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Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 37 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 5: Even though the circumstances may change, the source never changes. 38 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 2: Because you're connected to that source. 39 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 5: You will be blessed in the family. You will increase 40 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 5: when others are decreasing. All through the day, Lord, I recognize. 41 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 2: You're the source of my life. Hi, this is Joel 42 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 2: and Victoria. 43 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 44 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 5: the ministry. 45 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 46 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: blessing and share it with a friend. 47 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 48 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:08,239 Speaker 2: your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 49 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: come into your homes. 50 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 5: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by 51 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 5: and be a part of one of our services. These 52 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 5: are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas. 53 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 2: Right here at Lakewood. We'd love to have you be 54 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 2: a part. But thanks for tuning in. 55 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 56 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 5: about this lady that died and she was at the 57 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 5: Pearly Gates. Saint Peter said, you can't come in yet. 58 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 5: You have to correctly spell a word. She said what word? 59 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,399 Speaker 5: He said, any word? So she spelled the word love, 60 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 5: l ovee. Peter said, welcome to Heaven. Then Peter asked 61 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 5: her if she would take his place for a moment. 62 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 5: He instructed her that if anyone came, just to follow 63 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 5: the same procedure. In a few moments, she sees her 64 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 5: ex husband walking up. 65 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 2: She can't believe it. 66 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 5: She said, what are you doing here? He said, I 67 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 5: just had a heart attack. Did I really make it 68 00:02:58,919 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 5: to Heaven? 69 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 2: She said not yet. You have to correctly spell a word. 70 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 2: He said what word? 71 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 5: There was a long pause, and she said Czechoslovakia, sayn 72 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 5: like you mean it. 73 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 74 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. 75 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 5: I can do what it says I can do. Today 76 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 77 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 78 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 79 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about God is 80 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 5: your source. It's easy to look to people as our source, 81 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 5: or look to our job as our source. And yes, 82 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 5: God uses people, he uses jobs, he uses contracts, but 83 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 5: they are not the source. They are simply a resource 84 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 5: that the source uses. And if you're seeing other things, 85 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 5: then God is your source. The problem is if something 86 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 5: happens to them, you'll think what am I going to do? 87 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: The source has been cut off. No, the source is 88 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: just fine. God is still on the throne. 89 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 5: The scripture says that every good gift comes from our 90 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 5: father in heaven above. That good gift may come through people, 91 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 5: but it came from God. Your salary may come through 92 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 5: your company, but it came from your heavenly father. He's 93 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 5: the one that caused them to hire you. He's the 94 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 5: one that caused you to stand out. He's using them 95 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 5: as a resource. Or that contract may come through a friend, 96 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 5: through a connection, but it came from God. That's why 97 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 5: you don't have to play up to people, compromise to 98 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:45,559 Speaker 5: get a good break. 99 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: People are not your provider. God is your provider. 100 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 5: That job is simply the resource God chose to bless you. 101 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 5: If you don't understand this. 102 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 2: You can make people your God. 103 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 5: Well, if this super advisor doesn't like me, if this 104 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 5: contract doesn't last, if these clients are not good to me, 105 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 5: how am I going to make it? 106 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 2: Take people off the throne. 107 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 5: People are not your source. God is your source. And yes, 108 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 5: it's good when people are nice to you. It's nice 109 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 5: when they recognize your value. But don't become so dependent 110 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 5: on them that you start seeing them as your provider. 111 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 5: Behind the resource is the source, behind the salary, behind 112 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,280 Speaker 5: the opportunity, behind the favor. 113 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 2: Is the most tied. 114 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 5: God causing people to be good to you, causing doors 115 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 5: to open, causing clients. 