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Thanks for listening to 37 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 6: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 38 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,839 Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friends. 40 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 6: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 41 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 6: your life. 42 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 5: Oh about bless you. 43 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 6: It's a joy to come into your homes and if 44 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 6: you're ever in a area, please stop by and be 45 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 6: a part of one of our services. 46 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 5: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 47 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,639 Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 48 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 6: about these two evil brothers that were very wealthy. One 49 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 6: of them died. His brother said to the pastor, I'll 50 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 6: make a deal with you. I'll make a large donation 51 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 6: to your church under one condition if at the funeral 52 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 6: you'll say my brother was a saint. 53 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 4: The pastor agreed, and the man made the donation. 54 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 6: During the service, the pastor said, this man was an 55 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 6: evil man. He lied, he cheated, he stole, but compared 56 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 6: to his brother, he was a saint. Say it like 57 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 6: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what 58 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 6: it says I am. I have what it says I have. 59 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 6: I can do what it says I can do. Today 60 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 6: I will be taught the word of God. I'll boldly 61 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 6: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 62 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 6: will never be the same in Jesus. 63 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 5: Now, God bless you. 64 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 6: Want to talk to you today about protecting your imagination. 65 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 6: We all have pictures that we see in our mind. 66 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 5: God created us as. 67 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 6: Visual beings like a movie screen. Different images will come up. 68 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 6: Sometimes we're not even thinking about it, and the negative 69 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 6: imagination will come. We'll see our business going down, our child, 70 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 6: getting off. 71 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 5: Course, us, losing our health. There's no truth to it. 72 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 6: It's not going to come to pass. But if you 73 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 6: let that play, you'll go through the day worried. Wrong 74 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 6: imaginations will keep you awake at night, dwelling on these 75 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 6: negative images, will cause. 76 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 5: You to live in fear. 77 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 6: It will keep you from expecting God's best. It's all 78 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 6: an imagination. 79 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 5: It's not a reality. 80 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 6: It's just something you're seeing in your mind, and it's 81 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 6: one thing to have something to deal with. 82 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 5: That's actually happening. 83 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 6: We all face challenges, but too often we're letting these 84 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 6: wrong imaginations of what might happen, what might not work out, 85 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 6: what might fall apart to steal our joy, cause us 86 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 6: to live stressed. The good news is you control your imagination. 87 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 6: You control what pictures play in your mind. Just because 88 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 6: that negative image comes doesn't mean you have to tune in. 89 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 6: You can change the channel. The scripture tells us to 90 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 6: cast down these wrong imaginations, quit letting these negative images play. 91 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 6: When my mother was fighting terminal cancer, in the middle 92 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 6: of the night, lying in bed, she would see herself 93 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 6: being buried in a new pink dress that she had 94 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 6: never worn. That picture came up on the movie screen 95 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 6: of her life. She didn't ask for it, she wasn't 96 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 6: thinking about it. She was trying to stay in faith. 97 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 6: But these negative imaginations will calm especially when we're in 98 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 6: difficult times. They'll show us all the worst case scenarios. 99 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 6: Have you ever noticed when you're in the heat of 100 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 6: the battle, you never see pictures of your overcoming the sickness, 101 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 6: if your business taken off, you're meeting the person of 102 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 6: your dreams. Those pictures don't automatically come. 103 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 5: It's just the opposite. 104 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 6: If my mother would have pulled up a chair and 105 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,239 Speaker 6: watched that movie night after night of her being buried 106 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 6: in that pink dress, that would have taken root in 107 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 6: her spirit. She would have become depressed, defeated, and might 108 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 6: not be here today. When you see these negative pictures, 109 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 6: don't take de bait. They are not a reality. That 110 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 6: is not predicting your future. That is a wrong imagination 111 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 6: that you need to cast down. Quit worrying about something 112 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 6: that's not going to happen. Quit losing sleep over something 113 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 6: that's just in your mind. That's the enemy trying to 114 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 6: torment you, try to convince you to live stressed out worried. 