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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 1: about keep digging. We all have dreams God has put
Speaker 1: in our heart and promises we're standing on. But along
Speaker 1: the way there will be detours, delays, people that do
Speaker 1: us wrong. We're working hard, but we didn't get the promotion.
Speaker 1: They manipulated things, the contract didn't go through. It's easy
Speaker 1: to get discouraged and give up on what we're believing for.
Speaker 1: But sometimes you have to go through closed doors before
Speaker 1: you get to open doors. You have to pass through
Speaker 1: injustice and things that are not fair. You didn't get
Speaker 1: what you deserve. They left you out. That doesn't mean
Speaker 1: God is not going to do what he said. It's
Speaker 1: all a part of his plan. People may do you wrong,
Speaker 1: keep doing the right thing. God sees you being the
Speaker 1: bigger person. He sees you forgiving when they don't deserve it.
Speaker 1: He sees you trusting him when you could be bitter.
Speaker 1: You are passing the task, or you worked hard, but
Speaker 1: the contract didn't go through. The door closed. It had
Speaker 1: to close. God has something bigger. That would have limited
Speaker 1: your destiny. Wasn't the enemy. It was the hand of
Speaker 1: God protecting you from getting satisfied with less. And if
Speaker 1: you'll stay in faith and not get stuck in blame
Speaker 1: and what wasn't fair? Who hurt me? Let it go?
Speaker 1: That didn't stop your destiny. God is taking you to
Speaker 1: an abundant place, to something bigger than you've ever imagined,
Speaker 1: with the right people, people that love you, that celebrates you,
Speaker 1: people that are ordained for your purpose. That's why those
Speaker 1: others walked away. What's it because something is wrong with you?
Speaker 1: It's because God has someone better. He's not going to
Speaker 1: let you miss your destiny. Now, quit trying to convince
Speaker 1: someone to stay that wants to leave. Convince them that
Speaker 1: you're good enough, attractive, enough. They really should like you.
Speaker 1: They are not for you. The people God is lined up.
Speaker 1: You can't get rid of them. They'll treat you like
Speaker 1: a queen, like a king. But if you don't understand
Speaker 1: that the people that walked away, the disappointments, the injustice,
Speaker 1: that it had to happen, then you'll live frustrated, bitter
Speaker 1: over who leave, discourage over what didn't work out. No,
Speaker 1: God is ordering your steps. None of that has stop
Speaker 1: what He has in store. It's setting you up for
Speaker 1: the fullness of your destiny. Genesis, chapter twenty six. There
Speaker 1: was a famine in the land, and Isaac was looking
Speaker 1: for food for his family and pasture for his flocks.
Speaker 1: He traveled to a city called Gerrard was ruled by
Speaker 1: the Philistines. He was planning on going further, but God
Speaker 1: spoke to him and said, do not go down to Egypt.
Speaker 1: Stay in this land, and I will bless you, and
Speaker 1: I will multiply your descendants as the stars into heavens.
Speaker 1: God gave him this incredible promise, but it didn't come
Speaker 1: without opposition. In frustration, he was tempting for Isaac to leave,
Speaker 1: get out of the famine, go down to Egypt for
Speaker 1: greener pastures. But Isaac obeyed. He did the right thing
Speaker 1: when it wasn't easy. He set up camp there, and
Speaker 1: he went out and he planted his fields, digging row
Speaker 1: after row, acres and acres, sowing the seeds. Philistines looked
Speaker 1: at him like he was not all there, no water,
Speaker 1: no way to grow things. Looked like he was wasting
Speaker 1: his time. But that same year he reaped one hundredfold
Speaker 1: returns supernatural provision. Well, they couldn't understand how could he
Speaker 1: grow crops in the famine. Instead of being happy for him,
Speaker 1: they were jealous. They started talking and stirring up trouble,
Speaker 1: making his life miserable. The king finally told him, you
Speaker 1: have to leave here. You've become too powerful for us.
