Make Room For Increase

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.360 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.400 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.399 the ministry. If you enjoyed today's MESSI, why don't you 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.600 be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:48.960 appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your line. Well, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.120 God bless you. It's a joy to come into your home. 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.200 And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.560 be a part of one of our services. I promise 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.720 you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.720 so much much for tuning in today, and thank you 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.840 again for coming out. And I like to start with 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.960 something funny in I heard about this old country cowboy. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.119 He went to church one rainy. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.040 Sunday and the weather was so bad. Only he and 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.560 the minister showed up. The minister didn't know what to do. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.720 He asked the old cowboy if he should go ahead 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.000 and speak. The cowboy said, listen, preacher, I'm not that smart, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.400 but if I went out to feed my cattle and 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.600 only one cow showed up, I would sure feed him. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.800 The minister launched into his sermon two and a half 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.960 hours later. When he finished, he asked the old cowboy 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.360 what he thought. Said, preacher, let me put it this way, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.800 if I went out to feed my cattle and only 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.200 one cow showed up, I sure wouldn't dump the whole 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.360 load on him. Hold up your Bible. Say it like 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.160 you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.720 it says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.880 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.720 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.640 confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.720 will be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.520 I want to talk to you today about making room 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:12.360 for increase. Before we see increase on the outside, we 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.760 have to make room for it on the inside. If 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.720 you have a small vision, you will have a small life. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.440 If you think you've reached your limits and you'll never 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.240 get out of debt, you've gone as far as your parents. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.040 That's going to keep you from God's best. Jesus said, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.760 you can't put new wine into old wine skins. A 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.280 wine skin was a leather container. When it got old, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.040 it would become hard and rigid, not able to expand. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.760 And if you put new wine into it, when the 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.520 wine expanded, it would burst the wine skin. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.080 God is saying you're not. 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.920 Going to see increase if you're stuck in old ways 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:53.520 of thinking. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:55.360 If you think. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.200 You'll never get out of debt, then you won't. If 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.920 you think your obstacles are to be than they are, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.600 you are setting the limits to your life with your thinking. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.960 You've got to give God permission. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.720 To increase you. You've got to stretch your faith. 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.360 God has unlimited supplies. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:14.880 The only thing. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.880 That limits him is our ability to receive if I 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.880 had a thousand gallons of water to give you, but 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.600 you only had a one gallon container, the problem is 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.960 not with the supply, it's with your ability to receive. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.400 If you'd get rid of the small container and get 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.839 something larger, I could give you much more. It's the 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.200 same principle with God. If we think the economy's too down, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.000 I could never afford that house I really want. My 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.200 business will never expand I don't have the funding. I 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.919 don't have the people behind me. Now you've got to 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.880 get rid of that one gallon bucket, get rid of 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.839 that small container. The God we serve is a big god. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:02.039 He has an ocean and unlimited sol apply. Jesus said, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.440 according to your faith, it will be done unto you. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:07.560 It's not according to God. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.120 God has all the power, all the resources in the world. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.120 It's according to what we believe. Second Kings. There's the 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.839 story about a widow. Her husband is dying. She doesn't 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.000 have money to pay her bills. Now the creditors are 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.719 coming to take her sons as payment. The only thing 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.120 she has of any value is a small pot of. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:30.400 Oil to cook with. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.120 The prophet Elishah showed up at her house and told 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.039 her to do something that seemed strange. He said, go 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.600 out to the neighbors and borrow as many of these 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:46.040 big empty pots that hold oil that you can possibly find. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:51.599 He said, specifically, borrow not a few, get as many 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.239 as you can. He was saying, in effect, don't short 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.840 change yourself, make room for abundance. She went out, and 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.240 can imagine she found five or six of these big 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:04.080 empty pots. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:05.239 When she came. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.640 Home, Elisha told her to pour her oil into one 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.880 of the empty containers. Looked like she would just transfer 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.720 it from one container to the other, but the scripture 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.440 says her oil never ran out. She kept pouring and pouring. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:25.039 God supernaturally multiplied it until all of those containers were 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:26.000 completely filled. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:27.720 Here's my point. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.800 She was the one that determined how much oil she 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.000 would have. If she had have borrored one container, she'd 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.920 had one full, she'd have barred ten. She'd had ten full. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.160 If she had have barred fifty, she'd have had fifty four. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.679 It wasn't up to God how much she increased. God 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.440 has unlimited supplies, It was up to her. That's why 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:52.400 the prophet said, borrowed not a few. My question today, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.120 how many containers are you borrowing? 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:56.480 What kind of. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.760 Vision do you have for your life? Some people have 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.760 a barely get by container. They think, oh man, business 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.560 is so slow. I'm hoping to just make it through 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.200 this year. They've got a tiny little container. God says, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.240 all right, I'll feel your barely get by container. Some 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.080 of you like this lady, you've got five or six containers. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.400 You're believing to pay your bills, feed your family, have 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:21.480 a little bit left over. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:22.440 That's good. 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.680 God will fill those containers. But some of you have 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.920 been coming to Lakewood. You are dangerous. You've got radical faith. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.680 You don't have one, you don't have five. You're calling 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.600 home depot. I need a couple thousand empty containers. You 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:43.440 know God can do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. You 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.440 know he's el Shadaye, the God of more than enough. 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.080 You're making room for far and beyond favor. You're positioning 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.960 yourself under the open windows of heaven. God is saying 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.200 you need to get ready. I'm going to fill your containers. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.280 It may not have happened in the past, but God 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:06.480 has favor in your future. He has new opportunities, good breaks, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.880 blessings that will chase you down. You may not see 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.200 how this could happen, but God has a thousand ways 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.720 to increase you that you've never thought of. God has 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.880 explosive blessings, blessings that can thrust you years ahead. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:22.400 Like this woman. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:27.320 God wants to bless you beyond your normal income, beyond 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.520 your salary, beyond your retirement. God can give you one 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:36.640 good break, one promotion, one idea, one inheritance, and all 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.760 those containers are filled to overflow him. Now make sure 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:46.120 you don't shortchange yourself. God is saying borrow, not a 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.320 few don't have a narrow, limited vision. You may not 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.040 see how it can happen, but that's not your job. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.360 Your job is to believe. I know a man that 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.080 was believing to pay his house off. It was a 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.640 standard thirty mortgage and he had twenty three years left 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:03.840 in the natural. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.240 There was no way he could do it. All the 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:07.800 circumstances said. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.440 It would take him years in years. But he was 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.240 bold enough to do what I'm asking us to do. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.600 Instead of thinking this is impossible, there's no way it's 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.840 going to take me twenty three years. Now, he'd go 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.440 around saying, Father, I want to thank you that you're Jehovah, Jirah, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:24.760 the Lord, my provider. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.320 I know my job is not my source. You are 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:27.920 my source. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.560 It may look impossible, but I know you can do 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:31.520 the impossible. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:36.200 He borrowed not a few containers, but many containers. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.840 Several years ago, he received an inheritance from a family 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:42.760 member that he had never met before. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.199 He didn't even know they were related. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.240 He was able to not only pay his house off, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.720 but he paid a friend's house off as well. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.719 What was that explosive blessings? My prayer? God give us 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:56.520 relatives like that? 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.480 How you say, Joel, I think I should focus on 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.400 what God can do for me. That wouldn't be right, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:05.360 That'd be selfish. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.200 Listen to Psalm thirty five. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.440 Let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified, who 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.880 takes pleasure in the prosperity of his children. They were 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.559 supposed to go around saying continually, let God be magnified, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.120 he takes pleasure in prospering me. I believe one reason 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.800 they were supposed to say it all the time is 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.120 so it would get down on the inside. When we 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.800 hear something long enough, we start to believe it starts 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.120 to affect our vision. Now, I wonder what would happen 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.120 if all through the day instead of dwelling on these negative, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.000 defeated thoughts like I'll never get out of death, my 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.440 business will never expand how can I send my children 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.880 to college? It's so expensive. No zip that up and 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.880 start dwelling on. God takes pleasure in prospering me. Good 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.280 breaks are in my future. Explode, blessings are come in 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.880 my way. I have some friends that bought property out 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.560 in the country. They've had it for years and years, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.160 and they hardly paid anything for It's out in the 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.640 middle of nowhere. Now while back, they got informed that 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.560 the state was putting a new freeway that would go 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.440 right through their property. They not only sold part of 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:25.280 that for a substantial profit, but now they have several 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.960 developers bidding on the rest of it because they're going 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.520 to have so much freeway frontage. Overnight, that property went 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.720 from being worth hardly anything to being extremely valuable. 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.880 That one good break. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.080 Put that family at a new level. The apostle Paul 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.080 talks about this. He said in Ephesians two seven, in 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.400 the ages to come, we would see the unlimited, immeasurable, 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.800 surpassing greatness of God's favor. We need to start believing 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:00.840 for this far and beyond favor. Don't go around expecting 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:05.199 the same thing the same way year after year. Where 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.720 you are is not where you're supposed to stay. God 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.320 has new levels. Get a bigger vision. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.200 It's like this man I heard about. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.960 He was out fishing one day and he noticed a 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.640 man on the other side of the bank fishing as well. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.160 And every time this other man caught a big fish, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.800 he would throw it back in the water, but when 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.280 he caught small fish, he would keep them. This went 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.839 on all day. He became so curious. He finally went 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.800 over to the man. Said, I don't mean to be nosy, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.120 but I can't help. But notice you throw back all 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.800 the big fish and you keep all the small fish. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:42.640 Why is that? 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.400 The man said, oh, that's easy. All I have is 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:52.040 a ten inch frying pan. It's sad to say, but 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.199 there are a lot of people like that today. Instead 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.800 of making room for increase, instead of believing that God 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.280 can do something bigger, they go around with this ten 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.280 inch frying pan. It's been in their family for generations. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.880 Mama used that frying pan, great granddaddy used that frying pan. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.480 It's an attitude that says, I. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.000 Could never afford that nice house, I could never attend 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:21.560 that college, will never be that successful. We always struggle. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.800 We're just ten inch frying pan people. That's the way 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.600 my father was raised. All he was exposed to was. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.000 Poverty, lack, defeed, mediocrity. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.959 In high school, he got the Christmas basket that went 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.760 to the poorest family in the school. When he was 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.840 growing up, all he could afford to drink was something 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.800 called blue John milk, real cheap milk, half milk and 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.920 half water. My father couldn't stand it. To make matters worse, 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.559 His name was John, thought, why did they have to 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.760 name it my name blue John? Why didn't they name 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.240 it blue Bill, blue Mark. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:57.960 Blue Lee Roy. 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.720 He was tempted to think that was his lot in life. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.960 Every circumstance said he had a ten inch frying pan. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.000 But when he was seventeen years old, he gave his 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.680 life to Christ, and something rose up on the inside, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.120 a boldness of faith, a confidence that said, my children 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.080 will never be raised in the defeat that I was 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:20.680 raised in. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.160 What was he doing getting rid of his ten inch 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:25.760 frying pan. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.600 He went on to live a blessed, abundant victorious life. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.920 No matter what environment you were raised in, no matter 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.360 what may be trying to push you down or hold 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.200 you back, God is saying I created you as the 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.720 head and not the tail. I made you to lend 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.600 and not borrow. I take pleasure in prospering you. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:49.640 Friends. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.360 God has some big fish in your future. Do yourself 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.520 a favor. Get rid of that ten inch frying pan. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.120 Who says you can't rise out of that limit to 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.960 the environment, who says that you'll never own that home 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.680 that you really want, who says you can't send your 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.680 children to a great college, who says you'll never get 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.320 out of debt, You'll never meet the right person, you'll 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.040 never start that business. All it takes is one touch 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.880 of God's favor, get an agreement with him. God has 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.800 explosive blessings in your future, blessings that will thrust you 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:30.400 years ahead. Second Peter says to God, a thousand years 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.080 is like one day, and one day is like a 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.880 thousand years. I heard somebody say, if you will stay 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.160 in faith, God can take a thousand. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.800 Years of blessing and release it in one day. 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.200 Are you bold enough to dare say, God, I'm asking 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:52.080 you to release any blessings that my ancestors may have 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.440 missed out on. Well, Joel, that's kind of far out. Yeah, 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:56.920 we serve a far out God. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:15:59.720 I know this couple. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.520 They bought a house in another state and several months 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.000 later they got a certified letter letting them know that 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.320 a company had discovered oil under the whole neighborhood. They 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.440 were offered an incredible contract not to sell their property, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.680 but to just let that company come and drill on 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.840 a part of the property. Then they got a commission 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.520 off of all twelve hundred homes in that neighborhood. That 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:31.320 was years of blessing being released in one day. Well, 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.520 that would never happen for me. I never get any 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.120 good breaks. You're right, it's not going to happen for you. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.320 Why a ten inch frying pan. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.720 I'm asking you to enlarge your vision. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.480 Believe that you can rise higher and not only accomplish 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:50.480 your dreams, not only pay off your house, but believe 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:52.640 that you can pay off somebody else's house. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.520 Believe that you can build an orphanage somewhere. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.320 Believe that you can further the kingdom in a greater way. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.560 The God we serve is not a barely get by God. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.159 He's not a hold on till we make it to 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.040 the sweet by and by. He is a more than 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:15.800 enough God, a running over God, and exceedingly abundantly above. 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:16.359 And beyond God. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:21.320 The scripture talks about how God has blessings stored up 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:27.840 for those that honor him. God has contracts, houses, ideas, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.359 good breaks that already. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.160 Have your name on them. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.600 They've been stored up for you. Now how do you 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.800 see them released? Number one by honoring God by keeping 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.160 him first place, and then number two by making room 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.040 for it in your thinking. You've got to believe that 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.960 something big is in your future when you take the 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.960 limits off of God and say, God, I don't see 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.840 how this could happen in the natural, but I know 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.639 you are a supernatural God. I know you have blessings 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.159 that already have my name on it. So Lord, I 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.760 just want to thank you for your far and beyond favor. 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.320 You live like that, and you will see God amaze 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.480 you with his goodness. And it's time for us, as 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.000 God's people to rise up as the head and not 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.159 the tail. It's time for us to rise up and 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:19.679 lend and not borrow. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:21.120 We are not. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.120 Supposed to be second class and kind of just take 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.240 all the leftovers. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.800 We are children of the Most High God. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.360 In the coming days, there is going to be a 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:36.680 transfer of wealth, a shifting of large amounts of resources 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.840 into God's people's hands. If you will be faithful with 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.120 what you have and prove to God that you can 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.399 be trusted to further His kingdom, then you're going to 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:48.960 be a part of this transfer. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.600 You're going to see unusual increase. And that's what this 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.199 beautiful facility is. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.679 When they built it back in the early nineteen seventies, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.679 they thought they were just building it as a arena. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.280 They didn't realize they were building it for Lakewood Church. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.320 It already had our name on it. This is a 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.640 part of that transfer. For years, Lakewood was on the 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.720 other side of town. We started off in small wooden buildings, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.960 the original feed store. Then we went to metal buildings 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.760 and they were all right, but you could see people 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.240 kind of look down on you see us second class. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:28.400 But one day we came into an explosive blessing. We 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.760 saw the surpassing greatness of God's favor. Now we're in 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.040 one of the premier facilities in all the world. That's 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.320 what God's doing. He's stepping it up a notch. You 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.000 need to get ready. There are buildings that. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:43.080 Have your name on it. 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:48.920 There are contracts and good breaks, promotion ideas. Almighty God 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.080 has stored up for you. Now do your part and 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.439 make room for it in your thinking. Victoria and I 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.919 can look back over our life and see time and 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:03.320 time again blessings God had stored up for us. All 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.040 we did was dare to believe for big things. We 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.320 got rid of our ten inch frying pan. We didn't 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.120 listen to all the negative voices that tried to talk 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.840 us out of it. We didn't get discouraged when we 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.800 didn't see anything happening. We just kept making room for 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.720 it in our thinking. We've seen God's blessings chase us down. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.120 When you have a big vision, you honor God with 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.240 your life, you won't be able to outrun the good 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.159 things God has in store. That's what happened to a 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.080 friend of mine. He's a member of Lakewood and about 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.320 ten years ago he started his business with just one 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:42.800 employee himself. Today he has a whole floor in a 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:47.840 downtown office. Recently, he was awarded a contract to build 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.480 one of the biggest refineries in the world, a multi 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:55.840 billion dollar contract from China. He told how he was 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.480 the least likely one to receive it. The other companies 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:04.160 that were bid were bigger, more qualified, more experienced. Some 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.200 of them had been in business for decades, in decades, 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:12.240 yet somehow God caused his company to stand out. Now 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:14.479 he's seen as one of the leaders in the field. 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.920 That's a part of this transfer. Just like him, God 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.639 can cause contracts to come your way. He can cause 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.760 you to stand out. In the natural, you may feel 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.239 the least likely, but with the blessing of God on 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.840 your life, the odds dramatically change. You and God are 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.760 a majority. You need to get ready. There's going to 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.240 be an explosion of God's goodness. It's going to be 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.720 far and beyond anything you've ever seen before. What is that. 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:50.080 It's what Paul talked about, the unlimited, immeasurable, surpassing greatness 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:54.200 of God's favor. Here's how Proverbs thirteen twenty two puts it. 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.960 The wealth of the ungodly will eventually find its way 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:00.320 into the hand of. 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.240 The righteous, for whom it has been laid. 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:10.760 Up for notice, God has already laid up contracts, houses, businesses, promotions, 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.560 good breaks. They already have your name on them, and 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.360 if you'll keep honoring God making room for it, then 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.960 eventually they will find their way into your hands, the 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:26.040 hands of the righteous. That means right now, something is 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:30.359 looking for you, not bad breaks, not disappointments, not lack, 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:34.200 not mediocrity. You are the righteous. Increases looking for you. 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.680 Favor is looking for you. Good breaks are looking for you. 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:41.720 My question, are you making room for it? Are you 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:46.480 gathering up enough empty containers to receive it? You've got 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.080 to take the limits off of God, get rid of 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.880 any old wine skins that are telling you you've gone 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:54.800 as far as you can you. 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.840 Never get any good breaks. This sounds good today, but 0:22:58.359 --> 0:22:59.840 this is not for you. This is forever. 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.879 Everybody else. You've made too many mistakes. You come from 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:06.600 the wrong family. There will always be voices that try 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:08.760 to talk you out of it. When you look at 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.159 it in the natural, your own thoughts may tell you 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:15.200 it's impossible, there's no way. But this is what faith 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:18.600 is all about. You have to believe it before you 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:21.960 see it. You've got to go around knowing that Almighty 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.280 God puts something on you. 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:28.160 You have an advantage. It's his favor. It causes you. 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:31.240 To stand out, It causes people to be good to you. 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:34.440 It puts you at the right place at the right time. 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:37.600 It may look impossible, but don't ever. 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:39.359 Rule out the favor of God. 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:45.200 Isaiah said, Arise, shine, for the glory. 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:46.040 Of the Lord is upon you. 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.440 It doesn't say that it's going to come on you 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.359 one day, maybe when the economy gets better, when you 0:23:53.440 --> 0:23:56.080 graduate from college, when you get that good break. 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.520 No, it says God's glory is already on you. 