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I like to start with something funny, 44 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 4: and I heard about this cat and mouse that died 45 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 4: on the same day and went to heaven. After a 46 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 4: few weeks, Peter saw the mouse and ask him how 47 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 4: he liked it. He said, Oh, it's great, but it's 48 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 4: so big. I wish I could get a pair of 49 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 4: roller skates. Peter said, no problem, got him some roller skates. 50 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 4: A few weeks later, Peter saw the cat and ask 51 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 4: him how he liked it. He said, Oh, it's fantastic. 52 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 4: And just when I thought it couldn't get any better, 53 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 4: I discovered the meals on wheels. Say it like you 54 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 4: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 55 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 4: I am. I have what it says I have. I 56 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 4: can do what it says I can do. Today I 57 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 4: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 58 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 4: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 59 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 4: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 60 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about it is finished. 61 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 4: We all have things that are trying to hold us back. 62 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 4: Guilt from past mistakes, temptations. We can't seem to overcome 63 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 4: dysfunction that's been passed down. It's easy to learn to 64 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 4: accept it and think that that's who we are. But 65 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 4: God didn't create you to go through life weighed down 66 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 4: by addictions, dysfunction, guilt, the past. He created you to 67 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 4: be free. And when Jesus hung on the cross before 68 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 4: he took his final breath, he said, it is finished. 69 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 4: He wasn't just talking about his life and how he 70 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 4: had finished his purpose. He was putting an end to 71 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 4: all the negative things that could keep us from our destiny. 72 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 4: He was saying, in effect, the guilt is finished, the 73 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 4: depression is finished, the low self esteem, the mediocrity, it 74 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 4: is finished. And instead of accepting the addiction thinking it's 75 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 4: the way it's always going to be. Everybody in my 76 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 4: family has it, you need to announce to that addiction. 77 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 4: It is finished. You don't control me, you can't keep 78 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 4: me from my destiny. The price has been paid. I 79 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 4: am free, I am clean, I am whole. But as 80 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 4: long as you accept it, you're allowing it to stay. 81 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 4: But when you tell the addiction, tell the past, tell 82 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 4: the poverty, it is finished. This is not who I am. 83 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 4: I am blessed, I am prosperous, I am victorious in 84 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 4: the unseen realm. Strongholds are broken, chains are loosed, favor 85 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 4: is released. Are there things you're living with that you 86 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 4: need to say it? Is finished. Are you going around guilty, 87 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 4: down on yourself because of past mistakes, not expecting anything good. 88 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 4: You need to announce to that guilt. It is finished. 89 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 4: I'm done beating myself up, living condemned. God's mercy is 90 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 4: bigger than my mistakes. I am redeemed, I am restored, 91 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 4: I am forgiven, and I am excited about my future. 92 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 4: Are you living with a sense of shame, feeling inferior 93 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 4: because of how somebody treated you? They did you wrong, 94 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 4: they walked away. Now, the accuser whispers, it's because you're 95 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 4: not good enough, You're not attractive enough, you don't deserve 96 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 4: to be loved. Announced to that shame. It is finished. 97 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 4: I'm not living inferior, unworthy. I know who I am. 98 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 4: I am a child of the Most High God. I'm 99 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 4: wearing a crown of favor. I have royal blood flowing 100 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 4: through my veins. No matter what someone did or didn't 101 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 4: do to you, it does not change who you are. 102 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 4: You may have had bad breaks, gone through unfair situations. 103 00:05:54,960 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 4: Don't have a victim mentality, have a victor mentality. God 104 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 4: said he would pay you back double for the unfair 105 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 4: things that have happened. That person that did you wrong. 