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Hi, 40 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 5: this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our 41 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 5: podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 42 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 43 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friends. 44 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and wait for God's very best in 45 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:08,839 Speaker 5: your line. Well, God bless you to joy to come 46 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 5: into your homes. We're praying for you guys, and I 47 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 5: hope you'll stay connected with us all throughout the week. 48 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 5: You can download our daily podcast or go to our 49 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 5: YouTube channel, watch the messages anytime, follow us on social media. 50 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 5: We want to keep it encouraged and inspired. But thanks 51 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 5: for tuning in, Thanks again for coming out. I like 52 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 5: to start with something funny, and I heard about these 53 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 5: elderly ladies way up in their eighties. They were driving 54 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 5: down the freeway together when they were pulled over by 55 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 5: a policeman. The officer asked the driver, ma'am, do you 56 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 5: realize you're only going thirty five miles an hour? She said, yes, Officer, 57 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,839 Speaker 5: I realize that. He said, well, why are you going 58 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,959 Speaker 5: so slow? She said, because that's what the sign says. 59 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 5: He kind of laughed and said, no, ma'am, that's the 60 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 5: number of the freeway. 61 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 4: This is Highway thirty five. 62 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,399 Speaker 5: And by the way, why did these other passengers look 63 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 5: so terrified? Smiled and said, because we just got off 64 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 5: Highway ninety five. 65 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 4: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 66 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 4: I am what it says. 67 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 5: I am, I have what it says I have, I 68 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 5: can do what it says I can do. 69 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. 70 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 5: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 71 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 72 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 73 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 5: letting go of control. God puts promises and dreams in 74 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 5: all of our hearts. We know we're going to get well, 75 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 5: we know our business is going to succeed. 76 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 4: We know we're going to meet the right person. 77 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 5: But God doesn't tell us how it's going to happen 78 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 5: or when it's going to happen. And too often, if 79 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 5: it's not happening the way we thought or on our timetable, 80 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 5: we get frustrated. God, When is this going to turn around? 81 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 5: When is my health going to improve? How come this 82 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 5: situation at work is not getting better? We put God 83 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 5: in a box and tell him how to do it, 84 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 5: when it should happen, and who to use. If it's 85 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 5: not working out the way we think, we can get discouraged. 86 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 5: But once you pray, once you believe, you have to 87 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 5: leave how God does it and when he does. 88 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:18,719 Speaker 4: It up to him. 89 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 5: If you put a time frame on it and a 90 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 5: method of how it's going to happen, you're going to 91 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 5: be frustrated because God's ways are not our ways. He's 92 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 5: working when we can't see it. Sometimes it's taking longer 93 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 5: because He has something better in store. One of the 94 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 5: best things I've learned is to trust God's timing and 95 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 5: trust his ways. What God promised will come to pass, 96 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 5: but it may not happen the way you think, may 97 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 5: not be when you had planned. If you're trying to 98 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 5: control the outcome and control the time frame, you're going 99 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 5: to live worried, you have to release control, release having 100 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 5: to have it happen your way. God already has it 101 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 5: figured out. He knows the end from the beginning. 102 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 4: But here's the key. He doesn't give us the details. 103 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 5: If you knew how everything was going to work out, 104 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 5: it wouldn't take faith. If he told you three months 105 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 5: from now, a big door is going to open. It 106 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 5: looks like you're going backwards, but there's a shortcut. It's 107 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 5: going to put you ahead. You would relax and say, Okay, 108 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 5: it's all going to work out. Why don't you do 109 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 5: that now? God has it all planned out. He's doing 110 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 5: things you can't see. There are good breaks coming, healing 111 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 5: favor the right people. 112 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 4: They're already on your schedule. 