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We appreciate you and pray for 31 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 2: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you. 32 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 2: It's always a joy to come into your homes. And 33 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 2: if you're ever in our area, please stop by and 34 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. I promise 35 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: you we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks so 36 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 2: much for tuning in, and thank you again for coming 37 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 2: out today. And I like to start with something funny. 38 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 2: And I heard about this little girl. She asked her 39 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 2: mother how the human race got started. The mother explained 40 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 2: how God created Adam and Eve and they had children 41 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 2: and on and on here we are today. A few 42 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: days later, she asked her father the same question. He explained, 43 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 2: how many years ago there were monkeys. Little by little 44 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: they became more like people, and now here we are confused. 45 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: She went back to her mother, said, Mom, you said 46 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: God created people. Dad said, we came from monkeys. How 47 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 2: can that be. Mom said, all that's easy, honey. I 48 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 2: told you about my side of the family. He told 49 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 2: you about his. Hold up your bible. Say it like 50 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 2: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 51 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: it says. 52 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: I am. 53 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do 54 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be 55 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 56 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 57 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 58 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 2: to talk to you today about focusing on the promise, 59 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 2: not the problem. What we focus on we magnify. We're 60 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 2: not changing its actual size. We're simply making it bigger 61 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: in our own mind. And if you stay focused on 62 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 2: your problems, on a negative medical world, on what somebody 63 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,079 Speaker 2: said about you, on how you'll never get out of debt, 64 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 2: all that's going to do is make it bigger than 65 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 2: it really is. It's changing your perception of it. You 66 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 2: can take a small coin. If you hold it up 67 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: close enough to your eye, eventually it will block the sun. 68 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 2: That coin, even though it's billions and trillions of times smaller, 69 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: because you've got it so close, it's distorting your perspective, 70 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 2: it looks bigger than this huge object. In the same way, 71 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 2: if you stay focused on something that you don't like 72 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: about yourself, I'm too short, I don't like my nose. 73 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 2: I wish I had more hair, I wish my voice 74 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: wasn't so high. If you stay focused on those things, 75 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: it will block the amazing future God has in store. 76 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 2: You may have some things you don't like, some things 77 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 2: you consider are wrong with you. We all do. But 78 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 2: can I tell you there's a lot right with you. 79 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 2: Quit magnifying what's wrong, Quit focusing on what you don't like, 80 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 2: and start focusing on what God said about you. God 81 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 2: said you are a masterpiece. He said you are fearfully 82 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 2: and wonderfully made. He said you are one of a kind. 83 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: You have the right looks, the right personality, the gifts 84 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 2: that you need for the race that's designed for you. 85 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: Magnify what's right about you and not what's wrong. If 86 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 2: you were to get a negative medical report, you could 87 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 2: go home and spend six hours researching it on the internet, 88 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 2: find forty three side effects to add to your worries, 89 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 2: and twenty seven different ways you can die from it. 90 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 2: Then call a friend and have them tell you how 91 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 2: their cousin had it and he only made it four months. 92 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 2: Their next door neighbor he got chills in twenty four hours. 93 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 2: All that time is becoming bigger and bigger in your mind. 94 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 2: The actual size hasn't changed. But because you keep dwelling 95 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: on it, giving it your attention, letting it take all 96 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 2: your energy, it's become distorted. Now. It's like that little 97 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 2: coin that's blocking the sun. My message today it's very simple. 98 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 2: Stop focusing on the problems and start focusing on the 99 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: promises all through the day instead of complaining, God, you 100 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 2: said with long life you would satisfy me. You said 101 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 2: the number of my days you would fulfill, that I 102 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 2: would live and not die. That you are restoring health 103 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 2: back into me. It takes the same amount of energy 104 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 2: to believe as it does to worry. You can go 105 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 2: through the day thinking, man, prices are so high, I 106 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: don't know how I'll ever be able to send my 107 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 2: kids to college. What if I don't get the promotion, 108 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 2: What if I don't get the scholarship, What if I 109 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 2: lose this client. I don't know how I'm going to 110 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 2: make it. You can use your energy to worry like that, 111 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 2: or you can spend that same energy saying Father, thank 112 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 2: you that you're supplying all of my needs. You said 113 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 2: you take pleasure in prospering me. You said you would 114 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 2: open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that 115 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 2: I could not contain. When you magnified the promises instead 116 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: of the problems, that you're being released. That's what allows 117 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 2: God to go to work. Maybe you're concerned about your children. 