Sensing The Good Things Has In Store

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These are the 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.160 finest people in all the town, right here at Lakewood Church. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.000 So come out and be a part. Thanks for tuning 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.359 in today, and thanks again for coming out. And I 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.680 like to start with something funny each week. And I 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.480 heard about this eighty five year old man. He was 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.400 out fishing one day and he heard this voice saying, 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.080 pick me up. He looked all around, didn't see anything, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.880 thought he was dreaming. Heard it again, pick me up. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.840 He looked down and saw a frog on the ground. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.120 He said, in amazement, are you talking to me? The 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.240 frog said yes, pick me up and kiss me, and 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.560 I'll turn into a beautiful bride. He quickly picked the 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.760 frog up and put him in his front pocket. The 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.200 frog said, hey, what are you doing. I said, kiss 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.880 me and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. The man said, no, thanks. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.320 At my age, I'd rather have a talking frog. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:57.600 All right. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.919 Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.399 This is my Bible. I am what it says, I am. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.359 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.040 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.120 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.600 is alert my heart is recepted. I will never be 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:21.399 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.960 to talk to you today about sensing the good things 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.600 God has in store. When God laid out the plans 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.160 for our lives, he lined up the right people, the 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.640 right breaks, and the right opportunities. The scripture talks about 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.400 how time and chance will come together for every person. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.080 That means there are moments of favor that God has 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:49.280 already released into your future. If you could pull back 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.680 the curtain and see your whole life, you would see 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.480 how God has already lined up the right breaks to 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.840 come across your path. He's already arranged certain people to 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.880 be good to you. He's already picked out the right 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.280 husband or wife for you and your children. He's already 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:13.000 lined up solutions to problems you haven't even had. God 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:18.160 has it already released into your future. These moments of favor, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.240 moments of blessing, moments of increase. They will help you 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:28.120 overcome obstacles, accomplish goals, and even thrust you years ahead. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.000 But so often when we look in our future, we 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.040 don't see how will ever rise higher, how willever fulfill 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.000 our destiny? How our child will ever get back on 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.200 the right track. The problem is we're only looking at 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.200 it in the natural. But the Scripture says here in 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.159 Second Corinthians, we have to walk by faith and not 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.320 by sight. In other words, we have to believe it 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.600 before we're ever going to see it. If you can 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.400 see it, you don't need any faith. But when it 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.720 looks in impossible and it seems like you've reached your 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.520 limits and you don't see how your health could ever improve, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.120 instead of just going by what you see, if you 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.520 will listen down and hear in your heart, you will 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.839 hear God saying I have a way. Things are turning around. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.480 A moment of favor is coming. I've already lined up 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.280 the solution. You may not be able to see it, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.320 but in your heart you will sense that it's on 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.840 its way. I read something interesting about a tarantula. It 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.440 has eight eyes all around its body. But in spite 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.880 of these eyes, its vision is very poor. It can't 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.080 see far off and even up close. It's not sharp 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.920 and clear. But the tarantula is a very precise hunter. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.560 It's known for its ability to attack and kill. How 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.039 can it be so accurate with its vision being so poor. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.440 It's because its legs are full of hairy follicle that 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:05.720 are extremely sensitive, and it can sense something coming long 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.920 before it gets there, even though it can't see well. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.359 It's extremely perceptive. That's the way we need to be. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.920 Sometimes when we look in our future, we don't see 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.880 anything good. We don't see how we'll get out of death. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.960 We don't see how we'll have this far and beyond 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.080 decade that we're talking about. In the natural, it looks impossible, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.880 just like it's gonna be more of the same. But 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:35.320 down in here, if we'll be perceptive, we will sense somehow, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.680 some way it's gonna happen. Business may be slow, the 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.960 economy's down, but in spite of all of that, I 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:47.000 can sense increase is coming my way. I can sense 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.320 it's my decade of favor. I can sense my greatest 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.360 victories are still out in front of me. We used 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.120 to sing an old song growing up that says, I've 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.960 got a feeling everything's gonna be all right. In other words, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.240 I can't explain. It doesn't make sense to my mind, 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.720 but I can sense moments of favor are coming my way. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.880 My finances may be down, I'm not worried. I can 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.080 sense promotion is in my future. The medical report may 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.000 not look good. All the facts are telling me I'm 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.160 not gonna get well. I should get discouraged, I should 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.960 be depressed. But now I've got a feeling everything's gonna 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.720 be all right. See, I've learned sometimes you have to 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.160 turn your mind off. Sometimes there is no logical solution. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:39.240 That's why this scripture says, lean not to your own understanding. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.200 Don't try to figure it all out. If you're constantly 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.240 running the numbers and over analyzing everything, reading the medical 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.320 report every other minute, and looking up your symptoms on 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.680 twenty four different websites, all that's gonna do is dull 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.040 your censor. You need to turn that off and listen 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.320 down in here. This is where God speaks. This is 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.840 where faith rises up. All of a sudden, you'll feel 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.640 a spark of hope. In the natural. It looks impossible, 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.840 but you'll hear down and hear something saying God has 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.920 a way. Favor is in your future. Something good is 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.520 about to happen. God is going to turn it around. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.480 The breakthrough will be here at any moment. That's what 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.280 we have to get in agreement with turn off the 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.600 reasoning and listen to what you're sensing down in here. Now. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.680 I know some of you have had some bad breaks, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.400 a lot of disappointments, And the problem now is your 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.720 censor has become dull. In other words, you're not expecting 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:44.120 anything good. You're not living with enthusiasm. The good news 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.280 today is your censor is getting a tune up. God 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.560 is birth in new dreams, new life, new vision. New 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.800 seeds of hope are taken root in your heart. You 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.360 may be in difficult times, but God said in Exodus 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.760 thirty three fourteen, I will go with you. I will 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:08.480 give you rest. Everything will be fine for you. Let 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:13.199 that promise sink down into your heart. Everything will be fine, 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.280 not some things, not half of it, not ninety nine percent. No, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.000 If you'll keep your trust in Him, everything is going 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.880 to be just fine for you. Some of you have 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.800 been through a great loss. You're very disappointed. Doesn't look 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.760 like you'll ever see bright days. But God is saying, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.400 I have beauty for your ashes. I'm about to open 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.319 up a new door. Everything is going to be fine 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.440 for you. Maybe a relationship didn't work out, but that 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.000 is not the end. It's a new beginning. God has 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.360 someone else in your future. Everything is going to be 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.520 fine for you. Some of you just have a lot 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.200 on your plate. You're working hard, raising your children, taking 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.240 care of elderly parents. Doesn't look like it's ever going 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.800 to change. God is saying, come back to that place 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.320 of peace. I want to give you rest. Everything is 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:11.800 going to be fine for you. Friends. Don't let stress, worry, negativity, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.600 discouragement dull your censor. Listen down in here. God is saying, 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.080 it's gonna be all right. I've got a moment of 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.880 favor coming. Things are about to turn around. The solution 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.400 is already lined up, The promotion is already on its way. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.240 The breakthrough could happen at any moment. Now, we've got 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.360 to get in agreement with God. Circumstances may have us 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.080 down on the outside, but we've got to get up 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.160 on the inside. Our attitude should be My health need 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.720 be going down a little bit, but I've got a 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.319 feeling I'm coming back strong. May be a little stressful 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.400 at the office. I don't see how it's ever gonna change, 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.000 but I'm not worried. I walk by faith and not 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.920 by sight. I know a moment of favor is coming. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:00.000 My way. I can sense it. Everything is gonna be 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.920 all right. This is what I had to do when 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.640 we were renovating this facility. Cost about one hundred million 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.320 dollars to convert this from a basketball arena to a 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.760 worship facility. A bank loaned us part of the money. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.440 Toward the end, we had a twenty million dollar payment 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.080 to make. It's a very critical time. The people, many 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.000 of you, had given so generously, and we had made 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.720 all of our other payments, but this final payment that 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.520 would take us out of the construction phase over into 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.040 the regular financing. We found that we were about fifteen 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.480 million dollars short. It was going to be due in 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.520 several months time. Our team ran all the numbers and 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:46.640 they calculated, projected, moved things around. But no matter what 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.240 we did, we were still millions and millions short. And 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.920 I'd put my name on the line, I'd given them 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.040 my word. In the natural, I should have been worried. 