You Lack Nothing

0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.360 Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.960 to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.920 believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.840 and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.840 God bless you. It's great to be with you today, 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.520 and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:26.040 week through our daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.680 and you can come visit us in person. We'd love 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.960 to have you be a part of one of our services. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.800 I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.400 about this pastor. He was finishing up a fiery sermon 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.879 on self control, and he said, with great passion, if 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.080 I had all the beer in the world, I'd throw 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.040 it in the river with greater fervor. I had all 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.080 the wine in the world, I'd throw it in the river, 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.559 almost at the top of his lungs. But I had 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.360 all the whiskey in the world, I'd throw it in 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.960 the river. He sat down. Song leader came up said 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.080 for our closing song, let's sing him three sixty five. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.960 Shall we get at the river? No, we shall not. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.319 Here we go, y'all, this is my Bible. I am 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.000 what it says I am. I have what it says 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.680 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.160 Today I will be taught the word of God. I'll 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.559 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.600 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.039 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:32.640 how you lack nothing. Sometimes we see ourselves at a disadvantage. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.720 If we had more talent, then we could do something great. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.240 Or if we had more personality or more height, more attractive, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.360 then we could accomplish our dreams. Or if we had 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.920 more funds, more resources, more opportunity, then we could overcome 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.520 this obstacle. But as long as you see yourself as 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.000 lacking at a deficit, you'll make excuses to settle where 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.360 you are and be less than your best. Psal I'm 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.000 thirty four is those who trust in the Lord will 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:07.320 never lack any good thing. God has given you everything 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.600 you need for your destiny. He's already put in you 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.840 the wisdom, the confidence, the strength. He's already lined up 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.840 the right people, the good breaks, the resources. It's already there. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.560 The question is do you recognize what you have. Are 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.640 you using what God is giving you? Or are you 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.839 overlooking it because it seems common ordinary? Are you discounting 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:37.080 yourself because you feel shortchanged, too small, wrong, nationality, not 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.280 up to par. You have to change your mindset. It's 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.720 not enough to just have faith in God. That's important, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.560 but you have to take it one step further and 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.040 have faith in what God has given you. You have 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.600 to believe that you're equipped, that you're empowered, that your 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.600 steps are being ordered. Here's the key. You don't have 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.600 to have great talent to do something great. If you'll 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.840 use what you have, God will breathe on it and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.280 you'll accomplish more than you thought possible. It's not necessarily 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.640 the amount of education, the amount of resources, the amount 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.400 of friends who you know. What makes the difference is 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.560 the anointing on your life. You can have average talent, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.400 but when God favors you, you'll go further than people 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:32.840 with great talent. You can have an extraordinary problem, you're outnumbered, surrounded, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.840 but God can take an ordinary solution, something that seems common, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.920 and cause you to be victorious. Don't discount what you have, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.160 don't overlook what God has given you. The enemy would 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.360 love for us to get stuck thinking we're at a deficit. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.440 When I get more funds, more training, more good breaks, 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.960 then I could move forward. We're waiting for more, when 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:02.640 in fact, everything we need already there. Look around at 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:07.360 what God has given you. Recognize what you have. Moses 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.320 felt like he was at a disadvantage. He'd been out 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.280 in the desert for forty years hiding because of a mistake, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.080 and God came to him in a burning bush and 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.520 told him to go tell the Pharaoh to let the 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:24.440 Israelites go. They'd been in slavery for many years. Moses said, God, 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.839 he's not going to listen to me. I don't have 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.480 any influence, the right credentials. I'm not a good speaker. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.720 I stutter. He went on and on, making all these excuses. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.080 God said to him, Moses, what do you have in 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.400 your hand? Moses said, God, it's nothing. It's just a stick, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.960 just piece of wood I got off a tree I've 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.359 been using as a staff for my animals. God said, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.719 throw it on the ground. He threw it down and 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:57.000 it turned into a snake. God took something Moses had 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:02.360 that seemed common, ordinary, nothing special, but God breathed on it. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.080 And it became extraordinary. There are things that God has 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:11.680 put in your life that seem common, normal talent, normal neighborhood, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:16.120 normal job. It's ordinary to us. But when God steps in, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.880 supernatural things happen. When Moses saw that snake, Verse three 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.080 says he was so terrified that he took off running. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.919 You would think he'd be so amazed and so inspired 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.480 that he'd be full of faith. Just the opposite. God 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.039 told him to pick the snake up by the tail. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.920 Took a lot more faith to pick it up than 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.039 to throw it down. When he did, it turned back 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.200 into his staff. God was showing him that he had 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.920 what he needed. It looked ordinary, insignificant, just to stick. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.640 But if it needs to be a key to open 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.520 a door, God will turn it into a key. If 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.080 it needs to be a shield to protect you, God 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.599 will turn it into a shield. If it needs to 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.800 be vision to fund your dream, God will turn it 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.880 into a bank. If it needs to be an auditorium 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.359 to expand your church, God will turn it into a 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.960 compact center. Anytime you tell God that you're stuck, you're 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.080 at a deficit, you're lacking. God asked the question, what's 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:22.440 in your hand? What are you discounting? What are you overlooking? Joel. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.400 I don't have the talent, the training, the connections. I'm 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.720 limited in my career. Just keep being faithful, using what 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:35.280 you have. God will take the ordinary and do something extraordinary. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.760 You do the natural, and God will do the supernatural. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.280 Jesus told his disciples to roll away the stone, and 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.880 I'll raise Lazaruth. Jesus could have rolled away the stone. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.560 He's God. He spoke to the storm and calmed the winds. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.920 Why did he tell his disciples to do it. It's 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.560 this principle. If you'll do the ordinary, God will do 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:02.279 the extraordinary. If you'll do what's God will do what's uncommon. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.640 If you'll throw down the staff, so to speak, He'll 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.040 turn it into what you need. When my father went 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.520 to be with the Lord, I knew I was supposed 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.320 to step up and pastor the church, but I didn't 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.800 feel qualified. I didn't have the training, never ministered before. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.720 On top of that, my father was such a great minister. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:27.400 He was strong, dynamic, had a big personality, and I 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.920 was just the opposite. All those thoughts told me, Joe, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.080 you're not enough, You're not like your father. Here's the key. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.040 You don't need what someone else has. You're not running 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.040 their race. You have what you need for your race. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.280 Don't compare yourself to other people. If you're focused on 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.160 what they have and their gifts, their looks, their resources, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.400 you're gonna start discounting yourself, thinking, Man, I can't speak 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.880 like my father, or I'm not as attractive as my cousin, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.680 or my coworker is so much more talented. If you 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.520 needed what they have, God would have given it to you. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.120 You're not lacking anything you need to fulfill your purpose. 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.800 And I was tempted to shrink back and feel less 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.840 than because my father was such a gifted leader. I 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.000 had to do what I'm asking you to do. I said, God, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.040 I don't have what my father had, but I believe 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.640 I have what I need from my destiny. Now not 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.920 going to compare myself to him. I'm going to take 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.120 what you put in my hands, my gifts, my personality, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.920 my smile, and use it to the best of my ability. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.600 I started speaking week after week, and I didn't really 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.000 know how to write a message, and I didn't have 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.400 deep theology. I just talked about the goodness of God 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.640 and how to live a life of victory. People started 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.920 telling me, Joe, you have a gift. You have such 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.000 a good way of explaining the scripture and making it relevant, 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.880 and that always puzzled me. What are they talking about 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.000 having a gift? I'm just stuff there talking what felt 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.000 ordinary to me. God breathed on and it becomes something 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.800 much greater. Never dreamed I'd be a pastor and speaking 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.000 to people around the world. When you look at what 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:20.080 you have, your skills, talents, personality, it's easy to think 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.000 this is ordinary. It's just a walking stick. That's what 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:28.240 God uses. There's something he's given you that's going to 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.520 take you to new levels. It's not spectacular, it's ordinary. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:37.719 Don't discount it. Don't go around with a disadvantage mentality. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.480 Use what you have and He'll take the natural and 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:46.559 do something supernatural. Moses spoke to the Pharaoh, and eventually 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.040 he let the Israelites go, But as they were leaving, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.760 he changed his mind, and he sent six hundred of 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.400 his most skilled warriors and all these cheeriots to capture 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.600 them and bring them back Moses. The Israelites came to 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.000 a dead end at the Red Sea. They had nowhere 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.200 to go. The people started complaining, Moses, why did you 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.240 bring us out here in the desert to die. We'd 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.880 rather stayed in Egypt as slaves, didn't come out here 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.959 and be killed. Moses was praying God, do something supernatural. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.120 Send an army to rescue us. Rain down hell upon them. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.080 God said in verse sixteen, Moses, why are you crying 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:30.000 out to me? Lift up your rod, stretch forth your 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.440 hand and part the sea. I can hear Moses saying, God, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.719 you mean you want me to do something ordinary. You're 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.040 gonna use this stick again, this common thing. You want 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.560 me to lift it up. When he did, the waters 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.400 begin to push back, the red sea parted, the people 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:54.000 went through on dry ground. We're looking for the spectacular, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.880 but often it starts with something ordinary, something we could 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.280 easily discount. Think it's common. What do you have in 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.760 your hand. I'm just a business person, I'm just a student. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.840 I'm just an architect. I'm just a stay at home mom. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.240 I'll never do anything significant. That's how Moses felt out 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.480 there in the desert forty years. But God has put 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.960 something in your hand, something that seems ordinary. If you'll 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.240 dare lift up your rod, do what He's asking you 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.760 to do. You're going to come into these destiny moments 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.080 where you see Red Sea's part, deliverance from enemies, Gifts 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.800 come out that you never knew you had. It's in you. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.560 God put it there before you were born. He marks 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.960 you for greatness. He already set the time for you 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.160 to break out to levels you've never dreamed. Now you 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.200 have to get in agreement with him. This is not 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.720 gonna happen if we have a lack of mentality. I 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.559 don't have the talent. It's too big, Joel. I got 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.040 a Red Sea in front of me right now, a 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.120 dead end. What do you expect me to do? Lift 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.400 up your rod, Do the natural, and God will do 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.640 the supernatural. He'll breathe on your life in a new way. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.440 This is what happened with Samson. He was surrounded by 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.240 the Philistines, a huge army, and he had no weapons, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.160 no protection. All the odds were against him. He looked 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.000 around to try to find something to defend himself. All 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.480 he could find was the jawbone of a donkey. Some 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.480 dead bones, I'm sure, he thought, Oh great, God, I 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.400 need a sword, I need a shield, I need some 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.080 troops to come rescue me. But all I have is 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.200 this jawbone was common a lot of dead animals out 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.959 in the desert. He could ignore it and thought, well, 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.760 that's of no use, But he was smart enough to 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.640 realize it was a part of his destiny. What you 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.959 need to accomplish your assignment will always be within reach. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.760 It won't be far off where you can't attain it. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.400 It will be close to you. Pay attention to what 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.960 God brings across your path and who He brings across 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:13.520 your path. It's not thereby accidents. See easy to discount, think, oh, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:18.960 that's common, that person, that opportunity, this idea. It's just 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.400 a stick, Joe, It's just the jawbone of a donkey. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:27.840 God uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary. If you'll 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.719 recognize what you have and be a good steward, then 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.480 you'll see what God was up to. Sampson picked up 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.520 that jawbone. The scripture says the spirit of God came 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:45.080 upon him and he defeated a thousand Philistines one man, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.320 not with a rifle, not with an army, not with 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.679 fire coming down from heaven, but with something ordinary, a 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.720 jawbone of a donkey. What God is going to do 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:02.120 in your life won't always have and through spectacular ways. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.160 Maybe some of that, but most of the time God 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.520 is going to use something ordinary, something within reach, something 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.600 close to you. God asked Moses, what do you have 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.280 in your hand? What do you wish you had? Moses, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.400 what does your neighbor have? What are you hoping for? 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.400 This far off? There is something close to you. It's 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.800 easy to overlook, it's easy to discount, but God put 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.680 it there. It's instrumental in you reaching your destiny. There 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.320 was a young woman named Mary Bethune born in South 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.840 Carolina in the late eighteen hundreds. She was the youngest 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:46.560 of seventeen children. Her parents were slaves. Despite the odds 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.000 being against her, she was able to get a good 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.720 education and even attend college. And from the times she 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.520 was a little girl, she always had a dream to 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.200 teach young people, and after getting her degree, she sent 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.400 her application into different schools hoping to get a teaching position. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.640 She was a straight a student. You couldn't meet a 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:12.080 finer young woman. She waited month after month. Unfortunately, no 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.920 one would hire her. She was disappointed, but she knew 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.400 that God still had a plan, that when one door closes, 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.800 that God will always open another door. Rather than sitting 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:27.320 around defeated, she decided to start her own school. She 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.200 didn't have any desk, but she did have some cardboard boxes. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.080 She set them up as desks. She didn't have any pins, 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.280 but she did have some red berries out in the field. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.320 Every night she would drain the juice so the students 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.520 could use that for ink in their pins. After several years, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.560 the local college saw what was happening. They asked her 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.760 to join her school with theirs. It became the Bethune 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:58.200 Cookman College. She went on to become the first African 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:03.880 American college president. Now in the natural, Mary was at 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.760 a deficit. She was lacking a poor family turned down 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:13.280 for the position, no equipment, no funding. That didn't stop her. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:18.440 What she needed was within reach. If it's out of reach, 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.920 you don't need it. If you can't attain it, it 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.280 wasn't meant to be. Don't sit around in self pity. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.160 God has something better, he said, Because you trust him, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.440 you will not lack. If you needed it for your 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.720 destiny and it was out of reach, God wouldn't be 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.280 a just god. Let go of what didn't work out 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.280 and who didn't stay in your life. The promotion you 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.240 didn't get how you weren't raised right. None of that 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.960 has stopped your purpose. Nothing you've been through has canceled 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.880 your assignment. No bad break has lessened your greatness. What 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.720 you need is close to you. Recognize what you have 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:05.200 may seem common, just some cardboard boxes, just the jawbone 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.679 of a donkey, just this stick, this rod. Yes, but 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.480 when you use it, Red Sea's part enemies are defeated. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:17.040 Doors will open opportunity that thrusts you into your destiny. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.760 What's in your hand? Is there something you're overlooking? It 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:25.680 seems ordinary, But when you do the natural, God will 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.920 do the supernatural. When you set up the cardboard desk, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.280 when you drain the ink, God will bring the college 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.840 president position. More than you can imagine, John chapter six, 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.240 a great crowd had followed Jesus to a remote area 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.840 to hear him teach, and getting late in the day, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.719 almost dark, Jesus said to his disciples, you need to 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.560 feed the people. They're too tired to go home hungry. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.040 They said, in effect, are you kidding Jesus? There are 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:59.080 fifteen thousand people here. We're out in the desert. The 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.800 nearest walmarts three hundred miles it's Sunday, Chick fil A 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.879 is not even open. They came up with all these 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.320 good reasons why it was impossible. Jesus asked them, what 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.080 do you have? They went out in the crowd and 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.159 came back in a few minutes and said, all we 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.480 could find was this little boy's lunch, just five loaves 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:23.080 of bread, two fish. But what is that among so many? 