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Thanks for listening to 36 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 37 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 38 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend. 39 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 40 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 5: your life. 41 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. 42 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 5: Always a joy to come into your home. We've got 43 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 5: good news. God is on your side. He rewards people 44 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 5: that seek after him. So thanks for tuning in today, 45 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 5: and if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll 46 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 5: stop by and be a part of one of our services. 47 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 5: We give you a personal invitation. I promise you will 48 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 5: make you feel right at home. But thanks again for 49 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 5: tuning in today. I got a little funny email today 50 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 5: that's kind of short, So see what you think. A 51 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 5: police recruit was asked during his final exam, what would 52 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 5: you do if you had to arrest your own mother 53 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 5: in law? He thought about it a moment and then said, 54 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 5: call for back up. All right, hold up your bibles 55 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 5: and say it like you mean it. Ready, this is 56 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 5: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 57 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 5: have what it says I have. I can do what 58 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 5: it says I can do. Today, all be taught the 59 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 5: word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 60 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 5: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 61 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 5: I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living 62 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 5: seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same, never, never, never, 63 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 5: I'll never be the same. 64 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, God bless you. You sound great as usual. 65 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about being a 66 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 5: person of diligence and not having a lazy, passive attitude. 67 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 5: It's so easy to get complacent in life to where 68 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 5: we sort of wish we had something, but we're really 69 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 5: not doing anything about it. We're not actively taking steps 70 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 5: toward it. 71 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 4: Well. 72 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 5: I wish I had his physique. I wish I had 73 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 5: muscles like that man. But the problem is while we're 74 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 5: at home at night watching TV, eating a little popcorn, 75 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 5: he's at the gym working out. He's diligent in that area, 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 5: and we're passive. When you're diligent, you do what you 77 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 5: know is right and not just what you feel like doing. 78 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 5: When you're diligent, you are determined to just keep on 79 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 5: keeping on no matter what comes against you. You don't 80 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 5: have that week not able to attitude. You don't give 81 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 5: up and get discouraged because something is hard or because 82 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 5: it's not happening as quickly as you would like. No, 83 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 5: a diligent person just digs its heels in and keeps 84 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 5: on pressing forward. But too many people today want everything easy, 85 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 5: and so they end up falling into that trap of 86 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 5: having a lazy, complacent attitude. They're wishing for a whole lot, 87 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 5: but they're not doing anything about it. Well, Joel, I 88 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 5: wish I knew more scriptures. I wish my house was clean, 89 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 5: or I wish my hair looked like her hair. No, 90 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 5: quit wishing and start doing something about it. Especially nowadays. 91 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 5: If your hair is dark, you can make it light. 92 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 5: If it's straight, you can make it curly. If you 93 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 5: don't have any you can go buy some. Quit looking 94 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 5: at your neighbor. My father, at the age of seventy five, 95 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 5: he still had real, pretty light brown hair, and one 96 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 5: day somebody asked him how he did it and why 97 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 5: it wasn't gray. He said, listen, brother, faith without wor 98 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 5: works is dead. 99 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 4: You've got to put some actions behind your faith. 100 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 5: And what I'm saying today is quit being passive and 101 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 5: start doing something about it. You can live a healthier life. 102 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 5: You can be more successful, you can have a better attitude, 103 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 5: you can have a deeper relationship with God. But let 104 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 5: me tell you, it's gonna take some hard work. It's 105 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 5: gonna take some time, some effort, some energy. You may 106 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 5: have to get up early and stay up late. You're 107 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 5: gonna have to pull your blood, sweat and tears into it. 108 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 4: But friends, the. 109 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 5: Fact is, you cannot get something for nothing in life. 110 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 5: You can out expect to live in victory without being 111 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 5: willing to put something into it. 112 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 4: It's gonna take being extremely diligent. 113 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 5: And I realize most of you here today are hard workers. 114 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 5: Most of you would not say that you have a 115 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 5: problem with being lazy. But I've found that we can 116 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 5: be diligent in certain areas and at the same time 117 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 5: be passive and complacent in other areas. You may be 118 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 5: very diligent about getting to work on time and providing 119 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 5: a great living for your family, but you're lazy when 120 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 5: it comes to guarding your mind and thinking the right thoughts. 