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I'll promise you this will make you feel 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.520 right at home. But thanks so much for tuning in, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.200 and thank you again for coming out. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.160 I like to start with something funny. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.680 And I heard about this lady that surprised a burglar 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.880 in her kitchen one night late, and she was home alone. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.280 No weapon, and she didn't really know what to do. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.000 She thought, I'll just say a scripture verse. She shouted 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.040 out acts two thirty eight. The burglar suddenly froze and 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.520 his tracks wouldn't move. The police soon arrived, and they 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.320 were amazed at how a woman with no weapon. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:38.880 Could do this. 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:40.960 Now, he asked the burglar, what was it about this 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.000 scripture that had such an effect on you? 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.760 He said, scripture? What scripture? I thought? 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.800 She said, She had an axe and two thirty eight. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.840 All right, hold up your bible. Say it like you 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.880 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.240 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.240 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.560 I will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.320 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.120 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.080 I want to talk to you today about going further faster. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.240 We're living in a day where God is speeding things up. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.720 What should have taken you a lifetime to accomplish. Because 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.080 you honor God, He's going to do it in a 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:32.160 fraction of the time. In your career, maybe it should 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.400 take you twenty years to work your way up to 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.120 that position, twenty years to build your business up. Now 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.680 things have shifted. God's going to give you breaks that 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.880 you didn't deserve. He's going to bring the right people 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.400 across your path. You're going to see opportunity like you've 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.600 never seen before. It's going to take you further faster. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.520 Get those two words down in your spirit. It may 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.640 look like in the natural it's going to take you 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.480 years to get out of debt, years to get well, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.120 years to overcome that problem. No, you need to get ready. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.640 You've come into this shift. Think of it like a car. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.240 When you shift from second gear up to fourth gear. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.240 The engine is still running at the same speed. It's 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.480 not working any harder, but you're going faster. You're covering 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:26.200 more ground. The higher gears have greater capacity. They're designed 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.440 to go faster in the same way. Because you've kept 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.200 God first place. He's shifting you to a higher gear. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.400 You're going to go further faster now because you're working harder, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.240 trying to make it all happen. No, you're putting forth 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.720 the same effort, being your best every day. But all 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.279 of a sudden, you get a good break that thrusts 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.000 you years down the road. You get a promotion that 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.000 you weren't qualified for. You're going to look out and think, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.120 how did I get here? Should have taken me another 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.000 twenty years, but here I am. Report said it'd take 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.520 me five years to recover, but I did it in 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.800 six months. Should have taken me most of my career 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.120 to get into management, but here I am at the 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:09.920 age of thirty. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:11.400 What is that? 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:17.400 God taking you further faster. Part of the shift is acceleration. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.800 It's not going to take as long to accomplish as 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.680 your goals as you think, not going to take as 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.120 long to get out of that problem as it looks. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.080 Almighty God, the creator of the universe, is breathing in 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.120 your direction. He's going to cause things to fall into place. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.280 The right people are going to be drawn to you, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:43.640 good breaks, opportunities, healing, restoration, favor. It's not going to 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.960 be business as usual. You've come into a shift. It's 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.960 going to be business as unusual. In December of two 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.320 thousand and three, we signed a sixty year lease with 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.120 the City of Houston for this facility. We always wanted 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.400 to own it, but the lease was the best thing 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.599 to make it happen at the time. Deep down, I 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.480 knew sometime during that sixty year period God would give 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.560 us the ability to purchase it. Two thousand and three, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.760 I was forty years old. I would be one hundred 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.480 years old at the end of the lease. I said, God, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.440 I want to purchase this building in my lifetime. I 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:20.719 don't want to leave it up in the air for 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:25.360 the next generation. Three years ago, seven years into our 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.880 sixty year lease, the city was running low on funds. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.240 The tax revenues were not what they projected. They decided 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.200 to sell off some of their excess properties to make 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.360 up for the shortfall in the budget. The Mayor's office 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.480 called and asked if we would be interested in purchasing 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.360 the facility, buying out the lease. A building like this 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.000 to build today would cost five hundred million dollars, and 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.400 of course we were interested, but we had to see 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.520 what the sell price was going to be. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:56.720 The city did an appraisal. 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.560 They had to take into account that whoever bought the property, 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:01.839 they would still. 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.480 Have to honor our sixty year lease. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.800 The appraisal came back not at one hundred million, not 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.239 at fifty million, but it's seven and a half million dollars. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:12.120 Today. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.480 We own this beautiful facility, free and clear, no lease involved. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.080 Here's my point. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:24.160 What could have taken sixty years, God did fifty three 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:24.960 years sooner. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.600 He took us further faster. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.920 Now you may think it's gonna take you thirty years 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.120 to get out of debt, thirty years to pay your 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.760 house off. You've already run the numbers, calculated it all. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.880 By the time you're one hundred and seven years old, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.080 you're gonna be debt free. Yeah, you're gonna be in 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:43.840 heaven debt free. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.880 No, you don't know what God is up to. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.920 You don't know what God is already destined to come 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:56.320 across your path. One phone call, like we received one contract, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.200 one good break, one inheritance, and you're totally debt free. 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.680 You're into overflow. Now you need to get ready. God 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.320 is saying it's going to happen sooner than you think. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.720 I am shifting things in your favor. You're going to 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.760 come into acceleration. What should have taken you a lifetime 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.000 to accomplish, he's going to do in a split second 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.040 of time. Now, don't talk yourself out of it. I 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.800 don't know, Joe. I don't have the seniority. I got 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.920 all these college loans, this debt. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.480 I've gone as far as I can. He'll be a 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.240 believer and not a doubter. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.080 You may not see a way, but God still has 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.040 a way. Our attitude should be God, I'm in agreement 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.400 with you. I believe you have shifted things in my favor. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.560 You are taking me further faster. I will accomplish my 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.239 dream sooner than I think. I will overcome these problems, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:51.040 quicker than I thought. When you do that, Almighty God 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:52.520 will open doors that. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:53.439 No man can shut. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.560 He'll connect you to the right people. His favor will 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:02.040 thrust you years down the road. Back in nineteen forty nine, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.760 there was a young minister named Billy Graham traveling the 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:10.320 country holding meetings in large auditoriums. He was having success, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.800 but he wasn't really nationally known. That summer, he conducted 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.560 a meeting in Los Angeles in a big tent. A 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.000 gentleman showed up by the name of William Randolph Hurst. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:27.040 Mister Hurst owned newspapers all across the country. He was 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.160 so touched that night he sent a message to all 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:35.040 of his publishers to write favorable articles about Billy Graham. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.800 The next week, the whole country was talking about this 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:44.040 young minister. He came to national prominence Billy Graham practically 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.160 overnight because of this one man. What was that a 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:53.840 divine shift? God taken him further faster, could have taken 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.400 him his whole lifetime to gain that kind of respect 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:58.400 and credibility. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.760 But God used one man. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.040 To show him favor and open doors that took Billy 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.200 Graham to a new level. Now, the good news is 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.600 God has already lined up the right people for you. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.439 They are already in your future. It's just a matter 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.120 of time before they show up. They will open doors 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.559 that you could not open. They will show you favor 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.720 even though you didn't ask. They will use their. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.439 Influence to make you look good. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:32.160 They're ordained by God to accelerate his plan for your life. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.560 And what's interesting is Billy Graham didn't search him out. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.040 He searched Billy Graham out. You don't have to go 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.000 try to find the right people. You just honor God 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:43.840 and the right people will find you. 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.080 They'll pick you out of a crowd. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.320 They'll knock on your door, they'll show up at your 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.280 office for some reason. They will want to be good 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.960 to you. That's a divine connection. God will cause them 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.560 to use their expertise, even their funds, to take you 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.320 further faster. Here's what will happen. You'll accomplish more in 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.160 less time. You'll be promoted beyond your education. You'll increase 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.160 beyond your experience. The right people will help you go 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.360 where you could not go on your own. We have 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.120 some good friends named Jerry and Jana Lackey. They attended 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.359 Lakewood for many years and then they moved to Botswana, 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.640 Africa to do missions work. They live out in the 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:34.040 middle of nowhere, taking care of the orphans, feeding the poor, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.640 and teaching people, doing amazing work. One time, they didn't 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.120 have electricity, any of the modern conveniences. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:40.880 That we have. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.120 But they've stayed faithful year after year. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.640 They've seen God's blessings. They've built orphanages and. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.320 Clinics and schools and God's favors been on their life. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:56.080 But their big dream was to build a major youth center. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.520 Seventy percent of the population in Botswana is under the 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.080 age of twenty five. This youth center would be a 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.760 place where the young people could come and grow and 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.800 learn and make friends. But it was going to cost 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.800 five million dollars. That's a lot even here, but over there, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.400 where the annual income is less than a thousand dollars, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:19.760 that was unheard of. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:21.720 Jerry and Janna. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.280 They've raised funds over the years, but nothing even close 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:30.240 to this magnitude. But one day a German businessman was 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.920 visiting Botswana with his wife and they fell in love 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.840 with the country. Got back home to the States, they 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.120 wanted to do something to help. They googled the phrase 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:45.920 Botswana Orphanages and the Lackeys organization came up. It's called 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.520 Love Botswana Outreach. He sent them a donation for twenty 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.760 thousand dollars. He said, I want to do more. A 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.600 few weeks went by, he sent them a three hundred 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:01.480 thousand dollars donation. The Lackeys were just so thrilled. He said, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.120 I want to come see you. That man and his 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.560 wife showed up in Botswana and they stayed at this 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:13.440 very exclusive safari resort right there, about fifteen miles from 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.079 the Lackey's Missions complex. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.480 Jerry went to pick him up. One morning. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.160 The man that owned the resort said to Jerry, hey, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.640 the resorts for sale. Would you like to buy it? 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.520 He thought Jerry was a wealthy businessman. Jerry kind of 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.719 laugh said, man, I'm a missionary living down the road. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.320 I don't have that kind of money, but thank you well. 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:37.440 This German businessman overheard the conversation. He asked Jerry to 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.360 find out more about it. Jerry thought he wanted to 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.319 buy it for himself, but that German man bought this. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.640 Big, exclusive, beautiful resort. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.960 And gave it to Jerry and Jenna for their outreaches. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:52.640 They were overwhelmed. 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.679 The German man came to see their missions complex and 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.040 he noticed the plans they had on for this big 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.480 youth center. This was the greatest thing that Janna and 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.199 Jerry had ever dreamed to do, something that they prayed 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.719 and believed that somehow they could accomplish in their lifetime. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.320 The man asked them how much it was going to cost. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.960 They said five million dollars. He said, all right, you 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.400 a check, and on April fourth, in just a few days, 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.960 they're going to dedicate totally debt free that brand new 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:28.080 youth facility. 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.480 What was that God. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:37.600 Taking them further faster? They're young people in their forties. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.520 Notice what I'm calling young now. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.720 It looked like they'd be praying, believing, raising funds their 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:45.600 whole life. 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.920 But they came into this shift. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.520 God brought one man across their path, a divine connection. Listen, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.280 you don't need everyone to help you. You just need 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.240 one person God ordained, and you will accomplish in a 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:05.320 split second what could have taken you your whole lifetime. Well, Joe, 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.760 I don't know this will happen for me. I never 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.720 get any good breaks. It's not going to happen with 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.760 that attitude. You cannot think thoughts of defeat and lack 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.640 all day and expect to have abundance. You can't talk 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:23.920 mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.840 If you want to see this shift occur in your 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.560 own life, you've got to get in agreement and. 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.280 Say, yes, God, this is for me. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.200 I believe you've lined up the right people I know 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.560 they're already in my future. I just want to thank 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.560 you that I'll accomplish my dreams sooner than I think. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.080 In the natural, it may not look like it, but 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.920 remember we serve a supernatural God. He's about to release 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:55.000 floods of his favor, floods of healing, floods of good breaks. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.640 Take the limits off of God. Don't think of all 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.000 the reason this is not going to work. God wouldn't 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.800 have given you the dream unless he already had a 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.480 way to bring it to pass. If you will stay 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.760 in faith like the lackeys, it will not only happen 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.400 sooner than you think, it'll be bigger than you imagine. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.040 That's the way our God is. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.720 He likes to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. I 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.200 read about a certain kind of plant, it's called the 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:28.120 Chinese bamboo. For the first four years, it barely grows 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.280 above ground. You hardly see anything happening, even though you 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.960 water it, fertilize it, make sure it's getting sunlight. It 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.640 looks like you're wasting your time, But what you can't 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:44.600 see is under the ground, it's developing a massive root system. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.720 The roots are spreading out in every possible direction. In 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.880 the fifth year, once the roots are properly established, the 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.120 plant will take off and shoot up to as high 0:16:56.160 --> 0:17:00.240 as eighty feet in the air, from zero to eighty 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.399 feet all in one year. Many of you, like Jerry 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.440 and Jana, you've been faithful, You've given, you've served, you've 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.080 helped others. You've sown a lot of seeds, but you 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.520 haven't seen a lot of progress. Yes, God's been good 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.920 to you. You're grateful, but nothing really out of the ordinary. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.879 That was the equivalent of your four years of developing roots. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.119 You were proving to God that you would be faithful. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.520 You were proving you would do the right thing when 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:30.160 it was hard. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:31.919 Now you need to get ready. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.600 God is saying you're coming into your fifth year. You're 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.760 going to see explosive growth that will take you to 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:44.920 levels beyond your income, beyond your training, beyond your experience. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.080 In this fifth year, good breaks will find you, the 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.840 right people will search you out, Opportunity will come knocking 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.840 on your door. The fifth year is harvest time, is 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.600 favor time. You're going to reach from all the seeds 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.480 that you've sown down through the years. Nothing you've ever 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:10.840 given has gone unnoticed. Every sacrifice you've made, every time 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.280 you stop to help someone. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:13.560 God sees that. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.879 The scripture talks about how God will reward us in 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.120 this life, not just the sweet by and by. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.919 Because you've been faithful. There is a harvest stored up 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:27.280 like the lackeys. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.760 God is about to release everything that belongs to you. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.680 It's going to happen sooner than you think. It's going 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.399 to be bigger than you imagine. God is going to 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.200 bring out gifts and talents you didn't even know you had. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.840 He's going to open up new doors of opportunity. This 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.560 fifth year is when God is going to shoot you 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.200 up higher than you ever even dreamed of. A lady 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.960 in the scripture named Ruth experienced this fifth year. She 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.800 was living in a foreign country taking care of her 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:00.640 mother in law, Naomi. They were both widows, very poor. 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.440 They didn't have any income. Ruth would go out into 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.320 the fields early every morning and gather up the leftover 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.840 wheat that the workers had missed. That's how they were 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.600 living off of leftovers, day after day, month after month. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:17.080 Ruth was very faithful. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.720 She could have gone back to her hometown and done 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.520 her own thing, but she didn't want to leave Naomi, 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.919 her mother in law. An older woman by herself, she 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:31.159 sowed these seeds of kindness and generosity. It looked like 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.719 this was her lot in life, to struggle to barely 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.360 get by, to live off of the leftovers. But one 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.720 day a man named Boaz He owned all those fields, 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:44.840 the wealthiest man in the area. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:46.160 He noticed Ruth. 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:50.879 He told his workers to leave handfuls of wheat on 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.720 purpose for Ruth to make it easier on her. Ruth 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.720 was very grateful she didn't have to work so hard. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.000 She kept being her best, honoring God. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.640 She came in to her fifth year. 