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See terms and conditions at 34 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 3: UNEs dot co. 35 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 36 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 37 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 5: the ministry. 38 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend. 40 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 41 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 5: your life. 42 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. 43 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 5: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if 44 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 5: you're ever in our area, please stop by and be 45 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 5: a part of one of our services. I promise you 46 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 5: we'll make you feel right at home. I say it often, 47 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 5: but these are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, 48 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 5: right here at Lakewood, So come out whenever you can, 49 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 5: but thanks for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. 50 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 5: And I like to start with something funny. And I 51 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 5: heard about this husband and wife. They'd been arguing for 52 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 5: a long time about who should make the coffee in 53 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 5: the morning. The man definitely thought it was his wife's job, 54 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 5: but she just didn't agree. After several heated debates, the 55 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 5: wife finally said to him, I can prove to you 56 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 5: from the scripture that the man is supposed to make 57 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 5: the coffee in the morning. 58 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 4: He said, what are you talking about. 59 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 5: Nothing in the scripture about the man making the coffee. 60 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 4: She said, sure, there is. 61 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 5: She opened her Bible and pointed to the Book of 62 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 5: he Brews. 63 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 4: All right, hold up your bible. Say it like you 64 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 4: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 65 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 3: I am. 66 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 67 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 68 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 69 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 70 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 71 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about the power of your vision. 72 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 5: Too many people are stuck in a rupt not because 73 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 5: they're not talented, not because they don't have God's favor, 74 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 5: but because their vision is limited. They don't see themselves 75 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 5: accomplishing their dreams, being promoted, living healthier. They just see 76 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 5: more of the same. What you see is what you're 77 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 5: going to move toward. We all have vision. Every one 78 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 5: of us has a picture in our mind of our self, 79 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 5: our family, our future. The real question is what does 80 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 5: your picture look like. 81 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 4: Do you see yourself. 82 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 5: Rising higher, overcoming obstacles, living an abundant life, or is 83 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 5: the picture you have of yourself struggling, defeated, addicted, overweight, 84 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 5: never getting good breaks. The pictures you allow in your 85 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 5: mind will determine what kind of life you live. You 86 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 5: have to protect your vision. If your vision is limited, 87 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 5: your life will be limited. Seven times in the scripture, 88 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 5: God asks what do you see? God is interested in 89 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 5: our vision. Before your dream comes to pass, you have 90 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 5: to see yourself accomplishing that dream. Got to get a 91 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 5: picture of it before you lose the weight, before you 92 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 5: break the addiction. You have to see it happening in 93 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 5: your imagination. The pictures you keep in front of you, 94 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 5: your vision not only drops down into your spirit, but 95 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 5: it gets into your subconscious mind. Once something is in 96 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 5: the subconscious without even thinking about it. Just like gravity, 97 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 5: it will pull you toward it. Many people have negative 98 00:04:53,120 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 5: images in their subconscious mind. They see themselves weak, defeated, inferior. 99 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 5: Why it feels like something's always pulling against them. It's 100 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 5: always a struggle. They never feel good about themselves. It's 101 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 5: because they have the wrong images. If you will change 102 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 5: those pictures and start seeing yourself the way God sees you, blessed, prosperous, healthy, strong, talented, successful, 103 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 5: then instead of having something pulling against you, it'll be 104 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 5: pulling for you. You'll be moving toward blessing, favor, promotion, increase. 105 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 5: Our imagination is incredibly powerful. In fact, it says in 106 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 5: Genesis nothing they imagined was impossible to them. Once you 107 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 5: get a picture of it, either good or bad, you're 108 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 5: going to. 109 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 4: Move toward it. 110 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 5: I read this study that was done with people that 111 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 5: needed arthroscopic knee surgery. Their knees were worn down and 112 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 5: they needed the joint to be cleaned out. These doctors, 113 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 5: with permission from the family, on a certain number of patients. 114 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 5: Instead of actually performing the surgery, they simply put the 115 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 5: patients under anesthesia and made three tiny incisions around the knee, 116 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 5: but they didn't do anything. Of course, when the patient 117 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 5: woke up, they thought they had the full surgery. What's 118 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 5: interesting is two years later, the patients that had the 119 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 5: fake surgery reported just as much relief from the pain 120 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 5: as the patients that had the actual surgery. And it 121 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 5: wasn't just in their mind. When the doctors examined their 122 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 5: knees over time, they could see how their knees had improved. 