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We appreciate you and pray for 39 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 2: God's very best in your life, and I'd bless you. 40 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: It's always a joy to come into your homes you 41 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: and we know God has great things in. 42 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 3: Store for you. 43 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop 44 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: by and be a part of one of our services. 45 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas. 46 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 2: We're right here at Lakewood, so come out and be 47 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: a part When you can. Thanks for tuning in. I 48 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 2: like to start with something funny, and I heard about 49 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: this burglar that broke into a home one night. As 50 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 2: he was stealing the stereo, he heard a voice saying, 51 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 2: Jesus is watching you. He froze in his tracks and 52 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 2: he shined the flashlight around the room and he saw 53 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 2: a parrot over in the corner. He said, did you 54 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 2: say that to me? The parrot said yes, I'm just 55 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: trying to warn you. He said, warn me, what are 56 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: you talking about? 57 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 3: Who are you? The parrot said, my name is Moses. 58 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 2: The burglar laughed and said, what kind of crazy people 59 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 2: would name a parrot Moses. The parrot said the same 60 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: kind of people that would name a one hundred and 61 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 2: fifty pound rockweiler. 62 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 3: Jesus, hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 63 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says. 64 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 6: I am. 65 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do 66 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be 67 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 68 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. 69 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God 70 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 3: bless you. 71 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about how God 72 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 2: wants to amaze. 73 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: You with his goodness. 74 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: We are living in a day where God is increasing 75 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: his favor. Every one of us has seen God's goodness 76 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 2: to a certain degree, but really we haven't. 77 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 3: Seen anything yet. 78 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 2: God has favor in your future that will supersede anything 79 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 2: that you've seen in the past. The scripture talks about 80 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 2: how the glory of the latter day will be greater 81 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 2: than the glory of the former day. That means what 82 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 2: God did for your parents, grandparents, previous generations have experienced 83 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: the blessing in favor that was good. 84 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 3: But God is a god of increase. He has greater 85 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: things in store for you. 86 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: That promotion you were so thrilled with ten years ago, 87 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 2: the restoration that took place five years ago, that's nothing 88 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: compared to what God is about to do. 89 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 3: The Apostle Paul said, in the ages to come. 90 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: We would see the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing greatness of God's favor. 91 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 3: That's the day we're living in. I want you to 92 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 3: get your hopes up. 93 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 2: I want you to enlarge your vision what God has 94 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: in your future, where He's going to take you, the 95 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 2: people he's going to bring across your path, the opportunities 96 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 2: you're going to experience, the gifts you're going to discover 97 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 2: on the inside. You're going to look back one day 98 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: and say, I know that was the surpassing greatness of 99 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 2: God's favor. You may be facing impossible situations today. All 100 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 2: the odds are against you. You don't see how your 101 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 2: dreams could come to pass. But the good news is 102 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: we serve a supernatural God. He already has a way, 103 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 2: and our job is not to figure it all out. 104 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 3: Our job is to believe. 105 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 2: Our job is to get up each morning and say, Father, 106 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 2: I want to thank you that what's in my future 107 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: is greater than what's in my past. 108 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 3: So I'm taking the limits off of you. 109 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 2: And I'm not going to live negative, discouraged, focused on 110 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 2: my disappointments, dwelling on my impossibilities. No, God, I'm looking 111 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 2: for the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing greatness of your favor. In fact, 112 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 2: where God is going to take you is not only 113 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 2: going to amaze you, it's going to amaze the people 114 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 2: around you. In the Old Testament, God was about to 115 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: do something great, and he said to the critics and 116 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: to the naysayers, I will do a work in your 117 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 2: day that you will not believe, even and if I 118 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 2: told you God was saying not to the believers, but 119 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 2: to the unbelievers, even if I spelled it out, even 120 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 2: if I wrote it down and you could read all 121 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 2: about the incredible things I'm going to do for my people, 122 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 2: all the doors I'm going to open, all the favor 123 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 2: I'm going to release, Even if I explained it to 124 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 2: you in great detail, you would still say, no way, 125 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 2: that's impossible, never going to happen. 126 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 3: If some of the people you grew up with. 127 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 2: Maybe the ones you used to party with, if they 128 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 2: were told back then where you would be right now, 129 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 2: sitting in church, living a life that honors God, kind, respectful, 130 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 2: full of integrity, they would have said, you've got to 131 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:44,239 Speaker 2: be kidding. 