1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. God bless you. It's 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: great to be with you today, and I hope you'll 7 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week through our daily 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: podcast or YouTube, town social media, and you can come 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: visit us in person. We'd love to have you be 10 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I'd like to 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this pastor. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: He was finishing up a fiery sermon on self control. 13 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: He said, with great passion, if I had all the 14 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: beer in the world, I'd throw it in the river 15 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: with greater fervor. I had all the wine in the world, 16 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: I'd throw it in the river, almost at the top 17 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: of his lungs. If I had all the whiskey in 18 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: the world, I'd throw it in the river. He sat down. 19 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: Song leader came up said for a closing song, let's 20 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 1: sing him three sixty five. Shall we gather at the river? 21 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: And oh we shall not here we go y'all. This 22 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 23 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do 24 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be 25 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 26 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 27 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 28 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: to talk to you today about how you lack nothing. 29 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: Sometimes we see ourselves at a disadvantage. If we had 30 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: more talent, then we could do something great. Or if 31 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: we had more personality or more height, more attractive, then 32 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: we could accomplish our dreams. Or if we had more funds, 33 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: more resources, more opportunity, then we could overcome this obstacle. 34 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: But as long as you see yourself as lacking at 35 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: a deficit, you'll make excuses to settle where you are 36 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 1: and be less than your best. Psalm thirty four says 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: those who trust in the Lord Word will never lack 38 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: any good thing. God has given you everything you need 39 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,119 Speaker 1: for your destiny. He's already put in you the wisdom, 40 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: the confidence, the strength. He's already lined up the right people, 41 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: the good breaks, the resources. It's already there. The question 42 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: is do you recognize what you have? Are you using 43 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: what God is giving you? Or are you overlooking it 44 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: because it seems common ordinary? Are you discounting yourself because 45 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: you feel shortchanged, too small, wrong nationality, not up to par. 46 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: You have to change your mindset. It's not enough to 47 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: just have faith in God. That's important, but you have 48 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: to take it one step further and have faith in 49 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: what God has given you. You have to believe that 50 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: you're equipped, that you're empowered, that your steps are being ordered. 51 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: Here's the key. You don't have to have great talent 52 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: to do something great. If you'll use what you have, 53 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: God will breathe on it and you'll accomplish more than 54 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: you thought possible. It's not necessarily the amount of education, 55 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: the amount of resources, the amount of friends who you know. 56 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: What makes the difference is the anointing on your life. 57 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: You can have average talent, but when God favors you, 58 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: you'll go further than people with great talent. You can 59 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: have an extraordinary problem, you're outnumbered, surrounded, but God can 60 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: take an ordinary solution, something that seems common, and cause 61 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: you to be victorious. Don't discount what you have, don't 62 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: overlook what God has given you. The enemy would love 63 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,119 Speaker 1: for us to get stuck, thinking we're at a deficit. 64 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: When I get more funds, more training, more good breaks, 65 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: then I could move forward. We're waiting for more, when 66 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: in fact everything we need is already there. Look around 67 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: what God has given you. Recognize what you have. Moses 68 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: felt like he was at a disadvantage. He'd been out 69 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: in the desert for forty years hiding because of a mistake, 70 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: and God came to him in a burning bush and 71 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: told him to go tell the Pharaoh to let the 72 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: Israelites go. They'd been in slavery for many years. Moses said, God, 73 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: he's not going to listen to me. I don't have 74 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: any influence, the right credentials. I'm not a good speaker. 75 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: I stutter. He went on and on, making all these excuses. 76 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: God said to him, Moses, what do you have in 77 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: your hand? Moses said, God, it's nothing. It's just a stick, 78 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: just piece of wood I got off a tree I've 79 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,119 Speaker 1: been using as a staff for my animals. God said, 80 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: throw it on the ground. He threw it down and 81 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: it turned into a snake. God took something Moses had 82 00:04:54,839 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: that seemed common, ordinary, nothing special, But God breathed on it, 83 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: and it became extraordinary. There are things that God has 84 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: put in your life that seem common. Normal talent, normal neighborhood, 85 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 1: normal job. It's ordinary to us. But when God steps in, 86 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: supernatural things happen. When Moses saw that snake, Verse three 87 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: says he was so terrified that he took off running. 