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You're ever 45 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 5: in our area. Please stop buying be a part of 46 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 5: one of our services. I promise you we'll make you 47 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 5: feel right at home. Thanks so much for tuning in, 48 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 5: and thank you again for coming out today. I like 49 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 5: to start with something funny, and I heard about this 50 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 5: cat and mouse that died on the same day and 51 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 5: went to heaven. After a few weeks, Saint Peter saw 52 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 5: the mouse and asked him how he liked it. He said, Oh, 53 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 5: it's great, but it's so big. I'd love to get 54 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 5: some roller skates. Peter said, no problem, got him the skates. 55 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 5: A few weeks later, Peter ran into the cat ask 56 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 5: him how he liked it. He said, it's fantastic. And 57 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 5: just when I thought it couldn't get any better, I 58 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 5: discovered the meals on wheels. Hold up your Bible, say 59 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 5: it like you mean it. 60 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 61 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 62 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 63 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 64 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. 65 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 66 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 4: bless you. 67 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about how something 68 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 5: big is coming your way. 69 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 4: The God we serve is not a small God. His 70 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 4: plan for your life is not to reach. 71 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 5: One level and get stuck and stay there for thirty 72 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 5: or forty years. God's plan is to increase you, to 73 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 5: open new doors, to take your places that you've never imagined. 74 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 4: He has something big in your future. 75 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 5: He's already planned out big breaks, big opportunities, big ideas. 76 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 5: You may have seen God's goodness in the past. You 77 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 5: can say, like me, God's blessed you, God's promoted you, 78 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 5: but you have not touched the surface of what God 79 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 5: has in your future. 80 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 4: God is about to do a new thing. 81 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 5: And what I sense in my spirit is the new 82 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 5: thing is going to be far greater than you've ever 83 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 5: seen before. It's going to be bigger than you imagined. 84 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 5: It's going to be more rewarding than you thought possible. 85 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 5: You've got to come into agreement and say, yes, God, 86 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 5: this is from me today. I'm not gonna get stuck 87 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 5: where I am thinking that I've. 88 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 4: Reached my limits. 89 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna go around with little dreams, little goals. 90 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 5: I know you're a big God, and you have something 91 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 5: big come in my way. 92 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 4: I know this man that works in. 93 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 5: Law enforcement, he's a police officer, and in his spare time. 94 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 5: He developed a small safety device. It's not an engineer, 95 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 5: has no formal training. 96 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 4: All he had was an idea. He drew it on paper, 97 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 4: and he took it to a company. 98 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 5: And they made a prototype of it. He liked it 99 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 5: so much he got it patented. He went to a 100 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 5: convention and showed it to this large safety company. Their 101 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 5: engineers were scratching their heads, saying, why didn't we think 102 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 5: of this? Was very simple, yet very effective. Long story short, 103 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 5: that safety company bought the rights to his patent from 104 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 5: him for eight million dollars, just one idea that God 105 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 5: had given him. He said, Joel, I was just play around. 106 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 5: I never thought that it would take off. That's the 107 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 5: way God is in your future. He has big breaks, 108 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 5: big opportunities, big. 109 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 4: Ideas for some of you. 110 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 5: Today, you're stuck in a rut thinking that you've reached 111 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 5: your limits, you've seen your best days. You could never 112 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 5: rise higher, you could never accomplish your dreams. No, you 113 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 5: don't know what God has planned out for you. Just 114 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 5: because you don't see a way doesn't mean that God doesn't. 115 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 4: Have a way. 116 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 5: God is already lined up something big that can catapult 117 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 5: you to a whole new level. Isaiah fifty four to 118 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 5: two says, enlarge the place of your tent. Let the 119 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 5: curtains of your habitation be stretched forth. Spare not lengthen 120 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 5: your cords, strengthen your stakes. Notice the words God uses 121 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 5: in large, lengthen, stretch forth. 