1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 2: the ministry. 4 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 5 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 3: blessing and. 6 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: Share it with the friends. 7 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 8 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 2: your life. 9 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: God bless you. 10 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope 11 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 12 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 2: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can 13 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 2: come visit us in person. 14 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one 15 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: of our services. 16 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: I late to start with something funny, and I heard 17 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 2: about this country grandmother. She'd go out on the front 18 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: porch every morning and thank the Lord for another day. Well, 19 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:39,599 Speaker 2: her neighbor didn't. 20 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: Believe in God. 21 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: He'd shout back, there's no such thing as the Lord. 22 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,559 Speaker 2: One day he overheard her asking God to give her 23 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: groceries for the week. 24 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 1: He snuck over early. 25 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 2: The next morning put some groceries on our front porch. 26 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 2: She came out and said, thank you Lord. 27 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: You did it again. He laughed and laughed, said God 28 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: didn't give you the groceries. I put them there. 29 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 2: I said, Lord, thank you you Not only since the groceries, 30 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: but you made the devil pay for them. Say it 31 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 2: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 32 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: what it says I am. I have what it says 33 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: I have. I can do what it says I can do. 34 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 2: Today I will be taught the word of God. I 35 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,919 Speaker 2: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 36 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 2: I will never be the same. 37 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. 38 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about awaken your 39 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 2: great faith. 40 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: We all face dreams that seem. 41 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 2: Too big and obstacles that are too much to overcome. 42 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 2: The medical report is not good. Child is off. Course, 43 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 2: we don't have the connection for our dreams. It's easy 44 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: to get discouraged and settle where we are. But God 45 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: wouldn't have put the dream in your heart if he 46 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 2: didn't have a way to bring it to pass. 47 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: He wouldn't have let you. 48 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: Get in that challenge if he wasn't planning on bringing 49 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: you out. But our faith, what we believe, will have 50 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: a great impact on what's going to happen. It's not 51 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: just up to God, he has all the power in 52 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 2: the world. 53 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: It's up to us. He works through faith. 54 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 2: If you believe little you'll receive little if you think small, 55 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: talk small, I've reached my limits, then you'll get stuck 56 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 2: where you are. The scripture talks about different levels of faith. 57 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 2: The Disciples were on a boat when a juge storm arose. 58 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: They started looking at the winds, the waves, how big 59 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 2: they were. They got worried and ran and woke Jesus up, 60 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: and we're about to die. 61 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: Before Jesus calmed the storm, before he. 62 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 2: Spoke to the waves, he looked at them and said, 63 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: why do you have such a little faith? 64 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: He was saying, you've seen what I can do. You've 65 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: seen me heal the. 66 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: Sick, multiplied the food, restore the broken. Why are you 67 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 2: still stuck at that low level of faith when you know. 68 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: Oh, I can do anything. Another place in the scripture 69 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: talks about weak faith, people that barely believe. 70 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 2: Get talked out of their dreams, that at any moment 71 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 2: give up on what God put in their heart. But 72 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: there are two places where Jesus talked about people with 73 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 2: great faith. These were people that dared to believe despite 74 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 2: the circumstances, that knew our God is all powerful, that 75 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: he can make streams in the desert, that he can 76 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 2: open doors no person can shut that he can do 77 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 2: what medicine cannot do. If you're going to reach the 78 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 2: fullness of your destiny, it's not going to happen with 79 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: weak faith, little faith, doubting faith, average faith. 80 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: It's going to take great faith. 