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We love 44 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 5: you and we're believing for God's very best in your life. 45 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 5: And if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll 46 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 5: stop by. I promise you we'll make you feel right 47 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 5: at home. But thanks for tuning in today. I like 48 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 5: to get started each week with something funny and I 49 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 5: heard about this man. He was out walking through the 50 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 5: woods with a friend, and all of a sudden they 51 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 5: came upon this huge grizzly bear. They froze in their tracks, 52 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 5: and as the bear intently starred them down, they contemplated 53 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,839 Speaker 5: what they should do. Man turned to his friend and said, 54 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 5: I think we should run. His friends said, are you crazy? 55 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 5: You can't outrun a grizzly bear. He said, I know that. 56 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 5: I don't have to outrun him. I just have to 57 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 5: outrun you. All right, Hold up your bible. Say it 58 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 5: like you mean that. This is my Bible. 59 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 4: I am what it says. I am. 60 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 61 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 62 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 63 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 64 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 5: the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, 65 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 5: ever living seed of the Word of God. I'll never 66 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 5: be the same, never, never, never, I'll never. 67 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 4: Be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. 68 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about how you 69 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 5: are someone's miracle. So many people are praying for a miracle. 70 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 5: We have to realize we can become their miracle. God 71 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 5: uses people, and every day we should have the attitude, 72 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 5: I'm going to do something good for someone else. I'm 73 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 5: going to encourage someone, I'm going to meet a need. 74 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 5: I'm going to be kind to a neighbor. I'm going 75 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 5: to become someone's miracle. Our joy is connected to our giving, 76 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 5: and the reason a lot of people are not happy 77 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 5: today is because they're engrown. They're only focused on their 78 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 5: wants and their needs. But we have to get outside 79 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 5: of our self. When we get up in the morning, 80 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 5: we should say, on purpose, God, show me somebody I 81 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 5: can bless today, Show me somebody that's discouraged, Bring somebody 82 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 5: across my path that has a need, somebody. 83 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 4: I can make a difference in. 84 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 5: And then we need to go out and look for 85 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 5: ways that we can do good. 86 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 4: It may not be something big, just. 87 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 5: A smile here and encouraging word there, buying somebody's dinner, 88 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 5: giving somebody a ride, living to give rather than living 89 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 5: to get. Every day we should have a goal of 90 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 5: doing at least one thing good for somebody else. May 91 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 5: be your spouse, may be a neighbor, a coworker, even 92 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 5: a stranger. It doesn't have to be a special occasion. 93 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 5: Don't wait for their birthday or for Christmas, just an 94 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 5: ordinary day. Bring your wife some flowers home, Call a 95 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 5: friend and tell them how much they mean to you. 96 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 4: Go to your neighbor and give them. 97 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 5: A gift certificate to go out to dinner. Or how 98 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 5: about that young man that brings pizza to your house. 99 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 5: You don't even know him, but give him an extra 100 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 5: twenty dollars for no reason at all. 101 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 4: Be good to somebody you don't know. You may be 102 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 4: their miracle. 103 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 5: That simple gift, that phone call out of the blue, 104 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 5: that encouraging word may be exactly what they needed to 105 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 5: keep pressing forward. Really, this is one of the most 106 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 5: rewarding ways to live. 107 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 4: Every day. Find somebody you can be good to. 108 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 5: I'll just warn you, if you get around me, you're 109 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 5: gonna get blessed, You're gonna get encouraged. If you have 110 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 5: a need, I'm going to do my best to meet it. 111 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 5: If I see at a restaurant, I'm going to probably 112 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 5: buy your dinner unless there are forty of you. 113 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 4: And don't follow me around. 114 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 5: Now that you know this, but I've made up my mind, 115 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 5: I'm going to be a giver and not a taker. 