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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 35 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 36 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 37 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 5: the ministry. 38 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend. 40 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 5: Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 41 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 4: God bless you. 42 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 5: It's a joy to come into your home, and if 43 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 5: you're ever in our area, please stop by be a 44 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 5: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll 45 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 5: make you feel right at home. But I like to 46 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 5: start with something funny. I heard about this single man. 47 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 5: He'd been living at home with his elderly father, who 48 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 5: was very wealthy. He decided he needed to find a 49 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 5: wife so he could enjoy the fortune he would inherit 50 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 5: when his father died. One evening at an investment meeting, 51 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 5: he saw the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. She 52 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 5: took his breath away. He said to her, I know 53 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 5: I look like just an ordinary guy, but in a 54 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 5: few years, when my father passes, I will inherit hundreds 55 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 5: of millions of dollars. 56 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 4: Impressed, she took his business card. Three months later, she married. 57 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 4: His father. 58 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 59 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what 60 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says 61 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 62 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 63 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 64 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today 65 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 5: about supersized. A few years ago I went to a 66 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 5: fast food restaurant with our children. We pulled into the 67 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 5: drive through and placed our order. Just when I was 68 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 5: about to pull up to the main window where you pay, 69 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 5: the young lady said, would you like to supersize that. 70 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 4: I didn't know what that meant. I asked her about it. 71 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 5: She said, that means you'll get more French fries, a 72 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 5: larger drink, a bigger hamburger instead of the normal portions. 73 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 5: It will be supersized, bigger than expected. That's what God 74 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 5: wants to do for you. His dream for your life 75 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 5: is much bigger than your own. He's going to take 76 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 5: you further than you're expecting. He's going to open doors 77 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 5: that you could have never opened. He's going to give 78 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 5: you more. 79 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 4: Influence than you thought possible. 80 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 5: Paul said in a Fee three, God will do exceeding 81 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 5: abundantly above all we can ask or think. He's saying 82 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 5: in today's language, God is going to supersize your life. 83 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 5: Whatever you're dreaming about, whatever you're believing for, God's going 84 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 5: to take that and make it bigger, better, more rewarding 85 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 5: than you've ever imagined. Maybe your dream is to get 86 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 5: out of debt, to be able to pay your house off. 87 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 5: That's good, but God is going to supercize it. He's 88 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 5: going to bless you in such a way that you 89 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 5: cannot only pay off your house, but you can help 90 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 5: other people pay off their house. Where you don't just 91 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 5: have enough for yourself, you have an abundance, so you 92 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 5: can be a blessing to somebody else. That's what happens 93 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 5: when God supercizes Your prayer may be for your son 94 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 5: to get back on course. He's running with the wrong crowd, 95 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 5: making decisions that are not good. You'd be happy if 96 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 5: he just got back to where he was. When God 97 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 5: supercizes it, he's not only going to bring him back 98 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 5: to the right course, he's going to use him to 99 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 5: help other people in that same situation. You're going to 100 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 5: be amazed at the difference that your son will make. 101 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 5: Maybe you're single, your dream is to meet. 102 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: The right person. 103 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 5: You have this specific criteria that you're looking for, these 104 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 5: qualifications that you would be happy with. But when God 105 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 5: supercizes it, he's going to bring you somebody better than 106 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 5: you've imagined. That's what happened to me when I met 107 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 5: Victoria in my early twenties. 108 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 4: She exceeded my expectations. 109 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 5: She was not only smart, talented, funny, beautiful, but she 110 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 5: had the best taste in men. 111 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 4: She was a supersized blessing. 112 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 5: Your dream may be to work your way up to 113 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 5: management to one day lead that department. But when God 114 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 5: supersizes it, You're not going to be working for that company. 115 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 4: You're going to own your own company. 116 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 5: You're going to look up and say, this is exceeding 117 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 5: abundantly above anything I could ask or imagine. 