1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you, and pray for 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. God bless you. It's 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: great to be with you today, and I hope you'll 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast, 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit 9 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: us in person. We'd love to have you be a 10 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: part of one of our services. But I like to 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this scientist. 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: He said to God, we've decided we no longer need you. 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: We can clone people and transplant hearts and do all 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: kinds of things once considered miraculous. God said, fine, but 15 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: to prove you don't need me, let's have a man 16 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 1: making contest. The only requirement is you have to make 17 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: man out of dirt. The scientist said great, and reached 18 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: down to pick up a handful of dirt. God said, 19 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: not so fast. Go get your own dirt. Say it 20 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,639 Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 21 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: what it says, I am. I have what it says 22 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: I have, I can do what it says I can do. 23 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God. I'll 24 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. 25 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 26 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 27 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: feed your faith. You get to choose what grows in 28 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: your life. What you're feeding is getting stronger. If you're 29 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: feeding doubt, thinking about what you can't do, and how 30 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: the obstacles are too big, and how you're at a disadvantage. 31 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: Because you're feeding it, that doubt is getting bigger, just 32 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: like you're giving it vitamins and nutrients, helping it to grow. 33 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 1: If you're feeding fear, what if I get laid off, 34 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: What if I come down with that illness. I'm afraid 35 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: for my children. That fear is growing, you're helping it 36 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: to become a reality. Sometimes we're feeding insecurity. I'm not attractive, 37 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: I don't have a good personality, I'm not that talented. 38 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: We wonder why we don't have much confidence and why 39 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: we don't feel valuable. It's because we're feeding the wrong things. 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: You've heard the saying you are what you eat. It's 41 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: the same thing in your mind. If you feed fear, 42 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: you're going to live fearful. If you feed discouragement, nothing 43 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: goods in my future. I have so many problems. You're 44 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: going to live discouraged if you feed the past. Look 45 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 1: what I've been through. They hurt me. I wasn't raised right. 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: If you keep dwelling on what didn't work out, the 47 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: mistakes you've made, even though God has beauty for the ashes, 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: even though there are great things in your future, because 49 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: you're feeding the past, you won't see it. You live 50 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 1: bitter in regrets with no passion. Pay attention to what 51 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: you're feeding. We all have doubt, fear, insecurity, guilt, but 52 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: we also have faith, hope, confidence, value, victory. Don't feed 53 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: things you don't want to grow. You have to starve 54 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: your doubts and feed your faith. Starve the discouragement and 55 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 1: feed your hope. Starve the inferiority and feed your confidence. 56 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: You'll be amazed at what happens if you'll quit giving 57 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: life to the negative and start feeding the positive. The 58 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: scripture says the enemy goes around as a roaring lion. 59 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: He has this loud roar, these threats trying to intimidate, 60 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: bring fear, cause us to shrink back. But if you 61 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: take a lion, a big, strong, healthy animal has these 62 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: incredible muscles, can run fast and chase down its prey, 63 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: jump and attack, has this powerful roar, this growl that 64 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: strikes fear. It's called the king of the jungle. He 65 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: rules wherever he goes. But if you were to quit 66 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: feeding that lion, you didn't give him any food for 67 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: a week, his growl is not going to be near 68 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: what it was in two weeks. He's not going to 69 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: have the strength the energy to attack like he used to. 70 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: In a month, he's going to be so weak, so famished, 71 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: he can't get up off the ground. We couldn't defeat 72 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: a lion one on one when he's healthy. He's way 73 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: too big and strong and powerful. But if you quit 74 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: feeding him, it's a different story. He loses all of 75 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: his power, his strength, his control. In the same way, fear, worry, 76 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: doubt can seem too powerful. We can't defeat it. It's 77 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: like it has the upper hand. But if you'll quit 78 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: feeding it, if you'll quit dwelling on it, quit giving 79 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: it attention, quit letting it play in your mind, little 80 