1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: share it with a friend. Reappreciate you and pray for 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Will God bless you? 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: It's always a joy to come into your homes. We 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: love you and we're believing for God's very best in 8 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: your life. And if you're ever in our area, I 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: hope you'll stop by. I promise you we'll make you 10 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: feel right at home. But thanks for tuning in today. 11 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: I like to get started each week with something funny, 12 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: and I heard about this man. He was out walking 13 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: through the woods with a friend and all of a 14 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: sudden they came upon this huge grizzly bear. They froze 15 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: in their tracks, and as the bear intently stared them down, 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: they contemplated what they should do. Man turned to his 17 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: friend and said, I think we should run. His friends said, 18 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,880 Speaker 1: are you crazy? You can't outrun a grizzly bear. He said, 19 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: I know that. I don't have to outrun him. I 20 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: just have to outrun you. All right, hold up your Bible, 21 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,959 Speaker 1: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 22 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what 23 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says 24 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the Word 25 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. I 27 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living seed 28 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: of the Word of God. I'll never be the same, never, never, never, 29 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: I'll never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 30 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about how you 31 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: are someone's miracle. So many people are praying for a miracle. 32 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: We have to realize we can become their miracle. God 33 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: uses people, and every day we should have the attitude 34 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm going to do something good for someone else. I'm 35 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: going to encourage someone. I'm going to meet a need, 36 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: I'm going to be kind to a name. I'm going 37 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: to become someone's miracle. Our joy is connected to our giving. 38 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: And the reason a lot of people are not happy 39 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: today is because they're ingrown. They're only focused on their 40 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: wants and their needs. But we have to get outside 41 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: of ourselves when we get up in the morning, we 42 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:23,119 Speaker 1: should say, on purpose, God, show me somebody I can 43 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: bless today. Show me somebody that's discouraged. Bring somebody across 44 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: my path that has a need, somebody I can make 45 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: a difference in. And then we need to go out 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: and look for ways that we can do good. It 47 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: may not be something big, just a smile here and 48 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: encouraging word there, buying somebody's dinner, giving somebody a ride, 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: Living to give rather than living to get. Every day, 50 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: we should have a goal of doing at least one 51 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: thing good for somebody else. May be your spouse, may 52 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: be a neighbor, a coworker, even a stranger. It doesn't 53 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: have to be a special occasion. Don't wait for their 54 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: birthday or for Christmas, just an ordinary day. Bring your 55 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: wife some flowers home. Call a friend and tell them 56 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: how much they mean to you. Go to your neighbor 57 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: and give them a gift certificate to go out to dinner. 58 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: Or how about that young man that brings pizza to 59 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: your house. You don't even know him, but give him 60 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: an extra twenty dollars for no reason at all. Be 61 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: good to somebody you don't know. You may be their miracle. 62 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: That simple gift. That phone call out of the blue, 63 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: that encouraging word may be exactly what they needed to 64 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: keep pressing forward. Really, this is one of the most 65 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: rewarding ways to live. Every day. Find somebody you can 66 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: be good to. I'll just warn you, if you get 67 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: around me, you're gonna get blessed. You're gonna get encouraged. 68 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: If you have a need, I'm gonna do my best 69 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: to meet it. If I see at a restaurant, I'm 70 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: going to probably buy your dinner unless there are forty 71 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: year of you and don't follow me around. Now that 72 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: you know this, but I've made up my mind. I'm 73 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: going to be a giver and not a taker. I'm 74 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: looking for ways to be a blessing. I may need 75 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: a few miracles of my own, but I'm going to 76 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: sow a seed by becoming somebody's miracle. I'm not going 77 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 1: to get up thinking about how I can get blessed today. 78 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to get up thinking about who I can 79 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: be a blessing to. How can I brighten somebody else's day. 80 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: That's the key to true fulfillment. Every morning, our prayer 81 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: should be God, help me to become somebody's miracle. Today. 