Just when you think you’re as far from what you need as you can get, God can change things. Are you in a desert financially, spiritually or emotionally? Are you sitting back, questioning the next move you feel God is calling you to make? You’re not the first person to be in doubt. But in this message we see God’s faithfulness come through again and again in the least expected ways.

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open your Bibles with me to the book of

ezekiel chapter 47 verse 9 and it should

be that every living thing that moves

whenever the river goes will live there

will be a great multitude of fish

because these waters go there and then

verse 10 says it shall be that fishermen

will stand by it from Engedi

what he’s talking about is the Dead Sea

this is actually a prophecy about

something that’s going to happen in the

future he predicts that the Dead Sea

will be healed of of its death it’s

called the Dead Sea in Israel because of

the salt content nothing can live in the

Dead Sea but he said there’s coming

today when there’s gonna be fish in the

Dead Sea and they’ll be so plentiful

that fishermen will have to be called in

to fish the fish out and you’ve heard

the saying it’s raining cats and dogs

well recently there was a story and I

saw it again this week Charisse and I

saw it on TV of something that happened

in northern Australia in the outback

that is really amazing a phenomenon that

took place this area in northern

Australia is five hundred miles from

water it’s literally in the desert it is

a desert little village and what

happened was all of the sudden there

came a cloud which is not so unusual

because they do get rain seasonally but

this this cloud did not just rain down

rain but it rained down fish I’m not

making this up fish fell from the sky

fish began to fall all over the place

and they said some of them were frozen

and some of them were alive and flopping

when they hit the ground and what the

scientists and meteorologists determined

happened was because there are no rivers

and there are no there

no coastline with within 500 miles of

this little this little desert town in

Australia so what they think happened is

a tornado a whirlwind got over the some

body of water 500 miles away suck the

fish up into the air they went up into

the atmosphere and got so high up that

they got froze up there in the clouds

the wind blew the clouds I’m not making

this up go check it out yourself though

why do you look at me like you don’t

believe this this is do you think I

would lie to you that the wind blew the

cloud 500 miles in inland and then I

guess the atmosphere they think was warm

enough in the desert region that the

fish started melting and falling out of

the sky and some of them must have just

stayed alive up there I don’t know but

something happened because perch the

fish perch fell from the sky and they

they collected them for seven days there

were so many fish everywhere in the

middle of the desert and how many of you

know I’ll preach on anything if I can

find it

I just won’t say when God gets ready to

send your harvests it doesn’t matter

where you’re located it doesn’t matter

if you’ve got a rod and reel it doesn’t

matter if you’ve got a bass boat if God

says it’s your season in this short time

he knows how to make it rain fish in the

middle of a desert then I’ll catch you

nothing down there in the coast but

they’re catching fish out in the middle

of the desert it’s pretty pretty amazing

when you understand that in Scripture

it’s fish and fishermen are always a

portrayal of the relationship between

the church and the lost world the lost

world is a type of the fish because he’s

always using the analogy of going

fishing he said in Matthew chapter 4

follow me to his disciples and I will

make you fishers of men

you’ll catch souls you’ll catch men and

women and boys and girls in the gospel

net and bring them into into safety and

into life and so we are the fishermen

and and and the lost world is the fish

and he said I’ll make you fishermen if

you’ll follow me the thing about being a

fisherman is you have to use a certain

test line they call the line on the

fishing pole the test line and it has a

weight attached to it it’s called a

pound test line or 16 pound test line or

50 or 100 pound and the deal is this the

reason they put a weight on the line is

to let you know what size of a fish that

test line can handle and the higher the

number on the test line the greater the

fish you can catch and so I just want to

say that the greater the test line the

greater the fish the greater the test

the greater the testimony the greater

the mess the greater the message the

greater the resistance the greater the

revival

the greater that the test god puts you

through is a sign

of what kind of fish and what kind of

harvests that he’s gonna attach because

he’s gonna not gonna give you more than

you can bear but he says if you’ve been

tested and tried I know what you can

handle and I’m gonna bless you and I’m

gonna cause you to be able to some of

you been through you you’ve got some

pretty powerful test line that you’ve

been through so you need to believe God

for some great fish in this hour that

we’re in this tells somebody the greater

the test line the greater the fish you

can handle you see Jesus turned to his

disciples one time and he said launch

out into the deep and cast your nets

into the water and Simon being a

professional fisherman said master

really what he was wanting to say was I

am a professional fisherman you are a

preacher you don’t know what you’re

