Speaker 1: No one likes to talk about money. Am I saving enough?
Speaker 1: Can I buy a house? Am I paying too much
Speaker 1: in taxes? Will I be able to retire? What if
Speaker 1: you could unlock insights about your finances in less than
Speaker 1: five minutes, with a clear picture of where you stand
Speaker 1: today and where your money can work harder. Now you
Speaker 1: can visit facet dot com to take the free quiz
Speaker 1: and get your financial wellness score today. That's Facet dot com.
Speaker 1: This ad is sponsored by Facet. Fast Wealth in Corporated
Speaker 1: is an sec registered investment advisor. This is not an
Speaker 1: offer to buy your self securities or is it investment,
Speaker 1: legal or tax advice.
Speaker 2: You're ready for a comeback, and with Purdue Global you
Speaker 2: can do more than take classes. You can take charge
Speaker 2: of your story, of your career, of your life, Earn
Speaker 2: a degree you can be proud of, and get an
Speaker 2: education employer's respect. It's time, your time, not just to
Speaker 2: go back to school, but to come back and move
Speaker 2: forward with Purdue Global, Purdue's online university for working adults.
Speaker 2: Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu.
Speaker 3: He'll forget about the video game you gave him on
Speaker 3: his birthday.
Speaker 4: Wow, thanks Grandpa.
Speaker 3: But He'll never forget how you invest it in his
Speaker 3: future with the units stapp. Wow, thanks Grandpa. The units
Speaker 3: stap makes it easy for grandparents and family friends to
Speaker 3: give funds to a child's investment account for a limited time.
Speaker 3: Download the uns stap and use the code I heeart
Speaker 3: fifty at sign up to receive a fifty dollars bonus
Speaker 3: when you fund your account. That's code iHeart fifty when
Speaker 3: you sign up at unest dot co for a fifty
Speaker 3: dollars bonus. See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. Hi.
Speaker 5: This is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for downloading our podcast.
Speaker 5: We enjoy spending this time with you. I hope you'll
Speaker 5: leave Inspire.
Speaker 6: Make sure you subscribe to get new messages every week.
Speaker 5: We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going.
Speaker 4: Enjoy the message.
Speaker 5: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into
Speaker 5: your homes and if you're ever in our area, please
Speaker 5: stop by and be a part of one of our services.
Speaker 5: These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas.
Speaker 5: Right you're at Lake for so come out when you can.
Speaker 5: But thanks for tuning in and thank you again for
Speaker 5: coming out. I like to start with something funny, and
Speaker 5: I heard about this senior citizen.
Speaker 7: He was driving down.
Speaker 5: The freeway in his brand new Corvette with the top down,
Speaker 5: going eighty miles an hour when he saw flashing lights
Speaker 5: from a state trooper behind him. Without thinking about it,
Speaker 5: he floored it took off to one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 5: The trooper flipped on his sirens. The men came to
Speaker 5: his senses and pulled over. He said, Officer, I am
Speaker 5: so sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. The
Speaker 5: state trooper said, listen, sir, it's Friday, four o'clock.
Speaker 7: My shift is over in thirty minutes.
Speaker 5: If you'll tell me a reason why you were speeding
Speaker 5: that I've never heard before, then I'll let you go.
Speaker 5: The men thought about it and said, Officer, years ago,
Speaker 5: my wife ran off with a state trooper, and I
Speaker 5: thought you were bringing her back.
Speaker 7: The officer said, have a great weekend.
Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my
Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 5: about it's not over. It's easy to give up on
Speaker 5: our dreams and think I'll never get well, I'll never
Speaker 5: meet the right person, never get out of this problem.
Speaker 7: It's been too long.
Speaker 5: I've missed too many opportunities. I've made too many mistakes.
Speaker 7: Now God is saying it's not over.
Speaker 5: Everything he promised you, every dream he's placed on the inside.
Speaker 5: He still has every intention of bringing it to pass.
