Speaker 1: Hi, It's Joel and Victoria. What a joy to be
Speaker 1: with you today. We always counted an honor. Know that
Speaker 1: we're praying for you and your family. We sure hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy this podcast today and we just are praying
Speaker 1: for you and know that God is for you, so
Speaker 1: enjoy today's message. Well, God bless you. It's great to
Speaker 1: be with you today, and I hope you stay connected
Speaker 1: with us during the week through a daily podcast or
Speaker 1: YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit us
Speaker 1: in person. We'd love to have you be a part
Speaker 1: of one of our services. But I'd like to start
Speaker 1: with something funny. And I heard about these two professional
Speaker 1: baseball players. They were discussing whether or not they thought
Speaker 1: there would be baseball up in heaven. They made an
Speaker 1: agreement that whoever died first would come back and tell
Speaker 1: if indeed there was baseball in heaven. A few months later,
Speaker 1: one of the players died, just like he promised. He
Speaker 1: came back said to the other player, I got good
Speaker 1: news and I've got bad news. The good news is
Speaker 1: there is baseball up in heaven. The bad news is
Speaker 1: scheduled to pitch next Thursday. Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you today about your bags are packed.
Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't know if we
Speaker 1: have what it takes. We feel unqualified for the position.
Speaker 1: We don't think we have the strength to raise these children,
Speaker 1: or the endurance to deal with these health issues. But
Speaker 1: God knew everything you would ever face, every problem, every
Speaker 1: set back, every dream. He put in you everything you
Speaker 1: would need to fulfill your purpose, the gifts, the talents,
Speaker 1: the wisdom, the strength. He's lined up the right people,
Speaker 1: the good, the doors to open, the giants to fall.
Speaker 1: You will never face a situation where you don't have
Speaker 1: what you need. You're not lacking, You're not at a disadvantage.
Speaker 1: The odds may be against you, but God has already
Speaker 1: equipped and empowered you for every season. David said it
Speaker 1: this way. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not
Speaker 1: want one version, says I have everything I need. That's
Speaker 1: a powerful place to live from. I'm not attractive enough
Speaker 1: and I don't have the talent. This problem's too big.
Speaker 1: As long as you think you're lacking, you're going to
Speaker 1: get stocks. You have to change your mindset. Get out
Speaker 1: of that not enough mentality can't do it too big.
Speaker 1: Do like David Heaven. I have everything I need mentality,
Speaker 1: I am well able. That's how David could defeat a
Speaker 1: giant with just a slingshot. That's how he could outlast
Speaker 1: King Saul, who was so jealous. That's why he didn't
Speaker 1: get discouraged when his father left him out in the
Speaker 1: shepherd's fields. He knew number one, the Lord is my shepherd.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing this by myself. I have a protector,
Speaker 1: a defender, a waymaker. And number two, he believed that
Speaker 1: the Lord, his shepherd, had put in him everything he needed,
Speaker 1: that he wasn't lacking, that he wasn't deficient. He didn't
Speaker 1: go around thinking, I wish I had more courage, then
Speaker 1: I'd face that giant. Wish I had more talent, then
Speaker 1: I could become a king. If I had more strength,
Speaker 1: I could deal with Saul. We wouldn't be talking about
Speaker 1: David if he didn't believe that he had everything he
Speaker 1: needed for each season he was in. If you have
Speaker 1: a lacking mindset, it pushes down your potential. If you
Speaker 1: believe you're at a deficit, it limits what God put
Speaker 1: in you. When Joel, I feel like I'm over my head.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do this. God wouldn't
Speaker 1: have allowed the situation if you weren't well able. It's
Speaker 1: a yes. Are you going to live with a lacking
Speaker 1: mentality or are you going to live with a loaded mentality?
Speaker 1: Are you going to shrink back because the obstacle feels
Speaker 1: too big or are you going to step up knowing
Speaker 1: that the courage, the strength, the favor is already in you.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying you should never feel unqualified or
Speaker 1: feel intimidated. Feelings come to us all. That's not a
Speaker 1: lack of faith. That's normal. But here's the key. Feelings
Speaker 1: don't tell you the truth. Feelings are fickle. They can
Speaker 1: be up one day and down the next. You have
Speaker 1: to override those feelings by what you know. That is,
Speaker 1: the Lord is your shepherd, and you have everything you
Speaker 1: need for each season that you're in. Now, don't verbalize
Speaker 1: your feelings, verbalize what God says about you. Why I
Speaker 1: can't raise this child It's too difficult. No, I am
Speaker 1: strong in the Lord, I am well able. I can't
Speaker 1: take this position. I'm not qualified. No, I can do
Speaker 1: all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Well, Joe, this
Speaker 1: sickness is too much. I can't deal with the treatment.
