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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with the. 37 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: Friends reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 5: your life. Merry Christmas to you and your family. We 39 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 5: are so blessed to come into your homes on this 40 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 5: Christmas Day. Hope you're having a great Christmas season and 41 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 5: have something a little bit different on the program today. 42 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 5: I have some of my family with me, my beautiful 43 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 5: wife Victoria, my mom's here, my sister April, my brother, 44 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 5: doctor Paul, my sister Lisa and my sister Tamra. So 45 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 5: we thought we would just share some holiday memories, maybe 46 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 5: some things that will encourage and inspire you. But we're 47 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 5: going to have a good time together. Thanks for joining us. 48 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 6: We just wish you and your family a very merry 49 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 6: Christmas and a happy New Year. And we want to 50 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 6: thank you for always being a part of this ministry. 51 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 6: It means so much to us know that we're praying 52 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 6: for you, and we know God's best is still in store. 53 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 3: We believe that. 54 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,119 Speaker 5: Hey, well, it was forty one years ago Christmas time 55 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 5: that we got the news that my mother wasn't healthy. 56 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 5: You've probably heard me tell the story many times if 57 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 5: you watch, But Mama, I remember that so clearly because 58 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 5: my brother Paul called me. I was in college and 59 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 5: he said, Joel, mother's sick. And I'd never seen my 60 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 5: mother sick a day in her life. But come to 61 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 5: find out, you were diagnosed with terminal cancer. 62 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: But that was a difficult time. 63 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 7: It was right at Christmas time especially. I was in 64 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 7: the hospital till just a few days till Christmas time. 65 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 7: But then I just remember God's word works, It never fails, Joel. 66 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 7: But Daddy and I laid on the floor of the 67 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 7: foot of our bed and prayed that Jesus would touch 68 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 7: and heal me. And do you know what he did. 69 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 7: It's been forty one years now. I got some scriptures. 70 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 8: I have him on my phone. 71 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 7: I read them every day, and then I put scriptures 72 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 7: in the house and pictures of me, like wanting to 73 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 7: ride a horse that I rode twenty five years ago. 74 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 7: And I did that. And you know what, Jesus was 75 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,399 Speaker 7: so good and so merciful, and Joel, if it had 76 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 7: not been for that, maybe I wouldn't be praying for 77 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 7: the sick today. But forty one years later, Jesus gave 78 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 7: me my life back, and he can do it for you. 79 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 7: He doesn't love me anymore than he loves anybody else, 80 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 7: so he can do that for anybody. 81 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 5: That's amazing, Paul. I remember, you know, Paul, you're a 82 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 5: medical doctor. When you called, and. 83 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 9: It wasn't good news, now, Joel, the bib sees were clear. 84 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 9: She had metastatic avenue carcinomum to her liver, which means 85 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 9: that a tumor had spread to her liver multiple areas 86 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 9: at that time, and even now, there's not really good 87 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 9: treatment for it. So when they said she had a 88 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 9: few weeks to live, that was right. Prognosis was just very, 89 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 9: very grim. 90 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 5: And it didn't happen overnight, Mama. But you just you 91 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 5: fought the good fight of faith. You stayed in that 92 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 5: attitude of faith. You didn't go back to bed accept 93 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 5: at normal times. And I remember I hear my mom 94 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 5: walking through the house quoting scriptures. I will live and 95 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 5: not die, and God's restoring health back into me. 96 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 4: But I believe that, you know. 97 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 5: It's easy to give in to the defeat, and you know, 98 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 5: let negative words spoken over us limit our life. And 99 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 5: you know, Paul, you're a doctor. We believe in you know, 100 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 5: doctors in medicine, but sometimes they come to the end 101 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 5: of what they can do. And so when you believe, 102 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 5: all things are possible and that that's what we saw 103 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 5: our mother do. And like we said, you know, many 104 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 5: many years later, eighty nine years old, still healthy and strong. 105 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 8: Thank God. 106 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 7: You know. I remember one thing, Joel, that I did 107 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 7: one night when Daddy was sleeping. I got up in 108 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 7: the middle of the night, about twelve thirty or something 109 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 7: like that, went into his office and I wrote some 110 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 7: some notes apologizing to people that maybe I hadn't even 111 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 7: done anything too, but I felt in my heart that 112 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 7: it was so important to ask God to forgiveness, asked 113 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 7: Jesus to forgive me things that I'd done wrong. And 114 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 7: I wrote all the children and I'm sure all of 115 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 7: you that I had done wrong through the years, but 116 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 7: I asked. 