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: by little, it'll get weaker and weaker. You'll get to 81 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,679 Speaker 1: the point where it can't control you. Every time doubt 82 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: comes saying nothing good is in your future. This sickness 83 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: is going to be the end. Your child is never 84 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: going to get back on course. That's the roaring lion 85 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: trying to deceive, manipulate, and limit. Now you get to 86 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: make the choice. Am I going to feed this lion? 87 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: When you dwell on it, It's like you're giving him food, 88 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: making the doubt stronger, the fear, the discouragement. Do yourself 89 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: a favor. Start starving those things. They lose all their 90 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: power when you quit feeding them. Instead of feeding your fears, 91 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: take that same energy and feed your hope. Feed your faith, 92 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: feed confidence, feed courage, feed value. I get up every 93 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: morning and say, Father, thank you that this is going 94 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,799 Speaker 1: to be a great day. Thank you that your favor 95 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: surrounds me like a shield. Thank you that I'm anointed, 96 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: equipped and empowered, that you've armed me with strength for 97 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: every battle. That's not just being positive. That's feeding my faith, 98 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: that's feeding my hope. What you're feeding is growing. I 99 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: found that fear can't stay where faith lives. Doubt can't 100 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: stay where hope lives. Defeat can't stay where victory lives. 101 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: You hear about all these different kinds of diets and 102 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: no carb diet. You can't eat any carbohydrates people that 103 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: struggle with diabetes, no sugar diet. There's a no red 104 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 1: meat diet, a gluten free diet. I have a friend 105 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: that eats no white flour and no dairy. We went 106 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: to lunch the other day and I ordered a hamburger 107 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: and French fries, and he ordered a piece of tree bark. 108 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,119 Speaker 1: He can't eat anything. I felt bad about eating my food, 109 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 1: but he's so disciplined about it. I'm not a nutritionists, 110 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, but I'm putting you on a 111 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: very strict diet. No more worry, no more doubt, no 112 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: more insecurity, offense, bitterness, self pity, shame, regrets. Your new 113 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: diet is restricted to faith. Food. Feed your faith, feed 114 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 1: your hope, feed peace, feed joy, feed positive expectations, Feed 115 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: the promises God put in your heart, feed the dreams 116 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: He's placed in your spirit. You're going to become what 117 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: you're feeding positive, hopeful, confidence, secure, valuable or negative, worried, doubtful, afraid, inferior. 118 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: I can be around a person twenty minutes and tell 119 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: what they've been feeding by what they're saying, their attitude, 120 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: how they respond to pressure, how they handle adversity, enjoy 121 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: just my luck. Seems like trouble follows me around. I 122 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: always have these disappointments. They're feeding discouragement. Another person, same circumstances. 123 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: I know what was meant for harm. God's turning to 124 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: my advantage. I'm gonna come out better than I was before. 125 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: They're feeding faith. I never get any good breaks. People 126 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: at work don't appreciate me. I'm always overlooked. Another person, 127 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: same situation. Something good is going to happen to me. 128 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: Blessings are chasing me down. The favor of God is 129 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: on my life. I'll always be lonely. I don't think 130 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: I'll ever meet anyone and fall in love. This is 131 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: just my lot in life. They're feeding doubt. They are 132 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: what they eat. They think single, they think lonely, they 133 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: think unattractive, and they become that another person, same circumstance. 134 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: The right person is headed my way, a divine connection, 135 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: somebody better than I've imagined. They're feeding faith. They become attractive, 136 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: they become favored, They draw in the goodness of God, 137 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: or how about this problem will never change, This sickness, 138 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: this trouble at work, this wayward child, I'm always gonna 139 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: have to deal with it. They're feeding the negative. They 140 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: become more discouraged another person. This trouble didn't come to stay, 141 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: it came to pass. I know it's only temporary. A 142 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: breakthrough is coming. Things are about to shift in my favor. 