82 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: Help me to be sensitive to the people you bring 83 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: across my path. The other day, I saw this man 84 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: on his cell phone and in the middle of his conversation, 85 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: his battery died. It must have been an important call, 86 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: because he was very frustrated, very stressed out. He looked 87 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: like he was from another country, and I was standing 88 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: beside him waiting in a hotel lobby. When I saw 89 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: it die. I just handed him my cell phone, said here, 90 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: use this one. He said, no, I can't do that. 91 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: I'm making a long distance call. I said that's okay, 92 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You can call anywhere you want to. He 93 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: looked at me kind of strange and said, are you sure. 94 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: I said I'm sure. When I heard him dial in 95 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: Korea almost changed my mind. But when he handed me 96 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: my phone back five minutes later, he said, in the 97 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: most genuine, sincere voice you can imagine, thank you so much. 98 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: You just don't know what that meant to me. I 99 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: thought all I did was loaned to my cell phone. 100 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: In my mind, it was no big deal. But I 101 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: could tell that simple act of kindness brightened his day. 102 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: I was his miracle. Sure it may have cost me 103 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: twenty dollars, but I know when I'm good to other people, 104 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: God will always be good back to me. Be on 105 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: the lookout for people you can bless. God said to Abraham, 106 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: I will bless you so you will be a blessing 107 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: dispensing good to others. A key to being blessed is 108 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: are we willing to be a blessing. We're not going 109 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: to be blessed in the way God really wants us 110 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: to if we're not willing to share it with others. 111 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: When you study the life of Jesus, this is exactly 112 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: how he lived. He went out each day making a 113 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: difference in people's lives, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, 114 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: comforting the lonely, blessing the children. Says in Acts ten 115 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 1: thirty eight. He was anointed with the spirit, and he 116 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 1: went about doing good. That's our ministry as well. It's 117 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: not complicated. You don't have to know how to preach, 118 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: you don't have to understand all the deep doctrine. All 119 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: you need to do is go out each day and 120 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: be good to people. Give a compliment here, hold the 121 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: door open for the people behind you. When you go 122 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: get something to drink, bring your coworker back a drink. 123 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: As well, look for opportunities to do good. One time, 124 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: I was leaving Minute Made Park. The ballgame had just 125 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: let out, and I was pulling out the parking lot. 126 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: People were streaming out of the building and it started 127 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: to rain. Now I felt bad for the people getting wet. 128 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: Most of them had a long way to go to 129 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: their car. There were hundreds of them. I couldn't do 130 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: something for everyone, but I did have one umbrella in 131 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 1: my back seat. So I pulled over and rolled down 132 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: the window and these two ladies were passing by. They 133 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: had their programs over their head to keep them from 134 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: getting wet. I didn't know them, they didn't know me, 135 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: but I said, hey, here's an umbrella that you can have. 136 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: When I gave them that umbrella, you would have thought 137 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: I had given them a thousand dollars. They got so 138 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: excited she punched her. Friends said, I can't believe it. 139 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: She just said, God, I wish I had an umbrella. 140 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,239 Speaker 1: I said, well, God must have heard your prayer, because 141 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: here's an umbrella being delivered by an angel. What I'm 142 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: saying is you can become someone's miracle. Well, I'm not 143 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: going to give my umbrella way it cost me eighteen dollars. No, 144 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: you can't out give God. When you give, it's going 145 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: to be given back to you. It's funny. I had 146 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: had that umbrella forever. It must have been ten years old. 147 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: It was old, beat up, probably didn't cost me five dollars. Well, 148 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: several months later, I was leaving a hotel and it 149 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: was raining. The bellman had this big, fancy umbrella. It 150 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: looked like two umbrellas combined into one, and he was 151 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: so nice to get us into our cars. And just 152 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: as I was about to shut my door, he looked 153 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: at me and said, do you have an umbrella? I 154 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: said no, I don't. He folded that up, shook it off, 155 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: and said, here have this one. We got plenty of those. 