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I hope you'll stop buying be 44 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 4: a part of one of our services. I promise you 45 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 4: will make you feel right at home. But thanks so 46 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 4: much for tuning in. I like to start with something 47 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,119 Speaker 4: funny each week. And I heard about this young man. 48 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 4: He was talking to God and he said, God, what's 49 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 4: a million years like to you? God said, a million 50 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,399 Speaker 4: years to me is like one second to you. He said, well, God, 51 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 4: what's a million dollars like to you? God said, a 52 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 4: million dollars to me is like one penny to you. 53 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 4: The young man thought about it, and he finally got 54 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,119 Speaker 4: his nerve up and he said, God, can I have 55 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 4: one of those pennies? God said, sure, just a second. 56 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 4: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you 57 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 4: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 58 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 3: I am. 59 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do 60 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be 61 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 62 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I'll never be the same. 63 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 64 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 4: to you today about keeping the right perspective of your problems. 65 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 4: Every person faces difficulties. Now how we view these challenges 66 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 4: is going to determine whether we enjoy life or we 67 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 4: just endure it. And it's really not the size of 68 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 4: the problem that's important. It's our perspective of that problem. 69 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 4: It's how big or how small we make it in 70 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 4: our own minds. You can have a huge problem, but 71 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 4: if you know that God is in control and that 72 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 4: he's working behind the scenes, because you have the right perspective, 73 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 4: it won't get you down. But you can have even 74 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 4: a small problem, and if you stay focused on it, 75 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 4: you go around worried thinking it's never going to work 76 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 4: out because you have the wrong perspective. It'll end up 77 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 4: stealing your joy. And David said in the Psalms, magnify 78 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 4: the Lord with me. When we magnify something, we're not 79 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 4: changing the actual size of the object. We're changing our 80 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 4: perspective of that object. David was saying, in effect, don't 81 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 4: magnify your problems, magnify your God. When I face difficulties, 82 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 4: the first thing I like to say is God, you 83 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 4: created the whole universe. You spoke the worlds into existence, 84 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 4: you flung the stars into space. God, I know there's 85 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 4: nothing too difficult for you. I'm actually not making God 86 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 4: any bigger, but I'm making him bigger in my own mind. 87 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 4: When you're in tough times, it's good to look back 88 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 4: over your life and remember all the things that God 89 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 4: has brought you through. Remember the times God made away 90 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 4: when you didn't see anyway. Remember the times God protected you. 91 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 4: Remember the doors God supernaturally open. This is what they 92 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 4: did back in Bible days, when they had an adversity. 93 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 4: They'd say, God, we remember how you fed us out 94 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 4: in the wilderness. We remember how you parted the red sea. 95 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 4: We remember how you protected us from our enemies. Before 96 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 4: they would ever even ask God for help, they would 97 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 4: remind themselves of the greatness of God. We need to 98 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 4: do the same thing. When I'm up against obstacles, I 99 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,359 Speaker 4: like to say, God, I remember how you healed my 100 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 4: mother of cancer back in nineteen eighty one. God. I 101 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 4: remember how you gave us this facility supernaturally. God, I 102 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 4: remember how you protected me on the highway one time 103 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 4: when I lost control of my car and that eighteen 104 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 4: wheeler almost ran over me. If you'll remember all the 105 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 4: times God has helped you, it'll build your faith and 106 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 4: you'll know if God did it for you in the past, 107 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 4: he'll do it for you in the future. The scripture 108 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 4: says in second Corinthians four, verse seventeen, for our light affliction, 109 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 4: which is but for a moment, Notice it says our adversity. 