116 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: To seek you out. 117 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 5: Be grateful for the resource, but keep your eyes on 118 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 5: the source. When Peter didn't have money to pay his taxes, 119 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 5: Jesus told him to go to the lake and catch 120 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 5: a fish. The first fish he caught had a gold 121 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 5: coin in it, enough to pay his taxes. God was 122 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 5: showing us how he can use different resources. If a 123 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 5: contract at work comes to an end, looks like you're 124 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 5: going to be set back. Don't be discouraged. God has 125 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 5: another fish. He has ways that we've never thought of. 126 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 5: As long as you're keeping him first place. You are 127 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 5: connected to a supply line that will never run dry. 128 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 2: You are not at the mercy of the economy or 129 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 2: your boss or who likes you. God has all kinds 130 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 2: of resources he can use. 131 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 5: I talked to a man after thirty two years, the 132 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 5: company he worked for was sold. He was without a job, 133 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 5: and he was so discouraged. He never dreamed at his 134 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 5: age he would have to be starting over. I told 135 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 5: him what I'm telling you. That job was simply the 136 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 5: resource that God chose to bless you. 137 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 2: It is not the source. 138 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 5: The source is fine. I saw him about six months later, 139 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 5: and he was so happy. He said, Joel, I not 140 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 5: only got another job, I got my dream job, had 141 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 5: better benefits, better income, closer to his house. When the 142 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 5: door closes, you go through a setback. You have to 143 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 5: remind yourself. It's not the resource blessing you, it's the source. 144 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 5: The scripture says, you will prosper even in the desert. 145 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: Your lief will not wither. Even in famine, you will 146 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 2: have more than enough. 147 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 5: It's showing us that even though the circumstances may change, 148 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 5: the source never changes. Because you're connected to that source, 149 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 5: you will be blessed. 150 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 2: In the famine. You will increase when others are decreasing. 151 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 5: All through the day, Lord, I recognize you're the source 152 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 5: of my life. Yes, this job gives me a paycheck, 153 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 5: but you're the source of the income. Yes, this company 154 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 5: gave me a good position, but you're the source of 155 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 5: the favor. In the Scripture of Ruth and her mother 156 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 5: in law were both widows. They were very poor, struggling 157 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 5: to survive. Ruth would go out into the fields each 158 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 5: morning and pick up the leftover wheat that the workers 159 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 5: had missed. One day, the owner of the field, a 160 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 5: man named Boaz, noticed Ruth, and for some reason he 161 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 5: decided to be good to her. He told his workers 162 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 5: to leave handfuls of wheat on purpose for Ruth. Eventually 163 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 5: Ruth found out it was him. I could hear her 164 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 5: telling her mother in law. This man Boaz, this owner. 165 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 2: He's being so good to me, He's leaving me so much. 166 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 5: Wheat Ruth thought it was Boaz being good to her, 167 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 5: The truth is it was God being good to her. 168 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: Boaz was the resource, but God was the source. 169 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 5: God was the one speaking to bo Az, giving him 170 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 5: that desire to be good to her. 171 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: How many times has God spoken to people to be 172 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 2: good to us and we didn't even know it? For 173 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 2: no reason. They decided to help us. 174 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 5: They opened the door, They gave us a position, They 175 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 5: introduced us to a friend. They were a resource that 176 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 5: the Source was using. The longer I live, the more 177 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 5: I recognized God's goodness in my life. Things that I 178 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 5: thought were a coincidence, I thought were people just wanting 179 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 5: to be good to me. 180 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 2: I realize now it was the source. 181 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 5: Doors that opened that you couldn't open. Somebody decided to 182 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 5: give you a good break. You were at the right 183 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 5: place at the right time, met that person and fell 184 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 5: in love. 185 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 2: That wasn't a coincidence. That was the source. That person 186 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 2: that put in a good word for you. You got 187 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 2: the promotion. You weren't lucky. That was God speaking to. 188 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 5: Them like he spoke to Boaz, every good thing comes 189 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 5: from our Father above. They may not have even known 190 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 5: it was God speaking to them. They just suddenly had 191 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 5: a desire to be good to you, to stay laid, 192 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 5: and introduce you to the client, to waive the policy 193 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 5: and put the loan through. Are you recognizing the source? 194 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 5: Are you thanking God for. 195 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 2: Every good gift? 196 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 5: Do you realize you wouldn't have waken up this morning 197 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 5: without the source. You wouldn't have air to breathe without 198 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 5: the source. Your eyes wouldn't see without the source. You 199 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 5: wouldn't have that person to love without the Source. Don't 200 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 5: get so caught up in the resources that you forget 201 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 5: it's the most tied God working in your life. It's 202 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 5: God protecting you from that accident. It was God healing 203 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 5: you from the cancer, not just the medicine. 204 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 2: It was the Source. When you look back over your life, 205 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: nothing was a coincidence. There were no lucky breaks. 