The Seventh Year

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It helps keep the ministry going. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:02:00.120 Enjoy the message. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.040 Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.440 into your homes. And if you're ever in our area, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.520 please stop by and be a part of one of 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.280 our services. I promise you we'll make you feel right 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.760 at home. But thanks so much for tuning in, and 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.320 thank you again for coming out. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.800 And I like to start with something funny. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.120 And I heard about this church service one Sunday. Everything 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.000 was going great until a bolt of lightning hit the sanctuary. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.680 When the smoke cleared, Satan himself was standing behind the podium. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.919 People panicked and ran out as fast as they could. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.000 Everyone that is, except one woman. She sat on the 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.600 front row as calmly as can be. Satan was appalled. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.720 He said, lady, do you know who I am? She said, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:43.240 I sure do. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.160 He said, aren't you afraid of me? She said not 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.240 in the least bit. He said why not? She said, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.480 why should I be? I've been married to your brother 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:52.400 for thirty years. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:54.640 Hold up your. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.920 Bible, say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.560 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.080 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.760 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.800 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.200 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.519 God bless you want to talk to you today about 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.600 your seventh year. When we've struggled in an area for 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.440 a long time, it's easy to think this is the 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.520 way it's always going to be. I'll always struggle in 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.400 my finances. I never get any good breaks. My marriage 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:33.480 will never improve. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.240 We just don't get along. Too often. We see it 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:37.960 as permanent. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.080 People tell me, Joel, I've always been negative. 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:42.400 That's just who I am. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.720 They've convinced themselves that it's never going to change. The 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.760 first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.880 If you think it's permanent, then it's permanent. If you 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.760 think you've reached your limits than you have. If you 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.520 think you'll never get well, then. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.120 You want to change your thinking. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:06.040 You need to see everything that's holding you back, every limitation, 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:11.839 every addiction, every sickness as only temporary. It didn't come 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:16.159 to stay. It came to pass the moment you accept 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.719 it as the norm, the moment you decide this is 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.080 my lot in life, that's when it can take root. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.080 And become a reality. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.040 Now, a stronghold in your mind can keep you from 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.560 your destiny. Some of you today, If you just break 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.840 out in your thinking, you would see things begin to improve. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.159 You may have struggled in an area for twenty years. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.360 The medical report says, just learn to live with it. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.960 But there's another report. It says God is restoring health 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.280 back into you. It says the number of your days. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:50.160 He will fulfill. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:55.200 Your attitude should be this sickness cannot stay in my body. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.000 It's on foreign territory. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.360 I am a temple of the Most High God. In 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.560 your career, you may feel stuck. You haven't had a 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:04.240 good break. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:04.880 In a long time. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.800 You've gone as far as your education allows. It's easy 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.440 to think I've reached my limits. This is as good 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.200 as it gets. No, all through the day, I'm not 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.440 settling here. My greatest victories are still out in front 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:17.680 of me. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.320 You have to stir up your faith. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.800 God is not limited by our education, by our nationality, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:25.760 by our background. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.000 He's limited by our thinking. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:33.360 Now I'm asking you to stand against these lies of permanency, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.320 lives that say you'll never lose that weight, you'll never 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.760 break that addiction, you'll never own your own house. When 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.719 those thoughts come, dismiss them, don't give them the time 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.280 of day. God is saying, it's not permanent, it's temporary. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:54.640 It didn't come to stay, it came to pass. Deuteronomy fifteen, 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.400 there was a law God gave Moses that said every 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:03.920 seventh year you had to release any Hebrew slaves. If 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.680 you were Hebrew and you owed a person money and 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.440 you couldn't pay them, then they could take you in 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.760 as a slave and make you work full time until 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.479 you paid them back. But every seventh year, if you 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.560 were a part of God's chosen people, you had a 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.080 special advantage. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:23.359 You got released. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.279 No matter how much you still owed, no matter how 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.920 in debt you were, in the seventh. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.120 Year, you were set free. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.040 All the pain, struggling suffering in one day was gone. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.120 This tells me God never intended his people to be 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.880 a permanent slave to anything. You may be in debt today, 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.960 but God did not intend that to last forever. You 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.320 may be facing an illness, but it is only temporary. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:53.480 You may be. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.120 Struggling with an addiction, but it's not going to keep 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.880 you in bondage. What I sense in my spirit is 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.120 you're about to come in to one of your seventh years. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.920 The seventh year is when you break free from any 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:13.000 limitation that's holding you back. Sickness, addictions, debt, constantly struggling, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.920 look like it would never change, looked permanent, but then 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.480 one touch of God's favor and it suddenly turns around. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.960 Suddenly you get a good break, Suddenly your health improves, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.679 Suddenly you meet the right person. Suddenly a dream comes 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:29.240 to pass. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.880 What happened? You came in to a seventh year. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:37.880 Now quit telling yourself this sickness is permanent. I'll always 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.000 struggle financially. I'll never break this an addiction. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.120 No, you are a child of the Most High God. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.640 You have an advantage. Just like the Hebrews. 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.239 God promised you're not going to be a permanent slave 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.320 to anything. Now you've got to get in agreement with 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.880 God and say, yes, I'm coming into my seventh year. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.080 It is my time to break free. Every chain has 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.160 been loosed, every stronghold has come down. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.560 I know I have been released into increase. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.680 I talked to a gentleman in the lobby a couple 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.520 of weeks ago, and he was here in town for 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:19.400 consultation at M D Anderson our Cancer Hospital. For the 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.000 last three years, he's had a large tumor in his 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:27.840 stomach area. He's gone through chemotherapy, radiation, nothing affected it. 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.040 For the last year the doctors had been studying him 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.800 trying to figure out what to do next. Now, about 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.040 six months ago, he came to a Lakewood service for 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.840 the first time and had one of the prayer partners 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:41.720 to pray over him. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.839 He went back to the hospital. They ran more test. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.360 The doctor was very puzzled for no apparent reason. The 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.800 tumor had started to shrink. It was about half of 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.120 the original size. The man had not had any treatment 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.800 in a couple of years. The doctor didn't understand. He 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.720 asked him, what have you been doing differently? The man said, 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.080 the only thing I've done differently is I've had some 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.559 people pray over me. The doctor said, you tell those people. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.160 To keep praying, because at this. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.840 Pace, it's going to be totally gone in a few 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:16.400 months time. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:22.000 What was that a seventh year? It looked permanent. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.520 Chemotherapy couldn't stop it, radiation couldn't contain it. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.600 But our God can do what medicine cannot do. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.600 He's not limited to the natural. He's a supernatural god. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.360 And it doesn't matter how long it's been that way 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.720 or how impossible it looks. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.320 When you come into your. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.400 Seventh year, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.000 God wants to do. Is there something in your life 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.000 you think is permanent? You'll never get well, never start 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.280 that business, never get out of that legal problem. As 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.120 far as you can see, it's permanent. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:09:59.520 No, God is. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.640 Saying you need to get ready. You're coming into your 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.800 seventh year. The seventh year is a year of release. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:15.240 Release from sickness, disease, chronic pain, release from depression, worry, anxiety, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:20.000 release from bad habits, from addictions. It's not only a 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:26.720 release from limitations. It's a release in two increase. God 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.680 is about to release you into new opportunities, good breaks, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:38.239 new levels. He's going to release ideas, creativity, sells, contracts, businesses. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.839 The seventh year is when you get released into overflow, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.360 into more than enough. It's when dreams come to pass. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.880 Now you have to receive this into your spirit. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:49.320 Today. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.200 It's easy to think, oh, Joel, this is never going 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.800 to happen to me. I don't believe anything's going to change. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.440 Just because you're up there saying this. I don't believe 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.200 I'm coming into my seventh Then this is not for you. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:03.880 This is for believers. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.960 This is for people who know things have shifted in 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:14.160 their favor, people that know every limitation is only temporary, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.600 people that know their entering into their seventh year. In 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.319 two thousand and three, Lakewood signed a sixty year lease 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.760 with the City of Houston for this facility, the former 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.360 Compact Center where the Rockets used to play basketball. We 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.520 always wanted to own the facility, but the lease was 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.720 the best thing at the time. Seven years later, in 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.040 twenty ten, the city was running low on tax revenue 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.800 and decided to sell off some of their properties. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.800 They called and asked if. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.840 We would be interested in purchasing the facility, and of 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.360 course we were, but it depended on the price. A 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.720 facility like this, brand new, would cost four hundred million dollars. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.960 The city ran their own independent appraisal. They got back 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.160 with us and said, we will sell it to you, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.880 not for four hundred million, not two hundred, not fifty, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.480 but for seven and a half million dollars. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.440 Now we no longer lease. We own the property. But 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:14.080 isn't this. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:19.440 Interesting our seventh year for seven and a half million. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.880 Only God can do that. Friends, there are. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:27.720 Some seventh years in your future. What you think could 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.959 never happen, Joel, I. 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.800 Could never afford that property. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.320 I could never get well, Joel, the chemotherapy didn't work. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.280 I'll never meet the right person. 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.720 Now you need to get ready when you come into 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.679 your seventh year. God is going to do more than 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.840 you can ask or think he's going to exceed your expectations. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:47.800 It's going to be. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.840 Bigger, better, more rewarding than you thought possible. And it 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.360 may seem permanent now, But when you come into the 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:59.080 seventh year, God's going to release you from leasing into owning, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.920 leise you from debt into abundance, release you from sickness 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.920 into health, release you from constantly struggling. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.160 Into an anointing of ease. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.960 Now, why don't you get up in the morning and 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.199 dare to say, God, I want to thank. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.240 You that I'm coming into my seventh year. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.079 Lord, thank you that you're releasing me into the fullness 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.920 of my destiny. When you believe, all things are possible. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.960 I received a letter in the mail from a lady. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.240 She had been in an automobile accident and broken her neck. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.400 She lived in constant pain. She'd had several surgeries for months. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.760 Her husband had stayed home to take care of her. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.319 She felt badly that he had missed so much work, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.000 and she finally convinced him she was well enough to. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.120 Stay home alone. And one day she was in so 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:47.920 much pain. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.800 She was so depressed she decided she was going to 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.000 end her life, and she couldn't walk on her own, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.080 so she was going to crawl over to the corner 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.680 where the gunrack was. Her husband was a big hunter 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.760 and he had all these firearms. But when she got 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.200 out of her chair, she lost her balance, knocked over 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.600 the end table and fell flat on her back and 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:12.320 couldn't move. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:14.880 The remote control. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.959 For the television hit the floor and the batteries came out. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.920 When it did, it changed the channel on the television 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.000 from what she was watching, and it just so happened 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.200 to flip to a channel where I was speaking. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:28.800 She said. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.040 Her first thought was, Oh, great, I'm lying here, dying. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.240 Now I've got to listen to this TV preacher to 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.880 add to my misery. Well, that day, I was talking 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.840 about how God can turn any situation around, how he 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.320 can take your darkest hour and turn it into your 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.800 brightest hour. She began to feel a peace that she'd 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.560 never felt before. She said, I was lying that I 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.120 couldn't move, couldn't open my eyes, but I felt tears of. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:56.800 Joy running down my cheeks. 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.800 Her husband came home a few hours later and she 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:02.280 was sound asleep right there in the floor, and of 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.680 course he was started to learn. Woke her up and 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.360 said honey, are you okay. It looks like you've had 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.240 an accident. She smiled and said it was no accident. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.360 That day was a turning point in her life. Hope 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:19.640 began to feel her heart. A dream came back to life. Today, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:20.640 She's not. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.960 Only free from pain, but she can walk. She's healthy, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.080 hole stronger than ever before. 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.280 When it looked impossible, when all the odds were against her. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.200 When it seemed permanent. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.680 The creator of the universe, the most high God, the 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.040 one who spoke the worlds into existence, the one who 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.080 has you in the palm of his hand, he said, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.120 wait a minute. That's my child, that's my daughter. She 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.280 has a special advantage. She is not going to be 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.000 a permanent slave to anything. She is coming in. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.840 To her seventh year. Some of you like her. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.920 You've lived with that sickness, that chronic pain long enough. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.680 You put up with that depression, that dark cloud following 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.840 you around long enough. You've struggled with the addiction long enough. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.520 God is saying, this is your time. Today is your moment. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.560 Get ready for release, Get ready for a breakthrough, Get 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.840 ready for healing, Get ready for increase, Get. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.200 Ready for your seventh year. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.800 How do you get ready, Start talking like it's going 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.080 to happen, Start acting like it's going to happen, Start 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:32.680 thinking like it's going to happen. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.160 Well, Joe, my arthritis really been acting up. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.320 My diabetes is getting the best of me. My financial 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.480 difficulties are really weighing me down. No, don't take ownership 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:49.440 of those things. It's not your diabetes. Doesn't belong to you, it's. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.120 Not your arthritis. That's not a part of who you are. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.480 It may be there temporarily, but that's not where it's staying. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.000 Don't give it a permanent address in your mind. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.600 Don't let it move in and take up residency. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.199 You need to have one of those signs out that 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:07.920 says no vacancy here. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.480 The Apostle Paul put it this way, These. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:16.119 Light afflictions are for a moment now in your mind, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.960 it may be big, but by faith, you need to 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:23.160 see it as being light and see it as being temporary. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.679 This is what Moses did. The Israelites had been in 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.679 slavery for many years, looked permanent, like it would never change. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.720 Moses had a son born. He named the boy Girsham. 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.120 Names back in those days had a lot more significance 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.159 than they do today. Gersham means I am an alien 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.159 in a strange land. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.560 When Moses named his son, he was making a declaration 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:50.240 of faith. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.199 He was saying, we're in slavery, but slavery is not 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.640 our norm. This is not our permanent address. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.960 We are foreigner in this land. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.280 Every time he said good morning, Gersham, he was reminding 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.439 himself this lack, this trouble, this slavery. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.480 Is not our normal state. When you're in tough times. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.920 And it looks like you're never going to break out, 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.040 you got to do like Moses, remind yourself. I won't 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.920 be staying here long. I am a foreigner. 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.360 I don't have citizenship here. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.560 You could say, I am not a citizen of depression. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.680 I'm not a citizen of lack. I'm not a citizen 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:33.480 of cancer. 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.199 This disease is alien to me. 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.800 It's not my norm. It may be where I am, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.800 but it is not who I am. I am blessed, 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.320 I am healthy, I am strong, I am victorious. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.840 Anything to the contrary. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.800 You need to see as foreign, as temporary, it is 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.960 not your permanent address. In the scripture, King Hezekiah was 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.439 very sick. The prophet Isaiah came to visit him to 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.800 the palace and said, I have a word from the 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.720 Lord for you. I can imagine. Heekiah perked up and said, yes, 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.280 what is it? Isaiah said, the word is set your 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.120 house in order you will surely die, not the word 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:16.920 he was looking for. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:17.960 I'm sure. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.200 Isekiah thought, is there another prophet out there? 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.920 It looked permanent, like his days were over. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.240 The prophet who spoke for God had just announced that 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.720 his life was coming to an end. Hezekiah could have 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.960 accepted it, thought, hey, it's my lot in life. But 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.280 Heekiah had a boldness. He had a radical faith. He 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.640 chose to believe even when it looked impossible. The scripture 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.080 says he turned his face to the wall and started 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.639 praying God, I'm asking you to give me more years. 