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And if you're ever in our area, please 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.000 stop by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.240 I promise it will make you feel right at home. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.800 Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.120 for coming out today. And I like to start with 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.520 something funny and I heard about this minister he was 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.760 finishing up a fiery sermon on self control. He said, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.400 with great passion, if I had all the beer in 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.320 the world, I would throw it into the river. With 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.640 a greater fervor, he said, if I had all the 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.320 wine in the world, I would throw it into the river, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.079 almost to the top of his lungs. If I had 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.480 all the whiskey in the world, I would throw it 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.399 into the river. Sat down. Song leader stepped up said, 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.520 for our closing song, let's sing him three sixty five. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:50.080 Shall we gather at the river. Hold up your bible, 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.520 say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.080 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.480 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.959 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.040 of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.320 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.840 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.280 about your coming out. We all face situations that look 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:21.320 permanent in our health, our relationships, our career. It's easy 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.400 to think that that's the way it's always going to be. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.520 I'll always struggle with this addiction. I'll always have to 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.000 deal with this depression. I'll always be at this same level. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.679 I'll never break out of the rut do something great. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.480 But just because it seems permanent to us doesn't mean 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.200 that it's permanent to God. God doesn't allow you to 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.320 get into anything that he can't bring you out of. 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.800 Even if it was your own fault. You brought the 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.080 trouble on yourself. God wouldn't have allowed it if he 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.760 didn't have a way out. He knew how to get 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.480 you out of the trouble before you got in the trouble. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.400 He knows the end from the being. He had the 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.960 solution even before you had the problem. And it may 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.560 look to you like it's never going to change, but 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:12.120 God is saying it's temporary. You're coming out of that sickness. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.960 You're coming out of chronic pain, You're coming out of loneliness, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.200 that debt, that addiction. That legal trouble is not going 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.560 to last forever. It didn't come to stay, it came 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.479 to pass. God has already made a way of escape. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.520 He's already planned your coming out party. It's just a 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.159 matter of time before you see the breakthrough, the healing, 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.560 the abundance, the restoration, the new level. The scripture says 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.960 in Job that God has set an end to the difficulty. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.839 He has set an end to that trouble. God is 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.360 the Alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.440 He's already set an end to the sickness, and end 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.000 to the addiction, and end to that en justice at work. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.520 Your coming out date has already been established. Now, when 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.080 thoughts tell you it's never going to change, you might 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.560 as well accept that this is as good as it gets. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.800 Now you have to remind yourself, I will not always 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.360 be lonely. God has set an end to this loneliness. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.120 He's bringing somebody great into my life. I will not 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.120 always struggle in my finances. God has set an end 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.359 to this lack. He has promotion, increase, abundance come in 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.280 my way. Or this child that's off course is not 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.279 always going to cause me heartache. The creator of the universe, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.360 the one who spoke worlds into existence, has already decided 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.040 the final date. Or maybe this addiction, these bad habits 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.600 are not going to hinder me my whole life. God 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.599 has already put the end on his calendar. My time 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.480 is coming, Freedom, wholeness, victory is in my future. That's 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.000 what happened to a young lady. I'm she'd been a 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.680 cocaine addict for fourteen years, and she knew it was 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:08.279 destroying her health, her family, her future. She was about 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.760 to lose her job again, and she'd done everything she 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.839 could in her own strength to try to quit, gone 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.799 through counseling and treatment with no success. And she wasn't 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.240 a quote religious person. She didn't grow up in church 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.880 like me, but she watched us on television every morning. 