1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joeln Victorium. Thanks so much for listening 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks. 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry. 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: We believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: and favor filled. 6 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, God 7 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 2: bless you. 8 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope 9 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 10 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. 11 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 2: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I'd like to start 12 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 2: with something. 13 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Funny, and I heard about this minister that died and 14 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: he was standing in line at the Pearly gates. The 15 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: man in front of him was dressed in a loud 16 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: T shirt, sunglasses, and blue jeans. 17 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: Saint Peter asked his name. 18 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: He said, I'm Joe Cohen, taxicab driver, New York City. 19 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: Peter checked his list, handed him a gold staff and 20 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: silk robe, said, welcome to Heaven. 21 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,240 Speaker 2: Minister stepped ups. 22 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm Reverend Joseph Snow, pastor of Saint Mary's Cathedral. Peter 23 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: checked his list, handed him a wooden staff. 24 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: And cotton robe. Wait a minute, that couldn't be right. 25 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: The taxicab driver got a gold staff, and this is 26 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,839 Speaker 1: all I get. Peter said, sir, up here, we work 27 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,839 Speaker 1: by results. When you preached, people slept, but when he drove, 28 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: people prayed. Say it like you mean it. This is 29 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 30 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what 31 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,680 Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught 32 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confessed. My mind is alert, 33 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 34 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 35 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,119 Speaker 1: to you today about the true you. On the inside 36 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: of every one of us is a blessed person, someone confident, valuable, talented. 37 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: The scripture says you have been fearfully and wonderfully made. 38 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: The word fearful in the. 39 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: Original language means to stand in awe, to reverence. It 40 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: implies honor respect. When God created you, he stood back 41 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: in reverence. 42 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: He looked at you in awe. 43 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: He calls you a masterpiece. God didn't make anyone average. 44 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: He didn't say I didn't do very good on that one. 45 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 1: They have a bunch of flaws. They're gonna be angry, insecure, jealous. 46 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: You've been exceptionally made, but What happens is we go 47 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: through life. 48 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: And we make mistakes, develop bad habits. 49 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: People do us wrong, and shame comes. Guilt comes, insecurity. 50 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: We don't feel like a masterpiece. We feel condemned. How 51 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: can I be successful? Look what I've been through, or 52 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: I'm struggling with an addiction, I'm not that talented. But 53 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: underneath the insecurity, the bad breaks, the failures, there's the 54 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: true you, the one that God created. The true you 55 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: is the blessed you, the happy you, the successful you. 56 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 2: The forgiven you. It's still in you. 57 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: The beauty of our God is he never loses the 58 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: vision of the true you. He still remembers the reverence 59 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: he felt when he created you. Despite all the flaws, weaknesses, disappointments, 60 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: he still sees the masterpiece. He still knows who you 61 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: really are. But life tries to put all these things 62 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: on us to keep the true You from coming out. Impatience, jealousy, 63 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: bad breaks. The good news is God is not going 64 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: to leave us like that. He's going to keep working 65 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: on us, making us, molding us until the true You 66 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: comes out, the free you, the blessed you, the patient you, 67 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: the victorious you. God specializes in removing everything that's not 68 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: the true you. Well, Joel, I'll always struggle with this addiction. 69 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: I've had it since high school. It's just who I am. 70 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 2: That is not who you are. 71 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: That's something the enemy put on you to try to 72 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: keep the true you from ever coming out. The truth 73 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: you is free, The true you is whole. That addiction 74 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: is not how your story ends. God is working right now. 75 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 2: Freedom is coming. 76 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: Chains are breaking, strongholds are coming down. You're about to 77 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: see the free you. You're about to step up to 78 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: who you were created to be. The forces that are 79 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: for you are greater than any force that's trying to 80 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: stop you. I'm calling out the free you, the blessed you, 81 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: the happy you, the favored you now get in agreement 82 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: with God. Not I'll always struggle with this, but I 83 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: am free, I am whole. You need to see the 84 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: free you, not that defeated you, depressed you, the hurt 85 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 1: you see the happy you, see, the successful you, the 86 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 1: married you, the valuable you. 87 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 2: Well, you may have gone through bad breaks. 