Your Super Bloom Season

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It's great to be with 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.280 you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.000 during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.440 social media, and you can come visit us in person. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.440 We'd love to have you be a part of one 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.440 of our services. I like to start with something funny, 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.440 and I heard about this husband and wife they'd been 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.200 arguing for a long time about who should make the 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.000 coffee in the morning. The husband thought it was the 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:19.320 wife's job, but she just didn't agree. After several heated debates, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.079 she finally told him I can prove to you from 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.079 the Bible that it's the man's job to make the coffee. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.840 He said, what are you talking about. There's nothing in 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.880 the Bible about the man making the coffee. She said, sure, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.400 there is. She opened the Bible and turned to the 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.520 Book of Hebrews. Say it like you mean it. This 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.320 is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.200 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.840 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.840 taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.320 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:59.440 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.960 to talk to you today about your superbloom season. There 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.440 was a story on the news about all the rain 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.360 in parts of California last winter. Places that normally have 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.120 a dozen inches a year had that much in just 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.800 a few days. Month after month, there was this record 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:22.079 breaking rainfall. It's causing all kinds of damage mudslides, flash flooding, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.520 people having to evacuate. They would get through one big storm. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:31.320 Two weeks later another one even bigger. But when springtime 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:36.160 rolled around, something unusual happened. All across the fields and 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.400 mountain sides, where it was normally grass and weeds, there 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:45.720 were flowers blossoming. Everywhere was the most beautiful, colorful sight. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.200 Looked like a postcard. They call it a super bloom. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.320 Because of the record breaking rainfall, seeds that had been 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:58.680 dormant for years began to blossom. We were driving and 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.840 we pulled over to look. The whole mountain side was 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.200 filled with bright yellow flowers and pinks and purples, like 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.640 something you've never seen. All the rain caused trouble hardship, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.520 but without that excessive rain, there would have never been 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.520 a super bloom. It's the same principle in life. We 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:23.640 all have rain difficulties. Sometimes there's a downpour. It's one 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.480 thing after another. Trouble at work, go through a loss, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.560 child is off course, dealing with a health issue. Thoughts 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.600 will tell you this is the way it's always going 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:38.039 to be. You'll always struggle, always have heartache, always be lonely. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.440 You know, all that rain is a sign that a 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.440 super bloom is coming. You're about to blossom. You're going 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.360 to see favor, opportunities, relationships that you could have never 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:55.320 seen without the rain. We don't like the rain. It's uncomfortable. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.720 They walked away, the contract fell through. But the rain 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:03.880 is necessary. There are seeds in you that will only 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.040 open up by going through excessive rain. The rain seems 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.120 like a setback, but really it's setting you up for 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.080 greater levels. On the other side of that difficulty is 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.960 favor like you've never seen. It may be raining in 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.280 your life now. You're doing your best, trying to stay faithful. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.960 Nothing's getting better. Attempted to get discouraged except that it 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.360 will never work out. No, get ready, there's a super 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.360 bloom in your future. You're going to come out of 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:40.160 that lack into abundance, into overflowing into supernatural provision. You're 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.640 going to see the hand of God doing what only 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.680 he can do. That sickness may look permanent, but things 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.600 are about to turn in your favor. You're going to 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.280 come out into good health, into energy, into vitality. You're 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.520 going to come out of that loneliness into great relationships, happy, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.960 fulfill or out of the depression, out of that anxiety 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.360 into joy, peace and victory. Don't let the rain fool you. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.440 That's not how your story ends. There may be flooding, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:16.000 now there's heartache, disappointment. It's not letting up. Have the 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.760 right perspective, Father, thank you that this rain is leading 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.560 to a super bloom. That I'm going to flourish, that 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.680 I'm going to blossom, that my best days are still 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.000 up in front of me. This report talked about how 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.800 in the super bloom, all these flower seeds had been 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.960 lying their dormant in the ground for years. They were healthy, 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.360 full of life, had beautiful flowers in them. They just 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.840 needed the excessive water to get down deep in the 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.520 earth so they could germinate and come to light. There 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.400 are seeds in all of us that are lying dormant 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.839 promises that we were standing on, believing to come to pass. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.440 But it's been so long things haven't worked out. We 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.800 went through disappointments. Now we don't think it could happen. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.000 We may have given up, but that seed is still alive. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.440 Researchers have found seeds that are twenty five hundred years 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:16.000 old in an Egyptian tomb. They planted those seeds and 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.040 they came to life. They blossomed hundreds of years later. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.400 Prayers are seeds that we've sown. We prayed and asked 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.120 God for our dreams and ask him to turn situations around. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.840 When it hasn't happened on our timetable, often we quit believing. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.240 We think it's not meant to be. But those seeds 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.480 are still alive. There are prayers that your parents and 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:46.120 grandparents prayed. They believed they were faithful, but they never 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.360 saw them come to pass. Those seeds are still in 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.920 your family life. God put the vision in them. They 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.280 could see it, but it was for the next generation. 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.920 My father talked about how one day he was going 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.160 to get the summit for Lakewood, that's what this place 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.680 was originally called. He had it in his spirit, but 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.559 he never saw it happen. Twenty five years later, long 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.280 after he was gone, we acquired the Compact Center. How 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:18.400 did it happen? Through excessive rain, through lawsuits, through opposition, 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.280 through struggle. But on the other side of that difficulty 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.000 was a super bloom. A seed that had been dormant 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.960 came to life. You're sitting in a super bloom. You're 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.880 sitting in the favor of God. You're sitting in a 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.599 building that was birthed out of great opposition. At times 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:43.120 it looked impossible. The opponents were bigger, stronger. But the 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.640 rain is not how your story ends. The rain is 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:52.160 waking up seeds of greatness, seeds of abundance, seeds of opportunity. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.920 The enemy sent the rain to harm you, but it's 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.160 going to backfire. God's going to use it to promote you, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.120 to cause you to blossom, to go further than your dream, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.040 to open doors bigger than you've imagined, to entrust you 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.880 with resources, influence, favor that your family has never seen. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.840 But the only way to have a super bloom is 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:19.520 to have excessive rain. Things you don't understand, people that 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.560 do you wrong. The house didn't go through, and you 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:27.719 have this medical problem. You'll be tempted to complain, get discouraged, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.240 give up on that dream. That rain is not working 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.480 against you. It's setting you up for a super bloom. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.079 It's waking up the seeds that were lying dormant. It's 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:43.319 going to bring to life opportunities, breakthroughs, healing, abundance. You're 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.760 going to step into houses that you didn't build, vineyards 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.720 that you didn't plant. That's those blessings that your loved 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:54.319 ones prayed for, but they never saw generational blessings. You're 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.880 going to bloom in ways you've never imagined. The medical 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.440 report said you wouldn't get well, but look at you now, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.520 you're healthy and whole. Looked like you'd always struggle. Then 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.360 one good break, one contract, one opportunity, and you have 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.480 overflown abundance. Or maybe you thought it was too late 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.720 to accomplish your dream to write the book, to start 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.280 the business, to build the house. Then things started falling 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.120 into place. New doors opened, the right people showed up, 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:28.439 supernatural provision. What happened. You came into a super bloom. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.960 The rain stopped and the seeds came to life. You blossom. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.480 You saw levels that you would have never seen without 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:41.440 the excessive rain. One expert talked about how in order 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.080 to have a super bloom, the conditions had to be 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:48.559 just right. What's interesting is California had been in one 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.400 of their top three droughts in their history. People had 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.760 to conserve water, not run their sprinklers. It was inconvenient 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:01.600 a hardship. But during the droughts, something unusual was happening. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.360 Most of the weeds and grass that normally filled the 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:09.680 mountain sides had died off. That made room for these 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.920 flower seeds that were very deeper underground to receive the 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.000 water and come to life. Had there not been a 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:21.920 drought but just the excessive rain, these flower seeds wouldn't 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.960 have germinated. The perfect conditions for a super bloom was 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:31.920 a dry season followed by excessive rain. God was showing 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.080 us a principle many times before our super bloom. There's 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:41.240 a dry season, a drought. Nothing good is happening, no favor, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.480 no promotion. Things are slow. It's tempting to quit believing God. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.080 Where are you? Why is this not changing? God has 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.440 not forgotten about you. The drought is all a part 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.800 of his plan. It's making room for the new things 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.760 He's about to do. Stay faithful in the dry seasons. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.320 Without the drought, you couldn't have a super bloom. Without 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.400 the delays, things that are taking longer than you thought, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.600 you won't see the fullness of what God has in store. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.680 You would think the perfect conditions for a super bloom 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:19.040 are good weather, sunshine, the right amount of water, the 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.760 right amount of fertilizer. Is just the opposite to have 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.240 a super bloom, you have to have a drought followed 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.440 by excessive rain. Now, a drought is bad enough. This 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.600 is slow. I feel stuck in my career. Nothing's changing 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.160 in my health. My child is still off course. If 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.800 the drought doesn't discourage us, and here comes the excessive rain, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.880 trouble at work, pandemic hits friend turned on you. You 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.320 lost a loved one. When it rains, it pours. But 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.320 when you understand how God works that, the dry season, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.679 the excessive rain, that's all leading to a super bloom. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.360 That's how those see increase. Seeds of abundance, seeds of 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.800 new levels are going to take root. The drought is 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.600 not permanent. The excessive rain may feel like it's going 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.760 to flood you, like you're going to go under, But 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.040 God has you in the palm of his hand. He said, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.480 you'll go through the floods and not be drowned. You'll 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.280 go through the dry seasons and not be harmed. May 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.240 seem odd, but that's the perfect condition for a super bloom. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.880 The dry season, the excessive rain, it's not setting you back. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.960 It's setting you up to flourish, to blossom, to see 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:42.600 greater favor greater joy, greater resources, greater influence. Now the 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.440 key is what kind of attitude do we have in 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.960 the dry seasons when it's slow, we're not seeing any progress. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.040 In the excessive rain. You get through one struggle and 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.440 something else hits. It's easy to complain get better, God, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.040 it's not fair. You have to dig down deep and say, God, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.360 I trust you. I know you wouldn't have allowed this 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.080 if it wasn't working for me. Yes, I'm in a drought. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.480 Yes I have these challenges, but I believe a super 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.520 bloom is coming that I'm all blossom in my health, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.680 blossom in my finances, blossom in my relationships. This is 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.480 what happened with Joseph. God put a dream in his 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.160 heart that he was going to be in leadership do 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.920 great things. That seed was planted, but it didn't come 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.920 to pass. Without opposition. You can't reach the fullness of 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:38.240 your potential without delays and setbacks and people that turn 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.000 on you. The Apostle Paul said, a wide door of 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:46.920 opportunity is open, and there are many adversaries. Be much 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.720 easier if God gave us the dream and then just 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.440 brought it to pass, made everything easy. But we would 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:57.880 never grow, we would never develop our spiritual muscles, and 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.600 we'd never learned to really trust him. In the difficult 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.400 times is where you show God what you're made of. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.800 That's where you prove that you can handle the blessing, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.640 handle the favor, that you're not going to let disappointments, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.480 bad breaks, people that come against you convince you to 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.960 live bitter, give up on those dreams. Joseph's brothers were 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.320 jealous of him, and they threw him into a pit. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.360 Eventually they sold him as a slave. His whole world 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.560 was turned upside down. He went from having this exciting 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.400 dream being his father's favorite child to living in a 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:38.240 foreign land against his will. Didn't speak the language betrayed 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.760 by his brothers. Joseph didn't get bitter. He didn't say God, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.120 this is not fair. You said I was going to 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.400 do great things. He understood that God was still in control, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.040 that the setback wasn't his final destination, that what God 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.800 promised would still come to pass. He was in charge 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:03.000 of Potterphar's house and Egyptian Army officer. Joseph was being 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.480 his best excelling when Potterphar's wife lied about him. She 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.200 falsely accused Joseph, and he was put in prison. Another 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:15.520 bad break. He was in Egypt for thirteen years, a 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:20.920 dry season. I'm sure, thoughts whisper Joseph, it's never gonna happen. Now, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.200 Come on, man, God's forgotten about you. Look how long 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.200 it's been. Joseph went through the drought, he went through 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:34.000 the excessive rain, trouble, betrayal, lonely nights. But those two 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.160 things are the perfect conditions for a super bloom. Deep down, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.920 he knew that God was up to something. One morning, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.400 the Pharaoh had a dream that he didn't understand. The 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.680 butler told the Pharaoh that Joseph could interpret dreams. The 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.640 scripture says they sent word for Joseph to come quickly 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.880 to the palace. Joseph woke up that morning in prison 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.680 thinking it was another ordinary day, but suddenly he was 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:05.240 headed to the palace. You may be in a dry season, 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.480 but God can quickly turn things around. Thoughts will tell 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.159 you it'll take years to get out of this mess, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.560 years to get healthy, years to get out of debt, 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.800 years to meet the right person. No one touch of 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.280 God's favor, one good break, one phone call, one divine connection. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:28.200 Suddenly things will change. When Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dream, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.760 he was so impressed he made Joseph the prime minister 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.560 of Egypt. Notice how it happened. Joseph had the dream 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.639 that seed was in him. Then he went through a 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:44.720 dry season, a long drought. Then the excessive rain came, trouble, betrayal. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.920 It was unfair, but he just kept being his best. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.280 He didn't understand it, but he kept doing the right thing. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.600 Then he came in to a super bloom favor he'd 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:01.560 never imagine influence, honored resources. We all go through these 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.719 dry seasons where it's taken longer than we thought. Feels 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.400 like God has forgotten about us. But that dry season 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.720 is all a part of his process. What you can't 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:17.159 see is he's working behind the scenes, weeding out things 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.680 that would stop your harvest, moving the wrong people out, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:25.800 clearing away any debris, any weeds, any hindrance. It's getting 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.280 you prepared for what's coming. The rain, the opposition, the 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.840 bad breaks. It wasn't fair. It feels like it's setting 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.960 you back, but really it's setting you up. That rain 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.560 is going down deep on the seeds that God planted 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:46.440 in your heart. It's watering, the dreams, the goals, the prayers, 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.840 those desires, And yes it's uncomfortable, but the truth is, 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.879 the conditions are just right for a super bloom, for 0:18:55.000 --> 0:19:00.800 something uncommon, unusual. It's going to happen quickly. You didn't 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.560 see it coming, there was no sign of it. Then 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.640 the Pharaoh calls, the medical report improves, your child gets 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.399 the scholarship, your business takes off. You meet the person 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.720 of your dreams. Now you may be in a dry season. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:20.000 Now things are not changing. You're dealing with loneliness. Problem 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.159 at were struggling in your finances. You could easily live sour, 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.719 give up on your dreams. Think nothing good is in 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.159 your future. No, God is saying to you today, a 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.200 super bloom is coming. Seeds that you thought were dead 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.800 are coming back to life. Prayers that your loved ones 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:43.400 prayed are going to be answered through you. You're about to blossom. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.760 You're about to flourish. To see new growth, new relationships, 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:53.240 greater influence, greater favor. Now do like Joseph, keep doing 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.560 the right thing when it's hard. Keep being good to 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.680 people that are not good to you. Keep praising in 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:04.080 the seasons, keep thanking God even when there's excessive rain. 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.200 He sees your faithfulness. He's not going to just bring 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.199 you out. We'd be grateful if we just got through it. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.840 But he's going to make the enemy pay. He's going 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:18.879 to bring out better, increase, promoted, healthier, happier, at a 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.680 new level of your destiny. Get this down in your spirit, 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:28.199 a super bloom season. Dreams coming to pass, opportunities finding you, 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.000 good breaks chasing you down, the right people knocking at 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.320 your door. God's going to cause you to shine, to 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.679 stand out, to come from the background to the foreground, 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:43.080 from not enough to more than enough, from lonely to fulfilled, 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.520 from let me make it through to who would have 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.480 ever thought I would be this blessed, this happy, this fulfilled. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:55.080 Here's what I'm saying. Excessive rain is a sign that 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.600 excessive blessings are coming. A super dry season is a 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.520 sign that supernatural favor is on the way. Don't let 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:07.120 the rain fool you. Don't let the heartache, the loss, 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.280 the delays convince you that you've seen your best days. 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.679 God wouldn't have allowed it if he wasn't going to 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:17.320 use it for your good. Not just cause you to bloom. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.640 But how about super bloom. That's out of the ordinary. 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.960 That's abundance, that's overflowed. That's something that causes people to 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.960 stop to notice. How did you get well after the 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.919 medical report said you were done? Just tell them I 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.240 came into a super bloom. God did what medicine could 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.479 not do. How did you get out of debt? How 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:40.439 can you live in that neighborhood? I saw how you 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.199 grew up. Yes, the odds were against me, but I 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:47.080 had a super bloom above and beyond favor, the open 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:51.560 windows of heaven blessings I could not contain. Or how 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.480 are your children doing such great things? They used to 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.840 be off course, running with the wrong crowd. Yes, but 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.880 we saw a super bloominess of God lifting them out 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:04.919 of that pit, setting their feet on the rack, putting 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:08.040 a new song in their heart. I don't believe you 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:10.960 would be hearing this if you weren't on a verge 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.320 of a super bloom. You are close to seeing God 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.639 do something that you've never seen, catapulting you to a 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:22.879 new level, opportunity bigger than you've imagined, resources that you 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:27.040 never dreamed you would handle, negative situations that look impossible 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:31.840 suddenly turning around. Well, Joel, this sounds good, but I 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:33.879 don't see how it could happen for me. I haven't 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.400 had a good break in twenty seven years where you're 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.160 way overdue. That dry season is one of the conditions. 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.080 Don't count yourself out. God has already counted you in. 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.280 He's already scheduled your super bloom. 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:48.880 Man. 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.840 I'd like to believe, but man, I'm having all these problems. 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.840 When it rains, it pours. That's one of the conditions. 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:58.280 You're in perfect position for God to show out in 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:03.480 your life, says God has ordered our steps. How do 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:05.760 you know that God has not ordered you to be 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:09.120 there so he can get you in position to do 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:12.720 something you've never seen. Not just bring you out, but 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:17.119 bring you into a super bloom. Catapult you ahead bring 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.640 dreams to pass that you've given up on. Why don't 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.639 you be a believer and not a doubter. Doubters are 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:26.439 a dime a dozen. It's easy to say this is 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:29.440 not for me. God is looking for people who will 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.520 dare say yes, I'm in a dry season, yes I 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.400 have excessive rain, but I know this is not how 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:39.120 my story ends. A super bloom is coming. God show 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:43.679 out in my life. Surprise me with your favor. You 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:46.240 look at all the bad breaks in Joseph's life and 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.280 you realize they had to happen. It was all a 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.520 part of God's plan to get him into leadership in 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:56.760 a foreign country. His brothers had to be jealous. They 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:59.240 had to throw him into a pit. He had to 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:02.880 go through that dry season, the lonely nights, he had 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:06.280 to have all the rain. Potiphar's wife had to falsely 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:09.639 accuse him. He had to be put in prison. It 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:13.399 was all leading him to his purpose. What am I saying? 