WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 Whatever the promise is from God that's in your 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:06.320 life, there's a promise that God is going to 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:10.619 bring to pass. But do your contending and do 00:00:10.619 --> 00:00:13.880 your equipping so that when the fullness of time 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:26.120 comes, then you'll be ready. God promises in 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.820 Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit. on all humanity. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.119 Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.719 for that promise outpouring, we equip for that 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:39.159 outpouring, so that we may engage in that very 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:42.520 outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. 00:00:42.579 --> 00:00:45.520 Welcome to the podcast today. We're going to 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.740 have a wonderful time talking about things that 00:00:48.740 --> 00:00:53.840 God has done in our lives that have to do with 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:57.020 God keeping His promises, like we've just come 00:00:57.020 --> 00:01:00.820 back from Israel. And I tell you, we were like 00:01:00.820 --> 00:01:07.260 them, the dream. Thanks so much for joining us 00:01:07.260 --> 00:01:09.780 today. We're just delighted that we can be together 00:01:09.780 --> 00:01:12.719 again. And we want to encourage you, if you haven't 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.500 already done so, to go to our website, globaloutpouring 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:18.799 .net. Make sure that you're on our mailing list 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:22.280 or lists. 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We 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.480 want to just let you know that that's available 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.680 and also that you should be putting it on your 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:55.060 calendar, if you haven't already done so, to 00:01:55.060 --> 00:02:00.219 plan to be with us for our convention, 2026, 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:05.859 May 21st through 24th. in St. Louis at the Hilton 00:02:05.859 --> 00:02:09.240 Hotel by the airport. So get it on your calendar 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:12.960 so that you will be ready to sign up for it as 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:14.900 soon as we get the registration page up there 00:02:14.900 --> 00:02:18.460 and get the details on our website soon. That 00:02:18.460 --> 00:02:22.879 will be coming soon. So we just came back from 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:29.460 Israel. And I tell you what, this has been an 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:34.219 experience like we've never had before. I started 00:02:34.219 --> 00:02:37.919 going to Israel as the tour coordinator in training 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:42.500 the first time in 1978, kind of a long time ago. 00:02:42.539 --> 00:02:46.000 Yeah, that is a long time ago. And so, you know, 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.740 we were going every year for many years. We missed 00:02:49.740 --> 00:02:51.539 a few years, but not very many, and sometimes 00:02:51.539 --> 00:02:54.740 more than one time a year. And in recent years, 00:02:54.780 --> 00:02:58.319 we were going twice a year. And then we were 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:05.360 planning a trip For March of 2020. And seven 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:08.580 people signed up. And when it was time to give 00:03:08.580 --> 00:03:12.659 $300 per seat that we were holding to the airlines, 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:16.460 it was like, you know, I don't think this is 00:03:16.460 --> 00:03:19.719 going to work. And that was an indication that 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.639 something may happen. Well, but we weren't thinking 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.580 that. Yeah. But we've never canceled a tour before. 00:03:25.580 --> 00:03:29.099 We've never canceled a tour. It was just unheard 00:03:29.099 --> 00:03:33.439 of. And I was just so taken aback. I'd never 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:37.520 seen such a thing. And then when March 2020 rolled 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:43.120 around, we understood. God was kind to us. But 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.020 we thought there was something terribly wrong 00:03:45.020 --> 00:03:48.000 that we should have to cancel. Well, it was terribly 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.789 wrong. We didn't have the foresight to know what 00:03:50.789 --> 00:03:54.090 it was. So then we tried to reschedule for that 00:03:54.090 --> 00:03:56.169 fall. And of course, that didn't work either. 00:03:56.330 --> 00:03:59.370 And then the next November, we thought, well, 00:03:59.430 --> 00:04:01.069 surely we can do it. Surely this will be over 00:04:01.069 --> 00:04:04.469 by then? Yeah, and it wasn't. No. And then, well, 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:06.789 let's skip a year. And then we're looking at 00:04:06.789 --> 00:04:11.590 2023. And it was our 25th anniversary of our 00:04:11.590 --> 00:04:14.210 House of Peace in Jerusalem. And we were going 00:04:14.210 --> 00:04:18.250 to have a wonderful tour to celebrate that. And 00:04:18.250 --> 00:04:22.029 two people signed up for that one. So we knew 00:04:22.029 --> 00:04:25.389 something was going to happen. Well, I still 00:04:25.389 --> 00:04:28.930 wasn't that smart. Maybe you knew, but I hadn't 00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:32.529 put it together. The word bumfuzzled comes to 00:04:32.529 --> 00:04:34.449 me. I'm not sure exactly if that's the right 00:04:34.449 --> 00:04:39.069 word, but I was just, what is this that we have 00:04:39.069 --> 00:04:41.709 to cancel again? We've never canceled tours before. 00:04:42.370 --> 00:04:46.399 And so we decided. Well, just you and I will 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.319 go. And our friends Don and Catherine and James 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.480 and just the four of us will go to celebrate 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.939 this wonderful 25th anniversary. And we bought 00:04:56.939 --> 00:05:04.740 our tickets on October 4th, 2023. Yeah. And, 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.180 you know, three days later, we know what happened 00:05:08.180 --> 00:05:12.540 October 7th. And I thought, oh, Israel deals 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:15.720 with things really fast. Their wars are usually 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.540 over in a week or two, and I thought, surely 00:05:18.540 --> 00:05:24.480 we'll still get to go. No. No. So we were planning, 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.779 and I finally said, I'm just not going to do 00:05:27.779 --> 00:05:30.560 anything. And by that time, we had gotten to 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.680 know Dean Braxton. And Dean was with us on our 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.100 last episode talking about his experience with 00:05:38.100 --> 00:05:41.480 us in Jerusalem. And we recorded that in Jerusalem. 00:05:41.500 --> 00:05:44.319 Yes, we did. In the House of Peace. It was wonderful. 00:05:44.899 --> 00:05:47.579 If you've listened to last week's podcast, then 00:05:47.579 --> 00:05:51.040 you know what was going on with Dean. But even 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.060 leading up to this time, it was like, are we 00:05:54.060 --> 00:05:56.740 really going to get to go? Yeah. Are we really 00:05:56.740 --> 00:05:58.759 getting to go? Is this really for real this time? 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:03.089 And when we took off. I kept having that scripture 00:06:03.089 --> 00:06:06.730 from the Psalms. We were like them that dream. 00:06:07.569 --> 00:06:11.350 And that's the remembrance of when the children 00:06:11.350 --> 00:06:14.370 of Israel began coming back after 70 years in 00:06:14.370 --> 00:06:17.750 captivity. That's Psalms 126. It's one of the 00:06:17.750 --> 00:06:20.089 songs of degrees. Oh, yeah. They would speak 00:06:20.089 --> 00:06:22.449 when they're going up the temple steps. Yes. 00:06:23.350 --> 00:06:25.790 Yeah, when the Lord turned again the captivity 00:06:25.790 --> 00:06:29.089 of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was 00:06:29.089 --> 00:06:30.810 our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue 00:06:30.810 --> 00:06:33.490 was singing. Then said they among the heathen, 00:06:33.529 --> 00:06:36.509 The Lord hath done great things for them. The 00:06:36.509 --> 00:06:39.329 Lord hath done great things for us, wherein we 00:06:39.329 --> 00:06:43.250 are glad. And we were glad. That's not the end 00:06:43.250 --> 00:06:46.350 of the psalm, but that's as far. But we were 00:06:46.350 --> 00:06:49.589 glad. It was just amazing to land on the ground. 