115 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 4: He knows he can't bring it to pass. 116 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 6: He doesn't have that authority, so the next best thing 117 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 6: he'll do is try to deceive you into believing that 118 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 6: it's a reality, so you don't enjoy your life. Don't 119 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 6: fall into that trap. Guard your mind. I talked to 120 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 6: a man that was very concerned about his health. His 121 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 6: father died at the age of forty six, his grandfather 122 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 6: died at fifty one, and other relatives had died early 123 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 6: deaths as well. All through his thirties and forties, he 124 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 6: was so stressed and so fearful. 125 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 4: Every voice said, that's going to be you, too bad. 126 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 5: It's in your genes. You're not going to make it. 127 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 4: Those images would come in his mind. 128 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 6: He saw himself like his father, getting sick, going downhill. 129 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 6: When he made it to his forty seventh birthday, he was. 130 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:59,919 Speaker 4: So happy, so relieved. 131 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 6: He made it past his father's He was still strong 132 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 6: and healthy. 133 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 4: Thought said, don't get too happy. 134 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 6: You made it to forty seven, but you'll never make 135 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 6: it to fifty one. It's just a matter of time. 136 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 6: Those images kept coming, him going downhill, him losing his health. 137 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 6: But he made it past fifty one. He made it 138 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 6: past sixty one, past seventy one. 139 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 5: Past eighty one. 140 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 6: He was ninety three years old, looked like he was seventy, strong, healthy, joyful. 141 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 6: He said, Joel, if I had it to do over again, 142 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 6: I wouldn't have lived all those years worried, losing sleep, afraid. 143 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 5: That my health wasn't going to last. 144 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 6: Are you worrying about a wrong imagination, about something that's 145 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 6: not going to come to pass. Are you going to 146 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 6: look back years from now and have to say, like him, 147 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 6: if I could do it over again, I wouldn't spend 148 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 6: all that time discouraged, afraid over what I thought was 149 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 6: going to happen. Why don't you start changing the channel. 150 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 6: Those negative pictures are not a reality. Some of the 151 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 6: things the enemy is showing you. He should win an 152 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 6: Academy award. It looks very real, it looks impressive, but 153 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 6: it's all made up. 154 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 5: It is not going to happen. 155 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 4: Quit believing those lies. 156 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 5: This scripture goes on to say you have to bring 157 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 5: down every high. 158 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 6: Thing that exalts itself above what God says about you. 159 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 4: God's not going to do it for you. 160 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 5: You have to bring it down. 161 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 6: God says you will lend and not borrow. Whatever you 162 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 6: touch will prosper and succeed. Instead of watching that picture 163 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 6: of you struggling, not having enough business, going down cast, 164 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 6: down that imagination that's exalting itself above what God promised you. 165 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 6: Start seeing yourself prosperous, coming out of debt, paying your 166 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 6: house off, having an abundance so you can be. 167 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 5: A blessing to others. 168 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 6: That image is not going to automatically come, but you 169 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 6: can create it. Use your imagination for the right purposes 170 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 6: to see what God says about you. God says, with 171 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 6: long life, he will satisfy you. Instead of watching that 172 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 6: channel of you going downhill, being buried in that pink dress, 173 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 6: not making it past your father's. 174 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 4: Death, bring down that imagination. 175 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 6: Start seeing yourself strong, healthy, living a full, blessed life. 176 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 6: Or maybe you've gone through a disappointment, a loss, an 177 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 6: unfair situation. Life hasn't turned out the way you had planned. 178 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 6: Those images will come up of you living depressed, lonely, 179 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 6: never fulfilled. But God says he will give you beauty 180 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 6: for those ashes, that he will pay you back double 181 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 6: for what was unfair, That he will take what meant 182 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 6: for your harm and use. 183 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 5: It to your advantage. 184 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,439 Speaker 6: Those pictures that are showing you defeated, rejected, lonely, they 185 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 6: are exalting themselves above what God said about you. Don't 186 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 6: let them stay up, bring them down. They are not 187 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 6: a reality. See the enemy will show you the ashes. 188 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 6: What he won't show you is the beauty that's coming. 189 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 6: He'll show you the loss. What he wants show you 190 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 6: is the new beginning that's on the way. He'll show 191 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 6: you that it's all downhill from here. What he wants 192 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 6: show you is the double that's coming, double the joy, 193 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,319 Speaker 6: double the peace, double the fulfillment. 194 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 5: Now do your part. 195 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 6: Protect your imagination, protect what you're seeing. When those images 196 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 6: come that show you going downhill, they are not from 197 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 6: God and they are not a reality. Don't waste thirty 198 00:10:55,040 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 6: years living worried, stressed out switch over into fame. The 199 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 6: mistake many people make is they only watch one channel. 