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Having The God Kind Of Faith
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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.600 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.760 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.480 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.199 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:49.120 for God's very best in your life. Oh God bless you. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.960 It is always a joy to come into your homes. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.640 We love you and we're believing that this year is 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.360 going to be your best year so far, and we 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.160 just appreciate you tuning in. If you're ever in our area, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.280 come out and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.880 These are the finest people in all of Houston right 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.480 here at Lakewood, and we'd love to have you be apart. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.400 But thanks for tuning in today. I like to get 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.760 started each week with something kind of funny. And I 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.120 heard about this burglar that broke into a home one night, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.280 and as he was stealing the stereo, he heard a 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.720 voice saying, Jesus is watching. He froze in his tracks. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.720 He shined the flashlight around the room and he noticed 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.200 over in the corner there was a parrot. He said, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.920 did you say that? The parrot said, yep, I'm just 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.760 trying to warn you. He looked kind of confused and 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.880 said warn me. What do you mean? Who are you? 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:42.440 The parrot said, my name is Moses. He laughed and said, 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.560 what kind of crazy people would name a parrot Moses. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.799 The parrot replied the same kind of people that would 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:54.240 name a one hundred and fifty pound rockweller. Jesus, All right, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.360 hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.600 This is my Bible I am, and what it says 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.640 I am? I have what it says I have, I 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.400 can do what it says I can do. Today, I 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.000 will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.280 my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.240 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.520 I want to talk to you today about having the 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.240 God kind of faith. And when we hear the word faith, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.120 many times we think of it in a general sense. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.600 If I ask you if you had faith, every one 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.800 of us would say yes. But there are different types 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.560 of faith. There's a faith for our everyday life, where 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.240 we have faith to get to work safely in faith, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.360 to provide for our family, faith to be healthy. That's 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.600 the way we typically think of faith. But Jesus said 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.520 in Mark eleven, have the faith of God. Notice that 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.360 little word of it tells us where it originates from. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.040 And I know people that have faith in God. They 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.640 believe God can do anything. But this is saying we 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.720 can have the faith of God. In other words, God 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.040 wants to take some of his faith and deposit it 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.120 on the inside of you. It's a faith that doesn't 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:18.080 originate with ourselves. One translation calls it the God kind 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.400 of faith. What type of faith is this? It's a 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.800 faith that stretches, a faith that makes us believe we 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.920 can accomplish things that we once thought were impossible. It's 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.400 a faith that challenges us to go beyond the barriers 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.920 of our past and to do things that we've never 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.599 done before. You'll know it's the faith of God when 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.599 something rises up in you and you don't really know 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.720 why you're believing it's totally over your head. It seems 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.320 like it's out of your reach, but deep down, something 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.280 keeps telling you, now it's going to happen. God's going 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.520 to bring this to pass. That's the God kind of faith. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.600 A faith that tells you you're going to get well 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.400 even though medical science says it's impossible. Where did you 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.640 get that didn't originate with you? God deposited that on 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.160 the inside. The God kind of faith will tell you 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.279 you're going to accomplish your dreams even though you may 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.400 not think you have the connections, the resources, or the education. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.960 It's a faith that says, even though no one in 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.960 my family is doing right, as for me and my house, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.279 we will serve the Lord. The God kind of faith 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.560 gives you a spark of hope, a reason to believe 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.520 you can accomplish every dream and overcome every obstacle. When 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.240 you have this faith of God, it's as if you're 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.839 allowing God to believe through you. He takes some of 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.040 his faith and puts it on the inside, and because 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.839 you get in agreement with it, that allows God to 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.760 bring it to pass. But here's the whole key. You 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.600 have to let it take root. It comes up out 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.360 of your heart. That's God speaking to you. That's his faith. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.680 It didn't originate with you. He's trying to plant it 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.279 on the inside. But if you're not careful, your mind 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.720 will try to talk you out of it. Your mind 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.159 will tell you all the reasons why it's not going 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.040 to happen, and how you don't have the right connections 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.240 and you're too old or too young, or here's a 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.000 common one, you've made too many mistakes. God's mad at you. Man, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.520 You're never going to see your dreams come to pass. Now, 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.960 if you're going to have the God kind of faith, 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.200 you've got to come to a point where you so 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.320 to speak, turn your mind off. You've got to quit 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.599 listening to all the negative discouraging. Can't do it, thoughts, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.560 if you're constantly dwelling on all the reasons why it's 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.600 not going to happen, and how you don't have enough, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.360 and how you'll never get out of debt. That seed 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.239 is not going to take ruth. And sure you'll still 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.159 have faith, but when you have the faith of God, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.400 you're allowing him to believe through you. And it may 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.599 not make sense to your mind, but you've got to 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.360 just shake it off and say, God, I am bold 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.520 enough to believe you can do anything. And even though 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.760 this looks impossible, I know this faith didn't come from me. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.359 It came from you, and you created the whole universe. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.560 And so if you say it can happen, I'm going 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.960 to get in agreement with you and believe that it 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.240 will happen. When you learn to have the God kind 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.840 of faith, you'll find yourself at times believing for things 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.520 that you know it's not your faith, and you'll think, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.560 I don't even know why I think this is going 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.560 to happen. I don't know how I'm being so bold. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.320 I don't know where I'm getting this confidence, but somehow, 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.200 some way, deep down in here, I know it is 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.200 going to happen. That's the God kind of faith. I 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.680 can look back in my own life and see times 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.880 where I know my faith didn't come from me. It 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.200 didn't originate from my own thinking. Something down in here said, Joel, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.520 you can accomplish this dream. You have what it takes. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.000 I've learned to let that take root. That's God trying 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.080 to believe through us. In other words, the God that 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.200 lives in you right now, the Holy Spirit on the 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.240 inside is trying to connect with your spirit. And if 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.200 you'll allow him and not talk yourself out of it, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.920 God can believe through you. This is what happened when 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.400 my father went to be with the Lord. What gave 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.720 me the confidence to step up and pastor the church. 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.400 I had only spoken one time. I'm smart enough to 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.960 know you cannot pastor a church if you've only spoken once. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.760 You need sermons, you need training, you need material in 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.440 the natural. It didn't make sense. I had never been 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.520 to seminary. I didn't feel qualified. But deep down in here, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.600 something kept saying, Joel, this is your time, this is 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.960 your destiny. You've got what it takes. I let that 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.199 seed take root. There wasn't so much that I was confident, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.440 but I was allowing God to believe through me. It 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.960 was his faith I let it flow by simply coming 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.440 into agreement with him. Again. The thing that stops the 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.040 God kind of faith is when we talk ourselves out 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.400 of it. My mind was telling me the whole time, Joel, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.480 you better not get up there and try to minister. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.160 You're not gonna know what to say. You're gonna look 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.040 like a fool. You're not been trained, you're not qualified. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.679 On and on. I had to turn my mind off 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.640 and listen to my heart. That's where God speaks to you. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.000 Up here, all I heard was it's a big mistake. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.720 It's never gonna happen. But down in here, when I 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.839 got quiet, I could hear the faith of God saying 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.600 you can do all things through Christ. You are strong 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.640 in the Lord, you are annointed, equipped and empowered. When 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.080 the God kind of faith rises up, there will always 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.920 be two voices competing for your attention. It will never 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.760 happen unopposed the voice of doubt telling you you can't, 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.480 you're not able, it's been too long. That'll rise up. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.840 But at the same time, if you'll get quiet and 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.559 listen to your spirit person, you'll hear a voice of hope, 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.680 a voice of victory saying, now you are well able. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.520 Those that are for you are greater than those that 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.040 are against you. If you're going to let the God 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.320 kind of faith take root, you've got to learn to 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.720 always choose that voice of hope. About eight months ago, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.640 all of a sudden, I had this strong desire to 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.400 make a large donation to the ministry. I don't know 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.400 where it came from. I was just minding my own business. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.079 I wasn't praying, I wasn't feeling spiritual, but all at 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.439 once this desire dropped in my heart to give this 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.800 large gift. And at first, like we do many times, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.920 my thought was, I can't give that amount. I don't 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.000 have it, where would I get it? All these reasons 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.000 telling me why it wasn't going to happen. There would 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:39.679 have been a time in my life where I just 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.040 kind of shaking that off, thought well, I'm just feeling 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.720 generous today, that'd be nice to do one day, and 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.079 just kind of ignored it and gone on. But now 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.960 realize that wasn't something that I just thought up. That 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:55.400 was a desire God deposited into my spirit, and at 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.680 the same time he was trying to put some of 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.120 his faith to go along with it. Understand God will 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.720 never give you a dream without giving you the faith 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.000 to accomplish it. He'll never give you a desire. He 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.960 won't put a promise in your heart without taking some 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.120 of his faith and putting it on the inside. And 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.680 I felt this desire so strongly, and I simply said, God, 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.440 I'm going to get in agreement with you and believe 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.360 that I'm going to be able to give this gift. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.960 And I normally don't do this, but I just felt 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.760 like I was supposed to give it that year. And 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.040 this was a large stretch for our family. We didn't 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.280 have it in the natural. I didn't know where I 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.600 was going to get it, but I let the seed 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.240 take root. That's the main thing. God doesn't ask us 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.199 to figure it all out. He simply asked us to believe. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.920 Month after month went by, I didn't see anything happening, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.360 but I just kept thanking God that he was making 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.720 away the good news. When you realize it's the faith 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.120 of God, it takes all the pressure off of you. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.880 I knew I didn't have to stir anything up. I 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.920 just relaxed and stayed in faith. Time. My mind was 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.200 telling me, Joe, this is far over your head. You're 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:05.840 never going to be able to give it. You're just 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.840 wasting your time. No, I just shook that off and said, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.640 with God, all things are possible. I kept letting his 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.080 faith rise up. Well. Two weeks before the end of 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.120 the year, I got a call out of the blue 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.800 from someone asking me to be a part of a 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.120 certain project. And normally I would never do it, but 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.800 I really liked what they were doing. It wasn't gonna 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.720 take any of my time. I wasn't going to have 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.800 to do any work, so I agreed to do it. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.079 I didn't even know they were going to do this, 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.240 but they were so happy. They said, Joel, to express 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.760 our appreciation, we're going to make a large donation to 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.760 your ministry. The amount they gave was the exact amount 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.600 to the penny of what God had put in my heart. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:51.000 What am I say, If you'll let the faith of 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:55.040 God rise up, you'll see God do amazing things. If 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.840 you're bold enough to believe, God will be bold enough 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.200 to bring it to pass. And I know we all 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.480 have faith in God, we all know God can do anything. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.520 But I want us to learn to receive the faith 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.240 of God. He's constantly trying to plant new seeds in 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.640 your heart. You have a desire to accomplish a new dream, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.480 a desire to get out of debt, a desire to 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.240 overcome an addiction. The first thought that comes to your 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.200 mind is impossible. No, that's God trying to deposit some 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.600 of his faith. That's God trying to believe through you. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.079 Why don't you get in agreement with him? You say, Joel, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.880 I don't have a lot of faith. I wasn't raised 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.480 in church like you. I don't know all these scriptures, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.400 or I've been through a lot of disappointments. I've had 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.679 a lot of setbacks in life. I don't have all 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.800 this faith that you're talking about. No, you don't have 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.880 to have great faith. You don't have to understand all 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.000 the theology and know all the scriptures. Jesus said, if 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.840 you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.480 can say to a mountain, be removed, and it'll be 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.080 taken away. A mustard seed is one of the the 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.200 smallest seeds. It's about that big. If I ask you, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.439 do you have that much faith? Do you have an 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.360 eighth of an inch of faith? Every one of you 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.440 would say yes. Well, God is saying you have enough 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.360 faith to overcome every obstacle. You have enough faith to 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.400 accomplish every dream. You have enough faith to break every addiction. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.080 You have the faith to live a victorious life. Quit 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.280 telling yourself, my problems are too big and I just 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.120 can't believe I don't have enough faith. No, it's not 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.920 your faith anyway. It's the faith of Almighty God. And 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.640 the good news is our God is all powerful. He 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:41.040 can turn any situation around. He can restore your marriage. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.200 He can cause you to be at the right place 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.760 at the right time. One touch of his favor can 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.240 thrust you to a new level. God has already lined 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.800 up in your future the right people, the right breaks, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.360 the right opportunity. He had the solution before you ever 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.240 even had the problem. He would not give you the 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.200 desire if he had not already made a way to 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.800 bring it to pass. Dare to believe. Draw that line 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.680 into sand and say that's it. This is a new day. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.280 I've settled for defeat and mediocritly long enough. I'm done 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.160 with little dreams, little plans, little goals. I'm a child 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.240 of the Most High God. I'm gonna start tapping into 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:25.040 his faith. You've got to put on a new attitude. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.280 You may not feel like you can do it in 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.840 your own strength, but God will give you the strength. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.640 You may not have the wisdom, but God will give 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.560 you the wisdom. It may look impossible to you, but 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.600 God specializes in doing the impossible. Why don't you let 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.320 some of these seeds of hope take root? God's trying 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.440 to deposit some of his faith on the inside. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:46.920 Now. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.800 I know some of you have been through a lot 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.400 of disappointments. You've had unfair things happen in life. And 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.280 if you're at tempted to just sit back and kind 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.680 of settle where you are and think, oh, Joel, I'll 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.880 never really be happy, I'll never really accomplish my dream. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.440 But I believe today you're feeling hope rising on the inside. 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.040 That's the God kind of faith trying to tell you 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.880 that your best days are still out in front of you. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.720 And every dream that you've given up on, every desire 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.720 you push down, God still has a way to bring 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.400 it to pass. Your mind will tell you no way, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.040 I've been through too much. But if you can just 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.120 shake off that negative, defeated mentality and let the faith 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.280 of God take root, then something will rise up on 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.359 the inside, and instead of dragging around defeated and discouraged, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.440 you will know that you know you are a victor 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.400 and not a victim. And it may not make sense 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.560 to your mind. You may have a lot of problems. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.400 You may be deeply in debt, your health may not 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.880 be very good, and in the natural you should be 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.880 kind of down, discouraged, worried, frustrated. But if you'll listen 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.640 deep down in here, you'll hear that old song we 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.960 used to sing. I've got a feeling everything is going 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.760 to be all right, you're saying. I know, so, somehow, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.280 some way, God is going to make a way. I 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.240 know God is fighting my battles for me. I know 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.480 right now he's arranging things in my favor, and when 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.920 it's all said and done, he's gonna bring me out 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.800 with the victory. What is that. That's the god kind 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.800 of faith rising up in your spirit. Let it take root, 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.480 you say, Joe, you don't know how impossible my dreams are. 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.520 I don't see how my marriage could be restored. I 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.520 don't see how I could ever get out of debt. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.960 My faith is just not that strong. No, your faith 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.800 may not be that strong, but you have to realize 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.080 you have the faith of Almighty God. His faith is 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.000 plenty strong. He can do anything. Why don't you start 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.560 tapping into that. That's what the apostle Paul had to do. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.880 He'd been through all kinds of adversity. He'd been shipwrecked 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:51.040 and thrown into prison, beaten, mistreated. Yet in spite of 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.160 all these obstacles, in spite of all these people coming 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.480 against him, he said, I am more than a conqueror. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.000 He went on to write over half of the New Tests, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.720 he accomplished his dreams. How could he have had such 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:08.080 a good attitude and fulfilled his destiny with all these obstacles. 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.080 I believe he gives us the secret of his success 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.199 He's found in Galatians two, verse twenty. He said, the 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.359 life I now live, I live by the faith of 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.800 the Son of God. Notice he was saying, I've learned 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.600 not to live by my own faith. I haven't made 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.080 it just because I had a strong will and I 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.520 was determined and I worked up some kind of emotion. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.359 He said, the reason I could overcome every obstacle, the 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.560 reason I accomplished my dreams, was because I learned how 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.800 to tap in to the faith of Almighty God. And 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.840 if we're going to become everything God's created us to be, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.760 if we're going to fulfill our God given destiny, we too, 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.000 like Paul, have to learn to let the faith of 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:57.119 Almighty God take root on the inside. I know this 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.800 man that was raised in a small town out in 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.440 the country. He was the youngest of many children. During 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.359 his teenage years, instead of playing sports like all of 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.960 his brothers, his parents got sick. He spent most of 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.960 his time taking care of them. And in his early 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.280 twenties he married a young girl from the community. And 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.439 this young lady was really into fashion. She had a 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.800 special thing for shoes. She really loved wearing high heeled shoes. 