132 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 3: You got the wrong person. Maybe somebody else, but I 133 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 3: know them. 134 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: No. 135 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 3: God has the final say. 136 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 2: He has planned out your days for good and not evil. 137 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 2: He is going to amaze you in your future. If 138 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: some of the people that used to look down on 139 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 2: you and try to make you feel inferior, like you 140 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 2: didn't have what it takes, if they could see you now, strong, confident, 141 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 2: a leader, excelling in your career, they would think that 142 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,119 Speaker 2: couldn't be the same person. 143 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 3: What in the world happened. Here's what happened. You got in. 144 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 2: Agreement with God and he released his favor in amazing ways. 145 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 3: You may be around people right. 146 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: Now that are real good at telling you what you 147 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 2: can't do and what's not going to work out, and 148 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 2: they're quick to remind you of all your impossibilities. But 149 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: don't let them talk you out of your dreams. They 150 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: don't determine your destiny. 151 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 3: God does. 152 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 2: And if you will stay in faith, one day they 153 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 2: will stand in amazement at where God takes you. They're 154 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: gonna say, Is that the same young man I used 155 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: to go to school with that's now running the company? 156 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 2: Is that the same one that used to struggle with 157 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 2: addictions year after year? You mean to tell me he's 158 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: not only totally free, but he's helping other people get free. 159 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 3: Is that the same family I grew up with? 160 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 2: It could barely get by, always in defeat and lack 161 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 2: and poverty, and now they're blessed, they're prosperous. 162 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 3: The head and not the tail. 163 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 2: Friends, where God is going to take you is going 164 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 2: to amaze your critics and your naysayers. If God were 165 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 2: to describe to them your future right now in great detail, 166 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 2: they would say, I don't believe it. 167 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 3: That's just too good to be true. Here's the key. 168 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: Don't let their unbelief keep you from believing. Get in 169 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 2: agreement with God when you believe all things are possible. 170 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 2: Paul prayed here in Ephesians one point eighteen that the 171 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,319 Speaker 2: eyes of our heart would be flooded with light so 172 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: we could understand the wonderful future God has in store. 173 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,199 Speaker 2: That's my prayer for each one of you, that you 174 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 2: would have a greater understanding of the amazing things God 175 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 2: has in your future. Some of you think that you've 176 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 2: reached your limits. God's been good to you, you're happy, 177 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 2: you're blessed, and now you're just coasting. 178 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 3: No, you need to get ready. 179 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: God is about to release his unprecedented favor. That's favor 180 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 2: that you have never seen before. Your relatives, coworkers, friends 181 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 2: may try to talk you out of it, tell you 182 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 2: how unlikely that is. But listen, God didn't put the 183 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,599 Speaker 2: promise in them. He put the promise in you. And 184 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 2: if you will keep believing, God will not only bring 185 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 2: it to pass, but he will do more than you 186 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 2: can ask or think. This is exactly what Abraham and 187 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 2: Sarah had to do. God gave them the promise that 188 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 2: they were going to have a baby in the natural. 189 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 3: It was impossible. 190 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 2: Abraham at the time was eighty years old. His wife 191 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: Sarah was seventy years old. Everyone knows you can't have 192 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: a baby. 193 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 3: At that age. 194 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: Year after year went by with no child. Looked like 195 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 2: it was never going to happen. But Abraham and Sarah 196 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 2: didn't get discouraged. They didn't start complaining. The scripture says 197 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: they grew strong in faith by giving praise to God 198 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 2: no doubt. 199 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 3: All through the day, they. 200 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 2: Would go around saying, Father, thank you that this baby 201 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 2: is coming in. It may look impossible, but God, we 202 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: know you can do the impossible. I'm sure when some 203 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 2: of their friends and neighbors heard them talking about having 204 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 2: a baby, they must have thought these people are far 205 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 2: out they think God can do anything. 206 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 3: They must be going to Lakewood. Don't they know they're 207 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 3: too old to have a child. 208 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 2: No, Abraham and Sarah just shook off that doubt and unbelief. 209 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 2: They didn't allow other people to talk them out of 210 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 2: the promise. One day, twenty years later, when Sarah was 211 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 2: ninety years old. 212 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 3: She gave birth to that baby. 213 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 2: Now love what she said? She looked at little Isaac 214 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 2: and said, who would have thought an old woman like 215 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,680 Speaker 2: me could give birth to a baby? Friends, in your future, 216 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 2: there are some who would have thought moments you're gonna 217 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 2: look back and say, who would have thought I would 218 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 2: have my best year in the middle of a recession. 