1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Victoria and I am believe and you're going to have a 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: blessed summer. Praying for you guys every day, and thanks 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: for being with us today. Hey, I'm excited. Victoria's got 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: a new book out. It's called Grace to Go, and 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: I know it's going to bless you. I'm excited because 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: in this book you will see how you are strengthened, 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: that you are prepared and you are ready for. 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 2: Anything that's in front of you. You are grace to go. 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 2: Enjoy today's message. Now, God bless you. It's a joy 10 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: to come into your homes. 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: We love you, and we're believing that God has great 12 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: things in store for each one of you. If you're 13 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: ever in our area, stop buying see us. We'd love 14 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: to have you be a part of one of our services. 15 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in today. I like to get 16 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 1: started with something funny, and I heard about this group 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 1: of small children. They were in a cafeteria line at 18 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: their Catholic elementary school. 19 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 2: At the front of the line, there. 20 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: Was this large tray of apples and a nun had 21 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: written a. 22 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 2: Note that said, take only one. God is watching. 23 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: At the end of the line, there's this big batch 24 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: of chocolate chip cookies. One of the children had written 25 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: a note that said, take all you want. God's watching 26 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: the apples. 27 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: All right. Hold up your Bible. Say it like you 28 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 2: mean it. 29 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 30 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do 31 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be 32 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 33 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 34 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 35 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: to talk to you today about how God has already 36 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: released good things into your future. 37 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 2: When God laid out the plan. 38 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: For your life, he lined up the right people, the 39 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: right circumstances, the right breaks, and in your future He's 40 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: already released favor, supernatural opportunities, divine connections, the breaks you 41 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: need have already been preordained to come. 42 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: Across your path. 43 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: And if you will stay in faith and go out 44 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: each day and be a person of excellence, you'll have 45 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: times where it's as if you just stumbled into God's blessings. 46 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,839 Speaker 1: You look back and you think, how did I get 47 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: to where I am. I'm not the most qualified, but 48 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: I got the promotion. I didn't deserve that break, but 49 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: they went out of their way to help me. Or 50 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: I missed my turn, and all of a sudden I 51 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: saw that for sale sign. Things fell into place, and 52 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: that's how I bought this house. What happened, you stumbled 53 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: into God's blessings. They were already lined up. You just 54 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: walked into it. I talked to a young lady the 55 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: other day. She started out as a backup to a 56 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: receptionist at this major film studio. 57 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 2: She was part time. 58 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: She only worked when the other lady was busy, but 59 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: she was extremely faithful, and she got break after break. 60 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: Somebody left and she moved up. Somebody got promoted. She 61 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: took their place, but he went on maternity leave another promotion. 62 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: One day, the. 63 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: Owner of that company said to his main manager, I 64 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: really like that young lady. I like her attitude, I 65 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: like her faithfulness. Make sure you take care of her. 66 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 2: Today. 67 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: Six years later, she's a vice president in that company. 68 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: She oversees all these major motion pictures. She said, Joel, 69 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: I can't believe it. 70 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: I don't really know how I got here. 71 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: Just the other day, I was a receptionist, and now 72 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: I'm helping to run the company. 73 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 2: What happened? 74 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: She stumbled into God's blessings. Friends, God has great things 75 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: already arranged for you. He's already released them into your future. 76 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: You may not be able to see it. You may 77 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: not be able to figure it out. 78 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 2: That's okay. 79 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: Just stay in faith and keep being your best, and 80 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: you'll be amazed at what you stumble into. In my 81 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: own life, when I look back, I think, how did 82 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: I end up here? 83 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: I wasn't even planning on being a menace. 