110 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 4: Our affliction is light. It may feel heavy in our mind, 111 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 4: it may be big. But if we're going to keep 112 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 4: the right perspective, no matter what comes our way, no 113 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 4: matter how impossible it looks, we have to remind ourselves 114 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 4: this is just a light affliction. In other words, it's 115 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 4: no big deal. I can handle it. God is still 116 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 4: in control. You'll be amazed if you'll just keep telling 117 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 4: yourself it's only light. That how something so simple can 118 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 4: help keep your faith built up and in the natural. 119 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 4: You may have a big obstacle in your path, something 120 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 4: that looks like a stumbling block, But if you'll keep 121 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 4: the right attitude, God will turn that stumbling block into 122 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 4: a stepping stone. Instead of going down, you'll go up. 123 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 4: God said you can run through a troop and leap 124 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 4: over a wall. That tells me there's no obstacle that 125 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 4: you can overcome. It's not too much for you. The 126 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 4: greatest force in the universe resides on the inside. We 127 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 4: need to have the attitude. This adversity is not going 128 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 4: to weigh me down. It's not gonna sour my life. 129 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 4: It's just a light affliction. But I know people they 130 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 4: do just the opposite. They make it everything a big deal. 131 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 4: If they stubb their toe, they'll go the next three 132 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 4: months complaining about it. If a family member offends them, 133 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 4: you'd think is World War three. 134 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 3: No. 135 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 4: Start viewing your adversities, your disappointments, your setbacks as God says, 136 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 4: they are just light afflictions. Well you say, Joel, I've 137 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 4: got cancer, or I'm going through a divorce, or I 138 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 4: just lost my job. I realize sometimes it can feel heavy. 139 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 4: Sometimes it feels like the wind has been taken out 140 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 4: of ourselves. But if we can just really believe that 141 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 4: God is in control, if we can believe that He's 142 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 4: got us in the palm of his hand, deep down 143 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 4: on the inside, no matter what comes against us, we'll 144 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 4: be able to say it's just a light affliction. This 145 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 4: is what the apostle Paul did. He's the one that 146 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 4: wrote this passage. He'd been through all kinds of adversities. 147 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 4: He had been shipwrecked several times, spent the night on 148 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 4: the open seas. He'd been bitten by snakes, been beaten, 149 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 4: thrown into prison, gone without food and shelter. Yet he 150 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 4: said it's only a light affliction. In other words, he 151 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 4: was focused on what was right rather than what was wrong. 152 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 4: He knew in the big picture that God was still 153 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 4: in control. And when we learn to downplay our adversities 154 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 4: and we don't magnify everything that's wrong, that helps us 155 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 4: to stay encouraged, keeps our faith built up. When we 156 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 4: go around thinking poor, oh me, man, I can't believe 157 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 4: this has happened. It's so hard. I'll never get out 158 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,680 Speaker 4: of it. All that's doing is draining your strength, draining 159 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 4: your energy. You need to start telling yourself every day, 160 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 4: this adversity is no match for me. It's just a 161 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 4: light affliction. You've got to get the right perspective. And 162 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 4: the truth is it may be difficult, but realize some 163 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 4: people would love to have your life. Some people would 164 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 4: gladly trade places with you. I heard my brother Paul say, 165 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 4: as you wander through life, wherever you go, keep your 166 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 4: eye on the doughnut and not the hole. It's easy 167 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 4: to get focused on the whole. It's easy to get 168 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 4: focused on what we don't have and how big our 169 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 4: problems are and how it's never going to work out. 170 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 4: No change your perspective. It may be difficult, but the 171 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 4: good news is you woke up this morning. You have 172 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 4: air to breathe. God is still on the throne, he said, 173 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 4: He always causes you to Tryumph. Let's start viewing everything 174 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 4: that comes against us as light afflictions. So your car 175 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 4: broke down last week, big deal. It's a light affliction. 176 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 4: So a business partner cheated you out of some money, 177 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 4: let it go. It's a light affliction. Or maybe a 178 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 4: spouse a friend walked out of a relationship. I know 179 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 4: that's kind of difficult, but God has something better in store. 