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Your Right Time Is Coming
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God has prepared a set time for His promises to come to pass in your life. While you wait, you can trust that behind the scenes, He is working all things in your favor. Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This is not an offer 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.600 to buy yourself security snore, is it investment legal or bikes? 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.840 Don't get talked out of your dream. Don't let doubt 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.800 what you don't seem happening, how unlikely it is, keep 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.960 you from believing for what God promised. When thoughts tell 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.160 you there's no way, it's been too long, just say no. Thanks. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.319 I know my right times are coming. 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.840 Father. Thank you that what you promised is already on 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.200 the schedule that I don't have to figure it out, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.520 but You're going to make it happen and it's not 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.440 going to be one second length. Hi, this is Joel 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.800 and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.080 for supporting the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.200 don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.200 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:44.480 your life. God bless you. It's great to be with 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.440 you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.320 during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:52.279 social media. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.600 We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.600 I'd like to start with something funny and I heard 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.520 about this lady that died and she was at the 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:01.320 Pearly Gates. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.600 Saint Peter said, you can't come in yet. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.240 You have to correctly spell a word. She said what word? 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:08.600 He said, any word. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.680 So she's spelled the word love LV Peter said, welcome 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.440 to heaven. Didn't Peter ask if she would take his 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.040 place for a moment, and he instructed her that if 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.359 anyone came to just follow the same procedure. In a 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.000 few moments, she sees her ex husband walking out. She 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.520 can't believe it. She said, what are you doing here? 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.000 He said, I just had a heart attack. Did I 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.440 really make it to heaven? She said, not yet. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.200 You have to correctly spell a word. He said what word? 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.000 There was a long pause. She said, Czechoslovakia. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.520 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.320 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:48.079 it says I have. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.280 I can do what it says I can do. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.679 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.120 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.119 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:02.600 bless you. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.639 I want to talk to you today about your right 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:07.880 time is coming. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.560 We're all waiting for something. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.959 Waiting for a dream, to come to pass, or to 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.880 meet the right person for a health to turn around. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.200 When it's been a long time, we don't see any 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.239 sign of it. It's easy to get discouraged and think 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.160 that it's never going to work out. But God said 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.120 in Isaiah, when the time is right, I the Lord 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.880 will make it happen. When God put the promise in 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.680 your heart, when he gave you that dream, he determined 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.240 the right time to bring it to pass. He's already 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:45.240 scheduled your healing, your breakthrough, your promotion. There are right 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.080 time moments in your future where things will fall into place, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.800 the right people will show up, the opportunity will find you, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.560 and what you're believing for may not have happened yet. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.920 But when you understand that God has a right time 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.680 that has already been scheduled by the creator of the universe, 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.800 you won't live worried, frustrated when is it ever going 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.480 to happen? You'll stay in peace knowing that your right 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.680 time is coming now. The right time is the best time. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.000 God can see the big picture. He knows not only 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.840 when you're ready, but when other people are ready. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.719 While you're waiting, it may seem like nothing is happening. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.039 But behind the. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.600 Scenes, God is working, moving the wrong people out of 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.160 the way, lining up the favor, arranging the breaks that 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.320 you need. It's important to not only trust God, but 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:43.159 trust his timing. Thoughts will say it's never going to happen, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.559 you'll never meet the right person, it's been too long, 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.600 you'll never get well, the odds are against you. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.640 Don't believe those lies. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.200 When you come into your. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.120 Right time, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:58.440 God has planned. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.160 At the right time, your healing will come at the 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.160 right time. The person of your dreams will show up 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.120 at the right time. Your business will take off at 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.839 the right time. You'll come out of that addiction, that depression, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.320 that trouble at work, and live in freedom, wholeness, victory. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.520 Don't get discouraged because it hasn't happened yet. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.159 Your right time is coming. God said, when the time is. 