118 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 4: What you're dreaming about may seem big to you. 119 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 5: You don't see how it can happen, how you could 120 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 5: get out of debt, break the addiction, accomplish that goal. 121 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 5: You have to stretch your faith to just believe that 122 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 5: it will happen. But what you're believing for is just 123 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 5: the starting point. God is going to exceed your expectations. 124 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 5: He has a supersized life in front of you. I 125 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 5: know a young lady that came from a low income family. 126 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 5: Her parents and relatives had always struggled to make it. 127 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 5: Her father worked the night shift as a janitor cleaning 128 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 5: large buildings. Her mother would get odd jobs here and there, 129 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 5: babysitting children. All she had seen growing up was lack 130 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 5: and mediocrity. 131 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 4: Her dream was to one day work in a professional environment. 132 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 5: She thought, if she could just get something better than 133 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 5: those low level jobs that her parents had, she would 134 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 5: be doing good. A friend of hers worked at a 135 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 5: movie studio. She said there was a position available as 136 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 5: a secretary. This young lady had put herself through college, 137 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 5: the first one in her family to get a degree. 138 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 5: She applied for that position and she got it. She 139 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 5: was on cloud nine. Not only did she work in 140 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 5: a professional office, but she made twice what her parents 141 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 5: made combined. In her mind, she had accomplished her goal. 142 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 5: God had blessed her in incredible ways. She was satisfied. 143 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 5: But God wasn't satisfied. He's in the supersizing business. What 144 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 5: he has for you is bigger than you've imagined. She 145 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 5: got one promotion, and another promotion and another. Today she's 146 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 5: the vice president of one of the largest movie studios 147 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 5: in the world. She has incredible influence. She decides which 148 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 5: movies will be made, works with the biggest name in Hollywood. 149 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 5: She told me, Joel, I can't even fathom where I am. 150 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,239 Speaker 5: Every day I go to work. I have to pinch 151 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 5: myself to make sure this is real. That's God's dream 152 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 5: for you. If you will keep honoring Him being your 153 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 5: best right where you are, then get ready for a 154 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 5: supercized life. 155 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 4: Get ready for doors to open that you couldn't open. 156 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 5: Get ready to go places that you've never dreamed. One 157 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 5: day you're going to say, like her, I can't even 158 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 5: fathom that I'm here. Never dreamed I'd be running my 159 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 5: own business. Never dreamed I'd be living in this house. 160 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 5: Never dream my children would be this successful. I never 161 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 5: dreamed I'd be this healthy again. Every time I'd drive 162 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 5: up to the Compact Center, this place, Like that lady, 163 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,359 Speaker 5: I have to pinch myself. 164 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 4: I had season. 165 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 5: Tickets growing up to watch the Rockets play basketball. I 166 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 5: never dreamed one day this would be Lakewood. Never dreamed 167 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 5: that I would be a minister. Never dreamed after thirty 168 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 5: five years of being diagnosed with terminal cancer, my mother 169 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 5: would still. 170 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 4: Be alive today. 171 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 5: What is that the exceeding, abundantly above and beyond favor 172 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 5: God has in store? In Acts chapter three, there was 173 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 5: a crippled man that was carried to the temple each day, 174 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 5: and they put him next to the main door. He 175 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 5: would sit there and ask for money. This is how 176 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,839 Speaker 5: he survived. Year after year people would give him donations. 177 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 5: Look like this was his lot in life. He didn't 178 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 5: complain about it. He was doing his best with what 179 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 5: he had. But one afternoon, Peter and John came to 180 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 5: the temple. As they were about to walk in this 181 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 5: man asked them for money. He must have been looking down, 182 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 5: because Peter said, look at us. This scripture says the 183 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 5: man looked up, expecting to receive a gift. Peter said, 184 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 5: I don't have any money for you, but I can 185 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 5: give you something better. In the name of Jesus, Rise 186 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 5: and walk. Peter took him by the hand. He helped 187 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 5: the man up. When he did, instantly his legs were healed. 188 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 5: He started walking, running, leaping, so grateful for what God 189 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 5: had done. 190 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 4: But here's my point. 191 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 5: When Peter said I have something for you, the man 192 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 5: expected the ordinary. He expected what he had always seen. 193 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 5: It had happened again and again the same way. He 194 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 5: would ask. People would give him a few donations. But 195 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 5: this day God came along and did something out of 196 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 5: the ordinary. He was expecting a few coins, but God said, 197 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 5: in effect, I'm going to. 198 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 4: Exceed your expectations. 