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Speaker 5: make you feel right at home. I like to start
Speaker 5: with something funny, and I heard about this lady that
Speaker 5: died and she was at the Pearly Gates and Saint
Speaker 5: Peter said, you can't come in yet. You have to
Speaker 5: correctly spell a word. She said what word? He said,
Speaker 5: any word, So she spelled the word love lo ovee.
Speaker 5: He said, welcome to heaven. Then Peter asked her if
Speaker 5: she would take his place for just a moment. He
Speaker 5: instructed her if anybody came up, just to follow the
Speaker 5: same procedure. A few minutes, she sees her ex husband
Speaker 5: walking up. She can't believe it, says, what are you
Speaker 5: doing here? He said, I just had a heart attack.
Speaker 5: Did I really make it to heaven? She said not yet.
Speaker 5: You have to spell a word correctly. He said what word.
Speaker 5: There was a long pause, and she said, Czechoslovakia. I
Speaker 5: want to talk to you today about emptying out the negative.
Speaker 5: It's easy to go through life holding on to things
Speaker 5: that are weighing us down. Guilt, resentment, doubt, worry. The
Speaker 5: problem is when we allow these things in, they're taking
Speaker 5: up space for the good things that should be there.
Speaker 5: Imagine your life is like a container. You are created
Speaker 5: to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, creativity. But if
Speaker 5: you allow worry in, it pushes out the peace. There's
Speaker 5: not space for both. You can't go above one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: You have a limited amount of room. If you allow
Speaker 5: guilt to take up space, that's space that you don't
Speaker 5: have for the confidence you need. And the reason some
Speaker 5: people don't enjoy their lives is because their container, their heart,
Speaker 5: is contaminated with so many things. They have ten percent worried,
Speaker 5: stressed out over their job, twelve percent bitterness, mad at
Speaker 5: their neighbor, twenty percent guilt beating them solved up for
Speaker 5: past mistakes, nine percent jealousy their coworker is more beautiful.
Speaker 5: They don't realize seventy percent of their container is negative.
Speaker 5: They wonder why they don't have joy, creativity, passion. They
Speaker 5: only have room for thirty percent of what they should have.
Speaker 5: The scripture says give no place to the enemy. It's
Speaker 5: not just talking about forces of darkness. That means give
Speaker 5: no place to guilt, give no place to worry, give
Speaker 5: no place to bitterness. It can't come in and automatically
Speaker 5: take over. You control what's in your container. You control
Speaker 5: what you think about, what you choose to allow in.
Speaker 5: And we all have negative emotions and negative feelings. You
Speaker 5: have to make the choice, I'm not going to give
Speaker 5: this jealousy, this bitterness, this anger valuable space and let
Speaker 5: it poison my life. I'm going to protect what I
Speaker 5: allow in me, and every morning when we wake up,
Speaker 5: we need to empty out anything negative from the day before.
Speaker 5: Somebody offended you at work, they didn't treat you right.
Speaker 5: It's easy to let that offense stay. Feels good to
Speaker 5: carry around a grudge, so you have to be disciplined.
Speaker 5: Say no, I am not giving this offense any room.
Speaker 5: I am not going to let it sour my day.
Speaker 5: They hurt you once, don't let them continue to hurt
Speaker 5: you by holding on to the offense. Being offended is
Speaker 5: not harming them, it's harming you. It's taking up space
Speaker 5: you need for the good things that move you toward
Speaker 5: your destiny. Or you wake up in the morning and
Speaker 5: thoughts of worry come. How are you going to pay
Speaker 5: your bills? What if the medical report's not good? You'll
Speaker 5: never get out of this problem. Don't allow that in.
Speaker 5: Don't make the mistake of dwelling on it. Just say no, thanks.
Speaker 5: I know God's in control. He's got me in the
Speaker 5: palm of his hand. He'll get me to where I'm
Speaker 5: supposed to be. Take inventory of what you're giving space to.
Speaker 5: Life is too short to go through it with negative
Speaker 5: things holding us down. David said in Psalm one three.