117 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 8: Them to forgive me. 118 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 7: I asked Daddy too, I asked my mother and Daddy too, 119 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 7: and then I asked a man who was a pastor, 120 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 7: was a good friend, and he didn't even know what 121 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 7: I was talking about. But I got also those off 122 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 7: in the mail, and I felt so good because I 123 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 7: felt like I'd forgiven everybody that I'd done anything to 124 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 7: and you know, asked them to forgive me. I think 125 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 7: for unforgiveness is one of the hindrances. Although I'm not 126 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 7: a specialist on this, I just think it's so important 127 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 7: to forgive people, and so I did and I just 128 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 7: felt good about it. 129 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 5: That's so good. That's a key to healing, I believe 130 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 5: in to living a healthy and fulfilled life. Lisa, you 131 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 5: know you bought those dishes during that time that Christmas season. 132 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 5: Tell that story. 133 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 10: Yeah, it was really interesting because even though it was 134 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 10: a real sad time for all of us. I remember 135 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 10: how Daddy, especially and Mama sort of set the tone 136 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,679 Speaker 10: for the whole environment and atmosphere. I mean, from the beginning, 137 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 10: Daddy said, we're going to get a miracle. We believe 138 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 10: that God's words is true and that healing comes from God. 139 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 10: And so after they prayed for healing, it was like, 140 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 10: in my mind's eye as a young person, it was like, 141 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 10: she's going to get her miracle. And just in the 142 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 10: home there was just this atmosphere of faith and expectancy 143 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 10: and miracles. And so when we went to buy a gift, 144 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 10: it was a twelve piece set of china, because Mama 145 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 10: likes to collect china, and it was so pretty, and 146 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 10: they didn't have the full twelve piece setting, and so 147 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 10: they said, but you know, within five or six weeks, 148 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 10: the other will come. So we took what we had, 149 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,799 Speaker 10: we wrapped it up, and I'll never forget I didn't 150 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 10: think anything about that because I thought, my mother is 151 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 10: going to live, she's not going to die, She's going 152 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 10: to declare the glory of the Lord. And so when 153 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 10: we gave it to her, I remember how she teared 154 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 10: up when I told her that, you know, it wouldn't 155 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 10: the rest wouldn't come in the next few weeks. Well, 156 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 10: she said later, she said, I had the thought, I'm 157 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 10: so glad my children think I'm going to live. And 158 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 10: that encouraged her. And I think that it's because my 159 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 10: mom and dad. You know, they knew the word of God, 160 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 10: they knew the faithfulness of God, and instead of just 161 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 10: going down that road of depression and hopelessness, they just 162 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 10: set that tone of faith and expectancy. And we knew 163 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 10: Jesus is our hope, and if Jesus is all we have, 164 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 10: Jesus is all we need. And so she got to 165 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 10: enjoy that China and she still has it to this day, 166 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 10: and it's a testament of God's faithfulness. 167 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 8: That's so good. 168 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 5: I remember, Mamma, you said you put pictures up in 169 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 5: the house from a time when you were healthy. And 170 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 5: I came home from college and I thought, what are 171 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 5: all these pictures doing, Mama riding a horse and her 172 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 5: wedding pictures. But you know what she was doing. She 173 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 5: was creating a new image of victory on the inside. 174 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 5: In other words, she was seeing herself the way she 175 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 5: wanted to be. And I think that's a you know, 176 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 5: that's a part of becoming who you were created to be. 177 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 5: You have to have the vision in front of you. 178 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 5: I've heard it said, you'll never rise any higher than 179 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 5: the way you see yourself. So she saw herself on 180 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 5: that horse again. She saw herself healthy and whole. Even 181 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 5: in the scripture, God told Abraham, look up from where 182 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 5: you are, and all the land that you will see, 183 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 5: I will give it to you. And I think sometimes, 184 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 5: you know, we can be looking down in life at 185 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 5: our problems and what's not working out, but God saying, 186 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 5: look up, have a vision for it. Then he can 187 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 5: do some awesome things in your life. That's what he's 188 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 5: done for our mother and our family. I'm sure he's 189 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 5: done it for you as well. Victoria been married to 190 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 5: for thirty five years. We've had thirty five great Christmases. 