Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: tuning in. I like to start with something funny, and
Speaker 1: I heard about this elderly minister. He was close to death.
Speaker 1: He sent word for two of his members, an ours
Speaker 1: agent and a lawyer to come to his house. Upon arrival,
Speaker 1: he motioned for them to sit on each side of
Speaker 1: the bed. The men were very moved that they could
Speaker 1: be with the minister in his final moments. One point,
Speaker 1: the lawyer asked, very sincerely, sir, why did you choose
Speaker 1: both of us? The minister mustered up some strength and said,
Speaker 1: Jesus died between two sinners. That's the way I want
Speaker 1: to go say it. Like you mean it. This is
Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I
Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what
Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught
Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,
Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you today about miracles out of mistakes. We've all
Speaker 1: made wrong choices and done things that we knew were
Speaker 1: not the best. It's one thing when other people do
Speaker 1: us wrong. We had a bad break, it wasn't our fault.
Speaker 1: We can have faith that God will restore. He'll pay
Speaker 1: us back. But when we bring the trouble on ourselves,
Speaker 1: when we blow it, it's easy to live in regrets,
Speaker 1: thinking that God's not going to help us. We made
Speaker 1: the mess. But here's the beauty. God knew you would
Speaker 1: mess up before he called you. He knew we would
Speaker 1: get off course at times given to temptation. He didn't
Speaker 1: baste his plan for your life on you making perfect decisions.
Speaker 1: God has a plan even for your mistakes. What you
Speaker 1: think is a failure, you blew it. Nothing good could
Speaker 1: come out of that, God has a way of making
Speaker 1: miracles out of mistakes. He can take what should have
Speaker 1: left you lonely disappointed, what should have limited your career,
Speaker 1: instead of setting you back. God knows how to turn
Speaker 1: it around and set you up, to move you towards
Speaker 1: your destiny. But too often, when we make mistakes, we
Speaker 1: go around down on ourselves, guilty, not expecting anything good.
Speaker 1: Voices tell us too bad, Just live with the consequences.
Speaker 1: It's all downhill from here. But be encouraged. God is
Speaker 1: full of mercy. He doesn't turn his back when we
Speaker 1: make mistakes. He doesn't say I'm done with you, forget
Speaker 1: it right. Just the opposite. He comes running to us.
Speaker 1: He'll not only help you clean up the mess you made,
Speaker 1: he'll take it one step further and make miracles out
Speaker 1: of those mistakes. Paul said it this way, All things
Speaker 1: work together for good when you love the Lord. All
Speaker 1: things means, even our mistakes, the times we blew it God,
Speaker 1: of course, God knows how to work it for our good.
Speaker 1: You may be in a complicated situation, a problem that
Speaker 1: seems like it'll never work out. There are other people involved,
Speaker 1: different personalities, legal circumstances. It seems too complex. But God
Speaker 1: hasn't all figured out. He can see things you can't see.
Speaker 1: His ways are better than our ways. You may have
Speaker 1: brought the trouble on yourself. God is saying, I'm going
Speaker 1: to correct those complications. I'm going to resolve complex issues.
Speaker 1: I'm going to make things work out that you could
Speaker 1: have never made work on your own. That's what he
Speaker 1: did for Abraham. In the scripture, God gave him the
Speaker 1: promise that he and his wife Sarah were going to
Speaker 1: have a baby. Year after year went by and nothing happened.
Speaker 1: They decided to try to help God out. Sarah told
Speaker 1: Abraham to sleep with her maid Hagar. He did, and
Speaker 1: they had a baby boy that they named Ishmael. They
Speaker 1: were so excited, thanking God for the promise, but Ishmael
Speaker 1: wasn't the promised child. No disrespect to him. Ishmael was
Speaker 1: a mistake. He was born out of Abraham and Sarah's impatience.
Speaker 1: They got in a hurry, took matters into their own hands,
Speaker 1: and had this baby. Now there was strife and division
Speaker 1: in their home. Sarah was upset with Abraham, saying, what
Speaker 1: in the world were you thinking sleeping with my maid?
