1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,399 Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 1: God's bless you. It is always a joy to come 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: into your homes. We love you. We know God has 8 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: great things in store. 9 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: stop by and be a part of one of our services. 11 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: We give you a personal invitation. I promise you we'll 12 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: make you feel right at home. These are the finest 13 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: people in all of Houston, right here at Lakewood, so. 14 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: Come out and see us. But thanks for tuning in today. 15 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 2: I like to get started each week with something funny, 16 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 2: and I heard about this elderly man. He had had 17 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: a serious hearing problem for years and years, could hardly 18 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 2: hear anything. And one day he went to the doctor 19 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 2: and he was fitted with a new type hearing aid 20 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 2: to where he could hear one hundred percent. A month later, 21 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: he went back for a checka and the doctor said, man, 22 00:00:58,120 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: your family must really be happy. 23 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: Your hearing is perfect. He said, no, I haven't told 24 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: my family. 25 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: I just sit around and listen to the conversations, and 26 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 2: I've changed my will three times. All right, hold of 27 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 2: your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This is 28 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 2: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 29 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: have what it says I have. I can do what 30 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: it says I can do. Today I will be taught 31 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 2: the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, 32 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 33 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 34 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 2: to you today about living a life worth remembering. So 35 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 2: often we think I'll never do anything significant. I'm just 36 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 2: a business person. I'm just a school teacher. I'm just 37 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: to stay at home mom. But really that's the wrong mindset. 38 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 1: You're not just anything. You're a child of the Most 39 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: High God. 40 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 2: You have seeds of greatness on the inside. 41 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: Somebody needs what you have. 42 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 2: Somebody needs your gifts and talents, somebody needs your love 43 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 2: and encouragement. You have something to offer that nobody else has. 44 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 2: And if you don't rise up and do your part, 45 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 2: this world will not be as bright a place as 46 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: it should be. And we have to ask ourselves one 47 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: hundred years from now, will it have made a difference 48 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: that I lived. 49 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 1: Did I get up every day and give. 50 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: It my best, pursuing my dreams and goals. Did I 51 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,959 Speaker 2: keep my heart of compassion open, helping others, giving, caring, serving? 52 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: Our attitude should be I'm going to leave this place 53 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: better off than it was before. I'm going to make 54 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 2: a difference with my life. If we're going to live 55 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 2: a life worth remembering, we cannot make little plans, don't 56 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 2: make little goals, little dreams. 57 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: Have a big vision for your life. It all starts 58 00:02:59,240 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: right here. 59 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 2: You'll never rise above the image you have of yourself. 60 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 2: You have to make room in your thinking for the 61 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 2: life you want. It has to be conceived on the 62 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: inside before you'll ever receive it on the outside. And 63 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: God is constantly trying to plant new seeds in our heart. 64 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 2: He's constantly trying to get us to enlarge our vision, 65 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 2: to know who we really are, to know what we 66 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 2: can accomplish. And God said there in Isaiah forty three nineteen, behold, 67 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 2: I am doing a new thing. 68 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: Can you not perceive it? 69 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: The reason some people never reach their full potential is 70 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 2: because they don't have a vision for it. They're limited 71 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 2: in their thinking. 72 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: So like this man I heard about. 73 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 2: He was out fishing one day and he noticed another 74 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 2: man across the bank fishing as well. And he saw 75 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 2: that every time this other man caught a big fish, 76 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 2: he would throw it back, but every time he caught a. 77 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: Small fish, he would keep it. 78 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: This went on all day long, and the more he watched, 79 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 2: the more curious he became. Finally he got his nerve 80 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 2: up and went over to it and said, sir, I 81 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: just don't understand it. 82 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: Why do you. 83 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 2: Throw back the big fish but you keep the small fish? 84 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 2: The man said, Oh, it's simple. All I have is 85 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 2: a ten inch frying pan. That's the way some people 86 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: are today. Instead of getting a bigger frying pan, instead 87 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 2: of changing their thinking and making room for the great 88 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: things God has in store, they just throw it back, 89 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 2: so to speak. Oh that's too big for me, Joel, 90 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: I could never be that successful. I could never handle 91 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: that responsibility. I could never have that kind of impact. 