200 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 6: Whatever comes up in their imagination. They think that's all 201 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 6: there is, so they watch it. 202 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 4: You need to get cable in your mind. 203 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 6: I have five hundred stations at home. When I'm watching 204 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 6: something I don't like, I don't sit there and endure it. 205 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 6: I simply change the channel. It's the same way in 206 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 6: your mind. You can have a lot of different channels. 207 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 6: On one channel, I see myself happy, fulfilled, enjoying life. 208 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 6: On another channel, I see myself healthy, whole, strong. On 209 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 6: another channel, I see myself prosperous, blessed out of death. 210 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 6: On another channel, I see Victoria loving me with her 211 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 6: whole heart. On another channel, I see Victoria loving me 212 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 6: with her whole heart. 213 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 5: I got a bunch of those channels. 214 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 6: On another channel, I see my children doing amazing things, 215 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 6: fulfilling their purpose, leaving their mark. On another channel, I 216 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 6: see our ministry growing, helping more people. And another channel, 217 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 6: I see myself living into my nineties, healthy, strong, finishing 218 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 6: my course with joy. So when I switch on one 219 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 6: of those channels that showed me going downhill, losing my health, 220 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 6: family falling apart, business drying up, I'm smart enough to say, 221 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 6: no thanks, I'm not watching that channel. I don't watch 222 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 6: the defeat channel. I don't watch the things are going 223 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,079 Speaker 6: downhill channel. I don't watch the bad memories channel. I 224 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 6: stay on the victory channel, the favor channel, the more 225 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 6: than enough channel, the overcoming channel. 226 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 5: In your mind. 227 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 6: When these negative imaginations come up, it's real simple. 228 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 5: Change the channel. Quit watching things that. 229 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 6: Are depressing you, making you worried, causing you to live 230 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 6: in fear, not pursue your dreams. Cast down those imaginations. 231 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 6: You control what plays in your mind. You can't stop 232 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 6: all the negative images from coming, but you can stop 233 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 6: them from staying. You have the remote control. Don't get 234 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 6: stuck on that one channel. There was a young lady 235 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,079 Speaker 6: that came down for prayer. She and her husband wanted 236 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 6: to have a baby in They'd been trying for many 237 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 6: years with no success, and she'd gone through all the 238 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 6: fertility treatments. She said, Joel, I've been worried since I 239 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 6: was in my early teens that I wouldn't be able 240 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 6: to have a baby because my mother had a terrible 241 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 6: time getting pregnant with me. My grandmother had the same problem. 242 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 6: Other family members have struggled with infertility. 243 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 5: I always knew this was going to happen to me. 244 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 6: What you constantly dwell on is creating a picture in 245 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 6: your imagination. Many times, the enemy doesn't have to put 246 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 6: negative images in our mind. We're creating them with our 247 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 6: own thoughts. Now, I told her what I I'm telling you. 248 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 5: You have to change the channel. 249 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 6: Quit seeing yourself bearing not able to have a child, disappointed, 250 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 6: cast down that imagination. God says, the fruit of your 251 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 6: womb is blessed. He says, your seed will be mighty 252 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 6: in the land. 253 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 5: He said in Psalms, you will be the happy mother 254 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 5: of children. 255 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 6: That means that infertility is exalting itself above what God 256 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 6: says about you. You have to bring that down. She 257 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 6: changed the channel. She started seeing herself with a baby. 258 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 6: She switched off that station of all of her relatives, 259 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 6: bearing disappointed, She started seeing her and her husband playing 260 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 6: with this baby, having fun, going around as a family. 261 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 6: Three years later, she came back with a beautiful baby girl. 262 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 6: Medically speaking, she wasn't supposed to have a child, but 263 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 6: God has the final say. God controls the whole universe. 264 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 6: Are negative pictures keeping you from your dreams? Do you 265 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 6: see yourself overcoming that addiction, happily married, accomplishing what God 266 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 6: put in your heart? 267 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 5: Or you watching the wrong channel? 268 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 6: The scripture tells us in Timothy to have a disciplined mind. 269 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 6: You can't watch every imagination that comes up. Your mind 270 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 6: will naturally gravitate toward the negative. 271 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 5: If your business. 272 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 6: Starts to slow down, don't be surprised if in your 273 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 6: imagination you Start seeing the creditors coming you see you 274 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 6: having to lay people off. 275 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 5: You see the doors closing. 