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.439 And one day after they had just got married, they 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.360 were driving back home. The roads were kind of wet 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.080 it had been raining, and a truck coming in the 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.640 other direction didn't see them and turned right in front 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.400 of them. This young man tried to stop, but he couldn't, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.720 and he plowed into that truck. He hit so hard 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.040 the person in the back seat was thrown out of 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.760 the vehicle. He couldn't get his door open, so he 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.560 tried to crawl out the window. He encouraged his wife 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.119 to do so as well. She said, I can't, my 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.280 legs are hurt. He looked down and saw both of 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.600 her ankles had been crushed. He could see the bones 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.919 coming out of the skin. They rushed her to a 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:05.880 hospital in a larger city. After several days and several surgeries, 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.439 the doctor came in and said to that young couple, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.360 I hate to tell you this, but your wife will 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.680 never walk again. Her ankles have been so messed up. 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.159 Maybe we can fit her with some kind of brace 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.600 to help stabilize her, but she'll be confined to a 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.960 wheelchair the rest of her life. You can imagine how 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.320 devastated they were. That young man took his wife home. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.520 When they got to the house, he physically carried her inside. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.080 He looked her in the eyes and said, listen to here, honey, 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.560 everything that man just said to us. I want you 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:42.159 to ignore. You will walk again. I don't know. I 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.320 don't know if it'll take a month, it may take 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.280 a year, it may take twenty years, but you are 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.560 going to walk again. What was it that caused that 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.199 young man to believe that his wife could defy the 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.840 laws of medicine and somehow walk again. How did he 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.720 the nerve to think that he knew more than a 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.960 trained professional, a man that has spent years studying the bones, 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.520 the joints, how the body works. That didn't make any sense. No, 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:14.199 that wasn't his faith, It didn't originate from him. It 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.440 was the faith of God rising up on the inside, 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.360 saying I can do what men can't do. I can 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:22.359 make a way, even when it looks like there is 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.720 no way, he let it take root. He didn't know 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.159 how it was going to happen. It seemed like it 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.200 was just wishful thinking. But deep down in here, something 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.760 kept saying to him, if you believe all things are possible, 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.359 I will restore health and heal you of your wounds. 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.000 What am I saying? The god kind of faith will 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.919 stir you to believe for the extraordinary. But too often 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.639 we just push it down. We've been through setbacks, we 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.359 tried and fell, or we had a friend that didn't 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.639 make it, and so our minds starts going into overtime 0:21:55.720 --> 0:22:00.159 telling us impossible, no way. You heard the experts. The 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.640 battle is taking place right here. When this young man 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.439 would come home from work, he would find his wife 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.560 sitting in the closet. She had scooted her way there, 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.679 just staring at her shoes, so down, so discouraged. He 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.119 would pick her up and say, okay, honey, let's try 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:20.800 take a step. One step after another. Month after month, 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:25.199 they kept trying, kept believing, kept releasing their faith, thanking 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.119 God for her healing. She got to a place to 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.680 where she could wear tennis shoes, then flat sole shoes, 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.760 then shoes with a small hill. Eventually she could wear 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.960 her high heels once again. Today she can not only walk, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.080 she can run, she can jump, she can dance. She's 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:44.240 stronger now than she was twenty years ago when it 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:49.120 first happened. But too many times we settle for second best. 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.360 The God kind of faith is trying to stretch us 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.440 and dare us to believe. But we think of all 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.040 the reasons why it's not going to happen. How the 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.240 experts have said it's impossible. We think we have to 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.000 see away. But all we have to do is believe, 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.240 if we'll let the God kind of faith rise up. 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:11.040 There's no situation. God can't turn around. There's no sickness 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:15.280 too big, no problem too great, no enemy too powerful. 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.600 Our God is all powerful. He has you in the 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:22.480 palm of his hand, and he's saying, if you'll allow me, 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:26.600 I'll use my faith to believe through you. All you've 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.080 got to do is get an agreement with what you're 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.840 feeling down in here. That's the God kind of faith 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.760 rising up in your spirit. Now, I know every one 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:36.960 of you, like me, you can look back in your 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:40.480 life and see times where you think, where did I 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:43.280 get this faith? How did I have the nerve to 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.320 believe I could be well when the medical report said 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.119 it was impossible. How did I have the boldness to 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:52.080 take that position where really I kind of felt like 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.040 I wasn't qualified. Or how did I ever think I 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:58.440 would be happy again and have a bright future after 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:02.119 I had been so hurt in that relationship. It's because 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:05.040 you let the God kind of faith take root. You 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:07.240 got in agreement with the God that lives on the 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:10.600 inside of you, and that's the same God that controls 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:14.600 the universe. When you believe he can do incredible things. 