191 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 6: But yeah, you know some of the Christmases, we've had 192 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 6: great Christmases. But one of the things that really sticks 193 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 6: in my mind is with our own children. And through 194 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 6: the years we did this as a tradition. We would 195 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 6: make clues and we called it a scavenger hunt. We 196 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 6: would put little clues all around the house to where 197 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 6: their gift was. And so each clue would lead them 198 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 6: closer to their gift. And we have so many home 199 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 6: videos because we did it year after year after year. 200 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 6: They would find those clues and they would get their gift. 201 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 6: But the interesting thing about that is, not long ago 202 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 6: our kids are grown. 203 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 8: Now they're in their twenties. 204 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 6: They made clues for us to find our gifts, and 205 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 6: so we're running through the house trying to find our gifts. 206 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 6: The thing about that is, you know, it's interesting that 207 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 6: you can pass things down traditions. You can pass things 208 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 6: down to your children. In fact, the Bible talks about 209 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 6: how we're to talk about the Lord, how we're to 210 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 6: sit and talk about the Lord, how our life should 211 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 6: be passing. 212 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 8: Things down to them. 213 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 6: And so just like the tradition of Christmas, we can 214 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 6: also pass attitudes down. We can pass fear down, we 215 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 6: can pass anger down. So it's a matter of we 216 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 6: want to pass the good things down or do we 217 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 6: want to pass the not so good things down? And 218 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 6: so I think this Christmas season we ought to realize 219 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 6: that we are such examples to our family and we 220 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 6: can set new standards. We can change old ways and 221 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 6: old mindsets by just living this out. And I think 222 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 6: about the story we were just talking about Dody, about 223 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 6: you being ill. I believe that taught the whole family 224 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 6: that we can pray and we can believe. So what 225 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 6: are you passing down to your kids today? You know, 226 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 6: I think that we can all have a new start 227 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 6: at Christmas and we can make decisions that say, you 228 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 6: know what, I'm going to pass down good, I'm going 229 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 6: to pass down love, I'm going to pass down kindness. 230 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 8: But that's some of my greatest Christmas memories. 231 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 6: And I just wonder what we're going to get for 232 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 6: Christmas this year when we go on our scavenger. 233 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 5: They made a lot harder than than I did for them. 234 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 5: But Paul, I remember you told this story the other 235 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 5: day in church about you called Daddy at some point 236 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 5: in your life. 237 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 8: Can you remember that? 238 00:10:58,559 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 5: Can you tell him he's sitt in his chair. 239 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's exactly what you're talking about. 240 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 3: Vic. 241 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 9: You know, one Saturday morning, I was reading my Bible 242 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 9: in my ladyboy recliner in my robe, drinking coffee, and 243 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 9: I decided, I just I thought, I want to call 244 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 9: Daddy and see what he's doing. 245 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 11: So I called him. 246 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: I Saidaddy, what are you doing? 247 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 9: He said, Oh, Paul, you know what I'm doing. It's 248 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 9: just Saturday morning. I'm fine, I said, but I want 249 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 9: to know which exactly you're doing, he said, Paul. Well, 250 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 9: I'm sitting in my lazy boy, I'm in my robe, 251 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 9: I'm drinking coffee, and I'm reading my Bible. I realized 252 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 9: that I had become him. I had seen that model, Victoria, 253 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 9: just like you said, all those years, and you know 254 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 9: what we had. I'm sure we all have just you know, 255 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 9: learned to do that because of the example of my 256 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 9: mom and dad. But it was a wonderful example to me. 257 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,199 Speaker 9: What you see is what you're teaching as you're raising 258 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 9: your kids. 259 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 5: I love that what we can pass down, pass down love, 260 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 5: passed down, generosity, passed down, hope and kindness, and raising 261 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 5: your children in church as well. I think that's good. 262 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 5: One quick memory for me, and then I'll get to 263 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 5: you guys. Alexander is going to sing in a moment 264 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,719 Speaker 5: our Dog with Lake Wuood Music. But I remember one 265 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 5: time Daddy was going to buy April a gift and 266 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 5: he's going to buy you a bicycle. And so we 267 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 5: went up to the hardware store where we bought him 268 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 5: during those days, and we picked out this bike. I 269 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 5: got to pick out your bike April, and I picked 270 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 5: out the one I wanted. I want to gotch you 271 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 5: what I wanted. But so we picked out this bike, 272 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 5: and so we brought it home. Well, he came back 273 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 5: and got it, but I picked it out and he 274 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 5: wrapped it in a big sheet on the patio. And 275 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 