1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. Reappreciate 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life. 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: So God bless you. It's a joy to come into 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: your homes. 8 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 2: We love you. If you're ever in our area, please 9 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 2: stop buying. Be a part of one of our services. 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 2: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 11 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 2: But thank you for tuning in today, and thank you 12 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: again for coming out. 13 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny and I heard 14 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: about this minister. 15 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 2: He was walking down the street and he came upon 16 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 2: this group of young boys that were surrounding a small dog. 17 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: He asked what they were doing. They explained they. 18 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 2: Were having a contest and whoever could tell the biggest 19 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,159 Speaker 2: lie would get to keep the dog. The minister launched 20 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 2: into a ten minute sermon on lying, starting with don't 21 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 2: you know lying is a sin? And ending with when 22 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: I was your age, I never told a lie. 23 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: There was complete silence. 24 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 2: Just when he thought he had gotten through to them, 25 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 2: the youngest boy spoke up and said, all right, give 26 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: him the dog. 27 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: Hold up your Bible and say it like you mean it. 28 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 29 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do 30 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be 31 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 32 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 33 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 34 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 2: to talk to you today about how you are a 35 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 2: no lack person. When God created you, he put in 36 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 2: you everything you need to fulfill your destiny. You have 37 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:46,680 Speaker 2: the talent, the creativity, the ideas. You are full of discipline, focus, 38 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 2: self control. You have strength, determination, resolve. The creator of 39 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: the universe has crowned you with his favor. If you're 40 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: going to live a victorious life, you have to see 41 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 2: yoursel self as a no lack person. How you see 42 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: yourself will determine what kind of life you live. If 43 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: you go around thinking I'll never get out of debt, 44 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: I'll never have enough, what you're really saying is I'm 45 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 2: lacking talent, I'm lacking ability, or I'll never lose this weight, 46 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: I'll never break this bad habit. You're saying, I'm lacking discipline, 47 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 2: I'm lacking self control, I don't have enough. If you 48 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 2: see yourself lacking, it will set the limits for your life. 49 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: Psalm thirty four to ten says those who trust in 50 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: the Lord will never lack any good thing. 51 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 1: Deep down. You have to know that. 52 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 2: You know, because you trust in the Lord, you are 53 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 2: a no lack person. Almighty God breathed his life into you. 54 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 2: He's already equipped and empowered you. You may have difficulties, 55 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 2: but it's not a surprise to God. 56 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: That dream is not too big. 57 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: You have the talent, the strength, the termination to focus. 58 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 2: You are well able to fulfill your destiny. So important 59 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 2: how you see yourself. You may be dealing with the sickness, 60 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: but understand you are not a sick person trying to 61 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 2: get well. You are a well person fighting off sickness. 62 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 1: Health is your normal state. 63 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 2: You may be struggling in your finances, but you're not 64 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 2: a poor person trying to get ahead. You're a successful 65 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 2: person fighting off poverty. Abundance is your normal stake. You 66 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 2: may be struggling with an addiction, You've had it many years. 67 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: Don't see yourself as an addict. 68 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: Don't let that image become ingrained on the inside. You 69 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: are not an addicted person trying to get free. You 70 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 2: are a free person fighting off an addiction. 71 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: Freedom is your normal state. Let me tell you. 72 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 2: God didn't make anyone addicted, insecure, depressed, mediocre. That's not 73 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: who you are. God made you as a master peace. 74 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 2: Get a new image. Start seeing yourself strong, healthy, accomplishing 75 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 2: your dreams, living his abundant life. This is what the 76 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 2: people of Israel had to do. They had spent years 77 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: in slavery, being mistreated. All they had known was struggle, lack, oppression, defeat. 78 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: But when God brought them out. 79 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 2: As they were leaving, God caused their captors to give them. 80 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: Their gold, their silver, their jewels. 81 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 2: They didn't leave empty handed, they left loaded down. What 82 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: was God doing? Why did he want them to leave 83 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: with all this treasure. They were going out into the wilderness. 