God is Your Source

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It's a joy to come into 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.920 your homes and if you're ever in our area, please 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.559 stop by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.440 These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.880 right here at Lakewood. We'd love to have you be 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.840 a part. But thanks for tuning in. I like to 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.720 start with something funny. And I heard about this lady 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.200 that died, and she was at the pearly gates. Saint 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.720 Peter said, you can't come in yet. You have to 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.320 correctly spell a word. She said what word? He said, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.880 any word, So she spelled the word love l ovee. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.720 Peter said, welcome to Heaven. Then Peter asked her if 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.800 she would take his place for a moment. He instructed 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.680 her that if anyone came, just to follow the same procedure. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.440 In a few moments, she sees her ex husband walking up. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.600 She can't believe it. She said, what are you doing here? 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.320 He said, I just had a heart attack. Did I 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.040 really make it to heaven? She said, not yet. You 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.160 have to correctly spell a word. He said what word. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.520 There was a long pause, and she said, because Slovakia 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.000 say like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.560 am what it says I am. I have what it 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.120 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.440 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.359 I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.400 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.920 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.000 God is your source. It's easy to look to people 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.360 as our source or look to our job as our source. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:39.280 And yes, God uses people, he uses jobs, he uses contracts, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.640 but they are not the source. They are simply a 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.920 resource that the source uses. And if you're seeing other things, 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.200 then God is your source. The problem is if something 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.440 happens to them, you'll think, what am I going to do? 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.760 The source has been cut off. No, the source is 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.440 just fine. God is still on the throne. The scripture 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.520 says that every good gift comes from our Father in 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:11.280 heaven above. That good gift may come through people, but 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:16.080 it came from God. Your salary may come through your company, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.000 but it came from your heavenly father. He's the one 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.440 that caused them to hire you. He's the one that 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.120 calls you to stand out. He's using them as a resource. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.960 Or that contract may come through a friend, through a connection, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.160 but it came from God. That's why you don't have 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.799 to play up to people compromise to get a good break. 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:43.400 People are not your provider. God is your provider. That 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.320 job is simply the resource God chose to bless you. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.480 If you don't understand this, you can make people your God. Well, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.520 if this supervisor doesn't like me, if this contract doesn't last, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.000 if these clients are not good to me, how am 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.560 I going to make it? Take people off the throne. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.760 People are not your source. God is your source. Yes, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.680 it's good when people are nice to you. It's nice 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.440 when they recognize your value. But don't become so dependent 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.800 on them that you start seeing them as your provider. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.840 Recognize behind the resource is the source, Behind the salary, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.800 behind the opportunity, behind the favor, is the most tied 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.320 God causing people to be good to you, causing doors 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.279 to open, causing clients to seek you out. Be grateful 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.640 for the resource, but keep your eyes on the source. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.920 When Peter didn't have money to pay his taxes, Jesus 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.599 told him to go to the lake and catch a fish. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.000 The first fish he caught had a gold coin in it, 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.960 enough to pay his taxes. God was showing us how 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:56.120 he can use different resources. If a contract at work 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.760 comes to an end, looks like you're going to be 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.360 set back, don't be discouraged. God has another fish. He 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.440 has ways that we've never thought of. As long as 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.719 you're keeping him first place, you are connected to a 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.440 supply line that will never run dry. You are not 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.760 at the mercy of the economy or your boss or 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.160 who likes you. God has all kinds of resources he 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.039 can use. I talked to a man after thirty two 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.520 years the company he worked for was sold. He was 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.240 without a job, and he was so discouraged. He never 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.760 dreamed at his age he would have to be starting over. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.640 I told him what I'm telling you. That job was 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:41.520 simply the resource that God chose to bless you. It 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.159 is not the source. The source is fine. I saw 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.320 him about six months later, and he was so happy. 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.880 He said, Joel, I not only got another job, I 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:56.400 got my dream job, had better benefits, better income, closer 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.760 to his house. When the door closes you a setback, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:05.120 you have to remind yourself it's not the resource blessing you, 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:10.240 it's the source. The scripture says you will prosper even 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:14.720 in the desert. Your lief will not wither. Even in famine. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.120 You will have more than enough. It's showing us that 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.960 even though the circumstances may change, the source never changes. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.480 Because you're connected to that source, you will be blessed. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.560 In the famine. You will increase when others are decreasing 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.120 all through the day, Lord, I recognize you're the source 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.720 of my life. Yes, this job gives me a paycheck, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.520 but you're the source of the income. Yes, this company 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.240 gave me a good position, but you're the source of 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.240 the favor. In the scripture, Ruth and her mother in 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.880 law were both widows. They were very poor, struggling to survive. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.560 Ruth would go out into the fields each morning and 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:03.040 pick up the leftoverat that the workers had missed. One day, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.280 the owner of the field, a man named Boaz, noticed Ruth, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.640 and for some reason he decided to be good to her. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.760 He told his workers to leave handfuls of wheat on 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.280 purpose for Ruth. Eventually Ruth found out it was him. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.040 I could hear her telling her mother in law, this man, Boaz, 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.880 this owner, he's being so good to me. He's leaving 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.480 me so much wheat. Ruth thought it was Boaz being 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.600 good to her. The truth is it was God being 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.640 good to her. Boaz was the resource, but God was 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:43.079 the source. God was the one speaking to Boaz giving 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.760 him that desire to be good to her. How many 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.520 times has God spoken to people to be good to us? 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.880 And we didn't even know it for no reason. They 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.320 decided to help us. They opened a door, they gave 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.200 us a position, they introduced us to a friend, and 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.600 they were a resource that the Source was using. The 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.880 longer I live, the more I recognized God's goodness in 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.160 my life. Things that I thought were a coincidence, I 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.400 thought were people just wanting to be good to me. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.160 I realize now it was the source. Doors that opened 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.480 that you couldn't open. Somebody decided to give you a 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.240 good break. You were at the right place at the 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.840 right time, met that person and fell in love. That 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:34.440 wasn't a coincidence. That was the source, that person that 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.640 put in a good word for you, and you got 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:41.160 the promotion. You weren't lucky. That was God speaking to them, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.800 like he spoke to Boaz. Every good thing comes from 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.040 our Father above. They may not have even known it 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.200 was God speaking to them. They just suddenly had a 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.080 desire to be good to you, to stay laid, and 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.440 introduce you to the client, to waive the policy and 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:03.000 put the loan through. Are you recognizing the source? Are 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.000 you thanking God for every good gift? Do you realize 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.040 you wouldn't have waken up this morning. Without the source, 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.040 you wouldn't have air to breathe without the source. Your 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.480 eyes wouldn't see without the source. You wouldn't have that 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.559 person to love without the Source. Don't get so caught 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.640 up in the resources that you forget it's the most 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:30.400 tied God working in your life. It's God protecting you 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.440 from that accident. It was God healing you from the cancer, 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.240 not just the medicine. It was the Source. When you 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.040 look back over your life, nothing was a coincidence. There 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.719 were no lucky breaks. What you thought was just Boaz 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.480 being good to you, leaving you handfuls on purpose, that 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.600 was the hand of God, the Source, working behind the scenes, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.880 telling them to be good to you. When we were 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:01.000 trying to acquire this facility, the former compt Center, it 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.920 was owned by the city, so we had to get 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.560 the city council members to vote to approve it. I 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.720 had never been involved in any kind of politics and 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.920 convincing council members. This was way out of my expertise. 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.719 Someone randomly introduced us to a man that had been 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.400 in city politics his whole life. He'd worked for different 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:28.560 mayors for many years. He wasn't the typical white collar 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.480 professional that you might envision. He was kind of rough, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.600 he liked to party, he liked to drink, didn't always 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.480 use good language. But for some reason, he really liked us. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.680 He really wanted us to get the building. He went 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.280 overboard to make things happen. He used his favor, his 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.440 influence to sway people. Early on, there was a council 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.240 member that was against us. He said, don't worry, he'll 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.720 vote for us. He owes me. I didn't ask for 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.800 any details. I just said, thank you Jesus here. This 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.600 man had not been in church his whole life, but 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.839 he was doing all he could to help Lakewood get 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:15.680 the building. I realize now that wasn't just him deciding 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.920 to help us, him just deciding to do a good deed. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.720 He was a resource that the Source was using. He 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.880 may not have even known that was God speaking to him. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.720 After we got the building, he came to a service 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.080 years later. He was being interviewed about the process and 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.960 about why he had helped us. He said, I don't 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.040 go to church. I went to Lakewood one time, and 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.280 I don't like the circus. He referred to us as 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.160 the circus. And yes, our services are fun and exciting 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.960 and in a few minutes, the elephants will be coming out, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.520 and at the end Victoria is going to walk the 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.839 high wire. Followed Baba brother Paul being shot out of 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.960 a cannon. So stay for that. None of that bothered, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.080 But he went on to save And I'm not telling 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.000 you this to brag on me, just to make the point. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.680 He said, I help them because I've never met anyone 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.600 like Joel. I would walk through a fire for that man. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.080 I would love to think that I'm that charming, I'm 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.559 that dynamic. Can I tell you I'm not. I hardly 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.000 even knew him. That was the source. That was God 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.600 putting the right people in our path, causing them to. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:27.240 Want to be good. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.560 To Second King's chapter four, there's a story about a lady. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.319 She and her husband were friends with the prophet Elisha, 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.720 but the husband had died. Years had passed. Now this 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.120 lady didn't have any money to pay her bills. It 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.520 was so bad the creditors were coming to take her 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.640 two sons as payment. You can imagine how distraught she was. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.800 The prophet Elisha came by and asked what she had 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.720 in her house. Her first answer was nothing at all. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.120 She was saying a lot. I'm done. It's too late. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.439 The odds are against me. Sometimes when we look at 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.080 what we have compared to what we need, we think, 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.640 like her, I'll never accomplish my dreams. I don't have 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.000 what I need. I'll never get well, I'll never get 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.160 out of debt. We look at the circumstances, at the resources, 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.880 the medical report, the bank account. Here's the key. The 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.520 resource may have dried up, but the source is still 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.800 alive and well. She finally said, Elisha, I do have 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.360 one thing in my house, but really it's nothing, just 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.320 a little bottle of olive oil. She thought. It's really 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:44.360 not worth mentioning. I have this huge debt. All I 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.080 have is something worth a few dollars. Don't discount the 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:53.760 small things you have. Don't discount small opportunities, small gifts, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.960 small income. May seem small to you, but God knows 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.040 how to multiply. The script says, if you have faith 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.800 the size of a mustard seed, that's one of the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.520 smallest seeds. You could say to this mountain, be removed, 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:12.640 and it will move. God doesn't expect us to have 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.920 great faith all the time. It's nice when we do, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.480 but God is so merciful. He knew there would be 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.880 times like this, lady, we would think this is impossible. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.240 If you'll just say, God, all I have is this 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.000 little bit of oil, All I have is mustard seed. Faith, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.960 Watch what God will do. Elisha told her to go 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.040 out and borrow as many large containers as she could find. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.480 I can see this lady knocking on door after door, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.480 carrying those empty containers back to her house. Don't you 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.960 know God saw her faith. God saw her being obedient, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.320 doing what she could. When you're in difficult times, don't 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.080 sit around in self pity. Do something where God can 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.240 see your faith. Make play to get well, make plans 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.640 to come out of death. Are you gathering up any containers? 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.800 Are you taking steps of faith to show God that 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:13.040 you're ready for favor. Neighbors started asking, why do you 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.240 even need these empty containers. You don't have anything to 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.560 put in it, just a little bit of olive oil. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.920 She answered, I may not have it yet, but I 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.040 know it's on the way. I know the prophet wouldn't 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.360 have asked me to do it if God wasn't up 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.920 to some thief. Faith started to rise in her heart. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.280 All the circumstances were against her friends trying to talk 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.160 her out of it her own thoughts, telling her no way. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.200 Her attitude was, I may not see how this can happen, 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.920 but I know a secret. God is my source. He's 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.640 my provider. I'm connected to that supply line that won't 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.840 run dry. Lysia said to her pour the little bit 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.920 of oil into the first container. That didn't make sense. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.240 What good was it going to do to trainans for 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.200 oil from one container to the other. What God asked 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.280 us to do many times is more about the obedience 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.000 than the actual thing that we're doing. It's a test. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.400 If you'll obey, you'll see God's favor. In the scripture, 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.120 Naeman was an army captain, but he had leprosy. God 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.119 told him to go wash in the Jordan rivers seven 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.600 times and he would be healed. Naeman didn't want to 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.680 do that. He came up with all these excuses, God, 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.960 the water's too dirty, we have better rivers back at. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:34.760 Home, on and on. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.600 He almost talked himself out of it. The last moment 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.800 he decided to do it. When he came up the 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:45.720 seventh time, his skin was perfectly normal. The healing wasn't 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.640 in the water. The healing was in the obedience. Are 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.240 you doing what God is asking you to do? Are 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.760 you gathering the containers? Are you pouring the oil? This 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:57.920 lady could have said, Elisha, I'm not gonna do that. 