Speaker 1: I hope you and your family are having a great summer.
Speaker 1: Victorian are praying for you, believing for God's very best
Speaker 1: in your life, and it's always my pleasure to be
Speaker 1: able to share a message with you. I hope you're
Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired today. Well, God bless you. It's great
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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I'd like to start
Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this wealthy man.
Speaker 1: He was known for being very eccentric. He's having a
Speaker 1: big party at his house and in his backyard he
Speaker 1: had a huge swimming pool filled with sharks and alligators.
Speaker 1: He announced his guest, anyone that will swim across my pool,
Speaker 1: I'll give you anything you want. In a few minutes,
Speaker 1: there was a big splash and a man was in
Speaker 1: there going ninety to nothing, dodging sharks and maneuvering around
Speaker 1: alligators and made it to the other side just the
Speaker 1: nick of time. Helders said, Wow, you're the bravest person
Speaker 1: I've ever met. Now what do you want? The men said,
Speaker 1: what I want more than anything else is the name
Speaker 1: of the person that just pushed me in saying like
Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what
Speaker 1: it says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly
Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I
Speaker 1: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about getting unstuck.
Speaker 1: There are times that we all feel stuck. We've had
Speaker 1: a disappointment and we get stuck in a bad mood,
Speaker 1: or we've made mistakes, stuck in guilt. We can feel
Speaker 1: stuck in our career, stuck being single, stuck raising a
Speaker 1: difficult child. Thought's whisper, It's never going to change. This
Speaker 1: is permanent. Those are all lies us. God did not
Speaker 1: create you to live stuck, to be limited by your
Speaker 1: circumstances and restricted because of what people have done. He
Speaker 1: created you to rise higher, to reach new levels, to
Speaker 1: break barriers of the past. And yes, there are seasons
Speaker 1: of waiting, times of testing where we go through struggle,
Speaker 1: but that's not how your story ends. There are seasons
Speaker 1: of harvest, coming, seasons of breakthrough, seasons of uncommon favor
Speaker 1: where God steps in and does what only he can do.
Speaker 1: You may feel stuck in some area of your life
Speaker 1: today and all the circumstances say it's not going to
Speaker 1: change that God must have forgotten about you. No, here's
Speaker 1: the key. God shows up when you're stuck. Just ask Paul.
Speaker 1: In Silas, they were stuck in prison, their feed in chains.
Speaker 1: It looked permanent. But at midnight, as they were singing praise, says,
Speaker 1: God showed up. There was a great earthquake. The prison
Speaker 1: doors flung open. They walked out as free men. Jonah
Speaker 1: was stuck in the belly of a well. He had
Speaker 1: made mistakes, was his own fault. But God doesn't abandon
Speaker 1: us when we get off course. That well suddenly had indigestion,
Speaker 1: went to the shore and spit Jonah out. God gave
Speaker 1: him another chance. Hannah in the scripture, she felt stuck.
Speaker 1: She had been trying to have a baby for years,
Speaker 1: but she was barren. She watched her sister have child
Speaker 1: after child and didn't seem fair. She went to the
Speaker 1: temple and prayed the prophet. Eli said to her, God
Speaker 1: heard your prayer, and you will have a child. She
Speaker 1: not only had one baby, but God gave her six children.
Speaker 1: This was after years of her feeling stuck, thoughts telling
Speaker 1: her that she would always be barren. Don't believe the
Speaker 1: never lies. You'll never get well, never get married, never
Speaker 1: accomplish your dream. You may be stuck now, but you're
Speaker 1: not gonna stay stuck. God's about to show up. Job
Speaker 1: thought he was stuck. He went through great difficulties, lost
Speaker 1: his health, his family, his business. He was so depressed
Speaker 1: he said, I hate my life. I wish I had
Speaker 1: never been born. His wife joined in and said, I agree. Job,
Speaker 1: just curse God and die. It's good to have supported
Speaker 1: people and all the circumstances said. Job was done. But
Speaker 1: God shows up to stuck people. He not only restored
Speaker 1: what Job lost, but Job came out with double. God
Speaker 1: makes the enemy pay for bringing the trouble. And we
Speaker 1: all go through difficulties and things that are not fair.
Speaker 1: And those thoughts will tell you it's never going to change.
Speaker 1: But you have to keep this down in your spirit.
