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Speaker 5: thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again
Speaker 5: for coming out. And I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 5: and I heard about these two men named Archie and Jack.
Speaker 5: They argued their whole life as to whether Jesus was
Speaker 5: white or whether he was black. Archie was certain he
Speaker 5: was white. Jack was just as sure that he was black.
Speaker 5: As fate would have it, they died on the same day.
Speaker 5: Rushed to the pearly gates, said, Saint Peter, please tell us.
Speaker 5: We've been debating our whole life. Is Jesus white or
Speaker 5: is he black? About that time, Jesus stepped up and said,
Speaker 5: Buenos Dias, hold up your bible. Say it like you
Speaker 5: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it
Speaker 5: says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 5: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.
Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about being a
Speaker 5: rain maker. Rain in the scripture is symbolic of blessings,
Speaker 5: favor increase. One place talks about how we should be
Speaker 5: like a well watered garden, always in blossom. That's the
Speaker 5: way God designed us to flourish even in tough times.
Speaker 5: But too many people are in a dry season, they
Speaker 5: haven't had a good break in years. They're stagnant in
Speaker 5: their marriage, they're not moving toward their dreams. And it's
Speaker 5: easy to settle there think well, this is as good
Speaker 5: as it gets. I'll just learn to live with it.
Speaker 5: But there is a way you can put an end
Speaker 5: to that drought. There's something you can do to cause
Speaker 5: it to rain. And it's interesting how a cloud forms.
Speaker 5: The sun shines down on water and it produces an
Speaker 5: invisible vapor. Vapors condense and eventually rise up into the
Speaker 5: sky and form clouds. When enough vapors go up, the
Speaker 5: water becomes too heavy for the cloud to hold and
Speaker 5: it begins to drip out. That's when it sprinkles and missed.
Speaker 5: If the cloud gets so full of condensation, so full
Speaker 5: of these vapors, then it will open up and begin
Speaker 5: to downpour rain. The point I want us to see
Speaker 5: is the water didn't start in the sky. It started
Speaker 5: on the ground. The amount of vapors that went up
Speaker 5: determined how much rain came back down. The way we
Speaker 5: can create rain in our own life. The way we
Speaker 5: can put an end to a drought is through our praise.
Speaker 5: When we go around thanking God for his goodness, talking
Speaker 5: about what he's done. Our praise is the invisible vapor
Speaker 5: that goes up into the heavens and forms a cloud.
Speaker 5: When your cloud gets so full of praise, full of thanksgiving,
Speaker 5: so full of you bragging on the greatness of God,
Speaker 5: it can't hold it anymore. That's when it will rain
Speaker 5: down right back on you. Blessings, favor, increase, healing. You
Speaker 5: can become a rain maker. You've heard the saying, when
Speaker 5: the praises go up, the blessings come back down. Now,
Speaker 5: if you're not seeing any good breaks, if you're in
Speaker 5: a drought, my encouragement is, check up on what you're
Speaker 5: sending up. Here's the principle, no praise, no rain, limited praise,
Speaker 5: limited rain. You might get a sprinkle, a little drizzle
Speaker 5: every once in a while, good break here and there.
Speaker 5: But if you want to see a downpour, a Texas
Speaker 5: size rain, the exceeding greatness of God's favor, You've got
Speaker 5: to stay full of praise everywhere you go. Under your breath,
Speaker 5: you're always thanking God for his goodness. When you wake
Speaker 5: up in the morning, Lord, thank you for another beautiful day.
Speaker 5: What's happening your cloud is getting a little bit fuller
Speaker 5: when you see your children. Lord, thank you for these
Speaker 5: gifts that you bless me with driving to work, not
Speaker 5: complaining about the traffic. I can't stand my job. Gasoline
Speaker 5: is so high. No, Lord, thank you that I have
Speaker 5: a job. Thank you that I have a car to
Speaker 5: sit in traffic. Thank you that I have money for gasoline.
Speaker 5: Thank you that I'm healthy enough to go to work. Lord,
Speaker 5: thank you for my gifts and talents. God, I'm just
Speaker 5: grateful to be alive. When you live like that, you
Speaker 5: better get your umbrella out. It's just a matter of
Speaker 5: time before your cloud will open up and unload a
Speaker 5: downpour of God's favor. Abundant praise will produce abundant rain.