199 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 5: I'm going to do above and beyond what you're asking for. 200 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 5: That one moment of favor thrust him to the next level. 201 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 5: Like this man, you may be expecting the ordinary. You're 202 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,679 Speaker 5: going through the routine of life being your best with 203 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 5: what you have, But where you are looks like that's 204 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 5: the way it's always going to be. There's no sign 205 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 5: of anything changing. You're expecting more of the same. But 206 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 5: God is saying, I'm about to exceed your expectations. 207 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 4: Yes, it's been routine, but you pass the test. 208 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 5: Now you're coming into a new day where I'm about 209 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 5: to thrust you to a new level. I'm about to 210 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 5: increase you beyond your normal income. Blessings are about to 211 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 5: chase you down. Good breaks are going to come finding you. 212 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 5: God is going to supersize what you're believing for. You 213 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 5: didn't ask for it, you aren't expecting it. 214 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 4: You didn't see it coming. It's just the goodness of God. 215 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 5: The scripture talks about how will be blessed, pressed down, 216 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 5: shaken together, and running over. You're going to come in 217 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 5: to those running over blessings, running over with influence, running 218 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 5: over with creativity, running over with resources, running over with 219 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 5: good health. 220 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 4: God is a running over God. He's not a git 221 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 4: by God. He's a more than enough God. 222 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 5: You may not see how this could happen, but God 223 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 5: has ways to bless you that you've never thought of. 224 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 5: In the scripture, when Peter needed money to pay his taxes, 225 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 5: Jesus told him to go down to the lake. The 226 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 5: first fish he caught had the money in it that 227 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 5: he needed. When the Israelites wanted me out in the wilderness, 228 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 5: God shifted the winds and caused millions of quaell to 229 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 5: come into their camp. These two million people had a 230 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 5: state dinner out in the middle of the desert. 231 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 4: Experts tell us. 232 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,839 Speaker 5: Quall don't normally travel that far away from water. That 233 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 5: goes against their natural instinct. This was God making something 234 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 5: happen that should have never happened. Friends, God controls the 235 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 5: whole universe. You don't have to figure it out. Just 236 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 5: dare to believe all through the day. Lord, thank you 237 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 5: for supersizing my life. Thank you for exceeding my expectations. 238 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 5: Thank you for those running over blessings. I talked to 239 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 5: a man that owns a landscape company. Their specialty is 240 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 5: bagging grass clippings and disposing of them. He had an 241 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 5: agreement with a local farmer where he would take those 242 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 5: grass clippings and feed his herd of cattle. This worked 243 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 5: well for many years. Everything was going great until this 244 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 5: farmer became sick. He was an older gentleman and decided 245 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 5: to sell his farm. And this man got bids of 246 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 5: getting rid of his grass clippings in conventional ways, but 247 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 5: the lowest one was tens of thousands of dollars a year. 248 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 4: He couldn't afford that kind of overhead. Looked like he 249 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 4: was stuck, like he didn't have any options. 250 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 5: But instead of getting discouraged, instead of complaining, his attitude 251 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 5: was God, I don't see away, but I know you 252 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,080 Speaker 5: have a way. I know you're a running over God, 253 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 5: a more than enough God, an. 254 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 4: Overflow God, like the blind man. 255 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 5: He was expecting something ordinary, something usual. Maybe the farmer 256 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 5: would change his mind, maybe he'd find another farm where 257 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 5: he could feed their cattle. But God's ways are not 258 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 5: our ways. There are set times where God is going 259 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 5: to exceed your expectations, where he is going to supersize 260 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 5: your life. And several major developers were interested in this farm. 261 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 5: It looked like it would sell quickly and maybe even 262 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 5: turn out to be a bidding war. But they found 263 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 5: out the property was in a floodplain. Even though it 264 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 5: had not flooded there in years and years, no bank 265 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 5: would give anyone a loan. This farmer didn't have any options, 266 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 5: so he sold the property to this man for hardly anything. 267 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 4: It has several tenants on it. 268 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 5: Their rent not only pays his monthly payment, but there's 269 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 5: profit left over each month. So instead of having to 270 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 5: put his money out to purchase the property, and now 271 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 5: they're actually paying him to take the property. God can 272 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 5: make things happen that you could never make happen. One 273 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 5: touch of his favor will put you at another level. 