Sunday Service || 2019: Marvels, Wonders... Pt. 3 || Dr. Jerry Savelle || Dec 23, 2018 || 11am

[Music] good morning and welcome to heritage of faith we pray that you are blessed and well here are a few highlights of what's going on here at Heritage we wish you a Merry Christmas and pray that you will find yourself in the presence of your friends and family this holiday season we will not have our evening service on Wednesday December 26 we want to honor your time with your family and encourage you to spend time making memories with those that you love have a blessed time and Merry Christmas On January 6 we want to invite you to join us for a night of worship launching into the new year we believe that this will usher in the presence of God and set the precedent of expectation in the new year one body one voice one pursuit Jesus our outreach is growing and by 2023 we will have a team of 500 people sharing the love of Jesus to others in our community as our outreach increases our influence increases so it's each one reaches one you are a carrier of his presence so be a part of 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read a scripture to you in John chapter 1 verse 11 says he came unto his own and his own received him not but as many as received him then gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name do you believe on his name this morning and then that means you are a son of God you are a daughter of God and we have something to rejoice about today I'll tell you he I'm so grateful that he came as our Savior I'm so grateful for further for the fact that he's made us righteous I'm so grateful for the fact that we have victory in Jesus are you ready to worship the Lord this morning we'll give him a shout of praise this morning amen [Music] [Music] or darkness like a five it consumes all my fee and not fair your praise of the well [Music] besides the flood gays [Music] you're [Music] see of darkness darkness it's hard when you came the kindness oh geez three the captain [Music] [Music] we enjoy with date well [Music] [Music] so we'll see yes it will you know my soul will lazier and Tomas my face [Music] see [Music] [Music] jeez [Music] we enjoy with date Oh [Music] [Music] glory to God glory to God we celebrate Jesus he's the king of kings but he's also the king of glory amen show us her glory today Lord you've already showed us a measure of it today for those of us here we're here at 9 but father we know you are ready to out pour even more the windows of heaven being opened over us then we do join we join with the angels we've joined with a great cloud of witnesses rejoicing in Jesus the god of our salvation we honor you we fix our eyes upon you we said our gaze on you bless you lord [Music] to my Jesus lay down his sweet head the stars in the sky look [Music] [Music] maybe never lose some wondered what I did mystified me we be just like a child staring at the beauty of aki-nee [Music] geez maybe never some wonder maybe never lose some wondered what I do mystified me we be just like a child staring at the beauty of Ikey maybe never lose some wonder maybe never lose some wonder why I'm mystified may we be just like a child staring at the Cutie Mikey [Music] maybe never lose [Music] maybe now [Music] mystified me we'd be just like a child staring at the beauty of Ikey maybe I wonder maybe never Jesus [Music] we we beaters were like a charm storing a beauty [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Applause] just worship dinner [Music] [Music] love you [Music] you are Chloe [Music] humor wander my jeez you are beautiful you are [Music] geez come on sing that you are beautiful [Music] see [Music] jeez [Music] you love you [Music] - ah [Music] eg who you are here [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and we will know we will never lose [Music] mr. ha me we'd be just like a child [Music] [Laughter] [Music] hold on of your mind what Jesus P refuses who are avail yourself in greater ways than we've ever known just one more time you give [Music] [Music] [Music] my live chance one more time kiss bless the Lord David said that one of the greatest desires that he had was to dwell in the presence of the Lord to inquire and his temple and to behold the beauty of the Lord he ever behold the beauty of the Lord you'll never be the same the beauty of the Lord represents his greatness His goodness his faithfulness when you get a revelation of just how beautiful our God is you never want to quit again you never want to give up again you'll be willing to stand for as long as it takes amen so just lift your hands and say Lord you are beautiful you're lovely you're faithful you're great think about it for a moment just how great is our God how great is our God nothing is impossible to him can you say Amen come on give me a best shout this hallelujah amen and amen before you seated I want to address my television audience since we're taping again today you see that it's still a Christmas scene so we're actually in our new year our December the 23rd service here at heritage of faith and you're actually seeing this broadcast in February that's why we still have the Christmas decorations up we haven't had Christmas yet and so I just want to let you know why you're seeing the Christmas decorations but you're actually seeing this broadcast in February and we're already into a new year by the time you see this and I believe you are expecting Marvel's Wonders and extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of our God if you are give the Lord in a good shout give the Lord a good show hallelujah all right you can be seated praise God welcome everybody Merry Christmas hallelujah well this is the third service that I'll be sharing with you on the prophetic word the Lord's given me for 2019 and I'm looking forward to sharing with you this morning so either loosen your seatbelt or fasten it one of the other because I believe it's going to be a a great time in the Lord today hallelujah we want to welcome first of all for we get started Karla Porter from Nairobi Kenya your father good hair praise God Darla's been affiliated with this ministry for many many many years and we're always happy to be with her and have her in the service and of course some of the team the church team just came from there not too long ago and they had a marvelous time with all the folks in Nairobi Kenya and looking forward to coming back as soon as I can amen you got your Bibles with you hold him up let me see them all right got them iPhones and iPads again I like to feel of leather amen now I'm grateful for that technology because I don't have to carry a suitcase full of tapes anymore at CDs and all that you know like I used to now I'm just download everything well I don't know how to download but I pay people who know how to do that now just take all my old Oral Roberts and TL losberne and John Osteen and Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland messages from when I first started out have them downloaded so I can listen to them on those long flights praise God but in my hotel room and in my home at home I like to feel the leather I still like holding this Bible amen and you know what by the time these people see this on television I will be celebrating 50 years of ministry [Applause] hallelujah and it has been what I have referred to all these years at futures and faith amen and it has been that adventures in faith all right open your Bibles first of all to Exodus chapter 15 Exodus chapter 15 marvels wonders and extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of our God that's the word the Lord gave me that I'll be preaching about all over the world throughout 2019 and beyond and I want to encourage you to lay hold upon it believe for it mix your faith with it and don't be satisfied for anything less amen look at verse 11 Exodus chapter 15 who is like unto thee O Lord among the gods who is like thee glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders the message translation says who compares with