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:17.880 Don't fight everything you don't like, Don't live bitter over 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:20.920 the people that did you wrong, the door that closed, 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:24.000 the company that pushed you out. It may not have 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:27.440 been fair, and yes it was painful, but God wouldn't 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:30.400 have allowed it if it was going to stop your purpose. 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:34.080 There are things that were not going to understand along 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:37.159 the way. You have to trust that God knows what 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:40.760 he's doing, that he's working out his plan for your life. 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.119 His plan is bigger than yours. His plan is greater. 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:48.000 There are levels that you cannot reach without going through 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:52.159 a dry season, without opposition, things that are not fair. 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:56.440 That's all leading you to a super bloom to greatness, 0:24:56.600 --> 0:25:00.119 to promotion, to influence things that you've never imagined. And 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:03.840 I'm not saying to accept the trouble and accept the 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:08.639 sickness and live in mediocrity. I'm saying, stay in peace, 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:12.920 live from a place of rest. You can't make everyone 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.399 like you, make everything go your way. That's going to 0:25:16.440 --> 0:25:19.800 frustrate you. Some of the things we're trying to pray 0:25:19.840 --> 0:25:23.720 away is the hand of God. Joseph could have prayed, God, 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:27.560 change my brother's mind, caused them to not be jealous, 0:25:27.640 --> 0:25:30.560 cause them to like me. He would have missed his destiny. 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:33.560 They had to be jealous. They had to throw him 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:36.440 into that pit to get him to Egypt. He could 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:39.119 have prayed, God, don't let them believe this lady that 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:42.760 lied about me. God vindicate me. She had to lie. 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:46.040 She had to falsely accuse him so he would get 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:50.000 to the prison to meet the butler and interpret his dream, 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:54.159 so the butler could tell the Pharaoh about Joseph the 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:58.440 dry season. The trouble was all a part of God's plan. 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.159 The scripture said, nothing can snatch you out of God's hands. 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:07.400 The longer I live, the more peaceful I am, the 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:11.160 more joyful I am The truth is, the longer I live, 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.800 the more opposition I have, the more rain comes. As 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:19.200 God promotes you, there's bigger adversaries. I stay in peace, 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:23.560 knowing that it's all leading to a super bloom. God's 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:26.760 plans for you are for good. The scripture says you 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:29.840 will live a flourishing life. But on the way of 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:32.800 the good, there's going to be some bad, some trouble, 0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:37.199 some delays, things we don't understand. You'll save yourself a 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:39.879 lot of heartache if you'll learn to trust Him in 0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:44.040 the trouble. Stay in peace in the dry seasons, to 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:48.199 not be frustrated by the jealous people, the betrayals, the 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.720 situations that are not fair. All those things are leading 0:26:51.760 --> 0:26:55.920 you to favor, to influence, to resources that you would 0:26:55.960 --> 0:27:00.520 have never seen without them happening. After Joseph became the 0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:04.480 prime minister, his brothers came to the palace looking for food, 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:07.320 and when they realized it was Joseph, of course they 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:10.959 were shocked. He said to them in Genesis fifty, what 0:27:11.119 --> 0:27:15.560 you meant for harm, God intended for good. He was saying, 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:18.760 you meant it to stop me, But God was using 0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:22.000 you like a pond to get me in position so 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:25.720 I could see my dream come to pass. If Joseph 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:28.639 were here today, he would tell you stay in peace, 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:33.160 don't fight the trouble, don't get discouraged in the dry seasons. 0:27:33.520 --> 0:27:36.800 God knows what he's doing. When it's your time. All 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:40.719 the forces of darkness cannot stop what God has ordained 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:44.560 for you, the promotion, the vindication, the honor, the breakthroughs. 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:47.919 You may be in a dry season, but that's not 0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:52.280 where you're staying. You may have trouble all around, excessive rain, 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:55.400 but that's not the end of the story. Those are 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:59.439 the perfect conditions for a super bloom. God is setting 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:03.000 you up to do something that you've never seen. Instead 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:06.960 of complaining about the rain being discouraged over the dry season, 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:10.679 try a different approach. God. I trust you. I know 0:28:10.800 --> 0:28:13.600 this rain is for a purpose. I know this dry 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:16.800 season is leading me to a super bloom. Lord, I 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:19.439 thank you that my best days are still out in 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:23.240 front of me. If you'll do this, I believe and declare, 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:27.400 like Joseph, you're going to see some suddenly's. God suddenly 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:32.200 open doors, suddenly promote you, suddenly turn things around. You're 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.919 about to blossom, to go to new levels, to accomplish 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:39.239 dreams bigger than your thought. To reach the fullness of 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:43.320 your destiny in Jesus's name, and if you receive it, 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:47.960 can you say amen? 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