122 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,119 Speaker 4: What's God saying? 123 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 5: Get ready for more, make room for increase in larger thinking, 124 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 5: starting expecting God's favor. 125 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,679 Speaker 4: The next verse goes on to say, when you think 126 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 4: like this, then you will break forth. Then you will 127 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 4: take new ground. Then you will see increase. 128 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 5: But it implies if we don't enlarge, if we don't stretch, 129 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 5: if we think we've reached our limits, we get stuck 130 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 5: in a rut, then we won't break into these new levels. 131 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 5: Some people have never once said, God, help me to 132 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 5: own my home free and clear, with no monthly payment. 133 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 4: Our mind. 134 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 5: If we're not careful, go till tell Joel I could 135 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 5: never pay my house off. It's gonna take me thirty years. No, 136 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 5: you're believing too small. Have a bigger vision. We should 137 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 5: pray for things that stretch our faith. If you can 138 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 5: accomplish all your goals, your dreams, in your own ability, 139 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 5: in your own strength, you don't really need God's help. 140 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 5: You need to believe for things that are so big. 141 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 5: You know it's gonna take God's favor. It's gonna take 142 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 5: God's blessing, or they'll never come to pass. God set 143 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 5: in Psalm to eight, ask of me and I will 144 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 5: give you the nations. God's saying, ask me for big things. 145 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 5: Pray bold prayers. Dare to say, God, help me to 146 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 5: not only own my home free and clear, but one 147 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 5: day help me to be able to buy somebody else 148 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 5: a new home. Our mind thinks impossible, Joel, that could 149 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 5: never happen for me. Do you know where I work? 150 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 5: Know when you believe, all things are possible. How about this, God, 151 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 5: help me to give away each year more than my 152 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 5: income is right now, well, Joel, now you're getting far out. Listen, 153 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 5: we serve a far out God. He has something big 154 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 5: in your future. I want you to get your hopes up, 155 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,679 Speaker 5: go out each day expecting God to do something big 156 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 5: in your life. If you would have told me twelve 157 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 5: years ago that one day I would be a minister 158 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 5: and we would be having services in the form of 159 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 5: Compact center where the rockets used to play, I would 160 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 5: have said you're far out. But now I realize that's 161 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 5: the way God is. And if you will honor Him 162 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 5: with your life and dare to believe for big things, 163 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 5: one day you'll look back and say with me, God, 164 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 5: you've outdone yourself. You've amazed me with your goodness. There's 165 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 5: a man in the scripture named Jabez. His name means trouble, sorrow, heartache. 166 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 5: We don't know a lot about Jabez, but I can 167 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,559 Speaker 5: imagine he'd been through a lot of disappointments. Life hadn't 168 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 5: turned out the way he had hoped. But instead of 169 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 5: sitting around feeling sorry for himself, Jabez understood this principle. 170 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 5: He knew God had something big come in his way, 171 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 5: and in spite of all the odds being against him, 172 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 5: he knew one touch of God's favor could turn any 173 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 5: situation around. What made ja Bez stand out is he 174 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 5: was bold enough to ask God to do something big. 175 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 5: He said, God, I'm asking you to in law urge 176 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 5: my territory and to bless me. Indeed, he was saying, 177 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 5: in effect, I've been through a lot of disappointments. I've 178 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 5: had a lot of hurts and pain. But God, I'm 179 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 5: not going to get stuck here. I'm expecting your favor. 180 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 5: I'm expecting you to turn it around and to bless me. Indeed, 181 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 5: that word indeed means in great ways. The scripture simply 182 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 5: says God granted him his request. 183 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 4: My question for us today is, have you. 184 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 5: Ever asked God to enlarge your territory? Have you ever said, God, 185 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 5: bless me? Indeed, God, do something big in my life. Friends, 186 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 5: we have not because we ask not. When you stretch 187 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 5: your faith, when you enlarge, increase, expand that's what allows God. 188 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 4: To do amazing things. 189 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 5: But sometimes we have such a limited view of God. 190 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 5: We act like we're inconveniencing God to believe for big things. 