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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.319 Hi, this is Joel. Thanks so much for downloading the podcast. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.240 I believe you'll be inspired and challenged. I hope you 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:49.200 enjoy the message. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:52.720 Oh God bless you. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.400 It's a joy to come into your homes and if 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.480 you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be a 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.440 part of one of our services. I promise you we'll 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.200 make you feel right at home. I like to start 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.360 with something funny. It's just a joke. Please don't be offended. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.800 But I heard about this blonde lady. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.120 She was driving down the freeway when she was pulled 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.720 over by a female police officer who also happened to 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:17.359 be blonde. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.920 The officer asked to see her driver's license. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.920 The lady Doug and Doug and her purse, getting more 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.639 and more agitated, couldn't find it. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.960 Finally, I asked the officer what it looked like. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.680 The officer said, it's a little square that has your 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.320 picture on it. The lady pulled out a mirror and 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.240 saw herself and said, oh, handed it to the officer. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.600 The officer looked at the mirror and saw herself, handed 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.600 it back and said, Okay, you can go. I didn't 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.040 realize you were a police officer. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.760 All right, I'm gonna need a ride home, but here 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:46.079 we go. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.600 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.360 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.080 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.040 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.200 is alert, heart is receptive. 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.160 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:05.720 bless you. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.000 I want to talk to you today about it's payback time. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.360 We all go through unfair situations. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.840 We were overlooked for a promotion, or came down with 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.720 an illness, or somebody walked out of a relationship. It's 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.160 easy to get discouraged and think that's just life, a 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.160 bad break. Nothing I can do about it. You may 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.760 not be able to, but God can. He's a god 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.840 of justice. He has seen everything you've been through, every 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.280 person that did you wrong, every lonely night, every tear. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.960 He said in Hebrews, I will repay the exact compensation 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:44.640 owed you. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.720 It may not have been fair, but don't worry. Payback 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:49.440 is coming. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.440 God is going to make up for the wrongs that 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.360 were done to you those people that put you at 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.040 a disadvantage. Don't live bitter thinking you have to get even. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.600 It's not your battle. The battle is the lord's. He 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:03.680 knows what you're owed. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.080 He's keeping the records. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.680 He'll not only take care of the opposition, he'll make 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.320 it up to you. You may have been raised in 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.280 an unhealthy environment. Nobody was there to make you feel encouraged, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.119 loved and valuable. It seems like that sets you back, 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.440 but people don't determine your destiny. What you didn't get, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.360 who wasn't there for you? Is not going to keep 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:30.200 you from your purpose. God sees how you were treated, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.240 and he's saying, payback is coming. He's going to show 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.640 you favor because of what happened. The enemy minute to 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.480 stop you. God's going to use it to increase you. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.520 He's going to open new doors, bring opportunity, joy fulfillment 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.080 that you wouldn't have seen if that had not happened. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.920 Instead of being discouraged, turn it around, Father, Thank you 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.279 that payback is coming. I know you're on the throne. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.599 You're fighting my battles. You're my vindicate because you honor God. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.520 Because you're keeping him first place, you have an advantage. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.279 You're on his payroll. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.480 Now, quit living worried thinking you're falling behind. Those people 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.120 at work left you out now, you could never get 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.000 to where you want to be. 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:18.640 God is in control. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.320 One touch of his favor will catapult you ahead. He 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.200 knows how to move the wrong people out of the way. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.720 They may be stopping you now, but they're not going 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.279 to stop you your whole life. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.160 Why payback is coming? 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.800 Keep doing the right thing when the wrong thing is happening. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.920 You are not working under people, You are working under God. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.880 When you know you're on his payroll. You don't get 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:50.040 upset when unfair things happen, or discourage because somebody is 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.039 treating you badly, or give up on a dream because 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.719 you had a disappointment. You know payback is coming. Here's 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.120 what I've learned. Nobody can pay you back like God 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.080 can pay you back. Just ask the Israelites. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.719 They had been in slavery for four hundred and thirty years, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:13.040 one generation after another, mistreated, forced to work long hours, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.880 given quotas that were impossible to meet. I'm sure they 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.520 thought that was their destiny. That's the way it be 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.839 for their children, their grandchildren. It was just bad luck. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.960 They were born at the wrong time, born into hardship. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.800 Things may not change overnight. But if you'll stay in faith, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.599 there will come a point where God will say enough 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.400 is enough, is payback time. He's going to turn things around, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.400 not just bring you out. He'll pay you back for 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.920 the injustice. He's going to pay you back for an 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.599 unfair childhood. He's going to pay. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.800 You back for the promotion that should have been yours, 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.720 or pay you back from those people that tried to 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.800 damage your reputation. God said, I have seen the afflictions 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:01.560 of my people. 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.120 I have heard their cries, and I am coming down 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.200 to deliver them. You may have been in a difficulty 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.920 for a long time. God is saying to you what 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.200 he said to them. I am coming down to do 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:16.160 something about it. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:17.920 This is a new day. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.400 What has hindered you in the past, the sickness, the betrayal, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.920 the people that did you wrong, that is not permanent. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:31.760 Payback is coming, Healing is coming, Vindication is coming, promotion 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:36.720 is coming, New relationships are coming. You were not created 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.520 to go through life lonely. And that person that left you, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.760 that didn't recognize your value, that maybe told you you're 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.280 not smart enough, good enough, attractive enough. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.160 Don't believe those lies. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.240 You've been made in the image of Almighty God. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.960 He calls you a masterpiece. He's crowned you with favor. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.840 He moved that person away so he could bring someone 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:06.560 that recognizes who you are, someone that celebrates you, that cherishes. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.200 You, that can't wait to be with you. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.640 When God pays you back, it's going to exceed your expectations. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.760 You're going to think I never dreamed life could be 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.360 this great, never dreamed I could feel this good, never 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.200 dreamed I'd be this blessed. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.440 This happy, this fulfilled. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.360 That's the God who pays you back. Now, I believe 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.440 you are closer than you think. Things are about to 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.600 shift in your favor. People that are against you are 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.520 suddenly going to shift and before you. They don't even 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.800 understand why. They can't explain it. They didn't have a choice. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.200 It's God causing them to be good to you. That 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.480 sickness looks permanent. The medical report says, learn to live 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.959 with it. No, get ready, it's about to shift. Healing 0:08:55.080 --> 0:09:00.320 is coming, Wholeness is coming. That struggle, the lack not 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.720 able to get ahead. Maybe you can look back. It's 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.439 been in your family line for generations. Nobody's been able 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.520 to break out. Get ready, you're the one. A shift 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:12.080 is coming. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:18.240 Ideas, creativity, promotion, contracts, real estate, it's going to come 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.400 into your hands. That's God paying your back. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.560 Some of this payback is from what your forefathers worked 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.920 for and didn't receive. They weren't treated right, they weren't 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:35.840 respected given what they deserved. But God has all the records, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.680 He knows what your family is own. You're going to 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:44.480 come into generational payback blessings that have been accruing in 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:49.520 your family's account. God has not forgotten about your great 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.840 grandparents that honored him, people in your family line that 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.920 did the right thing but didn't get what they deserved. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.240 Part of this payback is houses. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.120 That you didn't build, favor, that you didn't work for 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.360 promotions when you didn't have the qualifications. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.480 He's a god of justice. He's going to pay you back. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.520 Moses went to the Pharaoh and told him that God 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.000 said to let the Israelites go, but he. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.240 Wouldn't listen to Moses. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.520 So God sent plague after plague on Pharaoh and his people. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.480 He finally changed his mind. As the Israelites left, some 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:32.040 two million people. I'm sure they were excited, singing, dancing. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.599 This was a dream come true after generations. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.760 They weren't going to have to work these long hours, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.520 live oppressed and burdened. This was a great miracle in itself, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:48.440 just to be free. They were satisfied, but God wasn't satisfied. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.480 He said in Exodus three, I will see to it 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.080 that the Egyptians treat you well. They will load you 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.800 down with gifts, so you will not leave empty handed. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:02.719 On their way out. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.720 The Israelites asked their captors for their gold, their silver, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.800 their jewelry, their clothing. God gave them favor, and they 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.360 freely gave it to the Israelites. For generations, they had 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:20.800 been loaded down with burdens, loaded down with injustice. Now 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.880 they were loaded down with blessings, loaded down with valuables. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.400 They left pushing wheelbarrows full of treasures. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:33.000 What was that God paying them back for four hundred 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:37.520 and thirty years of injustice. God saw what was unfair, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.479 not only to them, but to the generations before them. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.080 God is keeping the records. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.480 You may be satisfied if God would just turn it around. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.920 You'd be happy if God just brought you out of 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:54.360 the difficulty. But God is not satisfied. He's going to 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.160 make the enemy pay. You are not going to come 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.319 out empty handed. You are going to come out load 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.800 better than you were promoted, stronger, healthier, at a new level. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.560 I can imagine a mother taking a gold necklace putting 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.720 it on her daughter. The little girl has never worn 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.880 a necklace. Now she feels so valuable, so special. Everywhere 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.439 she goes. When people see it, it's a reminder that 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.720 God not only brought them out, but he paid them back. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.559 You may be in an unfair situation. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.000 You don't understand why it happened, why you came down 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.000 with an illness, why you went through a loss, why 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:35.840 those people at. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.200 Weren't are against you. Don't worry. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.559 God sees it. You are not going to come out 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.680 empty handed. He is going to pay you back in 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.680 such a way that other people are going to see 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:52.000 the favor on your life. The scripture says the Israelites 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.680 went into Egypt in great distress, but they came out 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.400 with great abundance. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.200 How you go in does. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.920 It determine how you're going to come out. You may 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.240 go in addicted, you're going to come out free. You 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.679 may go in sick, you're going to come out healthy. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:11.080 You may go in. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:15.640 Mistreated injustice, You're going to come out vindicated, paid back. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.040 You may go in struggling in debt, but you're going 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:23.000 to come out with great abundance. I talked to a lady. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.560 She owns her own business. For years, she'd rented its 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.040 face in this shopping mallel. She's always been a great tenant, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.679 always paid her bills on time. One day she received 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.000 an email from the landlord saying that they were going 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.120 to double her rent. This came out of the blue 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.199 for no reasoning. She knew she couldn't make a profit 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.720 paying that much. They were basically forcing her out. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:47.800 It was unfair. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.240 She was concerned, didn't know what she was going to do, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.200 and she turned the television on, and there I was. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.760 I was talking about how trouble can be transportation. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:00.440 Some times. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.160 God will allow difficulties to move us ahead. How we 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.000 can trust that He's in control, that he will make 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.959 these wrongs right. Deep down, she knew everything was going 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.319 to be all right. She came back to a place 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.880 of peace. A couple of days later, another landlord that 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:22.200 had space two doors down contacted her. She didn't go 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:26.080 looking for him, he came looking for her. He offered 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.640 her twice the amount of space that she currently had 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.320 for half the amount of rent. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.360 She couldn't believe it. She gladly moved to the new location. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.160 God knows how to pay you back. He knows what's 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:40.880 not fair. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.000 He sees every sparrow that falls to the ground, every 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:45.800 little bird. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:51.000 How much more does God see everything that happens with you? 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.520 You don't have to live worried, thinking the disappointment, the 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.480 bad break is the end, that setback is really a 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:03.000 set up for God show out in your life. Isaiah said, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.240 God will give you a twofold recompense for the unfair 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.080 things that have happened. That means God will pay you 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.040 back double. It's not a coincidence that that lady got 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:18.320 twice the space for half the rent. It's not a coincidence. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.160 In the scripture. After all the heartache and pain, Job 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.160 came out with twice the cattle, twice the sheep, twice 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:25.800 what he had. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:27.880 It's not a coincidence. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.680 When property was sold out from under us, we acquired 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:32.720 the Compact Center. 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:33.360 This place. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.640 We went from an eight thousand seat auditorium to a 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:42.280 sixteen thousand seat auditorium, exactly double. When you go through 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:48.120 unfair situations, somebody does you wrong. Instead of being sour, 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.040 have a new perspective. They just qualified you for double. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.400 You may not like it, it may not have been fair. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:56.800 Stay in faith. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.240 When God pays you back, You're not going to come 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.600 out the same like the Israelites. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:03.640 You're going to come. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:08.160 Out loaded down with blessings. This is what happened to Jacob. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.760 He made an agreement to work for his uncle Laban 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:16.120 for seven years in return Laban would give him his 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.800 daughter Rachel to marry. Jacob worked faithfully these seven years, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.320 increasing Laban's flocks many times over. He made Laban a 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:30.240 very wealthy man. But Laban changed his mind. He said, Jacob, 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.400 you can marry my daughter Leah, but if you want 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.640 to marry Rachel, you're gonna have to work another seven years. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.880 That wasn't what they agreed to. It was unfair. He 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:40.760 was dishonest. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:42.800 Jacob went ahead and did it. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.480 At the end of the fourteen years, he told Laban 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.880 that he was going to move back to his hometown 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.680 with Rachel and his family. Well, Laban felt kind of 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.680 guilty because he'd hardly paid Jacob anything. He asked Jacob 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.440 what he could do for him. Jacob said, I'll work 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.960 for you little longer. I don't want any money. Just 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.560 let me have the sheep and goats that are spotted 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.520 and streaked. You can have all the solid colored animals. 