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these scientists
He said a God. We decided that we no longer need you weak
clung people, we can transplant hearts and do all kinds of things once considered miraculous concept.
But
prove you don't need me. Let's have a man making contest the old,
requirement is you have to make men out of dirt? The scientists said great and he quickly reached
to pick up a handful of dark God said not so fast. Google
Hold up your Bible 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 confess my mind, is alert
heart is receptive. I will never be the same,
Jesus name,
bless? You I want to talk
to you today about there's another ingredient coming. We all
face disappointments in life and
generations that we don't understand,
easy to get discouraged and think what
that happened to me. What did that
betray me. Why did
get laid off
Why wasn't I raised in a good childhood? Like usual, no
life is not always fair, but God is fair.
He said in Romans a all things working
other for good. Did those that
the law
The key word is together. You cannot
isolate one part of your life
one divorce one bed
I heard one disappointment
in itself may not be good, but God is not finished. Your
is not over because you had a bad break, don't get
duck where you are theirs.
or ingredient coming. That means the right people.
Ride, opportunities are in your future. If you'll get
Your passion back in start,
in forward you'll, see what God promised it will all
I'll come together and work out for you good,
when our children were small. One of their favorite things to do was made chocolate chip cookies,
We have done it so much. We didn't even have to look at the recipe we knew exactly what to Putty Jonathan,
five or six years old. He would
the brown sugar, the butter
the eggs
little Alexander, just three years old she'd get the flower bacon soda than
We were very precise.
put in the exact amount in the exact order
It was called for one time that halfway
through making a batch of cookies are realised that we didn't have any bacon. So how do you feel, like
went up to the store?
so we decided to not put the bacon. So the n. I thought no big deal just
teaspoon, we put two and a half.
a flower. What difference was
a teaspoonful going to me, but when we took the cook
out of the oven they were is flat. Ass could be
had not risen, one bit totally tasteless. What was the problem? An ingredient was left.
a small amount made a huge difference,
People are bitter own life
because they haven't waited for all the ingredients to come together. God,
is the mastership. The rest
people, your life has already been established. The scripture talks about how,
His has planned your days for good from beginning to end,
God knows exactly what to add in wine.
Have it he's up on?
like I did and leave out,
potent ingredient he's going to put in just the right amount at just the right time.
you can become everything. He's created you debate,
but sometimes in life. It may feel, like things or flat, flattened your career flat. Your marriage flat you'll find answers
but don't get discouraged, there's a
their ingredient coming.
all God has to do, is add some of his bacon soda and you will rise to a new level.
You may have seen the chef on television ship Emerald he's very
animated.
whenever he adds an ingredient he says ban,
Just imagine at the right time, God Ban ads,
A favour to your lie, not flat anymore. Things begin to take all ban a good break bam. I Healy
Your lonely that person left to ban a divine connection, somebody better
your child's. Of course they do all. I don't know what I did wrong, arrays dim in church. I just don't understand it now.
Didn't do anything wrong, relax! There's a ban come
God knows how to get him on. The right course he's not going this.
In the period at the right time,
God, what at just the right ingredients that will cause him to rise and fulfil his God given destiny
but you, but I'm expecting some bans. Listen. You have not seen your best eggs. You have not reached to a full potential
God, has ingredients come in your way that will thrust
you to a new level.
He has ingredients that are good.
You called everything to make sense.
When God brings it all together
and you see the fullness of what he was doing
I'm gonna worry about who hurt you,
what you lost. How unfair it was you going to look back and say wow god you're amazing, you had it all figured out. Your plan was better than my plan. You gave me beauty for ashes. You made a way when I didn't see a way you had
the right people show up at just the right time. Why don't you trust him?
You may not understand something right now, but one day you will it's going to all come together. The mistake we made too often
Is we isolate one incident and it causes
just to lose our passion. I haven't
They tell me recently how,
Her husband of many years left her for another woman.
She was so devastating. She couldn't
you're standing now. No that's hard, that's painful
but that is not the end
person. Leaving was going to keep you from your destiny. God would have never allowed it. This
be hard to swallow, but it failed
do you didn't need there,
if they walked away, they want a part of your destiny. There's another ingredient common somebody better somebody,
that God ordained somebody that will,
treat you like a queen or a king, somebody that will value you celebrate to somebody that cannot live without you
something called the gift of good bye.
