Ease Is Coming

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And if you're ever in our area, please 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.560 stop buy and be a part of one of our services. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.320 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.400 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.840 about this mother. She had two young boys that were 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:01.120 known for their mischievous behavior. Anytime trouble they were certain 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.920 to be a part. She decided to take them one 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.200 at a time to see their pastor. The pastor said 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.520 to the first young boy, son, where is God? He 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.880 sat there silently. He asked again, where is God? 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:14.960 Still no reply. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.400 The third time the pastor asked, the young boy bolted 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.080 out the door, ran home and said to his brother, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:22.240 God is missing. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.960 And they think we did it. Say it like you 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:26.360 mean it. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.679 This is my Bible I am what it says I am. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.480 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.120 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.880 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.080 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.120 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.080 to talk to you today about ease is coming. We 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.400 all go through seasons of struggle when it feels like 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:59.040 it's uphill. There's pressure raising children. Maybe you're believing for 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.480 your health to improve, but it's not getting better. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:03.120 Too often we. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.120 Get discouraged and think that's just the way life is. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.160 In Matthew chapter eleven, Jesus talked about how the Kingdom 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.280 of Heaven suffers violence and you have to take it 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.440 by force. He was telling us there will be seasons 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.400 where you have to stand strong and really fight the 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.200 good fight of faith. But a few verses later in 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.079 the same chapter, he said, my yoke is easy and 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.840 my burden is light. He was saying, there will be 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:38.640 times of struggle, pressure, difficulties, but don't get discouraged. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:39.800 That's not permanent. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.119 What I'm putting on you. My yoke it's easy, it's light. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.920 You may be struggling now, you feel pressured. You think 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.560 that's the way it's always going to be. You'll always 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.040 struggle with your health, struggle in a relationship, struggle in 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.480 your finances. No, you're going to come in to an 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.800 anointing of ease. When you come into this ease, what 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.839 once was a struggle won't be a struggle anymore. You're 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.760 going to have a supernatural grace of favor that will 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.440 lighten the load and take the pressure off. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.720 God is going to make your life easier. He said, he. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.240 Would go before you and make your crooked places straight. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.960 That means he's going to smooth things out. You're coming 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.240 into a season where things are going to fall into place. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.680 You're going to get breaks that you didn't see coming. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.640 Problems that you thought were permanent are suddenly going to 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.840 turn around. You are not going to go through life 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:44.400 constantly struggling, pressured, weighted down by problems. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.799 This is a new day. Ease is coming, David said. 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:53.240 God anoints my head with oil. Oil makes things flow. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.400 When there's friction, things that are stuck. Oil is used 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.880 to lubricate it to make it more fluid. God is 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.560 going to oil your life. This anointing is going to 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.440 cause things to be easier. You're going to accomplish more 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.719 with less effort. What stopped you in the past, what's 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.680 caused friction, is not going to stop you anymore. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.200 You're gonna flow right past that. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.719 You're going to accomplish golds and think. That was easier 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.839 than I thought, never dreamed it happened that quickly. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.880 That's this anointing of ease. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.760 There's a large company that has a slogan that says 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.960 that was easy. A few years ago, a friend of 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.599 mine sent me their big red button. When you push it, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:43.279 it says, now, I keep this by my bathroom sink 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.280 there on the counter. Every so often I reach over 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.680 and push this button. I like to get that phrase 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.560 down in my spirit because it's easy to go through 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.960 life looking at our problems, focus on our obstacles, thinking. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.320 Oh man, this is gonna be so hard. I dread 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.400 dealing with this. It's never going to work out. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.800 That's mindset is not only stealing our joy, but it's 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.440 keeping us from seeing God's favor. When my dad went 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.960 to be with the Lord and I first started ministering, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.640 it took everything I had to write a message for 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.120 that weekend, all my focus, my creativity, my energy. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.160 I was pressured, stressed. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.200 When I finally finished, I felt like that's the last 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.480 one that I could ever do. And if I wasn't careful, 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.479 I was tempted to dread it and think this is 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.919 too hard, I'm not going to know what to say. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.159 I can't do this anymore. I had to turn it around. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.040 Father, Thank you that. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.040 Your yoke is easy. Thank you that I'm well able. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.760 Thank you that you've equipped me and empowered me. I 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.480 got my mind going in. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:49.279 The right direction. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:54.120 I went through seasons of struggle, strained, difficulty, but I 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.760 didn't let it become permanent in my thinking. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:58.400 One day I. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.880 Came into this anointing of ease. What once was a 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.719 struggle is not a struggle anymore. Every week when I 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.880 finish a message, I hit this button just to remind. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.360 Me that it was easy. Quit telling yourself this is 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:14.000 so hard. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.160 I'll never accomplish my dreams, I'll never get out of debt. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.040 This is a new day. You are going to have 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.120 a strength that you did not have before. God did 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.880 not create you to struggle your whole life. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.640 His yoke is easy. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.200 You may have had that addiction for a long time. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.240 It's going to be easier than you think to break it. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.200 You're going to have a supernatural power. Maybe you're struggling 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.720 in your finances, pressure to pay the bills, pressure to 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.360 get ahead. I believe that pressure is coming to an end. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.600 God is going to cause good breaks to find you. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.640 New doors are going to open. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.520 Your gifts and talents are going to come out in. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.480 A new way. It's going to be easier than you think. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.400 A couple of years after I wrote my first book, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.680 a man was walking by Madison Square Garden one evening 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.800 there in New York. He was an executive at one 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.840 of the largest publishing companies in the world. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.040 He saw my name on. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.840 The marquee and people waiting in line to get in. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.600 He'd never heard of me, and he went home and 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.400 did some research. He called my literary agent and said 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.680 that he wanted to publish my next book. She told 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.480 him that we already had a publisher and we were happy. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.920 He asked if he could make an offer. She said, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:32.720 of course you can. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.880 He offered an amount more than I ever imagined. When 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.840 she called and told me, I nearly passed out. I said, boy, 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.320 you sure do great work. She said, Actually, Joel, I 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.360 didn't go to him, He came to me. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.679 I thought to myself, that was easy. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.520 That was God lining up the right people, having him 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.120 at the right place at. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:57.720 The right time. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.560 If he had not left to work late that night, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.679 he wouldn't have seen those people in line. If he 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.840 had not taken that train home, he wouldn't have been 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.240 in that area. If he had have been preoccupied, he 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.319 could have walked by the arena just thought it's another ballgame, 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.400 another concert. All these things had to fall perfectly into place. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.080 That was the hand of God making my life easier. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.360 God has the right people lined up for you. He 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.720 has the right breaks, the right opportunities. You may not 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.880 have seen it, yet you keep honoring God being your best. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.040 He's going to take you into overflow. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.400 You are not going to go through life pressured by bills, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.280 pressured to make ends meet, pressure to send your children 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:49.439 to college. God is going to do something unusual, something unexpected, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:50.199 something that. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.520 You couldn't make happen. I know a single parent mother. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.720 She was working hard, raising her children, trying to make 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.840 ends meet. Every month, bare had enough to pay her bills. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.160 She told how she dreamed of taking a vacation, but 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:09.680 every time she saved up extra funds, something would. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.120 Break that had to be repaired. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.160 She was being her best, but couldn't get ahead. It 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.520 seemed like she would struggle her whole life. When you 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.359 keep doing the right thing, you keep passing these tests, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.640 you're going to come in to this anointing of ease. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.400 God is going to make things happen that will lighten 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.280 the load. He's going to take the pressure off. One day, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:38.440 her supervisor unexpectedly took an early retirement and she was 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:43.280 given that position. With it came a significant increase in salary. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.280 She was very grateful. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:50.280 Several years later, her manager, one of the vice presidents 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.480 of this large company, suddenly resigned and she was given 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.360 that position. Today, she makes more than ten times what 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:03.800 she made when she started. She doesn't live under constant pressure. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.199 She can take vacations whenever she wants. She supports other 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.120 single parent families. She said, Joel, I don't really know 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.680 how this happened. Everything just fell into place and here 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.200 I am. What she is really saying was that was easy. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.600 That's what God is going to do for you. He's 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.680 going to put you at the right place at the 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.880 right time. He's going to open doors that no man 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.240 can shut. He's going to cause people to want to 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.920 be good to you. You may be struggling in some areas, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.479 but don't get discouraged. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:37.760 That is not permanent. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.720 Ease is coming. I talked to a young man. He 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.959 was finishing up his Masters. He had one final exam left. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.200 It was the hardest class on his schedule, and he 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.120 is very stressed out and concerned that he wasn't going 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.600 to pass. And we prayed and asked God to give 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.480 him wisdom to help him to excel. He came back 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.320 last week so excited he had passed the test. Now 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.080 I ask him, how was it. He said, it's funny 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.520 because all of my classmates thought it was very difficult, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.160 but to me, it was easier than I expected. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.520 He did his part, he studied, he prepared. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.480 Then God stepped in and made it easier than he thought. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.480 Quit thinking I'll never pass, I'll never get out of debt. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:24.440 This is too hard. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.760 Sometimes we're expecting to fail, we're expecting to struggle, we're 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.280 expecting it to be difficult. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:32.240 Turn it around. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.640 Father, thank you for your anointing of ease. Thank you 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.240 that you're causing me to excel. Think you that you're 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.200 breathing in my direction. Some of the things that you're 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.199 worrying about. You don't see how it could ever work out. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.520 It's not going to be what you think. God is 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:49.600 going before you. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.839 Right now, making those crooked places straight. You're going to 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.839 look back like him and say it was easier than 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.800 I thought. The Book of First Samuel, the Philistines had 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.760 just defeated the Israelites in a battle. They captured the 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.800 Ark of the Covenant, that's where the presence of God 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.000 was back then. The Israelites were so distraught. When the 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:16.640 prophet Eli heard this bad news, he passed out, fell backwards. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.760 And broke his neck. All of Israel was in mourning. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.679 They had not only lost the Ark of the Covenant, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:27.360 their most important possession, but thirty thousand men had been 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.360 killed in that battle. It looked like the Ark was 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.319 gone forever. The Philistines took the Ark to their temple 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.360 and placed it next to their god, Dagone. He was 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.960 a stone statue that they worshiped. In the middle of 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:46.280 the night, Dagon fell over. They thought it was a coincidence, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:47.760 maybe the wind or something. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:48.960 They stood him back up. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.320 The next night, Dagon not only fell over, this time 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:58.360 he broke into pieces. They realized their god couldn't stand 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.680 in the presence of his IS's god. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.840 Plegs begin to break out in the camp. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.680 People started getting boils and tumors. They finally realized, it's 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.560 because we have the Ark of the Covenant. They decided 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.760 to move it to another city just to make sure 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:20.400 the same plegus and boils started afflicting those people. They 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.080 panicked and said, we have to get rid of this arc. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.240 We can't mess with the God of Israel. Seven months 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.240 after they captured it, they built this wood cart, placed 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.680 the Ark of the Covenant on it, hooked it up 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.240 to two young cows. They turned it loose and let 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.880 those cows go wherever they wanted. They started heading straight 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.760 toward the Israelites camp in a few days. When the 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.640 Israelites saw the Arc coming, they couldn't believe their eyes. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.880 They started celebrating. They never dreamed they would see the 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.680 Ark again. They not only got it back, but they 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.280 didn't have to fight for it. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.880 The Arc came looking for them. 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.040 If they would have had one of these red buttons, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.680 they would have pushed it. That was easy But during 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.480 those seven months, I'm sure the Israelites came up with 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.880 plans and strategies how to get the art back. They 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.680 had lost thousands of men. They knew they were going 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.880 to lose more. Then they saw the cows come walking up. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.800 Suddenly their life got much easier. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.200 They were so relieved. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.080 Some of the things that you're worrying about, trying to 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.000 figure out how it's going to work out, how you're 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.920 going to get well, how you're going to get out 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.960 of debt, how your family's going to be restored. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.320 God is going to do for you what he did 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:39.760 for them. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.680 He's going to cause those things to find you. You're 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.600 not going to have to fight those battles. Good breaks 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.040 are going to come after you. The right people are 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.200 going to search you out. What you're believing for is 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.240 going to track you down. God is saying, get ready, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.880 the cows are coming. What belongs to you is headed 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:03.960 your way, the health, the freedom, the abundance, the contracts, 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.240 the spouse. God is going to make things happen that 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.680 you could have never made happen. Those cows could have 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:15.320 stayed there grazing, they could have wandered aimlessly month after month. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:21.360 But God controls the universe. That means God controls the cows. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.960 He knows how to get what's yours into your hands. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.280 People can't stop him. Bad breaks can't stop him. Cows 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.440 can't stop him. Enemies can't stop him. The Philistines took 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.160 the arc, but I love the fact they couldn't keep it. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.800 It made them miserable. That tells me nobody. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:45.440 Can keep what belongs to you. The enemy may take 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.560 your health for a little while, but he can't keep 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.440 it doesn't belong to him. You are God's properties. God 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:57.520 will send it back. He may distract your child, get 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.560 them off course for a season, but he can't keep 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:01.000 them there. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.720 Quit worrying, quit losing sleep. They're coming back. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:11.200 He may have taken your dream temporarily, had bad breaks, disappointments, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:12.679 Stay encouraged. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.639 What has your name on it is going to find you. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:18.400 Some of you. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.720 Your cows are going to show up sooner than you think. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.600 What you thought was over and. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.640 Done, it would never work out. Suddenly things are going 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.240 to fall into place. You don't have to fight, you 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.480 don't have to struggle. Just get up every morning. Father, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.600 think you that my cows are coming. Isaiah said to 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:46.080 the Israelites. Your swords will be turned into plowshares, your spears. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:46.760 Into pruning hooks. 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.360 God was saying, you're coming into a season where you're 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.800 not going to need your swords and your spears. You're 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.119 not going to have to fight, not going to have 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:01.120 to struggle, try to make things happen. Instead of a sword, 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.440 you're going to need a plow together of the harvest. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.320 You can put down your spears. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.399 You're not going to have to go attack, try to 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.080 get back what belongs to you. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.400 God is fighting your battles. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.280 He's putting pressure on those that have what's yours. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:19.760 You need to get. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.720 Ready, not for a fight, not for a battle, Get 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.920 ready for a harvest, get ready for a breakthrough, get 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:26.840 ready for healing. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.960 You're coming in to this season of ease. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.359 I have a friend that I grew up with that 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.160 struggled with an addiction for a long time, got mixed 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.960 up with the wrong students in high school, and twenty 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.600 years later he was still addicted. He'd gone through rehab 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.199 and all kinds of treatment, but it never worked. Like 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.879 the Israelites, he looked defeated. That addiction looks so much bigger, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:53.480 like nothing he could ever do. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:55.879 I saw him a couple of years ago. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.919 He told how after twenty one years of being addiction 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.119 did he is now totally free. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.159 He looks better than he looked in high school. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.199 Skin had cleared up, he gained some weight, had a 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:09.320 smile on his face. 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.960 I asked him how he did it. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.280 I thought he went through some type of special rehab, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.040 he said, Joel, I didn't do anything different. I can't 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.840 really put my finger on it. 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:21.640 It was just like. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.560 Something broke on the inside. Now I felt a shriek 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:30.560 that I'd never felt before. What was that God causing 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.600 his cows to find him. God gave him the victory 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.159 without him having to fight. Friend's freedom belongs to you. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.399 Wholeness belongs to you. Quit believing those lies that you're stuck, 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.240 you'll never get well. It's been too long, it's too hard. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.000 This is a new day. That yoke of bondage is 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:56.040 being broken. You're getting a new yoke, a yoke of ease, a. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.800 Yoke of freedom, a yoke of victory. You're going to 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.879 break habits that looked permanent. It's not going to happen 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.879 just by your might, by your power. It's going to 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.440 happen because the Most High God. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:10.960 Is breathing in your direction. 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.320 And it may have been difficult in the past. You 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.040 tried and it didn't work out. Try again. You're in 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:19.440 a new season. 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:20.760 You come into harvest. 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.800 You can put those swords down. You don't have to 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.760 do it in your own strength. God is fighting your battles. 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.679 Dare to declare, I am free, I am whole, I 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.679 am victorious like this man, God is going to surprise you. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.720 What you thought would never turn around. Suddenly you're going 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.640 to see it happen. Several years before my father went 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:46.440 to be with the Lord, we came across a construction 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.560 permit for the last full power television station in Houston. 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.520 The transmitter was going to be out north. We needed 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.760 a place to put the station here. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:57.679 In the city. 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.640 A few months earlier, a man had called me out 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.919 of the blue, left a message saying that he was 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.200 in commercial real estate that if we ever needed anything, 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:11.119 he would love to help. Normally I would have erased that, 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:15.000 not thought much about it, just another sales call. But 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.000 for some reason I wrote his name and number down 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:22.119 put it in my desk drawer, never realizing in a 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.520 few months we were going to need a place to 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.840 put the station. I called him. It was like we 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.479 were old friends. He was so likable. He took us 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.480 to different office buildings. They were nice, but our challenge 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:39.119 was we needed a cell phone tower close by so 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:43.199 we could microwave our signal down to the transmitter site. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.720 We looked for several weeks and couldn't find anything. 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:49.359 One day, he took us to this big office complex 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:54.720 about fifty acres, very beautiful trees and lakes. There were 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.720 new owners and they were very excited about the possibility 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.080 of having a television station there. They told us we 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.879 would be their main tenants. They would give us the 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:08.960 signage out front. They showed us offices overlooking this lake. 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.960 They wanted us so badly. Their price was about half 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:14.320 of anything we'd seen. 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:17.359 We loved it. We wanted to be there. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.040 The only problem was we had to see if there 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.120 was a cell phone tower close. We went on top 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.160 of the building and looked around, and we didn't see anything. 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:28.600 I was disappointed. I thought that would have been a 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:29.520 perfect location. 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.439 Everyone left, but Victoria and I stayed and we walked 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:38.200 around the property for about thirty minutes. As we were 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.400 coming up the parking lot on the side of the building. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.399 About forty yards from the place they showed us, I 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:49.639 could hear construction behind this wooden fence. I climbed up 0:22:49.640 --> 0:22:52.720 on the fence and looked over. They were pouring a foundation. 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:55.360 I asked one of the men what they were building. 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:59.560 He said, a cell phone tower. I nearly fell off 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.760 that fence. I said, is there room for other clients? 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.760 He said, yeah, it's brand new. I called the company 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:09.800 the next day. We had a contract to microwave our signal. 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.520 What was that God causing things to fall into place, 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:17.879 going before us, making crooked places straight. Well, Joe, that 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.320 is just a lucky break. Can I tell you the 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:21.879 lucky breaks you've been having. 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:25.000 That's the hand of God. That's the yoke of ease. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:30.840 When you recognize God's favor, when you take time to say, Lord, 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.080 thank you for making my life easier, thank you for 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:37.199 your goodness, then you will see more of God's favor. 