1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,359 Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks. 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have an. 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled. 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, God 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 2: bless you. 7 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: It's always a joy to come into your homes, and 8 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: if you're ever in our area, please stop by and 9 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. These are 10 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, right here 11 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: at Lakewood. But thanks for tuning in and thank you 12 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: again for coming out. I like to start with something funny, 13 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: and I heard about these three sisters, ages ninety six, 14 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: ninety four, and ninety two. 15 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 2: They lived together. 16 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: One day, the ninety six year old draws a bath 17 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: and puts one foot in and stops. She hollers, downstairs, 18 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: I can't remember if I was getting in or getting out. 19 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: The ninety four year old said, just a second, all 20 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: come up and help you. 21 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: She gets halfway up the stairs and stops. She says, 22 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: I can't remember if I was going up and down. 23 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: The ninety two year old shook her head and said, boy, 24 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: I hope I never get that forgetful. 25 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: She knocked on wood for good luck. 26 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: Then she said, hang on, I'll come help you both 27 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: as soon as I see who's at the door. Hold 28 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This 29 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 30 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do 31 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be 32 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 33 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 34 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 35 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: to talk to you today about releasing the full you. 36 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: On the inside of each one of us is a blessed, prosperous, 37 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: victorious person. This person is free from addictions in bad habits. 38 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: They're confident and. 39 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: Secure, talented and creative, disciplined and focused. But just because 40 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: they're in you, does it mean they're automatically going to 41 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: come out. 42 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 2: They have to be released. 43 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: The apostle Paul gives us the secret in Romans twelve, 44 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: verse two. He said, be transformed by the renewing of 45 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: your mind. That word transform in the original language is metamorpho. 46 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: It's where we get our word metamorphous. We know how 47 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: a caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly. This is saying, if 48 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: you'll get your thoughts going in the right direction and 49 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: not dwell on negative condemning not able too thoughts, but 50 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: program your mind with what God says about you, then 51 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: a transformation will take place. Think about the little caterpillar, 52 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: the little worm. It starts off as one of the 53 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: most unattractive insects. 54 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: It's very plain, nothing really special about it. 55 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: But God predestined it to go through a transformation. At 56 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: a certain point, it forms a cocoon. This metamorphois starts 57 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: to take place. It's a process. Little by little it changes. 58 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: One day it begins to push out of the cocoon. 59 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: A leg comes out, then a wing comes out. A 60 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: little later, his head comes out. Before long, it's totally free. 61 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: From the cocoon. 62 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: It goes from being one of the most plain insects 63 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: to being one of the most beautiful, colorful, graceful insects. 64 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: Instead of having to crawl on the ground squirm around, 65 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: now it can fly wherever it wants to go. In 66 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: the same way, we all start off as worms. So 67 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: to speak, our thoughts, without being retrained, naturally gravitate toward 68 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: the negative. We think I can't take that promotion. I'm 69 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: not qualified. I'll never rise much higher. Joy I come from. 70 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: The wrong family, or I've made too many mistakes. 71 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: God could never bless me. You know what, Those are 72 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: worming thoughts. But just because we start that way doesn't 73 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: mean that we're supposed to finish that way. God has 74 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: predestined us to go through a transformation from a worm 75 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: that crawls and barely gets by to a beautiful butterfly 76 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: that soars. 77 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: But here's the key. It's not up to God, it's 78 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 2: up to us. 79 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: The only way to release your butterfly is to get 80 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: your thinking in line with God's word. 81 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 2: What will keep you in your cocoon? I'll never lose 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 2: this weight. My business isn't going to get off the ground. 83 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:36,679 Speaker 2: I'm not a good parent. 84 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: Those thoughts will keep the fool you from coming out. 85 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: You have to realize there is a great parent already in. 86 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: You, just waiting to be released. 87 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: If you're going to see your metamorphis take place, you 88 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: got to be convinced in me right now is a 89 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: great father, a great mother. I will renew my mind 90 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: to get them out. You may be struggling with an addiction. 91 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: But in you right now is a person that's totally free. 92 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: You may be down in your finances, business is slow, 93 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: but in you right now is a person. 