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 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you. 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. And if 7 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop buying and be 8 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I promise you 9 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: we'll make you feel right at home. I like to 10 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this old 11 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: country farmer. He was taking his nephew camping for the 12 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: first time. His nephew had five degrees was one of 13 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: the smartest men alive. They set up their tent and 14 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: quickly fell asleep. The middle of the night, the farmer 15 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: woke up his nephew and said, look up. What do 16 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: you see. The nephew said, I see millions of stars. 17 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: Farmer said, I know that, But what does it tell you? 18 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: He said? Astronomically, it tells me there are billions of galaxies. 19 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: Meteorologically tells me it's going to be a beautiful day. Theologically, 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: it tells you God is a great creator. What does 21 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: it tell you the whole Farmer shook his head, said, 22 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: it tells me somebody stole our tent. This is my Bible. 23 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what 24 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says 25 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 26 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 27 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 28 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today 29 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: about coming out better. We all go through disappointments and 30 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: things we don't understand, and sometimes life is not fair. 31 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: It's one thing to come through a difficulty, beat up, bedraggled, 32 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: where you look worn and tired. We're grateful that we 33 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: made it. But when God restores you're not going to 34 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: look like what you've been through. Nobody is going to 35 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: be able to tell that you went through the sickness, 36 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: through the divorce, through the unfair childhood. He's going to 37 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: restore you back to your original condition, who you were 38 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: created to be, before the heartache, before the bad break. 39 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: Some people made it out, but they aged ten years. 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,119 Speaker 1: The challenge took so much out of them they look 41 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: run down, tired. That's not you. God is not going 42 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: to just bring you through. He's going to bring you 43 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: out better, refreshed, renewed, re energized, where nobody will know 44 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 1: what you went through. I met a young lady recently 45 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: and she was visiting with her husband and children. She's 46 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: a sharp girl in her mid twenties. She handed me 47 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: a copy of her book. It's called Beauty for Ashes. 48 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: I asked what it was about, and she said it 49 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: was her life story. She told how as a little girl, 50 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: her parents abandoned her. They were on drugs and left 51 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: her on the streets. She was passed from foster home 52 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: to foster home and went through abuse, neglect, and all 53 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: kinds of unfair things. When I saw her, what she 54 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: was saying didn't match up to who I was seeing. 55 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 1: I should have seen someone battlescarred, run down, insecure, but 56 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: I saw someone beautiful, strong, confident, well spoken. I never 57 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: dreamed she had gone through that. I thought she had 58 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: come from a loving family, healthy environment. Just the opposite. 59 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: All the odds were against her, but she had her 60 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: college degree to beautiful children, successful career. That's how God restores. 61 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: He brings you through with no sign of the difficulty, 62 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: no sign of the betrayal, no sign of the loss. 63 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: You may be in a challenging time. It feels like 64 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: it's taken something out of you that can't be replaced. 65 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: You've lost that spring in your step. Get ready. God 66 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: is about to breathe new life into your space. He 67 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: is going to renew your strength and renew your youth 68 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: like the eagles. What that challenge took out of you, 69 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: God is about to put back in health, vitality, freshness, vision, passion. 