Speaker 1: Turn it around. Greater is he that's in me than
Speaker 1: what's trying to stop me. You have the strength, the power,
Speaker 1: the favor for every season, not to just survive, but
Speaker 1: to thrive despite what comes against you. Imagine with me
Speaker 1: that I decided to take Victoria on a forty day
Speaker 1: surprise vacation next year for our fortieth anniversary. Now just imagine,
Speaker 1: because it's not gonna happen. This is an illustration, Victoria.
Speaker 1: This is not a prophecy. But since it's a surprise,
Speaker 1: I have to pack her bags, and I pick out
Speaker 1: all these great locations. So we're gonna spend a few
Speaker 1: days in the mountains where it's snowing. So I pack
Speaker 1: her coat and sweater, gloves, a scarf. Then we're gonna
Speaker 1: head to a beach town get some sun. I pack
Speaker 1: her shorts, taink top, sandal sunscreen. We love to hike.
Speaker 1: We're gonna travel to this place where they're great trails,
Speaker 1: So I pack her hiking boots, blue jeans, backpack, water bottle.
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna finish up the trip in a big
Speaker 1: city and go to a nice restaurant, maybe see a
Speaker 1: play afterwards. So I packed something formal, nice dress, high heels,
Speaker 1: fancy purse, and she'll need her makeup, and I'll take
Speaker 1: those four suitcases. And good morning of the trip. She
Speaker 1: wakes up and I tell her we're going on a
Speaker 1: surprise forty day vacation. We leave in an hour. First
Speaker 1: thing she'll say is I can't go. I have to pack.
Speaker 1: I tell her, no, you don't have to, I pack
Speaker 1: for you. She'll say, now I'm really not going. But
Speaker 1: we get to our first location. She looks in the
Speaker 1: bag and there's the coat, the sweater, the gloves that
Speaker 1: she needs. Get to the beach. A few days later,
Speaker 1: there's the shorts, sandals, some sunscreen. She thinks, man, I
Speaker 1: know Joel is good looking. I didn't know he's this smart.
Speaker 1: And we go to take our heights. She has all
Speaker 1: her gear, jeans, backpack, water bottle. Get to the big city,
Speaker 1: she looks in her back. There's one of her nice
Speaker 1: dresses perfectly folded. There's her high heels. It's all in there.
Speaker 1: Every place she went, she had just what she needed.
Speaker 1: How could I pack so perfectly? How could I have
Speaker 1: the right thing for every occasion? It's because I planned
Speaker 1: the trip. I knew the itinerary, where we were going,
Speaker 1: how long we're going to stay, what we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: what the weather would be like. I took all that
Speaker 1: into account and made sure I packed exactly what she needed.
Speaker 1: The scripture says before you were born, God knew you
Speaker 1: and planned out your days. It says in Psalms that
Speaker 1: He has written every day of your life in his book.
Speaker 1: He knows where you're going, how long you're going to stay,
Speaker 1: what the conditions are going to be like, what you're
Speaker 1: going to need. The good news is God not only
Speaker 1: knows your itinerary, but he has packed your backs. There's
Speaker 1: not a location that you go to that you won't
Speaker 1: have what you need. There's not a season you'll be
Speaker 1: in where you don't have the strength, the courage, the
Speaker 1: favor to do what He's assigned you to do. He
Speaker 1: knows every battle you'll face, every valley, every mountain, that
Speaker 1: opportunity that seems over your head. He knew it was coming.
Speaker 1: He planned your trip. He's already put the faith, the wisdom,
Speaker 1: the fortitude in your bag. You don't have to live
Speaker 1: worry anything. I don't know if I can handle this.
Speaker 1: It's over my head. No, it's in you. There's grace
Speaker 1: for every season. There is strength for your assignment and
Speaker 1: provision for your calling. Don't believe those lies that you
Speaker 1: had a deficit. It's too much. That's saying, in effect, God,
Speaker 1: you forgot something. You left this out of my bag.
