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We love 43 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 4: you and we know God has great things in store 44 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,079 Speaker 4: for you. If you're ever in our area, I hope 45 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 4: you'll stop by and be a part of one of 46 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 4: our services. These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas' 47 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 4: right here at Lakewood, So come out and be a 48 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 4: part when you can. Thanks for tuning in. I like 49 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 4: to start with something funny, and I heard about this 50 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 4: burglar that broke into a home one night. As he 51 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 4: was stealing the stereo, he heard a voice saying, Jesus 52 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 4: is watching you. He froze in his tracks and he 53 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 4: shined the flashlight around the room and he saw a 54 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 4: parrot over in the corner. He said, did you say 55 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 4: that to me? The parrot said yes, I'm just trying 56 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 4: to warn you. He said, warn me, what are you 57 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 4: talking about? Who are you? The parrot said, my name 58 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 4: is Moses. The burglar laughed and said, what kind of 59 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 4: crazy people would name a parrot Moses. The parrot said 60 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,839 Speaker 4: the same kind of people that would name a one 61 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty pound rockweiler. G Jesus, all right, hold 62 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 4: up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This 63 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,119 Speaker 4: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 64 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do 65 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be 66 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 67 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 68 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 69 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 4: to talk to you today about how God wants to 70 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 4: amaze you with his goodness. We are living in a 71 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 4: day where God is increasing his favor. Every one of 72 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 4: us has seen God's goodness to a certain degree, but 73 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 4: really we haven't seen anything yet. God has favor in 74 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 4: your future that will supersede anything that you've seen in 75 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 4: the past. The scripture talks about how the glory of 76 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 4: the latter day will be greater than the glory of 77 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 4: the former day. That means what God did for your parents, grandparents, 78 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 4: what previous generations have experienced, the blessing in favor. That 79 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 4: was good. But God is a god of increase. He 80 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 4: has greater things in store for you. That promotion you 81 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 4: were so thrilled with ten years ago, the restoration that 82 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 4: took place five years ago, that's nothing compared to what 83 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 4: God is about to do. The Apostle Paul said, in 84 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 4: the ages to come, we would see the immeasurable, limitless, 85 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 4: surpassing greatness of God's favor. That's the day we're living 86 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 4: in I want you to get your hopes up. Want 87 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 4: you to enlarge your vision what God has in your future. 88 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 4: Where he's going to take you, the people he's going 89 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 4: to bring across your path, the opportunities you're going to experience, 90 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 4: the gifts you're going to discover on the inside. You're 91 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 4: going to look back one day and say, I know 92 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 4: that was the surpassing greatness of God's favor. You may 93 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 4: be facing impossible situations today. All the odds are against you. 94 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 4: You don't see how your dreams could come to pass. 95 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 4: But the good news is we serve a supernatural God. 96 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 4: He already has a way, and our job is not 97 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 4: to figure it all out. Our job is to believe. 98 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 4: Our job is to get up each morning and say, Father, 99 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 4: I want to thank you that what's in my future 100 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 4: is greater than what's in my past. So I'm taking 101 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 4: the limits off of you. And I'm not going to 102 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 4: live negative, discouraged, focused on my disappointments, dwelling on my impossibilities. No, God, 103 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 4: I'm looking for the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing greatness of your favor. 104 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 4: In fact, where God is going to take you is 105 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 4: not only going to amaze you. It's going to amaze 106 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 4: the people around you. In the Old Testament, God was 107 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 4: about to do something great, and he said to the 108 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 4: critics and to the naysayers, I will do a work 109 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 4: in your day that you will not believe. Even if 110 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: I told you God was saying not to the believers, 111 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 4: but to the unbelievers. Even if I spelled it out, 112 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 4: even if I wrote it down and you could read 113 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 4: all about the incredible things I'm going to do for 114 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 4: my people, all the doors I'm going to open, all 115 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 4: the favor I'm going to release, even if I explained 116 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 4: it to you in great detail, you would still say, 117 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 4: no way, that's impossible, never gonna happen. If some of 118 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 4: the people you grew up with, maybe the ones you 119 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 4: used to party with, if they were told back then 120 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 4: where you would be right now, sitting in church living 121 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: a life that honors God, kind, respectful, full of integrity, 122 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 4: they would have said, You've got to be kidding. You 123 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 4: got the wrong person. Maybe somebody else, but I know 124 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 4: then no. God has the final say. He has planned 125 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 4: out your days for good and not evil. He is 126 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 4: going to amaze you in your future. If some of 127 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 4: the peace people that used to look down on you 128 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 4: and try to make you feel inferior, like you didn't 129 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 4: have what it takes. If they could see you now, strong, confident, 130 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 4: a leader, excelling in your career, they would think that 131 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 4: couldn't be the same person. What in the world happened. 