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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Joel on Wednesdays, we bring you the
Speaker 5: best of I hope you enjoyed the podcast. Well, God
Speaker 5: bless you. It's always a joy to come into your homes.
Speaker 5: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying.
Speaker 5: Be a part of one of our services. I promise
Speaker 5: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks
Speaker 5: so much for tuning in today, and thank you again
Speaker 5: for coming out. I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 5: and I heard about this archaeologist from New York. He
Speaker 5: dug down ten feet and found traces of copper wiring
Speaker 5: dating back one hundred years. He concluded that New Yorkers
Speaker 5: had a telephone network over one hundred years ago. Not
Speaker 5: to be outdone, an archaeologist from California dug down twenty
Speaker 5: feet and found copper wiring dating back.
Speaker 4: Two hundred years.
Speaker 5: He concluded that Californians had a massive communication network one
Speaker 5: hundred years before the New Yorkers. Upon hearing this bubba
Speaker 5: from Texas, dug down thirty feet on his farm and
Speaker 5: found absolutely nothing. He concluded three hundred years ago Texans
Speaker 5: had already gone wireless. All right, hold up your Bible,
Speaker 5: say it like you mean it. This is my vibe.
Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 5: about something that you've never seen. I grew up in
Speaker 5: a minister's home, and we always had church and auditoriums
Speaker 5: and traditional sanctuaries. That's what everybody did. But in two
Speaker 5: thousand and five God gave us this beautiful facility. Now
Speaker 5: we have church in a former sports arena. That's something
Speaker 5: that I had never seen. I worked seventeen years behind
Speaker 5: the scenes at the church doing the television production, and
Speaker 5: I thought that's how I would spend my life. But
Speaker 5: when my father went to be with the Lord, I
Speaker 5: was suddenly thrust into this position. Now instead of being
Speaker 5: behind the cameras, I'm in front of the cameras. That
Speaker 5: was something I had never seen. In two thousand and nine,
Speaker 5: the New York Yankees were about to open their new
Speaker 5: baseball stadium. One of their staff members called and asked
Speaker 5: if we would come and hold a Night of Hope,
Speaker 5: the first non baseball event in the new stadium. Out
Speaker 5: of all the entertainers, musicians, artists in the world, they
Speaker 5: called a minister. That was something I had never seen.
Speaker 5: I want you to get this down in your spirit.
Speaker 5: God is about to do something in your life that
Speaker 5: you've never seen. I'm not just sharing another message.
Speaker 4: I'm speaking prophetically.
Speaker 5: God is about to take you where you could not
Speaker 5: go on your own. God is about to show you
Speaker 5: favor in ways that you've never imagined. It's going to
Speaker 5: be unprecedented, out of the norm, unlike anything that you've seen.
Speaker 5: Maybe you've struggled in your finances for years, can't seem
Speaker 5: to get ahead.
Speaker 4: One step forward, two steps backwards.
Speaker 5: No, God is about to show you abundance like you've
Speaker 5: never seen. He's about to increase you to where you
Speaker 5: have overflowed. You lend and not borrow, not burdened down
Speaker 5: by debt and lack. Some of you have fought depression
Speaker 5: discouragement your whole life. That dark cloud follows you around,
Speaker 5: and you think that's the way it's always going to be. No,
Speaker 5: take heart, God is going to show you joy like
Speaker 5: you've never seen. That spirit of depression discouragement is being broken.
Speaker 5: God is going to release a new happiness, a.
Speaker 4: Passion that you've not experienced before.
Speaker 5: Maybe you've struggled with an addiction, a bad habit for
Speaker 5: a long time.
Speaker 4: Be encouraged. God's going to show you freedom that you've
Speaker 4: never seen.
Speaker 5: Some of you have felt a little insecure, intimidated, like
Speaker 5: you don't quite measure up. You think that's the way
Speaker 5: you'll always live. No, God's about to show you a
Speaker 5: confidence of boldness where you can step into the fullness
Speaker 5: of your destiny. God is saying creativity like you've never seen, promotion, opportunity,
Speaker 5: like you've never seen, healing, restoration, favor like you've never seen.
Speaker 5: That's the promise God made in Exodus thirty four to ten.
Speaker 5: I will do great things that I've never done before
Speaker 5: anywhere on earth. We've all seen God's goodness in the past.
Speaker 5: Every one of us can say God has blessed us,
Speaker 5: promoted us, protected us. But what God is about to
Speaker 5: do is going to be unprecedented. Now, all you've got
Speaker 5: to do is say, yes, Lord.