116 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 4: I'm looking for ways to be a blessing. 117 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 5: I may need a few miracles of my own, but 118 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 5: I'm going to sow a seed by becoming somebody's miracle. 119 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 5: I'm not going to get up thinking about how I 120 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 5: can get blessed today. I'm going to get up thinking 121 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 5: about who I can be a blessing to. How can 122 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 5: I brighten somebody else's day. That's the key to true fulfillment. 123 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 5: Every morning, our prayer should be, God, help me to 124 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 5: become somebody's miracle today. 125 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 4: Help me to be sensitive to the people you bring 126 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 4: across my path. 127 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 5: The other day, I saw this man on his cell 128 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 5: phone and in the middle of his conversation, his battery died. 129 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 4: It must have been an important call, because he was. 130 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 5: Very frustrated, very stressed out. He looked like he was 131 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 5: from another country. And I was standing beside him waiting 132 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 5: in a hotel lobby, and when I saw it die, 133 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 5: I just handed him my cell phone, said here, use 134 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 5: this one. He said, no, I can't do that. I'm 135 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 5: making a long distance call. I said that's okay, doesn't matter. 136 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 5: You can call anywhere you want to. He looked at 137 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 5: me kind of strange and said, are you sure. I said, 138 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 5: I'm sure. When I heard him dial in Korea almost 139 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 5: changed my mind. But when he handed me my phone 140 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 5: back five minutes later, he said, in the most genuine, 141 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 5: sincere voice you can imagine, thank you so much. You 142 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 5: just don't know what that meant to me. I thought 143 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 5: all I did was loan to my cell phone. In 144 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 5: my mind, it was no big deal. But I could 145 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 5: tell that simple act of kindness brightened his day. 146 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 4: I was his miracle. 147 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 5: Sure it may have cost me twenty dollars, but I 148 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 5: know when I'm good to other people, God will always 149 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 5: be good back to me. Be on the lookout for 150 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 5: people you can bless God said to Abraham, I will 151 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 5: bless you so you will be a blessing dispensing good 152 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 5: to others. A key to being blessed is are we 153 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 5: willing to be a blessing. We're not going to be 154 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 5: blessed in the way God really wants us to if 155 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 5: we're not willing to share it with others. When you 156 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 5: study the life of Jesus, this is exactly how he lived. 157 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 5: He went out each day making a difference in people lives, 158 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 5: healing the sick, feeding the hungry, comforting the lonely, blessing 159 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 5: the children, says in. 160 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 4: Acts ten thirty eight. 161 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 5: He was anointed with the spirit, and he went about 162 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 5: doing good. That's our ministry as well. It's not complicated. 163 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 5: You don't have to know how to preach. You don't 164 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 5: have to understand all the deep doctrine. All you need 165 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 5: to do is go out each day and be good 166 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 5: to people. Give a compliment here, hold the door open 167 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 5: for the people behind you. When you go get something 168 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 5: to drink, bring your coworker back a drink as well. 169 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 5: Look for opportunities to do good. One time I was 170 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 5: leaving Minute Made Park. The ballgame had just let out, 171 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 5: and I was pulling out of the parking lot. People 172 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 5: were streaming out of the building and it started to rain. 173 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 5: Now I felt bad for the people getting wet. Most 174 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 5: of them had a long way to go to their car. 175 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,119 Speaker 5: There were hundreds of them. I couldn't do something for everyone. 176 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 5: But I did have one umbrella in my back seat, 177 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 5: so I pulled over and roll down the window. And 178 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 5: these two ladies were passing by. They had their programs 179 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 5: over their head to keep them. 180 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 4: From getting wet. 181 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 5: I didn't know them, they didn't know me, but I said, hey, 182 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 5: here's an umbrella that you can have. When I gave 183 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 5: them that umbrella, you would have thought I had given 184 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 5: them a thousand dollars. They got so excited she punched her. 185 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 5: Friends said, I can't believe it. She just said, God, 186 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 5: I wish I had an umbrella. I said, well, God 187 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 5: must have heard your prayer, because here's an umbrella being delivered. 