5: this was like two weeks before Christmas, and so you know, 276 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,679 Speaker 5: I was like eight years old, and so every day 277 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 5: I wanted to go out there and look at it. 278 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 5: I said, Daddy, can I go look at the bike? 279 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 5: It was a company said no, no, you can't look 280 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 5: at it. I said, why, I've already seen it. I 281 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 5: want to see the bike. You know, I's curious. It 282 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 5: just was kind of bugging me. There was out there 283 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 5: and I couldn't see it. But he never let me 284 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 5: see the bike. Well, Christmas morning, you know, we get 285 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 5: up at six or seven, We all slipped in the 286 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 5: den and I ran out there, you know when it 287 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 5: was time, and we pulled the sheet off. The reason 288 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 5: why it's had two bikes under it, one for me 289 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 5: and one for her. What he hadn't told me is, 290 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 5: you know, he wanted to see what bike I really 291 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 5: wanted and I like in that sometimes well, you know what, 292 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 5: my dad was generous in my mom and all, but 293 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 5: I like it sometimes in life sometimes God, you know, 294 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 5: it's kind of feels like he's withholding her. Why can't 295 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 5: I do this now? 296 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 3: Why is it? Well? 297 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 4: I have to wait? 298 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 5: It's because he has something better in store. It's because 299 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 5: he's you know, he's in control. He's he's guiding your life. 300 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 5: And so I think just being patient, trusting God's timing, 301 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 5: know that you're having to wait, is because something better 302 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 5: is coming. I hope you're enjoying the program today with 303 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 5: my family. Take a listen to our daughter Alexandra and 304 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 5: Lakewood Music and great music group. You're gonna enjoy this. 305 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 5: Hawk the Herald Angel say. 306 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 12: To have angelousy good to the new boncas pshnors and 307 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 12: mercy a mile God and see who's left, and said 308 00:13:55,040 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 12: joyful Nations rise joy a joy on both the skyds 309 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,079 Speaker 12: but entirely. 310 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 4: Ghost pol Plane. 311 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:14,479 Speaker 12: Christ is born of bed Pard, the Angel Shame, Goyd 312 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 12: the new Born, the heaven born Prince of Dyes and 313 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 12: the Sun of Righteousness id in life. 314 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 4: To all he bains beaus it is felding in his face. 315 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 13: Bounty Lass boy badis born and Bandol bobes dot raises 316 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 13: sun of birth born to get of the second birth 317 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 13: the day do scenes the reason, o paps. 318 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:39,359 Speaker 4: So to see its we have had on high sweetly 319 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 4: singing the plates and. 320 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 12: The mountains, and replies Ancho, the joy set. 321 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 4: That saxies days. 322 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 5: So beautiful and so great having you with us today, 323 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 5: very Christmas again, from our family to yours. My sister Tamra, 324 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 5: her husband Jim. They passed her Faith Family Church in Victoria, Texas, 325 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,119 Speaker 5: and Tim were always blessed. 326 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 7: To have you. 327 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 8: Thanks well. 328 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 11: Talking about memories, one of the things that I have 329 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,159 Speaker 11: this special that I remember is our grandparents and how 330 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 11: they were with us always on the holidays, Grandma and Granddaddy, 331 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 11: and we loved them, and you know we were Mommy, 332 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 11: you were an only child, so we were all they had. 333 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 11: And I think they kind of spoiled us at times, 334 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 11: but they were always, you know, so good to us. 335 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 11: I remember, you know, Grandma would coming and cooking her 336 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 11: coconut pie and corn bread dressing, whatever she cooked. 337 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 8: It was always good. 338 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 11: But one time you reminded us the other day that 339 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 11: she came from Baytown one time for a holiday and 340 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 11: forgot the Turkey, So I know, I know that that 341 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 11: probably wasn't She probably wasn't too happy about that. But 342 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 11: you know, I just remember how good they were to 343 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 11: us in life, and just their consistency. 344 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 8: There's simplicity. 345 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 11: They never forgot her birthdays or Christmases. They gave us 346 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 11: a car. You know, if all you had a car, 347 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 11: I had a car. I had to send them a 348 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 11: pillow to reach the pedal. But they were always so good, 349 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 11: and I just it's maybe now that I have grandkids 350 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 11: and some of you had grandkids, you think about the 351 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 11: mark you make and really in their life. And because 352 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 11: they had a great investment. And the Bible says in 353 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 11: the Proverbs that a good man leaves an inheritance to 354 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 11: his children's children. So it's not just money, but it's memories. 