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One line is for the 49 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 5: men who were the head of the house. The other 50 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 5: line is for the men who let the woman be 51 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 5: the head of the house. The line where the woman 52 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 5: ran the house was one hundred miles long. The other 53 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 5: line only had one man in it. God said, men, 54 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 5: I'm ashamed of you. I created you to be the head, 55 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 5: but only one man stood up to make me proud. 56 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 5: He looked at the man, said, son, tell them, how 57 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 5: did you manage to be the only one in this line. 58 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 4: The man looked confused and said, I don't know. 59 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 5: My wife told me to send here. Say it like 60 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 5: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 61 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 5: it says I am. I have what it says I have. 62 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 5: I can do what it says I can do. Today 63 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 64 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. I will 65 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name. 66 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 4: God bless you. 67 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about seeing beyond 68 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 5: the logical. On the way to your destiny, you will 69 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 5: face dreams that you can't accomplish on your own, obstacles 70 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 5: that are too big for you, people that come against 71 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 5: you that are more powerful. When you look at the 72 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 5: situation in the natural and you reason it out. 73 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 4: There's no way. 74 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 5: The medical report says you can't get well. You don't 75 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 5: have the funding for your dreams. You've had the addiction 76 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 5: for years. You tried, but you couldn't break it. All 77 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 5: of your logic says, just accept it. 78 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 4: It's not meant to be. But this is what faith 79 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 4: is all about. 80 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 5: God will put you in situations on purpose where. 81 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 4: There is no solution in the natural. That's a test. 82 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 4: Are you going to get discouraged and give up on your. 83 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 5: Dreams or are you going to walk by faith and 84 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 5: not by sight. Jesus said to Peter in Matthew chapter sixteen, 85 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 5: you are a dangerous trap to me, for you are 86 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 5: seeing things only from a human point of view and 87 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 5: not from God's. 88 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 4: It's significant that he used such a strong word. 89 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 5: He said, Peter, it's dangerous to look at it only 90 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 5: from the logical. He could have said, Peter, you need 91 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 5: to have more faith, You need to think better, be. 92 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 4: A little more positive. 93 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 5: The reason he said dangerous is you can miss your 94 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 5: destiny if you only look at things from a natural perspective. 95 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 4: God is supernatural. 96 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 5: When you get in agreement with him, there is a 97 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 5: force behind you that will make things happen that. 98 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 4: You can't make happen. 99 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 5: He will open doors that no person can shut. He 100 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 5: will do what medicine cannot do. You will defeat giants 101 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 5: that are much bigger. You're not doing life on your own. 102 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 5: The Most High God is breathing in your direction. All 103 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 5: he needs is a little faith. 104 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 4: God. I don't see a way. 105 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 5: My reasoning says it's not going to happen, but I 106 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 5: know you have a way. 107 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 4: I don't have the funding for my dreams, but God, 108 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 4: I know you own it all. 109 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 5: My child is off course, it doesn't look good, but 110 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 5: I believe. As for me and my house, we will 111 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 5: serve the Lord. Don't be limited by your logic. Logic 112 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 5: can be a dream stealer. If you look at your 113 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 5: situation only from a human point of view, what you 114 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 5: can do, your resources, your connections, your experience, then you're going. 115 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 4: To miss the greatness God put in you. The Book 116 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 4: of Genesis. 117 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 5: Tells about how God created the heavens and the earth. 118 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 5: On the first day, he said, let there be light, 119 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 5: and light came. The second day he separated the waters 120 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 5: from the sky. Third day he created plants and trees. 121 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 5: The fourth day, he made the sun. 122 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 4: And the moon. 123 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 5: What's interesting is there was light on the first day, 124 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 5: but he didn't make the sun until. 125 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 4: The fourth day. 126 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 5: How can you have light without the sun. God was 127 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 5: showing us he's not logical. He's supernatural. He's going to 128 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 5: do things in your life that are unexplainable, things that 129 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 5: don't make sense. How could my mother be alive forty 130 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 5: one years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. That's not logical. 131 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 5: That divides the odds. That's the God we serve. How 132 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 5: could I be up here today. I didn't have the training, 133 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 5: the experience. I've never been to seminary. 134 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 4: But God doesn't choose the way we choose. 