Speaker 5: The amount you send up is the amount that's going
Speaker 5: to come back down. Now, some people only give God
Speaker 5: praise on Sunday, Joel, I went to church. I sang
Speaker 5: three songs, stood the whole time, sat through the whole message,
Speaker 5: miss the first half of the football game. It was
Speaker 5: a big sacrifice. That's great. God sees your efforts. But
Speaker 5: here's the problem with only having Sunday praise on Monday.
Speaker 5: When you need a good break on Tuesday, when you
Speaker 5: need wisdom, God says to the angel, he needs some rain.
Speaker 5: Help him out, give him some favor, increase promotion. The
Speaker 5: angel says, we tried, but there's nothing in his cloud.
Speaker 5: He got a little drizzle on Sunday, a little sprinkle.
Speaker 5: Now it's completely empty. Friends, you got to do your
Speaker 5: part and keep your cloud filled up all through the day.
Speaker 5: Instead of thinking about what's wrong, Thank God for what's right.
Speaker 5: When you're in a tough time, instead of being discouraged,
Speaker 5: instead of complaining.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: Lord, thank you that you're turning it around. Thank you
Speaker 5: that you're bigger than this problem. Thank you that you've
Speaker 5: given me grace for every season, even in small things.
Speaker 5: You get a good parking spot, Lord, thank you for
Speaker 5: your favor. Vapors went up at the mall. You find
Speaker 5: what you are looking for. Lord, Thank you for directing
Speaker 5: my steps. More vapors are rising. You see a friend
Speaker 5: that's not feeling well after you pray for them. Under
Speaker 5: your breath, Lord, thank you that I'm healthy. Thank you
Speaker 5: that I can breathe without pain. You walk outside in
Speaker 5: the morning, Lord, thank you for the sunrise. Thank you
Speaker 5: for the beauty of your creation. Eating dinner with friends. Lord,
Speaker 5: thank you for the people you put in my life.
Speaker 5: Thank you for my friends. If you're going to reach
Speaker 5: your highest potential, you've got to become a rain maker.
Speaker 5: You've got to develop this habit of constantly sending up
Speaker 5: these vapors a praise. Every time I drive up to
Speaker 5: this building, I say, under my breath, Lord, thank you
Speaker 5: for our beautiful building. I've said it probably ten thousand times.
Speaker 5: What am I doing sending up more vapors? Don't let
Speaker 5: what once was a miracle become ordinary. Don't get so
Speaker 5: used to it, but you're not excited about it anymore.
Speaker 5: One time I was driving by the building on the freeway.
Speaker 5: We were headed to the airport, and I was on
Speaker 5: the telephone. Our son, Jonathan, was about ten years old.
Speaker 5: He said to everyone in the car, since dad's on
Speaker 5: the phone, let me say it for him, thank you
Speaker 5: Lord for our beautiful building. He had heard it so
Speaker 5: many times it is become ingrained in him. What has
Speaker 5: God done in your life that you could be sending
Speaker 5: up vapors of praise? You thanked him for a week
Speaker 5: when he gave you that job. Why don't you continue
Speaker 5: to thank him? You were thrilled when you moved into
Speaker 5: that house five years ago. Have you thanked him lately?
Speaker 5: When your baby was born, you were on cloud nine.
Speaker 5: You thank God every day for a month. Now he's sixteen,
Speaker 5: you're saying, God, what did you do to me? No?
Speaker 5: Thank him again and again? Or how about this when
Speaker 5: God turned that problem around, when he made a way,
Speaker 5: when you didn't see away, you were so overwhelmed, so relieved.
Speaker 5: Don't lose the awe, don't lose the amazement. Those are
Speaker 5: opportunities to fill your cloud back up. The scripture talks
Speaker 5: about how if you will sew to the heavens, the
Speaker 5: heavens will sew back to you. Could it be that
Speaker 5: you're not seeing God's best, You're stuck in a drought
Speaker 5: because you're not so into the heavens. If you would
Speaker 5: begin to thank God more often, remember what he's done,
Speaker 5: look for these opportunities to send up vapors of praise.
Speaker 5: Then your dreams would come to pass. Then maybe those
Speaker 5: problems would turn around. Well, Joel, I'm living in this
Speaker 5: small house and I don't really like my job, and
Speaker 5: my kids won't do what's right. My car's a piece
Speaker 5: of trash. When things change, then I'll have a better attitude.
