1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for. 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: Supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have an. 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled. 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you. 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope you'll. 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: Stay connected with us during the week to our daily podcast, 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, social media. 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 2: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. 10 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny and I heard 11 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,639 Speaker 1: about this minister. He was driving down the road when 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: he was pulled over by a policeman. The officer came 13 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: to the window and smelled alcohol. He saw a thermist 14 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: and said, sir, what are you drinking. The minister said, 15 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: just water. Officer, he asked to see the thermist. He 16 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: took one sniff and said, smells like wine to me. 17 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: The minister said, what do you know? Jesus did it again? 18 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what 20 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says 21 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 22 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 23 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: heart is receptive. 24 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 25 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 26 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:18,479 Speaker 2: reverse the order. 27 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: We all face times where we feel like we're at 28 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: a disadvantage. Others have more experience, more qualifications, more resources. 29 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: Seems like they get the good breaks, the best positions. 30 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: It's easy to feel overlooked and left out. Friend told 31 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: how it worked. People take everyone's opinion except his. They 32 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: see him as secondary, too young, not much to offer. 33 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: But Jesus said in Matthew, the last shall be first. 34 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: God knows how to reverse the order. He loves to 35 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: promote people who are not next in line, to take 36 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: those who are overlooked, discounted, and push them into their destiny. 37 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: One shift, one good break, and you'll go from being 38 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: overlooked to being in charge, from being left out to leading, 39 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 1: from being disrespected to being honored. 40 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 2: Don't get discouraged. 41 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: If you feel like you're at the last, so to speak, 42 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: you're in perfect position for God to show out in 43 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: your life. The last is a setup. Being discounted is 44 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: not how your story ends. A reversal is coming. What 45 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: looks permanent is only temporary. Looks like they have the 46 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: upper hand, they have the advantage. But what God has 47 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: purpose for you cannot be stopped. He didn't create you 48 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: to live at a disadvantage. He didn't breathe life into 49 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,279 Speaker 1: you to go around being overlooked. 50 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 2: He didn't crown you with favor for you to be discounted. 51 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: And yes, we all go through seasons where these things happen, 52 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: but don't think it's permanent. There's going to be a reversal, 53 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: a shift, a suddenly where God catapults you from the 54 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: back to the front, from borrowing to lending. 55 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 2: From business is slow to business is booming. 56 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: From no customers to get in line, we're in the overflow. 57 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 2: Don't judge your situation too soon. A reversal is. 58 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: Coming, something uncommon. You couldn't have made it happen. People 59 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: that were against you are now suddenly for you. They 60 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: wouldn't give you the time of day. Now they look 61 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 1: up to you. Your marriage looked too far gone, you 62 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: had given up on it, But suddenly a reversal. You 63 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: thought your business was done. The pandemic sets you back. 64 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: Then one shift and suddenly things are stronger than ever. 65 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: Now get in agreement, with God. No more, I'll never 66 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: get ahead, Joel. Nobody gives me the time of day. 67 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: How can I break out? Look how I was raised? No, 68 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: turn it around. Father, Thank you that a reversal is coming. 69 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: Thank you that you are shifting things in my fevor 70 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: that what was meant for harm turn into my advantage. 71 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: That I will come out stronger, healthier, promoted, honored. Don't 72 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: live with a victim mentality, a lack mindset. I'm overlooked, 73 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: I'm at a disadvantage. 74 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 2: This is just my lot in life. 75 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: No, your lot in life is to excel, to be 76 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: the head and not the tale. You may be the 77 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: tale now, but that's temporary. A reversal is coming to 78 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: be above and not beneath. You may be beneath now, but. 79 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 2: Above is on the way. 80 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: Good breaks, divine connections fever that will catapult you from 81 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: the last to the first. Now, you don't have to 82 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: make this happen. You don't have to strive, manipulate people, 83 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: force doors to open. 84 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 2: You. 85 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: Just keep honoring God, doing the right thing when it's hard, 86 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: being good to. 87 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 2: People that are not being good to you. 88 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: Keep smiling, praising, thanking God. You do your part, and 89 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: God will do his part. Promotion doesn't come from people. 