- 2 months ago
Category
📚
LearningTranscript
00:00Good to see you again, Alex. Hey, thanks for being at Lakewood today. Are you glad to be on the house
00:04of the Lord on a Sunday morning? Let me tell you, God saw you take time to come today. A lot of
00:10things you could be doing, but you headed out to Lakewood. And I just believe what the scripture
00:15says, when you're planted in the house of the Lord, you will flourish. I believe you're going
00:20to have a flourishing week and honored to have you here. If you're visiting, I'd love to meet
00:24you after service. I'm always in the lobby back there by the bookstore. If you've got a moment,
00:28just be my joy to shake your hand. But again, thanks for coming out. Hey, parents, don't forget
00:32not this Friday, but next Friday is October 31st. That's when we have fall jam right here at Lakewood.
00:38That's for all your small kids, all your children. Don't send them down the streets in the neighborhood.
00:44Send them here to Lakewood. We got candy and inflatables and lots of fun things. So love to
00:49have you. And not only that, bring your neighbor's kids. They may not come to hear me, but they'll
00:54come to get free candy. So you bring them here because we'd love to have them here. A safe place
00:59on Friday, October 31st. So thanks for being a part today. If you're not doing anything tomorrow
01:04at five o'clock, Victoria and I are going to be online. We take questions and answers. We do that
01:08every once in a while. Just a little inspiration and encouragement. But again, blessed to have you in
01:13the house of the Lord today. When you see yourself on the big screen, can you give our TV audience a
01:18great big Lakewood welcome? Well, God bless you. It's great to be with you today. And I hope you'll
01:26stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media,
01:31and you can come visit us in person. We'd love to have you be a part of one of our services.
01:37I'd like to start with something funny. And I heard about this pastor. He was asked to inform one of his
01:43members that he had just inherited $10 million. They were concerned because of the shock of it.
01:49He might have a heart attack. The pastor went to him and said, sir, what would you do if you
01:54inherited $10 million? The man said, pastor, the first thing I do is give half of it to the church.
02:01At that point, the pastor fell over dead. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I
02:10am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do today. I will be taught the word of
02:16God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same. I'm about
02:24to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living seed of the word of God. I'll never be the
02:32same. Never, never, never. I'll never be the same in Jesus' name. God bless you.
02:41If you'd like to open your Bibles to 2 Corinthians chapter 9 and verse 6, you're welcome to 2 Corinthians
02:479 and verse 6. And hope you'll check out the web. We got great services all week and love to have you
02:53be a part of them. But again, honored to have you today. I want to talk to you today about over and
02:59above blessings. When you have a generous spirit, you're always doing more than what's required.
03:06You stay late to help that co-worker that's struggling. You take that elderly neighbor
03:11dinner at night, support that single parent mom, or you give to expand the ministry. You don't have to.
03:19Nobody would look down on you if you didn't. But you have this over and above mentality.
03:24You're always looking for ways you can do good. You're not just being a blessing to others,
03:31but you are positioning yourself for God to do over and above in your life.
03:37The scripture says, if you sow sparingly, you will reap sparingly. But if you sow generously,
03:44you will reap generously. Some people do as little as they can to get by. They have a little kindness,
03:51so they won't be seen as unfriendly. They'll give a little time to help others, a little encouragement,
03:57little friendship. They wonder why they don't get good breaks, why they don't see favor. They're
04:03reaping what they're sowing. If you sow average, you're going to see average. If you sow ordinary,
04:10do only what's required, then you'll see ordinary. But when you have this over and above mentality,
04:17looking for ways to be a blessing and doing more than what's expected, you are setting yourself up
04:25for God to show out in your life, to open doors you couldn't open, to bring divine connections,
04:31to see favor that you've never seen. Don't live at the level of obligation. Don't have that,
04:38what can I get by with mentality? That's going to limit your life. Have a generous spirit.
04:44If you'll turn loose of what's in your hands, God will turn loose of what's in his hands.
04:51God is a rewarder. He sees you being a blessing, singing in the choir on your day off,
04:58investing in that young man that doesn't have a father, taking him to ball practice with your son.
05:04He sees you giving funds that you could use for your dream, making sacrifices to build his kingdom.
05:11That's setting you up for over and above blessings. I've learned you can't out give God. You can't be
05:19a blessing to others without God being a blessing to you. The way he does it is he multiplies it.
