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I like to start with something funny each week. I heard about this lady that died and she found herself standing at the pearly gates.

St. Peter said you can't come in yet. You have to correctly spell a word. She said what word? He said any word. So she spelled the word love. L-O-V-E. Peter said welcome to heaven. Then Peter asked if she would take his place for a moment. He instructed her to just follow the same procedure if anyone else should come up.

Well in a few minutes the lady sees her ex-husband walking up. She can't believe it. She says what are you doing here? He said I just had a heart attack. Did I really make it to heaven? She said not yet. You have to correctly spell a word. He said what word? There was a long pause and she said check us Lavakia.

All right 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 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 the God of acceleration. One thing I've learned is God doesn't always follow a natural timetable. You can be going along, be in your best, living a life that honors him.

And all of a sudden you come into favor to where you are thrust years ahead. What should have taken you five years you accomplished in less than a year.

What took your parents a lifetime to achieve you achieved in a fraction of the time. We are living in a day where God is speeding things up.

I want you to get this down in your spirit. God is going to take you further quicker than you've ever imagined. In your career maybe it should take you 20 years to work your way up to the position you really want.

Or that business should take 20 years to really build up and make it successful. Now you need to get ready. The God of acceleration is about to show up.

He's going to give you breaks that you didn't earn. He's going to move people so you can be promoted. He's going to help your gifts and talents come out to the full.

It's not going to be business as usual. It's going to be business as unusual. You're going to look up and say how did I get to where I am so quickly.

Should have taken me 20 years and here I am five years later. That's the God of acceleration speeding things up, thrust in you years ahead. Maybe in your health you've been told that it's going to take five years to recover from that illness.

Five years of therapy and treatment and taking medicine. Now the good news is God has another timeline and he's saying I made your body. I know how to correct what's wrong.

And if you'll stay in faith I can speed up the process. You're going to get well quicker than you thought. I talked to a gentleman last week that it had a stroke a while back.

He was a young man in his early 50s. He had lost almost total control of his left side. He couldn't move his left arm and he had to drag this left leg. Part of his face was paralyzed.

I asked him about his prognosis and he told through his slurred speech how the doctors had said it would probably take between three and five years of going to therapy five days a week for him to just regain partial control of the left side.

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