206 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 5: What you thought was just Boaz being good to you, 207 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 5: leaving you handfuls on purpose. That was the hand of God, 208 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 5: the Source working behind this scenes, telling them to be 209 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 5: good to you. When we were trying to acquire this facility, 210 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 5: the former Compact Center, it was owned by the city, 211 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 5: so we had to get the city council members to 212 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 5: vote to approve it. 213 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:15,560 Speaker 2: I had never been. 214 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 5: Involved in any kind of politics and convincing council members. 215 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 2: This was way out of my expertise. 216 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 5: Someone randomly introduced us to a man that had been 217 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 5: in city politics his whole life. He had worked for 218 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 5: different mayors for many years. He wasn't the typical white 219 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 5: collar professional that you might envision. 220 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: He was kind of rough. He liked to party, he liked. 221 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 5: To drink, didn't always use good language. But for some reason, 222 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 5: he really liked us. He really wanted us to get 223 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 5: the building. He went overboard to make things happen. He 224 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 5: used his favor his influence to sway people. Early on, 225 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 5: there was a council member that was against us. He said, 226 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 5: don't worry, he'll vote for us. 227 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 2: He owes me. I didn't ask for any details. I 228 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 2: just said, thank you Jesus here. 229 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 5: This man had not been in church his whole life, 230 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 5: but he was doing all he could to help Lakewood 231 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 5: get the building. I realize now that wasn't just him 232 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 5: deciding to help us, him just deciding to do a 233 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 5: good deed. 234 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 2: He was a resource that the source was using. 235 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 5: He may not have even known that was God speaking 236 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 5: to him. After we got the building, he came to 237 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 5: a service. Years later, he was being interviewed about the 238 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 5: process and about why he had helped us. 239 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 2: He said, I don't go to church. I went to 240 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 2: Lakewood one time, and I don't like the circus. He 241 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 2: referred to us as the circus. 242 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,719 Speaker 5: And yes, our services are fun and exciting, and in 243 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:55,959 Speaker 5: a few minutes, the elephants will be coming out, and 244 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 5: at the end, Victoria is going to walk the high wire. 245 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 5: Followed Baba brother Paul being shot out of a cannon. 246 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 2: So stay for that. None of that bothered me. But 247 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 2: he went on to save And I'm not telling you 248 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:11,840 Speaker 2: this to brag on me. Just to make the point. 249 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 5: He said, I help them because I've never met anyone 250 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 5: like Joel. 251 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 2: I would walk through a fire for that man. I 252 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 2: would love to think that I'm that charming, I'm that dynamic. 253 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 2: Can I tell you I'm not. I hardly even knew him. 254 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 2: That was the source. 255 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 5: That was God putting the right people in our path, 256 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 5: causing them to want. 257 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 2: To be good. 258 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 5: To Second King's chapter four, there's a story about a lady. 259 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 5: She and her husband were friends with the Prophet Elisha, 260 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 5: but the husband had died. 261 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 2: Years had passed. 262 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 5: Now this lady didn't have any money to pay her bills. 263 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 5: It was so bad the creditors were coming to take 264 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 5: her two sons as payment. You can imagine how distraught 265 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,959 Speaker 5: she was. The Prophet Elisha came by and ask what 266 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 5: she had in her house. Her first answer was nothing 267 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 5: at all. She was saying, Elisha, I'm done. It's too late. 268 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 5: The odds are against me. Sometimes when we look at 269 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 5: what we have compared to what we need, we think, 270 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 5: like her, I'll never accomplish my dreams. 271 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 2: I don't have what I need. 272 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 5: I'll never get well, I'll never get out of debt. 273 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 5: We look at the circumstances, at the resources, the medical report, 274 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 5: the bank account. Here's the key. The resource may have 275 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 5: dried up, but the source. 276 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 2: Is still alive and well. 277 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 5: She finally said, Elisha, I do have one thing in 278 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 5: my house, but really it's nothing, just a little bottle 279 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,440 Speaker 5: of olive oil. 280 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: She thought, it's really not worth mentioning. I have this 281 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 2: huge debt. 282 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 5: All I have is something worth a few dollars. Don't 283 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 5: discount the small things you have. Don't discount small opportunities, 284 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 5: small gifts, small income may seem small to you, but 285 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 5: God knows. 286 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 2: How to multiply. 287 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 5: The scripture says, if you have faith the size of 288 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 5: a mustard seed, that's one of the smallest seeds. You 289 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 5: could say to this mountain, be removed, and it will move. 290 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 5: God doesn't expect us to have great faith all the time. 291 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 5: It's nice when we do. But God is so merciful 292 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 5: He knew there would be times like this. Lady, we 293 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 5: would think this is impossible. 