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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 33 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 34 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 35 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 5: the ministry. 36 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 37 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a. 38 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: Friends, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in 39 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 5: your life. 40 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. Always a joy to come into 41 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 4: your homes. We love you. 42 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 5: If you're ever in our area, please stop by and 43 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 5: be a part of one of our services. 44 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 4: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 45 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in and thank you 46 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 5: again for coming out today. And I like to start 47 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 5: with something funny and somebody sent me these funny one 48 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 5: liners about blondes. But since I'm married to a beautiful, smart, 49 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 5: intelligent blonde, I'm going to change it from a blonde 50 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 5: lady to a blonde man. 51 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 4: Here's a few of them. They're kind of funny. 52 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 5: He was so blonde that he tripped over a cordless phone. 53 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 5: He was so blonde he asked for a price check 54 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 5: at the dollar store. He was so blonde it took 55 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 5: him two hours to watch sixty minutes. 56 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 4: Last one. 57 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 5: He's so blonde he thinks that Taco Bell is the 58 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 5: Mexican phone company. 59 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 4: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 60 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 61 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 62 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 63 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 64 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 65 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 66 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about unprecedented favor. We've all 67 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 5: seen God's favor in our life. Every one of us 68 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 5: can say that God's been. 69 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 4: Good to us. 70 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 5: He's protected us, promoted us, opened up doors. 71 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 4: That's God's favor, but I believe in the coming days, 72 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 4: God wants to. 73 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 5: Show us unprecedented favor, that is, favor like we haven't 74 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 5: seen before. Paul said in Ephesians, in the Ages to come, 75 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 5: we would see the immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of God's favor. 76 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 5: What's interesting is Paul wrote this passage ages ago. We 77 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 5: are living in the ages to come that Paul was 78 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 5: talking about. He was saying, I've I've seen limited power, 79 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 5: but you're going to see unlimited power. 80 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 4: I've seen God do. 81 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 5: Great things, but you're going to see the surpassing greatness 82 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 5: of God's goodness. You're going to see unprecedented favor. The 83 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 5: word unprecedented means unmatched, unparalleled for the first time. In 84 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 5: other words, you may have seen God's favor in the past. 85 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 4: But you need to get ready. You haven't seen anything yet. 86 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 5: What God has in your future is going to be bigger, better, greater, unprecedented. 87 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 5: He's going to show you his goodness in ways like 88 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 5: you've never seen before. 89 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 4: Now we have to get in agreement with God. 90 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 5: Get up every morning and say Father, thank you for 91 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 5: your unprecedented favor. I've found there's a direct correlation between 92 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 5: declaring favor and receiving favor. Not enough to just think 93 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 5: about it. Words give life to our faith. Something supernatural 94 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 5: happens when when you say I'm expecting unprecedented favor, A 95 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 5: lot of people do just the opposite. They go through 96 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 5: the day saying I never get any good breaks, I'll 97 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 5: never get well, I'll never get out of death. They 98 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 5: don't realize with their words they are setting the limits 99 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 5: for their life. If you have a poor mouth, you're 100 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 5: going to have a poor life. 101 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 4: Do yourself a favor. 102 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 5: Zip up the defeat and start speaking victory. Zip up 103 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 5: the nothing good ever happens to me and start declaring 104 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 5: God's blessings or chasing me down. Zip up the I've 105 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 5: reached my limits and start declaring unprecedented favor is coming 106 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 5: my way. Friends, if you're going to reach your highest potential, 107 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 5: you're going to need doors to open for you that 108 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 5: you cannot open on your own. You're going to need promotion, 109 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 5: good breaks, divine connections, favor greater. 