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I like to 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.800 start with something funny and I heard about this archaeologist 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.400 in New York. He dug down ten feet and found 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.880 traces of copper wiring dating. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:12.680 Back one hundred years. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.880 He concluded that New Yorkers had a telephone network over 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:21.160 one hundred years ago. Not to be outdone, an archaeologist 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.440 from California duged down twenty feet and found copper wiring 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:26.280 dating back. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.080 Two hundred years. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.840 He concluded that Californians had a massive communications network one 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:36.160 hundred years earlier than New Yorkers. Upon hearing this Bubba 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.680 from Texas dug down thirty feet on his farm and 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:45.480 found absolutely nothing. He concluded three hundred years ago Texans 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:46.800 had already gone wireless. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:50.560 Say it like you mean it. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.959 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.680 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.280 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.160 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.400 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:11.519 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you want to 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.600 talk to you today about sooner than expected. A few 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.760 years ago, I ordered a pair of running shoes online. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.400 It said it was going to take four to six 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.600 weeks for delivery. Normally you can pay a little extra 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.160 to have them delivered sooner, but that wasn't offered for 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:30.720 this particular pair of shoes. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.680 There was a number, so I called and talked to 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.400 the lady. Asked her if. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.160 There was anything she could do to help me get 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.400 them sooner. She put me on hold and came back 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.400 in a couple of minutes said, sir, I'm sorry. I checked, 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.480 but it's going to be at least four weeks, most 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.240 likely six weeks. I tried to use my charm to 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.080 persuade her, said, are you sure there's nothing else you 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:53.400 can do? 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.720 She kind of perked up. She said, is your last name? O? 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.520 Stein? Said, oh lord, thank you for your favor. I said, yes, ma'am, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.840 it sure is. She said, that's funny. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.840 The lady that lives two doors down from me is 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:07.640 an O Steem. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.360 I said, well, that's probably one of my relatives. Not 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.160 many of us around. She said, no offense, but I 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.880 don't like her at all. Said like I said, I'm 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.960 sure we're not related. We laughed together and I hung 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.080 up the phone. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:24.400 That was on a Monday. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.200 I'd already made up my mind it was going to 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.760 take six weeks. Already accepted the fact that it wasn't 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.840 going to happen any sooner. That's what all the circumstances said, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.440 That's what the experts had just told me. But four 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.400 days later, Thursday afternoon, there was a knock. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.640 On my door. He was the ups man. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.640 He handed me a box and I could tell they 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.960 were shoes, but I thought these couldn't be mine, must 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.000 be Victorious or our children. I opened that box and 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:55.680 there were the shoes that I had ordered. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.039 There was no explanation. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:03.280 They simply arrived sooner than expected. In the same way, 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.520 God has some deliveries for you that are going to 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:12.360 come sooner than you think. Every circumstance may say it's 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.760 going to take years to get out of debt, years 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.280 to meet the right person, years to accomplish a goal, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:23.520 but get ready for some unexpected deliveries. God has favor, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.680 good breaks, healing, divine connections that are going to show 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.680 up sooner than expected. And yes, I know there are 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.279 times that God does things slowly, little by little over 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.880 a period of years. But there are also times God 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.599 will do things suddenly, unexpectedly, quicker than you thought. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:46.840 You may have been told by the experts that. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.880 It's going to take a long time to get well. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.240 You've done everything you can, tried your best, but now 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.680 you've accepted the fact that it's going to be a 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.400 long drawn out process. Now get ready for a knock 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.400 on the door. God has your healing already en route. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:08.720 It's going to be there sooner than expected. Perhaps you've struggled. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.520 With an addiction since high school. You've tried to break it, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.040 gone through treatment, not able to do it. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.839 Now you think that's the way it's always going to be. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.600 No, get ready, Freedom is coming. A breakthrough is on 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.000 the way. It should take years, but God is speeding 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.360 things up. That's what it says in Jeremiah. God will 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.960 hasten his word to perform it. That means God will 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.159 do it quicker. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.119 Faster, sooner than you think. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.200 Acts Chapter twelve, King Herod had Peter arrested and put 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:39.839 in prison. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.919 Herod didn't like the church. He was against believers. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.480 He had already had one of the disciples, Stephen, put 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:47.960 to death. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.880 It didn't look good for Peter. 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.800 He was put in the deepest part of the prison, 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.440 in the most secure area. On top of that, he 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.000 was chained to two guards the next day he would 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:00.600 going to be. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:01.320 Brought to trial. 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.080 There was a large group of believers that had gathered 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.640 at Mary's house to pray for Peter. They knew this 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.040 was a very serious situation. He was just a few 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.440 hours away from possibly losing his life. But that night, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.880 an angel appeared under him in the prison. The angel 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.120 woke Peter up and said, Peter, get up and come 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.400 with me. At first he thought it was a dream. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.040 Instantly the chains fell off of him. They passed the 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.640 first set of guards, then the second set of guards, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:33.600 and they came to. 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:37.200 This huge iron gate, A big structure. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.680 Looked impossible, no way to get around it, but the 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.840 scripture says the gate. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.480 Opened on its own accord. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.320 At that point, Peter realized that it wasn't a dream, 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.040 it was really happening. He went straight to the house 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.440 of Mary, where everybody was praying. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.120 He knocked on the door. A young lady named Rhoda 0:07:58.240 --> 0:07:58.880 answered it. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:04.360 When she heard Peter's voice, she was so amazed, so excited, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.480 she didn't even open the door. She ran back and 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.360 told everyone, Hey, Peter is out front. Our prayers have 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.880 been answered, they said, Rhoda. Rhoda, calm down, girl, Peter 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.240 is not out front. That's impossible. He's in prison, in 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.200 the dungeon, chained up. You must be seeing things, she said. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.880 I'm telling you I heard it with my own ears. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.720 Peter is out front. The whole time. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.600 Peter was sending out there, knocking and knocking, thinking, come on, man, I'm. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.600 The answer to your prayer. At least let me in. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:36.959 Here's my point. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:41.240 They were praying for Peter's release, but they almost couldn't 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.800 believe it because it happened sooner than expected. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.520 That was one of those deliveries they didn't see coming. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.760 All the circumstances said, if he did ever get out, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.720 if some way he was ever free, it would take months. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.280 Possibly even years. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.320 But can I tell you God has some unexpected deliveries 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:04.160 come in your way. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.320 He knows how to do it faster than you think. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.840 Some of the things you've been praying about, you think 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.679 it's going to take years and years. No, just like 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.920 with these people, God is going to do it suddenly, unexpectedly, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.760 quicker than you thought. You're still praying about it, and 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.320 the answer comes knocking at the door while you're praying 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.320 for your healing. Healing is already en wrap you're praying 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.079 for the breakthrough, and the angel has already loosed the chains. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.600 You're praying for the child that's off course. God has 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.880 already set the miracle into motion. You're going to hear 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.600 a knock on your door sooner than expected. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:44.920 Now, don't talk to yourself out of it. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.360 Don't do like they did. All that's impossible. Have you 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:49.840 seen my circumstances? 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.000 Have you looked at my bank account? 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.760 Have you heard what the specialists say about my health situation? No, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.520 just like with my running shoes, the delivery is already 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.559 en route. The scripture says, the moment you prayed, the 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.800 tide of the battle begin to turn, God set the 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:12.480 miracle into motion. Every circumstance may say you'll never get free, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.160 never get well, never accomplish a dream. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.440 But know this, chains have already been loosed. The right 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.120 people are already headed your way. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.600 Favor, healing, vindication is about to come knocking at your door. 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.400 In this year of acceleration. You're going to see doors 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.000 open of their own accord. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.440 Things that you couldn't make happen. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.760 You didn't have the talent, the funding, the connections. God 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:43.959 will supernaturally make happen. Breaks that you didn't deserve favor, 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:49.559 chasing you down unexpected deliveries. Like Peter, you may have 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:54.520 obstacles that look insurmountable, problems that look too big, sickness, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.640 family difficulties, depression. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.760 God is going to do for you what he did 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:00.439 for him. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.200 He's going to supernaturally open those iron gates and bring 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.000 you into freedom. Suddenly things were going to fall into place. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.960 You're going to be so amazed thinking I never thought. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.840 It would happen this fast. I was just praying and 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.040 the answer showed up. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.920 I was just dreaming about it, and the door supernaturally opened. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.080 I was just honoring God being my best, and the 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:29.000 blessing chased me down. Really, that's what this facility is. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.120 Twice we tried to buy property to build a new auditorium. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.960 We needed a larger sanctuary, but both times that property 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.760 was sold out from under us. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:41.520 We had looked everywhere. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.960 There were no more large tracts of land inclose like 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.280 we needed, and it looked like that dream had come 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.800 to a dead end. But one day, unexpectedly, out of 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.480 the blue, an old friend called me. Hadn't spoken to 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.000 him in a long time. He asked me to have lunch. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.079 He told how the Rocky basketball team was moving out 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.520 of this building and the city was going to want 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:05.040 to sell it. 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.000 I didn't go after it. It came after me. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.960 It would have taken us many years to build a 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.040 building from scratch, but God said, I'll give you one 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.600 that's already built on the most prime real estate in 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.160 all of Houston, on the second busiest freeway in the nation. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:23.839 Here's what I'm saying. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.800 When it looked impossible, I thought it was never going 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.000 to happen. The delivery was already enroute, the building was 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:33.120 already on the way. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:34.800 I couldn't have made it happen. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.720 That was the hand of God causing it to fall 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:38.320 into place. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.560 What the scripture says doors are going to open of 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:42.480 their own accord. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.400 May look like you've come to a dead end in 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.000 your dreams, a dead end in your health, a dead 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.240 end in a relationship. Every voice says it's never going 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.880 to happen. But there are some doors that God has 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.600 already ordained for you. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.360 They're going to open of their own accord. You couldn't 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:02.120 make it happen. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.560 It's simply the goodness of God you're going to see. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.040 I believe some of these doors open sooner than expected. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.120 Everything in the natural says it's going to be years 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.040 and years. God is saying it's already enrou is closer 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.400 than you think. I received an email from a young 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.320 lady named Sasha. She and her husband had three children. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.720 When she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.320 They soon realized this little girl wasn't developing like the 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:36.040 other children. For several years, she didn't speak. Other than 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.600 an occasional mommy, she wouldn't talk. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:40.720 She was so frustrated by it. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.680 She would go around biting her hair and just making 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.760 some grunting sounds. Sassha thought maybe it was some kind 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.280 of autism. Took her to different specialists, but they couldn't 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.880 figure out what it was. At four and a half 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.000 years of age, she had to have her speech tested 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.960 to get into preschool. She was told that she spoke 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:04.560 at a twelve month old baby level, basically didn't speak. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.600 They enrolled her in that preschool in August of that year. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.880 Two days a week she would go to special education 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.520 for speech. Months went by and didn't look like it 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.280 was doing any good. She wasn't getting any better, But 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.160 Sasha and her whole family they would watch our services 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.000 on television each week. Even as a little girl, she 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.760 would hear me talking about how you're a child of 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.480 the Most High God, how you can do all things 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.960 through Christ, how you've been equipped and empowered. In December 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:42.280 of that same year, suddenly she started speaking. Four months later, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:46.200 she took another speech test and passed it with flying colors. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.920 She was told she didn't need any. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.600 More speech lessons than her speech was perfectly normal. Today 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.200 she's an excellent student. She speaks as clearly as can be. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.400 Sasha says. Sometimes she'll go around the house saying, this 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.440 is my bo I am what it says? 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:01.840 I am. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.600 There's little ho Colini right there on the front road 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.440 with her mother, Sassia as. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.080 Well, a child of the Most. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.480 Our God, her dad. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:11.800 Family behind them. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:17.080 That was one of those unexpected deliveries. Looked like it 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.920 was gonna take years, but it was already in Ralph. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.120 It happened sooner than they thought. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.160 Sasha told me when her daughter couldn't speak well, she 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.920 just kept thanking God that the answer was on the way. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.720 She kept praising music going throughout her house. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:34.280 All through the day. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.960 She was always feeding her inner man faith hope, expectancy, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.600 keeping herself encouraged and built up. It's so important in 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.000 those tough times to not dwell in all the negative thoughts. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.400 What's never gonna happen, never get better, she'll never talk, 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:50.440 you'll never get well. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.080 No, turn it around. Father. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.960 I want to thank you that the miracle is already 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.320 in motion. Thank you Lord that the delivery is. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.080 Already in Ralph. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.880 I may not see see how it can happen, but God, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.400 I know you can cause doors to open on their own. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.600 Accord, Stay in faith. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.360 You're going to see times where it happens sooner than expected. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.320 This is what David did. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.760 He had just gone through the worst defeat of his life. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.119 While he and his six hundred men were out protecting 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:24.640 the borders of Israel, his home city was attacked and burned. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.280 They kidnapped all their wives and children. When they returned 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.160 home and saw the smoke billowing from the air and 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:36.280 all the destruction, they were so devastated, so heartbroken. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.080 All they could do was sit there and weep and weep. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.160 It looked like it was over. But instead of staying defeated, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.320 David said to his men, get up, We're going to 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.520 go attack the enemy. They went out and not only 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.200 defeated that enemy, they got their wives back, their children. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.160 Back, all their possessions. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.520 The scripture says they recovered everything that had been stolen 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.080 that in It was a great victory. But what's even 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.919 more significant is that same day King Saul was killed 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.320 in a battle and David took the throne. This all 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:18.040 happened three days after David's greatest defeat, three days from 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.200 his darkest hour. He was put on the throne of Israel. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.600 I'm sure if you would have asked David three days earlier, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.359 when he was sitting in the ruins of his city, 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.400 depressed and discouraged, if he thought in a few hours 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.920 he would be taking the throne, he would have said, 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:35.560 are you kidding? 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.760 This is the worst time of my life. 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.359 Every circumstance said it was a long way off, that 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.200 his best days were behind him. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.679 But what David couldn't see was that was all a 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:48.840 part of God's plan. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.280 That setback was really a set up to move him 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.919 into his destiny. It looked like that defeat could be 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.639 a big delay, maybe even keep. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.280 Him from the throne. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.160 In reality, it was just the opposite. It was instrumental 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.200 in putting him on the throne. But there was a 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.720 key to all of this happening. If David would have 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.919 sat there in self pity, bitter God, why did you 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.760 let this happen? I was out doing the right thing. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.080 If he would have stayed negative, defeated, he could have 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:26.400 missed his destiny in those difficult times, things you don't understand. 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.720 It's easy to get discouraged. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:33.120 Bitter, but remember, like David, you could be just seventy 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.520 two hours. 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:35.400 From your greatest victory. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.720 You could be just a few days from seeing God 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.840 shine out in your life in ways you've never seen. Well, Joel, 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:44.600 it's going to take me years to get out of 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.240 this mess, years to recover from this bad break, years 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.000 to get over this illness. No, God is going to 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.800 do for you what he did for David. It's going 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.439 to happen sooner than you expected. That setback is not 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.679 a surprise to God. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.480 He's already dispatched the angel with the answer. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.960 It's already en route. It may be dark right now, 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.000 but one day you're going to say, like David, Wow, God, 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.880 I never dreamed it would turn around this past. That's 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.560 what happened with us concerning this building when that property 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.240 was sold out from under us the second time, I thought, Wow, 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.119 that is too bad, We'll never be able to build 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:25.160 a new sanctuary. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:27.840 I didn't realize. 