Victory Begins In The Dark

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See terms and conditions at uness dot co. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.920 Get ready, God is not through with you. What he 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.080 ordained for your life will come to pass. That difficulty 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.520 is a setup for him to show out in your life. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.520 He's going to do something unusual, something out of the ordinary, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.800 that will thrust you into your purpose, something that will 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:54.000 suddenly change things in your favor. Hi, this is Joel 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.280 and Victoria. Thanks for downloading our podcast. We enjoy spending 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.680 this time with you. I know you're going to leave 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.040 encouraged and inspired. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.320 Make sure you subscribe to get new messages every week 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.040 and follow us on social media to stay connected. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.640 We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.200 Enjoy the message. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.520 God bless you. Thanks so much for letting us come 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.919 into your homes. We are praying for you and your 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.520 family for God's very best. I like to start with 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.919 something funny. And one day Adam was feeling very lonely. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.120 God said, Adam, I'm going to make you a companion. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.320 It's going to be called a woman. This person will 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.480 cook for you and wash your clothes. She will bear 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.040 you children, never ask you to get up in the 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.919 middle of the night. She will always agree with you, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.480 and if you do have a disagreement, she'll be the 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.240 first to admit that she was wrong. Adam said, wow, God, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.240 what will a woman like this cost? God said an 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.320 arm and a leg. Adam said, what can I get 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.000 for a rib? 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.640 And the rest is history? Say it like you mean it. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.160 This is my Bible and what it says I am. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.120 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.880 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.760 talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.880 is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.919 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:17.440 bless you. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.600 I want to talk to you today about victory begins 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.200 in the dark. The book of Genesis starts off telling 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.160 how God created everything. It says the evening and the 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.400 morning were the first day. You would think it would 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.520 be the reverse, the morning and the evening were the 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.880 first day. But God starts the day in the dark. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.920 At twelve a m. Nothing looks any different. If you 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.600 didn't have a watch, you wouldn't know you've entered a 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.280 new day. It's still dark outside, looks the same as 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.640 it did at nine o'clock, at ten o'clock, at eleven o'clock, 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.120 there's no sign that something has changed. But when the 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.360 clock strikes midnight, in that one second, when nothing looks 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.520 any different, it goes from PM to am. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.880 It's still dark, but it's a new day. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.560 It would make more sense if God started the day 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.840 in the light, when the sun came up at six 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.800 or seven in the morning, when the dawn breaks the 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.800 light comes, then it's obvious we would know it's a 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:19.279 new day. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.080 We can see it. Things have changed. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.320 We hear the birds start chirping, the sun comes over 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:26.080 the horizon. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.200 We have all this evidence that. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.360 We've entered a new day. But on purpose, God chose 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.919 to start the day in the dark. It's symbolic of 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.880 how He does things in our lives. He gives us 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.720 a promise. He says, we've come into a new day. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.440 He's restoring health back into us. We're going to lend 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.080 and not borrow. Our child is going to get back 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.279 on course. We believe, we pray, we stand in faith. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.560 But nothing is changing. Nothing looks any different, nothing feels 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:57.200 any different. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.120 Still dark outside. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.479 Jord is still hurting, My business hasn't grown, my health 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.280 hasn't improved. This is what faith is all about. You 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.839 can't see it, but you have to know. You passed midnight. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:16.559 You've gone from PM to am. Yes, it's still dark outside. Yes, 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.440 nothing has changed, but the sun is on its way up. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.360 Healing is on the horizon. Promotion freedom the right people. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.080 It's just a matter of time before you see the 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.680 light come breaking forth. Now, don't be discouraged by the dark. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:36.359 The dark doesn't mean nothing has changed. The dark is 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.960 not a sign that God is not working, that he 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.560 didn't hear your prayer. Thoughts will tell you. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.039 Would have seen something. By now you would feel a 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:45.719 little better. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.760 One of those companies would have called you back. That 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.160 addiction wouldn't be this strong. You have to walk by 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.600 faith and not by sight. If you walk by sight, 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.120 you'll talk yourself out of it. Because eleven thirty at 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.919 night does it look any different than midnight? Everything you 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.640 can see, feel, touch, smell looks just the same. There's 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.440 no evidence that it's a new day. But the psawmist said, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.679 the moment you pray, the tide of the battle terms 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.080 you can't see it. But when you prayed, you left 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.160 the PM and you came into AM. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:21.840 It's a new day. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.560 You may not be able to see any sign of it. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.479 That's okay. Victory begins in the dark, and we all 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.000 go through these times where we don't think it's going 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.000 to work out, seasons where nothing is changing. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.320 We're being our best, but the business is not growing. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.680 We're standing in faith, but our health is not improving. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.200 It's tempting to think that God has forgotten about us. 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.680 We're always going to have this obstacle. The fact is 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.520 light is on the way. What God promised you is 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.480 en route. You may have struggled in an area a 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.960 long time, you've been believing for things to change in 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:04.119 your marriage finances with an addiction, it seems permanent. God 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.080 is saying you've already entered a new day. You've already 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.040 passed midnight. You can't see it yet, but victory is on. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.640 The way now. 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.400 Instead of complaining about the dark, have a new perspective. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.040 The dark means the sun is on the way up, 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.960 The promise is about to come forth. Who can stop 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.120 the sun from rising each morning? Who can keep light 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:32.000 from breaking forth over the horizon? All the forces of 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.120 darkness cannot stop what God has ordained for you. They 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.080 cannot keep what He promised from coming to pass. In 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.000 the face of that darkness, when you don't see any light, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:44.960 get in agreement with God. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.200 Father, thank you that it's a new day. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.920 It may be still dark out, but I don't go 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.120 by what I see. I go by what I know, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.720 and I know that I've passed midnight. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:56.880 That means my. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.640 Healing is coming, my breakthrough is coming, my abundance is coming. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:02.800 My victory is coming. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.280 When you realize God starts with darkness to bring about 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.520 new things in our life, then you won't get discouraged 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.320 by the darkness. You'll thank him in the middle of 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.320 the darkness. You'll praise Him despite what's trying to stop you. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.320 This is what Paul and Silas did. They were put 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.160 in prison for sharing their faith. The religious leaders the 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.040 saddest ses. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.800 They didn't like them. They accused them of causing a disturbance. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.840 They were in the deepest part of the dungeon to 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.400 make sure they couldn't escape. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.280 But God won't let you. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.079 Get in a problem that he can't bring you out of. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.200 If that difficulty was going to stop your destiny, God 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.840 wouldn't have allowed it. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:45.800 It may seem too. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.880 Big for you, you could never overcome it, But it's 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.480 not too big for our God. He already has the solution. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.200 That trouble can't keep you from your purpose. That set 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:01.160 back in your finances, the anxiety, the depression is not permanent. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.720 It may be dark now, you've. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.679 Had some bad breaks, or you brought trouble on yourself. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.080 You think you're stuck, nor get ready. God is not 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.480 through with you. What he ordained for your life will 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.360 come to pass. That difficulty is a setup for Him 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.040 to show out in your life. He's going to do 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.199 something unusual, something out of the ordinary, that will thrust 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.520 you into your purpose, something that will suddenly. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.040 Change things in your favor. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.960 Paul and Silas had changed around their feet guard standing 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.160 outside the prison gates. It looked like they would be 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.240 put away and we'd never hear from them again. All 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.920 the odds were against them, but people don't have the 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.439 final say. What you're up against may be bigger, more powerful, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:53.280 more influential, but you and God are a majority. Him 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.640 being for you is more than the world being against you. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.679 There's not an obstacle he can't move. There's not a 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.559 sickness he can't heal, not an addiction. He can't free 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.560 you from sitting in the dungeon, falsely accused. They could 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.320 have been depressed. God, why is this happening. It's not fair. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.199 We were doing what you wanted us to do. But 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.760 the scripture says at midnight they were singing praises and 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.920 giving thanks to God. It's interesting that we're told when 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.760 this happened. Most other miracles we read about we don't 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.760 have the time, that detail isn't recorded. But God had 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.120 the writer tell us this time because midnight means it 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.840 was a new day. As they were singing praises, suddenly 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:43.680 there was a great earthquake. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.160 The prison doors flew open, chains. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.920 Fell off their feet, and they walked out as free men. 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.319 It's not a coincidence that this all happened at midnight. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.800 They may have been singing at ten o'clock in the evening, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.640 nothing happened, Thanking God at eleven o'clock, nothing happened. Praising 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.720 at eleven thirty, still nothing. But when they hit midnight, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.520 when that new day started, suddenly things changed. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.120 God was showing us It. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.680 May be dark all around you, you don't see a 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.520 way out, but when you come into that new day, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.720 when you cross from PM to am, things suddenly shift. 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.000 And sometimes you see it all at once, like with 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.920 Paul and Silas. Other times you see it later. But 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.640 the moment you praise, things change in your favor. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.720 There may be a period. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.400 Of darkness where it doesn't look like anything is happening. 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.280 But if you'll do like them and just keep thanking 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.520 God that he's fighting your battles, thanking him that he's 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.520 making ways where you don't see away, then you're going 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.880 to come into these times where God will suddenly show 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.000 out in your life. He'll make things happen that you 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.880 couldn't make happen. You may have areas where it feels 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.679 dark right now, nothing is changing. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:02.959 That's a test. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.280 Will you praise him in the dark? Will you thank 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.080 him that what he promised is on the way? Will 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.000 you talk like it's going to turn around. Believe that 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.679 healing is coming even though the medical report isn't improving. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.880 Don't go by what you feel. Your feelings don't always 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.840 tell you the truth. Your emotions will try to convince 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.679 you that it's never going to work out. Your mind 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.360 will tell you all the reasons it's not going to happen. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.360 Look how big those obstacles are. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.080 A walk by faith, Father, thank you that I've come 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.439 into my midnight, that it's a new day. It may 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.280 still be dark out, but I know you start the 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.160 day in the dark. I know that means light is 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.800 on the way. Keep a song of praise in your heart. Well, Joel, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.560 I've been doing this a long time. I don't understand 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.960 why nothing is changing. God's timing is not our timing. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.160 Keep doing the right thing. You're in a new day. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.960 You pass midnight, it may be three in the morning. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.960 You have a few more hours, so to speak, before 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.160 the sun comes up. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:07.439 I've learned. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.760 The longer it's taking, the better it's going to be. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.240 God is getting you prepared for the blessing. He's already 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.480 prepared for you. And when it's taking a long time, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.880 that's because the blessing. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.440 Is bigger than you can handle. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:27.079 Right now, he's getting you stronger, more mature, more confident. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.600 He's getting other people that are involved in place, He's 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.719 doing a work in them. Don't be discouraged because it's 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.920 been dark a long time. That's a sign God is 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.120 about to do something that you've never seen. It's going 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:46.840 to be bigger, more rewarding, more fulfilling than you've ever imagined. Now, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.320 keep praising Him in the dark, Keep being good to 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.440 other people in the dark, giving serving. When you do that, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.440 like Paul and Silas, suddenly doors are going to open. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.960 Suddenly you're going to come in opportunity, the right people, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.720 healing breakthroughs. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.960 It's going to catapult you ahead. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.520 When my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer in nineteen 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.200 eighty one, she had been in the hospital for twenty 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.480 one days. One Monday evening, the doctors called my father 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.040 in and said there was nothing more they could do 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.920 for her. They gave her a few weeks to live. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.720 My father drove her home that afternoon in the traffic. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.080 It felt like the longest drive. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.440 Of their life. It was a very dark time. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.440 My mother could have been depressed, given up on life, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.240 but she knew that God is a healer and that 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.840 he has the final save. She and my father went 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.040 to their bedroom, laid down on the floor and prayed. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.960 God said in Psalm fifty, call under me in the 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.240 day of trouble, and. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.320 I will rescue you. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.440 A lot of times in our difficulties, we call people, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.200 call friends, call relatives, call experts, and that's all fine. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.960 But make sure you call out to God ask him 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.800 to help you. He created the universe, he flung stars 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.200 into place. He has all power. You don't have to 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.440 beg him, you don't have to plead with him. He's 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.760 longing to be good to you. The scripture says, it 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.320 is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.120 Just ask in faith for what he's already promised. One 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.000 of the most powerful things we can do is take 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.280 God's word to him. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.520 Remind him what he said. Father, you said you would 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.080 restore health backon to me. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.040 Lord, I'm asking for your healing. I'm asking you to 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.920 do what medicine cannot do. Take his word and pray 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.280 bold prayers. Father, you said my children will be mighty 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.160 in the land. I'm asking you to free them from 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.320 this addiction. Take away these. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.040 Wrong friends, help them to fulfill their destiny. 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.360 Well, Father, you said I would prosper and be in 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.280 good health, that I would live. Did not borrow that. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.800 You are Jehovah, Jirah, the Lord, my provider. So Lord, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.800 I'm asking you to supply all of my needs. Make 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.160 rivers in the desert, give me overflow so I can 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.720 be a bigger blessing. On December eleventh, nineteen eighty one, 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.840 when my mother and father prayed and asked God to 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.680 heal her from that cancer. My mother believed that day 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.680 she received her healing, that she came in to her midnight, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:30.600 that she went from PM to am. But here's the key. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.720 Nothing looked any different. She was still very frail, her 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.560 skin was yellow. She only weighed eighty nine pounds. I 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.440 never heard her complain, She never talked defeat. She would 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.960 go through the house quoting scriptures, I will live and 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.640 not die, and declare the works of the Lord. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:50.120 It was still dark. 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.520 The medical report hadn't changed month after month, no sign 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.560 of improvement. All of her senses said it's not going 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.080 to work out. She did look good, she didn't feel well. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.560 Her emotions, her thoughts said she wasn't going to make it. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.480 But she wasn't moved by what she saw. She kept 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:14.200 thanking God, walking by faith and not by sight. Sight said, 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.160 it's dark, nothing has changed, you'll. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.720 Never get well. But faith said, I've entered a new day. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.680 It's dark now, but light is coming. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.119 It's just a matter of time before the healing breaks 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:32.200 forth over the horizon. Didn't happen like Paul and Silas suddenly, 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.480 but over time, little by little, she started getting better 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.679 and better. Her skin color came back to normal. She 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.600 gained her weight back, got her strength. Today, almost forty 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:48.040 years later, she's perfectly healthy and who no cancer in 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:48.720 her body. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:53.359 God has the final save. It may be dark in 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.640 your life right now, but don't let the dark fool you. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.760 The dark is not a sign that you're never going 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.959 to get it well. It's not a sign that your 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.600 child is never going to do right. It's not a 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.440 sign that your business is not. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:07.760 Going to make it. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.680 It may have been meant to stop you. The enemy 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.520 sent it to keep you from your destiny. The good 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.520 news God has overruled that scheme. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.480 He's thwarting the plans of the enemy. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.479 That darkness is not going to last. The depression is 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.440 not permanent. The addiction, the sickness, that trouble at work 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.160 is not how your story ends. You've gone from PM 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:32.240 to am. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.720 It's a new day. The sun is about. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.800 To break forth. Healing is in your future. Abundance is 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:44.160 in your future. Good relationships are in your future. Victory 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.000 is in your future. Instead of complaining about the dark, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.520 being discouraged by the dark, have a new perspective. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.800 The dark means light is coming. Now do your part. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.280 Start praising Him in the dark, Start thanking him that 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.159 things are changed in your favor. 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.879 Don't be moved by what you see. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.680 Eleven thirty at night doesn't look any different than midnight. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:09.840 But midnight is a new day. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.280 God is saying the clock has ticked in your favor. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.440 You pass midnight, things may not look any different, yet, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:19.359 don't worry. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.520 Light is on the way. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.560 The sun has never once not come up. God has 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.640 never once not made good on his promises. It may 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.639 not happen on our timetable or the way we thought. 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:33.439 But I can. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.560 Assure you the sun is going to come up in 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.760 your life. You wouldn't be alive if God didn't have 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:41.840 something amazing in your future. 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:43.640 Well, Joel, it. 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.960 Sure feels light midnight. Midnight is a good thing. God 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.240 always starts in the dark. That's a sign he's about 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:55.960 to burst something new, something big, something unusual. If he 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.400 started in the light, it wouldn't take any faith. If 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.760 we could see how it was going to happen, we 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.840 had all the resources, the connections, the solution. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.000 We wouldn't have to depend on him. 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.080 The time to show what you're made of is when 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.080 it's dark and you don't see anything changing. 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:14.439 Thoughts will tell. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.480 You you'll never get out of debt, you'll never meet the 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:22.280 right person, you'll never accomplish that dream. Instead of getting depressed, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.800 the right attitude is, yes, it's still dark. Yes I 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.440 don't see anything changing, but I'm not worried. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.840 I know it's after midnight. Light is coming. 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.439 God is faithful what he promised you he's going to 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.080 bring to pass. In the scripture, job went to a 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.520 dark time. Everything was going great, life was good. Then 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:45.840 the bottom fell out. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.560 He lost his health, lost his family, lost his business. 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:50.879 Didn't seem fair. 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.879 The scripture says Job was the most righteous man of 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:56.160 his day. 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:57.400 You would think he. 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.440 Wouldn't have any dark seasons, he wouldn't have to deal 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:05.080 with disappointments, bad breaks. But life happens to us. All 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.400 rain falls on the just and the unjust. The difference 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.720 with the just with people like you, people that honor 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.320 God is God promises to take what was meant for 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.639 harm and turn it for your good. 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:20.639 There may be dark. 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.679 Seasons, but if you'll stay in faith and not get bitter, 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.720 God won't just bring you out. He'll bring you out 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.680 better than you were before. He'll make the enemy pay 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:33.800 for bringing that trouble. God said to Satan, have you 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.040 seen my servant Job. There's no one like him in 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.719 all the land. He's blameless, He's a man of integrity, 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:42.720 he has a spirit of excellence. 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.280 I love the fact that God was bragging on Job. 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.960 If you could hear what God is saying about you, 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.080 you would be amazed. We think God is focused on 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.720 all of our faults, our shortcomings, But God sees all 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:57.960 the good things in you. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:21:59.840 He sees your heart to help U. 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.800 He sees your sincerity, your kindness, your courage. I can 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.879 hear him telling the angels, have you seen my son Jim. 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.920 He's really amazing. Have you seen my daughter Rachel. There's 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.960 no one like her. God is proud of you. He 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.720 made you in his own image. He calls you a masterpiece. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.720 And just because you're having difficulty doesn't mean you've. 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.840 Done something wrong. We all go through test and. 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.040 Seasons that we don't understand. What I want us to 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.600 see is the darkness is not permanent. At some point, 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:36.639 you're going to go from PM to AM. 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:38.639 God is going to shift things. 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.200 You're going to come out promoted, increased, at a new 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:46.840 level of your destiny. When Job lost everything, he was 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.840 very discouraged. He sat down among the ashes and put 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:55.880 on sackcloth. He went through phases of being upset, bitter, frustrated. 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:57.520 But God knows. 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:01.280 We're human, we feel things. There may be times where 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:05.440 you feel those emotions. That's okay, just don't stay there. 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.520 Job eventually got up out of the ashes. It was 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.920 still dark, nothing has changed, but he made the statement, 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.760 I know my Redeemer lives. 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.480 He was saying, God is still on the throne. 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:21.320 He has the final say I'm not going to drag 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:23.439 around sour over what I've lost. 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:26.919 I'm getting ready for the new things he has in store. 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:31.440 Few chapters later, in the middle of all the difficulty, 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:35.840 still as dark as ever, nothing had changed, but Job said, 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.920 I know God has granted me favor. 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.200 He was saying, I know I've entered a new day. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:43.720 I know I've gone. 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:47.880 From PM to AM. I know this darkness is not permanent. 