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We 39 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 5: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 40 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 5: Oh God, bless you always a joy to come into 41 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 5: your homes. We love you, and we know Godd rewards 42 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 5: the people that seek after Him. That's you, or you 43 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 5: wouldn't be viewing. You wouldn't be here today, but just 44 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 5: so glad to have you. And if you're ever in 45 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 5: our area, stop buying see us. I promise you it 46 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 5: will make you feel right at home. But thanks again 47 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 5: for tuning in and coming out. And I like to 48 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 5: start with something funny each week. And I heard about 49 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 5: this elderly lady. She came into church one Sunday morning, 50 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 5: and the friendly usher greeted her and said, ma'am, where 51 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 5: would you like to sit? She said, I would like 52 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,119 Speaker 5: to sit on the very front row. He said, oh, no, ma'am, 53 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 5: you don't want to do that. Our pastor is very boring. 54 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 5: He'll put you to sleep. Let me seek you somewhere else. 55 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 5: She was appalled. 56 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 4: She said, sir, do you know who I am? He 57 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:37,959 Speaker 4: said no. 58 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 5: She said, I am the pastor's mother. He hung his 59 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 5: head in embarrassment. Finally he looked up and said, ma'am, 60 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 5: do you know who I am? 61 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 4: She said no. 62 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 5: He said, thank God, all right, hold up your bibles. 63 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 64 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 5: I am what it says. 65 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: I am. 66 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 67 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 68 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 69 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 70 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 71 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about getting up so God 72 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 5: can bring you out. Life has a way of pushing 73 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 5: people down. We all go through disappointments and set backs, 74 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 5: and sometimes unfair things happen. 75 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 4: A relationship doesn't work out, a. 76 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 5: Friend betrays us, or maybe you worked real hard but 77 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 5: you didn't get the position you deserved. 78 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 4: Life is not always fair. 79 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 5: It's easy to get discouraged and lose our joy, lose 80 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 5: our enthusiasm. And if we're not careful, we'll develop the 81 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 5: wrong mindset. We'll think we'll never rise any higher, we'll 82 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 5: never get out of this problem. We've had so many 83 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 5: unfair things happen to us. But we have to realize 84 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 5: even though life is not always fair, God is fair. 85 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 4: He is a god of justice. 86 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 5: He sees every wrong that's ever been done to you. 87 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 5: He sees every person that's ever hurt you, every unfair situation. 88 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 5: And the good news is if you will stay in 89 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 5: faith and not get bitter, God has promised he will 90 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 5: pay you back for every injustice that's ever been done 91 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 5: to you. He said he would take what was meant 92 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 5: for your harm, and he'll turn it around and use 93 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 5: it to your advantage. And the great thing about God 94 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 5: is if you keep the right attitude, he'll not only 95 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 5: bring you out, he'll bring you out better off than 96 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 5: you were before. He wants to make the enemy pay 97 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 5: for bringing that trouble into your life. Now. I know 98 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 5: some of you have had unfair things happen in your finances, 99 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 5: in your health, in the way you were raised, and 100 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 5: it's easy to get that chip on your shoulder and think, man, 101 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 5: why has this happened to me? But instead of dwelling 102 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 5: on your disappointments and what didn't work out and who 103 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 5: hurts you, you. 104 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 4: Need to draw the line in the sand and. 105 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 5: Say it's paid back time. I have rights and privileges 106 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 5: because of who I am. I am a child of 107 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 5: the Most High God, and i may have had unfair 108 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 5: things happen, but I'm not going to live my life 109 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 5: negative and defeated. This is a new day, and I'm 110 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 5: taken back what belongs to me. See, we have to 111 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 5: have this warrior mentality. We have to dig our heels 112 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 5: in and fight the good fight of faith. Too many 113 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 5: people get stuck in a rut. They went through a 114 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 5: broken relationship, they weren't raised in a healthy environment. One 115 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 5: of their dreams has died. Now they've just settled where 116 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 5: they are. It's taken the wind out of their cell, 117 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 5: and they think, well, Joel, I had my chance, but 118 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 5: I blew it, or I didn't get the break that 119 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 5: I really wanted. 