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I want to enjoin 39 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 6: you every one of us today that if you're waiting 40 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 6: on a prayer to be answered, or maybe you're waiting 41 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 6: for some things to change in your life and it 42 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 6: hasn't happened for a long time and you're just waiting 43 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,279 Speaker 6: for things to change so you can move on with life. 44 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 6: Want to encourage you to not let those things stop you. 45 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 6: Don't get stuck in those areas of your life. God 46 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 6: doesn't want you to ever get stuck. He wants you 47 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 6: to live with enthusiasm. He wants you to live with joy. 48 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 6: He wants you to live with expectancy of what He 49 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 6: can do in your life. 50 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 4: You see, sometimes. 51 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 6: We're waiting on things to change. We're looking at everything 52 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 6: around us, and we forget to look at our God. See, 53 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 6: the Bible says we are to wait upon the Lord. 54 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 6: We're not to wait for all of our prayers to 55 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 6: be answered. We're not to wait for things to change 56 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 6: before we can be happy. We're to wait expectantly on. 57 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 4: The Lord, exciting with anticipation. 58 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 6: God, I may be in a difficult season, but God, 59 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 6: that doesn't stop you from working in my life. You see, 60 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 6: with an excitement and a joy and a passion for life. 61 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 4: That's how God wants us to live. 62 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 6: You know, we sometimes we think that seems impossible. I 63 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 6: can't be that happy all the time. Really, Victoria, the 64 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 6: Bible says that there's a joy in you that Jesus 65 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 6: gave you. He says, the joy that is in me 66 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 6: I've given you. You have the ability to tap into 67 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 6: the resources. 68 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 4: That God has given you. 69 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 6: You see, the Bible says that the righteous are to 70 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 6: get brighter and brighter until the full day. We're to 71 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 6: thrive like a green leaf. We're not supposed to wither. 72 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 6: Our dreams and hopes are not supposed to wither. But 73 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 6: we're supposed to thrive. We're supposed to shine brighter and brighter. 74 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 6: You're not supposed to be dim some days, bright the others. 75 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 6: You're supposed to be bright, shining. You're supposed to let 76 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 6: the sun in the so in every single day so 77 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 6: that you can be bright and shiny. I think that's 78 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 6: a good question to ask ourselves periodically through the day. 79 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 4: Am I shining? How do I feel dim? 80 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 6: Is there a black cloud over me? Is there something 81 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 6: trying to bring me down? Am I focus too much 82 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 6: on a situation or change that needs to happen in 83 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 6: my life that I'm not shining? Do I need to 84 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 6: get my eyes off of this mountain and get my 85 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 6: eyes on where the help can come from from the 86 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 6: person who created all the mountains, who created the universe, 87 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 6: and who can create whatever I need. Listen, where to 88 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 6: be stars, where to let the sun in listen to 89 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 6: what it says in Isaiah forty three, eighteen and nineteen. 90 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 6: And this is what God spoke through the prophet, and 91 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 6: he said, forget the former things, do not dwell on them. Behold, 92 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 6: I am doing a new thing now. Now it springs up. 93 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 6: Can you perceive it? I am making a way in 94 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 6: the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. You see, there 95 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 6: is a question that God is asking us in his 96 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 6: promise to us. And what he is asking us is this, 97 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 6: do you recognize. 98 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 4: What I'm doing in your life? You see it. 99 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 6: Says I am doing a new thing. God didn't say 100 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 6: I'm going to do a new thing when I get ready, 101 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 6: when you get straight in your life. He said, I 102 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 6: am doing a new thing. It springs up now. 103 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 4: See. God is saying, don't have faith when. 104 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 6: The situation takes care of it, because I'm doing some 105 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 6: new things right now, right now. But the thing is 106 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,239 Speaker 6: is that we have to precede it, and in doing 107 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 6: so sometimes we need to change our perspective. 108 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 4: We need to widen our lens, widen our focus. You 109 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 4: see it says behold. 110 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 6: Some translations say look see watch. That sounds like anticipation 111 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 6: to me, doesn't it. 112 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 4: You watch and see what the. 113 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 6: Lord will do. See it is a new thing I'll 114 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 6: never forget. Several years ago, I was going through the 115 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 6: most difficult time in my life. There was my life 116 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 6: seemed to hinge on this one major decision. To me, 117 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 6: it felt like life and death to me. It was 118 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 6: the most difficult thing that I can remember ever going through. 