92 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 2: What's the problem. Our frying pan is too small. 93 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: We gotta get rid of our limited thinking. 94 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 2: Make up your mind with me. I'm gonna leave my 95 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 2: mark on this generation. I'm not gonna just make a living. 96 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a difference. I'm gonna impact other people lives. 97 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 2: I'm going to be a giver and not a taker. 98 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 2: I'm going to leave this place better off than it 99 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 2: was before. We have to realize we draw in what 100 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 2: we constantly think about. If we go around thinking that 101 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 2: I'll never do anything significant, I've reached my limits gone 102 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 2: as far as my education allows, I'll probably never get 103 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 2: out of that joy. Come from the wrong family, not 104 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 2: that talented. No, you've got to change your thinking. You've 105 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 2: got to know who you really are. A child of 106 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 2: the most High God. You have all kinds of potential 107 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 2: on the inside. You can accomplish things that you've never 108 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 2: dreamed of. But you've got to get a vision for it. 109 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: You've got to know deep down in here the favor 110 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 2: of God is surrounding you like a shield. You are 111 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: full of can do power. You have wisdom, strength and ability. 112 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: When opportunities come across your path, you feel the dreams 113 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 2: and the desires rising up. Don't shrink back, think I 114 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 2: can't do that, that's too big for me. 115 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,799 Speaker 1: No, dare to take that step of faith. 116 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 2: Dare to believe, after all, if you can do it 117 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 2: in your own strength. 118 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: You don't really need God. That doesn't really take faith. 119 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 2: But if you'll get out of your comfort zone and 120 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 2: stretch to the next level, that's when you'll see God 121 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: show up and do great things in your life. We've 122 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 2: all heard the saying, you're not everyone, but you are one. 123 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 2: You can't do everything, but you can do something. I'm 124 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 2: asking you to make a difference with your life. In 125 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 2: the Book of Judges, there's a lady by the name 126 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 2: of Deborah. She was living in a city that was 127 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 2: filled with violence and all kinds of wrongdoing. It had 128 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: gotten so bad you couldn't even travel on the main roads. 129 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 2: People were constantly being harassed and attacked. But one day 130 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: Deborah decided that she was going to make a difference. 131 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: She had a big vision here. She was a woman. 132 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 2: Back in those days, women didn't have the leadership roles 133 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 2: like they have today. Deborah wasn't wealthy, she didn't have 134 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 2: anybody backing her up. She didn't have a special police force. 135 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 2: All she had was a desire to make a difference. 136 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 2: The scripture says the highways were unoccupied, the city was 137 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: starting to shut down until Deborah, a mother in Israel, 138 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 2: arose think about it a mother. There were certainly more 139 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: powerful people there, people with more influence, more expertise, But 140 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 2: this mother decided she was gonna make a difference. Her 141 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: attitude was God an I are a majority, and I'm 142 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 2: not gonna just sit back and watch things go downhill. 143 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 2: I'm gonna do what I can and trust God to 144 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 2: do what I can. When she rose up, her action 145 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 2: triggered other people to get behind her. That's what happens 146 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 2: many times. Your actions will stir people out of complacency. 147 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: If you'll dare do what's in your heart, other people 148 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: will get behind you and help you to make a difference. 149 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: For we can't have the attitude. 150 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 2: Well, I'd love to help, but I'm just a mother, Joel, 151 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 2: I'm just a student. I'm just a young person. I 152 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 2: just graduated from college. Know you have the most powerful 153 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 2: force in the universe. 154 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: On the inside of you. You can make a difference. 155 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: And what I love about Deborah was she was a 156 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 2: catalyst for change. 157 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: She saw a need and met it. She didn't let 158 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: it overwhelm her. 159 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 2: If she'd have had that ten inch frying pan, she 160 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 2: had thought, too bad, can't do anything about it. 161 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: No, she rose up and made a difference. We need 162 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,559 Speaker 1: to have that same attitude. 163 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 2: I may only be one, but I can be a 164 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 2: catalyst for change. I'm going to live a life worth remembering. 