Speaker 1: He said, what do you mean, you're the one who
Speaker 1: told me to do it. She said, you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: listened to me. You should have known. Every time Sarah
Speaker 1: saw Hagar, she became more and more upset. Finally she
Speaker 1: gave Abraham the ultimatum, either that lady and her son leaves,
Speaker 1: or I'm leaving. I'm not staying in the house with
Speaker 1: that woman. Abraham was in a complicated situation. Two women
Speaker 1: mad at him. He's trying to please both of them.
Speaker 1: He needed divine intervention. He was at a crossroads. He
Speaker 1: has to send his son away out into the desert.
Speaker 1: Looked like that would be the end of Ishmael. The
Speaker 1: problem was he loved Ishmael, that was his son. He
Speaker 1: was conflicted, thinking, I love Sarah and I love Ishmael.
Speaker 1: How did I get myself into this mess? God could
Speaker 1: have said, Abraham, you'd have listened to me, You wouldn't
Speaker 1: have this mess, should have waited, should have been more patient.
Speaker 1: Was your own fault? Instead, God said, in effect, yes, Abraham,
Speaker 1: it's complicated. Yes it's dysfunctional. Their strife and division. But
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have let you get in this mess if
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to bring you out of this mess.
Speaker 1: God told Abraham, I'm going to bring out of your
Speaker 1: son Ishmael a great nation. I'm going to multiply his
Speaker 1: descendants and make him extremely fruitful. Even though Ishmael was
Speaker 1: considered a mistake born out of what the scripture calls
Speaker 1: works of the flesh, trying to make it happen on
Speaker 1: our own, God in his mercy said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take that mistake and make a miracle. I'm going to
Speaker 1: bring something significant out of him, Abraham, in spite of
Speaker 1: your failures, in spite of how you blew it. Like Abraham,
Speaker 1: we all have some Ishmaels. Times we blew it, tried
Speaker 1: to make it happen on our own. God involved in
Speaker 1: things we should and have. Now it's a mess. The
Speaker 1: accuser constantly whispers, God's not gonna bless you. You knew better.
Speaker 1: Just sit on the sidelines of life. Don't believe those lies.
Speaker 1: God has mercy for every mistake. God loves to make
Speaker 1: the enemy pay for bringing that trouble. If you'll stay
Speaker 1: in faith, God will not only bring you through it,
Speaker 1: He'll take the mess you made, clean it up, and
Speaker 1: bring you out better. Abraham had a son named Isaac.
Speaker 1: Isaac had a son named Jacob. Jacob had a son
Speaker 1: named Joseph. Abraham was Joseph's great great grandfather. You remember
Speaker 1: as a teenager, Joseph's brothers were jealous of him and
Speaker 1: threw him into a pit. They were going to leave
Speaker 1: him there to die, but the scripture says, a caravan
Speaker 1: of Ishmaelites came passing by. These were the descendants of Ishmael,
Speaker 1: part of the great nation that God promised Abraham. When
Speaker 1: Joseph's brothers saw the Ishmaelites, they changed their mind and
Speaker 1: decided to sell Joseph to them. If it had not
Speaker 1: been for the Ishmaelites, Joseph would have died there in
Speaker 1: the pit. He would have never made it to the palace,
Speaker 1: never been in charge of the food supply during the famine.
Speaker 1: The Israelites years later wouldn't have had what they needed
Speaker 1: to survive. What am I saying, the mistake of Abraham
Speaker 1: became the miracle of his great great grandson Joseph. This
Speaker 1: is how amazing God is. He has a plan even
Speaker 1: for our mistakes, even when we blow it. The scripture says,
Speaker 1: God is going to work all things for our good.
Speaker 1: He cannot only correct a complicated situation, but he can
Speaker 1: somehow use it years later to bless your descendants. Some
Speaker 1: of you are thinking, my descendants are going to really
Speaker 1: be blessed all the mistakes I've made. But sometimes we
Speaker 1: make mistakes, like Abrahim, when we're trying to do the
Speaker 1: right thing, our heart is in the right place, but
Speaker 1: we miss it. We believe God will help us because
Speaker 1: He's merciful and we were doing our best. Other times,
Speaker 1: we know what the right thing is, we know what
Speaker 1: we should do, but we do just the opposite. This
Speaker 1: is when we think I don't deserve God's goodness. Joel,
Speaker 1: I made the mess. I knew I shouldn't hang around
Speaker 1: these friends. I did it anyway. Now I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1: Now I had this addiction. I knew I should control
Speaker 1: my temper. I knew I should bite my tongue, but
Speaker 1: I kept giving in. Now I don't have a job.
