Trouble is Transportation

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I like to start 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.480 with something funny, and I heard about this little girl. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.480 She asked her mother how the human race got started. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.200 Her mother explained how God created Adam and Eve, and. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.160 They had children and on and on. Here we are today. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.760 A few days later, she asked her father the same question. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.440 He explained, how many years ago there were a bunch 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.919 of monkeys. Over time, they became more and more like people, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.360 and here we are confused. She went back to her mother, said, Mom, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.440 you said God created people. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.000 Dad said we came from monkeys. How could that be? 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:13.799 She said, oh, honey, it's easy. 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.440 I told you about my side of the family he 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.800 told you about his say it like you mean it. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.119 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.000 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.600 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.360 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.680 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:40.680 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.519 to talk to you today about how trouble is transportation. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.520 We all go through difficulties in life and things that 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.560 we don't understand, and it's easy to get discouraged and 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.440 think why is this happening to me? But God uses 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:01.120 difficulties to move us toward our destiny. Nothing happens by accident. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.920 You may not understand it, but God wouldn't have allowed 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:05.799 it if. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.000 It wasn't going to work to your advantage. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.320 Looking back in my own life, the times I was uncomfortable, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.720 went through a disappointment, somebody did me wrong. It didn't 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:21.000 make sense to me then, but years later I realized 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.119 if that hadn't have happened, I would have never met 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.640 this person. If that door wouldn't have closed, this bigger 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.880 door would have never opened. If those people hadn't have 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.799 done me wrong, I wouldn't have the experience I. 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.440 Need for this new challenge. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.080 Now I can see the whole time God was directed 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.880 my steps. I thought I was going backwards, but he 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.040 was setting me up to go forward. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.440 I didn't like it. I felt like I was stuck. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:54.520 The truth is that trouble was transportation. It was moving 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.520 me into my destiny. You won't become all you were 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.000 created to be without difficulties. You don't grow in the 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.440 good times. You grow in the tough times. Trouble prepares 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.119 you for the next level. Trouble deposits something in you 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.560 that you can't get when it's easy and everything's going 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.799 your way. In the difficult times, your spiritual muscles are developed. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.279 You gain strength, endurance, wisdom. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.360 Every challenge you've been through has deposited something in you. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:33.480 Every relationship that didn't work out, you gained experience, something 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.520 that will help you in the future. The times you failed, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.400 you blew it. They weren't wasted. You gained insight. It 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.000 was all a part of God's plan. Don't complain about 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.200 the trouble. Don't be upset because life dealt you a 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:52.320 tough hand. The reason you have big challenges is because. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.119 You have a big destiny. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.400 Average people have average problems. Ordinary people have ordinary problems. 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.040 Here's the ke You're not average. You're not ordinary. You're 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.599 a child of the most taied God, the creator of 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.000 the universe, breeds his life into you. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.120 He's crowned you with favor. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.080 He put seeds of greatness on the inside. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.960 You're not ordinary, You're extraordinary. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:22.360 Don't be surprised if you face extraordinary challenges. It's because 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.080 you have an extraordinary destiny. God is getting you prepared 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.680 for something greater than you've ever imagined. Think about Moses. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.960 He was born into trouble. It was no fault of 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.120 his own. As a young baby, when he was the 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.800 most vulnerable, he was dealt. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:41.599 An unfair hand. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:46.800 The king ordered all the Hebrew male babies two years 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.480 of age and under to be killed. Looked like Moses 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.560 was done too bad. He was born at the wrong time. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.400 But Moses had a mother who understood this principle. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.920 She believed that trouble could not keep per son from 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.160 his destiny. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.640 She hid baby Moses in a basket and sent him 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:10.200 floating down the Nile River. There were snakes, alligators, all 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.120 kinds of danger. Moses could have tumped over and drowned. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.080 He could have starved to death, could have been eaten 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.200 by wild animals. There were a thousand things that could 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:24.520 have gone wrong. But that trouble wasn't a surprise to God. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:30.320 The king issuing that death decree did not stop Moses's purpose. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.520 God has the final say, people, don't determine your destiny. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.520 God does it. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:41.960 Just so happened Fro's daughter, this princess, decided to go 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.920 down to the river and take a bath. She saw 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.240 that basket floating toward her. She could hear the cries 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:49.720 coming from the inside. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.080 She opened it up. There was baby Moses. It was 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:54.400 love at first sight. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.320 She picked him up and said, I'm going to take 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.719 this baby as my own. She raised me Moses in 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.560 the palace. Now, God could have stopped the trouble. He 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.960 could have caused the king to change his mind and 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.440 not issue the decree that would have spared Moses' life. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.560 But God used the trouble to get Moses to where 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:18.120 he wanted him to be. Moses would have never learned 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.600 what he needed for his destiny. Being raised in that 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.920 limited environment in Pharaoh's house in the palace, Moses learned 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:31.240 about leadership, business, how to conduct meetings, how to speak 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.720 to people. The Egyptians were known for their superior education 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.480 and ingenuity. But at the time, I'm sure Moses and 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.440 his mother couldn't understand. It seemed like a setback, having 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.960 to put your baby in the river. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.760 But years later, when. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.840 God told Moses to tell the Pharaoh, let the people go. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.480 The reason Moses could go in there with authority, with 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:01.840 his shoulders back is because he had been raised in royalty. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.520 He understood protocol. He wasn't overwhelmed intimidated. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.040 He grew up in that kind of environment. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.480 What God him prepared for it the trouble, being born 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.760 into dysfunction, having the odds against him. If the king 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.480 had never issued that decree, Moses would have never become 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.000 all he was created to be. You may not like 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.960 the trouble. You're uncomfortable. It's not fair, But God knows 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.560 what he's doing. That trouble is transportation, like Moses, it's 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.160 taking you to the next level. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.760 It's getting you prepared. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.640 You wouldn't be who you are today without the things 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.640 you've been through. The scripture says God didn't take the 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:49.280 Israelites the shortest route to the Promised Land. Because they 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.880 weren't prepared for war. God had to toughen them up 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.960 and get them ready. Don't complain about the trouble. It's 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.680 not hindering you. It's preparing you. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.000 It's not going to defeat you. It's going to promote you. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.720 And you may not see how your situation could work out, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.959 but God has a plan. It's already lined up the 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:14.199 right people, the breaks you need. Like Moses, he has 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.800 a pharaoh's daughter that will be there. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.160 To help you. 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.240 And you trust God when everything is good. Why don't 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.240 you trust him in the trouble. Why don't you believe 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.120 that even when you don't understand it, he's directing your steps. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.640 You don't have to live frustrated because you had a 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.760 bad break. That trouble means you're headed somewhere. You're on 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.040 the way to your destiny. If you'll stay in faith, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.440 you'll see God begin to connect the dots. You'll see 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.600 there was a reason that door closed, a reason that 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.640 person walked away, a reason it didn't happen the way 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:50.520 you had planned. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.400 Because God had something better in store. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.840 He was using that trouble to move you into your 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.520 divine destiny. I heard about a young man that grew 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.720 up in Detroit. His parents immigrated to the United States 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.760 from the small country of Macedonia. This young man loved 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.680 to play baseball. His dream was to one day play 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.360 for the Detroit Tigers. All through high school, he was 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.480 an excellent player, very talented. He went away and served 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.120 in the military. When he came back in nineteen fifty two, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.600 the Tigers offered him a four year contract to play 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.079 in their minor leagues. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:31.800 He was so thrilled. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.280 He worked hard, kept getting better and better, believing that 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:36.920 he would make. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.040 It up to the big leagues. 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.360 But three years in his baseball career, he had a 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.320 major knee injury and. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.720 Was forced to stop playing. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.840 So disappointed, everything he had worked so hard for suddenly 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.880 came to an end. He had to move back home 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.520 in with his parents. His father had already told him 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.520 he would never make it play in baseball. He couldn't 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.440 live at home unless he got a job and helped 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.480 to pay the rent. This young man had a friend 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.680 that owned a restaurant. He asked him if he could 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:10.680 come work for him. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.680 Why he looked for a job, He said, you don't 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:14.719 even have to pay me. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.520 I just need to be somewhere during the day so 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.080 my father knows that I'm working. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:21.840 His friend said, we don't. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.200 Have any positions available, but if you want to go 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.559 in the back and help them make pizzas, you can 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:31.480 do that. He started working for free making pizzas. He 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.640 was very good at making those pizzas, so good that 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.760 he started his own pizza restaurant. 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.640 It was very successful. People loved it, so he opened 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.920 up another one, and another and another. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.960 Today, almost all of us have had a pizza from 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:54.160 Little Caesar's Pizza, the restaurant that he started. Yes, that 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.800 knee injury was a bad break. Yes it was a disappointment, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.520 but it wasn't the end. It was transportation. It moved 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.440 him toward his destiny. Joel, something like that would never 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.800 happen to me. How do you know your story is 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:14.000 not over? God is not finished with you. The setback, 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.000 the disappointment, the loss, the divorce, That is not your 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.240 final chapter. You do like this man and keep being 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.400 your best, keep believing, keep honoring God. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:28.120 That trouble won't stop you. It will become transportation. It 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.160 will move you toward the new thing. God has in store. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.040 This man's dream of playing for the Detroit Tigers never 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.400 came to pass. But do you know today he owns 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.240 the Detroit Tigers. It didn't happen his way, but God 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.280 had a better way. What you're dreaming about may be 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.160 too small, That door may have closed because God has something. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.440 Bigger for you. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.080 You're working at that company. One day, You're going to 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.640 own your own company. You're believing to manage the addiction. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.880 God is going to free you from the addiction. You'll 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.640 content to be single the rest of your life. God's 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.640 going to bring somebody better than you ever imagine. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.559 Don't be discouraged by the trouble. It's not the end. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.360 You trust God when everything's going your way. I'm asking 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.520 you to trust Him in the trouble when you don't 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.920 understand it, when you're uncomfortable. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.400 Dare to believe that he's in control, that he. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.559 Knows what's best, that your steps and your stops are 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.000 ordered by the Lord. It's a powerful attitude to say, 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.720 God feels like I'm going the wrong direction, but I 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.920 trust you God. It's not working the way I thought, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.480 But God, I still trust you. See a lot of 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.839 times we're trying to pray away the trouble, pray away 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.240 the difficulties, pray away the bad breaks. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:50.160 Here's the key. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:56.800 You're anointed not from trouble, You're anointed for trouble. The 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.000 scripture says God is a present help in trouble. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.120 It's not going to stop. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.280 Every disappointment, every bad break, but he will give you 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.360 the grace, the strength, the power to go through it 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.160 with a good attitude. So all maybe nine says I 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.679 have anointed David. I will steady him and make him strong. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.160 His enemies won't get the best of him. I will 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.640 push down his adversaries and defeat his haters. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.320 He will rise to power because of me. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.760 Doesn't say I will anoint him so he doesn't have problems, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.920 so he doesn't have opposition. It says I'm anointing him 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.720 for the trouble, for the sickness, for the legal battle. 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.160 Now quit telling yourself, I can't take this, it's too 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.800 much for me. You are anointed for that difficulty right now, 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:51.040 just like David, God is steadying you and making you strong. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.600 You don't have to fight those battles, live stressed out. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.200 God said he would push down your adversaries. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:59.960 He would defeat your enemy. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.000 That sickness, that legal problem, that trouble at work is 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.880 not going to get the best of you. Why you're 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.640 anointed for trouble. I'm looking at powerful people, determined people, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.200 favored people, anointed people. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.840 The most High. God says you will rise to power. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:23.040 That means you will see increase, promotion, breakthroughs, healing. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:28.000 You may be in trouble, now, don't worry. It's just transportation. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.080 It's taken you to the next level. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.160 You're about to see God begin to connect the dots 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.960 in your life, things that haven't made sense. You're going 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.920 to see how God works it all out for your good. 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.200 A couple of years after Victoria and I were married, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.800 we sold our house and moved into a different place. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.080 Three months later, there was a knock on my front door. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.400 I answered it. A police officer was standing there. He 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.880 handed me an envelope and kind of laughed, saying, somebody 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.200 must really not like thank you. The people that bought 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.120 our house were suing us over the plumbing. They sued 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.080 the builder, the architect, the realtor, the plumber, about a 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:10.600 dozen of us, and. 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.080 We knew we weren't at fault. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.320 We hadn't done anything wrong, but I was twenty five 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.960 years old and never dreamed. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.000 I would be in a lawsuit. I didn't like it. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.840 I had to go downtown and give my deposition. I 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.440 was so worried, so nervous. Afterwards, I couldn't drive home. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.840 I was very nauseated. Somebody had to come pick me up. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.040 Several months later, everything was thrown out, we were all cleared. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.200 It seemed like that whole ordeal, having to go testify 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.040 and go through that long drawn out process was such 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.160 a waste of time and energy. I couldn't see how 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.640 any good would ever come out of that. But sixteen 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:56.120 years later, when we acquired this place, the former Compact Center, 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.480 a company filed a lawsuit to try to keep us 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.040 from moving. Then this time, when I went to give 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.879 my deposition, I wasn't the least bit worried. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.760 I knew exactly what to expect. I was strong, I 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:10.560 was confident. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.880 I realize now the reason God allowed that lawsuit over 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.639 my plumbing that didn't matter, is because he knew sixteen 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.040 years later there would be a lawsuit that did matter 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.000 that would affect my destiny. 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:27.760 So he was getting me prepared. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.280 I couldn't see it at the time, but now I 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:36.400 realized that trouble was transportation. Instead of getting upset when 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.560 things don't go your way, why. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.840 Don't you believe that God knows what he's doing? 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.679 Instead of complaining, God, why is this happening to me? No, God, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.200 I know you have me in the palm of your hand. God, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.320 I know you're directing my steps. I may not understand it, 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.600 but God, I trust you. This is what Joseph did 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.359 as a teenager. God gave him a dream that he 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:02.200 would lead a nation along the way. One bad thing 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.680 after another happened to him. He was thrown into a pit, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.640 sold into slavery, falsely accused, put in prison. He went 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.080 through years of doing the right thing with the wrong 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.639 thing happening. Didn't look like it would ever work out. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.800 But Joseph understood this principle that as long as he 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.200 kept being his best, that trouble could not stop him. 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.520 It was moving him toward his destiny. When you study 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:33.479 his life, you'll see how God connected the dots. Every 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.119 step was strategically orchestrated. If you left one out, the 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.520 other wouldn't work. If his brothers hadn't have thrown him 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.639 into the pit. He would have never been sold into 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.400 slavery to a man named Potterfar. If he hadn't been 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.800 sold to Potterphar, he would have never met Potterphar's wife, 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.919 who falsely accused him and had him put in prison. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.720 If he hadn't been in prison, he would have never 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.760 met the butler and the baker and told them how 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.120 he could interpret dreams. If it had never told them that, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.840 the Pharaoh would have never called him up to interpret 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.879 his dream and eventually put him in charge of the 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:14.440 nation of Egypt. All those steps along the way, if 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.480 you isolate them, just looks like a bad break. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.360 It doesn't make sense. But you have to believe, like Joseph, 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:22.760 what looks like a. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.960 Disappointment, a betrayal, a setback is all a part of 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:31.439 God's plan. It's transportation. It's moving you, little by little 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.840 into your destiny. God knows what he's doing. God knew 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.760 he would need someone in leadership in Egypt to show 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:44.240 favor to the Israelites, so years earlier he started the 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.400 plan of putting Joseph in place. It looked like trouble. 