Speaker 1: You didn't take into account this trouble or this person
Speaker 1: that walked away, this new level in my career. No,
Speaker 1: God that make mistakes. Whatever season you're in, it may
Speaker 1: be a surprise to you, but it's not a surprise
Speaker 1: to him when you understand that God has packed your bags.
Speaker 1: You don't live with a lacking mindset. You live with
Speaker 1: a loaded mindset like David. Even when you walk into
Speaker 1: seasons that don't make sense, you have that faith, that
Speaker 1: trust that the Lord is my shepherd. I have everything
Speaker 1: I need. This can save you a lot of frustration,
Speaker 1: a lot of anks about the future because there's so
Speaker 1: much uncertainty. It's easy. Don't worry about what might happen
Speaker 1: and how am I going to handle college? Or what
Speaker 1: if I'm not good at raising these children? Or what
Speaker 1: if this company doesn't need me in the future, how
Speaker 1: will I make it? We don't know what the future holds.
Speaker 1: We don't know what will need and what will face.
Speaker 1: But you know what will help you sleep well at
Speaker 1: night and lay down in peace is when you know
Speaker 1: that your bags have been packed by your heavenly father.
Speaker 1: He knows everything. He planned your itinerary. He didn't just
Speaker 1: leave it up to us to figure out come up
Speaker 1: with what we need. He packed your bags for you.
Speaker 1: He took into account every season in your life, your youth,
Speaker 1: your young adult, middle aged, senior years. It's all there.
Speaker 1: You can live in peace knowing who packed your bags.
Speaker 1: One time, I was at a Night of Hope, one
Speaker 1: of our events on the road, and always wear casual
Speaker 1: clothes to the venue, and I change into my suit
Speaker 1: right before the service starts. I'd been there an hour
Speaker 1: or so, visiting with pastors and other guests, and about
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes before the service I ran back to change
Speaker 1: my clothes, and my suit and shirt and tie were
Speaker 1: hanging there. I looked in my bag and there were
Speaker 1: my shoes, my belt, but I couldn't find my socks anywhere.
Speaker 1: Looked at all the compartments and unzipped everything, pulled out
Speaker 1: all the other clothes, but no socks. All I had
Speaker 1: was my athletic socks I was wearing with my tennis shoes. Well,
Speaker 1: my friend Johnny was with me. I've known him my
Speaker 1: whole life. He was already in his suit. He looked
Speaker 1: at me and said, do you want my socks? I said,
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, and we switched socks right there.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell him anything about that toe fungus I've
Speaker 1: had for thirty years. But God must have protected him.
Speaker 1: But here's my point. Sometimes we forget to pack things.
Speaker 1: I had done a couple hundred nights of hope, but
Speaker 1: that night I left something out. Can I encourage you?
Speaker 1: God never leaves anything out. He never forgets to pack
Speaker 1: what you need. Now, when you're in a difficult situations,
Speaker 1: thoughts will whisper You're not qualified, you're not attractive enough,
Speaker 1: you're not talented enough. Do you think the creator of
Speaker 1: the universe, the god who flung stars into space somehow
Speaker 1: made him mistake and forgot to pack what you need.
Speaker 1: That he somehow left out your socks, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Now you don't have the courage, the strength, the ability.
Speaker 1: That's the enemy. He'd love to deceive us into living
Speaker 1: with a lacking mentality. I'm not enough. I'm at a
Speaker 1: deficit as long as you believe that, it's limiting what
Speaker 1: God put in you, the gifts, the talents, the strength
Speaker 1: is lying dormant. The way to unpack your bags and
Speaker 1: discover what's in you is to be like David and
Speaker 1: live from this. I have everything I need mentality, not
Speaker 1: because of what we've done, not because of how great
Speaker 1: we are, but because the Lord is our shepherd, and
Speaker 1: he has packed us with courage, with influence, with leadership,
Speaker 1: with strategy. You're not lacking. You can handle it. If
Speaker 1: it's in your path, you're equipped for it. If it's
Speaker 1: in your future, you don't have to worry. Made the itinerary.
Speaker 1: He's planned your days. He's already packed everything you need.
Speaker 1: When you get there, you can open up that bag
Speaker 1: and there it is. A friend of mine is taking
Speaker 1: care of his elderly parents, and he and his wife
Speaker 1: have several beautiful children, and he's very successful in his career.
