1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's great to be. 7 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 2: With you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with 8 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 2: us during the week through our daily podcast or YouTube 9 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: channel and social media, and you can. 10 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: Come visit us in person. 11 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 2: We'd love to have you be a part of one 12 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: of our services. And I like to start with something funny, 13 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: and I heard about this man. He called the church 14 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: office said I want to speak to the head hog 15 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: at the trough. The secretary was offended. She said, if 16 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: you mean the pastor, you're going to have to call 17 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 2: him pastor, but you may not call him the head 18 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 2: hog at the trough. He said, well, I was thinking 19 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: about making a five thousand dollars donation to your church. 20 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: She said, hang on, poor Ky just walked in. All right, 21 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 2: y'all say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 22 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 2: I am what it says, I am, I have what 23 00:00:58,800 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 2: it says I have. 24 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today. 25 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly 26 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 2: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 27 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 2: will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. 28 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about still I 29 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 2: rise in life. Things are going to happen that we 30 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: don't understand, that are not fair, that can knock the 31 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 2: wind out of us. 32 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: A bad medical reporter, the. 33 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 2: Loss of a loved wana, a set back in our business. 34 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 2: I can't promise you that life won't knock you down, 35 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 2: but I can promise you you can get back up again. 36 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 2: The scripture says, the same power that raised Christ from 37 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: the dead lives on the inside of you. God has 38 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 2: put bounce back in your spirit. He knew we would 39 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 2: face disappointments and things that could sour our future. He 40 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 2: put in you a fire that cannot be put out, 41 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 2: a determination to overcome what's trying to hold you back, 42 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: a strength to rise up when every voice is telling 43 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 2: you to settle. And when life knocks you down, it's 44 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: okay to process. 45 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: It and grieve the loss. 46 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 2: And I'm not telling you to ignore the pain. 47 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: Just be strong. 48 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 2: God made us with emotions, we feel things. What I'm 49 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: saying is, don't stay there. Don't let the loss become 50 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: your location. Don't let what happened to you become your identity. 51 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: You need to have this still I rise mentality. Yes, 52 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 2: life knocked me down, but it can't keep me down. 53 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 2: Still a rise. Yes I had a bad break, the 54 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: door closed. I don't understand it, but still I believe. 55 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 2: Still a trust, still a smile, still a praise. You 56 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 2: have to have a made up mind that when life 57 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 2: knocks you down, you're not gonna live defeated. 58 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,119 Speaker 1: And think about what didn't work out. 59 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 2: You declare in the face of those circumstances, still a rise. 60 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 1: I was in my kitchen the other day. 61 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 2: I had a glass of water and I reached over 62 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: to pick something up, and somehow the glass slipped out 63 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 2: of my hand and hit the countertop. 64 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: It broke into a dozen pieces. 65 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 2: The glass had a thick bottom, maybe an inch of 66 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 2: solid glass, but it was shattered. After I cleaned it up, 67 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: I went over to the countertop to see if it 68 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: was damaged. I thought it probably dented it or chipped it. 69 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 2: The glass was so hard, but there was no dnt, 70 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 2: no ding looked perfect. It's because the countertop is granite. 71 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 2: Granite is one of the hardest stones, much harder than glass. 72 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 2: You can drop glass on granite all day long. Even 73 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 2: though the glass is hard and seems so sturdy and tough, 74 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 2: it'll never break the granite. 