Speaker 1: Stuck is not your destiny. God came to loose the captives.
Speaker 1: He came to free from what has you restricted. Joseph
Speaker 1: thought he was stuck in a pit. His brothers left
Speaker 1: him there to die. A caravan of Ishmaelites came. He
Speaker 1: was sold into slavery in Egypt, where years later he
Speaker 1: would become the Prime Minister. Looked like he was stuck,
Speaker 1: but it was all a set up to move him
Speaker 1: into his purpose. The enemy won't tell you that God's
Speaker 1: working behind the scenes, that is leading you to your purpose,
Speaker 1: that being stuck is only temporary. He'll whisper all you're done,
Speaker 1: it's never gonna change. Don't believe that God's purpose for
Speaker 1: your life cannot be overridden by a bad break, a delay,
Speaker 1: a loss, a hardship. And sure there will be times
Speaker 1: we feel stuck, but you have to remember God is
Speaker 1: still in control. He's still ordering your steps. At the
Speaker 1: appointed time, he will loose you. Suddenly, doors will open, suddenly,
Speaker 1: the well spit you out, Suddenly you have that baby,
Speaker 1: Suddenly you become the prime Minister. So to speak. You
Speaker 1: step in to a new level of your destiny, and
Speaker 1: the scripture says, lift up your head and the King
Speaker 1: of Glory will come in. If you're going to get unstuck.
Speaker 1: You can't go around with your head down focused on
Speaker 1: your problems, thinking you've reached your limits. As long as
Speaker 1: your head is down, you're going to stay where you are.
Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor, lift up your head, have a
Speaker 1: new perspective. You may be stuck, but we serve a
Speaker 1: God who knows how to get you unstucked. He did
Speaker 1: it for all those people in the Bible. He's going
Speaker 1: to do it for you. You may have tried everything
Speaker 1: you can. You've done your best, but nothing improved. You
Speaker 1: don't have any more options. The good news is God
Speaker 1: never runs out of options. You don't see a way,
Speaker 1: but God has ways that you've never thought of. Instead
Speaker 1: of having a defeat, Joe man, I never get any
Speaker 1: good breaks. I can't get through this addiction. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'll ever get well or turn it around. I
Speaker 1: may be stuck now. I don't deny that, but I
Speaker 1: know this. I am coming out. Something good is going
Speaker 1: to happen to me. Blessings are chasing me down. The
Speaker 1: battle is taking place in our mind. It's easy to
Speaker 1: become complacent to where we're comfortable with mediocrity. You had
Speaker 1: big dreams, but it's been so long nothing has worked out,
Speaker 1: so you water down your dreams. I can live with
Speaker 1: this addiction. I'll never have more than enough, all my
Speaker 1: family struggles. I don't deserve to be blessed, Joel, I've
Speaker 1: made so many mistakes. There has to be a change
Speaker 1: on the inside before there will be change on the outsides.
Speaker 1: Victory starts in our thinkings. When you've been stuck a
Speaker 1: long time, it can create strongholds that keep us from
Speaker 1: God's best. You need to lift up your head, have
Speaker 1: a new vision. You may be stuck now, but can
Speaker 1: I encourage you? Where you are is not where you're staying.
Speaker 1: You will beat the sickness, you will break the addiction.
Speaker 1: You will meet the right person. You're about to become unstuck,
Speaker 1: where what's held you back is broken off of you.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a release where God thrust you
Speaker 1: into your purpose, favor, blessing that you've never seen. This
Speaker 1: is what my mother did when she was diagnosed with
Speaker 1: terminal liver cancer back in nineteen eighty one. There was
Speaker 1: nothing more the doctors could do. They send her home
Speaker 1: saying that she had a few weeks to live. And
Speaker 1: it was around Christmas time, and our whole family felt stuck.
Speaker 1: Medically speaking, they had run out of options, and my
Speaker 1: mother told how in the middle of the night, thoughts
Speaker 1: would come saying, you can be buried in that new
Speaker 1: pink dress that you bought. The enemy would love for
Speaker 1: you to start planning your demise, planning your going down,
Speaker 1: living lonely, addicted. His goal is to keep you focused
Speaker 1: on the problem, how impossible it looks, how long it's been.