156 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: I thought, God, you are so good. I gave away 157 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: my beat up, ten year old five dollars umbrella. He 158 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: gave me back a double wide. I can give my 159 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: whole family under this one. But that bellman, right in 160 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: my day, he was my miracle. That's the way God worked. 161 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: When you go around being good to people, God will 162 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: make sure other people are good back to you. The 163 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: scripture says here in Galatians six' ten as occasion and opportunity. 164 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: Arise let us do good for all. People notice it 165 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: saying whenever you have the opportunity to do, good whenever 166 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: you're able to be a, blessing don't pass it. Up 167 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: don't Say i'm busy maybe next, time OR i need my. 168 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: Umbrella it may rain. Tomorrow i'd love to give you a, 169 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: ride But i've got my. Plans i'm going to go work. Out, 170 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: no don't miss an opportunity to become someone's. Miracle if 171 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: you see someone at the office that's down and, discouraged 172 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: don't just walk by thinking what's wrong with? Them they 173 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: must be having a hard. Day, no take time to 174 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: go to, them say, hey is something? Wrong CAN i 175 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: pray with you about? Anything or better, yet come, On 176 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: i'm going to buy your. Lunch let's talk about. It 177 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: look for. Opportunities not long, ago a friend of mine 178 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: was in the hospital and the nurse that takes care 179 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 1: of her she came in one day and she just 180 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,599 Speaker 1: wasn't her normal. Self she's usually, happy in, upbeat but 181 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 1: this day she was so, solemn like she had lost her. 182 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: Joy and my friend picked up on. This she reached 183 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: out to it and, said, hey what's Wrong this nurse 184 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: was from another. Country she, said, WELL i just found 185 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: out yesterday that my children are not going to be 186 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: able to continue their same schooling back at home because 187 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: the tuition went up And i'm not able to afford it. 188 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: Anymore she was so discouraged by. It here she is 189 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: working thousands of miles from, home trying to make a better. 190 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: Life my friend is very, generous she's a. Giver and 191 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: she said to that, NURSE i want you to bring 192 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: a picture of your children tomorrow and their report. Cards 193 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: and when that lady saw those, children she told the 194 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: Nurse i'm going to pay for their. Tuition it was 195 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,079 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars each. Child she went on to, say 196 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: as long as they stay in school and keep making good, 197 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: Grades i'll continue to pay their, tuition not only through high, 198 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: school but all the way through. College that nurse was beside. 199 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: Herself she didn't know what to. Think, see my friend 200 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: was that lady's. Miracle god uses, people whether we realize 201 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: it or. Not we are all somebody's. Miracle look for that, 202 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 1: person look for opportunities to do. Good NOW i realize 203 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: not everyone can do it at that, level but we 204 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: can all do. Something there are creative ways to be a. 205 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: Blessing you hear a friend talking about how he's going 206 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: on a. Trip it's gonna have to leave his car 207 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: up at the. Airport, no let me drop you. Off 208 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: you don't need to pay that money for. Parking you 209 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: just sewed into his. Life you just brightened his. Day 210 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: you hear a neighbor saying how he's going to move some. 211 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: Furniture he's about to rent a. Truck, No i've got 212 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: a big. Truck you don't need to do. That i'll 213 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: come over and we'll do it. Together friend of mine 214 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: recently bought a new. Car the man he bought it 215 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: from was very. Helpful he searched the whole country and 216 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: got him a great. Deal saved them thousands of. Dollars 217 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: my friend was talking to a man that was about 218 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: to buy a, car and he, said, well you need 219 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: to buy it from this. Man he'll give you a great. 