188 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 4: By an angel. What I'm saying is you can become 189 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 4: someone's miracle. 190 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 5: Well, I'm not going to give my umbrella way. It 191 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 5: cost me eighteen dollars. No, you can't out give God. 192 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 5: When you give, it's going to be given back to you. 193 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 4: It's funny. I had had that umbrella forever. It must 194 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 4: have been ten years old. 195 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 5: It was old, beat up, probably didn't cost me five dollars. Well, 196 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 5: several months later, I was leaving a Hope Tell and 197 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 5: it was raining. The bellman had this big, fancy umbrella, 198 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 5: looked like two umbrellas combined into one, and he was 199 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 5: so nice to get us into our cars. And just 200 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 5: as I was about to shut my door, he looked 201 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 5: at me and said, do you have an umbrella? I said, no, 202 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 5: I don't. He folded that up, shook it off and said, 203 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 5: here have this one. We got plenty of those. I thought, God, 204 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 5: you are so good. I gave away my beat up, 205 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 5: ten year old five dollars umbrella. 206 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 4: He gave me back a double wide. 207 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 5: I can get my whole family under this one. 208 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 4: But that Bellman right in my day, he was my miracle. 209 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 4: That's the way God works. 210 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 5: When you go around being good to people, God will 211 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 5: make sure other. 212 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 4: People are good back to you. 213 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 5: The scripture says here in Galatians six', ten as occasion 214 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 5: and opportunity, arise let us do good for all. People 215 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 5: notice it saying whenever you have the opportunity to do, 216 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 5: good whenever you're able to be a, blessing don't pass it. 217 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 4: Up don't Say. 218 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 5: I'm busy maybe next, time OR i need my. Umbrella 219 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 5: it may rain. Tomorrow i'd love to give you a, 220 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 5: ride But i've got my. Plans i'm gonna go work. Out, 221 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 5: no don't miss an opportunity to become someone's. Miracle if 222 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 5: you see someone at the office that's down and, discouraged 223 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 5: don't just walk by thinking what's wrong with? 224 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 4: Them they must be having a hard. 225 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 5: Day, no take time to go to. Them, say, hey 226 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 5: is something? Wrong CAN i pray with you about? Anything 227 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 5: or better, yet come, On i'm going to buy your. 228 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 5: Lunch let's talk about. 229 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 4: It look for. 230 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 5: Opportunities not long, ago a friend of mine was in 231 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 5: the hospital and the nurse that takes care of, her 232 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 5: she came in one day and she just wasn't her normal. 233 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 5: Self she's usually happy and, upbeat but this day she 234 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 5: was so, solemn like she had lost her. Joy and 235 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 5: my friend picked up on. This she reached out to 236 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 5: it and, said, hey what's. Wrong this nurse was from another. 237 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 5: Country she, said, WELL i just found out yesterday that 238 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 5: my children are not going to be able to continue 239 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 5: their same schooling back at home because the tuition went 240 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 5: up And i'm not able to afford it. Anymore she 241 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 5: was so discouraged by. It here she is working thousands 242 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 5: of miles from, home trying to make a better. Life 243 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 5: my friend is very, generous she's a, giver and she 244 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 5: said to that, NURSE i want you to bring a 245 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 5: picture of your children tomorrow and their report. Cards and 246 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 5: when that lady saw those, children she told the Nurse 247 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 5: i'm going to pay for their. Tuition it was one 248 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 5: thousand dollars each. Child she went on to, say as 249 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 5: long as they stay in school and keep making good, 250 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 5: Grades i'll continue to pay their, tuition not only. 251 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 4: Through high, school but all the way through. 