191 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 4: So we end up praying these small prayers. 192 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 5: God, if you'll just give me a little raise, maybe 193 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 5: I can get a better place to live. God, if 194 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 5: you'll give me a few customers, maybe I can make 195 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 5: budget this month. God, if you'll give me a little help, 196 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 5: maybe my marriage will survive. 197 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 4: Now you're selling yourself short. 198 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 5: God is all powerful, He has unlimited resources. You are 199 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 5: not doing God a favor by being small minded. If 200 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 5: you want to make God happy, believe big, expect big, 201 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 5: ask big. God created the whole universe. He doesn't want 202 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 5: us to live small lives. Think about how expansive the 203 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 5: universe is. There are millions of stars and planets. 204 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 4: When I was much. 205 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 5: Younger, we used to think our solar system was so large. 206 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 5: But now scientists have discovered that there are stars so 207 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 5: large you can put our whole solar system inside of 208 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 5: one star. Anything about God is big. But the problem 209 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 5: is if you think small and believe small and expect small, 210 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 5: then your thinking will keep you from the big things 211 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 5: God has in store. I'm asking you to get up 212 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 5: each day and say, Father, thank you for doing something. 213 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 4: Big in my life today. 214 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 5: Thank you for big opportunities, big ideas, big breakthroughs. And Lord, 215 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 5: help me to be a big blessing to somebody else. 216 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 5: Think like God, Think big, think expansive, think more than enough. 217 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 5: I heard a story about a professional golfer. He was 218 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 5: invited by the King of Saudi Arabia to come over 219 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 5: to that country and play golf, and he accepted the invitation. 220 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 5: And this king had sent his private jet over to 221 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 5: the States to pick the man up. They played golf 222 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 5: for a few days together. When he was about to 223 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 5: come back home, the king stopped him and said, I 224 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 5: would like to send you a special gift for coming 225 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 5: all this way and spending time with us. 226 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 4: What would you like? 227 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 5: The man said, oh, please, don't send me anything. You've 228 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 5: been a very gracious host. I've had a great time. 229 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 5: But this king was very persistent. He wasn't going to 230 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 5: take no for an answer. Finally, the golfer said, well, 231 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 5: why don't you just send me a golf club. He 232 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 5: collected golf clubs. The king said fine. On the flight 233 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 5: back home, this man began to wonder what kind of 234 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 5: golf club the King was going to send him. He 235 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 5: imagined it might be a gold plated club with his 236 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 5: name engraved on it. Or maybe it would be a 237 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 5: club studded with diamonds and jewels. After all, he's the 238 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 5: King of Saudi Arabia. When he got home every day, 239 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 5: he'd hurry out to the mailbox so excited couldn't wait 240 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 5: to get his golf club. About a month later, he 241 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 5: got a certified letter in the mail from the King 242 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 5: of Saudi Arabia. He thought, that's strange, where's my golf club? 243 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 5: He opened it up. Much to his surprise, it was 244 00:12:55,920 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 5: a deed to a five hundred acre, eighteen hole golf 245 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 5: club here in America. See, kings think differently than most people. 246 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 4: They think bigger. That's the way it is with our God. 247 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 4: He's the king of kings. We think golf club. God 248 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 4: thinks golf club. 249 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 5: In other words, God's dream for your life is so 250 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 5: much bigger, so. 251 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 4: Much greater than you've ever imagined. 252 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 5: God doesn't want us to live small, to barely get bind, 253 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 5: to stay stuck at the same level year after year. 254 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 4: Have a big vision. 255 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 5: Life tries to reduce us, but God wants to increase us. 256 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 5: It starts right here in our thinking in large expand 257 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 5: link them. You're not going to bankrupt God asking for 258 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 5: something big. God makes streets out of gold. He owns 259 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 5: it all. He's not having a down year because of 260 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 5: the economy. 261 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 4: God's not up in heaven. 