84 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: When I'm at home flipping through the channels and I 85 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: see myself, I think, what in the world are you 86 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: doing on television? When I go to these events in 87 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: different cities and I see the building full, I think, 88 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: why did all. 89 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 2: These people come out? How did this happen? I just 90 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 2: stumbled into it. 91 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: I just kept being my best, kept being faithful day 92 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 1: in and day out, and I walked into my divine destiny. 93 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: I walked into the favor and the blessings. 94 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 2: That God had already released. 95 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: Even when I look at Victoria, she's so beautiful, I think, 96 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: how did I ever end up marrying her? I know 97 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: I'm good looking, but not that good looking. I just 98 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,119 Speaker 1: stumbled into her mother's jewelry store. And I'm not talking 99 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: about being drunk. I'm talking about you just walk into 100 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,599 Speaker 1: God's favor, You walk into his blessings, You get breaks 101 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: that you didn't deserve. You look back and you think, 102 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: how did I end up going from the background to 103 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: the forefront. How did I go from being in a 104 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: assistant to being in management? Or like one lady, I know, 105 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: how did I go from being on welfare to being 106 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: fair and well? 107 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: I just stepped into. 108 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: The favor that God already had released. A friend of 109 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: mine comes from a large family. They immigrated from another country, 110 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: and they were extremely poor. Nobody had made much out 111 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: of their lives. They just couldn't seem to get out 112 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: of that rut. But this man was very determined. He 113 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: loved God and had a heart to help other people. 114 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: And one day somebody told him about a job opportunity 115 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: in the medical center cleaning medical equipment. He went and interviewed, 116 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: had favor, and he got hired. He was working the 117 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: graveyardship and every once in a while they would do 118 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: these medical procedures. 119 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 2: In the evening. 120 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: He would watch very closely and study how the technicians 121 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: did it. At one point, one of the technicians took 122 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: another job, and his bass saw how dedicated he had been, 123 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: and he gave him that position. He became an assistant technician. 124 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: A couple of years later, the main technician left and 125 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: now they put him in charge. Few years went by, 126 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: he started thinking, if I could buy this equipment, I 127 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: could go from hospital to hospital and do this on 128 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: my own. 129 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 2: Playing basketball. 130 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: One afternoon he met a man that was in the 131 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: banking business. He shared his dream with this friend and 132 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: he said, I'll tell you what. I'll have my bank 133 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: loan you the money, the right place, the right time. 134 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: God had had already arranged. 135 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 2: Today. 136 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: That man has a very successful company. They're one of 137 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: the leaders in their field. What happened, He just stumbled 138 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: into God's blessings. I want you to realize in your future, 139 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: God has already released favor. It's in front of you. 140 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: He's already released promotion, increase, good breaks. You don't have 141 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: to worry, you don't have to try to force things 142 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: to happen. All you have to do is stay faithful, 143 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: and you too will stumble into God's blessings. I think 144 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: about a lady in the Bible by the name of Ruth. 145 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: She had been through a lot of heartache and pain. 146 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: Her husband had been killed in a battle, and now 147 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: her mother in law, Naomi, was moving to a different city. 148 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: She decided to go with her and help take care 149 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: of her. There was a great famine in the land. 150 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: They hardly had anything to eat, and so Ruth would 151 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: go out every morning into the fields and fallow behind 152 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: the reapers that were gleaning the wheat, and she would 153 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: pick the leftover wheat. That's how they were surviving. One day, 154 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: the owner of that field, a man by the name 155 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: of bo As, traveled from a different city to check 156 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: on his field, and it just so happened he saw 157 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: Ruth out there. She got his attention. He said to 158 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: his workers, who is that new young girl. They said, 159 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: that's Ruth. She's a widow. 160 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: She just moved here. 161 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: She goes behind us and picks up the leftover wheat. 162 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: And the scripture talks about how God calls Ruth to 163 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: have favor with bo As. When you walk into one 164 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: of your favor moments, people will go out of their 165 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: way to be good to you. Many times they don't 166 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: realize why they're doing it. It's simply because you stepped 167 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: into a time of favor that God had already released 168 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: in your future. Boaz said to his workers, here's what 169 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: I want you to do. Drop handfuls of wheat on 170 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: purpose for Ruth. 171 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 2: That's my message to you today. 