Speaker 5: Then I'll give God praise. Now that's backwards. Praise is
Speaker 5: what causes the rain. Praise is what allows God to
Speaker 5: turn it around. In Matthew fourteen, Jesus had been teaching
Speaker 5: the people. Now it was late in the day. Everyone
Speaker 5: was hungry. Jesus told his disciples to feed them. There
Speaker 5: were five thousand men there, probably fifteen thousand people in total,
Speaker 5: no city nearby, no grocery stores. It seemed impossible. Jesus said, well,
Speaker 5: just give me what you have. They went through the
Speaker 5: crowd and found a little boy's lunch, five loaves of
Speaker 5: bread and two fish. What good would that do with
Speaker 5: fifteen thousand people. But what Jesus did next was extremely significant.
Speaker 5: Verse nineteen says he took the five loaves and the
Speaker 5: two fish, held them up to heavens, and he gave
Speaker 5: thanks and blessed them. Notice he gave thanks for what
Speaker 5: was not enough. He blessed what seemed to be too little.
Speaker 5: Here's the principle. Until you're grateful for what's not enough,
Speaker 5: you won't see the multiple. When Joel, I can't thank
Speaker 5: God for my job. I don't like it. The people
Speaker 5: don't like me. They don't treat me right, they don't
Speaker 5: pay me enough. You're right where Jesus was. You have
Speaker 5: five loaves and two fish. It's not enough. What are
Speaker 5: you gonna do? Complain? God, I've been begging you for
Speaker 5: three years to get me out of this place. The
Speaker 5: problem with that approach is in three more years, you're
Speaker 5: still going to have five loaves and two fish. It's
Speaker 5: still not going to be enough. But if you will
Speaker 5: try a different approach and learn to be grateful for
Speaker 5: what's not enough, then one day God will multiply it
Speaker 5: and you will have more than enough. If you will
Speaker 5: thank God for what you do have, he will give
Speaker 5: you what you don't have. Well, Joel, I don't like
Speaker 5: my house. It's too small. My neighbors get on my nerves. Now,
Speaker 5: why don't you try sending up some different vapors. Lord,
Speaker 5: I want to thank you for this place you've given me. God,
Speaker 5: I'm grateful that i have a roof over my head,
Speaker 5: grateful that I'm not out on the streets. It may
Speaker 5: not be enough, it may be small, but I know
Speaker 5: You're the God of more than enough. So God, I
Speaker 5: continue to give you praise. That's what brings the multiplication.
Speaker 5: Not complaining, not thinking about what's wrong, but thanking God
Speaker 5: for what's right, being grateful even when it's not enough.
Speaker 5: This is what Elijah did in the scripture. There had
Speaker 5: been a drought in the land for three and a
Speaker 5: half years, no rain. The people were barely making it.
Speaker 5: There wasn't any sign of it changing. Elijah could have
Speaker 5: become sour God, I don't understand it. You said we'd
Speaker 5: always be in blossom, but it's just the opposite. We're
Speaker 5: drying up. We're struggling to survive. No, Elijah understood this principle.
Speaker 5: In the middle of the drought, he went on top
Speaker 5: of the mountain and began to thank God for his goodness,
Speaker 5: thank him for what he has done, thank him that
Speaker 5: rain was on the way, thank him that he was
Speaker 5: in control. Six times, his assistant went out to check.
Speaker 5: Each time he came back with the same report. There's nothing,
Speaker 5: not a cloud in the sky. It's not going to rain.
Speaker 5: If you're going to see a drought come to an end,
Speaker 5: you have to pass the test of not getting discouraged
Speaker 5: when circumstances tell you nothing is happening. The medical report
Speaker 5: says you're not getting better. You prayed, but your child's
Speaker 5: not improving. The financial situation isn't changing. Every voice will
Speaker 5: tell you it's not going to work out. Elijah heard
Speaker 5: this same negative report six times. He didn't get discouraged.
Speaker 5: He knew as long as he kept sending up those
Speaker 5: vapors of praise, eventually the cloud would form and things
Speaker 5: would change. The seventh time, the assistant came back and said,
Speaker 5: this time I saw a small cloud up in the sky.
Speaker 5: Elijah said, you better take off running because I can
Speaker 5: hear the sound of the abundance of rain. It wasn't
Speaker 5: long after that before the clouds formed, the heavens opened up.
Speaker 5: There was a downpour. The three and a half year
Speaker 5: draft came to an end. If you'll learn to be
Speaker 5: thankful for what's not enough, there will be a day
Speaker 5: when you have more than enough the abundance of brain.
Speaker 5: But too often, when we're in difficult times, it's easy
Speaker 5: to complain and talk about what's not working out. But
Speaker 5: I've learned that God does not answer complaints. Don't go
Speaker 5: to God and just tell him all of your problems. God,
Speaker 5: I don't like my job, I don't like my car. God,
Speaker 5: my children aren't doing right. God, you know I need
Speaker 5: to lose twenty pounds. God, I've had it up to here.