110 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 4: Than what you've seen in the past. 111 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 5: If you'll release your faith for this and believe that 112 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 5: unprecedent in favor is coming your way, you'll see God 113 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 5: show up and do amazing things. He'll take you higher 114 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 5: than you thought possible. And God said here in Exodus, 115 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 5: I will perform great wonders that I have not done 116 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 5: anywhere before in all the earth. People will see what 117 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 5: great things I can do. Because I am going to 118 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 5: do an awesome thing for you. Why don't you let 119 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 5: that take root in your spirit. God is saying I'm 120 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 5: going to do something awesome in your life. Awesome means astounding, remarkable, overwhelming, breathtaking. 121 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 5: Awesome is just the opposite of ordinary. In other words, 122 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 5: God is going to do something not like you've seen before. 123 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 5: Maybe a couple of years ago, God blessed you with 124 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 5: a great promotion. 125 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 4: You're happy, you're grateful. That's great. That's the way you 126 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 4: should be. 127 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 5: But if God did the same thing this year as 128 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 5: he did in years past, you would be grateful, but 129 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 5: it wouldn't necessarily be remarkable. You wouldn't be astounded. Why 130 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 5: because you've seen it happen before. When God says he's 131 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 5: going to do something awesome, he's talking about unprecedented favor. 132 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 5: What God has in your future will supersede. 133 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 4: What you've seen in your past. 134 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 5: God has favor that is unmatched promotion that is unparalleled, 135 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 5: good breaks that will be astounding, overwhelming, where you'll look 136 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 5: back in amazement. 137 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 4: At what God has done. 138 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I'm expecting something awesome 139 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 5: in my future. Yes, God has done great things in 140 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 5: the past. God has blessed me, promoted me, given me favor. 141 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 5: But deep down I know what's in my past is 142 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 5: going depel in comparison to what God is about to 143 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 5: do in your future. 144 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 4: Is the surpassing. 145 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 5: Greatness of God's power, Its unprecedented favor. Now get in 146 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 5: agreement with God talks about in the Book of Psalms 147 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 5: how the people limited the Holy One of Israel. 148 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 4: They limited God. 149 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 5: In other words, God wanted to do something awesome in 150 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 5: their lives. He wanted to take them into the Promised Land, 151 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 5: a land greater than anything they had experienced. 152 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 4: You remember when. 153 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 5: The spies came back from the Promised Land. They talked 154 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 5: about how the fruits and vegetables were like nothing they 155 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 5: had ever seen, bigger and better. That was God's dream 156 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 5: to do something awesome. But their problem was they didn't believe. 157 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 5: They didn't think they could defeat their enemies. They got negative, 158 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 5: started complaining, and they never did make it into the 159 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 5: Promised Land. That tells me we can stop the awesome things. 160 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 4: God has in store. 161 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 5: If we go around saying I've reached my limits, nothing 162 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 5: good happens to me. This problem's too big, I'll never 163 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 5: accomplish my dreams. We are setting the limits for our life. 164 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 5: People have settled for mediocrity in their thinking. If you 165 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 5: want to see God do amazing things, you got to 166 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 5: get in agreement and say, yes, God, I believe something 167 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 5: awesome is in my future. 168 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 4: Maybe you're single and you want to get married. 169 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 5: Instead of saying I'll never meet the right person, now, 170 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 5: why don't you start declaring God is bringing somebody awesome 171 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 5: into my life, not average, not mediocre, not he'll do, 172 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 5: she'll do. I may not meet anybody else. No, don't 173 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 5: settle for average. When God has somebody awesome. God has 174 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 5: somebody that will take your breath away, somebody that you 175 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 5: cannot live without. Victoria and I have been married going 176 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 5: on twenty five years, and every time I see her, 177 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,839 Speaker 5: something still comes alive on the inside. When she walks 178 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,959 Speaker 5: in the room, it brightens my day. A few months 179 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 5: ago she was going to have to be gone for 180 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 5: a week or. 181 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 4: So, and I don't like her to leave. She had 182 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 4: to take care of some. 183 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 5: Business, but I miss her and she left that Sunday 184 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 5: after church, and Monday morning, first thing she called and said, Joy, 185 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 5: it's not working out. 186 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 4: I'm gonna come home tonight. 