172 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: God has dropped handfuls on purpose for each one of 173 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: you in your future. God has already dropped favor. He's 174 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: already dropped promotion, he's dropped health, he's dropped wisdom, he's 175 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: dropped good breaks, he's dropped divine connections. They're out in 176 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: front of you, just waiting for you to come along. 177 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: They're called handfuls on purpose. 178 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 1: And I love the fact that Ruth was just minding 179 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: her own business, being her best, being faithful, and all 180 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: of a sudden she starts seeing all this week laying 181 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: in front of her about it. She doesn't have to 182 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: struggle anymore. She doesn't have to search the field trying 183 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: to find a little here and a little over there. 184 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: All she's got to do is pick up the weak. 185 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 1: She goes home and she's collected four or five times what. 186 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: She normally does. 187 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: And Naomi said, Ruth, how in the world did you 188 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: get all that wheak? Today I can see Ruth scratching 189 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: her head she said, I don't know. 190 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 2: I just stumbled into it. 191 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,119 Speaker 1: Normally I get the leftovers, Normally I get the scraps. 192 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: But for some reason, these workers started leaving all this 193 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: whek right in my path. Friends, you have no idea 194 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: the great things God has already dropped in your future. 195 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 2: You don't know what all God has orchestrated for you. 196 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies telling you nothing goods in store, 197 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 1: and you'll never accomplish your dreams. Now, if God were 198 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: to pull back the curtain and allow you to see 199 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: what He's already lined up, the breaks, the people, the favor, 200 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: the things He's already released into your future, you would 201 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: and worry again. You wouldn't be discouraged. You'd be excited 202 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: about your future. You would live with expectancy, knowing that 203 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: any moment you could come across one of those handfuls 204 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: on purpose. What's interesting is Ruth got for free what 205 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: other people had to work for. There were others out 206 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: in that field, just working away. They couldn't take the wheat, 207 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: they couldn't take the prophets. Not only could Ruth do this, 208 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: but those others had to glean the wheat for her 209 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 1: and leave it in her path. In other words, Ruth 210 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: started getting unnatural blessings. Extraordinary things begin to happen. That's 211 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: the way our God is. All of a sudden, you 212 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: get breaks that you didn't deserve. You got promoted over 213 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: somebody that had more seniority, You got thrust from the 214 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: back to the front. What happened you came across another 215 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: handful on purpose. The house Victoria and I live in, 216 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: it's on a lot a little over a quarter of 217 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: an acre. As our children were getting older, I really 218 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: wanted more room we could go out and run and 219 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: play ball. I grew up on an acre lot and 220 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: I like being outdoors. And one day, just in passing, 221 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: just kind of dreaming, I said to Victoria, it sure 222 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: would be nice to have that lot next door, so 223 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: we could open it up and make it a part 224 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,599 Speaker 1: of our yard. It was a corner lot, quite a 225 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 1: bit bigger than ours, and I really didn't think much 226 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 1: more about it. The neighbors had been there long before us, 227 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: and we didn't know them well. 228 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: They were gone a lot. 229 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: But one day Victoria was backing out of the driveway 230 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: to take our children to school, and the men came 231 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: walking over to the car. He handed her a sheet 232 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: of paper and said, we're selling our property just in. 233 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 2: Case you know anybody that would like to buy it. 234 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: I knew that wasn't a coincidence, that wasn't a lucky break. 235 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: That was another handful on purpose. Things fell into place 236 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: and we were able to purchase it. Well, Joel, I 237 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: wish I had two lots. I'm in a little apartment. No, 238 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: don't get discouraged, don't get negative, and don't be jealous. 239 00:11:58,160 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 2: If God did it for us, he can do it 240 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 2: for you. 241 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: Just keep being faithful, keep being your best, and you 242 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: too are going to stumble into your place of blessing. 243 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: It's already out there. God's placed it in your future. 