1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: God bless you. It's great to be with you today, 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: week through our daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: and you can come visit us in person. We'd love 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: to have you be a part of one of our services. 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard 11 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: about this pastor. He was finishing up a fiery sermon 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 1: on self control, and he said, with great passion, if 13 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: I had all the beer in the world, I'd throw 14 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: it in the river with greater fervor. I had all 15 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: the wine in the world, I'd throw it in the river, 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: almost at the top of his lungs. But I had 17 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: all the whiskey in the world, I'd throw it in 18 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: the river. He sat down. Song leader came up said 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: for our closing song, let's sing him three sixty five. 20 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: Shall we get at the river? No, we shall not. 21 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: Here we go, y'all, this is my Bible. I am 22 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: what it says I am. I have what it says 23 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: I have. I can do what it says I can do. 24 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God. I'll 25 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 1: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 26 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 27 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 28 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: how you lack nothing. Sometimes we see ourselves at a disadvantage. 29 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: If we had more talent, then we could do something great. 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: Or if we had more personality or more height, more attractive, 31 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: then we could accomplish our dreams. Or if we had 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: more funds, more resources, more opportunity, then we could overcome 33 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: this obstacle. But as long as you see yourself as 34 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: lacking at a deficit, you'll make excuses to settle where 35 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: you are and be less than your best. Psal I'm 36 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: thirty four is those who trust in the Lord will 37 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: never lack any good thing. God has given you everything 38 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: you need for your destiny. He's already put in you 39 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: the wisdom, the confidence, the strength. He's already lined up 40 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: the right people, the good breaks, the resources. It's already there. 41 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: The question is do you recognize what you have. Are 42 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: you using what God is giving you? Or are you 43 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 1: overlooking it because it seems common ordinary? Are you discounting 44 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: yourself because you feel shortchanged, too small, wrong, nationality, not 45 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: up to par. You have to change your mindset. It's 46 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: not enough to just have faith in God. That's important, 47 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: but you have to take it one step further and 48 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: have faith in what God has given you. You have 49 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: to believe that you're equipped, that you're empowered, that your 50 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: steps are being ordered. Here's the key. You don't have 51 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: to have great talent to do something great. If you'll 52 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: use what you have, God will breathe on it and 53 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: you'll accomplish more than you thought possible. It's not necessarily 54 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: the amount of education, the amount of resources, the amount 55 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: of friends who you know. What makes the difference is 56 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: the anointing on your life. You can have average talent, 57 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: but when God favors you, you'll go further than people 58 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: with great talent. You can have an extraordinary problem, you're outnumbered, surrounded, 59 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: but God can take an ordinary solution, something that seems common, 60 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: and cause you to be victorious. Don't discount what you have, 61 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: don't overlook what God has given you. The enemy would 62 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: love for us to get stuck thinking we're at a deficit. 63 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: When I get more funds, more training, more good breaks, 64 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: then I could move forward. We're waiting for more, when 65 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: in fact, everything we need already there. Look around at 66 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: what God has given you. Recognize what you have. Moses 67 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: felt like he was at a disadvantage. He'd been out 68 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: in the desert for forty years hiding because of a mistake, 69 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: and God came to him in a burning bush and 70 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: told him to go tell the Pharaoh to let the 71 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: Israelites go. They'd been in slavery for many years. Moses said, God, 72 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,839 Speaker 1: he's not going to listen to me. I don't have 73 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: any influence, the right credentials. I'm not a good speaker. 74 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: I stutter. He went on and on, making all these excuses. 75 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: God said to him, Moses, what do you have in 76 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: your hand? Moses said, God, it's nothing. It's just a stick, 77 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: just piece of wood I got off a tree I've 78 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: been using as a staff for my animals. God said, 79 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: throw it on the ground. He threw it down and 80 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: it turned into a snake. God took something Moses had 81 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: that seemed common, ordinary, nothing special, but God breathed on it. 82 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: And it became extraordinary. There are things that God has 83 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: put in your life that seem common, normal talent, normal neighborhood, 84 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: normal job. It's ordinary to us. But when God steps in, 85 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: supernatural things happen. When Moses saw that snake, Verse three 86 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: says he was so terrified that he took off running. 