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I want to encourage 32 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 5: every one of us today that if you're waiting on 33 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 5: a prayer to be answered, or maybe you're waiting for 34 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 5: some things to change in your life and it hasn't 35 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 5: happened for a long time, and you're just waiting for 36 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 5: things to change so you can move on with life. 37 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 5: I want to encourage you to not let those things 38 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 5: stop you. Don't get stuck in those areas of your life. 39 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 5: God doesn't want you to ever get stuck. He wants 40 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 5: you to live with enthusiasm. He wants you to live 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 5: with joy. He wants you to live with expectancy of 42 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 5: what He can do in your life. You see, sometimes 43 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 5: we're waiting on things to change, We're looking at everything 44 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 5: around us, and we forget to look at our God. 45 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: See. 46 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 5: The Bible says we are to wait upon the Lord. 47 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 5: We're not to wait for all of our prayers to 48 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 5: be answered. We're not to wait for things to change 49 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 5: before we can be happy. We're to wait expectantly on 50 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 5: the Lord, exciting with anticipation. God, I may be in 51 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 5: a difficult season, but God, that doesn't stop you from 52 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 5: working in my life, you see, with an excitement and 53 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 5: a joy and a passion for life. That's how God 54 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 5: wants us to live. You know, we sometimes we think 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 5: that seems impossible. I can't be that happy all the time, really, Victoria. 56 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 5: The Bible says that there is a joy in you 57 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 5: that Jesus gave you. He says, the joy that is 58 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 5: in me I've given you. 59 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 3: You have the. 60 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 5: Ability to tap into the resources that God has given you. 61 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 5: You See. The Bible says that the righteous are to 62 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 5: get brighter and brighter until the full day. We're to 63 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 5: thrive like a green leaf. We're not supposed to wither. 64 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 5: Our dreams and hopes are not supposed to wither. But 65 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 5: we're supposed to thrive. We're supposed to shine brighter and brighter. 66 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 5: You're not supposed to be dim some days and bright 67 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 5: the others. You're supposed to be bright, shiny. You're supposed 68 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 5: to let the sun in that so in every single day, 69 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 5: so that you can be bright and shining. I think 70 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 5: that's a good question to ask ourselves periodically through the day. 71 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 5: Am I shining? How do I feel dim? Is there 72 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 5: a black cloud over me? Is there something trying to 73 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 5: bring me down? Am I focus too much on a 74 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 5: situation or change that needs to happen in my life 75 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 5: that I'm not shining? Do I need to get my 76 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 5: eyes off of this mountain and get my eyes on 77 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 5: where the help can come from from the person who 78 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 5: created all the mountains, who created the universe, and who 79 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 5: can create whatever I need. Listen where to be stars, 80 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 5: where to let the sun in? Listen to what it 81 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 5: says in Isaiah forty three, eighteen and nineteen. And this 82 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,239 Speaker 5: is what God spoke through the prophet, and he said, 83 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 5: forget the former things, do not dwell on them. Behold, 84 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 5: I am doing a new thing. Now now it springs up. 85 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 5: Can you perceive it? I am making a way in 86 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 5: the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. You see, there 87 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 5: is a question that God is asking us in his 88 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 5: promise to us, And what he is asking us is this, 89 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 5: do you recognize what I'm doing in your life? You 90 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 5: see it says I am doing a new thing. God 91 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 5: didn't say I'm going to do a new thing when 92 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 5: I get ready, when you get straight in your life. 93 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 5: He said, I am doing a new thing. It springs 94 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 5: up now. See. God is saying, don't have faith when 95 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 5: the situation takes care of itself, because I'm doing some 96 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 5: new things right now, right now. But the thing is 97 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 5: is that we have to precede it, and in doing 98 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 5: so sometimes we need to change our perspective. We need 99 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 5: to widen our lens, widen our focus. You see it 100 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 5: says behold. Some translations say look see watch. That sounds 101 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 5: like anticipation to me, doesn't it. You watch and see 102 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 5: what the Lord will do. See it is a new thing. 