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Speaker 5: start with something funny and I heard about this minister.
Speaker 6: He'd been out bear hunting all day long.
Speaker 5: Searched and searched through the woods with no sign of
Speaker 5: a bear. Finally, in frustration, he threw his gun on
Speaker 5: the ground. He went down to the stream to cool off.
Speaker 5: About that time he sees this huge, grizzly bear running
Speaker 5: straight toward him full force, about one hundred yards away.
Speaker 5: He fell on his knees and said, God, I need protection.
Speaker 5: Please convert this bear into a Christian. Miraculously, the bear
Speaker 5: froze in his tracks. Lifted both pauls toward the heavens,
Speaker 5: and said, Lord, thank you for this food I'm about
Speaker 5: to eat. Hold up your Bible, say it like you
Speaker 5: mean it. This is my Bible and what it says
Speaker 5: I am. I have what it says I have. I
Speaker 5: can do what it says I can do. Today I
Speaker 5: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.
Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about.
Speaker 6: Redeeming the time.
Speaker 5: Time is one of the most valuable commodities that we have.
Speaker 5: It's more valuable than money. You can make more money,
Speaker 5: but you can't make more time. The scripture tells us
Speaker 5: to redeem the time. That means don't waste it. Don't
Speaker 5: live this day unfocused, undisciplined, unmotivated. We have a responsibility
Speaker 5: to use our time wisely.
Speaker 6: We're not always going to be here. This day is
Speaker 6: a gift.
Speaker 5: Are you living it to the full with purpose, passion,
Speaker 5: pursuing your dreams? Or are you distracted, indifferent, just doing
Speaker 5: whatever comes along in a job. You don't like hanging
Speaker 5: out with people that are pulling you down. That's not
Speaker 5: redeeming the time. That's wasting the time. Just like you
Speaker 5: spend money, you are spending your life.
Speaker 6: You're either investing it or you're wasting it.
Speaker 5: The first step is you need to set goals, short
Speaker 5: term goals and long term goals. What do you want
Speaker 5: to accomplish this week? Where do you want to be five.
Speaker 6: Years from now?
Speaker 5: Do you have a plan? Are you taking steps to
Speaker 5: get there? Don't go another three years on a job
Speaker 5: you don't like, doing something that you're not passionate about.
Speaker 5: Life is flying by. This is your one shot. You
Speaker 5: don't get a do over. We can't relive our twenties,
Speaker 5: relive our thirties once this day is over. We can
Speaker 5: never get it back. Paul said in Ephesians, make the
Speaker 5: most of every opportunity. Don't be vague and thoughtless, but
Speaker 5: live purposefully and accurately. If you're going to reach your
Speaker 5: highest potential, you have to be an on purpose person.
Speaker 6: You know where you're going.
Speaker 5: You're not vague distracted waiting to see what happens. No,
Speaker 5: you're focused. You're making the most of each opportunity. Let
Speaker 5: me put it more practical. Staying on social media hours
Speaker 5: a day catching up on the latest gossip is not
Speaker 5: redeeming the time playing video games hours a day when
Speaker 5: you could be studying.
Speaker 6: It's not redeeming.
Speaker 5: The time talking on the phone hours a day to
Speaker 5: a friend that's not going anywhere, that has no dreams.
Speaker 6: Is not redeeming the time. God has given you a present.
Speaker 6: It's called today. What are you going to do with it?
Speaker 6: This is a call to action.
Speaker 5: Get focused, good organized, set your goals, make your plans.
Speaker 5: God could have chosen anyone to be here, but he
Speaker 5: chose you. And the scripture talks about living well spent lives.
Speaker 5: When we go to bed at night, we should ask ourselves,
Speaker 5: did I live a well spent day, Did I take
Speaker 5: steps toward my goals? Was I blessing to someone else?
Speaker 5: Did I invest my time or did I waste my time?
Speaker 6: I read where the average.
