Commanded To Be Blessed

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We can clone people, transplant hearts, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.800 do all kinds of things once considered miraculous. God said, fine, 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.360 but to prove you don't need me, let's have a 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.960 man making contest. The only record devironment is you have 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.080 to make man out of dirt. The signst said great 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.320 and reached down to pick up a handful of dirt. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.240 God said, not so fast. Go get your own dirt. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.120 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.840 I am what it says. I am I have what 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.400 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.120 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.240 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.640 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.359 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.880 about commanded to be blessed. When we honor God with 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.320 our lives, we do our best to keep him first place. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.799 The scripture says God will command his blessing to come 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.320 on you. And when God commands, it's not maybe it'll happen. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.040 I hope it happens. If the circumstances come together. Know 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.160 when God commands, there's no ifs ands or buts that's 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.760 going to happen. When God said let there be light, 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.320 the earth was dark, without form, like a black hole. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.280 God didn't check the circumstances to see if light was possible. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.120 He didn't have experts analyze it to see if they 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.560 thought it could happen. He simply spoke when he commanded light. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.200 It came at one hundred and eighty six thousand miles 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.400 per second. When God commands you to be blessed, he 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.040 doesn't check what family you come from where you work, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.360 who likes you? How good the economy is. None of 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.920 that matters to God. All the circumstances be against you. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.000 The experts may tell you you'll never get well, you'll 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.800 never meet the right person, you'll never be successful. Every 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.440 voice says you're stuck. Just accept it. No way in 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.520 the natural. The good news is we serve a supernatural God. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.720 When he commands ends the blessing, all the forces of 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:07.640 darkness cannot stop him. With the commanded blessing, you'll go 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.120 places you couldn't go on your own. Doors will open 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:16.440 that you couldn't open. You'll be promoted even though you 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:21.320 weren't the most qualified. The commanded blessing will cause good 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:27.360 breaks to find you. Contracts, opportunities, business favor will track 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.599 you down. Now get in agreement with God. Quit saying 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.760 I'll never get ahead, Joel, These people at work don't 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.719 like me. It doesn't matter who doesn't like you at work. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.320 What matters is the most high God that likes you. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.799 He is not limited by who's against you, by who's 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.680 not getting your credit, who's not treating your right One 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.800 touch of his favor will move them out of the 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.400 way and get you to where you're supposed to be, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:02.279 and don't be discouraged by what's unfairn God sees what's happening. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.080 Keep being your best, keep honoring him. You're not working 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:11.159 under people, You're working under God. When it's your time 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.279 to be promoted, you can rest assured you will be promoted. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.880 People can't stop you. Bad breaks can't stop you. Injustice 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:24.159 can't stop you. The commanded blessing on your life will 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.520 override every force that's trying to hold you back. I 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.000 know a young man that works in the medical field. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.040 He graduated from college six years ago. He'd been at 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.719 this same entry level position the whole time. He's a 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.840 hard worker. He always does more than he has to. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.760 But his supervisor never liked him. He wouldn't give him 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.679 any credit. These new employees that they hired that didn't 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.920 have the training, the expertise, they were being promoted over him. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.440 It wasn't fair. He didn't like it, But he understands 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:03.360 this principle because he's honoring God. There is a commanded 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:07.760 blessing on his life. About six months ago, he went 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.400 to work and found out one morning that his supervisor 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:16.200 had unexpectedly resigned. He had a family issue and had 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.840 to move to another state. The administration called him in 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.839 and said, this supervisor has recommended you to take his position. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.360 This supervisor never even liked him, he was never for him. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.680 But when you have the commanded blessing, God will cause 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.200 people to be good to you that have never been 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.919 good to you. He'll use even your enemies to bless you. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.320 This young man was so excited and so baffled at 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.479 the same time. He said, Joel, this man tried to 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.400 hold me down, He tried to discredit me. Here's the key. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.200 People don't have the final say. God does. People don't 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.160 determine your destiny. They didn't breathe life into you. They 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.120 didn't call you, they didn't number your days. You may 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.760 be in a situation that feels unfair, seems like somebody's 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:14.480 stopping you. Don't worry. Your time is coming. Keep doing 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.080 the right thing when the wrong thing is happening. There 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.160 is a commanded blessing on your life. They can't keep 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.160 you down. All the circumstances may be against you, but 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.480 the most High God is for you. Number Chapter twenty two. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.520 The Israelites were camped on the plains of Moab, headed 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.880 toward Jericho. When the king of the Moabites saw how 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.760 many Israelites there were, he was afraid. There was a 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.000 prophet that lived in a nearby city named Balem. The 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.680 king knew that the Lord always did what Balem asked, 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.880 so he sent some of his men with a large 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.440 amount of money to see Balem to ask him to 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:02.160 come back and curse the people of Baalim said, I'll 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.679 pray about it, but I can only say what God 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.400 tells me to say. He prayed in verse twelve. God said, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.400 you are to not go back with them. For what 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:18.040 I have blessed, you cannot curse. Notice when God puts 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.280 the commanded blessing on you, it doesn't matter what somebody says, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.080 doesn't matter what they do, how they treat you. All 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.920 that matters is God put his blessing on you, and 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.880 everything else is of no effect. They can say it, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.080 but if you don't allow it to take root, it's 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:41.040 not going to stop you. It may be unfair, it 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.560 may seem like it's getting the best of you, but 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.720 if you'll stay in faith, the blessing will always override 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.240 the curse. They meant it to stop you. God will 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.440 use it to promote you. They went back and told 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.200 the king that Balim wouldn't come. The king said, take 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.280 some more money, go back and tell him he has 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:06.199 to come and curse the Israelites. They went back. Balim said, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.920 even if you give me a palace filled with silver 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.640 and gold, I am powerless to do anything against the 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.120 will of my God. They spent the night and talked 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.720 to him into going back. The king said, Balem, what 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.200 took you so long? You sure have come back here. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.160 I need you to curse these people. Balim said, well, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.040 I'll pray one more time, but I can only say 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.160 what the Lord tells me to say. He woke up 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.160 the next morning said to the king, this is what 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.800 the Lord says. The Israelites will succeed and become a 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.120 great nation and have descendants too numerous to count. The 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.600 king said, Balem, stop, what are you doing. I've brought 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.720 you here to curse them. Instead, you'r blessing them. He 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.160 said it again, I cannot curse what God has already blessed. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.959 If Balem were here today, he would say the same 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.840 thing to you. You cannot be cursed. There is a 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:09.440 commanded blessing on your life. When you go through disappointments, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.440 unfair things happen. It's easy to feel like that's clouded 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.960 your future. Have a new perspective. What God has blessed, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:23.280 nothing can curse. When you understand you have this commanded blessing, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.880 you won't be upset because someone's talking about you, worried 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:32.520 about your finances, discouraged because of a setback. You know, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.840 every force that's trying to stop you is powerless to 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.480 change the blessing God put on your life. I love 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.160 how Balem was supposed to curse the Israelites. They were 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.760 going to pay him a lot of money. Not only 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.120 did he refuse to do it, but God had him 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:55.079 to start speaking blessings. He started telling how the Israelites 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.319 were going to succeed, go further, and accomplish great things. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.000 This is a spiritual principle God was showing us. When 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.360 the enemy tells you all the reasons why you're not 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.480 going to get well, not get out of debt, not 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.560 overcome the challenge. Instead of agreeing with him, do like 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:22.040 Balem starts speaking victory speak, health speak, favor speak, abundance. See, 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.120 the enemy wants you to curse your future with negative 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.920 words and negative thoughts He knows he can't stop you, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.439 but if he can convince you to go around discouraged, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.680 thinking you've reached your limits, that will keep you from 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.400 your destiny. You have to turn it around. You want 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.160 me to curse my future. I know better. I'm gonna 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.400 bless my future. Well, you'll never get out of debt. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.880 You'll always struggle. No thanks, you have the wrong person. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.360 I will lend and not borrow. Whatever I touch will 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:00.640 prosper and succeed. I've been commanded to be blessed. He whispers. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.080 You saw the medical report. You're never going to get well. 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.199 Come on, agree with me. Curse your future. Turn it around. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.920 God is restoring health back into me. The number of 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.320 my days he will fulfill. Well, the more you pray, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.480 the worse your child gets. No thanks. As for me 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.640 and my house, we will serve the Lord, the seed 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.160 of the righteous. My seed will be mighty in the land. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.040 You may have a lot coming against you. Every voice 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.240 says it's not going to work out. I'm asking you 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.600 to be a Baalim. Speak the blessing and not the curse. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.720 Sometimes it's not our own thoughts trying to discourage us. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.120 It's what other people are saying. People will tell you 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.880 what you're not going to be, how you're not going 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.520 to get well, your dreams aren't going to come to pass. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.600 Here's the key. They can speak defeat all day long, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:13:00.119 but they are powerless to change the blessing on your life. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:04.160 Thing they say or do can remove the blessing. They 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.959 didn't give you the blessing, and they can't take it away. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.240 It was put on you by the God who spoke 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.840 worlds into existence. He didn't just give you the blessing. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.440 He commanded the blessing. There's a freedom when you understand this. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.000 Somebody's talking bad about you, your attitude is no big deal. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.120 They are powerless to stop the blessing. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:27.440 On my life. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.080 Well, you had a bad break, you were laid off. Yes, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.880 but I'm not worried. I know the blessing always overrides 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.800 the curse. Will you come from a rough neighborhood. Doesn't 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.280 look like you have much of a future now. Where 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:45.040 I am is not where I'm staying. The commanded blessing 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.560 will get me to where I'm supposed to be. I 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.200 talked to a lady that was raised in a dysfunctional environment. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.400 She was abused by her father. He constantly told her 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.800 how she was no good, worthless, would never out to anything. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.839 She was just a little girl. She didn't know any better. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.880 She believed these lies and grew up feeling ashamed and inferior. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.800 At seven years old, she was taken away from her 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.440 father by the state and placed in foster home. After 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:21.160 foster home, never feeling loved or accepted, she grew up 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.760 a young lady on drugs, in bad relationships. She had 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:30.120 several children from different fathers, in poverty. Didn't look like 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.800 it would ever change. But in her late twenties, a 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.040 friend invited her to church and she gave her life 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.640 to Christ. She started making better decisions, doing her best 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.280 to honor God. She would listen to our messages about 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.240 reprogramming your mind and not believing lies that people have 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.400 spoken over you. And it didn't happen overnight, but little 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.200 by little things started to change in her favor. She 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.200 was able to go back and finish high school. In 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.240 her early thirties, a friend helped her to get into college. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.320 A professor there went out of her way to open 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:13.000 the door to nursing school. A hospital administrator showed her 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.840 favor and hired her over several other candidates that had 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:22.320 more qualifications. Today she's in charge of her whole department, 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:27.480 several hundred nurses at this large hospital. What happened She 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:32.560 came in to the commanded blessing. The commanded blessing will 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:38.120 override every person that's tried to stop you. The commanded 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.240 blessing will make up for what you didn't get. It 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.920 will cause people to go out of their way to 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.480 be good to you. It will put you at the 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.320 right place at the right time. People may have tried 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.240 to push you down, but God is about to lift 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.480 you up. They tried to keep you from your purpose, 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:02.200 but they were powerless to change blessing on your life. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.840 You may have a lot coming against you, but I 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.040 believe God is about to command some things like he 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:14.840 did for her. He's going to command justice, vindication, deliverance 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.760 from people that are not treating you right. He's going 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:22.760 to command increase, promotion, doors to open that take you 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:28.600 to the next level. He's going to command freedom, breakthroughs, wholeness, 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.600 that addiction, those bad habits are not your destiny. He's 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:39.760 about to command healing, restoration, strength, That sickness is coming 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.640 to an end. It may not have happened yet. But 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.480 this is a new day. You're going to see the 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:50.160 commanded blessing show out in your life. God is going 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:54.080 to make things happen that amaze you, things you didn't 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.400 see coming. The scripture says this, when you obey God's 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.880 blessings will chase you down and overtake you. I've seen 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.400 this in my own life. Most of the big breaks, 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.399 the major events, I didn't go after them. I was 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.919 just honoring God being my best, and they came after me. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.439 I didn't know the Compact Center was coming available. But 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.720 a man came to me out of the blue, said, Joey, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.520 you need to call the mayor that should be Lakewood's building. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.359 A publisher I had never met came to me said, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.919 I want to publish your books. Serious exem came to me. 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.920 Here's a satellite radio channel. That's the commanded blessing. God 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:42.240 calls an opportunity, favor contracts to chase you down. Here's 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.359 the whole key. You don't have to go after the blessing. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.399 Go after God. Honor him with your life, and the 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.960 blessing will follow. God will command things to find you. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.520 In the scripture, one morning Jesus asked Peter if he 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.600 could borrow his boat to teach the people from the shore. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.160 Peter agreed and let him use it. When he was finished. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.159 Jesus wanted to pay Peter. He told him to launch 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.440 out into the water. He would catch a lot of fish. Well, 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:16.159 Peter had fished all night nothing was biting. Peter was 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:20.040 a professional fisherman. He knew the morning wasn't the best 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.040 time to fish. He didn't feel like going back out. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.960 He thought it'd be a waste of his time. But 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.880 instead of talking himself out of it, he said to Jesus, nevertheless, 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.520 at your word, I will do it. He chose to obey. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.240 When he threw out his net, he caught so many 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.240 fish that the net began to break. He had to 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.480 call over another boat to help him gather up all 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.760 the fish. That's what happens when you walk in obedience. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:53.000 There is a commanded blessing on your life. God will 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:57.119 make things happen that you couldn't make happen. What's interesting 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.960 is there were no fish there the night before. But 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.240 God controls the fish. He knows how to bring things 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.600 to you. The conditions may not be favorable. You don't 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.040 know the right, people, you've had the addiction a long time. 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.920 Perhaps no one in your family has really been successful. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.359 It looks like that's the way it's always going to be. No, 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.720 God is about to do a new thing. You tried 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.919 and it didn't work out last time. But because of 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.840 your obedience, God is speaking to the fish right now. 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.280 It's not going to be a little catch, a little break, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:40.000 a little blessing. God's about to do something big, something unusual, 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.639 something to where people take notice. They wonder, what is 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.200 it about you? How could you lead the company in sales? 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.719 How could you beat the cancer? I saw the medical report. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.159 How could you marry that beautiful girl? How could you 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.320 start your own business? That doesn't seem possible. That's the 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:03.720 commanded blessing. That's God causing the fish to find you. 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.080 And you may not see how this could happen. Neither 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.239 did Peter. Everything in his reasoning said there are no 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:13.040 fish out there. In other words, the medical report's not good. 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.520 I've been single a long time. I don't have the training. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.879 That all may be true. The good news is God 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.600 is not limited by what you don't have, by who 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.439 you don't know, by the economy. All he has to 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.760 do is speak, and the fish will not only show up, 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.160 they'll find you. They'll come to your boat. You don't 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.840 have to make this happen. Just keep God first place, 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.480 and this commanded blessing like a magnet, will draw in 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:48.199 good breaks, healing favor the right people. We see the 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.879 commanded blessing with a young lady in the scripture named Ruth. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.959 She had just moved back to her mother in law's 0:20:55.000 --> 0:21:00.560 hometown after she lost her husband. They were both widows, poor, 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.560 barely able to survive. Ruth would go out into the 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.280 fields every morning and pick up the leftover wheat that 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.600 the workers missed. They were living off of scraps. Life 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.920 was a struggle. Ruth did this day in and day out, 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.399 week after week. Didn't look like there was a commanded 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.400 blessing on her. Life didn't look like it would ever change. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.159 But one day God caused the owner of that property 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.080 to notice Ruth. He asked his workers, who's that young 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.639 lady out in our fields. They explained how she was 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:38.040 a widow that had moved there from another country. He 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.840 could have said, tell her to get off my property, 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.399 this is private land, or he could have just dismissed it. 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.080 Not thought any more about it, that would be the end. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.480 But God caused Ruth to find fever with this man. 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.199 He went over to Ruth and told her how she 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:59.280 was welcome in his fields any time. He invited her 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.880 to have lunch with his workers every day. He told 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.199 those workers to leave extra wheat on the ground to 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.520 make it easy on Ruth. It looked like she was 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:14.159 stuck no future. All the odds were against her, but 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.240 she came to a point where it was one blessing 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:21.720 after another. She had so much wheat, more than she needed. 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:25.000 She was so excited. Not only that she ended up 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.520 falling in love with that man. They got married. Now 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.200 instead of working in the field, she owned the field. 