Seeing Beyond the Logical

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.120 UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.319 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.400 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:37.080 the ministry. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.560 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.119 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.080 Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your line. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:47.960 Oh God, bless you. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.840 It's great to be with you today, and I hope 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.280 you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.840 daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.280 We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.480 I like to start with something funny and one day 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.120 up in heaven, God said to the men, I want 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.160 you to form two lines. One line is for the 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.919 men who were the head of the house. The other 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.560 line is for the men who let the woman be 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.239 the head of the house. The line where the woman 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.040 ran the house was one hundred miles long. The other 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.919 line only had one man in it. God said, men, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.000 I'm ashamed of you. I created you to be the head, 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.840 but only one man stood up to make me proud. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.760 He looked at the man, said, son, tell them, how 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.359 did you manage to be the only one in this line. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.720 The man looked confused and said, I don't know. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.400 My wife told me to send here. Say it like 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.400 you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.160 it says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.400 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.040 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.040 My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. I will 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.880 never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:00.200 God bless you. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.040 I want to talk to you today about seeing beyond 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.040 the logical. On the way to your destiny, you will 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.320 face dreams that you can't accomplish on your own, obstacles 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.120 that are too big for you, people that come against 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.840 you that are more powerful. When you look at the 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.560 situation in the natural and you reason it out. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:21.600 There's no way. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.920 The medical report says you can't get well. You don't 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.000 have the funding for your dreams. You've had the addiction 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.519 for years. You tried, but you couldn't break it. All 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.720 of your logic says, just accept it. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.680 It's not meant to be. But this is what faith 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:38.480 is all about. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.680 God will put you in situations on purpose where. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.080 There is no solution in the natural. That's a test. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.200 Are you going to get discouraged and give up on your. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.320 Dreams or are you going to walk by faith and 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:57.000 not by sight. Jesus said to Peter in Matthew chapter sixteen, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.760 you are a dangerous trap to me, for you are 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.160 seeing things only from a human point of view and 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.200 not from God's. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.600 It's significant that he used such a strong word. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.720 He said, Peter, it's dangerous to look at it only 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.920 from the logical. He could have said, Peter, you need 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.040 to have more faith, You need to think better, be. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:20.160 A little more positive. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.880 The reason he said dangerous is you can miss your 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.960 destiny if you only look at things from a natural perspective. 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.200 God is supernatural. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.280 When you get in agreement with him, there is a 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.600 force behind you that will make things happen that. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:37.679 You can't make happen. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.800 He will open doors that no person can shut. He 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.640 will do what medicine cannot do. You will defeat giants 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.039 that are much bigger. You're not doing life on your own. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.720 The Most High God is breathing in your direction. All 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.159 he needs is a little faith. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:56.960 God. I don't see a way. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.600 My reasoning says it's not going to happen, but I 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:01.960 know you have a way. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.280 I don't have the funding for my dreams, but God, 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:06.719 I know you own it all. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.200 My child is off course, it doesn't look good, but 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.720 I believe. As for me and my house, we will 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:17.880 serve the Lord. Don't be limited by your logic. Logic 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.720 can be a dream stealer. If you look at your 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.120 situation only from a human point of view, what you 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.880 can do, your resources, your connections, your experience, then you're going. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.120 To miss the greatness God put in you. The Book 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:33.520 of Genesis. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.880 Tells about how God created the heavens and the earth. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.719 On the first day, he said, let there be light, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.440 and light came. The second day he separated the waters 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.120 from the sky. Third day he created plants and trees. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.080 The fourth day, he made the sun. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:49.520 And the moon. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.520 What's interesting is there was light on the first day, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:55.880 but he didn't make the sun until. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.000 The fourth day. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.320 How can you have light without the sun. God was 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:05.039 showing us he's not logical. He's supernatural. He's going to 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.840 do things in your life that are unexplainable, things that 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.840 don't make sense. How could my mother be alive forty 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:17.880 one years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. That's not logical. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.240 That divides the odds. That's the God we serve. How 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.880 could I be up here today. I didn't have the training, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.240 the experience. I've never been to seminary. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.799 But God doesn't choose the way we choose. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.520 He does things that are uncommon, unusual, out of the ordinary. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.680 How could we be having church in the former Compact 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.960 Center a basketball arena. The company that was against us 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.560 trying to get the facility was the largest taxpayer in Texas, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.480 a huge real estate company. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.839 It was David versus Goliath. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:58.119 They had more connections, more funds, more experience. But God 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.960 is not intimidated by the side of your problem. He's 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.279 not losing sleep over who's against you. One angel in 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.479 the Old Testament defeated one hundred and eighty. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.520 Five thousand of the enemies of Israel. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.120 God being for you is more than the world being 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.760 against you. You may have some big obstacles, but you 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:23.320 have to remind yourself we serve a big God. Sometimes 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.480 he'll let the odds be against you on purpose, so 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.520 when he turns it around, it will be a bigger miracle. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.760 When we were trying to acquire the Compact Center, a 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.520 very influential business leader in our city was at a 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.200 banquet with a good friend of mine. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.320 But he didn't know my friend knew me. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.960 He laughed and said, very sarcastically, it will be a 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.560 cold day in hell before Lakewood gets the Compact Center. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.840 And every time I drive up to our building and 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.480 see that Lakewood sign, I think it must be a cold. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.040 Day in hell, because here we are. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.720 The promises God put in your heart. What He's whispered 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.200 to you in the night may not seem possible. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.560 It's too big, it's never happened for your family. You 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:09.760 don't have the experience. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.720 All your logic says, there's no way that's okay. Jesus 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:20.000 said in Matthew nineteen. Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.240 with God all things are possible. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:23.800 Here's the question. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.480 Are you going to let your human reasoning what you 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.320 can see what's natural, set the limits for your life, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.240 or are you going to see beyond the logical? Are 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.839 you going to believe that the all powerful creator of 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.680 the universe, the God who flung stars into space, the 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.880 God who parts red seas, the God who brings light 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.840 without the sun, will make a way. Will you don't 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.600 see away? I want to show you an example. I 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:57.520 have these Roman numerals up here. The letter I and 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:03.160 the letter X. In Roman numerals is one, X is ten. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.080 When the smaller number is in front of the larger number, 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.120 then you subtract the smaller so ten minus one this 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.360 is nine. My question is, with one stroke of the pen, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.160 can you make this six? If I put another I, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.120 that would be eight. You can't put two, just one stroke. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.280 The in Roman numerals is five. If you put that, 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:28.240 that would make it four. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.000 There are no more options. How do you make this six? 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.080 Here's how I'm going to add I'm going to add 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:38.680 the S six. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:41.520 It fell six. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.760 I had to think in Roman numerals you were limited. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.240 To one way. That's the way it is with God. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.160 We look at things in the natural. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.360 We look at things in the natural, we don't see 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:55.680 a way. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:00.760 God's step sentence says, I'm supernatural. My ways are your ways. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.840 We come to a dead end at the Red Sea 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.480 and think, okay, God, we're stuck. 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.839 We're done. God says, you're not done. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.440 I part red seas, I bring water out of a rock, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.400 I open glind eyes. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.400 I make you fireproof in a furnace. Don't be limited 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.640 by your logic. God defies logic. This is what happened 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:22.200 with Mary. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.360 She was a teenager living in Nazareth, engaged to a 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.319 young man named Joseph. An angel peard unto her, said, Mary, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:31.640 you will give birth. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.840 To a son without knowing a man. You are to 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:35.920 name him Jesus. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.040 The scripture says Mary was confused and disturbed. I can understand. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.560 God just gave her a promise that seemed impossible. You 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.440 can't have a baby without a man. That defies the 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.200 laws of nature. Mary said to the angel, how can 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.000 I have a child? 