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I like 51 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 5: to get started each week with something kind of funny. 52 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,119 Speaker 5: I heard about this teenager. He just got his drivers 53 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:21,679 Speaker 5: permit and he asked his father if he could use 54 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 5: the car, and the dad said, well, son, I'll make 55 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 5: a deal with you. If you bring your grades up, 56 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 5: study your Bible, and get your haircut, I'll let you 57 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 5: use it. About a month later, he came back and. 58 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 3: Asked about it. 59 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 5: The dad said, well son, you brought your grades up, 60 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 5: you've been studying your Bible, but you still haven't got 61 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 5: your haircut. And the teenager said, well, dad, I've been thinking. 62 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 5: Moses had long hair, Sampson had long hair, even Jesus 63 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 5: had long hair. 64 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 3: The dad said yes, son, and they walked everywhere they 65 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 3: went all right, hold up your Bible. Say it like 66 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 3: you mean it. 67 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I 68 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 5: am what it says I have. I can do what 69 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 5: it says I can do. Today I will be taught 70 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 5: the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, 71 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 5: my heart is receptive. 72 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 73 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 3: bless you. 74 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about understanding the 75 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 5: covenant that God has made with us and learning how 76 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 5: to walk in your authority. Too many people go around 77 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 5: with a weak, defeated mentality. They're always under their circumstances, 78 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 5: always struggling with something bad attitudes, addictions, fear, worry. They 79 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 5: can't seem to get ahead in life. But God didn't 80 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 5: create us to be average, to barely get by and 81 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 5: to have all kinds of bondages. We were created to 82 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 5: live in victory, to enjoy our lives and to excel. 83 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 5: And ever since the resurrection of Christ, there's been a 84 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 5: power flowing out to those that believe. And if we're 85 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 5: gonna walk in our authority and experience this abundant life, 86 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 5: then we have to get rid of this defeated mentality 87 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 5: and we need to develop a power consciousness. 88 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: It all starts right here. You have to. 89 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 5: Believe that you can rise higher, believe that you can 90 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 5: overcome that addiction, Believe that God can turn your situation around. 91 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 5: The power is only available to those that believe. The 92 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 5: Apostle Paul said, we have to press on to take 93 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 5: hold of everything that Christ died and rose again for. 94 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 5: And initially Christ died to offer us forgiveness for our sins. 95 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 5: That's the most important thing. But our salvation includes so 96 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 5: much more than that. And we should not be sitting 97 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 5: around just waiting to go to heaven. I've had people 98 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 5: tell me, Joel, I know one day I'll be happy. 99 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 5: I know one day I'll enjoy my life in the 100 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 5: sweet by and by. But no, God wants us to 101 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 5: enjoy our lives right here, in the nasty now and now. 102 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 5: He wants us to have a little head heaven on earth, 103 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 5: right where we are. One of the reasons Christ came 104 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 5: was that we might live an abundant life. You can 105 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 5: be happy, you can be free, you can accomplish your dreams, 106 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 5: you can overcome your past. The good news of resurrection 107 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 5: Sunday is that the enemy has already been defeated. The 108 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:22,799 Speaker 5: price has already been paid. Now, why don't you start 109 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 5: tapping into the power that's. 110 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: On the inside. 111 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 5: You have a right to be free, And the scripture 112 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 5: says here in Galatians three point thirteen, Christ has redeemed 113 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 5: us from the curse of the law. The curse is 114 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 5: any kind of defeat, fear, worry, constant sickness, unhealthy relationships, 115 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 5: bad attitudes. Please understand, those are all the things that. 116 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 3: You've been set free from. But here's the key. 117 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 5: If you don't act on it, if you don't get 118 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 5: your thoughts, your words, your attitudes going in the right direction, 119 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 5: it's not going to do you any good. And some 120 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 5: of you are sitting back waiting on God to do something. 121 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,280 Speaker 5: But the truth is God's waiting on you. You got 122 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 5: to rise up in your authority, have a little backbone, 123 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 5: have a little determination, and say, you know what, I'm 124 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 5: not gonna live my life in mediocrity, bound by all 125 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 5: this junk, negative and defeated. No, I'm gonna do like 126 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 5: Paul and start pressing forward. I'm gonna take hold of 127 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 5: everything God has in store for me. 128 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 3: I heard a story about a little dog. 129 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 5: He had been on a leash for years and years, 130 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 5: tied to a tree. 131 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 3: He had his home there. 