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And 36 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 4: if you're ever in our area, please stop buying and 37 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 4: be a part of one of our services. I promise 38 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 4: you will make you feel right at home. I ain't 39 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: so much for tuning in today, and thank you again 40 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,279 Speaker 4: for coming out. I like to start with something funny, 41 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 4: and I heard about this pastor. He was new in town. 42 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 4: He was going door to door inviting people to come 43 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 4: to his church. And he knocked on this one door 44 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 4: and he could tell someone was home, but nobody would 45 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 4: answer the door. He took his card out and he 46 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 4: wrote on the back the scripture reference Revelation three twenty, 47 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 4: left it on the door. The next Sunday after service, 48 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 4: and Usher handed him the same card. Under what he 49 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 4: had written was the scripture reference Genesis three ten. Here's 50 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 4: what they say the pastor's words, Revelation three twenty. Behold, 51 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 4: I stand at the door and knock. If anyone answers, 52 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 4: I will come in. The reply was Genesis three ten. 53 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 4: It says I heard your voice, but I was afraid 54 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 4: because I was naked. Hold up your bible. Say it 55 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 4: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 56 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 4: what it says I am. I have what it says 57 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 4: I have. I can do what it says I can do. 58 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. I 59 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 4: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 60 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 61 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 4: bless you. Want to talk to you today about keeping 62 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 4: your vision in front of you. Studies tell us that 63 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 4: we move toward what we consistently see. You need to 64 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 4: keep something in front of you, even if it's symbolic, 65 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 4: that reminds you of what God has promised. If you're 66 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 4: single and have a desire to get married, put an 67 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 4: empty photo album on your table at home. That's where 68 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 4: you're going to put your wedding pictures. When you see it, 69 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 4: you're moving toward it. A friend of mine has a 70 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 4: dream to travel the world, and minister comes from a 71 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 4: small town, didn't have any connections, no invitations, but he 72 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 4: went and bought a piece of luggage and kept it 73 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 4: in his closet. Every time he sees it, he thanks 74 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 4: God that he's going to own open up new doors. 75 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 4: What's happening. His faith is being increased, his vision is 76 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 4: being enlarged. He's moving toward it. Some of you are 77 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 4: not seeing God's best, not because you don't have the faith, 78 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 4: the talent, the determination, but because you're not keeping the 79 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 4: right things in front of you. If you can't see 80 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 4: your vision, you're not moving toward it. All Over your house, 81 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 4: you should have pictures up that inspire you, scripture verses 82 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 4: that encourage you, momentos that strengthen your faith. Maybe it's 83 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 4: a key on your key ring for the new house 84 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 4: you're going to buy. Somebody asks you, what's this extra 85 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 4: key for? That's for the house that's on its way. 86 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 4: Whatever you're believing for, whatever you're dreaming about, keeps something 87 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 4: in front of you that reminds you of what God 88 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 4: has promised. We see this principle in the scripture when 89 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 4: Zerubabell wanted to rebuild the temple and laid the foundation, 90 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 4: but people came against them and forced him to stop. 91 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,359 Speaker 4: For ten years, no work could be done. Zachariah, the prophet, 92 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,119 Speaker 4: came by told him to do something interesting. He said, 93 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 4: go get the headstone. The headstone was the stone that 94 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 4: was reserved as the final piece of stone for the building. 95 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 4: It was symbolic, it represented the finished product. Why was 96 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 4: it important that he keep the headstone in front of 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 4: him because every time he looked at it, it reminded 98 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 4: him that God would finish what he started. When Zarubabell 99 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 4: was tempted to get tired and discouraged, he would go 100 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 4: look at that headstone. That was God's saying to him, 101 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 4: I'm still on the throne. I'm going to do what 102 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 4: I promised. Just stay in faith. Let me ask you, 103 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 4: do you have your headstone in front of you? Do 104 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 4: you have something that represents the final piece to your dreams. 105 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 4: I know a couple that had a son that was 106 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 4: not doing right. For years, he would not speak to 107 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 4: his parents. Very off course, they went and bought a 108 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 4: bible and had his name engraved on it, put it 109 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 4: on their coffee table. That was their headstone. Every time 110 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 4: they saw it, they thought, he's coming back. It's just 111 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 4: a matter of time. Today I see that young man 112 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 4: at our services all the time, holding up that same bible. 