Uncommon Favor

0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.600 Hi, this is Jolan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.600 to the podcast and thanks for. 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.160 Supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.480 An awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive and favor filled. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.159 God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.160 So great to be with you today, and I hope 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.520 you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.520 daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:26.759 come visit us in person. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:28.760 We'd love to have you be a part of one 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:29.720 of our services. 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.199 Now, I let you start with something funny, and I 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.360 heard about this country grandmother. She'd go out on her 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.040 porch every morning and thank the Lord for another day. Well, 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.160 her neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back, there's 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.239 no such thing as the Lord. One day he overheard 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.640 her asking God to give her groceries for the week. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.879 He snuck out early the next morning put some groceries 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.360 on her front porch. She came out and said, thank you, Lord, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.440 you did it again. He laughed and laughs at God 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.680 didn't do that. I put the groceries there. She said, Lord, 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.200 thank you. Thank you not only since the groceries, but 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:07.080 you made the devil pay for them, said, like you 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.240 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.760 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.039 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.600 I will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.559 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.600 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.240 I want to talk to you today about uncommon favor. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.960 We all have dreams that seem. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.880 Too big to accomplish, and challenge is that we can't 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.280 overcome by ourselves. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.080 We look at things in. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:46.760 The natural, logically speaking, and reason it out, and sometimes 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:47.960 there's no answer. 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.080 It's easy to get discouraged. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.680 But what God is going to do in your life 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.880 cannot be calculated. You can't plan it, you can't rationalize it. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:58.600 It's going to be. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.800 Uncommon, out of the ordinary, something that you've never seen, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.920 and on purpose, God will put you in situations that 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.639 are over your head. The good news is He's already 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.120 lined up the uncommon favor where doors open you couldn't open, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:22.000 uncommon promotion where opportunity tracks you down, uncommon protection where 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.880 he shields you from evil, and uncommon freedom where He 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.520 delivers you from generational limitations. Where God has taken you 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.480 cannot be reached by just ordinary means. And yes, we 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.520 have to pray, believe, use our gifts, but you can't 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.560 fulfill your destiny with just the common. If you're only 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.919 looking at things in the natural and trying to figure 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.040 it out, you're. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.000 Going to get discouraged. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.160 What you can't see is the uncommon favor this coming. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.400 Paul said this in Corinthians. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.600 You haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.640 store for those that love the Lord. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.800 That's talking about uncommon favor. You haven't seen it yet. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.320 You haven't heard it. You haven't even imagined it. When 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.280 you look at your situations. There may be no way 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.960 in the natural that is going to work out, no 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.680 way you could get well, no way that child will 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.600 get back on course, no way that. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.160 You could lead your department. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.560 That all may be true, there's no logical way. But 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.480 what you can't see is what God has stored up. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:32.160 You haven't seen, heard, or imagined it. There's uncommon favor coming, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:37.840 something unusual out of the ordinary. You couldn't plan it, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:42.360 wasn't in your logic. We think natural, but God is supernatural. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.640 There are things stored up for you right now. When 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.040 God releases it's gonna boggle your mind. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:55.800 Blessings that have your name on it, healing, divine connections, businesses, books, movies, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.200 things you never saw coming, wasn't on your radar to 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.839 be unusual, out of the ordinary, something that you've never 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.160 imagined see. Ordinary favor is when you get the promotion 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:09.000 you deserved. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.880 You were tard, you were faithful, you're next in line. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.120 But uncommon favor is when God cat'll puts you ahead. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.440 He gives you a position that you didn't see coming. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.240 You weren't qualified, you didn't have the experience, but suddenly 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.400 you're at a level you never dream. Ordinary favor is 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.559 when you pay your house off after thirty years. God 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:37.680 sustains you, provides and we're grateful. But uncommon favor is 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.479 when you come into explosive blessings abundance that you never 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.000 saw coming. You pay it off in a fraction of 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.720 the time. Ordinary favor is when you're able to deal 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.640 with the sickness and handle the addictions, learn to live 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:56.039 with it. Uncommon favor is when God sets you free, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.640 turns your health around, defies the odds, and yes, we're 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.720 thankful for ordinary favor God's sustaining us. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.360 We don't take that for granted. But I want you 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:07.400 to get ready. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:12.200 For uncommon favor God's about to show out in your life. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:17.360 You're coming into a year of uncommon promotions, opportunities chasing 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:22.359 you down, uncommon influence, new levels of leadership and respects, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:30.840 uncommon wisdom, ideas, creativity that you've never had, uncommon healing, vitality, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.839 and strength like when you were young. So forty says, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.880 God has given me a new song to sing. Many 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.880 will see what he has done and be astounded. God 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.240 is going to do some new things in your life, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:46.960 not what you've seen in the past. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.719 It's going to be unusual. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.080 Where you're not only astounded, but people around you are. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.119 Going to be astounded. Kind of thing. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.599 How'd you accomplish that dream, How'd you beat that cancer? 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.320 How'd your child get back course? How did you pay 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.159 their house off? 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:03.640 It's the most. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:08.000 High God releasing uncommon favor what you haven't seen, heard, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.880 or imagined. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.000 We see this all through the scripture. When Jesus told 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.640 Peter to go back into the water. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.760 And throw out his nets, he caught so many fish 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.160 that the nets begin to break. The scripture says they 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.839 were awe struck at the size of their catch. What 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.080 made it even more amazing is there were no fish 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.360 there a few hours earlier. Peter had fished all night. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.320 He knew when to fish and where to fish. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.320 This wasn't the right time. They were too close to 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.440 the sword. None of the circumstances were favorable. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.200 But God doesn't need your circumstances to be favorable to 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.840 do something amazing in your life. God controls the fish, 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.760 He controls finances, He controls health, relationships, what doors are 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:00.480 going to open. He's not limited because odds are against you. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.920 You don't have the connections. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.039 God will bring someone better than you can imagine. You 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.240 don't have the funds. God owns it all. He's not 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.760 having a down year. He told the disciples to go 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.120 to the lake, and the first fish they caught had 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.760 a coin in it, enough to pay all their taxes. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.480 God was showing us that He's going to do things 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.960 unusual ways, ways you can't calculate, you can't plan, doesn't 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.720 fit into our logic. It's going to be supernatural, something 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.080 that leaves your awestruck. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.960 Uncommon favor one time. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.080 Peter was in prison for sharing his faith, and a 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.920 group of believers gathered at a house to pray for him. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.440 The king had just had the disciple James put to death, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.840 and now it looked like Peter was next in line. 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.360 They'd been praying all night and asking God to do 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.000 a miracle, and an angel showed up in the. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.360 Prison, woke Peter up, and the doors opened of. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.800 Their own accord, and Peter walked out of free man 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.840 was the middle of the night, so he went to 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.080 the house where they're all. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.560 Praying and knocked on the door. A young woman answered it. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.400 When she saw Peter, she nearly passed out. She was 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.120 so amazed she didn't open the door. She ran back 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.200 and told everyone it was Peter. They said, no way, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:18.080 can't be Peter. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:18.880 He's in jail. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.120 Must be an angel the whole time Peter's out there 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.400 knocking on the door. The scripture says when they finally 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.520 opened it, they were astonished to see Peter. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.439 They stood there in awe. They thought God would do 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.680 it in ordinary way. They were praying that God would. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.920 Change the King's mind, give Peter mercy at the trial, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.680 watch over him in the prison. They never imagined that 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.880 God would deliver him that night, that an angel would 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.960 show up and open the doors. They couldn't plan that. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.200 Logically speaking, this would never happen. But God is not 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:58.640 always logical. His ways are not our ways. Ordinary favor 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.599 would have brought him through the trial, giving him good attorneys, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.199 maybe he'll get probation, maybe he'll be released. But where 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.360 God is taking you, and the calling he has on 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.720 your life is going to take more than just normal 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:18.640 good breaks, average promotion, ordinary protection, is going to take 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.480 uncommon favor. He's going to open doors that leave your austruts, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.360 turn situations around that cause you to be astonished, take 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.920 your places where you're standing awe, How did this happen? 