were against him. 345 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 5: Instead of giving up, he believed that God would make 346 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 5: a way. 347 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 3: He was bold enough to ask for God's favor. He 348 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 3: saw God taking places that he never even dreamed of. 349 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 3: What's holding you back? It's easy to make excuses. I 350 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 3: come from the wrong family, Joel. I didn't get good 351 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,199 Speaker 3: breaks like you did. I've had this problem too long, 352 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:55,959 Speaker 3: the economies too down. 353 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 5: I've made too many mistakes. 354 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 3: No God can still get you to your final destination. 355 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 3: Now I want to light a new fire under you today. 356 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 3: There is no obstacle too difficult for you to overcome. 357 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 3: There is no dream that God has put in your 358 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 3: heart that is too big for you to accomplish. 359 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,360 Speaker 5: Ask yourself, is my faith radical? 360 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 3: Is what I'm believing for the vision for my life? 361 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 5: Is it big. 362 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 3: Enough to make someone think? What's his problem? 363 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 5: Who does he think he is? 364 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 3: Or have you gotten stuck in a rug to where 365 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 3: you're just accepting where you are as the way it's 366 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 3: always going to be. Now, if you're not stretching your faith, 367 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 3: you're not tapping in to everything God has in store. 368 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 5: I love the story of Elisha. 369 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 3: For years and years he took care of the prophet Elijah. 370 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 3: He was his assistant. He would make sure he had 371 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 3: food and water. He traveled with him from city to city. 372 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 3: The prophet Elijah was an older gentleman, very well known, 373 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 3: well respected for the miracles he performed, just for being 374 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 3: a man of God. When Elijah got way up there 375 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 3: in years and was about to go to heaven, he 376 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 3: said to his assistant, Elisha, you've been faithful to me 377 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 3: all this time. 378 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 5: Now what do you want. 379 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,480 Speaker 3: Me to do for you before I leave? You would 380 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 3: have thought Elisha would have asked. 381 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 5: For something simple. 382 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 3: Just give me a bonus, give me a couple weeks off, 383 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 3: throw me a party. No, Elisha was thinking in uncommon ways. 384 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 3: He said, Elijah, I would like to have a double 385 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 3: portion of your spirit. He was saying, I want to 386 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 3: do twice the miracles that you've done. 387 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 5: I want to have. 388 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 3: Twice the influence, twice, the wisdom, twice, the friends, twice 389 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 3: the income. I'm sure Elijah nearly passed out. I'm sure 390 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 3: he thought, boy, you are bold. You are something else. 391 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 3: He said, Elisha, you have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, 392 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 3: that's the key word. 393 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 5: He was saying. 394 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 3: It may be hard, you've asked for something big. Nevertheless, 395 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 3: it will happen. 396 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 5: It is not too big for God. If you study his. 397 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 3: Life, you'll find out that's exactly what happened. He did 398 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 3: twice the miracles. He had a double portion of his anointing. 399 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 3: I wonder what would happen if each one of us 400 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 3: would be bold enough to say, God, I'm asking. 401 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 5: You to let me do twice what my parents did. 402 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 3: Let me have twice the influence, twice, the wisdom, twice, 403 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 3: the favor, twice the income. When my father went to 404 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,239 Speaker 3: be with the Lord, people used to come up to 405 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 3: me and say, do you think you can continue on 406 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,360 Speaker 3: what your dad and mom have started? And I never 407 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 3: said this arrogantly, but I would always tell them I 408 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 3: don't think that I can just continue it. I believe 409 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 3: that I can go further. That's the way God intended 410 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 3: it for every generation to increase. 411 00:21:59,200 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 5: And it's interesting. 412 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 3: The former sanctuary that my mom and dad built. 413 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 5: It had eight thousand seats. 414 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 3: This new auditorium has sixteen thousand seats, exactly double. 415 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 5: And I'm not bragging on me. 416 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 3: I'm simply making the case that if you will take 417 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 3: the limits off of God and release your faith in 418 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 3: uncommon ways, then you will see God do uncommon things. 419 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 3: You'll look up like Joshua and say wow, I have 420 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 3: never seen anything like this before. I know. I was 421 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,120 Speaker 3: raised in church, and still every time I come into 422 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 3: this new facility, a former basketball arena where I used 423 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 3: to have season tickets to watch the Rockets play, and 424 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 3: I see all you guys gathered to worship, and I 425 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 3: think about how good God's been to us. Just like Joshua, 426 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 3: I stand there in amazement and say, Wow, God, you 427 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 3: have shown up and shown out in amazing ways. 428 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 5: Here's the beauty. 429 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 3: If we will step it up and believe for the uncommon, 430 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 3: then what is uncommon to us will become common to 431 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 3: our children. My children think nothing about coming to a 432 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 3: church this large in a former basketball arena. It's just 433 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 3: normal to them, and God willing. When it's their time 434 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 3: to take over, and our children step it up and 435 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,479 Speaker 3: believe for the uncommon and they see that double portion release, 436 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 3: then God's going to take our children places that we 437 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,879 Speaker 3: cannot even fathom. Right now, what am I saying? Don't 438 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 3: be satisfied to maintain the status quo in your family. 439 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 3: God wants you to go further. He wants you to 440 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:40,439 Speaker 3: set us new standard. Believe for that double portion. Be 441 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 3: bold like Elisha and say God, let me go twice 442 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 3: as far as those. 443 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 5: That have gone before me. 444 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 3: Maybe you're facing a situation today that looks too far gone, 445 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 3: looks like it's too late, like it. 446 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 5: Could never change. 