87 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: You would think he'd be so amazed and so inspired 88 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: that he'd be full of faith. Just the opposite. God 89 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:34,039 Speaker 1: told him to pick the snake up by the tail. 90 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: Took a lot more faith to pick it up than 91 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 1: to throw it down. When he did, it turned back 92 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: into his staff. God was showing him that he had 93 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: what he needed. It looked ordinary, insignificant, just to stick. 94 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: But if it needs to be a key to open 95 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: a door, God will turn it into a key. If 96 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: it needs to be a shield to protect you, God 97 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 1: will turn it into a shield. If it needs to 98 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: be vision to fund your dream, God will turn it 99 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: into a bank. If it needs to be an auditorium 100 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: to expand your church, God will turn it into a 101 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: compact center. Anytime you tell God that you're stuck, you're 102 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: at a deficit, you're lacking. God asked the question, what's 103 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: in your hand? What are you discounting? What are you overlooking? Joel. 104 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: I don't have the talent, the training, the connections. I'm 105 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: limited in my career. Just keep being faithful, using what 106 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: you have. God will take the ordinary and do something extraordinary. 107 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: You do the natural, and God will do the supernatural. 108 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,280 Speaker 1: Jesus told his disciples to roll away the stone, and 109 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: I'll raise Lazaruth. Jesus could have rolled away the stone. 110 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: He's God. He spoke to the storm and calmed the winds. 111 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: Why did he tell his disciples to do it. It's 112 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: this principle. If you'll do the ordinary, God will do 113 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: the extraordinary. If you'll do what's God will do what's uncommon. 114 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: If you'll throw down the staff, so to speak, He'll 115 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: turn it into what you need. When my father went 116 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: to be with the Lord, I knew I was supposed 117 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: to step up and pastor the church, but I didn't 118 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: feel qualified. I didn't have the training, never ministered before. 119 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: On top of that, my father was such a great minister. 120 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: He was strong, dynamic, had a big personality, and I 121 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: was just the opposite. All those thoughts told me, Joe, 122 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: you're not enough, You're not like your father. Here's the key. 123 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: You don't need what someone else has. You're not running 124 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: their race. You have what you need for your race. 125 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: Don't compare yourself to other people. If you're focused on 126 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: what they have and their gifts, their looks, their resources, 127 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna start discounting yourself, thinking, Man, I can't speak 128 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: like my father, or I'm not as attractive as my cousin, 129 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: or my coworker is so much more talented. If you 130 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: needed what they have, God would have given it to you. 131 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: You're not lacking anything you need to fulfill your purpose. 132 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: And I was tempted to shrink back and feel less 133 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: than because my father was such a gifted leader. I 134 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: had to do what I'm asking you to do. I said, God, 135 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: I don't have what my father had, but I believe 136 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: I have what I need from my destiny. Now not 137 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: going to compare myself to him. I'm going to take 138 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: what you put in my hands, my gifts, my personality, 139 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: my smile, and use it to the best of my ability. 140 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: I started speaking week after week, and I didn't really 141 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: know how to write a message, and I didn't have 142 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: deep theology. I just talked about the goodness of God 143 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: and how to live a life of victory. People started 144 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: telling me, Joe, you have a gift. You have such 145 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: a good way of explaining the scripture and making it relevant, 146 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: and that always puzzled me. What are they talking about 147 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: having a gift? I'm just stuff there talking what felt 148 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: ordinary to me. God breathed on and it becomes something 149 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: much greater. Never dreamed I'd be a pastor and speaking 150 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: to people around the world. When you look at what 151 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: you have, your skills, talents, personality, it's easy to think 152 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: this is ordinary. It's just a walking stick. That's what 153 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: God uses. There's something he's given you that's going to 154 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: take you to new levels. It's not spectacular, it's ordinary. 155 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,719 Speaker 1: Don't discount it. Don't go around with a disadvantage mentality. 156 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: Use what you have and He'll take the natural and 157 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: do something supernatural. Moses spoke to the Pharaoh, and eventually 158 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: he let the Israelites go, But as they were leaving, 159 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: he changed his mind, and he sent six hundred of 160 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: his most skilled warriors and all these cheeriots to capture 161 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: them and bring them back Moses. The Israelites came to 162 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: a dead end at the Red Sea. They had nowhere 163 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 1: to go. The people started complaining, Moses, why did you 164 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: bring us out here in the desert to die. We'd 165 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: rather stayed in Egypt as slaves, didn't come out here 166 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 1: and be killed. Moses was praying God, do something supernatural. 