276 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 6: If you're not disciplined and you let that play, you'll 277 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 6: go around worried, stressed out. 278 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 5: What's the answer. 279 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 4: Change the channel. 280 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 6: You can create new pictures in your mind. Start seeing 281 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 6: your business taking of seeing new customers finding you, seeing 282 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 6: opportunities chasing you down. 283 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 5: If you're struggling with an. 284 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 6: Illness like mom, those negative imaginations will come. You'll see 285 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 6: yourself going downhill, not able to go back to work. 286 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 6: Be disciplined in your thought life. When you're facing a 287 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 6: physical battle, you need all of your energy to go. 288 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 5: Toward you getting well. 289 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 6: When you're watching negative imaginations, that's taking your strength, draining 290 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 6: your energy, making you weaker. 291 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 5: Put up some new pictures. 292 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 6: Start seeing yourself strong and healthy. See yourself out exercising, 293 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 6: full of energy. See yourself living a long, blessed life. 294 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 6: If you'll use your imagination the right way, it will 295 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 6: help you stay hopeful and to believe that God can 296 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 6: turn it around. When God promised Abraham that he was 297 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 6: going to be the father of many nations, he was 298 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 6: in his eighties, too old to have a baby, and 299 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 6: God told him to go outside his tent, look up 300 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 6: into the nighttime sky, and as many stars as he 301 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,239 Speaker 6: could see, that's how many descendants he would have. It 302 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 6: wasn't a coincidence that God wanted him to have a 303 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 6: picture of it, something that he could see. God knew 304 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 6: these negative images would come. He knew Abraham would start 305 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,360 Speaker 6: seeing himself as being too old, thinking about how impossible 306 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 6: it was. 307 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,919 Speaker 5: So God gave him this picture, and. 308 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 6: Every time Abraham was tempted to get worried and talk 309 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 6: himself out of it, he would go out and look 310 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 6: up at the sky. He'd imagine how those stars represented 311 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 6: what God promised him. What's playing on the picture screen 312 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 6: of your mind? What God has spoken over you, How 313 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 6: you'll accomplish your dreams, break the addiction, see your health restored? 314 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 6: Or are you letting discouraging pictures play. If the only 315 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 6: images you're seeing are negative, it's going to limit you. 316 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 6: God wants to use your imagination to create fresh vision, 317 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 6: to make you hopeful, to help. 318 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 5: You stay filled with faith. 319 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 6: There was a gentleman diagnosed with cancer of the bladder. 320 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 6: The doctors told him that it was inoperable. 321 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 5: He took chemotherapy, but it. 322 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 6: Didn't do any good, and all they could do was 323 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 6: give him some pain medicine and send him home. They 324 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 6: told him he had less than a year to live. 325 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 6: But instead of being depressed giving up on life, he 326 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 6: did something interesting. All through the day, he imagined armies 327 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 6: of healing white blood cells flowing through his body. He 328 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 6: pictured them coming down from his head, going through his veins, 329 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 6: into his organs, attacking those canterst cells. He said, these 330 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 6: images were as clear in my mind as if I 331 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,199 Speaker 6: was watching them on television. Hundreds of times throughout the 332 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 6: day he saw life, healing, wholeness flowing back into him. 333 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 6: The whole time thanking God that he was restoring health, 334 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 6: that he could do the impossible. He went back a 335 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 6: year later for a checkup. The doctor said, we can't 336 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 6: explain it. We don't know how this has happened, but 337 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 6: we can't find any sign of cancer in your body. 338 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 6: You may be struggling with an illness. The medical report 339 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 6: doesn't look good. But instead of dwelling on these negative images, 340 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 6: why don't you start imagining right now these healing cells 341 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 6: flowing through you. 342 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 4: Picture these cells. 343 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 6: That are full of the life of the Most High God, 344 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 6: attacking and devouring every sick and disease cell in you 345 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,239 Speaker 6: see yourself getting healthier, see yourself coming out of that 346 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 6: sick bed. 347 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 4: Cancer is no match for our God. 348 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 6: What's trying to stop you is no match for the 349 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 6: creator of the universe. Keep the right pictures playing in 350 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 6: your mind. Don't let your imagination be used worry you 351 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 6: to defeat you. Turn it around and use it to 352 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 6: encourage you, to strengthen you, to inspire you. God said 353 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 6: in Jeremiah, I have set you over the nations, to 354 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 6: rule over kingdoms. 