84 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 2: There was no place to spend it out there, no 85 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 2: grocery stores, no malls. God was wanting to develop a 86 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: new image on the inside. God had these parents to 87 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: put the gold and the silver on their little children. 88 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 2: These children, all they had ever seen was defeat. It 89 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 2: was ingrained in their thinking. 90 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: We're poor, we're second class. We'll never have enough. 91 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: One by one, the parents would call their little daughter 92 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 2: over and put a beautiful gold necklace around her neck. 93 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 2: The little girl would brighten up, A new sparkle would 94 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 2: come into her eye. 95 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: She would see herself valuable, important, like a queen. 96 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: The parents would call their little boy over and put 97 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 2: a gold ring on his finger. The little boy would 98 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 2: stare at that ring in amazement. I can imagine for 99 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 2: the first time, these children put their shoulders back, They 100 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 2: stood up tall, carried themselves with a new confidence, a 101 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 2: new sense of value. They had been pushed down for 102 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 2: years and years, told they would never amount to anything. 103 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 2: But now that image was beginning to change. They got 104 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: rid of a slave mentality, barely get by a mindset, 105 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: and they started seeing themselves as the head and not 106 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 2: the tail, as above and not beneath. What's interesting is 107 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: these parents, they never did make it into their promised land. 108 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: They thought their giants were too big, they didn't think 109 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 2: they could overcome their obstacles. But these children, the ones 110 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 2: that had a different mindset, the ones that knew they 111 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 2: were no lack people destined to do great things. They 112 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: were the ones that went into the promised land. Some 113 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 2: of you today, If you would just change the way 114 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: you see yourself, you would rise. 115 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: To a new level. 116 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 2: Maybe like them, you come from a family of struggle, lack, addictions, depression. 117 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: All you've seen model growing up was mediocrity. 118 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: But if you could just change that image and start 119 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 2: seeing yourself as a no lack person, strong, valuable, confident, talented, 120 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 2: successful than like these children. Because you have an image 121 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 2: of victory, an image of abundance. 122 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: God will take you places that you've never dreamed of. 123 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 2: I've learned you will never rise any higher than the 124 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 2: image you have of yourself. 125 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: Start seeing yourself as a Nolak person. 126 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 2: When I was a little boy, my father went out 127 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 2: and bought a brand new car. We were so excited 128 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 2: we couldn't wait for him to get home so we 129 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 2: could see it. And we were all standing at the 130 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 2: end of the driveway looking down the road waiting for 131 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 2: my father, And we finally saw him driving up in 132 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 2: this new car, and as little kids, we all jumped 133 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 2: in the car. 134 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: We owed and odd and my. 135 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: Dad drove us around the neighborhood. Daddy was so proud 136 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: of this new car. 137 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: He's just beaming with joy. 138 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 2: Later that night, my father was watching television and a 139 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: commercial for a car came on the screen, but the 140 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 2: camera only showed very tight shots, so you didn't know 141 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 2: what kind of car it was advertising. It showed a 142 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: close up of the engine, talked about how it had 143 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: the most powerful efficient engine made, showed a close up 144 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 2: of the shocks the suspension, and talked about how it 145 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 2: had the latest, greatest shocks smoother ride than any other car. 146 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,239 Speaker 2: The more my father watched, the more depressed he got. 147 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 2: He thought, I bought the wrong stinking car. This car 148 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 2: can run circles around my car. Just when he was 149 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 2: about to get sick to his stomach, the camera pulled 150 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 2: out wide and the car they were advertising was the 151 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 2: exact car my father had just bought. He was sitting 152 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 2: in our driveway. What's my point? Sometimes we don't realize 153 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: what we have. You're not average, you're not ordinary. Your 154 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 2: maker is the creator of the universe. He didn't give 155 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 2: you a weak engine, a cheap transmission, a rough suspension, 156 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,199 Speaker 2: a second class paint job. He put in you everything 157 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 2: you need to perform at your highest level. You have 158 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 2: the talent, the looks, the determination, the favor to overcome 159 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 2: any obstacle to accomplish every God given dream. Now, don't 160 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 2: be like my father and not realize what you have. 161 