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.600 It's gonna be a waste of time. She would have 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.280 missed her miracle. When she poured the little oil into 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.840 the first container, the oil never stopped flowing. She filled 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.159 the first one up, then the second, then the third. 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.840 That doesn't make sense. Where was the oil coming from 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.280 the source. When you do what God asked you to do, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.840 that doesn't make sense. God will do things for you 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.000 that don't make sense. He'll show out in your life. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.480 This lady kept pouring oil until all the containers were full. 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.720 Then she went out and sold it. She was able 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.640 to pay all of her bills. She had plenty left 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.119 over to live on. That little bit of oil should 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.760 have run out. But God has supernatural provision. He knows 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.360 how to not only sustain you, but to increase you 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.280 to where you defied the odds. You may have areas 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.360 in your life that are dry. Now. You haven't seen 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.600 much good, breaks, seen any favor, any increase seems like 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:05.119 it's permanent. No, get ready, The flow is coming. God 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.360 is about to do something unusual. You couldn't have made 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.920 it happen. The odds were against you. But the Source 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.840 is going to send a supernatural flow. It may look 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.399 like your dream has died up. Fever is about to flow, 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.800 Finances are about to flow. Good breaks are about to flow. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.080 The right people are going to flow. You're not going 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.320 to have to find them. They're going to find you. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.879 The medical report may not look good. You feel stuck 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:38.680 in your health. Receive this into your spirit. Healing is flowing, 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:44.240 restoration is flowing. Strength is flowing. You haven't been able 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.560 to get ahead in your career. People have held you back, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.480 left you out. Don't get discouraged. The flow is coming. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:56.080 Promotion is going to flow, Ideas are about to flow, 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.600 Creativity is going to flow. Everything that has stopped your flow. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.879 I believe right now those forces have been broken. You 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:11.840 are coming into supernatural provision, supernatural healing, supernatural connections. You've 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.720 heard the saying it's showtime. God is saying it's flow time. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.199 He's about to open the windows of heaven pour our 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.720 blessings that you could not contain. One touch of God's 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.480 favor will take you from famine to flourishing, from barely 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.240 enough to more than enough. Now get in agreement with 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.320 God Father. Thank you that this job is not my source, 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.000 but you are my source. Lord. I'm grateful for the medicine, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.880 but I know you're my healer. Lord. I don't see 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.879 how I can accomplish my dreams, but I know you 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.359 have a way where I don't see away. I talked 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.720 to a couple that wanted to buy a house in 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.200 another state, and they were looking in this particular neighborhood. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.639 They had found this one house that they really liked, 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.720 but every time they tried to move forward, they didn't 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.679 feel peace about it. After several months, they found a 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.639 much larger piece of property right on the outskirts of 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:15.399 the neighborhood. In the natural, being in the subdivision would 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.560 have been a better investment. The property values were higher, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.600 but even though they could afford it, because they didn't 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.920 have peace about it, they bought this property right outside 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:29.240 the neighborhood. Several months later, two men knocked on their door. 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.400 They were geologists. They told how they had been studying 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.919 that area for years. They had discovered a massive amount 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:42.400 of oil under the subdivision. The problem was the houses 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:46.320 were too close together for them to drill. They said, 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.600 if you'll let us lease part of your property so 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.760 we can drill into the neighborhood, we'll give you a 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.360 commission not only off your land, but off of all 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.160 the properties in the neighborhood. There were twelve hundred homes 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:05.520 in that subdivision. Isaiah said, God knows where the hidden 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:06.600 riches are found. 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:07.800 You know why. 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:11.200 He's the one that put them there. He's the source, 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.600 the creator of the universe, the most hi God. And 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.480 things may not be flowing in your life right now, 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.160 but God knows where all the treasures are. He knows 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.359 how to put you at the right place at the 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.679 right time. He may not have you strike all, but 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.000 he can give you one idea that will catapult you ahead. 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.280 He can cause one person to come across your path 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.600 like he did for us. You'll accomplish a dream that 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:41.960 seems impossible. He knows not only what you need, but 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.439 he knows when you're going to need it. Nineteen ninety seven, 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:49.479 I was walking through the lobby before service one Sunday morning. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:53.000 A man stopped me and said that his cousin had 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:57.959 a construction permit for the last full power commercial television 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.800 station in Houston off the permit and put the station 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.560 on the air. I thought that's what I would do 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.919 with my life. I loved production cameras and editing, and 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:12.120 having a station seemed like a perfect fit. But two 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.760 years later, my father went to be with the Lord. 