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The American said, well, 45 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 5: we were the first ones on the moon. The blonde 46 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 5: said that's nothing. We're going to be the first ones 47 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 5: on the sun. The Russian, the American. 48 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 4: They laughed. 49 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 5: They said, what are you talking about. Can't go to 50 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 5: the sun. It's too hot, you'd burn up. The blonde said, 51 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 5: We're not that dumb. We're going to go at night. 52 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 5: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 53 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 54 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 55 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 56 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 57 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 58 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 59 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about how yes is in 60 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 5: your future. When God laid out the plan for your life, 61 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 5: he lined up the right people, the right breaks, the 62 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 5: right open doors. He already has your yeses planned out. 63 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 5: Yes to that promotion, Yes to that clean bill of health. 64 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 5: Yes you will get married. Yes you are accepted into 65 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 5: that college. 66 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 4: You may have been told no a. 67 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 5: Thousand times, but God has the final say, and he says, 68 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 5: yes is coming your way. Yes you will accomplish your dreams. 69 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 5: Yes you will overcome that addiction. Yes, your children will 70 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 5: fulfill their destiny. Yeses are in your future. 71 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 4: Now here's the. 72 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 5: Key on the way to your yes. There will be nos. 73 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 5: You have to go through the nose to get to 74 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 5: your yeses. The mistake many people make is they get 75 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 5: discouraged by the nose and they quit trying. 76 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 4: They worked hard but didn't get the promotion. 77 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 5: They prayed and believed, but didn't qualify for the new home. 78 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 5: They put time and energy into a relationship, but it 79 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 5: didn't work out. 80 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 4: Now they think it's never going to happen. 81 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 5: No, you have to go through your closed doors before 82 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 5: you get to your open doors when you come to 83 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 5: a no. Instead of being discouraged, the right attitude is 84 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 5: I'm one step closer to my yes. What if you 85 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 5: could see into your future and you knew you had 86 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 5: to go through twenty nose before you came to your yes. 87 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 5: Then when you faced a disappointment, a setback, the loan 88 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 5: didn't go through, you didn't get that big sales contract. 89 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 5: If you knew your yes was only twenty no's away, 90 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 5: you wouldn't give up. You just check it off and say, 91 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 5: all right, that's one no out of the way. Now 92 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 5: I'm only nineteen away from my yes. Rather than being discouraged, 93 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 5: you would be encouraged. But too many people, because they've 94 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 5: hit several no's in a row, they've lost their passion, 95 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 5: they've lost their fire. You've got to get this down 96 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 5: in your spirit. Yes is in your future. You may 97 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 5: have been turned down, delayed, overlooked, that was all a 98 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 5: part of God's plan. The no is simply a test. 99 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 5: Are you going to get discouraged and settle where you 100 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,799 Speaker 5: are or are you going to keep moving forward knowing 101 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 5: that yes is are coming your way. I had a 102 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 5: man tell how his supervisor was about to retire and 103 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 5: he and two other people were in line for his position. 104 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 5: He had the most seniority. He'd worked for the company 105 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 5: faithfully for many years, but he got passed over for 106 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:57,359 Speaker 5: the promotion. They chose a younger, less experienced person. He 107 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 5: felt cheated, didn't seem fair, but he understood this principle. 108 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 5: He knew there were already yeses in his future, put 109 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 5: there by the creator of the universe. He didn't get bitter, 110 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 5: he didn't quit being his best. He shook it off 111 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 5: and kept working under God. About two years later, the 112 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 5: vice president of the company retired and they offered him 113 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 5: his job. His position now is many levels higher than 114 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 5: that old supervisor position. Friends, God knows what he's doing. 115 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 5: You may be in a know right now. The relationship ended, 116 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 5: you got passed over for the promotion, you lost a 117 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 5: loved one. You got to dig your heels in and say, 118 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,799 Speaker 5: I may be in a know, but I'm not gonna 119 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 5: get discouraged. 120 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna give up on my dream. 121 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 5: I know a yes is coming, favor is coming, healing 122 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 5: is coming, promotion is coming. 123 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 4: I am not going to get stuff in a know. 124 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 5: I know yeses or in my future. That's what the 125 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 5: scripture says. All of God's promises are yes and amen, 126 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 5: and we should get up every morning and say Father, 127 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 5: thank you for some yeses today. Yes, I'm healed, Yes 128 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 5: I'm free. Yes, I'm surrounded by your favor. A read 129 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,559 Speaker 5: a statistic. Ninety percent of all first time businesses fall, 130 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 5: ninety percent of all second time businesses succeed, But eighty 131 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 5: percent of people never try a second time. 132 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 4: What happened? 