1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your line. 6 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: God bless you. It's great to be with you. 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,319 Speaker 2: Today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us during 8 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 2: the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 2: and you can come visit us in person. 10 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: of our services. I'd like to start with. 12 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: Something funny, and I heard about these three men that 13 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 2: were traveling together, a Hindu priest, a Jewish rabbi, and 14 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: a televangelist. They stopped at a farmhouse for lodging. The 15 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: farmer said, I only have room for two of you. 16 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: In the house. Somebody will have to stay in the barn. 17 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 2: The Hindu priest said, I'll do it. A few ministers 18 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: are knock on the door. He said, I can't stay 19 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: out there. There's a cow and cows are sacred in 20 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 2: our religion. The Jewish rabbi said, I'll do it. Few 21 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: minutes laid there's a knock on the door. He said, 22 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 2: I can't stay out there. There's a pig and that 23 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 2: wouldn't be kosher. The televangelist find I said all right, 24 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: I'll do it. In a few minutes. 25 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: There was a knock on the door. It was the 26 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: cow and the pig. This is my Bible. 27 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what 28 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says 29 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 30 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 31 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 32 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: God bless you, and I want to talk to you 33 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: today about from limping to leaping. 34 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: All of us can find some reason to limp. We 35 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: weren't raised in a good. 36 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: Environment, or relationship didn't work out. The boss doesn't give 37 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: us credit. Now we're at a disadvantage. Sometimes a limp 38 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: is passed down. All we saw model growing up was anger, addictions, 39 00:01:58,720 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 2: people not faithful. 40 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: That feels normal to us. We don't realize we're limping. 41 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: Too often. 42 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: We let the limp be an excuse to settle where 43 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 2: we are and water down our. 44 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: Dreams and not believe for greater things. 45 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 2: If I could have finished school, then I could be successful. 46 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 2: Or if I hadn't made these mistakes and wasted years compromising, 47 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: then I could be happy. 48 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: We're all going to have times where we have a limp. 49 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: But here's the key. 50 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: That limp was never supposed to be permanent. God didn't 51 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 2: create you to live insecure. 52 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: Lonely, not having enough. 53 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: Sure, those things may come, but he knows how to 54 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 2: heal and restore and turn things around. But as long 55 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 2: as you're using the limp as an excuse, you'll get stuff. 56 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: You may be limping now. 57 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 2: Things have happened that you don't understand that lemp is 58 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 2: not how your story ends. That disappointment, the betrayal, the 59 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 2: unhealthy childhood. 60 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: God knows how to take what was meant for harm 61 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: and turn it to your advantage. Now you have to 62 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: get in agreement with him. 63 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 2: You can't go around accommodating the limp, making excuses to settle. 64 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: Joel. I've been injured. I've been hurt. That's why I'm angry. 65 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 2: That's why I compromise, That's why I can't be successful. 66 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 2: Can I tell you everyone has been injured, everyone has 67 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 2: had bad breaks. But the people who go on to 68 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: do great things and fulfill their destinies. Are the people 69 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: that don't let the limp become an excuse to settle. 70 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: The people that know the limp is only temporary, that 71 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: God wouldn't have allowed it if he didn't have a purpose. 72 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: It's the people that expect things to turn in their favor. 73 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: The right attitude is I may be limping now, I'm. 74 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: Not denying that. I'm disappointed, lonely. I've had a set back, 75 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: but I know God is still on the throne. 76 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 2: I wouldn't be alive unless he had something better coming. 77 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 2: When I was in the ninth grade, I was on 78 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: the basketball team and one day during practice the coach 79 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 2: had us go to the track and run a mile. 80 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: He walked into the field house, and I always liked 81 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: to have fun and make. 82 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 2: People laugh, and we were running in a big group together. 83 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 2: But when I saw the coach was gone, I cut 84 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: across the fifty yard line to the other side of 85 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 2: the track, so it looked like I was way ahead. 86 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 2: Now I was running full speed almost across, but there 87 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 2: was this metal drain cover about two feet by two feet, 88 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 2: a big grate that the water went through. I didn't 89 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 2: want to step on that, so I stepped right before it. 90 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: What I couldn't see is there was a big hole 91 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 2: about a foot deep where the water had drained in 92 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: from the side. 93 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 1: It was covered with grass, and I stepped in that hole. 94 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 2: My knee hit the metal drain cover and I broke 95 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: my kneecat. 