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.120 I'm a virgin. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.120 The angel said, the spirit of the Most High will 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.880 come upon you and cause you to concede. The angel 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.440 didn't get upset because she didn't believe. He didn't say 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.240 too bad, Mary, you blew it. God promised it, but 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.520 you didn't have enough faith. He simply helped her have 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.600 a new perspective. He was saying, in effect, Mary, you're 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.200 looking at it in the natural, and you're right. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.640 It's not possible in your own ability. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.600 It won't happen, but the spirit of God will make 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.720 it happen. I believe God sent me like this angel 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:27.839 to help you have. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.000 The right perspective. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:33.000 There is a force that you can't see, a power 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:37.679 that will cause the impossible to become possible. Now, Mary 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.040 was at a critical point. What she did next would 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.480 determine whether she'd have the baby. She could have said 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.160 to the angel, I don't think so. You need to 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.800 go back and take biology. You can't have a baby 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.160 without a man. But Mary did what we all have 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.080 to do. She looked beyond the logical. She didn't let 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.520 her human reasoning talk her out of it. She said 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.440 to the angel, be it under me. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.239 Even as you have said. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.360 She was saying, I don't see how seems impossible. But God, 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:09.760 I'm in agreement with you. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:10.880 Let it happen. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.920 Like with Mary, God is going to put promises in 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:15.439 your heart. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:16.600 That don't make sense. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.640 It's no way you can get well, no way you 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.240 can get your business off the ground, no way you 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.719 can have the baby. You've gone through all the fertility treatments. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.240 You've been told no again and again. You're right where 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.280 Mary was. Are you going to keep seeing it only 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.199 from a human point of view or are you going 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.760 to get in agreement with God and believe what the 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:38.480 angel said? 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.400 How can this happen? 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.679 It's not going to be your own strength, your own intellect, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.800 your own hard work. The spirit of the Living God 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.720 will make it happen. It's going to be supernatural, something 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:51.679 you can't explain. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.640 You can't take credit for it. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.760 Everyone will know it's the hind of God. I talked 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.640 to a man that had cancer on his vocal chords. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.600 He was here in town for surgery at m. D. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.760 Anderson stopped by the church and asked us to pray 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.760 for him. The doctors were going to remove most of 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.000 his vocal cords. He was told that he would be 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.160 able to make sounds, but he wouldn't be able to talk. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.240 From a human perspective. It didn't look good. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.040 The odds were against him. I told him what I'm 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.600 telling you. God has the final say. He controls the 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.680 universe when you believe all things are possible. 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.280 A couple of weeks later, he was back at church and. 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.040 He came up to me, talking just as clearly as 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.000 I'm talking to you. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.000 I said, what happened? You didn't have the surgery. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.320 He smiled real big and he said, yes, I had 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.520 the surgery, but I can still talk like I could before. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.680 Ninety percent of his vocal cords were removed, and he 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:56.640 can still talk normally. Doctors can't explain it, the surgeon said, 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.120 in all of his years practicing. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.920 He's never seen or heard of this. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.559 That's God bringing light without a sun, bringing a baby 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:06.520 without a man. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:08.560 Jesus said to. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.960 The Pharisees in John chapter eight, you judge me with 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.880 all your human limitations. Don't put your human limitations on 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.960 the God who spoke worlds into existence. God is not 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.720 limited by the laws of medicine, the laws of economics, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.440 the laws of nature, the laws of science. When he's 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.160 ready to bless you. He doesn't check with your boss. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.560 He doesn't look at your four one K, he doesn't 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.880 google the stock market report. He doesn't see what friends 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.480 you have, what family you come from. He's not moved 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.960 by the natural, He's supernatural. When the Israelites were in 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.240 the desert, they complained to Moses that they didn't have 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.200 any meat to eat. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.280 They were tired of eating the manna. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.080 Every day, and so Moses went to God and said, God, 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.400 these people won't meet. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.080 You know, I can't get that out in the desert. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.400 I said, in effect, Moses, that's no problem for me. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.680 I'll give you meat for a whole month. Moses said, God, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:07.800 that's impossible. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:09.320 Do you see where we are. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.280 If we butchered all of our flocks, all of our herds, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.160 we wouldn't have enough meat for these two million people, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.000 even for one meal. There were no grocery stores out 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.760 there where they could buy food, no uber eats, no 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:29.880 dominoes deliveries. From a logical perspective, Moses was right. But 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.200 God defies logic. He's not limited by what limits us. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.520 One touch of his favor and the impossible becomes possible. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.080 God shifted the winds and millions of quell flew into 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.440 their camp. They were three or four feet off the ground. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.280 People grabbed all they wanted. For a month, they had 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.760 steak dinners out in the middle of the desert. What's 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.800 significant is quall don't normally fly that far away from water. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.680 Find a quaill in the middle of the desert. But 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.560 God controls the universe. If you'll take the limits off 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.560 of him, he'll cause opportunity to find you. Good breaks 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.480 will chase you down the right people will come knocking 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.840 at your door. Now, don't do like Moses and tell 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.000 God all the reasons. You can't be blessed, you can't 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:24.320 get well, you can't accomplish your dream. You're studying the facts, 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.840 the circumstances, what people say, what normally happens. The problem 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.920 is you'll being limited by your logic. You're seeing it 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:38.080 only from a human point of view. God says, that's dangerous. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.960 You can miss your quall, you can miss your compact center, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.680 you can miss your healing. Have a new perspective. God, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.160 I'm in the desert. It seems impossible to me, but 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:50.640 I know you can. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:51.560 Do the impossible. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:56.040 You make rivers in the desert, You turn shepherds into kings, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.600 You bring babies out of barren wounds. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.040 You open doors that are dead bolted. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.639 The scripture says, is there anything too hard for the Lord? 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.160 I was out riding my bike the other day down 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.640 this long path toward downtown. I saw a young man 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.320 on a skateboard. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.480 A couple hundred yards in front of me. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.800 I wrote about five minutes and noticed that I wasn't 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.840 gaining on him. Now, I thought, that's strange. I'm on 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:25.720 this large bike with big wheels. I'm peddling fast. He's 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.920 on that little skateboard with little. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.119 Three inch wheels. Yet he's out pacing me. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:31.040 Now. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.640 At one point we were both going up this large hill. 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.520 He was just scooting along no problem. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.760 I was huffing, puffing trying to get up the hill. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.920 He was doing it with such ease. Didn't make sense 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.520 to me. We went our separate ways. About thirty minutes, 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.320 I saw him sitting on. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.679 A park bench. He had his skateboard turned over to 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:52.320 the side. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.840 What I didn't realize is his skateboard had a motor 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:56.359 on it. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.520 He had the remote control in his hand. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.200 The reason he was going faster, further with less effort 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:05.960 is he had an advantage. 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.160 He had something that I couldn't see. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.160 In the same way as a child of the most high, 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.199 you have an advantage. There is a force breathing in 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:20.360 your direction. That's going to cause you to defy the odds. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.760 You're going to go further faster, with less struggle. People 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.679 are going to look at you and not understand it. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.160 I think, how could you get out of that neighborhood? 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.360 I saw how you were raised. They're looking at it 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.480 from a human point of view. What they can't see 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.080 is you have a motor, an anointing, a favor of 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:41.520 blessing on your life. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.560 How could you lead your company in sales? 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:49.240 You don't have the experience. Logically speaking, they're correct. But 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.720 God is going to do in your life is going 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.680 to defy the logic. How could you beat that sickness? 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.359 The medical report says no way. Yes, But there's another 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.720 report you can't see. Jehovah Raphah, the Lord, my healer, 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:04.920 is breathing. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:05.440 On my life. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.840 Don't judge your future by your human limitations. What God 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.040 is about to do in your life is going to 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.280 amaze you. The doors he's about to open, the influence. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:17.920 He's going to. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:24.880 Give you the resources, the ideas, the creativity, the divine connections. Now, 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.800 the enemy would love to keep you stuck with a 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.120 limited mindset, focus only on the logical Joel I don't 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.600 have the funds. My back's been hurting for years, my 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:39.240 child's acting up, my boss doesn't treat me right. I 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.679 don't come from an influential family. Do you think that 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.119 can stop your destiny? That the God who breathed life 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.680 into you, who chose you before you could choose him, 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:51.399 is somehow. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.600 At a loss of how to bring you into your purpose? 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.640 Or could it be that you're seeing things only from 0:19:57.680 --> 0:19:58.880 a human perspective. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:01.240 Prayer is God, open. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.320 Our eyes, Help us to see what you see, not 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.960 just a logical point of view, but a heavenly perspective. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.439 Help us to realize that you were all powerful, that 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.280 you were in control, that. 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.280 You were for us. Acts, Chapter twenty seven. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.439 The Apostle Paul had been on a boat headed to 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.480 Rome for fourteen days when it was shipwrecked. They all 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.959 swam to the shore on this small island. Paul went 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.240 over to pick up some sticks to make a fire. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:34.520 A poisonous snake bit his wrist latched on wouldn't let go. 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.359 The teeth were penetrating the skin, the venom going in. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.080 The natives on the island knew exactly what was going 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:42.560 to happen. 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:44.919 They had seen it time and time again. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.200 When someone was bitten, the scripture says they would swell up, 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:50.840 get sick, and die. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.640 The natives waited and waited and waited. 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:59.320 The problem was nobody told Paul he was supposed to die. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:04.320 Sometimes what you don't know is good for you. If 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.159 you get a negative report and you overanalyze it, you 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.320 reason it out, study it all day, that's going to 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.840 take your faith. That's why the scripture says, lean not 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.720 to your own understanding. Take this in the right sense, 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.680 but sometimes you have to turn your mind off. 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.399 Faith is not of the mind. Faith is of the heart. 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.760 Yes, we should use common sense make good decisions, but 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:31.520 don't let your logic. 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.680 Talk you out of what God put in your heart. 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.600 God told Paul that he was going to stand before Caesar, 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.440 and Paul simply shook the snake off when about his business. 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.879 It never did affect him. The people on the island 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.080 were so amazed they thought he was a god. But 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.479 if Paul would have made the mistake of seeing it 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.720 only from a logical human point of view, knowing that 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.639 he had just been bitten by a poisonous snake, he 0:21:57.640 --> 0:21:59.400 would have been worried, afraid. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:00.640 What am I going to do. 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.920 Maybe the venom would have harmed them, Maybe he would 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:07.879 have gotten said, when things come against you, it's easy 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:09.720 to look at it only in the natural. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.520 Look at this medical report. What are we going to do? 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.200 My business had a setback, my child got in trouble. 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.719 You have to remind yourself. God is still on the throne. 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:23.120 Nothing can snatch you out of his hands. He wouldn't 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.600 have allowed it if he didn't already. 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:25.920 Have a solution. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.800 We knew a man growing up named Casey, and he 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:33.320 owned a company that moved houses. One day, they had 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:37.399 traveled several hours down these country roads moving this house, 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:40.919 having to raise the power lines, move the signage to 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.959 clear the way, and they finally made it to their destination. 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.359 Casey realized they had forgotten their main chain that they 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.440 needed to unload the house. It was several hours back 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.360 to the city late in the day. He didn't want 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.280 to leave the house on the side of the road, 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.560 so he told his men that he was going to 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:02.080 pray and ask God to give him a chain. They 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.440 kind of snickered, said sarcastically. 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:05.800 What are you going to do? 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:09.160 Pray God that rains down a chain from heaven? They 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:13.280 all laughed, made fun. Casey said, God, I know there's 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.200 nothing too hard for you, and I don't see how 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:20.080 in the natural. Nothing in my logic says this makes sense. 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:23.240 But I know you're supernatural. You have ways that I've 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.119 never thought of. So I'm asking you to give me 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:29.320 a chain. All of his men were rolling their eyes, 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:34.080 but Jesus said, don't judge me with your human limitations. 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:37.000 Don't put me in the same category of what you 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:37.440 can do. 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.760 I am all powerful. When you're not limited by your logic. 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:43.600 You'll pray bold prayers. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.200 You'll shake off a snake like Paul a bad break 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:50.639 and go about your business. You'll believe, or you'll compact 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:52.320 centers for your dreams. 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:53.800 For what looks unlikely. 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:57.359 Casey and his men were standing on the side of 0:23:57.400 --> 0:23:59.840 the road and there was a big curve right in 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:02.440 in front of them, out in the middle of nowhere, 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:04.560 trying to figure out what they were going to do. 