88 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: Someone walked out on you. You weren't raised in a 89 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: good environment. It's easy to carry the hurts. Let that 90 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: limit your vision, carry the shame go around feeling unworthy, 91 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: like you don't deserve to be blessed. Don't believe those lies. 92 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,239 Speaker 1: The enemy would love for you to live discouraged, thinking 93 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: nothing good is in your future. No, the true you 94 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: is still in you, the happy you, the restored you, 95 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: the valuable you. What people did to you did not 96 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: stop the true you. What wasn't fair didn't change who 97 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: God created you to be. He's in the process right 98 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: now of removing everything that's not the true you. 99 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: The anger is not the true you. I'm just hot tempered. 100 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 2: I can't help it. My father was this way, my 101 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 2: grandfather too. That's not who you really are. 102 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: It may be the way you are now, but you're 103 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: the one to break the cycle. 104 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 2: You're the one to see it come to an end. 105 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 2: The true you is calm. 106 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: Cool and collected. Don't buy into those lies that you 107 00:05:55,880 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: can't change. God is removing everything that's not the true you. 108 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: He loves you too much to leave you alone. He's 109 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: going to keep working on you until he sees the 110 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: masterpiece who he created you to be. In the early 111 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 1: fifteen hundreds, a twenty six year old artist named Michael 112 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: Angelo had a dream to sculpture King David out of 113 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: a huge piece of marble, twelve thousand pound block that 114 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 1: stood over twenty feet tall. He worked tirelessly for two years, 115 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 1: chiseling and shaping with great precision, great detail. When he 116 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: revealed the finished product, this fourteen foot tall marble image 117 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: of David, it was magnificent, so beautiful, so inspiring. Someone 118 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: asked Michael Angelo how he could accomplish such an incredible feat, 119 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: how he could make this amazing statue out of an 120 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: old piece of rock. He said, I had a vision 121 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: in my mind of King David, and I just kept 122 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: removing everything that wasn't him. That's the way God is. 123 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: He knows who we really are. He can see the 124 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: masterpiece in the rock. Throughout life, He'll keep removing things 125 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: that are not who we are. The impatience, the insecurity, unworthiness. 126 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 2: I'm not valuable. Look at what I've been through, chisel chisel, 127 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 2: that's not who you are. 128 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: The pride, the arrogance, chisel chisel, that doesn't belong on you. 129 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: The unforgiveness, the resentment they hurt me, they did me wrong, 130 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: Chisel chisel, that resentment is not who you are. 131 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: I never do something great, Joel. Nobody in my family 132 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 2: is successful. 133 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: I'm not that talented chisel chisel that limited mindset. That 134 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: mediocrity doesn't belong on you. It may try to come, 135 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: try to dissort your image, affect your personality, limit your future. 136 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: The good news is we have someone far greater than 137 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: Michaelangelo working on us. We have the creator of the universe, 138 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: the god who makes spectacular solar systems, magnificent mountain ranges, 139 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: amazing sunsets. That's the artist that's working on you. He's 140 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: chiseling away everything that's not the true you see. 141 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 2: He can see things that we can't see. 142 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: So often we let our circumstances determine who we are, 143 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: and how people treat us determine our value, how good 144 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: we perform determine our worth. 145 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 2: God looks beyond all that. Like in the scripture, with David, 146 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 2: he sees the giant killer in the shepherd Boy. 147 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: Like with Gideon, he sees a mighty hero in a 148 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 1: man that's hiding, afraid, intimidated. Like with Rahab, he sees 149 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: a respectful, honored woman that's in the family line of 150 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: Jesus in a former prostitute. 151 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,599 Speaker 2: God knows what's in you. 152 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: You may have made mistakes, done things that you're not 153 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: proud of. 154 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 2: God sees the redeemed you, the restore, the honored you. 155 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,559 Speaker 1: You may be intimidated, thinking you're not that talented. 