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Thanks for listening to 37 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 38 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 40 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 41 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 5: your life, and God bless you. 42 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 3: It is always a joy to come into your homes. 43 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 5: We love you, We know God has good things in 44 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 5: store for you. He rewards people that seek after Him, 45 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 5: and we just trust today you'll be blessed and inspired, 46 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 5: and just. 47 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 3: Thank you for tuning in. 48 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 5: If you're ever out in our area, comebin and see us. 49 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 5: We'd love to have you. We'll make it feel right 50 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 5: at home. But again, thanks for watching today. And I 51 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 5: like to get started with something funny each week, so 52 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 5: listen to this one. A pastor decided to skip church 53 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 5: one Sunday and go play golf. He told his assistant 54 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 5: he wasn't feeling well and drove to a golf course 55 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 5: in the next city where no one would know him. 56 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 5: He teed off on the first hole and suddenly the 57 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 5: wind picked up the ball, carried it an extra hundred yards, 58 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 5: and blew it right into the hole for a four 59 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 5: hundred and twenty yard hold in one. An angel said 60 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 5: to God, what'd you do that for? God smiled and said, 61 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 5: who's he gonna tell? All right, hold up your bibles 62 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 5: say it like you many ready, This is my Bible. 63 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 3: I am what it says I am. I have what 64 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 3: it says I have. I can do what it says 65 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 3: I can do. 66 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 5: Today I will be talked the word of godly confess. 67 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 68 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 5: I will never be the same In Jesus' name, God 69 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 70 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 5: conceiving the good things God has in store. You cannot 71 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 5: give birth to something if you don't first conceive it. 72 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 5: And I believe that God is always trying to plant 73 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 5: new seeds in our heart, seeds of hope, seeds of increase, 74 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 5: seeds of change. 75 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 3: But if the. 76 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 5: Condition of our heart is not right, even though the 77 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 5: seed is there, we still will not conceive it. And 78 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 5: by conceive I mean you've got to make room for 79 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 5: it in your thinking. 80 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 3: You've got to believe you. 81 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 5: Can rise higher, Believe you can accomplish your dreams, Believe 82 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 5: the marriage can be restored, Believe you can live a 83 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 5: healthy life. The seed has to take root. Conception is 84 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 5: the very first step. It will not come to pass 85 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 5: on the outside until you conceive it on the inside. 86 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 5: And every one of us should be pregnant with our dreams. 87 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 5: We should be pregnant with the good things of God. 88 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 5: The too many people today are going around stuck in 89 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 5: a rut. They think they've reached their limits in life. 90 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 5: They don't believe for anything good, they don't expect things 91 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 5: to change, and then they wonder why nothing gets better. 92 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 5: It's because their thinking is limited. You cannot give birth 93 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 5: to a baby if you don't first conceive it. You've 94 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 5: got to make room for it in your own mind. 95 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 5: You need to look out through your eyes of faith 96 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 5: and see that coming to pass. And Jesus said here 97 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 5: in Matthew nine, verse seventeen, you cannot put new wine 98 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 5: in old wine skins. And back in those days, the 99 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 5: wine skins were made out of leather, and when the 100 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 5: leather would get old, it would become hard and stiff, 101 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 5: and it couldn't expand anymore. And so if you put 102 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 5: the new wine in there, it would burst, and of 103 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 5: course you'd lose that wine. And one thing Jesus was 104 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 5: saying through this passage is you. 105 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 3: Cannot have a new life with old thinking. 106 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 5: And many times, just like an old wine skin, we 107 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 5: get stuck in a our ways. We get set in 108 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 5: our attitudes, we get set in our thinking. And here 109 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 5: God is trying to pour out the new wine. He's 110 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 5: trying to give us a new beginning, to increase us, 111 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 5: to promote us. But the real question is are we 112 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 5: willing to get rid of our old wine skins? 113 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 3: Are we willing to enlarge our vision? 