96 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: It didn't really hurt that bad. I turned a somersault. 97 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: I got up, I kept running. 98 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 2: Then I looked down at my knee and nearly passed out, but. 99 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 1: Went to the hospital had surgery. Everything came out fine. 100 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 2: But for three months I was on crutches, couldn't bend 101 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: my leg, and every day after school I would go 102 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 2: to basketball practice and sit. 103 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: On the sidelines and watch the team. 104 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: I learned the plays, I studied the offense. In my mind, 105 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 2: I was out there with them like Lebron James. 106 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: Jumping, shooting, defending. I was injured, but I knew it 107 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:35,919 Speaker 1: was only temporary. 108 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: I knew in three months I was going to be 109 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 2: back on the court in the game better than ever. 110 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: Didn't sit around at home depressed and man, I. 111 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 2: Want to play, but I got this injury or down 112 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 2: on myself. 113 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: If I wouldn't have made that mistake. 114 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 2: If I just stayed on the track like the rest 115 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 2: of the guys, I wouldn't have this problem. 116 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: Sometimes we bring the limp on ourselves. 117 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 2: We make choices that cost pain and disappointment. The good 118 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 2: news is God doesn't hold that against you. 119 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: He has mercy for every mistake. 120 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 2: When you're limping, you can't sit around defeated listening to 121 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 2: the accusing voices making excuses. 122 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: That's going to cause you to get stuck. 123 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 2: You need to see yourself back on the court, successful, happy, productive, 124 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 2: doing great things. Too many times we normalize the limp. 125 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 2: All my families depressed. That's why I'm depressed. I can't 126 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 2: get my degree. 127 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: I'm not that smart. 128 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 2: This person walked out on me, broke my heart. I'll 129 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 2: never be happy again. You don't realize that's a limp. 130 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 2: You're learning to live with it, letting it be an 131 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: excuse to not rise higher. You have to know, like 132 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 2: I did with my knee, You're gonna run again. 133 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: You're injured now, but healing is coming. 134 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 2: That person walked out on you, but God has someone 135 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 2: better on the way. You're gonna love again, or you 136 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: had a set back in your career, a door closed, 137 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 2: God's about to open a better door. 138 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: Don't let that limp cause you. 139 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 2: To settle where you are and give up on dreams 140 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 2: to where you start accepting mediocrity, dysfunction, learning to live 141 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 2: with the anger, low self esteem. 142 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: That's not who you are. That's a limp. It's a 143 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: temporary season. 144 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 2: God created you to be free, healthy, confident, victorious. I 145 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 2: was on crutches, but it was only for three months. 146 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 2: Those crutches were there for a season to help me 147 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 2: get over the injury. But sometimes we get comfortable with 148 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: the crutches we were raised with a limp. Instead of 149 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 2: realizing it's only temporary, we think, man, I always had 150 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 2: this temper. I always have to deal with this anxiety. 151 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: I can't accomplish my dreams. I don't have the connections. 152 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: God is saying, those crutches are about to come off. 153 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 2: What you've been using as an excuse is not going 154 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: to limit. 155 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: You any more. Chains are being broken, strongholds are coming down. 156 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 2: You're about to step up to who you were created 157 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 2: to be. Now, quit believing those lies that you're stuck, 158 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: you don't have the talent, you're the wrong nationality, You've 159 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 2: made too many mistakes. This is a new day, God 160 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 2: is about to turn that limping into leaping. He's going 161 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 2: to cause you to bloom, to blossom, greater confidence, greater resources, 162 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 2: greater influence. Acts Chapter three, There was a man who 163 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 2: had been crippled since birth. Every day his family would 164 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 2: carry him to the temple so he could beg for money. 165 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 2: They would put him at the gate called beautiful. This 166 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 2: man had been doing this for years. Every morning, same thing, 167 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 2: getting out of bed, people helping him get dressed, packing 168 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 2: the lunch, then setting him at the same spot. When 169 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: you've been in a limited situation for a long time, 170 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 2: it can become normal. I'm sure the man didn't like 171 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 2: to beg he didn't like to be looked down on, 172 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 2: be at the mercy of others. But he had accepted 173 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 2: this was his lot in life. It wasn't his fault. 174 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: He was born crippled. 