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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 5: about these two professional baseball players. They were discussing whether
Speaker 5: or not they thought there would be baseball up in heaven.
Speaker 5: They made an agreement that whoever died first would come
Speaker 5: back and tell the other if indeed there was baseball
Speaker 5: in heaven. A few months later, one of the players died.
Speaker 5: Just like promise, he came back and said to the
Speaker 5: other player, I've got good.
Speaker 4: News and I've got bad news.
Speaker 5: The good news is there is baseball up in heaven.
Speaker 5: The bad news is you're scheduled to pitch next Thursday.
Speaker 4: Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is,
Speaker 5: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.
Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk
Speaker 5: to you today about scared into greatness.
Speaker 4: We all like when life is going our way. Our
Speaker 4: family is.
Speaker 5: Happy, business is strong, everything is right on schedule. That's
Speaker 5: good for a season. But if we're comfortable all the time,
Speaker 5: we won't reach our destiny. We don't grow when everything's
Speaker 5: going our way. We grow when we have to stretch,
Speaker 5: when we're uncomfortable, when we're a little bit nervous, unsure
Speaker 5: of how it's going to work out, and sometimes God
Speaker 5: will shape things up.
Speaker 4: He'll take you out of what's familiar.
Speaker 5: He'll remove a friend that you counted on, or put
Speaker 5: you in a position where you're over your head. You
Speaker 5: lost a client, you don't have the funds now, it's uncertain,
Speaker 5: you're a little bit scared. You pray like you've never prayed.
Speaker 5: You get up early and do things you normally wouldn't do.
Speaker 4: You don't like it.
Speaker 5: It's not comfortable, but God uses the scary places.
Speaker 4: To move us into our destiny.
Speaker 5: Don't think life is always going to be smooth.
Speaker 4: What God has in your future will scare you.
Speaker 5: Dreams bigger than you can accomplish on your own, obstacles
Speaker 5: that you can't overcome by yourself. And when things happen
Speaker 5: that we don't like, we tend to blame the enemy,
Speaker 5: But sometimes it's God. We weren't made to stay where
Speaker 5: we are at the same level.
Speaker 4: We were made to take new ground.
Speaker 5: To do that, you have to get out of your
Speaker 5: comfort zone. When you face something that's unfamiliar, it can
Speaker 5: be intimidating, even scary.
Speaker 4: You've defeated some opponents.
Speaker 5: But when you see Goliath something much bigger, you think, God,
Speaker 5: he's twice my size.
Speaker 4: Have a chance, I'm scared. Find somebody else.
Speaker 5: God wouldn't have allowed it if you didn't have what
Speaker 5: it takes. He has already equipped you, empowered you, and
Speaker 5: anointed you. You have been armed with strength for every battle.
Speaker 5: You may feel fear, that's okay, fear comes to us.
Speaker 4: All.
Speaker 5: The key is do it afraid. Do it in spite
Speaker 5: of what you feel. Do it in spite of what
Speaker 5: thoughts are telling you. Don't get talked out of your destiny.
Speaker 5: God is setting you up to go to a new level.
Speaker 5: But we all want to be comfortable. We like to
Speaker 5: have everything figured out. The truth is we are at
Speaker 5: our best when we're a little bit nervous, a little
Speaker 5: unsure of how it's going to work out, with a
Speaker 5: little healthy fear where we have to depend on God.
Speaker 4: If you can do everything in your own strength, you
Speaker 4: don't need faith.
Speaker 5: If you know where all the funds are coming from,
Speaker 5: all the people lined up, everything in place.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 5: But at some point you're going to have to put
Speaker 5: a demand on your faith. You have to stretch and
Speaker 5: dream a bigger dream well.
Speaker 4: Joel, I'm happy God's blessed me. Why don't you dream
Speaker 4: bigger so you can.