114 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 5: You cannot go through life thinking that you've reached your 115 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 5: limits in a negative frame of mind and expect to 116 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 5: have God's blessings. Well, Joe, my marriage, You'll never get better, 117 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,840 Speaker 5: I'll never get out of debt, I'll never go any further. Now, 118 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 5: God has so much more in store for every one 119 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 5: of you. He wants to take you to new levels. 120 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 5: But you have to do your part and let the 121 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 5: seed take root. The first step to change in your 122 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 5: life is you've got to change your thinking. You got 123 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 5: to quit looking at what you can't do and start 124 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 5: looking at what you can do. You and God are 125 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 5: a majority. If God be for you, who dare even 126 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 5: be against you? If you're ever going to rise up 127 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 5: and be all God's created you to be, you've got 128 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 5: to get rid of limited thinking, and you've got to 129 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 5: start having possibility thinking. You've got to enlarge your vision. 130 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 5: You've got to believe that you can be all God's 131 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 5: created you to be. Act like it's true, Talk like 132 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 5: it's true. Let that seed take root. 133 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 7: Now. 134 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 5: I can tell you we wouldn't be moving into the 135 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 5: Compact Center if we had not done just that. We 136 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 5: had to enlarge our vision. We could have thought man 137 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 5: that's too much money. There are too many obstacles. It's 138 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 5: too big, it's never gonna happen. No, we simply said, God, 139 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 5: not our will. 140 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 3: But your will be done. We're ready. 141 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 5: We believe you can make a way. We believe you 142 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 5: can fight our battles for us. We know that no 143 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 5: man can stand against you. We got an image of 144 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 5: victory on the inside, and the seed begin to grow 145 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 5: and grow, and today we're seeing it all come to pass. 146 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 5: I would challenge you as well, have a big vision 147 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 5: for your own life. Don't talk yourself out of the 148 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 5: new things that God is trying to do. He wants 149 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 5: to increase you, He wants to restore what the enemy 150 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 5: has stolen. Why don't you let this new seed of 151 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 5: hope take root in your heart today? Why don't you 152 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 5: dare to believe that God can and will bring that 153 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 5: to pass. You remember when God told Abraham that his 154 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 5: wife Sarah was going to have a child, and they 155 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 5: were both way up there in years, In fact, they 156 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 5: were close to eighty years old. And when Sarah heard it, 157 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 5: the first thing she did was laugh and laugh. She said, Abraham, 158 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 5: what are you talking about? I'm never going to have 159 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 5: a baby. I'm an old lady. See, the condition of 160 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 5: her heart was not right. God was trying to plant 161 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 5: that new seed, but her thinking kept it from happening. 162 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 5: She had to conceive it in her heart before she 163 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 5: could ever conceive it in her physical body, and year 164 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 5: after year went by no child. Finally, some twenty years later, 165 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 5: she gave birth to her son named Isaac. But I 166 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 5: believe one of the main reasons why it took so 167 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 5: long was because she wasn't willing to get rid of 168 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 5: her old wine skin. She couldn't conceive it in her heart. 169 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 5: Many of you today, you're looking for something new in 170 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 5: your life, a new beginning, a new season. The only 171 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 5: way that's gonna have happen is for you to get 172 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 5: rid of those old mindsets that are holding you back. Well, Joel, 173 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 5: I'll never lose this weight. This is the way I've 174 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 5: always been. My marriage will never get better. You know, 175 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 5: we've always had problems. I'll never get out of debt. 176 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 5: My child will never change. Now you've got to get 177 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 5: rid of that defeated mentality. Our attitude should be I 178 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 5: can do all things through Christ. God is going before me, 179 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 5: making my crooked places straight. I know whatever I touch 180 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 5: is going to prosper and succeed. Well, Joe, you just 181 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 5: don't know my family, man. They're all negative. We've always 182 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 5: been defeated, discouraged. No, you can set a new standard. 