Speaker 1: You can imagine how disappointed Isaac must have been. He'd
Speaker 1: seen all that favor and now he was forced out,
Speaker 1: had to pack up his whole camp, move his family,
Speaker 1: his livestock, leave behind all the fields he had poured
Speaker 1: so much time and energy into. Wasn't fair. He hadn't
Speaker 1: done anything wrong. It was because of small minded, jealous people.
Speaker 1: But here's the key. You can be in God's will
Speaker 1: and have opposition. You can be odiot like Isaac. You're
Speaker 1: doing the right thing. You stayed in the land. You
Speaker 1: have that promise in your heart. But doors have closed.
Speaker 1: There's jealousy, people have come against you. It's easy to
Speaker 1: get discouraged. Why didn't this work out? They did me wrong?
Speaker 1: But everything is serving God's plan. You can't see it
Speaker 1: right now, but it's moving you closer to your promised land.
Speaker 1: Keep doing the right thing when the wrong thing happens,
Speaker 1: keep taking the high road, keep believing, keep praying, keep trusting.
Speaker 1: God is still ordering your steps. Isaac had to move
Speaker 1: from that high place down to the valley of Gerard.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he looked up and thought, man, that's where
Speaker 1: I used to be, That's where I was so blessed.
Speaker 1: But look at me now, stuck in this valley, in
Speaker 1: this low place. But God is not just the god
Speaker 1: of the mountains. He's the God of the valleys. The
Speaker 1: only way to go to a higher mountain is to
Speaker 1: come down and go through the valley. Don't get discouraged
Speaker 1: by the valley. It's a set up. The valley is
Speaker 1: leading you to something greater. God wouldn't have moved you
Speaker 1: out of that place of blessing. He wouldn't have let
Speaker 1: them force you out unless he has bigger things in
Speaker 1: your future. None of us like to go through the valley,
Speaker 1: but keep the right perspective. It's a sign that God
Speaker 1: is up to something. In the valley of Gerar, there
Speaker 1: were wells that Abraham had dug many years earlier, Isaac's father,
Speaker 1: when the Philistines had stopped up those wells filled them
Speaker 1: with rocks and dirt. Having water was extremely valuable out
Speaker 1: there in the desert, the only way to survive. So
Speaker 1: Isaac and his men went out and redubbed the wells
Speaker 1: that belonged to his father. When the local shepherds saw
Speaker 1: the water and how the well was flowing again, they
Speaker 1: realized what they had been missing. They said to Isaac,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? This is our water. This
Speaker 1: well belongs to us here it had been there for years,
Speaker 1: clogged up. They did nothing with it. Isaac did all
Speaker 1: the work. It belonged to his family in the first place.
Speaker 1: But there was all this strife and contention. Isaac could
Speaker 1: have put up a big fight, engaged in conflict. Instead
Speaker 1: he took the high road. He said, fine, you can
Speaker 1: have the well. He walked away. There are times you
Speaker 1: need to dig your heels in and fight, stand your ground.
Speaker 1: But there are also times you have to be the
Speaker 1: bigger person and let someone else be right, even though
Speaker 1: you know they're wrong. You have to release it. Have
Speaker 1: the attitude God. They're not taking it from me. I'm
Speaker 1: giving it to them. Sow it as a seed. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you can become bitter. That wasn't fair. I'm going to
Speaker 1: pay them back. Let it go. God sees when you're
Speaker 1: taking advantage of when people manipulate things, they're dishonest. But
Speaker 1: you choose to move on knowing that he's your vindicator.
Speaker 1: You choose to let it go, knowing that he'll make
Speaker 1: it up to you. God will vindicate you better than
Speaker 1: you can vindicate yourself. I believe in holding on to
Speaker 1: your dreams, but sometimes we're holding on to the way
Speaker 1: we think it's gonna happen. That's my well, I worked hard.
Speaker 1: I should get the credit, the promotion, the contract. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's not working out because God has something bigger. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's strife and contention because God is stirring things up
Speaker 1: to keep you from settling for less. God will never
Speaker 1: let something be taken away unless he has something greater coming.
