1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. Reappreciate 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life. 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: But God bless you. It's great to be with you today, 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the 8 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: week through. 9 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 2: Our daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media, and you can 10 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you 11 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. Now, I 12 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: let you start with something funny, and I. 13 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: Heard about this elderly woman. 14 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 2: She came to church one Sunday morning and a friendly 15 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 2: usher met her at the back door and asked where 16 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 2: she wanted to sit. She said, I want to sit 17 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: on the very front row. He said, oh, no, ma'am, 18 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 2: you don't want to do that. Our pastor is very boring. 19 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 2: He'll put you to sleep. Let me see you somewhere else. 20 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 2: She looked appalled. She said, sir, do you know who 21 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 2: I am? He said, no, ma'am. She said, I am 22 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: the pastor's mother. He hung his head in shame and imbarrassment. 23 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 1: He finally looked up and said, ma'am, do you know 24 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: who I am? She said no. He said, Thank God, 25 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 26 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what 27 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says 28 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 29 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 2: of God. I'll boldly confess. 30 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. 31 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,559 Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God 32 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 33 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: breakthrough is coming. There are times that God does things 34 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: gradually through a process. You stay faithful and keep doing 35 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: the right thing, and you begin to see improvement. 36 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,919 Speaker 1: A door opens, your health gets better. 37 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: The scripture says God brought the Israelites out little by little. 38 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: That's one way God works. But God also does things 39 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 2: suddenly where there's no sign of it. 40 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: Nothing is improving. 41 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: Every thought tells you your stuff, the obstacle's too big, 42 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: it's never going. 43 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: To work out. 44 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 2: Then God steps in and suddenly the door opens. Suddenly 45 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 2: your health turns around, Suddenly that right person shows up, 46 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 2: Suddenly you. 47 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: Come out of death. What was that a lucky break? 48 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: Now that's the God of the breakthrough showing out in 49 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 2: your life. A breakthrough is a sudden burst of God's favor. 50 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 2: It's a flood of his goodness that thrusts you ahead 51 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 2: before where God is taking you, the dreams he's put 52 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 2: in your heart, the giants that will be in your path. 53 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 2: It's not going to all be gradual and little by 54 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: little a process that you can see. He has some 55 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: of these breakthrough moments that you can't explain that will 56 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 2: catapult you into your destiny. Now, don't be discouraged by 57 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 2: what's not happening. You're doing the right thing and not 58 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: seeing any improvement. Working hard in your career but the 59 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: doors aren't opening. And praying for your child but he's 60 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: not doing her and you feel this pressure, this worry 61 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 2: trying to weigh you down. But God knows what's not 62 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: working out. He sees you being your best when things 63 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 2: aren't fair. 64 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: You feel overlooked. 65 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 2: You've done all you can, but the ginet is still there. 66 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 2: You haven't even budged the obstacle. What you can't see 67 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 2: is the God of. 68 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: The breakthrough is about to show up. 69 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: He's already scheduled these moments where it's not going to 70 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: be a gradual turnaround. 71 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: Not gonna be little by little. 72 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 2: It's going to be a flood of his favor, a 73 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: flood of healing, a flood of finances, a flood of peace. 74 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 2: Instead of being overwhelmed by the problem, you're going to 75 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 2: be overwhelmed by the goodness of God. He has the 76 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: final say. He has not brought you this far to 77 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 2: leave you. No matter how long it's been or how 78 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: impossible it looks. You have to know deep down in 79 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 2: your spirit, the God of the Breakthrough is on the way. 80 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 2: Maybe you're dealing with an illness, nothing's getting better. 81 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: Stay in fame. 82 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 2: The God of the Breakthrough is about to breathe healing 83 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: on your life. You're struggling in your finances, can't seem 84 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 2: to get ahead. 