183 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 5: You are not being limited by your environment. You're not 184 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,599 Speaker 5: being limited by your past. What's gonna limit you is 185 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 5: your own thinking. You got to get rid of those 186 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 5: old wine skins, and you need to have a new 187 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 5: image of your self rising higher, accomplishing your dreams. You 188 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 5: should see yourself setting new standards for your family to 189 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 5: live by. This is just what my father did. Daddy 190 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 5: grew up in a very poor family. They were cotton farmers, 191 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 5: and they lost everything they had during the Great Depression, 192 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 5: and so Daddy went to high school with holes in 193 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 5: his pants, holes in his shoes. 194 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 3: Didn't look like he had a. 195 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 5: Very bright future in front of him, and he could 196 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 5: have easily just settled in there. 197 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 3: For the status quo. 198 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 5: No, at the age of seventeen, Daddy gave his life 199 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 5: to the Lord and God planted a new seed in 200 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 5: his heart. God gave him a dream that one day 201 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 5: he would pastor a church with thousands of people in it. 202 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 5: Back then, that was unheard of. Sixty or seventy years ago, 203 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 5: there weren't any big churches like there are today, and 204 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 5: in the natural that seemed impossible. He didn't have any 205 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 5: education to speak of, never been to seminary, they didn't 206 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 5: have any money. But my father didn't let any of 207 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,680 Speaker 5: that stop him. He conceived that seed. He got a 208 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 5: vision of it on the inside, and Daddy began to 209 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 5: see himself rising up out of that environment. He began 210 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 5: to see himself doing great things for God, touching people 211 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 5: all over the world. And you know the story he did. 212 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 5: Just that, he fulfilled his destiny, and every one of 213 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 5: you can do the same thing. No matter where you are, 214 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 5: no matter how many odds are against you, you can 215 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 5: rise higher. You can break out of the barriers of 216 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 5: the past. The seed is being planted. 217 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 3: I don't know. 218 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 5: Maybe right now you can feel God speaking to you, 219 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 5: you can feel faith rising. 220 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:18,559 Speaker 3: In your heart. 221 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 5: But understand, having the seed there is not enough. 222 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 3: It's a two way street. We have to conceive it. 223 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 5: The seed can be in you your whole lifetime, but 224 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:28,839 Speaker 5: until you believe. 225 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 3: It and act on it, it's not going to do 226 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 3: you any good. 227 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 5: And God said in the Book of Isaiah forty three, 228 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 5: Verse nineteen. Behold, I am doing a new thing. Can 229 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 5: you not perceive it? Notice? God is always trying to 230 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 5: do new things in our lives. 231 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 3: He is always trying. 232 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 5: To increase us, to give us better marriage, is to 233 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 5: give us more influence. But isn't it interesting? God asked 234 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 5: the question can you perceive it? In other words, God 235 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 5: was saying, are you making room for it in your thinking? 236 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 3: Are you believing for a better man? Are you believing 237 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 3: to excel in your career? 238 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 5: Or have you got stuck in that rut like so 239 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 5: many people today, thinking that they've already reached their limits. Now, 240 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 5: why don't you enlarge your vision? You got to learn 241 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 5: to conceive the new things that God's trying to. 242 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: Do in your life. 243 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,719 Speaker 5: I remember many years ago, Victoria and I used to 244 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 5: live in this older home. It was built way back 245 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 5: in the forties, and it had some foundation problems and 246 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 5: so some of the floors were crooked. It was in 247 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 5: pretty bad shape. But we really loved the neighborhood that 248 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 5: it was in. It was on a great piece of property, 249 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 5: and so we stretched and we spent everything we could 250 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 5: just to buy that place. And during the week, probably 251 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 5: several times a week, we'd go out and take a 252 00:11:40,320 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 5: walk through the neighborhood, and there were all these new 253 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 5: homes being built, and they were big, two story homes, 254 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 5: really beautiful, really nice. And one day, as we were walking, 255 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 5: we decided to go through this one house that was 256 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 5: just being finished up. Nobody lived there yet, of course, 257 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 5: and so we went in and. 258 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 3: Like I said, it was just so beautiful. 