You're Being Talked About

0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.200 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.320 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.280 the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:09.160 be a blessing and. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:10.080 Share it with a friends. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.119 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:13.800 your life. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:14.920 Well, God bless you. 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:17.720 It's great to be with you today, and I hope 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.240 you'll stay connected with us during the week to our 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.159 daily podcast or YouTube channel and social media, and you 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:25.799 can come visit us in person. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:27.800 We'd love to have you be a part of one 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:28.720 of our services. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.480 I'd like to talk with something funny and I heard 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.120 about this pastor that decided to skip church one Sunday 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:35.760 morning and. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:36.479 Go play golf. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.559 He told his assistant that he wasn't feeling well and 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.760 drove to a golf course in another city where nobody 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.480 would know him. He teed off on the first hall, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.640 a huge gust of wind caught his ball, carried it 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.680 an extra hundred yards, and dropped it right in the 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.800 hole for a four hundred and fifty yard hole in one. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.520 And Angel looked at God and said, what did you 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.960 do that for? Smiled and said, who's he going to tell? 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:04.440 All right? 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.959 Y'all saying like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.640 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.240 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.959 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.080 of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.520 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.200 Jesus's name, God bless you. I want to speak to 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:32.440 you today on your being talked about. God has already 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.440 lined up the right people to open doors for you 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.240 and to show you favor, to help you out of 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.399 a difficulty. Some dreams we can't accomplish on our own. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.600 Some challenges we can't get through by ourselves. We tried 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.120 our best, but we couldn't start the business, or we 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.040 weren't able to break the addiction, or still haven't met 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.560 the right person. Seems like we're stuck. We don't see 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:57.680 any other options. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:01:59.640 But what you can't see. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.320 God is talking about you to other people. He's speaking 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.080 to them to be good to you. You may not 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.800 even know them. They're not in your contacts, but God 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.320 will cause them to see you. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.480 He'll put you on their mind and give them the 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:16.840 desire to help you. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.720 They may not know why, but suddenly they want to 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.120 put in a good word for you. They go out 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.320 of their way to help your child, lend their influence 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.520 to move you forward. These are not things that you 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.160 could make happen. This is the hand of God ordering 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.799 your steps and ordering the steps of. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.120 The people you need. This is why you don't. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.000 Have to live worried wondering how it's going to work out. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.000 Discovery is over a situation that's not changing on your own. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.800 You may be stuck, but you're not on your own. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.200 God is working behind the scenes. He's speaking to people 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.280 right now to show you favor, to give you that 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.000 contract to be good to that loved one, to help 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:02.680 turn that problem around. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.120 You don't have to try to manipulate people, strive. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.080 And strain maybe they'll be good to me. That's going 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.720 to wear you out. That's not your job. That's God's job. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.320 He will speak to people that you've never thought of. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.240 Unlikely you didn't have a connection with that person. There 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.679 was no reason for them to even think about you. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.120 But God put you on their mind. He gave them 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.079 the desire to be good to you. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.799 And here's the key. Sometimes you don't even know they 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:34.200 did it. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.760 You just see the good break, the promotion, the turnaround. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:43.560 You don't realize behind the scenes, God used that person. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:44.440 To orchestrate it all. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.880 They put in a good word, they told the contract 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:48.520 to come to you. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.360 They had mercy and the problem worked out. 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.960 God's been talking about you your whole life, to people, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.000 whispering to them to be good to you, causing them 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.720 to notice you want to help, giving them that feeling 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.160 to go out of their way and make you shine. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.400 When you understand this takes the pressure off striving and 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.040 straining thinking we're stuck or you can live from a 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.919 place of peace, a place of hope. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.679 God, my life is in your hands. Lord. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.680 I think that you've ordered my steps and the steps 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.440 of the people that I need. That you're speaking to 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.800 those who are instrumental to my destiny, making things happen 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.159 that I could never make happen. See, in life, we 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.839 all have times when people are talking about us. Normally 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.080 that's a negative connotation, but I want you to know 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.560 today that God is talking about you. 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.799 He has these destiny moments where. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.960 He'll speak to people that will do things that thrust 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:51.160 you into your purpose. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.200 We see this in the scripture with Ruth. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.679 Her husband died at a young age and she became 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:58.600 a widow. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:59.960 And she was so heartbroke. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.800 Never dream life would turn out this way. And her 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.200 mother in law, Naomi, was a widow as well. Since 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.120 both of her sons had passed, she decided to move 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.640 back home to Bethlehem. She told Ruth and her other 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.960 daughter in law Orpah, to move back to their hometowns 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.520 and going with their life work. We headed out, but 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.200 Ruth said, no, Naomi, I'm not going to leave. I'm 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.120 going to go with you and take care of you. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.039 They moved to Bethlehem. The problem was they didn't have 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.120 any resources, didn't have any way to buy food, and 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.080 looked like they weren't going to make it. So Ruth 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.600 got up early in the morning and went out into 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.719 the fields to pick up the leftover grain that the 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.560 workers had missed. She didn't know anyone, she didn't ask 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.800 for permission, She just took a chance, hoping that they 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:48.840 wouldn't make her leave. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.320 Out of all the fields. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.960 She chose the one owned by a man named Boaz. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.359 He was very influential, very wealthy. He lived in a 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.839 different city. He wouldn't be there, but the day Ruth 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.280 went out into the fields. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.920 Verse four says, just then Boaz arrived. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.440 Of all the times he could have come, he came 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.159 the very day that Ruth went out there. God knows 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.039 not only who you're going to need, but when you're 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.359 going to need them. He's ordering the steps of the 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:26.120 people that are necessary for your destiny. Quit worrying about 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.919 how it's going to work out. God's in control of 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:33.120 your life. He's working behind the scenes, arranging. 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.160 Exactly what you need. Here. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.880 All these workers are out in the fields, acres and acres. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:39.840 Hundreds of people. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.839 Boaz looks out, and the first person he sees is Ruth. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.840 She could have been hidden behind bushes, or blocked by 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.520 piles of weed, or on the other side of the hill. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.000 God had her at the right place at the right time. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.159 He caused Boaz to notice her. She could have blended 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.039 in look like all the other workers. But God knows 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.880 how to make you stand out. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:05.000 He knows how to. 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.840 Draw people to you. You don't have to try to 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:12.120 get attention. Make yourself be seen. Be sure people know 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.800 you're there. Know what you can do. No, be still 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.000 and trust God to do it. Be your best where 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:19.920 you are, and he will. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.120 Make you shine. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.760 Ruth wasn't trying to manipulate things convince people to like her. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.160 She was just gathering food to take care of her 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.640 mother in law, working hard, being a blessing, doing the 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.800 right thing when the wrong thing had happened. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.320 She could have been bitter, angry. God, my husband died. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.760 This is not fair, But in her time of need, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.520 she was being a blessing to someone else. When life 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.480 throws you a curb, don't get bitter. Keep doing the 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:55.480 right thing. God sees the hurt, the loneliness. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.840 What wasn't fair. That's not how your story ends. That's 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.640 just one chapter. Don't get stuck there. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.520 Turn the page, keep going to work with the good attitude, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.440 Keep being good to people when you don't feel like it, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.640 Keep praising when you could be complaining. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.440 Your time is coming. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.360 There's another chapter, a chapter of victory, a chapter of joy, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.000 a chapter of beauty. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:24.880 For those ashes. Verse five says Boas asked his workers, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.040 who is that girl? 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.160 There were hundreds of people out in the field, no doubt, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.440 many that he didn't know, but for some reason, his 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.240 attention was drawn to Ruth. They told him that she 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.600 was a widow that had moved there with her mother 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:44.160 in law, Naomi Boaz called his foreman over said in 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.880 verse fifteen, I want you to drop handfuls of wheat 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.680 on purpose for Ruth. Leave them in her path to 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.680 make it easy for her, make sure that no one 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:55.440 bothers her. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:57.839 Before Ruth was having to. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.400 Work hard and strain getting a little left over here 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.839 and there. Can imagine people were giving her a hard time. Lady, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:06.959 what are you doing out here? 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:12.240 You got to leave. She wasn't wanted on edge, fearful. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.960 Then all of a sudden, everyone was nice to her, accommodating. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.839 Not only that there was more wheat than she could gather. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.720 Wasn't a struggle trying to find a little leftover piece 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:25.480 here and there. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.600 She had abundance. Overflow filled up one bag, then another 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.040 and another. Here's my point. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.720 She's being blessed over a conversation that she knew nothing about. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.520 She see an increase in favor because someone was talking 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.480 about her behind the scenes. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.240 Someone put in a. 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.760 Good word that she had never met. She didn't know 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.040 why it was happening. She couldn't figure out what had changed. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.240 All she knew is she had stepped into abundance that 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.319 she had never seen. You don't know who God has 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.080 talking about you. You don't know who he's going to cause 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.800 to notice you. Now, Joey, I think I'm stuck where 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.199 I am. I don't have any connections and my boss 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:11.520 doesn't even pay attention to me. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:16.160 Your boss doesn't control the universe. People are not ordering 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.560 your steps. God is. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:23.200 He's speaking to people about you that you know nothing about. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.920 There are conversations happening where, like Ruth, you're going to 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.240 walk into favor, open doors, divine connections that you can't explain. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.400 All of a sudden opportunity. The problem turns around abundance. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:40.320 You think, why did this happen? 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.400 It's because God's talking about you. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.920 He's orchestrating what you need to move you into your purpose. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.160 When we were trying to acquire this place, the former 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.199 Compact Center, it was owned by the city. We needed 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.800 ten votes from the city council members. We had worked 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.680 for over a year, and we finally had all ten. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:04.439 We were so happy. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.880 Out of fifteen members we had convinced just enough. But 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.280 three days before the final vote, one of the council 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.520 members got so much pressure from the other side he 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:16.439 decided to be. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.520 Out of town for the vote. Him not being there 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.200 meant we wouldn't get the facility. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:25.160 It's the last council meeting of the year, the final 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.679 one for Mayor Brown, who had been so good to us, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.920 and we were tempted to get discouragement. All this hard 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.680 work and now it looked like it wasn't going to happen. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.040 The day before the vote, I went to see a 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.199 council member that had been against us the whole time. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.360 I had given him my best speeches, told him how 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.000 we were going to be good for the city. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.160 I'd put on all my charm, smiled my biggest smile. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.760 None of that it worked. I thought, you know what, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.160 I have nothing to lose. I'm gonna go see him 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:56.839 one more time. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.280 I walked into the office, prepared for my big speech. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.280 He said, Joel, you don't have to say anything. I'm 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.280 going to vote for you. I thought I was hearing things. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.680 I nearly passed out. He went on to tell how 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.400 the night before he received a call from an older 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.360 Jewish woman that had been a close friend of the 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.160 family when he was growing up, someone they greatly admired 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.120 and respected. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.360 He had not spoken with her in over twenty years, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.920 but she told him in no uncertain terms he was to. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:37.000 Vote for Lakewood having the Compact Center. What's amazing is 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.440 I don't know the lady. I've never met her. I 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.800 didn't ask her to call. That was God speaking to 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:49.079 her about us. God working behind the scenes, giving her 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.720 that desire to pick up the phone and speak passionately 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.000 on our behalf. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.640 I walked into the meeting that day. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:02.000 Expecting contention, pushed back, having to debate, but I had 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.360 the victory and didn't even have to fight. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.679 There were conversations. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.080 Happening on my behalf that I knew nothing about, people 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.120 I had never spoken to, stepping in and using their 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.520 influence to open a door. You may have dreams that 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:23.000 look impossible, doors shut tightly. You don't have the experience, 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.280 the funds, But you don't know who God is speaking. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.520 To about you. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.839 You don't know who he's causing to notice you. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.920 You are not doing life on your own. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.080 The most high God is behind the scenes speaking to 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.640 people that you've never met and you may never meet, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.680 to convince that company to do business with you, to 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.000 show mercy to your child, to introduce you to that 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.079 person where you fall in love. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.959 God is working, not just. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.520 Speaking to you, giving your wisdom direction, but he's speaking 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:02.160 to other people about you, and often at the time 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.000 you don't realize it. You just out in the fields 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.760 like Ruth being your best seems like it's always going 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:09.559 to be a struggle. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:11.640 No sign of things changing. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:16.880 But people are having conversations about you. God is whispering 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.560 your name in their ear, giving them the desire, that 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.560 impression to be good to you. That lady that called 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.240 for us, I don't think she really knew why she 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.800 did it. Maybe she saw on television, Hey, I like 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:31.760 their services. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.440 She could have never known the impact of that one call. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.760 Without her, we may not be in this building, We 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.120 may not have seen all the lives that were changed. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.160 But God is not going to let you miss your destiny. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.400 And there will be times that your over your head. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.720 You're at your limits. You've done all you can. You prayed, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.840 you believed, you worked hard. It's not improving. Don't worry. 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.360 God is speaking to the people, well you need that 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.960 can do what you can't do. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:08.440 Your bo hazes, leave them handfuls on purpose. Your people 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.160 that need to call vote for them. Having the building. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.520 Conversations are happening that you know nothing about. God is 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.160 speaking to people to open doors for you, to bring 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.880 contracts to help turn problems around. A couple of years 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.600 after I started ministering, Victoria and I went on vacation 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.360 to California with our two small children. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:32.800 We'd been there a few. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.560 Days, and that Sunday I woke up and watched a 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.360 local minister on television. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.960 He was really good. I said, Victoria, let's go to 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:42.560 his church today. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.200 Normally, when we're on vacation, we're not looking to go 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.760 to church. I know you think I'm holier than that, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.440 but we're in church all the time. And it had 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.640 been so busy with my dad passing and all the 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.040 changes raising little children. But for some reason I wanted 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.600 to go to church. I went to the bellman to 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.000 get the car and I showed him the address and 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.200 the church I wanted to go to, and I asked 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.680 him how to get there. He said, this will take 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.080 an hour and a half. It's a long way away. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.760 We wouldn't make it in time. He said, but I 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.800 know another good church. It's just fifteen minutes down the road. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.320 I think you'll really like it. We were already dressed 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.240 and ready, so we went. We sat in the back 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.400 and it was a great service, great worship. The pastor 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.800 came out and I thought, I know who he is. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.600 I've seen him too on television. It was Phil Munsey. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.160 He looked back at one point and said, is that you, Joel, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.000 come up and pray over the people. We had never met, 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.560 but that day was a divine connection. After the service, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:50.280 we exchanged numbers. At that time, I didn't know many pastors. 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.560 I'd worked behind the scenes for seventeen years. But Phil 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:59.240 is a fourth generation pastor. He knows everyone. He's out going, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:04.320 he encouraging ministers. A couple of years later, we were 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.919 back out in California. Phil said, Joel, come with me 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.360 to this book convention this afternoon. He said, you'll meet 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.280 a lot of publishers and I know you'll enjoy it. Well, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.919 the last thing I wanted to do was go to 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:17.920 a book convention. 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:19.760 I wanted to go to the beach. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.919 I said, Phil, no, thanks, I'll go there after I 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.639 get my root canal, but I'm not going there today. 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.920 Somehow he talked me into it. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.600 Well, that's where I met a man named Roff who 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.600 worked for Time Warner Publishing. He offered me a contract 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.680 to write my first book. Phil is now on staff 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.239 with us, part of our speaking team, heads up our 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:45.440 Pastors Network. 