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:05.920 And the word glory in the original language indicates God's favor, 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:10.320 God's blessing, and God's splendor is on you in a 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:15.680 heavy way. It indicates weight. If you're going to make 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:17.359 room for increase. 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:18.680 You have to have the right image. 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:24.560 You are not less than intimidated weak. You are heavy 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:29.200 with God's favor. You are dripping with God's goodness. Our 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.400 attitude should be there's no telling what's in my future. 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:37.080 I am weighted down, not with burdens, not with problems. 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:41.040 I am weighted down with the favor of God. And 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:45.840 when you really understand that you are heavy with favor, 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:50.560 then it's easy to be heavy with expectation. It's easy 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:53.560 to believe for big things when you know God has 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:57.159 favored you in a big way. There's a couple that 0:24:57.200 --> 0:25:00.200 attends Lakewood and they were believing to have a child 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:03.840 for a long time, with no success. The lady finally 0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:08.280 became pregnant with triplets. They were very excited, very grateful. 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:11.879 She had complications during the pregnancy and had to be 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:15.479 admitted to the hospital. When the babies were born, they 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:18.840 were very premature. They had to stay in the hospital 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:22.080 for nearly six months. The doctors weren't even sure they 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:24.639 were going to make it, but with much prayer and 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:27.800 God's goodness and great care, eventually they were able. 0:25:27.600 --> 0:25:29.440 To go home, healthy and home. 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:34.080 These parents had insurance for part of the medical cost, 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:37.560 but not all of it. Three months later, they got 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:41.680 a bill from the hospital for two million dollars. They 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:45.840 didn't know that's what they thought. They didn't know how 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:48.280 they could pay that. It looked like they could be 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:49.280 paying that off. 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:50.480 Their whole lifetime. 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:53.840 If they didn't get discouraged, they didn't start complaining. 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:57.320 Their attitude was God, our life. 0:25:57.119 --> 0:26:00.359 Is in your hands. You've given us these beautiful bays bbes. 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:03.080 We know you can make a way where. 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:05.080 There is no way. They stayed in faith. 0:26:05.920 --> 0:26:08.639 When the lady was in the hospital and wasn't able 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:12.520 to attend our services, they would always send their tithes 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:16.800 and offerings in faithful people honoring God didn't want to 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:20.960 miss an opportunity to give. One day, the administrator of 0:26:20.960 --> 0:26:24.159 the hospital called said, We've never done this before, but 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:27.560 we've decided to cancel your two million dollar death. 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:31.240 You know what, that was heavy favor. 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:37.400 That was the surpassing greatness of God's power. I'm asking 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:42.120 you to believe for some of these explosive blessings. Stretch 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:46.400 your faith, not just making room for God to get 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:47.280 you through this year. 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:49.080 God to help you survive. 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:52.840 God wants to catapult you to a new level Like 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:56.160 this couple, One good break and you're totally out of death. 0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.679 One person in your career takes off cut your God's 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:04.200 favor in your fifty years down the road. Now, don't 0:27:04.200 --> 0:27:06.960 go around thinking, Wow, this never happens for me. I 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:10.639 never get any good breaks. Know all through the day, Father, 0:27:11.119 --> 0:27:14.159 I know you take pleasure in prospering me. I know 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:17.600 I'm heavy with your favor. You told the widow to 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:20.320 borrow not a few, So God, I take the limits 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:22.480 off of you. And I make room for you to 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:26.520 do something big in my life. I arise, shine, I 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:29.760 know your glory is upon me. You have that kind 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:31.880 of attitude, and you won't be able to. 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:33.360 Outrun God's goodness. 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:36.679 And when I look out at you today, not with 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:40.120 my physical eyes, but through my eyes of faith, can 0:27:40.160 --> 0:27:44.119 I tell you you are heavy? Not heavy with problems, 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:47.639 not heavy with burdens. You are heavy with God's favor. 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:50.520 You are dripping with God's goodness. 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:53.200 Now, if you happen to. 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.920 Have come in here with a ten inch frying pan, 0:27:56.800 --> 0:27:57.680 do me a favor. 0:27:58.320 --> 0:27:59.720 Drop it off at the door before you. 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:04.320 We'll take you back to Walmart for you. You go 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:07.760 out of here with a big vision, take the limits 0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:11.080 off of God. If you will make room for his increase, 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:16.679 then I believe in declare You're going to see explosive blessings. 0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:17.320 Far and beyond favor. 0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:21.919 You will accomplish your dreams, overcome your obstacles, and become 0:28:22.080 --> 0:28:26.000 everything God's created you to be in Jesus' name. If 0:28:26.040 --> 0:28:28.000 you receive it, can you give the Lord a shat 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:33.040 of praise today? We never like to close our broadcast 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.240 without giving you an opportunity to. 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:37.880 Make Jesus, the Lord of your life. 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