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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.360 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.480 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:37.160 the ministry. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.640 If you enjoyed today's MESSI, why don't you be a 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.199 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.240 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:51.400 your line. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.320 come into your homes. And if you're ever in our area, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.160 please stop buying be a part of one of our services. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.960 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.840 But I like to start with something funny. And I 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.280 heard about this elderly man. He'd had a serious hearing 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.320 problem for many years. He went to the doctor and 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.440 was fitted with this new, high tech, state of the 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.640 art hearing aid to where he could hear one hundred percent. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.400 Months later, he came back to the doctor for a 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:22.360 check up. Doctor said, wow, your hearing is perfect. Your 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.960 family must be so excited that you can hear again. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.360 He said, no, I haven't told my family. I just 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.600 sit around, listen to the different conversations and I've changed 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.600 my will three times. Say it like you mean it. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.400 This is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:38.760 I am. 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.480 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.000 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.840 taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.160 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:56.239 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.359 to talk to you today about it's on the way. 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:04.320 You're believing for the promises you're standing on, the dreams 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.240 you've been praying about, they're already en route. The healing 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.080 is coming. The promotion is coming. The right people are coming. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.919 You may not see any signs of it, yet everything 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:20.440 looks the same. What you can't see is behind the scenes. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.760 God is moving the wrong people out of the way, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.920 pushing back the forces of darkness. He's arranging things in 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.840 your favor, lining up the breaks you need. He's called 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.560 the author and the finisher of our faith. He's going 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.120 to finish what he started in your life. God didn't 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:39.600 bring you. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.400 This far to leave you. You may have. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.320 Big challenges, but we serve a big God. Your enemies 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.480 may be powerful, but our God is all powerful. That 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.960 dream may look impossible. You don't think you have the connections, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.800 the resources, the talent, But God can do the impossible 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.000 even when the odds are again you. God is for you, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.720 and he's saying it's on the way. Sometimes you need 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.400 these words of faith spoken over your life. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:11.680 Words have created power. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.200 If you'll let them take root, they'll ignite the faith 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.640 in your spirit. Because life has a way of pushing 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.800 us down. If you're not careful. You look up and 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.800 you're not believing like you used to, not passionate. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.760 Not dreaming. You don't see how your situation could ever 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.799 work out. But here's the key. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.400 You don't have to figure it out. Our job is 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.600 to believe. Our job is to go out each day 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.680 with expectancy, saying, God, I may not see away, but 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.000 I know you have a way. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:43.560 Now. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.800 I believe my breakthrough is on the way. I believe 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:51.120 my healing, the promotion freedom from this addiction. It's just 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.560 a matter of time before it shows up. If you 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.080 don't have this anticipation that is on the way, then 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.760 it can keep it from happening. And you may have 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.839 big obstacles in your path you can't overcome on your own. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.479 The good news is you're not on your own. You 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.520 have the most powerful. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.760 Force in the universe breathing in your direction. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:18.360 When he speaks Red Sea's part, blind eyes, open, dreams, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.560 come back to life. We look at our circumstances in 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:26.640 the natural. But he's a supernatural god. Isaiah said, He's 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.640 going before you, making crooked places straight, fighting your battles. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.960 No person can stop you. No bad break, no sickness. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:36.080 No failure. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.200 Get your fire back. You have to stir your faith up. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.240 Maybe at one time you believed you were passionate, excited 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.640 about life, but things haven't turned out the way you'd hoped. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.920 You had some bad break, some disappointments. God is saying, 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.000 it's time to believe again. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.640 It's time to dream again. You haven't seen your best days. 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.920 What God promised you is still going to come to pass. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.279 It's not too late. You haven't missed too many opportunities. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.240 If it would have happened sooner, it wouldn't have been 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.400 the right time. Now is the time start believing again. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.839 Maybe somebody walked out on you and did you wrong, 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.960 but that didn't stop God's plan for your life. Don't 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.080 give up on your dreams. Live hurt and wounded thinking 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.040 they ruined my life. They don't control your destiny. They 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.120 don't have that much power over you. What they did 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.960 may not have been fair, but God is going to 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.040 make it up to you. He's saying, new beginnings are 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.240 on the way, new friendships, new opportunities. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.840 They meant it for your harm, God's going to use 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:46.599 it for your good. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.239 Or you may have struggled in your finances a long time, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.960 you can't seem to get ahead, and now you've just 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.920 settled there thinking that's the way it's always going to be. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.720 God is saying, I have increase on the way I 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:05.160 have favor promotion opportunities that have your name on them. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.200 God said he would open the windows of heaven pour 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.440 out blessings that we could not contain. Why don't you 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.280 get up each day and say, Father, thank you that 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.280 abundance is come in my way, thank you that our 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.520 lend did not borrow. Thank you that you're opening doors 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:22.760 that no man can shut. 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:24.520 When you live with. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:29.320 This expectancy, that's when dreams come to pass, doors open 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.400 that you could never open. That's when you'll see explosive blessings, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.280 blessings that catapult you to the next level. But too 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.200 many people have given up on what God's put in 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.840 their heart. They tried and it didn't work out, and 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:43.840 now they. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.040 Think the dream is dead. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.760 They'll never get well, never meet the right person, never 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:49.840 come into abundance. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.760 But what you think is dead is not really dead. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.400 That seed is still alive. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:01.120 God doesn't abort dreams, He doesn't give up on what 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.480 he put in us. John chapter eleven, word came to 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:09.840 Jesus that his good friend Lazarus was very sick. He 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.560 was in another city and they wanted Jesus to come 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.160 pray for him. Jesus was delayed for a couple of days, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:21.160 and Lazarus ended up dying. But it's interesting, Jesus said 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.720 to his disciples in verse eleven, our friend Lazarus has 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:26.760 fallen asleep. 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.480 I'm going there to wake him up. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.160 Lazarus was clearly dead, but Jesus had a different perspective. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.080 He said, he's only asleep. Could it be what you 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.960 think is dead? Looks like your marriage is never going 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.679 to make it. You'll never get well, never accomplish the dream, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:53.120 like Lazarus. All the circumstances say that it's over and done. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.000 But God says, I have a different perspective. I can 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.720 see things that you can't see. It's not dead, it's 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.960 just asleep. It may look permanent, the truth is it's 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:11.200 only temporary. Jesus showed up at lazarus house four days later. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.319 He'd been in the tomb so long that he's stunk. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.520 It was so dead that it smelled badly. At times, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.760 we all have things in life that stink. Maybe your 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.280 marriage feels so dead that it stinks. That bankruptcy, that 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.040 layoff stinks, that mistake you made that sets you back, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.240 it stinks. Jesus went to the tomb and told them 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.600 to roll away the stone. Martha said, no, Jesus, it 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:40.960 smells too badly. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.040 You're not going to like it. You're going to be 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.199 put off by it. Jesus said, no, Martha, have them 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:51.200 roll away that stone. What's the point. Jesus went to 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:52.280 where the stink was. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.640 Sometimes we think that God will only help us if 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.880 we've lived perfect, everything is. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.800 Nice and whole. But God goes to the stinky places 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.200 in our lives. That person that hurts you, did you wrong. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.880 It stinks. God is saying, let me in. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.840 I'm going to wake up the healing, wake up the restoration, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.040 wake up the new beginning. That mistake you made. You 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:21.079 feel condemned. Every voice tells you God's not gonna bless you. 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.600 Nothing good is coming your way. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.200 You blew it. You stink. God is saying, no, roll 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.640 that stone away. I'm not bothered by the stink. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.840 God goes to the stinky places where you were betrayed, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.480 where you lost the loved one, where you compromised. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.200 You feel disqualified. God says, let me in. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.080 The stink is only temporary. The dream is not dead, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.760 it's just asleep. Jesus looked at Lazarus and he spoke 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.520 to him. Said, Lazarus, come forth. Lazarus woke up. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.360 He'd been dead for four. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.360 Days, but he came up out of the tomb, and 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.079 he went on to live many more years. I believe 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.920 today things that you've given up on, things that you 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.600 think are dead, like Lazarus, they're about to wake up. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.240 Marriages are going to wake up. Dreams are waking up. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.280 Healing's waking up, Abundance is waking up. God is saying 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.439 to us what he said to the disciples. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.760 It's not dead, it's just asleep. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.400 Healing is coming, Joy is coming, Victory is coming. It 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.440 may have been sleep a long time. You think there's 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.520 no way it could happen. Now, that's what Mary and 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:37.319 Martha thought. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.400 But it's not too late. It's not too far gone. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.240 You need to get ready. God's about to wake it up. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.800 This is what he did for Sarah, a young lady 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.880 in the scripture. She and her husband Abraham had tried 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:56.120 for twenty years to have a baby, no success. Now 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:01.120 Sarah is eighty years old. Everything logically speaking said, there's 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.080 no way. But what God has promised you he's still 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.360 going to bring to pass. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.120 God is not limited by the laws of nature. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.400 You're not at the mercy of your age, your education, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:17.120 your background. God has unlimited power. One touch of his 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.960 favor can turn a situation around. Sarah thought her womb 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:22.520 was dead. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:24.000 What she didn't. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.040 Realize was it was only asleep. At nearly one hundred 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.400 years old, she gave birth to a baby. The promise 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.800 came to pass. Like Sarah, God has put dreams and 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.880 promises in You may not have happened yet. You've tried 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.080 again and again. It didn't work out. Now maybe you've 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.120 settled there and think all I just wasn't meant to be. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.640 But God is full of surprises. He's about to wake 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.640 up that dream you've given up on. He's about to 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.520 bring back to life what you thought was dead. Your 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.840 latter days are going to be more rewarding, more than 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.840 your former days. You're going to give birth to more 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.600 in the future than you've lost in the past. Your 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.640 baby is on the way, Your promise is on the way. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.560 That dream is on the way. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.000 As a young man, Moses made a mistake and killed 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.360 a man. He was trying to deliver God's people. He 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.600 had that dream in his heart, but he got in 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.880 a hurry. He had to flee for his life. He 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.880 ended up spending years on the backside of the desert. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.120 I'm sure he thought I had a big dream. I 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.360 knew I was going to do something great with my life. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:36.840 I knew I was going to leave my mark. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.680 But I blew it. He gave up on his dream. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.280 He had nobody to blame except himself. But just because 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.199 we give up doesn't mean. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:46.880 God gives up. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.559 Forty years later, God came back, said Moses, I'm here 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.480 to wake up your dream. Now it's time to go 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.560 deliver my people. Moses went out and did just that. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.520 He saw the dream come to pass. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.880 Like Moses, you may have made mistakes. We all have. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.320 Like Sarah, you may. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.200 Have had disappointments, your plans didn't work out. 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.120 Now you think it's been too long. What you've given 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.160 up on is not dead. It's just to sleep. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.120 That business you wanted to start, that book, you wanted 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.840 to write, that addiction you've been trying to break. Every 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.760 voice tells you it's too late, you're too old, it's 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.400 never going to happen. No, get ready, God's about to 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:30.040 wake it up. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:31.080 Your baby is. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.080 Coming, your spouse is coming, that business is coming, The 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:39.280 freedom is coming. Now get in agreement with God. He's 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:40.120 waking it up. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.920 Don't let it go back to sleep. Stir your faith up. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.200 Believe that it's on the way. Go out with expectancy. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.520 When your mind tells you you're never going to get well, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.040 wake up. The healing God is restoring health back into me. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.520 You'll never get out of debt. Wake up the abundance. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.560 I will lend and not borrow. You'll never overcome that problem. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.120 Wake up the victory. God always causes me to tryumph. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.800 Keep your mind going in the right direction. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:09.800 Mark Chapter six. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.520 Jesus went back to his hometown. He began to teach 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.800 the people in the synagogue. They had heard that Jesus 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.840 had done great miracles and calmed the seas. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:20.760 Open blind eyes. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.160 But when they saw him up there teaching, they thought, 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.800 that's just Jesus, that's who we grew up with. That's 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:32.200 the carpenter's son, nothing special about him. Because they didn't 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.320 believe in him, he couldn't do any miracles in his hometown. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:42.440 Verse six says Jesus marveled at their unbelief. The Book 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.840 of Matthew. A Roman officer came to Jesus, said, one 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.960 of my employees is very sick. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.280 You don't need to come to my house. Just speak 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.680 the word, and I know he'll be healed. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.480 When Jesus heard this, the scripture says he was amazed 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.840 and said, I have not found such great faith in 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:07.440 all of Israel. One place he marveled at their doubt. 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.840 The other he marveled at their faith. When God looks 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:16.240 at you, what would he marvel at. I'll never get well, Joel. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.280 I've had this sickness so long. I'll never accomplish my dreams. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.680 I tried, it didn't work out. When you think like that, 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.960 God marvels at your unbelief. That ties his hands. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.040 Why don't you come over into faith. 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.320 Yes, I've had this sickness a long time, but I 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.200 know my healing is on the way. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:36.960 I had a bad break. 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.760 It wasn't fair, but I know God has beauty for 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:40.520 these ashes. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.600 I know favor is in my future. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.240 When we think like that, then God marvels at your faith. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.280 That's what allows him to do more than we can 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.920 ask or think. But what's interesting is the people that doubted, 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.240 the people who had the unbelief were the religious people 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.440 were in the synagogue each week. They were the faithful members. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.600 I say this respectfully. Sometimes religion will try to talk 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.679 you out of God's best. It will tell you in 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.080 the sweep by and bye, you can live a victorious life, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.520 but down here you just have to suffer through it. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.119 Just endure. Don't expect too much. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.040 If Jesus were here, he would marvel at that unbelief. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.879 My father was taught in seminary years ago that the 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.600 day of miracles was over. God doesn't still heal and 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.359 blest and show favor. That was for Bible days. But 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.960 we learned there never was a day of miracles. There's 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.879 a God of miracles. He's still alive, He's still on 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:49.360 the throne. My point is this Roman officer that had 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:55.040 great faith wasn't a religious person. He hadn't been indoctrinated 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.639 to think that it couldn't happen. He simply believed that 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.000 man is the son of God. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:00.359 God. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.480 I've seen him do miracles. He's done it for others, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.880 he can do it for me. He received his miracle 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.919 while the religious people went without. When you take the 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.359 limits off of God and dare to believe for your dreams, 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.560 don't be surprised if people try to talk you out 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.639 of it. Say things like, you really think you'll get well, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.760 you really believe you can start that business, break that addiction. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.679 I don't know. It seems kind of far out to me. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.600 God is either going to marvel at your faith or 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:35.040 marvel at your unbelief. Don't let another person talk you 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.400 out of what God put in your heart. Believe big, dream, big, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.320 pray big. God is longing to be good to you. 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.520 He wants to make you an example of his goodness. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.480 So everywhere you go, you don't even have to say anything. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.080 Your life is a testimony. People look at you and say, 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.280 He's blessed, she's highly favored. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:02.320 You radiate joy, peace, favor. You're a living testimony. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.200 Jesus didn't say to this Roman officer, I'm not gonna 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.720 do anything for you. You don't attend my synagogue, you 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.760 don't come to my church, or you're not my nationality, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:15.320 you don't look like me. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.840 Who do you think you are? None of that made 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:19.600 any difference. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.119 All that mattered to Jesus was this man has great faith. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.480 He believes I can do something out of the ordinary. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.440 So I almost showed myself strong in his life. And 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:36.280 you may think that you're not religious enough that God would. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.240 Never help you. People tell me often, Joel, I watch you, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:40.120 but I'm. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.520 Not a religious person. I wasn't raised in church like you. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.399 Almost like they're apologizing. But can I tell you God 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.040 is not looking for religion. He's looking for people who 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.919 simply believe in him, that no, he controls the universe, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.480 that he can do the impossible. I received an email 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.080 from this couple. Not long after they were married. The 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.639 husband started having problems with his balance and with his 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.359 muscle control. His muscles would tighten up so much at 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.520 night that he could barely get out of bed in 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.919 the morning. His wife would have to help him in 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.679 the car and sometimes take him to work because he 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.840 couldn't drive. And this kept getting worse and worse, and 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.040 it got to the place where he could not pick 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:27.960 up their baby daughter. He went to the doctrine. After 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:33.520 mini test, he was diagnosed with a progressive muscular disease 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.280 that's incurable, something like muscular dystrophy. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.000 They were devastated. 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.639 At night, the thoughts came to the wife, what if 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.840 he can't work, What if he loses the job and 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.879 you can't afford the house. What if he dies? Your 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.119 daughter will grow up without a father. 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:53.320 They weren't raised in church. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:57.360 They didn't have any kind of religious background. But one night, 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.760 at three o'clock in the morning, while she was massaging 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.120 his legs because they were in so much pain, they 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.840 turned the television and there was our program. 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:11.440 As they listened, they heard about the goodness of God and. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.360 How God can do what medicine cannot do, and something 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.760 ignited on the inside. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:17.880 Just so happened. 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.359 A few months later, Our Night of Hope was coming 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.200 through their city and they attended. The man could barely 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.359 make the long walk from the parking lot to the auditorium. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.360 At the end of the service, they both stood up 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.320 and gave their life to Christ. The wife said, in 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.840 an instant, we knew our lives were changed. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.080 Forever we could feel we were different. On the inside. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:46.760 They started believing that healing was coming their way. Walking 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.959 back from the auditorium to the car, she noticed that 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.240 her husband was not in as much pain. As the 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.440 weeks went by, the symptoms. 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:57.280 Got less and less. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.000 Last January, they came back to hear for their annual 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:05.000 checkup with the same team of doctors. They ran all 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.200 the tests to get the new markers. The doctors came 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:11.880 in baffled. They said, we can't explain it. We've never 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.520 seen this happen, but we can't find any sign of 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:15.200 that disease. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:19.720 One of the doctors asked. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.520 Him if he had done anything differently. He said, the 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:25.240 only thing that I've done differently is I gave my. 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:26.000 Life to Christ. 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.320 The doctor said, that's the only explanation I can give you. 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.439 But like this Roman officer, they weren't necessarily religious people, 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:39.399 but they dared to believe. It looked impossible, but they said, God, 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:41.520 we know you can do the impossible. 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:43.480 We believe healing is on the way. 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.080 In the Old Testament, the Israelites had wandered around in 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.840 the desert for many years, and God was about to 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:54.119 take them into the Promised Land. But there were seven 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:58.400 nations in their path that were much bigger. Moses didn't 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:00.679 know what they were going to do. In the natural 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.520 they could never defeat them. But God said to them 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.720 in Deuteronomy seven, I'm going to go before you and 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.720 clear out these seven nations. 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:12.639 That are stronger and more powerful than you. 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:16.800 God is saying you don't have to fight these battles 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.840 in your own strength. I'm going to go before you 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.080 and clear the path. I'm going to make things happen 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:26.200 you couldn't make happen. I'm going to defeat your enemies 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:31.440 for you, because like the Israelites, we all face times 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.520 when the odds are against us. It's easy to think 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.760 this incurable muscle disease, this sickness, is much bigger, much 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:42.800 stronger than me, this addiction, these people coming against me, 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:44.040 they're much more powerful. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:45.280 Don't worry. 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.000 God is going before you right now, clearing the path 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:50.360 on your own. 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:52.880 You may be outnumbered. What you're up. 