143 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: They're feeding hope, feeding expectancy. That's what causes God to 144 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: go to work. Years ago, there was a man that 145 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: did work at the other church, some maintenance and landscaping, 146 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: some repairs. And I was in the television department back then, 147 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: and I would see him from time to time during 148 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: the week, and he was very friendly, but he was 149 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: so negative. Every time we would talk, he would tell 150 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: me how tough life was and how he was having 151 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: problems at home, a leak in the roof, a child 152 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 1: causing him trouble. He didn't know how he's going to 153 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 1: be able to pay his bills. He would constantly use 154 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: the phrase is so hard a dozen times in a 155 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: short conversation. And I'm not saying that there weren't difficulties, 156 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: but he was making it so much worse, feeding the 157 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: wrong things. There was faith in him, there was hope, 158 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 1: there was victory, but it never got fed. He starved 159 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: his faith and fed his fears. He starved his hope 160 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: and fed his doubt. In his early fifties, he was 161 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,959 Speaker 1: diagnosed with a terminal disease, and he lived a couple 162 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: more years, and then he passed a very sad, discouraging life. 163 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: I thought about how all those years he had told 164 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: me how hard life was, and how it was such 165 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: a struggle. There was so much disappointment. You become what 166 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:33,959 Speaker 1: you eat. If you're always feeding doubt and discouragement. I'm 167 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: afraid I'm gonna get sick. This problem's never going to change. 168 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: You were drawing in all the defeat, the struggle, the heartache. 169 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: You need to get back on your diet. Quit eating 170 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: junk food and start eating faith food. When doubt comes 171 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:54,199 Speaker 1: saying you'll always struggle, You'll always have difficulties paying your bills, 172 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: no funds for your dreams, never get out of debt. 173 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: Just say no, thanks, you're not on my diet. I 174 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: only eat faith food. Father, thank you that you're supplying 175 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: all of my needs. You said I would lend and 176 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: not borrow, that my cup would run over, that I 177 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: live under the open windows of heaven, blessings that I 178 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: cannot contain. That's feeding your faith, not your doubts. That's 179 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: what allows God to go to work. When fear comes 180 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: trying to get you to worry, what about your children? 181 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: Are they safe in school? What about the crime? There's 182 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: so much violence? What are you going to do? Don't 183 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: feed that fear. It's not on your diet. Switch over 184 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: into faith. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not fear. 185 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: No weapon formed against me will prosper. A thousand may 186 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: fall at my side, ten thousand at my right hand, 187 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: but it will not come near me. You keep doing that, 188 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: and fear is getting weaker and weaker, and your faith 189 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: is getting stronger and stronger. You're becoming what you eat. 190 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: You'll have a peace and a trust knowing that God 191 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: has you in the palm of his hand. Or when 192 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: thoughts whisper, You're not that valuable, You're not attractive. Look 193 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: at how beautiful your cousin is, Look at how talented 194 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: that coworker is. What happened to you? Just say no thanks, 195 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: that's not on my eating plan. I have a very 196 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: strict diet. I don't feed insecurity. I don't feed inferiority. 197 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: I don't feed shame and guilt, not up to par 198 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: I feed confidence. I feed value. Father, you said, I 199 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,439 Speaker 1: am fearfully and wonderfully made. You call me a masterpiece, 200 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: one of a kind. You've crowned me with favor. You 201 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:39,199 Speaker 1: put royal blood flowing through my veins. I know I'm 202 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: not ordinary. I'm a child of the most High God. 203 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: You go around thinking like that, and insecurity cannot stay. 204 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: You'll have a boldness, a confidence to put your shoulders back, 205 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: to hold your head up high, knowing that you're a 206 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: son a daughter of Almighty God. In the Scripture, a 207 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: young man named Ghildean was hiding in a wine press, 208 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: afraid of the Midianites. Every time the people of Israel 209 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: would grow crops or have any kind of flocks and herds, 210 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: the Midianites would come and raid the city and take 211 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: whatever they wanted. They were much bigger and more powerful 212 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: than the Israelites. Well, Gideon was threshing wheat in this 213 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: cave so he wouldn't be seen. An angel appeared and said, 214 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,960 Speaker 1: mighty hero, the Lord is with you. You are to 215 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: deliver the Israelites from this enemy. He said to the Angel, 216 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: how can I deliver the people? I come from the 217 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: poorest family, and I'm the least one in my father's house. 