156 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 2: God sees the giant killer. 157 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: He sees the history maker in you. Or maybe life 158 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: has thrown you curves. You've been hurt, abandoned, betrayed. God 159 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: sees the valuable you, the blessed you, the favored you. 160 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: Nothing that's happened to you has changed the true you. 161 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: God looks beyond our mistakes, the hurts, the bad breaks, 162 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: and he sees who he created you to be. He 163 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: hasn't lost the vision of who you are. The good 164 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: news is he still has the chisel. He still knows 165 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: what to remove, so the best you will come out, 166 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: the talented you, the confident you, the loving you, the 167 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: free you. Now sometimes when God's chisels is uncomfortable, we 168 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: don't like it. 169 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 2: I don't want to bite my tongue. I don't want 170 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 2: to overlook the offense. I want to tell them all 171 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 2: be pliable. Work with God. 172 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: Let him remove that hardness that's keeping you from going 173 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: to new levels. Driving to work, get caught in traffic 174 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 1: construction on the freeway, some jerk. 175 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: I mean some person cut you off. You'll be tempted 176 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 2: to get upset, offended. Let it sour you day. 177 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: Recognize what's happening. God's chiseling away the impatience. It's giving 178 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: you an opportunity to grow. The impatient you will try 179 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: to keep the true you from coming out at the office. 180 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: You're not getting the credit you deserve. People are taking 181 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: your ideas. You could live offended, trying to get revenge 182 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: pay them back. No, let God be your vindicator. Let 183 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: him fight your battles. He sees what's happening. He knows 184 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: what's not fair. He has the chisel out. You think 185 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: it's about them, but really it's about you. That's an 186 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: opportunity to show God that you trust him, that you'll 187 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: stay in peace and not let people steer your joy. 188 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: Sometimes God will remove things we don't understand, remove a friendship, 189 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: someone that's pulling us down, causing us to compromise. We 190 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: don't like change. We were comfortable. Now we're going to 191 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: have to stretch and grow. Don't fight the chisel. God 192 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. He's not going to leave something 193 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: on you that will keep you from your purpose. 194 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 2: He'll never ask you to. 195 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: Do something and then not give you the ability to 196 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: do it. If he's asking you to walk away, you 197 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: know a season is coming to an end. 198 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 2: That's the chisel at work. 199 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: If you're stubborn you fight it, you're going to miss 200 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: the greater things God has in store. He's not trying 201 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: to take something from you. He's trying to get something 202 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: better to you. He wants to bring out the true you. 203 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: The true you is more blessed, more successful, more peaceful 204 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: than you can imagine. Friend of mine work for this 205 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: company for over twenty years. He's the nicest person in 206 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 1: the world, always. 207 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 2: Kind, respectful, go in the extra mind. 208 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: He called one day and said, Joel, I just got 209 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: fired from my job. They said I didn't have a 210 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: good attitude. They were letting me go. I almost fell 211 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: out of my chair. This would be like Mother Teresa 212 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: getting fired. 213 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. 214 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: Sometimes God will close a door because we're stagnant. If 215 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: he didn't push us into our destiny, then the true 216 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: you would never come out. We don't realize there's so 217 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: much more in us, gifts, talents, potential. 218 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 2: God will chisel away things that are. 219 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: Keeping you from your greatness. Sometimes they're good, but they're 220 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 1: not the best. Trust him when you don't understand. He 221 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: won't remove something unless he has something better coming. He 222 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 1: won't use the chisel if he's not going to make 223 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: you better. Yes, it may hurt at the time, it 224 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: may be uncomfortable, but God knows what he's doing now. 225 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 2: About six months later, my friend called so excited. 226 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:00,520 Speaker 1: He just got this dream job, this position, running a 227 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: large company, managing all these people. He said, I never 228 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: knew this was in me, never dreamed I'd be this successful, 229 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: this fulfilled. Let God remove what he knows is keeping 230 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: you from the true you. Unforgiveness is keeping you from 231 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: shining insecurity, compromise, anger, that's blocking the best you from 232 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: coming out. Be willing to change. You don't have to 233 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: be perfect, but we should be growing. We should be 234 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: better now than we were five years ago. We should 235 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: be kinder, more respectful, better attitude. 