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Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into
Speaker 4: your homes and if you're ever in our area, please
Speaker 4: stop by. I promise you we will make you feel
Speaker 4: right at home. I like to start with something funny.
Speaker 4: And I heard about this positive farmer and negative farmer.
Speaker 4: When it would rain, the positive farmer would say, Lord,
Speaker 4: thank you for water and our crops. The negative farmer
Speaker 4: would say, yeah, but if it keeps this up, it's
Speaker 4: going to rock the roots. When the sun came out,
Speaker 4: the positive farmer, Lord, thank you for giving our plants
Speaker 4: valuable nutrients. The negative farmer, Yeah, but if it keeps
Speaker 4: it up, it's going to squirtch the crops. One day
Speaker 4: they went bird hunting together in a boat. The positive
Speaker 4: farmer just got a new bird dog. He was so
Speaker 4: proud of him. He shot a bird, fell in the water,
Speaker 4: said to the negative farmer. Watched this. The dog jumped
Speaker 4: out of the boat, ran on top of the water,
Speaker 4: picked up the bird, ran back on top of the water,
Speaker 4: put it in the boat. He said, what you think?
Speaker 4: The negative farmer said, I should have known it. That
Speaker 4: dog can't even swim. Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind
Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 4: to talk to you today about it's worth the wait.
Speaker 4: We all have things that we're waiting for, a dream
Speaker 4: to come, to pass, problem, to turn around, or to
Speaker 4: meet the right person. When it's taking longer than we thought,
Speaker 4: it's easy to get discouraged, to become impatient and think
Speaker 4: when is it ever going to happen? But sometimes it's
Speaker 4: not happening because we're not prepared for what God has prepared.
Speaker 4: You're ready for what you have in mind, but if
Speaker 4: you could see what God has in mind, you would
Speaker 4: realize you couldn't handle it right now. You need more
Speaker 4: time to grow, to develop, to gain experience, and the
Speaker 4: scripture says let patients have its perfect work. Patience is
Speaker 4: developed in the weight room. When I was playing sports
Speaker 4: in high school, the coach would have us spend an
Speaker 4: hour a day lifting weights. I didn't want to do that.
Speaker 4: I wanted to play basketball. That seemed like a waste
Speaker 4: of time, But in that weight room we were getting stronger,
Speaker 4: building endurance so we could succeed on the court. Before
Speaker 4: you see what God promised. Before you get on the court,
Speaker 4: God will send you to the weight room. Wait. You
Speaker 4: may not like it. You don't see anything happening. Other
Speaker 4: people are in the game making progress. You're stuck waiting,
Speaker 4: but that time in the weight room is critical. You
Speaker 4: may not see anything changing, but something is happening. Patience
Speaker 4: is working your spirit. Your muscles are getting stronger, you're
Speaker 4: growing developing. Patience is building you, getting you prepared so
Speaker 4: you can sustain what God has coming. Don't discount the
Speaker 4: waiting periods. Don't get discouraged because it's not happening as
Speaker 4: fast as you would like. The longer it takes, that
Speaker 4: means the more God has in store when it's your time,
Speaker 4: when he knows you're ready, what you give birth to
Speaker 4: is going to be much bigger than you've imagined. Hebrews
Speaker 4: says you have need of patience so you can receive
Speaker 4: the promises. We know we need to have faith, we
Speaker 4: know we need to believe those things seem obvious, but
Speaker 4: this says we need patience if we're going to see
Speaker 4: promises come to pass. Maybe you've been praying, believing, being
Speaker 4: your best, but you don't see anything changing. You're tempted
Speaker 4: tolive stress. Have a new perspective. You're in the weight room.
Speaker 4: You're not missing out, you're not falling behind. God has
Speaker 4: you right where he wants you. That promise is right
Speaker 4: on schedule. Now do your part and wait with a
Speaker 4: good attitude, not upset complaining. When is it ever going
Speaker 4: to happen? No, turn it around. Father, Thank you that
Speaker 4: what you started in my life you will finish. Thank
Speaker 4: you that what you promised is on the way. If
Speaker 4: you will wait with the right attitude. After patience has
Speaker 4: done its work, you're going to see promises come to pass.
