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Hi, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.600 this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.200 podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.680 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.239 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.280 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:20.520 your life. God bless you. It's great to be with 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.359 you today, and if you're ever in our area, please 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.800 stop by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.440 We'll make you feel right at home. Hope you'll stay 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.640 connected with us throughout the week. We have a daily podcast, 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.239 YouTube channel, follow us on social media. We'll keep you 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.520 encouraged and inspired. But thanks again for tuning in and 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.239 thank you for coming out today. I'd like to start 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.080 with something funny and I heard about this airplane that 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.520 was about to crash. There were four passengers but only 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.040 three parachutes. The first passenger said, I'm a leading heart surgeon. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.520 My patients need me. He took the first parachute and jumped. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.560 The second passenger said, I'm a rocket scientist, one of 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.920 the smart artest man alive. My country needs me. He 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.840 took the second parachute and jumped. The third passenger, Pope 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.160 John Paul said to the fourth passenger, a ten year 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.320 old boy scout, son, I'm old and freil, I don't 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.239 have much time left. You can have the last parachute. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.359 The boy scout said, Sir, don't worry, there are still 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.880 two parachutes left. You see the smartest man alive. He 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:27.600 just jumped out with my backpack, saying, like you mean it. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.000 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.880 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.480 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.400 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.760 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.680 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.680 to talk to you today about something new is coming. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.240 It's easy to get stuck in life when we've gone 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.920 through disappointments, had a set back, tried in our dream 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.080 didn't work out. We can settle where we are and 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.720 think this is as good as it gets. But God 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.520 said in Isaiah, I am doing a new thing. Even 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.760 now it springs forth. Can you not perceive it? God 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.600 is about to do something new in your life. He 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.440 didn't create you to get stuck at one level and 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.039 stay there. He has new opportunities, new relationships, new favor 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.080 It may look like you'll always struggle in your finances. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:32.280 They'll get ready. Something new is coming, promotion, opportunity, doors 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.960 opening that you never dream would open. The medical report 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.640 says you have to live with that sickness. It's been 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.960 a long time. God is saying, I'm doing a new thing. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:48.600 I'm restoring health. I'm breathing energy, vitality, freshness into your body. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.320 That child has been off course for years. You've accepted 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.039 that he'll never change. That would be true, But God 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.719 is doing a new thing. Forces of darkness are being broken. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.720 Purpose and destiny are rising up. You're about to see 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.640 a turnaround. Or maybe that addiction has hindered you your 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.640 whole life. You tried to stop, gone to counseling, nothing help. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.800 This is a new day. Change that have held you 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.880 back are being loosed. What's kept you in captivity is 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.840 coming to an end. Now you have to do your 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.839 part and receive the prophecy. You can't go around thinking 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.120 you're stock. The problem's too big. It's been this way 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.359 too long. Turn it around, Lord, I believe what you 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.960 promised thank you that you're doing something new in my life. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.920 When Isaiah prophesied this, the Israelites were in captivity in Babylon. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.160 They had been there a long time, year after year, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.840 nothing changing. I'm sure they thought, we'll always struggle, we'll 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:54.160 always be oppressed. Then Isaiah showed up and said, get ready, 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.880 God is doing a new thing. They could have thought, yeah, right, 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.320 have you seen these enemies. Look how powerful they are. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.240 All the circumstances say, we're stuck. Will never live an 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.080 abundant life, never own our own homes, our children will 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.719 never be free. Don't talk yourself out of the new 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.080 thing God wants to do. The odds may be against you, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.200 but the most high God is for you. The Israelites 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.920 had been through many struggles, had unfair things happen. They 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.839 had made mistakes, brought the trouble on themselves. They could 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:32.000 have been sitting in self pity, discouraged. But Isaiah said, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.920 forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. Behold, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.800 God is doing a new thing. The principle is if 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.960 you're dwelling on the past, you won't see the new thing. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.000 If you're focused on who hurts you, what wasn't fair. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.880 Why did this friend walk away? Then you'll miss your destiny. 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.640 God is saying, forget the former things. Quit dwelling on 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.680 your mistakes. This is a new day. Living in regrets 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.960 will keep you from new opportunities. Reliving your mistakes will 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.200 stop the new favor. As long as you're looking back 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.440 at the old, you won't see the new. When you 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.880 drive home today, there's a big windshield in front of 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.760 you and a very small rear view mirror. The reason 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.320 it's so small is because what's behind you is not 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.640 nearly as important as what's in front of you. Where 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.960 you're going is what matters, not where you've been. Is 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.960 there something you need to forget so you can see 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.040 the new thing? Something you need to quit dwelling on, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.320 so you can step into the favor and abundance that 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.000 God has for you. When someone hurts you, they do 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.920 you wrong. If you keep thinking about it, then you're 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.720 letting them continue to hurt you. Don't give them your power. 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.800 You have to let it go. Give it to God. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:57.080 He saw what they did, He saw your tears, your 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.720 heart ache. He has beauty for those ashes. But here's 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.400 the key. You have to let go of the ashes 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:08.160 before you can see the beauty. It's in exchange. God says, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.560 you give me the ashes, you quit dwelling on the hurts, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.280 you forgive them, You move forward with your life, and 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.400 I'll give you the beauty. I'll do something so great, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.200 so rewarding, that you don't even think about what you lost. 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.960 The new thing God has for you, the new people, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:31.000 the new opportunities, the promotion, healing, influence will be better 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.800 than you ever dreamed. The Israelites were in captivity. Not 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.480 only were the Babylonians holding them, but all around them 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.360 was the desert. Even if they escaped, they couldn't survive. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.560 But Isaiah explained what the new thing was. He said, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.240 God will make rivers in the desert. What looks like 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:56.160 barren ground will be turned into fertile land. God was saying, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.240 this new thing that I'm about to do, it's not 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.160 going to be now. It's going to be supernatural. That's 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.600 why you can't figure it out. It's not going to 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.719 be logical. What God is about to do is going 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:13.120 to be unusual, uncommon, out of the ordinary. You're going 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.920 to see rivers where there should be dry places. The 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:21.000 scripture says, even in famine, the righteous will have more 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:25.280 than enough. Seems like in famine you would barely get by. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.600 But God does things that defies the odds. Don't limit 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.079 this new thing to what you think can happen. If 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.360 I can just learn to live with this sickness, No, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.280 God is going to free you from the sickness. If 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.560 I can just pay my bills, Joe, I'll be happy. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.960 God's going to bring you into overflow. If my child 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.560 will just stay out of trouble, that child is going 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:51.280 to do great things. You may not see how that's okay. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.079 It's not up to you. It's up to God. He's 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.120 the one that makes rivers in the desert. He's the 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.160 one that parts red seas, cures the lepers, multiplies the 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.400 food to feed thousands. A lady told me how her 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.439 relative had passed away and left her a small inheritance. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.920 She decided to invest it in real estate. She bought 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.640 another house and was going to rent it out. The 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.000 first people that came along seemed like fine people. They 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.240 worked for a nonprofit that helped children. She thought this 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.520 couple would be perfect. She didn't do all the background 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.600 checks that she should have and turned out they were dishonest. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.200 Three months into the lease, they stopped paying rent and 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.800 didn't tell her. She had it set up to go 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.800 to the bank and she thought everything was fine. They 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.319 kept her from getting the notices. Well. Several years went 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.720 by and eventually the house was foreclosed on. She lost 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.559 all of her money. She could have been bitter, upset, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.160 tried to get revenge, but she said, I didn't make 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:56.280 a big deal about it. That takes maturity. It's easy 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.480 to make a big deal when we're hurt betrayed. Why 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.240 did this happen? And I'm gonna get even. You have 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.000 to forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.640 That means don't let the hurts, the bad breaks, the 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.880 times you were taking advantage of soured the rest of 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.440 your life, cause you to live with a chip on 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.680 your shoulder. God knows how to vindicate you. He knows 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.360 how to pay you back. Year after year, she kept 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.360 being her best. Nobody even knew she went through the 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.760 bad break. She didn't go around complaining discouraged. She had 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:35.520 a song of praise. God sees when you're in the desert, 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.960 He's watching you in the lonely nights. The times you 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.600 were betrayed, you felt like giving up, but you kept going. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.480 You could have held a grudge, but you forgame. You 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.320 kept moving forward. Wasn't easy. You were hurting. The pain 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.440 was real, but you didn't let it stop you. Six 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.280 years later, this lady got a check in the mail 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.040 unexpectedly from the bank for one hundred and twenty five 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.800 thousand dollars. They said, we sold the property and this 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.600 money belongs to you. She didn't even pay that much 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.160 for it. She made a profit. God knows how to 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.600 make rivers in the desert. He knows how to pay 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.120 you back for the wrongs. This new thing he's going 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.400 to do is going to be supernatural. He's going to 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.520 turn barren ground into fertile ground. What looks like a 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.560 loss is going to turn into a game. Seems like 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.520 a setback, but really it's a setup for God to 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:34.400 show out in your life. See the desert represents barrenness, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.280 no growth. You're doing the right thing, but your business 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.640 isn't increasing, your marriage not getting better, your health not improving. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.640 You were passed over for another promotion. You in the desert, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.520 in those dry places, you could be discouraged. Think it 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.840 will never change, or get ready. God is about to 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.120 make rivers in that desert. He's about to turn that 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.600 barren land into fertile ground. Like this, lady, you're going 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.160 to see increase that you can't explain, favor that you 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:09.319 didn't deserve, healing that doesn't make sense, freedom from things 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.599 that have held you back. When Isaiah prophesied this, the 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.559 people could have said, thanks Isaiah, but we've had too 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.400 many bad breaks. This opposition is too big. We'll never 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.400 get out. You can stop the prophecy from coming to pass. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.040 The Psalmist said, they limited the Holy One of Israel. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.600 You can limit what God wants to do in your 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:37.040 life by doubt, negativity, speaking defeat. My business is never 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.000 going to grow. I'll never meet the right person. I 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.480 hadn't had a date in years. Have you seen all 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.120 that I've been through. You are canceling out the prophecy. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.720 You may have obstacles that look too big. You don't 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.280 see how you can accomplish that dream. Feels like you're stuck. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.280 You're in captivity, restricted by your environment. God is saying 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.959 to you what he said to them. I am doing 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.520 a new thing. I am making rivers in those deserts. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:09.120 I'm turning to baring places into fertile ground. Now get 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.199 in agreement with God. Yes, Lord, this is from me today, 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.760 I'll receive it into my spirit. I'm getting ready for 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.240 something new. Lord, amaze me with your goodness. Turn this 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:25.080 problem around. God, show out in my life. It's significant 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.960 that this promise is in the present tense. God didn't 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.680 say I'm about to do a new thing one day. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.640 I'm gonna work in your life. Sometime in the future. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.280 I'm gonna show you my goodness. God said, I am 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.320 doing a new thing. It's already started. What God has 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.240 for you is already set in motion. This new thing 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:52.440 is already in process. The scripture says, now it springs forth. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.320 Spring fourth is used when a seed is planted in 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.760 the ground. You can't see anything happening, but the seed 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.440 has opened up. It's springing forth, even though it may 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:09.640 not come visible for some time. There are promotions, healings, breakthroughs, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:15.320 divine connections that have already sprung forth. They're already en route. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.680 Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not coming. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.320 This is where your faith has to kick in. There 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:27.080 should be an expectancy not looking back. This pandemic is 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:31.280 so hard. My back's been hurting. This company did me wrong. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.360 I'm in the desert, Joel. That's why I'm discouraged. As 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.840 long as you're looking back, you're going to miss the 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.960 new thing. You have to get prepared in your thinking 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.640 by faith. I can see the healing that's coming. I 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.360 can see promotion on its way. I can see my 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.400 child turning around. I can see myself free from this addiction. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.360 Now it springs forth, not one day, not in the 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.800 sweet by and by. Today God is doing a new thing. Today. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.240 God is making rivers in your desert. Today, God is 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.280 turning your dry places into abundant places. If you will 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.640 stay in faith, you're going to see the new thing. 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.160 Like God did for the Israelites, He's going to bring 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.360 you out of captivity. He's going to free you from 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.280 limitations and negative things that have been passed down in 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.000 your family line. In this new thing, God is going 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:30.600 to break generational curses. Addictions, poverty, depression will no longer 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.720 hold you back. There's about to be streams in that desert. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.480 That barren land is about to be turned into fertile land, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.440 an abundant land, dreams coming to pass. He's going to 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.000 catapult you to where no one in your family has gone. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.000 I talk to a lady. She's a single parent living 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:54.040 in Compton, California. There's a lot of great people in Compton, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.160 but of course it's known for being a rough environment 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:02.560 gains drugs. Her husband was in the federal penitentiary. She's 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.280 a school teacher for thirteen years. She raised her son 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.080 by herself. There were a lot of negative influences, opportunities 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.040 for him to get off course. But she's a praying mother. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.320 Even though she was in a dry place, she knew 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.280 God could make streams in the desert. Seemed like they 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.639 were held captive by their environment, a victim of their circumstances. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.040 Her son could have become a statistic another child struggling 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:34.200 off course on drugs. But she believed God was doing 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.320 a new thing, that he was working behind the scenes. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.240 Every morning before they went to school, they would listen 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.560 to our messagism. Get the day started off in faith 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.040 and hope and victory. Her dream was for her son 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.160 to go to college. All the odds were against him. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:55.119 She didn't have the funds, his father in prison. His 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.240 senior year, they applied to several different collegism were waiting 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.360 to hear back. One morning on their way to school, 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.639 they heard me talking about how God has unprecedented favor, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.760 how he can make things happen that we can't make happen, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.960 how he wants to do a new thing. She heard 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.439 that promise, and something came alive on the inside. She 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.440 knew that was for them. Later that day, he received 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.600 a handwritten letter in the mail. It said, congratulations, You've 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:29.040 been accepted in the Harvard's University. He was the first 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:35.400 African American student ever accepted from Compton. God knows how 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.359 to make rivers in the desert. He knows how to 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:43.440 bring you out of captivity, out of struggle, lack, addictions, depression, 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.000 can't get a good break. Get ready. Your time is coming. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.240 God is doing a new thing. You may be in 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.840 a dry place, but you're not going to stay there. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:59.159 Water is coming, Favor is coming, promotion, healing, freedom is coming. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:04.360 That your hopes of start expecting God's favor, start believing 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.719 for the unusual. God wants to make you an example 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:12.399 of his goodness. He's already set in motion something better 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.520 than you can imagine. You can't see it yet, but 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.600 that doesn't mean it's not. In Ralph keep believing, keep 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.560 talking like it's on the way, keep doing the right thing. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.960 Like with them, You're going to see God exceed your 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.800 expectations today. This young man is a senior at Harvarden. 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.679 Recently he was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar, one of 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.080 only thirty two from America. Not long ago, he was 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.800 accepted in the Yale Law School. If you could see 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.919 what God is doing behind the scenes in your life, 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.960 you would be amazed. He's already lined up the good breaks, 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.520 the right people, solutions to problems. The new thing is 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.960 not going to be ordinary. It's going to catapult you ahead. 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.400 You're not going to stay in any kind of ca activity. 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.800 Don't believe those lies that you're stuck. Look at my environment, 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.560 look at how I was raised. I don't have the 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:12.080 funds for my dreams. I'll always be restricted by these limitations. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.040 That's what it looked like for this young man. That's 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.959 how it looked for the Israelites. But God showed up 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.000 and said, I'm doing a new thing. I'm gonna make 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.800 rivers in those deserts. God is saying that to you. 