85 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: The God of the Breakthrough is about. 86 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: To shift things to where abundance finds you. But that 87 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,720 Speaker 2: child had family members been off track. The more you pray, 88 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 2: the worse he gets. Their time is coming. 89 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: The God of the Breakthrough is about to visit them. 90 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 1: He knows how to suddenly change things. This is what 91 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: happened with David. 92 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 2: First Chronicles, chapter fourteen. He had just been anointed king 93 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 2: over all of Israel. This was a destiny moment. After 94 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 2: years of being of the shepherd's fields, overlooked. 95 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 1: And being chased by King. 96 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 2: Saul and all this opposition, he was finally stepping into the. 97 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: Fullness of what God promised him. 98 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 2: I'm sure he was so grateful and excited, a dream 99 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 2: coming to pass. But before he could even celebrate, before 100 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 2: he could enjoy what God had done, the Philistines rose 101 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: up a against him and were about to attack. This 102 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 2: wasn't random timing. They didn't want him to take this 103 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 2: new position. They could have opposed him a year earlier, 104 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 2: but they left him alone. Anytime you're about to step 105 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 2: into a new level, the enemy will attack. He doesn't 106 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 2: want you to fulfill your purpose. He's okay if you 107 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 2: stay where you are, but when you start to move 108 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 2: forward him take new ground, break out of limitations. 109 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: Don't be surprised if you face resistance. 110 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 2: Some of the opposition that's coming against you. You don't 111 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 2: like it, but have a new perspective. That's a sign 112 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 2: you're about to step into. 113 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: A greater level. 114 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: Greater favor, greater influence, greater opportunity. The enemy is not 115 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: fighting you for where you are. He's fighting you for 116 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 2: where you're going. He knows you were made in the 117 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 2: image of Almighty God, that you have seeds of greatness, 118 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 2: that you're a burier, breaker, a history maker. He wouldn't 119 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 2: bother you if you weren't a threat, if you didn't 120 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 2: have something valuable, something to impact this world, he'd leave 121 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 2: you alone. The Philistines surrounded David in the Valley of Rephium, 122 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 2: that means the valley of Giants. 123 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: He was outnumbered. 124 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 2: The opposition was bigger, stronger, they had more equipment. Verse 125 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 2: ten says David inquired of the Lord should I go 126 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 2: fight the Philistines? God, will you give me this victory? 127 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 2: David didn't just fight because there was opposition. He didn't 128 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 2: react emotionally. You're not gonna stop me, He asked God 129 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: what to do. He had this dependency on him. He 130 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 2: was putting God first place, saying, not my will, but 131 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 2: let your will be done. You're not supposed to fight 132 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,559 Speaker 2: every battle. If you let your emotions. 133 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: Rule and you get upset, now I won't pay them back. 134 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: That's not right. Then you're doing it all in your 135 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: own strength. There's no grace for it. 136 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 2: If you'll start inquiring of the Lord God, what do 137 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 2: you want me to do. 138 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: God, I need your wisdom, your strength, your power. 139 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 2: When you show your dependency on God, he knows you're 140 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 2: relying on him, then he'll help you fight those battles. 141 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 2: He'll empower you to defeat the giants, to break addictions. 142 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: And to overcome what should have stopped you. 143 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: Verse ten goes on to say, the Lord said to David, yes, 144 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 2: go ahead. 145 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: And fight, for I will give you the victory. 146 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: David went into this battle with the blessing of God 147 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 2: on his life. When God says you'll be victorious, the 148 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 2: opposition doesn't have a chance. Nothing can stand against our God. 149 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: David went in with his men. 150 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 2: All the odds are against him, and they defeated this 151 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,239 Speaker 2: mighty army. David was so amazed at what God had done. 152 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,239 Speaker 2: He said in the verse eleven, God has broken through 153 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: to my enemies like. 154 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: The bursting forth of waters. 