1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:01,720 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Victoria. 2 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 2: God has amazing things in your future. I hope you 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: enjoy this message. I want to encourage every one of 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: us today that if you're waiting on a prayer to 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 2: be answered, or maybe you're waiting for some things to 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 2: change in your life and it hasn't happened for a 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: long time and you're just waiting for things to change 9 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 2: so you can move on with life, I want to 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 2: encourage you to not let those things stop. You. Don't 11 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 2: get stuck in those areas of your life. God doesn't 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: want you to ever get stuck. He wants you to 13 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: live with enthusiasm. He wants you to live with joy. 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: He wants you to live with expectancy of what He 15 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: can do in your life. 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: You see, sometimes. 17 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: We're waiting on things to change. We're looking at everything 18 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: around us, and we forget to look at our God. See, 19 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 2: the Bible says we are to wait upon the Lord. 20 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 2: We're not to wait for all of our prayers to 21 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 2: be answered. We're not to wait for things to change 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 2: before we can be happy. 23 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: We're to wait expectantly. 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 2: On the Lord, exciting with the anticipation. God, I may 25 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,199 Speaker 2: be in a difficult season, but God, that doesn't stop 26 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 2: you from working in my life, you see, with an 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 2: excitement and a joy and a passion for life. That's 28 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 2: how God wants us to live. You know, we sometimes 29 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: we think that seems impossible. 30 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: I can't be that happy all the time, really, Victoria. 31 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 2: The Bible says that there is a joy in you 32 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 2: that Jesus gave you. He says, the joy that is 33 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: in me, I've given you. 34 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: You have the ability to tap. 35 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: Into the resources that God has given you. You see. 36 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 2: The Bible says that the righteous are to get brighter 37 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 2: and brighter until the full day. We're to thrive like 38 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 2: a green leaf. We're not supposed to wither. Our dreams 39 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 2: and hopes are not supposed to wither. But we're supposed 40 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: to thrive. We're supposed to shine brighter and brighter. You're 41 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: not supposed to be dim some days and bright the others. 42 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: You're supposed to be bright, shiny. You're supposed to let 43 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 2: the sun in the so so in every single day 44 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 2: so that you can be bright and shiny. I think 45 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 2: that's a good question to ask ourselves periodically through the day. 46 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: Am I shining? Where do I feel dim? 47 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 2: Is there a black cloud over me? Is there something 48 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,399 Speaker 2: trying to bring me down? Am I focused too much 49 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,239 Speaker 2: on a situation or our or change that needs to 50 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: happen in my life that I'm not shining? Do I 51 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 2: need to get my eyes off of this mountain and 52 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 2: get my eyes on where the help can come from 53 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 2: from the person who created all the mountains, who created 54 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 2: the universe, and who can create whatever I need. Listen 55 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: where to be stars, where to let the sun in? 56 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: Listen to what it says in Isaiah forty three, eighteen 57 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: and nineteen, And this is what God spoke through the prophet, 58 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 2: and he said, forget the former things, do not dwell 59 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: on them. Behold, I am doing a new thing now 60 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 2: now it springs up. Can you perceive it? I am 61 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 2: making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. 62 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 2: You see, there is a question that God is asking 63 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 2: us in his promise to us. And what he is 64 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: asking us is this, Do you recognize. 65 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: What I'm doing in your life? 66 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 2: You see, it says I am doing a new thing. 67 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 2: God didn't say I'm going to do a new thing. 68 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: When I get ready, when you get straight in your life. 69 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 2: He said, I am doing a new thing. It springs 70 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 2: up now. See God is saying, don't have faith when 71 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 2: the situation takes care of itself, because I'm doing some 72 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 2: new things right now, right now. But the thing is 73 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,279 Speaker 2: is that we have to precede it, and in doing 74 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: so sometimes we need to change our perspective. We need 75 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 2: to widen our lens, widen our focus. You see it 76 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: says behold. Some translations say look, see watch. That sounds 77 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 2: like anticipation to me, doesn't it. You watch and see 78 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: what the Lord will do. See it is a new 79 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: thing I'll never forget. Several years ago, I was going 80 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 2: through the most difficult time in my life. There was 81 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 2: my life seemed to hinge on this one major decision. 82 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: To me, it felt like life and death to me. 83 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 2: It was the most difficult thing that I can remember 84 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 2: ever going through. I can remember what I wanted to do. 85 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to stay home. I wanted to cry. I 86 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 2: wanted to waller listen. I didn't want to shine. I 87 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: wanted to dim things down. One day God spoke to 88 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 2: me and he said, you cannot live like this. He said, 89 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: you were made and designed to shine. And he said 90 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 2: you need to look out beyond this problem, because I've 91 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 2: got opportunities. I'm doing some new things in the middle 92 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 2: of your mess. 93 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: I am still working. Do you know? 94 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 2: That challenge in my life went on for three long years? 