81 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 2: The good news is it's in you. You have the 82 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 2: ability to go places you've never gone, to overcome challenges 83 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: that seem too big. 84 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: But here's the whole key. You have to awaken your 85 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: great faith. I have to stir up what God put 86 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:02,119 Speaker 1: in you. 87 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 2: The enemy would love for you to go through life 88 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 2: with little faith, not believing, full of doubt or weak faith, 89 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 2: comfortable where you are, not stretching, not putting a demand 90 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: on your faith. But the day we're living in, average 91 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 2: faith is not going to cut it to overcome forces 92 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 2: that are trying to stop you. 93 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: You can't have ordinary faith to leave you a mark. 94 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: You can't just believe like everyone else. 95 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 2: It's going to take people that will dare to believe big, 96 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: to take the limits off, to say God, I don't 97 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 2: see a way, but I know you have a way. 98 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 2: God wants to do something new in your life, uncommon, 99 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: out of the ordinary. But if you're going to see 100 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 2: great favor. You have to have great faith. Little faith says. 101 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: I'll never get well. Have you seen the medical report. 102 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 2: Great faith says, God is restoring health back into me. 103 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: I will live and not die. Little faith says, these 104 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 2: disappointments have limited my life. This bad break is why 105 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 2: I can't go any further. Great faith says God, you 106 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 2: have beauty. 107 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:10,280 Speaker 1: For these ashes. 108 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 2: What was meant from my harm? You're turning to my advantage. 109 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 2: Little faith says, I'll always struggle in my finances. Man, 110 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 2: with gas prices, the pandemic. How I is raised, I'll 111 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: never have abundance. Great faith says, I will lend and 112 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: not borrow. I live under the open windows of heaven. 113 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 2: My cup runs over. Friends, great faith is already in you. 114 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,600 Speaker 2: I'm just trying to awaken your great faith. That's how 115 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 2: you're going to go to a new level. That's how 116 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 2: your business will take off. That's how you're going to 117 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 2: break the addiction. That's how those children are going to 118 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 2: get back on course. It's not just going to be 119 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 2: by your willpower, your strength. 120 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 1: Your intellect. 121 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 2: That's all good, but it's going to happen because of 122 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 2: your faith. 123 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: When you get in agreement with God. 124 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 2: Angels go to work. Forces of darkness are broken. Good 125 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: break start chasing you down. Great faith activates great favor. 126 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 2: What you believe is setting limits for your life. Don't 127 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 2: go around with weak faith, little faith, doubting faith, complain 128 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,600 Speaker 2: in faith, get out of your box. Start believing for 129 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 2: bigger things. It's not that God is limited. He's all powerful, 130 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 2: but we can limit him by our small thinking. In 131 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 2: the Scripture, the prophet Ezekiel had a vision of this 132 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 2: valley that was filled with dry bones. Was a huge 133 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 2: graveyard with thousands of bones on the ground. These bones 134 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 2: represented what was dead, dreams that didn't work out, disappointments, 135 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 2: and closed doors. God was about to bring these bones 136 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: together cause these people to come back to life. But 137 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 2: before any of this happened, before God did the miraculous, 138 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: he asked Ezekiel in this vision, do you believe that 139 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 2: these dead bones can live? He was saying, Ezekiel, what 140 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 2: level of faith are you at? Do you have weak faith, 141 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 2: little faith, doubting faith, or do you have great faith? 142 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: Do you believe that. 143 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 2: I can do the impossible? Ezekiel answered back, saying, O, 144 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: Sovereign Lord. He was saying, God, you control the universe. 145 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: You part red seas, you stopped the sun for Joshua. 146 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 2: You gave Sarah a baby at ninety. Yes, this looks impossible, 147 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 2: but I know you can do the impossible. God said 148 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: in effect, Ezekiel, That's what I'm looking for. Not weak faith, 149 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 2: not a complainer, not someone that's gonna tell me all 150 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 2: the reasons it's not gonna happen. 151 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: I'm looking for great faith. 152 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: He told Ezekiel to prophesy to those dead bones. When 153 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 2: he did, the bones begin to come together, and skin 154 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 2: forwarded over them. God breathed breath into them, just like 155 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 2: in a movie. Those people stood up, came. 156 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: Back to life. Now their baby. Things in your life 157 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: today that. 158 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 2: Look dead, situations that seem impossible, your health, your finances, 159 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 2: and your relationships. 160 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: God is asking you. 161 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 2: What do you ask, Ezekiel, Do you believe those dead 162 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: bones can live? 163 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: Do you believe you can get well? 164 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 2: You can set a new standard for your family, You 165 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 2: can get your degree, write that book, build that orphanage. 166 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 2: All the circumstances may say there's no way that's impossible. 