Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes and you're
Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop by and be a
Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll
Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to get
Speaker 1: started each week with something kind of funny, and I
Speaker 1: heard about this pastor and song leader that we're not
Speaker 1: getting along, and it started to spill over into the services.
Speaker 1: One Sunday, the pastor spoke about being willing to change. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: the song leader got up and led the song I
Speaker 1: Shall not be moved. The next week, he spoke on
Speaker 1: being a giver. The song leader got up and led
Speaker 1: Jesus paid it all. Next week he talked about gossip
Speaker 1: and how you have to watch your tongue, and the
Speaker 1: song leader led, I love to tell the story. The
Speaker 1: pastor got so frustrated he finally resigned. He said, Jesus
Speaker 1: brought me here and Jesus has taken me away. The
Speaker 1: song leader then led, what a friend we have in
Speaker 1: Jesus die. All right, hold up your bible, say it
Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am
Speaker 1: what it says.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you today about developing and overflow mentality.
Speaker 1: Our God is a running over God, and we're not
Speaker 1: supposed to just have our needs supplied. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: be so blessed when other people get around us, it
Speaker 1: overflows onto them. We should be so blessed in our
Speaker 1: finances that we cannot only pay our bills, not only
Speaker 1: accomplish our dreams, but we can be a blessing to others.
Speaker 1: And if we're going to live this abundant life, we
Speaker 1: have to have an overflow mentality. You've got to know
Speaker 1: it's God's dream that you prosper. Just like as a parent,
Speaker 1: I love to see my children doing well. I love
Speaker 1: to see them looking good and see them excelling. It's
Speaker 1: the same way with God. He takes pleasure in prospering you.
Speaker 1: We were never created to barely get by. We weren't
Speaker 1: created to have to constantly struggle. God made us to
Speaker 1: be the head and not the tail. He said we
Speaker 1: would lend and not borrow. We may not all be
Speaker 1: there just yet, but don't settle where you are all
Speaker 1: through the day. Reminds yourself. God takes pleasure in prospering me.
Speaker 1: His favor surrounds me like a shield. His blessings are
Speaker 1: chasing me down. Promotion and increase are coming my way.
Speaker 1: And of course we all go through times of testing.
Speaker 1: There are seasons where we don't see any increase, getting
Speaker 1: any good breaks. We have to dig our heels in
Speaker 1: and press through the difficult times. But the way God
Speaker 1: designed it is that seasons always change. That means we're
Speaker 1: not supposed to constantly struggle. It is not your destiny
Speaker 1: to always be in lack and never have enough. At
Speaker 1: some point, the test will come to an end. At
Speaker 1: some point you go from sowing into reaping. But if
Speaker 1: we're not careful because we've struggled so long and not
Speaker 1: seeing the results and the increase that we've hoped for.
Speaker 1: It's easy to lose our fire, lose our passion, and think, ah, man,
Speaker 1: it's never going to happen to me. I'm never going
Speaker 1: to rise any higher. No, don't settle where you are.
Speaker 1: You've gone through sowing. Now you need to start believing
Speaker 1: that harvest is coming your way. And some of you
Speaker 1: have been so faithful. You've gotten up each day and
Speaker 1: done your best. You've given even when you didn't have enough.
Speaker 1: You've kept that attitude of faith. And God is saying
Speaker 1: that it's your time to come into harvest. It's your
Speaker 1: time to start reaping all those seeds that you've sown.
Speaker 1: Why don't you get a vision for it, not to
Speaker 1: barely get by. Maybe one day I'll have enough. Maybe
Speaker 1: one day I'll be able to send my children to college.
Speaker 1: Maybe one day I'll be able to afford that house
Speaker 1: that I really want. No, start thinking overflow. You're a
Speaker 1: child of the most high God. He wants to do
Speaker 1: more than you can even ask or think. And I
Speaker 1: know I've had people say, well, Joel, my family's always struggled.
Speaker 1: My parents never had enough, and my grandparents were always
Speaker 1: in lack and defeat. That may be true, but this
Speaker 1: is a new day. You can set a new standard.