119 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 6: I can remember what I wanted to do. I wanted 120 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 6: to stay. I wanted to cry. I wanted to waller listen. 121 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 6: I didn't want to shine. I wanted to dim things down. 122 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 6: One day God spoke to me and he said, you 123 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 6: cannot live like this. He said you were made and 124 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 6: designed to shine. And he said you need to look 125 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 6: out beyond this problem because I've got opportunities. I'm doing 126 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 6: some new things in the middle of your mess. 127 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 4: I am still working. 128 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 6: Do you know? That challenge in my life went on 129 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 6: for three long years? And can I tell you they 130 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,239 Speaker 6: seemed like long years. 131 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 4: But during that time I shook it off. Every day 132 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 4: I pushed through. Was it easy? 133 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 7: No? 134 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 6: But I had to change my focus and change my perspective. God, 135 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 6: you don't want me to stay here. You've got new 136 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 6: things for me. Do you know what was in those 137 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 6: three years that I wrote my first book. I wrote 138 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 6: a series of children's books, and at the end of 139 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 6: those three years, God vindicated me and showed me things 140 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 6: that I never knew were even inside of me. 141 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 4: He gave me victory. But it was a change of perspective. 142 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 6: It was deciding that I wasn't gonna wear a banner 143 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 6: of defeat, but I was gonna wear a banner of 144 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 6: victory over my head. See, I was changing what I 145 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 6: was thinking. See God had opportunity for me. But as 146 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 6: long as I sat and were waiting for things to 147 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 6: change before I could get going, I would have missed 148 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 6: out on all the new things, the new opportunities, the 149 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 6: new things He wanted to show me and do on 150 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 6: the inside of me. 151 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,559 Speaker 4: Can you imagine if I would have given in to defeat. 152 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 6: And discouragement and said so focused on what I needed 153 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 6: to happen, I would. 154 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 4: Have lost three years. 155 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 6: Do you know that I had exponential growth in my 156 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 6: spiritual life those three years. You see, God turned it 157 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 6: around because I was willing to put forth the effort. 158 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 4: I was willing to shake it off. 159 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 6: I was willing to say, no, this doesn't have to 160 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 6: change before I can keep living. 161 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 4: Absolutely not. 162 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 6: I serve a great, big God, and He's gotten great 163 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 6: things over the horizon for me. 164 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 4: He is doing a new thing. It is in process. 165 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 6: The printing presses have already been turned on. It is 166 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 6: happening now in your life. I was speaking to a 167 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 6: woman the other day, and I'd been praying with her 168 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 6: for a while, and seemed like every time I prayed 169 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 6: with her or talked to her, all I could see 170 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 6: was this just rigid, still, just wanting something to happen 171 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 6: in her life. And what she was wanting was this. 172 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 6: Her husband had left and she was wanting reconciliation in 173 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 6: her marriage, and that is what I could see was 174 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 6: the main focus and thrust of her life. And I 175 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 6: told her this, I said, listen, do not make plans 176 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 6: according to this prayer being answered. Don't make plans around 177 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 6: your life according to this happening. Don't stop living. 178 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 4: You see. 179 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 6: I believe that what she was trying to do was 180 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 6: work it out in her own mind, figure out how 181 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 6: it was going to happen, and as soon as he 182 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 6: walked back in the door, then she could begin to live. 183 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 6: Then her life could go on. But that is not 184 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 6: what God intends for her. To do, because He's got 185 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 6: new things springing up in her mess right now. I said, 186 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 6: you're too valuable. You got too to offer, You got gifts, 187 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 6: you got talents. 188 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 4: You be the best you that you can be. 189 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 6: You let God grow, you, learn, progress, take on new 190 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 6: and exciting challenges that God's got out there for you. 191 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 6: Be the best you can be. I didn't tell her 192 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 6: to quit praying. I didn't tell her to quit believing. 