167 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 2: You could get discouraged and easily talk yourself out of it. 168 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 2: Live with ordinary faith. God, just help me to survive. 169 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 2: Have little faith God, I hope I can endure weak faith. 170 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: God, this isn't fair. 171 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 2: Try a different approach, like Ezekiel. Great faith is down 172 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 2: in you. It's not in your mind, it's not in 173 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 2: your intellect, it's in your spirit. For some people, it's 174 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 2: been asleep. 175 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: A long time. 176 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 2: God sent me to awaken it. He's about to bring 177 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 2: dead things back to life. He's about to do something 178 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 2: you've never seen. Restore your health, open new doors of opportunity, 179 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 2: turn that child around. But there is one requirement that 180 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: he's looking for, and that is great faith. The good 181 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 2: news is you have it. 182 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: Now do your part. Get in agreement with God. Father. 183 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 2: Thank you that I will accomplish my dreams. I believe 184 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 2: I will get well. I believe this will be a 185 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 2: bountiful year. Lord, Thank you that you're breathing on my 186 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 2: life right now. You keep that attitude of faith and 187 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 2: watch what God will do. Great faith brings great favor. 188 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 2: Friend of mine has a daughter. When she was three 189 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 2: years old, this very heavy piece of iron fell on 190 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 2: two of her fingers and cut the very tips off. 191 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 2: They rushed her to the emergency room, and after taking 192 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 2: all the X rays and doing all the tests. This 193 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 2: specialist came in and said to the father, I'm sorry, 194 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: but there's nothing we can do to restore her fingers 195 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 2: back to normal. She'll never have nails on those two fingers, 196 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 2: and they'll always. 197 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: Be a little bit shorter. The bone had been cut. 198 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 2: All they could do was a skin graft to hopefully 199 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 2: make them look as smooth as possible. The father was 200 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 2: very respectful, but he said to the doctor, I believe 201 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 2: that God can restore my little girl's finger and make 202 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: them normal once again. 203 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: The doctor looked at him really odd. 204 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 2: He was from another country and he didn't have any 205 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 2: kind of faith background. He said, that's fine, sir, if 206 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 2: you want to believe like that, but understand the bone 207 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 2: is missing. They will never be the right link, and 208 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: for sure she's not gonna have fingernails. When his wife 209 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 2: came in, the doctor got her aside and said, your 210 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 2: husband's in shock. He won't accept the fact that the 211 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 2: tip of those fingers have been cut off. 212 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: They did the skin graft. 213 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 2: Six weeks later, they brought the little girl back for 214 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 2: a checkup. When the doctor took the bandage off, his 215 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 2: first words were. 216 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 1: Oh my god. The father was alarmed. He said what's 217 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: wrong doctor. 218 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 2: The doctor said, the fingernails have grown back, and it 219 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 2: looks like the fingers are the exact right length. 220 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: That was over twenty years ago. 221 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 2: Still to this day, her fingers look perfectly normal. And 222 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 2: I'm not saying to deny reality, but i am saying 223 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 2: that God has the final say. There are natural laws, 224 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 2: but God is supernatural. He's not limited by what limits us. 225 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 2: When we believe, all things are possible. But if this 226 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 2: father would have had weak faith, just my luck too 227 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: bad for us, little faith, God just help us make 228 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 2: it through. 229 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: I don't think this would have happened. 230 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 2: When you have great faith, you will see the greatness 231 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 2: of our God. Sometimes we're not seeing favor and healing 232 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 2: and promotion, not because God is limited, but because our 233 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 2: faith is limiting him. Jesus healed a blind man one 234 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 2: time in the scripture, and he said, according to your faith, 235 00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: be it done. 236 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: Unto you isn't according to God's faith. He can do anything. 237 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 1: It's according to our faith. 238 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 2: Where God is taking you, it's going to take more 239 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 2: than average faith. The amazing future he has in store, 240 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 2: the doors he's going to open, the favor you're going 241 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 2: to see. It won't happen with ordinary faith. There will 242 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 2: be dreams that are way too big for you. There 243 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 2: will be golias where you don't stand a chance, times 244 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 2: where it's way over your head. 245 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 1: Compact sinners. 