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If you will 38 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 5: keep moving forward in faith, you are going to come 39 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 5: in to unuse your faith breakthroughs, healing victories, things that 40 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 5: you couldn't make happen on your own. You have to 41 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 5: stir up your praise, stir up your faith, start speaking 42 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 5: victory over your life. Start thanking God that He's fighting 43 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 5: your battles, that this too shall pass, that Greater is coming. 44 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 6: Welcome back to part two of our conversation around Joel's 45 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 6: new book, Your Greater Is Coming. We got another question 46 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 6: from one of our team members here, Alex, Alex, you 47 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 6: got a question for Joel. 48 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 5: Yeah. 49 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 7: So in chapter eight your Time is Coming, the book 50 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 7: says that sometimes it can take a long time for 51 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 7: your dream to come to pass, and sometimes you won't 52 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 7: see any change or improvement taking place for quite a while, 53 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 7: and it's easy to get discouraged, but to not give 54 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 7: up hope and keep the faith. So I was just wondering, 55 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 7: did you have any advice or thoughts on what to 56 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 7: do during those waiting periods. 57 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question, Alec, because that's a that's 58 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 5: a I mean, a lot of these are difficult times 59 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 5: to keep to stay in faith. But let me think 60 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 5: about some scriptures. Let me get going here. The scripture 61 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 5: says about the Israelites, they did not wait for God's 62 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 5: plan to unfold. So it's obviously there's a part of waiting. 63 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 5: And I think what happens many times, Alex, I'm sure 64 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 5: I've done it too, is you know, we get discouraged 65 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 5: along the way and we miss God's best. So to me, 66 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 5: I go back to this God, you said there's a 67 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 5: set time for this to come to pass. That's what 68 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 5: the scripture says. In Psalms. So if there's a set time, 69 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 5: I'll call that a right time. That means any other 70 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 5: time is the wrong time. So God, I trust your timing. 71 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 5: I believe you know when the right time now. I 72 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 5: think the challenge is the right time for us is 73 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 5: always right now. But you know what, God's working. This 74 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 5: is another thing I'll remind myself. God, you're working behind 75 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 5: the scenes, even though I don't see anything happening. And 76 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 5: just because let me say that thought better, just because 77 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 5: nothing is happening doesn't mean God is not working. And 78 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 5: that's when the never lies come, never going to get well, 79 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 5: never meet the right person. This situation is never going 80 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 5: to turn around. The enemy's been using those same lives forever, 81 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 5: you know. And so you just got to say, you 82 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 5: know what, you wouldn't be telling me that if my 83 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 5: grader wasn't coming, if this promise wasn't on the way. 84 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 5: So I think the way you wait for the plan 85 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 5: to unfold is you get up. You know, when you're 86 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 5: tempted to worry, just turn it around and let it 87 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 5: be a thought of praise. 88 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 4: Father. 89 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 5: I think it that you'll work it in my life. 90 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 5: I think you that what you promised me is on 91 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 5: the way. I think that whatever it is, my healing 92 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 5: is coming, whatever it is. But I think if you 93 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 5: can just remind yourself that God is for you, He's 94 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 5: already He already set the time for the answer to come. 95 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 5: It's already on the schedule, and it's going to be 96 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 5: the right time. Then I think it'll be easier to 97 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 5: stay in faith. But keep that scripture. I use it 98 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 5: a lot. They did not wait for God's plan to unfold. 99 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 5: What if you're about to get discouraged and it's going 100 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 5: to unfold next week, or what if you knew that 101 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 5: on December seventeenth at twelve twenty in the afternoon you're 102 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 5: going to meet the right person, or that medical report 103 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 5: was going to turn, or you would say, Okay, I'm 104 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 5: gonna stay in peace. I know it's on the way. 105 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 5: What God promised you is on the way. So just 106 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 5: take that same time that you'd normally worry and say, Father, 107 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 5: I trust you, I thank you. Now. I think he 108 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 5: can get difficult, like somebody called yesterday and they've been 109 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 5: waiting seven years. I know that's hard, but you just 110 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 5: have to say God, you know it's difficult, But God, 111 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 5: I believe You've given me the grace that I need. 112 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 5: I believe that you're in control. And again I go 113 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 5: back to this, God knows what's best for us. He 114 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 5: has you in the palm of his hand. And so 115 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 5: if it's taken a long time I've learned this, it's 116 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 5: because he has something bigger, something better in store for you. 117 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 5: It's going to be more rewarding. So I hope you'll 118 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 5: stay in faith. 