Speaker 5: Your mind will tell you all the reasons why it's
Speaker 5: not going to happen. Just accept it. It's too late,
Speaker 5: it's not going to work out. But God has the
Speaker 5: final say, and he's saying, I'm still going to heal
Speaker 5: your body. I'm still going to bring the right person
Speaker 5: into your life. I'm still going to restore that marriage.
Speaker 5: What God started, he will finish. Couple I know tried.
Speaker 7: For seven years to have a baby.
Speaker 5: They went through all the fertility treatments without success. They
Speaker 5: were finally told no chance. That was one report, but
Speaker 5: God had another report. He said it's not over. One day,
Speaker 5: against all odds, the young lady got pregnant. Two years later,
Speaker 5: they brought their baby daughter right here for us to dedicate.
Speaker 5: What was that God finishing what he started. I met
Speaker 5: these parents in the lobby recently. They had their son
Speaker 5: with them. He looked to be in his early thirties.
Speaker 5: The mother told how they had been a strained for
Speaker 5: twelve years and not seen each other. Every day, this
Speaker 5: mother would pray month after month, year after year.
Speaker 7: Didn't look like it was doing any good.
Speaker 5: But about two weeks ago, unexpectedly, the sun knocked on
Speaker 5: the parents' front door.
Speaker 7: They reconciled.
Speaker 5: The first thing they wanted to do together was to
Speaker 5: come to church. The mother said, this is the happiest
Speaker 5: day of my life. Is there something that you've given
Speaker 5: up on you think is never going to work out?
Speaker 7: Let these words sink deep into your spirit. It's not over.
Speaker 5: God has not brought you this far to leave you.
Speaker 5: Just because you don't see a way doesn't mean God
Speaker 5: doesn't have a way.
Speaker 7: Right now, the most powerful force in.
Speaker 5: The universe is at work in your life.
Speaker 7: God is about to do a new thing. What you
Speaker 7: thought was dead.
Speaker 5: Dreams you've given up on, promises you've let go of,
Speaker 5: are about to come back to life. God knows how
Speaker 5: to resurrect dead dreams, that baby you were believing for,
Speaker 5: or that dream to own your own house, to get married.
Speaker 7: To start that business.
Speaker 5: You may think, well, it's too late, I've missed too
Speaker 5: many opportunities.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: You may have given up, but God didn't give up.
Speaker 5: He's about to breathe new life into your dreams, into
Speaker 5: your health, into your relationships. You're going to feel a stirring,
Speaker 5: a new passion, a new excitement. That's God resurrecting what
Speaker 5: he's placed on the inside. And when thoughts tell you
Speaker 5: that it's not going to happen, just answer them back.
Speaker 7: No, I know a secret. It's not over.
Speaker 5: When you're still single, Yes, but it's not over. The
Speaker 5: right person is coming. You're still not well, yes, but
Speaker 5: it's not over.
Speaker 7: Healing is headed my way.
Speaker 5: You're still in that small apartment, Yes, but it's not over.
Speaker 7: My new house is coming.
Speaker 5: Your child is still off course, Yes, but it's not over.
Speaker 7: As for me and my house, we will serve the
Speaker 7: Lord for God.
Speaker 5: To get in agreement with God, start dreaming again, start
Speaker 5: believing again, start expecting again. Gentlemen told me how his
Speaker 5: business had really gone down. He owned a manufacturing company.
Speaker 5: There was one main competitor in town. It was a
Speaker 5: national company. They were much larger and had a lot
Speaker 5: more resources. Several years ago, when the economy went down,
Speaker 5: it made it more and more difficult for him to
Speaker 5: stay open. In the natural it was just a matter
Speaker 5: of time before he would have to close. He was
Speaker 5: tempted to get discouraged, but he knew God put this
Speaker 5: dream in his heart. He kept being his best, believing
Speaker 5: that somehow God would make a way. Just when he
Speaker 5: thought he would have to close, this national company had
Speaker 5: a change in leadership and they decided to pull out
Speaker 5: of this market. Instead of him closing down, his main
Speaker 5: competitor closed down. Now he's breaking all kinds of records.