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: You're not lacking, You're not limited. You have everything you 162 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 2: need to live an overcoming life, a blessed, prosperous, faith filled, 163 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 2: abundant life. And yes, you may have some obstacles in 164 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: your path, but the good news is the power that 165 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 2: is for you is greater than any power that's trying 166 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 2: to stop you. Now we've got to rise up and say, 167 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 2: I'm not settling here. I know who I am, a 168 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 2: child of the Most High God. I'm going to become 169 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: everything that God's. 170 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: Created me to be. 171 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: This is what David did when he saw Goliath taunting 172 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 2: the people of Israel. Something rose up on the inside, 173 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 2: said David, this is your time. You were born to 174 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 2: defeat Goliath. He hurt his destiny calling out. But David 175 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 2: could have thought of a thousand reasons why he couldn't 176 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 2: fight Goliath. God, I'm lacking the experience. I don't have 177 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 2: the military training that Goliath does. God, I'm lacking the size. 178 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 2: He's four feet taller than me. God, I'm lacking the equipment. 179 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: He's got a full set of armor, a big shield, 180 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 2: a big sword. David could have talked himself out of 181 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 2: it and missed his destiny. No, David understood this principle. 182 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 2: He had the right image on the inside. He's the 183 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 2: one that said, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall 184 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 2: not want. He was saying, in effect, I know I'm 185 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: a no lack person. Even though Goliath was much bigger 186 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: in the natural, he didn't have a chance. Yet, the 187 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 2: scripture says David ran toward Goliath. Most of us would 188 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 2: have said, all right, God, I'll do it, but give 189 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: me a couple of weeks to think about it. 190 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: God, let me come up with a strategy at least 191 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: to sneak up on him and surprise him. 192 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 2: No, when you really understand you're a no lack person 193 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: and the greatest power in the universe is backing you up, 194 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:01,359 Speaker 2: you won't. 195 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: Run from your enemies. You'll run to your enemies. 196 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 2: In other words, you won't run away from college thinking 197 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 2: it's too hard. 198 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: You'll run to it knowing that you're well able. 199 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 2: You won't run away from that management position thinking you're 200 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 2: not qualified. You'll run to it knowing that you are equipped. 201 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 2: This is what David did. 202 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: He ran toward Goliath. 203 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 2: I could imagine the other soldiers were thinking, where is 204 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 2: David going in such a hurry? 205 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: What's the big rush? 206 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 2: And they see David running straight toward Goliath. They think, 207 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 2: boy David has lost his mind. He has been watching 208 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 2: too much Hawaii five. Oh, he's gonna get crushed. 209 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 3: Now. 210 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 2: When you dare take steps of faith and you do 211 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 2: what you know God's asking you to do. You don't 212 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 2: go in your own strength. You don't go by yourself. 213 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 2: The creator of the universe is right there beside you. 214 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 2: When Golias saw how small David was, he began to laugh. 215 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 2: He said, and my dog, that you'd come at me 216 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,319 Speaker 2: with a stick. David said, that's find Goliath. You can 217 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 2: laugh now, but you're not gonna be laughing in a moment. 218 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 2: I'm gonna feed your head to the birds of the air. 219 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 2: This young teenage boy, David, with no experience, defeated this. 220 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: Huge giant named Goliath. 221 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 2: Maybe today, like David, you're up against some big obstacles, 222 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 2: a legal battle, financial difficulty, and addiction, a sickness. It 223 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 2: looks so much bigger, so much more powerful in the natural. 224 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 1: You don't have a. 225 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 2: Chance, but you've got to do Like David, and remind 226 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: yourself that you are a no lack person. You have 227 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 2: the talent, the wisdom, the favor, the determination to take 228 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: down any enemy. When you make a move and say no, 229 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 2: this battle is not going to defeat me. This sickness 230 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 2: is not going to steal my joy. When you run 231 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 2: toward the enemy, Almighty God will be right there to 232 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 2: make a way where it looks like there is no way. 233 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 2: He will help you accomplish what you could not accomplish 234 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 2: on your own. Now in the tough times, don't have 235 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,239 Speaker 2: a weak, defeated mentality. 236 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: Be a warrior. 237 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 2: You've been armed with strength for every battle. The size 238 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 2: of your battle is an indication of the size of 239 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 2: your future. 