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If you 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.880 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.600 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:57.160 put God's very best in your life. Oh God bless you. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.240 It's a joy to come into your homes and we 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.760 come with good news. We know God is on your 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.760 side and he has a great plan for your life. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.040 And I trust today that you're going to be blessed 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:10.800 and encouraged. And if you're ever in our area, please 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.880 stop by and see us. We'd love to have you 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.240 be a part of one of our services. I promise 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.320 you'll will make you feel right at home. But thank 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.320 you so much for tuning in, Thanks for coming out 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.320 today once again. But I'd like to start with something funny. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.000 And I heard about this young lady. She brought her 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.639 fiancee home to meet her parents, and the dad said, okay, son, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.400 tell me a little about yourself. What do you do? 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.720 And he said, well, sir, I'm a Bible scholar. Dad 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.120 said that's great, but how are you going to provide 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.520 for my daughter? He said, well, I'm going to study 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.120 my Bible and I know God will provide. He said, well, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.960 find but how are you going to buy her an 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.960 engagement ring? He said, well, I know when I focus 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.720 on my studies that God will provide. He said, well, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.560 in a few years, y'all may have children. How are 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.880 you going to provide for them? He said, sir, please 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.639 don't worry about it. God will provide. Later that night, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.400 the man's wife asked him how the talk went with 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.880 their future son in law, and he said, not too good. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.160 He has no plans, no job, and he thinks that 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:07.800 I'm God. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.840 All right, hold up your Bible, say it like you 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.120 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.680 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.040 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.639 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:30.000 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.799 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.400 I want to talk to you today about the importance 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.200 of not getting stagnant in life. It's so easy to 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.560 get stuck in a rut to where we're not growing. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.600 Our marriage becomes stale, our finances are not increasing, We're 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.240 not as happy as we know we should be. The 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.240 problem is we become stagnant, and many times we just 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.440 kind of sit back and we learn to live with 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.480 things that are less than God's best. I want to 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.560 stir your faith today. You can rise higher, you can 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.040 be happier, you can have a better marriage, a more 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.600 fulfilled life. God has more in store for every one 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.800 of us. His dream is that we would continually be growing, 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.640 that we'd always be increasing and reaching for new heights. 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.160 But if this is going to happen, we've got to 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.520 learn how to shake off complacency. We've got to get 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.000 out of these ruts. There's a law found all through 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.480 the Bible called the law of sowing and reaping. It 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.320 basically says, what we sow, we're going to reap, And 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.040 if we keep doing the same thing the same way 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.880 year after year, then we're going to keep reaping the 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.279 same things. If you want to see change, you have 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.000 to get out of your routine. You've got to do 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.479 something that stretches you, something to where you have to 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:56.600 press beyond the norm. I call it sowing an extraordinary seed. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.280 It may not be something difficult. You can smile more 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.640 often for some of you, that would be an extraordinary seed. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.680 You can get to work five minutes earlier, come to 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:12.360 church more consistently, forgive a little quicker, not get upset 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:17.120 so easily. Those are all extraordinary seeds that will allow 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.640 God to do the extraordinary in your own life. But 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.760 you cannot keep doing the same thing the same way 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.240 and expect to get different results. If you want to 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.679 be happier, if you want to have a better marriage, 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.719 if you want to see increase, it all starts by 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.800 you sowing a seed. Now, a lot of times we're 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.960 just kind of waiting for God to bless us. We're 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.520 waiting for God to increase us, but we have to 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.880 give God something to work with. For instance, if you 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.960 want a better relationship with your family, why don't you 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.800 sow a seed by turning that TV off an hour 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.880 at night and spending that same time together. It's just 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.839 something small, but you're out of your routine, you're stretching, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.080 You're going beyond the norm. God always rewards that. Or 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.839 maybe you get up and pray ten minutes every morning, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.640 Well let me challenge it a pray fifteen, just an 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.440 extra five minutes and watch what God will begin to do. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.360 Maybe you normally give ten percent of your income, Well 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.479 why don't you stretch your faith and give just a 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.400 little bit more and just watch and see if God 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.799 doesn't begin to do extraordinary things in your life. Maybe 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.599 you have a child that's hard to get along with. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.599 He's always getting you down, kind of stealing your joy. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.599 Well you need to sow a seed of being more patient. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.120 Just make a decision. I'm not gonna be so uptight 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.520 about this. I'm not gonna let him steal my joy. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.239 I'm not gonna let him get me upset. I'm gonna 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:42.480 be more understanding. That's an extraordinary seed that God can reward, 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.760 but I want us to get out of these ruts. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.320 Doesn't matter who we are. Over time, anyone can get complacent, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.240 and I found that human nature is too easily satisfied. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.120 We have to constantly make sure that we're staying fresh 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.480 and that we're pressing beyond the status quo, especially in 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.280 our relationships. I know people today their marriage is as 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.000 stale as it can be. It's not growing. They don't 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.080 enjoy each other anymore. They've lost that spark. And the 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.960 sad thing is they're not doing anything about it. They're 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.800 just accepting it. Well, Joel, this is just the way 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.120 it is. We don't have anything in common. He doesn't 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.240 like to do what I like, or if she would 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.680 start treating me better, then things would be different. Now, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.520 quit waiting for that other person to change, and you 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.960 do what you can to make your marriage better. Sow 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.800 in extraordinary seed. Start treating that person with more respect 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.880 than ever before. Go out of your way to do 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.040 kind things for them, be more fun to be around. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.120 But you've got to do something out of your normal routine. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.320 I know, a while back, Victory and I had been 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.640 very busy traveling a lot, and we hadn't spent much 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.920 time together, and so I decided to do something out 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.080 of the ordinary, still let her know that I was 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.240 thinking about her. And so I had flowers delivered to 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.520 her every Monday morning for one month, just something different. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.240 It's funny. When she first opened up the card to 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.600 see who they were from, she said, oh look, Joel, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.360 they made a mistake, they said, these flowers are from you. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.080 Made me feel real good. But those flowers cost me 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.360 about one hundred bucks. Some of you, that could be 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.920 the best one hundred dollars that you could spend. It 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.320 would breathe new life back into your marriage. Just something small, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.160 so in an extraordinary seed. Well, Joel, I'm not going 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.920 to spend my money like that. She knows I love her. No, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.680 you need to put some actions behind those words, you 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:46.000 old stingy thing. Now, I'm asking us today to do 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.880 something out of our normal routine, something that stretches us. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.320 Instead of complaining that she won't ever go anywhere with you, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.640 why don't you swallow your pride and go somewhere with her, Or, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.120 better yet, why don't you get creative and plan an 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.120 event that she would enjoy going to. You can plan 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.640 an afternoon down at the beach. You can take her 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.520 to the galleria. That always works. But some of you men, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.520 if you plan something special, you may want to first 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.080 learn CPR in case she passes out, because you know 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.080 you hadn't done anything romantic in twenty seven years. But 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.240 I know we can all improve in some of these areas. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.320 We can be a little kinder. Let's be a little 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.360 less judgmental, a little quicker to forgive, a little more 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.000 pleasant to be around. But we need to do something 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.080 that stretches us out of the norm. I remember one 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.079 thing I did years ago is every time I went 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.880 to brush my teeth, I would reach over and put 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.720 toothpaste on Victoria's toothbrush. Just a little thing. Didn't take 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.040 me in extra five seconds. But I remember back then 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.800 Victoria was not only in a better mood, but once 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:57.240 a month she would cook dinner. Now, seriously, Victoria's a 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.840 great cook. Nobody can heat up those TV dinners like 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.960 you can. But do you know it's the little things 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.760 that keep a relationship growing. It's the little things that 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.840 keep it healthy. Let me ask you, what are you 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.760 doing to make your marriage better? Some of you may 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.560 not want to admit it, but that relationship is so 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.520 stagnant that unless you take the initiative and start doing 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.760 some fresh, new things, it's going to continue to go downhill. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.520 And as I said, you cannot wait for the other person. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.120 You've got to do it, do something out of your 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.920 normal routine to show that person that you care. So 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.520 an extraordinary seed. And we need to examine our lives 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.680 and see if there are areas where we're stuck, areas 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.080 where we're not growing. And I'll admit that my personality 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.640 type is naturally very routine. I'm a very structured person, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.080 and it's easy for me to get stuck in a ruck. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.000 It's easy for me to go year after year reading 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.480 the same amount of chapters in my Bible, giving the 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.520 same amount, praying the same amount of time. It's almost 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.440 like I'm on autopilot. But I've noticed when I do that, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.920 I just stay at the same level. I don't grow, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.880 I don't see as much of God's favor as I should. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.280 I have to constantly remind myself to stretch beyond the norm. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.800 I don't know about you, but I don't want to 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.680 be at this same place next year as I am 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.400 right now. I want to be a better father, a 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.920 better pastor a bigger giver. I want to grow, I 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.840 want to increase, and I've learned if it's not happening, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.640 it's not God's fault. He doesn't need to change. I 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.560 need to change. Maybe you're here today and you struggle 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.560 with addictions. Maybe you have a problem with smoking. You've 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.360 tried again and again to quit but just can't seem 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.600 to do it. Well, don't get complacent about it. What 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.400 I'm saying is, don't stay in that rut. Do something 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.679 out of the ordinary. Why don't you just give up 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.959 one cigarette a day, or instead of smoking the whole thing, 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.480 smoke three fourths of it. But do something out of 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.599 your normal routine. Let me tell you God sees that sacrifice, 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.679 and when you do your part, that's when God will 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.760 kick in and do his pot. But you've got to 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.040 do something that stretches you, Do something that makes you push. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.080 Maybe you're here and you're wanting to get in better shape, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.680 You're wanting to lose some weight. Well, why don't you 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.319 give up drinking so many cokes? Well, why don't you 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.600 exercise just ten minutes longer than you normally do. Don't 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.600 just sit back and accept it. Take that first step, 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.920 you know, sow that extraordinary seed. Now I hear people say, well, Joel, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.040 we all struggle with this in my family. We all 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.080 have these same addictions. Now that's what I'm talking about. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.960 Being complacent. You can be the one to change. Sow 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.040 that extraordinary seed. I hear people complaining all the time 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.240 about the place they work, when Joel, I don't like 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.680 my job, I don't like the people, I can't stand 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.360 the drive in traffic. Well, for you, an extraordinary seed 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.000 would simply be to change your attitude instead of complaining 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.360 about that job. Why don't you be grateful that at 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.520 least you have a place to work. Why don't you 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.679 start looking at what's right in your life instead of 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.560 looking at what's wrong. After all, what a shame to 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.600 go to that place year after year, miss complaining about it, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.760 dreading it. Life is too short for that. You've got 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.280 to get out of that rut and just make a 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.680 decision that you're going to be happy wherever you are. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.280 Put a smile on your face, cheer the other people up, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.440 don't sink down to their level. Be a person of 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.719 excellence there at the workplace, and do the right thing 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.520 even when it's hard. Even when you don't feel like it. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.280 That's sowing an extraordinary seed. I met a man in 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.959 the lobby not too long ago, and he commented on 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.760 how much he liked my tie. And of course you've 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.160 heard me tell stories about people that have liked my ties, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.720 and I've given it to them. And so now a 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.120 lot of times people come up and kid me about 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.440 liking my ties, kind of jokingly, knowing that I've given 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.960 them away. And in fact, some people come up and say, Joel, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.840 I really like that suit. Had one guy the other day, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.360 he said, Joel, I like your car. You've got a 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.880 beautiful house. I said, you can forget it, man. But 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.000 when this man commented about that tie, I knew that. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.000 I knew that, I knew right down in here that 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.560 I was supposed to give it to him. The problem 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.240 is I didn't want to. This tie was brand new. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.520 It was the first time I was wearing it, and 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.040 already several people told me how beautiful it was, and 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.920 I really liked it, and so my first thought was, yeah, God, 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.559 I'll give him a tie, just not this tie. I 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.840 begin to reason it out. I thought, I know exactly 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.080 the tie. I'll give him that tie that I don't 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.880 like anymore. You know that tie that we got coffee 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.560 on the other week, And you know, I begin to 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.720 make all these excuses, but right down in here I 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.680 just couldn't get away from it. I knew I was 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.760 supposed to give him that particular tie. See, that was 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.560 not an ordinary seed for me. That was an extraordinary seed. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.440 That's when God asked you to do something that's difficult. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.840 Maybe God asked you to apologize and it wasn't even 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.920 your fault. God asked you to be nice to somebody, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.520 yet they're not being nice to you, or like in 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.960 my case, he asked you to give away something that 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.680 you'll really like. It may be uncomfortable, it may be difficult, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.600 but if you'll do it anyway, you are sowing a 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.960 seed for God to do the extraordinary, a seed for 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.320 God to take it a new levels. You got to 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.480 realize God sees your sacrifice, He sees you going the 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.920 extra mile. Don't get complacent, don't just settle for mediocrity. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.160 Keep pressing forward. Let me ask you today, do you 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.640 have any extraordinary seed in the ground? Are you pressing 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.560 beyond the norm? Stretching yourself every day? I had this 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.120 single mother talked to me not too long ago, and 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:27.080 she brought me a doctor's bill from the hospital for 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.240 seventy eight thousand dollars. And I thought she was going 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.200 to ask us to help with it, or at least 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.520 ask us to pray, but she said, no, George, just 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.920 look down there at the very bottom, and I saw 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.680 in big bold letters, paid in full. And she told 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.200 how her child had been in the hospital, and this 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.080 single mom had been through a lot of adversities, a 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.240 lot of hardships, but she just kept on being faithful. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.880 She kept coming to church, she kept tithing her income, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.240 she kept having a good attitude. And that whole time 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.480 her relatives were telling her, you're just wasting your time, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.560 wasting your money. You should be keeping that for yourself. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.400 And she said how many times she was tempted to 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.400 get discouraged, she was tempted to just give up, but 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.880 she never did. She just kept on pressing forward. And 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.920 she had no idea how she'd ever be able to 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.680 pay off that debt. She didn't have insurance for it. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.200 But one day out of the blue, she got that 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.680 letter in the mail from the hospital that she was 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.640 showing me, and it was basically saying it was totally 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.280 and completely canceling her debt. And we've seen that kind 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.840 of thing happen time and time again. And let me 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.160 tell you, that's not a lucky break. That's not a coincidence. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.040 That's the fact that she's sowing all those extraordinary seeds. 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.080 She did the right thing when the wrong thing was 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.400 happening to her. She just kept on being faithful when 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.560 a lot of people would have just thrown in the town. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.000 And she could have easily just accepted it. She could 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.760 have just gotten used to it. Well, this is my 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:57.480 lot in life. Broke defeated in debt, But no, she 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.360 didn't get complacent. She just kept on sing forward. And 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.760 just like her, every one of you can rise higher. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.000 You can overcome any obstacle, you can have a better marriage, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.680 you can get out of debt. But you've got to 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.639 do your part by sowing extraordinary scenes. I was thinking 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.119 about Isaac. They're in the Bible. He was at a 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.000 time in his life when they were in the middle 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.920 of a famine. There was no food and no water. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.919 People were starving. What did Isaac do sit around and 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.119 complain about it? Did he sit around and just have 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.639 a pity party and say it's not fair. Now, the 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:33.199 scripture says in Genesis twenty six, verse twelve that in 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:37.159 the midst of that famine, Isaac so does seed in 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.520 the land. In other words, he planted his crops. And 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.879 can you imagine what the other people must have thought. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.080 There was no water to water the crops. He has 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.960 no way to irrigate his fields. And I'm sure his 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.440 friends said, Isaac, what in the world are you doing. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.959 You are wasting your time, your money, your energy. What 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.960 do you mean planting in the midst of a famine. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.040 But Isach didn't get discouraged. He didn't listen to the naysayers. 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.400 He just kept sewing those extraordinary seeds. The scripture goes 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:11.359 on to say that in the same year, Isaac received 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.640 a one hundredfold return. We have to remember that God 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.920 is in control. He's the one that created the universe. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.760 It doesn't matter what it looks like in the natural. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:26.280 He's a supernatural god. Your friends, your relatives, your coworkers 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:28.880 may be saying to you, do you really think you're 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.239 going to get out of debt? You really think your 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.960 husband's going to change? You really think you're ever going 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.440 to get well? Just like in this case. Many times 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.000 they'll try to talk you out of your dreams. Too 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.120 many people today they just get complacent and they live 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.120 with things that are less than God's best. But I'm 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.360 asking you today to do what Isaac did in your 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.439 time of need, in your time of famine. When it 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.560 doesn't look like anything's going to change, when the doctors 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.439 don't give you a good report, when the business is slow, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.080 you know what you've got to do. Just keep sowing 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:05.560 those extraordinary seeds. You keep praying, you keep believing, you 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.720 keep giving, you keep coming to church, you keep being faithful. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.960 God is keeping the wreckers. It may look impossible with men, 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.800 but it is possible with God. And as you just 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.720 keep on keeping on, you know what's happening. You're passing 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:23.440 the test. Those extraordinary seeds are taking root. One day, 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.720 you're going to reap the seeds that you've been sowing. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.080 God is a faithful God. What I'm saying today is, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.479 don't give up on your relatives. Keep praying for that husband, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.680 keep praying for that son, that aunt, that uncle, that grandmother. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.080 Keep calling them, keep inviting them to come to church, 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.919 keep encouraging them. You may not see anything happening. In 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.280 the natural. It may not look like anything is changing. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.160 But let me tell you, God is working behind the seas. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.800 He sees your diligence, he sees your faithfulness. Or maybe 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.920 you're here like that single mom and you don't think 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.880 you could ever get out of debt. You don't think 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.719 you could ever pay your house off. Joel Man, I've 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.320 gone as far as my education allows. You don't know 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.240 my situation. No, God is not limited by your education. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.159 Your job is not your source. God is your source. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.520 And God can give you one new idea. They can 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.800 thrust you to a whole new level. God can cause 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.080 you to be at the right place at the right time. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.080 He can cause his light to shine down on you 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.080 and favor you. You've got to just keep on passing 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.919 that test. I can promise you you're going to see the 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.640 extraordinary in your life. I was talking to another man 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.520 from Los Angeles. He was here for treatment at M. D. Anderson, 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:39.040 the cancer hospital here in town. He was having problems 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.800 with his kidneys. He would come in every three months 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.879 to have them tested, and the doctors told him that 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.639 very likely in the near future he would have to 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.200 go on dialysis. And not only that, that he may 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.240 have to have those kidneys removed. He had big tumors 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.040 on them and they were checking the growth. But this 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.720 man didn't just sit back and accept it. He didn't 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.240 just start making plans that instead, he started really praying. 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.560 He started really believing. And what I like about him 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:07.840 is he did it not only for himself, but he'd 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.639 go around the hospital praying for other people. He was 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.800 an encourager. Every time he came to Lakewood, he had 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.439 three or four of those cancer patients with him. So 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.080 in an extraordinary seed, don't you know a lot of 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.800 people in his situation would have been at home having 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:26.480 a pity party, depressed and dejected. Not him. He just 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.720 kept believing, stretching his faith, pressing beyond the norm. And 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:32.639 you know, the last time I saw him, just a 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.320 couple of weeks ago, he said, Joel, I came in 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.640 and the doctors tested my kidneys, and those doctors didn't 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.840 know what to tell me. They said, we can't find 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.639 any sign of a tumor on those kidneys. There's nothing 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.320 wrong with you. They said, we don't want to see 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:51.840 you for another year. Friends, God can supernaturally turn things around. 