1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: God bless you. It's always a joy to come into 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: your homes. And if you're ever in our area, please 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: stop by and be a part of one of our services. 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 9 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: again for coming out. And I like to start with 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about these three sons that 12 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: left home and went out and prospered. They got back 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 1: together to talk about the gifts they had bought their 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: elderly mother. The first said, I built mom a big house. 15 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: The second said, I got her a fancy car. The 16 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 1: third said, since mother loves to read the Bible but 17 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: she can barely see, I got her a specially trained 18 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: parrot that can quote the entire Bible. A few months 19 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: they got a letter from their mother said, Milton, the 20 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: house you built me is way too big. Gerald the 21 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: car you bought me is way too small. But my 22 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: dearest Donald, your simple gift was my favorite. The chicken 23 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: was delicious. Hold up your Bible, say it like you 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 25 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have. 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today 27 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 28 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,839 Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 29 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 30 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about the rain 31 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 1: is coming. I was in Africa years ago and there 32 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: was a severe drought. The ground was so dry that 33 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: it was breaking apart. The vegetation had all dried up. 34 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: The livestock couldn't survive. It was bearing empty, no life 35 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: all because there had been no rain. And every person 36 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: goes through times of drought, dry seasons when we don't 37 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: see anything happening. We've got big dreams, we're standing on 38 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: God's promises, but we just don't see anything changing. It's 39 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: dry and bearing. You can be blessed in one area 40 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: and in a drought in another. Have a successful career, 41 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: but you struggle in your marriage. A drought in a relationship, 42 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: or you can have a great marriage, but you just 43 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: don't feel well, a drought in your health. I know 44 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: a lady. She has everything going for she's beautiful, talented, successful, 45 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,399 Speaker 1: but year after year she struggles with the same addiction. 46 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: And it's easy to think this is the way it's 47 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 1: always going to be. I'll always be lonely, I'll always 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: have to deal with this depression. I'll always struggle in 49 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: my finances. Now, I want to announce that in twenty fourteen, 50 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: that drought is coming to an end. Any area of brokenness, dryness, 51 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: long holiness, every empty place, if you will stay in faith, 52 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: God is going to rain down favor, rain down, healing, 53 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: rain down restoration. Psalm sixty eight says you sent an 54 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: abundant rain. Oh God, why don't you get that in 55 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: your spirit? You're about to see an abundant rain. Every 56 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: drought is only temporary. That dry season is not going 57 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: to last forever. Why the rain is coming. That addiction 58 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,359 Speaker 1: is not going to be with you your whole life. 59 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: Rain is coming. Struggle and lack is not your destiny. 60 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: It's temporary. Rain is headed your way. Some of you 61 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: have been in a drought in your health, chronic pain. 62 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: You don't feel well, you could easily settle there, or 63 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: you need to get your umbrella. I see clouds starting 64 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: to form. Maybe in your career, you feel stuck. You 65 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: can't seem to get a good break, you got passed 66 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: over for the promotion. Don't get discouraged. God has something 67 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: better for you. It's not going to be a drizzle, 68 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: not a sprinkle, but a downpour, an abundance of rain. 69 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: When you get up in the morning, you need to 70 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: declare it Father, thank you that the drought is ending 71 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: and the rain is coming. Thank you that in twenty fourteen, 72 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: I'll see an abundance of your goodness in my life. 73 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: I have a friend that lost his wife to cancer 74 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 1: a while back. They'd been married for over thirty years, 75 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: been best friends since high school, and their sons had 76 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: grown up and were successful. And just when they thought 77 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: they'd step into this new season travel and enjoy each 78 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: other's company, she came down with this sickness. For months 79 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: and months. He took care of her, treated her like 80 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: a queen, and she fought the good fight of faith. 81 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: Ended up going to heaven. Was very difficult on him. 82 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: Just this strong man has a deep faith, but it 83 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: was harder than anything he imagined. He told me how 84 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: at his house alone at night, he felt so lost, 85 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: so empty, reach over in bed, and she wasn't there anymore. 86 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: He never dreamed life was going to turn out that way. 87 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: He was in a drought. He could have gotten bitter, depressed, 88 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: would have been easy to settle in that empty place. 