133 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 5: They get stuck on a no, They got discouraged and thought, 134 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 5: well it didn't happen last time is never going to happen. 135 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 5: They failed to realize they were one. 136 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 4: Know away from seeing it succeed. 137 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 5: I wonder how many of us give up a few 138 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 5: nos away from seeing a dream come to pass. What 139 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 5: if you knew you only had to go through three 140 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 5: more knows and then you would meet the right person. 141 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 4: You'd probably go out. 142 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 5: And find people to meet just to tell them no, 143 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 5: get them out of the way. I have a friend 144 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 5: that wanted to start a new business. He'd tried it 145 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 5: on a small scale and it had worked. Now he 146 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 5: needed a bank to get behind him, loaning money to 147 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 5: buy some major equipment so he could really get it 148 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 5: off the ground. He went to the bank that he'd 149 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 5: used for many years. Everyone knew him, they loved his 150 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 5: business plan. He had proven results on that small scale, 151 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 5: but money was very tight. 152 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 4: They turned him down. The first no. 153 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 5: He could have gotten discouraged and given up, but he 154 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 5: went to another bank. The second bank told him the 155 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 5: same thing. It's a great idea, it's just not for us. 156 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 5: Ten banks turned him down. Twenty banks said no, thirty 157 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,560 Speaker 5: banks said no. You would think he'd get the message, man, 158 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 5: this is not gonna work. 159 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 4: You're wasting your time. 160 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 3: No. 161 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 5: When God puts a dream in your heart when he 162 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 5: gives a promise. 163 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 4: On the inside and deep down you know, oh. 164 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 5: That you know you're going to succeed. You know your 165 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 5: family's going to be restored. 166 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 4: You know you're gonna get well. 167 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 5: Then, like this man, you realize every no simply means 168 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 5: you're one step closer to your yes. Thirty one bank 169 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 5: said no, thirty one bank said you're not for us. 170 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 5: But Bank number thirty two came along and said, we 171 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 5: really like it. 172 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 4: We'll take a chance. Yes, we will do it. 173 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 5: God had his yes, but he had to go through 174 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 5: thirty one nose to get to it. 175 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 4: You don't know. 176 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 5: You may only be five knows away from your yes. 177 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 5: Or who knows, maybe the next person you meet will 178 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 5: be your yes. The next college you apply to will 179 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 5: be your yes. The next time you resist the temptation 180 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 5: you'll break the bad habit, it'll be your yes. It 181 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 5: was one city council member that voted for us, that 182 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 5: gave us this beautiful facility. 183 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 4: Just one pushed us over the ear. 184 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 5: We had to go through a lot of nose to 185 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 5: get to that yes that we needed. You could be 186 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 5: one yes away from being thrust. 187 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 4: To a whole new level. 188 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 5: Don't you dare get stuck on the no Keep believing, 189 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 5: keep dreaming, keep hoping, keep taking steps of faith. I 190 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 5: heard zig Ziggler talking about being persistent. Zig is up 191 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 5: in his eighties and still a great blessing to many people. 192 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 5: One day, his flight was canceled because of bad weathering. 193 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 5: He went to this hotel very late at night and 194 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 5: said to the young lady, I. 195 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 4: Need a room. 196 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 5: She checked and checked and did all this research, but 197 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 5: she said, I'm so sorry, sir. All of our rooms 198 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 5: are occupied or either reserved for somebody coming tomorrow. The 199 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 5: first no Zig said, oh, come on, I'm a good customer. 200 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 5: I stay at your hotels all the time. You got 201 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 5: to make an. 202 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 4: Exception for me. She went back to work and tried 203 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 4: her best. 204 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 5: But the second no Zig asked to speak to the manager. 205 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 5: He came out and looked through some books and did 206 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 5: some other things. But the third no he said, I'm sorry, 207 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 5: we just don't have any rooms. Zig thought about it 208 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 5: a moment, went back over to the manager and said, 209 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 5: let me ask you a question. If the President of 210 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 5: the United States showed up at the hotel tonight, would 211 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 5: you have a room for him. The manager kind of 212 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 5: laughed and said I'm sure we would. 213 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 4: Zig said, well, I'm pretty sure he's not coming. 