05:26It's going to come back pressed down, shaken together and running over. There was a man in the
05:32scripture named Barnabas. He didn't come from an influential family. He didn't have a big resume or
05:38education. Just an ordinary man, but he had a generous spirit. He saw the disciples were doing
05:45great work and he wanted to support them. Acts 4 says he sold a piece of property he owned,
05:53brought the funds and laid them at the disciples' feet. He didn't have to. Nobody would have faulted
05:59him if he didn't, but he had this over and above mentality. He wanted to be a blessing. That one act
06:07of generosity opened the door to all this opportunity. He became a mentor to Paul. Paul wasn't accepted
06:15by the disciples at first. They still thought that he was against the church. It was Barnabas that
06:21convinced them that Paul was a believer. Barnabas went from ordinary, nobody knew him, to this influential
06:28position. The scripture says Barnabas was chosen by the Spirit to accompany Paul on his first missionary
06:36journey. Barnabas helped start the church in Antioch. When Paul and Mark had a big disagreement,
06:43Barnabas was the one that helped restore the relationship. On and on. God used Barnabas in
06:50great ways, but it can all be traced back to that over and above gift. His generosity opened doors,
06:58brought favor, relationships that he never dreamed. When you live with this over and above mentality,
07:05you're generous with your time, your talent, your resources, not living at the level of obligation,
07:12but going above and beyond, that gets God's attention. He'll release over and above in your
07:20life. He'll put you in front of audiences that you never dreamed, people, opportunities, resources you
07:27didn't see coming. That's the running over blessings. Things you can't explain. Positions where you didn't
07:35have the qualifications. Connections with people that should be over your head, out of your league,
07:42but now they're looking up to you. Now you're the leader. You're giving vision. You're making the impact.
07:48Don't miss opportunities to live over and above. These are things that are not required.
07:55Nobody's going to pressure you to do it. Your mind, your reasoning will tell you, no thanks, Joel.
08:01I'm busy. I don't have time to serve. I don't have time to mentor that young person. Or I need these
08:08funds. I got my own dreams. Trying to build my own career. Here's the whole key. When you give over and
08:14above, you're not going to end up at a deficit. You're not losing anything. You are positioning
08:20yourself for increase, for abundance, for doors to open, for divine connections. If Barnabas were
08:29here today, he would tell you, it all started when I gave that gift, when I went over and above.
08:35He didn't give it to get something. He simply gave it to be a blessing. But look how God works.
08:41If he can entrust you to be a great blessing, then he will bless you with more. He will open the
08:48windows of heaven. Pour out blessings that you cannot contain. That's what it says in the book
08:53of Malachi, that when you tithe your income, you give offerings, that God will increase you and pour
08:59out his blessings. But in that same passage, it asks the question, will a man rob God by not giving?
09:08What's interesting is God owns it all. He makes streets out of God. When Peter needed money for taxes,
09:15there was a coin in the fish's mouth. It's not like God needs our funds to keep everything going.
09:21God's going to go broke if we don't give. No, what that means, will a person rob God,
09:27is if you don't live generously, you are robbing God of the opportunity to bless you.
09:33You're robbing him of the doors he wants to open, the resources he wants to give you, the people he
09:39wants to bring. You're taking away that opportunity for him to show out in your life. Don't rob him.
09:46He's longing to be good to you. Jesus said, it's the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
09:53But God works by principles. When you live over and above, that's a seed you're sowing. Then you will
10:00reap over and above. When you do more than what's required, like Barnabas, nobody forced you to bless
10:08that neighbor that's struggling. Nobody made you come early today and serve as a prayer partner and
10:13usher. Nobody required you to give that coworker a ride. You weren't obligated to support the ministry.
10:20Nobody would know if you didn't. You could live at the level of obligation, but I know a secret. I'm
10:26looking at Barnabases. I'm looking at over and above people, people with a generous spirit. You need to
10:33get ready. God's about to release over and above in your life. He's about to put you in front of
10:40audiences you didn't see coming. With people of influence, where you shine brightly, where they
10:46admire you and open doors that thrust you to a new level. Because you sow generously, you're going to
10:53reap generously. And I know many of you have been doing this, but you haven't seen those windows open
11:00yet. Let me encourage you. God has seen all the sacrifices. The times you gave when you needed the
11:06funds. You stayed late to help when you were tired. You went the extra mile, but nobody said thanks. God is
11:14about to thank you. He's about to show out in your life. You're going to see increase, abundance, resources,
11:22contracts that you cannot contain. That means so many good opportunities that you have to choose what's best.