132 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 5: Neowner would come out and feed him and play with 133 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 5: him every once in a while, but he always stayed 134 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 5: on that leash. He was about twenty five feet long, 135 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 5: and he'd see the other dogs come by and he'd 136 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 5: run out and he'd always stop right at the end 137 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 5: of his leash. He knew exactly how far he could go. 138 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 5: He wanted to chase him, he wanted to go play, 139 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 5: but he knew he was limited. If he went too far, 140 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 5: he'd be pulled right back. And one day the owner 141 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 5: felt kind of sorry for him, and he decided he 142 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 5: was going to let him off that leash, and he 143 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 5: went out there, but instead of taking the whole leash off, 144 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 5: he just unfastened the dog's collar. It was still around 145 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 5: his neck, but it wasn't buckled anymore, and he thought 146 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:06,799 Speaker 5: for sure. 147 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 3: The dog would just bust right out of it, take 148 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 3: off running and be so happy and free. 149 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 5: And so he sat back and watched, and another dog 150 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 5: came along, and sure enough, his dog got up took 151 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 5: off running, but much to his surprise, when he got 152 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 5: to the end of the leash, he stopped right where 153 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 5: he always did. A few minutes later, a cat came 154 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 5: strutting by. This cat had tormented him for years. He 155 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 5: wanted to get him so bad, but that cat knew 156 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 5: just where to walk, just a couple feet outside. 157 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 3: Of his range. 158 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 5: And once again this dog took off running, but when 159 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 5: he got to the end of the leash. He stopped 160 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 5: just where he normally did see the dog was free. 161 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 3: He just didn't realize it. The collar was loosed. All 162 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 3: he had to do was go one step. 163 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 5: Further than he was used to going, and he would 164 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 5: have walked right out of it. Many times, that's exactly 165 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 5: what we're doing. God has loosed the chains of addictions, 166 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 5: of defeat, of bad attitudes. 167 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 3: Problem is we're not walking out of it. 168 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 5: Well, you say, Joel, I've always been this way, man, 169 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 5: I've always had a problem with my temper. I've always 170 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 5: had this addiction. You need to realize that you've already 171 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 5: been set free two thousand years ago. God loosens your collar. 172 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 5: Now it's up to you and I to start walking. 173 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 3: Out of it. How do we do it? Change your attitude. 174 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 5: Quit saying I can't do it and I'll never be 175 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 5: well and I've got too much to overcome. Listen, you 176 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 5: are a child of the most highed God. You are 177 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 5: full of can do power, and every enemy in your 178 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 5: life has already been defeated. The enemy of worry, the 179 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 5: enemy of depression, the enemy of addiction. 180 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 3: You have power over all of them. 181 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 5: The same power that raised Christ from the dead is 182 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 5: on the inside of you. 183 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 3: There is nothing in your. 184 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 5: Life that you cannot overcome. There is no hurt that's 185 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 5: too bad that you cannot forgive. You have the power 186 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 5: to let go of the negative things of your past. 187 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 5: You may have been knocked down a thousand times, but 188 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 5: you have the power to get back up again. The 189 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 5: medical report may not look good, but you have the power. 190 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 3: To stand strong. 191 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 5: And I'm asking you today to not sit back and 192 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 5: learn to live with things that are less than God's best. 193 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 5: Our attitude should be. I know my caller has been loosed. 194 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 5: I know the price has been paid. And even if 195 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 5: I have to believe my whole lifetime, even if I 196 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 5: have to stand in faith till the day I die, 197 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna sit back and accept a life of mediocrity. 198 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep pressing forward. 199 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 3: See. 200 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 5: I see too many people today that learn to function 201 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 5: in their dysfunction. They have all kinds of things that 202 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 5: are not God's best. Their argumentity, they allow strife in 203 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 5: the home. They're critical and judgmental. They've got bitterness and resentment, 204 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 5: and instead of dealing with it, instead of being willing 205 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 5: to change and walking out of it, they just put 206 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 5: a band aid on it and go around with all 207 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 5: these bondages. They're functioning in their dysfunction, and it's easy. 208 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 3: To get stuck in a rut. It's easy to get 209 00:09:59,440 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 3: so used to li. 210 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 5: Live in a certain way that we accept it, we accommodated, 211 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 5: and we're not stretching beyond it like this dog. Well, Joel, 212 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 5: this is the way. Everybody in my family is. Everybody's negative. 