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.200 Where you are is not your destiny. You haven't reached 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.800 your limits. You haven't seen your best days. This new 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.600 thing is going to be something that you've never seen. 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.840 The scripture says, can you not perceive it? It implies 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.840 that God can be doing it, but there's no sign 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.800 of it. Joel, I don't see anything new happening in 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:50.840 my life. I'm still struggling, I'm still lonely, still sick, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.840 I still have this problem at work. Yes, but what 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.359 you can't see is the new thing has already sprung forth. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.840 It's already in motion. This mother could have thought nothing 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.280 was happening for many years. When her son was thirteen. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.800 She didn't have the funds for college fourteen, no funds fifteen, 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.960 nothing better. She was in the desert, didn't see any 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.880 sign of rivers, no sign that things were going to change. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.960 But just because you don't see anything, does it mean 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.120 it's not on the way At the right time, it's 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.080 going to show up. You could see your new thing tomorrow. 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.720 You could see your breakthrough this week. You could get 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.880 that scholarship this month. You could see your healing, your promotion, 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.080 your abundance this year. When God says he's going to 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.080 do a new thing, that means it's not going to 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.160 be like the old thing. It's going to be different. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.280 The new thing may not be what you were expecting. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.640 It may not happen the way you thought it would. 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.880 The Israelites could have thought God just defeat these Babylonians 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.840 and will live here. They didn't think that God would 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:03.240 take them into the desert. How could they survive out there. 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.479 God was going to do it a different way. He 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.199 was going to make streams in the desert. Stay open 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:13.040 for how God is going to do it. Don't put 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.159 him in a box and limit him to one way. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:18.920 Most of the time, the way we want it done 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.280 is less than what God has in mind. What He 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:26.480 has planned will be much bigger, much better. Trust him 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.360 to do it his way. If we're set and how 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:31.920 we want it to happen, we can miss the new thing. 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.159 I was in another city driving a rental car. Recently, 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.359 Victoria ran into the store to shop for a minute. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:41.680 I waited in the car and was going to make 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.719 some phone calls. She said it'd be about fifteen minutes. 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:49.359 After an hour, my phone battery died. I usually bring 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:52.040 my phone charger to plug into the car, but I 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:55.280 forgot it. I looked in the glove compartment for one 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.960 looked in Victoria's bag. Maybe she had one, but nothing. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:02.080 I sat there and waited and waited, thinking about all 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:04.720 the work I could be doing. At one point I 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.840 looked down by the gearshift and I saw this rubber 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:11.560 pad about the size of a phone. I thought that's interesting, 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.520 and I sat my phone there. I heard my phone 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:19.040 buzz it started charging. I had a charger the whole time, 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.120 but it wasn't what I was used to. I thought 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:24.080 there would be a cord and I would have to 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.320 plug it in. Can I tell you some of the 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:29.560 new things God is going to do in your life 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:33.240 is not going to be what you're expecting. He's going 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:38.800 to do it a different way, with different people, different circumstances. 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:41.800 Could it be that God is doing a new thing 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.520 now and you don't perceive it. He's opening a door, 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:47.560 but you don't want to go through it. It's not 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.479 what you thought it would look like. He's bringing people 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:54.239 across your path that are divine connections, but they're not 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:57.720 what you were expecting. Don't get set in your way. 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:01.080 The new thing may not look like what you had 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:05.000 in mind. A few years after I started ministering, the 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:08.480 church began to grow. I thought we would build a 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:11.440 new auditorium. That's the way I had seen my father 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:15.000 do it growing up. He had built Sanctuary. After Sanctuary, 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.480 we found some property right off the freeway by the 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:22.240 other location. It seemed perfect to me, but when we 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:24.600 went to close on it, the owner sold it out 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.520 from under us. He didn't keep his word. I was disappointed. 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.560 I knew that property was supposed to be ours. We 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:35.000 found another one hundred acre track not far away. The 0:24:35.119 --> 0:24:39.440 same thing happened. I couldn't understand why these doors kept closing. 