175 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: If you've always been laying, you don't expect to walk. 176 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 2: If you've never felt good about yourself and always felt insecure, unattractive, 177 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 2: not worthy, even. 178 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: Though it's not true, that becomes normal. 179 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 2: If all you've seen is poverty, anger, addictions, you don't 180 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 2: expect to have abundance, peace and freedom. Or when people 181 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 2: have always carried you like this man and made accommodations 182 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 2: for those weaknesses. 183 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: It can become who you are to where you accept it. Hey, Joel, 184 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: it's not my fault. I was born with this disadvantage. 185 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: I can't he's successful. I have a limp. Yeah, I 186 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: don't feel worthy because of how I was raised. Nobody 187 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: made me feel valuable. 188 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: You may have a valid explanation as to why you 189 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 2: are that way, but don't let it be an excuse to. 190 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: Stay that way. 191 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 2: God came to take off of you what the enemy 192 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 2: put on you. There may be negative traits that you inherited, 193 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 2: things that were passed down. It's made it more difficult, 194 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 2: but God raised you up to break the negative cycle. 195 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,959 Speaker 2: You're the one to set a new standard. You wouldn't 196 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 2: be hearing this if God wasn't about to do a 197 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 2: new thing. 198 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,719 Speaker 1: Limping is not your destiny. 199 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 2: Addictions, low self esteem, never able to get ahead. 200 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: That's not who you are. 201 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 2: But as long as you're accepting it, you giving it 202 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 2: the right to stay. Victory starts in our thinking. Thoughts 203 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 2: will whisper. You'll always have this crutch. You'll always struggle 204 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: and always be lonely, always have bad breaks, don't believe 205 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 2: those lies. 206 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: The lemp is only temporary. 207 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 2: It's significant that this man was placed at a gate 208 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 2: called beautiful. The fact is there was nothing beautiful about 209 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 2: his life. Crippled, poor, having to bed. I'm sure he 210 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 2: was discouraged, felt not valuable, nothing good in his future. 211 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: He could have been placed at other gates, the Southwest. 212 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 2: Gate, the freeway gate, but every day he was taken 213 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: to this gate called beautiful. He didn't realize God was 214 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 2: prophesying his future. Everything looked ugly in his life, but 215 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 2: God was saying, something beautiful is coming. I have beauty 216 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,839 Speaker 2: for the ashes, joy for the morning, healing for the. 217 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: Sickness, new beginnings for the loss. 218 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 2: You may be in an ugly situation, dealing with an illness, 219 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 2: childish off course, fighting an addiction. 220 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: Like this man. 221 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: You're getting up each day, making the most of a 222 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 2: difficult situation, going to work, being good to people, keeping 223 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 2: that song of praise. But nothing's changing. It's the same 224 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 2: thing month after month. What you can't see is you 225 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 2: at a gate called beautiful. God has positioned you in 226 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 2: his divine destiny. He's prophesying over you. Things are not 227 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 2: only about to change, but it's gonna be better than 228 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 2: you've imagined. 229 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: You're gonna come into a beautiful place. 230 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:38,679 Speaker 2: Abundance, healing, joy, laughter, not just coming out, not just 231 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 2: making it through, but God exceeding your expectations. Now, don't 232 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: let the ugliness of what you're going through fool you. 233 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 2: God is still on the throne, he said. Weeping may 234 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 2: endure for a night, but joy is coming in the morning. 235 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 2: Another way to say it is limping may endure for 236 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 2: a season, but leaping is on the way. It may 237 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 2: be ugly now, but you're at the gate beautiful. Ecclesiastes 238 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 2: says God will make all things beautiful in his time. 239 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 2: One day, Peter and John going to the temple three 240 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 2: o'clock in the afternoon for the daily prayer service. 241 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: As they were about to enter, they saw this man. 242 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,599 Speaker 2: Verse five says the lame man looked at them eagerly, 243 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 2: expecting a gift. He'd been passed by hundreds of people 244 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 2: that day going into the temple. Everyone said no, ignored him, 245 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 2: but God ordained Peter and John to notice this man. 246 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 2: There are seasons where you're being overlooked and nothing is changing. 247 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 2: But God has already lined up the right people to 248 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 2: notice you. Don't worry about those who pass you by. 249 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 2: Don't give you the time of day. God has divine 250 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: connections in Ralph. Your time to be noticed is coming. 251 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 2: Peter said to the man, I don't have any silver 252 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,200 Speaker 2: or gold, but I have something better in the name 253 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 2: of Jesus. Rise and walk. Sure, the men thought I'd 254 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: love to, but I'm crippled. I've been lame since birth. 