213 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 5: We all have these same addictions. No, your collar has 214 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 5: been loosed. I dare you to go one step further. 215 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 5: I dare you to give up one cigarette a day. 216 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 5: I dare you to forgive that offense. I dare you 217 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 5: to be a little more disciplined. See, we will never 218 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,079 Speaker 5: change what we tolerate, and as long as we're accepting 219 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 5: it and accommodating it, we're going to stay right where 220 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 5: we are. 221 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 3: So you don't have to live that way. 222 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 5: Some of you are learning to function in your dysfunction, 223 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 5: so you don't have to go the next ten years 224 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,079 Speaker 5: stuck in that rut. You have the power to overcome, 225 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 5: you have the power to rise above that, but God 226 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 5: is not going to do it for you. You got to 227 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 5: walk out of it. You got to be more disciplined. 228 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 5: You've got to take the high road. If you will 229 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 5: do your part. I promise you this, God will do 230 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 5: his part and he will help you to change. And 231 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 5: we need to understand what it really means to be 232 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 5: in covenant. 233 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 3: Relationship with Almighty God. 234 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 5: We have rights and privileges because of what Christ has done. 235 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 5: The Bible's made up of two covenants, the Old Covenant 236 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 5: and the New Covenant. God formed the first covenant with 237 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 5: Abraham and the second covenant with Jesus. 238 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 3: Abraham's called the Father of our faith. 239 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 5: And this all started because Adam and Eve disobeyed back 240 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 5: in the Garden of Eden. They ate that forbidden fruit 241 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 5: and mankind's relationship with God was broken. 242 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 3: But God is so good He. 243 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 5: Immediately began devising a plan to restore our broken relationship. 244 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 3: And it's interesting how it all happened. 245 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 5: He told Abraham that he was going to form a 246 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 5: blood covenant with him, but God needed a substitute to 247 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,719 Speaker 5: represent him, so he had Abraham get a young bull. 248 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 3: And sacrifice him. 249 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,439 Speaker 5: And then in Genesis seventeen ten, God said, Abraham, this 250 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 5: is the covenant I'm going to make with you. From 251 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 5: now on, you and all the male descendants will be circumcised, 252 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 5: and through this act of through the act of the 253 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 5: blood flowing and intermingling, the covenant will be established. 254 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 3: And God went on to. 255 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 5: Say, Abraham, you and I will become blood brothers. You 256 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 5: will be a covenant man. You will be a friend 257 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 5: of God. And Abraham obeyed and he entered into that covenant. 258 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 5: And the moment a covenant is established, everything one blood 259 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 5: brother owns is available to the other party. God was saying, 260 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 5: in effect, Abraham, now that we're in covenant relationship, everything 261 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 5: I have is yours. 262 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 3: And God told them in. 263 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 5: Deuteronomy twenty eight, as long as you keep the covenant, 264 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 5: you will be blessed in the city and blessed in 265 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 5: the country. 266 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 3: The fruit of your womb will be blessed. 267 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 5: Your businesses, your cattle and livestock will be blessed. God 268 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 5: promised to protect them when the enemy came against them. 269 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 5: One way he would defeat them and cause them to 270 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 5: flee seven different ways. God said, now that you're in 271 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 5: covenant relationship with me, everything you put your. 272 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 3: Hands to is going to prosper and succeed. 273 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 5: Notice they had the right to supernatural blessings, supernatural protection, 274 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 5: supernatural wisdom, all because of the covenant, and the good 275 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 5: news today is you and I are in a better 276 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 5: covenant than that one. The whole key once again, if 277 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 5: we don't understand our rights and privileges, it doesn't do 278 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:17,959 Speaker 5: us any good. 279 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 3: And I think about David. 280 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 5: He's a great example of somebody that really understood the power. 281 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 3: Of a covenant. 