Speaker 1: Will you walk away from it so you can see
Speaker 1: a bigger blessing. It's not about them being wrong. I
Speaker 1: can't let them get away with this. It's about you
Speaker 1: being the bigger person. So God can promote you, so
Speaker 1: he can prepare a table in the presence of your enemies.
Speaker 1: If you'll take that high road and not let the injustice,
Speaker 1: the betrayal, the conflict cause you to live in strife
Speaker 1: and tension, there will come a time where all those
Speaker 1: who were against you will see you promoted, honored, living
Speaker 1: a blessed, victorious life. God is preparing that table, not
Speaker 1: for a private dinner, not just you and him, but
Speaker 1: in the presence of your enemies, for a public display.
Speaker 1: But we spend too much time trying to protect, to
Speaker 1: defend this is my right. You're not going to get
Speaker 1: the best of me, not realizing it's a setup. God
Speaker 1: has something better. There's contention and strife because it's not
Speaker 1: supposed to be yours. You're upset with people. They manipulated things,
Speaker 1: they weren't fair. But God was the one closing the door.
Speaker 1: The longer I live, the more I've learned to trust
Speaker 1: His ways, to stay in peace, to let God fight
Speaker 1: my battles. If Isaac would have been stubborn, contentious, this
Speaker 1: is my father's well. You want to fight, man, you
Speaker 1: gotta fight, he would have lived in constant strife, had
Speaker 1: to worry about the Philistines attacking him. There would have
Speaker 1: been so much stress and heartache. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: suffer the wrong. Let them have the contract, the position,
Speaker 1: the fund. Quit trying to hold on to things where
Speaker 1: you don't have the favor, the support that you used to.
Speaker 1: That's a sign seasons are changing. You're not being weak
Speaker 1: by walking away. It takes a strong person to take
Speaker 1: the high road. You're not losing letting them get the
Speaker 1: best of you. It's not over. You can't see it yet,
Speaker 1: but God has taking you somewhere greater. Joel, it's not
Speaker 1: right I redub those wells. I work for this contract, physicition,
Speaker 1: this property. I deserve it. But here's the key. That
Speaker 1: well is not your source. God is your source. He
Speaker 1: has ways to promote you that you've never thought of.
Speaker 1: The reason Isaac could walk away from the well is
Speaker 1: he knew he wasn't walking away from the source. If
Speaker 1: you think the blessing is on the location, then you'll
Speaker 1: fight over things you'll go down to Egypt during the
Speaker 1: famine because man, there's no water here. But when you know,
Speaker 1: the source is not the well, not the job, not
Speaker 1: the economy, not who likes you. The source is the
Speaker 1: most high God. He made streams in the desert. He
Speaker 1: gave Isaac one hundredfold harvest. In a famine, he took
Speaker 1: five loaves, two fish, and fed thousands. When you walk
Speaker 1: away from that well strife and contention, you let someone
Speaker 1: else be right even though you know they're wrong. You're
Speaker 1: not walking away from the blessing. You're walking into a blessing.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a new level of your destiny. Verse
Speaker 1: twenty says Isaac named that well argument because the people
Speaker 1: quarreled with him. He took the highroad and left that
Speaker 1: place and went to the other side of the valley,
Speaker 1: far away, so he wouldn't have to deal with those people.
Speaker 1: He found another well that belonged to his father, clogged up,
Speaker 1: not used in years, nobody within miles. He redug that well,
Speaker 1: spent weeks, he and his men working hard. They finally
Speaker 1: got it unclogged and got the well flowing again. Right
Speaker 1: on Q. Here came some more philistines. Here came some
Speaker 1: more shepherds, and what are you doing here? These are
Speaker 1: our wells. They belonged to us. I'm sure Isaac thought,
Speaker 1: come on, not again, are you kidding me? He could
Speaker 1: have argued, put his foot down, said not this time.
Speaker 1: Something inside of him, that still small voice, said let
Speaker 1: it go. He told his men, let them have it.
