1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: share it with a friend. Reappreciate you and pray for 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 2: Will God bless you? 7 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: It is always our joy to come into your homes. 8 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: We love you, We know God has great things in store. 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: He rewards people that seek after Him and I believe 10 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: that's you and you here as well. And if you're 11 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by. I 12 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. But 13 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: thanks for tuning in to day. I like to start 14 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: each week with something funny, and this was sent to 15 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: me from a senior citizen's home. It's about this eighty 16 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: four year old woman. She'd gotten out of shape, and 17 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: she knew she needed to start exercising, so she decided 18 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: to join an aerobics class for seniors. The first day, 19 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: she bent and twisted and gyrated back and forth, jumped 20 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: up and down, perspired for over an hour, but she 21 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: said by the time she got her leotards on, the class. 22 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: Was over all right. Hold up, your Bible. Say it 23 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 2: like you mean it. 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: This is my Bible. 25 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 2: I am what it says. 26 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 3: I am. 27 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do 28 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be 29 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 30 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 31 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 32 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,199 Speaker 1: to talk to you today about the power of visualization. 33 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: God created us as visual beings. It's so important that 34 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: we create the right images in our mind because the 35 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: way we see ourselves is what we move toward. And 36 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: visualization is simply seeing yourself the way you want to be. 37 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: It's creating a picture in your mind of you accomplishing 38 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: your goals, overcoming your obstacles, and fulfilling your God given destiny. 39 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: Our imagination is extremely powerful the way we see ourselves 40 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: and these pictures that we create over time, they not 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: only drop down into our spirit, but if we continue 42 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: to dwell on them, they get in our subconscious mind. 43 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: Once something is in the subconscious is just like gravity, 44 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: it pulls us toward it. All these internal forces are released, 45 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: and more often than not, we become just like we've imagined. 46 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: If you'll create a picture in your imagination of something 47 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: you want, a dream coming to pass, a business succeeding, 48 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: a picture of yourself healthy and whole, and if you'll 49 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: keep that image in front of you, that's what will 50 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: get into your subconscious mind. All the studies tell us 51 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: we move toward what's in the subconscious. Maybe you struggle 52 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,399 Speaker 1: with your weight, You need to get back in shape. 53 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: You need to see yourself through your eyes of faith 54 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: in this mental picture, at your ideal weight. And if 55 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: you'll be concer assistent and just keep seeing it no 56 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: matter what you look like in the natural, over time, 57 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: that's going to get into your subconscious. The subconscious mind 58 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: never sleeps, It works twenty four hours a day. And 59 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: with prayer, with discipline, with determination, it can help bring 60 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: that image to reality. You'll have something pulling for you 61 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: instead of against you. But the problem with many people 62 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: is they've spent years making negative deposits into their subconscious mind. 63 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: They've gone around with the wrong pictures, seeing themselves undisciplined, overweghed, 64 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: not being promoted, not being a good parent. Now their 65 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: subconscious mind it doesn't know any better, it doesn't think, 66 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: it doesn't reason. It just performs what's been put into it, 67 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: so it naturally pulls them toward the negative. That's why 68 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: sometimes it feels like everything's coming against you. You can't 69 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: seem to get victory over it. You need to check 70 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: your pictures. What kind of images are you putting in. 71 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: I've seen people with an addiction. They have victory in 72 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: all these other areas, but this one thing keeps holding 73 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 1: them back. It's because for years they've let the picture 74 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: becom ingrained in their thinking of them not being able 75 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: to do it. They see themselves weak and undisciplined, and 76 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,359 Speaker 1: now that's always pulling against them. The key is we 77 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: have to create the right pictures so our subconscious works 78 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: for us instead of against us. You remember in the 79 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: Old Testament, the people were trying to build a tower 80 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: to the heavens, and the scripture says nothing they imagined 81 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: was impossible to them. Their imagination was so powerful that 82 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: God had to send confusion to keep them from accomplishing 83 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: something for the wrong purposes. I believe that same principle 84 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: is true today. If we can get our imagination working 85 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: for the right purposes, and if we will let God 86 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: paint a new picture on the canvas of our heart 87 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: and see ourselves as He sees us, strong, healthy, victorious, 88 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: then we can rise higher and accomplish everything He's put 89 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: in our heart. It may look impossible, but if you 90 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: can imagine it, if you can see it through your 91 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: eyes of faith, God is saying nothing will be impossible 92 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: to you. That means you can overcome addictions by forming 93 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: a new image on the inside. You can break generational curses. 