Speaker 5: That's not prayer, that's complaining. Complaining doesn't get God's attention.
Speaker 5: Psalm twenty two says God inhabits the praises of his people.
Speaker 5: When you start praising, God shows up. When you have
Speaker 5: a thankful heart and you start talking about God's goodness,
Speaker 5: you start thanking him for his promises. That's what gets
Speaker 5: God's attention. When Paul and Silas were in prison at midnight,
Speaker 5: they started singing praises and giving God thanks. Suddenly God
Speaker 5: showed up in the prison. Why did that happen? God
Speaker 5: inhabits the praises. They were in chains in the deepest
Speaker 5: part of the prison, but at midnight there was a
Speaker 5: great earthquake. The chains fell off of them, the prison
Speaker 5: doors flung open. They walked out as free men. Think
Speaker 5: about this. Those same chains had held the roughest prisoners
Speaker 5: for years, the strongest, most powerful criminals. Yet when two
Speaker 5: ordinary men showed up and started praising, those chains could
Speaker 5: not hold them. Friends, Praise is powerful. Praise will break addictions.
Speaker 5: Praise can stop a sickness. Praise can turn a problem around.
Speaker 5: Praise is what will give us the victory In Psalm
Speaker 5: thirty one, David starts off talking about how bad his
Speaker 5: life is. He said, I'm dying from grief. My vision
Speaker 5: is blurred because I've cried so many tears. My strength
Speaker 5: is gone. I'm scorned by my neighbors, hated by my enemies.
Speaker 5: My friends are spreading rumors, my enemies are plotting to
Speaker 5: take my life. He went on and on, telling in
Speaker 5: great detail all of his woes. When I was reading it,
Speaker 5: I started getting depressed. I can imagine God up in
Speaker 5: the heavens, just sitting back, not paying any attention, going
Speaker 5: in one ear and out the other, not even phasing him.
Speaker 5: At one point, David realizes, I'm sending up the wrong vapors.
Speaker 5: God doesn't answer complaints. If you're just sending up discouragement, defeat, self, pity,
Speaker 5: that's what's going to come back to you. I like
Speaker 5: this phrase, Complain and you'll remain, but praise and you'll
Speaker 5: be raised. In a few verses, David changed his whole tune.
Speaker 5: He realized that wasn't getting him anywhere. He said, yes,
Speaker 5: I've got a lot of things coming against me, But God,
Speaker 5: I know your goodness is great. You have blessings stored
Speaker 5: up for me. You protect me, you vindicate me, you
Speaker 5: answer me when I call. So I will take courage.
Speaker 5: I will be strong knowing that you will give me
Speaker 5: the victory. As David begin to brag on God's goodness,
Speaker 5: as he began to send up these vapors of praise,
Speaker 5: I can see God come to attention, he says to
Speaker 5: the angels. I've got to go someplace. I hear somebody
Speaker 5: talking about my goodness. I hear somebody bragging on what
Speaker 5: I can do. I've got to inhabit those praises. When
Speaker 5: you praise, God shows up in some battles. The only
Speaker 5: way you'll get out is to praise your way out.
Speaker 5: But I want to thank you that you're turning this around.
Speaker 5: You said your whole victory in store for the upright.
Speaker 5: I don't see away, But God, I know you have
Speaker 5: a way. As you brag on God's goodness, your cloud
Speaker 5: is filling up, and at the right time, it's going
Speaker 5: to rain down, breakthroughs rain down, healing, rain down, vindication.
Speaker 5: Pay attention to what you're sending up. It may look
Speaker 5: like that you could never get out of debt. It
Speaker 5: would be easy to get discouraged and complain talk about
Speaker 5: how big the obstacles are. No, don't send that up.
