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I like to 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.720 start with something funny, and I heard about this elderly couple. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.120 They were sitting in a swing celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.880 Feeling romantic, the husband said to his wife, Oh, dear, 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.800 our love is tried and true. His wife had difficulty 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.240 hearing it and ask him to repeat it. He said 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.160 it louder, I said our love is tried and true. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.200 She still couldn't hear him, said what would you? Please 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.200 speak up? Frustrated he shouted, I said our love is 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.280 tried and true. She said, well, fine, I'm sick of 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.919 you too. Hold up your Bible. Why is that funny 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.639 to me? Hold up your bible? Say it like you 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.400 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.720 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.760 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.120 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.799 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.480 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.000 I want to talk to you today about reprogramming your mind. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.600 Our mind is like a computer. How we program it 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.400 is the way it's going to function. You can have 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:55.079 the most powerful computer made, the latest, fastest, holds the 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.160 most memory, but if you put the wrong software in it, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.919 it's not going to function like it was designed. And 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.320 we've all had to deal with these computer viruses. They 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.560 can get into a perfectly good computer and start to 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.200 contaminate the software. Before long, the computer is slowed, you 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.800 can't access your files. All these problems occur not because 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.160 it's defective, it's poorly made. No, the hardware is fine. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:28.120 It's because somebody we programmed the software somehow the insides 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.519 got messed up. Now the software is contaminated in the 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.840 same way. When God created you, he stepped back and said, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:42.120 another masterpiece. Your hardware is perfect. You're the right size, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.480 the right nationality, you have the right gifts. Not only that, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:51.400 God put the right software in you. From the very beginning. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:58.280 He programmed you to be victorious, healthy, strong, creative. Your 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.800 original software says you can do all things through Christ. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.640 He programmed whatever you touch will prosper and succeed. He 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.720 programmed the head and not the tail, lend and not borrow, 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:16.600 victor and not victim. You were programmed to live in abundant, victorious, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:21.440 faith filled life. That's how your creator designs you. But 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.880 the reason we don't always experience this abundant life is 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:31.080 we've allowed viruses to contaminate our software. We think I'll 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.760 never be successful, I'm not that talented. I'll never break 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:39.880 this addiction. I've had it too long. I'm slow, clumsy, unattractive. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:44.440 Nothing good is in my future. Because our software is infected. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.520 We go around low self esteem, negative, not believing for 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.360 dreams to come to pass, not expecting problems to turn around. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.000 Here's the good news. There is nothing wrong with you. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.599 Like that computer. You're not a mistake, you're not faulty. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.760 The problem is your software. You've got to get rid 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.840 of the viruses. All through the day, dwell on what 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:15.440 your creator says about you. I'm blessed, I'm strong, I'm healthy, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:21.279 I'm confident, I'm attractive, I'm valuable, i am victorious. You've 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.680 got to get back to your original software. If your 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.400 thinking is limited, your life will be limited. One of 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.920 the best things we can learn to do is hit 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.960 the delete button when negative, discouraging thoughts come trying to 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:40.440 contaminate your software. Just hit delete. That thought says you've 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.800 seen your best days. It's all downhill from here. Recognize 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.920 that's a virus trying to keep you from your destiny. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.719 It's real simple. Delete, not dwelling on that my software says, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.560 the path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. Well, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.680 you'll never get well. You saw the medical report. Delete. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.400 God is restoring health back into me. The number of 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.520 my days he will fulfill. I will live and not die. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.880 You may hear you'll never accompass your dreams. You're not 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.440 that talented. You don't have what it takes. Delete, Delete, Delete, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.280 I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I have the favor 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:24.479 of God. Whatever I touch prospers and succeeds. Perhaps you'll 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:28.520 hear you'll never break that addiction. Your father was an alcoholic, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.279 and you'll be one too. Delete. No weapon formed against 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.760 me will prosper. Whom the sun sets free is free, indeed, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.960 and I am free. If you're going to reach your 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.120 highest potential, you've got to get good at hitting the 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.840 delete button. When I stepped up to pasture the church, 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.400 every thought told me, you can't do this, Joel. You 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.680 don't know how to minister. You're too young, you don't 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.360 have the experience. Nobody's going to come. Would have been 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.720 easy to let that virus take root and keep me 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.000 from my destiny. I did what I'm asking you to do. 