1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Victoria, and I'm believe in you're going to have a 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: blessed summer. Praying for you guys every day, and thanks 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: for being with us today. I'm excited. Victoria's got a 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: new book out. It's called Grace to Go, and I 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: know it's going to bless you. I'm excited because in 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: this book you will see how you are strengthened, that 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: you are prepared and you are ready for. 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: Anything that's in front of you. You are grace to go. 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: Enjoy today's message. Oh God bless you. It is always 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: a joy that coming to your homes. 11 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: We love you and we believe that this is going 12 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: to be your best year so far. We pray for 13 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: you every day. If you're ever in our area, I 14 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: hope you'll stop by and be a part of one 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: of our services. 16 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 2: But thanks for tuning in today. 17 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,839 Speaker 1: I like to get started each week with something kind 18 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 1: of funny, and I heard about this man and his wife. 19 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: They argued for months over who should make the coffee 20 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: in the morning. The man definitely thought it was a 21 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: wife's job. 22 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: She just didn't agree. 23 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: After several heated debates, she finally said, I can prove 24 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: from the Bible that it's your job. He said, there's 25 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: nothing in the Bible about making coffee. She said, sure, 26 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: there is, and she called him over and opened her 27 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: Bible and pointed to the Book of Hebrews. 28 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 3: All right, hold up your bible. Say it like you 29 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 3: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 30 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 3: says I am. I have what it says I have. 31 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 3: I can do what it says I can do. Today 32 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 3: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 33 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 3: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 34 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 3: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 35 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about taking advantage 36 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: of your God given opportunities. 37 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 2: God created every one of us to be successful. Before 38 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: the foundation of the world. 39 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: He laid out an exact plan for our life, and 40 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: in this plan he has marked moments that are going 41 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: to come across our path. These moments are not ordinary, 42 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: They are destiny altering moments. They are designed to thrust 43 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: us years ahead. And it says they're in Ecclesiastes chapter nine, 44 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: verse eleven, that time and chance come together for every person. 45 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: That means you will have opportunities to meet the right people, 46 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 1: opportunities to advance in your career, opportunities to fulfill your dreams. 47 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: God has already prearranged times of increase, times of blessing. 48 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: You may not be seeing a lot of good breaks 49 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 1: right now. Maybe you're stuck in a rut. 50 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 2: But let me encourage you in your future. 51 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: There are seasons of favor, seasons of increase, God ordained 52 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: moments that He's already planned out for you. 53 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 2: But too many people miss these moments. 54 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: They tried and failed, so they quit believing, or they're distracted. 55 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: They've got so much clutter in their life they can't 56 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: hear the still small voice telling them that it's their season. 57 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: The scripture talks about how Jesus wept over a certain 58 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: city because they missed their hour of visitation. Every person 59 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,679 Speaker 1: has times of visitation. We may go five years and 60 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: nothing big is happening. Then all of a sudden, a 61 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: God ordained moment comes along. A person, we meet, a 62 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: house we shouldn't have qualified for, but we did, a 63 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: position at a new company. In a split second, we're 64 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: thrust years ahead. I can look back over my own 65 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: life and see the moments that altered my destiny, moments 66 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: that propelled me to a higher level. When I was 67 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: in my early twenties, I walked into a jewelry store 68 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: to buy a battery for my watch. That's where I 69 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: met Victoria. A marked moment. Think about all the things. 70 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: That had to fall into place. There are hundreds of 71 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: jewelry stores here in Houston. 72 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: My watch battery had to die, Victoria had to be 73 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: working day. That wasn't a coincidence, That wasn't a lucky break. 