180 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 4: It's a light affliction. Get your joy back, get your 181 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 4: fire back. Your best days are not behind you. They're 182 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 4: still out in in front of you. The other day, 183 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 4: I met this couple after the service, and they were 184 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 4: so happy and so excited about being here. We talked 185 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 4: a little while and I noticed she had a wristband 186 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 4: from one of the hospitals. I asked earth there was 187 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 4: something I could pray about, and she told how she 188 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,559 Speaker 4: was taking chemotherapy for cancer, and we prayed, and afterwards 189 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 4: we talked some more and laughed. They were very good natured, 190 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 4: and as they were walking off, she pointed at her 191 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 4: husband and said, Joel, he's taking chemotherapy as well. I'll 192 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 4: never forget what he said. He said, Oh, it's no 193 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 4: big deal. I'm not worried about it. I know it's 194 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 4: all in God's hands. 195 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 5: Now. 196 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 4: I was so impressed with their attitude. They're doing just 197 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 4: what we're talking about. When we view our adversities as 198 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 4: light afflictions, it's showing God that we're really trusting him. 199 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 4: But when we're worried, we're upset, we can't sleep at night, 200 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 4: what we're really doing is magnifying our problems rather than 201 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 4: magnifying our God. And you may have a major object 202 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 4: in your path. You're kind of thinking, Joel, how can 203 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 4: I call this a light affliction? That'd be ridiculous. The 204 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 4: only way you can call it light is when you 205 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 4: compare it to the greatness of our God. When you 206 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 4: realize God made your body, it's no big deal. You 207 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 4: know He can correct whatever is wrong. You may be 208 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,439 Speaker 4: going through a major financial crisis, but if you can 209 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 4: just realize God owns it all, He makes streets out 210 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 4: of gold, that will keep your faith built up to 211 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 4: where you know God can supply all of your needs 212 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 4: in the natural it may look impossible, you may not 213 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 4: see any way out. But if you can just remember 214 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 4: that God stopped the sun for Joshua. God closed the 215 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 4: mouths of lions for Daniel, part of the Red Sea 216 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 4: for the children of Israel. If you'll dwell on those 217 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 4: type things, you'll know God can make a way in 218 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 4: your own life. You've got to recognize no matter what 219 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 4: comes against you, God has you in the palm of 220 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 4: his hand. He still has a great plan for your life. 221 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 4: You may not understand why something has happened, it may 222 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 4: not seem fair, but you've got to dig your heels 223 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 4: in and say God, I know you're still in control, 224 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 4: and I refuse to live my life defeated and depressed. 225 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 4: I know my best days are still out in front 226 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 4: of me. The scripture goes on to say for our 227 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 4: light affliction, which is but for a moment. In other words, 228 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 4: it's only temporary. It's not going to last forever. One 229 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 4: of the most common lives that comes to our minds 230 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 4: is it's never going to change. You're never gonna get well, 231 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 4: you're never gonna be happy, You're never gonna break that addiction. No, 232 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 4: don't believe the never lies. When adversities come. Instead of 233 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 4: getting upset, our first response should be this too shall pass. 234 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 4: Didn't come to stay. It's only temporary. David put it 235 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 4: this way, though I walk through the valley of the 236 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 4: shadow of death. He was saying, we're not gonna stay there. 237 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 4: We're coming through it. But if we're gonna have the 238 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 4: right perspective, we can't sit a thinking, oh man, this 239 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 4: is never gonna change. And I've been praying for three 240 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 4: years about my child and I don't see how I 241 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,680 Speaker 4: could get out of debt. No change your view. It's 242 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 4: only temporary. God is working behind the scenes in your 243 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 4: life right now. It's only a matter of time before 244 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 4: you see things change in your favor. You say, Joel, 245 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 4: I had a family member that got sick and they prayed, 246 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 4: they believe, but they didn't make it. They went to 247 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 4: be with the Lord. But really, if you'll have a 248 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 4: bigger perspective, it was temporary. They don't have that sickness anymore. 