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.400 Right, I the Lord, will make it happen. The beauty 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.719 is we don't have to make it happen. You don't 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.320 have to manipulate things, force a door to open, make 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.359 yourself get well. God is going to make it happen. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.440 You may have obstacles that are too big for you. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:44.880 You don't see how you can get out of debt, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.040 how you can have a baby, how you can accomplish 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.479 a dream. The good news is you're not on your own. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.640 At the right time, God will open the doors. He'll 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.440 cause you to conceive, He'll turn your child around. Time. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.080 God changed a city council member's mind and we got 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.600 the Compact Center at the right time. God stepped in 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.880 and healed my mother of terminal cancer at the right time. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.880 David took a slingshot and defeated a giant at the 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.839 right time. Prison doors flung open for Paul and Silas. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.239 You may not see how this can happen. The odds 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.200 are against you. You're looking at it in the natural. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.600 God is supernatural. He's not limited by what limits us. 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.560 He has these right time moments in your future where 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.080 he's going to make things happen that you could never 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.120 make happen. Now here's the key. If there's a right time, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.800 that means any other time is the wrong time. It 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.560 takes faith and patience to see the promises. We live 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.720 in a microwave society. I like everything fast, God do 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.480 it now. The longer I live, the more I've learned 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.360 to trust God's time me. God knows what he's doing. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.360 He can see the big picture. If it hasn't happened yet, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.080 it hasn't been the right time, you have to trust him. 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.400 Doesn't mean it's not going to happen. God has not 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:18.200 forgotten about you. Your right time is already scheduled. If 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.880 it would have happened sooner, it wouldn't have been a blessing. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.800 In the waiting process, God's doing a work in us, 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.960 getting us stronger, developing our character, preparing us to carry 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.880 the weight of glory. If the situation is not changing, 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.480 maybe God is using the situation to change you. If 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.000 it's not working out yet, maybe he's working out something 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.120 in you. The test is will you trust him while 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.720 you're waiting for the right time? Will you keep a 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.840 good attitude? Will you stay in faith when you don't 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.920 see anything happening. This is when it's easy to get discouraged, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.000 live stressed. God, When are you going to do something? 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.200 When I go to meet the right person, When is 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.120 my business gonna grow? One of these people at work 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.720 gonna start treating me better? Why don't you relax and 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.600 come back to a place of peace. God sees what 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.200 you're going through. He knows what you need. He knows 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.560 your dreams, your goals. He's the one that put them 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.440 in you. And what He has purpose for your life 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.080 will come to pass. One scripture says it won't be 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.360 one second late. Thoughts will tell you how you're falling behind, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:30.680 you're missing out. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.080 Everyone's getting ahead of you. No, you're right on schedule. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.720 God is ordering your steps. You keep honoring him, doing 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.640 the right thing. You're going to come into these right 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.839 time moments, moments where He's gonna thrust you ahead. It 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.319 was a long time waiting, but when you see what 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.839 God does, you'll say it was worth the wait. What 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.160 God is going to do is going to be bigger, better, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.880 more rewarding. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:57.800 Than what you had in mind. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.439 When Abraham was he's eighty years old, his wife Sarah 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.320 was seventy. God gave them a promise that they would 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.400 have a baby in the natural. This was impossible. No 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.559 one had ever had a baby at that age, and 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.600 Sarah had been burn her whole life, never had any children. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.160 When they first heard this promise, it was so far 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.320 out they laughed. They thought, God, that's a good one. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.360 You must have the wrong couple there's no way we 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.640 can have a child. If God would have given them 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.079 this promise when they were in their twenties thirties, when 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.640 it was a normal time to have children, they would 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.520 have believed. But sometimes God will wait on purpose to win. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.760 The odds are against us. Seems like it's too late, 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.439 we're too old, or we don't have the training. The 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.320 medical report's not good, we don't come from an influential family. 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.600 We have plenty of excuses to not believe. But when 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.920 God gives the promise, he sets the time to bring 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:58.600 it to pass. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:09:59.960 He doesn't give you. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.960 The dream and then say, well, I'm gonna think about 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.160 it in a few months. Let me ponder that for 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.319 a while. The moment he gives it to you, he 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.840 puts the promise on the schedule. He marks the right time. 