Hearing In Your Spirit

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I have what 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.480 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.320 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.600 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.880 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.040 Jesus's name, God bless you. I want to talk to 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:11.200 you today about. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:12.679 Hearing in your spirit. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.920 Just as we have physical ears, we have spiritual ears. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.120 And God doesn't speak to us out loud normally like 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:22.320 we see in the movies. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.560 He speaks to us in our spirit. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.720 Many times he will speak things that contradict. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:30.440 What we see with our eyes. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.399 Maybe you're facing an illness, doesn't seem like you'll ever 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:34.920 get well. 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.600 You'll hear a voice saying you're healthy, your whole, you're strong. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.880 Or you're struggling in your finances, you can't seem to 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:44.440 get ahead. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.600 You'll hear that voice saying you're blessed, you're prosperous, you 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:49.520 have more than enough. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.560 It's just the opposite of what it looks like. But 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:54.880 God calls you what. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.120 You are before it happens. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.520 When you're sick, God calls you well. When you're addicted, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.720 God calls you free. When you're bearing you can't conceive, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.480 God calls you a mother. In the scripture, Abraham didn't 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.280 have any children, yet God called him the father of 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:19.839 many nations. Gideon was insecure, afraid. He said, God, I 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.240 can't lead the Israelites. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.040 I come from the poorest family. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:28.200 He saw himself as weak, unqualified, Yet God called him 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:29.520 a mighty hero. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.200 You will hear things in your spirit. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.280 That don't make sense to your mind. You'll think I'm 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.680 not free, I still have this addiction. I'm not blessed. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.680 Joel I have all these problems. Gideon said, I'm not 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.680 a mighty hero. I'm the least one in my father's house. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.800 Abraham said, in effect, I'm not a father of many nations. 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.279 I don't have one child. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.400 But if you're going to see it come to pass, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.800 you have to believe what you hear in your spirit 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.320 and not what you see with your eyes. 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.799 You have to walk by faith and not by sight. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.479 Your circumstances may look like you'll never get well, never 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.400 get out of debt, never meet. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.039 The right person. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.560 But if you'll listen down in your spirit, you'll hear 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.080 a voice saying healing is coming. You will lend and 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.599 not borrow. New doors are about to open. Fever is 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.240 in your future. Don't let what you see with your 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.760 eyes talk you out of what you've heard in your spirit. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.240 God is saying to you what he said to Gideon. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:39.240 You are a mighty hero. You're going to accomplish big things. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.919 You're going to go further than you've imagined. He's saying 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.400 to you what he said to Abraham. You're going to 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.760 have those children. You're going to conceive. Your baby is 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.600 on the way. He's saying to you what he said 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.320 to David, You're going to defeat that giant. Yes, that 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.320 obstacle is big, but you have greatness in you. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.040 You are annoying, equipped, empowered. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.760 He's saying to you what he said to my mother, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.640 that cancer is not the end, that sickness is not 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.120 your final story. Restoration is coming. Things are about to 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.839 turn in your favor. Now being discouraged by what you see, 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:19.240 and start. 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.800 Being encouraged by what you hear. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.479 The scripture says the things we see are only temporary, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.839 but what we hear, what God speaks to us, that's permanent. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:36.280 One translation says the things we see are subject to change. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.200 That sickness may look permanent. The truth is it's subject 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.479 to change. One touch of God's favor suddenly you'll be well. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.880 That addiction you've struggled with for years looks like that's 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.960 your destiny. Don't believe that lie. It's subject to change. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.880 You may feel like you're stuck, not getting good breaks, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:58.400 not seeing any growth. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.680 Stay in faith. It's subject to change. God has the 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:03.400 final say. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:08.080 He said the path of the righteous, Your path gets 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.040 brighter and brighter. If you'll listen, you'll hear that voice 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:17.920 saying new levels are coming. New opportunities, new relationships. First Kings, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.800 Chapter eighteen. There was a great drought. It hadn't rained 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.640 in over three and a half years. The crops had 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.120 dried up, the food supply was limited. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.160 People were worried. They didn't know what they were going 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:30.560 to do. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.320 The prophet Elijah came along and told the king, I 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.800 hear the sound of an abundance of rain. There wasn't 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:44.280 a cloud in the sky. Everywhere he looked it was dry. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.440 Bearing, no trees, no vegetation. It had been that way 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:49.080 for years. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.480 I'm sure the king thought, Elijah, this heat is getting 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:54.480 to you. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:55.720 You're hearing things. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:08:00.000 There's no thunder, there's no sound of an abundance of rain. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.480 It's just the way it's always been. But that's the 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.960 way God is. In a drought. God will talk to 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:11.400 you about rain. In lack, he'll talk to you about abundance. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.640 When you feel insignificant, like you could never make much 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.960 out of your life, he'll talk to you about greatness. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.400 He'll put things in your spirit that seem impossible to accomplish. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.480 Or when you're lonely you don't think you'll ever meet 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:30.200 the right person, he'll talk to you about a divine connection. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.760 He speaks to your spirit about what's coming, but very 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:40.320 often it's just the opposite of what our circumstances look like. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.280 You heard abundance, but all you can see is lack 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.040 you heart healing. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:47.960 All you can see is sickness. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.400 Or you heard new levels. All you can see is 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:52.360 more of the same. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.160 The question is whose. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.080 Report are you going to believe? What you saw with 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.000 your eyes or the report of the Lord? What you 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.000 heard in your spirit? Like Elijah, I hear the sound 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.280 of breakthroughs, the sound of freedom, the sound of healing. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.840 I hear the sound of new levels, the sound of abundance. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.160 God is about to do a new thing. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.680 He's going to exceed your expectations. You may not see 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.320 any sign of it. Everything looks the same. Or get ready, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:29.240 the rain is coming. What you heard is on the way. Well, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.120 I heard in my spirit not start my own business, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.679 and all I see is this job I'm working at. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.079 I must have heard wrong. Stay in couraged is coming. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:43.360 Your circumstances may say you've reached your limits, You've. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.440 Gone as far as you can. Just settle there. That's 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.560 one report. If you believe that, you'll get stuck. But 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:51.199 if you'll. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.200 Tune that out and believe the report of the Lord. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.880 Believe what you hear down in your spirit. That will 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.960 override what you hear in the natural. When you get 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:05.520 in agreement with God, you will become what he says 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.760 about you. Maybe you're facing an illness. God says by 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.120 his stripes you are healed. Believe the report of the Lord, and. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:14.960 Healing is coming. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.200 You're struggling with an addiction. God says, whom the Son 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:20.720 sets free is free. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.440 Indeed, believe his report, and freedom is coming. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:30.200 What you hear will override what you see. When Elijah 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.560 heard the sound of an abundance of rain, that drought 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.040 had been going on over three years, no sign of rain. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:38.280 He could have. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.480 Thought, I'm keeping this to myself. I'm not going to 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.560 tell anyone. They'll think I'm crazy. But Elijah had the 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.800 boldness to announce what he heard. He went right to 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.199 the king, said, I hear the sound of an abundance 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.440 of rain. Here's the principle. It's not enough to just 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:56.960 believe what you've heard. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:58.600 You need to announce it. 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.600 If you're sick, tell someone I'm healthy, I'm whole. I 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.320 will live and not die. They may look at you 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.240 and think, what do you mean. You saw the medical report. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.559 There's no sign of you getting better. When you announce it, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.520 it sets the miracle into motion. Your words have creative power. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.400 You give life to your faith by speaking it out. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.520 The scripture says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.440 If you want to get well, say so. If you 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.400 want to break that addiction, say so. If you want 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.600 to accomplish your dream, say so. There may not be 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.720 any sign of it, but like Elijah, you need to 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:40.720 announce to people. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.880 I'm blessed, I'm. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.720 Free, We're going to have this baby, We're going to 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.080 move into that new house. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.079 Our son is going to do great things. Are you sure? 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.280 I thought your son was off course. I thought he 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.160 was running with the wrong crowd, getting into trouble. Yes, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.840 but that's temporary, that's subject to change. 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:02.920 That's what you see with your eyes. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.679 But what I heard in my spirit is as for 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.199 me and my house, we will serve the Lord. If 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.840 you'll start announcing what you heard, not arrogantly, not like 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.680 I know it all, but in humility, with the quiet confidence. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.320 That's your faith being released. That's what allows God to 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.679 do great things. I know this couple that tried for 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.280 years to have a baby with no success. She went 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.800 through all the fertility treatments. They did their best. The 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.200 doctor finally told her there was no chance that she 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.520 could conceive, and she was getting up there in age, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.160 and I thought they had accepted that it wasn't going 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.520 to work out that way, maybe they would adopt or 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.920 try another option. But this lady never changed her mind. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.400 She worked in our children's department. She was constantly telling 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.320 us when I have my baby, not if, but when 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.120 she acted like it was for sure, like it was 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.720 already on the calendar. I like to think of myself 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.080 as a person of faith, somebody that will believe with you. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.760 But even I thought, you're getting too old, it is 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:17.439 not going to be possible. But just because people don't believe, 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.800 or even your pastor doesn't believe, that doesn't mean it's 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:26.240 not going to happen. The experts may say there's no way, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.800 banks say you're not qualified, friends say you'll never move 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.280 into that house. Like Elijah, there may not be a 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.400 cloud in the sky, and yet you have the boldness 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.559 to tell people that it's not only going to rain, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.120 but it's going to be an abundance of rain. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.559 Don't be surprised if you have some naysayers. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.559 But you're not announcing it to get people to agree 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.920 with you so they'll encourage in. Hey, let me believe 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.800 with you as well. That's great when it happens, but 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.280 that's not the primary. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.200 You're announcing it. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:07.200 To show God that you believe what you've heard, and 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:11.720 you're announcing it to show the enemy that all the forces. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.520 Of darkness are not going to talk you out of 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.360 what God put in your heart. The enemy doesn't know 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.120 your thoughts. He's not like God. 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.480 God knows our thoughts before we think them, our words 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:25.640 before we speak them. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.840 God is all knowing. The enemy only knows what he 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.040 hears you saying, be careful what. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.800 You let come out of your mouth. Well, I'll never 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.560 get well. I've had this sickness forever. I can't accomplish 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.120 my dreams. I'll never break this addiction. You're giving him 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.080 way too much information. You're showing him your doubts, your fears, 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:47.880 your weaknesses. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.240 But when he hears you saying. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.440 I am blessed, I am healthy, I am strong, I 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.240 hear the sound of abundance, the sound of favor, the 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.040 sound of promotion. 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.120 All he knows is you're on your way up. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.760 He cannot keep you from what God has in store. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:10.280 Twenty years later, the doctor's told this lady, we've never 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.200 seen this before, but you are pregnant. Not with one baby, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.800 You're pregnant with twins. Today she has two healthy children. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.480 But I wonder what would have happened if she would 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.720 have never announced it. She'd have gone around negative. I'm 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.720 too old, never get any good breaks. I missed my opportunity. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.080 She probably wouldn't have seen those twins. When you hear 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.320 yourself saying I'm going to conceive my children, I am 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.400 free from this addiction. My family is being restored. Those 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.400 words go right back down into your own spirit and 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:46.920 help you. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.120 To stay encouraged. But if all you hear is. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.000 How bad the drought is and how it's never going 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.480 to rain, that negative report is going to keep you 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.480 from the abundance that belongs to you. You need to 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.720 start not only announcing what God put in your spirit, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.720 but start thanking God for what you've heard. Father, thank 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.080 you that my baby is on the way, thank you 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.440 that I'm coming out of debt, thank you that I'm 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.640 free from this addiction. Think you that new doors are 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:21.440 opening in my career. Elijah was on top of Mount Carmel. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.480 He told his assistant to go look on the other 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.160 side of the mountain to. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.000 See if there was any sign of rain. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.800 The young man came back and said, no, Elijah, there's 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.880 not a cloud in the sky. It's perfectly clear it's 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.280 not going to rain. Elijah didn't get discouraged. He didn't 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.840 think God, I must have heard you wrong. His attitude was, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.880 I'm not moved by what you see. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.560 I know what i've heard. When you know what. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.880 You've heard, you won't be upset when circumstances don't line up. 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.880 You won't get discourage over a negative medical report. You 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.280 won't give up on a dream because you've you've had 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.879 some setbacks. Like Elijah, you're not moved by what you see. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.080 You know what God has spoken to you. You've heard 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.040 God is restoring health back into you. You've heard whatever 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.080 you touch will prosper and succeed. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.440 You've heard the spouse is. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.600 Coming, the favor is coming, the rain is coming. But 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.919 maybe today you're in a drought. It's bearing things haven't 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.040 worked out. Yes, you can hear rain in your spirit 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:30.479 but it's been a long time. 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.880 There's no sign of it happening. That's the real battle. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.679 Are you going to let what you see talk you 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.600 out of what you've heard? Are you going to let circumstances, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.399 what people say, what hasn't worked out convince you to 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.240 settle where you are, give up on what you're believing 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.200 for now, get your passion back, stir your faith up. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.640 God did not create you to live in a drought, 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.960 constantly struggling, stuck in one level. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.159 That is not your destiny. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.199 The rain is coming, promotion is coming, health is coming, 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:07.800 the right people are coming. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.200 What you heard is on the way. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.920 I can imagine this assistant thought, Elijah must have missed. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:15.399 It this time. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.840 He's performed some great miracles, but there is no rain 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:19.560 in sight. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.440 It is perfectly clear. I love what Elijah. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.120 Did when the young man told him that it wasn't 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:30.359 going to happen. Instead of accepting it, he told him 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.880 go back and look again. Every time he came and said, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.679 still nothing, no rain. Elijah had him go back and 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.920 look again and again and again. On the seventh time, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.800 the young men came and said, this time I saw 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.280 a small cloud starting to form. 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:50.400 Here's my point. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.960 Elijah was so convinced it was going to happen. Instead 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.520 of changing his mind, instead of being talked out of it, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.080 he sent the young man back. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:02.600 Until he changed his mind. 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.679 God will speak things to your spirit that contradict what 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:08.880 you see with your eyes. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:11.320 Don't let people talk you out of it. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.720 Instead of you changing your mind, tell them go back 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:16.480 and look again. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.639 At some point they're going to see what God has 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:20.240 spoken to you. 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.679 But the people close to you, those you allow in 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.639 your inner circle, they need to be for you. You 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.000 can't afford to have doubters, naysayers telling you that you 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.679 can't get well. The problem's too big. You can't accomplish 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:41.159 your dreams. Your destiny is too important to try to 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.679 convince people what you've heard. Elijah didn't debate with the 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.320 young man, He didn't try to persuade him. He kept 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:54.120 sending him away until he finally believed. If you're going 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.119 to stay in faith, you may have to send some 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:58.560 people away for. 0:19:58.600 --> 0:19:59.280 A little while. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.280 If I have to distance yourself from that relative, that 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.920 coworker that's always telling you what you can't become. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.720 This is what my father did. He grew up very poor. 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:13.000 His parents were cotton farmers. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.200 They lost everything during the Great Depression, barely had enough 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:20.400 food to eat. He dropped out of high school, didn't 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.200 have any future to speak of, no sense of purpose. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.840 But at the age of seventeen, he gave his life 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.600 to Christ, the first one in his family. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.760 God put a dream in his heart to become a pastor. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.520 He believed one day, somehow he could touch the world. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.199 He told his parents that he was leaving the farm 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.399 to go out and minister. And his parents were good people, 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.600 but their vision was limited. They said, John, you better 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.199 stay here on the farm with us. All you know 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:55.680 how to do is pick cotton. You're going to get 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:56.520 out there and fail. 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.919 If he would have taken their advice, he would have 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.479 missed his destiny. He knew what he heard. 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.840 The problem was the people closest to him couldn't see it. 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.160 He loved his parents, he always treated them with respect, 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.280 but he didn't let them talk him out of what 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:19.080 he had heard. God will put things in your spirit 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:21.760 that seem too big to accomplish. 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:23.160 Seems impossible. 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:28.240 You don't have the resources, the connections, the influence. How 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.800 could my father think he could touch the world from 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.639 that limited environment? There was no sign of it, not 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.800 a cloud in the sky, no people supporting him. But 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:42.280 when you know what you've heard and you don't let 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.840 people talk you out of it, God will open doors 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:47.560 that no person can shut. 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.359 God will make things happen that you could not make happen. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.679 The real question is will you have the boldness to 0:21:55.800 --> 0:22:00.520 believe what you've heard even though the circumstances say it's 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.080 not possible. You heard you're going to have a baby, 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:08.000 but the medical report says no way. You heard you're 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.959 going to get your master's degree, but no one in 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.560 your family has attended college. You heard your business was 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.159 going to take off, but right now you can barely 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:18.080 pay your bills. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.800 God puts things in our spirit as a seed. 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.320 If we dismiss it, think no way, that'll never happen, 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.600 then it won't take root. But if you'll do like 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:34.040 my father, like the lady with twins, like Elijah, and 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:37.240 say God, I don't see away, but I know. 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.600 You wouldn't have put this in me if you didn't 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:40.200 have a way. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:42.840 So Lord, I want to thank you that the rain 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.440 is coming, the favor is coming, the healing is coming, 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.120 that you're bringing the right people causing things to fall 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:53.760 into place. Lord, thank you that you're taking me where 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:55.280 I could not go on my own. 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.520 You don't have to figure out how it's going to happen. 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:00.879 All you have to do is believed. 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:06.600 This assistant said, I see a little cloud starting to form. 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:11.159 That little cloud turned into a big cloud, and before 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:15.560 long there was an abundance of rain. Elijah saw what 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.080 he heard in his spirit. You may not see how 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:21.920 you can accomplish your dream, or how you can get well, 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:23.360 how you can break that addiction. 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:27.080 You know what you've heard, but there's no sign of it. 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.320 All it takes is a little cloud. 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:35.600 A little favor, one good break, one right person, one healing, 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:39.879 and like Elijah, suddenly you will see what you've heard. 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.399 My father saw God open door after door. He and 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:46.080 my mother founded. 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:49.400 Lakewood, and Daddy was in the ministry for over fifty years, 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.919 touching the world. When he would go back home, his 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:56.560 parents were amazed. They couldn't believe the favor and the 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:59.280 influence that he had. They couldn't see it at the time, 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.040 think it was in him. But when people are not 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:07.639 for you, don't get discouraged. They may not celebrate you 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:10.600 until after the abundance of rain. 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:11.800 That's okay. 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.679 The main thing is, don't let their doubt keep you 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:19.440 from what you've heard. Some of the things God puts 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:22.399 in your spirit are not going to make sense to 0:24:22.480 --> 0:24:26.440 other people. You have to be willing to be misunderstood, 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:31.200 to be talked about, even to be criticized. God told 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.520 Noah to build a huge boat because there was. 