Hi, this is Joel in Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this mother in one Sunday morning. She went in her son's room and said, son, wake up. It's time to go to church.

He said, no, mom, I'm not going to go to church today. She said, why not? He said, I'll give you two good reasons. Number one, I don't like the people and number two, they don't like me.

She said, all right, I'll give you two better reasons why you should go. Number one, you're 49 years old and number two, you're the pastor.

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 high time. When we've been believing for our dreams to come to pass for a long time or problems to turn around and we don't see anything happening, we're not making progress, we're not getting good breaks.

It's easy to lose our passion and not expect things to change. It's been that way so long we start accepting it. I'll never get well, I'll never break this addiction, I'll never accomplish my goals, I tried, I prayed, I believe, but it didn't work out.

That may have been true in the past, but I believe you are entering into a new season. The scripture says, now is the high time to wake up out of your sleep. For you are near to your salvation then when you first believe.

When God first put the promises in your heart, you were excited, you told people what you were going to do, but now it's been months, maybe years, it hasn't turned out the way you had planned. You don't think it's ever going to happen. God is saying you are closer now to seeing it come to pass than you've ever been.

You're coming in to a high time, high time is when things suddenly change in your favor. High time is when blessings chase you down. You don't have to go after them, they come after you.

High time is when your healing shows up, you meet the right person, you break the addiction, God makes things happen that you couldn't make happen.

Now if you're going to see this high time, there's something you have to do, wake up out of your sleep. That means get your passion back. Start believing again, start expecting things to change, start talking like it's going to happen.

You can't sleep through your high time and see God's favor. You can't be complacent and step into the fullness of what God has in store. The amplified version says it's a critical time. It stresses the importance of the season.

It's saying don't take it lightly, don't dismiss it and say, oh this isn't for me today. If you don't stir your faith up, you can miss the new things God wants to do.

What you're believing for is not way off in the distance is close. It's at hand. It could happen today. Live with this expectancy. There has to be an anticipation in your spirit that today could be my day.

Not one day in the sweet bind by I'll be blessed. One day I'll be free from these problems. One day Joel, I'll walk on streets of gold, won't have to deal with these bills. The problem with the one day mentality is you will miss what God wants to do today.

We're not going to need favor in the sweet bind by when we get to heaven. We're not going to have any problems. God wants to give you favor right here right now. The prophet Joel said wake up the mighty men. Wake up the mighty women.

My message today is very simple wake up. Get your passion back. Get your hopes up. You are closer to meeting the right person than you've ever been. You are closer to seeing your health turn around than you've ever been.

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