Speaker 5: God fills my life with good things, so I stay
Speaker 5: young and strong. Now I've learned if you'll empty out
Speaker 5: the negative, if you'll make room, God will fill you
Speaker 5: with good things. You empty out the worry, God will
Speaker 5: fill you with peace. You empty out the insecurity, negative
Speaker 5: things people have said about you. God will fill you
Speaker 5: with confidence. My question today is is God trying to
Speaker 5: fill you with good things but there's no room. Your
Speaker 5: container is full of worry, regret, bitterness, jealousy. Why don't
Speaker 5: you start emptying that out? Somebody did you wrong? You
Speaker 5: could hold on to that bitterness. Instead, God, I forgive them.
Speaker 5: I let it go. You didn't just forgive. You made
Speaker 5: room for God to fill you with good things. That's
Speaker 5: when he'll give you beauty for ashes, joy for morning.
Speaker 5: In a tough season, the medical report wasn't good, You
Speaker 5: should be stressed worried. Instead, God, I trust you. You
Speaker 5: said you would restore health. Beckon to me. You just
Speaker 5: made room for God to fill you with healing. You
Speaker 5: empty out the worry. God will give you peace in
Speaker 5: the midst of the storm. Perhaps a coworker got the
Speaker 5: promotion that you work so hard for envy, jealousy will come.
Speaker 5: I wish that was me. I'm smarter than they are.
Speaker 5: I don't understand that. Instead of letting that stay, God,
Speaker 5: I know you're no respector a person's You did it
Speaker 5: for them, I know you can do it for me.
Speaker 5: The good news is God doesn't run out of favor.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have a limited supply. If you will empty
Speaker 5: out the jealousy, then when it's your time to be promoted,
Speaker 5: God will open doors that no man can shut. If
Speaker 5: somebody got what you wanted, that simply means it wasn't
Speaker 5: supposed to be yours. If they got the promotion, be
Speaker 5: happy for them. God has something better for you. If
Speaker 5: they got the man you wanted to date, let's make
Speaker 5: it real. If they got the girl you were interested in,
Speaker 5: don't be upset. God knows what he's doing. If it
Speaker 5: worked out your way, it would be second best. Bottom line,
Speaker 5: what has your name on it is not going to
Speaker 5: go to anyone else. Don't go around bitter with jealousy
Speaker 5: and self pity. That will poison your life. Empty it out.
Speaker 5: God is in control. He's directing your steps and at
Speaker 5: the right time. What has your name on it will
Speaker 5: show up. God promises, if we will make room, he
Speaker 5: will not only fill us with good things, but he
Speaker 5: will keep us young and strong. And the reason some
Speaker 5: people are not young and strong, and I don't mean
Speaker 5: just young physically, but young in their spirit, vibrant, passionate
Speaker 5: about life is because they're filled with the negative. Worry
Speaker 5: will make you weak. Living stressed out will make you old,
Speaker 5: give you wrinkles, take your passion. Being bitter, angry, resentful
Speaker 5: will shorten your life. Proverb says, a relaxed attitude Lengthdin's life.
Speaker 5: You can be eighty years old and young at heart.
Speaker 5: Your spirit never ages. I met a woman in the
Speaker 5: lobby a while back. It was her one hundredth birthday.
Speaker 5: She was standing there, dressed impeccably beautiful, hardly had any wrinkles,
Speaker 5: full of joy, her mind was as sharp as can be.
Speaker 5: I ask her what her secret was so I could
Speaker 5: tell Victoria. She said, I don't worry. I let things
Speaker 5: go and I laugh a lot. She's lived by this principle.
Speaker 5: You know, in one hundred years she's had trouble. People
Speaker 5: have hurt her, She's made mistakes, life has happened, offensives
Speaker 5: have come. But she hasn't held on to them. He's
Speaker 5: kept emptying them out, and God promised He's filled her
Speaker 5: life with good things, kept her young and strong. I
Speaker 5: don't want to get old, grouchy, grumpy, fall apart. I
Speaker 5: want to stay young, strong, good looking, full of faith
Speaker 5: and joy and energy. The way this happens is give
Speaker 5: no place to the negative. Get in a habit of
Speaker 5: emptying out the offenses. Empty out the worry you make
Speaker 5: a mistake. Empty out the guilt you didn't do your best.
