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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 5: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 5: blessing and share it with a friend. 37 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 3: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 3: your life. Well, God bless you. It is always a 39 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,919 Speaker 3: joy to come into your homes and with good news. 40 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 3: We know God is on your side. And if God 41 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 3: be for you, who dare even be against you? If 42 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 3: you believe, all things are possible. So thanks for tuning 43 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 3: in today. If you're ever in our area, I hope 44 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 3: you'll come out and be a part of one of 45 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 3: our services. These are the finest people in all of 46 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 3: Houston right here. They'll make you feel right at home, 47 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 3: and you'll like our new facility as well, So come 48 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 3: see us sometime. I like to start with something funny. 49 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 3: And I heard about this man and his wife and 50 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 3: they argued for several months about who was to make 51 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: the coffee in the morning. The man thought it was 52 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 3: definitely the wife's job, but she just didn't agree, and 53 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 3: they had several heated debates on this, and finally one 54 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,040 Speaker 3: day the wife came up and said, honey, I found 55 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: in the Bible where it clearly says the man is 56 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 3: to make the coffee. He said, what are you talking about. 57 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 3: The Bible doesn't say anything about that. She said, sure doesn't. 58 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 3: She called him over and she opened it up and 59 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 3: pointed to the Book of Hebrews. Hold up your Bible. 60 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 3: Say it like you mean it. Ready, this is my Bible. 61 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 3: I am what it says. I I am. I have 62 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 3: what it says I have. I can do what it 63 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 3: says I can do. Today I will be taught the 64 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 3: word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, 65 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 3: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 66 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 3: I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living 67 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 3: seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same, never, never, never, 68 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 3: I'll never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 69 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 3: We've been talking about the power of our thoughts and 70 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 3: how important it is that we keep them going in 71 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 3: a positive direction. If we give in to fear and 72 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 3: worry and we go around in a negative frame of mind, 73 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 3: then our life is going to go in a negative direction. 74 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 3: Fear activates the enemy's power, but faith activates God's power. 75 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: And when we get up in the morning, we should 76 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 3: expect good things. We should expect this to be a 77 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 3: productive day. You'd expect to be at the right place 78 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: at the right time. We should expect our families to 79 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 3: prosper and succeed. But some of you are not expecting enough. 80 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 3: You just expect to barely get by. You expect to 81 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 3: get the short end of the stick. You're not expecting 82 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 3: to excel in your family. In your careers, You're gonna 83 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 3: have to raise your level of expectancy. If you're in 84 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 3: cells and you go to a big presentation this week, 85 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 3: don't go in there afraid. Don't go in there with 86 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 3: no confidence, not expecting to get it. No, get out 87 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 3: of fear and get over into faith. Expect to have 88 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 3: God's favor, Expect those people to like you. Expect to 89 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 3: get that new contract. See, we can choose to live 90 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 3: each day in faith expecting good things, or we can 91 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 3: choose to live in fear and just go around expecting 92 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,679 Speaker 3: the worst. And unfortunately, that's what a lot of people 93 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 3: do today. They go to a job interview not really 94 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 3: expecting to get it. They drop their child off at 95 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 3: school expecting him to get in trouble. Joel, he just 96 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 3: can't sit still. I'm sure I'll get a call in 97 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 3: a couple of hours. No, you've already lost the battle. 98 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 3: Quit expecting the worst and start expecting the best. You're 99 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 3: going to get exactly what you're expecting. That's what Jesus 100 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 3: said here in Matthew nine twenty nine. According to your faith, 101 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 3: be it done unto you. One translation says, have what 102 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 3: your faith expects. We have to understand God meets us 103 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 3: at the level of our expectations. I don't think we 104 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 3: realize how often we fall into that old rut of 105 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 3: just expecting the worst. I remember when our son Jonathan 106 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 3: was just a baby, maybe a year old. We were 107 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,279 Speaker 3: in a restaurant eating one night and I was holding 108 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 3: him on my shoulder and this couple came up we 109 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 3: didn't know, and they started to talk and actually they 110 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 3: were complimenting us on how good he was being, how 111 