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God bless you. 40 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 4: It's the joy to come into your home. If you're 41 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 4: ever in the Houston area, please stop by be a 42 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 4: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll 43 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 4: make you feel right at home. But thank you so 44 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 4: much for tuning in today. Thank you again for coming out. 45 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny and I heard 46 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 4: about this middle aged woman she had a heart attack, 47 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 4: and on the operating table, she asked God if this 48 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 4: was it. God said, no, you have forty more years. 49 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 4: Upon recovery, she decided to stay in the hospital and 50 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 4: have a facelift, tummy tuck, lifeosuction, and extreme makeover. Two 51 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 4: months later, as she was leaving the hospital, she was 52 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 4: hit by a car and killed. Got to heaven, said God, 53 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 4: I thought she said I had forty more years. God said, 54 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I didn't recognize you. Hold up your Bible, 55 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 4: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 56 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 4: I am what it says. 57 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: I am. 58 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do 59 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be 60 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 61 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 62 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 63 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 4: to talk to you today about activating faith and not fear. 64 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 4: All through the day. We have the choice to believe 65 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 4: that either God is in control and good things are 66 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 4: in store, or we can go around worried, negative, expecting 67 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 4: the worst. I hear people say I'm afraid I'm going 68 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 4: to get laid off. I'm afraid my marriage is not 69 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 4: going to last. I'm afraid my children are going to 70 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 4: get into trouble. They don't realize it, but they're activating 71 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 4: fear instead of faith. Fear and faith have something in common. 72 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 4: They both ask us to believe something is going to 73 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 4: happen that we cannot see. Fear says that pain in 74 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 4: your side is the same thing your grandmother died from. 75 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 4: It's going to be the end of you. Faith says 76 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 4: that pain is not permanent, It's only temporary. Fear says 77 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 4: business is slow, you're going to go under. Faith says 78 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 4: God is supplying all of my needs. Fear says, you've 79 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 4: been through so much you're never going to really be 80 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 4: happy again. Faith says, my best days are still out 81 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 4: in front of me. Here's the key. Whatever you meditate 82 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 4: on is what's going to take root. If you dwell 83 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 4: on that fear all day, you let it play again 84 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 4: and again in your mind, then you give it a 85 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 4: right to become a reality. That's what Job said. The 86 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 4: thing I feared came upon me. Fear is using your 87 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 4: faith in the wrong direction. Your faith will work in 88 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 4: the negative just as well as it will the positive. 89 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 4: I was at the doctor's office with our daughter Alexandra 90 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 4: one time, and as the doctor was examining her, he 91 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 4: began to talk about how bad the flu season was 92 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 4: and how he gets it every year. I said, doctor, 93 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 4: do you really get it every year? He said so, yeah, Joel, 94 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 4: It's just automatic with me, something about my immune system. 95 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 4: He was so convinced he was expecting it. Six weeks later, 96 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 4: we were scheduled to go back for Alexandra's checkup. His 97 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 4: office call said, don't come today, the doctor is out 98 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 4: with the flu. I thought, his faith is working. He 99 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,479 Speaker 4: got just what he was believing for the problem is, 100 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 4: he was using it in the wrong direction. Just as 101 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 4: faith can bring in good things, fear can bring in 102 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 4: negative things. When you go around worried expecting the worst, 103 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 4: it's like you're inviting that into your life. Well, I'm 104 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 4: afraid I'm going to get the flu. You just invited 105 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 4: the flu. I'm afraid I might get laid off. You 106 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 4: just invited a layoff. No, turn it around. Quit inviting defeat, sickness, 107 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 4: bad breaks, and start inviting victory into your life. Use 108 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 4: your faith in the right direction. Years ago, I was 109 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,679 Speaker 4: facing a situation that had the potential to turn out badly. 