135 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 5: He does things that are uncommon, unusual, out of the ordinary. 136 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 5: How could we be having church in the former Compact 137 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 5: Center a basketball arena. The company that was against us 138 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 5: trying to get the facility was the largest taxpayer in Texas, 139 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 5: a huge real estate company. 140 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 4: It was David versus Goliath. 141 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,119 Speaker 5: They had more connections, more funds, more experience. But God 142 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 5: is not intimidated by the side of your problem. He's 143 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 5: not losing sleep over who's against you. One angel in 144 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 5: the Old Testament defeated one hundred and eighty. 145 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 4: Five thousand of the enemies of Israel. 146 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 5: God being for you is more than the world being 147 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 5: against you. You may have some big obstacles, but you 148 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 5: have to remind yourself we serve a big God. Sometimes 149 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 5: he'll let the odds be against you on purpose, so 150 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 5: when he turns it around, it will be a bigger miracle. 151 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 5: When we were trying to acquire the Compact Center, a 152 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 5: very influential business leader in our city was at a 153 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 5: banquet with a good friend of mine. 154 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 4: But he didn't know my friend knew me. 155 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 5: He laughed and said, very sarcastically, it will be a 156 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 5: cold day in hell before Lakewood gets the Compact Center. 157 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 5: And every time I drive up to our building and 158 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 5: see that Lakewood sign, I think it must be a cold. 159 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 4: Day in hell, because here we are. 160 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 5: The promises God put in your heart. What He's whispered 161 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 5: to you in the night may not seem possible. 162 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 4: It's too big, it's never happened for your family. You 163 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 4: don't have the experience. 164 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 5: All your logic says, there's no way that's okay. Jesus 165 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 5: said in Matthew nineteen. Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But 166 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 5: with God all things are possible. 167 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 4: Here's the question. 168 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 5: Are you going to let your human reasoning what you 169 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 5: can see what's natural, set the limits for your life, 170 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 5: or are you going to see beyond the logical? Are 171 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 5: you going to believe that the all powerful creator of 172 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 5: the universe, the God who flung stars into space, the 173 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 5: God who parts red seas, the God who brings light 174 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 5: without the sun, will make a way. Will you don't 175 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 5: see away? I want to show you an example. I 176 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 5: have these Roman numerals up here. The letter I and 177 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 5: the letter X. In Roman numerals is one, X is ten. 178 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 5: When the smaller number is in front of the larger number, 179 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 5: then you subtract the smaller so ten minus one this 180 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 5: is nine. My question is, with one stroke of the pen, 181 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 5: can you make this six? If I put another I, 182 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 5: that would be eight. You can't put two, just one stroke. 183 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 5: The in Roman numerals is five. If you put that, 184 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 5: that would make it four. 185 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 4: There are no more options. How do you make this six? 186 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 5: Here's how I'm going to add I'm going to add 187 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 5: the S six. 188 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 4: It fell six. 189 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 5: I had to think in Roman numerals you were limited. 190 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 4: To one way. That's the way it is with God. 191 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 4: We look at things in the natural. 192 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 5: We look at things in the natural, we don't see 193 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 5: a way. 194 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 4: God's step sentence says, I'm supernatural. My ways are your ways. 195 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 5: We come to a dead end at the Red Sea 196 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 5: and think, okay, God, we're stuck. 197 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 4: We're done. God says, you're not done. 198 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 5: I part red seas, I bring water out of a rock, 199 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 5: I open glind eyes. 200 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 4: I make you fireproof in a furnace. Don't be limited 201 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 4: by your logic. God defies logic. This is what happened 202 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 4: with Mary. 203 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 5: She was a teenager living in Nazareth, engaged to a 204 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 5: young man named Joseph. An angel peard unto her, said, Mary, 205 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 5: you will give birth. 206 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 4: To a son without knowing a man. You are to 207 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 4: name him Jesus. 208 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 5: The scripture says Mary was confused and disturbed. I can understand. 209 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 5: God just gave her a promise that seemed impossible. You 210 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 5: can't have a baby without a man. That defies the 211 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 5: laws of nature. Mary said to the angel, how can 212 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 5: I have a child? 213 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 4: I'm a virgin. 214 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 5: The angel said, the spirit of the Most High will 215 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 5: come upon you and cause you to concede. The angel 216 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 5: didn't get upset because she didn't believe. He didn't say 217 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 5: too bad, Mary, you blew it. God promised it, but 218 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 5: you didn't have enough faith. He simply helped her have 219 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 5: a new perspective. He was saying, in effect, Mary, you're 220 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 5: looking at it in the natural, and you're right. 