1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks. 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: We believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: and favor filled. 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come 8 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: into your homes. And if you're ever in our area, 9 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: please stop buying. Be a part of one of our services. 10 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, 11 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: right here at Lakewood and I'll promise you will make. 12 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 2: You feel at home. But thanks for tuning in today. 13 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: And I like to start with something funny, and I 14 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: heard about this man. He was driving through an intersection 15 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: that was monitored by cameras. If you ran the light 16 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: or broke the law in any way, it would take 17 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: your picture and you'd receive a ticket in the mail. 18 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: So he made sure to go extra slowly through the intersection, 19 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 1: not break the law. But he noticed the camera flashed, 20 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,639 Speaker 1: Oh that's not right, turned around and he drove through 21 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: it again, even more slowly. 22 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: Once again it took his picture. He thought, this thing 23 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 2: is messed up. 24 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 1: They can't send me a ticket out of spite, He 25 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: drove back through the intersection three more times, each time 26 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: waving at the camera with a big smile. A week later, 27 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: he received five tickets in the mail. 28 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 2: For not wearing his seat belt. Hold up your Bible, 29 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: say it like you mean it. 30 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 31 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do 32 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be 33 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 34 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 35 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 36 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: to talk to you today about how you cannot be defeated. 37 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: We all face situations where. 38 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: The odds are against us. 39 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: We don't see how we could get well, how relationship 40 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: could be restored, maybe how we could ever break an 41 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: addiction in the natural. It seems impossible to just accept 42 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: it and think this is my lot in life. But 43 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: David said in Psalm forty one, the favor of God 44 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: keeps my enemies from defeating me. When you walk in 45 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: God's favor, honoring him with your life, knowing who you 46 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: are and who you are, you cannot be defeated. You 47 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 1: may suffer a temporary setback, a disappointment, an unfair situation, 48 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: but if you'll keep moving forward, it won't be permanent. 49 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: One touch of God's favor can turn any situation around. 50 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: And what you're facing may seem bigger, stronger, more powerful. 51 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: But deep down, don't be intimidated. You've got to know 52 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: you cannot be defeated. The creator of the universe has 53 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: put his favor on your life. And this is what 54 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: Joseph did. He had one bad break after another. His 55 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: brothers betrayed him, sold him into slavery. He spent years 56 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: in prison for something that he didn't do. It looked 57 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: like that had ruined his life. Joseph could have become 58 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: bitter angry. God is not fair, nor he understood this principle. 59 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: He knew because of God's favor on his life, those 60 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: enemies could not keep him defeated. He just kept being 61 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: his best, honoring God. I can hear him in the prisons. Lord, 62 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: thank you that your favor is turning this around. Thank 63 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: you that this is not my destiny in the end. 64 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: In spite of his brothers trying to hold him back, 65 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: in spite of Potiphar's wife lying about him, in spite 66 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: of being sold into slavery. God not only delivered him. 67 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: God not only vindicated him, but God paid him back 68 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: for all that trouble. He was promoted and put second 69 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: in command. 70 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 2: Of the whole nation of Egypt. What am I saying? 71 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 2: The enemy of betrayal couldn't defeat him, The enemy of 72 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 2: being lied about and falsely accused couldn't defeat him. 73 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: The enemy of injustice, bad breaks, being put in prison 74 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: couldn't hold him down. 75 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 2: Why the favor of God kept his enemies from defeating him. 76 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: You too may have had a rough past. Maybe you've 77 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,559 Speaker 1: had some bad breaks. The good news is it's not over. 78 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: God is not finished. God always ends in all is well. 79 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: If all is not well, it simply means it is 80 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: not the end. You haven't seen what God is about 81 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 1: to do. God is about to take what's meant. 82 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 2: For your harm and use it to your advantage. 83 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: God is about to pay you back for the unfair 84 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: things that have happened. And just like with Joseph, when 85 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: you keep a good attitude when it's not fair, when 86 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: you do the right thing when the wrong thing is happening, 87 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: the favor of God on your life will cause you 88 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: to rise a bu of every difficulty may not happen overnight, 89 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: but God promises. 90 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 2: Those enemies cannot keep you defeated. Are you facing a 91 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: situation that seems. 