Buried Alive

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He had had a hearing problem 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.800 his whole life. He went to the doctor and was 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.000 fitted with this new state of the art hearing aid 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.000 where he could hear one hundred percent. A few months 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.160 later he went back for a checkup. The doctor said, Wow, 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.160 your hearing is perfect. I bet your family is so 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.240 excited that you can hear again. He said, now, I 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.200 haven't told my family. I just sit around and listen 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.840 to the different conversations, and I've changed my will three times. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.120 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.920 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.400 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.160 I can do. Today I will be talked the word 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.280 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.560 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.600 ge his name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.320 to you today about buried alive. Years ago, there was 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.560 a forty six year old man in a small village 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.080 in Romania that was about to be buried in the 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.760 funeral home. His family and friends walked past the open casket, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.080 grieving and paying their last respects. After the loved ones 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:28.079 said their goodbyes, they went home and prepared for the burial. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:33.119 The next day, something astonishing happened. The man woke up. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.520 He got out of the coffin and walked back home. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.400 When neighbors saw him, they nearly passed out. Family members 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:46.119 were ecstatic. They couldn't believe their eyes. The doctor who 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.320 signed the death certificate couldn't understand it. He couldn't find 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.280 a pulse. The man had no vital signs. Their only 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.040 explanation is he had fallen into a temporary diabetic coma. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.520 Almost buried alive. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.440 I wonder how many times we're doing like them and 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:11.480 burying things alive. We thought the dream was dead. We tried, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.840 but the door didn't open. We didn't get any good breaks. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.680 It's been years now. We're convinced. We'll never be promoted, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:24.000 never start the business, never write the book. We bury relationships. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.040 This marriage is done. We don't get along, is never 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.640 going to last. Sometimes we bury promises, Joel, I'll never 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.880 get well, never break the addiction, never live an abundant life. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.600 At one time we believed we knew. God put it 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.560 in our heart. We talked like it was going to happen. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.080 We took steps of faith, but now we don't see 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.400 any signs of life. All the circumstances say it's too late, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.200 so we buried it. The good news is it's buried alive. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.920 You may not be able to see it, but it's 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.480 still has a pulse. If you'll get your passion back, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.240 God will still. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:06.120 Bring it to pass. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.120 Just because you gave up doesn't mean God gave up. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:15.359 God doesn't abort dreams. He doesn't start something and not 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.359 finish it. And like this man that everyone thought was dead, 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.160 but he defied the odds and woke up, You're going 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.640 to see God wake up some things you thought were dead. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.600 You thought that marriage was dead. God's about to wake 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:35.280 it up. Your happiest, most fulfilled days in that relationship 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.320 are still in front of you. You thought you would 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.560 never meet the right person, you'd go through life single. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.640 God's about to wake up your dream. You're going to 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.760 meet someone so amazing you'll know it was a hand 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.520 of God. Or maybe you thought you were too old 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.480 to accomplish your goal. You convinced yourself it's too late. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:00.320 You missed too many opportunities. God is about to surprise you. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.320 That dream is about to come back to life. You 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.440 may have put it in a coma. You may have 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.640 talked yourself out of it. God has you hearing this 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.919 so you can be taught back into it. He wouldn't 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.599 have put the promise in your heart if he wasn't 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.320 going to bring it to pass. It may not have 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.159 happened on your timetable or the way you thought, but 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.279 make no mistake, it is still alive. What God started, 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.560 He's going to finish what he promised you is still 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.560 on the way. It's going to happen suddenly. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:34.560 You didn't see it coming. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.159 Not only are you going to be amazed, but people 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.640 around you are going to be amazed, especially those that 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:42.600 have discounted. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:42.719 You. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.120 Thought you could never be promoted, you could never take 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.240 new ground. Don't worry. When God wakes up what's been 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:55.320 lying dormant in you. The potential, the talent, the businesses, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.839 the dreams, the ideas, the spouse. People are going to 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.960 stand in awe. They're going to know the hand of. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.040 God is on your life. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.240 Now do your part. The dreams that you buried, you 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.520 need to dig them back up. Who told you they 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.880 were dead, Who convinced you that you can't get well, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.680 you can't meet the right person, that you'll never accomplish 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.800 your dream. Those voices did not come from our God. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.200 That is the enemy trying to deceive you into settling 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.440 for less than you were created to be. He knows 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.880 you have seeds of greatness. He knows there are amazing 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.280 things in your future. It's time to get the shovel 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:42.080 out whatever you buried, whatever you've given up on, whatever 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.240 you've let people, delays, disappointments talk you out of. I'm 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.240 asking you to dig it back up. How do you 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.960 dig it up? Start talking like it's going to happen. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:56.840 Start thanking God that is on the way. Every circumstance 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.360 may say you'll never get well. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:07:59.440 Just accept it. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.680 If you agree with that and go around discourage, you're 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.040 putting more dirt on the promise. You're burying it deeper. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.320 But when you go around, Father, thank you that you 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.120 are restoring health back into me. Thank you that the 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.280 number of my days you will fulfill. You're uncovering the promise. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.920 Or when those thoughts tell you that you've reached your limits, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.480 you'll never go any further. Turn it around. Father, you said, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.880 my latter days will be better than my former days. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.480 You said, the path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.400 That's how you remove the dirt. As a young man, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.960 God gave Moses a dream that he would deliver the 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:43.560 Israelites out of slavery. He was excited. He knew he 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.800 was going to do great things. But Moses made a mistake. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.000 He killed a man that was mistreating a Hebrew slave. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.640 Someone saw him. Moses had to flee for his life. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.360 He spent forty years on the back side of the 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:03.840 desert in hiding. You can imagine how disappointed and discouraged 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.839 Moses was. He knew God put the promise in his heart, 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.480 but he blew it. It was his own fault. He 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.360 thought he had missed his chance. He did what many 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.120 of us do. He buried his dream. But the scripture 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:23.400 says God's calling on your life is irrevocable. That means 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:28.240 God doesn't change his mind. God already knew every mistake 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.040 you would make. He knew every person that would do 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.840 you wrong, every bad break. He took that all into 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.319 account when he called you. You may have buried some dreams. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.559 You think they're dead. It was your own fault. But 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.360 God is so merciful. At the right time, He's going 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.760 to wake them back up. What you had in the coffin, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.600 what you've already said your goodbyes, to know your time 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:58.600 is coming. Your mistakes didn't cancel your destiny. People not 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.840 being for you, delays, disappointments cannot stop what God has 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.600 purposed for your life. And everything that's happened to you 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.680 is a part of the plan to get you to 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.439 where you're supposed to be. You may not understand it. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.920 It may not have been fair. You don't see how 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.040 it can happen. But God is in control. He's working 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.880 behind the scenes right now, lining up things in your favor, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.800 arranging the good breaks that you need. I can see 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.559 by faith, dreams coming back to life. I can see 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.240 marriages coming back to life, Businesses that look like they 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.679 were done coming back to life. You may have given 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.640 up on what God promised you, but God. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.800 Didn't give up. He doesn't change his mind. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.680 At eighty years of age, Moses was out in the 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:54.360 desert minding his own business. Suddenly, a bush exploded caught 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:55.600 fire in front of him. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:56.920 A voice boomed out. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.880 Moses take off your sandals, your own. Holy God told 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.880 him to go, tell the Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:11.000 I can imagine Moses nearly passing out, saying, I thought 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.160 this dream was dead. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:13.559 I buried it. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.920 I had a funeral. I put flowers on the grave 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.440 every year. God, you mean this whole time, it was 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:25.600 still alive. After I blew it, after forty years. You mean, God, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.320 You're still going to do what you said. That's the 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.319 way our God is promises that you think are dead. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.719 Things that you dreamed about. At one time, you were excited. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:43.040 You knew that was your purpose. But now there's been mistakes, disappointments, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.720 people let you down. You worked tard, the doors didn't open. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.280 God is saying to you what he said to Moses, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.400 that dream is not only still alive, but I'm still 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.920 going to bring it to pass. I'm still going to 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.440 heal you. I'm still going to promote you, still going 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.080 to bring the right person. I'm still going to take 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.600 you where you couldn't go on your own. The scripture 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.920 talks about how God will give us the secret petitions 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.439 of our heart. These are the dreams and the promises 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.559 that God whispers to us. In the night. They seem 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.360 too good to be true. We don't tell anyone about them. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.120 Nobody would believe they would ever come to pass. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.680 They seem so unlikely. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.240 But God likes to do far beyond what you can 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.000 accomplish on your own. If you can reach your dreams 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.560 by yourself, in your own talent, your own strength, your 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.640 own ability, then you don't need God. What God will 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.360 speak to your spirit, many times will be so big, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.120 so far out, that it's easy to dismiss and think 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.720 that could never happen. And too often we are burying 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.520 alive all these amazing things that God wants to do. 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:01.680 Psalm thirty one says God has blessed stored up for 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:02.480 the righteous. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.600 I can imagine in. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:09.240 Heaven there's this huge warehouse filled with all kinds of boxes, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.760 some of which have your name on them, blessings stored up, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:20.960 promotion buildings, houses, opportunities, ideas, children's spouse things God has 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.120 promised you. But what if when we get to heaven, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.720 we go to the warehouse and we look, and there's 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.080 the promise God spoke to us as a child, But 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.520 it was never delivered. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.120 I thought it was too big. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.680 And there's the healing God promised, but the medical report 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.640 convinced me I wouldn't get well. There's the house I 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.800 always dreamed about, but I didn't see how it could happen. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.880 What held it back? We quit believing. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.800 We let circumstances talk us out of it. The good 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.760 news is all those blessings God has stored up for 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.760 you are still available. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:13:59.560 It is not too late. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.079 They they are on the shelf waiting for delivery. Now 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.560 I'm asking you to stir your faith up. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:06.320 God. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.520 The circumstances may be against me, but I know you 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:10.120 are for me. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.479 The medical report doesn't. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.520 Look good, but God, I know you're my healer. God. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.840 I don't have the funds for my dream, but I 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:18.920 know you own it. 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:19.440 All. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.120 By myself, I'm stuck, but God, with you, I know 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:28.560 I'm unstoppable. You and God are a majority. Don't go 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:33.880 through life with dreams buried alive when you believe, that's 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.320 what allows God to release those blessings that He has 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.720 stored up for you. As a little boy, a friend 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.920 of mine had a dream to be on the radio. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.880 He would come home from school at ten years old 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:49.000 and go down to the basement at his house. They 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.640 had some mics and headphones and he would do a 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.120 radio program. They had these real to real recorders and 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.640 he would interview friends and do the news. The weather 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.400 God put that desire in him as a young boy. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.080 At fourteen, he was accepted as an intern at a 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:11.800 very prestigious radio station. He was so excited. This was 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.560 a dream come true. But just before it started, he 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:20.000 was transferred to a different school. This new school didn't 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.320 have an agreement with the station to have interns, so 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.280 he never got to go. He was mad at his 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.880 parents for making him change schools. He was mad at 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.600 God because it didn't work out. He was so disappointed, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.840 so upset, he quit doing radio. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.320 He buried the dream well. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.000 Several decades had passed and he went on to become 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.840 a pastor of a large church, very successful. After serving 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.520 there for many years, he resigned eventually came to work 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.520 for us. He heads up our pastor's network. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:53.040 When we do our. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.480 Nights of Hope, the events on the Road, the serious 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.360 XM radio program always starts thirty minutes before for the 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.960 actual event. We needed someone to host it, to do 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.440 interviews talk with the pastors, and I thought this friend 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.040 of mine, Phil Munsey. He would be perfect. So he's 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.520 been doing it for the last few years. About a 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.560 year ago, before the event in New York, he sat 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.640 down at the table and was about to go on 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.080 the air. When he put his headphones on and leaned 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.360 toward the mic, he heard God whisper to him. I 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.400 didn't forget about the dream. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:28.960 I put in you as a little boy. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:34.680 He suddenly realized he was doing what he dreamed about 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.040 forty five years earlier. He had buried it. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:39.480 He thought it was dead. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.800 He thought, because of his parents' decisions, because of the school, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.040 because of the bad breaks, that it would never happen. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.360 But God doesn't start something and not finish it. The 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.640 dreams God put in your heart never die. You may 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.960 have gone through disappointments. It's been a long time. People 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.920 did you wrong. What God has stored up for you 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.480 is still in the way, and sometimes, like with Phil, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.960 God will surprise you. You thought it was too late. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.399 You thought you've missed your chance. You weren't believing for it. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:17.080 But God hasn't forgotten about the secret petitions of your heart. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.640 He knows what he whispered to you in the night. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.720 He knows the desires he put in you. That you've 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:26.720 not told anyone about. God saw what didn't work out. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.359 He saw the doors that closed, the people that left you. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.240 That dream didn't die because of what people did. It 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.720 didn't die because of mistakes you made. Forty years later, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.080 God brought moses dream to pass. Forty five years later, 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.680 God brought Phil's dream to pass. Neither one of them 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.800 were expecting it. Moses didn't think he deserved it. Phil 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.040 had forgotten about it. That's the goodness of our God. Dreams. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.480 We bury him, promises we give up on. God could say, fine, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.040 you give up. I'm gonna give up. You don't believe 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.560 in me, I'm not gonna believe in you. But God 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.280 is so merciful, so full of kindness. Even when we 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.240 bury it, it still doesn't die. That promise you think 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.080 is too far gone, you don't deserve it, It's still 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.400 on the way. In the scripture, God gave a man 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.800 by the name Zarubabel a dream to rebuild the temple. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.120 The whole city had been destroyed, but he went back 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.000 home and successfully laid the foundation. He got off to 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.360 a great start, but people were against him. They went 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.080 to the authorities got a decree forcing him to stop 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.479 I can imagine he went out to the property and 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:44.080 saw the empty foundation month after month, year after year. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.199 He was tempted to think it just not meant to be. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.880 I tried, I gave it my best. It didn't work out. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.760 He could have buried the dream. No signs of things changing. 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.880 Ten years later, the prophet Zachariah showed up. He said, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.399 in effect, Zerube Bel, God sent me all this way 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.960 to give you two words, begin again. He was saying, 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.840 it may look dead, it's been years with no activity. 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.280 People against you, your own thoughts, telling you it's never 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.320 going to happen. But God is saying, if you'll begin again, 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.840 if you'll start dreaming again, if you'll start believing again, 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.920 if you'll start taking steps of faith, then God will 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.399 still bring it to pass. When zerube Bel heard this, 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:35.840 something came alive on the inside. The scripture says, your word, 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.560 O Lord, is like fire shut up in my bones. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.560 The dreams God put in you, the promises, they're like 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.600 fire shut up in you. Here's the key. You can't 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.119 put that fire out. You can push it down, you 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.479 can ignore it. It can get buried under discouragement, buried 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:56.399 under mistakes. 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:58.760 But that fire is still burning. 