Speaker 1: Another disappointment. He named that well opposition here. He had
Speaker 1: this promise from God. If you'll stay in this land,
Speaker 1: I'll bless you. I'll multiply your descendants. I can hear
Speaker 1: him saying, God, where are you? I did what you asked,
Speaker 1: but I was kicked out by the Philistine king. Had
Speaker 1: to walk away from that great harvest. These shepherds took
Speaker 1: the well I worked for. Now the second well is gone.
Speaker 1: It was a test. Well number one didn't work out,
Speaker 1: well number two didn't work out. Isaac could have put
Speaker 1: his shovel up. Then we're done. Let's go down to Egypt.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen here. Right when he was about
Speaker 1: to give up, God whispered Isaac, dig one more, well,
Speaker 1: try it one more time. He had to make this decision.
Speaker 1: Was he too discouraged, too tired, or was he going
Speaker 1: to keep digging. You may be where Isaac was. You've
Speaker 1: been through disappointments. People came against you. There were strife
Speaker 1: and division, but you took the high road. You knew
Speaker 1: what God promised you. But every time you dig something up,
Speaker 1: the wells keep getting taken away. You attempted to settle
Speaker 1: where you are. Think it's not meant to be. God
Speaker 1: is saying to you what he said to Isaac, Dig
Speaker 1: one more well. Your story doesn't end in defeat, in injustice,
Speaker 1: in being overlooked. Those clogged wells, the bad breaks are
Speaker 1: setting you up for well number three. Isaac picked up
Speaker 1: his shovel, traveled to a different part of the valley,
Speaker 1: and he redug one more well that belonged to his father.
Speaker 1: The water came gushing out stronger than ever. This time
Speaker 1: nobody bothered him. No shepherd showed up, no conflict, no strife.
Speaker 1: The scripture says he named this place Rahobath, for he said,
Speaker 1: God has brought me to a wide open space means abundance, overflow,
Speaker 1: more than enough. But notice the progression. Before he could
Speaker 1: get to Rahoba, the well of favor, he had to
Speaker 1: go through the well of argument, deal with strife, and conflict.
Speaker 1: He had to go through well number two, the well
Speaker 1: of opposition, people coming against him, things that weren't fair.
Speaker 1: He had to deal with the disappointment of that king
Speaker 1: that forced him out of his harvest. Could have put
Speaker 1: his shovel up, settled for mediocrity, but he kept on digging. Maybe,
Speaker 1: like Isaac, you did your best, but a dream hasn't
Speaker 1: worked out, a relationship failed, you got passed over for
Speaker 1: the promotion. Now you put your shovel down, you think
Speaker 1: it's not meant to be. God is not finished with you.
Speaker 1: You had to go through well number one. The doors
Speaker 1: had to close, the people had to walk away. You
Speaker 1: had to go through well number two. The injustice had
Speaker 1: to happen, The project had to be delayed. The good
Speaker 1: news is well number three is coming. God has a
Speaker 1: rahobath for you. He has beauty for the ashes. He's
Speaker 1: gonna pay you back double for the unfair things. You
Speaker 1: haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in store.
Speaker 1: Now you have to do your part. Get your shovel
Speaker 1: out and keep digging. Keep believing, keep expecting, keep forgiving,
Speaker 1: keep taking steps of faith. You are closer than you think.
Speaker 1: You're on the verge. Of Well number three, Rehobeth, a
Speaker 1: wide open space, a place of abundance, fulfillment, divine connections,
Speaker 1: a victorious place. Isaac had all this contention and strive
Speaker 1: people coming against him, and I'm sure he thought that's
Speaker 1: the way his life was always going to be. Seemed
Speaker 1: like a pattern of bad breaks and disappointments, one step forward,
Speaker 1: two steps backwards. But when he got to Well number three,
Speaker 1: to Rehoba, the scripture says, the people left him alone.