Speaker 4: But we see waiting as negative. We don't like it.
Speaker 4: Nothing is happening. We're interested in the destination. But God
Speaker 4: is interested in the journey. He's working on us along
Speaker 4: the way. And when we understand that waiting doesn't mean
Speaker 4: nothing is happening, Does it mean God has forgotten about us?
Speaker 4: It's all a part of the pro says, then we
Speaker 4: can stay in faith, knowing that at the right time
Speaker 4: God will get us to where we're supposed to be.
Speaker 4: David waited thirteen years to take the throne after the
Speaker 4: prophet Samuel anointed him to be the next king. God
Speaker 4: could have taken him straight to the throne, but David
Speaker 4: wasn't ready. He had to go through a time of testing.
Speaker 4: During those thirteen years he faithfully took care of his
Speaker 4: father's sheep. Seemed like a menial position. He knew he
Speaker 4: had bigger things in him. He had heard the prophet
Speaker 4: say that he was a king. But had David not
Speaker 4: passed the test in the weight room, he would have
Speaker 4: never made it to the throne. He had to show
Speaker 4: God he would take care of his father's sheep before
Speaker 4: God would trust him to take care of his sheep.
Speaker 4: The people of Israel. While you wait, be your best
Speaker 4: where you are. That's a very important time. God is
Speaker 4: watching to see if you're ready. And here's the key.
Speaker 4: If what you're praying about isn't changing, then God is
Speaker 4: using that situation to change you. If it's not working out,
Speaker 4: then it's working out something in you. All things are
Speaker 4: working for your good. When we acquired the Compact Center,
Speaker 4: a company filed a lawsuit to try to keep us
Speaker 4: from moving in. I had already announced to the congregation
Speaker 4: that it was ours people had given to help renovate it.
Speaker 4: Now there was a chance it wasn't going to happen.
Speaker 4: Thoughts told me, Joel, you're going to look like a fool.
Speaker 4: You're going to have to give the funds back. It's
Speaker 4: going to be a big mess. I was tempted to worry,
Speaker 4: live stressed out, but I prayed like I had never prayed.
Speaker 4: When I woke up in the middle of the night,
Speaker 4: thinking the opposition is too big, it's never going to happen,
Speaker 4: I'd turn it around. Father. Thank you that you being
Speaker 4: for me. It's more than the world against me. This
Speaker 4: went on month after month, even year after year. I
Speaker 4: was in the weight room. I had the promise, but
Speaker 4: nothing was improving. I didn't like it, but something was
Speaker 4: happening that I couldn't see. I was growing. I was
Speaker 4: developing a greater trust in God. In that weight room.
Speaker 4: I learned to stand strong even when it seemed impossible.
Speaker 4: I lift weights now at home, and when I'm on
Speaker 4: the bench, I pushed the bar bill up and down.
Speaker 4: But what's interesting is the weight never changes. The only
Speaker 4: thing in the weight room that ever changes is me.
Speaker 4: The situation you're in may not be changing, then you're
Speaker 4: in the weight room. If it's not changing, don't worry
Speaker 4: you're changing. Patience is working. You're getting stronger, more determined.
Speaker 4: It's preparing you. Almost three years later, that company dropped
Speaker 4: the lawsuit and we got the building. It was a
Speaker 4: great victory. But think of this. God could have given
Speaker 4: me the victory the first week just as easily. He
Speaker 4: could have done it suddenly and turned it around right away,
Speaker 4: and I wouldn't have had to spend all that time
Speaker 4: in the weight room. It would have been so much easier.
Speaker 4: The problem is I wouldn't have been prepared for what
Speaker 4: was coming. I wouldn't have been able to handle the growth,
Speaker 4: the influence, the opposition. God had to get me stronger.
Speaker 4: He didn't use the good times. He used the resistance.
Speaker 4: You don't grow when everything is easy. In those three years,
Speaker 4: I learned to trust God in a new way. I
Speaker 4: developed a greater resolve, a greater confidence. You can't get
Speaker 4: that overnight. That doesn't happen on a weekend. It takes time.