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.679 He made your body. He can create what you need, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:00.359 don't get disturage, keep on believing like Abraham, keep on 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:04.119 hoping on in faith like Isaac learned to sew a 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.240 seed in that time of famine. I won't just sit 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.640 back and get complacent and say, well, man, I guess 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:11.879 this is my lot in life. You heard what they said. 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:14.080 Now let me tell you what your lot in life is. 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:16.600 If you read God's word, your lot in life is 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.120 to be happy, to be healthy, to be a blessing 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:25.080 to others, to enjoy God's abundant life. Well, you say, Joel, 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.159 what if I pray and believe like he did and 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:30.320 nothing happens. Well, what if you pray and believe in 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.800 something does happen. Now, I realize not everybody gets healed 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.000 like that, but you'd still be better off to believe 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:40.040 than to sit around depressed and defeated. The fact is 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:41.960 one day we're all going to die. But I've made 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.440 up my mind. I'm gonna die in faith. I'm gonna 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:46.879 die believing. I'm gonna die with a smile on my face. 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:52.520 So in those extraordinary scenes. I loved the story in 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.480 March chapter five about this lady that had been sick 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.560 for twelve years. With a bleeding disorder, and she had 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.040 gone to many different doctors, spent all of her money, 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.879 but she continued to get worse. And I'm sure she 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:07.520 was very tempted to get discouraged. Medical science had given 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:09.840 up on her. She could easily gone home and just 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.000 pull the blinds and say, well, too bad, that's it 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:15.240 for me. But no, not this lady. She refused to 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.320 live with things that were less than God's best. She said, 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:20.600 you know what, I'm gonna do something out of the ordinary. 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.240 I'm gonna do something unusual, uncommon. I'm gonna reach out 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.040 and touch Jesus when he comes walking by. She had 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:31.120 a lot of opposition as Jesus came through her town. 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:34.000 There were so many people around him she couldn't get 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.280 to him, and so she had to fight her way 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:39.000 through the crowd. No doubt, she's having to push people 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.760 out of the way. She's sowing those extraordinary seeds, and 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:45.359 you know the story. As Jesus came by, right at 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.800 the last minute, she lunged out with all of her 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:50.680 might and just barely touched the edge of his robe, 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:55.199 and the Bible says immediately she felt a supernatural power 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:59.480 surge into her body. She was instantly made whome and friends. 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:02.080 When you get out of your routine and you press 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:05.000 in to really get to know God, you make decisions 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:08.080 that are pleasing to him. You stretch your faith, then 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:11.399 God will do the extraordinary in your life. And Jesus 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.080 stopped right there and he said to his disciples, who 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.600 just touched me? And they kind of laughed, said, what 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.480 do you mean, Jesus, everybody's touching, everybody's bumping into you. 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.840 He said, no, somebody touched me with such faith and 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:27.600 with such expectancy that they drew the miracle working power 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:30.560 right out of me. And about that time Jesus' eyes 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:34.280 met that woman's eyes. He smiled and said, daughter, your 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:37.840 faith has made you whole. Go in peace. And you 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:43.680 notice Jesus didn't say my faith has done it. No, 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:47.000 he said, because of your actions, because you went out 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:48.760 of your way. I'm going to go out of my 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.840 way and see when you sow those extraordinary seeds, God 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:56.040 can bless you in extraordinary ways. But I know too 0:24:56.040 --> 0:24:59.359 many people today they're stuck in a rut in their marriage, 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:02.280 in their finances, in their health. But I want to 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:05.600 shake you out of that complacency. Don't just sit back 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:07.760 and learn to live with things that are less than 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:11.399 God's best. God wants you to go higher. Are you 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:14.480 giving him anything to work with? Are you doing like 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:18.840 this lady and stretching your faith, pressing beyond the norm. 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:21.800 You need to do something out of the ordinary. That's 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:24.920 what gets God's attention. And some of you right now 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:27.560 you have areas in your life that are so stale, 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:32.560 and it's because you're not stretching. You've gotten comfortable. Do 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.000 you know you can even get stale coming to church. 