110 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 4: It had gone on for months and months. Every morning 111 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,359 Speaker 4: when I woke up, the first thought that came to 112 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 4: my mind is it's not going to work out. It's 113 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,600 Speaker 4: going to cause you all kinds of heartache and pain. 114 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 4: That's the way fear is. It will try to dominate 115 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 4: your thought life. If you allow it, fear will keep 116 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 4: you awake at night. I was so tempted to be 117 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 4: worried and stressed out. One day I heard God say 118 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 4: something to me, not out loud, but just an impression 119 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 4: down in here. He said, Joel, if you keep worrying 120 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 4: and going over all the reasons why it's not going 121 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 4: to work out, then because of your worry, it's going 122 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 4: to come to pass. But if you will trust me 123 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 4: and use that same energy to believe, I will turn 124 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 4: it around and use it to your advantage. When I 125 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 4: heard that, I gained a new perspective. I realized that fear, worry, 126 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 4: negative thinking is not just a bad habit that allows 127 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 4: the negative to become a reality. Read an article in 128 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 4: the paper a while back about a twenty four year 129 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 4: old marine he was about to report to his second 130 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 4: tour of duty in Iraq. Before he left, he told 131 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 4: his family and friends. This would be his last tour. 132 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 4: He would not make it out. Family, friends, They tried 133 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 4: to encourage him. Don't say that, Yes, you're going to 134 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 4: make it out, he said, Now, I feel it so strongly. 135 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 4: This is going to be the end. Before he left, 136 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 4: he wrote farewell letters to his wife and two children, 137 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 4: telling them goodbye. Who was not only convinced in his thinking, 138 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 4: but he acted on that fear. Three months later, while 139 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 4: he was on a mission, just like he thought, he 140 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 4: hit a landmine and lost his life. The thing he 141 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 4: feared came upon him. But I wonder what would have 142 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 4: happened if he would place that fear with faith. What 143 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 4: if he'd have gone around saying, Father, thank you that 144 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 4: no weapon formed against me would prosper. Lord, you promised 145 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 4: your angels would watch over me and keep me from 146 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 4: dashing my foot against a stone. I don't know. Maybe 147 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 4: he would still be here, but I know this, When 148 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 4: you agree with fear, you are giving what you're fearing 149 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 4: the right to come to pass. The scripture talks about 150 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 4: how when any two of us agree, it shall be done. 151 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 4: That's a promise that when we stand in faith with 152 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 4: another believer, God will do what he said well, I 153 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 4: believe that principle is true even in the negative. When 154 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 4: the enemy puts a thought in your mind, if you agree, 155 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 4: then your agreement is what gives it the power to 156 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 4: come to pass. But if you don't agree, you turn 157 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 4: it around. The thought says your children are going to 158 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 4: get into trouble. No, I don't agree. My children will 159 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 4: be in the land. My children will fulfill their destiny. 160 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 4: You just stop that fear from coming to pass. The 161 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 4: thought says you better not go out today, you're gonna 162 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 4: have an accident. No, I don't agree. God has a 163 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 4: hedge of protection around me, a bloodline that the enemy 164 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 4: cannot cross. Well, that sickness is going to be what 165 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 4: you die from. It's been in your family line for 166 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 4: three generations. No thanks, I don't agree with long life. 167 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 4: God's going to satisfy me. Here's the key. Don't come 168 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 4: into agreement with the fear. If you don't agree. The 169 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,839 Speaker 4: only way it can come to pass is if God 170 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 4: gives it the permission. And if God does, you can 171 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 4: rest assured it's not going to work against you. It's 172 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 4: gonna work for you. Now, pay attention to what you're 173 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 4: coming into agreement with. When our son Jonathan was a 174 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 4: little baby. I was holding him at a restaurant while 175 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 4: we were eating. This older couple came up and started 176 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 4: complimenting us on how good Jonathan was and how quiet 177 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 4: he was being. But just before they left, the man 178 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 4: turned around and said, but you just wait till he 179 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 4: gets to be about two years old. He'll turn into 180 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 4: a different person. He's good now, but the terrible twos 181 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 4: are coming. I wanted to say thank you so much 182 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 4: for your encouragement and lifting my spirits. I told Victoria, 183 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 4: I don't receive that. I don't agree with that. I 184 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 4: am not letting that take root into my spirit. I said, 185 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 4: for us, not gonna be the terrible twos. It's gonna 186 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 4: be the terrific twos. Do you know we never had 187 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 4: a problem when he was two, three, four, he got 188 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 4: to be about ten, people started saying, just wait till 189 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 4: he gets to be a teenager. You're talking about a headache, trouble, 190 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 4: hard to get along with you. Just wait. Jonathan is 191 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 4: almost eighteen years old now, our daughter Alexandra is fourteen. 