132 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 4: Here's what happened. You got in agreement with God and 133 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 4: he released his favor in amazing ways. You may be 134 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 4: around people right now that are real good at telling 135 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 4: you what you can't do and what's not going to 136 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 4: work out, and they're quick to remind you of all 137 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 4: your impossibilities, but don't let them talk you out of 138 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 4: your dreams. They don't determine your destiny. God does. And 139 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 4: if you will stay in faith, one day they will 140 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 4: stand in amazement at where God takes you. They're going 141 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 4: to say, is that the same young man I used 142 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 4: to go to school with that's now running the company? 143 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 4: Is that the same one that used to struggle with 144 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 4: addictions year after year? You mean to tell me he's 145 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 4: not only it's totally free, but he's helping other people 146 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 4: get free. Is that the same family I grew up 147 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 4: with that could barely get by, always in defeat and 148 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 4: lack and poverty, and now they're blessed. They're prosperous. The 149 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 4: head and not the tail. Friends, where God is going 150 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 4: to take you is going to amaze your critics and 151 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 4: your naysayers. If God were to describe to them your 152 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 4: future right now in great detail, they would say, I 153 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 4: don't believe it. That's just too good to be true. 154 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 4: Here's the key. Don't let their unbelief keep you from believing. 155 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 4: Get in agreement with God when you believe all things 156 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 4: are possible. Paul prayed here in Ephesians one point eighteen 157 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 4: that the eyes of our heart would be flooded with 158 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 4: light so we could understand the wonderful future God has 159 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 4: in store. That's my prayer for each one of you, 160 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 4: that you would have a greater understanding of the amazing 161 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 4: things God has in your future. Some of you think 162 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 4: that you've reached your limits. God's been good to you, 163 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 4: you're happy, you're blessed, and now you're just coasting. No, 164 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 4: you need to get ready. God is about to release 165 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 4: his unprecedented favor. That's favor that you have never seen before. 166 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 4: Your relatives, coworkers, friends may try to talk you out 167 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 4: of it, tell you how unlikely that is. But listen, 168 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 4: God didn't put the promise in them. He put the 169 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 4: promise in you. And if you will keep believing, God 170 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 4: will not only bring it to pass, but He will 171 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 4: do more than you can ask or think. This is 172 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 4: exactly what Abraham and Sarah had to do. God gave 173 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 4: them the promise that they were going to have a 174 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 4: baby in the natural. It was impossible. Abraham at the 175 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 4: time was eighty years old. His wife Sarah was seventy 176 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 4: years old. Everyone knows you can't have a baby at 177 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 4: that age. Year after year went by with no child. 178 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 4: Looked like it was never going to happen. But Abraham 179 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 4: and Sarah didn't get discouraged. They didn't start complaining. The 180 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 4: scripture says they grew strong in faith by giving praise 181 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 4: to God no doubt. All through the day they would 182 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 4: go around saying, Father, thank you that this baby is 183 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 4: coming in. It may look impossible, but God, we know 184 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 4: you can do the impossible. I'm sure when some of 185 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 4: their friends and neighbors heard them talking about having a baby, 186 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 4: they must have thought these people are far out. They 187 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 4: think God can do anything. They must be going to Lakewood. 188 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 4: Don't they know they're too old to have a child. 189 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 5: No. 190 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 4: Abraham and Sarah just shook off that doubt and unbelief. 191 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 4: They didn't allow other people to talk them out of 192 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 4: the promise. One day, twenty years later, when Sarah was 193 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 4: ninety years old, she gave birth to that baby. Now, 194 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 4: I love what she said. She looked at little Isaac 195 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 4: and said, who would have thought an old woman like 196 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 4: me could give birth to a baby? Friends, in your future, 197 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 4: there are some who would have thought moments you're gonna 198 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 4: look back and say, who would have thought I would 199 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 4: have my best year in the middle of a recession. 