Speaker 5: Help somebody else, so you can build that orphanage, so
Speaker 5: you can buy a friend a car, so you can
Speaker 5: set a new standard for your family. We were not
Speaker 5: put here to coast through life. If you don't take
Speaker 5: some risk, if you don't stretch, God loves you so much,
Speaker 5: he'll help you get out of your comfort zone. Sometimes
Speaker 5: we don't have a choice. God pushes us into a
Speaker 5: scary place. When a mother eagle has baby eglists, she
Speaker 5: makes a nest for the eaglists that's very comfortable, cushioned
Speaker 5: with grass and leaves and soft branches. For the first
Speaker 5: part of their lives, the eaglists are so happy, so
Speaker 5: well taken care of. When they're hungry, all they have
Speaker 5: to do is open their beaks the mother drops food in.
Speaker 5: They don't have to worry about protection animals. The mother
Speaker 5: has them high on the side of a cliff, out
Speaker 5: of reach, constantly watching over them. But a few months
Speaker 5: in the mother starts removing the soft cushion from the nest.
Speaker 5: She takes out the leaves and things that make it
Speaker 5: so comfortable. Now, when the eglet sits they fell, the
Speaker 5: branches and the sticks poking them.
Speaker 4: They don't like it.
Speaker 5: They get out and spend a few hours on the rocks,
Speaker 5: hopping around. They think they're just playing together, but they're
Speaker 5: developing their muscles. When the mother knows they're strong enough,
Speaker 5: she'll push a baby eglet out of the nest off
Speaker 5: the cliff. The EGLT starts falling to the ground. Don't
Speaker 5: you know If the eaglet could talk, it would say,
Speaker 5: what has gotten into mama? This mother that has fed me,
Speaker 5: loved me, protected me, made my life so comfortable, is
Speaker 5: now trying to kill me. Just as the eglt is
Speaker 5: about to hit the ground, the mother swoops down and
Speaker 5: grabs it. The eglet thinks, thank god, she came back
Speaker 5: to her senses. Now, Mama, take me back to the
Speaker 5: nest and we'll forget all about this. I won't tell
Speaker 5: anyone otherwise EPs will show up lit protective services. The
Speaker 5: mother takes the baby back, puts it in the nest.
Speaker 5: Just when the eglet thinks it's safe, she pushes it
Speaker 5: out again.
Speaker 4: This time, when.
Speaker 5: The eglet is falling, it starts flapping its wings, trying
Speaker 5: to gain its balance. It's not thinking about flying, doesn't
Speaker 5: know what the wings are for. It's just trying to
Speaker 5: break the fall when it naturally starts moving its wings.
Speaker 5: After doing this a few more times, the eglet finally
Speaker 5: discovers its wings and starts flying behind the mother. Before long,
Speaker 5: it's soaring all through the sky. But the nest the
Speaker 5: eglet was in was a blessing for a time it
Speaker 5: was necessary. But at a certain point the nest will
Speaker 5: no longer be a blessing.
Speaker 4: It will become a hindrance. The eglet can't.
Speaker 5: Develop its wings in the nest. If the mother didn't
Speaker 5: push it out, wouldn't survive. Sometimes the nest we're in
Speaker 5: is too small.
Speaker 4: As much as we like it, it's limiting our growth.
Speaker 5: We're comfortable, we like the protection, the provision being taken
Speaker 5: care of. The problem is, you'll never develop.
Speaker 4: Your wings in the nest.
Speaker 5: You won't reach your potential without having to stretch, try
Speaker 5: new things, develop new muscles. Maybe like that eglet, you think,
Speaker 5: what is going on in my life? It's gotten so
Speaker 5: m much more difficult. A friend walked away, my coworker
Speaker 5: won't help me anymore. God is pushing you out of
Speaker 5: the nest. The scripture says, as the eagle stirs the nest,
Speaker 5: so God will stir us. And sometimes we don't like
Speaker 5: the stirring, but that's God working in our lives. Do
Speaker 5: you know when the eaglets discover their wings, not when
Speaker 5: they're in the nest, not when they're hopping on the rocks.
Speaker 4: They discover they can fly when they're falling, when they're afraid.
Speaker 5: In the scary places, you will discover things you never knew.