187 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 5: I said, thank you Jesus, you're answering my prayers. 188 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 4: She didn't know I was praying that it wouldn't work out. 189 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 5: But I know people after twenty five years of marriage, 190 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 5: they're praying that their spouse will stay gone longer. 191 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 4: No, not you. 192 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 5: God has somebody awesome for you, somebody you'll enjoy spending. 193 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 4: Your life with. Declare it every day. 194 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 5: Something awesome is coming my way. 195 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 4: I know a young man. He's got a beautiful family. 196 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 5: And he was working at this job, being at his 197 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 5: best each day, had a good attitude, but there wasn't 198 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 5: any room for growth, no opportunity for advancement. A friend 199 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 5: told about a position opening up at his company. He 200 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 5: read the qualifications, and although he didn't have the experience 201 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 5: and all the education they wanted, he felt good about 202 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 5: it and applied for the job. He went and interviewed 203 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 5: and they said they'd get back with him in a week. 204 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 5: A week went by and he didn't hear anything. The 205 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 5: negative thoughts started coming. You're not going to get it, 206 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 5: you're not qualified. You're going to be stuck at that 207 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 5: same position the rest of your life. His wife could 208 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 5: tell something was bothering him. She said, honey, quit worrying 209 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 5: about it. God is in control. It's in his hands, 210 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 5: and if he wants you to have the job, you're 211 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 5: going to get the job. You can tell they've been 212 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 5: coming to Lakewood instead of worrying about it every day. 213 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 5: They started declaring Ephesians three twenty, God, you said you 214 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 5: would do exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond. They were speaking 215 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 5: unprecedented favor, releasing their faith for God to do something awesome. 216 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 4: In their lives. 217 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 5: Three weeks later, the vice president of operations of that 218 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 5: new company call. When he applied, the starting salary listed 219 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 5: was ten percent more than he was making. But this 220 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 5: vice president not only offered him the job, but said, 221 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 5: your starting salary will be thirty more than we listed, 222 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 5: which was forty percent more than he was making. Right then, 223 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,079 Speaker 5: he said, I tried to stay calm, but I was 224 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 5: jumping up and down. 225 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 4: On the inside. 226 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 5: He was astounded, amazed, that was remarkable, unprecedented, favor God 227 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 5: doing something awesome in his life. Listen, if God did 228 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 5: it for him, he could do it for you and me. 229 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 5: That's what it says in Exodus. God wants to do 230 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 5: something awesome, something that you have not seen before. 231 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 4: Here's the good news. 232 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 5: If you've seen it, then you know what's in your 233 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 5: future is going to be greater. 234 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 4: God wants to do what you have not seen. 235 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 5: I think about this beautiful facility that God. 236 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 4: Has blessed us with. 237 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 5: We were amazed, overwhelmed, astounded. 238 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 4: It was certainly God's favor. And what's interesting is this victory. 239 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,119 Speaker 5: While we continue to celebrate and remember what God has done, 240 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 5: this victory is in our past. God has promised what's 241 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 5: in our future will be greater. That tells me we 242 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:09,719 Speaker 5: should never get satisfied. Don't get complacent and put your 243 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 5: faith on an autopilot and say, oh, Joel, God's been 244 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 5: good to me. I've had victories, I've been blessed. I'm 245 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 5: just gonna coast. No, keep your faith out there. God 246 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 5: has something else in your future that's going to astound you. 247 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 5: You think you've seen God's goodness, but you need to 248 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 5: get ready. 249 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 4: For something awesome. 250 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:32,719 Speaker 5: There's something astounding, something remarkable, something overwhelming, that God has 251 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 5: come in your way. I talked to a lady last 252 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 5: week after the service. She was in town for treatment 253 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 5: at the cancer hospital. She was going to have to 254 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 5: have a tumor removed from her abdomen and then take chemotherapy. 