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Speaker 4: this podcast. I believe God has got amazing things in
Speaker 4: your future. I hope you enjoy this message. I want
Speaker 4: to remind us all today to not be complainers and
Speaker 4: fault finders. Ah man, Really, we don't need to be
Speaker 4: complainers and fault finders. See, it's easy to see what's
Speaker 4: wrong in a situation. It's easy to see what could
Speaker 4: be done better. You know, naturally we tend to look
Speaker 4: at the negative. Just our natural minds tend to always
Speaker 4: gravitate to the negative, and it causes us to find fault.
Speaker 4: But we don't want to be complainers and fault finders
Speaker 4: because we know that it doesn't please God. You know
Speaker 4: we're all guilty of this. I'll be the first one
Speaker 4: to raise my hand. Okay, because sometimes it feels good
Speaker 4: to complain. You get it off your chest. You're just venting.
Speaker 4: It feels good. Why do we complain? That's one reason
Speaker 4: it feels kind of good sometime. Okay, let's just get
Speaker 4: real about it. We've all thought, all right, just get
Speaker 4: it off my chest and then I'll be okay. Or
Speaker 4: we think, or I think sometimes if I complain, I
Speaker 4: can change the situation. I'll go to Joel and I'll
Speaker 4: tell him why this isn't right and why we shouldn't
Speaker 4: do it this way, because I think I'm going to
Speaker 4: change the situation right. But you don't change a situation
Speaker 4: by complaining, by finding fault, you usually make the situation worse.
Speaker 4: Like I said, we can all think these thoughts of
Speaker 4: how we could do it better, but we've got to
Speaker 4: learn that we don't have to give life to these thoughts.
Speaker 4: You see, when we give life to these negative thoughts,
Speaker 4: we create a more negative environment. We not only pollute
Speaker 4: ourselves with this negative environment, but we pollute other people.
Speaker 4: We cause them to begin to think negative thoughts. It's
Speaker 4: as if it can spread if we're not careful. No
Speaker 4: one wants to be around I come plainer. No one
Speaker 4: wants to be around a fault finder. We don't either,
Speaker 4: So let's watch what we're saying. Even though it may
Speaker 4: feel good for a time, have we ever stopped step
Speaker 4: back and thought, but is it doing us any good?
Speaker 4: Is it really doing us any good? You see, I
Speaker 4: was reading this study and I thought it was very interesting,
Speaker 4: and these researchers were talking about the brain and the
Speaker 4: effects of the on the brain when we complain, and
Speaker 4: it says that when we complain, we literally rewire our
Speaker 4: brain to complain. You see, our brain wants to take
Speaker 4: the path of least resistance, It wants to take the
Speaker 4: easy way out, so it wants to repeat a pattern.
Speaker 4: So when you complain, you learn to complain more. You're
Speaker 4: wiring in this negative pattern. And so really, what the
Speaker 4: researchers were saying is we're training our own brains to complain.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a complainer. I want to
Speaker 4: be a person that has faith and hope. Yes, we're
Speaker 4: all gonna have the opportunity to complain because there's no
Speaker 4: perfect person, there's no perfect spouse, there's no perfect job.
Speaker 4: Life is imperfect. So we're not gonna get rid of
Speaker 4: the fact that there is opportunities to complain. But I
Speaker 4: want to suggest to us today to be smarter than
Speaker 4: a complainer and to figure out a way to be
Speaker 4: the solution to the problem, to not just complain about
Speaker 4: the problem. To find a way to act properly when
Speaker 4: you feel negative. And the first way is not to
Speaker 4: train your brain to complain. Now, the scripture is full
Speaker 4: of stories, and the scripture says that these stories are
Speaker 4: placed here so that we can learn, so that we
Speaker 4: can learn valuable lessons for our own life. So I
Speaker 4: want to quickly take us back to the Israelites. When
Speaker 4: God brought them out of Egypt, he led them out
Speaker 4: by a man named Moses. We know this story. They
Speaker 4: were led out of captivity by a leader named Moses,
Speaker 4: and he did it by God's command. He was able
Speaker 4: to do it because God said, I am taking my
Speaker 4: people to a land that is rich with milk and honey.
