Make Room For More

0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:02.160 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.279 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.239 the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.000 be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.760 you and pray for God's very best in your life. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:14.760 God bless you. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.599 It's great to be with you today, and I hope 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.000 you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.720 daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:25.160 come visit us in person. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:27.080 We'd love to have you be a part of one 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:28.040 of our services. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.600 I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.000 about this elderly woman. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.720 She was at the store and accidentally. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.599 Locked her keys in the car, and she had a 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.120 coat hanger and she was trying and trying, but she 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.800 couldn't get it open. So she prayed and asked God 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.080 to help her. About that time, this guy pulls up 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.519 on a motorcycle, very rough looking, dressed in leather and 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.720 tattoos a skull cap. Fifteen seconds later, he had the 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.000 car open. She hugged him and said, Lord, thank you 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.240 for sending me such. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.080 A nice man. Lady, I'm not a nice man. I 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.440 just got out of prison. For theft. She hugged him 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:06.520 and said, Lord. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.600 Thank you, you even sent me a professional. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.000 All Right, y'all say it like you mean it. This 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.680 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.520 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.319 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.639 taught the word of God. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:27.440 I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.960 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.720 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.520 about make room for more. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:38.480 It's easy to get. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.360 Stuck in life and think we've reached our limits and 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.679 this is as happy as I'll ever be and as 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.360 much as I'll ever have, and I've gone as far 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:47.919 as my background allows. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.280 But God didn't create. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.040 Us to reach one level and get stuck. And the 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:57.080 Psalmist said, open your mouth wide and God will fill it. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.600 The key is you have to make room for God 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.960 to increase you in your thinking. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:03.800 You have to. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.920 Enlarge your vision, raise your level of expectancy. Don't go 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.720 into a new year with an old mindset. And yes, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.680 it's good to be content, it's important to be grateful, 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.280 but you shouldn't be satisfied. There needs to be something 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.760 you're believing for that you can't accomplish on your own, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.000 that stretches your faith. Where you get up in the 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.120 morning thanking God that he's opening new doors, causing you 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:35.680 to excel with more talent, more creativity, more influence. The 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.440 scripture talks about how God has blessings stored up for 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.280 the righteous. There are blessings that have your name on them. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.800 They already belong to you, but they're in storage. There's 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.760 healing with your name on it. There's abundance, a paid 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:57.040 off house. There's promotion, a book, a big business. There's 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.840 a spouse, a baby. How do you get it out 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.960 of storage? Number one, you keep God first place, you 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.600 honor him, and number two you have to make room 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:12.000 for it. Is there any capacity in your thinking for 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.239 God to do greater things? 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.120 Not ordinary, not what. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:20.760 The circumstances tell you, but something uncommon? To live debt, free, 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.920 to break the addiction, to see your children back on course, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.280 to run your own business. If you'll open your mouth wide, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:30.680 God will fill it. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.320 He has unlimited resources. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.520 The supply is never the problem. It's our capacity to receive. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:40.920 If you think you'll barely get bye. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.040 I don't know, Joel. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.760 This problem is big and I'm not that talented, and 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.160 I never get any good breaks. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.840 Your mouth is too small, Your. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.120 Vision is limiting your life. Make some room God. I 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.280 believe you have greater things in store. 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.560 I know your face is shining on me. That I 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.640 live under the open window of heaven. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.280 I believe it's going to be a blessed, favor filled year. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:06.800 That's creating space. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.120 That's giving God room to show out in your life. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:11.640 If you've been dealing. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.560 With an illness long time, it's easy to accept it 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.880 think that's the way it's always. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:16.880 Going to be. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.880 No, you need to make room for health. God is 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:25.279 still in the healing business. He's called Jehovah Raphah, the Lord, 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.479 our Healer. It may have been that way for years, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.720 but this is your year to get well, to see 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.000 a divine turnaround. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.280 He's struggling in your finances. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.080 Don't get stuck in a rug. I'll never have enough. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.200 I'm at a disadvantage. Nobody in my family can get ahead. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.279 God has ways to bless you that you can't see 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.520 right now. He brought a coin out of a fish's 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.719 mouth to pay taxes for Peter. He said, quell into 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.200 the desert to feed two million people. He gave us 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.360 the funds to buy the Compact center. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:03.400 He has super natural provision. Is there any room in 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:04.040 your thinking? 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.920 Are you believing for greater things, expecting God's favor, or 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.799 have you let doubt, discouragement, delays take. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.320 Up all the space in your mind. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:20.599 Jesus could not do any miracles in his hometown because 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:21.560 of their unbelief. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.560 There was no room. They thought, we know this man, Jesus. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.919 We grew up with him. He's nothing special. He can't 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:34.279 do miracles. Their limited mindset limited their life. Don't let 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:38.960 that be you. A while back, I ordered some exercise equipment. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.680 I'd been using the same bench and workout machine at 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.039 home for almost thirty years. This company was scheduled to 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.000 come and put down a new rubber floor. 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.440 They were backed up and weren't going to be there 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.560 for a month. All my equipment was coming the next week. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.840 There's a bunch of boxes and crates that you had 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.080 to assemble. I was planning on storing it in the 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.360 garage where Jonathan used to park when he lived at home. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.720 The problem was, over the last five years, that garage 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.840 has been turned into a storage room with all kinds 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.000 of old stuff, old landscape, lights from a couple of 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.960 trees that blew down in a storm, old parts of 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.200 an AC unit, and bikes that had flat tires we 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.400 hadn't ridden in twenty years. God's keeping just in case 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:26.320 we needed them. There was an old ladder rickety top rung, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.640 broken off, not safe, and always planning to. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.599 Give it to Paul, but I kept putting it off. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.120 I finally came to the point, if I'm. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.120 Want to receive this new equipment that I really want, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.200 I'm gonna have to make room for it. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.880 I got to clean out all this junk that's taking. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.680 Up the valuable space. Well, it's the same principle in 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.880 our mind. Sometimes we're holding onto things we don't need, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.039 and it's taking up space for the new things God 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.240 has in store. There's no capacity for increase. Maybe we're 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:02.800 holding onto doubt. Happened for me, Joel, I'm not that talented. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.960 I've had a lot of bad breaks. Do yourself a favor. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.280 Clean out the doubt that's taking up space for good breaks, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:15.080 for open doors, for promotion. Some people are holding on 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.160 to unforgiveness, thinking about how they hurt me. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.800 And they did me wrong. I'm a victim. All that 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.040 negativity is keeping. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:28.320 You from the restoration, the new beginnings, the beauty for ashes. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.720 It's not that God doesn't want to, but there's no. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.840 Room pay attention to what's taking space in your mind. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.880 Maybe we're letting insecurity, inferiority take up all this room. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.600 I'm not attractive, I don't have a good personality. I'm 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.520 too short, I'm not as smart as my cousins. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.160 You need to get that junk out of your garage. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.040 God says you're a masterpiece, that you are fearfully and 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.720 wonderfully made, that you have royal blood flowing through your veins, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.160 that He's crowned you with his favor. As long as 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.560 you keep the insecurity feeling not valuable, there's no room 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.760 for the confidence, the favor that God has for you. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:14.200 He needs capacity to show you his goodness. What's occupying 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.600 your space? Doubt, worry, can't do it, not enough, problem, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:19.160 too big. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.200 It's time for a cleaning. I met this couple after 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:23.880 the service. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.880 They had both been raised in very low income families. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.040 All they saw growing up was not enough struggle. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.480 Trying to survive what we've seen modeled, and how we 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:41.040 were raised often becomes normal to us. It's what we expect. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.440 We don't realize it's a limited mindset. It's keeping us 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.000 from rising higher. And that's why it's so important to 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.000 go back to God's word and find out who you 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:52.640 really are. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.360 Life will try to define you. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.840 People, circumstances will put labels on you, convince you to 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:09.040 take on that identity who they say you are, average, undisciplined, angry, inferior, unattractive. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.920 If you don't know better, those lies will take up 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.720 all the valuable space in your mind. There's no room 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:17.560 for God to work. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.760 That's why we make that declaration every service. I am 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.240 who God says I am. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.240 I am blessed, prosperous, forgiven, talented, well able. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.600 That's clearing out the negative. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:31.240 Well. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.000 This couple was told by their parents that. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.760 They would always struggle like they had and never have enough. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:38.840 That's just who they are. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.360 The grandparents of the woman said, all you'll have in 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.839 life is beings and rice. But that's good enough. They 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.040 meant well. They were saying, don't expect too much. We 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.400 made it on beings and rice, and you can too. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.640 But can I tell you beings in Rice is not 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:58.559 your destiny. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.960 That may have been what you've seen, but that's not 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.960 who you are. You're a barrier breaker, You're a new generation. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.160 You know more, so you can do more. You believe bigger, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.120 so you can live bigger. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.400 God said in Hoseah, my people are destroyed for a 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.240 lack of knowledge. If you think beings in rice is 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:26.160 your destiny, then you'll live lacking, struggling, hoping to get by. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.280 But when you realize God created you in his own image. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.839 He said you would reign in life as a king, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.440 that you are the head and not the tale. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.000 That you will lend and. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.760 Not borrow, that whatever you touch will prosper and succeed. 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.680 That's not being arrogant, as not being greedy. That's believing 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.920 you are who God says you are. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.800 Well, this couple started watching us on television and their 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.400 thinking begin to change. That didn't set well with them, 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.280 that they would always struggle and never have enough. Started 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:05.000 believing that they were children of the Most High, that although. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.080 They may be limited, he is unlimited. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.880 That he can open doors no person can shut, that 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.720 he makes rivers in the desert. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.199 Now, instead of all the doubt and negativity, they had 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.920 been programmed with. There was faith expectancin. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.360 Instead of talking defeat, they started declaring God's promises over 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:30.240 their life. What were they doing creating capacity to receive? 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.560 If you'll open your mouth wide, God will fill it well. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.360 This couple took a step of faith, and, on very 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.239 normal incomes, they started building a house men was in construction, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:47.079 and whenever they had extra funds, they would hire contractors 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.840 and buy more supplies, just little by little. A couple 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.959 of years later, he said, Joel, we can't explain it, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.440 but we moved into this beautiful new house in a 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:03.200 great neighborhood, all debt free. On paper, it didn't make sense, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.920 but God knows how to multiply what you have. His 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.880 favor will cause you to defy the odds. A few 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.319 years after that, they sold the house for twice what 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.800 they had built it for, and the wife told me 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.760 something that I'll never forget. She said, Joel, my grandparents 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.120 told me all we'd ever have were beans and rice, 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:29.040 but always knew one day we would have steak. If 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.280 you're going to see those blessings that are stored up 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.160 for you, you have to do like her and take 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:39.640 the limits off enlarger vision. Don't let how you were raised, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:44.120 what was passed down, what somebody said. Even mistakes you've 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.400 made convince you to settle for beans and rice, to 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.119 live with the illness, to never be free from the depression, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.520 to always be lonely. You have to stir your faith out. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:57.960 Nothing wrong with beans and rice. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.840 But how about some enchiladas, how about some phaidas, how 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.480 about some chilicken caeso? You have to make room for more. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.880 And I know we're all grateful for what God has done. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.839 We're content in every situation, But that doesn't mean you're 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.280 supposed to be satisfied. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:15.520 If you quit. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:21.200 Stretching, believing, expecting, then you are limiting your life. Is 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.600 there any capacity for God to do something greater, something. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.280 Other people would never believe could happen. That's what faith is. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:30.880 It's capacity. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.240 It's saying God, I'm open, I know you have greater 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:35.280 things in store. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.040 There was a lady in the scripture who was a widow. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.960 Her husband was a prophet, but he had passed, and 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.760 now she and her two sons were living together. She 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.120 was so in debt the creditors were coming to take 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.319 her sons as payment. She came to the prophet Elisha. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.760 It's a friend of the family. She told him the problem. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.040 He asked her what she had in her house. She 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.760 said nothing at all, except a small jar of oil. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.439 Elisha told her to go to her friends and neighbors 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:10.080 and borrow as many empty vessels large pots as she 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.400 could find. One version says borrow not a few. She 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.800 could have thought, Elisha, what good is that gonna do? 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.160 I need funds, I need provisions, I don't need empty pots. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.640 Sometimes God will ask you to do things that don't 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:30.360 make sense, but obedience creates capacity do what he's asking 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.920 you to do, even when you don't understand it, even 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:35.040 when it's a hard thing. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.480 God may ask you to apologize when you know it 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.400 was the other person's fault. You know they were wrong, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.400 but God's asking you to be the bigger person. 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.240 You can't always see what he's doing, but you can 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.320 be sure your obedience is making room for a blessing 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.360 Forgiving those that hurts you is never easy, doesn't seem fair, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.280 but holding onto the her is taking up space for 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:03.480 God to pay you back. 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.800 When you let it go, there's room for him to 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.600 make it up to you. God will do it better 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:10.520 than you ever could. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.800 This widow went out knocking on the neighbor's door asking 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.560 to borrow empty pots. Think about how foolish she looked 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.600 you to hear people talking gossiping. Did that crazy lady 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.080 come by your house asking for an empty jar? 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:26.080 What's wrong with her? 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.000 People may not understand you, They may think you're far out. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.520 Why do you live a holy life? Why don't you 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.160 party with us? Don't worry about what people think, be 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.040 concerned about what God thinks. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:39.960 He controls the universe. 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.400 Noah looked foolish building an arc a five hundred foot 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.480 boat when it had never rained, but. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.280 His obedience saved his life. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.960 His obedience made room for God to do something that 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.880 had never been done. After the widow gathered all these pots, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.240 Elisha told her to pour the little oil that she 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:00.880 had in to a big jar. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.640 Imagine a little six inch jar, this two foot jar. Again, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.520 she could have questioned him, what good is that gonna do? Elisha, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.640 I need money, I'm not here to play games. Transfer 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:13.200 the oil. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.080 But God's ways are not our ways. You have to 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.360 trust when you don't understand, be obedient when it doesn't 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.920 make sense. This lady poured the little bit of oil, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.720 and it kept pouring and pouring. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.040 It filled up the whole pot. That didn't make sense. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.880 But when you do what doesn't make sense, God will do. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.240 What doesn't make sense. She was standing there in amazement. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.200 She kept pouring the oil until all the vessels were full. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.520 She went out, sold the oil, paid off, her desks, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.160 had plenty to live on. But here's what's interesting. 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:53.080 The oil never ran out until she filled all the vessels. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.760 Let's say she borrowed twenty empty pots. The oil filled 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.640 all twenty. If she had borrowed thirty pots, the oil 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.280 would have filled all thirty. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.320 If she had borrend three pots, it would just fill three. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.800 With God, the problem is never supply its capacity. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.560 How many vessels are you gathering? What are you expecting 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.600 this year? What are you believing for? Joel? 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.400 If I can just make it through this year, I'll 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.159 be happy if my child just doesn't get in trouble, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.360 if I can just survive this depression that I'm dealing with. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.000 Jesus told a blind man, according to your faith, it 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:31.960 will be done unto you. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.000 It wasn't God's faith, it's our faith. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.800 It's how many vessels we have do yourself a favor, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:40.680 get some more empty. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:46.000 Pots, stretch, believe, expect. That's how you create capacity. 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.240 See some people gather a couple vessels that'll help them survive. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.560 Other people they'll get a dozen. They'll make it okay. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.320 But there's another group that pray bold prayers, and they 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.400 expect over and above favor. 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.639 They are obedient in the hard things. They becoming to lakewood. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.160 They gather vessel after vessel after vessel. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.880 They have capacity for healing. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:16.119 For greater resources, more influence, more creativity, more generosity. Many 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.720 of you have been doing this. Your mouth is open wide. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.280 Get ready, God is about to fill it. Something big 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.560 is coming that you can't explain. You didn't have the resources, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.760 the training, but suddenly the door opened for you. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.280 Maybe the medical report said you'd have to live with 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:35.560 that sickness, but. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.680 A turnaround is coming. God is going to do what 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.840 medicine couldn't do. Perhaps you thought that breakup stopped your destiny, 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.840 that you had seen your best days, But God is 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.880 about to surprise you someone better than you ever imagine. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.080 You didn't have to go after them. They came after you. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.560 Now keep believing, keep making room for more. You're going 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:03.320 to step into increase favor that catapults you ahead. This 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.639 is what my father had to do. He was raised 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.880 very poor, and he had to drop out of high 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.760 school to help on the family farm, just to survive 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.240 all the circumstances. Said he would live a defeated, struggling, 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:16.520 get by life. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.840 That's all he had seen. But at seventeen he gave 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.520 his life to Christ, the. 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.200 First one in the family. Something rose up in him 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.280 is the spirit of the living God saying you were 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.240 made for more. This defeat is not your destiny. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.760 And like my father, you may have gotten off to 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.760 a rough start, but how you start. 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.240 Is not how you're going to end. You're the one 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.320 to set a new standard. And Daddy's parents told him 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.399 that all he knew how to do was work in 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.840 the farm, that he better not leave that place. 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:50.119 He'd get out there and fail. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.120 But sometimes to make room, you have to get out 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.560 of a limited environment. You have to break away from 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.800 people that are telling you what you can't do, how 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.760 you're not gonna make it, and you don't have what 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:08.600 it takes. God told Abraham, leave your country, leave your family, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.960 and go to the land that I will show you well. 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.000 Abraham didn't have all the answers. He didn't know where 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.439 he was going, but he knew he couldn't see the 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.760 favor and blessing staying where he was. The people in 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.879 his city worshiped idols, the sun, the moon. Had he 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.280 stayed there, it would have limited his life. 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.840 To make room for more. You may have to make 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.440 changes with who you hang around, where you go. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.240 Get out of places that are causing you to compromise, 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.080 that are polluting your thinking. That's taking up space for 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:48.040 the promised land that God has taken you too. When 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.720 my father left the farm at seventeen, he didn't have 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.320 a car. He had to hitch eye, but he left 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.600 with a new mindset. He told me, Joel, I made 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.439 up my mind at seventeen that my children would be 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.879 raised in the poverty and defeat that I was raised in. 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:08.040 He emptied out all the lack not enough and made 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.600 room for increase, for God to open new doors, to 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.800 break barriers of the past. When I was a little 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.879 boy sitting in the feed store that was the first 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.520 building that Lakewood had seated ninety people, Daddy would get 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.200 up and say that the congregation look out over there. 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.800 Can you see that new auditorium seating a thousand people. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.280 There was nothing there but an empty field. 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.239 But week after week, my father I could see that 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:35.280 new auditorium. 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:38.880 He was making room for it. He built that one 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:39.840 and many more. 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.320 Sixty five years old, Daddy was in the hospital about 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:48.399 to have emergency open heart surgery, very critical time. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.240 All the family was in the room, praying, believing. 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.800 He asked me to run home and get his running 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.280 shoes and put them by the bed. I thought, I 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:00.480 don't know, Daddy, You're not gonna be needing these shoes 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:01.160 for a long time. 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.960 This surgery is a big deal. But he wanted those 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:05.160 shoes there to. 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.919 Show that he was planning to get well, that he 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:13.080 would be running again, healthy and whole. He was making rooms, saying, 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.359 this is not the end. Healing is coming, Restoration is coming. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:20.440 I will run and not be weary. He came out 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.840 of that surgery lived many more years, healthy and whole, 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.399 traveling the world. What's taking up space in your thinking? 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:30.560 Is there any room for God to do something bigger, 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.600 to heal you, to free you, to bring the right 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:38.040 person to use you in a greater way. God is 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.719 looking for capacity, He's looking for people who are stretching, 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.480 who are believing for bigger things? When Jesus was about 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.240 to be born, there was a senses and everyone had 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:53.400 to travel back to their hometown. Joseph and Mary traveled 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.720 by donkey eighty miles to Bethlehem. 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.520 Was late at night. They were tired. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:03.399 Mary was nine months pregnant. Joseph saw this end a 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.199 place to stay in. He knocked on the door and 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.040 told the innkeeper, Hey, my wife's pregnant. 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:11.879 We traveled a long way. We need a room. 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:16.159 She's about to have a baby. The innkeeper said, I'm sorry, 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:17.639 there's no room. 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:18.720 We're full. 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:22.760 He turned and started to walk away, and I can 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:25.240 hear Joseph saying, hey, wait a minute, sir. You got 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:27.760 to understand this is no ordinary child. 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.280 This is something special. The hand of God is on 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:34.680 our baby. The innkeeper says, yeah, all right, I told 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:38.000 you we don't have any room. Shut the door went away. 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:43.119 Imagine thirty years later, that innkeeper begins to hear about 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:47.080 this man named Jesus, how he's healing the sickond opening 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:50.760 blind eyes, feeding the multitudes, all this news about his 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:55.160 miracles and his influence. Suddenly the innkeeper has a flashback. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:24:00.280 He sees Mary and Joseph and realizes that's the young 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.520 couple that came to the end that night. He is 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.640 the man that was asking me for a place to stay. 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:09.679 Had I known this baby was going to change the world, 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:13.040 had I known what God was offering me, I would 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.080 have made room. I would have moved things around. I 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:18.520 would have let them stay in my own quarters. If 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:22.199 I'd known, I could be a part of history. And 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:23.760 the truth is the innkeeper. 0:24:23.880 --> 0:24:27.640 He wasn't a bad person. He wasn't being mean. He 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:28.359 was just full. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:32.760 He was busy, he was practical. This is the way 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:36.160 it always works. We can't make an adjustment. We don't 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:37.959 have any room. 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:41.160 Most people are not bad people. They're just full. 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:46.520 Life is busy. They're distracted. They've got sports on Sunday. 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:48.840 They're too tired to get up in the morning and 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:50.400 thank God for his goodness. 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.159 They don't recognize who's knocking now. 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:58.160 I wonder if we're missing blessings because there's no room 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:02.880 in our n not seeing the favor, the destiny moments, 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:07.720 because our end is full, the doubt, the hurts, things 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:09.680 people have said, how we were raised. 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:13.880 When destiny comes knocking. Sorry, I can't do. 0:25:13.920 --> 0:25:17.199 That I'm not that qualified. I got these friends I 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:20.359 want to hang around with. No make room in your inn. 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:25.320 God is about to come knocking with something unusual, something 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:30.040 far and beyond. But it may look ordinary, it may 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:34.119 seem common, just another couple needing a place to stay. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:37.040 Don't miss your destiny moments. 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:40.879 God wants to use you to make a greater impact, 0:25:41.320 --> 0:25:43.480 to be an example of his goodness. 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:45.280 But you have to do your part. 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:48.760 Empty out all the things that are cluttering your mind 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:55.960 and cluttering your life. The people, the distractions, social media, comparisons, 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:58.200 that's taking up valuable space. 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:00.000 Create some capacity. 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:04.520 Go grab some empty vessels, not a few, but in 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:05.600 large your vision. 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:09.600 Believe for the dreams God whispered in your spirit. 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:13.320 You wouldn't be hearing this if God wasn't about to 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:14.960 do something you've never seen. 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:18.880 The question is is there any room in your end? 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:21.960 Are you creating any space for victory? 0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:26.280 If you'll open your mouth wide, I believe and declare 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:30.119 God is about to fill it, not with beings and rice, 0:26:30.240 --> 0:26:36.360 but faid us, blessings, promotion, breakthroughs, the fullness of your 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:40.760 destiny in Jesus's name, And if you receive it, can 0:26:40.840 --> 0:26:44.760 you say amen, I'd like to give you an opportunity 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:47.000 to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:50.880 Would't you pray with me? 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