70 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: He's going to bring new opportunities the right people favor 71 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: that catapults you ahead. He is not going to just 72 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: bring you through. He's going to make up for what 73 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: was unfair. The scripture says, because you've got a double 74 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: dose of trouble, your inheritance will be double and your 75 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: joy will go on forever. When you come into double 76 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: nobody's going to know that business partner cheated you. Nobody 77 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: will know you went through an unfair childhood. Nobody will 78 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: know you fought that battle with that sickness. You're going 79 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: to be so blessed, so strong, so favored. People won't 80 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: be able to tell what you've been through. In the 81 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: book of Daniel. Three brew teenagers wouldn't bow down to 82 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: the king's golden idol. He was so furious he had 83 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,799 Speaker 1: them thrown into a fiery furnace. They should have instantly 84 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: been killed, But the scripture says not a hair on 85 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: their head was sins, their clothing was not skorts. They 86 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: didn't even smell like smoke. They came out with no 87 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: sign they had been in the fire. We would rejoice 88 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: if they had just made it out alive, beat up, bedraggled, 89 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: hair burn It would have been a great miracle if 90 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: they just came out. But notice how God works. When 91 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: he restores. There's no sign of the trouble, no sign 92 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: of the injustice, no sign of the bad break. He 93 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: went as far as to not even have them smell 94 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,239 Speaker 1: like smoke. It's one thing to not see any signs, 95 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: to not look like what you've been through, But God 96 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: is so amazing when he restores. You're not even going 97 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: to smell like what you've been through. They have said 98 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned. 99 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: The flames will not harm you. It doesn't say if 100 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: you go through the fire. It says, when we all 101 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: have these difficulties, in the fire. You have to remind 102 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: yourself these flames are not going to harm me. This 103 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: challenge is not going to keep me from my dreams. 104 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: This sickness is not going to stop my purpose. When 105 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: people met these three teenagers years later, some of them 106 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: never knew they were thrown into the fire. They never 107 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: knew they face this huge ordeal. There were no scars, 108 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: no bruises, no permanent damage. They just saw three men, 109 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,119 Speaker 1: healthy and hall. You may be in the fire now, 110 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: but like with them, it is not going to set 111 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: you back permanently. When you come out, You're not going 112 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: to be scarred for life. There's not going to be 113 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: any sign of the fire, any sign of the deal, 114 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: any sign of the sickness. You're going to come out 115 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: without the smell of smoke. My mother went through terminal 116 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: cancer in nineteen eighty one. She was very sick. She 117 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: weighed eighty nine pounds. When I flew home from college 118 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: to see her, I was shocked. Her skin was as 119 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: yellow as can be. She looked like she was close 120 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: to death, and there was no treatment that the doctors 121 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: could give her. For several years, she fought the good 122 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: fight of faith, and there were struggles wasn't easy. Plenty 123 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: of lonely nights. Thoughts told her that she wasn't going 124 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: to make it. How she should be buried in a 125 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: certain dress. She was in the fire, flames all around her, 126 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: But like with these teenagers, God didn't let the fire 127 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: burn her. When you see my mom now, healthy, strong, beautiful, 128 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: she doesn't look like what she's been through. She doesn't 129 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: look like she spent year years fighting the good fight 130 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: of faith. She didn't look like she had to raise 131 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: my brother, Paul. You may be in the fire now, 132 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: dealing with the sickness, financial difficulty, a child that's off course. 133 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: You need to get this down in your spirit. That 134 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: fire is not going to burn you. What's come against 135 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: you is not permanent. Don't believe those thoughts that it's 136 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: all downhill from here. This will always taint your future, 137 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: always hinder your dreams of what was meant for your harm. 138 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 1: God is turning to your advantage. When people see you, 139 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: they are not going to see what you've been through, 140 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: not going to see the mistakes you've made, not going 141 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: to see the disappointments. Like my mother, You're going to 142 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: be so strong, so healthy, so blessed. They're going to 143 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 1: see who you are and not what you've been through. 144 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: The Israelites were in slavery for four hundred and thirty years, 145 00:08:56,679 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 1: mistreated and taken advantage of. It looked like that was 146 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: their destiny. But God supernaturally brought them out. As they 147 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 1: were leaving, the people that held them captive all those 148 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: years gave them their gold, their silver, their clothing. I 149 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: can imagine the Israelites walking out with new clothes, on 150 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: new shoes, wearing jewelry. They didn't leave there looking like slaves. 