Speaker 4: He called it the Promised Land. Now, they had been
Speaker 4: quickly captive under the barbaric hand of Pharoh. They had
Speaker 4: been mistreated and God says, enough is enough. I'm taking
Speaker 4: my people out now. If you been mistreated, sometimes you
Speaker 4: come out very with a victim mentality. But God wanted
Speaker 4: to reverse this victim mentality. So you know what he
Speaker 4: had the Egyptians do. Pharaoh and those people. He had
Speaker 4: them pour the wealth on the Israelites. So when they
Speaker 4: left Egypt, they didn't leave with nothing. They left with
Speaker 4: gold and silver and cattle. They left well equipped. They
Speaker 4: left with the mindset of oh wow, this is God,
Speaker 4: because only God could do that. They got to the
Speaker 4: Red Sea, and God parted the Red Sea. They walked
Speaker 4: through on dry land. They were on their way to
Speaker 4: the Promised Land. But as they got on their way,
Speaker 4: guess what they started some see in some things that
Speaker 4: could be done better. They began to look at Moses
Speaker 4: and think, Moses, really, I can do this better. They
Speaker 4: began to look at Air and in question their leadership.
Speaker 4: They began to complain and mumble and grumble. You see,
Speaker 4: they begin to complain about their food and their water,
Speaker 4: and their enemies. But you know, it's really interesting in
Speaker 4: Deuteronomy one two, this is what it says. It says
Speaker 4: when God was taking them to the Promised land he
Speaker 4: had already ordained to get them there. It was an
Speaker 4: eleven day journey, you see. They left with more than
Speaker 4: enough to get there in eleven days, but it took
Speaker 4: them forty years. Forty years. Was it Moses that stopped him?
Speaker 4: Was it their enemies that stopped them? Was it the
Speaker 4: fact that they didn't have the right food that stopped them? No,
Speaker 4: what they thought was their enemies, the things they were
Speaker 4: complaining about, the things that they were blaming and pointing
Speaker 4: the finger out, wasn't their enemy at all. Their number
Speaker 4: one enemy was their own murmuring and complaining. Have you
Speaker 4: ever thought that your own murmuring and complaining could limit
Speaker 4: your thinking, could literally stop you from going to the
Speaker 4: next level. Have you ever thought how unhealthy it really is?
Speaker 5: See?
Speaker 4: I think if the Israelites could have read the research
Speaker 4: that I read, they would have said, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 4: I'm training my own brain to complain, and that complaining
Speaker 4: is enemy number one. Enemy number one. I want to
Speaker 4: encourage us today. If we can train our brain to complain,
Speaker 4: we can train our brain to see God and how
Speaker 4: he can work in a situation. We can literally train
Speaker 4: our brain to believe that God can do something you know,
Speaker 4: God is taking us all somewhere, And can I tell
Speaker 4: you right now, you have everything you need right now
Speaker 4: to get to where God's taking you. If God is
Speaker 4: leading you, nothing can stop you. You see, that's where
Speaker 4: the Israelites missed it. They were looking at the things,
Speaker 4: the circumstances around them. They forgot to look to their God.
Speaker 6: It's easy to blame, it's easy to see out of
Speaker 6: these eyes, but we've got to begin to see out
Speaker 6: of our supernatural eyes the things unseen, the hand of
Speaker 6: God behind the seas, that's fighting our battles for us,
Speaker 6: and keep our mouths closed.
Speaker 4: Until we get there. You see, they complained about mana.
Speaker 4: Manna was the bread that came down from heaven that
Speaker 4: God provided for them every single day. Now, granted, they
Speaker 4: had this manna every single day, and they tired of
Speaker 4: the mana. Have you ever got tired of something? Every day?
Speaker 4: I go to work every day, I clean this house
Speaker 4: every day, I pick up my husband's socks. You see,
Speaker 4: they tired of this manna. So they begin to grumble
Speaker 4: and complain about this manna. And it's so interesting that
Speaker 4: that just took fire in the whole camp. So they
Speaker 4: all started grumbling and complaining. And when you grumble and complain,
Speaker 4: you know what happens. Attitudes come up out of you
Speaker 4: that are not pleasing to God. In fact, grumbling and
Speaker 4: complaining can literally change our perspective. They started thinking about
Speaker 4: the food they used to eat, the onions and the
Speaker 4: leeks and the garlic. They begin to take their mind
Speaker 4: back to what they used to eat in captivity so
Speaker 4: much that that food became more important than their freedom.
