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I heard about this single man. 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.359 He'd been living at home with his elderly father, who 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.560 was very wealthy. He decided he needed to find a 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.800 wife so he could enjoy the fortune he would inherit 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.120 when his father died. One evening at an investment meeting, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.720 he saw the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. She 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.000 took his breath away. He said to her, I know 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.840 I look like just an ordinary guy, but in a 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.639 few years, when my father passes, I will inherit hundreds 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:40.880 of millions of dollars. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.600 Impressed, she took his business card. Three months later, she married. 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:46.080 His father. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.640 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.280 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.680 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.400 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.560 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.840 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.520 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.400 about supersized. A few years ago I went to a 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.880 fast food restaurant with our children. We pulled into the 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.959 drive through and placed our order. Just when I was 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.520 about to pull up to the main window where you pay, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.000 the young lady said, would you like to supersize that. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.400 I didn't know what that meant. I asked her about it. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.880 She said, that means you'll get more French fries, a 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:37.360 larger drink, a bigger hamburger instead of the normal portions. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.640 It will be supersized, bigger than expected. That's what God 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.080 wants to do for you. His dream for your life 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.240 is much bigger than your own. He's going to take 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.280 you further than you're expecting. He's going to open doors 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.840 that you could have never opened. He's going to give 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:56.520 you more. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.280 Influence than you thought possible. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.720 Paul said in a Fee three, God will do exceeding 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:07.480 abundantly above all we can ask or think. He's saying 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:12.600 in today's language, God is going to supersize your life. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.560 Whatever you're dreaming about, whatever you're believing for, God's going 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.320 to take that and make it bigger, better, more rewarding 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.880 than you've ever imagined. Maybe your dream is to get 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.440 out of debt, to be able to pay your house off. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.560 That's good, but God is going to supercize it. He's 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.080 going to bless you in such a way that you 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.920 cannot only pay off your house, but you can help 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.080 other people pay off their house. Where you don't just 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.279 have enough for yourself, you have an abundance, so you 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.640 can be a blessing to somebody else. That's what happens 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:50.000 when God supercizes Your prayer may be for your son 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.200 to get back on course. He's running with the wrong crowd, 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.200 making decisions that are not good. You'd be happy if 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.400 he just got back to where he was. When God 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.960 supercizes it, he's not only going to bring him back 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.920 to the right course, he's going to use him to 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.279 help other people in that same situation. You're going to 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.479 be amazed at the difference that your son will make. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.120 Maybe you're single, your dream is to meet. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:17.680 The right person. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.960 You have this specific criteria that you're looking for, these 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.520 qualifications that you would be happy with. But when God 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.480 supercizes it, he's going to bring you somebody better than 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.960 you've imagined. That's what happened to me when I met 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.039 Victoria in my early twenties. 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.400 She exceeded my expectations. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:42.000 She was not only smart, talented, funny, beautiful, but she 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.680 had the best taste in men. 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.320 She was a supersized blessing. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.360 Your dream may be to work your way up to 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.040 management to one day lead that department. But when God 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.760 supersizes it, You're not going to be working for that company. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.919 You're going to own your own company. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.480 You're going to look up and say, this is exceeding 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.279 abundantly above anything I could ask or imagine. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.719 What you're dreaming about may seem big to you. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.080 You don't see how it can happen, how you could 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.479 get out of debt, break the addiction, accomplish that goal. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.680 You have to stretch your faith to just believe that 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.440 it will happen. But what you're believing for is just 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.040 the starting point. God is going to exceed your expectations. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.080 He has a supersized life in front of you. I 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.120 know a young lady that came from a low income family. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.760 Her parents and relatives had always struggled to make it. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.480 Her father worked the night shift as a janitor cleaning 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.400 large buildings. Her mother would get odd jobs here and there, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.760 babysitting children. All she had seen growing up was lack 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.480 and mediocrity. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.799 Her dream was to one day work in a professional environment. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.560 She thought, if she could just get something better than 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.680 those low level jobs that her parents had, she would 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.640 be doing good. A friend of hers worked at a 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.400 movie studio. She said there was a position available as 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.760 a secretary. This young lady had put herself through college, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.040 the first one in her family to get a degree. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.400 She applied for that position and she got it. She 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.680 was on cloud nine. Not only did she work in 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.800 a professional office, but she made twice what her parents 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:31.120 made combined. In her mind, she had accomplished her goal. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.680 God had blessed her in incredible ways. She was satisfied. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:41.160 But God wasn't satisfied. He's in the supersizing business. What 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.600 he has for you is bigger than you've imagined. She 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.000 got one promotion, and another promotion and another. Today she's 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.720 the vice president of one of the largest movie studios 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:57.400 in the world. She has incredible influence. She decides which 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.080 movies will be made, works with the biggest name in Hollywood. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:05.200 She told me, Joel, I can't even fathom where I am. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.239 Every day I go to work. I have to pinch 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.280 myself to make sure this is real. That's God's dream 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.240 for you. If you will keep honoring Him being your 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.320 best right where you are, then get ready for a 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:20.440 supercized life. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.760 Get ready for doors to open that you couldn't open. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.240 Get ready to go places that you've never dreamed. One 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.960 day you're going to say, like her, I can't even 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.079 fathom that I'm here. Never dreamed I'd be running my 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.040 own business. Never dreamed I'd be living in this house. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.840 Never dream my children would be this successful. I never 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.800 dreamed I'd be this healthy again. Every time I'd drive 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.840 up to the Compact Center, this place, Like that lady, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.359 I have to pinch myself. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.000 I had season. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.240 Tickets growing up to watch the Rockets play basketball. I 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.080 never dreamed one day this would be Lakewood. Never dreamed 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.000 that I would be a minister. Never dreamed after thirty 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.720 five years of being diagnosed with terminal cancer, my mother 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:05.439 would still. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:06.080 Be alive today. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:11.520 What is that the exceeding, abundantly above and beyond favor 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.360 God has in store? In Acts chapter three, there was 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.360 a crippled man that was carried to the temple each day, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.120 and they put him next to the main door. He 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.800 would sit there and ask for money. This is how 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.839 he survived. Year after year people would give him donations. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.199 Look like this was his lot in life. He didn't 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.080 complain about it. He was doing his best with what 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.880 he had. But one afternoon, Peter and John came to 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.959 the temple. As they were about to walk in this 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.480 man asked them for money. He must have been looking down, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.760 because Peter said, look at us. This scripture says the 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.560 man looked up, expecting to receive a gift. Peter said, 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.880 I don't have any money for you, but I can 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.120 give you something better. In the name of Jesus, Rise 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.840 and walk. Peter took him by the hand. He helped 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:05.880 the man up. When he did, instantly his legs were healed. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.960 He started walking, running, leaping, so grateful for what God 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:10.360 had done. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:12.160 But here's my point. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.640 When Peter said I have something for you, the man 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:20.400 expected the ordinary. He expected what he had always seen. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.360 It had happened again and again the same way. He 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.880 would ask. People would give him a few donations. But 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.960 this day God came along and did something out of 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.560 the ordinary. He was expecting a few coins, but God said, 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:36.880 in effect, I'm going to. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.080 Exceed your expectations. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.760 I'm going to do above and beyond what you're asking for. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.280 That one moment of favor thrust him to the next level. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:52.480 Like this man, you may be expecting the ordinary. You're 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.679 going through the routine of life being your best with 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.240 what you have, But where you are looks like that's 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.960 the way it's always going to be. There's no sign 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.120 of anything changing. You're expecting more of the same. But 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:10.280 God is saying, I'm about to exceed your expectations. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.280 Yes, it's been routine, but you pass the test. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.720 Now you're coming into a new day where I'm about 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.520 to thrust you to a new level. I'm about to 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:25.280 increase you beyond your normal income. Blessings are about to 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.920 chase you down. Good breaks are going to come finding you. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.440 God is going to supersize what you're believing for. You 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.240 didn't ask for it, you aren't expecting it. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.640 You didn't see it coming. It's just the goodness of God. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.760 The scripture talks about how will be blessed, pressed down, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.200 shaken together, and running over. You're going to come in 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.760 to those running over blessings, running over with influence, running 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.120 over with creativity, running over with resources, running over with 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:57.800 good health. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.600 God is a running over God. He's not a git 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.920 by God. He's a more than enough God. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.920 You may not see how this could happen, but God 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.560 has ways to bless you that you've never thought of. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.160 In the scripture, when Peter needed money to pay his taxes, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.880 Jesus told him to go down to the lake. The 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.240 first fish he caught had the money in it that 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:25.360 he needed. When the Israelites wanted me out in the wilderness, 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.720 God shifted the winds and caused millions of quaell to 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.360 come into their camp. These two million people had a 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.840 state dinner out in the middle of the desert. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:37.640 Experts tell us. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.839 Quall don't normally travel that far away from water. That 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:46.600 goes against their natural instinct. This was God making something 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.400 happen that should have never happened. Friends, God controls the 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.640 whole universe. You don't have to figure it out. Just 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.520 dare to believe all through the day. Lord, thank you 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:02.160 for supersizing my life. Thank you for exceeding my expectations. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.920 Thank you for those running over blessings. I talked to 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:10.120 a man that owns a landscape company. Their specialty is 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.880 bagging grass clippings and disposing of them. He had an 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.880 agreement with a local farmer where he would take those 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.560 grass clippings and feed his herd of cattle. This worked 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.240 well for many years. Everything was going great until this 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.640 farmer became sick. He was an older gentleman and decided 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.240 to sell his farm. And this man got bids of 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.200 getting rid of his grass clippings in conventional ways, but 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.040 the lowest one was tens of thousands of dollars a year. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.400 He couldn't afford that kind of overhead. Looked like he 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.880 was stuck, like he didn't have any options. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.520 But instead of getting discouraged, instead of complaining, his attitude 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.320 was God, I don't see away, but I know you 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.080 have a way. I know you're a running over God, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:57.760 a more than enough God, an. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.280 Overflow God, like the blind man. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.800 He was expecting something ordinary, something usual. Maybe the farmer 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.440 would change his mind, maybe he'd find another farm where 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.040 he could feed their cattle. But God's ways are not 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.840 our ways. There are set times where God is going 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:20.160 to exceed your expectations, where he is going to supersize 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:25.040 your life. And several major developers were interested in this farm. 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.480 It looked like it would sell quickly and maybe even 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.400 turn out to be a bidding war. But they found 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.080 out the property was in a floodplain. Even though it 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.000 had not flooded there in years and years, no bank 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.200 would give anyone a loan. This farmer didn't have any options, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.240 so he sold the property to this man for hardly anything. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.840 It has several tenants on it. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.280 Their rent not only pays his monthly payment, but there's 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.960 profit left over each month. So instead of having to 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.280 put his money out to purchase the property, and now 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.720 they're actually paying him to take the property. God can 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.400 make things happen that you could never make happen. One 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.840 touch of his favor will put you at another level. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.880 You may be thinking ordinary. God's thinking overflow. You're thinking 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.080 the way it's always been. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.000 God is about to exceed your expectations. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.760 He's about to do a new thing like this. Man, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.280 you're going to come into these running over blessings. You 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.520 didn't have anything to do with it. It's just the 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.720 favor of God. It's what the scripture talks about. How 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.400 you'll live in houses that you didn't have to build, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.080 how you'll reap from vineyards that you didn't plan. This 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.760 is what happened in the scripture to a young lady 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:44.560 named Ruth. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.040 Her husband was killed in a battle. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.400 She moved back to her mother in law's hometown to 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.560 help take care of her. They barely had enough food 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.760 to survive. She would go out in the fields and 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.000 pick up the leftover wheat that the workers had missed. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.840 One day, the owner of the field noticed Ruth. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.200 He told his workers. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.600 To leave handfuls of wheat on purpose for Ruth. Now 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.360 she didn't have to work nearly as hard. She could 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.920 gather up the wheat they needed in a fraction of 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.640 the time. When Ruth went out each morning, she was 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.600 expecting more of the same. She was grateful God was 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:28.440 meeting their needs. But God is full of surprises. Just 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.680 when you think you've reached your limits. God's been good 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.800 to you. You're satisfied, But God has something bigger in mind. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.560 The owner of that field. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.680 Boaz, was one of the wealthiest men in that area. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.720 He fell in love with Ruth. They ended up getting married. Now, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:47.840 instead of working in. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:52.240 The field, Ruth owned the field. What happened, God supersized 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:52.760 her life. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.640 This is especially important because Ruth had gone through a 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.840 lot of heartache and pain using her husband at an 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.880 early age. I'm sure she thought, Wow, life's not fair, God, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.760 Why did this happen to me? Look like she had 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.280 seen her best days. If she would have heard this message, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.880 she could have said, Oh, Joe, this sounds good, but 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.400 God's not going to supersize my life. I've been through 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.120 too much. Things haven't turned out the way I had planned. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.720 I'm content to just survive. You may feel that way, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.520 but like Ruth, God hasn't forgotten about you. He's seen 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:36.000 the heartache you've endured. He's seen the lonely nights, the 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:40.400 unfair situations. You may have accepted it, but God has 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.240 not accepted it. He not only has some handfuls on 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:49.520 purpose for you, he has some boazes, some explosive blessings 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.560 that are going to make up for the difficulties you've 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:57.520 been through. God knows how to balance the books. You 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.880 may have taken a big hit over here, a bit 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.320 big loss, will get ready for some big blessings. 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.320 God is a just God. 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.119 When he supersized is your life, You're going to be 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:10.760 so amazed. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:10.960 At where you are. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.920 You don't even think about where you've been. But many 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.439 of you can say, like me, that you're living a 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.520 supercized life. God's been good to you. You never dreamed 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.760 you would be where you are. But can I tell 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.720 you you haven't seen anything yet. You're on the runway 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.800 about to take off. You're just getting your engines revved up. 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.119 Your rockets haven't kicked in, your boosters haven't activated. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.120 God never performs His. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.920 Greatest victories in your past, they're always in your future. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.080 Why don't you get your hopes up? You may not 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.320 see how it can happen. Here's the whole key. You 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.480 can't see what God sees. You don't know what God knows. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:54.840 Ruth could have said, it's not gonna happened to me. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.720 I'm a widow taking care of another widow. We don't 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.280 have a job, we don't have any retirement, we don't 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:02.200 have any income. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:03.080 We're done. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.439 But what you don't have doesn't stop God. He is 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.920 not limited by what you think you're lacking. Well, I 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.440 don't have the resource. I don't have the talent, the education, 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.000 the experience. You may not, but God does. He has 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.960 everything you need to get you to where you're supposed 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:20.199 to be. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.000 All the odds were against Ruth. 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.320 It looked like she was done, but she came into 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.040 those running over blessings. She went from having barely enough 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.560 to haven more than enough. Here's how amazing God is. 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.320 Ruth married Boaz. They had a son named Obed. Obed 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.679 had a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son named David. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.240 That means, this young lady that looked like her life 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.159 was over a widow barely making it. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.159 God not only blessed. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.160 Her with abundance, but she ended up in the family 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.879 line of Jesus Christ. God knows how to make more 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:03.199 out of your life than you've ever imagined. Quit making excuses. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.520 Quit thinking you've reached your limits. God has something big 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.239 come in your way. What He's going to do in 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.520 your future is like nothing you've seen in your past. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.240 It's going to exceed your expectations. It's going to be 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.280 above and beyond what you're thinking now. The real question 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.400 is will you let this seed take root? The scripture 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:30.080 says Jesus couldn't do any miracles in his hometown because 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:34.000 of their unbelief. It doesn't say he wouldn't do it. It 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.520 says he couldn't do it. I wonder how many times 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.840 we're stopping God from supersizing our life because we don't 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.679 believe it will happen. We let our circumstances, what we 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.760 can see, what's happened in the past, talk us. 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:49.200 Out of it. 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.520 Your mind may tell you that you've reached your limits, 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.120 you've gone as far as you can go. But if 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.800 you'll listen down in here, you'll hear another voice saying, 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:04.280 increases come, favor is coming, healing is coming, promotion is coming. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.159 That's why when you hear a message like this, something 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.360 comes alive on the inside. 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.080 It's the seed that God put in your spirit. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.320 When you live with this expectancy, you go through the 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.440 day saying, God, I believe you can take me where 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:21.360 I've never dreamed. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.560 I believe you can do what medicine cannot do. 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.720 God, I believe you can supersize my life. That's when 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:33.600 you'll see the surpassing greatness of God's favor. Luke Chapter one, 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.919 an angel appeared to a teenage girl named Mary. He 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.880 told her that she was highly favored. She was going 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.000 to have a baby without knowing a man. Mary was 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.159 kind of taken aback. This seemed far out unusual. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.679 It had never happened before. She asked the angel how 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:52.240 could this be? 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:55.480 He explained how the spirit of the Lord would come 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:57.200 on her and she would conceive. 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.560 Mary accepted it. She believed, but I'm sure there. 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.879 Were times that she started to doubt, thinking is this 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:05.919 really going to happen? 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.920 This seems too good to be true. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:13.440 See, Mary didn't come from an influential family, She wasn't wealthy, 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:17.000 she didn't have an impressive resume. She was a poor 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.960 girl living in a low income neighborhood. 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.600 As she was doubting a. 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:26.960 Little bit confused, the angel said to her in verse thirty, Mary, 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:32.800 don't be frightened. God has decided to bless you. When 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.560 you hear this promise that God is going to do 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.960 exceedingly abundantly above and beyond that, He's going to supersize 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.080 your life in a way, it's like. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:43.960 What Mary heard. 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:48.280 It seems far out unusual, and it's easy to think 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.840 of all the reasons why it's not going to happen. 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.480 But if that angel were to show up today, he 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.120 would say the same thing to you that he said 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:01.480 to Mary. God has decided to bless you. You may 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:02.720 not see how it can happen. 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:04.879 You may not think you deserve it. 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.920 You've made too many mistakes, you're too young, you're too old, 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:12.280 you come from the wrong family. Instead of dwelling on 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:16.479 all that, why don't you say, by faith God, I 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:20.240 want to thank you that you've decided to bless me. Lord, 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.720 thank you that you've decided to be good to me. See, 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:27.240 it's one thing when we decide we're going to take 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.200 hold of God's promises. We decide we're going to live 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:31.959 a blessed, abundant life. 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:34.040 That's good, that's important. 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.600 But when you realize the creator of the universe, the 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:42.080 God who spoke worlds into existence, the God who flung 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:43.680 stars into space. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:47.560 He has decided to bless you. He has decided to 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:52.760 forgive you. He has decided to favor you. Here's the key. 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:57.160 God's idea of blessing you is very different than what you. 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:01.680 Think being blessed is. We think natural. God thinks supernatural. 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:05.520 We think, let me find another farm to put these 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.640 grass clippings. God thinks, how about I give you that 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:11.880 farm and have them pay you instead of you paying them. 