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.880 I had to go through that disappointment before I could 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.280 get to what God really wanted us to have. Once 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.040 that door closed, it was just a few months before 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.879 the compact center door opened up. And some of the 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.119 things that you could be discouraged by the bad break, 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.879 the disappointment, the loss looks like a dead end, like 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.880 it's going to hold you back. In reality, that setback 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.320 is going to propel you into the next level of 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.600 your destiny. If you will stay in faith, you will 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:03.120 see some of these unexpected deliveries. God will cause doors 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.560 to open on their own accord. He'll make things happen 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:11.280 that you could not make happen suddenly, unexpectedly, quicker than 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.080 you thought. I talked to a young couple out in 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:16.719 the lobby. They'd been trying to have a baby for 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.960 six years. This young lady had gone through several miscarriages 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.400 and for some reason she couldn't carry a child. She'd 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:29.080 been through different specialists, done everything they could medically speaking 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:34.320 with no success. Years earlier, her sister had a dream 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.000 where she saw this young lady and her husband with 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.320 the most beautiful, blonde haired, blue eyed baby boy that 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.000 you can imagine. They had talked a couple of times 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.399 about possibly adopting a child, but they thought that was 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:50.280 way off. 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:50.840 In the distance. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.719 One Sunday morning, they were here at service. I was 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.080 talking about how everything that has our name on it 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.080 is coming in. I said, the health that has your 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.719 name on it is coming in, the business is coming in. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.360 I specifically mentioned the baby that has. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.040 Your name on it is coming in. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:14.239 When they heard that, something ignited on the inside. 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.480 They knew that was for them. They left the service 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:18.199 at lunch. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:23.440 About four hours later, unexpectedly, they received a phone call 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.760 asking if they'd be interested in adopting a baby that 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:30.639 was going to be born in a few months. Eight 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:34.320 weeks later, they were in the delivery room when their 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:35.560 little boy was born. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:37.040 Just so happened. 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.320 He had blonde hair, blue eyes like the sister had 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.640 seen in the dreaming. But sitting in church that Sunday, 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:49.120 they never dreamed in a couple of days they would 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:53.600 have their baby boy. That was an unexpected delivery. It 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:57.640 happened sooner than they thought. What you've been dreaming about. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:00.359 What you've been praying for. May look like it's a 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.879 long way off, but just like with this couple, God 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:05.040 has already put. 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:05.800 It in route. 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.760 It's already headed your way. You are close to your breakthrough, 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.960 close to your healing, close to the promotion. It has 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.240 your name on it. Keep honoring God. 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:21.000 It's going to show up sooner than expected. John chapter four. 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:25.760 This government official came to see Jesus. His little son 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.520 was very sick and close to death. He had traveled 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.840 a day's journey to get to Galilee. He asked Jesus 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:35.800 if he would pray for his son. Jesus looked at 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:37.679 him and said, you can go back home. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:39.200 Your son will live. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:43.000 Jesus didn't pray, didn't take any time. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:45.600 He just declared that healing was coming. 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.640 This man could have been a little offended, thinking, wow, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.000 came all this way, didn't even take time to pray. No, 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:56.200 his attitude was if he says my son is going 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.880 to live, if he says healing is on the way, 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:01.080 then I believe the healing is on the way. 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:03.240 He turned around went right back home. 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:07.399 When he got close, one of his assistants came running 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.960 out saying good news your little boy as well. He 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:15.320 was so relieved, so grateful. He asked what time everything 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:19.040 started to change. They said this all happened yesterday, about 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:22.480 one o'clock in the afternoon. That was the exact time 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:26.959 Jesus told him that his little boy would live. Just 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:30.879 like with this man, there are promises God has spoken 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:33.720 to you, things that He's put in your heart that 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:34.919 you know are going to happen. 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:37.960 Dreams, goals, divine connections. Turn around. 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.720 The moment God spoke it, he released it. 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:43.200 It's already in your future. 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.040 It's just a matter of time before you walk into it. 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:49.720 When Jesus told this man, your little boy will live, 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:55.560 the scripture says he took Jesus at his word and departed. 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:57.800 Walking back home. He could have lied, I don't think 0:23:57.800 --> 0:23:58.520 it's going to happen. 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.640 He didn't even pray. I think I'm wasting my time. 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:04.359 That would have stopped the miracle. You have to do 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:06.200 like this man, take. 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.680 God at his word. Make a decision. 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:13.240 You're not going to go around worried, doubting, discourage, thinking 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:16.639 it's never going to happen. No, stay in faith, knowing 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:20.160 that what God promised you has already been released. 