246 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 2: That's when you have to be in Ezekiel and say God, 247 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 2: I know these. 248 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: Dead bones can live. I know you can defeat these enemies. 249 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 2: I know your favor on my life will take me 250 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 2: where I can't go on my own. 251 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 1: Jesus told a parable in the Book of. 252 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 2: Luke, and at the end he asked this question, when 253 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 2: I return, what. 254 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: Kind of faith will I find on the earth. 255 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 2: If God showed up at your house, what kind of 256 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 2: faith would he find? Small faith, weak faith, complaining faith. 257 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 2: Jul I used to believe, but he don't know what's 258 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 2: come against me. I had big dreams, but it's been 259 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 2: so long. I don't see how I can get in college, 260 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 2: how I'll meet the right person, how I'll break the 261 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 2: addiction it's been in my family for years. That kind 262 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 2: of thinking is limiting what God can do. 263 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: Why don't you awaken your great faith. You don't have 264 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: to figure out how it's going to happen. All you 265 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: have to do is believe in. 266 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 2: The scripture, there was a Roman officer that was very 267 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 2: respected and influential. He was called a centurion, meaning that 268 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 2: he had one hundred men under him. One of his 269 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 2: servants became very sick and close to death, and he 270 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 2: was so concerned. He heard that Jesus was in a 271 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 2: nearby city, and since he was a gentile, he found 272 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: some of his Jewish friends and asked them to go 273 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 2: to Jesus and see if he would come and pray 274 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 2: for his servant. Well, these Jewish leaders, they went and 275 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 2: pleaded with Jesus to come, and Jesus agreed. 276 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: He set out toward the man's house. 277 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 2: But before they arrived, this centurion sent another message. He said, Jesus, 278 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 2: don't trouble yourself coming to my home. I'm a man 279 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: of authority. When I say go, people go. When I 280 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: say come, they come. Just speak the word, and I 281 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 2: know my servant will be healed. When Jesus heard this 282 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 2: verse nine says he marveled. 283 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 1: He was so amazed. 284 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 2: He turned to the crowd and said, I have not 285 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 2: found this greater faith in all of Israel. 286 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: Notice what God calls great faith when you believe. 287 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 2: That he'll do something out of the ordinary, When you 288 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 2: take the limits off. 289 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: No one had ever told Jesus to just speak the word. 290 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 2: All they had seen is Jesus lay hands on people 291 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 2: and healed in This officer was saying, I believe you 292 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 2: have so much power, so much favor, you don't even 293 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 2: need to come. 294 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: Just say it and it will happen. 295 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: And what's significant is this centurion wasn't even a follower 296 00:14:59,360 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 2: of Christ. 297 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: He was a gentile. 298 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 2: But Jesus said he had more faith than the believers 299 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 2: that travel with Jesus. Having great faith is not about 300 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 2: being a religious scholar, how many scriptures you can quote, 301 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 2: how long you pray. 302 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: It's about believing that our God. 303 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 2: Is all powerful, that he can make ways where you 304 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 2: don't see a way, that he can defeat your giants, 305 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: that he can open. 306 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: Doors you can't open. 307 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: There are only two times in the scripture where God marveled. 308 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 2: March chapter six, Jesus was in his hometown of Nazareth, 309 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 2: teaching in the synagogue. 310 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: They had heard about the miracles. 311 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 2: Word had spread about how Jesus was doing so much good, but. 312 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: They didn't believe. They thought, we know who he is. 313 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: He grew up here. 314 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 2: There's nothing special about him because of their unbelief. He 315 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 2: couldn't do any mighty miracles there here he had all 316 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 2: this power. He'd gone to different cities doing amazing things. 317 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: You would think in his home city they would belie 318 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 2: more than anyone else. 319 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: It's just the opposite. 320 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 2: Verse six says Jesus marveled at their unbelief. One time 321 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 2: he marveled at the man's faith. The other time he 322 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 2: marveled at their unbelief. When God looks at you, what 323 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: is he marvel at? 324 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: Joel? 325 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 2: This opposition is so strong. I don't see how I 326 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 2: can get ahead. These people have done me wrong. 