Speaker 5: He said, Joel, if if you would have told me
Speaker 5: last year that I would be doing three times the business,
Speaker 5: I would have said, that's impossible. What happened, God breathed
Speaker 5: in his direction. You may not be able to beat
Speaker 5: the competition.
Speaker 7: You don't know. God may remove the competition. He has all.
Speaker 5: Kinds of ways to get you to your destiny. And
Speaker 5: the scripture talks about the death, the burial, and the resurrection.
Speaker 5: If you're going to see a resurrection, you can't get
Speaker 5: stuck in the first two phases.
Speaker 7: This is where many people miss it.
Speaker 5: They have a set back, something doesn't work out, they
Speaker 5: get discouraged, quit believing. They end up stuck in the
Speaker 5: death phase, so to speak. I've seen people that go
Speaker 5: through a disappointment instead of letting it go knowing that
Speaker 5: God has something better, they get better.
Speaker 7: Well, my business got slow, didn't.
Speaker 5: Get the scholarship, the relationship didn't work out.
Speaker 7: That's why I'm discouraged.
Speaker 5: No, you've been through the death, You've been through the buryer.
Speaker 5: Don't stop there. Go on to phase three.
Speaker 7: You've got a resurrection coming.
Speaker 5: Start expecting God favor. God wants to give you beauty
Speaker 5: for those ashes. That setback was never meant to defeat you.
Speaker 5: It was meant to promote you. And it may be
Speaker 5: Friday in your life. Right now looks kind of dark.
Speaker 5: Business is slow, the medical report hasn't improved. My encouragement is,
Speaker 5: don't get stuck on Friday.
Speaker 7: Sunday is coming.
Speaker 5: Get ready for God to do something new. Your story
Speaker 5: does not end in defeat. It ends in victory, with
Speaker 5: you accomplishing your dreams, fulfilling your purpose, healthy hole, being
Speaker 5: a blessing to others, And if you will stay in faith.
Speaker 5: What was meant for your harm God will use to
Speaker 5: your advantage.
Speaker 7: God has the final say.
Speaker 5: People cannot stop God's plan for your life. Bad breaks
Speaker 5: can't stop it. Injustice can't stop. Even mistakes you've made
Speaker 5: don't have to stop it. God has already taken that
Speaker 5: into account, and he's saying it's not over.
Speaker 7: I'm going to finish what I started.
Speaker 5: We see this principle way back with the first family
Speaker 5: that ever lived, Adam and Eve.
Speaker 7: They were in the garden of Eden.
Speaker 5: They were happy and healthy, everything going great until Eve
Speaker 5: was deceived by the serpent. She convinced her husband Adam,
Speaker 5: to eat fruit from the forbidden tree. When they did,
Speaker 5: they immediately knew they had done wrong. They ran and hid.
Speaker 5: God came looking and said, Adam, where are you. They
Speaker 5: were afraid they had blown it. It was their fault.
Speaker 5: They thought, surely God's done with us. But it's interesting
Speaker 5: God came looking for them. You hear people say I
Speaker 5: found God. But the truth is God wasn't lost. He
Speaker 5: came looking for you before you could choose him.
Speaker 7: Here's the beauty.
Speaker 5: Even when we make mistakes, even when we blow it, God.
Speaker 7: Says, where are you? I want to be in relationship
Speaker 7: with you. Don't run away from God. Run to him.
Speaker 5: Adam said, God, we did wrong, we ate the fruit.
Speaker 5: God said, I know it. They had to stay out
Speaker 5: of the garden. The story could have ended there, too bad.
Speaker 5: You had your chance.
Speaker 7: It's over. But no matter what.
Speaker 5: You've done, your life is not supposed to end in defeat,
Speaker 5: in failure, in mediocrity.
Speaker 7: It's not over. There is mercy for every mistake. Genesis
Speaker 7: three says the seed.
Speaker 5: Of the woman will rise up and bruise the head
Speaker 5: of the serpent.
Speaker 7: God was saying, Eve, this.
Speaker 5: Serpent that tricked you, he deceived you and brought all
Speaker 5: this heartache and pain. I'm going to make him pay
Speaker 5: for bringing that trouble into your life.