220 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: DEAL a couple of weeks, later that man called him 221 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: back so. Grateful he, said you know that man you 222 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: put me in touch. With he saved me over ten 223 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: thousand dollars on my new. Car just one phone, call 224 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: just one. Recommendation you may not be able to meet the. 225 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: Need but you can put in a good word for, 226 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: somebody you can help them to find a good. LEAD 227 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: i believe there are opportunities around us all the. Time 228 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,959 Speaker 1: we just have to be more, Sensitive we have to 229 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: pay more. ATTENTION i was talking to a couple of 230 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: our members not long, ago an older lady and a younger, 231 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: lady AND i asked them if they were mother and. 232 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: Daughter the older lady said, no but she's just like my. 233 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: Daughter and she went on to tell how when we 234 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: moved the church from the northeast location to this, place 235 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: she didn't think she was going to be able to 236 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: continue to. Come she's a widow and she's not used 237 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: to driving on the. Freeways she was so discovers words 238 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: by it. All and one day she was telling some 239 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: people about her, dilemma and this younger, lady who she 240 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: didn't even know at the, time overheard the conversation and 241 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: she stepped in and, said how about. This i'll come 242 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 1: pick you up and bring you to church Each. Sunday 243 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: that older lady was so, surprised she, said are you? 244 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 1: Kidding that would be? Great where do you? Live come 245 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: to find out they live thirty minutes from each, other 246 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: but that didn't stop that young. Lady she could have, thought, 247 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,079 Speaker 1: Well i'd love to do, it but it's so, far 248 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: price of gas is so, High i'm so busy in my. Career, 249 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: no this young lady knew she was blessed to be a. 250 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: Blessing she saw an opportunity to do. Good she wasn't 251 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: going to pass it. By so now Every sunday, morning 252 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: light clockwork at nine, thirty she pulls into that lady's. 253 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: Driveway we've been here since the summer of two thousand and. 254 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: Five during that, time they've only missed One sunday. Morning 255 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: after that older lady told me this, story she hugged 256 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: that young lady and she, Said, joel she's my. MIRACLE i, 257 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: thought you're exactly. Right can you Imagine god seeing this 258 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 1: young lady getting up Early sunday, morning driving across, town 259 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: spending her, gas spending her, time spending her. Energy don't 260 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: you know she's going to be. Blessed the closest thing 261 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: to the heart Of god is helping other, people says In. 262 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes when you give your, gifts we'll come back to. 263 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: You and sometimes what seems like a small act of 264 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: kindness can turn out to be a much bigger. Thing 265 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 1: heard the story about this couple that wanted to adopt a. 266 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: Child they'd gone through all the, channels but it was 267 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: taken so, long and they just weren't comfortable whether they 268 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: should adopt a child from here or somewhere. Else, really 269 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: they were frustrated over. It one, year they got involved 270 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: with the ministry that provides shoes for needy. Children most 271 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: of these children are, orphans come from very sad, situations 272 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: and so they bought a pair of tennis shoes for 273 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: a Little the way it works is you put your 274 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: picture and a note to the child in that, shoebox 275 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: and that way the child can have someone to identify. 276 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: With a couple of months, later they got a note 277 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: back and a picture of the little six year old 278 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: boy who had received those tennis. Shoes when they saw, 279 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: it they immediately knew that was the child they were 280 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: supposed to. Adopt they fell in love with. Him they 281 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: started seeing him on a regular. Basis long story, short 282 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: they were able to adopt this little. Boy and the 283 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: little boy told how For christmas he got a pair 284 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: of tennis, shoes but what he really wanted were. Parents 285 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: he held up the shoebox and, said my parents were 286 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: in this. Box see when you give your gifts will 287 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: come back to. You that couple so a seed fifteen 288 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: twenty dollars buying a pair of tennis. Shoes they got 289 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: in return a priceless. Child when you make an investment in, 290 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: others that's the Seed god will use to enrich your own. 291 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: Life some of you need a miracle, today but you 292 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: need to start by becoming someone's. Miracle what are you 293 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: doing for? Others maybe your son plays little league ball 294 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: with another young man that's not as fortunate as you. 295 