God Will Complete Your Incompletions

0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.880 No one likes to talk about money. Am I saving enough? 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.040 Can I buy a house? Am I paying too much 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.760 in taxes? Will I be able to retire? What if 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.360 you could unlock insights about your finances in less than 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.840 five minutes, with a clear picture of where you stand 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.720 today and where your money can work harder. Now you 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.759 can visit facet dot com to take the free quiz 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.400 and get your financial wellness score today. That's Facet dot com. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.360 This ad is sponsored by Facet. Fast Wealth in Corporated 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.280 is an sec registered investment advisor. This is not an 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.080 offer to buy your self securities or is it investment, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.080 legal or tax advice. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.120 Are you ready to move your career forward? Make your 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.640 comeback with Perdue Global and get college credit for your work, school, life, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.840 or military experiences. With these credits, you may have already 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.680 completed up to seventy five percent of your undergraduate degree. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:44.800 You've worked hard to get where you are. It's time 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.920 to get the recognition you deserve and earn a degree 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.600 you'll be proud of, one that employers will trust and 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.840 respect when you take the next step in your life 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.040 and career. Make it count with Perdue Global produce online 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.720 University for working adults. Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.200 He'll forget about the video game you gave him on 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:02.800 his birthday. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.000 Wow, thanks Grandpa, but. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.200 He'll never forget how you invest it in his future 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:08.240 with the uns stapp. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.400 Wow, thanks Grandpa. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.560 The unit stap makes it easy for grandparents and family 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.280 friends to give funds to a child's investment account for 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.720 a limited time. Download the uns stapp and use the 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.120 code iHeart fifty at sign up to receive a fifty 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.679 dollars bonus when you find your account. That's code iHeart 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.800 fifty when you sign up at unest dot co for 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.640 a fifty dollars bonus. See terms and conditions at UNEs 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:30.080 dot co. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.959 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.759 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.240 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.399 blessing and share it with. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.720 A friends, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:48.040 in your life. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:56.559 Well, God bless you. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.880 Always enjoy to come into your homes and if you're 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.240 ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by and 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.600 be a part of one of our services. I promise 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.200 you it will make you feel right at home. But 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.239 thanks for tuning in today. I like to get started 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.600 each week with something kind of funny. And this was 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.840 sent to me from a senior citizen's home. It's about 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.960 a ninety two year old man. He wasn't feeling well 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.280 one day, and so he decided to go to the 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.200 doctor and have a checka. A few days later, the 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.680 doctor saw him out walking down the street with a 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.240 beautiful young lady by his side, and he seemed to 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.640 be just as happy as can be. And the doctor 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.519 was kind of surprised. He said, while you you are 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.160 doing a lot better. The man said, yes, doctor, I 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.160 just took your orders. You said, get a hot mama 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.480 and stay cheerful. The doctor said, I didn't say that. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.360 I said you got a heart murmur. Be careful, all right. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.240 Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.799 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.960 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.680 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.000 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.399 is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.120 I will never be the same. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.520 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.680 to you today about how God wants to finish what 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.079 he started in your life. And we all have things 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.160 that we would consider to be in completions, dreams that 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.320 have not yet come to pass, Promises that we're standing 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.079 on in our health, in our finances, in our family. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.639 Maybe it's a child that's gotten off course. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.320 We've been praying and believing, but it's been so long 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.160 now we're tempted to think that it's never going to happen. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.480 Or maybe we have a dream to get out of debt, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.000 a dream to buy a new home, a dream to 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.600 start a business, but we've had so many obstacles. Every 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.280 time we try to go forward, something comes against us. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:57.080 And now these disappointments, these setbacks have caused us to 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.600 get complacent and we just accept the fact that. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.360 I'll be not gonna happen for me. But I want 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:03.360 to encourage you today. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.800 God has called the author and the finisher of our faith. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.240 Anything he begins, any dream he puts in your heart. 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.920 The good news is if God started it, he's well. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.280 Able to finish it. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.800 It may not look like it's gonna happen, it may 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.640 be taken a long time, but if you will stay 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.760 in faith, if you will keep your hopes up, God 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:30.240 has promised he will complete your incompletions. I want you 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.480 to get a vision of that today. You may have 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.400 a dream to get married. It's been a long time, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.279 and you've been through other relationships that didn't work out. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.880 You're tempted to think, well, I guess this is just 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.760 not for me. I don't think I'll ever meet anybody. No, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:44.760 you've got to keep. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:45.440 Your hopes up. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.880 God still has somebody great he wants to bring into 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.159 your life. And instead of giving up on that, going 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.800 around discouraged, thinking it's never gonna work out. I don't 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.560 see how I could get out of debt, or I 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.760 don't think my dreams will happen. Our attitude should be God. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.080 I know you are a God of completion. I know 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.920 what you started in my life you will finish. So 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.520 I just want to thank you that every dream, every desire, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.800 every promise you put in me, you will bring it 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.839 to pass. Deep down in here, we have to be 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.600 convinced that no matter how long it takes, no matter 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.680 how impossible it looks, we don't have to get discouraged. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:25.680 We don't have to. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.960 Give up we know that God is the author and 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.080 the finisher of our faith, and he will bring it 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.480 to completion. I think about my brother Paul. He has 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.120 a son that at one. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.440 Time got a little off. Course. 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.320 He's a fine young man, but he just got into 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.000 some things that he shouldn't have gotten into. And for 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:49.720 years Paul did everything he could. He prayed, he believed. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.640 He reached out to him when he needed help. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.960 He was there, but it seemed like the more Paul did, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.000 the worse off his son God. And that's the way 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.599 the enemy works when he sees if you dig your 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.920 heels in and do your best, he'll do everything he 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.479 can to try to get you to give up. You 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.400 know why, because he knows God is a god of completion. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.599 He knows God has a way to turn it all around, 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.960 and so he'll do everything he can to try to 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.280 get us discouraged, telling us these lies like it's never 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.960 going to happen. You might as well just accept the 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.159 fact your child's never going to do right, or you're 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.159 never going to be healthy. 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:29.880 You've had that sickness ten years. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.560 Your business will never be blessed. You've got too many competitors. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.359 The first place we lose. The battle is in our 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.160 own thinking. We have to learn to get rid of 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.000 those thoughts and just say God, I want to thank 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.520 you that you will complete everything you started. I want 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.839 to thank you that every promise you put in me 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.320 I will see that fulfilled. And that's what Paul did, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:57.120 not for weeks, not for months, but year after year, hoping, praying, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.240 expecting one day his son would get back on the 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.120 right course. He had a vision of him serving God, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:08.240 being productive, fulfilling his destiny. Do you know today Paul 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.040 is seeing that vision come to pass. His son is 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:15.280 going to graduate from a prestigious university. We know he's 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.720 going to go on to do great things in life. 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.320 But why did it happen? Because Paul dared to believe. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.280 He refused to give up. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.680 He knew God is a god of completion. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.080 Now, I want us to have a new determination that 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.080 we're going to hold on to everything God's put in 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.480 our heart. Doesn't matter if it's been ten years, twenty years, 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.560 thirty years, God can still bring it to pass. I 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.200 don't know about you, but I'm gonna die in faith. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.320 I'm gonna die believing that every single promise, every dream, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.360 every desire, God's put in me that I will see 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:49.080 that fulfilled. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.480 Some of you today, you need to get this new fire. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.600 You've given up on a dream, you gave up on 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.360 a child, or maybe you're tempted to give up on 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.800 the thought that you could live an abundant life. Do 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.120 you need to draw that line in the sand and 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.640 say this is a new day. I may have given 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.720 up temporarily, but now I know God wants to finish 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.880 what he started in me. So I'm going to go 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:19.240 out each day in faith, with expectancy, believing that every. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.440 Promise in my heart will come to pass. This is 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:23.440 what Joseph did. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.600 God put a dream that one day he would do 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.040 great things, one day he would be in leadership. But 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.120 Joseph's life went just in the opposite direction. Everything that 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.400 could go wrong did. And when God puts a promise 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.719 in your heart, don't be surprised if you face opposition. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.800 Don't be surprised if all kinds of adversity comes against you. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.040 The scripture says, the enemy comes immediately to try to 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.319 steal the seed out of our hearts. He wants us 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.800 to give up and think that it's never going to happen. 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.080 Joseph was sold into slavery, and he was mistreated and 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.760 lied about and forsaken. If anyone had a reason to 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.640 give up, it would have been Joseph. He could have said, God, 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.360 I thought you put a dream in my heart, but 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.320 I must not have heard right, because the whole bottom 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.840 has fallen out. No Joseph understood this principle that God 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:15.880 is a god of completion. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.800 That he finishes what he starts. 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.120 And in the natural Joseph didn't have any reason to 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.480 be encouraged, didn't have any reason to be positive and hopeful. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.280 But Joseph wasn't focused on the natural. He knew God 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.800 was a supernatural god. And in the end, some thirteen 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.480 years later, because he believed, because he stayed in faith, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.240 he saw God bring to completion exactly what he started 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:42.120 in his life. 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.199 God wants to do the same thing for each one 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:44.559 of us. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.720 But some of you have allowed your disappointments and the 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.920 unfair things that have happened to steal your dream. Maybe 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.240 somebody mistreated you, somebody lied about you and tried to 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.880 ruin your reputation, And at one point you knew. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.520 God was going to turn it around. He knew God 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:01.640 was going to vindicate you. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.160 But now it's been the year after year, and you've 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.760 lost your fire, you've lost your enthusiasm. But God is 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.000 saying to us today, I am a god of completion. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:12.760 I finish what I start. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.800 And if you'll get your hopes up and start believing again, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.160 I'll do for you what I did for Joseph. 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:19.640 I'll take what. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.800 Was meant for your harm, and I will use it 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.079 to your advantage. See, no matter what's come against you, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.080 no matter how long it's been or how unfair it was, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.040 God still has a way to turn it around and 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.400 bring to completion what He's put in your heart. And 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.120 the scripture tells us to hold fast the profession of 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.640 our faith. It indicates something's trying to pull it away, 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.839 like a tug of war. In other words, disappointments are 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.320 on the other end, pulling, trying to get us to 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.679 give up. It didn't work out, you didn't get the promotion, 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.840 you didn't qualify for the new home. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.200 It's never going to happen. Just forget it. Time is 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:00.440 on the other end, pulling. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.360 It's been so long, negative voices, you don't have what 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.080 it takes. You come from the wrong side of the tracks. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.440 The doctor's report says, you're not going to make it. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.920 All these things constantly coming against us. Why to try 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.000 to steal the dream out of our heart. If you're 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.079 gonna fulfill your destiny, you have to hold fast, grip 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.880 it tightly, have the attitude. Nothing is going to cause 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.480 me to give up. God to put this promise in me, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.040 and as long as I have breath. 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.240 I'm gonna believe that he will bring it to pass. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:35.160 Abraham waited. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.360 Abraham waited twenty years to see his promise. Now, I'm 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.120 sure there were many mornings he thought I must not. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.360 Have heard God right. It's never gonna happen. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.200 Besides, I'm too old to have a child. No, he 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.400 had to do just what we have to do. He 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.440 had to get up and shake off doubt, shake off 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.959 unbelief instead of complaining. I can hear him saying, Father, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.000 I want to thank you that you're at work in 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.600 my life. Even though this looks impossible, even though it's 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.840 taken a long time. I know you always finish what 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.160 you start, So I just want to thank you. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.800 That my child is on its way. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.120 It says he grew strong in faith by giving praise 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.679 and thanksgiving to God all through the day. We should 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.040 not only thank God for what he's already done, but 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.920 let's thank him in advance for what he's going to do. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.920 Thank him that he's going to bring your dreams to pass. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.680 Thank him that he's arranging things in your favor. Learn 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.720 to thank him that He's a god of completion. The 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.880 scripture says here in Philippians. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.960 One to six, be confident of this. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:43.599 He that began a good work in you will continue 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:48.120 to perform it until it's perfectly complete. Notice that saying 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.080 that God is constantly working behind the scenes in our lives. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.079 Why so he can bring his promises to completion. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:57.720 What can stop it? 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.600 When we get negative, quit believing, and we don't think 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:06.040 that it's going to happen. But understand, God's dream is 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.480 to bring to completion every promise he's put in you. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.360 He wants to give you the desires. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.840 Of your heart in the natural. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:18.280 Like Abraham, it may look impossible, Circumstances may be trying 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.680 to push you down. You've got to know God can 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.720 make a way even when it looks like there is 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.560 no way. And when you're tempted to be discouraged, you 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.640 need to remind yourself who's at work in your life. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.800 He's called Elshaddai, the God who is more than enough. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:39.079 He's called Jehovah, Jirah, the Lord, our provider. Your enemies 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.240 may be powerful, but our God is all powerful. No 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.560 person can stand against him. No circumstance is too difficult. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.719 When we believe, all the forces of darkness cannot keep 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.720 God from bringing our dreams to pass. And it'll help 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.520 you to stay encouraged if all through the day you'll 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.120 just meditate on the fact that right now, the creator 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.720 of the universe, Almighty God is working behind the scenes 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.120 in my life. Right now, he's working on ways to 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.760 bring about the promises that He's put in me. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.120 It says, be confident of this. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.959 What are we to be confident about the fact that 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.960 God is a God of completion? 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.040 It's saying, in effect, you may have some. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.160 Doubts in other areas, but be sure of this one thing. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.840 Know this, beyond the shadow of a doubt. What God 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.120 started in your life, he will bring to completion. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.240 Why don't you get a vision for it? 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.600 That child you're praying for, see him serving God at marriage. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.080 It's on the rocks. See it restored the business is slow. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.280 See it successful well, Joel, I don't know if this 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.600 will happen for me. I've had a lot of setbacks, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.960 didn't get the promotion I wanted last year. Doctor told 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.960 me he didn't know if I'd make it. No, it's 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.080 not going to happen with that kind of attitude. The 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.680 problem is you are not confident that God's working in 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:03.360 your life. You've got to be convinced that God will 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.280 complete your incompletions. You got to know deep down in 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.240 here that it's not over until God says it's over. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.360 It doesn't matter how long it's been or how many 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:18.120 obstacles you've had. God is in the finishing business and 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.040 the dream that's in your heart, the promise that's on 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.760 the inside. God not only put it there, he has 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.440 every intention of bringing it to pass. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.800 He already has solutions. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.760 He's constantly working arranging things in your favor. I'm asking 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.640 you today to get in agreement with God. Believe that 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.360 your best days are still in front of you. Expect 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.720 good things. Know that He is a God of completion. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.280 The scripture says God will continually work on our behalf 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.320 until it's perfectly complete. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.480 I like that, not. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.640 Halfway complete, not three fourths of the way. God doesn't 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.920 want you to be a little happy, a little blad 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.880 a little healthy. He doesn't want part of your dreams 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.640 to come to pass. God wants you to realize the 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.880 fulfillment of everything that He's placed in your heart. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.080 He wants you to be perfectly complete. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.160 My brother, Paul, he could have had the attitude, well, 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.600 my son's not being productive, he's not fulfilling his destiny, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.120 but at least he's not in trouble. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.160 At least he's making it. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.800 No, Paul knew God would complete what he started, that 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.040 his son could become everything God created him to be, 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.200 not halfway, not three fours. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.560 But perfectly complete. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.160 Too often we settle, Well, God, I really believe you 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.320 want me to prosper in it. One time I thought 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.480 I could get out of debt. But guess is so 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.600 high and my business is so slow. I think I'd 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.080 just be happy if I could pay my bills. Now 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.520 I realized we need to be content. But what I'm 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.440 saying is, don't settle where you are. Don't give up 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.160 on what God has put in your heart. It may 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.600 not happen overnight, but remember, as long. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.600 As you stay in faith. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:05.320 God is constantly working to bring to completion the promises 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.600 he's put in your heart. Abraham could have said, God, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:13.560 we had this other child Ishmael by our servant Hagar. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.479 It's not exactly what you promise, but it's okay. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.800 We love him. He's a son too. No, it's not 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.399 complete if you have to make excuses. It's not complete 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.040 if you have to talk yourself into it. Hell, God, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.480 I really wanted to get married, but I'm getting kind 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.080 of older. I guess I'll just settle for being single. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.120 Nothing wrong with that. No, again, be content, but keep 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.560 that dream alive. Have the attitude. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.800 God. I know you put this desire in me, and 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.520 I believe that you always finish what you start. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:45.520 So I want to thank you that even. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.399 Today you're working behind the scenes arranging things in my favor, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.199 and at the right time you'll bring the perfect person 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.240 into my life. And then all through the day, instead 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.280 of worrying wondering if it's ever going to happen, just 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.560 under your breath, thank God that he's the author and 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.400 the finisher of your faith. In the Old Testament, there's 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.359 a man by the name of Zerubabel. God put in 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.879 him a desire to rebuild the temple. The whole city 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.800 had been destroyed, and now he came back and laid 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.919 the foundation. But the problem was the people were not 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.359 for him. They didn't want the temple rebuilt, and so 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.840 they went to the lawyers and the judges and they 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.840 got a decree telling him to stop. And this is 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.240 what happens many times. God puts a promise in our heart, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.160 and all of our opponents come out of the woodwork 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.280 trying to discourage us, trying to talk us out of it. 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.720 Some of his own men said, Zerubabel, we're not able 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:40.320 to do this. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.240 The task is too great, and they just gave up. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.560 For ten years, there was no work done on the temple. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.640 I can imagine zerube Beel, week after week went by 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.760 the piece of property and saw the empty foundation, the 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.119 material stacked up, the stone, the lumber looked like a 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.240 big waste. I'm sure he must have thought, God, I 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.760 started out so good. I laid the foundation. I had 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.960 these big dreams, but people came against me and I 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.720 had so many obstacles. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:12.920 He's so down, he's so discouraged. 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.960 But remember God never starts something that he cannot finish, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.720 and it doesn't matter how long it's been, doesn't matter 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.200 how many people have been against you. God still has 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.399 a way of bringing your dreams to pass. Ten years later, 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.840 a prophet came by by the name of Zachariah. He said, 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.320 Zaruba bel God sent me all this way to give 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:37.480 you two words. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.679 Here's what they are. Begin again. 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.240 All of a sudden, his faith was stirred. He said, 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.359 you mean God can still bring this to pass? Do 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.520 you know how long it's been. Do you know how 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.840 many people are against me? Do you really think I 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.240 can still do it? Zachariah said, I don't think you can. 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.320 I know you can. God says, get started. I believe. 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.199 God saying the same thing to each one of us. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.920 Begin again, get your hopes up, get your dreams back. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.320 You may be like him. You started out good, You 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:11.800 laid the foundation. 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:12.159 So to speak. 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.000 You were so excited, but you had some opposition. Things 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.040 didn't work out. Now it's been a year after year. 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.040 God is saying it's time to start believing again, start 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:26.600 praying again, start expecting good things once again. Some of 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.960 you wanted to buy a new home, but you didn't qualify. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.480 That was ten years ago. God says, begin again. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:33.800 Some of you. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.000 At one time you believed you could overcome that addiction. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.400 But now it's been so long you've gotten comfortable where 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:40.840 you are. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:42.840 God says, begin again. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.639 Some of you had a dream to do something great 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.280 with your life, to break out of the mold, to 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:49.400 set a new standard. 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:51.480 But you went through disappointments. 