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Thanks for listening to 38 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 6: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 39 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 40 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: blessing and share it with a friend. 41 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 42 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 2: your life. About blessing a joy to come into your homes. 43 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 2: We love you. You're ever in our area. 44 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 6: Please stop by it and be a part of one 45 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 6: of our services. I promise you we'll make you feel 46 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 6: right at home, but we'd love to have you join us. 47 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 6: But thanks so much for tuning in today. Thank y'all 48 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 6: for coming out. I like to start each week with 49 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 6: something kind of funny. And of course these jokes are 50 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 6: not necessarily doctrinately correct. 51 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 2: They're just to make us laugh. But I heard about 52 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: this husband and wife. 53 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 6: They were celebrating their sixtieth birthdays together. Suddenly an angel 54 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 6: appeared and said God was going to grant them each 55 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 6: one special request. 56 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: They were so excited. 57 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 6: The lady said, my request is that I would be 58 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 6: able to travel all over the world, and poof, when 59 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 6: the smoke cleared, she had tickets in her hand. The 60 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 6: man kind of hung his head and he said, my 61 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 6: request is that I'd be married to a woman thirty 62 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 6: years younger than me, and poof, when the smoke cleared, 63 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 6: he was ninety years old. 64 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you 65 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 2: mean it. This is my Bible. 66 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,679 Speaker 6: I am what it says, I am what it says 67 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 6: I have. I can do what it says I can do. 68 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 6: Today I will be taught the word of God. I 69 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 6: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 70 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 6: I will never be the same in Jesus' name, God, 71 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 6: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 72 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 6: stretching into the next level. Too many people are living 73 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 6: far below their potential. They have so many gifts and talents, 74 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 6: so much to offer, But the problem is they've gotten 75 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 6: comfortable and now they just sit back and settle where 76 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 6: they are. 77 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: They're too easily satisfied. 78 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: Now. 79 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 2: I hear people make excuses. 80 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 6: I've achieved as much as most, done pretty well in 81 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,839 Speaker 6: my career, gone as far as my parents. No, God 82 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 6: wants you to go further. He's a progressive god. Every 83 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 6: generation should be increasing. No matter where we are in life, 84 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 6: God has more in store. He never wants us to 85 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 6: quit growing. We should always be reaching for new heights 86 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 6: in our abilities, in our spiritual walk, in our finances, 87 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 6: in our marriage. We all have areas we can come 88 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 6: up higher end. We may have achieved a certain level 89 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 6: of success, but there are new mountains to climb. There 90 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 6: are new dreams and goals that we should be pursuing. 91 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 6: Maybe God has done a lot in your past. He's 92 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 6: opened up doors, caused you to get promoted, given you 93 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 6: good breaks, and it's easy to kind of get satisfied 94 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 6: and think, yeah, Joel, God's been good to me. 95 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 2: Can't complain. I've reached my limits. But understand, God. 96 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 6: Never performs his greatest feats in your yesterday. He may 97 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 6: have done a lot in the past, but let me 98 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 6: tell you, you haven't seen anything yet. The best is 99 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 6: still yet to come. Don't get complacent. I was reading 100 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 6: about Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a famous architect, and 101 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 6: he designed many beautiful buildings, many magnificent structures. 102 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: Toward the end of his career, a. 103 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 6: Reporter asked him, of all the many beautiful designs, which 104 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 6: one was his favorite. Without missing a beat, he said, 105 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 6: my next one. He understood this principle. He understood God 106 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 6: had more in store. Don't live in your past. God 107 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 6: may have done great things for you, but I found 108 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 6: God likes to outdo himself. He wants to show his 109 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 6: favor in your life in a greater way. That means, 110 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 6: if you're a teacher, you haven't taught your best lesson yet. 111 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 6: If you're a builder, you haven't built your best home yet. 112 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 6: If you're a business person, you haven't cut your best 113 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 6: deal yet. You need to get your hopes up. You 114 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 6: may have had some dreams come to pass, but we 115 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 6: have to enlarge our vision and get ready for the 116 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 6: new things that God has on the horizon. And the 117 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 6: scripture says here in First Corinthians two verse nine, no 118 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 6: person has ever seen, heard, or imagined the wonderful things 119 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 6: God has in store for those that love the Lord. 120 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 6: That's basically saying, don't get complacent. Your best or not 121 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 6: behind you. They're in front of you. But if this 122 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 6: is going to happen, we have to keep pressing forward. 