113 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 4: My brother in law, Kevin. Kevin is a twin Growing up, 114 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 4: he loved having a twin sister. That was always his 115 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 4: dream to have twins. He and my sister Lisa tried 116 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 4: to have a baby for many years with no success. 117 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 4: Lisa went through all the fertility treatments, had several surgeries, 118 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 4: but still no baby. They were discouraged. Didn't look like 119 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 4: it was going to happen. One day, Kevin went out 120 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 4: to the mailbox to get his mail. There was a 121 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 4: small package in it. He noticed the return address said Huggies. 122 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 4: That's strange, hadn't ordered anything from Huggies. He opened it 123 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 4: up and there were two diapers in it. They were 124 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 4: doing a promotion sending out samples of their product. Kevin 125 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 4: could have dismissed it. Don't need that, don't have any babies. No. 126 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 4: He took that as a sign from God. When he 127 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 4: saw those two diapers, something came alive on the inside. 128 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 4: He ran and told Lisa, we just got the first 129 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 4: two diapers for our new babies. He wrote the day 130 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 4: on those diapers and put them on his desk at home. 131 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 4: Month after month, he saw those diapers again and again. 132 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 4: When you see something long enough, it gets into your 133 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 4: subconscious mind and it eventually drops down into your spirit 134 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 4: where you know that you know is going to happen. 135 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 4: One day, unexpectedly, an old friend called and asked if 136 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 4: they would be interested in adopting a baby. They said, 137 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 4: we sure would. She said, well, how about two babies. 138 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 4: These are girls that are about to be born. And 139 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 4: today Lisa and Kevin have their twins. They're fifteen years old, 140 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 4: as beautiful as can be. Maybe you're believing to have 141 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 4: a baby. Why don't you go buy a baby's outfit, 142 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 4: put it in your closet where you can see it 143 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 4: all through the day. Keep your vision in front of you. 144 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 4: Friend of mine was believing to have a child. She 145 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 4: decorated her whole baby's room. She painted it, bought the bed, 146 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 4: the stroller, spent all this time, energy money. Her friends 147 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 4: thought she was a little far out preparing a baby's 148 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 4: room with no baby on the way, but she understood 149 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 4: this principle, you are moving toward what you consistently see. 150 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 4: A year went by, no baby, two years, three years, 151 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 4: even ten years. She didn't get discouraged. She just kept 152 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 4: thanking God that her baby was on the way all 153 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 4: through the day. When she walked by her baby's room, 154 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 4: that seed was taken root. Didn't look like anything was happening, 155 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 4: but she was moving toward it. Some twenty years later, 156 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 4: she gave birth, not to one baby, but to two. 157 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 4: She had twins as well. Is there anything that you 158 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 4: see every day that reminds you of what you're believing? 159 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 4: For something that inspires you, that ignites your faith. Proverbs 160 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 4: twenty nine to eighteen says, where there is no vision, 161 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 4: the people perish. With no vision, you'll get stuck. This 162 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 4: is the reason many people have lost their passion. They 163 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 4: don't have anything in front of them that reminds them 164 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 4: of what God has promised. For instance, if you're believing 165 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 4: to move into a nicer house, find a picture of 166 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 4: the house you really want and put it on your 167 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 4: bathroom mirror. Let that seed take root. If you're believing 168 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 4: to go to a certain college, buy the T shirt 169 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 4: and wear it around. Get the coffee mug with their logo. 170 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 4: Put it on your counter every time you wear the shirt. 171 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 4: See the picture see the baby's outfit. Say God, I 172 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 4: want to thank you that you're bringing my dreams to pass. 173 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 4: Let that be a reminder of what God has promised you. 174 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 4: I learned this principle from my father. He and my 175 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 4: mother started Lakewood Church in nineteen fifty nine in an 176 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 4: old rundown, abandoned feed store. They had ninety members. Few 177 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 4: years later, my father named the church Lakewood International Outreach Center. 178 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 4: Put a big blue sign out front. The sign costs 179 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 4: more than the building. The truth is they were not 180 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,199 Speaker 4: an international outreach center. They were a small neighborhood church 181 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 4: with ninety people. But when my father drove up to 182 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 4: that building and saw that sign, his vision was being increased. 