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.920 She started praying, God, please help me. I can't do 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.120 this on my own. God, I need you. Simply acknowledging God, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.240 the scripture says, call out to God and He will 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.279 answer you. Month after month went by, she didn't see 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.560 any sign of a change. She continued struggling, but one morning, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.279 while she was praying, she felt this warmness come all 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.920 over her. She couldn't explain it. She said, I felt 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.120 such a peace, such a joy, that I began to 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.359 weep and weep. As she sat there weeping, it was 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.760 like that was cleansing her, a healing was taking place. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.520 From that moment forward, she never had a desire for 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.040 the cocaine. She didn't have to go through withdraws. She 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.360 didn't have to gradually get off of it. Instantly that 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.840 addiction was broken. I saw her about six months later 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.160 in the lobby. She looked like a different person. She 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.200 was very thin and fragile. Before she'd gained weight, back 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.640 her skin and cleared up. She had this beautiful smile, 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:37.480 so radiant. What happened? She came in to the end 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.040 date set by the creator of the universe. If you 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.080 will stay in faith, there will come a point where 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:49.320 God says enough is enough. That's my son, that's my daughter. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.400 I didn't create them to live with addictions, with sickness, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:58.320 in lack, mediocrity being taken advantage of. I created them 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.440 to be victorious, to be healthy, to be free to 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.720 lend and not borrow. God may have allowed it, but 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.280 he wouldn't have let you get into it if he 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.400 couldn't bring you out of it. He's already set the 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.560 end to the sickness, to the legal problem, to the 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.600 family situation, to the struggle. You don't know that end 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.280 date could be today, It could be this week, It 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.240 could happen this month. What if you knew that on 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.200 August twenty second of this year, that was the final 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.760 date God set for the difficulty. You wouldn't drag around discouraged, thinking, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.640 oh man, I never get any good breaks, I'll never 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.720 get over this illness. No, you'd go out each morning 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.040 with a spring in your step, a smile on your face, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.640 talking like it was going to happen, acting like it 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.960 was going to happen. That's what faith is all about. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.160 You've got to believe it before you see it. You've 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.040 got to act like it's true before you see any 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:00.000 sign of it happening. Somebody ask you, are you still 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.800 dealing with that sickness? Are you still under the weather. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.720 Don't give them a twenty minute update of everything wrong 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.480 with you, how bad the medical report was. Your answer 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.360 should be yes, I'm still dealing with it. But can 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.840 I tell you I'm coming out. I'm getting better. God 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.880 is restoring health under me. The number of my days 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.920 he will fulfill. Well. Are you still struggling in your finances? 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.720 You're still in debt? Yes, I'm still there, but I'm 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.560 coming out. It's only temporary. I will lend and not borrow. 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.439 Are you still with that same company, that same position. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.200 I thought you wanted to do something better. Yes, I'm 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.240 still there, but I'm coming out. My new job is 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.240 on the way. God is opening doors that no man 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.320 can shut. You have got to get in agreement with God. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.160 He's saying, where you are is not where you're staying. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.360 You're coming out of the drought into abundance. You're coming 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.559 out of fear and worry into peace. You're coming out 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.319 of the prays into joy. You're coming out of constant 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.600 struggle bad breaks into the favor of God. You may 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.480 not see how it could happen, but don't believe those lies. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.720 The end date has already been set. David put it 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.080 this way, though I walk through the valley of the 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.960 Shadow of Death. He didn't say I stay in the valley. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.120 I build my house in the valley. I'm stuck in 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.960 the valley. He said, in effect, I'm coming out of 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.960 this valley. The valley is temporary. You're supposed to go 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.400 through it. That is not your permanent home. But if 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.280 you let it become permanent in your thinking, it will 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.120 keep you from your destiny. And every one of us 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.520 is going through something a health issue, financial difficulty, struggle 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.520 at work. Too often we settle in the valley and think, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.600 oh man, I'll always struggle Joel, I'll always have this 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.640 back pain. I'll always have strife and division in my family. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.480 That's just who we are. Put a stakes down, build 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.400 our house in the valley. I'm asking you to do 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.400 what David did. Pack up your belongings, pull up your stakes. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.520 The valley is not your home. You are just passing through. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.640 You are not a citizen of the valley. You don't 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.680 belong there. You're illegal in the valley. You are not 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.240 a citizen of debt. You are not a citizen of cancer. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.400 You are not a citizen of mediocrity. That's a temporary position. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.760 You may be there for a season. But the good 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.640 news is your day of departure has already been set. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.080 God has already purchased your ticket. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:40.439 Now. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.480 You may be in the valley of sickness right now, 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.480 the medical report doesn't look good, but take heart. Your 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.160 ticket says you are headed for good health. Your ticket 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.320 says you will live and not die. You may be 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.640 in the valley of struggle lack, not enough, but your 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.319 ticket says you are to more than enough, to overflow 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.800 to abundance. Maybe you're in the valley of loneliness. You 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.440 don't have much company, stay encouraged. Your ticket says divine 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:16.120 connections are coming, new friendships, the right people. Perhaps you're 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.000 in the valley of disappointment. Something didn't work out, went 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.320 through a breakup, business didn't make it, a friend betrayed. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:23.360 You. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.400 Don't stay discouraged. Don't let the self pity and bitterness 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.720 take root. That is not your final destination. Your ticket 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.920 says beauty for ashes. Your ticket says what was meant 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.079 for your harm, God will use to your advantage. If 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.760 you will be a prisoner of hope, Zachariah said, God 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.680 will bring you out with twice what you had before. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.439 He'll pay you back for the unfair things that have happened. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.320 A friend of mine recently lost her father. She was 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.559 very close to her dad, and it's really difficult on her. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.320 She's in the valley right now grieving that loss. But 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.280 what I want to say to see is we're not 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.840 supposed to stay in the valley. Weeping may endure for 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.120 a night, but joy is coming in the morning. Your 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.680 ticket says new beginnings now. Don't get stuck in the valley. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.360 Don't put your stakes down in the disappointment, the loss, 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.880 the heartache, thinking you've seen your best days. Paul eighty 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:24.439 four says, passing through the valley of Weeping, you'll find 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.040 pools of blessing. That means, when you're in the valley, 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.320 if you'll stay in faith, knowing that God has you 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.280 in the palm of his hand, God will take your 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.439 tears and turn them into pools to refresh you. You'll 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:43.280 have the strength you need for every situation. Genesis fifteen, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:48.800 God told Abraham, I'm sending your people, the Israelites, into 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.360 a foreign land. They will be enslaved there for four 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:57.239 hundred years. Afterwards, they will come out with great substance. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.200 What's interesting is God is the one that sent them 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.960 into slavery. He said, I'm taking you into a place 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.079 that's going to be difficult. If that was the end 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.600 of the story, that doesn't sound like a good deal. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.480 We think God don't do me any favors. The truth 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:18.000 is that setback was a setup for God to do 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:23.080 something greater. God brought them out with great substance, with 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.960 more than they had before. When you go through a difficulty, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.560 a disappointment, you may not understand it, but God wouldn't 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.520 have allowed it. Not only if he couldn't get you out, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.640 but God's going to take it one step further and 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.520 bring you out with great substance, better off than you 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.920 were before. A friend of mine, a young man, he 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.160 recently had his car stolen, went out early in the 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.600 morning to go to school and his car wasn't there. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.520 This was the first car he had ever owned. His 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.000 father had bought it for him. They filed the police report, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.520 and a week went by and they didn't find the car. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.560 Another week and another, and from time to time I 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.680 would ask the father, Hey, have they found your son's 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.600 car yet. He would say no, But we're not worried. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.120 We know God's in control. He's fighting our battles. He'll 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.200 make our wrongs right. About six weeks later, the insurance 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.240 company paid them for the car because it was never found. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.280 The young man thought he would go buy another used 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.520 car like he had before. But God never brings you 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.720 out the same. If you'll stay in faith, he'll bring 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:33.400 you out with greater substance, greater joy, greater peace, greater resources. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.960 His father had a very nice, high end sports car. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.160 He kept it perfect, looked brand new. One day a 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.000 friend of his father called his father and said, hey, 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.000 come over to my house. I want to give you something. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.880 This father had helped this man from time to time. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.000 He thought he was going to buy his dinner, do 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.600 something nice like that. But this man gave his father 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.800 one of the most expensive, top of the line luxury 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.560 car made today. His father couldn't believe it. He was amazed. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.600 He thought, well, I don't need my sports car anymore. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.640 So he got it all cleaned up, all detailed, gave 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.040 it to his son. Here's how God works. Before the 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.160 car was stolen, the young man had a car payment. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.280 After it was stolen, the insurance company had paid off 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.320 that car, he had no payment. Plus, he and his 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.520 father both had better cars. That car being stolen was 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.160 a set up for God to bring them out with 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:35.640 great substance. Psalm sixty six says we went through the fire, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.360 through the flood, but you brought us to a place 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.040 of great abundance. You may be in the fire right now, 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.440 you may be in the flood, in the famine. We'll 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.320 get ready. Your next step is great abundance. God's going 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.520 to do more than you can ask or think. The 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.040 fact is, God could have kept the car from being stolen. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.040 He's God, He controls the whole universe. When you go 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.600 through a difficulty. When you face a bad break, you 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.760 may not understand it, you may not like it. But 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.480 God wouldn't have allowed it unless ultimately he was going 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.760 to use it to your advantage. Recognize it's a set 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.080 up for God to do something greater. In Exodus fourteen, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.840 when God told Moses to tell Pharaoh to let the 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:26.680 people go, the scripture says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.199 and caused him to say no. Here God was the 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.680 one that told him to let the people go. Yet 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.480 God wanted Pharaoh to say no. It goes on to say, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.760 I have planned this so I will receive great glory 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.160 at the expense of Pharaoh. There are enemies God will 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.960 allow into your life, not to defeat you, not to 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.560 make you miserable, but so that God can receive great glory. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.680 Every time I see my friend's new car, I think 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.359 to myself, look what the Lord has done. They be 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.480 in a tough time, but when God brings you out, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.720 when you beat the cancer, when you break the addiction, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.200 when your marriage is restored, when you pay your house off, 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.359 when you accomplish your dreams, everyone will know it wasn't 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.840 just you, It was the favor of God. God wants 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.120 to show out in your life. He wants to make 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:25.400 you an example of His goodness. But we pray God 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.639 keep me out all the difficulties. God, don't let me 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.879 face any opposition. But if that happened. Number one, we 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:37.000 wouldn't grow like we should. Our character is developed in 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.919 the tough times. That's when our faith is tested and strengthened. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.639 And number two, if we never had obstacles to overcome, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.439 if we never faced impossible situations, we wouldn't see the 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.520 greatness of God's power. We have difficulties. A lot of 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.199 times we think, Oh, man, why is this happening to me? 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.800 What am I doing wrong? No, you may not be 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.200 doing anything wrong. God just may want to show out 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.240 in your life. He may want to use that situation 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.920 to bring him great glory. One time Jesus saw a 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:13.200 man that had been blind since birth. His disciples asked 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:17.280 him who sinned this man or his parents. Jesus said, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.920 nobody sinned. He was born this way so that the 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:25.119 glory of God might be seen. Jesus touched his eyes, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.560 healed him, brought him out of blindness for the rest 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.439 of his life. That man was a testimony to the 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.680 goodness of God. When the Houston City Council members voted 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.520 for us to have this facility, we had worked on 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.879 it for nearly two years. It was a dream come true. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.280 We were so excited. But a week later a company 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.240 filed a lawsuit to try to keep us from moving in. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.600 This company was the largest taxpayer in Texas. My first 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:59.040 thought was, God, this is impossible. We'll never win this lawsuit. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:03.600 This company is huge. They've got more money, more resources, 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.960 more experience. It was David versus Goliath. But one day 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.680 I was reading this passage in Exodus fourteen. It says, 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.520 when I get through with Faiah, all of Egypt will 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.280 know that I am the Lord. Now I could hear 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.560 I could hear God saying to me right down in here, Joe, 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.000 you just stay in faith, and when I give you 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.760 that building, everyone will know it is the Lord, your God. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:34.320 This building is a testimony of the greatness of our God. 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.720 We can all say, look what the Lord has done. 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:43.320 Your situation may look impossible, like ours dead. The obstacle 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.080 looks too big, the sickness too bad, the business too slow, 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.000 the marriage too far gone. No, get ready, You're a 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:51.840 prime candidate for God. 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.160 To show himself strong. God specializes in cases that look 0:20:56.240 --> 0:21:00.480 too big, impossible, no chance that way. When he turns 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:04.239 it around, you will give him great glory at the 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:11.359 expense of your enemies. The scripture says God caused Faah 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:14.919 to harden his heart. That tells me that God is 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:19.720 in control even of our enemies. When Satan wanted to 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.480 test Job, he had to ask God for permission to 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.080 even touch him. In the Book of Acts, when Saul 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.680 was persecuting the Church, he had to get permission from 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:34.399 the chief priest to arrest believers, and he was headed 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.639 to Damascus with papers in hand, thinking I've got permission 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.800 to make their lives miserable. I got permission to bring 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:45.880 them down. But as he was traveling, a bright light 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.879 shine down from Heaven knocked him off his horse. He 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.440 fell flat on his back. What's my point? Even though 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.840 he had permission, God stopped it. There are times when 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.480 God will give the enemy permission to test us. The 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.359 enemy has papers in hand, but just like with Saul, 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:08.560 God will stop it. That young lady addicted to cocaine 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.440 fourteen years God said, that's it. I'm stopping it. God 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.840 can stop the cancer, stop the addiction, stop the legal situation. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.800 Every one of us can look back and see times 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.199 where we know God stopped it. I was on the 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:25.760 freeway one time. It's in my early twenties, and it 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.520 was raining really hard, and I lost control of my 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.760 car started spinning around and around. At one point I 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:35.560 looked up and I was going the wrong direction on 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.080 the freeway. There was an eighteen wheeler right in front 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.760 of me. Looked like I could reach out and touch 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.080 its front grill just a few feet away. My life 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:48.600 flashed before me. I thought, that's it, I'm done. But 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.399 God doesn't let you get into something that he can't 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.439 bring you out of. That truck should have run over me. 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.480 The enemy had the papers in hand, but God said, 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:01.480 now I'm gonna use this to show my power in 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:05.200 a greater way. God stopped it. Somehow that truck missed me. 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.560 The driver pulled over to the side of the road 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:10.960 where I was. He looked like he had seen a ghost. 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:15.200 His first words were, boy, you must be living right. 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:20.800 He told how he felt like a big gust of wind, 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.200 picked up his whole rig and moved it one lane 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.879 over just to the nick of time. What am I saying? 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.840 Whatever comes against you. God can stop it. He can 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:37.560 stop the accident, stop the addictions, stop the family trouble. 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:39.880 The enemy is not going to have the last laugh. 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:44.080 You will, David said in psawm One nine, from my 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:48.240 earliest youth, my enemies have persecuted me, but they have 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.760 never been able to finish me off. Can I tell 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.880 you that difficulty is not going to finish you off? 