74 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: That was God bringing time and chance together. He ordained 75 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: that moment before the foundation of the world. That's why 76 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: we don't have to worry. We don't have to go 77 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: around frustrated because things aren't happening as fast as we 78 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: would like. All we have to do is stay in faith, 79 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: knowing that God is directing our steps. As long as 80 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: we keep believing, our marked moments are on their way. 81 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 1: I love what David said, God, my times are in 82 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: your hands. He was saying, God, already know you've got 83 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: supernatural breaks planned out for me. You've got the right people, 84 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: the right opportunities. So I'm not gonna live stressed out. 85 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay in peace knowing that you will get 86 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: me to my final destination. We have to recognize the 87 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: different seasons of our lives. 88 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: It's easy to get frustrated. 89 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: When our dreams aren't coming to pass on our timetable. 90 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: But every sea and is not harvest. 91 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: There are plowing seasons, There are planting seasons, there are 92 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: watering seasons. And sure we would love for every season 93 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: to be a time of increase left and right, good 94 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: breaks here and there, but without the other seasons, we 95 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't be prepared. It's during the plowing seasons when God's 96 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: bringing issues to light that. 97 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 2: We need to deal with. That's what's getting us prepared 98 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 2: for promotion. 99 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: If you're not making as much progress as you would like, 100 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: here's the key. Don't lose any ground, don't go backwards, 101 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,479 Speaker 1: hold your position, keep a good attitude, and do the 102 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: right thing even when it's hard. 103 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 2: When you do that, you are passing the test, and 104 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 2: God promises your marked moments are on their way. 105 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: A few years after Victoria and I were married, we 106 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: were living in a beautiful. 107 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 2: Townhouse, just as happy as can be, and one. 108 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: Day out of the blue, Victorias said we need to 109 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: sell this place. And when she said it, right down 110 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: in here, I felt peace. I knew that it was 111 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: right in the natural. We could have thought we're fine, 112 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: we're comfortable here, but we paid attention to that still 113 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: small voice, that inward witness, telling us something better is 114 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 1: on the horizon, a marked moment is coming, a season 115 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: of increase, And so we went out looking. We knew 116 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: every home for sale in every neighborhood within ten miles 117 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: of us. 118 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 2: We looked for. 119 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: Months and months, and one Sunday afternoon we found this old, 120 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: run down house. But it was on a beautiful piece 121 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: of property. The windows were broken out, had water dripping 122 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: from the ceiling. But something down in here said, this 123 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: is it. This is a God given opportunity. We took 124 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: that step of faith. In less than three years, we 125 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: sold that property for more than twice what we paid 126 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: for it. A marked moment, that one God ordained opportunity 127 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: put us at a new level. Time and chance came 128 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: together and we took advantage of it. Well, you say, Joel, 129 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: I don't have those kind of resources. I wasn't raised 130 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: in a family like yours. That doesn't matter. God doesn't 131 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: say time and chance are not gonna come together for 132 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: you if you don't have the right name, or if 133 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: you've made too many mistakes now I want you to 134 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: get this down in your spirit. God has preordained marked 135 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: moments for every one of you. He has already lined 136 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: up the right people, the right breaks, the right opportunities. 137 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: He's prearranged them for your future. I was reading about 138 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: a young lady that was working. 139 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 2: At a small restaurant in Los Angeles. 140 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: She was waiting on tables, cooking, cleaning, basically doing it all. 141 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: One day, her boss, the owner, said that the customers 142 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: were requesting desserts. At that time, they didn't make any, 143 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: and he told her she was gonna have to start 144 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: coming in early every morning to make deserts. And her 145 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: first reaction was to argue, she thought, I already work 146 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: hard enough, that's not fair. But instead of getting bitter, 147 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: she decided that she was going to see that as 148 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: a challenge and make the best dessert she possibly could. 149 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: She started off making pies. These pies really caught on. 150 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: The customers loved them. In fact, people would come to 151 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: the restaurant just to have a piece of her pie, 152 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: and the pies got so popular one day she decided 153 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: to start her. 154 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: Own pie business. 155 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: She took a step of faith and things just fell 156 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: into place. She was able to find a facility. She 157 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: got the equipment that she needed. It was a marked moment, 158 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: a season of increase. It wasn't long before her little 159 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: business began to grow. They had so many customers. Eventually 160 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: they had to open up a second location, and then another, 161 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 1: and another and another. By nineteen sixty four, Marie Callender 162 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: had one hundred and fourteen locations in fifteen different states. 