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Thanks for listening to 38 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 6: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 39 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 5: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 40 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 5: blessing and share it with. 41 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 6: A friends, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best 42 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 6: in your life. 43 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. 44 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 6: Always enjoy to come into your homes and if you're 45 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 6: ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by and 46 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 6: be a part of one of our services. I promise 47 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 6: you it will make you feel right at home. But 48 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 6: thanks for tuning in today. I like to get started 49 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 6: each week with something kind of funny. And this was 50 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 6: sent to me from a senior citizen's home. It's about 51 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 6: a ninety two year old man. He wasn't feeling well 52 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 6: one day, and so he decided to go to the 53 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 6: doctor and have a checka. A few days later, the 54 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 6: doctor saw him out walking down the street with a 55 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 6: beautiful young lady by his side, and he seemed to 56 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 6: be just as happy as can be. And the doctor 57 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 6: was kind of surprised. He said, while you you are 58 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 6: doing a lot better. The man said, yes, doctor, I 59 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 6: just took your orders. You said, get a hot mama 60 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 6: and stay cheerful. The doctor said, I didn't say that. 61 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 6: I said you got a heart murmur. Be careful, all right. 62 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 6: Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 63 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 6: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 64 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do 65 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 6: what it says I can do. Today I will be 66 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 6: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 67 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,399 Speaker 6: is alert, my heart is receptive. 68 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 4: I will never be the same. 69 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 6: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 70 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 6: to you today about how God wants to finish what 71 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 6: he started in your life. And we all have things 72 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 6: that we would consider to be in completions, dreams that 73 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 6: have not yet come to pass, Promises that we're standing 74 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 6: on in our health, in our finances, in our family. 75 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 4: Maybe it's a child that's gotten off course. 76 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 6: We've been praying and believing, but it's been so long 77 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 6: now we're tempted to think that it's never going to happen. 78 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 6: Or maybe we have a dream to get out of debt, 79 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 6: a dream to buy a new home, a dream to 80 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 6: start a business, but we've had so many obstacles. Every 81 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 6: time we try to go forward, something comes against us. 82 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 6: And now these disappointments, these setbacks have caused us to 83 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 6: get complacent and we just accept the fact that. 84 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 4: I'll be not gonna happen for me. But I want 85 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 4: to encourage you today. 86 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 6: God has called the author and the finisher of our faith. 87 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 6: Anything he begins, any dream he puts in your heart. 88 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 6: The good news is if God started it, he's well. 89 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 4: Able to finish it. 90 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 6: It may not look like it's gonna happen, it may 91 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 6: be taken a long time, but if you will stay 92 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 6: in faith, if you will keep your hopes up, God 93 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 6: has promised he will complete your incompletions. I want you 94 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,480 Speaker 6: to get a vision of that today. You may have 95 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 6: a dream to get married. It's been a long time, 96 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 6: and you've been through other relationships that didn't work out. 97 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 6: You're tempted to think, well, I guess this is just 98 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 6: not for me. I don't think I'll ever meet anybody. No, 99 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 6: you've got to keep. 100 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 4: Your hopes up. 101 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 6: God still has somebody great he wants to bring into 102 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 6: your life. And instead of giving up on that, going 103 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 6: around discouraged, thinking it's never gonna work out. I don't 104 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 6: see how I could get out of debt, or I 105 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 6: don't think my dreams will happen. Our attitude should be God. 106 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 6: I know you are a God of completion. I know 107 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 6: what you started in my life you will finish. So 108 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 6: I just want to thank you that every dream, every desire, 109 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 6: every promise you put in me, you will bring it 110 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 6: to pass. Deep down in here, we have to be 111 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 6: convinced that no matter how long it takes, no matter 112 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 6: how impossible it looks, we don't have to get discouraged. 