92 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: Permanent, a sickness, an addiction, a relationship issue. Don't sit 93 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: around in self pity. God is saying that bad break, 94 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: that disappointment is not going to stop your destiny. That 95 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: sickness cannot snatch you out of God's hands. That addiction, 96 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: that trouble, that lack is not permanent. God has put 97 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: his favor on you, and his favor always causes you 98 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: to triumph. Now you've got to get in agreement with 99 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: God all through the day instead of thinking, oh, Joel, 100 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: I can't get well. Have you seen the medical report? 101 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 1: I'll never accomplish my dreams. No, Lord, thank. 102 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 2: You that your favor is turning this around. 103 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: Thank you that your favor is vindicating me, restoring me, 104 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: opening up new doors. And when you're tempted to be 105 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: discouraged under your breath. 106 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 2: Just keep declaring it. The favor of God keeps my 107 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 2: enemies from defeating me. 108 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: I've learned the more you brag on God's favor, the 109 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: more of his favor you're going to see. We've all 110 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: heard little boys bragging on their father. My dad is 111 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: stronger than your dad. My dad can run faster than 112 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: your dad. Well, my dad can whoop your dad. That's 113 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: the way we should be concerning our heavenly Father. Instead 114 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: of talking about how big the problem is, how impossible 115 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: it is, no, start bragging on the favor of God. 116 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: This is what Nehemiah did. A man in the scripture, 117 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: he had a dream to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. 118 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: He didn't have the money, the supplies, the man power. 119 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: He had incredible opposition. The city leaders weren't for him. 120 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: The critics tried to talk him out of it. 121 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: He could have gotten discouraged and thought these obstacles are 122 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 2: too big. I'll never overcome these enemies. 123 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: No, right in the middle of the difficulty, he said, 124 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,359 Speaker 1: I can do this because the gracious hand of God 125 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: is on my life. He was saying, the favor of 126 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: God is making away. Again and again he made this 127 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: same statement, the gracious hand of God will help me overcome. 128 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: He was constantly bragging on God's goodness. In the end, 129 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: he not only rebuilt the wall, but he did it 130 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: in record time. Should have taken a year or two, 131 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: but he did it in just fifty two days. When 132 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: you're always talking about God's goodness, Lord, thank you that 133 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: your favor is turning this around. God, think you that 134 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: your favor is defeating my enemies. Then you're going to 135 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: see his favor, his goodness, his protection in new ways. 136 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: You may be in a tough time, but don't magnify 137 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: your problem. Magnify your God. The bigger you make God, 138 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: the smaller your problems will become. 139 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 2: And it's interesting when. 140 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: David faced Goliath, he never called him a giant. Other 141 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: people did, but not David. He didn't brag on the 142 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: enemy's power. He didn't magnify the obstacle. He did just 143 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: the opposite. He called him an uncircumcised philistine. Not only 144 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: did he not acknowledge who Goliath was, his strength, his power, 145 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: his experience, he took it one step further and he 146 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: diminished him. When he said he's an uncircumcised philistine, he 147 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: was saying, this man is not in covenant with my God. 148 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: He's not in covenant with Jehovah. 149 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: In other words, he doesn't have the favor on his 150 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: life that's on my life. I know the favor of 151 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: my God causes my enemies to not be able to 152 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: defeat me. So when he went to face Goliath, he said, 153 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,319 Speaker 1: this day I will defeat you and feed your head 154 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: to the birds of the air. How could David, a 155 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: teenager practically half his size, no military experience, go out 156 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: with such confidence and face Goliath, a skilled warrior wearing a. 157 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: Full set of armor. 158 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: It's because he understood this principle. David is the one 159 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: that said, the favor of God keeps my enemies from 160 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: defeating me. I can imagine him running to the battlefield. 161 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: Negative thoughts were bombard in his mind, saying David, this 162 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: is a big mistake. 163 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,199 Speaker 2: This giant is too big. You better turn around. 164 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: David not only dismissed Goliath's size, he dismissed those negative thoughts. 165 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: In difficult times, it makes a difference. 166 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 2: What you're thinking about. 167 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: If you're telling yourself this sickness is too big, it's 168 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 1: going to be the end of me. I'll never get 169 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: out of debt, Joel, my marriage is doomed. 170 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 2: We don't have a chance. 