Speaker 4: When Joseph was in prison unfairly all those years, says
Speaker 4: in Psalms, his feet were in chains of iron, and
Speaker 4: his soul entered into that iron. He didn't like it,
Speaker 4: but those challenges were developing something in him. Courage, strength,
Speaker 4: endurance that he couldn't get any other way. It happened
Speaker 4: in the weight room. And I'll admit I don't like
Speaker 4: to wait. I like to move fast. I like to
Speaker 4: make progress. I like to get things done. My prayer
Speaker 4: used to be God, do it now, do it in
Speaker 4: a hurry, do it fast. But I've learned some things
Speaker 4: take time. We live in a microwave society, but we
Speaker 4: serve a crop pot God. You can't get microwave maturity.
Speaker 4: Michael wave broth microwave anointing. So much is developed in
Speaker 4: the process. Sometimes people say to me, joel, pray that
Speaker 4: God will give me your anointing. I know they're being respectful,
Speaker 4: but I want to say, you can't have my anointing
Speaker 4: without going through what I've been through, without the sacrifices,
Speaker 4: without the closed doors, without the loss, without facing the giants.
Speaker 4: There's a price to pay to be prepared in that
Speaker 4: weight room. When you're doing the right thing but nothing's changing.
Speaker 4: You have the promise, but you're not making progress. Remember,
Speaker 4: something is happening, you're growing, you're developing. You may not
Speaker 4: like it, but you can't bypass the process. You can't
Speaker 4: skip the weight room and reach the fullness of your destiny.
Speaker 4: When my father went to be with the Lord and
Speaker 4: I stepped up to pastor the church, things begin to grow.
Speaker 4: All of the sudden, I was in the spotlight and
Speaker 4: people were watching and coming. Someone referred to me as
Speaker 4: an overnight success, said that I had come out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: But the truth is I had been in the weight
Speaker 4: room for seventeen years, behind the scenes here at Lakewood.
Speaker 4: I didn't know it then, for God was getting me
Speaker 4: prepared for what I'm doing now. Had I not been
Speaker 4: my best where I was, had I not been faithful
Speaker 4: to serve my father, to try to make him look
Speaker 4: good carrying out his vision, then God couldn't have trusted
Speaker 4: me with my own vision. What am I saying, Keep
Speaker 4: a good attitude when it's not happening as fast as
Speaker 4: you would like. David said, God, my times are in
Speaker 4: your hands. It's very powerful when you can say God,
Speaker 4: I not only trust your ways, but I trust your timing.
Speaker 4: I know at the right time, when I'm ready, when
Speaker 4: I can handle it, you will take me to new
Speaker 4: levels of my destiny. But the mistake we make too
Speaker 4: often is we get in a hurry and try to
Speaker 4: make things happen in our own timing. This is what
Speaker 4: the young man did in the story of the prodigal son.
Speaker 4: He went to his father and said, give me the
Speaker 4: portion of goods that belonged to me. They were rightfully his,
Speaker 4: it was his inheritance. But a blessing given at the
Speaker 4: wrong time is not a blessing. And something may have
Speaker 4: your name on it, you know God has put it
Speaker 4: in your heart, But if it happens too soon and
Speaker 4: you're not prepared, the blessing will become a burden. A
Speaker 4: good father won't give a good gift at the wrong time.
Speaker 4: When our daughter Alexandra turned eighteen, we got her a car.
Speaker 4: I loved her just as much when she was five
Speaker 4: years old. I would have done anything for her. I
Speaker 4: had the funds, but I knew giving her a car
Speaker 4: at five wouldn't be a blessing. Sometimes God proves his
Speaker 4: love to us by what he's not letting us have.
Speaker 4: Does it mean that it's never going to happen? We
Speaker 4: just have to spend more time in the weight room, growing, developing,
Speaker 4: gaining experience, learning to trust God, learning to forgive, learning
Speaker 4: to keep a good attitude when things aren't going our way.