94 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: By creating the right pictures in your imagination. You can 95 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: go further than you ever thought possible if you'll keep 96 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: the right vision in front of you. Great athletes understand 97 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: this principle. A professional golfer, before he makes an important putt, 98 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: he visualizes the ball going in the hall. He gets 99 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: a mental picture of it helps him to stay relaxed. 100 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: A field goal kicker in football, in the middle of 101 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: all the pressure, with the game on the line, he 102 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: has visualized that ball a thousand times, splitting the uprights, 103 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 1: the game being won, going wild. He's got that picture 104 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: of it in his mind. I talk with one of 105 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: the great baseball players of our time. He told how 106 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: all through the day he sees himself hitting the ball 107 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: before he gets up to the plate, he visualizes getting 108 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: on base. He has this picture of himself succeeding. It's 109 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: gotten deep down on the inside. Now he's moving toward him, 110 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: and I realize it takes more than just visualization. It 111 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: takes obedience, it takes prayer, and of course it's got 112 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,799 Speaker 1: to be a part of God's plan for our life. 113 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: I can't just visualize myself into playing professional basketball. First off, 114 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: I'm a foot too short, and secondly, we all know 115 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: white men can't jump. But what I'm saying is the 116 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: dreams God's put in your heart, the desire to be healthy, 117 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: the desire to be successful. If you'll keep the right 118 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: pictures in your imagination, seeing yourself rising higher, seeing yourself 119 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: healthy in whole, that's going to get deep down on 120 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: the inside. The way God created us is that's what 121 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: we move toward. You will have a supernatural strength, a 122 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: supernatural energy that will help you bring that to pass. 123 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: Maybe you have a desire to work in a certain 124 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: field or to step up and take a new position, 125 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: but what's holding you back is the wrong picture. You 126 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: think that you're not able to do that and you're 127 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: not talented enough. But God would not have put that 128 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: desire in you. If you didn't already have what it takes, 129 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: you simply need to start seeing yourself at that position. 130 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: Get a vision for it. When you see somebody that's 131 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: very good at what you want to do, they're excelling 132 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: in that position, let that inspire you. Don't say, oh, man, 133 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: they're so talented. I could never do what they're doing. 134 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: I just don't have what it takes. No, you do 135 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: have what it takes. You're just painting the wrong picture 136 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: in your imagination. You cannot have a picture of defeat 137 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: and failure and expect to fulfill your God given destiny. 138 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: That defeat will get on the inside and it'll constantly 139 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: be pulling you toward it. The only way to change 140 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: is to change your picture. I read about a ten 141 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: year old boy. He grew up in Cincinnati in a 142 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: lower income home. Nobody in his family ever made much 143 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: of their lives. They were just very mediocre. It was 144 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: a cold, windy day and he was standing downtown in 145 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: front of this big office tower, just killing time after school, 146 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,239 Speaker 1: and he could see through the window a gentleman working 147 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: away in a very busy office setting. This man was 148 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: sitting at a typewriter, typing ninety to nothing, had all 149 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: these people coming up handing him information. He was giving 150 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: orders left and right, keeping everything moving. And for over 151 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: an hour, that young man stood there, fascinated by that man, 152 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: just so impressed at how he could handle so many 153 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: different things. A few minutes a police officer came by. 154 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: He said, Officer, who is that man sitting at the desk? 155 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: Officer said, son, that's the editor of the Cincinnati newspaper. 156 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: He's one of the most influential and most respected men 157 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: in our city. That day, that young man went home 158 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: with something new burst on the inside. He told his 159 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: parents one day he was going to become an editor. 160 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: One day he was going to work at an important newspaper. 