221 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 4: It's not possible in your own ability. 222 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 5: It won't happen, but the spirit of God will make 223 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 5: it happen. I believe God sent me like this angel 224 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 5: to help you have. 225 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 4: The right perspective. 226 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 5: There is a force that you can't see, a power 227 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 5: that will cause the impossible to become possible. Now, Mary 228 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 5: was at a critical point. What she did next would 229 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 5: determine whether she'd have the baby. She could have said 230 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 5: to the angel, I don't think so. You need to 231 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 5: go back and take biology. You can't have a baby 232 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 5: without a man. But Mary did what we all have 233 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 5: to do. She looked beyond the logical. She didn't let 234 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 5: her human reasoning talk her out of it. She said 235 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 5: to the angel, be it under me. 236 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:04,239 Speaker 4: Even as you have said. 237 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 5: She was saying, I don't see how seems impossible. But God, 238 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 5: I'm in agreement with you. 239 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 4: Let it happen. 240 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 5: Like with Mary, God is going to put promises in 241 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 5: your heart. 242 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 4: That don't make sense. 243 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 5: It's no way you can get well, no way you 244 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 5: can get your business off the ground, no way you 245 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 5: can have the baby. You've gone through all the fertility treatments. 246 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 5: You've been told no again and again. You're right where 247 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 5: Mary was. Are you going to keep seeing it only 248 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 5: from a human point of view or are you going 249 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 5: to get in agreement with God and believe what the 250 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 5: angel said? 251 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 4: How can this happen? 252 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 5: It's not going to be your own strength, your own intellect, 253 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 5: your own hard work. The spirit of the Living God 254 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 5: will make it happen. It's going to be supernatural, something 255 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 5: you can't explain. 256 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 4: You can't take credit for it. 257 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 5: Everyone will know it's the hind of God. I talked 258 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 5: to a man that had cancer on his vocal chords. 259 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,600 Speaker 5: He was here in town for surgery at m. D. 260 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 5: Anderson stopped by the church and asked us to pray 261 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 5: for him. The doctors were going to remove most of 262 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 5: his vocal cords. He was told that he would be 263 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 5: able to make sounds, but he wouldn't be able to talk. 264 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 4: From a human perspective. It didn't look good. 265 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 5: The odds were against him. I told him what I'm 266 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 5: telling you. God has the final say. He controls the 267 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 5: universe when you believe all things are possible. 268 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 4: A couple of weeks later, he was back at church and. 269 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 5: He came up to me, talking just as clearly as 270 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 5: I'm talking to you. 271 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 4: I said, what happened? You didn't have the surgery. 272 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 5: He smiled real big and he said, yes, I had 273 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 5: the surgery, but I can still talk like I could before. 274 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 5: Ninety percent of his vocal cords were removed, and he 275 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 5: can still talk normally. Doctors can't explain it, the surgeon said, 276 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 5: in all of his years practicing. 277 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 4: He's never seen or heard of this. 278 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 5: That's God bringing light without a sun, bringing a baby 279 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 5: without a man. 280 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 4: Jesus said to. 281 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 5: The Pharisees in John chapter eight, you judge me with 282 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 5: all your human limitations. Don't put your human limitations on 283 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 5: the God who spoke worlds into existence. God is not 284 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 5: limited by the laws of medicine, the laws of economics, 285 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 5: the laws of nature, the laws of science. When he's 286 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 5: ready to bless you. He doesn't check with your boss. 287 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 5: He doesn't look at your four one K, he doesn't 288 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 5: google the stock market report. He doesn't see what friends 289 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 5: you have, what family you come from. He's not moved 290 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 5: by the natural, He's supernatural. When the Israelites were in 291 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 5: the desert, they complained to Moses that they didn't have 292 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 5: any meat to eat. 293 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 4: They were tired of eating the manna. 294 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 5: Every day, and so Moses went to God and said, God, 295 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 5: these people won't meet. 296 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 4: You know, I can't get that out in the desert. 297 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 4: I said, in effect, Moses, that's no problem for me. 298 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 5: I'll give you meat for a whole month. Moses said, God, 299 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 5: that's impossible. 300 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 4: Do you see where we are. 301 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 5: If we butchered all of our flocks, all of our herds, 302 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 5: we wouldn't have enough meat for these two million people, 303 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 5: even for one meal. There were no grocery stores out 304 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 5: there where they could buy food, no uber eats, no 305 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 5: dominoes deliveries. From a logical perspective, Moses was right. But 306 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 5: God defies logic. He's not limited by what limits us. 307 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 5: One touch of his favor and the impossible becomes possible. 