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I promise 40 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 5: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks 41 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 5: so much for tuning in today, and thank you again 42 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 5: for coming out. I like to start with something funny, 43 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 5: and I heard about this archaeologist from New York. He 44 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 5: dug down ten feet and found traces of copper wiring 45 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 5: dating back one hundred years. He concluded that New Yorkers 46 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 5: had a telephone network over one hundred years ago. Not 47 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 5: to be outdone, an archaeologist from California dug down twenty 48 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 5: feet and found copper wiring dating back. 49 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 4: Two hundred years. 50 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 5: He concluded that Californians had a massive communication network one 51 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 5: hundred years before the New Yorkers. Upon hearing this bubba 52 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 5: from Texas, dug down thirty feet on his farm and 53 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 5: found absolutely nothing. He concluded three hundred years ago Texans 54 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 5: had already gone wireless. All right, hold up your Bible, 55 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 5: say it like you mean it. This is my vibe. 56 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what 57 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says 58 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 59 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 60 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 61 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today 62 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 5: about something that you've never seen. I grew up in 63 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 5: a minister's home, and we always had church and auditoriums 64 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 5: and traditional sanctuaries. That's what everybody did. But in two 65 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 5: thousand and five God gave us this beautiful facility. Now 66 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 5: we have church in a former sports arena. That's something 67 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 5: that I had never seen. I worked seventeen years behind 68 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 5: the scenes at the church doing the television production, and 69 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 5: I thought that's how I would spend my life. But 70 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 5: when my father went to be with the Lord, I 71 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 5: was suddenly thrust into this position. Now instead of being 72 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 5: behind the cameras, I'm in front of the cameras. That 73 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 5: was something I had never seen. In two thousand and nine, 74 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,119 Speaker 5: the New York Yankees were about to open their new 75 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 5: baseball stadium. One of their staff members called and asked 76 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 5: if we would come and hold a Night of Hope, 77 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 5: the first non baseball event in the new stadium. Out 78 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 5: of all the entertainers, musicians, artists in the world, they 79 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 5: called a minister. That was something I had never seen. 80 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 5: I want you to get this down in your spirit. 81 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 5: God is about to do something in your life that 82 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 5: you've never seen. I'm not just sharing another message. 83 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 4: I'm speaking prophetically. 84 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 5: God is about to take you where you could not 85 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 5: go on your own. God is about to show you 86 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 5: favor in ways that you've never imagined. It's going to 87 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 5: be unprecedented, out of the norm, unlike anything that you've seen. 88 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 5: Maybe you've struggled in your finances for years, can't seem 89 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 5: to get ahead. 90 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 4: One step forward, two steps backwards. 91 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 5: No, God is about to show you abundance like you've 92 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 5: never seen. He's about to increase you to where you 93 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 5: have overflowed. You lend and not borrow, not burdened down 94 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 5: by debt and lack. Some of you have fought depression 95 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 5: discouragement your whole life. That dark cloud follows you around, 96 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 5: and you think that's the way it's always going to be. No, 97 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 5: take heart, God is going to show you joy like 98 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 5: you've never seen. That spirit of depression discouragement is being broken. 99 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 5: God is going to release a new happiness, a. 100 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 4: Passion that you've not experienced before. 101 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 5: Maybe you've struggled with an addiction, a bad habit for 102 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 5: a long time. 103 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 4: Be encouraged. God's going to show you freedom that you've 104 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:54,239 Speaker 4: never seen. 105 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 5: Some of you have felt a little insecure, intimidated, like 106 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 5: you don't quite measure up. You think that's the way 107 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 5: you'll always live. No, God's about to show you a 108 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 5: confidence of boldness where you can step into the fullness 109 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 5: of your destiny. God is saying creativity like you've never seen, promotion, opportunity, 110 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 5: like you've never seen, healing, restoration, favor like you've never seen. 111 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 5: That's the promise God made in Exodus thirty four to ten. 112 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 5: I will do great things that I've never done before 113 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 5: anywhere on earth. We've all seen God's goodness in the past. 114 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 5: Every one of us can say God has blessed us, 115 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 5: promoted us, protected us. But what God is about to 116 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 5: do is going to be unprecedented. Now, all you've got 117 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 5: to do is say, yes, Lord. 118 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 4: This is from me today. I'll receive this into my spirit. 