121 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 5: Or maybe you would never have a house that's not 122 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 5: neat and clean. You're diligent in that area, but you 123 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 5: tend to be lazy when it comes to taking care 124 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 5: of your finances, or lazy when it comes to taking 125 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 5: care of yourself spiritually. We all have areas that we 126 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 5: can improve in. And like I said, it's so easy 127 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 5: to get complacent. Well, Joey, this is just my lot 128 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 5: in life. It's not even worth trying to change. No, 129 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 5: you've got to shake yourself out of that passive mentality. 130 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 5: Anything in life that is worthwhile. Number one is going 131 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 5: to take some work, and number two, it's not going 132 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 5: to happen overnight. You've got to be in this for 133 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 5: the long haul. Anybody can be excited at the beginning, 134 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 5: that's easy, but it takes a diligent person. To finish, 135 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 5: you got to be determined and learn to press through. 136 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 4: The disappointments in life. 137 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 5: You've got to press through those dry seasons when you 138 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 5: don't see anything happening. You got to press through the 139 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 5: difficult times when you don't feel like having a good attitude, 140 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 5: you don't feel like. 141 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 4: Having a smile on your face. 142 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 5: Some of you today you're just about to give up 143 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 5: on the dreams that God has put in your heart. 144 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 5: It's been so long and you haven't seen any results, 145 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 5: and now you're starting to get passive. Maybe you've struggled 146 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 5: with an illness for a long time, and once you 147 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 5: really believed you were going to get well. Once you 148 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 5: were very aggressive about it, but now you've gotten complacent 149 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 5: and you're just learning to live with it. 150 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 4: Or maybe at one time. 151 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 5: You were determined to get out of debt. You were 152 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 5: so determined to get ahead financially, but now you just 153 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 5: don't think it's ever gonna happen. You've had so much 154 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 5: come against you. No, don't get passive, don't be complacent. 155 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 4: You've got to stay diligent. 156 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 5: You've got to keep doing the right thing, even though 157 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 5: you may not be seeing the right results. You got 158 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 5: to keep coming to church even when you feel like 159 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 5: staying home in bed. You've got to keep praying and 160 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 5: leave and keep that smile on your face even though 161 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 5: you feel like just giving up. See, you've got to 162 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 5: learn to press past the things that are trying to 163 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 5: pressure you into quinton. A diligent person just keeps on 164 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 5: keeping on. And let me tell you, anytime you try 165 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 5: to go forward in life, you're gonna have opposition. Anytime 166 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 5: you try to make progress, the enemy is gonna come 167 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 5: against you. He's not gonna roll out the red carpet 168 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 5: and just let you fulfill your destiny. You're gonna have 169 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 5: to be determined. You gotta be persistent. We need to 170 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 5: have that bulldog mentality. Our attitude should be this may 171 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 5: be tough, and I may not like it. Nothing may 172 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 5: be going my way, but you know what, I Am 173 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 5: not gonna give up. I'm gonna dig my heels in 174 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 5: and keep fighting the good fight of faith. Some of 175 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 5: you today you have just about given up on one 176 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 5: of your loved ones. 177 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 4: You used to really pray and believe for that person. 178 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 4: You would go out of. 179 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 5: Your way to sow those seeds of hope and encouragement 180 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 5: in his heart. 181 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 4: But it's been so long and you have. 182 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 5: Seeing any results, and how you're kind of getting tired. 183 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 5: That's that old lazy passive spirit trying to come on 184 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 5: you when you say, Joe, I just don't think he's 185 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 5: really ever gonna change. No, I want to light a 186 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 5: new fire on the inside of you today. You gotta 187 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 5: get your zeal back, get your enthusiasm back. Anything worthwhile 188 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 5: is gonna be some hard work. You gotta make up 189 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 5: your mind and say, you know what, I'm gonna stick 190 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 5: with this thing until I see it come to pass. 191 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 5: I don't care how I feel, I don't care what 192 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 5: everybody else is saying. I'm gonna just keep on keeping on. 193 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep believing for God's very best. And understand, 194 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 5: before something gets better, many times it's going to first 195 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 5: get worse. You may be praying and praying for your 196 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 5: marriage to get better, but don't be surprised if you 197 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 5: don't have more adversity than ever. 198 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 4: That's the way the enemy works. 