193 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 6: I said, don't get stuck. Don't get stuck. You keep living, 194 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 6: and I believe that God has a word for somebody 195 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 6: in here today. 196 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 4: You need to keep on living. 197 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 6: Don't make all your plans around that unanswered prayer. I 198 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 6: got new things springing up even now. He didn't say 199 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 6: there was not going to be wilderness. He didn't say 200 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 6: there wasn't going to be some wasted things. You look 201 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 6: at and think, why it is happened? 202 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 4: Why me? This is a waste? What happened? 203 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 6: He said, I can make a way in the wilderness, 204 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 6: and I can refresh you in those times. 205 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 4: That feel waste. 206 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 6: I can bring out of you things you never knew 207 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 6: were in you. I can do be impossible. As long 208 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 6: as you widen your lens, change your perspective. 209 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 4: Don't get narrow. 210 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 6: And don't get so focused that the strains and stresses 211 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 6: of life don't allow you to see beyond where you are. 212 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 6: I was reading about eyes strain and icetrain is becoming 213 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 6: more and more of a common problem because of all 214 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 6: of our screens that we look at computers, iPads, telephones, 215 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 6: and so. Eyestrain is when you know you can be 216 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 6: focused on your computer and you're reading material for so 217 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 6: long that you'll get dry eye, or or you'll get 218 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 6: a headache, or sometimes you know you feel like it's blurry. 219 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 4: That's eyestrain. 220 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 6: And I was reading the article and it was giving 221 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 6: tips to alleviate this eye strain, and it says, if 222 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 6: you're in front of your computer, you're working on this, 223 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 6: you know, really focused project which you should do is 224 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 6: try to get up from your the area that you're 225 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 6: at at least three times a day, and for ten 226 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,959 Speaker 6: minutes a day you should look out of a window. 227 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 6: Maybe you need to walk outside if you don't have 228 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 6: a wind in your office or the place you're working. 229 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 6: And it said, do this, cast your eyes at a 230 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 6: distance as far as you can see. 231 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 4: And take on all the life around you. 232 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 6: It says when you do that, when you cast your 233 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 6: eyes and you begin to see light, trees, sky, clouds, 234 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 6: you're watching all this stuff around you. What it does 235 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 6: is it relaxes the lens of your eye. With eyestrains, 236 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 6: your lens flattens out. And what this exercise does is 237 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 6: it causes it to be more flexible. 238 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 4: It causes it to relax. Now, I'm not giving you. 239 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 6: A tip on eyestrain today, although if you have it, 240 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 6: that might work. What I am saying is that same 241 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 6: thing parallels our life. When we begin to focus so 242 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 6: much on an area of our life that needs to change, 243 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 6: or something we want to happen, or something we want 244 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 6: to pray about, we get so focused in that we 245 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 6: struggle and we bring strain upon ourselves. And God is saying, 246 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 6: we've got to get good at getting up out of 247 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 6: that situation and casting our eyes, pass the situation into 248 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 6: the distance, so that we can widen our lens and 249 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 6: take on the life that is out there that God 250 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 6: gave us to live. 251 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 4: He has got. 252 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 6: More in store for you wherever you are, whatever you're 253 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 6: going through, He's doing a new thing. 254 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 4: Can you perceive it? 255 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 6: It is springing up? 256 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 4: But if you're not looking for it, you might not 257 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 4: find it. 258 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 6: Joel quoted the scripture from another passage in Isaiah, and 259 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 6: it says God is longing to be good to those 260 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 6: who are looking for his goodness, who are beholding the 261 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 6: new things, watching to see with earnest expectations. 262 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 4: Can I tell you where you are today? Is it 263 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 4: where you're going to stay? 264 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 6: But don't waste your precious life, your precious time when 265 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 6: God is already put it into motion. There are new opportunities, 266 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 6: there are new ways of doing things. There's new growth, 267 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 6: there's new refreshing, there are springs springing. 268 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 4: Up for you to have today. Listen, You're not going 269 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 4: to stay where you are. 270 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 6: It may not have happened in the past, but it 271 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 6: always can happen. 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