113 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 4: We don't have to. 114 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 6: Give up we know that God is the author and 115 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 6: the finisher of our faith, and he will bring it 116 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 6: to completion. I think about my brother Paul. He has 117 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 6: a son that at one. 118 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 4: Time got a little off. Course. 119 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 6: He's a fine young man, but he just got into 120 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 6: some things that he shouldn't have gotten into. And for 121 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 6: years Paul did everything he could. He prayed, he believed. 122 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 4: He reached out to him when he needed help. 123 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 6: He was there, but it seemed like the more Paul did, 124 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 6: the worse off his son God. And that's the way 125 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 6: the enemy works when he sees if you dig your 126 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 6: heels in and do your best, he'll do everything he 127 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 6: can to try to get you to give up. You 128 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 6: know why, because he knows God is a god of completion. 129 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 6: He knows God has a way to turn it all around, 130 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 6: and so he'll do everything he can to try to 131 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 6: get us discouraged, telling us these lies like it's never 132 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 6: going to happen. You might as well just accept the 133 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 6: fact your child's never going to do right, or you're 134 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 6: never going to be healthy. 135 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 4: You've had that sickness ten years. 136 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 6: Your business will never be blessed. You've got too many competitors. 137 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 6: The first place we lose. The battle is in our 138 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 6: own thinking. We have to learn to get rid of 139 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 6: those thoughts and just say God, I want to thank 140 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 6: you that you will complete everything you started. I want 141 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 6: to thank you that every promise you put in me 142 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 6: I will see that fulfilled. And that's what Paul did, 143 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 6: not for weeks, not for months, but year after year, hoping, praying, 144 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 6: expecting one day his son would get back on the 145 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 6: right course. He had a vision of him serving God, 146 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 6: being productive, fulfilling his destiny. Do you know today Paul 147 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 6: is seeing that vision come to pass. His son is 148 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 6: going to graduate from a prestigious university. We know he's 149 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 6: going to go on to do great things in life. 150 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 6: But why did it happen? Because Paul dared to believe. 151 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 6: He refused to give up. 152 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 4: He knew God is a god of completion. 153 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 6: Now, I want us to have a new determination that 154 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 6: we're going to hold on to everything God's put in 155 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 6: our heart. Doesn't matter if it's been ten years, twenty years, 156 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 6: thirty years, God can still bring it to pass. I 157 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 6: don't know about you, but I'm gonna die in faith. 158 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 6: I'm gonna die believing that every single promise, every dream, 159 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 6: every desire, God's put in me that I will see 160 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 6: that fulfilled. 161 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 4: Some of you today, you need to get this new fire. 162 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 6: You've given up on a dream, you gave up on 163 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 6: a child, or maybe you're tempted to give up on 164 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 6: the thought that you could live an abundant life. Do 165 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 6: you need to draw that line in the sand and 166 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 6: say this is a new day. I may have given 167 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 6: up temporarily, but now I know God wants to finish 168 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 6: what he started in me. So I'm going to go 169 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 6: out each day in faith, with expectancy, believing that every. 170 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 4: Promise in my heart will come to pass. This is 171 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 4: what Joseph did. 172 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 6: God put a dream that one day he would do 173 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 6: great things, one day he would be in leadership. But 174 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 6: Joseph's life went just in the opposite direction. Everything that 175 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 6: could go wrong did. And when God puts a promise 176 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,719 Speaker 6: in your heart, don't be surprised if you face opposition. 177 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 6: Don't be surprised if all kinds of adversity comes against you. 178 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 6: The scripture says, the enemy comes immediately to try to 179 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 6: steal the seed out of our hearts. He wants us 180 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 6: to give up and think that it's never going to happen. 181 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 6: Joseph was sold into slavery, and he was mistreated and 182 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 6: lied about and forsaken. If anyone had a reason to 183 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 6: give up, it would have been Joseph. He could have said, God, 184 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 6: I thought you put a dream in my heart, but 185 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 6: I must not have heard right, because the whole bottom 186 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 6: has fallen out. No Joseph understood this principle that God 187 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 6: is a god of completion. 188 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 4: That he finishes what he starts. 