00:06:49.910 --> 00:06:52.029 Now, when you've been going to someplace year 00:06:52.029 --> 00:06:53.949 after year, and then there's, you know, it's 00:06:53.949 --> 00:06:56.370 kind of like God kind of took our passport for 00:06:56.370 --> 00:06:59.170 six years. Yeah, six and a half. Like took our 00:06:59.170 --> 00:07:01.470 flying passport. We never flew in the States 00:07:01.470 --> 00:07:04.990 until, you know, just not long ago. So, you know, 00:07:04.990 --> 00:07:07.149 so some things, you know, when God does things, 00:07:07.269 --> 00:07:10.069 there's a reason behind it. Yeah. It was like 00:07:10.069 --> 00:07:12.930 he pushed the pause button. Yeah. Like sometimes, 00:07:13.009 --> 00:07:15.670 and you have to wait things out. Yeah. Some things 00:07:15.670 --> 00:07:18.170 don't, you know, you get a prophetic word and 00:07:18.170 --> 00:07:20.870 you want it to happen right away. Yes. Don't 00:07:20.870 --> 00:07:23.790 we all? You remember the... A day is with the 00:07:23.790 --> 00:07:26.629 Lord a thousand years. Yes, exactly. So, you 00:07:26.629 --> 00:07:28.850 know, so he takes a few minutes to answer you, 00:07:28.870 --> 00:07:33.730 you know, on his time clock. Yes. See, God runs 00:07:33.730 --> 00:07:36.990 on Kairos time, the opportune, you know, that's 00:07:36.990 --> 00:07:40.389 a set time. But we run on Kronos time, by the 00:07:40.389 --> 00:07:44.410 clock, by the calendar. Work starts at 8, get 00:07:44.410 --> 00:07:48.089 off at 5, and you get into this thing. And so 00:07:48.089 --> 00:07:50.810 we run, most of the clock runs on Kronos, but 00:07:50.810 --> 00:07:53.810 God runs on Kairos time. And we have to learn 00:07:53.810 --> 00:07:57.029 to get into Kairos time so we can function in 00:07:57.029 --> 00:07:59.930 Kronos time. Yeah, it's true. It's the difference 00:07:59.930 --> 00:08:01.910 between walking in the spirit and walking in 00:08:01.910 --> 00:08:05.930 the flesh. Very well put. And that's the continual 00:08:05.930 --> 00:08:08.209 challenge in the Scripture, is that we learn 00:08:08.209 --> 00:08:11.829 to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh. Because 00:08:11.829 --> 00:08:15.569 the world will teach us to walk in the flesh. 00:08:16.430 --> 00:08:18.389 That's just the way it is. The world's doing 00:08:18.389 --> 00:08:21.399 a good job of it, too. Oh, my, my, my, my. Yeah. 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:25.060 And you see the whole list of the works of the 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:27.180 flesh in Galatians 5. We won't go there this 00:08:27.180 --> 00:08:29.920 time, but Galatians 5 is one of the places where 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:31.819 it really challenges us. Are you going to walk 00:08:31.819 --> 00:08:33.320 in the flesh? Are you going to walk in the spirit? 00:08:33.940 --> 00:08:39.700 So we have to stop looking so much at our circumstances 00:08:39.700 --> 00:08:43.620 and look at the promises of God, because God 00:08:43.620 --> 00:08:52.500 keeps his promises. earlier about what's a story 00:08:52.500 --> 00:08:55.480 that you can remember of our experiences that 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.879 has to do with promises coming and sometimes 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.620 taking a while. Yeah, and we needed to get another 00:09:01.620 --> 00:09:05.899 car. Our road is kind of, we live on a kind of 00:09:05.899 --> 00:09:09.320 a rough road. It's a steep road and it needs 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:12.159 a good four -wheel drive. And we have some very 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.639 good friends, you know, Rod and Ellie Hine down 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:19.440 in Africa. They're in Zimbabwe. They were raising 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:23.600 funds for a new car. It was a mid -1980s Land 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:27.919 Cruiser. So we sowed some seed into getting that. 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.700 And we still didn't get our new car, didn't get 00:09:31.700 --> 00:09:33.919 our new car, didn't get a new car or a newer 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.779 car even. Any kind of car. And so that was in 00:09:37.779 --> 00:09:41.279 the late 80s, probably like 1987, something like 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.100 that. So that car they're getting is only like 00:09:43.100 --> 00:09:49.009 three years old. Right. So it was in 1997. We 00:09:49.009 --> 00:09:52.289 got a car. We got a four -wheel drive. I just 00:09:52.289 --> 00:09:55.309 picked Sharon up from, no, you flew in from China. 00:09:55.470 --> 00:09:57.330 I think so, yeah. Yeah, you were in China, and 00:09:57.330 --> 00:09:59.210 we're coming back, and I saw this four -wheel 00:09:59.210 --> 00:10:00.850 drive sitting up there, and I thought, I'm going 00:10:00.850 --> 00:10:02.649 to go look at that tomorrow. It's just about 00:10:02.649 --> 00:10:06.409 five miles down our road. I came back, and it's 00:10:06.409 --> 00:10:09.990 this beautiful 1984 Toyota Land Cruiser, and 00:10:09.990 --> 00:10:12.490 my jaw just kind of dropped. I thought, a Land 00:10:12.490 --> 00:10:15.870 Cruiser, wow. You know, that's one of the ultimate. 00:10:16.809 --> 00:10:19.269 off -road cars they use in Africa and everywhere 00:10:19.269 --> 00:10:21.289 else in the world. Yeah. You know, and we were 00:10:21.289 --> 00:10:25.090 able to purchase this. And then some years later, 00:10:25.190 --> 00:10:27.730 and we've had it, it'll be going on 29 years 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:30.669 now. We've had the same car, you know, and it 00:10:30.669 --> 00:10:33.730 still runs great. And I found pictures of the 00:10:33.730 --> 00:10:37.090 car that the folks in Africa that we helped to 00:10:37.090 --> 00:10:40.570 buy, and it was the same exact one as ours, the 00:10:40.570 --> 00:10:43.330 same color. And everything. Everything. You know, 00:10:43.350 --> 00:10:47.049 and this is like 20 years later, 25. So I took 00:10:47.049 --> 00:10:49.330 pictures of our car and I sent it to him, you 00:10:49.330 --> 00:10:51.190 know, and I said, you know, though the vision, 00:10:51.269 --> 00:10:55.129 Terry, you know, wait a long time for that seed 00:10:55.129 --> 00:10:57.710 to come to fruit, you know. We weren't really 00:10:57.710 --> 00:11:00.529 even, I mean, maybe you were, maybe you were 00:11:00.529 --> 00:11:02.990 thinking that you were sowing seed that eventually 00:11:02.990 --> 00:11:06.590 was going to give us a car. I was just. sowing 00:11:06.590 --> 00:11:09.769 seed. It didn't dawn on me to name the seed. 00:11:09.889 --> 00:11:12.690 Maybe we did. We probably did at the time, I'm 00:11:12.690 --> 00:11:17.009 guessing, because we knew to. But it wasn't until 00:11:17.009 --> 00:11:21.210 later that we realized, oh, looky here. There's 00:11:21.210 --> 00:11:24.769 a promise. There's a promise fulfilled. It's 00:11:24.769 --> 00:11:28.240 so good. It's so good. Yeah. So, you know, we've 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.500 been so blessed through these years, you know, 00:11:30.500 --> 00:11:33.299 being down here. And I remember the first time 00:11:33.299 --> 00:11:36.559 I went to Israel was 1981. Yeah. We were married 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.399 in July, and so this is October. And we got to 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.500 go. The money was there, worked out to get the 00:11:41.500 --> 00:11:45.159 trip. And so next year rolls around. I thought, 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:47.360 you know, I really want to go again, you know. 