113 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 5: If you'll release control, then you can enjoy your life 114 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 5: while you're waiting for. 115 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 4: Things to change. 116 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 5: What's upsetting you, what's keeping you awake at night? God 117 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 5: is saying, release it to me. I'm in control, I'm 118 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 5: ordering your steps. I'm working behind the scenes. 119 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 4: It may not be good, but I'm going to turn 120 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 4: it for your good. 121 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 5: The scripture says those who have believed in er into rest. 122 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 4: Once you believed you. 123 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 5: Don't have to figure everything out, you may not see 124 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 5: anything changing. 125 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 4: You'll be tempted to worry. Stay at rest. 126 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 5: When you're at rest, you're showing God that you trust him. 127 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 5: Maybe you're believing for your health to improve, but the 128 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,119 Speaker 5: medical report is not getting better. 129 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 4: You thought it would have happened by now. 130 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 5: You could be worried, complaining, but instead you're thanking God. 131 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 5: You're declaring his promises. You're being your best each day. 132 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 5: When you're at rest, you're in faith. 133 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 4: That's what allows God to work. But if you're upset. 134 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 5: Over what's not changing, worried about your finances, can't sleep 135 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 5: because that child is off course, that's a sign that 136 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 5: you've stopped believing. You need to enter into rest, come 137 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 5: back to a place of peace. You can't trust God 138 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 5: and be worried at the same time. 139 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 4: Wore at rest. You know God's in control. 140 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 5: You know all things are gonna work for your good. 141 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 5: You know what he started, He's going to finish well. Joel, 142 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 5: I'm worried about my finances. I'm upset about the medical report. 143 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 5: When is this pandemic going to be over? It's not 144 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 5: a surprise to God. He hasn't brought you this far. 145 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 4: To leave you. 146 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 5: Release the worry, release the frustration, release having to know 147 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 5: all the details. It will always be situations that we 148 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 5: don't understand, and problems that look too big, obstacles that 149 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 5: seem permanent. 150 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 4: That's a test. 151 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 5: Will you go through life worried, wondering if it's going 152 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 5: to work out, discourage because it's taken so long, or 153 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 5: will you enter into rest? 154 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 4: Will you believe that God. 155 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 5: Is in control and that he will get you to 156 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 5: where you're supposed to be. My sister Lisa and her 157 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 5: husband Kevin tried to have a baby for many years 158 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 5: with no success, and Lisa took all the fertility treatments 159 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 5: and had a full of surgeries, but still couldn't conceive. Finally, 160 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 5: the doctors told her that she wouldn't be able to 161 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 5: have a baby in Lisa. 162 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 4: Kept praying, kept believing. Year after year. She knew that. 163 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 5: God has the final say, but at one point she 164 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 5: realized she was consumed with having that baby. 165 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 4: That was her main focus. 166 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 5: And sometimes we want something so badly it can get 167 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 5: out of balance. We're not going to be happy unless God. 168 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 4: Does it our way. You have to put it on 169 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 4: the altar. 170 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 5: Don't release the dream, don't give up on the promise, 171 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 5: but release control of how God is going to bring 172 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 5: it to pass. He may not do it a traditional 173 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 5: way what you were expecting. Anything, you have to have 174 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 5: to be happy. The enemy can use against you. But 175 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 5: when you can say, God, this is what I want. 176 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 5: But even if it doesn't work out my way. 177 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 4: I'm still going to be happy. I'm still going to 178 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 4: give you praise. That takes away the power of the enemy. 179 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 5: Hold tightly to your dreams, but hold loosely to how. 180 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 4: God is going to do it. 181 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 5: A few months after Lisa released control, she received a 182 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 5: phone call from a friend of ours in another state 183 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 5: that has a home for teenage girls. One of the 184 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 5: young ladies was about to give birth to twins. She 185 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 5: asked Lisa and Kevin if they would be interested in 186 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 5: adopting them. They didn't have to think twice. They knew 187 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 5: that was an answered prayer. A couple of months later, 188 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 5: they were at the hospital when the babies were born. 189 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 5: Today they're beautiful young ladies in their twenties. God knows 190 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 5: how to bring promises to pass, but you have to 191 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 5: stay open to how it's going to happen. If you're 192 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 5: set in having it one way, you can be frustrated. 