Speaker 5: Empty out the regret, do better next time. Nobody gave
Speaker 5: you credit. Empty out the self pity you had a
Speaker 5: bad break, you don't understand it. Empty out the questions.
Speaker 5: If you'll get good at emptying out the negative, you'll
Speaker 5: be like this lady, strong, young, vibrant, full of faith,
Speaker 5: and full of joy. Jesus said, blessed are the pure
Speaker 5: in heart. They will see God. That word pure in
Speaker 5: the original language is where we get our word cathartic.
Speaker 5: It means cleansing, releasing. You have surgery, sometimes the doctor
Speaker 5: will put in a catheter, same root word. It's a
Speaker 5: tube that drains out the impurities of the body. You
Speaker 5: can't get up to use the facility. That catheter automatically
Speaker 5: takes what's not beneficial, the toxins, the infections, the waste,
Speaker 5: and flushes them out of the body. The doctor knows
Speaker 5: there will be contaminants. He's not alarmed that the body
Speaker 5: has waste and infection. He's only alarmed when it's not
Speaker 5: being released, when we're holding on to things that should
Speaker 5: be flushed out. When God says blessed are the pure
Speaker 5: in heart, he's saying you're going to be blessed when
Speaker 5: you learn how to release the impurities of life. When
Speaker 5: you get in a habit like this catheter of emptying
Speaker 5: out things that will infect you. You know what bitterness
Speaker 5: is to our spear, It's infection. Guilt is infection, worry, doubt, self, pity.
Speaker 5: These things are not unusual. Impurities come. You have to
Speaker 5: push them out. It's when we hold onto them that
Speaker 5: it contaminates our spirit and causes us problems. You weren't
Speaker 5: created to carry around guilt, regret, bitterness, anger that poisons
Speaker 5: your life. Well, Joel, I'm bitter because I had a
Speaker 5: bad break. I'm sour because somebody walked out on me.
Speaker 5: I say this respectfully. That's simply an impurity. Why don't
Speaker 5: you release it so it doesn't infect the rest of
Speaker 5: your life. Don't let a disappointment, a divorce, a layoff,
Speaker 5: a loss poison your future. Well, Joel, I'm worried about
Speaker 5: my health, worried about my finances, worried about my children.
Speaker 5: Worry is a part of life. Those thoughts come to
Speaker 5: us all The key is to not hold onto them.
Speaker 5: Recognize they're not beneficial. They're not moving you forward. That's
Speaker 5: an impurity that wasn't meant to stay. You have to
Speaker 5: release it. God, I don't see a way, but I
Speaker 5: know you're still on the throne. I know you're bigger
Speaker 5: than this problem. I know you're supplying all of my needs.
Speaker 5: You just released the toxin. Are you holding on to infection?
Speaker 5: To impurities? Angry? Jealous, worried, discouraged. Maybe you had a disappointment,
Speaker 5: something didn't work out. Imagine there's an angel that has
Speaker 5: a delivery with your name on it. It says beauty
Speaker 5: for ashes, new beginning, new opportunities, new friendships. He's in
Speaker 5: route with one of those good things. The problem is,
Speaker 5: if you're holding onto the old, there's no place for
Speaker 5: him to deliver it. I wonder how many things are
Speaker 5: in route right now. The Angel is standing by with
Speaker 5: our joy, our peace, our confidence, our creativity, our spouse.
Speaker 5: But because there's no room, because we're not releasing the toxins,
Speaker 5: the anger, the bitterness, the jealousy, the worry, then he
Speaker 5: can't deliver those good things. Instead of living blessed, excited
Speaker 5: about our future, we become infected. The good news is
Speaker 5: you can get rid of that infection. It is not permanent.
Speaker 5: If you'll start releasing the regret, the worry, the bitterness,
Speaker 5: the anger, then it's just a matter of time before
Speaker 5: that angel shows up with your delivery. When you make room,
Speaker 5: God promises he will fill your life with good things.
