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I want to encourage 40 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 4: every one of us today that if you're waiting on 41 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 4: a prayer to be answered, or maybe you're waiting for 42 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 4: some things to change in your life and it hasn't 43 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 4: happened for a long time and you're just waiting for 44 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 4: things to change so you can move on with life. 45 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 4: Want to encourage you to not let those things stop 46 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 4: you don't get stuck in those areas of your life. 47 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 4: God doesn't want you to ever get stuck. He wants 48 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 4: you to live with enthusiasm. He wants you to live 49 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 4: with joy. He wants you to live with expectancy of 50 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 4: what He can do in your life. You see, sometimes 51 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 4: we're waiting on things to change. We're looking at everything 52 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 4: around us, and we forget to look at our God. See, 53 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 4: the Bible says we are to wait upon the Lord. 54 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 4: We're not to wait for all of our prayers to 55 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 4: be answered. We're not to wait for things to change 56 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 4: before we can be happy. We're to wait expectantly on 57 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 4: the Lord, exciting with anticipation. God, I may be in 58 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 4: a difficult cold season, but God, that doesn't stop you 59 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 4: from working in my life. You see, with an excitement 60 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 4: and a joy and a passion for life. That's how 61 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 4: God wants us to live. You know, we sometimes we 62 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 4: think that seems impossible. I can't be that happy all 63 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 4: the time, really, Victoria, the Bible says that there is 64 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 4: a joy in you that Jesus gave you. He says, 65 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 4: the joy that is in me I've given you. You 66 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 4: have the ability to tap into the resources that God 67 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 4: has given you. You see, the Bible says that the 68 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 4: righteous are to get brighter and brighter until the full day. 69 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 4: We're to thrive like a green leaf. We're not supposed 70 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 4: to wither. Our dreams and hopes are not supposed to wither. 71 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: But we're supposed to thrive. We're supposed to shine brighter 72 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 4: and brighter. You're not supposed to be dim some days 73 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 4: the others, you're supposed to be bright, shining. You're supposed 74 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 4: to let the sun in the so in every single 75 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:15,560 Speaker 4: day so that you can be bright and shiny. I 76 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 4: think that's a good question to ask ourselves periodically through 77 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 4: the day. Am I shining? How do I feel dim? 78 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 4: Is there a black cloud over me? Is there something 79 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 4: trying to bring me down? Am I focus too much 80 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 4: on a situation or change that needs to happen in 81 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 4: my life that I'm not shining? Do I need to 82 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 4: get my eyes off of this mountain and get my 83 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 4: eyes on where the help can come from from the 84 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,799 Speaker 4: person who created all the mountains, who created the universe, 85 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 4: and who can create whatever I need. Listen where to 86 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 4: be stars, where to let the sun in? Listen to 87 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 4: what it says in Isaiah forty three, eighteen and nineteen, 88 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 4: And this is what God spoke through the prophet, and 89 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 4: he said, forget the former things, do not dwell on them. Behold, 90 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 4: I am doing a new thing now. Now it springs up. 91 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 4: Can you perceive it? I am making a way in 92 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 4: the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. You see, there 93 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 4: is a question that God is asking us in his 94 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 4: promise to us. And what he is asking us is this, 95 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 4: do you recognize what I'm doing in your life? You see? 96 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 4: It says I am doing a new thing. God didn't 97 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 4: say I'm going to do a new thing when I 98 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 4: get ready, when you get straight in your life. He said, 99 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 4: I am doing a new thing. It springs up now. See, 100 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 4: God is saying, don't have faith in the situation. Takes 101 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 4: care of itself, because I'm doing some new things right now, 102 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 4: right now. But the thing is is that we have 103 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 4: to precede it, and in doing so sometimes we need 104 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,359 Speaker 4: to change our perspective. We need to widen our lens, 105 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 4: widen our focus. You see it says behold. Some translations 106 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 4: say look see watch. That sounds like anticipation to me, 107 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 4: doesn't it? You watch and see what the Lord will do. 108 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 4: See it is a new thing I'll never forget. Several 109 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: years ago, I was going through the most difficult time 110 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 4: in my life. There was my life seemed to hinge 111 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 4: on this one major decision. To me, it felt like 112 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 