171 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: That's going to limit what God can do. You've got 172 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: to do like David and switch over to an attitude 173 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: of faith. In other words. This sickness is no match 174 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: for me. This trouble doesn't have a chance. I have 175 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: a secret weapon. I know the favor of God keeps 176 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: my enemies from defeating me. I know God's favor causes 177 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: me to overcome, to outlast, to accomplish what I could 178 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: not accomplish on my own. See, in tough times you're 179 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: going to be saying something. Don't talk about how big 180 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: the problem is. Talk about how big your God is. 181 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 2: Say like David, I will defeat you. 182 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: Say like Nehemiah, the gracious hint of God. His favor 183 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,559 Speaker 1: is on my life every day. You need to declare 184 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: this not only so that you can hear it, not 185 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: only so that God can hear it. 186 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 2: You need to say it so the enemy can hear it. 187 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 1: Look at that negative medical report and say to the 188 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: enemy of sickness, the favor of God is causing me 189 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: to defeat you. 190 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 2: Look at that check book. 191 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: Say to the enemy of debt, the favor of God 192 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: is defeeding you. 193 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 2: That child is off course. 194 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: Instead of complaining, he's never going to straighten up. No, 195 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: say to the enemy, you can't have my children. As 196 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: for me and my house, we will serve the Lord 197 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: when you have this attitude of faith, all the forces 198 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: of darkness cannot stop you. You may have seen on 199 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: the news this week a man was working in a 200 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: convenience store. This robber came in with a gun. He 201 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: told the man to open up the safe. The man 202 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 1: was so nervous he couldn't open it up quickly enough. 203 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: The robber got upset and shot him in the chest 204 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: point blank range. 205 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 2: Ran out of the store. 206 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: Of the customers that were hiding rushed over to help 207 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: the man. They noticed there wasn't any blood. Come to 208 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: find out, the man had his cell phone on the 209 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: inside pocket of his jacket when the. 210 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 2: Robber shot him. The bullet hit the cell phone and 211 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 2: ricocheted off. The paramedic said, you a one lucky man. 212 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: The truth is you and I know that wasn't a 213 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: lucky break. That was the favor of God causing the 214 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 1: cell phone to be at the exact right place. If 215 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: it's not your time to go, you're not going to go. 216 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: Why the favor of God keeps your enemies from defeating you? 217 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 2: Right? 218 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: I read an article about a man that was cleaning 219 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: his hunting rifle when it accidentally went off. The bullet 220 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: went up through his chin and was headed toward his brain. 221 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: But along the way the bullet hit the man's dentures 222 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: and it slightly changed the course. The surgeon said that 223 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: that bullet missed the main part of his brain by 224 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: less than a millimeter. Had it not had that slight 225 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: change in path, it would have certainly ended his life. 226 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: You may not like your dentuers, but you better thank 227 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: God for your denters. Some of you have teeth like 228 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: the stars, they come out at night. 229 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 2: But God, I know that's corning. 230 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: Listen, God can use your cell phone, your false teeth, 231 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: your wig, your bleed to spare your life. You don't 232 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: have to live in fear. The favor of God is 233 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: like a shield. It's a hedge of protection that the 234 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: enemy cannot penetrate. Don't go around worried, nervous, anxious, intimidated. 235 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: The creator of the universe has you in the palm 236 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: of his hand. 237 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 2: Nothing can snatch you away. 238 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: I saw on television this group was filming a movie. 239 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: The man the lead actor. He was in a helicopter 240 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: flying over the ocean. In this scene, he was supposed 241 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,600 Speaker 1: to hand something to the people on the boat below. 242 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: The helicopter came real close toward the water. All of 243 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: a sudden, there was a huge burst of wind. You 244 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: could watch all this take place. The pilot lost control 245 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: of the helicopter, started spinning around a couple times, hit 246 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: the water, and quickly sunk. About thirty seconds later, the 247 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: pilot surfaced. He was okay. Everyone was relieved, but there 248 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: was no sign of this other man, the lead actor. 249 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: A minute went by, seemed like an eternity. Two minutes, 250 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: three minutes, four minutes, five minutes later, his head popped 251 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: up out of the water. He told how he was 252 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: unconscious when he came to, he didn't know where he 253 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: was totally confused. He said, I want to thank all 254 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: the rescuers, and especially the one that grabbed the back 255 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: of my shirt, pulled me out of the helicopter and 256 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: gave me that big push toward the top of the water. 257 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: The people that were watching they were amazed. They said, 258 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: what do you mean there were no rescuers. You were 259 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: down there by yourself. He looked up and said, then, 260 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: I want to thank God. I know it was him 261 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: that lifted me out. Friends, God has the final saying, 262 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: the enemy is not in control of your life. God 263 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: is in control it may look like that difficulty is 264 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: going to defeat you, But you need to keep telling yourself, 265 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: this sickness can't take my life. 266 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 2: This cancer can't defeat me. 267 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second. 268 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 2: Of my divine destiny. 