155 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 2: He named the place bow Parism Boalparism means the God 156 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: of the breakthrough. Daven liken this breakthrough to the bursting 157 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 2: forth of water. 158 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: Water is one of the most powerful forces. 159 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 2: When there's flooding. You hear that phrase turn around, don't drown. 160 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 2: It's because water can pick up a two ton car 161 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 2: and carry it away like it's nothing. I've seen in 162 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 2: a tsunami, water take houses off their foundation and they're 163 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: floating down the river, a whole house. 164 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: We've seen when a dam. 165 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: Breaks that water washes out roadways, bridges, bends the steel, 166 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 2: moves anything in its path. David could have used the 167 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 2: analogy God has broken through like a fire, like a. 168 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: Hurricane, like a wind. 169 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 2: That would have been impressive, but he used water to 170 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 2: show us how nothing can stop it. You may have 171 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: things that look immovable in your life today, a sickness, 172 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 2: an addiction, trouble with the child. 173 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: It seems permanent. 174 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 2: But when the God of the breakthrough shows up, those 175 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 2: things don't stand a chance. Like a damn breaking, like 176 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 2: a flood, God's power will move anything in its path. 177 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 2: Cancer can't stop it. Injustice can't stop it, Depression can't 178 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 2: stop it. Jealous people can't stop it, David said, Like. 179 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,319 Speaker 1: The bursting forth of waters not going. 180 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 2: To be something gradual, not a trickle, not a stream, 181 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 2: not a river, but a flood of God's favor, a 182 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 2: tidal wave of his blessing, a tsunami of his power. 183 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 2: When you're tempted to get discourage and think your situation 184 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 2: could never change. 185 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: Turn it around. 186 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 2: Father, I know you're the god of the breakthrough, like 187 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 2: you did for David. You will burst. 188 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: Through what's trying to stop me. 189 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 2: The bursting forth implies something that was held back is 190 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 2: suddenly released, like a damn bursting or a flood. 191 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: Breaking through its barriers. 192 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: We all have these seasons in life where we're doing 193 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 2: the right thing, but nothing is changing. 194 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: No good breaks. 195 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 2: Our health is not improving, the problem is not turning around, 196 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,240 Speaker 2: and we feel this pressure. We're attempted to worry if 197 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,719 Speaker 2: it's ever going to change, but that pressure is a 198 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: sign something is happening. When water builds behind the dam, 199 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 2: you don't see anything on the outside. There's no shaking, 200 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 2: no movement, no cracks in the concrete, but all this 201 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 2: energy and all this force is being stored up. 202 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: The higher the water, the more the pressure. 203 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 2: Sometimes the dam can get so full and have so 204 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: much pressure they have to open the floodgates. There have 205 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 2: been times when the dam burst and all this water 206 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 2: suddenly comes flooding out so much. 207 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: Force and so much power. 208 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 2: The pressure you feel is not because God is not working. 209 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 2: The silence things not improving doesn't mean it's never going 210 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:02,319 Speaker 2: to change. 211 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: The water is building up. Things are being stored up 212 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: that you can't see. 213 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 2: The pressure is the sign that the dam is weakening, 214 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 2: that things are shifting, Momentum is building, energy is being stored. 215 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:20,119 Speaker 2: When it's the right time, it's going to be suddenly 216 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 2: released like a flood, not a trickle, Not a couple 217 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 2: of good breaks, not one problem turned around. 218 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: No, like David, the whole army was wiped out. 219 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: God burst through with favor, with promotion, with power that 220 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 2: they had never seen. 221 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: Don't let the pressure fool you. 222 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 2: It's not a sign that God has forgotten about you, 223 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 2: that it's never going to work out. 224 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: It's a sign that. 225 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 2: The water is building up, that God's about to come 226 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 2: breaking through. Think about Paul and Silas. They were put 227 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 2: in prison for sharing their faith, and they had been 228 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 2: beaten and were bruised and bloody, and now they were 229 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 2: in the dungeon in change, awaiting trial. The next day. Well, Stephen, 230 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 2: an apostle had already been killed by the opposition, looked 231 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 2: like they were next. Imagine the pressure they fell, not 232 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,199 Speaker 2: just physically from their wounds and being injured, but emotionally 233 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 2: thinking that was it. 234 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: There was no way out. They could have been bitter God, 235 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: Why did this happen? We were doing the right thing. 