236 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 2: We should be more confident, more secure. 237 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: We should forgive quicker, overlook offenses easier. We should compromise less, 238 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: resist the temptation more often. That means we're letting the 239 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: chisel chip away things that are hindering our growth. 240 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 2: We're seeing more of the true you. Coming out. 241 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: What's interesting is that large rock that michael Angelo carved 242 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: the statue of David out of. Fifty years earlier, two 243 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 1: of the most accomplished artists of that time, these very 244 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 1: well known sculptures, looked at the rock and said there 245 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: was no way they could work with it had too 246 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: many flaws, too many imperfections. They were given the chance first, 247 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: but they turned it down because the marble had. 248 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 2: Too many blemishes, too many defects. 249 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: Fifty years later, young michael Angelo came along. He saw 250 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: the same block of marble, the same defects, same flaws, 251 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: but he looked beyond the imperfections. He said, I see 252 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: a masterpiece in this rock. I see King David in 253 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: this stone. Like those first two artists, other people may 254 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: look at you and think they'll never amount to much. 255 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: Look at their failures, look at their weaknesses they struggle 256 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 1: with an addiction, or look at what they've been through, 257 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,920 Speaker 1: look at all the bad breaks, the disappointments. All they 258 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: see is your flaw, your blimishes, what hasn't worked out. 259 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: They may discount you, write you off. But then, like 260 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: Michelangelo did, God comes along he says, hey, wait a minute, 261 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: don't abandon that piece of rock. Yes, I see flaws, 262 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: I see weaknesses, but I see something else. 263 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 2: I see a masterpiece. 264 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: I see a blessed, strong, forgiven, favored child of the. 265 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: Most High God. 266 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: It's not that God doesn't see the flaws, but he 267 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: knows how to remove the flaws. He knows how to 268 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: make you and mold you to where the best you 269 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: comes out. Now quit believing those lies that you've made 270 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,239 Speaker 1: too many mistakes. 271 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 2: You're too far off course. 272 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: You see yourself as the failed you, the broken you, 273 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: the guilty you know nothing you've done has stopped your destiny. 274 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: The mercy of God is bigger than any mistake you've made. 275 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: The true You is still in you, the blessed you, 276 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: the faithful you that honored you, the righteous you. In 277 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: the scripture, Peter was out fishing one morning, bringing his 278 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: boat close to the shore, and Jesus came walking by, said, Peter, 279 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: come and follow me. 280 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you a fisher of men. 281 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: Peter had never met Jesus, never had a conversation with him, 282 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: yet Jesus called him by name. Can you imagine how 283 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: surprised Peter was. How does this man know my name? 284 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: I know who he is. He's that teacher everyone's talking about. 285 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: Yet he called me Peter. God knows your name. He's 286 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: the one that created you. He's the one that calls 287 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: you a masterpiece. Me Joel, I'm not a religious person. 288 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 2: Neither was Peter. He didn't have any kind of faith. 289 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: He wasn't refined, respected, He was a fisherman. He used 290 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: bad language, he was hot tempered, impulsive, he would tell 291 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: you what he thought. Yet God chose him to be 292 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: his disciple, one of the twelve that would change the world. 293 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 2: Out of all the people Jesus could have chosen, he 294 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 2: didn't choose a religious leader, didn't. 295 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: Choose the priest and the synagogue, didn't choose the mayor 296 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: of the city. He chose Peter. He already knew Peter 297 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 1: would deny him three times. He already knew Peter would 298 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: fall asleep in the garden of gasinimony when Jesus needed. 299 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 2: Him the most. 300 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,479 Speaker 1: He already knew Peter was hot tempered, that he would curse, 301 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: that he would cut off the soldier's ear. Why would 302 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: Jesus choose someone like this? Because God looks beyond the flaws. 303 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 2: The mistakes, the weaknesses, and he sees the masterpiece in 304 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 2: the rock. He sees what we can become. 