Something You've Never Seen

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I like to start with something funny, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.840 and I heard about this archaeologist from New York. He 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.880 dug down ten feet and found traces of copper wiring 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:18.239 dating back one hundred years. He concluded that New Yorkers 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.160 had a telephone network over one hundred years ago. Not 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:27.000 to be outdone, an archaeologist from California dug down twenty 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.920 feet and found copper wiring dating back. 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:30.799 Two hundred years. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:36.240 He concluded that Californians had a massive communication network one 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:41.040 hundred years before the New Yorkers. Upon hearing this bubba 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:45.960 from Texas, dug down thirty feet on his farm and 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.960 found absolutely nothing. He concluded three hundred years ago Texans 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:57.440 had already gone wireless. All right, hold up your Bible, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.919 say it like you mean it. This is my vibe. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.680 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.120 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.800 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.920 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.280 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.240 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:25.240 about something that you've never seen. I grew up in 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.080 a minister's home, and we always had church and auditoriums 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.440 and traditional sanctuaries. That's what everybody did. But in two 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:38.160 thousand and five God gave us this beautiful facility. Now 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.640 we have church in a former sports arena. That's something 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.400 that I had never seen. I worked seventeen years behind 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.560 the scenes at the church doing the television production, and 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.640 I thought that's how I would spend my life. But 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.120 when my father went to be with the Lord, I 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:00.000 was suddenly thrust into this position. Now instead of being 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.560 behind the cameras, I'm in front of the cameras. That 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:08.200 was something I had never seen. In two thousand and nine, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.119 the New York Yankees were about to open their new 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.560 baseball stadium. One of their staff members called and asked 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.120 if we would come and hold a Night of Hope, 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.719 the first non baseball event in the new stadium. Out 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:27.200 of all the entertainers, musicians, artists in the world, they 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.239 called a minister. That was something I had never seen. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.520 I want you to get this down in your spirit. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.480 God is about to do something in your life that 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:44.640 you've never seen. I'm not just sharing another message. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.120 I'm speaking prophetically. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.240 God is about to take you where you could not 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.120 go on your own. God is about to show you 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.240 favor in ways that you've never imagined. It's going to 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.880 be unprecedented, out of the norm, unlike anything that you've seen. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.279 Maybe you've struggled in your finances for years, can't seem 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:04.960 to get ahead. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.520 One step forward, two steps backwards. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.960 No, God is about to show you abundance like you've 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:15.200 never seen. He's about to increase you to where you 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:20.039 have overflowed. You lend and not borrow, not burdened down 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.520 by debt and lack. Some of you have fought depression 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.560 discouragement your whole life. That dark cloud follows you around, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.600 and you think that's the way it's always going to be. No, 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.360 take heart, God is going to show you joy like 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:39.279 you've never seen. That spirit of depression discouragement is being broken. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.640 God is going to release a new happiness, a. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.839 Passion that you've not experienced before. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.040 Maybe you've struggled with an addiction, a bad habit for 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:50.200 a long time. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.640 Be encouraged. God's going to show you freedom that you've 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:54.239 never seen. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.039 Some of you have felt a little insecure, intimidated, like 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.000 you don't quite measure up. You think that's the way 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.160 you'll always live. No, God's about to show you a 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.320 confidence of boldness where you can step into the fullness 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:16.400 of your destiny. God is saying creativity like you've never seen, promotion, opportunity, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:21.359 like you've never seen, healing, restoration, favor like you've never seen. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.479 That's the promise God made in Exodus thirty four to ten. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.600 I will do great things that I've never done before 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:34.680 anywhere on earth. We've all seen God's goodness in the past. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.880 Every one of us can say God has blessed us, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.279 promoted us, protected us. But what God is about to 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.680 do is going to be unprecedented. Now, all you've got 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.400 to do is say, yes, Lord. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.960 This is from me today. I'll receive this into my spirit. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.760 See your mind will try to talk you out of it, 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.280 tell you all the reasons why it's not going to 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:02.320 happen for you. You're too old, to young, made too many mistakes, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.159 don't have the education. If you were just a different nationality, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.640 if you just knew the right people, go listen. God 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.240 is not limited by your age, your education, your. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.840 Connections, your resources. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.600 In spite of what you have or don't have, you 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.160 need to get ready. God is about to show you 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.600 something that you've never seen. He's about to take you 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.720 where you could not go on your own. John Chapter nine, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.200 Jesus was traveling through a village. He saw a man 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.640 on the side of the road, that was blind. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.800 He went over to this man. The man didn't call 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:40.800 out to Jesus. 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.760 He wasn't like blind Barnabas that said please Jesus, have 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.720 mercy and heal me. This man was just quietly sitting there, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:53.080 and Jesus went to him. And throughout the scripture there 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.520 are examples where people used their faith, reached out to 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.160 God and they received their miracle. The woman with the 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.560 issue of blood fought her way through the crowd, touched 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.800 the edge of Jesus' robe. She was instantly made whole. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.200 The lepers cried out, Jesus, please heal us. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.040 Jesus healed them. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.560 An army captain came and said, Jesus, if you'll just 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.200 speak the word, my little daughter at home that's so sick, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:21.200 she'll be healed. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.760 Jesus spoke and the daughter was well. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.480 These people all initiated their miracle. They reached out in 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.680 faith and saw God's goodness. But God is so merciful, 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:39.400 He's so loving. There are times like with this blind man, even. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.280 When we don't have the faith, even when we don't 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.120 reach out, God reaches out to us. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.160 If it would have just been dependent on our faith, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.360 on what we believe on what we're asking for. Jesus 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.360 would have never stopped to help this blind man. He 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.240 didn't show any signs of faith. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.000 He was just sitting. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:03.280 There, minding his his own business. Yet Jesus went to him. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.200 He had been blind since his birth, never seen before. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.120 This is much different than someone that had sight at 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.880 one time then becomes blind. At least they would have 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.679 a memory of what things look like. This man, blind 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:24.360 since birth, had never seen a sunset, never seen a flower, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.080 never seen a person. He had nothing to draw upon, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.800 having never seen before. And it's interesting Jesus didn't say 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.480 anything to him. He didn't try to figure out if 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.439 he had faith, try to figure out what he believed. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.600 Jesus simply made mud, put it on the blind man's eyes, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.280 told him to go wash it off in the pool 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:45.880 of Salon. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.640 Some friends led him to the pool. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.200 He washed it off, and his eyes were instantly open. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.800 He could see perfectly clearly. I could imagine. For the 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.640 first time, he looked out and saw the puffy clouds 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.680 in the guy. For the first time, he looked down 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.240 and saw a beautiful flower, no doubt. He ran home 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.600 as fast as he could. For the first time, saw 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.880 his children, his wife. That night, he looked up into 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.800 the sky for the first time, saw the stars twinkling, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.640 the moonlight glimmering off the lake. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:21.880 What happened. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.439 God showed him something he had never seen. God wants 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.120 to do the same thing for you. Some of you 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.920 think that you've reached your limits, gone as far as 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.200 you can go. The medical report doesn't look good now 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.760 you've settled there. You've been single a long time. You 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.520 don't think you'll ever meet the right person. Or you 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.200 took a step of faith, but the business, the charity, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.160 the project didn't make it. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.359 Now you don't see how you could accomplish your dreams. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.280 But like with this man, even when we don't have 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.280 the faith, even when we think it's impossible, Joel, it's 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.439 too late. I tried, I fell. That's never going to happen. No, 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.120 God is going to come looking for you and show 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:10.320 you his favor like you've never seen. God wants to 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.640 give you some first times. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:18.160 For the first time, you're free from pain, healthy, whole, strong. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.440 For the first time, you have more than enough, you're 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:25.319 not struggling, you're into overflow for the first time. Your 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.240 whole family's serving God. For the first time, you're living 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.000 in the house of your dreams. For the first time 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.320 you're running the whole office. You thought you'd always be 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.640 working for people. Now you've got people working for you. 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.480 You need to get ready. God has some first times 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.600 in your future. Part of this shift, God is going 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.600 to show you something that you've never seen before. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:50.480 You may not have. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.800 Faith for it. It may seem too far out. That's okay. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.760 God's going to come looking for you. He's going to 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.880 get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.880 It's going to be bigger than you imagine. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:06.240 It's going to be unprecedented, something that you've never seen. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.480 That means if you've seen it in the past, that's good. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.040 Be grateful, always thank God for what He's done. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.120 But what God is about to. 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.960 Do is greater than what you've seen it. When God 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:25.680 gave us this beautiful facility, this was Ephesians three twenty 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.520 exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. This was more than I 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.880 could ever imagine. In fact, I'm still amazed. Every time 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.600 I pull up to this facility. I still get goosebumps 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.839 when I go over to my old seats right over 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.960 there where I watch the rockets play basketball for years. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.520 But as amazing as this all is, I realize what 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.559 God is about to do is going to supersede anything 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:57.560 he's done in the past. When God shows you something 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:58.480 that you've never. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.560 Seen, it's going to boggle your mind. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:05.640 The reason God doesn't just rely on our faith is 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.280 because some of what He's going to show you is 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.720 so far out, so amazing, so rewarding, you couldn't have 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.000 faith for it right now. Like this blind man, God 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.960 is so good even when we don't believe, Even when 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.840 we don't have the faith, God will show up and 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:27.280 do it anyway. Before Jesus healed the blind man, the 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:32.280 disciples asked Jesus who sinned this man or his parents 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.640 that would cause him to be born blind. Jesus said, 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.520 nobody sin He was born this way so the works 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:40.520 of God. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.440 Could be manifest. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:47.240 In other words, when that baby was born, God already 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.240 knew exactly when he was going to heal him. There 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.440 was a time already set by the creator of the universe. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.680 At that appointed time, God opened his eyes and showed 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.200 him something that he had never seen in your life. 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:08.600 Right now, there are set times. God has already established 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.280 the date when he's going to do something unprecedented in 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:13.079 your life. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.439 You don't have to worry. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.640 You don't have to be discouraged because it hasn't happened yet. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.080 You don't have to give into. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.360 Doubt and think, God, I'm never gonna get well, never 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.960 accomplish a dream, never get married. No, those moments of 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.040 favor are already established in your future. If you'll just 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:34.480 keep honoring God being your best, you will suddenly come 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.680 into one of your set times. God will do something 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.240 out of the ordinary. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:40.920 You didn't go after. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.400 It, it came to you. You didn't even have the 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.040 faith for it. What you were praying about was only 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.120 a fraction of what God had in mind. One scripture 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:55.000 talks about the faith of God. Normally we think about 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.000 our faith and how we need to pray big and 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.520 believe big and take the limits off of go and 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:01.360 that's important. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:02.240 We should do that. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.000 But God has things in your future, set times that 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:12.239 he's already established that are so big, so amazing, so rewarding. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.440 God knew you couldn't have faith for it right now. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.080 If you would have told me a few years ago 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.080 that one day I would be up in front of 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.360 people and have the platform that I have I would 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.760 have said, thank you for believing in me, but you've 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.240 got the wrong person. God knows there are things in 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.680 our future that we won't have the faith for. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:33.880 But that doesn't stop God. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.240 When you run out of faith, there's a secret weapon. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.000 It's called the faith of God. 