165 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 2: A friend of mine is a medical doctor. He specializes 166 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 2: in internal medicine, and he's got a very successful practice 167 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 2: here in town. And he's always had a desire to 168 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 2: help the less fortunate. But he could have easily thought, 169 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: there are so many needs, what can I do. I'm 170 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 2: just one person. 171 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: I don't have a big organization like Deborah. I don't 172 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: have anybody backing me up. 173 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 2: No, he realized that feeling down in here was something 174 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 2: God put on the inside. One of the ways God 175 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 2: leads us is by the desires of our heart. When 176 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: you have a desire to do good, a desire to 177 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 2: see change, or a compassion towards someone or some cause. 178 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: That's God leading you. That's an indication of what you 179 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: should do. 180 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 2: So about ten years ago, this medical doctor, instead of 181 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 2: just thinking about it, he started taking his vacations and 182 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 2: traveling overseas to third world countries. 183 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: He would work in the clinics help treat the sick. 184 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 2: He got his medical suppliers here in town to donate 185 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 2: supplies all it took was a phone call. 186 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: They were glad to do it. He had ended up 187 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: taking two or three suitcases full of. 188 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 2: Medicine with him every year. His outreach overseas grew. It 189 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: got to wear these medical companies. They weren't just giving 190 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 2: him two or three suitcases full of metay less. They 191 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 2: were giving him big crates. He couldn't carry it anymore. 192 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 2: He had to ship it over time other doctors and 193 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 2: other organizations got wind of what he was doing. 194 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: They joined forces with him. It continued to grow. 195 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 2: Last year because of his efforts, thirteen million children in 196 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 2: Africa received a pill to keep them from getting a 197 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 2: deadly parasite. One doctor, just an average ordinary person in 198 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 2: the natural touched thirteen million lives. He told how there 199 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 2: are three hundred million children right. 200 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: Now that need this pill. 201 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 2: This year, they expect to treat forty million of those children. 202 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 2: He said, Joel, We're not going to stop until every 203 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 2: one of those children get the treatment they needed. 204 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: Just one doctor. What happened? He rose up and said, 205 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:51,680 Speaker 1: I can make a difference. 206 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 2: When his time here on this earth is done, he 207 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 2: will have lived a life worth remembering. 208 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 1: I'm asking you to do the same thing. 209 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 2: He a catalyst for change in your family, in your neighborhood, 210 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 2: at your school, at your office. Don't just think, Ah, 211 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 2: there are so many needs. My family's always been this way, 212 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: My school is so negative. They'll never change. No, you 213 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 2: can make a difference. God has you where you are 214 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 2: on purpose. You can touch people that nobody else can. 215 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 2: Pay attention to what you're feeling down in here, and 216 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 2: then take the limits off of God. Quit telling God 217 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: what you can't do, and let God tell you what 218 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 2: you can do. 219 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: God will never ask you to give what you don't have. 220 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 2: When He puts a dream in your heart, he will 221 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 2: always equip you with everything you need to accomplish it. 222 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 2: And if you'll just dare take that step of faith, 223 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 2: you'll see how God has already made crooked places straight. 224 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 2: He'll open up doors that you never thought would open. 225 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 2: He'll cause people to go out of their way to. 226 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: Be good to you. 227 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 2: And even when it looks impossible, even when you don't 228 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 2: see a way, God will supernaturally. 229 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: Make a way. 230 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 2: You have everything you need to make a difference. The 231 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 2: seed of Almighty God is on the inside. Sometimes we think, oh, 232 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 2: only the powerful ones will make a difference, Only the 233 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 2: strong the talented, the good looking. After all, they come 234 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 2: from the right family, Joel, they have the right name. 235 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 1: I don't have what they have. 236 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 2: Yes, that may be true, But the good news is 237 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,119 Speaker 2: you have what you need. You are anointed, you are equipped, 238 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 2: You are empowered to do what God's called you to do. 239 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 2: You may not touch thirteen million children, but you can 240 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 2: influence a dozen office workers. You can impact one young 241 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 2: man that doesn't have a positive role model. 