Just One Good Break

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It's a joy to come into 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.960 your homes and if you're ever in our area, please 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.520 stop buy and be a part of one of our services. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.200 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.280 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.120 about this lady. She was on the airplane reading her Bible. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.160 The man next to her said, you don't believe all 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.000 that stuff in there? 0:01:59.040 --> 0:01:59.320 Do you? 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.880 He said, certainly, I do. It's the Bible. He said, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.360 what about that guy that got swallowed by a Well, 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.519 she said, oh you mean Jonah. Yeah, I believe that too. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.920 He said, well, how could he possibly live that long 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.239 inside of a well. She thought about it a moment, said, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.280 I don't know. When I get to heaven, I'll have 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.720 to ask him. He said, sarcastically. What if he's not 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.520 in heaven, She said, then you'll have to ask him. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.960 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.720 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.200 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.000 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.080 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.560 heart is recepted. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.919 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.200 about just one good break. Sometimes we don't see how 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.520 we can accomplish our dreams. We don't have the connections, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.359 the resources, the experience. I talked to a young man 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.360 that wanted to go to college, but his scholarship didn't 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.320 go through. He comes from a single parent home and 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.799 he doesn't have the funds. The odds are against him. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.480 It's easy to get discouraged and think I'll never get well. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.880 Look at the medical report. I'll never break this addiction. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.680 I've had it for years. I can't get out of debt. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.800 I've gone as far as I can. It may look 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.080 like it's not going to happen, but what you can't 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.920 see is you're just one good breakaway, just meeting one 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.600 right person, just one phone call, one contract, one healing, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:40.680 and what seemed impossible will suddenly become possible. You don't 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.360 need one hundred things to go right. Just one touch 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.000 of God's favor and doors will open that you couldn't open. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.640 Just one person being for you will catapult you ahead. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.360 Just one breakthrough and suddenly you get well. Suddenly you're 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.200 free from the addiction. Suddenly the depression is gone. And 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.720 you may have situations that don't look like they'll ever change, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.880 but stay encouraged. God has already arranged good breaks for you, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.760 things that you couldn't make happen. You weren't next in line, 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.080 you didn't have the experience, but out of nowhere the 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.120 contract came to you. He's already lined up the right 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.280 people to help you. You didn't ask them, you didn't 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.320 have to try to win them over for no reason. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.920 They will go out of their way to be good 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.680 to you. They'd been ordained by God to move you 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.240 into your destiny. You don't have to worry about how 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.799 it's going to work out. God can cause one person 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.400 to like you, one person to say promote them, give 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.560 them the position, and suddenly you'll go to a new level. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.400 And instead of thinking it's a long way off, I 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.640 don't see how it can ever happen, turn it around. Father. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.240 Thank you that I'm just one good breakaway. Thank you 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.880 that one to much of your goodness and things will 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.840 change in my favor. Do you know how we got 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.200 the Compact Center? Just one phone call? That's how it 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:12.279 all started. We were trying to build a new auditorium, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.640 but twice the property we found was sold out from 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.920 under us. I was disappointed we couldn't find any more land. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.200 But when something doesn't work out your way, it's because 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.919 God has something better in store. You may not be 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.479 able to see it at the time, but that's when 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.880 you have to trust him. One afternoon, I was at 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.240 the office minding my own business. A friend called that 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.640 I hadn't spoken to in a couple of years. He said, Joel, 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.920 I have an idea for yet. Let's go to lunch. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.640 The next day. At lunch, he told how the Rockets 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.680 basketball team was moving out of the Compact Center and 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.239 how Lakewood should try to purchase it. When I heard 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.080 that something came alive on the inside, I knew we 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.240 were supposed to pursue to it. Well, the city owned 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.560 this building. So when I got back from lunch, I 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.400 called the mayor. He was a friend of our family. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.839 I told him that we were interested. He said, Joel, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.480 I think Lakewood having the Compact Center would be great 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.320 for the city of Houston. God knows how to have 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:24.040 the right people before you. Those two owners that sold 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.680 the property out from under us, I didn't like it. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.799 It didn't seem fair. The truth is, it wasn't their choice. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.159 It was the hand of God. They weren't supposed to 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.599 be for us. If they would have done what I wanted, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.280 we would have missed out on the Compact Center. When 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.520 somebody is not for you, don't get bent out of shape. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.360 God has the right people already lined up that will 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.599 want to help you. People that are ordained to open 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.719 doors that you couldn't open. People that will use their 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.200 influence to thrust you ahead. There are some people that 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.279 didn't want us to have the Compact Center, Critics that 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.240 said it wasn't a good fit. They brought opposition and 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.679 tried to stop us, But the mayor was in charge 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.560 of the city. He set the agenda. Him being for 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.000 us is what kept all the opposition from stopping us. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.360 Every time they tried to keep it from happening, he 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.200 would adjust something in our favor and we'd keep moving forward. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.200 I've learned you don't need everyone to be for you, You 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.440 just need the right people to be for you. It 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.480 just so happened the man that liked us, he was 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.160 in charge, He ran the city. God is going to 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.160 cause people to be for you that are in a 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:49.000 position of authority, people that can override your critics, people 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.760 that will cause things to fall into place. When we 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.640 moved into this facility, it catapulted us ahead, not just 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:02.320 in the number of people attending, but in influence, in credibility. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.120 It put us fifty years down the road. People didn't 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.680 look at us the same way. Growing up, Lakewood was 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.960 on the other side of town, where it was more industrial, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.760 and over the years it had become more run down. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.080 For years, Lakewood was in metal buildings with metal folding chairs, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.240 a gravel parking lot. We had portable wood buildings for 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.960 our nurseries and kids' facilities. We were seen by some 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.920 people as second class. They can't afford much, they're at 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.760 a disadvantage. But when we moved into this place, it 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.280 was like coming out of the wilderness into the promised land. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.200 This building is on one of the busiest freeways in 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.720 the nation, one of the nicest areas of town. The 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.640 Rockets had won two World championships here and now it's Lakewood. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.600 That one good break caused people to see us in 0:08:55.679 --> 0:09:00.200 a totally different light, with a whole new respect. May 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.720 feel like you're falling behind. You could never accomplish what 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.479 God put in your heart. You're still in the metal buildings. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.120 Other people discount you, don't give your credit. Don't worry. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.760 God knows how to make up for lost time. Just 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.640 one touch of his favor will catapult you years ahead. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:22.160 Just one person opening a door, just one phone call 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.520 out of the blue, and you look up and you're 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.920 fifty years down the road. You're not in the portable building, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.240 you're in the compact center. You're not in the Rundown area. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.840 You're on the main freeway. People don't discount you anymore. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.880 Now they look up to you. God is going to 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.040 cause you to be seen in a new light. He's 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:45.200 going to give you respect, credibility, influence. That's going to 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.960 make up for the time it looks like you've lost. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.480 But those years where you were not being noticed, not 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.600 seeing good breaks, not having much influence, those were proving 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.199 years where you were showing God you could be trust 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.199 where you did the right thing when the wrong thing 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.360 was happening. Where you were being your best, when you 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.240 weren't seeing growth, where you were going to work with 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.800 a good attitude even though nobody was giving you credit. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:18.640 Those were important years. Without you being faithful and showing 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.040 God that you could be trusted, you wouldn't be ready 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.880 for what God has in store. You have to be 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.559 prepared for where God is taking you. You're not falling behind. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.520 You're in training. If it's taken longer than you thought, 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.840 it's because God has something big in your future. Don't 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.400 slack off, don't get tired of doing the right thing. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.080 If you'll keep passing the test. The scripture says your 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.920 due season is coming. That means God's not only going 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.600 to bring you out, He's going to thrust you ahead. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.160 You're going to come out promoted, increased further than you've 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.240 ever imagined. As a teenager, David was out in the 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.600 shepherd's fields taking care of his father's sheep. It was boring. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.080 David had big dreams in his heart. He knew he 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.840 was going to leave his mark. But year after year, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.160 all he did was feed the sheep, clean up their waist, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:20.080 make sure that they were protected. It was dirty, smelly, lonely. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.440 Nobody thanked him. Nobody knew that he killed a lion 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.000 and a bear to protect those animals. He could have 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.120 slacked off, had a bad attitude. God, it's not fair, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:37.000 I'm wasting time out here. Instead, he kept passing the test, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.480 doing the right thing when nothing was changing. One day, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.360 the prophet Samuel came to his house to anoint the 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.360 next king of Israel. He looked at David's seven brothers, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:54.080 who were older, had more experience, more training. Some of 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.600 them were in the military, big, strong, muscular, They looked 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:02.360 like a king. Samuel passed by them and eventually came 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:08.000 to David, the forgotten one, the one that had been overlooked, discounted, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.200 seen as less than. Samuel said, this is the next 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:15.800 king of Israel. I'm sure his brothers, his parents nearly 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.880 passed out you mean David, the shepherd, the youngest, the smallest. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.040 Are you sure? God doesn't choose the way people choose. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.720 People look on the outside, God looks on the heart. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:33.160 God found a man in David, he could trust, a 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.760 man that had proven he'd be faithful when things weren't 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.080 going his way. God knew if he could trust him 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.960 to take care of sheep, he could trust him to 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:47.959 take care of his people. When God promoted David, brought 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.160 him out, He made up for all the years it 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.200 looked like he was losing out in the shepherd's fields. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.920 He went from being a shepherd to being a king. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.240 Nobody voted for him. This this wasn't a democracy. If 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.600 it was, he wouldn't have received one vote. He wasn't 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.640 on the radar. Nobody in Israel knew who he was. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.200 His father didn't believe in him, his brothers tried to 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.000 belittle him. But when God is ready to promote you, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.320 he doesn't take a vote. He doesn't check to see 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.000 who likes you, who's for you, how popular you are. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.800 It's not a vote, it's an appointment. It's up to 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.760 one person. Not your boss, not your neighbors, not your critics, 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.800 not your relatives. Promotion doesn't come from people. It comes 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.359 from the Lord. When it's your time to be promoted, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.600 no person can stop you, no bad break, no disappointment, 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.600 no enemy. God has the one and only vote. He 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.680 has the final say. Now, quit worrying about who's not 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.600 for you. Why won't these people give me credit, Joel, 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.840 I'd be further along if my coworkers would quit leaving 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:02.080 me out. Can I tell you coworkers can't hold you back. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:07.200 Other people cannot keep you from your destiny. They didn't 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.040 know you before you were formed in your mother's womb. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.200 They didn't lay out the plan for your life. They 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.160 didn't crown you with favor. They didn't put seeds of 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.440 greatness on the inside. Quit focusing on who's not for you, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.440 and start focusing on who is for you. The most 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.280 High God, the creator of the universe, the one who 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:33.320 spoke worlds into existence, is breathing in your direction. He 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.200 has you in the palm of his hand. His plans 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.120 for you are for good. Him being for you is 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:43.040 more than the world being against you. David's life was 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.560 set on a new course by just one person when 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.880 Samuel came to his house and anointed him king. His 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:54.160 whole world changed. And what's interesting is David didn't have 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.600 to go after Samuel. Samuel came after David. You don't 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.040 have to go after the blessing. Keep honoring God, and 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.000 the blessing will come to you. The phone call will 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.800 come to you, the compact center will come to you. 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.840 The right person, the healing, the promotion will find you. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.040 We spend too much time trying to make things happen. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.360 Then we get frustrated because it's taking so long. But 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:24.200 you can't make things happen out of God's timing. You 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.080 can't make people like you who are not supposed to 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.920 like you. You can't open a door that God has closed. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.040 I tried to buy the property to build the sanctuary. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.360 I did my best. I was nice to those two owners. 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:43.440 I smiled my biggest smile. I thanked them in advance 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.320 for selling it to us. No matter how charming I 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.840 was or how much money we offered, that door wasn't 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.080 going to open. Stay in peace knowing that God will 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.760 cause the right people to find you. The right breaks 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.360 will track you down, the right oportunities will come knocking 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.080 at your door. When it's your time, Samuel will show up. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.200 David's father tried to convince Samuel to anoint one of 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.840 his other seven sons. He thought David was too small, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.880 too young, too inexperienced. But no matter how hard he tried, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.000 Samuel wouldn't do it. God was showing us, what has 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.880 your name on it won't go to anyone else. Quit 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.560 being upset because that coworker got the promotion that you 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.640 really wanted. If it was supposed to be yours, you 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.160 would have gotten it. Or that friend married that man 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.000 that you really liked. That doesn't seem fair. Now we're 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.400 getting real. That doesn't seem fair. If you were supposed 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.240 to marry him, then she wouldn't have. That means that 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:50.000 God has somebody better for you. I've learned you don't 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.440 want what's not supposed to be yours. There's no grace 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.160 for it. One time I wanted a business opportunity so 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.600 badly I did everything I could to make it happen. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.560 Sometimes God will close the door that we can't open. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.560 But there are times if we're so stubborn and it's 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.239 not going to stop our destiny, God will let us 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.879 have it our way. And we obtained this business, but 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.560 it wasn't what I thought was a constant headache never 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.080 really got off the ground, drained our time, energy resources. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.840 Now my attitude is God. If it doesn't have my 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.120 name on it, I don't want it. If it's not 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.119 supposed to be yours, you're not going to have a 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.520 grace for it. Don't try to beat the door down. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.520 Be determined, pursue your dreams, but be smart enough to 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.240 realize what God wants to be yours will come to you. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.080 It won't be a constant struggle. Yes there'll be opposition. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.640 Yes you'll have to work hard, you'll have to fight 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.199 the good fight of faith. But there will be a 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:58.080 grace that causes things to fall into place. The Psalmist said, 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.520 God will work out his plan for your life. You 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.440 don't have to work it out. You don't have to struggle, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:10.280 live worried, try to fix every problem, straighten out every enemy, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.440 make everything happen in your own strength. You can live 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.680 from a place of rest knowing that God is not 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.520 only fighting your battles, but he's lined up the breaks 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.920 you need. He has the right people that will help you. 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:29.399 He has solutions to problems that you can't see right now. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.920 He's already figured out how to solve it. Don't waste 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:36.200 your time worrying. He's on the throne. He can see 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.800 things you can't see. He's promised he will work out 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.440 his plan for your life. I received a letter from 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.199 a young lady that lives in Africa. Her dream was 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.879 to get her doctorate degree so she could become a 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.720 college professor. She finished her master's degree and was preparing 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.520 for the final exams to get into the doctorate program 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.800 when her landlord told her she had to move out 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.639 of the apartment where she was living. He broke the 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.240 lease in just a couple of days. She had to 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.960 leave that place and move into the dorm. This all 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.000 happened in the middle of final exams. Through her often 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.240 she couldn't study like she had hoped. She ended up 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.600 being turned down by the main university where she wanted 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.600 to attend. She was not only disappointed in herself, she 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.400 was angry at the landlord for making her leave, especially 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.239 at that time she was about to meet with an 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:36.600 attorney and take legal action against him. She always watches 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.400 our podcast. My message that week happened to be called 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.440 You Have a Defender. I talked about how we all 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:48.159 have unfair things happen, but God wouldn't have allowed it 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.440 if he wasn't going to somehow use it for your good. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.479 And how God can vindicate us better than we can 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.120 vindicate ourselves. She knew that was God speaking to her. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:03.240 She let it go. After being turned down by sixteen universities, 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.520 she applied to a very prestigious university in Italy. They 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.679 really liked her, but they had twelve people on the 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.119 waiting list in front of her. They told her, unfortunately, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:19.600 she wouldn't be accepted. Two weeks later, they emailed back 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.120 and said, we've never done this before, but we've changed 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.520 our mind and opened up a position just for you. 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:32.800 When she arrived, they informed her, out of hundreds of 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.760 doctorate students, she was one of the six chosen to 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.240 be in the Advanced Studies program. That meant she would 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.840 not only receive a full scholarship, but she wouldn't have 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.320 to live in the dorm. She would have her own 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:51.119 executive apartment in a beautiful neighborhood close to the university. 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.879 Her mind went back to the man breaking the lease 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.359 making her leave her apartment. How she thought that was 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.720 setting her back, when in fact it was setting her up. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.080 God knows how to work out his plan for your life. 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.359 It may not seem like it's going to happen, but 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:13.800 you're just one good breakaway, Just one university saying we've 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.520 changed our mind, Just one Samuel showing up, Just one 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.760 phone call saying hey, the compact center is available. You'll 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:24.160 look back and say like her, Wow, God, you've amazed 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.240 me with your goodness. David said, I have pitched my 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.760 tent in the land of hope. My question is where 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.480 have you pitched your tent? Well, Joel, I've had a 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:39.040 lot of disappointments. I'll never get well. I can't accomplish 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.439 my dreams. It's been too long. The problem is not 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.800 that God can't do it. The problem is where you 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:49.040 pitched your tent. As long as you're thinking of all 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.360 the reasons why it's not going to happen, how impossible 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.439 it is, that's going to limit you. Why don't you 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.840 do yourself a favor, pull up your stakes, pick up 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:03.800 your tent. Move of the land of doubt, negativity, self pity, 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.720 move out of the land of it can't happen. I'm 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.520 too old, I never get any good breaks. That's the 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:13.280 wrong neighborhood. Get out of that place and pitch your tent. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.360 In the land of With God, all things are possible. 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:19.880 The land of goodness and mercy are chasing me down, 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:24.280 the land of what was meant for my harm, God 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:27.720 is turning to my advantage. You are just one good 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:32.000 breakaway from God catapulting you to a new level. Just 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:35.600 one right person showing you favor will change the course 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:38.800 of your life. Just one touch of God's goodness and 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:42.000 you'll beat the cancer, You'll break the addiction, you'll see 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:46.199 your family restored. In Acts chapter three, there was a 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:50.000 man that had been crippled since birth. Every day his 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.040 family would carry him to the temple and set him 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.160 beside the gate so he could beg He'd been doing 0:22:56.200 --> 0:23:00.200 this for years. One day, Peter and John came walking by. 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:03.920 The man held out his cup wanting something. Peter said, 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:06.840 I'm sorry, we don't have any money for you, but 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.400 in the name of Jesus, rise and walk. Peter took 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:13.000 him by the hand, pulled the man up. Instantly he 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:16.760 was healed. He was so excited he took off running 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:21.040 through the temple thanking God. Here's my point. When the 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.240 men woke up that morning, he thought it was just 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:28.000 another ordinary day. He'd go to the temple, sit by 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:31.080 the gate and beg like he'd done for years. He 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:34.440 had no idea when he went to bed that night 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:38.119 he would be able to walk. He didn't realize he 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:41.920 was just one good break away from having his whole 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:47.359 life changed, just one person ordained by God to speak healing, 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.680 and he would do something he was told he could 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:54.640 never do. You may have some big obstacles in your 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.399 path today, things that have held you back for a 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:02.320 long time. A sickness and a diction, depression, loneliness doesn't 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:06.760 seem like it'll ever change. You could get comfortable accept it. No, 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:11.080 get ready. God is about to surprise you. He's already 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:15.120 spoken to the right people. He's already lined up the healing, 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:19.760 the freedom, the promotion. It's going to happen suddenly. You 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:23.440 didn't see it coming. You woke up one morning expecting 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:26.880 more of the same. You never dreamed when you went 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:31.560 to bed that night you would be healed, free, promoted, vindicated. 