4: life and death to me. It was the most difficult 113 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 4: thing that I can remember ever going through. I can 114 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 4: remember what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home. 115 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 4: I wanted to cry. I wanted to waller listen. I 116 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 4: didn't want to shine. I wanted to dim things down. 117 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 4: One day, God spoke to me and he said, you 118 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 4: cannot live like this. He said you were made and 119 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 4: designed to shine. And he said you need to look 120 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 4: out beyond this problem because I've got opportunities. I'm doing 121 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 4: some new things in the middle of your mess. I 122 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 4: am still working. Do you know? That challenge in my 123 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 4: life went on for three long years? And can I 124 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 4: tell you they seemed like long years. But during that 125 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 4: time I shook it off. Every day I pushed through. 126 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 4: Was it easy? 127 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 5: No? 128 00:07:55,320 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 4: But I had to change my focus and change my perspective. God, 129 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 4: you don't want me to stay here. You've got new 130 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 4: things for me. Do you know what was In those 131 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 4: three years that I wrote my first book, I wrote 132 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 4: a series of children's books. And at the end of 133 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 4: those three years, God vindicated me and showed me things 134 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 4: that I never knew were even inside of me. He 135 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 4: gave me victory. But it was a change of perspective. 136 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 4: It was deciding that I wasn't gonna wear a banner 137 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 4: of defeat, but I was gonna wear a banner of 138 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 4: victory over my head. See, I was changing what I 139 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 4: was thinking. See God had opportunity for me. But as 140 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 4: long as I sat and were waiting for things to 141 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 4: change before I could get going, I would have missed 142 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 4: out on all the new things, the new opportunities, the 143 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 4: new things He wanted to show me and do on 144 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 4: the inside of me. Can you imagine if I would 145 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 4: have given in to defeat and discouragement and said so 146 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 4: focused on what I needed to happen, I would have 147 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 4: lost three years. Do you know? There had exponential growth 148 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 4: in my spiritual life those three years. You see God 149 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 4: turned it around because I was willing to put forth 150 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 4: the effort. I was willing to shake it off. I 151 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 4: was willing to say, no, this doesn't have to change 152 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 4: before I can keep living absolutely not. I serve a great, 153 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,239 Speaker 4: big God, and he's gotten great things over the horizon 154 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 4: for me. He is doing a new thing. It is 155 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 4: in process. The printing presses have already been turned on. 156 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 4: It is happening now in your life. I was speaking 157 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 4: to a woman the other day, and I'd been praying 158 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 4: with her for a while, and seemed like every time 159 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 4: I prayed with her or talked to her, all I 160 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 4: could see was this just rich stiff, just wanting something 161 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 4: to happen in her life. And what she was wanting 162 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 4: was this. Her husband had left and she was wanting 163 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 4: reconciliation in her marriage, and that is what I could 164 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 4: see was the main focus and thrust of her life. 165 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 4: And I told her this, I said, listen, do not 166 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 4: make plans according to this prayer being answered. Don't make 167 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 4: plans around your life according to this happening. Don't stop living. 168 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 4: You see. I believe that what she was trying to 169 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 4: do was work it out in her own mind, figure 170 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 4: out how it was going to happen, and as soon 171 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 4: as he walked back in the door, then she could 172 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 4: begin to live. Then her life could go on. But 173 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 4: that is not what God intends for her to do. 174 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 4: Because He's got new things springing up in her mess 175 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 4: right now. I said, you're too valuable. You got too 176 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 4: much to offer. You got gifts, you got talents. You 177 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 4: be the best you that you can be. You let 178 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 4: God grow, you, learn, progress, take on new and exciting 179 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 4: challenges that God's got out there for you. Be the 180 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 4: best you can be. I didn't tell her to quit praying. 181 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 4: I didn't tell her to quit believing. I said, don't 182 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 4: get stuck. Don't get stuck. You keep living, and I 183 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 4: believe that God has a word for somebody in here today. 