244 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: You just have to do your part and walk into it. 245 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 2: Now. 246 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,079 Speaker 1: Plenty of mornings I look out at that empty lot 247 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 1: and I think to myself, I don't know how we 248 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: got here. 249 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 2: God, You've been so good to us. 250 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: I recognize it's just handfuls on purpose. I didn't deserve 251 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: it necessarily, I didn't earn it. 252 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 2: It was just the favor of God. 253 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: And sometimes you could almost be tempted to feel guilty. 254 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:35,319 Speaker 2: For God's blessings. 255 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 1: I know when I wrote my first book, I had 256 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 1: no idea it would sell so many copies. When I 257 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: went to do my next one, the offers that came 258 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: in were more than I could even. 259 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: Ask or think. 260 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 1: And I thought about how my grandmother made ten cents 261 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: an hour, my father was raised in extreme poverty during 262 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: the Great Depression, and here God bless my family beyond 263 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: our wildest dreams. I was tempted to think, you know, 264 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: is this right? Tempted to feel a little guilty. But 265 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: one thing I've learned is, don't ever apologize for God's goodness. 266 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: Don't ever apologize for God's blessings and favor. People are 267 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: going to criticize, people will judge you, people will be jealous, 268 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: But you know what, that's their problem. Don't apologize when 269 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: we make excuses for God's goodness, when we downplay his 270 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,200 Speaker 1: blessings in favor. Really, that's an insult to our God. 271 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: The scripture says, it is the Lord that gives you 272 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: the power to get wealth. That means God's the one 273 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: that's given you the ideas. He's the one that's given 274 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: you the creativity. He's given you the strength, he gave 275 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: you the favor, he gave you the good breaks. As 276 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: long as you stay humble and give him all the credit. 277 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: You have nothing to apologize for. And what I find 278 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: interesting is Ruth was satisfied with going out each day 279 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: and picking up her. 280 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 2: Food behind the workers. She was content. Life was good. 281 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: God was supplying her needs. But do you want to 282 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 1: see the heart of God. God did not want Ruth 283 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:08,839 Speaker 1: to go out every day and just pick up left 284 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: over wheat. He didn't want Ruth to spend her life 285 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: working in that field. God wanted Ruth to own that field. 286 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,560 Speaker 1: He wanted to do more than just meet her needs. 287 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: The scripture goes on to tell how she and Boaz 288 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: fell in love, they got married. Bo As was one 289 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: of the wealthiest men in that area. Ruth was no 290 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: longer working in the field. That was fine for a time, 291 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: That's where her handfuls on purpose were for a while. 292 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 1: But now this next handful was the owner of the field. 293 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: God brought Boaz across her path. 294 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 2: She just stumbled into it. 295 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: In some of you, God does not want you to 296 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: spend your whole life working at that company. God wants 297 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: you to own your own company. He doesn't want you 298 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: to spend your life cleaning that office. God wants you 299 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: to be running that office. He doesn't want you to 300 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: live in a small apartment the rest of your life. 301 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: God wants you to have a nice home. He has 302 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: made you to be the head and not the tail. 303 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: He said you will lend and not borrow. And it's good, 304 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: like Ruth to be content where we are. It's good 305 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: to appreciate what God has already done. But God is 306 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: a progressive God. He wants to take you places that 307 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: you've never dreamed of. Have a big vision for your life. 308 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: Don't be complacent, and don't be too easily satisfied. I 309 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: know I used to come into this building and watch 310 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: the Rockets play basketball. 311 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 2: I had season tickets right back over there in section 312 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 2: one O four. 313 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: But God didn't build this building just for the Rockets 314 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: to play. He didn't want me to just come in 315 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: here and watch sports and be entertained. God wanted us 316 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: to own this building. God wants to amaze you with 317 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: his goodness. And I've learned we don't have. 318 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,239 Speaker 2: To seek blessings. 