Speaker 1: What a joy to be with you today.
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Speaker 2: God has great things in store. You wouldn't be alive
Speaker 2: if there weren't more victories in front of you. So
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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about these elderly
Speaker 1: ladies way up in their eighties. They were driving down
Speaker 1: the freeway together when they were pulled over by a policeman.
Speaker 1: The officer asked the driver, ma'am, do you realize you're
Speaker 1: only going thirty five miles an hour? She said, yes, Officer,
Speaker 1: I realize that. He said, well, why are you going?
Speaker 1: So she said, because that's what the sign says. He
Speaker 1: kind of laughed and said, no, ma'am, that's the number
Speaker 1: of the freeway. This is Highway thirty five. And by
Speaker 1: the way, why did these other passengers look so terrified?
Speaker 1: She smiled and said, because we just got off Highway
Speaker 1: ninety five. Say it like you mean it. This is
Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says. I am. I
Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what
Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught
Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,
Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you today about letting go of control. God puts
Speaker 1: promises and dreams in all of our hearts. We know
Speaker 1: we're going to get well, we know our business is
Speaker 1: going to succeed. We know we're going to meet the
Speaker 1: right person. But God doesn't tell us how it's going
Speaker 1: to happen or when it's going to happen. And too often,
Speaker 1: if it's not happening the way we thought or on
Speaker 1: our timetable, we get frustrated. God, when is this going
Speaker 1: to turn around? When is my health going to improve.
Speaker 1: How come this situation at work is not getting better.
Speaker 1: We put God in a box and tell him how
Speaker 1: to do it, when it should happen, and who to use.
Speaker 1: If it's not working out the way we think, we
Speaker 1: can get discouraged. But once you pray, once you believe,
Speaker 1: you have to leave how God does it and when
Speaker 1: he does it up to him. If you put a
Speaker 1: time frame on it and the method of how it's
Speaker 1: going to happen, You're going to be frustrated because God's
Speaker 1: ways are not our ways. He's working when we can't
Speaker 1: see it. Sometimes it's taking longer because He has something
Speaker 1: better in store. One of the best things I've learned
Speaker 1: is to trust God's timing and trust his ways. What
Speaker 1: God promised will come to pass, but it may not
Speaker 1: happen the way you think. It may not be when
Speaker 1: you had planned. If you're trying to control the outcome
Speaker 1: and control the time frame, you're going to live worried.
Speaker 1: You have to release control, release having to have it
Speaker 1: happen your way. God already has it figured out. He
Speaker 1: knows the end from the beginning. But here's the key.
Speaker 1: He doesn't give us the details. If you knew how
Speaker 1: everything was going to work out. It wouldn't take faith
Speaker 1: if he told you three months from now a big
Speaker 1: door is going to open. It looks like you're going backwards,
Speaker 1: but there's a shortcut. It's going to put you ahead.
Speaker 1: You would relax and say, Okay, it's all going to
Speaker 1: work out. Why don't you do that now? God has
Speaker 1: it all planned out. He's doing things you can't see.
Speaker 1: There are good breaks coming, healing favor the right people.
Speaker 1: They're already on your schedule. If you'll release control, then
Speaker 1: you can enjoy your life while you're waiting for things
Speaker 1: to change. What's upsetting you, what's keeping you awake at night?
Speaker 1: God is saying, release it to me. I'm in control.
Speaker 1: I'm ordering your steps. I'm working behind the scenes. It
Speaker 1: may not be good, but I'm going to turn it
Speaker 1: for your good. The scripture says, those who have believed
Speaker 1: in are into rest. Once you believed, you don't have
Speaker 1: to figure everything out. You may not see anything changing.
Speaker 1: You'll be tempted to worry. Stay at rest. When you're
Speaker 1: at rest, you're showing God that you trust him. Wow.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're believing for your health to improve, but the
Speaker 1: medical report is not getting better. You thought it would
Speaker 1: have happened by now. You could be worried, complaining, but
Speaker 1: instead you're thanking God. You're declaring his promises. You're being
Speaker 1: your best each day. When you're at rest, you're in faith.