255 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 5: All of her medical records, her charts, X rays, blood work, 256 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 5: they were sent. 257 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 4: From her hospital back at home. 258 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 5: When she met with the new doctor here, he wanted 259 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,439 Speaker 5: her to retake the test and redo the x rays, 260 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 5: just a double check and verify everything, and she was 261 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 5: happy to do that. She was already scheduled for surgery 262 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 5: when this new doctor came in and said, I'm not 263 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 5: seeing on the new test what I've seen on the 264 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 5: old test. These new tests look perfectly normal. On one test, 265 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 5: he could clearly see the tumor. On the other one, 266 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 5: there was no sign of a tumor. He said, I 267 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 5: know this sounds odd, but I don't suggest we do anything. 268 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 5: You look perfectly healthy. 269 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 4: To me. 270 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 5: That's God doing something astounding, something remarkable. She went back 271 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 5: home and her doctor looked at those tests and he said, 272 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 5: I've been doing this for twenty six years. 273 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 4: I have never seen this happen before. 274 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 5: You say, Joe, she was probably just misdiagnosed, probably nothing 275 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 5: wrong with her in the first place. That may be 276 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 5: what some people believe, but I believe it was the 277 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 5: surpassing greatness. 278 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 4: Of our God. I believe it was God doing something 279 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 4: awesome in her life. 280 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 5: I've learned some people are not going to believe no 281 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 5: matter or what. They're going to try to explain away 282 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 5: every miracle. When God parted the Red Sea, the people 283 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 5: of Israel went through on dry ground. Some experts have 284 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 5: said that during that time of year, at that particular 285 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 5: place in the sea, it's possible that the water was 286 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 5: only ten inches deep, and the tides and the winds 287 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 5: could have naturally parted the sea. But you think about it, 288 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,360 Speaker 5: that's even a greater miracle. That means that all of 289 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 5: Pharaoh's army, grown men, they drowned in. 290 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 4: Ten inches of water. 291 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I'm going to be 292 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 5: a believer and not a doubter. I'm expecting God to 293 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 5: do something awesome, something remarkable, something that we've never seen before. 294 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 5: That's what Jesus said in John fourteen twelve. He that 295 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 5: believes in me the works that I do, will you 296 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 5: do also and greater works than these will you do? 297 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 5: This is an amazing promise. When Jesus was on the earth, 298 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 5: he did all kinds of incredible miracles. He healed people, 299 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 5: turned water into wine, multiplied food, raised the dead, cured 300 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 5: the lepers, on and on. Yet Jesus said, if you 301 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 5: believe in me, I will show you greater works. The 302 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 5: Old Testament God said awesome things. In the New Testament, 303 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 5: Jesus says greater things. Bottom line, they're both saying, get 304 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 5: ready for unprecedented favor, favor like you've never seen before. 305 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 5: I have a friend that's a medical doctor, and years 306 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 5: ago he was driving down the freeway late at night, 307 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 5: coming home and he came upon this accident. He stopped 308 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 5: to help, come to find out it was a fatality. 309 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 5: The young man driving was on a stretcher. The paramedics 310 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 5: had worked on him for a long time, given him CPR, 311 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 5: and they had IVS in him. And right when he 312 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 5: came up, they were pulling the sheet over his head. 313 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 5: Since he was a doctor, they allowed him to be 314 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 5: there and he leaned over the body and just very 315 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 5: quietly he began to pray for the young man. 316 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 4: God give him another chance. God let his life come 317 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 4: back into. 318 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 5: Him, let his heart begin to work, let his lungs 319 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 5: kick in. For a couple of minutes, very quietly, he 320 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 5: prayed the prayer of faith. He wasn't a minister, he 321 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 5: wasn't trained in theology. 322 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 4: He simply believed that. 323 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 5: With God, all things are possible. He believed what Jesus 324 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 5: said that we could see the greater works. While he 325 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 5: was still praying, all of a sudden, the young men 326 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 5: begin to cough. The paramedics nearly passed out. In a 327 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 5: few seconds, he opened his eyes, and not long after 328 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 5: that he was able to sit up. Today, the young 329 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 5: man is alive and healthy, totally recovered. But had my 330 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 5: friend not believe that God can do extounding, remarkable, overwhelming things, 331 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 5: I don't know if that young man would be alive today. 332 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 4: Friends, God is looking for someone to. 333 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 5: Believe for the greater works, greater power, greater annoying, greater influence, 334 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 5: greater victory. 