75 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: In the same way, God made you harder than anything 76 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: that will come against you. 77 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 2: There are things you would think would break you, the sickness, 78 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: the addiction, the trouble. It feels bigger, stronger, But can 79 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: I encourage you? 80 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: You are unbrake. You are like that. 81 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: Granted, you are harder than what's trying to break you. 82 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: You are stronger than what's trying to stop you. 83 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: You are more powerful than what's trying to hold you. 84 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 2: Greater is he that's in you than what's coming against you. 85 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 2: Now you may not have the strength on your own, 86 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: but there's something greater in you. That bad break may 87 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 2: seem like it soured your future, knocked you down, but 88 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 2: there is bounce back in your spirit. 89 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 1: The same power that raised Christ is going to raise 90 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,479 Speaker 1: you back up. Now. 91 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 2: You can't have a weak, defeated mentality. I don't know, Joel, 92 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 2: I can't handle this. 93 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: It's too much. 94 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 2: Have a new perspective, Yes, I'm hurting, but I know 95 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 2: a secret. 96 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: Still a rise. Yes it looks bad, but still I believe. 97 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm outnumbered, still a trust. Yes I got the 98 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 2: wind knocked out of me. But this is not how 99 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 2: my story ends. I'm not settling here. Still I move forward, 100 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 2: still a dream. Still I expect God's goodness. This is 101 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 2: what Jacob did in the scripture. As a young man. 102 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: He had to leave his hometown because his brother Esau 103 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: was angry with him. Jacob had stolen his birthright. Esau 104 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: was going to take revenge, so Jacob fled to a 105 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: far away city and lived. 106 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: With his uncle for many years. 107 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 2: That's where he met his wives, Rachel and Leah. 108 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: They had many children. Jacob was blessed with cattle and livestock. 109 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 2: Well, after everything cooled down, God said to him in 110 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: Genesis thirty one, returned to the land of your. 111 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: Father's and I will be with you. 112 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 3: Well. 113 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 2: Jacob always wanted to go back home, so he gathered 114 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 2: his family, his flocks, his children. He headed toward Hebron, 115 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: where his father Isaac lived. Was a long journey, and 116 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 2: they made it to the city of Bethel and camp there. 117 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: That's where God changed his name from Jacob, which means deceiver, trickster, 118 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,559 Speaker 2: that's who he was in the past, to Israel, which 119 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 2: means prince with God. Was a destiny moment where he 120 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: had this new identity. I'm not who I used to be, 121 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 2: I'm a new man. He built an altar there and 122 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 2: worshiped God. They left Bethel and continued on the journey. 123 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 2: His wife, Rachel, was pregnant. She began to have labor 124 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 2: pains and they stopped and the midwives began to help her. 125 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: She went into labor. It was very hard. There were complications. 126 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 2: Rachel gave birth to the child, a healthy baby, but 127 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 2: Rachel didn't make it. She died during childbirth. Here it 128 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 2: was the best of times, new baby boy. 129 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: And the worst of times. 130 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 2: Jacob lost his beloved wife. In those days, they had 131 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 2: multiple wives and he had married her sister, Leah. He 132 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 2: was tricked into that, but Rachel was the love of 133 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 2: his life. First time he saw Rachel, it was love 134 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 2: at first sight, so much so that he told her 135 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 2: father Laban, that he would work for him seven years 136 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 2: just to be able to marry her. After the seven years, 137 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 2: Laban didn't keep his word. He gave him the oldest 138 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 2: daughter Leah instead. Jacob said, that's not what we agreed to. Well, 139 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: Laban said, then you have to work for me seven 140 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 2: more years to have Rachel. Jacob did it. That's how 141 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 2: much he loved Rachel. Now his world is shattered. He 142 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 2: never dreamed he would lose the thing he loved the most, 143 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 2: this one thing. If she passed from old age at 144 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,679 Speaker 2: their home, they had reached their destination, but he lost 145 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 2: her along the way while they were in transition, while 146 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 2: they were dreaming about what. 147 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: Was to come. 148 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 2: And sometimes on our journey in life, the unexpected happens. 149 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 2: A dream dies, a door closes, a loved one doesn't 150 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 2: make it. 151 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 1: We didn't see it coming. We get knocked down. 152 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 2: It's easy to stay down and wonder why it happened. 153 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: Live defeated, give up on dreams. 