106 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 4: They thought they were hurting you. The truth is they 107 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 4: were helping you. They qualified you for double. They thought 108 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 4: they were setting you back. In reality, they were setting 109 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 4: you up. Now do your part. Say to the self pity, 110 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 4: it is finished. I'm not living discouraged, dwelling on my disappointments, 111 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 4: reliving my hurts. I'm letting go of the old and 112 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 4: I'm getting ready for the new things God has in store. Father, 113 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 4: Thank you. Double is coming my way. But we can 114 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 4: all find a reason to live negative, thinking that we're 115 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 4: at a disadvantage. My boss overlooked me. Somebody walked out 116 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 4: of a relationship. I'm asking us to get rid of 117 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 4: the excuses. It's time to say it is finished. I'm 118 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 4: done thinking about what I didn't get, what didn't work out. 119 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 4: You have to tell the past, tell the self pity, 120 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 4: tell the discouragement. It is finished. As long as you 121 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 4: justify your condition, you're giving it permission to stay. John 122 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 4: Chapter five, Jesus met a crippled man that had been 123 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 4: lying by the pool of Bethesda for thirty eight years. 124 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 4: There were five porches surrounding this pool filled with sick people, 125 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 4: and once a year, when the angel moved the waters. 126 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 4: The first person to get in would be healed. Jesus 127 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 4: said to the crippled man, do you want to get well? 128 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 4: It seemed like there was an obvious answer. Everyone was 129 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 4: at the pool to get well. But the scripture says 130 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 4: when Jesus saw the man lying there, he asked, do 131 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 4: you want to get well? In other words, there was 132 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 4: nothing in this man's actions that said he wanted to 133 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 4: get well, nothing in his behavior that said I'm expecting 134 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 4: things to change. At his bed there by the porch, 135 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 4: his whole area set up. I can imagine a table, 136 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 4: a lamp, books, pictures. In thirty eight years, he had 137 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,679 Speaker 4: gotten comfortable in dysfunction. He thought, this is my lot 138 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 4: in life. It's never going to get better. He was 139 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 4: surrounded by other people that were sick, that were blind, 140 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 4: that were afflicted. He gravitated to people that were just 141 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 4: like him. Everybody was needy, everybody was complaining, everybody was discouraged. 142 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 4: You need to be careful who you surround yourself with, 143 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 4: especially in difficult times. You may have an illness, but 144 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 4: don't go find a bunch of other sick people to 145 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 4: hang around. Misery loves company. If you struggle with an addiction, 146 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 4: don't hang out with people that are addicted. That's going 147 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 4: to cause you to get stuck. If you're depressed, don't 148 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 4: go find five depressed friends. So y'all can all be 149 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 4: depressed together. Find people that have what you want. If 150 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 4: you're struggling in your finances, get around blessed people, generous people, 151 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 4: people that are well off. If you tend to be 152 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 4: negative and critical, don't stay around people like that. Find 153 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 4: people that are happy, positive, grateful. There should be something 154 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 4: about you that says I want to get well, I 155 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 4: want to be blessed, I want to go to the 156 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 4: next level. When Jesus asked this man if he wanted 157 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 4: to get well, instead of saying yes, that's what I'm 158 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 4: believing for that's my dream, he said, Sir, I don't 159 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,439 Speaker 4: have anybody to help me get in the water when 160 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 4: the angel comes. Somebody always beats me in. He was 161 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 4: justifying his condition. I'm this way because I'm at a disadvantage. 162 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 4: Nobody will help me. As long as you're making excuses 163 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 4: for where you are, you're going to get stuck. I'm 164 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 4: this way, Joel, because I had a bad childhood. I'm 165 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 4: bitter because a business partner cheated me. I'm negative because 166 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 4: I have this illness. I'm asking us to get rid 167 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 4: of the excuses. Nothing that's happened to you has to 168 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 4: keep you from your destiny. If it was going to 169 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 4: stop your purpose, God wouldn't have allowed it. You may 170 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 4: not understand it, it may not be fair. But if 171 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 4: you will take the hand you've been dealt and make 172 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 4: the most of it, God will get you to where 173 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 4: you're supposed to be. No person can stop him, no 174 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 4: bad great, no addiction, no sickness. God has the final say. 175 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 4: Tell the self pity, it is finished. Tell the excuses, 176 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 4: it is finished. This is a new day. God's about 177 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 4: to do a new thing. Jesus said to the crippled man, 178 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 4: get up, pick up your bed, and walk. Instantly the 179 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 4: man was healed. He stood up and was able to 180 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 4: walk out of there. And what you think is permanent 181 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 4: looks like it's never going to change. That addiction you've 182 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 4: had for years, the illness, the situation in your finances. 