Speaker 1: Nobody bothered him anymore. He lived in peace and enjoyed
Speaker 1: his family, and his flocks and herds multiplied. He saw
Speaker 1: that promise come to pass. You may have had a
Speaker 1: lot of strife and conflict. You always take the high
Speaker 1: road and try to be the bigger person. You're coming
Speaker 1: into a time where people are not going to bother
Speaker 1: you anymore. The scripture says it this way. The enemies
Speaker 1: you see today you will see no more. At Well
Speaker 1: number one, you had to walk away Well number two,
Speaker 1: you had to let people have what should have been yours.
Speaker 1: But Well number three, God is going to take care
Speaker 1: of your enemies. He's going to push back forces that
Speaker 1: have hindered you. Well number three is when God promotes
Speaker 1: you in the presence of your enemies. God told the Israelites,
Speaker 1: I'm giving you rest from your enemy. Yes, there are
Speaker 1: times we have to be the bigger person, endure injustice.
Speaker 1: But there is a time where you will come to Rahobad,
Speaker 1: where God says, no more fighting, no more struggle, no
Speaker 1: more dealing with those jerks. I mean those enemies. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have rest, peace, joy fulfillment. Rahobah means wide open, spacious, abundance.
Speaker 1: As Isaac looked out and saw the vast land and
Speaker 1: all the blessings in favor, I'm sure he thought, God,
Speaker 1: thank you for not letting me stay at Well number one.
Speaker 1: Thank you for closing that door at Well number two.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having that king get jealous and push
Speaker 1: me out. He realized the injustice, the strife, the jealousy
Speaker 1: was a set up. He wasn't supposed to stay there.
Speaker 1: Had he been stubborn tried to force it, he would
Speaker 1: have lived in conflict, frustrated, and never seen the abundance
Speaker 1: that God had in store. If you're disappointed over things
Speaker 1: that you're gonna look back and say God, thank you
Speaker 1: that those people didn't accept me, Thank you that you
Speaker 1: didn't let me be comfortable at that job. Thank you
Speaker 1: that those people took the position that I deserve. When
Speaker 1: you come into your Rehoboth, you won't think about the injustice,
Speaker 1: the betrayal, the delay. You'll be so overwhelmed. All you
Speaker 1: can say is, look what the Lord has done. We
Speaker 1: saw this here at Lakewood, trying to build a new sanctuary.
Speaker 1: Twice the property was sold out from under us. Well
Speaker 1: number one. The owner didn't keep his word. He told
Speaker 1: me we could sign the contract later, but sold it
Speaker 1: to someone else. Well number two, same thing. That people
Speaker 1: sold it to others when they had agreed to sell
Speaker 1: it to us. I was tempted to be discouraged. Wasn't fair,
Speaker 1: But we made this decision. God, we're gonna trust you.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna live bitter, We're not gonna quit dreaming.
Speaker 1: We know this setback is a sign that you have
Speaker 1: something greater coming. Six months later we came into well
Speaker 1: number three, the Compact Center. You are sitting in Rahoba,
Speaker 1: a wide, an open space. God doing more than we
Speaker 1: could ever imagine. Now. I thank god that man didn't
Speaker 1: keep his word. I thank god that company found another buyer.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. At the time, but I can
Speaker 1: see now it was all a part of God's plan
Speaker 1: to take us to the fullness of our destiny. Maybe
Speaker 1: today you've been through things you don't understand. You honor God,
Speaker 1: you do your best, but things haven't worked out doors
Speaker 1: have closed. You were passed over for that promotion. It's
Speaker 1: tempting to settle there. But if Isaac was here, he
Speaker 1: would tell you get your shovel out, dig one more well.
Speaker 1: You've seen opposition, you've seen conflict, But Well number three
Speaker 1: is Rehobeth, the blessing, the favor, the victory houses. You
Speaker 1: didn't build a compact center already built vineyards. You didn't
Speaker 1: plan divine connections people that are better than you've imagined.
Speaker 1: Rahobath is rest from your enemies, God shutting down the opposition,
Speaker 1: where you can live in peace and enjoy the blessing
Speaker 1: on your life. Verse twenty two says the Philistines did
Speaker 1: not contend for well number three. They fought for well
Speaker 1: number one. They weren't going to let Isaac have it.