89 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: But he understood this principle that the drought may come. 90 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: There are dry seasons where we feel empty, but that 91 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 1: is not the end of your story. Rain is coming. 92 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: The scripture says. Weeping may endure for a night, but 93 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: joy comes in the morning. Rain can take a dry, 94 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: bearn place and bring new life. It may have been 95 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: that way for a month, for a year, or for 96 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: twenty years, but when the rain comes, things that seem 97 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: dead begin to bloom, begin to blossom, begin to flourish. 98 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 1: They just needed some rain. What you may think is 99 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: over and done, the loss of a loved one, loss 100 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,679 Speaker 1: of a dream, loss of a relationship. You feel lonely, empty, 101 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: like it could never change. No, all you need is 102 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: some rain. The God we serve is saying, I'm going 103 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,559 Speaker 1: to send rain to your barren places. It's not over. 104 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: I'm going to rain down new opportunities. New relationships, new ideas, 105 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: new dreams. Not long ago, my friend met a young 106 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: lady never been married before. They hit it off and 107 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: started dating, and recently they got engaged. Now he's got 108 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: that spring back in his stath. Weeping endured for a night, 109 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: but joy came. He was in a barn place, but 110 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: God rained down favor some of you today, you're in 111 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: that dry place. Things haven't turned out the way you'd hoped. 112 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: Been through some difficulties, but that is not the end. 113 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: Joy is coming. You may be in a drought, but 114 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: rain is headed your way. This is your year to bloom, 115 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: to blossom, to flourish. It's your year to see new growth, 116 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: new opportunities. God is about to rain down his favor 117 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: in abundance. He's going to turn your mourning into dancing, 118 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: your sorrow into joy, your loneliness into love. He's going 119 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: to give you beauty for those ashes. The drought is 120 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: coming to an end. One Kings, chapter eighteen. The Samaritans 121 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: had been in a great famine for three and a 122 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: half years. There had been no rain. The people barely 123 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: had food, barely were surviving. The prophet Elijah showed up 124 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: and said to King Ahab I hear the sound of 125 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: the abundance of rain. When he said that there wasn't 126 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: a cloud in the sky, no sign of rain. Yet 127 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,679 Speaker 1: he chose to believe what he heard in his spirit 128 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: in spite of what he saw with his eyes. He 129 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: saw drought, famine, bearingness. But down in here he heard 130 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: the sound of abundance of rain. This is what faith 131 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: is all about. You've got to believe what you hear 132 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: in your heart, even when what you see is just 133 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: the opposite. You hear abundance, but you may see lack. 134 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: You hear health, but you may see sickness. You hear rain, 135 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: but you may look around and see drought. I'm sure 136 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: Ahab thought old Elijah. The heat must be getting to him. 137 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: Because there's not a cloud in the sky. It's not 138 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: going to rain. It's easy to talk yourself out of 139 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: what God wants to do. God is saying there's about 140 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: to be an abundance of favor in your life. The 141 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: drought is coming to an end. You're going to see healing, restoration, 142 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 1: new opportunities, new growth. Now, don't be like King Gayhab 143 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 1: look around. I don't think so, Joel. The medical reports 144 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: still bad, my child still acting up, I'll never meet 145 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: the right person. Now, why don't you be like Elijah 146 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: and have a boldness to believe what God's put in 147 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: your heart. Why don't you start declaring the rain is coming, 148 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: favor is coming. Twenty fourteen is my year to bloom, 149 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,719 Speaker 1: to blossom, to flourish, to see new growth. Elijah went 150 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: on top of Mount Carmel. He asked his assistant to 151 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: go look on the other side of the mountain and 152 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: see if there's any sign of rain. He put actions 153 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: behind his faith. He was expecting it to change. The 154 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: assistant came back and said, no, Elijah, there's not a 155 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: cloud in the sky. It's not going to rain. Elijah 156 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: didn't get discouraged. He didn't think, well, I must have 157 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: heard God wrong. He told him to go back and 158 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: look again. He went and came back with the same report. Nothing, 159 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: no clouds. This happened six times. If you're going to 160 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: see abundance, you can't let people talk you out of 161 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: what God put in your heart. Don't let words of 162 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: doubt and discourage it take root. People may tell you 163 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: things like you really think you're gonna get well. My 164 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: grandmother died of that same disease. You think you're gonna 165 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: get that position. I don't think you're really qualified. Let 166 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: that go in one ear and out the other. People 167 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 1: don't determine your destiny. God does. What you hear in 168 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: your spirit is more powerful than any negative