Something Big Is Coming Your Way

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I like 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.480 to start with something funny, and I heard about this 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.680 cat and mouse that died on the same day and 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.560 went to heaven. After a few weeks, Saint Peter saw 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.320 the mouse and asked him how he liked it. He said, Oh, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.160 it's great, but it's so big. I'd love to get 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.480 some roller skates. Peter said, no problem, got him the skates. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.720 A few weeks later, Peter ran into the cat ask 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.720 him how he liked it. He said, it's fantastic. And 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.880 just when I thought it couldn't get any better, I 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:42.639 discovered the meals on wheels. Hold up your Bible, say 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:43.480 it like you mean it. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.520 This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.360 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.000 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.800 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.880 is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.600 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:02.080 bless you. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.840 I want to talk to you today about how something 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.480 big is coming your way. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.960 The God we serve is not a small God. His 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.519 plan for your life is not to reach. 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.519 One level and get stuck and stay there for thirty 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.560 or forty years. God's plan is to increase you, to 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.520 open new doors, to take your places that you've never imagined. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.000 He has something big in your future. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:33.320 He's already planned out big breaks, big opportunities, big ideas. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.760 You may have seen God's goodness in the past. You 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.840 can say, like me, God's blessed you, God's promoted you, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.200 but you have not touched the surface of what God 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:44.160 has in your future. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.880 God is about to do a new thing. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.000 And what I sense in my spirit is the new 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.760 thing is going to be far greater than you've ever 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.920 seen before. It's going to be bigger than you imagined. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.080 It's going to be more rewarding than you thought possible. 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.680 You've got to come into agreement and say, yes, God, 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.360 this is from me today. I'm not gonna get stuck 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.440 where I am thinking that I've. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:08.240 Reached my limits. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.360 I'm not gonna go around with little dreams, little goals. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.320 I know you're a big God, and you have something 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:15.440 big come in my way. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:17.880 I know this man that works in. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.480 Law enforcement, he's a police officer, and in his spare time. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.640 He developed a small safety device. It's not an engineer, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.159 has no formal training. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.520 All he had was an idea. He drew it on paper, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.480 and he took it to a company. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.880 And they made a prototype of it. He liked it 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.800 so much he got it patented. He went to a 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.520 convention and showed it to this large safety company. Their 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.880 engineers were scratching their heads, saying, why didn't we think 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:49.599 of this? Was very simple, yet very effective. Long story short, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.520 that safety company bought the rights to his patent from 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.320 him for eight million dollars, just one idea that God 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.640 had given him. He said, Joel, I was just play around. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.800 I never thought that it would take off. That's the 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.159 way God is in your future. He has big breaks, 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.280 big opportunities, big. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.839 Ideas for some of you. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.279 Today, you're stuck in a rut thinking that you've reached 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.560 your limits, you've seen your best days. You could never 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.919 rise higher, you could never accomplish your dreams. No, you 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.159 don't know what God has planned out for you. Just 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.560 because you don't see a way doesn't mean that God doesn't. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:27.719 Have a way. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:32.760 God is already lined up something big that can catapult 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.280 you to a whole new level. Isaiah fifty four to 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.440 two says, enlarge the place of your tent. Let the 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:45.080 curtains of your habitation be stretched forth. Spare not lengthen 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:49.760 your cords, strengthen your stakes. Notice the words God uses 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.880 in large, lengthen, stretch forth. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:54.119 What's God saying? 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:59.279 Get ready for more, make room for increase in larger thinking, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.440 starting expecting God's favor. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.679 The next verse goes on to say, when you think 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.560 like this, then you will break forth. Then you will 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.159 take new ground. Then you will see increase. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.200 But it implies if we don't enlarge, if we don't stretch, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.279 if we think we've reached our limits, we get stuck 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.479 in a rut, then we won't break into these new levels. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.200 Some people have never once said, God, help me to 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.320 own my home free and clear, with no monthly payment. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:31.560 Our mind. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.360 If we're not careful, go till tell Joel I could 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.240 never pay my house off. It's gonna take me thirty years. No, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.159 you're believing too small. Have a bigger vision. We should 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.720 pray for things that stretch our faith. If you can 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.200 accomplish all your goals, your dreams, in your own ability, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.160 in your own strength, you don't really need God's help. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.120 You need to believe for things that are so big. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.840 You know it's gonna take God's favor. It's gonna take 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.720 God's blessing, or they'll never come to pass. God set 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.719 in Psalm to eight, ask of me and I will 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.279 give you the nations. God's saying, ask me for big things. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.720 Pray bold prayers. Dare to say, God, help me to 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.120 not only own my home free and clear, but one 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.000 day help me to be able to buy somebody else 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:23.120 a new home. Our mind thinks impossible, Joel, that could 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.960 never happen for me. Do you know where I work? 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:29.800 Know when you believe, all things are possible. How about this, God, 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.360 help me to give away each year more than my 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.760 income is right now, well, Joel, now you're getting far out. Listen, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.080 we serve a far out God. He has something big 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:45.720 in your future. I want you to get your hopes up, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.679 go out each day expecting God to do something big 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.400 in your life. If you would have told me twelve 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.960 years ago that one day I would be a minister 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.720 and we would be having services in the form of 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.520 Compact center where the rockets used to play, I would 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.880 have said you're far out. But now I realize that's 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.440 the way God is. And if you will honor Him 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.680 with your life and dare to believe for big things, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.600 one day you'll look back and say with me, God, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.680 you've outdone yourself. You've amazed me with your goodness. There's 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:24.360 a man in the scripture named Jabez. His name means trouble, sorrow, heartache. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.960 We don't know a lot about Jabez, but I can 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.559 imagine he'd been through a lot of disappointments. Life hadn't 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.080 turned out the way he had hoped. But instead of 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:38.199 sitting around feeling sorry for himself, Jabez understood this principle. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.600 He knew God had something big come in his way, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.800 and in spite of all the odds being against him, 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.520 he knew one touch of God's favor could turn any 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.880 situation around. What made ja Bez stand out is he 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.559 was bold enough to ask God to do something big. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.400 He said, God, I'm asking you to in law urge 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.600 my territory and to bless me. Indeed, he was saying, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.319 in effect, I've been through a lot of disappointments. I've 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.520 had a lot of hurts and pain. But God, I'm 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.800 not going to get stuck here. I'm expecting your favor. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.640 I'm expecting you to turn it around and to bless me. Indeed, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.840 that word indeed means in great ways. The scripture simply 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.840 says God granted him his request. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.199 My question for us today is, have you. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:34.880 Ever asked God to enlarge your territory? Have you ever said, God, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:40.000 bless me? Indeed, God, do something big in my life. Friends, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.679 we have not because we ask not. When you stretch 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:49.280 your faith, when you enlarge, increase, expand that's what allows God. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.360 To do amazing things. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.200 But sometimes we have such a limited view of God. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.880 We act like we're inconveniencing God to believe for big things. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.920 So we end up praying these small prayers. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.400 God, if you'll just give me a little raise, maybe 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.840 I can get a better place to live. God, if 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.520 you'll give me a few customers, maybe I can make 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.520 budget this month. God, if you'll give me a little help, 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.600 maybe my marriage will survive. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.120 Now you're selling yourself short. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.040 God is all powerful, He has unlimited resources. You are 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:27.319 not doing God a favor by being small minded. If 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.320 you want to make God happy, believe big, expect big, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.800 ask big. God created the whole universe. He doesn't want 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.400 us to live small lives. Think about how expansive the 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.360 universe is. There are millions of stars and planets. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.560 When I was much. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.720 Younger, we used to think our solar system was so large. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.000 But now scientists have discovered that there are stars so 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.240 large you can put our whole solar system inside of 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:03.320 one star. Anything about God is big. But the problem 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.880 is if you think small and believe small and expect small, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.320 then your thinking will keep you from the big things 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.280 God has in store. I'm asking you to get up 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.240 each day and say, Father, thank you for doing something. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:19.360 Big in my life today. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:24.280 Thank you for big opportunities, big ideas, big breakthroughs. And Lord, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.000 help me to be a big blessing to somebody else. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.480 Think like God, Think big, think expansive, think more than enough. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.640 I heard a story about a professional golfer. He was 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.520 invited by the King of Saudi Arabia to come over 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:43.000 to that country and play golf, and he accepted the invitation. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.120 And this king had sent his private jet over to 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.640 the States to pick the man up. They played golf 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.040 for a few days together. When he was about to 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.280 come back home, the king stopped him and said, I 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.200 would like to send you a special gift for coming 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.240 all this way and spending time with us. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.200 What would you like? 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.240 The man said, oh, please, don't send me anything. You've 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.800 been a very gracious host. I've had a great time. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.720 But this king was very persistent. He wasn't going to 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.840 take no for an answer. Finally, the golfer said, well, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.840 why don't you just send me a golf club. He 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.480 collected golf clubs. The king said fine. On the flight 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.800 back home, this man began to wonder what kind of 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.200 golf club the King was going to send him. He 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.760 imagined it might be a gold plated club with his 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.480 name engraved on it. Or maybe it would be a 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.080 club studded with diamonds and jewels. After all, he's the 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.600 King of Saudi Arabia. When he got home every day, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.680 he'd hurry out to the mailbox so excited couldn't wait 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.079 to get his golf club. About a month later, he 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.160 got a certified letter in the mail from the King 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.000 of Saudi Arabia. He thought, that's strange, where's my golf club? 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.880 He opened it up. Much to his surprise, it was 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.640 a deed to a five hundred acre, eighteen hole golf 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:07.320 club here in America. See, kings think differently than most people. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.160 They think bigger. That's the way it is with our God. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.400 He's the king of kings. We think golf club. God 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:16.560 thinks golf club. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.920 In other words, God's dream for your life is so 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.280 much bigger, so. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.520 Much greater than you've ever imagined. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.160 God doesn't want us to live small, to barely get bind, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.760 to stay stuck at the same level year after year. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:32.200 Have a big vision. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.720 Life tries to reduce us, but God wants to increase us. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.840 It starts right here in our thinking in large expand 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.440 link them. You're not going to bankrupt God asking for 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.800 something big. God makes streets out of gold. He owns 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.920 it all. He's not having a down year because of 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:53.640 the economy. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:55.200 God's not up in heaven. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.280 Say, oh boy, these gas prices are really messing me up. Gabriel, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.280 would you go get me a y other tailanaw? No, 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:07.080 God has unlimited supplies. He's called El Shaddai, the God 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.800 who is more than enough. Well, you say, Joel, I'm 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.920 just believing that God will help me to get a 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.600 little bit bigger apartment. Take the limits off of your life, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.280 have a bigger vision. God wants you to own your 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.560 own home, and you may not see how right now 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.880 you think, well, I don't have the income, or I 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.320 can't afford the down payment. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.360 That's okay. God can. He owns it all. 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.840 And if you will honor Him with your life and 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.320 believe big, you will see God do. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.480 More than you can ask or imagine. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.800 One of the battles we all have to fight is 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.520 the battle of containment. The enemy doesn't want you to 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.120 go any further. He can't do anything about the ground 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.240 that you've already gained. He'll give you that, but what 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.000 he doesn't want is for you to advance. His goal 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.960 is to keep you contained. That's why it can be 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.640 very difficult to press through to a new level. There 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.840 are forces working overtime to try to keep us where 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.120 we are, and many people are too easily satisfied. They've 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.000 seen God's goodness. God's blessed them in their health, their family, 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.120 their career. But now it's like they've hit a wall, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.160 and instead of stretching and believing for bigger things, they 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.760 get stuck. They start thinking, well, I've done pretty well. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.360 I've done as good as my parents gone, as far 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:27.840 as my education allows. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:28.760 Now. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.040 The scripture says the path of the righteous gets. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.080 Brighter and brighter. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.640 We are not supposed to hit one level and get 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.360 stuck there year after year. The enemy wants to contain us. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.640 God wants to expand us. No matter how long you've been. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:44.440 At a certain level. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.960 You need to dig your heels in and say, I 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.360 will not stay here. I'm going to keep pressing forward, 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:55.520 believing for big things, praying bold prayers, expecting God's favor. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.440 I will not be contained. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.520 You have to have a made up mind that where 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.680 you are is not where you're going to stay. It 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.680 may not change overnight, it may take months, maybe even 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.080 take years, but deep down you've got to know that 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.560 you know in your future. God has promotion, increase new levels. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.560 He has something big come in your way. The truth 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:23.440 is there are times that we all feel stuck. We're praying, believing, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.560 doing our best, but not making any progress. That's called 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.600 the trial of our faith. That's a period of testing. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.080 God wants to see what we're made of. Are we 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.480 going to get discouraged and settle there and think, well, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.680 this doesn't work for me. I've tried it for two 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.720 months now. You've got to be in it for the 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.080 long haul. The key is to not get stuck in 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.840 your thinking. The first place we lose the victory is 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.200 in our own mind. We start believing the lies. It's 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.600 never going to change. I've gone as far as I 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.680 can go. I'll never get out of debt, Joel, I'll 0:16:58.720 --> 0:16:59.960 never own my own home. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:01.960 Now, you may not see away in the. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:06.000 Natural, but the good news is we serve a supernatural God. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:11.119 God has explosive blessings that can thrust you to a 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:15.720 new level. God wants to bless you beyond your normal income. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:17.640 He wants to increase you. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:22.200 Beyond your normal salary. God likes to do unusual things. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.240 I had a man tell me again last week. I've 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.840 heard it time and time again, how he got a 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.760 check in the mail unexpectedly, an inheritance from a loved 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.600 one that he had never met. With that one check, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.080 he was able to pay off his house. He thought 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.320 it was going to take him thirty years, but God 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.600 had other plans. It happened in a fraction of the time. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.679 That's what God has in your future, explosive blessings, to 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.440 where all the sudden, out of the blue, a project 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.080 takes off, a client searches you out, or like that, 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.119 police officer. One idea it thrust you to a new 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.440 level is canceled. Take the limits off of God. Pray 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:08.359 big prayers, believe for great things in your life. I 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.000 read about a young lady. She was born into a 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:15.520 very dysfunctional family. All the odds were against her in 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.439 the natural, she had no reason to believe that she 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.159 could ever make anything great of her life. She had 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:26.000 been neglected, abused, never had any kind of stability. Her 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.480 situation got so bad she asked the authorities to be 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:33.080 removed from her own home. The judge placed her in 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.520 foster care. Three months later, she was adopted by a loving, 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.080 single parent mother. This young lady began to excel in school. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.520 She became an honor student, a leader that the other 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.080 girls looked up to. One day, she was invited to 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.560 be a part of a national talk show with some 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.240 other girls. The host asked her what her hopes and 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.760 dreams were. She said, my dream is to one day 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.719 go to Harvard Universe to get a good education so 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.960 I can help other people like so many have helped me. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.520 Three days later, she got a phone call from out 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.439 of state. The lady said, I saw you on the 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.439 talk show this week. I wanted to ask you a question. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.880 Would you consider a full scholarship to Yale University instead 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.640 of Harvard? She said, I think I would. She graduated 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.840 from Yale and today she's doing great things. But it 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:33.000 all started when she dared to believe for something big. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.000 She could have got stuck in a rut. She could 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.919 have made excuses. I didn't get off to a good start, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.200 I didn't have a good family. I've got too much 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.240 coming against me. Now she knew God had explosive blessings 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.240 in her future, blessings that could get her to where 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.040 God wanted her to be. Every one of us can 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.560 come up with excuses as to why we can't rise higher, 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.679 why we can't break the addiction, why we can't get well, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:19:59.800 why we'll never accomplish our dreams. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.160 Oh, I'm asking us to do like her. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:07.119 Get rid of the excuses and start expecting explosive blessings. 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:11.560 Release your faith for far and beyond favor. Get ready 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.640 for God to do something big in your life. You say, Joel, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.040 what if I do this and nothing happens? What if 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.720 you do it and something does happen. I can tell 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.000 you it's not going to happen as long as you're 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.480 thinking I've reached my limits, I never get any good breaks. 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.040 Business is too slow, the medical report is too bad. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.439 As long as you're thinking like that, it ties the 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.320 hands of Almighty God. God works where there's an attitude 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.920 of faith. He works when we're believing, when we're expecting, 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.879 when we're looking for his goodness. One thing I've learned 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:49.800 is you cannot outdream God. Any dream God puts in 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.600 your heart, when he brings it to pass, it's going 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.520 to be greater than you ever imagine. 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:55.680 It's going to be. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:21:00.320 Bigger, better, more rewarding. You could say, God's going to 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.159 supersize your dream. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:03.480 Your dream may be. 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.680 To just get well, to be able to walk without pain, 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:09.439 to get around like you used to. That's good, But 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.520 God thinks bigger. When he supercizes that dream, You'll not 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.840 only be able to walk, you'll be able to run, 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.040 just feel like you used to. You'll feel better than 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.560 you've ever felt before. Your dream may be to just 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:26.800 keep your marriage together, just to survive. But God's dream 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.119 is to make your marriage happier and more fulfilling than 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:31.200 it's ever been before. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:33.119 Your dream may. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:35.399 Be to just pay your bills each month, just to 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.239 try to make it through. But God's dream is to 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.840 give you an abundance, to give you overflow where you 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.240 not only have enough for your needs, but you have 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.760 money left over so you can be a blessing to 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.720 other people. Whatever dream God's put in your heart, if 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:52.800 you'll just supersize it, that'll be a. 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.199 Tiny fraction of what God really wants to do. I 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:57.080 know this man. 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.800 He's an older gentleman and years back he lost his 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.919 wife of many many years. He met another beautiful lady 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:06.160 and they were planning. 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:06.600 On getting married. 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.359 He had a desire to put new furniture in his 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:12.280 home just so they could have a new beginning. And 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.199 the fact is he had the money, but he just 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.000 didn't really feel good about spending it, so he just 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:21.040 gave it to God. Just kept expecting, kept believing. One 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:23.640 day he got a call from one of his sons 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.840 and he said, Dad, you'll never believe what happened. He said, 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.879 what the son said, I just won the lottery thirty 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.919 seven million dollars. Later, the son not only bought his 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:36.840 dad some furniture, bought him a new car, plus he 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:40.520 bought him a brand new house. God supersized his dream. 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.680 God did more than he could ask or think. I'm 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:45.679 not telling anybody to play the lottery. I know what 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:51.560 you're thinking. That's the word I needed today. Like my 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:54.320 father said, if you do play the lottery and win, 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:59.560 make sure you tithe. This gentleman told me Joel. I 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:03.679 always taught my sons three things. Don't smoke, don't drink, 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.159 and don't gamble. And you know what, two out of 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:11.719 three is not bad. Deuteronomy one to eleven. May the Lord, 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:16.040 God of your fathers make you a thousand times more 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:19.679 than you are. That's God's dream for your life to 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:21.840 increase you in amazing ways. 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:24.439 Now I'm not just talking about material things. 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:28.480 How about a thousand times more peace, a thousand times 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:32.200 more joy, a thousand times more influence, a thousand times 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.520 more wisdom. Get this down in your spirit, a thousand 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.119 times more than you are. I think about how my 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:44.320 parents started Lakewood Church in nineteen fifty nine with ninety members. 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:47.800 If you added up all the people that attend regularly now, 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:51.440 it'd be over ninety thousand. That's a thousand times more. 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:54.720 Is there anything too hard for the Lord. When my 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.479 father was a young minister, he wrote books and they 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.439 would sell about ten thousand, and I say this in 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.440 all humility, but my first book has sold over ten 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:08.480 million copies, a thousand times more. So often our minds 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:10.639 will tell us it's not gonna happen for me, Joel, 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:13.000 I don't come from the right family. I'm too old, 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:16.000 I'm too young. Now I'm asking us to quit making 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:19.679 excuses and get in agreement with God. He's saying a 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.080 thousand times more than you are. You have not touched 0:24:23.080 --> 0:24:26.000 the surface of what he has in store. He's not 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:29.800 thinking golf club. He's thinking golf club. And some of 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:33.520 you today you're not expecting enough. God has been good 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:37.720 to you in the past. You're grateful, but now you're coasting. 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:40.639 You're not stretching your faith. Now, I want to light 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:43.800 a new fire on the inside. You have not seen 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:47.800 your greatest victories yet. God has new mountains for you 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:51.120 to climb, new horizons for you to explore. 