319 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: We don't have to seek the right place people or 320 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: seek material things. If you will seek God, if you 321 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: will put him first and honor him with your life. 322 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 2: The blessings will seek you. 323 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: When you live a life of integrity, when you have 324 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: a spirit of excellence, giving, serving, treating people right, God's 325 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: blessings will chase you down and overtake you. You cannot outrun 326 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: the good things of God when you do your best 327 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: to please him. The Scripture says in Psalms, when you 328 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: delight yourself and the Lord, he will give you the 329 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: desires of your heart. The fact is, Victoria and I 330 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: didn't need that extra lot. 331 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 2: We didn't need more room. 332 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: That was simply a desire just to thought, Hey, this would. 333 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 2: Be nice to have. But isn't it interesting? God already 334 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 2: had it lined up. 335 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: He had already put the thought in that man he 336 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: calls Victoria to be backing out at the right time. 337 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: He brought it all together. All I had to do 338 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: was stay in faith, and I stumbled into that blessing another. 339 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 2: Handful on purpose. 340 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: A few years ago, right after my first book had 341 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: come out, we were doing an event in Madison Square Garden. 342 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 1: They're in New York City, and this executive at a 343 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: major publishing company was leaving his office that night to 344 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: go catch the train and go home, just his normal routine. 345 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 1: But when he got around the Garden area, where the 346 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: train station is. 347 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 2: The sidewalks were so packed with. 348 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 1: People waiting to get into our event was much more 349 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: crowded than normal. He knew there wasn't a ball game 350 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: going on, there wasn't a concert. In his curiosity, he 351 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 1: went over to ask people what's going on tonight, and 352 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: they told him how our meeting was coming, and they 353 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: were so excited and so fired up they couldn't wait 354 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 1: for it to start. He said, I've been in New 355 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: York my whole life, and New Yorkers don't get excited 356 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: about anything, especially about a minister from Texas. 357 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 2: He left there a few. 358 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: Minutes later, saying to himself, we are going to publish 359 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: this man's next book. I had never met. He didn't 360 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: know much about us. My first book had barely even 361 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: come out. But God caused him. 362 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 2: To be at the right place at the right time. 363 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: The next morning, he called a friend of his that's 364 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: a major publishing agent. He said, do you know, Joel, 365 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: I want his next book? She said, I don't, but 366 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: I will another handful on purpose. 367 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 2: And I don't say this. 368 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: Bragging in any way, but my next book that's just 369 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: coming out, that company is going to preprint more copies 370 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 1: than they've ever preprinted in their history. I could have 371 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: never made all that happen. I could have never caused 372 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: that man to be at the right place and hear 373 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,919 Speaker 1: all those great comments. That was a moment of favor 374 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: that God had already. 375 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 2: Released into my future. 376 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: You people in New York that were there that first 377 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 1: night on the sidewalk making all those great comments, I 378 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: owe you. 379 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 2: You helped me get a great book deal. 380 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: But I think about how Ruth started off working in 381 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: the field. That was her place of blessing for a while. 382 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: But God wants you to go further. Don't get stagnant. 383 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: Don't have the attitude. This is all my parents had. 384 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 1: I've gone as far as my grandparents. I guess I've 385 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: reached my limits. No, God wants to take you to 386 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: a new level. 387 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 2: He wants you to be. 388 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 1: The one to set a new standard. This is what 389 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 1: Ruth did after she married bo As. The people she 390 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: used to follow behind in the fields, the people she 391 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: used to take instruction from, now all of a sudden 392 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: they were her employees. Now she was telling them what 393 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 1: to do. She got thrust from the back to the front. 394 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: God can do the same thing for every one of you. 395 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: All it takes is one touch of God's favor, one 396 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 1: bo As in your life, and you'll go from working 397 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: in the field to owning the field. You'll go from 398 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: being a receptionist to being a vice president. You'll go 399 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: from cleaning the equipment to owning the equipment. 400 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 2: Somebody asked you, how'd that happen? How did you get here? 401 00:19:58,119 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. 402 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: I just stumbled into it. It's just God's favor. Another 403 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: handful on purpose. Why don't you get a bigger vision 404 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: for your life. Don't go around thinking about all the. 405 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 2: Reasons why this is not going to happen. 