Speaker 1: Now I lost a relationship. When we bring trouble on ourselves,
Speaker 1: thoughts of guilt and condemnation bombard our mind, saying God's
Speaker 1: not going to help you. You knew better. Just sit
Speaker 1: on the sidelines of life. This is how Jonah felt.
Speaker 1: In the scripture. God told him to go to the
Speaker 1: city of Nineveh. He had clear direct he knew exactly
Speaker 1: what he was supposed to do. But Jonah didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to Nineveh. He got on a boat headed
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction. The scripture says the Lord caused
Speaker 1: a great wind to blow on the sea, and such
Speaker 1: a violent storm arose that it threatened to break the
Speaker 1: boat apart. It's interesting that the Lord sent the storm.
Speaker 1: God knows how to get our attention. And when you
Speaker 1: know you're going the wrong way like this boat, things
Speaker 1: are going to start to fall apart. You can't pray
Speaker 1: away all the winds. You can say peace be still
Speaker 1: all day long, but the winds may not calm down.
Speaker 1: It is because you're causing the trouble. God loves you
Speaker 1: too much to let you miss your destiny. He's not
Speaker 1: going to let you go year after year on the
Speaker 1: wrong course and never get your attention. And sometimes it's
Speaker 1: the enemy fighting us, trying to keep us from our destiny.
Speaker 1: That's why we have storms difficulties. Other times we're bringing
Speaker 1: the trouble on ourselves. If we just get back on
Speaker 1: the right course, do what we know we should do,
Speaker 1: those winds would calm down. The people sailing with Jonah said,
Speaker 1: who's responsible for causing all this trouble? Jonah said, it's me.
Speaker 1: I'm a Hebrew, I worship God. I know where I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be going, But I'm running from the Lord.
Speaker 1: When you're running from the Lord, you're running from your destiny.
Speaker 1: It's not only going to cause you trouble, it's going
Speaker 1: to bring trouble to the people around you. When they
Speaker 1: threw Jonah overboard, the winds died down, the storms stopped.
Speaker 1: Our decisions don't just affect us, they affect our family.
Speaker 1: They affect our children. If you don't do the right
Speaker 1: thing for yourself, at least do it for your children.
Speaker 1: At least do it for your family. Jonah was big
Speaker 1: enough to admit I'm the cause. That's the first step
Speaker 1: to victory. As long as you're making excuses, thinking it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter than the winds, the storms, the difficulty are
Speaker 1: going to continue. Jonah was out in the ocean, thrown overboard.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he thought I'm done, and I have nobody
Speaker 1: to blame. It was all my fault. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: a huge fish swallowed Jonah. God in his great mercy,
Speaker 1: was saying, Jonah, you can run, but you can't hide.
Speaker 1: I'm not finished with you. I have a destiny for
Speaker 1: you to fulfill. The psalm Iss said, if you go
Speaker 1: down to the depths of the ocean or way up
Speaker 1: in the heavens, God will be right there. You can't
Speaker 1: get away from him. You haven't made too many mistakes,
Speaker 1: you haven't blown it too many times. God's calling on
Speaker 1: your life is irrevocable. That means God is not going
Speaker 1: to change his mind because you got of course, He's
Speaker 1: not going to leave you alone until you get back
Speaker 1: on the right path. The sooner you do that, the
Speaker 1: better off you're going to be. Jonah was sitting in
Speaker 1: the belly of the well. It was dark, uncomfortable, it stunk.
Speaker 1: Most people would have complained. Not Jonah. He was grateful
Speaker 1: to be alive. He knew it was the mercy of
Speaker 1: God having that fish. They're waiting for him. God will
Speaker 1: allow storms when we get off course. He may allow
Speaker 1: something to get our attention, but he's not going to
Speaker 1: let those difficulties take your life. Three days later, that
Speaker 1: well spit Jonah up on dry ground, and the scripture
Speaker 1: says the word of the Lord came a second time
Speaker 1: to Jonah, God gave him another chance. What did God
Speaker 1: say this time? Go to the city of Nineveh, same
Speaker 1: thing he said the first time. Friends, God is not
Speaker 1: going to change his mind. You might as well do
Speaker 1: what he's asking you to do. He'll give you a
Speaker 1: second chance, a third chance, a chance, but it's going
Speaker 1: to be storey until you get back on the right course.