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:51.460 Plus, Sharon was going, you know. You know, when 00:11:51.460 --> 00:11:54.559 your spouse goes away, you like to be together, 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:57.450 you know. But it didn't work out for me to go. 00:11:57.570 --> 00:12:00.889 So the next year, so the tour was like 10, 11 00:12:00.889 --> 00:12:03.809 days. So I fasted 10 days, you know, kind of 00:12:03.809 --> 00:12:07.149 twist God's arm to go on this tour. And that 00:12:07.149 --> 00:12:12.269 was in 1983. Didn't go. Didn't go in 84. Didn't 00:12:12.269 --> 00:12:15.450 go in 85, I don't think. But then I thought, 00:12:15.570 --> 00:12:18.070 okay, I'm not going to fast. Because I did this 00:12:18.070 --> 00:12:22.110 every year. I fasted to go to Israel. And it 00:12:22.110 --> 00:12:24.629 didn't happen. But you were sowing seeds. But 00:12:24.629 --> 00:12:28.029 I was sowing seeds. So then after we started 00:12:28.029 --> 00:12:31.789 going like in 85 or 86 it was, and we'd been 00:12:31.789 --> 00:12:34.929 going almost every year after that. So I've been 00:12:34.929 --> 00:12:39.409 to Israel probably over 30 times myself. So I 00:12:39.409 --> 00:12:41.450 just had to keep sowing some more seed. It just 00:12:41.450 --> 00:12:44.529 took it a while to germinate. There you go. There 00:12:44.529 --> 00:12:48.730 you go. So, you know, sometimes you have a promise 00:12:48.730 --> 00:12:53.029 from God. that you wonder when it's going to 00:12:53.029 --> 00:12:56.549 happen. You know, the one thing that I'm reminded 00:12:56.549 --> 00:13:01.090 of the most in that kind of a story is in 1976, 00:13:01.169 --> 00:13:05.889 I came for the first world convention of the 00:13:05.889 --> 00:13:07.850 end time handmaidens. That was the name of this 00:13:07.850 --> 00:13:12.289 ministry early on. And I was listening to our 00:13:12.289 --> 00:13:15.269 founder, Gwen Shaw, speaking. And I was so hungry 00:13:15.269 --> 00:13:18.370 for God. I was just front and center. I was on 00:13:18.370 --> 00:13:21.250 the front row right in the center like a little 00:13:21.250 --> 00:13:24.250 bird with its mouth open, feed me, feed me. And 00:13:24.250 --> 00:13:27.090 I heard the Holy Spirit say, you will take her 00:13:27.090 --> 00:13:30.970 place when she's gone. And I dropped to my knees 00:13:30.970 --> 00:13:34.009 and I wept and I thought I understood what that 00:13:34.009 --> 00:13:39.149 meant. So I volunteered to come and Sister Gwen 00:13:39.149 --> 00:13:43.629 said, I don't think this is your time. And then 00:13:43.629 --> 00:13:47.940 it wasn't quite a year. later, maybe nine months 00:13:47.940 --> 00:13:50.879 later or so, I volunteered again. And I wanted 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:53.240 to come after convention and serve for the summer. 00:13:53.700 --> 00:13:56.240 And I was told, no, I think we're going to have 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.860 so many people here after convention that I don't 00:13:58.860 --> 00:14:01.320 think it'll be possible for you to come. And 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:03.679 so I thought, oh, well, I thought I was hearing 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.940 from God. Well, I got there to the convention, 00:14:07.139 --> 00:14:11.799 the second convention. I was immediately put 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.700 to work, which was okay with me. You know, it's 00:14:15.700 --> 00:14:19.159 all about serving. And I was told by the same 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:22.679 person, I guess it was Sister Gwen said to me 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.279 in between meetings, she said, the girls are 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.220 expecting you to come after convention. Are you 00:14:27.220 --> 00:14:29.919 coming? I said, well, I wasn't planning to because, 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.259 you know, I'd been told that I couldn't months 00:14:32.259 --> 00:14:35.220 earlier. And then the same person who told me 00:14:35.220 --> 00:14:38.399 I couldn't come said to me, I really think you 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:41.600 should come. Out of the mouth of two or three 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:43.500 witnesses, let it be established. So I came. 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.299 Anyway, long story short, I came for the summer 00:14:46.299 --> 00:14:50.600 and I've been here ever since. And that was 1977. 00:14:51.019 --> 00:14:55.120 That's a long time. And the word, you will take 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:59.720 her place when she's gone, came to pass 37 years 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:03.679 later. How many people would wait that long? 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.519 Well, you know, eventually I put it on the shelf 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:10.059 because. Yeah. I didn't want Sister Gwen to leave 00:15:10.059 --> 00:15:13.620 us anytime soon. And if it wasn't God, I wasn't 00:15:13.620 --> 00:15:16.659 interested in having it happen anyway. You only 00:15:16.659 --> 00:15:19.519 want God's will. Yeah. So when you get a prophetic 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.919 word that just seems way out of your box, that 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:26.080 the circumstances don't look right, it's just 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.639 you don't reject the word. You put it on the 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.539 shelf and you wait for confirmation. Right, right. 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.980 And then when it comes, you'll have that knowing. 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:38.419 You really have that knowing. It'll like lighten 00:15:38.419 --> 00:15:41.460 up in you. Yeah, it's true. And it could be at 00:15:41.460 --> 00:15:43.960 a time that would just totally upset your apple 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:47.580 cart. Yeah. So there's lots of promises that 00:15:47.580 --> 00:15:52.279 we tend to look at circumstances and say it's 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.899 impossible. Like look at Abram and Sarai, okay? 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.000 Abraham and Sarah before their names were changed. 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:05.690 He was 75 years old and Sarah was barren. When 00:16:05.690 --> 00:16:08.769 God told them to get up and go and do what I 00:16:08.769 --> 00:16:10.929 told you to do in the first place, you know, 00:16:10.929 --> 00:16:13.929 he went with his father for a while and they 00:16:13.929 --> 00:16:16.990 went a little ways and then they stopped. And 00:16:16.990 --> 00:16:20.210 when his father died, then God told him to go 00:16:20.210 --> 00:16:23.309 on and do what I told you to do. So go from your 00:16:23.309 --> 00:16:25.470 country and your kindred and your father's house 00:16:25.470 --> 00:16:27.750 to the land that I will show you. And I will 00:16:27.750 --> 00:16:30.049 make of you a great nation. There's the promise. 00:16:30.190 --> 00:16:33.309 I will make of you a great nation. And I will 00:16:33.309 --> 00:16:35.590 bless you and make your name great so that you 00:16:35.590 --> 00:16:37.909 will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless 00:16:37.909 --> 00:16:40.549 you. And him who dishonors you, I will curse. 00:16:41.110 --> 00:16:44.429 Notice that the first part is plural and the 00:16:44.429 --> 00:16:48.850 second one is singular. Okay. Okay. Him who dishonors 00:16:48.850 --> 00:16:53.210 you will I curse. Not them. Him. Okay. It's singular. 00:16:53.710 --> 00:16:56.350 and in you all the families of the earth shall 00:16:56.350 --> 00:16:59.549 be blessed. So Abram went. God told him to go, 00:16:59.629 --> 00:17:02.570 and he went. As the Lord had told him, and Lot 00:17:02.570 --> 00:17:05.410 went with him, Abram was 75 years old when he 00:17:05.410 --> 00:17:08.509 departed from Haran. That's Genesis 12, 1 through 00:17:08.509 --> 00:17:13.210 4 from the ESV. Then eight years later, eight 00:17:13.210 --> 00:17:19.089 years later, Genesis 15, Abram says, what about 00:17:19.089 --> 00:17:23.240 this son? You know, you promised me that... It's 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:27.500 been eight years. Yeah. So why don't you read 00:17:27.500 --> 00:17:31.160 Genesis 15, 1 through 6. After these things, 00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:33.539 the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. 00:17:33.900 --> 00:17:36.960 Fear not, Abram. I am your shield. Your reward 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.420 shall be very great. But Abram said, O Lord God, 00:17:40.619 --> 00:17:43.019 what will you give me? For I continue childless, 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.539 and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus. 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:50.279 And Abram said, behold, you have given me no 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:52.599 offspring and a member of my household will be 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:55.599 my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:59.059 to him. This man shall not be your heir. Your 00:17:59.059 --> 00:18:02.000 very own son shall be your heir. And he brought 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.799 him outside and said, look toward heaven and 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:07.980 number the stars. If you are able to number them, 00:18:08.099 --> 00:18:10.839 then he said to him, so shall your offspring 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:13.859 be. And he believed the Lord and he counted it 00:18:13.859 --> 00:18:18.980 to him as righteousness. Key, right there. Believe 00:18:18.980 --> 00:18:22.099 the Lord and accounted it to him as righteousness. 