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 3: quiet he was. But just before the man left, he said, 112 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 3: you just wait until he gets to be about two, 113 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 3: he'll turn into another person. He's good now, but it's 114 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 3: not gonna last long. Those Terrible twos are coming. And man, 115 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 3: that just didn't hit me right. And when they left, 116 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 3: I told Victoria, I do not receive what he said. 117 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 3: I am not expecting Jonathan to go through the Terrible twos. 118 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna give that junk any place in my mind. 119 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 3: And we just sort of turned it around. We said, 120 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 3: for us, we're gonna believe it's not gonna be the 121 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 3: Terrible twos, but it's gonna be the terrific twos. And 122 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,599 Speaker 3: do you know, Jonathan, he was two years old, didn't 123 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 3: give us any problem, three four or five. He's ten 124 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 3: years old, and we're not expecting him to give us problems. 125 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 3: We're expecting him to excel. We're expecting him to make 126 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 3: good choices. We're expecting him to do great things in life. 127 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 3: Your children as well, are gonna rise to the level 128 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 3: of your own expectations. If you expect them to get 129 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 3: in trouble and you expect them to give you a 130 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 3: hard time, you're gonna get exactly what you're expecting. You're 131 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 3: so in a seed for it by that wrong negative thinking. 132 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 3: Now you need to expect your children to be the 133 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 3: head and not the tell. You need to expect them 134 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 3: to be leaders wherever they go. You need to expect 135 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 3: them to choose good friends according to your faith. It's 136 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 3: gonna be done unto you. I don't know about you, 137 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 3: but I'm putting my faith out there for my children. 138 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 3: I'm already believing they're gonna marry the exact right person, 139 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 3: the one God ordained before the foundation of the world. 140 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 3: I'm believing my children gonna work with us in the 141 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: ministry and help us to carry out what my parents started. 142 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 3: I'm believing each of my children are gonna live long, 143 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 3: healthy lives, prosperous lives. Let's expect good things. Our children 144 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 3: need to know that we believe in them. They've already 145 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 3: got enough negative things trying to pull them down. Let's 146 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 3: do our part and encourage them. Let's build them up. 147 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: Let's speak words of faith and victory over their lives. 148 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 3: And I know as we do that we will see 149 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 3: them rise to those new levels. And some of you today, 150 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 3: you've gotten so focused on the negative and all your 151 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 3: child's doing wrong. You've just about convinced yourself that they're 152 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 3: not gonna mount to much. They're just gonna flounder through life. 153 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 3: You've got to change your attitude. God is going to 154 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: hold you responsible. They may not be perfect, but you 155 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 3: need to start sowing some new seeds of hope and 156 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 3: encouragement into their lives. Your children need to know that 157 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 3: you think they're the greatest, that you think there's nothing 158 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 3: they can't do. It may not look like it today, 159 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 3: but you've got to do it by faith. You've got 160 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 3: to call the things that are not as if they 161 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 3: already were. Or what are you expecting out of your children? 162 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 3: Let me challenge you set the bar high. They'll do 163 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 3: great things if you'll just believe in them and really 164 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 3: get behind them. I know sometimes when you have small 165 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 3: children like we do, people say, well, just wait until 166 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 3: they get to be teenagers, Just wait until they're able 167 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 3: to drive and if you're not careful, you'll almost start 168 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 3: expecting them to get off course, start expecting them to 169 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 3: kind of be rebellious. Had A lady asked me just 170 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 3: last week. She said, Joey, you got to pray for 171 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 3: my teenager. I'm so worried about him. I'm so afraid 172 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 3: he's going to get off into trouble, start running with 173 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 3: the wrong craft. I said, well, I'll certainly pray, but 174 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 3: is he giving you problems now? I mean it's like 175 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 3: something was terribly wrong. She said, oh, no, he's a 176 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 3: great kid. I'm just afraid something bad is gonna happen. 