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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.960 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.080 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:36.759 the ministry. 0:01:36.880 --> 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 friends. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.840 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:51.720 your life. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.680 Oh God bless you today. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.560 It's always a joy to come into your homes. We 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.480 love you and we know God has great things in store. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.240 If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.160 by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.320 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.920 Thanks so much for tuning in, and thanks again for 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.320 coming out today. And I like to start with something 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.920 funny each week. And I heard about this man. He 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.440 was in a dark restaurant and he said to the 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.799 lady sitting next to him, would you like to hear 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.840 a blonde joke? She said, well, before you tell me, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.360 you should know that I'm blonde, six feet tall and 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.359 a professional bodybuilder, and the lady next to me is blonde, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:36.160 six foot two and a professional wrestler. And the lady 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.720 next to her is blonde, six foot five and the 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.720 kickboxing champion of the world. 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.640 Now do you still want to tell me the joke? 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.040 He thought about it a minute and say, now, not 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.040 if I'm going to have to explain it three times. 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:55.560 All right, now, I'm married to a beautiful, intelligent blonde. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:58.000 Say it like you mean it. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.119 This is my Bible and what it says I am. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.880 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.560 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.440 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.800 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:18.320 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.640 to talk to you today about how twenty eleven. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:22.800 Is going to be your year. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.000 It's easy to get stuck in a rut and go 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:31.000 into another year coasting on auto pilot, expecting the same thing, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.800 same problems, same struggles, same income, same. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:35.320 Level of joy. 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.320 No, God is a god of increase. He wants us 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:44.000 to rise higher. Sometimes you need faith spoken over you 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.800 to ignite what's on the inside. And what I sense 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.160 in my spirit is that twenty eleven is going to 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.560 be an exceptional year, a year where you see promises 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.360 come to pass, a year where you accomplish your dreams. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.320 It's going to be a year of surprises where God 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.720 amazes you with his goodness, and the year where you 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.160 overcome obstacles. You see breakthroughs in areas where you've struggled 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.040 a long time, seem like you just couldn't get ahead. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.920 Now you need to get ready. This is the year 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:18.600 things are going to change. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.120 God is about to release his favor in a greater way. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.960 You've sown the seeds, you've planted, you've watered, you've been faithful. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.240 Now you're about to come into harvest. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.080 This is going to be a due season year where 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.800 you reap from the seeds you've been sowing. My encouragement 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:42.720 is get ready, expect God's favor, believe for increase, Let 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.720 go of little dreams, little goals, little plans. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.640 This is going to be an above and beyond year. Now. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.080 I know some of you have been in great difficulties, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.880 but I can sense that a shift is taking place. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.520 The winds that have been blowing against us, trying to 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.919 hold us back, those winds are changing directions. Instead of 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.520 blowing against you, they're going to blow for you. Instead 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.600 of holding you back, They're going to start propelling you forward. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.839 Now I'm not just talking today, I'm prophesying. I'm speaking 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.920 victory into your future. These declarations are not just to 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.520 make us feel good. They are words of life that 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.719 have creative power from the most High God. That's why 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.320 when you hear this, something ignites on the inside, something 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.440 bears witness with your spirit. It's because you were born 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.440 to rise higher. You were created to live a victorious, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.279 abundant life. Now you've got to rise up and say, yes, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.599 this is for me. Twenty eleven is going to be 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.719 my year, I'm stepping into a new season. I'm letting 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.400 go of what didn't work out. I'm putting on a 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.320 new attitude, enlarging my vision. I'm going to go into 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.039 this year with a new fire, with the great your expectancy. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.000 I'm gonna step into my now season. See, God's favor 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.000 is based on two things. Number one obedience doing what 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.760 we know we should do, obeying God's word. And number 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.760 two is based on timing. When it's your season, you 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.440 can't just sit back. You got to step into it. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.599 I read about a baby locust. It's called a hopper. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.080 Its wings are very small proportionate to its body, and 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.280 at first it can't fly, but it can jump two 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.359 hundred times its hype. The way it learns how to 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.520 fly is when it hears the winds blowing. When it 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:42.880 sees the treetops rustling, something in the hopper's natural instincts 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.680 tells it this is my time to jump. When it jumps, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.039 it spreads out its wings. Even though they're small, they 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.599 catch the wind and that's how it learns how to fly. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.040 But timing is critical. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.320 It has to know when to jump, has to be 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:03.359 sensitive and recognize when the winds are blowing. Too often, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:08.160 we miss God's best because we don't recognize it's our season. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.720 For the last few years, for some people, it's been 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:16.120 a great struggle. They've been through difficulties, setbacks, they've made mistakes. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.880 Now the problem is they can't hear the winds blowing. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.000 They just look at their circumstances and they think, I'll 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.160 never get off the ground, I'll never accomplish my goals. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.080 I don't have the wingspan that I need. I don't 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.360 have the talent, I don't have the education. I've made 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:33.360 too many mistakes. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.040 What they don't realize is if they would jump at 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.600 the right time, when it's their season, they would catch 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.920 those winds that would take them higher than they thought possible. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:45.960 The scripture puts it this way. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.760 It's not by our might nor by our power, but 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.960 it's by the spirit of the Living God. One translation says, 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.840 it's by the breath. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:56.440 Of Almighty God. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.680 When you know God's breathing in your direction and you 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.560 dare take that leap of faith and say, yes, this 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.520 is my time. Yes I'm gonna accomplish my dreams, that's 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.720 when you'll feel a wind beneath your wings, a supernatural 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.200 left and anointing that will help you accomplish what you 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.640 could not accomplish on your own. I look up now 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:20.640 and think, how did I get to where I am? 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.160 My wingspan is not this big. I don't have this 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:25.520 much natural ability. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:26.200 You know what? 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.320 This is God breathing in my direction. When I sensed 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.040 it was my season, I dared to take that leap 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.200 of faith, and I caught those thermal winds that have 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.840 taken me places I've never dreamed of. What I'm saying 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.679 today is the wind is blowing. This is your season. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.199 This is your time to jump. This is your time 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.680 to believe again. That means you've got to let go 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.720 of what didn't work out last year. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.000 This is a new year. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.640 Quit focusing on what you don't have, and start focusing 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:02.840 on what God does have all power, He controls the universe. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.080 He can open doors that no man can shut. He 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.440 can bring talent out of you that you didn't know 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:08.920 you had. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.360 Don't miss your season. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.679 Don't go into another year expecting more of the same, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.320 making excuses as to why you're not growing, feeling sorry 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.840 for yourself because you had bad breaks, stuck in a rut, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.160 coasting when you know you really should be stretching your faith. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.680 David said, I have pitched my tent in the land 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.440 of hope. Let me ask you where have you pitched 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.199 your tent. Some of you need to pack up your 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.640 belongings and move out of self pity estates. Move out 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.800 of the nothing good ever happens to me subdivision. Move 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.200 out of Mediocreville. Can't do it, Vill, reach my Limitsville. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.040 Now pack up your belongings. Come over into the land 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.120 of more than enough, the land of fore and beyond favor, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.080 the land of With God, all things are possible. I 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.960 can already, since dreams are coming back to life. I 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.960 can sense a new fire is being birthed on the inside. Friends, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.760 what's in front of you is much greater than what's 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.640 behind you. The victories you've had in your past are 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.760 going to peale in comparison to the victories God has 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.640 in your future. First Corinthians two nine, Paul said, no 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.320 eye has ever seen, no ear has ever heard, no 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.600 mind has ever imagined the things God has in store 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.920 for those that love the Lord. God is saying you 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.680 haven't seen anything yet. You think you're blessed, you think 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.760 God's been good to you. No God has things in 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.640 your future that if he told you right now, it 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:44.800 would boggle your mind. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:46.200 You wouldn't even believe. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.760 If you would have told me twelve years ago, when 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.000 I was working behind the scenes doing the television production 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.000 at my parents' church, that one day I would be 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.040 a minister in front of many people and we would 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.000 have our services in the former Compact Center where I 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.719 used to watch the Rockets play basketball, I would have said, 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.000 you've totally lost your mind. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.280 You need to go get checked out. 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.640 I could not even fathom that that's the kind of 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:16.000 things God has in your future. One translation says God 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.079 has amazing things that he. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.160 Keeps ready for those that love him. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:27.840 I like that God keeps ready blessings, favor, promotion, healing, wisdom. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.880 He's just waiting to release it to you. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.280 We have a couple in our church, and a while 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.400 back they had babies, triplets, and when these babies were born, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.960 they were very premature and they had to stay in 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.800 the hospital for a long long time. This couple had insurance, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.720 but for some reason it didn't cover the total cost. 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:51.040 One day they got a hospital bill for two million dollars. 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.000 It looked like they would be paying on that debt 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.920 the rest of their life. The winds were definitely blowing 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.640 against them. The good news, God knows how to change 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.240 the winds, and this couple didn't get defeated and depressed 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.880 and start complaining. They stayed in faith. One day around Christmas, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.480 the hospital called them. The man in charge said, we've 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.760 never done this before, but our board has just voted 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.199 and we've decided to forgive that two million dollar death. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:25.199 What happened, The winds shifted. One day, they were in 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.280 debt over their head, looked like they'd be there forever. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.160 Twenty four hours later, they were totally debt free. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.320 That's one of those no I has seen, heard or 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.720 imagined blessings. Some of you think that your situation could 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:40.600 never turn around. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:41.760 You don't know. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.840 By this time tomorrow you could be out of debt. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.480 By this time tomorrow. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.920 You could meet the person of your dreams. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.319 By this time tomorrow, that child could come back home. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.480 God has blessings He's kept ready for you. My question 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.240 is are you ready? Are you expecting God's favor? Do 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.120 you believe that twenty eleven is. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:04.040 Going to be your year? 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.439 In the Book of Deuteronomy, it talks about how if 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.480 we will keep God first place. His blessings will chase 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.880 us down and overtake us. One definition of the word 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.920 overtake means to catch by surprise. Now, I believe in 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.640 the coming year, you're about to see God surprise you 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.760 with his goodness unexpectedly out of the blue. You're going 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.600 to come into unuse your favor. I know a young man. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.880 He's a student from another country and he attends our services, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.559 and he was having a problem with his v son. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.480 When he went to enroll for the next year of school, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.079 they told him that he could not finish. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.040 Because of this problem. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.520 He had already done his undergraduate work, now he was 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.520 working on his master's degree. He was devastated, looked like 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.840 his dream had died, and he did everything he could, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.320 called everyone he knew, but nothing seemed to help. He 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.920 decided to go back and check with the school one 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.439 last time. This time there was a different lady at 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.720 the admissions office. They got to talking and they found 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.440 out that they both attend Lakewood. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.640 Let me tell you that's dangerous. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.560 When you hook up with a Lakewood person, you might 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:18.280 as well get ready. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.240 You're gonna get less. 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.320 She looked at his files and she said I see 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.920 the problem. Let me see what I can do. She 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.480 went away for about a half hour and came back 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.200 with a big smile. She said, we found a way 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.800 to enroll you, and we'll give you this letter that'll 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.920 fix your visa problem. He was so happy, had three 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.400 more years of college left. 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.240 But this lady wasn't finished. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.200 She said, I have a fund where I'm allowed to 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.720 help students, and I've just gotten permission to award you 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:47.680 a full. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:49.760 Scholarship for your last three years. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.640 Now He's gonna finish it no charge. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.000 Friends, God is a god of surprises. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.480 You may not see how it could work out in 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.880 the natural, well, it may look impossible, but don't ever 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:07.240 rule out the God of surprises. One good break, one 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:11.400 phone call, meeting one right person, and everything will change. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.280 I don't know about you, but I've got my tent 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.880 pitched in the land of hope. I feel an excitement 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.280 in my spirit. God has things in our future that 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.520 we've never even imagined. Some of you are planning ordinary. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.080 God's planning extraordinary. You're thinking, let me just survive this year. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.000 God saying I want you to thrive. Now, you've got 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.800 to get your expectancy up in the scripture, David is 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.000 called a man after God's own heart. He's one of 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.120 the great heroes of faith. What kind of attitude did 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.160 he have? How did he go around each day? He 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.760 said in Psalm twenty three, Surely goodness and mercy will 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.960 follow me all the days of my life. Notice that word. Surely, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.160 he was saying, There's no doubt about it. I am 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:04.160 fully confident about what's following me. Goodness, mercy, favor David's 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.600 attitude in effect, where something good is gonna happen to me. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.240 This is gonna be my year. I know God's gonna 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:10.800 surprise me. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.280 No wonder. David lived a victorious life. No wonder. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.320 He overcame his obstacles. He knew good things were chasing 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.160 him down. Some of you, if you would just change 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.200 what you were expecting, you would see your life go 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.720 to a new level. You're going to draw in what 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.320 you constantly think about. You know what's chasing you down 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:38.640 right now? Not defeat, trouble, sickness, lack, bad breaks. No, No, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.080 You're a child of the most High God. You've been 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.440 crowned with favor. When you look in your rear view mirror, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.240 you better get ready. You got a tailgater, something coming 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:49.840 at you at a high rate of speed. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.400 You know what it is. Blessings, favor, promotion, wisdom. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.240 Health, God has good things in store for each one 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:57.600 of us. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.480 Well, you say, Joe, you're just getting people's hopes up. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:01.480 You're right. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.399 I want you to get your hopes up. You can't 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.680 have faith if you don't first have hope. The day 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.480 you quit being excited about your future is the day 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.720 you quit living. Too many people are going around breathing, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.080 but they're not really alive. They're existing, not really living. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.520 They died at forty five. We didn't bury them till 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:24.359 they were eighty five. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:25.640 What happened? 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.600 They quit dreaming, they quit believing, they quit expecting. I'm 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.640 trying to bring some people back to life today. I'm 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.719 asking you to stir up your dreams, stir up the 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.440 gifts CODs put on the inside. Let me tell you 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.919 you have not seen your best days yet. You have 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.400 not reached your limits. You may have been through some 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.320 bad breaks, had some disappointments, but you would not be 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.040 alive unless God had another. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.280 Victory in your future. Everything you've been. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.159 Through up to now is to get you prepared for 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:05.000 this day. Don't sit around in self pity, defeated, worried. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:06.440 Get your fire back. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.439 You have seeds of greatness on the inside. You have 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.919 something incredible to offer this world. Those dreams may have 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.680 been pushed down by people treating you wrong, by mistakes 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.600 you've made, by failure or rejection, but you know what, 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.760 the dream is still alive. I'm fanning that flame right now. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:26.280 Now. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.600 You got to do your part and let go of 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.240 what didn't work out in the past and go into 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.800 this new year with a greater vision, with a greater expectancy, 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:40.119 excited about your future. I read a story about this lady. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.480 She was losing her house. She'd gotten laid off and 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.720 she couldn't afford the payments, and unfortunately, her home went 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.640 into foreclosure. The bank took it over and was going 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.000 to auction it. Often this lady had already accepted the 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.840 fact that this chapter in her life was through. She 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.800 was doing her best to deal with it down deep heartbroken. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.960 She was a single parent mom. This is where she 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.440 had raised her children. Just to get some kind of closure, 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.800 she decided to go to the auction where the bank 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.760 was selling off homes, including her home. When she saw 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.760 her home up there on the docket to be auctioned off. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.760 She couldn't help but to weep and weep. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.240 A lady across the room saw that she was upset 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.000 and came over and asked her what was wrong, and 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.200 she explained how she was losing her home. This lady 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.040 asked which home it was, and she pointed it out. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.920 When her home came up to be auctioned off, this 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.800 lady her new friend. She started bidding on it and bidding. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.840 She ended up winning the bid, and now she owned 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.920 her home. She turned to the lady and said, I 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.919 came here to buy my son a home, but I 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.000 know now God sent me here to buy your home 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.119 and to give it back to you. She ended her 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:58.720 the papers right there. You don't know what God has 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.800 in your future. You don't know the surprises God has 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.840 in store. It may look like it's over, but the 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.160 good news is God always has the final say. It's 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.600 not over until God says it's over. Some of you 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:18.000 have been standing on promises for a long time, many years, hoping, praying, 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.080 believing that a situation would turn around. What I sense 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:24.840 in my spirit is this is going to be the 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.560 year you see those promises come to pass. Now, you've 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.639 got to do your part and release your faith for 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.800 this year, not someday, not yes, Joel, I know in 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.240 the sweet by and by it's going to happen. No, 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.280 come into the now season. This year is going to 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.920 be a breakthrough year. Get that down in your spirit, 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.119 that child you've been praying about, it's not going to 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:48.320 be another twenty years. 