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.679 Like Abraham and Sarah, what God has spoken to you 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.200 may seem impossible, like it could never happen. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.760 Don't get talked out of your dream. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.600 Don't let doubt what you don't seem happening, how unlikely 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.040 it is, keep you from believing for what God promised. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.240 When thoughts tell you there's no way, it's been too long, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.640 just say no. Thanks I know my right times are coming. Father, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.240 Thank you that what you promised is already on the schedule. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.080 That I don't have to figure it out. But you're 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.199 going to make it happen, and it's not going to 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.400 be one second late. We're all going to wait, but 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.880 learn to wait the right way. Wait in faith, Wait 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.599 with expectancy, Wait with praise, thanking God in advance. That 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.400 is on the way. See Abraham and Sarah. At first, 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.480 they didn't believe they could have a baby. They were 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.199 filled with doubt. How can this happen? God said in 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.199 Genesis eighteen, is there anything too hard for the Lord? 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.480 At the appointed time, I will return and give Sarah 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.200 a son. God said, in effect, you may be doubting. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.800 You don't see how, but I have already set the 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.480 right time. At the appointed time, she will give birth. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.120 Notice God set the time when he gave the promise. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.600 Whatever God has promised you, He's already set the right time. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.839 It's already in your future. The question is what do 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.560 we do when it's taking longer than we thought. God's 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.640 timing is not our timing. On the way to your 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.760 promise being fulfilled, there will be opportunities to get discouraged. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.360 Give up on what you're believing for He's going to happen. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.560 What have happened by now? Just accept it. That's when 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.079 you have to dig down deep and say, God, I 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.319 trust you. I know you wouldn't have promised me this 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.440 if you didn't have a right time on my schedule. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:09.280 Don't live with us. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.760 It's never going to happen. Mentality. Live with a right 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.920 time mentality. If you knew one of your right times 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.280 was October sixteenth, at two thirty in the afternoon, you 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.079 were going to meet the person of your dreams. The 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.280 medical report was going to say cancer free, an opportunity 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.200 to expand your business. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.520 Was going to come to you. If you knew that 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.880 right time was coming, you would relax. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.400 You wouldn't live worried. You wouldn't waste time trying to 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.960 figure it out, not able to sleep at night. God 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.120 doesn't tell us when, but he does promise when the 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.559 time is right, He's going to make it happen. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:49.319 Here went bid. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.240 Abraham and Sarah didn't see a baby two years, no 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:54.640 child three years. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:55.760 She was still bearing. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:57.640 They made some mistakes. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:12:59.440 They tried to help God out. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.640 Sarah told Abraham to sleep with her maid that way 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.600 they could have a child. Abraham said, let me pray 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.240 about it. He prayed for four seconds and said, okay, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.880 I'm good with that. He slept with the maid. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.000 They had a son, but it wasn't the promised child. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.920 That baby calls all kinds of strife and division. You 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.520 don't have to help God out. You don't have to 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.240 manipulate force strive. May not happen as fast as you 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:32.400 would like, but you have to trust God's timing. Trying 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.640 to force things to happen. The scripture calls that works 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.680 of the flesh. That's not going to change the right time. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.280 It's just going to bring frustration. It's much better to 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.120 wait and for God to do it his way. Abraham 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.960 and Sarah eventually learned this principle. Romans Force says, even 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.960 though Abraham was one hundred years old, Sarah was ninety 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.480 and had been barren, Abraham never wavered in believing that 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.240 the problem would come to pass. They quit being frustrated, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.120 they quit trying to force it to happen, and they 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.000 started believing that their right time was in their future. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.679 Instead of living sour God, when is it going to happen? 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.120 We're too old. It's been too long. I can hear 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.040 him all through the day. Lord, thank you that the 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.920 right time is coming. We don't see how, we don't 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.000 know when, but we do know you are a faithful 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.360 God that when you promise us the child, you put 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:35.200 the right time on our schedule. What's interesting if Sarah 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.440 wanted a baby, but God wanted a nation, she would 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.720 have been thrilled to give birth to a son. But 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.880 God was setting up something much bigger, much better. God 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.840 said in Genesis seventeen, I will bless Sarah with a son. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.960 She will be the mother of nations. Kings of people 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.080 will come out of her. She not only had a 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.960 son at ninety years old, but she gave to nations. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.360 Kings of people came out of her. Maybe the reason 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.040 your dream is taken longer, the reason that promise hasn't 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.080 come to pass yet, is because what God is going 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.920 to do is going to be so much bigger, so 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.280 much more fulfilling than what you have in mind. You're 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.080 not going to give birth to a son, but to nations, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.560 so to speak. The scripture says Sarah laughed when she 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:30.240 had that son. She even named him Isaac, which means laughter. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.360 The first time, when she heard the promise, she laughed 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:38.400 in unbelief, thinking there's no way. This time, when she 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.840 saw the promise, she laughed in amazement, thinking, Wow, God, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:44.880 I never dreamed this could happen. 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.800 I love how merciful God is. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.720 He could have said, fine, Sarah, if you think it's impossible, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.120 if you think it'll ever happen, then I'll find someone else. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:56.960 But God doesn't. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:01.000 Hold our lack of faith, our doubt, our unbelie against us. 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.280 You may have laughed in unbelief, thinking you could never 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.200 get well, never get out of debt, never break that addiction. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.360 But I believe the second laugh is coming. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:18.920 You're going to laugh in amazement, over joy, full of wonder, thinking, Wow, God, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.560 you've shown out in my. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.120 Life some of your right times. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.760 God has already scheduled, Wow moments, things you never dream 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.720 would happen. Favor like you've never seen new levels for 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:37.920 your family, opportunities, healing, the right people, abundance. Your right 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.800 times are coming and they're going to be better than 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.560 you thought. Now. The key is to trust him while 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:50.960 you're waiting, trust him while his plan is unfolding. Don't 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.560 get discouraged by what you don't see happening. Don't live 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.520 frustrated because it's taken longer than you thought. The right 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.240 time is the best time. God controls the universe. He 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.240 can see things that we can't see. He can open 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.600 doors no person can shut. Sometimes he'll keep a door closed. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.600 David said, God, my times are in your hands. He 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.040 was saying, God, I trust you where I am. I'm 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.919 not discouraged because I'm in the shepherd's fields being overlooked. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.440 I'm not frustrated because King Saul is chasing me. I'm 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.000 not stressed out because people are slandering me, saying things 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.639 that are not true. God, I believe my right times 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.119 are coming. I believe you've already scheduled the promotion, the vindication, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.720 the breakthroughs. That you will make things happen that I 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.080 can't make happen. That you will get me to my destiny. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.480 Genesis twenty one says Sarah conceived and gave birth to 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.760 a son at the very time God had set. It's 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.480 significant that when God gave them the promise, he said 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.000 she would get of birth at the appointed time. When 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:06.280 the promise was fulfilled, he said it again. She had 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.160 this baby at the set time. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.199 God was showing us. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.080 He doesn't give you a promise without setting the right time. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.080 He puts it on the calendar. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.520 Now how we wait is up to us. We can 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.320 wait discouraged. When is it going to happen? 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:23.200 God? 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.000 I thought you said I was going to meet someone. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:26.200 It's been so long. 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.359 I thought you said I was going to have a 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:32.360 bountiful year. I'm in a pandemic. The only thing bountiful 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.879 is my bills. Gonn switch over into faith. Be a 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:37.280 believer and not a doubter. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.280 God, you said, as for me and my house, we 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:41.359 will serve the Lord. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.119 My child may be off course, but I thank you 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.960 that the right time is coming, that you will turn 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:51.040 things around, that He will honor you and fulfill his destiny. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.360 Or God, you said I would be the happy mother 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:55.160 of children. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.920 Haven't been able to conceive yet, But I believe that 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.879 the right time is coming, that there is a baby 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.480 that already has my name on it. When you understand 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.960 that God is going to make it happen takes the 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.679 pressure off. You can relax, You can live in peace. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.000 You just keep honoring God and He'll take your places 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.720 that you've never dreamed. I was in my early twenties 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.240 and I had never really dated anyone. I grew up 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.320 playing sports. I was always busy. Even after college, I 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.240 was playing softball practically every night and tournaments on the weekend. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:32.840 I got tired of hanging out with all the guys, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.639 and I said, God, I want to meet someone. A 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.760 few years went by and nothing changed. I just kept 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.760 believing that God had the right person already lined up. 