406 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 1: No, stay in faith, live with expectancy, knowing that any 407 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 1: moment you could come across another handful of favor. You 408 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: meet somebody that leads to an opportunity, You get an 409 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: inheritance from a long lost relative. God gives you an 410 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: idea that leads to a promotion. There are handfuls on purpose. 411 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 1: God is lined up for every one of you, some 412 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: of you. If you'll stay faithful like Ruth, the next 413 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 1: handful on purpose will be the husband the wife you've 414 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 1: been dreaming about. God's already got them picked out. Just 415 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: like bo Az, he strategically placed. 416 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 2: Them in your future. 417 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: If you'll just keep being faithful, you will come across 418 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 1: their path. It won't be an accident, it won't be 419 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: a coincidence. It will be a divine connection. God put 420 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: them there on purpose. Now, I love the scripture in 421 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: Deuteronomy one verse eleven, May the Lord God of your 422 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: fathers increase you a thousand times more than you are. 423 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: That's God's dream for every one of you, to increase you, 424 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: to promote you, to favor you. But sometimes this is 425 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: so hard for us to imagine. 426 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 2: We think a. 427 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: Thousand times more and our mind goes tilt. No way, impossible, 428 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 1: never gonna happen. That's what happened when they offered me 429 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: that book deal. At first, I didn't know if I 430 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 1: could believe it. At first, I didn't know if I 431 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 1: deserved it. But after about fifteen seconds I got over it. 432 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: You laugh, It only taken you ten seconds. And I'm 433 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: not talking about just material things. How about a thousand 434 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: times more joy, a thousand times more peace, a thousand 435 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: times more wisdom, it says the Lord God of your 436 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: father that's talking about when we have a godly heritage. 437 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: If you had parents, grandparents, people somewhere in your family 438 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,719 Speaker 1: line that honored God. You are entitled to ancestral blessings. 439 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 2: That means you're going to come into favor. 440 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 1: You're going to come into good breaks that you're not 441 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 1: directly responsible for. You're going to have opportunities that you 442 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: don't necessarily deserve. It's because your parents, your grandparents, somebody 443 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: in your family honored God. 444 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 2: The scripture talks about. 445 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: How you'll live in houses that you didn't build. You'll 446 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: reap from vineyards that you didn't plan. Now, I know 447 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 1: many of you, like me, you had people that have 448 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: gone before you that prayed and believed. They sowed so 449 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: many good seeds. But the fact is they didn't see 450 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: the increase and the favor. 451 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 2: That you're seeing today. What happened. 452 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: They paid the price, they stayed faithful. Now, the Lord 453 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,159 Speaker 1: God of your fathers. 454 00:22:58,760 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 2: Is increasing you. 455 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: The Lord God of your Fathers is showing you that unusual, 456 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: extraordinary favor. You should always be grateful for the parents 457 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: or grandparents that brought you to church. You may not 458 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: have wanted to go back then, but they made your 459 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: life a lot easier. They sowed seeds so God could 460 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: bring you more of those handfuls on purpose. Now I know, 461 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: right now I'm reaping many of the seeds that my 462 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 1: parents have sown. My father wrote many books, but he 463 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,719 Speaker 1: didn't have any of them published by major publisher He 464 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: didn't see the increase in the favor that I'm seeing today. 465 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 2: And that's the way it works. 466 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: When you honor God with your life, it not only 467 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: affects you, but it'll benefit your children, your grandchildren, even 468 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: future generations. Well, you say, Joel, that's great, But when 469 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 1: I look back in my family line, I don't see 470 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: anyone parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, Nobody honored God. I don't 471 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 1: have this godly heritage that you're talking about. But that's okay. 472 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 2: Number one, you can be the one to start it. 473 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: And number two, God still has great things in story. 474 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 2: Do you know Ruth came from a long line of 475 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 2: idle worshipers. 