262 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 5: Say, oh boy, these gas prices are really messing me up. Gabriel, 263 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 5: would you go get me a y other tailanaw? No, 264 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 5: God has unlimited supplies. He's called El Shaddai, the God 265 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 5: who is more than enough. Well, you say, Joel, I'm 266 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 5: just believing that God will help me to get a 267 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 5: little bit bigger apartment. Take the limits off of your life, 268 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 5: have a bigger vision. God wants you to own your 269 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 5: own home, and you may not see how right now 270 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 5: you think, well, I don't have the income, or I 271 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 5: can't afford the down payment. 272 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 4: That's okay. God can. He owns it all. 273 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 5: And if you will honor Him with your life and 274 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 5: believe big, you will see God do. 275 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 4: More than you can ask or imagine. 276 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 5: One of the battles we all have to fight is 277 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 5: the battle of containment. The enemy doesn't want you to 278 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 5: go any further. He can't do anything about the ground 279 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 5: that you've already gained. He'll give you that, but what 280 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 5: he doesn't want is for you to advance. His goal 281 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 5: is to keep you contained. That's why it can be 282 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 5: very difficult to press through to a new level. There 283 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 5: are forces working overtime to try to keep us where 284 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 5: we are, and many people are too easily satisfied. They've 285 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 5: seen God's goodness. God's blessed them in their health, their family, 286 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 5: their career. But now it's like they've hit a wall, 287 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 5: and instead of stretching and believing for bigger things, they 288 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 5: get stuck. They start thinking, well, I've done pretty well. 289 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 5: I've done as good as my parents gone, as far 290 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 5: as my education allows. 291 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 4: Now. 292 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 5: The scripture says the path of the righteous gets. 293 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 4: Brighter and brighter. 294 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 5: We are not supposed to hit one level and get 295 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 5: stuck there year after year. The enemy wants to contain us. 296 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 5: God wants to expand us. No matter how long you've been. 297 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 4: At a certain level. 298 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 5: You need to dig your heels in and say, I 299 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 5: will not stay here. I'm going to keep pressing forward, 300 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 5: believing for big things, praying bold prayers, expecting God's favor. 301 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 4: I will not be contained. 302 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 5: You have to have a made up mind that where 303 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 5: you are is not where you're going to stay. It 304 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 5: may not change overnight, it may take months, maybe even 305 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 5: take years, but deep down you've got to know that 306 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 5: you know in your future. God has promotion, increase new levels. 307 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 5: He has something big come in your way. The truth 308 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 5: is there are times that we all feel stuck. We're praying, believing, 309 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 5: doing our best, but not making any progress. That's called 310 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 5: the trial of our faith. That's a period of testing. 311 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 5: God wants to see what we're made of. Are we 312 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 5: going to get discouraged and settle there and think, well, 313 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 5: this doesn't work for me. I've tried it for two 314 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 5: months now. You've got to be in it for the 315 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 5: long haul. The key is to not get stuck in 316 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 5: your thinking. The first place we lose the victory is 317 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 5: in our own mind. We start believing the lies. It's 318 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 5: never going to change. I've gone as far as I 319 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 5: can go. I'll never get out of debt, Joel, I'll 320 00:16:58,720 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 5: never own my own home. 321 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 4: Now, you may not see away in the. 322 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 5: Natural, but the good news is we serve a supernatural God. 323 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 5: God has explosive blessings that can thrust you to a 324 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 5: new level. God wants to bless you beyond your normal income. 325 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:17,640 Speaker 4: He wants to increase you. 326 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 5: Beyond your normal salary. God likes to do unusual things. 