11:30That means lending and not borrowing. Being able to be a bigger blessing. That means the right people
11:37showing up. Not having to track them down, hope they give you a break, but divine connections searching
11:44you out. This all goes back, number one, to honoring God. Keeping him first place. And number two, having an
11:52over and above mentality. A generous spirit. Not ingrown. Focused only on me. Get outside of yourself.
12:02Don't rob God of the opportunity to bless you. Look for ways you can be an over and above blessing.
12:09I was at the furniture store a while back and I ran into this couple and they told how they had just
12:16bought their first home and they were so proud, just beaming with joy. And I congratulated them,
12:23gave them a hug. And they were looking for furniture for their living room. On the way out, I told my
12:30salesman, whatever they find to buy, put it on this credit card. Don't say anything about who it was.
12:36Because I'm not doing it to get credit. I'm doing it under God. He's the one that matters. He's keeping
12:42all the records. Well, Joel, I don't have those kinds of funds to buy a stranger furniture. Maybe
12:49not. But can you buy your coworker a cup of coffee, bring it to them in the morning? You didn't have to.
12:56That's an over and above blessing. Can you mow the lawn of that elderly person's neighbor? Can you pick
13:03up the friend that doesn't have a ride, bring them to church? Can you mentor that young man that's
13:08struggling? Look for something you can do that's over and above. That's not required. That's sowing a
13:16seed for God to do over and above in your life. The scripture says in Galatians, don't miss an
13:23opportunity to do good. Don't be too busy, too self-centered, too stingy. When you miss that opportunity,
13:31you are robbing God of the opportunity to bless you. When you make someone else's day, God will
13:38always make your own day. When we acquired the Compact Center, this place, we learned that it was
13:45going to cost $100 million to renovate. We borrowed $75. In a year before we could move in, we had a $25
13:54million payment due. I was 38 years old. I'd only been pastoring for two years. I'd never had to raise
14:01those kinds of funds, come up with such a large amount. I felt this pressure, this uncertainty,
14:08thought saying, Joel, you're never going to make that payment. You're way over your head.
14:13I had to agree. It was over my head, but I knew it wasn't over God's head.
14:19That year, we did everything we could. We presented the vision. We had meetings inviting people to support.
14:26So many got on board and were very generous, many of you, but despite all of our efforts,
14:32we were three months from moving in and still only a third of the way there.
14:38I received a phone call from a pastor friend of mine in another state. He was trying to purchase
14:43a building for his church. He'd been working on it a couple years, raising the funds, doing everything
14:49he could. This was his dream, but he didn't have enough. He was scheduled to close in three days,
14:56but he was a million dollars short. He said, Joel, I'm just calling to see if you'll pray with me
15:02about these funds coming in. He had a much smaller church and I could tell he was devastated.
15:09He would not only lose the property, but he would lose the down payment if he didn't close.
15:14I could hear the still small voice saying, Joel, give him the million that he needs.
15:20I thought, get behind me, Satan. We don't have enough for our own building. We're three minutes
15:27away, God, and we're 20 million short. That didn't make sense. And I told him, we'll be praying for you.
15:34That's the easy way out, right? Well, that night I couldn't sleep. All I could think about was him.
15:40I finally fell asleep and I dreamed about him. Sometimes to go over and above, it doesn't make
15:48sense. All the facts, the figures, the logic says, hold on to what you have, man. You need that for
15:55your dream, your house, your retirement, but God is not always logical. This is what faith is all
16:02about. I called him the next morning and said Lakewood was going to give him the funds. It was our gift
16:08that made his dream come true. When you help others accomplish their dream, God will help you
16:16accomplish your dream. You're never losing what you give. It's a seed you're sowing. It's going to
16:23come back to you, press down, shaking together, running over. Well, Lakewood owned a television
16:30station at that time, channel 55 here in Houston. Victoria and I put that on the air in the late 90s.
16:36When my father passed, we decided to sell it. We believed it was worth $30 million. We had a man
16:44come in to represent us. He sold more stations than anyone in the U.S., the leading expert. He said,
16:51you won't get half of what you're asking. There's no way the market's down. No one wants an independent
16:57station. There's no future in it. On and on. He could not have been more negative, discouraging.