Speaker 1: The scripture says, look away from all that distracts under Jesus,
Speaker 1: the author and finisher of our faith. In difficult times,
Speaker 1: more than ever, you have to look away from the
Speaker 1: distractions and look up. Fix your thoughts on what God
Speaker 1: says about you. He's the author and the finisher. What
Speaker 1: he starts, he's going to complete. You may be stuck now.
Speaker 1: The good news is God is not finished. He's still working.
Speaker 1: Keep looking up, keep thinking him, keep declaring what he promised,
Speaker 1: keep talking like it's on the way. And despite the
Speaker 1: negative report, I would hear my mother going through the
Speaker 1: house saying, Father, thank you that you're restoring health back
Speaker 1: into me, that I will live and not die. That
Speaker 1: the number of my days you will fulfill. You know
Speaker 1: what happened. The King of Glory came in. God did
Speaker 1: what medicine couldn't do. That was forty four years ago.
Speaker 1: From a few weeks to live to over four decades.
Speaker 1: You're never too stuck for God to free you. You're
Speaker 1: never too addicted to depressed, medical report, too bad, child,
Speaker 1: too far gone. Lift up your head and chains will break.
Speaker 1: Healing will come, supernatural turnarounds. There was a man in
Speaker 1: the scripture that had been crippled for thirty eight years.
Speaker 1: Every day his family would carry him to the Pool
Speaker 1: of Bethesda. They'd lay there hoping to be healed. They
Speaker 1: believed that an angel would trouble the water, the first
Speaker 1: person in would be made well. Hundreds of sick people
Speaker 1: and disabled gathered at this pool, But of all the people,
Speaker 1: Jesus came to this man who had been stuck for
Speaker 1: thirty eight years. It's not a coincidence that the scripture
Speaker 1: tells us how long he's been laying. Many of the
Speaker 1: people Jesus healed, we don't know how long they were
Speaker 1: blind or how long they had leprosy. We just know
Speaker 1: they got healed. But this length was included on purpose,
Speaker 1: so we would know that no matter how long you've
Speaker 1: been stuck. It's not too late for God to turn
Speaker 1: it around. Jesus asked the man, do you want to
Speaker 1: get well? Seemed like an odd question. Of course he did,
Speaker 1: That's why he came to the pool. But Jesus wanted
Speaker 1: to see his frame of mind. Was he looking up,
Speaker 1: was he believing he could get well, or was he
Speaker 1: looking down thinking it had been too long. He said
Speaker 1: to Jesus, I don't have anyone to help me get
Speaker 1: into the pool. He was saying, in effect, yes, I
Speaker 1: want to get well, but I'm at a disadvantage. Jesus
Speaker 1: could have said, man, you didn't answer right. If you'd
Speaker 1: have said, yes, I healed you. God's full of mercy.
Speaker 1: The fact is Jesus knew the man went to the
Speaker 1: pool every day. He saw his faith every morning. The
Speaker 1: man getting out of bed, putting his clothes on, being
Speaker 1: carried to the pool. He could have been at home,
Speaker 1: laying in bed self pity. Life's not fair. Every day
Speaker 1: he's out there hoping to get well, expecting the waters
Speaker 1: to move, believing for a supernatural tut. Jesus said to him, rise,
Speaker 1: take up your bed and walk. Some people say the
Speaker 1: man didn't have much faith. But if you've never walked
Speaker 1: in your life, someone tells you to get up, do
Speaker 1: you know how much faith that would take? The man
Speaker 1: could have said, Jesus, what do you mean, I'm crippled.
Speaker 1: I've been this way my whole life. Or this man said,
Speaker 1: in effect, if you say I can walk, then I
Speaker 1: believe I can walk. If you say I'm not stuck anymore,
Speaker 1: then I believe it. As he started to rise up,
Speaker 1: suddenly strengthen healing flowed into him, energized his legs. He
Speaker 1: stood up, walked out of there first time thirty eight years.
Speaker 1: What's interesting is this all happened on the Sabbath. The
Speaker 1: religious law said that you can't do any work on
Speaker 1: the Sabbath. Jesus knew this, but he broke the rules
Speaker 1: to get the man unstuck. God will break rules to
Speaker 1: get you to your destiny. He'll break protocol. He'll do
Speaker 1: things that are unusual. Heal you without the treatment, like
Speaker 1: my mother. Choose you to be a pastor when you
Speaker 1: don't have the training. Give you the compact center, a
Speaker 1: sports arena for a church. Uncommon? How did the ordinary
Speaker 1: something you weren't expecting to get you unstuck to release
Speaker 1: you into your purpose. You don't have to figure out
Speaker 1: how this is going to happen. All you have to
Speaker 1: do is lift up your head, activate your faith. Saw
Speaker 1: one three, David talks about all kinds of opposition he
Speaker 1: was facing and how people were treating him very badly.