151 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 1: They were loaded down with gifts. They traveled the desert 152 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 1: for many years. The scripture says there was not one 153 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: sick or feeble one among them two million people. Their 154 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: clothes and shoes didn't wear out for forty years. There 155 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: were no grocery stores out there, no malls, no hospitals. 156 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: It was hot and dry. They lived on the move. 157 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: Yet when people saw them, nobody knew they were former slaves. 158 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: Nobody knew they had been mistreated. Why when God restores, 159 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: there's no sign of what you've been through. Now you 160 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: may have been a slave to some things, slave to 161 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: an addiction, slave to depression, a slave to poverty. It's 162 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: been in your family line for generations. You think you're 163 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: going to look like those that have gone before you 164 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: know your days of captivity have come to an end. 165 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: Freedom is here. God is not only going to deliver you. 166 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: He's not only going to break bondages. He's going to 167 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: restore back to you to where no one will ever 168 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: know you were a slave. They will never know you 169 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: were addicted, never know you were depressed, or never know 170 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: you came out of a dysfunctional environment. I love the 171 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: story of our friend Tyler Perry. Tylerant grew up very 172 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: poor and mistreated by his father. It's a little boy. 173 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: He had to hide under the front porch of his 174 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: house to escape the drama and dysfunction in his home. 175 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: He was in the fire and looked like that fire 176 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: would stop his destiny. A little boy, he had no control, 177 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: But the scripture says God is a father to the fatherless. 178 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: When you're in the fire, you can be assured you're 179 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: not there by yourself. God shows up in fiery places. 180 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: He comes when it's unfair, when you're outnumbered, when it's 181 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: beyond your control. Tyler would go under the house as 182 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: a little boy and make up stories. Had a very 183 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: vivid imagination. Those stories would take him to another place 184 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: where he could get a break from the pain and 185 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: turmoil that he was dealing with. It was those stories 186 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,119 Speaker 1: and that imagination that opened the door to the films 187 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: and the plays. Tyler Perry has become one of the 188 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: most successful entertainers and filmmakers of our day. When you 189 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: see Tyler now, blessed, successful, loving God, making people laugh, 190 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 1: always smiling. He doesn't look like what he's been through. 191 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: You'd never dream he didn't have a great childhood. What happened. 192 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: God brought him out without the smell of smoke. Nothing 193 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: that's coming against you is going to stop your destiny. 194 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: Nothing that you've been through is going to keep you 195 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: from your purpose. Now, don't believe those lies that you've 196 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 1: been through too much. The sickness is too big, the 197 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,719 Speaker 1: past is too painful. All that is setting you up 198 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: for God to show out in your life. Psalm seventy 199 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: one says God will restore you to greater honor. The 200 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: greater the difficulty, the greater the honor. You are not 201 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: going to look like what you've been through. You're going 202 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: to look like who you are, Blessed, prosperous, strong, healthy, victorious. 203 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: As a teenager, God gave Joseph a dream that one 204 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: day he would be in leadership. He started off great. 205 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: He was his father's favorite child. Then the bottom fell out. 206 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: His brothers were jealous and threw him into a pit, 207 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: eventually sold him as a slave. He worked for an 208 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: army captain, cleaning his house and doing repairs. Someone lied 209 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,679 Speaker 1: about him and he was put in prison. He spent 210 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: years in that lonely cell, feeling forgotten. It looked like 211 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: it was permanent. But God will not let the actions 212 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: of other people keep you from your purpose. If that 213 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: was the case, they would control your destiny and not God. 214 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: When unfair things happen, you may not like it, but 215 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: it's a part of God's plan to get you to 216 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,079 Speaker 1: where you're supposed to be. God wouldn't have allowed it 217 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,239 Speaker 1: if he didn't have a purpose. One day, Joseph interpreted 218 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: the pharaoh's dream. Pharaoh was so impressed he made Joseph 219 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: the prime minister of Egypt. Joseph became