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.880 Exactly. It's the believing the promise. Even 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.500 if it's going to take a while, it's the believing 00:18:30.500 --> 00:18:34.019 that helps you get there. It's the believing 00:18:34.019 --> 00:18:36.180 that gives you the faith. It's the believing 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:39.220 that gives you the patience. And just put it 00:18:39.220 --> 00:18:43.130 on the shelf. and let God do it. You might say 00:18:43.130 --> 00:18:45.170 put it on the back burner and let it simmer. 00:18:45.250 --> 00:18:48.509 Let it simmer, yeah. That's better. And then 00:18:48.509 --> 00:18:52.029 in verse 13 it says, And he said unto Abram, 00:18:52.069 --> 00:18:56.769 Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger 00:18:56.769 --> 00:19:00.349 in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve 00:19:00.349 --> 00:19:03.670 them, and they shall afflict them four hundred 00:19:03.670 --> 00:19:07.480 years. But in the fourth generation, they shall 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:11.019 come out here again. For the iniquity of the 00:19:11.019 --> 00:19:14.599 Amorites is not yet full. So the Amorites were 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:16.720 a people group that were in Canaan. They were 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.960 one of the descendants of some of the descendants 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:24.660 of Canaan. And their iniquity was iniquity, but 00:19:24.660 --> 00:19:29.190 it wasn't complete. It hadn't gotten to that 00:19:29.190 --> 00:19:31.970 point where it's kind of like filling up the 00:19:31.970 --> 00:19:36.569 cup. You know, God gives, and I've seen this 00:19:36.569 --> 00:19:39.549 over and over in the scripture, God gives about 00:19:39.549 --> 00:19:44.450 400 years for people to either get it together 00:19:44.450 --> 00:19:47.569 or they don't get it together and they don't. 00:19:47.569 --> 00:19:50.670 So God doesn't take a deep breath and count to 00:19:50.670 --> 00:19:56.420 10. Right. He counts to 400 years. And people 00:19:56.420 --> 00:20:00.539 who read the Old Testament don't tend to think 00:20:00.539 --> 00:20:04.160 in terms of how many years have gone by before 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:05.940 God brings judgment. They just see him bringing 00:20:05.940 --> 00:20:08.359 judgment over and over again. But there's these 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:13.579 400 -year spans, 400 and something, 430, 416, 00:20:13.779 --> 00:20:17.039 whatever, 400 and something that that kind of 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:22.500 a span happens. So here's a promise that God 00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:27.700 gives. to Abram, that his seed is going to inherit 00:20:27.700 --> 00:20:32.500 this land, right? And it's over 400 years. Now, 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:36.519 Isaac hadn't even been born yet, okay? So there's 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:41.200 Isaac, and then there's Jacob, and Joseph goes 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.380 into Egypt. So I'm not sure how many years that 00:20:44.380 --> 00:20:48.279 is, but Isaac was 40 years old when he even married 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:51.759 Rebecca, and she was barren for a while. I think 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.220 he was 60 when Jacob and Esau were born, the 00:20:55.220 --> 00:20:59.359 twins. So there's another 60 years plus. Yeah. 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:04.140 Okay. And then Joseph has to grow up somewhat. 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.000 You know, it's probably another, at least another 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:11.279 20 something years. So, you know, we're looking 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:15.180 at 80 years before they even go into Egypt. And 00:21:15.180 --> 00:21:18.380 they're there for 400, 430 years, something like 00:21:18.380 --> 00:21:21.079 that. And then there are another 40 years in 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:25.769 the wilderness. That's a lot of years. But the 00:21:25.769 --> 00:21:29.609 promise of God is still sure. It doesn't matter 00:21:29.609 --> 00:21:32.269 how long it takes, but there's a certain time. 00:21:32.809 --> 00:21:36.490 There's a certain time when it comes to that 00:21:36.490 --> 00:21:39.869 moment. It is the time for it to happen, and 00:21:39.869 --> 00:21:44.569 boom, it happens. Right? So, you know, you've 00:21:44.569 --> 00:21:47.309 got this. We kind of skipped over it. Sarah was 00:21:47.309 --> 00:21:51.759 90 years old. Abraham was 100 years old. When 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:55.980 they finally had Isaac. Yeah. So, you know, that's 00:21:55.980 --> 00:22:01.339 already 25 years from the time Abram gets told 00:22:01.339 --> 00:22:03.259 you're going to be a great nation before he has 00:22:03.259 --> 00:22:06.059 his first child. Well, actually, he had Hagar 00:22:06.059 --> 00:22:11.339 as a temporary wife. Concubine. A concubine. 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:14.359 And Ishmael came out of that, you know, when 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:17.700 they tried to help God out. Yeah. Let's help 00:22:17.700 --> 00:22:21.789 God keep his promise. Oops. Yeah, because that 00:22:21.789 --> 00:22:25.569 has bitter consequences to this day. Yeah, to 00:22:25.569 --> 00:22:28.910 this day. Absolutely. You know, it's interesting 00:22:28.910 --> 00:22:32.970 to me, looking at the women in the Bible that 00:22:32.970 --> 00:22:36.990 were barren and the sons that came out of those 00:22:36.990 --> 00:22:41.390 barren women, because God gave them the promised 00:22:41.390 --> 00:22:44.289 child, but they were special children. Like, 00:22:44.329 --> 00:22:48.869 so you got Isaac. And I love that the name Isaac 00:22:48.869 --> 00:22:53.470 came because his name means laughter. Laughter, 00:22:53.589 --> 00:22:56.049 yeah. Okay? Sarah laughed when she heard God 00:22:56.049 --> 00:22:59.329 say that she's going to have a baby. And she's 00:22:59.329 --> 00:23:04.109 like, you've got to be kidding. But then when 00:23:04.109 --> 00:23:07.210 it takes place, you know, I kind of feel like 00:23:07.210 --> 00:23:10.170 that was sort of how we were when we got to Israel. 00:23:10.589 --> 00:23:12.609 It was like I couldn't keep from laughing because 00:23:12.609 --> 00:23:15.329 it's like, oh, we're here. We're here. We're 00:23:15.329 --> 00:23:18.069 really here. It really hit. It finally happened. 00:23:18.750 --> 00:23:21.809 And there's a laughter. There's a joy. There's 00:23:21.809 --> 00:23:25.829 a happiness that comes when the promise comes. 00:23:26.569 --> 00:23:30.349 And it does come. So, listener, if you have a 00:23:30.349 --> 00:23:32.970 promise from God and you're wondering, is it 00:23:32.970 --> 00:23:37.009 ever going to get here? Yes, it is going to get 00:23:37.009 --> 00:23:40.109 there. But you've got to wait for it. And in 00:23:40.109 --> 00:23:42.809 the meantime, be doing something to get yourself 00:23:42.809 --> 00:23:46.769 ready for it. Yeah, it's like you get a prophetic 00:23:46.769 --> 00:23:49.990 word, you pray into it. Yeah, you pray into it. 00:23:50.009 --> 00:23:53.170 Sit around and wait for it to happen. And maybe 00:23:53.170 --> 00:23:55.609 if you've gotten a promise that you're going 00:23:55.609 --> 00:23:58.869 to preach. Maybe during that time you should 00:23:58.869 --> 00:24:02.970 be studying the Bible. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you 00:24:02.970 --> 00:24:05.009 might go to Bible school, you might do a course 00:24:05.009 --> 00:24:07.769 online, or just get in your Bible and read and 00:24:07.769 --> 00:24:10.309 read and read, and read and read and read and 00:24:10.309 --> 00:24:12.730 read and study and compare Scripture with Scripture. 00:24:12.930 --> 00:24:15.450 So you'll be ready. So you'll be ready. You'll 00:24:15.450 --> 00:24:18.970 be equipped. Equipped. And you also contend for 00:24:18.970 --> 00:24:21.730 it. Like you said, you pray. You pray into your 00:24:21.730 --> 00:24:24.190 promise. Pray into your promise. Okay, so the 00:24:24.190 --> 00:24:27.349 next one after Sarah was Rebecca. Rebecca was 00:24:27.349 --> 00:24:30.930 also barren. And what was the difference for 00:24:30.930 --> 00:24:34.029 her? What made the difference in her situation 00:24:34.029 --> 00:24:38.690 that changed her barrenness? Genesis 25, 20 to 00:24:38.690 --> 00:24:43.029 24. Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebecca. 00:24:43.549 --> 00:24:47.309 the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, or the Syrian, 00:24:47.490 --> 00:24:51.089 of Paddan Aran, the sister of Laban the Aramean. 