words that 169 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: have been spoken over you. If you will listen carefully, 170 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: you'll hear the sound of abundance, the sound of increase, 171 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: the sound of new levels. That's the creator of the 172 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: universe calling out your seeds of greatness. God does not 173 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: want you to stay where you are. He's got new levels, 174 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: but you got to get into agreement with him. You 175 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: got to ignite this moment and say, yes, this is 176 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: from me today. My child may be off course, but 177 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: I'm not worried. I hear the sound of restoration. I 178 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: know the rain is coming. I may not feel well, 179 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: I'm not discouraged. I hear the sound of healing. I 180 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 1: went through a loss. I'm not living depressed. I hear 181 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: the sound of new beginnings. I know the drought is 182 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: ending and the rain is coming. When I look out 183 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: at you, you know what. I hear the sound of 184 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: dreams coming to pass, the sound of marriage is being restored, 185 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: the sound of that baby you've been believing for the 186 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: sound of divine connections. You're meeting the right person. I 187 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: hear the sound of new opportunities. It's the sound of abundance. 188 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: On the seventh time, the Assistant came back and sead 189 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: of light. At this time I saw a small cloud 190 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: in the sky. Was it much? Don't get your hopes up. 191 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,839 Speaker 1: It was just about the size of a man's hand. 192 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: One thing I love about God is he can take 193 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: something small and turn it into much. God doesn't need 194 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,439 Speaker 1: the whole sky to be felled with clouds. He can 195 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: take a tiny, little cloud. Most people would dismiss it. 196 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: It's nothing, it's insignificant. Yet God can bring a downpour 197 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: out of it. What am I saying? You don't need 198 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: a bunch of people behind you. You just need the 199 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: right person behind you. You don't have to be the 200 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: most powerful, the most influential. God used a teenage girl 201 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: named Esther, an orphan, to save all of Israel. God 202 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: used a donkey to speak to a prophet no offense, 203 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: but most of us don't pay any attention to a donkey. 204 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,599 Speaker 1: It's insignificant. God used a slingshot and a few stones 205 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,840 Speaker 1: to defeat Goliath and put David, a shepherd boy with 206 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: no training on the throne of Israel. Don't discount the 207 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: little cloud. God can take something small and turn it 208 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: into something great. That's how Lakewood got started. Nineteen fifty nine, 209 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: my dad decided to leave the church. He was passed. 210 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 1: He felt limited by the denomination he was in. He 211 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: heard the sound of something bigger on the inside. Dad. 212 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: He wanted to start a new church, but he didn't 213 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: have any money. He didn't have a building. There wasn't 214 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: a cloud in the sky. But one of his neighbors said, John, 215 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: I've got an old rundown feed store that we're not 216 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,960 Speaker 1: using anymore. You're welcome to hold your surfaces there. This 217 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: little wood frame building had holes in the floor, still 218 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: had hay and feed in it. My parents and some 219 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 1: others they cleaned it out, put ninety wooden chairs and 220 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: started Lakewood Church. We come a long way, baby, don't 221 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: despise that day small beginnings. Some of you, like Elijah, 222 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: All you can see is a little cloud, a little 223 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: glimmer of hope. It doesn't look like much. Every voice 224 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: tells you don't get your hopes up. You're gonna be 225 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: disappointed again. Nothing's gonna change. I want to tell you 226 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: just the opposite. Get your hopes up, find your umbrella, 227 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 1: put your raincoade on. God's about to rain down an 228 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: abundance of favor. There's gonna be an abundance of goodness 229 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: in your life. God has done it in the past, 230 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: He's gonna do it in the future. That drought is 231 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: coming to an end. Elijah told King Aheb, you better 232 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: get in your chariot and take off, because the sound 233 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 1: of abundance that I've heard on the inside is about 234 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: to come to pass on the outside. A Hab took 235 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: off in his chariot. Elijah took off running. This was 236 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: before there was any sign of rain. Notice Elijah's faith. 237 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: He was making plans for abundance when all he saw 238 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: was a little cloud. If you wait around, discourage negative, 239 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it. You'll be waiting 240 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: your whole life. You got to do like Elijah and 241 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: start making plans for abundance. Start making plans for increase. 