183 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 4: He was moving toward it every week. When those ninety 184 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 4: members saw that sign again and again, something was being 185 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 4: birthed on the inside. Seeds of increase were taken root. 186 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 4: Do you know what Lakeuid is today? And international outreach 187 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 4: center touching the world. Growing up, my father always kept 188 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 4: a globe on his desk at home. At the old church, 189 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 4: there was a big world map up on the wall 190 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 4: that he had a globe behind him. When he spoke, 191 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 4: he always had the world on his mind. At one conference, 192 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 4: people came from one hundred and fifty different countries. It 193 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 4: looked like the world nations. What am I saying? Once 194 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 4: you keep in front of you you were moving toward. Now, 195 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 4: let me challenge you don't have a small vision for 196 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 4: your life. You are not inconveniencing God by believing big. 197 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 4: In fact, it's just the opposite. When you believe to 198 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 4: do something great, when you believe to set a new 199 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 4: standard for your family, when you take the limits off 200 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 4: of God and say, God, I don't see away, but 201 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 4: I know you have a way. So I'm gonna believe 202 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 4: to have these twins. I'm gonna believe that my business, 203 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 4: my charity will impact the world. I'm gonna believe to 204 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 4: be totally healthy and whole. When you believe big like that, 205 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 4: you please God. My father could have put on that 206 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 4: sign Lakewood Community Church, nothing wrong with that, but God 207 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 4: had put something bigger in his heart. He could have 208 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 4: looked at the circumstances thought, we're just ninety people. We 209 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 4: got this all rundown building. We don't have any influence, 210 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 4: any money, any connections. We'll never do anything great. If 211 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 4: pe'd have thought that, we wouldn't be here today. Listen, 212 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 4: it doesn't matter what it looks like. In the natural, 213 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,839 Speaker 4: we serve a supernatural God. He is not limited by 214 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 4: your resources, by your education, by your background, by your nationality. 215 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 4: If you will keep a big vision in front of you, 216 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 4: God will not only do what you're dreaming about, and 217 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 4: he'll supersize it. He'll do more than you can ask 218 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 4: or think. A few years after my father went to 219 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 4: be with the Lord, I stepped up to pastor the church. 220 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 4: I had a desire to write a book. My father 221 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 4: had written many books and they were all translated into Spanish. 222 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 4: Now I had a copy of my father's most popular 223 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 4: book in English and in Spanish on a bookshelf at home. 224 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 4: I kept that in front of me, knowing that one day, 225 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 4: at the right time, I was going to write a book. 226 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:33,359 Speaker 4: My dream is that it too would be translated into Spanish. 227 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 4: And that was really stretching my faith because I never 228 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 4: thought that I could get up here in minister and 229 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 4: especially never thought that I could write a book that 230 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 4: would be translated into another language. A year went by 231 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 4: and had no book, no opportunity. Two years, three years, 232 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,439 Speaker 4: four years. Would have been easy for me to lose 233 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 4: my passion and think that it was never going to happen. 234 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:59,599 Speaker 4: But I had my father's book strategically placed on a 235 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 4: book shie shelf right outside of my closet. To get 236 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 4: to the other places in the house, I had to 237 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 4: pass by it. I had seen that book, no doubt, 238 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 4: thousands of times, maybe not even consciously, but subconsciously I 239 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 4: was moving toward it. Two thousand and four, I wrote 240 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 4: my first book and called it Your Best Life Now. 241 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 4: When the publisher read the manuscript, he called back and said, 242 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 4: we've decided to publish it in Spanish at the same 243 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 4: time we publish it in English. Normally they wait a 244 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 4: little while to see if anybody likes the book. But 245 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 4: that's the way our God is. His dream for your 246 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 4: life is bigger than your own dream, and if you 247 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 4: will stay in faith, God is going to supersize what 248 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 4: you're believing. For My vision was that my book would 249 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 4: at least be translated into Spanish. Do you know it 250 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 4: was not only translated in Spanish, but German, French, Russian, Swahili, 251 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 4: almost fifty other languages. Friends, if you will keep your 252 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 4: vision in front of you, a big vision, and not 253 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 4: talk yourself out of it, but just keep honoring God 254 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 4: being your best, then God is going to supersize what 255 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 4: you're dreaming about. He's going to do exceedingly, abundantly, above 256 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 4: and beyond. I saw an article in the newspaper several 257 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 4: years ago about a man that gave a one hundred 258 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 4: million dollar gift to a university. I cut the article 259 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 4: out and put it on my desk. Every time I 260 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,680 Speaker 4: see it, I say, God, you did it for a university. 