A Thousand Times More

0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:02.520 Hi, this is joelan Victorium. 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.560 Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.360 for supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.720 an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.360 God bless you today and enjoy the message. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.279 God bless you. And it's great to be with you today. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.840 And I hope you'll stay connected with us during the 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.720 week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.720 and you can come visit us in person. We'd love 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.960 to have you be a part of one of our services. 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:32.640 I let you start with something funny, and I heard 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.800 about this elderly couple. They were sitting on a swing, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.640 celebrating their sixtieth anniversary and feeling romantic. The husband said 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.920 to his wife, honey, our love is tried and true. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.519 She had difficulty hearing. Ask him to repeat it. He 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.760 said it louder, I said, our love is tried and true. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.000 She still couldn't hear him. Said what when you speak up? Frustrated, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.640 he shouted, I said our love is tried and true. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.440 She said, well fine, I'm sick of you too say 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.280 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:07.559 am what it says. I am. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.360 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.000 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:17.000 taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.480 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:25.560 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.559 to talk to you today about a thousand times more. 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.720 God's dream for your life is much bigger than your own. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.840 The places he's going to take you, the doors that 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.360 are going to open, the people you're going to meet, 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.880 are going to far exceed anything you thought. You're listening 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.480 today to my one thousandth message. I didn't think I 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.880 could do one message. I didn't know this was in me. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.840 What God has for you is going to boggle your mind. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.360 The favor you're going to step into, the dreams you're 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.480 going to accomplish, the giants you're going to defeat. Moses 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.080 said in Deuteronomy chapter one. May the Lord, God of 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.280 your fathers make you a thousand times more than you are. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.080 God has a thousand times more blessing for you, a 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:18.280 thousand times more joy, thousand times more influence, a thousand 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.680 times more resources. That means you have plenty, not only 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.960 to pay off your house, but to pay off your 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:26.200 family members' houses. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.480 Thousand times more opportunity. You're not hoping to get a 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.080 good break. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.400 You have to choose which opportunity is the best. Thousand 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.880 times more energy. You're not dragging through the day tired 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.200 and run down. You're full of vitality, supernatural strength. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.799 You run and don't get weary. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.239 Now, the whole key is you have to receive this 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:50.640 thousand times blessing. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.360 You have to let it take root in your spirit, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:54.600 because in your. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.800 Mind it'll say there's no way this will never happen 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.920 for me. Joel, I don't have the talent, I don't 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:02.120 come from the right family. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.799 I've reached my limits. Tune all that out and get 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:07.000 in agreement with God. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.800 One touch of his favor can make you a thousand 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:17.440 times more. One idea, one contract, one divine connection can catapult. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.840 You further than you've ever dreamed. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.320 Imagine what the Israelites thought when they heard a thousand 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:23.960 times more. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.840 They were former slaves, they'd been. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.720 Mistreated and taken advantage of. Now they were wandering in 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.640 the desert, no place to live. I'm sure they thought, Moses, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.680 you have the wrong people. Maybe that happened for the 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.680 Phaiah and his family, or maybe the royalty in Ethiopia. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.960 They have influence, but we're stuck out here in the desert. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.840 God knew everything about. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.320 Them, he knew what they had been through, he knew 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.200 what they didn't have, he knew how impossible it looked. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.800 Yet he still told them, get ready, I'm going to 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.400 make you a thousand times more than you are. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.040 I'm gonna give you houses that you didn't build. You're 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.120 gonna read from vineyards that you didn't plan. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.119 And there was scarcity out in the desert, just enough 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.520 to survive. But they were coming into a land where 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.720 it took two people to carry the cluster of grapes, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.719 a land of overflow, abundance, a thousand times more. God 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:25.720 is not limited by your resources, your position, your background. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.360 He's bringing you into a wide and spacious place. Now, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.000 don't talk yourself out of it, talk yourself into it. Lord, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:38.039 I receive this thousand times blessing. Lord, thank you for 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.760 a thousand times more influence, a thousand times more resources, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.200 a thousand times more creativity. Now, Joel, that's kind of 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.920 far out. Yes, we serve a far out God, and 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:55.160 today is not for ordinary people. This is for radical believers. 