259 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 5: I remember the living room was two stories reason had 260 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 5: windows all the way up to the top. 261 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 3: It was just so inspiring. 262 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 5: And as we walked out, we were standing on the 263 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 5: front porch, and I'll never forget what Victoria said. She said, Joel, 264 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 5: one day we're gonna live in a house just like this. 265 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 5: And she might as well say to me, Joel, one 266 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 5: day we're gonna live on Mars. I no more believe that, 267 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 5: I said, Victoria, what are you talking about. We could 268 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 5: never afford a place like this, we'd said up our 269 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 5: whole lifetime, and still not having that, just went in 270 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 5: one ear and out the other ear. 271 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 3: Didn't bother her a bit. She said, no, Joel, I 272 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 3: feel it right down in here. One day we're gonna 273 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 3: have a nice house like this. Do you know. 274 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 5: We stood out there on the sidewalk and debated that 275 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 5: for like thirty minutes. 276 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 3: She told me. 277 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 5: All the reasons why it could happen, and me, being 278 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 5: the great man of faith that I am, I told 279 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 5: her all the reasons why it would never happen. But see, 280 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,839 Speaker 5: God was trying to plant a new seed in my heart. 281 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 5: God was trying to use her to get me to 282 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 5: enlarge my vision, to believe for the extraordinary. But like 283 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 5: many people, I just looked at the natural. I tried 284 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 5: to figure it out in my own thinking, and every 285 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 5: time I did, my mind said, tilt tillt it is 286 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 5: not gonna happen. This is impossible. We have to understand 287 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 5: God's ways are not our ways. We think naturally, but 288 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 5: God thinks supernaturally. And Jesus said, if you can believe, 289 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 5: then all things are possible. In other words, if you'll 290 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 5: just let the seed take root, there's no limit to 291 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 5: what God can do in your life. 292 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 3: You may not be. 293 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 5: Able to figure out how your business is ever gonna grow. 294 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 5: Looks like you plateaued, it looks like you're having a 295 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 5: lot of problems, But don't do like me. Let the 296 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 5: seed take root. God can give you one new idea, 297 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 5: or he can give you one new client that could. 298 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 3: Turn everything around. 299 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 5: God could cause you to bump into somebody, to be 300 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 5: at the right place at the right time, and somebody 301 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 5: offer you a brand new opportunity. Conceive it on the inside. 302 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 5: Let hope fill your heart. Or maybe you're here today 303 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 5: and you don't see how your health could ever get better. 304 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 5: Every doctor, every specialist told you it's just too bad. 305 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 5: You've got to learn to live with it. Nothing they 306 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 5: can do. But no, God made your body. God can 307 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 5: supernaturally fix what's wrong. God can create what you need. 308 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 5: Why don't you let a new seed of hope take root? 309 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 5: Why don't you start declaring every day God is restoring 310 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 5: health back. 311 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 3: Unto me, I am getting better and better with long life. 312 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 3: He's gonna satisfy me. See, you got to get rid of. 313 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 5: Those old mindsets, old wine skins, in larger vision and 314 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 5: take the limits off of God. Several months went by, 315 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 5: and every time we went out to walk, Victoria did 316 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 5: the same thing. 317 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 3: One day, we're gonna have one of these houses. Well, 318 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 3: finally I had heard that so much. I gave in. 319 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 5: I let her convince me, and I let that seed 320 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 5: take root. I thought, after all, what's it gonna hurt 321 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 5: to put my faith out there. What's it gonna hurt 322 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 5: to get my hopes up? What's it gonna hurt to believe? 323 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 5: I'd rather believe for something great and get half of it, 324 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 5: rather than believe for nothing and get all of it. 325 00:14:58,680 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 3: And so we went out. 326 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 5: There, and every day we walked, we just kept on 327 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 5: thanking God for his goodness. Father, Thank you that you're 328 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 5: causing people to want to be good to us. Thank 329 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 5: you that You're hand of favors upon us. Thank you 330 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 5: that you're going to show your goodness in our lives. 