261 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 4: You can do it for a ministry. We could help 262 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 4: a lot of people with an extra one hundred million. 263 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 4: If you can accomplish your dreams in your own strength, 264 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 4: your own talent, with your own resources, then your dreams 265 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 4: are too small. You've got to enlarge your vision. Your 266 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 4: destiny is too great, your assignment too important. To have 267 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 4: little goals, little dreams, little plan and keep something big 268 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 4: in front of you. A friend of mine feeds a 269 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 4: million children every day. He and his wife sponsor orphanages 270 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 4: and feeding programs to help one million children a day. 271 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 4: That's what I keep in front of me. God, you 272 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 4: did it for them, you can do it for us. God, 273 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 4: let our family impact millions of children. In our kitchen 274 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 4: at home, we have pictures of some of the children 275 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 4: that we support through our partnership with World Vision. Every 276 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 4: time we're in the kitchen getting a snack, eating dinner, 277 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 4: we see those pictures. Lord, thank you for helping us 278 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 4: to make a difference. We're moving toward it. Well, Joel, 279 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 4: I can't even imagine ever doing that a million kids. 280 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 4: I can't imagine being that blessed. Don't worry. You won't 281 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 4: be If you don't have a vision for it. It's 282 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 4: not going to come to pass. Now, let me encourage you. 283 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 4: Some things seem far out, very unlikely, but don't ever 284 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 4: say I can't imagine that. You see somebody that's really fit, 285 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 4: really energetic, you're trying to lose some weight. I can't 286 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 4: even imagine looking like them, drive through a nice neighborhood, 287 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 4: a beautiful house. I can't imagine living in a house 288 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 4: like that. I can't imagine owning my own business. I 289 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 4: can't imagine publishing a book. Listen, you are being limited 290 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,479 Speaker 4: by your own imagination. You got to change what you're seeing. 291 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 4: Do not let the enemy paint the pictures in your mind. 292 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 4: Use your imagination to see yourself rising higher, accomplishing your dreams, 293 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 4: overcoming obstacles, blessed, prosperous, healthy, strong, redeemed, forgiven, well able. 294 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 4: I don't say this arrogantly, but I can imagine my 295 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 4: book being translated into every language. I can imagine somebody 296 00:17:55,119 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 4: handing us that one hundred million dollar check. It feels 297 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 4: really good. How about another one. I can imagine us 298 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 4: touching a million children every day. Not only that, I 299 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 4: can imagine you fulfilling your destiny. I can imagine you 300 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 4: totally out of debt. I can imagine you healthy, whole free. 301 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 4: I can imagine you leading your company. I can imagine 302 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 4: you living in your dream house. I can imagine you 303 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 4: blessing the world, being a history maker, setting a new 304 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 4: standard for your family. Now I'm asking you to not 305 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 4: only have it in your imagination, but keep something in 306 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 4: front of you that reminds you of what God has promised. 307 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 4: I know a man. He works in the oil industry. 308 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 4: It's a faithful member, always giving, serving, helping others. He 309 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 4: started his company with just him and one assistant. It's 310 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 4: grown and grown. They specialize in drilling for oil. He 311 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 4: provides the crew the equipment. He was spending all of 312 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 4: his time traveling to the different sites, checking on the location, 313 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 4: on the crew, and one day he saw a competitor 314 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 4: of his flying in on their own company airplane. They 315 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,479 Speaker 4: were doing what he did, but in a fraction of 316 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 4: the time, God dropped a dream in his heart that 317 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 4: one day he could own his own company plane. You 318 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 4: got to understand this was very far out for him. 319 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 4: He grew up in a family that lived paycheck to paycheck, 320 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 4: barely getting by. He had already broken out of the mold. 321 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 4: But when he told his family, his relatives that he 322 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 4: was believing to own his own company plane, they thought 323 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 4: that he had lost his mind. They couldn't imagine it, 324 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 4: but he could. Sometimes your family won't be your biggest cheerleaders. 325 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 4: They may not encourage you. You got to listen to 326 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 4: what God's telling you and not what people are telling you. 327 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 4: People may try to talk you out of what God 328 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 4: put in your heart. He went out and bought a 329 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 4: little model of the airplane. He was hoping to buy 330 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 4: just a twenty dollars replica and placed it on his desk. 331 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 4: People would come in, say, what's that airplane doing on 332 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 4: your desk. He'd say, that's the airplane i'm all used 333 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 4: to fly around check on our business. Year after year, 334 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 4: he kept that vision in front of him. One day, 335 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 4: the competitor that he had seen flying around, an older gentleman, 336 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 4: showed up unexpectedly at his office. He said, I'm about 337 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 4: to retire and I'd like to sell you my airplane. Well, 338 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 4: he had this big, beautiful airplane that held twelve people. 