177 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 3: And I told her what I'm telling you, quit giving 178 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 3: in to that fear. Quit expecting the worst. That opens 179 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 3: the door to trouble. Fear works just like faith. When 180 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 3: you go around in faith expecting good things, you're gonna 181 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 3: see God's blessings in favor. But if you get over 182 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 3: into fear and go around expecting the worst, you're gonna 183 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 3: see negative things begin to happen. I remember when I 184 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 3: was in college. One night I was studying for a 185 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 3: test with a friend of mine and we were going 186 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 3: over this one particular area. I'll never forget what he said. 187 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 3: He said, Joel, I know if they asked me this 188 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 3: on the test, I'm not gonna get it right. I've 189 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 3: never been able to get this down, and I know 190 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 3: I just will not remember how to do it. See, 191 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 3: he was already planning to miss it. He was already 192 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 3: expecting to fail, expecting the worst. Really, the right attitude 193 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 3: should have been if they ask me this, I know 194 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 3: them will get it right. I've studied, I've prepared, and 195 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 3: I believe God will bring it back to my memory. 196 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 3: You've got to learn to just turn it around. Train 197 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 3: yourself to expect good things. Learn to stay in faith, 198 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 3: not in fear. The scripture tells us in tewod Timothy 199 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 3: one point seven that God has not given us a 200 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 3: spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and 201 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 3: of a sound mind. The amplified version tells us what 202 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,239 Speaker 3: a sound mind is. It says it's a well balanced 203 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 3: and disciplined mind. In other words, we're not going to 204 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 3: have any power if we don't first know how to 205 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 3: discipline our mind. I'm not going to live in victory 206 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 3: if we don't know how to control our thought life 207 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 3: and every day, we're going to have all kinds of 208 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 3: negative discouraging thoughts bombarding our minds. And we cannot stop 209 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 3: those thoughts from coming, but we can choose whether or 210 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 3: not we're going to dwell on them. I heard somebody say, 211 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 3: you can't keep the birds from flying over your head, 212 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 3: but you can keep them from building a nest in 213 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 3: your hair. And in the same way, just because that 214 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 3: old thought comes that hey, you're gonna get cancer just 215 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 3: like your mother, or that company's gonna lay you off, 216 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 3: you know it's coming, or your marriage that's never gonna work. Now, 217 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 3: you don't have to dwell on that junk. Get it 218 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 3: out of your mind, Stay in faith, stay hopeful, expect 219 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 3: good things. See, the only doorway the enemy has into 220 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 3: your life is through your thinking. The battle is taking 221 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 3: place right here. And if you can just stand guard 222 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 3: over that doorway and learn to think good thoughts and 223 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 3: expect good things, then you can live a victorious life. 224 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 3: And I know we have a lot of families here 225 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 3: and families that watch that have other family members in 226 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 3: the military. There are all these soldiers overseas, and you know, 227 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 3: many of them are in very dangerous places, and we 228 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 3: pray every day for their safe return. We pray for 229 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 3: the families back at home as well. But if that's you, 230 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 3: you need to especially be on guard. So easy to 231 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 3: go around in fear. Man, I'm afraid something's gonna happen 232 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 3: to my son, my daughter. I'm afraid they're not gonna 233 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 3: come home. I'm afraid they're gonna be injured. Now, don't 234 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 3: fall into that trap. Get out of fear and get 235 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 3: over into faith. When you're tempted to worry and you're 236 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 3: tempted to get all negative, don't learn to just switch 237 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 3: it around. Say Father, thank you that your angels have 238 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 3: charge over my son, my daughter. I know you've got 239 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,040 Speaker 3: him in the palm of your hand. So I refuse 240 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 3: to worry. I refuse to give into fear. I know 241 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 3: you're in control. See, don't fear the worst, believe the best. 242 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 3: Expect to see him, Expect the angels to protect him, 243 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 3: Expect him to come home healthy and hold. That's what 244 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 3: activates God's power. You got to stand guard over the 245 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 3: doorway of your mind, and nobody can do this for you. 246 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 3: You've got to learn how to cast down those negative, 247 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 3: discouraging thoughts. Says in Second Corinthians ten, verse four, that 248 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 3: we need to get rid of every evil imagination. And 249 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 3: do you know, if you dwell on a negative thought 250 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 3: long enough, you'll start seeing all kinds of negative scenarios 251 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 3: in your mind. Just like a movie screen, Your mind 252 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 3: will play out every worst possible situation. You'll see that 253 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 3: family member not coming home. You'll see your marriage falling apart, 254 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 3: you'll see your financial situation going downhill. No, don't dwell 255 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 3: on that junk, and especially don't go around talking about it. 256 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 3: We give life to what we believe by what we say. 257 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 3: If you go around saying I am strong in the 258 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 3: Lord and I know God has protecting my children and 259 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 3: my marriage is getting better and better. When you do that, 260 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 3: you're giving life to your faith. But if you go 261 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 3: around saying, man, I'm so worried about my child, and 262 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 3: I saw on the news last week all these people 263 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 3: getting hurt and I just don't know. No, don't give 264 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 3: life to your fears by speaking it out. Something happens 265 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 3: when we verbalize a thought. It takes on a new meaning. 