219 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: Who would have thought Lakewood would end up in the 220 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 2: compact Center? Who would have thought my mother would be 221 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 2: alive today after being diagnosed with terminal cancer twenty nine 222 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 2: years ago? 223 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 3: Who would have thought my. 224 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 2: Father as a seventeen year old boy selling popcorn in 225 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 2: a theater, the poorest of the poor, no education, no money, 226 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 2: no future to speak of. Who would have thought he 227 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 2: would rise out of poverty and defeat and become a 228 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 2: great pastor that would touch people all over the world. 229 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 2: You need to get ready. There are who would have 230 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,959 Speaker 2: thought moments in your future. I heard this mom telling 231 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 2: how concerned she was about her son. He was making 232 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 2: poor decisions, running with the wrong crowd. She prayed and 233 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 2: prayed and tried to convince him to come to church 234 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 2: and quit hanging around with those people, but he just 235 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 2: wouldn't do it. It seemed like the more she prayed, 236 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 2: the worse he got. Long story short, he ended up 237 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: in jail, looked like he would never fulfill his destiny. 238 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 2: But this mother didn't give up and get negative. She 239 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 2: just kept declaring the scripture. As for me and my house, 240 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: we will serve the Lord. The seed of the righteous 241 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 2: is blessed. One Sunday morning in jail, her son was 242 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 2: watching television and another inmate came in and wanted to 243 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 2: watch something else, And they began to argue over what 244 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 2: they were going to watch, and they started struggling over 245 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 2: the remote control, trying to take it away from each other. 246 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 3: About that time, this huge inmate came in. He stood 247 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 3: six foot six. 248 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 2: He looked like a professional football player, had these muscles 249 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: bulging out of his shirt. 250 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:55,719 Speaker 3: He grabbed the remote control and said, I'll decide what 251 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 3: we're gonna watch. 252 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 2: He started flipping through the channels and came across our 253 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 2: He said, good, we're gonna watch Joel today. 254 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 3: Her son that inmate got up to leave. 255 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 2: He grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him back 256 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 2: down and says, sit down, you're gonna watch with me. 257 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 3: God works in mysterious ways. 258 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,959 Speaker 2: We had a captive audience that day, but as he 259 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 2: watched the program, all of a sudden, he began to 260 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: feel God's love and presence like never before. He started 261 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 2: weeping the end of that broadcast. That big inmate led 262 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 2: him to Christ. And today I see him at our 263 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 2: services all the time, sitting with his mother. 264 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 3: That was a who would have thought moment? 265 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 2: Who would have thought sitting in jail he would be 266 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 2: forced to watch our program and God would end up 267 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 2: changing his life. Those promises that you've been standing on 268 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 2: may look like they're never going to come to pass, 269 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 2: but always remember there are who would have thought moments 270 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 2: in your David said it like this, what would have 271 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 2: happened to me if I had not believed I would 272 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 2: see the goodness of God. I'm asking you today to 273 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 2: believe that God has amazing things in your future. Believe 274 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 2: that you can rise higher and become all that God's 275 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: created you to be. Incredible power is released when we believe. 276 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 2: When we dare do like this mother, even though it 277 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 2: looks impossible and we don't see a way yet, we say, Father, 278 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 2: I want to thank you for the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing 279 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: greatness of your power. 280 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 3: I know it's at work in my life right now. 281 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 2: When we activate our faith like that, it allows God 282 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 2: to do amazing things. I talked to a young couple 283 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 2: after the service last week. They'd been trying to have 284 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: a child for six years. The young lady had had 285 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 2: a couple of miscarriages and for some reason just couldn't 286 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 2: carry the baby. They'd gone to all the experts and 287 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 2: done everything that they could medically with no success. Finally, 288 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: they just turned it over to the Lord and said, God, 289 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 2: our hopes and dreams are in your hands. 290 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 3: We trust you, we know you're incomplete control. 291 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 2: Years earlier, the young lady's sister had a dream where 292 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 2: she saw this young lady and her husband with the 293 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 2: most beautiful, blue eyed, blonde haired little boy than you 294 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 2: could ever imagine. 