252 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 5: College that nurse was beside. Herself she didn't know what to. Think, 253 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 5: see my friend was that lady's. Miracle god uses, people 254 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 5: whether we realize it or, not we are all somebody's. 255 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 5: Miracle look for that. Person look for opportunities to do. 256 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 5: Good NOW i realize not everyone can do it at that, 257 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 5: level but we can all do. Something there are creative 258 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 5: ways to be a. Blessing you hear a friend talking 259 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 5: about how he's going on a. Trip he's going to 260 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 5: have to leave his car up at the. Airport, no 261 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 5: let me drop you. Off you don't need to pay 262 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 5: that money for. Parking you just sewed into his. Life 263 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 5: you just brightened his. Day you hear a neighbor saying 264 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 5: how he's going to move some. Furniture he's about to 265 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 5: rent a. Truck, No i've got a big. Truck you 266 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 5: don't need to do. That i'll come over and we'll 267 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 5: do it. Together friend of mine recently bought a new. 268 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 5: Car the man he bought it from was very. Helpful 269 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 5: he searched the whole country and got him a great. 270 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 4: Deal saved him thousands of. 271 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 5: Dollars my friend was talking to a man that was 272 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 5: about to buy a, car and he, said, well you 273 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 5: need to buy it from this. Man he'll give you 274 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 5: a great. DEAL a couple of weeks, later that man 275 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 5: called him back so. Grateful he, said you know that 276 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 5: man you put me in touch. With he saved me 277 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 5: over ten thousand dollars on my new car just one phone. 278 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 4: Call that's one. 279 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 5: Recommendation you may not be able to meet the, need 280 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,719 Speaker 5: but you can put in a good word for. Somebody 281 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 5: you can help them to find a good. LEAD i 282 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 5: believe there are opportunities around us all the. Time we 283 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,719 Speaker 5: just have to be more, Sensitive we have to pay more. 284 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 5: ATTENTION i was talking to a couple of our members 285 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 5: not long, ago an older lady and a younger, lady 286 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 5: AND i asked them if they were mother and. Daughter 287 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 5: the older lady said, no but she's just like my. 288 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 5: Daughter and she went on to tell how when we 289 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 5: moved the church from the northeast location to this, place 290 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 5: she didn't think she was going to be able to 291 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 5: continue to. 292 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 4: Come she's a widow and she's not used to driving 293 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 4: on the. Freeways she was so discouraged by it. 294 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 5: All and one day she was telling some people about her, 295 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 5: dilemma and this younger, lady who she didn't even know 296 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 5: at the, time overheard the conversation and she stepped in and, 297 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 5: said how about. This i'll come pick you up and 298 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 5: bring you to church Each. Sunday that older lady was so, 299 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 5: surprised she, said are you? Kidding that would be? Great 300 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 5: where do you? 301 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 4: Live come to. 302 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 5: Find out they live thirty minutes from each. Other but 303 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 5: that didn't stop that young. Lady she could have, thought, 304 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 5: Well i'd love to do, it but it's so, far 305 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 5: price of gas is so, High i'm so busy in my. Career, 306 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 5: no this young lady knew she was blessed to be a. 307 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 5: Blessing she saw an opportunity to do. 308 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 4: Good she wasn't going to pass it. 309 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 5: By so now Every sunday morning light clockwork at nine, 310 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 5: thirty she pulls into that lady's. Driveway we've been here 311 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 5: since the summer of two thousand and. Five during that, 312 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 5: time they've only missed One sunday. 313 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 4: Morning after that older. 314 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 5: Lady told me this, story she hugged that young, lady 315 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 5: and she, Said, joel she's my. 316 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 4: MIRACLE i, thought you're exactly. 317 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 5: Right can you Imagine god seeing this young lady getting 318 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 5: up Early sunday, morning driving across, town spending her, gas 319 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 5: spending her, time spending her. 320 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 4: Energy don't you know she's going to be. 321 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 5: Blessed th thing to the heart Of god is helping other, 322 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 5: people says In. Ecclesiastes when you give your, gifts we'll 323 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 5: come back to. 324 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 4: You and sometimes what seems. 