282 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 5: Even when he was a young man, he knew that 283 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 5: God was with him. 284 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 3: He knew that he was well. 285 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 5: Able to defeat his enemies. Goliath stood over nine feet tall. 286 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 5: He was the champion of the Philistine army, and he 287 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 5: was out there taunting the people of Israel. And all 288 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 5: of David's brothers and the other men, they were shaken 289 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 5: in their boots. They were so scared. But David wasn't 290 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 5: even afraid. He said, let me go out there. I'll 291 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 5: take care of him. And here David was just a teenager, 292 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 5: a young shepherd boy. 293 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 3: He didn't have any formal military training. 294 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 5: What gave him this confidence, what caused him to rise 295 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 5: up in such authority. It was because David understood what 296 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 5: it meant to be. 297 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 3: A covenant man. 298 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 5: He knew who was backing him up, he knew he 299 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 5: had God's favor and protection and He said to his brothers, 300 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 5: who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should. 301 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 3: Defy the armies of the Living God? What did he mean? Uncircumcised? 302 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 5: David was saying, how dare this man that is not 303 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 5: in covenant relationship with Almighty God think he can defeat us? 304 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 5: David put his shoulders back, he held his head up high, 305 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 5: and he marched toward Goliath with an unshakable confidence. And 306 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 5: when Goliath saw how young David was and how small 307 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 5: he was, he began to laugh and laugh. 308 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 3: He said, am I a dog that you'd come at 309 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 3: me with a stick? Surely you're not serious. You're not 310 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 3: sending this little kid out to fight me. But I 311 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 3: love David's attitude. 312 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 5: He said, Goliath, you come against me with a sword 313 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 5: and a shield, But I come against you in the name. 314 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 3: Of the Lord God of Israel. 315 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 5: He was saying, I come against you knowing that I'm 316 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 5: a covenant man and that Almighty God, the creator. 317 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 3: Of the universe, is backing me up. And you know 318 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 3: the story. 319 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 5: He went out there and defeated Goliath. And you too, 320 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 5: may have some powerful enemies coming against you today, an 321 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 5: enemy of sickness, an enemy of debt, an enemy of addiction. 322 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 5: And in the natural you may not feel very able, 323 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 5: but you need to always remember who's backing you up. 324 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,359 Speaker 5: You've got the god who spoke the worlds into existence. 325 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 5: He's called El Shadai, the God who's more than enough. 326 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 5: He's called Jehovah, Jirah, the Lord, your provider. He is 327 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 5: the great I Am. 328 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 3: He's saying to every one of you today, I've got 329 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 3: you covered. 330 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 5: I'm backing you up. I'll never leave you nor forsake you. See, 331 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 5: because of the covenant, you have rights, you have God's protection, 332 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 5: you have his wisdom, you have his favor. He said 333 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 5: he would guide and direct you every step of the way. 334 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 5: He said, doors will open for you that may not 335 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 5: open for somebody else. 336 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 3: You're a covenant man, a covenant woman. It's interesting. 337 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 5: In the Old Testament, they really understood the power of 338 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 5: the covenant. They understood the power of the blood. When 339 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 5: they needed forgiveness for their sins, they had to put 340 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 5: blood on the altar of the temple. When they needed mercy, 341 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 5: they had to put blood on the mercy seat. When 342 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 5: they needed healing, they had to offer a blood sacrifice. 343 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 3: Every time they turned around. They had to use the blood. 344 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 5: But in this new covenant that you and I are in, 345 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 5: the price has been paid once and for all, not 346 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 5: by the blood of bulls and goats, but by the 347 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 5: blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. When Jesus hung on 348 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 5: that cross on Friday, right before he died, he said 349 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 5: it is finished. He was saying, the old covenant is over, 350 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 5: and now the new covenant has begun. And the Bible 351 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 5: says that this new covenant is a better covenant, built 352 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 5: upon better promises. Have to take a sacrifice anymore. Every 353 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 5: one of us can come boldly to the throne of grace. 354 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 5: And because of what Christ did two thousand years ago, 355 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 5: we have a right to live a life of victory. 356 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 5: Jesus once and for all defeated and dethroned our eternal enemy. 357 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 5: They put Christ in the tomb on Friday. They thought 358 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 5: they were finally done with him. But thank God, he 359 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 5: didn't stay there. He went down to the depths of 360 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 5: the earth and he took away the keys of death 361 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 5: in hell. He came back out on Sunday and he said, hey, 362 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 5: here I am. 363 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 3: I am he that lives. I was dead, but I'm 364 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 3: alive forevermore. 