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.159 You know what I'm doing, and today I'm fanning your flame. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.240 I'm stirring up what's already in you. I believe that 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.960 flame is growing. I believe you're about to see a 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.159 dream that you buried come to pass. 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.639 God's about to do something unusual. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:20.720 After ten years of seeing nothing good happening, no good breaks, 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:26.239 only activity was persecution, opposition, zarube Bell came to a 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.879 destiny moment where God was saying, this is your time. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.800 The question was was he going to agree with Zachariah 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.240 and say, yes, I believe I'm getting my passion back, 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.720 I'm getting my vision back, or was he going to 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.000 talk himself out of it. He could have thought, Zachariah, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.800 you really think I should start building again? You know 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.399 how long it's been, you know how many people are 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.680 against me. He would have missed the miracle. 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.280 He made this decision. 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.520 To get in agreement with God. He got his shovel out, 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.800 but before he could dig on the temple grounds, he 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.399 had to first dig up his dream. He had to 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.880 realize it was still alive. He started building, things fell 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:14.119 into place. Before long, they completed the temple, a great victory. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:18.440 I believe this is a destiny moment for you. What's 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:23.440 incomplete in your life, Dreams that haven't worked out, promises 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.080 you've given up on. You could leave them buried, think 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.960 it's been too long, or you can decide, like Zaruba Bell, 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.200 I'm going to begin again. I'm gonna dream again. I'm 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.160 going to believe again. I'm going to stretch again. Maybe 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.800 you tried to buy the house and it didn't work out. 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:46.320 That was years ago. God is saying try again. Or 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.040 at one time you believed you could break the addiction, 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.760 but it's been a long time you've gotten comfortable. God 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:54.439 is saying, begin again. 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:55.800 This is your time. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.520 Or you had a dream to do something great, to 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.320 break out out of the mold, to leave your mark, 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:06.359 but nobody supported you. Your family didn't encourage, it didn't 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.960 work out. Whatever you buried, I'm asking you to dig 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.520 it back up. You thought it was dead. You didn't 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.600 see any signs of life. But it's not over until 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.119 God says it's over. If you'll begin again, you'll go 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.920 to see favor like you've never seen. Friend of mine 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.960 was in a taxi cabin. He struck up a conversation 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.800 with the driver who was from Slovenia. He asked him 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.399 what he did when he wasn't driving taxis. The man said, 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.679 I swim rivers. He handed my friend a book. His 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.800 picture was on the front. The title was the Man 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:46.160 who Swammed the Amazon. At fifty two years old, this 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:51.000 man swam three thousand miles the whole Amazon from its 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:55.159 source all the way to the ocean. Now, the Amazon 0:22:55.280 --> 0:23:01.040 is extremely dangerous, filled with crocodiles and a conda bacteria. 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:05.680 Plus there are notorious pirates all along the way. Yet 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:09.960 every morning, for sixty six days, this man would go 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:14.640 out and swim till nightfall. At one point, doctors told 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:17.720 him his blood pressure was too high to swim, but 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:21.640 he got in the river. He spent many restless nights 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.280 nauseous and chilled, but the next morning he got in 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:30.359 the river. He contracted a brain virus that gave him hallucinations, 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.480 but he got in the river. My friend was so 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:37.520 inspired he asked him what was next. The man said, 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:41.159 I'm going to swim around the world, from the Atlantic 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:42.320 to the Pacific. 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:44.160 He's sixty two. 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:47.240 Years old now, and he's trying to raise twenty seven 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:52.560 million dollars. Nobody has ever swammed the world. Experts tell 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:56.439 him it's impossible. This man could have easily buried the dream. 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:58.080 Yet every day. 0:23:58.080 --> 0:23:59.760 He's talking like it's going to happen. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.159 He's acted like it's going to happen, taking steps of faith. 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:08.040 My friend is a pastor. He thought to himself, if 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:11.760 this sixty two year old taxi cab driver can still 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:15.760 be believing to swim the world and to raise millions, 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:18.840 then I can believe to raise the funds to pay 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:21.439 my church off, and to impact the world. 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:23.880 I can believe to accomplish my dreams. 