325 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 5: Like a small act of kindness can turn out to 326 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 5: be a much bigger. Thing heard the story about this 327 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 5: couple that wanted to adopt a. 328 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 4: Child they'd gone through. 329 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 5: All the, channels but it was taken so, long and 330 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 5: they just weren't comfortable whether they should adopt a child 331 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 5: from here or somewhere. 332 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 4: Else, really they were frustrated over. 333 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 5: It one, year they got involved with the ministry that 334 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 5: provides shoes for needy. Children most of these children are, 335 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 5: orphans come from very sad, situations and so they bought 336 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 5: a pair. 337 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 4: Of tennis shoes for a little. 338 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 5: Boy the way it works is you put your picture 339 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 5: and a note to the child in that shoe, box 340 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 5: and that way the child can have someone to identify 341 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 5: with a couple of months, later they got a note 342 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 5: back and a picture of the little six year old 343 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 5: boy who had received those tennis. Shoes they saw, it 344 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 5: they immediately knew that was the child they were supposed to. 345 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 5: Adopt they fell in love with. Him they started seeing 346 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 5: him on a regular. Basis long story, short they were 347 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 5: able to adopt this little. Boy and the little boy 348 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 5: told how For christmas he got a pair of tennis, 349 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 5: shoes but what he really wanted were. Parents he held 350 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 5: up the shoe box and, said. 351 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 4: My parents were in this. 352 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 5: Box see when you give your, gifts we'll come back to. 353 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 5: You that couple so a seed fifteen twenty dollars buying 354 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 5: a pair of tennis shoes they got in return a priceless. 355 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 5: Child when you make an investment in, others that's the 356 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 5: Seed god will use to enrich your own. Life some 357 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 5: of you need a miracle, today but you need to 358 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 5: start by becoming someone's. 359 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 4: Miracle what are you doing for? 360 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 5: Others maybe your son plays little league ball with another 361 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 5: young man that's not as fortunate as you. Are you 362 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 5: notice that his baseball cleats are all beat up and worn. 363 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 5: Out you don't have to make a big deal about. 364 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 5: It never want to embarrass. Anybody just do it in 365 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 5: a roundabout. Way next time you're at, practice go give 366 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 5: him a. Hug, hey how you been. Doing you're getting so? 367 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 5: Big what size shoe do you? Wear you can be 368 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 5: sneaky about. It you're on a mission From. God you 369 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 5: have an assignment every day to be good to. People 370 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 5: now that you have that, information when you go to 371 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 5: buy your son a pair of baseball, cleats by that young, 372 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 5: man one as well make an. 373 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 4: Investment in his. Life there are creative ways to be a. 374 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 5: Blessing you may not have a lot of extra, money 375 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 5: but you can go repair a roof for a person 376 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 5: that's less. Fortunate you can babysit someone's. Children maybe you 377 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 5: hear a single parent mom talking about how much she's been, 378 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,719 Speaker 5: working how tired she. Is why don't you give her 379 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 5: a break one night and babysit her. Children tell her 380 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 5: to go up to the, Mall go, relax take the evening. 381 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 5: Off that doesn't take any, money just takes a little. Time, 382 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 5: really your time is more. 383 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 4: Valuable than your. 384 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 5: Money when you give people your, time you're making a real. 385 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 4: Investment let's be. 386 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 5: Creative take an elderly neighbor to their doctor's, appointment give 387 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 5: them a, ride sit there and be their. 388 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 4: Company or you could mentor a young. 