308 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 5: God shifted the winds and millions of quell flew into 309 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 5: their camp. They were three or four feet off the ground. 310 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 5: People grabbed all they wanted. For a month, they had 311 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 5: steak dinners out in the middle of the desert. What's 312 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 5: significant is quall don't normally fly that far away from water. 313 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 5: Find a quaill in the middle of the desert. But 314 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 5: God controls the universe. If you'll take the limits off 315 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 5: of him, he'll cause opportunity to find you. Good breaks 316 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 5: will chase you down the right people will come knocking 317 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 5: at your door. Now, don't do like Moses and tell 318 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 5: God all the reasons. You can't be blessed, you can't 319 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 5: get well, you can't accomplish your dream. You're studying the facts, 320 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 5: the circumstances, what people say, what normally happens. The problem 321 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 5: is you'll being limited by your logic. You're seeing it 322 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 5: only from a human point of view. God says, that's dangerous. 323 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 5: You can miss your quall, you can miss your compact center, 324 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 5: you can miss your healing. Have a new perspective. God, 325 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 5: I'm in the desert. It seems impossible to me, but 326 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 5: I know you can. 327 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 4: Do the impossible. 328 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 5: You make rivers in the desert, You turn shepherds into kings, 329 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 5: You bring babies out of barren wounds. 330 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 4: You open doors that are dead bolted. 331 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 5: The scripture says, is there anything too hard for the Lord? 332 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 5: I was out riding my bike the other day down 333 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 5: this long path toward downtown. I saw a young man 334 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 5: on a skateboard. 335 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 4: A couple hundred yards in front of me. 336 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 5: I wrote about five minutes and noticed that I wasn't 337 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 5: gaining on him. Now, I thought, that's strange. I'm on 338 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 5: this large bike with big wheels. I'm peddling fast. He's 339 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 5: on that little skateboard with little. 340 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 4: Three inch wheels. Yet he's out pacing me. 341 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 3: Now. 342 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,640 Speaker 5: At one point we were both going up this large hill. 343 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 5: He was just scooting along no problem. 344 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 4: I was huffing, puffing trying to get up the hill. 345 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 5: He was doing it with such ease. Didn't make sense 346 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 5: to me. We went our separate ways. About thirty minutes, 347 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,320 Speaker 5: I saw him sitting on. 348 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 4: A park bench. He had his skateboard turned over to 349 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 4: the side. 350 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 5: What I didn't realize is his skateboard had a motor 351 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 5: on it. 352 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 4: He had the remote control in his hand. 353 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 5: The reason he was going faster, further with less effort 354 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 5: is he had an advantage. 355 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 4: He had something that I couldn't see. 356 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 5: In the same way as a child of the most high, 357 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 5: you have an advantage. There is a force breathing in 358 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 5: your direction. That's going to cause you to defy the odds. 359 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 5: You're going to go further faster, with less struggle. People 360 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 5: are going to look at you and not understand it. 361 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 5: I think, how could you get out of that neighborhood? 362 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,360 Speaker 5: I saw how you were raised. They're looking at it 363 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 5: from a human point of view. What they can't see 364 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 5: is you have a motor, an anointing, a favor of 365 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 5: blessing on your life. 366 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 4: How could you lead your company in sales? 367 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 5: You don't have the experience. Logically speaking, they're correct. But 368 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 5: God is going to do in your life is going 369 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 5: to defy the logic. How could you beat that sickness? 370 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 5: The medical report says no way. Yes, But there's another 371 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 5: report you can't see. Jehovah Raphah, the Lord, my healer, 372 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 5: is breathing. 373 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 4: On my life. 374 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 5: Don't judge your future by your human limitations. What God 375 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 5: is about to do in your life is going to 376 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 5: amaze you. The doors he's about to open, the influence. 377 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 4: He's going to. 378 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 5: Give you the resources, the ideas, the creativity, the divine connections. Now, 379 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 5: the enemy would love to keep you stuck with a 380 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 5: limited mindset, focus only on the logical Joel I don't 381 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 5: have the funds. My back's been hurting for years, my 382 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 5: child's acting up, my boss doesn't treat me right. I 383 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 5: don't come from an influential family. Do you think that 384 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 5: can stop your destiny? That the God who breathed life 385 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 5: into you, who chose you before you could choose him, 386 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 5: is somehow. 387 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 4: At a loss of how to bring you into your purpose? 388 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 5: Or could it be that you're seeing things only from 389 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 5: a human perspective. 