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It helps keep the ministry going. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:56.560 Enjoy the message. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.880 Unless you always a joy to come into your homes, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.800 and if you're ever in our area, please stop by. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:07.520 And be a part of one of our services. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.800 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.160 But thanks so much for tuning in and thank you 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.160 again for coming out. I like to start with something funny, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.560 and I heard about this elderly couple. They were sitting 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:23.639 in a swing celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Feeling romantic, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.680 the husband said to his wife, oh, dear, our love 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.120 is tried and true. His wife had difficulty hearing it 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.720 and ask him to repeat it. He said it louder, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.079 I said, our love is tried and true. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.120 She still couldn't hear him. Said what would you? Please 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:38.720 speak up? 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.200 Frustrated he shouted, I said, our love is tried and true. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.880 She said, well fine, I'm sick of you too. Hold 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.480 up your bible. Why is that funny to me? Hold 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.480 up your bible? Say it like you mean it. This 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.600 is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:55.959 I am. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.640 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.240 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.959 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.120 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.760 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.960 to talk to you today about reprogramming your mind. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.639 Our mind is like a computer. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.120 How we program it is the way it's going to function. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.400 You can have the most powerful computer made, the latest, fastest, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.120 holds the most memory. But if you put the wrong 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.560 software in it. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.120 It's not going to function like it was designed. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.480 And we've all had to deal with these computer viruses. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.400 They can get into a perfectly good computer and start 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.600 to contaminate the software. Before long, the computer is slowed, 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:47.640 you can't access your files. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:49.760 All these problems occur. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.360 Not because it's defective, it's poorly made. No, the hardware 0:03:54.520 --> 0:04:00.160 is fine. It's because somebody we program the software. How 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.600 the insides got messed up. Now the software is contaminated 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.880 in the same way. When God created you, he stepped 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.280 back and said, another masterpiece. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.520 Your hardware is perfect. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.320 You're the right size, the right nationality, you have the 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.920 right gifts. Not only that, God put the right software 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:26.200 in you from the very beginning. He programmed you to 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:33.240 be victorious, healthy, strong, creative. Your original software says you 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:34.000 can do all. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:34.760 Things through Christ. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.560 He programmed whatever you touch will prosper and succeed. He 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.640 programmed the head and not the tail, lend and not borrow, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.880 victor and not victim. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:47.920 You were programmed to live. 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.880 In abundant, victorious, faith filled life. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.400 That's how your creator designed you. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.000 But the reason we don't always experience this abundant life 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.159 is we've allowed virus say is to contaminate our software. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.359 We think I'll never be successful. I'm not that talented. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:08.279 I'll never break this addiction. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.800 I've had it too long. I'm slow, clumsy, unattractive. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.360 Nothing good is in my future because our software is infected. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.440 We go around low self esteem, negative, not believing for 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.280 dreams to come to pass, not expecting problems to turn around. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.039 Here's the good news. There is nothing wrong with you. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:31.719 Like that computer. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.919 You're not a mistake, you're not faulty. The problem is 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.800 your software. You've got to get rid of the viruses. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.080 All through the day, dwell on what. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.640 Your creator says about you. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:50.800 I'm blessed, I'm strong, I'm healthy, I'm confident, I'm attractive, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.159 I'm valuable, i am victorious. You've got to get back 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.240 to your original software. If your thinking is limited, your 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.240 life will be limited. One of the best things we 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.080 can learn to do is hit. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.040 The delete button. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:10.279 When negative, discouraging thoughts come trying to contaminate your software, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:14.480 Just hit delete. That thought says you've seen your best days. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:19.400 It's all downhill from here. Recognize that's a virus trying 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.560 to keep you from your destiny. It's real simple, delete, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.480 not dwelling on that. My software says, the path of 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.440 the righteous gets brighter and brighter. Well, you'll never get well. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.480 You saw the medical report. Delete. God is restoring health 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:35.080 back into me. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.640 The number of my days he will fulfill. I will 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.680 live and not die. You may hear you'll never accomplish 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.640 your dreams. You're not that talented. You don't have what 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:51.120 it takes. Delete, delete, Delete. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.680 I have the favor of God. Whatever I touch prospers 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.320 and succeeds. Perhaps you'll hear you'll never break that addiction. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.160 Your father was an alcoholic, and you'll. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.360 Be one too. Delete. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.960 No weapon formed against me will prosper. Whom the sun 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.760 sets free is free, indeed, and I am free. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:11.880 If you're going to reach. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.880 Your highest potential, you've got to get good at hitting 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.760 the delete button. When I stepped up to pasture the church, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.360 every thought told me, you can't do this, Joel. You 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.560 don't know how to minister. You're too young, you don't 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.280 have the experience. Nobody's going to come. Would have been 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.720 easy to let that virus take root and keep me 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.000 from my destiny. I did what I'm asking you to do. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:37.800 I kept hitting the delete button. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:39.040 You can't do it. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.480 Delete, you're too young. Delete, nobody's gonna come. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.480 Delete. You don't have the experience. Delete. It's not going 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.400 to work out. Delete. I wouldn't be standing. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.480 Here if I wasn't an expert at hitting the delete button. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.720 One Sunday, right after I first got started, I overheard 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.680 two ladies talking in the lobby after the service about me. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.080 One said, he's not as good as his father. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.320 The other answered, yeah, I don't think he's going to 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.840 make it. The enemy will use people to try to 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:18.080 contaminate your software. I was already insecure, intimidated, didn't think 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:18.720 I could do it. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.560 When I heard that. My first thought was to panic. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.239 My worst fears had come true. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.440 But then something rolls up on the inside. God gives 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.000 you grace for every season. He arms you with strength 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.760 for every battle. I thought to myself, those two ladies, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.400 they don't determine my destiny. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.439 They didn't call me, they didn't equip me, they didn't 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:40.920 anoint me. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.640 And more than anything else, they can't stop me. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:45.640 They don't have the final say. 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:51.000 God has a final say. He said, I'm well able, 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.520 I can do all things through Christ, I am strong 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.599 in the Lord. Every time I heard their voice delete 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.320 no thanks now, dwelling on it came back again and 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.240 again and again. I just kept hitting the delete button. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:10.080 The scripture tells us to guard our mind. You control 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.480 the doorway to what you allow in. You can dwell 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.960 on every negative thought, every derogatory comment, or you can 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.520 choose to delete it and dwell on what God says 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.839 about you. If I would have let what those two 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.960 ladies said play over and over, they would have contaminated 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:33.880 my confidence, contaminated my self esteem, contaminated my future. Some 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.120 of you would go to a new level if you 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.120 would just start hitting the delete button. Quit dwelling on 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.560 every negative thought that comes to your mind. That's the 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:48.000 enemy trying to contaminate your software. If he can control 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.319 your thinking, he can control. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.400 Your whole life. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:55.560 If that thought is negative, discouraging, pushing you down, don't 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:56.280 dwell on it. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.160 Delete it. Pay attention to what you're thinking. If you go. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.000 Around thinking that you're not talented, then you'll never have 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.199 the confidence to step into your destiny. If you think 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.559 you're unattractive, you'll never meet the people you were supposed 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.720 to meet. If you think you can't break the addiction, 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.840 then you can't. If you think you've reached your limits, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.000 then you have. It's not because you can't go further. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.679 You've just convinced yourself that you can't. The good news 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:30.079 is it's not too late. You can still become everything 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.200 God created you to be. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.960 Here's the key. You've got to clear out all. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.000 The negative things people have said about you. You are 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.760 not who people say you are. You are who God 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.920 says you are. Clear Out what the coach, the teacher 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.079 said about you. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.120 You're too small, you don't have what it takes. Deleted. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.240 Quit dwelling on that you're the right size. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.640 You have exactly what you need for the race that's 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:56.600 been designed for you. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.199 Clear out what the counselor said. You're just a C student. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:02.760 You're not college material. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.599 Deleted. You're an a student, you have seeds of greatness. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:09.600 Clear out what. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.000 The ex boyfriend, the ex spouse said. You're not attractive, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.840 You're not good enough for me. Deleted. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:19.760 You're a masterpiece, one of a kind, beautiful, attractive, a 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.560 prize possession. You may have to clear out what a 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.160 parent said, that. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.720 Person that raised you. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.600 You're so undisciplined, you're never going to dime out to much. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:30.839 You can't do anything right. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:31.720 Deleteed. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.280 You are destined to do great things. You're destined to 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.439 leave your mark on this generation. I read a report 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.480 about children that had been bullied in school. It talked 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.320 about how years later those negative words were still having 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:48.880 an effect on many of them. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:50.920 They interviewed this one man. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.480 He was in his forties, and he looked to be 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.680 a bright, intelligent man, but he had not been able 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.959 to hold down a good job, struggled in his relationship, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.000 couldn't seem to get on course. He told how as 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.520 a child he was overweight, he was chubby. Some of 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.199 the other children made fun of him and called him names, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:16.360 things like loser, failure. He made the mistake of letting 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.360 those words take root. Now they were keeping him in mediocrity. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.960 When somebody calls you something either good or bad. That 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.040 seed is planted in your soil. Now you get to 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.680 determine whether or not that seed. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:33.840 Takes root and grows. 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.720 When you dwell on what was said, you were watering 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.359 the seed. You're giving it a right to become a reality. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.000 That's why it's so important that we're disciplined in our 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.480 thought life. It's great when people tell you you're blessed, you're talented, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.280 you're going to do great things. Water those seeds, meditate 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.760 on those throughout the day. That's what you want to 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:59.959 become a reality. But too often the mistake we make 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.120 is we water the wrong seeds. Those two ladies that 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.800 said I wasn't as good as my father, if I 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.800 would have watered that seed, I would have never gotten 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.480 off the ground. And the truth is it wouldn't have 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.960 been their fault. They can't make a seed take root 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.480 in me. All they can do is sow the seed. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.880 You have complete control over what seeds are going to 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.000 take root and grow in your own soil. Now, a 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.200 lot of times we blame others. Well, they were talking 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.320 about me. They tried to make me look bad, they 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.400 were criticizing me. No, let them talk all they want. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.640 You control your own soil. Don't dwell on the negative, don't. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.640 Replay what they said over and over. Guard your mind. 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:48.120 Those are viruses trying to infiltrate your software. Joshua will 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.160 put it this way, if you will meditate on what God. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.920 Says about you day and. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.720 Night, then you will have good success and prosper in everything. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.040 You do. When your mind is filled with. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.920 Thoughts of faith, thoughts of hope, thoughts of victory, that's 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.920 what's going to become a reality. That man in his 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.800 forties that was still shruggling, you know why, he let 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:16.320 those derogatory comments play over and over every time he 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.800 thought about it. He was watering that seed year after year, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.000 and sad to say, but it became a reality. How 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.960 different would his life be if he had just learned 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.480 to hit the delete button, said a. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.120 Constantly playing the negative. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.120 What if he had have gone around thinking I'm a masterpiece, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.360 I'm one of a kind, I'm talented, I've got seeds 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:38.080 of greatness. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.680 It would be a whole different story. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.000 Somebody may have spoken negative words over you. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:48.080 Deleted. People don't determine your destiny. God determines your destiny. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.560 That's why we start off every message by saying I 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:52.960 am who God. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:53.760 Says I am. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.320 We're saying, in effect, i am not who my history 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.280 teacher says I am. I'm not who my ex chouse 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.120 says I am. I am not who the critics say 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.000 I am. I am who God says I am. I 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.560 like to take it a step further. Not only I 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.200 am who God says I am, But I can do 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:12.720 what God says I can do. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:18.240 That means we know we've been programmed for victory. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.040 We've been programmed to reign in life. We've been programmed 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.200 to overcome obstacles. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.120 but the Lord delivers us out of them all. We 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.640 will accomplish our dreams. We will meet the right people. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:33.960 We will step. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.480 Into the fullness of our destinies. When you think like that, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:38.840 all the forces of. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.800 Darkness cannot stop you. Friends, the real battle is taking 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.200 place in your mind. If you're defeated in your thoughts, 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:50.080 you've already lost. You've got to get rid of the viruses. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.600 If you will get back to your original software. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.160 Put in you by your creator. 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.800 You'll go places that you've never dreamed. It's interesting how 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.320 little children star off so excited about life. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:03.800 They've got big dreams. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.200 They're going to become a scientist, an astronaut, a singer, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:12.520 a teacher, a ballplayer, even the president. They're not intimidated, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:17.000 they're not insecure. They believe they can do anything. It's 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:21.560 because they just came from their creator. Their thinking has 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.479 not been contaminated. They can still feel the seeds of greatness, 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.560 but too often, over time they start to get reprogrammed. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.080 Somebody tells them what. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.720 They can't become, what they can't do. Little by little, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.400 their environment. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:37.640 Starts to squeeze them down. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.160 A coach, a teacher says, hey, you're not good enough, 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.080 you're too small. Their self esteem goes down, they see 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:48.520 somebody more attractive, and they start to feel inferior. All 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.560 these things begin to distort who they really are. Before long, 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:57.320 instead of dreaming big and believing possibility thoughts, they think, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.000 I'll never do anything great. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.520 I'm not that talented. I'm just average. 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.080 When we find ourselves stuck in these ruts, not believing 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.320 we can rise any higher, we need to ask why 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.720 do I think this way? Who programmed me to think 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.679 that I'm average? Who programmed me to give up on 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.960 my dreams? Who programmed me to think I can't lose 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.000 this weight, I can't break this addiction. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.800 I've gone as far as I can. Where did those 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.000 thoughts come from? 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:29.600 Could it be that you have accepted a wrong mindset 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.359 because of the environment you were raised in the people 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.000 that you were around. Just because it seems normal to 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:42.040 you doesn't mean that it's necessarily normal. Sometimes we learn 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:46.760 to function in our dysfunction. Maybe everybody you grew up 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.640 with was negative, Well you're not supposed to be negative. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:50.479 That's not normal. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.800 Maybe your friends didn't have big dreams, they didn't do 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.000 anything great in life. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.480 Well that's not okay for you. That's not normal. 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:02.600 Just because family members had adictions bad habits, don't make 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.600 the mistake of thinking that's okay for you to live 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:06.040 that way. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.520 Those are viruses that. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.800 Have been passed down that keep infiltrating our thinking. Listen, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:17.439 God created you to go further, to be confident, to 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:22.840 be free, to be healthy, positive, happy. You have greatness 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:27.280 on the inside. Now it starts by reprogramming your thinking. 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.240 I saw a story about this dog, a German shepherd. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.760 She was pregnant with puppies. One day, she was walking 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.000 across the street and got hit by a car. Both 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.879 of her back legs were broken. She was able to 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.600 drag herself off the street and back to her house. 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.120 As the weeks went by, she began to slowly recover. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:52.680 Her legs finally healed, but because they weren't properly reset 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:56.119 when she walked, all she could do was drag her 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.760 back legs. She couldn't walk properly. Her joints had been 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:00.479 made stuff. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.000 Eventually she had her puppies. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.320 They seemed to be healthy and whole, but a few 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:10.320 weeks later, when they started walking, just like their mother, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:15.240 they dragged their back legs. The owner was amazed. He 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.120 thought maybe they had been injured in the. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:18.119 Accident as well. 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.440 Took them to the veterinarian to have them checked out. 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.160 The doctor discovered there was nothing wrong with their back legs. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.120 They were perfectly healthy. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.840 Those puppies were simply copying their mother. That's all they 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.080 had seen modeled in their mind. 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:36.920 That's the way they were supposed to walk. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.600 That's what's happened to many of us what we saw 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:41.800 modeled growing up. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:43.560 The people that raised us. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.040 They were good people, They were doing their best, but 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.640 in some way, they were dragging their back legs. They 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:55.640 were negative discouraged. Now we live negative discouraged. They had addictions, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:56.680 low self esteem. 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.919 Now we struggle in those same areas. 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:03.680 Or may they made poor choices in relationships God involved 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:04.560 with the wrong people. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.240 Now we're dealing with the same. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:12.000 Issues we saw them, except mediocrity. Now mediocrity has become 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:13.560 normal to us. 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:14.639 The good news. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.760 Just like those puppies, There is nothing wrong with your 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:19.520 back legs. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.720 Those are simply wrong mindsets that you've developed. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.640 As you get your thinking straightened out, your legs will 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:32.000 straighten out. God didn't make you faulty. He didn't create 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:36.520 you subpar. He created you in his image. You are 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:42.200 his masterpiece, crowned with favor, equipped with talent gifts. 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.200 You are destined to live a great. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:49.840 Life, healthy, abundant, happy, faith filled. Now, don't go around 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.840 dragging your back legs. You are not supposed to go 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:58.960 through life inferior, low self esteem, addicted, little goals, little dreams. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.840 That's not who you are. 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:06.400 Start reprogramming your mind as the head and not the tail. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:11.560 Program it with excellence, not mediocrity. Program it with abundance, 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:16.120 not lack and poverty. Program it with freedom, not addictions. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.520 This is what my father did. He grew up in 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.720 a very poor environment. His parents lost everything during the 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:28.000 Great Depression. He had no money, no education, no future 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:33.040 to speak of. He had been programmed with poverty, defeat mediocrity. 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.760 He could have settled there, that's all he had seen. Thought, Hey, 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:38.320 this is just my lot in life. 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.520 We're just poor, defeated people, but it's seventeen years old. 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.320 When he gave his life to Christ, he started reprogramming 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.000