327 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 5: I had a man tell me again last week. I've 328 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 5: heard it time and time again, how he got a 329 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 5: check in the mail unexpectedly, an inheritance from a loved 330 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 5: one that he had never met. With that one check, 331 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 5: he was able to pay off his house. He thought 332 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 5: it was going to take him thirty years, but God 333 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 5: had other plans. It happened in a fraction of the time. 334 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 5: That's what God has in your future, explosive blessings, to 335 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 5: where all the sudden, out of the blue, a project 336 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 5: takes off, a client searches you out, or like that, 337 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 5: police officer. One idea it thrust you to a new 338 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 5: level is canceled. Take the limits off of God. Pray 339 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 5: big prayers, believe for great things in your life. I 340 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 5: read about a young lady. She was born into a 341 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 5: very dysfunctional family. All the odds were against her in 342 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 5: the natural, she had no reason to believe that she 343 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 5: could ever make anything great of her life. She had 344 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 5: been neglected, abused, never had any kind of stability. Her 345 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 5: situation got so bad she asked the authorities to be 346 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 5: removed from her own home. The judge placed her in 347 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 5: foster care. Three months later, she was adopted by a loving, 348 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 5: single parent mother. This young lady began to excel in school. 349 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 5: She became an honor student, a leader that the other 350 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 5: girls looked up to. One day, she was invited to 351 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 5: be a part of a national talk show with some 352 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 5: other girls. The host asked her what her hopes and 353 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 5: dreams were. She said, my dream is to one day 354 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 5: go to Harvard Universe to get a good education so 355 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 5: I can help other people like so many have helped me. 356 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 5: Three days later, she got a phone call from out 357 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 5: of state. The lady said, I saw you on the 358 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 5: talk show this week. I wanted to ask you a question. 359 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 5: Would you consider a full scholarship to Yale University instead 360 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 5: of Harvard? She said, I think I would. She graduated 361 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 5: from Yale and today she's doing great things. But it 362 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 5: all started when she dared to believe for something big. 363 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 5: She could have got stuck in a rut. She could 364 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 5: have made excuses. I didn't get off to a good start, 365 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 5: I didn't have a good family. I've got too much 366 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 5: coming against me. Now she knew God had explosive blessings 367 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 5: in her future, blessings that could get her to where 368 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 5: God wanted her to be. Every one of us can 369 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 5: come up with excuses as to why we can't rise higher, 370 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 5: why we can't break the addiction, why we can't get well, 371 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 5: why we'll never accomplish our dreams. 372 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 4: Oh, I'm asking us to do like her. 373 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 5: Get rid of the excuses and start expecting explosive blessings. 374 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 5: Release your faith for far and beyond favor. Get ready 375 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 5: for God to do something big in your life. You say, Joel, 376 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 5: what if I do this and nothing happens? What if 377 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 5: you do it and something does happen. I can tell 378 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 5: you it's not going to happen as long as you're 379 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 5: thinking I've reached my limits, I never get any good breaks. 380 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 5: Business is too slow, the medical report is too bad. 381 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,439 Speaker 5: As long as you're thinking like that, it ties the 382 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 5: hands of Almighty God. God works where there's an attitude 383 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 5: of faith. He works when we're believing, when we're expecting, 384 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 5: when we're looking for his goodness. One thing I've learned 385 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 5: is you cannot outdream God. Any dream God puts in 386 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 5: your heart, when he brings it to pass, it's going 387 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 5: to be greater than you ever imagine. 388 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 4: It's going to be. 389 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 5: Bigger, better, more rewarding. You could say, God's going to 390 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 5: supersize your dream. 391 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 4: Your dream may be. 392 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 5: To just get well, to be able to walk without pain, 393 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 5: to get around like you used to. That's good, But 394 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 5: God thinks bigger. When he supercizes that dream, You'll not 395 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 5: only be able to walk, you'll be able to run, 396 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 5: just feel like you used to. You'll feel better than 397 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 5: you've ever felt before. Your dream may be to just 398 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 5: keep your marriage together, just to survive. But God's dream 399 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 5: is to make your marriage happier and more fulfilling than 400 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 5: it's ever been before. 