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Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel. Thanks so much for downloading the podcast.
Speaker 4: I believe you'll be inspired and challenged. I hope you
Speaker 4: enjoy the message. Well, God bless you. Thanks for letting
Speaker 4: us come into your homes. And if you're ever in
Speaker 4: our area, please stop by and be a part of
Speaker 4: one of our services. I'll promise you will make you
Speaker 4: feel right at home. I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 4: and I heard about this cat and mouse that died
Speaker 4: on the same day and went to heaven. After a
Speaker 4: few weeks, Peter saw the mouse and ask him how
Speaker 4: he liked it. He said, Oh, it's great, but it's
Speaker 4: so big. I wish I could get a pair of
Speaker 4: roller skates. Peter said, no problem, got him some roller skates.
Speaker 4: A few weeks later, Peter saw the cat and ask
Speaker 4: him how he liked it. He said, Oh, it's fantastic.
Speaker 4: And just when I thought it couldn't get any better,
Speaker 4: I discovered the meals on wheels. Say it like you
Speaker 4: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says.
Speaker 4: I am. I have what it says I have. I
Speaker 4: can do what it says I can do. Today I
Speaker 4: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.
Speaker 4: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 4: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about it is finished.
Speaker 4: We all have things that are trying to hold us back.
Speaker 4: Guilt from past mistakes, temptations. We can't seem to overcome
Speaker 4: dysfunction that's been passed down. It's easy to learn to
Speaker 4: accept it and think that that's who we are. But
Speaker 4: God didn't create you to go through life weighed down
Speaker 4: by addictions, dysfunction, guilt, the past. He created you to
Speaker 4: be free. And when Jesus hung on the cross before
Speaker 4: he took his final breath, he said, it is finished.
Speaker 4: He wasn't just talking about his life and how he
Speaker 4: had finished his purpose. He was putting an end to
Speaker 4: all the negative things that could keep us from our destiny.
Speaker 4: He was saying, in effect, the guilt is finished, the
Speaker 4: depression is finished, the low self esteem, the mediocrity, it
Speaker 4: is finished. And instead of accepting the addiction thinking it's
Speaker 4: the way it's always going to be. Everybody in my
Speaker 4: family has it, you need to announce to that addiction.
Speaker 4: It is finished. You don't control me, you can't keep
Speaker 4: me from my destiny. The price has been paid. I
Speaker 4: am free, I am clean, I am whole. But as
Speaker 4: long as you accept it, you're allowing it to stay.
Speaker 4: But when you tell the addiction, tell the past, tell
Speaker 4: the poverty, it is finished. This is not who I am.
Speaker 4: I am blessed, I am prosperous, I am victorious in
Speaker 4: the unseen realm. Strongholds are broken, chains are loosed, favor
Speaker 4: is released. Are there things you're living with that you
Speaker 4: need to say it? Is finished. Are you going around guilty,
Speaker 4: down on yourself because of past mistakes, not expecting anything good.
Speaker 4: You need to announce to that guilt. It is finished.
Speaker 4: I'm done beating myself up, living condemned. God's mercy is
Speaker 4: bigger than my mistakes. I am redeemed, I am restored,
Speaker 4: I am forgiven, and I am excited about my future.
Speaker 4: Are you living with a sense of shame, feeling inferior
Speaker 4: because of how somebody treated you? They did you wrong,
Speaker 4: they walked away. Now, the accuser whispers, it's because you're
Speaker 4: not good enough, You're not attractive enough, you don't deserve
Speaker 4: to be loved. Announced to that shame. It is finished.
Speaker 4: I'm not living inferior, unworthy. I know who I am.
Speaker 4: I am a child of the Most High God. I'm
Speaker 4: wearing a crown of favor. I have royal blood flowing
Speaker 4: through my veins. No matter what someone did or didn't
Speaker 4: do to you, it does not change who you are.
Speaker 4: You may have had bad breaks, gone through unfair situations.
Speaker 4: Don't have a victim mentality, have a victor mentality. God
Speaker 4: said he would pay you back double for the unfair
Speaker 4: things that have happened. That person that did you wrong.
