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You have to 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.640 stir up your praise, stir up your faith, start speaking 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.480 victory over your life. Start thanking God that He's fighting 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.720 your battles, that this too shall pass, that Greater is coming. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.639 Welcome back to part two of our conversation around Joel's 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.280 new book, Your Greater Is Coming. We got another question 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.520 from one of our team members here, Alex, Alex, you 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:28.440 got a question for Joel. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:29.000 Yeah. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.280 So in chapter eight your Time is Coming, the book 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.880 says that sometimes it can take a long time for 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:40.960 your dream to come to pass, and sometimes you won't 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.840 see any change or improvement taking place for quite a while, 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.720 and it's easy to get discouraged, but to not give 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.160 up hope and keep the faith. So I was just wondering, 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.480 did you have any advice or thoughts on what to 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.359 do during those waiting periods. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.040 Yeah, that's a great question, Alec, because that's a that's 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.480 a I mean, a lot of these are difficult times 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.360 to keep to stay in faith. But let me think 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.520 about some scriptures. Let me get going here. The scripture 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.720 says about the Israelites, they did not wait for God's 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.840 plan to unfold. So it's obviously there's a part of waiting. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.960 And I think what happens many times, Alex, I'm sure 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.799 I've done it too, is you know, we get discouraged 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.640 along the way and we miss God's best. So to me, 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.480 I go back to this God, you said there's a 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.840 set time for this to come to pass. That's what 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.760 the scripture says. In Psalms. So if there's a set time, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.520 I'll call that a right time. That means any other 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.720 time is the wrong time. So God, I trust your timing. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.640 I believe you know when the right time now. I 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.560 think the challenge is the right time for us is 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.080 always right now. But you know what, God's working. This 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.320 is another thing I'll remind myself. God, you're working behind 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.960 the scenes, even though I don't see anything happening. And 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.560 just because let me say that thought better, just because 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.480 nothing is happening doesn't mean God is not working. And 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.440 that's when the never lies come, never going to get well, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.720 never meet the right person. This situation is never going 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.800 to turn around. The enemy's been using those same lives forever, 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.240 you know. And so you just got to say, you 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.400 know what, you wouldn't be telling me that if my 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.480 grader wasn't coming, if this promise wasn't on the way. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.160 So I think the way you wait for the plan 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.080 to unfold is you get up. You know, when you're 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.640 tempted to worry, just turn it around and let it 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:25.920 be a thought of praise. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:26.200 Father. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.080 I think it that you'll work it in my life. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:29.839 I think you that what you promised me is on 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.560 the way. I think that whatever it is, my healing 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.279 is coming, whatever it is. But I think if you 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.760 can just remind yourself that God is for you, He's 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.080 already He already set the time for the answer to come. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.560 It's already on the schedule, and it's going to be 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.080 the right time. Then I think it'll be easier to 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.440 stay in faith. But keep that scripture. I use it 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.479 a lot. They did not wait for God's plan to unfold. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.839 What if you're about to get discouraged and it's going 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.279 to unfold next week, or what if you knew that 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:02.320 on December seventeenth at twelve twenty in the afternoon you're 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.560 going to meet the right person, or that medical report 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.440 was going to turn, or you would say, Okay, I'm 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.200 gonna stay in peace. I know it's on the way. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.960 What God promised you is on the way. So just 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.720 take that same time that you'd normally worry and say, Father, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.120 I trust you, I thank you. Now. I think he 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.320 can get difficult, like somebody called yesterday and they've been 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.200 waiting seven years. I know that's hard, but you just 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.320 have to say God, you know it's difficult, But God, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.200 I believe You've given me the grace that I need. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.080 I believe that you're in control. And again I go 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.240 back to this, God knows what's best for us. He 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.479 has you in the palm of his hand. And so 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.800 if it's taken a long time I've learned this, it's 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.920 because he has something bigger, something better in store for you. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.520 It's going to be more rewarding. So I hope you'll 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:44.159 stay in faith. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:44.919 Yeah. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.880 You know, it's funny because we can all look back 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.000 and say, if I knew then what I know now, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.400 you know, I would have found joy in the journey. Yes, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.719 And so I think that we have to realize there's 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:56.799 joy in the journey. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.160 And you brought up the Israelites. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.839 You know, when they were when they were taken out 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.440 of Egypt and journey into the Promised Land. They had 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:10.360 their kids with them. They had God placed, you know, valuables. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.480 He had the Egyptians give them valuables and things. But 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.039 they weren't looking at what they had. They were just 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.440 looking at I got to get to this place that 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.039 he promised. They had their little kids with them, but 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.520 all they could do is murmur and complain. They weren't 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.720 finding joy in the journey they got. They let that 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.000 discouragement take hold to the point where they. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.400 Said, if we could only go back. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:32.919 But I bet if you'd ask them today and they 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.800 could see that whole plan unfolded in their life, they 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.720 just said, why didn't I find joy in the journey? 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.000 Why didn't I use what I had? 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.800 Why didn't I take advantage of my children at this age? 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.120 And so I think that's a lesson that we can 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.280 learn from these stories in the Bible. And there is 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.440 there is joy in the journey. There's treasure in darkness. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.440 We've just got to be the kind of people that 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.800 find it and look for it. And so I think 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.400 that's that's how we can get through those waiting periods, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.560 to know that God isn't punishing us, but that He's 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.240 got something for us today. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.600 I think he Tooure, I love that phrase. I'm going 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.200 to use that sometimes. Join the journey, But it says 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.480 too the we talk about the Israelites, it took them 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.440 whatever forty years to make an eleven day journey, but 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.480 it did say at one point God did not take 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.960 them the shortest route because they weren't prepared for war. 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.560 And so I think in that in that waiting time, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.480 God's doing things in us. You know, we may think 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.840 we're ready, or maybe it's a better way to put it. 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.040 God may have something bigger than you can handle right now, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:38.480 and he's saying, you know what, let me get you 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.920 a little stronger, a little more experience. I'm not going 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.880 to throw the compact center on you right now. I'm 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.920 not gonna, you know, until you're ready. So again it 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.320 goes back to God, I trust you with my life. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.920 I think the key is when you're honoring God, you're 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.760 being your best. You don't have to be perfect, but 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.480 when you're, when you're when your hardest to please God, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.760 he's He's ordering your steps. The scripture says no good 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.080 thing will he withhold when you walk up rightly, So 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.520 that means at the right time, God's going to bring 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.080 you what you need. If it hasn't happened yet, hadn't 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.960 been the right time. Maybe God's doing the work in you, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.120 maybe he's working in somebody else, Maybe he's waiting for 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.840 some you know, he's arranging some other things in your favor. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.520 But you can have joined the journey when when you 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:18.880 trust that God's in control. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.720 So good We have another question here from our online 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:28.120 crew Kayla from South Carolina. She says, you and Victoria 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.360 are such a great couple together. What is your favorite 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.400 memory with Victoria and how do you keep your relationship strong? 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.480 I have so many favorite memories. Where do I start? 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.479 My favorite memory would be poof. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.160 It'd probably be one maybe one. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.360 Well, my favorite would be the when I took it 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.960 out on my first date. That was my favorite. We 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.400 came right here to this building. This wasn't built, but 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.000 the Compact Center is right next door. This connects to it. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.480 And so I asked her to come to a Rockets 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.760 basketball game with me, and and she said yes. And 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.000 it's a long strung on one boy. You no, that's 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.160 is good? Well we need to hear okay, Well, so 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.160 anybody we came. So we I had season tickets, but 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.880 I realized the day I went to pick her up 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.720 that I had given away those tickets for that night 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.839 to somebody else a few months before, and so I thought, oh, man, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.840 I just invited this beautiful girl out doesn't even know me, 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:20.920 and I don't have any tickets to come to the 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.520 ball game, and it was sold out, so we had 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:23.959 to come here and we had to buy them from 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.160 the scalpers down front. And that's back when it was legal. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.720 It's not legal now. But I'll tell you a funny 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.200 thing about Victorious. So so this guy comes up. This 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.680 guy comes up and he's kind of a schemer, you know, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.200 but he was just in. He's wheeling dealing. I said, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.160 give me some tickets. So he said, okay, here's here's tickets, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.200 fifty dollars each. And that was whatever, thirty seven years ago. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:46.199 That's a lot, it was. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.520 It was at Okay, maybe tickets, okay, maybe it's a 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.000 hundred dollars. Anyway, it was a lot of money. But 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.040 I wasn't man. I got her with me. What I'm 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:55.959 gonna do. I'm not going to be embarrassed. So I'm 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.040 about to buy these tickets. And she walks in and says, no, no, no, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:05.280 we're not paying that much for those. You know, I 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.760 thought she bargained. She got bround. But anyway, we sat 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.839 at the very top and during the halftime somebody threw 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.400 is well it's a long but during the game, somebody 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.559 threw their beer. Their beer went up in the air 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.439 when they jumped up and shouting, and it came back 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.960 down on Victoria and drenched her. And it was a 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.880 crazy time, but it was right here in this building. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.240 But it was a great memory. I remember the beer 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.400 flowing down her forehead. She had a little leather jacket. 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.160 I thought, I don't know what she thinks. But Victory nine. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.120 We when we dated, and we still we laugh all 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.200 the time. We keep laughter in our house, and she 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.960 loves to laugh. I hear laughter. She'll be on the 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.680 phone eight o'clock in the morning. I hear laughter going 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.800 through the house. And I love that because I think 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.440 it's easy to let life weigh you down, pressures. Oh, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.280 I've got a big ministry. We got this stuff going. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.440 Do you know what you have to You have to 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.120 enjoy your life and take time and really, you know, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:01.480 I like not bringing this is maybe sounds too cliche, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.400 but not bringing stress into the home. In other words, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.040 there's stressful things. When we get into our home, we're 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.560 not you know, we work together, but we're not working here. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.600 This is our home. We're gonna have fun here, We're 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.520 gonna relax, We're gonna, you know, enjoy each other. So 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.320 I think your home needs to be a place of 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.440 peace and harmony and joy. And I know I can 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.720 hear somebody saying you have but you don't know my husband, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.319 or you don't know my situation, but maybe you can 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.520 be the catalyst for change. Victoria sets the tone in 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.800 the house. She's just joyful, she's happy, she's you know, 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.840 and I think I am too, But I think she 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.000 really sets the tone in the house. Tell a couple 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.040 of good memories about me. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.640 Now, come on, all my memories are good about Joe. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:44.480 I just can't remember any. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:49.199 Good no. 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.040 I think laughter, you know, and it's funny because I 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.319 have a different sense of humor than he does. But 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.920 you know, we laugh, we laugh at each other, and 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.320 I just, you know, I love going back to those 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.079 times where there was no pressure, you know, and thinking 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.600 about how how much fun those times were too, because 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.160 it's it makes you realize that it doesn't have to 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.200 be that much pressure right now. You know that there 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.080 are things we can laugh at. So I agree with 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.600 everything that he's saying. We've had so much fun together. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.280 I mean, Joel's a gift for me. He was my gift. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.599 So I just love everything about him. I mean, I 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.079 could kill him sometimes. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.040 You know, I was going to say some one thing 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.880 I've observed that I've loved is just how you're aware 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.719 of how each other compliments one another. You know, you 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.880 see what she brings that you may not possess. That 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.800 adds to your relationship and your family, and you see, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.440 you know what I mean. And I think that's key 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.280 in our lives, is recognizing how other people compliment us 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.719 and bring strengths maybe that we don't necessarily have. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.839 And yeah, so good nick, it is. I recognize Victorias spontaneous. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:58.480 She's a great extemporaneous speaker. I've got to go prepare, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.839 normally a long time to get up, but she can 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.280 get up. And do you know our gifts are just different. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.880 And I think sometimes we try to make people, you know, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.640 we get upset over somebody else's gifts being different maybe, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.760 you know, especially if they're not just like us. But 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.920 I know we're we're better together, and she brings things 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.120 that I don't bring in. So that's why I think 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.720 celebrating the differences is the way to go and not hey, 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.840 why aren't you like me? You know, I'm gonna be 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.560 down here an hour early today, She's gonna come out 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.440 with thirty seven seconds before the service starts. But you 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.560 know what we're all different. But then again, there's so 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.560 many things at Victoria, just her insight, her discernment. She 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.360 sees things that I don't see. I think there's no 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.199 way that's right, and you know two days later it's 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.120 exactly right. But I've learned to trust that and trust her, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.080 and so again celebrating each other's differences. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:47.840 Yeah, I like that. I like that. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.760 Well we have. Terra's got a question from the book 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:51.600 in there. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.880 Hi, So you already shared a little bit about someone 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.079 oh six and how the Israelites they didn't allow God's 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.640 plan to play out, And in chapter four you talk 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:04.000 about how we can sometimes push so hard on a 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.559 door that isn't God's will that it opens anyway. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.280 So how do you walk that out? 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.520 How do you know when to keep pushing and when 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:11.000 to wait. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.160 That's a great question. It is a good question. And 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.480 again I feel like some of these are difficult. I 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.080 hope I can answer them properly, but I think you 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.240 have to go back to say, God, I trust your timing, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.120 I trust your ways. Maybe here's a different take on 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.800 it too, and this is maybe a little more harder, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.960 but I've learned this. I ask God for what I want, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.440 you know, I let him know, I asked. But then 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.680 I said, God, but I trust you and you know 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.440 what's best for me. And here's the kicker, and God, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.320 if it doesn't work out my way, I'm still going 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.800 to be happy. And I think that's a real key there, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.840 because we do get set in our ways. And I 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.760 told some examples there may be too long to tell, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.440 but where I just kept pushing on this door. I 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.560 wanted this, this is good. I could tell it was good. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.680 And you know what, God let the door open, and 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.680 I thought, oh, it's not what I thought. It was 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.360 a little bit of a heartache. It's like in the scripture, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.320 it's heaven. You know. Abraham, you know he wanted that child. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.640 He had to promise Nick. You he heard God, you're 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.680 going to have a baby. And year after you went by, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.920 nothing happened, and he said, okay, God, I'll. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:10.280 Help you out. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.960 So you know, he had a He had a Yeah, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.200 he took matters into his own hands, had a baby 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:20.080 that he had Ishmael, not Isaac. And I think sometimes 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.160 we're giving birth to Ishmael's because we're not waiting. But 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.920 Ishmael and it wasn't his fault. God brought another nation 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.440 nations out of him, but actually Ishmael that caused a 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.240 lot of strife and confusion. And you know, and I 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.320 think when we birth things out of God's timing or 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.400 when we push things, that that's what happened. So I 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.760 guess the message is, you know, if it's not happening 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.720 on your timetable, God, I'm gonna I'm gonna still trust 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.600 you with it. I'm not gonna. I don't think we 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.560 have to beat doors down. And I am a I 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.480 do believe in being. I was gonna say aggressive. Is 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.800 that the word I do believe in being? You know, passionate. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.040 I mean, it took a lot to get the Compact Center. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.480 I was down at city Hall all the time. But 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.320 I don't think you have to. There's a fine line 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.640 of trying to just beat a door down. And you know, 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:10.800 sometimes God is so merciful. He'll keep a door closed 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.880 that's going to keep you from your destiny, but other 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.840 ones may not be. You know, he may let open. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.720 This's not his perfect will, but it's just going to 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.600 be a little more difficult. And we think, you know what, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.880 next time I'm going to learn. Next time, I want 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.440 to say, God not my way. You let your will 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:25.040 be done. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:25.600 You know. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.960 I think probably through the years this this has helped you. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.320 But jewels very patient, you know. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.480 And there's a scripture that it says through faith and 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.520 patience that's what brings forth the promise. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:39.960 And I think you've learned that. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.640 Yeah, you have to be proactive, you have to go 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.800 after what you want. You have to be willing to 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.920 get up early and go after what you want. But 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.600 you also have to balance that with a patience, knowing 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.400 that you know, patience is described in the in the 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.120 Bible as a virtue, as a power. And so I 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.640 think we live in such a generation where we don't 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.120 need patience, you know, because we can get everything quickly, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.359 and we can send a text across the world in 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.080 two seconds and have a response. We can do five 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.240 things at once, you know. But I think when we 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.400 just take, you know, a step back and go, am 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.520 I a patient person? 