199 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 5: He wants you to just give up and settle for mediocrity. 200 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 5: Or maybe you're praying for a child to change and 201 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 5: you're getting up early. You're doing everything you can, But 202 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 5: it seems like the or you do, the worse he acts, 203 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 5: the worse grades he gets, and the worse he treats you. Listen, 204 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,719 Speaker 5: that is a test of your faith. Are you going 205 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 5: to give up? Are you gonna get complacent and say, well, 206 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 5: at least I tried, Or are you gonna be diligent 207 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 5: to just keep on keeping on? The Scripture says in Ephesians, 208 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 5: when you've done everything you know how to do, just 209 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 5: keep standing strong. There are gonna be plenty of things 210 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 5: in life that we don't understand. There are going to 211 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 5: be plenty of things that don't make any sense. But 212 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 5: our attitude should be God. Even though I don't know 213 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 5: why this is happening to me, I do know that 214 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 5: You're still in control, and so I'm not gonna get discouraged. 215 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep a smile on my face. I'm gonna 216 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 5: keep my head held high, and I'm just gonna keep 217 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 5: standing firm. 218 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 4: And remember this. 219 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 5: The enemy always fights you the hardest when he knows 220 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 5: God has something great in store for you. So you 221 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 5: need to make up your mind today You're gonna keep 222 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 5: on believing no matter what comes against you. 223 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 4: You gonna keep praying. 224 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 5: You're gonna keep coming to church, You're going to keep 225 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 5: doing the right thing, even though you may. 226 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 4: Not be seeing the right results. 227 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 5: Friends, don't ever lose the fire that's on the inside 228 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 5: of you. 229 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 4: Don't ever lose your zeal. 230 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 5: It says in Romans, never be lazy, but serve the 231 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 5: Lord with enthusiasm. 232 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 4: But the truth is, it takes a lot of hard 233 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 4: work to live a life of victory. 234 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 5: You've got to be disciplined in your thoughts, disciplined in 235 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 5: your actions, disciplined in the words you speak. I mean, 236 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 5: it's a full time job. And that's why so many 237 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 5: people just take the easy way out. Their attitude is 238 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 5: I don't want to have to stand strong. I don't 239 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 5: want to have to get up early and read my 240 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 5: Bible and pray, or I don't want to have to 241 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 5: treat that person right. 242 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 4: That's being rude to me. 243 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 5: Man, No, you've got to shake off that old complacent 244 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 5: mentality and start having some backbone, dig your heels in, 245 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 5: and if you have to start talking to yourself. The 246 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 5: Bible says that David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. 247 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 5: When you feel that old passive attitude trying to come 248 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 5: on trying to make you lazy and get all discouraged 249 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 5: and down. No, you need to just say I'm not 250 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 5: gonna let this thing defeat me. It may be tough, 251 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 5: but I know this too shall pass. I know I 252 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 5: can withstand this. I can't overcome in any situation. See, 253 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 5: you got to talk to yourself and just keep fighting 254 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 5: the good fight of faith. And one of the keys 255 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 5: to living in victory is consistency. 256 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 4: You gotta be diligent day in and day out. You 257 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 4: should not be. 258 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 5: Up one day and down a couple of days. Have 259 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 5: some stability in your life. Be consistent, and don't ever 260 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 5: tell yourself that you can't do it. When those are negative, 261 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 5: depressing thoughts come to your mind and they will telling 262 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 5: you that you're not gonna make it. You're not gonna 263 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 5: ever get any good breaks, Your dreams are not gonna 264 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 5: come to pass. No, you need to write then, not 265 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 5: a minute later. You need to immediately get that junk 266 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 5: out of your mind. Quit dwelling on those thoughts and 267 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 5: start dwelling on thoughts of faith and victory. Just start 268 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,199 Speaker 5: saying in your mind, Father, I thank you. I can 269 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 5: do all things through Christ. I think that you have 270 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 5: good things in store. I know this is going to 271 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 5: be a great year. I can already see my victory 272 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 5: is on its way. See, the first place we lose 273 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 5: the battle is in our own thinking. And some of 274 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 5: you need to reprogram your mental computer today. You need 275 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 5: to quit thinking those old, negative, defeated thoughts and start thinking. 276 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 4: Some can do thoughts. 