Speaker 7: He's not going to have the last word. He's laughing.
Speaker 5: He's having a party now, but he's not going to
Speaker 5: stay laughing.
Speaker 4: Eve.
Speaker 7: This is your chance to settle the score. This is
Speaker 7: your chance to get even. I'm going to have your
Speaker 7: seed bruce his head.
Speaker 5: This was a prophecy if you will spoken over Eve,
Speaker 5: was a promise God put in her heart. You can
Speaker 5: imagine how excited Eve was when she learned that she
Speaker 5: was pregnant. She thought, this is the child that will
Speaker 5: vindicate me. This child will make things right. She gave
Speaker 5: birth to two sons on the same.
Speaker 7: Day, Cain and Abel. She didn't know which one it
Speaker 7: would be. Cain was a farmer.
Speaker 5: Abel was a shepherd, and she did her best to
Speaker 5: raise her boys ride and teach them to love God.
Speaker 5: But over time Cain became very jealous of Abel. One day,
Speaker 5: Cain was out in his field plowing the ground. Abel
Speaker 5: came to see him, and Cain ended up killing Abel,
Speaker 5: the first murder of the Bible. Because of this offense,
Speaker 5: Cain had to be sent.
Speaker 7: To another country.
Speaker 5: Eve didn't just lose one son, She lost both sons
Speaker 5: on the same day. The problem is Eve's circumstances don't
Speaker 5: match up with what God has spoken over her. God
Speaker 5: said the seed of a woman would bruise the serpent's head.
Speaker 5: Didn't look like it was going to happen. One son
Speaker 5: was dead, one was sent away. As devastated as Eve
Speaker 5: was down deep, something said to her.
Speaker 7: This is not the way your story is supposed to end.
Speaker 5: There are times in life where your circumstances won't match
Speaker 5: up with what God has put in your heart. Every
Speaker 5: voice will tell you it's not going to happen. Just
Speaker 5: accept it, Just settle there. You'll always be lonely, you'll
Speaker 5: always have that addiction, you'll always struggle in your finances. No,
Speaker 5: don't believe those lies. That is not the end of
Speaker 5: your story.
Speaker 7: You may have gone.
Speaker 5: Through a loss, had a bad break, it was unfair,
Speaker 5: but know this, it's not over. The enemy may be
Speaker 5: laughing now, but don't worry.
Speaker 7: Your time is coming.
Speaker 5: Vindication is coming, Restoration is coming, healing is coming. It
Speaker 5: may be Friday, but Sunday is on the way. Eve
Speaker 5: is at this turning point. Is she going to believe
Speaker 5: what God has spoken over her? Or is she going
Speaker 5: to get discouraged and settle. God said the promise would
Speaker 5: come through her seed. That means she would have to
Speaker 5: get pregnant again. If your children just got into an
Speaker 5: argument and one killed the other, do you know how
Speaker 5: difficult it would be to have a baby. Sometimes in
Speaker 5: order to move forward, you have to risk being hurt again,
Speaker 5: risk loving again, risk trusting again. This is what Eve did.
Speaker 5: She became pregnant. She said in Genesis four twenty five,
Speaker 5: God has appointed me another seed. She was saying, I've
Speaker 5: had the wind knocked out of me. Life hasn't turned
Speaker 5: out my way. But I'm not going to stay down.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to get bitter. I'm not going to
Speaker 5: give up on my dreams. I know God has the
Speaker 5: final say, and it's not over. He said, He's appointed
Speaker 5: another seed. In your difficult times, when life doesn't turn
Speaker 5: out your way, you have to remind yourself that is
Speaker 5: not the end. For everything you've lost, for everything that
Speaker 5: is taken, God has already.
Speaker 7: Appointed another seed.
Speaker 5: Your story is not going to end in defeat, in.
Speaker 7: Failure, in mediocrity.
Speaker 5: It's going to end with you bruising the serpent's head.
Speaker 5: It's going to end with God paying you back for
Speaker 5: that trouble, bringing you out better off than you were before.