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:54.000 He has something big in your future. 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:58.720 Don't let the disappointments of the past steal your dreams. 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:02.120 Don't let the the way people have treated you soured 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:02.840 you on life. 0:25:03.320 --> 0:25:04.160 Shake that off. 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:08.960 Raise your level of expectancy. Dream big, believe big, ask big, 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:12.280 expect big. And you'll see God open doors that you 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:15.320 never thought possible. God will bring talent out of you 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:18.600 that you never knew you had. You'll see these explosive 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:22.000 blessings that thrust you to a whole new level. I 0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:24.520 know a young man that grew up in Africa, in 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:25.920 the Congo, one of. 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:28.880 The poorest nations. He was one of seven children. 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:32.199 Not only his family, but all of his relatives and 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:35.959 cousins lived in the same small house in their village. 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:39.399 There was so much sickness, so much disease, but no 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:41.520 place to be cared for, not. 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:45.080 A hospital, not a clinic within hundreds of hundreds of miles, 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:48.200 and people were dying from things that were easily treatable. 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:50.640 And as a young boy, this broke his heart. 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:54.160 He couldn't stand to see the sadness in the suffering 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:56.639 of his people. And God put a dream in his 0:25:56.720 --> 0:26:01.280 heart to somehow build a hospital in that village. 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:04.160 There in the Congo. In the natural It was impossible. 0:26:04.520 --> 0:26:07.840 He was just as poor and underprivileged as the other 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:11.520 people in his village. But there was something different about 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:14.919 this young man. He knew he served a big God, 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:18.840 and he dared to pray bold prayers. He asked God 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:22.440 to help him build that hospital. Something began to happen. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:26.320 He started to grow. He grew and grew six feet 0:26:26.600 --> 0:26:30.760 six feet five six feet ten seven feet seven feet. 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:31.880 Two inches tall. 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.320 He was so tall he started playing basketball on the 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:39.040 dirt courts there in the village. He eventually graduated from 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:42.159 what they would call high school and somehow he got 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:46.840 an academic scholarship to Georgetown University in the States, a 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:48.040 supernatural break. 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:49.199 It was unheard of. 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:52.440 He went there to become a doctor to come back 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:55.840 and help his people. But during his second year, the 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:59.040 basketball coach saw him on campus and asked him to 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:02.240 try out for the team. He not only made the team, 0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:05.680 but he became a star player. He later was drafted 0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:09.080 to play professional basketball and today you know him the 0:27:09.160 --> 0:27:12.359 Kimba Mtumbo has become one of the great ball players 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:14.400 of our day. He used to play for the Rockets. 0:27:15.520 --> 0:27:18.440 He attends our services when he's in town. A few 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:22.280 years back, Matumbo donated fifteen million dollars to get the 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:25.520 hospital started, and in two thousand and seven, he and 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:30.280 some other basketball players dedicated the thirty million dollar hospital. 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:33.560 They're in his village in the Congo Friends. If God 0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:35.639 did it for him, he can do it for you 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:35.960 and me. 0:27:37.480 --> 0:27:38.439 Let me ask him. 0:27:38.800 --> 0:27:41.000 What is it that God has put in your heart? 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:46.520 Are you asking? Believing, stretching your faith? Don't let life 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:50.800 contain you, Let God increase you. He has something big 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:54.280 in your future. God's already lined up the right people. 0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:59.280 He's got big opportunities, big ideas, big breakthroughs. You may 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:03.440 think your dream is big today, but when God supersizes it, 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:04.280 it's going to come. 0:28:04.160 --> 0:28:06.679 To pass much greater than you ever imagine. 0:28:06.720 --> 0:28:09.840 Get up every morning and say, God, I'm asking you 0:28:09.920 --> 0:28:13.480 to do something big in my life today. Dare to say, 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:16.560 like Jabez, God enlarge my territory. 0:28:16.720 --> 0:28:17.560 God bless me. 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:21.399 Indeed, if you think this way, let me encourage you. 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:26.040 Something big is come in your way. New opportunities, breakthroughs 0:28:26.080 --> 0:28:30.760 in your health, breakthroughs in your finances, explosive blessings, favor 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:34.360 like you've never seen it before, a thousand times more 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:36.720 than you are. I believe it and declare it over 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.640 to each one of you in Jesus' name. If you 0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:41.320 receive it, come on, give the Lord a chat. 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:42.000 Of praise today. 0:28:44.680 --> 0:28:47.320 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:50.080 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:54.440 Would you pray with me, Just say, Lord Jesus, I 0:28:54.560 --> 0:28:59.360 repent them my sins, come into my heart. I make 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:02.840 you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that 0:29:02.920 --> 0:29:06.000 simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:09.560 a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's 0:29:09.600 --> 0:29:11.840 going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:16.000 Thank you for listening to the joel Ostine podcast. Help 0:29:16.120 --> 0:29:18.840 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:22.840 all over the world. Visit jolostin dot com slash give 0:29:22.920 --> 0:29:24.600 Hope to give a gift today. 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:28.320 Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:31.200 I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:32.640 podcast to keep you. 0:29:32.680 --> 0:29:35.760 Inspired all through the week. We're praying for you. I 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:38.640 know God's best is still ahead. We'll see you next time.