1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 2: the ministry. 4 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 5 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend. 6 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 7 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 2: your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 8 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 2: come into your homes. We love you and we know 9 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 2: God has great things in store. And if you're ever 10 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 2: in our area, please stop by and be a part 11 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 2: of one of our services. I promise you it will 12 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 2: make you feel right at home. Thanks so much, though 13 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: for tuning in today, and thanks again for coming out. 14 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: I'd like to start with something funny each week. And 15 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: I heard about this college professor. He was going to 16 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 2: prove to his class that there is no God. He said, God, 17 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: if you're real, knock me off this platform, and now I'll. 18 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: Give you fifteen minutes to do it. 19 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 2: With every minute that went by, he taunted, God, God, 20 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 2: I'm still here, God, I'm still waiting the last minute. 21 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: A three hundred pound football player out in the hall 22 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 2: overheard what he was saying. He took off toward him, 23 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 2: put his shoulders down full force. When he hit that professor, 24 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: sending him flying off the platform. The professor got up 25 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 2: in a daze and said, what in the world. 26 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: To do that for? 27 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 2: Football player replied, God said he was busy, so he 28 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: sent me. All right, hold up your Bible. Say it 29 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 30 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 2: what it says. 31 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:18,320 Speaker 1: I am. 32 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do 33 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be 34 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 35 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is recepted. I will never be 36 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 37 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: to talk to you today about receiving your inheritance. I 38 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 2: read where there are billions of dollars worth of unclaimed 39 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 2: inheritances in the United States alone. People have loved ones 40 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:54,639 Speaker 2: that have died and left them houses, property, jewelry, stocks, bonds, cash, 41 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 2: all kinds of assets. The only problem is the relatives 42 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: didn't know anything about it. Out it the authorities, the 43 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 2: people in charge, weren't able to track them down. Now, 44 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: these billions and billions of dollars that rightfully belong to 45 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: these people that clearly have their name on it, because 46 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 2: they don't know anything about it. 47 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: It's not doing them any good. 48 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 2: You've heard the saying what you don't know won't hurt you, 49 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: and that's not necessarily true. Sometimes what we don't know 50 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 2: will keep us from living an abundant life. 51 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: Here's the key. 52 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 2: It's not up to the authorities to make sure you 53 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 2: get what belongs to you. It's up to you, even 54 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 2: though it has your name on it. If you don't 55 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 2: rise up and claim it, if you don't say yes, 56 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 2: that's me, here's my identification. If you don't take action, 57 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: you'll miss out on what belongs to you. The good 58 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: news today is you have been named in a will. 59 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: Two thousand years ago. Your older brother died and he's 60 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: left a whole lot that belongs to you. 61 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: This Bible is the will. 62 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 2: It's full of promises after promises that have your name 63 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 2: on it. They are rightfully yours. But unless you rise 64 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 2: up and act, it's not going to do any good. 65 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 2: You have to receive your inheritance. It says in Ephesians 66 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: that God has blessed us past tense. He's already done it. 67 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 1: Now. 68 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 2: You may not feel blessed, may not look blessed. All 69 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: the circumstances may tell you that you're not blessed, But 70 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: you've got to be bold enough to say no, I 71 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 2: see it right here in the will. This is a 72 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: part of my inheritance. 73 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: I am blessed. 74 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 2: It says in Colossians that God has made us worthy 75 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: again past tense. He's already done it. You may not 76 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: feel worthy. You may have made a lot of mistakes. 77 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 2: Guilt and condemnation is trying to weigh you down, telling 78 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 2: you how bad you are, how you'll never be happy. 