90 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: He comes from the Lord. He lifts up one and 91 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: sets down another. 92 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 2: He sees you being overlooked. 93 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: He sees when you discounted, not treated fairly, raised in 94 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: a rough environment. Thoughts tell you you'll never get ahead, you'll 95 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: never accomplish your dreams, you'll never have respect and honor. 96 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies. The God we serve knows how 97 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: to reverse the order. You should have been defeated, you 98 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: should have lived struggling, but the reversal took place. 99 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 2: You went from the back to the front, from. 100 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,480 Speaker 1: Being overlooked to being honored, from struggling to succeeding. It 101 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: may not have happened yet, but your time is coming. 102 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: Your reversal is already on the schedule. This is what 103 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: happened to David. He was the youngest of eight brothers. 104 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: His father Jesse, saw him as the least, not up 105 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: to par. He didn't have the talent, the size, the 106 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: experience of these brothers. He discounted him and left him out. 107 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: When the prophet Samuel came to Jesse's house to anoint 108 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: one of the sons as the next king, Jesse didn't 109 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: bother to call David. In thought, there's no way it's David. 110 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: If our destiny only depended on people who likes us, 111 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: who believes in us, who thinks we're talented, we'd get 112 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: stuck because there will always be people that discount you, 113 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: leave you out. Sometimes they're intimidated, they don't want you 114 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: to pass them up. They're jealous, they don't want your 115 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: gifts to come out. They'll try to push you down. 116 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: The good news is they don't control your destiny. The 117 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: most High God is ordering your steps. He's working out 118 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: his plan for your life. David was the last son, 119 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: the youngest. All the brothers were ahead of him. But 120 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: notice what God did. Samuel looked at the seven sons 121 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: said to Jesse, it's none of these seven. 122 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 2: Do you have any more sons. 123 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: Even when people try to leave you out, even when 124 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: they overlook. 125 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 2: You, God doesn't overlook you. 126 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: Jesse had David come in from the shepherd's fields. Samuel said, 127 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: that's the next king. I'm sure Jesse. The other sons 128 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: they thought, how could that be. He's not next in line, 129 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: he's not the biggest, strongest, most talented. But God doesn't 130 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: choose the way we choose David went from being left 131 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: out in the shepherd's fields by himself, nobody thinking he'd 132 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: ever do anything great. Then God showed up and said, David, 133 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: don't worry, I'm about to reverse the order. 134 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 2: I'm about to take you from the back to the. 135 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: Front, from the least to the leader, from being discounted 136 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: to being looked up to. I like David's father. You 137 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: may have family members that don't believe in you, relatives 138 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: that look down on you, coworkers that don't give. 139 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 2: You the time of day. It's easy to be offended. 140 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: Want to get in there and fight with them. Try 141 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: to prove to them who you are, and prove that 142 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: you have something to offer. That's not your battle. You 143 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: keep doing the right thing, and Samuel will show. 144 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: Up when it's your time. 145 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: Promotion will come looking for you, Vindication, honor, respect will 146 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: come knocking on your door. David didn't go looking for Samuel. 147 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: He didn't say, Samuel, come annoy me, man, I'm talented. 148 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: He didn't start a campaign elect me as the next king. 149 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: He didn't go debate three other candidates. He knew God 150 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: was ordering his steps and ordering the steps. 151 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 2: Of the people he needed. 152 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: God has already lined up your Samuel's things you couldn't 153 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: make happen that will take you from the last to 154 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: the first, from the background to the foreground. 155 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 2: The good breaks, the right people, the ideas. 156 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: There are shifts that will suddenly cause people to see 157 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: you in a new light. Suddenly a door opens, Suddenly things. 158 00:08:58,800 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 2: Turn in your favor. 