123 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 6: We have to keep stretching ourselves. Get rid of low expectations. 124 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 6: Don't make little plans for your life. Don't have little dreams. 125 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 6: Don't go around thinking everybody gets good. 126 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 2: Breaks except me. 127 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 6: Joel, I've reached my limits. Probably never get this promotion. 128 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 6: I don't know why I'm not talented. Don't get rid 129 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 6: of that defeated mindset. You are a child of the 130 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 6: most High God. God has breathed his very life into you. 131 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 6: He's planted seeds of greatness on the inside. You have 132 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 6: everything you need to fulfill your God given destiny. 133 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 2: God has already put in you. 134 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 6: The talent, the creativity, the discipline, the wisdom, the determination. 135 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 2: It's all in you. 136 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 6: You are full of potential, but you've got to do 137 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 6: your part and start tapping into it. 138 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 2: You've got to start stretching yourself. Well. 139 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 6: See, the scripture tells us that we have a treasure 140 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 6: on the inside. That means there is something valuable in 141 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 6: every one of us. 142 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 2: You have a gift. 143 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 6: You have something to offer that nobody else has. You 144 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 6: didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident. You 145 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 6: were handpicked by Almighty God. He saw you before you 146 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 6: were formed in your mother's womb, and you are. 147 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 2: Here for a reason. 148 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 6: You have an assignment. There's something that God wants you 149 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 6: to accomplish. Somebody needs your gift, Somebody needs what you have. 150 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 6: And I'm asking you today to not die with the 151 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 6: treasure still in you. Press forward, give birth to the 152 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 6: dreams and desires that God has placed in your heart. 153 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 6: I read where the average person uses less than ten 154 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 6: percent of their mind. That means more than ninety percent 155 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 6: of the mind's capability lies dormant, never gets tapped into. 156 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 6: But if we could understand what we have, God has 157 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 6: deposited a part of himself into you. When it came 158 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 6: time for you to be born, God said, let me 159 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 6: give them some of this gift, some of this talent, 160 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 6: some of this creativity. You have the seed of Almighty 161 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 6: God on the inside. You were never created to be average. 162 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 6: You were never created to reach a certain level and 163 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 6: then stop. You were created to continue to excel. And 164 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 6: there's no limit to how high you can go in life. 165 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 6: There's no limit to what you can accomplish if you 166 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 6: will just learned to shake off complacency and keep stretching 167 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 6: into the next level. 168 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 2: But it all starts right here. 169 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 6: We have to believe that we do have what it takes. 170 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 6: We have to believe that we have a gift, a 171 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 6: treasure on the inside. People may have tried to push 172 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 6: us down. Circumstances may have soured your outlook on life. 173 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 2: I don't know. 174 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 6: Maybe you've tried and hit a brick wall again and again, 175 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 6: but you you know what, you need to get back 176 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 6: up and try another time. Somebody may have told you 177 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 6: no a thousand times, but you've got to go back 178 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 6: and ask one more time. 179 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 2: You got to keep pressing. 180 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 6: Too many people are satisfied, they're comfortable, they're not stretching anymore. 181 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 6: And one reason is they don't really understand what they 182 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 6: have on the inside. They don't understand their God given potential. 183 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 6: Years ago, a friend of mine was in Europe driving 184 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 6: on the autobond. None like our freeways here in the States. 185 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 6: There's no speed limit on the autobonn he can go. 186 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 2: As fast as you want. 187 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 6: He was so excited he took the car up to 188 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 6: eighty miles an hour, then ninety, then one hundred, one 189 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 6: hundred and ten. 190 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 2: I mean, he was moving. 