79 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: The choice is up to you. 80 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 2: Are you going to receive your inheritance, shake off the 81 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: guilt and condemnation, knowing that you're forgiven, redeemed, restored, knowing 82 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 2: that the past is the past? Or are you going 83 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 2: to let that package that inheritance sit up on a 84 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,119 Speaker 2: shelf and go around defeated, depressed, guilty, condemned. 85 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: No, go get what belongs to you. It has your 86 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: name on it. 87 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 2: Two Timothy one point seven says God has not given 88 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, 89 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: and of a sound mind. Notice God has already given 90 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,559 Speaker 2: us a sound mind. Every day we should say Father, 91 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 2: thank you that I have your wisdom to make good decisions. 92 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 2: Thank you that I have clear direction that you're opening 93 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,799 Speaker 2: the right doors. Lord, thank you for peace in my mind. 94 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 2: You don't have to live confused, frustrated, anxious, worried. The 95 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 2: price has been paid for you to have a sound mind. 96 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,479 Speaker 2: That means for you to live in peace. When those 97 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 2: negative thoughts come negative forces. Right then you need to say, Father, 98 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: I want to thank you that I am free from 99 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: a spirit of fear, a spirit of depression, a spirit 100 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 2: of confusion. You promise me a sound mind, and I 101 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: believe I have it right now. By faith, that's how 102 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 2: you receive what already belongs to you. This will says 103 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 2: that God has crowned you with favor. Favor is a 104 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 2: part of our inheritance. It's a part of what God 105 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: has left us. The problem is some people never go. 106 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: Pick up their crown. 107 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 2: They go through life thinking nothing good ever happens to me. 108 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 2: I'll never get promoted, I'll never get well, I'll never 109 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 2: get married. No, you need to go pick up what 110 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: already belongs to you. You need to start declaring I 111 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: have the favor of God. Blessings are chasing me down, 112 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 2: Goodness and mercy are following me. Twenty eleven is going 113 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 2: to be my year. No I has seen, heard or 114 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: imagine blessings are come in my way. When you do that, 115 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 2: you are putting on your crown of favor. You're receiving 116 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 2: your inheritance. I was headed to the airport last week. 117 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 2: We were in New York, coming home, and we were 118 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 2: in a big hurry, running very late. There was a 119 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 2: snowstorm coming in that night. We were trying to catch 120 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 2: the last flight out, and if we missed that when 121 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 2: we would have gotten stuck there for a day or two. 122 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 2: And I really needed to get back now. I've taken 123 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 2: this flight many times before. The line for security usually 124 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 2: takes at least thirty. 125 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: Minutes to get through, can easily have a couple hundred 126 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: people in it. 127 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 2: We weren't even at the airport yet, our plane was 128 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 2: about to start boarding. In the car, under my breath, 129 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: I started saying, Father, thank you for your favor. Think 130 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 2: you that you're going before me making crooked places straight. Father, 131 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 2: Thank you that you'll. 132 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: Have the right people to help us. 133 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 2: When we pulled up at the curve of the airport, 134 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 2: it just so happened the man that always helps with 135 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 2: our baggage was standing right there like he was waiting 136 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 2: for us. He said, let me take the bags. Go on, 137 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 2: and we took off toward the gate. When I got 138 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 2: around the corner, the line for security that normally has 139 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: a couple hundred people, there weren't ten people in it. 140 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 2: I've never seen it that short in five years. We 141 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 2: went straight through God on the plane right before they 142 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 2: closed the door. That was the favor of God clearing 143 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 2: a path. That was God making a way when it 144 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 2: looked like there was no way. I sat on on 145 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 2: the plane next to Victoria said, Hey, let me straighten 146 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 2: my crown of favor. Friend's favor is a part of 147 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: your inheritance. You don't have to beg God for it. 148 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: He's already put it on you. The way you activate 149 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: it is by saying, Father, thank you for your favor today. 