Speaker 4: We pass these tests. The sooner, God will release what
Speaker 4: belongs to us. See the prodigal son, God his inheritance
Speaker 4: too soon. He went out and wasted it, spent it
Speaker 4: all living wildly. I used to pray, God, give me
Speaker 4: everything in a hurry. Now I've learned to pray, God,
Speaker 4: don't give me anything too soon. Don't take me anywhere
Speaker 4: that I can't handle. Don't open a door that I
Speaker 4: don't have the grace to be there. The prodigal son
Speaker 4: wanted his prepared blessing. The problem was he was unprepared.
Speaker 4: He couldn't sustain the weight of what God had in
Speaker 4: store for him. And one reason we get in a
Speaker 4: hurry is we think we're falling behind. Friend is getting married,
Speaker 4: our coworker got promoted, the neighbors moved into a new house.
Speaker 4: We got to make things happen. We're being left out. Well,
Speaker 4: here's the key. What has your name on it will
Speaker 4: not go to anyone else. What belongs to you will
Speaker 4: not go to another person. Where joel. This guy may
Speaker 4: get away if I don't do something now, if I
Speaker 4: don't compromise, he may not stick around. If you have
Speaker 4: to compromise, he's not the right one. God has somebody
Speaker 4: ordained for you, somebody better than you can imagine. You
Speaker 4: won't have to beg them to stay, talk them into
Speaker 4: calling you, Convince them to spending time. They'll be so
Speaker 4: in love with you can't get rid of them. They'll
Speaker 4: treat you like a queen, like a king. Stay in
Speaker 4: that weight room, be patient. You may be ready, but
Speaker 4: God's still working on the other person. David was out
Speaker 4: in the shepherd's fields when the prophet Samuel came to
Speaker 4: his house to anoint one of the sons as the
Speaker 4: next king. David's father, Jesse, didn't even bring David in.
Speaker 4: He thought, there's no way it's David. He's too young.
Speaker 4: When Samuel went to pour the oil on the other
Speaker 4: seven sons, the oil wouldn't flow. I can imagine him
Speaker 4: turning the bottle upside down, hitting it. Nothing would come out.
Speaker 4: God was showing us no matter how hard someone tries
Speaker 4: to get what's yours. They may manipulate Kennive, ignore, leave
Speaker 4: you out. The oil is not going to flow to them.
Speaker 4: What has your name on it is coming your way.
Speaker 4: The person, the job, the house, the opportunity, the promotion
Speaker 4: cannot go to anyone else. That's why we don't have
Speaker 4: to live jealous or envious of other people. Well, Joe,
Speaker 4: my coworker, got the promotion that I worked so hard for.
Speaker 4: They played politics. It wasn't fair. If it was supposed
Speaker 4: to be, you would have it. Stay in the weight room,
Speaker 4: keep a good attitude, keep growing, keep passing the test.
Speaker 4: What God has for you is on the way. The
Speaker 4: reason it's taking longer is because it's much bigger, much
Speaker 4: more rewarding than you thought. When you see what God did,
Speaker 4: you'll say it was worth the wait. When you see
Speaker 4: the person God brings into your life, somebody better than
Speaker 4: you've dreamed, you'll say it was worth the wait. The
Speaker 4: contract didn't go through for the last house, you were disappointed.
Speaker 4: When you see the new door God opens, you're going
Speaker 4: to say it was worth the way. When we were
Speaker 4: trying to buy property to build a new sanctuary, twice
Speaker 4: the land was sold out from under us. I was disappointed.
Speaker 4: I thought the dream was coming true, but God sent
Speaker 4: me back to the weight room. Seemed like we were
Speaker 4: stuck out of nowhere. The compact center opened up. I
Speaker 4: didn't go after it. It came after me. I can
Speaker 4: tell you standing here today, it was worth the way.