331 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 3: We just kept watering that seed. 332 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 5: And do you know, one day out of the clear blue, 333 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 5: a builder knocked on our door and he offered to 334 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 5: buy half of our property for more money than we'd 335 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 5: paid for the whole thing. He eventually ended up building 336 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 5: two houses there, one for us and one for somebody else, 337 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 5: and we sold ours and long story shorts. Several years 338 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 5: later we were living in a house just like Victoria 339 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 5: had said. I've learned now to listen to her more often, 340 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 5: you know. But I don't believe that any of that 341 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 5: would have happened if I had not first conceived it 342 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 5: on the inside. 343 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 3: I had to enlarge my vision. 344 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 5: I had to see it through my eyes of faith. 345 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 5: And some of you today, God has been trying and 346 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 5: trying to plant new seeds in you, but like me, 347 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 5: you keep thinking, Man, that's never going to happen. I've 348 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 5: got too many odds against me. I'll never get promoted, 349 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 5: I've gone as far as my education allows. Or I'll 350 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 5: never get married. Joe, I've been single so long. 351 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 3: Why don't you let a new seed take root? As 352 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 3: I said, you can't. 353 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 5: Give birth to something if you don't conceive it. You've 354 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 5: got to change your thinking, change your attitude, start believe 355 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 5: in God for more, start expecting his favor kind to 356 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 5: make room for it in your own mind. I like 357 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 5: to think about it like a couple that's expecting a baby. 358 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 5: Once they find out that they're pregnant, they start making 359 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 5: preparations for that child. And the fact is they've never 360 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 5: physically seen their baby. The only proof they have probably 361 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 5: is a doctor's report or some kind of test. But 362 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 5: yet they'll go out and buy baby clothes and baby 363 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 5: furniture and get the house all baby proof. See, they're 364 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 5: making plans. A baby has been conceived, a. 365 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: Child is on its way. 366 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 5: Well, we should do the same thing once the seed 367 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 5: takes root. Not only make preparations in your mind, but 368 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 5: you need to take some steps to show your faith. 369 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 5: For instance, I know this couple that had a son 370 00:16:58,960 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 5: that was on drugs. 371 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 3: He was in his mid twenties, and he. 372 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 5: Had been running with the wrong crowd, living on his own, 373 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 5: just living a very rebellious life. And we'd prayed together 374 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 5: here at this altar many many times. That young man 375 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 5: was just breaking his parent's heart, but they refused to 376 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 5: give up on him. They refused to accept that as 377 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 5: the way it always had to be. They had a 378 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 5: seed of hope in their heart and they let it 379 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 5: take root. 380 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 3: They believed that one. 381 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 5: Day he would be in here with them, serving God. 382 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 5: They believed that he would be productive and fulfilling his destiny, 383 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,719 Speaker 5: and they made preparations for him to turn his life around. 384 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 5: They went out and bought a Bible and had his 385 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 5: name engraved on it. This young man would never come home, 386 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:42,119 Speaker 5: hardly even spoke to the parents, very much at odds 387 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 5: with them, but they just put that Bible on their 388 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 5: coffee table, and every time they walked by and saw 389 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 5: his name, they just used that as a reminder to 390 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 5: thank God that their child was going to come back home, 391 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 5: to thank God that one day their family would be reunited. 392 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 5: Do you know seven years went by, they never saw 393 00:17:58,800 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 5: any sign of change. 