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I like to start with 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.640 something funny, and I heard about this husband and wife. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.919 They had been arguing. Now they were giving each other 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.240 the silent treatment. The next morning, the husband had to 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.680 get up early and catch a plane, and he needed 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.480 his wife to wake him up. Not wanting to break 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.080 the silence, he left her a note on her side 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.040 of the bed. It said, please wake me up at 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.880 five am. He got up the next morning at this 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.839 dis flight. He was so upset went in to find 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.160 out why she didn't wake him up. There was a 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.639 note on his side of the bed. It said, wake up, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.840 it's five Say it like you mean it. This is 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.800 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.200 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.120 it says I can do. Today I will be taught 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.280 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.600 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.519 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.280 to you today about easier than you think. When we 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.800 face challenges and have things that come against us, it's 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.840 easy to start dreading it, thinking this is going to 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.080 be so hard. How am I going to make it 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.920 through this treatment? How can I deal with this child, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.120 this off course? How can I accomplish this dream? I 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.960 don't have the resources, the connections, And yes, there are 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.360 seasons where we have to endure do the right thing 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.720 when it's hard. But there are also times that God 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.720 will step in and make it easier than it looks. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.560 The scripture says he goes before us and makes the 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.920 crooked place his strength. That means what should be overwhelming 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.120 is no problem at all. What looks complicated, you don't 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.960 see a solution. Suddenly things fall into place. You don't 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.880 have the connections, you don't know the right people. But 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.479 out of nowhere, someone steps in and shows you favor. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.960 You thought it was going to be a long drawn 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.599 out process, but it turned out easier than it looked. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.120 Now you may be in situations now that you're tempted 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.480 to dread. You've already decided it's going to be hard. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.279 You're gearing up to endure it. God is saying it's 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.240 going to be easier than you think. There's going to 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:54.840 be a supernatural grace, a supernatural favor, supernatural strength. He's 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:59.560 working behind the scenes making rough places smooth. He's changing 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.320 people's minds, causing them to be for you. Now you 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.159 have to get in agreement with God. You can't go 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.360 around dreading, making plans for it to be hard. You're 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.600 drawing in what you're thinking about. If you're telling yourself 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.800 you can't pass the course. This problem's too big. I'll 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.800 never make it through this sickness, you're defeating yourself. Turn 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.480 it around. Yes, this looks difficult, but God, I know 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.160 you're still on the throne. You said your yoke is 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.159 easy and your burden is light. You said you're making 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.360 my rough places smooth. No, Father, thank you that this 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.240 will be easier than it looks. When we were trying 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.120 to acquire the Compact Center this place, we needed ten 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.520 votes from the city council members. There were fourteen of 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.679 them in all. We had worked a long time trying 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.760 to convince them. We finally had the ten that we needed. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.159 But two days before the main vote, one of the 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.960 council members that was for us received so much pressure 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.279 from the other side he decided to be out of town. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.000 Him not being there was a vote against us. We 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.799 were so disappointed. Two years of hard work, it looked 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.800 like it wasn't going to happen. I went to visit 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.760 a council member that had been against us the whole time. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.839 He's a young Jewish man. I thought this was my 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.680 last shop. I had my best speech prepared. This was 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.680 going to be my biggest, strongest, most persuasive talk that 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.479 I had ever given him. I'd heard all of his 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.440 reasons why he wasn't for us. I was going to 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.279 go one by one and show him that that wasn't right. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.960 I walked in, all fired up, ready to go. Just 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.880 when I was about to start, he smiled and said, Joel, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.520 don't worry, I'm going to vote for you. I was 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.120 so focused on my speech it didn't fully register. I 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.320 thought to myself, did I just hear what I thought 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.440 I heard? I must have looked confused, because he said 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.359 it again, Joel, I'm going to vote for you. Nearly 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.680 passed out, He went on to tell how an older 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.480 Jewish woman had called the night before. She was a 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.000 good friend of his family, someone that he really respected, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.400 but he hadn't spoken to her in over twenty years. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.000 She said in no uncertain terms that he was to 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.640 vote for Lakewood having the Compact Center. It was that 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.480 phone call that changed his mind. I had never met 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.760 the lady. I didn't ask her to call. I went 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.680 in there thinking it was going to be hard to 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.760 convince him. I was going to have to give it 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.320 my all. What I didn't realize is God had gone 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.600 before me and made Macrooked place his strafe. It was 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:45.320 easier than I thought. God has the right people lined 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.560 up for you. He knows how to change people's minds, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.560 he knows how to cause them to before you. You 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.360 don't have to do everything in your own strength, your 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.840 own talent, your own ability. The Most High God is 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:02.160 going before you. He's fighting your battles. He's arranging the 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.840 good breaks, the healing, the favor the promotion. We had 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.480 worked for two years to try to make that happen. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.360 We stayed strong, fought the good fight of faith. Didn't 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.000 happen overnight. It was a struggle, but we kept believing, 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.840 we kept declaring the promises, we kept doing the right thing. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.760 Then in that one moment, God suddenly turned it around. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.920 It was difficult for years, then suddenly it got easy. 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.640 You may go through seasons of struggle where you don't 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:37.120 see anything happening, no growth, no improvement. Thoughts will tell 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.920 you this will always be difficult. You're always going to struggle. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.160 It looks like it's going to be long, hard drawn out. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.240 But if you'll stay in faith, you're going to come 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:52.880 into these moments of favor where suddenly things fall into place. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.559 Suddenly the burden is lifted, Suddenly people change their mind, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.760 Suddenly your business takes off, Suddenly your health turns around. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.960 It's not a struggle anymore. God is going to make 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.520 things happen that you couldn't make happen. Some of the 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.280 things that are stressing you out. Now you're worried thinking 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.520 of all the reasons it's not going to work out. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.680 Like with me, You're going to find God has already 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:23.000 resolved the problem. He's already changed their mind. He's already 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:27.120 lined up the promotion, the healing, the good breaks. You 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.079 think you're going to have to work for it, convince someone, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.840 earn it, endure out last. No, it's going to be 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.400 easier than you think. God has already gone before you. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.280 He's already worked out what you're worrying about. Quit dreading it, 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.560 Quit losing sleep over it. I spent a lot of 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.560 time stressed over how I was going to convince that 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.040 council member. What was I going to say? If I 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.520 had known it was going to be so easy, I 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.440 would have stayed in peace. I would have relaxed and 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.640 enjoyed my life knowing that God had all already taken 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:04.880 care of it. I wonder if you're dreading things that 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.520 later on you're going to realize God has already worked 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.240 it out. It's not going to be as difficult as 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.600 it looks. You're going to find out God has gone 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.920 before you. He's worked out what's stressing you. He's worked 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.800 out the problem at the office, He's worked out the 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.719 conflict with that relative. Looks like it's going to be 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.280 a big ordeal. Take a long time. You're going to 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.920 discover the rough places have already been made smooth. This 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.120 is what happened with the Israelites. They were standing at 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.400 the Jordan River contemplating whether to go into the Promised Land. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.160 Their parents and grandparents stood at that same place forty 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.640 years earlier, but they talked themselves out of it. The 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:54.720 people living there were the Anakites. They were descendants of giants, huge, strong, 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.640 powerful people. The Israelites' parents thought they were too big, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.360 turned around and wandered in the desert for forty years. 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.440 This was a critical moment for their children. Would they 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.800 do the same thing, think it was too hard, We'll 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.600 never defeat these people. As they were debating what to do, 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:19.480 God gave them a promise. Deuteronomy nine says, today you 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.880 are about to face people that are much stronger and 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.000 more powerful. But the Lord your God will cross over 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.080 ahead of you like a devouring fire to destroy them. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.719 He will subdue them so you can easily conquer. When 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.000 they heard that, they changed their mindset. This is not 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.000 going to be difficult, This is not going to defeat us. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.360 God has gone before us to take care of what's 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.800 trying to stop us. They went in with boldness, with confidence. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.040 They defeated the Anarkites and lived in the Promised Land. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.760 It was easier than they thought. You may have situations 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:03.480 that seem much bigger, stronger, Trouble at work, dealing with 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:08.040 the sickness, legal problem, the odds are against you. You're thinking, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.800 how can I deal with this? It's going to be 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.760 so difficult. God is going to do for you what 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.880 he did for them. He's crossing over ahead of you 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.720 right now, so you can easily conquer. It's not going 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:24.480 to be what it looks like. You're going to see favor, breakthroughs, freedom, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.880 things that you couldn't make happen. It's the hand of God. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.160 Now get this down in your spirit. Easily conquer. You're 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.559 not going to deal with that depression forever. Easily conquer 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.120 that cancer is not going to take you out. Easily 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.200 conquer that struggle and lack is not your destiny. You 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.000 will easily conquer it. One touch of God's favor and 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:52.480 suddenly things turn around. Suddenly, giants come down, Suddenly, addictions 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:57.959 are broken, Suddenly doors open. You see increase abundance. When 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.760 you're tempted to dread world, think it's too much turn 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.440 it around. Father, Thank you that you're crossing over ahead 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.800 of me, devouring what's trying to stop me. Thank you 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.800 that I will easily conquer, that I will go into 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.960 my promised land, that I will become all that You've 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.200 created me to be. God gave Neemiah a dream to 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.560 rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. They had been down for 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:27.560 many years. People were living there unprotected. Neemiah was one 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.160 thousand miles away, working as a cup bearer for the king. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.720 He wasn't a builder. He worked in the kitchen. He 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.439 didn't have the resources, the faunds, the crew, the experience. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.000 All the odds were against him. Looked like an impossible situation. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.840 Many times God will ask you to do things that 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.680 seem beyond your own ability. He'll put dreams in your 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.600 heart that seemed too big. You don't have the experience, 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.079 the talent, the connections. And if we look at it 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.679 only in our ability, then we'll talk ourselves out of it. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.680 But God wouldn't ask you to do it if he 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.839 hadn't already lined up what you need. It looks difficult, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.560 you don't see how it can happen. But if you'll 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.480 take steps of faith, you'll discover God has already gone 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.280 before you. It's going to be easier than you think. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.160 I'm not saying there won't be obstacles, people trying to 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.680 stop you, and times that you can feel overwhelmed, but 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.320 God is not going to leave you there. There would 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.000 be these moments of favor where God makes things happen 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.960 that you couldn't make happen, like changing that council member's mind, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.320 Favor that catapaults you into your destiny, Favor that opens 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.960 doors you can't open, Favor that causes your business to 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.239 take off. Neemiah could have thought of all the reasons 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.360 why he couldn't rebuild the wall. God, this is too hard. 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.520 What you're asking me to do is not reasonable, it's 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:58.840 not practical. But deep down Neemiah understood this principle that 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.280 the God who ask you to do difficult things is 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.640 the same God that goes before you and makes the 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.640 crooked places strange. It's a test. If you play it 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.080 safe and think I can't do it, Joel, the anarkites 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.520 are too big, the dream too great, the opposite isn't 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.000 too strong, then it will be too hard. The problem 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.160 is you never saw what God was up to. If 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.200 you don't take the risk, you'll never see how God 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.720 was going to step in and make it easier than 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:33.080 you thought. All the odds were against Neemiah, thoughts telling 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.200 him he didn't have a chance. This was not possible, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:41.560 But Neemiah chose to believe. God is looking for some Neamiahs, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.880 for some people who won't get talked out of their dreams. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.920 People that are not moved by how big the challenge is. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.440 People that don't dread. I think it's too hard, too much, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.960 too long, too great. I can't do it now. Be 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.480 in the Amiah. The reason God's asking you to do 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.600 something that's beyond durability is He's about to show you 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.600 his favor like you've never seen. It looks hard, but 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.400 if you'll take that step of faith, you'll discover God 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.480 has gone before you. He's going to cause things to 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.440 fall into place. It's going to be easier than you think. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:22.360 Niamiah chapter one, he prayed, God, grant me success as 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.640 I go to the king and ask for a favor, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.760 put it in his heart to help me. Niamiah prayed 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.480 a bold prayer. God, I'm gonna go to the King. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.000 I'm gonna ask him to be good to me. But 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.760 I need a favor. God put it in his heart 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.440 to help me. What a great prayer. God put it 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.560 in people's heart to help us. God cause us to 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.600 stand out. God caused people to want to be good 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.960 to us. Well, Joe, that's kind of selfish. Listen, if 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.800 you're gonna reach your destiny, if you're gonna accomplish your 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.880 God given dreams, if you're gonna go places no one 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.360 in your family has gone, you have to have a boldness. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.840 You can't be weak intimidated. This is too much. You 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.199 have to ask big, pray big, believe big. You're going 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.240 to need other people to open doors, other people to 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.879 fund your dream, other people to use their influence to 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.600 push you forward. Have you ever prayed God put it 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.560 in people's hearts to help me, put it in people's 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.600 hearts to show me favor. Neamijah went to the king. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.320 The scripture says, the first thing the king said was, Neamiah, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.120 how can I help you? When God puts a big 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.119 dream in your heart, He's already lined up the people 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.639 to say, how can I help you? How can I 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.000 be good to you? Where can I show you favor? 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.240 Neamiah asked the king for permission to take time off 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.240 to go rebuild the walls. There was no reason for 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.879 the king to agree. The walls being down didn't affect him, 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.399 But for some reason, the king said, fine, Niomiah, you 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:00.000 can go. Neomiah said, thank you, but I need another faith. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.920 I don't have any materials. I don't have the funds. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:09.119 I need stones, rocks, mortars, supplies. Now he's asking the 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.480 king to fund his dream. You would think the king 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:16.320 would say, excuse me, this is your project. I'm giving 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.920 you the time off, don't expect me to pay for it. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.320 But once again the King said, yes, I'll give you 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.800 the supplies. God has already lined up the provision you need. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.360 I've heard it said. What God orders, he pays for. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.640 You may not see how you could ever have the funds, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.560 How you could start the business, build that orphanage, move 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.160 into a nicer neighborhood. You know, God put that promise 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.320 in your heart, But when you look at what you 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:47.320 have your resources, there's no way. The good news is 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.160 it's not just up to you. Like Nehemiah, God has 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.520 people that will fund what he promised. He controls the universe. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.760 He knows how to get to you what you need. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:06.440 That but supernatural increase, contracts come into you, ideas, opportunities, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.320 people tracking you down. You have to do like Neemiah, Lord, 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.040 I believe you're going to cause people to be good 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.600 to me. You're going to open the windows of heaven, 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.800 pour out resources to bring the past what you promise. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.480 It has to go beyond the natural, because if you 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.240 just focus on what you have, you won't see away. 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.280 God puts dreams in our heart that are bigger than 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.240 what we can afford. This is where faith has to 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.760 kick in. This is where you have to pray, bold 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:40.320 prayers and belief for uncommon resources out of the ordinary 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.840 increase so you can rebuild the walls, so you can 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.800 accomplish what God put in your heart. Neamiah said King, 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.960 one last thing, I need protection as I travel to Jerusalem. 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:57.600 The scripture says the king granted Neemiah all his request 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:02.000 because the gracious hand of God God was on his life. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.000 He went and rebuilt the walls in fifty two days, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.280 record time. If n Nehemiah were standing here today, he 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.879 would tell you, when you're facing a big obstacle, a 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.760 big dream may look impossible. You don't have the resources. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.760 Thoughts are telling you it will never work out. Let 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.919 me encourage you. It's going to be easier than you think. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.200 People will be there to help you, The funds will 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:31.040 show up, the good breaks will come. You have an advantage. 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.520 You're not doing life by yourself. Like Nemiah. The gracious 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.280 hand of God is on your life. How are you 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.040 going to beat the cancer the gracious hand of God? 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.120 How are you going to overcome the loss? The gracious 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.199 hand of God? How are you going to accompass that dream? 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:51.160 The gracious hand of God. There is favor on your 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.920 life that will cause you to go where you can't 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.600 go on your own. I'm not saying that on the 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.719 way to our destiny that there won't be challenging, there 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.919 won't be setbacks and things you don't understand. But if 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.359 you stay in faith, you're going to come in to 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.960 these moments of favor where God suddenly opens a door, 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.320 causes people to be good to you, turns the medical 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:16.480 report around. It's not going to be a constant struggle. 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.399 You're going to say, like Nehemiah, it was easier than 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.320 I thought. Well, Joel, what if I believe this and 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:24.879 it doesn't get easier. What if you believe it and 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.480 it does, You have to release your faith. I can 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:32.080 tell you if you're dreading things, convinced that the struggle 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.439 is permanent, going to be so hard to accomplish my dream, 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.400 hard to raise my child, hard to get well. Your 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.920 own thinking is limiting your life. Get in agreement with God. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:47.560 He's going before you right now, making cooked places strength. 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.040 You're about to see things begin to fall into place. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:55.840 The right people show up, the right doors open the resources. 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:58.560 Things that you used to struggle with are not going 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.520 to be a struggle anymore. You don't have to make 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:04.919 it happen. You just have to believe, Father, thank you 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.200 that your gracious hand is upon my life, that I'm 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:11.440 coming into these moments of favor, that what I'm facing 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:15.200 is going to be easier than it looks. During World 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:19.400 War Two, an American fighter pilot was flying a mission 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.639 over the Pacific Ocean. When he ran out of fuel. 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:26.600 He had to land on an island controlled by the Japanese. 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.000 He and his men knew they would soon be captured 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.280 and taken as prisoners. With their plane sitting on the 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.159 beach no fuel, they had all given up all that 0:22:37.359 --> 0:22:41.120 is except one man. It just so happened. This bomber 0:22:41.280 --> 0:22:45.040 was carrying a chaplain. He believed that God could make 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.760 a way where he didn't see away. He began to 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.400 pray and ask God to protect them, give them favored, 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.360 help them to get back to their base. The other 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:57.200 men thought he was kind of far out. They were 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:01.080 on a deserted island, no boat, no food, just a 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.320 matter of time before they would be found. Early the 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:07.720 next morning, one of the men couldn't sleep. He decided 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:09.959 to go to the beach and take a walk. He 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:13.480 looked out in the waves and saw something strange bobbing 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:17.120 up and down. There was this large canister, about five 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:20.960 feet tall three feet wide. He went over and looked closer. 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.560 The words were written on it aviation fuel. He couldn't 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.920 believe it. He shouted to the other airmen. They came, 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:31.480 pulled it out of the water. They rushed to their 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.399 plane poured the fuel in it. In a few minutes, 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:36.560 they were in the air on their way to their 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:41.320 camp not far away. Their lives were spared. Later, it 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:45.199 was discovered that the canister was one of hundreds that 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:48.120 were on a big cargo barge headed to the air 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.399 base on the way the barge was destroyed by the 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:55.439 enemy forces. All the other canisters had been lost, but 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:59.640 this one floated over one thousand miles, passed twenty five 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:03.800 other islands, just so happened to wash up on this island, 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:06.480 right where the plane had run out of fuel. It 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:09.600 just so happened. The soldier went out early that morning 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:14.560 and saw it seemed like an impossible situation, deserted island 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:19.600 on the enemy's territory, no airport, no gas stations. But 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.840 God never runs out of options. He had the solution 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:27.920 before you had the problem. That canister had been floating 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:31.360 in that direction months before the plane ever run out 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:35.159 of fuel. It could have sunk, gotten lost, washed up 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:38.520 on another island. But what God