119 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 5: See your mind will try to talk you out of it, 120 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 5: tell you all the reasons why it's not going to 121 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 5: happen for you. You're too old, to young, made too many mistakes, 122 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 5: don't have the education. If you were just a different nationality, 123 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 5: if you just knew the right people, go listen. God 124 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 5: is not limited by your age, your education, your. 125 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 4: Connections, your resources. 126 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 5: In spite of what you have or don't have, you 127 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 5: need to get ready. God is about to show you 128 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 5: something that you've never seen. He's about to take you 129 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 5: where you could not go on your own. John Chapter nine, 130 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 5: Jesus was traveling through a village. He saw a man 131 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 5: on the side of the road, that was blind. 132 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 4: He went over to this man. The man didn't call 133 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 4: out to Jesus. 134 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 5: He wasn't like blind Barnabas that said please Jesus, have 135 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 5: mercy and heal me. This man was just quietly sitting there, 136 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 5: and Jesus went to him. And throughout the scripture there 137 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 5: are examples where people used their faith, reached out to 138 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 5: God and they received their miracle. The woman with the 139 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 5: issue of blood fought her way through the crowd, touched 140 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 5: the edge of Jesus' robe. She was instantly made whole. 141 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 5: The lepers cried out, Jesus, please heal us. 142 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 4: Jesus healed them. 143 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 5: An army captain came and said, Jesus, if you'll just 144 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 5: speak the word, my little daughter at home that's so sick, 145 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 5: she'll be healed. 146 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 4: Jesus spoke and the daughter was well. 147 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 5: These people all initiated their miracle. They reached out in 148 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 5: faith and saw God's goodness. But God is so merciful, 149 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 5: He's so loving. There are times like with this blind man, even. 150 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 4: When we don't have the faith, even when we don't 151 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 4: reach out, God reaches out to us. 152 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 5: If it would have just been dependent on our faith, 153 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 5: on what we believe on what we're asking for. Jesus 154 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 5: would have never stopped to help this blind man. He 155 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 5: didn't show any signs of faith. 156 00:08:57,679 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 4: He was just sitting. 157 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 5: There, minding his his own business. Yet Jesus went to him. 158 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 5: He had been blind since his birth, never seen before. 159 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 5: This is much different than someone that had sight at 160 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 5: one time then becomes blind. At least they would have 161 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 5: a memory of what things look like. This man, blind 162 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 5: since birth, had never seen a sunset, never seen a flower, 163 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 5: never seen a person. He had nothing to draw upon, 164 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 5: having never seen before. And it's interesting Jesus didn't say 165 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 5: anything to him. He didn't try to figure out if 166 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 5: he had faith, try to figure out what he believed. 167 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 5: Jesus simply made mud, put it on the blind man's eyes, 168 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 5: told him to go wash it off in the pool 169 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 5: of Salon. 170 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 4: Some friends led him to the pool. 171 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 5: He washed it off, and his eyes were instantly open. 172 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 5: He could see perfectly clearly. I could imagine. For the 173 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 5: first time, he looked out and saw the puffy clouds 174 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 5: in the guy. For the first time, he looked down 175 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 5: and saw a beautiful flower, no doubt. He ran home 176 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 5: as fast as he could. For the first time, saw 177 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 5: his children, his wife. That night, he looked up into 178 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 5: the sky for the first time, saw the stars twinkling, 179 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 5: the moonlight glimmering off the lake. 180 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 4: What happened. 181 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 5: God showed him something he had never seen. God wants 182 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 5: to do the same thing for you. Some of you 183 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 5: think that you've reached your limits, gone as far as 184 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 5: you can go. The medical report doesn't look good now 185 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 5: you've settled there. You've been single a long time. You 186 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 5: don't think you'll ever meet the right person. Or you 187 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 5: took a step of faith, but the business, the charity, 188 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 5: the project didn't make it. 189 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,359 Speaker 4: Now you don't see how you could accomplish your dreams. 190 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 5: But like with this man, even when we don't have 191 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 5: the faith, even when we think it's impossible, Joel, it's 192 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 5: too late. I tried, I fell. That's never going to happen. No, 193 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 5: God is going to come looking for you and show 194 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 5: you his favor like you've never seen. God wants to 195 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 5: give you some first times. 196 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 4: For the first time, you're free from pain, healthy, whole, strong. 