249 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 4: They're free from any kind of pain, free from any 250 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 4: kind of illness. I've made up my mind. I'm gonna 251 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 4: die in faith. I'm gonna die believe in that every 252 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 4: challenge is light and every adversity is only temporary. When 253 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,959 Speaker 4: we do that, the scripture says that adversity is working 254 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 4: for us and eternal weight of glory. That simply means 255 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 4: that God's going to bring us out better off than 256 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 4: we were before. And even though God says the affliction 257 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 4: is light, He's going to deposit something heavy in us. 258 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 4: Even though he says it's temporary, He's going to use 259 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 4: it to make a lasting, eternal difference. When we face 260 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,680 Speaker 4: tough times, no matter how we feel, no matter how 261 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 4: impossible it looks, we need to remember these three things. 262 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 4: This challenge is light, this challenge is temporary, and this 263 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 4: challenge is going to take me to a new level. 264 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 4: I found the size of your problem is an indication 265 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 4: of the size of your future. If you have a 266 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 4: big problem, there's a good chance that you've got a 267 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 4: big future. 268 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 5: Now. 269 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 4: I know some of you are thinking, Joel, I must 270 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 4: have a huge future. One time, David was facing what 271 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 4: looked like the greatest defeat of his life. His city 272 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 4: had been burned down, his family had been kidnapped, his 273 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 4: possessions were stolen. He and his six hundred men wept 274 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 4: until they could not weep anymore. But David had the 275 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 4: right perspective. He knew that God was still in control, 276 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 4: and he knew that God was a god of restoration. 277 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 4: So he got his men all fired up, and they 278 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 4: went back and attacked the enemy, and they ended up 279 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 4: getting their families back, getting their possessions back. The scripture says, 280 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 4: they recovered everything that had been stolen. And what's interesting 281 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 4: is when it looked like it was the greatest defeat 282 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 4: of David's life, in actuality, he was only seventy two 283 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 4: hours away from his greatest victory. Just seventy two hours later, 284 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 4: he was made king over all of Israel. David teaches 285 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 4: us through this principle, the size of the problem is 286 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 4: not as important as the size of the person. Let 287 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 4: me ask you, how big are you when ad versities come. 288 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 4: Do you get all down and think, oh, this is 289 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 4: never going to change, this is too much for me. 290 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 4: Or do you do like David, who say this thing 291 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 4: is not going to defeat me. It may look bad, 292 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 4: but God, I know you're still on the throne. I 293 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 4: know you still got a plan, and I believe my 294 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 4: greatest victory is coming my way. I know some of 295 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 4: you today you're in dark times in the natural you 296 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 4: may not see how it could ever work out. Maybe 297 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 4: somebody's done you wrong and your dreams have died. You've 298 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 4: lost your enthusiasm for life. But if you can just 299 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 4: get a new attitude, you don't know, like David, you 300 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 4: could be just seventy two hours away from your greatest viectory. 301 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 4: Why don't you get your fireback? Why don't you get 302 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 4: a new perspective? God has you in the palm of 303 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 4: his hand, David said in Psawm one twelve. When darkness overtakes, 304 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 4: the righteous light will come bursting in. I like that. 305 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 4: It's not gonna come dribbling in. It's not gonna just 306 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 4: barely make it in. It's gonna come bursting in. That 307 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 4: means suddenly things are gonna change. Suddenly, you're gonna get 308 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 4: the break that you needed. Suddenly the situation will resolve. 