389 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 5: Person maybe there's a child at school that doesn't have 390 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 5: a father figure in his. Life take him to hit 391 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 5: baseballs with your, Son take that little girl out to 392 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 5: eat with your. Daughter they are all kinds of ways 393 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 5: to be a. Blessing the whole key is we have 394 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 5: to be on the. Lookout we have to have the 395 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 5: MINDSET i am somebody's. MIRACLE i am created to be a. 396 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 5: Blessing god help me to find that person. TODAY i 397 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 5: know WHEN i first Met, victoria she was good friends 398 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 5: with this older. Lady victoria would go pick her up 399 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 5: and take her to. Church they would go out to 400 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 5: dinner during the. Week, NOW i used to, think who 401 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 5: is this? Lady is she a family, friend is she 402 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 5: related to? You, no she was just somebody That victoria 403 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 5: took an interest. In she was investing in that lady's. 404 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 5: Life do you know how many lonely people there are? 405 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 5: Today why don't you adopt a? Widow why don't you 406 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 5: adopt an older? Person call, them check on, them go visit, 407 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 5: them take them out to. Dinner they may not need your. 408 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 5: Money what they really need is your. Time they need 409 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 5: somebody to talk. 410 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 4: To be willing to. 411 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 5: Listen let them tell you the same stories over and over, 412 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 5: again laugh like it's the first time you ever heard. 413 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 5: It we have to realize one day we're all going 414 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 5: to be. Old we're going to probably want somebody to 415 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 5: come visit. Us let's invest in the people around. Us 416 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 5: some of you have older, parents older family members that 417 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 5: you haven't seen in a long. 418 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 4: Time you've gotten. 419 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 5: So busy and so caught up in your. Career you 420 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 5: have to make them a. Priority we all can come 421 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 5: up with good. Excuses we all are, busy but it's 422 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 5: not only our, duty it's our responsibility to take care 423 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 5: of our older family. 424 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 4: Members don't make one sibling do it. All carry your 425 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 4: share of the. 426 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 5: Load you know the, scripture honor your father and mother 427 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 5: so that you can have a long. Life that's the 428 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 5: only commandment that comes with a. Promise AND i believe 429 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 5: there's a special blessing not only when we take care 430 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 5: of our, parents but when we're kind and caring to 431 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 5: the older people around. Us you go up to The 432 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 5: Senior Citizens home one night and cheer some people. Up 433 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 5: you got to know that's high On god's. List you 434 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 5: go over to your elderly neighbors and repair their air, 435 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 5: conditioner clean their, gutter take them a home cooked. Meal 436 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 5: let me tell You god is smiling down on. You, 437 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 5: see it's easy to do good things for people that 438 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 5: can do good back to. 439 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 4: Us doesn't take quite as much effort. 440 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 5: To stay late at the office and help a coworker 441 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 5: finish their. Project after, all we know one day they 442 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 5: may put in a good word for us, us but 443 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 5: it takes a true heart of compassion to do something 444 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 5: good for somebody that can't give you anything in. Return 445 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 5: the good news is when people can't pay you, Back 446 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 5: god will pay you. Back god's payment is always more 447 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 5: than we can even ask or. 448 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 4: Think it talks about In. 449 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 5: Proverbs when we are kind to the, poor when we 450 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 5: take care of the, elderly when we do good things 451 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 5: for the less, fortunate we are lending to The. Lord 452 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 5: can you imagine that you want to Do god a? 453 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,200 Speaker 4: Favor you want to get On god's good. 454 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 5: Side do something for someone that cannot pay you. Back 455 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 5: be a father to a child that's less, Fortunate be 456 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 5: a friend to an elderly, neighbor pay the, tuition or 457 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 5: get a group of people to pay the tuition to 458 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,439 Speaker 5: somebody that cannot afford. That when you are kind to the, 459 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 5: needy you are lending to The. Lord you know how we, 460 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 5: feel even in the, natural when somebody does us a, 461 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 5: favor somebody goes out of their way to help, us 462 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 5: or they make an extra effort to be kind to 463 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 5: one of our. Children we, think, Man i'll do anything for. 464 