305 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: He hasn't lost the vision of the true you, how 306 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: he made you before. 307 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 2: You were formed in your mother's womb. 308 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 1: Jesus looked at Peter and said, you are Simon, but 309 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: you shall be called Peter. Simon represents shifting sand, being unstable, inconsistent, 310 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: but Peter means rock. Jesus was telling him who the 311 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: true you was. At one point Jesus said, you are Peter, 312 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: and upon this rock I will build my church. When 313 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: Jesus said that Peter was anything but a rock, he 314 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: was unreliable. 315 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,640 Speaker 2: Hot tempered. Yet God called out. 316 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: The true You, the faithful You. It didn't happen overnight, 317 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: but God kept chiseling away Peter's weaknesses, chiseling away the 318 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: hot temper, chiseling away the inconsistency. When the church was 319 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: starting in the Book of Acts, they needed someone to 320 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: give the inaugural address, this prominent position. 321 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 2: Who did they choose? Peter? 322 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: But now it wasn't the impulsive Peter, the inconsistent Peter 323 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: that denied Jesus. 324 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 2: Peter, this was the rock. 325 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,879 Speaker 1: It was the true Peter, the faithful Peter, the strong Peter, 326 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: the anointed, Peter, the powerful Peter. Here's what I'm saying, 327 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 1: don't get discouraged because of who you are right now. 328 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 2: God still has his chisel. 329 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: He's still removing things that are limiting your destiny. 330 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 2: You haven't seen your best days. The rock in. 331 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: You is still going to come out the successful you, 332 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 1: the holy you, the favored you. Now, like those two 333 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: artists that saw the slab of marble but said it's 334 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: got too many flaws, there will probably be people that 335 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: try to discount you, tell you what you can't become, 336 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: how you're not talented enough, you made too many mistakes. 337 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 1: Don't let them talk you out of becoming the true you. 338 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: The good news is they're not your artist. They don't 339 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: have the chisel. You're not depending on what they think 340 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: what they can do. Your sculptor is the most high God. 341 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 2: He has not. 342 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 1: Lost the vision of who he created you to be. See, 343 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: my dad was raised very poor. His family were cotton farmers, 344 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 1: and they lost everything in the Great Depression. His mother 345 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: made ten cents an hour, were washing people's clothes. There 346 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: were times they didn't have enough money for food. He 347 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: had to drop out of high school and to work 348 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,199 Speaker 1: on the farm. At seventeen years old, he gave his 349 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: life to Christ. The first one in his family he 350 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: felt this calling to become a minister. Had no money, 351 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: no education, no training, but he told his parents he 352 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: was going to leave the farm and go out and 353 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: start ministry. They said, John, you don't know how to minister. 354 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 1: You're going to get out there and fail. You better 355 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: stay on the farm and work with us. They loved 356 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 1: their son, but they could only see the limited John, 357 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: the poor John, the not talented John that defeated John. 358 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: They looked at that marble, so to speak. 359 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 2: Nothing good can come out of that. 360 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: Look at all the flaws, the deficiencies, the imperfections. If 361 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: Daddy would have believed who they said he was, he 362 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: would have never fulfilled his destiny. People can't see what 363 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: God put in you. Don't let their negative words limit 364 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: your life. Tune it out. You're not who people say 365 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 1: you are. You are who God says you are. He 366 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: says you're a masterpiece. He says you have greatness in you. 367 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: He says you are destined to leave your mark. But 368 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: my father grew up with this limited mindset, his poverty mentality. 369 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 1: It's all he had known struggle, lack, mediocrity. 370 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 2: But we serve a God that has a chisel. 371 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: He doesn't let how you were raised, what you didn't get, 372 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: Odds being against you keep you from your purpose. Little 373 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: by little, God removed the poverty mindset. He chiseled away 374 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: the mediocrity. 375 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 2: Not good enough. 376 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: My father rose up and against all odds, he did 377 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: great things, pastored churches, founded Lakewood, impacted the world in 378 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: that poor disadvantage. Not educated, seventeen year old man was 379 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 1: a world changer. 