Speaker 5: You may be at an empty place right now. You've
Speaker 5: lost something. You're tempted to settle, but you've got to
Speaker 5: get your fire back. God has appointed another seed, another dream, another.
Speaker 7: Relationship, another opportunity.
Speaker 5: You are not going to die empty lonely depressed. That
Speaker 5: difficulty is a sure sign that something.
Speaker 7: Amazing is in your future.
Speaker 5: And Eve ended up giving birth to another son. They
Speaker 5: named him Seth. It was through Seth's family line that Jesus, Christ,
Speaker 5: the Messiah, came.
Speaker 7: The promise was fulfilled.
Speaker 5: This story with Cain and Abel is foreshadowing what Christ
Speaker 5: would do.
Speaker 7: It's a picture of what was to come.
Speaker 5: Abel, an innocent man, went to Cain's field where he
Speaker 5: was killed in the same way Jesus, an innocent man,
Speaker 5: left Heaven. He left eternity where he had already kicked
Speaker 5: Satan out, and he said, Satan, I'm going to take
Speaker 5: off all my majesty, all my glory, and I'm going
Speaker 5: to come down as the son of man and defeat you.
Speaker 7: On your own turf.
Speaker 5: When Cain killed Abel, Abel was a young man. It
Speaker 5: was a premature death, the first in the scripture. All
Speaker 5: of Heaven was stunned. At thirty three years of age. Jesus,
Speaker 5: a young man, was crucified on the cross.
Speaker 7: All of Hell cheered.
Speaker 5: They thought Jesus had overstepped his bounds. They were thinking, hey,
Speaker 5: he beat us on his turf. But we had the
Speaker 5: last laugh. We beat him on our turf. Scripture says
Speaker 5: God came to Cain and said, Cain, the voice of
Speaker 5: your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.
Speaker 7: See.
Speaker 5: Cain thought that he had finished off his brother. He
Speaker 5: thought that he had the last word. He didn't realize
Speaker 5: that the blood of his brother was crying out for justice.
Speaker 5: In other words, he may have killed his body, but
Speaker 5: his blood was still speaking. Little over two thousand years ago,
Speaker 5: the soldiers crucified Jesus. Satan thought that it was over,
Speaker 5: that he had finally finished him off. But what he
Speaker 5: didn't realize is that Jesus' blood would still be speaking today.
Speaker 5: They killed his body, but the blood speaks. The blood
Speaker 5: says we're redeemed. The blood says we're forgiven.
Speaker 7: The blood is more powerful than any sickness. The blood
Speaker 7: is greater than any opposition.
Speaker 5: Satan and all the demons, we're having this big party,
Speaker 5: giving high fives, confetti coming down, champagne flowing. But in
Speaker 5: the midst of the celebration they see this figure coming
Speaker 5: from a distance.
Speaker 7: They don't know who he is. They take a quick count,
Speaker 7: and they're all accounted for it. This person is different.
Speaker 5: His eyes are like fire, his hair as white as wool,
Speaker 5: his face radiating with such brilliance they have to turn away.
Speaker 5: He gets a little closer, and one of them.
Speaker 7: Says, uh, oh, it's him.
Speaker 5: Their heart skips a beat they shrink back in fear.
Speaker 7: Just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, the
Speaker 7: music kicks in.
Speaker 5: This is my version. They thought they had killed Jesus.
Speaker 5: They thought they had finished him off once and for all.
Speaker 5: But Jesus said, hey, put the celebration on hold. Stop
Speaker 5: the confetti, blow out the candles. I've got an announcement
Speaker 5: to make.
Speaker 7: It's not over.
Speaker 5: I'm still alive, Jesus. Jesus was the original party crasher.
Speaker 5: He went in, defeated the enemy, took away the keys
Speaker 5: of death in hell. He drugged Satan through the corridors
Speaker 5: so all the forces of darkness could see him. Dethroned, demoralized, powerless,
Speaker 5: Jesus rose up and said, I.
Speaker 7: Am he that lives.