163 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where you are right now. God has 164 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 2: marked moments for every one of you. You may not 165 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 2: be able to figure it out, but that's okay. That's 166 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 2: not your job. 167 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: Your job is to believe God's already got it figured out. 168 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 2: Well, you say, Jeel, I'm just not that talented. Can 169 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 2: you make a pie? Look what happened to her. 170 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: I want you to get a bigger vision. There are 171 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: exciting things in your future. The right people are out there. 172 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: The breaks you need have already been lined up by 173 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: the creator of the universe. 174 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 2: What can stop them? Not the enemy, not other people. 175 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: Nobody can keep you from your destiny except you. Some 176 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: of you have gotten a lot of bad breaks. You 177 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: tried and felled, and now you're just kind of sitting 178 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: on the sidelines of life. 179 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: Not expecting anything good. 180 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: But you've got to shake off that defeated mentality, rise 181 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: up and say this is a new day. It may 182 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: not have happened in the past, but is going to 183 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: happen in the future. I know God has marked moments 184 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: come in my way. I think about how just a 185 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: little over five years ago we were searching for property 186 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: to build a new sanctuary. 187 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 2: On twice the land we found was sold out from 188 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 2: under us. It was unfair. We were very disappointed, but. 189 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 1: I found sometimes God closes a door because we're believing 190 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: too small. If He were to answer our prayers every 191 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: time and give us everything we asked for, wouldn't always 192 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: be his best. Don't be discouraged over your closed doors. 193 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: The steps and the stops of a good person are 194 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: ordered by the Lord. If a door closed, it that 195 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: just means God has something better and most likely bigger, 196 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: in store now. 197 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 2: A few months. 198 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 1: After that door closed on us, we got word that 199 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: the Compact Center this place was coming available. Getting this 200 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: place was more than we could even ask or think. 201 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: Let me tell you God's dream for your life is 202 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: so much bigger than your own. He has breaks lined 203 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: up for you in the future that if he told 204 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: you right now, it boggled your mind. He has people 205 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: he's going to bring across your path, opportunities you're going 206 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 1: to encounter to where you'll look back and say, man, 207 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: that was a marked moment. I could have never orchestrated. 208 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: That all on my own. That's the way our God is. 209 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: The scripture says no person has ever seen, heard, or 210 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: imagined the wonderful things He has in store. And I 211 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: think about how this one marked moment, acquiring the Compact 212 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: Center thrust our ministry probably fifty years further down the 213 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: road as far as reaching people, as far as credibility. 214 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: That one event did more than I could do in 215 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 2: my whole lifetime in my own effort. It was a. 216 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: Marked moment planned before the foundation of time. I met 217 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: a man that helped design the Compact Center. He was 218 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: one of the original engineers. He told how way back 219 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: in the sixties he laid out the entry and exit 220 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: ramps of the freeway to flow perfectly into this building. 221 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: He worked with the city to time all the lights 222 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: around here so that this place would have the best advantage. 223 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: I thought about how good God is. Forty years ago 224 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: he had people working on our behalf. Friends God's got 225 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: it all planned out. You got to know in your future. 226 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: He's already lined up favor increase, good breaks, supernatural opportunities, 227 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: divine connections. 228 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 2: He has great things in store. He's already marked your moments. 229 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: Well, you say, Joel, I've made a lot of mistakes, 230 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: made a lot of poor choices. 231 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 2: I'm sure I've blown my opportunities. No, God is full 232 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 2: of mercy. 233 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: He knew every mistake you would ever make, and He 234 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 1: has already marked moments to bring you out. 235 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 2: Where you are is no surprise to God. 236 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: He's not up in the heavens all baffled thinking. Man, 237 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: I never knew he'd get that far off track. 