214 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 5: Let me have his room. After four nos, Zig got 215 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 5: his yes. Stay persistent. You may have seen the beautiful 216 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 5: actress Janine Turner. She's been in our service as a 217 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 5: very nice lady. She told how from the time she 218 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 5: was a little girl, she had a dream of becoming 219 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 5: an actress. She loved singing and performing, entertaining it. She 220 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 5: got involved in modeling and doing limited roles, but nothing 221 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 5: like she had in her heart. From the time she 222 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 5: was fifteen to the age of twenty seven, she went 223 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 5: to up to four all auditions a day, every week, 224 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 5: month after month, even year after year, with no success, 225 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 5: nothing substantial, just limited roles, a commercial here and there. 226 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 5: She calculated, during those twelve years she had been told 227 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 5: no over a thousand times. You're not what we're looking for. 228 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 5: There's not a role for you. This is not your strength. 229 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 5: All this disappointment, this rejection. Most people would have gotten 230 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 5: stuck on one of those no's, but not Janine. Her 231 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 5: attitude was, that's just another no, out of the way. 232 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 5: Now I'm closer to my yes. She kept pursuing what 233 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 5: God placed in her heart and one day when she 234 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 5: had just a few dollars to her name, she didn't 235 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 5: know what she was going to do next. The main 236 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 5: producer from a major network called. He said, we're starting 237 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 5: a brand new prime time drama. 238 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 4: We think you would be. 239 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 5: The perfect lead actress. We're going to call it Northern Exposure. 240 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 5: That show was a huge hit. It was that big 241 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 5: break that launched her career. 242 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 4: But she had to go through a thousand nose to 243 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 4: get to that one. 244 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 5: Yes, you may struggle with an addiction, a bad habit, 245 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 5: you think, Jel, I have tried a thousand times to 246 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 5: break this. 247 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 4: I'm asking you to try one more time. How do 248 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,959 Speaker 4: you know the next. 249 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 5: Time is not going to be your Yes, you can't 250 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 5: let the nose discourage you. 251 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 4: Don't let the closed doors convince you to give up 252 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 4: that it's never going to happen. 253 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,439 Speaker 5: Most likely we won't have to go through a thousand 254 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 5: no's like Janine. 255 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 4: My question is are you willing to go through a dozen? 256 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 5: Will you keep trying if five banks turn you down? 257 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 5: Will you stay in faith if the medical report is 258 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 5: not good three times? Will you take a chance on 259 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 5: meeting somebody new if a relationship didn't work out, twice before. 260 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 5: If you're going to keep moving forward, we have to 261 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 5: keep this on the. 262 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 4: Forefront of your mind. Yes is in my future. 263 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 5: Yes I will get married, Yes I will be promoted. 264 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 5: Yes I will fulfill my destiny. 265 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 4: That's what a friend of mine did. 266 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 5: She and her husband had been trying to have a 267 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 5: baby for many years, and they'd been through all the 268 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 5: fertility treatments, done everything they possibly could, with no success. 269 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 5: And this went on year after year. At that time, 270 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 5: she was the head of our children's ministry. When my 271 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 5: father went to be with the Lord and I stepped 272 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 5: up to pastor the church back in nineteen ninety nine. 273 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 5: They had been trying to have this baby already for 274 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 5: more than twenty years. Think of all the nos she 275 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 5: had heard. Every time she took the pregnancy test, hoping 276 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 5: that it had come back positive, but it didn't. 277 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 4: The answer was no. Her medical doctor, sorry, you're not pregnant. 278 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 5: The fertility specialists, no, it's not working. She heard no 279 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 5: again and again. One day we were in a meeting 280 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 5: about the children's department. She made the comment, I have 281 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 5: a good assistant trained, because when I have my baby, 282 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to be out for a little while, 283 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 5: and I thought I was missing something. 284 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 4: I didn't know that she was pregnant. 285 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 5: Afterwards, I said to my sister Lisa, she was in 286 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 5: the meeting. I can't believe she's going to finally have 287 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 5: a baby. 288 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 4: Lisa said, no, Joel, she's not pregnant. 289 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 5: She just talks like it and thinks like it and 290 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 5: acts like it. Me being the great man of faith 291 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 5: that I am, I thought, that's kind of far out 292 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 5: to really believe you're gonna have a baby at your age. 293 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 4: Then I remembered Abraham and Sarah. 