183 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 4: You don't see away. But God has a way Right now, 184 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 4: He's fighting your battles. I believe things are changing in 185 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 4: your favor. Breakthroughs are headed you away, new beginnings, healing, freedom. 186 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 4: It may look permanent. God is saying it's only temporary. 187 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 4: I'm about to turn it around. What's interesting is this 188 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 4: crippled man didn't have a lot of faith. He didn't 189 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 4: say yes, I believe I can get well. He made excuses, 190 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 4: Yet God, in his mercy, healed him. Imagine how God 191 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 4: feels when he sees you shaking off the self pity, 192 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 4: shaking off the excuses, saying Lord, I believe you can 193 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 4: turn my child around. I believe you'll take me to 194 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 4: the next level. I believe you'll free me from this addiction. 195 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 4: When you believe God will make things happen that you 196 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 4: couldn't make happen, tell the excuses, tell the doubt, tell 197 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 4: the negative thoughts. It is finished. It's time to put 198 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 4: a stop to some things. This is what my father did. 199 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 4: He grew up very poor. His parents were cotton farmers 200 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 4: and they lost everything during the Great Depression. My father 201 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 4: went to school with holes in his pants, holes in 202 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 4: his shoes. In high school, he was given the Christmas 203 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 4: basket that went to the poorest family. He was at 204 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 4: a disadvantage, no money, very little education. The odds were 205 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 4: all against him. He had a good excuse to settle 206 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 4: where he was and accept a life of mediocrity. But 207 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 4: at the age of seventeen, my father gave his life 208 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 4: to Christ, the first one in his family. On the inside, 209 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 4: he could feel seeds of greatness rise up, seeds of increase, 210 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 4: seeds of abundance. On the outside, everything said, you're poor, 211 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 4: you're at a disadvantage, you're limited, you don't have a future. 212 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,239 Speaker 4: But down in his spirit he could hear God whispering, 213 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 4: this is not who you are. You're better than this. 214 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 4: You can set a new standard. You were made for more. 215 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 4: At seventeen, he told his parents he was going to 216 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 4: leave the farm and become a minister. They thought he 217 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 4: had lost his mind. They said, John, you better stay 218 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 4: here on the farm with us. All you know how 219 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 4: to do is pick cotton. They meant well, but sometimes 220 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 4: well meaning people will try to talk you out of 221 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 4: your destiny. If my father would have stayed in that 222 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 4: limited environment, he would have never seen the fullness of 223 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 4: what God had in store. You have to get away 224 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 4: from people that only see you for who you used 225 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 4: to be and not for who you're about to be, 226 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 4: because some people that knew you back then will try 227 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 4: to keep you in the same box that you grew 228 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 4: up in they'll try to put limitations on you. You 229 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 4: can't accomplish that dream. You're not that talented. You better 230 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 4: play it safe. This is what happened in the scripture 231 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 4: with David. His family didn't see him as a giant 232 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 4: killer as a king. They discounted him. David's father didn't 233 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 4: bring him in from the shepherd's fields. When the prophet 234 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 4: Samuel was choosing one of his brothers as the next king, 235 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 4: he thought, oh, it's just David. He's so small, he's 236 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 4: so young, he doesn't have the experience. But people don't 237 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 4: determine your destiny. What they say about you, how they 238 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 4: try to make you feel, cannot stop what God has 239 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 4: ordained for your life. You need to distance yourself from 240 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 4: people that are always trying to put limitation on you 241 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 4: and talk you out of what God put in your heart. 