236 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 2: But in the middle of the prison they were singing 237 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 2: praises and thanking God. 238 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 1: They were showing us a key. 239 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 2: Turn your pressure into praise, turn your worry into worship. 240 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 2: Instead of complaining about what didn't work out, feeling overwhelmed 241 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 2: by what's not changing, Why don't you do like them 242 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 2: and thank God that he's fighting your battles and that 243 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 2: nothing can stand against him. 244 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 1: That what he started he will finish in your life. 245 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: And they felt all this pressure, but they understood it 246 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 2: was a sign that something was building up, that the water, 247 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 2: so to speak, was rising and creating momentum, that God 248 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 2: was working. At midnight while they were singing praises, suddenly 249 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 2: there was a great earthquake. Prison doors flung open, chains 250 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 2: came off their feet. 251 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: They walked out as free men. What happened? 252 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 2: The dam broke, the water came bursting through. How are 253 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 2: you handling the pressure in your life? What are you 254 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 2: saying in the seasons when nothing is changing? Feels like 255 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,439 Speaker 2: God has forgotten about you? Like David, the Philistines, have 256 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 2: you surrounded? Maybe it's a sickness, the debt, the trouble. 257 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 2: If you complain, live discouraged, you're gonna miss what. 258 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: God has for you. Try a different approach. 259 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 2: The pressure is a sign the damn is about to break, 260 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 2: the water is about. 261 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: To burst forth. 262 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 2: David felt his greatest pressure, his greatest opposition, right before 263 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 2: he saw. 264 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:58,319 Speaker 1: The God of the breakthrough show out. 265 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 2: You may be under great pressure now, raising children, dealing 266 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 2: with issues it were, struggling in your finances. God sees 267 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 2: what you're up against. He knows how much pressure you 268 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 2: can handle. He wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't 269 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 2: going to work for your good. And that pressure that 270 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 2: feels so strong against you, that's an indication of the 271 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 2: favor and blessing that's going to be unleashed in your life. 272 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 2: It is building up like the bursting forth of waters. 273 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: You're going to see the goodness of God. 274 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 2: It's because you've been like Paul and Silas in that 275 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 2: midnight hour when it wasn't fair. 276 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: The pressure could have easily overwhelmed you. 277 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 2: But you're still singing praises, you still have an attitude 278 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 2: of faith, you're still coming to church and being your 279 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 2: best at work. Can I encourage you. Your time is coming. 280 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,359 Speaker 2: The Psalm has put it this way. When darkness overtakes 281 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 2: the righteous light will come bursting in. This is not 282 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 2: a gradual process. This is not something that improves a 283 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:07,239 Speaker 2: little over time. This is talking about the God. 284 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: Of the breakthrough. 285 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 2: When suddenly things shift, Suddenly the problem turns around, Suddenly 286 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 2: your business takes off, Suddenly you're free from that addiction. 287 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: Suddenly your child comes back home. 288 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 2: Get ready for some suddenlyes like a damn breaking, God's 289 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 2: about to unleash what's been stored up. See, you can't 290 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 2: reach your destiny just by ordinary means. The Philistines were 291 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: too strong for David. Goliath was too big, Saul was 292 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 2: too powerful. David's father overlooked him. David felt this pressure 293 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 2: again and again, and he could have complained, thought it's 294 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 2: never going to work out. 295 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: But listen to his attitude. He said, Oh, magnify the 296 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: Lord with me. 297 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 2: Let us exalt his name together. He was saying, I'm 298 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 2: not going to magnify my problems. I know I serve 299 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: the God of the breakthrough. I'm gonna magnify him. Another place, 300 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 2: he wrote, A thousand may fall at my side, ten 301 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: thousand at my right hand, but it won't come near me. 302 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 2: For the Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom 303 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 2: shall I fear? He felt the pressure, but he turned 304 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 2: it into praise. The pressure in your life is not 305 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 2: there to defeat you. It's there to propel you. You're 306 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 2: feeling the weight the worry forces trying to stop you. 307 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 1: That pressure is a sign something is shifting. 