Blessed Out of Season

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It's a joy to come into 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.319 your homes, and if you're ever in our area, please 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.840 stop by and be a part of one of our services. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.440 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.520 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.680 about this country grandmother. She'd go out on her front 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.880 porch every morning and thank the Lord for another day. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.000 Her neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back, there's 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.640 no such thing as the Lord. One day he overheard 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.440 her asking God to give her groceries for the week. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.320 He snuck over the next morning put some groceries on 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.880 her porch. She came out and said, thank you, Lord, 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.960 you did it again. He laughed and laughed and said, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.840 God didn't give you those groceries. I put them there. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.840 She said, Lord, thank you, you not only brought me 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.880 the groceries, but you made the devil pay for them. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.080 All right, say it like you mean it. This is 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.080 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.480 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.320 it says I can do. Today I will be talked 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.360 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.560 my heart is recepted. I will never be the same. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.359 In Jesus' name, God, bless you. I want to talk 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.560 to you today about blessed out of season. There are 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.720 times when you can feel you're on the verge of 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.359 a new level. Things are falling into place. You can 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.040 sense it's your season. God's about to do something new, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.680 and it's important to live with that expectancy and believe 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.440 for good things. But what about the times when it's 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.760 just the opposite. Things aren't going our way. Business is slow, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.480 the medical report's not good. It's been years and we 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.520 still haven't met the right person. All the circumstances say 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.800 we're stuck. Just endure it. It's not our season. The 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.760 good news is God specializes in doing things out of season. 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.800 He doesn't wait for the conditions to be perfect, for 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.320 the circumstances to line up for you to have the training, 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.440 for the right people to believe in you. He does 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:49.560 things unexpectedly, things that you didn't see coming. You didn't 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.880 have the experience, but suddenly you were promoted. The report 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.360 said you wouldn't get well, but suddenly your health turned around. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.520 You were told you couldn't have children, but against all odds, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.080 you conceived and now you have that baby. What happened. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.320 God blessed you out of season. And we've been taught 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.000 to be faithful in the slow periods, to endure when 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.000 things aren't going our way, and that's important. We have 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.920 to pass the test. But sometimes we're being faithful without 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:26.960 releasing our faith. We're enduring without expecting. We're waiting for 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.560 the conditions to change, and then we'll get our hopes up. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.760 When I get through this slow season, when my child 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.400 starts making better decisions, when I see more progress in 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.839 my season, then I'll believe again. You don't have to 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:45.360 wait until it's your season. God does things out of season, 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:50.160 not on a normal timetable, not in a traditional way. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.880 He'll do things that don't make sense. There's no explanation, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.799 it's just the goodness of God. When you look around, 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:02.160 every circumstance may say you're not in season. There's no 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.880 sign of things getting better, no sign of your health improving, 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.080 no sign of you being promoted. Maybe it's just the opposite. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.600 Things are going down. Thoughts will tell you be discouraged. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.400 It's never going to change. The conditions are not favorable. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.320 Don't believe those lies. God is about to bless you 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.880 out of season. He's about to do something you didn't 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.400 see coming. He's going to surprise you with his favor. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.480 It's going to be bigger than you thought, better than 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.799 you imagine, more rewarding than you've dreamed. Now, don't complain 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:39.400 because you're out of season. You're in prime position for 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.760 God to show out in your life. In the scripture, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.039 Sarah gave birth to a son at ninety years of age. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.800 She'd already gone through the change of life, already passed 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.080 the child bearing years. Her womb was closed up. No 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.080 way to have a baby, it's too late, but God 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:02.360 does things out of season. Was a teenager taking care 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.039 of his father's sheep. He had no formal training, no 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.159 military experience. He was a shepherd, Yet the prophet Samuel 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.240 showed up at his house and anointed him the next 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:18.120 king of Israel. He was promoted out of season when 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.880 he didn't have the qualifications, when he didn't see it coming. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.880 It was boring out in the shepherd's fields. He was lonely. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.599 You don't know what God is up to. You don't 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.400 know when he's about to show up and do something unusual. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.880 You may feel overlooked. Nobody's giving you credit. You're not 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.280 in season. Don't worry. God knows how to promote you 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.839 out of season. The Israelites were in the desert, headed 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.600 toward the Promised Land, and they complained to Moses that 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.400 they didn't have any meat to eat. They were tired 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.200 of eating the same manna every day. God told Moses 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.800 he was going to give them meat, not just for 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.480 a day, but for a whole month. Moses said, God, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.960 what do you mean if we butchered all of our 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.120 flocks and all of our herds, we wouldn't have enough 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.840 meat for these two million people. Moses was looking at 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.160 it from a practical point of view, thinking, we're in 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.800 the desert, we're not in season. This is no time 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.679 to find any meat. God said Moses, is there any 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.800 limit to my power? He was saying, do you think 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.560 you not being in season can stop me from doing 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.440 what I want to do? Do you think because the 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:38.080 conditions are not favorable, somehow that can limit my power? 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.920 Don't you know I created the universe, I spoke worlds 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:47.160 into existence, I flung stars into space. That nothing is 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.440 too difficult for me. The next morning, God shifted the 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.440 winds and caused a huge flock of quall to come 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.680 into their camp. There were so many quaill they were 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:03.560 flying three feet off. The scripture says no one gathered 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.320 less than fifty bushels of quail. What's interesting is quall 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.480 don't usually fly that far away from the sea way 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.520 out into the desert. But God controls the winds, He 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.640 controls the quall. You may not see how your situation 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.160 could work out. You're not in season, none of the 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.240 conditions look favorable. But God knows how to shift the winds. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.840 He knows how to bring the quail the right people, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:37.280 good breaks, healing, restoration. He's not limited because you're out 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.640 of season. I met a young lady that had gone 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.520 through seven miscarriages. The doctors told her that there was 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.120 something wrong with her womb and she would never be 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.880 able to carry a baby and she should stop trying. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.800 She had big tears running down her cheeks, so heartbroken. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.640 She was out of season. Didn't look good. The odds 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.000 were against her. But people don't have the final say 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:06.160 God does. Last year, she conceived and carried the baby 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.320 full term. Her doctor said, in twenty five years of 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.760 practicing medicine, he had never seen that happen. The odds 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.760 may be against you. Every voice says you'll never have 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:22.160 the baby, Never get well, never break the addiction. God 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.640 is about to show up out of season and make 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.120 things happen that looked impossible. There is no limit to 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:34.080 his power when you believe all things are possible. John 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.320 Chapter five. There was a crippled man that had been 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.079 laying by the pool of Bethesda for thirty eight years. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.760 There were five porches filled with sick people surrounding this pool. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.760 Verse four says an angel would go down to the 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:54.320 pool at a certain season and stirred the waters. The 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.520 first ones to get in would be healed. The people 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.080 knew when the season for the a angel to come was. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.800 They'd seen that happen again and again. They would be 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.400 especially on guard. They knew that was their window of 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:12.600 opportunity to be healed, any moment the angel could show up. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.600 One day, Jesus came to the pool and said to 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.360 the man, do you want to get well? The problem was, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.560 it wasn't the right season. This wasn't the normal time 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.760 when the waters would be stirred. I can imagine the 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.839 man was a little confused. He said, Sir, when the 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.880 angel comes, I have no one to help me get 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.760 in the pool. He knew he couldn't get healed. Then 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.679 he was out of season. Jesus said to him, get up, 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.920 pick up your bed, and walk and instantly the man 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.360 was healed. He stood up and walked out of there. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.440 God was showing us how he can do things out 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.320 of season. Doesn't have to be the right time. You 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.959 may not see any sign of it. All the circumstances 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.800 say you're stuck. Just to endure it's not your season. No, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.600 get ready for an out of season blessing for an 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.320 I didn't see it come in healing for a that 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.240 doesn't make sense promotion. God is going to show up 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.880 at what you think is the wrong time. It looks 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.520 like the angel is months and months away. But God 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.120 doesn't have to wait for the angel, for the treatment, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.560 for the training, for the boss to like you, for 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.160 the medical report to improve, for the economy to get better. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:37.679 God controls the universe. He's not limited by seasons. Isaiah said. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.280 God will make rivers in the desert, streams in the 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:47.200 barren places. God can cause you to blossom out of season. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.120 When the circumstances say it's not going to happen. It's 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.080 not the right time. You have too many disadvantages. God 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:59.280 is not waiting for the conditions to be favorable. He's 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.880 going to make in the desert. He's going to bless 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.720 you out of season. A while back, I had gone 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.520 through a very difficult week. It was one of those 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.320 times when everything that could go wrong dead. We had 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.080 difficulty over here and people coming against us over there. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.840 Somebody had filed a lawsuit, had a major piece of 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.160 equipment break that we had to replace. It was one 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.800 headache after another, and just when I thought it couldn't 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:32.000 get any worse, I came home one afternoon and Victoria 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.000 was sitting in the den holding the dog crying. She 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.880 had taken him to the doctor. Long story short, we 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.800 had to put the dog to sleep. Now, of all 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.040 times that dog could have died, it was that week. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.280 When it rains it pours. If I ever felt like 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.240 a time where I was definitely not in season, it 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.920 was then. I felt like I was in a country 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:00.440 western song. Everything went wrong. Then my dog died. But 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.800 we all faced these seasons of difficulties and times where 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.800 it's one thing after another coming against us. The last 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.320 thing on my mind was being blessed, seeing favor and increase. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.439 I was praying that God would sustain us, fight our battles, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.200 help us to make it through. But a couple of 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:24.199 days later, in the middle of that difficulty, I received 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:28.000 a call from the vice president of one of the largest, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.520 most influential media companies in the world. We have never met, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.439 never had any contact, but he watches us on television. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.160 He presented us the largest media opportunity that we had 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.760 ever received. We agreed to pursue it. He said, Okay, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.480 I'll have my eight hundred employees start working for you 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.720 for these next few months when I felt the least favored, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.960 when I had the most opposition, God showed up and 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:02.040 blessed me out of season. Just because you don't feel 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:07.160 favored doesn't mean that you're not favored. Sometimes God will 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.400 even wait till you're out of season then do something 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.920 amazing just to remind you that he's in control, and 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.760 he being for you is more than the world being 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.160 against you. Do you feel out of season, you're stuck 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.440 in some area, stay encouraged. God has you in the 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.200 palm of his hand. He sees what's happening. He hasn't 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.240 brought you this far to leave you. He's about to 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.400 do something out of the ordinary, something greater than what 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.000 you've imagined. Where you're going to say, like I did, Wow, God, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.040 I didn't see that coming. When Jesus healed the crippled man, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.480 it was not only the wrong season when the angel 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.680 normally didn't come, but it was the Sabbath. The religious 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.200 leaders complained that he healed the man on the wrong day. 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.560 You weren't supposed to work on the Sabbath. But I 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:03.640 found God likes to break the rules. He likes to 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.720 do things out of the ordinary, things that don't make 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:11.320 sense where there is no logical explanation. That's what happened 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.240 to my mom. She was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.000 in nineteen eighty one and given a few weeks to live. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.320 There was no treatment the doctors could give her. Unfortunately, 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.720 they sent her home and told her to just prepare 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:30.160 for the worst. She was definitely out of season. Of course, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.760 she wanted to live, but it looked like the angel 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.520 was way way off. It looked like the troubling of 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.160 the waters would be a long long time. But the 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.080 God who controls your destiny, the God who greed life 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.040 into you, the God who knew you before you were 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:50.040 formed in your mother's wound. Against all odds, he showed 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:55.040 up out of season when it looked impossible. Medically speaking, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.480 she didn't have a chance. What happened. God broke the rules. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.920 He did what medicine couldn't do. And today, thirty seven 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.320 years later, my mom is still alive, still going strong. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.440 Where are the people that will say, God, I believe 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.040 you can bless me out of season. The report doesn't 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.280 look good, but I know you can heal me. I've 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.440 had the addiction for years, but I know you can 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.720 free me. My family's off course, but I know as 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.160 for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.960 When you're not just enduring a slow season, but you're 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:34.760 releasing your faith expecting God's goodness, He'll make things happen 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.800 that you couldn't make happening in some area of life. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.960 We're all out of season. Something's slow, something's not changing. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.960 It's easy to accept it and think that's the way 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.760 it's always going to be. You have to stir your 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.680 faith up. Any moment God could turn it around. It 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.600 could happen this month. It could happen this week, It 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.720 could happen today. God is not waiting for the conditions 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.800 to be more favorable. It's not waiting for somebody to 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.760 give you a break, for the medical report to improve. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.119 He's not even waiting for you to have more faith. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.359 You have the faith you need right now. If you'll 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:19.240 start releasing it, expecting his goodness, thanking him for his favor, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.720 then God will show up out of season. He'll do 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.240 things unexpectedly, things that you didn't see coming. I talked 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.920 to a lady that had struggled with a drug addiction 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.399 for over twenty five years. She'd gone to rehab and 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.120 therapy again and again, with no success. Like the man 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.760 by the pool that had been there thirty eight years, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.439 she thought she would never be well. She had lost 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.399 her family, lost her job, lost her home. She was 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.720 definitely out of season. But God is working behind the scenes. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:59.320 Being addicted is not your destiny. Constantly struggling in your hell, 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:04.080 your finances, your relationships, that is not how your story 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:09.040 is going to end. It's not permanent. It's temporary. Someone 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.720 gave her a copy of my book, The Power of 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.119 I Am, and it talks about how we have to 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.080 speak words of faith and make declarations of victory over 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:22.359 our lives. For years, she had done just the opposite. 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.880 She talked about how she had never been free and 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.360 how she had never breaked the addiction. When you speak 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.000 negative words over your life, they get down into your 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:36.040 spirit and you start to live negative. Every day, she 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.840 started declaring, I am free, I am whole. This addiction 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:45.000 does not control me. She changed her attitude from a 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:51.720 victim mentality to a victoria mentality last year, against all odds, 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:56.200 after twenty five years, she suddenly broke that addiction. Today 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.280 she has a new job, she got her family back. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.399 She just started attending a local church. One thing that 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.560 always concerned her was that her mother would die without 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.960 seeing her free. She knew she was breaking her mother's heart. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.720 She told me, with tears in her eyes, how her 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.439 mother calls all the time and tells her how proud 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.879 she is of her. Like this, lady, you may not 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.160 see how your situation could change. It's been that way 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.159 a long time. But God has not forgotten about you. 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:33.160 Something is about to happen out of season. You can't 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.720 see it coming. You feel like you're stuck. But suddenly 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.800 you're going to break the addiction. Suddenly you're going to 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.320 meet the right person. Suddenly God's going to catapult you 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.160 to the next level. Jesus asked the crippled man if 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.760 he wanted to be well. In one sense, he was saying, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.600 I need your permission to help you. If you're not 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.800 in agreement with me, I can't turn this around. Will 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.919 you give God permission to free you, permission to heal you, 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.560 permission to bless you. You have to get in agreement 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.560 with God. As long as you're thinking of all the 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.000 reasons why it's not going to happen, talking about how 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.080 impossible it is, then you'll get stuck where you are. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.480 You may not see how it can work out. That's 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.160 because you're looking at it in the natural. We serve 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:28.119 a supernatural God. He can bring quell in from the sea. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.159 He can heal you without the treatment. He can promote 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:35.359 you like David, without the qualifications. The conditions may not 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.840 look favorable, may not look like it'll ever change. This 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.480 is what faith is all about. Turn it around. Lord. 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.359 I don't see away, but I know you're still on 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.280 the throne. I know you're bigger than what i'm facing. 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.600 You've done it for me in the past. Lord, I 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.800 want to thank you. You'll do it for me again 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:57.160 in the future. Jesus heal the man not only when 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.000 he was out of season, but he didn't do it 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.920 the normal way, the way they were expecting. He didn't 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.120 have him go look for the stirring of the waters. 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.480 He didn't have him dip in the pool. He did 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:12.199 it an unusual way. God is not only going to 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.600 do things for you out of season, not at the 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:20.520 normal time. He's going to do them a non traditional way. 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.960 It's not going to be the way you thought, with 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.399 the people you thought, how you were expecting it. So 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:28.960 don't put God in a box and tell him how 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.200 to do it, when to do it, who to use. 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.440 Sometimes we think God needs our help, that he doesn't 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.000 know all the details, so we have to fill him in. No, 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:40.280 let God do it his way. He has it all 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.840 figured out. His ways are better than our ways. As 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:47.360 long as you're set in your thinking here's how it's 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:49.560 going to happen, and who he's going to use, and 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.320 when it's going to happen, then you'll be frustrated. God 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.520 has ways you've never thought of. He's not waiting for 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.800 the angel. You may think you have to work your 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:03.360 way up gradually in that company. If you can convince 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.479 the supervisor to like you, in three years, you'll get 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:10.160 a promotion. Maybe in five years you'll be an assistant manager. 