94 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 2: That lends and not borrows the head and not the tail. 95 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 1: If you'll just keep renew in your mind, agreeing with 96 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: what God says about you, it's just a matter of 97 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: time before that person comes out. When the thoughts tell 98 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: you you're never going to change, it's never going to get 99 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: any better, or just remind yourself, I'm being transformed. My 100 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: metamorphos has already begun. That's how you release the full you. 101 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: I know people, they have incredible talent, they have so 102 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: much to offer. The problem is they've never gone through 103 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: their transformation. They're allowing the same negative recording to play 104 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: in their mind all day long. Your life is going 105 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: to follow your thoughts. If you think you've reached your limits, 106 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: then you have. You don't think you can break that addiction, 107 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: then you want. You have to change your thinking. Some 108 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: of you have been in you a cocoon way too long. 109 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: God is ready to take you to a new level. 110 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: He's ready to release a new wave of his favor. 111 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: Now you've got to rise up and say that's it. 112 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: I'm done thinking these wormy thoughts. It's my time to 113 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: be transformed. 114 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 2: I know I am forgiven. 115 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: I am redeemed and talented, creative, disciplined, I am well able. Listen, 116 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: that's not just being positive. That's renewing your mind. When 117 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: you do that, I can see part of your wing 118 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: coming out. I can see that leg breaking through the cocoon. 119 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: You keep that up, and before long you'll release the 120 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: full you. You'll be transformed into a beautiful butterfly. Soar 121 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: into places that you've never dreamed of. This is what 122 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: my father had to do. Daddy grew up in a 123 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: very poor family. His parents were cotton farmers and they 124 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: lost everything during the Great Depression. They were good people, 125 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: but they had very little vision. When my father gave 126 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: his life to Christ as seventeen years of age, he 127 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: felt something stirring on the inside. 128 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 2: A still small voice started telling him, John, you were 129 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 2: made for more. 130 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: Break out of the mould, rise out of this, set 131 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: a new standard for your family. What was that the 132 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: butterfly trying to come out his parents? Every voice said, John, 133 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: you better not leave the farm. You better play it 134 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: safe and stay here and pick cotton with us the 135 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: rest of your life. No offense to them, but those 136 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: were wormy thoughts. People will try to keep you in 137 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: your cocoon. People will tell you what you can't do. 138 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 2: What you can't become. 139 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: My father had to reprogram his thinking from a barely 140 00:07:55,640 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: get by mentality, poverty mindset to I am the head 141 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: and not the tail. I will lend and not borrow. 142 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: The favor of God surrounds me. Where I am is 143 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: not where I'm staying. He broke out of that cocoon 144 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: and he released the butterfly on the inside. 145 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 2: Some people like that worm. 146 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: They're still kind of squirming around. But God has destined 147 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: you to soar. There is a butterfly in you. There 148 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: is victory, freedom, excellence. It's all on the inside. But 149 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: you've got to do your part and go through the transformation. 150 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: And a lot of us, like my father, we were 151 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: programmed by the people that raised us, or by what 152 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: somebody has spoken over us. Maybe they were good people, 153 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 1: but now that programming is limiting us. As long as 154 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: you think that you've gone as far as you can, 155 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: then you'll. 156 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: Stay in your cocoon. 157 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: If you think I can't break this addiction, I've had 158 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: it too long, I'll never get well. And I'm not 159 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 1: that good of a parent that's going to keep your 160 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: butterfly from being released. The transformation takes place when you 161 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: renew your mind, program your thinking with what God says 162 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: about you. God says the path of the righteous gets 163 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: brighter and brighter. All through the day. I'm rising higher. 164 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: I haven't seen my best days. Something good is going 165 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: to happen to me. As you meditate on that day 166 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: in and day out, you're breaking out of that cocoon. 167 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 1: A wing is starting to come out. And people may 168 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: have spoken negative things over you. But the good news 169 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: is people don't determine your destiny. You are not who 170 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: people say you are. You are who God says you are. 171 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: I know this gentleman named Robert. He grew up with 172 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: a stepfather that was always putting him down. He was 173 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: told again and again how he was slow, couldn't do 174 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: anything right, Why can't you be more like your brother. 