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Sunday is Coming

Joel Osteen
February 10, 2021 31m 47s

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One lesson we can learn from the resurrection of Jesus is that God will always finish what He started. It doesn’t matter how much time has passed. He is faithful to His promise. Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is not an 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.759 offer to buy your self securities, nor is it investment, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:30.760 legal or tax advice. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.959 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.759 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.240 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.800 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.840 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:58.880 your life. God bless you always a joy to coming 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.680 to your homes. We love you, we pray for you 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.720 every single day. We're believing you're going to have a blessed, prosperous, 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.880 supernatural year. If you're ever in our area, please stop 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.880 by and be a part of our services. I tell 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.880 you often, but these guys are the finest people in 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:15.960 all of Houston. Right here at Lakewood. We'll make you 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.960 feel right at home. Thanks for tuning in today. I 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.040 like to get started with something funny, and I heard 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.080 about this kindergarten teacher. She was trying to explain to 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.840 her students about self esteem. So she said to her class, 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.720 anyone who feels like you're dumb, please stand up. She 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.200 didn't think anybody would stand, and she'd make the point 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.160 how no one is dumb. But about that time little 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.800 Johnny stood up. She thought, oh no, Now what am 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.320 I gonna say? She said, Now, Johnny, do you really 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.120 feel like you're dumb? He said no, ma'am, I just 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:51.160 hate to see you standing there all by yourself. All right, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.280 hold up your Bible. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.000 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:56.400 I am what it says. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:56.799 I am. 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.640 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.400 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.440 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.920 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.839 the same in Jesus's name, God bless you. I want 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.160 to talk to you today about how Sunday is coming 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.320 as we celebrate the resurrection of Christ. I think about 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.000 how when they crucified Jesus on that Friday, it was 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.839 the darkest, most painful, discouraging day of his life. In fact, 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.160 it was so bad earlier he had swept great drops 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.560 of blood. It looked like it was over. It looked 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.320 like his enemies had gotten the best of him. But 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.680 God had other plans. They put him in the grave 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.160 on Friday, celebrating their victory. But Sunday morning was a 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.400 different story. The grave could not hold him, Death couldn't 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:53.120 contain him. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.640 The forces of darkness couldn't stop him. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.440 On the third day, he came out of the grave 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.560 and he said, I was dead, but now I am 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:08.240 alive forevermore. One principle that the resurrection teaches us is 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.880 that God will always finish what he started, no matter 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.720 how dark it looks, no matter how long it's been, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.040 no matter how many people are trying to. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:18.839 Push us down. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.479 If we will stay in faith, God will always take 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.560 us from Friday to Sunday. He will complete what he starts. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.240 You may feel like it's Friday in your life right now. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.560 You have some major obstacles in your path. You don't 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.520 see how you could ever accomplish your dreams, or how 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.359 you could be well, how that legal situation would ever resolve, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.120 and the negative thoughts are telling you it's over. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.799 Just accepted, it's never going to get any better. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.480 It may feel like Friday, but my encouragement is Sunday 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:51.239 is coming. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.599 God is a faithful God. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.080 That promise he put in your heart that you're going 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.120 to be well, that you're coming out of debt, your 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.359 family will be restored, that you're going to have a 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:07.200 supernatural year. God has every intention of bringing that promise 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.160 to pass. He's called the author and the finisher of 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.680 our faith. God will never start something that. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:15.760 He cannot finish. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.360 When God put the dream in your heart, a dream 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.040 to write a book, a dream to start a business, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.880 a dream to be in ministry, the good news is 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.320 God already has a completion date. God can already. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.400 See it done. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.840 You may not see how it can happen, may be 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.960 taking a long time, All the odds are against you. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.360 But if you'll just keep believing, keep praying, keep being 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.120 your best, then God promises he's going to finish what 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.640 he started. He's going to take you from Friday to Sunday. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.840 That means your children may have served God when they 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.760 were younger, but now they've gotten off course, they're not 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.040 doing what's right. Well, God is saying, get ready, they're 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.719 coming back. It may be today, maybe next month, maybe 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.799 next year, but it will happen. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.919 God finishes what he starts. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.760 Maybe you have a dream to get out of debt, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.760 to pay off your house, to be free from that 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.880 burden of lack, but it looks like it's impossible. Business 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.039 is slow, the economy is down. You've gone as far 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.760 as your education allows. But God is saying, I'm not 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.320 limited by those things. I've got resurrection power. I can 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.560 give you one break that will thrust you to a 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.440 new level. I can open up doors that no man 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.080 can shut. I can bring talent out of you that 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.839 you didn't know you had. I can cause people for 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.320 no reason to go out of their way to want 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.960 to be good to you. You keep believing, and you're 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.039 going to come in to supernatural increase. Maybe you're single 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.920 and you have a desire to meet somebody. You've been 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.520 through a couple relationships that didn't work out, and now 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.239 it's been a long time. The thoughts are telling you 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.080 you're never going to meet anybody. You're washed up if 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.120 you had your chance. No, God is saying, I've already 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.080 got the right person picked out. I'm lining up things 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.320 in your favor. I'm causing you to be at the 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.560 right place at the right time. You will see that 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:16.080 promise come to fulfillment. Friends, God finishes what he starts. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.200 What is it in your life that you used to 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.560 be excited about? Are there dreams that you push down, 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.920 goals that you've let go of too often because it's 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.640 taken a long time, we've been through some disappointments, we 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.520 become complacent and we start accepting the fact that it's 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:35.960 probably not going to happen for me. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:40.200 First place we lose the battle is in our own mind. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.840 We think I could never start that business, Joel, I 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.560 don't get any good breaks. I could never get a 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.240 new house. I can't even sell my old house. I'll 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.240 never go back to college. I don't have the funds. No, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.840 just because you gave up doesn't mean God gave up. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.520 God never aborts a dream. That dream he put in 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:05.120 your heart may be pushed down by disappointments, by setbacks, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.720 by failures, by rejection. But know this, the seed is 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.560 still alive, the promise is still in you. You need 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.280 to fan that flame, get your fire back. It may 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.720 look like it's dead, but the fact is it's not buried. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.960 It's planted. That means it's coming back. Our attitude should be. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.840 It may be taken a long time. I had some 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.920 bad breaks. I don't see how it could happen. But 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.439 I know God already has the completion date. So I'm 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.840 not gonna give up on my dreams. I'm not gonna 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:41.199 go through life with no goals, no enthusiasm, no passion. No, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.000 I'm getting my vision back. I'm gonna get up every 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.800 morning with expectancy. It may be Friday, but this I 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:49.600 know Sunday is coming. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:50.800 It's interesting. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.160 The last thing Jesus said on the cross was it 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.319 is finished. It certainly looked like the end. It looked 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.760 like it was over. I believe that wasn't just a 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.760 statement of fact. It was a statement of faith. He 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.839 was saying to his father, I've done my part, I 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.239 fulfilled my destiny. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.400 Now I've got total. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.720 Trust and confidence in you that you're gonna finish what 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.880 you started. And even though it looked like the end, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:23.240 in reality, it was only the beginning. When it looks 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.080 dark in your own life things aren't going your way, 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.880 dare to make that declaration of faith just like Jesus. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:31.640 It is finished. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.480 What you're really saying is God, I know you're gonna 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.760 turn this situation around. I know you're gonna heal my body. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.160 I know you're gonna restore my family. I know you're 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.800 gonna give me the breaks that I Needn't go around complaining. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:49.240 Speak victory over your circumstances. If you have a contract 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.120 that needs to close, doesn't look like it's going to happen. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.240 Father, thank you. It is finished. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.440 This house is going to sell, this agreement is going 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.959 to go through. This new client is going to be mine. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.240 If you have debt in your life, you need to 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.920 start announcing to that debt it is finished. Look at 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.080 that house payment, it is finished. Look at those college loans, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.560 it is finished. Look at those unpaid bills, it is finished. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.319 Maybe you're struggling in a relationship, having difficulties at home. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.319 Don't go around thinking, oh man, I'll never get out 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.840 of this mess. Why did these people treat me like this. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.480 Now go through the house saying it is finished. Your 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.800 husband asked, what did you say. I said, you are finished. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.800 I mean it is finished. Say it by fame. I 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.520 heard a story about this young couple. They were Americans 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.720 doing missionary work in Mexico, twenty two years old. Their 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.760 dream was to help the less fortunate, to bring God's 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.600 message of hope to the Mexican people, so they left 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.640 the comforts of home. They were raising their three small 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.360 boys in a foreign land. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.760 This was back in the nineteen sixties. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.199 One Sunday, while they were hearing the States, visiting family, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.599 they came to a service at Lakewood. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.800 It was very small back then, just a couple hundred people. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.360 Beforehand, they met my parents and talked for a moment. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.439 During the service, my dad told a little to their story, 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.080 and at the end he received an offering for this 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.440 young couple. The first group there at Lakewood gave this 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.920 couple a check for six hundred dollars. They were so excited, 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.440 so appreciative. They went back to Mexico and used that 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.680 money to start a Bible school. Two years later, the 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:34.360 husband was tragically killed when his small plane crashed. As 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.880 you can imagine it was a dark day in this 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.680 young lady's life. It was definitely Friday. It looked like 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.960 her dreams had died. Now she was a twenty four 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.560 year old widow raising three boys, all under the age 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.120 of four. She could have easily come back to the 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.160 States and given up on that dream. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.160 People would have accepted that. But she didn't do that. 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.439 She understood this principle. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.480 She knew that God always finished is is what he starts. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.400 She knew that even though it was Friday, Sunday was coming. 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.160 So she stayed there and continued on the Bible school. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.199 Over time, she noticed how one of her sons had 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.600 an incredible gift for music. He could sing, play the piano. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.920 He had a natural gift of communication. Long story short, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.400 Her son and our friend, our Spanish pastor, Marcos Witt 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:33.720 went on to do great things. Marcos, our friend and 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.120 her son, Marcos Witt went on to touch all of 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:41.000 Latin America. He fills up these huge stadiums. He's won 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.559 multiple Grammy Awards. What happened Sunday came. God completed what 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.319 he started. That's what the scripture says. Philippi is one 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.560 verse six, be confident of this, He that began a 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.480 good work in you will bring it to completion. Notice, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.160 we're suppose to be confident. That means talk like it's 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.439 gonna happen. Act like it's gonna happen, Plan like it's 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.559 gonna happen. Think like it's gonna happen. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:09.680 Not any of this. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.280 I don't know if my son's ever gone straighten up. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.040 The more I pray, the worse he gets. Joel, No, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.720 be confident. Yes, he's making poor choices right now, but 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.640 I know he's gonna turn around. I know it's just 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.400 a matter of time before he gets back on the 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:28.600 right track. That's confidence. That's your faith speaking. Not I 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.560 thought I would get married. I thought i'd meet someone, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.560 but it's been so long, I don't know. Maybe I'm 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.760 just supposed to be single. You've gotta be confident that 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.800 God's gonna finish what he started. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.920 Instead of speaking defeat. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.360 You need to be saying, I know God's gonna bring 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.400 somebody great into my life. I can't wait to meet them. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.720 They may be in this building right now. Quit looking around. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.280 One translation says be confident God will bring. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.040 You to a flourishing finish. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.360 That means God's not only gonna finish what he started, 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.240 but it's going to turn out bigger and better than 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.520 you ever imagined. Marcus's mom had a dream to touch 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.839 your community, but now because Sunday came through her son, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.400 she's touching the whole world. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.840 God didn't just complete. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.160 The promise, but he brought his mom out to a 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:20.240 flourishing finish. 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:22.600 I know a young lady named Dawn. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.520 We grew up here together in the church, and after 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.160 she and her husband got married, they had a dream 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.960 to have a baby. They tried and tried, went through 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:35.040 all the fertility treatments with no success. Year after year 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.680 went by, and at that time Dawn was the head 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.600 of our children's ministry. When my father went to be 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.360 with the Lord and I took over his pastor, she 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.400 had already been believing to have that baby for over 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.200 twenty years. I didn't talk to Dawn that much, just 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.560 hello every once in a while. But one day we 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.600 were in a meeting together about the children's ministry. She 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.280 made the comment, I've got a good assistant trained, because 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.240 when I go to have my baby, I'm gonna be 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.240 out for a little while. After the meeting, I asked 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.640 my sister Lisa, she was in it as well. If 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.040 Don was pregnant, I thought I had missed something. Lisa 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.640 kind of laughed and said, no, she's just still believing 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.640 for this baby. And me, being the great man of 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.200 faith that I am, I thought, down, you have been 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.640 believing for this child forever. Maybe God wants to do 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.120 it another way, Maybe you should adopt children. No, Dawn 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.040 had a made up mind. The promise was in her. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.520 She was confident that it was going to happen. That's 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.360 why you should not let other people talk you out 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.440 of your dreams. God didn't put the promise in them. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.760 He put the promise in you. Only you really know 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.520 what God put in your heart. And instead of complaining, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.440 Down would go around just thinking God that one day 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.440 that promise would come to pass. Twenty nine years later, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.920 Dawn went to the doctor for a cheka. He said, congratulations, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.640 you're not gonna have one baby, go have twins. God 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.480 brought her to a flourish and finished. I know some 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.040 of you are thinking, God, please don't flourish me that way. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.600 But I love the fact that God does not abort dreams. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.760 And some of you, at one time, just like Dawn, you. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.200 Knew you were gonna get well. You knew you're gonna 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.200 have that baby. You knew you're gonna overcome that problem. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.680 But now, because it's been a long time and you 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.800 don't see anything changing, you're tempted to think. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:29.760 That it's not gonna happen. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.960 Now, get back in agreement with God, start thinking him 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.440 that he is bringing those promises to pass. And even 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.920 when it looks like a dream has died, know this. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:44.120 God can resurrect dead dreams, just like he raised Christ 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.720 from the dead. God can breathe new life into your marriage, 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.240 new life into your finances, new life into your health. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.480 Instead of being discouraged, go around all through the day 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.520 saying Father, thank you that you're gonna finish what you 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.800 started in my life. This is one reason we miss 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.159 God's best. We give up on our promises too soon. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.920 We have to learn to trust God's timing. Most often, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.400 it doesn't happen as quickly as we would like. There's 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.639 always going to be a period of testing. Are we 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.879 going to get discouraged? Are we going to start complaining? 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.200 Are we going to make decisions that will hinder the promise? 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.200 I think about David how when he was seventeen years old, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.600 he was anointed to be king, but he did not 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.680 take the throne until he was thirty. I'm sure during 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.879 those thirteen years there were plenty of times he was 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.960 tempted to think it wasn't going to happen. I'm sure 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.720 he was tempted to get frustrated, to even feel like 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.800 a failure, thinking God, did I hear you wrong? I 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.840 thought you said You're going to do something great with 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.520 my life, but nothing is going my way here he 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.639 was almost thirtieth. Year after year had gone by, he 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.280 saw no sign of the promise come into pass. David 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.399 had to fight the same negative thoughts that we do, 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.840 thoughts that were telling him it's not gonna happen. David, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.200 you heard God wrong. Just accept it, Just settle where 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.200 you are. The battle was taking place in his mind 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.560 to make matters worse. One day, a man by the 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:20.040 name of Nabel insulted David and his men. They had 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.800 been protecting Nabel's property. David told his men to go 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.280 ask Nabel for some food and water, and when they did, Nabel. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:29.439 Was extremely rude. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.560 He said, I'm not gonna give you guys anything. I 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.880 never asked you to protect me. Just get off my property. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.480 When David heard this, it set him off. He was 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.200 ready to let Nabel have it. He told his men 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.880 pack up, We're gonna go wipe out Nabel and everyone 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.879 that's even halfway associated with him. And I don't believe 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.680 that it was so much what Nabel did that wasn't 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.479 some huge offense, but it was magnified by the fact 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.000 that David was already. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.760 Frustrated that his had not yet come to pass. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.439 He knew in his heart he was chosen to be 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.400 a king, but he's out there living in the wilderness 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:12.000 like a pauper. Now he's distracted, he's lost his focus, 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.240 and he's about to make a decision that will hinder 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:20.280 his destiny. Now as he's headed toward Nabel's property, God 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:24.560 sent a young lady by the name of Abigail. Abigail 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.600 was a wise woman. She was Nabel's wife. She met 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.800 David on the road, had gifts in her hand, and 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.840 she said, David, why are you going to blow your 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.400 whole kingdom on such a fool like my husband? Are 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.040 you going to allow him to stop you from doing 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.960 what God wants you to do? You are our next king. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.040 You are destined to do great things? Are you going 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.320 to blow it on something so small such as this? 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:56.280 She not only talked sense into David, she spoke victory 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.520 into his future. She reminded him who he was and 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:04.399 the promise God put in him. At that moment, David 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.160 turned around said, you're right, I've got a destiny to fulfill. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.239 The promise is still in me, and I'm not going 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.399 to get frustrated and make decisions that I'm going to 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:15.480 regret later. 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.760 On just because the promise has not yet come to pass. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:23.560 David passed that test, and I've learned that God will 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.679 always send you an abigail before you give up on 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.679 a dream. Many of you know that you've got the 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.280 promise in your heart. You know you've got a great future, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.159 a future filled with hope, with faith, with blessings. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.040 With promotion. But the problem is right now you're not 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:42.000 seeing any of that. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.840 You're tempted to get discouraged, tempted to be frustrated, maybe 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.440 even tempted to make decisions like the dream is never 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.919 going to come to pass. But today God sent me 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.439 to be your Abigail. I want to remind you of 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.359 who you are and what you have. On the end, 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.080 you are a child of the Most High God. You 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:09.040 have seeds of greatness on the inside of you. You 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.560 have royal blood flowing through your veins. You have been 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:17.040 crowned with glory and honor. You are destined to leave 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.879 your mark on this generation. It may not have happened yet, 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:25.320 but the promise is still in you. Don't be careless 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.440 towards your future. Don't make decisions that you're gonna regret 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.680 later on. It's easy in the heat of the moment, 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.320 like David, to wanna blow somebody off. It's easy to 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.560 just wanna walk out of a marriage. It's easy on 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.680 the fridays of your life when business is slow, when 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.080 it's taking a long time, when everybody is promoted except you, 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:50.680 to just think, Man, I'm never gonna get ahead. I'm 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.160 just gonna start goofing off like everybody else at work. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.600 This marriage is never gonna last. I'm gonna try something else. 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.320 I'm never gonna get well, Joel, I'm just gonna accept it. 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.600 Listen to the abigail God sends you. You will get well, 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:07.000 you will be promoted, you will be restored. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.200 You will be vindicated. You will see your dreams come 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:10.720 to pass. 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:16.480 It may be Friday, but Sunday is coming when it's 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.240 time for God to promote you, to vindicate you. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:20.040 To restore you. 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.600 All the forces of darkness cannot stop it from happening. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:26.920 And God's looking for people that have a made up mind, 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:31.040 people that will trust his timing. It usually does not 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.719 happen overnight, but it will happen. Abraham waited twenty years. 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.000 He saw that promise come to pass. He had his son, 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:43.280 Moses waited forty years. He came into his promise. He 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.320 helped deliver God's people. And you say, Joel, I've been 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:49.359 waiting for a year and I don't see anything happening. No, 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:53.520 something is happening right now. God is working behind the 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.080 scenes in your life. He is arranging the right people, 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:01.240 the right breaks, the right opportunities. And sometimes the reason 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:05.600 it's taken longer is because even though you're ready, somebody 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:07.720 else that's involved is not ready yet. 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:09.760 The scripture says. 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.480 At the appointed time, the promise will come to pass, 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:17.200 and it will not be one second late. When is 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:20.720 the appointed time, It's when God knows it's best for you. 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:25.160 When you understand this principle, it takes all the pressure off. 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.800 It's a very freeing way to live, knowing that as 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:33.200 long as we stay in faith, God will release his favor, 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:38.120 his increase, his restoration, his healing at exactly the right. 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:39.080 Time in our lives. 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.760 That means I don't have to be frustrated because it's 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:45.240 not happening as fast as I would like. I don't 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.800 have to be worried because I don't see anything changing. 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:51.600 I am confident that God will finish what he started. 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:54.840 I may not see it happening, but my report is 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:58.520 it's on its way. It may be today, next week, 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.080 next year, five years, twenty five years. 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:02.760 That's okay. I'm staying in faith. 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:05.560 I know God is not only going to bring the 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.840 promise to pass, but he's going to bring us out 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:09.680 with a flourishing finish. 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:11.960 I think about my brother Paul. 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.240 He told how ever, since he was a little boy, 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:19.000 he had a desire to do medical missions in Africa. 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:22.080 He went there when he was twelve years old with 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:25.200 my father and it made such a lasting impression on him. 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:28.159 He went back again as a college student with a 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:30.960 group from the university and they spent a month there 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:31.960 in the summer. 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:33.480 Helping the underprivileged people. 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.960 Paul went on to graduate from medical school become a surgeon. 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.960 For seventeen years, he practiced surgery in Arkansas, very successful. 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:45.040 He worked his way all the way up to the 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:49.120 chief of surgery. But still he and my sister in law, Jennifer, 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:53.439 had this overwhelming desire to do medical missionary work, and 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:57.359 so they sent off for applications to different missions organizations. 