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.640 Here's what I'm saying. When you have this commanded blessing 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:39.040 on your life, God will cause you to find favor 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.479 with the right people. You don't have to play up 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.680 to people. You don't have to try to manipulate someone 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.000 to convince them to like you. God will cause you 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:53.800 to stand out. He'll bring divine connections people that want 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.439 to help you, not because of what you can do 0:22:56.520 --> 0:23:00.320 for them, not because of your training, your expertise, looks, 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:04.879 your talents, simply because God has caused them to show 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:09.000 you favor. Ruth couldn't have made this happen. She didn't 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:12.399 know the man. She was a stranger in a foreign land, 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:17.200 a poor widow. Nothing in her circumstances said she would 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.960 ever be blessed successful owning that field. If you would 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.600 have told her that when she first arrived, she'd have said, 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:28.280 that's impossible. There's no way this can happen. When you 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:33.080 look at your circumstances, your dreams, those challenges you're facing, 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.399 you may think it could never work out. Like Peter, 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.760 you fished all night, it didn't happen last time, or 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.280 maybe like Ruth, you've had some disappointments. You're not where 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.320 you thought you would be in life. But God knows 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.879 how to not only bring the fish the provision, but 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:53.280 like with her, he's going to bring the right people, 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:57.000 people that will use their influence that will help you 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:01.399 go to the next level. If you could where God 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:04.280 is going to take you, it would boggle your mind. 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:07.640 The people he's going to bring, the doors he's going 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:11.440 to open, the influence he's going to give you. You're 0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:14.679 going to look back and say, I didn't see this coming. 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.240 I didn't see own in the field coming. I didn't 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:21.320 see the compact center coming. I didn't see the healing, 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:25.080 the freedom, the abundance. It's going to be more than 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:27.920 you can ask or think. This is what happened to 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:31.000 a friend of mine. He moved to Houston thirteen years 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:35.440 ago with a dream to pursue starting his own business. 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:39.040 He didn't know anyone here, didn't have any contacts, but 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:42.200 he took a step of faith. He arrived in Houston 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:46.359 on a Friday. That Sunday, he showed up at Lakewood. 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:50.960 A month later, he was volunteering as an usher, serving 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:55.920 in different ministries. Honoring God being his best. He started 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:59.919 his business in the financial industry. Doors begin to open. 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:04.000 He had challenges, obstacles, but along the way he could 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:07.920 see the hand of God. Last year, he was in 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:12.480 Chicago consulting with some clients. He met this older gentleman 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:16.800 who owned a huge financial firm, one of the largest 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:20.480 in the world. This older man took an interest in him. 0:25:21.000 --> 0:25:24.919 He started encouraging him and giving him advice. When this 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:29.240 young man told him his vision, all of his critics 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:32.119 thought it was too big, he could never accomplish it. 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:35.960 But this older man laughed and said don't believe them. 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:39.800 It's way too small. You're going to do something much bigger. 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:43.119 He had a desire to buy a part of this 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:48.280 young man's company. He came up with evaluation based on 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:52.080 what the company would be worth in the future, far 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:56.840 exceeding what it's worth today. My friend just sold twenty 0:25:56.880 --> 0:26:00.520 five percent of his company to this older gentleman. Now 0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:05.000 my friend owns one of the largest independent financial firms 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:10.320 in all of Texas. What's interesting. Thirteen years ago he 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:14.520 was stocking shelves in a grocery store to pay his rent. 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:17.080 If you were to ask him, he would tell you, 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:21.000 I didn't see this coming. Never dream my business would 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:23.800 take off. Never dream this man would be so good 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:26.480 to me. Never dreamed I would be a leader in 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:31.600 my field. That's the commanded blessing. You keep honoring God 0:26:31.880 --> 0:26:35.440 and he'll bring the right people. That older man didn't 0:26:35.480 --> 0:26:37.720 have to be good to him. He didn't have to 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:40.520 value the company the way he did. He could have 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:44.440 negotiated it the other way. But God will cause people 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.480 to want to be good to you. You may not 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:50.560 think you know the right people, you don't have the connections. 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:54.760 Don't worry. God does you keep honoring him, and he's 0:26:54.840 --> 0:26:57.720 going to cause the right people to find you. He's 0:26:57.760 --> 0:27:01.240 going to open the right doors. He's going to bring fish. 0:27:01.520 --> 0:27:04.560 One day, you'll look back and say, wow, I didn't 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:09.040 see that coming. It's because you've been commanded to be blessed. 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:14.359 But sometimes we live like we're commanded to struggle, commanded 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:18.119 to be lonely, commanded to be addicted. Change has to 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.840 take place on the inside in our thinking before it 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:24.679 happens on the outside. Why don't you get rid of 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:28.920 all the negative and start believing you're commanded to be blessed, 0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:32.800 commanded to be healthy, commanded to be free. If you'll 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:36.399 do this, I believe and declare like God did for 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:42.240 my friend, He's about to command increase, command, abundance, command, healing, 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:46.480 command freedom in Jesus's name. Have you received it today? 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.679 Can you say amen? I'd like to give you an 0:27:50.680 --> 0:27:54.240 opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 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