159 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: After David was anointed to be king, he went back 160 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: to the shepherd's fields. I'm sure now he felt approved, valuable, vindicated. Finally, 161 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: someone pointed out to his father that he was talented, 162 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,319 Speaker 1: that he had great things to offer. If that wasn't enough, 163 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: Not long after that, King Saul needed someone at the 164 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: palace that could play the heart for him. One of 165 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: the assistants knew that David was great at it. The 166 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: scripture says Saul sent messengers to Jesse, saying, send me 167 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: your son, David, who is with the sheep. Imagine how 168 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: Jesse must have felt. First this prophet randomly showed up 169 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: and chose the son he thought. 170 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 2: Was the least likely. 171 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: Now the king is saying, send me your son to 172 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: the palace. God knows how to take it from the 173 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: back to the front. He knows how to send people 174 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: who will use their influence to honor you, to give 175 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: you new levels of respect, credibility. Few months earlier, Jesse 176 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: didn't think enough of David to even. 177 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: Bring him in. 178 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: When Samuel showed up, David was overlooked, discounted. 179 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 2: But look at how God works. 180 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: Now, the king of the whole nation is calling for David. Friends, 181 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,959 Speaker 1: God knows how to reverse the order. You may feel 182 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: like you're at a disadvantage, limited by your environment, by 183 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: how you were raised, by what you didn't get. 184 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: Stay encouraged or reversal is coming. 185 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,959 Speaker 1: God loves to take the overlooked and cause them to shine, 186 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: to take those that have been discounted, left out, put 187 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: them in positions of honor, respect, influence. The last will 188 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: be first, The discounted will be celebrated, The ignored will 189 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: be admired. Now, one thing about David is he kept 190 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: a good attitude when he wasn't being treated right. 191 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 2: He didn't get bitter. God, why do these people always 192 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 2: leave me out? 193 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: This isn't fair. He just kept doing the right thing. 194 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: Deep down, he understood this principle. I may be the 195 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: last sun, I may be discounted. Seen is not talented, 196 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: But I know a shift is coming. I know a 197 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: reversal is on the way, that what God put in 198 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: my heart will. 199 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 2: Come to pass. 200 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: Stay faithful in the silent seasons. Stay faithful when you're 201 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: in the shepherd's fields being your best, but nobody's given 202 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: you credit. 203 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 2: You're being overlooked. People may not see you, but God 204 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: sees you. He's the one that matters. He controls the universe. 205 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: He speaks to the samuels, he talks to the kings. 206 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: He opens doors that no person can shut. 207 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: One shift and you'll go from being overlooked to being celebrated, 208 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: from no one paying attention to the King calling for you. 209 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 1: Friend of mine graduated from high school and she was 210 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 1: planning to go to college, but she got engaged and 211 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: things moved very fast, ended up getting me having a baby. 212 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: Now college was put on hold. Then she had another child. 213 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: She loved being a mother, loved reaching her children, but 214 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: she had this dream of doing something professionally, maybe working 215 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: in the medical field or some kind of sales. Twenty 216 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: years had passed since high school. She saw this job 217 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 1: opportunity online for a marketing executive at this prestigious firm. 218 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 1: The problem was it required a college degree, years of 219 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: experience all these references, which she had none of. Despite that, 220 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: she applied anyway. She did a phone interview with them 221 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: and had a short conversation. They really liked her, but 222 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: they immediately told her no, she didn't have the qualifications. 223 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: There were people applying that not only had college degrees, 224 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: but they had their masters, all these impressive credentials from 225 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: Ivy League schools. She knew, in one sense she didn't 226 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 1: measure up. He had was a high school diploma. But 227 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: God is not limited by what you don't have. He's 228 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: not limited by what you didn't get. The dream he 229 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: put in your heart is not dependent on you having 230 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: all the qualifications, the experience, the training, the people being 231 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: for you. Sometimes on purpose, God will let the odds 232 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: be against you. 233 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 2: He'll let you be over your head, the back of 234 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 2: the line, the least likely. That's a setup. That's a 235 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 2: sign that a reversal is coming. 