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:00.119 But every time they went to fill them out, this 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:03.200 didn't feel right. They just didn't think it was the 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:05.160 right timing, and so they put it off. 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:08.680 They delayed it. In nineteen ninety nine, our father went 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:09.560 to be with the Lord. 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:13.800 After Daddy's memorial service, Paul was driving back home to 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:17.199 Little Rock and he heard God speak to him, not 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:20.679 out loud, but an impression right down in here. He said, Paul, 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:23.679 I want you to give up your medical practice and 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:26.520 go back to Lakewood and help your family with the 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.280 ministry in the natural. It didn't make a lot of 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:33.800 sense here he had trained all those years in medicine. 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:36.280 It looked like it was just the opposite of what 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:38.720 he had in his heart. He was having to give 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:41.720 up the thing that he loved the most. He came 0:25:41.760 --> 0:25:44.520 back and for ten years he's helped us pastor the church. 0:25:45.240 --> 0:25:47.639 Last year, a group of doctors were going over to 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:51.119 Africa from the ministry. They invited Paul to go, and 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:53.600 he felt good about it, so he went. He got 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:56.720 to the little clinic. They put him in the operating room. 0:25:57.240 --> 0:26:01.040 He hadn't done surgery in nearly ten years, but he 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:04.320 said it was just like riding a bike. It came 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:06.879 back to him like he'd never even stopped doing it. 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:08.280 He was so excited. 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:11.320 He came back home and got his whole family and 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:13.960 went back over the clinic and spent three months there. 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:16.680 This time he was doing surgeries that he had never 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:20.160 even done before. The end of that three month period, 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:23.240 one night, Paul went outside all alone. 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:26.240 He looked up in the African sky and all of 0:26:26.240 --> 0:26:29.760 a sudden it hit him. He was living his dream. 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:32.840 He was doing exactly what God put in his heart 0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:35.840 as a little boy. God brought that promise to pass. 0:26:36.080 --> 0:26:39.240 What am I saying, you can trust God with your dreams. 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:42.159 Sometimes you may feel like you have to put the 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:42.600 thing you. 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:44.359 Love the most on the altar. 0:26:45.080 --> 0:26:47.960 Times you may feel like you're taking a detour going 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:49.280 in the opposite direction. 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:51.560 But know this, God has a plan. 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:54.240 He's got it all figured out. 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:56.320 Be patient, it may take some time. 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:00.159 Paul first felt that desire at twelve years old, he 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:02.760 felt it again at twenty two when he went back 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:06.080 as a college student, and today, at seventy five, he's 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:06.800 as happy. 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:06.960 As can do. 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:15.879 You remember, I am his younger, better looking brother. But 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:20.080 I know every one of us has dreams and desires 0:27:20.480 --> 0:27:23.120 that have not yet come to pass. Maybe there are 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:25.919 things in your heart you've never told anybody about. 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:30.040 Know this. God knows He's the one that put them there. 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:33.320 Don't get discouraged because you don't see anything happening. Just 0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:36.200 keep being your best each day, Keep being a person 0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:39.720 of excellence and integrity, Keep being good to other people. 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:42.879 Every day you do that, you are passing the test, 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:45.639 and you are one day closer to seeing the promise 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:49.160 come to fulfillment. It says in Psalm one O six 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:52.680 talking about the people of Israel, they did not wait 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:56.680 for God's plan to unfold. In other words, they missed 0:27:56.680 --> 0:28:00.880 their promise because they got discouraged. They started compla they 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:02.200 didn't think it would ever happen. 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:03.359 Don't let that be. 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:06.840 You stay in faith when it's taken a long time. 0:28:07.359 --> 0:28:11.400 Know that God's plan is going to unfold. It may 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:14.000 look like the end. It may look like you got 0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:16.280 to give up the thing you love the most, but 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:19.840 recognize that is only a test. When you give it up, 0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:23.119 God will always give you back something better. And on 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:26.160 the fridays of your life when things aren't going your way, 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:30.000 you have to keep reminding yourself that Sunday is coming, 0:28:30.280 --> 0:28:32.320 your resurrection is on its way. 0:28:32.440 --> 0:28:32.520 Now. 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:37.240 I want you to be confident of this, not wondering thinking, well, 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:39.080 maybe this will happen for me. Joel, I don't know. 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:41.120 I've made a lot of mistakes. Been a long time. 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:41.560 Now. 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:44.200 You got to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, 0:28:44.400 --> 0:28:46.720 no matter what it looks like, no matter how many 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:49.760 odds are against you, God is going to finish what 0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:51.480 he started in your life. 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:52.920 That dream he put on the. 0:28:52.800 --> 0:28:55.960 Inside, the promise that's in your heart, it is still 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:58.600 alive and well. If you will get up each day 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:02.640 in faith, live with expectancy that I believe and declare, 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:05.400 You're not only going to see your dreams and promises 0:29:05.440 --> 0:29:08.760 come to pass, but it's gonna be better than you expected. 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:12.640 God's gonna bring you to a flourishing finish. 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