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:35.800 Going to be a great flood. 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:40.200 What's interesting is it had never rained up to that point. 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:43.360 The earth was watered from the dew on the ground. 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:46.480 People had never seen rain coming down from the sky. 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:51.040 Here Noah was building this boat, not by the ocean, 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:54.280 not close to the shores where he could easily push 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:58.280 it in. He built it out on dry ground. And 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:01.080 it wasn't a little fishing boat. God had him build 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:05.080 it four hundred and fifty feet long, a football field 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:09.240 and a half. I can imagine people walking by shaking 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.920 their head. Noah, you must have lost your mind building 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:14.960 a boat out here in the middle of nowhere. 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:17.760 Have you been smoking some of these herbs out in 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:18.360 the desert. 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:22.720 This is far out He was made fun of, ridicule, 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:27.080 talked about it's not that different today. You're telling me 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:29.879 you're going to have a baby and it's been twenty 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:33.720 years and the medical report says, no way. You're telling 0:25:33.760 --> 0:25:36.199 me you're going to touch the world and you're a 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:38.280 teenager on a farm with. 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:40.400 No money, no education, no support. 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:44.040 You're telling me your child's going to do great things 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:48.080 and he spends half the school year in detention. Joe, 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:50.439 you're telling me the city is going to sell you 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:53.040 the compact center so you can have church in it. 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.760 People may not understand. 0:25:57.640 --> 0:26:01.560 They may think you're far out, you're not accepting reality. 0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.119 In one sense, it's not their fault. 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:07.240 They didn't hear what you've heard. 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:11.240 Don't expect them to cheer you on. If you had 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:14.080 to have them to fulfill your purpose, then they would 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:17.040 agree with you. If they don't, then you don't need 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:21.040 their support. You don't need their encouragement. Don't let them talk. 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:22.200 You out of what you've heard. 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:27.080 The enemy will use people, and sometimes people you love and. 0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:30.200 Respect to plant doubt and negativity. 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:33.800 Are you sure you're going to get that promotion? There 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:36.440 are three more qualified people in front of you. 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:37.760 I just don't see it. 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:41.600 Maybe in five years, Noah, are you sure it's going 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:45.600 to rain? And by the way, what's rain? And Noah 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:49.720 you're that's good in it, and Noah, you're telling me, Noah, 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:53.639 water is going to fall from the sky and flood 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:56.560 the earth. Noah, you need to come back to reality 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:58.000 that's never happened before. 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:00.800 God is going to put things in. 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:04.440 Your spirit that have never happened, things that your family 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:10.080 have never seen, new levels promotion, influence. You are coming 0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:13.919 into a time where you're going to see unprecedented favor, 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:18.520 things bigger than you've imagined. But while you're believing for it, 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:20.840 don't be surprised if you're misunderstood. 0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:23.280 Noah was the talk of the town. 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:26.960 Let's go see this crazy guy out building a boat 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:28.280 in the middle of nowhere. 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:32.879 Noah didn't get offended. He knew they didn't hear what 0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:33.560 he heard. 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:37.320 Don't be upset by the naysayers, people that are not 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:41.440 for you. They can't stop your destiny. Just keep announcing 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.320 what you've heard and keep thanking God that it's on 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:44.840 the way. 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:45.840 You do this. 0:27:46.359 --> 0:27:50.320 I believe and declare what you've heard in your spirit 0:27:50.760 --> 0:27:53.320 is going to override what you see with your eyes. 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:57.320 Like Noah, God's about to do something that you've never seen. 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:01.440 You're coming in to an abundance of faith, an abundance 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:05.120 of promotion, and abundance of creativity and abundance of hell, 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:09.639 a new level of your destiny in Jesus' name, And 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:11.560 if you receive it, can you say amen? 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:12.480 Today? 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:16.480 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:17.679 the lord of your life. 0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:19.080 Would you pray with me? 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:25.240 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:26.560 into my heart. 0:28:27.000 --> 0:28:28.960 I'll make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:30.359 --> 0:28:32.760 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:35.960 got born again. 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