242 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: Start talking like it's gonna happen. Not if I get well, 243 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: but when I get well. Not if I break this addiction, 244 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: but when I break this addiction. Not if I start 245 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: my business, but when I start my new business, you've 246 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 1: got to show God that you're trusting him. This is 247 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: what Elijah did. As he was heading out. The heavens 248 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: opened up, the rains came pouring down. The three and 249 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: a half year draft was over. Well, Joel, that sounds great, 250 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: but I don't even see a little cloud in my sky. 251 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: I've been believing to meet the right person, but I 252 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: hadn't had a date in twenty seven years. I don't 253 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: see how it could happen. Just because you don't see anything, 254 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: does it mean God's not working? You don't know what 255 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: God is up to behind the scenes. A few months ago, 256 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: I was in my backyard. It's a beautiful day, sunny, 257 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: blue and clear, and I was in a lawn chair, 258 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: just relaxing, enjoying the day. All of a sudden, out 259 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: of nowhere, it began to rain. I did not see 260 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: one cloud in the sky. It was as blue as 261 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 1: can be. The sun was out very bright. But for 262 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: about three minutes there was this downpour. I thought, where 263 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: is this rain coming from. It was like God said, Joel, 264 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: I can make it rain whenever I want to. I 265 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: can use a little cloud, a big cloud, or no cloud. 266 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: I'm God. I'm the all powerful creator of the universe. 267 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: When I say rain, I don't need a cloud. When 268 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: I say healing, I don't have to have medicine. When 269 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: I say promotion, I don't need your boss's approval. When 270 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: I see abundance, I don't need a bank. I'm not 271 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: limited by the natural. I'm a supernatural God. All of 272 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: your circumstances may say you'll never get well, you'll never 273 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: get out of debt, you'll never accomplish your dreams. There's 274 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: not a cloud in the sky. But take heart, he's 275 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: still God. He's still on the throne. He doesn't eat 276 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: a cloud to make it rain. I met a man 277 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: after our services a while back, and he'd had ninety 278 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: percent of his vocal cords removed. Had some kind of infection. 279 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: It wouldn't go away, and finally the doctors had to 280 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 1: remove them. He was told that he would never be 281 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: able to speak, that he might be able to make 282 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: some sounds, but he would never be able to speak. 283 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: But he talked to me just like I'm talking to you. 284 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: I didn't know anything was wrong. The doctors couldn't explain it. 285 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: They said, medically speaking, you shouldn't be able to talk. 286 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,719 Speaker 1: What was that? God making it rain without a cloud. 287 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: God can do what medical science cannot do. Don't talk 288 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: yourself out of it. Don't let your circumstances discourage you. 289 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 1: Everything doesn't have to look the way you think it 290 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: should look. God's ways are not our ways. God brought 291 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: water out of a rock. Jesus told Peter to go 292 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: catch a fish, open his mouth, and there was the 293 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: money he needed for taxes. God calls a young lady 294 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: named Mary to have a baby without knowing a man. 295 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 1: God healed my mother from terminal cancer without treatment. God 296 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: put me up here in front of a lot of 297 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 1: people without going to seminary. God gave me a beautiful 298 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:24,239 Speaker 1: wife without find a mate dot com. He's God. He 299 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: can use those things. Or he can do it another way, 300 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: without a cloud, without a bank, without the treatment, without 301 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: the experience. God has ways to make it rain in 302 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: your life that you've never dreamed of. You don't have 303 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: to figure everything out. All you've got to do is 304 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: believe in fact. It says in Proverbs, lean not to 305 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: your own understanding. Sometimes there is no logical solution. You 306 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: got to turn your mind off if you're constantly trying 307 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: to figure it out. That's just going to make you discouraged, depressed, frustrated. 308 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,160 Speaker 1: Just because you don't see away doesn't mean that God 309 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: doesn't have a way. I heard a story about a 310 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: little girl that wanted a kitten so badly. She kept 311 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: asking her mother week after week. But her mom didn't 312 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: want any more pets. She told her no again and again. 313 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: This little girl wouldn't let up. For months, she continued 314 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: asking for that kitten. Finally, her mother said, listen, honey, 315 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: if God gives you a kitten, I'll let you keep it. 316 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: The little girl didn't know any better. She went out 317 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: in her backyard, got on her knees, and said, God, 318 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: please give me a kitten. When she finished praying with 319 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: her mother watching, this kitten came flying out of the 320 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: air and landed, unharmed, right beside her. The mother thought 321 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: she was seeing things. She went outside, looked around. There 322 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,360 Speaker 1: was no tree overhead. It was like this kitten had 323 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: been rained down from the heavens. Little girl picked it up. 324 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for my kitten. Several weeks later, the 325 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 1: mother learned that one of her neighbors that lived behind 326 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 1: her and about four houses down, was trying to get 327 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: this little kitten out of a small tree. The father 328 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,919 Speaker 1: couldn't reach it with his ladder, so he tied a 329 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: rope around the tree and the other end to the 330 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: bumper of his car. He began to pull forward to 331 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: bend the tree over. When he got it bent far 332 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,439 Speaker 1: enough over where he thought he could get it, the 333 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: rope broke and the tree acted like a slingshop. It 334 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: slung that kitten over two hundred yards away, landed right 335 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: by that little girl. Friends, God knows how to make 336 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: it rain in your life. He doesn't need a cloud. 