154 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 2: We were doing the right thing, but the wrong thing happening. God, 155 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 2: where were you? Why didn't you stop this? There will 156 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 2: always be unanswered questions. Faith is about trusting when you 157 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 2: don't understand, not trying to figure everything out. Don't put 158 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: a question mark where God has put a period. 159 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: He's still in control, He's still. 160 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 2: Ordering your steps. He still has a purpose for you 161 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 2: to fulfill. And it's not like Jacob was off course 162 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,119 Speaker 2: doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing. 163 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: Oh, God told him to go back home. 164 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 2: He was being obedient, following God's plan for his life. 165 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 2: You can imagine the pain he felt, the grief, sense 166 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: of loss, being overwhelmed. This is the woman he worked 167 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 2: fourteen years for. This was the mother of Joseph, a 168 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 2: son that would impact the world, and suddenly she's gone. 169 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 2: Here they were planning on seeing their family, having a 170 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: big reunion, all being together again. 171 00:08:58,520 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: Then life happened. 172 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 2: What made it even worse is he couldn't bury her 173 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: with his family. 174 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:04,719 Speaker 1: The custom in. 175 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 2: Those days is you had to bury the body within 176 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 2: twenty four hours. They were weeks away from their destination. 177 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 2: So right there on the side of the road, he 178 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 2: dug a grave, he set a memorial stone, and he 179 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 2: marked her passing. This was a critical point. Jacob could 180 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 2: have settled there. He could have canceled his plans and thought, 181 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 2: no need for me to go any further. My dreams 182 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 2: are shattered. I'm too heartbroken. He could have lived in mourning. 183 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 2: But Verse twenty one says after honoring her passing, Israel 184 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 2: journeyed on the verse before says, Jacob set a marker 185 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 2: on her grave. When Moses wrote this, he used two 186 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 2: different names. It's not a coincidence God was showing us 187 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: Jacob represents the human part of us, our emotions, the pain, 188 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 2: the grief. 189 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: The heartbreak. 190 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 2: That's Jacob set up this pillar to mark her passing. 191 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 2: God didn't say, Jacob, you got to get going. Don't 192 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 2: feel anything, be stronger. No, grief is not weakness. Grief 193 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 2: is a sign that you loved. When you loved deeply, 194 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 2: you grieve deeply. There's a time for mourning, time for weeping, 195 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 2: a time to process so you can heal. If you 196 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 2: don't grieve your losses and you hold everything in, just 197 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 2: try to override it. 198 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: It's not healthy. There needs to be a release. 199 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 2: Weeping endures for a night, then joy comes. Don't bypass 200 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 2: the process. 201 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: But here's the key. 202 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 2: The enemy would love for a season of mourning to 203 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 2: turn into a lifetime of morning. 204 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,079 Speaker 1: To where you set up camp at the memorial stone. 205 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 2: You always think about what you lost. You relive the hurt, 206 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 2: give up on dreams, and settle into sorrow. 207 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: That's how Jacob fell. 208 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 2: Those are normal emotions. Then the scripture switches his name 209 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:05,839 Speaker 2: and says, Israel journeyed on. Israel is the spirit inside you. 210 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 2: It's who God called you to be. When Jacob wants 211 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 2: to settle in defeat, Israel moves forward in faith. When 212 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 2: Jacob has overcome with sorrow, Israel rises up, wipes. 213 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: The tears and presses on. Weeping endures for a night. 214 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: That's Jacob. But joy is coming in the morning. That's Israel. 215 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 2: Jacob will feel overwhelmed by the loss, But the Israel 216 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 2: in you says, still a rise Still, I believe, still, 217 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 2: I trust still our journey on. We see this with Job, 218 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 2: he lost everything in the middle of the trouble, When 219 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 2: he should have been depressed, he looked up and said, 220 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 2: though he slaved. 221 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: Me, yet will I trust him? That was Israel coming out. 222 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 2: But when we have bad breaks and we have to 223 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 2: bury a dreamer, bury something that you dearly loved, Jacob 224 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: will be there, the grieving, the weep, the sorrow. But 225 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 2: can I encourage you? There's an Israel in you as well. 226 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 2: Israel carries the power, the fortitude, the strength that causes. 