242 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: You don't know. 243 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 2: You may touch one person, and that person will touch many, 244 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 2: many others. I know my father he wasn't raised in church. 245 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 2: He grew up during the Great Depression. 246 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 1: His family they were good. 247 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,199 Speaker 2: People, they just didn't know anything about God. He didn't 248 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 2: have any kind of spiritual upbringing. And as a teenager, 249 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: there was a young man by the name of Sam Martin. 250 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 2: Sam would get to school early every morning and write 251 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 2: scriptures on the blackboard, and my father and a lot 252 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 2: of the other students would make fun of him. 253 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: They thought he was kind of far out. That didn't 254 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: bother Sam. 255 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 2: Week after week, he kept showing up early, writing no scriptures, 256 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 2: doing what he felt like he was supposed to do, 257 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 2: making a difference. 258 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,599 Speaker 1: Well, one day, at the age of seventeen. 259 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 2: My father was walking home from a nightclub at two 260 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning. All of a sudden, he began 261 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 2: to think about God and eternity. The seed was planted 262 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 2: by Sam. He went and found him and said, Sam, 263 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 2: what's wrong with me? Why do I feel this way? 264 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 2: The next day. 265 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 1: Sam took my dad to church. 266 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 2: The end of the service, the minister asked people to 267 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 2: come forward to receive Christ. 268 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: My father wouldn't go. He's too scared. Sam leaned over 269 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: and said, John, if you'll go, I'll go with you. 270 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 2: That was the day that forever changed my family line. 271 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 2: Because of Sam Martin, we got out from under the curse. 272 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 2: Today we're living under the blessing. What's interesting to me 273 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 2: is Sam became a minister like my father, but he 274 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 2: never had the size of ministry my dad did. Sam 275 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 2: never had a big church, he never had a big following. 276 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 2: Yet think of the impact he made by simply touching 277 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 2: my father. He'll get a reward for every person my 278 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: dad help, every person I'm able to help. Fifty years later, 279 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 2: Sam wrote a book. On the cover was a picture 280 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 2: of he and my father at the age of seventeen. 281 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: His title was I touched one, and he touched millions. 282 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: And you never know. 283 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 2: You never know who you're touching when you sew into 284 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: that one person at the office, that one young man 285 00:14:55,880 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: that's discouraged. You can't do everything, but I'm asking you 286 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 2: to do something. Make a difference wherever you go. The 287 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 2: true joy in living is in helping others. Now, I 288 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 2: want you to feel your sense of destiny. You can 289 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 2: accomplish things that nobody else can. You may be teaching students, 290 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: but you don't know one of those students may impact nations. 291 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: You're calling maybe to raise a child. You're a stay 292 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: at home mom. You don't know that child may influence millions. 293 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: We don't read. 294 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 2: Much in the scripture about Pharaoh's daughter, just the fact 295 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 2: that she went out and found a little baby floating 296 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: down the Nile River. 297 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: She was kind and caring, took him in. It was Moses. 298 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: Little did she realize he would become one of the 299 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: heroes of faith. 300 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 2: I believe she'll get a reward for impacting his life. 301 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 2: When you sow into those around you, you making a difference. 302 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: You're living a life worth remembering. 303 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 2: There's a young man that attends our church and he 304 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: was in an accident many years ago and wasn't supposed 305 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 2: to survive. Miraculously he made it, but he lost his 306 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 2: ability to drive. 307 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: He can't see very well, and he. 308 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 2: Had to relearn his motor skills and some of his speech. 309 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 2: And when we moved the church from our other location 310 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 2: to this place. 311 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: He couldn't take the bus anymore. 312 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 2: For some reason, it didn't run from that place to 313 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 2: our new place. But I love the fact that he 314 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: didn't just give up and say too bad for me. 315 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 2: He went down week after week to the public transportation 316 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 2: meetings and he told them that they needed to run 317 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 2: the buses on Sunday morning so he could get to Lakewood. 318 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 2: He was passionate about it. Here in the natural. 319 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: He didn't have money, power influence. All he had was 320 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: a desire to make a difference. 321 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 2: They told him again and again, i'm sorry, sir, but 322 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 2: there's just not enough demand to run the buses on 323 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 2: Sunday morning. 