335 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 4: He's looking for somebody to take the limits off of him. 336 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 5: You say, Joel, this sounds kind of far out today. Yes, 337 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 5: but the God we serve is a far out God. 338 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 5: You have no idea what he has planned for your life. 339 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 5: God wants to do something awesome to show His greatness 340 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 5: through you. It's not to bring us glory, it's to 341 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 5: bring God glory. When you take the limits off of 342 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 5: him and you believe for the greater works, you'll be 343 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 5: amazed at what will happen. This is what Joshua did 344 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 5: in the scripture. One day he was fighting a great 345 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 5: battle with all of his men. They were trying to 346 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 5: finish off these enemies. It was getting late at night. 347 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 5: The sun was starting to go down, and Joshua knew 348 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 5: if he didn't finish the job, this enemy would reorganize 349 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 5: and come back against him again. He needed more daylight. 350 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 5: A lot of people would have thought, well, too bad, 351 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 5: didn't work out. I needed more time, But it just 352 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 5: didn't happen. Not Joshua. 353 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 4: He was bold. He looked up at. 354 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 5: The sun and said, son, I want you to stand still. 355 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 5: I need more daylight. The scripture says the sun stood 356 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 5: still all because one man dared to believe. It goes 357 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 5: on to say there had never been a day like 358 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 5: that before. The people stood there in utter amazement. I 359 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 5: believe you and I are going to come into more 360 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 5: of those days where we look up and say, wow, 361 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 5: I have never seen anything like this. 362 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:35,959 Speaker 4: Before. 363 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 5: I thought I was going to get a ten percent raise, 364 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 5: and I got a forty percent raise. The medical report 365 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 5: said I had cancer, but the new test says I don't. 366 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 5: I prayed for a young man and life came back 367 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 5: into him. You're going to look up in utter amazement 368 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 5: and say, Wow, God, you've done awesome things in my 369 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 5: life today. When Victoria and I first got married, there 370 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 5: was this town home that we really wanted to buy, but. 371 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 4: We wouldn't quite afford it. 372 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 5: It was a little out of our price range. It 373 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 5: was owned by this large company. I was talking to 374 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 5: my father about it one day and he said, Joel, 375 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 5: you need to offer them half of what they're asking. 376 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 5: I said, Daddy, I can't do that. I'd be embarrassed. 377 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 5: I might insult them. He said, Joel, you have not 378 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 5: because you ask not. How are you going to know 379 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,360 Speaker 5: if you don't at least ask. We got our nerve 380 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 5: up and decided to do it. Our realator told the 381 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 5: man in charge of the property that we were a 382 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 5: young couple and we were just getting started out, and 383 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 5: we didn't mean to offend anyone, but this is all 384 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 5: we could offer for the property. He looked at it 385 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 5: and immediately turned it down. Didn't even think twice. Several 386 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 5: months went by, and we just kept thanking God that 387 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 5: he was directing our steps and thanking him that we 388 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 5: had his favor. And we found some other places that 389 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 5: we liked, but we always came back to that first 390 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 5: town home. 391 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 4: That's what we really wanted. 392 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 5: The last week of that year, out of the blue, 393 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,919 Speaker 5: the man in charge called our realtor and said, because 394 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 5: of tax purposes, we have to sell the property this week, 395 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 5: and I have a higher offer, but I'd really like 396 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 5: to help that young couple you talked about. I'd like 397 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 5: to sell it to them. What's funny, we didn't know 398 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,879 Speaker 5: the man, we never met him before, yet we bought 399 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 5: that property for practically half of what it was really worth. 400 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 5: That's one of those days Victoria and I stood there 401 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 5: in utter amazement. We said, Wow, God, we've never seen 402 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 5: anything like this before. That's one of those awesome things 403 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:35,199 Speaker 5: that God had in our future. When you realize that 404 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 5: God has unprecedented favor for you, he wants to show 405 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 5: you the greater works, it'll cause you to have a 406 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 5: new boldness. 407 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 4: Like Joshua. 