Speaker 5: Person spends over eighty hours a year looking for things
Speaker 5: they misplaced car keys, cell phones, glasses, receipts, children. Somebody
Speaker 5: said the reason God gives babies to young people is
Speaker 5: because older people would forget where they left them. Do
Speaker 5: yourself a favor, save yourself eighty hours a year and
Speaker 5: get organized redeem that time. I know too many people
Speaker 5: that are incredibly talented. They have great potential, but they're
Speaker 5: not disciplined when it comes to how they spend their time.
Speaker 5: They have good intentions, but they're easily distracted and they
Speaker 5: end up off course. There are a thousand good things
Speaker 5: you can give your time to each day. You have
Speaker 5: to be disciplined to stay focused on what's best for you.
Speaker 5: If not, you'll end up chasing the latest trend, trying
Speaker 5: to keep up with your friend, distracted, entangled in things
Speaker 5: that are not a part of your destiny. It's like
Speaker 5: a man I heard about. He was walking through the
Speaker 5: airport on the way to his flight. He saw a
Speaker 5: sign on the terminal wall that said know your future
Speaker 5: twenty five cents. He was intrigued by it, and he
Speaker 5: walked over and put a quarter in the slot. The
Speaker 5: computer readoubt said your name is John Smith. You're on
Speaker 5: the two to twenty flight to Boston. He couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5: He thought, how does this thing know my name? How
Speaker 5: does it know my flight number? A friend was walking by.
Speaker 5: He called him over and said, look at this. Put
Speaker 5: another quarter in. Did it again? Your name is John
Speaker 5: You're on the two twenty flight to Boston. His friend
Speaker 5: looked kind of puzzled, shrugged his shoulders and went on.
Speaker 5: The man reached in his pocket to get another quarter out.
Speaker 6: He's going to do it again. Didn't have any more coins.
Speaker 5: He had to walk way back to the news stand
Speaker 5: to get changed.
Speaker 6: It's a long line.
Speaker 5: He waited and waited, finally got that quarter, came back,
Speaker 5: put it in the slot. It said, your name is
Speaker 5: John Smith. You just missed the two twenty flight to Boston.
Speaker 6: Stay focused.
Speaker 5: It's easy to get sidetracked by things that pull you
Speaker 5: off course. And you look up and the day is gone,
Speaker 5: or the year is gone, or twenty years have gone.
Speaker 5: Nothing will be sadder than to come to the end
Speaker 5: of life and think why did I waste so many days?
Speaker 5: Why didn't I live focused? Now make this decision with
Speaker 5: me that you're going.
Speaker 6: To redeem the time.
Speaker 5: We have a responsibility. God has entrusted you with his life.
Speaker 5: He breathed his breath into you. He's put gifts and
Speaker 5: talents on the inside. You have seeds of greatness. You're
Speaker 5: not just on planet Earth taking up space. You're a
Speaker 5: person of destiny. With that gift of life comes a
Speaker 5: responsibility to develop your talents, to pursue your dreams, to
Speaker 5: become who God's created you to be.
Speaker 6: And on a regular.
Speaker 5: Basis, you need to reevaluate what you're doing, refocus your life,
Speaker 5: get rid of any distractions. Paul said in another place,
Speaker 5: I run with purpose.
Speaker 6: In every step.
Speaker 5: When we understand the value of time and see each
Speaker 5: day as the gift that it is, it helps us
Speaker 5: to keep the right perspective. You realize every battle is
Speaker 5: not worth fighting. You don't have time to get engaged
Speaker 5: in conflicts that are not between you and your God
Speaker 5: given destiny. And if somebody has a problem with you,
Speaker 5: as long as you're being your best, doing what God's
Speaker 5: put in your heart with all all due respect. That's
Speaker 5: their problem and not yours.
Speaker 6: You don't have.
Speaker 5: To resolve conflict with every person. Some people don't want
Speaker 5: to be at.
Speaker 6: Peace with you. That's a distraction.
Speaker 5: Don't waste your valuable time.