one of the 220 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,199 Speaker 1: most powerful people of that day. He was in charge 221 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: of the whole country. What's interesting is Joseph he wasn't 222 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: even from Egypt. He didn't have any formal training. He 223 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: wasn't related to the Pharaoh. But God knows how to 224 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: restore you to greater honor. He knows how to make 225 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: up for what you've been through. Now I can imagine 226 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: when people came to the Palace and saw Joseph. They 227 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: thought he was born into royalty. They thought he was 228 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: raised in the palace, related to the Pharaoh, educated in 229 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: the finest schools. They didn't know a few years earlier 230 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: he was in a pit betrayed. They didn't know he 231 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: was a former slave cleaning houses. They didn't know he 232 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: had spent years in prison. There was no sign of 233 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: the injustice, no sign of the bad breaks, no sign 234 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: of the lonely nights. All they saw is this man 235 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: has influence, favor, prestige. He's run in our country. That's 236 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: the way God restores. People are not going to be 237 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: able to see what you've been through. You may be 238 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: in a situation like Joseph, where it's unfair. You're doing 239 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: the right thing, but the wrong thing is happening. Don't worry. 240 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: Your time is coming. God is a god of justice. 241 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: He sees the wrongs, he sees what's unfair. Who betrayed you? 242 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: Who left you out. You're going to be restored to 243 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: greater honor because of what tried to stop you. God 244 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: is going to take you further than if that had 245 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: not happened. When you get a double dose of trouble, 246 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: you're going to get a double dose of fever. Now 247 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: quit telling yourself that you're stuck. You'll never get past 248 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: the divorce, the financial difficulty, the sickness. That is not 249 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: how your story ends. God has the final saying. He 250 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: is saying, I'm going to restore the years that were stolen. 251 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to pay you back for what was unfair. 252 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: You are not going to come out beat up, bedraggled, 253 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: hair burned. You're going to come out without the smell 254 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: of smoke. Nobody is going to know what you've been through. 255 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: Like Joseph, all they're going to see is you promoted, honored, 256 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: doing great things. I know this couple. They were living 257 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: a very blessed life. Then the perfect storm hit. Their 258 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: business went down, the lady had health issues, one of 259 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: their in laws suddenly died. Because of the unexpected bills, 260 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: they ended up losing their house. They were so discouraged. 261 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: I told them what I'm telling you, We all get 262 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: thrown into the fire. But those flames are not going 263 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: to harm you. God is in control. When you stay 264 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: in faith, he'll bring you out better. But when we 265 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: hear this, sometimes our mind says, there's no way, Joel, 266 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: how could I move past this difficulty? How could I 267 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: get well? Or Joseph, how could I get out of prison? 268 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm a slave, a foreigner, I have no rights. You 269 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: don't have to figure it out. All you have to 270 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,919 Speaker 1: do is believe God works where there's an attitude of 271 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: faith when you're in the fire, instead of complaining talking 272 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: about how it's not going to work out, turn it around. Father, 273 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: Thank you that you're making a way where I don't 274 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: see away. Thank you that you're gonna bring me out 275 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: without the smell of smoke. That's not just being positive, 276 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: that's releasing your faith. I saw this couple several years later. 277 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: The lady showed me a picture of a new house 278 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: that just moved into. She told how in their old 279 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: house the children had to share a bedroom, but in 280 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: this new house, each child had their own bedroom, how 281 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: it was much closer to their work, and how their 282 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: business had taken off. She had big tears running down 283 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: her cheeks, thanking God for his goodness. As I looked 284 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: at the picture of that new house and looked at 285 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: this lady, healthy in home, looked at her husband beaming 286 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,159 Speaker 1: with joy, I thought to myself, you don't look like 287 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: what you've been through. God brought you out without the 288 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: smell of smoke. That's what God wants to do for you. 289 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 1: Restore you to greater honor. Now get a vision for it. 290 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: Don't go through life with a chip on your shoulder, 291 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: bitter over who did you wrong, discourage over what didn't 292 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: work out. Give God something to work with. Father. Thank 293 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: you that what was meant for my harm you are 294 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 1: turning to my advantage. Thank you that I'm not going 295 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: to look like what I've been through, but I'm going 296 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:40,400 Speaker 1: to look like who you created me to be. Blessed, prosperous, strong, healthy, 297 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: and home. March chapter five. There was a man living 298 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: among the tombs that was possessed with evil spirits. He 299 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: was deranged, He wouldn't wear clothes, he couldn't be restrained. 