408 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 5: You'll ask for things that you normally wouldn't ask for 409 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 5: like that medical doctor. My friend, You'll pray even when 410 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 5: it looks impossible. You'll believe for things that have never 411 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 5: happened before. I know this couple. They really wanted their 412 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 5: young son to start school, but his birthday missed the 413 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 5: cutoff date by four days. He was going to have 414 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 5: to wait a whole year just because he missed it 415 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 5: by those four days, and they knew that he was 416 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 5: ready to learn, so they went and met with the 417 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 5: school and asked if they would make an exception, and 418 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 5: the lady at registration was very kind, very polite. She said, 419 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 5: we'd love to help, but we just cannot make any exceptions. 420 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 4: He'll have to start next year. 421 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 5: They said, that's fine, but can we talk to your supervisor. 422 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 5: She referred them to the principal. The principle basically said 423 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 5: the same thing. We'd love to have your son, but 424 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,400 Speaker 5: we cannot make an exception. 425 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 4: He'll have to wait another year. 426 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 5: They said, that's fine, but can we talk to your supervisor. 427 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 5: This went on for a period of three weeks. Every 428 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 5: day they just kept declaring, father, thank you for your 429 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 5: unprecedented favor, thank you that you'll do something that's never 430 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,239 Speaker 5: been done. Before they were able to meet with the 431 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 5: superintendent of a whole district, and he was kind, but he. 432 00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 4: Said rules or rules. 433 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 5: We'd love to have your son, but we cannot make 434 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 5: an exception. They said, who do you report to? He said, 435 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 5: I report to the owner. It was a group of 436 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 5: private schools. They met with the owner explain the situation. 437 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 5: He didn't say yes or no. He just said, I'll 438 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 5: have to get back with you. A month later, they 439 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 5: got a call from the first lady. 440 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 4: They met with. 441 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 5: The lady that works in registration. She said, I've been 442 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 5: here fifteen years. I've never seen this happen before, but 443 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 5: we're going to make an exception and allow your child 444 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 5: to start school this year. 445 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 4: Unprecedented favor. 446 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 5: You may have situations that look impossible. It's never been 447 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 5: done before. Don't get discouraged, don't give up. God wants 448 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 5: to do something awesome. Keep believing for unprecedented favor. Be 449 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 5: bold and do like Joshua and start speaking favor to 450 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 5: that situation. 451 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 4: Every day. 452 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 5: Father, thank you that your favor is turning this around. 453 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 5: Think you that your favor is making a way, even 454 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 5: though I don't see Lord, Thank you that your favor 455 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 5: is doing remarkable, astounding, overwhelming things. When you release your faith, 456 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 5: then like with Joshua, you'll see God show up and 457 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 5: do amazing things, things that you've never seen happen before. 458 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 4: This is what a mother did that we know. 459 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 5: Her son got involved in an outlaw motorcycle game, got 460 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 5: way way off course, and he was constantly in and 461 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 5: out of jail. Year after year, he continued to spiral downwards, 462 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 5: breaking his mother's heart. 463 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,479 Speaker 4: She prayed, she believed. 464 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 5: She did everything she could, but nothing seemed to help. 465 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 4: He got to the point where he. 466 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 5: Practically lived stoned. He had all kinds of addictions. He's 467 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 5: never in his right mind. One day in his early twenties, 468 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 5: he was so depressed and so messed up in his 469 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 5: mind he decided to end his life. A big bottle 470 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 5: of pills he was going to take was standing in 471 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,719 Speaker 5: front of a mirror. He said, when I looked at 472 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 5: myself in that mirror, I saw a dead man staring 473 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 5: back at me. Just as he was about to take 474 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 5: the pills, something said so strongly, don't do it. 475 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 4: There was a. 476 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 5: Force holding him back. He could not take those pills. 477 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 5: He didn't really know what he was doing, but he 478 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 5: thought if I'm going to kill myself. 479 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 4: I need to first go to church. 480 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 5: He got on his motorcycle and somehow ended up at 481 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 5: Lakewood Church on a Sunday morning. Walked in there totally stoned, 482 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 5: never been there before. Leather jacket, beard tattoos, smelled like alcohol. 