150 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 2: Thank you that your favor is causing me to be 151 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 2: at the right place the right time. Thank you that 152 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 2: your favor is causing people to want to be good 153 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 2: to me. See, you don't have to pray about something 154 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 2: that you already have. You just thank God for it 155 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 2: before I come up here. Each week, I never say God, 156 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 2: please give You're annoying God, Please give me something to 157 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 2: say now I simply say God, thank you that I 158 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 2: am anointed, thank you that you've already equipped me, empowered me. See, 159 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 2: I know it's a part of my inheritance, so I 160 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 2: just act like it's true. 161 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: Now, you may not feel. 162 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 2: Blessed or confident, or healthy or favored, but don't you 163 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: dare drag around with that weak, defeated mentality. Joel, I 164 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: just don't have what it takes. No, this will says 165 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 2: you are blessed, you are favored, you are forgiven, you 166 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 2: are redeemed, not going to be someday in the sweet 167 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 2: by and bye. No, God has already blessed you. He's 168 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: already made you worthy. He's already given you that crown 169 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 2: of favor. Now start acting like it, talking like it, 170 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 2: thinking like it. This is what Abraham did twenty years 171 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 2: before he ever had a child. God said to him 172 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: Romans four seventeen, Abraham, I have made you a father 173 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 2: of many nations. Notice again, God said it in the 174 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 2: past ten like it had already happened. I'm sure Abraham thought, God, 175 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 2: you must have made a mistake. I'm not a father. 176 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 2: I don't even have one child. In other words, Joel, 177 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 2: I'm not blessed I'm not confident, I'm not healthy, I'm 178 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,959 Speaker 2: not favored. Abraham could have talked himself out of it, 179 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 2: but instead he chose to believe. When God says you're blessed, 180 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 2: don't try to figure it out. Just agree with God. 181 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 2: I am blessed God cause you prosperous. Don't go check 182 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 2: your bank account, don't go look at the stock report. 183 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 2: Just agree with God. I am prosperous. Some of you 184 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 2: don't feel well today, but God says he's restoring health 185 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 2: unto you. You will live and not die with long life. 186 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: God's going to satisfy you. That's a part of your inheritance. 187 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: And don't try to figure it all out and talk 188 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 2: yourself out of it. Well, the medical report may not 189 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 2: look like it. It may say impossible, no way, that's 190 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: all right. That's the way Abraham felt. Just say God, 191 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,839 Speaker 2: I agree with you. I'm healthy, I'm strong, I'm getting better. 192 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,200 Speaker 2: When you agree with God, you're receiving your inheritance. The 193 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 2: scripture says that God calls the things that are not 194 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 2: as if they already were. 195 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: I've learned God doesn't. 196 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 2: Call you what you are. 197 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: He calls you the way he sees you. 198 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 2: When I stepped up to pastor the church eleven years ago, 199 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 2: after my father went to be with the Lord and 200 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 2: never ministered before. I was afraid. I felt unqualified, inexperienced, intimidated. 201 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: But the whole time, on the inside, I could hear 202 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 2: that still small voice saying. 203 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: Joel, you are well able. You can do all things. 204 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: You have what it takes. You are strong in the Lord. 205 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 2: God was calling me something that I was not. I 206 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 2: was not strong and bold and confident. I was weak, insecure, intimidated. 207 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 2: Somehow I had the faith to believe what God said 208 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 2: about me. It didn't happen overnight, but little by little 209 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 2: I became what God called me. In the scripture, God 210 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 2: called Gideon a mighty man of fearless courage. Gideon looked around, said, 211 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 2: God couldn't be talking about me. I come from the 212 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 2: poorest family. I'm the least one in my father's house. 213 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: Gideon saw himself as weak, defeated, not able to but 214 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 2: God saw him as strong, confident, being more than a conqueror. 215 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: The question is are we going to believe what God 216 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: says about us? Or are we going to believe what 217 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 2: we feel, what we think, what the circumstances look like. 218 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: You may feel weak, but let me tell you, God 219 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 2: calls you strong. You may feel like a victim, but 220 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 2: God's calling you a victor. You may be childless like Abraham, 221 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 2: but God calls you a parent. You may be afraid 222 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: like I was, but God calls you confident. 