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.080 Really it was the hand of God. Joseph's brothers took his. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:54.520 Coat of many colors. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.040 They took his coat of favor, but they could not 0:19:58.240 --> 0:19:59.879 take the calling. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:00.000 On his life. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:00.280 Life. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.440 What people take from you cannot stop your purpose. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.960 What's on the inside is more. 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.000 Powerful than anything on the outside. 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.640 You keep doing the right thing, despite the problem, despite 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.679 the trouble, despite the betrayal, and one day you'll see, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.320 like Joseph, God will begin to connect the dots. God 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.000 will take you to your throne, so to speak. You'll say, 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.760 like he did, they meant it from a harm. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.680 But God's used the trouble for my good. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:33.600 The scripture says God will deliver us from trouble, and 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.879 that means, of course, that God will stop the trouble. 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.600 But another way to see it is like the post 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.800 office delivers a package. It may start in New York. 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.560 They deliver it to California. Deliver means they transport it. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.840 They move it from one location to the other. That 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.359 package may have to go through five different stops along 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.600 the way. The regional post office sends it to the 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.280 city post office. They send it to the neighbor hood 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.240 post office. The mailman brings it to your house. It 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.639 was delivered in the same way. Right now, God is 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.360 delivering you from trouble. 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.679 You're en route. The process has started. There may be 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.479 a few stops along the way. Don't worry. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.960 You're not delivered yet. Like Joseph, you may be in 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.000 the pit in the prison, but the. 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.200 Palace is coming. You're in debt. 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:28.119 God is delivering you into abundance. You're dealing with depression. 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:32.000 God's delivering you into joy. You're fighting that sickness. He's 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:36.240 delivering you into health and wholeness. When the thoughts tell you, Ah, 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.560 this trouble's permanent, it's never going to change, just answer back. 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.560 Now, I'm being delivered. I'm en route. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.959 I know this trouble is temporary. It's just a stop 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:50.160 along the way. I met a young lady. She grew 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:54.480 up very healthy, active and energetic, but at the age 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.320 of eleven, she had a pain in her side that 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:58.800 wouldn't go her way. 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:00.160 The doctors took out. 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.960 Her appendix, but that didn't help. Her health continued to 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:09.000 go downhill quickly. She lost thirty pounds in just three weeks. 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.879 The doctors were baffled. They couldn't figure out what was wrong. 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:17.720 Her legs stopped working, she lost movement in her arms, 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.480 and hands, She couldn't swallow her food. When she went 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.480 to speak, her words were not there. She described it 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.200 like somebody was shutting off the circuits that controlled her 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:33.080 mind in her body. She ended up in a vegetative 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:37.560 state in the hospital, not able to move, open her eyes, 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:39.520 communicate in any way. 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:40.720 She was gone. 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:46.480 The doctors finally diagnosed her with a rare autoimmune disorder 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:51.000 that caused swelling on her brain and spinal cord. They 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.600 told her parents that she would be a vegetable the rest. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:55.280 Of her life. 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:57.959 There was a good chance she would not live that long. 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:03.080 Her family, against all odds, believed that God was in control, 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.960 that he could restore health back into her. Her brothers, 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:11.119 her parents, they would hold conversations with her, talk to 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.880 her like she was still there. Month after month went by, 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:20.360 no sign of anything changing. Two years later, on the inside, 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:24.679 this young lady woke up. She still couldn't move, couldn't 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:27.880 open her eyes, didn't look like anything had changed. 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.080 But now she was aware of everything. 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:34.640 That was going on. She was trapped in her own body. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.280 She couldn't tell anyone that she was there. 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.960 She heard the doctors telling her parents that she was gone. 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:45.000 No chance of recovery. She heard her mother telling her 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:47.840 that she loved her. She was going to make it. 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:52.240 Every Sunday in the hospital, her mother would turn our 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:56.240 Services on on the television. This young lady would hear 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:59.520 us talking about how God is a healer, how. 