324 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: He wouldn't take no for an answer. He went out 325 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: and got a. 326 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 2: Petition, went door to door, had people sign it, took 327 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 2: it back to the board. 328 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: They voted on it. 329 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 2: Long story short, Today the bus is run on Sunday morning, 330 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 2: all because one young man decided to make a difference. 331 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: See, he knew the secret. 332 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 2: When God puts something in your heart, he always gives 333 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 2: you what you need to accomplish it. He'll give you 334 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 2: the favor, He'll give you the words to speak, He'll 335 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 2: give you the strength. 336 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: It may not happen overnight. You may have some obstacles. 337 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 2: The critics and naysayers will probably come out of the woodwork. 338 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 2: But don't let that keep you from pressing forward. When 339 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 2: somebody tells you no, You've got to do like he 340 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 2: did and go back and ask again. I found the 341 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 2: favor of God will cause people to change their mind. 342 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,399 Speaker 2: God's favor on your life will cause people to wanna 343 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 2: be good to you. It'll cause you to be at 344 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 2: the right place at the right time. You may only 345 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 2: be one, but you and God are a majority. Today, 346 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 2: thousands of people have transportation. 347 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: On so mornings because of one young man. 348 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 2: He's making a difference. He's living a life worth remembering. 349 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 2: And in the natural, he just a plain old, ordinary 350 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 2: person like you and I. But remember, God uses ordinary 351 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 2: people to do extraordinary things. Why don't you make up 352 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 2: your mind. You're not gonna live an average life. You're 353 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 2: not gonna sit back and be complacent. When down and 354 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 2: here you feel. 355 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: Passion towards something. 356 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 2: Recognize that's God leading you to make a difference. A 357 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: lot of times we think, well, what's my two cents 358 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 2: gonna count? He could have thought, this is the fourth 359 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 2: largest city in America. They're not gonna change the bus 360 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 2: route for me. 361 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: I'm just one person. Yes, you may only be one. 362 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 2: But with God's favor, with his anointing, with his strength, 363 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 2: with his wisdom, with his power, you can do great things. 364 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: If God be for you, who dare even be against you? 365 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 1: I remember when when we. 366 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 2: Were trying to acquire our new facility here, the former 367 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 2: Compacts Center. We needed ten votes from the city council 368 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 2: members to win. The night before, we only had nine. 369 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: Looked like we were going to lose. 370 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: But at the. 371 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 2: Last moment, a young Jewish council member changed his mind and. 372 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: He voted for us. It was his vote that gave 373 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 1: us the victory. 374 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: I was talking to him later and I asked him, 375 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 2: what was it that caused you to change your mind? 376 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 2: After all, he'd been against us for nearly two years. 377 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 2: He said, Joel, although you were very persuasive, thousands of 378 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 2: your members called my office. 379 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: It wasn't any of that. 380 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 2: He told how there was this elderly Jewish lady that 381 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,239 Speaker 2: he had known since he was a little boy. He 382 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 2: hadn't talked to her in years and years, but the 383 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: night before the main vote, out of the blue, she 384 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,159 Speaker 2: called him and told him, in no uncertain terms, he 385 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 2: was to vote for Lakewood. He said, it was that 386 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,199 Speaker 2: phone call that changed my mind. And what's interesting to 387 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 2: me is, I don't know that lady. I've never met her, 388 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 2: never talked to her. She may not even realize it, 389 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 2: but it was her three minute phone call that caused 390 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 2: us to have this facility. 391 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: She made a difference. She was only one, but it 392 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 1: just so happened. She was the right one. She was 393 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 1: the one God annoying it. She was the one that 394 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: touched his heart. 395 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 2: Sometimes we think, well, I'm not the most qualified, Joel, 396 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 2: I'm not the most talented one for this job. 397 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: I'm not the most eloquent speaker. That all may be true, but. 398 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 2: None of that matters when you're the right one. None 399 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 2: of that matters when God's annointed you to do it. 400 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: You can do more with. 401 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 2: One touch of God's favor than you can do in 402 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 2: your whole lifetime in your own efforts. 