327 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: Don't zip that up. 328 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: Let's be people that cause God to marvel over our 329 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 2: faith and not over our doubt, people that believe big, 330 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 2: people that take. 331 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: The limits off of him. 332 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 2: Now, I love how this centurion who didn't even worship Jehovah, 333 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 2: who wasn't even a believer, yet he knew how awesome 334 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 2: our God is. He had this understanding that this man 335 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 2: carries power, favor, healing authority that is unmatched. Jesus didn't 336 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 2: say to him, who do you think you are? You 337 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 2: don't even follow me. You have a lot of nerve 338 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 2: asking me for something that I've never done. Oh Jesus said, 339 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 2: in effect, your faith. 340 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: Is at another level. 341 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 2: I've seen weak faith, little faith, average faith, but I've 342 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 2: never seen faith like yours. 343 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,159 Speaker 1: You have great faith. 344 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 2: God is not faulting you for believing big, for asking 345 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 2: for your dreams for what seems impossible. 346 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 1: That's what God calls great faith. 347 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 2: Like this centurion, you're showing God that you believe how 348 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 2: powerful he is. The enemy would love for you to 349 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 2: live with comfortable faith, faith in a box, faith for 350 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 2: what you've seen in the past. To reach your destiny, 351 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 2: you have to break out of that box. Is there 352 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 2: anything you're believing for that will cause God to marvel? 353 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 2: So anything you're dreaming about that's out of your reach 354 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:50,280 Speaker 2: that you can accomplish, that's too big, too much, too hard. 355 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:52,959 Speaker 1: It's time to awaken your faith. 356 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,199 Speaker 2: Dare to believe bigger, dare to ask, Dare to do 357 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 2: something that causes God to be amazed. 358 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: Not just to believe. 359 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 2: To pay your bills each month, No, great faith, says God, 360 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 2: give me overflow, Give me an abundance so I can 361 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 2: help pay somebody else's bills. Not just let me endure 362 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 2: this sickness, let me manage this depression. No Lord, thank 363 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: you that I'm totally free, thank you that I'm completely well. 364 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 2: That I will run and not be weary. Not just 365 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 2: make it through another year, God help me to survive. No, Lord, 366 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 2: thank you, twenty twenty two will be a bountiful year. 367 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: That doors are opening that I couldn't open. 368 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,680 Speaker 2: That my talent's coming out in new ways, that I'll 369 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 2: set a new standard for my family. Whatever level your 370 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 2: faith is at, it's time to step it up. 371 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: Believe bigger. God's doing a new thing. 372 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: But it's not going to happen with comfortable faith, lazy faith, 373 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 2: limited faith. 374 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,479 Speaker 1: God's looking for great faith. 375 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 2: There was a lady in the scripture that had a 376 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 2: bleeding disorder for twelve years. She went to the best doctors, 377 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 2: took the best treatment, but. 378 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: None of that helped. She continued to get worse. 379 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 2: She could have accepted and thought, it's not meant to 380 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 2: be tried my best. But one day she heard that 381 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 2: Jesus was passing through her town, and something rose up 382 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 2: on the inside. It said to her, this is your time, 383 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 2: this is your moment. This sickness is not your destiny. 384 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 2: Maybe she's heard how Jesus had healed the man with 385 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 2: the withered hand, or how he caused that and paralyzed 386 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 2: man to walk, or how he had freed that man 387 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 2: that was chained in the tombs. Something happened to where 388 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 2: her great faith was awakened. She'd had average faith making 389 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: it despite the trouble in enduring the illness, but she 390 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 2: could sense that this was a new day. She left 391 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 2: her house that morning, determined to get to Jesus. Was 392 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 2: so crowded. She had to push through people. Pushed through doubt, 393 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 2: it's not going to happen. Pushed through her past, you 394 00:19:58,680 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 2: tried and it didn't work out. 395 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: Push through fear, what if he gets upset? 396 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 2: Despite all the opposition, she kept making her way to Jesus. 397 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: Excuse me, I need to get through. Pardon me. I 398 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 1: don't mean to be rude, but move out of my way. 399 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: I'm on a mission. 400 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 2: She was weak, her blood count was low, Thoughts telling 401 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 2: her is never going to happen, but she kept saying 402 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,159 Speaker 2: to herself, when I get to Jesus, I will be healed. 403 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,679 Speaker 1: She could have been at home. 404 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 2: Discouraged, thinking I'll never get better with comfortable faith, lazy faith, 405 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 2: but she did what I'm asking us to do. She 406 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 2: tapped into her great faith and yes, to believe bigger. 