talking about

listen to what he said he said we have

fished all night long and caught nothing

nevertheless at thy word we will go out

and he let down his net now Jesus told

him nets but he let down his net and as

soon as his net hit the water because

he’s God above the water and he’s God if

you’re beneath the water and as soon as

his net hit the water the Bible said

that the fish swam into the net and the

net began to break and they had to call

for other ships in the region to come

help them and throw their nets in

because there was too many fish their

boat began to sink because they were

taken in so many fish which is a

powerful lesson about you know in other

words they were saying hey they’re not

biting over there and they’re not biting

over there and they’re not biting over

there but come over here they’re really

biting I want you to understand that

Jesus said to him you need nets but he

only had one net you know what I think I

think that those they could have called

every

fish in that lake if that had enough

nets and boats I think the only problem

was the Bible said all of their nets

begin to break and the boats begin to

sink because they had some if there had

more nets and more boats let’s stop

limiting God God can still reach this

nation God can still turn this world

around all we need is more nets and more

ships and that’s why we’re building more

churches and casting more nets and

reaching more people why do you do that

why do you keep doing that because this

is our town and God is not limited if

you believe it give him a praise this

morning

quit limiting God I said quit limiting

God I don’t care if you’re in a desert

god knows how to get the fish to

wherever somebody will throw a net and

believe that they can be saved some of

you financially are in a desert how many

of you would like for it to rain

blessing right in your desert watch this

the Bible said that on another occasion

in Matthew chapter 17 that the disciples

had a need specifically Peter and Jesus

had a tax bill deal and Jesus gave a

strange instruction he said take a hook

and go put it in the water and you’re

gonna catch a fish and when you catch

the first fish that you catch open his

mouth and there would be a piece of gold

in his mouth or money in his mouth take

the money and go pay your taxes and my

taxes only if you would like for it to

rain fish like that

that’s my kind of that’s my kind of rain

right there I want you to see that he

goes and he catches a fish and it’s got

the money the resources that he needs in

its mouth I want to remind you even if

you’re in a desert financially that God

is our source I want to remind you that

just when you think that you’re so far

from what you need God can alter things

God can change things

God can cause the wind to blow in your

direction God can take business from way

over there where the heathens are and

bring it all the way over here where

some blessed Christian is in a desert

financially and it all of a sudden pop

and you open their mouth and they’ve got

gold in it what do you say I believe in

a God a favor I believe in a God who

doesn’t play fair I believe in a God who

can bring blessing and he’s not limited

because you’re in a desert I need

somebody to believe with me

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we sometimes forget how mighty our God

is so consumed with iPods and iPhones

and iPads that we’ve forgotten he’s the

great I am he can still do the

impossible God knows how much you need

to do his will and he will supply all

your needs according to his riches and

glory and even if you’re in a desert God

knows how to alter things he can alter

things and cause the impossible to begin

to bless you I mean if you believe in

that kind of God we made a commitment in

our faith a few months ago to help even

more than what we do on a monthly basis

with Haiti Bobby and sherry our

missionaries came and they said we we’ve

got this vision of a marketplace you

know it’s the old story you can you can

feed a man a poor man of fish and he’ll

be hungry the next day or you can teach

him how to fish and he can take care of

himself

and so Bobby who’s been a missionary in

Haiti for 30 plus years knows that world

and he said you know we have started

tilapia farms fish farms and we’ve

started this and that and he said and

the people they they’re precious they

have skills but there’s no market

there’s nothing so he said he came to me

and he said we want to build a massive

marketplace that will employ thousands

of Haitians and he said it’s going to

cost 1 million dollars and I thought to

myself well god bless you I hope you

have a good time do it

and the Lord started dealing with me

about that every time I would go to pray

that stuff would just come up before me

and so I reluctantly went back and I

said well Bobby I feel like the Lord

spoken to my heart and we’re gonna we’re

gonna go on and over the next 12 months

we’re gonna pledge that million dollars

to build that marketplace in Haiti it’s

massive this is a massive massive

project now listen to this wait a minute

so so so uh so I we made that commitment

and then they were flying in to show me

the plans the the blueprints of what

it’s going to look like and this and

that it’s amazing what’s beautiful is

the Haitian people will build it the

Haitian people would do all its going to

employ thousands of people and so to

make a long story short I went a couple

weeks later and preached in st. Louis

Missouri for a friend of mine and

dedicated his church David crank and he

built a brand new church there and st.