Speaker 4: That food became more important than their freedom. Instead of
Speaker 4: going to that manna every day and saying, God, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna eat this. You know you change it. But I
Speaker 4: am grateful that I am free. I am grateful that
Speaker 4: you are taking me somewhere. See, sometimes we all want
Speaker 4: something bigger, We want to go to the next level,
Speaker 4: but we don't want to do what it takes to
Speaker 4: get to that next level. Yeah, I want a job promotion.
Speaker 4: I want this job promotion now. I don't want to
Speaker 4: work any extra hours. Man, if I could have a husband,
Speaker 4: my life would be complete. I am waiting for my man.
Speaker 4: I certainly don't want to cook for him. Though. We
Speaker 4: want things, but we don't want what it takes to
Speaker 4: have those things. And this was their dilemma. They wanted
Speaker 4: out of captivity. God says, I'm taking you somewhere, but
Speaker 4: they didn't want to face the trials until they got there. Listen,
Speaker 4: if you don't like what's going on in your life,
Speaker 4: change is coming. Change is coming. Change is coming. Change
Speaker 4: is coming. But you're not gonna find it by complaining
Speaker 4: and grumbling. You're gonna find it by staying the course,
Speaker 4: by being grateful. See, complaining finds the worst in the situation,
Speaker 4: not the best. If you can train your mind to complain,
Speaker 4: you can train your mind to find the best. Listen
Speaker 4: to what it says in Philippians two fourteen. This is
Speaker 4: kind of the antidote for seeing the negative and figuring
Speaker 4: out what to do with it. You can see it's
Speaker 4: gonna get in there, but what are you gonna do
Speaker 4: with it? Don't give it life, don't spread it, don't
Speaker 4: ruin relationships, don't stop your destiny. Figure out what to
Speaker 4: do with it before you let it out. And this
Speaker 4: is what God is saying. First of all, he's commanding
Speaker 4: us do all things without grumbling, finding fault and complaining.
Speaker 4: All right, so there's one thing I can recognize. I'm
Speaker 4: not supposed to let it out. What am I supposed
Speaker 4: to do with it?
Speaker 7: God?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm only human, right, he says a little
Speaker 4: later in Philippians four or five, he says, pray, Hey,
Speaker 4: if you've got a complaint, if you see something wrong,
Speaker 4: pray and ask God about it. Pray and ask God
Speaker 4: about it. That's what you do with it. And then
Speaker 4: it says, with thanksgiving in your heart. Can you imagine
Speaker 4: if they would have said, Lord, this manna is getting
Speaker 4: a little old. Do you think you could send some quell?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 4: Thank you Father for this manna?
Speaker 7: Though?
Speaker 4: And if you don't send some quell, I know you're
Speaker 4: getting me where I'm going. But God, I'm asking, I'm
Speaker 4: asking you for some quail. You see, if they would
Speaker 4: have sandwiched their request between Thanksgiving, I think we'd be
Speaker 4: reading a different story about them. God would be teaching
Speaker 4: us a different lesson about them. Don't weaken your faith
Speaker 4: by your complaining. Strengthen it by your prayer, by your
Speaker 4: petitions to God, making your requests known with thanksgiving in
Speaker 4: your heart. You see what they did is they left
Speaker 4: what they had to chase after what they didn't have.
Speaker 4: That's what complaining does. It doesn't say Hey, I'm grateful
Speaker 4: for what I have until I get more. It says,
Speaker 4: you know what, I don't care what I have. I
Speaker 4: want more. Really, that's what complaining does. And the scripture
Speaker 4: says that when they thought they were complaining to Moses
Speaker 4: and Aaron, they were really complaining about God. Listen, I'm
Speaker 4: guilty of complaining. But you know what, I want to
Speaker 4: watch my complaining because I know it's right up there
Speaker 4: with worry. It isn't changing a thing. It's not doing
Speaker 4: a thing for me for my life. It's only shrinking it,
Speaker 4: limiting it and not getting me to where I need
Speaker 4: to be. Let's don't be fault founders and complainers. Let's
Speaker 4: be those who pray impetician God with thanksgiving in our heart. Amen. Amen.
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