you wonder or King God look at somebody tell them my god is the wonder-working God guess somebody else my God is the wonder-working guy and they'll tell them this he wasn't the wonder-working God he still is the wonder-working God God Himself says I am God and I changed not amen so if he was the wonder-working God in the book of Exodus and we see if we read the book of Exodus there were wonders all through that book and if he was the wonder-working god all the way through the Old Testament and if he was the wonder-working God in the Ministry of Jesus if he was the one to work in God in the book of Acts were the early apostles if he was the one to work in God during all those great outpourings and moods of God that have taken place down through history then he is still the one to working God today can you give the Lord a good shout about that amen now the Bible says in Psalm 40 and verse five many oh Lord our God our that wonderful works which thou has done many are the wonderful works that God has done some 70 7:14 says thou art the God that doest wonders thou art the God that doest wonders and notice that's not past tense he is the God who still does wonders the message translation says no God is like our God here the God who makes things happen I love that look if somebody tell them my God is the God that makes things happen and then some a t95 says the heavens shall praise thy wonders Psalm 96 3 declare his glory among the heathen his wonders among all people and then Psalm 107 verse 8 says oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men and once again since God declares himself as the God who changes not than if he was the one to work in God then he is still the one to work in God can you say then now I've only mentioned some scriptures there in the Old Testament but if you follow the Ministry of Jesus you'll find in Matthew Mark Luke and John the same thing is happening there wonders Marvel's extraordinary manifestations then you get over to the book of Acts and you see the same thing happening there with the early church the early disciples and as I mentioned if you study or have studied or would like to study some time all the outpourings and awakenings and moves of God that have taken place and I've studied them all then you will find that each one of them had marvels wonders and extraordinary manifestations amen and I believe that is on his gender big time in closing out before the appearing of the Lord Jesus amen I've said this before but I want to say it again the last time that I've had conversation with Oral Roberts I asked for other Roberts what is the Lord saying to you what's the Lord said to you recently in a visitation he said oral if you thought you saw signs wonders and miracles under the big tent you haven't seen anything yet son they're coming back big-time big-time Smith Wigglesworth prophesied it a lot of a lot of men and women involved in those early moves of God in not only here in America but around the world they all saw the same thing coming amen so we are on the verge of a mighty mighty outpouring of God the mighty mighty move of God that will involve Marvel's wonders and extraordinary manifestations now the reason being is because it takes more than just good sermons particularly in the world we live in today they want to see something amen now I'm going to keep preaching good sermons if I say yes amen I'm going to keep preaching good sermons but jesus said these signs shall follow them that believe and then it says in mark the sixteenth chapter they went forward preaching everywhere the Lord working with them well when the Lord's working with you then signs wonders and miracles take place said the Lord working with them confirming the word with signs following amen the Bible says that there was a time when Jesus was teaching in a house and the place was packed out nobody else could get in and semaine knew a friend of theirs that was crippled and they wanted to get him in that room in the presence of Jesus they knew if they could get him in there then he would be healed but they couldn't get in when they came to the house the place was packed out people standing even at the edge of the back door people standing apparently in around the windows they couldn't get in but these men were determined that their friend was going to have a miracle so they climbed on top of the roof tore the roof off and lowered the man down and when Jesus saw their faith the Bible says he said he was healed and delivered it was a great wonder a great marvel that took place and and the people even said we have seen strange things today see that's what a marvel is it's a wonder is an extraordinary manifestation of the greatness of God to a lot of people it's strange to others it's wonderful but nevertheless you can only attribute it to God nobody but God but you never say nobody but God amen so God plans to close out this Church age so to speak with marvels wonders and extraordinary manifestation because it is his will that all men be saved he doesn't want anybody going to hell he wants them all saved and if it's going to take the preaching of the word plus signs following then that's what God has on his agenda can you say Amen all right now to experience marvels wonders an extraordinary manifestation of the greatness of our God we're going to have to take the limits off thank you for you do Caesar we're going to have to take the limits off amen you'll see and I'm going to lead you into it in just a few moments that the two primary ways that we limit ourselves and we limit God is by small thinking and negative talking small thinking and negative talking and you need to get rid of both amen if you're going to experience marvels and wonders and extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of God then you're gonna have to stop thinking small quit saying things like that couldn't happen to me that only happens to brother Jerry that only happens to brother Copeland well those things only happen to all Roberts are Billy Graham aren't you a child to God are you a believer then that qualifies you praise God but you know you can be a child of God and a believer as such and still be a small thinker amen you say well I've just never been able to think big well if you get in the word more it will enlarge your capacity amen I mean we all start out you know somewhat being small thinkers I wouldn't able to think as big as I can think now when I first started out you know I before I really launched out into the ministry when I just given my life to the Lord before I'd ever preached my first sermon I couldn't imagine and you need to get rid of that phrase - I couldn't imagine me ever getting out of Shreveport Louisiana and now my ministry has touched the four corners of the earth I've been in 46 different nations I preached the crowds as small as one and I preached the crowds as small as large a hundred thousand people my messages are going around the world the resources I couldn't think like that when I first started out but the more I spent time with God and the more I listened to other people who thought bigger than me and had the opportunity from time to time to be in their presence they enlarged my thinking amen I so appreciate and I've said it many times I so appreciate the relationship I had with Oral Roberts over the years and I noticed something about him almost immediately that if you went to thinking small and talking small around him he just turned his head wouldn't look at you anymore one time I I took him by the chin and turned his face back to me I said are you listening to me he said no I said why not he said you think too small then he turned his head back I had to walk around in front of him for him to look at me he said when you start thinking bigger I'll look at you well you know that was a little embarrassing also it was challenging but before he passed away he looked at me all the time Amen he didn't ever turned his head away from me again praise God as I learned to think bigger amen and then dear