197 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 5: For the first time, you have more than enough, you're 198 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 5: not struggling, you're into overflow for the first time. Your 199 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 5: whole family's serving God. For the first time, you're living 200 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 5: in the house of your dreams. For the first time 201 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 5: you're running the whole office. You thought you'd always be 202 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 5: working for people. Now you've got people working for you. 203 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 5: You need to get ready. God has some first times 204 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 5: in your future. Part of this shift, God is going 205 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 5: to show you something that you've never seen before. 206 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 4: You may not have. 207 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 5: Faith for it. It may seem too far out. That's okay. 208 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 5: God's going to come looking for you. He's going to 209 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 5: get you to where you're supposed to be. 210 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 4: It's going to be bigger than you imagine. 211 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 5: It's going to be unprecedented, something that you've never seen. 212 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 4: That means if you've seen it in the past, that's good. 213 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 5: Be grateful, always thank God for what He's done. 214 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 4: But what God is about to. 215 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 5: Do is greater than what you've seen it. When God 216 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 5: gave us this beautiful facility, this was Ephesians three twenty 217 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 5: exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. This was more than I 218 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 5: could ever imagine. In fact, I'm still amazed. Every time 219 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 5: I pull up to this facility. I still get goosebumps 220 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,839 Speaker 5: when I go over to my old seats right over 221 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 5: there where I watch the rockets play basketball for years. 222 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 5: But as amazing as this all is, I realize what 223 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 5: God is about to do is going to supersede anything 224 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 5: he's done in the past. When God shows you something 225 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 5: that you've never. 226 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 4: Seen, it's going to boggle your mind. 227 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 5: The reason God doesn't just rely on our faith is 228 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 5: because some of what He's going to show you is 229 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 5: so far out, so amazing, so rewarding, you couldn't have 230 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 5: faith for it right now. Like this blind man, God 231 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 5: is so good even when we don't believe, Even when 232 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 5: we don't have the faith, God will show up and 233 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 5: do it anyway. Before Jesus healed the blind man, the 234 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 5: disciples asked Jesus who sinned this man or his parents 235 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 5: that would cause him to be born blind. Jesus said, 236 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 5: nobody sin He was born this way so the works 237 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 5: of God. 238 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 4: Could be manifest. 239 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 5: In other words, when that baby was born, God already 240 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 5: knew exactly when he was going to heal him. There 241 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:55,440 Speaker 5: was a time already set by the creator of the universe. 242 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 5: At that appointed time, God opened his eyes and showed 243 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 5: him something that he had never seen in your life. 244 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 5: Right now, there are set times. God has already established 245 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 5: the date when he's going to do something unprecedented in 246 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 5: your life. 247 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 4: You don't have to worry. 248 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 5: You don't have to be discouraged because it hasn't happened yet. 249 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 4: You don't have to give into. 250 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 5: Doubt and think, God, I'm never gonna get well, never 251 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 5: accomplish a dream, never get married. No, those moments of 252 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 5: favor are already established in your future. If you'll just 253 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 5: keep honoring God being your best, you will suddenly come 254 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 5: into one of your set times. God will do something 255 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 5: out of the ordinary. 256 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 4: You didn't go after. 257 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 5: It, it came to you. You didn't even have the 258 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 5: faith for it. What you were praying about was only 259 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 5: a fraction of what God had in mind. One scripture 260 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 5: talks about the faith of God. Normally we think about 261 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 5: our faith and how we need to pray big and 262 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 5: believe big and take the limits off of go and 263 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 5: that's important. 264 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 4: We should do that. 265 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 5: But God has things in your future, set times that 266 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:12,239 Speaker 5: he's already established that are so big, so amazing, so rewarding. 267 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 5: God knew you couldn't have faith for it right now. 268 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,080 Speaker 5: If you would have told me a few years ago 269 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 5: that one day I would be up in front of 270 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 5: people and have the platform that I have I would 271 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 5: have said, thank you for believing in me, but you've 272 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 5: got the wrong person. God knows there are things in 273 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 5: our future that we won't have the faith for. 274 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 4: But that doesn't stop God. 275 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 5: When you run out of faith, there's a secret weapon. 276 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 4: It's called the faith of God. 277 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 5: When God releases his faith, you can be certain doors 278 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 5: will open that should not have opened. Talent will come 279 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 5: out of you that you didn't know you had. The 280 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 5: right people will search you out. Healing, promotion, increase will 281 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 5: show up in ways like you've never seen before. I 282 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 5: know some of you think, well, Joel, I don't have 283 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 5: much faith. 