394 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 3: The sun hardly even spoke to them. 395 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 5: But one Friday night they told for no apparent reason, 396 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 5: he knocked on the door, said Mom and Dad, I 397 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 5: want to come back home. I want to get my 398 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 5: life straightened out. And just like the prodigal son, they 399 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 5: received him back with open arms and got in the 400 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 5: help that he needed. And now almost every time I 401 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 5: see that young man, he's holding that Bible that his 402 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 5: parents had bought for him over seven years before, so 403 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 5: always got it with him to see the seed took root, 404 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 5: and they showed their faith by making some preparations. I 405 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 5: know this other couple, they'd tried for several years to 406 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,880 Speaker 5: have a baby, but with no success. They had gone 407 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 5: through all the fertility treatments and didn't look like anything 408 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 5: was happening. But one day they decided to take it 409 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 5: a step further, and just to show their faith, they 410 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 5: went out and bought a little baby outfit, just a 411 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 5: little set of clothes, and they put it there in 412 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 5: their kitchen so that they could see it every time 413 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 5: they were in there. It helps to keep the vision 414 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 5: in front of you, says in a back to write 415 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 5: your vision down, do something to help you keep your 416 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 5: faith up. 417 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 3: Well. Just several months after she had. 418 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 5: Taken that step of faith and bought those clothes, that 419 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 5: young lady conceived, and not too long ago we dedicated 420 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 5: their little child here at the altar. And do you 421 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 5: know what that baby was wearing those very clothes that 422 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 5: they had bought for her. And the truth is that 423 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 5: was not the first time they had seen their baby 424 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 5: wearing those clothes. They had seen him many times through 425 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 5: their eyes of faith. See the seed took root. They 426 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 5: made preparations, they showed their faith. Maybe you're here today 427 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 5: and you've gone through some kind of disappointments, a marriage, 428 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,160 Speaker 5: a relationship didn't work out, some kind of dream has died. 429 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 5: But I would just encourage you that that is not 430 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 5: the end. God still has a great plan for your life. 431 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 5: And when one door closes, I know God will always 432 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 5: open up another door. Non't wall around in self pity. 433 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 5: Don't go around thinking, man, I've blown it. Life's all 434 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 5: downhill from here. No God wants to take the negative 435 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 5: things that have happened to you and turn them around 436 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 5: and use them. 437 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 3: To your advantage. 438 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 5: If one dream dies, you've got a dream in the dream. 439 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 5: If you get knocked down, get back up again. 440 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 3: God is still in control. 441 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 5: But don't let the enemy convince you that all it's 442 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 5: never gonna get any better and you're never gonna get 443 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,959 Speaker 5: well when Joel, those are great stories, but I know 444 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 5: I'll never have a nice house. My family will never 445 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 5: be restored. Now you've got to get rid of that 446 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 5: old wine skin. God does have good things in store 447 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 5: for you. And no matter what you've been through, no 448 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 5: matter how impossible it looks, it's not too difficult for 449 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 5: our God. God created the whole universe, and he's got 450 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 5: you in the palm of his hands. And if you'll 451 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 5: just dare to believe, if you'll dare to get your 452 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 5: hopes of you can rise higher. You can break out 453 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 5: of the bondages of the past, and you can see 454 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 5: a new beginning in your life. And some of you 455 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 5: are so focused on your faults and everything that you've 456 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 5: done wrong, and you're just convinced that God has finished 457 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 5: with you and you just need to sit on the 458 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 5: sidelines of life. But that could not be further from 459 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 5: the truth. Why don't you receive God's mercy? Why don't 460 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 5: you learn to forgive yourself and start expecting God's blessings 461 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 5: in his favor. I know too many people they're only 462 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 5: focused on their faults and weaknesses. You got to quit 463 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 5: looking at what you are not and start looking at 464 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 5: what you can be. You may have some habits today 465 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 5: that you're not proud of, or maybe you struggle with 466 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 5: some addictions. Let me tell you, if you go around 467 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 5: always feeling bad about yourself, guilty and condemned, that new 468 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 5: set of change will never take root. One of my 469 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 5: favorite scriptures is Philippians one six. 470 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,479 Speaker 3: You all know it. Be confident of this. He that 471 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 3: began a good work. 472 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 5: In you will continue to perform it until it's perfectly complete. 