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:46.960 Here's my point. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.920 The whole reason I got connected with Phil was that Bellman. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.280 The interesting thing is Phil doesn't know him. He didn't 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.680 ask Hey put in a good word for me, send 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.080 people my way. I wasn't trying to go to Phil's church. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.560 I had a better church, I mean, another church. But 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:09.480 God is speaking to people about you. He's putting you 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.000 on the mind of the people you need. You can't 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.760 make this happen. This is the sovereignty of God working 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.399 out his plan for your life. Only God could have 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:25.520 orchestrated all those things falling into place, us choosing that 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.760 city to go on vacation, and me seeing that other 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.200 minister on television, the Bellman. 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:32.480 No one feels church. 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.679 Little did I realize that was all leading to a 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.160 connection to write my book, Your Best Life. Now it's 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.760 on the Best Settlers list for two years. I couldn't 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.760 have planned all that. It was the hand of God 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.440 speaking to the right people about my destiny. You don't 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.359 know who God is speaking to you about right now. 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.600 You can't hear the conversations that are taking place the 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.000 desires God's putting in people to be good to you, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.360 to mention your name, to show your favor. You may 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.120 never meet these people, but they released the blessing. They 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.920 left handfuls on purpose. They connected to you, to someone 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.399 that was instrumental to your destiny. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:17.280 Think about David. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.760 He was in the shepherd's fields seventeen years old, taking 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.399 care of his father's sheep. His brothers were in the army. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.880 They had a prestigious position. People looked up to them. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.800 But David was doing something that felt insignificant, had big 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.840 dreams in his heart. He could feel those seeds of 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.560 greatness telling him he's going to leave his mark. All 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:45.240 the circumstances said he was stuck, was lonely, out there boring. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.720 I'm sure there were times he felt forgotten. God is 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.480 this all there is? But God is not. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.320 Going to let you miss your purpose. 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.439 You are not at the mercy of just who you know, 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:01.400 your family, your friends, your colleagues. David didn't have any 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:06.479 substantial connections. He came from a low income family. But 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.640 God is not limited by who's in your contacts. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.119 He will speak to people. 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.359 That you don't have relationship with, You've never interacted with them. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.040 But God will drop your name in their spirit. He'll 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.280 give them a desire to be good to you. The 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.000 prophet Samuel was in another city minding his own business. 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.879 God told him to go to Jesse's house, David's father, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.040 and anoint one of his sons as the next king 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.360 of Israel. David was out in the fields when Samuel 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.639 came knocking on the door. Before long, they were calling 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.040 David in and Samuel anointed him as the next king. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.240 David didn't campaign for that position, try to convince Samuel 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:50.840 to pick him. 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:52.360 God picked him. 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:57.159 God put David's name in Samuel's heart. David thought he 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:01.000 was stuck, but there were conversations about him that he 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.960 knew nothing about. Samuel was already on the way with 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.080 the oil in his hand, a destiny moment that would 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.640 forever change David's life. And what's interesting is David had 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.560 never met Samuel. This was all happening behind the scenes, 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:21.960 the sovereignty of God bringing people that are instrumental to 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:26.240 your destiny. You couldn't make it happen, You couldn't plan it, 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.200 manipulate it. This is God doing what only he can do. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.679 And if you knew who God was speaking to on 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:34.480 your behalf. 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.679 You wouldn't live worried thinking your stock. 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.640 Oh man, Joel, the problem's too big. My child's never 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.840 gonna get back on course. I don't have enough votes 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:46.720 for my compact center for my dream. 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:48.119 Neither did we. 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.679 But I can assure you God is talking about you 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.960 to the people you need, people that will. 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:56.360 Thrust you into your purpose. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.800 You're concerned about who you're gonna meet, who you're gonna marry. 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.800 Do I have the connections? Stay in peace. God has 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:05.920 it all figured out. 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.760 You just keep honoring him and he'll bring the ones 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.639 that are instrumental for your destiny. He'll talk to the 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.680 bellman to put in a good word for you, even 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:17.080 though you. 