118 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 2: You could go around thinking, I don't know if they're 119 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,840 Speaker 2: ever going to get back on the right path. Joel, 120 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 2: I raised them in church. I taught them to do 121 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 2: what's right. I just don't understand it. Or you can say, Father, 122 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 2: thank you that as for me and my house, we 123 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,840 Speaker 2: will serve the Lord. God. You promised the seed of 124 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: the righteous will be mighty in the land. God. You 125 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 2: said if I'd raise my children in the fear of 126 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 2: the Lord, they would not depart from it. They may 127 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 2: be off course temporarily, but Lord, I want to thank 128 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: you that they're coming back, that they will fulfill their destinies. 129 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 2: If you'll change your focus from the problem to the promise, 130 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 2: worry will leave doubt, fear, negativity will go, faith will 131 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 2: rise up. You'll know that God is still on the throne. 132 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 2: He's bigger than anything you're facing. What he promised he 133 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: will bring to pass. If you're single and you want 134 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 2: to get married, don't go around thinking I'll never meet 135 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 2: the right person. I'm too old, I miss too many opportunities. 136 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 2: It's never going to happen. No, turn it around. God, 137 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 2: you said, because I delight myself in you, you would 138 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 2: give me the desires of my heart. Lord you said, 139 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 2: no good thing will you withhold, because I'll walk up rightly. Lord, 140 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: I want to thank you that my good thing is 141 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,119 Speaker 2: coming in that man, that woman that you've already picked 142 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 2: out for me. It's just a matter of time before 143 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: they show up. Whatever you're believing for. Instead of magnifying 144 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 2: the negative, instead of worrying, find a promise that you 145 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: can stand on all through the day. Let that play 146 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 2: in your mind. God, you said you hold victory in 147 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 2: store for the upright. You said, your favor surrounds me 148 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 2: like a shield. You said, the path of the righteous 149 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 2: gets brighter and brighter. The reason it's so important to 150 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 2: have a promise that you can focus on is because 151 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: God is not obligated to bring to past what we say, 152 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 2: but he is obligated to bring to past what he 153 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 2: he says. When you can say, God, you said I 154 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 2: would prosper and live in good health. God you said 155 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 2: you always caused me to triumph. God you said my 156 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 2: latter days will be better than my former days. When 157 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 2: God hears his promises coming out of your mouth, he 158 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: says to the angels, go to work, get busy, make 159 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 2: it happen. God is faithful to his word. I know 160 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 2: a lady that was at odds with her teenage daughter, 161 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: and she used to come down for prayer almost every week, 162 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 2: and she was always frustrated, aggravated, stressed out, and really 163 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 2: more than wanting prayer, I think she just wanted an 164 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 2: opportunity to complain and get it off of her chest. 165 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: And one day I told her what I'm telling you, 166 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 2: quit focusing on the problem, start focusing on the promise. 167 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 2: I gave her the scripture from Proverbs thirty one. It 168 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 2: says children will rise up and call their mother blessed. 169 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 2: At that time, her daughter was calling her every name 170 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 2: except blessed. But this mother took it to heart all 171 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 2: through the day started saying, God, you said, my children 172 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: are going to rise up and call me blessed. When 173 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 2: her daughter would act up be disrespectful. Instead of going 174 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 2: to God and complaining like she used to, No, God, 175 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 2: you said, she's going to call me blessed, she found 176 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 2: other promises that she could stand on, like children are 177 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 2: a gift from God that are to be enjoyed. She 178 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 2: kept reminding God what he said, and it was about 179 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 2: two years later this daughter had a total change of heart. 180 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,719 Speaker 2: Today she's as kind and respectful as can be. She 181 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 2: and her mom are best friends. They do everything together. 182 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 2: Now when this mother quotes the passage, my children will 183 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: rise up and call me blessed. She's not saying it 184 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 2: by faith anymore. It's become a reality. That's what happens 185 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 2: when you focus on the promise and not the problem. 