236 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: The scripture says God chooses the foolish to confound the wise. 237 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 1: He loves to take the unqualified and cause them to excel, 238 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: to take those that people disregard and. 239 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 2: Cause them to shine. Well, my friend was passed over 240 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 2: for the job. 241 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: While she was disappointed, she understood that on paper, she 242 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: didn't have what was required. Companies have standards, they have policies, 243 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: But when God is ready to promote you, he'll cause 244 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: rules to bend, policies, to change people, to make an exception. 245 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: He's not bound by natural laws, by policies. 246 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 2: He controls the universe. 247 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: He can change people's minds. He can cause them to 248 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: want to be good to you. They may not even 249 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: know why. It's God shining his. 250 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 2: Favor on you, pushing you into your purpose. 251 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: Three months later, his company called back and said, after 252 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: doing all of our research, interviewing all these candidates with 253 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: more experience, more degrees, more credentials, We've changed our mind. 254 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 2: We want to offer you the position. That's God reversing 255 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 2: the order. 256 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: That's God taking you from the back to the front, 257 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: from being overlooked to being in charge. 258 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: I believe there are some reversals coming for you. 259 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: You may think you could never accomplish your dream, never 260 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: meet the right person, never break the addiction. You tried, 261 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: it didn't happen. You don't have the qualifications. Now you've 262 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: accepted being in the bag getting by in life. God 263 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: is saying I'm about to take the last and make 264 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: them the First, I'm going to take those that are 265 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: overlooked and cause them to be seen, those that have 266 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: had bad breaks, that are at a disadvantage, and put 267 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: them in a position of influence, honor, with resources, with abundance. 268 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: Things are about to shift. It's going to happen suddenly. 269 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: It's going to be out of the ordinary. Divine reversals, 270 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: a reversal in that sickness, Suddenly your health improves, a 271 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: reversal in that relationship it was falling apart, suddenly it 272 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: gets better. A reversal in your finances, suddenly, new clients, 273 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: new opportunities, blessings. 274 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 2: Chasing you down. 275 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: When we put our program on television each Sunday, we 276 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: purchased that airtime. When we first started, the only time 277 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: we could get was early Sunday morning before six am. 278 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: Very few people watching over time. God's given us favor, 279 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: and now we have good airtimes all across the nation. 280 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: Many people watch, but it's very expensive, takes a big 281 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: portion of our budget. Well, eight years ago a large 282 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: network called and said they wanted to air our program. 283 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: It's a very influential, popular network and I thought, Wow, God, 284 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: that's amazing, that's your favor. 285 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 2: They're calling us. 286 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: After I got over the excitement, I came back to 287 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: reality and said to my media director, how much is 288 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: it gonna cost. They may want us, but we can't 289 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: afford it. He said, no, Joe, this deal is different. 290 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: We don't have to pay anything. 291 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 2: They're asking if they can pay us to put the 292 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 2: program on. 293 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: He's been in the media business over forty years, bought 294 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: airtime for all the TV ministries. 295 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 2: He said, I have. 296 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: Never seen anything happen like this. God is doing a 297 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: new thing. Borrowing to lending, from hoping to get on 298 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: to can. 299 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 2: We pay you for the content? 300 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: From being down at the bottom, overlooked, to being promoted, honored, 301 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: given a position of influence. 302 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: Get ready for some reversals. 303 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: Well, Joe, man, I'm hoping just make it through this year, 304 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: gas prices, inflation, the pandemic. 305 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 2: Not me. 306 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: I'm expecting an abundant year, a bountiful year, a favor 307 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: filed year. God is about to shift some things. It's 308 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 1: going to be something you've never seen, something that will 309 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 1: make your mind. 310 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 2: Go tilt tilt. I didn't see that coming. 