Sensing the Good Things God Has in Store

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It helps keep the 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:45.280 ministry going. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:57.880 Enjoy the message. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.440 Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.200 into your homes. We love you and we know God 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.440 has great things in store. If you're ever in our area, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.960 stop buying visit us here in Houston, right here at Lakewood. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.760 These are the finest people in all the town, right 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.240 here at Lakewood Church. So come out and be a part. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.519 Thanks for tuning in. Today, and thanks again for coming out. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.840 And I like to start with something funny each week. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.679 And I heard about this eighty five year old man. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.280 He was out fishing one day and he heard this 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.200 voice saying, pick me up. He looked all around, didn't 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.119 see anything, thought he was dreaming. Heard it again, pick 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.960 me up. He looked down and saw a frog on 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.240 the ground. He said in amazement, are you talking to me? 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.400 The frog said yes, pick me up and kiss me, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.160 and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. He quickly picked 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.040 the frog up and put him in his front pocket. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.480 The frog said, hey, what are you doing. I said, 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.440 kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. The 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.120 man said, no, thanks. At my age, I'd rather have 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:02.240 a talking frog. Hold up your bible, say it like 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.320 you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.960 it says. I am. I have what it says I have. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.160 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.280 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.600 confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.640 will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.919 I want to talk to you today about sensing the 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.639 good things. God has in store. When God laid out 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.320 the plans for our lives, he lined up the right people, 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.960 the right breaks, and the right opportunities. The scripture talks 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.120 about how time and chance will come together for every person. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.760 That means there are moments of favor that God has 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.000 already released into your future. If you could pull back 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.480 the curtain and see your whole life, you would see 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.160 how God has already lined up the right breaks to 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.560 come across your pa. He's already arranged certain people to 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.600 be good to you. He's already picked out the right 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:11.000 husband or wife for you and your children. He's already 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:15.720 lined up solutions to problems you haven't even had. God 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:21.120 has it already released into your future. These moments of favor, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.960 moments of blessing, moments of increase. They will help you 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:30.839 overcome obstacles, accomplish goals, and even thrust you years ahead. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.719 But so often when we look in our future, we 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.800 don't see how will ever rise higher, how will ever 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.599 fulfill our destiny, how our child will ever get back 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.719 on the right track. The problem is we're only looking 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.800 at it in the natural. But the scripture says here 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.720 in Second Corinthians, we have to walk by faith and 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.839 not by sight. In other words, we have to believe 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.039 it before we're ever going to see it. If you 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.000 can see it, you don't need any faith. But when 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.440 it looks impossible and it seems like you've reached your 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:09.240 limits and you don't see how your health could ever improve, 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.839 instead of just going by what you see, if you 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.200 will listen down and hear in your heart, you will 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:20.560 hear God saying I have a way. Things are turning around, 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.200 a moment of favor is coming. I've already lined up 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.000 the solution. You may not be able to see it, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.039 but in your heart you will sense that it's on 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.560 its way. I read something interesting about a tarantula. It 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.159 has eight eyes all around its body. But in spite 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.640 of these eyes, its vision is very poor. It can't 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.800 see far off and even up close. It's not sharp 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.640 and clear. But the tarantula is a very precise hunter. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.280 It's known for its ability to attack and kill. How 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.760 can it be so accurate with its vision being so poor. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.159 It's because it's legs are full of hairy follicles that 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:08.440 are extremely sensitive, and it can sense something coming long 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.599 before it gets there, even though it can't see well. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:16.039 It's extremely perceptive. That's the way we need to be. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.640 Sometimes when we look in our future, we don't see 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.559 anything good. We don't see how we'll get out of death. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.679 We don't see how we'll have this far and beyond 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.800 decade that we're talking about. In the natural, it looks impossible, 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.599 just like it's gonna be more of the same. But 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:38.000 down in here, if we'll be perceptive, we will sense somehow, 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.400 some way it's gonna happen. Business may be slow, the 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.640 economy's down, But in spite of all of that, I 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.720 can sense increase is coming my way. I can sense 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.040 it's my decade of favor. I can sense my greatest 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.080 victories are still out in front of me. We used 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.800 to sing an old song growing up that says, I've 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.799 got a feeling everything's gonna be all right. In other words, 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.960 I can't explain. It doesn't make sense to my mind, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.400 but I can sense moments of favor are coming my way. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.600 My finances may be down, I'm not worried. I can 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.800 sense promotion is in my future. The medical report may 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.680 not look good. All the facts are telling me I'm 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.840 not gonna get well. I should get discouraged. I should 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.640 be depressed. But now I've got a feeling everything's gonna 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.400 be all right. See, I've learned sometimes you have to 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.840 turn your mind off. Sometimes there is no logical solution. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.920 That's why the scripture says, lean not to your own understanding, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.920 don't try to figure it all out. If you're constantly 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.960 running the numbers and over analyzing everything, reading the medical 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.040 report every other minute, and looking up your symptoms on 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.360 twenty four different websites, all that's gonna do is dull 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.960 your censor. Need to turn that off and listen down 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.360 in here. This is where God speaks. This is where 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.720 faith rises up. All of a sudden, you'll feel a 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.680 spark of hope. In the natural it looks impossible, but 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.960 you'll hear down and hear something saying God has a way. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.560 Favor is in your future. Something good is about to happen. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.080 God is going to turn it around. The breakthrough will 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.680 be here at any moment. That's what we have to 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.680 get in agreement with. Turn off the reasoning and listen 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.520 to what you're sensing down in here. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:32.280 Now. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.400 I know some of you have had some bad breaks, 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.120 a lot of disappointments, and the problem now is your 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.439 censor has become dull. In other words, you're not expecting 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.839 anything good. You're not living with enthusiasm. The good news 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.959 today is your censor is getting a tune up. God 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:55.280 is birth in new dreams, new life, new vision. New 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.520 seeds of hope are taken root in your heart. You 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.480 may be in difficult but God said in Exodus thirty 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.760 three fourteen, I will go with you. I will give 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.320 you rest. Everything will be fine for you. Let that 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:15.920 promise sink down into your heart. Everything will be fine, 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:20.000 not some things, not half of it, not ninety nine percent. No, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.720 If you'll keep your trust in Him, everything is going 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.560 to be just fine for you. Some of you have 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.520 been through a great loss. You're very disappointed. Doesn't look 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.480 like you'll ever see bright days. But God is saying, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.080 I have beauty for your ashes. I'm about to open 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.040 up a new door. Everything is going to be fine 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:44.160 for you. Maybe a relationship didn't work out, but that 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.720 is not the end. It's a new beginning. God has 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.080 someone else in your future. Everything is going to be 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.240 fine for you. Some of you just have a lot 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.920 on your plate. You're working hard, raising your children, taking 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.520 care of elderly parents. Doesn't look like it's ever gonna change. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.000 God is saying, come back to that place of peace. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.360 I want to give you rest. Everything is going to 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:15.280 be fine for you. Friends. Don't let stress, worry, negativity, discouragement, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.320 dull your censor. Listen down in here. God is saying, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.800 it's gonna be all right. I've got a moment of 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.600 favor coming. Things are about to turn around. The solution 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.120 is already lined up, The promotion is already on its way. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.959 The breakthrough could happen at any moment. Now, we've got 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.079 to get in agreement with God. Circumstances may have us 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.800 down on the outside, but we've got to get up 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.800 on the inside. Our attitude should be My health may 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.440 be going down a little bit, but I've got a 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.000 feeling I'm coming back strong. May be a little stressful 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.079 at the office. I don't see how it's ever gonna change, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.680 but I'm not worried. I walk by faith and not 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.600 by sight. I know a moment of favor is coming 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.679 my way. I can sense it. Everything is going to 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.199 be all right. This is what I had to do 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.000 when we were renovating. This facility. Cost about one hundred 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.840 million dollars to convert this from a basketball arena to 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.480 a worship facility. A bank loaned us part of the money. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.160 Toward the end, we had a twenty million dollar payment 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.800 to make. It's a very critical time. The people, many 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.720 of you, had given so generously, and we had made 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.440 all of our other payments, but this final payment that 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.200 would take us out of the construction phase over into 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.760 the regular financing. We found that we were about fifteen 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.200 million dollars short. It was going to be due in 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.240 several months time. Our team ran all the numbers and 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:49.360 they calculated, projected, moved things around, but no matter what 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.920 we did, we were still millions and millions short. And 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.640 I'd put my name on the line, I'd given them 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.760 my word. And in the natural I should have been worried. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.440 I should have been in sleep at night. My mind, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.120 these thoughts were telling me that it's not gonna work out, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.120 it's going to be a big mess, you're not even 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.480 gonna be able to move in all these discouraging thoughts 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.560 in my head. But down in here it was the 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:17.640 most amazing thing. I had an incredible peace. I could 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.960 sense it. Everything is going to be all right. God 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.200 is still on the throne, He's in complete control. I 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.480 couldn't make it work on paper, couldn't explain it. My 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.559 head was telling me no way, but my heart was 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.760 saying yes way. All through the day, instead of worrying, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.960 I'd go around saying, Father, thank you that you're supplying 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.120 all of our needs. It was your goodness that gave 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.960 us this place, and it's your goodness that will take 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.000 care of us. At that time, the church owned a 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.199 television station that we had been trying to sell for 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.840 more than three years. The market was very down. No 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.600 one was buying independent stations. We were told the most 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.400 we could get for it if we did, I'd sell 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.000 it was eighteen to nineteen million dollars, and we owed 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.600 eight million dollars on it, so even if we were 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.520 to sell it, we would still come up short. But 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.800 just a few weeks before the big payment was due, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.680 a buyer for the station came along. Things fell into place, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.440 and he bought it. Not for eighteen million, not for nineteen, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.160 not for twenty, not for twenty five, not for twenty eight, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.080 not for thirty. He bought it for thirty two million dollars. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.839 We were able to make that payment, and we've been 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:33.319 going strong ever since that was a moment of favor 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.280 that God had already released into my future. All I 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.040 had to do was believe. All I had to do 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.960 was stay in faith and not let doubt and unbelieve 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.880 stop or delay what God had already lined up. Friends, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.960 God has already lined up solutions for every problem you 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:57.160 will ever have. He's already lined up the people, the breaks, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.920 the finances, the opportunity, the wisdom, the ideas. You don't 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.160 have to live life worried. You don't have to go 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.280 around frustrated because it's not happening as fast as you 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.040 would like. No, come back to that place of peace, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.080 stay at rest, knowing that it's on its way. I 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.400 love what the prophet Elijah did. There had been a 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.640 great drought in the land for three and a half years. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.920 The people were in desperate need of water. One day 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.280 Elijah said to King Ahab, I hear the sound of 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.080 the abundance of rain. The fact is, when he said it, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.000 there wasn't a cloud in the sky, no sign of rain, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.520 no thunder. Yet he could sense something coming before it 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.680 got there. I'm sure Ahab thought, the heat is getting 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.200 to this old man. There's no rain, there's no thunder. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.040 Why is he talking like this. No, Elijah didn't hear 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.200 it physically. He heard it down in here, and he 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.240 was bold enough to announce it. That's why I'm always 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.880 announcing the you what I sense in my spirit, and 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:08.680 I sense and exceedingly abundantly above and beyond decade of 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.560 God's favor for you. I can sense God is about 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.520 to open up doors for you bigger than you've ever 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.000 dreamed of. I can sense you're about to see the 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:24.040 breakthroughs that you've been praying about. I can sense the 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.400 promises you've been standing on are about to come to pass. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.720 Like Elijah, the sound I hear over you is the 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:37.200 sound of abundance, abundance of favor, abundance of health, abundance 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:41.440 of good breaks, abundance of wisdom, abundance in your finances. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.000 I hear the sound of an abundance of victory over 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.560 each one of you. And even though Elijah couldn't see 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.600 any sight of rain, he could sense that it was coming. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.560 If you read the story, it was in any time 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.200 before the heavens opened up, the rains came pouring down, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.600 and the three and a half year drought was ended. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.800 Some of you today may feel like you've been in 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:08.000 a drought in your finances, your career, your health, your family. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.320 But God is saying to you what he said to Elijah. 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.120 I'm about to do a new thing. I'm about to 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.720 open up the windows of heaven. I'm about to release 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.600 a moment of favor that I already have in your future. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.040 Now you need to do your part and start expecting 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.200 it and declaring it. You may be struggling in your finances, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.280 but don't go around with a poor mouth. Your report 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.720 should be I can hear the sound of abundance. I 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.560 know promotion and increase are coming my way. You may 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.840 be struggling in your health, but your report should be 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.640 I'm getting better and better. God is restoring health. Unto me, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.680 my youth is being renewed like the egos. Now, when 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.400 you do that, other people may look at you like 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.800 Ahab looked at Elijah and think, why are they talking 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.520 like that. They're not healthy, they're not blessed, they're not prospers. No, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.520 don't worry about it. They can't hear the sound, they 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.760 can't sense what you're sensing. They're just looking at it 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.880 in the natural. But like Elijah, you can sense something 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.879 great is coming long before it gets here. This is 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.520 what a young lady in the scripture did. Her name 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.600 was Ruth. Her husband had been killed in a battle. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.680 Now she was living with her mother in law. Every 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.480 morning she would go out in the fields and pick 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.440 up the leftover wheat that the reapers had missed. I'm 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.040 sure Ruth was tempted to be discouraged. She'd gone through 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:39.200 this great tragedy. Her heart was broken, her dreams were shattered. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.239 She could have easily just given up on life and 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:46.119 settled where she was. But I can imagine down deep, 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.879 Ruth had this same promise in her heart. Everything is 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.320 gonna be all right. I can't explain. It doesn't make 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.080 sense to my mind. I know I should be depressed, 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.520 I shouldn't be hopeful, but I can sense it something 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.480 great is still in my future. The man that owned 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.400 all those fields was named Boaz. One morning he saw 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.600 Ruth out there working. He had never met her, never 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.199 talked to her, but he said to his workers, I 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.720 want you to leave extra wheat on the ground on purpose, 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.679 to make it easier on that young lady. Notice he 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.320 didn't talk to her, he talked about her. Ruth never 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.360 heard what he said, But all of a sudden, her 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.800 life got much easier. She had more wheat than she 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.960 could handle. She got done in half the amount of time, 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.439 all because somebody she didn't even know put in a 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.399 good word for her. Here's my point. God has already 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.159 spoken to the right people to be good to you. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.320 You may not ever even hear it, you may not 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.160 ever know them. But just like Ruth, as you're being 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.720 your best each day, as you're honoring God, you are 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.080 going to come in to bless you that you've never 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.120 seen before. Blessings that you can't explain. You're gonna get 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.280 breaks that you didn't deserve. People are gonna go out 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.560 of their way to help further your dreams. That's a 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.720 moment of favor that God has already lined up. This 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.560 tells me we don't have to play up to people 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.399 to try to win their friendship. We don't have to 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.760 try to manipulate things and try to win somebody over 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.040 gain their favor. No, listen, God will give you favor 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.520 with who you're supposed to have favor with. If somebody 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.560 doesn't want to be your friend, don't worry about it. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.320 If a door closes, don't get discouraged. Just keep being 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.240 your best every day and God will speak to the 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.000 right people, the people that matter to your divine destiny. 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.720 He'll cause them to be good to you. I have 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:51.119 a friend that I've known for a long time, and 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.920 he's always had a dream to own his own business. 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.639 Year after year, he's been faithful right where he is 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.960 in the position that he's had, just being his best, 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.280 and he's always being good to somebody, not just encouraging them, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.359 but he'll go over to their house at night and 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.199 fix something for him or give somebody a ride to 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.280 the airport. He just got a giving spirit. In a 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.639 while back, a man that he had known for some 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.600 time asked him to go to dinner. He thought they 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.960 were just going to catch up on old times, but 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.800 this man brought a proposal to start a new business. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.720 This man already owns a very successful company, but he 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.000 wanted to start something new. My friend thought that he 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.680 just wanted to get his advice about it, maybe get 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:37.439 some encouragement. But he said, no, I don't want just that. 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.320 I want you to be my partner and we will 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.720 split it fifty to fifty. My friend was really thrilled. 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:45.960 He said, man I'd love to do that, but I 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.120 don't have the funds like you do. I can't put 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.200 in fifty percent like you can. The man said, don't 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.760 worry about it. I don't need your funds. That's taken 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.920 care of. I just want to bless you because you've 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:01.480 always been so good to me. Now owns fifty percent 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.560 of a growing business. His dream has come to pass. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.879 What was that He walked in to a moment of 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:12.080 favor that God had already lined up for him. That 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:17.320 business was dropped in his lap, Just like those workers 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.920 were told to leave extra wheat on purpose for Ruth. 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.760 He walked into an incredible opportunity that God had already 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.760 spoken to somebody to leave for him. Friends, God has 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:32.359 done the same thing for each one of you. He 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.320 has doors that he's going to open that are going 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.680 to amaze you. He has opportunity he's going to bring 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.719 across your path that's greater than you can imagine. Some 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.400 of you kind of think that you've reached your limits 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:49.560 and you could never accomplish your dreams. Never pay off 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.040 your house, never leave anything for your children. No, you 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:57.560 don't know what God has already spoken over you. You don't 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.720 know the incredible things God has come your way. One 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.240 verse talks about how when you stay faithful to honor 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.639 God and be your very best each day, it says, 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:14.040 then payday is coming. Friends. God rewards the people that 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.439 seek after him. Many of you have been faithful, You 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:21.200 have given, you have served. God is saying your payday 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.600 is on its way. He is about to release a 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.960 moment of favor that he already has in your future. 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.440 All God has to do is speak to one person, 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:35.240 and your whole life can change for the better. I 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:39.080 think about how when we were trying to acquire this facility, 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.560 the former Compact Center, we needed ten votes from the 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.520 city council members. We had worked on this for over 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.760 three years. Up to the last week. We had the 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:52.439 ten votes, but then one of the council members changed 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.840 his mind and decided to be out of town. Him 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.600 not being there was just like a vote against us. 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:03.040 We needed his vote. We were so discouraged, so disappointed. 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:05.480 Looked like all of our work had just gone down 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:09.600 the drain. But we got word the night before the 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:14.119 main vote that a young Jewish council member changed his 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:17.280 mind and was going to vote for us. We couldn't 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:20.800 believe it. We had worked on him for over two years. 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:23.440 I had done my best to try to convince him 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.520 to persuade him, but I could never do it. After 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.400 the vote and we got the facility, I asked him 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:33.000 what it was that changed his mind. He told how 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:36.359 he got a call from a long lost friend of 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:39.080 his that he hadn't spoken to in years and years. 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.679 She was an elderly Jewish lady that he had a 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:46.679 great deal of respect for. He said. She told me 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:50.400 in no uncertain terms that I was to vote for 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:53.840 your church. And it was that one phone call, that 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:58.520 one lady that changed my mind. The funny thing is, 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:01.800 I don't know who that was. Lady was. I've never 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:04.399 met her, I never asked her to call. You know 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:08.239 what she was? She was our boass. God did for 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:12.040 us what we couldn't do for ourselves. God calls somebody 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:15.119 we didn't even know to put in a good word 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:18.760 for us, and here we are today. Friends. God knows 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:21.720 who he needs to influence to get you to where 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:24.399 you're supposed to be. You may not be able to 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:26.480 persuade them, they may not want to be your friend. 