Speaker 4: They thought they were hurting you. The truth is they
Speaker 4: were helping you. They qualified you for double. They thought
Speaker 4: they were setting you back. In reality, they were setting
Speaker 4: you up. Now do your part. Say to the self pity,
Speaker 4: it is finished. I'm not living discouraged, dwelling on my disappointments,
Speaker 4: reliving my hurts. I'm letting go of the old and
Speaker 4: I'm getting ready for the new things God has in store. Father,
Speaker 4: Thank you. Double is coming my way. But we can
Speaker 4: all find a reason to live negative, thinking that we're
Speaker 4: at a disadvantage. My boss overlooked me. Somebody walked out
Speaker 4: of a relationship. I'm asking us to get rid of
Speaker 4: the excuses. It's time to say it is finished. I'm
Speaker 4: done thinking about what I didn't get, what didn't work out.
Speaker 4: You have to tell the past, tell the self pity,
Speaker 4: tell the discouragement. It is finished. As long as you
Speaker 4: justify your condition, you're giving it permission to stay. John
Speaker 4: Chapter five, Jesus met a crippled man that had been
Speaker 4: lying by the pool of Bethesda for thirty eight years.
Speaker 4: There were five porches surrounding this pool filled with sick people,
Speaker 4: and once a year, when the angel moved the waters.
Speaker 4: The first person to get in would be healed. Jesus
Speaker 4: said to the crippled man, do you want to get well?
Speaker 4: It seemed like there was an obvious answer. Everyone was
Speaker 4: at the pool to get well. But the scripture says
Speaker 4: when Jesus saw the man lying there, he asked, do
Speaker 4: you want to get well? In other words, there was
Speaker 4: nothing in this man's actions that said he wanted to
Speaker 4: get well, nothing in his behavior that said I'm expecting
Speaker 4: things to change. At his bed there by the porch,
Speaker 4: his whole area set up. I can imagine a table,
Speaker 4: a lamp, books, pictures. In thirty eight years, he had
Speaker 4: gotten comfortable in dysfunction. He thought, this is my lot
Speaker 4: in life. It's never going to get better. He was
Speaker 4: surrounded by other people that were sick, that were blind,
Speaker 4: that were afflicted. He gravitated to people that were just
Speaker 4: like him. Everybody was needy, everybody was complaining, everybody was discouraged.
Speaker 4: You need to be careful who you surround yourself with,
Speaker 4: especially in difficult times. You may have an illness, but
Speaker 4: don't go find a bunch of other sick people to
Speaker 4: hang around. Misery loves company. If you struggle with an addiction,
Speaker 4: don't hang out with people that are addicted. That's going
Speaker 4: to cause you to get stuck. If you're depressed, don't
Speaker 4: go find five depressed friends. So y'all can all be
Speaker 4: depressed together. Find people that have what you want. If
Speaker 4: you're struggling in your finances, get around blessed people, generous people,
Speaker 4: people that are well off. If you tend to be
Speaker 4: negative and critical, don't stay around people like that. Find
Speaker 4: people that are happy, positive, grateful. There should be something
Speaker 4: about you that says I want to get well, I
Speaker 4: want to be blessed, I want to go to the
Speaker 4: next level. When Jesus asked this man if he wanted
Speaker 4: to get well, instead of saying yes, that's what I'm
Speaker 4: believing for that's my dream, he said, Sir, I don't
Speaker 4: have anybody to help me get in the water when
Speaker 4: the angel comes. Somebody always beats me in. He was
Speaker 4: justifying his condition. I'm this way because I'm at a disadvantage.
Speaker 4: Nobody will help me. As long as you're making excuses
Speaker 4: for where you are, you're going to get stuck. I'm
Speaker 4: this way, Joel, because I had a bad childhood. I'm
Speaker 4: bitter because a business partner cheated me. I'm negative because
Speaker 4: I have this illness. I'm asking us to get rid
Speaker 4: of the excuses. Nothing that's happened to you has to
Speaker 4: keep you from your destiny. If it was going to
Speaker 4: stop your purpose, God wouldn't have allowed it. You may
Speaker 4: not understand it, it may not be fair. But if
Speaker 4: you will take the hand you've been dealt and make
Speaker 4: the most of it, God will get you to where
Speaker 4: you're supposed to be. No person can stop him, no
Speaker 4: bad great, no addiction, no sickness. God has the final say.
