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I 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.800 like to start with something funny, and I heard about 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.680 this groom at the wedding rehearsal. He said to the minister, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.959 I'll make a deal with you if during the vows 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.360 you'll leave out all that love, honor, and obey stuff. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.080 I'll give you one hundred dollars. He slipped one hundred 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.200 dollars deal in the minister's hand walked away with a smile. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.040 The next day, during the ceremony, the minister said to him, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.800 do you promise to bow down before your wife to 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.280 take her breakfast in bed to fulfill her every desire? 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.919 He gulped in astonishment and said, in a weak voice, 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.040 I do. Then he whispered in the minister's ear. I 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.480 thought we had a deal. The minister handed him his 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.079 money back and said, your wife made me a much 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.760 better offer. Say it like you mean it. This is 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.720 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.240 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.959 it says I can do. Today I will be talked 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.200 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.400 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:12.119 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.440 to you today about just obey. Many times we don't 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.840 realize that God is speaking to us. We have an 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.520 impression on the inside, a prompting to be good to 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:28.200 someone that's not random. That's God talking to us. Or 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.000 you're in a situation and you feel an unrest and uneasiness. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.000 On the surface, it seems fine, looks like a good opportunity. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.600 But down in here an alarm is going off. Something's 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.240 saying it's not right, stay away. That's not just your nerves. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.440 It's not just you being overly cautious. That's God wanting 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:53.480 to protect you. When you feel these impressions, these promptings. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.360 Don't ignore it, don't talk yourself out of it, just 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:02.240 obey if you'll follow that still small voice. It says 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.800 in Psalms that God will lead you down the best 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.920 path for your life. And the scripture talks about our 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.600 inner ear, not a physical ear. You won't hear an 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.040 audible voice. But if you'll be sensitive to what your 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.760 inner ear is hearing the still small voice, the promptings, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:25.400 the suggestions, the alarms, then God will keep you from 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.200 heartache and pain. He'll leads you into promotion in favor. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.400 He'll use you to be a blessing to others. Then 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.080 the book of Deuteronomy, God gave Moses the ten commandments 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.640 and different instructions to follow. Then God said to the Israelites, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.760 don't add or subtract to what I've given you. Just obey. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.960 God was saying, don't debate it, don't reason it out, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.000 don't overanalyze it. Just do what I'm asking you to do. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.240 And too often we feel these impressions. We have a 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.080 knowing on the inside, but we dismiss it, think I'll 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:06.120 do that later. We override it. I feel an unrest 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.160 but looks like a good opportunity, or we overanalyze it. 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.479 That couldn't be for me, that doesn't make sense. Now, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.000 don't talk yourself out of it. Don't come up with excuses. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.440 God is saying to us what he said to the Israelites. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.479 Just obey. Years ago, a friend of mine was in 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.640 church one Sunday, and he was a young man, a 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.560 new believer. He looked across the way and saw this woman. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.719 Something said to him so strongly on the inside, go 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.240 give her a gift. He felt an impression to be 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.839 good to her, but his mind said, you don't even 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.719 know the lady. She looks like she's doing fine. She 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.680 doesn't need your money. He came up with excuse after excuse, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.160 and he kept putting it off, but he couldn't get 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.400 away from it. He looked in his wallet. All he 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.760 had that day was a five dollar bill. He thought, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.640 there is no way I'm going to go give her 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.599 five dollars. I'd be embarrassed. The whole service, a debate 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.120 was taking place in his mind. The longer he waited, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.120 the more miserable he was. He knew he was supposed 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.240 to do it. Finally, he got his nerve up, and 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.279 after the service he went over to her and said, ma'am, 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.920 I know you don't know me, and this may seem 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.760 kind of strange, but I feel like I'm supposed to 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.640 give you this. He placed the five dollar bill in 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.760 her hand. She looked at it and started weeping. She said, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.800 I only had enough gas to get to church. I 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.040 prayed God, please give me the gas money to make 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:41.280 it back home. She hugged him and said, you're my miracle. Friends. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.640 God knows what he's doing. He can see things that 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.839 we can't see. Don't talk yourself out of it. When 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.520 you obey that still small voice, God will use you 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.680 to brighten people's day. And here's the key. Any time 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:00.279 you obey, a blessing will always follow. You'll never be 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.560 good to someone else without God being good Back to 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.960 you now I wonder how much higher we would go 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.360 and how much more of God's favor we would see 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.840 if we would just obey, not argue, not try to 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:19.080 reason it out, not come up with excuses. God wants 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.720 to lead you down the best path for your life. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.080 He knows where the favor is, where the promotion is, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.680 where the right people are. If you'll be sensitive to 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.840 his voice, pay attention to what your inner ear is hearing, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.640 there's no limit to where God will take you today. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.240 My friend that gave that five dollars, he's extremely blessed, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:45.400 very successful. But if he hadn't learned to be faithful 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.960 with the small, with the five, how could God trust 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.840 him with more? If you'll start being faithful in the 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.480 small things you know you need to do. You hear 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.680 that voice, that impression tells you you need to get 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.760 to work on time. That's not just your conscience bothering you. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.840 That's God talking to you. You feel that prompting. You 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.760 need to quit drinking so much coffee. You need to 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.440 take that course to improve your skills. You need to 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.360 stop being sarcastic to your spouse. God talks to us 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.880 about practical things. Sometimes we think he only talks to 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:27.560 us about redemption and salvation, doctrine righteousness. Yes, but he 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.120 also talks to us about keeping the house clean, about 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.439 not staying up all night watching television, about not leaving 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.839 the grocery cart in the parking lot, putting it back 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.240 where you found it, about everyday things. When I was 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.280 in my early twenties, I had a ball game at 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.560 nine thirty at night on the other side of town, 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.240 and I left with plenty of time to get there, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.400 but there was construction on the freeway. I was delayed 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.040 about thirty minutes. I had to make up a lot 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.520 of ground to get to my game on time. And 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.720 once I got through the construction, the freeway was wide open. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.400 Nobody was on it. I had a black sports car. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.719 I was feeling good. I thought, I'm gonna open this 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.240 thing up and see what it'll do. I tell you 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.160 how fast I was going, but my mother's sitting on 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.080 the front road. I was flying the whole time. Down 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.480 in here. Something was saying slow down, slow down, slow down. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:26.080 I answered back, no thanks, no thanks, no thanks. Nobody 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.840 was on the road. I didn't see any other cars. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.319 Then out of nowhere, this car came up right next 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.160 to me started driving alongside. I thought, what do you 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.080 know he wants to race? He had an old, beat 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.559 up rundown car. Thought what is he thinking? He didn't 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.120 have a chance. I took off and floored it. He 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.000 caught back up to me this time. When I looked over, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.920 he held up his badge in the window. He pointed 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:59.040 at me and said, very sternly, slow down. I drove 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.200 fifty five for the next seven years. But if we 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.200 will obey these promptings, God will keep us out of trouble, 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:13.000 will avoid unnecessary heartache and pain. And we know God says, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.959 go into all the world and share the good news. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.079 But God also says, slow down on the freeway, quit 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.000 eating so much junk, forgive your coworker, be kind to 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.559 your neighbor, pay attention to the practical things. The more 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.960 you pass these tests, the more God can trust you, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.719 the more favor he'll release in your life. But if 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.200 God has to argue with you about everything, you make 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.880 excuses why you shouldn't follow those promptings, you'll get stuck. 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.040 Isaiah said, if you're willing and obedient, you will eat 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.120 the good of the land. When you learn this principle 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.960 to just obey. You feel that impression to call a 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.400 friend and encourage them. I'm going to call them. You 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.520 hear that prompting, be more discipline in your spending, your obedience. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.880 You have that knowing on the inside. I know I 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.720 need to eat healthier. I know I need to visit 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.640 my parents. I know I need to take that class. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.160 Here's a key. The I knows are God talking to you. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.600 You didn't just come up with that. God is asking 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.000 you to do it. Don't dismiss it, don't put it off. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.400 The I knows will lead you down that best path 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.240 for your life. And one way we know it's God. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.480 It doesn't go away. It keeps coming up again and 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.040 again in the middle of the night. You're not even 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.400 thinking about it, and there it is. That's God wanting 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.360 to get your attention. And the scripture says God leads 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:48.080 us by promptings. One version says by suggestions. God won't 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.559 force you to do something. He won't override your will. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.280 He'll suggest it. Hey, give the five bucks. It's up 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.680 to us to do it. I've learned. The more you obey, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.440 the easier it is to obey, The more sensitive you 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:06.320 are to his voice, the more you respond. The easier 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.600 it is to respond, you'll get to the place where 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:14.080 you're guided by these promptings. You take the suggestions, you 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.559 pull back when you feel in an arm. That's how 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.680 the Holy Spirit leads us. And Paul talked about being 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:25.200 a vessel used for God's highest purposes. God is looking 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.440 for people that he can count on, People that at 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:34.079 the slightest impression, the smallest suggestion, they move. God says, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.120 go here, they go. Bless this person, They bless them. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.360 Change in this area. They change. They don't argue, they 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:46.160 don't make excuses, they're not too busy. They just obey. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.000 Psalm twenty five says the secret of the Lord is 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.640 with them that fear him. When you honor God, he 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.280 will tell you secrets. He will whisper things in your 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:01.720 inner ear, give you insight that you otherwise wouldn't have known. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.480 You don't know how you know it. You can't explain it, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.600 you just know it. Sometimes we hear about people getting 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:12.880 into trouble for insider trading. That means somebody on the 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.680 inside of the company is giving information to somebody on 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.720 the outside that's going to affect the price of the stock. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.120 That way, they can sell off or buy more. They 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:28.439 have an advantage because they have inside information. That's what 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.720 God does for us. He knows where the good breaks are. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.840 He knows how to propel you years ahead. If you'll 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.720 be sensitive to that voice, God will give the inside information. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.800 You'll know things that you shouldn't have known that will 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.640 propel you towards your destiny. A couple of years after 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.760 Victoria and I were married, we sold our town home 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.320 and were looking to buy a house. We found several 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.240 nice houses. We really liked them, but it didn't work out. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.840 We came to this one, very rundown old house. Windows 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.840 were broken out, water dripping from the ceiling, foundation was 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.200 all missed up. The house was in very bad shape, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.280 but it was in a nice neighborhood on a large 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.240 piece of property. Victoria and I looked at each other 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.040 and said, this is it. This is the house for us. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.720 We had just moved out of a beautiful town home 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:27.200 in the natural. It didn't make sense. Everything logically speaking 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.680 said this is going in the wrong direction. You're making 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.640 a big mistake. But in our inner ear, down in here, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:39.000 something was whispering, this is for you. We purchased the property. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.600 What no one knew was the neighborhood was about to 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.640 change the deed restrictions where you could subdivide the lots. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.840 Two years later we sold half of the property for 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.120 more than we paid for the whole property. That was 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:59.840 God whispering secrets in our ear. Don't ignore what you're hearing. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.840 The inside may not seem logical, but God can see 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.800 things that you cannot see. He knows where the advantages are. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.480 He knows how to accelerate your dreams, how to make 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.640 things happen quicker than you thought. I talked to a 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.680 gentleman recently, and he had applied for a job at 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.680 this large company, and the interview went well. They really 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.240 liked the man, but they told him the position wasn't 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.200 going to be available for at least six months. They 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.960 weren't going to make a decision on who to hire 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.240 for some time, and when they did, they had let 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:37.000 him know. About a month later. He woke up one 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.920 morning and something said to him, so strongly, you need 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.560 to call the company and check on the position. They 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.920 had just told him that it would be six months. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.640 He didn't want to seem overly anxious or do anything 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.280 that might put them off, but he couldn't get away 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.320 from it. That afternoon. Finally he picked up the phone 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.960 and called the men. Said, I can't believe you'll call it. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.760 The position is not supposed to open up till next year, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.240 but earlier this morning we had a meeting and decided 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.000 to fill it right now. He asked the man, can 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.600 you start next week? Friends, God knows it all. We 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:20.400 have inside information. Don't ignore those promptings. That's God whispering 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.320 secrets in your ear. If you'll just obey, God will 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.280 give you an advantage. He'll make things happen that you 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.800 could never make happen. In the scripture, there was a 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.560 man named Naeman. He was a captain in the Syrian army, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.760 a very well respected and influential man, but he had 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:43.640 leprosy and incurable disease. A young maid that worked for 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.560 him told him that if you'll go see the prophet 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.560 Elisha in Israel, Elisha will pray for you and you'll 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.680 be healed. Naeman took the young lady's advice, traveled a 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.680 great distance showed up at Elisha's house, but Elisha didn't 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.160 go out to meet him at the door. He didn't 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:07.360 go pray over him. Elisha told his assistant to go 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.040 tell Naeman, if he will wash in the Jordan river 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.199 seven times, he'll be healed. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:14.280 Well. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.960 Naemun was offended. He thought, does he know who I am? 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.119 Does he know how far I've traveled? And if I 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:23.920 need to wash in a river, it's not going to 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.360 be the Jordan River. That's dirty. We have much cleaner 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.440 rivers back at home. He came up with all these excuses. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.639 That doesn't make sense. That's not logical. God is not 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.680 going to explain everything that he asked us to do. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.919 This is what faith is all about. You just have 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.560 to trust him. Naeman almost missed his miracle. He turned 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.480 around and was about to go back home until his 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.919 assistant said, Naeman, if he would have asked you to 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.560 do something hard, you would have done it. Why don't 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.080 you do this small thing? Naeman said, well, I thought 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.119 Elisha would come out and wave his hand over me 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.359 and like magic, make me whole. He had a preconceived 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.560 idea of how God was going to do it. You 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.680 can't put God in a box. He may not bring 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.720 your dream to pass the way you're thinking. He may 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.000 not turn the problem around in a traditional manner. God's 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.840 ways are not our ways. They are better than our ways. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.440 Stay open and let God do it his way. Nahemon 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.119 didn't want to do a small thing, but I've learned 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:36.000 small acts of obedience lead to big blessings. It's not 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.719 necessarily what you're doing. It's the obedience that activates God's power. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.800 When you obey in small things, when it doesn't seem 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.480 like it matters, when nobody's watching, when you don't feel 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.080 like it, but you keep doing the right thing. You're faithful. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.800 You're a person of excellence. Obedience in the small leads 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.800 to God's blessings in great ways. This assistant talk naming 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.400 in to going down and washing in the Jordan river, 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.960 and I can imagine when nam And got in, he thought, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:12.919 this is dirty, it stinks. I don't like it. Everything 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.600 in his mind was saying, you're wasting your time. This 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.240 is not making any difference. If you allow it, your 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.800 mind can talk you out of your miracle. Negative thoughts 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.240 can keep us from God's best. Naim And dip down 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.240 in the water. The first time he came up, he 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.359 checked his skin. Nothing had changed. Dip down the second time, nothing, 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.280 third time nothing, fourth time nothing. I'm sure, he thought. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.560 If this was going to work. I'd be getting better 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.679 by now. I've done the right thing four times in 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.800 a row. I've done exactly what that prophet said, and 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.520 I'm not any better. He was discouraged, felt like going 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.400 back home again. He thought, you know what come this far, 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.720 might as well finish it out. Dip down the fifth time, nothing, 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:02.240 sixth time. Nothing. What's interesting is Naeman didn't have the 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.280 faith that it was going to happen. He didn't believe 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.399 he is going to get well. He wasn't singing praises, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.880 thanking God that the answer was coming. He was complaining 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.080 negative sour, going to tell his maid, You're not getting 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.480 of raised this time. Some prophets you sent me to 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.800 He dipped down that seventh time. When he came up, 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.760 his skin was perfectly normal, looked like a baby's skin. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.920 Here's my point. The healing wasn't in the water, or 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.600 he would have been healed the first time. The healing 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.960 was in the obedience. Could it be that your healing 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:43.760 will come when you obey your promotion, Your breakthrough, the 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:48.640 restoration will come if you'll just keep doing the right thing. Well, Joel, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:51.440 I'm being my best, I'm honoring God. I don't see 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:55.800 anything happening. Don't worry. Your time is coming. You may 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.400 be on number four, number five, The good news number 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:04.000 seven is on the way. God rewards obedience. Your healing 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:08.639 is coming, The right people are coming, new opportunities are coming. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:13.480 Freedom is coming. Keep being obedient, stay on that high road. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.800 It may be uncomfortable, it may not be fair, but 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.040 God is in complete control. He's a rewarder of those 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:22.800 that honor him. 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:23.760 Now. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:28.679 I love the fact that Nyelman's obedience overrode the fact 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.040 that he didn't have the faith. This is how powerful 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:36.280 obedience is. There are times in our life that we 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.000 don't feel like we have the faith we need. We 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.400 want to believe, but we don't see how we could 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.400 get well, how we could accomplish a dream, how our 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.199 future is going to be bright. Here's the key. Until 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:52.480 your faith grows, just keep being obedient, doing what you 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:57.040 know to do, following that still small voice. Your obedience 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:59.960 will override the fact that you don't have enough faith. 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.320 I can't prove it, but I believe that Naeman got healed. 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:08.680 While he was complaining, I don't like this water. It's dirty, 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.320 it smells bad. He came up the seventh time I 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.080 told you it wasn't gonna work. Looked at his arms, 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.600 couldn't believe it. He went from complaining to giving praise. 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.000 He said, now I know the God of Israel is 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:28.000 the true and the living God, and I'm not for complaining, talking, defeat, 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:31.160 being negative. There are examples where that keeps people out 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.840 of their promised land, But in this case, obedience overrode 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:40.399 all that. Like Na'aemen, when you face situations you don't 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.840 like and you don't understand it, the odds are against you. 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.920 If you'll just keep doing the right thing, your breakthrough 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:52.320 is on the way. When you obey, miracles happen, healing 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:56.760 is released, new doors will open. See every time you obey, 0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:01.760 you're sowing a seed when it's difficult, you're uncomfortable, you 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.119 don't feel like it, but you do it anyway. You 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:08.800 were sowing an extraordinary seed. That means you're going to 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:13.359 reap an extraordinary harvest. God will never ask you to 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.479 do something and then not give you the power to 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.560 do it. When he asked you to walk away from 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.760 a friend that's pulling you down, or to get rid 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:25.080 of a habit that you know is ruining your health. 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:28.720 He's not trying to take something from you. He's trying 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:32.080 to get something better to you. If you will just obey, 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:34.919 you'll come up to a new level of your destiny. 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:38.639 Growing up, we knew this man that loved to play 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:43.680 the piano. He was very talented, but he had rheumatoid arthritis. 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:47.000 Over the years, it kept getting worse and worse, and 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:49.840 he came to the point where his fingers were all 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:53.160 bent over like a fist. He couldn't open them up. 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.840 His joints were swollen, very painful, and obviously he couldn't 0:23:58.080 --> 0:24:01.560 play the piano anymore. And one day he heard my 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:06.119 father talking about the importance of forgiveness, how we should 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:09.199 let things go, and how when we carry bitterness and 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:13.240 hold a grudge, it poisons our life. He felt convicted. 