00:24:51.730 --> 00:24:54.309 Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because 00:24:54.309 --> 00:24:56.450 she was unable to conceive children. There you 00:24:56.450 --> 00:25:00.589 go. Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife. She 00:25:00.589 --> 00:25:03.730 was unable to conceive children. And the Lord 00:25:03.730 --> 00:25:06.549 granted his prayer, and Rebekah, his wife, conceived. 00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:09.559 But the children struggled together with her, 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:12.579 kicking and shoving one another. And she said, 00:25:12.740 --> 00:25:15.299 If it is so that the Lord has heard our prayer, 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:18.740 then why am I this way? So she went to inquire 00:25:18.740 --> 00:25:22.079 of the Lord. The Lord said to her, The founders 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:25.359 of two nations are in your womb, and the separation 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:28.779 of two nations has begun in your body. The one 00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:31.299 people shall be stronger than the other, and 00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:34.450 the older shall serve the younger. When her days 00:25:34.450 --> 00:25:36.650 to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there 00:25:36.650 --> 00:25:40.529 were twins in her womb. Okay, so... Double portion. 00:25:40.730 --> 00:25:45.329 Double portion. Isaac prayed and God gave twins. 00:25:45.970 --> 00:25:49.150 And did you notice there was a moment in time 00:25:49.150 --> 00:25:53.869 that the days were fulfilled and she gave birth? 00:25:54.369 --> 00:25:59.250 Days fulfilled. Yeah. So every pregnancy lasts 00:25:59.250 --> 00:26:02.930 approximately nine months. Sometimes it goes 00:26:02.930 --> 00:26:05.710 longer, sometimes it goes shorter, but there's 00:26:05.710 --> 00:26:09.170 a length of time. And that baby is going to be 00:26:09.170 --> 00:26:14.109 born in the right time. You know, I'm reminded 00:26:14.109 --> 00:26:17.549 of when our daughter was on the way. And, you 00:26:17.549 --> 00:26:21.289 know, we knew that the signs were there, that 00:26:21.289 --> 00:26:23.789 it's time to go to the hospital, right? And we 00:26:23.789 --> 00:26:29.950 got there, and the doctor checked me and said, 00:26:30.460 --> 00:26:33.000 I'll come back at lunchtime and break your water 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:37.420 and you can have this baby today. And he left. 00:26:37.660 --> 00:26:40.859 No, I guess he did that by phone call. And the 00:26:40.859 --> 00:26:44.519 contractions had stopped by that point. And I 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:46.059 said to the nurse, I don't want him to break 00:26:46.059 --> 00:26:50.339 my water. And she said, well, why not? I said, 00:26:50.359 --> 00:26:53.900 because I know that if he breaks my water and 00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:56.740 I don't go into labor, then he's going to give 00:26:56.740 --> 00:26:59.619 me Pitocin. And if that doesn't work, then... 00:26:59.789 --> 00:27:02.470 He's got me set up for a C -section, and I don't 00:27:02.470 --> 00:27:04.250 want that. She says, well, I guess you know the 00:27:04.250 --> 00:27:08.869 ropes. And so he came back at his lunch. So any 00:27:08.869 --> 00:27:11.390 of you people listening, if you're pregnant, 00:27:12.569 --> 00:27:16.029 your wife is pregnant. Yeah, pay attention to 00:27:16.029 --> 00:27:20.210 that. So he came back at his lunchtime, and he 00:27:20.210 --> 00:27:22.670 said. Not happy. No, he was not happy. He said, 00:27:22.690 --> 00:27:24.289 I thought you wanted to have this baby today. 00:27:24.369 --> 00:27:26.410 I said, I want to have this baby when it's time 00:27:26.410 --> 00:27:29.250 for the baby to come. And he said, well, you 00:27:29.250 --> 00:27:30.769 might as well go home now because you're not 00:27:30.769 --> 00:27:33.710 in labor. I said, I'm not? I mean, I was having 00:27:33.710 --> 00:27:36.789 a few contractions, but what had been pretty 00:27:36.789 --> 00:27:39.849 regular when we came had dropped off because 00:27:39.849 --> 00:27:42.849 they put me to bed with a monitor instead of 00:27:42.849 --> 00:27:46.369 letting me move around. So I didn't think that 00:27:46.369 --> 00:27:50.250 was, well, I mean, who am I? What am I? Anyway, 00:27:50.490 --> 00:27:57.839 so he wasn't happy. He sent me home. I think 00:27:57.839 --> 00:28:00.759 we were only about not even halfway home and 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:04.440 the contractions started again. And I was tired 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:08.660 and I was hungry. So I just had lunch and I went 00:28:08.660 --> 00:28:11.900 to bed and I slept until the contractions woke 00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:15.680 me up. And meanwhile, you went to... I went to 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.059 the print shop. Yeah, you were printing a book 00:28:18.059 --> 00:28:21.259 cover or something. And so my sister was with 00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:25.660 me, thankfully. I guess it was about 11 o 'clock 00:28:25.660 --> 00:28:28.839 you came home, and I'm thinking, okay. And Sister 00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:31.500 Gwen had said, why did you bring her home? You 00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:34.420 should have stayed in Harrison and gotten a hotel 00:28:34.420 --> 00:28:38.059 room. I was just too tired to go there immediately. 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:43.279 So by the time you came in, I was having very 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:46.119 regular contractions. Yeah, I took one look at 00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.349 you, and I thought, oh. Boy, I think we need 00:28:48.349 --> 00:28:51.450 to get you in quick. So I said, well, let's just 00:28:51.450 --> 00:28:53.849 go to the hospital and check and see how far 00:28:53.849 --> 00:28:56.630 along I am, and then we'll check into a hotel. 00:28:56.849 --> 00:28:58.930 Yeah, I had to stop three times going up the 00:28:58.930 --> 00:29:01.589 hill while you're having your contraction on 00:29:01.589 --> 00:29:05.430 this rough road until I got to the highway. And 00:29:05.430 --> 00:29:09.539 then we got to Dogpatch. which is... Still about 00:29:09.539 --> 00:29:12.599 10... It's about 15 minutes from town, from the 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:16.680 hospital. And I said, I can't keep from pushing. 00:29:18.380 --> 00:29:21.819 And, you know, it was my first baby, so I didn't 00:29:21.819 --> 00:29:24.609 know what... They always said... It'll feel good 00:29:24.609 --> 00:29:28.309 to push. But I didn't know that my body was going 00:29:28.309 --> 00:29:32.009 to start pushing without me. So anyway, we got... 00:29:32.009 --> 00:29:34.950 So we flew there, ran some lights and... Well, 00:29:35.109 --> 00:29:39.109 don't confess that. Okay. But it was after midnight 00:29:39.109 --> 00:29:43.009 by this time. And we got to the hospital and 00:29:43.009 --> 00:29:46.990 the nurse checked me and said, you're 10 centimeters 00:29:46.990 --> 00:29:50.329 and bulging. So, you know, it was time. But the 00:29:50.329 --> 00:29:54.669 point is that we waited for the time. Instead 00:29:54.669 --> 00:29:57.589 of pushing the time like the doctor wanted to, 00:29:57.710 --> 00:30:00.430 she would have been born on a different day. 00:30:00.789 --> 00:30:04.029 Because it was after midnight when she was born. 00:30:04.190 --> 00:30:07.170 So there's something about the timing of the 00:30:07.170 --> 00:30:11.529 Lord, that he knows what he's doing in setting 00:30:11.529 --> 00:30:17.529 our time clock. So it's worth waiting to get 00:30:17.529 --> 00:30:20.650 the right result. Because I didn't want to have 00:30:20.650 --> 00:30:24.140 a C -section. That wasn't a good way to start, 00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:28.859 in my opinion. So here we have Isaac, whose wife, 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.039 in the fullness of times, when her days to be 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:35.339 delivered were fulfilled, she had twins in her 00:30:35.339 --> 00:30:39.220 womb. And so she had this promise from God that 00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:41.359 the elder is going to serve the younger. So when 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:46.500 it came time for Isaac to say, Esau, go get me 00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:49.099 some venison and fix it the way I like it, and 00:30:49.099 --> 00:30:51.480 I'm going to bless you. Because I don't know 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:53.480 how long I'm going to live. And by this time 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:55.200 he was blind, so he's thinking he's going to 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:58.440 go pretty soon. And he lived a lot of years after 00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:01.759 that. But, you know, sometimes you push the time, 00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:06.359 right? So she's thinking, okay, the elder is 00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.420 supposed to serve the younger, so I'm going to 00:31:08.420 --> 00:31:12.160 help God. And I'm going to help Jacob deceive 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.079 his dad so that he can get the double portion. 