119 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:44,919 Speaker 8: Yeah. 120 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 9: You know, it's funny because we can all look back 121 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 9: and say, if I knew then what I know now, 122 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 9: you know, I would have found joy in the journey. Yes, 123 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 9: And so I think that we have to realize there's 124 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:56,799 Speaker 9: joy in the journey. 125 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 8: And you brought up the Israelites. 126 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 9: You know, when they were when they were taken out 127 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 9: of Egypt and journey into the Promised Land. They had 128 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 9: their kids with them. They had God placed, you know, valuables. 129 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 9: He had the Egyptians give them valuables and things. But 130 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 9: they weren't looking at what they had. They were just 131 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 9: looking at I got to get to this place that 132 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 9: he promised. They had their little kids with them, but 133 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 9: all they could do is murmur and complain. They weren't 134 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 9: finding joy in the journey they got. They let that 135 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 9: discouragement take hold to the point where they. 136 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 8: Said, if we could only go back. 137 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 9: But I bet if you'd ask them today and they 138 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 9: could see that whole plan unfolded in their life, they 139 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 9: just said, why didn't I find joy in the journey? 140 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 8: Why didn't I use what I had? 141 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 9: Why didn't I take advantage of my children at this age? 142 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 9: And so I think that's a lesson that we can 143 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 9: learn from these stories in the Bible. And there is 144 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 9: there is joy in the journey. There's treasure in darkness. 145 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 9: We've just got to be the kind of people that 146 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 9: find it and look for it. And so I think 147 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 9: that's that's how we can get through those waiting periods, 148 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 9: to know that God isn't punishing us, but that He's 149 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 9: got something for us today. 150 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 5: I think he Tooure, I love that phrase. I'm going 151 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 5: to use that sometimes. Join the journey, But it says 152 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 5: too the we talk about the Israelites, it took them 153 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 5: whatever forty years to make an eleven day journey, but 154 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 5: it did say at one point God did not take 155 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 5: them the shortest route because they weren't prepared for war. 156 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 5: And so I think in that in that waiting time, 157 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 5: God's doing things in us. You know, we may think 158 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 5: we're ready, or maybe it's a better way to put it. 159 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 5: God may have something bigger than you can handle right now, 160 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 5: and he's saying, you know what, let me get you 161 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 5: a little stronger, a little more experience. I'm not going 162 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 5: to throw the compact center on you right now. I'm 163 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 5: not gonna, you know, until you're ready. So again it 164 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 5: goes back to God, I trust you with my life. 165 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 5: I think the key is when you're honoring God, you're 166 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 5: being your best. You don't have to be perfect, but 167 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 5: when you're, when you're when your hardest to please God, 168 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 5: he's He's ordering your steps. The scripture says no good 169 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 5: thing will he withhold when you walk up rightly, So 170 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 5: that means at the right time, God's going to bring 171 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 5: you what you need. If it hasn't happened yet, hadn't 172 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 5: been the right time. Maybe God's doing the work in you, 173 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 5: maybe he's working in somebody else, Maybe he's waiting for 174 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 5: some you know, he's arranging some other things in your favor. 175 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 5: But you can have joined the journey when when you 176 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 5: trust that God's in control. 177 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 6: So good We have another question here from our online 178 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 6: crew Kayla from South Carolina. She says, you and Victoria 179 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 6: are such a great couple together. What is your favorite 180 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 6: memory with Victoria and how do you keep your relationship strong? 181 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 5: I have so many favorite memories. Where do I start? 