240 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: If you have a big problem, don't get all upset. 241 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: That just means you have a big future. You know 242 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: what made David King Goliath. 243 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 2: Goliath was strategically placed in David's path, not to defeat him, 244 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 2: but to promote him. Quit saying I can't take this anymore. 245 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 2: It's just too hard. I don't know how I'm going 246 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 2: to make it. No, instead of falling apart, do like 247 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,400 Speaker 2: Clint Eastwood. When you face difficulties, go ahead, make my day. 248 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 2: I know What's on the other side of this is promotion, 249 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 2: increase new levels of God's favor. 250 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: Listen to how Paul put it. 251 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 2: I am ready for and equal to anything through Christ, 252 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 2: who infuses strengthen too me. That should be our attitude. 253 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 2: Anything that comes off, I'm ready for it. I'm up 254 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 2: to it. Any dream God puts in your heart, it 255 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 2: may look impossible, but you are equal to it. There 256 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 2: is no obstacle too big for you, no dream too great. 257 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 2: Get this down in your spirit. You are a no 258 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 2: lack person. Victory is in your DNA. You have the 259 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 2: genes of a winner. Almighty God has infused strength, talent, value, 260 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 2: confidence into each one of you. I have a friend 261 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: that's taken chemotherapy for the third time, and he's lost 262 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 2: most of his hair, and he's a little bit thinner, 263 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 2: but he is not a complainer. 264 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: He's a warrior. His attitude is. 265 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 2: This sickness is not going to get the best of me. 266 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 2: I am ready for and equal to anything that comes 267 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 2: my way. I love his attitude. It says in Corinthians, 268 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 2: these light afflictions are but for a moment. Every adversity 269 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 2: we face. We should see it as only being light. 270 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 2: Now it may not feel light. It may have been 271 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 2: a big disappointment, a major setback. But when you look 272 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 2: that trouble in the eye and by faith, say hey, 273 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 2: it's no big deal. That person leaving me, that person 274 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 2: that did me wrong, is not going to ruin the. 275 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: Rest of my life. It's only a light affliction. 276 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 2: When you do that, all of Heaven comes to attention, 277 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 2: because most people get down, discourage, they live with a 278 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 2: chip on their shoulder. But when you shake it off 279 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 2: and say no big deal, it's just a bump in 280 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 2: the road. I know God still has something awesome. 281 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: In my future. 282 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 2: Then, like David, you'll not only come out, but you'll 283 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 2: come out promoted. 284 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: You'll come out better off than you were before. 285 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 2: See every adversity as being light. And then number two, 286 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: see it as being temporary. The scripture says, it's. 287 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: But for a moment. 288 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 2: You may have had that same addiction for the last 289 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 2: twenty years, but don't make the mistake of accepting it 290 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 2: as the way it's always going to be. 291 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: When you get used. 292 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 2: To it, you quit stretching, you quit trying to change, 293 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 2: and that's what keeps us from God's best. I know 294 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 2: this couple them they were believing to buy a new house, 295 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 2: and they found one that they really liked, but for 296 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 2: some reason, the financing didn't go through and they got 297 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 2: turned down. This happened three different times. Each time it 298 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 2: was something very odd, but it stopped the whole deal. 299 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 2: They'd been in their apartment year after year. They have 300 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: three children. They were tempted to think, it's never going 301 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 2: to change. What's the use of even trying. This is 302 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 2: just our lot in life. No, deep down they knew 303 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 2: that it was only temporary. They stayed in faith, and 304 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 2: last week they brought me a picture of their brand new, 305 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 2: beautiful home that they just moved into. They said, Joel, 306 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 2: this is God doing more. 307 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: Than we could ever ask or think. 308 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 2: Now along the way, you may hit some setbacks, but 309 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 2: don't believe the lies that are telling you it's never 310 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 2: going to change. You're never gonna get the house you want, 311 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 2: You're never gonna get well, never gonna see that breakthrough. Now, 312 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 2: every day, remind yourself it's only temporary. 313 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: It's not going to last forever. 314 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 2: In fact, there's a scripture that says the things that 315 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 2: we see are subject to change. You may have been 316 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 2: turned down a dozen times, but the good news is 317 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 2: it's subject to change. 