175 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,079 Speaker 1: He was young, he didn't know any better. He let 176 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 1: those negative thoughts program his thinking. It was very insecure, 177 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 1: intimidated no dream for his life. When he graduated from 178 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 1: high school, he got a job as a janitor at 179 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,719 Speaker 1: a small office complex. One day, his mother remarried. This 180 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: new stepfather was just the opposite. He was constantly telling 181 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: Robert what he could become, how talented he was, how 182 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: there was a bright future in front of him, speaking 183 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: faith into him, reprogramming his thinking. He asked Robert what 184 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: he wanted to do with his life, what his dream was. 185 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: Robert said, I just want to work as a janitor. 186 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: I just want to stay at this small office complex. 187 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: He'd had years of wormy thoughts put into him. 188 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: They don't go away overnight. 189 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: The stepfather said, listen, Robert, you have so much more 190 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: in you. I'll make a deal with you. If you'll 191 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: go to college. I'll pay for every book, every course, 192 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: every meal, every degree. When he heard that, something came 193 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: alive on the inside. Nobody had ever invested in him, 194 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: nobody had ever called out his seeds of greatness. He 195 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: went to college and in four years he got his 196 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: bachelor's degree with honors. He decided to go on and 197 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: get his masters. He went after that and got a doctorate. 198 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: He wasn't finished. He went to seminary and got another degree. 199 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: After four degrees, his stepfather said, I'm done, Robert. 200 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:29,559 Speaker 2: You're on your own. 201 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: Today Robert is doing great things, living a life of victory, 202 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: helping others. But it would have never happened if he 203 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 1: had not renewed his mind. He had to get rid 204 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: of the wrong programming that had been put into him. 205 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 2: When he started dwelling on the. 206 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: Right thoughts, thoughts of faith, victory, favor, can do thoughts, 207 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: that's when the transformation took place. 208 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 2: He released his butterfly, so to speak. 209 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: Maybe some of you have had negative things spoken over you, 210 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: like Robert. People have told you what you can't do, 211 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: what you're not going to become. 212 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: Now, let me tell you who you really are. 213 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 1: God says you are blessed, You are talented, you are valuable, 214 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: You are confident. You have been hand picked by the 215 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: creator of the universe. Now quit dwelling on what people 216 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: say you are and program your mind with who God 217 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: says you are. On the inside of you right now 218 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: is a victorious, successful, not average, not mediocre, world changer, 219 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: history maker, just waiting to break out. I'm asking you 220 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: to release the full you you are destined to leave 221 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: your mark on our generation. There is no limit to 222 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: what God can do in you and through you. When 223 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: you reprogram your thinking and start believing that you're blessed, valuable, 224 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: want of a kind, more than a conquer When you 225 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: renew your mind, transformations take place. When I first started 226 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: ministering back in nineteen ninety nine. 227 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 2: I was so nervous. I didn't think I could do this. 228 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: Every voice told me, Joel, you better not get up 229 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: there in front of people. You're gonna make a fool 230 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,679 Speaker 1: of yourself. You're not gonna know what to say. Nobody's 231 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: going to listen to you. I've learned the enemy doesn't 232 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: fight you for where you are. He fights you for 233 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: where you're going. He would love, he would love to 234 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,440 Speaker 1: keep you in your cocoon, thinking these wormy thoughts. He 235 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: doesn't want you to break out, soar and live an 236 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: overcoming life. 237 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 2: He wants you to struggle. 238 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: Be insecured, be burdened by addictions and bad habits. It 239 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: all starts in our mind. If he can control your thoughts, 240 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: he can control your whole life. Now I had to 241 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: do what i'man you to do all through the day. 242 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: I can do all things through Christ. I am strong 243 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: in the Lord. If God before me, who dare be 244 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: against me? 245 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 2: I did that. 246 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 1: Month after month, Little by little, I started breaking out 247 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: of my cocoon, a wing started to come out. First 248 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: couple of years, I was so insecure. If I heard 249 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: one negative comment, I would get discouraged. I would try 250 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: to change, make sure everybody liked me. But as I 251 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: continued to renew my mind, I realized I didn't need 252 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: people's approval. I have Almighty God's approval. What was happening, 253 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: more of my wing was coming out, a little bit 254 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: of my leg pushed through that cocoon. The truth is 255 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: today I'm not totally transformed yet, but at least I'm 256 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: not still in that cocoon. At least I'm not still 257 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: crawling around thinking those wormy thoughts. When I compare myself 258 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: now to when I start Guard than fourteen years ago, 259 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: in one sense, I'm not the same person. I'm not nervous, 260 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: I'm not insecure. I'm confident in who God made me 261 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: to be. Somebody doesn't like me doesn't bother me the 262 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: least bit. 263 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 2: I'm happy. I'm blessed. 