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:52.320 God, I'm not finished. 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.959 I've served you, My family's honored you. 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:56.800 God, let me live longer. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:02.159 Before Isaiah could leave the p grounds, God spoke to 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.200 him and said, go back and tell Hezekiah, I'm. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.320 Going to give him fifteen more years. Here's what I 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:10.240 want you to see. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:15.680 Hezekiah's faith is what brought about his seventh year. Your 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.600 faith is what causes God to move well Joela, I'm 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.960 sixty five years old. I've never had one of these 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.800 seventh years. Are you releasing your faith? Are you thanking 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.640 God that it's turning around? Are you declaring where I 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.679 am is not where I'm staying? This sickness is temporary. 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:36.639 I'm coming out of debt. There are new levels in 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.080 my future. When you have this attitude of faith speaking 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.320 victory over your life, that's when the creator of the 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.200 universe can show up and. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:47.480 Do amazing things. 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.600 Your faith can bring about your seventh year. And what's 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:55.080 interesting is when Hezekiah got the news that his life 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.680 would be extended, he didn't feel any better. He didn't 0:20:58.720 --> 0:20:59.600 look any different. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:01.200 Only thing that. 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.840 Had changed was God had said that his life would 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:05.600 be extended. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.960 Here's the key. Hezekiah didn't wait. 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:12.080 For his health to turn around before he gave God praise. 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.320 He didn't wait till he felt better before he started 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.600 talking like he was going to live and thinking like 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:20.320 he was well. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.399 Well, Joel, when I see it, I'll believe it. 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.720 No faith says you've got to believe it, and then 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.719 you'll see it. Like Isaiah, I've announced to you that 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.040 you're coming into your seventh year. Now you can look 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:38.240 at the circumstances, study the financial report, see how you feel, 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:38.880 and think. 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:40.280 Hey, doesn't look any different. 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.960 I don't see a sign of anything changing, Joel. As 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.320 soon as it starts to improve, then I'll give God praise. No, 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.600 your praise is what activates God's favor. 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:53.040 When you have this. 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.840 Boldness like Hezekiah and say, God, I don't see how 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.840 it could get well. The medical report doesn't look good. 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.439 I don't see how I could meet the right person, 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:04.520 how I ever own my own home. 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.280 But God, I believe you've already made a way. 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.520 I believe I'm stepping into a new season of favor. 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.240 I believe I'm entering into my seventh year, that every 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.320 limitation has been broken. So Lord, I just want to 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.399 thank you for your goodness in my life. When you 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:22.959 talk like it's going to happen, act like it's going 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:26.640 to happen, and praise like it's going to happen, that's 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.840 when God says to the angels, Hey turn around and 0:22:29.960 --> 0:22:32.919 go back and tell them they're coming into their seventh year. 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.200 I'm going to do what they're asking. I'm gonna change 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:40.040 what looked permanent. But a lot of times, instead of 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:43.840 taking our praise to God. We're taking our problems to God. 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:44.920 God. 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:47.720 I've had this addiction for twenty seven years. I don't 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:48.840 think I'll ever break it. 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.000 God. These children are getting on my nerves. You better 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:54.920 keep me saying God, I'm working two jobs. I still 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:57.639 don't have enough. I don't understand it. 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:02.679 It's easy to turn prayer into complaining session. But remember 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:06.320 God already knows your needs. You don't have to tell 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:09.719 God everything that's wrong, what you don't like, and how 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:13.080 long it's been. That way, It's much better to take 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:14.080 your praise to. 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:16.240 God rather than your problems. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:20.120 Your financial situation may not look good, but turn it around. 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:20.680 Lord. 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:22.919 I want to thank you that you're supplying all of 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:26.200 my needs. Thank you that you're Jehovah Jirah, the Lord, 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:31.399 my provider. You may not feel well, but instead of complaining, Lord, 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.680 thank you that I'm getting healthier, stronger, better every day. 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:37.240 Your son, your daughter, they're not doing right. 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:37.640 Lord. 