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:14.280 One touch of God's favor will put you fifty years 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:20.000 down the road. We think natural. God thinks supernatural. He's 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:23.679 going to do it a non traditional way. You didn't 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.960 see it coming. You weren't expecting it, But it's going 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:30.359 to be better than you imagine. When we needed a 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:34.080 larger auditorium, I thought we'd have to build like I'd 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:37.359 seen my father do so many times. I tried to 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:40.480 buy the property, but twice it was sold out from 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.920 under us. We had a verbal agreement, but the owners 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.040 didn't keep their word. I was disappointed. I had my 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:50.080 plan all figured out. We were going to purchase property, 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:54.280 build the auditorium, then we could grow. I couldn't understand 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:58.600 why these doors kept closing. I never dreamed one day 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.120 we could own the Compact Center. This was the premier 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.400 facility in our city, right on the main freeway. Two 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.359 million people a year came into it, a five hundred 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:13.000 million dollar facility. When I was out looking for property, 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.160 I didn't think there were any more options. My plan 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.680 hadn't worked out. Then God stepped in and said, let 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:22.359 me show you what I have in mind. This was 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.439 more than I could imagine. We leased the building for 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:29.720 a few years, then we purchased it for seven and 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:33.080 a half million dollars. You can't even buy the land 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:36.200 for that amount. But God knows how to do more 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:40.360 than you can ask or think. He's not only going 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:43.880 to bring you out a non traditional way, but he's 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:48.080 going to exceed your expectations. Are you out of season? 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:53.359 Have you gone through disappointments, closed doors? Stay encouraged. God 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:57.720 is up to something. He's working behind the scenes. He's 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:01.840 about to do something unusual, out of the ordinary, that 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.080 you weren't expecting. He has one of those I didn't 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:09.800 see it coming. Blessings heitted your way. In Luke, chapter five, 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:13.800 Jesus was by the Sea of Galilee one morning. He 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:17.960 noticed Peter's empty boat over on the shore. Peter was 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:21.880 off cleaning his nets, tired after a long night of fishing. 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:26.000 There were so many people gathered around Jesus. He'd never 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:29.840 met Peter, but he asked to borrow his boat. Peter agreed, 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:32.879 and Jesus pushed out from the shore and taught to people. 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.760 When he was finished, he wanted to do something to 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:39.440 thank Peter. He told him to go back out into 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:43.000 the water and he would catch a great haul of fish. 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:47.679 Peter was a professional fisherman. He had done this for years. 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:51.119 He knew when to fish. This type of fishing you 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:54.960 didn't do in the morning. Everything in Peter said, don't 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:57.560 go back out. It's going to be a waste of time. 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:01.680 This is not when the fish normally by. Peter said, sir, 0:25:02.200 --> 0:25:06.120 we worked hard all last night and caught nothing. Yet, 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.480 if you say so, I'll go back out. He went 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:12.760 out and caught so many fish that his net began 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:17.000 to break. What's interesting is there were no fish there 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:21.479 the night before. But God controls the fish. He doesn't 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.440 have to wait for the right time, the right season, 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:28.600 for the way it normally happens. God can break the rules. 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:32.280 He can do it at an inopportune time. When you 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:35.600 didn't have the finances, when the property was sold out 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:39.160 from under you, when you've struggled with the addiction for years. 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.840 Shouldn't have happened. You weren't next in line. But God 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:46.719 blessed you out of season. He turned it around a 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:52.480 non traditional way. Verse nine said Peter was awe struck 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:56.919 by the size of his catch. God has some blessings 0:25:56.920 --> 0:25:59.800 for you that are going to leave you awe struck. 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:03.439 You can't explain it. It's just the goodness of God. 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:08.280 It's going to happen when you're out of season, when 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:11.840 the conditions aren't favorable, doesn't look like the right time. 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:15.000 Just when you thought it would never work out, God's 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:17.560 going to surprise you. He's going to bring you a 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:22.000 great haul, something that you've never seen. Paul told Timothy 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:26.600 in the scripture, be prepared in season and out of season. 0:26:27.080 --> 0:26:30.800 He was talking about ministry, but the principle is still true. 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:35.479 Stay prepared in your mind in season when things are 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:39.200 going your way, and out of season, when the fish 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:43.040 aren't biting, when the medical reports not good, when business 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:46.440 slows down. Don't want to start complaining I didn't catch 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:49.639 you anything last night, just my luck. Get ready for 0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:52.920 God to show up out of season. The fish may 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:56.480 not have been there last time, that doesn't mean they're 0:26:56.520 --> 0:27:00.119 not going to be there next time. God knows how 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:04.200 to bring what you need. The odds may be against you, 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:07.080 you don't see any sign of it happening. God is 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:10.879 asking you what he asked Moses. Is there any limit 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:14.200 to my power? Do you think the conditions can hold 0:27:14.240 --> 0:27:17.760 me back, that the seasons can stop me from doing 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:20.600 what I want to do? In your life? Take the 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:24.640 limits off of God, get your hopes back up, start expecting. 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:28.800 If you'll do this, I believe and declare. God is 0:27:28.840 --> 0:27:32.159 about to bless you out of season. He's about to 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:35.920 do something unusual, out of the ordinary, that you didn't 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:39.480 see coming. It's going to catapult you to the next level. 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:45.160 You're going to suddenly come into healing, breakthroughs, promotion, favor 0:27:45.359 --> 0:27:48.160 Like Peter You're going to look back and be awe 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:51.880 struck at the goodness of our God. 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