284 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 4: That's okay. The faith of. 285 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 5: God will get you to where you're supposed to be. 286 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 5: When your faith is low, don't worry. You have a 287 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 5: friend that will never let you down. When you have doubts, 288 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 5: don't worry. 289 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 4: He has faith. 290 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 5: When you don't think it's going to happen, that's all right. 291 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 5: He's got you covered. The faith of God will make 292 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 5: up for your lack of faith. That's what the Scripture 293 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 5: means when it talks about having faith the size of 294 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 5: a mustard seed. Mustard seed is one of the smallest 295 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 5: seeds you can find. God was saying, even when your 296 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 5: faith is low, when you're discouraged, when you have doubts, 297 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 5: God doesn't cancel his plan for your life. God doesn't 298 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 5: disqualify you and say, come on, man, you need to 299 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 5: have more faith. 300 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 4: No, that's when the faith of God kicks in. 301 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 5: These moments of favor that have already been established in 302 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 5: your future. They're not solely dependent on your faith. The 303 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 5: faith of God is going to cause them to show up. 304 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 4: You think about peace. 305 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 5: He was on the shore by the lake early one morning, 306 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 5: cleaning his fishing nets and putting away all of his gear. 307 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 5: He'd been out fishing all night. He wasn't a disciple yet. 308 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 5: He was a rough man. He used rough language, not 309 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 5: somebody we would consider to be a person of faith. 310 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 4: Jesus asked to borrow his. 311 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 5: Boat, and he taught the people in. 312 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 4: The crowds there. 313 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 5: Afterwards, Jesus said to Peter, go launch out into the 314 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 5: deep and you'll catch a great number of fish. That's 315 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 5: how Jesus was going to pay him back for using 316 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 5: his boat. But Peter said, Jesus, we've been fishing all night. 317 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 5: Nothing is biting. Besides, this is not the right time 318 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 5: to fish. Jesus said, in effect, Peter, I control the fish. 319 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 5: There may not have been fish out there earlier, but 320 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 5: I can guarantee you there are a fish out there now. 321 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 5: Notice Peter didn't have any faith, but that didn't stop God. 322 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 5: Jesus didn't say, Peter, I'm trying to help you, but 323 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,800 Speaker 5: you're such a doubter now. Even though he didn't have faith, 324 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 5: Jesus said, that's all right. 325 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 4: The faith of God will make this happen. 326 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 5: When your faith is low, when you find it hard 327 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 5: to believe, when doubts are bombarding your mind, don't worry. 328 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 5: God is not only full of mercy, he's full of faith. 329 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,439 Speaker 5: His faith will hold you over until your faith can 330 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 5: be strengthened. Peter got out there and caught so many 331 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 5: fish that his boat began to sink. God showed him 332 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 5: something that he had never seen. He had been out 333 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 5: fishing on that lake for years. Many times. 334 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 4: He knew when to fish, where to fish, what to use. 335 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 4: But this day. 336 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 5: Something happened that was unprecedented, out of the norm. In 337 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 5: the same way, you can be going to work, doing 338 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 5: the same thing, the same way. Everything looks just normal, ordinary, 339 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 5: but then you come into one of these these set 340 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 5: times these moments of favor. You weren't expecting it, you 341 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 5: didn't have the faith for it, you didn't deserve it. 342 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 5: But like Peter, suddenly a good break, a promotion, a healing, restoration. 343 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 5: It's more than you could imagine. It's overwhelming. It's something 344 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 5: you've never seen. That wasn't your faith, that was the 345 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 5: faith of God. Right now in your future, there are 346 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 5: these moments of favor that are going to catapult you 347 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 5: to a new level. Some of you have been facing 348 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 5: a sickness a long time and you don't really know 349 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 5: if you have the faith to get well. 350 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 4: That's okay. 351 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 5: God has you covered when you come into this moment 352 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 5: of favor. Like the blind man, sickness doesn't have a chance. Health, healing, 353 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 5: wholeness will flood your body. God can do what medicine 354 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 5: cannot do. You may think that you could never get 355 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 5: out of debt. You tried, you keep having setbacks. You've 356 00:19:58,480 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 5: settled there. 357 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 4: That's all right. The faith of God is at work 358 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 4: in your life. 359 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 5: There are moments of favor that are going to thrust 360 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 5: you into abundance. 