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.040 You know? God trust me, you know? 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.120 And so I think that you have become a very 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.880 patient person, Like you said, even now, you pray, you may, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.800 you know, you ask God, you seek, you knock, but 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.480 then you wait, you know, not that you're not doing anything. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.080 You're not idle, but you're patient, and I think that 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.719 that's something we can all develop as just a power 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.520 in patience and knowing that if it is for us, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.240 we're going to get it. No one's going to take 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.040 it from us. You know, sometimes we think and I 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.480 think this, and maybe we but I always think, well, God, 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.640 I need to help you, you know, or God, are 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.639 you dependent on me to do something that I'm not doing? 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.280 And I can get really caught up in that. God, 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:01.760 am I supposed to be doing this? Or am I 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.200 supposed to be doing that? And I try to make 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.280 sure that I'm doing what God would want me to do. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.360 But you know what, that's when I have to say, 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.560 you know what, I'm going to sit back. I don't 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.720 have to rush out and do something to get ahead 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.320 of God. I'm going to let you lead me God, 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.600 because that's what the Bible talks about, that the spirit 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.200 will lead us and not to get out in front 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.639 of the spirit. And that takes patience, and that takes trust, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.919 and that takes knowing that you're doing your part in prayer. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.960 And you know, so I think that you could you 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.840 say that you have developed more patience in your life. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.600 I know the truth is he's really not a patient person. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.399 I know I just said all that. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.160 I'm not canceling when I said, but by nature. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:41.520 You're not patient. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.080 By nature, I've learned to be patient. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.760 That's what I'm trying to say. By nature, he's not patient. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.240 He wants he goes ninety miles an hour, and he 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.000 wants to see results. But you have learned to be 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:52.040 very patient. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.720 God brought great people into my eyes, potential me to 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.359 be patient. I have learned to be patient. And what 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.280 you're saying is very powerful. And I think what what's 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.320 helped me too is because I like to be moving. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.359 I like to be achieving. Where's the next station? Where's it? 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.399 But I've learned this that every season is not harvest season. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.800 You got to have growing seasons. You've got to have 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.200 planting seasons and watering seasons. And you know, I want 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.120 every season to be like harvest. But there's my house. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.120 I look at these lemon trees and men sometimes they're 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.439 bere but you know what, it's just not the right season. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.399 Doesn't mean more fruit in coming. Greater is not coming. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.119 But that's helped me to know. And what you said, victory, 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.800 that's really helped me that what belongs to you is 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.399 going to come to you. You're not missing it because 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.879 it's taken longer. It has your name, when it's not 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:40.960 like God's at all too bad. They got it, You're 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.199 not gonna get it. God never runs out of favor. 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.560 And that helped me to know that God, I'm gonna 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.040 keep being my best. I may see somebody else doing 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.240 this or over here, but what has my name when 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.000 it is going to come to me? So I can rest, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.600 I can be my best, I can trust, I can 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.840 I think that what you were saying to Victoria is 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.679 just living out of a place of rest, out of 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:05.000 a place of trust. When we're worried, when we're you know, uptight, 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.960 we're not. We're not really trusting. We may say it, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.119 but you know, peaceful is a place of power. And 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.720 so I think if you can stay peaceful, know that God, 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.080 you know what. I'm gonna wait for your plan to unfold. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.280 And the last thing is I think you do that. 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.000 One one word for weight, or says in the amplified 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.040 just says wait with expectancy doesn't mean just ah, nothing 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.640 good is going to happen. I'm waiting with expectancy. God, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.919 I know, I know it's coming. So God, I just 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.560 think you that it's on the way, and I trust 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:31.080 your timing. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:31.640 Awesome. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.359 I want to ask this question. Chapter thirteen, so we're 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.720 talking the end of the book. You're you're the title 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:44.000 is coming out better And in this in this chapter, 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.399 you talk about without coming out with coming out of 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:48.320 whatever you've gone. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:49.639 Through, without the smell of smoke. 