161 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: His parents they didn't know what to think of his 162 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: new enthusiasm because nobody in their family had ever spoken 163 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: words of victory and believed that they would do something 164 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: significant with their lives. And over time, that young man 165 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: told how every day, again and again he replayed that 166 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: scene in his mind. The only thing different was he 167 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: didn't have the man sitting in the chair. He saw 168 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: himself sitting in that chair. He was the one calling 169 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: the shots. Intuitively, he believed it was going to happen 170 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: and every night. Nobody told him to, but he would say, Father, 171 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: thank you that you're bringing my dreams to pay God, 172 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: thank you that I'll become everything you created me to be. 173 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: Night after night, even year after year, he just kept 174 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: seeing himself in that chair, seeing himself running that company. Well, 175 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: thirty years later, that young man was not only the 176 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: editor and the publisher, but he was now the owner 177 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: of that same Cincinnati newspaper. God had done more than 178 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: he could even ask or think. But I believe it 179 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: all started when he let the seed take root. He 180 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: didn't think I can't do that. I'm not talented enough, 181 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: I don't come from the right family. No, he saw 182 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: himself becoming everything God created him to be, even as 183 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: a ten year old boy. He used his imagination for 184 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: the right purposes. It got down on the inside. He 185 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: reinforced that image with prayer and thanksgiving. That's a winning 186 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: combination that'll cause us to succeed every time. And the 187 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: scripture says there in Mark eleven, verse four four, whatever 188 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: you ask for when you pray, believe that you have received, 189 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: and it will be yours. Notice we have to believe 190 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: before we receive. One of the ways we believe is 191 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: through our eyes of faith, through our God given imagination, 192 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: we have to create a picture of that dream coming 193 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: to pass. That's what Victorian I did concerning the Compact Center. 194 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: When we were trying to acquire this place, we had 195 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: so many things coming against us and the natural it 196 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: seemed impossible. But down deep, we really believed that was 197 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: a part of God's plan for our lives. And so 198 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: instead of worrying and letting these negative images take root 199 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: all through the day, in my imagination, I could see 200 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 1: this place with the lakewood sign out front. I could 201 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: see us up here, ministry. I could see it filled 202 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: with each one of you. Many times during the week 203 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: we would drive by at night, if nothing was going on, 204 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 1: we would get out and walk around it. What were 205 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: we doing letting the seed take deeper root. The more 206 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: we saw ourselves here, the more confident we became, the 207 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: more faith rose in our hearts. We went to bed 208 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: each night not discouraged, not stressed out. We went to 209 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: bed believing this building was ours. We got up seeing 210 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: it as ours. We went through today with a picture 211 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: of us overcoming every obstacle. I could already see in 212 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: my imagination the city handing us the keys. I could 213 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: already see the confetti falling from the ceiling for the 214 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: groundbreaking services. I could already see it full of thousands 215 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: of victors and not victims. For three and a half years, 216 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: we kept that image in front of us when it 217 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: was difficult, when it looked impossible. I believe that's one 218 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: of the reasons we were able to stand strong and 219 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: fight the good fight of faith. It was, deep down 220 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: in our spirit and in our conscious mind, we knew 221 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: this building was going to be ours. That's what happens 222 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: when you keep the right images in front of you. 223 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 1: I remember after the first service we ever had here, 224 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 1: Victoria said Joel, I'm amazed at how at home I 225 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: felt tonight. I thought it'd take a long time to 226 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: get used to that. I reminded her. It's because we 227 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: had seen ourselves here three years before we ever got here. 228 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 1: It was birth deep down on the inside. And on 229 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: December the first, two thousand and three, when Mayor Brown 230 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: handed us the keys, it was just like when you 231 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: handed us the keys, it was just like I'd seen 232 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: it before. On December fourteenth, when that confetti fell from 233 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: the seaming, then the groundbreaking services, it's just like I'd 234 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: seen it before. July sixty, two thousand and five, when 235 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: fifty seven thousand people gathered for a grand opening weekend, 236 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: it was just like i'd seen it before. Let me 237 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: ask you today, what do you see through your eyes 238 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: of faith? What kind of image do you have on 239 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: the inside. If you can imagine it, God can bring 240 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: it to pass. Now, i want to encourage you to 241 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: see yourself accomplishing your goals. It's not enough to just pray. 242 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: It's not enough to just believe. You've got to look 243 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: out through your eyes of faith and again and again 244 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: see it coming to pass. When you do that, it 245 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: gets deep down on the inside. Not only will you 246 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: gravitate toward it, but that's your faith being released. That's 247 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: when God can show up and make a way, even 248 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: when it looks like there is no way. And the 249 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: truth is, every one of us, whether we realize it 250 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: or not, are visualizing something right now. You have an 251 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: image in your mind of yourself, of your future. Now 252 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm asking us to use our imagination for the right purposes. 