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: Are you notice that a baseball cleats are all beat 296 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: up and worn. Out you don't have to make a 297 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: big deal about. It never want to embarrass. Anybody just 298 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: do it in a roundabout. Way next time you're at, 299 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: practice go give him a. Hug, hey how you been 300 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: Doing you're getting so? Big what size shoe do you? 301 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: Wear you can be sneaky about. It you're on a 302 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: mission From. God you have an assignment every day to 303 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: be good to. People now that you have that, information 304 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: when you go to buy your son a pair of 305 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: baseball cleats by that young, man one as well make 306 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: an investment in his. Life there are creative ways to 307 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: be a. Blessing you may not have a lot of extra, 308 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: money but you can go repair a roof for a 309 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: person that's less. Fortunate you can babysit somewhere one's. Children 310 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: maybe you hear a single parent mom talking about how 311 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: much she's been, working how tired she. Is why don't 312 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 1: you give her a break one night and babysit her. 313 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: Children tell her to go up to the, mall go, 314 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: relax take the evening. Off that doesn't take any, money 315 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: just takes a little. Time, really your time is more 316 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: valuable than your. Money when you give people your, time 317 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: you're making a real. Investment let's be. Creative take an 318 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,359 Speaker 1: elderly neighbor to their doctor's, appointment give them a, ride 319 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: sit there and be their. Company or you could mentor 320 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 1: a young. Person maybe there's a child at school that 321 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: doesn't have a father figure in his. Life take him 322 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: to hit baseballs with your. Son take that little girl 323 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: out to eat with your. Daughter they're all kinds of 324 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 1: ways to be a. Blessing the whole key is we 325 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: have to be on the. Lookout we have to have 326 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: the MINDSET i am somebody's. MIRACLE i am created to 327 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 1: be a. Blessing, god help me to find that person. 328 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: TODAY i know WHEN i first Met, victoria she was 329 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: good friends with this older. Lady victoria would go pick 330 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: her up and take her to. Church they would go 331 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: out to dinner during the. Week NOW i used to, 332 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: think who is this? Lady is she a family, friend 333 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 1: is she related to? You, no she was just somebody 334 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: That victoria took an interest. In she was investing in 335 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: that lady's. Life do you know how many lonely people 336 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: there are? Today why don't you adopt a? Widow why 337 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: don't you adopt an older? Person call, them check on, 338 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: them go visit, them take them out to. Dinner they 339 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: may not need your. Money what they really need is your. 340 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: Time they need somebody to talk. To be willing to. 341 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: Listen let them tell you the same stories over and over, 342 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: again laugh like it's the first time you ever heard. 343 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: It we have to realize one day we're all going 344 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: to be. Old we're going to probably want somebody to 345 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: come visit. Us let's invest in the people around. Us 346 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: some of you have older, parents older family members that 347 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: you haven't seen in a long. Time you've gotten so 348 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: busy and so caught up in your. Career you have 349 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: to make them a. Priority we all can come up 350 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: with good. Excuses we all are, busy but it's not 351 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,959 Speaker 1: only our. Duty it's our responsibility to take care of 352 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: our older family. Members don't make one sibling do it. 353 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 1: All carry your share of the. Load you know the 354 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: scripture honor your father and mother so that you can 355 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,919 Speaker 1: have a long. Life that's the only commandment that comes 356 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: with a. Promise AND i believe there's a special blessing 357 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 1: not only when we take care of our, parents but 358 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: when we're kind and caring to the older people around. 