Speaker 5: You had talent, strength, wisdom, determination that you would have
Speaker 5: never known if.
Speaker 4: You would have stayed in the nest.
Speaker 5: And yes, the scary places are not comfortable, But like
Speaker 5: the mother eagle, God is right.
Speaker 4: There with you.
Speaker 5: He is not going to let you hit the ground.
Speaker 5: You may have things coming against you now that you
Speaker 5: don't understand. It feels like God has pushed you out
Speaker 5: of the nest. It's uncomfortable, But if you'll stay in faith,
Speaker 5: you're about to discover your wings.
Speaker 4: You don't belong in the nest.
Speaker 5: You were created to soar, to reach new heights, to
Speaker 5: take new ground. The question is how we handle the
Speaker 5: scary times. It's easy to get discouraged. God, why did
Speaker 5: you let this happen? Why did I lose a loved one.
Speaker 5: Why did my business go down? Why did this friend
Speaker 5: betray me? Sometimes when God stirs the nest doesn't make sense.
Speaker 5: The right attitude is God, I don't understand this, but
Speaker 5: I trust you.
Speaker 4: I know you are still on the throne, and I
Speaker 4: am not.
Speaker 5: Going to live bitter, upset, complaining because my plans didn't
Speaker 5: work out. I know your plans for me are for good.
Speaker 5: Twenty years ago this week, my father.
Speaker 4: Went to be with the Lord. He had a heart
Speaker 4: attack and unexpectedly died.
Speaker 5: I had worked seventeen years for my father, behind the
Speaker 5: scenes here at Lakewood doing the television production. I was comfortable,
Speaker 5: I was fulfilled. I thought that's what I would do
Speaker 5: the rest of my life. But God's dream for our
Speaker 5: life is so much bigger than our own. Sometimes we
Speaker 5: think we're out of the nest. We think we've discovered
Speaker 5: our wings. You haven't seen anything yet. You don't know
Speaker 5: what God is up to. When my dad died, I
Speaker 5: knew I was supposed to step up and.
Speaker 4: Pastor the church, but I had never ministered. Now, all
Speaker 4: the what if thoughts came, Joel.
Speaker 5: What if you try and fail? What if people don't
Speaker 5: like you? What if nobody comes, it's easy to talk
Speaker 5: ourselves out of it. But when you come to the
Speaker 5: end of life, well, you have more regrets over the
Speaker 5: risk you took or over the risk.
Speaker 4: You didn't take. I would rather try.
Speaker 5: And fail than to play safe all the time and
Speaker 5: never really know. The truth is, if my father was
Speaker 5: still alive, I wouldn't be up here.
Speaker 4: I was comfortable behind the scenes. I liked the nest.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to have to stretch get out in
Speaker 5: front of people. God had to push me out. There
Speaker 5: were times I was so afraid. I felt like I
Speaker 5: had to hold onto the podium. Thoughts were telling me
Speaker 5: that I couldn't do it. But it was in that
Speaker 5: scary place I discovered talent that I didn't know I had.
Speaker 4: My father had asked me for years to help him
Speaker 4: pastor the church.
Speaker 5: I didn't know I could do this. It was in
Speaker 5: me all the time. But had God not pushed me
Speaker 5: out of the nest, I would have never discovered my wings.
Speaker 5: You're going to come into these times where God shakes
Speaker 5: things up. You're over your head, you think what in
Speaker 5: the world is happening. God is about to take you
Speaker 5: to a new level. The scripture says, God brought them
Speaker 5: out on eagles wings. Eagles fly higher than any other bird.
Speaker 5: God didn't give you a set of chicken wings, be
Speaker 5: pecking around on the ground in mediocrity. He didn't give
Speaker 5: you crows wings turkey's wings. You have eagles wings. You're
Speaker 5: about to soar to new heights. You're about to see
Speaker 5: new opportunities, new relationships, new levels of influence and favor.
Speaker 4: When I look back over my life, the times.
Speaker 5: I've grown, discovered new gifts, become more confident.
Speaker 4: It was never in the easy times.