189 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 6: And in the natural Joseph didn't have any reason to 190 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 6: be encouraged, didn't have any reason to be positive and hopeful. 191 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 6: But Joseph wasn't focused on the natural. He knew God 192 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 6: was a supernatural god. And in the end, some thirteen 193 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 6: years later, because he believed, because he stayed in faith, 194 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 6: he saw God bring to completion exactly what he started 195 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 6: in his life. 196 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 4: God wants to do the same thing for each one 197 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:44,559 Speaker 4: of us. 198 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 6: But some of you have allowed your disappointments and the 199 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 6: unfair things that have happened to steal your dream. Maybe 200 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 6: somebody mistreated you, somebody lied about you and tried to 201 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 6: ruin your reputation, And at one point you knew. 202 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 4: God was going to turn it around. He knew God 203 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 4: was going to vindicate you. 204 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 6: But now it's been the year after year, and you've 205 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 6: lost your fire, you've lost your enthusiasm. But God is 206 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 6: saying to us today, I am a god of completion. 207 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 4: I finish what I start. 208 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 6: And if you'll get your hopes up and start believing again, 209 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 6: I'll do for you what I did for Joseph. 210 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 4: I'll take what. 211 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 6: Was meant for your harm, and I will use it 212 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 6: to your advantage. See, no matter what's come against you, 213 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 6: no matter how long it's been or how unfair it was, 214 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 6: God still has a way to turn it around and 215 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 6: bring to completion what He's put in your heart. And 216 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 6: the scripture tells us to hold fast the profession of 217 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 6: our faith. It indicates something's trying to pull it away, 218 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,839 Speaker 6: like a tug of war. In other words, disappointments are 219 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 6: on the other end, pulling, trying to get us to 220 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 6: give up. It didn't work out, you didn't get the promotion, 221 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 6: you didn't qualify for the new home. 222 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 4: It's never going to happen. Just forget it. Time is 223 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 4: on the other end, pulling. 224 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 6: It's been so long, negative voices, you don't have what 225 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 6: it takes. You come from the wrong side of the tracks. 226 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 6: The doctor's report says, you're not going to make it. 227 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 6: All these things constantly coming against us. Why to try 228 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 6: to steal the dream out of our heart. If you're 229 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 6: gonna fulfill your destiny, you have to hold fast, grip 230 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 6: it tightly, have the attitude. Nothing is going to cause 231 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 6: me to give up. God to put this promise in me, 232 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 6: and as long as I have breath. 233 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 4: I'm gonna believe that he will bring it to pass. 234 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 4: Abraham waited. 235 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 6: Abraham waited twenty years to see his promise. Now, I'm 236 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 6: sure there were many mornings he thought I must not. 237 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 4: Have heard God right. It's never gonna happen. 238 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 6: Besides, I'm too old to have a child. No, he 239 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 6: had to do just what we have to do. He 240 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 6: had to get up and shake off doubt, shake off 241 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 6: unbelief instead of complaining. I can hear him saying, Father, 242 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 6: I want to thank you that you're at work in 243 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 6: my life. Even though this looks impossible, even though it's 244 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 6: taken a long time. I know you always finish what 245 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 6: you start, So I just want to thank you. 246 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 4: That my child is on its way. 247 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 6: It says he grew strong in faith by giving praise 248 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 6: and thanksgiving to God all through the day. We should 249 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 6: not only thank God for what he's already done, but 250 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 6: let's thank him in advance for what he's going to do. 251 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 6: Thank him that he's going to bring your dreams to pass. 252 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 6: Thank him that he's arranging things in your favor. Learn 253 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 6: to thank him that He's a god of completion. The 254 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 6: scripture says here in Philippians. 255 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 4: One to six, be confident of this. 256 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,599 Speaker 6: He that began a good work in you will continue 257 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 6: to perform it until it's perfectly complete. Notice that saying 258 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 6: that God is constantly working behind the scenes in our lives. 259 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 6: Why so he can bring his promises to completion. 260 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 4: What can stop it? 261 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 6: When we get negative, quit believing, and we don't think 262 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 6: that it's going to happen. But understand, God's dream is 263 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 6: to bring to completion every promise he's put in you. 264 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 6: He wants to give you the desires. 