193 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 5: God does things out of the ordinary, unusual. He may 194 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 5: not bring your dream to pass a traditional way. Seemed 195 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 5: like Lisa was falling behind. But then one phone and 196 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 5: she had not one, but two babies. She didn't have 197 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 5: to get pregnant, she didn't have to carry the baby 198 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 5: nine months. God did it an unusual way. Are you 199 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 5: upset about. 200 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 4: Something that's the hand of God. 201 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 5: It hasn't happened yet, because God's going to do something. 202 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 4: Better than you think. 203 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 5: The delay, the disappointment, the setback, it's not working against you, 204 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,719 Speaker 5: is working for you. Release control of how it's going 205 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 5: to happen. God is about to do unusual things, out 206 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 5: of the ordinary, unprecedented. You're not falling behind, You're about 207 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 5: to receive a phone call, a good break, a promotion, 208 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 5: your health suddenly turns around. I've learned God doesn't always 209 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 5: take us down a straight path. There will be detours, delays, curves, 210 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 5: these times when you feel like you're going the wrong way. God, 211 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 5: I'm believing to go this direction for promotion, healing, freedom, 212 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 5: but I'm going the other direction. I'm in a pandemic. 213 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 5: I'm seeing just the opposite. Don't get set on the method. 214 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 5: The way you think it's going to happen may not 215 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 5: be the way God's going to do it. What you 216 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 5: can't see is on that path there's going the wrong way. 217 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 4: There's another turn. 218 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 5: It leads to a shortcut that will catapult you ahead. 219 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 5: Lisa was believing for one child and came out with two. 220 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 4: That's the way our God is. 221 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 5: Where he's leading you is going to be better than 222 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 5: you've imagined. The reason it's taking longer is because it's 223 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 5: going to be bigger than you thought, more rewarding, more fulfilling. 224 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 5: Doors aren't opening yet. You don't know what God is 225 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 5: up to. You can't see what he's doing behind the scenes. 226 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 5: People are against you. The trouble hasn't turned around. Your 227 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 5: family member is still off course, don't be discouraged by 228 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 5: what's not changing. 229 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 4: Your time is coming. 230 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 5: The scripture about how there is a set time for 231 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 5: God to favor you, a set time to heal you, 232 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 5: a set time to turn the problem around. If there's 233 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 5: a right time, that means there's a wrong time. If 234 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 5: it hasn't happened yet, then it wasn't meant to be. 235 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 5: Instead of fighting where you are, why don't you embrace 236 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 5: where you are? 237 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 4: God. 238 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 5: I know you're ordering my steps. I'm right where I'm 239 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 5: supposed to be. 240 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 4: Lord. 241 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 5: I want to thank you that my set times are coming. 242 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 5: I can promise you this, God is not going to 243 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 5: be one second lamb. He's not going to accidentally miss 244 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 5: your set time. And it's good to be passionate about 245 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 5: our dreams and passionate about healing, freedom, promotion. 246 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 4: But don't be so consumed that you're not going. 247 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 5: To be happy while you're waiting for God to bring 248 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 5: it to pass. Don't put your happiness on hold until 249 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 5: everything works out. 250 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 4: This day is a gift. 251 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 5: Enjoy your life while God is working. Enter into rest, 252 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 5: not uptight stressed out. When is it going to change? 253 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 5: You have to pass the test of being happy where 254 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 5: you are before God will get you to where you 255 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 5: want to be. If you can only be happy when 256 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 5: the problem turns around, when you have the baby, when your. 257 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 4: Business grows, that's going to delay what God is going 258 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 4: to do. 259 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 5: You have to put your foot down and say, I 260 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 5: am going to enjoy this day. This pandemic is not 261 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 5: going to stop me. These challenges, this bad break. God, 262 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 5: I know you're on the throne. I trust your timing, 263 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 5: I trust your ways. In the meantime, I'm going to 264 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 5: live my life happy. Imagine if Joseph had not learned 265 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 5: how to release control. God gave him a dream as 266 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 5: a teenager that he would be in leadership, that people. 