242 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 4: Sometimes it's the people that have known you the longest 243 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 4: because they can only see you one way. Jesus brothers 244 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 4: never accepted him. He was performing all these miracles, but 245 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 4: they didn't see him as the Messiah. They only saw 246 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: him one way as their brother, thinking all it's just Jesus, 247 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 4: nothing special about him. We grew up with him. Even 248 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 4: when Jesus began to gain notoriety, the scripture says his 249 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 4: brother scoffed at him. They made fun. Yeah right, you're 250 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 4: the messiah. They tried to discount him and talk him 251 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 4: out of his destiny. Jesus let it go in one 252 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 4: ear and out the other. My father could have stayed 253 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,479 Speaker 4: in that limited environment and accepted a life of poverty 254 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 4: and lack. He could have lived with a scarcity mindset. 255 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 4: But he did what I'm asking us to do. He 256 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 4: rose up and said it is finished. This may be 257 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 4: where I am, but this is not who I am. 258 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 4: As seventeen, he took a step of faith. He had 259 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 4: to hitchhike, but he left the farm. He started ministering 260 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 4: in the prisons, in the senior citizens' homes, in the schools. 261 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 4: God began to promote him and open doors, and he 262 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 4: and my mom found at Lakewood. He pastored here for 263 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 4: forty years. He went on to live a blessed, abundant life. 264 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 4: Here's my point. My father broke the curse of poverty 265 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 4: in our family. Now, myself, my siblings, all of our 266 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 4: children are living at a higher level. Because one man 267 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 4: didn't settle for the status quo. One man didn't say 268 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 4: I'm at a disadvantage, I've had bad breaks. Instead, he 269 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 4: said it is finished. I'm a difference maker. I can 270 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 4: set a new standard. You can be that man. You 271 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 4: can be that woman for your family. You can put 272 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 4: an end to negative things that have been passed down. 273 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 4: What you're dealing with may not have started with you, 274 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 4: but it can stop with you. You need to say 275 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 4: to the poverty, say to the lack, it is finished. 276 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 4: I will lend and not borrow. Say to the addiction, 277 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 4: the depression, the dysfunction, it is finished. God wants you 278 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 4: to set a new standard. You have seeds of greatness. 279 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 4: You are full of talent, ideas, potential. You're not limited 280 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 4: by where you came from. Just because negative things have 281 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 4: been passed down doesn't mean they're supposed to continue. You're 282 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 4: the one to break the curse, to break the poverty, 283 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 4: to break the depression, to break the dysfunction. You can 284 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 4: take your family to a new level. Now, don't talk 285 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 4: to yourself out of it. Don't let circumstances discourage you. 286 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 4: The odds may be against you, but the most high 287 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 4: God is for you. He is breathing in your direction 288 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 4: right Now he's going to open doors that no man 289 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 4: can shut. Bring talent out of you that you didn't 290 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 4: know you had, cause the right people to be good 291 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 4: to you. Opportunity is going to track you down. Good breaks, 292 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 4: freedom increase. You're stepping into a new level. Bondages that 293 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 4: have held you and your family back are being broken. 294 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 4: Now do your part have a new mindset, an abundant mentality, 295 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 4: a free mentality, a healthy mentality, a victorious mentality. I 296 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 4: wouldn't be standing here if my father would have kept 297 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:47,919 Speaker 4: that poverty mindset, that scarcity mentality, thinking I'm at a disadvantage. 298 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 4: I've had bad breaks. We can all come up with 299 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 4: an excuse to settle where we are. I'm asking us 300 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 4: to get rid of the excuses, anything that's holding you back. 301 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 4: It's time to announce to it. It is finished. This 302 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 4: is a new day. I'm drawing the line in the sand. 303 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,959 Speaker 4: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 304 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 4: We will live free from addictions. We will lend and 305 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 4: not borrow. We will be generous in help others. We 306 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 4: will accomplish our dreams and become everything we were created 307 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 4: to be. I have a friend that's very successful. His 308 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 4: father was a police officer. He was raised in a 309 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 4: middle class home. When he was eleven years old, his 310 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 4: father asked him to get in the car and they 311 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 4: were going to take a drive together. They drove for 312 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 4: several hours to another state. The father never told his 313 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,719 Speaker 4: son where he was taking him. They came to this 314 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 4: very run down neighborhood. Trash everywhere, nothing kept up. The 315 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 4: young boy's eyes were so wide, he'd never seen anything 316 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 4: like this. They finally pulled in to this dirt makeshift 317 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 4: driveway of this house that was very dilapidated, no front door, 318 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 4: the windows were broken out. It looked like it was vacant. 