380 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 2: A history maker. 381 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: If you only knew what was in you. The true 382 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: you is not limited by your environment. The true you 383 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: is not dependent on what other people think about you. 384 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: The true you is not at a disadvantage because you 385 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,719 Speaker 1: have flaws and weaknesses. The enemy would love for us 386 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: to go through life feel an inferior, focused on a weaknesses, 387 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: weighed down with regrets, guilty from past mistakes, condemned, ashamed. 388 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: But what the enemy put on you, God is about 389 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: to take off of you. This is a new day. 390 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: The chisel, as it were, He's chiseling away wrong mindsets, 391 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 1: chiseling away negative words that have been spoken, chiseling away 392 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: guilt and shame, chiseling away. 393 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 2: Hurts, brokenness, offense. You're about to step in to a 394 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 2: new level of your destiny. The true you is about 395 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 2: to come out, the blessed. 396 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 1: You, the free you, the healthiest you, the victorious you. 397 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: I know a young woman. She was raised in a 398 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: very dysfunctional home. Seven years old, the police showed up 399 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: at her house, told her to put her belongings in 400 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: her trash bag. She's going to spend the night somewhere else, 401 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: and she grabbed her pajamas, toothbrush and rushed out. She 402 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,360 Speaker 1: was taken to a shelter. Her mother and stepfather were 403 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: arrested for child abuse. She had never met her biological father. 404 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: Eventually she was turned over to him, but that wasn't 405 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: any better. He was on drugs in and out of jail. 406 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: She became very angry. She couldn't understand why no one 407 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: would love her. She got to the point where she 408 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: built up walls so she didn't have to feel. 409 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 2: She became numb to the pain. 410 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: She didn't feel happy, sad, depressed, She felt nothing. At 411 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 1: sixteen years old, she moved out on her own, hurting, broken, lonely. 412 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 2: By the grace of God, she showed up at Lakewood. 413 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: She heard us talking about how God is our heavenly father, 414 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: how he has good things in store for us, how 415 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: he will give us beauty for the. 416 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 2: Ass she is. She never felt that love before. 417 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: She'd never had anyone speak faith and victory into her, 418 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: tell her who she really was. One day she gave 419 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: her life to Christ. She said, I realized I was 420 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: no longer an orphan. 421 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 2: I was adopted by my heavenly Father. 422 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: The right people begin to show up, doors begin to open. 423 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 2: Today. 424 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: That young woman, Desiree, right here on the front row, 425 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: is on staff with us, a beautiful girl. 426 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,959 Speaker 2: She has the joy, the smile, the victory. Here's what 427 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 2: I've learned. 428 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: God will not leave you at a deficit. What you 429 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: didn't get, what wasn't fair, what you feel robbed of. 430 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: God is going to make it up to you. He's 431 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: going to pay you back for the unfair things. But 432 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: if you would have seen Desiree years back, you would 433 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: have seen the broken you, the abandoned you, the angry you. 434 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 1: All these things the enemy had put on her to 435 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: try to keep her from her destiny. But underneath the shame, 436 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: the anger, the rejection was the masterpiece. 437 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 2: There was this. 438 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: Beautiful, confident, radiant talented young woman. Maybe like her, you're 439 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: carrying shame, hurts, brokenness. Life has put you at a disadvantage. 440 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: God said in Joshua, This day I am removing the 441 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: shame from my people. This day God is breaking chains. 442 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 1: This day, strongholds are coming down. This day, things that 443 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,199 Speaker 1: have hindered you are being chiseled away. Through my eyes 444 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: of faith, I see the true you, the blessed you, 445 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 1: the free you, the. 446 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 2: Restored you, the joy for you. 447 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: I see the masterpiece God created you to be. The 448 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: two years that Michael Angelo worked on sculpting David, he 449 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: did it all in private, wouldn't let anyone come in. 450 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: When he finished, he revealed it to the public. Now 451 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 1: five hundred million people have seen it in person. You 452 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: think about that old piece of rock, flaws, weaknesses. Other 453 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: artists said it was not useful. Yet it's been seen 454 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: by half a billion people. When God's working on you, 455 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 1: chiseling away what's not necessary. 