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.440 I never dreamed that I would become the pastor. Now 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.040 my focus had changed. Two thousand and three, we acquired 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.480 the Compact Center, and we need one hundred million dollars 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:29.320 to renovate, so we decided to sell the station. We 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:33.040 listed it at a certain price. All the experts said 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:36.240 that we would never get that much. One man had 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:40.439 sold more television stations in the US than anyone else. 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.120 He said, we were wasting our time asking that amount. 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:47.600 A year later, we sold it for more than we 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:50.760 were asking, over five times what we purchased it for. 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:54.399 We used those funds to renovate this facility. What am 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:58.960 I saying? God has already lined up everything you're going 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:04.040 to need. He's the source, He's the provider. The scripture says, 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:07.800 no good thing will he withhold because you walk up 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:11.680 right there. He's not going to withhold the finances, the health, 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:16.000 the ideas, the connections, quit worrying about how it's going 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:19.040 to happen. God has it figured out. He knows how 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:22.320 to get you to your destiny. Now, maybe you've been 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:25.439 trying to do this only in your own strength. You 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:28.520 put forth your best effort. You've tried to get people 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:32.359 to help you. It's time to go to the source. God. 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:35.280 I can't do it on my own. I'm asking you 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:38.720 to bring this dream to pass. God, I'm asking you 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.800 to turn my health around. I'm asking you to help 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:45.280 me to conceive to have this baby. The scripture says, 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:48.240 call on the name of the Lord, and he will 0:24:48.280 --> 0:24:53.160 answer you. Sometimes we call on people, we call on friends, 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:56.439 we call on our spouse. They can only do so much. 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.800 But when you call on the source, the creator of 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:03.080 the universe, that's when things will happen that you couldn't 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:08.200 make happen. God wants us to depend on him. When 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:10.800 we recognize we can't do it on our own. We 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:15.600 are limited, we have restrictions by ourselves. Will get stuck. 0:25:16.240 --> 0:25:18.960 But when you ask God to help you, when you 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:24.680 call on your creator, supernatural things will happen. God is unlimited, 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:28.879 He controls the universe. The good news is he wants 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:32.520 to help you. He wants to heal you, to increase you, 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:35.080 to take you where you couldn't go on your own. 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:38.600 He's longing to be good to you. Look to him 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:43.000 as your source. John chapter twenty one. Peter was out 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:46.800 fishing with some of the disciples. Jesus had been crucified 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:50.840 and just risen from the dead. You can imagine how 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.560 discouraged Peter must have been and even confused now that 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.600 Jesus was not there. Peter went back to doing what 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:01.600 he knew how to do. That was fishing. He had 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:04.680 done that his whole life. Well, they had fished all 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:09.600 night and caught nothing. Early the next morning, Jesus appeared 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:13.080 to them. He came walking up on the beach and said, 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:16.920 have you caught anything? They said no. He said, throw 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:19.280 your nets on the right side of the boat and 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:22.679 you'll catch some fish. When they did, they caught a 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:27.560 whole net full of fish. Instantly Peter recognized that it 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:30.760 was Jesus. He jumped out of the boat and swam 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:35.320 to the shore. Jesus had fish cooking over a fire. 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:39.560 He gave Peter some to eat what Peter was trying 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:43.240 to catch. Jesus not only had waiting for him, but 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:47.480 he had it cooked and ready to eat. God is saying, 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:51.960 what you're trying to accomplish on your own, if you'll 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:56.399 look to me, if you'll recognize I'm the source, you'll 0:26:56.400 --> 0:27:00.840 see I have it cooked and already prepared, it already 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:05.080 waiting for you. Like Peter, you may have done it 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:08.160 in the past, you were good at it. But there 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:11.080 are times that God will not let what worked in 0:27:11.119 --> 0:27:14.960 the past continue to work because he knows we'll think 0:27:15.080 --> 0:27:18.240 we're doing it in our own strength, our own ability. 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:22.000 God wants us to see him as the source, to 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:25.920 recognize his blessings. But too often we're striving to make 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:29.840 it happen, trying to beat down a door, discourage because 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:32.639 it's taken too long. God is saying, come to me, 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:37.560 ask me for help, acknowledge me every day as your source. 0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:42.520 Peter worked all night trying to catch fish, while Jesus 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:45.880 was sitting on the shore with a fish dinner waiting 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:50.760 for him. What you're believing for God has already prepared. 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:55.240 The fish is already caught, the spouse is already picked out, 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:58.840 the dream is already lined up, the healing has already 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:02.520 been purchased. The fire is lit the fish is on 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:06.240 the grill. You're about to come into a prepared blessing. 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.560 What you couldn't do on your own. God is about 0:28:09.600 --> 0:28:14.920 to make happen. Now do your part. Recognize Him as 0:28:14.960 --> 0:28:18.960 the source. Every morning. Lord, thank you that you are 0:28:19.000 --> 0:28:23.119 my provider. I recognize you are the giver of every 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:26.199 good thing in my life. If you'll do this, I 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:29.880 believe and declare. God is about to bring you some 0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:33.920 cooked fish, some prepared blessings. 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