Walking In The Fullness Of The Blessing

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If 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.319 you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.960 and share it with a friend. We appreciate you and 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.240 pray for God's very best in your life. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:16.679 Oh God, bless you. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.240 It's always a joy to come into your homes. We 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.679 love you, and we're believing you're gonna have a supernatural year, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.160 gonna be your best year so far. If you're ever 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.119 in our area, stop buying seys. I promise you we'll 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.039 make you feel right at home. But thanks for tuning in, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.600 Thanks again for coming out. I like to start with 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.360 something funny, and I heard about this college professor. 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.920 He told his students he was going to prove that 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.800 there is no God. He said, God, if you're real, 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.800 knock me off this platform. I'll give you fifteen minutes 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:46.240 to do it. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.480 With every minute that went by, he kept taunting God, 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:50.560 Say here I am God. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:51.480 I'm still waiting. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.880 About that time, a three hundred pound football player walking 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.240 down the hall overheard what he was saying in there, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.920 put his shoulder down. He knocked that professor flying off 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.440 that platform. The professor got up in a daze and said, 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.760 what in the world did you do that for? The 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.880 player replied, God said he was busy, so he sent me. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.760 All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.960 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.560 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.880 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.919 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.520 confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.680 will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.160 I want to talk to you today about walking in 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.840 the fullness of the blessing. Every one of us, as 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.600 God's children, has what the scripture. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.400 Calls the blessing. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.480 It's an empowerment, a divine enablement to accomplish our God 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.919 given dreams. The blessing is really God's favor on your life. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.959 It's when he's breathing in your direction. When you walk 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.680 in the blessing, you make good decisions, you see supernatural opportunities, 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.440 the right people come across your path, and you realize 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.600 it's not your own strength, it's not your own ability. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.560 It's the blessing of God on your life. And we've 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.520 all experienced a measure of this blessing We've seen a 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.240 measure of God's favor, but there is a level of 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.000 blessing God is going to release in your life like 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.359 nothing you've ever seen before. The Apostle Paul said in Romans, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.320 I will come in the fullness of the blessing. That 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.320 word fullness means to the highest degree, the greatest measure. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.600 You may say, well, Joel, God has blessed me. I've 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.440 got a good family, I've got a good job, I 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.280 live in a nice house. That's great. But God is 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.240 saying you haven't seen anything yet. You haven't touched the 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.640 surface of what God has in store. You've walked in 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.840 a measure of that blessing. But God has a much 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.360 greater measure. He has promotion lined up for you that 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.120 if He showed you right now, it boggle your mind. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.080 God has opportunities in your future that are going to 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.800 amaze you. He's going to bring people across your path 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.520 to where you look back and say that had to 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.560 be the hand of God. What am I saying? What 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.240 you've seen in the past is a tiny fraction of 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.320 what God is going to do in the future. If 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.839 you would have told me when I was in my twenties, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.400 sitting here at the Compact Center watching the Rockets play basketball, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.400 that one day this would be our facility. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.720 I would have said, what planet have you been living on? 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.839 That was so much bigger, so far beyond anything I 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.880 could even imagine. If you would have told me just 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.960 ten years ago, when I was working behind the scenes here, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.600 never ministered before, quiet and reserved, that one day I 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.880 would be a minister. One day I would be on television, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.680 I would write books, go all over the world. I 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.800 would have said, your elevator doesn't go all the way up. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.440 I didn't think this was in me, But one thing 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:15.680 I've learned is God likes to outdo himself. God's dream 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.640 for your life is so much bigger than your own. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.039 God is going to take you places that you've never 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.280 thought possible. He is going to open up doors that 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.560 you've never imagined. He's going to bring talent out of 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.599 you that you didn't even know you had. This is 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.080 the time to get excited about your future. It's time 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.760 to get your hopes up. You are not here by accident. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.760 You have been chosen by the creator of the universe. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.760 Your destiny is not determined by the economy or how. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.440 You were raised or your education. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:54.160 Your destiny is determined by Almighty God. And the good 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.279 news is God has already laid out a life of 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.920 victory for every one of you, whether you realize it 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:06.200 or not, even right now. Because you're honoring God, he 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.680 is arranging things in your favor. He is lining up 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:16.159 new ideas, new opportunities, promotion increase. In the days ahead. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.560 You're gonna like stumble into it. You're gonna look up 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.360 like I did and think, how in the world did 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.680 I end up here. I didn't have the experience, didn't 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.400 have the connections, didn't have the funds. All I can 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.599 say is, look what the Lord has done in my life. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:37.200 What happened? You tapped in to a greater measure of 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:37.880 that blessing. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.760 But some of you today you're not releasing your faith 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.279 for this fullness. It's easy to get satisfied and think, well, Joel, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.760 i am blessed. I've got a roof over my head, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.679 I've got money to pay my bills, and that's good. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.120 But that's not God's best. God is a god of abundance. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.200 He wants you to not only have enough for your needs, 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.080 but to have so much left over you can be 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.320 a blessing to somebody else, and we need to go beyond. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.200 I'm blessed because I got food on the table. I'm 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.040 blessed because I've got peace, and that's good. Let's be grateful, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.120 but don't stop there. The fullness of the blessing is 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.680 when you get up in the morning and say, Wow, God, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.160 I'm amazed at where you brought me. I'm amazed at 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.240 the family You've given me. I'm amazed at this opportunity, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.360 I'm amazed at this beautiful house. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.440 When you stand in amazement. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.840 Of God's goodness, that's a sign you're tapping into the 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.920 fullness of the blessing. And you may not be there 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.760 just yet. But my encouragement is don't settle where you are. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.240 You've got to keep your faith stirred up every morning. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.240 Thank God for the fullness of his blessing. When you 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.080 go out look for God's favor. You are a child 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.560 of the most High God. God is a god of overflow. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.800 He is not a barely get by God. He is 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.680 a more than enough God. What he has laid out 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.360 for your future is more than you can imagine. What 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.880 he's got arranged for your family is more than you've 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.760 ever even dreamed of. In the coming days, you're gonna 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.760 see supernatural doors begin to open. You're gonna see promotion 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.240 like you've not seen before. God is going to bring 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.360 people across your path that, for no apparent reason, will 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.640 want to be good to you, people that will help 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.080 you fulfill your dreams. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.640 You're gonna have extraordinary wisdom. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.400 You're gonna tap into ability that you didn't even know 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.840 you had. You're gonna walk in the fullness of this blessing. Well, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.199 you say, Joel, I don't believe that's gonna happen for me. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.440 I don't believe I'm gonna rise any higher. Then this 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.600 is not for you. This is for believers. This is 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.960 for people that will let the seed take through. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:55.160 No matter where you are. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.000 You need to dig your heels in and say, with 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.840 the apostle Paul, I'm not saying here, I'm gonna become 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.040 everything God's created me to be. 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.560 I'm gonna walk in the fullness of his blessing. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.880 The scripture talks about how God will give us houses 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:15.120 that we didn't build, vineyards that we didn't plant. That 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.000 simply means if you'll keep God first place and honor 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.400 him with your life. God will give you favor that 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.120 you didn't have to work for. God will give you 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.319 promotion even though you weren't the most qualified. He'll release 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.520 extraordinary blessings simply because you're His child. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.360 You need to get this down in your spirit. It 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.760 is going to be a supernatural year. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.440 God is going to unleash his favor in unprecedented ways. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.280 You may have had victories in your past, but your 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.800 greatest victories are still in your future. What God has 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.880 done in the past is going to peale in comparison 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.760 to what God is about to do. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:57.720 You might as well get ready. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.480 There is going to be a great outpouring of God's 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.000 goodness like nothing. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.040 We've ever seen before. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.760 You and I are living at the right time, We 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.040 are at the right place, We're in the right family. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.920 As long as we continue to be people of excellence 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.960 and integrity, then nothing that's happened in the past, nor 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.120 nothing that will happen in the future, can stop this 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:25.960 blessing from coming our way. Well, you see, Joel, I 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.319 don't see how you can say that. With the economy 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.920 like it is, all the experts are saying it's going 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.760 to get worse before it gets better. That may be 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.680 true in general, but it doesn't have to be true 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.520 for you and me. We are connected to a supply 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:44.640 line that will never run dry. God said, your life 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:49.559 will not wither, and whatever you touch will prosper. Don't 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.640 be talked into having a bad year. The economy is 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.480 not our source. God is our source. And God wants 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.800 to bless you beyond your salary. He wants to bless 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:05.720 you beyond your normal income. God likes to do unusual things. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:10.040 He can bless you with what I call an explosive blessing. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:15.360 That means, all of a sudden, unexpectedly, out of the blue, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:20.680 you get an inheritance, or a debt is canceled, a 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:25.320 business takes off, a new client searches you out. An 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.199 explosive blessing takes you to a new level. It blasts 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.240 away old limitations, and suddenly you find yourself further than 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.640 you ever dreamed. Had a gentleman tell me just last 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.600 week how he got a check in the mail, an 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.520 inheritance from someone he didn't even know he was related to. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.760 That one check put him in his family at a 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:47.520 whole new level. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.000 What was it? An explosive blessing? 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.280 I don't know about you, but I'm believing this year 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:57.480 I'm going to see more of these explosive blessings. We 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:03.720 should pray God bless me to a new level. God 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.800 blessed me out of these limitations that are holding me back. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.640 I have some friends that own property out in the country. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.920 They've had it for years and years, hardly paid anything 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:14.280 for it. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.000 It's way out in the middle of nowhere. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.920 But several months ago the state informed them that they're 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.360 putting a new freeway in and is going to. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:23.840 Go right through their property. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.240 They not only sold part of it for a huge 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.600 profit to the state, but now three or four developers 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.480 are bidding over the rest of that property. Overnight, it 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.199 went from being worth nothing to being extremely valuable. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:39.480 Think about it. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.120 God knew all along where the freeway was going to go. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.640 God had it all planned out. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.800 Then suddenly, unexpectedly, things fell into place. A single parent 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.400 mom told how a local hospital forgave a fifty seven 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.559 thousand dollars debt for her child's surgery and explosive blessing. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.000 A young man and told how the college he wanted 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:06.080 to attend didn't have any more scholarships. He applied, but 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.200 they turned him down. He was very discouraged. He didn't 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.800 have the funds to go on his own. Three weeks 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.559 before school started, he got a call back from the 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.920 university saying something had changed. Instead of offering him the 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.679 two year partial scholarship that he'd applied for, they said, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.280 We've got a four year total scholarship for you. Just 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.800 one phone call, one touch of God's favor, one explosive blessing. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.160 Now when he graduates, instead of having tens of thousands 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.439 of dollars to pay back, he'll graduate totally free. Why 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.600 don't you start believing for some of these explosive blessings, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.600 blessings that will thrust you to a new level. Paul 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.600 said in Ephesians Too, in the ages to come, we 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:58.160 would see the immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of God's favor. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.680 In other words, he said, we will see far and 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:06.360 beyond favor, favor like people have never seen before. You 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.960 think about what God has done in the past. He 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.280 parted the Red Sea, one time, God stopped the sun 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.240 for Joshua. You remember how Jesus fed thousands with just 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.560 a little boy's lunch. All kinds of great miracles have 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:24.040 taken place. Yet Paul is saying in the ages to come, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.720 God would do things that far supersede anything he's ever 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:29.360 done before. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:34.000 Think about this. Paul wrote this ages ago. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.760 I believe the age is to come that he's talking 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.960 about is the day we're living in today. We need 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:45.640 to start believing for this far and beyond favor. Don't 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.880 go year after year expecting the same thing the same way. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.680 God is a god of increase. He has greater levels. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.640 Where you are is not where you're supposed to stay. Well, God, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.000 you know what the economy's like. If you'll just help 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.200 me scrape by these. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:03.880 Next two years. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:08.120 Now, that is a limited mindset. God created you as 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.320 the head and not the tail. He said you would 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:16.080 lend and not borrow. He is called Elshadday, the God 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.080 who is more than enough. You have got to get 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:24.240 rid of little dreams, little ideas, little plans. Keep a 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.760 God sized vision in front of you. God wants to 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.880 show every one of you the surpassing greatness of his favor. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.240 He can give you one idea that will take you 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:36.040 to a new level. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.200 He can cause you to meet one person that will 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.840 change your life for the better forever. Dare to believe 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.040 for this limitless favor. That's what a gentleman did by 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.360 the name of Truet Kathy. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.960 In nineteen forty six, he and. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.040 His brother opened a small restaurant in Atlanta. He noticed 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.720 how everybody loved hamburgers. Hamburgers were the rage. One day, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.680 God give him an idea. He thought, if everyone likes 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.200 hamburger so much, I wonder how they would like a 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.320 chicken burger. So instead of putting the beef in there, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.400 he put chicken in there. Nineteen sixty seven, he opened 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.400 up his first fast food restaurant. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.760 He called it Chick fil A. God bless him. It grew. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.280 Today there are nearly fourteen hundred Chick fil Ays in 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.200 thirty seven states. True at Kathy and his family, they 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.240 give millions of dollars to help people around the world. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.000 That's just one idea that God gave him, just a 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.200 little insight. It says in Proverbs that God will give 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.560 his people witty inventions. Why don't you start believing for 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.600 new ideas, new concepts, new discoveries. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.800 God has all kinds of inventions just waiting to be released. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.640 He has businesses just waiting to entrust people with books. 0:16:55.760 --> 0:17:00.000 Just waiting to be written. New technology, new procedures, new medicine. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:05.400 We should pray, God give me unusual creativity. God help 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.680 me to be able to see into the future inventions 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.360 to bring you honor. The scripture says it is God 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.840 who gives you the power to get wealth. God can 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.800 give you one idea that if you will act on it, 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.120 it will change the course of your family. You may 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.160 not have it all figured out, that's okay. God does 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.040 you do your part, and God will do his part. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.480 I want you to start believing that God is going 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.160 to do something great through you. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:38.400 God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.040 If you have a desire, like Truant Cathy, to not 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.320 only use your resources to bless your family, but to 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.240 make a difference in the world around you, then there's 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.199 no limit to what God will do. And in the 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.920 coming days, there's going to be a transfer of wealth. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.239 There's going to be a major shifting in finances and 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.280 in large amounts of resources. And some of you think 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.919 this could never happen for you. You don't come from 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.240 the right family, you don't have the right connections. It 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.159 seems very unlikely. But let me remind you you have 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.800 been faithful. You have honored God with your life. You 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.960 have given, you have served, you have helped others. All 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.200 those seeds that you've sown down through the years did 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:29.080 not go unnoticed. Every act of kindness, every gift, every offering, 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.560 every word of encouragement. God has kept the records. Those 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.359 seeds that you've sown have taken root, they've grown, they've developed. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.560 Now it's time for you to reap a harvest off 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.000 of your years of faithfulness. Where's it going to come from? 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.960 How's it gonna happen? Proverbs thirteen twenty two. The wealth 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.879 of the ungodly will eventually find its way into the 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.360 hands of the righteous, for whom it's. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.520 Been laid up for. I love that it's been laid 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:02.120 up for you. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.720 As long as you stay in faith, God has promised 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:11.040 the abundance, the promotion, the funds that already have your 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:16.000 name on it, They're eventually gonna be transferred over. Just imagine, 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.600 here's someone that doesn't honor God. They don't live a 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.879 life of integrity, they don't think about others. God is saying, 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.080 I'll let them make the money. I'll let them earn 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.480 the funds, but then I'll turn it over to you. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.960 I'll deposit it into your accounts. Hey, you say, Joel, 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.040 this sounds kind of far out today. 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:39.119 Yeah, but we serve a far out God. That's why we. 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.840 Should get up every day expecting far and beyond favor. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.200 Don't go around thinking, oh, man, it's gonna be a 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:46.760 rough year. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.919 Business is slow, prices are high. This will probably be 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.640 the year I go under Joel. Now, listen, God said 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.439 he will crown the year with a bountiful harvest. Noice, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.000 not I'll barely get by harvest. Not to just let 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.120 me survive harvest, but an overflow harvest. And her attitude 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:08.280 should be this is gonna be a great year. I 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.640 can already sense it. Favor is coming my way. Blessings, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.040 good ideas, promotion, they already have my name on it, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.560 and I know, as long as I stay faithful, eventually 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.439 they're gonna find their way into my hands. That's what 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.800 it means when the scripture says God's blessings will chase 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.879 you down and overtake you those blessings. Let me make 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.880 it more practical the funds to accomplish your God given dreams. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.400 Sooner or later they're gonna catch up to you unexpectedly, 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:46.480 a promotion, an idea and invention, and inheritance, a new business, 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.360 a supernatural contract. God is going to get into your 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.600 hands everything that belongs to you. The wealth of the 0:20:54.720 --> 0:21:00.120 ungodly has been laid up for the godly. Here's the key. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:05.439 Make sure you're in the second group. Make sure you 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.040 are honoring God with your life. Keep your heart pure, 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.280 Let go of any weights or any sins that are 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.200 holding you back. I found most of the time it's 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.640 not the big things that keep us from God's. 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.240 Best, it's just the small things. 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.280 If you're going to get in on this transfer, you've 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.600 got to be a person of excellence and integrity. When 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.280 you go to work, get there on time and give 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.800 it one hundred percent. Treat the people in your life 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.879 with respect and kindness, and don't just look out for yourself. 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.320 Always be a blessing to somebody else. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.320 If you'll live a life like this, a life that 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:48.400 pleases God, he promises honor, wealth, and abundance are coming 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:53.080 your way. I love to meditate on that. Right now, somewhere, 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.679 increase is looking for me. I don't know about you, 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.520 but I've got big dreams. I need this far and 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:04.360 beyond favor. Victoria and I have dreams of building orphanages 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:08.159 and children's home feeding hungry people. We've already committed to 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.919 our first girls home. We're in the ground stages of that. 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.520 This costs millions and millions of dollars. But you know what, 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:16.959 I'm not the least bit worried. I know there are 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:20.160 funds that are out there that already have my name 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.520 on it. It's just a matter of time before they 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:27.000 show up. The wealth of the ungodly is going to 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:30.240 help furnish the dreams of the godly. You need to 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.840 have big goals. We serve a big God. He has 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:38.320 limitless favor. That means not just enough for me or you. 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.800 He has favor promotion funds for every one of his children. 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:47.000 For some people in Africa, a new level of increase 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:49.960 is to have clean drinking water or to own their 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.960 own water well. For others, it's to pay off a house, 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:57.120 or to have funds to expand a business venture. Whatever 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:01.640 your dreams are, know this God to do more. He's 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:05.639 gonna supersize anything you're thinking about. You're not gonna just 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.480 accomplish what's in your heart. God is gonna help you 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:13.560 supersede anything you've ever imagined. You're gonna be amazed at 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:14.720 where you end up. 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:15.399 You don't know. 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.480 God may bless you so much. Just your tithe could 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:22.200 underwrite our whole budget. God is gonna unleash a new 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:26.760 wave of funds upon his children. The next time you 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:31.919 see somebody that's extremely successful, they epitomize wealth and abundance, 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:34.639 yet they don't have anything to do with the things 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.280 of God. You can just think to yourself, you know 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:40.600 what they may be working for me. They may be 0:23:40.680 --> 0:23:44.160 earning funds with my name on it. In the scripture, 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:47.960 God is called the Lord of the Sabboth. That means 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:51.240 the God who puts his armor on and goes to 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:55.400 war against those who hold his treasure. 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:56.480 From his purposes. 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:00.119 In other words, just imagine God putting his armor on 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:02.879 and go into the forces of darkness and saying, Okay, 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:04.280 I'll take those funds. 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:05.720 I need them for my children. 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:10.119 I'll take these businesses, these ideas, these contracts, they have 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:14.040 my children's name on it. Friends, God is fighting your 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:17.800 battles for you. He has immeasurable favor come. 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:22.000 In your way. This is not the time to get discouraged. 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:24.000 It's not the time to say, just help me to 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:25.840 make it through God the next two years. 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:27.160 Now this is the time. 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:30.280 To say, God, I know you have honor and wealth 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:32.760 laid up for me, So I just want to thank 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:36.840 you that the surpassing greatness of your favor is coming 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:40.560 my way. It says in Isaiah that God will give 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:45.200 us the hidden riches found in secret places. Think about 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:49.000 God knows where all the hidden riches are. He knows 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:53.040 where all the oil is, the minerals, the gold, the diamonds. 