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.600 I kept hitting the delete button. You can't do it. Delete, 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.640 you're too young. Delete. Nobody's gonna come. Delete. You don't 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.560 have the experience. Deleite, it's not gonna work out. Delete. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.120 I wouldn't be standing here if I wasn't an expert 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:23.640 at hitting the delete button. One Sunday, right after I 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.840 first got started, I overheard two ladies talking in the 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:32.080 lobby after the service about me. One said he's not 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.480 as good as his father. The other answered, yeah, I 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.680 don't think he's going to make it. The enemy will 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.280 use people to try to contaminate your software. I was 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.160 already insecure, intimidated, didn't think I could do it. When 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.240 I heard that. My first thought was to panic. My 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.280 worst fears had come true. But then something rolls up 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.200 on the inside. God gives your grace for every season. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.880 He arms you with strength for every battle. I thought 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.440 to myself, those two ladies, they don't determine my destiny. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.520 They didn't call me, they didn't equip me, they didn't 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.720 anoint me. And more than anything else, they can't stop me. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.360 They don't have the final say. God has the final say. 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.880 He said, I'm well able. I can do all things 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.640 through Christ. I am strong in the Lord. Every time 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.240 I heard their voice delete no thanks now, dwelling on that, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.880 it came back again and again and again. I just 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.400 kept hitting the delete button. The scripture tells us to 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.480 guard our mind. You control the doorway to what you 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.560 allow in. You can dwell on every negative thought, every 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.480 derogatory comment, or you can choose to delete it and 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.520 dwell on what God says about you. If I would 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:53.120 have let what those two ladies said play over and over, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.000 they would have contamidated my confidence, contamidated my self esteem, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.120 contamidated my future. Some of you would go to a 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.520 new level if you would just start hitting the delete button. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.600 Quit dwelling on every negative thought that comes to your mind. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.360 That's the enemy trying to contaminate your software. If he 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.839 can control your thinking, he can control your whole life. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.680 If that thought is negative, discouraging, pushing you down, don't 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.839 dwell on it. Deleted. Pay attention to what you're thinking. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.400 If you go around thinking that you're not talented, then 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.640 you'll never have the confidence to step into your destiny. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.920 If you think you're unattractive, you'll never meet the people 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.000 you were supposed to meet. If you think you can't 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.120 break the addiction, then you can't. If you think you've 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.160 reached your limits than you have, it's not because you 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.360 can't go further. You've just convinced yourself that you can't. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.240 The good news is it's not too late. You can 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.120 still become everything God created you to be. Here's the 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.520 key to clear out all the negative things people have 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.679 said about you. You are not who people say you are, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.439 you are who God says you are. Clear Out what 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.960 the coach, the teacher said about you. You're too small, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.559 you don't have what it takes. Deleted. Quit dwelling on 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.160 that you're the right size. You have exactly what you 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.960 need for the race that's been designed for you. Clear 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.280 out what the counselor said. You're just a C student. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.959 You're not college material. Deleted. You're an a student. You 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:37.520 have seeds of greatness. Clear out what the ex boyfriend, 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.640 the ex spouse said. You're not attractive, You're not good 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:46.400 enough for me. Deleted. You're a masterpiece, want of a kind, beautiful, attractive, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.480 a prize possession. You may have to clear out what 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:55.000 a parent said, that person that raised you. You're so undisciplined, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.120 you're never going to dime out to much. You can't 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.400 do anything right. Deleted. You are desperate and to do 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.080 great things. You're destined to leave your mark on this generation. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.840 I read a report about children that had been bullied 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.000 in school. It talked about how years later those negative 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.959 words were still having an effect on many of them. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.760 They interviewed this one man. He was in his forties 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.800 and he looked to be a bright, intelligent man, but 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.000 he had not been able to hold down a good job, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.200 struggled in his relationships, couldn't seem to get on course. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.160 He told how as a child he was overweight, he 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.439 was chubby. Some of the other children made fun of 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:41.679 him and called him names, things like loser, failure. He 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.439 made the mistake of letting those words take root. Now 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:50.000 they were keeping him in mediocrity. When somebody calls you 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.800 something either good or bad. That seed is planted in 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.559 your soil. Now you get to determine whether or not 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.719 that seed takes root and grows. When you dwell on 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.360 what was said, you were watering the seed. You're giving 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.800 it a right to become a reality. That's why it's 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.559 so important that we're disciplined in our thought life. It's 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.800 great when people tell you you're blessed, you're talented, you're 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.520 going to do great things. Water those seeds, meditate on 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.199 those throughout the day. That's what you want to become 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.599 a reality. But too often the mistake we make is 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.560 we water the wrong seeds. Those two ladies that said 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.160 I wasn't as good as my father, if I would 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.079 have watered that seed, I would have never gotten off 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.720 the ground. And the truth is it wouldn't have been 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.319 their fault. They can't make a seed take root in me. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.439 All they can do is sow the seed. You have 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.480 complete control over what seeds are going to take root 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.400 and grow in your own soil. Now, a lot of 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.719 times we blame others. Well, they were talking about me. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.800 They tried to make me look bad, they were criticizing me. No, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.040 let them talk all they want. You control your own soil. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.040 Don't dwell on the negative, don't replay what they said 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:12.160 over and over. Guard your mind. Those are viruses trying 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.920 to infiltrate your software. Joshua will put it this way. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.839 If you will meditate on what God says about you 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.240 day and night, then you will have good success and 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.840 prosper in everything you do. When your mind is filled 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.040 with thoughts of faith, thought hope, thoughts of victory, that's 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.959 what's going to become a reality. That man in his 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.839 forties that was still shruggling, You know why he let 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:43.360 those derogatory comments play over and over every time he 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.839 thought about it. He was watering that seed year after year, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.040 and sad to say, but it became a reality. How 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.040 different would his life be if he had just learned 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.559 to hit the delete button, said a constantly play in 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.280 the negative. What if he'd have gone around thinking I'm 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.719 a masterpiece, I'm one of a kind, I'm talented, I've 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.720 got seeds of greatness. It would be a whole different story. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:12.040 Somebody may have spoken negative words over you. Deleted. People 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.199 don't determine your destiny. God determines your destiny. That's why 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.520 we start off every message by saying, I am who 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.800 God says I am. We're saying, in effect, i am 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.360 not who my history teacher says I am. I'm not 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.000 who my ex spouse says I am. I am not 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.760 who the critics say I am. I am who God 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.600 says I am. I like to take it a step further. 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.400 Not only I am who God says I am, but 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.920 I can do what God says I can do. That 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.800 means we know we've been programmed for victory. We've been 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.600 programmed to reign in life. We've been programmed to overcome obstacles. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.080 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.880 delivers us out of them all. We will accomplish our dreams. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.040 We will meet the right people, we will step into 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.440 the fullness of our destinies. When you think like that, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.480 all the forces of darkness cannot stop you. Friends, the 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.880 real battle is taking place in your mind. If you're 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.520 defeated in your thoughts, you've already lost. You've got to 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.440 get rid of the viruses. If you will get back 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.760 to your original software put in you by your creator, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.880 you'll go places that you've never dreamed. It's interesting how 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:30.000 little children start off so excited about life. They've got 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:34.600 big dreams. They're going to become a scientist, an astronaut, 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.680 a singer, a teacher, a ballplayer, even the president. They're 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:43.080 not intimidated, they're not insecure. They believe they can do anything. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:48.320 It's because they just came from their creator. Their thinking 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.760 has not been contaminated. They can still feel the seeds 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.600 of greatness. But too often, over time they start to 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.400 get reprogrammed. Somebody tells them what they can't become, what 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.560 they can do. Little by little, their environment starts to 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.720 squeeze them down. A coach, a teacher says, hey, you're 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.160 not good enough, you're too small. Their self esteem goes down. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.520 They see somebody more attractive and they start to feel inferior. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.120 All these things begin to distort who they really are. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.720 Before long, instead of dreaming big and believing possibility thoughts, 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.640 they think, I'll never do anything great. I'm not that talented, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.000 I'm just average. When we find ourselves stuck in these ruts, 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.320 not believing we can rise any higher, we need to 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.240 ask why do I think this way? Who programmed me 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.480 to think that I'm average? Who programmed me to give 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.480 up on my dreams? Who programmed me to think I 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.640 can't lose this weight, I can't break this addiction. I've 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.240 gone as far as I can. Where did those thoughts 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:55.480 come from? Could it be that you have accepted a 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.360 wrong mindset because of the environment you were raised in, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.520 the people that you were around. Just because it seems 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:08.400 normal to you doesn't mean that it's necessarily normal. Sometimes 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:13.359 we learn to function in our dysfunction. Maybe everybody you 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.119 grew up with was negative, where you're not supposed to 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.639 be negative. That's not normal. Maybe your friends didn't have 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.719 big dreams, they didn't do anything great in life, Well, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.959 that's not okay for you. That's not normal. Just because 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.240 family members had addictions bad habits, don't make the mistake 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.120 of thinking that's okay for you to live that way. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.400 Those are viruses that have been passed down that keep 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:42.320 infiltrating our thinking. Listen, God created you to go further, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:48.479 to be confident, to be free, to be healthy, positive, happy. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.679 You have greatness on the inside. Now it starts by 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:57.000 reprogramming your thinking. I saw a story about this dog, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.199 a German shepherd. She was pregnant with puppies. One day, 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.639 she was walking across the street and got hit by 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.399 a car. Both of her back legs were broken. She 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.000 was able to drag herself off the street and back 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.120 to her house. As the weeks went by, she began 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.919 to slowly recover. Her legs finally healed, but because they 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:22.000 weren't properly reset, when she walked, all she could do 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.239 was drag her back legs. She couldn't walk properly, her 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:30.040 joints had been messed up. Eventually she had her puppies. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.400 They seemed to be healthy and whole, but a few 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.400 weeks later, when they started walking, just like their mother, 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:42.359 they dragged their back legs. The owner was amazed. He 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.120 thought maybe they had been injured in the accident as well. 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.520 Took them to the veterinarian to have them checked out. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.240 The doctor discovered there was nothing wrong with their back legs. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:58.400 They were perfectly healthy. Those puppies were simply copying their mother. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.680 That's all. They'd seemed modeled in their mind. That's the 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.920 way they were supposed to walk. That's what's happened to 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.480 many of us, what we saw modeled growing up. The 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.480 people that raised us. They were good people. They were 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.159 doing their best, but in some way, they were dragging 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.120 their back legs. They were negative discouraged. Now we live 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.480 negative discouraged. They had addictions, low self esteem. Now we 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.240 struggle in those same areas. Or maybe they made poor 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.040 choices in relationships. God involved with the wrong people. Now 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.520 we're dealing with the same issues we saw them, except mediocrity. 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.680 Now mediocrity has become normal to us. The good news, 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.840 Just like those puppies, there is nothing wrong with your 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.800 back legs. Those are simply wrong mindsets that you've developed. 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.760 As you get your thinking straightened out, your legs will 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:59.040 straighten out. God didn't make you faulty. He didn't create 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.600 you subpar. He created you in his image. You are 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:10.159 his masterpiece, Crowned with favor, equipped with talent gifts, you 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:14.480 are destined to live a great life, healthy, abundant, happy, 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:19.040 faith filled. Now, don't go around dragging your back legs. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.880 You are not supposed to go through life inferior, low 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.360 self esteem, addicted, little goals, little dreams. That's not who 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:32.760 you are. Start reprogramming your mind as the head and 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:37.480 not the tail. Program it with excellence, not mediocrity. Program 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:42.040 it with abundance, not lack and poverty. Program it with freedom, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.360 not addictions. This is what my father did. He grew 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.360 up in a very poor environment. His parents lost everything 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.120 during the Great Depression. He had no money, no education, 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:59.960 no future to speak of. He had been programmed with poverty, defeat, mediocrity. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.800 He could have settled there, that's all he had seen. Thought, Hey, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.240 this is just my lot in life. We're just poor, 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.400 defeated people. But it's seventeen years old. When he gave 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:15.359 his life to Christ, he started reprogramming his thinking. Deep down, 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.640 something said, you were made for more than this. You're 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.080 not supposed to constantly struggle to barely make it through life. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.480 He could feel those seeds of greatness stirring on the inside. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.760 His attitude was this may be where I am, but 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:34.200 this is not who I am. I may be in defeat, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.000 but I am not defeated. I'm a child of the 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.840 most High God. Day after day, he kept hitting the 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.560 delete button. Thought told him, you have no future. Delete. 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:47.920 God's plans for me are for good. To give me 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.360 a future and a hope. You have no money. Delete, 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.840 I'm blessed. Whatever I touch prospers. You have no education. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:00.600 You'll never get out of here. It's impossible. Delete, de lead, delete. 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.399 God is making a way where I don't see away. 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.760 He's opening doors that no man can shut. He's bringing 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.879 the right people across my path. I will step into 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:14.560 the fullness of my destiny. He reprogrammed his thinking with 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.359 thoughts of faith, though hope, thoughts of victory. That's how 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:21.000 he rows up out of that poverty. Set a new 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:24.159 standard for our family. You may have been raised in 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:30.719 a limited environment. All you saw modeled was strife, addictions, conflict, 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:35.360 low self esteem, mediocrity. Don't let that set the limits 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.919 for your life. Don't go around dragging your back legs. 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.080 God wants you to go further now. It starts by 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.159 getting rid of the viruses. Hit the delete button. The 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.200 thought tells you you've gone as far as you can. 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.879 Delete you'll never get well. Delete, You'll always be addicted. Delete. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:55.880 This is as good as it gets. Delete. If you'll 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.160 get good at hitting the delete button, you will break 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:02.119 out a bondage and you will step into freedom. You 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.000 will break out of lack and poverty and step into abundance. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.240 You will break out of mediocrity and step up to excellence. 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:15.639 This is a new day. Strongholds are coming down. Wrong, 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:21.400 mindsets are being broken. Viruses are being cleared out. Get 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:24.440 ready for God to do something new. Get ready to 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:29.400 see his goodness in amazing ways. Well, Joel, this sounds encouraging, 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.879 but I don't know. All the experts say I'll never 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.240 get well. The experts say I'll never get out of death. 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:39.200 The experts tell me I've gone as far as my 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.760 education allows. This is as good as it gets. I 0:23:42.840 --> 0:23:47.280 say this respectfully, But the experts can be wrong. The 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:50.280 experts told us we would never have this building, but 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:54.119 here we are today. The experts told my mother that 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:56.800 she had a few weeks to live, but thirty three 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:01.760 years later, she's still alive in healthy me. The experts 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:04.680 told us Lakewood would never make it without my father, 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:09.879 but we're doing pretty good. I read about a bumblebee. 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:14.840 According to all the laws of aerodynamics, a bumblebee should 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:18.439 not be able to fly. Its wingspan is too small 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:21.200 for the size of its body. It can't get enough left. 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:26.040 But here's the key. Nobody told the bumblebee. It didn't 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:29.240 get the memo. No experts were able to talk it 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:33.119 out of it. The bumblebee felt its wings on its side, 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:36.960 and something in its DNA said, I'm supposed to fly. 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:40.639 I'm not made to just crawl around on the ground. 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:44.160 It didn't go check with the experts. It didn't read 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:47.679 the latest engineering report. It just did what was natural 0:24:47.800 --> 0:24:50.720 and started flapping its wings took off up into the air. 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:56.320 If that bumblebee would have been able to read the 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.800 negative reports, would have been able to listen to the naysayers, 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:03.400 it would have never gotten off the ground. It starts 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:07.240 in our thinking. If you don't think you can be successful, 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:10.320 you want. If you don't think you're talented, then you're not. 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.119