200 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 4: Who would have thought Lakewood would end up in the 201 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 4: Compact Center? Who would have thought my mother would be 202 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 4: alive today after being diagnosed with terminal cancer twenty nine 203 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 4: years ago. Who would have thought my father as a 204 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 4: seventeen year old boy selling popcorn in a theater, the 205 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 4: poorest of the poor, no education, no money, no future 206 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 4: to speak of. Who would have thought he would rise 207 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 4: out of poverty and defeat and become a great pastor 208 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 4: that would touch people all over the world. You need 209 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 4: to get ready. There are who would have thought moments 210 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 4: in your future. I heard this mom telling how concerned 211 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 4: she was about her son. He was making poor, to say, 212 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 4: running with the wrong crowd. And she prayed and prayed 213 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 4: and tried to convince him to come to church and 214 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,960 Speaker 4: quit hanging around with those people, but he just wouldn't 215 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 4: do it. It seemed like the more she prayed, the 216 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 4: worse he got. Long story short, he ended up in jail. 217 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 4: Looked like he would never fulfill his destiny. But this 218 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 4: mother didn't give up and get negative. She just kept 219 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 4: declaring the scripture, as for me and my house, we 220 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 4: will serve the Lord. The seed of the righteous is blessed. 221 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 4: One Sunday morning in jail, her son was watching television 222 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,559 Speaker 4: and another inmate came in and wanted to watch something else, 223 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 4: And they began to argue over what they were going 224 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 4: to watch, and they started struggling over the remote control, 225 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 4: trying to take it away from each other. About that time, 226 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 4: this huge inmate came in. He stood six foot six, 227 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 4: He looked like a professional football player, had these muscles 228 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 4: bulging out of his shirt. He grabbed the remote control 229 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 4: and said, I'll decide what we're going to watch. He 230 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 4: started flipping through the channels and came across our program. 231 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 4: He said, good, we're gonna watch Joel today. Her son 232 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 4: that inmate got up to leave. He grabbed him by 233 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 4: the shirt and pulled him back down and says, sit down, 234 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 4: You're gonna watch with me. God works in mysterious ways. 235 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 4: We had a captive audience that day. But as he 236 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 4: watched the program, all of a sudden he began to 237 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 4: feel God's love and presence like never before. He started weeping. 238 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 4: The end of that broadcast, that big inmate led him 239 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 4: to Christ And today I see him at our services 240 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 4: all the time, sitting with his mother. That was a 241 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 4: who would have thought moment? Who would have thought sitting 242 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 4: in jail he would be forced to watch our program 243 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 4: and God would end up changing his life. Those promises 244 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 4: that you've been standing on may look like they're never 245 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 4: going to come to pass, but always remember there are 246 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 4: who would have thought moments in your future. David said 247 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 4: it like this, What would have happened to me if 248 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 4: I had not believed I would see the goodness of God. 249 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 4: I'm asking you today to believe that God has amazing 250 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 4: things in your future. Believe that you can rise higher 251 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 4: and become all that God's created you to be. Incredible 252 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 4: power is released when we believe when we dare do 253 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 4: like this Mother, even though it looks impossible and we 254 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 4: don't see a way yet, we say, Father, I want 255 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 4: to thank you for the immeasurable, limitless, surpassing greatness of 256 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 4: your power. I know it's at work in my life 257 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 4: right now. When we activate our faith like that, it 258 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 4: allows God to do amazing things. I talked to a 259 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 4: young couple after the service last week. They'd been trying 260 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 4: to have a child for six years. The young lady 261 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 4: had had a couple of miscarriages and for some reason 262 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 4: just couldn't carry the baby. Had gone to all the 263 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 4: experts and done everything they could medically with no success. Finally, 264 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 4: they just turned it over to the Lord and said, God, 265 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 4: our hopes and dreams are in your hands. We trust you, 266 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 4: we know you're incomplete control. Years earlier, the young lady's 267 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 4: sister had a dream where she saw this young lady 268 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 4: and her husband with the most beautiful, blue eyed, blonde 269 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 4: haired little boy than you could ever imagine. They knew 270 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 4: that was a sign from God, and they had talked 271 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 4: about adoption here and there, but they thought it was 272 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 4: much further down the road. On Mother's Day two thousand 273 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 4: and nine, last year they were here at the service. 