Speaker 4: Tell the self pity, it is finished. Tell the excuses,
Speaker 4: it is finished. This is a new day. God's about
Speaker 4: to do a new thing. Jesus said to the crippled man,
Speaker 4: get up, pick up your bed, and walk. Instantly the
Speaker 4: man was healed. He stood up and was able to
Speaker 4: walk out of there. And what you think is permanent
Speaker 4: looks like it's never going to change. That addiction you've
Speaker 4: had for years, the illness, the situation in your finances.
Speaker 4: You don't see away. But God has a way Right now,
Speaker 4: He's fighting your battles. I believe things are changing in
Speaker 4: your favor. Breakthroughs are headed you away, new beginnings, healing, freedom.
Speaker 4: It may look permanent. God is saying it's only temporary.
Speaker 4: I'm about to turn it around. What's interesting is this
Speaker 4: crippled man didn't have a lot of faith. He didn't
Speaker 4: say yes, I believe I can get well. He made excuses,
Speaker 4: Yet God, in his mercy, healed him. Imagine how God
Speaker 4: feels when he sees you shaking off the self pity,
Speaker 4: shaking off the excuses, saying Lord, I believe you can
Speaker 4: turn my child around. I believe you'll take me to
Speaker 4: the next level. I believe you'll free me from this addiction.
Speaker 4: When you believe God will make things happen that you
Speaker 4: couldn't make happen, tell the excuses, tell the doubt, tell
Speaker 4: the negative thoughts. It is finished. It's time to put
Speaker 4: a stop to some things. This is what my father did.
Speaker 4: He grew up very poor. His parents were cotton farmers
Speaker 4: and they lost everything during the Great Depression. My father
Speaker 4: went to school with holes in his pants, holes in
Speaker 4: his shoes. In high school, he was given the Christmas
Speaker 4: basket that went to the poorest family. He was at
Speaker 4: a disadvantage, no money, very little education. The odds were
Speaker 4: all against him. He had a good excuse to settle
Speaker 4: where he was and accept a life of mediocrity. But
Speaker 4: at the age of seventeen, my father gave his life
Speaker 4: to Christ, the first one in his family. On the inside,
Speaker 4: he could feel seeds of greatness rise up, seeds of increase,
Speaker 4: seeds of abundance. On the outside, everything said, you're poor,
Speaker 4: you're at a disadvantage, you're limited, you don't have a future.
Speaker 4: But down in his spirit he could hear God whispering,
Speaker 4: this is not who you are. You're better than this.
Speaker 4: You can set a new standard. You were made for more.
Speaker 4: At seventeen, he told his parents he was going to
Speaker 4: leave the farm and become a minister. They thought he
Speaker 4: had lost his mind. They said, John, you better stay
Speaker 4: here on the farm with us. All you know how
Speaker 4: to do is pick cotton. They meant well, but sometimes
Speaker 4: well meaning people will try to talk you out of
Speaker 4: your destiny. If my father would have stayed in that
Speaker 4: limited environment, he would have never seen the fullness of
Speaker 4: what God had in store. You have to get away
Speaker 4: from people that only see you for who you used
Speaker 4: to be and not for who you're about to be,
Speaker 4: because some people that knew you back then will try
Speaker 4: to keep you in the same box that you grew
Speaker 4: up in they'll try to put limitations on you. You
Speaker 4: can't accomplish that dream. You're not that talented. You better
Speaker 4: play it safe. This is what happened in the scripture
Speaker 4: with David. His family didn't see him as a giant
Speaker 4: killer as a king. They discounted him. David's father didn't
Speaker 4: bring him in from the shepherd's fields. When the prophet
Speaker 4: Samuel was choosing one of his brothers as the next king,
Speaker 4: he thought, oh, it's just David. He's so small, he's
Speaker 4: so young, he doesn't have the experience. But people don't
Speaker 4: determine your destiny. What they say about you, how they
Speaker 4: try to make you feel, cannot stop what God has
Speaker 4: ordained for your life. You need to distance yourself from
Speaker 4: people that are always trying to put limitation on you
Speaker 4: and talk you out of what God put in your heart.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's the people that have known you the longest
Speaker 4: because they can only see you one way. Jesus brothers
Speaker 4: never accepted him. He was performing all these miracles, but
Speaker 4: they didn't see him as the Messiah. They only saw
Speaker 4: him one way as their brother, thinking all it's just Jesus,
Speaker 4: nothing special about him. We grew up with him. Even
Speaker 4: when Jesus began to gain notoriety, the scripture says his
Speaker 4: brother scoffed at him. They made fun. Yeah right, you're
Speaker 4: the messiah. They tried to discount him and talk him
Speaker 4: out of his destiny. Jesus let it go in one
Speaker 4: ear and out the other. My father could have stayed
Speaker 4: in that limited environment and accepted a life of poverty
Speaker 4: and lack. He could have lived with a scarcity mindset.