267 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 4: Would bow down before him. What if he had a 268 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 4: preconceived idea of how it was going to happen. Someone 269 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 4: is going to show. 270 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 5: Up at my house like they did for David and 271 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 5: anoint me keing, pick me out of a lineup, show 272 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:09,839 Speaker 5: me favorite, and I'll step into leadership. 273 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 4: But God does things unusual ways. 274 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 5: He uses adversities, bad breaks, disappointments to move us into 275 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 5: our destiny. The trouble looks like a setback, but really 276 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 5: trouble is transportation. God uses trouble to move you to 277 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 5: where he wants you to be. 278 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,239 Speaker 4: We think God. 279 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 5: Only uses favor, good breaks, open doors. We know that's 280 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 5: his blessing. We think him when that happens. But I've 281 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 5: learned God uses closed doors just as much as open doors. 282 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 5: He uses people that are against us just as much 283 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 5: as people that are for us. He uses rejection, betrayals, 284 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 5: delays to position us for promotion. 285 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 4: We can't see it at the time. We don't like it. 286 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 5: It's uncomfortable, but it's the hand of God ordering our steps. 287 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 5: Joseph had this dream. He knew God's favor was on him. 288 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 5: What happened. He was betrayed by his brothers, thrown into 289 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 5: a pit, sold into slavery, falsely accused, put in prison, 290 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 5: one bad break after another. But Joseph understood this principle. 291 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 5: He never complained, he never got bitter. I'm sure there 292 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 5: were many lonely nights, times were he felt forgotten, abandoned, 293 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 5: But deep down he could hear that still small voice 294 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 5: telling him I'm still in control. I've got you in 295 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 5: the palm of my hand. This is all a part 296 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 5: of your destiny. If he would have tried to control it, 297 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 5: tried to make it happen his way, he would have 298 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 5: lived bitter, frustrated, angry. 299 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 4: Every day. 300 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 5: He had to release the worry, release the frustration, release 301 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 5: how he thought it would happen. Thirteen years later he 302 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 5: became the Prime Minister of Egypt. He saw that dream 303 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 5: come to pass. But when you study his journey you 304 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 5: see twists and turns, delays. 305 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 4: Detours, disappointments. 306 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 5: Proverb says, since the Lord is directing your steps, why 307 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 5: try to understand everything that happens along the way. 308 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 4: Are you frustrated. 309 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 5: Because you don't understand something that's happened to you? Upset 310 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 5: over a bad break, worried because of a delay. 311 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 4: How do you know it's not the hand of God 312 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 4: leading you to your throne? 313 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 5: How do you know you're not a Joseph, that you're 314 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 5: not right on course on schedule to see what God 315 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 5: promises you. It may not happen like you think. God 316 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 5: uses difficulties to position us for destiny. What you're upset 317 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 5: about is a necessary step that closed door. The delay 318 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 5: it's instrmental in you reaching your purpose. 319 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 4: Don't try to understand everything that happens along the way. 320 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 4: God works in mysterious ways. 321 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,399 Speaker 5: If you're trying to figure everything out, You're going to 322 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 5: get confused. 323 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 4: There are things that you're not supposed to understand. That's 324 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 4: what faith is all about. 325 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 5: If that adversity was going to stop your destiny, God 326 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 5: wouldn't have allowed it. If that disappointment was going to 327 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,680 Speaker 5: keep you from your purpose, it wouldn't have happened. 328 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,479 Speaker 4: God is seeing what you're made of. 329 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,199 Speaker 5: This is your chance to say, like Joseph, God, I 330 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 5: trust you even when I don't understand it. I'm gonna 331 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 5: keep being my best even when it's not fair. I'm 332 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 5: gonna keep giving you praise when I could be complaining. 