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We're at 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.200 beautiful Yankee Stadium for America's Not at Hope with the 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.720 finest people in all of New York right here Yankee. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:11.079 State to God. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.440 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.960 about this man. He called the church office and said, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:18.799 I want to speak. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.519 To the head hog at the trough. The secretary was offended. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.160 She said, if you mean the pastor, you're going to 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.440 have to call him pastor, but you may not call 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.200 him the head hog at the trough. He said, well, fine, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.080 I was thinking about making a ten thousand dollars donation 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:33.800 to your church. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.400 She said, hang on, Porky just walked in. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.040 Hold up your bible. Say it like you mean it. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.560 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.680 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.600 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.760 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.320 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.040 the same, never, never, never, I'll never be the same. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.120 In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.320 I want to talk to you tonight about nothing is wasted. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.840 Victoria and I have some flower beds at home, and 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.680 several times a year we put mulch in those beds. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.519 Mulch is a fertilizer that helps the plants to grow. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.520 One of the main ingredients of mulch is manure. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.400 It's waste. It smells lily bad. For a couple of days, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.480 you can hardly walk outside. Our kids say, Dad, what 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:34.280 happened out here? 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.920 It's stinks. The smell is so strong. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.160 But if you come back in a month or two, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.400 the smell is gone and the plants are blooming. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.680 They're blossoming, they're seeing new growth. The fertilizer, as bad as. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.000 It smells, it's giving the plants valuable nutrients and minerals 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.800 that they could not get otherwise. In the same way, 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.440 we all go through some things in life that stink. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:00.840 We don't like. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.120 It wasn't fair. Why did my relationship not make it? 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.960 Why did I come down with this sickness? Why did 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.200 I lose my main client? 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:09.960 That stinks? 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.360 Now you need to have a new perspective. That's fertilizer. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.880 It may smell bad right now, may seem like a 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.560 bunch of manure got dumped on you, but if you 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.520 will stay in faith, that's not going to hinder you. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.160 It's going to strengthen you. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:30.200 The stinky stuff, the loss, the disappointments, the betrayals, it's 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.159 preparing you for new growth to bloom, to blossom, to 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.200 become all you were created to be. The truth is, 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:43.040 you cannot reach your highest potential without fertilizer. The stinky 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.080 stuff is not working against you. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:46.839 It's working for you. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.880 It may smell bad right now, but if you'll keep 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.279 doing the right thing, you will come into. 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.320 A new season of growth. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:54.400 Now. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.159 I would love to tell you, if you have faith, 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.960 you trust God, you'll be your best. You'll sell through 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.479 life with no difficult But that's not reality. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.599 You're going to have some manure. There's going to be 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.000 some stinky stuff. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.279 What I want us to see is God wouldn't have 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.240 allowed it unless he was ultimately going to. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:14.480 Use it for your good. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.279 Instead of complaining thinking, oh man, this stinks. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.880 I can't believe this happened. No, have the attitude. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.279 It's just more fertilizer. God's getting me prepared for something greater. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.760 If you'll go through the stink with the right attitude, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.600 God will take what was meant for your harm and 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.440 he'll use it to your advantage. You may feel like 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:39.400 you've had more than your share of stinky stuff, bad breaks, disappointments, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:40.360 broken dreams. 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:41.800 Be encouraged. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.080 That just means you have a lot of fertilizer. God's 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.159 getting you ready to go where you've never been, and 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.039 this is not the time to be discouraged. 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.839 Have a chip on your shoulder. This is the time 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.200 to get ready. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.800 God allowed that fertilizer to get you prepared for where 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.640 you could not go on your own. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.440 You may not have liked it, but. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.159 It deposited something in you that you could only gain 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.600 by going through it. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.679 You couldn't learn it by reading a book, by listening 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.360 to a message, by taking a class. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.240 You could only learn it through experience, through the trial 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:19.080 of your faith. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.520 That's where we're really developed. David said. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:27.360 God enlarged me in my time of distress. He didn't 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.200 get enlarged in the good times. He got enlarged in 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:35.000 the tough times. That difficulty is strengthening you. It's getting 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.520 you prepared. Now you're in position to go to a 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.840 new level. Quit complaining about the fertilizer. Quit talking about 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.120 who hurts you, what didn't work out, all the manure that. 