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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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It's so great to be with you today and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit us in person. We'd love to have you be a part of one of our services. I like to start with something funny. And I heard about this country grandmother.
She'd go out on her porch every morning and thank the Lord for another day. Well, her neighbor didn't believe in God. He'd shout back. There's no such thing as the Lord. One day he overheard her asking God to give her groceries for the week. He snuck out early the next morning, put some groceries on her front porch. She came out and said, thank you, Lord. You did it again.
He laughed and laughed, said, God didn't do that. I put the groceries there. She said, Lord, thank you. You not only sent the groceries, but you made the devil pay for them. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today, I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert.
My heart is receptive. I will never be the same in Jesus name. God bless you. I want to talk to you today about uncommon favor. We all have dreams that seem too big to accomplish and challenges that we can't overcome by ourselves. We look at things in the natural, logically speaking, and reason it out. Sometimes there's no answer. It's easy to get discouraged.
But what God is going to do in your life cannot be calculated. You can't plan it. You can't rationalize it. It's going to be uncommon, out of the ordinary, something that you've never seen. And on purpose, God will put you in situations that are over your head. The good news is he's already lined up the uncommon favor where doors open you couldn't open.
Uncommon promotion where opportunity tracks you down. Uncommon protection where he shields you from evil and uncommon freedom where he delivers you from generational limitations. Where God has taken you cannot be reached by just ordinary means. And yes, we have to pray, believe, use our gifts, but you can't fulfill your destiny with just the common.
If you're only looking at things in the natural and trying to figure it out, you're going to get discouraged. What you can't see is the uncommon favor that's coming. Paul said this in Corinthians, you haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in store for those that love the Lord. That's talking about uncommon favor. You haven't seen it yet. You haven't heard it. You haven't even imagined it.
When you look at your situations, there may be no way in the natural that it's going to work out. No way you could get well. No way that child will get back on course. No way that you could lead your department. That all may be true. There's no logical way. But what you can't see is what God has stored up. You haven't seen, heard, or imagined it. There's uncommon favor coming.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of uncommon favor in our lives?
Psalm 40 says, God has given me a new song to sing. Many will see what he has done and be astounded. God is going to do some new things in your life. Not what you've seen in the past. It's going to be unusual where you're not only astounded, but people around you are going to be astounded.
Chapter 3: How can we recognize the dreams that seem impossible?
You got to think, how'd you accomplish that dream? How'd you beat that cancer? How'd your child get back on course? How'd you pay their house off? It's the most high God releasing uncommon favor. What you haven't seen, heard, or imagined. We see this all through the scripture.
When Jesus told Peter to go back into the water and throw out his nets, he caught so many fish that the nets begin to break. The scripture says they were awestruck at the size of their catch. What made it even more amazing is there were no fish there a few hours earlier. Peter had fished all night. He knew when to fish and where to fish. This wasn't the right time.
They were too close to the shore. None of the circumstances were favorable. But God doesn't need your circumstances to be favorable to do something amazing in your life. God controls the fish. He controls finances. He controls health, relationships, what doors are going to open. He's not limited because odds are against you. You don't have the connections.
God will bring someone better than you can imagine. You don't have the funds. God owns it all. He's not having a down year. He told the disciples to go to the lake and the first fish they caught had a coin in it enough to pay all their taxes. God was showing us that he's going to do things unusual ways, ways you can't calculate, you can't plan. Doesn't fit into our logic.
It's going to be supernatural. Something that leaves you awestruck, uncommon favor. One time Peter was in prison for sharing his faith. A group of believers gathered at a house to pray for him. The king had just had the disciple James put to death. Now it looked like Peter was next in line. They'd been praying all night and asking God to do a miracle.
And an angel showed up in the prison, woke Peter up and the doors opened of their own accord.
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Chapter 4: What does it mean when God opens doors we cannot?
And Peter walked out a free man. It was the middle of the night. So he went to the house where they're all praying and knocked on the door. A young woman answered it. When she saw Peter, she nearly passed out. She was so amazed she didn't open the door. She ran back and told everyone it was Peter. They said, no way. Can't be Peter. He's in jail. Must be an angel.
Chapter 5: How does God provide uncommon protection and freedom?