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.760 And I just think that there's you know, people right 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.520 now maybe going through a lot of stuff, a lot 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.560 of hardship, but it's such a powerful chapter. You know, 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.760 you talk about the Israelites, of course, you talk about 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.760 the people and Daniel, anything you'd want to encourage people with. 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.000 Yeah, I love the thought because we've all been through 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.399 the pandemic and if not that, we've all been through something. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.439 And I think the mindset is, God, if you just 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.040 bring me through, I'll be okay. I'll just come through straggling, 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.080 beat up, bruise. That's all right, I made it through. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.359 But that's not the way God is. God gives us 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.520 that promise that you know you're going to come out 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.359 without the smell of smoke. I love that thought that 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.359 you're not going to look like what you've been through. 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:26.920 In other words, people an't going to look at you 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:28.840 and oh, man, you went through the pandemic, you haint 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.760 COVID didn't Man, you had a bad relationship. Man, Well, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.760 that's one thing. We'd be grateful to be alive. But 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.280 that's not the way God is. That's what Greater is 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.280 Coming is all about that. Yeah, we go through these things, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.600 but they're stepping stones for God to show out in 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.040 your life in a new way. I hope you'll have 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.640 that attitude of faith that just you know, I may 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.879 be in something now, may even be in the fire, 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.120 But I love that nicke It says their clothes weren't burned, 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.160 they didn't smell like smoke, their hair wasn't singed. And again, 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.280 we'd be grateful if they just came out had little 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:00.880 burns here and there. They made it a lit But look 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.120 at how good God is. They've been through a furnace, 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.720 through a fire and they don't look like it. Well, 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.639 that's the promise God gives us. And so I believe 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:11.240 that for each one of you that on the other 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.280 side of those difficulties is not you just made it out, 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:15.280 but you made it out better. 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:17.440 Yeah awesome, Yeah, that's so good. 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:18.080 I love that. 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:21.359 I mean, it's something that I think God wants us 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.119 to do because we are his representatives on the earth. 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.160 You know, we represent a good God. And so people 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:30.680 are gonna look at you and they're gonna think, you know, 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:33.080 you've been through a hard time. And I've seen this 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.719 with people that I think, how did you go through that? 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:36.240 Yes? 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.920 And how are you where you are today? And it's 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.119 it's astounding And what does that do? That bills my faith? 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.840 That makes me realize God is a good God, and 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.680 so I believe that He wants to clothe his children 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:50.879 with the good things. He wants us to be his 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:53.840 representative and his hands and feet. So that's why I 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:57.159 believe that. Like even in that story of Daniel, you know, 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:01.879 they if they would have come out anything less, you know, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.280 there would have been a lot of questions. But I 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.240 think that because God was in the fire with them. 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:10.119 And that's the key. Whatever you're going through, God is 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.480 in there with you. He hasn't told you to go 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:14.800 through it alone. He says, I'm in there with you. 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:17.720 And so if you can just remember there's someone with 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.840 you all the time that you can talk to, that 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:22.639 you can call on that wants to help you. I 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.080 think that's what helps us to get out of that place, 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.880 not looking ragged out, not looking like we've been beat 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:32.600 up by the world by this situation, but that God 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:35.280 is faithful. And I think that's what I want to see. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.800 I want to see people who've walked with God and 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.879 I can see the faithfulness of God, not their victory 0:23:40.880 --> 0:23:43.240 as much as the victory that God showed them. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:43.960 I love that. 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:44.240 Nick. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:46.520 And one more thought on that, because you think about 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.479 the attitude of Shadrack Mishak kind of Indigo before they 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:51.800 were thrown in we're talking about waiting for God's plan 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:55.760 to unfold and trusting God's timing, trusting his ways. Well, 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.280 they could have thought, Hey, God, we're doing the right thing. 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.360 Why are you going to let this guy throw into 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.200 a furnace. Weren't going to bow down. But their attitude, 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.280 you know what he's said. They said, Hey, God will 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:07.520 deliver us, but even if he doesn't, we're still not 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:09.679 going to bow down. So they had this attitude of 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:12.720 faith God, we trust you with our lives. They didn't 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:14.800 go into the I hope I would have that kind 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:16.840 of faith, but they didn't go into the fire, panicking 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:19.040 and fighting and all that. They just went into it 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:22.120 full of faith, trusting, knowing that God was in control, 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:24.359 really knowing that God, if it's our time to go 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:26.400 to Heaven, we're going to go right now. And that's 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:30.720 a powerful way to live. I love that thought about it, 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.320 says the many of the saints of old, they died 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:35.960 in faith. You know, I don't want to die bitter 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:38.320 and angry and God I'm getting thrown into the ferns. 