has ordained for you 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.480 is going defind you. It's going to show up at 0:24:41.480 --> 0:24:46.040 the right time. God already has the healing en route, 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:50.040 the promotion in route, the freedom in route, the abundance 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:53.520 is en route, the right people are in route. May 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:56.000 seem like you could never get out of your situation, 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:59.760 never accomplished that dream. You don't know what God is 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:03.959 to you don't know what's already enroute. It's not going 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:06.600 to be as difficult as you think it's not going 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:09.600 to take as long as it looks, God is going 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:13.840 before you, making crooked places strength. If you could see 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:16.480 what he has coming, how he's going to turn the 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:20.320 trouble around, restore what you've lost, thrust you to a 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:23.919 new level, you wouldn't be discouraged. You wouldn't complain. You 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:27.840 would thank him for his goodness. It may look complicated, 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:32.040 may seem stressful. You don't see how the odds are 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:35.240 against you. You could live worried. You have to keep 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.560 reminding yourself. It's going to be easier than you think. 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:43.360 God is in control. He's fighting your battles. His plans 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:46.639 for you are for good. He's bigger than the sickness, 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:50.480 greater than the trouble, more powerful than what's trying to 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:54.760 stop you. In the scripture, Gideon and his three hundred 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:58.640 men were facing an army of one hundred and twenty thousand. 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:04.879 Gideon was already afraid, intimidated. God finally convinced him to 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:08.600 lead the people of Israel against the Midianites. I can 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.879 hear him saying, God, this is impossible. We're so outnumbered. 0:26:13.119 --> 0:26:16.639 How do you expect me to defeat these people? God 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:20.040 puts you in situations that are way over your head. 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:23.840 Number one to see if you'll trust him, and number 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:27.359 two so he can show out in your life. God 0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:31.160 said in Judges six, Gideon, you will defeat the Midianites 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:35.320 as if you were fighting one man. God was saying, Gideon, 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:38.639 I know you're facing one hundred and twenty thousand men. 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:41.639 I know you're outnumbered. I didn't put you in this 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:46.680 situation by accident. Trust me. I'm going before you. I'm 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:49.199 going to make the crooked places straight. It's going to 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:53.120 be easier than you think. Gideon and his men blew 0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:57.280 their horns and shouted. The enemy got confused and ended 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:00.879 up destroying each other. Gideon didn't even have to fight. 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:05.320 They never even broke a sweat. There's something called a 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:09.200 no sweat anointing. That's when you don't have to make 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:14.560 it happen. You don't have to strive, work, manipulate. You 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:17.240 just stay in faith and God does it for you. 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:21.480 God will change the council member's mind. God will cause 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:24.440 the king to give you the resources. God will bring 0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:27.520 the canister of fuel to you. You may be up 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:31.520 against the challenge. It's much bigger. Like Gideon. You feel outnumbered, 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:36.480 the sickness seems stronger, the addiction seems permanent. People against 0:27:36.560 --> 0:27:39.520 you are more powerful. God is saying to you what 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:42.320 he said to Gideon. You're going to defeat it like 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.120 you're fighting one man. It's going to be easier than 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:48.359 you think. God is going to do things out of 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:53.040 the ordinary, uncommon, unusual. You couldn't make it happen. It's 0:27:53.160 --> 0:27:57.680 God going before you, making the crooked places straight, defeating giants, 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:04.080 bringing promotion favor. Now, let faith rise up today. Sure 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:07.080 we're gonna have challenges. There're gonna be seasons we have 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:11.000 to endure, out last, stand strong. But what I want 0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:14.440 you to see is there are also moments of favor 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:17.440 where God's going to step in and make it easier 0:28:17.440 --> 0:28:22.160 than it looks. Don't go through life dreading, worried, stressed out. 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:25.640 You're not doing life on your own. The gracious hand 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:28.920 of God is upon you all through the day. Father, 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:32.560 Thank you that you're going before me making crooked places strength. 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:35.399 Thank you that your yoke is easy and your burden 0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:38.480 is light. If you'll do this, I believe and declare 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:42.080 you're about to see the gracious hand of God. What 0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:44.320 used to be a struggle is not going to be 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:49.840 a struggle anymore. Negative situations are turning around. Healing is coming, 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:53.720 breakthroughs are coming, Favor is coming. It's going to be 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:57.680 easier than you think. In Jesus' name, and if you 0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:01.760 receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to give 0:29:01.760 --> 0:29:05.080 you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:09.640 Would you pray with me? 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