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Speaker 6: I hope you enjoy this message. I want to remind
Speaker 6: us all today to not be complainers and fault finders.
Speaker 6: Ah man, Really, we don't need to be complainers and
Speaker 6: fault finders. See, it's easy to see what's wrong in
Speaker 6: a situation. It's easy to see what could be done better.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: Naturally we tend to look at the negative, just our
Speaker 6: natural minds tend to always gravitate to the negative, and
Speaker 6: it causes us to find fault. But we don't want
Speaker 6: to be complainers and fault finders because we know that
Speaker 6: it doesn't please God. You know we're all guilty of this.
Speaker 6: I'll be the first one to raise my hand. Okay,
Speaker 6: because sometimes it feels.
Speaker 4: Good to complain.
Speaker 6: You get it off your chest. You're just venting. It
Speaker 6: feels good. Why do we complain? That's one reason it
Speaker 6: feels kind of good sometime. Okay, let's just get.
Speaker 4: Real about it.
Speaker 6: We've all thought, all right, just get it off my
Speaker 6: chest and then I'll be okay, or we think our
Speaker 6: I think sometimes if I complain, I can change the situation.
Speaker 4: I'll go to Joel and I'll tell.
Speaker 6: Him why this isn't right and why we shouldn't do
Speaker 6: it this way, because I think I'm going to change
Speaker 6: the situation right. But you don't change the situation by complaining,
Speaker 6: by finding fault, you usually make the situation worse. Like
Speaker 6: I said, we can all think these thoughts of how
Speaker 6: we could do it better, but we've got to learn
Speaker 6: that we don't have to give life to these thoughts.
Speaker 6: You see, when we give life to these negative thoughts,
Speaker 6: we create a more negative environment. We not only pollute
Speaker 6: ourselves with this negative environment, but we pollute other people.
Speaker 6: We cause them to begin to think negative thoughts. It's
Speaker 6: as if it can spread if we're not careful. No
Speaker 6: one wants to be around a complainer. No one wants
Speaker 6: to be around a fault finder. We don't either.
Speaker 4: So let's watch what we're saying.
Speaker 6: Even though it may feel good for a time, have
Speaker 6: we ever stopped step back and thought, but is it
Speaker 6: doing us any good?
Speaker 4: Is it really doing us any good?
Speaker 6: You see, I was reading this study and I thought
Speaker 6: it was very interesting, and these researchers were talking about
Speaker 6: the brain and the effects of the on the brain
Speaker 6: when we complain, and it says that when we complain,
Speaker 6: we literally rewire our brain to complain. You see, our
Speaker 6: brain wants to take the path of least resistance, It
Speaker 6: wants to take the easy way out, so it wants
Speaker 6: to repeat a pattern. So when you complain, you learn
Speaker 6: to complain more. You're wiring in this negative pattern. And
Speaker 6: so really, what the researchers we're saying is we're training
Speaker 6: our own brains to complain. I don't want to be
Speaker 6: a complainer. I want to be a person that has
Speaker 6: faith and hope. Yes, we're all gonna have the opportunity
Speaker 6: to complain because there's no perfect person, there's no perfect spouse,
Speaker 6: there's no perfect job.
Speaker 4: Life is imperfect.
Speaker 6: So we're not gonna get rid of the fact that
Speaker 6: there is opportunities to complain. But I want to suggest
Speaker 6: to us today to be smarter than a complainer and
Speaker 6: to figure out a way to be the solution to
Speaker 6: the problem, to not just complain about the problem. To
Speaker 6: find a way to act properly when you feel negative.
Speaker 6: And the first way is not to train your brain
Speaker 6: to complain. Now, the scripture is full of stories, and
Speaker 6: the scripture says that these stories are placed here so
Speaker 6: that we can learn, so that we can learn valuable
Speaker 6: lessons for our own life. So I want to quickly
Speaker 6: take us back to the Israelites. When God brought them
Speaker 6: out of Egypt. He led them out by a man
Speaker 6: named Moses. We know this story. They were led out
Speaker 6: of captivity by a leader named Moses, and he did
Speaker 6: it by God's command. He was able to do it
Speaker 6: because God said, I am taking my people to a
Speaker 6: land that is rich with milk and honey.
Speaker 4: He called it the Promised Land.
Speaker 6: Now they had been quickly captive under the barbaric hand
Speaker 6: of Pharoh. They had been mistreated, and God says, enough
Speaker 6: is enough.