Speaker 4: This is from me today. I'll receive this into my spirit.
Speaker 5: See your mind will try to talk you out of it,
Speaker 5: tell you all the reasons why it's not going to
Speaker 5: happen for you. You're too old, to young, made too many mistakes,
Speaker 5: don't have the education. If you were just a different nationality,
Speaker 5: if you just knew the right people, go listen. God
Speaker 5: is not limited by your age, your education, your.
Speaker 4: Connections, your resources.
Speaker 5: In spite of what you have or don't have, you
Speaker 5: need to get ready. God is about to show you
Speaker 5: something that you've never seen. He's about to take you
Speaker 5: where you could not go on your own. John Chapter nine,
Speaker 5: Jesus was traveling through a village. He saw a man
Speaker 5: on the side of the road, that was blind.
Speaker 4: He went over to this man. The man didn't call
Speaker 4: out to Jesus.
Speaker 5: He wasn't like blind Barnabas that said please Jesus, have
Speaker 5: mercy and heal me. This man was just quietly sitting there,
Speaker 5: and Jesus went to him. And throughout the scripture there
Speaker 5: are examples where people used their faith, reached out to
Speaker 5: God and they received their miracle. The woman with the
Speaker 5: issue of blood fought her way through the crowd, touched
Speaker 5: the edge of Jesus' robe. She was instantly made whole.
Speaker 5: The lepers cried out, Jesus, please heal us.
Speaker 4: Jesus healed them.
Speaker 5: An army captain came and said, Jesus, if you'll just
Speaker 5: speak the word, my little daughter at home that's so sick,
Speaker 5: she'll be healed.
Speaker 4: Jesus spoke and the daughter was well.
Speaker 5: These people all initiated their miracle. They reached out in
Speaker 5: faith and saw God's goodness. But God is so merciful,
Speaker 5: He's so loving. There are times like with this blind man, even.
Speaker 4: When we don't have the faith, even when we don't
Speaker 4: reach out, God reaches out to us.
Speaker 5: If it would have just been dependent on our faith,
Speaker 5: on what we believe on what we're asking for. Jesus
Speaker 5: would have never stopped to help this blind man. He
Speaker 5: didn't show any signs of faith.
Speaker 4: He was just sitting.
Speaker 5: There, minding his his own business. Yet Jesus went to him.
Speaker 5: He had been blind since his birth, never seen before.
Speaker 5: This is much different than someone that had sight at
Speaker 5: one time then becomes blind. At least they would have
Speaker 5: a memory of what things look like. This man, blind
Speaker 5: since birth, had never seen a sunset, never seen a flower,
Speaker 5: never seen a person. He had nothing to draw upon,
Speaker 5: having never seen before. And it's interesting Jesus didn't say
Speaker 5: anything to him. He didn't try to figure out if
Speaker 5: he had faith, try to figure out what he believed.
Speaker 5: Jesus simply made mud, put it on the blind man's eyes,
Speaker 5: told him to go wash it off in the pool
Speaker 5: of Salon.
Speaker 4: Some friends led him to the pool.
Speaker 5: He washed it off, and his eyes were instantly open.
Speaker 5: He could see perfectly clearly. I could imagine. For the
Speaker 5: first time, he looked out and saw the puffy clouds
Speaker 5: in the guy. For the first time, he looked down
Speaker 5: and saw a beautiful flower, no doubt. He ran home
Speaker 5: as fast as he could. For the first time, saw
Speaker 5: his children, his wife. That night, he looked up into
Speaker 5: the sky for the first time, saw the stars twinkling,
Speaker 5: the moonlight glimmering off the lake.
Speaker 4: What happened.
Speaker 5: God showed him something he had never seen. God wants
Speaker 5: to do the same thing for you. Some of you
Speaker 5: think that you've reached your limits, gone as far as
Speaker 5: you can go. The medical report doesn't look good now
Speaker 5: you've settled there. You've been single a long time. You
Speaker 5: don't think you'll ever meet the right person. Or you
Speaker 5: took a step of faith, but the business, the charity,
Speaker 5: the project didn't make it.
Speaker 4: Now you don't see how you could accomplish your dreams.
Speaker 5: But like with this man, even when we don't have
Speaker 5: the faith, even when we think it's impossible, Joel, it's
Speaker 5: too late. I tried, I fell. That's never going to happen. No,
Speaker 5: God is going to come looking for you and show
Speaker 5: you his favor like you've never seen. God wants to
Speaker 5: give you some first times.