95 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 2: And can I tell you they seemed like long years. 96 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 2: But during that time I shook it off. Every day 97 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 2: I pushed through. 98 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: Was it easy? No? 99 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 2: But I had to change my focus and change my perspective. God, 100 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,359 Speaker 2: you don't want me to stay here. You've got new 101 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 2: things for me. Do you know what was in those 102 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 2: three years that I wrote my first book. I wrote 103 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 2: a series of children's books. And at the end of 104 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 2: those three years, God vindicated me and showed me things 105 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 2: that I never knew were even inside of me. 106 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 1: He gave me victory. 107 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 2: But it was a change of perspective. It was deciding 108 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 2: that I wasn't gonna wear a band of defeat, but 109 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 2: I was gonna wear a banner of victory over my head. See, 110 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: I was changing what I was thinking. See God had 111 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 2: opportunity for me. But as long as I sat and 112 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 2: were waiting for things to change before I could get going, 113 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 2: I would have missed out on all the new things, 114 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: the new opportunities. The new things he wanted to show 115 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 2: me and do on the inside of me. Can you 116 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: imagine if I would have given in to defeat and 117 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 2: discouragement and said so focused on what I needed to happen, 118 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 2: I would have lost three years. 119 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: Do you know? 120 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 2: There had exponential growth in my spiritual life those three years. 121 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 2: You see, God turned it around because I was willing 122 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 2: to put forth the effort. 123 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: I was willing to shake it off. 124 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: I was willing to say, no, this doesn't have to 125 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: change before I can keep living. 126 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: Absolutely not. 127 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: I serve a great, big God and He's got great 128 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 2: things over the horizon for me. He is doing a 129 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 2: new thing. It is in process. The printing presses have 130 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: already been turned on. It is happening now in your life. 131 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 2: I was speaking to a woman the other day, and 132 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 2: I'd been praying with her for a while, and seemed 133 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 2: like every time I prayed with her or talked to her, 134 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 2: all I could see was this just rigid, stiff, just 135 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 2: wanting something to happen in her life. And what she 136 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 2: was wanting was this Her husband had left and she 137 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 2: was wanting reconciliation in her marriage. And that is what 138 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 2: I could see was the main focus and thrust of 139 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 2: her life. 140 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: And I told her this. 141 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 2: I said, listen, do not make plans according to this 142 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,719 Speaker 2: prayer being answered. Don't make plans around your life according 143 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: to this happening. 144 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: Don't stop living. You see. I believe that what she. 145 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 2: Was trying to do was work it out in her 146 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 2: own mind, figure out how it was gonna happen, and 147 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 2: as soon as he walked back in the door, then 148 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 2: she could begin to live. Then her life could go on. 149 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: But that is not what God intends for her to do, 150 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 2: because He's got new things springing up in her mess 151 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 2: right now. I said, you're too valuable, You got too 152 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 2: much to offer. You got gifts, you got talents. You 153 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 2: be the best you that you can be. You let 154 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 2: God grow, you learn, progress, take on new and exciting 155 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,320 Speaker 2: challenges that God's got out there for you. Be the 156 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 2: best you can be. I didn't tell her to quit praying. 157 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 2: I didn't tell her to quit believing. I said, don't 158 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 2: get stuck. Don't get stuck. You keep living. And I 159 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 2: believe that God has a word for somebody in here 160 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 2: to die. 161 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: You need to keep on living. 162 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 2: Don't make all your plans around that unanswered prayer. I 163 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: got new things springing up even now. He didn't say 164 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 2: there was not going to be wilderness. He didn't say 165 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 2: there wasn't going to be some wasted things you look 166 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 2: at and think, why it is happened? Why me? 167 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: This is a waste? What happened? 168 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,199 Speaker 2: He said, I can make a way in the wilderness, 169 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 2: and I can refresh you in those times that feel wasted. 170 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 2: I can bring out of you things you never knew 171 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 2: were in you. I can do be impossible as long 172 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 2: as you widen your lens, change your perspective, don't get narrow, 173 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 2: and don't get so focused that the strains and stresses 174 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 2: of life don't allow you to see beyond where you are. 175 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 2: I was reading about eyes strain and ice train is 176 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 2: becoming more and more of a common problem because of 177 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 2: all of our screens that we look at computers, iPads, 178 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 2: telephones and so is. When you know you can be 179 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 2: focused on your computer and you're reading material for so 180 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 2: long that you'll get dry eye, or or you'll get 181 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 2: a headache, or sometimes you know you feel like it's blurry. 182 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: That's eyestrain. And I was reading the article and it 183 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: was giving. 