227 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 1: You to rise back up, to defde the odds, to. 228 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 2: Journey on when all the circumstances tell you to settle man. 229 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: Look what's happened. 230 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 2: It's not fair. This has soured your life. When Jacob 231 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 2: wants to sit down, Israel stands up. Jacob feels the pain, 232 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: but Israel carries the promise that no weapon formed against 233 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 2: you will prosper, that there are beauty for those ashes. 234 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 2: Jacob will try to convince you that you're done. You've 235 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,959 Speaker 2: seen your best days. You can't handle this. But if 236 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 2: you'll listen carefully, you'll hear Israel saying no, no, Still 237 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 2: a rise, Still, I move forward, Still, I pursue. Yes, 238 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 2: that door closed, I'm disappointed, but I'm gonna knock on 239 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 2: another door. 240 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:54,679 Speaker 1: That's Israel. 241 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: Had trouble with your child or the difficulty at work. 242 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 2: She'ld have given you a nervous brain down, taking your joy, 243 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,839 Speaker 2: your victory. But you felt a strength, a power that 244 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 2: you can't explain to keep moving forward. That's Israel. That's 245 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 2: God sustaining you. That's his spirit causing you to overcome. 246 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 2: Maybe a relationship didn't work out and you lost a 247 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 2: loved one. You should get stuck thinking why it's not fair. 248 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 2: I don't understand it. That's where Jacob was, But what 249 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 2: happened with him is going to happen to you. 250 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: Israel is going to show up. 251 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 2: Jacob couldn't have done this on his own, was too much, 252 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 2: too overwhelming. But when he came to the end of 253 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 2: his ability, Israel stepped in. 254 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: That's the spirit of. 255 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 2: God causing you to move forward, to continue on despite 256 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 2: what's trying to stop you. Now, don't be down on 257 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: yourself when things feel heavy. Some people say, if you 258 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 2: have faith, you shouldn't grieve, You shouldn't feel the pain, 259 00:13:58,679 --> 00:13:59,719 Speaker 2: feel the sadness. 260 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: No, Jacob doesn't go away. We're human. 261 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 2: Jesus wept when his friend Lazarus died. He felt sorrow 262 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 2: and heartache in the garden of Gasimine. 263 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: He was so overwhelmed he sweat drops of blood. 264 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: He's God, yet in his body he had these emotions, 265 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 2: not a lack of faith to feel things. The Jacob 266 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 2: in you feels pain. Jacob reacts to loss and betrayal. 267 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 2: Jacob carries wounds in questions. That's the natural part of us, 268 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 2: and on our own, by ourselves, we would get stuck. 269 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 2: The good news is there's not just Jacob in you. 270 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 2: There's an Israel in you. That's who I'm calling out. 271 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 2: Israel gets up after being knocked down, Israel moves forward 272 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 2: while they're still hurting. Israel trust even though there's unanswered questions. 273 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 2: Israel praises through the pain and speaks victory in the 274 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 2: middle of the trouble. Sure, Jacob buries the dream, mourns 275 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 2: the law, acknowledges the disappointment. 276 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: But israel journey's on. 277 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 2: You may be in a tough season too, and you 278 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 2: feel that pain discourage over the difficulty. Jacob's been out 279 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 2: a long time. Can I tell you Israel is in you, 280 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 2: but you have to let him. 281 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: Rise up starts in our thoughts. 282 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 2: What are you telling yourself? I can't handle this, It's 283 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 2: too much. Why did they treat me this way? That's 284 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 2: gonna keep Israel from showing up. He's in you, but 285 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 2: you have to let him come alive. Try a different approach. God, 286 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 2: this was a bad break. I don't understand it, But God, 287 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 2: I trust you. You said You've armed me with strength 288 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 2: for every battle. You said I can do all things 289 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 2: through Christ. I may be down, but I'm not staying down. 290 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: Still. I will arise. 291 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 2: See, Jacob had every reason to settle on the way 292 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 2: to his destiny, doing the right thing, pursuing what God 293 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 2: told him. 294 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: And he lost what mattered most to him. 295 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 2: Could have become bitter, overcome by sorrow, stuck in unanswered questions, 296 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:05,239 Speaker 2: but he did. 297 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: What we all have to do. He let Israel rise up. 298 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 2: He was saying, in effect, I'm hurting, but I'm still moving. 