Speaker 1: God wants you to be the one to break the
Speaker 1: curse of lack in your family line. You have seeds
Speaker 1: of greatness on the inside of you right now. God
Speaker 1: has equipped you with everything you need to succeed. And
Speaker 1: the fact is, your parents, grandparents, ancestors, they may have
Speaker 1: been good people, but maybe they didn't understand this truth
Speaker 1: that God takes pleasure in prospering you. Or maybe they
Speaker 1: sowed the seeds, they made the sacrifices so that you
Speaker 1: could live a better life. In either case, God wants
Speaker 1: you to go further than your parents. He wants every
Speaker 1: generation to increase and if you'll rise up in faith,
Speaker 1: you can affect your family line for generations to come.
Speaker 1: This is what my father did. His family was one
Speaker 1: of the poorest families around. They had nothing. But at
Speaker 1: the age of seventeen, when my dad gave his life
Speaker 1: to the Lord, he made a decision that his children
Speaker 1: would never be raised in the lack and poverty that
Speaker 1: he was raised in. He drew the line in the
Speaker 1: sand and said, this is where we are, but this
Speaker 1: is not where we're staying. We are coming up higher.
Speaker 1: What happened He developed a new mindset. Up to that point,
Speaker 1: he had had a poverty mentality. That's all he did
Speaker 1: known barely able to get by, barely have enough to
Speaker 1: pay the bills. He could have easily settled there and
Speaker 1: just thought, this is who I am, this is my
Speaker 1: lot in life. If he had had done that, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be where I am today. The decision he made
Speaker 1: way back in the nineteen thirties is still affecting me,
Speaker 1: my children, even future generations. But my father knew deep
Speaker 1: down he was supposed to live this abundant life. He
Speaker 1: developed this overflow mentality, and it didn't happen overnight. But
Speaker 1: he and my mother stayed faithful. They kept giving, serving, believing,
Speaker 1: and over time God did more than they could even
Speaker 1: ask or think. They came in to overflow. You may
Speaker 1: be in poverty today, but don't ever let poverty get
Speaker 1: in you. Hold your head up high, know that you're
Speaker 1: a child of the most High God. That may be
Speaker 1: the way it's been, but that's not the way it's
Speaker 1: going to stay. You are coming up higher. You're going
Speaker 1: to see God's favor in a greater way. You're going
Speaker 1: to see your gifts and talents come out like they've
Speaker 1: never come out before. I believe you're going to be
Speaker 1: given supernatural opportunities that, just like a rocket, can launch
Speaker 1: you into a new dimension. If you'll stay in faith,
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time before it comes to pass.
Speaker 1: That's what the scripture says in Psalm sixty five, verse eleven.
Speaker 1: God will crown the year with a bountiful harvest. Your
Speaker 1: carts will overflow with abundance. That's my prayer for each
Speaker 1: one of you, that you will see God's blessings like
Speaker 1: you've never seen them before. That you will come into promotion,
Speaker 1: increase bonuses, raises even inheritances. God likes to do unusual things.
Speaker 1: It talks about in the Bulk of Malachi. If you'll
Speaker 1: be a giver and keep God first place, he will
Speaker 1: open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessings
Speaker 1: that you cannot contain. That sounds to me like it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be running over. After all, he's called El Shaddai,
Speaker 1: the God who is more than enough, not Ilchipo, the
Speaker 1: God of barely enough. Don't ever go around talking about
Speaker 1: how high prices are and how you're never going to
Speaker 1: make it. If you have a poor mouth, you're going
Speaker 1: to live a poor life. And you may be so
Speaker 1: broke that you can't even pay attention. You may have
Speaker 1: so many things coming against you. But if somebody asks
Speaker 1: you how you're doing, don't give a twenty minute explanation
Speaker 1: of how bad things are. And gas is so high,
Speaker 1: and my business is slow, my dishwasher broke, my dog died.
Speaker 1: He knows if all that up, don't speak defeat over
Speaker 1: your life, no matter how it looks in the natural.
Speaker 1: You need to start saying it. By faith. I am blessed.
Speaker 1: I have the favor of God. Everything I touch prospers. Yes,
Speaker 1: prices may be high, but God always supplies my needs. Yes,
Speaker 1: the economy may be a little slow, but I'm not
Speaker 1: going under. I'm going over. God always causes me to tryumph.