182 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,479 Speaker 5: My favorite memory would be poof. 183 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 4: It'd probably be one maybe one. 184 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 5: Well, my favorite would be the when I took it 185 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 5: out on my first date. That was my favorite. We 186 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 5: came right here to this building. This wasn't built, but 187 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 5: the Compact Center is right next door. This connects to it. 188 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 5: And so I asked her to come to a Rockets 189 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 5: basketball game with me, and and she said yes. And 190 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 5: it's a long strung on one boy. You no, that's 191 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 5: is good? Well we need to hear okay, Well, so 192 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 5: anybody we came. So we I had season tickets, but 193 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 5: I realized the day I went to pick her up 194 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 5: that I had given away those tickets for that night 195 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 5: to somebody else a few months before, and so I thought, oh, man, 196 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 5: I just invited this beautiful girl out doesn't even know me, 197 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 5: and I don't have any tickets to come to the 198 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 5: ball game, and it was sold out, so we had 199 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 5: to come here and we had to buy them from 200 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 5: the scalpers down front. And that's back when it was legal. 201 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 5: It's not legal now. But I'll tell you a funny 202 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 5: thing about Victorious. So so this guy comes up. This 203 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 5: guy comes up and he's kind of a schemer, you know, 204 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 5: but he was just in. He's wheeling dealing. I said, 205 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 5: give me some tickets. So he said, okay, here's here's tickets, 206 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 5: fifty dollars each. And that was whatever, thirty seven years ago. 207 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 4: That's a lot, it was. 208 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 5: It was at Okay, maybe tickets, okay, maybe it's a 209 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 5: hundred dollars. Anyway, it was a lot of money. But 210 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 5: I wasn't man. I got her with me. What I'm 211 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 5: gonna do. I'm not going to be embarrassed. So I'm 212 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 5: about to buy these tickets. And she walks in and says, no, no, no, 213 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 5: we're not paying that much for those. You know, I 214 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 5: thought she bargained. She got bround. But anyway, we sat 215 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,839 Speaker 5: at the very top and during the halftime somebody threw 216 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 5: is well it's a long but during the game, somebody 217 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 5: threw their beer. Their beer went up in the air 218 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 5: when they jumped up and shouting, and it came back 219 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 5: down on Victoria and drenched her. And it was a 220 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 5: crazy time, but it was right here in this building. 221 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 5: But it was a great memory. I remember the beer 222 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 5: flowing down her forehead. She had a little leather jacket. 223 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 5: I thought, I don't know what she thinks. But Victory nine. 224 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 5: We when we dated, and we still we laugh all 225 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 5: the time. We keep laughter in our house, and she 226 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 5: loves to laugh. I hear laughter. She'll be on the 227 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 5: phone eight o'clock in the morning. I hear laughter going 228 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 5: through the house. And I love that because I think 229 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 5: it's easy to let life weigh you down, pressures. Oh, 230 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 5: I've got a big ministry. We got this stuff going. 231 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 5: Do you know what you have to You have to 232 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 5: enjoy your life and take time and really, you know, 233 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 5: I like not bringing this is maybe sounds too cliche, 234 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 5: but not bringing stress into the home. In other words, 235 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 5: there's stressful things. When we get into our home, we're 236 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 5: not you know, we work together, but we're not working here. 237 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 5: This is our home. We're gonna have fun here, We're 238 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 5: gonna relax, We're gonna, you know, enjoy each other. So 239 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 5: I think your home needs to be a place of 240 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 5: peace and harmony and joy. And I know I can 241 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 5: hear somebody saying you have but you don't know my husband, 242 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 5: or you don't know my situation, but maybe you can 243 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 5: be the catalyst for change. Victoria sets the tone in 244 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 5: the house. She's just joyful, she's happy, she's you know, 245 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 5: and I think I am too, But I think she 246 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 5: really sets the tone in the house. Tell a couple 247 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 5: of good memories about me. 248 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 9: Now, come on, all my memories are good about Joe. 249 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 8: I just can't remember any. 250 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 10: Good no. 251 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 9: I think laughter, you know, and it's funny because I 252 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 9: have a different sense of humor than he does. But 253 00:11:57,679 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 9: you know, we laugh, we laugh at each other, and 254 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 9: I just, you know, I love going back to those 255 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,079 Speaker 9: times where there was no pressure, you know, and thinking 256 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 9: about how how much fun those times were too, because 257 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 9: it's it makes you realize that it doesn't have to 258 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 9: be that much pressure right now. You know that there 259 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 9: are things we can laugh at. So I agree with 260 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 9: everything that he's saying. We've had so much fun together. 