390 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 4: Prayer is God, open. 391 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 5: Our eyes, Help us to see what you see, not 392 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 5: just a logical point of view, but a heavenly perspective. 393 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 5: Help us to realize that you were all powerful, that 394 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 5: you were in control, that. 395 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 4: You were for us. Acts, Chapter twenty seven. 396 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 5: The Apostle Paul had been on a boat headed to 397 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 5: Rome for fourteen days when it was shipwrecked. They all 398 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,959 Speaker 5: swam to the shore on this small island. Paul went 399 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 5: over to pick up some sticks to make a fire. 400 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 5: A poisonous snake bit his wrist latched on wouldn't let go. 401 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 5: The teeth were penetrating the skin, the venom going in. 402 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 5: The natives on the island knew exactly what was going 403 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 5: to happen. 404 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 4: They had seen it time and time again. 405 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 5: When someone was bitten, the scripture says they would swell up, 406 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 5: get sick, and die. 407 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 4: The natives waited and waited and waited. 408 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 5: The problem was nobody told Paul he was supposed to die. 409 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 5: Sometimes what you don't know is good for you. If 410 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 5: you get a negative report and you overanalyze it, you 411 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 5: reason it out, study it all day, that's going to 412 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 5: take your faith. That's why the scripture says, lean not 413 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 5: to your own understanding. Take this in the right sense, 414 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 5: but sometimes you have to turn your mind off. 415 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 4: Faith is not of the mind. Faith is of the heart. 416 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 5: Yes, we should use common sense make good decisions, but 417 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 5: don't let your logic. 418 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 4: Talk you out of what God put in your heart. 419 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 5: God told Paul that he was going to stand before Caesar, 420 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 5: and Paul simply shook the snake off when about his business. 421 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 5: It never did affect him. The people on the island 422 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 5: were so amazed they thought he was a god. But 423 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,479 Speaker 5: if Paul would have made the mistake of seeing it 424 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 5: only from a logical human point of view, knowing that 425 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 5: he had just been bitten by a poisonous snake, he 426 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,400 Speaker 5: would have been worried, afraid. 427 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 4: What am I going to do. 428 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 5: Maybe the venom would have harmed them, Maybe he would 429 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 5: have gotten said, when things come against you, it's easy 430 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 5: to look at it only in the natural. 431 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 4: Look at this medical report. What are we going to do? 432 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 5: My business had a setback, my child got in trouble. 433 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 5: You have to remind yourself. God is still on the throne. 434 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 5: Nothing can snatch you out of his hands. He wouldn't 435 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 5: have allowed it if he didn't already. 436 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 4: Have a solution. 437 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 5: We knew a man growing up named Casey, and he 438 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 5: owned a company that moved houses. One day, they had 439 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 5: traveled several hours down these country roads moving this house, 440 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 5: having to raise the power lines, move the signage to 441 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 5: clear the way, and they finally made it to their destination. 442 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 5: Casey realized they had forgotten their main chain that they 443 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 5: needed to unload the house. It was several hours back 444 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 5: to the city late in the day. He didn't want 445 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 5: to leave the house on the side of the road, 446 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 5: so he told his men that he was going to 447 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 5: pray and ask God to give him a chain. They 448 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 5: kind of snickered, said sarcastically. 449 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 4: What are you going to do? 450 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 5: Pray God that rains down a chain from heaven? They 451 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 5: all laughed, made fun. Casey said, God, I know there's 452 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 5: nothing too hard for you, and I don't see how 453 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 5: in the natural. Nothing in my logic says this makes sense. 454 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 5: But I know you're supernatural. You have ways that I've 455 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 5: never thought of. So I'm asking you to give me 456 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 5: a chain. All of his men were rolling their eyes, 457 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 5: but Jesus said, don't judge me with your human limitations. 458 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 5: Don't put me in the same category of what you 459 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 5: can do. 460 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 4: I am all powerful. When you're not limited by your logic. 461 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 4: You'll pray bold prayers. 462 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 5: You'll shake off a snake like Paul a bad break 463 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 5: and go about your business. You'll believe, or you'll compact 464 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 5: centers for your dreams. 465 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 4: For what looks unlikely. 