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.919 Boaz He ended up falling in love with Ruth and 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.840 they got married. Now, instead of working in the field, 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:17.080 Ruth owned the field. She didn't have to pick up leftovers. Ever, again, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:22.760 God took her further faster. What I love about this 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.480 story is it shows us the heart of God. Ruth 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.840 was satisfied living off of leftovers. She was content her 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.680 needs were being supplied, but God wasn't satisfied. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.280 That was fine for a season time. 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.240 Of testing and proving for Ruth, but God did not 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.679 want that to be permanent. God didn't want Ruth to 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:49.119 spend her life gathering up leftovers working in the field. 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.120 God wanted her to own that. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.880 Field and friends, God's dream for your life is much 0:20:55.040 --> 0:21:00.200 bigger than your own. Don't get satisfied just having your 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:01.000 needs supplied. 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.280 Yes, be grateful, but. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.679 God has so much more in store. He wants you 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.560 to come into overflow, into abundance, to where you can 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.439 be a greater blessing wherever you go. You may be 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.080 working for that company, but God knows how to shift 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:22.000 things to where you own your own company. God does 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:25.439 not want you to spend your life cleaning that office. 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.960 God wants you to be running that office. You may 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.720 be teaching at that school, and that's great, but don't 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.080 be surprised if you end up running that school. You 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.760 may be working behind the scenes like I was for 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.840 seventeen years. But then you come into your fifth year 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.760 and you see explosive growth and God takes your places 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:46.080 that you've never even dreamed. 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.760 God, what am I saying? Make room for. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:53.040 God to do something big in this new year. Go 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:57.359 out every day with this expectancy. God is working in 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.440 my life right now. Lord, I just want to thank 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:06.360 you for explosive blessings, for divine connections, for unprecedented favor. 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.399 That's what a man in the scripture did by the 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:13.119 name of Nehemiah. He had a dream to rebuild the 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.760 walls of Jerusalem. In the natural, it was impossible. He 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:21.840 was living a thousand miles away, working as a cupbearer 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:25.560 for the king. He didn't have the money, the position, 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:27.840 the resources on paper. 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:29.080 He didn't have a chance. 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:34.080 But Neamiah knew that God's favor was on him. He 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:36.760 asked this king for permission to take a leave of 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:41.600 absence to go and rebuild that wall. Notice his boldness. 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:45.600 He wasn't a high level cabinet member. He wasn't a 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:49.680 senior advisor in the administration. He was working in the kitchen, 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.840 cooking food, cleaning the tables. He could have thought, who 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:57.040 am I. I could never do something big. I don't 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.080 have the influence, I don't have the money, I don't 0:22:59.119 --> 0:22:59.959 know the right people. 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:01.040 No. 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:04.960 Niamiah two verse eight shows us his attitude. He said, 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:09.400 the king granted me this request because the gracious hand 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.920 of God was upon me. He was saying, it may 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:15.280 not look like it in the natural, but I have 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:19.560 a secret weapon, something that you cannot see. The favor 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:22.960 of God is on my life. Niamiah went out and 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.000 started rebuilding the wall. He had all kinds of opposition. 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:31.000 City leaders wouldn't give him a permit. Critics tried to 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.720 stop him. Bandits came up and he had to fight 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:37.200 them off one thing after another. He just kept being 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.560 his best, doing what God called him to do. That 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:44.520 should have taken him years and years, But Niamiah rebuilt that. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:47.800 Wall in just fifty two days. What was that. 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:53.080 God taken him further faster. God had it all lined up. 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:57.280 God gave him favor with the king. God arranged the 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:01.800 right people, the resources, the protection. Should have taken years. 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:04.679 That wall had been down for a long time. Should 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:07.720 have taken him his whole lifetime, but with God's help, 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:11.320 he did it in fifty two days. Now, your dream 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.960 may seem too big, think, oh man Joel, I've waited 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:18.600 too long. I've missed too many opportunities. I don't have 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:23.080 the resources the connections. Know, just like with Nehemiah, God 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:24.879 hasn't all figured out. 0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:28.680 Because you've honored him. God is saying, I'm. 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:31.960 Bringing you into your fifth year. I'm gonna connect you 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:34.720 to the right people. I'm gonna give you breaks that 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:37.800 you didn't deserve. I'm gonna open doors that you weren't 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:41.639 qualified for. I'm gonna give you wisdom beyond your years. 