Speaker 5: Turn it around. Lord. I want to thank you that
Speaker 5: I'm blessed. I will lend and not borrow. Whatever I
Speaker 5: touch will prosper and succeed. When you do that, your
Speaker 5: cloud is filling up with the right things. If you're
Speaker 5: struggling in your health, Lord, I want to thank you
Speaker 5: that you're Jehovah Rapha, the Lord, my healer, that the
Speaker 5: number of my days you will fulfill, that you're restoring
Speaker 5: health back into me. Maybe you're believing for a spouse. Lord,
Speaker 5: you said if I would delight myself in you, you
Speaker 5: would give me the desires of my heart. So Lord,
Speaker 5: I want to thank you that you're directing my steps,
Speaker 5: bringing the right person into my life. If you will
Speaker 5: keep sending up the right vapors, if you'll keep thanking
Speaker 5: God for his promises, just like Elijah, your praise will
Speaker 5: cause the downpour. It was God's goodness, but you were
Speaker 5: the rain maker. It was your praise that filled up
Speaker 5: the cloud. And some of you have been thanking God
Speaker 5: for a long time. You've been faithful. When you felt
Speaker 5: like complaining, you praised anyway, like Paul and silas. You
Speaker 5: praised in pain, You praised when it was unfair, You
Speaker 5: praised when you were lonely. You need to get ready.
Speaker 5: Your cloud is about to open up. You're about to
Speaker 5: see God amaze you with his goodness. It's going to
Speaker 5: happen suddenly. The favor of God is going to overtake
Speaker 5: you and amaze you with his goodness. This is not
Speaker 5: the time to get discourage. This is the time to
Speaker 5: turn up your praise. I read about this American Indian
Speaker 5: tribe that was known for their rain dances. They had
Speaker 5: a reputation that anytime they did a rain dance, it
Speaker 5: would always rain. When the neighboring communities needed water, they
Speaker 5: always called on this particular tribe, without fail, it would rain.
Speaker 5: The leader of the community asked the Indian chief, how
Speaker 5: is it every time you guys do a rain dance
Speaker 5: it always rains. He said, It's very simple. We dance
Speaker 5: until it rains. That's the way it is with praise.
Speaker 5: You have to keep praising until you see the victory.
Speaker 5: Praise until you get out of debt, Praise until your
Speaker 5: health turns around. Praise until you meet the right person.
Speaker 5: You don't ever stop praising. Then when The answer comes
Speaker 5: when you get the breakthrough, the healing, the promotion. When
Speaker 5: you start thanking God for what he's done. You spend
Speaker 5: your whole life thanking God for your compact sinners, thanking
Speaker 5: him for healing your mother of cancer, thanking him for
Speaker 5: healthy children, thanking him for taking you where you've never dreamed.
Speaker 5: You develop this lifestyle, this habit, where you're always sending
Speaker 5: up these vapors of praise. One thing I've learned is
Speaker 5: God will not disappoint a praiser. Just ask Jonah sitting
Speaker 5: in the belly of the well. It looked impossible, but
Speaker 5: he offered up a sacrifice of praise. That well spit
Speaker 5: him out on dry ground. Just ask shad rak me
Speaker 5: Jack Abednego. They were thrown into the fiery furnace full
Speaker 5: of praise, and God showed up the fourth man in
Speaker 5: the fire. They came out without the smell of spoke.
Speaker 5: Just ask Job when he lost everything, when the bottom
Speaker 5: fell out, He said, I know, my redeemer, Li Job
Speaker 5: came out with twice what he had before. You may
Speaker 5: have gone through some bad breaks, some disappointments, our attitude
Speaker 5: should be I may have lost a few things, but
Speaker 5: one thing I'll never lose is my praise. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: keep thanking God for his goodness. I'm gonna keep sending
Speaker 5: up the right vapors. I'm going to live my life
Speaker 5: as a rain maker. The scripture says, out of your
Speaker 5: belly will flow rivers of living water. Notice the water,
Speaker 5: the rain, The favor is on the inside of each
Speaker 5: one of us. How do we get it out through
Speaker 5: our praise? Some people get a sprinkle every once in
Speaker 5: a while, a little missed here and there. But God
Speaker 5: has some downpours, some gully washers in store for you,
Speaker 5: Like Elijah described, an abundance of rain. If you will
Speaker 5: turn up your praise, lose the complaining, zip up the negative,
Speaker 5: defeated talk. Our attitude should be the only thing I'm
Speaker 5: going to let come out of my mouth are words
Speaker 5: of faith, victory, health, abundance. I'm not going to magnify
Speaker 5: my problems. I'm going to magnify my God. If you're
Speaker 5: always sending up praise, then it's always going to be
Speaker 5: raining back on you, driving to work, minding your own
Speaker 5: business out of nowhere. You have a good idea, what
Speaker 5: happened you got rained on? That's God reining down creativity,
Speaker 5: raining down wisdom. At the mall, you find what you
Speaker 5: wanted to purchase, and it just went on seal. You
Speaker 5: got rained on it. Out to lunch with some friends.
Speaker 5: They introduced you to one of their contacts. You pick
Speaker 5: up a new client, and your selves take off more rain.