Speaker 4: For the first time, you're free from pain, healthy, whole, strong.
Speaker 5: For the first time, you have more than enough, you're
Speaker 5: not struggling, you're into overflow for the first time. Your
Speaker 5: whole family's serving God. For the first time, you're living
Speaker 5: in the house of your dreams. For the first time
Speaker 5: you're running the whole office. You thought you'd always be
Speaker 5: working for people. Now you've got people working for you.
Speaker 5: You need to get ready. God has some first times
Speaker 5: in your future. Part of this shift, God is going
Speaker 5: to show you something that you've never seen before.
Speaker 4: You may not have.
Speaker 5: Faith for it. It may seem too far out. That's okay.
Speaker 5: God's going to come looking for you. He's going to
Speaker 5: get you to where you're supposed to be.
Speaker 4: It's going to be bigger than you imagine.
Speaker 5: It's going to be unprecedented, something that you've never seen.
Speaker 4: That means if you've seen it in the past, that's good.
Speaker 5: Be grateful, always thank God for what He's done.
Speaker 4: But what God is about to.
Speaker 5: Do is greater than what you've seen it. When God
Speaker 5: gave us this beautiful facility, this was Ephesians three twenty
Speaker 5: exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. This was more than I
Speaker 5: could ever imagine. In fact, I'm still amazed. Every time
Speaker 5: I pull up to this facility. I still get goosebumps
Speaker 5: when I go over to my old seats right over
Speaker 5: there where I watch the rockets play basketball for years.
Speaker 5: But as amazing as this all is, I realize what
Speaker 5: God is about to do is going to supersede anything
Speaker 5: he's done in the past. When God shows you something
Speaker 5: that you've never.
Speaker 4: Seen, it's going to boggle your mind.
Speaker 5: The reason God doesn't just rely on our faith is
Speaker 5: because some of what He's going to show you is
Speaker 5: so far out, so amazing, so rewarding, you couldn't have
Speaker 5: faith for it right now. Like this blind man, God
Speaker 5: is so good even when we don't believe, Even when
Speaker 5: we don't have the faith, God will show up and
Speaker 5: do it anyway. Before Jesus healed the blind man, the
Speaker 5: disciples asked Jesus who sinned this man or his parents
Speaker 5: that would cause him to be born blind. Jesus said,
Speaker 5: nobody sin He was born this way so the works
Speaker 5: of God.
Speaker 4: Could be manifest.
Speaker 5: In other words, when that baby was born, God already
Speaker 5: knew exactly when he was going to heal him. There
Speaker 5: was a time already set by the creator of the universe.
Speaker 5: At that appointed time, God opened his eyes and showed
Speaker 5: him something that he had never seen in your life.
Speaker 5: Right now, there are set times. God has already established
Speaker 5: the date when he's going to do something unprecedented in
Speaker 5: your life.
Speaker 4: You don't have to worry.
Speaker 5: You don't have to be discouraged because it hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 4: You don't have to give into.
Speaker 5: Doubt and think, God, I'm never gonna get well, never
Speaker 5: accomplish a dream, never get married. No, those moments of
Speaker 5: favor are already established in your future. If you'll just
Speaker 5: keep honoring God being your best, you will suddenly come
Speaker 5: into one of your set times. God will do something
Speaker 5: out of the ordinary.
Speaker 4: You didn't go after.
Speaker 5: It, it came to you. You didn't even have the
Speaker 5: faith for it. What you were praying about was only
Speaker 5: a fraction of what God had in mind. One scripture
Speaker 5: talks about the faith of God. Normally we think about
Speaker 5: our faith and how we need to pray big and
Speaker 5: believe big and take the limits off of go and
Speaker 5: that's important.
Speaker 4: We should do that.
Speaker 5: But God has things in your future, set times that
Speaker 5: he's already established that are so big, so amazing, so rewarding.
Speaker 5: God knew you couldn't have faith for it right now.
Speaker 5: If you would have told me a few years ago
Speaker 5: that one day I would be up in front of
Speaker 5: people and have the platform that I have I would
Speaker 5: have said, thank you for believing in me, but you've
Speaker 5: got the wrong person. God knows there are things in
Speaker 5: our future that we won't have the faith for.
Speaker 4: But that doesn't stop God.