Speaker 5: This is what David did. He was an expert at
Speaker 5: emptying out the negative. His family looked down on him,
Speaker 5: treated him like he was second class. He could have
Speaker 5: let that infection take root, lived insecure. Instead, he let
Speaker 5: it go in one ear and out the other. He
Speaker 5: knew if he held on to it, it would keep
Speaker 5: him from his destiny. David went to the palace served
Speaker 5: faithfully King Saul. He would play the harp when Saul
Speaker 5: was sick to make him feel better. In return, Saul
Speaker 5: tried to kill him. Saul was jealous of David and
Speaker 5: chased him through the desert, made him his life miserable.
Speaker 5: David could have become bitter, thought, what's the use everybody's
Speaker 5: against me? Life is not fair. Instead, he kept his
Speaker 5: heart pure and emptied out the self pity. Like David,
Speaker 5: we all have impurities, infections that come, people come against us.
Speaker 5: Our plans don't always work out. It's easy to think,
Speaker 5: why is this happening? It's just life. The scripture says
Speaker 5: offenses will come. They're not a problem unless you don't
Speaker 5: know what to do with them. Too many people make
Speaker 5: the mistake of hold.
Speaker 6: On to them.
Speaker 5: They get bitter, live guilty with him. A chip on
Speaker 5: their shoulder that's going to poison your future. You have
Speaker 5: to release the toxins of life. You may not be
Speaker 5: able to keep them from coming, but you can keep
Speaker 5: them from staying. David had a pure heart. That means
Speaker 5: he kept the infections out. It doesn't mean that he
Speaker 5: was perfect. David made mistakes. One time he committed adultern,
Speaker 5: had the lady's husband killed. For one year, he tried
Speaker 5: to cover it up, swept it under a rug. He
Speaker 5: was so overwhelmed with guilt, condemnation, that he became sick
Speaker 5: and weak, that poison started to infect his life. He
Speaker 5: finally admitted his mistake, he repented, asked God to forgive him,
Speaker 5: and things begin to turn around. Once he got the
Speaker 5: infection out, then his health was restored. When you make
Speaker 5: a mistake, and we all do, don't run away from God.
Speaker 5: Don't try to hide it. Go to God. Repent. That
Speaker 5: means don't keep doing the same thing, and then ask
Speaker 5: for forgiveness. And here's the key. You have to receive
Speaker 5: God's mercy. The enemy is called the accuser of the brethren.
Speaker 5: He'll remind you of every mistake you've made for the
Speaker 5: last thirty years. And it's easy to live life in regrets,
Speaker 5: thinking about what you should have done differently. And I
Speaker 5: should have raised my children better, should have been more
Speaker 5: faithful in my marriage, I should have finished college. Don't
Speaker 5: go through life looking in the rear view mirror, down
Speaker 5: on your cell, living in regrets. You can't do anything
Speaker 5: about the past, but you can do something about right now.
Speaker 5: Being against yourself doesn't help you do better. It pushes
Speaker 5: you down. The moment you ask God to forgive you,
Speaker 5: he forgave you. Why don't you forgive yourself. Why don't
Speaker 5: you empty out the guilt? Why don't you turn off
Speaker 5: the accusing voices? God doesn't remember mistakes anymore. If someone
Speaker 5: is bringing up the negative things of your past, it's
Speaker 5: not God. That's the accuser trying to deceive you into
Speaker 5: living condemned. How much space are you given to guilt,
Speaker 5: to shame, to regret, to being against yourself, whatever it is,
Speaker 5: it's too much. You need that space for the good
Speaker 5: things God has to move you toward your destiny. If
Speaker 5: you're giving space to guilt, you will not have the
Speaker 5: confidence you need to move forward. That will cause you
Speaker 5: to fail again. It's a negative cycle. The only way
Speaker 5: you can break it is to rise up and say
Speaker 5: that's it. I am done living in the past, focused
Speaker 5: on my mistakes, reliving my failures, beating myself up. This
Speaker 5: is a new day. I'm emptying out all that infection.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna receive God's mercy. You have to do this
Speaker 5: by faith, because every voice will tell you you're a
Speaker 5: hit for cript. God's not going to forgive you. Look,
Speaker 5: what you've done doesn't have anything to do with what
Speaker 5: you have or haven't done. It has to do with
Speaker 5: what Jesus has already done. But Joel, I made a
Speaker 5: lot of mistakes. I don't deserve to be blessed. None
Speaker 5: of us deserve it. This is what mercy is all about.