333 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep moving forward when I feel like going backwards. 334 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 4: Luke twenty two. 335 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 5: Jesus was about to be crucified. He was on the 336 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 5: mount of Olive's praying. Judas came up with a group 337 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 5: of soldiers and kissed Jesus. That's how they knew who 338 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 5: to arrest. And then when they went to take Jesus, 339 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 5: Peter pulled out his sword and cut off one of 340 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 5: the soldier's ears. He was ready to fight. He wasn't 341 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 5: about to let this go down without opposition. 342 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 4: The other disciples said, Lord, should we fight we brought 343 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 4: our swords. 344 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 5: Jesus said in verse fifty two, don't resist anymore. 345 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 4: He was saying, this is all a part of my plan. 346 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 4: I can't reach my. 347 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 5: Destiny without Judas kissing me, without this betrayal, I can't 348 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 5: rise from the dead. I can't bring salvation without these 349 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 5: soldiers arresting me, without me being crucified. 350 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 4: It looked like the enemy was in control. 351 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 5: The soldiers were getting the upper hand, taking Jesus away. 352 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 5: They didn't realize they were taking him into his destiny. 353 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 5: When we face hardships, the bad breaks, the disappointments, it 354 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 5: seems like the enemy is in control. That's when we 355 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 5: want to fight, resist, get upset, live worried. God is saying, 356 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 5: don't resist anymore. Don't fight it, don't live bitter, don't 357 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 5: try to get even. 358 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 4: Trust me. I'm in control. I'm still directing your steps. 359 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 5: Yes, resist the sickness, resist the addiction, but you shouldn't 360 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 5: fight everything that comes your way. Live upset, can't sleep 361 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:23,479 Speaker 5: at night. The enemy didn't get the upper hand. He 362 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 5: didn't somehow get control of your life. God is still 363 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:31,439 Speaker 5: on the throne. The betrayal wasn't fair. God didn't stop it. 364 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 5: Because it's leading you to your destiny. You didn't like 365 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 5: the disappointment. Looks like the enemy is prevailing, Like the 366 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 5: opposition is holding you back. 367 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 4: But you don't know what God is up to. 368 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 5: What you can't see is on the other side of 369 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 5: that crucifixion, so to speak, is a resurrection, on the 370 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 5: other side of the betrayal, the sickness, the disappointment is 371 00:19:55,080 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 5: a new level of your destiny. Stop resisting and start resting. 372 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 5: Sometimes we're trying to play God. We're straighten everybody out, 373 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,199 Speaker 5: vindicate ourselves, fix this situation at work. Why don't you 374 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 5: release control. God doesn't need our help. He's not looking 375 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 5: for some advice, hoping you'll stop those betrayals, keep those 376 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 5: bad breaks from happening. 377 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 4: No, don't resist anymore. 378 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 5: Let him be God. You don't have to fight everything 379 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 5: that comes your way. You can't reach your destiny without 380 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 5: a Judas kiss. Don't fight Judas, kiss him back and 381 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 5: move on. You can be come who you were created 382 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 5: to be without a soul being jealous, like with David 383 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 5: without a Potiphar's wife falsely accusing you, like with Joseph 384 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 5: without a king, Nebuchaezzer throwing you into a fiery furnace, 385 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 5: like the three hebrew Children, without a pharaoh trying to 386 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 5: hold you captive, like the Israelites. The good news is 387 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 5: the opposition is not in control. They are palms in 388 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 5: the hands of the Most High God. 389 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 4: He is ordering your steps. Nothing happens without his permission. 390 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 5: Nineteen fifty nine, my father was pastoring a successful church. 391 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,119 Speaker 5: They had just built a new auditorium. He was on 392 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 5: the state board for his denomination. Life was good, looked 393 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 5: like he had a bright future, but my sister was 394 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 5: born with something like cerebral pause in My father went 395 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,919 Speaker 5: to a hotel downtown to be alone for a few days. 396 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 5: He read the Bible like it was the first time 397 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 5: he ever read it. He saw how God is a healer, 398 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 5: how he wants us to live a victorious, bless life. 399 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 5: He came back and started sharing his new message of 400 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 5: faith and victory with his congregation. Much to his surprise, 401 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 5: some of them didn't like it. It didn't fit into 402 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 5: their tradition. They ended up asking him to leave. He 403 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 5: was so disappointed. He had spent years pouring his heart 404 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 5: and soul into those people. My father could have fought 405 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 5: it made a big fuss showed them that he was 406 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 5: right and they were wrong. 