266 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 3: Those roots go down deeper and deeper. And if you 267 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 3: keep talking about it and keep thinking about it, you're 268 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 3: gonna give that more and more life. That's why it's 269 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 3: so important that you guard your mind and take control 270 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 3: of your thought life. For instance, you can be going 271 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 3: through the day all happy and fine, and all of 272 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 3: a sudden you got a pain in your sight. It's 273 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 3: no big deal, you just had too much for lunch. 274 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 3: But the first thought that comes to your mind, the 275 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 3: enemy will tell you, Hey, that's cancer. Your mom had it, 276 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 3: your grandmother had it. Now it's your turn. And if 277 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 3: you dwell on that light long enough you know this 278 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 3: is true. You'll begin to see yourself in the hospital. 279 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 3: You'll see yourself not raising your children in your mind. 280 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 3: You can see yourself at the funeral. Now, don't even 281 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 3: let your mind go there. The Bible tells us to 282 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 3: meditate on God's word. It says to think on things 283 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 3: that are hopeful, things that are of a good report, 284 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 3: things that are gonna build you up and not tear 285 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 3: you down. If you feel that pain, I'm not saying 286 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 3: to deny it, but you need to dwell on the 287 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 3: fact that no weapon formed against me is gonna prosper 288 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 3: with long life. I know God's gonna satisfy me. Or 289 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 3: maybe you're here today and you've gone through a lot 290 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 3: of disappointments and you're just about convinced that nothing good's 291 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 3: ever gonna happen to you. No, don't dwell on that. 292 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 3: You need to say. Father, you said if I would 293 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 3: obey you, your blessings would chase me down and overtake me. 294 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 3: So I thank you that you do have good things 295 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 3: in store. I'm gonna say with the psalmist David, that 296 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 3: goodness and mercy are gonna follow me all the days 297 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 3: of my life. See learned to just turn it around, 298 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 3: stay in faith, not in fear. Some of you, this 299 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,200 Speaker 3: is the whole thing that's keeping you down. You're always 300 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 3: expecting the worst, expecting failure, expecting defeed, expecting your children 301 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 3: to get off course. The problem is when you do that, 302 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 3: you've got the wrong things chasing you down. If you'll 303 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 3: start expecting God's blessings in favor, expecting your children to excel, 304 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 3: expecting to live a long, healthy life. When you do that, 305 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 3: you can't outrun the good things of God. His blessings 306 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 3: should be chasing us all this other junk. And this 307 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 3: is just what happened to Job. You remember all the 308 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 3: trouble he went through. Well, Job said, the thing I 309 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 3: greatly feared came upon me. Same principle I'm talking about 310 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 3: when we live in fear, when we go around all 311 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 3: negative and discouraged, that allows that to come to pass. 312 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 3: And really we're using our faith, we're just using it 313 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 3: in reverse. How many people have told me, Joe, I'm 314 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 3: afraid my business is going to drive. I'm afraid I'll 315 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 3: never get married. I'm afraid I'm gonna get that same 316 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 3: sickness my mom had. After all, it's been in our 317 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 3: family line for three generations. You need to recognize what 318 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 3: you're doing. You're opening up the door to trouble. You're 319 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 3: activating the wrong power. And it doesn't really matter how 320 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 3: long that sickness has been in your family line. You 321 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 3: need to put your foot down it and say this 322 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 3: is a new day. You know, we may have suffered 323 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 3: from this in the past, but that curse has been broken. 324 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 3: And sometimes you got to have that attitude. You know, 325 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 3: grandmother may have died from cancer and great grandmother may 326 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: have had it. Mother I may have suffered with it, 327 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 3: but as for me and my house, We're gonna live 328 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 3: healthy lives. I'm drawing that line in the sand. I'm 329 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 3: believing the tide of the battle is turning. You gotta 330 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 3: put your foot down. I know in my family. On 331 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 3: my father's side, we come from a long line of 332 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 3: heart disease. My grandfather died early from heart disease, and 333 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 3: many of Daddy's brothers and other relatives died early deaths 334 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 3: as well. And I could easily go around thinking, well, 335 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 3: you know, everybody in my family has heart disease, everybody 336 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 3: has high blood pressure. I guess it's just a matter 337 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 3: of time until I get it. But no, I've made 338 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 3: up my mind. I'm gonna live a healthy life. I've 339 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 3: made up my mind. I'm gonna pass down good things. 