295 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 3: They knew that was a sign from God. 296 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 2: They had talked about adoption here and there, but they 297 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 2: thought it was much further down the road. On Mother's 298 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 2: Day two thousand and nine last year, they were here 299 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 2: at the service. That's when Lakewood was celebrating our fiftieth anniversary, 300 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 2: and that day I talked about the Year of Jubilee 301 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 2: and how everything that has our name on it is 302 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 2: coming back in. I made the statement, how that business 303 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 2: that has your name on it is coming in, the 304 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 2: health that has your name on it is coming in, 305 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 2: and I specifically said, the baby that has your name 306 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 2: on it is coming in. They looked at each other 307 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 2: in amazement. They knew that was exactly for them. I 308 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 2: went on to talk about how God is accelerating things 309 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 2: and it's going to happen quicker than you think. The 310 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 2: whole time they were allowing that seed to take root 311 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 2: in their heart. 312 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 3: Here's what I've learned. 313 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 2: The only promises that will become alive and really end 314 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 2: up a reality in your life are the promises where. 315 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 3: You rise up and say, yes, Lord, that's for me. 316 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 2: You've got to get in agreement with God and let 317 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 2: the promise take root in your heart because I can 318 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 2: speak faith. 319 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 3: And victory over your future for a lifetime. 320 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 2: But if you just sit back and say, oh man, 321 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 2: this is not really for me. I've made too many 322 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 2: mistakes and I always get bad breaks, you will talk 323 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 2: to yourself out of it and the promises won't do 324 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: you any good. But when the soil of your heart 325 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 2: is fertile, when there's an expectancy on the inside, then 326 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: when you hear that promise that God has who would 327 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 2: have fought moments in your future, you'll do like that 328 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 2: young couple and rise up and say, yes, Lord, I believe. 329 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 3: I'm in agreement with you. 330 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 2: I'm expecting the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing greatness of your favor. 331 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 3: And that's what this young couple did. 332 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 2: They went out that morning knowing that the baby that 333 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 2: had their name on it was coming in and it 334 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 2: was going to happen quicker than they thought. Four hours later, 335 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 2: as they were celebrating Mother's Day with their family, their 336 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 2: business manager called and asked if they would be interested 337 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 2: in adopting a little baby boy that would be born 338 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: in July. 339 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 3: They knew that was the hand of God. 340 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 2: Eight weeks later, they were in the delivery room when 341 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 2: the little boy was born, and it just so happened 342 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 2: to be a blonde haired, blue eyed little boy like 343 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 2: a sister had dreamed about earlier. They were the first 344 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 2: ones to put their loving arms around the baby when 345 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 2: he was born. In fact, the father was even able 346 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 2: to cut the umbilical cord. They named their little son 347 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 2: Asher from the Old Testament that means gift from God. 348 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 2: Little Asher is there on the front row with his parents, 349 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: doctor Scott and Donna. But I wonder what would have 350 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 2: happened if they had not believed. I don't know, maybe 351 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 2: they wouldn't have gotten the phone call that afternoon. I'm 352 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: convinced there are times that we miss the amazing hand 353 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 2: of God simply because we don't activate our faith by believing. 354 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 2: We let our mind talk us out of it. We 355 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 2: think of all the reasons why it won't happen. But 356 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 2: I'm asking you today to be a believer and not 357 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 2: a doubter. Let the seed take root. God has who 358 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 2: would have thought moments in your future. He is about 359 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 2: to release a new level of his favor in your life. 360 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 2: God is going to give you the desires of your heart. 361 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 2: Those promises you've been standing on for years and years, 362 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 2: You're about to see them come to fulfillment. That situation 363 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 2: that's been stuck at the same level for a long time, 364 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 2: You're about to see a breakthrough that child that won't. 365 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 3: Do what's right. 366 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 2: God's about to send somebody across his path. There is 367 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 2: increase and promotion in your future like you've never dreamed of. 368 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 2: But most likely it's not going to happen in an 369 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 2: ordinary way, the way you have planned. It's going to 370 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 2: happen in an extraordinary way, so that you will know 371 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 2: it was the hand of God. Friends, this is a 372 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: generation for the surpassing greatness of God's favor. That means 373 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 2: it's going to be above and beyond what we've seen before. 374 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 2: I have a friend that was in this auditorium in 375 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight for a business seminar. He was sitting 376 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 2: on the front row next to my college roommate. The 377 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 2: place was filled with business people from around the city. 378 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 2: He sat there listening to the speaker talk. All of 379 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 2: a sudden, he felt something rise up so strongly on 380 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 2: the inside, and it said to him, one day this 381 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 2: facility will be a church filled with God's people celebrating 382 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 2: his goodness. 