355 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 4: To pull down and root out, to build and plant. 356 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 6: Notice the order before you can build and plant, before 357 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 6: the situation will turn around, before you see increase. 358 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 5: You have to pull down and root out, like Jeremiah. 359 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 6: God has a place of victory for you where you 360 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 6: will rule over everything that's holding you back. But you 361 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 6: have to first pull down these wrong imaginations. You have 362 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 6: to root out any negative pictures. If you're going to 363 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 6: a job interview, don't imagine that you're not going to 364 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 6: get it. Don't imagine that they're not going to like you. 365 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 6: You're defeating yourself before you get there. Pull down that 366 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 6: imagination and imagine them choosing you. Imagine you standing out 367 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 6: imagine you working there, excelling at that position. If you 368 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 6: let these negative imaginations play, they'll cause you to be weak, timid, 369 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 6: feel unqualified. 370 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 5: Change the channel, Joel. What if I do that and 371 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 5: it doesn't work. What if you do it and it 372 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 5: does work. 373 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 6: If you do it and you don't get the position, 374 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 6: that just means God has something better in store. 375 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 5: But if you're always letting these. 376 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 6: Negative images play, you will never know. 377 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:33,199 Speaker 5: What you could have become. 378 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 6: If you feel a pain in your side, thoughts will 379 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 6: tell you, oh, man, that's serious. That's the same thing 380 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 6: that took your uncle's life. He didn't make it that long. 381 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 5: Neither will you. 382 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 6: If you're not disciplined in your mind, you'll get all paniced. 383 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 6: You'll start thinking of all the worst case scenarios. By 384 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 6: the time you get home, you'll be writing out your will, 385 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,160 Speaker 6: making your final arrangements. 386 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 5: All it was was you had too much pizza for lunch. 387 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 5: You just needed some pepto 'bismo. 388 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 6: Even if it is something serious, what's going to help 389 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 6: you to stay in peace is to keep the right. 390 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 4: Images in your mind. 391 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 6: Most of the things that come against us are not 392 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 6: what we think they are. We let our imaginations run 393 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 6: wild and show us all the worst case possibilities. If 394 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 6: you hear a siren at night your children are not home, 395 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 6: thoughts will tell you. 396 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 5: That's your child. 397 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 6: Your son's been in an accident. He's headed to the 398 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 6: hospital right now. You better get up, do something about it. 399 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 5: If you let that. 400 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 6: Plane before long, you'll see the ambulance, you'll see the accident, 401 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,879 Speaker 6: You'll see it all taking place. Those are wrong imaginations 402 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 6: that you have to cast down instead of believing those lies. 403 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 4: Worrying, imagining the worst. 404 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 5: Turn it around. 405 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 6: Father, Thank you that my children are in the palm 406 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 6: of your hand. Thank you that no weapon formed against 407 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 6: them will prosper. Thank you that your angels will watching 408 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 6: over them, keeping them from accident and harm. What am 409 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 6: I saying, Be disciplined in your mind. Don't let your 410 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 6: imagination run wild and show you all the negative possibilities. 411 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 6: It was a twenty three year old young lady named Sarah. 412 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 6: She went to the grocery store to pick up a 413 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,199 Speaker 6: few items. When she got back in her car, she 414 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 6: heard a loud noise and felt something hit her in 415 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 6: the back of the head. She thought she'd been shot. 416 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 6: She reached up and felt what she thought were her 417 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 6: brains coming out. 418 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 5: She initially passed out. 419 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 6: When she woke up, she sat in the car motionless 420 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 6: for over an hour, holding the back of her head, 421 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 6: trying to keep her brains in. A man walked by 422 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 6: and noticed something was wrong called the police. The police 423 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 6: came and asked her to open the car door. She 424 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 6: said she couldn't, she had been shot and she was 425 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 6: holding her brains in. The police broke open the back window. 426 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 6: They discovered a can of Pillsbury biscuits had exploded. 427 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 5: The doe had. 428 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 6: Shot out and hit her in the back. 429 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 4: Of the head. 430 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 6: Maybe what you're imagining is not what you think it is. 431 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 6: Maybe that's not your brains after all. Here's my point. 432 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 6: Maybe you're not stuck. Maybe the addiction is not permanent. 433 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 6: Maybe your health isn't going downhill. Maybe your dream is achievable. 