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And I like to start 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.639 with something funny. And I heard about this five year 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.680 old boy named Tommy. Was his grandmother's birthday, and after 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.680 wishing her a happy birthday, he said, grandmother, how old 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.120 are you? She said, Tommy, I'm thirty nine and holding 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.359 he thought about it a moment, said grandmother, how old 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.440 would you be if you let go hold up your Bible, 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.919 say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.240 I am what it says. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:40.560 I am. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.280 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.840 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.560 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.760 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.680 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.360 to talk to you today about It's a simple thing. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.000 We all face situations that look impossible. It's easy to 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.640 get discourage and think about how it's never going to 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.840 work out, but we need to keep the right perspective. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.600 God already has the solution. Nothing you're facing is a 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.600 surprise to God. It may look complicated to you. But 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.080 to him, it's a simple thing. It's no big deal. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.960 He spoke worlds into existence, he flung stars into space. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.560 He knows how to get you to your destiny. Think 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:34.880 about David when he faced Goliath, a huge giant nearly 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.360 twice his size. It looked impossible. Goliath was the Navy 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.000 seal of that day, the biggest, strongest, most experienced. David 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.880 was a teenager taking care of his father's sheep. He 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.280 didn't have any military training. But it's interesting. God didn't 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.600 need the latest weapon for David. He didn't need a 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.440 full set of armor, years of training, troops backing him up. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.360 All what God needed was a slingshot, a simple thing. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.960 That slingshot helped David to not only defeat Goliath, but 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.560 it eventually put him on the throne of Israel. When 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:16.040 four lepers were surrounded by an army locked outside their 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.680 city's gates, they didn't have a chance. All the odds 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.800 were against them. They had nothing to lose, so they 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.400 started walking toward the enemy's camp. God caused the sound 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.440 of their footsteps to be multiplied to where it sounded 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.440 like a huge army was approaching. When the enemy heard it, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.560 they panicked, and took off running. Those lepers not only 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.200 saved their lives, they saved the entire city of Samaria 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:48.719 the sound of their footsteps. A simple thing. When thousands 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:52.279 of people were out on the beach late one evening, hungry, 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:57.599 no food, no grocery stores, Jesus took five loaves of bread, 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.520 two fish, a simple thing, a little boy's lunch. He 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:06.080 prayed over it. It multiplied and fed the thousands. When 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.720 Peter needed money for taxes, Jesus told him to go 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.760 to the lake, and the first fish you catch will 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.159 have money for both yours and my taxes. Catching a 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.200 fish a simple thing. We think, how am I ever 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.640 going to get out of debt? How will I send 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.240 my kids to college? It's so expensive. Let me tell 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.760 you how. A simple thing, one good break, one idea, 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.520 one phone call, one slingshot, one little boy's lunch. God 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.080 has some simple things in your future. You don't have 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.640 to have the most talent, the most experienced, the most qualifications. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.279 One touch of God's favor, one simple thing can thrust 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.760 you to a new level. One simple thing and you'll 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.120 defeat your giants. One simple thing and your health will 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:59.080 turn around, The problem will resolve the legal situation will solve. Now, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.800 quit telling yourself if it's too big, it's too hard, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.280 it's never gonna work out. Our attitude should be this 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.279 may look impossible to me, but God, I know to 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.560 you it's a simple thing. All power is in your hands. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.839 You control the universe. So I'm not going to go 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.520 around worried, upset, wondering if it's gonna work out. I'm 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.400 gonna stay in faith knowing that you have some simple 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.960 things come in my way. See, too many people go 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.120 through life thinking of all the reasons why they can't 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.880 be successful, why they can't overcome the challenge, why they'll 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.000 never get well. Joel, I've had this sickness so long, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.800 or everybody in my family struggles with these same addictions. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.479 I don't have the talent, the personality. It's not going 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.039 to work out. No, get rid of that defeated mindset. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.240 Let these words sink down into your spirit. It's a 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.159 simple thing for God to bring your dreams to pass. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.280 It's a simple thing for you to live healthy in Whome. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.839 It's a simple thing for you to meet the right 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.600 person for you to live debt. God is not up 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.479 in the heaven scratching his head, thinking, man, this is 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.440 so complicated. They got me stumped. God already has the solution. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.600 He's already lined up the right people, the right breaks, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.040 the right opportunities. They are already in your future, just 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.360 waiting for you to walk into them. If you'll keep 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.520 moving forward in faith, honoring God being your best, you 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.400 will come in to some of these simple things that 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.400 God has already lined up for you. I talked to 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.080 a young lady that wanted to attend a certain college, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.760 and she applied for a scholarship, and they called her 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.560 in for an interview. But the man she was talking 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.360 with was very unfriendly, just matter of fact. She could 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.880 tell he wasn't for her. A few days she received 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.240 an email saying there were no scholarships available, but she 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.160 could kept back in a month or so. She went 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.000 back and met with the man, same thing. Very curt 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.880 I told you, there are no scholarships available. It's almost 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.840 like she was bothering the man. She decided to go 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.560 back and check one last time. She made an appointment, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.240 but this time the man had to unexpectedly be out 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.720 of town. His supervisor was feeling in for him that day. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.960 This lady was totally different She was kind, friendly, very helpful. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.320 Now she was looking over her records and personal information. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:28.000 She noticed that the young lady attends Lakewood. She smiled 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.280 real big and said, you got the right person today. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:35.760 I've been attending Lakewood for over twenty years. This supervisor 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.920 went to her office, came back in a half hour, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.560 not only awarded her a full four year scholarship, but 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.599 she included all of her books, everything she needed to 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:52.760 get started. What was that? A simple thing? God moved 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.800 the wrong person out and put the right person in it. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.680 She may have never been able to win over that 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.920 other man, but that didn't matter. God said, in a fact, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.240 don't worry about it. He doesn't have to help you. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.680 I control the universe. I have the final say. I 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.360 can either change his mind and cause him to want 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.960 to help you, or I can move him out and 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.320 put somebody in there that will help you. And we 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.559 all face times where somebody is not for us at 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.480 the office, playing politics, trying to push you down, at school, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.160 leaving you out, trying to make you look bad. It's 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.920 easy to get frustrated and think, man, I'm never going 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.559 to get ahead. These people don't like me. No, don't 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.320 worry God has some simple things. God can cause them 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.640 to be on vacation when you need a good break. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.840 He can cause them to get transferred to a different department. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.319 Or if God doesn't move them out of the way, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.880 God can cause you to go over them. The scripture 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.520 says you can run through a troop or leap over 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.200 a wall. Bottom line is God will get you to 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.160 where you're supposed to be. A man told how his 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.920 neighbor lived next door was very hard to get along with. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.600 They were always having these loud parties way into the night, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.080 and all the neighbors complained, but these people didn't care. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.360 They were very disrespectful and continued to cause trouble. This 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.160 has gone on year after year, didn't look like it 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.680 would ever change. One day, this man came home from 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.920 work and noticed a big moving truck in front of 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.800 his next door neighbor's house loading up all their furniture. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.200 He went over to see what was going on. Come 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.640 to find out the house was filled with termites. The 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.800 people moved out, they never moved back in. He said, Joel, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.120 I had never thanked God for termites until that day. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.920 A simple thing termites. Well, he said, Joel, you really 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.040 think God used those little bugs. God used locusts to 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.840 change Pharaoh's mind. God used frogs and lizards in the Bible. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.640 I'm not saying to pray termites on your neighbors. But 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.000 the point is, sometimes we think God's never gonna change. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:01.600 I'm gonna have to put up with it the rest 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.600 of my life. No, stay in faith. God has some 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.240 simple things come in your way. This is what happened 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.040 in the scripture to Mordecai. Mordecai was a good man, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.959 loved God, lived with excellence and integrity. But there was 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.800 a man named Hayman that worked for the King Haman 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:25.120 didn't like Mordecai. He had this prestigious position, influential at 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.560 the palace, and he was always trying to push Mordecai down, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.280 trying to make him look bad. And in the natural 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.120 it seemed like Hayman had an advantage. He had the 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.040 king's ear. What could Mordecai do. But one night the 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.439 king couldn't sleep and he asked his assistant to bring 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.600 one of the books that had the city's history recorded 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.000 in it. The assistant randomly grabbed a book and gave 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.640 it to the king. The king opened it to a 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.199 page that talked about a good deed that Mordecai had 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.400 done for the city. Out of all the books the 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.640 assistant could have chosen, just so happened he chose this 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.040 particular book. Out of all the pages the king could 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.840 have turned to. Just so happened he turned to this 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.800 particular page. The next day he called Hayman in, said, Hayman, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.760 what do you think we should do to honor a 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.240 person that's done a great deed for the city and 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.760 serve the king with excellence. Well, Hayman was so caught 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.880 up in himself he thought the king was talking about him, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.040 so he played it up real big. He said, King, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.000 I think we should put a royal robe on that person, 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.360 have a big parade, march him up and down the 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.720 city streets, announcing what a great person he is. The 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.000 King said, I like that good idea. Now go find 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:46.240 Mordecai and do just what you said, Hayman. You put 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.280 the royal robe on him. You go up and down 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:53.240 the streets, announcing to everyone how honored he is by 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.400 the king. A simple thing, the King, reading the right 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.720 thing about Mordecai, one putting in a good word for 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.120 you can take you where you could never go on 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.360 your own. One comment, one phone called, one email. Hey, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.959 I really like them. They're talented. You're blessed to have them. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.400 A simple thing can cause your boss, your clients, your 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.720 coworkers to see you in a whole new light. Quit 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.160 worrying about who's trying to hold you back the credit 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.920 you're not getting that person trying to make you look bad. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.600 You don't have to fight those battles. God is your vindicator. 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.440 God will cause them to see you the way he 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.080 wants you to be seen. He'll cause them to hear 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.560 what they need to hear. God's already lined up the 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.040 right people to put in a good word for you. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:45.160 Second King's three Jehosaphat and his army met up with 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.560 two other friendly armies. They had been traveling through the 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.280 desert for seven days on their way to fight another enemy. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.160 When they ran out of water, they didn't realize all 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.240 the streams and wells had dried up. Now they had 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.520 no water for their men for their animals. It looked 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.120 like they would be an easy target for the enemy 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:09.520 that was approaching. King Jehashaphat told his men to go 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.760 check with the prophet Elisha to see what was going 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:17.000 to happen, And Elisha said in verse seventeen, you will 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.920 see neither wind nor rain, but these valleys will be 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.960 filled with water. You will have plenty for yourselves and 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.760 for your animals. But this is only a simple thing 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.320 for the Lord. He will cause you to be victorious 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.720 over all of the enemies. He goes on to tell 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.640 how the next day it didn't rain, there wasn't a storm, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.080 but water filled the valley. King Jehasaphat and his men 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.280 ended up defeating the enemy went on to conquer those cities. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.160 But what's interesting is this valley suddenly filled up with water, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.560 came out of nowhere middle of the desert, and water 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.360 starts flowing. To me, that seems like a big deal, 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:05.240 a great miracle. Yet Elisha said, this is a simple 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.760 thing for our God. I've learned what's simple to me 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.840 and what's simple to God are two different things. What 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:19.840 God calls simple we would call supernatural, extraordinary. Far and beyond, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.560 your situation may look impossible. You don't see how you 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.200 could accomplish a dream, or how you could get well, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.640 how your marriage could be restored. There's no water in 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.480 your valley. But God is saying it's not going to 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.920 happen in a normal way. You're not going to see clouds, 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.080 you're not going to have any rain, but that valley 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.640 is going to suddenly fill up with water. In other words, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.320 out of nowhere, you get a good break, your health improves, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.680 the business takes off, you meet the right person, the 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.800 situation turns around. That's God giving you water without rain. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.840 You weren't the most qualified, didn't have the most post experience, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.400 but suddenly you were promoted. Suddenly you find yourself where 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.760 you could not go on your own. We're thrilled, we're 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.080 on cloud nine. But God says, hey, it's no big deal. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.160 It's just a simple thing for me. Maybe. In your health, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.520 the medical report said you'd never get well, the odds 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.320 were against you. But you look up like my mother 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:26.480 thirty years later, you're still healthy, who still going strong. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:32.080 That's what God calls a simple thing. In your finances, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:33.920 you didn't see how you could get out of debt. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.000 Didn't look good on paper, But that valley began to 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.480 fill up with water, not a normal way, not rain, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.560 not something you could take credit for. This was the 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.640 hand of God promoting you, giving you wisdom, putting you 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.840 at the right place, opening doors that no man can shut. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.720 And if we're going to become everything we were created 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.359 to be, if we're going to reach our highest potential, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.600 we can't go around thinking this is too big, it's 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.560 never gonna work out. I never get any good breaks. No, 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.600 have a new perspective. It's a simple thing for our God. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:12.080 He's saying to you what he said to Jehoasaphat. Don't worry, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.280 don't panic, don't turn around, go back home. I'm going 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.159 to fill those dry places with water. It's going to 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.399 happen suddenly. It's going to be unusual, not what you 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:29.359 were expecting. Water without rain. That means God can heal 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:33.480 you without the treatment. God can promote you even though 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:38.360 you weren't the most qualified. God can increase you beyond 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.800 your salary, bring you out of debt, put you into 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:47.399 overflow without the company. Without normal means God has explosive blessings. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:49.879 When you say, Joel, I feel like I'm in a 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.439 drought today. I hadn't had any good breaks in a 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:57.840 long time. That's just where Jehosaphat was. Don't complain. Get 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.119 ready for a simple thing, something and out of the ordinary, 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.800 not what you were expecting something that you could not 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.000 make happen on your own. I read about a twenty 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.760 nine year old young man. He was a minor league 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.080 baseball player and a few years back he bought a 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:18.320 fifty acre plot of land from his great aunt so 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.080 she could afford to move into a senior's home. He 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.520 paid one thousand dollars an acre, fifty thousand dollars for 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.439 the property, and it really wasn't valued that high. It 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.760 was way out in the country, the middle of nowhere. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:32.960 He just did it as a favor to his loved 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.280 One one day, he was out with some equipment digging 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.479 around on the property, clearing a couple of acres. He 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.400 kept hitting this flat stone everywhere he went, right under 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.480 the service there was this certain kind of rock. He 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.160 called an expert out and they discovered that his property 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.280 is filled with something called ghoshen stone. It's some of 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:59.560 the most beautiful and sought after landscaping stone around. Geologists 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.080 estimate there are twenty four million tons of goshen stone 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.199 on his property. It sells for a little over one 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.840 hundred dollars a ton. That calculates out to be a 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.480 little over two billion dollars worth of stone. You know 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:19.080 what that is? Water without rain. God increasing you in 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:25.560 unusual ways beyond your salary, beyond what was expected. Why 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.360 don't you take the limits off of God. You may 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.240 not see how this can happen, but that's not our job. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.520 Our job is to believe. Our job is to say, God, 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:39.040 I know you have some simple things in my future. God, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.600 I know you can fill my valleys in ways that 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.400 I've never imagined. So Lord, I want to thank you 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.080 for the surpassing greatness of your favor. Your faith is 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:53.120 what activates God's power. When you're in a drought, when 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.560 you're in a valley, that's when you'll be the most 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:59.360 tempted to get discouraged to complain. If you're not careful, 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.680 you'll settle that. Thank Ah, this is my lot in life. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.960 It's never gonna change. Joel I don't see any clouds 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.080 in the sky, neither did Jehoshaphat. Yet God said the 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.680 valley was going to be filled with water. It would 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.159 have been hard enough to believe if God would have 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.359 said it was going to rain. They were out in 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:22.239 the desert. It never rains out there. Yet Elisha took 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.680 it a step further and said it's not going to rain. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.840 You're not gonna see any clouds, any normal sign of 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.199 this happening. But these valleys are going to fill up 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:37.480 with water. Jehosaphat stood at a crossroads. Was he going 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:42.320 to believe that God could do something unusual, unprecedented, out 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.040 of the ordinary, or was he just going to look 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.240 at it in the natural, reason it out and think, Ah, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.160 it's not gonna happen for me. I never get any 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.879 good breaks, I'll never get well, I'll never meet the 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.919 right person. I'm in a desert. No, you've got to 0:20:55.960 --> 0:21:00.000 do what Jehoshaphat did and say, even though I don't 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.480 see any sign of this happening, even though it doesn't 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.080 make sense in the natural, even though every voice is 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.680 telling me it's impossible, I'm going to choose to believe 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.440 what God said, that he can bring me water without rain, 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.479 that he can turn this desert into a stream, that 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.120 he can make a way where there is no way. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.639 When you believe all things are possible, quit telling yourself 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.480 it's too big, it's too hard, it's not going to 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.760 work out. You can talk yourself out of God's goodness. 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.920 It may look impossible in the natural, but Remember, we 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.200 serve a supernatural God. All it takes is one touch 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:42.720 of his favor. This is what happened with the Israelites. 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.840 They were in the desert, headed toward the Promised Land. 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.760 They got tired of eating manna every day. Mana was 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.359 something like bread. They complained to Moses that they didn't 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.879 have any meat to eat. God heard the complaining and 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.480 told Moses that he was going to give them meat 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.439 for one day, not for five days, not for twenty days, 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:07.560 but for a whole month. Moses said, God, that's impossible. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.200 We're in the desert. There are two million people out here. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.520 Even if we butchered all of our flocks and all 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.000 of our herds, we wouldn't have that much meat. God 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:22.639 said Moses. Is there any limit to my power? Moses? 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.879 Did you forget that I parted the Red Sea, I 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:30.160 stopped the sun for Joshua. I protected three Hebrew teenagers 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:33.880 from a fiery furnace. Moses, don't you realize I can 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:37.919 bring water without rain. I can bring meat without a 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:41.639 grocery store. I can guide you through the desert without 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:45.119 a GPS system, using a cloud by day, a pillar 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.040 of fire by night. There's no limit to my power. 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:53.159 The scripture says God shifted the direction of the wind 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:57.080 and brought in quall from the sea and caused it 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:01.480 to fall into the camp. God simply breathed in their direction, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.879 and suddenly millions of quall were at their front door. 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.320 They didn't have to go looking for it. Honeing fishing. 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.280 The quall came to them. God thought of home delivery 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:19.640 way before Domino's. But sometimes we think, Joel, this situation's 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.879 never going to change. God is asking you what he 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:26.639 asked Moses. Is there any limit to my power? I 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.479