Speaker 6: Fighting battles that don't matter.
Speaker 5: When you realize your days are numbered, you don't respond
Speaker 5: to every critic.
Speaker 6: You don't try to convince people.
Speaker 5: To like you that are never going to like you.
Speaker 5: You accept the fact that some people are never going
Speaker 5: to give you their approval. But that's okay. You know
Speaker 5: you have Almighty God's approval. When you're redeeming the time,
Speaker 5: you're not trying to keep someone happy that's never going
Speaker 5: to be happy. Some people, no matter what you do
Speaker 5: for them, is not going to be enough, but their
Speaker 5: happiness is not your responsibility. Always be kind, be respectful,
Speaker 5: but your attitude should be If you don't want to
Speaker 5: be happy, that's fine, but you're not going to keep
Speaker 5: me from being happy. I know this day is a gift,
Speaker 5: and I'm not going to live it trying to change
Speaker 5: things that I cannot change, or trying to fix people
Speaker 5: that don't want.
Speaker 6: To be fixed. That's redeeming the time.
Speaker 5: When you realize your time is limited, You don't get offended.
Speaker 5: You don't get upset because somebody's playing politics, stressed out
Speaker 5: because somebody's trying to make you look bad. You let
Speaker 5: it go and trust God to make your wrongs right.
Speaker 5: A lady was telling me how a family member had
Speaker 5: done her wrong. She was very negative and starting to
Speaker 5: get bitter. I told her what I'm telling you, life
Speaker 5: is too short to live that way. Let it go,
Speaker 5: and God will be your vindicator.
Speaker 6: She didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 5: She said, no, I'm not going to be happy until
Speaker 5: he apologizes. What she doesn't realize is she is wasting
Speaker 5: valuable days. I don't know he may never apologize. I wonder,
Speaker 5: like her, how many that we've wasted. We can't say
Speaker 5: that we redeemed the time. We didn't appreciate the day.
Speaker 5: We just drug through it, upset, offended, discouraged. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: don't let the sun go down on your anger. The
Speaker 5: reason many people have no joy, no enthusiasm, is because
Speaker 5: they go to bed each night with unforgiveness in their heart,
Speaker 5: reliving their hurts, thinking about their disappointments.
Speaker 6: Here's the problem.
Speaker 5: If the sun goes down with bitterness, it will come
Speaker 5: back up with bitterness. If it goes down with resentment,
Speaker 5: it comes back up with resentment. That's blocking God's blessings.
Speaker 5: It's keeping you from seeing the bright future. If you
Speaker 5: want the sun to shine brightly in your life once again,
Speaker 5: before you go to bed each night, you need to
Speaker 5: say God, I'm releasing every negative thing that's happened to
Speaker 5: me today. I'm releasing every hurt, releasing every worry, releasing
Speaker 5: every disappointment. I'm forgiving the people that did me wrong. God,
Speaker 5: I'm going to bed in peace. When you do that,
Speaker 5: the sun will go down with nothing blocking it. When
Speaker 5: it comes back up the next morning, you'll have a
Speaker 5: new spring in your step, excited about the day, ready
Speaker 5: for your future. Don't go to bed at night with
Speaker 5: any kind of defeat still in your mind.
Speaker 6: I talked to a young lady.
Speaker 5: She's a television reporter at a local station here in town,
Speaker 5: and during Hurricane Ike, she was out covering the story.
Speaker 5: Her assignment was to find people that were down and
Speaker 5: out because of the hurricane, and people that were having
Speaker 5: a hard time finding food. And she was at one
Speaker 5: of the food drops talking to people in line, but
Speaker 5: nobody had a sad story. They were all grateful that
Speaker 5: they were alive and talking about how.
Speaker 6: They were going to make it well.