361 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 4: I read about this couple. They had both lost. 362 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 5: Their jobs and all kinds of things had come against them, 363 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 5: and unfortunately they were about to lose their house. 364 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 4: They had done everything. 365 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 5: They could to try to get the funds, but just 366 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 5: hadn't worked out. They started selling off their possessions, little 367 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 5: here and little there, and they got so desperate they 368 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 5: decided to sell all of their furniture, everything inside and out, 369 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:38,959 Speaker 5: patio furniture, lawnmower, washer, dryer, everything. They put it on 370 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 5: eBay had pictures of it all. Somehow word got out 371 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 5: that the reason they were selling was to try to 372 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 5: pay their mortgage and save their house. A lady in 373 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 5: another state bid twenty thousand dollars. Her bid, by far 374 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 5: was the high bid. Nothing else even came close. 375 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 4: They accepted her bid. 376 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 5: When they went to make arrangements to have the furniture shift, 377 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 5: the lady said, I don't want your furniture. 378 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 4: That's a gift you can have to keep your house. 379 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 5: They had never met the woman, never talked to her, 380 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 5: never seen her. That was a moment of favor. They 381 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 5: didn't have faith for it. That was the faith of 382 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 5: God saying I'm gonna show you something that you've never seen. 383 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 5: I'm gonna cause somebody out of the. 384 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 4: Blue to be good to you. 385 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 5: You may be facing situations you don't know how it's 386 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 5: gonna turn out, how you could accomplish your dreams. That's okay. 387 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 5: God has it all figured out. He's already lined up 388 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 5: the right people, the right opportunities, solutions to problems. 389 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 4: Just like with this couple. 390 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 5: At the right time, you're gonna come into your moment 391 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 5: of favor and it's going to cause you to overcome, 392 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,119 Speaker 5: cause you to step in to the fullness of your destiny. 393 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 5: I talked to a gentleman out in the lobby not 394 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 5: long ago. He was in town for treatment at m 395 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,400 Speaker 5: D Anderson, the Cancer Hospital, and he had some kind 396 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:07,440 Speaker 5: of tumor. 397 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 4: In his stomach area. 398 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,360 Speaker 5: Gone through chemotherapy, but that hadn't helped. Now they were 399 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 5: going to try surgery. Was very risky, but this was 400 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 5: his only option medically speaking. His whole family was here, 401 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 5: a wife, son, two beautiful daughters, and they were weeping 402 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 5: as he was telling the story. We prayed and asked 403 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 5: God to make a way where we couldn't see away. 404 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 5: He said, Joel, I'm trying to have faith, but I'm 405 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 5: so worried. I'm so afraid, almost like he was apologizing. 406 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 5: I told him what I'm telling you. When your faith 407 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,120 Speaker 5: is weak, the faith of God is strong. When your 408 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 5: faith is low, the faith of God is high. You 409 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 5: have somebody standing in the gap for you. The scripture says, 410 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 5: Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, constantly 411 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 5: prayed for us. It's one thing to have me pray, 412 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 5: a friend pray, a prayer partner pray. That's all great, 413 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 5: But don't ever forget the Son of God, the one 414 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 5: who raised from the dead, the one who defeated our enemies, 415 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 5: the one who speaks worlds into existence. 416 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 4: He's praying for you right now. 417 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 5: This man came back a couple of weeks later with 418 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 5: his family. When they took the final X ray before 419 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 5: the surgery, they couldn't find the tumor anymore. 420 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 4: That surgeon said that. 421 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 5: In sixteen years he had never seen anything like that. 422 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 5: This man had big tears running down his cheeks. He said, Joel, 423 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 5: I didn't even have faith. My mind was filled with doubts. 424 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 5: Yet God did the miracle. 425 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:51,479 Speaker 4: Anyway. That's the way our God is. He knows we're human. 426 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 4: We get discouraged, we have doubts. 427 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 5: But I've learned you don't have to have great faith 428 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 5: in order for God to do something great. You can 429 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 5: have small faith and God will move a mountain. You 430 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 5: don't have to have strong, invincible, unwavering faith. 431 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 4: I hope you do. 432 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 5: But even if you don't, if you'll just keep honoring God, 433 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 5: keep being your best, then his faith will make up 434 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 5: for your lack of faith. That's what Paul said in 435 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 5: Romans two twenty the life I live now. 436 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 4: I live by the faith of the Son of God. 437 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 5: Paul wrote over half of the New Testament overcame incredible odds. 438 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 5: He was saying, I didn't make it just by my 439 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 5: own faith, my own strength, my own determination. I had 440 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 5: a secret weapon. I fulfilled my destiny because of. 441 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 4: The faith of God. 442 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 5: You may be facing a situation today that looks impossible. 