Speaker 4: I'm taking my people out now.
Speaker 6: If you been mistreated, sometimes you come out very with
Speaker 6: a victim mentality. But God wanted to reverse this victim mentality.
Speaker 6: So you know what, he had the Egyptians do.
Speaker 4: Pharaoh and those people.
Speaker 6: He had them pour the wealth on the Israelites.
Speaker 4: So when they left Egypt, they didn't leave with nothing.
Speaker 4: They left with gold and silver and cattle. They left
Speaker 4: well equipped.
Speaker 6: They left with the mindset of oh wow, this is God,
Speaker 6: because only God could do that. They got to the
Speaker 6: Red Sea, and God parted the Red Sea. They walked
Speaker 6: through on dry land. They were on their way to
Speaker 6: the Promised Land. But as they got on their way,
Speaker 6: guess what, they started some seeing some things that could
Speaker 6: be done better. They began to look at Moses and think, Moses, really,
Speaker 6: I can do this better. They began to look at
Speaker 6: Air and in question their leadership. So they began to
Speaker 6: complain and mumble and grumble. You see, they began to
Speaker 6: complain about their food and their water, and their enemies.
Speaker 6: But you know, it's really interesting. In Deuteronomy one too,
Speaker 6: this is what it says. It says when God was
Speaker 6: taking them to the Promised Land, he had already ordained
Speaker 6: to get them there.
Speaker 4: It was an eleven day journey. You see.
Speaker 6: They left with more than enough to get there in
Speaker 6: eleven days, but it took them forty years.
Speaker 4: Forty years. Was it Moses that stopped them? Was it
Speaker 4: their enemies that stopped them?
Speaker 6: Was it the fact that they didn't have the right
Speaker 6: food that stopped them? No, what they thought was their enemies,
Speaker 6: the things they were complaining about, the things that they
Speaker 6: were blaming and pointing the finger out, wasn't their.
Speaker 4: Enemy at all.
Speaker 6: Their number one enemy was their own murmuring and complaining.
Speaker 6: Have you ever thought that your own murmuring and complaining
Speaker 6: could limit your thinking, could literally stop you from going
Speaker 6: to the next level? Have you ever thought how unhealthy
Speaker 6: it really is? See, I think if the Israelites could
Speaker 6: have read the research that I read, they would have said,
Speaker 6: oh my gosh, I'm training my own brain to complain,
Speaker 6: and that complaining is enemy number one.
Speaker 4: Enemy number one.
Speaker 6: I want to encourage us today, if we can train
Speaker 6: our brain to complain. We can train our brain to
Speaker 6: see God and how he can work in a situation.
Speaker 4: We can literally train our brain to believe that God
Speaker 4: can do something.
Speaker 6: You know, God is taking us all somewhere, and can
Speaker 6: I tell you right now you have everything you need right.
Speaker 4: Now to get to where God's taking you.
Speaker 6: If God is leading you, nothing can stop you. You see,
Speaker 6: that's where the Israelites missed it. They were looking at
Speaker 6: the things, the circumstances around them. They forgot to look
Speaker 6: to their God. It's easy to blame, it's easy to
Speaker 6: see out of these eyes, but we've got to begin
Speaker 6: to see out of our supernatural eyes the things unseen,
Speaker 6: the hand of God behind the scenes, that's fighting our
Speaker 6: battles for us, and keep our mouths closed until we
Speaker 6: get there. You see, they complained about mana. Manna was
Speaker 6: the bread that came down from heaven that God provided
Speaker 6: for them every single day. Now, granted, they had this
Speaker 6: manna every single day, and they tired of the mana.
Speaker 4: Have you ever got tired of something? Every day?
Speaker 6: I go to work every day, I clean this house
Speaker 6: every day, I pick up my husband's socks. You see,
Speaker 6: they tired of this man so they begin to grumble
Speaker 6: and complain about this manna. And it's so interesting that
Speaker 6: that just took fire in the whole camp. So they
Speaker 6: all started grumbling and complaining. And when you grumble and complain,
Speaker 6: you know what happens. Attitudes come up out of you
Speaker 6: that are not pleasing to God. In fact, grumbling and
Speaker 6: complaining can literally change our perspective. They started thinking about
Speaker 6: the food they used to eat, the onions and the
Speaker 6: leeks and the garlic.
Speaker 4: They begin to take their mind back to what they used.