167 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: Send an army to rescue us. Rain down hell upon them. 168 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: God said in verse sixteen, Moses, why are you crying 169 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: out to me? Lift up your rod, stretch forth your 170 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: hand and part the sea. I can hear Moses saying, God, 171 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: you mean you want me to do something ordinary. You're 172 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: gonna use this stick again, this common thing. You want 173 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: me to lift it up. When he did, the waters 174 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: begin to push back, the red sea parted, the people 175 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: went through on dry ground. We're looking for the spectacular, 176 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: but often it starts with something ordinary, something we could 177 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: easily discount. Think it's common. What do you have in 178 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: your hand. I'm just a business person, I'm just a student. 179 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: I'm just an architect. I'm just a stay at home mom. 180 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: I'll never do anything significant. That's how Moses felt out 181 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: there in the desert forty years. But God has put 182 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: something in your hand, something that seems ordinary. If you'll 183 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: dare lift up your rod, do what He's asking you 184 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: to do. You're going to come into these destiny moments 185 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:34,080 Speaker 1: where you see Red Sea's part, deliverance from enemies, Gifts 186 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: come out that you never knew you had. It's in you. 187 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: God put it there before you were born. He marks 188 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: you for greatness. He already set the time for you 189 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: to break out to levels you've never dreamed. Now you 190 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: have to get in agreement with him. This is not 191 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: gonna happen if we have a lack of mentality. I 192 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 1: don't have the talent. It's too big, Joel. I got 193 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: a Red Sea in front of me right now, a 194 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: dead end. What do you expect me to do? Lift 195 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: up your rod, Do the natural, and God will do 196 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: the supernatural. He'll breathe on your life in a new way. 197 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: This is what happened with Samson. He was surrounded by 198 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: the Philistines, a huge army, and he had no weapons, 199 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: no protection. All the odds were against him. He looked 200 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: around to try to find something to defend himself. All 201 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: he could find was the jawbone of a donkey. Some 202 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: dead bones, I'm sure, he thought, Oh great, God, I 203 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: need a sword, I need a shield, I need some 204 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 1: troops to come rescue me. But all I have is 205 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: this jawbone was common a lot of dead animals out 206 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: in the desert. He could ignore it and thought, well, 207 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: that's of no use, But he was smart enough to 208 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: realize it was a part of his destiny. What you 209 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 1: need to accomplish your assignment will always be within reach. 210 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: It won't be far off where you can't attain it. 211 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: It will be close to you. Pay attention to what 212 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: God brings across your path and who He brings across 213 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: your path. It's not thereby accidents. See easy to discount, think, oh, 214 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: that's common, that person, that opportunity, this idea. It's just 215 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: a stick, Joe, It's just the jawbone of a donkey. 216 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: God uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary. If you'll 217 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 1: recognize what you have and be a good steward, then 218 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: you'll see what God was up to. Sampson picked up 219 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: that jawbone. The scripture says the spirit of God came 220 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: upon him and he defeated a thousand Philistines one man, 221 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 1: not with a rifle, not with an army, not with 222 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: fire coming down from heaven, but with something ordinary, a 223 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: jawbone of a donkey. What God is going to do 224 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: in your life won't always have and through spectacular ways. 225 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: Maybe some of that, but most of the time God 226 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: is going to use something ordinary, something within reach, something 227 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: close to you. God asked Moses, what do you have 228 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: in your hand? What do you wish you had? Moses, 229 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: what does your neighbor have? What are you hoping for? 230 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: This far off? There is something close to you. It's 231 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: easy to overlook, it's easy to discount, but God put 232 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: it there. It's instrumental in you reaching your destiny. There 233 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: was a young woman named Mary Bethune born in South 234 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: Carolina in the late eighteen hundreds. She was the youngest 235 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: of seventeen children. Her parents were slaves. Despite the odds 236 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: being against her, she was able to get a good 237 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: education and even attend college. And from the times she 238 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: was a little girl, she always had a dream to 239 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: teach young people, and after getting her degree, she sent 240 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: her application into different schools hoping to get a teaching position. 