255 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 2: I'll always have these crutches. Peter saw he wasn't moving, 256 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 2: so he grabbed him by. 257 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: The hand and pulled the man up. 258 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 2: When he did, strength went into his legs, and instantly 259 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 2: he was healed. The scripture says he went walking and 260 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 2: leaping and praising God. God knows how to take you 261 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 2: from limping to leaping. He's a supernatural God. One touch 262 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 2: of his favor, what looks impossible becomes possible. One slingshot 263 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 2: and a giant comes down. One phone call and the 264 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 2: compact center opened up. One good break and your thrust 265 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 2: into your destiny. Now, some of these limitations that have 266 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 2: been with us since birth, low self esteem, anger, depression, 267 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 2: we've learned to live with it, accepted it as who 268 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 2: we are, like God did for this man. 269 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: He's about to turn around. What looks permanent. 270 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 2: He's about to reverse a curse. Free from things that 271 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 2: you thought you'd always struggle with. No more limping, no 272 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 2: more can't get ahead. You stepped into abundance. No more 273 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 2: feeling unworthy. You put your shoulders back. You know you're 274 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 2: a masterpiece made in the image of God. No more 275 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 2: lonely everyone else getting married, a divine connection, somebody better 276 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 2: than you imagine. No more being looked over, not getting 277 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 2: the credit. God's going to take you from the background. 278 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: To the foreground, from being left out to being in charge. 279 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: This man went walking and leaping. 280 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 2: If he had just been able to walk, that would 281 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,240 Speaker 2: have been a great miracle, lame since his birth. We 282 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 2: would all be shouting about that. But notice how God 283 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 2: does it, not just walking. 284 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: But leaping, running, jumping. 285 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 2: God knows how to exceed your expectations. You'd be happy 286 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 2: to just see your child back on course, But God's 287 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 2: going to cause him to become a leader, a person 288 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 2: of honor, esteem, doing great things. You'd be happy if 289 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: you can just pay your bills, get through a slow season. 290 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 2: But God has abundance coming overflow where you lend and 291 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 2: not borrow. Blessed in such a way you can be 292 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 2: a blessing to others. Or maybe you've struggled with an 293 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: addiction and you've tried. 294 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: To get free, but no success. 295 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 2: Now you're just functioning in the dysfunction. That's not how 296 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 2: your story ends. Freedom is coming, Wholeness is coming where 297 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 2: it's not a struggle anymore. 298 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: You're going to be unquestionably free so you can help 299 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: others get free. 300 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 2: Not limping to just walking God's way is limping to leaping. 301 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: Every thought with Taya, this is not for you. 302 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 2: You've always had this limitation, this disadvantage. 303 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: The enemy doesn't want you to hear this today. 304 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,160 Speaker 2: He wants us to have a defeated, limited, poor old 305 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,120 Speaker 2: me mentality. 306 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: Tune all that out. God is working in your life 307 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: right now. 308 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 2: He's about to do for you what he did for 309 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 2: this man. Receive this into your spirit. 310 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: Take you from. 311 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 2: Struggle to abundance, from brokenness to wholeness, from sickness to health, 312 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: from insecurity to confidence, from mediocrity to success, from loneliness 313 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 2: to great relationships, from no good breaks to blessings chasing 314 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 2: you down. 315 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: When this man saw Peter. 316 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 2: And John, there was an expectancy. Something on the inside 317 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 2: said this is a new day. This is a destiny moment. 318 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 2: The expectancy is your faith being released. When I went 319 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 2: to the gym on crutches when my knee was injured, 320 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 2: I was expecting to be back on the court. Sometimes 321 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:13,159 Speaker 2: we have a disappointment, or we've been born into limitations 322 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 2: and there's no expectancy for things to improve. 323 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: We're satisfied with less than what we were created for. 324 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: Well, Joel, if my parents hadn't told me I was 325 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 2: never gonna amount to anything, then maybe I'd have a 326 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 2: good self image. 327 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: My business partner. 328 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 2: Hadn't cheated me and ruin my credit, then I'd believe 329 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 2: for more. That's your explanation as to why you are 330 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 2: that way. What I'm saying is, don't use it as 331 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 2: an excuse to stay that way. God is still on 332 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 2: the throne. He's fighting your battles. 333 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: He has amazing things in your future. 334 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 2: When you have this attitude of expectancy, angels go to work. 335 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 2: Forces of darkness are broken, miracles are set into motion. 