Speaker 5: It was when I had to stretch, when I was uncomfortable,
Speaker 5: when I was over my head, when I was scared.
Speaker 5: At the time, I didn't like it, But I can
Speaker 5: tell you now it was good that God pushed me out.
Speaker 5: It was good that I had to stretch. You wouldn't
Speaker 5: be who you.
Speaker 4: Are without the scary places.
Speaker 5: That's where you developed your wings, That's where you discovered
Speaker 5: what's in you.
Speaker 4: The eaglet would say to the mother.
Speaker 5: Now, mother, thank you for making the nest uncomfortable. Thank
Speaker 5: you for pushing me out. I know at the time
Speaker 5: I was cussing you out. I was upset, complaining, never
Speaker 5: gonna talk to you. But now I can see what
Speaker 5: you were doing. You were helping me discover my wings.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of things in life that we
Speaker 5: don't understand. Sometimes it feels unfair to get pushed out.
Speaker 5: The company you were so loyal too, says they're downsizing
Speaker 5: and don't need you. The diagnosis wasn't good. A friend
Speaker 5: walked away. It's a scary place. God doesn't send the trouble,
Speaker 5: but he does allow things to happen. We may not
Speaker 5: understand it, but I have never come out of a
Speaker 5: scary place where I wasn't better when it was all
Speaker 5: said and.
Speaker 4: Done, When I look back, I could see how it made.
Speaker 5: Me stronger, more confident, wiser. It gave me a great
Speaker 5: or trust in God. It put me closer toward my destiny.
Speaker 5: And as much as I missed my father and honor
Speaker 5: his legacy, what I thought would be my darkest hour,
Speaker 5: the loss of my father, actually launched me into.
Speaker 4: My brightest hour. When you keep the right attitude, all
Speaker 4: things will work for your good.
Speaker 5: Then, when you face dreams that look too big, obstacles
Speaker 5: that seem insurmountable, scary places, you can look back and
Speaker 5: see how God brought you through in the past, how
Speaker 5: He made a way where you didn't see away, how
Speaker 5: He gave you peace that passed understanding, gave you strength
Speaker 5: to do what you couldn't do on your own. Those
Speaker 5: victories become fuel for your faith. You'll know God did
Speaker 5: it for you back then. He'll do it for you now.
Speaker 5: Every victory is not just for the present. You're going
Speaker 5: to need it in the future. But if you shrink back,
Speaker 5: let things intima, play it safe all the time, you're
Speaker 5: not going to have what you need for.
Speaker 4: Where God is taking you.
Speaker 5: The scripture says God takes us from glory to glory,
Speaker 5: from victory to victory. That last victory you're gonna need
Speaker 5: for your next victory. That's why I'm constantly talking about
Speaker 5: how God healed my mother from terminal cancer in nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty one, how God gave us the Compact center, how God.
Speaker 4: Helped me through the loss of my father.
Speaker 5: Those were some of my scary places where the odds
Speaker 5: were against me. I was afraid, intimidated, nervous, but I
Speaker 5: did it afraid. God showed up did something more than
Speaker 5: I could imagine.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: The reason I talk about it is because I need
Speaker 5: fuel for my faith. I need to remember what God
Speaker 5: has done, so I want shrink back when new opportunities
Speaker 5: come my way. But it's easy to play it safe
Speaker 5: all the time. It's easy to stay in the nest.
Speaker 5: We think it's dangerous to get out. The truth is
Speaker 5: it's more dangerous to stay in the nest. The baby eaglet,
Speaker 5: if it stayed in the nest, never discovered its wings.
Speaker 5: Even though it was comfortable, it would die in the nest.
Speaker 5: My challenge to you is, don't die in your nest.
Speaker 5: Don't become so comfortable that you won't take a risk.
Speaker 4: You have to go after what God put in your heart.
Speaker 5: Well, Joe, I'm afraid you're supposed to be afraid. If
Speaker 5: you weren't afraid, it wouldn't be your destiny. What God
Speaker 5: has for.