Speaker 5: That's why it's called the good News. Your sins have
Speaker 5: already been forgiven. You don't have to pay God back
Speaker 5: for your mistakes. The price has already been paid. When
Speaker 5: you fall down, don't stay down, get back up again.
Speaker 5: When you accuse or whispers, look at you. You blew
Speaker 5: it again. You'll never get it right. Just answer back. Yes,
Speaker 5: I know I'm not perfect, but I am forgiven. I
Speaker 5: may not be where I should be, but I'm making progress.
Speaker 5: I'm moving forward. I'm not where I used to be.
Speaker 5: Don't let guilt poison your future. Empty it out. Sometimes
Speaker 5: it's hard to empty out the negative when a person
Speaker 5: does us wrong. Human nature wants to hold on to
Speaker 5: the hurt, to come bitter, carry around a grudge who
Speaker 5: we think. We're not going to forgive them. They don't
Speaker 5: deserve it. You're not forgiving for their sake, You're forgiving
Speaker 5: for your sake. As long as you hold on to
Speaker 5: the hurt, the anger, the bitterness, it's not affecting them,
Speaker 5: it's infecting you. Unforgiveness is like a poisonous toxin. May
Speaker 5: feel good to hold on to it, but it will
Speaker 5: contaminate your life. Now. A lot of times, the reason
Speaker 5: we don't forgive is because what the other person does
Speaker 5: was wrong. They were clearly at fault. But when you forgive,
Speaker 5: you're not excusing their behavior. You're not lessening the offense.
Speaker 5: You're simply getting the poison out of you. You have
Speaker 5: to forgive so you can be free. Quit looking at
Speaker 5: it like you're doing them a favor, You're doing yourself
Speaker 5: a favor. See, it takes a lot of emotional energy
Speaker 5: to hold a grudge, to live with unforgiveness. You wake up,
Speaker 5: it's always on your mind thinking about how they did
Speaker 5: you wrong. You may not realize you are spending emotional
Speaker 5: energy that you need for your dreams, for your goals,
Speaker 5: for your children. You won't become all you were created
Speaker 5: to be if you are wasting emotional energy on things
Speaker 5: that don't matter. That unforgiveness is an impurity. Yes, what
Speaker 5: they did was wrong, but you have to let it pass.
Speaker 5: You have to release it. When you do, you'll not
Speaker 5: only feel a new freedom, not only have more energy.
Speaker 5: But God will be your vindicator. He will make your
Speaker 5: wrongs right. You don't have to pay people back. You're
Speaker 5: not the judge. God is. Leave it up to him
Speaker 5: and he'll vindicate you better than you could vindicate yourself.
Speaker 5: This is what a lady did named Mary Johnson. She
Speaker 5: was the single mother of one son. When he was
Speaker 5: twenty years old, he was out late one night at
Speaker 5: a part. This young man came up that he had
Speaker 5: never met. His name was Oshe. He was sixteen years
Speaker 5: old and had been drinking. There was an altercation. In
Speaker 5: the heat of the moment, oh she pulled out a
Speaker 5: gun and shot Mary's only son. He was instantly killed.
Speaker 5: Mary was so filled with anger and hatred. She told
Speaker 5: the judge that sixteen year old boy was an animal
Speaker 5: and he needed to be caged. When he was only
Speaker 5: charged with second degree murder, Mary was even more angry.
Speaker 5: She became a recluse, stayed in her house, wouldn't look
Speaker 5: at her son's picture. Ten years passed, she knew it
Speaker 5: was time to forgive. She could hear the still small
Speaker 5: voice telling her to let it go. She contacted the
Speaker 5: prison to see if she could visit Oshe. They said yes,
Speaker 5: but oh, she said no, he wouldn't do it. She
Speaker 5: kept asking and asking. Finally he agreed. She showed up
Speaker 5: at the prison. When she saw Osh, he came around
Speaker 5: and gave her a big hug and held on to her.
Speaker 5: They wept and wept. Mary said, as I was embracing Oshe,
Speaker 5: I could feel hatred and bitterness rising up out of
Speaker 5: me and leaving my body. It was so strong that
Speaker 5: she fell over. Oh, she had to hold her up.