88 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: You would think he'd be so amazed and so inspired 89 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: that he'd be full of faith. Just the opposite. God 90 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: told him to pick the snake up by the tail. 91 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: Took a lot more faith to pick it up than 92 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: to throw it down. When he did, it turned back 93 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: into his staff. God was showing him that he had 94 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: what he needed. It looked ordinary, insignificant, just to stick. 95 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: But if it needs to be a key to open 96 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: a door, God will turn it into a key. If 97 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: it needs to be a shield to protect you, God 98 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,359 Speaker 1: will turn it into a shield. If it needs to 99 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: be provisioned to fund your dream, God, I'll turn it 100 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: into a bank. If it needs to be an auditorium 101 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: to expand your church, God will turn it into a 102 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: compact center. Anytime you tell God that you're stuck, you're 103 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: at a deficit. You're lacking God asked the question, what's 104 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: in your hand? What are you discounting? What are you overlooking? Joel, 105 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: I don't have the talent, the training, the connections. I'm 106 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: limited in my career. Just keep being faithful, using what 107 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: you have. God will take the ordinary and do something extraordinary. 108 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: You do the natural, and God will do the supernatural. 109 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: Jesus told his disciples to roll away the stone, and 110 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: I'll raise Lazaruth. Jesus could have rolled away the stone. 111 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: He's God. He spoke to the storm and calmed the winds. 112 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: Why did he tell his disciples to do it. It's 113 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: this principle. If you'll do the ordinary, God will do 114 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: the extraordinary. If you'll do what's common, God will do 115 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,799 Speaker 1: what's uncommon. If you'll throw down the staff, so to speak, 116 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: He'll turn it into what you need. When my father 117 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: went to be with the Lord, I knew I was 118 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: supposed to step up and pastor the church, but I 119 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: didn't feel qualified. I didn't have the training, never ministered before. 120 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: On top of that, my father was such a great minister. 121 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: He was strong, dynamic, had a big personality, and I 122 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: was just the opposite. All those thoughts told me, Joe, 123 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: you're not enough. You're not like your father. Here's the key. 124 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: You don't need what someone else has. You're not running 125 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: their race. You have what you need for your race. 126 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: Don't compare yourself to other people. If you focused on 127 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: what they have and their gifts, their looks, their resources, 128 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: You're going to start discounting yourself, thinking, Man, I can't 129 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: speak like my father, or I'm not as attractive as 130 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: my cousin, or my coworker is so much more talented. 131 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: If you needed what they have, God would have given 132 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: it to you. You're not lacking anything you need to 133 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: fulfill your purpose now. I was tempted to shrink back 134 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: and feel less than because my father was such a 135 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: gifted leader. I had to do what I'm asking you 136 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: to do. I said, God, I don't have what my 137 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: father had, but I believe I have what I need 138 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: from my destiny. Now, not going to compare myself to him. 139 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to take what you put in my hands, 140 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: my gifts, my personality, my smile, and use it to 141 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: the best of my ability. I started speaking week after week, 142 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: and I didn't really know how to write a message, 143 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: and I didn't have deep theology. I just talked about 144 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: the goodness of God and how to live a life 145 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: of victory. People started telling me, Joey, you have a gift. 146 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: You have such a good way of explaining the scripture 147 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: and making it relevant, and that always puzzled me. What 148 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: are they talking about having a gift. I'm just up 149 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: there talking what felt ordinary to me. God breathed on 150 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 1: and it becames something much greater. Never dreamed I'd be 151 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: a pastor and speaking to people around the world. When 152 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 1: you look at what you have, your skills, talents, personality, 153 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: it's easy to think this is ordinary. It's just a 154 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 1: walking stick. That's what God uses. There's something He's given 155 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: you that's going to take you to new levels. It's 156 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: not spectacular, it's ordinary. Don't discount it. Don't go around 157 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: with a disadvantage