318 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: God is still on the throne. 319 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 2: The next time you apply could be the time it 320 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 2: all works out. The next time you resist and don't 321 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 2: give into that addiction could be the time you break 322 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 2: totally free. The next person you meet could be the 323 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 2: person of your dreams. 324 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: Keep believing it's not permanent. 325 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 2: It's interesting in the scripture many times when Jesus prayed 326 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 2: for people, he asked how long they had been that way. 327 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: He said to the man he was crippled laying at 328 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 2: the pull of Bethesda, how long have you been here? 329 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 2: The man replied thirty eight years. He says, ask a 330 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 2: woman that has all been over how long she had 331 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 2: been sick? She replied eighteen years. These parents brought their 332 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 2: grown son to Jesus. 333 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: He was blind. 334 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 2: Jesus said, how long has your son not been able 335 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 2: to see? They said, since his birth? Why was Jesus 336 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 2: so interested in the length of time? Why didn't he 337 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 2: just heal them and move on. It's because Jesus wanted 338 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 2: us to see how nothing is permanent. He wanted it 339 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 2: to be forever recorded for generations to come, so that 340 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 2: we would know it's never too late. You may be 341 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 2: facing situations right now that have been the same way 342 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 2: year after year, looks like it's never going to change. 343 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 2: No God is saying, I can still turn it around. 344 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 2: I can still bring that dream to pass. I can 345 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:50,400 Speaker 2: still bring the right people across your path. I can 346 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 2: still heal your body, restore the relationship. I know a 347 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 2: young lady that got off to a rough start in life. 348 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 2: She came from a very dispununctional family, and all she 349 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 2: had ever seen was poverty, addictions, depression. Sixteen years old, 350 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 2: she had a baby and had to drop out of 351 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 2: high school. 352 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: Looked like that same. 353 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 2: Negative cycle in her family was permanent, it would continue 354 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 2: on for another generation. She found a little place to 355 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 2: live try to raise her son, but she didn't have 356 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:24,479 Speaker 2: any money, any family supporting her, and she ended up 357 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 2: on welfare, barely making it. Living in poverty. She would 358 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 2: attend our services here at Lakewood each week, and she 359 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 2: would hear again and again, how you have seeds of 360 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 2: greatness on the inside, how you have the DNA of 361 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,959 Speaker 2: a winner, and where you are is not where you 362 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 2: have to stay. She began to change the way she 363 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 2: saw herself. She created an image of success, an image 364 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 2: of victory, and those seeds of greatness began to take root. 365 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 2: She didn't just sit back and accept the status quo. 366 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 2: She went out and got a job at a local 367 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 2: high schoo ot cafeteria, punching lunch tickets, making minimum wage. 368 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 2: She wasn't satisfied. She went back to school and got 369 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 2: her ged. She still wasn't satisfied. She decided to go 370 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 2: to college. She would work during the day and go 371 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,359 Speaker 2: to college at night, and in four years she graduated 372 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 2: from college with honors. She still wasn't satisfied. She went 373 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 2: back to college and got her master's degree. Today, she's 374 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,800 Speaker 2: not on welfare anymore. She's the principal at the same 375 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,479 Speaker 2: school where she started off working in the cafeteria punching 376 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 2: those lunch tickets. 377 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: What happened. 378 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,439 Speaker 2: She saw that poverty, lack mediocrity, not as permanent but 379 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 2: only temporary. Like David, she ran toward the enemy. She 380 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,199 Speaker 2: rose up in faith, and Almighty God breathed in her direction. 381 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: I love what she says. 382 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 2: I used to be on welfare, but now I'm fair 383 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 2: and well. Have a big vision for your life. Don't 384 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 2: get stuck in a rut. And except that where you 385 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 2: are is the way it's always going to be. Do 386 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 2: like her, break out of your box, believe that you 387 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 2: can rise higher. 388 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 1: God wants you. 389 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 2: To set a new standard for your family. Too many 390 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 2: people have a narrow, limited vision. Was at the mall 391 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 2: years ago with a friend of mine, and every other 392 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 2: word he would say, I can't afford it. 393 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: We were looking at some sporting. 