274 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 4: That's when Lakewood was celebrating our fiftieth anniversary, and that 275 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 4: day I talked about the Year of Jubilee and how 276 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 4: everything that has our name on it is coming back in. 277 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 4: I made the statement how that business that has your 278 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 4: name on it is coming in, the health that has 279 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 4: your name on it is coming in. When I specifically 280 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 4: said the baby that has your name on it is 281 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 4: coming in, they looked at each other in amazement. They 282 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 4: knew that was exactly for them. I went on to 283 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 4: talk about how God is accelerating things and it's going 284 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 4: to happen quicker than you think. The whole time they 285 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 4: were allowing that seed to take root in their heart. 286 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 4: Here's what I've learned. The only promises that will become 287 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 4: alive and really end up a reality in your life 288 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 4: are the promises where you rise up and say, yes, Lord, 289 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 4: that's for me. You've got to get in agreement with 290 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 4: God and let the promise take root in your heart. 291 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 4: Because I can speak faith and victory over your future 292 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 4: for a lifetime. But if you just sit back and say, 293 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 4: oh man, this is not really for me. I've made 294 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 4: too many mistakes and I always get bad breaks, you 295 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 4: will talk to yourself out of it, and the promises 296 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 4: won't do you any good. But when the soil of 297 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 4: your heart is fertile, when there's an expectancy on the inside, 298 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 4: then when you hear that promise that God has who 299 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 4: would have fought moments in your future, you'll do like 300 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 4: that young couple and rise up and say, yes, Lord, 301 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 4: I believe I'm in agreement with you. I'm expecting the immeasurable, limitless, 302 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 4: surpassing greatness of your favor. Now that's what this young 303 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 4: couple did. They went out that morning knowing that the 304 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 4: baby that had their name on it was coming in 305 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 4: and it was going to happen quicker than they thought. 306 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 4: Four hours later, as they were celebrating Mother's Day with 307 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,679 Speaker 4: their family, their business manager called and asked if they 308 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:41,479 Speaker 4: would be interested in adopting a little baby boy that 309 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 4: would be born in July. They knew that was the 310 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 4: hand of God. Eight weeks later, they were in the 311 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 4: delivery room when the little boy was born, and it 312 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 4: just so happened to be a blonde haired, blue eyed 313 00:17:55,280 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 4: little boy like a sister had dreamed about earlier. They 314 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 4: were the first ones to put their loving arms around 315 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 4: the baby when he was born. In fact, the father 316 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 4: was even able to cut the umbilical cord. They named 317 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 4: their little son Asher from the Old Testament that means 318 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 4: gift from God. Little Asher is there on the front 319 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 4: row with his parents, Doctor Scott and Donna. But I 320 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 4: wonder what would have happened if they had not believed. 321 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe they wouldn't have gotten the phone 322 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 4: call that afternoon. I'm convinced there are times that we 323 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 4: miss the amazing hand of God simply because we don't 324 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 4: activate our faith by believing. We let our mind talk 325 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 4: us out of it. We think of all the reasons 326 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 4: why it won't happen. But I'm asking you today to 327 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 4: be a believer and not a doubter. Let the seed 328 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 4: take root. God has who would have thought moments in 329 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 4: your future. He is about to release a new level 330 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,679 Speaker 4: of his favor in your life. God is going to 331 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 4: give you the desires of your heart. Those promises you've 332 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 4: been standing on for years and years, You're about to 333 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 4: see them come to fulfillment. That situation that's been stuck 334 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 4: at the same level for a long time, You're about 335 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 4: to see a breakthrough. That child that won't do what's right. 336 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 4: God's about to send somebody across his path. There is 337 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 4: increase and promotion in your future like you've never dreamed of. 338 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 4: But most likely it's not going to happen in an 339 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 4: ordinary way, the way you have planned. It's going to 340 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 4: happen in an extraordinary way, so that you will know 341 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,479 Speaker 4: it was the hand of God. Friends, this is a 342 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 4: generation for the surpassing greatness of God's favor. That means 343 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 4: it's going to be above and beyond what we've seen before. 