300 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: They tried to put his arms in chains, his feet 301 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: in shackles. Every time he would break the chain. No 302 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: one had the power to control him. All through the 303 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: day and the night he would wander through the tombs, 304 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: screaming and cutting himself. This had gone on for years. 305 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: Everyone knew to stay away from this crazy man. One 306 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: day Jesus got in a boat and crossed the lake 307 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: and went to where the man lived. The men fell 308 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 1: at Jesus' feet. Jesus prayed for him, cast those spirits out. Instantly, 309 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: the man was healed, his mind went back to normal. 310 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: Some people saw went to the town and told everyone. 311 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: They came running out to see the man. He cleaned 312 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 1: himself up, cut his hair, put on clothes. The scripture 313 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: says they saw him sitting there, clothed in his right 314 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: mind perfectly saying they were amazed. They thought, wait a minute, 315 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: we've seen this guy for years. We know he's deranged. 316 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: How could this happen? Was so far out they could 317 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:03,479 Speaker 1: hardly believe it. Interesting is Jesus made a special trip 318 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: to cross the lake just to get to that man. 319 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: Once he healed him, Jesus got in the boat and 320 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 1: went back across. And sometimes forces of darkness come against us, 321 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: like with this man, you can't get free by yourself. 322 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: The good news is our God still crosses lakes. When 323 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: you can't get to him, He'll come to you. You 324 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: may be in a situation that looks too far gone. 325 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: An addiction seems too strong, sickness too big, family member, 326 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: too far off. Course, nothing is too much for our God. 327 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: His power is greater than any power that's trying to 328 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: stop you. He's crossing the lake right now. You are 329 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: not going to live addicted, depressed, sick, fearful, chains or 330 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: being loose. Strongholds are being broken. What you couldn't make happen, 331 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: the most High God is about to make happen. My 332 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: father had a sister named Mary. In her late forties. 333 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: Mary became very ill. She couldn't get out of bed, 334 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: couldn't walk, talk, feed herself. She got to the point 335 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: where she didn't recognize people. She was going in and 336 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: out of consciousness, basically at home giving up to die. 337 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: When my father found out how sick she was, he 338 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: decided to drive to Dallas and pray for her. She 339 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 1: walked in the room and Mary didn't recognize him. Daddy 340 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: took her by the hand and said, Mary, in the 341 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,360 Speaker 1: name of Jesus, rise and walk. Instantly, Mary woke up, 342 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: She got out of the bed. She was able to walk, 343 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 1: and talk. That day, for the first time in months, 344 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: she fed herself. It was a turning point. She was 345 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: instantly healed. Later that night, my father asked her, Mary, 346 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: why did you get up so quickly? She said, I 347 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: heard God say Mary, rise and walk. My father kind 348 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: I laughed and said no, Mary, I said that. She said, no, John, 349 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: I heard God say rise and walk. My dad said, Mary, 350 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,479 Speaker 1: I was standing right there. I'm telling you I'm the 351 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: one that said it. She got up in his face 352 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,199 Speaker 1: and said, listen here, John, I heard the creator of 353 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: the universe, the most like God, tell me to rise 354 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: and walk. And when he said that, I felt something 355 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: go through my body that I have never felt before. 