473 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 5: That means I may not be all I want to be, 474 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 5: But the good news is God is not through working 475 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 5: on me. I am not a finished product. If we're 476 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 5: ever going to rise higher, we have to have the 477 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 5: right image on the inside. You got to quit looking 478 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 5: at what you're not, what you don't have, and what 479 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 5: you can't do. Listen, you are a child of the 480 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 5: most tied God. You have his power on the inside 481 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 5: of you. You can do whatever you need to do 482 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 5: and accomplish things that you never even thought possible. When 483 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 5: you're up against obstacles or maybe some opportunities come your way, 484 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 5: don't you dare shrink back in fear, learn to rise 485 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,439 Speaker 5: up and become all God's created you to be. I know, 486 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 5: I never dreamed that I would be up here. I 487 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 5: never dreamed this was even in me. But when Daddy 488 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,719 Speaker 5: went to be with the Lord, I felt that I 489 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 5: was supposed. 490 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 3: To step up and pastor this church. 491 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 5: But the first thing I thought of were all the 492 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 5: reasons why I couldn't do it. 493 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 3: I thought, you know what, I've never spoken. 494 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 5: Before, and I'm not a preacher, and I don't feel qualified. 495 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,920 Speaker 5: There was this battle taking place on the inside. God 496 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 5: was trying to plan a new seed in me. He 497 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 5: was trying to promote me and take me into my 498 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 5: divine destiny. 499 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 3: But I had to make a decision. Was I going to. 500 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 5: Conceive the seed and hey, believe that I can do 501 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 5: this and take that step of faith. Or was I 502 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 5: going to do like I did with that first house 503 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 5: and keep my old wine skin and say, man, I 504 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 5: can't do that. 505 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 3: I'm too nervous. I'm too shy. I don't have what 506 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 3: it takes. 507 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 7: Now. 508 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 5: Thank God, this time I had learned. I let the 509 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 5: seed take root. The first thing I did is I 510 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 5: begin to see myself up here ministering to people. I 511 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 5: begin to see the building full. I begin to see 512 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 5: myself succeeding. I had it on the inside. And sure 513 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 5: there were nights where I woke up in the middle 514 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 5: of the night with a cold sweat, thinking what have 515 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 5: I done? 516 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 3: Nobody's ever gonna show up. 517 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 5: But no, I learned to get rid of those thoughts 518 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 5: of defeat, and I just speak to myself, Joe, you can. 519 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 3: Do all things through Christ. 520 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 5: You are strong in the Lord and the power of 521 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 5: his life. I tell myself, I am well able to 522 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 5: fulfill my destiny. What was happening is the seed was 523 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 5: taking root and growing and growing. Today I'm seeing it 524 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,439 Speaker 5: come to pass. I'm seeing God do more than I 525 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 5: could even ask or think. You can do the same thing. 526 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 5: You have so much more in you. God has planted 527 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 5: seeds of greatness. He wants you to excel at whatever 528 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 5: He's called you to do. Why don't you take the 529 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 5: limits off of him today? Why don't you start enlarge 530 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,520 Speaker 5: in your vision. You can be happier, you can be healthier, 531 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 5: you can be more fulfilled. But I can tell you 532 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 5: it all starts by conceiving it on the inside. In 533 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 5: other words, you need to get a picture of it. 534 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 5: You need to have an image of it. What you 535 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 5: see is so very important. And some people, when they 536 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,880 Speaker 5: look out into the future, all they see is more 537 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 5: of the same, mediocrity, defeat, failure. The whole problem is 538 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 5: they're conceiving the wrong seeds. 539 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 3: You've got to get rid of that. 540 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 5: Junk and start seeing yourself rising higher, start seeing yourself 541 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 5: healthier and happier and fulfilling your God given destiny. That's 542 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 5: the only way the seed is going to take root. 543 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 5: You've got to keep seeing it through your eyes of faith. 544 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 5: In Genesis chapter thirty, there's a story about Jacob and 545 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:38,959 Speaker 5: his uncle Laban. 546 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 3: And Jacob had worked for. 547 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 5: Laban for many, many years, but it wasn't a very 548 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 5: good relationship. Laban had not treated him fairly, and so 549 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 5: Jacob was ready to. 550 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 3: Go out on his own and do his own thing. 