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:40.600 I'd rather die in faith. And I think that's a 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:44.720 powerful way to live your life, knowing that God's in control, 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:47.119 that he's not going to let you go in a fire, 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.359 that he doesn't come in there with you. And if 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:51.200 it's not your time to go, all the forces of 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.159 darkness cannot stop what God wants to do in your life. 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:56.800 He has greater as coming, not just coming out, but 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.560 coming out better, coming out, not looking like what you've 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:00.000 been through. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.280 It's awesome. I want to encourage the people as well. 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.680 Pick up a copy for your family members, for friend 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:09.080 for co workers, especially those of you who maybe know 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:11.600 you know that they're going through something challenging right now. 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:15.719 They're facing something that seems insurmountable. This is a this 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:19.720 is incredible, it's inspiring, it's encouraging. It'll help someone that's 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:22.720 close to you. Any last thoughts you have on the 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:24.160 book or want to encourage the people with. 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:27.240 Well, hey, it's great being with everybody there, our online audience. 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:29.880 How about our staff here, guys, thanks for being here, 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:33.360 loved your questions. Just Nick, thanks for hosting. But you know, 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:36.520 just God has good things in store. Man, keep your 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:39.000 faith out there. You wouldn't be alive unless there was 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:41.880 something amazing in front of you. We love you, We're 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:44.600 praying for you every day, and really our prayer is 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:47.480 this that the dreams God put in your heart, the 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:50.760 promise is that you're believing for we're standing in agreement 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:52.960 that God will bring them to pass. I know there's 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:55.680 power in agreement. And sometimes you may not feel like 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:57.640 there's anybody to pray for you. You kind of feel 0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:00.760 lonely or you know, something like that. But you know what, 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:04.120 there's people here, our ministry, people here at Lakewood were 0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:06.000 praying for it, and we just believe you're going to 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:08.720 see the goodness of God again. Not a get by 0:26:08.840 --> 0:26:11.960 twenty twenty two, how about a bountiful twenty twenty two. 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:14.879 How about God opening up some new doors, doing some 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:19.000 things you've never seen, turning some negative situations around. He's 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:20.760 done it in the past, but I believe the best 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:21.760 is still yet to come. 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:22.320 It's awesome. 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:23.560 Are you going to pray for him? I think it'd 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:24.560 be a great time to just pray. 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:26.119 I'm gonna pray. You speak a blessing too. 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:28.440 Oh well, I just want to say that you're set apart. 0:26:28.520 --> 0:26:30.600 And I think when we have this attitude that we 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:34.240 are set apart for God, that God has already designed 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:36.879 great things in our future. There's good works for us 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:39.600 to do if we'll keep that mindset that we are 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.680 set apart. Children are the most high God. No matter 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.320 what you're walking through today, God is walking with you. 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:47.480 And I believe that you are going to come out greater, 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:51.879 more enlarged, with more experience, more expression in your life. 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.399 And I believe that God is faithful and He's going 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:57.280 to show himself faithful to you and to your children. 0:26:57.480 --> 0:26:57.800 Amen. 0:26:57.880 --> 0:26:59.840 I love that, So pick up a coffee for you, 0:26:59.880 --> 0:27:02.359 and I believe it will encourage them. Let me pray, Lord, 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:05.359 Thank you for all of our friends watching and listening today. 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:07.119 I think you that you do have them in the 0:27:07.160 --> 0:27:10.679 palm of your hand. Lord, you know their goals, their dreams, 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:13.840 the challenges, things that are coming against them. Now, I 0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:16.439 thank you Lord that you are fighting their battles, that 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:19.560 every force that's trying to stop them is broken. In 0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:24.840 the name of Jesus, depression, anxiety, addictions. Lord, I think 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:30.160 you your healing sick bodies, restoring relationships, bringing them divine connections, 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:33.040 ord giving them the power to wait. Well, Lord, I 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:35.520 think you that your plan is going to unfold in 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:38.840 their life, that it will be bigger, better, more rewarding 0:27:38.880 --> 0:27:42.199 than they've ever imagined. Lord, help us to believe. I 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:47.600 just speak victory, abundance, healing, health, favor over every person 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:50.360 under the sound of my voice. I believe in declare 0:27:50.400 --> 0:27:53.280 You're not average, you're not mediocre. You're a child of 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:56.000 the Most High God. We love you very much and 0:27:56.040 --> 0:27:57.040 we'll see you next time.