Speaker 1: A while back, this young couple ask me to pray
Speaker 1: and agree that this furniture they wanted to buy would
Speaker 1: go on seal. They had been watching it a long
Speaker 1: time and they knew if it went on sale they'd
Speaker 1: be able to buy it. And I had to think
Speaker 1: about that a minute, and I finally said, instead of
Speaker 1: praying that it'll go on sell, I would rather pray
Speaker 1: that God would bless you in such a way that
Speaker 1: even if it doesn't, you would still be able to
Speaker 1: purchase it. It's not about trying to make things come
Speaker 1: down so we can afford it. It's about us believing
Speaker 1: to come up higher where we're supposed to be. After all,
Speaker 1: the same God that can cause it to go on
Speaker 1: sell can cause you to be blessed in such a
Speaker 1: way that you're not sitting around waiting for a discount.
Speaker 1: And I'm all for getting good deals. I'm for being
Speaker 1: frugal and not wasting. In fact, when I order a
Speaker 1: pizza over the phone, I still use the coupon out
Speaker 1: of the paper. I'm not against any of that. But
Speaker 1: some people, and I say this respectfully, they've got a
Speaker 1: cheap spirit. They won't buy anything unless they can find
Speaker 1: it on sale. I've known people that will drive across
Speaker 1: town and spend ten dollars on gas to save three
Speaker 1: dollars on a box of deterny. They don't realize their
Speaker 1: time is valuable. Years ago, a friend of mine went
Speaker 1: to a family reunion in another state, and the next
Speaker 1: day a cousin of his was flying in. But this
Speaker 1: cousin flew to a city that was two hundred miles
Speaker 1: away so he could save sixty dollars on his airplane ticket.
Speaker 1: My friend drove five hours to get him, waited two
Speaker 1: hours at the airport, five hours to get back to
Speaker 1: the family reunion. When he got back, the cousin offered
Speaker 1: him one hundred dollars for coming to pick him up,
Speaker 1: and my friend, of course he wouldn't take it, but
Speaker 1: he thought to himself, I wish you would have just
Speaker 1: spent the sixty dollars on your ticket, so you would
Speaker 1: have saved us both a whole day and a lot
Speaker 1: of other headaches. What's my point this cousin, It wasn't
Speaker 1: that he couldn't afford it. He had just programmed himself
Speaker 1: to think cheaply. I don't have enough. I got to
Speaker 1: get the bargain basement flight, even if I've got to
Speaker 1: go through Tokyo first. No, you need to be set
Speaker 1: free from that cheap spirit. You are a child of
Speaker 1: the most high God. Your time is valuable. You are
Speaker 1: a person of excellence. If you don't realize who you
Speaker 1: are and get rid of that barely get by mentality,
Speaker 1: it'll keep you from coming in to overflow. I remember
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, just a little boy, I
Speaker 1: was with my father and he was buying a suit,
Speaker 1: and the man selling it to him found out that
Speaker 1: he was a minister and kind of demeaning, almost like
Speaker 1: we were second class. He said, well, you know, we
Speaker 1: can give you a minister's discount if you need it.
Speaker 1: I could tell my father did not like that. That
Speaker 1: rubbed him the wrong way. He thought to himself, I
Speaker 1: am not a beggar. I'm not looking for a handout.
Speaker 1: I'm a child of Almighty God. I don't need a
Speaker 1: minister's discount. And understand, my father loved to get good deals.
Speaker 1: He came out of the depression. He was very conservative.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about being arrogant or being wasteful. It
Speaker 1: wasn't out of pride, but rather out of a boldness
Speaker 1: of who he was and what he represented. He put
Speaker 1: his shoulders back and said, no, sir, I don't take
Speaker 1: a minister's discount. Do you know who my father is.
Speaker 1: That salesman stepped back, looked at him kind of differently.
Speaker 1: He thought Daddy came from a well to do, influential family.
Speaker 1: He didn't know he wasn't talking about his earthly father.
Speaker 1: He was talking about his heavenly father that day. Something
Speaker 1: just rose up in my dad. He was saying, in effect,
Speaker 1: that this is a new day. We've stepped out of
Speaker 1: poverty and lack. We've gotten the Christmas basket long enough.
Speaker 1: Because we were the poorest family, I went to high
Speaker 1: school with holes in my pants. All I could ever
Speaker 1: afford growing up was half a glass of milk. But
Speaker 1: Daddy was saying, this is a new day. Don't tell
Speaker 1: me the God I serve has to have a discount.
Speaker 1: He's well able to take care of me. He's Jehovah, Jirah,
Speaker 1: the Lord, my provider. If there's anything that must make
Speaker 1: God sad is for his sons and daughters to go
Speaker 1: around with a barely get by, defeated mentality. I gotta
Speaker 1: have a discount. All I can afford is the day
Speaker 1: old bred. All I can afford is the leftovers. No,
Speaker 1: you need to get a bigger vision of who you are.