00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:17.960 Because the firstborn gets a double portion. 00:31:18.779 --> 00:31:21.880 Right? That's the way that it works. So that 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:24.799 the firstborn takes care of mom and dad because 00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:26.619 he's got the double portion. He's going to take 00:31:26.619 --> 00:31:30.359 care of mom and dad until their end and inherit 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.779 twice as much. So he becomes the patriarch of 00:31:32.779 --> 00:31:36.140 the family. You know, she helped him out. She 00:31:36.140 --> 00:31:38.640 helped God out. And well, you know, ultimately, 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:41.440 I don't know that the Bible doesn't say, but 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.920 it looks like maybe Jacob never got to see his 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:49.529 mom again. Okay. Because don't help God out. 00:31:49.609 --> 00:31:52.930 God probably had another plan to make that come 00:31:52.930 --> 00:31:56.289 to pass. But, you know, Rebecca had the promise, 00:31:56.329 --> 00:31:58.569 so she's going to push through. She's going to 00:31:58.569 --> 00:32:01.230 help God out. Well, we don't have to help God 00:32:01.230 --> 00:32:05.450 out. Let's just let God be God, and he will do 00:32:05.450 --> 00:32:08.490 the thing that he promises. Like, you know, you 00:32:08.490 --> 00:32:12.650 get Hagar, and you get Ishmael, and then you 00:32:12.650 --> 00:32:16.349 get... let's help God. No, we don't have to help 00:32:16.349 --> 00:32:20.750 God. Let God be God, right? So then Jacob goes 00:32:20.750 --> 00:32:25.670 off and he finds his uncle and he falls in love 00:32:25.670 --> 00:32:30.670 with the younger daughter, Rachel, and gets deceived. 00:32:30.869 --> 00:32:33.529 So, you know, there's this deception in the family, 00:32:33.670 --> 00:32:38.750 right? It's just the way it is in the family. 00:32:39.769 --> 00:32:42.109 There's family traditions you didn't know. Yeah, 00:32:42.130 --> 00:32:45.769 that wasn't a good one. So then, you know, Jacob 00:32:45.769 --> 00:32:49.210 falls in love with Rachel, but the dad is saying, 00:32:49.309 --> 00:32:52.349 you know, you can't marry off the younger one 00:32:52.349 --> 00:32:54.529 without marrying the older one first. And the 00:32:54.529 --> 00:32:57.130 older one was, the King James calls it tender 00:32:57.130 --> 00:33:00.549 -eyed. She was probably, Leah was probably nearsighted. 00:33:01.069 --> 00:33:04.670 And, you know, so she was kind of like not the 00:33:04.670 --> 00:33:09.250 most, I don't know, attractive or... you know, 00:33:09.269 --> 00:33:14.230 Jacob fell for Rachel, but he got Leah. And so 00:33:14.230 --> 00:33:17.269 God saw that Leah was hated and he opened her 00:33:17.269 --> 00:33:20.430 womb and he gave her children. And she keeps 00:33:20.430 --> 00:33:22.529 thinking the more children she's going to have, 00:33:22.589 --> 00:33:25.250 she's going to earn Jacob's love, but he still 00:33:25.250 --> 00:33:27.210 just loves Rachel. He loved Rachel even though 00:33:27.210 --> 00:33:29.910 she never had the children. Yeah. And then there 00:33:29.910 --> 00:33:34.029 comes this point where Rachel says, give me children 00:33:34.029 --> 00:33:37.339 or I... die because she's desperate to have children. 00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:41.819 Well, Jacob didn't do what his dad did. His dad 00:33:41.819 --> 00:33:45.579 had prayed for Rebecca and she conceived. But 00:33:45.579 --> 00:33:47.799 Jacob got angry and said, am I in God's place? 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:50.859 I'm not, you know, I can't make this happen. 00:33:51.789 --> 00:33:54.430 Let me just read it from the Amplified. It says, 00:33:54.650 --> 00:33:57.390 Give me children or I'll die. Jacob became furious 00:33:57.390 --> 00:33:59.309 with Rachel and he said, Am I in the place of 00:33:59.309 --> 00:34:01.710 God who's denied you children? She said, Here, 00:34:01.809 --> 00:34:04.130 take my maid Bilhah and go into her. And when 00:34:04.130 --> 00:34:06.069 the baby comes, she shall deliver it while sitting 00:34:06.069 --> 00:34:09.449 on my knees, so that by her I may also have children 00:34:09.449 --> 00:34:12.570 to count as my own. So she gave him Bilhah, her 00:34:12.570 --> 00:34:15.710 maid, as a secondary wife. And Jacob went into 00:34:15.710 --> 00:34:17.989 her. Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son 00:34:17.989 --> 00:34:21.369 for Jacob. Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, 00:34:21.469 --> 00:34:24.090 gave birth to a second son for Jacob. And when 00:34:24.090 --> 00:34:26.630 Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children, 00:34:26.769 --> 00:34:29.250 she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her to Jacob 00:34:29.250 --> 00:34:32.349 as a secondary wife. Zilpah, Leah's maid, gave 00:34:32.349 --> 00:34:35.409 birth to a son for Jacob and then gave a second 00:34:35.409 --> 00:34:37.750 son. And God listened and answered the prayer 00:34:37.750 --> 00:34:40.909 of Leah, and she conceived. I'm leaving out some 00:34:40.909 --> 00:34:45.280 verses in between just to make the point. Leah 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.980 conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob, 00:34:48.139 --> 00:34:50.840 and then a sixth son, and then a daughter named 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.739 Dinah. And God remembered the prayers of Rachel, 00:34:53.860 --> 00:34:56.920 and God thought of her and opened her womb so 00:34:56.920 --> 00:35:00.920 that she would conceive. So after all this time. 00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.619 This is some years here now. Years. Rachel finally 00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:10.400 conceives. and God gave her a child. She conceived 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.179 and gave birth to a son, and she said, God has 00:35:13.179 --> 00:35:16.239 taken away my disgrace and humiliation. So she 00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:20.400 named him Joseph, which means may he add, and 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.760 said, may the Lord add to me another son. So 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:27.260 she was speaking faith that she wasn't only just 00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:28.800 going to have one child, she was going to have 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.960 two. And she did. And of course, she died in 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:35.059 childbirth in the second. with the second son. 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.619 But, you know, the point is here that God grew 00:35:38.619 --> 00:35:43.260 a family for Jacob so that these were the patriarchs 00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:47.119 of the 12 tribes. And so here's this promise 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:50.800 of, I will make you a great nation, God said 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.699 to Abraham. And then all he gets is one son that 00:35:54.699 --> 00:35:59.179 has the promise, Isaac. Isaac has two sons. Jacob 00:35:59.179 --> 00:36:04.369 has 12 sons. Boom! Yeah. A population explosion, 00:36:04.469 --> 00:36:07.690 so to speak. You see, you have these special 00:36:07.690 --> 00:36:11.329 children. So what was special about Joseph? Well, 00:36:11.349 --> 00:36:13.809 he was the one that had the dreams. Right. He 00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:16.130 would have the dreams, which was the future for 00:36:16.130 --> 00:36:19.409 the, which would be the nation of Israel. Right. 