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And I heard about 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:19.320 this husband and wife. They were celebrating their sixtieth birthdays together. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.120 An angel suddenly appeared and said God was going to 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.920 grant them each one special request. They were so excited. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:30.480 The wife said, my request is that we'd be able 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.160 to travel all over the world. Poof, when the smoke cleared, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.440 she had tickets in her hand. The husband hung his 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.880 head in shame. He said, my request is that I 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.000 would be married to a woman thirty years younger than me. Poof, 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:50.239 when the smoke cleared, he was ninety years old. Hold 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.760 up your Bible, say it like you mean it. This 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.399 is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.200 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.840 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.640 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.960 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.720 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.240 to talk to you today about it's coming together. We 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.360 all face situations that look like they're never going to 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.519 work out. Our dream is too big, a medical report 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.160 is too negative, or our family is so dysfunctional. We 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:30.399 don't see how we could ever be restored. And as 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.480 the months go by, sometimes even years, we don't see 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.400 anything happening. It's easy to get discouraged and give up 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.160 on what we're believing for. But just because you don't 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.120 see anything happening doesn't mean that God is not working 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:51.840 behind the scenes. He's arranging things in your favor, lining 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.600 up the right people, the healing, the promotion, the favor, 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.080 and if you will stay in faith at the right time, 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.520 you will see it come together. What you couldn't make 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.320 happen on your own, God will make happen for you. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.680 Your dream is coming together, your relationship is coming together. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.960 The healing, the promotion, the vindication will all come together. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.960 A friend of mine has been in a legal battle 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.120 for over six years. It's a business dispute. These people 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.560 were making false accusations against him, trying to take his company. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.240 He knew he was in the right. He thought he'd 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.840 take three or four months to clear up, but it's 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.760 drug on year after year. He's had to fight those 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.919 thoughts telling him this is going to ruin your career. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.440 It's never going to work out, bankrupt your business, make 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.040 you look bad. He could have been discouraged, bitter. Instead, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.320 all through the day, Lord, thank you that you're my vindicator, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.960 Thank you that you're fighting my battles, he was saying, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:01.960 in effect, thank you that is coming together. Day. Unexpectedly, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.960 the other side called the judge and admitted that they 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.919 were making it up, that it was totally false. The 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.960 case was dismissed. Suddenly it all came together. He was vindicated. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.040 It may not happen on your timetable, but I can 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.240 assure you God is a faithful god. He said in 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:26.560 Hebrews thirteen, in the amplified version, I will not, I 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.200 will not. I will not in any way fail you. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:35.000 God said it three times because he knew how easy 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.120 it would be to give up on our dreams, let 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.000 our circumstances, and how long it's taking talk us out 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.560 of his best. You may have a situation that looks 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.919 impossible today. The odds are against you. You've had some setbacks. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.479 Let me encourage you. It's coming together. God is not 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.279 going to fail you. The breakthrough is already in your future. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.320 That person you've been dreaming about You're not going to 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.440 have to find them. They're going to find you. Your 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.960 relationship is coming together. Don't believe the lie that you'll 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.719 have to live your life lonely. The right person has 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.160 already been ordained to come across your path. Or you 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.000 may think you could never get out of debt, never 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.479 live in a nice house, never really be successful in 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.440 your career. You've gone as far as your education allows now, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.320 don't talk yourself out of it. It's coming together. Promotion, abundance, 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.120 new levels are headed your way. When you go through 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.600 the day with this expectancy knowing that God's working behind 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.560 the scenes bringing it together. That's what allows God to 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:49.080 do great things. You could be complaining. Instead you're saying, Lord, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.400 thank you that my healing is coming together. You can 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.640 do what medicine cannot do, or that business, that dream, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.520 that orphan that you put in my heart. Lord, thank 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.600 you that the connections, the funding, the permits are all 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.960 coming together. In the Scripture, the prophet Ezekiel saw a 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.280 vision of this valley filled with dry bones, was a 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.200 huge graveyard with thousands and thousands of bones on the ground, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.840 and God told him to speak to those bones and 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.320 they would come back to life. He could have thought, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:29.440 that's impossible. They're just bones, disjointed, dried up. They can't live. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.920 It's too late. But in this vision, he started prophesying 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.680 to these dead bones, and the scripture says there was 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:43.280 a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together all 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:47.400 at once. These bones joined back into the right place. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.520 The organs came, the tissue, the flesh. Then God breathed 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.920 life into them, and they stood up like a vast army. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.960 The Israelites had been discouraged. They were saying, our bones 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.559 are dried up. Our hope is gone. We've been cut off. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.120 In other words, we're just slaves and we're never gonna 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.800 reach our destiny. We just have dead, dry bones. God 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:18.800 said Ezekiel, Go tell my people, the sovereign Lord says, 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.320 I'm about to open up your graves. I'm gonna take 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.120 you back to your land, and you will know that 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.520 I am the Lord. He was saying, Ezekiel, go tell 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.120 them what you saw in this vision, that there's about 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.400 to be a great coming together. What they couldn't make 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.080 happen on their own, I'm going to supernaturally make happen 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:46.320 for them. Your situation on your own may be impossible. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.560 The good news is you're not on your own. You 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.600 have the most powerful force in the universe on your side. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.160 One touch of God's favor can catapult you to a 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.920 new level. But like the Israelites, what you have may 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.760 seem dead. The medical report says you'll never get well. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.200 You lost a loved one and you don't see how 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.240 you could ever be happy again. Or you've been through 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:16.079 some bad breaks. Now all you have are these dead bones, disjointed, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:21.120 broken pieces, no way in the natural. But the Sovereign 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.559 Lord is saying to you what he said to the Israelites. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.000 Get ready. There's about to be a great coming together. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.720 God is going to bring things to life that you 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:37.319 thought were dead, dreams you've given up on. Suddenly the 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.640 right people show up, You get the break you need, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:45.119 the funding. All of a sudden comes through that sickness 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.000 you've been struggling with for years. You don't think you 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.559 could ever get well, nor get ready. Health is about 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.240 to spring forth. God knows how to bring the pieces 0:09:55.280 --> 0:10:00.439 back together. And by faith, I can hear a sound, boys, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.439 a rattling. It's the sound of a great coming together. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.280 I can hear the sound of abundance, the sound of healing, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:13.200 the sound of promotion, the sound of victory. God asked 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.720 Ezekiel at the first part of this vision, can these 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.240 dead bones live? Ezekiel could have looked at it in 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.920 an atron thought no way, that's impossible. Instead, he looked 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.440 away from his circumstances and he looked toward his God. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:34.440 He said, Oh, Sovereign Lord, you alone know, He was saying, God, 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.480 you controlled the universe, you have the final say, you're 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.640 the giver of life. You part red seas, you open 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.439 blind eyes, you stop the sun for Joshua. I may 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.480 not see away, but oh, Sovereign Lord, I know you 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.800 have a way. God said, all right, Ezekiel, that's what 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:57.599 I'm looking for. Not a doubter, not a complainer, not 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.320 somebody's gonna tell me all the reasons why it's not 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.040 going to happen. I'm looking for a man or a 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.240 woman like you, full of faith, people who know all 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:12.240 things are possible. God told Ezekiel to prophesy to those 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.280 dead bones. When whatever looks dead in your life, you 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:22.240 need to prophesy, victory, prophesy, wholeness, prophesy, abundance. You may 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.559 be struggling in your finances. Don't go around talking about 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.600 how you'll never get ahead, how high prices are, how 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.600 what you can afford. If you have a poor mouth, 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.520 you're going to have a poor life. Dare to prophesy. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.920 I am the head and not to tell whatever I 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.480 touch will prosper and succeed. Maybe you're up against a 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.320 big obstacles. Don't talk about how big your problem is. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.880 Talk about how big your God is. Dare to prophesy 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.680 to that sickness cancer. You can't defeat me. I'm a 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.920 child of the most high God, that sun that's off. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.560 I don't go call your friends talk about how bad 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.319 he is, how he's going to give you a nervous breakdown, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.480 how he keeps running with the wrong crowd. No prophesy, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.160 my son will fulfill his destiny. I am calling out 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.880 his seeds of greatness. No weapon formed against my family 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.960 will ever prosper. When you get in agreement with God 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.240 and speak life and faith and favor and hell, you're 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.439 going to see a great coming together. Suddenly you get 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.240 the break you need, Suddenly your business turns around, Suddenly 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.760 your health improves. God will do what you couldn't do. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.160 My father wasn't raised with any kind of spiritual upbringing. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.360 His parents and family. They were fine people, cotton farmers, 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.120 but they didn't know anything about God. At the age 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.400 of seventeen, my dad gave his life to Christ, the 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.920 first one in the family, and against all odds, he 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.840 left the farm and went on to become a success pastor. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.000 And over the years he would come back home and 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.360 talk to his family about the Lord. His mother and 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.400 some other relatives they were open, they received Christ, but 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.800 his father wouldn't have anything to do with God. He said, John, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.760 I don't need any of that religious stuff. That's not 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.880 for me. When I'm dead, I'm dead like a dog. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.000 Just roll me over in a ditch. My dad would 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.640 tell him, no, Dad, you have to live on somewhere. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.760 It would go in one ear and out the other. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.560 This went on year after year. Looked like one of 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.679 those dead, dry bones, like he would never change. But 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.840 my father didn't get discouraged. He didn't go around complaining. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:47.600 He kept prophesying to those dead bones. Father, you said, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.320 as for me and my house, we will serve the 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:55.040 Lord all through the day instead of worrying. Lord, thank 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.160 you that you're working behind the scenes. Lord I believe 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.920 these dead bones can live. I believe you'll reveal yourself 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.520 to my father. One day, my dad was a guest 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.319 minister in the town where his parents lived. He'd been 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.480 talking to his father for over thirty years about the 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.720 Lord with no response. My dad was up in the 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:19.800 podium giving his message when he saw his father walk 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.640 in the church and sit down on the back row, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.520 first time his dad had ever been in church. My 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.400 father was thrilled. As my dad was speaking his message, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.000 his father got up started walking down the center aisle 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.920 toward the platform. He didn't stop at the altar, he 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.720 didn't stop at the stairs. He came all the way 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.520 up on the platform, stood right next to my father. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:48.560 Interrupted his sermon. He said, John, I'm finishing today what 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.680 I started over thirty years ago. I want to give 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.920 my life to Christ. My father prayed with him right 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.400 there in front of the whole congregation. A dream came true. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.120 Afterwards words, my dad asked him what he meant about 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:07.520 finishing what he started years earlier. He told how one 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.520 day he was out in the woods, he got caught 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.880 in a huge snowstorm. He couldn't see anything. He lost 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.720 his sense of direction. Night came in. He had nowhere 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.880 to go. He was so cold. He was certain he 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.640 was going to die that night, so he prayed for 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.000 the first time and said, God, if you'll let me live, 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.600 I'll serve you. He fell asleep there in the snow. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.120 His body was shutting down, but he woke up the 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.680 next morning as warm as toast. God had spared his 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.200 life all those years he had been putting it off. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.720 He said, today I'm keeping my promise. I'm going to 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.880 do what I told God I would do. He went 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.720 on to join that church. Not long after that, they 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.920 asked him to become an usher. You would have thought 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.000 they'd asked him to become the President of the United States. 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.640 He was so proud. He never missed a service. He 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.400 only owned one suit. They were very poor people, but 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:10.560 he wore that same suit every service. Years later, when 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.160 he died, he was buried in that suit. At the funeral, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:19.000 they found stuffed in both front pockets gospel tracks that 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.880 he used to pass out everywhere he went. Friends, God 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.080 knows how to bring it all together. What you think 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.880 was dead over, too far gone. You better get ready. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:35.840 It's coming together that you think will never change. Like 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.320 my grandfather God has already planted seeds in their heart. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.600 God's been working behind the scenes in your life since 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.200 the day you were born, arranging the breaks you need, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.840 moving the wrong people out of the way, lining up 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.520 the favor the advantages. He's got it all figured out. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.760 You don't have to worry. God has you in the 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.760 palm of his hand. He's not going to fail you. 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:07.119 He is faithful to his promises. Your family is coming together. 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.520 The dream may look too big, keep believing is coming together. 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.480 God has a way that addiction you've been trying to 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.800 break for years. Don't give up. Keep prophesying. Freedom is 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:24.280 coming together. See when you realize that God's in control, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.239 that he's directing your steps, that He's already lined up 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.399 everything you need, then you can relax. You don't have 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.119 to go through life trying to make it all happen 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.800 on your own, worried about your children, frustrating because it's 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.600 taken too long, Discouraged because a dream looks dead. No, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:48.920 keep reminding yourself the sovereign Lord, the God who breathed 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.000 life into you, the God who knew you before you 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.159 were born, The God who has planned out your days 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.679 for good, The God who has protected you, promoted you, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.880 healed you. The same God that brought you to where 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.200 you are, He's going to get you to where you're 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:09.119 supposed to be. It may take a little longer than 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.240 you thought, but that's okay. God's timing is the perfect time. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.159 It may not happen the way you had planned. My 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.000 father never thought his dad would interrupt him in the pulpit. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.160 But God's ways are not our ways. They are better 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.359 than our ways. Is coming together. When my father went 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.000 to be with the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, I 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.960 knew I was supposed to step up to pasture the church. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.120 I felt it so strongly, but I didn't know if 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.440 I could do it. I liked being behind the scenes, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.159 that's where I'd spent the last seventeen years doing the 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.720 television production at the church and editing my father's sermons. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.960 But I took that step of faith, not knowing what 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.560 was going to happen. And looking back now, I can 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.440 see how God was guiding me all that time. When 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.120 I edited my father's sermons, have to listen to them 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.000 each probably five or six times to cut them down 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:10.160 to time. All those years, those scriptures, those stories were 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.000 going into me over and over getting me prepared for 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.639 what I'm doing now. I never dreamed I would become 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:22.400 a minister, but it all came together what I needed 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.879 God had already put in me. Never dream we'd have 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.240 church in the former Compact Center, but it all came 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.520 together more than we could ask or think. Are you 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:37.119 worrying about your future? Worried about how you're going to 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.000 accomplish a dream? How you're going to raise your children, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.040 how you're ever going to meet the right person? God 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.359 has already lined up. He's already arranged everything you need. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.359 Like with me, you may not even realize how right 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.679 now God is getting you prepared for something much greater, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.160 much bigger than you've ever dreamed. Keep honoring Him, keep 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.320 being your best, keep prophesying life to those dead areas, 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.600 You too are going to see it all come together 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:13.280 more than you imagine. Our daughter, Alexandra was two months 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.320 old when my father died, and Jonathan was three. Our 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:21.359 lives had suddenly changed. We had a lot more responsibility 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:26.480 pastoring a large church, plus never having ministered before made 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.760 it even more stressful. We knew we were going to 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.959 need some help with our children. Like any parent, we 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.080 were very picky. We wanted to find the perfect person, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.640 very loving and kind, that would treat them the way 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.119 we did, and we didn't really know where to start. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.399 One Sunday, Victoria was leaving church walking by the platform. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.080 She saw this young man that she's seen there many times. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.880 He seemed very nice and wholesome, always faithful. Victoria went 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:59.119 over and struck up a conversation, eventually asking what his 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.199 mother did for a living. He said she doesn't have 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.040 a full time job. She does a lot of volunteering work. 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.160 Victoria told that we were looking for somebody. Long story short, 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.080 We met her and things fell into place. She was 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:17.000 a perfect fit. Our children loved her like our own family. 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:21.639 She was always laughing, loving, easygoing. You couldn't find a 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.520 better person. Now, about a year after she started working 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.880 for us, she told how years earlier she had had 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.320 a dream one night where she was taking care of 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:37.879 a beautiful, blue eyed, blonde haired baby girl. She's Hispanic. 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.160 She has two sons of her own. She didn't understand 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.400 what the dream meant, but when she saw little Alexandra, 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:47.960 blonde haired, blue eyed, she said, that's the baby that 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:52.040 I saw in my dream. What am I saying? God? 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.000 Has the right people already lined up for you at 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.320 the right time. It's all going to come together. You 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.720 don't have to worry. You don't have to live stressed out. 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:07.080 God is directing your steps. He controls the whole universe. 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.720 You can stay in a place of peace. In the Scripture, 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.400 a lady named Ruth lost her husband. She was out 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:18.320 in the fields picking up leftover grain, trying to survive, 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:22.960 just barely making it. Boaz, the owner of those fields, 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:27.440 spoke to his workers about Ruth, telling them to leave 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.600 wheat on the ground on purpose for Ruth, to make 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.200 it easier on her. He didn't speak to Ruth, he 0:22:34.320 --> 0:22:38.639 spoke about Ruth. She never heard what he said, but 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.800 her life got a whole lot easier. She had more 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.040 wheat than she needed. She was finished in half the time, 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:49.320 all because somebody she didn't even know put in a 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.880 good word for her. In the same way, God has 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.200 already spoken to the right people to be good to you, 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:59.520 to bless you, to show you favor, to open the 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:05.479 right door. Like Ruth, suddenly you come into blessings that 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.320 you didn't work for. People go out of their way 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.560 to help you succeed. You may never know why it happened. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.560 That's God working behind the scenes, bringing it all together. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:20.080 As a young man, God put a dream in Moses's 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:23.240 heart that he would deliver the people of Israel out 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.840 of slavery. But Moses got in a hurry and didn't 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.359 wait for God's timing. He saw a Hebrew slave being 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:33.680 mistreated by one of the foremen. He didn't think anybody 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:37.040 was watching. He went over and killed that foreman, trying 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:41.080 to help his Hebrew brother out. Moses ended up having 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:44.840 to flee for his life. He spent forty years in 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:48.399 hiding on the back side of the desert. Looked like 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.600 he had missed his destiny. I'm sure he felt like 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.440 a failure, thoughts telling him, too bad, Moses, you had 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:59.679 your chance. That mistake really did you in. Moses was 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:03.280 raised in the palace, in the household of the fay Roh. 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.199 He was trained to be a prince, educated by the 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:12.360 best scholars, spoke different languages. He was gifted, talented, prepared 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:16.359 to do something great. But now instead of wearing his 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:19.920 royal robe, he's got on an old, dirty, smelly piece 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:23.399 of cloth that he found on the ground. Instead of 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:27.760 conducting his business in the palace, where he's esteemed and respected. 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:32.800 Now he spends his days taking care of sheep, shoveling 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:36.200 their waste out in the middle of the desert. Year 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:39.800 after year went by, Moses thought, I must have heard 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:43.480 God wrong. Maybe I was never supposed to deliver the 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:47.399 people of Israel. Maybe I'm not supposed to do something great. 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:50.840 What was I thinking? Just when he was about to 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:56.040 give up, suddenly a bush exploded caught on fire right 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.399 in front of him. This bush burned and burned, but 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:03.040 it wouldn't burn. Moses thought, what the world is going on? 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:05.160 He went over to get a better look at it. 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:10.400 When he did, a voice boomed out, saying, Moses, Moses, 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:14.879 take off your sandals. You are standing on holy ground. 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:19.760 God was saying, Moses, I haven't forgotten about you. You 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:22.600 may have made some mistakes, you may have taken some 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:26.280 wrong turns, but get ready, I'm about to bring it together. 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:30.040 What I promise you, I'm still going to bring to pass. 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:36.080 After forty years of not seeing anything happening, suddenly God 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:39.600 turned it around. Moses went out and delivered the people 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.800 of Israel. You may think, Joel, it could never come 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:46.360 together for me. It's been too long. You made too 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:50.920 many mistakes. You missed too many opportunities. In your heart, 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:54.240 you know what God has promised you, But in your 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:57.640 mind the enemy will whisper these thoughts of doubt. Maybe 0:25:57.680 --> 0:26:00.879 I'm not supposed to get married, I'm not supposed to 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:04.040 break this addiction. Maybe I'm not supposed to start my 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:08.680 own business. Deep down, you feel seeds of greatness stirring 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:13.000 on the inside, but every circumstance is no way. It's 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:18.080 too late. But just like with Moses, what God promised you, 0:26:18.440 --> 0:26:22.240 He's still going to do. It may not have happened yet, 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:26.960 but don't worry. Is coming together. God is still on 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:31.439 the throne. He sent me as your burning bush to 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:34.760 let you know it's not too late. You haven't missed 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:38.480 your destiny. You haven't seen your best days. What God 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:43.040 started in your life, he's going to finish. You're about 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:47.959 to see a divine coming together. That means it's supernatural. 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:51.080 You couldn't make it happen. You didn't have the strength, 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:54.159 the talent, the funds. God set the bush on fire. 0:26:54.800 --> 0:26:57.400 God healed your God sent the right people. God brought 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:01.840 your dream to pass. In the scripture, Jacob thought his 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:06.480 son Joseph was dead. Joseph's brothers brought his bloody robe 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:09.720 and told their father that Joseph had been killed by 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:13.480 a wild animal. The truth is they had sold Joseph 0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:18.760 into slavery. Jacob was so heartbroken, the father so devastated 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:21.760 he thought he couldn't go on after losing his youngest son. 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:25.960 Year after year passed by. Now Jacob is an old man. 0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:30.720 Those same brothers brought him the news that Joseph indeed 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:34.560 was still alive and in charge of the nation of Egypt. 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:39.600 Jacob was overwhelmed. They took him to see his son. 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:43.720 He said, Joseph, I never thought i'd see your face again. 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.280 But not only did I get to see you, I 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:51.679 got to see my grandchildren. When God brings it all together, 0:27:51.920 --> 0:27:54.080 it's not going to be what you thought. It's going 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:58.240 to be bigger, better, more rewarding than you ever expected. 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:03.080 Like Jacob, You're not going to die without seeing that 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:07.800 promise fulfilled. Don't stop believing God's working behind the scenes. 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:11.320 He's already arranged it exactly what you need. Now do 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:14.560 your part, Get up every day, prophest our life to 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:18.119 those dead areas. If you'll do this, I believe and 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:22.840 declare your dream is coming together, your health is coming together, 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:27.280 your relationship is coming together. You're about to hear a noise, 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:31.200 a sound. God's going to make happen what you couldn't 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.560 make happen. Like Ezekiel, You're going to see a great 0:28:34.880 --> 0:28:38.959 coming together in Jesus's name. 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