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:30.160 Friends, it's time to swim your amazon. Whatever God put 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:33.320 in your heart, go after it. You have to get 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:36.760 in the river. Quit looking at how impossible it is, 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:39.800 how long it's been, what you don't have, and get 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:44.119 in the river. Shake off the disappointments who left you 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:45.240 what you didn't. 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:46.480 Get, and get in the river. 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:50.680 You have greatness in you. You weren't created to live 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:54.200 and die, and nobody knew you were here. You are 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:57.879 destined to leave your mark. God wouldn't have put the 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:01.280 dream in you if he had not already equipped you 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:04.959 and empowered you. Now get in the river and let 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:08.320 your talent shine. Get in the river and show the 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.359 world what God put in you. Get in the river 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:14.760 and build that orphanage. Get in the river and take 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:19.040 new ground. God wants to show out in your life. 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:22.280 He wants to take you further than you've ever imagined. 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:27.400 In the scripture, Ezekiel had a vision of this valley 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:32.280 filled with dry bones. Was a huge graveyard with thousands 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:36.600 of bones on the ground. Bones represent no life and 0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:41.880 what's dead. God ask Ezekiel, do you believe these dead 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:45.920 bones can live? Ezekiel could have said, God, that's impossible. 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:48.359 They're bones. They're already dead. 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:49.160 It's too late. 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:53.280 In other words, God, the medical report's not good. God, 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:56.560 business is slow. I don't have the funds for my dream. 0:25:57.080 --> 0:25:59.679 God said, in effect, Ezekiel, I don't want to hear 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:02.359 about all the circumstances. I just want to know. 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:03.600 Do you believe. 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:09.200 Ezekiel finally got rid of the excuses and said, yes, Lord, 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:14.000 I believe Ezekiel spoke to these bones. In this vision, 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:21.280 these bones begin to join together. Organs came skin form 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:22.720 like a movie. 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:26.240 They morphed into people. God breathed life. 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:29.880 Into them, and they stood up like a vast army. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:30.160 Well. 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:34.000 The Israelites had been complaining about how big the obstacles 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:36.960 were and how they'd never make it to the Promised Land. 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:40.600 They said, all we have are these dry bones. God 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:44.760 said Ezekiel, You go tell them. I'm about to open 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:47.720 up their graves. I'm going to bring them back to 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.680 their land, and they will know that I am the Lord. 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:54.199 You may have dreams that you put in the grave, 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:58.359 promises that you buried. You think there's no way. God 0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:02.000 is saying to you, I'm about to open up your graves. 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:05.280 I'm about to make things happen where you will know 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:08.960 I am the Lord. What you thought was dead is 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:12.200 about to come back to life. That marriage you've given 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:16.159 up on, that business you wanted to start, that house 0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:19.040 you dreamed about, You buried it. You put it in 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:19.600 the grave. 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:20.520 Get ready. 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:23.640 God's about to open up that grave. What you don't 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:27.480 realize is you buried it alive. God is about to 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:32.600 breathe new life into your health, into your finances, into 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:36.840 your relationships, into your children. Things are going to come 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:41.800 together that you thought were impossible, even the secret petitions 0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:45.800 of your heart. Promises that you've forgotten about dreams you 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:48.920 had as a child. God is about to surprise you. 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.879 He is going to finish what he started. It's not 0:27:52.000 --> 0:27:55.359 too late. You didn't miss your chance. You haven't made 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:57.680 too many mistakes. Now do your part. 0:27:57.960 --> 0:27:58.760 Believe again. 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:02.159 Whatever when you buried, I'm asking you to dig it 0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:06.200 back up. If you'll do this, I believe and declare, 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:09.720 new doors are about to open. The right people are 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:13.520 going to find you. Your health is turning around, breakthroughs 0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:18.040 are coming, promotion, new levels. The fullness of your destiny 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:21.439 in Jesus' name, and if you receive it, can you 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:24.800 say him in Today I'd like to give you an 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:28.400 opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:32.800 you pray with me? Just say this, Lord Jesus, I 0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:34.240 repent of my sins. 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:40.000 Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:41.600 --> 0:28:44.040 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:47.160 born again. Get in a good Bible based church, and 0:28:47.240 --> 0:28:48.480 keep God first place. 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:53.240 Thank you for listening to the joel Oustine podcast. 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