Speaker 1: That's what allows God to work. But if you're upset
Speaker 1: over what's not changing, worried about your finances, can't sleep
Speaker 1: because that child is off, that's a sign that you've
Speaker 1: stopped believing. You need to enter into rest, come back
Speaker 1: to a place of peace. You can't trust God and
Speaker 1: be worried at the same time. When you're at rest,
Speaker 1: you know God's in control. You know all things are
Speaker 1: gonna work for your good. You know what he's started,
Speaker 1: he's going to finish well. Joel, I'm worried about my finances.
Speaker 1: I'm upset about the medical report. When is this pandemic
Speaker 1: going to be over? It's not a surprise to God.
Speaker 1: He hasn't brought you this far to leave you. Release
Speaker 1: the worried, release the frustration, release having to know all
Speaker 1: the details. It will always be situations that we don't understand,
Speaker 1: and problems that look too big, obstacles that seem permanent.
Speaker 1: That's a test will you go through life worried, wondering
Speaker 1: if it's going to work out, discourage because it's taken
Speaker 1: so long, or will you enter into rest? Will you
Speaker 1: believe that God is in control and that he will
Speaker 1: get you to where you're supposed to be. My sister
Speaker 1: Lisa and her husband Kevin tried to have a baby
Speaker 1: for many years with no success. Lisa took all the
Speaker 1: fertility treatments, had a couple of surgeries, but still couldn't conceive. Finally,
Speaker 1: the doctors told her that she wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: have a baby in Lisa kept praying, kept believing year
Speaker 1: after year. She knew that God has the final say,
Speaker 1: but at one point she realized she was consumed with
Speaker 1: having that baby. That was her main focus. And sometimes
Speaker 1: we want something so badly it can get out of balance.
Speaker 1: We're not going to be happy unless God does it
Speaker 1: our way. You have to put it on the altar.
Speaker 1: Don't release the dream, don't give up on the promise,
Speaker 1: but release control of how God is going to bring
Speaker 1: it to pass. He may not do it a traditional
Speaker 1: way what you were expecting. Anything, you have to have
Speaker 1: to be happy. The enemy can use against you, but
Speaker 1: when you can say God, this is what I want.
Speaker 1: But even if it doesn't work out my way, I'm
Speaker 1: still going to be happy. I'm still going to give
Speaker 1: you praise that takes away the power of the enemy.
Speaker 1: Hold tightly to your dreams, but hold loosely to how
Speaker 1: God is going to do it. A few months after
Speaker 1: Lisa released control, she received a phone call from a
Speaker 1: friend of ours in another state that has a home
Speaker 1: for teenage girls. One of the young ladies was about
Speaker 1: to give birth to twins. She asked Lisa and Kevin
Speaker 1: if they would be interested in adopting them. They didn't
Speaker 1: have to think twice. They knew that was an answered prayer.
Speaker 1: A couple of months later, they were at the hospital
Speaker 1: when the babies were born. Today, they're beautiful young ladies
Speaker 1: in their twenties. God knows how to bring promises to pass,
Speaker 1: but you have to stay open to how it's going
Speaker 1: to happen. If you're set in having it one way,
Speaker 1: you can be frustrated. God does things out of the ordinary, unusual.
Speaker 1: He may not bring your dream to pass a traditional way.
Speaker 1: Seemed like Lisa was falling behind, But then one phone
Speaker 1: call and she had not one, but two babies. She
Speaker 1: didn't have to get pregnant. She didn't have to carry
Speaker 1: the baby nine months. God did it an unusual way.
Speaker 1: Are you upset about something that's the hand of God.
Speaker 1: It hasn't happened yet, because God's going to do something
Speaker 1: better than you think. The delay, the disappointment, the setback,
Speaker 1: it's not working against you, is working for you. Release
Speaker 1: control of how it's going to happen. God is about
Speaker 1: to do unusual things out of the ordinary, unprecedented. You're
Speaker 1: not falling behind. You're about to receive a phone call,
Speaker 1: a good break, a promotion. Your health suddenly turns around.
Speaker 1: I've learned God doesn't always take us down a straight path.
Speaker 1: There will be detours, delays, curves, these times when you
Speaker 1: feel like you're going the wrong way. God, I'm believing
Speaker 1: to go this direction for promotion, healing, freedom, but I'm
Speaker 1: going the other direction. I'm in a pandemic. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: just the opposite. Don't get set on the method. The
Speaker 1: way you think it's going to happen may not be
Speaker 1: the way God's going to do it. What you can't
Speaker 1: see is on that path, there's going the wrong way.