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:16.479 We think handfuls on purpose are a great blessing, and 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:19.359 they are. But God thinks, how about I give you 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:21.639 the whole field so you own all the week to 0:24:21.680 --> 0:24:22.200 begin with. 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:24.800 We think practical terms. 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:28.240 Signing a sixty year lease with the City of Houston 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:31.520 for the Compact Center is pretty amazing, and it is. 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:34.520 But God thinks, how about I get rid of that 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:37.480 lease so you can have the building for generations to 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:42.040 come like God did for us. That's the running over God, 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:46.920 the more than enough God, the exceed. 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:47.920 Your expectations God. 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:51.560 A few days after the angel appeared, Mary went to 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:56.119 see her cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth said, Mary, you are blessed 0:24:56.640 --> 0:25:00.800 because you believed God would do what he said. God 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:05.359 decided to bless Mary. But what activated the blessing, what 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:09.360 allowed it to happen, was she believed she would be blessed. 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:12.360 If she'd have gone around thinking, oh, this is impossible, 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:15.840 it's never going to happen. I never get any good breaks. Besides, 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:19.160 I'm not even qualified. She could have talked herself out 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:23.760 of what God had already decided. When God says he's 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:26.920 going to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:30.159 When he says, as for you and your house, you 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:31.160 will serve the Lord. 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:34.560 When he says he's going to restore health back into you, 0:25:35.160 --> 0:25:40.119 that means God has already decided it. Now, My challenge is, 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:44.280 don't talk yourself out of what God has already decided 0:25:44.359 --> 0:25:47.320 for you. Hey, you said, Joel, this sounds good, But 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:50.960 I'm seventy five years old. I still hadn't been supersized. 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:54.760 There's still time for you. Moses was eighty when he 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:58.880 started to deliver the Israelites. He didn't see the Red 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:02.879 Sea part those supernatural signs that God showed the Pharaoh 0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:07.520 until much later in life. You wouldn't be alive unless 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:09.320 God had something amazing. 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:11.560 Up in front of you. Well, I don't want to 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:14.240 get my hopes up that way. If it doesn't happen, 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:17.960 I won't be disappointed. The problem with that approach is 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:21.160 if you don't get your hopes up, you will be disappointed. 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:25.160 You'll miss the exceeding greatness of God's favor that belongs 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:28.800 to you. I've seen this in my own life. God 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:31.479 has taken me from behind the scenes all those years 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:33.919 and brought gifts out of me that I didn't know 0:26:33.960 --> 0:26:35.920 I had, and put me in front of a lot 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:36.399 of people. 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:38.200 I can tell you first hand. 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:42.520 God knows how to supersize your life. It wasn't because 0:26:42.600 --> 0:26:47.000 I have all this talent, experience ability. It's because I've 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:50.040 done my best to honor God, and I've dared to 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:54.119 believe what God has already decided for me. When my 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:57.040 dad went to be with the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, 0:26:57.040 --> 0:26:59.879 I could hear God saying, Joel, step up, pastor the 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:02.239 I didn't think I could do it. 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:04.840 Every voice said, you're making a mistake. 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:09.240 But deep down I knew that if God had decided it, 0:27:09.680 --> 0:27:12.200 I wasn't going to go by what I felt, by 0:27:12.240 --> 0:27:14.960 what I saw, by what people were telling me. I 0:27:15.040 --> 0:27:18.520 simply chose to get in agreement with God, to believe 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:22.280 what he had already decided for me. That's when God 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:26.120 will supersize your life. That's when he'll take you places 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:30.560 that you've never dreamed. Friends, God has already made his decision. 0:27:31.080 --> 0:27:35.080 He's already decided to bless you, to forgive you, to 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:37.480 take you further than you can imagine. 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:39.080 Now it's up to you. 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:43.360 What you decide will determine whether or not it happens. 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:46.720 I'm asking you to take the limits off of God, 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:51.000 quit making excuses. If you'll do this, I believe and 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:55.120 declare you're about to come in to those running over blessings. 0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:59.080 God is going to supersize what you're believing for you 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:02.959 may be expected the ordinary like that blind man, God's 0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:05.520 going to do something out of the ordinary. He's going 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:07.760 to exceed your expectations. 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:10.520 In Jesus' name, If you receive. 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:14.320 It, can you say, man, today, we never like to 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:17.760 close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:20.879 Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:26.920 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 0:28:26.920 --> 0:28:32.080 into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:34.640 if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:37.840 born again. Get in a good Bible based church, Keep 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:39.120 God first place. 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:43.280 Thank you for listening to the Joel Oustine podcast. Help 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:46.080 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:50.080 all over the world. 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