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:39.800 And what's interesting is this man. 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:43.160 I met this realtor when we learned that the Compact 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:46.120 center was coming available. He was one of the first 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.840 people I called. He worked hand in hand on our 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:51.439 behalf with the city. 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.639 He was very instrumental in us getting this place. 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:57.879 What are the chances of him calling me out of 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:01.840 the blue, me keeping his him taking us to an 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:05.320 office building where they were building a self power. That 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:09.480 wasn't random, That wasn't a coincidence. That was God causing 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:10.960 our cows to find us. 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.200 God is in control of your life. 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:17.840 He knows what you need and he knows how to 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:21.080 get it to you. Yes, we all go through seasons 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.800 of struggle, seasons of pressure and difficulty, but that is 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:26.399 not your permanent home. 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:30.520 You are coming in to this anointing of ease, like 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:30.960 with me. 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:34.640 You're going to see things fall into place. You're going 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:38.119 to know it's the goodness of God. A friend of 0:24:38.160 --> 0:24:42.400 mine grew up very poor. His family lived in public housing. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:47.359 There was crime and drugs. His parents were migrant farmers 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:50.560 and had no education. Didn't look like this young man 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.920 would ever amount to too much. His mother saw that 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:56.920 he had a love for music and encouraged him to 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.800 join the band in school. He became one of their 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:05.080 tuba players. In the sixth grade, he already stood six foot. 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:05.879 Six inches tall. 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.320 He was the star player on the basketball team. When 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:13.360 he graduated from high school, he received thirty scholarship offers 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:16.520 to play in college. He was headed to the Portland 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:21.240 Trailblazers to play professionally when he suffered a career ending injury. 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:25.880 He ended up back at home in the projects, no money, 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:27.560 no education. 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:30.360 Working for the city as a dog. 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:34.439 Catcher, making a little more than minimum wage. During his 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.320 lunch hour, he would go up to the local music 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:41.159 store and play the keyboards that were out on demo. 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:46.520 Wearing his dog catcher uniform. Customers would gather around to 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:50.720 listen to him play. They were mesburized at his ability. 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:54.520 One day, a customer told the owner she wanted to 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:57.240 buy the keyboard that the dog catcher was playing. 0:25:57.920 --> 0:25:59.600 This happened again and again. 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:03.159 The owner said to this young man, people aren't buying 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.639 my pianos, They're buying the dog catcher sound. 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:08.120 They love what you do. 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:11.640 He offered him a full time job to come in 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:13.520 and play the piano all day. 0:26:14.040 --> 0:26:17.000 That was the first step in his musical career. 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:21.639 Today, my friend Ben Tankered has become known as the 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:23.640 Godfather of gospel jazz. 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:26.560 He sold millions of albums pastors. 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:30.560 A great chirt goes around the world sharing his music. 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:36.119 Like with Ben, God is working behind the scenes, lining 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:40.160 up what you need. You're coming into a season where 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:42.800 you're not going to have to struggle. You're not going 0:26:42.840 --> 0:26:45.960 to have to fight. You can put those swords down. 0:26:46.320 --> 0:26:48.800 You are coming in to a harvest season. 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:52.640 You're going to see the goodness of God making your 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:57.040 life easier. You may be in a difficult time. God 0:26:57.160 --> 0:27:00.399 is about to take the pressure off to have a 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:03.879 strength that you didn't have before. People are going to 0:27:03.920 --> 0:27:05.800 go out of their way to be good to you. 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:08.439 That yoke of bondage is coming off. 0:27:08.600 --> 0:27:10.119 The yoke of ease is coming on. 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:13.040 What's hindered you in the past is not going to 0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:17.000 hinder you in the future. I believe and declare You're 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:21.080 going to overcome obstacles easier than you think. You're going 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:25.280 to accomplish dreams easier than you think. Like the Israelites, 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:28.720 those cows are going to find you. Ease is coming 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:32.359 your way in Jesus' name, if you receive it, can't 0:27:32.359 --> 0:27:32.920 you say amen? 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:33.720 Today? 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:37.840 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:38.919 the lord of your life. 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:43.960 Would you pray with me? Just say Lord, Jesus, I'll 0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:48.600 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:49.960 you my lord. And save you. 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:54.280 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:57.680 born again. Get in a good Bible based church, Keep 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:00.880 God first place. 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