443 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 5: Your health, your finances, a relationship, all the odds are 444 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 5: against you. 445 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 4: But be encouraged. The faith of God is at work 446 00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 4: in your life. 447 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 5: There are moments a favor God has already established in 448 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 5: your future. God is not only going to bring you out, 449 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 5: He's going to do something unprecedented, out of the ordinary, 450 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 5: something that you've never seen. I know this mom. She 451 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 5: was praying for her son, trying to get him in 452 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 5: church year after year, but he just wasn't interested. He 453 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 5: was on the wrong course, running with the wrong crowd, 454 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 5: and started selling drugs. It seemed like the more she prayed, 455 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 5: the worse he got, and the more discouraged she became, 456 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 5: he ended up in jail. 457 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 4: This mom was so heartbroken. 458 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 5: These thoughts bombarded our mind, saying, no use praying, it's 459 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 5: too late. Your prayers aren't doing any good. She was 460 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 5: so discouraged that she found it hard to pray. That 461 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 5: even when we don't believe, even when we're at tempted 462 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 5: to give up, the good news is God doesn't give up. 463 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 4: That's when his faith kicks in. 464 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,439 Speaker 5: One Sunday morning, her son in the jail was watching 465 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 5: television in this common area. Another inmate came in and 466 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 5: they began to argue over what they were going to watch. 467 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 5: They started wrestling over the remote control, trying to get 468 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 5: it away from each other. 469 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 4: About that time, this huge inmate walked. 470 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 5: In, stood about six foot six, had huge muscles bulging 471 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 5: out of his shirt, looked like a professional football player. 472 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 5: Walked over, grabbed the remote control, said give me that thing, 473 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 5: I'll decide what we're going to watch. Started flipping through 474 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,360 Speaker 5: the channels and he came across our program and stopped. 475 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 4: He said, we're gonna watch. 476 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 5: Joel Well her her son. He turned around to walk 477 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 5: out of the room. He thought, I'm not gonna watch 478 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 5: some TV preacher. He's already mad. This big inmate grabbed 479 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 5: him by the shirt, pulled him down, said sit down, 480 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 5: you're gonna. 481 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,159 Speaker 4: Watch with me. I like that guy. He'd make a 482 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 4: good usher. 483 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 5: They started, I'm only kid nushers, don't get any ideas. 484 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 5: They started watching the program. This young man begin to 485 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 5: feel God's love presence like never before. 486 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 4: He started weeping right there in the jail. That big 487 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 4: inmate led that young man to Christ. Do you know 488 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 4: that young. 489 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 5: Man is at our services all the time? 490 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 4: Now? Sitting next to his mother, God did something that 491 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 4: she had never seen. 492 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 5: He walked in to one of those moments of favor 493 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 5: God had already destined for his life. For the first time, 494 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 5: now her son is in church. My message for us 495 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 5: today is get ready. God has some first times for you. 496 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 5: For the first time, you're totally out of debt. For 497 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 5: the first time, you're healthy, whole strong. For the first time, 498 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 5: your whole family's serving God. For the first time, you 499 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 5: meet the right person, you fall in love. You may 500 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 5: not see how this could happen. That's okay. The faith 501 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,719 Speaker 5: of God is going to get you to where you're 502 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 5: supposed to be. 503 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 4: What God is about to. 504 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 5: Do is going to be bigger, It's going to be 505 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 5: more rewarding. It's going to be something that you have 506 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 5: not seen. Now, I declare and believe over each one 507 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 5: of you. Favor like you've never seen, creativity like you've 508 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 5: never seen, opportunity, healing, restoration, vindication, joy, victory like you've 509 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 5: never seen. 510 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 4: In Jesus's name, if you receive it, can you say 511 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:32,639 Speaker 4: him in today? 512 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 5: Well, we'd never like to close our broadcast without giving 513 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 5: you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 514 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 515 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 5: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 516 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that 517 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 5: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 518 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 5: a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's 519 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 5: going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 520 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the Joelostein podcast. Help us 521 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 6: continue to share the message of hope with those all 522 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 6: over the world. 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