Speaker 1: Yes he'll have a fish there to save you. Yes
Speaker 1: he'll make a miracle out of that mistake. But at
Speaker 1: some point you have to take responsibility and say, I'm
Speaker 1: the Jonah. I'm going against what I know is not right.
Speaker 1: I'm hanging out with these friends that I know are
Speaker 1: pulling me down. I'm living negative, critical hard to get
Speaker 1: along with. I'm not being disciplined in what I'm watching.
Speaker 1: That's going to cause it to be rocky, not just
Speaker 1: for you, but for the people around you. And God
Speaker 1: is not asking you to be perfect. He's not asking
Speaker 1: you to never make a mistake, but he is asking
Speaker 1: us to deal with the things that are holding us back,
Speaker 1: to not let the same areas of compromise keep us
Speaker 1: down year after year. He has some many of us
Speaker 1: for you to go to, some people for you to
Speaker 1: impact new levels of your destiny. David said it this way.
Speaker 1: The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.
Speaker 1: Though he fall, he will not be destroyed, for the
Speaker 1: Lord will be there to pick him up. This is saying,
Speaker 1: even though God is directing our steps, there will be
Speaker 1: times that we fall, we make mistakes, we get off course.
Speaker 1: God doesn't say that's it, I'm done with you. Just
Speaker 1: like with Jonah, God will be right there to help
Speaker 1: pick you up. He'll help you get back on the
Speaker 1: right course. It's like the navigation system you may have
Speaker 1: in your car. Most of us have a GPS system,
Speaker 1: even on our cell phone. You type in the address
Speaker 1: and the computer calculates the best route. Then it starts
Speaker 1: telling you where to go, things like turn right in
Speaker 1: three hundred feet, state of the left, and enter the freeway.
Speaker 1: The other day, I was driving to a friend of
Speaker 1: mine's house. He lives about thirty miles away, and the
Speaker 1: lady on the GPS came on and said exit in
Speaker 1: a quarter of a mile. Well, Victoria and I were talking.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of traffic and accidentally I passed
Speaker 1: up that exit. If you miss a turn or you
Speaker 1: don't obey what the lady's telling you to do. She
Speaker 1: doesn't come back on and say, you missed your exit,
Speaker 1: go back and try again, she says, recalculating route. The
Speaker 1: navigation system is designed for people who make mistakes. It
Speaker 1: doesn't give you one way, and if you miss it,
Speaker 1: that's it. As long as you have gas in your
Speaker 1: car or battery in your cell phone, it's gonna tell
Speaker 1: you how to get to your destination. I have never
Speaker 1: missed a turn and had the lady come on and say,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you can't get there from here, you're just
Speaker 1: too lost. Never once has she said you've disobeyed too
Speaker 1: many of my commands. I'm done with you. You're finished.
Speaker 1: One time, I knew the way I wanted to go.
Speaker 1: I was in a neighborhood that I was familiar with,
Speaker 1: but the GPS SYS was telling me to go a
Speaker 1: different route. It wanted me to turn left and then
Speaker 1: go way down the street. Well, I wanted to go
Speaker 1: down the street first and then turn left. Same difference.
Speaker 1: But for about two miles every block it told me
Speaker 1: turn left and then said recalculating route. I heard that
Speaker 1: every ten seconds, recalculating route, recalculating route. What's interesting is.
Speaker 1: No matter how stubborn I was, no matter how much
Speaker 1: I ignored that lady, she never got mad at me. She
Speaker 1: never came on said you're a loser. Don't ever get
Speaker 1: on this system. I'm never gonna help you. She just
Speaker 1: kept recalculating the route, trying to get me to my destination.
Speaker 1: If the GPS lady can continually recalculate when we get
Speaker 1: off course, how much more with the creator of the
Speaker 1: universe recalculate our route we remake mistakes. If she doesn't
Speaker 1: give up on us, why do we think our heavenly
Speaker 1: father is going to give up on us? Well, Joe,
Speaker 1: it's because I got so far off course. I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have given into this addiction. I should have raised my
Speaker 1: children better. I should have stayed in church, kept God
Speaker 1: first place. The good news is you haven't made too
Speaker 1: many wrong terms, you haven't missed too many exits. Your
Speaker 1: heavenly Father is not mad at you. He's saying, recalculating route,
Speaker 1: I still have a way to get you to your destiny.