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:35.200 The good news is it could happen today. It could 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:39.159 happen this week, this month. Your whole world could change 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.480 for the better. Now do your part. Pitch your tent 0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:45.640 in the land of hope. Give God something to work 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:49.680 with that's not just being positive that your faith being released. 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:54.080 When the people saw this man up running celebrating, they 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:56.600 looked at each other and said, isn't this the guy 0:24:56.960 --> 0:24:59.800 that's been begging by the gate for the last forty years. 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:03.680 They couldn't believe it. The scripture says they were astonished. 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:07.679 God has some things in your future that are not 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:11.080 only going to leave you amazed, but people around you 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:15.199 are going to be amazed. You were not created to 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:20.639 live in dysfunction, with addictions, constantly struggling. That may be 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:23.280 how it's been in the past, but that's not how 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:26.080 it's going to be in the future. God's about to 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.919 do a new thing. He's going to break bondages that 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:32.680 have held you back. He's going to free you from 0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:36.159 those addictions. He's going to increase you to where you 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:40.520 have more than enough that sickness is not permanent. Healing 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:43.800 is coming, Wholeness is on the way, Victory is in 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:47.280 your future. I talked to a young man that was 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:51.320 on dialysis. He was in his early thirties. Three days 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:53.720 a week, four or five hours a day, he would 0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:56.199 have to go up to the clinic. My father was 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:58.680 on dialysis the end of his life, and I took 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:01.080 him up to the clinic a lot you don't see 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:04.399 many people in their thirties. My heart went out to 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:08.200 him because that's not an easy thing. He told how 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:11.320 he had had this problem since childhood. He wasn't a 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:15.080 candidate for a transplant, had a great attitude, still went 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:17.920 to work every day, and we prayed that God would 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:21.120 not only help him fulfill his destiny, but that God 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:24.600 would make a way where we didn't see. Away saw 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:27.000 him a couple of years later. He said, Joel, you'll 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:31.040 never believe what happened. For years, doctors had told him 0:26:31.160 --> 0:26:34.640 that he couldn't have a transplant, but this one doctor 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:38.880 took a special interest in him, studied his case, said 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:41.160 I can see why nobody wants to take the risk, 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:44.760 but this is what I specialize in. One night, at 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.680 one o'clock in the morning, he received a phone call 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:51.280 from the doctor saying, be at the hospital tomorrow morning 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:54.160 at six I have a kidney for you. The man 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:57.720 was beaming with joy. He said, Joel, I'm not on 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:02.119 dialysis anymore. I have a new kid One touch of 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:06.200 God's favor and his whole world changed one doctor going 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:08.879 out of his way to be good to him. What 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:12.160 you're facing may look like it's never going to change. 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:15.000 People have told you know the odds are against you. 0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:19.320 Can I tell you you're just one good breakaway, just 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:22.480 one touch of God's favor, and suddenly you'll get well, 0:27:22.920 --> 0:27:25.960 Suddenly you'll get to kidney, Suddenly you'll be free, Suddenly 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:29.640 you'll be promoted. I'm asking you to pitch your tent 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:33.639 in the Land of Hope, get up every morning with expectancy, 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:37.199 knowing that the Most High God is working out his 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:40.480 plan for your life. If you'll do this, I believe 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:44.600 and declare God is about to surprise you. He's going 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:49.400 to make things happen you didn't see coming suddenly, healing breakthroughs, 0:27:49.480 --> 0:27:54.040 the right people, the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:56.480 and if you receive it. Can you say a man today, 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:00.600 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:02.879 the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:08.960 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come 0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:12.520 into my heart. I make you my lord and save 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:16.359 you friends. If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:19.560 you got born again, get in a good Bible based church, 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:23.480 and keep God first place. Victorian, I'll be right back 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:25.200 to speak a blessing over you. 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:30.240 As a thank you for your support of our ministry 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.680 this month, Joel and Victoria, I would like to send 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:36.000 you a copy of Joel's new series, You Are Healed. 0:28:36.600 --> 0:28:40.160 This audio and video resource will challenge you to experience 0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:45.720 wholeness in your emotional, relational, spiritual, and physical health. Also 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:49.840 included is the testimony of Joel's mother, Dody, read about 0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:53.680 her devastating cancer diagnosis in nineteen eighty one to her 0:28:53.840 --> 0:28:57.920 miraculous healing in Dody O. Stein's book Healed of Cancer. 0:28:58.240 --> 0:29:00.520 I was forty eight years old when I was diagnosed 0:29:00.600 --> 0:29:04.360 with terminal cancer and given a few weeks to live. 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