192 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 4: Do you know they still hadn't started cursing, lying, stealing, fight, 193 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 4: You hadn't caused us any problems next thing. People say, 194 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 4: you just wait till he gets to be twenty one, 195 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 4: Wait till he's legal, Joel, Wait till he hits forty 196 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 4: that midlife crisis, wait till he's seventy five. No, I 197 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 4: am not coming into agreement with fear and doubt and 198 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 4: bad breaks, disappointments. I'm activating my faith and not my fear. 199 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 4: If you expect your children, your loved ones, to get 200 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 4: into troubled cause, your heartache, and to barely make it 201 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 4: through life, then because you're putting faith in the fear 202 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 4: that allows it to come to pass, you're believing it in. 203 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 4: It's like this lady I heard about every night for 204 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 4: years and years. Practically she thought she heard a burglar 205 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 4: downstairs in her kitchen. She would make her husband get 206 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 4: up at least once a week and go make sure 207 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 4: everything was okay. One night she thought she heard some noise. Honey, up, 208 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 4: somebody's down in our kitchen. He got up so routinely, 209 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 4: like he had done a thousand times before. This time, 210 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 4: when he walked downstairs, he was staring down the barrel 211 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 4: of a gun. His eyes got so big. The burglar said, 212 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 4: don't make a sound, just give me all your valuables. 213 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 4: Gathered up the valuables, gave them to the burglar. The 214 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 4: burglar turned around, was about to run off. He said, 215 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 4: wait a minute, you can't go yet. You got to 216 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 4: come up and meet my wife. She's been expecting you 217 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 4: for thirty years. Friends don't go through life expecting disappointments, 218 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 4: bad breaks, disasters. That's putting faith into fear that allows 219 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 4: it to become a reality. Second Timoth, That was good, 220 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 4: wasn't it. Two Timothy one point seven says God has 221 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 4: not given us a spirit of fear, but of power 222 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 4: and of love, and of a sound mind. The amplified 223 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 4: says a disciplined mind. In other words, we're not going 224 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 4: to overcome fear and live a powerful, victorious life if 225 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 4: we're not disciplined in our thought life. That's where the 226 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 4: main battle is taking place. Your mind is the bull's 227 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 4: eye of the enemy's target. If he can control your thoughts, 228 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 4: he can control your whole life. If you don't guard 229 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 4: your mind, it will default back to these thoughts of fear, worry, anxiety, negativity. 230 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 4: Last week, a mother asked me to pray for her son. 231 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 4: She said, Joel, I'm so worried. I'm afraid he's going 232 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 4: to get into trouble. I'm afraid he's going to start 233 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,839 Speaker 4: running with the wrong crawd on and on. I said, 234 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 4: is he off course now? She said no, he's a 235 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 4: great kid, straight, a student, loving and kind. I'm just 236 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 4: afraid it's not going to last. Told her what I'm 237 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 4: telling you. Don't come into agreement with that fear. It 238 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 4: says in the Psalms. God's favor is not for a season, 239 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 4: but for a lifetime. When those thoughts try to tell 240 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 4: you it's not going to last, it's too good to 241 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 4: be true. No, turn it around. Father. I want to 242 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 4: thank you that your favor on my life, on my children, 243 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 4: on my career, on my future. It's not temporary. It's 244 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 4: not seasonal. It doesn't come and go. But God, your 245 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 4: favor is for a lifetime. You've got to be disciplined 246 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 4: in your thought life. Your thoughts are extremely powerful. Heard 247 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 4: about this lady that brought a six foot plant for 248 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 4: her bedroom was a fight astree. She had plants all 249 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 4: over the house. She was very experienced with plants, and 250 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 4: one morning she woke up looked at that plant. Out 251 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 4: of the blue, this thought said, this plant is not 252 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 4: going to make it. It's going to die. What was 253 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 4: as healthy as can be, nothing wrong with it. There 254 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 4: was no reason to believe that thought, but she made 255 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 4: the mistake of thinking of it over and over. She 256 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 4: even told her husband, I'm afraid this plant is not 257 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 4: going to make it. I'm afraid I wasted my money. 258 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 4: He said, why would you say that it's perfectly healthy. 