299 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 2: I'm grieving, but I'm going forward. I've lost something precious, 300 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 2: but I didn't lose my purpose. We all had these 301 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 2: times like Jacob that don't seem fair. You may feel 302 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 2: the pain, but don't forfeit the promise. What God has 303 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: spoken over your life is still going to come to pass. 304 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 2: It may be difficult, but the Israel in you is saying. 305 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: Journey on, keep dreaming, keep pursuing, keep expecting. You can't 306 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: keep a good person down. Despite what's happened, you will 307 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: still arise. You will still see the goodness of God. 308 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 2: My father was pastoring a church back in the late 309 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,160 Speaker 2: nineteen fifties and it was very successful. They just built 310 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 2: a beautiful new sanctuary seating a thousand people. He was 311 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 2: on the state bored for his denomination on his way up. Then, 312 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 2: my sister Lisa was born with the birth injuries, something 313 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 2: like cerebral pause in the doctors told my parents that 314 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 2: she would probably never be able to speak, walk, or. 315 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: Even feed herself. They didn't see that coming. 316 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 2: Jacob was there their human emotions, and they were discouraged. 317 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: They felt this sorrow, heaviness, wondering why it happened. But 318 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 2: inside each one of us, there's not just Jacob, there's 319 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 2: an Israel. 320 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: My father told how he felt this holy. 321 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: Anger, this fire, this passion to pray and believe that 322 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 2: Lisa could be healed. 323 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,360 Speaker 1: That went against everything he was taught back then. 324 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 2: In seminary, he was told that the day of miracles 325 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 2: was over, that it ceased when the last disciples died. 326 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 2: He went to a hotel downtown to pray and read 327 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 2: the scripture. Jacob was grieving, but Israel journeyed on father's 328 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 2: I saw how Jesus went around healing people with great 329 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 2: power and victory. 330 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 1: Faith rose in his heart. 331 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 2: He came back to his church and started preaching with 332 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 2: a new fire and passion, encouraging them to believe that 333 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 2: God can do what seems impossible. He thought they would 334 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 2: be excited and on board, but it was just the opposite. 335 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 2: They didn't like it went against their tradition. They ended 336 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 2: up asking my father to leave. My parents had poured 337 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 2: their heart into those people and given them their very best. 338 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 2: My mother told me lifelong friends never spoke to her again, 339 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 2: like Jacob on the weight of their destination. Doing what 340 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 2: God called them to do. A dream died didn't seem fair. 341 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 2: God could have stopped it. They were unanswered questions. My 342 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 2: parents grieved the loss. They mourned what didn't work. 343 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: Out, but they didn't get bitter. 344 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 2: They didn't hold onto the hurt and talk bad about 345 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 2: the peace and try to get revenge. They realize God 346 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 2: put a period there, that that season was over. 347 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: See. 348 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 2: God is our doorkeeper. He opens and closes the doors 349 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 2: in our life. It doesn't always make sense to us. 350 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 2: He numbers our days. Our times are in his hands. 351 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 2: Daddy had to bury that dream, except that it didn't 352 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 2: work out. But just because one dream dies doesn't mean 353 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,400 Speaker 2: God doesn't have another dream. Losing a job, a relationship, 354 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 2: a loved one that doesn't stop God's purpose for your life. 355 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 2: Your destiny is not in what you've lost, It's in 356 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:41,800 Speaker 2: what you had left. 357 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: But here's the whole key. 358 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 2: If you focus on the laws, what didn't work out, 359 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 2: what they did, you're gonna get stuck. Sure, you're gonna 360 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 2: feel the emotion, disappointment, sadness. Jacob is there, but Israel's 361 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: in there too. After you process loss, you go through 362 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 2: the healing, Israel is going to rise up and say, 363 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 2: journey on, move forward, don't stay here and mourn this 364 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 2: any longer. It's a season, don't let it turn into 365 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 2: a lifetime. And this is what my parents did. They 366 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 2: went out and started Lakewood with ninety people on Mother's 367 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: Day in nineteen fifty nine. My sister Lisa kept getting 368 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 2: better and better, defying the odds, and of course. 