309 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,239 Speaker 4: When we don't see anything happening, we have to remind ourselves, 310 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 4: even though it's taken a long time. God, I know 311 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 4: that you are at work. I know behind the scenes 312 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 4: you're arranging things in my favor, and it's only a 313 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,119 Speaker 4: matter of time before they come bursting in. That's what 314 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 4: the scripture says. God is effectually at work in those 315 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 4: who believe. That means as long as you are believing, 316 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 4: God is working. When you don't see anything happening, you 317 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 4: go month after month or year after year. It's tempting 318 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 4: to think that nothing is changing, but you need to 319 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 4: remind yourself all through the day. Right now, God is 320 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 4: working in my life. Right now. God's working in my children, 321 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 4: right now. God's working in my health. Right now. God's 322 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 4: working in my finances. Not tomorrow, not next week, right now, 323 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 4: God is arranging things in my favor. You may not 324 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 4: see all God's been doing behind the scenes for a 325 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 4: year or five years or ten years, but all of 326 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 4: a sudden, at the right time, the situation will turn around. 327 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 4: And it's easy to think, well, God did that for 328 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 4: me right now, But the fact is God did that 329 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 4: because all those weeks and all those months and all 330 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 4: those years you stayed in faith and kept believing. It 331 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 4: may look like it suddenly happened, but it happened because 332 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 4: you passed the test. You had a smile when you 333 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 4: felt like being discouraged, You had a good report when 334 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 4: you felt like complaining. You believed when you didn't have 335 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 4: any reason to believe. Every day you passed the test 336 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 4: you were one day closer to seeing God turn it around. 337 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 4: You remember how in the Old Testament, one time Moses 338 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 4: sent twelve men to spout the Promised Land. After forty days, 339 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 4: ten men came back and said, Moses, we don't have 340 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 4: a chance. There are giants in the land. The other 341 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,879 Speaker 4: two spies, Joshua and Caleb, they came back with a 342 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 4: different report. They said, yes, Moses, the people are big, 343 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 4: but we know our God is bigger. We are well 344 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 4: able to take the land. Let us go in at once. 345 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 4: Isn't it interesting both groups saw the same giant. They 346 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 4: both saw the same situation. The only difference was their perspective. 347 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 4: One group was focused on the size of their God, 348 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 4: the other group was focused on the size of their enemies. 349 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 4: There were approximately two million people that day camp next 350 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 4: door to the Promised Land, but the only two people 351 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 4: that ever eventually made it into the Promised Land from 352 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 4: that group were Joshua and Caleb. Could it be that 353 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 4: our own wrong perspective is keeping us from our Promised 354 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 4: Land when we view our challenges as impossible, and we 355 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 4: go around thinking I'm never going to get out of dead, 356 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 4: never going to accomplish my goals. Never be free from 357 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 4: this addiction, then, just like them, our own wrong perspective 358 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 4: is going to keep us from becoming everything God's created 359 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,719 Speaker 4: us to be. But I believe today I'm looking at 360 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 4: a bunch of Joshua's and Caleb's. I'm looking at people 361 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 4: who know you are victors and not victims. People that 362 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 4: know you and God, God or a majority. If God 363 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 4: be for you, who dare be against you. Don't go 364 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 4: around looking at the size of your giants, go around 365 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 4: looking at the size of your God. You may not 366 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 4: feel like much of a conqueror today, but you've got 367 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 4: to put your shoulders back, rise up in faith, and 368 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 4: start acting like it, start talking like it, and start 369 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 4: thinking like it. The battle is taking place in our minds. 370 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 4: If we're defeated in our thought life and we don't 371 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 4: think we can overcome, and we don't think, well we 372 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 4: have what it takes, we've already lost the battle. We've 373 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 4: got to change our thinking. The wrong perspective is I'll 374 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 4: never break this addiction, Joel, I've had it for twenty years. 375 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 4: I'll never change. The right perspective is I'm already free. 376 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 4: Every enemy in my life has already been defeated. I'm 377 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 4: going to rise up and start walking it out. You 378 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 4: may have to do that for a year, or five years, 379 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 4: or even ten years. But every day you need to 380 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 4: remind yourself I am free. This adiction does not control me, 381 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 4: and whom the sun sets free is free. Indeed, you've 382 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 4: got to get the right perspective. Not that you're going 383 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 4: to be free one day, but you're already free. It's 384 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 4: just a matter of time before it manifest. And you 385 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 4: may feel like these people that there are giants in 386 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 4: your land, a giant of sickness, a giant of dead, 387 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 4: a giant of marital problems. What you need to do, 388 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 4: like David did when he face Goliath, look that giant 389 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,919 Speaker 4: in the eye and say, you will not defeat me. 390 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 4: Greater is he that's in me than heat is coming 391 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 4: against me. You may be big, but I know my 392 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 4: God is bigger. When we have the right perspective, faith 393 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 4: rises in our hearts, and faith is what activates God's power. 