238 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 2: He didn't know he'd blow it that bad. 239 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: No, God knew you were gonna be where you are 240 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: before the foundation of time. 241 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 2: He's already marked. 242 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: Your moments of mercy, marked moments of restoration. In fact, 243 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: God has solutions to problems you haven't even had. He 244 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: knows this door's gonna close, they're gonna get a little 245 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: off course here, make a mistake there, and so I'm 246 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,079 Speaker 1: gonna have this person come into their life, and this 247 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: opportunity corrected a little more, and this other one give 248 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: them a break. God's got it all figured out. I 249 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: read about this man. He was a pastor years ago 250 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: of a large church here in America, very successful, but 251 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 1: he made some poor choices. He got off track, and 252 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: make a long story short, he ended up losing his 253 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: ministry and losing his family. 254 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 2: It's a very sad situation. 255 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: Years and years had gone by and he was still 256 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: trying to put his life back together. One day, he 257 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: decided to go visit some friends in South America, and 258 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: a pastor of a local church asked him to speak 259 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: for him. 260 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 2: When he walked on. 261 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: The platform, he sat down next to this Brazilian pastor. 262 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: Didn't even speak English, and this Brazilian man looked at him, 263 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: almost in utter amazement. He began to weep and weep, 264 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:13,319 Speaker 1: and he took the pastor's hand. This American man didn't 265 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: really know what was going on. He was kind of 266 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: confused about it. Then all of a sudden, he felt 267 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: this presence come over him, like a warm glow. He said, 268 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: it was just like it was purging him of all 269 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: that hurt and pain. He told how that moment was 270 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: a turning point in his life. 271 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: For the first time, he was. 272 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: Able to forgive himself. He felt like he was totally free, 273 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: totally restored. A couple minutes later, after the Brazilian pastor 274 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: quit praying for him, he asked him through an interpreter, 275 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: what was this man doing? 276 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 2: Why did he pray for me like that? What just 277 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: happened to me? 278 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: The Brazilian said back to him something very unusual. He said, 279 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: twenty years ago, when I was praying, your face came 280 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: up before me, and God spoke to my heart and said, 281 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: one day you will beat this man, and you were 282 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: to help bring healing and restoration to him. What's interesting 283 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: is twenty years earlier, that man wasn't even married, He 284 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: wasn't even in the ministry. 285 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 2: What am I saying? God knows the end from the beginning. 286 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: He has solutions to problems you haven't even had. You 287 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: don't know he may have spoken to someone twenty years 288 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: ago about that situation you're dealing with right now. 289 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: God has already marked your moments for mercy. He's marked 290 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 2: your moments for restoration. He knows how to get you 291 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: back on the right track. 292 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: Why don't you get your hopes of Why don't you 293 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: start believing that, no matter what you have or haven't, 294 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: done that your best days are still out in front 295 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: of you. This is what my father had to do. 296 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: Back in nineteen fifty nine. He was pastoring a very 297 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: successful church. They had just built a beautiful new sanctuary. 298 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: But my sister Lisa was born with something like cerebral palsy, 299 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: and my father began to search the scriptures in a 300 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: new He started preaching with a new fire about how 301 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: God could heal, how God could do miracles. But unfortunately 302 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: his congregation didn't understand. 303 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 2: His new message. 304 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: My father knew the best thing for him to do 305 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: was to leave that church. 306 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 2: He was devastated. 307 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: He felt like everything he'd worked for for years had 308 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: just gone down the drain. He didn't really know what 309 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: he was going to do or where he was going 310 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: to go. But do you know that disappointment wasn't a 311 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: surprise to God. There was a lady in the neighborhood 312 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: that owned a little feed store. It just so happened 313 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: a few months earlier it had closed down. When she 314 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: heard about my father's dilemma, she said, why don't you 315 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: use my feed store as a church. 316 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 2: I'll loan it to you. That's where Lakewood was founded. 317 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 2: Little did she realize she would be a part of 318 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: everything that we're doing today, a marked moment, little things 319 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 2: and big things. 