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.360 When God releases his faith, you can be certain doors 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.160 will open that should not have opened. Talent will come 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.440 out of you that you didn't know you had. The 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:54.240 right people will search you out. Healing, promotion, increase will 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.080 show up in ways like you've never seen before. I 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.560 know some of you think, well, Joel, I don't have 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:01.280 much faith. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.080 That's okay. The faith of. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.240 God will get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.800 When your faith is low, don't worry. You have a 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.400 friend that will never let you down. When you have doubts, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:13.040 don't worry. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.000 He has faith. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.840 When you don't think it's going to happen, that's all right. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.240 He's got you covered. The faith of God will make 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.120 up for your lack of faith. That's what the Scripture 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.360 means when it talks about having faith the size of 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.840 a mustard seed. Mustard seed is one of the smallest 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.640 seeds you can find. God was saying, even when your 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.520 faith is low, when you're discouraged, when you have doubts, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.480 God doesn't cancel his plan for your life. God doesn't 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.480 disqualify you and say, come on, man, you need to 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:44.200 have more faith. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.720 No, that's when the faith of God kicks in. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.880 These moments of favor that have already been established in 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:55.600 your future. They're not solely dependent on your faith. The 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.240 faith of God is going to cause them to show up. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:00.000 You think about peace. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.080 He was on the shore by the lake early one morning, 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.000 cleaning his fishing nets and putting away all of his gear. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.680 He'd been out fishing all night. He wasn't a disciple yet. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.480 He was a rough man. He used rough language, not 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.600 somebody we would consider to be a person of faith. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.080 Jesus asked to borrow his. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.960 Boat, and he taught the people in. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:24.760 The crowds there. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.040 Afterwards, Jesus said to Peter, go launch out into the 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.960 deep and you'll catch a great number of fish. That's 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.240 how Jesus was going to pay him back for using 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.640 his boat. But Peter said, Jesus, we've been fishing all night. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.800 Nothing is biting. Besides, this is not the right time 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.800 to fish. Jesus said, in effect, Peter, I control the fish. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.639 There may not have been fish out there earlier, but 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.080 I can guarantee you there are a fish out there now. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.480 Notice Peter didn't have any faith, but that didn't stop God. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.439 Jesus didn't say, Peter, I'm trying to help you, but 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.800 you're such a doubter now. Even though he didn't have faith, 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:07.600 Jesus said, that's all right. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.600 The faith of God will make this happen. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.280 When your faith is low, when you find it hard 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.800 to believe, when doubts are bombarding your mind, don't worry. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.399 God is not only full of mercy, he's full of faith. 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.439 His faith will hold you over until your faith can 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.160 be strengthened. Peter got out there and caught so many 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.680 fish that his boat began to sink. God showed him 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.880 something that he had never seen. He had been out 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.600 fishing on that lake for years. Many times. 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.680 He knew when to fish, where to fish, what to use. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:44.440 But this day. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:49.280 Something happened that was unprecedented, out of the norm. In 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.480 the same way, you can be going to work, doing 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:57.399 the same thing, the same way. Everything looks just normal, ordinary, 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.800 but then you come into one of these these set 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.359 times these moments of favor. You weren't expecting it, you 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.920 didn't have the faith for it, you didn't deserve it. 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:14.160 But like Peter, suddenly a good break, a promotion, a healing, restoration. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.800 It's more than you could imagine. It's overwhelming. It's something 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:23.119 you've never seen. That wasn't your faith, that was the 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.880 faith of God. Right now in your future, there are 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.399 these moments of favor that are going to catapult you 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.280 to a new level. Some of you have been facing 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.080 a sickness a long time and you don't really know 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.640 if you have the faith to get well. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:39.040 That's okay. 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.800 God has you covered when you come into this moment 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:48.240 of favor. Like the blind man, sickness doesn't have a chance. Health, healing, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.480 wholeness will flood your body. God can do what medicine 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.440 cannot do. You may think that you could never get 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.480 out of debt. You tried, you keep having setbacks. You've 0:19:58.480 --> 0:19:59.080 settled there. 