mentality. Use what you have and He'll 158 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: take the natural and do something supernatural. Moses spoke to 159 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, and eventually he let the Israelites go. But 160 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: as they were leaving, he changed his mind, and he 161 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: sent six hundred of his most skilled warriors and all 162 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,599 Speaker 1: these cheeriots to capture them and bring them back. And 163 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 1: Moses and the Israelites came to a dead end at 164 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: the Red Sea. They had nowhere to go. The people 165 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: started complaining, Moses, why did you bring us out here 166 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: in the desert to die. We'd rather stayed in Egypt 167 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: as slaves, didn't come out here and be killed. Moses 168 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: was praying, God, do something supernatural. Send an army to 169 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: rescue us. Rain down hell upon them. God said in 170 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: verse sixteen, Moses, why are you crying out to me? 171 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,959 Speaker 1: Lift up your rod, stretch forth your hand and part 172 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: the sea. I can hear Moses saying, God, you mean 173 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: you want me to do something ordinary. You're gonna use 174 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: this stick again, this common thing. You want me to 175 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: lift it up. When he did, the waters begin to 176 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: push back, the Red Sea parted, the people went through 177 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: on dry ground. We're looking for the spectacular, but often 178 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: it starts with something ordinary, something we could easily discount. 179 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: Think it's common. What do you have in your hand. 180 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: I'm just a business person, I'm just a student. I'm 181 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: just an architect. I'm just a stay at home mom. 182 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: I'll never do anything significant. That's how Moses felt out 183 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: there in the desert forty years. But God has put 184 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: something in your hand, something that seems ordinary. If you'll 185 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: dare lift up your rod, do what he's asking you 186 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: to do. You're going to come into these destiny moments 187 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: where you see Red Sea's part, deliverance from enemies, Gifts 188 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: come out that you never knew you had. It's in you. 189 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: God put it there before you were born. He marks 190 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: you for greatness. He already set the time for you 191 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: to break out to levels you've never dreamed. Now you 192 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: have to get in agreement with him. This is not 193 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: going to happen if we have a lack of mentality. 194 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: I don't have the talent. It's too big, Joel. I 195 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,479 Speaker 1: got a Red Sea in front of me right now, 196 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: a dead end. Do you expect me to do? Lift 197 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: up your rod? Do the natural, and God will do 198 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: the supernatural. He'll breathe on your life in a new way. 199 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: This is what happened with Sampson. He was surrounded by 200 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: the Philistines, a huge army, and he had no weapons, 201 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: no protection. All the odds were against him. He looked 202 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: around to try to find something to defend himself. All 203 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: he could find was the jawbone of a donkey. Some 204 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: dead bones, I'm sure, he thought, Oh great, God, I 205 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: need a sword, I need a shield. I need some 206 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: troops to come rescue me. But all I have is 207 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: this jawbone. Was common a lot of dead animals out 208 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,719 Speaker 1: in the desert. He could ignored it and thought, well, 209 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: that's of no use, but he was smart enough to 210 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: realize it was a part of his destiny. What you 211 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: need to accomplish your assignment will always be within reach. 212 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: It won't be far off where you can't attain it, 213 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: it will be close to you. Pay attention to what 214 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: God brings across your path and who He brings across 215 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: your path. It's not thereby accidents. See easy to discount, think, oh, 216 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: that's common, that person, that opportunity, this idea. It's just 217 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 1: a stick, joe, It's just the jawbone of a donkey. 218 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: God uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary. If you'll 219 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: recognize what you have and be a good steward, then 220 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: you'll see what God was up to. Sampson picked up 221 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: that jawbone. The scripture says the spirit of God came 222 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: upon him and he defeated a thousand Philistines one man, 223 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,080 Speaker 1: not with a rifle, not with an army, not with 224 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: fire coming down from heaven, but with something ordinary, a 225 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: jawbone of a donkey. What God is going to do 226 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 1: in your life won't always happen through spectacular ways. Maybe 227 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: some of that, but most of the time God is 228 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: going to use something ordinary, something within reach, something close 229 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: to you. God asked Moses, what do you have in 230 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 1: your hand? What do you wish you had? Moses? What 231 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: does your neighbor have? What are you hoping for? This 232 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: far off? There is something close to you. It's easy 233 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: to overlook, it's easy to discount, but God put it there. 