369 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: Today she's perfectly normal. 370 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 2: Lakewood is still going strong sixty seven years later. 371 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: What the enemy means. 372 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: For harm, God knows how to turn to your advantage. 373 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 2: And sometimes what we think is the enemy is really 374 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 2: the divine plan of God. Things we don't understand, but 375 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 2: it's all working for his purpose. But had my father 376 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 2: not journeyed on, we wouldn't be here today. Had my 377 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 2: mother gotten bitter and lived with a chip on her shoulder, 378 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 2: she would have never seen all the blessing in favor. 379 00:20:59,280 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: They were not. 380 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 2: Down, but they made this decision, We're not going to 381 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 2: stay down. 382 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: They felt the sting. 383 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 2: Of rejection, being misunderstood and pushed out, But they also 384 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 2: felt Israel inside. Despite the opposition, They had the attitude, 385 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 2: still we rise, Still, we believe, Still we journey on. 386 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 2: The scripture says a good man falls seven times, but 387 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 2: he gets back up again. The question is not are 388 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 2: you gonna get knocked down? Life happens to us all. 389 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 2: The question is are you gonna get back up again? 390 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 2: When it says Israel journeyed on, it means he rose 391 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 2: up with a. 392 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: New attitude, a new courage, a new. 393 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 2: Determination that said, this bad break is not going to 394 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 2: defeat me. This loss is not going to define me. 395 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 2: I know I am stronger than what's trying to stop me. 396 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 2: I am more powerful than what's trying to. 397 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 1: Keep me down. 398 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 2: You have bounced back in your spirit resurrection. Don't settle 399 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 2: in the disappointment. Journey on to the new things God 400 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 2: has for you. I heard about this five year old boy. 401 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 2: His name was Johnny, and he was in church one 402 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 2: Sunday morning with his family and the pastor was up speaking. 403 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 2: Johnny kept standing up. He couldn't sit still. His mother 404 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 2: whispered Johnny, please sit down, and he would sit. Thirty 405 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 2: seconds later, he'd stand back up. 406 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 1: This happened again and again. 407 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 2: At one point he stood up and wouldn't sit back down. 408 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 2: His mother reached over, put her hands on his shoulders, 409 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 2: pushed him down. 410 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: And held him down. He was so upset. 411 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: He looked at her and said, i may be sitting 412 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,919 Speaker 2: down on the outside, but I'm standing up on the inside. 413 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 2: Sometimes life will push you down. It's like the circumstances 414 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 2: won't let you get back up. The medical willport is 415 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 2: holding you down. 416 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: Had trouble with your child, that loss. 417 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 2: You may not be able to get up on the outside, 418 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 2: like little Johnny. You have to get up on the 419 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 2: inside in your attitude, in your thinking. 420 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: You have to talk to yourself the right way. 421 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 2: Not this is too much. I'll never get well. This 422 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 2: bad break has soured my future. 423 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: You're defeating yourself. 424 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 2: Israel is in you supernatural strength courage to get back up, 425 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 2: to journey on. But if you're only focusing on the hurt, 426 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 2: the disappointment. 427 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: Israel will stay silent. 428 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 2: You got to wake him up, get your fire back, 429 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 2: get your passion back. God didn't bring you this far 430 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 2: to leave you. He knows what's come against you. He 431 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 2: feels the pain, He collects your tears. This is not 432 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 2: the end of your story. This is one chapter. You 433 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 2: had to bury something on the road in transition to 434 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 2: where God is taking you. Wasn't a surprise to him. 435 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 2: It didn't cancel your destiny. Do like Israel and journey on. 436 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 2: He continue to his hometown, and he was reunited with 437 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 2: his father, Isaac hadn't seen. 438 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: Him for decades. He left as Jacob the deceiver, the trickster. 