Speaker 5: That day, Mary not only emptied out the unforgiveness, but
Speaker 5: she found a new son. Seven years later. Oh, she
Speaker 5: was released on parole. Didn't have any place to live.
Speaker 5: Mary said, you can live next door to me. She
Speaker 5: calls him her spiritual son. Mary started an organization called
Speaker 5: from Death to Life to help mothers who have lost
Speaker 5: children to violence. Now, she and Oshe go out and
Speaker 5: speak at conferences and schools about unforgiveness and overcoming loss.
Speaker 5: Mary said what really helped her decide to forgive was
Speaker 5: a poem she heard about two mothers in heaven that
Speaker 5: had just become friends. One mother asked the other, who
Speaker 5: is your son? She said, my son is Jesus I'm Mary.
Speaker 5: Mary asked, who is your son, she said, my son
Speaker 5: is Judas. When Mary Johnson heard how in this poem, Mary,
Speaker 5: the mother of Christ had befriended the mother of Judas,
Speaker 5: she knew she had to reach out to that other family.
Speaker 5: Now she helps other mothers do the same thing. Out
Speaker 5: of your pain can come your purpose. I saw a
Speaker 5: lady on television recently. Several years earlier, her son had
Speaker 5: been killed in an accident. They asked her how she
Speaker 5: was doing it. She made the statement, you never really
Speaker 5: get over it, but you can get past it. She
Speaker 5: was saying, yes, it's difficult, Yes there was a season
Speaker 5: of mourning, but you don't have to stay in You
Speaker 5: don't have to live bitter. You don't have to get
Speaker 5: stuck in grief, in depression. You can move forward. When
Speaker 5: you go through a loss, things happen you don't understand.
Speaker 5: It's easy to think I just need to get over this,
Speaker 5: but sometimes that's too strong. It can put more pressure
Speaker 5: on us. We think, why do I feel this way?
Speaker 5: I must be doing something wrong. Take the pressure off.
Speaker 5: You don't have to get over it, just get past it.
Speaker 5: Just keep moving forward, taking it one day at a time.
Speaker 5: God said he will never give you something that you
Speaker 5: cannot handle. You may not understand why it happened, But
Speaker 5: the scripture says God will give us a peace that
Speaker 5: passes understanding. You're not going to figure everything out. If
Speaker 5: you'll let go of the questions of life, you will
Speaker 5: have a peace that goes beyond what you can understand.
Speaker 5: Toward the end of Jesus' life, he'd been betrayed by
Speaker 5: a disciple, mocked by the soldiers, falsely accused. Now he
Speaker 5: was hanging on the cross, wearing a crown of thorns,
Speaker 5: about to breathe his last breath. He did something significant.
Speaker 5: He could have just died and went on to Heaven.
Speaker 5: That was it, But he said, Father, before I go,
Speaker 5: I need to take care of one last thing. Forgive them,
Speaker 5: for they know not what they do. They didn't ask
Speaker 5: for forgiveness, they didn't deserve it. Jesus was saying, in effect,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to leave this earth with anything negative
Speaker 5: in me. He was showing us by example how we
Speaker 5: should release the toxins, release the impurities. I read where
Speaker 5: Leonardo da Vinci was painting a portrait of Christ. He
Speaker 5: let some small children in the room to watch him paint.
Speaker 5: One of them accidentally knocked over the easel. He became
Speaker 5: very upset and ushered them out of the room. He
Speaker 5: sat back down to finish, but he said he could
Speaker 5: not paint the face of Christ with anger in his heart.
Speaker 5: That's what happens when we hold onto the negative. It
Speaker 5: stifles our creativity. We don't do our best work. It's
Speaker 5: because there's infection that's slowing us down. Are you allowing
Speaker 5: negative things in your container? To reach the fullness of
Speaker 5: your destiny? You need to operate at your maximum potential.
Speaker 5: If you have a little bitterness, a little guilt, a
Speaker 5: little jealousy, a little worry. If you add up all
Speaker 5: the space the little is taking, you're only operating at
Speaker 5: a fraction of what you could. I'm asking you to
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