365 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 5: He went on to say, because I live, you shall live. Also, 366 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 5: that doesn't mean we're just supposed to breathe the air 367 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 5: and take up space. We're supposed to be living a prosperous, victorious, 368 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 5: faith filled life. And I want you to realize today 369 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 5: what it means to be a covenant man a covenant woman. 370 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 5: You're not average, You're not mediocre. You've got royal blood 371 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 5: flowing through your veins because of the covenant. You are 372 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 5: the head and not the tail. You are above and 373 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 5: not beneath. You will lend and not borrow. The scripture says, 374 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 5: no weapon that is formed against you is going to 375 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 5: prosper When the enemy comes against you like a flood. 376 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,880 Speaker 5: Because of your covenant relationship, God's promised he will lift 377 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 5: up a barrier and. 378 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 3: Not allow that to harm you. You have special advantages 379 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 3: because you're a child of the Most High God. Now, 380 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 3: why don't you do like David put your. 381 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 5: Shoulders back, hold your head up, hie quick going around 382 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 5: depressed and defeated. Your collar has already been loosed, The 383 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 5: price has been paid. God has crowned you with his 384 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 5: glory and honor. Now you need to start seeing yourself. 385 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 3: As the champion. 386 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 5: God made you to be as long as you see 387 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 5: yourself we defeated, addicted, lonely, barely getting by. That's going 388 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 5: to limit you get a new vision, You've got to 389 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 5: see it on the inside before it's ever going to 390 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 5: come to pass on the outside. You need to start 391 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:09,360 Speaker 5: seeing yourself increasing, rising. 392 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 3: Higher, happier, healthier, whole. 393 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 5: You're in covenant relationship with Almighty God. You said, go man, 394 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 5: I've been this way so long. I don't see how 395 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 5: I could ever change. No, because of the covenant, your 396 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 5: freedom's already been paid for. But you have got to 397 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 5: get rid of that defeated mentality and start thinking some 398 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,360 Speaker 5: power thoughts. Don't ever say again I'll never break this addiction. 399 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 5: Start saying I'm free, This addiction does not control me. 400 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 5: Greater is he this in me than he that's in 401 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 5: the world. Don't ever say I'll never see my dreams 402 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 5: come to pass, Joel, I'll probably never get married, or 403 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 5: I don't think I'll ever get out of debt. 404 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 3: No, turn that around. You're a covenant person. You have rights. 405 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 5: You need to be saying I am more than a conqueror. 406 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 5: I will fulfill my destiny. God is supplying all of 407 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 5: my needs. See want to press in if you're gonna 408 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 5: take hold of everything God has in store for you. 409 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 5: And it's easy in life to get passive. It's easy 410 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 5: to think. Man, that's a lot of work, Joel, it's hard. 411 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 5: I don't want to have to change. I know I'm negative, 412 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 5: but I don't feel like having a good attitude today. 413 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 5: I know I shouldn't need this jump, but I don't 414 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 5: feel like being disciplined. I know I need to quit smoking, 415 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 5: but I'm tired of trying now. If you don't keep pressing, 416 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 5: you will never become all God's created you to be. 417 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:30,959 Speaker 5: And I want to light a new fire in you today. 418 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 5: You can rise higher. You can be a better parent, 419 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 5: a better spouse, a better leader. God has more in 420 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 5: store for every one of you. Don't get stagnant, don't 421 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 5: get stuck in a rut in life. And I know 422 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 5: some of you have had a lot of negative things 423 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 5: in your family line for generations, and they just keep 424 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 5: getting passed down and passed down from one generation to 425 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 5: the next. Sicknesses, bad attitudes, addictions, low self esteem. Please understand, 426 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 5: those are the things that you've. 427 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 3: Been redeemed from. 428 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 5: Those are the things that are under the curse and 429 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 5: I know the people that went before you, your parents, 430 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 5: your ancestry. 431 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,479 Speaker 3: I know that we're good people. 432 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 5: But just like David's brothers, when you don't understand the Covenant, 433 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 5: when you don't understand what God has done for you, 434 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 5: it's easy to just accept the life of mediocrity. I 435 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 5: had a young man tell me last week, Joel, my grandfather. 436 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 3: Was an alcoholic. 437 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 5: My dad was an alcoholic, and now I've got the 438 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 5: same problem. 