264 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 1: That's what it means to be transformed by the renewing 265 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: of your mind. 266 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: Now, maybe you're not totally out. 267 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: Yet either, but don't get discouraged. God is still working 268 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: on you. Every day you think the right thoughts, you 269 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: are breaking out of that cocoon a little bit more, 270 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: and at the right time, you're gonna take off, and 271 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: God is going to take you places that you could 272 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: never go on your own. 273 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 2: Man in the. 274 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: Scripture by the name of Gideon, God wanted him to 275 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: lead the people of Israel against an opposing army. But 276 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: Gideon had all these wormy thoughts. 277 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 2: He was stuck in his cocoon. 278 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: One day, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him 279 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: said hello, Gideon, you mighty man, a fearless curve. I 280 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: can imagine Gideon looking around, thinking, who is he talking about? 281 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: I Am not a mighty man of fearless courage. Gideon 282 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: was afraid, intimidated, insecure, just the opposite. But notice God 283 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: didn't call him what he was. God called him what 284 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 1: he could become. God sees your potential. God knows what 285 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: you're capable of. You may feel weak, but God calls 286 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: you strong. You may be intimidated today, but God calls 287 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: you confident. You may feel less than God calls. 288 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 2: You well able. 289 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: If the Angel of the Lord were to appear to 290 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: you today, he would say the same thing he said 291 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: to Gideon. Hello Mary, you, mighty woman of fearless courage. 292 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: Hello Frank, you, mighty man of fearless courage. 293 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 2: Hell, old people of Lakewood. 294 00:16:54,920 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: You, mighty people of fearless courage. Don't you get in 295 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: agreement with God? Start believing what he says about you. 296 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:09,640 Speaker 1: Gide In answered the angel back in verse fifteen. He said, 297 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: how am I supposed to save Israel? I come from 298 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: the poorest family in all of Manassa, and I am 299 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: the least one in my father's house. Notice those wormy thoughts. 300 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: A lot of times, like Gideon, we do the same thing. 301 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: I can't do anything great. I'm not that talented. And 302 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: if I was a different nationality, if I had a 303 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: better personality, Joe, if I hadn't made so many mistakes, 304 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: get rid of the excuses. You are equipped, you are empowered. 305 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,919 Speaker 1: You already have everything you need to fulfill your destiny. 306 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: It's in you right now. Now you've got to do 307 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: your part to bring it out. I read about an 308 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: older gentleman. He lived in a small hut on an 309 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: island out in the South Pacific. He was a well 310 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: known sculptor. He'd spent his whole life working with wood 311 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: and carving different items, very talented. One day he was 312 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: walking by this beautiful plantation, the wealthiest man on the 313 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: island that lived there. He saw these big tree trunks 314 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: that had been cut down and were piled up in 315 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: a big stack. He asked the owner what they were 316 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: going to do with them. The owner said, oh, they're trash, 317 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 1: they're useless. We're just going to haul them away. He said, 318 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: do you mind if I could have one of those? 319 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 1: The owner looked at him kind of strange and said, 320 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: you want an old, dead piece of useless wood, go 321 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: ahead and take it. He hauled it away on his wagon, 322 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: got it to his hut and stood it up on 323 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: the inside, and he began to walk around it, very slowly, 324 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: carefully analyzing it, thinking about it. It's as if he 325 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: was trying to release something that was trapped on the inside. 326 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: A couple of hours later, he started carving away, whittling 327 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: with precision, day after day. Weeks after that, he had 328 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,360 Speaker 1: carved the most beautiful eagle you. 329 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 2: Could ever imagine. 330 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: It was majestic looking, had its wings out head back. 331 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 2: Soaring through the air. He put it on the front 332 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 2: porch of his little hut. 333 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: One day, it just so happened that plantation owner was 334 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: walking by saw the eagle. 335 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 2: Was so impressed he walked up to it and began. 336 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,239 Speaker 1: To marvel at the detail and how magnificent it was. 337 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: He said to the man, where in the world did 338 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: you get this? I'd like to buy this from you. 339 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: The sculptor kind of laughed and said, no, sir, it's 340 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: not for sale. He was insistent. He said, name your price. 