223 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: Be in debt. God calls you prosperous. 224 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 2: You may be sick, God calls you well. 225 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 1: You may be addicted. 226 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 2: God calls you free. You may feel inadequate, but God 227 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: calls you well able. Now get in agreement with God. 228 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 2: The circumstances may not look like it. May tell you 229 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 2: it's never gonna work out, it's never gonna get better. No, 230 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 2: let God be true in every circumstance. 231 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:23,600 Speaker 1: Be Alie. 232 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 2: You got to dig your heels in and say God, 233 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 2: if you say it, I agree. I'm blessed, I'm prosperous, 234 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 2: I'm redeemed, I'm forgiven, I'm talented, I'm creative. I've got 235 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 2: that crown of favor on my head. When you agree 236 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 2: with God, you will see what God says about you 237 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 2: become a reality. Twenty years later, when Abraham was around 238 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,720 Speaker 2: one hundred years old, that's when they had the baby, 239 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 2: but it didn't happen just because God said it. It 240 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: happened because Abraham came into agreement, he believed, he acted 241 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 2: like it was true. That's what allows God to release 242 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 2: the blessings that already have your name on it. The 243 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 2: scripture talks about how God has blessings stored up that 244 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 2: he keeps. 245 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: Ready for those that love him. 246 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 2: For some of you, God has a business stored up 247 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 2: with your name on it. 248 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: That's a part of your inheritance. 249 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 2: For some of you, there's a spouse that has your 250 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: name on them. Some of you, there's healing with your 251 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 2: name on it. There's a new home with your name 252 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 2: on it. There's promotion with your name on it. There's 253 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 2: a ministry with your name on it. There's vindication with 254 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: your name on it. 255 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: You have no. 256 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 2: Idea the amazing things God has already stored up for 257 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 2: you in your future. I can imagine when we get 258 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 2: to heaven, there are these huge warehouses. You walk in 259 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 2: and see acres and acres of boxes up on shelves 260 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 2: everywhere you look. As far as you can see, there 261 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 2: are rows and rows of boxes. You walk over, oh, sir, 262 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 2: and noticed that each box has an individual name on it. 263 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 2: Out of curiosity. You say to Saint Peter, what are 264 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 2: all these boxes? What does this mean? Peter says, these 265 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 2: are all the unclaimed blessings that God's people never came 266 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 2: and picked up. There's a box of favor has Bill's 267 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 2: name on it. It belonged to him, part of his inheritance, 268 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 2: but he never believed, never came by and got it. 269 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 2: Here's a box of forgiveness that has Sharon's name on it, 270 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 2: but she never received it. She went through life guilty, condemned, 271 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 2: feeling unworthy. And see that box. That's the business Carlos 272 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 2: dreamed about, but he never thought he had what it took. 273 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: And that box is the promotion that Julie wanted, but 274 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 2: she let her friends talk her out of it. That 275 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: box represents the husband that Deborah was praying about, but 276 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 2: she gave up friends. There are boxes right now. 277 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: That have your name on it. 278 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 2: The good news is it's not too late to claim 279 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 2: what belonged to you. I was talking to a young 280 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: couple after the service last week, and they've been trying 281 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 2: to have a baby for a long time. 282 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: They're very discouraged. 283 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 2: I told them what I'm telling you. There's a baby 284 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 2: that has your name on it. That's a part of 285 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 2: your inheritance. Here's the key. Instead of complaining, instead of 286 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: getting discouraged, Remind God what he said. Remind God of 287 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 2: what's in the will. God, you said in Psalms, you 288 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 2: would give the bearing woman a child and make her 289 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 2: the happy mother of children. God that you said, the 290 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 2: fruit of my womb is blessed. Father, you said, children 291 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 2: are a gift from the Lord. So I want to 292 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 2: thank you that that baby that already has my name 293 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 2: on it. 294 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: Is coming in. 295 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: Some of you, there's vindication in your warehouse. That legal 296 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 2: trouble you're in looks like it's never going to work out, 297 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: looks like it's going to bury you. 298 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 1: Now, don't quit believing. 