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You Are Somebody's Miracle

Joel Osteen
June 23, 2022 29m 53s

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Our joy is connected to our giving.  Go out each day and decide you’re going to be a blessing to someone. Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We love 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.520 you and we're believing for God's very best in your life. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.320 And if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.840 stop by. I promise you we'll make you feel right 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.720 at home. But thanks for tuning in today. I like 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.120 to get started each week with something funny and I 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.400 heard about this man. He was out walking through the 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.919 woods with a friend, and all of a sudden they 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.160 came upon this huge grizzly bear. They froze in their tracks, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.280 and as the bear intently starred them down, they contemplated 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.839 what they should do. Man turned to his friend and said, 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.760 I think we should run. His friends said, are you crazy? 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.760 You can't outrun a grizzly bear. He said, I know that. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.960 I don't have to outrun him. I just have to 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:42.960 outrun you. All right, Hold up your bible. Say it 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.320 like you mean that. This is my Bible. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.000 I am what it says. I am. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.160 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.800 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.040 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.760 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:05.960 the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.120 ever living seed of the Word of God. I'll never 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.760 be the same, never, never, never, I'll never. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.120 Be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.680 I want to talk to you today about how you 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:25.720 are someone's miracle. So many people are praying for a miracle. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:29.880 We have to realize we can become their miracle. God 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.320 uses people, and every day we should have the attitude, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.480 I'm going to do something good for someone else. I'm 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.440 going to encourage someone, I'm going to meet a need. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.400 I'm going to be kind to a neighbor. I'm going 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:48.480 to become someone's miracle. Our joy is connected to our giving, 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.240 and the reason a lot of people are not happy 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:55.720 today is because they're engrown. They're only focused on their 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.920 wants and their needs. But we have to get outside 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.680 of our self. When we get up in the morning, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.240 we should say, on purpose, God, show me somebody I 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:10.440 can bless today, Show me somebody that's discouraged, Bring somebody 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.880 across my path that has a need, somebody. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:14.480 I can make a difference in. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.240 And then we need to go out and look for 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:18.919 ways that we can do good. 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.800 It may not be something big, just. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.480 A smile here and encouraging word there, buying somebody's dinner, 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.760 giving somebody a ride, living to give rather than living 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.080 to get. Every day we should have a goal of 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.720 doing at least one thing good for somebody else. May 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.520 be your spouse, may be a neighbor, a coworker, even 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.040 a stranger. It doesn't have to be a special occasion. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.040 Don't wait for their birthday or for Christmas, just an 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.280 ordinary day. Bring your wife some flowers home, Call a 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.640 friend and tell them how much they mean to you. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:57.680 Go to your neighbor and give them. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.440 A gift certificate to go out to dinner. Or how 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.159 about that young man that brings pizza to your house. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.480 You don't even know him, but give him an extra 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.560 twenty dollars for no reason at all. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.640 Be good to somebody you don't know. You may be 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:12.560 their miracle. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.479 That simple gift, that phone call out of the blue, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.560 that encouraging word may be exactly what they needed to 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.599 keep pressing forward. Really, this is one of the most 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.440 rewarding ways to live. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.080 Every day. Find somebody you can be good to. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.360 I'll just warn you, if you get around me, you're 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.680 gonna get blessed, You're gonna get encouraged. If you have 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.920 a need, I'm going to do my best to meet it. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.280 If I see at a restaurant, I'm going to probably 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.640 buy your dinner unless there are forty of you. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:45.880 And don't follow me around. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.920 Now that you know this, but I've made up my mind, 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.479 I'm going to be a giver and not a taker. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.640 I'm looking for ways to be a blessing. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.719 I may need a few miracles of my own, but 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.279 I'm going to sow a seed by becoming somebody's miracle. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.719 I'm not going to get up thinking about how I 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.000 can get blessed today. I'm going to get up thinking 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.880 about who I can be a blessing to. How can 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.840 I brighten somebody else's day. That's the key to true fulfillment. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.560 Every morning, our prayer should be, God, help me to 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.240 become somebody's miracle today. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.120 Help me to be sensitive to the people you bring 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.040 across my path. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.919 The other day, I saw this man on his cell 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.760 phone and in the middle of his conversation, his battery died. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.400 It must have been an important call, because he was. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.599 Very frustrated, very stressed out. He looked like he was 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.760 from another country. And I was standing beside him waiting 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.120 in a hotel lobby, and when I saw it die, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.440 I just handed him my cell phone, said here, use 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.920 this one. He said, no, I can't do that. I'm 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.400 making a long distance call. I said that's okay, doesn't matter. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.719 You can call anywhere you want to. He looked at 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.040 me kind of strange and said, are you sure. I said, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.760 I'm sure. When I heard him dial in Korea almost 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.960 changed my mind. But when he handed me my phone 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.320 back five minutes later, he said, in the most genuine, 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.280 sincere voice you can imagine, thank you so much. You 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.000 just don't know what that meant to me. I thought 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.480 all I did was loan to my cell phone. In 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.120 my mind, it was no big deal. But I could 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.720 tell that simple act of kindness brightened his day. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.200 I was his miracle. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.080 Sure it may have cost me twenty dollars, but I 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.240 know when I'm good to other people, God will always 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.080 be good back to me. Be on the lookout for 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:37.000 people you can bless God said to Abraham, I will 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.040 bless you so you will be a blessing dispensing good 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.800 to others. A key to being blessed is are we 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.480 willing to be a blessing. We're not going to be 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.760 blessed in the way God really wants us to if 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.640 we're not willing to share it with others. When you 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.120 study the life of Jesus, this is exactly how he lived. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.640 He went out each day making a difference in people lives, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:05.720 healing the sick, feeding the hungry, comforting the lonely, blessing 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.280 the children, says in. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.280 Acts ten thirty eight. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.440 He was anointed with the spirit, and he went about 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:16.680 doing good. That's our ministry as well. It's not complicated. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.360 You don't have to know how to preach. You don't 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.240 have to understand all the deep doctrine. All you need 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.480 to do is go out each day and be good 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.080 to people. Give a compliment here, hold the door open 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.880 for the people behind you. When you go get something 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.679 to drink, bring your coworker back a drink as well. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.760 Look for opportunities to do good. One time I was 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.960 leaving Minute Made Park. The ballgame had just let out, 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.600 and I was pulling out of the parking lot. People 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.320 were streaming out of the building and it started to rain. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.600 Now I felt bad for the people getting wet. Most 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.680 of them had a long way to go to their car. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.119 There were hundreds of them. I couldn't do something for everyone. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.360 But I did have one umbrella in my back seat, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.440 so I pulled over and roll down the window. And 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.600 these two ladies were passing by. They had their programs 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:05.800 over their head to keep them. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:06.439 From getting wet. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.840 I didn't know them, they didn't know me, but I said, hey, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.080 here's an umbrella that you can have. When I gave 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.319 them that umbrella, you would have thought I had given 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.240 them a thousand dollars. They got so excited she punched her. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.839 Friends said, I can't believe it. She just said, God, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:26.680 I wish I had an umbrella. I said, well, God 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.080 must have heard your prayer, because here's an umbrella being delivered. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:37.319 By an angel. What I'm saying is you can become 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:38.600 someone's miracle. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.720 Well, I'm not going to give my umbrella way. It 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.000 cost me eighteen dollars. No, you can't out give God. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.400 When you give, it's going to be given back to you. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:52.200 It's funny. I had had that umbrella forever. It must 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:53.199 have been ten years old. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.920 It was old, beat up, probably didn't cost me five dollars. Well, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.760 several months later, I was leaving a Hope Tell and 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.000 it was raining. The bellman had this big, fancy umbrella, 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.920 looked like two umbrellas combined into one, and he was 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.319 so nice to get us into our cars. And just 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.440 as I was about to shut my door, he looked 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.080 at me and said, do you have an umbrella? I said, no, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.640 I don't. He folded that up, shook it off and said, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.040 here have this one. We got plenty of those. I thought, God, 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.600 you are so good. I gave away my beat up, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.320 ten year old five dollars umbrella. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.199 He gave me back a double wide. 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.199 I can get my whole family under this one. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.600 But that Bellman right in my day, he was my miracle. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.520 That's the way God works. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.280 When you go around being good to people, God will 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.480 make sure other. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:47.560 People are good back to you. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.760 The scripture says here in Galatians six', ten as occasion 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:56.480 and opportunity, arise let us do good for all. People 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.160 notice it saying whenever you have the opportunity to do, 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.920 good whenever you're able to be a, blessing don't pass it. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.400 Up don't Say. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.600 I'm busy maybe next, time OR i need my. Umbrella 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.000 it may rain. Tomorrow i'd love to give you a, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.280 ride But i've got my. Plans i'm gonna go work. Out, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.160 no don't miss an opportunity to become someone's. Miracle if 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.280 you see someone at the office that's down and, discouraged 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.600 don't just walk by thinking what's wrong with? 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.720 Them they must be having a hard. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.200 Day, no take time to go to. Them, say, hey 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.720 is something? Wrong CAN i pray with you about? Anything 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:32.600 or better, yet come, On i'm going to buy your. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.679 Lunch let's talk about. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:34.520 It look for. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.560 Opportunities not long, ago a friend of mine was in 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.280 the hospital and the nurse that takes care of, her 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.960 she came in one day and she just wasn't her normal. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.640 Self she's usually happy and, upbeat but this day she 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.760 was so, solemn like she had lost her. Joy and 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.880 my friend picked up on. This she reached out to 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.920 it and, said, hey what's. Wrong this nurse was from another. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.960 Country she, said, WELL i just found out yesterday that 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.000 my children are not going to be able to continue 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.160 their same schooling back at home because the tuition went 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.800 up And i'm not able to afford it. Anymore she 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.040 was so discouraged by. It here she is working thousands 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.720 of miles from, home trying to make a better. Life 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.000 my friend is very, generous she's a, giver and she 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.040 said to that, NURSE i want you to bring a 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.880 picture of your children tomorrow and their report. Cards and 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.400 when that lady saw those, children she told the Nurse 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.840 i'm going to pay for their. Tuition it was one 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.040 thousand dollars each. Child she went on to, say as 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.960 long as they stay in school and keep making good, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:39.040 Grades i'll continue to pay their, tuition not only. 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.680 Through high, school but all the way through. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:46.480 College that nurse was beside. Herself she didn't know what to. Think, 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:52.000 see my friend was that lady's. Miracle god uses, people 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.720 whether we realize it or, not we are all somebody's. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.679 Miracle look for that. Person look for opportunities to do. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.959 Good NOW i realize not everyone can do it at that, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.440 level but we can all do. Something there are creative 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.439 ways to be a. Blessing you hear a friend talking 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.760 about how he's going on a. Trip he's going to 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.800 have to leave his car up at the. Airport, no 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.120 let me drop you. Off you don't need to pay 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.160 that money for. Parking you just sewed into his. Life 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.320 you just brightened his. Day you hear a neighbor saying 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.280 how he's going to move some. Furniture he's about to 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.640 rent a. Truck, No i've got a big. Truck you 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.600 don't need to do. That i'll come over and we'll 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.839 do it. Together friend of mine recently bought a new. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.000 Car the man he bought it from was very. Helpful 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.160 he searched the whole country and got him a great. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:40.280 Deal saved him thousands of. 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.959 Dollars my friend was talking to a man that was 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.240 about to buy a, car and he, said, well you 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.000 need to buy it from this. Man he'll give you 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.120 a great. DEAL a couple of weeks, later that man 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.679 called him back so. Grateful he, said you know that 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.400 man you put me in touch. With he saved me 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:59.120 over ten thousand dollars on my new car just one phone. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:00.360 Call that's one. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.720 Recommendation you may not be able to meet the, need 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.719 but you can put in a good word for. Somebody 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.880 you can help them to find a good. LEAD i 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.080 believe there are opportunities around us all the. Time we 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.719 just have to be more, Sensitive we have to pay more. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.040 ATTENTION i was talking to a couple of our members 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.360 not long, ago an older lady and a younger, lady 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.880 AND i asked them if they were mother and. Daughter 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.720 the older lady said, no but she's just like my. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.720 Daughter and she went on to tell how when we 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.320 moved the church from the northeast location to this, place 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.720 she didn't think she was going to be able to 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:37.360 continue to. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.520 Come she's a widow and she's not used to driving 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.920 on the. Freeways she was so discouraged by it. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.960 All and one day she was telling some people about her, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.640 dilemma and this younger, lady who she didn't even know 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.440 at the, time overheard the conversation and she stepped in and, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.200 said how about. This i'll come pick you up and 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.640 bring you to church Each. Sunday that older lady was so, 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.000 surprised she, said are you? Kidding that would be? Great 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:02.560 where do you? 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:03.880 Live come to. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.080 Find out they live thirty minutes from each. Other but 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.880 that didn't stop that young. Lady she could have, thought, 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.440 Well i'd love to do, it but it's so, far 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.520 price of gas is so, High i'm so busy in my. Career, 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.360 no this young lady knew she was blessed to be a. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.800 Blessing she saw an opportunity to do. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.600 Good she wasn't going to pass it. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.680 By so now Every sunday morning light clockwork at nine, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.840 thirty she pulls into that lady's. Driveway we've been here 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.760 since the summer of two thousand and. Five during that, 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.760 time they've only missed One sunday. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.960 Morning after that older. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.480 Lady told me this, story she hugged that young, lady 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.440 and she, Said, joel she's my. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.720 MIRACLE i, thought you're exactly. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.880 Right can you Imagine god seeing this young lady getting 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:54.280 up Early sunday, morning driving across, town spending her, gas 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:55.920 spending her, time spending her. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.560 Energy don't you know she's going to be. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.840 Blessed th thing to the heart Of god is helping other, 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.880 people says In. Ecclesiastes when you give your, gifts we'll 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:08.480 come back to. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.000 You and sometimes what seems. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.480 Like a small act of kindness can turn out to 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.640 be a much bigger. Thing heard the story about this 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.440 couple that wanted to adopt a. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.200 Child they'd gone through. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.960 All the, channels but it was taken so, long and 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.400 they just weren't comfortable whether they should adopt a child 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:26.520 from here or somewhere. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.720 Else, really they were frustrated over. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.400 It one, year they got involved with the ministry that 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.640 provides shoes for needy. Children most of these children are, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.360 orphans come from very sad, situations and so they bought 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:40.840 a pair. 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.360 Of tennis shoes for a little. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.280 Boy the way it works is you put your picture 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.120 and a note to the child in that shoe, box 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.960 and that way the child can have someone to identify 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.240 with a couple of months, later they got a note 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.880 back and a picture of the little six year old 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.640 boy who had received those tennis. Shoes they saw, it 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.159 they immediately knew that was the child they were supposed to. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.440 Adopt they fell in love with. Him they started seeing 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.760 him on a regular. Basis long story, short they were 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.520 able to adopt this little. Boy and the little boy 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.240 told how For christmas he got a pair of tennis, 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.720 shoes but what he really wanted were. Parents he held 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.240 up the shoe box and, said. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.439 My parents were in this. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.960 Box see when you give your, gifts we'll come back to. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:31.960 You that couple so a seed fifteen twenty dollars buying 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.440 a pair of tennis shoes they got in return a priceless. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.600 Child when you make an investment in, others that's the 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.280 Seed god will use to enrich your own. Life some 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.040 of you need a miracle, today but you need to 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:47.880 start by becoming someone's. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.720 Miracle what are you doing for? 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:54.080 Others maybe your son plays little league ball with another 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.119 young man that's not as fortunate as you. Are you 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.040 notice that his baseball cleats are all beat up and worn. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.600 Out you don't have to make a big deal about. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.119 It never want to embarrass. Anybody just do it in 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.879 a roundabout. Way next time you're at, practice go give 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.600 him a. Hug, hey how you been. Doing you're getting so? 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.840 Big what size shoe do you? Wear you can be 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.320 sneaky about. It you're on a mission From. God you 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.520 have an assignment every day to be good to. People 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.080 now that you have that, information when you go to 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.240 buy your son a pair of baseball, cleats by that young, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:29.879 man one as well make an. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.359 Investment in his. Life there are creative ways to be a. 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.200 Blessing you may not have a lot of extra, money 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.760 but you can go repair a roof for a person 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:44.240 that's less. Fortunate you can babysit someone's. Children maybe you 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.520 hear a single parent mom talking about how much she's been, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.719 working how tired she. Is why don't you give her 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.879 a break one night and babysit her. Children tell her 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.600 to go up to the, Mall go, relax take the evening. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.679 Off that doesn't take any, money just takes a little. Time, 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.359 really your time is more. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:03.280 Valuable than your. 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.639 Money when you give people your, time you're making a real. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.399 Investment let's be. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:13.000 Creative take an elderly neighbor to their doctor's, appointment give 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.400 them a, ride sit there and be their. 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.920 Company or you could mentor a young. 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.960 Person maybe there's a child at school that doesn't have 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.760 a father figure in his. Life take him to hit 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.119 baseballs with your, Son take that little girl out to 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.920 eat with your. Daughter they are all kinds of ways 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.919 to be a. Blessing the whole key is we have 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:34.840 to be on the. Lookout we have to have the 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.320 MINDSET i am somebody's. MIRACLE i am created to be a. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.280 Blessing god help me to find that person. TODAY i 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.400 know WHEN i first Met, victoria she was good friends 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.399 with this older. Lady victoria would go pick her up 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.520 and take her to. Church they would go out to 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.800 dinner during the. Week, NOW i used to, think who 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.359 is this? Lady is she a family, friend is she 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.919 related to? You, no she was just somebody That victoria 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.000 took an interest. In she was investing in that lady's. 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.000 Life do you know how many lonely people there are? 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.199 Today why don't you adopt a? Widow why don't you 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.760 adopt an older? Person call, them check on, them go visit, 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.840 them take them out to. Dinner they may not need your. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.440 Money what they really need is your. Time they need 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:21.280 somebody to talk. 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:22.960 To be willing to. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.080 Listen let them tell you the same stories over and over, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.880 again laugh like it's the first time you ever heard. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.960 It we have to realize one day we're all going 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.600 to be. Old we're going to probably want somebody to 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.200 come visit. Us let's invest in the people around. Us 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.800 some of you have older, parents older family members that 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:45.080 you haven't seen in a long. 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:46.920 Time you've gotten. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.760 So busy and so caught up in your. Career you 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.280 have to make them a. Priority we all can come 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.040 up with good. Excuses we all are, busy but it's 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.040 not only our, duty it's our responsibility to take care 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:02.320 of our older family. 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.880 Members don't make one sibling do it. All carry your 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:06.399 share of the. 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:11.159 Load you know the, scripture honor your father and mother 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.280 so that you can have a long. Life that's the 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:18.399 only commandment that comes with a. Promise AND i believe 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.880 there's a special blessing not only when we take care 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.560 of our, parents but when we're kind and caring to 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.080 the older people around. Us you go up to The 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.120 Senior Citizens home one night and cheer some people. Up 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.520 you got to know that's high On god's. List you 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.480 go over to your elderly neighbors and repair their air, 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:42.240 conditioner clean their, gutter take them a home cooked. Meal 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:45.680 let me tell You god is smiling down on. You, 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.720 see it's easy to do good things for people that 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:49.679 can do good back to. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.040 Us doesn't take quite as much effort. 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.280 To stay late at the office and help a coworker 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.639 finish their. Project after, all we know one day they 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.960 may put in a good word for us, us but 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:04.920 it takes a true heart of compassion to do something 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.520 good for somebody that can't give you anything in. Return 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.920 the good news is when people can't pay you, Back 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.480 god will pay you. Back god's payment is always more 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:17.119 than we can even ask or. 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:19.359 Think it talks about In. 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:23.040 Proverbs when we are kind to the, poor when we 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.919 take care of the, elderly when we do good things 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.520 for the less, fortunate we are lending to The. Lord 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:31.919 can you imagine that you want to Do god a? 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:34.200 Favor you want to get On god's good. 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:38.040 Side do something for someone that cannot pay you. Back 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.560 be a father to a child that's less, Fortunate be 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:45.240 a friend to an elderly, neighbor pay the, tuition or 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.560 get a group of people to pay the tuition to 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:51.439 somebody that cannot afford. That when you are kind to the, 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.080 needy you are lending to The. Lord you know how we, 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.720 feel even in the, natural when somebody does us a, 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:00.639 favor somebody goes out of their way to help, us 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:03.240 or they make an extra effort to be kind to 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.199 one of our. Children we, think, Man i'll do anything for. 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:08.760 Them they were so kind they didn't have to do. That, 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:12.840 well imagine How god feels when he sees you buying 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:15.680 a pair of shoes for a needy, child taking an 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.879 elderly neighbor to their doctor's, appointment driving across, town picking 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:21.240 up somebody to bring them to. 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:24.600 Church you are Doing god a. Favor you are lending 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:24.879 to The. 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:28.480 Lord let me ask you, today who's in your life 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.280 that you can make a difference. In you may need a, 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.920 miracle you may need, healing you may need a good, 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:38.359 Break but it starts by sowing a. Seed become someone's. 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.640 Miracle to some, people especially older, ones just being their 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:43.280 friend is a. 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:45.040 Miracle giving an. 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:49.159 Umbrella buying someone a, suit those can all be. Miracles 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:53.120 be sensitive to the needs around. You you see. 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:55.320 Somebody wearing the same clothes over and over. 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.080 Again, hey let me give you this good certificate to 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:00.800 go buy some new, clothes or better, yet swing by my. 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:02.680 HOUSE i got a couple Suits i'm going to give. 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:06.200 YOU i found a lot of times we have miracles 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:08.800 in our. Closets we have miracles in. 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:10.359 STORAGE i. 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:13.920 Know we always give our children's clothes to other. Families 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:16.760 they go out of them so, quickly they're still. 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:18.000 Nice it's a. 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:21.480 Mindset what DO i have THAT i can be a blessing? 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.399 With last, year we were able to give all Of 0:24:24.480 --> 0:24:26.520 jonathan's school books to another young. 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:29.320 Man that was several hundred. Dollars they didn't have to. 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:32.280 Spend what do you have in? Storage what do you 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:35.359 have in your closet that can be somebody's? Miracle don't 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:38.040 let it sit there year after You, Oh, JOEL i 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:41.440 can't give that. Away that's my favorite. DRESS i wore 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.159 it five years. AGO i may want to wear it 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:43.920 again sometime. 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:46.320 Now you know as well AS i. Do you can't 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:50.199 even fit into that. Thing just give it. Away you have, 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:54.320 faith but not that. Much or maybe. 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:57.119 You're out shopping with a friend and they see something 0:24:57.160 --> 0:24:59.720 they really, like but they put it back because they 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:01.840 don't want to spend the. Money why don't you sneak 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:03.240 back over there and buy it for. 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:05.320 Him you don't have to pray about it three. 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:08.120 Weeks if you wait that, long it's probably not even 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:12.800 gonna be. There, sometimes down in, here we know we're 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:15.679 supposed to do something special for. Someone we have a 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:18.560 strong desire to do, good but we're waiting for three, 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:23.160 confirmations two, prophecies and a sign from the. Heavens, god 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:25.439 if you'll just Have joel call me out today and 0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:26.040 tell me to do. 