294 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 5: God gave Sarah a baby at eighty years old. If 295 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 5: God could do it for Sarah, he could do it 296 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 5: for my friend. The good thing about having a baby 297 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 5: at that age is when they're teenagers, you won't remember it. 298 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 4: She didn't let the nose discourage her. 299 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 5: Twenty nine years later, she went to the doctor for 300 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 5: a routine chekha. He said, congratulations, you're pregnant. You're not 301 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 5: gonna have one baby, You're gonna have twins. They had 302 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 5: a double portion. God had the yes she needed, but 303 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 5: it was twenty nine years down the road. Most people 304 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 5: won't go through that many nose to get to their yes. 305 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 5: Not because they're not determined enough, but they don't really 306 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 5: believe that yes is there. They've heard the nose so 307 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 5: long it's convinced them that's the way it's always going 308 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 5: to be. 309 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 4: Now, God wouldn't have put the dream in your heart. 310 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 5: He wouldn't have given you that promise if he didn't 311 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 5: already have a plan. 312 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 4: To bring it to pass. 313 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 5: God already has a baby in your future, promotion in 314 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 5: your future, healing in your future, the right person in 315 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 5: your future. 316 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 4: My question is will you stay. 317 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 5: In faith and not let your nose talk you out 318 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 5: of your yess. I've learned we have to go through 319 00:16:58,640 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 5: the nose. 320 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 4: I wish yea. 321 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 5: I could tell you if you prayed hard enough, if 322 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 5: you came to church enough, if you stayed in faith, 323 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,679 Speaker 5: then you wouldn't have any closed doors. You wouldn't have 324 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 5: to go through any nose. You'd never have a setback. 325 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 5: That's not the way God ordained it. The nose are 326 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 5: a test of our faith. If we're going to pass 327 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 5: that test, we have to set our face like a 328 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 5: flint and say I will not be discouraged by any setbacks. 329 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 4: By how long it's. 330 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 5: Taken, by what the medical report says, by people trying 331 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:32,239 Speaker 5: to talk me out of it. 332 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 4: I'm in it for the long haul. I know, yes 333 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 4: this or in my future. 334 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 5: I read where researchers put a barracuda and a Spanish 335 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 5: mackerel in the same fish tank. Normally, the barracudah would 336 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:52,679 Speaker 5: immediately devour the much smaller Spanish mackerel, but in this experiment, 337 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 5: the researchers put an invisible glass partition between the two fish. 338 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 5: So when the barracudah saw all the Spanish mackerel and 339 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 5: went in for the kill, he slammed in to that 340 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 5: glass partition, bruised his nose again and again. Eventually the 341 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 5: barracuda got the message that he wasn't going to be 342 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 5: able to eat that other fish. 343 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 4: He gave up and he quit trying. 344 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 5: At that point, the researchers quietly removed the glass partition. 345 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 5: Now nothing was separating the two fish. What's interesting is 346 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 5: the barracudah never once harmed the Spanish mackerel. They lived 347 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 5: happily ever after, side by side that same fish tank. 348 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 5: What happened is the barracuda became conditioned in his thinking 349 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 5: that it would never work out. All he had heard 350 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 5: was no no, No, He didn't. 351 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,360 Speaker 4: Think there were any yeses in his future. 352 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 5: He just had to try one more time and he 353 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 5: would have come into his yes. He would have had 354 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 5: a nice fish dinner. What happened to the Barracuda happens 355 00:18:58,240 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 5: to many of us. 356 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 4: Hit the wall so many times, so to speak. 357 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 5: In other words, we tried to break the addiction for years, 358 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 5: didn't work out, worked hard, but didn't get the promotion. 359 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 5: Pursued a dream, but the door closed Like that Barracuda. 360 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 5: We've let this stronghold convince us that's never going to happen. 361 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 5: How do you know that God has not removed the 362 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 5: glass partition that was holding you back? How do you 363 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 5: know that the next time you try is not going 364 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 5: to be your yes. That partition may have been up 365 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 5: for twenty nine years, but God can remove it in 366 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 5: a split second. You'll never know unless you keep trying, 367 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 5: you keep dreaming, you keep pursuing what God put in 368 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 5: your heart. In the scripture, there was a great drought 369 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 5: in the land. The prophet Elijah went to the top 370 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 5: of Mount Carmel. He prayed and asked God to end 371 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,479 Speaker 5: the drought. After he prayed, he said to the people, 372 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 5: I can hear the sound of an abundance of rain. 373 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 5: He was saying, an effect, there's a yes in our future, 374 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 5: rain is coming. He told his assistant to go look 375 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 5: on the other side of the mountain to see if 376 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 5: they could see any sign of rain. The assistant went out, 377 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 5: came back a little later and said, no, Elijah, there's 378 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 5: not a cloud in the sky. 379 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 4: It's perfectly clear. 