261 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 9: I mean, Joel's a gift for me. He was my gift. 262 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,599 Speaker 9: So I just love everything about him. I mean, I 263 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,079 Speaker 9: could kill him sometimes. 264 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 6: You know, I was going to say some one thing 265 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 6: I've observed that I've loved is just how you're aware 266 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,719 Speaker 6: of how each other compliments one another. You know, you 267 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 6: see what she brings that you may not possess. That 268 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 6: adds to your relationship and your family, and you see, 269 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And I think that's key 270 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 6: in our lives, is recognizing how other people compliment us 271 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,719 Speaker 6: and bring strengths maybe that we don't necessarily have. 272 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 5: And yeah, so good nick, it is. I recognize Victorias spontaneous. 273 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 5: She's a great extemporaneous speaker. I've got to go prepare, 274 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 5: normally a long time to get up, but she can 275 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 5: get up. And do you know our gifts are just different. 276 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 5: And I think sometimes we try to make people, you know, 277 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 5: we get upset over somebody else's gifts being different maybe, 278 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 5: you know, especially if they're not just like us. But 279 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 5: I know we're we're better together, and she brings things 280 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 5: that I don't bring in. So that's why I think 281 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 5: celebrating the differences is the way to go and not hey, 282 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 5: why aren't you like me? You know, I'm gonna be 283 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 5: down here an hour early today, She's gonna come out 284 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 5: with thirty seven seconds before the service starts. But you 285 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 5: know what we're all different. But then again, there's so 286 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 5: many things at Victoria, just her insight, her discernment. She 287 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 5: sees things that I don't see. I think there's no 288 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,199 Speaker 5: way that's right, and you know two days later it's 289 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 5: exactly right. But I've learned to trust that and trust her, 290 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 5: and so again celebrating each other's differences. 291 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 8: Yeah, I like that. I like that. 292 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 4: Well we have. Terra's got a question from the book 293 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 4: in there. 294 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 10: Hi, So you already shared a little bit about someone 295 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,079 Speaker 10: oh six and how the Israelites they didn't allow God's 296 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 10: plan to play out, And in chapter four you talk 297 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 10: about how we can sometimes push so hard on a 298 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,559 Speaker 10: door that isn't God's will that it opens anyway. 299 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 8: So how do you walk that out? 300 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 10: How do you know when to keep pushing and when 301 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 10: to wait. 302 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 5: That's a great question. It is a good question. And 303 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 5: again I feel like some of these are difficult. I 304 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 5: hope I can answer them properly, but I think you 305 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 5: have to go back to say, God, I trust your timing, 306 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 5: I trust your ways. Maybe here's a different take on 307 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 5: it too, and this is maybe a little more harder, 308 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 5: but I've learned this. I ask God for what I want, 309 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 5: you know, I let him know, I asked. But then 310 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 5: I said, God, but I trust you and you know 311 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 5: what's best for me. And here's the kicker, and God, 312 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 5: if it doesn't work out my way, I'm still going 313 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 5: to be happy. And I think that's a real key there, 314 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 5: because we do get set in our ways. And I 315 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 5: told some examples there may be too long to tell, 316 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 5: but where I just kept pushing on this door. I 317 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 5: wanted this, this is good. I could tell it was good. 318 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 5: And you know what, God let the door open, and 319 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 5: I thought, oh, it's not what I thought. It was 320 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 5: a little bit of a heartache. It's like in the scripture, 321 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 5: it's heaven. You know. Abraham, you know he wanted that child. 