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:16.719 He had held something against his parents for many years. 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:20.120 He felt like they had done him wrong, and he'd 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:23.720 carried around this bitterness year after year. He knew to 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:27.000 let it go. He'd heard the still small voice saying, hey, 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:29.560 move on with your life, but he wouldn't do it. 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:32.880 But that day, when he heard my father, he made 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.560 a decision that he was going to forgive his parents. 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:38.719 He didn't feel like doing it, he didn't think they 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:42.480 deserved it, but out of an act of obedience, he 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:46.879 let it go. Over the next few months, little by little, 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:51.320 his fingers started opening up, the swellings started going down, 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:55.120 the pain started subsiding. A year later, he could sit 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:57.920 down and play the piano like he had never missed 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:02.440 a beat. The healing was in the obedience. He sold 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:07.959 an extraordinary seed forgiven somebody that hurt him, He reaped 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:13.199 an extraordinary harvest. His health was restored. Is there something 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:16.760 you've been putting off you know you should do? Maybe 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:18.960 like him, you feel like you have a great right 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:21.960 to hold a grudge, to be angry they did you wrong. 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:25.119 All that's going to do is poison your own life, 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:29.840 affect your dreams, affect your health. You have to forgive 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:34.480 so you can be free. Forgive so your healing will 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:38.919 be released. Not just physically, but when you let it go, 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:42.480 God can make you emotionally whole. That's when he'll give 0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:46.960 you beauty for ashes. You'll start loving again, start laughing again, 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:50.719 start dreaming again. Now, I know faith gets God's attention, 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:56.119 but obedience activates God's power. You can have great faith, 0:25:56.400 --> 0:25:59.360 but if you're ignoring the still small voice. If you're 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:01.880 override what you know God wants you to deal with, 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:05.760 it can keep you from your miracle. And sometimes God 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:08.720 asked us to do a hard thing. God told Abraham 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.960 to take his son Isaac. This was the son that 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:15.919 Abraham and Sarah had waited twenty years to have. They 0:26:15.960 --> 0:26:19.440 had prayed and believed. Now finally little Isaac is here. 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:23.239 Abraham was to take Isaac up on a mountain and 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:27.400 sacrifice him. They took a three day journey, went way 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:30.960 up on this mountain, but just when Abraham was about 0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:34.800 to follow through, God said, Abraham, don't do it. I 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:37.760 just wanted to see if you would be obedient. When 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:42.240 it was extremely difficult, Abraham looked over and saw a 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:44.919 ram caught in the bush, and he knew that was 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:49.879 the sacrifice. What's interesting is rams don't normally go that 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:52.960 high up in the mountain. That's not natural to them. 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:56.320 But when you do what God's asking you to do, 0:26:56.960 --> 0:27:01.119 every step you take in obedience is taking a step 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:04.720 towards you. You may not be able to see it, Joel, 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.480 I'm doing the right thing. Doesn't look like anything's changing. 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:11.040 What you can't see is on the other side of 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:15.040 the mountain. Your healing, your provision, your abundance, your breakthrough 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:19.160 is making its way towards you. Like with Abraham, We're 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:22.960 not gonna understand. Everything God asks us to do may 0:27:23.000 --> 0:27:26.159 be difficult. It's hard to forgive someone that hurts you. 0:27:26.720 --> 0:27:28.919 It's hard to keep a good attitude when the medical 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:33.240 report is negative. But if you'll sow this extraordinary seed 0:27:33.480 --> 0:27:36.480 and be obedient, then get ready. You're going to see 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:41.280 God's favor in extraordinary ways. I'm asking you today to 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:45.919 just obey. Don't try to figure it out, don't overanalyze it. 0:27:46.359 --> 0:27:48.920 Just do what you know God's asking you to do. 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:53.560 Pay attention to the still small voice, start listening with 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:57.600 your inner ear. God wants to whisper secrets, give you 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:02.200 inside information that will prepare you towards your destiny. If 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:05.800 you'll do this, I believe and declare God is going 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:08.679 to lead you down the best path for your life. 0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:14.080 You're going to see favor, increase, promotion, healing, vindication, the 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:18.679 fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, If you receive it, 0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:23.040 can you say him in today? We never like to 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:26.720 close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:29.760 Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me, 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:36.160 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:41.719 into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:44.320 if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:47.680 born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:50.600 God first place. 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