1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the base, and 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: this is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: for you to break it down a little more, to 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: take it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: overflow message. Let me know, let's go. You know, disappointment 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: can be a disease. It can eat away our ability 7 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: to dream, our ability to hope, and hope deferred makes 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: the heart sick, one proverb, says the King James version. 9 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: And when you think about the disease of disappointment is misleading, 10 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 1: meaning that you know, there's never a way that a 11 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: disease in my body is a good thing. We don't 12 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: ever think of that in a positive sense. Disappointment, while 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: it's not a positive thing to feel or experience, it is, 14 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: in its own way, the necessary flip side of having hope. 15 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: If you don't hope, you can't be disappointed. If you 16 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: never are willing to risk disappointment, you can't hope. And man, 17 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: and my preaching to myself today, because look, I've spent 18 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: large chunks of my adult life thinking that I could 19 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: figure out a strategy to avoid disappointment and still get 20 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: the things I hope to have. Whether that's with people. Man, 21 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: they let me down, I'm not going to reach out 22 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: to them because these last three times they let me down, 23 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: I'm not going to invest in that relationship because look, man, 24 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: what did that get me with this person over here? 25 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: Or what did that get me last time that I 26 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: encouraged them. I'm not saying anything this time. I'm not 27 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: going out of my way. It's embarrassing to admit that. 28 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: But even in some of the goals that I've reached 29 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: that were disappointing, or the things that I tried to 30 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 1: achieve and I didn't get the success that I wanted 31 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: and I was disappointed, I developed a strategy and it 32 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: was a secret strategy. I never came out and said, hey, 33 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to set out to avoid disappointment, but I 34 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: definitely did that in some major ways in my life. 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: Still a tempted to do it sometimes, like not going 36 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: to go for it, not going to initiate it because 37 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,119 Speaker 1: what if it doesn't work out. All of these things 38 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: are familiar to us. But you disappointment, hope, defer, a 39 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: dream that doesn't come to past, things that don't work 40 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: out the way you wanted, disillusionment, wishing life would be 41 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: one way and experiencing it another way. Man, if you 42 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: don't learn how to recognize that stuff and check it 43 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: and treat it and deal with it, process that in 44 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: a good way that honors God and involves him and 45 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: brings in his spirit to help you interpret it, it 46 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: will spread. That unchecked disappointment will spread. It'll spread into 47 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: your language, It'll spread into your way of thinking. You know, 48 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: it'll spread into sometimes even subconsciously, the way that you 49 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: approach your day, way you carry yourself, the way you 50 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: treat your body, Like, what's the point in taking care 51 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: of yourself? Doesn't ever work out for you anyway you 52 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: tried that before. So disappointment is definitely a disease if 53 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: left unchecked, but if treated, I actually think it can 54 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: be one of the things that God can use to 55 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: develop our trust in him, because through being disappointed that's 56 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: how God moves us on sometimes, or through being disapp 57 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: pointed in something, that's how we see that it was 58 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: empty to begin with. All Right, So, as I teach 59 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: this today about disappointment, and I think about, well, if 60 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: we're going to experience disappointment, if we hope, there's no 61 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: there's no potential for hope. Without the risk of disappointment. 62 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: That's my basic premise here. There is no put put 63 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: that down somewhere, write that down somewhere. There is no 64 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: potential for hope without the risk of disappointment. I might 65 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: even need to say it more strongly than that. There 66 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: is no potential for glory without potential disappointment. And I 67 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: don't mean glory for just your own self, your own sake, like, oh, 68 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:47,119 Speaker 1: I want glory, but man, you know, if you don't 69 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: show up for the race, you can't win it. If 70 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: you don't show up for the fight, there's no crown. 71 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: If you don't engage in the struggle, there is no 72 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: there is no victory. And to risk disappointment, to risk 73 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: that it's gonna feel like it was all for nothing, 74 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: to risk that you're going to lose the money, or 75 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,359 Speaker 1: to risk that you're gonna waste your time, or to 76 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: risk that it's going to be awkward. That's the part 77 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: of it what I have found in my life that 78 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: made me want to make this video about the antidote. 