103 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 5: I'll never forget. Several years ago, I was going through 104 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 5: the most difficult time in my life. There was my 105 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 5: life seemed to hinge on this one major decision. To me, 106 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 5: it felt like life and death to me. It was 107 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:48,119 Speaker 5: the most difficult thing that I can remember ever going through. 108 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,679 Speaker 5: I can remember what I wanted to do. I wanted 109 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 5: to stay home. I wanted to cry, I wanted to 110 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 5: waller listen. I didn't want to shine. I wanted to 111 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 5: dim things down. One day God spoke to me and 112 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 5: he said, you cannot live like this. He said you 113 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 5: were made and designed to shine. And he said you 114 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 5: need to look out beyond this problem because I've got opportunities. 115 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 5: I'm doing some new things in the middle of your mess. 116 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 5: I am still working. Do you know that challenge in 117 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 5: my life went on for three long years? And can 118 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 5: I tell you they seemed like long years, But during 119 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 5: that time I shook it off. Every day I pushed through. 120 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 6: Was it easy? 121 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 4: No? 122 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 5: But I had to change my focus and change my perspective. God, 123 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 5: you don't want me to stay here. You've got new 124 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 5: things for me. Do you know what was in those 125 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 5: three years that I wrote my first book? I wrote 126 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 5: a series of children's books. And at the end of 127 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 5: those three years, God vindicated me and showed me things 128 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 5: that I never knew were even inside of me. He 129 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 5: gave me victory. But it was a change of perspective. 130 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 5: It was deciding that I wasn't gonna wear a banner 131 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 5: of defeat. But I was gonna wear a banner of 132 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 5: victory over my head. See I was changing what I 133 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 5: was thinking. See God had opportunity for me. But as 134 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 5: long as I sat and were waiting for things to 135 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 5: change before I could get going, I would have missed 136 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 5: out on all the new things, the new opportunities, the 137 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 5: new things He wanted to show me and do on 138 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 5: the inside of me. Can you imagine if I would 139 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 5: have given in to defeat and discouragement and said so 140 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 5: focused on what I needed to happen, I would have 141 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 5: lost three years. Do you know? They had exponential growth 142 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 5: in my spiritual life those three years. You see, God 143 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 5: turned it around because I was willing to put forth 144 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 5: the effort. I was willing to shake it off. I 145 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 5: was willing to say, no, this doesn't have to change 146 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 5: before I can keep living. Absolutely not. I serve a great, 147 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 5: big God, and He's got great things over the horizon 148 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 5: for me. He is doing a new thing. It is 149 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 5: in process. The printing presses have already been turned on. 150 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 5: It is happening now in your life. I was speaking 151 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 5: to a woman the other day, and I'd been praying 152 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 5: with her for a while, and seemed like every time 153 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 5: I prayed with her or talked to her. All I 154 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 5: could see was this just rigid, stiff, just wanting something 155 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 5: to happen in her life. And what she was wanting 156 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 5: was this her husband had left. She was wanting reconciliation 157 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 5: in her marriage, and that is what I could see 158 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 5: was the main focus and thrust of her life. And 159 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 5: I told her this. I said, listen, do not make 160 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 5: plans according to this prayer being answered. Don't make plans 161 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 5: around your life according to this happening. Don't stop living. 162 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 5: You see, I believe that what she was trying to 163 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 5: do was work it out in her own mind, figure 164 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 5: out how it was going to happen, and as soon 165 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 5: as he walked back in the door, then she could 166 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 5: begin to live. Then her life could go on. But 167 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 5: that is not what God intends for her to do, 168 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 5: because He's got new things springing up in her mess 169 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 5: right now. I said, you're too valuable, you got too 170 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 5: much to offer, You got gifts, you got talents. You 171 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 5: be the best you that you can be. You let 172 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 5: God grow, you learn, progress, take on new and exciting 173 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 5: challenges that God's got out there for you. Be the 174 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 5: best you can be. I didn't tell her to quit praying. 