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:42.560 There were no more large tracts of land to build 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.679 on by the other location. My father always said that 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:48.720 he would never move the church. My mind wasn't open 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:52.040 for the new thing that God had in store. About 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:56.520 six months later, the Compact Center came available. I never 0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:59.640 dreamed we could have this building. This was so much 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:03.399 big and better than I ever imagined. It was a 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:06.159 three year battle, but we saw the hand of God 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:09.600 make rivers in the desert, move giants out of the way, 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:13.480 bring the right people to help us. We had a 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:18.200 consultant that was very influential, knew all the inner workings 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:21.320 of the city. He had never been to church, didn't 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:24.280 have anything to do with God or faith. He partied, 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:27.960 used bad language, curse people out, but he said, Joel, 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.680 I like you, and I'm gonna help you get this building. 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:34.560 God has already lined up the people you need for 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:38.720 the new thing. Stay open. It may not happen the 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:42.640 way you're expecting, but can I encourage you. God's way 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:48.840 will be better, bigger, more rewarding, more fulfilling. Don't limit 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:51.720 what you've seen in the past to what God is 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:54.520 going to do in your future. God never does his 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:58.399 greatest feats in your yesterdays. They're always in your tomorrows. 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:02.560 God said in eyes, I am the one that opened 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:06.240 away through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. 0:26:06.680 --> 0:26:10.479 I called forth the mighty armies of Pharaoh and drowned 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:13.679 them in the waters. But forget about all of that. 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:17.280 It's nothing compared to what I'm about to do. For 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:21.160 I am doing a brand new thing. This brand new 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:24.119 thing God is about to do is not going to 0:26:24.119 --> 0:26:27.480 be like anything you've seen in the past. We can 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.400 all look back and see where God has parted red 0:26:30.480 --> 0:26:33.119 seas in our lives, where He opened a door that 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:35.840 shouldn't have opened had us in the right place at 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:39.040 the right time, and we got the job. We met 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:41.680 that person and fell in love. He turned our health 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:44.600 around when it didn't look good. We're grateful. We know 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:47.480 it was the hand of God. But God is saying, 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:51.240 you haven't seen anything yet. Forget about all of that 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:55.200 and get ready for something awesome, something that you haven't seen, 0:26:55.640 --> 0:26:59.080 something that propels you to a new level. When you 0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:02.080 see this new thing, you're going to stand in amazement 0:27:02.359 --> 0:27:05.639 and say, Wow, look what the Lord has done. I 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:08.639 believe the reason God told them to forget about the 0:27:08.680 --> 0:27:11.760 Red Sea being parted and forget about how he brought 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:14.800 them out of slavery is because they would have thought 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:18.320 he was going to do it the same way. After all, 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:21.480 that was a great miracle. But God was saying, I 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:25.680 have something better. Instead of parting the waters, I'm going 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:28.720 to create the waters. I'm going to make rivers in 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:32.040 the desert pools to refresh you. I'm going to turn 0:27:32.119 --> 0:27:36.200 bearing land into fertile land. The new thing God has 0:27:36.240 --> 0:27:39.000 for you is going to supersede what you've seen in 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:42.320 the past. The good news is it's already in motion. 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:46.919 The process has already begun. Even now, it's springing forth 0:27:47.520 --> 0:27:51.080 underground behind the scenes. You can't see it, but the 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:55.320 river is forming, the water is coming, the bearing land 0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:59.199 is being fertilized. Yes, the doors may have closed, don't worry, 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:03.520 you'll come. Is already built. The right people are already 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:07.560 in route. The Red Sea's partings were great, but that's 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:12.240 nothing compared to what's coming. Here's the question. Can you 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:15.800 perceive it? Do you believe that God's up to something new, 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:19.400 something amazing? Or are you looking back at what used 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:23.159 to be, what didn't work out. Change your focus. No 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:26.400 more looking in the rear view mirror. Start looking forward, 0:28:26.880 --> 0:28:30.680 Start expecting his goodness. This is a new day. God 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:33.960 is doing a new thing in your life. If you'll 0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:38.800 receive Isaiah's prophecy, I believe and declare, you're about to 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:44.400 see unusual favor, uncommon increase, rivers in your desert, waters 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:48.720 in the dry places like the Israelites, freedom from captivity, 0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:55.120 from lack, addictions, sicknesses. You're going to rise higher, overcome obstacles, 0:28:55.360 --> 0:28:59.120 and become all you were created to be. In Jesus's name, 0:28:59.480 --> 0:29:01.360 And if you were see it, can you say him 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:05.360 in today? I'd like to give you an opportunity to 0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:08.560 make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:13.520 with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:18.720 Come into my heart. 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