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.800 That bad break, that disappointment, that sickness is not the end. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:03.960 God has the final say, and he's saying, you're coming 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:07.520 out with greater substance. You're coming out better off than 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:11.160 you were before. I read about a small fish called 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:14.920 a Moses' soul. It's a little flounder that's found over 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:18.840 in the Red Sea. There are also sharks in those waters, 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:21.960 and typically those sharks would eat this kind of fish. 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:27.280 But in the nineteen seventies, researchers discovered something interesting about 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:30.920 the Moses' soul. All the other fish in the same category, 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:33.960 same size, same way, they would be eaten by the sharks. 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:37.800 But the sharks could not eat the Moses' soul. It's 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:42.400 because it has a unique defense system. When it senses 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:47.280 any kind of danger, it naturally releases poisonous toxins from 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:53.520 his glands. Those toxins literally caused the shark's jaws to freeze. 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:57.320 They showed a picture of this Moses' soul swimming inside 0:24:57.400 --> 0:25:01.240 the shark's mouth. All the shark had do was bite 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.119 down and there was dinner. The only problem was the 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:07.760 shark couldn't do it. God puts something on this little 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:11.440 fish to protect it. As long as the shark was there, 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:14.280 it couldn't close its mouth. It had to go away 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:17.440 for a few seconds before its jaws would be released. 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:21.240 In the same way as a child of the Most High, 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:25.040 God has put something on you where you cannot be defeated. 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:29.480 At times, it may look like those jaws are going 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:34.199 to close down. The medical report isn't good. Business is 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:37.440 going down. The odds are against you. But Isaiah said, 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:42.760 no weapon formed against you will ever prosper. It may form, 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:46.440 it may look impossible, but the good news is God 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.840 will stop it. It's not going to prosper. That's what 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:55.040 David said. My enemies cannot finish me off. Stay in peace. 0:25:55.560 --> 0:25:58.920 God's got your back. He's fighting your battles. He's done 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:00.840 it in the past and he'll do it again. In 0:26:00.880 --> 0:26:06.800 the future. The three Hebrew teenagers Shadrack nijaq abed Nego 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:11.280 refused to bow down to King Nebuchaonezzar's golden idol. He 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.160 was furious. He was going to have them thrown into 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:18.040 a fiery furnace. I'm sure they prayed, God, please keep 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:20.480 us out of the fire. God, this is dangerous. We 0:26:20.520 --> 0:26:23.240 could be killed in there. They wanted God to do 0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:26.040 it one way, but God chose to do it another way. 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:31.160 Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire. Other times 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:34.240 God will make you fire proof and take you through 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:39.119 the fire. Those teenagers had their hands and feet bound 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:42.480 with cords. They were thrown into the furnace. Looked like 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:45.280 it was over looked, like they were done. But God 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:47.960 never lets you get into something that he can't bring 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:51.640 you out of. The only thing that fire burned off 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:54.680 were the cords that were holding them back. The king 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:57.399 came to check on them, looked through the window in 0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:01.159 the furnace. Couldn't believe it, He asked the guards. Didn't 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:04.200 we throw three men in here bound? I see four 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.080 men loose, and one looks like the son of the 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:11.520 living God. King never Kanizza said, hey, guys, from this 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:14.800 day forward. We're all gonna worship the God of shad 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:19.920 Rak Me Jack and a Bendigo. Friends. Your enemies cannot 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:23.800 finish you off. They don't have the final say God does. 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:26.879 You may feel like you're in the fire right now. 0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:30.479 You don't see a way out. Stay encouraged. Where you 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:34.679 are is not permanent, it's temporary. You're coming out, not 0:27:34.840 --> 0:27:39.280 the same, but better with great abundance. When you come out, 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:43.760 all of your family, friends and enemies will know the 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:45.720 favor of God is on your life. 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:49.560 You're going to be a living testimony of God's goodness. 0:27:50.760 --> 0:27:54.680 Now, remember, the end of the difficulty has already been said. 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.800 The end of the trouble, the lack, the addiction, the 0:27:57.840 --> 0:28:01.240 final date has already been a stabb The good news 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:04.280 is it could happen this week. Get up every morning 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:07.160 thanking God that is on the way. If you'll do this, 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:11.280 I believe and declare. You're coming out of sickness. You're 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:14.960 coming out of depression, You're coming out of addictions. You'll 0:28:15.000 --> 0:28:18.040 coming out of lack and struggle. The tide of the 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:21.120 battle is turning. You might as well start planning. 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