Unprecedented Favor

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.000 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.120 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:36.800 the ministry. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.280 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:40.480 blessing and share it with a. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.880 Friends, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.039 your life. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.320 Well, God bless you. Always a joy to come into 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:00.840 your homes. We love you. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.920 If you're ever in our area, please stop by and 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:05.680 be a part of one of our services. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.120 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.600 But thanks so much for tuning in and thank you 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.120 again for coming out today. And I like to start 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.200 with something funny and somebody sent me these funny one 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:21.200 liners about blondes. But since I'm married to a beautiful, smart, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.359 intelligent blonde, I'm going to change it from a blonde 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.000 lady to a blonde man. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.000 Here's a few of them. They're kind of funny. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:33.000 He was so blonde that he tripped over a cordless phone. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.320 He was so blonde he asked for a price check 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.960 at the dollar store. He was so blonde it took 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.959 him two hours to watch sixty minutes. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:44.000 Last one. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.400 He's so blonde he thinks that Taco Bell is the 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:48.600 Mexican phone company. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.280 Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.600 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.320 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.040 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.919 taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.320 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:13.280 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.880 to talk to you today about unprecedented favor. We've all 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.280 seen God's favor in our life. Every one of us 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:22.760 can say that God's been. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:23.280 Good to us. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.160 He's protected us, promoted us, opened up doors. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.920 That's God's favor, but I believe in the coming days, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:32.000 God wants to. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:37.160 Show us unprecedented favor, that is, favor like we haven't 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:42.040 seen before. Paul said in Ephesians, in the Ages to come, 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:48.440 we would see the immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of God's favor. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:54.400 What's interesting is Paul wrote this passage ages ago. We 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.240 are living in the ages to come that Paul was 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.560 talking about. He was saying, I've I've seen limited power, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.960 but you're going to see unlimited power. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:05.720 I've seen God do. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.520 Great things, but you're going to see the surpassing greatness 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:14.360 of God's goodness. You're going to see unprecedented favor. The 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:20.560 word unprecedented means unmatched, unparalleled for the first time. In 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.840 other words, you may have seen God's favor in the past. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.520 But you need to get ready. You haven't seen anything yet. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:33.360 What God has in your future is going to be bigger, better, greater, unprecedented. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.359 He's going to show you his goodness in ways like 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:37.520 you've never seen before. 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.320 Now we have to get in agreement with God. 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.640 Get up every morning and say Father, thank you for 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:49.479 your unprecedented favor. I've found there's a direct correlation between 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.040 declaring favor and receiving favor. Not enough to just think 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:59.240 about it. Words give life to our faith. Something supernatural 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:04.160 happens when when you say I'm expecting unprecedented favor, A 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.680 lot of people do just the opposite. They go through 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.680 the day saying I never get any good breaks, I'll 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.680 never get well, I'll never get out of death. They 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.400 don't realize with their words they are setting the limits 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.760 for their life. If you have a poor mouth, you're 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:20.920 going to have a poor life. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:22.719 Do yourself a favor. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.920 Zip up the defeat and start speaking victory. Zip up 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.159 the nothing good ever happens to me and start declaring 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.880 God's blessings or chasing me down. Zip up the I've 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:39.400 reached my limits and start declaring unprecedented favor is coming 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.480 my way. Friends, if you're going to reach your highest potential, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.520 you're going to need doors to open for you that 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.640 you cannot open on your own. You're going to need promotion, 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.800 good breaks, divine connections, favor greater. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.240 Than what you've seen in the past. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.200 If you'll release your faith for this and believe that 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.640 unprecedent in favor is coming your way, you'll see God 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.760 show up and do amazing things. He'll take you higher 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.480 than you thought possible. And God said here in Exodus, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.279 I will perform great wonders that I have not done 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.520 anywhere before in all the earth. People will see what 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.640 great things I can do. Because I am going to 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.840 do an awesome thing for you. Why don't you let 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.600 that take root in your spirit. God is saying I'm 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:36.880 going to do something awesome in your life. Awesome means astounding, remarkable, overwhelming, breathtaking. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.440 Awesome is just the opposite of ordinary. In other words, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.400 God is going to do something not like you've seen before. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.040 Maybe a couple of years ago, God blessed you with 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:49.960 a great promotion. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.359 You're happy, you're grateful. That's great. That's the way you 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:53.800 should be. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.800 But if God did the same thing this year as 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.760 he did in years past, you would be grateful, but 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:06.240 it wouldn't necessarily be remarkable. You wouldn't be astounded. Why 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.360 because you've seen it happen before. When God says he's 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.680 going to do something awesome, he's talking about unprecedented favor. 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.600 What God has in your future will supersede. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:20.360 What you've seen in your past. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.120 God has favor that is unmatched promotion that is unparalleled, 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.400 good breaks that will be astounding, overwhelming, where you'll look 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.280 back in amazement. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.520 At what God has done. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.920 I don't know about you, but I'm expecting something awesome 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.880 in my future. Yes, God has done great things in 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.520 the past. God has blessed me, promoted me, given me favor. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.520 But deep down I know what's in my past is 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.840 going depel in comparison to what God is about to 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.640 do in your future. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.920 Is the surpassing. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.920 Greatness of God's power, Its unprecedented favor. Now get in 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.880 agreement with God talks about in the Book of Psalms 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.320 how the people limited the Holy One of Israel. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:07.480 They limited God. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.760 In other words, God wanted to do something awesome in 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.360 their lives. He wanted to take them into the Promised Land, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.760 a land greater than anything they had experienced. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:19.320 You remember when. 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.400 The spies came back from the Promised Land. They talked 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.720 about how the fruits and vegetables were like nothing they 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.280 had ever seen, bigger and better. That was God's dream 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.120 to do something awesome. But their problem was they didn't believe. 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.080 They didn't think they could defeat their enemies. They got negative, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.080 started complaining, and they never did make it into the 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:46.920 Promised Land. That tells me we can stop the awesome things. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:47.720 God has in store. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.079 If we go around saying I've reached my limits, nothing 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.960 good happens to me. This problem's too big, I'll never 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.960 accomplish my dreams. We are setting the limits for our life. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.920 People have settled for mediocrity in their thinking. If you 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.360 want to see God do amazing things, you got to 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.880 get in agreement and say, yes, God, I believe something 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.319 awesome is in my future. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.120 Maybe you're single and you want to get married. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.199 Instead of saying I'll never meet the right person, now, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.720 why don't you start declaring God is bringing somebody awesome 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.640 into my life, not average, not mediocre, not he'll do, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.480 she'll do. I may not meet anybody else. No, don't 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.440 settle for average. When God has somebody awesome. God has 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:37.360 somebody that will take your breath away, somebody that you 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.280 cannot live without. Victoria and I have been married going 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.280 on twenty five years, and every time I see her, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.839 something still comes alive on the inside. When she walks 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.959 in the room, it brightens my day. A few months 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:52.920 ago she was going to have to be gone for 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:53.920 a week or. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.319 So, and I don't like her to leave. She had 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:57.080 to take care of some. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.760 Business, but I miss her and she left that Sunday 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.080 after church, and Monday morning, first thing she called and said, Joy, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:03.960 it's not working out. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.439 I'm gonna come home tonight. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.839 I said, thank you Jesus, you're answering my prayers. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.680 She didn't know I was praying that it wouldn't work out. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.480 But I know people after twenty five years of marriage, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.240 they're praying that their spouse will stay gone longer. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:21.760 No, not you. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.240 God has somebody awesome for you, somebody you'll enjoy spending. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.280 Your life with. Declare it every day. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.280 Something awesome is coming my way. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.800 I know a young man. He's got a beautiful family. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.000 And he was working at this job, being at his 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.880 best each day, had a good attitude, but there wasn't 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.320 any room for growth, no opportunity for advancement. A friend 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.480 told about a position opening up at his company. He 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.640 read the qualifications, and although he didn't have the experience 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.520 and all the education they wanted, he felt good about 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.680 it and applied for the job. He went and interviewed 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.280 and they said they'd get back with him in a week. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.200 A week went by and he didn't hear anything. The 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.040 negative thoughts started coming. You're not going to get it, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.439 you're not qualified. You're going to be stuck at that 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.440 same position the rest of your life. His wife could 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.880 tell something was bothering him. She said, honey, quit worrying 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.600 about it. God is in control. It's in his hands, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.640 and if he wants you to have the job, you're 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.000 going to get the job. You can tell they've been 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.600 coming to Lakewood instead of worrying about it every day. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.959 They started declaring Ephesians three twenty, God, you said you 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.080 would do exceedingly, abundantly above and beyond. They were speaking 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:41.520 unprecedented favor, releasing their faith for God to do something awesome. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:41.960 In their lives. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.400 Three weeks later, the vice president of operations of that 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.880 new company call. When he applied, the starting salary listed 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.079 was ten percent more than he was making. But this 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.839 vice president not only offered him the job, but said, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.600 your starting salary will be thirty more than we listed, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.000 which was forty percent more than he was making. Right then, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.079 he said, I tried to stay calm, but I was 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.120 jumping up and down. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.480 On the inside. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:16.560 He was astounded, amazed, that was remarkable, unprecedented, favor God 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.120 doing something awesome in his life. Listen, if God did 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.120 it for him, he could do it for you and me. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.839 That's what it says in Exodus. God wants to do 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:30.000 something awesome, something that you have not seen before. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:31.600 Here's the good news. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.600 If you've seen it, then you know what's in your 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.400 future is going to be greater. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.160 God wants to do what you have not seen. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.280 I think about this beautiful facility that God. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.000 Has blessed us with. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.040 We were amazed, overwhelmed, astounded. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.960 It was certainly God's favor. And what's interesting is this victory. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.119 While we continue to celebrate and remember what God has done, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:01.640 this victory is in our past. God has promised what's 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.240 in our future will be greater. That tells me we 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.719 should never get satisfied. Don't get complacent and put your 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.199 faith on an autopilot and say, oh, Joel, God's been 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.240 good to me. I've had victories, I've been blessed. I'm 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.640 just gonna coast. No, keep your faith out there. God 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:23.280 has something else in your future that's going to astound you. 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.840 You think you've seen God's goodness, but you need to 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:26.679 get ready. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:27.480 For something awesome. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:32.719 There's something astounding, something remarkable, something overwhelming, that God has 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.800 come in your way. I talked to a lady last 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.880 week after the service. She was in town for treatment 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.520 at the cancer hospital. She was going to have to 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.640 have a tumor removed from her abdomen and then take chemotherapy. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.440 All of her medical records, her charts, X rays, blood work, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:51.520 they were sent. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:52.880 From her hospital back at home. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.800 When she met with the new doctor here, he wanted 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.439 her to retake the test and redo the x rays, 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.840 just a double check and verify everything, and she was 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.200 happy to do that. She was already scheduled for surgery 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.200 when this new doctor came in and said, I'm not 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.360 seeing on the new test what I've seen on the 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:16.520 old test. These new tests look perfectly normal. On one test, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.480 he could clearly see the tumor. On the other one, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.800 there was no sign of a tumor. He said, I 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.920 know this sounds odd, but I don't suggest we do anything. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:26.400 You look perfectly healthy. 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:26.640 To me. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:32.200 That's God doing something astounding, something remarkable. She went back 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.800 home and her doctor looked at those tests and he said, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.760 I've been doing this for twenty six years. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.920 I have never seen this happen before. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.640 You say, Joe, she was probably just misdiagnosed, probably nothing 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.000 wrong with her in the first place. That may be 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.160 what some people believe, but I believe it was the 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.480 surpassing greatness. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.440 Of our God. I believe it was God doing something 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.240 awesome in her life. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.760 I've learned some people are not going to believe no 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.600 matter or what. They're going to try to explain away 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.840 every miracle. When God parted the Red Sea, the people 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.160 of Israel went through on dry ground. Some experts have 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:14.120 said that during that time of year, at that particular 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.720 place in the sea, it's possible that the water was 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.320 only ten inches deep, and the tides and the winds 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.680 could have naturally parted the sea. But you think about it, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.360 that's even a greater miracle. That means that all of 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.680 Pharaoh's army, grown men, they drowned in. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:31.560 Ten inches of water. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.000 I don't know about you, but I'm going to be 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.960 a believer and not a doubter. I'm expecting God to 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:45.560 do something awesome, something remarkable, something that we've never seen before. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.120 That's what Jesus said in John fourteen twelve. He that 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.320 believes in me the works that I do, will you 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.120 do also and greater works than these will you do? 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.680 This is an amazing promise. When Jesus was on the earth, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.520 he did all kinds of incredible miracles. He healed people, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.960 turned water into wine, multiplied food, raised the dead, cured 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.480 the lepers, on and on. Yet Jesus said, if you 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.480 believe in me, I will show you greater works. The 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.320 Old Testament God said awesome things. In the New Testament, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.640 Jesus says greater things. Bottom line, they're both saying, get 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:29.840 ready for unprecedented favor, favor like you've never seen before. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.440 I have a friend that's a medical doctor, and years 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.520 ago he was driving down the freeway late at night, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.280 coming home and he came upon this accident. He stopped 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.280 to help, come to find out it was a fatality. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.960 The young man driving was on a stretcher. The paramedics 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.320 had worked on him for a long time, given him CPR, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.600 and they had IVS in him. And right when he 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.120 came up, they were pulling the sheet over his head. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.480 Since he was a doctor, they allowed him to be 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.000 there and he leaned over the body and just very 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.920 quietly he began to pray for the young man. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.920 God give him another chance. God let his life come 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:08.640 back into. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.240 Him, let his heart begin to work, let his lungs 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.000 kick in. For a couple of minutes, very quietly, he 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.159 prayed the prayer of faith. He wasn't a minister, he 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:20.920 wasn't trained in theology. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.159 He simply believed that. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.600 With God, all things are possible. He believed what Jesus 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.560 said that we could see the greater works. While he 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.800 was still praying, all of a sudden, the young men 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.320 begin to cough. The paramedics nearly passed out. In a 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.080 few seconds, he opened his eyes, and not long after 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.520 that he was able to sit up. Today, the young 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.800 man is alive and healthy, totally recovered. But had my 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:54.240 friend not believe that God can do extounding, remarkable, overwhelming things, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.080 I don't know if that young man would be alive today. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.520 Friends, God is looking for someone to. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:05.800 Believe for the greater works, greater power, greater annoying, greater influence, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:06.800 greater victory. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.400 He's looking for somebody to take the limits off of him. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.640 You say, Joel, this sounds kind of far out today. Yes, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.399 but the God we serve is a far out God. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:21.240 You have no idea what he has planned for your life. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.600 God wants to do something awesome to show His greatness 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.800 through you. It's not to bring us glory, it's to 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.760 bring God glory. When you take the limits off of 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.960 him and you believe for the greater works, you'll be 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.320 amazed at what will happen. This is what Joshua did 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.480 in the scripture. One day he was fighting a great 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.040 battle with all of his men. They were trying to 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.160 finish off these enemies. It was getting late at night. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.280 The sun was starting to go down, and Joshua knew 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.840 if he didn't finish the job, this enemy would reorganize 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.280 and come back against him again. He needed more daylight. 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.520 A lot of people would have thought, well, too bad, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.639 didn't work out. I needed more time, But it just 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.320 didn't happen. Not Joshua. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.600 He was bold. He looked up at. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.080 The sun and said, son, I want you to stand still. 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.720 I need more daylight. The scripture says the sun stood 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:20.480 still all because one man dared to believe. It goes 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.199 on to say there had never been a day like 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:27.840 that before. The people stood there in utter amazement. I 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.320 believe you and I are going to come into more 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.280 of those days where we look up and say, wow, 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.520 I have never seen anything like this. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:35.959 Before. 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.520 I thought I was going to get a ten percent raise, 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:41.679 and I got a forty percent raise. The medical report 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.200 said I had cancer, but the new test says I don't. 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.520 I prayed for a young man and life came back 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.560 into him. You're going to look up in utter amazement 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.639 and say, Wow, God, you've done awesome things in my 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.920 life today. When Victoria and I first got married, there 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.720 was this town home that we really wanted to buy, but. 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:01.280 We wouldn't quite afford it. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.600 It was a little out of our price range. It 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.679 was owned by this large company. I was talking to 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.000 my father about it one day and he said, Joel, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.080 you need to offer them half of what they're asking. 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.320 I said, Daddy, I can't do that. I'd be embarrassed. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.200 I might insult them. He said, Joel, you have not 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.639 because you ask not. How are you going to know 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.360 if you don't at least ask. We got our nerve 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.800 up and decided to do it. Our realator told the 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.159 man in charge of the property that we were a 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.240 young couple and we were just getting started out, and 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.880 we didn't mean to offend anyone, but this is all 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.520 we could offer for the property. He looked at it 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.320 and immediately turned it down. Didn't even think twice. Several 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.119 months went by, and we just kept thanking God that 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.760 he was directing our steps and thanking him that we 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.720 had his favor. And we found some other places that 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.760 we liked, but we always came back to that first 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:53.200 town home. 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:54.320 That's what we really wanted. 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.120 The last week of that year, out of the blue, 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.919 the man in charge called our realtor and said, because 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.240 of tax purposes, we have to sell the property this week, 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.639 and I have a higher offer, but I'd really like 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.280 to help that young couple you talked about. I'd like 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:13.560 to sell it to them. What's funny, we didn't know 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.879 the man, we never met him before, yet we bought 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.760 that property for practically half of what it was really worth. 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.000 That's one of those days Victoria and I stood there 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.440 in utter amazement. We said, Wow, God, we've never seen 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.040 anything like this before. That's one of those awesome things 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:35.199 that God had in our future. When you realize that 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.320 God has unprecedented favor for you, he wants to show 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.119 you the greater works, it'll cause you to have a 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:43.040 new boldness. 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:44.400 Like Joshua. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.040 You'll ask for things that you normally wouldn't ask for 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.120 like that medical doctor. My friend, You'll pray even when 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.680 it looks impossible. You'll believe for things that have never 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.960 happened before. I know this couple. They really wanted their 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.879 young son to start school, but his birthday missed the 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.679 cutoff date by four days. He was going to have 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:07.800 to wait a whole year just because he missed it 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:09.879 by those four days, and they knew that he was 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.280 ready to learn, so they went and met with the 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:15.600 school and asked if they would make an exception, and 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:19.640 the lady at registration was very kind, very polite. She said, 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.360 we'd love to help, but we just cannot make any exceptions. 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:24.880 He'll have to start next year. 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.680 They said, that's fine, but can we talk to your supervisor. 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.520 She referred them to the principal. The principle basically said 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:34.600 the same thing. We'd love to have your son, but 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:36.400 we cannot make an exception. 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:37.760 He'll have to wait another year. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.800 They said, that's fine, but can we talk to your supervisor. 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.520 This went on for a period of three weeks. Every 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.520 day they just kept declaring, father, thank you for your 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:51.200 unprecedented favor, thank you that you'll do something that's never 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.239 been done. Before they were able to meet with the 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.680 superintendent of a whole district, and he was kind, but he. 0:22:57.680 --> 0:22:59.280 Said rules or rules. 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:01.560 We'd love to have your son, but we cannot make 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:05.920 an exception. They said, who do you report to? He said, 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:08.240 I report to the owner. It was a group of 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.720 private schools. They met with the owner explain the situation. 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.600 He didn't say yes or no. He just said, I'll 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.560 have to get back with you. A month later, they 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:19.160 got a call from the first lady. 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:19.639 They met with. 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:23.160 The lady that works in registration. She said, I've been 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:26.560 here fifteen years. I've never seen this happen before, but 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.199 we're going to make an exception and allow your child 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:30.600 to start school this year. 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:32.359 Unprecedented favor. 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.680 You may have situations that look impossible. It's never been 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:42.840 done before. Don't get discouraged, don't give up. God wants 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:47.520 to do something awesome. Keep believing for unprecedented favor. Be 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:51.439 bold and do like Joshua and start speaking favor to 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:52.240 that situation. 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:53.440 Every day. 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.399 Father, thank you that your favor is turning this around. 0:23:56.880 --> 0:23:59.360 Think you that your favor is making a way, even 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.320 though I don't see Lord, Thank you that your favor 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:08.399 is doing remarkable, astounding, overwhelming things. When you release your faith, 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.800 then like with Joshua, you'll see God show up and 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.439 do amazing things, things that you've never seen happen before. 