Speaker 4: You couldn't pay me to take those other properties. This
Speaker 4: is what God had in mind, something more than we
Speaker 4: could imagine. Now, maybe the door didn't open for you,
Speaker 4: the job, the position, the relationship didn't work out. That
Speaker 4: means God has something better. Stay in faith, and one
Speaker 4: day you'll see it was worth the way I read
Speaker 4: where an elephant is pregnant for almost two years. The
Speaker 4: animal is so large, takes a long time for the
Speaker 4: baby elephant to develop, and elephants give birth to only
Speaker 4: one baby per pregnancy. A dog, on the other hand,
Speaker 4: is pregnant for only sixty three days. After two months,
Speaker 4: the mother can give birth from between five and eight puppies. Typically,
Speaker 4: imagine the elephant and dog having a conversation. The dog said,
Speaker 4: I don't think you're pregnant. I gave birth after two months.
Speaker 4: Something is wrong with you. The dog goes out and
Speaker 4: gets pregnant again and again, giving birth every several months.
Speaker 4: Two years later, the dog comes back to the elephant
Speaker 4: with thirty puppies following in. He says, I know you're
Speaker 4: not pregnant. Now look at all these puppies. I've given
Speaker 4: birth multiple times. The elephant says, no, here's the difference.
Speaker 4: The reason you've given birth so many times and I'm
Speaker 4: still pregnant is because what I'm carrying is not something common,
Speaker 4: not something usual. I'm about to give birth to something big,
Speaker 4: something out of the ordinary. Maybe you've been in that
Speaker 4: weight room a long time. You've seen people accomplish dreams,
Speaker 4: get married, move into their houses. That's great, be happy
Speaker 4: for them. But the reason it's taking so long for
Speaker 4: you is because what you're carrying a puppy. It's not
Speaker 4: something small. You're about to give birth to something you
Speaker 4: didn't know was in you. God's about to open a
Speaker 4: door that you didn't see coming. I thought I was
Speaker 4: carrying a puppy. I didn't know a compact center was
Speaker 4: in me. Don't get discouraged because it's taken longer. That's
Speaker 4: a sign that you're carrying an elephant. What you give
Speaker 4: birth to is going to surprise people. A dream, a ministry,
Speaker 4: a business that touches the world. You're going to go
Speaker 4: further than you thought, make a greater impact than you've imagined.
Speaker 4: That's why you've been in the weight room so long.
Speaker 4: When people tell you, I don't know, I don't think
Speaker 4: you're pregnant, it would have happened. By now, you still
Speaker 4: think you're gonna meet the right person, still think you're
Speaker 4: gonna get the promotion, Still think you're gonna pay your
Speaker 4: house off. You've been believing a long time. Just say yeah,
Speaker 4: I know a secret. I'm carrying an elephant. When you
Speaker 4: give birth, you're gonna say, look what the Lord has done.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be more than you've imagined. A friend of
Speaker 4: mine that attends Lakewood with his family. He grew up
Speaker 4: in South America. He got involved in the management of
Speaker 4: professional basketball right out of college. He's worked for the
Speaker 4: Houston Rockets as an assistant to the general manager for years.
Speaker 4: His dream is to become a general manager. Several opportunities
Speaker 4: opened up. He went and interviewed big positions, had his
Speaker 4: hopes up, but it didn't work out. I talked to
Speaker 4: him a couple of years after he was turned down
Speaker 4: by another team. He was so close, but they said
Speaker 4: no and chose somebody else. These doors kept closing. He
Speaker 4: didn't understand it, but he kept being his best. He
Speaker 4: was in the weight room, others were being promoted. Seemed
Speaker 4: like he was being bypassed. But what has your name
Speaker 4: on it is not going to go to anyone else
Speaker 4: in the same way, you can't open a door that
Speaker 4: God has closed. Sometimes God has to shut the door
Speaker 4: because what we're believing for is too small. God has
Speaker 4: something much bigger. He loves you too much to let
Speaker 4: you miss your destiny. After being turned down again and again,
Speaker 4: a few months ago, he flew to Minnesota to interview
Speaker 4: with the Timberwolves professional basketball team. They didn't just offer
Speaker 4: him the position of general manager like he was hoping.
Speaker 4: They offered him the position of president of the whole organization.