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.800 This is for people that'll take the limits off of 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:03.520 God and believe for the abundantly above and beyond favor 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.960 that God has in store. I've seen this in my 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.839 own life. I didn't think I could get up and minister. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.200 I told my father for seventeen years that I wasn't 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.760 a pastor. One Sunday he asked me to speak for him, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.360 just give him a break. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:19.240 And I said that I would. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.920 I sat down to write my first message, and it 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.680 was so painful trying to think of what to say, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.800 and I got through and thought, thank God, that's over. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.800 I'll never have to do it again. And it's not 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:33.080 that I didn't want to. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.400 I just didn't think I was able, didn't have the training, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.760 I wasn't dynamic like my father. But when he passed 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.559 that next week, I knew I was supposed to step 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.359 up and pass to the church. And I spoke my 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.560 second message and walked off the platform and thought, said. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.120 You're done. You have nothing to share next week. Your 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.040 well is dry. And it seemed like the truth. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.480 But on that next Wednesday, when I say down to 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.360 write my message, much to my surprise. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:04.720 Something else came out. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.880 I did message number three, then Message twenty five, then 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.800 two hundred and forty, then five hundred and sixty, then 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.000 nine hundred and twenty. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.520 I can tell you today on my one. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.039 Thousand message that we serve a God who can make 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.480 you a thousand times more than you are. But if 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.000 you'd have told me back when I was behind the 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.960 scenes doing the television production, one day I would be 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.920 a pastor and I would have a thousand messages and 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.359 we would have church in a former basketball arena, I 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.039 would have said, you have the wrong person. There's no 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.599 way that could happen. You don't know where God is 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.440 taking you. Maybe you've only heard what you can't do 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.080 and how you don't measure up or even your own thoughts, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:50.919 like with me. 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:52.720 You don't have what it takes. 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.480 You're not as good as your father, Joel. Just accept 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.800 where you are. Those are all lies to try to 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.719 keep you from the greatness God put in you. Receive 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.200 this into your spirit because you are obedient. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:07.760 The Lord, God. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.840 Of your fathers is making you a thousand times more 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:16.200 than you are, thousand times more successful, thousand times more influence, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.320 a thousand times more wisdom. 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.680 We hear that our mind goes till till that's impossible. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.800 You have to turn your mind off and let this 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.920 take root down in your spirit. This is what faith 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.960 is all about. One Kings, chapter fifteen. There was a 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.360 famine in Israel and the people were struggling to survive. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.800 God told the prophet Elijah to go to the city 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.440 of Zeriphat, for there was a widow that would take 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.520 care of him. When he arrived, he asked the woman 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.600 to make him something to eat. She said, Sir, I'd 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.920 love to, but all I have is enough flower and 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.560 enough oil to make me and my son one last meal. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.600 She had already decided they were gonna eat. Then that'd be. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.400 It was done, And I just said, I understand, but 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.840 please do me a favor and make me a meal first, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.560 and then you and your son can have what's left over. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.200 That seems so selfish. She could have said, who do 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.320 you think you are not gonna feed you? We're starving. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.160 But sometimes God will ask you to do things that 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:21.080 don't make sense. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.440 It's a test, Joel. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.120 Will you speak that first message even though you don't 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.040 feel qualified, or will you forgive. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.880 That person that doesn't deserve it? 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.960 Will you be good to that neighbor, even when you 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:38.040 need the funds. This woman had every right to turn 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.600 him down, but she took that step of faith and 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.760 cooked him a meal. First, she noticed in those containers, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.560 even though she had used the flour and the oil, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.200 there was still some laughing. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.600 She thought, that's strange. She made another meal the next day. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.680 There was still more flowered, more oil. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.120 When you do things God asks you to do that 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:04.040 don't make sense, when you obey, when you don't understand, God. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:05.600 Will do things that don't make sense. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.720 The oil and the flower never ran out during the 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.480 whole famine. It's significant that the famine was three and 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.600 a half years. That's over a thousand days. She went 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.760 from only enough for one meal to han over one 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:25.280 thousand meals. What happened, She came into the thousand times 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.920 more blessing. When you look at your circumstances like this woman, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.160 you may think I don't have enough. I don't have 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.120 the talent, the strength, the finances. You're looking at it 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.160 in the natural. But we serve a supernatural God. He 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.880 knows how to multiply, how to sustain, how. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:45.760 To open doors. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.199 He can part red seas, he can bring water out 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.000 of a rock. He can take five loaves and feed 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.240 a multitude. He can use a slingshot to bring down 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.920 a giant. He hasn't brought you this far to leave you. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:05.959 He has natural provision, supernatural healing, supernatural breakthroughs. If you're 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.839 going to see this thousand times more blessing, it's important 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.800 what voices you listened to. I got my nerve up 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.880 and spoke my first sermon. My father was so proud, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.199 beaming with joy. I never dreamed that would be the 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.040 last Sunday of his life. He had a heart attack 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.199 and went to be with the Lord. I started speaking 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:31.319 on the weekends. I was very unsure of myself, nervous, intimidated. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.240 I knew everyone had come because of my father. Now 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:36.959 I was up there, and I. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.640 Didn't have the experience of the training. The third message 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.400 I ever spoken. I was walking through the lobby that 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.000 Sunday after the service, and there were two older ladies 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.080 in front of me talking, and they didn't know I 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:51.200 was behind them. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:54.280 One said he's not as good as his father. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.440 The other answered, yeah, I don't think the church is 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.040 gonna make it. That was the worst possible thing I 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.240 could have heard. They might as well said he's a loser. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:05.600 He should quit right now. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.400 I was already insecure, wondering if I could do it. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.839 The enemy is strategic. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.720 He knows how to plant doubt, discouragement, inferiority at just 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.800 the right time. Often he'll use people. This was a 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.920 critical moment. My destiny hung in the balance. I was 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.560 tempted to believe, then, I'm not really good at this. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.760 Nobody's gonna listen. It's gonna go downhill. Right when I 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.959 was about to agree with them, something rows up in 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.760 me like a fire, like a holy anger. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.520 I thought to myself, you don't determine my destiny. You 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.199 didn't call me, you didn't annoint me. I am not 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.080 who you say I am. I am who God says 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:52.040 I am. I am favored. I am confident people like me. 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:56.000 I will become who I was created to be. That 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.440 was a destiny moment. I could have shrunk back and 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.560 believe what they said. I would have stopped at message 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.400 number three, nine hundred and ninety seven. Messages would have 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.240 laid dormant, never being spoken, because I listened to the 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.800 wrong voices. Tune out all the negative and get in 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:18.360 agreement with God. He said a thousand times more. He says, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.720 you will lend and not borrow. He said he's restoring health, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.560 bucking to youth. He said, your children are mighty in 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.800 the land. He said, your latter days will be better 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:32.000 than your former day. Now, don't let wrong voices talk 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:32.680 you out of it. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.600 Enemy would love to keep you from your. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:40.120 Thousand times more, and he'll use discouragement sometimes people that 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.600 try to push you down. Man, you'll never get well. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.840 I saw the medical report. You can't break that addiction. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.080 You've had it for so long. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.960 You can't lead your company, you don't have the talent. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.120 He wouldn't be talking to you if he didn't know 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.000 a thousand times more is coming. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.360 God will give you grace for every season. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.400 Like with me, you'll feel that fire that knowing that 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.679 what's being said is not your destiny. That's when you 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.760 have to rise up and say, no, thanks, I am 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:08.959 not who you say I am. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:10.800 I am who God says I am. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.319 This is what my mother did when she was diagnosed 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.640 with terminal liver cancer back in nineteen eighty one and 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:19.440 given a few weeks to live. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.360 She was very sick, weighed eighty nine pounds. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.880 Medically speaking, there was nothing more that could be done. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.080 Voices whispered in the night. You can be buried in 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.680 that new red dress. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:36.120 She could have been depressed, got around defeated all throughout 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.800 the day. I would hear my mother quoting scriptures. I 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.800 will live and not die by his stripes. I am 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:46.040 healed with long life. God will satisfy me. It didn't 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.320 happen overnight. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.880 But by little my mother got better and better. It 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.760 was forty three years ago. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.080 One report said a few weeks to live, but my 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.760 mother came into that thousand times more blessing forty three years. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.960 It is over fifteen thousand days. God has some of 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:05.640 these thousand times. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:05.960 More for you. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.520 The medical report may say just a little while, but 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.640 God has the final sayings. Why don't you believe for 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.320 a thousand times more? Those ladies said, I was done 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.120 at message number three, But a thousand messages later, I'm 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.080 still going strong. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.480 But often we look at the medical report and what 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.240 we don't have, and man, these ladies are not for me. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.560 But when you come into that thousand times blessing, supernatural 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.800 things happen, things that you can't explain. In the scripture, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.160 Sampson killed a thousand enemies with the jawbone of a donkey, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.600 not a sword, not a rifle, not a slingshot. But 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.560 with the jawbone, how could that be? He had the 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:53.080 thousand times more blessing. With this blessing, you will defeat 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.520 giants that are much bigger. You will overcome the cancer, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:02.120 the addiction, the bad childhood. You'll accompani dreams that seemed impossible. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:03.960 There's a divine. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.160 Empowerment on you to do things that seem far over 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.040 your head. This scripture talks about different levels of favor 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:16.240 and anointing. Elisha received a double portion of Elijah's anointing. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:17.520 Double is great. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.000 Talks about when you sow accede, you can receive a 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.120 thirtyfold return, sixtyfold. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.560 Even one hundredfold. One hundred times is amazing. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.040 But when God says I'm gonna make you a thousand 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.560 times more than you are, he's talking about things that 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.520 you can't imagine, things that you didn't see coming. If 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.920 you're going to receive this thousand times more, there has 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.080 to be an expectancy, a faith that says, God, I 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.960 believe that you have greater things for me. God gave 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.680 David an incredible promise that his family would always be 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.200 on the throne and that they would have a lasting 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.360 dynasty was more than David could imagine. He said in 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.200 second Samuel seven, God, who am I. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:02.240 That you would do this? 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.000 I'm just a shepherd. I come from an ordinary family. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.640 He was so overwhelmed and so amazed trying to take 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.400 it all in. He could have stopped there and thought, 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.720 it seems impossible. I don't see how that could happen. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.680 But David understood that he had to get in agreement 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.320 with God. The only promises that will come to pass 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.840 in your life are the promises that you let take root. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.400 David said in verse twenty five, Lord God of Israel, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.960 you have declared this over me, and I am bold 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.080 enough to pray it. God, do what you promised concerning 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.520 my family. He was saying, this seems far out, but God, 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.600 since you said it, I'm in agreement. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.640 Let it happen. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.200 God is saying to you today, I'm going to make 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.440 you a thousand times more than you are. I'm going 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.520 to open new doors. I'm going to bring new people. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.160 You're going to discover gifts you didn't know were in you. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.840 You're gonna step into favor, leadership, influence that you've never imagined. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.560 Now you can discount this. I don't see how Joel 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:13.280 looks impossible. You don't know my background. David was a shepherd. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.439 The Israelites were former slaves. Why don't you do like 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.120 David and say, God, let what you have spoken over my. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:25.880 Life come to pass. I'll received the thousand times more blessing. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.879 You don't have to figure out how. The how is 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.760 not up to you. All you have to do is believe. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.960 That's when the creator of the universe goes to work. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.680 Moses was in the desert one time. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.080 The Israelites started complaining about not having any meat to eat. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.160 Had manna every morning. It's something like bread. But they 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.440 were tired of that. They said, Moses, why'd you bring 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.240 us out here in the desert to die. We could 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.360 have stayed in Egypt as slaves, but at least we'd 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.680 had some good food. God was so fed up with them, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.280 he told Moses, tell the people, I'm going to give 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.520 them meat for a whole month. They were out in 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.639 the middle of the desert. Moses said, God, that's not possible. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.720 Even if we butchered all of our flocks and all 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.080 of our herds, we wouldn't have that much meat. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:17.680 I love the way. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.919 God answered back. He said, Moses, when did I become weak? 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.720 He was saying, have you forgotten who I am? The 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:30.479 all powerful creator of the universe. Sometimes we look at 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.040 our situations think a thousand times more? 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.000 How could that be possible? 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.520 Here's where I work, Here's what I make, Here's the 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.199 family I come from. We're telling God all the reasons 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:43.240 it can't happen. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.399 God is saying, when did I become weak? 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.320 I spoke worlds into existence. I shut the mouths of 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.080 hungry lions. I gave Sarah a baby at ninety years old. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.200 I opened prison doors. 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:00.199 For Paul and Silence. I healed Joel's mother of terminal cancer. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.720 I changed a council member's mind and gave you the 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.879 Compact Center. When God says I'm gonna make you a 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.560 thousand times more, he's not scratching his head trying to 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.800 figure out how He's not checking with your bank account, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:15.280 your education, the. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.359 Family you came from. This is not dependent on what 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.840 you have. It's dependent on what he has. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.159 All he needs from us is to obey and to 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:26.600 take the limits off of him. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:27.320 Lord. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.440 I'm in agreement with you a thousand times more. He's 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.560 two million people out in the desert. God shifted the 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.720 winds and caused a huge flock of quall to fly 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.639 into the camp. The scripture says no one gathered less 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:44.359 than fifty bushels of quall. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.840 They had meet for over a mile. 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.399 What's interesting is quall normally wouldn't fly that far away 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:51.960 from the water. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.080 They would stay close to the shore. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.159 But when the wind shifted, they were so strong that 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.120 it blew them into the Israelite s camp. One shift 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.840 and you'll see a thousand times more. One shift and 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.000 the quell will come looking for you. They didn't have 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.240 to go find it, go hunt. God brought the provision 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.840 to them. You don't have to make this happen, force 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:20.119 doors to open, manipulate people. No, just keep honoring God 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.800 and he'll bring the thousand times more. He'll make things 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:28.240 happen that you couldn't make happen. Moses said, the Lord, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.520 God of your fathers, make you a thousand times more 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:36.239 than you are. This is implying a generational blessing the 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.600 God of your fathers. There is favor you're going to 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.960 see because of those that went before you in your 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:44.520 family line. 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.280 You may have never met them, but they honored God. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.640 They prayed, they served, they helped others, but. 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.879 They didn't see the fullness of what they should have. 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.119 Some were overlooked and mistreated, not given what they deserved. 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.920 But they didn't complained. They weren't bitter. They just kept 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:07.040 doing the right thing. God is keeping the records. Part 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:11.040 of this thousand times more is payback for what should 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.360 have been your families. There are blessings that have been 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:18.359 stored up because of their faithfulness. Your relatives paid the 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.440 price for you to step into houses you didn't build, 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:25.680 vineyards that you didn't plan. As I speak my thousand 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:30.000 message today, I realized I didn't get here by myself. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.280 I could look back and see the faithfulness of those 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.320 that went before me. My parents pastored here for forty years. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.960 I'm reaping seeds that they've suwn. My grandfather worked at 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:46.320 a refinery in Baytown for decades, never missed a day work. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.280 When he retired, he'd come down to the church and 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:50.200 do repairs. 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:53.760 I'd see him under the portable buildings, fixing the plumbing. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.480 He was an orphan growing up. Nobody wanted him. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:02.040 Passed from house to house but to his grandchildren, his 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:06.560 great grandchildren, we're seeing favor because of him. God is 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:11.120 releasing some of those stored up blessings. As a little boy, 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.520 i'd travel with my family during the summer to these 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.040 conferences where my father would speak. I would see him 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:20.800 up there in front of a couple thousand people, ministringing. 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.119 Everyone loved my dad. He was so strong and inspirational. 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:27.920 I would watch as a little boy and think, look 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:31.240 at my father, how can he do that? He's amazing. 