Speaker 1: There's another turn. It leads to a shortcut that will
Speaker 1: catapult you ahead. Lisa was believing for one child and
Speaker 1: came out with two. That's the way our God is.
Speaker 1: Where he's leading you is going to be better than
Speaker 1: you've imagined. The reason it's taking longer is because it's
Speaker 1: going to be bigger than you thought, more rewarding, more fulfilling.
Speaker 1: Doors aren't opening yet. You don't know what God is
Speaker 1: up to. You can't see what he's doing by the scenes.
Speaker 1: People are against you, the trouble hasn't turned around. Your
Speaker 1: family member is still off course. Don't be discouraged by
Speaker 1: what's not changing. Your time is coming. The scripture talks
Speaker 1: about how there is a set time for God to
Speaker 1: favor you, a set time to heal you, a set
Speaker 1: time to turn the problem around. If there's a right time,
Speaker 1: that means there's a wrong time. If it hasn't happened yet,
Speaker 1: then it wasn't meant to be. Instead of fighting where
Speaker 1: you are, why don't you embrace where you are? God?
Speaker 1: I know you're ordering my steps. I'm right where I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be. Lord. I want to thank you that
Speaker 1: my set times are coming. I can promise you this
Speaker 1: God is not going to be one second, lad, He's
Speaker 1: not going to accidentally miss your set time. And it's
Speaker 1: good to be passionate about our dreams and passionate about healing, freedom, promotion.
Speaker 1: But don't be so consumed that you're not going to
Speaker 1: be happy while you're waiting for God to bring it
Speaker 1: to pass. Don't put your happiness on hold until everything
Speaker 1: works out. This day is a gift. Enjoy your life
Speaker 1: while God is working. Enter into rest, not uptight stressed out.
Speaker 1: When is it going to change? You have to pass
Speaker 1: the test of being happy where you are before God
Speaker 1: will get you to where you want to be. If
Speaker 1: you can only be happy when the problem turns around,
Speaker 1: when you have the baby, when your business grows, that's
Speaker 1: going to delay what God is going to do. You
Speaker 1: have to put your foot down and say, I am
Speaker 1: going to enjoy this day. This pandemic is not going
Speaker 1: to stop me. These challenges, this bad break. God, I
Speaker 1: know you're on the throne. I trust your timing, I
Speaker 1: trust your ways. In the meantime, I'm going to live
Speaker 1: my life happy. Imagine if Joseph had not learned how
Speaker 1: to release control. God gave him a dream as a
Speaker 1: teenager that he would be in leadership that people would
Speaker 1: bow down before him. What if he had a preconceived
Speaker 1: idea of how it was going to happen. Surely someone
Speaker 1: is going to show up at my house like they
Speaker 1: did for David and anoint me king, pick me out
Speaker 1: of a lineup, show me favor, and I'll step into leadership.
Speaker 1: But God does things unusual ways. He uses adversities, bad breaks,
Speaker 1: disappointments to move us into our destiny. The trouble looks
Speaker 1: like a setback, but really trouble is transportation. God uses
Speaker 1: trouble to move you to where he wants you to be.
Speaker 1: We think God only uses favor, good breaks, open doors.
Speaker 1: We know that's his blessing. We think him when that happens.
Speaker 1: But I've learned God he uses closed doors just as
Speaker 1: much as open doors. He uses people that are against
Speaker 1: us just as much as people that are for us.
Speaker 1: He uses rejection, betrayals, delays to position us for promotion.
Speaker 1: We can't see it at the time. We don't like it.
Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable, but it's the hand of God ordering our steps.
Speaker 1: Joseph had this dream. He knew God's favor was on him.
Speaker 1: What happened He was betrayed, by his brothers, thrown into
Speaker 1: a pit, sold into slavery, falsely accused, put in prison,
Speaker 1: one bad break after another. But Joseph understood this principle.
Speaker 1: He never complained, he never got bitter. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: were many lonely nights, times where he felt forgotten, abandoned,
Speaker 1: But deep down he could hear that still small voice
Speaker 1: telling him I'm still in control. I've got you in
Speaker 1: the palm of my hand. This is all a part
Speaker 1: of your destiny. If he would have tried to control it,
Speaker 1: tried to make it happen his way, he would have
Speaker 1: lived bitter, frustrated, angry. Every day he had to release
Speaker 1: the worry, release the frustration, release how he thought it
Speaker 1: would happen. Thirteen years later, he became the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: of Egypt. He saw that dream come to pass. But
Speaker 1: when you study his journey, you see twists and turns, delays, detours, disappointments.