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:56.119 He's the one that put them there. I know this couple, 0:24:56.320 --> 0:25:00.440 they recently discovered that they have valuable minerals on their property. 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:03.720 This company is not only paying them to drill, but 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:05.800 they're getting ninety percent of the profits. 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:07.600 I mean, it's like they won the lottery. 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.879 And what's so interesting is that same company had surveyed 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:14.760 the land some ten years ago, but there was no 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:18.520 sign of any oil before that couple moved in. But 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.280 this geologist said he had a desire to go back 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:23.560 and check it again, and this time there was a 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:27.040 little indication that there might be oil on the property. 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:29.639 They gave them the rights to drill. Sure enough, they 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:33.080 struck oil. It looks like there's no end in sight. Well, 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:35.760 what was it that caused that oil to all the 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:39.359 sudden show up once that young couple moved in? What 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:41.520 was it that caused the geologist to want to go 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:43.040 back and survey the property? 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.040 That was Almighty God. 0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:50.399 Uncovering the hidden riches found in secret places. You don't 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:53.520 know what you're sitting on, You don't know where God 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:54.240 is leading you. 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:57.520 He has hidden treasures for every one of his children. 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:00.680 I read about a twenty nine year old young man 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:04.959 plays minor league baseball. Three years ago, he bought a 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:08.879 fifty acre tract of land from his great aunt just 0:26:08.960 --> 0:26:11.240 so she would have the funds to move into a 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:14.480 senior citizen's home. He paid fifty thousand dollars for the 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:18.280 property thousand dollars an acre. It wasn't really worth that much. 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:21.439 He didn't really need the property. He just did it 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:23.200 as an act of kindness. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:24.000 Toward his aunt. 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.200 One day, he was out clearing a couple of acres, 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:29.919 digging around on the property, and he kept hitting this 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:33.920 flat stone every where he went. Right under the surface, 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:37.879 there was this unusual looking rock. Long story short, he 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:41.359 called an expert out. They discovered that his property is 0:26:41.520 --> 0:26:44.600 full of something called Ghoshen stone. 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:46.040 It's some of the most. 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:50.840 Beautiful and most sought after landscaping stone around. It sells 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:54.320 for one hundred dollars a ton. They estimate that he 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:58.080 has twenty four million tons on his property. If you 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:00.919 calculate it out, it comes to ride over two billion 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:05.080 dollars worth of stone. You think about how it all started, 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:09.719 when he did something good for somebody else. When you 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:12.159 live a life to give and you go around so 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:15.359 in seeds of kindness, you never know what kind of 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:19.000 harvest you're going to reap. No, you may not strike oil, 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:22.719 you may not find expensive rock on your property. But 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.760 God can give you one idea that can lead to 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:28.119 all kinds of funds. God can cause you to be 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:29.879 at the right place at the right time. 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:32.560 He can bring talent out of you that you didn't 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:33.440 even know you had. 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:36.800 I want you to start believing for the fullness of 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:39.919 this blessing. No matter where you are, God wants you 0:27:39.960 --> 0:27:42.960 to rise higher. He wants you to be more blessed, 0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:45.719 so you can be a bigger blessing. Will you get 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:48.520 a vision for it? Will you shake off or barely 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:52.320 get by? Let me just survive mentality? No, you go 0:27:52.400 --> 0:27:54.840 out each day knowing that God's going to show you 0:27:55.080 --> 0:27:58.800 the surpassing greatness of his favor. Remember, the wealth of 0:27:58.840 --> 0:28:02.280 the ungodly has already been laid up for you. It's 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:04.720 just a matter of time before it finds its way 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:07.919 into your hands. And if you'll keep your faith stirred 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:10.679 up this year and believe for far and beyond favor, 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.199 let me just declare it again. God is going to 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:16.439 amaze you with his goodness. What you've seen in the 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:19.399 past will pale in comparison to what God's going to 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:22.400 do in the future. He is going to unleash explosive 0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:25.800 blessings to where suddenly you find yourself further than you 0:28:25.920 --> 0:28:29.480 even imagined. And instead of just dreaming your dreams, you'll 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:31.560 be living your dreams, walking in the. 0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:32.560 Fullness of the blessing. 0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:35.040 When you look back, all you'll be able to say 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:38.560 is Wow, look what the Lord has done for me. Amen, 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:40.760 Can you give the Lord a shat of praise today? 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:46.160 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:48.960 an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:28:49.240 --> 0:28:50.200 Would you pray with me? 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:55.920 Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, come 0:28:55.960 --> 0:29:00.800 into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:29:00.840 --> 0:29:03.040 if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you. 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:05.800 Got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 0:29:06.120 --> 0:29:08.800 Keep God first place. 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