Then maybe they marry faith. They did you harm, but they're doing you a favor blow them a kiss. No, never look back! Just keep moving home. Now, some of you, you gotta, quit mourning over what you ve lost, could be
scorers over what didn't work out, it's not over until God says it. All.
I heard somebody say, go
always ends on all is well
So we ve all is not well in your life. That simply means it is not the end
moving forward. Another ingredient is coming along
times like this lady people
southward alive because they can
understand why something has happened, but every
thing is not going to make sense if you isolated, if you look at it,
don't its own you'll, get discouraged.
have to remind your sale. It is not yet
all come together. It's not so
was to make sent by itself event
in my children, when they were smaller, wanted to make
chocolate chip cookies, but we didn't have time to bake them, so I
The ingredients out
and gave them a Jonathan to eat separately. Jonathan here's
copper brown sugar eat this. Why
now down with this tablespoon of the nebula.
The raw when you
With that here's, two cups of flour. Ok, here
two sticks of butter. Now, Jonathan, you officially have chocolate chip cookies on the inside. Somehow don't work that way
key. Is it has
all be mixed together.
in the same way, you cannot isolate one party or lie and thank all this taste bad and withdrew a divorce.
Had a lousy childhood. I start
business that failed. I
like a year chemotherapy. Look what I've been through. That's not supposed to taste. Good
by its sale. You gonna wait forgot
to bring it all together.
got another ingredients. Then he's going to add to your lie that person left you, that's painful that
bitter on its own, but when God brings it all together and brings you somebody greater than you ever dreamed of
you're, not even gonna, miss that old goat that left you all. The bitterness will be gone just a matter of time before it comes together, the port
lied about. You tried to ruin your reputation. By
sell that taste ban, but
that's only one ingredient, God,
It was how vindicate you, God knows how to make wrongs right. He can prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies when it
comes together and,
promoted, live in your dreams, fulfilling your destiny. It we'll take care when
facing that sickness
maybe having to take the treatments easy to think man?
God's, not even concerned about, may look what I'm going through. No God has you in the palm of his hand,
He said no weapon formed begin. Shoe will prosper. Weeping
endure for a night. Here's the promised joy is coming in the morning. God is saying it may get tough. You may
some situations that are better. But if you
stay in faith and not let the bitterness get on the inside gods.
not at a loss. I have another ingredient, they can turn
bitter into sweet. Several years,
after Victorian out we're married we receive
an unexpected tax bill in the mail them
and that was doing our tax returns lived in another state. He was
familiar with a certain tax law in Texas. Now we
thousands and thousands of dollars
to make matters worse. Over a half
What we owed were in penalties
This is not fair, Howard of Professional. He messed up now
having to pay for his mistakes. We were discouraged,
a young couple in real time.
to save money for a down payment on a home. This was going to take.
All of our funds we
finding this man to help us get it straightened out. He was attacks attorney,
for several weeks. He was at our house every night Goin
the documents filling out new forms we
dinner together. Renee
together. We ended
becoming very good friend
Ten years later, I was working
the television department here at Lake would a man. So
Mabel poor service into your my cousin
has a construction permit
for the last full power commercial television station in Houston, he'd, like you to be a part of it
As you know, a tv station in a major market is extremely valuable. I don't know
start
I was young. I thought I don't know
about negotiating a contract for a tv station.
It dawned on me I'll call market
Only for it, the one
during my tax problems in three
He handed us a contract. The station was ours, we put it
the air Vincent.
my father went to be with the Lord. Now was the past.
Three years later, we acquired
compact sinner this place, we found
It was going to cost about a hundred million dollars to renovate.
so we decided to sell the television station
we sold it for a huge profit. It was, though,
funds that were instrumental in us
debating this plight
What I want you to see is when
all comes together, it'll make sense that,
Text problem on its own was very bitter. It didn't seem fair.
But it had, I not head that problem
We have never met the attorney in become good friends without the attorney
would probably never pursued the tv station with that.
the television station we may
I have been able to renovate this facility lack we really wanted to prince. God knows what he's doing he's got it all figured out in lie. You will fail
Situations that don't make sense
on the wrong. It seems bitter you. May
Like I d gone, it's not fair! Why is this happening
let me assure you got here
The plan-
there's another ingredient coming
somewhere down the road in a month
in a year in twenty years, you're going to see God work at all for your good
new face these situations that don't make sense, its very
powerful new, say God,
I don't understand it, but I trust you.