407 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: It's going to cost you something. 408 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 2: It's easy to stay comfortable, it's easy to live average, 409 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 2: but you can't become who you were created to be 410 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:50,199 Speaker 2: with average faith. 411 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: God's looking for great faith. 412 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 2: He's looking for people that will cause him to marvel, 413 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 2: to say. 414 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: Wow, look at what they believe I can do. 415 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 2: They believe they can get well despite the diagnosis. They 416 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 2: believe they can have a blessed year despite the pandemic. 417 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: They believe that I'll give. 418 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 2: Them a compact center, that they can start their own business, 419 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 2: that their family will be restored. Great faith gets God's attention. 420 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 2: This lady finally made it to Jesus, just in the 421 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 2: nick of time. She reached out and touched the hem 422 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 2: of his robe. Instantly she was healed. Jesus stopped and 423 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 2: said to his disciples, who just touched me? They said, 424 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 2: what do you mean, everybody's touching you? It's crowded around here. No, 425 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 2: he said, someone touched me with such faith that it 426 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 2: drew the miracle working power right out of me. About 427 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 2: that time his eyes met this woman's eyes. 428 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: He didn't say, lady, why'd you do that? 429 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 2: Why don't you wait your turn takes a lot of 430 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 2: nerve for you calling on me like that. 431 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: No, he was amazed. 432 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,439 Speaker 2: He said, daughter, your faith has made you whole, saying 433 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 2: was it my faith? I didn't even see you, but 434 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 2: you had such great faith. You believed in who I 435 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 2: am in such a great way that you caused this 436 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 2: miracle to happen. There were a lot of people bumping 437 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,360 Speaker 2: into Jesus, but she was the only one that touched him. 438 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 2: Many others needed healing, breakthroughs favor. The mistake they made 439 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 2: is they didn't awaken their great faith. Are their blessings 440 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 2: you're missing because you're living with comfortable faith, not stretching 441 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 2: is their favor. You're not seeing promotion, new relationships because 442 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 2: you have lazy faith, small faith, weak faith. 443 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: Well, Joel, if I go through that crowd. 444 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 2: So to speak, I know I'm not going to get healed. 445 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 2: Nothing good ever happens to me. My family's always struggled. 446 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 2: I wasn't raised in a good environment. None of that 447 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 2: has to stop you. God knows what you didn't get. 448 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 2: He's not going to leave your life in a deficit. 449 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 2: He's put something down in you. He's just waiting for 450 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,160 Speaker 2: you to wake it up. It's called great faith. It's 451 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 2: faith that causes him to marvel. It's when you do, 452 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: like this woman, you press past the doubt, the naysayers, 453 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 2: the past, the failures, and you believe for what seems impossible. 454 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 1: Believe for your dreams. Believe that the dead bones can live. 455 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 2: Believe you can accomplish what others say is no way. 456 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 2: Believe that your children will leave their mark. This won't 457 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 2: happen with average faith. The good news is that's not you. 458 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 2: I'm talking to people with great faith. Now do your 459 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 2: part and wake it up. You haven't seen, heard, or 460 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 2: imagined what God has in store for you. The time 461 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 2: we're living in, you are needed more than ever. The 462 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 2: prophet Joel said, wake up the mighty men, Wake up 463 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 2: the mighty women. God is counting on you to make 464 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 2: a difference, to be a blessing, to shine brightly, to 465 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 2: set new standards. It's gonna take people who are bold, 466 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 2: who will stretch, who will get out of their comfort zones. 467 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 2: When Jesus was on the earth, he did so many 468 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 2: amazing things, but he said in John fourteen, greater works 469 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 2: than these shall you do. Greater works is going to 470 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 2: require great faith. 471 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,880 Speaker 1: I know sometimes we think I don't have that much faith. Yes, 472 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: it's in you. You just have to make this decision 473 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: to believe. 474 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 2: Not so much believe in what you can do, but 475 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 2: believe in what God can do through you. 476 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,120 Speaker 1: On your own, you. 477 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 2: May be limited, you don't have the qualifications the resources. 