79 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: Antidote maybe good if I knew how to say the 80 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: words that I'm teaching about. But again, that's what this 81 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: space is for the antidote to disappointment is not to 82 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: avoid situations that are potentially disappointing. That's going to guarantee 83 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: a deeper disappointment in the end. You know that, right, 84 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: That's gonna guarantee that not only are you disappointed in 85 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: an event, but you're disappointed in the entire trajectory and 86 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: outcome of your life. That's what that's gonna do. If 87 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: you try to avoid disappointment, like isolate yourself and never 88 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: play unless you know you can win, and never do 89 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: anything unless you know somebody's going to do it back 90 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: for you. If reciprocation is the entry price for any 91 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: good deed that you do, or you have to have 92 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: the instant gratification and validation of everything that you put 93 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: your heart into working or being accepted or applauded, that 94 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: that in itself is a recipe for resentment later in 95 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: your life looking back, regret and resentment. Man, I would 96 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: rather have doses of disappointment along the way than the 97 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: disease of resentment and regret in the end. I would 98 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: rather have doses of disappointment along the way. Now I'm 99 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: mixing my metaphor here, so I'm not sure where I'm 100 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: going with this either, but work with me. I started 101 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 1: out saying, what's the antidote to disappointment? But now I 102 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: want to talk about how there are doses of disappointment 103 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,679 Speaker 1: that that we have to be willing to go through 104 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: in order to avoid ending our life in a state 105 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: of regret or resentment. There are moments that we have 106 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: to push through a rejection to get to a place 107 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: where we are willing to risk so that we can 108 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: have true connection and love in our lives. Yeah, and 109 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: to me, the key is like how they say, don't 110 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: put all your eggs in one basket. I think that 111 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 1: the anti disappointment is don't put all your hopes in 112 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: one outcome. That's what the saying means. Don't put all 113 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: your eggs in one basket. That's what a money manager 114 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: would tell you, Diverse, don't just put your money over 115 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: here in US stocks. Put them in international stocks, not 116 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: just in small cap large cap, and have some with 117 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: bonds and fifteen percent here and twenty percent there and 118 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: your real estate. A good financial advisor is not going 119 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: to tell you I got a hot tip from my 120 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: brother about what Tesla's doing today. Nah, unless you know 121 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: what you're doing, most of us. We have to diversify. Now, 122 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: I'm not here to get financial wisdom, but in spiritual terms, 123 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 1: diversification of your hopes is really important as an antidote 124 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: to disappointment. In order to avoid being ultimately devastated by 125 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: the disappointments of life, you got to have a lot 126 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: of things going at once. And that does mean that 127 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: if you put all your hope on any one thing 128 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 1: other than God, other than Jesus, is coming down eventually. 129 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: If it's a number on a scale that you want 130 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: to reach, if it is an amount that you want 131 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 1: to reach in your financial life this year or in 132 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: ten years, which I think, those things are great as 133 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: motivators to move and to incorporate the things you want 134 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 1: in your life to feel progressed. Right, But those things 135 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: can't be God, because Paul says in Romans five, we 136 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. That 137 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: does not disappoint. That's what doesn't disappoint. Now, if my 138 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: hope is man, God's going to use this, God's gonna 139 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: get me through this, God is working in this, I'm 140 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: learning from this, then that's very different. Then I must 141 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: have this, I must do that, it must be this 142 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: way to Every time I've done that, it's backfired. Every 143 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: time that I put all my hopes on one goal, 144 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: one way of doing things, one sermon. Oh, this is 145 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: gonna be the best ever, one song, one book. Man, 146 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 1: I promise you that even if that thing does well, well, 147 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: then what's the next one going to be? So as 148 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:08,439 Speaker 1: I'm making things, creating things, ministering things, developing things, it's 149 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: important that I diversify. It's important that if one of 150 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,119 Speaker 1: my friends is struggling in their life, I have encouragement 151 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: to give them right because I have somebody else that 152 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: can encourage me. I can't just be locked into one 153 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 1: person liking me. What if they're having a bad day. 154 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: I can't just be locked into one person noticing me. 155 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: What if they're distracted by their own drama. So this 156 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: is what I wanted to say, and I've been kind 157 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: of feeling my way through it, just to work this 158 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: idea out and maybe we can straighten it out together. 