241 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: She was a straight a student. You couldn't meet a 242 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: finer young woman. She waited month after month. Unfortunately, no 243 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: one would hire her. She was disappointed, but she knew 244 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: that God still had a plan, that when one door closes, 245 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: that God will always open another door. Rather than sitting 246 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: around defeated, she decided to start her own school. She 247 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: didn't have any desk, but she did have some cardboard boxes. 248 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: She set them up as desks. She didn't have any pins, 249 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: but she did have some red berries out in the field. 250 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: Every night she would drain the juice so the students 251 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: could use that for ink in their pins. After several years, 252 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: the local college saw what was happening. They asked her 253 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: to join her school with theirs. It became the Bethune 254 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: Cookman College. She went on to become the first African 255 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: American college president. Now in the natural, Mary was at 256 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: a deficit. She was lacking a poor family turned down 257 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: for the position, no equipment, no funding. That didn't stop her. 258 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: What she needed was within reach. If it's out of reach, 259 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: you don't need it. If you can't attain it, it 260 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: wasn't meant to be. Don't sit around in self pity. 261 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: God has something better, he said, Because you trust him, 262 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: you will not lack. If you needed it for your 263 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: destiny and it was out of reach, God wouldn't be 264 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: a just god. Let go of what didn't work out 265 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: and who didn't stay in your life. The promotion you 266 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: didn't get how you weren't raised right. None of that 267 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: has stopped your purpose. Nothing you've been through has canceled 268 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: your assignment. No bad break has lessened your greatness. What 269 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: you need is close to you. Recognize what you have 270 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: may seem common, just some cardboard boxes, just the jawbone 271 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 1: of a donkey, just this stick, this rod. Yes, but 272 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: when you use it, Red Sea's part enemies are defeated. 273 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: Doors will open opportunity that thrusts you into your destiny. 274 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: What's in your hand? Is there something you're overlooking? It 275 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: seems ordinary, But when you do the natural, God will 276 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: do the supernatural. When you set up the cardboard desk, 277 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: when you drain the ink, God will bring the college 278 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: president position. More than you can imagine, John chapter six, 279 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: a great crowd had followed Jesus to a remote area 280 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: to hear him teach, and getting late in the day, 281 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,719 Speaker 1: almost dark, Jesus said to his disciples, you need to 282 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: feed the people. They're too tired to go home hungry. 283 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: They said, in effect, are you kidding Jesus? There are 284 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand people here. We're out in the desert. The 285 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: nearest walmarts three hundred miles it's Sunday, Chick fil A 286 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,879 Speaker 1: is not even open. They came up with all these 287 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: good reasons why it was impossible. Jesus asked them, what 288 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: do you have? They went out in the crowd and 289 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: came back in a few minutes and said, all we 290 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: could find was this little boy's lunch, just five loaves 291 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: of bread, two fish. But what is that among so many? 292 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 1: It was a logical question, what good is this one 293 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: lunch going to do when we need lunch for fifteen 294 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: thousand people. But God doesn't ask you to figure out 295 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: how it's going to happen. He just asked you to 296 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: use what he's given you, to not discount, to not 297 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: live thinking you're at a deficit, but to believe that 298 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: He can take what seems small and make something great 299 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: out of it. Same thing when I stepped up, my 300 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: mind said, what is this among so many? God, all 301 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: I have is five loaves and two fish. We need 302 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: something much greater, more talent, more wisdom, more training. God 303 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: is not asking you for what you don't have. He's 304 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 1: asking you to trust him with what you do have, 305 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: with what's in reach. Joel, all I have is a 306 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: little lunch. God can take the little and multiplied. I 307 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: just have a little faith. A little faith can move 308 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: a mountain. I just have a walking stick. You can 309 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: part of red sea. I just have the jawbone of 310 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: a donkey, something I found close. You can defeat an army, 311 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: you can beat the cancer, you can break the addiction. 312 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: You're not lacking. You have exactly what you need. And 313 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: sometimes on purpose, God will let you be out numbered. 