234 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: It's instrumental in you reaching your destiny. There was a 235 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: young woman named Mary Bethune born in South Carolina in 236 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: the late eighteen hundreds. She was the youngest of seventeen children. 237 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: Her parents were slaves. Despite the odds being against her, 238 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: she was able to get a good education and even 239 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: attend college. And from the times she was a little girl, 240 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: she always had a dream to teach young people, and 241 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: after getting her degree, she sent her application to different 242 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: schools hoping to get a teaching position. She was a 243 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: straight a student. You couldn't meet a finer young woman. 244 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: She waited month after month. Unfortunately, no one would hire her. 245 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: She was disappointed, but she knew that God still had 246 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: a plan that when one door closes, that God will 247 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: always open another door. Rather than sitting around defeated, she 248 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: decided to start her own school. She didn't have any desk, 249 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: but she did have some cardboard boxes. She set them 250 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: up as desks. She didn't have any pins, but she 251 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: did have some red berries out in the field. Every 252 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: night she would drain the juice so the students could 253 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: use that for ink in their pins. After several years, 254 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: the local college saw what was happening. They asked her 255 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: to join her school with theirs. It became the Bethune 256 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: Cookman College. She went on to become the first African 257 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: American college president. Now in the natural, Mary was at 258 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: a deficit. She was lacking a poor family turned down 259 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 1: for the position, no equipment, no funding. That didn't stop her. 260 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: What she needed was within reach. If it's out of reach, 261 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: you don't need it. If you can't attain it, it 262 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 1: wasn't meant to be. Don't sit around in self pity. 263 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: God has something better, he said, Because you trust him, 264 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: you will not lack. If you needed it for your 265 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: destiny and it was out of reach, God wouldn't be 266 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: a just god. Let go of what didn't work out, 267 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: and who didn't stay in your life, the promotion you 268 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: didn't get, how you weren't raised right. None of that 269 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: has stopped your purpose. Nothing you've been through has canceled 270 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: your assignment. No bad break has lessened your greatness. What 271 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: you need is close to you. Recognize what you have 272 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: may seem common. Some cardboard boxes, just the jawbone of 273 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: a donkey, just this stick, this rod. Yes, but when 274 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: you use it red Sea's part enemies are defeated. Doors 275 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 1: will open opportunity that thrusts you into your destiny. What's 276 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: in your hand? Is there something you're overlooking? It seems ordinary, 277 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: But when you do the natural, God will do the supernatural. 278 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 1: When you set up the cardboard desk, when you drain 279 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: the ink, God will bring the college president position. More 280 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 1: than you can imagine, John chapter six, a great crowd 281 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: had followed Jesus to a remote area to hear him teach, 282 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 1: and getting late in the day, almost dark, Jesus said 283 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: to his disciples, you need to feed the people. They're 284 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: too tired to go home hungry. They said, in effect, 285 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: are you kidding Jesus? There are fifteen thousand people here. 286 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: We're out in the desert, the nearest walmarts three hundred miles. 287 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: It's Sunday, Chick fil A is not even open. They 288 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: came up with all these good reasons why it was impossible. 289 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: Jesus asked them, what do you have? They went out 290 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: in the crowd and came back in a few minutes 291 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: and said, all we could find was this little boy's lunch, 292 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: just five loaves of bread, two fish. But what is 293 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: that among so many? It was a logical question, what 294 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: good is this one lunch gonna do when we need 295 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: lunch for fifteen thousand people. But God doesn't ask you 296 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: to figure out how it's going to happen. He just 297 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,679 Speaker 1: asked you to use what he's given you, to not discount, 298 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: to not live thinking you're at a deficit, but to 299 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: believe that he can take what seems small and make 300 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: something great out of it. Same thing when I stepped up, 301 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: my mind said, what is this among so many? God, 302 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: all I have is five loaves and two fish. We 303 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: need something much greater, more talent, more wisdom, more training. 