Lord if you went to talk at negative around him he just walk off wonder what would happen if we did that with so many in here today if he just came up to us and started talking small and negative and just walk away oh I know what happened I ain't going to that church no more they get mad upset no I love the challenge I love the correction I don't want to stay small I don't want to continue to think small I don't want to continue to talk negative the Bible says a foo will not receive a rebuke amen and I've been reviewed by some of the best but it large me it enabled me to go to another level so if we're going to experience marvels and wonders an extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of our God we're going to have to take the limits off of ourselves and we have to take the limits off God we're going to have to think bigger but you never say think bigger we're going to have to allow our imaginations to soar and to rise to new levels now a lot of people have the idea that our imagination is bad and evil but it's not it's a god-given gift God gave you the ability to imagine now you can use it to think bad evil and even pervert it but you don't have to amen the Bible says casting down imaginations that don't line up with the word of God that's the only imagination we cast down if it doesn't line up with a word of God then cast it down think on the word think on things that are just and lovely and good report you can be selective about what you think be selective about where you let your imagination go amen and your you're imagining something all the time so you might as well to use it in a positive way you know it sometimes you get up in the morning and you imagine yourself failing that day some people imagine themselves getting laid off losing their job then almost they can almost see it happening they can hear the words down in here of what their boss is going to say and then if you don't catch those thoughts down then eventually you start talking them out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks and you just prophesied your own doom amen they still here this morning so we need to think bigger and we need to Alette our imaginations to soar to rise to a new level amen I don't see us in this building very much longer I see a new building a larger building a beautiful building amen we need to make a statement in our community you work people who know how to believe God we're people of faith we're people who think big this doesn't represent what I believe I'm grateful for it I mean I'm thrilled in the way God brought it into our ministry years ago but it doesn't represent what I preach and it's just a matter of time and what I preach is going to match the building and the building is going to match what I preach hallelujah amen are you thinking bigger Justin you thinking bigger amen anybody else in here thinking bigger turn and look around at this building say well building that's been nice but we're not gonna stay here forever amen we're not gonna stay here forever we're gonna turn you into something else amen how they do it yet you're dreaming brother Jerry well if that's what you want to call it yes I am but I'm letting my imagination soar amen and to rise to a new level hallelujah we can have an oasis right out here in the wilderness and you say Amen not only that but but we want to represent to our community and this community is growing I mean they are building all around us now so they need to see not only here what we preach but they need to see the evidence of what we preach praise God can you save in so I want you to go with me let's all go higher but you never say I'm going higher praise God hallelujah hallelujah so stop thinking in terms of your imagination being something evil or bad or even perverted you know once again you can allow it to become that but that's not the way God presented it that's not the way God intended you must remember that when we were born again we were recreated being a new spirit being with the nature of God amen no limits the mind of Christ the presence of the Holy Spirit on the inside of us that should enable us to think bigger and bigger would you agree with that we have the mind of Christ you now have the ability to think God's thoughts you have the ability to imagine like he imagines so don't limit yourself and don't live in him by small thinking and negative talking let's go to Psalm 78 for a moment Psalm 78 if you read Psalm 78 it's it's almost like a history of what God did for the children of Israel prior to entering into the Book of Psalms and it's giving somewhat of a synopsis of all the great things God did for the children of Israel and we'll start out in verse 11 it says and they forgot his works and his wonders that he had showed them marvelous things notice wonders and marvels they forgot his works his wonders that he had showed them marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of xoan and it goes on and talks about from verse 13 to 18 some of those things he did and then in verse 19 after he had done all these wonders all these marvels and they were witnesses to it it says in verse 19 yea they spake against God they said can God furnish a table in the wilderness in other words God had done all these marvels and wonders for them they already knew that he had the ability to do it it's not like they'd never seen God do any marvelous thing or wonderful thing in their lives they'd already seen him do it many many times that caused them to stand in awe and yet every time they had another challenge they started asking the question but can he do this and can he do that notice it says but can he furnish a table in the wilderness behold he smoked the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed can he give bread also can he provide flesh for his people notice after they'd seen all these marvelous things that he had done but every time they had a new challenge every time some new adversity arose they forgot what they'd already seen they forgot what he'd already done just like people today you know in fact I think these people that is referring to their own spring became charismatic because there's people in churches all over the world today that are still asking but can he yeah but can he do this I mean if you've ever experienced a miracle in your life all of us have in some way and most of us many times how many of you know that you know that you know it was God who made no question about it it was God live Jan again have you had any needs since then what do we tend to do forget what he's already done what he's already shown us but can he do this and can he do that and here the Bible says that provoked God they were still thinking small and still talking negative verse 22 says because they believe not in God and trusted not in his salvation they could verse 35 they remembered that God was their rock the high God their Redeemer notice they're kind of back and forth one moment they don't remember anything he's done the next member next moment they remember oh yeah he's our rock that sounds like people today one moment they can't remember a thing that he's done in the next moment oh yeah especially if they get in a service were the anointing is flowing and the word of God's being preached powerfully and they remember oh yeah yeah yeah I remember now boy that was a that was a close one but God brought us through hallelujah but it won't be a week and another challenge arises and they forget what God has already done can you save in we can't keep acting like that and at the same time safe I'm believing for marvels and wonders and extraordinary manifestations are you really that your neighbors say first of all you need to do something bunch of small thinking and then you need to go back to the basics and watch your mouth Haven hallelujah now look at some 78 and notice in verse 40 how often did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert yay they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel they remembered not his hand nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy how he had wrought his signs and Egypt's and his wonders in the field of zone notice they limited God through their small thinking and their negative talk and the Bible says it provoked him in other words he was not pleased with that kind of attitude and I don't think it pleases him now either can you say Amen particularly when you and I are people who have witnessed the miraculous and people that have already experienced marvels and wonders in our lives I could stand up here and tell you for 50 years different marvels and wonders and extraordinary manifestations that Carol and I have experienced not only in our lives personally but in the ministry amen I could it would take a long time to cover all those stories and I don't have time to do it today we've talked about them in the past but I believe if I'm hearing the Spirit of God correctly and I believe I am we ever seen anything yet who compares to our God amen I've learned also this about I wrote this in my notes this morning that most of the time marvels wonders and extraordinary manifestations of his greatness have to do with things not yet seen we haven't seen it yet Paul said I have not seen ear had not heard neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those that love him not only that they they usually pertain to things that haven't been experienced yet things that haven't been seen yet and like job chapter 5 verse 9 which has become one of my favorite verses now where God says that he he does unexpected things unexpected things and there's no in the message sensation says there's no end to his surprises I love that there's no end to God's surprises I want to challenge you to get up every morning and expect surprises well brother Jerry if it's a surprise why would I expect it you can expect surprises it just surprised you and how God makes it happen I'm not surprised that God does this but I'm always surprised at how he goes about making it happen I don't have a clue how he's going to do it particularly in the way of financial blessings I don't have a clue how God is going to make this happen for me but I'm not surprised that he'll do it because he's the God of surprises he's the god of wonders he's the God of marvels he's the God of extraordinary manifestations so I'm not surprised that God does it but I'm always surprised at how he goes about it or who he uses amen that's us that's the surprise part but I get up every day expecting God to surprise me amen you know one day and I've mentioned this before but one day I got a call from a man he said can you come to my office I said well yeah but I haven't I said is it the office that your father used to have he said yes I said well I haven't been over there a long time and I know you know pretty much where it is but go ahead and tell me so I make sure I'm going in the right direction so he told me and it was where I thought it was now got over there and he's a cowboy I mean he got the boots he got the belt then he got to head and he had his feet propped up on his desk leaning back in his recliner chair you know and when I walked in and he got up and leaned over the desk to shake hands with me then he called his wife in the office and I don't have a clue what he wants he just said can you come to the office today I said yeah I'm home so I'll I'll be there so I get over there and he goes through the the greeting and then he pushes this envelope across the desk in front of me he said I just wanted to see how you react to what's in that envelope that's that okay open the envelope here's a million dollar check a million dollar check and I heard God say surprise now it didn't surprise me because I've been confessing that for years and years and years is that right Joe Joe's been with me for 38 39 years staff in this organization that have been there that long they've heard me say those things I've been saying it ever since I launched out into this ministry that one day somebody is going to give this ministry a million dollars all at one time not had people over a period of years if you added up everything they've given it totaled over a million dollars but nobody had ever done it at one time 1 million dollars at one time and he looked at me when I opened that and he saw that big smile come on my face he said are you surprised I said well no sir I'm not surprised but I am surprised at who God used to do it amen amen because this man who is a successful businessman his father was a successful businessman but after his father passed away and he became the you know the the new CEO of the company and the thing had started going downhill even before his father passed away and he told me about two years before this all happened that I've been reading your book on from restoration I mean from devastation to restoration he said I've read it three times now I read it every morning I've read it three times and I believe God is going to restore our family business and I believe he's going to restore our finances and he said and when he does and he said just like you say not if he does but when he does he said you just count on it I'm gonna bless you ministry what I've heard people say that you know for years and years and if everybody that's ever said I'm really gonna bless your ministry if they all came through I wouldn't have to receive another offering till mid millennium but not everybody comes through you know but he he said you know me you knew my dad and we're people of integrity and it's gonna happen amen well I didn't know how much he was talking about he didn't say but he just said we're gonna bless your ministry and when that check came across that desk and I laid my hands on it I heard the Lord say it surprised and he wasn't referring to that he made it happen he was referring to how he made it happen and who he used to make it happen amen because I did not I was not surprised that it happened when you've been saying for nearly 50 years somebody's gonna do this someday when it happens it doesn't surprise you unless you didn't believe what you were saying all those years I believed what I was saying all those years amen and I called Carolyn and told her and then I called the office and I said I want to have a staff meeting as soon as I get back and some of the ladies in the finance department and and opens the mail and handles all that I didn't know it at the time but they were saying in the accounting department that they were going to be the one who opened the envelope that had the million dollar check in it and somebody else said no I'm the ones going to open that envelope and I didn't know that was going on back there but thank God it was man they had their faith they were believing every morning when they opened a mouth I'm gonna be the one who opens that envelope this got two million dollar check in it hallelujah I like staff doing that praise God amen I said well let's have a staff meeting so I went in there and I told him about what happened and I said and look what happened today and I showed him that million dollar check they all shouted and praised God and I said come walk by it and look at it look at it closely because this will be the first of many notice I'm already thinking bigger I said I'm already thinking bigger well has it happened yet no hadn't hadn't got my second million dollar check yet honey but but he's the God of marvels he's the god of wonders he's the God who does extraordinary things can you say Amen hallelujah Amen so get rid of words like that it would never happen to me somebody was thinking that right now that could never happen to me well if you don't change your thinking and change your confession then it won't happen to you and if you're saying that only happens with people like brother Jarek you just keep saying that I'm gonna get my faith in agreement with you praise God hallelujah amen small thinking negative talking quit saying can he your declaration should be he can he can moved you never say he can do this and then say and