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:01.400 He can do what medicine cannot do. 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.960 All through the day, laying in the bed paralyzed, not 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:10.080 able to move. Instead of feeling sorry for herself, in 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.800 her mind, she would say, I'm a victor and not 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:14.919 a victim. 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:16.360 Thoughts would tell. 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:19.879 Her, you're trapped, You'll never get out. She would answer back, no, 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:23.560 my time is coming. This is not how my story ends. 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:27.680 She prayed that God would give her family a sign 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:29.160 that she was still in there. 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:32.160 Three years later, she was. 0:24:32.160 --> 0:24:35.240 Able to open her eyes. She still couldn't move in 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:38.440 any way. Her mother asked her, if you're still in there, 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:41.480 if you can understand me, blink once for yes. 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:44.480 She blinked, and they knew she was still there. 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:48.840 That was the start of a long journey back. She 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:51.919 learned how to talk again, how to swallow again, how 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:56.480 to move again. September of twenty ten, four years after 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:59.240 she had become sick, she went back to school. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:04.760 Everything woke up except her legs. She was paralyzed from 0:25:04.800 --> 0:25:07.879 the waist down. She was happy to be in a wheelchair. 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:12.680 She was grateful to be alive, but she was not satisfied. 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:15.560 She knew what God started he. 0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:16.400 Was going to finish. 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:19.800 The doctors told her there was no chance of her 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:20.760 walking again. 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:24.280 But through prayer, through faith, hard work. 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:28.240 And training this March, just a few months ago, she 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:31.679 defied the odds and took her first steps. She no 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.800 longer needs the wheelchair, no more crutches. 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:37.879 She can walk like nothing was ever wrong. 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:42.560 Today, at twenty one years of age, she's one of 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:47.439 ESPN's youngest on air personalities. She's an actress, a model, 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:48.720 a motivational speaker. 0:25:48.840 --> 0:25:51.440 She's with us on the front road. That's Miss Victoria. 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:55.560 R Len call Victoria, stand up, let him say us 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:57.280 song Beautiful y'all. 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:00.000 She's an amazing woman. 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:05.639 Victoria told me I wouldn't choose what happened to me, 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.880 but I wouldn't change it. It was meant to defeat her, 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:14.800 Instead it promoted her. What am I saying? Your trouble 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:20.320 is transportation. You may feel today like you're trapped, trapped 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:25.440 in negative circumstances, tracked in addictions, trapped in depression, doesn't 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:27.840 feel like anybody can hear you. You don't see how 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:30.800 you could get out. But like Victoria, that is not 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:34.000 how your story ends. The same God that brought her 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:36.320 out is going to bring you out now. 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.679 I believe today some dreams are waking up. Hope is 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:44.119 waking up, healing's waken up, Abundance is waking up. That 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:47.560 trouble is not going to stop you. It's going to 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:49.880 push you into a level. 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:53.600 Of your destiny you would have never experienced without it. 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:56.920 You may not choose what you've been through, but when 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:59.960 you see how God pays you back the new door, 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:03.200 or he opens, how he uses it to your advantage, 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:06.600 you'll say, like her, I wouldn't change it. Friends, you 0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:10.560 are anointed for that trouble. It may look like a setback, 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:12.560 but really it is a set up. 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:14.280 For God to do something greater. 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:18.880 If you will trust God into trouble, I believe and declare, 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:22.920 like Victoria, your trouble is going to become transportation. 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:26.040 God is going to open new doors, turn. 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:29.439 Impossible situations around, and take you to the fullness of 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:31.680 your destiny in Jesus' name. 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:33.960 If you receive it, can you say it? Man? 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:38.240 Today, I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.560 Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:46.280 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:51.520 Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:55.400 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:58.439 born again, get in a good Bible based church, and 0:27:58.520 --> 0:27:59.919 keep God first place. 0:28:00.440 --> 0:28:02.399 Victoria and I will be right back to speak a 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:03.400 blessing over you. 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:08.280 As a thank you for your support of our ministry. 0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:10.960 This month, Joel and Victoria would like to send you 0:28:11.000 --> 0:28:14.399 a copy of Joel's new series Better Than Ever. Living 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:19.280 a hope filled life. In this new three part series, 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:23.080 Joe Lostein inspires you to discover more of God's goodness, 0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:25.920 more of his blessings, and to live out the better 0:28:25.960 --> 0:28:29.760 than Ever destiny he has for you. Your future will 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:33.119 be better than your past. 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