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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, but I'd 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. Something unusual, out of the ordinary you couldn't plan. It wasn't in your logic. We think natural, but God is supernatural. There are things stored up for you right now. When God releases, it's going to boggle your mind. Blessings that have your name on it. Healing, divine connections, businesses, books, movies. Things you never saw coming wasn't on your radar. It's going to be unusual, out of the ordinary, something that you've never imagined see Ordinary favor is when you get the promotion you deserved. You worked hard, you were faithful, you're next in line. But uncommon favor is when God catapults you ahead. He gives you a position that you didn't see coming. You weren't qualified, you didn't have the experience. But suddenly you're at a level you never dreamed. Ordinary favor is when you pay your house off after 30 years. God sustains you, provides, and we're grateful. But uncommon favor is when you come into explosive blessings, abundance that you never saw coming. You pay it off in a fraction of the time. Ordinary favor is when you're able to deal with the sickness and handle the addiction. Learn to live with it. Uncommon favor is when God sets you free, turns your health around, defies the odds. And yes, we're thankful for ordinary favor. God sustaining us. We don't take that for granted. But I want you to get ready for uncommon favor. God's about to show out in your life. You're coming into a year of uncommon promotions, opportunities chasing you down. Uncommon influence, new levels of leadership and respect. Uncommon wisdom, ideas, creativity that you've never had. Uncommon healing, vitality and strength like when you were young. 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. You're going to think, how did you accomplish that dream? How did you beat that cancer? How did your child get back on course? How did 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 began 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, where to fish. This wasn't the right time. They were too close to the soar. 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, 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 had been praying all night and asking God to do a miracle. And an angel showed up in the prison. Peter up and the doors opened of their own accord. And Peter walked out a free man. 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. 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 is taking you, 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. Think, 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, Joy, 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. 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 prisoners. 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. So, God, I'm asking you to make a way, even though I don't see a way. A couple hours later, he got a phone call from the sheriff. He works with local law enforcement on different projects. The sheriff said, there's an 18 wheeler that's turned over on the freeway. Can you bring some of your men to help us clean up? They got there and there were tens of thousands of potatoes all over the freeway. The sheriff said, you pick them up and they're all yours. They had potatoes for two years. God has unusual, uncommon ways to meet your needs. But that man thought that surely God would send someone to give a gift so he could buy the food. Or maybe the grocery store would have leftover supplies, maybe a restaurant would call. But God is going to do things out of the ordinary. Things you can't calculate. The reason we get discouraged is we're trying to figure out how God's going to do it. We don't see a way. Joel, the medical report's not good. Here's how much I make. If I save up for 420 years, I'll still be in debt. Can I encourage you? God has something coming that you can't see. Uncommon favor is favor that leaves you astonished, awestruck. Something you never imagined. The beauty is you don't have to make this happen. Strive, manipulate. That's going to cause you to get frustrated where you're at. Leave it in God's hands. He's already lined up your uncommon moments. Uncommon favor. Potatoes on a highway. Uncommon increase. Coins in the fish's mouth. Uncommon opportunity. Having church in a former basketball arena. Uncommon healing. My mother still alive 44 years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. God has things that are out of the ordinary that you can't plan. Blessings you haven't seen, heard or imagined. Acts 7 says that God gave Joseph unusual wisdom. He had an incredible mind for business and entrepreneurship. He was skilled in leadership, economics and finances. So much so that the Pharaoh put him in charge of all the affairs of Egypt. I declare that God is going to give you unusual wisdom. Uncommon understanding, ingenuity and ideas. Creativity that will cause you to stand out, to be a leader in your field, to make a difference for the kingdom. You have seeds of greatness on the inside. God didn't create you to be average, but to be outstanding. The scripture says God gave Mary uncommon favor to conceive and give birth to the Messiah. Mary could have never planned that no one had ever had a baby. Without a man. That wasn't possible. But when God puts a dream in your heart, he will give you the favor you need to bring it to pass. And sure there'll be times that what you're facing looks impossible. There's no way in the natural. Nothing more you can do. That's when God will step in with uncommon favor. Something you couldn't plan. Talent that you didn't know you had. A door supernaturally opens or the right person tracks you down. Now quit worrying about how it's going to happen and losing sleep over what you don't have. How the odds are against you. One touch of God's favor will turn any situation around. The reason it looks impossible is because what God has coming is uncommon. You haven't seen this favor before. It's out of the ordinary. It's going to catapult you ahead. Acts 19 says God did unusual miracles in the life of Paul. Seems like every miracle is amazing, but how about unusual miracles? It's significant that this happened in Paul's life. You remember Paul started off as a man named Saul. He hated believers. He was the biggest Threat to the church. He went around arresting Christians and having them put in prison. You would think if anyone was too far gone, it would have been Paul. But God has uncommon mercies. People that we would write off think they're too far off course, too wild, too dishonest. God never gives up on us. That relative you think is too lost, too sarcastic, too addicted. You don't know what God has coming. Uncommon favor. No, they don't deserve it. They chose to go down the wrong path. But the scripture says God, who is rich in mercy, could have said he's rich in possessions. He owns it all. Rich in knowledge, he knows everything. Rich in power. He controls the universe. But it describes him as rich in mercy. While Saul was breathing out threats against the church, a bright light shined down from heaven, knocked him off his animal. That moment, he was supernaturally converted. He became the apostle Paul that wrote almost half of the New Testament. The scripture calls this an unusual miracle. Anyone that knew Saul back then could have never calculated this, never reasoned it out, no sign he was going to change. But God, who is rich in mercy. Maybe you feel kind of like Saul. You're not where you should be in life. You think you've made too many mistakes. No. The mercy of God is bigger than anything you've done. He's calling out to you today, saying, come home. Get back on course. We need you in the family. We are better together. You have something that makes us stronger. Or perhaps you have a loved one that's off course and doesn't seem like they'll ever get back on track. No. They may run, but like with Saul, they cannot hide. Isaiah said, the arm of the Lord is not too short, that it cannot save. God is going to reach down in his uncommon favor and rescue your child, protect your loved one and bring them into their purpose. As for you and your house, you will serve the Lord. A man called our SiriusXM program, and he'd been addicted to drugs for many years. He'd gone to rehab 15 times with no lasting success and was very down on himself. One Sunday morning, he went to the.