355 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 11: And they left memories of loving us well. And so 356 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 11: they were a great, great example for us. And that's 357 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 11: what I remember about Christmas. 358 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 4: That's so good. 359 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,679 Speaker 5: Tim I love you growing Granddaddy. Granddaddy retired early at 360 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 5: fifty five. This is we're talking about my mom's parents. 361 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 5: And he would come down to the church and work. 362 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 5: I'd see him under the buildings, you know, the old 363 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,439 Speaker 5: buildings were up on blocks and he'd be under there 364 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 5: doing plumbing and things like that. And a little sister, April, 365 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 5: she's probably taller than me, but my little sister April, 366 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 5: April goes around speaking. 367 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 8: We'll talk about your book a little later. 368 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 5: April Better every. 369 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 8: Day, We're better than ever, Better than ever. 370 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, I gave her a better title. But April, about 371 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 5: a Christmas memory? 372 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 14: You know, I can think about one time. It was 373 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 14: near Christmas and we were going to go Christmas shopping 374 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 14: and I got sick and I had a fever and 375 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 14: I was in bed. I was about seven years old, 376 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 14: and you know, I was so used to Mom and 377 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 14: Daddy just praying over me, and we had grown up 378 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 14: in miracles, seeing miracles, growing up with kind of that faith. 379 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 14: And I heard Daddy come home. I don't know where 380 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 14: you were, but I heard Daddy come home. I'm sure 381 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 14: you were there, and I thought, good, he can come 382 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 14: pray for me because I was wanting to go shop. 383 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 8: That started young. 384 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 14: And he came back there and I'll never forget. 385 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 8: What he said. 386 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 14: He kind of felt in my head and he said, April, 387 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 14: I agree with you that you're going to be healed. 388 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 14: And I thought that didn't sound just right, but go 389 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 14: ahead and pray. 390 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 4: So he didn't pray for me. 391 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 14: He said it again, I agree with you that you're 392 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 14: going to be healed. And he walked out, and I thought, 393 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 14: what in the world is wrong with him? And so 394 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 14: I realized what he was trying to do is to 395 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 14: teach me how to pray. And although I thought I 396 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 14: should call someone, I just said a simple prayers that God, 397 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 14: I don't feel good, just heal me. And you know 398 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 14: I got healed. I mean, my fever went away. I 399 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,200 Speaker 14: don't know how long it was, but I felt good. 400 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 14: And I realized that day, I remember it very well 401 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 14: in my canopy bed, that it wasn't just about the 402 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 14: God of Mama and Daddy. It wasn't about their faith. 403 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 14: But Daddy threw that little bit of what I thought 404 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 14: he was not being very kind to me, you know, 405 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 14: taught me that it's my God, it's my faith, and 406 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 14: God hears and he answers my prayers. And that's just 407 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 14: something that made a mark on me and I take 408 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 14: to this day. 409 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so good, Apel. 410 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 6: I love that we grew up going to my grandmother's 411 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 6: house in Columbus Georgia every Christmas, and all of our 412 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 6: cousins were there and we slept under the Christmas tree, waiting, 413 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 6: you know, for the next morning so we could get up. 414 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 6: But I have an interesting story about that, is I 415 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 6: did that all growing up. I mean, it's some of 416 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 6: my best memories being with my cousins and my grandma, 417 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 6: my grandmother's big old house. And one year I went 418 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 6: back with my one of my cousins and we went 419 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 6: to the old house where my grandmother was, and they 420 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 6: had turned that house into a church. 421 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 8: Some one had bought it, and so we went. 422 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 6: Into the church service and we were sitting in the 423 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 6: big room with the fireplace. We knew where the Christmas 424 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 6: tree was. We're sitting in the back. They had set 425 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 6: up chairs and we're sitting in the back and we're 426 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 6: just crying. And after the service some of the minister 427 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 6: and some of them came up to us and they said, 428 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 6: are you okay? 429 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 8: You know, can we pray with you? Can we help you? 430 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 6: And we were just missed because we had just thought 431 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 6: about all those Christmases that we had spent there with 432 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 6: my grandmother. They would cut a tree down and bring 433 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,400 Speaker 6: it in and we just told the man. We said, 434 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 6: you know what, We're fine. We love the Lord, we 435 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 6: served the Lord. But this was my grandmother's house and 436 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 6: how it could be turned into a church is unbelievable. 