439 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 3: I just can't beat it. No, you can beat it. 440 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 5: The power in you is greater than that addiction. But 441 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 5: you've got to change your attitude. You got to start 442 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 5: saying I'm free. Declare that every day. Don't talk about 443 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 5: the way you are, talk about the way you want 444 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 5: to be. You know, a lot of times you hear 445 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 5: people say, well, once you're addicted, you're always addicted. 446 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 3: Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. 447 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 5: People may say that, but you know what God says, 448 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 5: whom the sun sets free is free. Indeed, and I'll 449 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 5: say it again, there's nothing in your life that you 450 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 5: cannot overcome. You can break any bad habit, you could 451 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 5: overcome any obstacle. Well, Joe, my grandmother had diabetes. My 452 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 5: mother has diabetes. It looks like I'm gonna have it. Now, 453 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,719 Speaker 5: when you think like that, you're just planning on having it. 454 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 5: You're inviting that junk into your life. You need to 455 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 5: put your foot down. Say grandmother may have had it. 456 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 5: Mother may have had it, But as for me and 457 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 5: my house, we're redeemed from that jump. We are covenant people. 458 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 5: We're gonna live under the blessing and not the curse. See, 459 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 5: don't make plans for things. I know in my family, 460 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 5: on my father's side, as far back as we can see, 461 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 5: there's heart disease, people dying early deaths. Because you know what, 462 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 5: I'm not planning on having heart disease. I'm planning on 463 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 5: living a long, healthy life. 464 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 3: Now. I do my part. 465 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 5: I try to eat right, try to exercise, and I 466 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 5: declare every day I will fulfill my destiny in good health. 467 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 5: Don't plan on losing your vision when you get old. 468 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 5: Don't plan on being heard to hearing. Don't plan on 469 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 5: having Alzheimer's. 470 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 3: We need you here with a clear mind, and. 471 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 5: That may be in your natural gene pool, but you 472 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 5: need to say every day my mind is a lurk. 473 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 5: I have clarity of thought, I have a good memory. 474 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,919 Speaker 5: God is restoring and renewing my youth. Every cell in 475 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 5: my body is increasing and getting healthier and healthier. You 476 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,199 Speaker 5: rise up in that authority and you can be the 477 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 5: one to put a stop to the negative things in 478 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 5: your family life. I love the story of Vanessa. She's 479 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 5: a medical doctor here in our church. In nineteen ninety five, 480 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 5: she was practicing medicine in Washington, d c. And she 481 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 5: began to feel terrible pain in her joints, her shoulders, 482 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 5: her hands, her knees got so bad she could hardly 483 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 5: stand it. She came to Houston to have an operation 484 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 5: on her knees, hoping that that would take care of it, 485 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 5: but unfortunately it continued to get worse, and it came 486 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 5: to the place even though she is in her early twenties, 487 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 5: she was so crippled that she had to walk with 488 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 5: a cane. And she told us she felt like and 489 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 5: looked like a ninety year old woman. And the entry 490 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 5: this thing is Vanessa's dad had the same disease in 491 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 5: his early twenties and he ended up dying from it 492 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 5: at the age of forty three. 493 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 3: Her grandmother had the exact same thing. 494 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 5: She was a paraplegic and in the natural it looked 495 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 5: like Vanessa was headed down that same path. When she 496 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 5: would come to church at the old Lakewood campus, it'd 497 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 5: take her forty five minutes to get from her car 498 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 5: to her seat. She would have taken her two or 499 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 5: three minutes. After the service, she'd let everybody clear out 500 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 5: so nobody. 501 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 3: Could see how bad a shape she was in. 502 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 5: During the week, she'd have to get up at three 503 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning to start getting dressed and start 504 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 5: getting her joints loosened up so that. 505 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 3: She could be at the hospital at seven or eight. 506 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,960 Speaker 5: The easy thing for her to do was to just 507 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 5: sit back and have a pity party and think, too 508 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,679 Speaker 5: bad for me. Daddy had it, grandmother had it. I 509 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 5: guess this is my lot in life. But thank God 510 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 5: she didn't do that. She was a warrior. 511 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 3: She said, you know what I know. I'm a covenant lady. 512 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 5: I know I have rights, and I'm gonna rise up 513 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 5: and take hold of everything that God has in. 514 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 3: Store for me. 515 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 5: And she started praying, believing, declaring, just what I'm telling 516 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 5: you to do. Every day, I'm getting better and better. 