407 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,120 Speaker 4: Instead, he didn't resist. 408 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 5: He recognized that closed door was the hand of God. 409 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 5: He and my mother went out and started Lakewood in 410 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 5: an abandoned fee store with ninety people. Critics said it 411 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 5: would never last, But sixty one years later, here we are. 412 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 4: Still going strong. 413 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 5: God knew my father couldn't reach his destiny stay in 414 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 5: that limited environment. Those people that were against him, they 415 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 5: couldn't help it. They weren't bad people, they were pawns 416 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 5: in the hands of God. You have to be mature 417 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,640 Speaker 5: enough to know when to resist and when not to resist. 418 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 5: You're not supposed to fight every battle. God uses betrayals, 419 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 5: closed doors, disappointments to move you into your purpose. What 420 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 5: if my father would have been bitter, stubborn, not willing 421 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 5: to move God, I know you want me to pastor here, 422 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 5: he would have missed his destiny. Don't resist, rest, don't 423 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 5: try to control how it's going to happen. 424 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,360 Speaker 4: Release control. Be open to what God is going to do. 425 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 5: As twenty seven, Paul was a prisoner on a ship 426 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 5: sailing toward Rome. An angel appeared to him and said 427 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,880 Speaker 5: he was going to stand before Caesar on the journey, 428 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 5: they encountered a huge storm with hurricane force winds For 429 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 5: fourteen days. 430 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 4: They didn't see the sun nor the stars. 431 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 5: They tried their best to steer the ship to try 432 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 5: to keep some kind of control, but the winds were 433 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 5: too much. Instead of fighting it, trying to force where 434 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 5: they wanted it to go, the scripture says they took 435 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 5: down the cells and let the wind blow the ship 436 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 5: wherever the storm wanted it to go. 437 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 4: When you've done. 438 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,719 Speaker 5: Everything you can, grade you believe you stood in faith, 439 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 5: there comes a time where you have to do like them. 440 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 5: Quit fighting it, quit trying to force it to work out, 441 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 5: quit losing sleep, and release control. God will not take 442 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 5: you someplace where he won't sustain you. 443 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 4: How do you release control? 444 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,679 Speaker 5: Quit worrying about it, quit losing sleep, quit trying to 445 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 5: make it happen your way? Say God, I trust you. 446 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 5: I know you're in control of these winds. They can 447 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 5: blow me forward, backward, left, right, But one thing I'm 448 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 5: certain of, where. 449 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 4: You take me is exactly where I'm supposed to be. 450 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 4: That's what my father did. 451 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 5: Those winds blew him to Lakewood, the same winds that 452 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 5: were meant to stop you. 453 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 4: If you'll stay in faith. God will shift. 454 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,160 Speaker 5: The winds and instead of blowing you backwards, they will 455 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 5: blow you forward. That's what the scripture says. What's meant 456 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 5: for your harm, God will turn to your advantage. Are 457 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 5: you resistance or are you resting? Are you trying to 458 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 5: control everything? Upset because it's not happening your way, trying 459 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 5: to force it? Why don't you take down the cells 460 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 5: and trust what God is doing. 461 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 4: You may not understand it. 462 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 5: Now, it may not make sense yet, but one day 463 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 5: you'll see it was a necessary step to reach your destiny. 464 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 5: It looked like a setback, but really it was a 465 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 5: set up. I talked to a young lady. Life was 466 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 5: going great until she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. 467 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 4: She was out of work so long that she lost 468 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 4: her job. She couldn't afford an apartment. 469 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 5: A friend gave her a place to stay and she 470 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 5: ended up getting a job with a major airlines. She 471 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 5: was so excited finally getting back on her feet. 472 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 4: Then the pandemic hit. 473 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 5: The airline cut her work back to only a few 474 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 5: hours a week. She had to get an additional job 475 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 5: working with a security company. One night, her car was 476 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 5: stolen at work. It was one bad break after another. 