120 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 4: I guess this is just my lot in life. 121 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 5: But no, God wants to restore everything that's been stolen. 122 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 5: He wants to restore your joy, restore your peace, restore 123 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 5: your health, restore your finances. 124 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 4: But here's the key. You have to get a vision 125 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 4: for it. 126 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 5: You have to get your hopes up, get your thoughts 127 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 5: in words, going in the right direction. We can't just 128 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 5: sit back and think poor old me. We need to 129 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 5: have a restoration mentality. That means we get up every 130 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 5: morning hoping, expecting, believing. We know God's going to pay 131 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 5: us back. We know good things are in store. I 132 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 5: talked to a young man a while back and he 133 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 5: told how growing up he was passed from home to home. 134 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 5: He didn't know his parents, There wasn't any stability, not 135 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 5: any kind of family atmosphere. Now he was bitter, negative, 136 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 5: blaming God, blaming other people. And I told him what 137 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 5: I'm telling you, God wants to pay you back for 138 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 5: that injustice. He still has a great plan for your life, 139 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 5: but you will never see it. As long as you're 140 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 5: going around negative, bitter with that chip on your shoulder. 141 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 4: You have to let it go. 142 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 5: If you're constantly dwelling on the breaks you didn't get 143 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 5: and what didn't work out, you will develop a wrong 144 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 5: image on the inside. You will start to see yourself 145 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 5: as a victim rather than a victor. You may have 146 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 5: had unfair things happen, people may not have treated you fair, 147 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 5: but know this, you are still. 148 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 4: The apple of God's eye. 149 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 5: You are still his most prized possession, and no person, 150 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 5: no circumstance, no unfair situation, can keep you from fulfilling 151 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 5: your God given destiny. In fact, God said in the 152 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 5: Book of Joel, I will restore the years that have 153 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 5: been stolen. You may have lost years in a relationship 154 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 5: that went sour, years working on a job that you 155 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 5: weren't treated right, or like this young man, years in 156 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 5: a negative childhood. Well, God wants to restore those years. 157 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 5: He wants to make that up to you. Why don't 158 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 5: you get a vision for it instead of giving up 159 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 5: on your dreams thinking I'll never be healthy again, I'll 160 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 5: never be happy again. 161 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 4: Now you need to rise up and say, I know 162 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 4: God has good things in store. 163 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 5: He is a God of justice, and I believe my 164 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 5: payday is on its way. That's how we activate God's 165 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 5: power by believing, by staying full of expectancy. Some of 166 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 5: you today, you need to get your fire back. Don't 167 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 5: have a weak, defeated mentality when trouble comes. 168 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 4: Be a warrior. You may have been through a lot, 169 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 4: but that's the way you need to see it. 170 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 5: I've been through it. I'm not staying here. It's not 171 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 5: going to change my image. On the inside. I know 172 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 5: who I am, a child of Almighty God. I am 173 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 5: a victor and I'm not a victim. This is what 174 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 5: God told the children of Israel. They've been in slavery 175 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 5: for years and years. They were very mistreated and forced 176 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 5: to work in terrible conditions. And God said to him, 177 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 5: they're in Exodus three seventeen. I have promised to bring 178 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 5: you up out of your misery. 179 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 3: Now. 180 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 5: I believe there are two keys to this promise, two 181 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 5: words up and out. In other words, you have to 182 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 5: get up before God can bring you out. 183 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 4: Change always starts. 184 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 5: On the inside, and if you don't do your part 185 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 5: and get up in your attitude, get up in your hopes, 186 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 5: in your expectations, in your visions. 