123 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 5: The doctor's conclusion was, since the brain expected the knee 124 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 5: to get better, it got better. 125 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 4: It helped it to heal. 126 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 5: You could say those doctors tricked the patients into having 127 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 5: a new image, and just like gravity, they moved toward it. 128 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 4: Let's make it practical. 129 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 5: You may not feel blessed, but if you'll get in 130 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 5: agreement with God and get a picture of yourself blessed, 131 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 5: you're gonna move toward it. Your brain is going to say, 132 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 5: come on now, let's get going. They're supposed to be blessed. 133 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 5: The medical report may not look good, but instead of 134 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 5: seeing yourself going downhill, start seeing yourself strong, healthy, full 135 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 5: of energy, full of vitality. That's what you're moving toward. 136 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 4: Your dream. 137 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 5: In the natural may look impossible. But I'm asking you 138 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 5: to look out through your eyes of faith and see 139 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 5: yourself moving into that new home, see yourself getting married, 140 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 5: see yourself taking that mission's trip. When you see yourself 141 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 5: accomplish in your dreams, all these unseen forces begin to 142 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 5: move in your direction. This is what happened with Abraham. 143 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 5: God gave him the promise that he was going to 144 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 5: be the father of many nations in the natural it 145 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 5: was impossible. Abraham was eighty years old and didn't have 146 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 5: one child. But what's interesting is God didn't just give 147 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 5: him the promise. God gave him a picture to look at. 148 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 5: God said, Abraham, go outside and look up at the stars. 149 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 5: That's how many descendants you will have. I read where 150 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 5: there are six thousand stars in the eastern sky where 151 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 5: Abraham was that night. It's not a coincidence that there 152 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 5: are six thousand promises in the scripture. God was saying, 153 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 5: any promise that you can get a vision for, I 154 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 5: will bring it to pass. God told Abraham, go down 155 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,199 Speaker 5: to the beach and look at the grains of sand. 156 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 5: That's how many relatives you're going to have. Why did 157 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 5: God give him a picture? God knew there would be 158 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 5: times when it seemed like the promise wasn't going to 159 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 5: come to pass. When Abraham was tempted to get discouraged 160 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 5: and to start thinking it's never going to happen, he 161 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 5: would go outside and look up at the sky. When 162 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 5: he saw the stars, faith would rise in his heart. 163 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 5: Something would tell him it's gonna happen. I can see 164 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,079 Speaker 5: it in the morning. The thoughts came, telling him you're 165 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 5: too old, Abraham, it's too late. You didn't hear God right. 166 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 5: Abraham would go down to the beach and look at 167 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 5: the grains of sand. Something would come alive on the inside. 168 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 5: His faith would be restored. Just like with Abraham, there 169 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 5: will be times when it seems like your dream is 170 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,679 Speaker 5: not going to come to pass. It's been too long, 171 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 5: the medical report looks too bad. You don't have the money, 172 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 5: the connections. You could easily get discouraged and give up. Now, 173 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 5: just like Abraham, you got to go back to the 174 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,280 Speaker 5: picture God gave you. When you close your eyes, you 175 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 5: have to see yourself strong and healthy, see the problem 176 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 5: turning around, see your family restored, see yourself paying. 177 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 4: Off your house. 178 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 5: Your vision is what's going to keep you encouraged. God 179 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 5: is saying to us what he said to Abraham. If 180 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 5: you can see it, I will do it. If you'll 181 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 5: get a vision for it, I will. 182 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 4: Bring it to pass. 183 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 5: Several years ago, a lady came down to the altar 184 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 5: for prayer and she had just gone through a very 185 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 5: painful divorce. Her husband of many years left her for 186 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 5: another woman, and she was very devastated, very heartbroken. She 187 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 5: didn't see how she could ever be happy again. And 188 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 5: I did my best to encourage her, tell her that 189 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 5: God was going to give her beauty for those ashes, 190 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 5: and God was going to pay her back for that 191 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 5: unfair situation. She listened, but didn't seem like my words 192 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 5: had much of an impact. She was very depressed. She 193 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 5: couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. 