Speaker 4: One report said they gave him the keys to the car. Now,
Speaker 4: my friend Gerson Roses is the highest ranking Latino in
Speaker 4: all of professional basketball. When it's taking longer than you thought,
Speaker 4: it's because you're going to give birth to an elephant,
Speaker 4: something bigger, something more rewarding than you've imagined. Now, keep
Speaker 4: a good attitude in the weight room when doors are closing,
Speaker 4: when you're being bypassed. Can I encourage you? Your time
Speaker 4: is coming. There's a birth in your future. There's something big,
Speaker 4: something that you weren't expecting. When you see what God
Speaker 4: was up to, you're going to look back and say,
Speaker 4: like my friend Gerson, it was worth the way Psalm
Speaker 4: thirty seven says, don't be impatient for the Lord to act.
Speaker 4: Travel steady along his path. He will honor you and
Speaker 4: give you the land when you're faithful in the weight room.
Speaker 4: When you don't get impatient, you don't get frustrated by
Speaker 4: closed doors. You don't live jealous of others. Because you're
Speaker 4: traveling steady, honoring God, he will give you the land.
Speaker 4: That means you don't have to make things happen in
Speaker 4: your own strength. He don't have to manipulate people, try
Speaker 4: to force the doors to open. God will give you
Speaker 4: the position, give you the spouse, give you the influence,
Speaker 4: give you the compact center. Don't fight the weight room.
Speaker 4: You're not falling behind. God has already lined up the
Speaker 4: land he's going to give you. He's already put your
Speaker 4: name on things bigger and better than you can imagine. Now,
Speaker 4: keep traveling, steady, keep trusting God, even though you don't
Speaker 4: see anything changing. When I was eight years old, it
Speaker 4: was Christmas time. I went with my father to buy
Speaker 4: a bicycle from my little sister April. He wanted me
Speaker 4: to help pick out what I thought she would like.
Speaker 4: We were at the store looking at all these bikes
Speaker 4: He had me get on different ones to try them
Speaker 4: on see if I thought they would fit her. After
Speaker 4: half an hour, we picked her out of bike. He
Speaker 4: was going to go back later and get it in
Speaker 4: a couple of time days, I noticed on our back
Speaker 4: patio a big sheet covering the bike that we had
Speaker 4: bought her.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: I went over to lift it up to take a peek.
Speaker 4: My father said, no, Joel, I don't want you to
Speaker 4: look at it. I said, why not, I've already seen it.
Speaker 4: He said, I just don't want you to. He didn't
Speaker 4: give me a reason. When he wasn't there, I was
Speaker 4: tempted to go over and look, but unlike my brother Paul,
Speaker 4: I obeyed my parents. If it would have been Victoria,
Speaker 4: she would have taken the bike out and ridden it.
Speaker 4: But this was a couple of weeks before Christmas. Every
Speaker 4: day I asked my father if I could look at
Speaker 4: the bike. He told me no, again and again. I
Speaker 4: couldn't understand it. What was it going to her? Christmas
Speaker 4: morning finally came around and all of us kids slept
Speaker 4: in the den together. Six o'clock we went and woke
Speaker 4: my parents up. We opened all the gifts under the tree.
Speaker 4: Then my father said, April, there's another gift for you
Speaker 4: out on the patio. We all went out. My father
Speaker 4: took the sheet off. There wasn't just one bike there,
Speaker 4: there were two bikes, one for me as well. My
Speaker 4: father had taken me to the store really to find
Speaker 4: out what I liked. Sorry, April, that's why you got
Speaker 4: a boy's bike. Sometimes that's funny. Sometimes God is not
Speaker 4: letting us see something now because it's not the right time.
Speaker 4: He's got the cover on it. But when you come
Speaker 4: out of the weight room when it's your time, it's
Speaker 4: going to surprise you something that you weren't expecting. It
Speaker 4: didn't make sense to me at the time why my
Speaker 4: father wouldn't let me look. Now I understand why I
Speaker 4: had to wait. My bike was under there. You may
Speaker 4: not understand why you're having to wait. But God has
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