340 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 3: I'm gonna pass down victory. I'm gonna pass down long life. 341 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 3: I'm believing that heart disease is gonna stop with my generation. 342 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:47,959 Speaker 3: A lot of times, you know, you hear people say, well, 343 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 3: i'm afraid to get old. I'm afraid i'm gonna lose 344 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 3: my vision just like my father did. I'm afraid i'm 345 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 3: gonna get all bent over like my mother was. Now, 346 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 3: why don't you quit fearing the worst. I'm believing every 347 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 3: day getting stronger. I believe every day my vision is 348 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 3: getting better, every day my immune system is increasing. I'm 349 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 3: believing the older I get, the better looking. I'm gonna 350 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 3: get you laugh, but you better believe it for yourself. 351 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 3: You know, God said he would renew our youth like 352 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 3: the egles. We've got to get rid of these thoughts 353 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 3: of fear. You hear people say, well, I'm afraid I'm 354 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 3: gonna lose my biggest client. I saw him talking with 355 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 3: my competitor, Joel. I'm afraid I'm not gonna have any 356 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 3: new friends at this company. No, get out of the niggat. 357 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 3: If you're gonna get just what you're believing for, and 358 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 3: if you'll act in faith, you can receive God's blessings. 359 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 3: But when you act in fear, you're gonna have all 360 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 3: kinds of defeat and misery. The things we fear can 361 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 3: come upon us. I read an amazing story about the 362 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 3: power of our thoughts. This man was named Nick, and 363 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 3: he was a big, tough, strong man, and he'd worked 364 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 3: in the railroad yards for many years. He was one 365 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 3: of the company's best employees, always on time, very reliable, 366 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 3: got along great with the other men. But Nick had 367 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 3: one major problem. He was very negative. He was known 368 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 3: around the railroad yards as the chronic pessimist, always fearing 369 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 3: the worst, always worrying about something. Well, one day, the 370 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,679 Speaker 3: crews were told that they could leave an hour early 371 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 3: to go celebrate the birthday of one of the foreman's 372 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 3: and so all these other men left. But somehow Nick 373 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 3: got accidentally locked in one of the refrigerated box cars, 374 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 3: and it was empty and not connected to any other cars. 375 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 3: They just brought it into the yard for repairs. And 376 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 3: when Nick, being the chronic pessimist and always fearing the worst, 377 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 3: when he really realized he was trapped inside there, I mean, 378 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: he just totally panicked. Now, there was plenty of air there, 379 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 3: but he beat on those doors so hard that his 380 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 3: hands and fist were all blooded. He screamed to the 381 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,199 Speaker 3: top of his lungs hour after hour, but it was 382 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 3: just too loud. Nobody could hear him. Finally, his voice 383 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 3: gave out, and Nick was very aware that he was 384 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 3: in a refrigeration car, and he guessed that the temperature 385 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 3: was well below freezing, maybe even five or ten degrees, 386 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 3: and he began to fear the worst. He thought, what's 387 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 3: going to happen if nobody comes. I can't stay in 388 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 3: here all night, I'll freeze to death. What am I 389 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 3: gonna do? The more he thought about it, the colder 390 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 3: he got he finally found a piece of cardboard over 391 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 3: in the corner, and shivering almost uncontrollably, he scribbled a note. 392 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 3: It said, so cold, body numb. If I go to sleep, 393 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 3: these words may be my last. Sure enough, the next morning, 394 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 3: when the crews came in, they opened up the big 395 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 3: steel doors and Nick's body was curled up over in 396 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 3: the corner. When they did the autopsy, they could find 397 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 3: no other cause for death. They had to assume that 398 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 3: he did freeze to death. The interesting part about this 399 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 3: story is that the refrigeration unit in the car Nick 400 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 3: was in that night was not even on. The temperature 401 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 3: where he froze to death was sixty one degrees. Nick 402 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 3: froze to death, believe because he was convinced in his 403 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 3: own thinking he was in a freezing car. He was 404 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 3: convinced in his own thinking he didn't have a chance. 405 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 3: He expected to freeze. He expected the worst. In other words, 406 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 3: he lost the battle right here. The thing he feared 407 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,959 Speaker 3: came upon him. And it's really the same with us today. 