265 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 4: Of your heart in the natural. 266 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 6: Like Abraham, it may look impossible, Circumstances may be trying 267 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 6: to push you down. You've got to know God can 268 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 6: make a way even when it looks like there is 269 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 6: no way. And when you're tempted to be discouraged, you 270 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 6: need to remind yourself who's at work in your life. 271 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 6: He's called Elshaddai, the God who is more than enough. 272 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 6: He's called Jehovah, Jirah, the Lord, our provider. Your enemies 273 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 6: may be powerful, but our God is all powerful. No 274 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 6: person can stand against him. No circumstance is too difficult. 275 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 6: When we believe, all the forces of darkness cannot keep 276 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 6: God from bringing our dreams to pass. And it'll help 277 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 6: you to stay encouraged if all through the day you'll 278 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 6: just meditate on the fact that right now, the creator 279 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 6: of the universe, Almighty God is working behind the scenes 280 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 6: in my life. Right now, he's working on ways to 281 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 6: bring about the promises that He's put in me. 282 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 4: It says, be confident of this. 283 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 6: What are we to be confident about the fact that 284 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 6: God is a God of completion? 285 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 4: It's saying, in effect, you may have some. 286 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 6: Doubts in other areas, but be sure of this one thing. 287 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 6: Know this, beyond the shadow of a doubt. What God 288 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 6: started in your life, he will bring to completion. 289 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 4: Why don't you get a vision for it? 290 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 6: That child you're praying for, see him serving God at marriage. 291 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 4: It's on the rocks. See it restored the business is slow. 292 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 6: See it successful well, Joel, I don't know if this 293 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 6: will happen for me. I've had a lot of setbacks, 294 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 6: didn't get the promotion I wanted last year. Doctor told 295 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 6: me he didn't know if I'd make it. No, it's 296 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 6: not going to happen with that kind of attitude. The 297 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 6: problem is you are not confident that God's working in 298 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 6: your life. You've got to be convinced that God will 299 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 6: complete your incompletions. You got to know deep down in 300 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 6: here that it's not over until God says it's over. 301 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 6: It doesn't matter how long it's been or how many 302 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 6: obstacles you've had. God is in the finishing business and 303 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 6: the dream that's in your heart, the promise that's on 304 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 6: the inside. God not only put it there, he has 305 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 6: every intention of bringing it to pass. 306 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 4: He already has solutions. 307 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 6: He's constantly working arranging things in your favor. I'm asking 308 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 6: you today to get in agreement with God. Believe that 309 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 6: your best days are still in front of you. Expect 310 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 6: good things. Know that He is a God of completion. 311 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 6: The scripture says God will continually work on our behalf 312 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 6: until it's perfectly complete. 313 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 4: I like that, not. 314 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 6: Halfway complete, not three fourths of the way. God doesn't 315 00:15:57,640 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 6: want you to be a little happy, a little blad 316 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 6: a little healthy. He doesn't want part of your dreams 317 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 6: to come to pass. God wants you to realize the 318 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 6: fulfillment of everything that He's placed in your heart. 319 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 4: He wants you to be perfectly complete. 320 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 6: My brother, Paul, he could have had the attitude, well, 321 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 6: my son's not being productive, he's not fulfilling his destiny, 322 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 6: but at least he's not in trouble. 323 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 4: At least he's making it. 324 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 6: No, Paul knew God would complete what he started, that 325 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 6: his son could become everything God created him to be, 326 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 6: not halfway, not three fours. 327 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 4: But perfectly complete. 328 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 6: Too often we settle, Well, God, I really believe you 329 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 6: want me to prosper in it. One time I thought 330 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 6: I could get out of debt. But guess is so 331 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 6: high and my business is so slow. I think I'd 332 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 6: just be happy if I could pay my bills. Now 333 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 6: I realized we need to be content. But what I'm 334 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 6: saying is, don't settle where you are. Don't give up 335 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 6: on what God has put in your heart. It may 336 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 6: not happen overnight, but remember, as long. 337 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 4: As you stay in faith. 338 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 6: God is constantly working to bring to completion the promises 339 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 6: he's put in your heart. Abraham could have said, God, 340 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 6: we had this other child Ishmael by our servant Hagar. 