476 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: As far back in her family as she could see, 477 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,880 Speaker 1: generation after generation, no one cared anything about the things 478 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: of God. But because Ruth had a pure heart, because 479 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: she had a desire to do what's right, God did 480 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: incredible things in her life. God can do the same 481 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: thing for each one of you. Now, I want you 482 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: to get this down in your spirit a thousand times 483 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: more than you are. That's talking about new levels of increase, 484 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: new levels of promotion, new levels of victory. A new 485 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: level to a homeless person is getting shelter to a 486 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: person in a shelter. A new level is getting an 487 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: apartment to a person in an apartment. A new level 488 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,879 Speaker 1: is getting a nice home to a person in a 489 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 1: nice home. A new level is helping someone else get 490 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: a nice home. We are blessed to be a blessing, 491 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: and no matter what level we're at, we should overflow 492 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 1: with the goodness of God. And when you have a 493 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: thousand times more joy, you're gonna have plenty of joy 494 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: to give away. When you have a thousand times more peace, 495 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: when people get around you that are upset and stressed, 496 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 1: they're gonna calm down. They're gonna feel that rest the 497 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 1: scripture talks about. 498 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 2: When we give it will be given back to us. 499 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 1: Pressed down, shaken together and running over. Now I can 500 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,360 Speaker 1: since some of you are about to come into that 501 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 1: running over annoying. That's what Ruth did. She went from 502 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: having her needs barely supplied. 503 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 2: To having more than enough. She stepped into the overflow, anoying. 504 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 2: Many of you have been faithful, you've served others. 505 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,640 Speaker 1: You've been your best day in and day out. 506 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 2: You're about to see a major shift. 507 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: You're about to come across a handful on purpose that's 508 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: gonna propel you to a new level. You're gonna step 509 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: into a new dimension. The overflow annoying. That's what the 510 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 1: thousand times does. But some of you you've lost your 511 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: excitement about the future. You don't think anything good is 512 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,919 Speaker 1: in store. Let me assure you, if God had not 513 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: already released good things into your future, you wouldn't be here. 514 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: He would have taken you on home. As long as 515 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: you're breathing. There's another handful on purpose in front of you. 516 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 2: Somewhere in your path. 517 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: There's promotion, increase, good breaks, divine connections. When you really 518 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: understand this principle, it puts a spring in your step. 519 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 2: You'll go out each day excited. 520 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: Thinking, I wonder when that next Handful's coming. Could be today, 521 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: could be tomorrow, could be next week. Friends, when you 522 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: stay in faith, you will stumble into God's blessings and 523 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: understand He's already released in your future everything you need 524 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 1: to fulfill your destiny. My prayer for each one of 525 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: you is that the Lord, God of your father's will 526 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: make you a thousand times more than you are. I 527 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: speak it over you right now, new seasons of increase. 528 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: I declare favor over your life. I speak strength into you. 529 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: I speak health, I speak wisdom, I speak creativity, I 530 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 1: speak divine connections. I speak supernatural opportunities. 531 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 2: They are coming your way. 532 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: I declare it in the name of Jesus. And if 533 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: you receive it, can you say amen. We've never liked 534 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to 535 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray 536 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 1: with me, Say Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. 537 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 2: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 538 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 539 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 1: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 540 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,640 Speaker 1: Keep God first place. He's going to take you places 541 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: that you've never dreamed of. Sometimes in life, people don't 542 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: choose us. We've all overlooked like we're not good enough. 543 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 2: It's easy to live. 544 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: Inferior thinking we don't measure up. People may have left 545 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: you out. The good news is God has chosen you. 546 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: He's the one that matters and in my new book Chosen, 547 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: Your life is marked for distinction. You'll discover before you 548 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: were born, God not only knew you, but he handpicked 549 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: you and placed a calling on your life. You are 550 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: equipped and empowered to fulfill your destiny. When you understand 551 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: that you're chosen, fear and doubt can't stay. 552 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 2: You'll live with a. 553 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: Boldness to step into the greatness God put in you. 554 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 1: I'd love to send you by new book Chosen, plus 555 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: the Chosen T Shirt from our friends at Copper Fit. 556 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 557 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 3: of any amount this month. We would like to send 558 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joel's book Chosen. Your Life is 559 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 3: marked for Distinction. In the Scriptures, Jesus encouraged us by 560 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 3: saying you didn't choose me, I chose you. 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