311 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: Instead of paying rent, owning your property, instead of working 312 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: for others, owning your business, instead of struggling to make 313 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: ends meet, having an abundance. I don't see how this 314 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: can happen. You don't have to see how. All you 315 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: have to do is believe. Father, thank you that you're 316 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: a god who reverses the order, a god who can 317 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: make the last. First, Lord, I thank you for doing 318 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: what only you can do, for taking me where I 319 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: can't go on my own. Second King, Chapter seven, the 320 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: Syrian army had surrounded the city of Samaria. They cut 321 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 1: off the Israelites food supply, clogged up their waterways. 322 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:17,440 Speaker 2: So they couldn't get water. 323 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: The Israelites were so distraught it looked like that was 324 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: the end. The prophet Elisha showed up and said, by 325 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: this time tomorrow there will be so much food that 326 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: bread will be a penny of loaf, and five quarts 327 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: of flower will be just ten cents. They looked at 328 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: Elishah like he had lost his mind. They were surrounded 329 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 1: by the enemy, out of supplies, starving. One of the 330 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: main leaders said, Elisha, that's impossible. Even if God opened 331 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 1: the windows. 332 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:48,959 Speaker 2: Of heaven, that couldn't happen. 333 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: Elisha said to him, in effect, because you didn't believe, 334 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 1: it's not. 335 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 2: Going to happen for you. 336 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 1: Everyone else is going to see it, but your doubt 337 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 1: is going to keep you from seeing it. 338 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 2: Now, you may not see how. 339 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: Your situation could ever change, How God could reverse the trouble, 340 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: the marriage, the finances doesn't look possible in the natural. 341 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: But God is supernatural. He has ways that we've never 342 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: thought of. Don't do like this man and talk to 343 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 1: yourself out. 344 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 2: Of your miracle. Be a believer and not a doubter. 345 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: There were four lepers sitting outside the gates of Samarian. 346 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 2: They decided to walk toward. 347 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: The enemy's camp to see what the Syrians were doing. 348 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 1: God multiplied the sound of their footsteps. The Syrians thought 349 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: they were being attacked by a huge army. They panicked 350 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: and took off, running for their lives. They left all 351 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: their food, supplies, equipment. The Lepers went back and told 352 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: the Israelites. They all came and gathered up the spoils, 353 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: just like Elisha promised. In less than twenty four hours, 354 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: they had more food more supplies than they ever imagined. 355 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 2: God knows how to reverse things. What you're up against 356 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 2: may look permanent. 357 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: Thoughts tell you you'll always struggle, you never get ahead, never 358 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: be healthy. 359 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 2: Never meet the right person. 360 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: No, there's about to be a divine reversal, a supernatural 361 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: shift in your finances, in your children, in your health, 362 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: in your relationships. I received an email from a woman 363 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: that had been separated from her husband for over a year. 364 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 1: He had moved out of the house, they hadn't spoken 365 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 1: to each other, looked like it was over. She saw 366 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: that we were coming to Yankee Stadium. She reached out 367 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: to her husband and asked if he would come. Against 368 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: all odds, He said yes. They saw each other for 369 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: the first time in a year and sat together at 370 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: the end, with tears running down their cheeks. They both 371 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,719 Speaker 1: stood up to recommit their life to Christ for a 372 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: new beginning, for a fresh new start. That night, he 373 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: went back home with her and the children. Now they're 374 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: together as a family. She said, I didn't think this 375 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: would ever happen. We had been through so much. God 376 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: knows how to reverse things, what looks permanent, what seems unlikely. 377 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: One touch of God's favor and suddenly things shift. Suddenly 378 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: your child turns around, Suddenly your health improves, Suddenly your 379 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: dreams come to pass. When we acquired the Compact Center, 380 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: this place, we signed a sixty. 381 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 2: Year lease with the City of Houston. 382 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: We always wanted to own the building, but the lease 383 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: was the best way to get the facility at the time, 384 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: and while we were thrilled to have it, it always 385 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: bothered me a little bit that in sixty years the 386 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: building would go. 387 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 2: Back to the city. 388 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: I was forty two years old when we'd signed the least. 