Speaker 4: But he did what I'm asking us to do. He
Speaker 4: rose up and said it is finished. This may be
Speaker 4: where I am, but this is not who I am.
Speaker 4: As seventeen, he took a step of faith. He had
Speaker 4: to hitchhike, but he left the farm. He started ministering
Speaker 4: in the prisons, in the senior citizens' homes, in the schools.
Speaker 4: God began to promote him and open doors, and he
Speaker 4: and my mom found at Lakewood. He pastored here for
Speaker 4: forty years. He went on to live a blessed, abundant life.
Speaker 4: Here's my point. My father broke the curse of poverty
Speaker 4: in our family. Now, myself, my siblings, all of our
Speaker 4: children are living at a higher level. Because one man
Speaker 4: didn't settle for the status quo. One man didn't say
Speaker 4: I'm at a disadvantage, I've had bad breaks. Instead, he
Speaker 4: said it is finished. I'm a difference maker. I can
Speaker 4: set a new standard. You can be that man. You
Speaker 4: can be that woman for your family. You can put
Speaker 4: an end to negative things that have been passed down.
Speaker 4: What you're dealing with may not have started with you,
Speaker 4: but it can stop with you. You need to say
Speaker 4: to the poverty, say to the lack, it is finished.
Speaker 4: I will lend and not borrow. Say to the addiction,
Speaker 4: the depression, the dysfunction, it is finished. God wants you
Speaker 4: to set a new standard. You have seeds of greatness.
Speaker 4: You are full of talent, ideas, potential. You're not limited
Speaker 4: by where you came from. Just because negative things have
Speaker 4: been passed down doesn't mean they're supposed to continue. You're
Speaker 4: the one to break the curse, to break the poverty,
Speaker 4: to break the depression, to break the dysfunction. You can
Speaker 4: take your family to a new level. Now, don't talk
Speaker 4: to yourself out of it. Don't let circumstances discourage you.
Speaker 4: The odds may be against you, but the most high
Speaker 4: God is for you. He is breathing in your direction
Speaker 4: right Now he's going to open doors that no man
Speaker 4: can shut. Bring talent out of you that you didn't
Speaker 4: know you had, cause the right people to be good
Speaker 4: to you. Opportunity is going to track you down. Good breaks,
Speaker 4: freedom increase. You're stepping into a new level. Bondages that
Speaker 4: have held you and your family back are being broken.
Speaker 4: Now do your part have a new mindset, an abundant mentality,
Speaker 4: a free mentality, a healthy mentality, a victorious mentality. I
Speaker 4: wouldn't be standing here if my father would have kept
Speaker 4: that poverty mindset, that scarcity mentality, thinking I'm at a disadvantage.
Speaker 4: I've had bad breaks. We can all come up with
Speaker 4: an excuse to settle where we are. I'm asking us
Speaker 4: to get rid of the excuses, anything that's holding you back.
Speaker 4: It's time to announce to it. It is finished. This
Speaker 4: is a new day. I'm drawing the line in the sand.