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:17.720 Don't know him. 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.240 He'll cause bo ass to notice you and tell the 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:24.919 workers to be kind. He'll send that Jewish lady to 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:28.960 convince the council member that you couldn't convince. You're not 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:33.040 doing this on your own. God is working behind the scenes. 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:35.840 Lady named Beverly called our. 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.040 Serious sex program this week and she'd been. 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:43.560 Perfectly healthy, but she started having really bad headaches. They 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:47.000 lasted all day and go to bed at night hoping 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.760 to get some relief. The next morning, they were as 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.920 strong as ever, she said, worse than a migraine. 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:55.320 This went on for over a month. 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.280 Got to the point where they'd be these spikes of 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:01.879 pain so excluded she eateing. All she could do was 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.800 hold her head and tears coming down her face. One day, 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.880 she was driving home from work and her head was 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:12.800 hurting so badly when she pulled in the driveway, she 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:13.480 couldn't get. 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:13.960 Out of the car. 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:17.480 She just sat there with her head down, not knowing 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.600 how she could go on. A few minutes later, she 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.520 heard a ping on her phone, letting her know she 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:26.800 had a message. She looked down and saw an instant 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.840 message with the name of a girl she had gone 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:33.440 to high school with thirty five years earlier. They're in 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:37.480 their fifties now. It read Beverly, please call me. I 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:41.520 have to talk to you left a number. Beverly wasn't 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.400 friends with this girl. They didn't hang around each other. 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.080 She thought it was probably a mistake and ignored it. 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:51.199 A few minutes later, it deemed again. She dialed the number. 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.960 The voice on the other line was so surprised, said, Beverly, 0:23:55.280 --> 0:23:56.480 I can't believe it's you. 0:23:56.800 --> 0:24:01.080 Are you okay. Beverly was so taken she said, yes, 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.280 I'm fine. Why are you calling? 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:06.240 The lady said, I laid down to go to bed, 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:10.000 but I heard your name so clearly that I couldn't sleep. 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:11.960 I had to get up and call. 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.359 Beverly's heart was beating so fast she knew it was 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:16.200 the hand of God. 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.879 The lady asked if she could pray for and she 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:23.560 began to pray. Beverly said, it was like someone flipped 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:24.120 a switch. 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:29.480 Instantly the headache left, all the pain, the discomfort, and 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:30.840 it never did come back. 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:33.639 That day was a turning point. 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:36.960 Why did that friend decide to call out of the blue? 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.800 Why couldn't she sleep that night? Because God is speaking 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:45.239 to people about you behind the scenes. He's putting you 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:49.000 on their minds, causing you to be noticed, giving them 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:51.959 the desire to be good to you, show you favor, 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:56.080 help you through the problem. Quit worrying about how it's 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.200 going to work out. Do you have the connections? What 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:02.320 if you don't get that break. God is in control 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.080 of your life, and he's in control. 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:07.560 Of the people you need. You are not at the 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:10.200 mercy of what you can do on your own. 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:13.960 God has already lined up people that will move you 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:18.119 into your destiny. The Boaz is to tell the workers 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:21.600 to lead the grain on purpose, people that will use 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:25.480 their influence to bring you into blessings you can't explain. 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:29.240 When you run out of options, you don't have the 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:33.119 ability to change it. God has the Jewish woman like 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.040 it did for us, that change the council member's mind. 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.040 When you're in a challenge and you don't see a 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:42.520 way out, like with Beverly, God will put you on 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:46.119 the right people's mind that will be there to do 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:49.080 what you couldn't do. You don't have to go after 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:53.800 them like David. Samuel will come looking for you. When 0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:57.320 you understand that God is talking about you, you'll go 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:00.720 through the day filled with hope, with the next expectancy 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:04.240 down in your spirit, knowing that at any moment, things 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:07.640 can shift in your favor. The right person show up, 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.520 the problem resolved, that new door open. 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:13.600 You know that God hasn't brought you this far to 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:14.119 leave you. 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:17.639 Sure, there are times that we feel stuck and that 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:21.119 obstacle looks too big, but you have to remind yourself 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:25.520 conversations are happening about you that you know nothing about. 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:29.600 God is speaking to the people you need to become 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:32.600 who you were created to be. Now, stay in faith, 0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:37.159 keep doing the right thing. 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