218 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: You can tell what Gideon's been feeding insecurity, doubt, fear, 219 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,560 Speaker 1: I'm not talented enough, I come from the wrong family. 220 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: We're at a disadvantage. God knew if Gideon was going 221 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: to fulfill his purpose, he had to get him to 222 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: change his diet. That's why the Angel showed up and said, 223 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: mighty Hero. He could have just said, hey, Gideon, God 224 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: wants you to go do something, just called him by 225 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: his name. But when he said mighty hero, something came 226 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: alive in Gideon, a spark of faith. He thought, doesn't 227 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: he know I'm poor, that I come from the weakest family, 228 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: that I'm not leadership material? Why is he calling me 229 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: a hero? As if am I missing something? He was intrigued. 230 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: Maybe he knows something about me that I don't know. 231 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: After he told the Angel these excuses of why he 232 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: couldn't do it, and how his family wasn't qualified and 233 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: he wasn't influential enough, God could have said, find Gideon, 234 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: I'll go find someone else, someone more confident, more talented, 235 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: more courageous. Oh, God said to him, Gideon, you will 236 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man. 237 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: Gideon was at this critical point. Am I going to 238 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: keep feeding my doubt, my fear, my insecurity? Or am 239 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: I going to get in on new diet? Am I 240 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: going to believe I am who God says I am, 241 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: that I can do what God says I can do. 242 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: That I'm not lacking, unqualified, not able, but I'm a 243 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: mighty hero raised up to leave my mark. Gideon did 244 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: what we all must do. He quit eating the junk food. 245 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: He changed what he was feeding. Instead of feeding fear, 246 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: he started feeding faith. Instead of feeding intimidation, he started 247 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: feeding courage. Instead of feeding the weak, poor, defeated man 248 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: hiding in the wine press, he started feeding the mighty hero. 249 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: He changed his attitude from I can't do this to God, 250 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 1: I know you being for me is more than the 251 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: world being against me. He went out with just three 252 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: hundred men and defeated this army of thousands and thousands, 253 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: a supernatural victory. He became what he was feeding. Could 254 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: it be like, Gideon, you're feeding the wrong things. You're 255 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: dwelling on what you can't do how You've made too 256 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: many mistakes and you come from a limited family or 257 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: that giant, the sickness, the addiction, the dream is too big. 258 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: God is saying to you what he said to Gideon. 259 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 1: You're a mighty hero. You are destined to do great things. 260 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: You are not limited by your background, your education, by 261 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: how big the opposition is. What limits us is our 262 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: wrong diet, our thinking. Stop feeding the limited average can't 263 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: do it you, and start feeding the mighty hero you. 264 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: I can do all things through Christ. I am strong 265 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: in the Lord, equipped, empowered, and anointed. This is what 266 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: I had to do when my father went to be 267 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: with the Lord. I stepped up to pastor the church. 268 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: But I was very insecure and nervous. I didn't feel qualified. 269 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: I didn't have the training. Every thought told me that 270 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. Nobody's going to listen to you, Joel. 271 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: You're going to get up there and fail. The enemy 272 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: specializes in serving junk food, doubt, fear, inferiority, and for 273 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 1: years I had convinced myself that I couldn't minister. That's 274 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 1: what I told my dad. I didn't have the right personality. 275 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: I was too quiet. I wouldn't know what to say. 276 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,719 Speaker 1: I had fed those thoughts again and again, and I 277 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: became what I was feeding, intimidated, insecure, no way. But 278 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: when my father died, something changed on the inside. There 279 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: was this boldness, this faith. All of a sudden, I 280 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: believed I could do it. I had never felt that before. 281 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: It was like God showed up and said, Joel, you're 282 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: a mighty hero. This is your time to shine. I 283 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: felt the faith, but the problem was the doubt didn't leave, 284 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: the fear didn't leave, the insecurity. I had to make 285 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: a decision. Am I going to keep feeding this fear, 286 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,919 Speaker 1: this doubt, this intimidation, or am I going to change 287 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: my diet and start feeding faith, feeding, hope, feeding courage. 