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.840 I didn't try to force it to happen. I just 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.200 kept honoring God doing the right thing, knowing that he 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.960 was ordering my steps. One day, the battery from my 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.119 watch died. My friend Johnny and I were going up 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.880 to work out, and I saw this jewelry store. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.520 On the way. I pulled in to get battery. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.440 Outwalked the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen to wait 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:08.920 on me. It was Victoria. I didn't tell her, but 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.879 I thought, God, you just answered my prayer. I didn't 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.000 have to pray about it anymore. I wasn't walking by faith, 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:17.160 I was walking by sight. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:18.120 She looked good. 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.240 We started talking, and I found out she was a 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.520 good Christian girl. She went to a church like ours 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.440 across town, and I thought that's great, because if she 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.320 wasn't I was about to convert her. I went in 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.280 to buy a battery for my watch. She ended up 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.280 selling me a whole new watch. She's been taking my 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:38.400 money ever since. Then. 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.359 What happened? I came in to a right time. 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.320 God had already put that on my schedule. He had 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.320 already lined everything up. Think about all that had to 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:55.320 fall into place. There are hundreds of jewelry stores in Houston, 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.280 but I chose that one. I lost jewelers her mom's 0:20:58.320 --> 0:20:59.000 jewelry store. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.160 Victoria could have been off that day. 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.080 She could have been with another customer, she could have 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.119 been out to lunch, but there she was waiting for me. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.719 We started dating, and the funniest thing happened. She couldn't 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:12.720 keep her hands off of me. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:14.800 I said, God, slower down. 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.840 I'm a Christian man, but that's my side of the story. Y'all. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:20.840 Here's what I'm saying. 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.400 God has some of these right times in your future. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.119 The right people are going to show up. 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.879 The healing you're believing, for the promotion, the baby you 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.000 keep honoring God. You're going to come into these moments 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.960 of favor where things happen that only God could make happen. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:41.520 I talked to a man in the lobby. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.520 He was diagnosed with cancer of the kidney and they 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:47.640 were able to remove the kidney, but when they tested 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.399 his limph nodes, it came back positive. The cancer had 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.640 spread all through his body. The doctors gave him less 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:58.000 than two years to live. That was one report, but 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:02.240 God has another report. Sometimes medical science comes to the 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.480 end of what they can do. They run out of options. 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.680 There was no more treatment they could give him. The 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.960 scripture talks about whose report are you going to believe? 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.600 I'm not saying to deny the problem, act like it 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:19.320 doesn't exist, But you do have to choose to believe 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.520 what God says about you and not what people say. 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.159 People can talk you out of your miracle. And this 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:30.119 man was very respectful, but he told his doctors. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:31.960 That he didn't believe he was finished. 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.040 That he had more to do, that he was going 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:37.520 to defy the odds. His main doctor said, sir, you're 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:38.200 in denial. 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:40.600 You need to accept it and deal with it. 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:41.560 Well. 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:44.560 He came to MD Anderson, the cancer hospital here in 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:48.119 Houston to get a second opinion, stopped by the service 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:49.280 and ask us to pray. 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:50.840 I told him what I. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:53.359 Tell you all the time. That God has the final 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:56.760 saying that he can do what medicine cannot do. That 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.760 when you believe all things are possible, that there are 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:04.560 some right times in your future. The experts studied all 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.680 of the records and they agreed with the first diagnosis. 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:10.560 The man asked if they would take some new test. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:13.960 They didn't see any need for it hadn't been that long, 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:16.359 but they went ahead and ran all new tests. 0:23:17.000 --> 0:23:20.520 They came back a week later. The main doctor said. 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.359 In all my years of practicing, I've never seen this, 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:28.120 but we can't find any cancer in your body. Run 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.840 X ray, it showed all the cancer, the new one, 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:33.320 it was completely gone. 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:38.120 When it's your right time, God says I the Lord. 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:42.480 Will make it happen. May seem impossible, The experts say, 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:46.520 no way. Like Sarah, God is asking you, is there 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:48.200 anything too hard for the Lord. 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:50.600 You don't know what God is up to. 