294 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 2: If you'll just say, God, all I have is this 295 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 2: little bit of oil, All I have is mustard seed faith, 296 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 2: watch what God will do. 297 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 5: Elisha told her to go out and borrow as many 298 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 5: large containers as she could find. 299 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 2: I can see this lady knocking. 300 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 5: On door after door carrying those empty containers back to 301 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 5: her house. 302 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 2: Don't you know God saw her faith. God saw her 303 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 2: being obedient doing what she could. 304 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 5: When you're in difficult times, don't sit around in self pity. 305 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 5: Do something where God can see your faith. Make plans 306 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 5: to get well, make plans to come out of death. 307 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 5: Are you gathering up any containers? 308 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 2: Are you taking steps of faith to show God that 309 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 2: you're ready for favor. 310 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 5: Neighbors started asking, why do you even need these empty containers. 311 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 5: You don't have anything to put in it, just a 312 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 5: little bit of olive oil. 313 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 2: She answered, I may not have it yet, but I 314 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 2: know it's on the way. 315 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 5: I know the prophet wouldn't have asked me to do 316 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 5: it if God wasn't up to something. 317 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 2: Faith started to rise in her heart. 318 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 5: All the circumstances were against her, friends trying to talk 319 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 5: her out of it, her own thoughts telling her no way. 320 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 5: Her attitude was, I may not see how this can happen, 321 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 5: but I know a secret. 322 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 2: God is my source. 323 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 5: He's my provider. I'm connected to that supply line that 324 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 5: won't run dry. Lysia said to her poor the little 325 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 5: bit of oil into the first container, That didn't make sense. 326 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 5: What good was it going to do to transfer oil 327 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 5: from one container to the other. What God asked us 328 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 5: to do many times is more about the obedience than 329 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 5: the actual thing that we're doing. 330 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 2: It's a test. If you'll obey, you'll see God's favor. 331 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 5: In the scripture, Naeman was an army captain, but he 332 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 5: had leprosy. 333 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 2: God told him to go wash in the Jordan rivers 334 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 2: seven times and he would be healed. Naeman didn't want 335 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 2: to do that. 336 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 5: He came up with all these excuses, God, the water's 337 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 5: too dirty, we have better rivers back at home, on 338 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 5: and on. 339 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 2: He almost talked. 340 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 5: Himself out of it. The last moment he decided to 341 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 5: do it. When he came up the seventh time, his skin. 342 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 2: Was perfectly normal. The healing wasn't in the water. 343 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 5: The healing was in the obedience. Are you doing what 344 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 5: God is asking you to do? Are you gathering the can? 345 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 5: Are you pouring the oil? This lady could have said, Elisha, 346 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna do that. It's gonna be a waste 347 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 5: of time. 348 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,400 Speaker 2: She would have missed her miracle. 349 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 5: When she poured the little oil into the first container, 350 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 5: the oil never stopped flowing. She filled the first one up, 351 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 5: then the second, then the third. That doesn't make sense. 352 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 5: Where was the oil coming from the source. When you 353 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 5: do what God asked you to do, that doesn't make sense. 354 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 5: God will do things for you that don't make sense. 355 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 5: He'll show out in your life. This lady kept pouring 356 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 5: oil until all the containers were full. Then she went 357 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 5: out and sold it. She was able to pay all 358 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 5: of her bills. She had plenty left over to live on. 359 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 5: That little bit of oil should have run out, But 360 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 5: God has supernatural provision. 361 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 2: He knows how to not only sustain you, but to 362 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 2: increase you to. 363 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:00,159 Speaker 5: Where you defied the odds. You may have area is 364 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 5: in your life that are dry now. You haven't seen 365 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 5: much good breaks, seen any favor, any increase. 366 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 2: Seems like it's permanent. No, get ready. The flow is coming. 367 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 2: God is about to do something unusual. 368 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 5: You couldn't have made it happen. The odds were against you. 369 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 5: But the Source is going to send a supernatural flow. 370 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 5: It may look like your dream has died up. Fever 371 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 5: is about to flow, Finances are about to flow. Good 372 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 5: breaks are about to flow. The right people are going 373 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 5: to flow. You're not going to have to find them, 374 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 5: They're going to find you. The medical report may not 375 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 5: look good. You feel stuck in your health. Receive this 376 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:48,360 Speaker 5: into your spirit. Healing is flowing, restoration is flowing, Strength 377 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 5: is flowing. You haven't been able to get ahead in 378 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 5: your career. People have held you back, left you out. 379 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 5: Don't get discouraged. 