322 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 5: He had to promise Nick. You he heard God, you're 323 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 5: going to have a baby. And year after you went by, 324 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 5: nothing happened, and he said, okay, God, I'll. 325 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 8: Help you out. 326 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 5: So you know, he had a He had a Yeah, 327 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 5: he took matters into his own hands, had a baby 328 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 5: that he had Ishmael, not Isaac. And I think sometimes 329 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 5: we're giving birth to Ishmael's because we're not waiting. But 330 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 5: Ishmael and it wasn't his fault. God brought another nation 331 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 5: nations out of him, but actually Ishmael that caused a 332 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 5: lot of strife and confusion. And you know, and I 333 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 5: think when we birth things out of God's timing or 334 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 5: when we push things, that that's what happened. So I 335 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 5: guess the message is, you know, if it's not happening 336 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 5: on your timetable, God, I'm gonna I'm gonna still trust 337 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 5: you with it. I'm not gonna. I don't think we 338 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 5: have to beat doors down. And I am a I 339 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 5: do believe in being. I was gonna say aggressive. Is 340 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 5: that the word I do believe in being? You know, passionate. 341 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 5: I mean, it took a lot to get the Compact Center. 342 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 5: I was down at city Hall all the time. But 343 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 5: I don't think you have to. There's a fine line 344 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 5: of trying to just beat a door down. And you know, 345 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 5: sometimes God is so merciful. He'll keep a door closed 346 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 5: that's going to keep you from your destiny, but other 347 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 5: ones may not be. You know, he may let open. 348 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 5: This's not his perfect will, but it's just going to 349 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 5: be a little more difficult. And we think, you know what, 350 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,880 Speaker 5: next time I'm going to learn. Next time, I want 351 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 5: to say, God not my way. You let your will 352 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 5: be done. 353 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 8: You know. 354 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 9: I think probably through the years this this has helped you. 355 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 8: But jewels very patient, you know. 356 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 9: And there's a scripture that it says through faith and 357 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 9: patience that's what brings forth the promise. 358 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 8: And I think you've learned that. 359 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 9: Yeah, you have to be proactive, you have to go 360 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 9: after what you want. You have to be willing to 361 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 9: get up early and go after what you want. But 362 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 9: you also have to balance that with a patience, knowing 363 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 9: that you know, patience is described in the in the 364 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 9: Bible as a virtue, as a power. And so I 365 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 9: think we live in such a generation where we don't 366 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 9: need patience, you know, because we can get everything quickly, 367 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 9: and we can send a text across the world in 368 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 9: two seconds and have a response. We can do five 369 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 9: things at once, you know. But I think when we 370 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 9: just take, you know, a step back and go, am 371 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 9: I a patient person? 372 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 8: You know? God trust me, you know? 373 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 9: And so I think that you have become a very 374 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 9: patient person, Like you said, even now, you pray, you may, 375 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 9: you know, you ask God, you seek, you knock, but 376 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 9: then you wait, you know, not that you're not doing anything. 377 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 9: You're not idle, but you're patient, and I think that 378 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 9: that's something we can all develop as just a power 379 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 9: in patience and knowing that if it is for us, 380 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 9: we're going to get it. No one's going to take 381 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 9: it from us. You know, sometimes we think and I 382 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 9: think this, and maybe we but I always think, well, God, 383 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 9: I need to help you, you know, or God, are 384 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 9: you dependent on me to do something that I'm not doing? 385 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 9: And I can get really caught up in that. God, 386 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 9: am I supposed to be doing this? Or am I 387 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 9: supposed to be doing that? And I try to make 388 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 9: sure that I'm doing what God would want me to do. 389 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 9: But you know what, that's when I have to say, 390 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 9: you know what, I'm going to sit back. I don't 391 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 9: have to rush out and do something to get ahead 392 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 9: of God. I'm going to let you lead me God, 393 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 9: because that's what the Bible talks about, that the spirit 394 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 9: will lead us and not to get out in front 395 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 9: of the spirit. And that takes patience, and that takes trust, 396 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,919 Speaker 9: and that takes knowing that you're doing your part in prayer. 397 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 9: And you know, so I think that you could you 398 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 9: say that you have developed more patience in your life. 399 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 8: I know the truth is he's really not a patient person. 