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.079 Those are some of the things that God has stored 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.160 up for you that you haven't. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.160 Seen, heard, or imagined. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.960 You may be facing challenges now and you don't see 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.199 how they could work out all your planning, reasoning what 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.280 the experts say there are no good options. What you 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.319 can't see is the uncommon favor that God is about 0:09:55.360 --> 0:10:00.280 to release, uncommon healing, God doing what medicine can do, 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:09.439 uncommon breakthroughs, problems that look permanent suddenly turning around, uncommon opportunities, contracts, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.679 businesses that takes your family to a new level. Well, Joe, 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.480 you're just trying to get people's hopes up. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.360 You can't have faith if you don't first have hope. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.080 What if I believe this and nothing happens? What if 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:23.640 you believe in it does happen? 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:29.240 If you don't believe, you go around negative doubting, joll 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.640 My problems are too big. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.080 I think I've reached my limits. You're probably going to 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:34.680 get stuck. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.800 You have to give God something to work with. Faith 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.800 is what gets his attention. Dare to say, God, show 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.600 out in my life this year, do something uncommon, out 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.280 of the ordinary, that leaves me astounded, astonished, in awe 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.600 of your goodness. I know a man that has a 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.480 home for men that are in tough times, and he 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.000 takes informer inmates from the prison. He has several hundred 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.680 men living on his property and feeds them, clothes them, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:05.959 helps them to find jobs. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.880 One Saturday, his main cook came in and said, we've 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.800 run out of food. We have nothing to cook today. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.920 And they were down on funds and didn't have any 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.720 way to buy something. And this man told the cook 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.280 not to worry that the Lord would provide. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.760 They're just a few hours away from dinner. He didn't 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:25.320 know what to do. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.080 He said, God, this ministry is in your hands, and 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.520 you said you supply all of our needs. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:32.840 So God, I'm. 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.760 Asking her to make a way, even though I don't 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.040 see a way. A couple hours later, he got a 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.560 phone call from the sheriff. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:40.880 He works with. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.559 Local law enforcement on different projects, and the sheriff said, 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.560 there's an eighteen wheeler this turned over on the freeway. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.400 Can you bring some of your men to help us 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:50.960 clean up. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.360 They got there and there were tens of thousands of 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.120 potatoes all over the freeway. The sheriff said, you pick 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.200 them up, and they're all yours. They had potatoes for 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:07.920 two years. God has unusual, uncommon ways to meet your needs. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.640 But that man thought that surely God would send someone 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.800 to give a gift so he could buy the food, 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.800 or maybe the grocery store have leftover supplies, maybe a 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.480 restaurant would call. But God is going to do things 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.200 out of the ordinary. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.679 Things you can't calculate. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.480 The reason we get discouraged is we're trying to figure 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.840 out how God's going to do it. We don't see 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.679 a way joga. Medical reports not good. And here's how 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:35.440 much I make. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.920 If I save up for four hundred and twenty years, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.480 I'll still be in debt. Can I encourage you? God 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.680 has something coming that you can't see. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:49.560 Uncommon favor is favor that leaves you astonished, awe struck, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.600 something you never imagine. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.240 And the beauty is. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:58.640 You don't have to make this happen, Strive, manipulate. That's 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.640 going to cause you to get frustrated where you at. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.360 Leave it in God's hands. He's already lined up your 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:11.439 Uncommon moments. Uncommon favor, A tatoes on a highway, uncommon, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:16.760 increase coins in the fish's mouth, uncommon opportunity, having church 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.400 in a former basketball arena, uncommon healing. My mother's still 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.120 alive forty four years after being diagnosed. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:25.640 With terminal cancer. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.679 God has things that are out of the ordinary that 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:31.559 you can't plan. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.040 Blessings you haven't seen, heard, or imagine. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.360 Ax seven says that God gave Joseph unusual wisdom. He 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.920 had an incredible mind for business and entrepreneurship. He was 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:49.080 skilled in leadership and economics and finances, so much so 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.760 that the Pharaoh put him in charge of all the 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:52.840 affairs of Egypt. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.040 I declare that God is. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:14:00.520 Going to give you unusual wisdom, uncommon understand you knew it. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.560 Then ideas creativity that will cause you to stand out, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.480 to be a leader in your field, to make a 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.400 difference for the kingdom. You have seeds of greatness on 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:15.280 the inside. God didn't create you to be average, but 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:20.320 to be outstanding. The scripture says God gave Mary uncommon 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:25.240 favor to conceive and give birth to the Messiah. Mary 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.040 could have never planned that no one had ever had 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.240 a baby without a man. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:30.520 That wasn't possible. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.200 But when God puts a dream in your heart, he 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.840 will give you the favor you need to bring it 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:37.400 to pass. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.120 And sure there will be times that what. 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.800 You're facing looks impossible. There's no way in the natural, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.280 nothing more you can do. That's when God will step 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:52.400 in with uncommon favor, something you couldn't plan, talent that 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.960 you didn't know you had, a door supernaturally opens, or 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.280 the right person tracks you down. Now quit worrying about 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.520 how it's gonna happen and losing sleep over what you 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.600 don't have, how the odds are against you. One touch 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:12.160 of God's favor will turn any situation around. The reason 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.240 it looks impossible is. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.600 Because what God has coming is uncommon. You haven't seen 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:19.720 this favor before. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.440 It's out of the ordinary. It's gonna catapult you Ahead. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:29.040 Acts nineteen says God did unusual miracles in the life 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.040 of Paul. Seems like every miracle is amazing, but how 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:38.440 about unusual miracles. It's significant that this happened in Paul's life. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.960 You remember, Paul started off as a man named Saul. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.320 He hated believers. He was the biggest threat to the church. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.520 He went around arresting Christians and having them put in prison. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.480 You would think if anyone was too far gone, it 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:54.320 would have been Paul. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.520 But God has uncommon mercies. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.160 People that we would write all think they're too far 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.240 off course, too wild, too dishonest. God never gives up 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.960 on us that relative you think is too lost, too sarcastic, 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:15.160 too addicted. You don't know what God has coming uncommon favor. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.720 Now they don't deserve it. They chose to go down 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:19.520 the wrong path. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.600 But the scripture says, God, who is rich in mercy, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.040 could have said he's rich in possessions. He owns it 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.280 all or rich in knowledge, he knows everything, rich in power, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:32.840 he controls the universe. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.560 But it describes him as rich in mercies. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.400 While Saul was breathing out threats against the Church, a 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.240 bright light shine down from heaven knocked him off his animal, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:46.880 and that moment. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.360 He was supernaturally converted. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.320 He became the apostle Paul that wrote almost half of 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.880 the New Testament. The scripture calls this an unusual miracle. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.360 Anyone that knew Saul back then could have never calculated this, 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.480 never reasoned it out. No sign he was going to change. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.200 But God, who is rich in mercy. Maybe you feel 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.920 kind of like Saul. You're not where you should be 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:13.479 in life. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.440 You think you've made too many mistakes. No, the mercy 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.280 of God is bigger than anything you've done. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.920 He's calling out to you today, saying, come home, get 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:25.840 back on course. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.640 We need you in the family. We are better together. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:34.560 You have something that makes us stronger. Or perhaps you 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:35.320 have a loved one. 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.000 This off course and doesn't seem like they'll ever get 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:38.800 back on track. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:40.400 No, they may. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.920 Run, but like with Saul, they cannot hide. Isaiah said, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.800 the arm of the Lord is not too short that 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.600 it cannot save. God is going to reach down in 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:56.640 his uncommon favor and rescue your child, protect your loved one, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.000 and bring them into their purpose. As for you and your. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.560 You will serve the Lord. A man called our. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.840 Serious XM program, and he'd been addicted to drugs for 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:11.320 many years. He'd gone to rehab fifteen times with no 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.440 lasting success, and it's very down on himself. 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:17.879 One Sunday morning, he went to the house where he 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:19.120 would buy his drugs. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.080 The granddaughter lived in the back room and she had 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.960 all this supply. He knocked on the door and the 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.359 grandmother was in the front room on the couch. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.280 She was bedridden, not able to move, and she was 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.119 watching our services on television. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.440 She didn't know anything about what her granddaughter was doing 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.840 in the back and she greeted the man and asked 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:39.600 how he was doing. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.800 He said fine and just being polite. He asked how 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:44.440 she was doing. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.360 She said, I'm doing great now that Joel's on television. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.720 Would just sit down and watch with me. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.919 He kind of felt obligated, like he had to his 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.919 in her house. He sat there, never watched any kind 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.760 of religious program. I was talking that day about the 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.720 God who stoops how he reaches down and lifts us 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.080 out of the pit, and how you're never too far 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:08.639 gone for the mercy of God. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.200 Now, as he sat there that day, he began to weep. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.320 He felt a love, a peace. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.320 Of freedom that he had never felt before. It was 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.680 like chains were being broken off of him. He never 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.880 did go back to the room to get the drugs. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.720 He left that day a changed man. That was over 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:27.640 five years ago. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:33.000 Now he's a recovery coach helping other people get clean. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.120 He could have never planned that I'm gonna walk into 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.200 a house to purchase by drugs and sit and watch 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.200 this good look and preach you on television. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:44.560 Have change broken off of me. 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:49.840 That's uncommon favor, uncommon deliverance. That's what it's said about Paul, 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:51.440 unusual miracles. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.800 You may have situations right now where you can't. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.240 Figure out how it's gonna happen, and how you're gonna 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.879 get well, or how you'll send your children to coll 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.760 knowledge how you can break the addiction. The how is 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.520 not your part. You don't have to figure it out. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.720 All you have to do is believe God. I want 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.840 to thank you that you have uncommon favor come in 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.159 my way. Things stored up for me that I haven't seen, heard, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.760 or imagined. David was a teenager out taking care of 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:25.399 his father's sheep and looked like he'd have an ordinary life. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.000 He didn't come from an influential family or any kind 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.040 of wealth. I'm sure David felt like he was stuck 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.840 out there, like he could never do anything significant. But 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.840 every day you do the right thing, and you be 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.159 your best at work, you good to your family, You 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:46.119 keep God first place. You are passing the test, you 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.840 are showing God that he can trust you with more. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.000 And just because you don't see anything happening, doesn't mean 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.960 God is not working behind the scenes. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.280 He's arranging things in your favor. 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.639 While David was finding his own business going about another 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:07.359 ordinary day, God spoke to the prophet Samuel to travel 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:11.560 to another city to Jesse's house, David's father, and to 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.800 annoint one of the sons. 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:14.920 As the next king of Israel. 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.600 Imagine David out in the fields when he got word 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.120 that this prophet is here. 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.200 He's asking for you. David must have thought, you gotta 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.159 be kidding. Why would he want me. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.320 David was the youngest son, the smallest, the least experienced, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.040 but God said in Psalm eighty nine, I have selected 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:39.600 David from common people to become the king. You may 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.320 feel kind of ordinary, common, but. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.440 You don't know what God has lined up for you. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.000 You don't know who God has already spoken to about you, 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.480 like Samuel, but they haven't shown up yet. 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.240 There's going to be a knock on your door. Your 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.359 time is coming. Just keep being faithful. 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.040 You never know when you're going to get called in 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:01.880 from the fields. 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:04.480 Nobody could have ever planned this for. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:08.640 David's life, no circumstance that he'd be in leadership, he'd 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:09.560 be the next king. 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:11.080 That was so far out. 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.520 But God has things for you that you haven't seen, 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:19.120 heard or imagined, uncommon blessings that will. 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:19.520 Come to you. 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.360 When David went out to face Goliath, all he had 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.399 was a slingshot and a few stones that he had 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:31.160 picked up from the brook, ordinary things common. But when 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:35.000 God breathed on them, those stones brought down a giant. 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.120 When you look at what you have, it may seem ordinary, 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.960 average talent, average looks, average resources. 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:42.960 That's okay. 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:47.160 When God breathes on it, the ordinary will become extraordinary. 