191 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 6: He told how he felt like he was the king 192 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 6: of the road, zooming past people left and right, driving 193 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 6: like Victoria. A few minutes later, though, this car came 194 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 6: flying down the freeway, the exact same model. 195 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 2: It blew by him like he was stand in still. 196 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 6: It must have been going one hundred and sixty one 197 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 6: hundred and seventy miles an hour. The friend sitting next 198 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 6: to him kind of laughed. He said, see, you're not 199 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 6: going as fast as you can. You're just going as 200 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 6: fast as you will. You think about it, the car 201 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 6: had all kinds of potential. It too, was capable of 202 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 6: going one hundred and eighty miles per hour. 203 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 2: The potential was put in it by the manufacture. 204 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 6: How fast he drove didn't have anything to do with 205 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 6: the car's capability. In other words, the potential was not 206 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,719 Speaker 6: lessened just because he chose not to use it. 207 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: It's the same way with us. 208 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,239 Speaker 6: Our potential has been put in us by our manufacture. 209 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 6: It's been put in us by our creator, Almighty God. 210 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 6: Whether we use it or not does not lessen our potential. 211 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 6: What's happened in your past doesn't reduce it. How somebody 212 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 6: has treated you, what they said about you, doesn't change 213 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,439 Speaker 6: that potential. Maybe you've been through some disappointments, had some 214 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 6: unfair things happen in life. But what I want you 215 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 6: to see is none of. 216 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 2: This affects your potential. 217 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 6: It has been put in you permanently by the creator 218 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 6: of the universe. And when we believe, when we stir 219 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 6: ourselves up and take a step of faith and stretch ourselves, 220 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 6: that's when we tap into it. That's when will rise higher. 221 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,599 Speaker 6: We have incredible capability. There is no obstacle that you 222 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,559 Speaker 6: cannot overcome, there's no challenge. 223 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 2: That you can't meet. You can accomplish more than you 224 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 2: ever dreamed possible. The capability is in you. 225 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 6: But the real question is are we willing to break 226 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 6: free from these self imposed limitations and start stretching to 227 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 6: the next level. Too often we allow our experiences from 228 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 6: the past, maybe how we were raised, or maybe what 229 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 6: somebody has said to us keep us from pressing forward. 230 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 6: How many people were about to take a step of faith, 231 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 6: They were about to stretch to that next level, but 232 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:04,079 Speaker 6: then a business partner, a coach, a relative, a friend said, Hey, 233 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 6: you really think you can do that? 234 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: I don't know if that would be right for you. 235 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: What if you try and fail? What if it doesn't 236 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: work out? 237 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 6: Now, all these negative words have kept them from pressing forward. 238 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 6: We have to understand none of this changes the potential 239 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 6: on the inside. 240 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 2: It's still in you. 241 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 6: We should not allow other people to talk us out 242 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 6: of doing what we know God wants us to do. 243 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 6: And it's really a shame today how many people have 244 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 6: had negative things spoken over them, things like you don't 245 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 6: have what it takes, you're not very talented. I don't 246 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 6: think you'll ever be successful. And if we're not careful, 247 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 6: we'll allow those negative words to play over and over 248 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 6: in our mind. 249 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 2: They can create a stronghold. And that's why it's so important. 250 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 6: Parents, leaders, that we never speak discouraging words over our children, 251 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 6: or for that matter, over anyone that we have authority over. 252 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 6: Those words can do so much damage they can take root. 253 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 6: And if that person doesn't know how to cast them 254 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 6: down and not dwell on them, it'll keep them from 255 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 6: rising any higher. I was talking to a young lady 256 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 6: the other day. She had just come out of a 257 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 6: very abusive relationship, and she told how for years she 258 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 6: was told things like you can't do anything right, you're 259 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 6: so slow, you're not attractive, And after hearing that jump 260 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 6: for so long, it had totally beaten her down physically, emotionally, spiritually, 261 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 6: she had no joy, no confidence, no self esteem. 262 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 2: And I told her what I'm telling you today. 263 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 6: Your value, your gifts, your talents, they have been put 264 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 6: in you by Almighty God, and it doesn't matter what 265 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 6: anyone else has spoken over you. The good news is 266 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 6: God has the final authority, and he says you have 267 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 6: a treasure on the inside. 