437 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,879 Speaker 6: And he said, when my wife and I came to 438 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 6: see this house, he said, my wife said, there's peace 439 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 6: in this house and this is a house of prayer. 440 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 6: And they bought that house and had church service in it. 441 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 6: So it was just remarkable to us sitting in there 442 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 6: thinking about all the Christmases and we all laid on 443 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 6: that floor in our little palettes, and all the joy 444 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 6: we had in that house. So it's another just tribute 445 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 6: to god faithfulness and the fact what is passed down 446 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 6: from generation to generation. And I think to myself, it 447 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 6: was my grandmother's prayers and maybe hers before that that 448 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 6: have gotten me even to where I am now. 449 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 3: That's so good. 450 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 4: That's amazing. 451 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 3: Victoria. 452 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 5: It's funny. We were in my office about a year 453 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 5: or two ago and I was cleaning out some things 454 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 5: and I keep my old bibles, and I had one 455 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 5: of Victoria's old bible. Anyway, I'm looking through this and 456 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 5: the first Bible that I got was on December the 457 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 5: twenty fifth, nineteen sixty nine. It was my red Bible 458 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 5: and we wrote all in it and had all those 459 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 5: funny notes well, and it was given to my mom 460 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 5: and daddy. I came across Victorious Bible and I looked 461 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 5: at the date. It was December the twenty fifth, nineteen 462 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 5: sixty nine, same day from your mom and dad. 463 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 8: Yeah, that's crazy. That's God's divine destiny. 464 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,959 Speaker 6: I think about that, how He makes things cross our 465 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 6: paths that we don't even realize. And I love the 466 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 6: story about what Paul said. Because God, we'll give you 467 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 6: the desires of your heart when you submit to him 468 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 6: and when you ask him. I know, I've heard so 469 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 6: many times people say, well, I don't know what God 470 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 6: wants me to do. I don't have a dream for 471 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 6: my life. But it's as simple as asking God to 472 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 6: place his desire in your heart and to really receive 473 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 6: that desire. 474 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 8: And believe that he. 475 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 6: If it doesn't come immediately, that God is going to 476 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 6: direct your path. Not to worry, don't lean on your 477 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,880 Speaker 6: own understanding, but really, in all your ways, acknowledge Him 478 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 6: and he'll direct your path. You know, life is full 479 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 6: of ups and downs. It's not always a straight course. 480 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 6: There's all kinds of winding roads. Sometimes you're down, sometimes 481 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 6: you're up. But God's always faithful. 482 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 3: That's so good. 483 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 5: I think about, you know, when I work behind the 484 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 5: scenes at the church during the television production, I never 485 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 5: had any you know, any desire to be in front 486 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 5: of people. But when Daddy would speak a message, you know, 487 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 5: he'd speak like maybe forty minutes and we'd have to 488 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 5: cut it down to like twenty five minutes for the 489 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 5: TV program, So I would have to listen to that 490 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 5: message three. 491 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: Or four, maybe five times. 492 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 5: I think, what's you know, what should I cut out? 493 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 5: Because I thought, I want to make sure it makes sense. 494 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 5: Try to hear all those stories and hear all those scriptures, 495 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 5: never realizing that God was getting prepared for what I'm 496 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 5: doing now. So you know, Paul, it's just God. God 497 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 5: knows how to connect the dots in our lives. One 498 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 5: thing I've learned, you know, I should have learned it earlier, 499 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 5: But this trust God's timing and trust his ways. It 500 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 5: may not always happen your way, but I've learned God's 501 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 5: ways are better. God has the right time, and I 502 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 5: found if there's a right time, then any other time 503 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 5: is the wrong time. And that's hard for us to 504 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 5: swallow because I'm sure you're like me, you want it 505 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 5: right now, and God come on and make it happen. 506 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 5: But you know what, God knows what he's doing, and 507 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 5: I think in the meantime when it's not happening, I 508 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 5: think a real key is to be your best way you. 509 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 4: Are to honor God. 510 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 5: You know, you're not at the job you want, you're 511 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 5: not in a relationship you wannor you know, got some difficulties. 