159 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: Maybe this will have more clarity as we wrap around it. 160 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: But the antidote to disappointment is diversification. For me. That 161 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: means every time I release one sermon and preach it, 162 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: I'm already working on another one so that if this 163 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: one feels a little disappointing, the next one is coming. Right. 164 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: Even as we prepare to release songs, we're releasing songs 165 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: that I'm excited about here over the next few weeks 166 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: and months. Elevation worship dot Com. Today's post sponsored by 167 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: Elevation Worship dot Com. Even as we're getting ready to 168 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: release those, I want to be working on some other ones. 169 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: And I am I am. I got some that are 170 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: going to Spotify and Apple Music. I got some that 171 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: are on my phone. Why because I need to know 172 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: that if these songs just we're meant to live in church, 173 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: or we're meant to live in the hearts of those 174 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: who wrote them and experience them together, then that's going 175 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: to be okay. Because there's more on the way. That's 176 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: the spirit I want you to get right now. That's okay. 177 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: There's more on the way. Say it out loud, that's okay. 178 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: There's more on the way. There's another one on the way. 179 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: That's okay. There's more on the way. And lose a 180 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: little money. That's okay. I don't like it. I'm not 181 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: gonna try to lose money, but there's more on the way. 182 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: God is my supplier. That's okay. You know that person 183 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: over there, they're moving, They're going to Argentina. They're not 184 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: going to be in your life anymore. Oh well, bless them. 185 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss them so much. I throw them a 186 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: farewell party. I keep up with them some. But man, 187 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: I'm not building my life around any one person. And 188 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: that's okay. Doesn't take the pain out of when people 189 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: leave your life. But they don't like you, that's okay. 190 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: There's people that do like me on the way. I 191 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: have to tell myself that all the time because I 192 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: know there's people who don't really like my ministry. That's okay. 193 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: There's more on the way. There's people coming that need help, 194 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: and they'll be able to receive what Jesus wants to 195 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: speak through me. That's okay. There's more on the way. 196 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: And when you know, when Jesus shows up in a situation, 197 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: there's more on the way. You know that he's very 198 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: capable of turning ceremonial washing jars into wine, big old, 199 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: big old wine glasses wine. You know he can. He can. 200 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: He can turn a common, ordinary object into something that 201 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 1: holds something very special. He can transform the wine while 202 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: it moves across the room. That's okay. There's more on 203 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: the way. Oh we're out of wine. Oh we're out 204 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: of strength. Oh we're out of ideas. That's okay, there's 205 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: more on the way. And that's very different than having 206 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: an expectation that you know, this one source that's not 207 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: God is going to meet my needs, this one job, 208 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: this one stream, this one relationship. Diversify. Divine diversification is 209 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Knowing that if the brook dries up, 210 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: God's got a widow and Zeraphat, and if you will 211 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: meet the next need that God put in front of you. 212 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: This is the story of Elijah. I know you were 213 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,959 Speaker 1: already there with me, but just in case you weren't tracking. 214 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: When you get there and you give her the instruction 215 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: so that her family can be fed through the famine, 216 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna meet your needs to That's okay. The brook 217 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: dried up, there's more on the way. And I feel 218 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: that the divine strategy or antidote for disappointment is diversification. 219 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: That you know that the Lord has lunches in the 220 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: hands of little boys, even if it's a remote place 221 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: and it's getting late and the crowds won't go away. 222 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: That's okay. There's more on the way. That's okay. There's 223 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: more on the way, that mentality, that spirit, not because 224 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: I'm so good, but because God is within me and 225 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: there are rivers of living water that flow from me. 226 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 1: That's okay. There's more on the way. Easy to say, 227 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: harder to live. So let's live it a little bit today. 228 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about not getting your sight set and 229 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: focusing on something. Yesterday I talked about focusing. I believe 230 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: in focusing. I believe in setting goals and targets. I 231 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: believe in insisting on reaching them and not just watering 232 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: down what you want to match what you think you 233 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: can do. But I also believe that you have to 234 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: leave room in there so that God is not in 235 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: this box. For God to do what he wants to 236 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: do and use you how he wants to use you, 237 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: and bring about what he wants to bring about. 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