478 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 2: That's okay, You're not on your own. You and God 479 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 2: are a majority. When he breathes on your life, dead 480 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,440 Speaker 2: bones will live. You'll go places you've never dreamed. You'll 481 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 2: discover talent that you didn't know you had. Doors will 482 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 2: open you never thought would open. The right people will 483 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 2: suddenly show up. If you'll do your part and have 484 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 2: great faith, God will do his part and show. 485 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: Out in your life. 486 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 2: Friend of mine is a medical doctor and he was 487 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 2: driving home from work when he saw this accident on 488 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 2: the freeway and it had just happened a few minutes earlier. 489 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 2: They had this young man covered with a sheet. My 490 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 2: friend told them that he was a doctor and asked 491 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: if there's anything he could do, and they explained they 492 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 2: had done CPR and tried everything, but no response. And 493 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 2: my friend at that time wasn't necessarily a strong believer, 494 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 2: but he remembered the scripture that you can lay hands on. 495 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,959 Speaker 1: The sick and they will recover. 496 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 2: Medically speaking, he couldn't do anything, but he gently placed 497 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 2: his hands on the young man's chest. Under his breath, 498 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 2: he whispered, God, I'm asking you to let life come 499 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 2: back into this body. 500 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: Stayed there a minute or two. Nothing happened. 501 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 2: He turned around and went back to his car, and 502 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, there was this huge commotion. The 503 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 2: young man woke up. He started breathing again. Everyone was 504 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 2: in awe. They asked the doctor, what did you do 505 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 2: to him? He said, all I did was praying. That's 506 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 2: one of those greater words. That's what God wants to. 507 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: Do for you. 508 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 2: Use you in amazing ways, bring dreams to pass that 509 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: leave you in all take your places you never thought possible. 510 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: How does this. 511 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 2: Happen through great faith? It's on the inside of you 512 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 2: right now. Have you awakened it or you just living 513 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 2: with comfortable faith, average faith, not believing, not stretching, not dreaming. 514 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 2: Get out of that box, take the limits off of God. 515 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: There should be something you're believing for that causes God 516 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 2: to marvel, something that's over your head, out of your range. 517 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 2: That's what gets God's attention. If you'll do this if 518 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 2: you'll wake up that great faith. I believe and declare 519 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 2: you're about to see the greatness of our God. Dead 520 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 2: bones are about to come back to life, a new 521 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 2: level of favor, promotion, healing, breakthroughs, the fullness of your 522 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 2: destiny in Jesus' name, And if you receive. 523 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:03,439 Speaker 1: It, can you say amen? 524 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 2: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 525 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 2: the lord of your life? Would you pray after me, 526 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come into my heart. 527 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: I'll make you my lord and savior. 528 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 529 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,919 Speaker 2: born again. We have some free information we'd love to 530 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 2: send you. You can text the number or go to 531 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,640 Speaker 2: the website. I hope you'll get into a good Bible 532 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 2: based church and keep God first place. 533 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 3: We all carry a mental picture of what our life 534 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 3: can be. Is yours limited? Do you picture yourself stuck, inadequate, defeated? 535 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 3: Are you willing to change your mindset in order to 536 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 3: experience a life of blessing and abundance. 537 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 2: We all have a picture in our mind of ourself, 538 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 2: our family, our future. And if that picture is negative, 539 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,199 Speaker 2: you see yourself at a disadvantage. Your problems too big, 540 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 2: it's gonna limit your life. A new book, The Abundance Mindset, 541 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 2: will help. 542 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: You see yourself the right way. If you'll change those 543 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: negative pictures. 544 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 2: Start seeing yourself blessed, healthy, rising high, or accomplishing dreams, 545 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 2: then things will begin. 546 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,360 Speaker 1: To shift in your favor. 547 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 2: You have to see it on the inside before it'll 548 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 2: come to pass on the outside. We'll send you the 549 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 2: Mindset Journal too. These tools will help you get your 550 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 2: inner vision in the right place so you can move 551 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 2: into the favor and blessing that God has for you. 552 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 553 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 3: of any amount this month, we would like to send 554 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joel's book The Abundance Mindset and 555 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,959 Speaker 3: this inspiring Mindset Journal. Joel shares powerful script, shares and 556 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 3: encouraging thoughts about how to move from fairly enough to 557 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 3: more than enough, how to be someone else's miracle and 558 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 3: experience miracles in your own life. 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