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.440 It was a logical question, what good is this one 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.160 lunch going to do when we need lunch for fifteen 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.960 thousand people. But God doesn't ask you to figure out 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.720 how it's going to happen. He just asked you to 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.760 use what he's given you, to not discount, to not 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.240 live thinking you're at a deficit, but to believe that 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.800 He can take what seems small and make something great 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.359 out of it. Same thing when I stepped up, my 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.760 mind said, what is this among so many? God, all 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.840 I have is five loaves and two fish. We need 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:02.640 something much greater, more talent, more wisdom, more training. God 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.480 is not asking you for what you don't have. He's 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.400 asking you to trust him with what you do have, 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.040 with what's in reach. Joel, all I have is a 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.080 little lunch. God can take the little and multiplied. I 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.880 just have a little faith. A little faith can move 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.120 a mountain. I just have a walking stick. You can 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.200 part of red sea. I just have the jawbone of 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.879 a donkey, something I found close. You can defeat an army, 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.120 you can beat the cancer, you can break the addiction. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.800 You're not lacking. You have exactly what you need. And 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:40.280 sometimes on purpose, God will let you be out numbered. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.200 He'll let the door close, lets you not feel qualified 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.200 for the position. He takes that small and breathe on it. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.480 Jesus prayed over the five loaves and two fish, and 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.800 they multiplied, and they fed all fifteen thousand people plus 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:01.080 they had twelve baskets full left over. But the disciples 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.359 almost talk themselves out of it, thought they were at 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.159 a too big of a deficit. But the deficit is 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.919 a sign that God's about to do something amazing. How 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:15.120 many of you have been faithful with what God has 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.919 given you, going to church, doing more than you have to, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.160 going to work, serving, giving, believing you're going to come 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.680 in to some of these destiny moments where you see 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.200 God breathe on your talent, you rise to a new level, 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:35.000 breathe on your finances, and you come into overflow. Breathe 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:39.240 on your health. That cancer is gone. Breathe on your children. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.720 They're back on track, fulfilling their purpose. Don't be fooled 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:48.160 by the facts. Every circumstance may say you're at a deficit. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.240 You just have five loaves and two fish. You're lacking talent, 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.639 lacking funds, lacking confidence. No, your time is coming. You 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.320 keep doing the natural, using what you have. Going to 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.600 step in and do the supernatural and take care where 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.000 you can't go on your own. I talked to a man. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.080 He's an attorney, and he always had a desire to 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.160 be in the sports industry, but he didn't know anyone 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.959 in that field. And he was living in a small 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:20.439 town where he was raised and working there. Several times 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.880 a week he'd go up to the gym to play basketball, 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.560 and he'd played with this same group of men for 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:29.240 a few years. One day, this older gentleman ask him 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.640 what he did for a living, and he told how 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.000 he was an attorney doing corporate law. But he said, 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.040 my dream is to be a sports agent. I just 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:42.080 don't have any connections. The man said, that's interesting. My 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.960 nephew is the number one college football player in the nation. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.840 He was just asking me about who I knew that 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.600 could represent him. I'm going to have him call you. 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.480 That was his first sports client. His business grew and grew. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.919 Today he's one of the top sports age in the world. 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:03.760 He said Joel, I never dreamed I would be where 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.920 I am. Seem like he was lacking, didn't know anyone 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.359 in a small town. Then that one good break, that 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:15.320 one connection. You don't know what God is up to. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.040 You don't know the doors he's about to open, the 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:23.119 people you're about to meet, the favor you're about to see. 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:26.239 It may seem like you're at a deficit. What's in 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:29.320 your heart is much bigger than you think could ever happen. 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.800 Just stay faithful where you are, keeping God first place, 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:37.400 being your best with what He's given you. You're gonna 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:41.600 come into your destiny. Moments were suddenly the red Sea parts. 