319 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 4: They walked in. There was an old man sitting on 320 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 4: a stool, no shirt on, hat and shaved, looked like 321 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 4: he was homeless. The father looked at him and said, dad, 322 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 4: I brought my son to see you. The young boy 323 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 4: couldn't believe that was his grandfather. He'd never seen him, 324 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 4: never heard his father talk about him. The grandfather wouldn't 325 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 4: look up. He didn't want to have anything to do 326 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 4: with his son nor his grandson. The father put some 327 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 4: money on the counter and said, Dad, I love you. 328 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 4: I just wanted to say hi. They both walked out. 329 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 4: The young boy said, Dad, that was the most scared 330 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 4: I've been in my whole life. I never want to 331 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 4: come back to this place. The father said, son, that's 332 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 4: why I brought you here, to show you. This is 333 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 4: where we come from, but this is not who we 334 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 4: are now. You may have been raised in a limited environment. 335 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 4: They were good people, but they didn't have any vision. 336 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 4: They settled for mediocrity. Like my friend, you can set 337 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 4: a new standard. Where you start is not important. Where 338 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 4: you finish is what matters. God is going to use 339 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 4: you to not just break a generational curse, but to 340 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 4: start a generational blessing. Where you come from is not 341 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 4: who you are. You are blessed, You are free, You 342 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 4: are talented. You are a child of the most High God. 343 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 4: Abraham was in a limited environment. God told him to 344 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 4: leave his country, leave his family, and go to the 345 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 4: land that I am showing you. God was saying, Abraham, 346 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 4: you have to leave what's familiar, leave what you grew 347 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 4: up with. I'm not suggesting to abandon your family, but 348 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 4: I am saying to leave negative mindsets were raised with. 349 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 4: Leave a scarcity mentality, Leave limitations that people have put 350 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 4: on you. You have to make room for God to increase you. 351 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 4: Sometimes our environment is too small. If you take an 352 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 4: oak tree, seed and planet in a five gallon pot, 353 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 4: that oak tree will never become what it was created 354 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 4: to be. Not because there's something wrong with the tree, 355 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 4: but because of the environment that it's in. In the 356 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 4: same way, there's nothing wrong with you. You have seeds 357 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 4: of greatness. The most High God breeds his life into you. Now, 358 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 4: make sure your pot is not too small. Make sure 359 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 4: your environment is not holding you back. You need to 360 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 4: be around people that inspire you, people that have gone further, 361 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 4: people that are making a difference, not just people that 362 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 4: are settling for the status quo. Isaiah said, enlarge the place, 363 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 4: your tenth stretch forth your curtains, lengthen your cords, strengthen 364 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 4: your stakes. Make room for God to do a new thing. 365 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 4: Tell that limited mindset it is finished. I'm dreaming big dreams. 366 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 4: I'm praying bold prayers. I'm expecting to go further than 367 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 4: how I was raised. When my father went to be 368 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 4: with the Lord, people would ask me if I thought 369 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 4: we could keep the church going now. I never said 370 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 4: it arrogantly, but I would tell them I don't think 371 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 4: we can just keep it going. I believe we can 372 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 4: go further. It's because God is a progressive god. He 373 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 4: wants every generation to increase. Have a big vision. Don't 374 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 4: settle for what your parents had, what your relatives accomplished. 375 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 4: You were made for more. You can go further. You 376 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 4: can be the one to set the new standard. But 377 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 4: it's easy to talk ourselves out of our dreams. Live 378 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 4: discouraged because disappointments, things we don't understand. We worked hard 379 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 4: but didn't get the promotion. We prayed, but our loved 380 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 4: one didn't make it. We did our best, but the 381 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 4: relationship didn't work out. Life is not always fair. I 382 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 4: can't explain everything, but I can tell you. God said 383 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,239 Speaker 4: he would take what was meant for your harm and 384 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 4: use it to your advantage. He said he would give 385 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 4: you beauty for the ashes. But I've learned you have 386 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 4: to let go of the ashes before you receive the beauty. 