Speaker 1: You need to start reminding yourself. I am blessed, I
Speaker 1: am prosperous. I may not be able to afford it
Speaker 1: right now, but my time is coming. I may be
Speaker 1: on welfare today, but this is not where I'm staying.
Speaker 1: I don't need a handout, even if you have to
Speaker 1: stand against that your whole life. You should never give
Speaker 1: into the fact that you're supposed to live in lack
Speaker 1: and always be at the mercy of other people. You
Speaker 1: need to make up your mind. You may be taking
Speaker 1: a handout now, but one day you're gonna be given
Speaker 1: the handout. One day you're gonna lend and not borrow.
Speaker 1: You're coming in to overflow. That's God's dream for each
Speaker 1: of you, and you may not see how it can happen.
Speaker 1: But that's okay. That's not your job. Your job is
Speaker 1: to believe. God can give you one idea that can
Speaker 1: totally change your life. He can cause you to bump
Speaker 1: into one person that will offer you a position that'll
Speaker 1: take you to a new level. He can give you
Speaker 1: an inheritance from a long lost relative you didn't even
Speaker 1: know you had. He's God, He's got it all figured out.
Speaker 1: The other day, a man told me how he had
Speaker 1: reached his limits in his career. He didn't think he
Speaker 1: can go any higher. The man in front of him,
Speaker 1: his supervisor, had just gotten the big promotion that he
Speaker 1: was hoping to get. And this supervisor was a young
Speaker 1: man looked like he'd be there for twenty or thirty years.
Speaker 1: This other man was so discouraged, and I told him,
Speaker 1: just stay in faith. God's still in control. You never
Speaker 1: know what could happen. About six months later, that man
Speaker 1: all of a sudden decided to move to another city,
Speaker 1: this supervisor, to be with his family. And now they
Speaker 1: offered this man the same position he was on Cloud nine.
Speaker 1: It put him into overflow. If you'll stay in faith,
Speaker 1: God will move people around to get you to where
Speaker 1: he wants you to be. I know this couple, they
Speaker 1: bought a home in another state, and a couple of
Speaker 1: months after they purchased it, they got a certified letter
Speaker 1: notifying them that a company had discovered oil underneath the
Speaker 1: whole neighborhood. They offered them an incredible amount of money,
Speaker 1: not to purchase the property, not to disrupt their living,
Speaker 1: but simply to be able to go underground and drill
Speaker 1: for that oil. He was so happy. I mean, you
Speaker 1: would have thought he was Jed Clampett the Beverly Hillbillies.
Speaker 1: But you think about it. A couple of months later,
Speaker 1: and those owners would have never sold him the property.
Speaker 1: God had it all arranged, moving one out to move
Speaker 1: another end the right place the right time that comple
Speaker 1: stepped into their season of harvest. You don't have to
Speaker 1: figure it all out. Just stay in faith, believing that
Speaker 1: God takes pleasure in prospering you. He wants you to
Speaker 1: come into overflow, not just so you can be blessed.
Speaker 1: There's a purpose for our prosperity, and that is to
Speaker 1: be a blessing to others. If all you have on
Speaker 1: your mind is yourself, that's going to limit what God
Speaker 1: can do. We need to have the attitude. God give
Speaker 1: me ways that not only my family can be blessed,
Speaker 1: but help me to make a bigger difference, help me
Speaker 1: to impact more people. God has blessed Victorian I beyond
Speaker 1: our wildest dreams, and I say this humbly. I think
Speaker 1: you know my heart. But We've always had a desire
Speaker 1: to help others. We've talked about for years being able
Speaker 1: to build hospitals in needy countries, having orphanages to support
Speaker 1: less fortunate children. Right now we're in the planning stages
Speaker 1: of helping to underwrite a home for troubled teens here
Speaker 1: in the Houston area. We're not supposed to be We're
Speaker 1: not supposed to be a resud to hoard everything up.
Speaker 1: We're supposed to be a channel where God's blessings can
Speaker 1: flow through us. If you will keep God first place
Speaker 1: and have a desire to help others, There's no limit
Speaker 1: to what God can do in your life. He can
Speaker 1: give you one good break that will put you into overflow.