434 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 6: Perhaps all those pictures that have been playing in your 435 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 6: imagination are not your true reality. Maybe they're just a 436 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 6: bunch of dough trying to keep you from moving forward. 437 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 6: Do yourself a favor, open up the car door, let 438 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 6: go of your brains, and get going. 439 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 5: About a year after I began. 440 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 6: Ministering, the church was really growing, and we decided to 441 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 6: start a second Sunday morning service. I announced that on 442 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 6: the first Sunday of the year two thousand, we were 443 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,679 Speaker 6: going to have this new early morning service. This was 444 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 6: in October, so I had several months to think about it. 445 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 6: During that time, all kinds of negative thoughts told me, Joel, 446 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 6: this is a big mistake. Nobody's going to calme. You're 447 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 6: going to look like a fool. I tried to stay 448 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 6: in faith. But one night I had a dream. A 449 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 6: better description was a nightmare. It was that first Sunday 450 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 6: of our new service when I went out to minister 451 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 6: not one person was in the auditorium, not Victoria, not 452 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 6: my mother, not a musician, not an usher, nobody. I 453 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 6: woke up in a cold sweat. Thoughts told me you 454 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 6: better cancel it. There's still time to call it off. 455 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 6: You can halfway save face. All through the day, that 456 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 6: image of that empty auditorium would come up. I had 457 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 6: to do what I'm asking you to do. 458 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 4: Change the channel. 459 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 6: Sometimes I'd change it and the same picture would be 460 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 6: on the next station, kind of like watching the presidential debates. 461 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 5: They are everywhere. 462 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 6: I had to keep flipping and flipping till I. 463 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 5: Found it's something encouraging. 464 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 6: The week of that first service rolled around and I 465 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 6: was talking to my mom. I kind of nonchalantly said, 466 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 6: are you coming to the new service this Sunday? She 467 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 6: looked at me puzzled and said, Joel, does it start 468 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 6: this weekend? Thought, dear Lord, we've announced it four hundred 469 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 6: and thirty seven times. 470 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 5: My old mother's not coming. 471 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 6: That dream might have been a prophecy, but I said, yes, 472 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 6: it starts this weekend. 473 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:28,399 Speaker 4: You need to come. 474 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:34,719 Speaker 6: Bring all your friends, enemies, neighbors, cousins, relatives, ancestors. It 475 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 6: wasn't easy, but I kept changing the channel. I made 476 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 6: up my mind, I am not watching the empty auditorium channel. 477 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 6: I'm not watching that nobody's coming channel. I'm going to 478 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 6: stay on the victory channel. In my imagination, through my 479 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 6: eyes of faith, I saw thousands of people coming on 480 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 6: that first Sunday of two thousand. 481 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 5: I was so nervous I left the house an hour early. 482 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 6: When I pulled up to the property, one parking lot 483 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,239 Speaker 6: was already full. We had over six thousand people that 484 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 6: day and they've been coming ever since. 485 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 5: What am I saying? 486 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 6: Cast down these wrong imaginations? They are not a reality. 487 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 6: They are trying to deceive you into living worried, afraid, 488 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 6: so you will give up on your dreams. Why is 489 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 6: it that we let our imagination run wild only in 490 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 6: the negative direction. We imagine the worst, Imagine what's not 491 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 6: going to work out. Why don't you start letting your 492 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 6: imagination run wild in the right direction. Imagine living a 493 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 6: supersized life. Imagine accomplishing your dream. Imagine your children doing 494 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 6: amazing things. Let's keep the right pictures in our minds. 495 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 6: When those negative images come up, be quick. 496 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 5: To change the channel. 497 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 4: Remember they are not a reality. 498 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 6: If you will protect your imagination, I believe and declare, 499 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 6: like Abraham, God is going to bring promises to pass. 500 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 6: You're going to overcome obstacles, accomplish your dreams, and reach 501 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 6: the fullness of your destiny. 502 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 5: In Jesus's name, if you receive it, can you say it? 503 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 6: Man? Today, I'd like to give you an opportunity to 504 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 6: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray 505 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 6: with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 506 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 5: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 507 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 6: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 508 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,640 Speaker 6: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 509 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 6: God first place. He's going to take your places that 510 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 6: you've never dreamed. 511 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 7: Thank you for listening to the Joel Oustine podcast. Help 512 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 7: us continue to share the message of hope with those 513 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 7: all over the world. 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