477 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 5: She got a rental car and it had serious ExM. 478 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 5: She was so discouraged, she said she needed to laugh, 479 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,639 Speaker 5: so she started flipping through the channels looking for a comedian. 480 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 5: She came across our station, Channel one twenty eight, and 481 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 5: thought I. 482 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 4: Was a comedian. 483 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 5: She started listening, found out that I wasn't, but she 484 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 5: couldn't turn it off. 485 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 4: Hope began to feel her heart. 486 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 5: Dreams started coming back to life, fresh vision. 487 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 4: She ended up giving her life to Christ. 488 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 5: Recently, her company offered her the opportunity to transfer to 489 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 5: Hawaiian She'd always dreamed of living there. 490 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 4: It was a management position. 491 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 5: Because she worked for the airline, she can travel back 492 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 5: and forth at no charge. 493 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 4: She said, I look back. 494 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 5: Now at all the things that happened to me, and 495 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 5: I realized it was all working for my good. If 496 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,479 Speaker 5: my truck hadn't have been stolen, I wouldn't have come 497 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 5: to know the Lord. 498 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 4: If I didn't work for. 499 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 5: The airline, I wouldn't have these free flights. If they 500 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 5: hadn't cut my hours back, I wouldn't have taken this job. 501 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 5: I wouldn't have this new opportunity to. 502 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 4: Move to Hawaii. 503 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 5: She couldn't see it at the time, but the winds 504 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 5: of that storm were blowing her to where. 505 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 4: God wanted her to be. 506 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 5: That difficulty you're facing, that trouble is not going to 507 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 5: stop you. The trouble is transportation. Don't fight everything worried. 508 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 5: Why did this happen? God knows what he's doing. 509 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 4: He has you in the palm of his hand. 510 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 5: He may not do it the way you had planned, 511 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 5: but where He's taken you is better than you've imagined. 512 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 5: Psalm fifty five says, cast your burdens on the Lord, 513 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,719 Speaker 5: release the weight of them, and he will sustain you. 514 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 4: How many weights are you carrying around? 515 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 5: The weight of worry, the weight of what you don't understand, 516 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 5: the weight of how am I going to make it 517 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 5: through this tough season? There's something you have to do. 518 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 5: God is not going to take the burden away. You 519 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 5: have to release the worry, release the frustration, release having 520 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 5: to figure it out, come back to a place of peace. 521 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 5: The right attitude is God, my life is in your hands. 522 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 5: I commit my dreams, my family, my finances, my health 523 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 5: to you. 524 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 4: Now. 525 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 5: I'm not going to fight everything I don't like. I'm 526 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 5: not gonna live upset when it doesn't go my way. 527 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 5: I know you're working all things for my good. I 528 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 5: trust your timing, I trust your ways. 529 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,720 Speaker 4: When you have believed you enter into. 530 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 5: Rest, I'm asking you to stop resisting and start resting. 531 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 5: If you'll release control, I believe and declare, weights that 532 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 5: have burdened you. 533 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 4: Down are lifting off of you. Right now. 534 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 5: God is about to shift the winds of that storm. 535 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 5: Instead of blowing you backwards, It's gonna blow you forward. 536 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:57,479 Speaker 5: Promotion is coming, healing is coming, freedom, the fullness of 537 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 5: your destiny in Jesus' name, if you receive it, Can 538 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 5: you say amen? Today I'd like to give you an 539 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 5: opportunity to make Jesus the lord. 540 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 4: Of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 541 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 4: I'll repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 542 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 5: I'll make you my lord and savior. If you've prayed 543 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 5: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd 544 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 5: love to send you some free information. Just text the 545 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 5: number on the screen or go to the website. I 546 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 5: hope you'll get planted into a good Bible based church. 547 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 4: Keep God first place. 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