551 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 5: But he said Laban, I'll continue to take care of 552 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 5: your flocks if you'd like me to. And Laban said 553 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 5: that'd be great, But what do you want me to 554 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 5: pay you for it? And Jacob said, well, I'll make 555 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 5: a deal with you. You'll give me all the spotted 556 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 5: and streaked sheep and goats. That'll be my pay, and 557 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 5: you can keep all the solid colored ones. They're more 558 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 5: valuable anyway, and that way we'll always know the difference. 559 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 5: Yours are solid minor streaked and spotted. Laban said that 560 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,120 Speaker 5: sounds fine. But Laban was so dishonest. He went out 561 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 5: during the night and he took practically all the animals 562 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 5: that should have been Jacob's and gave him to one 563 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 5: of his sons, and then he made sure he took 564 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 5: all the mail spotted and streaked animals. And so Jacob 565 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 5: not only didn't get what he was supposed to, he 566 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 5: didn't have any way for his flocks to reproduce. But 567 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 5: in verse thirty seven, Jacob did something so interesting. It 568 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 5: says that he cut fresh cut branches off the tree, 569 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,399 Speaker 5: and he peeled the bark off of them in certain 570 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,360 Speaker 5: places to make them look spotted and streaked. I guess 571 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 5: the branches were kind of brown, and when. 572 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 3: He pulled the bark off, it was white. 573 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 5: And so now he's got all these spotted and streaked branches, 574 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 5: and he put them in front of the watering troughs 575 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 5: where the animals would come to drink water. And not 576 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 5: only would they drink water there, but that's where they 577 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 5: made it, that's where they bred and conceived. And so imagine, 578 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 5: as these animals are breeding, they are staring at these 579 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 5: spotted and streaked rods. And do you know the Bible 580 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:20,199 Speaker 5: says that when Laban's animals gave birth, even though they 581 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 5: were solid in color, their babies that were born were 582 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 5: spotted and streaked. God supernaturally made it up to Jacob. 583 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 5: He ended up having twice as many flocks as his 584 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 5: uncle Laban. But the point I want you to see is, 585 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 5: I believe one reason that Jacob put the spotted and 586 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 5: streaked branches in front of those animals is because he 587 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 5: knew they would produce what they saw. And really it's 588 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 5: the same principle with us today. We are going to 589 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,399 Speaker 5: produce what we're continually looking at. You are a child 590 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 5: of the Most High God. You were created to live 591 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 5: in victory, in health, in abundance. But do you know, 592 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 5: if you stay focused on the wrong things, if you 593 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 5: have the wrong image on the inside. 594 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 3: You will not produce what you should. 595 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 5: The seed will not take root, and some of you 596 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 5: today you need to peel some new branches. You need 597 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 5: to start looking at some better thing. Get a bigger 598 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 5: vision for your life. What kind of image do you. 599 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 3: Have in yourself? 600 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 5: If you see yourself not able to, then you will 601 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 5: never be able to. If you see yourself defeated and lonely, 602 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,360 Speaker 5: then you're going to live that kind of life. You've 603 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 5: got to change what you're seeing. Why don't you peel 604 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 5: some new branches. You ought to put Scripture verses up 605 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 5: all over your house, at the desk, in your car, 606 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 5: everywhere you go. You should see I can do all 607 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 5: things through Christ. I am more than a conqueror. I'm 608 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 5: the head and not the tail. Everything I touch prospers 609 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 5: and succeeds. If you start looking at that day in 610 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 5: and day out, you'll create a new image on the inside. 611 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 5: That seed will take root, and you'll begin to rise 612 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 5: to new levels of God's victory. So I just challenge 613 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 5: you again today, have a big vision for your life. 614 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 5: Get rid of those old wine skins, go beyond the 615 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 5: barriers of the past, and start expecting God to do 616 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 5: great things. 617 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 3: In your life. 618 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 5: You can rise higher, you can go further. Learn to 619 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,159 Speaker 5: conceive the good things of God. 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