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:49.520 It's going to be this year. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.359 That business, that career that's been stuck. This is the 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.520 year it's going to take off. That addiction you've been 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.439 struggling with. It's not permanent, it's not going to be 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.240 there forever. No, this is the year it's going to go. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.600 Will you let this seed take route? This year, God's 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.480 promises are going to come to pass. Well, you say, Joel, 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.880 I can't just make it happen. No, But when you believe, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.240 when you release your faith, that's what activates God's power. 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.000 You know, the lady in the scripture, she had been 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.840 sick for twelve years, and she fought through the crowd 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:23.520 and she touched. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.800 Jesus and immediately she was well. 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.920 Jesus turned to her and said, daughter, your faith has 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.879 made you whole. Notice God didn't instigate the healing the 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:37.800 lady did. When you believe, when you release your faith, 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.359 when you go into the year with a greater expectancy, 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.240 your faith can do the same thing. Get up every morning, 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:48.200 say Father, thank you that this year I'll break this addiction. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.239 Thank you that this year i'll meet the person of 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:54.320 my dreams. Thank you that this year I'll see my 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:58.359 health turn around. God wants to do something great in 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.680 your life, not twenty years. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:01.640 From now, but this year. 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.800 Now, I've learned one of the enemy's favorite lies is 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.600 the situation is never going to change. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.400 It's been too long, you're too old. It's permanent. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.240 How many times have we all heard I'll never get well, 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:18.879 I'll never get out of debt, I'll never meet the 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:23.639 right person. Don't believe the never lies. Don't believe those 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.479 thoughts that are telling you. If it was going to happen, 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.680 surely it would have happened by now. If God was 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.119 going to turn it around, You've asked him so many times, 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.640 Surely he would have done it by now. Now stand 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:39.040 against the lies that are telling you it's permanent, it's 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.679 never going to change. Now listen, it may not have 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.439 happened in the past, but what I'm saying is it 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.720 can happen this year. God is still on the throne. 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:51.920 He still wants to bring that to pass. It's interesting 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:55.359 in the scripture. Many times when Jesus prayed for people, 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.440 he would ask them how long they had been that way. 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:00.640 He said the man. 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:03.199 At the pool of Bethesda, how long have you been 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:07.320 laden here? The man said thirty eight years. He asked 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:09.480 a woman that has all been over, how long have 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:10.240 you been sick? 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:12.200 She said eighteen years. 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:16.600 These parents brought their grown son to Jesus, who was blinded. 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:19.080 Jesus said, how long has your son been this way? 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:20.879 They said? Since his birth? 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.760 Why was Jesus so interested in the length of time. 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.080 Why didn't he just pray for him, heal um and 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:30.920 move on. It's because he wanted to show us how 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.760 nothing is ever permanent. He wanted it to be forever 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:38.879 recorded so we would always know that it's never too late. 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:42.320 Even if it's been thirty eight years, that's okay. 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:43.680 This can be your year. 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:47.280 Don't write it all, don't give up, just keep believing. 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.199 God is saying to us, I can still bring it 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:54.720 to pass. I can still turn the marriage around. I 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:57.000 can still bring the right person into your life. I 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:01.760 can still cause that property to sell. Stop believing it's 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.199 not over until God says it's over. I met a 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.200 ninety four year old woman in our lobbies after service 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:11.159 a few years ago, and she had just gotten married 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:12.120 to a younger man. 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:13.800 He was eighty eight. 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:18.879 I told her, you should be ashamed of yourself. This 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.399 lady was a breath of fresh air. She looked thirty 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:26.399 years younger than she was. She radiated joy and peace 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.120 and victory. She had a great sense of humor. Her 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.960 mind was still so sharp. She lost her first husband 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:36.280 thirty three years ago. She always had a desire to 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:40.000 get remarried. She said, Joelia almost gave up, but God 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:44.159 came through. At ninety four years old, she was wearing 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:47.639 this real bright, colorful dress, and as I was about 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:49.320 to leave, I gave her a hug and said, you 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:51.880 know what I believe, when I'm ninety four, I'm gonna 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:52.760 look just like you. 