Fast Forward

0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.840 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.040 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.720 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.440 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:14.480 for God's very best in your life. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:15.880 God bless you. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.560 It's great to be with you today, and I hope 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.000 you stay connected with us during the week through our 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.160 daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.520 come visit us in person. We'd love to have you 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.200 be a part of one of our services. I'd like 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.559 to start with something funny, and I heard about this 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.200 groom during the wedding rehearsal. He said to the minister, 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:39.040 I'll make a deal with you. If you'll leave out 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.240 all that honor, love and obey stuff, I'll give you 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.320 one hundred dollars. He's lipped one hundred dollar bill into 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.519 the minister's hand and walked away with a smile. The 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.400 next day, during the ceremony, the minister said to him, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.880 do you promise to bow down before your wife, take 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.760 her breakfast in bed, fulfill her every desire? He gulped 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.960 in astonishment and in a weak voice, I do He 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.520 didn't whisper it in the minister's ear. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:04.880 I thought we had a deal. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.000 The minister handed him his money back and said, your 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.000 wife made me a much better offer. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:12.520 Say it like you mean it. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.640 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.280 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.000 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.000 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.319 is alert, my heart is recepted. I will never be 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.600 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. Want to 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.240 talk to you today about fast forward. When we look 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.360 at the dreams we want to accomplish, in problems we're 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.280 hoping will turn around, it can seem like it's going 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.360 to take a long time. Years to get out of debt, 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.720 years to recover from a sickness, years to see the 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.480 business grow. But God doesn't always do things on a 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.400 normal timeline. The scripture talks about how he can do 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.279 a quick work. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.480 He knows how to speed up. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.680 He has these moments of favor where he will catapult 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.400 you ahead. Everything seems routine, going along at the same pace, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.760 making the same progress. Then out of nowhere, one good break, 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.280 one contract, one door opens and you're twenty years down 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.360 the road. You didn't see it coming. You can't explain it. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:26.360 It's God accelerating things, propelling you forward. When I'm watching 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.000 a movie at home, or I've recorded a ballgame it's 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.320 getting boring, or if I'm in a hurry, it's no 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.399 big deal. I pick up the remote control and hit 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.359 fast forward. Jumps it ahead, hit it again four times, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.360 of speed again, eight times, then sixteen thirty two. It 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.919 can go sixty four times faster than normal. I can 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.440 watch a three hour ballgame in thirty minutes. The good 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.160 news is God has a fast forward button for your life. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.200 Should take you thirty years to accomplish a dream, all 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.000 God has to do is hit fast forward. It'll happen 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.880 in a fraction of the time. I met a lady 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.560 in the lobby that was waiting for a liver transplant. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.520 She was told it could take up to five years, 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.320 so many people in line in. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:11.880 Front of her. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.720 Problem was she didn't have five years. Her health was 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.119 declining so fast. I told her what I'm telling you, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.600 that God is not limited by a normal timeline. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.280 God controls time. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.440 Three weeks later, she came back in the lobby and 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.440 I said, hey, I'm still believing with you. She said, no, Joel, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.080 I've already had the transplant. They called her back the 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.680 next week. Her doctor said he had never seen anything 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.680 like that before. What happened, God hit fast forward. God 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:47.160 knows how to accelerate your dreams, accelerate your healing, accelerate 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:48.440 what you're believing for. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.320 That's why you can't. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.800 Judge your future based on the progress you've seen in 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.680 the past. God has the remote control. He has some 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.440 of these fast forward moments coming your way, things that 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:02.880 will catapult you ahead. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.400 You can't explain it. You didn't see it coming. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.880 But suddenly you get well, Suddenly you're in management, Suddenly 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.160 you break the addiction should have taken you a lifetime, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:15.160 but God. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:15.920 Hit fast forward. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.159 He did a quick work. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:19.880 For years, Lakewood was on. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.320 The other side of town, and that area had gotten 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.880 a little run down and become more industrial. By the 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.520 grace of God, we moved into this place, the former 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:34.160 Compact Center. The Rockets basketball team won two World championships here, 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.039 so on the busiest freeway in Texas, two million people 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.040 a year had come into this building for sports and concerts. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.080 That one move put us fifty years down the road, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.839 in influence, in credibility, in respect. I had people that 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.720 wouldn't give me the time of day, treated me like 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.200 I was second class from that poor church across town, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.880 those Holy rollers. When we got the compact sin, those 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.840 same people that ignored me, they'd come up and say, 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.279 can we come to your church? Will you save us 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.120 a seat? I said, sure, will, right up there by 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:14.400 the flag. But that one good break did more than 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.560 I could do on my own in my whole lifetime. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.400 God has some of these fast forward moments for you. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:23.640 You couldn't make it happen. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.400 You couldn't change their mind, You couldn't make yourself get well. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.240 It's the hand of God propelling you into your destiny. 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:33.720 He has the remote control. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:38.440 Right now, you're on the verge of seeing acceleration, a 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.400 quick work. God's speeding things up. What should have taken 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:46.400 you years will happened in a fraction of the time. Hell, Joel, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.360 I don't know, man, I feel stuck. I'm not making 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.280 much progress. My dream seems so far off. Now get 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.279 in agreement with God. You have to be a believer 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.040 and not a doubter. Father. I want to thank you 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.640 that acceler is coming my way. Thank you that you've 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.000 already lined up these fast forward moments that'll propel me 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.080 into my destiny. Acts chapter eight. Philip was in some 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.480 Maarya ministering. This angel came and told him to go 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.560 into the desert on the road that leads to Gossen. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.080 He didn't know what it meant, but he obeyed. Along 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.159 came this Ethiopian man riding in a chariot. He was 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.200 the treasurer for the Queen of Ethiopia, a very respected. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:30.720 And influential man. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.680 While he was writing, he was reading out loud a 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.040 passage from the Book of Isaiah that talked about Jesus. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.760 When Philip heard this, he walked alongside the man and 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.159 asked if he understood what it meant. The man said 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.520 he didn't. Philip started explaining to him about how Jesus came, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.479 and how he died and rose again, and when we 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.920 believe in him we can have salvation. This man was 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.000 so excited he saw some water and said, I want 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.000 to get baptized right now. Got out and Philip baptized him. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.039 When the man came up out of the water, the 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:09.560 scripture says the spirit of God caught Philip away, and 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.240 the man never saw Philip again. You can imagine what 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.480 the man thought. Came up out of the water and 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:20.840 suddenly Philip is gone. He's disappeared. Verse forty says Philip 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:26.120 found himself further in the city of Azotas. Azotas was 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.360 twenty miles from where they were. That defies logic. He's 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.080 here one moment and the next he's twenty miles away. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.760 God has these times where you're gonna find yourself further. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.720 You can't explain, it doesn't make sense, but God propels 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.280 you ahead. May not be twenty miles to another city, 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.000 but God propels you. In your career, should have taken 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.760 you years to build your business, but you. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:53.840 Found yourself further. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.880 God opened the doors, He brought the right people, gave 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.560 you ideas, caused you to stand out. Now you look 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.800 up and think, how did I get to a zodas? 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.080 So to speak? It was the God of acceleration. He's 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.000 going to propel you. In your health, We're supposed to 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.880 take a long time to get well. You'd made up 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.520 your mind in dure the treatment to make it through. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.280 But God stepped in and sped things up. Did what 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:25.160 you couldn't do. Now you've found yourself further, healthy, whole, victorious. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.880 Or you thought that legal problem would last for years. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.800 The experts told you to not get your hopes up. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.959 But God hit the fast forward button. He did a 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.640 quick work and you found yourself further. See, we look 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.360 at things in the natural. It should take this long 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.040 to get out of debt. If I work this many 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.320 hours and save this much, and the stock market does this, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.560 my investments do that. And it's good to plan, it's 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:51.440 good to be wise. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.480 But God is supernatural. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.920 All he has to do is hit fast forward, and 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:01.240 you're twenty years down the road you find yourself. Here's 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:01.600 the key. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.559 You can't calculate his goodness. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:09.600 You can't quantify his blessings, his favor, his increase. There 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.559 are things he's already planned for you that are out 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:17.120 of the ordinarian uncommon. That's why he said lean not 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.160 to your own understanding. Don't look at your dreams, your problems, 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:26.320 that medical report just in the natural on your timeline. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.680 God has another timeline. He has some fast forward moments 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.839 that are going to defy the odds acceleration you didn't 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:39.200 see coming. Good breaks that will catapult you ahead. You 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.920 look up and think, how did I get here? I 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.040 didn't have the training, I wasn't next in line, but 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.840 God catapulted you ahead. How did I break this addiction? 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.920 They said it's going to be years, but the chain 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.480 breaker stepped in. God said enough is enough, and you 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:56.679 found yourself further. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.719 The prophet Ezekiel said. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.760 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.920 carried me. That word carried in the original language means 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:12.720 to shoot out, to launch forward. It implies acceleration. Now, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.640 as God carries you through life, it's not always going 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:20.760 to be predictable routine. At the same pace, you're going 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.120 to come into these times where God is going to 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.320 propel you years down the road. You were going along fine, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:32.720 making progress, being faithful. Then God hit fast forward out 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:38.079 of nowhere. You're thrust into levels you didn't see coming. Favor, influence, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.560 opportunity that you've never imagined. When my father went to 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.480 be with the Lord, I had never ministered before, and 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.040 I liked being behind the scenes. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.080 Doing the television production. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.640 But I knew I was supposed to step up and 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:56.240 pasture the church. I called our contact at the cable network, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.199 where my father had a national program for almost twenty years. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.199 I told him that Daddy had died and we were 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.360 gonna have to cancel our airtime. I thought, I don't 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.160 know how to minister. I've never been to a seminary, 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.960 and I'm sure not gonna get on television. Nobody's gonna 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.600 listen to me. And I came home that night and 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.280 talking to Victoria, just casually, she said, what do you 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.800 do today? And I told her that I canceled our airtime. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.920 She looked at me and said, listen here, Joel, you 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.000 need to call and get that time back. People are 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.160 watching to see what's going to happen to Lakewood. She 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.280 was so strong and so passionate about it. I knew 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.440 there was only one right answer. Yes, ma'am. 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.719 Airtime is very valuable. 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.679 It was a holiday weekend, so I called the first 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.440 thing Tuesday morning. The man said, Joel, this is so interesting. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.360 I had the time sold on Friday. The contract was 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.360 on my desk, but something said to me, don't sign 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.600 it until next week. He gave us our time back. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.679 We started airing my messages on television. Much to my surprise, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:06.760 people started watching in record numbers. Other network started calling. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.840 Three years later, we were. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.320 On the top stations in all the major cities. I 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.240 was just hoping to keep things going. But God had 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.960 another plan, fast forward. He propelled me further than I 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:24.800 ever imagine. What am I saying? You don't know what 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.439 God has in store for you. He's been carrying you, 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.600 he's been sustaining you. But part of that carrying are 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:37.160 these times where God launches you forward, where he accelerates 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.800 your destiny. He puts your years down the road. You 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.000 may feel like you're not making much progress. It can 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.760 be discouraging at this rate. It's going to take so 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.040 long to get ahead, so long to get well, so 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.120 long for your child to get back on course. What 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.080 you can't see is God has the remote control. You 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.760 wouldn't be hearing this if he wasn't about to accelerate 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:01.480 some things. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.559 Keep being faithful, keep honoring him. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.840 He's about to hit fast forward and put your years 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.200 down the road. Friend of mine has a small business. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.800 He's in the graphics industry, and for years it's just 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.320 been him and a couple of other employees. He's always 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.120 had bigger things in his heart, this dream to see 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.520 it grow and expand, and he's worked hard and gone 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:25.560 the extra mile. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.520 But it seemed like he always hit a limit. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.960 He'd make a little progress, then things would slow down. 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.360 Toots would tell him it's too late. What happened by now? 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.000 Just accept that it's not meant to be. But despite 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.920 not seeing anything change, he kept believing. He kept thanking 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.760 God that he was working. Last year, he picked up 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.559 one client that brought him more revenue in one year 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:55.959 than all the previous twenty years combined. His business has exploded, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.600 has over three hundred employees. He said, Joel, I can't 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.680 explain ain't it. I don't know why this big company 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:04.679 chose my small firm. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.640 You know why? God hit fast forward? 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.520 God said in Isaiah, I will make it happen quickly. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.600 It may look like you're falling behind, it's too late 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.520 to accomplish your dream. Don't worry. God has the remote control. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.960 He knows how to speed things up. He can do 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.000 things quickly. It's not going to be at the same 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:30.960 gradual pace your whole lifetime. Be grateful for where you are. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.000 Stay faithful, but. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.160 Don't let the fact that it's routine convince you that 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:37.920 it's always going to be that way. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:39.480 Now, God has some. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.040 Of these fast forward moments already on your schedule. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.480 Genesis forty eight. Jacob was an. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.480 Old man and about to pass. His son, Joseph, came 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.360 in to say his goodbyes. He brought with him his 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:58.640 two sons, Manassa and Ephrium. When Jacob saw his grandsons, 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.240 he called them over and hugged them. He said to Joseph, 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.200 I am adopting your two boys as my own sons. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.760 They will inherit the same thing you and my other 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:15.160 sons inherent. What's interesting is these two boys were born 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:19.840 from an Egyptian mother. The Egyptians back then worshiped idols, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.760 they didn't believe in Jehovah. Didn't seem like God would 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.120 have anything to do with them. But God doesn't hold 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.560 against you how you were raised, what family you come from. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:36.720 There may have been dysfunction, people that compromised, made poor choices, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.120 but that does not disqualify you. You can be the 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.000 difference maker. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.960 You can be the one that says the new standard. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:49.320 When Jacob said I'm adopting your two boys, this was significant. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.160 They were grandsons, not sons. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.400 They should have had to wait forty years to get 0:15:55.440 --> 0:16:00.120 the inheritance from their father another generation. But because jac 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.480 adopted them. He put these two boys for decades down 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.720 the road, one good break, and they were a generation ahead. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.120 God was showing us how he doesn't always follow a 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.000 normal timeline. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.480 He has some blessings that are going to put you 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:18.920 a generation ahead. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.160 Everything's in order, in line, routine, and then out of nowhere, 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.400 a generational blessing. The scripture says you will live in 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.760 houses that you didn't build, you will eat from vineyards 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:32.600 that you didn't plan. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.600 Those are generational blessings. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.920 To reach the fullness of your destiny is not going 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.440 to happen only at a normal pace. There are going 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.320 to be some of these fast forward moments favor that 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.240 catapult you ahead. Times like with Philip, that you find 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:51.160 yourself further. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:53.080 You can't explain it. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.480 You didn't earn it, It wasn't on your schedule. It 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.520 was the hand of God accelerating your destiny thrust you 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:05.040 years ahead. And yes, I know there are seasons of waiting, 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.639 times when we're not making any progressing. We have to 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.600 endure and do the right thing when nothing is changing 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.960 past those tests. But as God carries you, you're also 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.280 going to come in to these moments of favor where 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.080 he catapults you ahead. You feel like you're falling behind. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.520 Then God hits fast forward. You are a grandson, so 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.560 to speak. But God steps in and says, I'm adopting 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.720 you as my son. He puts you a generation ahead, 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.560 forty years down the road. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:36.920 You may have a situation now. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.080 You don't see how it's gonna resolve, how you're gonna 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.520 accomplish the dream, how you're gonna get well, it's been 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:44.240 so long. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.879 You don't know what God is up to. You don't 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.000 know when. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.879 He's about to hit fast forward. What you think is 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.760 gonna take your whole lifetime Like these boys, God's gonna 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:56.560 do a quick work. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.920 It's gonna happen in a fraction of the time. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.520 December of two thousand and three, we leased this building 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.479 from the City of Houston for sixty years. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.840 We always wanted to own it, but. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.440 The least was the best option at the time. Deep down, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.800 I knew sometime during those sixty years God would make 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.720 a way where we could purchase it. I was forty 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.000 years old at the time, and I didn't want to 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.560 be down at City Hall when I'm one hundred trying 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.760 to renew the lease and I need to be at 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.679 home taking care of my brother Paul. I said, God, 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.520 let me purchase it in my lifetime, not leave it 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:33.840 up in. 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.280 The air for the next generation. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.680 Seven years into our sixty year lease, the city was 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.080 running low on tax revenue. They decided to sell off 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.240 some of their properties. The mayor called and asked if 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.200 we wanted to purchase the building. I said we did, 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.080 but it would depend on the price, and a building 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.159 like this now would be five hundred million dollars. She 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.720 said the city would do an appraisal and get back 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.280 with us. They had to appraise the property based on 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.159 the fact that our lease would still be honored, so 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:08.240 whoever purchased it wouldn't take possession for many years. The 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.679 appraisal came back, not at two hundred million, not one 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.440 hundred million, not fifty. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.160 Not twenty five. They said, you can purchase it for. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.960 Seven million dollars. We not only got it for an 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:25.359 unbelievable price, but what should have taken sixty years, God 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:26.600 did fifty. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:27.240 Three years sooner. 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.840 We didn't see it coming. We didn't go after it. 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:37.080 The mayor called us, when God hits fast forward, you're 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.800 gonna see things that buggle your mind. You haven't seen, heard, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.399 or imagine what He has in store for you. You 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.720 think it's gonna take thirty years to get out of debt. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.840 You've run all the numbers, projected your income, calculated the payments. 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.080 By the time you're one hundred and twenty three, you're 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.000 gonna be debt free. You don't know what God is 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:01.320 up to. He's already lined up the fast forward moments. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.879 He's already scheduled the right people to call you, the 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.160 good breaks to chase you down, favor that will catapult 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:08.720 you ahead. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:11.480 David had these fast forward moments. 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.360 He was anointed by Samuel to be the next king 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.040 of Israel, but he didn't go to the palace. He 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.040 went back to the shepherd's fields. For years he took 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.480 care of his father's sheep. You can imagine the battle 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:27.359 taking place in his mind thought saying you were anointed, 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.400 Samuel chose you, Why are you still out here? Must 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.560 have been a mistake. You're falling behind. You can be anointed, 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.680 but not appointed yet. Don't try to take matters into 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.320 your own hands. Trust God's timing, let him do it 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.200 his way. When we think we're falling behind, it's easy 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.920 to get impatient, try to force things to happen. But 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.040 God knows how to make up for lost time. When 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.680 he hits fast forward, it will thrust you ahead. And 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:02.280 David kept being faithful. He didn't complain, he didn't get bitter, 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.359 He kept excelling right where he was. Eventually he was 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.440 called to the palace to play the heart for King Saul. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.199 But Saul was jealous of David. He tried to kill him. 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.480 David had to flee for his life, lived out in 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:20.080 the desert on the run. The whole time he knew 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.199 God had anointed him, but there was no sign that 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.600 it was ever going to happen. Saul wasn't an old man. 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.240 He could have been the king for another fifty years. 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.440 Everything was routine out in the desert. David wasn't making 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.439 any progress, nothing changing. He was no closer to the 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:41.680 throne than he was thirteen years earlier when Samuel anointed him. 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.119 One day, when David and his men were away on 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.240 a trip, bandits came in and burned down their city, 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:53.679 stole all their possessions, kidnapped their wives and children. It 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.680 was the greatest defeat David had ever suffered. His men 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.919 were so distraught they talked about stone and sitting in 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:04.879 the ruins of his city. Something rose up in David. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:07.639 He told his men to get ready. They were going 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:11.240 to go attack the enemy. They found them partying and 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.399 celebrating their victory. David surprised them. They went in and 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.520 defeated them. They recovered all their possessions, all their family, 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:23.399 and all their children. Three days later, word came to 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.600 David that King Saul and his son Jonathan were killed 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:31.359 in a battle. David was made the king. It looked 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:35.120 like that was decades away, but God hit fast forward. 