Speaker 1: This is when King Saul was chasing him through the desert.
Speaker 1: He was living on the run, stuck in an unfair situation,
Speaker 1: stuck with someone trying to get rid of him that
Speaker 1: he had been good to. He said in verse three,
Speaker 1: my enemy has chased me. He's knocked me to the
Speaker 1: ground and forced me to live in darkness like those
Speaker 1: in a grain. I'm losing all hope. I'm paralyzed with fear.
Speaker 1: When you have doubts, fears, and uncertainties, don't get so
Speaker 1: down on yourself. Here's David, a man after God's own heart,
Speaker 1: a hero of faith. Yet he had times of discouragement,
Speaker 1: times where he felt like he was stumped, didn't see
Speaker 1: how it could ever change. The key is don't stay there.
Speaker 1: At some point you have to look up. David listened
Speaker 1: all these bad things that were happening. Then in the
Speaker 1: next chapter, when he still felt overwhelmed, still didn't see
Speaker 1: a way. He said. In verse nine, I will sing
Speaker 1: a new song unto the Lord. He was saying, I'm
Speaker 1: done talking about defeat. I'm gonna lift up my head.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get a new perspective. Listen to how
Speaker 1: he changed verse three. Great are you, o Lord. I
Speaker 1: will meditate on your awe inspiring deeds. For you help
Speaker 1: the fallen, you lift those under heavy load, You protect
Speaker 1: those who trust in you. He went from poor, oh me,
Speaker 1: I'm stuck to God. I think that you are fighting
Speaker 1: my battles, that you're my vindicator, that you're bigger than
Speaker 1: what's trying to stop me. When you feel stuck, it
Speaker 1: makes a difference what you're focused on. Are you dwelling
Speaker 1: on the problem or are you dwelling on the promises?
Speaker 1: Are you focused on how big the obstacle is or
Speaker 1: on how big our God is. If you'll lift up
Speaker 1: your head, the King of Glory will come in. God
Speaker 1: will make things happen that you couldn't make happen. A
Speaker 1: couple of years after we were married, Victoria and I
Speaker 1: were walking through this neighborhood close to where we lived.
Speaker 1: We came to this new house that was almost finished
Speaker 1: being built in the last stages of construction. Nobody was around,
Speaker 1: so we walked up to it was this nice two
Speaker 1: story house and was so beautiful, this spacious entry and
Speaker 1: big windows in the back and high ceilings, and the
Speaker 1: kitchen was open to the den. It was amazing. As
Speaker 1: we were leaving, walking down the front porch, I'll never
Speaker 1: forget this, Victoria stopped and said, Joel, one day, we're
Speaker 1: going to live in a house just like that. She
Speaker 1: might as well have said one day we're going to
Speaker 1: go to the moon. We were living in an old,
Speaker 1: one story house. We could barely afford that. And being
Speaker 1: the great man of faith that I am, I started
Speaker 1: telling her all the reasons that it wasn't possible, how
Speaker 1: I worked for a church. I'm never going to have
Speaker 1: that income. If we saved one hundred and twenty four years,
Speaker 1: we won't have enough. That went in one ear and
Speaker 1: out the other. She acted like she didn't hear me.
Speaker 1: She said, no, Joe, I'm telling you, we're going to
Speaker 1: live in a house just like this. That made me mad.
Speaker 1: I did my best to convince her. We're stuck, we're limited,
Speaker 1: we're at a disadvantage. The difference was I had my
Speaker 1: head down. She had her head up. I was looking
Speaker 1: at what we could do. She was looking at what
Speaker 1: God can do. I was focused on all the facts,
Speaker 1: the numbers, what's logical. I didn't see a way. But
Speaker 1: God is not limited by what you don't have. He's
Speaker 1: not limited by your bank account, by the medical report,
Speaker 1: by what family you come from. He controls the universe
Speaker 1: when you believe, all things are possible in the natural.