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.680 Nobody encouraged you, your family didn't get behind you, and 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:55.920 now you don't think it could. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:56.360 Ever work out. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.640 But God is saying it's not over until I say 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.159 it's begin again. 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:06.000 Get a new vision for that today. It's interesting. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.600 Zachariah told zeruba Bel to go get the capstone. The 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:15.840 capstone was the stone that was reserved as the final 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.040 piece of stone that went into the building when it 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:19.760 was finished. 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:21.160 It was symbolic. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.919 It represented the completed project. Why was it important that 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.840 he kept the capstone in front of him because every 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.399 time he looked at it, it reminded him that God 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:37.000 is a god of completion. When Zerubabel was tired, when 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.480 he was down, when he thought it was impossible, he'd 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.119 go back over and look at the capstone. That was 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.400 God saying to him, I will complete it. I've got 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.879 a plan, I'm in control. Just keep on keeping on. 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:51.800 Let me ask you today, do you have your capstone 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.240 in front of you? Do you have something that represents 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.520 the final peace to your dreams, something that reminds you 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.280 of it being completed, even if it's symbolic. I know 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:06.040 a couple their son was estranged. He'd been off course 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.560 for years and years. They went and bought a Bible 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.679 had his name engraved on it. They put it on 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:15.280 their coffee table. That was their capstone. Every time they 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.520 walked by, they thought, it's just a matter of time. 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.960 He's coming back home. God will finish what he started. 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.040 A friend of mine is a pastor. He was going 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.520 to build a new sanctuary. Before they even drew the plans, 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:31.400 he went down to the building supply and he got 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:33.560 a brick, the kind they were going to use on 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:34.160 his building. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:35.600 He put it on his desk. 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:38.520 Every time he saw it, that was God saying to him, 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:41.119 you will do this. I will supply your knees. It 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:44.680 will be completed. You can do the same thing. If 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:46.600 you're believing for a new home, Why don't you go 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.240 get a brick, get a key. Let it represent the 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.359 finished product. You may have a dream to get married, 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.800 Go buy a picture frame. Put it on your table 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:57.919 in the living room. Every time you walk by, you 0:22:57.960 --> 0:22:59.800 say to yourself, that's where I'm gonna put one of 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:03.959 my witting photos. It's important that you keep something in 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.879 front of you that reminds you of the finished product. 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.000 You got to see the dream completed. 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.560 The second thing God told Zaruba Bell was to speak 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:14.680 favor over that capsone. 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:18.240 He said, look at it and declare grace. Grace. 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:22.080 That tells me it's the favor of God that's going 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.639 to bring our dreams to completion. Every day we need 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:29.720 to declare favor over our business, favor over our finances, 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:32.400 favor over our children, favor. 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:32.880 Over our health. 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:38.719 When he started declaring that favor, God said, the hands 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:42.399 of Zerubebel have laid this foundation, and the hands of 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:46.560 Zerubebel will finish it. God says that to us. When 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.440 you get the capstone out and you speak favor over 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:53.080 it and you see it coming to pass, God says, 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.400 what you started, you will finish. 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:55.840 It. 0:23:55.880 --> 0:23:58.440 May have lied dormant for a long time, you may 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:00.960 have had obstacles that have delayed it year after year, 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.960 but remember God always has the final say, and he's saying, 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.920 I am a God of completion, and you will see 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:11.199 it come to pass. By this time, Zaruba Bell was 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.520 all fired up. He said, God, I'm excited. 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:14.000 I've got my. 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:17.600 Enthusiasm back, but I still really don't see how it 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:20.720 can happen. I've still got these obstacles. It still looks 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:25.080 impossible to me. Zacharai said, Zerubibyl, here's the key. It's 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:28.040 not by might, it's not by power, but it's by 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:31.800 the spirit of the Living God. That word spirit in 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:34.040 the Hebrew means breath. 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:36.680 He was saying, in effect. 0:24:36.400 --> 0:24:39.520 It's not gonna happen by our own ingenuity, by our 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:43.719 own wisdom, by our own strength. It's gonna happen because 0:24:43.760 --> 0:24:47.080 of the breath of God. In other words, God's gonna 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:50.920 breathe onto that project you're working on. He's gonna breathe 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.920 into your finances, breathe on that child that's not doing right. 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:58.040 When you're a tempted to get discouraged and wonder if 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:01.200 it's ever gonna happen, just remind your as long as 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.359 I'm in faith, as long as I'm believing, God is 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:09.439 breathing his life into me, and when God breathes on you. 