308 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 2: Favor is building, healing is being stored up, vindication open 309 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 2: doors at the right time, like the bursting forth of waters, 310 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 2: You're going to see the goodness of God, something that 311 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 2: you could have never made happen that propels you into 312 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 2: your purpose. 313 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: You may be in a difficult season. 314 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 2: Now you don't see how it could ever work out, 315 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 2: but don't ever rule out the God of the breakthrough. 316 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 2: One touch of his favor, one good break, one contract, 317 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 2: one goliath you defeat, and you're catapulted to a new level. 318 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: Now I need to give you a special weather alert. 319 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 1: This is just then. You are under a flash flood warning. 320 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: At any moment, you could see a flood of God's favor, 321 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 2: a flood of healing. 322 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: A flood of abundance. 323 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 2: Not a trickle, not a little mist here and there, 324 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 2: not a light rain, we're grateful for all that we 325 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 2: thank God for sustaining us. But I'm talking today about 326 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 2: something uncommon, unusual that you never saw coming. This happens 327 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 2: when you're under pressure, When thoughts tay us too much, 328 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: you can't take it. 329 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: It's never going to change. Now. That pressure means the 330 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: damn is about to break. 331 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 2: What God has stored up is about to come bursting 332 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 2: forth like a flood. 333 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: Like a tidal wave, like a tsunami. 334 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: Everything that's in your path trying to stop you is 335 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,959 Speaker 2: going to be washed away. His power is greater than 336 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 2: anything that comes against you. But there's a lot in 337 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 2: life that we cannot overcome by ourselves. And if we're 338 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 2: just trying to do it all in our own strengths, 339 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 2: our intellect, our connections, our resources, we're going to be 340 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 2: frustrated because the Philistines will show up people bigger and stronger. 341 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 2: Could be an illness or dysfunction that was passed down 342 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 2: troubling the home. These obstacles are going to take supernatural power. 343 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 2: God has already scheduled these breakthrough moments. It's already lined 344 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 2: up these times where His power will come like the 345 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 2: bursting forth of waters. 346 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 1: While you're waiting, feeling that pressure. 347 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 2: This is a very important time because thoughts will try 348 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 2: to get you discouraged, worried. 349 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: Now you know the secret. 350 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 2: The pressure is a sign that the water is rising, 351 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 2: the momentum is building, things are shifting that you can't see. 352 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 2: At the right time, you're going to see God show 353 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 2: out in your life. Well, David was so amazed at 354 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 2: what God had done and so grateful that they had 355 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 2: defeated the Philistines. The scripture says he named the place 356 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 2: bow Parism the God of the Breakthrough. Every time David 357 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 2: and his men would come by that city, they'd say, 358 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 2: remember that place, That's where the God of the Breakthrough 359 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 2: showed up. Even generations later, when David's grandchildren great grandchildren. 360 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: Would pass by, they'd say, oh, yeah, we remember this place. 361 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 2: Granddaddy told us about the God of the Breakthrough, how 362 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 2: he helped them defeat an army twice that size. Every 363 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 2: one of us should have some bowel Parisms where we 364 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 2: can look back and say, that's where the God of 365 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 2: the Breakthrough showed out in my life. 366 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: That's where God healed me, That's where he protected me. 367 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 1: That's where he opened the door I couldn't open that's 368 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: where he turned my child around. 