268 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: He says you have a gift. 269 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 6: He says you are valuable, and you got to quit 270 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 6: playing that other junk. You need to put on a 271 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 6: new record. You need to be dwelling on things like 272 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 6: I am creative, I am talented, I am valuable, I 273 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 6: have a bright future. My best days are still out 274 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 6: in front of me. You've got to get your mind 275 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 6: going in this new direction, because as long as you're 276 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 6: dwelling on negative thoughts toward yourself, it'll keep you from 277 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 6: becoming all God's created you to be. And it doesn't 278 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 6: matter who has spoken them, a parent, a spouse, a coach, 279 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 6: a teacher. 280 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 2: You got to cast those words down. Words are powerful. 281 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 6: They can create strongholds, and sometimes even one little phrase, 282 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 6: if we make the mistake of dwelling on it, it 283 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 6: can hold us back for years. A friend of mine 284 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 6: used to travel with a well known minister. This was 285 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 6: years ago, and one day somebody came to the hotel 286 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 6: and wanted this well known minister to pray for them 287 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 6: and my friend. His associate told him, I'm sorry, but 288 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 6: he can't be disturbed. He's resting, getting p prepared for 289 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 6: the meeting tonight. But this man would not take no 290 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 6: for an answer, was very aggressive, very determined. My friend 291 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 6: was very kind and curtis and finally he said, Hey, 292 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 6: how about this, I'll pray for you. I work with 293 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 6: the man every day. 294 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 2: That man turned his nose up. He said, I don't 295 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 2: think so you won't do. My friend told how those 296 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 2: words ring out in his mind day after day. 297 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 6: You won't do lying in bed at night. You don't 298 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 6: have what it takes. You're not annointed like him. Nobody's 299 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 6: going to ever listen to you. He already struggled with 300 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 6: his confidence, but now he was allowing these negative words 301 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 6: to just play again and again. Listen, you've got to 302 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 6: learn to shake that junk off. Too many people today 303 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 6: are in mediocrity. They don't have the confidence and the 304 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,400 Speaker 6: self esteem they should because they're constantly dwelling on negative 305 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 6: thoughts about themselves. I don't say this arrogantly, but do 306 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 6: you know what plays in my mind all day long? 307 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 6: I am anointed, I am creative, I am talented, I 308 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 6: am successful, I have the favor of God. 309 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 2: People like me. I'm a victor and not a victim. 310 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 6: You go around thinking those kind of thoughts and low 311 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 6: self esteem, lack of confidence. 312 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 2: Inferiority, they won't have a chance with you. 313 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 6: You'll have your shoulders back, a smile on your face, 314 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 6: and you'll be looking for opportunities to stretch into that 315 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 6: next level. And I know when my father went to 316 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 6: be with the Lord, if I had listened to what 317 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 6: everybody was saying about me, I would have never gotten 318 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 6: off the ground. Well, I don't think he's as good 319 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 6: as his father. He's so young, you really think he 320 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 6: knows what he's talking about. I overheard one lady say, well, 321 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 6: I went last week and I didn't get anything out 322 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 6: of it. I thought, I can't help it if there's 323 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 6: something wrong with you, lady. Somebody told me the other 324 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 6: day seriously. 325 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: They came up and. 326 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 6: Said, Jeel, I have to admit when you first started, 327 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 6: I just didn't think you had what it takes. 328 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 2: But you're doing all right now. I thought you could 329 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 2: have gone ahead and kept that to. 330 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 6: Yourself, mister, but you've got to learn to shake that 331 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 6: junk off, especially if you struggle with your confidence and 332 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 6: your self esteem. 333 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 2: You need to let that bounce off of you like 334 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: water off of a duck's back. Put on the new record. 335 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: I am anointed, I am well able, I have what 336 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 2: it takes. I am the head. I am not to tell. 337 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 6: I think about back in the Garden of Eden, when 338 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 6: Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. They went and hid, 339 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 6: and God came along and said, Adam, Eve, where are you? 340 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 6: And they said, God, we're hiding because we are naked. 