341 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,479 Speaker 4: It's not exactly what you promise, but it's okay. 342 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 6: We love him. He's a son too. No, it's not 343 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 6: complete if you have to make excuses. It's not complete 344 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 6: if you have to talk yourself into it. Hell, God, 345 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 6: I really wanted to get married, but I'm getting kind 346 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 6: of older. I guess I'll just settle for being single. 347 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with that. No, again, be content, but keep 348 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 4: that dream alive. Have the attitude. 349 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 6: God. I know you put this desire in me, and 350 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 6: I believe that you always finish what you start. 351 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 4: So I want to thank you that even. 352 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 6: Today you're working behind the scenes arranging things in my favor, 353 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,199 Speaker 6: and at the right time you'll bring the perfect person 354 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 6: into my life. And then all through the day, instead 355 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 6: of worrying wondering if it's ever going to happen, just 356 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 6: under your breath, thank God that he's the author and 357 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 6: the finisher of your faith. In the Old Testament, there's 358 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 6: a man by the name of Zerubabel. God put in 359 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 6: him a desire to rebuild the temple. The whole city 360 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 6: had been destroyed, and now he came back and laid 361 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 6: the foundation. But the problem was the people were not 362 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 6: for him. They didn't want the temple rebuilt, and so 363 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 6: they went to the lawyers and the judges and they 364 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 6: got a decree telling him to stop. And this is 365 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 6: what happens many times. God puts a promise in our heart, 366 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 6: and all of our opponents come out of the woodwork 367 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 6: trying to discourage us, trying to talk us out of it. 368 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 6: Some of his own men said, Zerubabel, we're not able 369 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 6: to do this. 370 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 4: The task is too great, and they just gave up. 371 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 6: For ten years, there was no work done on the temple. 372 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,640 Speaker 6: I can imagine zerube Beel, week after week went by 373 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 6: the piece of property and saw the empty foundation, the 374 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 6: material stacked up, the stone, the lumber looked like a 375 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 6: big waste. I'm sure he must have thought, God, I 376 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 6: started out so good. I laid the foundation. I had 377 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 6: these big dreams, but people came against me and I 378 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 6: had so many obstacles. 379 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 4: He's so down, he's so discouraged. 380 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 6: But remember God never starts something that he cannot finish, 381 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 6: and it doesn't matter how long it's been, doesn't matter 382 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 6: how many people have been against you. God still has 383 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 6: a way of bringing your dreams to pass. Ten years later, 384 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 6: a prophet came by by the name of Zachariah. He said, 385 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 6: Zaruba bel God sent me all this way to give 386 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 6: you two words. 387 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 4: Here's what they are. Begin again. 388 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 6: All of a sudden, his faith was stirred. He said, 389 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 6: you mean God can still bring this to pass? Do 390 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 6: you know how long it's been. Do you know how 391 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 6: many people are against me? Do you really think I 392 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 6: can still do it? Zachariah said, I don't think you can. 393 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: I know you can. God says, get started. I believe. 394 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 4: God saying the same thing to each one of us. 395 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 6: Begin again, get your hopes up, get your dreams back. 396 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 6: You may be like him. You started out good, You 397 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 6: laid the foundation. 398 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 4: So to speak. 399 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 6: You were so excited, but you had some opposition. Things 400 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 6: didn't work out. Now it's been a year after year. 401 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 6: God is saying it's time to start believing again, start 402 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 6: praying again, start expecting good things once again. Some of 403 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 6: you wanted to buy a new home, but you didn't qualify. 404 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 6: That was ten years ago. God says, begin again. 405 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 4: Some of you. 406 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 6: At one time you believed you could overcome that addiction. 407 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 6: But now it's been so long you've gotten comfortable where 408 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 6: you are. 409 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 4: God says, begin again. 410 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 6: Some of you had a dream to do something great 411 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 6: with your life, to break out of the mold, to 412 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 6: set a new standard. 413 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 4: But you went through disappointments. 414 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 6: Nobody encouraged you, your family didn't get behind you, and 415 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 6: now you don't think it could. 