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 5: Them they were so kind they didn't have to do. That, 465 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 5: well imagine How god feels when he sees you buying 466 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 5: a pair of shoes for a needy, child taking an 467 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,879 Speaker 5: elderly neighbor to their doctor's, appointment driving across, town picking 468 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 5: up somebody to bring them to. 469 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 4: Church you are Doing god a. Favor you are lending 470 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 4: to The. 471 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 5: Lord let me ask you, today who's in your life 472 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 5: that you can make a difference. In you may need a, 473 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 5: miracle you may need, healing you may need a good, 474 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 5: Break but it starts by sowing a. Seed become someone's. 475 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 5: Miracle to some, people especially older, ones just being their 476 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 5: friend is a. 477 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 4: Miracle giving an. 478 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 5: Umbrella buying someone a, suit those can all be. Miracles 479 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 5: be sensitive to the needs around. You you see. 480 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 4: Somebody wearing the same clothes over and over. 481 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 5: Again, hey let me give you this good certificate to 482 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 5: go buy some new, clothes or better, yet swing by my. 483 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 5: HOUSE i got a couple Suits i'm going to give. 484 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 5: YOU i found a lot of times we have miracles 485 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 5: in our. Closets we have miracles in. 486 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 4: STORAGE i. 487 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 5: Know we always give our children's clothes to other. Families 488 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 5: they go out of them so, quickly they're still. 489 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 4: Nice it's a. 490 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 5: Mindset what DO i have THAT i can be a blessing? 491 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 5: With last, year we were able to give all Of 492 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 5: jonathan's school books to another young. 493 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 4: Man that was several hundred. Dollars they didn't have to. 494 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 5: Spend what do you have in? Storage what do you 495 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 5: have in your closet that can be somebody's? Miracle don't 496 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 5: let it sit there year after You, Oh, JOEL i 497 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 5: can't give that. Away that's my favorite. DRESS i wore 498 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 5: it five years. AGO i may want to wear it 499 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 5: again sometime. 500 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 4: Now you know as well AS i. Do you can't 501 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 4: even fit into that. Thing just give it. Away you have, 502 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 4: faith but not that. Much or maybe. 503 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 5: You're out shopping with a friend and they see something 504 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 5: they really, like but they put it back because they 505 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 5: don't want to spend the. Money why don't you sneak 506 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 5: back over there and buy it for. 507 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 4: Him you don't have to pray about it three. 508 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,120 Speaker 5: Weeks if you wait that, long it's probably not even 509 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 5: gonna be. There, sometimes down in, here we know we're 510 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 5: supposed to do something special for. Someone we have a 511 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 5: strong desire to do, good but we're waiting for three, 512 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 5: confirmations two, prophecies and a sign from the. Heavens, god 513 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,439 Speaker 5: if you'll just Have joel call me out today and 514 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 5: tell me to do. 515 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 4: IT i need a word from. 516 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 5: You let me give you all a word from The. 517 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 5: Lord be good to, People bless them whenever you can 518 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 5: be their. Miracle now you've got your word from The. 519 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,400 Speaker 5: Lord the next time you're, Thinking, god is this really? 520 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 4: You you remember this day you got Your, Okay thus 521 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 4: saith The lord do. 522 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 5: IT i Know i'm preaching to myself because SOMETIMES i 523 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 5: feel down in HERE i should do something for, someone 524 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 5: maybe just something. Simple give a young person twenty dollars 525 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 5: AND i look at him AND i think he looks 526 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 5: like he's, fine he doesn't need my. Money, God is 527 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 5: this really? You AM i just being overly General SHOULD 528 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 5: i do? 529 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 4: It SHOULD i not do? It one day it dawned on. 530 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 5: Me even if it's Not god AND i give, It 531 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 5: god's still gonna be. Pleased i'm still gonna get. Blessed 532 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 5: you'll never go wrong being good to other. People don't overanalyze. 