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:37.880 I found you get out of something what you put 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:41.560 into it. And if you find yourself starting to get stale, 0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:45.040 that's God trying to get you to grow. Maybe it's 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:48.160 time that you start serving in one of our ministries, 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:52.840 teaching our children, visiting people at the hospital, standing at 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:55.359 the door and being a friendly face to greet people. 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:58.719 That would be an extraordinary seed that'll help get rid 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:02.240 of that staleness. Or maybe you're stale in your finances, 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.400 you're not seeing any growth, everything's the same year after year. 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:08.919 Well you've got to start planting some extraordinary seeds. Why 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:11.440 don't you stretch your faith and give a little bit more? 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:14.520 Or maybe instead of going out to eat one night. 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:17.760 Send that money to a friend that's struggling. If you 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:19.960 don't have extra money, I understand that, But you can 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:23.919 give your time. Maybe sit somebody's children, give somebody a 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:27.639 ride to church, most somebody's long, but do something to 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:31.520 get some extraordinary seed in the ground. Maybe you're stale 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.800 at the workplace. You haven't had a promotion, a bonus, 0:26:35.080 --> 0:26:37.760 a raise in a long time. Well maybe you need 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:39.960 to sow a seed by getting there a little earlier. 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:42.840 You need to stretch your faith by being a little 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:46.840 bit more productive, be a person of excellence on that job. 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:49.720 You know, go the extra mile, and God can use 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:52.359 that to bring promotion and increase in your life. I 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:55.240 believe then you'll see that new growth. But we have 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:59.360 to make sure that we're keeping ourselves fresh. When we're stelle, 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:02.960 it's boring. When it's stale, we just dragged through the 0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:06.720 day with no joy, no enthusiasm. It's because we're not growing. 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:09.000 You got to get out of that rut. If you 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:12.159 stay stale, you're gonna get molded. Now. I want us 0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:14.760 to go into this new year with a freshness, excited 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:17.000 about it. If that's going to happen, We got to 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:19.600 be willing to get out of our normal routine and 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:23.080 plant some extraordinary seeds. Remember, if we keep doing the 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:26.040 same thing the same way, we're gonna have the same results. 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:28.960 And I'm asking you today to find at least one 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:31.720 area in your life that you know that you're kind 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:35.280 of stale, and do something out of your normal routine 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:38.240 that honors God in a greater way. Maybe you're going 0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:40.320 to turn that TV off like we talked about at 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:43.400 night and spend more time with your family. Maybe you're 0:27:43.440 --> 0:27:46.440 gonna get up fifteen minutes earlier and spend a little 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:48.800 more time with God. Maybe you're going to just start 0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:51.960 treating the people in your life kinder and with more respect. 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:54.800 But do at least one thing out of your normal 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:58.240 routine for several months, be consistent about it, and you 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:00.919 just see if God doesn't do the extra ordinary. Just 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:03.680 see if that freshness doesn't come back and you begin 0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:07.280 to experience new growth. Friends, God has more in store 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:09.480 no matter where you are in life. He wants you 0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:11.720 to go up higher. But we got to get out 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:15.280 of these ruts. Let's learn to shake off complacency, and 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:18.840 we need to continually be pressing forward, pressing beyond the norm. 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:22.840 And I know if you will sow extraordinary seeds. God 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:25.560 is a faithful God, you will see the extraordinary in 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:28.880 your life. You won't be stale, You'll be fresh, You'll 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:31.720 be excited about the future. You'll be growing, and you'll 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.480 live that life of victory that God has in store. Amen. 0:28:35.400 --> 0:28:38.200 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:41.040 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:45.840 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:46.000 --> 0:28:51.000 repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I make 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:54.920 you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that 0:28:55.040 --> 0:28:58.200 simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 0:28:58.240 --> 0:29:01.720 a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's 0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:04.120 going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 0:29:05.000 --> 0:29:07.840 Thank you for listening to the Joel Loustine podcast. 0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:11.120 Help us continue to share the message of hope. 0:29:10.760 --> 0:29:14.440 With those all over the world. Visit Joeloustein dot com 0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:18.680 slash give Hope to give a gift today. Thanks so 0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:22.040 much for listening to today's message. I hope you'll subscribe 0:29:22.200 --> 0:29:24.960 so you can receive the latest podcast to keep you 0:29:25.120 --> 0:29:28.160 inspired all through the week. We're praying for you. I 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:31.080 know God's best is still ahead. 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