he will do this as I'm stretching my faith not thinking negative anymore hallelujah now here it shows by them asking can he do this and can he do that they were still thinking small and they were still talking negative and they robbed themselves of experiencing more and more marvels wonders and extraordinary manifestations amen don't don't side up with the devil you've already got an enemy why would you want to join efforts with him he's the one who never wants it to happen to you don't join efforts with him amen quit saying can he and start proclaiming boldly he can tell us I'm on it I'm not talking negative anymore and I'm through thinking small and lift your hands and say now lord help me hey hallelujah now let's go to Genesis chapter 15 are you receiving Genesis chapter 15 and you're familiar with this story of Abraham and Sarah and God had told them they would have a child Sarah would conceive even though it was impossible for her to conceive her womb was dead they're old up in age now and it was impossible and so in fact when Sarah heard this she laughed and God said wherefore did you laugh and he said nothing is impossible without shadow amen now in Genesis 15 5 God was helping Abraham out because in the natural this was impossible and look at verse 5 God brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the Stars if they'll be able to number them and he said unto him so shall thy seed be notice God takes him outside one evening and tells him to look toward the heavens look up in the sky tell me how many stars you see count them if you can do that then you will be able to tell me how many your seat will be because that's how many your seat will be now notice God didn't take Abraham out there and say look directly in front of you don't look to either side and count how many stars you can see just directly in front of you well that still would have been a large number but it was God who was enlarging his capacity it was God who encouraged him to think bigger there's nothing wrong with thinking bigger nothing wrong with imagining bigger it's nothing wrong with you seeing yourself out of debt nothing wrong with you seeing yourself having plenty left over after all the bills are paid there's nothing wrong with you seeing yourself not having to use your finances own notes anymore nothing wrong with you seeing yourself being able to be the giver that you've always wanted to be enlarging your gifts and blessing more ministries and blessing individuals amen nothing wrong with that at all in fact it's like God taken you by the hand and taking you out in your front yard and say look into the heavens tell me how many stars you see number them and if you could possibly number them all then he'd say now that's how big you should be thinking notice it was God who initiated this not Abraham Abraham didn't go out there and say I'm gonna have as many seed as I can count stars no God took him by the hand and took him out and said look up tell me how many stars you see count them if you can give me that number then that's how many seed you will have your offspring hallelujah so it was God who is encouraging Abraham to think bigger amen I remember when I first moved here I'd been working for brother Copeland just a short time and he had his first airplane that he believed God for debt-free was a little Cessna skylane just a little single-engine airplane and we got in it one day he told me he said listen let's go somewhere meet me out at Oak Grove Airport so we went out to Oak Grove Airport and I didn't have a clue where we were going and we got in the plane and and he took off and we went on the north side of Fort Worth now III didn't know much about the north side of forward because I just moved here and so he flew over to the north side of Fort Worth and I saw a runway off to the left and he had it banked and I could see that runway and he came around and he was going he he looked like he was on final approach and was going to land or at least through a touch-and-go but there were cattle on the runway this was all farmland you know guy that owned it had cattle out there so brother Copeland flew over the runway low to scatter the cattle and then we flew back around and the cattle were off the runway now and so he did a touch-and-go he touched down and then he turned to me and he said you hear me saying it one day I'm gonna own this place I'm gonna build my headquarters here and then we took off and then we came back around and he touched down again he said you hear me saying it one day I own this place I'm gonna build my headquarters here and we took off and we came back around the third time and he touched down you hear me saying it one day I'm going to own this place I'm gonna build my headquarters here and we took off now I happen to know that brother Copeland probably didn't have two quarters to rub together at that time I mean he he he'd only been in the ministry about three years now and he didn't have the money to buy that place but he was saying and every time he touched down he said it and he was letting his imagine solar now didn't happen in a month or a year or a few years I mean I was working for him when we had that little office that actually had been his father's insurance office and and brother aw köppen his daddy just gave him some space in there he gave him an office they used the same secretary and my office when I moved here to go to work with him my office was the hallway to the bathroom little tiny building over on Berry Street and I was running doing the tapes and all that back then reel-to-reel tapes and I had built some shelves all the way along the length of that hallway so I could put the duplicators and the and the tape recorders and all that on there and if anybody had to go the bathroom I had to leave my office because it wasn't wide enough for them to get past me if I was working tapes gerrae need to go the bathroom so I walk out they go the bathroom then when they got out I'd go back to work now this is a big vision and if you if you based it on what you could see at that present time you would think this boy needs help no way in the natural could he own all that acreage and build headquarters there when we're a little office with four employees and have them work for his daddy too back then when he said we gonna do this we gonna do that I was we Savelle but he kept believing and kept sowing seed toward it and it wasn't too long that we wind up moving into a bigger office out in white settlement bigger office you know I had my own office now in the tape production area you know and then we as we say where I grew up Wien tall cotton now you know and there's bigger office and it wasn't long after that he got the place or own boat Street and it was about twice the size of this office not only that but he's flying a bigger better airplane now and before I left they had moved out to Arlington well after I left they moved to Arlington to that old country club that became their office and I took over eventually the office on Boat Street and everything's growing everything's expanding the vision seems to be coming to pass not overnight not in a matter of a few years amen but he wouldn't let go of the vision you got to get a vision of marvels and wonders and extraordinary manifestations if you keep saying nothing like that ever happens to me then it won't it won't but he wouldn't let go of it and I remember the day that he met with the people and bought that piece of property I said brother Copeland you remember the day we come out here in that little sky Lang and did them touching goes and he said yeah I remember that you were with me I'd forgotten you with me and I touched down three different times they kept saying one of these days I'm gonna own this piece of property won't build my headquarters here I said oh I'll never forget it I mean that was big to me and then to see it come to pass oh that does something for you faith can you say Amen don't fuss with people get angry with people whose faith is at a