Speaker 1: That mistake didn't stop my plan, That delay didn't cancel
Speaker 1: your purpose. Why don't you quit beating yourself up, quit
Speaker 1: reliving your failures all the time you've missed it and
Speaker 1: get back on the right path. It's not too late.
Speaker 1: God's mercy is bigger than any mistake you've made. Unlike
Speaker 1: the GPS lady, God knows the end from the beginning.
Speaker 1: He knew every mistake you would make. He has already
Speaker 1: recalculated your route. You can still fulfill the best plan
Speaker 1: and God has for your life. Abraham and Sarah did.
Speaker 1: They made that mistake. Abraham had a baby out of wedlock.
Speaker 1: One point. Abraham lied and told everyone Sarah his wife,
Speaker 1: was his sister. God didn't say I'm done with you.
Speaker 1: You are one dysfunctional family. You lie, You're impatient. God
Speaker 1: kept recalculating the route, kept giving them another chance. At
Speaker 1: the age of one hundred, Abraham saw the promise come
Speaker 1: to pass. Isaac was born, the promised child. You may
Speaker 1: have made decisions that have delayed things. You got off course,
Speaker 1: but you're not stuck. God has a new route. If
Speaker 1: you'll get your passion back, shake off the guilt. God
Speaker 1: will get you to where you're supposed to be, not
Speaker 1: some secondary place, but to the best plan that He
Speaker 1: has for your life. When the Israelites were in the
Speaker 1: desert headed toward the promised land, they got tired and
Speaker 1: started complaining. The scripture says, even though they were stubborn
Speaker 1: and refused to obey God's commands, he was still good
Speaker 1: to them. That was God recalculating their row. They wouldn't
Speaker 1: obey his commands. God didn't say I'm done with you.
Speaker 1: He kept giving them water when they were thirsty, food
Speaker 1: when they were hungry. At one point they made an
Speaker 1: idol and said, this is the God who brought us
Speaker 1: out of slavery. After all God had done for them,
Speaker 1: parted the Red Sea, brought them out of Pharaoh's hand.
Speaker 1: You would think God would say I am done with you.
Speaker 1: You are on your own, but the scripture says, in
Speaker 1: his mercy, God did not abandon them. He is a
Speaker 1: god of forgiveness, slow to become angry, full of unfailing
Speaker 1: love and kindness. When we make mistakes, God doesn't abandon
Speaker 1: us when we get off course. We'd obey his commands.
Speaker 1: He doesn't write us all. You can turn your back
Speaker 1: on God, but God's not going to turn his back
Speaker 1: on you. You may be off course, you've made poor decisions,
Speaker 1: but God has already recalculated your route. He already has
Speaker 1: a new way to get you to your destination. My
Speaker 1: father was married at a very early age. Unfortunately, that
Speaker 1: marriage didn't work out. Daddy was devastated. He resigned from
Speaker 1: his church. Denominational leaders told him that he would never
Speaker 1: pastor again. He thought his days of ministry was over.
Speaker 1: Didn't think he'd ever have a family. He left the
Speaker 1: ministry and started selling insurance. Every thought told him you're
Speaker 1: a failure. You blew it. Nothing good is in your future.
Speaker 1: What he couldn't hear was God saying, recalculating Ralph, I
Speaker 1: still have a way. I make miracles out of mistakes.
Speaker 1: God didn't abandon him when he got off course. He fell,
Speaker 1: but like David said, God was right there to help
Speaker 1: pick him back up. Leave. My father shook off the guilt.
Speaker 1: He quit listening to the accusing voices. Two years later
Speaker 1: he got back in the ministry. One day he was
Speaker 1: at the hospital visiting some of his members when he
Speaker 1: noticed a beautiful young nurse. It was my mother. He
Speaker 1: was so taken by her he started looking for any
Speaker 1: opportunity he could find to go up to that hospital.