274 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 5: You may be thinking ordinary. God's thinking overflow. You're thinking 275 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 5: the way it's always been. 276 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 4: God is about to exceed your expectations. 277 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 5: He's about to do a new thing like this. Man, 278 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 5: you're going to come into these running over blessings. You 279 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 5: didn't have anything to do with it. It's just the 280 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 5: favor of God. It's what the scripture talks about. How 281 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 5: you'll live in houses that you didn't have to build, 282 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 5: how you'll reap from vineyards that you didn't plan. This 283 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 5: is what happened in the scripture to a young lady 284 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 5: named Ruth. 285 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 4: Her husband was killed in a battle. 286 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 5: She moved back to her mother in law's hometown to 287 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 5: help take care of her. They barely had enough food 288 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 5: to survive. She would go out in the fields and 289 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 5: pick up the leftover wheat that the workers had missed. 290 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 5: One day, the owner of the field noticed Ruth. 291 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 4: He told his workers. 292 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 5: To leave handfuls of wheat on purpose for Ruth. Now 293 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 5: she didn't have to work nearly as hard. She could 294 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 5: gather up the wheat they needed in a fraction of 295 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 5: the time. When Ruth went out each morning, she was 296 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 5: expecting more of the same. She was grateful God was 297 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 5: meeting their needs. But God is full of surprises. Just 298 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 5: when you think you've reached your limits. God's been good 299 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 5: to you. You're satisfied, But God has something bigger in mind. 300 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 4: The owner of that field. 301 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 5: Boaz, was one of the wealthiest men in that area. 302 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 5: He fell in love with Ruth. They ended up getting married. Now, 303 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 5: instead of working in. 304 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 4: The field, Ruth owned the field. What happened, God supersized 305 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 4: her life. 306 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 5: This is especially important because Ruth had gone through a 307 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 5: lot of heartache and pain using her husband at an 308 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 5: early age. I'm sure she thought, Wow, life's not fair, God, 309 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 5: Why did this happen to me? Look like she had 310 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 5: seen her best days. If she would have heard this message, 311 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 5: she could have said, Oh, Joe, this sounds good, but 312 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 5: God's not going to supersize my life. I've been through 313 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,120 Speaker 5: too much. Things haven't turned out the way I had planned. 314 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 5: I'm content to just survive. You may feel that way, 315 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 5: but like Ruth, God hasn't forgotten about you. He's seen 316 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 5: the heartache you've endured. He's seen the lonely nights, the 317 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 5: unfair situations. You may have accepted it, but God has 318 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 5: not accepted it. He not only has some handfuls on 319 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 5: purpose for you, he has some boazes, some explosive blessings 320 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 5: that are going to make up for the difficulties you've 321 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 5: been through. God knows how to balance the books. You 322 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 5: may have taken a big hit over here, a bit 323 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 5: big loss, will get ready for some big blessings. 324 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,320 Speaker 4: God is a just God. 325 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 5: When he supersized is your life, You're going to be 326 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 5: so amazed. 327 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 4: At where you are. 328 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 5: You don't even think about where you've been. But many 329 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 5: of you can say, like me, that you're living a 330 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 5: supercized life. God's been good to you. You never dreamed 331 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 5: you would be where you are. But can I tell 332 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 5: you you haven't seen anything yet. You're on the runway 333 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 5: about to take off. You're just getting your engines revved up. 334 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 5: Your rockets haven't kicked in, your boosters haven't activated. 335 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 4: God never performs His. 336 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 5: Greatest victories in your past, they're always in your future. 337 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 5: Why don't you get your hopes up? You may not 338 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 5: see how it can happen. Here's the whole key. You 339 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 5: can't see what God sees. You don't know what God knows. 340 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 5: Ruth could have said, it's not gonna happened to me. 341 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 5: I'm a widow taking care of another widow. We don't 342 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 5: have a job, we don't have any retirement, we don't 343 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 5: have any income. 344 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 4: We're done. 345 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 5: But what you don't have doesn't stop God. He is 346 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 5: not limited by what you think you're lacking. Well, I 347 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 5: don't have the resource. I don't have the talent, the education, 348 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 5: the experience. You may not, but God does. He has 349 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 5: everything you need to get you to where you're supposed 350 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 5: to be. 351 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 4: All the odds were against Ruth. 352 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 5: It looked like she was done, but she came into 353 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 5: those running over blessings. She went from having barely enough 354 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 5: to haven more than enough. Here's how amazing God is. 355 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 5: Ruth married Boaz. They had a son named Obed. Obed 356 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 5: had a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son named David. 