369 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 2: Every time I drive up to this building, I realized 370 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 2: it's a all parism. When all the odds were against us, 371 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 2: the experts said we didn't have a chance, But the 372 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:10,159 Speaker 2: God of the breakthrough stepped in like a flood. He 373 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 2: moved the wrong people out of the way, and he 374 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 2: made a path where we didn't see a path. Here 375 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 2: we are now Lakewood, sixty seven years old today on 376 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 2: Mother's Day. 377 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: I remember when we. 378 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 2: Were trying to acquire this building. I felt all this pressure, 379 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 2: and I'm sure my team did too. But the other 380 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 2: side had more finances, more resources, more connections. There were 381 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 2: nights I couldn't really sleep. I tried, but thoughts whispered, 382 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 2: you're wasting your. 383 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: Time, Joel. 384 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 2: The night before the main city council vote, we were 385 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 2: one vote Shine. We'd worked a year and a half 386 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 2: and one of the council members that was for us 387 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 2: decided to be out of town, and that meant we 388 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 2: wouldn't have enough votes. But people cannot stop. What God 389 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 2: has purpose for your life, what He has intended for 390 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 2: you is not going to go to someone else. That 391 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 2: will be these times where it's out of your control. 392 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 2: You've done all you can. We did our best. We 393 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 2: were trd prayed and believed, but we were still lacking 394 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 2: one vote. But the night before the main vote, the 395 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 2: God of the breakthrough showed up. A lady I had 396 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 2: never met, called a council member that had been against. 397 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: Us the whole time. 398 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: Her call changed the council member's mind, and he voted 399 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 2: for us. 400 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: We got the building. 401 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: What I couldn't do in a year and a half 402 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 2: of trying to persuade him, she did in a five 403 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 2: minute phone call. 404 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: What was that? A flood of God's favor? 405 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 2: All that pressure I felt, It was like water building 406 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 2: behind a dam about to break at the right time. 407 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 2: What God has for you is going to come bursting forth. 408 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: Now. 409 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 2: I know you've seen his goodness in the past, but 410 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 2: you haven't seen anything yet. He has some new bowel 411 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 2: parisms in store for you. 412 00:21:58,840 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: I think about my mother. 413 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 2: She lived forty four years after she was diagnosed with 414 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 2: terminal liver cancer. She was a vow parism every time 415 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,959 Speaker 2: we saw her. That's the God of the Breakthrough. In 416 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 2: my early twenties, I was driving on the freeway and 417 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: it was raining really bad, and when I went to 418 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 2: change lanes, I lost control of my car and I 419 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 2: hit the guardrail in the middle and started spinning back 420 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 2: across five lanes of traffic. At one point I looked 421 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 2: up and I could see the front grill of this 422 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 2: eighteen wheeler. I was facing the wrong direction. It was 423 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 2: like ten feet in front of me. 424 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: I felt like I could touch it. I braced myself. 425 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: All I had time to say was Jesus. 426 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 2: Sometimes you can't pray long, but when you call on 427 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 2: the name of Jesus, angels go to work. 428 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: Forces of darkness were pushed back. 429 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 2: The next thing I knew, I was over on the 430 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 2: shoulder part kind of in a daze with the driver 431 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 2: of the eighteen wheeler he pulled over. 432 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,120 Speaker 1: He came up to my car. I'll never forget, he said, boy. 433 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 2: You must be living right, because right when I was 434 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 2: about to hit you, this big burst of wind blew 435 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 2: my truck into another lane, and somehow. 436 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: I missed you. 437 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 2: That's the God of the breakthrough. I named that place 438 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 2: bow Parism. Every time I drive by, I can say, 439 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 2: look what. 440 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,199 Speaker 1: The Lord has done. 441 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 2: When my father was a young minister, he would drive 442 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 2: to different cities to preach, and he took his own 443 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 2: sound equipment with him, and one place he showed up 444 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 2: and went and looked at the venue, this little county auditorium, 445 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,479 Speaker 2: and met with a few men that had asked him 446 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 2: to come. He went back to his car to get 447 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 2: the sound system out of his trunk, but somehow the 448 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 2: trunk closed with his keys in it. They started jiggling 449 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 2: the trunk and trying to open it, and they got 450 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 2: some coat hangers and tried with no success. There's about 451 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 2: a dozen people gathered around, everybody trying to help, and 452 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 2: for about thirty minutes of doing everything they could, my 453 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: father said, I'm gonna pray and ask. 454 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: God to open this trunk. 