456 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: Often he'll do it in private. He'll keep you hidden, 457 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 2: not noticed. 458 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: But when it's your time, when God says you're ready, 459 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: he'll cause you to be seen. You'll become a trophy 460 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: of his grace. For people think wasn't that the old 461 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: rock that had flaws. Wasn't that the fisherman? 462 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 2: Now he's up there leading. Isn't that the young boy 463 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 2: from the Great Depression? Now he's the pastor? Wasn't she 464 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: abandoned by her parents? And look at her? Now? God's 465 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 2: going to cause you to shine, to. 466 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: Be an example of what he can do despite imperfections, 467 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: despite what life throws your way. 468 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 2: You may have some things that are limiting you. Now, 469 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 2: don't worry. 470 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: God still has his chisel. He's still working on you. 471 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: I believe and declare the true you is about to 472 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,679 Speaker 1: come out. What's holding you back is being broken. The 473 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: shame is being removed. You're about to step into favor, freedom, wholeness, 474 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: to become the masterpiece God created you to be in Jesus' name, 475 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: And if you. 476 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 2: Receive it, can you say amen? 477 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 1: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 478 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: the lord of your life. Would you say it with me, 479 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 480 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 2: Come into my heart. I make you my lord and savior. 481 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 482 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: born again. We'd love to give you some free information 483 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: and your new walk with the Lord. You can text 484 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: the number or go to the website. I hope you'll 485 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: get into a good Bible based church and keep God 486 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: first place. 487 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 3: It's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start. 488 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 3: It's a new year, time to forget the struggles of 489 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,439 Speaker 3: the past and make room for new blessings. It's a 490 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 3: new year, the perfect time to build expectation and faith 491 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 3: for an amazing new season. 492 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 2: The beginning of. 493 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: The year is a great time to start afresh and 494 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: anew to let go of negative things of the past 495 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: and to get ready for the new things God has 496 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: in store. Every January we create a new devotional calendar. 497 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 1: When you start off each day in faith, grateful for 498 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 1: what God has done, making positive declarations over your future, 499 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: you're setting the tone for a blessed day and a 500 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: victorious year. This devotional calendar will help you get your 501 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: mind going in the right direction so you can live 502 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: in faith expecting the goodness of God. 503 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 504 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 3: of any amount this first month of the year, we 505 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 3: would like to send you a copy of our brand 506 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 3: new twenty twenty five three hundred and sixty five Day 507 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 3: devotional calendar. Using this devotional calendar is as easy as one, two, three. 508 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 3: One wake up with an expectancy in your heart. Two 509 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 3: reflect on the daily scripture, verse and devotional from Joel. 510 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 3: Three capture the Lord's promises to you on journaling lines 511 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 3: for writing and reflection. 512 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 2: This is going to be one of your best years. 513 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: Our twenty twenty five devotional calendar is going to help 514 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: you stay in faith and see the goodness of God 515 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: in ways you've never seen. Victoria and I pray for 516 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: you and your family every day, and thank you so 517 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: much for your prayer and support. Your generosity is impacting 518 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: lives around the world. And a special thank you to 519 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: our Champion of Hope partners for. 520 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 2: Your monthly gifts. 521 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: If you're not a partner, I hope you'll consider becoming one. 522 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online live every Sunday morning, 523 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: download our daily podcast, watch on YouTube now the new 524 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: Joelost Network twenty four hours a day, and of course 525 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: listen live on Serious. 526 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 2: XM as well. 527 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: But until we meet again, met the Lord bless you 528 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,800 Speaker 1: and keep you, may show you His favor and watch 529 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: over you. 530 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of the twenty twenty 531 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 3: five devotional Calendar Today, visit Joelos dot com or call 532 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 3: us toll free. 533 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 2: Mhmm.