320 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: God's already march your moment. Why don't you quit worrying 321 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: about it? Why don't you quit losing sleep over it? 322 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: God has you in the palm of his hand. There's 323 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: nothing that you're facing right now and nothing you will 324 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,959 Speaker 1: ever face in the future that God's not already aware of. 325 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: The good news is He's already got it figured out. 326 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 2: The scripture says. 327 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: These are the plans I have for you, says the 328 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: Lord plans to prosper you, plans to bless you, plans 329 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: to give you hope and a bright future. One verse 330 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 1: says God has pre arranged for you to live the 331 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: good life. That means for every setback, God's prearranged to 332 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: come back. For every failure, God's prearranged mercy for every disappointment, 333 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: God's prearranged restoration. For every unfair thing, God has prearranged vindication. 334 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 2: Friends, your future. 335 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: In God's eyes, is looking extremely bright. The scripture talks 336 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,440 Speaker 1: about how for everything there is a purpose, there's a season, 337 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: and there's a time. The purpose is set by God. 338 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 1: That's eternal. We can't change that. But the season is 339 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 1: our window of opportunity to accomplish it. It's not going 340 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 1: to last forever, and it's important to learn to move 341 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: at the right time. Now, I was reading about a 342 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: baby locust. 343 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 2: It's called a hopper. 344 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: It can't quite fly just yet, but it can jump 345 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: up to two hundred times its height, and the way 346 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: it learns how to fly is when it hears the 347 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 1: winds blowing, when it sees the treetops rustling, it's sensitive 348 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: enough to know this is my time to jump. It 349 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: recognizes if it'll jump at the right time and catch 350 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 1: the right winds, it can fly. Timing is critical, and 351 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 1: like that little locust, we need to know when it's 352 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: our time to jump, so to speak. 353 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 2: We have to stay sensitive. 354 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: Even an adult locust, when they want to migrate miles 355 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: and miles, they have to wait for the perfect wind conditions. 356 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: The locust doesn't have the most aerodynamic body, kind of 357 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: got a large body. 358 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 2: For its small, straight wings. 359 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: They understand the importance of timing, so when they see 360 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: the tree tops rustling, when they hear the winds blowing, 361 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: they say, all right, it's our time. 362 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 2: Let's go now. 363 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: In the same way, we have to be sensitive and 364 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: listen to what we're hearing down in here. There's a 365 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: window of opportunities to step out in faith. I know 366 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: in my own life there have been times where, for 367 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: years I know it's a plowing season. I'm not seeing 368 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: a lot of increase. I'm just being my best day 369 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: in and day out, being faithful, being good to people. 370 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: It's a maintaining season. Several years will go by, then 371 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I see all kinds of increase, 372 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: all kinds of favor, good breaks left and right. What 373 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: happened I entered into a new season. I know it 374 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:00,200 Speaker 1: couldn't just be me. My wings aren't that big. I've 375 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: caught the wind of God's favor. I've got in the 376 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,239 Speaker 1: jet stream of God. But too often we miss our 377 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: opportunities because we don't recognize it's our season. I've sat 378 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: by people in a service and they clap during the songs, 379 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 1: but they clap on the off beat. Everybody is clapping 380 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: at one point, they're clapping at another. Quit looking at 381 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: your neighbor. They're doing the right thing. The problem is 382 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: they're doing it. 383 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 2: At the wrong time. 384 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: You need to pay attention to the winds in your 385 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: life and for some of you, there's about to be 386 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: a shifting. You've been struggling and not seeing a lot 387 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: of good breaks, but the winds are about to. 388 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 2: Change in your favor. 389 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: I was out running the other day and the first 390 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 1: quarter of a mile or so, the wind was blowing 391 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: so strongly against me, probably twenty twenty five miles an hour, 392 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: and I felt like I was running uphill. It's taken 393 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: all of my energy. Finally I was able to turn. 394 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: The path I run on is a big square, and 395 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: I knew coming back the last mile or so that wind. 396 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 2: Was gonna be blowing in my face again. 397 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: I was kind of dreading it, But when I made 398 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: the turn to come to the final home stretch, I 399 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 1: was pleasantly surprised. 