394 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 4: So many people go around thinking just defeated and depressed. 395 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 4: Than Joel, you don't know my problems. You don't know 396 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 4: what I'm up against. No, I may not know that, 397 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 4: but I do know our God, and he said all 398 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 4: things are possible when we believe. He says, he always 399 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 4: causes you to try. God never created us to drag 400 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:06,120 Speaker 4: around defeated and depressed. But it's not up to God. 401 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 4: He's done all he's going to do. It's up to 402 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 4: you and me. We have to have the right perspective. 403 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 4: Tewod Corinthians four eighteen says we should not look at 404 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 4: the things that are seen, they are only temporary. We 405 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 4: should look at the things that are unseen. One translation 406 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 4: says the things that are seen are subject to change. 407 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 4: That means every obstacle in your life right now is 408 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 4: subject to change. Sometimes you need to get that checkbook 409 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 4: out and just say you are subject to change. Look 410 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 4: at that child that won't do right, you are subject 411 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 4: to change. Or maybe look at that boss that gets 412 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 4: on your nerves. You are subject to change. It may 413 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 4: be better to do that one underneath your breath. But 414 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 4: if we're going to have the right perspective, we cannot 415 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 4: stay focused on the natural. In the natural, it may 416 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 4: not look like you're ever going to get well, but 417 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 4: you have to look at the unseen and just say, God, 418 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 4: you made my body. You breathe your life into me, 419 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 4: and even though the medical report doesn't look good. God, 420 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 4: I know you're a supernatural God. I just want to 421 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 4: thank you that you're restoring health back unto me in 422 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 4: your finances, God, in the natural, I don't see how 423 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 4: it could ever accomplish my dreams. I don't see how 424 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 4: I could ever get out of debt. But God, I 425 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 4: know you're not limited by my job. You're not limited 426 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 4: by my education. You already said I'm the head and 427 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 4: not the tail. So Father, I just want to thank you. 428 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 4: I'm coming into new seasons of increase, new seasons of favor, 429 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 4: new seasons of promotion. When you talk like that and 430 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 4: you think like that, you are creating the right perspective. 431 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 4: Your problems are getting smaller and smaller, and your God 432 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 4: is getting bigger and bigger. That's what allows him to work. 433 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 4: But it's so easy to lose perspective in life. Every 434 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 4: one of us can look back and see how God 435 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 4: has done great things in the past, see how God 436 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 4: has protected us and supernaturally opened up doors. But sometimes 437 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 4: when you're in the midst of the battle, your vision 438 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 4: gets a little blurred and you start thinking, Man, I'm 439 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,199 Speaker 4: never going to get out of this and this is 440 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 4: just never going to change. This is what happened to 441 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 4: the prophet Elijah. He lost perspective. One day, four hundred 442 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 4: false prophets had come against him, and they decided to 443 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 4: have a contest to see whose God was really real. 444 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,959 Speaker 4: And so they built this altar. They put wood on it, 445 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 4: and whoever's God could bring fire to that wood would 446 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 4: be the true God. And Elijah let the four hundred 447 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 4: other men go first, and so they prayed and prayed 448 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 4: to their God. They made sacrifices, cut themselves, did all 449 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 4: these things hour after hour, but no fire. Finally Elijah 450 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 4: got fed up with it. He said, it's my turn. 451 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 4: So he went and poured water all over the altar, 452 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 4: all