339 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:43,680 Speaker 4: This man was just hoping and believing for this little 340 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 4: two seater, a used airplane. He kind of laughed and said, boy, 341 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 4: I appreciate the opportunity, but I don't have those kind 342 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 4: of funds. I can't afford that. The man said, sure 343 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 4: you can. You don't have to put anything down. If 344 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 4: you'll just take over the monthly payments, you can have 345 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 4: this plane. He got this big, beautiful airplane at a 346 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,159 Speaker 4: fraction of its value. Today he flies all over the world. 347 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 4: He said, Joel, God has blessed me beyond my wildest dreams. 348 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 4: Here's what I'm saying. When you keep your vision in 349 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 4: front of you, that is your faith being released. That's 350 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 4: why the scripture uses such strong language. Where there's no vision, 351 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 4: people perish with no vision. Your dreams will die. If 352 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 4: you can't see what God's promised you, you will miss 353 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 4: the incredible things God wants to do. Now, let me 354 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 4: make it more practical. You probably don't need an airplane. 355 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 4: Maybe you need to lose thirty pounds. Why don't you 356 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 4: put a picture up on your bathroom mirror of you 357 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 4: thirty pounds lighter every day when you see it, don't 358 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 4: get depressed and think I wish I still look like that. No, Father, 359 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 4: I want to thank you that I'm losing this way, 360 00:21:55,119 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 4: that I'm healthy, fit, in shape, energetic, well able attract. 361 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 4: Let a new image take root. When my father was 362 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 4: about to have open heart surgery, I was in the 363 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 4: hospital room right before they were going to take him in. 364 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 4: He asked me if i'd run home get his tennis 365 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 4: shoes and his jogging suit. I thought that was very 366 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 4: strange because he was about to have madeor heart surgery. 367 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 4: He wasn't going to be outrunning anytime soon. It was 368 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 4: going to take him weeks, if not months, to recover. 369 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 4: But my father understood this principle when he came out 370 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 4: of that operation. He wanted to see those tennis shoes 371 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 4: to remind him that that was not the end, that 372 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 4: he would be out running again one day. He kept 373 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 4: those in front of him the whole time he recovered that. 374 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,920 Speaker 4: He went on to live another twelve years or so, 375 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 4: traveling the world. You may not be healthy right now, 376 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 4: but you've got to keep something in front of you 377 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 4: that says you will be healthy. Put pictures of you 378 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 4: up in your house from a time when you were healthy. 379 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 4: Put up scripture verses that encourage you. Call your family 380 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,199 Speaker 4: in another state, tell them you're planning on coming to 381 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 4: see them. Don't you dare plan on dying. We need you, 382 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 4: Your family needs you, This world needs you. Make plans 383 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 4: to live. Keep the right vision in front of you. 384 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 4: Second Corinthians four eighteen says that things that are seen 385 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 4: are temporary. One translation indicates they are subject to change. 386 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 4: Anything that doesn't line up with the vision God placed 387 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 4: in your heart, you need to see that as being temporary. 388 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 4: It is subject to change. You may be facing an 389 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 4: illness right now. The good news is it is subject 390 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 4: to change. God says, I'm restoring health unto you. The 391 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 4: number of your days I will fulfill. Let that vision 392 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 4: take root. You may be struggling in your finances, in debt, 393 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:01,399 Speaker 4: barely making ends meet. That is subject to change. God 394 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 4: says you will lend and not borrow. Whatever you touch 395 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 4: will prosper and succeed. It may look like that your 396 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 4: dreams could never come to pass. All the odds are 397 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 4: against you. The truth is the odds are subject to change. 398 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 4: One touch of God's favor, he can take you from 399 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 4: the back to the front, from working at the business 400 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 4: to owning your own business, to being given up by 401 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 4: medicine like my mother, to being healthy and whole thirty 402 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 4: years later. Everything that doesn't line up with what God 403 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 4: put in your heart, see it as subject to change. 