383 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 3: He was so excited. 384 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 2: He told my college roommate that was in nineteen ninety eight, 385 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: a year before my father went to be with the Lord. 386 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 2: I wasn't even a minister, but yet he released his 387 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 2: faith and said, in effect, God, I'm in agreement with you. 388 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 2: I believe today we are in this facility. In part 389 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 2: because he dared to activate his faith. He got in 390 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 2: agreement with God and let the promise take root, friends, 391 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 2: God is looking for. 392 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:46,959 Speaker 3: Someone to believe. 393 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 2: When you hear that promise on the inside, when you 394 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 2: know it's God speaking to you, you don't have to 395 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 2: have five confirmations. You don't have to figure it all out. 396 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 2: All you've got to do is say, Lord, I believe. 397 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 2: I get an agreement with you. There is incredible power 398 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 2: that's released when we believe. A few years after Victoria 399 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 2: and I were married, a friend of hers had a 400 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 2: dream one night. 401 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 3: I didn't really know this young lady, but she told Victoria. 402 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 2: In this dream, I saw Joel speaking in front of 403 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 2: thousands of people. It was in a huge auditorium, and 404 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 2: he was up there, very calmly, encouraging people, and not 405 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 2: a person was moving. Everyone was listening very intently. Victoria 406 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 2: came home and told me about it. And at that 407 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 2: time I was in my mid twenties and working behind 408 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 2: the scenes at the church doing the television production, and 409 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 2: I had never ministered before in the natural. Just off 410 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 2: the top of my head, I thought, all that dream 411 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything. 412 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 3: She must have just had too much pizza before she 413 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 3: went to bed. 414 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: Because I'm not a minister and I'm certainly not gonna 415 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 2: get up in front of thousands of people. But deep 416 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 2: down in my heart, once I got past my head, 417 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 2: even though I didn't understand it, even though I never 418 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 2: thought I would become a minister, instead of just blowing 419 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 2: it off, I said, Lord, I let that seed take root, 420 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 2: and I thank you that I will become everything that 421 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 2: You've created. 422 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 4: Me to be. 423 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 2: Over the next ten years, from time to time that 424 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 2: dream would come up, and I would just simply say, God, 425 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 2: not my will, but let your will be done. In 426 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine, when my father went to be with 427 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 2: the Lord, all of a sudden, I had this strong 428 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 2: desire to step up and pasture the church. My mind 429 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 2: was telling me all the reasons why I couldn't do it, 430 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 2: and how I wasn't qualified, and how I'd never been 431 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 2: to seminary. But deep down that dream that I allowed 432 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 2: to take root some twelve years earlier would keep rising up, reminding. 433 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 3: Me that I can do all things through Christ. I 434 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 3: am well able. 435 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 2: Today when I look at you, I realize I am 436 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,880 Speaker 2: living the dream that that young lady saw many years ago. 437 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 2: I believe one reason I was able to step up 438 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 2: that I've seen God's amazing favor is simply because. 439 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 3: I allowed that promise to take root. 440 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 2: That's what David meant when he said what would have 441 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 2: become of me if I had not believed? I don't 442 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 2: think i'd be standing here today if I had not 443 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 2: chosen to be a believer. 444 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 3: When I drive up to. 445 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: This beautiful facility every week, I can say with Sarah, 446 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: who would have ever thought the former Compact Center where 447 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 2: I used to watch the Rockets play basketball would become 448 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: our church? 449 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 3: God has done more than we. 450 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 2: Could even ask the things. When I get up to minister, 451 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 2: I think, who would have thought that would be me? 452 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 2: I'm naturally quiet and reserved. Who would have ever thought 453 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 2: I would stand at the new Yankee Stadium be the 454 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 2: first one to minister their friends. You don't know where 455 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 2: God's going to take you. He has amazing things in 456 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 2: your future. Dare to activate your faith, let the seed 457 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 2: take root. That's what a friend of mine did. She's 458 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 2: a minister as well, and she attends our services from 459 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: time to time, and she's heard me talking about how 460 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 2: we should believe for an Ephesians three, twenty decade. Every 461 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 2: day she does what I ask people to do, to 462 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 2: get up in the morning and say Father, thank you. 463 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 2: That This is going to be an exceedingly abundantly above 464 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 2: and beyond decade of your goodness and your favor. Her 465 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,640 Speaker 2: ministry is geared toward helping women with addictions, women that are. 466 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 3: Struggling in different areas of abuse. 