416 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 4: Ever work out. 417 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 6: But God is saying it's not over until I say 418 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 6: it's begin again. 419 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 4: Get a new vision for that today. It's interesting. 420 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 6: Zachariah told zeruba Bel to go get the capstone. The 421 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 6: capstone was the stone that was reserved as the final 422 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 6: piece of stone that went into the building when it 423 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 6: was finished. 424 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 4: It was symbolic. 425 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 6: It represented the completed project. Why was it important that 426 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 6: he kept the capstone in front of him because every 427 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 6: time he looked at it, it reminded him that God 428 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 6: is a god of completion. When Zerubabel was tired, when 429 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 6: he was down, when he thought it was impossible, he'd 430 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 6: go back over and look at the capstone. That was 431 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 6: God saying to him, I will complete it. I've got 432 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 6: a plan, I'm in control. Just keep on keeping on. 433 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 6: Let me ask you today, do you have your capstone 434 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 6: in front of you? Do you have something that represents 435 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 6: the final peace to your dreams, something that reminds you 436 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 6: of it being completed, even if it's symbolic. I know 437 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 6: a couple their son was estranged. He'd been off course 438 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 6: for years and years. They went and bought a Bible 439 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 6: had his name engraved on it. They put it on 440 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 6: their coffee table. That was their capstone. Every time they 441 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 6: walked by, they thought, it's just a matter of time. 442 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 6: He's coming back home. God will finish what he started. 443 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 6: A friend of mine is a pastor. He was going 444 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 6: to build a new sanctuary. Before they even drew the plans, 445 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,400 Speaker 6: he went down to the building supply and he got 446 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 6: a brick, the kind they were going to use on 447 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 6: his building. 448 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 4: He put it on his desk. 449 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 6: Every time he saw it, that was God saying to him, 450 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 6: you will do this. I will supply your knees. It 451 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 6: will be completed. You can do the same thing. If 452 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 6: you're believing for a new home, Why don't you go 453 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 6: get a brick, get a key. Let it represent the 454 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 6: finished product. You may have a dream to get married, 455 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 6: Go buy a picture frame. Put it on your table 456 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 6: in the living room. Every time you walk by, you 457 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 6: say to yourself, that's where I'm gonna put one of 458 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,959 Speaker 6: my witting photos. It's important that you keep something in 459 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 6: front of you that reminds you of the finished product. 460 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 4: You got to see the dream completed. 461 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 6: The second thing God told Zaruba Bell was to speak 462 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 6: favor over that capsone. 463 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 4: He said, look at it and declare grace. Grace. 464 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 6: That tells me it's the favor of God that's going 465 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 6: to bring our dreams to completion. Every day we need 466 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 6: to declare favor over our business, favor over our finances, 467 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 6: favor over our children, favor. 468 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:32,880 Speaker 4: Over our health. 469 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,719 Speaker 6: When he started declaring that favor, God said, the hands 470 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 6: of Zerubebel have laid this foundation, and the hands of 471 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 6: Zerubebel will finish it. God says that to us. When 472 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 6: you get the capstone out and you speak favor over 473 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 6: it and you see it coming to pass, God says, 474 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 6: what you started, you will finish. 475 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 4: It. 476 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 6: May have lied dormant for a long time, you may 477 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 6: have had obstacles that have delayed it year after year, 478 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 6: but remember God always has the final say, and he's saying, 479 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 6: I am a God of completion, and you will see 480 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 6: it come to pass. By this time, Zaruba Bell was 481 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 6: all fired up. He said, God, I'm excited. 482 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 4: I've got my. 483 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 6: Enthusiasm back, but I still really don't see how it 484 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 6: can happen. I've still got these obstacles. It still looks 485 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 6: impossible to me. Zacharai said, Zerubibyl, here's the key. It's 486 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 6: not by might, it's not by power, but it's by 487 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 6: the spirit of the Living God. That word spirit in 488 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 6: the Hebrew means breath. 489 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 4: He was saying, in effect. 490 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 6: It's not gonna happen by our own ingenuity, by our 491 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,719 Speaker 6: own wisdom, by our own strength. It's gonna happen because 492 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 6: of the breath of God. In other words, God's gonna 493 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 6: breathe onto that project you're working on. He's gonna breathe 494 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 6: into your finances, breathe on that child that's not doing right. 