Day Forty One Is Coming

0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.800 Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.440 to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.400 believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:15.840 and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.320 God bless you. It's great to be with you today, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.959 and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.200 week to our daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media, and 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.639 you can come visit us in person. We'd love to 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.639 have you be a part of one of our services. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:32.440 So I'd like to start with something funny. And I 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.320 heard about this pastor. He was new in town and 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.520 he was going door to door inviting people to his church. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.000 And he knocked on this one door and he could 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.080 tell someone was home, but no one would answer. So 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.559 he took his business card out and wrote on the 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.440 back the scripture reference Revelation three twenty and left it 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.040 on the door. The next Sunday after service, and Usher 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.160 handed him the same card under what the pastor had 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.600 written was the scripture reference Genesis three. Here's what they say, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.120 Revelation three twenty. The pastor's words, behold, I stand at 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.920 the door and knock if anyone opens the door, I 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.640 will come in. The reply was Genesis three ten. It 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.280 says I heard your voice, and I was afraid because 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:20.160 I was naked. All right, y'all say it like you 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.160 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.640 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.959 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.520 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.480 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.360 never be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.720 I want to talk to you today about day forty 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.800 one is coming. We all go through seasons of testing 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.000 and proving and times of adversity and struggle where we're 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.320 praying and believing, but things aren't changing. In the Scripture, 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.000 these seasons are described as four forty days. Forty is 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:06.200 a symbolic number. It refers to seasons of testing and 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.840 struggle where it doesn't look like things are going to change. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:11.840 After Noah built the arc. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:13.720 It rained for forty days. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.480 Jesus was tempted in the desert for forty days. Goliath 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:23.360 taunted the Israelites forty days. Moses made a mistake, wandered 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:24.000 in the desert. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.840 Forty years in life. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.399 We'll all have a few forty day experiences where we're 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.359 facing a giant that looks too big, a slow season 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.600 in the desert, so to speak, a storm where it 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:42.480 keeps raining, medical reports not improving, child not coming home, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.120 still haven't met the right person. It's tempting to get 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.000 discouraged and. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.239 Give up on her dreams. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.080 But when you're in one of these forty days thoughts 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.920 telling you it's never going to change, you have to 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.520 know Day forty one is coming. The scripture says God 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.360 has said it an end to the difficulty. Now, I 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.680 can't promise you you won't have some forty days, but 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.120 I can promise you day forty one will always come. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.120 But the number forty, it's a lot of attention. You 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.520 have to stay focused on the forty one. Yes, it 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.720 rained for forty days, but on day forty one the 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.799 rain stopped and Noah and his family were saved. Yes, 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.799 the enemy tempted Jesus forty days, but on day forty one, 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.120 angels showed up and strengthened him. Yes, Goliath taunted the 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.240 Israelites forty days, but on day forty one, David showed 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.280 up and put an end to him. You may be 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.720 in a forty day period. Now doesn't look like you'll 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.960 ever get well or get out of debt. See your 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.520 family restored. You could complain and be negative. Try a 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.960 new approach. Father, Thank you that my day forty one 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.400 is coming. Thank you that you've already set an expiration 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.400 date for this trouble. God told Noah to build the 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.280 ark it had never rained. He could have come up 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.400 with good excuses to not do it, but he obeyed. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.800 He did the right thing when it was hard. He 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.200 didn't have trouble because he was lazy and wouldn't listen. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.880 He faced his forty days because he was faithful, because 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.240 he honored God and wouldn't take the easy way out. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.760 When you're in a forty day period, thoughts will whisper 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.200 because you've made those mistakes. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.640 You should have done better. God's upset with you. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.240 We think the storm is always God's judgment. Sometimes, like Noah, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.719 your forty days is a result of being obedient. It's 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.360 because you're honoring God, not that you've done something wrong. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.760 But you've done something right. God can trust you to 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.320 pass the test to keep an attitude of faith and 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.520 now we don't like the trials. It's uncomfortable, but that 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:01.559 forty days is positioning you for greater things. God knows 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.279 the end from the beginning. We see the forty days, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.120 but God sees day forty one. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.680 He sees what he's about to do. You have to 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.000 go through it to get to it. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.119 You have to persevere. You have to stand in faith. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.440 The scripture says, having done all to stand, that means 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.599 you just keep standing. Your attitude is I will not 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.960 give up. I will not get bitter. Yes, it's still raining. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.240 I don't see a sign of things changing. But I 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.359 know a secret. These forty days is not how my 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.680 story ends. Day forty one is coming. God has not 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.800 brought you this far to leave you. Get your passion back. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.440 This test is only temporary. God being for you is 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.520 more than what's coming against you. Now. I love the 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.279 faith of Noah because everyone would have been making fun 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.680 of him, this crazy goud building a boat out in 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.320 the desert. There's no water to put it in. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:02.760 He says, it's going to flood. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.160 Despite all the negative chatter, he just kept doing what 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.160 God put in his heart. He finished building the boat 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.480 and got him and all of his family on it. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.080 The scripture says God closed the door. There was a 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.200 time no one else could get in. Started raining one day, 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.960 two days, a week, two weeks, three weeks. The whole 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.240 earth was flooded, wiped out all the people and animals, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.159 plants and houses. The scripture says it was torrential rains, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.000 not just a little sprinkle. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:35.760 This was a huge storm. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.279 I'm sure it was chaotic, the boat rocking, the wind's blowing, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.440 But think about how good God is. Noaeh was rising 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.719 above what was destroying others. Even though he was in 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.960 a storm. God was sustaining him, not letting him go down. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.520 When you're in a forty days season, you may not 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.440 realize it, but God's not letting you go under That 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.960 sickness couldn't take you out, had trouble at work. It 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.760 was hard, but you had the strength to endure that 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.680 child that broke your heart. You look back now and 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.239 think how did you make it through? That was God 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:18.000 keeping you, strengthening you, favoring you. You can't always see 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.280 it in the storm, but God is working. He's a 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.080 very present help in times of trouble. That means in 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.920 the forty days he's close to you. He's not allowing 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.920 the difficulty to take you out. And I'm sure after 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:37.360 a couple of weeks of rain and wind, thoughts whispered 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.000 to Noah, it's never going to stop raining. This storm 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.080 is permanent, same thoughts that come to us. You'll always 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:49.360 have that trouble and always struggling your finances, always have 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.360 to deal with this depression. No one would wake up 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.240 each morning. I can imagine first thing he'd do was check, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:00.200 oh man, it's still raining. Nineteen days in a row, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.640 twenty five days, thirty three days, no sign of the 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.960 rain stopping. He went to bed on day forty seemed 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.760 like just another ordinary day, more wind, more rain, dark clouds. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.960 Little did he know when he woke up on day 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.040 forty one, the rain had stopped, the wind had ceased, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.240 the sky had cleared, the sun began to shine. Was 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.840 the dawning of a new season. All those thoughts that 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.880 had told him it was never gonna stop raining and 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:35.319 he'd always be in that limited environment, he realized they 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.000 weren't true, that God had set an end to the difficulty, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.240 that it was just a season. Light. Noah, you may 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.520 be in your forty days. You've done the right thing 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.360 You've honored God, but it's raining, the medical reports not good, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.960 or doors have closed on your dreams, or you're dealing 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.439 with that anxiety and thoughts were whisper. 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:58.680 It's never gonna change. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.600 God's forgotten about you. You can I encourage you. Day 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:07.080 forty one is coming. The rain will cease, the storm 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:11.160 will stop, the trouble will end. You are closer than 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.680 you think. You can't see it, but things are about 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.680 to shift in your favor. You're on the verge of 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:22.240 a breakthrough, your health turning around, your child coming home, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.320 your business taking off. It's gonna happen suddenly, unexpectedly. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:28.319 You didn't see it. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.000 Coming, Like Noah. You went to bed one night thinking 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.920 everything would be the same. You woke up the next 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.000 morning and the rain had stopped. God stepped in and 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.520 did what only he can do. See some storms you 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.240 can't stop. There are some battles you can't win. It's 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.320 gonna take the most high God breathing on your life. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.640 And the good news is he's watching over you. He 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.200 sees a little sparrow when they fall to the ground. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.920 How much more is God concerned about you? He knows 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.040 the struggles, He knows who did you wrong and what 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.640 looks impossible. He wouldn't have let you get in that 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.760 difficulty if he couldn't bring you out. And the scripture 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:17.640 tells us to wait with expectancy, wait believing that it's coming. Wait, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.200 thanking God that is on the way, Wait, expecting things 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.559 to change in your favor. 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:24.760 Not waiting discouraged. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.760 And I don't think I'll ever get well, and I'll 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.320 never get that scholarship. This addiction's been in my family 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.840 for years. You're the one to break it. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.880 God raised you up to set a new standard. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.839 May have been that way a long time, but don't 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.240 accept it as permanent. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.319 That's the mistake the Israelites made. 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:49.000 They wandered in the desert forty years because they never believed. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:54.600 They complained, had a limited mindset. But their children had 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:59.160 a different mentality. They didn't see themselves as former slaves. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.200 These enemies are too big. They had a victorious mentality. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.959 They realized they were children of Almighty God, that defeat. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.760 Was not their destiny. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.200 And after their parents wandered around the same mountain for 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:17.920 forty years, these children came into forty one. They went 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.760 into the Promised Land. They lived in houses, they didn't build. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.520 They ate from vineyards. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.480 They didn't plant in a land flowing with milk and honey. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:33.199 Abundance more than enough. That happened after forty years of black, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:38.400 forty years of struggle, forty years of mediocrity. There may 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.960 be things that have been in your family a long time, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:47.280 can't get ahead, Stuck in a limited environment, unhealthy relationships, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.800 people that compromise, addictions, loneliness. God is saying that forty 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.000 years has run its course. You're coming in to forty one. 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.160 In forty one, you break out of the box and 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.240 go into your promised land. In forty one, you see 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.320 favor that your family's never seen. In forty one, there's 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.200 opportunity chasing you down the right people knocking. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:12.480 At your door. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.440 In forty one, there's creativity, ideas, and talent that you 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:23.160 didn't know you had. In forty one, you're catapulted into influence, leadership, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.560 positions of honor, and authority. You may be in some 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:32.160 wilderness years now where there's struggle adversity. You have to 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:33.960 know that is not your destiny. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:35.760 Day forty one is coming. 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.400 Six months after the rain stopped, the waters begin to recede, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.720 and Noah sent a raven out to see if it 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.880 could find dry ground, hoping he could get off the boat. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.320 But the raven came back there was nowhere to land. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.319 It was still flooded. Well, Noah didn't get discouraged, thinking 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.840 it was never going to change. He waited a few 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.320 weeks and sent another bird out. This time it came 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.840 back with an in its beak. The bird couldn't land, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.120 but Noah knew things were getting better. A week later, 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.200 he sent a dove out, and the dove never returned. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.280 There was dry ground. They were able to get off 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.680 the boat. But notice how Noah kept looking and believing, 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.520 knowing that the boat was not his destiny. He knew 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.319 that God was faithful, that it may storm for forty days, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.120 but day forty one is coming. When you're in a storm, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.240 you have to do like Noah. Keep expecting things to change, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:33.040 don't let. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.679 It become permanent. Keep sending out that bird. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.440 So to speak, Keep looking for God's goodness, keep believing 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:42.480 for your business to turn around. Keep thanking God that 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.199 the right people will show up. I talked to a 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.280 lady that was in town for treatment at the medical center. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.120 She'd been diagnosed with a rare form of kidney cancer. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.960 She'd had it for six years. She'd been through chemotherapy 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.359 several times. The doctors had put her on a special 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.959 trial experimenting with new medicines, but with no success. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.520 She'd come to church when she is in town, and 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.040 she was always full of faith. I couldn't encourage her. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.120 She would encourage me. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.800 She told me how that cancer was temporary, that it 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.640 would pass, that she was going to be a testimony 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:19.600 of God's goodness. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:21.760 I just smile and agree with her. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.000 Well, she came last Sunday so excited. She showed me 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.640 the scans of her kidney. On one you could see 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.960 the dark spot the cancer. But on the newest scan, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:38.600 it's perfectly clean. There's no sign of cancer. The doctor said, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.080 of all the hundreds of patients on this special trial, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.440 she's the only one that's seen improvement. Se it's not 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.120 just the medicine. It's Jehovah Rafa, the Lord, our healer. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.200 What happened? She came in to a forty first day. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.600 You may be dealing with a sickness or some difficulty, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.040 and you're in your eighteen day, your twenty fifth day, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:03.480 thirty seventh day. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.160 You have to do like her, and keep. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.760 Reminding yourself that Day forty one is coming, that the 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.920 storm is not going to last, that the trouble is 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.360 not permanent. The same God that stopped the rain for 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.920 Noah is going to stop the rain in your life. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.720 The same God that took the children of the Israelites 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.880 into the Promised Land is going to take you into 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:30.520 your promised land, where there's no more wandering, no more sickness, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:32.160 no more can't get ahead. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.120 Day forty one is on your calendar. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:40.240 God has already scheduled the turnaround, the healing. It's already 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.120 lined up, the breakthrough, the divine connections. Just a matter 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.320 of time before the wind cease, the waters recede, and 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.920 you step in to a new level of your destiny. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.280 See the scripture says, don't think it's strange when you 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.160 face fiery trials that tests the quality. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:15:59.400 Of your faith. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.960 Sometimes the forty days is simply a test. It's a 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.040 time to prove to God who you are, to show 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.880 him that you're not going to be discouraged by the rain. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.760 You're not going to get bitter over who did you wrong. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.680 You're not going to complain because your plans didn't work out. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:21.200 Your business hasn't taken off yet, you lost a loved one. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:22.880 Your attitude in the storm. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.400 How we respond to the trials will have a great 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.480 impact on when we see the forty first day. When 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.840 you show God that you trust him, you're not moved 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:38.760 by the rain. You're still believing, praising, thinking, smiling. You're 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.520 passing the test. That's when he'll release greater things in 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.600 your life. When Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.520 he came up out of the water and the dove 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.480 landed on his shoulder. A voice booned out of the 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.760 heavens said, this is my beloved son, and whom I'm 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.960 well pleased. Was an incredible moment where Jesus was public 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:01.920 announced for the first time. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.600 You would think Jesus would go to the. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.919 City and start healing people and doing great miracles. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.680 I'm sure he's all fired up and ready to go. 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.199 But the scripture says the spirit led him into the 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.479 wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Doesn't say that 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.560 the enemy led him there, that the opposition was trying 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.679 to hold him back. It said God led him to 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.520 the desert for a period of testing. You can be 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.879 in God's will and be in the desert for forty days. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.479 The enemy tempted Jesus, you're hungry, turn these stones into bread, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.600 bow down and worship me. I'll give you the kingdoms 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.200 of the world. Jump off this building. Prove that you're 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.400 the son of God. Forty days it was a struggle. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.480 Jesus was hungry, he had been fasting. He had to endure, 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:57.639 resist and outlast. But he passed the test and proved 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.639 that he was faithful, that he wouldn't compromise. Forty days 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:06.200 it was difficult. Then day forty one came. Angels showed 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.080 up to strengthen him and empower him. Day forty one 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.199 Jesus came out of the desert. The scripture says, in 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.119 the power of the spirit, he stepped into a new authority, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.399 a new anointing, a new dimension of his destiny. And 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.760 it says in Luke that he went to the temple, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.159 stood in front of the people, and read from the 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.439 scroll of Isaiah. It said, the spirit of the Lord 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:36.000 is upon me to preach the good news, to heal 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.360 the sin, to set at liberty those that are captive, 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.560 to declare the acceptable year of God's favor. He rolled 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:48.200 up the scroll and said, this day this scripture is fulfilled. 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.399 Was seven hundred years earlier Isaiah had written this prophecy. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:55.960 Jesus said, today is. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:00.520 Coming to pass. After being tempted for forty days, on 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.680 day forty one, Jesus stepped in to what was declared 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.600 about him hundreds of years earlier. You may be in 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:13.400 a time of testing improving now it's difficult, but you're 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:17.439 keeping the right attitude. The medical report hasn't improved, but 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.240 you keep thanking God for healing. People at work didn't 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.240 give you the credit. You keep being your best each day. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.919 You could be bitter over the door that closed, the 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.040 person that walked away, but you know God has something 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:36.080 better coming. You're passing the test. Like Jesus, You're going 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.959 to come in to the forty first day. Not only 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.920 will you feel a strength and power that you've never felt, 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.640 but you're going to step into things that God prophesied 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.119 over you long before you got here. Things He has 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:55.720 spoken over your destiny before you were born. God said 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.399 to Jeremiah, before you were formed in your mother's womb, 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:04.120 ordained you to be a profit to the nations. On 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:09.560 your forty first day, you'll fulfill prophecy, favor, influence greater 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.720 than you've imagined. Now, don't get discouraged in the testing 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.600 in the wilderness seasons. Those are times approving where you 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.000 have to show God what you're made of. You may 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.120 be in day fifteen, now, thoughts whisper, this is never 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.919 going to change. Day twenty two. You'll always be overlooked. 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.720 Day thirty four. Just take the easy way out. 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:37.240 Everyone's doing it. No stand strong, keep doing the right thing. 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:43.560 The end is already set, the time of struggle, testing, loneliness. 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:48.959 That expiration date is already scheduled. Day forty one is coming. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.720 Day forty one is an anointing of ease, where what 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.680 used to be a struggle is not a struggle anymore. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.399 Day forty one is when the person of your dream 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:03.919 shows up, someone better than you've imagined. Day forty one 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:08.080 is when you see restoration, beauty for ashes, God working 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.200 all things for your good, and some of you don't 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:15.200 realize you're in Day thirty eight. Day thirty nine. You're 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:18.359 too close to quit. You're on the verge of what 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.399 you've been believing for. This is not the time to 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:25.160 get discouraged, give up. You have to dig down deep 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.040 and say I am in it for the long haul. 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.240 I will not be moved God. I believe by. 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.840 Day forty one is coming, this storm will cease, and 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.440 I'll see your goodness in new ways. When you do that, 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.440 you're going to feel a second wind God, breathing fresh strength, 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:45.439 greater endurance, new visions, so you can make it to 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:50.480 forty one. My father pastored Lakewood for forty years. He 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.520 and my mother started the church at nineteen fifty nine, 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.959 and he passed in nineteen ninety nine, and I stepped 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.440 up to pastor, and we thought, if we could just 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.439 keep the church go and we'd be doing great. If 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.280 we could just maintain and not let it go down, 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:08.600 that would be a victory. My father was such a 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.440 strong leader, powerful minister, big personality. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.640 He was my hero man. 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:16.840 If I could be half of what he was, I'd 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:19.840 be doing great. And I'd been behind the scenes all 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.359 those years doing the production, and I'm naturally more quiet 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:24.119 and reserved. 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:26.520 I didn't have all the training. 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:30.600 The experience, But when my father suddenly passed, I didn't 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:36.480 realize I stepped into your forty one. I stepped into favor, influence, 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:41.960 opportunity that my father never saw. Forty one is where 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:46.560 God catapults you ahead. We were hoping to maintain the church, 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:48.840 but here we are in the form of compact center. 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.320 You know what this is day forty one. 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:53.399 There are some. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:57.960 Forty ones in your future. You've been faithful, you passed 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:02.080 the task. You're gonna see God show out in your life. 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.840 Open doors you never dream would open, turn situations around 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:09.040 that you thought were permanent. Don't believe those lives that 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:10.479 you've seen your best days. 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:12.399 Day forty one is coming. 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:17.720 Goliath was the champion the Philistine army, who was over 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.600 nine feet tall. The scripture says, for forty days he 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:24.600 stood on the side of the mountain morning and evening 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:31.280 and taunted the Israelites, making threats, insults, pestering them. When 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:35.160 the Israelite army heard him, they were terrified. They'd run 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:40.320 and hide forty days, paralyzed in fear. Forty days they 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:43.720 thought there were no way out facing an angry giant 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.760 twice their size. All of us will have some goliath 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:51.199 in life. Not just the size, but how about the 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.639 negative chatter, people that tell you you can't accomplish your dream, 0:23:56.160 --> 0:24:00.000 you'll never get well. Sometimes the goliath is our own things. 