Speaker 5: When you run out of faith, there's a secret weapon.
Speaker 4: It's called the faith of God.
Speaker 5: When God releases his faith, you can be certain doors
Speaker 5: will open that should not have opened. Talent will come
Speaker 5: out of you that you didn't know you had. The
Speaker 5: right people will search you out. Healing, promotion, increase will
Speaker 5: show up in ways like you've never seen before. I
Speaker 5: know some of you think, well, Joel, I don't have
Speaker 5: much faith.
Speaker 4: That's okay. The faith of.
Speaker 5: God will get you to where you're supposed to be.
Speaker 5: When your faith is low, don't worry. You have a
Speaker 5: friend that will never let you down. When you have doubts,
Speaker 5: don't worry.
Speaker 4: He has faith.
Speaker 5: When you don't think it's going to happen, that's all right.
Speaker 5: He's got you covered. The faith of God will make
Speaker 5: up for your lack of faith. That's what the Scripture
Speaker 5: means when it talks about having faith the size of
Speaker 5: a mustard seed. Mustard seed is one of the smallest
Speaker 5: seeds you can find. God was saying, even when your
Speaker 5: faith is low, when you're discouraged, when you have doubts,
Speaker 5: God doesn't cancel his plan for your life. God doesn't
Speaker 5: disqualify you and say, come on, man, you need to
Speaker 5: have more faith.
Speaker 4: No, that's when the faith of God kicks in.
Speaker 5: These moments of favor that have already been established in
Speaker 5: your future. They're not solely dependent on your faith. The
Speaker 5: faith of God is going to cause them to show up.
Speaker 4: You think about peace.
Speaker 5: He was on the shore by the lake early one morning,
Speaker 5: cleaning his fishing nets and putting away all of his gear.
Speaker 5: He'd been out fishing all night. He wasn't a disciple yet.
Speaker 5: He was a rough man. He used rough language, not
Speaker 5: somebody we would consider to be a person of faith.
Speaker 4: Jesus asked to borrow his.
Speaker 5: Boat, and he taught the people in.
Speaker 4: The crowds there.
Speaker 5: Afterwards, Jesus said to Peter, go launch out into the
Speaker 5: deep and you'll catch a great number of fish. That's
Speaker 5: how Jesus was going to pay him back for using
Speaker 5: his boat. But Peter said, Jesus, we've been fishing all night.
Speaker 5: Nothing is biting. Besides, this is not the right time
Speaker 5: to fish. Jesus said, in effect, Peter, I control the fish.
Speaker 5: There may not have been fish out there earlier, but
Speaker 5: I can guarantee you there are a fish out there now.
Speaker 5: Notice Peter didn't have any faith, but that didn't stop God.
Speaker 5: Jesus didn't say, Peter, I'm trying to help you, but
Speaker 5: you're such a doubter now. Even though he didn't have faith,
Speaker 5: Jesus said, that's all right.
Speaker 4: The faith of God will make this happen.
Speaker 5: When your faith is low, when you find it hard
Speaker 5: to believe, when doubts are bombarding your mind, don't worry.
Speaker 5: God is not only full of mercy, he's full of faith.
Speaker 5: His faith will hold you over until your faith can
Speaker 5: be strengthened. Peter got out there and caught so many
Speaker 5: fish that his boat began to sink. God showed him
Speaker 5: something that he had never seen. He had been out
Speaker 5: fishing on that lake for years. Many times.
Speaker 4: He knew when to fish, where to fish, what to use.
Speaker 4: But this day.
Speaker 5: Something happened that was unprecedented, out of the norm. In
Speaker 5: the same way, you can be going to work, doing
Speaker 5: the same thing, the same way. Everything looks just normal, ordinary,
Speaker 5: but then you come into one of these these set
Speaker 5: times these moments of favor. You weren't expecting it, you
Speaker 5: didn't have the faith for it, you didn't deserve it.
Speaker 5: But like Peter, suddenly a good break, a promotion, a healing, restoration.
Speaker 5: It's more than you could imagine. It's overwhelming. It's something
Speaker 5: you've never seen. That wasn't your faith, that was the
Speaker 5: faith of God. Right now in your future, there are
Speaker 5: these moments of favor that are going to catapult you
Speaker 5: to a new level. Some of you have been facing
Speaker 5: a sickness a long time and you don't really know
Speaker 5: if you have the faith to get well.