387 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 4: You can't hold on to the old and expect to 388 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 4: receive the new. The past is over and done. That's 389 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 4: why it's called the past. Quit dwelling on it, quit 390 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 4: reliving it. You're not going to understand everything that happens. 391 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 4: But God has a purpose. He knows how to bring 392 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 4: good out of it. Keep moving forward. This is what 393 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 4: David did. He had a newborn baby that became very sick. 394 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 4: David night and day prayed and fasted for this baby. 395 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,199 Speaker 4: He wouldn't eat, he wouldn't talk with anyone else. He 396 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 4: spent all of his time on his knees asking God 397 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 4: to heal his child. On the seventh day, the little 398 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 4: baby died. They didn't know how David would handle the news, 399 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 4: but when they told him, David got up off the ground, 400 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 4: took a shower, put on new clothes, and went to 401 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 4: the temple and begin to worship God. When he finished, 402 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 4: he when had dinner with his men, they were so amazed, 403 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 4: they said, David, when the child was living, you wept, 404 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 4: you refused to eat. But now that he has died, 405 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 4: you've stopped your morning and you're acting like everything's okay. 406 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 4: David said, when the child was alive, I asked God 407 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 4: to let him live. But now that he has died, 408 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 4: I cannot bring him back. But one day I will 409 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 4: go to be with him. David did everything he could. 410 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 4: He prayed, he fasted, he believed, but it didn't work 411 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 4: out his way. He could have lived bitter with a 412 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 4: chip on his shoulder. But David understood this principle. He 413 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 4: said to the past, it is finished. I don't understand it, 414 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 4: but I'm moving forward. We all have things in life 415 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 4: that we don't understand. It's easy to live negative with 416 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 4: a chip on our shoulder. But if we're going to 417 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 4: see the double, if we're going to see the beauty 418 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 4: for ashes, we have to do like David and say 419 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 4: to the past, say to the things you don't understand, 420 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 4: it is finished. I'm not going to dwell on what 421 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 4: didn't work out. I'm not going to try to figure 422 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 4: out why. I'm going to let it go and keep 423 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,560 Speaker 4: moving forward. The past doesn't have to stop you. A 424 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 4: bad break, a loss, a disappointment. God is in control 425 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 4: of your life. You wouldn't be alive unless He had 426 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 4: something amazing up in front of you. You haven't had 427 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 4: too many bad breaks, you haven't made too many mistakes. 428 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 4: You're on the verge of seeing double. You're on the 429 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,360 Speaker 4: verge of beauty for ashes. Now do your part, put 430 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 4: on a new attitude, wash your face, and get ready 431 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 4: for the new things God is about to do. Let 432 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 4: me declare this over you today. Receive this into your spirit. 433 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 4: The past, the hurts, the regrets, it is finished. The poverty, 434 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 4: the lack, the limited mindsets, it is finished. The addictions, 435 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 4: the depression, the dysfunction, the guilt, the shame, the self pity, 436 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 4: it is finished. This is a new day. Things that 437 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 4: have held you back are being broken right now. You're 438 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 4: going to step into a new level of freedom. You're 439 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 4: going to break generational curses and start generational blessings. You're 440 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 4: about to see the beauty for ashes, healing, promotion, breakthroughs. 441 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 4: They are headed your way in Jesus' name. If you 442 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 4: receive it. Can you say it? 443 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 5: Men? 444 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 4: Today, I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 445 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 4: Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 446 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 4: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 447 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 4: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 448 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 4: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 449 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 4: born again. 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