Speaker 5: When you have this attitude of praise, you won't be
Speaker 5: able to outrun the good things of God. God said
Speaker 5: in psalmighty one, open your mouth wide, and I will
Speaker 5: feel it. The reason some people never see God's best
Speaker 5: is their mouth is barely open. When Joel, this sounds
Speaker 5: good today, but you don't know my story. I've had
Speaker 5: a lot of bad breaks and I'm dealing with this illness.
Speaker 5: My mother's depressed. I don't see how I could ever
Speaker 5: get out of debt. Now, if you have a poor mouth,
Speaker 5: you're going to have a poor life. Why don't you
Speaker 5: open your mouth a little bit wider. You may have
Speaker 5: had that sickness for many years. Dare to say, Lord,
Speaker 5: I believe today is a new day. The tide of
Speaker 5: the battle is turning. I thank you Lord that I
Speaker 5: will live out my days in good health. Maybe that
Speaker 5: addiction has been with you since high school. Dare to say, Lord,
Speaker 5: I want to thank you that no weapon formed against
Speaker 5: me will prosper. This is a new day of victory.
Speaker 5: I am free. Maybe somebody did you wrong, walked out
Speaker 5: of a relationship. Don't sit around in self pity. Don't
Speaker 5: send those vapors up. Dare to say, God, you said
Speaker 5: you'd give me beauty for ashes, joy for morning. I
Speaker 5: want to thank you Lord. My best days are still
Speaker 5: out in front of me. You have to open your
Speaker 5: mouth wide. That's what allows God to do great things.
Speaker 5: Don't limit him with little praise, little prayer, little dreams.
Speaker 5: Thank him for the greatness of his power. Thank him
Speaker 5: for the fullness of your destiny. Thank him for new levels.
Speaker 5: When you brag on the goodness of God, he'll do
Speaker 5: amazing things.
Speaker 4: In your life.
Speaker 5: We've all heard little children before bragging on their fathers,
Speaker 5: saying things like, my dad's stronger than your dad, my
Speaker 5: dad can run faster than your dad. Well, my dad's
Speaker 5: tougher than your dad. A few years ago, my nephew
Speaker 5: Christopher was over at our house and he was five
Speaker 5: years old at the time, and Christopher's as tough as
Speaker 5: can be, solid as a rock, And we were in
Speaker 5: my garage and I was lifting weights and Christopher was
Speaker 5: there with me, and I just kind of play and
Speaker 5: teasing him, and I pointed at my muscle and said, Christopher,
Speaker 5: you do realize that I can whoop your dad. He
Speaker 5: looked at me as stern as can be and said,
Speaker 5: Uncle Joel, my dad could squash you. He said, it's
Speaker 5: so dramatic, so mean. I thought he's gonna come over
Speaker 5: there and whoop me. But that's the way we need
Speaker 5: to be with our heavenly father. Look at that obstacle,
Speaker 5: that addiction, that sickness. Announce to it. My Father can
Speaker 5: squash you. What are you doing sending up the right
Speaker 5: vapors bragging on the greatness of God. This is what
Speaker 5: David did when he faced Goliath. He said, Goliath, you
Speaker 5: come against me with a sword and a shield, but
Speaker 5: I come against you in the name of the Lord,
Speaker 5: God of Israel. When your mouth is open wide, not
Speaker 5: talking about how big the problem is, but talking about
Speaker 5: how big your God is, you better get your umbrella.
Speaker 5: That's when God will unload a downpour of his favor.
Speaker 5: You will defeat giants that are much bigger. You will
Speaker 5: overcome obstacles that look insurmountable. What kind of vapors are
Speaker 5: you sending up? What kind of clouds are you allowing
Speaker 5: to form? Man, Joel, I don't think I'll ever get well.
Speaker 5: Break this addiction. No, start sending up these vapors of praise.
Speaker 5: Start thanking God for his goodness. Don't wait for everything
Speaker 5: to change. Learn to thank Him for what's not enough
Speaker 5: all through the day. Under your breath this attitude of praise.
Speaker 5: If you will do this, you will become a rain
Speaker 5: maker like Elijah. I believe and declare every drought is
Speaker 5: coming to an end in your life. God is about
Speaker 5: to reign down favor, promotion, healing, restoration. As you thank
Speaker 5: Him for what's not enough, you're about to come into
Speaker 5: more than enough, the abundance of rain in Jesus' name,
Speaker 5: If you receive it, Can you say him in today?
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Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I
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