Speaker 1: Proverb says, since the Lord is directing your steps, why
Speaker 1: try to understand everything that happens along the way. Are
Speaker 1: you frustrated because you don't understand something that's happened to you?
Speaker 1: Upset over a bad break, worried because of a delay.
Speaker 1: How do you know it's not the hand of God
Speaker 1: leading you to your throne? How do you know you're
Speaker 1: not a Joseph, that you're not right on course, on
Speaker 1: schedule to see what God promised you. It may not
Speaker 1: happen like you think. God uses difficulties to position us
Speaker 1: for destiny. What you're upset about is a necessary step
Speaker 1: that closed door. The delay. It's intrmental in you reaching
Speaker 1: your purpose. Don't try to understand everything that happens along
Speaker 1: the way. God works in mysterious ways. If you're trying
Speaker 1: to figure everything out, you're going to get confused. There
Speaker 1: are things that you're not supposed to understand. That's what
Speaker 1: faith is all about. If that adversity was going to
Speaker 1: stop your destiny, God wouldn't have allowed it. If that
Speaker 1: disappointment was going to keep you from your purpose, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened. God is seeing what you're made of.
Speaker 1: This is your chance to say, like Joseph, God, I
Speaker 1: trust you even when I don't understand it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep being my best, even when it's not fair. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep giving you praise when I could be complaining,
Speaker 1: Keep moving forward when I feel like going backwards Luke
Speaker 1: twenty two. Jesus was about to be crucified. He was
Speaker 1: on the Mount of Olives praying. Judas came up with
Speaker 1: a group of soldiers and kissed Jesus. That's how they
Speaker 1: knew who to arrest. Now, when they went to take Jesus,
Speaker 1: Peter pulled out his sword and cut off one of
Speaker 1: the soldier's ears. He was ready to fight. He wasn't
Speaker 1: about to let this go down without opposition. The other
Speaker 1: disciples said, Lord, should we fight. We brought our swords.
Speaker 1: Jesus said in verse fifty two, don't resist anymore. He
Speaker 1: was saying, this is all a part of my plan.
Speaker 1: I can't reach my destiny without Judas kissing me, without
Speaker 1: this betrayal, I can't rise from the dead. I can't
Speaker 1: bring salvation without these soldiers arresting me, without me being crucified.
Speaker 1: And it looked like the enemy was in control. The
Speaker 1: soldiers were getting the upper hand taking Jesus away. They
Speaker 1: didn't realize they were taking him into his destiny. When
Speaker 1: we face hardships, the bad breaks, the disappointments, it seems
Speaker 1: like the enemy is in control. That's when we want
Speaker 1: to fight, resist, get upset live worried. God is saying,
Speaker 1: don't resist anymore, don't fight it, don't live bitter, don't
Speaker 1: try to get even. Trust me, I'm in control. I'm
Speaker 1: still directing your steps. Yes, resist the sickness, resist the addiction,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't fight everything that comes your way. Live upset,
Speaker 1: can't sleep at night. The enemy didn't get the upper hand.
Speaker 1: He didn't somehow get control of your life. God is
Speaker 1: still on the throne. The betrayal wasn't fair. God didn't
Speaker 1: stop it because it's leading you to your destiny. You
Speaker 1: didn't like the disappointment. Looks like the enemy is prevailing,
Speaker 1: like the opposition is holding you back. But you don't
Speaker 1: know what God is up to. What you can't see
Speaker 1: is on the other side of that crucifixion, so to speak,
Speaker 1: is a resurrection. On the other side of the betrayal,
Speaker 1: the sickness, the disappointment is a new level of your destiny.
Speaker 1: Stop resisting and start resting. Sometimes we're trying to play God.
Speaker 1: We're straighten everybody out, vindicate ourselves, fix this situation at work.
Speaker 1: Why don't you release control. God doesn't need our help.
Speaker 1: He's not looking for some advice, Hoping you'll stop those betrayals,
Speaker 1: keep those bad breaks from happening. No, don't resist anymore.