17:04He had all the facts, the figures, the cells to back up what he was saying. In the natural, he was
17:11right, but God knows how to breathe on your property and breathe on your career, breathe on your children
17:17where what looks impossible becomes possible. My brother-in-law, Don, ran the station. He said,
17:24Joel, don't listen to him. We're going to get the full amount. I thought, man, Don, you've got more faith
17:29than I do, but I'm going to agree with you. I'm going to be a believer and not a doubter.
17:35One month before the big payment was due, a buyer showed up for the station. We didn't go after him.
17:41He came to us. He had never owned any television properties. We told him the price. He said,
17:47you got a deal. I'll take it. We sold the station a few days before the deadline, got twice the amount
17:55the experts said we'd get. We had the funds to move in to the compact center. But I believe,
18:02I believe it all goes back to that act of generosity a year earlier where we went over
18:11and above to help someone else. We sowed a generous seed and God did over and above in our life.
18:18You cannot give God something without him giving you more back in return. It's not just what he does,
18:25it's who he is. For God so loved the world that he gave. It's his nature to give. You have to stir
18:33your faith up when it comes to over and above. Because our flesh, our human nature doesn't like
18:39to stretch. We don't want to be uncomfortable and inconvenienced. It doesn't have to be money,
18:45but how about giving your time, giving encouragement, giving friendship. Are there any areas you're
18:52living over and above, being a blessing to someone else, going the extra mile to help that friend's
18:59dream come true? Joel, if I do that, man, I'm falling behind. I'm not going to have enough of my own
19:05dreams, for my future. It's just the opposite. You are positioning yourself for God to do over and
19:12above in your life, to open the windows of heaven, to pour out blessings that you cannot contain.
19:20There was a young woman in the scripture named Rebecca. She lived in the city of Nahor,
19:26which is modern day Syria. I'm sure like any girl, she wondered what she's going to do with her life.
19:32Would she get married? Where would she live? Would she have children? She had all these hopes and dreams.
19:38But in those days, the marriages were prearranged. You didn't have a choice. The parents of the husband
19:45would choose who the wife would be. Well, Abraham lived in Canaan. He was an old man and about to
19:51pass. He said to his assistant, go back to my hometown of Nahor and find a good wife for my son,
19:58Isaac. You can imagine the pressure on this assistant. It was up to him to choose. He traveled
20:05back to Nahor and he was camped on the outskirts there with his camels. There was a well down the
20:12hill. All these young girls were coming from the city to draw water. He thought, how am I going to
20:18know which one is the right one? He said, God, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to ask these
20:23girls for a drink. The way I know it's the one you've chosen is she will say, yes, I will not only
20:30give you a drink, but I will get water for your camels as well. First one that came up, this
20:36beautiful girl. He said, do you mind getting me a drink of water? She said, certainly I will. She
20:43lowered her drug and he drank the water. When he finished, he handed it back. She said, let me get
20:49water for your camels as well. Verse 20 says, she ran quickly down to the well again and she kept
20:56carrying the water until all the camels had finished drinking. Well, this man had 10 camels.
21:03A camel after a long day's walk can drink 30 gallons of water. If she had a one gallon container,
21:10that means she had to go back to the well 300 times. Look at her generosity. It's one thing to
21:17say, yeah, I'll get you some water. That's the minimal commitment. That's what's required. I'm not
21:22going to leave you here thirsty. I'd be looked down on, but all these camels, forget it. I'm
21:28going to go hang out with friends. We're going to Lululemon's. I don't want to be inconvenienced.
21:33No, Rebecca had this over and above mentality. The assistant didn't ask to water the camels.
21:41She suggested it. It was her idea. She wasn't doing this to get anything. She didn't have an ulterior
21:48motive. Maybe he'll give me a gift. She was simply doing it to be a blessing. He knew she was the
21:55right one. He went and spoke to her father, told him how Abraham had sent him this patriarch of the
22:02faith, a man, everyone knew and respected Abraham. One of the wealthiest men of that day. Now she was
22:09marrying his son, Isaac. You talk about over and above blessing. She thought she'd live in that town
22:17obscurity, have an ordinary life, but now she's in the most influential family of that day.
22:24She gave birth to Jacob. Out of Jacob came the 12 tribes of Israel. Rebecca is in the family line
22:32of Jesus. This can all be traced back to the over and above giving, to doing more than what's required.
22:40Had she been too busy, too selfish, she would have missed the awesome future that God had for her.