277 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 5: It says they're in Proverbs twenty one, verse five in 278 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 5: the amplified the thoughts of the steadily diligent are always 279 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 5: toward plenteousness. In other words, when you're really diligent, your 280 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 5: thoughts are only going in one direction, and that's forward. 281 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 5: You're not lazy, you're not complacent. When you're diligent, your 282 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 5: thoughts should be towards success, toward crossing the finish line, 283 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 5: toward being all that God's created you to be. As 284 00:13:58,280 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 5: I said, some of you are just about to give 285 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 5: on what God's put in your heart. My message today 286 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 5: is you got to get your fire back. You got 287 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 5: to shake off that lazy, complacent spirit and start pressing forward, 288 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 5: start believing for God's very best. Well, you say, Joel, 289 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 5: it's so hard, and I've been doing it for so long, 290 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 5: But no nobody said it was gonna happen overnight. 291 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 4: Nobody said it was going to be easy. 292 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 5: And it may be difficult now, but if you will 293 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 5: do the right thing anyway, then later on you will 294 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 5: reap the benefits. I was thinking about a good friend 295 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 5: of mine. He's in the television business, and many years 296 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 5: ago we were editing this project together and we needed 297 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 5: some real warm piano music. And he said, that's no 298 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 5: big deal. Let me get to a piano and I'll 299 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 5: see what I can come up with. I didn't even 300 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 5: know he could play the piano. And he came right 301 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 5: down here and got on this piano and he played 302 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 5: like nobody I'd. 303 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 4: Ever heard before. 304 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 5: And I said, man, that was great. I wish I 305 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 5: could do that. He said, oh, Joel, you could. It 306 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 5: just took me about fifteen years to learn. 307 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 4: He said. 308 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 5: While you were out goofing off, when you were growing 309 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 5: up playing ball, having fun with your friends, I was 310 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 5: at piano lessons learning how to play. In other words, 311 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 5: he was willing to pay the price. He was willing 312 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 5: to do something that I wasn't willing to do. He 313 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 5: was saying, in a fact, I put. 314 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 4: Some blood, sweat and tears into this thing. This took 315 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 4: my time, my effort, my energy. 316 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 5: And see, your inspiration needs to always be backed up 317 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 5: with perspiration. Really, there are two kinds of people in life. 318 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 5: There are dreamers and then there are doers. You may 319 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 5: have a big dream for your life. I hope you do, 320 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 5: but all it is is a dream if you're not 321 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 5: willing to put any action behind it. And a lot 322 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 5: of people today want a nice life, but they're not 323 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 5: willing to do anything about it. And when you see 324 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 5: somebody that has what you want, don't you dare get jealous? 325 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 4: Don't you dare say? 326 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 5: Well, I don't know why they get all the good breaks. 327 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 5: I don't know why they're so talented, How do they 328 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 5: get to drive that nice car? 329 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 4: Why are they always happy? 330 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 5: No, you can have just what they have if you 331 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 5: are willing to pay the price, if you are willing 332 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 5: to make the same sacrifice. This, friends, God is no 333 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 5: respector of persons. He gives every one of us an 334 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 5: equal chance. And yes, I realize in one sense some 335 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 5: people are born with more advantage. But I know people 336 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 5: that have come from overseas to this country. 337 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 4: Without a penny to their name. 338 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 5: Yet today they're happy, they're fulfilled, they're living at the 339 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 5: top of their field. The point is, no matter what 340 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 5: family you come from, no matter what breaks you did 341 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 5: or didn't get in life, don't use that as an excuse. 342 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 4: You can live a life of victory. You can be 343 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 4: happy and fulfilled. 344 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 5: You can see your dreams come to pass if you 345 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 5: want it bad enough. But you're going to have to 346 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 5: be disciplined when it comes to how you spend your time. 347 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 5: You've got to be disciplined with who you hang around with, 348 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 5: because if you hang around with others, they're lazy, undisciplined people, 349 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 5: people with no goals or dreams for their life. They're 350 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 5: gonna steal the dream right out of your heart. You've 351 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 5: got to be disciplined in what you give yourself to 352 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 5: be disciplined when it comes to how you handle your finances. 353 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,199 Speaker 5: I hear people say all the time with Joel, I 354 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 5: wish I had some money in the bank. Well, it's possible, 355 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 5: but it may be a little painful. You may have 356 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 5: to suffer a little while and not go out to eat, 357 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 5: and not buy that new outfit, and not overstretch with 358 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 5: a car payment. You can't really afford what I'm saying. 