Speaker 1: He can give you one dream at night that can
Speaker 1: revolutionize your life. Growing up, my parents knew a man
Speaker 1: by the name of Henry Kraus. Mister Kraus was a
Speaker 1: farmer in the natural, just an average ordinary person. He
Speaker 1: didn't have a college degree, he didn't seem to be
Speaker 1: super talented, look like he would just live a normal
Speaker 1: life and make a modest living. But God is not
Speaker 1: limited by our education, He's not limited by our profession.
Speaker 1: He likes to do unusual things. And one night God
Speaker 1: gave mister Kraus a dream. And in this dream he
Speaker 1: saw a certain kind of plow, a plow like he
Speaker 1: had never seen before. He got up the next morning
Speaker 1: and wrote it all down. Over time, he engine neared it,
Speaker 1: he designed it, later had it patented. It became known
Speaker 1: as the famous Chrous plow. It went on to help
Speaker 1: revolutionize the farming industry. Mister Kraus was one of my
Speaker 1: father's biggest supporters. Just one idea, just one dream. The
Speaker 1: good news is God hasn't run out of ideas. He
Speaker 1: hasn't run out of ways to put you into overflow.
Speaker 1: One scripture talks about how God can give us witty inventions.
Speaker 1: Stay open, don't settle where you are. You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to live in the land of barely enough. That's where
Speaker 1: you're always struggling, always trying to make ends meet. You're
Speaker 1: not supposed to live in the land of good enough.
Speaker 1: That's where you can pay your bills, but there's no abundance,
Speaker 1: there's no overflow. God wants you to come into the
Speaker 1: land of more than enough. That's where you cannot only
Speaker 1: pay your bills, but you have plenty left over to
Speaker 1: be a blessing to others. That's the abundant life. A
Speaker 1: lady was telling me the other day how she brought
Speaker 1: a friend to the servant and at the end that
Speaker 1: friend stood up to make a decision for Christ. She
Speaker 1: was so happy for And afterwards they got to talking
Speaker 1: and she found that this friend didn't have a bible.
Speaker 1: In fact, her friend had never owned a Bible of
Speaker 1: her own. And this lady knew she was supposed to
Speaker 1: go up to the bookstore and buy her a Bible,
Speaker 1: but her funds were very tight. If she did that,
Speaker 1: she wasn't sure she was going to make ends meet
Speaker 1: for that month. But she went up there anyway. They
Speaker 1: picked out a nice leather Bible. In fact, it was
Speaker 1: an expensive bible, and while she was in line waiting
Speaker 1: to pay for it, a man walked up to her
Speaker 1: out of the blue said, I don't know you, but
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm supposed to give you this.
Speaker 1: He handed her one hundred dollar bill. That's the way
Speaker 1: God works. If you'll be obedient, God will always meet
Speaker 1: your knees when you walk in overflow. You can be
Speaker 1: a blessing wherever you go. You won't be looking for
Speaker 1: a miracle. You can become someone's miracle. And really, that's
Speaker 1: what life is all about. Buying someone's dinner, helping a
Speaker 1: single parent mom, supporting a less fortunate child, making a difference. Friends,
Speaker 1: It's okay to have money as long as money doesn't
Speaker 1: have you. If you have a desire to help others
Speaker 1: and a desire to leave your children's children and inheritance
Speaker 1: like the scripture talks about. And you're living a life
Speaker 1: of excellence and integrity with a big vision, then you're
Speaker 1: in prime position to come into overflow. It may not
Speaker 1: have happened yet, but don't settle where you are. It's
Speaker 1: never too late. Have the attitude this is where I am,
Speaker 1: but this is not where I'm staying. My God is
Speaker 1: a running over god. I know he takes pleasure in
Speaker 1: prospering me. So I'm gonna keep giving, serving, believing, knowing
Speaker 1: that I'm headed for overflow. I'm coming into that land
Speaker 1: of more than an hour. And I say this respectfully.
Speaker 1: But sometimes a religious attitude tries to make us think
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be poor and broke and depressed so
Speaker 1: we can prove to people that were humble. But when
Speaker 1: we're poor and broke and depressed, all that proves is
Speaker 1: that we're poor and broke and depressed. That doesn't prove anything.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to want what we have. We're supposed to
Speaker 1: be examples of what it means to live for our God.