Speaker 1: They're always on the go. He said, Joel, if you
Speaker 1: would have told me five years ago that I would
Speaker 1: need to take care of my parents and bring them
Speaker 1: food each day and check on them and take them
Speaker 1: to appointments, I would have thought, there's no way. I
Speaker 1: don't have the time or energy. I can't handle all that.
Speaker 1: But he said, it's so amazing at how I have
Speaker 1: the grace to do all this Now. I don't dread it.
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. It's like God has multiplied my time.
Speaker 1: Why was that God had already packed the grace, the strength,
Speaker 1: the ability in his bag. God knows what you're going
Speaker 1: to need, when you're going to need it. You don't
Speaker 1: have to dread things. Urry you convince yourself it's going
Speaker 1: to be so hard, and what all you can't do.
Speaker 1: When you get there, the grace will be there. But Joel,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's over my head. It's too much
Speaker 1: for me. No, you haven't unpacked all this in your bag.
Speaker 1: You've seen partial strength, partial talent, partial courage. There's much
Speaker 1: more in you. You can't judge your future by where
Speaker 1: you are right now. Proverb says the path of the
Speaker 1: Righteous gets brighter and brighter as you step into new
Speaker 1: seasons where you need more strength, more wisdom, more grace.
Speaker 1: You're going to unpack things you didn't know we're in you.
Speaker 1: Some of what God is packed is hidden on purpose
Speaker 1: because you don't need it right now. It's easy to think, well,
Speaker 1: this is who I am, this is who I'll always be,
Speaker 1: this same level of confidence, strength, influence, no, your graceful
Speaker 1: where you are right now. But God has greater levels coming.
Speaker 1: You're going to discover what He's packed in you that
Speaker 1: you didn't even know you had. For seventeen years, I
Speaker 1: worked behind the scenes here at Lakewood during the television production,
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it. Had a natural bent at cameras
Speaker 1: and lighting and producing. But my father would always try
Speaker 1: to get me up to speak. He said, Joe, you'd
Speaker 1: be a good minister. Why don't you help me pastor
Speaker 1: the church? That was always so strange to me. I thought, Man,
Speaker 1: I have my dad fooled. There is no way I
Speaker 1: could get up in front of people. I wouldn't know
Speaker 1: what to say. I don't have that gift. Year after
Speaker 1: year I would tell him no. In nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: my father had a heart attack and went to be
Speaker 1: with the Lord, and all of a sudden, I felt
Speaker 1: this desire to step up and pastor the church. Now.
Speaker 1: Thoughts told me, Joe, you're not qualified, you don't have
Speaker 1: the experience. Nobody's going to listen to you. In years past,
Speaker 1: I believed it lived, intimidated too much, no way. But
Speaker 1: this time I felt this courage, this strength, this favor
Speaker 1: that I'd never felt before I stepped up. We never
Speaker 1: dreamed the church would grow. We were hoping if we
Speaker 1: could just maintain what my parents had built, that would
Speaker 1: be a great victory. But look what the Lord has done.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven years later, here we are in the former
Speaker 1: Compact Center. I didn't know my father was going to
Speaker 1: suddenly pass. I didn't know I could minister. But God
Speaker 1: knew what was coming. He knew what I was going
Speaker 1: to need. He had already packed my bags. You don't
Speaker 1: know what God has already packed in you. That's why
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry what if this happens, Joela.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm qualified. I don't have the talent.
Speaker 1: You have what you need for this season. When you
Speaker 1: need more, it'll be there. God has already packed it.
Speaker 1: He's not only put things in you, but he's lined
Speaker 1: up the people you need and the doors to open.
Speaker 1: The good breaks. When my father passed, my brother Paul
Speaker 1: had been the chief of sogery at a hospital in
Speaker 1: Little Rock for thirteen years. Driving home from the memorial service,
Speaker 1: he felt God telling him to come back home and
Speaker 1: help us pastor the church. My brother in law, Dawn,
Speaker 1: was working in politics in Washington. He came back and
Speaker 1: helped us to run the television station the church owned.
Speaker 1: I couldn't have made all this happen. God had it
Speaker 1: all lined up. When we were trying to acquire this building,
Speaker 1: the former Compact Center, it was owned by the city.
Speaker 1: We needed ten city council members to vote for us.