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:45.760 God is going to accelerate his plan for your life. 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:49.800 You could be going along normal pace, been that way 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:51.240 for years and years. 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:55.080 But now you've hit this shift. Get ready for acceleration. 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:58.240 Get ready for new doors to open, Get ready for 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:01.240 the right people to show up at your doorsteps. Have 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:05.080 this attitude of expectancy further faster. 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:07.280 Now here's the key. 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:12.040 There will always be opposition to you moving forward. When 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.120 Nehemiah came into his fifth year, the opponents came out 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:19.359 of the woodwork. Everything tried to stop him. Don't be 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:23.360 discouraged by the opposition. That's a sign that God. 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:27.439 Has shifted things. Now the enemy He don't want you 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:29.640 to move forward. As long as you're. 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:33.240 Complacent, stay where you are, that's no problem. But when 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:36.440 you start taking new ground, when you start praying God 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:39.800 sized prayers, when you know God has shifted things in 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:43.760 your favor, don't be surprised if you have opposition. All 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:47.320 that means is you are close to your victory. You 0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:52.399 are close to seeing these explosive blessings. Have a good friend. 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:55.040 It's been in a legal situation. For the last year, 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:59.280 it's been very heavy on her heart. She was told 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:02.720 that it could take ten years to resolve her opponents, 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:05.280 they could drag it out just to make her life miserable. 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:09.080 And at one time she was a very upbeat, fun 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:12.240 person to be around. That after months and months of 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:15.000 waiting and setbacks. 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:16.680 And pressure, it's like she was a different person. 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:21.240 No joy, no peace, no victory, very solemn, very serious. 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.159 It looked like there could be years and years of 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:25.600 this stress and frustration. 0:26:26.480 --> 0:26:28.400 But just last week she. 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:31.639 Got the good news that the case was totally resolved, 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:35.680 all in her favor. Everything was cleared up. She said, Joel, 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:39.280 I can't even tell you what a load this is 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:43.040 being lifted off of me. What happened She came into 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:46.520 her fifth year. What could have taken ten years, even 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:50.520 twenty years, God did in less than a year, just 0:26:50.680 --> 0:26:54.920 like with her. Because you've been faithful, problems you've struggled 0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:59.960 with for years are going to suddenly resolve, unexpectedly turn around. 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:01.400 God is going to. 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:04.600 Cause things to fall into place. The right people are 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:08.879 going to show up. You need to get ready for acceleration. Friends, 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:13.800 God has shifted you into a higher gear. He's enlarging 0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:18.439 your capacity. You're going to accomplish more in less time. 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:21.520 You're going to go further putting forth the. 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:24.840 Same amount of effort. What is that you've come into 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:25.720 your fifth year. 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:29.399 God is accelerating his plan for your life. 0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:31.160 Let me declare it. 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:33.760 It's not going to take a lifetime for you to 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:36.639 accomplish your dreams. It's going to happen in a fraction 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:39.280 of the time. It's not going to take you thirty 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.440 years to get out of debt. Supernatural increase is coming 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.359 your way. It's not going to take you years to 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:47.040 work your way up in that company. 0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:49.640 Explosive growth is in your future. 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:53.560 It's not going to take years to overcome that addiction, 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:56.560 to break that bad habit, to get healthy again. 0:27:56.680 --> 0:27:59.399 It's going to happen sooner than you think. Now, do 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:01.800 your part. Stay in agreement with God. 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:04.280 Get up every morning, say Lord, I want to thank 0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:08.400 you that you're taking me further faster, and then go 0:28:08.440 --> 0:28:11.560 out each day with that expectancy that God is at. 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:12.879 Work in my life right now. 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:17.000 If you do this, I believe and declare, like Jerry 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:20.639 and Jena Lackey, You're going to see divine connections the 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:24.160 right people come across your path. Like us in the building, 0:28:24.400 --> 0:28:27.639 what should have taken sixty years, God's going to accelerate 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:31.080 to a few years. And like Ruth, instead of working 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:33.520 in the field, You're going to end up owning the field. 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:38.440 God's going to do exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond further faster. 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:40.760 Come on, give the Lord a shout of pray today. 0:28:43.800 --> 0:28:46.360 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:49.400 an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:50.720 Would you pray with me? 0:28:51.400 --> 0:28:55.160 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 0:28:56.280 --> 0:28:59.960 Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:03.760 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:06.560 got born again. Get in a good Bible based chirt. 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:09.760 Keep God first place. 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