336 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: The scripture said, as. 337 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,239 Speaker 2: This man went walking and leaping, and he entered the 338 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 2: temple with Peter and John, think about all the years 339 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 2: he sat at the gate. 340 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: The gate is the entry to something better. 341 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 2: He saw people going in year after year, but he 342 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 2: was stuck outside, wishing he could be on the inside. 343 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: How many of us see other people who were successful 344 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 2: and accomplish their dreams. We're happy for them, but we 345 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 2: wonder why that can't be us. We see couples laughing 346 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 2: and enjoying each other, we wonder when we're going to 347 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 2: meet someone. Others are healthy, playing ball, going on vacations, 348 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 2: but we're dealing with this sickness, this depression. 349 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 1: We're at the gate. 350 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 2: We know there are great things inside, but we're stuck outside. 351 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 2: One thing I admire about this man is he went to. 352 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: The gate every day. 353 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 2: He was faithful, took a lot of effort to get dressed, 354 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: be carried by others, sit out there all day. He 355 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 2: wasn't lazy, he wasn't complacent. He wanted more for his life. 356 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 2: He took the hand he had been dealt and made 357 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 2: the most of it. And like him, many of you 358 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 2: have done your best with what you have. You've watched 359 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 2: others go in the beautiful gate while you're dealing with 360 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 2: ugly things in your life, a child that broke your hearter, 361 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: lonely marriage, feelings of unworthiness. 362 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: Some of these things you didn't have anything to do with. 363 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 2: It was passed down, yet you kept doing the right thing. 364 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 2: Let me tell you your time is coming, not just 365 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 2: limping to leaping. 366 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: But you're gonna go in the gates. 367 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 2: Not just see the beautiful, You're gonna live in the beautiful. Favor, healing, joy, 368 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: great relationships. The limp is not your destiny sitting outside 369 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: the gates looking in, dreaming that one day that could 370 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 2: happen for you. 371 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: Your one day is coming. He sees you at the gate, 372 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 1: he sees what you struggle with. He knows who cost 373 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: the limp, what you didn't get, who wasn't there for you. 374 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 2: He's keeping all the records. He has you at the gate, 375 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 2: called beautiful for a reason. 376 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: He's prophesying what's coming. 377 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 2: I know sometimes we're limping because we've made mistakes and thoughts. 378 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 2: Will tell you Joel's not talking about you today. You 379 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 2: brought this trouble on yourself. You chose to compromise. You 380 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 2: weren't faithful. God knew every mistake you had ever made, 381 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 2: every failure. 382 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,479 Speaker 1: He's full of mercy. 383 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 2: He's not holding your mistakes against you. He's not going 384 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 2: to keep you limping because you knew better. Healing is coming, 385 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 2: restoration is coming. Well, Joel, you don't know my situation. 386 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 2: I've been this way a long time. Think about how 387 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 2: long this man had been at that same spot. Some 388 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 2: commentary said he had been there for forty years. Everything 389 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 2: said to him, this is the way it's always gonna be. 390 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: Don't get your hopes up. 391 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 2: One reason this story is in the scripture is so 392 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 2: that we would know that no. 393 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,800 Speaker 1: Matter how long you've been limping, and no matter how. 394 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 2: Impossible it looks, it's not too late for God to 395 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 2: turn it around. 396 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 1: Limping is not your destiny. Leaping is your destiny. 397 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 2: Watching people go in the beautiful Gate accomplish their dreams 398 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 2: and never going in yourself is not what God has 399 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 2: purposed for you. There are amazing things in your future. 400 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,679 Speaker 2: The limp didn't stop it. How you were raised didn't 401 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 2: stop it. Mistakes you've made didn't stop it. You may 402 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 2: have some crutches now you're dealing with an injury. The 403 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,719 Speaker 2: good news is God knows how to heal broken hearts, 404 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 2: how to turn mourning into dancing, how to take the 405 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 2: loss and give you a new beginning. 406 00:22:58,000 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: Now, just bring you back to normal. 407 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 2: Where you're okay, but turned the limping into leaping more 408 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 2: than you can imagine. There was a young boy born 409 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,400 Speaker 2: in a very rough environment to a teenage mother, and 410 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 2: she had a lot of addictions, been through abuse dysfunction. 411 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 2: Five years old, the mother took him and his baby's 412 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 2: sister into town. 413 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: She said she needed to run to the restroom and 414 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: never came back. She abandoned them in the city square. 