380 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 5: Elijah didn't get discouraged, think, oh, man must have heard 381 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 5: God wrong. 382 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 4: Notty rain coming. What are we going to do now? 383 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 5: When he heard that, he said, all right, that's one 384 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 5: no out of the way. Now go back and look again. 385 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 5: The assistant went back out came back with the same answer, Elijah, 386 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 5: no rain. Elijah said, that's fine. Two nose out of 387 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 5: the way. Go back and look again. 388 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 4: Three nose, four nose, five nose, six notes. 389 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 5: On the seventh time, the servant came back and said, Elijah, 390 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 5: this time I saw a small cloud in the sky. 391 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 5: Wasn't much, just the size of a man's hand. Elijah said, 392 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 5: you better get your raincoat, get your umbrella. 393 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 4: Rain is coming our way. 394 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,720 Speaker 5: See it may be a small, yes, a faint yes. 395 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 4: Barely see it. 396 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 5: Yes, But when you're expecting things to change in your favor. 397 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 5: When you know God has yes in your future, it 398 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 5: may be a small sign, but by faith you'll latch 399 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 5: onto it. That's my yes. Other people may not see it. 400 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,239 Speaker 5: Other people may try to talk me out of it. 401 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 5: Other people may say I'm just too positive, too hopeful. 402 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 5: That's okay. I'm a believer and not a doubter. 403 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 4: I know that's my yes. 404 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 5: It wasn't any time before the heavens opened up and 405 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 5: they saw the abundance of rain. But had Elijah given 406 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 5: up on the first, know, the second, no, the sixth, know, 407 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 5: it would have never happened. 408 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 4: Think about this. 409 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 5: When Elijah sent his assistant out to look, that was 410 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 5: an act of his faith. Faith is what causes God 411 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 5: to move. There are yeses in your future waiting for 412 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 5: you to. 413 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 4: Come looking for them. 414 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 5: Not once, not twice, not a few times. Keep looking, 415 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,959 Speaker 5: keep expecting, keep dreaming. You gotta have a made up mind. 416 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 5: You are in it to win it. You're not gonna 417 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 5: let people talk you out of it. You're not gonna 418 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 5: give up because it didn't happen on your timetable. You're 419 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 5: not gonna settle for second best because a few doors 420 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 5: have closed. I was reading about Thomas Edison when he 421 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 5: was trying to invent. 422 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 4: The light bulb. 423 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 5: He failed on his first two thousand attempts. Two thousand 424 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 5: times he tried it and it didn't work out. Two 425 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 5: thousand times. He was told no. He could have given 426 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 5: up and quit, but he just kept looking for that one. 427 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 4: Yes. After he invented it. 428 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 5: A reporter asked him about all of his failures, all 429 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 5: those experiments that didn't work. He said, listen, I never 430 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 5: failed once. I just found two thousand ways that wouldn't work. 431 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 5: You may have had some set disappointments, tried something that 432 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 5: didn't work out. That was not a waste of your time. 433 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 5: Everything you've been through has deposited something on the inside. 434 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 5: God doesn't waste anything. You are not defined by your past. 435 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 5: You are prepared by your past. Just because you've had 436 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 5: some nose that doesn't disqualify you. 437 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 4: Yes, it is still in your future. 438 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 5: When you hit your big yes like Edison, all the 439 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 5: other nose are going to become insignificant. Now, don't go 440 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,639 Speaker 5: around feeling bad about yourself because you're not where you 441 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 5: want to be. Don't focus on the disappointment, the failure, 442 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 5: the mistake, that was all a part of God's plan. 443 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 5: It's getting you prepared for your yes. You keep moving 444 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:52,880 Speaker 5: forward being your best, honoring God, determined, persistent, and God 445 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 5: promises you're going to come into yes. 446 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 4: When I was growing up. 447 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 5: My mother always wanted a swimming pool in our My 448 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 5: father was very generous. He would buy her practically anything, 449 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 5: but a swimming pool was the one thing. 450 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 4: That he did not want. He said, Dody, a swimming pool. 451 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 5: It's a lot of money, it's a lot of maintenance, 452 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 5: it's dangerous, on and on. 453 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 4: He gave her this resounding no. 454 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 5: What's funny is that when in one of my mother's 455 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 5: ears and out the other, it no more phased her. 456 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 5: She acted like she didn't even hear it. About a 457 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 5: month later, my father and I were in the backyard 458 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 5: playing baseball. 459 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 4: My mother came out with a tape measure. 460 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 5: She started measuring things, putting down some markers. She said, John, 461 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 5: if we angle it, I think it'll fit just right 462 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 5: right here, said Dodi, what. 463 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 4: Are you talking about? 