517 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 5: God is restoring health and to me, I will live 518 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 5: and not die. For three years, she didn't see any 519 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 5: sign of change, didn't look like anything was happening. 520 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 3: So you know what, that didn't matter to her. She 521 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 3: just kept on keeping on. 522 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 5: You got to show the enemy you are more determined 523 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 5: than he is. And one day, out of the clear blue, 524 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 5: she noticed the pain wasn't quite as bad. 525 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 3: She could move her joints just a little bit easier. 526 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 5: And it didn't happen overnight, but over that next three 527 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 5: months she got better and better and better, and today. 528 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 3: She's totally free. She's happy and healthy and home. Doctor Vanessa, 529 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 3: send up, show them your beautiful smile. See, she took a. 530 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 5: Stand, and she broke that curse, that sickness. I believe 531 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 5: in her family line once and for all. Now, her children, 532 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,399 Speaker 5: her grandchildren, generations to come will all benefit all because 533 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 5: she made a decision to live under the blessing and 534 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,239 Speaker 5: not the curse. You say, Joe, I don't know if 535 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 5: that happened for me, man, You don't know my circumstances. No, 536 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 5: that's your problem right now. This is for believers. You 537 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 5: got to rise up like doctor Vanessa. You gotta do 538 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 5: like David and look that obstacle in the eye. Now 539 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,960 Speaker 5: you got a in boldness look that enemy in the 540 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 5: eye and say I will defeat you. I'm in covenant 541 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 5: relationship with Almighty God. Now I want you to go 542 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 5: out of here today knowing who you are. You have 543 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 5: rights and privileges, don't you dare settle for a life 544 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 5: of mediocrity, Draw that line into sand and declare, I'm 545 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 5: going to become all God's created me, to be get 546 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 5: rid of that weakness, mentality, sharp thinking, those power thoughts. 547 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 5: I can do all things through Christ. I am a victorian, 548 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 5: not a victim. Remember, the same power that raised Christ from. 549 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 3: The dead is on the inside of you. 550 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 5: Your coller has already been loosed. The price has already 551 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,880 Speaker 5: been paid. It's up to you and me to rise 552 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 5: up and. 553 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 3: Walk in our authority. 554 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 5: Let me ask you today, what's holding you back in life? Addictions, 555 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 5: bad attitudes, low self esteem? Sickness is junk that's been 556 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 5: passed down. Recognize what it is. Don't just learn to 557 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 5: function in your dysfunction. Be willing to make some changes. 558 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 5: We shouldn't be at this same place next year as 559 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 5: we are right now. Let's be better parents, Let's be 560 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 5: better spouses, Let's have better relationships, Let's be closer to God. 561 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 5: The prophet Joel said to wake up. 562 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 3: The mighty men. 563 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 5: Now, I believe I'm looking at the mighty men and 564 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 5: women of God right here, right where you are. Every 565 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 5: one of you. You have seeds of greatness on the 566 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 5: inside of you. 567 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 3: But the enemy would love to push you down and 568 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 3: push you. 569 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 5: Down and tell you it's never going to get any 570 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,360 Speaker 5: batter You're never going to rise any higher. But I'm 571 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 5: asking you today to not settle for anything less than 572 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 5: God's very, very best. Stir up the gift on the inside, 573 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 5: keep your dreams alive. You're not average, you're not mediocre. 574 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 5: You're a child of the most High God. 575 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 3: Why don't you make a decision with me that you're 576 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 3: going to live under the blessing and not the curse. 577 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 5: And if you'll rise up in your authority and go 578 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 5: out each day with confidence knowing that you're a covenant 579 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 5: person and Almighty God's backing you up, I can promise 580 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 5: you this, you'll overcome. 581 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 3: Any obstacle in your life. 582 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 5: You'll rise higher, and you'll live that life of victory 583 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 5: God has in story. Amen, how many of you are 584 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 5: covenant people in here today? We never like to close 585 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 5: our broadcast without giving you an opportunity. 586 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 3: To make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you 587 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 3: pray with me? 588 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come 589 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 590 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 5: if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 591 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 5: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 592 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 5: God first place. 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