304 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: God is not asking you for what you don't have. 305 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,160 Speaker 1: He's asking you to trust him with what you do have, 306 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: with what's in reach. Joel. All I have is a 307 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: little lunch. God can take the little and multiplied. I 308 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: just have a little faith. A little faith can move 309 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: a mountain. I just have a walking stick. You can 310 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: part of red Sea. I just have the jawbone of 311 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: a donkey, something I found close. You can defeat an army, 312 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: you can beat the cancer, you can break the addiction. 313 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: You're not lacking. You have exactly what you need. And 314 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: sometimes on purpose, God will let you be out numbered. 315 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: He'll let the door close, lets you not feel qualified 316 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: for the position. He takes that small and breathe on it. 317 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: Jesus prayed over the five loaves and two fish, and 318 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: they multiplied, and they fed off fifteen thousand people plus 319 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: they had twelve baskets full left over. But the disciples 320 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,919 Speaker 1: almost talk themsels else out of it, thought they were 321 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: at a too big of a deficit. But the deficit 322 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 1: is a sign that God's about to do something amazing. 323 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: How many of you have been faithful with what God 324 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 1: has given you, going to church, doing more than you 325 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: have to, going to work, serving giving, believing you're going 326 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: to come in to some of these destiny moments where 327 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: you see God breathe on your talent, you rise to 328 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: a new level. Breathe on your finances and you come 329 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: into overflow. Breathe on your health. That cancer is gone. 330 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: Breathe on your children. They're back on track, fulfilling their purpose. 331 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: Don't be fooled by the facts. Every circumstance may say 332 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: you're at a deficit. You just have five loaves and 333 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: two fish. You're lacking talent, lacking funds, lacking confidence. No, 334 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 1: your time is coming. You keep doing the natural, using 335 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: what you have. God's going to step in and do 336 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: the supernatural and take care where you can't go on 337 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: your own. I talked to a man. He's an attorney, 338 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 1: and he always had a desire to be in the 339 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: sports industry, but he didn't know anyone in that field. 340 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: And he was living in a small town where he 341 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: was raised and working there. Several times a week he'd 342 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: go up to the gym to play basketball, and he'd 343 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: played with this same group of men for a few years. 344 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: One day, this older gentleman asked him what he did 345 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: for a living, and he told how he was an 346 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: attorney doing corporate law. But he said, my dream is 347 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 1: to be a sports agent. I just don't have any connections. 348 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: The man said, that's interesting. My nephew is the number 349 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: one college football player in the nation. He was just 350 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: asking me about who I knew that could represent him. 351 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to have him call you. That was his 352 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: first sports client. His business grew and grew. Today he's 353 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: one of the top sports agents in the world. He said, Joel, 354 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: I never dreamed I would be where I am. Seem 355 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: like he was lacking, didn't know anyone in a small town. 356 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: Then that one good break, that one connection. You don't 357 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: know what God is up to. You don't know the 358 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: doors he's about to open, the people you're about to meet, 359 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: the favor you're about to see. It may seem like 360 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: you're at a deficit. What's in your heart is much 361 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: bigger than you think could ever happen. Just stay faithful 362 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: where you are, keeping God first place, being your best 363 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: with what He's given you. You're gonna come into your 364 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: destiny moments were suddenly the red sea parts. You're doing 365 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: the ordinary, and God steps in and does the extra ordinary. 366 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: You're gathering the five loaves and two fish, not complaining, 367 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 1: not discounting it. Then God multiplies it, gives you supernatural 368 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 1: increase supernatural provision. The right people show up favor that 369 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: you can't explain tewod King's Chapter four. There was a 370 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 1: widow that was trying to survive. Her husband had served 371 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 1: with the Prophet Elisha, but he had passed, and he 372 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: left her some funds to live off on, but she'd 373 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 1: used all that up. Now she didn't know how she 374 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 1: was going to make it. In those days, if you 375 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: couldn't pay your debts, they would take your family members 376 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: and they had to work for the payment. Well, these 377 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: creditors were coming for her two sons. She was so 378 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: distraught she went to the Prophet Elisha to explain what 379 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 1: was happening. Elisha said to her, what do you have 380 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: in your house? Verse two? She answered nothing at all. 381 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: She was saying, we're done, it's over. There's nothing here. 382 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: Then she thought about it and said, wait a minute, 383 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: nothing except a small jar of oil. Elisha said, that's 384 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: all we need, just a little oil. He told her 385 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: to go out and borrow as many large, empty containers 386 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: as she could find. She and her sons went out 387 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: and knocked on the neighbor's door, and they brought back 388 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: all these containers. Elisha said, now take the little oil 389 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 1: that you have and pour it into the empty containers. 