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:10.160 You will have his favor. 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:13.640 It's his favor that will cause it to come to completion. 0:25:14.240 --> 0:25:16.439 Now I can see right now through my eyes of faith, 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:21.919 somebody's business is beginning again. Somebody had a broken dream, 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:25.159 but that fire is being relent in your beginning again. 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.480 Somebody was about to give up on a relationship, on 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:30.880 a child, on a promise. 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:33.080 But today you're beginning again. 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:36.760 As you do this, God's going to breathe his favor 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:39.679 into you in a greater way. You're going to see 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:43.840 new things begin to happen. You laid the foundation, and 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:47.400 you will finish what you started. It's never too late. 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:50.719 God is a faithful God. Now I think about the 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:56.119 prophet Elisha. He was promised a double portion of Elijah's anointing. 0:25:56.600 --> 0:26:01.720 In the scripture, there are seven major miracles attribute to Elijah. Well, 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:05.959 Elisha is lying on his death bed, he has thirteen 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:07.119 major miracles. 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:10.520 Looks like he's one short, he needs fourteen to have double. 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:14.639 But God is a god of completion. He knows how 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:16.399 to get you to where you need to be. He 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:20.400 already has a plan. Elisha ended up dying without that 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:24.239 final miracle. It looked like an incompletion, looked like he 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:27.800 didn't make it. But remember it's not over until God 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:31.679 says it's over. And they buried Elisha in an open grave. 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:35.720 I can see them chiseling on his tombstone. He almost 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:39.840 had a double portion. He almost fulfilled his destiny one 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:44.439 miracle short. But about that time, a man was killed 0:26:44.480 --> 0:26:47.600 in a battle and the people he was with were 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.320 passing by in a hurry, and they saw the open 0:26:50.400 --> 0:26:53.320 grave where Elisha had been buried, and they said, just 0:26:53.359 --> 0:26:55.800 put the dead man in there by that old prophet, 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:56.560 save us some time. 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:57.800 We're in a hurry. 0:26:57.920 --> 0:27:00.919 And so they lowered the dead man to the grave 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:05.320 where Elysha was. But when his body touched elicious bones, 0:27:05.520 --> 0:27:08.440 the dead man came back to life. He stood up, 0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:13.639 He stood up and walked out of that grave. I 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:17.919 can imagine his friends took off running. But there was 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:21.959 miracle number fourteen. He got the final one he needed. 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:25.119 And that tells me, as long as we stay in faith, 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:28.200 as long as we keep believing, every promise God's put 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:29.480 in our heart will. 0:27:29.280 --> 0:27:30.000 Come to pass. 0:27:30.359 --> 0:27:33.520 Not even death can keep God from bringing it to completion. 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:38.119 Some of you, at one time you had a dream 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:40.919 in your heart, You had promises, You were standing on. 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:44.800 But you went through obstacles and it's been so long 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:48.520 now you've given up down deep. You know that's an incompletion. 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:51.119 You know you let go of that. I'm asking you 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:54.040 today to get a new vision for it. Don't just 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:56.120 see it the way it is, get the capstone out, 0:27:56.560 --> 0:28:00.000 see it completed, see it fulfilled, Speak favor over it. 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:03.160 When you're at tempted to get discouraged, just turn it around. 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:05.160 Say father, I want to thank you that you will 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:07.800 finish what you started in my life. I know you 0:28:07.880 --> 0:28:10.919 are a God of completion. Remember it's not by our 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:14.159 own might, by our own power. It's because God is 0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:16.320 breathing his favor into our dreams. 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:17.720 And if you will. 0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:20.600 Hold fast what God's put in your heart, if you'll 0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:23.640 be determined to go out each day in faith and expectancy, 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:27.879 God's promised he will complete your incompletions. He'll be the 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:31.000 author and the finisher of your faith. Now, I believe 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:34.640 every promise, every dream, every desire. 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:34.920 In your heart. 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:37.440 You will see that come to pass and you'll live 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:40.080 that life of victory that God has in store. Amen, 0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:44.680 do you receive it today? We never like to courage 0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:48.400 our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:49.520 the Lord of your life. 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:50.640 Would you pray with me? 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:56.400 Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come 0:28:56.400 --> 0:29:01.280 into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:03.640 if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:06.760 born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:07.720 God first place. 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:10.440 He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:14.480 Thank you for listening to the Joelus Deine podcast. Help 0:29:14.560 --> 0:29:17.320 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:29:17.400 --> 0:29:21.320 all over the world. Visit joelostin dot com slash give 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:23.080 Hope to give a gift today. 0:29:24.360 --> 0:29:26.800 Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 0:29:26.920 --> 0:29:29.640 I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 0:29:29.720 --> 0:29:31.120 podcast to keep you. 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:34.200 Inspired all through the week. We're praying for you. I 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:37.120 know God's best is still ahead. We'll see you next time.