Speaker 1: They fought for well number two. There was resistance and opposition.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Thoughts told Isaac, You're always going to struggle.
Speaker 1: You'll always have trouble, conflict injustice. Don't believe those lies.
Speaker 1: That's well number one, people trying to stop you. Well
Speaker 1: number two opposition holding your back, but well number three
Speaker 1: they will not contend you. Will not have strife, division conflict.
Speaker 1: Descripture says God will rebuke the devour for you. You
Speaker 1: won't have to do it. When you come to Rahoba,
Speaker 1: God will push back what's trying to stop you. There
Speaker 1: will be a supernatural ease, a grace to enjoy the
Speaker 1: blessing on your line. Nineteen fifties, my father was pastoring
Speaker 1: a successful church and it was growing. They had just
Speaker 1: built a new sanctuary in life was good when my
Speaker 1: sister Lisa was born with something like cerebral Paul's in
Speaker 1: My father was taught back then that God didn't do miracles.
Speaker 1: Just to accept it. It was a bad break. He
Speaker 1: went to a hotel for several days to be alone,
Speaker 1: and he read his Bible like he was reading it
Speaker 1: for the first time. He saw how Jesus went around
Speaker 1: healing people and how he could do the impossible. He
Speaker 1: came back and shared this message of faith and victory
Speaker 1: with his church. He thought they'd all be excited, but
Speaker 1: it didn't fit in their tradition. Some of the people
Speaker 1: turned again. My father started stirring up trouble and getting
Speaker 1: others to oppose him, and there was so much strife
Speaker 1: and division. My father knew he needed to leave. He
Speaker 1: could have stayed there and fought with them, tried to
Speaker 1: prove he was right, but he took the high road.
Speaker 1: He was disappointed. My mother had lifelong friends that never
Speaker 1: spoke to her again. He could live bitter settled there. Instead,
Speaker 1: he got his shovel out and started digging. Mother's Day
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine, he and my mother started Lakewood in
Speaker 1: an abandoned feed store with ninety people. The critics said
Speaker 1: it would never last, but sixty five years later today
Speaker 1: we're still going strong. But my father didn't like getting
Speaker 1: pushed out. That injustice wasn't fair. But when you look back,
Speaker 1: you can see it was all the hand of God.
Speaker 1: He wasn't supposed to stay at Well number one. He
Speaker 1: had worked for it, he deserved it, but God used
Speaker 1: right and conflict to move him out. Those ninety people
Speaker 1: grew to thousands and thousands. But he would have never
Speaker 1: seen Rahobeth, the wide and spacious place without going through
Speaker 1: the opposition, things that were not fair. There will be
Speaker 1: these times in life that you don't understand, it don't
Speaker 1: make sense. You'll be tempted to fight, to prove, to
Speaker 1: hold on. But sometimes God closes doors. He doesn't let
Speaker 1: Well number one work out or Well number two on purpose,
Speaker 1: because he has bigger things in store. Like my father,
Speaker 1: you may have to walk away from something that's not fair.
Speaker 1: He dug that well, it belonged to you, but they
Speaker 1: stirred up trouble. That's a test. God has taken you
Speaker 1: to Rahobath, to something bigger, more fulfilling. Don't settle there,
Speaker 1: get your shovel out and keep digging. God has not
Speaker 1: brought you this far to leave you. He's seen the disappointments,
Speaker 1: the injustice, the lonely nights. That's not how your story ends.
Speaker 1: Rehobeth is coming a wide open space. Now, keep moving
Speaker 1: forward in faith, not frustrated, not bitter, Stay on that
Speaker 1: high road, knowing that God is in control, that it's
Speaker 1: all serving his plan. If you'll do this, I believe
Speaker 1: and declare you're going to come in to your Rehobeth.
Speaker 1: God is about to pay you back for the injustice.
Speaker 1: The bad breaks You're going to have rest from your enemies, vindication, promotion,
Speaker 1: honor the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, and
Speaker 1: if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like
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Speaker 1: merry Christmas. Until we see you next time. May the
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