Speaker 5: I was dead, but I'm alive forevermore So, if he lives,
Speaker 5: we can live. The same power that raised him up
Speaker 5: is on the inside of you and me. You are
Speaker 5: not weak, You are not lacking.
Speaker 7: You are full of resurrection power.
Speaker 5: No obstacles too big for you, no dream too great,
Speaker 5: no sickness too powerful.
Speaker 7: You have the greatest force in the universe on the inside.
Speaker 7: And when it.
Speaker 5: Doesn't look good, thoughts start telling you that it's over.
Speaker 5: Just put your shoulders back, get a second wind by faith.
Speaker 7: Here that music kicking in.
Speaker 5: That means God is fighting for you. That's his blood
Speaker 5: still speaking. It's saying you've got a right to be free.
Speaker 5: You've got a right to live healthy, whole, blessed, victorious.
Speaker 5: No matter what comes your way in life, you gotta
Speaker 5: have this attitude.
Speaker 7: It's not over.
Speaker 5: The enemy may hit you with his best shot, but
Speaker 5: his best will never be enough.
Speaker 7: When it's all said and done, you'll still be sand
Speaker 7: and strong and just as Abel's blood out for justice.
Speaker 5: When somebody does you wrong, you go through a bad break,
Speaker 5: you're dealing with the sickness. You have an advantage because
Speaker 5: you're a child of the most High. His blood is
Speaker 5: crying out for you. What you're going through does not
Speaker 5: go unnoticed. God sees every tear, every lonely night, every injustice.
Speaker 7: He's got you in the palm of his hand.
Speaker 5: He told the Israelites when they were in slavery, I
Speaker 5: have seen the affliction of my people. I've seen how
Speaker 5: they're being mistreated, and I am coming down to do
Speaker 5: something about it.
Speaker 7: That's the blood still speaking.
Speaker 5: And if you will stay in faith, the enemy won't
Speaker 5: have the last laugh.
Speaker 7: You will.
Speaker 5: God will vindicate you, He'll make your wrongs right. He'll
Speaker 5: pay you back for that injustice. God has already lined
Speaker 5: up a comeback for every setback, a new beginning for
Speaker 5: every loss. It may be Friday, but get ready, Sunday
Speaker 5: is coming. I met a young man in Chicago by
Speaker 5: the name of Daniel. Growing up, he loved to play
Speaker 5: outside with his friends and ride his bike. Life was good,
Speaker 5: but at the age of twelve, everything suddenly changed. He
Speaker 5: was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with an aggressive
Speaker 5: brain tumor. The doctors performed emergency surgery to spare his life,
Speaker 5: but when he woke up, he had lost all of
Speaker 5: his motor skills. Couldn't walk, couldn't talk, couldn't feed himself.
Speaker 5: Half of his body was paralyzed. Here one moment, he
Speaker 5: was out having fun, playing like other kids. The next moment,
Speaker 5: his whole world had collapsed. It was Friday. Looked dark,
Speaker 5: looked like it was over. Daniel spent one hundred days
Speaker 5: in the hospital. In the months to come, he would
Speaker 5: have to relearn how to talk, relearn how to walk.
Speaker 5: His mother had to quit her job to take care
Speaker 5: of him. His father missed three months from work. The
Speaker 5: chemotherapy and radiation were constantly making him sick. Life through
Speaker 5: him a curve. Could have gotten depressed, could have gotten
Speaker 5: bitter and given up.
Speaker 7: But not Daniel.
Speaker 5: From the time he was five years old, every Sunday morning,
Speaker 5: he and his family would watch our television broadcast there
Speaker 5: in Chicago.
Speaker 7: All through the week he would put on DVDs of
Speaker 7: my messages.
Speaker 5: He would hear these words of faith going into him.
Speaker 5: You're a victor, not a victim. You can do all
Speaker 5: things through Christ. No weapon formed against you will prosper.
Speaker 5: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy is coming.