Speaker 5: Victoria and I and some Lakewood volunteers happened to be there,
Speaker 5: and she came over with the camera and asked me,
Speaker 5: what's the worst thing that I'd see? And I said, yes,
Speaker 5: some people are struggling, but they've got faith. They know
Speaker 5: their overcomers, they know they're victors and not victims. She thought, well,
Speaker 5: I knew Joel wasn't going to tell me anything sad,
Speaker 5: so she went and found Victoria. Victoria was worse than me.
Speaker 5: She said, these people are fired up. They know God's
Speaker 5: in control and something better is coming their way. She
Speaker 5: got back to the station and she told her supervisor,
Speaker 5: I couldn't find any sad stories, but I got Joel
Speaker 5: and Victoria ostein commenting on the hurricane. She thought they
Speaker 5: would be excited, but it was just the opposite. They
Speaker 5: didn't want us, They wanted sad stories. She ended up
Speaker 5: getting terminated over that incident. They let her go and
Speaker 5: she could have been discouraged, depressed, bitter, but she understands
Speaker 5: this principle that every day is a gift from God.
Speaker 6: She started thinking.
Speaker 5: God that new doors were going to open and thanking
Speaker 5: him that favor was coming her way.
Speaker 6: Not long after that, we received.
Speaker 5: A phone call from a very prestigious broadcasting company. They
Speaker 5: saw her report on the hurricane, the same one that
Speaker 5: got her fired. They said, we'd like to offer you
Speaker 5: a full time position to come and head up the
Speaker 5: department that does all of our documentaries. That was a
Speaker 5: dream come true. She couldn't believe it. She gave me
Speaker 5: a big hug and said, Joel, I just want to
Speaker 5: thank you and Victoria for getting me fired. I've heard
Speaker 5: it said disappointments are inevitable, but misery is optional. No
Speaker 5: matter what kind of setbacks you face, no matter who
Speaker 5: does you wrong, you don't have to drag through life defeated, depressed, bitter.
Speaker 6: Start redeeming the time. Do like she did.
Speaker 5: Start thanking God that he's in control and thank him
Speaker 5: that new doors are opening. Think him that favor is
Speaker 5: coming your way. The truth is we all go through
Speaker 5: the valleys, but the valleys are what lead.
Speaker 6: Us to higher mountains. They're not permanent, They're only temporary.
Speaker 6: Here's the key.
Speaker 5: When you're in the valley, instead of sitting around thinking
Speaker 5: about your problems, go out and do something good for
Speaker 5: somebody else. Volunteer while you're in the valley. Us sure
Speaker 5: while you're in the valley. Cheer somebody up when you're
Speaker 5: in the valley, most somebody's lawn while you're in the valley.
Speaker 5: When you invest your time the right way in helping others,
Speaker 5: those seeds that you sow will create the harvest you need.
Speaker 5: Not to just get out of the valley, but to
Speaker 5: come to a higher mountain, to come up to a
Speaker 5: new level of your destiny. It's important not only how
Speaker 5: we spend our time, but with whom we spend it with.
Speaker 5: To redeem the time may mean you have to prone
Speaker 5: off some relationships.
Speaker 6: That are not adding anything to your life.
Speaker 5: Don't hang around people that are not going anywhere.
Speaker 6: That have no goals, no dreams.
Speaker 5: People that are not focused, not disciplined, They compromise, take
Speaker 5: the easy way out. If you tolerate mediocrity, mediocrity will
Speaker 5: rub off on you. If you hang out with jealous, critical,
Speaker 5: unhappy people, you will end up jealous, critical, and unhappy.
Speaker 6: That's what it says in proverbs.
Speaker 5: When you walk with wise men, you will become wise.
Speaker 6: Take a look at your friends. That's what you're going
Speaker 6: to be like in a few years.
Speaker 5: If your friends are winners, leaders, givers, successful, if they
Speaker 5: have a spirit of excellence, integrity, positive, motivated, then those
Speaker 5: good qualities are going to rub off on you.
Speaker 6: When you're with them.