greater level than yours hook up with them Amen hook up with them praise God they'll pull you up to their level yeah I told the story one time about I never played golf before and this guy wanted me to play golf with him I don't know anything about golf and it we went out there cuz he just kept begging me to go and we went out there and I was horrible I was hitting trees as you know I in the water you know top it and go about three feet in front of me you knowin and and he was pretty good golfer you know and and it was lousy man I don't even I don't even remember I don't want to remember my score people hollering behind get off the course you holding up everybody you know and so he begged me to go one more time so I went one more time with him now I didn't do any better well one of my board of directors he left Fort Worden he moved back to Big Spring Texas and he was a great golfer and he he was like the clubhouse pro in Big Spring and so I went out there to preach it and Big Spring and he said let's go play golf you don't have anything to do tomorrow I said Joe I don't play golf he said why not I said well if you had been there when I played golf you would know why not he said well was the guy you played with any good I said well he was better than me he said well how do you think you would do if he played with someone who's really good I said I'd be embarrassed he said why don't you think of it like this if you play with someone who knows what they're doing and can show you what to do don't you think it might take your game to another level I said yeah let's go play golf and he did I mean I had played a whole lot better at that time wasn't anything to brag about but I played a whole lot better and then we went another time and with this guy and I my game improved I played a whole lot better once again nothing to brag about but uh he took me to another level just being around somebody who knew what they were doing if you're struggling with your faith get around people who know what they're doing [Applause] get in a faith environment get in a no-limits mentality environment don't get upset with people who think bigger than you can he say Amen if you want marvels and wonders and extraordinary manifestations so God was endeavoring to enlarge Abraham's capacity he was wanting to enlarge Abraham's vision and once again remember it was God who initiated this God didn't get on to Abraham after he had this ability to think bigger he did get on to him and call him high-minded he's the one who initiated it so God doesn't mind you thinking big he just wants you to include him in your plans phrase God and then give him all the credit when it comes to pass and he say Amen hallelujah now let me close it with this what exactly are wonders something unfamiliar that is unable to be explained other than it was something only God could make happen something unfamiliar that is unable to be explained other than it was something only God could make happen what are Marvel's that which arrests the attention of a person and causes them to pause and to spend in all and with admiration and amazement and once again knowing that only God could have made this happen it arrests the attention of a person and causes them to pause and to spend with awe and with admiration and amazement and then what are extraordinary manifestations remarkable uncommon rare special and exceeding the norma amen i'll give you that again extraordinary manifestation of the greatness of our God they are remarkable uncommon rare special and exceeding the norm Acts chapter 19 verse 11 says and God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul the message translation says things that were quite out of the ordinary amen things that were quite out of the ordinary now this this is my next to last closing I love closing sometimes I do it four or five times now here's what I want to challenge you with how we talked about thinking bigger let your imagination soar but here's what you do on a daily basis number one think about it all the time think about it all the time proverbs chapter 23 and verse 7 for as he thinketh in his heart so is he what do you choose to think about the most what you dwell on the most is what will eventually take place in your life you become what you think about the most I've heard it said and I've used it many times your life tends to go in the direction of your most dominant thoughts amen proverbs 4:23 from the good news translation be careful how you think your life is shaped by your thoughts your life is shaped by your thoughts so think about marvels wonders and extraordinary manifestations amen that's the way we did all through 2018 I mean every time I got up the moment my eyes were opened I'd say Lord show me your glory show me your glory today manifestations of your presence your power and your good I thought about it all the time in fact when we'd get ready to go somewhere you know Joe with me or whoever was with me we get out to the airport out here Spinks and before we got on the plane Lord show us your glory today after we took off Lord show us your glory today sometimes we just be carrying on a conversation about something else and then they just come out of us lord show us your glory today get over in those meetings Lord show us your glory in these meetings tonight we thought about it all the time and consequently number two we decreed it all the time amen don't just talk about it in church when you walk out of here think about Marvel's Wonders extraordinary manifestations who knows you could be at lunch today and a total stranger buy your lunch and the waitress has been told we're not supposed to tell who did it if that's never happened to you before then you've already had your first Norval it's not even 2019 yet Amen if it makes you say I wonder who did that that's a wonder amen amen think about it now don't go around each table said are you supposed to buy a hot meal No remember you can only attribute it to God you don't make it happen let God be God he's good at this so get up every day thinking on it then number two decree it every day second Corinthians chapter four verse thirteen and several times during the course of the day we having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believe and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak so notice if you truly believe something you're going to talk it you can't help talking it amen if it's truly in your heart and you truly believe it you're not gonna be able to stop it from coming out of your mouth I believe therefore have I spoken now you're you're speaking whatever you believe all the time good or bad if you go around saying nothing like that ever happens to me that's what you believe we just found out what's in your heart amen and then number three expect it every day expect it every day expecting implies that you're looking forward to it and usually with excitement you know little kids say they get excited I mean they're already excited about Christmas now realize for the TV audits it's already past but we haven't had it yet and and I know when I was a kid you did too man when it was just about Christmas I could hardly wait not only ever my birthday was Christmas Eve and I got robbed that don't happen anymore I demand two different presents that are not even related to each other tomorrow I'll be 72 praise God amen and but my mom she'd buy me the pants for my birthday and the shirt for Christmas my dad would buy me a two box from a birthday and the tools for Christmas you know but now I demand two different presents that are non related but do you get up expecting you know you get up expecting how many of you I mean you were told when you're a kid there was a Santa Claus I saw him in the sleigh in the sky at my grandmother's home I swear to this day I saw him we were all at Grandma's house and Joe and all the cousins we were all there and and grandma's house was so small with all this gang they put quilts on the floor everywhere you had to step over people to get anywhere