Speaker 5: Daniel never knew one day what kind of battle he
Speaker 5: would have to fight. He would send me notes thanking
Speaker 5: me for my messages, and he'd draw pictures and put
Speaker 5: my sayings on. And this is the most recent card
Speaker 5: I've received to him. It's a beautiful picture of a church.
Speaker 7: It says thank you.
Speaker 5: On the inside, he writes, I have fought the good fight.
Speaker 5: Now I'm happy to report I am one hundred percent cancer.
Speaker 5: Fred Daniel rive here on the front road with him family,
Speaker 5: A mighty man of faith.
Speaker 7: God bless you, please be seated.
Speaker 5: Maybe today like Daniel, you're facing a major obstacle. Let
Speaker 5: me tell you nothing is too hard for our God.
Speaker 5: He made your body. He can correct what's wrong. Don't
Speaker 5: believe those lies that you'll never get healthy. Just learn
Speaker 5: to live with it. That's one report, But there's another report.
Speaker 5: It says God is restoring health back in the un
Speaker 5: says that you will live and not die. God has
Speaker 5: the final say, and he's saying it's not over. I
Speaker 5: watched the clip of a college football game. The Stanford
Speaker 5: Cardinals were playing the California Bears, and Stanford had just
Speaker 5: scored a field goal. They were ahead with four seconds
Speaker 5: to go in the game. All they had to do
Speaker 5: is kick the ball off to the other team, tackle
Speaker 5: the player, and the game would be over. Well, they
Speaker 5: kicked it off. The California player caught the ball, ran
Speaker 5: about twenty yards, and he was swarmed by Stanford players.
Speaker 7: Looked like he was down.
Speaker 5: The Stanford marching band rushed onto the field to celebrate
Speaker 5: the victory, so excited. What they didn't realize is just
Speaker 5: before he was down, somehow he lateraled the ball to
Speaker 5: a teammate.
Speaker 7: And he took off running.
Speaker 5: When he was almost down, he lateraled it to another teammate.
Speaker 7: This happened six times.
Speaker 5: It looks like a play you'd see in your backyard
Speaker 5: playing football. But after that sixth lateral, the California player
Speaker 5: was headed to the end zone. The only problem is
Speaker 5: the whole Stanford band was on the field. He had
Speaker 5: to zigzag through the band members, through the instruments, finally
Speaker 5: made it into the end zone to score a touchdown
Speaker 5: and miraculously win the game.
Speaker 7: What's my point?
Speaker 5: Sometimes the enemy will send his band on your field
Speaker 5: before the game is over. He'll start celebrating like he's
Speaker 5: all read that he defeated you. What he doesn't realize
Speaker 5: is you're not down yet. You need to tell him
Speaker 5: get your marching band off of my field.
Speaker 7: This game is not over.
Speaker 5: You may think I'm down, but I've got resurrection power. Listen,
Speaker 5: there is a force in you that cannot be defeated.
Speaker 5: It raised Christ from the dead, and it will always
Speaker 5: cause you to triumph.
Speaker 7: This is what Job had to do. In the scripture.
Speaker 5: He went through a period where everything that could go
Speaker 5: wrong did. He lost his health, his business, his family.
Speaker 5: It looked like it was over. The marching band was
Speaker 5: definitely on his field, but in the midst of that difficulty,
Speaker 5: he looked up to the heavens and said, I know
Speaker 5: my redeemer lives. He was saying, I know God's in control.
Speaker 5: As long as he's on the throne, it's not over.
Speaker 7: He has the final saying.
Speaker 5: Nine months later, Jobe not only came out, but he
Speaker 5: came out with twice what he had before.
Speaker 7: That's the way God is.
Speaker 5: He'll make the enemy pay for bringing that trouble. The
Speaker 5: scripture says, the latter part of Job's life was more
Speaker 5: blessed than the first part. No matter what you've been through,
Speaker 5: God wants the rest of your life to be more blessed,
Speaker 5: more rewarding, more enjoyable than anything you've experienced. You have
Speaker 5: not laughed your best laugh, you have not dreamed your
Speaker 5: best dream, you have not sung your best song.
Speaker 7: It's still out in front of you.