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.679 I should have been losing sleep at night. My mind. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.880 These thoughts were telling me that it's not going to 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.040 work out. It's going to be a big mess. You're 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.280 not even going to be able to move. In all 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:10.040 these discouraging thoughts, in my head, but down in here 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.160 it was the most amazing thing. I had an incredible peace. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.600 I could sense it. Everything is going to be all right. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.280 God is still on the throne. He's in complete control. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.280 I couldn't make it work on paper, couldn't explain it. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.720 My head was telling me no way, but my heart 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:33.040 was saying yes way. All through the day, instead of worrying, 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.200 I'd go around saying, Father, thank you that you're supplying 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.400 all of our needs. It was your goodness that gave 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.240 us this place, and it's your goodness that will take 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.320 care of us. At that time, the church owned a 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.679 television station that we'd been trying to sell for more 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.400 than three years. The market was very down. No one 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.000 was buying independent stations. We were told the most we 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.200 could get for it if we did sell it was 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.959 eighteen to nineteen million dollars, and we owed eight million 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.520 dollars on it, so even if we were to sell it, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.520 we would still come up short. But just a few 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.920 weeks before the big payment was due, a buyer for 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.800 the station came along. Things fell into place and he 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.960 bought it. Not for eighteen million, not for nineteen, not 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.480 for twenty, not for twenty five, not for twenty eight, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.360 not for thirty. He bought it for thirty two million dollars. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.120 We were able to make that payment, and we've been 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.640 going strong ever since. That was a moment of favor 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.560 that God had already released into my future. All I 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.360 had to do was believe. All I had to do 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.280 was stay in faith and not let doubt and unbelieve 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:46.199 stop or delay what God had already lined up. Friends, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.240 God has already lined up solutions for every problem you 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.440 will ever have. He's already lined up the people, the breaks, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:59.200 the finances, the opportunity, the wisdom, the ideas. You don't 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.480 have to live life worried. You don't have to go 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.559 around frustrated because it's not happening as fast as you 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.320 would like. No, come back to that place of peace, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.400 stay at rest knowing that it's on its way. I 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.680 love what the prophet Elijah did. There had been a 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.960 great drought in the land for three and a half years. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.240 The people were in desperate need of water. One day 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:26.600 Elijah said to King Ahab, I hear the sound of 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.360 the abundance of rain. The fact is, when he said it, 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.280 there wasn't a cloud in the sky no sign of rain, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.800 no thunder. Yet he could sense something coming before it 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.960 got there. I'm sure Ahab thought, the heat is getting 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.480 to this old man. There's no rain, there's no thunder. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.360 Why is he talking like this? No, Elijah didn't hear 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.480 it physically. He heard it down in here, and he 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.520 was bold enough to announce it. That's why I'm always 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.200 announcing to you what I sense in my spirit. And 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:05.960 I sense and exceedingly abundantly above and beyond decade of 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.840 God's favor for you. I can sense God is about 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.800 to open up doors for you bigger than you've ever 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.320 dreamed of. I can sense you're about to see the 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.360 breakthroughs that you've been praying about. I can sense the 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.680 promises you've been standing on are about to come to pass. 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.000 Like Elijah, the sound I hear over you is the 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:34.480 sound of abundance, abundance of favor, abundance of health, abundance 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.720 of good breaks, abundance of wisdom, abundance in your finances. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.320 I hear the sound of an abundance of victory over 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.840 each one of you. And even though Elijah couldn't see 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.920 any sight of rain, he could sense that it was coming. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.480 If you read the story. It wasn't any time before 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.840 the heavens opened up, the rains came pouring down, and 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.840 the three and a half year draft was ended. Some 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.200 of you today may feel like you've been in a 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.280 drought in your finances, your career, your health, your family. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.600 But God is saying to you what he said to Elijah. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.440 I'm about to do a new thing. I'm about to 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.040 open up the windows of heaven. I'm about to release 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.920 a moment of favor that I already have in your future. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.320 Now you need to do your part and start expecting 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.520 it and declaring it. You may be struggling in your finances, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.560 but don't go around with a poor mouth. Your report 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.000 should be I can hear the sound of abundance. I 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.880 know promotion and increase are coming my way. You may 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.160 be struggling in your health, but your report should be 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.960 I'm getting better and better. God is restoring health. Unto me, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.960 my youth is being renewed like the egos. Now, when 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.720 you do that, other people may look at you like 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.080 Ahab looked at Elijah and think, why are they talking 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.760 like that. They're not healthy, they're not blessed, they're not prosperous. No, 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.800 don't worry about it. They can't hear the sound. They 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.040 can't sense what you're sensing. They're just looking at it 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.160 in the natural. But like Elijah, you can sense something 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.159 great is coming long before it gets here. This is 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.800 what a young lady in the scripture did. Her name 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.879 was Ruth. Her husband had been killed in a battle. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.000 Now she was living with her mother in law. Every 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.760 morning she would go out in the fields and pick 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.840 up the left over wheat that the reapers had missed. 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.120 I'm sure Ruth was tempted to be discouraged. She'd gone 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:35.680 through this great tragedy. Her heart was broken, her dreams 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.760 were shattered. She could have easily just given up on 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.560 life and settled where she was. But I can imagine 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.880 down deep Ruth had this same promise in her heart. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.480 Everything is going to be all right. I can't explain. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.320 It doesn't make sense to my mind. I know I 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.400 should be depressed, I shouldn't be hopeful, but I can 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.840 sense it something great is still in my future. The 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.800 man that owned all those fields was named Boaz. One 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.720 morning he saw Ruth out there working. He had never 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.959 met her, never talked to her, but he said to 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.600 his workers I want you to leave extra wheat on 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.560 the ground on purpose to make it easier on that 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:21.399 young lady. Notice he didn't talk to her, He talked 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.640 about her. Ruth never heard what he said, but all 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.000 of a sudden, her life got much easier. She had 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.000 more wheat than she could handle. She got done in 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:36.159 half the amount of time, all because somebody she didn't 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.359 even know put in a good word for her. Here's 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.520 my point. God has already spoken to the right people 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.640 to be good to you. You may not ever even 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.760 hear it, you may not ever know them. But just 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.120 like Ruth, as you're being your best each day, as 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.560 you're honoring God, you are going to come into blessings 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.280 that you've never seen before, blessing that you can't explain. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.960 You're gonna get breaks that you didn't deserve. People are 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.159 going to go out of their way to help further 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:11.040 your dreams. That's a moment of favor that God has 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.760 already lined up. This tells me we don't have to 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.639 play up to people to try to win their friendship. 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.920 We don't have to try to manipulate things and try 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.119 to win somebody over gain their favor. No, listen, God 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.760 will give you favor with who you're supposed to have 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.040 favor with. If somebody doesn't want to be your friend, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.520 don't worry about it. If a door closes, don't get discouraged. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.920 Just keep being your best every day and God will 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.080 speak to the right people, the people that matter to 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.560 your divine destiny. He'll cause them to be good to you. 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.280 I have a friend that I've known for a long time, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.200 and he's always had a dream to own his own business. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.959 Year after year, he's been faithful right where he is 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.240 in the position that he's had, just being his best, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:02.560 and he's always being good somebody, not just encouraging them, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:04.679 but he'll go over to their house at night and 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.480 fix something for him or give somebody a ride to 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.560 the airport. He just got a giving spirit. In a 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.960 while back, a man that he had known for some 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.879 time asked him to go to dinner. He thought they 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.240 were just going to catch up on old times, but 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:22.119 this man brought a proposal to start a new business. 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.000 This man already owns a very successful company, but he 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.280 wanted to start something new. My friend thought that he 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.960 just wanted to get his advice about it, maybe get 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.679 some encouragement, but he said no, I don't want just that. 