344 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 4: I have a friend that was in this auditorium in 345 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 4: nineteen ninety eight for a business seminar. He was sitting 346 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 4: on the front row next to my college roommate. The 347 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 4: place was filled with business people from around the city, 348 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 4: and as he sat there listening to the speaker talk, 349 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 4: all of a sudden, he felt something rise up so 350 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 4: strongly on the inside, and it said to him, one 351 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 4: day this facility will be a church filled with God's 352 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 4: people celebrating his goodness. He was so excited. He told 353 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 4: my college roommate. That was in nineteen ninety eight, a 354 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 4: year before my father went to be with the Lord. 355 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 4: I wasn't even a minister, but yet He released his 356 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 4: faith and said, in effect, God, I'm in agreement with you. 357 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,359 Speaker 4: I believe today we are in this facility in part 358 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 4: because he dared to activate his faith. He got in 359 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 4: agreement with God and let the promise take root. Friends, 360 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 4: God is looking for someone to believe. When you hear 361 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 4: that promise on the inside, when you know it's God 362 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 4: speaking to you, you don't have to have five confirmations, 363 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 4: you don't have to fit figure it all out. All 364 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 4: you've got to do is say, Lord, I believe. I 365 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 4: get an agreement with you. There is incredible power that's 366 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 4: released when we believe. Few years after Victoria and I 367 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 4: were married, a friend of hers had a dream one night. 368 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 4: I didn't really know this young lady, but she told Victoria. 369 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 4: In this dream, I saw Joel speaking in front of 370 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,239 Speaker 4: thousands of people. It was in a huge auditorium, and 371 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 4: he was up there very calmly, encouraging people, and not 372 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 4: a person was moving. Everyone was listening very intently. Victoria 373 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 4: came home and told me about it. And at that 374 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 4: time I was in my mid twenties and working behind 375 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 4: the scenes at the church doing the television production, and 376 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 4: I had never ministered before. In the natural. Just off 377 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 4: the top of my head, I thought, all that dream 378 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 4: doesn't mean anything. She must have just had too much 379 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 4: pizza before she went to bed, because I'm not a 380 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 4: minister and I'm certainly not gonna get up in front 381 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 4: of thigh thou of people. But deep down in my heart, 382 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 4: once I got past my head, even though I didn't 383 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 4: understand it, even though I never thought I would become 384 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 4: a minister, instead of just blowing it off, I said, Lord, 385 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 4: I let that seed take root, and I thank you 386 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 4: that I will become everything that You've created me to be. 387 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 4: Over the next ten years, from time to time that 388 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 4: dream would come up, and I would just simply say, God, 389 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 4: not my will, but let your will be done. And 390 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety nine, when my father went to be 391 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 4: with the Lord, all of a sudden I had this 392 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 4: strong desire to step up and pasture the church. My 393 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 4: mind was telling me all the reasons why I couldn't 394 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 4: do it, and how I wasn't qualified, and how I'd 395 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 4: never been to seminary. But deep down that dream that 396 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 4: I allowed to take root some twelve years earlier would 397 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 4: keep rising up, reminding me that I can do all 398 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:03,160 Speaker 4: things through Christ. I am well today. When I look 399 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 4: at you, I realize I am living the dream that 400 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 4: that young lady saw many years ago. I believe one 401 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 4: reason I was able to step up that I've seen 402 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 4: God's amazing favor is simply because I allowed that promise 403 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 4: to take root. That's what David meant when he said 404 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 4: what would have become of me? If I had not believed? 405 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 4: I don't think i'd be standing here today if I 406 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 4: had not chosen to be a believer. When I drive 407 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 4: up to this beautiful facility every week, I can say 408 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 4: with Sarah, who would have ever thought the former Compact 409 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 4: Center where I used to watch the Rockets play basketball 410 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 4: would become our church? God has done more than we 411 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 4: could even ask the things. When I get up to minister, 412 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 4: I think, who would have thought that would be me? 413 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 4: I'm naturally quiet and reserved. Who would have ever thought 414 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 4: I would stand at the new Yankee Stadium be the 415 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 4: first one to minister there. Friends, you don't know where 416 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,719 Speaker 4: God's going to take you. He has amazing things in 417 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 4: your future. Dare to activate your faith, let the seed 418 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 4: take root. That's what a friend of mine did. She's 419 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 4: a minister as well, and she attends our services from 420 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 4: time to time, and she's heard me talking about how 421 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 4: we should believe for an Ephesian's three twenty decade. Every 422 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 4: day she does what I ask people to do, to 423 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 4: get up in the morning and say, Father, thank you 424 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 4: that this is going to be an exceedingly abundantly above 425 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 4: and beyond decade of your goodness and your favor. Her 426 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 