Speaker 5: Isaiah put it this way, because you've got a double
Speaker 5: dose of trouble, your inheritance in the land will be double,
Speaker 5: and your joy will go on forever. You may feel
Speaker 5: like Daniel, like Job, you've got a double dose of trouble.
Speaker 5: Don't go around complaining that trouble qualified you for double
Speaker 5: shake off. What didn't work out and get ready for
Speaker 5: a double dose of favors of God's blessing, a double
Speaker 5: dose of healing.
Speaker 7: Friends.
Speaker 5: It's not over what God promised you He will bring
Speaker 5: to pass. When thoughts tell you otherwise, dismiss them. Tell
Speaker 5: the enemy get his marching band off of your field.
Speaker 5: Remember the blood is still speaking for you. It's saying
Speaker 5: you have a right to be free, to be healthy,
Speaker 5: to live victoriously.
Speaker 7: If you will have this, it's not over attitude.
Speaker 5: I believe and declare, just like God did for Daniel.
Speaker 5: He will restore what's been stolen. He's going to resurrect
Speaker 5: dead dreams. You will rise higher, overcome obstacles, and become
Speaker 5: everything He's created you to be in Jesus' name. If
Speaker 5: you receive it, can you say, men today, we never
Speaker 5: like to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity
Speaker 5: to make Jesus the lord of your life.
Speaker 7: Would you pray with me?
Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.
Speaker 7: Come into my heart. I make you my lord and
Speaker 7: save you.
Speaker 5: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
Speaker 5: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep
Speaker 5: God first place.
Speaker 7: He's going to take you places that you've never dreamed of.
Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the Joelustine podcast. Help us
Speaker 6: continue to share the message of hope with those all
Speaker 6: over the world. Visit Jolostin dot com slash give Hope
Speaker 6: to give a gift today.
Speaker 7: Thanks so much for listening to today's message.
Speaker 5: I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest
Speaker 5: podcast to keep you inspired all through the week.
Speaker 7: We're praying for you. I know God's best is still ahead.
Speaker 7: We'll see you next time.
Speaker 8: More than ever before, people are turning to the church
Speaker 8: for their mental health struggles. Unfortunately, the church has largely
Speaker 8: been ill equipped to help. That is until now. Join
Speaker 8: nearly fifty thousand people just like you who've enrolled in
Speaker 8: the Mental Health Coach training program and become equipped to
Speaker 8: help for a limited time. Apply for a full tuition
Speaker 8: scholarship and only pay a one time tech fee of
Speaker 8: fifty four dollars if accepted. Apply now at mentalhealth Coach
Speaker 8: dot org. That's mentalhealthcoach dot org.
Speaker 9: Be a barbecue Hero with delicious ultralow netcar Hero bread
Speaker 9: buns and tortillas, soft and fluffy, high in fiber, and
Speaker 9: with zero grams of sugar and up to ten grams
Speaker 9: of protein, coming in at under one hundred calories per serving.
Speaker 9: Oh and did I mention they taste like their mouthwatering
Speaker 9: traditional versions. It's enough to have the neighbors asking for seconds.
Speaker 9: Use code ih M ten for ten percent off your
Speaker 9: first hero Bread purchase at hero dot co. That's I
Speaker 9: eight M ten for ten percent off at hero dot co.
Speaker 9: Summer is here and our sleep is just as important
Speaker 9: as our weekend plans. So get the sleep you deserve
Speaker 9: with Lisa for a limited time, save up to seven
Speaker 9: hundred dollars off select mattresses plus two free pillows during
Speaker 9: our summer sale. Check out our hybrid mattress designed to
Speaker 9: keep you cool during those hot summer nights. Lisa also
Speaker 9: offers free shipping and a risk free one hundred night trial.
Speaker 8: Get the sleep you deserve.
Speaker 9: Shop our summer sale now and save up to seven
Speaker 9: hundred dollars off select mattresses plus two free pillows at
Speaker 9: Lisa dot com. That's l e e s a dot
Speaker 9: com exclusion supply. Visit Lisa dot com for details