Having Now Faith

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Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.920 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.720 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 --> 0:01:40.759 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.800 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:58.080 your life. Well, God bless you. It's always a joy 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.280 to come into your homes you. We know God has 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.600 great things in store for each one of you. If 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.880 you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop buy 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.320 and be a part of one of our services. I 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.040 promise you we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.639 for tuning in today, and thanks again for coming out 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.880 this morning. I like to start with something funny each week. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.959 And of course this is not doctrinally correct. It's just 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.880 to make us laugh. But I heard about these three men, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.400 a Baptist, a Catholic, and a Charismatic. They died on 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.280 the same day and went to heaven. St. Peter said, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.200 I'm sorry, men, but your rooms are not ready yet. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.480 He didn't quite know what to do, so he decided 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.240 to call Satan to see if he would keep them 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.720 for a little while, and Satan reluctantly agreed. A few 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.400 hours later, Satan called back and said, Peter, you've got 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:49.040 to come get these guys. The Baptist man is saving everybody, 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:53.080 the Catholic man is forgiving everybody, and the Charismatic has 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:58.119 already raised enough money for air conditioning. All right, hold 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.919 up your Bible. Say it like you mean, this is 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.000 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.440 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.200 it says I can do. Today I will be taught 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.400 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.720 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.120 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.799 to you today about having now faith. So often we 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.639 have faith for the future. We believe one day God's 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.600 going to do something great. One day we'll get a 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.040 good break, one day we'll start to feel better. One 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.360 day we'll see a problem turn around. And it's good 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.400 to have faith for the future, believe that God's going 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.440 to take care of us. But we can become so 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.600 future minded that we lose sight of the fact that 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:54.520 God wants to do something great in our life today. Today, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.160 God wants to show you his favor. Today. God wants 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:02.000 to amaze you with his goodness. He's called the Great 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.120 I am, not the great I was or the great 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.160 I will be. God is always in the present. Some 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.920 of you have faith for the future, but you need 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.200 to start releasing your faith for right now. The scripture says, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.359 now faith is the faith that's really alive and active. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.159 Is the faith that you have for today. Every morning 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.040 we should get up with the attitude something good is 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.839 going to happen to me today. In other words, today 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.960 I could get the contract on the property I'm trying 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:42.080 to sail. Today, I could see the legal situation turn around. Today. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.880 I could meet the person of my dreams. Today, I 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.720 could have a breakthrough in my health. Tewod Corinthians six 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.320 's two says, now is the time for God's favor. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.160 Notice not next week, not next month, not twenty years 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.520 from now. No, now is the time God wants to 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.920 amaze you with his goodness. Now. I know we're all 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.840 believing for an Ephesians three twenty decade where God is 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.200 going to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. We have 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.120 our faith out there. But don't just live in the future. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.040 Don't just think yeah, in the sweet by and bye, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.840 I know something great's coming. I know God's going to 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.680 be good to me. Now. What I'm saying is God 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.920 wants to be good to you today. Get up every 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.520 morning and say today can be in Ephesians three twenty day. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.560 When you have this now faith, it creates an expectancy 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.360 in your heart. You'll go out each day like a 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.480 little child thinking, I can't wait to see what God's 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.840 going to do today. Today. I could get a good 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.080 break today, I could be a blessing to someone in need. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.280 That's your faith being released. But if you just make 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.600 the mistake of living with this future faith where you 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.760 know God is good, you know he's going to take 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.320 care of you. The problem is very often you want 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.720 expect anything right now, and God meets us at the 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.480 level of our expectation. When you get up in the 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.880 morning saying, Father, I know now is the time for 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.960 your favor. I know you are the great I am, 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.920 not the great I will be, So I want to 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.720 thank you that something good is going to happen to 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.720 me today. When you have this now faith and you 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.119 go out with expectancy, then you will see the great 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:32.039 I am show up in amazing ways. David understood this principle. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.479 He said in Psalm one eighteen, this is the day 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.919 the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.240 in it. We quote that often, but the next verse 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.559 is very interesting. He followed it up by saying, Oh Lord, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:52.560 I beseech you send prosperity now. He could have said 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.280 send it tomorrow, send it next week, Send it God 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.920 at least by December when my taxes are due. Lived 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.080 with a now faith, he was bold. He had a 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.040 lot of nerve. He said God, I'm asking you to 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:11.120 do it for me today. I wonder how many of 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.920 us have never once prayed that prayer. Joel, I can't 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.360 be that bold. I can't ask God to do it 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.400 right now. I can't put my timetable on it. Surely 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.280 God wouldn't do it today. No, you have not because 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.600 you ask not. And if it's not God's best, you 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.720 don't have to worry. Our asking is not going to 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.920 override God's plan. But if we never ask, how do 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:39.000 we know it's not happening because we're not asking. I 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.280 found it's better to be bold and say God, these 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.000 are the dreams you placed in my heart. This is 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.239 what I'm pursuing toward. And I know you're a now God. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.520 So God, I'm asking you to give me favor today. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:54.600 Some of you have been standing in faith for a 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.720 long time, believing for a child to turn around, believing 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.480 to get well, believing to get out of debt. You 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.280 have the faith that one day it's going to happen. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.520 One day you're going to see that breakthrough, but it's 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.600 always in the future. You need to come over into 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.760 the present, switch back to a now faith. Be bold 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:20.240 like David and say God, I'm asking you to send prosperity. Now, 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:26.080 send healing, now, send vindication, now send restoration. Now. Well, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.720 you say, Joel, that's kind of far out asking God 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.680 to do it right now. Know the now. Faith is 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.319 what gets God's attention. I can imagine, God says to 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.760 the angel Gabriel. Look at Mary down there at Lakewood, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.640 Look at Robert, look at Susan, look at Maria. They 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.760 believe I can turn the situation around right now, even 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.240 though the economy is low. They're asking me to send 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.440 prosperity now, even though the medical report doesn't look good. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:56.760 They believe that I can send healing. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:57.079 Now. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.680 They've got their faith out there. So let me prove 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.360 to them once again that I am the great I 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:08.520 am and do what they're asking me to do. Friends, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.320 is okay to be bold like David and say God, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:17.200 I'm expecting something great today. One time in the scripture, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.120 Jesus was walking through a city and a man came 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.480 up and said, Sir, my good friend is very sick. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.080 Would you please come and pray for him. Jesus said yes, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.840 I'll come to your home. He said, I'm a captain 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.920 in the army. I have a lot of authority when 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.719 I speak, my men quickly obey Jesus. You don't need 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.800 to come to my home. Just speak the word only, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.240 and I know my friend will be healed. This man 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.160 had that now faith. He was saying, like David, God 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.520 send healing. Now, you don't even have to travel to 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:59.160 my home. It's interesting Jesus didn't get offended and say, boy, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:00.959 you got a lot of ne asking me to do 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.760 it right now. Boy, you sure are bold believing that 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.920 I can speak something and cause it to happen. Now 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.160 it's just the opposite. Jesus looked at him and said, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.720 I have not seen this much faith in all of Israel. 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:18.480 You can go home. Your friend is totally hard. That's 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.400 what happens when we have the boldness to say God, 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.360 I'm asking you do it for me today. And a 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.000 lot of people live with this future faith and they 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.559 believe that one day something great is going to happen, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.160 but it's always off in the future. If you could 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.200 just learn to switch back over into a now faith 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.599 and like this man, say God, I'm asking you to 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:46.319 send healing, not tomorrow, not next week, Send healing now, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.839 Send favor, now, send prosperity, now send breakthroughs now. When 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.120 you release that now faith, you're going to see a 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.680 now God show up and do amazing things in your life. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.000 Now's the time for God's favor. But if you never 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.640 ask God to do it now, the reason it's not 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.719 happening could be because you're not releasing your faith for 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.080 the present. You're living with this future faith. But God 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.839 has now blessings for people that will dare to have 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.199 a now faith. Well, you say, Joe, what if I'm 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.200 bold and I do like David and I ask God 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.800 to send favor today and send prosperity today, but it 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.760 doesn't happen it now. Then you get up tomorrow and 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.439 say God, I'm asking you to send prosperity now. You 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.840 stay in the now, you do it again. That's what's 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.480 going to help you to not get discouraged and not 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.319 give up. When you believe that this could be the 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.559 day you get that new position, this could be the 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.600 day you meet a new friend, you're overcome an obstacle. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.319 That's not only your faith being released, which allows God 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.199 to work, but that is going to create expectancy in 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.640 your own heart, the anticipation that something good is going 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.640 to happen to me today. That's what gives you the drive, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.840 the passion to keep pressing forward. The truth is we're 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.720 all going to have to wait. I'm certainly not saying 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.120 everything's going to happen in a twenty four hour period. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.600 It's through faith and patience that we inherit the promises. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.360 But the key is we have to wait the right way, 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:33.400 with expectancy, believing that it could happen today, not next week, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.679 not six months from now. No, this could be the 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.120 day you get the break you need. See. What I'm 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.199 saying is even though we're waiting, we're still in the 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.360 now mode. We're on the lookout, knowing down deep it 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.000 could happen today. I read about a man. He was 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.920 an explorer. He lived off the coast of Florida. Back 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.679 in the year sixteen twenty two, he discovered that a 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.520 Spanish ship had sunk somewhere off the Florida Key. He 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.440 and his men set out to find this ship. They 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.760 searched and searched, month after month, year after year, with 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.520 no success. Most people would have given up, most would 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.720 have gotten discouraged, But not this man. Every morning, before 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.000 his crew went out, he would call them together, looked 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.079 them in the eyes and say, very passionately, very confidently, men, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.680 today is going to be the day we find this ship. 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.360 While some of the crew went around disappointed, discouraged, this 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.920 man always had a spring in his step. He lived 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.720 with great expectancy, knowing that any moment he was going 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.280 to discover that buried treasure. Over the years, he had 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.880 plenty of doubters. Plenty of people tried to talk him 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.400 out of it, tell him he was just wasting his time. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.520 He would always answer back, no, today is going to 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:56.240 be the day. Sixteen years later, he noticed something unusual 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.679 on the bottom of the ocean floor, called in for 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.040 more equipment. Sure enough, they discovered that Spanish ship that 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.160 had sunk. It was still full of gold, silver, all 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.280 kinds of buried treasure. He was greatly rewarded for those 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.600 sixteen years. How do you stay in faith when it's 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.600 taken a long time, you don't see anything happening, doesn't 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.480 look like it's ever going to work out, Just like 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.920 with this man. Every day, tell yourself, this could be 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.720 the day it turns around. This could be the day 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.280 I start to feel better. This could be the day 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.360 the property sales, This could be the day I get 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.640 the phone call I've been waiting for you. Wait with expectancy, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.840 knowing that it could happen today. That's what we did 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.600 with this place. The former Compact Center, a company filed 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.920 a lawsuit to try to keep us from moving in. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.520 We were told by our legal experts that it could 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.880 take between eight and ten years for this legal battle 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.000 to resolve. We weren't even guaranteed that we would win. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.800 It was very easy to get discouraged, was easy to 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.640 think this is never going to work out. But we 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.200 did just what I'm asking you to do. Every morning 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.120 I got up month after month and said, Father, I 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.160 want to thank you that today could be the day 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.920 it turns around. I said, like David, God, send favor now, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.080 send breakthroughs now, send deliverance. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:19.320 Now. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.880 I was waiting with expectancy. A year and a half later, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.000 you know the story, we got a phone call from 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.640 the other side and they were willing to settle, and 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.560 we were able to move into our beautiful facility. But 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.160 I think about what David said, what would have happened 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.280 if I had not believed to see the goodness of God. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.400 I wonder would we still be tied up in a 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.480 legal battle if we had not gotten up each morning 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.880 with this now faith, believing that this could be the day, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.320 would we still be in our old facility that was 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.120 much too small, and we would have not seen the 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.040 growth and increase in favor that we've seen in the 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:03.440 last five years. I'm convinced there are times that we 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.160 delay God's goodness. Things don't happen as quickly as they 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.400 should because we're not living with this now faith. We 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.560 get discouraged because it's not happening. Instead of being like 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.720 this man and believing this could be the day, we 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.200 switch over into that future faith, thinking well, maybe one 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.760 day I'll get out of this lawsuit. Maybe one day 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.760 I'll accomplish my dreams. Maybe one day we'll be able 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.360 to have children. Now you've got to switch back over 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:35.440 into the now faith. Understand, every time you say God, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.800 send favor, Now, send healing, now, send breakthroughs now. In 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.640 the unseen realm, God releases a new wave of his goodness. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.280 You may not see anything happening, but that doesn't mean 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.560 God is not working. The scripture says, the moment you pray, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.240 the tide of the battle begins to turn. That very 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:02.120 moment God sets the miracle into motion. It may not 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.840 show up for a week, a year, or ten years, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:10.040 but if you will stay in faith, one day, suddenly 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.040 you will see what God's been doing behind the scenes. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.720 Last week, Victoria and I had the opportunity to talk 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.159 to a young couple. They had been believing to have 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.879 a child for many, many years with no success, but 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.080 instead of being discouraged, they would come up each week 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.840 to our support group that we have for parents that 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.399 are trying to have children. It's called the Hope Group. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.320 They pray and encourage each other. And this couple has 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.480 the attitude that I'm talking about. This could be the 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.280 day that we conceive a baby. This could be the 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.840 day that God blesses us with a child. Month after 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.439 month went by, they didn't see anything happening. Two years, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.480 three years, four years. They just kept declaring, Father, send 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:57.040 that baby, Now, send healing, now send favor. Now. Five 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.480 years later, after being told by the doctors they couldn't 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.240 have children, they brought the most beautiful baby girl for 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.320 us to dedicate last week. But I wonder I would 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:13.320 they have that baby today if they would have just 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.440 sat at home thinking, too bad for us, just our luck. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.080 It's not meant to be no. They had the attitude, 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:24.480 today is the day. Nothing happened. The first month didn't matter. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.960 Today is the day nothing happened the first year. They 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:32.160 weren't moved. They kept believing today is the day. Those 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.479 five years didn't look like anything was happening. They were 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.120 hardly making any progress, but they knew down deep, God 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:43.520 was working behind the scenes, and suddenly she was able 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.240 to conceive. It's easy to get discouraged and think my 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.280 marriage is never gonna change, I'm never gonna get well, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.680 I'm never gonna accomplish my dreams. I understand. God is 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.680 a god of the suddenliest. He can suddenly turn any 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.440 situation around. He can suddenly get you out of debt. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.040 He can suddenly cause you to conceive. He can suddenly 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.640 bring a dream to pass. Here's the key. While we're 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.639 waiting for the suddenly's, it's important that we keep this 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.760 now faith down deep. You've got to know it could 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.840 happen today. In the scripture, there was a man that 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.440 was crippled for thirty eight years. He had been lying 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.040 by the pool of Bethesda. Whenever an angel would move 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.960 the water, the first person that got in would be healed. 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.520 I can imagine the first few months that he was there. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.399 He had a great expectation, thinking this is going to 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.080 be my day. I'm going to be the one that 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.560 gets healed today. He was passionate. He had this enthusiasm. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.040 But a month went by and it didn't happen, and 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.200 he gets a little bit discouraged. And then three months 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.119 and it still doesn't happen, and he's more discouraged than 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.920 a year. Then five years, now thirty eight years later, 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:04.000 he's still lying by the pull, totally convinced that it's 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.639 never going to happen. One day, Jesus came by and 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.400 asked him a question. He said, sir, do you want 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.399 to get well? In a sense, that was an odd question. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.240 Of course, he wanted to get well. He'd been lying 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.520 by the pull of thirty eight years, hoping to get in. No, 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.920 Jesus wanted to see his attitude. The way he responds 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.640 shows us what his problem was. Instead of saying, yes, 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.320 I want to get well, he began to make all 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:36.080 these excuses. He said, Jesus, I don't have anybody to 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.159 help me get in the water. I've tried and failed 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:41.920 year after year, and you know, my legs don't work, 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.280 and it's just so unfair. It's just not right here. Jesus, 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.639 the Son of God, the one that has the power 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.920 to heal him, is standing right there. But this man 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.679 is just so focused on all the reason that it's 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.199 not going to work out. See I found you can 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:02.000 be at the right place, in the wrong frame of 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.800 mind and miss what God wants to do. Some of 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.600 you have been praying for years and years for a 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.400 loved one, but it looks like it's not doing any good. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.280 You've been standing in faith for a marriage to be restored, 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:18.920 to accomplish a goal, but it seems like one sat 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:23.040 back after another. Now you've lost your enthusiasm, you've lost 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.720 your passion. But I believe just like in this situation, 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.760 God is passing by your way today you are at 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.040 the right place. The real question is are you in 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.440 the right frame of mind? Do you know that this 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.320 could be your day? Don't miss your moment. It may 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.159 look impossible, but how do you know that God is 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:49.720 not just about to turn it around? It may seem 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.399 too late, but how do you know God is not 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.520 just about to open a new door, just about to 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.760 bring somebody new into your life, or just about to 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.320 thrust you to a whole new level. Don't do like 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:06.600 this man and sit around thirty eight years making excuses 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.000 as to why you can't get well and why you 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.680 can't be happy, why you can't be successful. Now, God 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.280 doesn't want to hear our excuses. He's saying today, do 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:18.880 you want to be blessed? Do you want to be victorious? 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:23.320 Do you want to live his abundant life? Then you've 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:27.280 got to shake off the self pity, shake off the disappointments, 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:30.040 rise up and say, hey, you know what today is. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:32.639 My day may not have happened in the past, but 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:36.120 I know now is the time for God's favor. Now 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.960 is the time for healing. Now is the time for breakthroughs. God, 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:42.440 I'm asking you to send you a goodness. 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:42.800 Now. 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:45.879 You got to get back over into the now zone. 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:48.720 I can look back in my own life and see 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:52.760 situations where at one time I was believing for change, 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:57.239 believing for increase, believing for favor. But a month went 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:00.600 by and nothing happened. In a few months, year than 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:05.040 a couple years, and I found myself not actively believing anymore. 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.560 I had become complacent kind of thinking, all this is 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:10.720 the way it is, and this is the way that 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:13.879 it's always going to be. It wasn't anything bad. I 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:17.359 just wasn't releasing my faith. The back of my mind, 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:21.160 I thought, well, maybe one day it'll change, Maybe one 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.040 day that will happen. Now I've made up my mind. 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:26.960 I'm gonna come back over to now faith. I'm gonna 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:30.040 get up every morning and start saying, Father, send favor, now, 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:35.640 send increase, now, send breakthroughs Now. I'm expecting to see 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:40.400 God's goodness in greater ways. I'm expecting to see dreams 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:43.480 and goals that I pushed down a year ago, five 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.800 years ago, twenty years ago. I'm still expecting them to 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.439 come to pass. And some of you, like me, at 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:53.960 one time you were believing to accomplish a goal, believing 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.520 to overcome an addiction, believing to get back in shape. 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:00.680 But it didn't happen, and it's time went by. You 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:02.960 just put it on the back burner. Now you think 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.200 it's never going to happen. But I'm asking you to 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.880 come back over with me to that now faith. Get 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:14.000 your hopes back up. When you believe all things are possible, 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:17.800 you don't know today could be your day. Stay in 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:21.040 the now, that's what allows God to do amazing things. 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.440 And even if it doesn't happen today or next week 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:27.040 or next year, don't be like the man by the 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:31.560 pool and become complacent. Keep your faith stirred up. In fact, 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:35.840 the scripture tells us to be prisoners of hope. That 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:39.480 means we are chained to hope. We just can't get away. 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:43.320 In other words, we should be discouraged. It's taking a 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:45.840 long time. I don't see anything good happening, but I 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:48.440 just can't help it. I still believe God can turn 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:51.360 it around. I still believe today could be my day. 