you know and me and Joe and Donnie we were on a quilt and Grandma and Grandpa's bedroom and his up against the window and everybody's asleep in there I got up now raised that window shade I saw Santa Claus and that's in that sleigh with Rudolph at the front you'll never convince me I didn't see that and I I couldn't sleep anymore because I I couldn't wait to see what he brought me you know what he brought me he left it on the front porch a bicycle a JC Higgins bicycle from Sears & Roebuck but my mom and dad bought everything from Sears it broke everything they charged it all for Christmas took him all year to pay it off then they started all over again next Christmas I swore I'd never own Sears Roebuck a dime in my life because I saw my dad paid Sears & Roebuck all his life I said I will never OC Roebuck I kept my word I never owed Sears Roebuck I would everybody else but never Caesar but I know you know Santa Claus wasn't real but nevertheless the expectancy just the thought of him being real well God's real this is not a thought this is not a fantasy God is real and he's the wonder-working God amen so you should get up every morning thinking this go to bed with it on your mind marvels wonders extraordinary manifestations amen and then think about how in the world do you suppose God will do this ok God I'm not gonna think that any more you're God you're the god of wonders you're the God of surprises I'll leave that in your capable hands but I'm expecting it hallelujah get up talking it expect it amen Psalm 63 2 or 62 5 brother my soul wait thou only upon God for my expectation is from him and then verse 6 David goes on to say I shall not be moved I'm not going to be moved and what I'm expecting if it doesn't happen to anybody else that doesn't that does not move me it's gonna happen to me praise God because I'm saying it I'm decree it I'm thinking it I'm talking it I'm expecting it I'm believing it amen so I want it to happen to everybody but if it doesn't happen to anybody else it will happen to me hallelujah glory to God proverbs 23 18 says for surely there is an end and thine expectations shall not be cut off the message says you won't be left with an armload of nothing if you keep expecting that you won't end up with an armload of nothing can you say then right here's my last clothes I heard this this morning while I was preparing for the service that some of the first and foremost marvels wonders and extraordinary manifestations that you and I are going to experience as we enter into 2019 our financial breakthroughs and restoration financial breakthroughs and restoration that will cause others to stand in awe at the extraordinary workings of our crowd amen financial breakthroughs and restoration amen the the book of Acts says that heaven holds back Jesus retains him until the days of restitution or restoration have been fulfilled in other words one of the great marvels that will take place before the appearing of Jesus will be the restoration of everything Satan has stolen from us hallelujah everything Satan has stolen from us how many of you are ready to get it back praise God well wouldn't that require a marvel a Wonder and extraordinary manifestation I mean how can God do that he's God he's the god of wonders amen financial breakthroughs how maybe you could use a financial breakthrough I want you to and I want to encourage you that right here at the beginning of this new year that you get up every day thinking today is my blessing day today is my receiving day today is my surprise day today is my day for Marvel's wonders and extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of my god and I'm envisioning financial breakthroughs and restoration and get up saying it every day don't give up on it praise God can you say Amen hallelujah I want to pray that over all of you this morning and I want to hear the testimony when it happens not if when it happens maybe somebody tell them it's just a matter of time it will happen and I will give the testimony I will glorify God how they do if you believe that give the Lord a good shout Wednesday amen now take the limitations off don't say well the only way I could see this possibly happening is I'd have to get a raise on the job don't limit God to that you know God got all over me a couple of days ago we were in Canada and it was doing this week-long meeting kind of fabulous meeting and I'd been saying that my next airplane would probably come like all the previous airplanes came and I said brother Copeland has always believed for the money and then paid cash for the airplane with me God's given me the airplane and there was no exchange of funds and so I just said in my mind I'm thinking the next one's gonna come the same way the other ones came and the Lord corrected me he said son all your airplanes didn't come that way I thought back on it there was two of them that there was an exchange in funds he said no you're limiting me about going around thinking and saying that it's going to come the way all the others came you don't know that it's gonna come all you're required to do is to believe I can do it and I will but let me choose pal amen I said Lord I just stand corrected I'm taking the limits off you however you want to do this amen however you want to do this I'm putting the ball in your court amen some of you need to do that too don't limit God to the way he's done it before because his ways can't be numbered that means that you couldn't dream up in a thousand years all the ways that God can provide this for you amen so take the limits off and if you are believing right now for financial breakthroughs and restoration stand to your feet praise God hallelujah praise God amen look at somebody saying I am taking the limits off however Agard wants to do this I'm gonna allow him to be God he wants to surprise me I'm open to surprises however he wants to do it he's God I believe he can do it I believe he will do it I'm expecting it and because I'm expecting it I'm already excited about it show some excitement Halliday glory glory glory amen Father in the name of Jesus I stretch out my hands over all the people in this congregation everybody that's watching by television I pray for Marvel's wonders and extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of our God especially in the area of financial breakthroughs and restoration we're expecting it and we're shouting about it in advance I do another shout hallelujah amen and amen praise God praise God Vic come up here for a moment stand right there you're about to see a marvel a wonder an extraordinary manifestation of the greatness of your God tony has something to say to you back in June of this past year I was praying and I'm gonna cut the story because it's kind of long story but I was blessed with something that was given to me several years ago that I have made a commitment to God that I would not do or receive it unless it was given to me and the person that gave it to me is very dear and precious to me it was dr. Seville and so I was praying and I heard this in my voice prepare the bike to give it away now you have to understand and if you know anytime someone gives you something you appreciate but when someone is dear is this man is to me gives me something I told the devil you know lost your mind well in July I was on a trip and Vic's name came up to me and the Lord said that's who he's gonna give this bike I said God you're gonna have to make this clear Vic and I were having a conversation probably a month ago maybe maybe a little over a month ago and big says man I wish I had a bike say I'm ready to ride so I want to say to you [Music] [Applause] glory to God amen congratulations congratulations amen now you may not be particularly interested in a motorcycle but I if I were you I would say a loud I'm next say it again I'm next I'm next four marbles wonders extraordinary manifestations I'm next and give the Lord another shout [Applause] allelujah you received that this morning man what a great word now and the