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:41.920 Thank you that my children will fulfill their destinies. Praise 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:47.080 gets God's attention, not complaining. When Saul of Tarsus was 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:51.000 blinded by that great light, God spoke to Anonius to 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:54.560 go pray for him well. Saul had been killing believers, 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:59.840 having them put in prison. Anonius said in Acts chapter nine, Lord, 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:04.760 I have heard many reports about this man and all 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:06.080 the harm that he's done. 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:07.840 Notice this phrase. 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:13.200 I've heard that he's killing people. I've heard that he's dangerous. 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:17.600 I've heard that he doesn't like believers. If you're always 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:20.520 telling God what you've heard, then you're going to miss 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:24.440 out on God's blessings. You'll get discouraged, doubt will fill 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:27.840 your mind. God the financial report says, I'm never going 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:30.560 to get ahead. God, my children are running with the 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:31.200 wrong crowd. 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:32.080 No, here's the key. 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:36.520 Don't tell God what you've heard. God says you're the 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.720 head and not the tell Now, don't tell him all 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:43.040 the reasons why you're not. God says you will live 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:46.720 and not die. But God the medical report says otherwise. 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:49.960 No quit telling God what you've heard. That's not doing 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:52.000 you nor him any good. 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:56.040 It's real simple. Don't take your problems to God. Take 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:58.400 your praise to God. Lord. I don't want to. 0:24:58.359 --> 0:25:02.960 Thank you today. With long life, you'll satisfy me. And 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:05.879 even though it looks permanent, Lord, I want to thank 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:09.080 you that I'm coming into my seventh year. A year 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:13.080 of release, a year of healing, a year of breakthroughs, 0:25:13.359 --> 0:25:17.639 a year of abundance. Isaiah said, the spirit of the 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:21.960 Lord is upon me to announce freedom to the captives. 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:25.520 He was saying, in effect, it may look permanent, but 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:30.120 I'm announcing your freedom. I'm announcing you're coming out of debt. 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:33.720 I'm announcing that sickness is not going to defeat you. 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:36.320 I'm announcing new levels. 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:39.600 Are in your future. Then he took it one step further. 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:43.479 He said, I'm declaring the year of God's favor. 0:25:44.359 --> 0:25:46.560 Notice this principle. He announced it. 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:49.840 Then he declared it, what if we would do the 0:25:49.880 --> 0:25:54.840 same thing I'm announcing today we're coming out of debt, struggle, 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:59.600 not getting ahead. I'm declaring we're coming into increase overflow. 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:03.159 I'm declaring we will lend and not borrow. 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:05.840 We will be able to give to every good work. 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:11.280 I'm declaring we're blessed, prosperous, and generous over our families. 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:15.040 I'm announcing our children will not run with the wrong crowd, 0:26:15.359 --> 0:26:19.240 making poor choices, getting into trouble. I'm declaring, as for 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:21.880 me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I'm 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:24.720 declaring the seed of the righteous will be mighty in 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:29.080 the land. Or how about this, I'm announcing we will 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:35.040 not live negative, depressed, worried, anxious, stressed out. I'm declaring 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:40.919 we are happy, content, confidence, secure, full of joy, loving 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:45.200 our lives. You've got to announce it and declare it 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:49.520 by faith. Now, nothing you're saying may be true at 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:53.280 the time. This is what faith is all about. God 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:57.440 called Abraham a father of many nations before he had 0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:01.360 one child. Didn't make sense. Look like God was mixed up. 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:05.159 But the scripture says you have to call things that 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:05.560 are not. 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:07.359 As if they already were. 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:12.640 Too often we're announcing and declaring the wrong things. I've 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.399 been single so long, I'll never meet the right person. 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:19.280 Prices are so high, governments shut down. I don't see 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:22.679 how I'm ever gonna make it. That's announcing defeat and 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:26.480 declaring mediocrity. You got to change what's coming out of 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:30.880 your mouth. Start announcing freedom from anything that's holding you back. 0:27:31.200 --> 0:27:36.480 Freedom from loneliness, freedom from depression, freedom from addictions, freedom 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:41.480 from constantly struggling. Dare to do like Isaiah and start 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:46.800 boldly declaring God's favor is coming, breakthroughs, healing, victory. 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:49.360 You are prophesying your future. 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:53.320 You are setting the tone for your life with your words. 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:56.159 And some of you have struggled in an area for 0:27:56.200 --> 0:27:58.400 a long time. But let me declare this. 0:27:58.520 --> 0:28:02.879 Over you receive this into your spirit. It is not permanent. 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:05.880 You are coming into your seventh year. 0:28:06.600 --> 0:28:09.960 This is a new day. The tide of the battle 0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:15.000 has turned. Every chain has been loosed, every stronghold has 0:28:15.040 --> 0:28:19.520 been shattered, every limitation has been broken. You are breaking 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:23.879 free into a new level. I believe and declare. God 0:28:23.960 --> 0:28:28.600 is releasing you into increase. 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