466 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 5: Casey and his men were standing on the side of 467 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 5: the road and there was a big curve right in 468 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 5: in front of them, out in the middle of nowhere, 469 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 5: trying to figure out what they were going to do. 470 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 5: About that time, this old beat up pickup truck came 471 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 5: buryling down the road going way too fast. It had 472 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 5: its tailgate open. When it took that sharp curve, A 473 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 5: chain slung out of the back of the bed slid 474 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 5: across the road. Curled up at Casey's feet. He picked 475 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 5: it up and said, here's my chain. Boys, let's go 476 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 5: to work. Is there anything too hard for the Lord? 477 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 5: Are you basing your prayers on your ability, your connections, 478 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 5: your finances. From a natural, logical point of view, You're 479 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 5: going to miss the fullness of what God has in store. 480 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:43,360 Speaker 4: It's dangerous to. 481 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 5: Limit him to only what you think can happen. Take 482 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 5: the limits off. Pray some bold prayers, dream some big dreams. 483 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 5: If you can accomplish your dream in your own ability, 484 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 5: with your connections, your finances, then your dream is too small. 485 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 5: God has things in your future that you haven't seen, 486 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 5: levels that you haven't imagined. When you don't limit him 487 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 5: by the logical, When you believe, even when your mind 488 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 5: says that's too far out, you never get well, never 489 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 5: start your business, never see your family restored, all the 490 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,360 Speaker 5: odds are against you. 491 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 4: Then you're in perfect position for. 492 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 5: God to show out in your life, to do something 493 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 5: that you've never seen. God told Abraham and Sarah that 494 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 5: they were going to have a baby. 495 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 4: They were both way too old. 496 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 5: When Sarah heard it, the scripture says, she laughed and said, 497 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 5: how could a worn out woman. 498 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 4: Like me have a baby. 499 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 5: She thought, that's so far out, it's funny, it's comical, 500 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 5: me have a child. 501 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 4: Sarah did what many of us do. 502 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 5: She looked at it only in the natural and in 503 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 5: her human reasoning. 504 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 4: She was right, you can't have a baby at eighty 505 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 4: years old. 506 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 5: But when God puts a promise in your heart, when 507 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 5: he whispered something to you in your spirit, it may 508 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 5: seem far out unlikely. You could easily dismiss it. Try 509 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 5: a different approach. Do like Mary, God, let it happen. 510 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 5: I'm in agreement with you. 511 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 4: I don't see how, but I'm not going to limit 512 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 4: you to my human point of view. 513 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 5: When Sarah was ninety years old, against all odds, she 514 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 5: gave birth to a son. The scripture says she laughed 515 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 5: again and says God has brought me laughter, and all 516 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 5: who hear about this will laugh with me. She even 517 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 5: named her son Isaac, which means laughter. The first time 518 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 5: she laughed in unbelief, thinking there's no way. The second 519 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 5: time she laughed in amazement, thinking look what the Lord 520 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 5: has done. 521 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 4: In the past. 522 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 5: You may have laughed in unbelief, thinking what God promised 523 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 5: you could never come to pass. You discounted it. It's 524 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 5: too late, Joel, it's too big, it's impossible. The good 525 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 5: news is that didn't stop the promise. I believe your 526 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 5: second laugh is coming. God is about to do something 527 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 5: so awesome, so big, that you're going to laugh in amazement. 528 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 5: The second laugh is going to surprise you. It's going 529 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 5: to be something out of the ordinary, something you can't explain, 530 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 5: something that catapults you to a new level. 531 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 4: Get ready. God is about to defy the odds. He's 532 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 4: about to show out in your life. You haven't seen, heard, 533 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 4: or imagined what he's about to do. 534 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 5: Like Sarah, you're going to stand in awe at the 535 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 5: greatness of our God. You wouldn't be hearing this if 536 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 5: that second laugh wasn't on the way. Now do your part. 537 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 5: Don't see things only from a human point of view. 538 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 4: Don't let your logic limit what God wants to do. 539 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 3: Now. 540 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 5: I'm not saying deny the facts, act like they don't exist. 541 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 5: I'm saying, see beyond the logical, get a heavenly perspective. 542 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 5: The most High God is on your side. He hasn't 543 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 5: forgotten what he promised you. He has the right people, 544 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 5: the right breaks, the solutions, already en route. If you'll 545 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 5: do this, I believe and declare new doors are about 546 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 5: to open. Sicknesses are turning around, addictions are being broken. Healing, wholeness, abundance, 547 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, and if 548 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 5: you receive it, can. 549 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 4: You say amen? 550 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 5: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 551 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 5: the Lord of your life. 552 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? 553 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 554 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 5: into my heart. 555 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 4: I make you my Lord and savior. 556 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 5: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 557 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 5: born again. 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