253 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: If you visualize yourself barely getting by, never getting ma, 254 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: never accomplishing your goals, that defeat is going to get 255 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: in you and constantly be pulling you down. You've got 256 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: to change your pictures. See yourself rising higher. You may 257 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: not feel well today, but get a vision of your 258 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: self healthy or in your business. Maybe you're in cells. 259 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: Visualize new customers coming in. Visualize yourself being promoted. Get 260 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: a vision of yourself succeeding at whatever God's put in 261 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: your heart. This is what I had to do in 262 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, when my father went to be with 263 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: the Lord. I didn't really think that I could get 264 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: up here in minister. I'd only spoken one time before. 265 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: My personality is kind of quiet and reserved. I like 266 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: being behind the scenes, but deep down I knew I 267 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: was supposed to step up and pasture the church. The 268 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: first thing I had to do is create a new 269 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: picture on the inside, because I had used my imagination 270 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: in the wrong way in this particular area. When my 271 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: father would ask me to get up here, I didn't 272 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: think I could do it. I was nervous. I saw 273 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: myself weak, defeated, not able to I remember one time, 274 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: right after I first started, I had a dream one night, 275 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: and it was so clear. I guess really it was 276 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: a nightmare, but the building was filled with people and 277 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: just as I got up to minister, everybody got up 278 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: and walked out the doors. I thought, what is wrong 279 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: with you people? Some of them looked just like you. 280 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: All those thoughts had created the wrong images. One day 281 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: I realized what I'm telling you. I started seeing myself 282 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: up here, strong, annointed, well able. I got a vision 283 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: of my self succeeding, a vision of people liking me. 284 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: Little by little that began to take root. A few 285 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: months later, I woke up in the middle of the night. 286 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: This time I wasn't sweating, thinking it's never gonna happen. No, 287 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: I could hear myself singing a song of praise. On 288 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: the inside, I had a confidence, a peace. I knew 289 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: God had me in the palm of his hand. I 290 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: knew I was well able to do what He's called 291 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: me to do. And some of you, the only thing 292 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: that's holding you back is the picture that you've allowed 293 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: to formed. If you will change the picture, you can 294 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: change your life. Well, you say, Joel, I've got a 295 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: lot of problems, got a lot of things coming against me. 296 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: You need to get an image of God turning that 297 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: situation around. Visualize every enemy in your life being defeated. 298 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 1: An enemy of sickness, an enemy of debt, an enemy 299 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: of marriage problems. All through the day. See yourself as 300 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: the victor and not the victim. If you'll be consistent, 301 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: this will not only get in your spirit, you'll get 302 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: in your subconscious mind and help you to overcome It's 303 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,679 Speaker 1: interesting the subconscious mind, the part of our mind that 304 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: never sleeps. It doesn't know the difference between what's real 305 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: and what's fake. That's why you can wake up in 306 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 1: the middle of the night from a bad dream. Your 307 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: heart's beating ninety to nothing, your emotions are all over 308 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: the place, your sweating. Yet it was just a dream. 309 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: It wasn't even real. But that's the way the subconscious 310 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: mind works. It doesn't recognize whether it's real or fake. 311 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: It just reacts to what's in it. That's why it's 312 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: so important that we program it with the right pictures. 313 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: What you put in is what it's going to move toward. 314 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: You may feel like you're stuck in a rut today 315 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 1: or kind of like I did that you can't accomplish 316 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: what God has put in your heart. But you've got 317 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: to see what's playing on the picture screen of your mind. 318 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: What kind of image do you have of yourself. Do 319 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: you see yourself rising higher, accomplishing your goals, fulfilling your destiny. 