Speaker 6: To eat in captivity so much that that food became
Speaker 6: more important than their freedom. That food became more important
Speaker 6: than their freedom.
Speaker 4: Instead of going to.
Speaker 6: That manna every day and saying God, I'm gonna eat
Speaker 6: this until you change it. But I am grateful that
Speaker 6: I am free. I am grateful that you are taking
Speaker 6: me somewhere. See, sometimes we all want something bigger. We
Speaker 6: want to go to the next level, but we don't
Speaker 6: want to do what it takes to get to that
Speaker 6: next level. Yeah, I want a job promotion. I want
Speaker 6: this job promotion now. I don't want to work any
Speaker 6: extra hours. Man, if I could have a husband, my
Speaker 6: life would be complete. I am waiting for my man
Speaker 6: I certainly don't want to cook for him.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 6: We want things, but we don't want what it takes
Speaker 6: to have those things.
Speaker 4: And this was their dilemma. They wanted out of captivity.
Speaker 6: God says, I'm taking you somewhere, but they didn't want
Speaker 6: to face the trials until they got there.
Speaker 4: Listen, if you don't like what's going on in your life,
Speaker 4: change is coming. Change is coming. Change is coming. Change
Speaker 4: is coming, But you're.
Speaker 6: Not gonna find it by complaining and grumbling. You're gonna
Speaker 6: find it by staying the course, by being grateful. See,
Speaker 6: complaining finds the worst in the situation, not the best.
Speaker 6: If you can train your mind to complain, you can
Speaker 6: train your mind to find the best. Listen to what
Speaker 6: it says in Philippians two fourteen. This is kind of
Speaker 6: the antidote for seeing the negative and figuring out what
Speaker 6: to do with it.
Speaker 4: You can see it's gonna get in there, but what
Speaker 4: are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 6: Don't give it life, don't spread it, don't ruin relationships,
Speaker 6: don't stop your destiny. Figure out what to do with
Speaker 6: it before you let it out. And this is what
Speaker 6: God is saying. First of all, he's commanding us do
Speaker 6: all things without grumbling, finding fault, complaining. All right, so
Speaker 6: there's one thing I can recognize. I'm not supposed to
Speaker 6: let it out. What am I supposed to do with it?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm only human?
Speaker 6: Right, He says a little later in Philippians four or five,
Speaker 6: he says, pray, Hey, if you've got a complaint, if
Speaker 6: you see something wrong, pray and ask God about it.
Speaker 4: Pray and ask God about it. That's what you do
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 6: And then it says, with thanksgiving in your heart. Can
Speaker 6: you imagine if they would have said, Lord.
Speaker 4: This manna is getting a little old. Do you think
Speaker 4: you could send some quell?
Speaker 6: God?
Speaker 4: Thank you Father for this mana though?
Speaker 6: And if you don't send some quall, I know you're
Speaker 6: getting me where I'm going.
Speaker 4: But God, I'm asking, I'm asking you for some quail.
Speaker 4: You see.
Speaker 6: If they would have seen whiched their request between Thanksgiving, I.
Speaker 4: Think we'd be reading a different story about them.
Speaker 6: God would be teaching us a different lesson about them.
Speaker 4: Don't weaken your faith by your complaining.
Speaker 6: Strengthen it by your prayer, by your petitions to God,
Speaker 6: making your requests known with thanksgiving in your heart, you
Speaker 6: see what they did is they left what they had
Speaker 6: to chase after what they didn't have. That's what complaining does.
Speaker 6: It doesn't say, hey, I'm grateful for what I have
Speaker 6: until I get more.
Speaker 4: It says, you know what, I don't care what I have.
Speaker 4: I want more.
Speaker 6: Really, that's what complaining does. And the scripture says that
Speaker 6: when they thought they were complaining to Moses and Aaron,
Speaker 6: they were really complaining about God. Listen, I'm guilty of complaining,
Speaker 6: But you know what, I want to watch my complaining because.
Speaker 4: I know it's right up there with worry.
Speaker 6: It isn't changing a thing. It's not doing a thing
Speaker 6: for me for my life. It's only shrinking it, limiting
Speaker 6: it and not getting me.
Speaker 4: To where I need to be. Let's don't be fault
Speaker 4: founders and complainers.
Speaker 6: Let's be those who pray and petition God with thanksgiving
Speaker 6: in our heart.
Speaker 4: Amen. Amen.
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