400 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 8: I know I just said all that. 401 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 9: I'm not canceling when I said, but by nature. 402 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 8: You're not patient. 403 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 5: By nature, I've learned to be patient. 404 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 9: That's what I'm trying to say. By nature, he's not patient. 405 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 9: He wants he goes ninety miles an hour, and he 406 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 9: wants to see results. But you have learned to be 407 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 9: very patient. 408 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 5: God brought great people into my eyes, potential me to 409 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 5: be patient. I have learned to be patient. And what 410 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 5: you're saying is very powerful. And I think what what's 411 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 5: helped me too is because I like to be moving. 412 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 5: I like to be achieving. Where's the next station? Where's it? 413 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 5: But I've learned this that every season is not harvest season. 414 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 5: You got to have growing seasons. You've got to have 415 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 5: planting seasons and watering seasons. And you know, I want 416 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 5: every season to be like harvest. But there's my house. 417 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 5: I look at these lemon trees and men sometimes they're 418 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 5: bere but you know what, it's just not the right season. 419 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 5: Doesn't mean more fruit in coming. Greater is not coming. 420 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 5: But that's helped me to know. And what you said, victory, 421 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 5: that's really helped me that what belongs to you is 422 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 5: going to come to you. You're not missing it because 423 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,879 Speaker 5: it's taken longer. It has your name, when it's not 424 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 5: like God's at all too bad. They got it, You're 425 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 5: not gonna get it. God never runs out of favor. 426 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 5: And that helped me to know that God, I'm gonna 427 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 5: keep being my best. I may see somebody else doing 428 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 5: this or over here, but what has my name when 429 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 5: it is going to come to me? So I can rest, 430 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 5: I can be my best, I can trust, I can 431 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 5: I think that what you were saying to Victoria is 432 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 5: just living out of a place of rest, out of 433 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 5: a place of trust. When we're worried, when we're you know, uptight, 434 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 5: we're not. We're not really trusting. We may say it, 435 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 5: but you know, peaceful is a place of power. And 436 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 5: so I think if you can stay peaceful, know that God, 437 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 5: you know what. I'm gonna wait for your plan to unfold. 438 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 5: And the last thing is I think you do that. 439 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 5: One one word for weight, or says in the amplified 440 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 5: just says wait with expectancy doesn't mean just ah, nothing 441 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 5: good is going to happen. I'm waiting with expectancy. God, 442 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 5: I know, I know it's coming. So God, I just 443 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 5: think you that it's on the way, and I trust 444 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 5: your timing. 445 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 4: Awesome. 446 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 6: I want to ask this question. Chapter thirteen, so we're 447 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 6: talking the end of the book. You're you're the title 448 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 6: is coming out better And in this in this chapter, 449 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,399 Speaker 6: you talk about without coming out with coming out of 450 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 6: whatever you've gone. 451 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 4: Through, without the smell of smoke. 452 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 6: And I just think that there's you know, people right 453 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 6: now maybe going through a lot of stuff, a lot 454 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 6: of hardship, but it's such a powerful chapter. You know, 455 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 6: you talk about the Israelites, of course, you talk about 456 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 6: the people and Daniel, anything you'd want to encourage people with. 457 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, I love the thought because we've all been through 458 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 5: the pandemic and if not that, we've all been through something. 459 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 5: And I think the mindset is, God, if you just 460 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 5: bring me through, I'll be okay. I'll just come through straggling, 461 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 5: beat up, bruise. That's all right, I made it through. 462 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 5: But that's not the way God is. God gives us 463 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 5: that promise that you know you're going to come out 464 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 5: without the smell of smoke. I love that thought that 465 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 5: you're not going to look like what you've been through. 