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:18.000 This is what a mother did that we know. 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:23.000 Her son got involved in an outlaw motorcycle game, got 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:26.520 way way off course, and he was constantly in and 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:31.000 out of jail. Year after year, he continued to spiral downwards, 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:32.919 breaking his mother's heart. 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:35.479 She prayed, she believed. 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:38.080 She did everything she could, but nothing seemed to help. 0:24:38.640 --> 0:24:40.320 He got to the point where he. 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:44.240 Practically lived stoned. He had all kinds of addictions. He's 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.360 never in his right mind. One day in his early twenties, 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.720 he was so depressed and so messed up in his 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:55.600 mind he decided to end his life. A big bottle 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.320 of pills he was going to take was standing in 0:24:58.359 --> 0:25:00.719 front of a mirror. He said, when I looked at 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:03.760 myself in that mirror, I saw a dead man staring 0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:06.760 back at me. Just as he was about to take 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:10.320 the pills, something said so strongly, don't do it. 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:11.560 There was a. 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:14.640 Force holding him back. He could not take those pills. 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:17.520 He didn't really know what he was doing, but he 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:19.359 thought if I'm going to kill myself. 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:20.920 I need to first go to church. 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:24.639 He got on his motorcycle and somehow ended up at 0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:28.760 Lakewood Church on a Sunday morning. Walked in there totally stoned, 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:34.400 never been there before. Leather jacket, beard tattoos, smelled like alcohol. 0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:38.439 This big, rough, tough looking biker. Well, the service had 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:41.520 already started and the usher met him at the door. 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:45.000 And back in those days, the front rows were reserved 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:48.719 for our prayer partners, for our volunteers. But for some reason, 0:25:48.840 --> 0:25:51.600 this usher in the middle of the service brought him 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.679 all the way down to the very front row and 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:58.080 sat him right dead center. He was so stoned he 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:01.960 didn't understand everything that was happening, but he told how 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:04.800 he felt a love that he had never felt before. 0:26:05.359 --> 0:26:08.680 He said, sitting in that service, I could feel chains 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:12.240 breaking off of me, my mind becoming clear. All of 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:15.600 a sudden, I felt a sense of purpose, a sense 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:19.800 of destiny for my life. After the service, he walked 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:23.320 out to his motorcycle in the old gravel parking lot, 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:27.760 all by himself. He knelt down and said, God, I 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:30.920 don't know if you really want me, but that minister 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:33.560 said you would take me just as I am, so 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:36.960 I'm giving my life to you. It just so happened. 0:26:37.280 --> 0:26:40.960 That was Mother's Day. He went back home and called 0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:43.919 his mom, said, you'll never believe what happened. I just 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:46.800 went to church and gave my life to Christ. His 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:50.119 mom stood there in utter amazement. She said, Wow, God 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:54.440 never seen anything like that before that day, the addictions 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:56.720 to drugs and alcohol were broken. 0:26:56.400 --> 0:26:56.920 Off of him. 0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:00.399 He got out of the Outlaw motorcycle gang, and he 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:03.360 started a motorcycle ministry. 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:05.960 To help people that had been messed up like he was. 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:12.639 It's called Tribe of Judah Motorcycle Ministry. Our good friend 0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:17.520 been priest for the last thirty years, been his pastor 0:27:17.560 --> 0:27:20.360 to great Church, and he continues to go all over 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:23.120 the world telling people what God has done for him. 0:27:24.000 --> 0:27:27.320 The scripture says, is there anything too hard for the Lord? 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:31.240 Maybe you've been praying for a loved one for a 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:34.600 long long time, Maybe you've been believing for a situation 0:27:34.840 --> 0:27:39.479 to change for years and years. Don't get discouraged. God 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:44.040 is going to finish what he started. He has something unmatched, 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:50.200 unparalleled coming your way. Favor, breakthroughs, restoration like you haven't 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:50.920 seen before. 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:53.679 God's been good to all of us in the past. 0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:56.680 But I believe we're coming in to the greater works, 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:59.960 the greater annoying, the greater power, the greater victory. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:01.640 Keep your faith out there. 0:28:01.920 --> 0:28:05.879 God has something astounding in your future. He's saying to 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:08.639 you what he said to Moses. I'm going to do 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:12.640 something awesome, something that you have not seen before. Now, 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:15.359 let's stay in agreement with God. Let's get up every 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:18.719 morning and say, Father, thank you for your unprecedented favor, 0:28:19.080 --> 0:28:23.720 Thank you for the immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of your power. 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:26.680 If you do that, I believe you're going to come 0:28:26.720 --> 0:28:29.639 into more of those days where you stand there in 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:33.440 utter amazement and say, Wow, God, I've never seen anything 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:37.560 like this before. What is that unprecedented favor is coming 0:28:37.600 --> 0:28:40.480 you away? I believe it and declare it for each 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:42.480 one of you in Jesus's name. 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:45.200 If you receive it, can you say him in today? 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:48.400 We never like to close our. 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:52.040 Broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:52.920 lord of your life. 0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:57.160 Would you pray with me? 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