314 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: He'll let the door close, lets you not feel qualified 315 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: for the position. He takes that small and breathe on it. 316 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: Jesus prayed over the five loaves and two fish, and 317 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: they multiplied, and they fed all fifteen thousand people plus 318 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: they had twelve baskets full left over. But the disciples 319 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: almost talk themselves out of it, thought they were at 320 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 1: a too big of a deficit. But the deficit is 321 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 1: a sign that God's about to do something amazing. How 322 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: many of you have been faithful with what God has 323 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: given you, going to church, doing more than you have to, 324 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: going to work, serving, giving, believing you're going to come 325 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: in to some of these destiny moments where you see 326 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 1: God breathe on your talent, you rise to a new level, 327 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: breathe on your finances, and you come into overflow. Breathe 328 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: on your health. That cancer is gone. Breathe on your children. 329 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: They're back on track, fulfilling their purpose. Don't be fooled 330 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: by the facts. Every circumstance may say you're at a deficit. 331 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: You just have five loaves and two fish. You're lacking talent, 332 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 1: lacking funds, lacking confidence. No, your time is coming. You 333 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: keep doing the natural, using what you have. Going to 334 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: step in and do the supernatural and take care where 335 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: you can't go on your own. I talked to a man. 336 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: He's an attorney, and he always had a desire to 337 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 1: be in the sports industry, but he didn't know anyone 338 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,959 Speaker 1: in that field. And he was living in a small 339 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 1: town where he was raised and working there. Several times 340 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: a week he'd go up to the gym to play basketball, 341 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: and he'd played with this same group of men for 342 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: a few years. One day, this older gentleman ask him 343 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: what he did for a living, and he told how 344 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: he was an attorney doing corporate law. But he said, 345 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: my dream is to be a sports agent. I just 346 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: don't have any connections. The man said, that's interesting. My 347 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: nephew is the number one college football player in the nation. 348 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: He was just asking me about who I knew that 349 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: could represent him. I'm going to have him call you. 350 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: That was his first sports client. His business grew and grew. 351 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: Today he's one of the top sports age in the world. 352 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: He said Joel, I never dreamed I would be where 353 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: I am. Seem like he was lacking, didn't know anyone 354 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: in a small town. Then that one good break, that 355 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: one connection. You don't know what God is up to. 356 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: You don't know the doors he's about to open, the 357 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: people you're about to meet, the favor you're about to see. 358 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,239 Speaker 1: It may seem like you're at a deficit. What's in 359 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: your heart is much bigger than you think could ever happen. 360 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: Just stay faithful where you are, keeping God first place, 361 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 1: being your best with what He's given you. You're gonna 362 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: come into your destiny. Moments were suddenly the red Sea parts. 363 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: You're doing the ordinary, and God steps in and does 364 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: the extra ordinary. You're gathering the five loaves and two fish, 365 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: not complaining, not discounting it. Then God multiplies it, gives 366 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: you supernatural increase, supernatural provision, the right people show up, 367 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: favor that you can't explain. Tewod King's Chapter four. There 368 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: was a widow that was trying to survive. Her husband 369 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: had served with the Prophet Elisha, but he had passed 370 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: and he left her some funds to live off on. 371 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 1: But she'd used all that up and now she didn't 372 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: know how she was going to make it. In those days, 373 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: if you couldn't pay your debts, they would take your 374 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: family members, and they had to work for the payment. Well, 375 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: these creditors were coming for her two sons. She was 376 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: so distraught she went to the Prophet Elisha to explain 377 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: what was happening. Elisha said to her, what do you 378 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: have in your house? Verse two? She answered nothing at all. 379 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: She was saying, we're done, it's over. There's nothing here. 380 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: Then she thought about it and said, wait a minute, 381 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: nothing except a small jar of oil. Elisha said, that's 382 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: all we need, just a little oil. He told her 383 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: to go out and borrow as many large empty containers 384 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: as she could find. She and her sons went out 385 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: and knocked on the neighbor's door, and they brought back 386 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: all these containers. Elisha said, now take the little oil 387 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: that you have and pour it into the empty containers. 388 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: That didn't make sense, but she obeyed as she did. 389 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: The oil never ran out. God multiplied it. She kept 390 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: pouring and pouring until all the containers were filled. She 391 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: went out and sold the oil, paid off all her 392 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 1: debts and had plenty to live on. But when Elisha 393 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: asked her what she had in her house, at first 394 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: she said nothing at all. She discounted the oil was 395 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: too small, not significant. But the truth is that's all 396 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: God needed. She was looking on the outside, hoping Elisha 397 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 1: would save her, but what she needed was on the inside. 