341 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 6: I love the way God answered them back. He said 342 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 6: Adam who told you you were naked. In other words, 343 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:46,959 Speaker 6: who told you something was wrong with you? God immediately 344 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 6: knew the enemy had been talking to them, And God 345 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 6: is saying to you today. Who told you you don't 346 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 6: have what it takes. Who told you all you could 347 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 6: make in school was seas and not a Who told 348 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 6: you you're not talented enough. Who told you your marriage 349 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 6: was never going to last? Those are lies from the enemy. 350 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 6: You need to go back to what God says about you. Well, 351 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 6: I don't think I could ever get this promotion, Joel. 352 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 6: Who told you that God said, no good thing will 353 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,440 Speaker 6: he withhold when you walk up rightly? Well, I don't 354 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 6: think I'll ever get married, Joel. 355 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 2: I hadn't had a dat in so long. 356 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 6: Who told you that God said, when you delight yourself 357 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 6: in Him, he will give you the desires of your heart. Well, 358 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 6: I don't think I could ever be in management. I 359 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 6: don't think I could ever be in leadership. Who told 360 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 6: you that God says you can do all things through Christ. 361 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 6: What I want you to see is the potential is 362 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 6: on the inside of you. Doesn't change just because you 363 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 6: don't believe it, or just because you've been through a 364 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 6: negative past. It has been put in you permanently by 365 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 6: the creator of the universe, and the scripture says God's 366 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 6: gifts and his callings are irrevocable. That means God's never 367 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 6: going to take him back. I'm going to say, man, 368 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 6: I'm tired of dealing with you. You've tried and failed 369 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 6: so many times, You've made so many mistakes. 370 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 2: Let me just have him back. 371 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 6: No, those gifts, the calling on your life will be 372 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 6: with you till the day you leave this earth, but 373 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 6: it's totally up to you as to whether you tap 374 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 6: into them or not. The thing that keeps most people 375 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 6: back is wrong mindsets. It's limited thinking, dwelling on what 376 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 6: we can't do rather than what we can do. Many times, 377 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 6: these things have started way back in life, how we 378 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 6: were raised. 379 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 2: What somebody has said to us cause low self esteem. 380 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 6: Now we go around without the confidence, stuck in a rut, 381 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 6: thinking that we've reached our limits. 382 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 2: I remember a young man growing up. 383 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 6: He loved playing baseball, that was his passion. But when 384 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 6: he went to try out for the team, the coach 385 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 6: didn't even give him the time of day, didn't give 386 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 6: him a chance. He said, I'm sorry, son, you're just 387 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 6: too small. You will never be able to play on 388 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 6: this team. I mean, he was devastated. His heart was 389 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 6: set on playing baseball. Mom came and picked him up 390 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 6: from the school, and his best friend was writing in 391 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 6: the back seat. 392 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 2: He was doing all he could to keep his composure 393 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 2: and to not cry. 394 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 6: Then his friend, who was much bigger than him, said, Hey, 395 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 6: did you tell your mom you didn't make the team 396 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 6: because you're too little? That just pierced his heart. He 397 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 6: couldn't stand being small. He went home feeling so low 398 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 6: and so dejected. But later that week they announced that 399 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 6: since so many boys had tried out for the team, 400 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 6: they were going to create a second team, a B team, 401 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 6: and they put this young man on it. Long story short, 402 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 6: those two teams ended up in a playoff for the 403 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 6: championship and the second team, the B team, beat the 404 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 6: A team. And on top of that, this young man 405 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 6: was the winning pitcher. They won because of him. And 406 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 6: what I'm telling you is other people don't determine your potential. 407 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 6: What they said about you, what they think about you, 408 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 6: does not change what God has placed on the inside. 409 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 2: Don't allow those negative words to take root and keep 410 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 2: you from prayer forward. God is asking some of you today. 411 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 6: Who told you you were too small, Who told you 412 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 6: you weren't educated enough, who told you you didn't have 413 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 6: the talent. God would have not put the dream in 414 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 6: your heart if he had not already given you everything 415 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 6: you need to fulfill your destiny. 416 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 2: That means if I have a dream, if I have 417 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 2: a desire, and I know it's from God, then I 418 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: don't have to worry whether or not I have what 419 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 2: it takes. I know God doesn't make mistakes. 