187 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 4: Then God can't turn things around. There's an order to it. 188 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 5: God says, get up, expect good things, stay full of hope. 189 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 5: Then I can turn things around. And understand. Getting up 190 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 5: is a choice. When you wake up in the morning, 191 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 5: you can think, man, I don't want to go to 192 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 5: work today. My back's still hurting, I don't know why 193 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 5: all these things have happened to me. 194 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 4: Or you can get up and say, this is going 195 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 4: to be a great day. 196 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 5: I have the favor of God and something good is 197 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 5: going to happen to me. If you will start today 198 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 5: in faith, with your hopes up, full of expectancy, that's 199 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 5: when God can turn around negative situations. But how we 200 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 5: approach life is totally up to us. One man wakes 201 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 5: up and says, good morning, Lord. Another man get and says, 202 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 5: good Lord this morning. Some of you, the only thing 203 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 5: that's keeping God from doing something new is you've lost 204 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 5: your enthusiasm, You've lost your fire. You don't think it 205 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 5: could ever change and you could ever be healthy in 206 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 5: You didn't get the break you wanted, and you don't 207 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 5: think you'll ever get out of debt. Now you've got 208 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 5: to get up on the inside. You're waiting on God, 209 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 5: but God's waiting on you. 210 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 4: Hey, you said, Joe, you just don't know my situation. 211 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 4: Maybe not, but I do know our God. 212 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 5: He flung the stars into space, he spoke the worlds 213 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 5: into existence. Surely he can give us three dollars for 214 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 5: a gallon of gas. Anything you're facing is subject to change. 215 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 5: God can turn that situation around one touch of his favor. 216 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 5: Why don't you be a believer and not a doubter. 217 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 5: You got to get up on the inside. I love 218 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 5: the story in Mark chapter five. This lady had been 219 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 5: sick for twelve years with a bleeding disorder. She'd gone 220 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 5: to many doctors, spend all of her money, but she 221 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 5: continued to get worse. One day, she heard that Jesus 222 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 5: was coming through her city. 223 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 4: You know what she did. 224 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 5: She got up on the inside. Her circumstances had pushed 225 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,840 Speaker 5: her down on the outside. Physically, she was weak and feeble. 226 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 5: Mentally she was tired and run down. Emotionally she was drained. 227 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 5: She had every excuse to live negative and defeated. She 228 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 5: could have gone back home and said, too bad for me. 229 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 5: Life's just not fair. I tried, but nothing worked. No, 230 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 5: she understood this simple principle. If she would get up 231 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 5: on the inside, then God could change things on the outside. 232 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 5: The scripture says, she kept saying to herself. What was 233 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 5: she saying? I'll never get well? This is going to 234 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 5: be a waste of my time. Nothing good ever happens 235 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 5: to me. No, she kept saying to herself, I know 236 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 5: when I get to Jesus, I'm going to be healed. 237 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 5: I know good things are in store. I know my 238 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 5: best days are still out in front of me. She 239 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 5: was full of hope and expectancy. She had this restoration mentality. 240 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 5: Let me ask you today, what are you saying to yourself? Well, 241 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 5: I don't think I'll ever get out of this problem, Joel. 242 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 5: I seem to always get the short end of the stick. 243 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 5: I don't know if I'll ever be healthy again. You 244 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 5: know you have to change what you're saying. Stop talking 245 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 5: about the problem and start talking about the solution. Life 246 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 5: may have dealt you some tough things to deal with, 247 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 5: but your attitude should be I know God. 248 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 4: Is gonna pay me back. 249 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 5: My health may be going downhill, but I know God 250 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 5: can do what men can't do. My finances may be 251 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 5: kind of low today, but God is supplying all of 252 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 5: my needs or my child. He may not be doing right, 253 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 5: but as for me and my house, we will serve 254 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 5: the Lord. You got to quit letting yourself talk to 255 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 5: you and instead start talking to yourself. When this lady 256 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 5: saw Jesus coming down the street, there were so many 257 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,599 Speaker 5: people around. 258 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 4: Him she couldn't get to him. 259 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 5: She could have easily had that defeated mindset, thought, just 260 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 5: my luck, come all this way, can't even get to it. No, 261 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 5: she was more determined than that. She wouldn't take no 262 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 5: for an answer. She started pushing her way through the crowd. 263 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 4: Here. She's tired, she's. 264 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 5: Weak, she doesn't feel well, but she just keeps pressing forward, 265 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 5: moving people out of the way. When she gets to Jesus, 266 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 5: all she can do is reach out and touch the 267 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 5: very bottom of his robe. 268 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 4: The scripture says. 269 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 5: Immediately power flowed into her and she was made completely well. 270 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 5: Jesus stopped and looked at her and said, ma'am, your 271 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 5: faith has made you whole. He said, in effect, because 272 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 5: you got up on the inside, because. 