186 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 2: And this is what Abraham did when God gave him 187 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 2: the promise that he and his wife, if Sarah, were 188 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 2: going to have a baby. They were both way too 189 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 2: old in the natural it was impossible, but Roman's force, 190 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 2: says Abraham, considered not the weakness of his own body 191 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 2: nor the deadness of Sarah's wound. In other words, he 192 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 2: didn't focus on the problem. He didn't go around thinking, well, 193 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 2: God gave me this promise. But I must not have 194 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: heard him right, because Sarah is nearly eighty years old. 195 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: I'm nearly one hundred years old. It's not going to happen. 196 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 2: He didn't get on the internet and google chances of 197 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 2: having a baby at one hundred. He didn't call his 198 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 2: friends and get their input to see what they thought. 199 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,719 Speaker 2: If he would have stayed focused on his circumstances, that 200 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 2: impossibility would have become so magnified, gotten so big in 201 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 2: his mind that doubt, fear, negativity would have kept it 202 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 2: from happening. God works where there's faith. Abraham did this 203 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,719 Speaker 2: same thing that I'm asking you to do. It goes 204 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 2: on to say he considered not his circumstances, but he 205 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 2: was fully persuaded that God would do what he promised. 206 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 2: Abraham made this decision. I'm not going to use my 207 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 2: energy to worry. I'm not going to go around thinking 208 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: about how it's not going to work out. I've got 209 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 2: a promise from God. Now I can hear him all 210 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 2: through the day, saying, God, you promised I'm going to 211 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 2: have a child. God, you said I would be the 212 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,719 Speaker 2: father of many nations. You said God that my descendants 213 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 2: would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. God, 214 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 2: it looks impossible to me, but I know you could 215 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 2: do the impossible. He kept focusing on the promise, reminding 216 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 2: God what he said. That promise became bigger and bigger 217 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 2: in his mind. He became fully persuaded. Where doubt, fear, 218 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 2: negativity didn't have a chance. Faith rose up sure enough 219 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 2: against all odds. When they were nearly one hundred years old, 220 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 2: they had that baby. If you're going to see your 221 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 2: dreams come to pass, if you're going to see those 222 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 2: promises fulfilled, there will be times, like with Abraham, you 223 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 2: have to consider not your negative circumstances. You may have 224 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 2: to consider not a medical report. Doctors do the best 225 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 2: they can with the knowledge that they have, but there 226 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 2: comes a point sometimes, like with my mom, doctors run 227 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 2: out of options. There's nothing more they can do medically speaking. 228 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 2: The good news is God can do what medical science 229 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 2: cannot do. God never runs out of options. He has 230 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 2: the final say. He made your body. You may have 231 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: to consider not a financial situation. On paper, it may 232 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 2: look like you're not going to get out of debt 233 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 2: until you're one hundred and forty seven years old. If 234 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 2: you stay focused on that and just continually run the 235 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 2: numbers and analyze it and reanalyze it. All that's going 236 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,079 Speaker 2: to do is make it frustrated, stressed out work. Instead 237 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 2: of considering your circumstances, why don't you start considering your God. 238 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 2: He spoke worlds into existence, he flung stars into space. 239 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: He's got you in the palm of his hand. One 240 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 2: touch of his favor can catapult you to a new level. 241 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 2: One good break, one explosive blessing can put you into overflow, 242 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 2: into more than enough. When we acquired this facility, the 243 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 2: former Compact Center, our architects told us that it would 244 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 2: cost about one hundred million dollars to renovate. We had 245 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 2: to put in a new power plant. My first thought was, 246 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 2: how in the world are we going to be able 247 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: to pay for this. Our team ran the numbers, they 248 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 2: projected future giving if we sold a piece of property. 249 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 2: Everything fell perfectly into place, we still calculated we would 250 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 2: be considerably short on paper. We couldn't make it happen. 251 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 2: I studied those numbers so much that I would wake 252 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 2: up in the middle of the dreaming about them. One day, 253 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 2: I did what I am asking you to do. I said, God, 254 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: I've considered the numbers. I've considered the facts. I've had 255 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 2: well qualified people give me charts, projections, analysis, and on 256 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 2: paper it doesn't look good. But now God, I'm going 257 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 2: to change my focus and start considering you. God. I 258 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 2: know you stopped the sun for Joshua. You protected Daniel 259 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 2: from hungry lions. You took five loaves of bread and 260 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: fed five thousand. You turn water into wine. That was 261 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 2: back in Bible days. But in my own life, God, 262 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 2: I saw you heal my mom from terminal cancer. I 263 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 2: saw you bring my father out of poverty and defeat 264 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 2: into a life of purpose and abundance. God, you caused 265 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 2: me in Victoria to stumble on a house that doubled 266 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 2: in value overnight. God, you gave us this beautiful facility 267 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: when all the odds were against us. And God, you 268 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 2: said what you started in my life you would finish. 