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.600 I want you to be my partner and we will 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.040 split it fifty to fifty. My friend was really thrilled. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.240 He said, man, I'd love to do that, but I 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.400 don't have the funds like you do. I can't put 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.520 in fifty percent like you can. The man said, don't 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.000 worry about it. I don't need your funds. That's taken 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.200 care of. I just want to bless you because you've 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.960 always been so good to me. Now my friend owns 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.360 fifty percent of a growing business. His dream has come 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.520 to pass. What was that He walked in to a 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.600 moment of favor that God had already lined up for him. 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:14.040 That business was dropped in his lap, Just like those 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:18.200 workers were told to leave extra wheat on purpose for Ruth. 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:23.040 He walked into an incredible opportunity that God had already 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:27.040 spoken to somebody to leave for him. Friends, God has 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.720 done the same thing for each one of you. He 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.600 has doors that he's going to open that are going 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.960 to amaze you. He has opportunity he's going to bring 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:40.040 across your path that's greater than you can imagine. Some 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.680 of you kind of think that you've reached your limits. 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:46.840 And you could never accomplish your dreams, never pay off 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:50.320 your house, never leave anything for your children. No, you 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:54.479 don't know what God has already spoken over you. You 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.840 don't know the incredible things God has come in your way. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.080 One verse talks about how when you stay faithful to 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.919 honor God and be your very best each day, it says, 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:11.320 then payday is coming. Friends. God rewards the people that 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.719 seek after him. Many of you have been faithful, You 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:18.480 have given, you have served. God is saying your payday 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.879 is on its way. He is about to release a 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.240 moment of favor that He already has in your future. 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.760 All God has to do is speak to one person, 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.560 and your whole life can change for the better. I 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.359 think about how when we were trying to acquire this facility, 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:39.840 the former Compact Center, we needed ten votes from the 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:42.800 city council members. We had worked on this for over 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.960 three years now. Up to the last week, we had 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.159 the ten votes, but then one of the council members 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.200 changed his mind and decided to be out of town. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:55.920 Him not being there was just like a vote against us. 0:22:56.080 --> 0:23:00.000 We needed his vote. We were so discouraged, so disappoint 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:02.520 It looked like all of our work had just gone 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:06.400 down the drain. But we got word the night before 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:11.280 the main vote that a young Jewish council member changed 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:14.159 his mind and was going to vote for us. We 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:17.200 couldn't believe it. We had worked on him for over 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.040 two years. I had done my best to try to 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.679 convince him to persuade him, but I could never do it. 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.680 After the vote we got the facility, I asked him 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:30.280 what it was that changed his mind. He told how 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:33.639 he got a call from a long lost friend of 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:36.359 his that he hadn't spoken to in years and years. 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:39.959 She was an elderly Jewish lady that he had a 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:44.000 great deal of respect for. He said, she told me, 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.720 in no uncertain terms that I was to vote for 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:51.120 your church. And it was that one phone call, that 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.800 one lady that changed my mind. The funny thing is, 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:59.520 I don't know who that lady was. I never met her. 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.399 I never ask her to call. You know what she was? 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:06.159 She was our Boas God did for us what we 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:10.320 couldn't do for ourselves. God calls somebody we didn't even 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.040 know to put in a good word for us, and 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:17.080 here we are today. Friends. God knows who he needs 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:19.800 to influence to get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:22.720 You may not be able to persuade them. They may 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:24.840 not want to be your friend. Don't worry about it. 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:27.760 God will speak to the right people that can make 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:30.760 a difference. He's got it all lined up. But some 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.840 of you little frustrated because you're trying to make it 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.080 happen on your own, trying to convince somebody to like you, 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:40.000 trying to impress them. No, listen, just do your best 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:42.800 and let God take care of the rest. Do what 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.000 you can do, and then trust God to do what 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:49.520 you can't do. You have no idea the amazing things 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.719 that God has spoken over your life, the incredible doors 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:56.840 he's going to open. He has opportunity and promotion that 0:24:56.920 --> 0:24:59.520 he's going to bring across your path that's greater than 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:03.520 you've ever imagined. I think about how one young lady 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:08.600 from the New York Yankee Baseball Organization really liked our ministry. 