403 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, when. 404 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 2: You have a desire down in here, know that God's 405 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,480 Speaker 2: annoyed you to do it. He's going to give you 406 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 2: the favor. He'll cause people to hear the right things. 407 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 2: You've been empowered to accomplish your dreams. Most of the time, 408 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 2: it's not ability, it's availability. 409 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: Are we willing? Will we dare? 410 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 2: Get out of our comfort zones and stretch to the 411 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 2: next level. 412 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: You have to realize God has matched you with your world. 413 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: In other words, He's given you everything you need to 414 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 2: fulfill your destiny. You may not feel like sometimes you're 415 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 2: able to do it. 416 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: That's okay. You have to get. 417 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 2: Beyond your feelings and know, right down in here I 418 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 2: have the seed of Almighty God. 419 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: God will never ask you to give something. 420 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 2: He'll never put a dream in your heart without first 421 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 2: equipping you with everything you need on the inside. 422 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: To accomplish it. 423 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 2: So even if you don't feel like you have the wisdom, 424 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 2: the talent, the ability, you've got to just remind yourself, No, 425 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 2: God has matched me with my world. 426 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: He's already put in me what I need. 427 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 2: I heard this minister illustrating this point before the service, 428 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 2: he handed a man a twenty dollars bill and you 429 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 2: ask him to secretly put it in his wife's bible 430 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 2: to make sure she didn't see him doing it. It 431 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 2: was a small church, everybody knew each other. During the sermon, 432 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: he asked the lady to stand up. He said, ma'am, 433 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 2: do you trust me? She said, yes, I do. 434 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,120 Speaker 1: He said, will you do what I ask you to do? 435 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: She said yes, I will. He said, well, please. 436 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 2: Open your bible and hand me a twenty dollar bill. 437 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 2: She kind of cringed and said, oh, I'm so sorry. 438 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 2: I don't have a twenty dollar bill. He said, ma'am, 439 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 2: do you trust me? She said yes, I do. 440 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: He said, will you do what I ask you to do? Yes, 441 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: I will. 442 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 2: Then, please open your bible and hand me a twenty 443 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 2: dollar bill. She opened it up, and much to her surprise, 444 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 2: there was the twenty dollar bill. 445 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 1: She couldn't believe it. 446 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 2: She said, how did it get there? He smiled and said, 447 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 2: I put it in there. And in the same way, 448 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 2: God will never ask you for something without first putting 449 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 2: it in you. 450 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: If you have a desire, if. 451 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 2: You have a dream, you may not feel like you're 452 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 2: able to do it. You may not feel like you 453 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 2: have the strength, the wisdom, the talent, but if you'll 454 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 2: dare take that step of faith anyway, you'll discover things in. 455 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: You that you never knew you had. 456 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 2: This is where many people miss it. This is why 457 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 2: many people are in mediocrity. 458 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: They talk themselves out of it. 459 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 2: Think about even Moses, when God told him to go 460 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 2: stand before Feah and tell him to let my people go. 461 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 2: First thing Moses said was God, I can't do that. 462 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: I stutter. I'm not a good speaker. I love the way. 463 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 2: God answered him back. He said, Moses, who made your tongue? 464 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,439 Speaker 2: Who made your voice? God was saying, in effect, Moses, 465 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 2: I've already put it in you, Just do it. God 466 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 2: told Gideon he was gonna deliver the people of Israel. 467 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 2: God called him a mighty man of valor. Gideon said, no, 468 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 2: not me, God, I'm the least one in my family. 469 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:51,119 Speaker 2: Everybody's more talented than I am. Notice he had a 470 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 2: ten inch frying pan. He needed to go down to Walmart. 471 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 2: He needed to enlarge his vision. Don't let the size 472 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 2: of your dream imitate you. Don't let the fact that 473 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 2: there are naysayers in your path keep you from pressing forward. 474 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: I love what the apostle Paul said. 475 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 2: People were trying to talk him out of his dreams 476 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 2: and telling him what he couldn't do. He said in Romans, 477 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 2: what if they don't believe? Will their unbelief make the 478 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 2: promise of God of no. 479 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: Effect in my life? 480 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,119 Speaker 2: What he was saying in my Texas translation was, so 481 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 2: what if they don't believe? 