288 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: I did what I'm asking you to do. When fear 289 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,359 Speaker 1: came san joy, you're not going to know what to say. 290 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 1: You better not get up there. I said, no, thanks, 291 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 1: You're not on my diet. I am well able. The 292 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: favor of God is on my life. I've been raised 293 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,680 Speaker 1: up for such a time as this. But Joe, you're 294 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 1: not qualified. You've never been to cemetery, I mean seminary. 295 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: You don't have the degrees. Lord. I thank you that 296 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: you qualified me. You chose me before I was born. 297 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: You've approved me, you've anointed me, You've put your hand 298 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: of blessing on my life. I would not be up 299 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: here today if I had not changed my diet. I've 300 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: learned to say, on a very strict eating plan, it's 301 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:56,400 Speaker 1: easy to feed worried feed bitterness, feed hurts, betrayals, negative 302 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: things people have said. You need to pay them back. 303 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: They're making you look bad. Don't feed that. That's junk food. 304 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: You can't feed faith and feed fear at the same time. 305 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: You can't feed hope when you're feeding bitterness. You can't 306 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 1: feed peace when you're trying to get even with that coworker. 307 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: You can't feed the mighty hero if you're feeding insecurity, 308 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: comparing yourself to a friend. Life is short. You need 309 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: all your energy for the right things. Every time you 310 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: feed worry, that's energy you could be using to feed faith. 311 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: When you feed doubts, that's taking time away from the 312 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: dreams you could be feeding. Bottom line, don't feed what 313 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: you don't want to grow. If you'll start starving the doubt, 314 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: not dwelling on how it's not going to work out, 315 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: how you'll never get well starving the insecurity. How you're 316 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: not up to par, you're at a disadvantage. Starving the fear. 317 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 1: What if I get laid off? What if I never 318 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: meet one? Use that same energy to feed faith, feed hope, 319 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 1: feed victory. Maybe you're struggling with an illness, those negative 320 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: thoughts will come. What if you don't get better? What 321 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: if this is more serious? What if it doesn't work out. 322 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: If you feed that fear, it's going to pull you down, 323 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: get your discouraged. It's harder to recover when you're worried 324 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: and stressed. Try a different approach. Don't feed the fear, 325 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: you don't want it bigger. Feed your faith. That's what 326 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: you want to grow all through the day in your thoughts. 327 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: Under your breath, Father, thank you that you're restoring health 328 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: back into me. Thank you that healing, wholeness, strength, energy, 329 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 1: vitality is flowing through my body. That's building up your faith, 330 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: building up your hope. In the scripture, several times it 331 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: compares the life of a believer to an eagle. Isaiah 332 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: said they will mount up with wings like the eagles. Well, 333 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: eagles are known for sorel how they can rise above 334 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: the storms. They're known for their keen sense of vision. 335 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: They can spot a fish in the ocean from one 336 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: hundred yards away. They're a strong, majestic bird. It's been 337 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: said the strength of the eagle is found in its diet, 338 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: and eagle feeds off of live foods. Their main source 339 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: of food is fresh fish and other live animals. They 340 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: don't feed off of dead things nearly as much as 341 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 1: other animals. It's not a coincidence that God chose an 342 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:36,359 Speaker 1: eagle to compare us to, and eagle doesn't go around 343 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: eating junk food. It couldn't soar and reach great heights 344 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: if it was feeding on the wrong things. In the 345 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: same way, our strength is found in our diet. We're 346 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: not gonna soar if we're eating dead things. Worry, bitterness, doubt, fear. 347 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 1: That's junk food. That's going to limit your height, cloud 348 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: your vision, stunt your growth. You need to feed on 349 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: live food, faith, hope, favor victory. When you're in tough times, 350 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: it's easy to go get some junk food. Why did 351 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: this happen? God, where were you? I don't understand it. No, 352 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: get some faith food. Father, you said, many are the 353 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: afflictions of the righteous. But you've delivered me out of 354 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: them all. Lord, I think I'm coming out better than 355 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: I was before. Well, Joe, my child got off course. 356 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 1: I don't think he'll ever get back on track. That's 357 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: feeding discouragement. That dead food is going to drag you down. 358 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: Feed on live food. Father, Thank you that as for 359 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: me and my house, we will serve the Lord. That 360 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: my children are marked, set apart, called anointed, that they 361 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: are mighty in the land, that they will fulfill their destinies. 