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:45.240 You're doing the ordinary, and God steps in and does 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:49.080 the extra ordinary. You're gathering the five loaves and two fish, 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:54.200 not complaining, not discounting it. Then God multiplies it, gives 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:59.040 you supernatural increase, supernatural provision, the right people show up, 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:04.320 favor that you can't explain. Tewod King's Chapter four. There 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:08.200 was a widow that was trying to survive. Her husband 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:11.800 had served with the Prophet Elisha, but he had passed 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.600 and he left her some funds to live off on. 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:18.000 But she'd used all that up and now she didn't 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.600 know how she was going to make it. In those days, 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.480 if you couldn't pay your debts, they would take your 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:27.240 family members, and they had to work for the payment. Well, 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:31.119 these creditors were coming for her two sons. She was 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.560 so distraught she went to the Prophet Elisha to explain 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.159 what was happening. Elisha said to her, what do you 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:42.800 have in your house? Verse two? She answered nothing at all. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:47.119 She was saying, we're done, it's over. There's nothing here. 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:49.840 Then she thought about it and said, wait a minute, 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:55.240 nothing except a small jar of oil. Elisha said, that's 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:58.560 all we need, just a little oil. He told her 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:03.160 to go out and borrow as many large empty containers 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:06.120 as she could find. She and her sons went out 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:08.760 and knocked on the neighbor's door, and they brought back 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.960 all these containers. Elisha said, now take the little oil 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:16.160 that you have and pour it into the empty containers. 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:20.639 That didn't make sense, but she obeyed as she did. 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:24.560 The oil never ran out. God multiplied it. She kept 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:28.840 pouring and pouring until all the containers were filled. She 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:31.560 went out and sold the oil, paid off all her 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:35.680 debts and had plenty to live on. But when Elisha 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:38.600 asked her what she had in her house, at first 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:42.720 she said nothing at all. She discounted the oil was 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:47.600 too small, not significant. But the truth is that's all 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:52.040 God needed. She was looking on the outside, hoping Elisha 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:56.440 would save her, but what she needed was on the inside. 0:24:56.480 --> 0:24:59.359 It was within reach in her house, but it was 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:03.960 common ordinary, just a little oil. This can't do any good. 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:07.240 I've got a big problem. But when you use what 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:11.000 you have, God will breathe on it. Some of us 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.800 are like this woman, what do you have in your house? 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.199 I don't have anythings you all. I'm not that talented. 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:19.280 I don't have a good person out. I've got an 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:23.600 okay job. It's nothing. If you only knew what God 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:26.960 can do with a little a little jar of oil, 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:31.399 a little boy's lunch, a little faith, a little talent. 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:37.200 God asked Moses, what's in your hand? He says, something ordinary. 0:25:37.359 --> 0:25:40.200 He asked this woman, what's in your house? She said, 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:44.280 nothing at all. Both times they had what they needed, 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.119 they just didn't recognize it. Moses had a rod that 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:51.040 would part of sea, a stick that we'd be talking 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:54.960 about thousands of years later. This widow had a little 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:59.040 jar of oil, oil that would sustain her for years 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.560 until the family was over. What's in your hand, what's 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:06.919 in your house. What you need is close to you, 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.840 it's within reach. You are not lacking, You are not 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:14.399 at a deficit. You are in position to see the 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:18.879 hand of God. Do something supernatural. Now do your part 0:26:19.440 --> 0:26:22.640 and give them the five loaves and two fish, even 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:26.679 though it seems insignificant, Pour the little jar of oil, 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:31.280 Lift up your rod. Small acts of obedience lead to 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:36.240 great miracles. No more thinking I'm at a disadvantage, I'm lacking. 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:39.680 Turn it around. I have everything I need. I'm equipped, 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:44.119 empowered and anointed. If you'll do this, I believe in 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:48.000 declare light, Moses, Red seas are going to part in 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:52.200 your life. Doors are going to open problems. Turn around 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:55.840 like this widow. God's going to multiply what you have 0:26:56.320 --> 0:27:01.320 and pour out abundance, breakthroughs, healing the fullness of your 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:05.400 destiny in Jesus' name. And if you receive it. Can 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:10.000 you say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:13.000 to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:16.960 pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:20.760 my sins, Come into my heart. I make you my 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:24.520 Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer, we 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:27.480 believe you got born again. 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