4: ministry is geared toward helping women with addictions, women that 427 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 4: are struggling in different areas of abuse. She spends a 428 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 4: lot of her time on the street where people are 429 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 4: really hurting, and she doesn't have any formal church that 430 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 4: supports her, so she has to raise her own funds 431 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 4: from the people she knows. Long ago, through a series 432 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 4: of unusual events, she met one of the most well 433 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 4: known and wealthiest business people around. She was able to 434 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 4: visit with him for a few minutes in his office 435 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 4: with several other people in passing. He said to her, now, 436 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,439 Speaker 4: what do you do. She said, well, sir, I'm a 437 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 4: minister and I spend a lot of my time helping 438 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 4: women with addictions and women that are going through other 439 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 4: difficult situations. He said, that's amazing. I never dreamed you 440 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 4: would do that. I want to support you. He gave 441 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 4: her a very generous gift. In fact, it was one 442 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 4: of the largest gifts that she had ever received. About 443 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 4: that time, a friend of his walked into the office. 444 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 4: He said, Hey, come over here, I just made a 445 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 4: donation to her ministry. How much are you going to give? 446 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 4: That man had never seen this lady, didn't know who 447 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 4: she was, but he said, oh, I'll give the same 448 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 4: amount that you just donated. That day she saw Ephesians 449 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 4: three come to lie. God did exceedingly abundantly above and 450 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 4: beyond that was a who would have thought blessing? Who 451 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 4: would have thought one of the leading business people of 452 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 4: our day would be a supporter of her ministry. Friends, 453 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 4: God has limitless, immeasurable favor in your future. But I 454 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 4: believe the key with this young lady is she dared 455 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 4: to activate her faith. She's been declaring Ephesians three twenty 456 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 4: like never before. We have to take the limits off 457 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 4: of God. So often it's our own thinking that keeps 458 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 4: us from God's best. My prayer is that your heart 459 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 4: is being flooded with faith so you can understand the 460 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 4: amazing things God has in your future. Get ready for increase, 461 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 4: Get ready for new doors to open. Proverbs thirteen twenty 462 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 4: one puts it like this, Trouble chases sinners, but blessings 463 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 4: chase the righteous. Something is chasing you right now, not trust, 464 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 4: not defeat, sickness, calamity, harm, No as a child or 465 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 4: the most High God. Blessings are chasing you. Favor is 466 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 4: chasing you. Divine connections are coming your way because you 467 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 4: are a believer. The surpassing greatness of God's favor is 468 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 4: it work in your life right now. You know what 469 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 4: this beautiful building is. It's not just God's favor. It's 470 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 4: the surpassing greatness of God's favor. My mother being alive 471 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 4: twenty nine years after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. 472 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 4: That's not just God's goodness. That's the surpassing greatness of 473 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 4: God's goodness. Many of us have seen God's goodness in 474 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 4: years past. But what I'm saying is God has another level. 475 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 4: We are entering into a new season. The glory of 476 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 4: the latter house will be greater than the former house. 477 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 4: We are the generation that will see the surpassing greatness 478 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 4: of God's favor. Declare it over each one of you, 479 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 4: because you are living a life that honors God. God 480 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 4: is going to amaze you with his goodness. God is 481 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,360 Speaker 4: going to give you favor with people that you've never 482 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 4: dreamed of. God is going to take you places that 483 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 4: your critics will never believe. God is going to restore 484 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 4: impossible situations. God is going to bring back to life 485 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 4: dead dreams. God is going to turn around health problems, 486 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 4: legal situations that look like they're too far gone. And 487 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 4: God is going to give you the desires of your heart. 488 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 4: Some of you, just like this young couple. God is 489 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 4: going to give you the baby that you've belonging for. 490 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 4: He is going to do such amazing things. You're going 491 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 4: to look back in five years and say, who would 492 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 4: have ever thought I would be as blessed as I 493 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 4: am today? Who would have thought moments are in your future? 494 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 4: You need to get ready. They are coming your way. 495 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 4: I declare it, I believe it in the name of Jesus. 496 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you shout an amen and Amen? 497 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 2: Well? 498 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 4: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 499 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 4: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 500 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 4: The most important decision that you could make. Would you 501 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 4: pray with me? 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