Speaker 1: We may be stuck, but God is supernatural. He makes
Speaker 1: streams in the desert, He brings water out of a rock,
Speaker 1: He parts red seas. Peter caught a fish that had
Speaker 1: a coin in it to pay his taxes. God is
Speaker 1: not scratching his head trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: get you unstuck. He's going to do things that you
Speaker 1: never saw coming, that exceed your expectations, explosive blessings that
Speaker 1: catapult you into your destinies. Don't do like I did.
Speaker 1: Come up with all the reasons. You can't get out
Speaker 1: of debt, and you can't get well. Your dreams too big,
Speaker 1: and that child of yours will always be off course.
Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor. Lift up your head. God. I
Speaker 1: don't see away, but I know you have a way.
Speaker 1: Victoria finally convinced me to get in agreement with her.
Speaker 1: We were living in this old rundown house, had foundation problems,
Speaker 1: crooked floors, some of the interior doors wouldn't shut. But
Speaker 1: it was on a nice half acre lot close into
Speaker 1: the city. The neighborhood changed the deed restrictions to where
Speaker 1: you could subdivide the property. A builder knocked on our door.
Speaker 1: A couple months later. He bought half of the property
Speaker 1: for more than we paid for the whole property. He
Speaker 1: built two homes there, one for us, just like that
Speaker 1: house that Victoria had seen. I could have never made
Speaker 1: that happen. I couldn't have put that on paper. What
Speaker 1: am I saying? God is going to do things that
Speaker 1: are uncommon that you didn't see coming. You may be
Speaker 1: stuck in some area, but here's a key. Being stuck
Speaker 1: is a set up for God to show out in
Speaker 1: your life, to do something out of the ordinary. Don't
Speaker 1: believe that lie that is permanent. It's been too long,
Speaker 1: your dreams too big. No, like the lame man that
Speaker 1: was there for thirty eight years, your time is coming.
Speaker 1: Keep looking up, keep believing, keep expecting. That's your faith
Speaker 1: being released Second Kings, Chapter seven. The Syrian army had
Speaker 1: surrounded the city of Samaria, cutting off its food supply.
Speaker 1: The people were starving. There were four lepers living outside
Speaker 1: the city gates. Leprosy was contagious. They weren't allowed to
Speaker 1: be around people. Not only were they outcast, but when
Speaker 1: the enemy army came, they would be the first ones
Speaker 1: to be killed. They had no protection, talk about stuck,
Speaker 1: no future, no food, dreaded disease. But sitting by the gates,
Speaker 1: one of them said to the others, why are we
Speaker 1: just gonna sit here like this till we die? They thought,
Speaker 1: if we stay here, we're gonna start to death. We
Speaker 1: have nothing to lose. Let's go to the enemy's camp
Speaker 1: and see if there's any food there. They started walking
Speaker 1: toward the other camp. God multiplied the sound of their footsteps.
Speaker 1: It sounded like a huge army was coming. The enemy
Speaker 1: army panicked and took off, running as fast as they could.
Speaker 1: Were they left behind all the supplies. The lepers showed
Speaker 1: up and couldn't believe it, a whole camp full of food, clothing, equipment.
Speaker 1: They went back and told the Israelites all their lives
Speaker 1: were spared, but Sometimes, like these lepers, we get stuck
Speaker 1: at a gate. We've had bad breaks and gone through
Speaker 1: a disappointment. Now we're stuck in self pity and holding
Speaker 1: onto hurts, made mistakes. We have regrets, stuck in guilt,
Speaker 1: stuck in shame. We can get stuck in an addiction, incompromised.
Speaker 1: We tried to do better, but we keep falling back.
Speaker 1: The challenge is we can get comfortable at the gate.
Speaker 1: We can learn to function in dysfunction. We have to
Speaker 1: ask ourselves what the leopers ask. Why am I going
Speaker 1: to sit here till I die? Why am I going
Speaker 1: to stay this way? Offended? Guilty, insecure, no passion. We're
Speaker 1: waiting for God to change things, but God's waiting for us.
Speaker 1: When you make a move, it sets off a chain reaction.
Speaker 1: That's when God begins to work open doors, bring healing,
Speaker 1: new relationships. A small act of obedience can lead to
Speaker 1: a big blessing. It may be forgiving that person that
Speaker 1: did you wrong, or forgiving yourself for the mistakes you've made.