447 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 3: That's what happened to a young lady in the scripture 448 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 3: by the name of Martha. Her brother Last was extremely sick. 449 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 3: Martha and her sister Mary were good friends with Jesus, 450 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 3: and so they sent word for Jesus to come to 451 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 3: their home as quickly as possible, But Jesus was out 452 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 3: of town. 453 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 5: He kept getting delayed. 454 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 3: After delay, and long story short, Lazarus died Four days later, 455 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 3: Jesus showed up at their home. Martha said something amazing. 456 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 3: She had this uncommon faith. She said there in John eleven, 457 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 3: verse twenty one, Jesus, if you would have been here sooner, 458 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 3: my brother would not have died here it comes. But 459 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 3: I know even now, whatever you ask, God will do 460 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 3: it for you. Sometimes you have to have an even 461 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,959 Speaker 3: now faith. It looks impossible, looks like it's over. The 462 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 3: medical report says you're done, the marriage is on the 463 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 3: last leg. You're down to your final paycheck. That's when 464 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 3: you got to dig your heels in and say, like Martha, God, 465 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 3: I know even now you can still turn it around. 466 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 3: My health is going downhill, but even now you can 467 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 3: bring healing to my body. My child hadn't spoken to 468 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 3: me in ten years, but even now you can restore 469 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 3: this relationship. My finances are running out, but even now 470 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 3: you can prosper me. Having even now faith, Jesus asked 471 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 3: them to roll away the stone where Lazarus was buried. 472 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,159 Speaker 3: They made excuses, Jesus, you don't want to do that. 473 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 3: It stinks, it smells very bad. He's been in there 474 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 3: for four days. They tried to talk Jesus out of it. 475 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 3: He said, no, just do what I'm asking. They finally did, 476 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 3: and you know the story. Jesus prayed, Lazarus came back 477 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 3: to life. But it all started when a young lady 478 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 3: named Martha dared to believe for the extraordinary. Now an 479 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 3: uncommon faith says, even though my situation looks dead, even 480 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 3: though it looks like I'll never accomplish my dreams, looks 481 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 3: like I'll never be vindicated. When you have this radical faith, 482 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 3: you know it's not over till God. 483 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 5: Says it's over. 484 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 3: Just like God raised Lazarus from the dead. God can 485 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 3: resurrect your dead dreams. He can resurrect a dead marriage, 486 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 3: dead health, dead finances. 487 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 5: May have gotten so bad you feel. 488 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 3: Like it stinks, smells bad, no way in the natural. 489 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 3: Good news is God has a way even when it 490 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 3: looks like there is no way, And when you're down 491 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 3: to nothing, if you'll stay in faith, then God is 492 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 3: up to something. 493 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 5: When you believe all things are possible. 494 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 3: You have got to shake off discouragement, shake off going 495 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,959 Speaker 3: around negative and defeated. God is still on the throne. 496 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 3: Let me just declare it over you. What you thought 497 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 3: was the end is going to turn out to be 498 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:48,360 Speaker 3: a new beginning. 499 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 5: That job you lost, you thought it was over, but. 500 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 3: God's going to open up a new position, a better position. 501 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 3: People may have lied about you, tried to ruin your reputation, 502 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 3: but God is going to vindicate you. God is going 503 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 3: to make your wrongs right. The economy may be down, 504 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 3: but God is going to supernaturally increase you. He's going 505 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 3: to draw new clients to you. You may have had 506 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 3: unfair situations growing up. All the odds may be against 507 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 3: you right now, but know this, no person can keep 508 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,919 Speaker 3: you from your destiny. No obstacle is too high, no 509 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,479 Speaker 3: enemy is too powerful. And what's happened in your past 510 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 3: is not nearly as important as what's going to happen 511 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 3: in your future. Right now, the creator of the universe, 512 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 3: his face is shining down on you. 513 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 5: He is going to open up doors that no man 514 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 5: can shut. He is going to bring. 515 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 3: The right people across your path, the right breaks, the 516 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 3: right opportunities. Not only that, God is going to restore 517 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 3: the years that have been stolen, the years where people 518 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 3: have treated you wrong. It may look like it'll never 519 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 3: work out, but God is going to get you to 520 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 3: your final destination. You are going to become everything He's 521 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 3: created you to be. My challenge to you is to 522 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 3: have an uncommon faith. 523 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 5: Believe big, dream big, dare to ask big. 524 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 3: You may have been through disappointments, you had some setbacks. 525 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 3: We all have, but remember every setback is simply a 526 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 3: setup for a greater comeback. 527 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 5: Don't you dare? Settle where you are. 528 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 3: God wants you to set a new standard for your family. 529 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 3: You can overcome every obstacle. You can accomplish every God 530 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 3: given dream. The creator of the universe is breathing in 531 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 3: your direction. And if you will have this uncommon faith, 532 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 3: a radical faith, and even now faith, then just like 533 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 3: with Joshua, God will do the extraordinary. 534 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 5: Just like with my Father, God will. 535 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 3: Take it from the cotton fields to impact in the world. 536 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 3: Just like Jamie and the Black Cow. God will give 537 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 3: you favor that no person can deny. And just like 538 00:28:55,680 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 3: with Martha, God will turn impossibilities around. He will resurrect deaths, 539 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 3: and when it's all said and done, you'll be able 540 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 3: to say God has been good to me. He has 541 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 3: shown up and shown out in my life in amazing ways. 542 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 5: Amen, do you receive it today? 543 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 3: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 544 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 3: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 545 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? 546 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 3: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 547 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 5: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 548 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 3: Friends, if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 549 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 3: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 550 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 3: Keep God first place. 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