269 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: Isaiah said, when you go through the water, you will 270 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: not drown. 271 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 2: When you go through the rivers, you won't go under. 272 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: When you go through the fire, you'll come out without 273 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: the smell of smoke. You may be in the fire today, 274 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: God is saying you're coming out, and you're not gonna 275 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: come out beat up but draggled, barely making it. 276 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 2: You're gonna come out. 277 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: Without a bruise, without a scratch, without a blending better 278 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: off than you were before. Now you got to dig 279 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: your heels in and say, hey, that's it. I'm done 280 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: living worried, depressed, discouraged. I know I have a protector. 281 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: I have a defender. I have a deliverer. I have 282 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: a waymaker. I have a vindicator, a healer, a provider, 283 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: a dream giver, a promise keeper. No weapon formed against 284 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: you can ever prosper Psalm eighty nine says our. 285 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 2: Power is based on his favor. 286 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: If you want to be powerful, you got to tap 287 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: into God's favor if you want to overcome challenges, you 288 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: want to break free from bondages. It doesn't just happen 289 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: in your own strength, in your own effort. It happens 290 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: when you go through the day bragging on the goodness 291 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: of God, acknowledging his power. Lord, thank you that your 292 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: favor is defeating my enemies for me. That's when God 293 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: will do things for you that you could never make 294 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 1: happen on your own. I remember when we were trying 295 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: to acquire this facility, the former Compact Center. We needed 296 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: ten votes from the city council members. We'd worked on 297 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: it for nearly three years, and we had our ten votes. 298 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: We were very excited. But two days before the main vote, 299 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: one of the council members got so much pressure from 300 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: the other side they decided to be out of town. 301 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: Him not being there was basically a no vote. We 302 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't get the facility. 303 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 2: In the natural. It didn't look good. We could have. 304 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: Gotten discouraged, but we knew it's not over until God 305 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: says it's over. We stood on this same promise. The 306 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: favor of God. 307 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 2: Keeps our enemies from defeating us. 308 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: Instead of complaining, Lord, we recognize our power is based 309 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: on your favor. 310 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 2: God. We know you can do what we can't do. 311 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 1: You can make a way where we don't see away. 312 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,719 Speaker 1: What were we do in acknowledging God's goodness, bragging on 313 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 1: his power, magnifying his greatness? The day before you were 314 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,919 Speaker 1: the main vote. A young Jewish council member who had 315 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: been against us the whole time, he decided to change 316 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 1: his vote, and instead of voting against us, he voted 317 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: for us and we got the facility. I asked him 318 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: afterwards what caused him. 319 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 2: To change his vote. 320 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: He told how an elderly Jewish lady that he had 321 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: grown up with called him out of the blue. He 322 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: hadn't spoken to this lady in over twenty years, but 323 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: he always admired and respected her, and she told him 324 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 1: in no uncertain terms, you were to vote for Lakewood 325 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: having the compact center. He said, Joel, you were very persuasive, 326 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: your team put on a good presentation, but you didn't 327 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: convince me to change my mind. 328 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,919 Speaker 2: It was that phone call. That one lady. 329 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: She's the one that caused me to change my vote. 330 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: What's interesting is I don't know that lady I'd never 331 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: talked to her. I didn't ask her to call. But 332 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: when you go around on God's goodness, He'll make things 333 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: happen for you that you could never. 334 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 2: Make happen on your own. He'll put the right people 335 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: at the right place. 336 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 1: Our power is based on his favor, and that's why 337 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: it's so important that you activate your faith in this area. 338 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: There are enemies that you cannot defeat in your own strength. 339 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: There are obstacles that you can't overcome by yourself. There 340 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: are doors that need to open for you for you 341 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: to reach the fullness of your destiny. But you can't 342 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: open them in your own talent, your own strength, your 343 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: own ability. It's going to take the favor of God. 344 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: And when you have this attitude of faith, bragging on 345 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: God's goodness, God will make things happen for you that 346 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: you couldn't make happen on your own. 347 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 2: He will defeat enemies that you could have never defeated. 348 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: God will open doors that you could have never opened. 349 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: He'll cause you to live even when the medical report. 350 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 2: Says you don't have a ch chance. His favor can 351 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 2: defeat cancer. His favor can. 352 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: Change your council member's mind. His favor can cause the 353 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: bullet to hit the cell phone. His favor can take 354 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: you from the pit. 355 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: To the palace, like it did for Joseph. 