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:11.399 She had been to some of our Nights of Hope, 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:14.399 and she invited us to come and open up the 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:18.440 New Yankee Ballpark. She was not in the top management. 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:21.960 She had to go through level after level after level. 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:25.120 It could have been stopped at any point they could 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:28.520 have come up with plenty of reasons not to do it. Hey, 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:31.080 it's just too new. We don't want anybody on the field. 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:34.040 We've got too many bugs to work out. There were 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:37.680 plenty of excuses they could have found. But listen, when 0:25:37.720 --> 0:25:41.200 God wants something done, it's gonna get done. No person 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:47.240 can stand against him. She got approval after approval after approval, 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:50.399 things fell into place. You know how last April we 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:54.600 opened up the new Yankee Stadium all because God spoke 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.640 to one young lady, one young girl. God gave her 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:01.840 a desire to be good to us, and she opened 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:05.119 a door bigger than we've ever even imagined. That was 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:08.720 another moment of favor that God had already released into 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.240 our future. And in the coming days, God is going 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:15.680 to give you favor with the right people. You don't 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:18.800 need favor with everyone. You just need favor with the 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:22.560 right one. It doesn't matter how high they are or 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:26.120 how low they are. All that matters is God has 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:29.639 ordained them to be good to you. He's going to 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:32.480 speak to people about you that you don't even know about. 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:34.639 That's going to give you a new level of influence. 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:38.879 Don't be surprised when door's open bigger than you've ever imagined. 0:26:39.160 --> 0:26:42.680 That's God moving on a boaz. Don't be surprised when 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:46.640 you get breaks that you didn't really deserve. Somewhere God 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:49.600 spoke to somebody to be good to you. I want 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:52.840 you to go into this new decade not just excited 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:55.879 about your future, but I want you to start sensing 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:59.760 what's coming. You've got to activate your faith, our attitude 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:03.119 s be. I can sense it. Something good is about 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:06.040 to happen. I can sense it. Things are changing in 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:09.280 my favor. In the natural. It may not look like it. 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.119 I can't see it, but I can sense it. I 0:27:12.280 --> 0:27:15.720 walk by faith and not by sight. When you do that, 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:19.600 your faith is being released. I just want to declare 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:22.600 this over every one of you. You've been faithful. You 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:26.280 need to get ready. Your payday is coming. You're about 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:29.480 to walk into a moment of favor that God has 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:33.040 already released into your future. God is going to take 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:36.280 you places that you've never imagined. He is opening up 0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:40.200 doors that no man can shut. He has already spoken 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:43.200 to the right people about you. You're going to come 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:46.200 into these blessings that you didn't even have to struggle for. 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:48.960 You're going to get promoted even though you were not 0:27:49.080 --> 0:27:52.840 the most qualified. God's face is shining down on you. 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:56.040 This is what the scripture says. God is going to 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:59.280 give you houses that you didn't have to build, vineyards 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:02.960 that you didn't wells that you didn't have to dig. 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:11.800 That's the goodness of God. I've seen it in my 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:14.320 own life. Now I know if God did it from me, 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:17.399 if he did it for Ruth, he wants to do 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:20.000 it for you. Now. I don't know about you, but 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:22.800 I can sense this is going to be a decade 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:29.200 of exceedingly abundantly above and beyond favor. I can sense 0:28:29.280 --> 0:28:34.520 that things are accelerating. God is about to shift you higher, 0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:38.760 thrust you faster than you ever even imagine. I can 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:42.920 hear the sound of abundance, the sound of good breaks, 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:47.400 the sound of healing, the sound of promotion, the sound 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:51.320 of victory over our lives. I'm asking you today to 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:55.000 get your censor going in the right direction. Get up 0:28:55.040 --> 0:29:01.200 every morning expecting God's goodness, expecting breakthroughs, affecting to accomplish 0:29:01.200 --> 0:29:04.840 your gods. If you will learn to sense the good 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:08.440 things of God, knowing that favor has already been released 0:29:08.440 --> 0:29:11.600 in your future, then God will amaze you with His goodness. 0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:15.960 Like Ruth. You will come into these unexpected blessings. You'll 0:29:16.000 --> 0:29:18.640 go from barely getting by to having more than enough. 0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:22.400 God will open up supernatural doors. He will speak to 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:24.560 the right people to be good to you. Now, I 0:29:24.680 --> 0:29:28.360 believe and declare you will see a decade of exceedingly 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:34.840 abundantly above and beyond favor, promotion, increase, hell, healing, a 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:37.880 decade of God's favor. Amen, do you receive it today? 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:42.120 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:44.920 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:29:45.400 --> 0:29:49.520 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:29:49.640 --> 0:29:54.160 repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I make 0:29:54.240 --> 0:29:57.480 you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that 0:29:57.560 --> 0:30:00.440 simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 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