194 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 5: When our vision is negative, our life is going to 195 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 5: fallow that same direction. Sometimes it's difficult, you don't feel 196 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,439 Speaker 5: like doing it, but you cannot afford to sit around 197 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 5: in self pity. Life may not be fair, but God 198 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 5: is fair. You got to shake off the disappointments and 199 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 5: get a fresh new vision. Your life is not over 200 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 5: because somebody left you. If they walked out on you, 201 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 5: you didn't need them. God's plan was not canceled because 202 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 5: of a disappointment, an unfair situation, or even because of 203 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 5: a mistake you made. If you'll get a new vision 204 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 5: instead of being a setback, God will turn it into 205 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 5: a set up to do something greater. And she was 206 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 5: weeping and weeping and telling me all the reasons she 207 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 5: would never meet anybody, and how she was too old 208 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 5: and just too unattractive, on and on, none of which 209 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 5: were true. I asked her to do something that would 210 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 5: help her to have a new image. I said, get 211 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 5: a picture frame and put it on the table by 212 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 5: your bed with no picture in it, just an empty frame. 213 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 5: And every time you see that frame, you just imagine 214 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 5: that's going to be a picture of you with the 215 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 5: new person God brings into your life. As an act 216 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 5: of faith, she put that picture frame there. Every time 217 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 5: she saw it, she would begin to thank God that 218 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 5: he was directing her steps, bringing the right person into 219 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 5: her life, giving her beauty for her ashes. 220 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,199 Speaker 4: She got rid of. 221 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 5: The picture of defeat, being lonely, being depressed. She started 222 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 5: seeing herself beautiful, happy with the person of her dreams. 223 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 5: Three years later, she showed up to the altar once again. 224 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 5: She was weeping and weeping, But this time they were 225 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 5: not tears of sadness. 226 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 4: They were tears of joy. 227 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 5: You see, she had this very handsome gentleman by her side. 228 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 5: She said, Joel, this is the man that I saw 229 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 5: in that picture frame that you had me put up. 230 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 4: We're gonna get married next Saturday. 231 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 5: The scripture says, weeping may endure for a night, but 232 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 5: joy is coming in the morning. The question is what's 233 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 5: in your picture frame? What do you see when you 234 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 5: look out into your future More of the same. I've 235 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 5: reached my limits. My business will never succeed. I'll always 236 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 5: be lonely, overweight, addicted. That's going to keep you where 237 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 5: you are. You've got to change what's in the frame. 238 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 5: Got to put a new picture in there. Start seeing 239 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 5: yourself strong, beautiful, successful, fulfilled. Your life is not going 240 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 5: to change until you change the picture. 241 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 4: This is what my father did. 242 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 5: He grew up extremely poor, had no money, no education, 243 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 5: no real future to speak of. But at seventeen years old, 244 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 5: my father gave his life to Christ. 245 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 4: God called him to preach. 246 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 5: He began to see himself ministering to thousands of people. 247 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 5: That was unheard of back there in the nineteen thirties, 248 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 5: there weren't big churches like we have today. Daddy had 249 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 5: never been to seminary, especially not at seventeen, never had 250 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 5: any formal training. All he knew how to do was 251 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 5: pitt cotton. But my father changed the picture in the frame. 252 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:16,440 Speaker 5: Instead of seeing himself poor, defeated, barely getting by, he 253 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 5: started seeing himself touching the world. He went on to 254 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 5: do exactly that for end. Your life is going to 255 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 5: fall at your vision. If you have a small vision, 256 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 5: you're going to have a small life. But if you 257 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 5: will let the seeds of greatness that God's planning on 258 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 5: the inside take root, if you'll have a big vision, 259 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 5: God will take you places you never thought possible. I 260 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 5: remember as a little boy. Lakewood was in our very 261 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 5: first auditorium. It held two hundred people. My father would 262 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 5: get up on Sundays. He would point to the right 263 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 5: and say to the congregation, can you see that new 264 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 5: sanctuary seating a thousand people? Can you see it totally 265 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 5: paid off? All that were out there was an empty 266 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 5: field with cows grazing in it. The visitors thought my 267 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 5: father had lost his mind, but he wasn't looking at 268 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 5: it in the natural. He was looking out through his 269 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 5: eyes of faith. Eventually that sanctuary came into reality, plus 270 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 5: many many others, some of you today, If you would 271 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 5: just put new pictures in your frame, your life would 272 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 5: go to a new level. You don't have to figure 273 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 5: out how it's going to happen. All you've got to 274 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 5: do is believe one touch of God's favor can bring 275 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 5: any dream to pass. One good break, one promotion, one 276 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 5: phone call, and what looked like an impossibility, all of 277 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 5: a sudden is a reality. You've heard the saying, if 278 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 5: you can see the invisible, God can do the impossible. 279 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 5: When we were trying to acquire this place, the former 280 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 5: Compact Center, it was a three and a half year battle, 281 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 5: and all kinds of things came against us, and at 282 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 5: times in the natural it looked like it wasn't going 283 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 5: to happen. But instead of worrying about it, letting those 284 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 5: negative pictures take root all through the day, just like 285 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 5: my father did, I would see this place as being 286 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 5: ours in my imagination. I could see the lake, would 287 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 5: sign out front. I could see myself up here ministry. 