first service of car was given away and the second service the motorcycle was given away so amen good good be seated just for a moment we're gonna receive tithes and offerings and you know dr. Saul was talking about increasing your vision and increasing your imagination it was a number of years ago where you know the Lord was speaking to to me about the church and this was in 2013 2013 and just praying over the future of where we were going and just expanding vision and the Lord said said said by 2023 you'll be two thousand people attending in a new facility in a next door in our new facility by 2023 we need 2,000 people and and he kept speaking there by 2023 you'd be 2,000 people and next door in your new facility and so it was a couple years before I actually started talking about that to other people or even really talking to the staff about it but just continuing to cultivate and in putting to work with the Lord was speaking to me and continuing to say it and as that began to work as that began to grow in our hearts it was more and more it was like I could we could see it we could see it you know and that's what it is about about vision and when you get a word from God on certain things that vision continues to cultivate in your heart and it gets bigger and bigger and bigger until all sudden it starts affecting your decision infecting your choices you know you know for us you know this is actually the anniversary of two months ago we started going to two services you know we've been you know 95 percent hundred percent full for a while and it was like we knew we had to make that decision because it was the that short the next step we had to take and sometimes that's how vision is it's is you meditate on it and you think about it and you grow in your heart and the next thing okay well that's the next step and then that's the next step and then that's the next step and the next thing you know you're walking in the fulfillment of what God has said and what God's spoken but also when the Lord this was all happening years ago the Lord spoke something to our hearts and he said Justin do you want me to do something uncommon within heritage of faith I said yeah I want you to do something on calculus do you want me to do something uncommon in your personal lives I said yeah and he said I want you to do something this was this was October before you know towards the end of the year this was this was a number of years ago five five six years ago and he said he said I want you to take all your salary you you and your wife's salary and I want you to sow it in the month of January I was like and I'm not saying this for you to Pat us on the back or anything this is this is all about this is all about faith it's all about expanding your vision but the Lord stretched us see you wouldn't do something uncommon you know what then then I'm gonna ask you to do something uncommon and so we you know he gave us time to prepare because we had someone in college we had we had different things going on we had financial responsibilities there's things you still have to pay you know and so here in christmas is coming up so we had to make preparations there's preparations that we had to do going in to that next year in doing what the Lord asks us to do so so I want to encourage you open your heart for the Lord to prepare your heart for the next season in your life and it's and we did things that we were the Lord was directing us to do but you know we went ahead and did that and since that time not only we've seen things our own personal lives but we also know that was that was a seed that was sown for 2,000 people by 2023 we it wasn't something that we believe that where God has taken this church what God is doing within our lives he had 2,000 people by 2023 a team of 500 going out every month and serving the needs of the community every week we say these things as a sec why and it's in us and we see it we don't necessarily see it but we see it and the next thing you know the Lord will start speaking about what - so we're to give what to do what steps to take on how to fulfill that how to walk it out amen so as you're preparing to give today you know what is God directing this next year for you what is Marvel's wonders an extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of God so towards that in your life so towards the the imaginations and things that God has placed in your heart amen amen you ready to give let's declare the word over our giving today there's three ways to give but listen it's online text to give eight four three two one there's envelope in the seatback million starts with an M so you do that so let's let's declare the let's declare the word over our finances today father in the name of Jesus I speak your word over my finances today I choose to worship you with my tithes in my offerings I am thankful for your provisions in my life and I am grateful for the promises of prosperity that are mine as a child of God and as a giver I live under an open heaven the blessing of God is working on my behalf poverty is a thing of the past in everything I sent my hand to prospers because of the blessing in my life I receive jobs and better jobs I receive raises and bonuses benefits sales and commissions because of the blessing bills are paid off and debts are demolished all of my accounts are flourishing and I can give liberally to every good work I possess the wisdom of God to steward my finances in a way which which this world is not familiar according to Psalms 84 I place my trust in you and I am blessed you are the Sun and shield around me you give grace and glory you withhold nothing from me I am thankful that I'm a child of God and I am favored by you give a shout of praise amen uh sure you're gonna receive the offering and while they're doing that real quick have a couple things they want to do before we close out service but first off I want to I want to thank Wayne and Rose if you could stand to your feet and Joseph okay he had to go to the detention center to minister but they were over our angel tree this year and what an amazing job I appreciate them for everything they did that time they devoted to it going out and distributing gifts and also I want to applaud you guys as a church we we were able to be a blessing to between 60 and 70 kids this holiday season as a church and what that represents is what you had a part in sewing is about anywhere for about fifty five hundred dollars that you had in part in sewing and being a blessing to children within our church and also those that are associated with people in our church so give yourselves a hand for being a blessing to people in and in this time of need during this holiday season now also there's you know it's a big day tomorrow but it's dr. Seville's birthday so stand to your feet dr. Savelle we want to we want to wish you happy birthday from us as a church [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Music] we have on behalf of the church we want to say happy birthday we thank you that we have the best founding pastors the best apostolic leadership and we're so grateful that we get to follow you as you follow Christ thank you for your example thank for your life of faith your life in the word thank you for continuing to stir our hearts with greater expectations and greater faith and we're believing that the best is yet to come we're believing that Jerry Savelle ministries and heritage of faith 2019 will be marked by Marvel's wonders and extraordinary manifestations of the greatness of our God we love you and thank you for being you [Applause] now I'm gonna have you be seated one more time one more time all right now this past Sunday we had a Christmas celebration and they did a song when they closed out and we thought it'd be fitting as just a a celebration for us saying merry Christmas to you and when the song is over you all you all will be dismissed we love you all Merry Christmas [Music] [Music] let [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Sun Dec 23 2018