Speaker 4: You is too big to accomplish on your own. There
Speaker 4: is potential in you waiting to be released.
Speaker 5: Sometimes God pushes us out, like when my dad died
Speaker 5: and I got pushed out. God closed that door. Other
Speaker 5: times we have to make the decision. God told the
Speaker 5: prophet Elijah to anoint a young man named Elisha as
Speaker 5: his successor.
Speaker 4: He saw him in the field.
Speaker 5: He went over and threw his mantle on him and
Speaker 5: asked him to come with him. Well, Elisha had a
Speaker 5: good job, he was in the family business, had a
Speaker 5: bright future. There no doubt one day his parents would
Speaker 5: turn it over to him. But when he saw Elijah
Speaker 5: he took the mantle. Something came alive in his spirit.
Speaker 5: Deep down, he knew he was supposed to walk away
Speaker 5: from the familiar into the unknown.
Speaker 4: The problem was it was scary.
Speaker 5: Staying on the farm was safe, Everything was lined up,
Speaker 5: his income was set, his retirement had a nice place
Speaker 5: to live. Thoughts told him stay where you are, You're comfortable.
Speaker 5: Family members tried to reason with him, you don't know
Speaker 5: this prophet Elijah. He may not keep his word. You
Speaker 5: may get out there and fell deep down something said, this.
Speaker 4: Is your moment, this is your destiny. Step out in faith.
Speaker 5: Some opportunity don't come a second time. They are destiny moments.
Speaker 5: It's either now or never. Like when my dad died,
Speaker 5: I was afraid. I didn't know if I could step
Speaker 5: up and past to the church. But I knew I
Speaker 5: didn't have two years to think about it, that opportunity
Speaker 5: wouldn't pass by again.
Speaker 4: My attitude was.
Speaker 5: If I try and fail, I can go back to
Speaker 5: doing television production. But I am not going to go
Speaker 5: to my grave wondering what would have happened if I
Speaker 5: had not let fear hold me back, What I could
Speaker 5: have become, if I was not intimidated by the scary
Speaker 5: place I was afraid. But on the other side of
Speaker 5: the fear was a destiny bigger than I ever imagine.
Speaker 5: What God has in your future will scare you. But
Speaker 5: if you'll take a step of faith, you'll see how
Speaker 5: God scared you into greatness. He scared you into levels
Speaker 5: you never dreamed. He scared you into taking Elisha cut
Speaker 5: up the plow and burned it. He killed the ox
Speaker 5: and boiled the meat. He was saying, I'm done going
Speaker 5: around in circles. I'm done settling for mediocrity. I'm not
Speaker 5: going to plow this field the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: I have greatness in me.
Speaker 5: Life is too short to settle for things that are
Speaker 5: less than what you know.
Speaker 4: Is in you.
Speaker 5: Don't stay on a job when you're not challenged the
Speaker 5: rest of your life. Don't stay in a field that
Speaker 5: you don't enjoy. You don't have any passion. You weren't
Speaker 5: made to go around and around the next forty years
Speaker 5: doing something unfulfilling.
Speaker 4: Look for new opportunities.
Speaker 5: Stretch, grow, take courses, learn, do your part, and God
Speaker 5: will send Elijah by. He'll bring you an opportunity that
Speaker 5: not only scares you but excites you.
Speaker 4: You know it's your purpose.
Speaker 5: Elisha was afraid, uncertain of what the future held, but
Speaker 5: he did it afraid. He dared to leave the familiar,
Speaker 5: believe in God had something better.
Speaker 4: If you're going to reach your.
Speaker 5: Destiny, there would be times you have to do like him,
Speaker 5: walk away from what's comfortable into the unknown. And sometimes
Speaker 5: it's just in our mind. Quit telling yourself you can't
Speaker 5: teach the class.
Speaker 4: You're just an assistant. You can't run the department.
Speaker 5: You don't have those skills. You'll never start your business.
Speaker 5: Never write the book, never lead the company in sales.
Speaker 5: You don't have that kind of talent. Don't believe those lies.
Speaker 5: You have greatness in you.