356 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: Every day we should say, Lord, I recognize my power 357 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: is based on your favor. So Lord, I want to 358 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: thank you that your favor is defeating my enemies for me. 359 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: I talk to a young lady. She'd been addicted to 360 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: cocaine for fourteen years. She's been through rehab, counseling, different 361 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: clinics again and again. She would get out and stay 362 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: clean for a couple of weeks and then go right 363 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 1: back to it. The reason is, you cannot break bad 364 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: habits and addictions just in your willpower, just in your 365 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: own strength. Those strongholds are not just physical. Those are 366 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: unseen forces that are holding you back. And it's good 367 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: to do your part in the physical, but you have 368 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: to deal with the spiritual side as well. You've got 369 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: to humble yourself and ask God to help you. You've 370 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: got to recognize your power is based on his favor. 371 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 1: Without his favor, you'll stay addicted. Without God's favor, our 372 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: life will be limited, will get stuck. And I told 373 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: her what I'm telling you. Every day, declare The favor 374 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: of God is defeating my enemies. The favor of God 375 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: is breaking every stronghold, every addiction. She got out of 376 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: this defeated mindset. I can't do it. It's too hard. 377 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 1: I tried and failed. 378 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 2: She switched over to a favor mindset. 379 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: The last time I saw her, she had been cleaned 380 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: for nine months, the most. 381 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 2: She's ever gone. 382 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: In those fourteen years, she looked like a different person. 383 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 1: She had gained weight back, her skin had cleared up. 384 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: She had a big smile on her face. She was 385 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: radiating with God's glory. That's what happens when you're tap 386 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: into God's favor. They'll help you overcome challenges that you 387 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: could never overcome on your own. Psalm forty four says 388 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: it this way. They did not get the land in 389 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: their own strength or by their own sword, but because 390 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: you favored them. You may be up against a big 391 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 1: challenge today. You've done everything you can in your own strength, 392 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,439 Speaker 1: in your own ability, and that's important. But let me 393 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 1: encourage you when you come to the end of your ability, 394 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: when you don't see away, when all the odds are 395 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: against you, don't get discouraged. Don't let the negative thoughts 396 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 1: keep playing in your mind. Just keep thanking God for 397 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: his favor, and God will do for you what he 398 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 1: did for these people. What you couldn't make happen on 399 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: your own, what you couldn't fix in your own ability, 400 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: because of the favor of God, he will make it 401 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: happen for you. See I couldn't change that council member's mind. 402 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: I tried my best. I worked on him again and again. 403 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,239 Speaker 1: I told him all the reasons why Lakewood would be 404 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: good for the Compact Center. We would help people, We'd 405 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: be a lighthouse of hope. 406 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 2: This would be good for the city. 407 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 1: It went in one ear and out the other. But 408 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: what I couldn't do, God could do what am I saying. 409 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: God knows how to solve your problems. God knows how 410 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: to change people's minds. God knows how to restore your health. 411 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: He's the one that made your body. It may look 412 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: like that financial situation is never going to turn around, 413 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: but one touch of God's favor can put you into overflow. 414 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: You'll have more than enough. God is not limited by 415 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: what you're facing. He's limited by what you're believing. When 416 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: you believe, all things are possible, when you go through 417 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: the day saying Lord, thank you for your favor. That's 418 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: when God can do things for you that you could 419 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: never do on your own. 420 00:23:59,480 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 2: Four. 421 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: Same scripture in the Message translation says, we didn't have 422 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 1: to work for the land. 423 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 2: You freely gave it to us. 424 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: You sent our enemies packing and gave it to us smiling. 425 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: You may have struggled in an area for a long time. 426 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 1: You need to get ready. God is about to send 427 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: that enemy packing. Just imagine that sickness, that cancer, that 428 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,360 Speaker 1: chronic pain packing. 429 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 2: Up and leaving your body. God is going to send 430 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 2: that addiction packing. 431 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: He's going to send that debt, that struggle, that lack 432 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 1: packing for How about that relationship problem, the legal issue, 433 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: the infertility. 