299 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 2: Father, you said, the strength of the wicked is being 300 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 2: cut off, and the power. 301 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: Of the godly is being increased. 302 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 2: Lord you said, when the enemy comes against me one way, 303 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 2: you would defeat them and cause. 304 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: Them to flee seven ways. 305 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 2: So Father, I want to thank you that the vindication 306 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 2: that already has my name on it is coming in. 307 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 2: How about this for some of you in that warehouse 308 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 2: is the husband the wife you've been dreaming to me. 309 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: Don't give up, don't quit believing. 310 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: Father. 311 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 2: You said, he that finds a wife, finds a good 312 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 2: thing and finds favor from the Lord. So Lord, I 313 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 2: want to thank you that my good thing, that husband, 314 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 2: that wife, the right person is coming into my life. 315 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: He said, Joel, I don't know if this works. I've 316 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 2: been believing a long time. When you're tempted to get 317 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 2: discouraged and give up, close your eyes and in your imagination, 318 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: see that warehouse with those boxes that have. 319 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: Your name on them. 320 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 2: Your dreams, your goals, your victories, your hell, your husband, 321 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 2: your wife, your children. They'd been stored up for you. 322 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 2: Don't believe those lies that are telling you it's not 323 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 2: going to happen. You stay in faith, and just like 324 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 2: with Abraham, God will release. 325 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: What He's already stored up for you. 326 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, I was talking along these 327 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 2: same lines about the year of Jubilee and how everything 328 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 2: that has your name on it is coming in. I 329 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 2: mentioned the property, the real estate, the health, and I 330 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 2: specifically said the baby that has your name on it 331 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 2: is coming in. There was a couple here that attend 332 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 2: all the time, and they'd been trying to have a 333 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 2: child for six years, no success, gone through all the 334 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: treatments and nothing had helped. They were just about to 335 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 2: give up and accept the fact that it wasn't meant 336 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 2: to be. But when I said there's a baby that 337 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 2: has your name on it, something leaped on the inside. 338 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 2: Instead of saying this is not for us. We've been 339 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: through too much. It's never going to work out, they 340 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 2: let the seed take root. They left that day with 341 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 2: a new fire birthed in their spirit. They knew this 342 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: was a part of their inheritance. Four hours later, they 343 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 2: got a call from their business manager asking if they 344 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 2: would be interested in adopting a baby that was about 345 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 2: to be born. Years earlier, they had a dream that 346 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 2: they had this blonde haired. 347 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: Blue eyed baby boy. 348 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: Eight weeks later, they were in the delivery room when 349 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 2: their little baby was born. 350 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:24,520 Speaker 1: It just so happened. 351 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 2: He was blonde haired, blue eyed, just like they had 352 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 2: seen in the dream. That baby had their name on it. 353 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 2: It was a part of their inheritance. I don't know 354 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 2: about you, but I'm going to make sure I don't 355 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 2: leave anything up in that warehouse. I'm not selfish, I'm 356 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 2: not greedy. I simply want everything that has my name 357 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 2: on it. I know the price has already been paid. 358 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 2: I'm going to receive my inheritance. I'm encouraging you to 359 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:55,719 Speaker 2: do the same thing. I read a story about this 360 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: man over in Europe. He'd saved all of his money 361 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 2: to come to a Marria. This was years ago, before 362 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 2: they had airplanes, and he saved and saved month after month. 363 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 2: He finally had just enough to purchase the ticket. 364 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: It was going to. 365 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 2: Take two or three weeks to cross the ocean. So 366 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 2: he got this big suitcase and he filled it full 367 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 2: of cheese and crackers. That's all he could afford. And 368 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 2: when the other people went into the big banquet hall 369 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 2: to enjoy their fancy meals, he would go over in 370 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 2: the corner and eat his cheese and crackers. 