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.080 That's all right. The faith of God is at work 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:02.920 in your life. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.800 There are moments of favor that are going to thrust 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.080 you into abundance. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.920 I read about this couple. They had both lost. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.000 Their jobs and all kinds of things had come against them, 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.240 and unfortunately they were about to lose their house. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:19.560 They had done everything. 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:21.359 They could to try to get the funds, but just 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:25.520 hadn't worked out. They started selling off their possessions, little 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.800 here and little there, and they got so desperate they 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:33.240 decided to sell all of their furniture, everything inside and out, 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:38.959 patio furniture, lawnmower, washer, dryer, everything. They put it on 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:43.640 eBay had pictures of it all. Somehow word got out 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.280 that the reason they were selling was to try to 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.960 pay their mortgage and save their house. A lady in 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:54.880 another state bid twenty thousand dollars. Her bid, by far 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.240 was the high bid. Nothing else even came close. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:00.560 They accepted her bid. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.399 When they went to make arrangements to have the furniture shift, 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.280 the lady said, I don't want your furniture. 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.439 That's a gift you can have to keep your house. 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.280 They had never met the woman, never talked to her, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:19.720 never seen her. That was a moment of favor. They 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.399 didn't have faith for it. That was the faith of 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.840 God saying I'm gonna show you something that you've never seen. 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.440 I'm gonna cause somebody out of the. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.880 Blue to be good to you. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.280 You may be facing situations you don't know how it's 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.000 gonna turn out, how you could accomplish your dreams. That's okay. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.280 God has it all figured out. He's already lined up 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.440 the right people, the right opportunities, solutions to problems. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:46.280 Just like with this couple. 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.399 At the right time, you're gonna come into your moment 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.639 of favor and it's going to cause you to overcome, 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.119 cause you to step in to the fullness of your destiny. 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.159 I talked to a gentleman out in the lobby not 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.600 long ago. He was in town for treatment at m 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.400 D Anderson, the Cancer Hospital, and he had some kind 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:07.440 of tumor. 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:08.240 In his stomach area. 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.360 Gone through chemotherapy, but that hadn't helped. Now they were 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:16.240 going to try surgery. Was very risky, but this was 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:20.280 his only option medically speaking. His whole family was here, 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.440 a wife, son, two beautiful daughters, and they were weeping 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:28.200 as he was telling the story. We prayed and asked 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.760 God to make a way where we couldn't see away. 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.520 He said, Joel, I'm trying to have faith, but I'm 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:39.240 so worried. I'm so afraid, almost like he was apologizing. 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.600 I told him what I'm telling you. When your faith 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:47.120 is weak, the faith of God is strong. When your 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:51.000 faith is low, the faith of God is high. You 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:55.840 have somebody standing in the gap for you. The scripture says, 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.480 Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, constantly 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.560 prayed for us. It's one thing to have me pray, 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.240 a friend pray, a prayer partner pray. That's all great, 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.960 But don't ever forget the Son of God, the one 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:12.760 who raised from the dead, the one who defeated our enemies, 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.520 the one who speaks worlds into existence. 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.080 He's praying for you right now. 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:21.600 This man came back a couple of weeks later with 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:25.720 his family. When they took the final X ray before 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:28.800 the surgery, they couldn't find the tumor anymore. 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:30.920 That surgeon said that. 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:36.200 In sixteen years he had never seen anything like that. 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.159 This man had big tears running down his cheeks. He said, Joel, 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:44.160 I didn't even have faith. My mind was filled with doubts. 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:46.240 Yet God did the miracle. 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:51.479 Anyway. That's the way our God is. He knows we're human. 0:23:52.200 --> 0:23:54.720 We get discouraged, we have doubts. 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:58.600 But I've learned you don't have to have great faith 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:02.160 in order for God to do something great. You can 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:05.840 have small faith and God will move a mountain. You 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:09.320 don't have to have strong, invincible, unwavering faith. 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:10.120 I hope you do. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:14.200 But even if you don't, if you'll just keep honoring God, 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:18.080 keep being your best, then his faith will make up 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:21.080 for your lack of faith. That's what Paul said in 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:24.119 Romans two twenty the life I live now. 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:27.600 I live by the faith of the Son of God. 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:32.480 Paul wrote over half of the New Testament overcame incredible odds. 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.520 He was saying, I didn't make it just by my 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:39.480 own faith, my own strength, my own determination. I had 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:43.879 a secret weapon. I fulfilled my destiny because of. 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:44.879 The faith of God. 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.120 You may be facing a situation today that looks impossible. 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:53.560 Your health, your finances, a relationship, all the odds are 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:54.200 against you. 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:58.040 But be encouraged. The faith of God is at work 0:24:58.119 --> 0:24:58.960 in your life. 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:03.040 There are moments a favor God has already established in 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:06.320 your future. God is not only going to bring you out, 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:10.560 He's going to do something unprecedented, out of the ordinary, 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:15.000 something that you've never seen. I know this mom. She 0:25:15.200 --> 0:25:18.040 was praying for her son, trying to get him in 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:21.679 church year after year, but he just wasn't interested. He 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:24.400 was on the wrong course, running with the wrong crowd, 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:28.960 and started selling drugs. It seemed like the more she prayed, 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:32.199 the worse he got, and the more discouraged she became, 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:34.560 he ended up in jail. 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:37.000 This mom was so heartbroken. 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:41.600 These thoughts bombarded our mind, saying, no use praying, it's 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:44.760 too late. Your prayers aren't doing any good. She was 0:25:44.840 --> 0:25:49.040 so discouraged that she found it hard to pray. That 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:52.520 even when we don't believe, even when we're at tempted 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:55.800 to give up, the good news is God doesn't give up. 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:58.120 That's when his faith kicks in. 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:02.439 One Sunday morning, her son in the jail was watching 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:06.800 television in this common area. Another inmate came in and 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:10.080 they began to argue over what they were going to watch. 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:14.080 They started wrestling over the remote control, trying to get 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:15.200 it away from each other. 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:18.639 About that time, this huge inmate walked. 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:23.040 In, stood about six foot six, had huge muscles bulging 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:25.840 out of his shirt, looked like a professional football player. 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:29.400 Walked over, grabbed the remote control, said give me that thing, 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:33.040 I'll decide what we're going to watch. Started flipping through 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:36.360 the channels and he came across our program and stopped. 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:37.960 He said, we're gonna watch. 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:43.640 Joel Well her her son. He turned around to walk 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:45.800 out of the room. He thought, I'm not gonna watch 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:50.040 some TV preacher. He's already mad. This big inmate grabbed 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:53.080 him by the shirt, pulled him down, said sit down, 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:53.960 you're gonna. 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:57.159 Watch with me. I like that guy. He'd make a 0:26:57.160 --> 0:26:57.680 good usher. 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:05.000 They started, I'm only kid nushers, don't get any ideas. 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:09.520 They started watching the program. This young man begin to 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:12.359 feel God's love presence like never before. 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:16.000 He started weeping right there in the jail. That big 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:19.080 inmate led that young man to Christ. Do you know 0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:20.160 that young. 0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:22.600 Man is at our services all the time? 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:26.920 Now? Sitting next to his mother, God did something that 0:27:26.960 --> 0:27:27.879 she had never seen. 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:32.840 He walked in to one of those moments of favor 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:36.520 God had already destined for his life. For the first time, 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:40.640 now her son is in church. My message for us 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:45.040 today is get ready. God has some first times for you. 0:27:45.640 --> 0:27:49.199 For the first time, you're totally out of debt. For 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:52.800 the first time, you're healthy, whole strong. For the first time, 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:55.919 your whole family's serving God. For the first time, you 0:27:56.000 --> 0:27:58.680 meet the right person, you fall in love. You may 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:01.639 not see how this could happen. That's okay. The faith 0:28:01.680 --> 0:28:03.719 of God is going to get you to where you're 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:04.399 supposed to be. 0:28:04.840 --> 0:28:06.160 What God is about to. 0:28:06.119 --> 0:28:08.800 Do is going to be bigger, It's going to be 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:11.800 more rewarding. It's going to be something that you have 0:28:11.960 --> 0:28:15.400 not seen. Now, I declare and believe over each one 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:19.720 of you. Favor like you've never seen, creativity like you've 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:27.760 never seen, opportunity, healing, restoration, vindication, joy, victory like you've 0:28:27.800 --> 0:28:28.399 never seen. 0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:31.760 In Jesus's name, if you receive it, can you say 0:28:31.840 --> 0:28:32.639 him in today? 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:37.040 Well, we'd never like to close our broadcast without giving 0:28:37.080 --> 0:28:40.120 you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:44.840 Would you pray with me? 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