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.840 I remember when Victoria and I first got married, we 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:20.800 were out walking through this nice neighborhood and it had 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:24.600 these beautiful two story homes. At that time, we were 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.080 living in a small town home just as happy as 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:30.359 can be. But as we were walking, Victoria pointed at 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:33.359 this one house. It was just finished being built. It 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:37.760 had a beautiful two story windows and had high ceilings. 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.320 It was so nice. She said, Joel, one day we're 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:43.800 going to live in a house just like that. I 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:46.960 couldn't even fathom what she was saying. I said, Victoria, 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:50.200 are you kidding? You know how much these houses cost. 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:53.600 We will never be able to afford anything like that. 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:56.600 I mean, in my mind, I calculated we could work 0:24:56.600 --> 0:24:58.520 till we were one hundred and twenty years old and 0:24:58.600 --> 0:25:01.560 still not have enough. And me, being the great man 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:03.960 of faith that I am, I did my best to 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:07.000 talk her out of it. I said, Victoria, we don't 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.680 make enough money, on and on all the reasons why 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:12.359 it wasn't going to happen. It was like I was 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:15.880 talking to a brick wall. I couldn't phase her. She said, no, Joe, 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.359 write down in here. I know one day we're going 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:21.080 to live in a house just like that. What was that? 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:23.800 That was not normal? That was the God kind of 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:27.679 faith being deposited into her spirit, and she was bold 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:30.840 enough to come into agreement with it. Sure Enough, several 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:34.480 years later, through God's supernatural favor, we were living in 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.120 a house just like that. I remember when my brother 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:40.560 in law, Kevin, he's our administrator, he told me that 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:43.959 to renovate this new facility, the former Compact Center, it 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.960 was going to cost seventy five million dollars. I didn't 0:25:47.000 --> 0:25:49.520 bat an eye. That didn't bother me. I said, no problem, 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:52.520 let's do it. Looking back now, I think to myself, 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:56.040 was I crazy? What was I thinking? I had never 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:59.159 raised one penny before, I'd only been the pastor for 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:02.920 four years. The last building my father built costs six 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:06.240 million dollars, and here I didn't think twice about taking 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.480 on something ten times out of mount I can tell 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:12.560 you that wasn't my faith. It didn't originate with me. 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:16.080 That was the God kind of faith. I simply allowed 0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:19.320 it to take root. That's what I'm asking you to 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:23.919 do today. Throughout life, God is going to try to 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:27.919 stretch you the natural. It may not make sense, but 0:26:28.000 --> 0:26:30.359 if you can just get past what your mind is 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:33.480 telling you and let it take root on the inside, 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:37.680 you'll see God do amazing things some of you. Right now. 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:40.200 God's trying to plant a new seed in your heart, 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:44.080 just like he gave me faith for the renovation. Just 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:47.320 like He gave Victoria faith for that new house. This 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:50.399 is one of those moments for you. On the inside, 0:26:50.480 --> 0:26:54.280 something is saying I can rise higher, I can accomplish 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:57.720 every dream, I can overcome this addiction. I can be 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:01.359 well again. That's the God kind of faith rising up 0:27:01.400 --> 0:27:04.440 on the inside. Let it take root. Just say, God, 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:07.479 I receive what you're saying to me. I know some 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:09.800 of you the doctors have said there's nothing more they 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:13.520 can do. But God is saying, I'm not limited by 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:16.480 the laws of medical science. I can do what men 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:19.000 can't do. Some of you have given up on your 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:22.880 dream it's been so long, but God is saying I 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:25.600 still have a way to bring it to past. Dare 0:27:25.680 --> 0:27:28.400 to believe. Some of you think that you've been through 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:31.359 too much to ever be happy. But God is saying 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:34.680 I can give you a new beginning. Your future can 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:39.240 be brighter than your past. Receive that faith today. Remember 0:27:39.280 --> 0:27:42.560 God will never give you the desire without giving you 0:27:42.640 --> 0:27:45.280 the faith to accomplish it. So if you have the 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:49.680 desire on the inside, if something is quickening in your spirit, man, 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:52.360 then you can be bold enough to say I can 0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:55.679 be free, I can be well, I can be restored. 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:58.160 I know it's not by my mind, it's not by 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:02.320 my power, but it's by the spirit of the Living God. Friends, 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:05.000 if you'll learn to get in agreement with the creator 0:28:05.040 --> 0:28:08.880 of the universe and let his faith take root, nothing 0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:13.040 will be impossible to you. God will open up supernatural doors. 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:16.400 He'll break down barriers of the past. And I believe 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:21.600 and declare that every dream, every desire, every promise God's 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:24.639 put in you, he will bring that to fulfillment. Amen, 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:28.959 you receive it today. We never like to close our 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:32.600 broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 0:28:32.640 --> 0:28:36.840 Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:42.800 I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:46.560 make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed 0:28:46.600 --> 0:28:49.720 that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.440 in a good Bible based church, keep God first place. 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:55.240 He's going to take you places that you've never dreamed of. 0:28:56.440 --> 0:28:59.440 Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 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