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.800 I'd beam with joy in my mind. He was so 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.560 far above anything I could ever become, and I was 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:42.639 fine with that. I loved celebrating my father, whose seventeen 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:46.359 years that I worked behind the scenes. My goal was 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.760 to make him look good, help him to shine. 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.520 But you don't know what God has put in you. 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.199 I was in awe that he could speak to a 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.919 couple thousand were today through the media, I speak to 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:00.240 a thousand times more every day. 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.800 I never dreamed I would be here honor my father today. 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:08.200 I wore his shoes. These are the shoes that. 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:14.439 Victoria and I balk him thirty seven years ago. He 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.679 wore them for many years, and when he passed, I 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:20.359 wore them that first year that I ministered. 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:21.720 In nineteen ninety nine. 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:25.879 Today, one thousand messages later, I can say the God 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:26.240 of my. 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:28.160 Father's is a faithful god. 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:32.000 He's taken me where I've never dreamed and brought things 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:32.439 out of me. 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.359 I didn't know I had like that widow with the meal. 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:39.240 Every week. These messages just keep coming. 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:42.720 When my father wrote a book, it would sell about 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:46.399 ten thousand copies. I never thought I could write a book. 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:49.840 I barely passed the English in high school. Victoria was 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:51.080 always encouraged. 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.159 Me to write woman. I thought, man, what would I say? 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:56.600 Eventually I wrote my first one, Your Best Life. Now 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:01.800 it sold ten million copies, in times more than my father. 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:04.320 And I'm not here to brag on me. 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:08.320 I'm bragging on the greatness of our God. I want 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.360 to light a new fire in you to know that 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:15.000 God has greater things. I can tell you first hand 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:17.440 he has a thousand times. 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.679 More for you. Will you receive it? 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:25.120 Will you start expecting, believing, praying bold prayers. I get 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:28.240 up every morning and I still think, how did this happen? 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.640 I didn't know this was in me. Who knows where 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:32.640 God is taking you? 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:36.600 It's not depending on your talent, your background, who you know. 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:41.840 Keep your heart pure before God, walk humbly before him. 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:44.680 Let go of things you know are holding your back. 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:50.879 Compromise wrong people, lack of integrity. Your destiny is too important. 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:54.399 God is looking for people he can trust with a 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:55.600 thousand times more. 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.159 Not perfect people, but people that have a heart to 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:00.360 please him. 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:04.120 I haven't worn these shoes in twenty four years. One 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:07.240 thing I've noticed this time is they don't. 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:07.960 Fit me anymore. 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:12.119 Either the leather has shrunk up or my feet have grown, 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:16.760 but they're not comfortable. What I've come to understand is 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:18.040 They're not supposed to fit. 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:21.840 What God has for you is greater than those that 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:22.719 went before you. 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:28.960 Honor them, show them respect, but don't settle where they were. 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:33.720 God is a progressive god. He wants every generation to increase. 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:37.160 Your parents, your family, they may have done well, but 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.679 the God of your father's is going to make you 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:43.159 a thousand times more than you are. Get ready for 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.720 something that you haven't seen. Favor you didn't deserve. 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:50.280 Good breaks that finds you quell. Coming into the. 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:54.879 Camp, God has some explosive blessings, blessings that will catapult 0:25:54.920 --> 0:25:55.440 you ahead. 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.320 Let me ask you. Have you ever prayed this prayer? 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:02.680 God, God, make me a thousand times more than I am. 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.680 That's not being selfish, that's getting in. 0:26:05.680 --> 0:26:06.840 Agreement with God. 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:10.600 Don't go through life with a little vision thinking you've 0:26:10.600 --> 0:26:14.520 reached your limits. Try a different approach every morning. Father, 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:18.320 thank you for a thousand times more. That's your faith 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:20.840 being released. That's what allows God to. 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:22.800 Exceed your expectations. 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:26.520 Now, on my one thousandth message, I want to declare 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:30.480 this over you receive it into your spirit. May the Lord, 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:34.000 God of your fathers make you a thousand times more 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:38.240 than you are, a thousand times more influence, a thousand 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:42.960 times more resources, a thousand times more strength, a thousand 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:47.000 times more fulfillment for the glory of God to build 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:51.040 his kingdom in Jesus' name. And if you receive it, 0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:54.639 can you say amen? I'd like to give you an 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:57.520 opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:01.720 Would you pray with me? Just hey, Lord Jesus, I 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:03.160 repent of my sins. 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:07.440 Come into my heart. 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