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:40.280 Seventy two hours after David suffered his greatest attack, he 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.679 was made the king. When it feels like your dream 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:46.440 is a long way off, that's a sign that God 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.359 is up to something. He's about to do a quick work. 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:54.080 Don't let the circumstances fool you. How unlikely it is, 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.480 how impossible it looks. David was anointed to be king 0:22:58.880 --> 0:22:59.880 when there was a man on. 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.280 The throne that could have been there for decades. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:07.360 Saul was strong, healthy, had loyal followers. On top of that, 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.880 his son was next in line. All the circumstances said 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:15.640 David was stuck. It would be years and years But 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:18.760 God has a fast forward button. He knows how to 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:23.239 accelerate your destiny. When you're under attack and seems like 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:26.920 everything's coming against you, God is setting you up to 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:30.200 thrust you forward. A friend of mine wanted to buy 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:32.679 some property to build a school on. He had a 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:36.280 few acres, but he needed more. There were ten acres 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:39.800 behind him, connecting to his property in He had bought 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.119 his land for four thousand dollars an acre. When he 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:47.199 acquired about the new property, they wanted twenty five thousand 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:49.760 an acre, more than five times what he paid for 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:53.919 his He was disappointed. He needed more room to expand, 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:57.960 but no doors were opening. Year went by and nothing happened. 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:02.240 Another year, three years, four years. Looked like he was 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:06.440 falling behind. Thoughts told him it's too late. He'd missed 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:10.159 his chance. It would never happen now. But God knows 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:13.320 how to make up for lost time. He knows how 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:16.359 to take a grandson and adopt him as a son. 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.960 One good break will put you decades ahead. This is 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.320 where faith comes in. God. I don't see anything happening. 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.679 I feel like I'm stuck, but I believe you have 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:31.199 fast forward moments in my future. God, I believe that 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:35.760 acceleration is on the way. One day, a city official 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:38.560 came by his office and told him about one hundred 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:41.359 and twenty acres that was right out in front of 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:44.480 his property. It all had street frontage. It had been 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.720 foreclosed on five times. They had sold it and taken 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:51.040 it back again and again. He said, we've been authorized 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.719 to get rid of this. Make us an offer, and 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:57.000 we'll see what we can do. The property had nine 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:59.560 buildings on it that he could use for a school. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:03.000 He offered the man two hundred thousand dollars. The man 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:06.280 shook his hand and said the property is yours. That 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:10.280 other party wanted two hundred and fifty thousand for ten acres. 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:14.440 He bought one hundred and twenty acres with nine buildings 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:15.680 for two hundred thousand. 0:25:16.160 --> 0:25:17.920 That was a generational blessing. 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:21.640 He not only has property for his school, but there's 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:25.639 enough for the next generation to expand. What should have 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:28.879 taken him fifty years to acquire, God gave him in 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:32.000 a fraction of the time. It may seem like you're 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:35.959 falling behind, staying courage, God has some of these fast 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:39.720 forward moments for you. He's about to accelerate things in 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:43.560 your life. Like with Philip, You're gonna find yourself further 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:49.000 things you couldn't explain, like Manassa and Ephrium, generational blessing, 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:53.120 good breaks that will put you decades ahead. You may 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:56.640 have gone through disappointments. Nothing looks like it'll ever change. 0:25:57.119 --> 0:26:00.720 Like David, you could be just seventy two hours from 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:03.639 seeing your greatest victory. Now, thoughts you will tell you 0:26:03.760 --> 0:26:06.200 this is not for you. Today, you never get any 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.240 good breaks. You're stuck with you. Don't believe those lies. 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:11.480 God has the remote control. 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:13.880 He's about to do some quick works. 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:17.040 What looks like is a long way off. Get Ready 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:19.240 is going to happen sooner than you think. 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:21.440 I believe and declare. 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:26.760 Acceleration is come into your family. God is speeding things up, 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:31.080 the right people finding you, good breaks chasing you down, 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:36.600 Dreams come into past, healing, freedom, abundance sooner than you think. 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:39.680 In Jesus' name and if you receive it. 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:43.600 Can you say amen? I'd like to give you an 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:47.040 opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:50.760 you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent 0:26:50.800 --> 0:26:54.359 of my sins. Come into my heart. 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