It doesn't seem fair, but I know you are fair, I'm not going to
Better, I'm not gonna lose my passion, I'm all keep pressing forward. No,
You are in complete control, here's what I've learned
nothing in lie, happens to you. It happen.
For you
God wouldn't have allowed it if he didn't have a purpose. If that person the left
if that bad break. If that sick
we're going to keep you from your destiny. God would have never permitted the inn,
it is not in control of your life, God is in control the Inn
you can't even touch you without asking God for permission. Keep the right perspective
data. Getting better discouraged
No our attitude should be. This is not here.
And to me it's happening for me
God said he is going to take.
Met from my harmed and use it to my advantage,
It may be bitter right now, but I know a secret
Ingredient is coming
I heard about a man that was out in his boat and a big stick:
We came up and his boat capsized
ended up stranded on a deserted island month that
month went by
he was so miserable all by himself, just when he thought
it couldn't get any worse? We will
gathering food one day. He came back and the little thatched roof that he bill had caught on fire,
sat there in watched it burned to the ground, it was
Poland, salt, in the wounds, he said God I give up. I ask it
help me in one bad thing after another happened by that time.
hey look way off in the distance. He saw
come into warning. He picked up it got
closer and closer sure enough. It was the coastguard
came in rescued him
he was so thrill got on the
Dave ever body, a big hug said the captain
how in the world did you find me? The captain said:
We saw the smoke from the fire that you build
Sometimes what we think is a disappointment. Is God simply getting us in position to go to a new level? I didn't like the tax problem
but I shall do like being in the compact syn
when you're cuts on fire
if you had ever gets all far keep the right perspective. Don't start complaining
God wouldn't have allowed it unless he had a purpose, Meda
makes sense right now.
one day. When it comes together, it will make sense in the scripture-
There's a lady name, Naomi
her name means my joy
every time someone said hello, Naomi, they were so
hello, my joy
good morning, Naomi Good morning, my joy,
to be a very happy joyful person.
But Naomi went through a series of losses. Her husband died very devastated,
her sons were killed in a battle. All these
Things came against her.
She made the mistake of letting
the bitterness get on the inside. Yes, there's a proper,
four grieving, but you
yet. Let us seize and of mourning turn into a lifetime of mourning,
attitude. Was I've been through too much
My dreams are all shattered, never be
happy again. Just leave me in my pain
She was so discouraged that
change your name from Naomi tomorrow
mara means sorrow
now when somebody said hello Naomi, she said. Don't call me that I don't have.
Enjoy
I don't have any hope.
Call me by my new name, sorrow.
like Naomi, you may,
into a loss. Maybe a dream has died. My child
Tunisia is don't let loose
change, your name. There's an
the ingredient coming, God still has
something great in your future. He has not forgotten about you.
God sees every sparrow, everyone
bird. That falls to the ground. How
more is God concerned about you. I've learned the depth of your past
is an indication of the height of your future.
construction workers are going to build a large skyscraper. They have to first
indeed to lay a foundation.
taller, the building, the deep
the foundation you may
in through an unfair situation.
The loved one for
betrayed you, you're dealing with the sickness,
would be easy to get discouraged in just settle there. You have to realise
God's Goin down deep,
because he has something big in your future
you may be low right now, but he's getting you prepared to go
There are new levels of joy,
new levels of influence, new opportunities new?
relationship up ahead of you
do like she did and left
what you been through? Become your identity
don't become known as the person that had cancer, the person that lost a loved one, the person that went through that bitter divorce. No, that's not who you are that's what you went through. You are
a child of the most TAT God created in his image with a destiny to fulfil your name is not sadness saw road. The mediocrity, your name is victory. You name is George.
your name is favour. Your name is abundant. Your name is bright. Future
what life deals you
you gotta have the attitude I am in it to win it
I may have been through a lot, but I've come too far to stop now.
I'm not gonna get negative, I'm not only bitter ammo
moving forward.
What's in my future, is greater than what's in my pants. Listen, God is not going to allow one of vat or one per
to ruin your life. Your desk
it cannot be stopped. Bob
a break
and injustice and unfair.
Situation, all
Forces of darkness cannot stop
what God has ordained? Yes, you
defied all the bitterness, the self pity the resentment, but if you
moving forward the right,
ingredients will come the solemn is put it this way when you,
if your hope in the Lord, you will never be disappointing. Yes, we may have.
temporarily, setbacks sure why I'm temporary disappointment, but if you'll keep hope and trust
thing honouring God
Then you will see how God will work at all together for your good, you will not be permanently disappointed.