400 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 2: The winds had changed directions. 401 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: They were no longer blowing against me. They were blowing 402 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: with me. It was a night and day difference. I 403 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: could feel those winds propelling me forward. I believe that's 404 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: what's gonna happen to many of you. The winds that 405 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: have been trying to hold you back and cause you 406 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: to struggle are about to change in your direction. You've 407 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: been through flowing seasons, You've been through planting You've been 408 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: through watering. Now you're about to come into harvest. You're 409 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: gonna have times where you can feel God breathing in 410 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: your direction. 411 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 2: You're gonna accomplish. 412 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: Things where you look back and say that had to 413 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: be the hend of God. I'm not that smart, I'm 414 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: not that talented. 415 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 2: What happened. 416 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: You entered into a new season, the wind of Almighty 417 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: God blowing behind you. You may be in some kind 418 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: of storm today and all kinds of things coming against you, 419 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: but understand, God is in control of those winds. Just 420 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: a simple shift can make a huge difference. The same 421 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: winds that are trying to defeat you, God can change 422 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 1: their directions and cause them to be the very winds 423 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: that will. 424 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 2: Propel you into a higher level. 425 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: When my father went to be with the Lord, the 426 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 1: winds that tried to sink me, God turned around and 427 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: used them to be the winds to push me into 428 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,919 Speaker 1: my divine destiny. What am I saying today? What the 429 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: enemy means for your harm? God is going to turn 430 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: around and use to your advantage. 431 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 2: Now I can sense. 432 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: In my spirit today the winds are shifting. I can 433 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: sense new seasons of increase, new seasons of favor, new seasons. 434 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 2: Of God's blessings. 435 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: When you hear these winds blowing, you can't just sit back, 436 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: Thank God, Joel, it's not going to happen to me. 437 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 2: I never get any good breaks. 438 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: No, you will miss your hour of visitation when you 439 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 1: hear the winds blow. And you've got to do like 440 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 1: that little locust and say. 441 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 2: This is my season. 442 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 1: I can hear the winds of God's favor. I've been 443 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: through plowing, planning, watering, I'm coming into harvest. I'm going 444 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 1: to become everything God's created me to be. And you 445 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: may have a lot coming against you, But have you 446 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: ever realized all it takes for the last. 447 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 2: To be first is the winds changing direction. 448 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 1: If it's all blowing this way, you may feel like 449 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 1: you're last, way back here. But when the winds turn 450 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: around blow this way, all of a sudden, you're first. 451 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: What happens the winds shifted, you entered into a new season. 452 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: If you're in difficult times, instead of complaining and getting discouraged, 453 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: you need to get up every morning and say it, 454 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: by faith Father, thank you that the winds are shifting 455 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,719 Speaker 1: in my direction. Thank you that the tide of this 456 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: battle is turning. 457 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,959 Speaker 2: Don't talk about the storm. To talk to your storm. 458 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 2: Look at that situation and declare, by. 459 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: Faith, you will not defeat me. No weapon formed against 460 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,120 Speaker 1: me will ever prosper. 461 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 2: I have marked. 462 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: Moments come in my way, and I'm not only gonna 463 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: come out, I'm gonna come out better off than I 464 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: was before. I love what David did when he went 465 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: out to face Goliath. 466 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 2: He could hear the tree tops rustling. 467 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 1: He knew it was his season. He'd been faithful in 468 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: the wilderness for years. He'd been through the plowing seasons. 469 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 2: Now he could sense the winds were shifting, even. 470 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: Though Goliath was two or three times his size. People 471 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: tried to talk him out of it. David, you don't 472 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: have a chance. David, You're gonna get hurt. 473 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 2: Other people couldn't hear the winds. They couldn't sense what 474 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 2: he was sensing. When you know it's your time, don't 475 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 2: get talked out of it. I've seen people sit back 476 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 2: twenty years, allowing other people to discourage them, talk them 477 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 2: out of their dreams. 