337 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: He may not do it in an ordinary way. Quit 338 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: trying to figure out how it's going to happen, and 339 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: just believe that it will happen. I received the letter 340 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: from a young lady named Alana. She and her parents brother. 341 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: They've been a part of Lakewood for about ten years. 342 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 1: Was born with spina bifidite. At several months old, she 343 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: had to have surgery to untether her spinal cord. Her 344 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 1: parents were told she had probably never be able to walk, 345 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,159 Speaker 1: to run, or do any kind of physical activity, but 346 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: they believe that God can make a way even when 347 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: we don't see anyway. Every day, her mother would do 348 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:25,360 Speaker 1: leg exercises with little Alana. Much to the doctor's surprise, 349 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: at seven months old, she started walking. He's like God, 350 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: putting exclamation point on it. She grew up and joined 351 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: our children's choir, loved to sing, love to dance. Life 352 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: was good, but at ten years old, she had complications 353 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 1: with her spinal cord. Had to have an emergency surgery. 354 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: When she woke up, she was paralyzed from the neck down. 355 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: The doctor's told her, I'm sorry, Elana, you'll never be 356 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: able to walk again. She could have gotten depressed, thought, well, 357 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: just my luck. I knew this was coming. No, at 358 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: ten years old, she said the doctors. God did it 359 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 1: for me once, He'll do it for me again. She said, 360 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: I walked in here on my own, and I'll walk 361 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: out of here on my own. She was in a drought, 362 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: but like Elijah, she heard the sound of rain. Every 363 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: circumstance said you're paralyzed. Just accept it. Your life is limited. 364 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: But on the inside she heard God saying, this is 365 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: not the end of your story. You will walk again. 366 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: I've got a destiny for you to fulfill. When she 367 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: told the doctor, I walked in here and I'll walk 368 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 1: out right then, for the first time since the surgery, 369 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: she felt her toes begin to move. Her therapist told her, 370 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: out of all of my patients with spina bifida, you're 371 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: the only one that can walk without leg braces. Her 372 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: doctors wrote on their report, there is no scientific explanation 373 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: as to why Alena is the way she is. What 374 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: was that God making it rain without a cloud. Her 375 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: doctors are so impressed they call her God's rock star. 376 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: Atlanta recently graduated from an early college program and is 377 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: about to get her nursing degree. Her dream is to 378 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: become a pediatric neurosurgeon to help other children in her 379 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 1: same condition. Here's in her family, right here on the 380 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: front road. Come on, Atlanta, where you stand up for 381 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 1: We're proud of you. You may be in a drought today, 382 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: you don't see any cloud in the sky, but remember 383 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: God doesn't need a cloud. He did it for Atlanta. 384 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 1: He can do it for you. Now. You got to 385 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: get in agreement. Start saying Father, thank you that the 386 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: rain is coming, Think you that healing's coming, Think you 387 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: that restoration is on its way. Dare to make some 388 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: declarations of faith like she did. I walked in here 389 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: on my own and I will walk out. Why the 390 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: God I serve is a rain making God. This is 391 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: what Abraham did when he was waiting for the child 392 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: that God promised him. He was way too old. It 393 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: looked impossible, but the scripture says he grew strong in 394 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: faith by giving praise to God. He got up every 395 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: morning and said, Lord, thank you that your rain is coming. 396 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: Think you that my baby is on his way. Thinking 397 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: that you're faithful to your word. He kept thanking God 398 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: for what he heard in his spirit. Like Abraham, God 399 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: has put dreams in your heart. He's spoken promises over you. 400 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: Deep down, you know you'll get well. You know you'll 401 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: break that addiction. You know you will accomplish your dreams. 402 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: But in the natural it looks impossible. You don't see 403 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: how the odds are against you. It's been so long. 404 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: No God is saying what I started in your life, 405 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 1: I will finish. Rain is coming. The clouds are starting 406 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: to form. I can hear some thunder rumbling in the distance. 