482 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: The promise is not in them? The promise is in me. 483 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: And that's the attitude we. 484 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 2: Need to have, respectfully, But so what if they don't 485 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 2: think I can do it? So what if they're trying 486 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 2: to pull me down? So what if they're criticizing. I'm 487 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 2: not gonna let their sour attitude cause me to give 488 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 2: up on my dreams. I'm not gonna let their unbelief 489 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 2: keep me from leaving my mark. In other words, just 490 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 2: because they have a ten inch frying pan doesn't mean 491 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 2: I have to have a ten inch frying pan. 492 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: Any time you go to do something. 493 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 2: Great, in anytime you step out of your comfort zone, 494 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 2: it stirs up the jealousy in small minded people. You 495 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 2: have to accept the fact not everybody's gonna cheer your own. 496 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 2: Not everybody's gonna be excited about your dreams. Sometimes you 497 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 2: just have to encourage yourself when people are criticizing, don't 498 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 2: sink down to their level. 499 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 1: Be an egle and rise above it. 500 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 2: I read where the first time Billy Graham ever went 501 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 2: over to England, some fifty years ago, the press was 502 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 2: so negative. They said, we don't need your religion, we 503 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 2: don't need another minister. One reporter said to him, how 504 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 2: can you even justify coming over here on a big 505 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 2: ocean liner. Seeing that Jesus wrote a donkey everywhere he went. 506 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 2: Billy Graham said, if you'll find me a donkey that 507 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 2: can walk on water, I'll be the. 508 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:49,919 Speaker 1: First one to buy it. 509 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 2: Don't change for your critics. Stay true to who you are. 510 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 2: Mother Teresa said, people will criticize you for doing good, 511 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 2: but do good anyway. Make a difference in your world. 512 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 2: Live a life worth remembering. The prophet Joel said, wake 513 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 2: up the mighty men. I believe I'm looking at the 514 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 2: mighty men and women of God today. 515 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 1: You are full of strength, full of wisdom, full of 516 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 1: can do power. 517 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 2: There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future 518 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 2: that you cannot accomplish. Why don't you take the limits 519 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 2: off of God. Get rid of the words I can't, 520 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 2: I'm not able to. That's too big for me. 521 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: No, God has matched you with your world. 522 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 2: He's already put in you everything you need and everything you're. 523 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: Going to need to make a difference to leave your mark. 524 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: But it starts right here. Get rid of a ten 525 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: inch frying pain. 526 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 2: When you have a dream down in your heart, dare 527 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 2: to take a step of faith. You may only be one, 528 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 2: but remember you and God are a majority. And if 529 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,239 Speaker 2: you'll have a big vision for your life and not 530 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 2: just live for yourself, but live to make a difference 531 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 2: in others. And you do that, God will take your 532 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 2: places that you've never even dreamed of. He'll promote you, 533 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 2: he'll increase you, and when it's all said and done, 534 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 2: you will have lived a life well worth remembering. 535 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 1: Amen, Do you receive it today? We never like to 536 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: close our godcast without giving you an. 537 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 2: Opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 538 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 2: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent 539 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 2: on my sins. Come into my heart. I make you 540 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 2: my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, 541 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 2: we believe you got born again. Get into good church. 542 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 2: Keep God first place. He'll take your places. 543 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 1: That you've never dreamed of. 544 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 2: When we face challenges, it's easy to feel like God 545 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 2: has forgotten about us. We don't see anything happening, and 546 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 2: God tell us it's not going to work out. But 547 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 2: God is not called the Great I was or the 548 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 2: Great I will be. He's called the Great I Am. 549 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 2: Then my new book, he Is I Am, you'll discover 550 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 2: that God is with you in every area of your life. 551 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 2: I Am is always in the present, not at a 552 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 2: later time. God is working in your life right now. 553 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 2: I Am means I am your healer. I am your provider. 554 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: I AM your waymaker. Whether you're facing a challenge or 555 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 2: pursuing your dreams, stay in faith. The Great I Am 556 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 2: is right there with you. 557 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 558 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 3: of any amount this month, we would like to send 559 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joel's book, He Is I Am. 560 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 3: God is for you here and now. Are you in 561 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 3: need of protection or provision today? Jesus assures us, I 562 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 3: Am the Good Shepherd. 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