394 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 2: Good equipment and he said, I can't afford it. Looked 395 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 2: at tennis shoes, I can't afford it. Looked at this shirt, 396 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 2: I can't afford it. I finally said, if you keep 397 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 2: saying that, you're never going to be able to afford anything, 398 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 2: he was setting the limits for his life with his 399 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:41,479 Speaker 2: own thinking. 400 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: The truth is I couldn't afford half the stuff we 401 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: were looking at either. 402 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 2: But I've learned you don't have to announce it to 403 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 2: the world. If you're going to use that phrase, at 404 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 2: least follow it up with two simple words, I can't 405 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 2: afford it right now. In other words, it's just a 406 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 2: matter of time. 407 00:21:58,440 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: I know I'm a no lack. 408 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 2: At some point I will come into my abundance. Be 409 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 2: careful what comes out of your mouth. Don't go around 410 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 2: talking about how high prices are and how you're never 411 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,959 Speaker 2: going to make it If you talk lack, you're going 412 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 2: to have lack. The right attitude is Prices may be high, 413 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 2: but God always supplies my needs. Business may be a 414 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 2: little off, but I'm not going under. I'm going over. 415 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 1: God always causes me to try out. Have that report 416 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: of victory. 417 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 2: Had this young couple one time They asked me if 418 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 2: I would pray that this furniture that they liked would 419 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 2: go on sell. They had been watching it a long 420 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 2: time and they knew if it went on sale, they'd 421 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 2: be able to buy it. After I thought about it 422 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 2: a moment, I said, instead of praying that it'll go 423 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 2: on sell, I would rather pray that God will bless 424 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 2: you in such a way that even if it doesn't 425 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: go on sell, you'll still be able to buy it. 426 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: See, God owns it all. 427 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 2: It's not about us trying to make things come down 428 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 2: so we can afford it. It's about us believing to 429 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 2: come up higher. 430 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,239 Speaker 1: To where we're supposed to be. 431 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 2: The same God that can cause it to go on seal, 432 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 2: can bless you in such a way that you don't 433 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 2: have to sit around and wait for some kind of discount. 434 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 2: Now I'm all for getting good deals and getting things 435 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 2: on sale, but don't have a cheap, narrow vision that 436 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 2: will limit what God can do in your life. When 437 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 2: I was eight years old, I went to a department 438 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 2: store with my father where he was buying a suit, 439 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 2: and the man waiting on us found out that my 440 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 2: dad was a minister, and he said in a very 441 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 2: demeaning way, like we were second class. Where you know, 442 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 2: if you can't afford it, we can give you a 443 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 2: minister's discount. 444 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: Well, my father was raised in extreme poverty. He came 445 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: out of the. 446 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 2: Great Depression, and they didn't have enough food to eat 447 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 2: growing up. That he had to put cardboard in his 448 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 2: shoes as a little boy because they had holes in him. 449 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 2: When this man and said sarcastically, we can give you 450 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 2: this discount, it rubbed my father the wrong way. 451 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: I could see it in his eyes. 452 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 2: Daddy thought to himself, I am not a beggar. I 453 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 2: don't need a handout. I'm a child of the most 454 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 2: High God. It wasn't out of arrogance, wasn't out of pride, 455 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 2: but more out of a confidence of who he was 456 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 2: and who he represented. He looked at that salesman in 457 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 2: the eyes and he said, no, sir, I don't take 458 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 2: a minister's discount. 459 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: Do you know who my father is? That man stepped back. 460 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 2: Like Daddy came from some kind of influential. 461 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: Well to do family. He didn't know. Daddy wasn't talking 462 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: about his earthly father. 463 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 2: He was talking about his heavenly father. He was saying, 464 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 2: in effect, this is a new day. I've stepped out 465 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 2: of poverty and lack. The God I serve doesn't need 466 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 2: a discount. He's well able to take care of me. 467 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 2: He's all shadow of the God who is more than enough. Friends, 468 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 2: God doesn't want you to be dependent on a handout, 469 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,360 Speaker 2: a discount, a blue light special, Black Friday, Cyber Monday. 470 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 1: Leftover bread, hoping that things will. 471 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 2: Come down so you'll be able to afford it. 472 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: That's not who you are. Have a bigger vision. 