341 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: I'll pay you whatever you want. The sculptor finally said, 342 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: all right, how about five hundred dollars. The man paid him, 343 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: and as they were walking away with it, the sculptor said, sir, 344 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this, but you just 345 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 1: bought back the piece of useless wood that you gave 346 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 1: me several weeks ago. The next day, the sculptor walked 347 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,879 Speaker 1: by the plantation. There was a sign out front. It 348 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,479 Speaker 1: said tree trunks for sale, five hundred dollars each. He 349 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: learned his lesson, but here's my point. The sculptor saw 350 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: something in that discarded piece of wood that other people 351 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: could not see. The plantation owner saw it as trash, useless, 352 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: as of no value, But the sculpture was able to 353 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: look beyond the outside beyond the flaws, and he saw 354 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: its potential. 355 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 2: He knew what it could become. It's the same way 356 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 2: with our God. 357 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: Your creator can see things in you that other people 358 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: cannot see. Sometimes people will try to push you down, 359 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 1: make you feel insignificant. Sometimes our own thoughts will kind 360 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: of convince us that we don't measure up. But God 361 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: looks beyond the surface, beyond the mistakes we've made, beyond 362 00:20:54,680 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: what somebody said about you, and God sees your incredible value. 363 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: You may think, Joe, I've missed up, I have blown it, 364 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: I failed, I'm all washed up. 365 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 2: No, God still sees the eagle in you. God doesn't 366 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 2: just see what you are. 367 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: He sees what you can become. Now you've got to 368 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: do your part. Get rid of those condemning thoughts, get 369 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: rid of what somebody has spoken over you, and start 370 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 1: renewing your mind down deep. Start believing that you are redeemed, restored, talented, valuable. 371 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: Even if you have made mistakes, believe that you can 372 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: still release the full you. Let me tell you, God 373 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 1: can still get you to where he wants you to be. 374 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 2: I think about Jacob. 375 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,360 Speaker 1: He didn't have a lot of character, He was dishonest, 376 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: he cheated people, He even tricked his own brother out 377 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 1: of his birthright. 378 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 2: He had a lot of flaws. 379 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: He would be somebody we would compare to that discarded 380 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: piece of wood. Surely God wouldn't have anything to do 381 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: with him. Surely God find somebody more perfect. No, God 382 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: doesn't judge the way we judge. God doesn't look on 383 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:10,479 Speaker 1: the outside. God looks at the heart. Even when we 384 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: make mistakes, God doesn't write us off. He doesn't say 385 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: you had your shot, You're done. No, God always gives 386 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: us another chance. Why Because God can see the eagle 387 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: in the wood, he can see the butterfly in the word. 388 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 2: He can even see a champion in a failure. 389 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: But it's up to us. The only way the transformation 390 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: will take place is you have to believe that you're forgiven. 391 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 1: Believe that there's mercy for every mistake. Believe that you 392 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: are who God says you are. One time in the 393 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: Old Testament, an army invaded Jerusalem, kidnapped some of the people, 394 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: and killed their king. For the first time. The people 395 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: of Israel were without a leader. They were discouraged, didn't 396 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: know what to do. As they sat there thinking that 397 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:03,400 Speaker 1: it was over. Michael rose up and said, hey, why 398 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 1: are you crying? Why are you discouraged? Is there not 399 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 1: a king in you? I believe God is saying the 400 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: same thing to each one of us. 401 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 2: There's a king in you. 402 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: You may have made mistakes, but the King is still 403 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: in you. You may have gone through disappointments. People may 404 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: have treated you unfairly, you miss good opportunities. But let 405 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 1: these words sink deep down into your spirit. 406 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 2: The King is still in you. The Queen is still 407 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 2: in you. 408 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 1: You need to put your shoulders back, hold your head 409 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: up high, carry yourself with confidence. You have royal blood 410 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: flowing through your veins. 411 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 2: You are wearing a crown of favor. 412 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: I'm not looking at ordinary people. 413 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,399 Speaker 2: I'm looking at royalty. 414 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: I can see kings, I can see queens. I can 415 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: see your crown of favor. I can see your robe 416 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: of honor. I'm looking at children of the Most High God. 417 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: Now you got to start calling out that king, calling 418 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: out that queen. You've got to release what God put 419 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: on the inside. 420 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 2: Well, you say, Joel, this is not from me today. 421 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 2: I've made lots of mistakes. I've lived a rough life. 422 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: No, that didn't change what God put in you. You 423 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,479 Speaker 1: couldn't be any worse than Jacob. He failed again and again. 424 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: But God's mercy is from everlasting to everlasting. 425 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 2: It never runs out. God will never give up on you. 426 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: God kept working on Jacob, making him and molding him. 427 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: One day, God said, Jacob, I'm gonna change your name. 428 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: His name literally meant deceiver. God said, I don't want 429 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: you to be called that anymore. You've gone from a 430 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: worm to a butterfly, from a discarded piece of wood 431 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: to a beautiful eagle. Your new name is going to 432 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: be Israel. Israel means prince. With God, he went from 433 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: being called a cheater to being called a king. Now 434 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 1: when somebody said hello, they were saying hello, King, they 435 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: were calling out his seeds of greatness. They were prophesying. 