408 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 3: Our thoughts are so powerful. What we expect is very powerful. 409 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 3: I know a lot of people that are just like Nick. 410 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 3: They go around expecting the worst, expecting defeat. No, you 411 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 3: got to change what you're expecting. If you're in tough 412 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 3: times today, don't expect to stay there, Expect God to 413 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,479 Speaker 3: bring you out. If business is slow, don't expect it 414 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 3: to go bankrupt. Expect God to bring you new customers. 415 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 3: You're struggling in your marriage, don't just give up. Say well, 416 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 3: I knew this was gonna be this way. I knew 417 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 3: we wouldn't last. Now when you do that, you're doing 418 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 3: just like Nick. Your own thoughts are going to be 419 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 3: what's going to keep you down. You got to quit 420 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 3: expecting to be overcome and start expecting to be the 421 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 3: overcome her. If you dwell on those thoughts of fear 422 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 3: long enough, just like Nick, they're going to create a 423 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 3: stronghold in your thinking. A while back, I ran into 424 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 3: this young couple after the service, and they were so discouraged. 425 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 3: They'd been trying for a long time to have a baby, 426 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 3: their first one, but for some reason, this young lady 427 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 3: just could not conceive, and they'd been to different doctors. 428 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 3: They didn't see anything wrong with her, they couldn't understand 429 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 3: why she couldn't get pregnant. And as she was telling 430 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 3: me this story, she seemed to get more and more frustrated. 431 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 3: She said, Joe, you know the funny thing is, my 432 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 3: mother had a terrible time getting pregnant, and my grandmother 433 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 3: had a terrible time conceiving. And she said, since I 434 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 3: was a little girl, I've always been afraid that I 435 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 3: wasn't going to be able to have a baby. I've 436 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 3: always been afraid that the same thing was going to 437 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 3: happen to me. And I told her, I think that's 438 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 3: your problem right there. You've got to change what you're thinking. 439 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 3: That fear had created a stronghold in her mind. He 440 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 3: didn't think she could get pregnant, she didn't think she 441 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 3: could conceive, and just like job, the thing she feared 442 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 3: came upon her. And I told her, listen, from this 443 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 3: day forward, you got to start seeing yourself carrying that child. 444 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 3: You got to look out through your eyes of faith 445 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 3: and see yourself having a little, healthy baby. I challenged 446 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 3: her to begin to meditate all day long on what 447 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 3: God says about that. I said, you dwell on the 448 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 3: fact that God says the fruit of your womb is blessed. 449 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 3: No good thing will God withhold when you walk up rightly. 450 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 3: That children are a gift and a blessing from God. 451 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 3: I encouraged her just all through the day. You play 452 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 3: those thoughts over and over, get your mind going in 453 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 3: the right direction, and then just start thinking. God said, 454 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 3: you go around saying Father, thank you that I can conceive, 455 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 3: thank you that the fruit of my womb is blessed. 456 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 3: Thank you that you are bringing my dreams to pass. 457 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 3: She began to do that day after day, week after week, 458 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 3: and I ran into him about six months later, and 459 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 3: she and her husband happy as can be. She was 460 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 3: pregnant with a little baby boy. But can create a 461 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 3: barrier in our minds. Our thoughts can keep us from 462 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 3: God's best. And what I'm saying today is, if you're 463 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 3: gonna live a life of victory, you've got to have 464 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 3: a disciplined mind. You cannot go around dwelling on thoughts 465 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 3: of fear and worry. You've got to learn how to 466 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 3: immediately cast down those wrong imaginations. Some of you today, 467 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 3: your business is slow, but you can already see it 468 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 3: going under. You can already see the doors closing. Now 469 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 3: get rid of that and see God turning it around. 470 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 3: Or maybe, as I said, you're struggling in your marriage, 471 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,360 Speaker 3: and you can already see yourself moving out. You can 472 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 3: already see that divorce coming. But no, quit allowing those 473 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 3: negative imaginations to play over and over again. The more 474 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 3: you see that, the more you're gonna believe it, and 475 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 3: that's what allows it to come to pass. You've got 476 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 3: to stand guard over the doorway of your mind. Let 477 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 3: me ask you today, what's playing on the picture screen 478 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 3: of your mind. Do you see yourself rising higher, healthy, happy, 479 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 3: your family succeeding. Or do you see yourself barely getting by, 480 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 3: always having problems, always fighting this, always having trouble with 481 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,719 Speaker 3: your kids. No, keep your thoughts going in the right direction. 