22:47Man, let's be Rebecca's. Let's be over and above people. Let's look for opportunities to be a
22:53blessing. Had a friend that's struggling. Just a phone call. Hey, I'm praying for you. Let me bring
22:59you dinner this week. That co-worker that's fighting cancer, let me babysit your children one night. Let
23:05me pick you up and bring you to church. That relative that's trying to get the down payment for the
23:10house. Let me give you a gift, something to push you ahead. What you give may leave your hand, but it
23:18doesn't leave your life. It's a seed you're sowing. It's coming back. God sees the sacrifices. He sees
23:26you going over and above, not doing it to get credit. Rebecca wasn't making a big announcement,
23:32doing it in front of friends. It was this stranger that she had never met. And look what happened
23:38thousands of years later. We're talking about her. She opened her heart and God opened the heavens.
23:46When you give what's in your hand, God will give what's in his hands. And I don't believe in
23:52pressuring people to give and making you feel manipulated, guilty, but I am passionate about
23:58challenging you to live generously. I've seen it in my own life. God opens the windows of heaven.
24:05When you have this over and above mentality, not I have to, this is what's required. This is the
24:13minimum I can get away with. That's robbing God of the opportunity to bless you. That will keep the
24:20windows of heaven closed. But you come to Lakewood. I know who you are. I am looking at over and above
24:27people. I've seen you show up and volunteer week after week. I've seen you give to building projects
24:33unselfishly rebuild houses and visit people in the hospitals. All those good deeds, sacrifices you've
24:42made, funds you've given. They are coming back to you, pressed down, shaken together, running over.
24:49Now you may not have seen it yet, but your time is coming. God is faithful. When you sow generously,
24:56you're going to reap generously. Like Rebecca, he's going to show out in your life,
25:01take you where you've never dreamed. When Victoria was in her early twenties and still single,
25:08she met an elderly lady at the church. She attended across town and they became friends.
25:14This woman got to where she couldn't drive anymore. So Victoria would go pick her up every Sunday and
25:20take her to church and take her to lunch afterwards. Victoria had other friends. She was busy,
25:27plenty of things to do. Nobody would have faulted her for not doing this, but she had this over and
25:33above mentality thinking, how can I be a blessing today? Who can I be good to? Where is there a need
25:40that I can meet? That's the best way to live. Get up in the morning, not thinking about how you can be
25:47blessed, but God, how can I be a blessing today? Show me ways to be good to people. Bring those across
25:54my path that need encouragement, that need a friend, that need to know that you care.
26:00Well, Victoria always prayed that God would bring the right man into her life. She said, God,
26:06what's more important to me than how he looks or what he has or how talented he is, is God,
26:14I want someone that loves you with their whole heart. I want a man that puts you first place.
26:20Well, all this time she's praying that God didn't send her a young man. He sent this older woman.
26:27Year after year, Victoria was faithful, taking her to church, making sure she felt love. She went over
26:34and above to be a blessing. And what did God do? He went over and above and sent her this tall,
26:43good-looking punk of humanity. She didn't come looking for me. I found her. I walked into her
26:54mother's jewelry store and there she was to wait on me. I thought about how if Victoria had not taken
27:00care of that lady, had not gone over and above, my brother Paul could have walked into the store.
27:05I like that one. Here we go, y'all. This is like Rebecca. She didn't have to get water for the
27:15camels. Victoria didn't have to be good to the older lady. Barnabas didn't have to give the property.
27:22We didn't have to help that other pastor with his building. But every time you go over and above,
27:28God is going to go over and above. He's going to do things in your life that surprise you.
27:33Now my challenge, don't rob him of this opportunity. Look for ways you can be good to people. You may
27:42not get any credit. Nobody knows, but God knows. He's keeping the records. Let's stretch our faith.
27:50Let's get out of our comfort zones. If you keep doing the same thing, you're going to get the same
27:55results. What God has planned for you is bigger than you can imagine. How about getting some bigger
28:01seed in the ground? Take some steps of faith. Do something over and above what you're used to.
28:08If you'll do this, I believe and declare you're about to see the heavens open. God is going to bring
28:15people you've never imagined, open doors you couldn't open, give you resources, influence,
28:21creativity, blessings that you cannot contain. I believe it and declare it in Jesus' name.