Speaker 5: You're investing your time, they're making you better. But if
Speaker 5: you hang out with people that are sloppy, undisciplined, unmotivated,
Speaker 5: not going anywhere, let me give you some great advice.
Speaker 6: Find some new friends.
Speaker 5: You cannot become who God created you to be hanging
Speaker 5: out with them. And they may be a good person,
Speaker 5: they may have a good heart, but your destiny is
Speaker 5: too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable
Speaker 5: to let them drag you down.
Speaker 6: Some people, the only thing.
Speaker 5: That's keeping them from a new level of their destiny
Speaker 5: is wrong friendships. You cannot hang out with chickens and
Speaker 5: expect a sword like an eagle. You don't have to
Speaker 5: make some big announcement and go tell them, hey, man,
Speaker 5: I'm cutting you off, Joel said, to get.
Speaker 6: Rid of you.
Speaker 5: No, do me a favor and leave my name out
Speaker 5: of this.
Speaker 6: But you can just.
Speaker 5: Gradually spend less and less time with them. Well, Joel,
Speaker 5: what if I hurt their feelings? What if they keep
Speaker 5: you from your destiny. I heard about a lady that
Speaker 5: was reevaluating her friendships. Her answering machine said, I'm sorry
Speaker 5: I missed your call. I'm making some changes in my life,
Speaker 5: and if I don't call you back, please know you
Speaker 5: were one of those changes. I'm thinking about all the
Speaker 5: people that hadn't called me back.
Speaker 6: But here's the key.
Speaker 5: If you don't let go of the wrong people, you'll
Speaker 5: never meet the right people. Sometimes we can outgrow a friendship.
Speaker 6: It was good at one time.
Speaker 5: For a few years, you were fulfilled, but now you've
Speaker 5: grown more than they have. You're running at a different pace.
Speaker 5: Your gifts are coming out in a greater way. That
Speaker 5: doesn't make them a bad person.
Speaker 6: It's just a new season.
Speaker 5: Human nature likes to hold on to the old.
Speaker 6: We like to keep everything the same.
Speaker 5: But the truth is it's healthy for seasons to change.
Speaker 5: It doesn't mean you can't still be their friend. You
Speaker 5: just know you cannot spend as much time with them
Speaker 5: and become all you were created to be. There are
Speaker 5: people that come into our life that are like scaffolding.
Speaker 5: They're designed to be there for a period of time. Now,
Speaker 5: I'm not talking about a marriage situation. I'm talking about friendships.
Speaker 6: Some of you thought you got your word from the
Speaker 6: Lord today.
Speaker 5: But these people, for a period of time, they help
Speaker 5: us grow, They inspire us, they motivate us. But like
Speaker 5: that scaffolding, at some point, it's got to come off
Speaker 5: the building. If the scaffolding stayed up, the building would
Speaker 5: never be what it was meant to be. Appreciate the
Speaker 5: people that have helped you. Always honor them, but be
Speaker 5: big enough to recognize when their part in your story
Speaker 5: is over. On a regular basis, you need to reevaluate
Speaker 5: your friendships. The people you choose to spend time with.
Speaker 5: Are they in the right position? Has the position changed?
Speaker 6: Perhaps? Could it be that it's a new season.
Speaker 5: When Jesus was on the earth, he was very selective
Speaker 5: with his friendships. Everyone of course, wanted to be close
Speaker 5: to him, but he chose only twelve men to spend
Speaker 5: most of his time with the Disciples. Out of those twelve,
Speaker 5: three were his close friends, Peter, James, and John. One
Speaker 5: could be considered his best friend.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 5: He was described as the disciple whom Jesus loved. You
Speaker 5: may know a lot of people have a bunch of acquaintances.
Speaker 6: You have to be careful who you.
Speaker 5: Allow in your inner circle. You can't have twenty best friends.
Speaker 5: The higher you go, the more successful you are, the
Speaker 5: tighter your circle needs to become. You may have twenty
Speaker 5: people you call friends, and that's great, but the two
Speaker 5: or three you choose to be close to you, you
Speaker 5: need to make sure they are one hundred percent for you.