269 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 2: Said we'd see the surpassing greatness of your favor. You 270 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 2: said you would supply our needs, not according to what 271 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 2: we have, but according to your riches. When I changed 272 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: my focus and instead of considering my circumstances, started considering 273 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: my God, faith rose up, Hope rose up, expectancy rose up. 274 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 2: I got to the place where I was fully persuaded. 275 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: I knew God would make a way, even though we 276 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 2: didn't see your way. That's exactly what happened. Here we 277 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 2: are today not just believing for the promise. We're enjoying 278 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 2: the promise, not just dreaming the dream, living the dreams. 279 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 2: The Psalmists put it this way. Let God arise and 280 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 2: his enemies be scattered. When you make God bigger in 281 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 2: your life, when you let him arise, focusing on his greatness, 282 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 2: knowing that He's in control, fighting your battles, making your 283 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: crooked places straight. You go out with this attitude of faith, 284 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: expecting breakthroughs, expecting dreams to come to pass. When you 285 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 2: let God arise like that, your enemies will be scattered. 286 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 2: Enemies of debt and lack, enemies of depression, enemies of sickness, 287 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 2: enemies of injustice. Nothing can stand against our God. He 288 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 2: is the all powerful creator of the universe. Now my 289 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 2: question today, what are you letting a rise? What are 290 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 2: you lifting up? Well, Joel, I'm in a slow season 291 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 2: at work. Somebody hurt me in a relationship. My health 292 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 2: has gone downhill. That's why I'm so discouraged. No, that's 293 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 2: letting the wrong things arise. That's doubt, defeat, self pity. 294 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 2: That's not going to do anything productive. You've got to 295 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 2: turn it around. Change your focus from the problem to 296 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 2: the promise, from considering your circumstances to considering your God. 297 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 2: Here's how All through the day, God you said, I'm 298 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: armed with strength for this battle. God you said, no 299 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 2: weapon formed against me will ever prosper. God you said, 300 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 2: to trap the enemy set for me, they will fall 301 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 2: in themselves. God you said, I haven't seen, heard, or 302 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 2: imagined the amazing things you have in store. So God, 303 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 2: I believe today things are changing in my favor. You've 304 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 2: done it in the past. I know you'll do it 305 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 2: again in the future. When you let God arise, you 306 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 2: can't stay defeated. Healing comes, promotion comes, favor comes, victory comes. 307 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 2: Your enemies will be scattered. One time in the scripture, 308 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 2: a man named King Jehosaphat was facing great opposition. Three 309 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 2: major armies were surrounding him and the people of Judah. 310 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,680 Speaker 2: They were quickly closing in. In the natural, they didn't 311 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 2: have a chance. They were out numbered ten to one. 312 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 2: If anyone had a right to get down and discouraged 313 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 2: it would have been Jehasiphat. He didn't do it. He 314 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 2: understood this principle. Instead of complaining, he gathered all the 315 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,120 Speaker 2: people together and he began to pray. He didn't say, God, 316 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 2: I'm begging you to help us. God is not fair. 317 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 2: I don't know why this has happened to us. No, 318 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 2: he started talking about the greatness of God. He said, God, 319 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 2: we know all power is in your hands. You rule 320 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 2: the nations of the world. Nothing can stand against you. 321 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 2: Then he started remembering what God had done. God, you 322 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 2: drove the inhabitants out of this land. You gave us 323 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 2: this city that you promised Abraham. You defeated these enemies 324 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 2: over here, on and on. What was he doing magnifying God, 325 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 2: not his trouble, our difficult times, instead of complaining, Well, 326 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 2: I don't know if my child's ever gone straighten up. 327 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 2: Business is so slow. I don't think I'll ever overcome 328 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 2: this illness. No, if you talk defeat, you're going to 329 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 2: have defeat. You got to do like Johasaphat. God, I 330 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 2: know you're an awesome God. Nothing is too difficult for you. 331 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 2: I know you're bigger than this financial difficulty. You make 332 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 2: streets out of gold, great than this sickness. You breathe 333 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 2: life into my body. You are more powerful than people 334 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 2: coming against me in this legal trouble. No one can 335 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 2: stand against you. The bigger you make God, the smaller 336 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 2: your problems become, the more faith will rise in your heart. 337 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 2: But too often we do just the opposite. It's easy 338 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 2: to magnify the problem instead of magnifying God. This is 339 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 2: what the Israelites did. Moses sent twelve men in despite 340 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,479 Speaker 2: the promised land. After forty days, ten of those men 341 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 2: came back and said, Moses, we don't have a chance. 