320 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: Check off on those pictures. And if you're in difficult times, 321 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: I would encourage you to take thirty seconds several times 322 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: during the day and just close your eyes and see 323 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: yourself rising out of that problem, see yourself totally free. 324 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 1: You may have been through a lot of negative things 325 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: in the past. Well you, more than anybody, you got 326 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: to close your eyes and see yourself moving forward, See 327 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: new doors opening up. Get a vision of yourself happier 328 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: and more fulfilled than you've ever been before. If you'll 329 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,360 Speaker 1: get in on the inside, you'll begin to move toward it. 330 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: One thing I like to do four or five times 331 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: during the day, when I wake up, when I go 332 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,159 Speaker 1: to bed, and anytime I start to feel stressed, I 333 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: like to take three deep breaths. With the first breath, 334 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: I say to myself, I'm breathing in confidence and I'm 335 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: breathing out fear. Second breath, I'm breathing in healing. I'm 336 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: breathing out sickness. Third breath, I'm breathing in victory, and 337 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: I'm breathing out defend. What am I doing, making sure 338 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: the right pictures are playing on the screen of my 339 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: mind all through the day. Breathe in victory, Breathe in confidence, 340 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: Breathe in success, Breathe in God's favor, Breathe in divine healing. 341 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: I read about this man that was diagnosed with cancer 342 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: of the bladder. The doctors told him it was inoperable. 343 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: They had tried chemotherapy, but that didn't work. Finally they 344 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: gave him some pain pills and sent him home to die. 345 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: And this man was not a religious person. He told 346 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 1: how he wanted to pray, but he felt like he 347 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: had ignored God most of his life and he would 348 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: be a hypocrite to ask God for his health. But 349 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: one day a friend of his sent him to get 350 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: well card, and it had on it the scripture found 351 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: in Matthew nineteen twenty six. With God, all things are possible. 352 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,479 Speaker 1: When he read that, something ignited on the inside, he 353 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: was filled with new hope. In a few days, he 354 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: came across a newspaper article about a soldier who had 355 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,239 Speaker 1: been wounded in the war and wasn't supposed to make it. 356 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,400 Speaker 1: But this soldier, through prayer and through creating the right 357 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: mental pictures, totally recovered. The soldier told how he saw 358 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: himself well. He saw himself running again, playing with his children, 359 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: going back to work. This man was so inspired he 360 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: decided to do the same thing every day. He began 361 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: to visualize armies of healing white blood cells flowing through 362 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 1: his body. He imagined them starting at his head, flowing 363 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: through his veins, into his organs, attacking every cancerous cell. 364 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: Hundreds of times during the day. He pictured health and 365 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: healing and victory flowing back into him. This image was 366 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: so clear in his mind, it's just as if he 367 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: were watching it on television. He said, I could see 368 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: those healing cells making their way to my bladder, into 369 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: my liver, up to my heart, down through my legs 370 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: into my feet, mopping up every cancerous cell, not stopping 371 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: until every battle was won. Day after day, he replayed 372 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: this scene in his mind all the while he was 373 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: quoting the scripture with God, all things are possible. Six 374 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: months later, he went back to the doctor for a checkup. 375 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: Much to their surprise, the doctors could not find any 376 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: sign of cancer in his body. Jesus said, if you believe, 377 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: all things are possible, if you'll have the right images 378 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: in your mind. If you'll speak words of faith over 379 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: your life, then God can show up and do what 380 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: men can't do. You may be struggling with the sickness today, 381 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: maybe the medical report doesn't look good, But why don't 382 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: you do what he did? Right now? Picture healing cells 383 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: flowing all through you. Picture these cells filled with the 384 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 1: life of Almighty God, attacking and devouring every sick and 385 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 1: disease sell in you. Imagine them continuing to work until 386 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: every battle is won, all through the day. Just picture 387 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: health and healing continually flowing back into you. See yourself 388 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: coming off that sick bed, overcoming every obstacle, walking in 389 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: divine health. Had this vision of victory for your life. 390 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,159 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm not planning on 391 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: getting old, having all kinds of things that don't work, 392 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: and being run down and cranky. I don't see myself 393 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: like that. I see myself getting stronger, healthier, wiser, better looking. 