436 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: Reminded him who he really was, no doubt. He started thinking, 437 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: I'm not a cheater, I'm not a deceiver. I'm not 438 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: a trickster. I'm a prince. I'm a king. I've been 439 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: chosen by God. I've got a destiny to fulfill. I've 440 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: got an assignment to accomplish. He renewed his mind, and 441 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: that's when the transformation took place. Some of you the 442 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: only thing that's holding you back is your thoughts toward yourself. 443 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: You're focused on your mistakes, how you blew it, how 444 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: you didn't measure up. You've got to reprogram your thinking, 445 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 1: get rid of those wormy thoughts. 446 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 2: All through the day. 447 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: I'm redeemed, restored, i am royalty, I am more than 448 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,239 Speaker 1: a conquer I believe today is going to be the 449 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: start of some transformations. Some metamorphosis are about to take place. 450 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 1: You need to get ready. Talent is going to come 451 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: out of you that you didn't know you had. Strongholds 452 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 1: of inferiority are being broken. 453 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 2: You're going to feel a new boldness, a. 454 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: New confidence to step into the fullness of your destiny. 455 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,439 Speaker 1: Some of you have one wing out, and that's good. 456 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: But God doesn't want you to stay in your cocoon. 457 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: He didn't create you to squirm. He created you to soar. 458 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: It's time to get the other wing out. If you 459 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: will start renewing your mind, programming it with what God 460 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: says about you, then you're going to release the full you. 461 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,360 Speaker 1: I'm calling out the confident you. I'm calling out the. 462 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 2: Successful you, the blessed you. 463 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: The talented you, the disciplined you, the excellent Hue. I 464 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: believe in declare the King in you is coming out, 465 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: the ego in you is coming out. The butterfly in 466 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: you is coming out. You're not going to stay where 467 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: you are. You're being transformed. You're going to soar and 468 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: go places that you could have never gotten to on 469 00:26:59,000 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: your own. 470 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I declare it. If you receive it, 471 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 2: can you say amen? 472 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 473 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 474 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 475 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: repent of my sins. 476 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: Come into my heart. 477 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you 478 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: prayed that simple prayer, we believe he got born again. 479 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. 480 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: He's going to take you places that you've never dreamed of. 481 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 3: Breathtaking. That's what you feel when you look out at 482 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 3: majestic mountain peaks. Yes, God's creation truly is a masterpiece. 483 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 3: But even as you consider his handiwork, you might also 484 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 3: feel bless that not good enough or not valuable. The 485 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 3: image before you is incredible, but the confidence inside is lacking. 486 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 2: How do you overcome this. 487 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 1: The opinion you have of your is your most important opinion. 488 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: Too often we see ourselves as ordinary, not talented, unattractive. 489 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: That wrong self image is setting the limits for our life. 490 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 1: The key is to get an agreement with who God 491 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: says you are. He calls you a masterpiece, strong, talented, valuable. 492 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: If you'll have the right image of yourself, you'll rise 493 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,439 Speaker 1: higher and become who you were created to be. We 494 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: have a new resource that will help you do just that. 495 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: It's called you Are a Masterpiece. It's filled with inspiration 496 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: and encouragement that will remind you who you really are. 497 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 2: Gifted, chosen, approved. 498 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: It will help you get rid of the wrong self 499 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: image and start seeing yourself as the masterpiece God created 500 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: you to be. 501 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 3: As our Thank you for your gift of any amount 502 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 3: to the ministry this month, we want to send you 503 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 3: Joel's inspiring newbrook. You are a masterpiece. God made you unique, 504 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,719 Speaker 3: with a divine purpose and a bright future. These truths 505 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 3: sink down in your spirit. The majesty of God's glory 506 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 3: will arise within you. Yes, God has breathed his life 507 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 3: into you. He approved you, equipped you, empowered you. Stop 508 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 3: believing the lies about you and start hearing what God 509 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 3: says about you. 510 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being a part of the ministry. 511 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: Bectoren I pray for you and your family every day. 512 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: Believe it, it's going to be a favor filled twenty 513 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: twenty four. 514 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 2: We appreciate your prayer and support. 515 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: Your generosity is impacting people around the world. Remember you 516 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,479 Speaker 1: can watch the services live online Sunday mornings, see all 517 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: the music and ministry. Download our daily podcast. 518 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 2: Until we meet again. 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