420 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 6: I know God doesn't call us to do something without 421 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 6: first giving us the ability to do it. Why don't 422 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 6: you shake off the low self esteem, shake off the 423 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 6: negative voices, shake off the disappointments, and keep pressing forward 424 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 6: in life. Too often, when we suffer some kind of 425 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 6: rejection like that, or some kind of disappointment, we get 426 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 6: all discouraged. 427 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 2: And we just settle right where we are. Hell, I 428 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 2: guess it wasn't meant to be. 429 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 6: Thought I could play on the ball team, But maybe 430 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 6: I am too small, Maybe I don't have the talent. 431 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 6: Thought I could get the promotion Joel, But I tried 432 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 6: and fell didn't work out. Listen, You've got to get 433 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 6: back up and go again. We give up too easily 434 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 6: on our dreams. These days, we need to understand just 435 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 6: as God supernaturally opens doors, sometimes God supernaturally closes doors, 436 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 6: and it's always because He has something better in store. 437 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 6: So just because you've come to a dead end, just 438 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 6: because you tried and it didn't work out, just because 439 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 6: you had some rejection, some persecution, that's not the time 440 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 6: to give up. 441 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: Keep pressing. 442 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 6: I heard somebody say, out of our greatest rejection comes 443 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 6: our greatest direction. In other words, when you come to 444 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 6: a closed door when something doesn't work out in your life, 445 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 6: instead of seeing that as the end, you need to 446 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 6: see that as God leading you and guiding you into 447 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 6: his best path. And yes, sometimes it's uncomfortable, sometimes we 448 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 6: may not like it, but we cannot make the mistake 449 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 6: of just sitting back and settling where we are. This 450 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 6: is what happened to my father back in nineteen fifty nine. 451 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 6: He was the pastor of a successful church. Things were 452 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 6: going great, but about that time, my sister Lisa was 453 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 6: born with something like cerebral palsy, and so my dad 454 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 6: went away for a little while and he got alone, 455 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 6: and he searched the scriptures in a new way, and 456 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,640 Speaker 6: he began to see how God was a good God, 457 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 6: a healing God, how God still did miracles today. And 458 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 6: he came back to his church and he preached with 459 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 6: a new fire, a new enthusiasm, and he thought everybody 460 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 6: would be thrilled. But it was just the opposite. They 461 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 6: didn't like his new message. It didn't fit in with 462 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,640 Speaker 6: their tradition. And after much persecution, after much heartache and pain, 463 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 6: my father knew the best thing for him to do 464 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 6: was to leave that church. Here they had just built 465 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 6: a beautiful new sanctuary. They had a bright future in 466 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 6: store and in the natural. My dad was disappointed. He 467 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 6: didn't understand it. But remember, out of rejection comes direction. 468 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 6: When one door closes, God's about to open up a 469 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 6: bigger and a better door. And so my father he 470 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 6: went down the street to an abandoned, beat up feed store, 471 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 6: he and ninety other people from Lakewood Church on Mother's 472 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 6: Day in nineteen fifty nine. The critics said it would 473 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,360 Speaker 6: never last. But here we are today, nearly fifty years later, 474 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,960 Speaker 6: still going strong. But I don't believe that my father 475 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 6: would have had the ministry he had. I don't believe 476 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 6: he would have become all God created him to be. 477 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 6: If he would have stayed in that limited environment. And 478 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 6: sometimes God will stir you out of a comfortable situation. 479 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 6: When you go through persecution, you go through rejection. It's 480 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 6: not always just because somebody has it in for you. 481 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 6: Sometimes that's God trying to push you into his perfect will. 482 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 6: He's trying to get you to stretch to the next level, 483 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 6: and he knows you're not going to go without a push, 484 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 6: so he'll make it uncomfortable. 485 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 2: The mistake we make at times as. 486 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 6: We get negative and souring, we focus on what didn't 487 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 6: work out, and all this does is prolonged the new 488 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 6: doors from opening out. I remember just a few years ago, 489 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 6: we were trying to buy some property to build a 490 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 6: new sanctuary on. We looked for months, finally found this 491 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,640 Speaker 6: one hundred acre tract of land. We were so excited, 492 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 6: but the day we were to close, the people sold 493 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 6: the land right out from under us. And I had 494 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 6: to tell myself what I'm telling you, Joel, God has 495 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 6: closed this door for a reason. He has something better 496 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 6: in store in the natural. 