00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:21.849 And he was the one that, you know, the jealous 00:36:21.849 --> 00:36:24.389 brothers sold him into Egypt because, you know, 00:36:24.389 --> 00:36:28.800 here is this special son. The special son of 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:31.179 Jacob. Has that coat, the youngest. Right. Not 00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:33.639 the youngest yet, because you still had, Benjamin 00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:37.000 was the youngest, but Joseph, well, he just had 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:39.440 something that the others didn't. And I think 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.960 his dad realized that. Well, yeah, but he didn't 00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:44.599 realize the jealousy that would, what the outcome 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:46.679 would be because of what he did. That's true. 00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:50.300 That's true. But he was the son of his beloved 00:36:50.300 --> 00:36:56.239 wife. Yeah. And the fact that he was born of 00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:59.340 a woman that was barren. So he's got this something 00:36:59.340 --> 00:37:03.539 special about him. And he wound up becoming a 00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:06.900 savior. He saved not only all of Jacob's sons, 00:37:07.019 --> 00:37:09.539 but he saved all of Egypt and the whole region 00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:13.280 because God gave him the wisdom to do that. And 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:16.820 then when the next son came along and Rachel 00:37:16.820 --> 00:37:20.920 died in childbirth, Jacob named him. the son 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:25.139 of my right hand. In other words, he saw Rachel 00:37:25.139 --> 00:37:30.239 as his right hand. Rachel was his beloved. And 00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:33.699 so this is a special child too, right? He was 00:37:33.699 --> 00:37:37.639 the spoiled boy of the family, right? So there's 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.480 something special about these children that come 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.619 from a barren mother. Okay, so here's another 00:37:44.619 --> 00:37:47.880 one. In the book of Judges, there's a man named 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:51.780 Manoah. And his wife, we don't learn his wife's 00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:55.719 name, but she has a visit from an angel. And 00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:59.420 this angel says, you're going to have a child. 00:37:59.739 --> 00:38:05.880 And you need to not have anything from the vine. 00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:09.920 This child is going to be a Nazarite. This child 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:12.719 is going to be dedicated to God. She was a barren 00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:15.780 mother, a barren woman. She had no children. 00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:18.889 So she's, you know. Especially in that culture. 00:38:19.170 --> 00:38:22.070 Yeah, it was important to have a son. Yeah, it's 00:38:22.070 --> 00:38:25.190 important to have children. It's important. And 00:38:25.190 --> 00:38:29.809 so the child that was born was Samson. And God 00:38:29.809 --> 00:38:32.630 used him. And he was a judge over Israel. Right. 00:38:32.789 --> 00:38:36.869 And it wasn't the kind of judge you think. God 00:38:36.869 --> 00:38:42.829 used him to kind of mess their minds up and other 00:38:42.829 --> 00:38:46.710 things too. Yes. And people who have had a visit 00:38:46.710 --> 00:38:51.030 to heaven, and have seen Samson have said that 00:38:51.030 --> 00:38:53.510 he wasn't this big muscle builder looking guy. 00:38:53.690 --> 00:38:57.269 Yeah, we think of Samson as this seven foot tall 00:38:57.269 --> 00:39:00.590 with these rippling muscles. Right, but he wasn't. 00:39:00.590 --> 00:39:03.349 He was just an ordinary guy. Probably kind of 00:39:03.349 --> 00:39:07.059 like me, you know. 135 pounds or something. Right, 00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:11.280 right. Just not your big he -man kind of a guy. 00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:15.599 But when the Spirit of God came on him, he would 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:18.480 have supernatural strength and be able to do 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.260 things. Boy, that'll preach, won't it? Yeah, 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:22.699 it will. And that happens in the anointing. Yes. 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.139 Things happen. Exactly, exactly. And so another 00:39:27.139 --> 00:39:30.420 one that you have that was a barren woman, remember 00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:35.349 the story of Hannah and Elkanah? Hannah was another 00:39:35.349 --> 00:39:39.210 barren woman, and Elkanah took a second wife 00:39:39.210 --> 00:39:41.269 because he needed to have children. Yeah, and 00:39:41.269 --> 00:39:43.670 that was up on Shiloh, which we got to go on 00:39:43.670 --> 00:39:46.849 this last trip. Yes, we did. Yeah. We sure did. 00:39:47.150 --> 00:39:51.170 And out of her womb came Samuel, the seer and 00:39:51.170 --> 00:39:54.809 the prophet. Exactly. So if you're out there, 00:39:55.030 --> 00:39:59.030 somebody listening out there, you want to have 00:39:59.030 --> 00:40:01.809 a baby, and you haven't been able to have a baby. 00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:07.539 Look for God's purposes and God's time. Okay? 00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:11.039 The same thing happened with Elizabeth and Zacharias 00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:15.519 in the beginning of... of Luke, the book of Luke. 00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:19.039 You know, Zacharias was this godly man. He's 00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.260 in the high priest's line and he's doing the 00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:26.139 incense before the Lord. And Gabriel appears 00:40:26.139 --> 00:40:28.340 to him and tells him, you know, your prayers 00:40:28.340 --> 00:40:29.780 have been heard. You're going to have a son. 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:33.440 And he says, come on, you got to be kidding. 00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:37.300 And so, you know, he gets struck dumb because 00:40:37.300 --> 00:40:39.840 life and death are in the power of the tongue. 00:40:39.980 --> 00:40:42.320 So, you know, you're going to be silent because 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.280 you weren't, paying attention. You weren't listening. 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.820 You just need to be quiet on this. And so John 00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:53.300 the Baptist came from that barren woman. Okay. 00:40:53.340 --> 00:40:57.760 So if you are looking for a promise from God 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.840 to come to pass, trust that it's going to come 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:05.619 to pass, but do your part in the meantime. You 00:41:05.619 --> 00:41:08.199 know, Elizabeth and Zacharias were godly people 00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:11.710 and they were doing the godly thing. They were 00:41:11.710 --> 00:41:14.389 doing what they were supposed to do. But sometimes 00:41:14.389 --> 00:41:18.570 God puts these things off so that something can 00:41:18.570 --> 00:41:23.090 be accomplished in your life that wouldn't have 00:41:23.090 --> 00:41:25.510 been accomplished if you didn't get to that place 00:41:25.510 --> 00:41:29.690 of desperation. And you need to get to that place 00:41:29.690 --> 00:41:34.030 of contending. Contending. We're contending for 00:41:34.030 --> 00:41:37.130 the outpouring. We're contending. We're equipping 00:41:37.130 --> 00:41:40.010 so that we can engage in the outpouring, right? 00:41:40.250 --> 00:41:43.690 So whatever the promise is from God that's in 00:41:43.690 --> 00:41:47.510 your life, there's a promise that God is going 00:41:47.510 --> 00:41:51.510 to bring to pass. But do your contending and 00:41:51.510 --> 00:41:55.170 do your equipping so that when the fullness of 00:41:55.170 --> 00:42:00.070 time comes, then you'll be ready. And that baby 00:42:00.070 --> 00:42:02.250 or whatever it is that you're expecting is going 00:42:02.250 --> 00:42:05.369 to come. I'm thinking of a brother that we know 00:42:05.369 --> 00:42:13.130 in Nigeria. After 27 years of marriage, 27 years, 00:42:13.369 --> 00:42:17.269 they did use in vitro fertilization, but they 00:42:17.269 --> 00:42:21.590 were able to have a child. And they wound up 00:42:21.590 --> 00:42:23.989 having three by the time they'd been married 00:42:23.989 --> 00:42:28.699 for 30 years. Isn't that remarkable? It's remarkable. 00:42:29.099 --> 00:42:32.219 And so whatever it is that you're holding out 00:42:32.219 --> 00:42:35.719 for, whether it's a baby or whether it's a car 00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:39.300 or whether it's a spouse, maybe you've been waiting 00:42:39.300 --> 00:42:41.219 and waiting and waiting. Where is that spouse? 