415 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: They were taken to foster care. 416 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 2: The young boy was so traumatized he became very angry 417 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 2: and insecure, and the age of eleven, he ran away 418 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 2: from home and started living on the streets. And it 419 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 2: was bitter toward his mother and even bitter toward God, 420 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 2: and got involved in games and started stealing, and his 421 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 2: life was spiraling out of control. He had a good 422 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 2: explanation as to why he was that way abandoned as 423 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 2: a child. 424 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: That's not right, but you can't use it as an 425 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: excuse to stay there. Way. 426 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 2: One day there was a minister coming through town and 427 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 2: he was having an outdoor meeting. This young man was 428 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 2: going to go to disrupt it just caused trouble. He 429 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 2: brought some fireworks and other gang members as he stood 430 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,720 Speaker 2: in the back, waiting for the right time. 431 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: He began to feel this love that he had never 432 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: felt before. 433 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 2: He was captivated by what the minister was saying. These 434 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 2: chains of bitterness and anger and unworthiness began to break 435 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 2: off of him, and that night, instead of disrupting the event, 436 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 2: he walked down and gave his life to Christ, a 437 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 2: destiny moment while he went on to become a great 438 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 2: minister and travel the country and he shared his story 439 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 2: of how God can turn any situation around. 440 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: Years later. One night, at the end of his service. 441 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: He invited people to the front to receive Christ, just 442 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,360 Speaker 2: as he did as a young man. There was an 443 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 2: older woman that came down and prayed the prayer. He 444 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 2: looked over at her and suddenly realized it was his mother. 445 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 2: He hadn't seen her in over sixty years since that 446 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 2: day she had abandoned him, But there she was receiving 447 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 2: a new beginning. God knows how to make all things 448 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 2: beautiful in its time, even things we think. 449 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: Are too far out. You don't know what God is 450 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: up to. 451 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 2: Are you limping today like this young man, dealing with 452 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 2: things that were passed down no fault of your own, 453 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 2: or perhaps a disappointment mistakes you've made. 454 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: That's okay. 455 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 2: There's no shame in having a limp. Life happens to 456 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 2: us all. What I'm saying is the limp is not permanent. 457 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 2: You're not going to need those crutches your whole life. 458 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 2: Someone may be carrying you now, but you're coming to 459 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 2: a point where you're not going to need to be 460 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 2: carried from dependence to independence. 461 00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: God created you to be free. 462 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 2: He sees you like the man going to the temple 463 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 2: each day, making the most of a difficult situation, being. 464 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: Your best despite the limp. 465 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,120 Speaker 2: You've watched others go in that gate, celebrated them doing 466 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,360 Speaker 2: great things. Your time is coming. You're not just at 467 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 2: any gate, You're at the gate called beautiful. 468 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: That's the prophecy. God has spoken over your life. 469 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: He's going to take that ugly situation and make something 470 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 2: beautiful out of it. It's interesting how Peter told the 471 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 2: crippledman to rise and walk, but he couldn't get up 472 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 2: by himself, so Peter took him by the hand and 473 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 2: pulled the man up. You may have tried to get 474 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 2: up by yourself. You want to be free, but if 475 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 2: you haven't been able to do it. 476 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: God sent me today to help pull you up. 477 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 2: You're about to feel supernatural strength, supernatural healing, supernatural favor. 478 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,719 Speaker 2: You may be limping now, but I believe in declare leaping, 479 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 2: His coming, Restoration is coming, great relationships, freedom, abundance, the 480 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 2: fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, And if you 481 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 2: receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to give 482 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 2: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 483 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? 484 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 485 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 486 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 487 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 2: born again. We'd love to send you some free information 488 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 2: on your new walk with the Lord. 489 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: You can text the number on the screen or go 490 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: to the website. 491 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 2: But I hope you'll get into a good Bible based 492 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 2: church and keep God first place. We all go through 493 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 2: disappointments and things that are not fair. But God sees 494 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 2: every hurt, every injustice, and He's promised to pay you. 495 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: Back for the unfair things. 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We'd love to meet 552 00:30:58,040 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 1: you and your family. 553 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 2: You can see the building and attend one of the services. 554 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 2: It's a great time to be a part of the 555 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 2: Lakewood family. Looking forward to seeing you at Homecoming weekend.