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 5: God has you covered when you come into this moment
Speaker 5: of favor. Like the blind man, sickness doesn't have a chance. Health, healing,
Speaker 5: wholeness will flood your body. God can do what medicine
Speaker 5: cannot do. You may think that you could never get
Speaker 5: out of debt. You tried, you keep having setbacks. You've
Speaker 5: settled there.
Speaker 4: That's all right. The faith of God is at work
Speaker 4: in your life.
Speaker 5: There are moments of favor that are going to thrust
Speaker 5: you into abundance.
Speaker 4: I read about this couple. They had both lost.
Speaker 5: Their jobs and all kinds of things had come against them,
Speaker 5: and unfortunately they were about to lose their house.
Speaker 4: They had done everything.
Speaker 5: They could to try to get the funds, but just
Speaker 5: hadn't worked out. They started selling off their possessions, little
Speaker 5: here and little there, and they got so desperate they
Speaker 5: decided to sell all of their furniture, everything inside and out,
Speaker 5: patio furniture, lawnmower, washer, dryer, everything. They put it on
Speaker 5: eBay had pictures of it all. Somehow word got out
Speaker 5: that the reason they were selling was to try to
Speaker 5: pay their mortgage and save their house. A lady in
Speaker 5: another state bid twenty thousand dollars. Her bid, by far
Speaker 5: was the high bid. Nothing else even came close.
Speaker 4: They accepted her bid.
Speaker 5: When they went to make arrangements to have the furniture shift,
Speaker 5: the lady said, I don't want your furniture.
Speaker 4: That's a gift you can have to keep your house.
Speaker 5: They had never met the woman, never talked to her,
Speaker 5: never seen her. That was a moment of favor. They
Speaker 5: didn't have faith for it. That was the faith of
Speaker 5: God saying I'm gonna show you something that you've never seen.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna cause somebody out of the.
Speaker 4: Blue to be good to you.
Speaker 5: You may be facing situations you don't know how it's
Speaker 5: gonna turn out, how you could accomplish your dreams. That's okay.
Speaker 5: God has it all figured out. He's already lined up
Speaker 5: the right people, the right opportunities, solutions to problems.
Speaker 4: Just like with this couple.
Speaker 5: At the right time, you're gonna come into your moment
Speaker 5: of favor and it's going to cause you to overcome,
Speaker 5: cause you to step in to the fullness of your destiny.
Speaker 5: I talked to a gentleman out in the lobby not
Speaker 5: long ago. He was in town for treatment at m
Speaker 5: D Anderson, the Cancer Hospital, and he had some kind
Speaker 5: of tumor.
Speaker 4: In his stomach area.
Speaker 5: Gone through chemotherapy, but that hadn't helped. Now they were
Speaker 5: going to try surgery. Was very risky, but this was
Speaker 5: his only option medically speaking. His whole family was here,
Speaker 5: a wife, son, two beautiful daughters, and they were weeping
Speaker 5: as he was telling the story. We prayed and asked
Speaker 5: God to make a way where we couldn't see away.
Speaker 5: He said, Joel, I'm trying to have faith, but I'm
Speaker 5: so worried. I'm so afraid, almost like he was apologizing.
Speaker 5: I told him what I'm telling you. When your faith
Speaker 5: is weak, the faith of God is strong. When your
Speaker 5: faith is low, the faith of God is high. You
Speaker 5: have somebody standing in the gap for you. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, constantly
Speaker 5: prayed for us. It's one thing to have me pray,
Speaker 5: a friend pray, a prayer partner pray. That's all great,
Speaker 5: But don't ever forget the Son of God, the one
Speaker 5: who raised from the dead, the one who defeated our enemies,
Speaker 5: the one who speaks worlds into existence.
Speaker 4: He's praying for you right now.
Speaker 5: This man came back a couple of weeks later with
Speaker 5: his family. When they took the final X ray before
Speaker 5: the surgery, they couldn't find the tumor anymore.
Speaker 4: That surgeon said that.
Speaker 5: In sixteen years he had never seen anything like that.
Speaker 5: This man had big tears running down his cheeks. He said, Joel,
Speaker 5: I didn't even have faith. My mind was filled with doubts.
Speaker 5: Yet God did the miracle.
Speaker 4: Anyway. That's the way our God is. He knows we're human.
Speaker 4: We get discouraged, we have doubts.
Speaker 5: But I've learned you don't have to have great faith
Speaker 5: in order for God to do something great. You can
Speaker 5: have small faith and God will move a mountain. You
Speaker 5: don't have to have strong, invincible, unwavering faith.
