Manasseh is Coming

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How big was it? 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.000 She held up her finger and said three and a 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.600 half cares. That sounds kind of like Victoria to me. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.680 But she won't even wait till I'm gone. She'll just 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.080 go do it now. But come on, say it like 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.920 you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.560 it says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.680 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.200 I will be taught to word of God. I'll boldly confess. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.959 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.799 never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:47.799 God bless you. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.240 I want to talk to you today about Manassa is coming. 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.640 We all go through things that are not fair, situations 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.839 that cause heartache and pain. We were doing the right thing, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.840 but somebody walked away. We came down with an illness, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.800 our child got off course. It's easy to get discouraged 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.760 and think that's our lot in life. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.799 Everyone has disappointments. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.000 But if you'll stay in faith and not get bitter, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.240 God will bless you in such a way that you don't. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.080 Remember the pain of the past. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.600 Yes, you went through difficulties, things you don't understand. But 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.480 now you're so blessed, so fulfilled, so happy, you don't 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.040 dwell on who hurts you, on what didn't work out, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.880 how you weren't raised in a healthy environment. You may 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.800 not totally forget it, but it's not on the top 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.360 of your mind like it used to be. You don't 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.960 wake up thinking about it. You don't go through the 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.720 day bitter. You're too blessed to be angry. You're too 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.839 blessed to hold a grudge. You're too blessed to think 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.360 about what didn't work out. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:56.840 And this is what happened with Joseph. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.680 He went through a lot of unfair things, was betrayed 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:05.760 by his brothers, thrown into a pit, eventually sold into slavery. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.200 It's one thing to have people come against you, but 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.240 this was his own family. These were the people that 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.520 were supposed to love him. Made it much more painful. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.960 Joseph was falsely accused by lady and put in prison. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.960 In the prison, he interpreted a dream for the Pharaoh. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.760 The pharaoh was so impressed that he put Joseph in. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.240 Charge of all of Egypt. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.280 Joseph ended up bringing his whole family to Egypt, including 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:35.080 his brothers. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.080 The ones that threw him into the pit. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.320 He gave them a place to live and provided them 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.960 land so they could grow their crops. One day, Joseph 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:44.880 and his wife. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:45.400 Had a baby. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:51.120 The scripture says Joseph named his son Manassah, for he said, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.080 the Lord has caused me to forget the pain of 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:59.400 my past. That's what Manassah means. Joseph had been through 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:05.520 all this heartache, betrayals, lonely nights, injustice, but now God 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.280 had blessed him in such a way. He was so fulfilled, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.520 so grateful. He didn't think about the heartache he had 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.120 been through. He didn't live bitter because of his brothers, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.320 upset because he had spent years in prison. He was 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.880 so blessed, so favored. He didn't have time to be angry, 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.360 didn't have time to try to pay people back. He 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.040 was too overwhelmed with the goodness of God. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.440 You may have gone through situations that weren't fair. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.440 You did your best, but a dream didn't work out, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.520 your marriage didn't make it, you. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.920 Lost a loved one. It was painful. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.840 Thoughts whisper, it's never going to change. This is as 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.000 good as it gets. Just learn to live with it. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.080 No get ready. Manessa is coming. God is going to 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:54.640 cause you to forget. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.640 He's going to bless you in such a way that 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.680 you don't remember. The pain not going to be on 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.440 the forefront of your mind. You're going to be so 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.880 filled with gratitude for God's goodness, for all He's done 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.080 for you. You're not going to think about what you've 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.359 been through. And we talk a lot about letting go 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.160 of the past and forgiving people that hurt us, not 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:21.320 reliving disappointments. That's important, but sometimes it's hard to not 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.359 think about what went wrong. You wake up and the 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.320 heartache automatically comes to mind. Through the day, you want 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.200 to be happy, but you feel that heaviness reminding you 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.200 of what you're lost, of the sickness you're dealing with 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.080 the addiction. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.000 We do our best to. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.520 Tune it out, but can be an ongoing struggle. Stay encouraged. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.720 There will be a day where God causes you to forget. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.240 You're going to give birth to Manassa. You're not going 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.919 to wake up thinking about the hurt. You're going to 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.479 wake up thinking about the goodness of God. You're not 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.960 going to go through the day discouraged by the law 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.200 weighed down by heaviness. God is going to turn it 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.360 around to where all you can think about is how 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.040 grateful you are. You're going to have a deep satisfaction, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.520 a joy that you can't explain. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:14.560 What happened. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.280 You gave birth to Manassa. When my father went to 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.200 be with the Lord. That was painful to me. I 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.080 was close to him and he was taken sooner than 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.080 I wanted. But like Joseph, God has blessed me in 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.360 such a way that I don't remember the heart ache. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.680 And yes, I missed my father. I don't forget him. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.000 Of course, I honor his legacy. But God has brought 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.240 gifts out of me that I didn't know I had. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.680 It's given me talent and ability, favor influence. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.600 Well, Joel, I've been through difficulties and I still remember 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.320 the loss, the sickness, the heart ache didn't happen for me. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:56.800 You may not realize it, but you're pregnant. Manassa is coming. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.880 God hasn't forgotten about you. He's seen the heartache, the 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.360 lonely nights, the injustice. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.320 God has collected every tear that you've shed. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.600 You may not be able to forget on your own 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.120 the good news is. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.600 God is going to cause you to forget. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.560 He's going to turn it around in such a way 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.200 that you're overwhelmed. You don't have time to think about 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.320 the her. You're so grateful for the goodness of God. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.520 God not only brought Joseph out of slavery that would 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.360 have been justice, but he had his brothers come back 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.280 and apologize. They were at the mercy of Joseph. He 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.600 was in charge of the whole nation. He was blessed 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:45.080 with land, resources, opportunity. Joseph had influence in favor, his 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.880 children were blessed. God didn't just bring him out, he 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.560 brought him out in an exceptional way where he didn't 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.880 remember the pain of the past. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.200 We all have things that we need to forget. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:03.160 A bad break, mistake we made, the closed door brought heartache. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.360 Do your best to not dwell on it. When the 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.920 thought comes up, try not to think about it. But 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.280 at some point God is going to do something out 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.240 of the ordinary that causes you to forget. You're not 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.760 going to have to struggle with it in your thoughts. 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.120 Your mind is going to be so filled with God's 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:26.360 goodness that that negative memory doesn't have any space. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:26.920 To come back up. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.440 Sometimes people tell me, Joel, I'm praying for you. I 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.040 know you have critics. I know people come against you, 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.679 and I appreciate them praying. They mean well, But I 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.520 feel so blessed God has honored me in such a way. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.840 I don't even think about the negative. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:49.800 My mind is so overwhelmed with gratitude, with thanksgiving. When 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.199 I drive up to this building, the former Compact Center, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.240 and think about how I used to watch the Rockets 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.920 play basketball here, how I had seasoned tickets right over there, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:01.040 and now. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.000 It's our church. I'm still amazed. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.480 Sometimes I'm flipping through the channel watching television and I 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.960 see myself come up speaking. I think, how in the 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.080 world did I get there? 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.680 And yes, there have been difficult times. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.120 It was hard losing my dad, and people have tried 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.640 to stop us. But what I'm saying is, I'm too 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.200 blessed to be offended. I'm too blessed to live stressed out. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.840 I'm too blessed to go around bitter. When I think 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.280 about the goodness of God, where he's brought me to 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.360 and how He's opened doors I could have never opened, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.160 how he's called the right people to show me favor, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.679 like Joseph, I don't have time to think about what 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.559 happened back then. I don't have time to try to 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.040 pay people back. God has been too good to me. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:52.760 He's given me nnassa. He's caused me to forget. Isaiah said, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.679 because you've got a double dose of trouble, your inheritance 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.000 in the land will be double. Your joy will go 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:06.599 on forever. God didn't promise we wouldn't have difficulties. Sometimes 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.920 we have a double dose, more than our share. The 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:14.640 good news is trouble doesn't have the final say. The betrayal, 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.560 the sickness, the loss is not how your story ends. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.280 God is not only going to bring you out. He's 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.600 going to bring you out with double double the joy, 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.400 double the peace, double the influence, double the fulfillment. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.199 It says your joy will go on forever. That means 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.199 the trouble is temporary. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.320 The sickness, the loneliness, the addiction, the depression, it's not 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:41.160 going to last. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.000 The pain is temporary, but the joy will go on forever. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.000 You may have been through a lot in your past. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.160 Maybe you have things coming against you now and you 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.960 don't see how it could ever turn around. Get ready, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:59.160 Vanessa is coming God has something ahead of you where 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.600 you will be so bad less, so fulfilled, so prosperous, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.120 that you will live out of a place of joy, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.439 a place of gratitude, where you think, God, you've amazed 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.360 me with your goodness. You've done more than I could 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.480 ever dream. You're not going to wake up thinking about 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.000 the haters. You're going to wake up thinking about. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.880 How blessed you are. You're not going to. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.440 Go through the day bitter because of bad breaks. You're 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.920 going to go through saying Lord, thank you for your favor, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:29.400 thanks for being. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:29.920 So good to me. 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.079 You won't go to bed discouraged, dwelling on what didn't 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.839 work out. You'll lie down in peace, with your mind 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.679 filled with gratitude, so focused on the greatness of our God. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.880 I talked to a lady that didn't have a good childhood. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.120 She was raised in poverty, very poor, and many times 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.839 she and her siblings didn't have enough food. Her father 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.040 wasn't in her life, and she was taking advantage of 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:57.920 by other men. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.440 It's a lot of abuse, hurt, and pain. Her mother 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:02.960 would take. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:07.439 Her to church every week growing up, through all the heartache, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.800 through all the things she didn't understand. She would tell 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.520 people that Jesus was her father, and against all odds, 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.120 God opened doors for her. He caused people to show 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.960 her favor and made things happen that she couldn't have 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.520 made happen. Today, she's one of the most influential and 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.600 well respected. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.200 People in the world. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.960 When she walks through her house, at a certain place, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.079 she can look out and see the ocean. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:35.319 She said. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.079 Every time she passes by that place. Under her breath 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.560 she says thank You Jesus. Dozens of times a day. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.880 She thanks God for his goodness. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.280 She had a rough start, she. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.240 Was abused, life wasn't fair. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.760 But like Joseph, she gave birth to Mnassa. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.400 God has blessed her in such a great way that 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.000 has caused her to forget. We've all had things that 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.360 could steal our joy, cause us to lose our passion 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.520 for life, settle for mediocrity. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.600 God is saying to you today, Manessa is coming. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.520 There is something in your future that's going to erase. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.520 The pain of the past. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.880 God is not going to just bring you out. I'm 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.000 not going to just heal you, restore you, vindicate you. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.360 That would be good, but that wouldn't make you forget 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.320 the pain. God is going to do something out of 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.840 the ordinary, something unusual, something that you didn't see coming. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.440 When Manassa shows up, you're going to say, Wow, God, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.120 I never dreamed i'd be this blessed. I never dreamed 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.160 i'd meet somebody this great. I never dreamed we'd own 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.480 the Compact Center. One day, a friend of mine was 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.040 married for over twenty years. He came home from a 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.680 business trip and found a note from his wife saying 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.800 she was leaving. She had found another man and the 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.120 marriage was over. My friend was devastated. He loved his wife, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.960 and for several years he tried to convince her to 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.520 change her mind and prayed, believed stood in faith, but 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.800 she never did, and one point he realized it was over. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:18.360 Didn't understand. It didn't seem fair. I've learned, don't put. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.200 A question mark where God has put a period. We're 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.960 not going to understand everything that happens. Life is not 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.400 always fair. You can't make people do what's right. God's 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.880 given us our own free will, and sometimes people make 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.520 choices that hurt us. What the brothers did wasn't fair 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.040 to Joseph. He hadn't done them any wrong. The good 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:45.320 news is. God is a god of justice. He knows 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.160 how to not only heal the hurts. That would be 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.800 good enough. We would be grateful to be restored. But 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.040 God is so amazing. He's going to cause you to 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.920 forget the pain of your past. When you go through 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:04.000 a bad break and injustice, you become pregnant. Manassa is 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.800 conceived in your spirit. Maybe you weren't treated right growing up, 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.520 a friend betrayed you. You're taking the treatment, trying to 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.600 beat the illness. Life has thrown you a curb. The 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:20.400 good news is you're pregnant. There's a baby coming. Something 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:25.120 out of the ordinary, an explosive blessing, a divine connection, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.760 a supernatural healing. You couldn't have made it happen. You 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:29.880 weren't next in line. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:34.600 What was that, Manassa? God blessing you in such a way. 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.000 That you forget the injustice, You forget the pain, You 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.200 forget what you've been through. This friend of mine, he 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.320 used to be so outgoing and fun to be around, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.280 but when his wife left, he lost his passion. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.520 He was a different person. I told him what I'm 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.880 telling you. That is not how your story ends. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.160 God is going to not just bring you through, but 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.680 he's going to do something to make it up to you. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.040 About a year later, he met a beautiful young lady. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.680 When I saw them together, they were beaming with joy. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.200 They fell in love and got married. He said, Joel, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.359 I have never been this happy in all of my life. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.480 I didn't know what true love really was. What happened 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.679 he gave birth to MNESSA. God knows how to cause 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.280 you to forget the pain of your past. Now, somebody 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:27.480 may have walked out on you. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.480 That's not easy. I know the hurt is real, but 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.160 it is not the end. God has the final say. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.640 He is going to bring you someone so great, so loving, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.320 so kind, so fun, so good looking, so well off. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.560 You're not even going to miss that old goat that 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:47.960 left you. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.320 I mean, that person that left you, Monessa is coming. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.200 God is going to pay you back. Now, get your 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.800 hopes up. Quit believing those lies that you've seen your 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:00.639 bad days. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.719 You've been through too much. You'll never be happy. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.960 God has something amazing in front of you, Amazing people, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:14.159 amazing opportunities, amazing resources. He has something that you've never seen, 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.520 something more rewarding, more fulfilling than you've ever dreamed. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:19.760 I love that. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:24.640 It says, God will cause us to forget, because sometimes 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.560 we can't forget on our own. If you've ever had 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.120 something happen that really hurt you lost a loved one, 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.719 someone walked out of a relationship, and unexpected illness. We 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.360 can do our best to let it go and move forward, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.200 but those negative. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.320 Thoughts keep coming back. You're a victim. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.840 It's not fair. It's never going to change. We can't 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.800 totally forget on our own. That's why God is going 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.480 to bless you in such a way that he. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:57.280 Causes you to forget. In the scripture, Ruth lost her husband. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:58.720 She was devastated. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.680 She was a young lie, now a widow. Her dreams 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.760 were shattered. I can imagine every morning when she woke 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.280 up that was the first thing on her mind. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.720 Ruth, you're a victim. Life's not fair. 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.800 One day she was out working in the fields, minding 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:21.240 her own business. The scripture says God caused Boaz, the 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.480 owner of those fields, to notice her. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:25.000 You may have. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.280 Gone through a situation it's not fair. You don't see 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:29.440 how it could ever work out. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.679 But you don't know who God is going to cause 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:33.520 to notice you. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.800 God knows how to cause you to stand out, how 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.200 to cause you to look good. A dozen people can 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.879 bypass you. God can cause the right one to notice 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:45.920 you and say. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.560 Wow, look at her, she's amazing. Look at him, he's outstanding. 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.600 God will cause them to see you the way he 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.760 wants them to see you. When I walked into the 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.719 jewelry store and met Victoria for the first time, God 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.040 caused her to see me tall, dark, handsome. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.840 We got married, and she found out none of that 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.399 was true. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.520 Right now, God is causing the right people to be 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.840 attracted to you. He's causing the right opportunities, the right. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.160 Breaks to track you down. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.920 Ruth had gone through all this heartache. She thought she'd 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.320 seen her best days. When God caused Boaz to notice her, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.080 he was one of the wealthiest men in that area. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.560 They ended up falling in love, getting married, they had 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:34.199 a child. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.080 Ruth never dreamed she'd be that blessed. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.320 She never dreamed she'd own those fields with her husband, 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.400 never dreamed she'd have children. 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:43.400 Now. 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.720 When she woke up, those thoughts telling her, Ruth, you're 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:50.160 a victim. You've been through too much. You'll never be happy, 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.880 they didn't come anymore. God had blessed her in such 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:56.960 a way that he caused her to forget the pain 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.720 of the past. God has some bless this seems come 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.880 in your way that's going to cause you to forget 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.560 what you lost, forget who hurts you, forget what you've 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.320 been through. You're going to give birth to Manassa. You 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:14.119 may have had a double dose of trouble. Get ready, 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:18.720 a double dose of favor is headed your way. This 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.679 is what happened with Job. Everything was going great, then. 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:23.520 The bottom fell out. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:28.439 He lost his business, lost his family, lost his health, 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.200 had big boils all over his body. It's very painful, 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.679 and Job was a good man. The scripture says that 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:40.320 he loved God and lived with integrity. Just because we 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.840 honor God doesn't mean we're not going to have difficulties 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.159 and things we don't understand. What Job couldn't see is 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.280 that God allowed the difficulty. Satan had to ask God 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:56.440 for permission to test Job. God only let him test 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.159 him up to a certain point. And when you go 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.520 through difficulties, things that don't make sense, you have to 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:06.399 remind yourself God is still in control. The person that 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:11.560 hurts you, the betrayal, the unexpected illness is not a surprise. 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:14.959 To God, don't get bitter, don't start complaining. 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.080 It's a test. Joe didn't think he could ever be happy. 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.400 Negative thoughts came, and he made the mistake of believing them. 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:28.280 He said in chapter seven, I will never again experience pleasure. 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:31.440 He was saying, I've been through too much. It's all 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:32.520 downhill from here. 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:36.320 He was so discouraged. A few verses later he said, 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.679 I hate my life. He didn't want to keep living. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.080 But even though he had given up, even though he 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:47.840 was complaining, cursing his future, God hadn't given up. God 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:52.000 still had a plan. Joe didn't realize he was pregnant 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:56.240 when God allowed the difficulty. When God allowed that test, 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.800 at the same time, God planted a seed in Job, 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:05.760 he conceived manassa chapter seventeen, Job said, my eyes are 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:09.560 dim from weeping. I am but a shadow of my 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:14.200 former self. Maybe like Job, you feel like a shadow 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:14.760 of what you. 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:15.320 Used to be. 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:19.399 At one time you were strong, healthy, full of energy, 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:22.880 but now you're fighting that illness, dealing. 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:24.919 With the pain. You feel tired and weak. 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.440 Or at one time you were blessed in your business, 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:31.879 you had more than enough successful, but now things have 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:32.520 gone down. 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:34.800 You're struggling, barely making it. 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:38.359 Perhaps at one time you had a great marriage, you 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.600 were happy, excited about life, but things have changed. You're 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:45.240 just going through the motions, trying to keep it together. 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.560 It may not look good, but what. 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.480 You can't see is Monessa is coming. 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:55.280 Being half of who you were is not how your 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:56.119 story ends. 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:58.800 The scripture says. The path of. 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:03.040 The righteous gets writer and brighter, not less and less. 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.879 The good news is your water is about to break. 