478 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: Or do you really think you can do that. I 479 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: don't know if you have what it takes. No other 480 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: people don't know what's in you. They don't know what 481 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: you're capable of because God didn't put. 482 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 2: The dream in them. He put it in you. And 483 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 2: when you hear the wind blowing like that little locust, 484 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 2: you got to say, this is my time. And if 485 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 2: you'll get in the wow of God, you'll be amazed 486 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 2: at how far you can go. 487 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: When God's breathing in your direction. There's a supernatural ease 488 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: when you're in your season. There's a grace to do 489 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: things that you couldn't do before. They said, David, you 490 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: better not take a chance Goliath. He's too big to hit. 491 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 2: David said, I don't think so. He's too big to miss. 492 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 2: David spoke to his mountain. 493 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: He said, Goliath, this day I will defeat you and 494 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: feed your head to the birds of the air. What 495 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 1: caused that little stone to slay the giant? God breathed 496 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: his life into it, The wind of Almighty God got 497 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: behind it. That's what happens. When you step into your season. 498 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: You will accomplish things that you never thought possible. You say, Joel, 499 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: how this could happen for me. I don't have the money, 500 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: I don't have the education, I don't have the talent. 501 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 1: You know, the scripture says, it's not gonna happen by 502 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 1: our might or by our power. It's gonna happen because 503 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: of the breath of Almighty God. If you know what's 504 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 1: happening today, God's breathing in your direction. Sometimes we think 505 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: of a breath, it's just a little puff of air. 506 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 2: That's not the way God breathes. 507 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: The scripture talks about when the Holy Spirit came, it 508 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: was like. 509 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 2: A rushing mighty wind. 510 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 1: That's what I envision behind every one of you, the 511 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: force of Almighty God. 512 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 2: Everywhere you go. You need to imagine the most powerful 513 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 2: force in. 514 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: The universe is breathing in your direction. What happens when 515 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: God breathes your way. Every enemy will be defeated, Obstacles 516 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,640 Speaker 1: will be overcome, faver will increase, dreams will come to pass. 517 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,919 Speaker 2: What happened God breathe in your direction. A rushing mighty 518 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 2: wind is backing you up. You've got to rise up 519 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,120 Speaker 2: in your authority and say, you know what, this is 520 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 2: my season. 521 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: I can hear the winds starting to blow, so I'm 522 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: gonna step into the flow. Friends, things are shifting in 523 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: your favor. Your future is filled with marked moments, A blessing, 524 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: increase promotion. God has already ordained before the foundation. 525 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 2: Of the world. 526 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: The right people, the right opportunity, time and chance are 527 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: coming together for you, and I'm asking you to get 528 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,719 Speaker 1: a vision for it. I'm asking you to get your 529 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: hopes of don't miss your hour of visitation. And even 530 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: when it's difficult, you just remember the same winds that 531 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 1: are trying to defeat you are the winds God's gonna 532 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: use to push you to a new level. If you'll 533 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: go out each day with expectancy, knowing that God's breathing 534 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: in your direction, I know You're gonna rise higher and higher. 535 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: You're gonna see more of God's blessings in favor, and 536 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: you'll live the life of victory he has in story. 537 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 2: Amen, do you receive it today? 538 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 1: We never like to close off broadcast without giving you 539 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 540 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say it, Lord, Jesus, 541 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 542 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed 543 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get 544 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: in a good Bible based church, keep God first place, 545 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: He's going to take your. 546 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: Places that you've never dreamed of. 547 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: Sometimes in life, people don't choose us. We've all felt 548 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: overlooked and like we're not good enough. It's easy to 549 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: live inferior, think you we don't measure up. People may 550 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: have left you out. The good news is God has 551 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: chosen you. 552 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 2: He's the one that matters. 553 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: And in my new book Chosen, your life is marked 554 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: for distinction, you'll discover before you were born, God not 555 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: only knew you, but he handpicked you and placed a 556 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: calling on your life. You are equipped and empowered to 557 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: fulfill your destiny. When you understand that you're chosen, fear 558 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: and doubt can't stay. You live with a bus to 559 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,719 Speaker 1: step into the greatness God put in you. 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