Speaker 1: I'd never done anything in city politics. I thought, Man,
Speaker 1: where do we even start trying to convince people to
Speaker 1: be for us. There was a consultant we were told
Speaker 1: about that was the most influential man in city politics
Speaker 1: for decades. He had worked with council members and mayors.
Speaker 1: If you wanted anything done, people told us he was
Speaker 1: the person to get well. The thing about this man
Speaker 1: is he didn't have any kind of faith background, never
Speaker 1: done anything for religious organization, and he was kind of
Speaker 1: known to be a partier and love to dream, stay out, laid,
Speaker 1: have a good time. His language was really out there.
Speaker 1: But you never know who God is gonna use. Don't
Speaker 1: write people off because they're not just like you. And
Speaker 1: the first time I met with him, it was like
Speaker 1: this instant connection. God calls things to fall into place.
Speaker 1: He went out of his way to make things happen
Speaker 1: for us. He called on favors that people owed him
Speaker 1: and used it for us. It was uncommon. He told
Speaker 1: the newspaper, I love Joel, I'll do anything for him.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think I'm just that great, But that
Speaker 1: was the favor God had already packed for us for
Speaker 1: that critical season, bringing the right people. God knows what
Speaker 1: you need and he knows who you need. As you
Speaker 1: keep moving forward honoring God, you're going to unpack gifts, talents, favor, opportunity.
Speaker 1: The right people are going to show God packed it
Speaker 1: for the right season. You'll never be at a deficit,
Speaker 1: never be lacking. Like David. You have everything you need
Speaker 1: for the season you're in. Like God did for me,
Speaker 1: You're going to come into these seasons where you unpacked
Speaker 1: things that thrust you ahead that you didn't even know
Speaker 1: were in you. This is what happened to Gideon Judges
Speaker 1: chapter six. The people of Israel were being terrorized by
Speaker 1: the Midianites. They were bigger and stronger, and every time
Speaker 1: the Israelites crops begin to flourish, they would come and
Speaker 1: take the harvest and steal their possessions. Gideon was in
Speaker 1: hiding in a wine press, afraid and intimidated. An angel
Speaker 1: showed up and said, mighty hero, the Lord is with you.
Speaker 1: You are to deliver the Israelites from the army of
Speaker 1: midian I can imagine Gideon looking around, thought, who's he
Speaker 1: talking to. I'm not a mighty hero. I'm not strong
Speaker 1: and confident. I'm afraid. I'm hiding. God doesn't just see
Speaker 1: you as you are. He knows what he put in you.
Speaker 1: There will be these times that he calls it out.
Speaker 1: Get in. Said to the angel, how can I deliver
Speaker 1: the people? I come from the smallest tribe, and I'm
Speaker 1: the least one in my father's house. He was saying, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm lacking. I'm at a deficit. I would deliver the
Speaker 1: people if I had the courage, if I had the
Speaker 1: strength and the strategy, then I'd step up. God will
Speaker 1: never ask you to do something and not give you
Speaker 1: the ability to do it. He won't open a door
Speaker 1: that you can't walk through. He won't let you face
Speaker 1: opposition that you can't overcome. He knew it was coming.
Speaker 1: He planned your days, He determined your itinerary. He knew
Speaker 1: the Midianites would show up. The trouble, the sickness, the loss.
Speaker 1: It may have surprised you, but it didn't surprise him.
Speaker 1: The Psalmist said, God has armed you with for every battle.
Speaker 1: He's already packed your bags for that adversity. Yes, the
Speaker 1: enemy may look big, but what's in you is bigger.
Speaker 1: That challenge may be great, but greater is he that's
Speaker 1: in you. There's greater courage, greater faith, greater vision. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't be facing it if you weren't well able. Gideon's
Speaker 1: mistake is he went by what he felt. I feel unqualified,
Speaker 1: I feel less than afraid. That whole time he had
Speaker 1: a mighty hero on the inside, a man of fearless courage.
Speaker 1: This shows us what you're thinking can push down what
Speaker 1: God put in you. If you live with this deficit
Speaker 1: mentality not enough disadvantage, you're not going to see that
Speaker 1: mighty hero come out. Gideon made all these excuses and
Speaker 1: told the angel what he didn't have, what he couldn't do.
Speaker 1: The Angel said, Gideon, go in the strength you have.