Speaker 1: It may mean getting up in the morning and emptying
Speaker 1: out all the low self esteem, the insecurity, and reminding
Speaker 1: yourself who God says you are. A small act can
Speaker 1: get you unstuck. Maybe it's to quit hanging around that
Speaker 1: friend that's causing you to compromise, or not listening to
Speaker 1: the news driving to work all day it's causing you
Speaker 1: to be mad at the world. Instead, put on something inspiring,
Speaker 1: uplifting that feeds your faith. Don't go the next twenty
Speaker 1: years stuck at the gate. Do what you can, and
Speaker 1: God will do what you can. You make a move
Speaker 1: and he'll multiply your steps. You lift up your head
Speaker 1: and he'll turn things around that you thought were permanent.
Speaker 1: There was a man we knew growing up that could
Speaker 1: play the piano so beautifully. He would taught lessons to
Speaker 1: people and served at the church. But over time he
Speaker 1: developed rheumatoid arthritis, kept getting worse and worse, and he
Speaker 1: had trouble using his hands, and finally got to the
Speaker 1: point where his fingers were all shriveled up and he
Speaker 1: could no longer play the piano. He was so discouraged
Speaker 1: over it all. Well, twenty years went by and he
Speaker 1: had accepted that his days of playing the piano were over.
Speaker 1: But one day he heard my father speaking about forgiveness
Speaker 1: and how important it is to let things go for
Speaker 1: years he had been estranged from his parents. He felt
Speaker 1: like they hadn't raised him right, they'd let him down,
Speaker 1: and all these offenses had built up till what he
Speaker 1: pushed them out of his life. When he heard that message,
Speaker 1: he felt something so strongly telling him to forgive, to
Speaker 1: make things right. The next day he went to his parents'
Speaker 1: house and knocked on the door, and they answered and
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it was him. They hugged and wept, and
Speaker 1: there was healing and forgiveness. The relationship was restored when
Speaker 1: something interesting happened. Little by little, the men's fingers began
Speaker 1: to open up. He started having more flexibility, and the
Speaker 1: pain in his joint begin to lessen it. He kept
Speaker 1: getting better and better. Six months later, he could sit
Speaker 1: down and play the piano like he did twenty years earlier,
Speaker 1: like he had never missed a beat. He was stuck
Speaker 1: all those years, but a simple act of obedience caused
Speaker 1: him to get unstuck. Like those lepers, he was comfortable
Speaker 1: at the gate. He had learned to function with the problem.
Speaker 1: He didn't realize the offense was holding him back. When
Speaker 1: he made a move. God did what he couldn't do
Speaker 1: when he said I'm not gonna sit here like this
Speaker 1: till I die, holding onto something that's poisoning me. That's
Speaker 1: when God stepped in and brought healing and restoration. If
Speaker 1: you're stuck in some area, you need to look inside
Speaker 1: and say, God, what do I need to do? Show
Speaker 1: me anything that's holding me back. If you'll take that
Speaker 1: step of faith, your act of obedience will start a
Speaker 1: chain reaction of the goodness of God. Life may not
Speaker 1: have treated you fair, and you've got a good reason
Speaker 1: to stay where you are, but stuck is not your destiny.
Speaker 1: What happened to you did not stop your purpose. Mistakes
Speaker 1: you've made did not cancel your assignment. There is still
Speaker 1: a beautiful life, a blessing, fulfillment, abundance that belongs to you.
Speaker 1: It's time to arise. Shake off the guilt, forgive the
Speaker 1: people that hurt you, Let go of the self pity,
Speaker 1: lift up your hair, get that fresh vision. God didn't
Speaker 1: bring you this far to leave you. Being stuck is
Speaker 1: not permanent. It's a set up for God to show
Speaker 1: out in your life. You may be stuck now, but
Speaker 1: I believe and declare this is a new day. You're
Speaker 1: about to become unstuck. God is releasing you from whatever
Speaker 1: is holding you back. Chains are being broken, strongholds are
Speaker 1: coming down. Freedom is coming, Restoration, divine connections, the fullness
Speaker 1: of your destiny in Jesus' name. If you receive it,
Speaker 1: can you say amen? I'd like to give you an
Speaker 1: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would
Speaker 1: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent
Speaker 1: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you
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