184 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 2: Tips to alleviate this eye strain, and it says, if 185 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 2: you're in front of your computer, you're working on this, 186 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 2: you know, really focused project. Which you should do is 187 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: try to get up from your the area that you're 188 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 2: at at least three times a day, and for ten 189 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 2: minutes a day, you should look out of a window. 190 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 2: Maybe you need to walk outside if you don't have 191 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 2: a wind in your office or the place you're working. 192 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: And it said, do this. 193 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 2: Cast your eyes at a distance as far as you 194 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: can see. 195 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 1: And take on all the life around you. It says. 196 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 2: When you do that, when you cast your eyes and 197 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: you begin to see light, trees, sky, clouds, you're watching 198 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 2: all this stuff around you. What it does is it 199 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 2: relaxes the lens of your eye. With eyestrains, your lens 200 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 2: flattens out. And what this exercise does is it causes 201 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 2: it to be more flexible. It causes it to relax. 202 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 1: Now, I'm not giving you. 203 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 2: A tip on eyestrain today, although if you have it, 204 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 2: that might work. What I am saying is that same 205 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 2: thing parallels our life. When we begin to focus so 206 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 2: much on an area of our life that needs to change, 207 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 2: or something we want to happen, or something we want 208 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 2: to pray about, we get so focused in that we 209 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 2: struggle and we bring strain upon ourself. And God is saying, 210 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 2: we've got to get good at getting up out of 211 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 2: that situation and casting our eyes pass the situation into 212 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 2: the distance so that we can widen our lens and 213 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 2: take on the life that is out there that God 214 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 2: gave us to live. He has got more in store 215 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 2: for you, wherever you are, whatever you're going through, He's 216 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 2: doing a new thing. Can you perceive it? It is 217 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 2: springing up, But if you're not looking for it, you 218 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 2: might not find it. Joel quoted the scripture from another 219 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: passage in Isaiah, and it says God is longing to 220 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 2: be good to those who are looking for his goodness, 221 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 2: who are beholding the new things, watching to see with 222 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 2: earnest expectations. Can I tell you where you are today? 223 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 2: Is it where you're going to stay? But don't waste 224 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 2: your precious life, your precious time when God is already 225 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 2: put it into motion. There are new opportunities, there are 226 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 2: new ways of doing things. There's new growth, there's new refreshing. 227 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 2: There are springs springing up for you to have today. Listen, 228 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 2: You're not gonna stay where you are. It may not 229 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: have happened in the past, but it always can happen. 230 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: Keep your eyes on God and watch for the new 231 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 2: opportunities and the new things that He's bringing across your path. 232 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God. 233 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the Joel Osteine podcast. Help 234 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 3: us continue to share the message of hope with those 235 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 3: all over the world. Visit jolostin dot com slash give 236 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 3: Hope to give a gift today. Thanks so much for 237 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 3: listening to today's message. 238 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 2: I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 239 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 2: podcast to keep. 240 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: You inspired all through the week. We're praying for you. 241 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: I know God's best is still ahead. 242 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 2: We'll see you next time. What I am saying is 243 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: that same thing parallels our life. 244 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: When we begin to focus so. 245 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 2: Much on an area of our life that needs to change, 246 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 2: or something we want to happen, or something we want 247 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 2: to pray about, we get so focused in that we 248 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 2: struggle and we bring strain upon ourselves. And God is saying, 249 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 2: we've got to get good at getting up out of 250 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 2: that situation and casting our eyes pass the situation into 251 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: the distance, so that we can widen our lens and 252 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 2: take on the life. 253 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: That is out there that God gave us to live. 254 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 2: He has got more in store for you wherever you are, 255 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 2: whatever you're going through, He's doing a new thing. Can 256 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 2: you perceive it? It is springing up, but if you're 257 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 2: not looking for it, you might not find it. Joel 258 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 2: quoted the scripture from another passage in Isaiah, and it 259 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 2: says God is longing to be good to those who 260 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: are looking for his goodness, who are beholding the new things, 261 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: watching to see with earnest expectations. Can I tell you 262 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: where you are today? Is it where you're going to stay? 263 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 2: But don't waste your precious life, your precious time when 264 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 2: God is already put it into motion. There are new opportunities, 265 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: there are new ways of doing things. There's new growth, 266 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 2: there's new refreshing. There are springs springing up for you 267 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 2: to have today. Listen, You're not gonna stay where you are. 268 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 2: It may not have happened in the past, but it 269 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 2: always can happen. Keep your eyes on God and watch 270 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 2: for the new opportunities and the new things that He's 271 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 2: bringing across your path. 272 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God. 273 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the joelos Deine podcast. Help 274 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 3: us continue to share the message of hope with those 275 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 3: all over the world. Visit jolostin dot com slash give 276 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 3: Hope to give a gift today. 277 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the podcast. 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