Speaker 1: Let him be God. You don't have to fight everything
Speaker 1: that comes your way. You can't reach your destiny without
Speaker 1: a Judas kiss. Don't fight Judas, kiss him back and
Speaker 1: move on. You can't become who you were created to
Speaker 1: be without a soul being jealous, like with David, without
Speaker 1: a Potiphar's wife, falsely accusing you, like with Joseph without
Speaker 1: a king, Nebukanezzar throwing you into a fiery furnace, like
Speaker 1: the three Hebrew children, without a pharaoh trying to hold
Speaker 1: you captive, like the Israelites. The good news is the
Speaker 1: opposition is not in control. They are palms in the
Speaker 1: hands of the Most High God. He is ordering your steps.
Speaker 1: Nothing happens without his permission. Nineteen fifty nine, my father
Speaker 1: was pastoring a successful church. They had just built a
Speaker 1: new auditorium. He was on the state board for his denomination.
Speaker 1: Life was good, looked like he had a bright future,
Speaker 1: but my sister was born with something like cerebral pauls in.
Speaker 1: My father went to a hotel downtown to be alone
Speaker 1: for a few days. He read the Bible like it
Speaker 1: was the first time he ever read it. He saw
Speaker 1: how God is a healer, how he wants to to
Speaker 1: live a victorious, bless life. He came back and started
Speaker 1: sharing his new message of faith and victory with his congregation.
Speaker 1: Much to his surprise, some of them didn't like it.
Speaker 1: It didn't fit into their tradition. They ended up asking
Speaker 1: him to leave. He was so disappointed. He had spent
Speaker 1: years pouring his heart and soul into those people. My
Speaker 1: father could have fought it, made a big fuss, showed
Speaker 1: them that he was right and they were wrong. Instead,
Speaker 1: he didn't resist. He recognized that closed door was the
Speaker 1: hand of God. He and my mother went out and
Speaker 1: started Lakewood in an abandoned fee store with ninety people.
Speaker 1: Critics said it would never last, but sixty one years later,
Speaker 1: here we are still going strong. God knew my father
Speaker 1: couldn't reach his destiny staying in that limited environment. Those
Speaker 1: people that were against him, they couldn't help it. They
Speaker 1: weren't bad people, they were pawns in the hands of God.
Speaker 1: You have to be mature enough to know when to
Speaker 1: resist and when not to resist. You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: fight every battle. God uses betrayals, closed doors, disappointments to
Speaker 1: move you into your purpose. What if my father would
Speaker 1: have been bitter, stubborn, not willing to move God, I
Speaker 1: know you want me to pastor here, he would have
Speaker 1: missed his destiny. Don't resist rest, don't try to control
Speaker 1: how it's going to happen. Release control, be open to
Speaker 1: what God is going to do. Act twenty seven. Paul
Speaker 1: was a prisoner on a ship sailing toward Rome. An
Speaker 1: angel appeared to him and said he was going to
Speaker 1: stand before Caesar. On the journey, they encountered a huge
Speaker 1: storm with hurricane force winds. For fourteen days, they didn't
Speaker 1: see the sun nor the stars. They tried their best
Speaker 1: to steer the ship to try to keep some kind
Speaker 1: of control, but the winds were too much. Instead of
Speaker 1: fighting it, trying to force where they wanted it to go,
Speaker 1: the scripture says they took down the cells and let
Speaker 1: the wind blow the ship wherever the storm wanted it
Speaker 1: to go. When you've done everything you can, you prayed,
Speaker 1: you believed, you stood in faith, there comes a time
Speaker 1: where you have to do like them. Quit fighting it,
Speaker 1: quit trying to force it to work out, Quit losing
Speaker 1: sleep and release control. God will not take you someplace
Speaker 1: where he wants sustain you. How do you release control?
Speaker 1: Quit worrying about it, Quit losing sleep, quit trying to
Speaker 1: make it happen your way. Say God, I trust you.
Speaker 1: I know you're in control of these winds. They can
Speaker 1: blow me forward, backward, left, right, But one thing I'm
Speaker 1: certain of, where you take me is exactly where I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to be. So what my father did. Those winds
Speaker 1: blew him to Lakewood. The same winds that were meant
Speaker 1: to stop you. If you'll stay in faith, God will
Speaker 1: shift the winds and instead of blowing you backwards, they
Speaker 1: will blow you forward. That's what the scripture says. What's
Speaker 1: meant for your harm, God will turn to your advantage.