359 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 5: It could be a little uncomfortable. It could be painful. 360 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 5: It's gonna take discipline, But if you will make the 361 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 5: sacrifices right now, then later. 362 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 4: On you're gonna reap the rewards. 363 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 5: But I found most of the time we're not concerned 364 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 5: about later on, so we just do what we feel 365 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 5: like right now, Joel, I don't feel like working hard 366 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,199 Speaker 5: at the office this week. Well, later on, when they 367 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 5: go to promote somebody, they may pass you by. Well, 368 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 5: I don't feel like taking time for my spouse, I 369 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 5: don't feel like communicating with her. Well later on, that 370 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 5: may very well cause you some major problems. You got 371 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 5: to pay the price today to have a happy life 372 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 5: later on. And it's not always going to be easy. 373 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 5: You're not always going to be comfortable. 374 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 4: But you got to. 375 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 5: Discipline yourself to do the right thing even though nobody's 376 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 5: watching you, and even though nobody is. 377 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 4: Cheering you on. 378 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 5: For instance, when you go to the office this week, 379 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 5: you should work hard even though the boss is an 380 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 5: in and even though all your other co workers are 381 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 5: goofing off wasting their day. 382 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 4: Well, you say, Joey, everybody. 383 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 5: Else is doing it, Why can't I? No, you're not 384 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 5: everybody else. You need to sew a seed for later on. 385 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 5: If you will do the right thing today, then later 386 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 5: on you'll be going places while those other people are 387 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 5: unfortunately just stuck there in mediocrity. If you'll treat people 388 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 5: right today, even though they don't deserve it, later on 389 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 5: you'll reap the benefits. See, God is keeping all the records. 390 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 5: He sees everything that you do. He sees the mornings 391 00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 5: you get up early to do the right thing even 392 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 5: though you don't feel like it. He sees the times 393 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 5: you bite your tongue even though you felt like telling 394 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 5: somebody off. 395 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 4: God sees that. 396 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 5: And when you just keep sowing those seeds of a 397 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 5: disciplined life, you keep doing the right thing day in 398 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 5: and day out. One day you're going to see things 399 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 5: begin to change in your favor. One day you will 400 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 5: see your dreams begin. 401 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 4: To come to pass. 402 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 5: Well, you say, Joel, I've been doing the right thing 403 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 5: for so long and I'm not seeing any results. 404 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 4: I don't think it's ever going to get any better. 405 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 5: I just challenge you again. You got to dig your 406 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 5: heels in and keep on keeping on. The scripture says 407 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 5: in Galatians six', nine don't get tired of doing what's, 408 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 5: right for in due, season you shall reap if you faint. 409 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 5: NOT i love That it doesn't say you might, Reap 410 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 5: it says you shall. Reap that's a promise From Almighty. 411 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 5: GOD i like to think of it kind of like 412 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 5: this big boulder that you're trying to break, into and 413 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 5: you got this big, Sledgehammer and every time you do 414 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 5: the right, thing you're taking another swing at that. Rock 415 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 5: every time you discipline yourself to not buy something that 416 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 5: you want, it or every time you get up early 417 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 5: to pray for that, child every time you treat somebody 418 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 5: right even though they didn't deserve. It every time you do, 419 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 5: it you're taking another. Swing and day after, day as 420 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,399 Speaker 5: you're diligent to press through the disappointments and you just 421 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 5: press past the fact that you don't see anything, happening 422 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 5: every time you do, it that's another. Swing and you 423 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 5: may look at that rock and, think you know, What 424 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 5: i'm not even didting this. Thing i'm just wasting my. 425 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 5: Time it's never going to break. Into but, no one 426 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 5: day you're gonna take another. Swing one day you're gonna 427 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 5: do the right thing one more, time and all of a, 428 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 5: sudden that rock's will break right. Into but the fact 429 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 5: Is it wasn't just that last swing that did. It 430 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 5: it was all those other, swings day after day of 431 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 5: being diligent that caused that rock to break. Open and 432 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 5: even though you didn't see anything happening on the out side, 433 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 5: side on the, inside changes were taking. Place on the, 434 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 5: inside progress was being. Made but really you saw the 435 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 5: results all at one. Time but that was a culmination 436 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 5: of all the right choices that you had been disciplined to. 437 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 5: Make and, see when you're diligent to just keep on keeping, 438 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 5: on you just keep, praying you keep, believing you keep 439 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,640 Speaker 5: doing the right. Thing you may not see anything happening 440 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 5: with your natural, eyes but you can rest assured in 441 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 5: the unseen, realm in the spiritual, world changes are taking. 