482 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 3: Quit imagining the worst, Quit focusing on the negative. You 483 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 3: got to stay in faith, not in fear. Faith activates God. 484 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: Fear activates the enemy. Several years ago, we knew this 485 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 3: couple and they had two or three children at the time, 486 00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 3: and they were very fine people. But one day this 487 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 3: husband started making some rather odd comments. He said, you know, 488 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 3: I don't know what i'd ever do if something were 489 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,679 Speaker 3: to happen to my wife. I just don't know how 490 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 3: I could ever raise these children by myself. It was 491 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 3: very strange. You could tell he was allowing his mind 492 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 3: to go down the wrong path, and over the next 493 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 3: several years, he would bring this up time and time again. Well, 494 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 3: one day a group of his friends got together and 495 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 3: they confronted him about it. They really got on to him. 496 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 3: They said, listen, you got to quit talking about your 497 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 3: future like that. Quit expecting the worst. That's not healthy. 498 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,719 Speaker 3: But he was so tornted by this fear of losing 499 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 3: his wife. And here she was perfectly healthy, she'd never 500 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 3: even been sick before, no reason to even allow his 501 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 3: mind to go there. Do you know what his problem was? 502 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 3: He was undisciplined in his thought life, and that fear 503 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 3: grew and grew. He kept thinking about it, and it 504 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 3: became a stronghold. Before long, he started seeing it all 505 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 3: take place in his imagination. Do you know One day 506 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 3: he called and so sad, he said, you'll never believe 507 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 3: what's just happened. My wife has been diagnosed with a 508 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 3: very rare form of cancer. And it was not several 509 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 3: months later until she had passed away. And I thought, 510 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 3: what a tragedy the thing he feared came upon him. 511 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 3: And I don't know that I understand the theology of 512 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 3: it all, but I do know this, when we give 513 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 3: into fear and we imagine it in our mind, and 514 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 3: we go around talking about it all the time. We 515 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 3: are opening up the door to the enemy. We're opening 516 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 3: up the door to trouble. And for years he allowed 517 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 3: that lie to take root. He talked about it, he 518 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 3: thought about it. He can soon just thinking. And just 519 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 3: as faith activates God's power, unfortunately, fear activates the enemy's power. 520 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 3: Now I'm challenging you today to have a disciplined mind. 521 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 3: Learn to cast down those negative, wrong imaginations. Don't even 522 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 3: let your mind go there. You've got to keep your 523 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 3: mind on thoughts of hope, thoughts of faith, things that 524 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 3: are gonna build you up. After all, you're gonna get 525 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 3: just what you expect. Why don't you go out each 526 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 3: day expecting the best. Why don't you start expecting your 527 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 3: family to succeed. Why don't you expect your children to excel? 528 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 3: Or how about expecting to live a long, healthy life. 529 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 3: It all starts right here. Some of you, like that 530 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 3: young lady that couldn't conceive, You've got that barrier in 531 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 3: your thinking. And until you rise up and do something 532 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 3: about it, nothing's gonna change. You may be waiting on God, 533 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,679 Speaker 3: but God's waiting on you You've got to quit expecting the worst, 534 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 3: quit focusing on the negative, get out of fear, and 535 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,439 Speaker 3: get over into faith. And if you will have a 536 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 3: disciplined mind and go each day expecting good things, then 537 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 3: God says, right here, according to your faith, it'll be 538 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 3: done unto you. When you do that, I know this, 539 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 3: God will pour out his blessings in favor. He'll guide you, 540 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 3: You'll rise higher, and you'll experience the victories that He 541 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 3: has in store. Amen. How many of you receive it 542 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 3: this morning, but I know you do. We never like 543 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,120 Speaker 3: the corsal broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 544 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 3: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 545 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 3: Just say it, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 546 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 3: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 547 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 3: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 548 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 3: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 549 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 3: God first place. He's going to take your places that 550 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 3: you've never dreamed of. 551 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 5: Thank you for listening to the joel Oustine podcast. Help 552 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 5: us continue to share the message of hope with those 553 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 5: all over the world. 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