439 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 2: He was known for his poor choices, but he came 440 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 2: home as Israel, a patriarch, a man of great honor 441 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 2: and respect. And I'm sure when he was burying Rachel 442 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 2: the side of the road in transition, he thought he 443 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 2: had seen his best days, that he'd just. 444 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: Have to survive. Here's how good God is. 445 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 2: After the loss of Rachel, after the heartbreak, he went 446 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 2: on to see his twelve sons become the twelve tribes 447 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 2: of Israel. Benjamin, the son Rachel gave birth to. When 448 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 2: she passed, he was called the son of Strength. His 449 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 2: tribe became known. 450 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: For courage and loyalty. 451 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 2: After the loss, Jacob saw his son Joseph rise to 452 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 2: power and become the prime Minister of Egypt. Joseph was 453 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 2: the one God used to save the Israelite during the famine. 454 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: This all happened after the bad break. 455 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 2: If Jacob were here today, he would tell you loss 456 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 2: is not the end of your story. When life knocks 457 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 2: you down, Israel steps in. There's a power in you. 458 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 2: You can explain, a force to push you forward, a 459 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 2: grace to make it through what should stop you. 460 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: I'm sure you're going to feel the emotion sorrow, grief. 461 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 2: Jacob is your humanity, but Israel is your destiny. There 462 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 2: is a favor on the other side of the disappointment. 463 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: There are new beginnings in the path in front of you. 464 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 2: Sure it's okay to bury something, acknowledge the season, grieve 465 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 2: the loss, but don't let the loss become your location. 466 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: It's not okay to stay. 467 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,840 Speaker 2: Israel is there to help your journey on, to move forward. 468 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 2: When things come against you, you think her too much. 469 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 2: You have to remind yourself you are unbreakable. God has 470 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 2: made you harder, stronger, more resilient than anything that tries 471 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 2: to stop you. Now, don't have a weak, defeated mentality. 472 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 2: Have us still our rise mentality? Despite the loss, despite 473 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:13,120 Speaker 2: the bad break, Still I believe, still, I praise still 474 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 2: I trust still, I journey on. If you'll do this, 475 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 2: I believe and declare Israel's going to show up. God 476 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 2: will not only bring you through, but you will flourish again. 477 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 2: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy is coming. 478 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 2: Strength is coming, healing, new relationships. 479 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: Victory is coming in Jesus' name, And if you receive it, 480 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: can you say amen? I'd like to give you an. 481 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 2: Opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would 482 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 2: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent 483 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 2: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you 484 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 2: my Lord and savior. If you've prayed that simple prayer, 485 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 2: we believe you got born again. We'd love to send 486 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 2: you some free information on your new walk with the Lord. 487 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,959 Speaker 2: You can text the number on the screen or go 488 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 2: to the website. 489 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: But I hope you'll get. 490 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 2: Into a good Bible based church and keep God first place. 491 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,479 Speaker 2: We all go through disappointments and things that are not fair. 492 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 2: But God sees every hurt, every injustice, and He's promised 493 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 2: to pay. 494 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: You back for the unfair things. 495 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 2: Now, I love to send you my new resource double 496 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 2: for your trouble. It's filled with inspiration. 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He 514 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 3: sees you, He cares deeply, and He is the God 515 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 3: who restores Double. 516 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 1: None of us like difficulties. 517 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 2: But if you'll stay in faith, you won't come out 518 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 2: the same. 519 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: You'll come out with Double. 520 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 2: Nicktoy and I pray for you and your family every day. 521 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 2: Thank you for your prayers and support. Your donations are 522 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 2: bringing hope to people around the world. Special thank you 523 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 2: to our Champion of Hope partners for all you do 524 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 2: to make the ministry possible. 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It's a 552 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 2: great time to be a part of the Lakewood family. 553 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing you at Homecoming Weekend.