371 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,119 Speaker 1: He could smell that other food. 372 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 2: He wanted to join them so badly, but he just 373 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 2: didn't have any extra money. Toward the very end of 374 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 2: the trip, a gentleman came over and said, I can't help, 375 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 2: but notice you're always over here eating cheese and crackers. 376 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 2: Why don't you come into the banquet haul and enjoy 377 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 2: meals with all of us. 378 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: The man was kind of embarrassed. 379 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 2: He said, well, I saved up all the money that 380 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 2: I possibly could, but I only had enough for the ticket, 381 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 2: didn't have anything left over for the meals. This other 382 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 2: man shook his head, said, didn't you realize the meals 383 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 2: are included in the price of the ticket. Your meals 384 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 2: have already been paid for. How many people today like 385 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 2: that man? They are missing out on God's best because. 386 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: They don't know what's already been paid for. 387 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 2: They don't know what's been included in the price. 388 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:24,719 Speaker 1: Of their ticket. Some of you today, you've made mistakes. 389 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 2: You've asked God to forgive you a thousand times, but 390 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 2: you're still going around guilty, condemned, feeling unworthy. You know 391 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,479 Speaker 2: what you're doing, eating more cheese and crackers. The price 392 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 2: has already been paid. The first time you ask God 393 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 2: to forgive you, he forgave you. Now step up to 394 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 2: the dinner table, start acting like you're forgiven. No mistake 395 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 2: is too much for the mercy of our God. Sometimes 396 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 2: we think that it pleases God to go around depressed, defeated, 397 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 2: no joy, to show God that we're really sorry for 398 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 2: what we've done. Know what really please is God is 399 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 2: when you step up to the table and say, God, 400 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 2: I receive your forgiveness. I receive your mercy. I know 401 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 2: the price was paid two thousand years ago. After all, 402 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 2: how would I feel as a parent if we had 403 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 2: this big family dinner planned? Victoria worked hard, went to 404 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 2: the grocery store, bought all. 405 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: These TV dinners and. 406 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 2: Came home and microwaved them. And we had all this 407 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 2: food on the table. But then one of our children 408 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 2: comes up and says, Daddy, I don't deserve to sit 409 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 2: at the table tonight. Let me just sit over here 410 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 2: and eat some crackers. I've made mistakes. I'm so unworthy. 411 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 1: I would say, what are you talking about? 412 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 2: Put that down, Come up here to the table. 413 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: You're our child. 414 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 2: That's how God feels when we go around thinking that 415 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 2: we don't measure up, We're not good enough, made too 416 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 2: many mistakes. 417 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: We're just a weak worm of the dust. No, put 418 00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: down the crackers. 419 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 2: Christ has all right. He made you worthy. The price 420 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 2: has already been paid. Part of our inheritance is to 421 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 2: rise up and say, I am the righteousness of God 422 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. I may have made mistakes, I may 423 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 2: have blown it more than a few times, but I 424 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 2: am not a weak worm of the dust. I am 425 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 2: a child of the most High God, forgiven redeemed, restored. 426 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 2: I was asked to pray at a big event several 427 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 2: years ago, and there were several other ministers there to 428 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 2: pray as well. 429 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: The gentleman that prayed before. 430 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 2: Me, it's a very fine man, respected leader in the community, 431 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 2: but he prayed the most depressing prayer I think I've 432 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 2: ever heard. He said, God, I am so unworthy to 433 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:46,959 Speaker 2: even stand before you. 434 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: God. 435 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 2: I don't know how you could even listen to somebody 436 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 2: like me. There's nothing good in me. I'm just a poor, wicked, 437 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 2: undeserving sinner. 438 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: On and on. 439 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 2: By the time he got finished, I felt like I 440 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 2: needed to repent. I felt about that. 441 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: Then. 442 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 2: You know, he meant well, but you know what he 443 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 2: was doing, eating more cheese and crackers. I wanted to 444 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 2: ask him afterwards, do you really believe what you said 445 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 2: about yourself? You said you were weak, defeated, depressed, unworthy, 446 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 2: a loser, a sinner. Listen, I'm not going to declare 447 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 2: that over my life. I'm gonna step up to the table. 