The whole time Peter's out there knocking on the door. The scripture says when they finally opened it, they were astonished to see Peter. They stood there in awe. See, they thought God would do it an ordinary way. They were praying that God would change the king's mind, give Peter mercy at the trial, watch over him in the prison. They never imagined that God would deliver him that night.
that an angel would show up and open the doors. They couldn't plan that. Logically speaking, this would never happen, but God is not always logical. His ways are not our ways. Ordinary favor would have brought him through the trial, given him good attorneys. Maybe he'll get probation. Maybe he'll be released.
But where God has taken you and the calling he has on your life is going to take more than just normal good breaks. Average promotion, ordinary protection, it's going to take uncommon favor. He's going to open doors that leave you awestruck, turn situations around that cause you to be astonished, take you places where you stand in awe. How did this happen?
Those are some of the things that God has stored up for you that you haven't seen, heard, or imagined. You may be facing challenges now. You don't see how they could work out. All your planning, reasoning, what the experts say, there are no good options. What you can't see is the uncommon favor that God is about to release. Uncommon healing, God doing what medicine cannot do.
Uncommon breakthroughs, problems that look permanent suddenly turning around. Uncommon opportunities, contracts, businesses that takes your family to a new level. Well, Joel, you're just trying to get people's hopes up. You can't have faith if you don't first have hope. What if I believe this and nothing happens? What if you believe and it does happen?
If you don't believe, you go around negative, doubting. Joel, my problems are too big. I think I've reached my limits. You're probably going to get stuck. You have to give God something to work with. Faith is what gets his attention.
Amen.
Dare to say, God, show out in my life this year. Do something uncommon, out of the ordinary, that leaves me astounded, astonished, in awe of your goodness. I know a man that has a home for men that are in tough times and he takes in former inmates from the prison. He has several hundred men living on his property and feeds them, clothes them, helps them to find jobs.
One Saturday, his main cook came in and said, we've run out of food. We have nothing to cook today. They were down on funds and didn't have any way to buy something. This man told the cook not to worry that the Lord would provide. They're just a few hours away from dinner. He didn't know what to do. He said, God, this ministry is in your hands. And you said you'd supply all of our needs.
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Chapter 6: What examples illustrate the concept of uncommon miracles?
But if you'll stay faithful at some point, the master will step in. God will take your ordinary and breathe on it and it will become extraordinary. Never thought I could minister. My father had pastored here for 40 years and was a great pastor and he'd gone to seminary and so powerful and talented, preached all over the world. I didn't have any of that.
I felt ordinary, average, but deep down I knew I was supposed to pastor. I took that step of faith. You know what happened? The master stepped in. God took what was common and turned it into uncommon. He breathed on my talent, breathed on my ability. He's taken me where I never dreamed. I couldn't have planned this.
I thought I'd stay behind the scenes and do television production the rest of my life. What am I saying? God has some things stored up for you that you haven't seen. You haven't imagined. It looks like just a slingshot, but when God breathes on it, it'll bring down giants. Moses took his staff, a piece of wood, something common. He held it up and the master stepped in.
The Red Sea parted, something they had never seen. You may have situations that look like they'll never turn around. Seems like you're stuck. Can I encourage you? The master is about to step in. God sees you doing your part. He sees you being your best. He's about to breathe on your family, breathe on your finances, breathe on your health, breathe on your talent.
He's already lined up some of these uncommon moments for you. Unusual miracles are in your future. Isaiah 28 says, this time the Lord will do something surprising, not what you expect. Now I know God's done great things in the past, but you haven't seen anything yet.
I believe and declare this is going to be a year of uncommon favor for you, uncommon opportunity, uncommon healing, uncommon victories in Jesus' name. And if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior.
If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd love to send you some free information on your new walk with the Lord. You can text the number on the screen or go to the website. But I hope you'll get into a good Bible-based church and keep God first place.
Every day, we can live discouraged, angry, depressed, defeated. Is it possible to turn these negatives into an outlook filled with purpose, happiness, and joy?
Every day we make choices, how we see ourselves, how we respond to challenges, how we approach what's in front of us. I've written a devotional called Today I Choose, Devotions for a Better Life. It's designed to help you make those choices on purpose, to choose faith over fear, peace over frustration, and kindness over offense.
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