Speaker 1: He would visit your great uncle, second cousins next door
Speaker 1: neighbor if you ask him to. He was almost hoping
Speaker 1: some of his members would get sick so he could
Speaker 1: go to the hospital. My mother didn't know what was
Speaker 1: going on. She told a friend that pastor has the
Speaker 1: sickest congregation I've ever seen. Finally dawned on her. He
Speaker 1: was up there to see her. Long story short, They
Speaker 1: fell in love, got married, had five children. I'm glad
Speaker 1: God recalculated the route, or I wouldn't be here today.
Speaker 1: But my father went on to have a ministry touch
Speaker 1: the world, married to my mother for over forty four years.
Speaker 1: What am I saying, No mistake you've made is too
Speaker 1: much for the mercy of God. He knows how to reraut.
Speaker 1: Quit beating yourself up, living guilty, thinking you've seen your
Speaker 1: best days. You wouldn't be alive unless God had something
Speaker 1: greater in your future. This is what happened with Moses.
Speaker 1: He made a mistake as a young man. He knew
Speaker 1: God had called him to deliver the Israelites from slavery,
Speaker 1: but like Abraham and Sarah, he got in a hurrying
Speaker 1: tried to do it in his own strength. He saw
Speaker 1: a Hebrew slave being mistreated. He didn't think anyone was watching,
Speaker 1: so he killed the man who was mistreating him. The
Speaker 1: next day, somebody told the Pharaoh Moses had to run
Speaker 1: for his life. He spent years on the backside of
Speaker 1: the desert in hiding. This is not what he had planned.
Speaker 1: It looked like he had missed his destiny. It was
Speaker 1: nobody's fault, accept his own. God didn't write him off.
Speaker 1: God didn't say, Moses, you knew better. Why didn't you wait?
Speaker 1: God simply said, recalculating Ralph. Forty years later, Moses was
Speaker 1: still in the desert, thinking he was forgotten, giving up
Speaker 1: on his dreams. Suddenly a bush exploded in front of him,
Speaker 1: like spontaneous combustion. It burned and burned. Strange thing was
Speaker 1: the bush didn't burn up. Intrigued, Moses walked over to
Speaker 1: see what was going on. A voice boomed out, Moses, Moses,
Speaker 1: take off your sandals. You are standing on Holy gram
Speaker 1: Moses was confused, thinking I felled, I've made mistakes. I
Speaker 1: thought I was done, But I hear him calling my name,
Speaker 1: not once, but twice. Moses, most if God would have
Speaker 1: said it once, he would have thought I'm hearing things.
Speaker 1: This sun is getting to me. God said it twice
Speaker 1: on purpose, would be no doubt about it. At the
Speaker 1: age of eighty, after a forty year detour, God recalculated
Speaker 1: the route Moses went on to deliver the Israelites. He
Speaker 1: fulfilled his purpose. I believe today God is recalculating some routes.
Speaker 1: You may have made mistakes. You think you've blown it
Speaker 1: too many times. You need to get ready. Like Moses,
Speaker 1: a burning bush is coming your way. You messed up.
Speaker 1: But if you'll listen, you'll hear God calling your name.
Speaker 1: He's saying, get your passion back, shake off the guilt,
Speaker 1: get ready to take new ground. You can still become
Speaker 1: all God's created you to be. He's not finished with you.
Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe and declare, God is
Speaker 1: going to make miracles out of your mistakes. He's going
Speaker 1: to correct complicated situations, restore what the enemy's stolen, and
Speaker 1: take it into the fullness of your destiny in gee
Speaker 1: Us name. And if you receive it today, can you
Speaker 1: say amen, I'd like to give you an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray
Speaker 1: with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins,
Speaker 1: Come into my heart, I'll make you my Lord and savior. Friends,
Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church, and
Speaker 1: keep God first place.
Speaker 2: Every day we can live discouraged, angry, depressed, defeated.
Speaker 1: Is it possible to.
Speaker 2: Turn these negatives into an outlook filled with purpose, happiness
Speaker 2: and joy.
Speaker 1: Every day we make choices how we see ourselves, how
Speaker 1: we respond to challenges, how we approach what's in front
Speaker 1: of us. I've written a devotional called Today I Choose
Speaker 1: Devotions for a Better Life. It's designed to help you
Speaker 1: make those choices on purpose, to choose faith over peace
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