273 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 4: You had such expectancy, you. 274 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 5: Drew the supernatural power right out of me, we can 275 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 5: do the same things. Some of you today, like this lady, 276 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 5: you have every reason in the natural to have that 277 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 5: chip on your shoulder wonder why something didn't work out 278 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 5: and why your child got off track. But I'm asking 279 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 5: you to get rid of that defeated thinking. You have 280 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 5: to get up before God can bring you out. It's 281 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 5: interesting with the children of Israel, when they were in 282 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 5: slavery all those years, being so mistreated and forced to 283 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,199 Speaker 5: work night and day. They had been that way so long, 284 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 5: they started seeing themselves as slaves. That's all they had known. 285 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 5: Generations of defeat, mediocrity, hardship, suffering. 286 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 4: It had become ingrained in their thinking. 287 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 5: Now they see themselves as victims rather than victor's and 288 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 5: in turn, that's all they expected. More defeat, more failure, 289 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 5: more heartache, more suffering. God knew he had to change 290 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 5: their image on the inside. One day, God said to Moses, 291 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 5: you tell my people, I have seen their affliction. I've 292 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 5: seen their heartache and pain, and I am coming down 293 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 5: to deliver them. I believe God's saying the same thing 294 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 5: to each one of us today. I've seen every unfair situation, 295 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 5: I've seen it, every tear you shed, I've seen the time. 296 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 5: You've done your best, but it just didn't work out. 297 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 5: The good news is God is saying, I'm a god 298 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 5: of justice, and I'm coming down to make your wrongs right. 299 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 4: I'm coming down to change things in your favor. But 300 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 4: here's the key. We have to be in a position 301 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 4: to receive. 302 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 5: In other words, we have to have the right image 303 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 5: on the inside. These people, at least the adults, they 304 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 5: never did make it into their promised land. God brought 305 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 5: them out of slavery, but slavery never did get out 306 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 5: of them. For generations, they had been programmed, We're just slaves. 307 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 5: We just barely get by. We always get the short 308 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 5: end of the stick. Their wrong image kept them from 309 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 5: God's best life. 310 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 4: May have tried to push you down. 311 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 5: Maybe like them, you spent years in bondages of sickness, 312 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 5: lack mediocrity. 313 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 4: Now you're attempted to. 314 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 5: Kind of feel like a victim and like you'll never 315 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 5: accomplish your dreams. Let me tell you what you got 316 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 5: to do reprogram your computer. You got to start seeing 317 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 5: yourself as the head and not the tail, as above 318 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 5: and not beneath, as free, and not bound, as well 319 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 5: off and not barely making it. You have to have 320 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 5: the right image if you're going to become everything God's 321 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 5: created you to be. 322 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 4: Because here's the problem. 323 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 5: Even if God brings you out and you see yourself 324 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 5: the wrong way, it will only be temporary. You'll go 325 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 5: right back to the way you were. That's what these 326 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 5: people did. God brought them out of slavery. They were 327 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 5: finally free from all that heartache and pain, but on 328 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 5: their way to the Promised Land. Practically every time they 329 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 5: faced adversity, they said, Moses, please, just let us go 330 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 5: back to Egypt. 331 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 4: Just let us go back to the way we were. 332 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 5: Why would they want to go back to being mistreated 333 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 5: and working night and day. 334 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 4: You know why? They had the wrong image On the inside. 335 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 5: They didn't see themselves as children of the most tie God. 336 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 5: They didn't see themselves as more than conquers. They saw 337 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 5: themselves as weak, defeated, not able to They had a 338 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 5: slave mentality instead of a warrior mentality. They were constantly 339 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 5: telling themselves, we'll never make it. Our enemies are too big, 340 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 5: we don't have what it takes. And see our faith 341 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 5: works in both directions. You're gonna get what you're believing 342 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 5: for if you have negative, limited thinking, and you go 343 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 5: around telling yourself, Joel is never gonna happen for me. 344 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 5: I'll never get well, I'll never get out of debt. 345 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 5: You are setting the limits for your life. I'm asking 346 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,639 Speaker 5: you today to get up in your vision. See yourself 347 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 5: as God sees you, strong, successful, victorious. You may be 348 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 5: in poverty, but don't ever let poverty. 