389 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: I thought, Man, when I'm one hundred and two, I 390 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: don't want to be down at the city negotiating another lease, 391 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: especially when I'll be taking care of my brother Paul, 392 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: who will be one hundred and forty four at that time. 393 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 2: But I always al right, God, I don't know. 394 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: How this can happen, but I know you can make 395 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: a way where we can purchase the building so that 396 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 1: generations to come will have lake Wood as a lighthouse 397 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: of hope. 398 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 2: Seven years after we signed. 399 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,159 Speaker 1: The lease, the mayor called said the city was short 400 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: on tax revenue and asked if we were interested in 401 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 1: purchasing the building. I knew that was God opening the door, 402 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: but I didn't know what it was going to cost 403 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: to build this facility. 404 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 2: Would cost a half of billion dollars. We're on one 405 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 2: of the. 406 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: Busiest freeways millions of people have been in this building. 407 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 1: The Rockets have won two world championships here, very prestigious. 408 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,639 Speaker 2: I told her, we would love to buy it, but we. 409 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: Just need to see if we can make it work financially. 410 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: She said that they would run the appraisal and get 411 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:51,200 Speaker 1: back with us. Well, they had to appraise the building 412 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: based on us having a sixty year lease, meaning whoever 413 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: bought it wouldn't get it for over fifty years. They 414 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: came back in a few weeks and said they would 415 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: sell it to us. Not for three hundred million, not 416 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,120 Speaker 1: for one hundred million, not fifty, not twenty five. They 417 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 1: said you can purchase it for seven million dollars. My 418 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: mind was going till till till I didn't see that coming. 419 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 2: What was that? 420 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: A divine reversal, A sixty year lea suddenly shifted to 421 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:26,479 Speaker 1: an unbelievable purchase price. God is about to reverse some 422 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: things in your life, things that look like they'll never change. 423 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 2: You'll never own your own house. 424 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: You'll never get married, never break the addiction, never start 425 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: that ministry. Get ready for a reversal. Things are going 426 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: to suddenly shift in your favor. Samuel is going to 427 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: show up looking for you. The Mayor's going to call, 428 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: so to speak, the people you need to open the 429 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: right doors to move you into your destiny. Sometimes what's 430 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: limiting us are negative things in our family lines that 431 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: keep getting passed down. Addictions, low self esteem, divorce, lack, 432 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: can't get ahead. 433 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 2: We get used to it, think it's just who we are. 434 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: But part of this reversal is God is going to 435 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: put an end to these negative cycles that keep going 436 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: from generation to generation. 437 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 2: This is a new day. God's doing a new thing. 438 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 2: It may have been in. 439 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: Your family for years, but every force that's trying to 440 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: stop you is being broken. 441 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 2: You're the one that's going to see the reversal. 442 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,880 Speaker 1: You're gonna set new standards, You're gonna step into new levels. 443 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 2: You're going to go places no one in your family 444 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,199 Speaker 2: has ever gone. This is what happened with Rayhab in 445 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 2: the scripture. 446 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: She was a good woman that got off course. She 447 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: came from a family that worshiped idols. They were very poor. 448 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 1: They lived right inside the walls of Jericho. She ended 449 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: up as a prostitute. She never dreamed she would live. 450 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,959 Speaker 2: This kind of life. She didn't like who she was. 451 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 2: She knew she was made for more, but it was 452 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 2: like she. 453 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: Couldn't get out of this negative cycle. And she had 454 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: heard about the God of Israel, how he parted the 455 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: Red Sea and protected the Israelites. I can imagine at night, 456 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: she looked up at the stars, said, God of Abraham, 457 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob, if you're real, help me get out 458 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 1: of this trouble, deliver me from this dysfunction. She wanted 459 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,640 Speaker 1: to change, but it seemed impossible. One day, Joshua sent 460 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: two men. 461 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 2: To spy off the city of Jericho. Word got out 462 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 2: that they were there. 