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:22.760 It's already en rout headed your way. 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:27.440 We see this principle with Daniel one time in the scripture. 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:31.399 He prayed twenty one days later the angel came with 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:32.639 the answer to the prayer. 0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:36.479 He asked the angel, what took you so long? The 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:37.360 angel said. 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:41.640 Daniel, the moment you prayed, God dispatched me with the answer. 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:43.960 But it took three weeks for me. 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:47.880 To fight through the forces of darkness. Just like with Daniel, 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:51.719 the moment you prayed, God released the healing, He released 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:55.520 the promotion. It's already en routed. Now do your part 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:57.960 all through the day. Lord, thank you that it's on 0:24:58.040 --> 0:24:58.400 the way. 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:01.280 Lord. I know you're a faith for God. I know 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:04.600 you'll hasten your word to perform it. Lord, I believe 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:07.720 that it will happen even sooner than expected. 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:11.480 Tewod King's Chapter seven. There was a great famine in 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:15.479 the city of Samarian. Food was so scarce that it 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.560 costs one hundred times what it normally would. On top 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:23.280 of that, a huge army had surrounded the city and 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:26.320 cut off the food supply. They were waiting for the 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:29.040 Israelites to start the death. Then they were going to 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:32.960 go in take their belongings. The prophet Elisha showed up 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:36.359 and said, by this time tomorrow there will be so 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:39.200 much food you'll be able to buy. 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:41.119 A loaf of bread for one penny. 0:25:41.800 --> 0:25:45.000 God was saying things are about to turn around, and 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:47.560 it's going to happen faster than you think. 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.800 Overnight, in twenty four hours, there's going to be abundance. 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:56.760 The officer assisting the king said, Elisha, have you lost 0:25:56.840 --> 0:26:00.480 your mind? Have you watched the news lately? Have you 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:04.119 seen the stock reports. We are surrounded by a big army. 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:06.080 We're in the middle of a famine. 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:09.240 Instead of taking God at his word, like the first 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:12.360 government official, he did just the opposite. 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:16.520 There were four lepers sitting outside the city gates of Samaria. 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:19.720 They thought, we have nothing to lose. We're going to 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:20.480 die anyway. 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:23.560 Let's go down to the enemy's camp and see what's 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:28.439 going on. As they were walking, God multiplied the sound 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:30.720 of their footsteps. 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:33.240 Caused it to sound like a huge army was attacking. 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:34.640 Their enemies. 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:38.480 Got so afraid they took off running, left all their food, 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:42.080 all their treasures, a whole camp filled with supplies. The 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:45.560 lepers went back told the Israelites come with us. There's 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:49.600 more than enough, Just like God promised, there was so 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:52.960 much food, so many supplies, you could buy a loaf 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:57.879 of bread for one penny. It happened suddenly, It happened overnight. 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:02.080 It may look like situation is going to take years 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:03.840 to turn around, years to. 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:06.200 Get well, years to get out of that. No way. 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:10.399 In the natural. The good news. We serve a supernatural God. 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:16.520 He's saying it's going to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, quicker than 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:20.080 you thought. God has ways to turn it around that 0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:26.280 you've never thought of. He specializes in unexpected deliveries. David 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:29.960 never thought, sitting in his darkest hour, that he was 0:27:30.000 --> 0:27:33.720 only three days from the throne. These people never thought, 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.400 in their greatest need they were one day from abundance. 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:40.320 God did it for them. He can do it for you. 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:42.400 I believe you're about to. 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.920 See some of those blessings that have already been en 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:50.040 round like Daniel, the moment you prayed, God released it. 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:54.199 You're about to see the healing, the promotion, the breakthrough. 0:27:54.520 --> 0:27:57.879 Do like this government official, take God at his word, 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:01.359 keep thinking him that the n on the way, keep 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:03.880 thanking him for unexpected deliveries. 0:28:04.119 --> 0:28:04.920 If you'll do this. 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:09.199 I believe and declare God is going to hasten his 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:12.520 word to perform it. Like these people, You're going to 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:16.240 see some overnight turnarounds. Like David, You're going to see 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:20.040 some seventy two hour breakthroughs. Get ready, it's going to 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:24.880 happen sooner than expected. In Jesus' name, if you receive it, 0:28:25.040 --> 0:28:25.440 can you. 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:26.240 Say a men? Today? 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:30.760 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:33.480 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:33.840 --> 0:28:38.400 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:38.560 --> 0:28:39.720 repent of my sins. 0:28:40.960 --> 0:28:42.000 Come into my heart. 0:28:43.120 --> 0:28:46.840 I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:50.040 prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:53.960 Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. 0:28:54.200 --> 0:28:55.800 He's going to take your places that. 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:56.720 You've never dreamed. 0:28:57.640 --> 0:29:00.640 Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 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