394 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: I can see every cell in my body, every organ, 395 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: functioning perfectly normal. We have to realize our body responds 396 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: to how we think it was created to heal on 397 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: its own. That's the way God made it. But we 398 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: have to allow it to heal by thinking the right 399 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: thoughts and keeping the right images in our mind. When 400 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: we go around negative, never seeing ourselves getting better, distressed 401 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: and worried, all we're doing is causing our immune system 402 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: to not function like it should. We got to switch 403 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: over into faith. Believe healing's flowing through you. Believe victory 404 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: is on its way. We have to believe it before 405 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: we'll ever receive it. It's so important the images we 406 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: allow in our minds. You remember when God told Abraham 407 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: that he was gonna have a child in the natural. 408 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: This was impossible. He was much too old. But what 409 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 1: did God do. He gave him a picture of it. 410 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: He gave him something he could see. He said, Abraham, 411 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 1: your descendants will be as numerous as the stars in 412 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 1: the sky and the grains of sand at the seashore. 413 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: God could have said, Abraham, you're gonna have a bunch 414 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: of descendants, but God knew the importance of giving him 415 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: a visual representation so he could form the right image. 416 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: I can imagine Abraham lying in bed at night, thinking, 417 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: all this is never gonna happen. I'm too old, I 418 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,439 Speaker 1: have a child. God says, all right, Abraham, get up, 419 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,080 Speaker 1: want you to go outside. Look up at the stars. 420 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: That's how many descendants you're gonna have. Abraham starts to 421 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: count the stars. He gets encouraged, goes back to bed, 422 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: believing it's gonna happen. Wakes up the next morning, same thing. 423 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: I don't see how God can bring this promise to pass, 424 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: says Okay, Abraham, Let's go down to the ocean. Pick 425 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: up a couple handfuls of sand. Every grain represents just 426 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: one of your descendants. Why did God want him to 427 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 1: have something visual so he could keep the right image 428 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: in his mind. Let me ask you, what kind of 429 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: image do you have of yourself, of your family, of 430 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: your future. The picture you have in your mind you 431 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: are moving toward. I read about people that train seeing 432 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: eye dogs, dogs that help people that are visually impaired. 433 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 1: They said, the most difficult thing about training a new 434 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,239 Speaker 1: dog is to teach the dog to look up and 435 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: see things from the master's point of view. Because most 436 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: dogs can see real well down here by the ground. 437 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: That's what they're used to. But somehow they have to 438 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: lift the dog's perspective and help them to see through 439 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,679 Speaker 1: the master's eyes. That's what I want to help you 440 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: do today, to lift your vision and get you to 441 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: see things from a higher so you can create the 442 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,959 Speaker 1: right image on the inside. Why don't you make a 443 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 1: decision with me that you're going to start seeing things 444 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: from the Master's point of view, the way God sees 445 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: you strong, healthy, victorious. Use your imagination for the right purposes. Remember, 446 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 1: we move toward what we keep in front of us. 447 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: Get up every morning and picture yourself succeeding. Picture yourself 448 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 1: healthy and whole. Get an image of you and your 449 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: family not only being blessed, but being a bigger blessing. 450 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: If you'll keep the right images in front of you 451 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: and always reinforce it through prayer and thanksgiving, God promises 452 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: nothing you've imagined will be impossible to you. You will 453 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: overcome every obstacle, You'll defeat every enemy, and you'll see 454 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 1: God bring your dreams and desires to pass. Amen. Do 455 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: you receive it today? We never like to close our 456 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:00,040 Speaker 1: broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 457 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just 458 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: say it, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 459 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my lord and savior. Friends, 460 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got 461 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: born again, Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 462 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 1: God first place. He's going to take your places that 463 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: you've never dreamed of. Each week I stand on this 464 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 1: stage and remind you of what God says about you. 465 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: Because it's easy to be defined by who people say 466 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 1: we are, or by our own negative thoughts that we're 467 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 1: not talented or problems too big. 468 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 2: The key is to go back to who God says 469 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 2: you are. 470 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: Now I love to send you by new book one 471 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: hundred and one Great Things that God Says about You. 472 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 2: I'll help you discover your true identity. 473 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 1: God says you're blessed, You're chosen, You're forgiven, you have 474 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: seeds of greatness. 475 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 2: Your future is bright. 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