442 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 4: Place the miracle is set into. 443 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 5: Motion for with every seed you, Sow god says you 444 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 5: are going to reap a. Harvest and so my message 445 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 5: today is you got to keep on keeping. On don't 446 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 5: fall into that trap of being, complacent don't get, lazy 447 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 5: don't get. Passive you've got to stay aggressive because anything 448 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 5: in life worthwhile is going to take some time and 449 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 5: effort and. 450 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 4: Energy it's gonna take some, blood sweat and. 451 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 5: Tears it's gonna take you doing something that you just 452 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 5: don't really feel like. Doing always remember when you're tempted 453 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 5: to give, up just say you know, what it's never 454 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 5: going to. 455 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 4: Happen i'm just wasting my. Time, no when you stand 456 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 4: in faith one more, day that could be the day 457 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 4: the whole thing breaks. 458 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 5: Open it could just take one more time of doing 459 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 5: the right. Thing you don't know how close you could 460 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 5: be to your. Victory so just keep on keeping. On 461 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 5: don't allow yourself to get lazy and complacent and to 462 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 5: have that passive. Attitude, really In, america in one, sense 463 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 5: we've gotten kind of. Spoiled we live in a right now. 464 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 5: Society we want everything. Immediately we've Got Michael wave, ovens 465 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 5: fast food, restaurants overnight. Delivery have you noticed how everything 466 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 5: is geared towards speed and. Ease you don't even have 467 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 5: to get up to change the channels on THE tv. 468 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 5: Anymore got that remote. Control the whole household would shut 469 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 5: down if you lose a. Remote we can order our 470 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 5: groceries now through the internet and have them delivered to our. 471 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 4: House don't even have to get. 472 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 5: Out think about all the conveniences that we have today 473 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 5: that people seventy or eighty years ago didn't HAVE i 474 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 5: know my father growing up on the, farm they didn't have, 475 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 5: electricity they didn't have air, conditioners they didn't have washers and. 476 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 5: Dryers there have been so many great advances made over 477 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 5: the last few years that have made our lives so 478 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 5: much easier and so much more. 479 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,959 Speaker 4: Comfortable AND i think it's. Great i'm all for. It 480 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 4: we're so. 481 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 5: Blessed BUT i do believe we have to be careful 482 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 5: that we don't allow all these conveniences to cause us 483 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 5: to develop a wrong way of thinking where we kind 484 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 5: of get lazy and we expect everything to be easy 485 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 5: and we want everything right. Now, no, friends there is 486 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 5: no substitute for good old fashioned hard. Work you've got 487 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 5: to be willing to pay the. Price, well you, Said. 488 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 5: JOEL i had to drive thirty minutes to get to 489 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 5: church today in my air conditioning, car sitting on my 490 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 5: nice padded leather. SEATS i got to go home today 491 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 5: and mow my lawn on my riding lawnmower with MY 492 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 5: cd player playing music in my. Ears FOR i got 493 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 5: a sink full of. DISHES i gotta take them out 494 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 5: of the sink and put them into the dishwasher and 495 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 5: hit the start. Button and that's a lot of. Trouble i'm, 496 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 5: exaggerating but. 497 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 4: You get my. 498 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 5: POINT i heard about a domestically challenged. 499 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 4: Husband he wanted to wash his new. 500 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 5: Sweatshirt so we went into the utility room and he 501 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 5: hollered upstairs to his. Wife what setting DO i use 502 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 5: on the washing? Machine she, said it depends what does 503 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 5: it say on your? Shirt he hollered, Back dallas. Cowboys but, 504 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 5: seriously if we're going to be All god wants us to, 505 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 5: be we gotta have more than good. 506 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 4: Wishes we gotta have some. 507 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 5: Backbone we got to be, diligent be willing to work. 508 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 5: Hard don't always look for the easy way. Out be 509 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 5: determined and learn to stick with. It it says In ecclesiastes, 510 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 5: five verse, three a dream comes to pass with much 511 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 5: business and painful. EFFORT i think about my. Parents they 512 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 5: spent forty years of their, life With god's, help building this. 513 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 5: Church other ministers used to come, by say to my, Father, 514 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 5: pastrostein tell us the secret of your, success how can 515 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 5: we have a big church like? Yours daddy would always 516 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 5: tell him the same, thing spend forty years pouring your 517 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 5: blood sweating tears into. 518 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 4: It be a person of. 519 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 5: Integrity love, people and you'll have just what we. 520 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 4: Have but most of the time that's not the answer. 