464 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 5: She said, that swimming pool we're going to get, it 465 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 5: would fit right here. He said, I have told you 466 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 5: a thousand times, we are not going to get. 467 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 4: A swimming pool. 468 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 5: You are wasting your time, just like Elijah. My mother 469 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 5: heard no after no, after no. She could have easily 470 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 5: gotten stuck on one of those nose. She didn't do it. 471 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,439 Speaker 5: She kept believing. She knew there was a yes in 472 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 5: her future. That summer, we were in another city. My 473 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 5: father was speaking at this big convention. My parents were 474 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 5: in the hotel lobbying. This businessman came up and introduced himself. 475 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 5: During the conversation, he said, I build swimming pools for 476 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 5: a living. My mother's eyes got this big. She said, 477 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 5: how you doing, old buddy, old pal. We've been waiting 478 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 5: for you. He said, Pastor, I would like. 479 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 4: To build you a swimming pool. 480 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 5: My dad said, oh, sir, that's so kind of you, 481 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 5: but we really can't afford it, and we may not 482 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 5: have room in our backyard. 483 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 4: On and on the whole time my mom was shaking 484 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 4: her head. 485 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 5: Yes, he said, Pastor, I don't want you to pay 486 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 5: for it. I want to give it to you. Surely 487 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 5: you'll let me give you a swimming pool. Several months later, 488 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 5: while we were out of town, he and his crew 489 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 5: came into the city. They put this beautiful underground swimming 490 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 5: pool in our backyard. 491 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 4: When we came home, we couldn't wait to get in it. 492 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 5: All of us kids ran jumped in it. My mother 493 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 5: got in it, and here came my father. I'll never 494 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 5: forget my mother said, John, don't even think about getting 495 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 5: it in my swimming pool. There are yeses in your future, 496 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 5: but you've got to go through the nose first. 497 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 4: I say this respectfully. 498 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 5: Sometimes the people closest to us, our friends, our family, 499 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 5: can be the least encouraging, the least enlarging. What happens 500 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 5: is God puts dreams in our heart that are bigger 501 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 5: than we can accomplish on our own. It's going to 502 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 5: take his hand of favor. The people close to us, 503 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 5: they know us very well, and so often they'll only 504 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 5: look at you in your natural ability, your strength, your. 505 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 4: Talent, your finances. 506 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 5: They'll think that's too big, you can't do that, that's 507 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 5: way over your head. And of course we should all 508 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 5: be respectful and take advice. But when God's put a 509 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 5: dream in your heart, don't let anyone talk you out. 510 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 4: Of it, not even somebody that's close to you. 511 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 5: My father meant well, he was very generous, but because 512 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 5: he couldn't afford the swimming pool, he tried to put 513 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 5: those limitations on my mother. He was looking at it 514 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 5: in the natural, But we serve a supernatural God. There 515 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 5: are yess in your future that you won't have to 516 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 5: pay for. 517 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 4: Yess that you. 518 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 5: Don't earn, you don't work for, You don't have to 519 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 5: buy it. It's simply the favor of God. Yes is 520 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 5: chasing you down. Like this man, the yes will come 521 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 5: looking for you now. Many of you, like my mother, 522 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 5: you've stayed in faith, You've been determined, you press through 523 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 5: the nose. God is saying you're about to come into 524 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 5: a yes. Something big you've been praying about, a dream, 525 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 5: a goal, a relationship. It's about to show up. New 526 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 5: doors are going to open. The right people are going 527 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 5: to sert you out favor healing, promotion. Yeses are going 528 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 5: to track you down. 529 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 4: Now. 530 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 5: You may be in a no right now, but don't 531 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 5: get stuck there. Keep looking for your yes. If you'll 532 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 5: go out each day expecting yeses to come your way, 533 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,920 Speaker 5: then like Elijah, I believe and declare, you're going to 534 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,719 Speaker 5: come into the abundance of what God has in store. 535 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 4: Promises will come to pass. 536 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 5: Favor release breakthroughs in your health, finances, relationships, new levels 537 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 5: of God's goodness. Yess are coming your way in Jesus' name. 538 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 5: If you receive it, give the Lord a shout of 539 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 5: praise today. 540 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 3: Amen. 541 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 542 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 543 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? 544 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 545 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 546 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 5: You prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got born again. 547 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 5: Get in a good Bible based church. 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