Speaker 4: I hope you do.
Speaker 5: But even if you don't, if you'll just keep honoring God,
Speaker 5: keep being your best, then his faith will make up
Speaker 5: for your lack of faith. That's what Paul said in
Speaker 5: Romans two twenty the life I live now.
Speaker 4: I live by the faith of the Son of God.
Speaker 5: Paul wrote over half of the New Testament overcame incredible odds.
Speaker 5: He was saying, I didn't make it just by my
Speaker 5: own faith, my own strength, my own determination. I had
Speaker 5: a secret weapon. I fulfilled my destiny because of.
Speaker 4: The faith of God.
Speaker 5: You may be facing a situation today that looks impossible.
Speaker 5: Your health, your finances, a relationship, all the odds are
Speaker 5: against you.
Speaker 4: But be encouraged. The faith of God is at work
Speaker 4: in your life.
Speaker 5: There are moments a favor God has already established in
Speaker 5: your future. God is not only going to bring you out,
Speaker 5: He's going to do something unprecedented, out of the ordinary,
Speaker 5: something that you've never seen. I know this mom. She
Speaker 5: was praying for her son, trying to get him in
Speaker 5: church year after year, but he just wasn't interested. He
Speaker 5: was on the wrong course, running with the wrong crowd,
Speaker 5: and started selling drugs. It seemed like the more she prayed,
Speaker 5: the worse he got, and the more discouraged she became,
Speaker 5: he ended up in jail.
Speaker 4: This mom was so heartbroken.
Speaker 5: These thoughts bombarded our mind, saying, no use praying, it's
Speaker 5: too late. Your prayers aren't doing any good. She was
Speaker 5: so discouraged that she found it hard to pray. That
Speaker 5: even when we don't believe, even when we're at tempted
Speaker 5: to give up, the good news is God doesn't give up.
Speaker 4: That's when his faith kicks in.
Speaker 5: One Sunday morning, her son in the jail was watching
Speaker 5: television in this common area. Another inmate came in and
Speaker 5: they began to argue over what they were going to watch.
Speaker 5: They started wrestling over the remote control, trying to get
Speaker 5: it away from each other.
Speaker 4: About that time, this huge inmate walked.
Speaker 5: In, stood about six foot six, had huge muscles bulging
Speaker 5: out of his shirt, looked like a professional football player.
Speaker 5: Walked over, grabbed the remote control, said give me that thing,
Speaker 5: I'll decide what we're going to watch. Started flipping through
Speaker 5: the channels and he came across our program and stopped.
Speaker 4: He said, we're gonna watch.
Speaker 5: Joel Well her her son. He turned around to walk
Speaker 5: out of the room. He thought, I'm not gonna watch
Speaker 5: some TV preacher. He's already mad. This big inmate grabbed
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Speaker 5: you're gonna.
Speaker 4: Watch with me. I like that guy. He'd make a
Speaker 4: good usher.
Speaker 5: They started, I'm only kid nushers, don't get any ideas.
Speaker 5: They started watching the program. This young man begin to
Speaker 5: feel God's love presence like never before.
Speaker 4: He started weeping right there in the jail. That big
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Speaker 4: that young.
Speaker 5: Man is at our services all the time?
Speaker 4: Now? Sitting next to his mother, God did something that
Speaker 4: she had never seen.
Speaker 5: He walked in to one of those moments of favor
Speaker 5: God had already destined for his life. For the first time,
Speaker 5: now her son is in church. My message for us
Speaker 5: today is get ready. God has some first times for you.
Speaker 5: For the first time, you're totally out of debt. For
Speaker 5: the first time, you're healthy, whole strong. For the first time,
Speaker 5: your whole family's serving God. For the first time, you
Speaker 5: meet the right person, you fall in love. You may
Speaker 5: not see how this could happen. That's okay. The faith
Speaker 5: of God is going to get you to where you're
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Speaker 4: What God is about to.
Speaker 5: Do is going to be bigger, It's going to be
Speaker 5: more rewarding. It's going to be something that you have
Speaker 5: not seen. Now, I declare and believe over each one
Speaker 5: of you. Favor like you've never seen, creativity like you've
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Speaker 4: In Jesus's name, if you receive it, can you say
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Speaker 5: Well, we'd never like to close our broadcast without giving
Speaker 5: you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.
Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I
Speaker 5: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make
Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that
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