342 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 2: The people are huge. There are giants in the land. 343 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:44,479 Speaker 2: We'll never defeat them. The two other spies, Joshua and Caleb, 344 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 2: came back with a different report. They said, yes, Moses, 345 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 2: the people are big, but we know our God is bigger. 346 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 2: We are well able to take the land. Let us 347 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 2: go in at once. Both groups saw the same people. 348 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 2: They both it's all the same situation. The difference was 349 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 2: their perspective. One group focused on the side of their obstacles, 350 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 2: the other group focused on the side of their God. 351 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,880 Speaker 2: Now to the two million people that were camped next 352 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 2: door to the Promised Land that day, the only two 353 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 2: that ever eventually made it into the Promised Land? Were 354 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 2: Joshua and Caleb. Could it be that our own wrong 355 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 2: perspective is keeping us out of our promised land. If 356 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 2: we think our obstacles are too big, I'll never accomplish 357 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 2: my dreams, I'll never overcome this illness, I'll never get 358 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 2: out of debt. Then, just like them, our own perspective 359 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 2: will keep us from God's best. That's why David said, 360 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 2: magnify the Lord with me. He was saying, if you're 361 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 2: going to make anything bigger, don't make the problems bigger. 362 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 2: Don't make the opposition bigger, don't make the negative medical 363 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 2: report bigger. Learn to make God bigger. It's interesting when 364 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:04,160 Speaker 2: David faced Goliath, he never called him a giant. Everyone 365 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 2: else did. They talked about his size, his strength, his skill. 366 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 2: Not David. He called him an uncircumcised philistine. He didn't 367 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 2: even give him credit for being big. He didn't deny it, 368 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,719 Speaker 2: but he didn't dwell on it. His attitude was, if 369 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 2: I'm going to magnify anything, I'm going to magnify the 370 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: source of my strength. I'm going to talk about the 371 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: greatness of my God. I'm not going to focus on 372 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 2: how big my problems are. I'm going to focus on 373 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 2: how big my God is. David's brothers, the other Israelites, 374 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 2: they were afraid, intimidated, didn't know what to do. When 375 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 2: David told them that he wanted to fight Goliath. He said, David, 376 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 2: you can't fight Golias. You're just a kid. You're too small. 377 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 2: You don't have a chance. But David had a different perspective. 378 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 2: He knew if God before him, who dared be against him. 379 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 2: He knew he was strong in the Lord. He knew 380 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 2: he wasn't going out there alone, that all the forces 381 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 2: of heaven were backing him up. They tried to warn him, David, 382 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 2: you better be careful. You're gonna get out there and 383 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 2: get hurt. Goliath is too big to hit. David said, no, 384 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 2: he's too big to miss. David stood before Goliath and said, Goliath, 385 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 2: you come against me with a sword and a shield, 386 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 2: but I come against you in the name of the Lord, 387 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 2: God of Israel. Notice what he was doing, magnifying his 388 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 2: golden talking about his greatness. You know the story. This 389 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 2: teenage boy half his size didn't have a chance in 390 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 2: the natural, defeated this huge giant. That's what happens when 391 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 2: you magnified the promises and not the problems. The apostle 392 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 2: Paul said it this way, Philippians won. Do not be 393 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 2: intimidated by your enemies. Like David, You may be up 394 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 2: against a big giant right now, a giant called an addiction, 395 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 2: a giant of debt, a giant of sickness. You could 396 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 2: easily be overwhelmed. Think, oh, man, I don't have a chance. No, 397 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 2: don't be intimidated. The forces that are for you are 398 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 2: greater than the forces that are against you. Have the 399 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 2: right perspective. The most high God is on your side. 400 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 2: I read about this little boy. There was a big 401 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 2: bully that lived down the street that was always bothering him. 402 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 2: He was trying to get his nerve up to go 403 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 2: stand up to him, but he's just too afraid. Didn't 404 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 2: have the confidence. One day, his father bought him a 405 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 2: new telescope. He was in the front yard playing with it, 406 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 2: but he was looking through the wrong end. He was 407 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: looking through the big side. His father came out and said, O, son, 408 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 2: you're doing it backwards. Turn it around and it will 409 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 2: make everything bigger like it was designed to. He said, Dad, 410 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 2: I know that, but right now, I'm looking at this bully, 411 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 2: and when I look at him this way, it makes 412 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 2: him so small that I'm not afraid of him anymore. 413 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 2: Maybe you need to turn the telescope around. You've magnified 414 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 2: that problem long enough. You've talked about how impossible it is, 415 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 2: how it's never going to work out. But if you'll 416 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 2: turn the telescope around, you'll see it from the right perspective. 