Speaker 5: They believe in you, they stick up for you.
Speaker 6: They're with you through thick and thin.
Speaker 5: It could be that you're not seeing God's best because
Speaker 5: your team is weak. You're investing valuable time in people
Speaker 5: that were never supposed to be a part of your
Speaker 5: inner circle. You have to evaluate your friendships, get the
Speaker 5: right people in the right positions.
Speaker 6: If your team is weak, you're going to be weak.
Speaker 5: March chapter five, Jesus was traveling to another city to
Speaker 5: pray for a little girl that had died. When he
Speaker 5: arrived at the home, the scripture says Jesus didn't allow
Speaker 5: anyone to go in with him except Peter, James, and John,
Speaker 5: his inner circle. Why Jesus knew when he got in
Speaker 5: that room where the little girl was dead, he needed
Speaker 5: people that wouldn't question who he was, people that wouldn't
Speaker 5: say Hey, are you sure you're the.
Speaker 6: Son of God? What if she doesn't get healed? Do
Speaker 6: you have a backup plan?
Speaker 5: No, when you're in the heat of the battle, when
Speaker 5: you need God's favor, you need a breakthrough, You need a.
Speaker 6: Legal situation to turn around.
Speaker 5: You cannot afford to have people in your inner circle saying,
Speaker 5: do you really think you're going to get well? My
Speaker 5: grandmother died of that same thing. Do you really think
Speaker 5: you're going to get out of debt? Business is so slow? No,
Speaker 5: you need people that are joined in spirit with you,
Speaker 5: people that will say, Hey, if you're.
Speaker 6: Bold enough to believe it, count on me. I'm bold
Speaker 6: enough to agree with you.
Speaker 5: If you believe you can great that addiction, then I'm
Speaker 5: not going to tell you ten reasons why you can't.
Speaker 6: My report is you are well able.
Speaker 5: If you believe you can get your degree, you can
Speaker 5: start that business, you can see your marriage restored.
Speaker 6: Then count on me. I'm on board. I'm all for you.
Speaker 6: You need people that will.
Speaker 5: Join faith with you and not try to talk you
Speaker 5: out of it. Jesus got to the home and everyone
Speaker 5: was so distraught. You can imagine the crying, weeping, sorrowing.
Speaker 5: Jesus looked at them and said, don't be upset.
Speaker 6: She's not dead. She's only asleep.
Speaker 5: Their sorrow turned to mocking, ridiculing, making fun.
Speaker 6: What do you mean she's not dead? Of course she's dead.
Speaker 5: What Jesus did next is very significant. It's a key
Speaker 5: to living in victory. Verse forty says they mocked and
Speaker 5: jeered at him, but Jesus put them out. Notice the
Speaker 5: son of God asked them to leave.
Speaker 6: He showed them the door.
Speaker 5: Jesus knew the importance of having people around him that
Speaker 5: understood his destiny. His attitude was, Hey, I don't need
Speaker 5: your doubt. I don't need you telling me what I
Speaker 5: can't do. I'm gonna surround myself with believers, with people
Speaker 5: of faith, with people.
Speaker 6: That understand my assignment.
Speaker 5: If you have people close to you that are constantly
Speaker 5: pulling you down, telling you what you can't do, how
Speaker 5: you'll never accomplish your dreams. Understand it is scriptural to
Speaker 5: show them the door. It may be difficult, but you
Speaker 5: have to have the attitude. I cannot fulfill my destiny
Speaker 5: with your critical spirit in my life. I can't become
Speaker 5: who I was created to be with you dragging me down.
Speaker 5: I love you, but I can't allow you in my
Speaker 5: inner circle.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna love you from a distance. This is what
Speaker 6: Jesus did.
Speaker 5: He only took the girl's parents and Peter, James and
Speaker 5: John into the little girl's room.
Speaker 6: He spoke to that girl and she came back to life.