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:27.360 IT i need a word from. 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:29.600 You let me give you all a word from The. 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:32.760 Lord be good to, People bless them whenever you can 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:37.119 be their. Miracle now you've got your word from The. 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:40.400 Lord the next time you're, Thinking, god is this really? 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.040 You you remember this day you got Your, Okay thus 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:43.840 saith The lord do. 0:25:43.920 --> 0:25:48.159 IT i Know i'm preaching to myself because SOMETIMES i 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:50.600 feel down in HERE i should do something for, someone 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:54.400 maybe just something. Simple give a young person twenty dollars 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:56.639 AND i look at him AND i think he looks 0:25:56.680 --> 0:25:59.520 like he's, fine he doesn't need my. Money, God is 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:02.080 this really? You AM i just being overly General SHOULD 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:02.240 i do? 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:04.359 It SHOULD i not do? It one day it dawned on. 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:07.080 Me even if it's Not god AND i give, It 0:26:07.200 --> 0:26:10.200 god's still gonna be. Pleased i'm still gonna get. Blessed 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:16.000 you'll never go wrong being good to other. People don't overanalyze. 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:18.640 It sometimes it's not the gift they. 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:19.760 Need the gift is. 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:23.080 Secondary what they really need is your. Live NOW i 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:26.040 found the enemy will never lead us to be good to. 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.159 People he wants us to be so selfish and so 0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:32.160 caught up in our own affairs that we don't even 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:35.280 entertain the thought of being a blessing to somebody. Else 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:38.720 if you have a desire to do, good it is From. 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:42.639 God don't debate, it and don't expect someone else to do. 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:43.480 It it's. 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:45.760 Funny WHEN i was growing, up my mother used to 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:48.439 say to my, Father, JOHN i feel sorry for that. 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:51.520 Man will you go pray for? HIM i feel like 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:53.920 that lady needs to be. Encouraged will you go encourage? 0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:56.200 Her that young couple they need to be. Blessed will 0:26:56.200 --> 0:26:58.840 you go give them a. Gift, finally after about ten 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:01.960 years of doing, that my father, Said, dodie you're the 0:27:01.960 --> 0:27:04.840 one that has the Desire god's put the burden in. 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:08.000 You you've got to act on. That sometimes that's the 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:11.199 way we. Are we have a concern for someone we 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:13.640 may not even know, then but down in here it's 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:16.280 almost like we have a burden for, them and we, Think, 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:19.040 MAN i hope somebody is good to. THEM i hope 0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:23.040 somebody helps. Them What i'm saying today is you or that. 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:26.359 Somebody you are the One god's counting on to make the. 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:29.600 Difference god wouldn't have put the desire in your heart 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.560 if he didn't want you to do something about. It 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.000 it may just be to, pray it may be to 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:37.240 give them a kind, word it may be to give 0:27:37.280 --> 0:27:40.200 them a. Gift but don't miss out on that. Opportunity 0:27:40.600 --> 0:27:43.840 you can become their. Miracle and really this is an 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:47.600 exciting way to. Live the truth, is it's boring to 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:51.080 just live for. Ourselves there's an emptiness when we just 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:54.720 think about my, goals my, dreams my, problems my. Needs 0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:58.359 there's so much more to life than. That let's go 0:27:58.440 --> 0:28:00.000 out each day and not try to figure out how 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:02.399 we're going to get, blessed but rather how we're going 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:05.159 to be a. Blessing no, doubt there are people in 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:09.160 your life right, now you can become their. Miracle pay 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.560 attention to those around, you listen to their. 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:14.320 Needs you may not be able to do, everything but 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:14.879 you can do. 0:28:14.960 --> 0:28:18.000 Something you can give a, Smile you can buy a 0:28:18.000 --> 0:28:20.679 pair of shoes for a needy, Child you can adopt a. 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:25.040 Widow make a difference wherever you. Go, remember our joy 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:28.719 is connected to our. Giving if you'll develop this lifestyle 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:31.520 of giving and not always try to get a, miracle 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:34.560 but rather let's focus on how we can become somebody's. 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:38.360 Miracle when you do, that you'll not only live, happier more, 0:28:38.360 --> 0:28:41.880 fulfilled more, rewarded but that's the Seed god will use 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:43.320 to enrich your own. 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:46.000 Life do you receive it? TODAY i know you. 0:28:46.040 --> 0:28:49.600 Do we never like to close on broadcast without giving 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:52.240 you an opportunity to Make jesus the lord of your. 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:53.680 Life would you pray with? 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:58.400 Me just, Say, Lord, Jesus i'll repent of my sins 0:28:59.840 --> 0:29:00.320 in my. 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:03.000 HEART i make you My lord and. 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:07.200 Savior, friends if you prayed that simple, prayer we believe 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:09.840 you got born. Again get in a Good bible based. 0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:12.320 Churp Keep god first. 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