404 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 4: That child that's off course, he's subject to change. Being 405 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 4: lonely is subject to change. Not getting any good breaks 406 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 4: as subject to change. People trying to pull you down, 407 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 4: that is subject to change. See it as temporary. Keep 408 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 4: what God has promised you in front of you. This 409 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 4: is what Abraham had to do. He'd just gone through 410 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 4: a major disappointment his base, having to start all over. 411 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 4: He lost everything he had worked for. His nephew Lot 412 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 4: chose the best part of the land, and he had 413 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 4: to move on I'm sure he was down discouraged, thinking, God, 414 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 4: this isn't fair. How come this happened to me? God said, Abraham, 415 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 4: look up from where you are. For all the land 416 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 4: that you can see, I will give it to you. 417 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 4: Notice the principle, whatever you can see, God will give 418 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 4: it to you. The reason some people are stuck is 419 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 4: that got their head down, focused on their problems, what 420 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 4: didn't work out? Who hurt them? God is saying, look 421 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 4: up from where you are. Don't sit around depressed, discourage, 422 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 4: get a new vision for your life. Put some new 423 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 4: pictures in front of you, all that you can see. 424 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 4: God says He'll give it to you. I read a 425 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 4: story about a gentleman by the name of Conrad Hilton. 426 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 4: He was the founder of the Hilton Hotels. Back in 427 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 4: the nineteen thirties, as a younger man, he saw magazine 428 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 4: article about the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. 429 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 4: The title was the most famous hotel in the world. 430 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 4: It showed these big, beautiful pictures. He had never seen 431 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 4: anything like it before, so magnificent, so grand. As he 432 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,959 Speaker 4: was reading the article looking at the picture, God dropped 433 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 4: the dream in his heart that one day he would 434 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 4: own that hotel in the natural. At that time, it 435 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 4: was impossible. He could barely pay his rent, just coming 436 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 4: out of the Great Depression, had no connections. He could 437 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 4: have said, God, you got the wrong person. Could never 438 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 4: happen for me. But he was bold enough to let 439 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,199 Speaker 4: that seed take root. He got some scissors and he 440 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 4: cut out the picture of the beautiful Waldorf, and he 441 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 4: put it under his glass on his desk. Every day 442 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 4: he saw that picture for a year, five years, ten years. 443 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 4: Didn't look like it would happened, but he was moving 444 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 4: toward that vision. When he was in New York City, 445 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 4: he would walk around the property, praying, believing, dreaming, never 446 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 4: told anybody, just letting the seed take root. Eighteen years 447 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 4: later he was able to purchase two hundred and fifty 448 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 4: thousand shares of the Waldorf Corporation. He ended up owning 449 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 4: the most famous hotel in the world. Some of you 450 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 4: today think that your dream is too big, that your 451 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 4: difficulties are too great, it's been too long. But God 452 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 4: is saying, I'm still on the throne. I'm still going 453 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 4: to bring it to pass, just like with mister Hilton. 454 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 4: If you will keep a big vision in front of you, 455 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 4: God is going to do something big in your life. 456 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 4: He is going to release his favor like you've never 457 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 4: seen before. What you thought was over and done, God 458 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 4: is still going to do what looked impossible, like it 459 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 4: was over your head. God is going to suddenly cause 460 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 4: things to fall into play, giving you the influence, the connections, 461 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 4: the favor, the wisdom. Now, don't stop believing. Every time 462 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 4: you see your vision, you keep thinking God that it's 463 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 4: on its way. If you will do this, God is 464 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 4: going to supersize whatever you're dreaming about. It's going to 465 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 4: be bigger than you imagined. He's going to take you 466 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,880 Speaker 4: places you could not go on your own, opening doors 467 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,360 Speaker 4: that no man can shut. He's going to do what 468 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,439 Speaker 4: medicine cannot do. You need to get ready. Every dream, 469 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 4: every promise, every goal God's placed in your heart. I 470 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 4: believe in declare it will come to pass in Jesus' 471 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 4: names if you receive it. Give a Lord another shout 472 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 4: of phrase. Today, we never like to close our broadcast 473 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 4: without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord 474 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 4: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 475 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 4: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 476 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 4: make you my Lord and Savior. If you prayed that 477 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 4: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 478 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 4: a good Bible based charge. Keep God first place. He's 479 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 4: going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 480 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 5: Thank you for listening to the Joelstein Podcast. 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