448 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,120 Speaker 2: I may not always feel worthy, but I know God 449 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 2: has made me worthy. I'm going to put on my 450 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 2: robe of righteousness. One translation says, put on the robe 451 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 2: of God's approval. No, I'm not perfect, but. 452 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 1: I know this. 453 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 2: God approves me. God accepts me, God is pleased with me. Now, 454 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 2: you say, Joel, we're just all sinners saved by grace. Now, 455 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 2: the truth is, we used to be sinners, but once 456 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 2: we came to know Christ, we're not sinners anymore. We 457 00:23:56,119 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 2: are sons and daughters of the Most High God. And 458 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 2: sure we may send every once in a while, but 459 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 2: we've been born into a new family. We've been changed. 460 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 2: You are a new creation. You have royal blood flowing 461 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 2: through your veins. Put down the crackers and come into 462 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 2: the banquet hall. Get rid of that week defeated unworthy mentality, 463 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 2: and start acting like the royalty. 464 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: God created you to be. In our bedroom at home, we. 465 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 2: Have these two big lazy boy chairs that are very comfortable. 466 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 2: Sometimes when I want to watch a ball game, I'll 467 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 2: go in there and shut the door and just relax 468 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 2: and be by myself. It's a great place that I 469 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 2: can be alone, just kind of get refreshed. Years ago, 470 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 2: when our son Jonathan was just a little boy, probably 471 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: four years old or so. He's fifteen now. One day 472 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 2: I came home and I couldn't find Jonathan anywhere, and 473 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 2: I knew he was at home. But I looked in 474 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 2: his bedroom, he wasn't there. And I checked the playroom 475 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 2: and the kitchen, even went outside and looked in the backyard, 476 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 2: looked in the garage. Still couldn't find him. Finally, I 477 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 2: went toward the back of the house and I noticed 478 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 2: that the bedroom door was closed, and that was funny 479 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 2: because it's never closed during the day. I opened it 480 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 2: up and there was Jonathan laying back in my big 481 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 2: lazy boy. 482 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: He had his feet. 483 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 2: Propped up, the remote control in one hand, popcorn in 484 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 2: the other hand. He looked at me and said, Daddy, 485 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 2: this is the life. 486 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: Do you know? 487 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 2: As a father? 488 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: That made me feel good. 489 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 2: I was glad he felt confident to go right into 490 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 2: our room. I was glad that he knows he's a 491 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 2: part of the family and everything we have belongs to him. 492 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 2: You know what he was doing, receiving his inheritance. He's 493 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 2: good at that. You want to make your heavenly father happy. 494 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,719 Speaker 2: Start stepping up to the table, start enjoying his blessings. 495 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 2: Put down the crackers, and come on into the banquet hall. 496 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 2: The price has already been paid. It's included in your ticket. 497 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:05,080 Speaker 2: Now start receiving your inheritance. Friends, this will says that 498 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 2: you are blessed, you are prosperous, you are redeemed, you 499 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 2: are forgiven, you have a sound mind, You're more than 500 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 2: a conquer You've got a crown of favor. All these 501 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 2: blessings already belong to you. My challenge to us today 502 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 2: is don't leave them sitting up on a shelf. Don't 503 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 2: let your inheritance go unclaimed. Dare to be bold and 504 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 2: say God, if you say it, then I agree with you. 505 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: God. 506 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: You say I'm blessed, I believe I'm blessed. God you 507 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: say I'm forgiven. I may not feel like it, but 508 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 2: I believe I'm forgiven. God you say I've got a 509 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 2: crown of favor, then I. 510 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: Believe I'm highly favored. 