259 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 4: All your other plants are doing just fine. She said, no, 260 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 4: Something just tells me it's not going to make it. 261 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 4: About three weeks later, she noticed the leaves were starting 262 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 4: to turn yellow. A couple of days later, all the 263 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 4: leaves had fallen off of it. Week or two later, 264 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 4: the whole plant had totally withered up and died. Was 265 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 4: amazing to her. One day she was praying, she said 266 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 4: she heard God say something to her. Write down in here. 267 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 4: He said, you killed that plant with your thoughts, since 268 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 4: she'll bumps up and down her spine when we agree 269 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 4: with the fear, it can come to pass. Later, she 270 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 4: told her husband, I know this sounds totally crazy, but 271 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 4: I think I killed the plant with my thoughts. He 272 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 4: looked at her very strangely said all I can say 273 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 4: is I hope you're thinking good thoughts about me. But 274 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 4: I wonder how many times have we killed our dreams 275 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 4: with our thoughts? How many times have we stopped God's 276 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 4: blessings favor, healing, restoration because we're dwelling on the fear. 277 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 4: A lot of people like this lady go around with 278 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 4: a nagging feeling that something's not gonna work out. I'm 279 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 4: afraid my business is gonna drive. I'm afraid i'm not 280 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 4: gonna stay healthy. I'm afraid my child's gonna get off course. 281 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 4: Because they're not disciplined in their thought life, they allow 282 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 4: that fear to take root. On my father's side of 283 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 4: the family, there's a long line of heart disease, high 284 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 4: blood pressure, high pretension. Well, that's what my father died from, 285 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 4: and his father and as well as others in our family. 286 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 4: It would be easy for me to let that take root. Think, 287 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 4: hey man, that's just my lot in life. I'm afraid 288 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 4: I'll probably get heart disease too. No, I've learned to 289 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 4: be disciplined. I'm not gonna activate fear. I'm going to 290 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 4: activate faith. Father. I want to thank you that heart disease, 291 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 4: high blood pressure stops with me. I will live out 292 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 4: all of my days in good health. See, don't agree 293 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 4: with the fear, agree with what God says about you. 294 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 4: My grandmother on daddy's side of the family was a 295 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 4: very feisty woman. She reminded me of Granny on the 296 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 4: Beverly Hillbillies. She was one of a kind and later 297 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,360 Speaker 4: in life she went to the doctrine. He said, I'm 298 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 4: sorry to inform you, miss Ostein, but you have the 299 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 4: very beginning stages of Parkinson's disease. Well that did not 300 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 4: set well with grandmother Ostine. She didn't even know what 301 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 4: Parkinson's disease was, but she knew enough to know she 302 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,919 Speaker 4: didn't want to have anything to do with them. She 303 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 4: bristled back, stood up tall. She's way less than five feet. 304 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 4: She said, listen here, doctor, I'll not have it. I'll 305 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 4: refuse to have it. I'm too old to have it. 306 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,679 Speaker 4: My grand mother went home, and do you know she 307 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 4: never had any symptoms of Parkinson's disease. She lived out 308 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 4: her days in good health. And I know we can't 309 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 4: just wish things away, but I also know when you 310 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 4: choose faith instead of fear, it activates God's power. That's 311 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 4: what allows God to turn things around. She could have 312 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 4: gone home and thought, well, just my luck. I knew 313 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 4: it wouldn't last. Too good to be true. No, she 314 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 4: didn't come into agreement with that fear. I talked to 315 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 4: a young couple after the service. They were very discouraged. 316 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:37,719 Speaker 4: They'd been trying to have a baby for many years. 317 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 4: For some reason, the young lady couldn't conceive. They'd been 318 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 4: to several doctors and everything seemed to find. They couldn't 319 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 4: understand why she couldn't get pregnant. She was very frustrated, 320 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 4: she said, Joel. The funny thing is, my mother had 321 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 4: a terrible time conceiving. My grandmother had the same problem. 322 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 4: Ever since I've been a little girl, I've been afraid 323 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,959 Speaker 4: that I wouldn't be able to have a baby. Like 324 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 4: the scripture says, the thing she feared came upon her. 325 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 4: It had created a stronghold in her mind. She didn't 326 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 4: think she could conceive. The first place we lose the 327 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 4: battle is in our own thinking. Here's the good news. 328 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 4: Just as you activate fear, you can start activating your faith. 329 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 4: That's what I told her. Instead of going through the 330 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,360 Speaker 4: day worried thinking about how it's not going to work out, 331 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 4: start meditating on what God says about you things like, Father, 332 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 4: you said, the fruit of my womb is blessed. Lord, 333 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 4: you said in Psalms, you'd make me the happy mother 334 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 4: of children. God, you said, because I delight myself in you, 335 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,880 Speaker 4: you would give me the desires of my heart. So Lord, 336 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 4: I want to thank you. I am able to conceive. 