349 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 4: Get in you. 350 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 5: You may have struggled with the sickness for years, but 351 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 5: you need to see yourself healthy and hull. Or maybe 352 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 5: you have had unfair things happen, but don't see yourself 353 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 5: as a victim. Start seeing yourself as a victor. Get 354 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 5: an image of God paying you back and bringing you 355 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 5: out better off than you were before. When Moses sent 356 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 5: twelve men to spy out the Promised Land, ten of 357 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 5: them came back and. 358 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 4: Said, Moses, we don't have a chance. 359 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 5: We felt like we were grasshoppers compared to them, and 360 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 5: it's interesting why they would choose a grasshopper. 361 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 4: I believe it's significant. They could have said we felt 362 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 4: like a. 363 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,159 Speaker 5: Dog, or a mouse, or a tiny little ant, but 364 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 5: think about a grasshopper. They all have wings, but they 365 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 5: can't all fly. I believe these men down deep. They 366 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 5: knew their potential, They knew that land belonged to them. 367 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 5: They knew they were supposed to be victorious. 368 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 4: But the problem was they saw themselves the wrong way. 369 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 4: If you're going to make it in to. 370 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 5: Your promised land, you have to have the right image 371 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 5: on the inside. You have to see yourself strong, successful, happy, 372 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 5: healthy and hall and some of you, like these people, 373 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 5: you've come from generations of addictions and low self esteem, mediocrity, lack, 374 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 5: constant struggling. If you don't rise up and do something 375 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 5: about it, it will not only affect you, it'll affect 376 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 5: your children and future generations. I know with my father, 377 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 5: he grew up in extreme poverty. His parents were cotton farmers. 378 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 5: They lost everything they had in the Great Depression. Many 379 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 5: times they didn't have enough food to eat. They would 380 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 5: just share all the children one small glass of milk. 381 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 5: My father went to high school with holes in his. 382 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 4: Pants, holes in his shoes. 383 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 5: That was before it was fashionable today it being style. 384 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,360 Speaker 5: My grandmother made ten cents an hour washing people's clothes. 385 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 5: She worked fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. 386 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 5: So my dad grew up with this poverty mentality. 387 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 4: He didn't know any better. He'd become ingrained in his thinking. 388 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 4: That's all he expected. 389 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 5: Year after year, struggled, barely got by, barely had enough 390 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 5: to raise his family. But one day he began to 391 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 5: realize he was not supposed to drag through life barely 392 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 5: making it. He saw the scripture God takes pleasure in 393 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 5: the prosperity of his children. Jesus came that we might 394 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,399 Speaker 5: live an abundant life. My father drew the line in 395 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 5: the sand. He said, enough is enough. This is what's 396 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 5: been passed down to me. But this is not who 397 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 5: I am. 398 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 4: I am the head, and not to tell I am above, 399 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 4: I'm not beneath. I am blessed. I cannot be cursed. 400 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 4: What was he doing. 401 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 5: He was changing his image on the inside. He was 402 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 5: making room for the good things of God. His attitude was, 403 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 5: it's payback time. My family has been robbed. We've lived 404 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 5: in defeat and mediocrity long enough, and I am not 405 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 5: going to settle where I am. I'm coming up higher 406 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 5: and I'm going to set a new standard. 407 00:20:57,119 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 4: He did exactly that. 408 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 5: Because my father took that step of faith, he broke 409 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 5: the curse of poverty and lack in our family line 410 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 5: and some of you, like my father, you need to 411 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 5: rise up and say the enemy has stolen from our 412 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 5: family long enough, but this is a new day. I 413 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 5: not only know who I am, I know whose I am. 414 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 5: I am a child of the most High God. I 415 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 5: know I have been created to live his abundant life 416 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 5: and then get a vision for it. 417 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 4: Abundance of joy, abundance of peace, abundance in your health. 418 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 5: Abundance of good relationships, abundance in your finances. It starts 419 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,440 Speaker 5: right here in our thoughts, in our vision, in our self. 420 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 4: Image, in what we're expecting. 