473 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 2: God has an abundance in front of each one of you. 474 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: He's the God of more than enough. 475 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 2: You may not be there just yet, but what I'm 476 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 2: asking you to do is to not. 477 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: Settle where you are. 478 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 2: It says in Deuteronomy that God gives you the power 479 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 2: to get wealth. There are seeds in you right now 480 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 2: that can bring an abundance, gifts, talents, skills, ideas, creativity, favor. 481 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 2: God didn't leave anybody out. You've got to remind yourself 482 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 2: you are a no lack person. You are blessed, you 483 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,400 Speaker 2: are prosperous, you are well able, and yes you may 484 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 2: be having to have some kind of assistance right now. 485 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,439 Speaker 2: But if you will have this attitude before long, instead 486 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 2: of taking a handout, you'll be given a handout. 487 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: Instead of borring, you'll be the lender. 488 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 2: Now I know today I am looking at no lack people. 489 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 2: You are full of talent, creativity, courage, strength, ability. You 490 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: have been anointed, accepted, and approved by the creator of 491 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 2: the universe. Now get up every morning and remind yourself 492 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 2: I am a no lack person. See yourself strong, healthy, 493 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: accomplish in your dreams, living the abundant life. Keep the 494 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 2: right image in front of you when you face difficulties, 495 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 2: remember you are ready for and equal to anything that 496 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 2: comes your way. It's temporary, it's light. Almighty God has. 497 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: Infused strength into each one of you. 498 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 2: If you will see yourself as this no lack person, 499 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 2: then like David, you. 500 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: Will defeat every giant. 501 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 2: You will overcome every obstacle, You will accomplish every God 502 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 2: given dream. And I believe and declare you're going to 503 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 2: live that life of abundance that God has in story. 504 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: Amen, do you receive it today? 505 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 2: We never like to close without giving you an opportunity 506 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 2: to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you 507 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 2: pray with me, say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 508 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 2: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and 509 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 2: save you. 510 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: Friends. 511 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 512 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 2: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 513 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,479 Speaker 2: God first place. He's going to take your places that 514 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 2: you've never dreamed of. 515 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 3: Are you in a situation where you feel lost, afraid, hopeless, 516 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 3: where there seems to be no solutions, no answers, no 517 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 3: way out. It's time for your turnaround. 518 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 2: We all face situations that look like they'll never change. 519 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 2: It's easy to get discouraged. I love to send you 520 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: my book Turn Around, How God can take you from 521 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 2: a setback to a comeback, where you'll discover how God 522 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 2: can turn sickness into health, lack into abundance, addictions into freedom. 523 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 2: It'll inspire you to keep believing and have an expectancy 524 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,120 Speaker 2: for things to turn in your favor. Recent weeks, we've 525 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 2: been celebrating the incredible life of my mother, her miraculous 526 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 2: turnaround story of overcoming terminal cancer over forty years ago. 527 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 2: It's a testimonia the power of God's promises. Just because 528 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 2: you don't see a way doesn't mean God doesn't have 529 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 2: a way. 530 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: Stay in faith, your turnaround is on the way. 531 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 532 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 3: of any amount this month, we would like to send 533 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joel's brand new book, Turnaround. How 534 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 3: God Can take you from setback to come Back. Through 535 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 3: biblical examples, real life applications, and practical encouragement, you'll learn 536 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 3: to see challenges through a faith filled perspective. Each section 537 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 3: highlights a faith turnaround point to help you see a 538 00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 3: positive change in your life. As you meditate on His promises, 539 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 3: you'll begin to see your greatest challenges turn around. These 540 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 3: power packed life transforming stories will shift your mindset, strengthen 541 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 3: your faith, and turn your trials into triumphs. Request your 542 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 3: copy today and see the turnaround and breakthrough you've been 543 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 3: waiting for. 544 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 2: God won't let you get in a problem that He 545 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 2: can't bring you out of. There are turnarounds in your future. 546 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 2: Thanks so much, for being with us today. Victoria and 547 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 2: I pray for you and your family, and we sure 548 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 2: appreciate your prayer and support. 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