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:56.639 Against may be bigger, stronger, more talented, more resources, but 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.199 you're not on your own. The God who controls the 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.959 universe says he would take care of your enemies. In 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.960 other words, the cancer may be stronger than you, but 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:13.240 it's not stronger than our God. That debt may look insurmountable. 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:15.919 You don't see how you could ever get out, but 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:19.160 it's no match for our God. He owns it all. 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:22.080 He makes streets out of gold. I talked to a 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:26.280 gentleman recently. He struggled with a drug addiction for many years. 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:30.359 He's an executive, has a great position, nobody knows about it, 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:33.840 but the addiction is ruining his life. He said, Joel, 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.720 I feel powerless. I've tried everything. I can't stop. I 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:40.800 told him what I'm telling you. On your own, you can't. 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.480 But you have the God who spoke worlds into existence 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.520 on your side. And instead of saying I can't do it, 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:50.920 dwelling on the negative all through the day, Father, thank 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:52.960 you that you're defeating my enemies. 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:54.760 Thank you that you're clear in the path. 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:58.760 I know you're stronger than this addiction, more powerful than 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:01.080 this cancer, bigger than this death. 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:03.240 Lord, thank you that healing is coming. 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.720 Wholeness, freedom, victory is on the way. 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:08.600 The scripture puts it this way. 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.200 It's not by our might, not by our power, but 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:14.399 by the spirit of the Most High God. 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:16.760 You don't have to do it on your own. 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:21.760 God told Moses, stand still, and you will see the 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:23.000 deliverance of the Lord. 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:26.280 You may be up against something big right now. 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:30.080 Don't get discouraged, don't live stressed out stand still. 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:34.600 God is clearing the path. He is fighting your battles. 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:38.240 He is going to give you victory over powerful enemies. 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:41.560 May not happen overnight, but as long as you're believing 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:45.120 God is at work at the right time, he's going 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:47.200 to take you in to your promised land. 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:51.160 That victory is on the way. A young lady we. 0:25:51.119 --> 0:25:55.160 Know was in debt seventy five thousand dollars from her 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:59.199 college education. She's in her twenties, just getting started in 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:02.800 her career. That debt looks so much bigger, so much 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:05.600 stronger in the natural, she would be paying on it 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:09.160 for years to come. She heard me talking about how 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:12.560 God wants to accelerate things, how he can make it 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:16.360 happen faster than we think. She dared to believe that 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.280 that was for her. She let the seed take root, 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:22.560 and something told her to call the school and see 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:24.680 if there was any way they could help, and they 0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:28.200 gave her an application to get assistance with the debt. 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:31.160 She filled it out, and a couple of days later 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:35.200 they called her back and said, your application has been approved. 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:37.480 We've decided to forgive. 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:43.480 The whole seventy five thousand dollars debt. Friends, God can 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:46.320 make things happen that we could never make happen. 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:49.520 Right now, he's going before. 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:53.680 You defeating enemies that are much more powerful. That debt 0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:55.480 may look like it's going to be with you your 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:58.720 whole life, but get ready, like God did for her. 0:26:58.800 --> 0:26:59.840 He's clearing the path. 0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:04.800 That sickness, that addiction, that legal problem may be bigger, stronger, 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:08.000 more powerful, but it's no match for our God. He 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:12.320 is all powerful. I'm asking you to stir your faith up. 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:16.080 Don't hear all this and be like the people in Jesus' 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:20.520 hometown where he marveled at the unbelief. Let's be like 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:25.320 the Roman officer, where Jesus marvels at our faith. Those 0:27:25.440 --> 0:27:28.600 dreams you've given up on, those promises you've let. 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:30.680 Go of, you need to go get them back. 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:35.960 They're not dead, They're just asleep Like Lazarus. God is 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:39.600 about to wake up what you thought was over and done. 0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:43.320 I believe and declare healing is on the way. Freedom 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:46.000 is on the way, Abundance is on the way. The 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:50.360 fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, if you receive. 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:52.320 It, Can you say him in today? 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.080 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:27:56.119 --> 0:27:59.080 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:04.040 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:08.760 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:12.600 you my lord and savior. Friends, if you've prayed that 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:15.919 simple prayer. We believe you got born again. Get in 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:18.720 a good Bible based church. 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