434 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 2: It's not going to be with you your whole life. 435 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: God is not only going to send it packing, but 436 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: he's going to release the healing, the breakthrough, the baby 437 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: you've been praying about, the business you've been wanting to start, 438 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: the person you've been dreaming to me. Notice how God 439 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: is going to do it. It says God gave it 440 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: to them, smiling. That's the way God is is. 441 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 2: He wants to be good to you. 442 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: God wants you to live in victory, healthy, whole, free 443 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: and abundant life. Why don't you get in agreement with 444 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: God and say, Lord, I want to thank you that 445 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: you're sending my enemies packing, that you're doing for me 446 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: what I. 447 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 2: Could not do on my own. 448 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: First Peter says, hope to the end for the divine 449 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: favor that is coming. In difficult times, negative thoughts will 450 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: tell you it's never going to change. You're never going 451 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: to get out of this problem. Now, down deep, you've 452 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: got to know favor is headed your way. Keep reminding yourself. 453 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: Healing is coming, breakthroughs are coming, restoration is coming. 454 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 2: Hope to the end. 455 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: That means keep believing for God's favor. Get up every 456 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: morning expecting it to turn around. Go out during the 457 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,920 Speaker 1: day knowing that you have a secret weapon. You cannot 458 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: be defeated. The favor of. 459 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 2: God is on your life. 460 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: You may be in a tough time, but that setback 461 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: is simply a set up for a greater comeback. The 462 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: winds that are trying to stop you, all God has 463 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: to do is shift the direction, and instead of holding 464 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: you back, they will push you forward. Some of you 465 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: are about to see this shift. You're about to see 466 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: God defeat an enemy you're about to break an addiction, 467 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: You're about to see a relationship restored, You're about to 468 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 1: be thrust into the fullness of your destiny. And if 469 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: you will have this attitude of faith, knowing that you 470 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: cannot be defeated, and I believe and declare that God 471 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: is going to send your enemies packing. 472 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 2: He's gonna do for you what you couldn't do on 473 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 2: your own. 474 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: Favor is coming, healing is coming, breakthrough is coming, Victory 475 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: is coming. You're gonna rise above every obstacle and become 476 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: everything God's created you to be in Jesus' name. If 477 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: you receive it, can you say and then today we 478 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 1: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an 479 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 480 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll 481 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 2: repent of my sins. 482 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 483 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 484 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 485 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: God first place. He's going to take your places that. 486 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 2: You've never dreamed of. 487 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 3: God has put a specific dream in your heart. Maybe 488 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 3: it's a dream for a better career, a blessing that 489 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 3: enables you to bless others, to be in a healthy, 490 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 3: loving relationship, to launch your own business or ministry endeavor. 491 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 3: We all have dreams, but sometimes set backs and opposition 492 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 3: can rob us of our dreams. So how do you 493 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 3: make your dreams a reality? 494 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: One way you know it's a God given dream is 495 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: you can't accomplish it on your own. 496 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 2: We never thought. 497 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: We'd be having church in a former basketball arena, but 498 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: this is what can happen when you take the limits 499 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: off of God. 500 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 4: When you believe what God put in your heart, that's 501 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 4: when He steps in and makes ways where you never 502 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 4: saw ways. 503 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: Now I'd love to send you my newest book, It's 504 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: Time to Dream Again. 505 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 2: It'll help you to hold on. 506 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: To what God promised and now get discouraged by how 507 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,360 Speaker 1: impossible it looks or how long it's taken. You are 508 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: closer than you think. God's working behind the scenes right now. 509 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: Stay in faith, You're going to see the greatness of 510 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 1: God bring your dreams to pass. 511 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 512 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 3: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and 513 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 3: Victoria would like to send you this dream releasing life 514 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 3: affirming book It's Time to Dream Again. You make sense 515 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 3: that your dreams have been buried, but with this book, 516 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 3: you'll see that they are actually a hidden treasure just 517 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 3: waiting to be uncovered and come to life. God's plan 518 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,600 Speaker 3: for you is significant. His dreams for you are beyond 519 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 3: what you could imagine. Don't wait another day. It's time 520 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 3: to dream again. 521 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 4: This book will help you gain a fresh perspective for 522 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 4: your dreams and to believe for everything God has put 523 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 4: in your heart. 524 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every day. 525 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your 526 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: generosity is making a difference around the world. Remember you 527 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: can watch the services live online every Sunday. To download the 528 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: daily podcast our YouTube channel, listen on Serious exam. We 529 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: will keep you encouraged and inspired. But until we meet again, 530 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: may the Lord bless. 531 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 2: You and keep you. 532 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of It's Time to 533 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 3: Dream Again today. Visit Joelostein dot com or call eight 534 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 3: eight eight five six seven. Joel