337 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 4: She started activating her faith. Now, about a year later 338 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 4: I saw this couple. They were beaming with joy. She 339 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 4: was pregnant with the little boy. Today, that child happy 340 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 4: and whole. But here's my point. I don't know if 341 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 4: that would have happened if she had not changed what 342 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 4: she was meditating on. Fear can create a barrier. Wrong 343 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 4: thinking can keep you from God's best. If you're going 344 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 4: to live in victory, you've got to be disciplined in 345 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 4: your thought life. What you dwell on is what you're 346 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 4: inviting in. That's what you allow to become a reality. 347 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 4: I heard a story about a man named Nick. He 348 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 4: was a big, strong, tough man, and he'd worked out 349 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 4: in the railroad yards for many, many years, and he 350 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 4: was one of the company's most reliable employees. But Nick 351 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 4: was a chronic warrior. He's always fearing the worst, talking 352 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 4: about what might happen. One summer day, the crew was 353 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 4: told that they could leave an hour early to attend 354 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,199 Speaker 4: a birthday party of one of the foreman's Nick was 355 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 4: out working in one of the refrigerated box cars when 356 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 4: somehow he accidentally got locked inside. Didn't have a cell phone, 357 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 4: a radio, everybody else was gone. When he realized he 358 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,719 Speaker 4: was trapped in that car, he began to panic. He 359 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 4: started screaming at the top of his lungs. He beat 360 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 4: on those doors hour after hour until his fists were bloodied. 361 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 4: He finally had his voice give out. Nick was very 362 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 4: aware that he was in a refrigerated box car. He 363 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 4: guessed that the temperature was well below freezing. He began 364 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 4: to fear the worst. He thought, if I don't get 365 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 4: out of here, I could freeze to death. There's no 366 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 4: way I can make it all night. The more he 367 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 4: thought about it, the colder he got, shivering almost uncontrollably. 368 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 4: He found a piece of cardboard in that box car. 369 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 4: He wrote a note. It said, so cold, body getting numb. 370 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 4: These may be my last words. The next morning, when 371 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 4: the crew came in opened big steel doors, they saw 372 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 4: Nick's body curled up over in the corner. The autopsy 373 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 4: revealed indeed he had frozen to death. Here's the amazing 374 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 4: part of the story. The refrigeration unit in the car 375 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 4: Nick was in that night was never even on. The 376 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 4: temperature in that car where he froze to death was 377 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 4: sixty one degrees. Nick froze to death because he was 378 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 4: convinced in his thinking he was in a freezing car. 379 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 4: The thing he feared came upon him. Let me ask you, 380 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 4: are you fearing freezing to death, so to speak, even 381 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 4: though it's sixty one degrees Like that young lady afraid 382 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 4: you won't get pregnant, even though there's really nothing wrong 383 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 4: with you. Fear blows things out of proportion. Fear makes 384 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 4: problems much bigger than they really are. Maybe God sent 385 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 4: you today for a perspective change. Maybe what you're fearing 386 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,879 Speaker 4: is never even going to happen. Maybe that obstacle that 387 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 4: looks permanent is really only temporary. Perhaps, like Nick, you 388 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 4: feel trapped. Everything tells you you'll never get out, you'll 389 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 4: never get ahead, you'll never get well, you'll never get married. No, 390 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 4: God is saying, don't worry. The refrigeration unit is not on. 391 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,040 Speaker 4: I've got you in the palm of my hand. No 392 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 4: weapon formed against you is ever going to prosper. It 393 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 4: may feel dark and lonely, like it's not going to 394 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 4: work out, But God is saying, if you will stay 395 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 4: in faith, I will deliver you. I will protect you. 396 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 4: I will heal you, I will vindicate you, I will 397 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 4: restore you. I will not only bring you out, I'll 398 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 4: bring you out better off than you were before. Now 399 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 4: you got to do your part. Don't panic, don't fear 400 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 4: the worst. Don't imagine every negative thing that could happen. No, 401 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 4: say life, David Psalm twenty seven. The Lord is my 402 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 4: light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord 403 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 4: protects me from danger? Why should I be afraid? Though 404 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 4: an army surrounds me, though they attack me from every side. 405 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 4: I may feel trapped. I don't see a way out. 406 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 4: Medical report doesn't look good. My bank statement tells me 407 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna make it. But that's okay. I know 408 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 4: a secret. God is still on the throne. Nothing I'm 409 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 4: facing is a surprise to him. The enemy doesn't have 410 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 4: the final say. God has the final say, and he says, 411 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 4: I will always cause you to triumph. Now be strong 412 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 4: and of good courage. The Lord, your God is with you. Friends. 