184 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 4: You need to keep on living. Don't make all your 185 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 4: plans around that unanswered prayer. I got new things springing 186 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 4: up even now. He didn't say there was not going 187 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 4: to be wilderness. He didn't say there wasn't going to 188 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 4: be some wasted things. You look at and think, why 189 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 4: it is happened? 190 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: Why me? 191 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 4: This is a waste? What happened? He said, I can 192 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 4: make a way in the wilderness, and I can refresh 193 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 4: you in those times that feel wasted. I can bring 194 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,719 Speaker 4: out of you things you never knew were in you. 195 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 4: I can do be impossible. As long as you widen 196 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 4: your lens, change your perspective. Don't get narrow, and don't 197 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 4: get so focused that the strains and stresses of life 198 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 4: don't allow you to see beyond where you are. I 199 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 4: was reading about eyestrain and ice train is becoming more 200 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 4: and more of a common problem because of all of 201 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 4: our screens that we look at, computers, iPads, telephones, and so. 202 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 4: Eyestrain is when you know you can be focused on 203 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 4: your computer and you're reading material for so long that 204 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 4: you'll get dry eye, or or you'll get a headache, 205 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 4: or sometimes you know you feel like it's blurry. That's eyestrain. 206 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 4: And I was reading the article and it was giving 207 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 4: tips to alleviate this eye strain, and it says, if 208 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 4: you're in front of your computer, you're working on this, 209 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 4: you know, really focused project which you should do is 210 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 4: try to get up from your the area that you're 211 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 4: at at least three times a day, and for ten 212 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 4: minutes a day, you should look out of a window, 213 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 4: maybe you need to walk outside if you don't have 214 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 4: a wind in your office or the place you're working. 215 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 4: And it said, do this, cast your eyes at a 216 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 4: distance as far as you can see, and take on 217 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 4: all the life around you. It says When you do that, 218 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 4: when you cast your eyes and you begin to see light, trees, sky, clouds, 219 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 4: you're watching all this stuff around you. What it does 220 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 4: is it relaxes the lens of your eye. With eyestrains, 221 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 4: your lens flattens out. And what this exercise does is 222 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 4: it causes it to be more flexible. It causes it 223 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 4: to relax. Now, I'm not giving you a tip on 224 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 4: eyestrain today, although if you have it, that might work. 225 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 4: What I am saying is that same thing parallels our life. 226 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 4: When we begin to focus so much on an area 227 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 4: of our life that needs to change, or something we 228 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 4: want to happen, or something we want to pray about, 229 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 4: we get so focused in that we struggle and we 230 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 4: bring strain upon ourself. And God is saying, we've got 231 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 4: to get good at getting up out of that situation 232 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 4: and casting our eyes, pass the situation into the distance, 233 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 4: so that we can widen our lens and take on 234 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 4: the light that is out there that God gave us 235 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 4: to live. He has got more in store for you 236 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 4: wherever you are, whatever you're going through, He's doing a 237 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 4: new thing. Can you perceive it? It is springing up? 238 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 4: But if you're not looking for it, you might not 239 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 4: find it. Joel quoted the scripture from another passage in Isaiah, 240 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 4: and it says God is longing to be good to 241 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 4: those who are looking for his goodness, who are beholding 242 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 4: the new things, watching to see with earnest expectations. Can 243 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 4: I tell you where you are today? Is it where 244 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 4: you're going to stay? But don't waste your precious life, 245 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 4: your precious time when God is already put it into motion. 246 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 4: There are new opportunities, there are new ways of doing things. 247 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 4: There's new growth, there's new refreshing, there are springs springing 248 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 4: up for you to have today. Listen, You're not going 249 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 4: to stay where you are. It may not have happened 250 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 4: in the past, but it always can happen. Keep your 251 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 4: eyes on God and watch for the new opportunities and 252 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 4: the new things that He's bringing across your path. Amen. Amen, 253 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 4: He's an awesome God. 254 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,360 Speaker 5: Thank you for listening to the Joel los Deine podcast. 255 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 5: Help us continue to share the message of hope with 256 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 5: those all over the world. Visit joeloastin dot com slash 257 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 5: give Hope to give a gift today. 258 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to the podcast. 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