Louis’s beautiful place and one of one

of the men in that service is a very

wealthy businessman that God had blessed

and we just in casual conversation he

said I like what you’re doing in Haiti

and my ears that I said well really I

said tomorrow I’m meeting with Bobby and

sherry our missionaries they’re coming

in from from Haiti to Gainesville to

show me plans on the new project he said

really and I said yeah I said I said yes

it’s really gonna be something in Bubba

but you know we just talked back and

forth came back the next day and this

man has his own aircraft so he’s blessed

he was going down to Florida but instead

he told the pilot go to Gainesville he

and his wife flew in and while we were

having our meeting they walked into the

conference room and they started seeing

the plans and I’m telling you the Spirit

of God was in that room some of our

media people with the Spirit of God came

in that room and this man and his wife

started weeping and crying and tearing

up and then they pulled out their

checkbook and he wrote a check for

$100,000 and he said you don’t need a

million anymore all you need is on 900

we hadn’t even started it

you get involved in what God tells you

to do which is reaching the harvest you

help people you throw the net 3dnew

beginning see so many people don’t

understand that if we’ll get involved in

the harvest the the the money will come

in God will see to it that the fish have

the resources but we got to help people

and I’m telling you as a business person

if you will reach for the harvest that

will always be resources that God will

have flowing into that business

it’s just how it works it’s just how it

works I’m preaching better than you’re

letting on this morning that’s just how

it works God knows how much you need to

do as well

God knows what you need and there’s no

doubt in my mind that over the next 12

months the rest of those resources will

come in you watch what I tell you

because when you cast the net for the

harvest when your business is involved

in reaching the harvest when you are

sowing and giving and witnessing and

standing and shining your light God says

I will resource that because that’s my

heart because as you do it into the

least of these you do it unto me the

last thing I want to say is there’s one

more story about fish in the Bible we

need to start believing to have miracles

again in the body of Christ we have

become so tame and so logical that we

have dismissed the miracles of God but

if God wants to make it rain in the

desert fish he can make it rain fish in

the middle of a desert because he’s God

so there’s this story of 5,000 people

who were hungry and all they had was 5

loaves in two fish

five plus two equals seven that means

you’ve got seven people something to eat

in four thousand nine hundred and ninety

three go hungry according to our

mathematics but God’s mathematics are a

little different

God says five plus two equals five

thousand when I touch it with a

remainder of twelve because they’re

going to take up twelve baskets full of

leftovers I’m not just the god of enough

I’m the god of more than enough and

you’re gonna take home basket loads of

blessings after you fed everybody else

I’m preaching today that we serve a God

who can still heal cancer we serve a God

who can still move mountains we serve a

God who can anoint you to raise that

business up in a terrible economy an

economy that’s less than perfect God is

perfect and God is able somebody give

him a praise if you believe that he can

still do miracles

I’m talking I’m talking about the guard

I’m talking about the guard who fed the

prophet Elijah by causing a bird for

three and a half years in the middle of

a famine to bring two meals a day and

drop it in his plate I’m talking about a

God who took millions of people into the

desert for 40 years and put clothes on

their back during those 40 years without

a walmart without anything in his place

to shock he put clothes on them in shoes

on their feet and the Bible said the

clothes didn’t wear out and as their

feet grew the shoes grew because he

knows how to do miracles I’m talking

about the God who that all kept flowing

and flowing and as long as they had a

vessel to feel God could cause they

ought to keep flowing and ended an

exhaustible supply I’m talking about the

God who who who touched an old man when

he was a hundred and and his wife when

she was 99 and they conceived and had a

child and that child produced a nation

called Israel I’m talking about a God

who touched a virgin and even though she

had never known a man she became

pregnant with the Son of God and his

name shall be called Jesus for he shall

save his people from their sins and I’m

talking about a God who took five loaves

and two fish and fed 5000 and had twelve

baskets leftover don’t tell me he can’t

provide for you don’t tell me he can’t

heal you don’t tell me he can’t touch

your family don’t tell me he can’t set

you free from drug addiction and

alcoholism don’t tell me he can’t make a

way for you to get to college don’t tell

me he can’t bless that business

it’s raining fish in the desert let the

elements let nature teach you you serve

a supernatural God

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hallelujah Jesus said to his disciples

you can discern the sky and when it’s

red you you predict what the weather

will do but you don’t discern the signs

of your times he was saying that God

uses the elements and even nature as his

evangelist could it be that God is

saying I’m about to send such a harvest

I’m about to send a harvest in places

that people were not even thinking I

could bless them in areas unusual things

are going to happen things that you

never thought could happen in your

lifetime I know how to make it rain down

fish in desert places it all started and

I close with this when the Prophet

looked out in the Old Testament and they

were in a famine and he said I see a

cloud the size of a man’s hand now had

that been most of us we would have said

it’s not big enough for anything to come

of it but when the prophet saw the hand

a cloud thus after three and a half

years of famine a cloud the size of my

hand is no big deal would you agree with

that but the Prophet went berserk he

said oh my god Run For Your Lives flash

floods are coming get off this he’ll

hitch the horses up read it and the

Bible said he outran the horses of Ahab

all he saw was a cloud it’s little but

it’s loaded little as much

if God is in it faith sees the unseen

faith hears the unheard I hear the sound

the Prophet said of an abundance listen

to that it’s a little cloud but it’s got

great rain it’s got an abundance it’s

just a little and you may only be seen

little signs of turnaround little signs

of a breakthrough little Sun if we would

ever stop discrediting the little things

if God is in that little thing hit your

horse up and get moving because it’s

about to rain fish in your desert this

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I was excited but I had no idea that it

would be life-changing I went in with

one expectation and came out a

completely different person the

gathering of women together in being

filled with the holy spirit can can

break the power of Satan that’s coming

to wipe out our marriages and our sons

and our daughters and our grandchildren

would you be willing as you become aware

of God’s presence with you to be

empowered to be the one that steps out

and away from the crowds because listen

intimacy with Jesus depends on it

because I want you to remember the same

God that did that he’s able to deal with

this

whatever God did back then God is able

to do now you’re doing something I can’t

even say I can’t even begin to

understand how this could end in a

victory but you’re in this so you’re

gonna be on this he chose me for a

divine purpose and I found that through

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