467 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 2: She spends a lot of her time on the street 468 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 2: where people are really hurting. She doesn't have any formal 469 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 2: church that supports her, so she has to raise her 470 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: own funds from the people she knows. Not long ago, 471 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 2: through a series of unused events, she met one of 472 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 2: the most well known and wealthiest business people around. She 473 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 2: was able to visit with him for a few minutes 474 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 2: in his office with several other. 475 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 3: People in passing. He said to her, now, what do 476 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 3: you do. 477 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 2: She said, well, sir, I'm a minister and I spend 478 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 2: a lot of my time helping women with addictions and 479 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 2: women that are going through other difficult situations. He said, 480 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 2: that's amazing. I never dreamed you would do that. I 481 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 2: want to support you. He gave her a very generous gift. 482 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 2: In fact, it was one of the largest gifts that 483 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 2: she had ever received. About that time, a friend of 484 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 2: his walked into the office. He said, Hey, come over here, 485 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 2: I just made a donation to her ministry. 486 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 3: How much are you going to give? 487 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 2: That man had never seen this lady, didn't know who 488 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 2: she was, but he said, oh, I'll give the same 489 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 2: amount that you just donated. That day she saw Ephesians 490 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,199 Speaker 2: three twenty come to life. God did exceedingly abundantly. Above 491 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 2: and beyond that was a who would have thought blessing? 492 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 2: Who would have thought one of the leading business people 493 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 2: of our day would be a supporter of her ministry. Friends, 494 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 2: God has limitless, immeasurable favor in your future. But I 495 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 2: believe the key with this young lady is she dared 496 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 2: to activate her faith. She's been declareding Ephesians three twenty 497 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 2: like never before. We have to take the limits off 498 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: of God. So often it's our own thinking that keeps 499 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: us from God's best. My prayer is that your heart 500 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 2: is being flooded with faith so you can understand the 501 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: amazing things God has in your future. Get ready for increase, 502 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 2: get ready for new doors to open. Proverbs thirteen twenty 503 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 2: one puts it like this, Trouble chases sinners, but blessings 504 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 2: chase the righteous. Something is chasing you right now, not trouble, 505 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 2: not defeat sickness, calamity, harm, know as a child or 506 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 2: the most high God blessings are chasing you. 507 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 3: Favor is chasing you. 508 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 2: Divine connections are coming your way because you are a believer. 509 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 2: The surpassing greatness of God's favor is at work in 510 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 2: your life right now. 511 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 3: You know what this beautiful building is. 512 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 2: It's not just God's favor, It's the surpassing greatness of 513 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 2: God's favor. My mother being alive twenty nine years after 514 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 2: she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. That's not just God's goodness. 515 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 2: That's the surpassing greatness of God's goodness. Many of us 516 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 2: have seen God's goodness in years past, but what I'm 517 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 2: saying is God has another level. 518 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 3: We are entering into a new season. 519 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 2: The glory of the latter house will be greater than 520 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 2: the former house. We are the generation that will see 521 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 2: the surpassing greatness of God's favor. I want to declare 522 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 2: it over each one of you because you are living 523 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 2: a life that honors God. God is going to amaze 524 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 2: you with his goodness. God is going to give you 525 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 2: favor with people that you've never dreamed of. God is 526 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 2: going to take you places that your critics will never believe. 527 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,640 Speaker 2: God is going to restore impossible situations. God is going 528 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 2: to bring back to life dead dreams. God is going 529 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 2: to turn around health problems, legal situations that look like 530 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 2: they're too far gone. And God is going to give 531 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 2: you the desires of your heart. Some of you, just 532 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 2: like this young couple. God is going to give you 533 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 2: the baby that you've been longing for. He is going 534 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 2: to do such amazing things. You're going to look back 535 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 2: in five years and say, who would have ever thought 536 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 2: I would be as blessed as I am today? Who 537 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 2: would have thought moments are in your future? You need 538 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 2: to get ready. They are coming your way. I declare it, 539 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 2: I believe it in the name of Jesus. If you 540 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,640 Speaker 2: receive it, can you shout an amen and Amen? 541 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 7: Well. 542 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 2: We never like to posee our broadcast without giving you 543 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life, 544 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 2: the most important decision that you could make. 545 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? 546 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, come into my heart. 547 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 3: I make you my Lord and savior. Amen. 548 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 2: Well, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 549 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 2: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church, 550 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 2: keep God first place in your life. 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