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:56.320 That thought comes that you're never gonna get out of debt. 0:24:56.960 --> 0:25:01.080 Business is too slow, You're probably gonna go under answer back, Yes, 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.119 it doesn't look good in the natural, but you don't understand. 0:25:04.520 --> 0:25:08.440 I'm in prison, not physically, but mentally. I'm in a 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:12.040 prison not of defeat, not of discouragement, not of self pity. 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:14.680 I'm in a prison of hope. I'm in a prison 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:18.399 of expectancy. I know now is the time for God's favor. 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:22.040 I know he's working behind the scenes. Whether I can 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:25.159 see anything or not, I still believe today can be 0:25:25.280 --> 0:25:28.320 my day. Well, what if it doesn't happen today, No 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:31.560 big deal. I'm in prison. I can't get out. I 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:34.760 just can't help. But believing for increase. I can't help, 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:38.359 but believing for good things. I know suddenly God can 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:42.040 turn any situation around. It's okay to be in prison. 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:44.840 Just make sure you're in the right prison, a prison 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:48.440 of hope. That's what a young lady did in the scripture. 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:53.560 For twelve years she suffered with the bleeding disorder. She's 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:56.320 spent all of her money, gone to many different doctors, 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.879 received treatment, but continued to get worse. She could have 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:02.960 like the man at the pool and thought, too bad. 0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:06.119 I tried. Just my luck. It wasn't meant to be. 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:06.800 Now. 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:09.959 She didn't sit around in self pity. This lady had 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:14.080 been coming to Lakewood. Her attitude was, today is my day. 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:17.600 It may look impossible, it may be taking a long time, 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.680 but God, I'm asking you to send healing now. She 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:25.159 had this now faith. One day she heard that Jesus 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:28.119 was coming through her city. She thought, if I can 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:31.040 just get to him, I know I'll be made whole. 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.760 She began to press her way through the crowd. I 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:38.040 can imagine her saying, excuse me, I don't mean to 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:40.600 be rude. I don't mean to be pushy, but you're 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:43.159 gonna have to move out of my way. Today is 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:48.280 my day, this is my time. Just as Jesus was 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:50.480 about to go off, she was able to reach out 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.800 and touch the edge of his robe. The scripture says, 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:58.359 immediately she was made home. Jesus stopped and said to 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:02.439 his disciples who They said, what do you mean, Jesus, 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:05.760 everybody's touching you. It's packed around here. He said. Now, 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:10.399 somebody touched me with such faith, with such expectancy that 0:27:10.520 --> 0:27:13.280 they drew the miracle working power right out of me. 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:19.359 About that time, Jesus' eyes met this woman's eyes. He 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:23.240 smiled and said, daughter, your faith has made you hold 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:28.240 go in peace. Notice it wasn't God's faith. God has 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:31.160 all the faith in the world. But when we rise 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:35.000 up and say today is my day, God send healing, now, 0:27:35.200 --> 0:27:39.040 send favor, now, send breakthroughs now. When we release our faith, 0:27:39.520 --> 0:27:42.200 it can cause the most High God to stop in 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:46.679 his tracks and release his power in amazing ways. Now 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:49.240 I'm asking you to do like this woman and have 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:53.040 a now faith. Get up every morning and say something 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.480 good is going to happen to me today. Friends, Today 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:59.960 is your day. Now is the time for God's faith. 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:04.200 As you go out this week, be expecting God's goodness. 0:28:04.520 --> 0:28:07.399 Don't just have faith for the future. God wants to 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:11.080 do something great in your life today. He is the great. 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:14.440 I am not the great. I will be. Stay in 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:16.920 the now. That's what's going to give you the passion 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:20.560 to keep pressing forward. If it doesn't happen today, don't 0:28:20.600 --> 0:28:23.280 get discouraged. Don't be like the man at the pool 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:26.640 and sit around thirty eight years, give up on your dreams, 0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:29.879 nor be a prisoner of hope. May be taking a 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:33.840 long time, but suddenly God can turn any situation around. 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:34.560 Now. 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:37.440 I want to pray over you what David did in 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:41.680 psalmone eighteen. Receive this by faith. Father. I'm asking you 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:45.240 for every person under the sound of my voice, to 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:52.240 send prosperity now, Father, send favor, now, send restoration, now, 0:28:53.360 --> 0:29:01.840 send healing, now, send vindication, now, send breakthroughs now in favor. Now, Lord, 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:05.080 we know you are a now God, so we release 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:07.720 this now Faith, and we want to thank you in 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:11.920 advance that we will see your goodness in amazing, unprecedented 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:14.680 ways in the future. We believe it. We receive it, 0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:18.000 we declare it in Jesus' name, and if you agree, 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:18.960 can you say amen? 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:26.480 Thank you for listening to the Joelus Deine podcast. Help 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:29.320 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:29:29.440 --> 0:29:33.320 all over the world. 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