Speaker 1: We represent Christ here on this earth. If I called
Speaker 1: my children up today and their clothes were torn and wrinkled,
Speaker 1: and they had holes in their shoes, their hair was
Speaker 1: all messed up. You would look at me and think,
Speaker 1: man alive, What kind of father is he? It would
Speaker 1: be a poor representation on me. It's the same way
Speaker 1: with our God. When we drag around with a defeated,
Speaker 1: barely get by mentality, having that false sense of humility.
Speaker 1: That's not bringing any honor to God. You want to
Speaker 1: honor God, have an abundant life mentality. You want to
Speaker 1: put a smile on God's face. Don't settle until you
Speaker 1: come into the land of more than enough. One time,
Speaker 1: Victoria and I found these two acres that we really
Speaker 1: wanted to buy. It was close into the city and
Speaker 1: a very valuable piece of property. And God's blessed us
Speaker 1: through our books and other things, and we not only give,
Speaker 1: but we try to invest our funds. We're not supposed
Speaker 1: to give everything away. We're blessed so we can accomplish
Speaker 1: our dreams, so we can leave an inheritance to our children,
Speaker 1: and so we can be a blessing to others. And
Speaker 1: I was debating whether or not we should invest in
Speaker 1: this real estate, and I thought to myself, we don't
Speaker 1: really need two acres to live on. We're happy where
Speaker 1: we are. I was kind of feeling guilty, like I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be poor to show people that I'm humble,
Speaker 1: but that's far from the truth. And one day I
Speaker 1: was on an airplane, thirty five thousand feet in the air.
Speaker 1: I was looking out the windows, a clear, beautiful day,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of thinking about that property, and
Speaker 1: I felt God say something to me. I don't mean
Speaker 1: out loud, but write down in here more of an impression.
Speaker 1: He said, Joe, you're wondering if you should buy that
Speaker 1: property or not. What do you think those two acres
Speaker 1: look like? To me? What do you think they look like?
Speaker 1: From my perspective way up where I am, well, just
Speaker 1: where I was, thirty five thousand feet two acres look
Speaker 1: like a little dot. I mean, just like you took
Speaker 1: a pen and dotted a piece of paper. It was nothing.
Speaker 1: And I felt God say, Joel, I give you permission.
Speaker 1: It's okay to have enough land the size of a
Speaker 1: pen head. To me. See, we think so small, we
Speaker 1: think limited. God owns it all. The earth is the
Speaker 1: Lord's and the fullness thereof He made it for his children.
Speaker 1: You need to expand your horizon. Don't get stuck in
Speaker 1: a rut thinking that you've reached your limits. God has
Speaker 1: so many great things in your future. If he showed
Speaker 1: you right now, your jaw would drop. You would be amazed.
Speaker 1: But sometimes we think, is it wrong for me to
Speaker 1: want to have a nice house? Is it selfish for
Speaker 1: me to want to leave my children and inheritance? Is
Speaker 1: it okay for me to believe for the funds that
Speaker 1: my God given dreams would come to pass. God's saying
Speaker 1: to you what he said to me. It's okay. He
Speaker 1: takes pleasure in prospering you. He wants to give you
Speaker 1: the desires of your heart as long as you will
Speaker 1: keep God first place and not let those things become idols.
Speaker 1: God will do the extraordinary. He's a running over God.
Speaker 1: I remember back in early two thousand and four, I
Speaker 1: had a desire to take our services on the road
Speaker 1: and do events in other cities, and I was discussing
Speaker 1: it with our team members, and one of them asked
Speaker 1: what size auditorium was I thinking about? And I had
Speaker 1: no idea if a thousand people would come or ten thousand.
Speaker 1: We'd been on television a few years, but I'd never
Speaker 1: been on the road. I had nothing to judge it by,
Speaker 1: and my mind was telling me, you better get a
Speaker 1: little amphitheater that holds about five hundred people, because nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna show up, and you're gonna be embarrassed and it's
Speaker 1: gonna look bad. And I had to fight that for
Speaker 1: several days. I finally decided I wasn't gonna act in fear.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna act in doubt and unbelief. I know
Speaker 1: God is a running over god, and so I told
Speaker 1: our team members we need to just go ahead and
Speaker 1: rent the basketball arenas in those cities, and it usually
Speaker 1: holds fifteen or twenty thousand people. I figured if nobody
Speaker 1: showed up, we'd turn all the lights off and just
Speaker 1: do it right down in front, make it look the
Speaker 1: best we could. Well. That day came for our very
Speaker 1: first event summer of two thousand and four in Atlanta, Georgia,
Speaker 1: a Friday night. That day, I was so nervous hoping
Speaker 1: somebody would show up. About two in the afternoon, I
Speaker 1: got a call from one of our team members saying
Speaker 1: the line to get in was already wrapped around the building.