463 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 1: They knocked on Rahab's door, looking for a place to hide. 464 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: She could have called the authorities turned them in, but 465 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: she since this was a destiny moment, she hid them 466 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 1: and later helped them escape. In return, the Israelites spared 467 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: Rayhab and all of her family. Now Rahab is listed 468 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: as one of the heroes of faith. She's in the 469 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: family line of Jesus Christ. But out of all the 470 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: places the spies could have not, somehow they chose Rehab's doors. 471 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: God has not forgotten about you. You may have been 472 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: pushed down, left out, feel like you're at the very back. 473 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: If Rahab were here today, she would tell you stay encouraged. 474 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: God knows how to reverse things. She went from being 475 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: looked down on, despised, not valuable. 476 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 2: To be an honored, respected, influential. 477 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: Maybe there's negative baggage in your past, things you've done. 478 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,520 Speaker 1: You're not proud of, dysfunction in your family line that 479 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: keeps getting passed down. Don't believe that lie that is 480 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: always going to be that way. 481 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 2: A reversal is coming. 482 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: God's about to reverse the dysfunction, reverse the shame, reverse 483 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: the compromise. You wouldn't be hearing this if he wasn't 484 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 1: about to shift some things. I believe and declare like Rahab, 485 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: like with David. 486 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 2: God's going to take you from. 487 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: The background to the foreground, from being overlooked to in charge. 488 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, And if you receive it, can you 489 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 2: say amen? 490 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 491 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,199 Speaker 1: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 492 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,400 Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 493 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 494 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 495 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: born again. We'd love to send you some free information 496 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: on your new walk with the Lord. You can go 497 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 1: to the website text the number on the screen. I 498 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: hope you'll get into a good Bible based church and 499 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: keep God first place. 500 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 3: It's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start. 501 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,720 Speaker 3: It's a new year, time to forget the struggles of 502 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 3: the past and make room for new blessings. It's a 503 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 3: new year, the perfect time to build expectation and faith 504 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 3: for an amazing new season. 505 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: The beginning of the year is a great time to 506 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: start afresh and anew to let go of negative things 507 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: of the past and to get ready for the new 508 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: things God has in store. 509 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 2: Every January we create a new devotional calendar. 510 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 1: When you start off each day in faith, grateful for 511 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 1: what God has done, making positive declarations over your future, 512 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: you're setting the tone for a blessed day and a 513 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: victorious year. This devotional calendar will help you get your 514 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: mind going in the right direction so you can live 515 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: in faith expecting the goodness of God. 516 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 517 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 3: of any amount this first month of the year, we 518 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 3: would like to send you a copy of our brand 519 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 3: new twenty twenty five three hundred and sixty five Day 520 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 3: devotional calendar. Using this devotional calendar is as easy as one, two, three. 521 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 3: One wake up with an expectancy in your heart. Two 522 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 3: reflect on the daily scripture, verse and devotional from Joel. 523 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 3: Three capture the Lord's promises to you on journaling lines 524 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 3: for writing and reflection. 525 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 2: This is going to be one of your best years. 526 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: Our twenty twenty five devotional calendar is going to help 527 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: you stay in faith and see the goodness of God 528 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: in ways you've never seen. Victoria and I pray for 529 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: you and your family every day, and thank you so 530 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 1: much for your prayer and support. Your generosity is impacting 531 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: lives around the world. 532 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 2: And a special thank you to our Champion of Hope 533 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 2: partners for your monthly gifts. 534 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: If you're not a partner, I hope you'll consider becoming one. 535 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online live every Sunday morning, 536 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,719 Speaker 1: download our daily podcast, watch on YouTube now the new 537 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: Joel Osteine Network twenty four hours a day, and of 538 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: course listen live on SiriusXM as well. But until we 539 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: meet again, met the Lord bless you and keep you, 540 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: may show you His favor and watch over you. 541 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of the twenty twenty 542 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 3: five devotional Calendar. Today, visit Joelostein dot com tom or 543 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 3: call us toll free. 544 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 1: Hmm.