Speaker 4: You are destined to leave your mark, but the enemy
Speaker 4: would love to convince you to stay in the nest, intimidated.
Speaker 5: Afraid, so your potential is never released. You have to
Speaker 5: get out of the safe zone and come into the
Speaker 5: faith zone.
Speaker 4: You cannot play it safe.
Speaker 5: Your whole life and become all you were created to be.
Speaker 5: When you know God has put something in your heart,
Speaker 5: you're excited about it. You can't get away from it.
Speaker 5: You wake up in the morning thinking about it.
Speaker 4: Then you have to take a risk. Well, Joel, what
Speaker 4: if I try and it doesn't work out? What if
Speaker 4: you try and it does work out?
Speaker 5: The better question is what if you don't try and
Speaker 5: miss your destiny? What if you get to heaven and
Speaker 5: God says I created you to do amazing things. Why
Speaker 5: did you stay in the nest? Why did you let
Speaker 5: people talk you out of it? Why did you let
Speaker 5: your thoughts convince you you can't do it? Why did
Speaker 5: you let fear hold you back? Nothing will be sadder
Speaker 5: than to come to the end of life and wonder
Speaker 5: what we could have become if we had just taken
Speaker 5: some risks. Part of faith is stepping into the unknown.
Speaker 5: The good news is God is in the scary places.
Speaker 4: That's where he'll show out in your life. That's where
Speaker 4: you'll discover your wings. That's where he'll take you further
Speaker 4: than you've dreamed. The reason some people aren't happy today
Speaker 4: is they're bored. They have so much more in them,
Speaker 4: but they're stuck doing something mediocre.
Speaker 5: God is stirring you out of that nest. Stretch grow,
Speaker 5: look for new opportunities. Well, Joel, I'm comfortable. God didn't
Speaker 5: call us to be comfortable. He called us to take
Speaker 5: new ground to advance the kingdom. You need something in
Speaker 5: front of you that challenges you, that makes you get
Speaker 5: up early, and pray makes you more discipline, more focused.
Speaker 5: You don't have time to waste, or it won't work out.
Speaker 4: We grow in the scary times.
Speaker 5: Elisha left the fields and followed Elijah. Not long after that,
Speaker 5: Elijah was taken to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha received
Speaker 5: a double portion of his spirit.
Speaker 4: He did twice as many miracles.
Speaker 5: Suppose he would have played it safe, stayed where it
Speaker 5: was familiar, we wouldn't be talking about him.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't have become one of the heroes of faith.
Speaker 5: He was afraid, but that scary place led him into greatness.
Speaker 5: Are you letting fear hold you back? It's time to
Speaker 5: do it afraid. Don't die in your nest. Maybe you
Speaker 5: passed up some opportunities and you think you've missed your chance.
Speaker 5: You know, get ready. God is about to scare you again.
Speaker 5: He's about to bring something across your path that looks so.
Speaker 4: Big, so amazing.
Speaker 5: In your spirit, you're excited. You know it's for you,
Speaker 5: but your mind says there's no way. You don't have
Speaker 5: the talent, the resources. Don't go after the compact center,
Speaker 5: don't try to step up and pastor that church.
Speaker 4: Stay in your nest.
Speaker 5: This is your time, this is your moment. Your destiny
Speaker 5: is calling. Come on over into the scary places. That's
Speaker 5: where God is. That's where you'll see his favor. That's
Speaker 5: where doors will open you couldn't open. That's where gifts
Speaker 5: will come out you didn't know you had. Greatness is
Speaker 5: waiting for you in the scary place. Now come out
Speaker 5: of the nest. Start using your wings, not chicken wings,
Speaker 5: eagles wings.
Speaker 4: You were created to soward.
Speaker 5: Maybe you're where I was twenty years ago this week
Speaker 5: when my dad died. You've gone through a loss, a disappointment,
Speaker 5: something you don't understand. It's taking the wind out of
Speaker 5: your selves. You've lost your passion. You're breathing, but you're
Speaker 5: not really living. There's nothing exciting to get up for
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