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.160 It's not long before you're going to give birth. God 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:14.199 is going to do something, not to just restore you, 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:17.800 not to just bring you out. He's going to bless 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:20.480 you in such a way that you forget what you've 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:23.960 been through. Job thought his life was over. 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:26.960 He was complaining negative. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:32.120 But some scholars say that that trial only lasted nine months. 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:33.720 That's interesting. 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:36.920 That's the same amount of time that a woman is pregnant. 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:41.200 Nine months later, God turned it around and brought Job 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:44.919 out with double Just like Isaiah said, he had a 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:48.840 double dose of trouble, so God gave him double blessings. 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:51.680 He came out with twice the cattle, twice the sheep, 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:56.879 twice the joy. The scripture says, after this Job lived 0:24:56.880 --> 0:25:00.720 one hundred and forty years and saw his grain children 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:05.280 down to four generations after what after the loss, after 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:08.760 the trouble, after the sickness, That means, after the divorce, 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:12.720 after the unexpected illness, you're going to see years of. 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:18.040 Health, happiness, favor. I can hear Job saying, what was 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:19.760 I thinking? Saying? 0:25:19.880 --> 0:25:22.800 My life was over look at what God has done. 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:26.600 I'm seeing my great great great great grandchildren. 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:30.200 He was so blessed, so fulfilled. He didn't think about 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:34.040 what he had been through. Joseph was seventeen years old 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:37.520 when his brothers betrayed him, thirty years old when he 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:38.440 took the throne. 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:41.960 Those thirteen years weren't easy. It was difficult. 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:45.800 But if you study the rest of Joseph's life after 0:25:45.840 --> 0:25:48.680 he was thirty, after he took the throne, you don't 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:53.360 read anything about him having problems, having armies coming against him, 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:58.760 having betrayals. The difficulty was for a season, his son 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:02.840 Manassa had children, His son had children, His son had children. 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.960 After the betrayal, after he was falsely accused. After spending 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:13.119 time in prison, Joseph lived to see three generations in peace, instability, 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:17.760 in abundance. He was so grateful so happy he didn't 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:21.600 think about his brother's betraying him. I could imagine every 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.680 time he saw Manassa, he would say, Lord, thank you 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:28.480 for being so good to me. Isaiah said, God will 0:26:28.520 --> 0:26:32.560 restore Double, and your joy will go on forever. The 0:26:32.680 --> 0:26:37.440 trouble is temporary, the joy is permanent. You may be 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:41.560 in a tough time today, Get ready, Manassa is coming. 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:45.439 There is something in your future that is going to 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:48.960 cause you to forget what you've been through. You may 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:51.760 not be able to forget on your own. The good 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:54.960 news is God is going to cause you to forget 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:59.560 right now. He's working behind the scenes. You may not 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:02.680 see any sign of it, but I can assure you 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:05.840 you are pregnant. You are going to give birth to 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:10.240 blessings that catapult you ahead. God is about to do 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:14.040 something unusual, out of the ordinary, to make up for 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:17.560 what you've been through. Like Ruth, that loss is not 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:20.280 the end. The right people are going to notice you. 0:27:21.200 --> 0:27:24.719 Like Job, those bad breaks are not your destiny. Double 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:27.400 is coming like Joseph, those. 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:31.080 Years of heartache are not your final chapter. I believe 0:27:31.200 --> 0:27:37.480 and declare you are coming into years of health, happiness, favor, growth, abundance, 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:41.960 The fullness of your destinies in Jesus's name, and if 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:45.960 you receive it, can you say amen? Today I'd like 0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:48.920 to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:53.360 of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 0:27:54.680 --> 0:27:59.320 I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:01.200 make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:02.919 Quenz. 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:05.640 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:09.040 born again. Get in a good Bible based church, keep 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:12.480 God first place. Victoria now will be right back to 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:13.880 speak a blessing over you. 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:19.280 As a thank you for your support of our ministry 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:21.680 this month, Joel and Victoria, I would like to send 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:25.040 you a copy of Joel's new series, You Are Healed. 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:27.119 This audio and video. 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:32.520 Resource will challenge you to experience wholeness in your emotional, relational, spiritual, 0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:37.760 and physical health. Also included is the testimony of Joel's mother, Dody, 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:42.080 read about her devastating cancer diagnosis in nineteen eighty one 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:46.280 to her miraculous healing in Dodie O. Stein's book Healed 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:46.960 of Cancer. 0:28:47.240 --> 0:28:49.560 I was forty eight years old when I was diagnosed 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:53.280 with terminal cancer and given a few weeks to live. 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