over the wood. He wanted them to make sure 453 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 4: they knew that it was his God. And when Elijah prayed, 454 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 4: God sent fire down from heaven, and it not only 455 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 4: consumed the altar, but those other four hundred men were 456 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 4: eventually killed. It was a great victory. Well, there was 457 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 4: a lady that lived in that town by the name 458 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 4: of Jezebel, and when she heard what had happened to 459 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 4: her four hundred false prophets, she was furious, and she 460 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 4: sent word to Elijah, saying, if I don't kill you 461 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 4: myself by this time tomorrow, then may your God kill me. 462 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 4: And it's so interesting. For some reason, Elijah got scared 463 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 4: to death. He took off running, and he ran and 464 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 4: ran and ran. Finally ended up hiding. And he was 465 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 4: so discouraged, so afraid, so depressed. He said, God, I 466 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 4: don't even want to live anymore. Just take me on home, God, 467 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 4: I'm done. Think about it. He had just seen God 468 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 4: bring down fire from heaven. He had just seen God 469 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 4: supernaturally protect him from four hundred men. Now he's allowing 470 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 4: this one angry woman. There's a deeper message somewhere there. 471 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 4: I'm not going there, though. He allowed this one woman 472 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 4: to cause him to want to give up and quit. 473 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,439 Speaker 4: What's my point? When you're dealing with an angry woman, 474 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 4: it's gonna take supernatural faith. My real point. My real 475 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 4: point is Elijah lost his perspective. He had just seen 476 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 4: God do a supernatural miracle, but somehow he started magnifying 477 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 4: his problem rather than magnifying his God. He got so 478 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,239 Speaker 4: focused on that lady, so focused on that adversity, it 479 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 4: consumed him. That's all he thought about. He started worrying. 480 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 4: Before long he allowed fear to come in. He was living, 481 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 4: depressed and defeated. I wonder how many times we do 482 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 4: just what Elijah did. We've seen God do great things 483 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 4: in our past, We've seen him bring us through tough times. 484 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 4: But then we face an adversity and we think, man, 485 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 4: this is never going to change. I'm never going to 486 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 4: get out of this problem, never gonna defeat this enemy. 487 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 4: It's just too big. No change your perspective. The same 488 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 4: God that brought you through last time is standing by 489 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 4: your side, ready to bring you through this time. The 490 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 4: same God that will help you overcome in the past, 491 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 4: The same God that gave you favor has not lost 492 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 4: his power. He's saying, if you'll get a new perspective 493 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 4: and believe I'm in control, Believe I'm bigger than that problem, 494 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 4: believe that I'm working behind the scenes, then you will 495 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 4: see God's favor, you will see his goodness, you will 496 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 4: see his power once again, just like you've seen it 497 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 4: in the past. Now, I know every one of us 498 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 4: has difficulties, we all have obstacles to overcome. My question 499 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,679 Speaker 4: is what kind of attitude do you have toward that adversity? 500 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 4: Are you talking to God about how big your problems are, 501 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 4: or are you talking to your problems about how big 502 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 4: your God is? Friends, have the right perspective. Your challenge 503 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 4: is light, your challenge is temporary, and your challenge is 504 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 4: going to take you to a higher level. Stay in faith. 505 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 4: Everything that you're facing is subject to change, and even 506 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,479 Speaker 4: when the bottom falls out, you don't know. Just like David, 507 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 4: you may be just seventy two hours away from your 508 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 4: greatest victory. The good news is God is still on 509 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 4: the throne. He still has us in the palm of 510 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 4: his hand. He said, when you go through the flood, 511 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 4: you will not drown. When you go through the rivers, 512 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 4: you will not go under. He said, when you go 513 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 4: through the fire, he'll bring you out without even having 514 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 4: the smell of smoke. If you'll have the right perspective, 515 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 4: just learn to magnify God and not your problems. He 516 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 4: is promised he'll fight your battles for you. He'll turn 517 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 4: every negative situation around, and he'll bring you out with 518 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 4: the victory every single time. 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