Speaker 5: But think of this, Jesus could have healed her in
Speaker 5: front of the whole crowd, laughing, mocking, ridiculing. He's God,
Speaker 5: he can do anything. He was showing us this principle.
Speaker 5: Who you have in your inner circle is extremely important.
Speaker 5: If Jesus went to the trouble to ask the wrong
Speaker 5: people to leave, if he took the time to weed
Speaker 5: out the doubters, the naysayers, the people that didn't believe
Speaker 5: in him, he was that concerned about his inner circle.
Speaker 5: How much more concerned should we be with who's in
Speaker 5: our inner circle? You need to pay attention to who's
Speaker 5: on your team, who's speaking into your life. Who are
Speaker 5: you giving your time and attention to More practical who
Speaker 5: are you eating lunch with every day at the office.
Speaker 5: Who are you talking to on the phone so much?
Speaker 5: Are they building you up or tearing you down? They
Speaker 5: pushing you toward your destiny? Or are they telling you
Speaker 5: what you can't do? Are they modeling excellence, integrity, character,
Speaker 5: godliness or they laizy, sloppy, undisciplined. Now, you have a
Speaker 5: responsibility to redeem your time. Don't waste it with people
Speaker 5: that don't sharpen you. If you don't politely show them
Speaker 5: the door, that can keep you from your destiny. And
Speaker 5: sometimes we know a person's not good for us, we
Speaker 5: know they're dragging us down, but we think if I
Speaker 5: let them go, I'm going to be lonely. Yes, you
Speaker 5: may be lonely for a season, but you'll never give
Speaker 5: up something for God without him giving you something better
Speaker 5: back in return. God will not only give you new friends,
Speaker 5: he'll give you better friends, people that inspire you, people
Speaker 5: that celebrate you, people that push you forward. Now, this
Speaker 5: may mean that you have to change who you eat
Speaker 5: lunch with.
Speaker 6: At the office every day.
Speaker 5: That person is always finding fault, bad mouthing the boss.
Speaker 5: You don't need that poison in your life. That's not
Speaker 5: redeeming the time. You may have to change hanging out
Speaker 5: with that neighbor that's always depressed, defeated, has a sad song.
Speaker 5: If you stay there, you're gonna end up defeated. It's
Speaker 5: better to make the change and be lonely for a
Speaker 5: season than to be poisoned for a lifetime. When we
Speaker 5: come to the end of our days, God is going
Speaker 5: to ask us, what did you do with the time
Speaker 5: I entrusted you with? Did you develop your gifts and talents?
Speaker 5: Did you accomplish your assignment? How did you spend your life.
Speaker 5: It's not going to be a good excuse to say, God,
Speaker 5: I got distracted, but my friend got me off course. God,
Speaker 5: I live bitter, but somebody did me wrong. God I
Speaker 5: was negative, but my company let me go. Well, I'm
Speaker 5: asking you to quit making excuses and start redeeming the time.
Speaker 5: We're not always going to be here, the scripture says,
Speaker 5: our life is like a myth.
Speaker 6: We're here for a moment, then we're gone.
Speaker 5: Make this decision that you're going to be an on
Speaker 5: purpose person.
Speaker 6: Set your goals and be disciplined to stick with it.
Speaker 5: Don't waste any more days prone off those relationships that
Speaker 5: are not adding to your life.
Speaker 6: Don't go to bed at night.
Speaker 5: With any kind of defeat, bitterness, negativity still in your mind.
Speaker 6: This day is a gift.
Speaker 5: Make sure you're investing your time.
Speaker 6: And not wasting it.
Speaker 5: If you do this, I believe and declare the seeds
Speaker 5: of greatness on the inside are going to take root
Speaker 5: and begin to flourish. You will rise higher, overcome every obstacle,
Speaker 5: and become everything that God's created you to be.
Speaker 6: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say him in today?
Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you
Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.
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Speaker 5: Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come
Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,
Speaker 5: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
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