407 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: Now keep praying, keep believing, keep expecting one touch of 408 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: God's favor, one downpour, and like Atlanta, you'll be able 409 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 1: to walk again. Like Abraham, the baby will suddenly be conceived. 410 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 1: The drought will come to an end. I have a 411 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: pastor friend. He needed a larger auditorium. Church was really growing, 412 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: but he didn't have any way to expand. He was landlocked. 413 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: Year after year, he kept searching, looking at the real 414 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: estate listings, driving the city, but nothing was available. Door 415 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: after door had closed. He could have gotten discouraged, but 416 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: he just kept praying, kept believing, kept thanking God that 417 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 1: the rain was coming. Last fall, a large retail store 418 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: about two miles from his church unexpectedly went out of business, 419 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: broke their lease. The owners of the property came to 420 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: him and said, would you like to lease our building 421 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: for your church? Now he has four times the space, 422 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: four times the park in a premier location. He said, Joel, 423 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: it's better than anything I ever imagined. What was that? 424 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: A downpour of God's goodness. Suddenly the drought came to 425 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: an end. You need to get ready. In twenty fourteen, 426 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: rain is going to come looking for you. You're not 427 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: gonna have to go after it. Good breaks, opportunities, restoration, 428 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 1: divine connections is going to track you down. Friends, I 429 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: hear the sound of an abundance of rain. You need 430 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: to get your umbrellas. God is about to show you 431 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: a downpour of His favor. Every drought in your life 432 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: is coming to an end. The dry places, the barren 433 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: spots are about to see new life. This is your 434 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: year to bloom, to blossom, to flourish. Now get up 435 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: every morning expecting it. Lord, thank you that your rain 436 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: is coming. If you do this, I believe and declare, 437 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 1: you're going to see not a trickle, not a sprinkle, 438 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: but a downpour of God's goodness and Abundance's so brain 439 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, in Jesus's name, if you receive it, 440 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: can you say in today we never like to close 441 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus 442 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 1: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 443 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 444 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: into my heart. I'll make you my lord and savior. Friends, 445 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 446 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,640 Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 447 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: God first place. He's going to take your places that 448 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: you've never dreamed of. 449 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,199 Speaker 2: Sometimes the stresses of life can feel like you're just 450 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 2: getting by. God wants to bless us, But how do 451 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 2: you move from barely enough to just enough to more 452 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 2: than enough. 453 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: We all face difficulties and people that are hard to 454 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: deal with. You can't eliminate all the stress, but if 455 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: you'll handle it the right way, you don't have to 456 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: live stressed out. Much of our first is we're trying 457 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: to control things that we can't control, letting things stress 458 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: us that don't have to. I'd love to send you 459 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: by new book, fifty five Ways to be Blessed and 460 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: Not Stressed. I'll show you practical things you can do 461 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: to live more peaceful and enjoy each day. 462 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 2: You can move from stressed to blessed and fully realize 463 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 2: God's goodness, favor, and blessings. As our way of saying 464 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 2: thank you for your gift of any amount to the ministry, 465 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 2: this month, Juel and Victoria would like to send you 466 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 2: this powerful life transforming resource, fifty five Ways to be 467 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 2: Blessed and Not Stressed. With this book, you'll not just 468 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 2: see one pathway forward, but fifty five powerful life changing 469 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 2: ways to kill the stress and give life to a 470 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 2: life of blessing. These fifty five promises will open God's 471 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: floodgates and release double the impact of his divine direction. 472 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,479 Speaker 2: Opportunity and blessing every day. Now expect, declare, and receive 473 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 2: a blessed not stressed. Over the top outpouring in your life. 474 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: How much time are you spending worried, upset and frustrated. 475 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: Life is too short to live stressed. If you'll make 476 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: some simple adjustments, you can live blessed and not stressed. 477 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: Victory and I want you to know we're praying for you, 478 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: that you'll experience peace and joy and see your dreams 479 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: come to pass. Thank you so much for your prayers 480 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,959 Speaker 1: and support. Your generosity is impacting lives all over the world. 481 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online Sunday mornings, download 482 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: our daily podcast, listen on Serious XM YouTube social media. 483 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: But until we meet again, let the Lord bless you 484 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: and keep you. 485 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of fifty five Ways 486 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 2: to be Blessed and not stressed today. Visit Joelostein dot 487 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 2: com or call eight eight eight five six seven Joel