380 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 2: The flow is coming. 381 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 5: Promotion is going to to flow, Ideas are about to flow. 382 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,439 Speaker 5: Creativity is going to flow. Everything that has stopped your flow. 383 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 5: I believe right now those forces have been broken. You 384 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 5: are coming into supernatural provision, supernatural healing, supernatural connections. You've 385 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 5: heard the saying it's showtime. God is saying it's flow time. 386 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 5: He's about to open the windows of heaven pour our 387 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 5: blessings that you could not contain. One touch of God's 388 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 5: favor will take you from famine to flourishing, from barely 389 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 5: enough to more than enough. 390 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,359 Speaker 2: Now get in agreement with God. Father. Thank you that 391 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 2: this job is not my source, but you are my source. Lord. 392 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 2: I'm grateful for the medicine, but I know you're my healer. Lord. 393 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: I don't see how I can accomplish my dreams, but 394 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 2: I know you have a way where I don't see away. 395 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 5: I talk to a couple that wanted to buy a 396 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 5: house in another state, and they were looking in this 397 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 5: particular neighborhood. They had found this one house that they 398 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 5: really liked, but every time they tried to move forward, 399 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 5: they didn't feel peace about it. After several months, they 400 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 5: found a much larger piece of property right on the 401 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 5: outskirts of the neighborhood. In the natural being in the 402 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 5: subdivision would have been a better investment. The property values 403 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 5: were higher, but even though they could afford it, because 404 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 5: they didn't have peace about it, they bought this property 405 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 5: right outside the neighborhood. Several months later, two men knocked 406 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 5: on their door. They were geologists. They told how they 407 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 5: had been studying that area for years. They had discovered 408 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 5: a massive amount of oil under the subdivision. The problem 409 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 5: was the houses were too close together for them to drill. 410 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: They said, if you'll let us lease. 411 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 5: Part of your property so we can drill into the neighborhood, 412 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 5: we'll give you a commission not only off your land, 413 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 5: but off of all the properties in the neighborhood. There 414 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 5: were twelve hundred homes in that subdivision. Isaiah said, God 415 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 5: knows where the hidden. 416 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 2: Riches are found. You know why. He's the one that 417 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 2: put them there. 418 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 5: He's the source, the creator of the universe, the most 419 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 5: hi God. And things may not be flowing in your 420 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 5: life right now, but God knows where all the treasures are. 421 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 2: He knows how to put you at the right place 422 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 2: at the right time. He may not have you strike all, but. 423 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 5: He can give you one idea that will catapult you ahead. 424 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 5: He can cause one person to come across your path, 425 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 5: like he did for us, you'll accomplish a dream that 426 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,640 Speaker 5: seems impossible. 427 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 2: He knows not only what you need, but he knows 428 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 2: when you're going to need it. 429 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 5: Nineteen ninety seven, I was walking through the lobby before 430 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 5: service one Sunday morning. A man stopped me and said 431 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 5: that his cousin had a construction permit for the last 432 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 5: full power commercial television station in Houston. We bought the 433 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 5: permit and put the station on the air. I thought 434 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 5: that's what I would do with my life. I loved 435 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 5: production and cameras and editing, and having a station seemed 436 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 5: like a perfect fit. But two years later, my father 437 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 5: went to be with the Lord. I never dreamed that 438 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 5: I would become the pastor. Now my focus had changed. 439 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 5: Two thousand and three, we acquired the Compact Center, and 440 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 5: we need one hundred million dollars to renovate, so we 441 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 5: decided to sell the station. We listed it at a 442 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 5: certain price. All the experts said that we would never 443 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 5: get that much. One man had sold more television stations 444 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 5: in the US than anyone else. He said, we were 445 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 5: wasting our time asking that amount. A year later, we 446 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 5: sold it for more than we were asking over five 447 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 5: times what we purchased it for. 448 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 2: We used those funds to renovate facilidator. What am I saying? 449 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 5: God has already lined up everything you're going to need. 450 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 5: He's the source, He's the provider. The scripture says, no 451 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 5: good thing will he withhold. 452 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 2: Because you walk up right there. 453 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 5: He's not going to withhold the finances, the health, the ideas, 454 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 5: the connections. Quit worrying about how it's going to happen. 