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.399 That way, when I leave, you'll know I'm not taking 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.840 anything that belongs to you. Well, there were very few 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:21.040 streaked and spotted animals, so Laban quickly agreed. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.000 He thought this is a great deal. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.760 He was so dishonest he snuck out in the middle 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.000 of the night and removed all the spotted and streaked 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:34.000 animals and put them in a different pasture. That way, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.639 the solid colored animals couldn't mate with the other ones, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.520 and Jacob wouldn't have as much. What Laban didn't realize 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.600 is God controls the universe when he is ready to 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.720 pay you back. Unfair people can't stop him. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.360 Bad breaks can't stop him. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.520 All the forces of darkness cannot keep him. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.439 From bringing justice into your life. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.720 When those solid colored animals mated, you know what color 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:06.399 their offspring was streaked and spotted. God has the final 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:11.080 saying He's not limited by the laws of nature, by an. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.520 Unfair bass, by what somebody says. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.119 Laban was over there shaking his head, thinking how in 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.760 the world did that happen. He was so frustrated. He said, Jacob, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.760 I want to change the agreement. From now on, you 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.119 only get the spotted colored animals. Jacob said, fine, Now 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.280 all the animals that were born were spotted colored. Laban said, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.960 I want to change the agreement again. Now I want 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.160 the spotted colored animals. Now all the animals that were 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:43.560 born were solid colored. The blessing followed Jacob. He left 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.200 there with more flocks than his. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.480 Uncle, Laban, What was that God paying him back? 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.640 Maybe someone is not keeping their word with you. They 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:56.800 changed the agreement, they're not being honest. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.440 Don't worry. God is keeping the records. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.080 He's going to make things happen that Not only they 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.919 can't stop, but they can't explain. They're going to be 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.200 scratching their heads thinking, how did you get so blessed. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.000 The more they tried to push you down, the more 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.000 you rose up. The more they tried to discredit you, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.760 leave you out, ignore you, the more God causes you 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:19.400 to shine. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.800 They're doing their best to limit you. 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.679 They don't realize you're not on people's payroll. You're on 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:31.800 God's pay roll. Jacob said Genesis thirty one, Laban, you 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.040 would have sent me out without one penny. But God 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.440 has seen how unfair you've been to me. That's why 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:43.480 he's vindicated me and given me an abundance. Like with Jacob, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.120 God sees what's unfair. He's not going to just bring 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.160 you out. He's going to bring you out with abundance. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.440 He has not brought you this far to leave you 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.720 the disappointments, the bad breaks, the people that did you wrong. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.359 That is not the end. The enemy would love to 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:02.080 convince you to. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.640 Live discouraged, give up on dreams, settle where you are. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.160 Don't believe those lies. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.000 Those setbacks are setting you up for a new level 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.080 of your destiny. In the scripture, Abraham's nephew Lot was 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.800 captured by an enemy army. They raided his property and 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.760 took Lot, all of his children, his family, everything that 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.439 he owed. One of his men escaped and went and 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:32.080 told Abraham what happened. Abraham called his men together, said, 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.440 Lots in trouble. We have to go rescue him. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:35.720 They snuck up on. 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.880 The enemy armies at night and attacked them from all 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:43.840 different sides. The scripture says Abraham recovered all that was 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.800 stolen Lot, with all of his possessions, all of his family, 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:52.560 all of his children. What's interesting is Lot wasn't supposed 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.760 to be there in the first place. God told Abraham 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.760 to leave his relatives and go to a new land, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.880 but Abraham decided to take Lot with him. 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.920 God could have said, Abraham, Lots in trouble, but too bad, 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.040 it's your fault. I told you not to bring him. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:13.200 But God is so merciful even when we make mistakes, 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:14.280 even when. 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:14.919 It's our fault. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:19.560 He says, I'm still going to help you. Abraham recovered all. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.320 Maybe you've made mistakes, you're thinking, Joel. 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:24.560 God's not gonna pay me back. 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.040 I can understand if it was unfair, if somebody did 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.119 me wrong, but this was my fault. I brought the 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.680 trouble on myself. God is saying to you what he 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.080 said to Abraham. I'm going to help you recover all. 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.520 Maybe you didn't raise your children right now they're off course. 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.240 You're going to recover all your children. You spent money 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:48.399 that you didn't have, now you're over your head. 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.680 You're gonna recover all your finances. 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.840 You didn't take care of your body, maybe you gave 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:54.880 into addictions. 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:56.919 You're gonna recover all your health. 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:02.760 Not partial recovery, partial free them, fully recovered, fully healthy, 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:03.960 fully blessed. 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:05.960 God is saying you're gonna get. 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.520