466 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 5: In other words, people an't going to look at you 467 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 5: and oh, man, you went through the pandemic, you haint 468 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 5: COVID didn't Man, you had a bad relationship. Man, Well, 469 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 5: that's one thing. We'd be grateful to be alive. But 470 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 5: that's not the way God is. That's what Greater is 471 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 5: Coming is all about that. Yeah, we go through these things, 472 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 5: but they're stepping stones for God to show out in 473 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 5: your life in a new way. I hope you'll have 474 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,640 Speaker 5: that attitude of faith that just you know, I may 475 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 5: be in something now, may even be in the fire, 476 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 5: But I love that nicke It says their clothes weren't burned, 477 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 5: they didn't smell like smoke, their hair wasn't singed. And again, 478 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 5: we'd be grateful if they just came out had little 479 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 5: burns here and there. They made it a lit But look 480 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 5: at how good God is. They've been through a furnace, 481 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 5: through a fire and they don't look like it. Well, 482 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 5: that's the promise God gives us. And so I believe 483 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 5: that for each one of you that on the other 484 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 5: side of those difficulties is not you just made it out, 485 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 5: but you made it out better. 486 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 4: Yeah awesome, Yeah, that's so good. 487 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 8: I love that. 488 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 9: I mean, it's something that I think God wants us 489 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 9: to do because we are his representatives on the earth. 490 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 9: You know, we represent a good God. And so people 491 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 9: are gonna look at you and they're gonna think, you know, 492 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 9: you've been through a hard time. And I've seen this 493 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 9: with people that I think, how did you go through that? 494 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 4: Yes? 495 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 9: And how are you where you are today? And it's 496 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 9: it's astounding And what does that do? That bills my faith? 497 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 9: That makes me realize God is a good God, and 498 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 9: so I believe that He wants to clothe his children 499 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 9: with the good things. He wants us to be his 500 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 9: representative and his hands and feet. So that's why I 501 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 9: believe that. Like even in that story of Daniel, you know, 502 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 9: they if they would have come out anything less, you know, 503 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 9: there would have been a lot of questions. But I 504 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 9: think that because God was in the fire with them. 505 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 9: And that's the key. Whatever you're going through, God is 506 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 9: in there with you. He hasn't told you to go 507 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 9: through it alone. He says, I'm in there with you. 508 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 9: And so if you can just remember there's someone with 509 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 9: you all the time that you can talk to, that 510 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 9: you can call on that wants to help you. I 511 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 9: think that's what helps us to get out of that place, 512 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 9: not looking ragged out, not looking like we've been beat 513 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 9: up by the world by this situation, but that God 514 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 9: is faithful. And I think that's what I want to see. 515 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 9: I want to see people who've walked with God and 516 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 9: I can see the faithfulness of God, not their victory 517 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 9: as much as the victory that God showed them. 518 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 5: I love that. 519 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 4: Nick. 520 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 5: And one more thought on that, because you think about 521 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,479 Speaker 5: the attitude of Shadrack Mishak kind of Indigo before they 522 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 5: were thrown in we're talking about waiting for God's plan 523 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 5: to unfold and trusting God's timing, trusting his ways. Well, 524 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 5: they could have thought, Hey, God, we're doing the right thing. 525 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 5: Why are you going to let this guy throw into 526 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 5: a furnace. Weren't going to bow down. But their attitude, 527 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 5: you know what he's said. They said, Hey, God will 528 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 5: deliver us, but even if he doesn't, we're still not 529 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 5: going to bow down. So they had this attitude of 530 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 5: faith God, we trust you with our lives. They didn't 531 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 5: go into the I hope I would have that kind 532 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 5: of faith, but they didn't go into the fire, panicking 533 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 5: and fighting and all that. They just went into it 534 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 5: full of faith, trusting, knowing that God was in control, 535 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 5: really knowing that God, if it's our time to go 536 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,400 Speaker 5: to Heaven, we're going to go right now. And that's 537 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 5: a powerful way to live. I love that thought about it, 538 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 5: says the many of the saints of old, they died 539 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 5: in faith. You know, I don't want to die bitter 540 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 5: and angry and God I'm getting thrown into the ferns. 