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:29.200 Don't worry about it. God will speak to the right 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.760 people that can make a difference. He's got it all 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:35.720 lined up. But some of you little frustrated because you're 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:38.480 trying to make it happen on your own, trying to 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:41.480 convince somebody to like you, trying to impress them. No, listen, 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:44.240 just do your best and let God take care of 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:47.080 the rest. Do what you can do, and then trust 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:49.919 God to do what you can't do. You have no 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:53.879 idea the amazing things that God has spoken over your life, 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:58.200 the incredible doors he's going to open. He has opportunity 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:00.960 and promotion that he's going to to bring across your 0:25:01.000 --> 0:25:04.480 path that's greater than you've ever imagined. I think about 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:08.560 how one young lady from the New York Yankee Baseball 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.679 Organization really liked our ministry. She had been to some 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.439 of our Nights of Hope, and she invited us to 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.480 come and open up the New Yankee Ballpark. She was 0:25:19.560 --> 0:25:22.520 not in the top management. She had to go through 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:26.000 level after level after level. It could have been stopped 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:28.919 at any point. They could have come up with plenty 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:32.160 of reasons not to do it. Hey, it's just too new. 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:34.600 We don't want anybody on the field. We've got too 0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:38.000 many bugs to work out. There were plenty of excuses 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:41.760 they could have found, but listen, when God wants something done, 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:45.320 it's gonna get done. No person can stand against him. 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:51.399 She got approval after approval after approval. Things fell into place. 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:54.000 You know how last April we opened up the new 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:58.760 Yankee Stadium all because God spoke to one young lady. 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:03.360 God gave her a desire to be good to us, 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:07.200 and she opened a door bigger than we've ever even imagined. 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.720 That was another moment of favor that God had already 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:14.560 released into our future. And in the coming days, God 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:17.439 is going to give you favor with the right people. 0:26:18.040 --> 0:26:21.080 You don't need favor with everyone. You just need favor 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:24.000 with the right one. It doesn't matter how high they 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:28.080 are or how low they are. All that matters is 0:26:28.160 --> 0:26:32.000 God has ordained them to be good to you. He's 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:34.440 going to speak to people about you that you don't 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:36.359 even know about. That's going to give you a new 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.480 level of influence. Don't be surprised when doors open bigger 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:43.600 than you've ever imagined. That's God moving on a boass. 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:47.000 Don't be surprised when you get breaks that you didn't 0:26:47.000 --> 0:26:50.960 really deserve. Somewhere, God spoke to somebody to be good 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:53.440 to you. I want you to go into this new 0:26:53.520 --> 0:26:57.200 decade not just excited about your future, but I want 0:26:57.240 --> 0:27:01.399 you to start sensing what's coming to activate your faith. 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:05.320 Our attitude should be. I can sense it. Something good 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:07.840 is about to happen. I can sense it. Things are 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:11.280 changing in my favor in the natural. It may not 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:13.960 look like it. I can't see it, but I can 0:27:14.080 --> 0:27:17.160 sense it. I walk by faith and not by sight. 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:21.359 When you do that, your faith is being released. I 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:24.000 just want to declare this over every one of you. 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:27.200 You've been faithful. You need to get ready. Your payday 0:27:27.480 --> 0:27:30.600 is coming. You're about to walk into a moment of 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:34.960 favor that God has already released into your future. God 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:37.720 is going to take you places that you've never imagined. 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:41.000 He is opening up doors that no man can shut. 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:45.160 He has already spoken to the right people about you. 0:27:45.119 --> 0:27:47.760 You're going to come into these blessings that you didn't 0:27:47.760 --> 0:27:50.639 even have to struggle for. You're going to get promoted 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:54.199 even though you were not the most qualified. God's face 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:57.600 is shining down on you. This is what the scripture says. 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:00.440 God is going to give you houses that you didn't 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:04.560 have to build, vineyards, that you didn't plan wells, that 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:07.840 you didn't have to dig. That's the goodness of God. 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:16.000 I've seen it in my own life. Now I know 0:28:16.000 --> 0:28:18.320 if God did it for me, if he did it 0:28:18.359 --> 0:28:21.639 for Ruth, he wants to do it for you. Now. 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:24.040 I don't know about you, but I can sense this 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:28.080 is going to be a decade of exceedingly abundantly above 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:34.080 and beyond favor. I can sense that things are accelerating. 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:39.000 God is about to shift you higher, thrust you faster 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:42.360 than you ever even imagine. I can hear the sound 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:47.360 of abundance, the sound of good breaks, the sound of healing, 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:52.200 the sound of promotion, the sound of victory over our lives. 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:55.920 I'm asking you today to get your censor going in 0:28:55.960 --> 0:29:00.280 the right direction. Get up every morning expecting God's goodness, 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:05.440 expecting breakthroughs, expecting to accomplish your goals. If you will 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:09.200 learn to sense the good things of God, knowing that 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:12.600 favor has already been released in your future, then God 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:15.720 will amaze you with his goodness. Like Ruth, you will 0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:19.760 come into these unexpected blessings. You'll go from barely getting 0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:22.800 by to heaven more than enough. God will open up 0:29:22.880 --> 0:29:26.000 supernatural doors. He will speak to the right people to 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:29.160 be good to you. I believe and declare you will 0:29:29.160 --> 0:29:37.000 see a decade of exceedingly abundantly above and beyond favor, promotion, increase, hell, healing, 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:39.080 a decade of God's favor. 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:39.440 Amen. 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:40.600 Do you receive it today? 0:29:42.440 --> 0:29:46.120 Thank you for listening to the Jousteine podcast. 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