495 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 6: When you're a tempted to get discouraged and wonder if 496 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 6: it's ever gonna happen, just remind your as long as 497 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 6: I'm in faith, as long as I'm believing, God is 498 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 6: breathing his life into me, and when God breathes on you. 499 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 4: You will have his favor. 500 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 6: It's his favor that will cause it to come to completion. 501 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,439 Speaker 6: Now I can see right now through my eyes of faith, 502 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 6: somebody's business is beginning again. Somebody had a broken dream, 503 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 6: but that fire is being relent in your beginning again. 504 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 6: Somebody was about to give up on a relationship, on 505 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 6: a child, on a promise. 506 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 4: But today you're beginning again. 507 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 6: As you do this, God's going to breathe his favor 508 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 6: into you in a greater way. You're going to see 509 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 6: new things begin to happen. You laid the foundation, and 510 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,400 Speaker 6: you will finish what you started. It's never too late. 511 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,719 Speaker 6: God is a faithful God. Now I think about the 512 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 6: prophet Elisha. He was promised a double portion of Elijah's anointing. 513 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 6: In the scripture, there are seven major miracles attribute to Elijah. Well, 514 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,959 Speaker 6: Elisha is lying on his death bed, he has thirteen 515 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 6: major miracles. 516 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 4: Looks like he's one short, he needs fourteen to have double. 517 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 6: But God is a god of completion. He knows how 518 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 6: to get you to where you need to be. He 519 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 6: already has a plan. Elisha ended up dying without that 520 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,239 Speaker 6: final miracle. It looked like an incompletion, looked like he 521 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 6: didn't make it. But remember it's not over until God 522 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 6: says it's over. And they buried Elisha in an open grave. 523 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 6: I can see them chiseling on his tombstone. He almost 524 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 6: had a double portion. He almost fulfilled his destiny one 525 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 6: miracle short. But about that time, a man was killed 526 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 6: in a battle and the people he was with were 527 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 6: passing by in a hurry, and they saw the open 528 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 6: grave where Elisha had been buried, and they said, just 529 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 6: put the dead man in there by that old prophet, 530 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 6: save us some time. 531 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 4: We're in a hurry. 532 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 6: And so they lowered the dead man to the grave 533 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 6: where Elysha was. But when his body touched elicious bones, 534 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 6: the dead man came back to life. He stood up, 535 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 6: He stood up and walked out of that grave. I 536 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 6: can imagine his friends took off running. But there was 537 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,959 Speaker 6: miracle number fourteen. He got the final one he needed. 538 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 6: And that tells me, as long as we stay in faith, 539 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 6: as long as we keep believing, every promise God's put 540 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 6: in our heart will. 541 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 4: Come to pass. 542 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 6: Not even death can keep God from bringing it to completion. 543 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 6: Some of you, at one time you had a dream 544 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,919 Speaker 6: in your heart, You had promises, You were standing on. 545 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 6: But you went through obstacles and it's been so long 546 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 6: now you've given up down deep. You know that's an incompletion. 547 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 6: You know you let go of that. I'm asking you 548 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 6: today to get a new vision for it. Don't just 549 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 6: see it the way it is, get the capstone out, 550 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 6: see it completed, see it fulfilled, Speak favor over it. 551 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 6: When you're at tempted to get discouraged, just turn it around. 552 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 6: Say father, I want to thank you that you will 553 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 6: finish what you started in my life. I know you 554 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 6: are a God of completion. Remember it's not by our 555 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 6: own might, by our own power. It's because God is 556 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 6: breathing his favor into our dreams. 557 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 4: And if you will. 558 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 6: Hold fast what God's put in your heart, if you'll 559 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 6: be determined to go out each day in faith and expectancy, 560 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 6: God's promised he will complete your incompletions. He'll be the 561 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 6: author and the finisher of your faith. Now, I believe 562 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 6: every promise, every dream, every desire. 563 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 4: In your heart. 564 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 6: You will see that come to pass and you'll live 565 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 6: that life of victory that God has in store. Amen, 566 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 6: do you receive it today? 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