455 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 2: They looked at him like he is from another planet, 456 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 2: but my father'd pray about anything. He believed in the 457 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 2: God of the breakthrough. He said, Lord, God, you know 458 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 2: I need this equipment, and I know there's nothing too 459 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 2: hard for you, So I'm asking you to open this 460 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 2: trunk for me. Those other men were snickering and laughing, 461 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 2: kind of making fun. They thought he was far out. 462 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 2: He tried it and pulled it again, finagled it. Still nothing. 463 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 2: They all turned around and started to walk inside, and 464 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 2: we're going to come up with another plan. 465 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: When they heard something click. 466 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 2: They looked back and saw the trunk all on its 467 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 2: own accord. 468 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: It began to open up. 469 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 2: My father said, it went real slow, like he was 470 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 2: saying Halujah. Those other men said to my dad, will 471 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 2: you pray for me next? 472 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: But what was that? The God of the breakthrough suddenly 473 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: things shift. 474 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 2: You couldn't make it happen. You did all you could. 475 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,120 Speaker 2: That's when God will step in and do what you can. 476 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 2: Isaiah said, when the enemy comes in like a flood, 477 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 2: the spirit of God will raise up a barrier. The 478 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 2: comma is placed after the word flood, making the emphasis 479 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 2: on the enemy coming like a flood, but in the 480 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 2: original Hebrew language there were no commas. Many scholars believe 481 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 2: the comma was put in the wrong place. It should 482 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 2: read when the enemy comes in comma like a flood, 483 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 2: the spirit of God will rise up. The emphasis should 484 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 2: have been on God's. 485 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: Power and not the enemy's power. 486 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 2: When Isaiah wrote this, the people were facing injustice, oppressions, 487 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 2: or armies attacking. Isaiah was saying, in effect, don't let 488 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 2: the pressure fool you. A flood of God's favor is coming. 489 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: You may have things trying to stop you. Now you 490 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 2: don't see anything changing. You have to remember you're under 491 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: a flash flood warning. Any moment, the God of the 492 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 2: breakthrough could show up in your life suddenly, like the 493 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: bursting forth the waters. Now turn that pressure into praise. 494 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 2: Keep thanking God that he's working all through the day. 495 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: Live breakthrough minded. God, you did it for David. I 496 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: know you'll do it for me. 497 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 2: If you'll do this, I believe and declare breakthrough is 498 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 2: coming in your life. You're about to see a flood 499 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:31,359 Speaker 2: of God's healing, promotion, freedom that will catapult you into 500 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 2: new levels of your purpose in Jesus' name, And if 501 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 2: you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to 502 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 2: give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of 503 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 2: your life. 504 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 505 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,360 Speaker 1: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 506 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: you my Lord and save you. 507 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 508 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 2: born again. We'd love to send you some free information 509 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 2: on your new walk with the Lord. You can text 510 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 2: the number on the screen or go to the website. 511 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 2: But I hope you'll get into a good Bible based 512 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 2: church and keep God first. 513 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: Place. 514 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:16,919 Speaker 3: Every day we can live discouraged, angry, depressed, defeated. Is 515 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 3: it possible to turn these negatives into an outlook filled 516 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 3: with purpose, happiness and joy. 517 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: Every day we make choices how we see ourselves, how 518 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 2: we respond to challenges, how we approach what's in front 519 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 2: of us. I've written a devotional called Today, I Choose 520 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 2: Devotions for a Better Line. 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