359 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: Us you go up to The Senior citizens home one 360 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: night and cheer some people. Up you've got to know 361 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: that's high On god's. List you go over to your 362 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: elderly neighbors and repair their air, conditioner clean their, gutter 363 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: take them a home cooked. Meal let me tell You 364 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 1: god is smiling down on. You, see it's easy to 365 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: do good things for people that can do good back to. 366 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: Us doesn't take quite as much effort to stay late 367 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: at the office and help a coworker finish their. Project after, 368 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 1: all we know one day they may put in a 369 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: good word for, us but it takes a true heart 370 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: of compassion to do something good for somebody that can't 371 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: give you anything in. Return the good news is when 372 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: people can't pay you, Back god will pay you. Back 373 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: god's payment is always more than we can even ask or. 374 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: Think it talks about in. Proverbs when we are kind 375 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: to the, poor when we take care of the, elderly 376 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: when we do good things for the less, fortunate we 377 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: are lending to The. Lord can you imagine that you 378 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: want to Do god a? Favor you want to get 379 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: On god's good. Side do something for someone that cannot 380 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: pay you. Back be a father to a child that's less, 381 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,719 Speaker 1: fortunate be a friend to an elderly. Neighbor pay the, 382 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: tuition or get a group of people to pay the 383 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: tuition to somebody that cannot afford. That when you are 384 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: kind to the, needy you are lending to The. Lord 385 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: you know how we, feel even in the, natural when 386 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 1: somebody does us a, favor somebody goes out of their 387 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: way to help, us or they make an extra effort 388 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: to be kind to one of our. Children we, think, 389 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: Man i'll do anything for. Them they were so kind 390 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: they didn't have to do. That, well imagine How god 391 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: feels when he sees you buying a pair of shoes 392 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: for a needy, child taking an elderly neighbor to their doctor's, 393 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: appointment driving across, town picking up somebody to bring them to. 394 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: Church you are Doing god a. Favor you are lending 395 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: to The. Lord let me ask you, today who's in 396 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: your life that you can make a difference. In you 397 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: may need a, miracle you may need, healing you may 398 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 1: need a good, break but it starts by sowing a. 399 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: Seed become someone's miracle to some, people especially older, ones 400 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: just be when their friend is a, miracle giving an, 401 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: umbrella buying someone a, suit those can all be. Miracles 402 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: be sensitive to the needs around. You you see somebody 403 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: wearing the same clothes over and over. Again, hey let 404 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 1: me give you This gooft certificate to go buy some 405 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: new clothes or better, yet swing by my. HOUSE i 406 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: got a couple Suits i'm going to give. YOU i 407 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: found a lot of times we have miracles in our. 408 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: Closets we have miracles in. STORAGE i know we always 409 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: give our children's clothes to other. Families they go out 410 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: of them so, quickly they're still. Nice it's a. Mindset 411 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 1: what DO i have THAT i can be a blessing 412 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: With last, year we were able to give all Of 413 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: jonathan's school books to another young. Man that was several hundred. 414 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: Dollars they didn't have to. Spend what do you have in? 415 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: Storage what do you have in your closet that can 416 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: be somebody's? Miracle don't let it sit there year after You, Oh, 417 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: JOEL i can't give that. Away that's my favorite. DRESS 418 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: i wore it five years. AGO i may want to 419 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: wear it again. Sometime, no you know as well AS i. 420 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: Do you can't even fit into that. Thing just give it. 421 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: Away you have, faith but not that. Much or maybe 422 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: you're out shopping with a friend and they see something 423 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: they really, like but they put it back because they 424 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: don't want to spend the. Money why don't you sneak 425 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: back over there and buy it for. Them you don't 426 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 1: have to pray about it three. Weeks if you wait that, 427 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: long it's probably not even going to be. There, sometimes 428 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: down in, here we know we're supposed to do something 429 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: special for. Someone we have a strong desire to do, 430 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: good but we're waiting for three, confirmations two, prophecies and 431 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: a sign from the. Heavens. God if you'll just Have, 432 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 1: joel call me out today and tell me to do. 433 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 1: IT i need a word from. You let me give 434 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: you all a word from The. Lord be good to, 435 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: people bless them whenever you can be their. Miracle now 436 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: you've got your word from The. Lord the next time you're, Thinking, 437 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: god is this really? You you remember this day you 438 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: got Your, Okay thus saith The lord do. IT i 439 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: Know i'm preaching to myself because SOMETIMES i feel down in. 440 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: HERE i should do something for, someone maybe just something. 