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:51.640 What's common will become uncommon. Don't discount what you. 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:55.200 Have heard about a five year old boy that loved 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:58.080 to play the piano. Anytime he got a chance, he 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.880 would sit down and play the best he could, and 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:04.440 he'd never had any lessons or formal training. All he 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:08.800 knew how to play was Chopsticks, just a very simple tune. 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.639 One day, his father surprised him and got tickets to 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.240 the symphony to hear this world renowned pianist, one of 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:17.000 the greatest piano players alive. 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:20.440 That night, as they were walking to their seats, the 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:21.399 little boy. 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:25.439 Always so curious and hard to stay still, looked behind 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:30.520 the curtain and saw this beautiful grand piano. Without anyone noticing, 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:34.560 he snuck over, sat down and started to play Chopsticks. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.680 About that time, the curtain began to rise. Everyone was 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:42.840 expecting to see this master pianist. Instead they saw this 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:46.760 little boy playing this elementary tunes. He was so caught 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:49.560 up in his world he didn't know everyone was watching. 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:53.439 When he finally realized all eyes were on him, he 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:56.120 was about to take off when he felt. 0:23:55.800 --> 0:24:01.000 Two big hands reaching around him. Was the master, he 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:03.320 whispers in the boy's ear, keep playing. 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.760 As the little boy played his rendition of chopsticks, the 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:12.560 world renowned pianist began to play a Beethoven symphony piece 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:15.480 that was scored in the same cadence and in the 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:16.120 same key. 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:18.960 Under the direction of the master. 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:23.480 The orchestra began to join in, first the woodwinds, then 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:24.960 the brass, then the percussion. 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:29.040 The father sat there in tears. It was amazed at 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:30.000 what was happening. 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:34.640 He never dreamed that simple, unpolished song that he'd heard 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:38.040 in his living room every day would no longer sound 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:43.840 like chopsticks, but a full, beautifully perfected Beethoven symphony. 0:24:44.080 --> 0:24:46.720 What was the difference? The Master stepped in. 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:53.719 Sometimes what we have feels ordinary, ordinary talent, ordinary looks, 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:59.280 ordinary opportunities. But if you'll stay faithful, at some point 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:03.679 the will step in. God will take your ordinary and 0:25:03.800 --> 0:25:06.800 breathe on it, and it will become extraordinary. 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:09.040 Never thought I could minister. 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:12.560 My father had pastored here for forty years, and it's 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:16.280 a great pastor, and he'd gone to seminary and so 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:18.480 powerful and talented, preached all. 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:20.119 Over the world. I didn't have any of that. 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:24.879 I felt ordinary, average, But deep down I knew I 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:28.159 was supposed to pastor. Now I took that step of faith. 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.320 You know what happened. The Master stepped in. God took 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:36.080 what was common and turned it into uncommon. He breathed 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:40.119 on my talent, breathed on my ability. He's taken me 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:43.679 where I never dreamed. I couldn't have planned this. I 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:46.840 thought I'd stay behind the scenes and do television production 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:50.240 the rest of my life. What am I saying? God 0:25:50.320 --> 0:25:53.399 has some things stored up for you that you haven't seen, 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:57.800 you haven't imagined. It looks like just a slingshot, but 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:01.640 when God breathes on it, it'll bring down giants. Moses 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:05.480 took his staff a piece of wood, something common. He 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:08.760 held it up, and the Master stepped in. The Red 0:26:08.840 --> 0:26:12.879 sea parted something they had never seen. You may have 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:15.560 situations that look like they'll never turn around. 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:17.479 Seems like you're stuck. 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:21.120 Can I encourage you? The Master is about to step in. 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:25.560 God sees you doing your part, he sees. 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:26.240 You being your best. 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:31.360 He's about to breathe on your family, breathe on your finances. 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:34.400 Breathe on your health, breathe on your talent. He's already 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:35.439 lined up some. 0:26:35.320 --> 0:26:39.800 Of these uncommon moments for you, unusual miracles or in 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:44.240 your future. Isaiah twenty eight says this time the Lord 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:47.960 will do something surprising, not what you expect. 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:50.879 Now. I know God's done great things in the past, 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:53.240 but you haven't seen anything yet. 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:56.400 I believe in declare this is gonna be a year 0:26:56.760 --> 0:27:03.320 of uncommon favor for you, uncommon opportunity, uncommon healing, uncommon 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:07.640 victories in Jesus' name, And if you receive it, can 0:27:07.760 --> 0:27:12.240 just say amen. I'd like to give you an opportunity 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.280 to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:15.800 Would you pray with me? 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:21.000 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:22.359 into my heart. 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:24.520 I make you my Lord and savior. 0:27:25.359 --> 0:27:27.800 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:30.760 born again. We'd love to send you some free information 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:33.359 on your new walk with the Lord. 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