390 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: That didn't make sense, but she obeyed. As she did, 391 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: the oil never ran out. God multiplied it. She kept 392 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: pouring and pouring until all the containers were filled. She 393 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: went out and sold the oil, paid off all her 394 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: debts and had plenty to live on. But when Elisha 395 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: asked her what she had in her house, at first 396 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: she said nothing at all. She discounted the oil was 397 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,360 Speaker 1: too small, not significant. But the truth is that's all 398 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: God needed. She was looking on the outside, hoping Elisha 399 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: would save her, but what she needed was on the inside. 400 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: It was within reach in her house, but it was 401 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: common ordinary, just a little oil. This can't do any good. 402 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: I've got a big problem. But when you use what 403 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: you have, God will breathe on it. Some of us 404 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: are like this woman, what do you have in your house? 405 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: I don't have anythings you all. I'm not that talented. 406 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: I don't have a good person out. I've got an 407 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: okay job. It's nothing if you only knew what God 408 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: can do with a little, a little jar of oil, 409 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: a little boy's lunch, a little faith, a little talent. 410 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,440 Speaker 1: God asked Moses, what's in your hand, he said something ordinary. 411 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: He asked this woman, what's in your house? She said 412 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: nothing at all. Both times they had what they needed, 413 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: they just didn't recognize it. Moses had a rod that 414 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: would part of sea, a stick that we'd be talking 415 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: about thousands of years later. This widow had a little 416 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: jar of oil, oil that would sustain her for years 417 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: until the famine was over. What's in your hand, what's 418 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 1: in your house? What you need is close to you, 419 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: it's within reach. You are not lacking, You are not 420 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: at a deficit. You are in position to see the 421 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 1: hand of God. Do something supernatural. Now do your part 422 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: and given the five loaves and two fish, even though 423 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: it seems insignificant, pour the little jar of oil, Lift 424 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: up your rod. Small acts of obedience lead to great miracles. 425 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: No more thinking I'm at a disadvantage, I'm lacking. Turn 426 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,360 Speaker 1: it around. I have everything I need. I'm equipped, empowered, 427 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:43,959 Speaker 1: and anointed. If you'll do this, I believe in Declare light, Moses, 428 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: Red seas are going to part in your life. Doors 429 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: are going to open problems. Turn around like this widow. 430 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: God's going to multiply what you have and pour out abundance. 431 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 1: Breakthroughs healing the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, 432 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: and if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd 433 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,959 Speaker 1: like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the 434 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 435 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 436 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that 437 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd love 438 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: to send you some free information on your new walk 439 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: with the Lord. You can text the number on the 440 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: screen or go to the website. But I hope you'll 441 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: get into a good Bible based church and keep God 442 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,359 Speaker 1: first place. Many people believe that God can heal, but 443 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: when nothing is improving our prayers are not being answered, 444 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: it's easy to think will God heal me? The truth 445 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: is God still loves to heal. I've witnessed God's healing 446 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: power firsthand in my own family. When situations seemed impossible 447 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,120 Speaker 1: and medically speaking, there were no options, God stepped in 448 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: and made a way. Now I love to send you 449 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: our new devotional God still loves to heal. Spill with 450 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: scripture and encouragement designed to strengthen your faith and help 451 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,920 Speaker 1: you believe for healing even when you can't see it. 452 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: God is still working. As you stand firm and declare 453 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: his promises, healing is on the way. 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