175 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 5: I didn't tell her to quit believing. I said, don't 176 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 5: get stuck. Don't get stuck. You keep living, and I 177 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 5: believe that God has a word for somebody in here today. 178 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 5: You need to keep on living. Don't make all your 179 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 5: plans around that unanswered prayer. I got new things springing 180 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 5: up even now. He didn't say there was not going 181 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 5: to be wilderness. He didn't say there wasn't going to 182 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,719 Speaker 5: be some wasted things you look at and think, why 183 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 5: it has happened? 184 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 2: Why me? 185 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 5: This is a waste? What happened? He said, I can 186 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 5: make a way in the wilderness, and I can refresh 187 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 5: you in those times that feel wasted. I can bring 188 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 5: out of you things you never knew were in you. 189 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 5: I can do be im possible as long as you 190 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 5: why your lens, change your perspective, don't get narrow, and 191 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 5: don't get so focused that the strains and stresses of 192 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 5: life don't allow you to see beyond where you are. 193 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 5: I was reading about eyestrain and ice train is becoming 194 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:17,960 Speaker 5: more and more of a common problem because of all 195 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 5: of our screens that we look at, computers, iPads, telephones, 196 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 5: and so. Eyestrain is when you know you can be 197 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 5: focused on your computer and you're reading material for so 198 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 5: long that you'll get dry eye, or or you'll get 199 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 5: a headache, or sometimes you know, you feel like it's blurry. 200 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 5: That's eyestrain. And I was reading the article and it 201 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 5: was giving tips to alleviate this eyestrain. And it says, 202 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 5: if you're in front of your computer, you're working on this, 203 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 5: you know, really focused project. Which you should do is 204 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 5: try to get up from your the area that you're 205 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 5: at at least three times a day, and for ten 206 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 5: minutes a day, you should look out of a window. 207 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 5: Maybe you need to walk outside if you don't have 208 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 5: a wind in your office or the place you're and 209 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 5: it said, do this. Cast your eyes at a distance 210 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 5: as far as you can see, and take on all 211 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 5: the life around you. It says when you do that, 212 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 5: when you cast your eyes and you begin to see light, trees, sky, clouds, 213 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 5: you're watching all this stuff around you. What it does 214 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 5: is it relaxes the lens of your eye. With eyestrains, 215 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 5: your lens flattens out. And what this exercise does is 216 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 5: it causes it to be more flexible. It causes it 217 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 5: to relax. Now I'm not giving you a tip on 218 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 5: eyestrain today, although if you have it, that might work. 219 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 5: What I am saying is that same thing parallels our life. 220 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 5: When we begin to focus so much on an area 221 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 5: of our life that needs to change, or something we 222 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 5: want to happen, or something we want to pray about, 223 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 5: we get so focused in that we struggle and we 224 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 5: bring strain upon ourself. And God is saying, we've got 225 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 5: to get good at getting up out of that situation 226 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 5: and casting our eyes pass the situation into the distance, 227 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 5: so that we can widen our lens and take on 228 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 5: the light that is out there that God gave us 229 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 5: to live. He has got more in store for you 230 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 5: wherever you are, whatever you're going through, He's doing a 231 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 5: new thing. Can you perceive it? It is springing up? 232 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 5: But if you're not looking for it, you might not 233 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 5: find it. Joel quoted the scripture from another passage in Isaiah, 234 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 5: and it says God is longing to be good to 235 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 5: those who are looking for his goodness, who are beholding 236 00:14:54,160 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 5: the new things, watching to see with earnest expectations. Can 237 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 5: I tell you where you are today? Is it where 238 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 5: you're going to stay? But don't waste your precious life, 239 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 5: your precious time, when God is already put it into motion. 240 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 5: There are new opportunities, there are new ways of doing things. 241 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 5: There's new growth, there's new refreshing. There are springs springing 242 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 5: up for you to have today. 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