28:28Amen. And if you receive it, can you say amen? I'll receive it as well. Let's pray together. If you
28:37have five minutes, we'll just seal it in prayer. Lord, thank you for what we've heard today. I know
28:41it falls on great ground, faithful people here at Lakewood. Lord, you see the generous hearts of all
28:47those that are here and listening. And Lord, I just thank you that you will, you will pour out your
28:53blessings, Lord. You will show us areas we can be greater blessings. Lord, I just thank you that
28:57you're at work in all of our lives, doing unusual and uncommon things. Lord, we commit, we're going
29:03to go over and above this week in some area. And Lord, I thank you that you are faithful. You're
29:09keeping the records, that you would bless your people like you did Rebecca, like you did Barnabas.
29:15Lord, like you've done me in Victoria, like you've done Lakewood. Lord, I thank you. Blessings we cannot
29:20contain in the name of Jesus. With our heads bowed in prayer, just a quick question before we dismiss.
29:27If your heart stopped beating in the next few minutes, are you at peace with God? Do you know
29:34where you'd spend eternity? If not, I would love to pray with you. I'm not here to condemn anybody.
29:42I'm here to help you find a new beginning. I know this comes from a personal relationship
29:47with Jesus Christ. In just a moment, if you're not at peace with the Lord, or maybe you are a Christian,
29:54but you've grown cold toward God, you know you need to rededicate your life. You need a fresh new
30:01start. If that's you, in just a moment, I'm going to ask you to take a step of faith and stand right
30:08where you are, and we'll pray together. I can't think of a better time to get on the road to victory
30:15than right now. God is not mad at you. Your sins have already been forgiven. All you have to do
30:22is accept the free gift of Christ's salvation. Will you do it today? The enemy, in your thoughts,
30:29he'll whisper, do it next week. Do it another time. Listen, the Bible says, today is the day of
30:35salvation. Don't put it all. So easy. Well, Joel, it's embarrassing to stand in front of everyone.
30:41I have people at the house. I can't lift my hand. Listen to what Jesus said. If you won't be ashamed
30:47of me before people, then I won't be ashamed of you before my father in heaven. I'm going to give
30:55you a great opportunity to show God that you're not ashamed of him. If you're not at peace with the
31:00Lord, or you just need to rededicate your life, you need that fresh new start, that new beginning.
31:06If that's you, would you be bold? Take that step of faith and stand right where you are and we'll
31:12pray together. Would you do that? Come on, Lakewood. Let's give them a hand as they stand all over the
31:18building. Come on, don't put it off. I feel like there'll be a few more. Anybody else? Still time for
31:28you? Watching, listening, anybody else? Still standing, Lakewood. Anybody else?
31:38Well, God bless you and please remain standing if you don't mind. Let me tell you how proud we are
31:43of you. I know that took courage to stand, but more importantly, I know God's never going to be
31:49ashamed of you because you took this step of faith. The scripture says that whoever calls on the name of
31:55the Lord will be saved. Let me help you to call. Do you mind all praying this after me if you would
32:00please? Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior. Amen.
32:13Or may I send you one more moment? I want to tell you again how much we love you. We're going to be
32:17praying for you. I also want to give you a personal invitation and a challenge to come back and be with
32:23us on a regular basis. We ask new believers to give us the next year of your life. Just like you
32:30go to work for the next year, make a commitment that you're going to be here every time you possibly
32:35can. I will make a promise to you before the year is over, your life will never be the same for the
32:41better. We're going to help you grow and become who God's created you to be. I know you're busy.
32:47Sunday may be a day off. You could be resting, but let me tell you, there is a blessing on your life
32:52when you put God first place. I hope to join one of our teams, get connected, get in community.
32:58Life goes better when you put God first place. Right after service, there's a place over here.
33:02If you need anything on the seat back, there's a digital code. You can get connected. I'm going to
33:07be that way. If you want to stop by, I hope you will sometime. But know this, the moment you stood up,
33:12God washed away all your sins, your mistakes, your failures. You are starting with a fresh,
33:18clean slate. Write it down in your Bible, October 19th, 2026, 2025, a new day of victory in your life.
33:27In Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Well, let's all stand together. If you would, please. Thanks for coming
33:35out today. How many of you going home better off than you were before? Amen. Well, we love you. I'm
33:41going to speak a blessing until we meet again. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord show
33:46you his favor and have mercy on you and may the Lord watch over you and give you his peace.
33:52God bless you. Have an amazing week, a favor filled week. See you back real soon.
Be the first to comment