357 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 5: That means, this young lady that looked like her life 358 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 5: was over a widow barely making it. 359 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 4: God not only blessed. 360 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 5: Her with abundance, but she ended up in the family 361 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 5: line of Jesus Christ. God knows how to make more 362 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 5: out of your life than you've ever imagined. Quit making excuses. 363 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 5: Quit thinking you've reached your limits. God has something big 364 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,239 Speaker 5: come in your way. What He's going to do in 365 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 5: your future is like nothing you've seen in your past. 366 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 5: It's going to exceed your expectations. It's going to be 367 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 5: above and beyond what you're thinking now. The real question 368 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 5: is will you let this seed take root? The scripture 369 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 5: says Jesus couldn't do any miracles in his hometown because 370 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 5: of their unbelief. It doesn't say he wouldn't do it. It 371 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 5: says he couldn't do it. I wonder how many times 372 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 5: we're stopping God from supersizing our life because we don't 373 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 5: believe it will happen. We let our circumstances, what we 374 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 5: can see, what's happened in the past, talk us. 375 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 2: Out of it. 376 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 5: Your mind may tell you that you've reached your limits, 377 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 5: you've gone as far as you can go. But if 378 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 5: you'll listen down in here, you'll hear another voice saying, 379 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 5: increases come, favor is coming, healing is coming, promotion is coming. 380 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 5: That's why when you hear a message like this, something 381 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,360 Speaker 5: comes alive on the inside. 382 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 4: It's the seed that God put in your spirit. 383 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 5: When you live with this expectancy, you go through the 384 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 5: day saying, God, I believe you can take me where 385 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 5: I've never dreamed. 386 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 4: I believe you can do what medicine cannot do. 387 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 5: God, I believe you can supersize my life. That's when 388 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 5: you'll see the surpassing greatness of God's favor. Luke Chapter one, 389 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 5: an angel appeared to a teenage girl named Mary. He 390 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 5: told her that she was highly favored. She was going 391 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 5: to have a baby without knowing a man. Mary was 392 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 5: kind of taken aback. This seemed far out unusual. 393 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 4: It had never happened before. She asked the angel how 394 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 4: could this be? 395 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 5: He explained how the spirit of the Lord would come 396 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 5: on her and she would conceive. 397 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 4: Mary accepted it. She believed, but I'm sure there. 398 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 5: Were times that she started to doubt, thinking is this 399 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 5: really going to happen? 400 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 4: This seems too good to be true. 401 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 5: See, Mary didn't come from an influential family, She wasn't wealthy, 402 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 5: she didn't have an impressive resume. She was a poor 403 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 5: girl living in a low income neighborhood. 404 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 4: As she was doubting a. 405 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 5: Little bit confused, the angel said to her in verse thirty, Mary, 406 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 5: don't be frightened. God has decided to bless you. When 407 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 5: you hear this promise that God is going to do 408 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 5: exceedingly abundantly above and beyond that, He's going to supersize 409 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 5: your life in a way, it's like. 410 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 4: What Mary heard. 411 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 5: It seems far out unusual, and it's easy to think 412 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 5: of all the reasons why it's not going to happen. 413 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 5: But if that angel were to show up today, he 414 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 5: would say the same thing to you that he said 415 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 5: to Mary. God has decided to bless you. You may 416 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 5: not see how it can happen. 417 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 4: You may not think you deserve it. 418 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 5: You've made too many mistakes, you're too young, you're too old, 419 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 5: you come from the wrong family. Instead of dwelling on 420 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,479 Speaker 5: all that, why don't you say, by faith God, I 421 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 5: want to thank you that you've decided to bless me. Lord, 422 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 5: thank you that you've decided to be good to me. See, 423 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 5: it's one thing when we decide we're going to take 424 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 5: hold of God's promises. We decide we're going to live 425 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 5: a blessed, abundant life. 426 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 4: That's good, that's important. 427 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 5: But when you realize the creator of the universe, the 428 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 5: God who spoke worlds into existence, the God who flung 429 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 5: stars into space. 430 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 4: He has decided to bless you. He has decided to 431 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 4: forgive you. He has decided to favor you. Here's the key. 432 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 5: God's idea of blessing you is very different than what you. 433 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 4: Think being blessed is. We think natural. God thinks supernatural. 