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:09.280 About that time, this old beat up pickup truck came 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:12.800 buryling down the road going way too fast. It had 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.600 its tailgate open. When it took that sharp curve, A 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.639 chain slung out of the back of the bed slid 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.920 across the road. Curled up at Casey's feet. He picked 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:24.919 it up and said, here's my chain. Boys, let's go 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:29.119 to work. Is there anything too hard for the Lord? 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:34.160 Are you basing your prayers on your ability, your connections, 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:38.320 your finances. From a natural, logical point of view, You're 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:41.240 going to miss the fullness of what God has in store. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:43.360 It's dangerous to. 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:47.000 Limit him to only what you think can happen. Take 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:51.600 the limits off. Pray some bold prayers, dream some big dreams. 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.000 If you can accomplish your dream in your own ability, 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:59.200 with your connections, your finances, then your dream is too small. 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.920 God has things in your future that you haven't seen, 0:25:03.640 --> 0:25:06.760 levels that you haven't imagined. When you don't limit him 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:10.600 by the logical, When you believe, even when your mind 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:14.359 says that's too far out, you never get well, never 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:18.040 start your business, never see your family restored, all the 0:25:18.160 --> 0:25:19.360 odds are against you. 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:21.880 Then you're in perfect position for. 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:24.560 God to show out in your life, to do something 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:28.960 that you've never seen. God told Abraham and Sarah that 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:30.280 they were going to have a baby. 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:32.359 They were both way too old. 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:36.880 When Sarah heard it, the scripture says, she laughed and said, 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:38.800 how could a worn out woman. 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:39.959 Like me have a baby. 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:44.119 She thought, that's so far out, it's funny, it's comical, 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:45.320 me have a child. 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:48.000 Sarah did what many of us do. 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:51.440 She looked at it only in the natural and in 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:52.680 her human reasoning. 0:25:52.760 --> 0:25:55.200 She was right, you can't have a baby at eighty 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:55.800 years old. 0:25:56.560 --> 0:25:59.400 But when God puts a promise in your heart, when 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.600 he whispered something to you in your spirit, it may 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:07.280 seem far out unlikely. You could easily dismiss it. Try 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:11.359 a different approach. Do like Mary, God, let it happen. 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:13.200 I'm in agreement with you. 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:16.080 I don't see how, but I'm not going to limit 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:18.160 you to my human point of view. 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:22.600 When Sarah was ninety years old, against all odds, she 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:26.560 gave birth to a son. The scripture says she laughed 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:30.920 again and says God has brought me laughter, and all 0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:33.960 who hear about this will laugh with me. She even 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:38.440 named her son Isaac, which means laughter. The first time 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:42.760 she laughed in unbelief, thinking there's no way. The second 0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:46.119 time she laughed in amazement, thinking look what the Lord 0:26:46.160 --> 0:26:46.680 has done. 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:48.280 In the past. 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:52.120 You may have laughed in unbelief, thinking what God promised 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:55.200 you could never come to pass. You discounted it. It's 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:59.000 too late, Joel, it's too big, it's impossible. The good 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:02.920 news is that didn't stop the promise. I believe your 0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:06.600 second laugh is coming. God is about to do something 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:10.840 so awesome, so big, that you're going to laugh in amazement. 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.640 The second laugh is going to surprise you. It's going 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:18.280 to be something out of the ordinary, something you can't explain, 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:21.240 something that catapults you to a new level. 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:25.160 Get ready. God is about to defy the odds. He's 0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:28.840 about to show out in your life. You haven't seen, heard, 0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:30.920 or imagined what he's about to do. 0:27:32.040 --> 0:27:34.919 Like Sarah, you're going to stand in awe at the 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:38.520 greatness of our God. You wouldn't be hearing this if 0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:42.399 that second laugh wasn't on the way. Now do your part. 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:45.639 Don't see things only from a human point of view. 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:49.120 Don't let your logic limit what God wants to do. 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:49.919 Now. 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:53.480 I'm not saying deny the facts, act like they don't exist. 0:27:53.640 --> 0:27:57.840 I'm saying, see beyond the logical, get a heavenly perspective. 0:27:58.359 --> 0:28:02.199 The most High God is on your side. He hasn't 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:05.639 forgotten what he promised you. He has the right people, 0:28:06.000 --> 0:28:10.080 the right breaks, the solutions, already en route. If you'll 0:28:10.080 --> 0:28:13.760 do this, I believe and declare new doors are about 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:21.080 to open. Sicknesses are turning around, addictions are being broken. Healing, wholeness, abundance, 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:25.600 the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, and if 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:26.880 you receive it, can. 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:27.439 You say amen? 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:31.760 I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:32.800 the Lord of your life. 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:34.119 Would you pray with me? 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:40.040 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 0:28:40.040 --> 0:28:40.840 into my heart. 0:28:42.040 --> 0:28:43.960 I make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:47.760 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:50.760 born again. 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