417 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 2: You'll realize that it's nothing. For our God, all he's 418 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 2: got to do is breathe in your direction. Your dream 419 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 2: coming to pass may seem impossible to you, but if 420 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 2: you'll turn it around, you'll realize that it just takes 421 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 2: one touch of God's favor, one good break, meeting one 422 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 2: right person, or that financial difficulty, that relationship issue, that 423 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 2: addiction may seem insurmountable, But if you'll just turn it around, 424 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 2: you'll see it from the perspective and realize that for 425 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 2: our God, it's a small thing. He parted the Red 426 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 2: Sea for the Israelites. He can make a way in 427 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 2: your life. Which end of the telescope are you looking through. 428 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 2: You can't go through life focused on the negative and 429 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 2: how it's never going to work out, that will keep 430 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 2: you from God's best. If you'll learn to focus on 431 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 2: the promise and not the problem, you will overcome obstacles 432 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,640 Speaker 2: that looked insurmountable. You'll accomplish dreams even though you didn't 433 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 2: have the qualifications, the resources, the connections. God will get 434 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 2: you to where you're supposed to be. This is what 435 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 2: happened in the Scripture to a man by the name 436 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 2: of Zerubabel. God gave him the promise that he would 437 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 2: rebuild the temple, but everything came against him. The city 438 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 2: leaders tried to stop him. They hired lawyers and wouldn't 439 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 2: give him the permits. Other people started stirring up strife 440 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 2: and stirring up trouble. He couldn't hire the workers that 441 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 2: he needed, he couldn't find the materials. Everywhere he turned 442 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 2: there was trouble. It looked impossible. He could have stayed 443 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 2: focused on the opposition and how much more powerful they were, 444 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 2: giving up and gone home. God, I wanted to do it. 445 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 2: I had good intentions. They were just too big. No, 446 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 2: he said in Zachariah, For who are you, o great 447 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 2: mountain that stands before me? You shall become a mere 448 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 2: mole hill, and I will finish the temple. Notice his 449 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 2: attitude not as too big. I can't do this now, 450 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,680 Speaker 2: he said. You may be a mountain right now, but 451 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 2: I know a secret. I've got my telescope turned around. 452 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 2: I can already see through my eyes of faith. It's 453 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 2: just a matter of time before you flatten out and 454 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 2: become a mole hill. I will complete this project. I've learned. 455 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 2: If you don't talk to your mountains, your mountains will 456 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 2: talk to you. Don't complain about how big the problem is. 457 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: Do like he did, Tell that mountain, you're about to 458 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: become a mole hill. Like David tell that giant. This day, 459 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 2: I will defeat you. You can't talk defeat and expect 460 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 2: to have victory. What you're facing today may look big. 461 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to deny it. I am asking 462 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 2: you to turn the telescope around and see it from 463 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 2: God's point of view. Have the right perspective. It's no 464 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 2: match for you. You are a child of the most 465 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 2: high God. You have the most powerful force in the 466 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 2: universe breathing in your direction right now. Don't stay focused 467 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 2: on the opposition, how impossible it looks. Do what Abraham did. 468 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 2: Consider not the negative circumstances and start considering your God. 469 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 2: Remind him what he said all through the day. Let 470 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 2: his promises keep playing in your mind. God, you said 471 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 2: I'm blessed, you said I'm strong, you said I'm healthy, 472 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 2: you said I'm highly favored. You said my best days 473 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 2: are still out in front of me. Remember it takes 474 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 2: the same amount of energy to believe as it does 475 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 2: to worry. If you'll learn to focus on the promises 476 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 2: and not the problems, then I believe and declare, like David, 477 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 2: you will defeat your giants. Like Zaruba Bell, you will 478 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 2: accomplish your dreams, and like Abraham, what God promised you 479 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 2: he will bring to past. You will become everything he's 480 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 2: he hated you to be, and you will have everything 481 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,400 Speaker 2: He intended for you to have. In Jesus' name, if 482 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 2: you receive it, can you say him in today? We 483 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,719 Speaker 2: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an 484 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 2: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 485 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 2: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent 486 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 2: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you 487 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 2: my lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, 488 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 2: I believe you got born again. Get in a good 489 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: Bible based church. God's going to take your places that 490 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 2: you've never dreamed. 491 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 4: Thank you for listening to the Juelos Deine podcast. 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