401 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 4: Your dream may. 402 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 5: Be to just pay your bills each month, just to 403 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,239 Speaker 5: try to make it through. But God's dream is to 404 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 5: give you an abundance, to give you overflow where you 405 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 5: not only have enough for your needs, but you have 406 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 5: money left over so you can be a blessing to 407 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 5: other people. Whatever dream God's put in your heart, if 408 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 5: you'll just supersize it, that'll be a. 409 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 4: Tiny fraction of what God really wants to do. I 410 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 4: know this man. 411 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 5: He's an older gentleman and years back he lost his 412 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,919 Speaker 5: wife of many many years. He met another beautiful lady 413 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 5: and they were planning. 414 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 4: On getting married. 415 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 5: He had a desire to put new furniture in his 416 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 5: home just so they could have a new beginning. And 417 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:14,199 Speaker 5: the fact is he had the money, but he just 418 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 5: didn't really feel good about spending it, so he just 419 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 5: gave it to God. Just kept expecting, kept believing. One 420 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,640 Speaker 5: day he got a call from one of his sons 421 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 5: and he said, Dad, you'll never believe what happened. He said, 422 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 5: what the son said, I just won the lottery thirty 423 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 5: seven million dollars. Later, the son not only bought his 424 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 5: dad some furniture, bought him a new car, plus he 425 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 5: bought him a brand new house. God supersized his dream. 426 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 5: God did more than he could ask or think. I'm 427 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 5: not telling anybody to play the lottery. I know what 428 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 5: you're thinking. That's the word I needed today. Like my 429 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 5: father said, if you do play the lottery and win, 430 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 5: make sure you tithe. This gentleman told me Joel. I 431 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 5: always taught my sons three things. Don't smoke, don't drink, 432 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 5: and don't gamble. And you know what, two out of 433 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:11,719 Speaker 5: three is not bad. Deuteronomy one to eleven. May the Lord, 434 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 5: God of your fathers make you a thousand times more 435 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 5: than you are. That's God's dream for your life to 436 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 5: increase you in amazing ways. 437 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 4: Now I'm not just talking about material things. 438 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 5: How about a thousand times more peace, a thousand times 439 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 5: more joy, a thousand times more influence, a thousand times 440 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 5: more wisdom. Get this down in your spirit, a thousand 441 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 5: times more than you are. I think about how my 442 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 5: parents started Lakewood Church in nineteen fifty nine with ninety members. 443 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 5: If you added up all the people that attend regularly now, 444 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 5: it'd be over ninety thousand. That's a thousand times more. 445 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 5: Is there anything too hard for the Lord. When my 446 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,479 Speaker 5: father was a young minister, he wrote books and they 447 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 5: would sell about ten thousand, and I say this in 448 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 5: all humility, but my first book has sold over ten 449 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 5: million copies, a thousand times more. So often our minds 450 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 5: will tell us it's not gonna happen for me, Joel, 451 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 5: I don't come from the right family. I'm too old, 452 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 5: I'm too young. Now I'm asking us to quit making 453 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 5: excuses and get in agreement with God. He's saying a 454 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 5: thousand times more than you are. You have not touched 455 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 5: the surface of what he has in store. He's not 456 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 5: thinking golf club. He's thinking golf club. And some of 457 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 5: you today you're not expecting enough. God has been good 458 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 5: to you in the past. You're grateful, but now you're coasting. 459 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 5: You're not stretching your faith. Now, I want to light 460 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 5: a new fire on the inside. You have not seen 461 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 5: your greatest victories yet. God has new mountains for you 462 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 5: to climb, new horizons for you to explore. 463 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 4: He has something big in your future. 464 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 5: Don't let the disappointments of the past steal your dreams. 465 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 5: Don't let the the way people have treated you soured 466 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 5: you on life. 467 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 4: Shake that off. 468 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 5: Raise your level of expectancy. Dream big, believe big, ask big, 469 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 5: expect big. And you'll see God open doors that you 470 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 5: never thought possible. God will bring talent out of you 471 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 5: that you never knew you had. You'll see these explosive 472 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 5: blessings that thrust you to a whole new level. I 473 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 5: know a young man that grew up in Africa, in 474 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 5: the Congo, one of. 475 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 4: The poorest nations. He was one of seven children. 