00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:44.800 Where is that spouse? Where is that one? God 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:49.159 has, don't help him. Don't help God by making 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:53.619 your own choices to help him out. Help God out 00:42:53.619 --> 00:42:57.659 by equipping. Help God out by preparing. Help 00:42:57.659 --> 00:43:00.960 God out by contending in the Spirit, by praying, 00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:05.179 by helping your own faith in God, by looking 00:43:05.179 --> 00:43:09.500 to Him, by building your relationship with Him. 00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:12.420 Because He keeps His promises at the proper time. 00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:17.219 Like where it says in Galatians 4, 4 and 5, when 00:43:17.219 --> 00:43:21.250 the fullness of the time was come. God sent forth 00:43:21.250 --> 00:43:24.170 his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 00:43:24.269 --> 00:43:26.530 to redeem them that were under the law, that 00:43:26.530 --> 00:43:30.329 we might receive the adoption of sons. And I 00:43:30.329 --> 00:43:32.610 like what the NIV says, but when the set time 00:43:32.610 --> 00:43:36.750 had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, 00:43:36.789 --> 00:43:41.190 born under the law. God keeps his promises. But 00:43:41.190 --> 00:43:44.949 there's a time for it. There's a time for it. 00:43:45.550 --> 00:43:48.039 And, you know, the same thing for Israel. Okay? 00:43:48.139 --> 00:43:50.800 We've just come back from Israel, so Israel is 00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:55.960 on our mind. And if we had lived 200 years ago, 00:43:56.139 --> 00:43:58.920 we wouldn't have the perspective that we have 00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:03.360 now, where we're seeing now the things that God 00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:08.900 promised come to pass in Israel. God has brought 00:44:08.900 --> 00:44:12.059 his people back to their land. And he promised, 00:44:12.340 --> 00:44:18.730 saying, Amos 9, 14, and 15, says, also, I shall 00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:21.409 bring back the exiles of my people Israel, and 00:44:21.409 --> 00:44:24.210 they will rebuild the deserted and ruined cities 00:44:24.210 --> 00:44:25.789 and inhabit them. They've done that. They've 00:44:25.789 --> 00:44:29.190 done that. Yeah. All of these many cities around 00:44:29.190 --> 00:44:33.409 the land are built in the places where the ancient 00:44:33.409 --> 00:44:36.250 cities were, many of them. And they're called 00:44:36.250 --> 00:44:38.929 by that name. They will also plant vineyards 00:44:38.929 --> 00:44:41.309 and drink their wine and make gardens and eat 00:44:41.309 --> 00:44:45.679 their fruit. I will also. Plant them on their 00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:48.699 land, and they shall never again be uprooted 00:44:48.699 --> 00:44:50.519 from their land which I have given them, says 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:53.179 the Lord your God. Yeah, and we've seen that 00:44:53.179 --> 00:44:57.400 firsthand. Yeah. Wow. Firsthand. And then Isaiah 00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:02.380 11 and 12. What does that say? Then it will happen 00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:04.699 on that day that the Lord will again acquire 00:45:04.699 --> 00:45:07.860 with his hand a second time the remnant of his 00:45:07.860 --> 00:45:12.079 people, who will remain from Assyria. from Egypt, 00:45:12.219 --> 00:45:16.260 from Patros, from Cush, or Ethiopia, from Elam, 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.559 from Shinar, Babylon, and Hamath, and from the 00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:24.119 coastlands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. And 00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:26.940 he will lift up a signal for the nations and 00:45:26.940 --> 00:45:30.500 assemble the outcasts of Israel. And he will 00:45:30.500 --> 00:45:33.039 gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners 00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:35.199 of the earth. That's exactly what he's done. 00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:36.699 And that's just what he did. Yeah. And they're 00:45:36.699 --> 00:45:39.630 still coming in. They're still coming. And more 00:45:39.630 --> 00:45:43.289 will come in as politics change. Oh, yeah. Oh, 00:45:43.309 --> 00:45:46.449 yeah. It's time for a massive. Mass is Aliyah. 00:45:46.750 --> 00:45:49.889 Aliyah. Aliyah. They call it Aliyah, which means 00:45:49.889 --> 00:45:54.289 going up. Going up. You're ascending to go to 00:45:54.289 --> 00:45:57.829 the land that God promised. He promised it to 00:45:57.829 --> 00:46:01.969 Abram something like 4 ,000 years ago. Or maybe 00:46:01.969 --> 00:46:05.670 it's 3 ,500 years ago. 3 ,500 years ago, 3 ,600 00:46:05.670 --> 00:46:08.860 years ago, something like that. You know, the 00:46:08.860 --> 00:46:12.579 point is God keeps his promises. And I love what 00:46:12.579 --> 00:46:16.739 Hosea 6, 1 through 3 says in the Amplified, Come 00:46:16.739 --> 00:46:19.340 and let us return in repentance to the Lord, 00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:23.539 for he has torn us, but he will heal us. He's 00:46:23.539 --> 00:46:27.360 wounded us, but he will bandage us. After two 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:31.380 days, he will revive us. On the third day, he 00:46:31.380 --> 00:46:34.039 will raise us up that we may live before him. 00:46:34.570 --> 00:46:37.250 So let us know and become personally acquainted 00:46:37.250 --> 00:46:40.590 with him. Let us press on to know and to understand 00:46:40.590 --> 00:46:43.449 fully the greatness of the Lord, to honor, heed, 00:46:43.570 --> 00:46:46.610 and deeply cherish him. His appearing is prepared 00:46:46.610 --> 00:46:51.630 and is as certain as the dawn. Happens every 00:46:51.630 --> 00:46:56.909 day. It's certain. And he will come to us in 00:46:56.909 --> 00:46:59.769 salvation like the heavy rain, like the spring 00:46:59.769 --> 00:47:03.309 rain watering the earth. And I love the fact 00:47:03.309 --> 00:47:06.010 that it says, after two days he will revive us. 00:47:06.150 --> 00:47:08.510 On the third day he will raise us up that we 00:47:08.510 --> 00:47:12.070 may live before him. Because Psalm 90 verse 4 00:47:12.070 --> 00:47:15.469 says, for a thousand years in your sight are 00:47:15.469 --> 00:47:18.230 like yesterday when it has passed, or as a watch 00:47:18.230 --> 00:47:22.010 in the night. And Peter gives us a better clue 00:47:22.010 --> 00:47:25.510 as to what that means. In 2 Peter 3 .8, what 00:47:25.510 --> 00:47:28.519 does that say? Nevertheless, do not let this 00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:31.739 one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with 00:47:31.739 --> 00:47:34.900 the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and 00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:38.659 a thousand years is like one day. So Hosea prophesied 00:47:38.659 --> 00:47:44.159 that after 2 ,000 years, God would raise up Israel 00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:48.179 again. And it has happened. It has happened. 00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:52.400 It is happening. It is amazing. And no matter 00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:55.280 what the angry neighbors round about try to do, 00:47:55.869 --> 00:47:58.389 They won't succeed. That's right. Because the 00:47:58.389 --> 00:48:02.409 scripture says, and that's as good as done. Yep. 00:48:02.429 --> 00:48:05.289 Because God keeps his promises. Yeah. Even if 00:48:05.289 --> 00:48:08.409 it takes two millennia. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 00:48:08.750 --> 00:48:12.389 So let's pray for our listeners, shall we? Father, 00:48:12.449 --> 00:48:16.329 we thank you that you are good for your promises. 00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:21.159 You will keep your promises. You're a promise 00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:25.780 -keeping God. Help us to have the patience and 00:48:25.780 --> 00:48:30.530 the endurance to persevere. and believe you and 00:48:30.530 --> 00:48:33.050 let it be counted to us for righteousness that 00:48:33.050 --> 00:48:36.090 we believe you, that we believe what you said 00:48:36.090 --> 00:48:39.030 in your word. We believe that these things that 00:48:39.030 --> 00:48:41.809 you've promised us are coming to pass. We believe 00:48:41.809 --> 00:48:45.510 that Jesus is returning. We believe that you 00:48:45.510 --> 00:48:50.250 are sending your outpouring on all flesh, that 00:48:50.250 --> 00:48:52.869 you're going to pour out your spirit in a way 00:48:52.869 --> 00:48:56.690 like we have never seen before. 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