421 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 5: A few years before my dad went to be with 422 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,439 Speaker 5: the Lord, we drove back to the little farm he 423 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 5: was raised on in East Texas. He just wanted to reminisce, 424 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 5: and we found the school he went to, and we 425 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 5: found the little well on his property, and somebody told 426 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 5: us where some friends of his lived that went to 427 00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 5: school with him. 428 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 4: And we drove by this. 429 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 5: One house and there was this older gentleman out in 430 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 5: the front porch. 431 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,239 Speaker 4: My father hollered out, hey, is that you so and so? 432 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 4: And he said it is. 433 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 5: My dad went over there gave him a big hug. 434 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 5: They hadn't seen each other in over sixty years and 435 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 5: I'll never forget. 436 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 4: And I don't mean this wrong, but that man had 437 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 4: not made anything with his life. 438 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 5: He had stayed in the same defeat in mediocrity that 439 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 5: my father was raised in. And I don't mean that 440 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 5: he wasn't a good person, because he was. But my 441 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 5: point is God has so much more in store. We 442 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 5: went by and saw two or three other people, same thing, 443 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 5: good people, but no victory. One man was living in 444 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 5: I don't even know if he had caught it. A 445 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 5: shack had water dripping down from. 446 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 4: The ceiling into a bucket. 447 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 5: Another man told how he got laid off when he 448 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 5: was twenty eight, hadn't held down a good job since then. 449 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 5: And I thought, here, my father was raised in that 450 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 5: same environment. He came out of those same negative conditions, 451 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 5: yet he rose up and made something significant with his life. 452 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 4: What was the difference. God is no respector of persons. 453 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 5: The difference was my father got rid of that limited mindset. Dad. 454 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 4: He developed a new image on the inside. He stretched 455 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 4: his faith. 456 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 5: He expected God to do good things, and he saw 457 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 5: God taking places that he never even dreamed of. God 458 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 5: will do the same thing for each one of us. Well. 459 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 5: When Pharaoh finally let the children of Israel go from 460 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 5: their slavery. That in itself was a great miracle. I'm 461 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 5: sure they were excited about being free, but remember God 462 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 5: never brings us out the same way we came in. 463 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 5: He told the Israelites to ask the Egyptians on their 464 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 5: way out for their gold and their silver, and God 465 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 5: caused them to have favor with the people, and they 466 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 5: freely gave them what they asked for. What was happening, 467 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 5: God was paying them back for four hundred and thirty 468 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 5: years of working as a slave. They were getting everything 469 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 5: they rightfully deserve. And see, God is keeping all the records. 470 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 5: That's why you don't have to worry that you're not 471 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 5: going to get what belongs to you. You just have 472 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 5: to keep doing your very best at the office. People 473 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 5: may overlook you. You're doing the work but not getting 474 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 5: the credit. You're attempted to get frustrated and worried about it, 475 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 5: but no, God sees what's happening. If you'll just keep 476 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,199 Speaker 5: doing the right thing, God has promised he will make 477 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,640 Speaker 5: it up to you. And what's the usual is why 478 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,719 Speaker 5: would God tell them to take the silver and the gold, 479 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 5: after all, where they were going out in the wilderness, 480 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 5: in the desert. There weren't any grocery stores, wasn't any 481 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,199 Speaker 5: place to spend it, weren't any malls, no galleria. 482 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 4: Sorry, Victoria. 483 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 5: It seemed like that was just going to be more 484 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 5: to burden them down. But God instructed them to put 485 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,119 Speaker 5: the silver and the gold on their children. Think about it, 486 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 5: these children, all they had known was heartache, suffering, lack, mediocrity. 487 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 5: I can see them call their little daughter over and 488 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 5: put a beautiful gold necklace around her neck. How that 489 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 5: must have made her feel. I can see her standing 490 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 5: up tall. I can see a new sparkle in her 491 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 5: little eyes. They called their sons over and put gold 492 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 5: rings and silver rings on their fingers. Maybe some of 493 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 5: them for the first time begin to put their shoulders back. 494 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 5: They had been so beaten down and told they had 495 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 5: never mounted to anything. Now they start to see themselves differently. 