497 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 2: I was down, I was a. 498 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 6: Little discouraged, but I had to shake that off and say, no, 499 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 6: I'm not settling here. I'm going to keep pressing forward. 500 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 6: A few months later, we found another nice piece of property. 501 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 6: It would have worked as well, but the same thing. 502 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 6: The man refused to sell it to us, another disappointment. 503 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 6: I didn't understand it, but I said, God, I'm trusting you. 504 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 6: I know your ways are not my ways. This doesn't 505 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 6: seem right, doesn't seem fair, but I'm going to stay 506 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 6: in an attitude of faith and just keep expecting good things. 507 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 6: It wasn't long after that that the door to the 508 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 6: Compact Center opened up. Then it became clear why God 509 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 6: had closed the other doors that would have kept us 510 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,160 Speaker 6: from his very best and throughout life. We're not always 511 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 6: going to understand everything that happens along the way, but 512 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 6: we've got to learn to trust God. We've got to 513 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 6: believe that he has us in the palm of his hand, 514 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 6: that he is leading us and guiding us, that he 515 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,200 Speaker 6: always has our best interest at heart. Now I know people, 516 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 6: they've gone through a lot of rejection in relationships. Their 517 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 6: marriage didn't work out here, they put all these years 518 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 6: into it. Now they're hurt, dejected, going around kind of defeated, 519 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,479 Speaker 6: not expecting anything good. And of course we're not for divorce. 520 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 6: We don't believe that's God's best, but you know as 521 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 6: well as I do. Sometimes that happens, and you have 522 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 6: to understand God still has another plan for your life. 523 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 6: Just because somebody may have rejected you, just because they 524 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 6: walked out in your life and left you hurt, that 525 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 6: doesn't mean you should retreat and just settle where you are. 526 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 2: That rejection did not change what God. 527 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 6: Has put on the inside of you. Doesn't mean that 528 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 6: you still cannot be happy when one door closes. If 529 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 6: you will keep the right attitude, God will open up 530 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 6: another door. But you have to do your part and 531 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 6: keep pressing forward. Too many people in life get bitter, 532 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 6: they get angry, and they start to blame God. 533 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 2: You've got to let that go. You may not understand it, 534 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 2: but trust God and move on with your life. 535 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 6: Don't look at it as the end. Look at it 536 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 6: as a new beginning. Somebody may have rejected you, but 537 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 6: you can hold your head up high knowing this. 538 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 2: God accepts you. God approves you, and He has something 539 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 2: better in store. Friends, don't die with the treasure still 540 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: on the inside. 541 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 6: Keep pressing forward, keep reaching for new heights, give birth 542 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,679 Speaker 6: to what God has placed in your heart. Don't let 543 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 6: other people talk you out of your dreams. Listen to 544 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 6: what God says about you, not all the negative voices 545 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 6: when you face rejection and disappointment and we all do 546 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 6: at times. Don't stay there, don't get comfortable. Know that 547 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 6: God has another plan. That closed door simply means God 548 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,360 Speaker 6: has something better in store. You may not have seen 549 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 6: it in the past, but listen, this is a new day. 550 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 6: You have not seen, heard, or imagined the wonderful things 551 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 6: God has in store for you. If you will keep 552 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 6: pressing forward and not get weighed down by the distractions 553 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 6: and disappointments in life, but instead you keep stretching to 554 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 6: the next level, reaching for your highest potential. If you 555 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 6: do that, I can tell you with confidence your best 556 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 6: days are not behind you. 557 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 2: They're in front of you. 558 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 6: God is going to show you more of his blessings 559 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 6: in favor, and I believe you'll live that life of 560 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 6: victory He has in story. 561 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 2: Amen, we never like to. 562 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 6: Close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 563 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 6: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 564 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 6: Just say Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 565 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 6: into my heart. 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