413 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 4: Throughout life, fear will come knocking at the door, tell 414 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 4: you the worst case scenario, like that young marine. You're 415 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 4: not gonna make it out. You're not gonna stay healthy, 416 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 4: Your business is gonna go down. Now here's the key. 417 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 4: When fear knocks, let faith answer the door. Don't give 418 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 4: those thoughts of fear the time of day. Don't let 419 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 4: them intimidate you. Answer back with faith. Lord, you said 420 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 4: the number of my days you would fulfill. 421 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 5: God. 422 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 4: You said your plans for me are for good and 423 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 4: not evil. God, you said, what's meant for my harm, 424 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 4: you'd turn around and use to my advantage. When fear knocks, 425 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 4: let faith answer the door. I was flying out of 426 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 4: Canada one time, early in the morning. Her flight was 427 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 4: delayed for several hours because of the fog. Everywhere we 428 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 4: looked there was this thick, dense fog, you could barely 429 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 4: see anything. We thought the whole city was fogged in, 430 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 4: But when we took off, we looked down and noticed 431 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 4: it was just a pocket of fog about a one 432 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 4: mile area surrounding the airport. This is the way fear is. 433 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 4: Fear presents itself much bigger than it really is. It 434 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 4: will tell you all the worst case scenarios to try 435 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 4: to get you worried, anxious, uptight, panicked. No, just smile 436 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 4: and say, fear, I know your tricks. You're all bark 437 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 4: and no bite. You may look big, but I'm not impressed. 438 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 4: I know the truth. There's nothing really to you. That's 439 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 4: how you activate faith and not fear. When you do this, 440 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 4: the greatest force in the universe goes to work. Those 441 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 4: problems may be big, but our God is much bigger. 442 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 4: Your obstacles may be high, but we serve the most 443 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 4: high God. When thoughts of fear, worried, doubt, negativity come, 444 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 4: you got to rise up. Say like David, I will 445 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 4: not fear. I will not worry, I will not be uptight. 446 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 4: I will not dwell on the negative look that fear 447 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 4: in the eyes. So to speak, and say, you don't 448 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 4: intimidate me. I know who I am and I know 449 00:26:55,880 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 4: whose I am. Remember, fear is like a fog. It'll 450 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 4: always look much bigger than it really is. You have 451 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,280 Speaker 4: a pain in your side, fear will tell you that's permanent, 452 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 4: that's terminal. You muy as well start planning your funeral. No, 453 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 4: the truth is you just ate too much pizza the 454 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 4: night before. It's no big deal, but fear will exaggerate it. 455 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 4: Tell you what if your company starts laying people off, 456 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 4: you better worry. What if that pain is serious? No, 457 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 4: you need to look at fear and say get lost, 458 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 4: hit the road. I don't have time for you, friends. 459 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 4: Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your 460 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 4: time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you. You are 461 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 4: a child of the most high God. Dare to say, 462 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 4: like David, I will not fear. Think of this. If 463 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 4: the things we fear can come upon us, as the 464 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 4: scripture says, how much more can the things we have 465 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 4: faith for come upon us. God's power is so much 466 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 4: greater than the enemy's power. When fear knocks, let faith 467 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 4: answer the door. Don't come into agreement with fear. Stay 468 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,120 Speaker 4: disciplined in your thought life. This is the reason many 469 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 4: people are down, discouraged, negative. They're not guarding their mind. 470 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 4: That's where the real battle is taking place. If you'll 471 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 4: learn to activate faith and not fear, then I believe 472 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 4: and declare just like that young couple that had a baby, 473 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 4: God is going to bring your dreams to pass. He's 474 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 4: going to pour out floods of His favor. You will 475 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 4: overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become everything God's 476 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 4: created you to be in Jesus's name, if you receive it, 477 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 4: can you say him in today? 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