434 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 5: We think, let me find another farm to put these 435 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,640 Speaker 5: grass clippings. God thinks, how about I give you that 436 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 5: farm and have them pay you instead of you paying them. 437 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,479 Speaker 5: We think handfuls on purpose are a great blessing, and 438 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 5: they are. But God thinks, how about I give you 439 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 5: the whole field so you own all the week to 440 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 5: begin with. 441 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 4: We think practical terms. 442 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 5: Signing a sixty year lease with the City of Houston 443 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 5: for the Compact Center is pretty amazing, and it is. 444 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 5: But God thinks, how about I get rid of that 445 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 5: lease so you can have the building for generations to 446 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 5: come like God did for us. That's the running over God, 447 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 5: the more than enough God, the exceed. 448 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 4: Your expectations God. 449 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 5: A few days after the angel appeared, Mary went to 450 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 5: see her cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth said, Mary, you are blessed 451 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 5: because you believed God would do what he said. God 452 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 5: decided to bless Mary. But what activated the blessing, what 453 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 5: allowed it to happen, was she believed she would be blessed. 454 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 5: If she'd have gone around thinking, oh, this is impossible, 455 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 5: it's never going to happen. I never get any good breaks. Besides, 456 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 5: I'm not even qualified. She could have talked herself out 457 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 5: of what God had already decided. When God says he's 458 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 5: going to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. 459 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 4: When he says, as for you and your house, you 460 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 4: will serve the Lord. 461 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 5: When he says he's going to restore health back into you, 462 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:40,119 Speaker 5: that means God has already decided it. Now, My challenge is, 463 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 5: don't talk yourself out of what God has already decided 464 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 5: for you. Hey, you said, Joel, this sounds good, But 465 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 5: I'm seventy five years old. I still hadn't been supersized. 466 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 5: There's still time for you. Moses was eighty when he 467 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,880 Speaker 5: started to deliver the Israelites. He didn't see the Red 468 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 5: Sea part those supernatural signs that God showed the Pharaoh 469 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 5: until much later in life. You wouldn't be alive unless 470 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 5: God had something amazing. 471 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 4: Up in front of you. Well, I don't want to 472 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 4: get my hopes up that way. If it doesn't happen, 473 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 4: I won't be disappointed. The problem with that approach is 474 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 4: if you don't get your hopes up, you will be disappointed. 475 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 5: You'll miss the exceeding greatness of God's favor that belongs 476 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 5: to you. I've seen this in my own life. God 477 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,479 Speaker 5: has taken me from behind the scenes all those years 478 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 5: and brought gifts out of me that I didn't know 479 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 5: I had, and put me in front of a lot 480 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 5: of people. 481 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 4: I can tell you first hand. 482 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 5: God knows how to supersize your life. It wasn't because 483 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 5: I have all this talent, experience ability. It's because I've 484 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 5: done my best to honor God, and I've dared to 485 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 5: believe what God has already decided for me. When my 486 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 5: dad went to be with the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, 487 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 5: I could hear God saying, Joel, step up, pastor the 488 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,239 Speaker 5: I didn't think I could do it. 489 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 4: Every voice said, you're making a mistake. 490 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 5: But deep down I knew that if God had decided it, 491 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 5: I wasn't going to go by what I felt, by 492 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 5: what I saw, by what people were telling me. I 493 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 5: simply chose to get in agreement with God, to believe 494 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 5: what he had already decided for me. That's when God 495 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 5: will supersize your life. That's when he'll take you places 496 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 5: that you've never dreamed. Friends, God has already made his decision. 497 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 5: He's already decided to bless you, to forgive you, to 498 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 5: take you further than you can imagine. 499 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 4: Now it's up to you. 500 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 5: What you decide will determine whether or not it happens. 501 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 5: I'm asking you to take the limits off of God, 502 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 5: quit making excuses. If you'll do this, I believe and 503 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 5: declare you're about to come in to those running over blessings. 504 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 5: God is going to supersize what you're believing for you 505 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,959 Speaker 5: may be expected the ordinary like that blind man, God's 506 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 5: going to do something out of the ordinary. He's going 507 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 5: to exceed your expectations. 508 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, If you receive. 509 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 5: It, can you say, man, today, we never like to 510 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 5: close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 511 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 5: Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 512 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 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