Speaker 4: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Speaker 4: We will live free from addictions. We will lend and
Speaker 4: not borrow. We will be generous in help others. We
Speaker 4: will accomplish our dreams and become everything we were created
Speaker 4: to be. I have a friend that's very successful. His
Speaker 4: father was a police officer. He was raised in a
Speaker 4: middle class home. When he was eleven years old, his
Speaker 4: father asked him to get in the car and they
Speaker 4: were going to take a drive together. They drove for
Speaker 4: several hours to another state. The father never told his
Speaker 4: son where he was taking him. They came to this
Speaker 4: very run down neighborhood. Trash everywhere, nothing kept up. The
Speaker 4: young boy's eyes were so wide, he'd never seen anything
Speaker 4: like this. They finally pulled in to this dirt makeshift
Speaker 4: driveway of this house that was very dilapidated, no front door,
Speaker 4: the windows were broken out. It looked like it was vacant.
Speaker 4: They walked in. There was an old man sitting on
Speaker 4: a stool, no shirt on, hat and shaved, looked like
Speaker 4: he was homeless. The father looked at him and said, dad,
Speaker 4: I brought my son to see you. The young boy
Speaker 4: couldn't believe that was his grandfather. He'd never seen him,
Speaker 4: never heard his father talk about him. The grandfather wouldn't
Speaker 4: look up. He didn't want to have anything to do
Speaker 4: with his son nor his grandson. The father put some
Speaker 4: money on the counter and said, Dad, I love you.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to say hi. They both walked out.
Speaker 4: The young boy said, Dad, that was the most scared
Speaker 4: I've been in my whole life. I never want to
Speaker 4: come back to this place. The father said, son, that's
Speaker 4: why I brought you here, to show you. This is
Speaker 4: where we come from, but this is not who we
Speaker 4: are now. You may have been raised in a limited environment.
Speaker 4: They were good people, but they didn't have any vision.
Speaker 4: They settled for mediocrity. Like my friend, you can set
Speaker 4: a new standard. Where you start is not important. Where
Speaker 4: you finish is what matters. God is going to use
Speaker 4: you to not just break a generational curse, but to
Speaker 4: start a generational blessing. Where you come from is not
Speaker 4: who you are. You are blessed, You are free, You
Speaker 4: are talented. You are a child of the most High God.
Speaker 4: Abraham was in a limited environment. God told him to
Speaker 4: leave his country, leave his family, and go to the
Speaker 4: land that I am showing you. God was saying, Abraham,
Speaker 4: you have to leave what's familiar, leave what you grew
Speaker 4: up with. I'm not suggesting to abandon your family, but
Speaker 4: I am saying to leave negative mindsets were raised with.
Speaker 4: Leave a scarcity mentality, Leave limitations that people have put
Speaker 4: on you. You have to make room for God to increase you.
Speaker 4: Sometimes our environment is too small. If you take an
Speaker 4: oak tree, seed and planet in a five gallon pot,
Speaker 4: that oak tree will never become what it was created
Speaker 4: to be. Not because there's something wrong with the tree,
Speaker 4: but because of the environment that it's in. In the
Speaker 4: same way, there's nothing wrong with you. You have seeds
Speaker 4: of greatness. The most High God breeds his life into you. Now,
Speaker 4: make sure your pot is not too small. Make sure
Speaker 4: your environment is not holding you back. You need to
Speaker 4: be around people that inspire you, people that have gone further,
Speaker 4: people that are making a difference, not just people that
Speaker 4: are settling for the status quo. Isaiah said, enlarge the place,
Speaker 4: your tenth stretch forth your curtains, lengthen your cords, strengthen
Speaker 4: your stakes. Make room for God to do a new thing.
Speaker 4: Tell that limited mindset it is finished. I'm dreaming big dreams.
Speaker 4: I'm praying bold prayers. I'm expecting to go further than
Speaker 4: how I was raised. When my father went to be
Speaker 4: with the Lord, people would ask me if I thought
Speaker 4: we could keep the church going now. I never said
Speaker 4: it arrogantly, but I would tell them I don't think
Speaker 4: we can just keep it going. I believe we can
Speaker 4: go further. It's because God is a progressive god. He
Speaker 4: wants every generation to increase. Have a big vision. Don't
Speaker 4: settle for what your parents had, what your relatives accomplished.