One time. Moses was leading the people of Israel through the wilderness. They had been travelling for a long time. A great distance
with no water there
extremely thirsty, tired
they didn't know if they could make it they found.
We came to a river
excited was like a dream, an oasis. They
Still there to get a drink, but when they
They stood the water, it was better, they couldn't drink it. It was to sound
can imagine how disappointed they were. The God had a plan
he told Moses to put a certain type.
Three in the water
and when he did, the bitter waters were turned sweet. Now
can freely drink as much as they wanted to
God is saying
even when life turns out better, even
when its unfair
at a loss. I still have an ingredient
turn you a bitter waters in this. This is
What happened to my father? He was married at a very early age unfold
Finally, the marriage didn't work out. He was devastated
he thought his days of ministry were over. He didn't think you'd ever have a family. Selective people,
Israel. He came to the water,
his dreams will come to pass only to find out the waters were better life didn't turn out the way
he hoped every voice told him you're a failure. You blew it nothing
good is in your future, but the scripture says
God's calling is irrevocable
You may make mistakes you may
Do some failures, but God does not change his mind.
Calling is still on your lie. He still has
destiny for you to fulfil it,
fall down. You gonna get
back up and get in the game. God has another ingredient. There will turn your bitter waters into sweet. My father shook off the self pity here
see the gods mercy he quit. Listen,
to the condemning voices. He started moving forward.
One day he was at the hospital visiting
one of his church members haste
a beautiful young nurse did he had never seen before it was my mother. He was so taken by her. He would look for any possible reason. He could find to go up that hospital,
I mean he would go visit, your great on course, third, cousins, next door, neighbor. If you ask into, he was almost hoping that some of his church members would get sick, so he could go to the hospital. My mother didn't realize what was going on.
She told her nurse friends that pastor has
Sick is congregation. I've ever seen one day dawned on her. He was
there to see her
story short, they fell in love and got married God.
Steam with four average children, one exceptional town. He went on to have a ministry that Spain,
fifty years touch the world. He was married, my mother, for forty four years. What happened
added another ingredients. It was my mother that turned the bitter waters into sweet. Some of you, like my father, you ve gone through disappointments.
maybe it made poor choices. Now
you're beating yourself up, no passion.
no dreams, you gonna get.
Back in the game it starts,
after giving yourself
receive gods mercy.
listening to than condemning voices that mistake did not stop college plan.
I got the self pity and move forward and you'll see God at another ingredients. David put it this way. I have pitched my tent in the land of hope
my question: where have you pick your tent
do. You know, God has another ingredient. Do you believe that together it's all going to work for you good?
Are you doing like Naomi and letting
change. Your name can,
your stand. Why something has happened now you ve got your tent
pitched in the warm location,
if you want to see gods favor
we want to see God add new ingredients. You gotta pack up your belongings
move out of the land of discouragement,
it's time to leave self pity estates move out.
Nothing good ever happens to me subdivision and come on over to the land of hope, the land of faith, the land, where you know your future when life tries to push today,
situations. It don't understand, don't isolate the traffic.
that's a man. This doesn't taste good. Remember, that's not! The whole recipe
just one ingredient, God.
wouldn't have allowed it unless he had a purpose like the huddled fire. Like my text problem
it's not happen to you. It's happening for you
gonna use it to your advantage
Many of you have been faithful. You pass the test done there.
thing when the wrong thing was happening. You need to get ready. God,
about to add an ingredient
person. You been waiting for back. There
to show up.
problem. This dog duper years ban a breakthrough, Bam vindication that sickness that chronic
and you thought you had to live with them healing ban.
a new beginning or maybe
dream. You been believe import ban
bright ban, the divan connection? I want you to go out expecting some bans this way,
this in France, if you keep your two kids in the land of Pope, God,
promises. You will never be permanently disappointed at just there.
Tom time he's gonna, just the raw ingredients believe and declare together
to all work out for your good in Jesus name. If you receive it, can you say, and then today we never like. The clothes are broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life, when you play with me just say Lord Jesus.
Our repent of vaccines
come into my heart
make you my Lord and your friendship.
pride that simple prayer. We believe you got born again get in a good bible base. Church keep God first place, he's gonna. Take you
places you ve, never dreamed up thing
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