533 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 5: It sometimes it's not the gift they. 534 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 4: Need the gift is. 535 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,080 Speaker 5: Secondary what they really need is your. Live NOW i 536 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 5: found the enemy will never lead us to be good to. 537 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,159 Speaker 5: People he wants us to be so selfish and so 538 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 5: caught up in our own affairs that we don't even 539 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 5: entertain the thought of being a blessing to somebody. Else 540 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 5: if you have a desire to do, good it is From. 541 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 5: God don't debate, it and don't expect someone else to do. 542 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 3: It it's. 543 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 5: Funny WHEN i was growing, up my mother used to 544 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 5: say to my, Father, JOHN i feel sorry for that. 545 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 5: Man will you go pray for? HIM i feel like 546 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 5: that lady needs to be. Encouraged will you go encourage? 547 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 5: Her that young couple they need to be. Blessed will 548 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 5: you go give them a. Gift, finally after about ten 549 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 5: years of doing, that my father, Said, dodie you're the 550 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 5: one that has the Desire god's put the burden in. 551 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 5: You you've got to act on. That sometimes that's the 552 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 5: way we. Are we have a concern for someone we 553 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 5: may not even know, then but down in here it's 554 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 5: almost like we have a burden for, them and we, Think, 555 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 5: MAN i hope somebody is good to. THEM i hope 556 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 5: somebody helps. Them What i'm saying today is you or that. 557 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 5: Somebody you are the One god's counting on to make the. 558 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 5: Difference god wouldn't have put the desire in your heart 559 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 5: if he didn't want you to do something about. It 560 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 5: it may just be to, pray it may be to 561 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 5: give them a kind, word it may be to give 562 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 5: them a. Gift but don't miss out on that. Opportunity 563 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 5: you can become their. Miracle and really this is an 564 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 5: exciting way to. Live the truth, is it's boring to 565 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 5: just live for. Ourselves there's an emptiness when we just 566 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 5: think about my, goals my, dreams my, problems my. Needs 567 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 5: there's so much more to life than. That let's go 568 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 5: out each day and not try to figure out how 569 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 5: we're going to get, blessed but rather how we're going 570 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 5: to be a. Blessing no, doubt there are people in 571 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 5: your life right, now you can become their. Miracle pay 572 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 5: attention to those around, you listen to their. 573 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 4: Needs you may not be able to do, everything but 574 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:14,879 Speaker 4: you can do. 575 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 5: Something you can give a, Smile you can buy a 576 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 5: pair of shoes for a needy, Child you can adopt a. 577 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 5: Widow make a difference wherever you. Go, remember our joy 578 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,719 Speaker 5: is connected to our. Giving if you'll develop this lifestyle 579 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 5: of giving and not always try to get a, miracle 580 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 5: but rather let's focus on how we can become somebody's. 581 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 5: Miracle when you do, that you'll not only live, happier more, 582 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 5: fulfilled more, rewarded but that's the Seed god will use 583 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 5: to enrich your own. 584 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 4: Life do you receive it? TODAY i know you. 585 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 5: Do we never like to close on broadcast without giving 586 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 5: you an opportunity to Make jesus the lord of your. 587 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 4: Life would you pray with? 588 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 5: Me just, Say, Lord, Jesus i'll repent of my sins 589 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 5: in my. 590 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 4: HEART i make you My lord and. 591 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 5: Savior, friends if you prayed that simple, prayer we believe 592 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 5: you got born. Again get in a Good bible based. 593 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 5: Churp Keep god first. Place he's going. 594 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 4: To take your places that you've never dreamed Of thank 595 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 4: you for listening to the Joelus deine. 596 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 3: Podcast help us continue to share the message of hope 597 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 3: with those all over the. 598 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 4: World visit joelostin dot com slash Give hope to give 599 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 4: a gift. Today thanks so much for listening to today's. 600 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 5: MESSAGE i hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the 601 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 5: latest podcast to keep you. 602 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 4: Inspired all through the. Week we're praying for. YOU i 603 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 4: Know god's best is still. Ahead we'll see you next. 604 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 4: Time