541 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 5: I'd rather die in faith. And I think that's a 542 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 5: powerful way to live your life, knowing that God's in control, 543 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 5: that he's not going to let you go in a fire, 544 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 5: that he doesn't come in there with you. And if 545 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 5: it's not your time to go, all the forces of 546 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 5: darkness cannot stop what God wants to do in your life. 547 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 5: He has greater as coming, not just coming out, but 548 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 5: coming out better, coming out, not looking like what you've 549 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 5: been through. 550 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 4: It's awesome. I want to encourage the people as well. 551 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 6: Pick up a copy for your family members, for friend 552 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 6: for co workers, especially those of you who maybe know 553 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 6: you know that they're going through something challenging right now. 554 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,719 Speaker 6: They're facing something that seems insurmountable. This is a this 555 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 6: is incredible, it's inspiring, it's encouraging. It'll help someone that's 556 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 6: close to you. Any last thoughts you have on the 557 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 6: book or want to encourage the people with. 558 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 5: Well, hey, it's great being with everybody there, our online audience. 559 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 5: How about our staff here, guys, thanks for being here, 560 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,360 Speaker 5: loved your questions. Just Nick, thanks for hosting. But you know, 561 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 5: just God has good things in store. Man, keep your 562 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 5: faith out there. You wouldn't be alive unless there was 563 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,880 Speaker 5: something amazing in front of you. We love you, We're 564 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 5: praying for you every day, and really our prayer is 565 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 5: this that the dreams God put in your heart, the 566 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 5: promise is that you're believing for we're standing in agreement 567 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 5: that God will bring them to pass. I know there's 568 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 5: power in agreement. And sometimes you may not feel like 569 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 5: there's anybody to pray for you. You kind of feel 570 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 5: lonely or you know, something like that. But you know what, 571 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 5: there's people here, our ministry, people here at Lakewood were 572 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 5: praying for it, and we just believe you're going to 573 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 5: see the goodness of God again. Not a get by 574 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, how about a bountiful twenty twenty two. 575 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 5: How about God opening up some new doors, doing some 576 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 5: things you've never seen, turning some negative situations around. He's 577 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 5: done it in the past, but I believe the best 578 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 5: is still yet to come. 579 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 4: It's awesome. 580 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 8: Are you going to pray for him? I think it'd 581 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 8: be a great time to just pray. 582 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 5: I'm gonna pray. You speak a blessing too. 583 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 8: Oh well, I just want to say that you're set apart. 584 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 9: And I think when we have this attitude that we 585 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 9: are set apart for God, that God has already designed 586 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 9: great things in our future. There's good works for us 587 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 9: to do if we'll keep that mindset that we are 588 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 9: set apart. Children are the most high God. No matter 589 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 9: what you're walking through today, God is walking with you. 590 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 9: And I believe that you are going to come out greater, 591 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 9: more enlarged, with more experience, more expression in your life. 592 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 9: And I believe that God is faithful and He's going 593 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 9: to show himself faithful to you and to your children. 594 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 10: Amen. 595 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 5: I love that, So pick up a coffee for you, 596 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 5: and I believe it will encourage them. Let me pray, Lord, 597 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 5: Thank you for all of our friends watching and listening today. 598 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 5: I think you that you do have them in the 599 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 5: palm of your hand. Lord, you know their goals, their dreams, 600 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 5: the challenges, things that are coming against them. Now, I 601 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,439 Speaker 5: thank you Lord that you are fighting their battles, that 602 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 5: every force that's trying to stop them is broken. In 603 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 5: the name of Jesus, depression, anxiety, addictions. Lord, I think 604 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 5: you your healing sick bodies, restoring relationships, bringing them divine connections, 605 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 5: ord giving them the power to wait. Well, Lord, I 606 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 5: think you that your plan is going to unfold in 607 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 5: their life, that it will be bigger, better, more rewarding 608 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 5: than they've ever imagined. Lord, help us to believe. I 609 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 5: just speak victory, abundance, healing, health, favor over every person 610 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 5: under the sound of my voice. I believe in declare 611 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 5: You're not average, you're not mediocre. You're a child of 612 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 5: the Most High God. We love you very much and 613 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 5: we'll see you next time.