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:56.000 She smiled and said, just don't wear the dress. 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:00.640 Friends, this is your year to see promis has come 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:01.159 to pass. 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:04.520 Stir your faith up. God is still on the throne. 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:08.600 He's going to surprise you with his goodness one time 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:11.000 in the Scripture, there had been a drought in the 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:12.679 land for three and a half years. 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:14.720 Was very difficult on the people. 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:17.240 They had to struggle to get water in their food 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:22.040 and supplies. One day, the prophet Elijah said to Ahab, 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:26.840 I hear the sound of the abundance of rain. When 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:30.480 Elijah said this, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:34.160 It was just as clear and hot and dry as 0:25:34.160 --> 0:25:37.720 it had always been, no sign of any rain. Yet 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:42.040 Elijah sensed in his spirit that something was coming. He 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.200 sensed that rain was on the way. He was bold 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:48.000 enough to announce it. I like the way he did. 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:52.840 He said in First Kings eighteen, Ahab, go enjoy a 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:58.040 good meal. I hear a mighty rainstorm coming. Some of 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:00.000 you feel like you've been in drought for a long time. 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:03.520 But just like with Elijah, you know what I hear 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:07.280 in my spirit the sound of abundance. I hear the 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:10.400 sound of things changing in your favor. I hear the 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:14.960 sound of relationships being restored, the sound of breakthroughs in health, 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:20.199 in finances. My message today is very simple, Go enjoy 0:26:20.320 --> 0:26:23.040 a good meal. Twenty eleven is going to be an 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:26.520 awesome year, a year where your see promises come to pass. 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:32.080 A year of no eye has seen, heard or imagined blessings, 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:35.200 a year where things have shifted in your favor. 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:37.760 Friends, God's going to surprise you this year. 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:40.960 It may get darker in the world, but that's okay 0:26:41.200 --> 0:26:43.360 for you and I. God's people is going to get 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:44.320 brighter and brighter. 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:47.760 And Elijah gave Ahab the message. 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:50.119 It was up to Ahab as to what he wanted 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:52.160 to do with it. He could have said, I don't 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:54.760 believe this, Elijah. There's not a cloud in the sky. 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:57.560 In other words, joel I don't think I'm gonna have 0:26:57.600 --> 0:27:01.000 a good year. There's no sign of it. Business is slow, 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:04.080 my health, medical report doesn't look good. 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:05.680 Child's still acting up. 0:27:06.240 --> 0:27:09.320 Ahab could have looked at it in the natural and said, 0:27:09.320 --> 0:27:11.720 I'm not gonna get my hopes up. Elijah doesn't know 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:15.760 what he's talking about. No Ahab dared to believe. He 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:19.600 put actions behind his faith. The next verse says he 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:23.800 went out and prepared a great feast. Don't you know 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:27.080 that took a lot of nerve to prepare a feast 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:32.359 in the midst of the drought. Other people complaining, negative, depressed, bitter. 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:36.720 Here's Ahab over here, celebrating. This is what faith is 0:27:36.800 --> 0:27:39.400 all about. You can't wait to see it. 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:42.880 Then you're going to believe. You have to believe and 0:27:42.920 --> 0:27:43.760 then you'll see it. 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:47.520 I'm asking you to do like ahab, get your hopes up, 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:51.560 start celebrating what God is about to do. In other words, 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:55.399 start acting like twenty eleven is your year. Talking like 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:58.040 it's your year, walking like it's your year, Dressing like 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:02.240 it's your year, thinking like it's your Don't make excuses, 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:04.720 don't come up with all the reasons why this is 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:07.919 not for you. Be a believer and not a doubter. 0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:11.200 Get up every morning and announce it by faith. Father, 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:11.840 I want to. 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:15.040 Thank you that this year is my year. Thank you 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:17.520 that this year you're gonna surprise me. Lord. 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:20.440 Thank you that I'm going to see promises come to pass. Lord, 0:28:20.480 --> 0:28:23.560 thank you that things are shifting in my favor. If 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:25.840 you do that, like the woman that reached out and 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:29.800 touched Jesus, your faith will activate God's power in a 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:33.120 greater way. You won't have an average mediocre get by 0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:36.560 a year, but you'll have a year of abundance, abundance 0:28:36.560 --> 0:28:39.840 of joy, abundance in your hell, abundance in finances. 0:28:40.080 --> 0:28:41.920 I believe in declare it's. 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:44.680 Going to be an exceptional year for you and your 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:48.080 family in Jesus' name. If you receive it, Can you 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:49.480 get the Lord one more shout. 0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:49.960 Of praise today? 0:28:52.120 --> 0:28:54.800 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:57.680 an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:00.720 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Lord Jesus, 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:04.920 I'll repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:09.240 I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:12.120 prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:15.720 Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:18.240 He'll take your places that you've never dreamed of. 0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:22.120 Thank you for listening to the Joelus Deine podcast. Help 0:29:22.200 --> 0:29:24.920 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:28.920 all over the world. Visit Joelustin dot com slash give 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:30.680 Hope to give a gift today. 0:29:31.960 --> 0:29:34.400 Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:37.280 I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:40.800 podcast to keep you inspired all through the week. We're 0:29:40.840 --> 0:29:43.440 praying for you. I know God's best is still ahead. 0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:44.760 We'll see you next time.