521 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 5: They were looking. For they wanted overnight what took him 522 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 5: forty years to. Build they wanted immediate results without having 523 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 5: to pay the. Price but, see you got to be 524 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 5: disciplined in making an. 525 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 4: Investment in your. Future. Today life is a, marathon not a. 526 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 4: Sprint daddy was. 527 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 5: Committed he didn't care how hard it. Was he didn't 528 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 5: care how much sleep he. Lost he didn't count the. 529 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 4: Hours he just got the job. 530 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 5: Done he preached whether he felt like it or, not 531 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 5: whether there was eighty people or eight thousand, people he 532 00:25:59,240 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 5: gave it as. 533 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 4: All he didn't think. 534 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 5: Twice this was his dream and he was determined to 535 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,919 Speaker 5: see it come to, pass And god rewarded his. Diligence but, 536 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 5: REALLY i don't say this in a wrong, sense but 537 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 5: a lot of people today have give me something for nothing. 538 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 5: Mentality god's put the dream in their, heart but they're 539 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,199 Speaker 5: sitting back waiting For god to hand it to them 540 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 5: on the silver. Platter they don't want to be, Inconvenienced 541 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 5: they don't want to break a. Sweat they want all 542 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 5: the benefits without making any of the. SACRIFICES i like 543 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 5: What Thomas edison. Said he, said many people miss opportunities 544 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 5: because those opportunities come wearing overalls and look like a 545 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 5: lot of. Work, friends if we're going to be All 546 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,919 Speaker 5: god's created us to, be we got to be, disciplined 547 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 5: and we've got to be willing to work. Hard AND 548 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 5: i realized there's a balance in What i'm. Saying we 549 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 5: should not work all the, time but we should have 550 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 5: a diligent, attitude and we should not back down. 551 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 4: Because something's a lot of. 552 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 5: WORK i was reading about a certain kind of, tree 553 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 5: A chinese. Bamboo when you plant the seed of this, 554 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 5: tree you have to water it and fertilize it every 555 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 5: single day or it will not. Grow and for the 556 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 5: first four, years even though you're continually feeding it and 557 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 5: continually watering, it it barely even grows at. All but 558 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 5: what's interesting is in the fifth, year the tree will 559 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 5: shoot up to. 560 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 4: Ninety feet, tall all in one. 561 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 5: Year the problem we have many times is we want 562 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 5: fifth year results without doing the four. 563 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 4: Years of hard. 564 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 5: Work you've got to be willing to invest in your future. 565 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,719 Speaker 5: Today you've got to put forth some, weeks some, months 566 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 5: maybe even years of hard work to develop your potential 567 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 5: and to really see those dreams come to. Pass so 568 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 5: let me just challenge you, again dig your heels in 569 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 5: and be a person of, diligence shake off that old 570 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 5: lazy passive, mentality and start being a doer and not 571 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 5: just a. 572 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 4: Dreamer, remember your. 573 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 5: Inspiration has got to be back with your. Perspiration AND 574 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 5: i Know god speaking to some of you even now 575 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 5: about areas where you've been lazy and. Passive and it's 576 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 5: my prayer today that a new fire is being lit 577 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 5: on the inside and that you'll go out of here 578 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 5: more determined than. Ever that you're not gonna just sit 579 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 5: back and settle for. Mediocrity you're not gonna look for 580 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 5: the easy way, out but you're gonna stick with it 581 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 5: and be All god's created you to. 582 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 2: Be. 583 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 5: Friends if you will live a disciplined life and press 584 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 5: past the disappointments and the things that are trying to 585 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 5: get you down and instead just sow the seed for later, 586 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 5: on Then god will reward your. Diligence he'll pour out 587 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 5: his blessings and, favor and you'll experience the victories that 588 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 5: he Has His, Storymen, Amen. 589 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 4: We'll god bless you. 590 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 5: Today we never like to close our broadcast without giving 591 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 5: you an opportunity to Make jesus The lord of your. 592 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 4: Life would you pray with? 593 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 5: Me just, Say, Lord, JESUS i repent on my, Sins 594 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 5: come into my. 595 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 4: HEART i make you My lord and. 596 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 5: Savior, friends if you've prayed that simple, prayer we believe 597 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 5: you got born again in a good. 598 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 4: Church Keep god first. 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