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:53.240 Chapter eight, A man came along to encourage him. He said, Job, 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:57.600 God will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:01.280 lips with shouts of joy. He was saying to Job, 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:04.600 what God is saying to us. Don't let this dark 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:09.159 season fool you. Don't let this pandemic, don't let the sickness, 0:24:09.359 --> 0:24:12.840 don't let the breakup cause you to live defeated. You're 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:16.400 going to laugh again. You're going to love again. You're 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:19.720 going to dream again. You're going to build again. You're 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:23.760 going to lead again. You're going to flourish again. I've 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:27.159 heard it said, what if the darkness you're going through 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:30.879 is not the darkness of the tomb, but the darkness 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:35.119 of the womb, the darkness that proceeds God doing something 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:36.720 amazing in your life. 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:40.199 You're not in the darkness of the tomb. Have a 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:41.080 new perspective. 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:44.520 You're in the darkness of the womb. God is about 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.560 to do something that you haven't seen. You're going to 0:24:47.560 --> 0:24:49.680 discover talent that you didn't. 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:50.000 Know you had. 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:53.600 That person that broke your heart walked out on you, 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:57.160 they didn't stop your destiny. You're about to meet someone 0:24:57.560 --> 0:24:59.640 better than you've ever imagined. 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:02.200 That dark time is not wasted. 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.520 God is using it to burst something that you could 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:09.919 have never experienced without it. When my father went to 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:12.399 be with the Lord, that was a dark time for me. 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:15.560 But I can tell you I wasn't in the darkness 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:18.560 of the tomb. I was in the darkness of the womb. 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:22.040 God burthed talent in me that I didn't know was there. 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:25.320 He took what I thought would be my darkest hour 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:29.439 and turned it into my brightest hour. The scripture says 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:33.440 God will turn your morning into dancing. He will take 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:37.879 away your sadness and clothe you with joy. I believe 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:40.679 there's sadness that's about to be taken away. 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:44.200 That darkness is about to lift off of you. 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:48.800 You're going to be clothed with joy, happy, fulfilled, vibrant 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:53.600 with fresh vision, fresh passion. Not just come out okay, hey, 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:56.439 I made it through. That morning is about to be 0:25:56.520 --> 0:25:59.240 turned to dancing. God is going to make up for 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:02.400 the sadness. He's going to pay you back for the sorrow, 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:04.480 the hurt, the injustice. 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:07.840 Now get your hopes up, like Job, keep. 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:11.720 Thanking him that he's granted you favor. Keep declaring my 0:26:11.920 --> 0:26:16.680 redeemer lives. Job went through this dark season, but that's 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:20.880 not where he ended. The scripture says God restored back 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:24.800 to Job twice what he had before. He was more 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:27.320 blessed in the second part of his life. 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:28.960 Than he was the first. 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:32.240 Yes, it was dark, but when the sun rose up, 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:36.359 he came out with double. Don't believe those lies that 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:37.680 the darkness is permanent. 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:41.120 It's never going to change. That darkness is a sign 0:26:41.520 --> 0:26:45.399 that Double is coming. The sun is going to rise 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:46.720 in your life again. 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:50.080 You're going to see the goodness of God in ways 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:54.159 you've never seen. He's breathing in your direction right now, 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:58.000 in the unseen realm, things are changing in your favor. 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:02.120 Forces of darkness are being push back, the right breaks 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:03.280 are headed your way. 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:06.639 He's going to make things happen that you couldn't make happen. 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:09.520 You're going to know it was the hand of God. 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.200 When we talk about Job, we think that must have 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:15.040 been fifty years of his life. 0:27:15.280 --> 0:27:16.960 That was such a terrible time. 0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:21.639 But some commentaries believe the difficulty was only a nine 0:27:21.720 --> 0:27:22.520 month period. 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:24.720 It wasn't years and years. 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:27.840 What you're dealing with is not going to last as 0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:30.679 long as it looks. It's not going to hinder you 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:33.639 the rest of your life. The sun is going to 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:38.280 come up sooner than you think. You're already way past midnight. 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:42.159 Daybreak is about to happen. Light is about to break 0:27:42.200 --> 0:27:45.720 forth on the horizon. Get ready for favor, Get ready 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:48.720 for breakthroughs, Get ready for double You're not in the 0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:52.200 darkness of the tumbe. You're in the darkness of the womb. 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:54.880 God is about to burst something out of this that 0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:56.560 thrusts you to a new level. 0:27:57.200 --> 0:28:00.919 My challenge, trust him in the dark. You may not 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:03.280 see anything improving. That's okay. 0:28:03.600 --> 0:28:07.120 Walk by faith and not by sight. If you'll do this, 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:10.680 I believe and declare. God is about to turn your 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:15.560 mourning into dancing, your sadness into joy. Like Job, You're 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:20.360 going to come out restored, promoted, healthy, free, better than 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:24.800 you were before. In Jesus' name, I'd like to give 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:28.119 you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:32.119 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:36.120 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:40.160 you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer, 0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:43.400 we believe you got born again. 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