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:48.000 Got dumped on you. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.000 Without the stinky stuff, you couldn't reach the fullness of 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.600 your destiny. It's not hindering you, it's helping you. If 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.040 it was too much, God would have never allowed it. 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.280 To dig your heels in and say I am in 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.640 it to win it. I am not going to let 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.479 this stinky stuff this stuff I don't understand caused me 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:09.160 to give up. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.320 On my dreams. I know it's fertilizer. It's strengthening me, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.960 it's enlarging me, it's getting me prepared for new levels. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.240 That's what a friend of mine did that grew up 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.280 in a very difficult situation. Her father died when she 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.800 was six years old. Her mother had to go on 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.480 dialysis shortly after that. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.600 When other children. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.400 Were out cheerleading and having fun, she was having to 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.400 take care of her mother. Twelve years old, She'd have 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.920 to go to the grocery store and cook for the family. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.680 She had to get her little brother dressed and ready 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.640 for school each day. It looked like she was at 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.960 a disadvantage, like that hardship would keep her from her destiny. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.400 But just because. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:54.200 Something unfair has happened doesn't mean God doesn't have an 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.120 amazing future still in front of you. It may stink 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.000 right now, but remember her manure has. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.960 A lot of helpful ingredients. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:08.000 It's fertilizer used the right way, it gives you an advantage. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:09.239 It causes growth. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.720 And this young lady, she didn't have a victim mentality. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.720 She had a victor mentality. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.240 She didn't go around complaining. She kept being her best. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.320 Taking the high road, not letting negative. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.880 Thoughts talk her out of her dreams. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.560 In spite of all the odds being against her, she 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.440 excelled in high school. She got a full scholarship to 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.200 a major university. She went on to get her master's degree. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.760 Today she has her doctorate degree. She's extremely successful in 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.280 the corporate world, happily married three beautiful children. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.800 Here's my question, why. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:52.000 Does some people in that same type situation struggle through life, defeated, discourage, 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:56.680 always overcome by problems, and yet others like her overcome 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.320 the odds and see. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.599 God's blessing and favor in great way As. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.360 It's in our approach to life. We all have stinky stuff, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:10.240 unfair things that we don't like. We can get bitter, sour, discouraged, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.240 or we can see it as fertilizer and say, this 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.520 difficulty is not going to defeat me, it's going to 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.559 promote me. God wouldn't have allowed it unless he had 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.760 a purpose. Don't just go through it, grow through it. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:32.240 Recognize it's making you stronger. You're developing trust, confidence, determination, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.960 You are well able. If God be for you, who 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.160 dare be against you. You got to put your shoulders back, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.000 hold your head up high. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.120 You were never created to live. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:48.719 Defeated, overcome by problems, always having bad breaks. You were 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.880 created to be the overcomer, not the victim, but the victor. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.640 You have the most powerful force in the universe on 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.600 the inside. Winning is in DNA. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.200 And life may not have treated you fair, but God 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.720 is fair. In those stinky situations, you have to remember 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.599 its fertilizer. That's an opportunity to grow. Doesn't have to 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.000 keep you from your destiny, just the opposite. It can 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.040 propel you into your destiny. And what stinks in your 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.240 life right now, what you don't like, can be the 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.840 very thing that promotes you and. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.280 Causes you to blossom. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.200 Don't complain about the stink. There's promotion in that stink. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.960 Don't be discouraged by the sour stuff, the stinky situations. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.360 There's a new level in that sinky situation. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.000 Don't be put out by the fertilizer, by the manure. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.120 It may not smell good, but it's helping you to grow. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.120 It's developing something on the inside. When I look back 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.200 in my life, I realized I didn't grow much in 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:54.080 the good times. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.120 I grew in the difficult times. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.680 That's what's getting us prepared for the amazing future God 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.120 has in store. You may feel like you've had more 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.200 than your share of fertilizer of stinky stuff. Here's why, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.760 because God has a big destiny in front of you. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.360 He's about to take you someplace that you've never dreamed. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.320 He's getting you prepared. Your roots are going down deeper. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.000 The manure doesn't smell good, but it's giving you valuable 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.480 nutrients that you could not get otherwise. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.839 That person at the office that. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.320 Gets on your nerves doesn't treat you respectfully. Next time 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.400 you see them, just smile and say to yourself, you're 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.280 just fertilizer. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.960 You're you stink, but you're helping me to grow. You 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:39.640 think you're. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.520 Pushing me down, but really you're pushing me up. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.000 I don't say it to their face now, I'm not 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:45.800 telling you that. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.800 When you go through a bad break, a disappointment, the 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.400 medical report wasn't good, It's okay to be honest. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:54.559 This stinks. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.640 I don't like it, but I know a secret. It's fertilizer. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.560 It's going to cause me to grow, to bloom, of blossom, 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.319 to flourish. This is what Joseph did in the scripture. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.720 His brothers were jealous of him, and they threw him 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.400 into a pit. He could have gotten discouraged. God, I'm 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.800 a good person. Why did this happen to me? No, 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.640 he realized, it's just fertilizer. They're trying to stop me, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.120 but God's going to use it to increase me. One 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.120 bad thing after another happened to him. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.120 They sold him into slavery. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.360 Potterford's wife, his boss, his wife lied about him, and 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.319 he got put in prison, falsely accused. He spent thirteen 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.880 years in prison for something that he didn't do. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.439 They were trying to hold him back. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.720 They didn't realize they were putting fertilizer on him. Joseph 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.800 was getting stronger, he was growing, His roots were going 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:50.000 down deeper. They thought they were stopping him. The truth 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:55.600 is they were strengthening him. That injustice, that stinky situation 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.240 looked like it wasted years of his life. But just 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:05.320 like fertilize gives plants valuable nutrients, that difficulty was doing 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.520 a work in Joseph, getting him prepared for the next 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.760 level of his destiny. He interpreted a dream for the 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.400 Pharaoh Pharah was so impressed with Joseph he got him 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.400 out of prison and put him in charge of the 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.319 whole nation. If you will stay in faith in the 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.040 stinky times, the times you don't understand it. You're doing 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.000 the right thing, but the wrong thing keeps happening, then 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.439 when it's your time to be promoted, to be vindicated, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.400 to bloom, to blossom, all the forces of darkness cannot 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.959 stop you. People don't have the final say. God has 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.880 the final says. He will get you to where he 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:48.440 wants you to be. Joseph went from the pit to 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.959 the prison, all the way to the palace. You may 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.360 kind of feel like you're in a pit tonight. Had 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.880 some bad breaks dealing with the sickness, lost a loved one, 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.680 a dream, died life. Joseph, that pit is not the 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.960 end of your story. The prison is not your final chapter. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.280 Your story ends in the palace. You are destined to 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.880 live a victorious life. David said, God lifted me out 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.720 of the pit and put a new song in my heart. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.160 You may be in the pit, so you need to 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.320 get ready. You're about to come out. That sickness is 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.680 not the end. That depression is not the end. That 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.680 person that left you, the one that broke your heart, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.480 is not the end of your story. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.080 If they left you, you didn't need them. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.080 If they walked away, they were not a part of 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:45.680 your destiny. God has somebody better now. Don't get comfortable 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.600 in the pit. Don't let self pity and discouragement steal 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:51.280 your passion. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.240 You got to get your fire back. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:58.040 Everything God promised you. He still has every intention of 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.080 bringing it to pass. The palace is in your future 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.800 dreams coming to pass, or in your future victory, restoration, health, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.520 and wholeness. That's what's up in front of you. That's 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.920 how your story ends. I talked to a gentleman. He's 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.160 very upset because his boss was against him and always 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.280 trying to make him look bad. This boss was jealous 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.440 of him, would never give him any credit or recognition. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.160 I told him what I'm telling you. It's just fertilizer. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.000 It may stink right now, but don't worry. Fertilizer stinks, 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.400 that just means you're about to see new growth. He 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.760 got his passion back, started going to the office, being 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:40.120 his best, being productive, working under God and not under man. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.880 Several occasions he should have been promoted, but because of 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.360 his unfair boss, he got passed over. One day, the 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.000 CEO of the whole company was in town from out 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.480 of state. This man had to make a presentation. The 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.480 CEO was very impressed with his work. About a year later, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.880 a position became available that should have gone to this 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:06.920 unfair boss, but the CEO bypassed that boss and went 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.520 directly to this man and offered him the position. Now, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.160 instead of having to work for the unfair boss, the 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:14.200 tables have turned. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.720 The boss is working for him. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.200 You stay in faith, one touch of God's favor, you'll 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.920 go from the back to the front, from the employee 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.200 to the employer, earth, from the pit to the palace. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:31.040 We all have stinky situations, things that are unfair. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.640 People are not treating us right. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:37.040 You have to see it like Joseph as fertilizer. They're 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.800 not going to stop you. That's going to promote you. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.000 That person that lied about you, tried to make you 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:43.520 look bad. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:44.480 Don't get upset. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.160 They just put fertilizer on you. They think they're pushing 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.640 you down. Really they're pushing you up. You're one step 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:55.000 closer to your palace. Or that mistake you made you 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.120 feel like you blew it. You're all washed up, Joel, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:01.320 I had my chance. No, God uses the stinky stuff. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.080 You can't blossom into all you were created to be 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.800 without some fertilizer. Sometimes we bring trouble on ourselves. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:11.480 We made poor choices. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:16.120 The accuser constantly whispers in our ear. God's not gonna 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:17.000 bless you. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.560 You had your chance, you blew it. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:23.199 No, God doesn't waste anything that you go through. It 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.560 may not have been good, but God knows how to 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:26.560 bring good out of it. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:28.640 John chapter four. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.679 Jesus met this woman at a well. He told her 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.399 that he would give her living water. She said, please 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.280 give it to me. He said, go call your husband. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.240 She said, I don't have a husband. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:41.760 Jesus said, you're right. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.760 You've had five, and the men you're living with now 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.200 is not your husband. She was amazed at how this 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.960 man that you just met knew everything about her. She 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.200 got kind of spiritual and said, I know one day 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.840 the Messiah will come. Jesus looked at her and said, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.800 I am the Messiah. The first person Jesus ever told 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.040 he was the Messiah was this woman. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.240 A woman that had had a rough past, made mistakes, 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.920 that had some stinky stuff. She went back and told 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.760 the whole town, come see this man. He must be 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.520 the messiah. God used her as the. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.680 First evangelist to get the word out. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:23.320 And here's my point. 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:29.040 This woman was comfortable around men, married five times. If 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:34.240 she would have been intimidated, insecure, quiet, reserved, she wouldn't 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.960 have told many people. But God took what the enemy 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:42.440 had used against her, her boldness, her straightforwardness not only 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.959 turned it around, but God said, in effact, this has 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.600 gotten you into trouble in the past, I'm gonna make 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.320 the enemy pay. I'm gonna use this to advance my kingdom. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:56.800 It had worked against her, now it was working for her. Fringey, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.359 God knows how to use what you've been through. He 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.800 doesn't waste any experiences. You may have made poor choices, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.320 but God can take your mess and turn it into 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.560 your message. I have a friend that grew up for 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.320 many years in an outlaw motorcycle game. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.239 He was always on drugs. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.679 Breaking the law in and out of prison, living a 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.919 very violent life. Didn't look like he'd ever get on 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.560 the right course. But this young man had a praying 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.359 mother at home. 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.560 Every day. She would say, Lord, you said as for 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:30.480 me and my house. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:32.879 We will serve the Lord. Thank you for turning my 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:37.320 son around. One Sunday morning, this young man was so 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.000 depressed and so high on drugs he decided to end 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:45.040 his life. Just before he took this whole bottle of pills. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.080 For some reason, he turned on the television and saw 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:52.560 my Father ministry. He got on his motorcycle, still high 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:56.000 as a kite, and drove to Lakewood. He walked into 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.960 service as mean as can be, rough tattooed the beer. 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.679 The ushers took him all the way down to the 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.200 front and sat him on the second road. That day, 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.280 he felt the love that he had never felt. He 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.359 left the service, went out to the parking lot. Nobody 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.119 asked him to do it. He got down on his 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.960 knees beside his motorcycle and said, God, if you're real, 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.399 help me to change. I'm giving my life to you today. 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.160 This man is a pastor of a church. He has 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:29.200 a major motorcycle ministry. He goes back to the Outlaw 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.600 gang members and shares his story of how God changed 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:37.359 his life. God doesn't waste any experiences. He can use 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.440 what you've been through to. 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.520 Help others that are going through the same situation. 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.639 Last year, there was a story on the news about 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.760 a nineteen year old student. He walked into a high 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.560 school with an assault rifle and started shooting. He didn't 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:58.359 hit any people, only windows. After everyone scattered, he barricaded himself. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:20:59.680 In this small room. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.440 There was a woman hiding behind the counter, the high 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:07.680 school accountant, a middle aged woman named Miss Tough. At 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.040 one point she stood up, their eyes met, he drew 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.720 the rifle. She began to talk to him. She's very kind, 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:15.000 calm as can be. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:16.400 You could tell. 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.280 She won him over and he was comfortable and began 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.119