511 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 2: If you do this, then all these blessings that already 512 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 2: have your name on it, the promotion, the increase, the healing, 513 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 2: the good breaks, the spouse, the baby, they won't stay 514 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 2: up on the shelf. Just like with Abraham, God will 515 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 2: release them to you. I believe and declare you will 516 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 2: become everything God's created you to be, and you will 517 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 2: have everything God's created you to have. Do you receive 518 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:10,119 Speaker 2: it today? We never liked to close our broadcast without 519 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 2: giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of 520 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 2: your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 521 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 2: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 522 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 2: make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed 523 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 2: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get 524 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 2: in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. 525 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 2: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 526 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 2: When was the last time you asked God to do 527 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 2: something that seemed impossible. If you only pray small, ordinary prayers, 528 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 2: you live a small, ordinary life. I have a new 529 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 2: book called Pray Bold. I'll challenge you to stretch your 530 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 2: faith and believe for the big things God puts in 531 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,360 Speaker 2: your heart. Victoria and I used to have seasoned tickets 532 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 2: to watch the Rockets play basketball here. We never dreamed 533 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,239 Speaker 2: it be ours when they moved out. Somehow we had 534 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 2: the faith to pray a bold prayer. God made things 535 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 2: happen that we could never make happen. 536 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:09,439 Speaker 1: It's the same for you. 537 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,400 Speaker 2: Who knows what God will do in your life. If 538 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 2: you'll dare to pray bold, ask him for your dreams, 539 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 2: ask for your healing, ask for your freedom. That's when 540 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 2: God will show up. 541 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 1: And do more than you could ever imagine. 542 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 543 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 3: of any amount this month, we would like to send 544 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,199 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joel's brand new book, Pray Bold, 545 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 3: Dare to Ask and Believe Big. Joel shares that when 546 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 3: we pray, we can tap into God's creative, awesome power, 547 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 3: something bigger than we have ever imagined. God doesn't want 548 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 3: us to just pray in our comfort zones. No, God 549 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 3: loves when we pray big, believe big, expect him to 550 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 3: do the unexpected. There are inspiring stories from the Bible, 551 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 3: from history, and personal testimonies of people who dared to 552 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 3: believe God in extraordinary ways. You'll learn how to practically 553 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 3: expand your prayers and watch your life move from the 554 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 3: common to the extraordinary, from less. 555 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: Than to overflowing. 556 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of Praybold today, visit 557 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 3: Joelostein dot com, or call us toll free. 558 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 2: God has put dreams in your heart, things He's whispered 559 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 2: in the night that seem impossible. But as you pray 560 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 2: these bold prayers, you're gonna see the goodness of God 561 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 2: in ways you've never seen victor in our belief, and 562 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 2: you're gonna have a great twenty twenty five. We pray 563 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 2: for you and your family every day, but God's very best. 564 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 2: We want to thank you for your prayer and your support. 565 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 2: You're impacting people all over the world. 566 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of Pray Bold today, 567 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 3: visit Joelostein dot com or call us toll free. Finally, 568 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 3: elevates your personal time with God by requesting the My 569 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 3: Time with God collection. This beautiful collection contains means the 570 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 3: pre Bold new release, plus the new Living Translation, one 571 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 3: year Chronological Study Bible, and a beautiful glass mug and 572 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 3: throw blanket based around the inspiring scripture from Psalm forty 573 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 3: six to ten. Be still and know that I am God. 574 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 3: You can learn more about this unique new gift collection 575 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 3: by calling eight eight eight five six seven Joel. We're 576 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 3: logging onto Joelostein dot com today. 577 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 2: Remember you can watch the services online every Sunday morning, 578 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 2: download our daily podcast, listen on Sirius XM, watch on YouTube, 579 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 2: and now the new Joel Ostein network streaming on television 580 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: twenty four hours a Day. If you've never been to Lakewood, 581 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 2: we have a great opportunity. We called it Homecoming Weekend. 582 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 2: We'd love to meet you and your family. You can 583 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 2: see the building and attend one of the services. It's 584 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 2: a great time to be a part of the Lakewood family. 585 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing your Homecoming Weekend.