356 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: What was that? God crossing the lake, God breaking forces 357 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: of darkness. Mary went on to live many years healthy 358 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: in hall. I can imagine when people saw the man 359 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: that had been deranged, they'd come up to him say, 360 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: are you really that same man that used to live 361 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: out in the tombs? Are you really that guy? We 362 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: were all afraid of screaming crazy. What they were saying was, 363 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: you don't look like what you've been through. We've seen 364 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: you for years. One way. Now you're blessed, healthy, free 365 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: as this man was playing with his grandchildren. Down through 366 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: the years in joy and life. I'm sure many times 367 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: he paused and said, God, thank you for crossing the lake. 368 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming to me when I couldn't get 369 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: to you. How many times has God crossed the lake 370 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: for us? Freed us when we couldn't free ourselves, brought 371 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: us out of trouble that we got ourselves into, turned 372 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: a family member around that didn't deserve it, healed us 373 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 1: when the medical report said we were done. That's the 374 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: mercy of God. It's from everlasting to everlasting. That means 375 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 1: God will never stop crossing the lake for you. In 376 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: the story Jesus told of the prodigal son, the young 377 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 1: man took his inheritance, left home and wasted all of 378 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: his money. Eventually he ran out of funds. The only 379 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: job he could find was working at a hog pen. 380 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: He got so low, so desperate, he had to eat 381 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: hog food to survive. Finally he decided to go back home. 382 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: He thought, my father has staff members that lived better 383 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: than me, Maybe he'll give me a job. When he 384 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: went home, his father was out looking for him. He 385 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: saw the son a great distanced all took off running 386 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 1: toward him, hugged his son and kissed him. The son 387 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 1: went into his feech Dad, I've blown it, Dad, I 388 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: know I was wrong. His father didn't even let him finish. 389 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: He said to his assistant, quick, go get the best 390 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: robe in the house and put it on him. Go 391 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: get new shoes for his feet, put a ring on 392 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: his finger. Kill the fatted calf. We're going to have 393 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: a party. Imagine the son was cleaned up now, wearing 394 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: his new robe, his new shoes, his ring of honor. 395 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: He didn't look like the guy from the hog pen. 396 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: He didn't look like the son that blew his inheritance. 397 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: This shows us the heart of God, even when it's 398 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,119 Speaker 1: our fault, even when we bring trouble on ourselves. God 399 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: doesn't want us to look like what we've been through. 400 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to be in constant memory of 401 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: your failures, the hurts, the injustices, whether you made the 402 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: mistakes or like the deranged man, forces of darkness are 403 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: trying to stop you. God still crosses leags, He still 404 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: says go get the best robe. He still restores back 405 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: to honor. You would think this father would say, all right, 406 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: you can come back home, but you need to be guilty. 407 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,439 Speaker 1: You need to know how wrong you were. The father 408 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 1: didn't even bring up his past. You may have blown it, 409 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: done things that you're not proud of. You think you'll 410 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: always be hindered by the past. Quit listening to the 411 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: accusing voices. You are forgiven, You are redeemed. Now do 412 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: your part. Put on your robe of honor. Start receiving 413 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: the mercy that your heavenly father is offering you. If 414 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 1: you will shake off the guilt and keep moving forward, 415 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: nobody will be able to tell what you've been through. 416 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: You mean, you struggled for years with an addiction. You 417 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 1: don't look like it. You're free, clean, helping others. You 418 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 1: don't look like you've had cancer. You're healthy and whome. 419 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: You don't look like you've been through a divorce. You're happy, remarried, 420 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: have a great spouse. That's God's dream to bring you 421 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 1: out better. You may have had unfair things happen. Seems 422 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 1: like you're at a disadvantage. Or get ready, God is 423 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: about to do a new thing. He is crossing that 424 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,200 Speaker 1: lake right now, coming after you. I believe and declare, 425 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: God is going to restore you to greater honor. You 426 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 1: are coming out without the smell of smoke. Things are 427 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: changing in your favor. Freedom, healing, vindication, promotion, the fullness 428 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: of your destinies in Jesus' name, and if you receive it. 429 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: Can you say men today? But I'd like to give 430 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 431 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? 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