441 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: Simple give a young person twenty. Dollars and NOW i look 442 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 1: at him AND i think he looks like he's. Fine 443 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: he doesn't need my. Money, god is this really? You 444 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: AM i just being overly? Generous SHOULD i do? It 445 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: SHOULD i not do? It one day it dawned on. 446 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: Me even if it's Not, god AND i give, It 447 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: god's still gonna be. Pleased i'm still gonna get. Blessed 448 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: you'll never go wrong being good to other. People don't overanalyze. 449 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: It sometimes it's not the gift they. Need the gift is. 450 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: Secondary what they really need is your. Live NOW i 451 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 1: found the enemy will never lead us to be good to. 452 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: People he wants us to be so selfish and so 453 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: caught up in our own affairs that we don't even 454 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: entertain the thought of being a blessing to somebody. Else 455 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: if you have a desire to do, good it is From. 456 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: God don't debate, it and don't expect someone else to do. 457 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: It it's. Funny WHEN i was growing, up my mother 458 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: used to say to my, Father, JOHN i feel sorry 459 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: for that. Man will you go pray for? HIM i 460 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: feel like that lady needs to be. Encouraged will you 461 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: go encourage? Her that young couple they need to be. 462 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: Blessed will you go give them a. Gift, finally after 463 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,879 Speaker 1: about ten years of doing, that my father, Said, dodie 464 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: you're the one that has the. Desire god's put the 465 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 1: burden in. You you've got to act on. That sometimes 466 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: that's the way we. Are we have a concern for 467 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 1: someone we may not even know, then but down in 468 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: here it's almost like we have a burden for. Him we, Think, 469 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: MAN i hope somebody is good to. THEM i hope 470 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 1: somebody helps. Them What i'm saying today is you or that. 471 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: Somebody you are the One god's counting on to make the. 472 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: Difference god wouldn't have put the desire in your heart 473 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: if he didn't want you to do something about. It 474 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: it may just be to, Pray it may be to 475 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 1: give them a kind, word it may be to give 476 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: them a. Gift but don't miss out on that. Opportunity 477 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: you can become their. Miracle and, really this is an 478 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,239 Speaker 1: exciting way to. Live the truth is it's boring to 479 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: just live for. Ourselves there's an emptiness when we just 480 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 1: think about my, goals my, dreams my, problems my. Needs 481 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: there's so much more to life than. That let's go 482 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 1: out each day and not try to figure out how 483 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: we're going to get, blessed but rather how we're going 484 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: to be a. Blessing no, doubt there are people in 485 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: your life right. Now you can become their. Miracle pay 486 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: attention to those around, you listen to their. Needs you 487 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: may not be able to do, everything but you can do. 488 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: Something you can give a, smile you can buy a 489 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: pair of shoes for a needy, child you can adopt a, 490 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: widow make a difference wherever you. Go, remember our joy 491 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: is connected to our. Giving if you'll develop this lifestyle 492 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: of giving and not always try to get a, miracle 493 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 1: but rather less focus on how we can become somebody's. 494 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: Miracle when you do, that you'll not only live, happier more, 495 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: fulfilled more. Rewarded but that's the Seed god will use 496 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 1: to enrich your own. Life do you receive it? TODAY 497 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: i know you. Do and we never like to closure 498 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 1: on broadcast without giving you an opportunity to Make jesus 499 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: the lord of your. Life wouldn't you pray with? Me just, Say, Lord, 500 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: JESUS i repent of my. Sins come into my. HEART 501 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: i make you My lord and. Savior, friends if you 502 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: pray that simple, prayer we believe you got born. Again 503 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: get in a Good bible based. Church Keep god first. 504 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: Place he's going to take your places that you've never dreamed. 505 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: Of when we face, challenges it's easy to feel Like 506 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 1: god has forgotten about. Us we don't see anything. Happening 507 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 1: god tell us it's not going to work. Out But 508 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: god is not called the GREAT i was or The 509 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: GREAT i will. Be he's called The GREAT I. Am 510 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 1: in my new, book he IS I. 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