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:54.800 There are right times that are not just ordinary, not 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:58.040 just a good break, but they are supernatural. It's the 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:01.840 hand of God that defied the odds, that thrust you 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.800 into places that you can't go on your own, that 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:08.359 makes ways where there was no way. What you're up 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:12.440 against may look bigger stronger, more powerful, but it's no 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:13.520 match for our God. 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:16.320 Stay in peace, you have the most. 0:24:16.200 --> 0:24:20.920 Powerful force in the universe on your side. Jesus was 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.800 at a wedding in Galileean. One point during the festivities, 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.280 they ran out of wine. His mother, Mary, came up 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:30.879 to him and told him about the problem. Said, they 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.399 don't have any more wine. Can you do something about it? 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:37.879 Jesus said, I can't do anything. My time has not 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:41.879 yet come up to then. He'd never done a miracle, 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:46.280 never healed a person, never walked on water, never multiplied food. 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:50.280 Yet his mother could sense that he was close to 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:52.720 stepping into new levels of his destiny. 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:56.200 Down deep, she knew he was going to impact the world. 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:59.879 She just didn't know when. When Jesus told her it, 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:03.320 it wasn't the right time. Yet Mary heard it. She 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.840 understood what he was saying, but in faith, she told 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:10.240 the assistance just do whatever he asked you to do. 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:13.280 She was saying. His time may not have come yet, 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:17.360 but it's close. There's about to be a shift. He's 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:20.159 on the verge of his right time where he stepped 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:24.280 into his ministry where a new level of favored powered 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:28.320 miracles are released. In just a few minutes after he 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:32.119 said my time has not yet come, he told the 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:36.440 assistance to go fill the empty pots with water. As 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:39.920 they were bringing them back, suddenly the water was turned 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:43.160 into wine. He went from my time has not yet 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:46.760 come to the right time is here. That was his 0:25:46.920 --> 0:25:50.560 first miracle. From then on he went out and impacted 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:55.320 the world. When you look at your circumstances, obstacles you're 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:58.800 up against, how long you've been trying to accomplish your goals, 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:02.600 you could say, Jesus, my time is not yet come. Joel, 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:06.840 I can't do anything about this challenge. But like Mary 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:10.280 could sense something new was about to happen with Jesus, 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:13.720 I can sense that God is about to do something 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:17.520 greater in your life. You wouldn't be hearing this if 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:19.000 you weren't about to come out. 0:26:19.119 --> 0:26:22.440 Of my time has not yet come into My right 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:23.240 time is here. 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:26.920 You're on the verge of stepping into a new season, 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:30.919 a season of greater favor, promotion and healing. 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:35.320 Things that have held you back in the past, Barriers. 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:38.320 That have limited your family, Those powers are being broken. 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:43.440 You're going to see influence, resources, talent coming out in 0:26:43.560 --> 0:26:47.800 ways you've never dreamed, Problems that look permanent. Are about 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:51.479 to suddenly turn around, family members, It wouldn't have anything 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:52.119 to do with you. 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:54.960 That strife and division is coming down. 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:57.960 You don't have to make this happen. It's going to 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:00.720 be the hand of God. You came in to your 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:05.320 right time. Like Mary said to those assistance, the key 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:08.480 is to just do whatever God asks you to do. 0:27:09.440 --> 0:27:13.000 Just keep being faithful even though you don't see anything happening. 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:17.200 Keep believing for your healing, keep declaring that you're blessed, 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:20.600 Keep thanking God that it will be a bountiful year. 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:24.280 Your time may not have come yet, but it's closer 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:27.920 than you think. There's about to be a shift from 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:32.760 struggling to ease, from barely making it to abundance, from 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:36.720 fighting that addiction, to freedom, from dealing with that sickness, 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:41.439 to health and wholeness, from nothing working out closed doors 0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:46.080 to things falling into place, the right people, the contracts, 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:50.720 the resources, what God promised already has the set time. 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:53.080 It's not going to be one second late. 0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:57.040 Friends, There's no reason to live frustrated, no reason to 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:01.639 live worried. Trust His timing. You'll do this. I believe 0:28:01.840 --> 0:28:04.600 and declare You're about to come in to one of 0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:09.000 your right time moments. Like Abraham and Sarah, Dreams that 0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:13.440 seem impossible are about to come to pass. Healing, promotion, 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:17.160 divine connections. It's going to be better than you think. 0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.760 In Jesus' name, and if you receive it, can you 0:28:20.880 --> 0:28:21.359 say amen? 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:25.640 Today I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:28.760 Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:33.240 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:35.480 Come into my heart. 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:40.600 I'll make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed 0:28:40.640 --> 0:28:44.080 that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd 0:28:44.160 --> 0:28:46.360 love to give you some new information on your new 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:49.000 walk with the Lord. For your charges, text the number 0:28:49.080 --> 0:28:52.040 on the screen, go to the website. 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