476 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 5: Not only his family, but all of his relatives and 477 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,959 Speaker 5: cousins lived in the same small house in their village. 478 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 4: There was so much sickness, so much disease, but no 479 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 4: place to be cared for, not. 480 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 5: A hospital, not a clinic within hundreds of hundreds of miles, 481 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 5: and people were dying from things that were easily treatable. 482 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 4: And as a young boy, this broke his heart. 483 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 5: He couldn't stand to see the sadness in the suffering 484 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 5: of his people. And God put a dream in his 485 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 5: heart to somehow build a hospital in that village. 486 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 4: There in the Congo. In the natural It was impossible. 487 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 5: He was just as poor and underprivileged as the other 488 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 5: people in his village. But there was something different about 489 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 5: this young man. He knew he served a big God, 490 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 5: and he dared to pray bold prayers. He asked God 491 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 5: to help him build that hospital. Something began to happen. 492 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 5: He started to grow. He grew and grew six feet 493 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 5: six feet five six feet ten seven feet seven feet. 494 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 4: Two inches tall. 495 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 5: He was so tall he started playing basketball on the 496 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 5: dirt courts there in the village. He eventually graduated from 497 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 5: what they would call high school and somehow he got 498 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 5: an academic scholarship to Georgetown University in the States, a 499 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 5: supernatural break. 500 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 4: It was unheard of. 501 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 5: He went there to become a doctor to come back 502 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 5: and help his people. But during his second year, the 503 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 5: basketball coach saw him on campus and asked him to 504 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 5: try out for the team. He not only made the team, 505 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 5: but he became a star player. He later was drafted 506 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 5: to play professional basketball and today you know him the 507 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 5: Kimba Mtumbo has become one of the great ball players 508 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 5: of our day. He used to play for the Rockets. 509 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 5: He attends our services when he's in town. A few 510 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 5: years back, Matumbo donated fifteen million dollars to get the 511 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 5: hospital started, and in two thousand and seven, he and 512 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 5: some other basketball players dedicated the thirty million dollar hospital. 513 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 5: They're in his village in the Congo Friends. If God 514 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 5: did it for him, he can do it for you 515 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 5: and me. 516 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 4: Let me ask him. 517 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 5: What is it that God has put in your heart? 518 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 5: Are you asking? Believing, stretching your faith? Don't let life 519 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 5: contain you, Let God increase you. He has something big 520 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 5: in your future. God's already lined up the right people. 521 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 5: He's got big opportunities, big ideas, big breakthroughs. You may 522 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 5: think your dream is big today, but when God supersizes it, 523 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 5: it's going to come. 524 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 4: To pass much greater than you ever imagine. 525 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 5: Get up every morning and say, God, I'm asking you 526 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 5: to do something big in my life today. Dare to say, 527 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 5: like Jabez, God enlarge my territory. 528 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 4: God bless me. 529 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 5: Indeed, if you think this way, let me encourage you. 530 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 5: Something big is come in your way. New opportunities, breakthroughs 531 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 5: in your health, breakthroughs in your finances, explosive blessings, favor 532 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,360 Speaker 5: like you've never seen it before, a thousand times more 533 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 5: than you are. I believe it and declare it over 534 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 5: to each one of you in Jesus' name. If you 535 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 5: receive it, come on, give the Lord a chat. 536 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 4: Of praise today. 537 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 538 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 539 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me, Just say, Lord Jesus, I 540 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 5: repent them my sins, come into my heart. I make 541 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that 542 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 5: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 543 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 5: a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's 544 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 5: going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 545 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the joel Ostine podcast. Help 546 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 6: us continue to share the message of hope with those 547 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 6: all over the world. 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