455 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 5: God has it figured out. He knows how to get 456 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 5: you to your destiny. Now, maybe you've been trying to 457 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 5: do this only in your own strength. You put forth 458 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 5: your best effort. You've tried to get people to help you. 459 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 5: It's time to go to the source. God, I can't 460 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 5: do it on my own. I'm asking you to bring 461 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 5: this dream to pass. God, I'm asking you to turn 462 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 5: my health around. I'm asking you to help me to 463 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 5: conceive to have this baby. The scripture says, call on 464 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 5: the name of the Lord, and he will answer you. 465 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 5: Sometimes we call on people, we call on friends, we 466 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 5: called on our spouse. 467 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 2: They can only do so much. 468 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 5: But when you call on the source, the creator of 469 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 5: the universe, that's when. 470 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: Things will happen that you couldn't make happen. 471 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 5: God wants us to depend on him when we recognize 472 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 5: we can't do it on our own. We are limited, 473 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 5: We have restrictions by ourselves. 474 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 2: Will get stuck. 475 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 5: But when you ask God to help you, when you 476 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 5: call on your creator, supernatural things will happen. God is unlimited, 477 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 5: He controls the universe. The good news is he wants 478 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 5: to help you. He wants to heal you, to increase you, 479 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 5: to take you where you couldn't go on your own. 480 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 5: He's longing to be good to you. Look to him 481 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 5: as your source. John chapter twenty one. Peter was out 482 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 5: fishing with some of the disciples. Jesus had been crucified 483 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 5: and just risen from the dead. You can imagine how 484 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 5: discouraged Peter must have been. Even confused now that Jesus 485 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 5: was not there, Peter went back to doing what he 486 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 5: knew how to do, and that was fishing. 487 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 2: He had done that his whole life. Well, they had 488 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 2: fished all night and caught nothing. Early the next. 489 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 5: Morning Jesus appeared to them. He came walking up on 490 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 5: the beach and said, have you caught anything? 491 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 2: They said no. 492 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 5: He said, throw your nets on the right side of 493 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 5: the boat, and you'll catch some fish. When they did, 494 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 5: they caught a whole net full of fish. Instantly, Peter 495 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 5: recognized that it was Jesus. He jumped out of the 496 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 5: boat and swam. 497 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 2: To the shore. 498 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,400 Speaker 5: Jesus had fish cooking over a fire. He gave Peter 499 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 5: some to eat what Peter was trying to catch. Jesus 500 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 5: not only had waiting for him, but he had it. 501 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 2: Cooked and ready to eat. God is saying, what you're trying. 502 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 5: To accomplish on your own, if you'll look to me, 503 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 5: if you'll recognize I'm the source, you'll see I have 504 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 5: it cooked and already prepared. 505 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 2: I have it already waiting for you. Like Peter. You 506 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 2: may have done it in the past, you were good 507 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 2: at it. 508 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 5: But there are times that God will not let what 509 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 5: worked in the past continue to work because he knows 510 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,239 Speaker 5: we'll think we're doing it in our own strength, our 511 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 5: own ability. God wants us to see him as the source, 512 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 5: to recognize his blessings, but too often we're striving to 513 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 5: make it happen, trying to beat down a door discourage 514 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 5: because it's taken too long. God is saying, come to me, 515 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,399 Speaker 5: ask me for help. Acknowledge me every day as your source. 516 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 5: Peter worked all night trying to catch fish, while Jesus 517 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,719 Speaker 5: was sitting on the shore with a fish dinner waiting 518 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 5: for him. What you're believing for God has already prepared. 519 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 5: The fish is already caught, The spouse is already picked out, 520 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 5: The dream is already lined up. The healing has already 521 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 5: been purchased. The fire is lit, the fish is on 522 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 5: the grill. You're about to come into a prepared blessing. 523 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 5: What you couldn't do on your own, God is about 524 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 5: to make happen. Now do your part. Recognize him as 525 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 5: the source. Every morning, Lord, thank you that you are 526 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 5: my provider. I recognize you are the giver of every 527 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 5: good thing in my life. If you'll do this, I 528 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 5: believe and declare. God is about to bring you some 529 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 5: cooked fish, some prepared blessings. You're gonna come in to 530 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 5: increase promotion, healing the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, 531 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 5: and if you receive it, can you. 532 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: Say him in Today? I'd like to give you an 533 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 2: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 534 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 2: you pray with me? Just say Lord, Jesus, I'll repent 535 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 2: of my sins. Come into my heart. 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