Speaker 1: That was the key he was say, and don't wait
Speaker 1: till your feelings change. Take a step of faith, and
Speaker 1: you'll discover what God has already put in you. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we're like Gid in when I feel more couraged Joel,
Speaker 1: when I see things begin to improve, when I don't
Speaker 1: have this doubt, this insecurity, then I'll step up. But
Speaker 1: faith is about believing before you see it. Gideon finally
Speaker 1: took that step. He went out and defeated the Midianites,
Speaker 1: and he went on to become one of the heroes
Speaker 1: of faith. I wonder if there are things God has
Speaker 1: packed in your bag, But like Gideon, you're talking yourself
Speaker 1: out of it, thinking you're not qualified, the opposition's too big,
Speaker 1: you don't have what it takes. You wouldn't be there
Speaker 1: if you didn't have what it takes. Your assignment may
Speaker 1: be bigger than your confidence, but it's not bigger than
Speaker 1: your calling. God has already packed the mighty hero in you.
Speaker 1: He's already put greater confidence, strength, strategy to defeat the
Speaker 1: giants in your life, to step into your purpose. Moses
Speaker 1: had to learn this. He'd been in the desert for
Speaker 1: forty years hiding because of a mistake he had made.
Speaker 1: He felt like he was done. He had missed his chance.
Speaker 1: But God is taken into account every mistake, every wrong turn.
Speaker 1: He's already packed mercy and new beginnings and second chances.
Speaker 1: Nothing you've done has canceled your destiny. God showed up
Speaker 1: in a burning bush and told Moses go, tell the
Speaker 1: Pharaoh to let my people go. Moses said, God, I
Speaker 1: can't go. I stuttered, have a problem with my speech.
Speaker 1: I don't talk well. I love how God answered him.
Speaker 1: He said, Moses, who made your tongue? Who makes the
Speaker 1: death to hear? Who makes the blind to see? Is
Speaker 1: it not I? The Lord's your God? He was saying,
Speaker 1: in effect, Moses, who packed your You think I left
Speaker 1: something out that I'm asking you to do something you
Speaker 1: can't do. If you'll go in the strength you have,
Speaker 1: you'll discover what God has already packed. Moses went to
Speaker 1: the Fay Road, and at first he wouldn't let the
Speaker 1: people go. God told him to throw his staff on
Speaker 1: the ground. This stick that he carried. When he did,
Speaker 1: it turned into a snake. He picked it up, it
Speaker 1: turned back into a staff supernatural power. He held that
Speaker 1: stick up and the red sea parted. He used that
Speaker 1: stick to strike a rock and water came flowing out.
Speaker 1: Something he had that looked ordinary, just a stick, became
Speaker 1: a tool to see the extra ordinary. Some of the
Speaker 1: things God has packed in your bags may seem ordinary
Speaker 1: to you, ordinary talent, ordinary courage, ordinary opportunity. But when
Speaker 1: God breathes on them, they'll become extraordinary. Doors will open,
Speaker 1: healing will come, generational limits, patience will be broken. But
Speaker 1: Moses almost talked himself out of it. God, I stutter,
Speaker 1: I'm at a deficit. He didn't need a new mouth,
Speaker 1: He needed a new mindset. Could that be you today?
Speaker 1: You have what you need, but your thinking is limiting you. Now.
Speaker 1: I know there are times that we feel over our head.
Speaker 1: The obstacle looks too big, the dream too great. But
Speaker 1: you have to remind yourself that God not only planned
Speaker 1: your days, He not only determined your itinerary, but he
Speaker 1: took it one step further and packed your bags. You
Speaker 1: have the grace you need for this season that you're
Speaker 1: in and whatever you face in the future, you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry stress over things that you can't control,
Speaker 1: wonder how it's going to work out. You can stay
Speaker 1: in peace. Your heavenly Father has taken all that into account.
Speaker 1: He didn't forget to pack anything in your back. He
Speaker 1: didn't make mistakes. Live from a deficit mentality not enough
Speaker 1: problem too big. Here's a mighty hero in you. There's courage, strength,
Speaker 1: new levels, no more I'm lacking. But how about I'm loaded,
Speaker 1: not a Gideon mentality it's too much. But how about David?
Speaker 1: The Lord is my shepherd. I have everything I need.
Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe and declare Like David,
Speaker 1: You're going to see giants fall, healing, freedom, breakthroughs. Like Gideon.
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