496 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 5: I believe the reason God had them put that on 497 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 5: those children is so they would develop a new image 498 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 5: on the inside. Now, when those children looked at each other, 499 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 5: they didn't see themselves the same way. They didn't see 500 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 5: themselves as poor, defeated, not able. To Little by little, 501 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 5: they got rid of their slave mentality, and they started 502 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 5: seeing themselves as the head and not the tail, as 503 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 5: above and not beneath, as victors and not victims. Do 504 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 5: you realize their parents never did make it into the 505 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,479 Speaker 5: Promised Land. They didn't think they had what it takes. 506 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 5: They didn't think they could defeat their giants. But these children, 507 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 5: the ones that developed a new image, the ones that 508 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 5: got rid of their slave mentality, the ones that got 509 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 5: up every morning hope and believe in expecting. 510 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 4: They're the ones that went into the Promised Land. Some 511 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 4: of you, like them. 512 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 5: You've come from generations of lack, mediocrity, limited vision. Your parents, relatives, 513 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 5: they were good people, they were loving and kind, but 514 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 5: they were stuck in that rut. I'm asking you today 515 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 5: to be the one to make a difference, be the 516 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 5: one to set a new standard. You can affect generations 517 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 5: to come. I know when I was growing up, my 518 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 5: father built a sanctuary that held a thousand people. 519 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 4: It was a big deal. I thought, this is so large. 520 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 5: Ten years later he built a sanctuary that held eight 521 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 5: thousand people. First time I walked in it, under my breath, 522 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 5: I thought, we will never fill this place up. 523 00:26:58,880 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 4: It is huge. 524 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 5: Fifteen years later it was too small. God supernaturally gave 525 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 5: us this place, the former Compact Center. Today, it doesn't 526 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 5: feel big at all. It just feels normal. Three or 527 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 5: four years ago, I was driving down the freeway. Our son, Jonathan, 528 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 5: he was seven or eight at the time. He said, Daddy, 529 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 5: one day, I'm going to get the reliant stadium that 530 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 5: holds seventy thousand people. Do you see what happens when 531 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 5: we get rid of defeated limited thinking. 532 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 4: It not only affects you. 533 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 5: It affects your children and your grandchildren. They'll believe for 534 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 5: things that you never even thought possible. Now I believe 535 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 5: today it can be a turning point. Some of you 536 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 5: have allowed these negative mindsets that have been passed down. 537 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 4: To rob and steal from you. So you need to 538 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 4: rise up and say it's payback time. That may have. 539 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 5: Happened in the past, but it's not going to happen 540 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 5: in the future. I know who I am, and I 541 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 5: know what belongs to me. The Scripture says in Isaiah 542 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 5: eyes shine for your light has come. Does it say 543 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 5: your light will come? Says your light has come? You 544 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 5: just simply have to turn it on. In other words, 545 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 5: you just have to believe. You just have to expect 546 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 5: good things. You just have to know who you are. 547 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 5: You know what I'm doing today. I'm trying to flip 548 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 5: your switch. I'm trying to convince you that God is 549 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 5: a god of justice and he will pay you back 550 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 5: for every unfair thing that's happened. Don't have that grasshopper 551 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 5: mentality having wings but not being able to fly. 552 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 4: You're not a grasshopper. You're an eagle. 553 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 5: You are created to sore, created as a victor and 554 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 5: not a victim. Why don't you get up on the inside. 555 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 5: If you'll get up, God can bring you out. 556 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 4: It may not happen overnight, but God's a faithful God. 557 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 4: If you'll keep being. 558 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 5: Your best, hoping, believing, expecting, Like the lady with the 559 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 5: issue of blood, just keep pressing forward. If you'll do that, 560 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 5: God will do for you what he did for the 561 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 5: children of the israel Lights. He'll not only bring you 562 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 5: out of every bondage. He'll not only pay you back 563 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 5: everything you deserve, but he'll take you in to your 564 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 5: promised land and you'll live that life of victory that 565 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 5: rightfully belongs to you. 566 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 4: Amen. Do you receive it today? 567 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 5: We never like to close on broadcast without giving you 568 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 569 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 5: Would you pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, I 570 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 5: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 571 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that 572 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 5: simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 573 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 5: a good Bible based church. 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