398 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: It was within reach in her house, but it was 399 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 1: common ordinary, just a little oil. This can't do any good. 400 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: I've got a big problem. But when you use what 401 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: you have, God will breathe on it. Some of us 402 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: are like this woman, what do you have in your house? 403 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,199 Speaker 1: I don't have anythings you all. I'm not that talented. 404 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: I don't have a good person out. I've got an 405 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: okay job. It's nothing. If you only knew what God 406 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: can do with a little a little jar of oil, 407 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 1: a little boy's lunch, a little faith, a little talent. 408 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: God asked Moses, what's in your hand? He says, something ordinary. 409 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: He asked this woman, what's in your house? She said, 410 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: nothing at all. Both times they had what they needed, 411 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: they just didn't recognize it. Moses had a rod that 412 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: would part of sea, a stick that we'd be talking 413 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: about thousands of years later. This widow had a little 414 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: jar of oil, oil that would sustain her for years 415 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 1: until the family was over. What's in your hand, what's 416 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 1: in your house. What you need is close to you, 417 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: it's within reach. You are not lacking, You are not 418 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: at a deficit. You are in position to see the 419 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: hand of God. Do something supernatural. Now do your part 420 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: and give them the five loaves and two fish, even 421 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: though it seems insignificant, Pour the little jar of oil, 422 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: Lift up your rod. Small acts of obedience lead to 423 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: great miracles. No more thinking I'm at a disadvantage, I'm lacking. 424 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 1: Turn it around. I have everything I need. I'm equipped, 425 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 1: empowered and anointed. If you'll do this, I believe in 426 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: declare light, Moses, Red seas are going to part in 427 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: your life. Doors are going to open problems. Turn around 428 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: like this widow. God's going to multiply what you have 429 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: and pour out abundance, breakthroughs, healing the fullness of your 430 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: destiny in Jesus' name. And if you receive it. Can 431 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: you say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity 432 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you 433 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of 434 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: my sins, Come into my heart. I make you my 435 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer, we 436 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 1: believe you got born again. We'd love to send you 437 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: some free information on your new walk with the Lord. 438 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: You can text the number on the screen or go 439 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: to the website. But I hope you'll get into a 440 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 1: good Bible based church and keep God first place. 441 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you 442 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 2: feel like you're stumbling around in the dark. Things are 443 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 2: so bad you would need a miracle to change your situation. 444 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 2: But as a miracle even possible. 445 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see a way out. 446 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what 447 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: we're believing. For that's how we felt. In nineteen eighty one, 448 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a 449 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: few weeks to live. Nothing could be done medically speaking, 450 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: but she chose to believe that God is a miracle worker. Today, 451 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: forty three years later, by the grace of God, she's 452 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,479 Speaker 1: still healthy and strong. I'm so grateful to be alive. 453 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: I'm ninety years young. I thank God every day that 454 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: he still does miracles. I'd love to send you by 455 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 1: new book. It's called Miracles Happened. It's filled with powerful 456 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: stories of miracles from the Scripture and real life stories 457 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: of people that have seen the hand of God. It'll 458 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: help build your faith so you can believe what seems impossible. 459 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: God did it for my mother, He'll do it for you. 460 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 461 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 2: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and Victoria, 462 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 2: we'd like to send you this powerful book, Miracles Happen 463 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 2: your journey to supernatural breakthrough. This new book details thirty 464 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: different miracles from the Word of God, and each one 465 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 2: comes with an encouragement and application to your own life. 466 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: God has miracles stored up for you, healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs. 467 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power. 468 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll 469 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: see the hand of God do supernatural things in your line. 470 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: Victory and I are standing in faith with you. We 471 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: pray for you every day. We appreciate your prayer and support. 472 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: Your generosity is impacting so many lives. Remember you can 473 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: watch the services live online every Sunday morning, download our 474 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 1: daily podcast, watch on YouTube the new Joelostein Network. Listen 475 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: on Serious XM. Until we meet again. May the Lord 476 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 1: bless you and keep you. 477 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of Miracles Happen your 478 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 2: journey to Supernatural breakthrough today. Visit Joelostein dot com or 479 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 2: call eight eight eight five six seven Joel