Speaker 1: When they opened the doors at six o'clock, the building
Speaker 1: immediately filled up some twenty thousand people. We had to
Speaker 1: turn thousands and thousands away. Friends. God is a running
Speaker 1: over God. He wants to do more than you can
Speaker 1: even ask or think. But here's the key. I had
Speaker 1: to make room for it in my thinking. I had
Speaker 1: to rent the building first, and then God filled it up.
Speaker 1: Some of you, if you just make room in your
Speaker 1: own thinking, God would do extraordinary things. If you don't
Speaker 1: have a savings account, you need to open one up. Well,
Speaker 1: you said, Joel, I wouldn't have anything to put in it.
Speaker 1: Do it as an act of faith. If you open it,
Speaker 1: God will feel it. God doesn't want any of us
Speaker 1: to stay in barely enough or in good enough. God
Speaker 1: wants us to come into a land of more than enough.
Speaker 1: Put your shoulders back. Don't have a cheap mentality? Well,
Speaker 1: I can't afford it. No, your father owns it all.
Speaker 1: He takes pleasure in prospering you. You may not have
Speaker 1: seen it happen in the past, but it can still happen.
Speaker 1: Let me speak it by faith over you. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see God's favor in a greater way. You're gonna come
Speaker 1: across supernatural opportunities. You're gonna be at the right place
Speaker 1: at the right time and get the right breaks. You
Speaker 1: may not know how, but you are gonna lend and
Speaker 1: not borrow. You're gonna leave an inheritance to your children's
Speaker 1: children because you walk in obedience. God's blessings are gonna
Speaker 1: chase you down and overtake you. Get ready for emotion, increases,
Speaker 1: bonuses raises. It's headed your way. Amen, Do you receive
Speaker 1: that today? We never like to cause our broadcast without
Speaker 1: giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of
Speaker 1: your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus,
Speaker 1: come into my heart. I repent of my sins. I
Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed
Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get
Speaker 1: in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.
Speaker 1: He's going to take your places you've never dreamed of.
Speaker 2: Fear can be a powerful force, and we'll try to
Speaker 2: make you feel alone, stuck without hope. But fear doesn't
Speaker 2: have to get the final say there is a way out.
Speaker 1: Fear is a powerful force, but so is faith. What
Speaker 1: we focus on shapes our reality. In my new book,
Speaker 1: No More Fear, you have the mind of Christ, I'll
Speaker 1: show you how to silence fear and live boldly in
Speaker 1: faith and confidence. Just like David said, though I walk
Speaker 1: through the valley, I will not fear, you too can
Speaker 1: walk through life's challenges without being paralyzed by fear. I
Speaker 1: can't promise you you'll never feel fear, but I can
Speaker 1: teach you how to rise above it. By dwelling on
Speaker 1: what God says. Learning to replace the anxious thoughts with
Speaker 1: faith filled ones, you can live from a place of peace, power,
Speaker 1: and purpose.
Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift
Speaker 2: of any amount this month, we would like to send
Speaker 2: you a copy of Joel's book, No More Fear. You
Speaker 2: have the mind of Christ. The Bible proclaims the Lord
Speaker 2: is my Light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear?
Speaker 2: This powerful and practical book will help you silenced out,
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Speaker 2: fear whispers you can't.
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Speaker 2: you that you weren't created to live in fear or despair.
Speaker 2: You were created to live with passion, purpose, and confidence
Speaker 2: in God's plans for your life. Let God's word equip
Speaker 2: you to rise above fear and walk in victory.
Speaker 1: Fear doesn't have the final say God does. Be bold,
Speaker 1: be strong, and step up to who He made you
Speaker 1: to be. Be torn. I want you to know we're
Speaker 1: praying for you and your family, believing for God's very best.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your
Speaker 1: generosity is helping people around the world. As we finish
Speaker 1: this year, I hope you'll consider making a special year
Speaker 1: in gift helps to keep the ministry strong. I always
Speaker 1: want to thank our Champion of Hope partners for your
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Speaker 1: consider becoming one, And until we see you next time,
Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you and keep you.
Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of Joel's new book,
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