Speaker 1: Are you resisting or are you resting? Are you trying
Speaker 1: to control everything? Upset because it's not happening your way,
Speaker 1: trying to force it? Why don't you take down the
Speaker 1: cells and trust what God is doing. You may not
Speaker 1: understand it now, it may not make sense yet, but
Speaker 1: one day you'll see it was a necessary step to
Speaker 1: reach your destiny. It looked like a setback, but really
Speaker 1: it was a set up. I talked to a young lady.
Speaker 1: Life was going great until she was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Speaker 1: She was out of work so long that she lost
Speaker 1: her job. She couldn't afford an apartment. A friend gave
Speaker 1: her a place to stay. She ended up getting a
Speaker 1: job with the major airlines. She was so excited finally
Speaker 1: getting back on her feet. Then the pandemic hit The
Speaker 1: airline cut her work back to only a few hours
Speaker 1: a week. She had to get an additional job working
Speaker 1: with a security company. One night, her car was stolen
Speaker 1: at work. It was one bad break after another. She
Speaker 1: got a rental car and it had serious XM. She
Speaker 1: was so discouraged she said she needed to laugh, so
Speaker 1: she started flipping through the channels looking for a comedian.
Speaker 1: She came across our station, Channel one twenty eight and
Speaker 1: thought I was a comedian. She started listening, found out
Speaker 1: that I wasn't, but she couldn't turn it all. Hope
Speaker 1: began to feel her heart. Dreams started coming back to life,
Speaker 1: fresh vision. She ended up giving her life to Christ. Recently,
Speaker 1: her company offered her the opportunity to transfer to Hawaiian
Speaker 1: She'd always dreamed of living there. It was a manager
Speaker 1: position because she worked for the airline, she can travel
Speaker 1: back and forth at no charge. She said, I look
Speaker 1: back now at all the things that happened to me,
Speaker 1: and I realized it was all working for my good.
Speaker 1: If my truck hadn't have been stolen, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: come to know the Lord. If I didn't work for
Speaker 1: the airline, I wouldn't have these free flights. If they
Speaker 1: hadn't cut my hours back, I wouldn't have taken this job.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have this new opportunity to move to Hawaii.
Speaker 1: She couldn't see it at the time, but the winds
Speaker 1: of that storm were blowing her to where God wanted
Speaker 1: her to be. That difficulty you're facing, that trouble is
Speaker 1: not going to stop you. The trouble is transportation. Don't
Speaker 1: fight everything worried. Why did this happen? God knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing. He has you in the palm of his hand.
Speaker 1: He may not do it the way you had planned,
Speaker 1: but where He's taken you is better than you've imagined.
Speaker 1: Psalm fifty five says cast your burdens on the Lord.
Speaker 1: Release the weight of them, and he will sustain you.
Speaker 1: How many weights are you carrying around? The weight of worry?
Speaker 1: The weight of what you don't understand, the weight of
Speaker 1: how am I going to make it through this tough season.
Speaker 1: There's something you have to do. God is not going
Speaker 1: to take the burden away. You have to release the worry,
Speaker 1: release the frustration, release having to figure it out, come
Speaker 1: back to a place of peace. The right attitude is God,
Speaker 1: My life is in your hands. I commit my dreams,
Speaker 1: my family, my finances, my health to you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to fight everything I don't like. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to live upset when it doesn't go my way.
Speaker 1: I know you're working all things for my good. I
Speaker 1: trust your timing, I trust your ways. When you have believed,
Speaker 1: you enter into rest. I'm asking you to stop resisting
Speaker 1: and start resting. If you'll release control, belie, leave, and declare,
Speaker 1: weights that have burdened you down are lifting off of you.
Speaker 1: Right now, God is about to shift the winds of
Speaker 1: that storm. Instead of blowing you backwards, it's going to
Speaker 1: blow you forward. Promotion is coming, healing is coming, freedom,
Speaker 1: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name. If you
Speaker 1: receive it, can you say amen? Today? I'd like to
Speaker 1: give you an opportunity to make Jesus, the Lord of
Speaker 1: your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,
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