483 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 5: This big, rough, tough looking biker. Well, the service had 484 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 5: already started and the usher met him at the door. 485 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 5: And back in those days, the front rows were reserved 486 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,719 Speaker 5: for our prayer partners, for our volunteers. But for some reason, 487 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 5: this usher in the middle of the service brought him 488 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 5: all the way down to the very front row and 489 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 5: sat him right dead center. He was so stoned he 490 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 5: didn't understand everything that was happening, but he told how 491 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 5: he felt a love that he had never felt before. 492 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 5: He said, sitting in that service, I could feel chains 493 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 5: breaking off of me, my mind becoming clear. All of 494 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 5: a sudden, I felt a sense of purpose, a sense 495 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 5: of destiny for my life. After the service, he walked 496 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 5: out to his motorcycle in the old gravel parking lot, 497 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 5: all by himself. He knelt down and said, God, I 498 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 5: don't know if you really want me, but that minister 499 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 5: said you would take me just as I am, so 500 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 5: I'm giving my life to you. It just so happened. 501 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 5: That was Mother's Day. He went back home and called 502 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 5: his mom, said, you'll never believe what happened. I just 503 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 5: went to church and gave my life to Christ. His 504 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 5: mom stood there in utter amazement. She said, Wow, God 505 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 5: never seen anything like that before that day, the addictions 506 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 5: to drugs and alcohol were broken. 507 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 4: Off of him. 508 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 5: He got out of the Outlaw motorcycle gang, and he 509 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 5: started a motorcycle ministry. 510 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 4: To help people that had been messed up like he was. 511 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 5: It's called Tribe of Judah Motorcycle Ministry. Our good friend 512 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 5: been priest for the last thirty years, been his pastor 513 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 5: to great Church, and he continues to go all over 514 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,120 Speaker 5: the world telling people what God has done for him. 515 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 5: The scripture says, is there anything too hard for the Lord? 516 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 5: Maybe you've been praying for a loved one for a 517 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 5: long long time, Maybe you've been believing for a situation 518 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,479 Speaker 5: to change for years and years. Don't get discouraged. God 519 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 5: is going to finish what he started. He has something unmatched, 520 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 5: unparalleled coming your way. Favor, breakthroughs, restoration like you haven't 521 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 5: seen before. 522 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 4: God's been good to all of us in the past. 523 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 5: But I believe we're coming in to the greater works, 524 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 5: the greater annoying, the greater power, the greater victory. 525 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 4: Keep your faith out there. 526 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 5: God has something astounding in your future. He's saying to 527 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 5: you what he said to Moses. I'm going to do 528 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 5: something awesome, something that you have not seen before. Now, 529 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 5: let's stay in agreement with God. Let's get up every 530 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,719 Speaker 5: morning and say, Father, thank you for your unprecedented favor, 531 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 5: Thank you for the immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of your power. 532 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 5: If you do that, I believe you're going to come 533 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 5: into more of those days where you stand there in 534 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 5: utter amazement and say, Wow, God, I've never seen anything 535 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 5: like this before. What is that unprecedented favor is coming 536 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 5: you away? I believe it and declare it for each 537 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 5: one of you in Jesus's name. 538 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you say him in today? 539 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 4: We never like to close our. 540 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 5: Broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 541 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 5: lord of your life. 542 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord, Jesus, I'll 543 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 544 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 4: you my lord and Savior. 545 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 546 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 5: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 547 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 5: Keep God first place. 548 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 4: He's going to take your places you've never dreamed of. 549 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the joelus Deine podcast. Help 550 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 3: us continue to share the message of hope with those 551 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 3: all over the world. Visit joelostin dot com slash give 552 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 3: Hope to give a gift today. 553 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 4: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 554 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 5: I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 555 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 5: podcast to keep you inspired all through the week. 556 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 4: We're praying for you. 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