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:03.840 You're too small, you're not attractive, you don't have what 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:08.400 it takes. For forty days, God allowed the giant to speak, 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.320 to insult, to threaten, But God has set an end 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:13.360 to the difficulty. 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:17.560 Day forty one, a teenage boy named David showed up. 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:22.520 He heard Goliath walking the Israelites. He saw everyone run 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:25.879 and hide, but something rose up in him, a fire, 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:30.240 a passion of courage. He looked at Goliath and said, 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:34.720 who is this uncircumcised philistine? That he should defy the 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:38.160 armies of a living god. He was saying, in effect, 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:41.800 this may have gone on for forty days, but day forty. 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:42.080 One is here. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:47.400 He picked up a smooth stone, slung that rock, and knocked. 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:48.280 Goliath to the ground. 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:52.639 He took Goliath's sword, cut his head off. Well, Joel, 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:55.200 I can't wait till David shows up and does something 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:56.119 about my giant. 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.800 Can I tell you a secret. You're the David. You're 0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:02.199 the to defeat what's limiting you. 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:07.040 God allowed it for a forty day season, a certain 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:10.600 amount of time, but it's not permanent. You're not supposed 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:14.080 to run and hide and live indeimidated. This sickness is 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:17.720 too big. These people at work are so much more powerful. 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:22.520 I'm the underdog. God loves to use the underdog. He 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.560 loves to take those who people think are too small, 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:27.480 don't have the training. 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:29.040 They expect you to. 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:33.200 Hide, live with the dysfunction. Deep down, you're gonna feel 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:38.159 what David felt, a supernatural power, a divine enablement, a 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:42.480 favor on your slingshot, to where you rise up and say, 0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:46.040 I'm the giant killer. I'm the difference maker. I'm the 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:49.120 one to put an end to what's hindering My family 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:53.320 may have gone on for forty days or forty years. 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:57.600 God is saying day forty one is here. The giant 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:01.320 is about to come down. I'm just about to turn around. 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:05.439 That struggle and lack is coming to an end. Friends, 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:07.639 I can't promise you that you won't have some forty 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:11.880 days like Noah, where it rains in storms, like Jesus. 0:26:12.119 --> 0:26:16.040 We're in the desert, being tempted like David, facing a 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:21.360 big obstacle, thoughts taunting you. But I can promise you, Dave, 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:22.520 forty one is coming. 0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:24.440 God is faithful. 0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:27.480 He has you in the palm of his hand. He 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:31.080 sees you being faithful, doing the right thing. When it's hard. 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:34.919 You are passing the test, when those lives whisper that 0:26:35.200 --> 0:26:38.440 it's never going to change. No, Remember, God has set 0:26:38.480 --> 0:26:39.960 an end to your difficulty. 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:43.240 He's already scheduled the expiration day. 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:47.080 Now, I believe and declare, like with Noah, the storm 0:26:47.200 --> 0:26:50.640 is about to cease, like the children of the Israelites. 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:52.680 Bondages that have held. 0:26:52.480 --> 0:26:56.960 Your family back are being broken, Like David, that giant 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:00.439 that's been taunting you. The sickness, the addiction, the trouble 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:04.280 at work is coming down. And you will go into 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:08.840 your promised land in Jesus' name, and if you receive it, 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:12.919 can you say amen? I'd like to give you an 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:16.480 opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would 0:27:16.480 --> 0:27:20.359 you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent 0:27:20.440 --> 0:27:24.119 of my sins, Come into my heart. I'll make you 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:27.800 my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer, 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:30.920 we believe you got born again. We'd love to send 0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:33.440 you some free information on your new walk with the Lord. 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:35.959 You can text the number on the screen or go 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.560 to the website. But I hope you'll get into a 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:42.320 good Bible based church and keep God first place. 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:48.119 Sometimes the circumstances of life can be overwhelmingly negative. What 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:51.000 should we do when we experience these kinds of negative 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:52.320 reports and realities. 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:57.520 Our life is like a container. It can only hold 0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:01.760 so much. When we allow negative things like worry, guilt, 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:05.520 and unforgiveness, that's taking up space for the good things 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:08.159 that belonged to you. That's why I wrote my book, 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:10.720 Empty Out the Negative. I'll show you how to get 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.840 rid of what's limiting you so you can live a victorious, 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:14.880 fulfilled life. 0:28:15.200 --> 0:28:18.320 When you make room for joy, peace and faith, God 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:19.480 will fill you afresh. 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:21.639 And a news as our way of saying thank you 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:24.520 for your gift of any amount to the ministry this month, 0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:28.240 Joel and Victoria would like to send you this powerful book. 0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:32.560 Empty out the negative, Empty out fear, and replace it 0:28:32.640 --> 0:28:37.880 with faith. 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