362 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: Or your dream may seem too big. You don't have 363 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: the connections. No doors have opened. It's tempting to eat 364 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: dead food. It's never gonna happen. Was it meant to be. 365 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: I don't have what it takes that's going to talk 366 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,280 Speaker 1: you out of it. Eating dead food is causing the 367 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: wrong things to grow. Doubt, discouragement. You can't do it. 368 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: Change your diet. You're not a chicken pecking around on 369 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: the ground and anything they can find. You're not a 370 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: crow eating roadkill, leftover stinky stell. That junk's going to 371 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: poison your spirit. You're an eagle. You were made for 372 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: live food. The healthiest food you can find is what 373 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: God says about you. Father, My dream looks impossible, but 374 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 1: I know you can do the impossible, and you're making 375 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: ways where I don't see away that your favors causing 376 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 1: me to stand out that what you have promised me 377 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: will come to pass. That's feeding faith, feeding hope. That's 378 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: what's going to cause you to soar in gold places 379 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: that you've never dreamed. This is where the Israelites missed it. 380 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: God brought them out of slavery, and they saw the 381 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: Red Sea part and Fro's army drowned water come out 382 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 1: of a rock. God supernaturally delivered them and sustained them. 383 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: They were headed toward the promised land. When Moses sent 384 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: twelve men to spy out, ten came back and said, Moses, 385 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: we don't have a chance. There are giants in the land. 386 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: The people are huge. We felt like grasshoppers compared to them. 387 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: After all God had done, you would think they would 388 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 1: be confident, believe that they could take the land. But 389 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: instead of feeding their faith, they made the mistake of 390 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: feeding their fears. That negative report got back to the camp, 391 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: and before long all two million people were discouraged, afraid, 392 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 1: saying Moses, let's go back to Egypt. Let's just go 393 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: back to being slaves. That's how powerful what we're feeding is. 394 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: If you feed the wrong things, it will keep you 395 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: out of your promised land. There were two other spies, 396 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: Joshua and Caleb. They said, we are well able. Let 397 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: us go in at one and take the land. They 398 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: fed their faith, not their fears. They were the only 399 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: two out of all those people that ever went into 400 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: the Promised Land. Are you feeding the grasshopper or are 401 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: you feeding the mighty Hero? They're both in you. You 402 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: determine which one is going to show up by what 403 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: you're feeding, what you're dwelling on, what's playing in your mind. 404 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: Is it faith like Joshua and Caleb, knowing that you 405 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: are well able, knowing that God being for you is 406 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 1: more than what's against you. Or are you feeding the grasshopper. 407 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 1: We can't get the compact center, and that other company's 408 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: too big. I can't beat this cancer, Joel. The doctor said, 409 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: it's permanent. I'll never get out of debt. Everybody in 410 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: my family struggles. Do yourself a favor. Change your diet, 411 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 1: quit feeding the grasshopper, the doubt, the worry, the fear, 412 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: and start feeding your faith. Friends, you have an assignment 413 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: there's a calling on your life. Something God is destined 414 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: you to accomplish. He didn't put you here to just 415 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: take up's face hopefully make it through. He created you 416 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 1: to leave your mark, to set a new standard for 417 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: your family. He's put greatness in you. There's a mighty 418 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 1: hero waiting to emerge. Here's the key. The enemy would 419 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 1: love to deceive us in defeating the grasshopper. Living weak, intimidated, 420 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: thinking you can't do it no more, eating junk food. 421 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 1: You can't soar like the eagles if you're eating dead things. 422 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: Stay on this new diet. Faith food, feed your hope, 423 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: feed your confidence, feed the promises God put in your heart. 424 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,479 Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe and declare. Forces that 425 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: have held you back are being broken right now, like 426 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: get in. The mighty hero is about to come out, 427 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: Like Joshua and Caleb. You're going to go into your 428 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: promised land and become all that you were created to 429 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 1: be in Jesus. 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