512 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 5: But I think you know, I like to think of 513 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 5: it like this, If you're not faithful in the wilderness, 514 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 5: how can God take you into the Promised Land. So 515 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 5: I'd encourage you to be faithful where you are. I 516 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 5: hope it's a great Christmas and a fun Christmas. But 517 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 5: even if there's some difficulties in your life, just know 518 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 5: that God still ordering your steps. When we had that 519 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 5: Christmas nineteen eighty one, that was a difficult Christmas. You know, 520 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 5: we plan to come home and celebrate and have fun 521 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 5: and goof off, but you know it was a somber 522 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 5: Christmas when your mom's just been told you has a 523 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 5: few weeks to live. But you know what, you keep 524 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 5: moving forward and you come into other chapters. You know, 525 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 5: don't get stuck on a chapter. You keep turning that 526 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 5: page and you watch what God will do. 527 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 6: But you know, I think too part of that vision 528 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 6: can be the people that you surround yourself with and 529 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:28,919 Speaker 6: the people you get around. 530 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 8: And sometimes it's difficult. 531 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 6: If you are in a situation where you are with 532 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 6: people who are defeated and they have so much doubt 533 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 6: and they don't speak victory. 534 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 8: But you decide where you go. 535 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 6: You decide the environment you put yourself in, whether it's 536 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 6: going to a community where people have faith and they 537 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 6: can speak vision over you. They can teach you to pray, 538 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 6: they can teach you how to read the Bible. Because 539 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 6: I think all of us would say here today, spending 540 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 6: time with God has totally changed our lives. In the 541 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 6: Word of God, when we feel defeated, when we have setbacks, 542 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 6: we can pull a promise out and it helps us 543 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 6: change our perspective because if God said it, he'll. 544 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 8: Do it, and it may not be the way we 545 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 8: see him do it. 546 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 6: But if we can hold onto that promise, God can 547 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 6: bring that promise to pass in his way. So today 548 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,880 Speaker 6: you know there is hope. And I love these stories 549 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 6: of victory. And I love these memories because we need 550 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 6: to put this hope in us, because we need to 551 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 6: rise above the status quo and what the world would 552 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 6: like to tell us. 553 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 8: You know that this is a terrible world. This is 554 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 8: this We are the lights of the world. 555 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 6: I think about like, have you ever been in a 556 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 6: room or a hotel room and that one little light, 557 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 6: the little green light that's shining, or the little light 558 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 6: that's on the wall. Your eye goes straight to that light. 559 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 6: The room can be dark, but your eye goes straight 560 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 6: to that light. And that's how we are in the world. 561 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 6: When we carry hope and we carry Christ people's eyes 562 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 6: it goes to that light. It doesn't matter how dark 563 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 6: it is. The smallest light can shine and change things. 564 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 6: So that's what I would say this Christmas season. Know 565 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 6: that you've got a light on the inside of you 566 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 6: that shines brightly, and that people see that light and 567 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 6: it's making a difference. You may not feel like it is, 568 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,959 Speaker 6: but you have to have the confidence and the reassurance 569 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 6: in God that your light is shining brightly and it's 570 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 6: making a difference not only for you, but for your 571 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 6: family and the people around you. 572 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so awesome being with you today. We believe 573 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 5: that you're going to finish twenty twenty two strong. But 574 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 5: here's what we declare over you and your family that 575 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 5: twenty twenty three will even be better. I love that scripture. 576 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 5: It says God's taking us from glory to glory, so 577 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 5: let's keep our hopes up. Know that God's in control. 578 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 5: He's got you in the palm of his hand. You 579 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 5: wouldn't be alive unless God had something amazing up in 580 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 5: front of you. I shared the other day on the 581 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 5: scripture in Romans twelve, it says be glad for all 582 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 5: that God is planning for you. Lisa said, let's get 583 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 5: a hopes up for twenty twenty three. Let's start dreaming again, 584 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 5: believing again, hoping again. 585 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 8: I believe when you do that, you're getting. 586 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 5: In agreement with God. That's not just being positive, that's 587 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 5: releasing your faith for the awesome future that He has 588 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 5: in store. We love you, We're gonna keep praying for you. 589 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 5: Merry Christmas to you and your family. May it be 590 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 5: a blessed one. 591 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 15: Hey, thank you for listening to the joel Ostine podcast. 592 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 15: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 593 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 15: those all over the world. Visit Joelostin dot com slash 594 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 15: give hope to give a gift today. 595 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 5: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 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