Speaker 4: You were made for more. You can go further. You
Speaker 4: can be the one to set the new standard. But
Speaker 4: it's easy to talk ourselves out of our dreams. Live
Speaker 4: discouraged because disappointments, things we don't understand. We worked hard
Speaker 4: but didn't get the promotion. We prayed, but our loved
Speaker 4: one didn't make it. We did our best, but the
Speaker 4: relationship didn't work out. Life is not always fair. I
Speaker 4: can't explain everything, but I can tell you. God said
Speaker 4: he would take what was meant for your harm and
Speaker 4: use it to your advantage. He said he would give
Speaker 4: you beauty for the ashes. But I've learned you have
Speaker 4: to let go of the ashes before you receive the beauty.
Speaker 4: You can't hold on to the old and expect to
Speaker 4: receive the new. The past is over and done. That's
Speaker 4: why it's called the past. Quit dwelling on it, quit
Speaker 4: reliving it. You're not going to understand everything that happens.
Speaker 4: But God has a purpose. He knows how to bring
Speaker 4: good out of it. Keep moving forward. This is what
Speaker 4: David did. He had a newborn baby that became very sick.
Speaker 4: David night and day prayed and fasted for this baby.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't eat, he wouldn't talk with anyone else. He
Speaker 4: spent all of his time on his knees asking God
Speaker 4: to heal his child. On the seventh day, the little
Speaker 4: baby died. They didn't know how David would handle the news,
Speaker 4: but when they told him, David got up off the ground,
Speaker 4: took a shower, put on new clothes, and went to
Speaker 4: the temple and begin to worship God. When he finished,
Speaker 4: he when had dinner with his men, they were so amazed,
Speaker 4: they said, David, when the child was living, you wept,
Speaker 4: you refused to eat. But now that he has died,
Speaker 4: you've stopped your morning and you're acting like everything's okay.
Speaker 4: David said, when the child was alive, I asked God
Speaker 4: to let him live. But now that he has died,
Speaker 4: I cannot bring him back. But one day I will
Speaker 4: go to be with him. David did everything he could.
Speaker 4: He prayed, he fasted, he believed, but it didn't work
Speaker 4: out his way. He could have lived bitter with a
Speaker 4: chip on his shoulder. But David understood this principle. He
Speaker 4: said to the past, it is finished. I don't understand it,
Speaker 4: but I'm moving forward. We all have things in life
Speaker 4: that we don't understand. It's easy to live negative with
Speaker 4: a chip on our shoulder. But if we're going to
Speaker 4: see the double, if we're going to see the beauty
Speaker 4: for ashes, we have to do like David and say
Speaker 4: to the past, say to the things you don't understand,
Speaker 4: it is finished. I'm not going to dwell on what
Speaker 4: didn't work out. I'm not going to try to figure
Speaker 4: out why. I'm going to let it go and keep
Speaker 4: moving forward. The past doesn't have to stop you. A
Speaker 4: bad break, a loss, a disappointment. God is in control
Speaker 4: of your life. You wouldn't be alive unless He had
Speaker 4: something amazing up in front of you. You haven't had
Speaker 4: too many bad breaks, you haven't made too many mistakes.
Speaker 4: You're on the verge of seeing double. You're on the
Speaker 4: verge of beauty for ashes. Now do your part, put
Speaker 4: on a new attitude, wash your face, and get ready
Speaker 4: for the new things God is about to do. Let
Speaker 4: me declare this over you today. Receive this into your spirit.
Speaker 4: The past, the hurts, the regrets, it is finished. The poverty,
Speaker 4: the lack, the limited mindsets, it is finished. The addictions,
Speaker 4: the depression, the dysfunction, the guilt, the shame, the self pity,
Speaker 4: it is finished. This is a new day. Things that
Speaker 4: have held you back are being broken right now. You're
Speaker 4: going to step into a new level of freedom. You're
Speaker 4: going to break generational curses and start generational blessings. You're
Speaker 4: about to see the beauty for ashes, healing, promotion, breakthroughs.
Speaker 4: They are headed your way in Jesus' name. If you
Speaker 4: receive it. Can you say it?
Speaker 5: Men?
Speaker 4: Today, I'd like to give you an opportunity to make
Speaker 4: Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?
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