288 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 5: I could see all of you long before you got here. 289 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 5: Many times at night, Victoria and I would drive up 290 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 5: to the building. If nothing was going on, we'd get 291 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 5: out and walk around it and pray, believe, and dream. 292 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 5: That image was becoming ingrained in our thinking. The more 293 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 5: we saw it, the more faith rose in our hearts. 294 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 5: In my imagination, I could already see the mayor handing 295 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 5: us the keys. I could already see the confetti falling 296 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 5: during the groundbreaking service. 297 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 4: I could already. 298 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 5: See it full of thousands of victors and not victims. 299 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,239 Speaker 5: For three and a half years, we kept that image 300 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 5: in front of us. On December first, two thousand and three, 301 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 5: when the mayor handed us the key, it was just 302 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 5: like I had seen it before. On December thirteenth, when 303 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 5: the confetti fell on the groundbreaking services, it was just 304 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 5: like I had seen it before. In two thousand and five, 305 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 5: the week of the grand opening, a reporter asked me 306 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 5: what it was going to be like to stand up 307 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 5: and minister here for the first time. I didn't say it, 308 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 5: but I thought to myself, I'd ministered in this building 309 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 5: thousands of times before. Friends, you got to see it 310 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 5: on the inside before it's going to come to pass 311 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 5: on the outside. Have you ever seen yourself accomplishing your dreams? 312 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 4: Graduating from college. 313 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 5: Have you ever seen yourself healthy, whole, free from addictions, 314 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 5: free from any kind of sicknesses? In nineteen eighty one, 315 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 5: my mother was very sick with cancer of the liver. 316 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 5: She weighed eighty nine pounds and her skin was a 317 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 5: yellow as can being. I was away at college, and 318 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,440 Speaker 5: when I came back home, I hardly recognized my mother. 319 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 5: She looked so bad. One thing my mother did was 320 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 5: she put up pictures all over the house from a 321 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 5: time when she was healthy. She had her wedding pictures 322 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 5: up on the refrigerator, all over the den. In her 323 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 5: bathroom mirror, she had a picture of herself riding a 324 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 5: horse in Montana with a big pink cowboy hat. I thought, 325 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 5: what are all these pictures doing up? My mother had 326 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 5: put them there to create a new image on the inside. 327 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 5: You see, when she looked in the mirror, she saw 328 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 5: death staring back at her. She didn't want that image 329 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 5: to become ingrained in her thinking. Now, everywhere she looked 330 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 5: all over the house, she saw herself, healthy, strong, happy, 331 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:56,199 Speaker 5: fulfilling her destiny. That's the image she let take root. Today, 332 00:18:56,560 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 5: thirty one years later, she looks just like she did 333 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 5: in those pictures, as strong and healthy as convenient. I've 334 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 5: found life tries to push us down. Life tries to 335 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 5: put out the fire that God lights on the inside, 336 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 5: through disappointments, bad breaks, people discouraging us. Too often we 337 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 5: settle for mediocrity. We miss out on the fullness of 338 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 5: what God has in store. Some of you today, your 339 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 5: vision is too small. God has a much bigger life 340 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 5: than your living. 341 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 4: But you're letting how you were raised. 342 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 5: Your environment, perhaps the disappointments of the past to set 343 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 5: the limits for your life. You've got to enlarge your vision. 344 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 5: Your parents may have reached a certain level, but God 345 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 5: wants you to go further. There should be something you're 346 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 5: dreaming about that's too big for you to accomplish on 347 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 5: your own, something that you cannot afford, something that you're 348 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 5: not qualified for. It's going to take God's favor, God's 349 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 5: blessing to bring it to pass. Friends, have a big vision. 350 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 5: That's your faith being released. Heard a story about a 351 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,920 Speaker 5: little frog that was born at the bottom of a well, 352 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 5: then a small circular well like you'd see at a farm, 353 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 5: and it was he and his family that lived down there, 354 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 5: and this little frog was so happy, so. 355 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 4: Content all day long. 356 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 5: To swim and splash in the water. 357 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 4: He thought, life is good. 358 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 5: We've got all the water in the world to ourselves. 359 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 5: As he got a little older, he noticed the light 360 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 5: at the top of the well and wondered what was 361 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 5: up there. One day, very carefully, he climbed up the 362 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 5: side of the well, and with great caution he looked 363 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 5: over the edge, and the first thing he saw was 364 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 5: a pond. 365 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,400 Speaker 4: He couldn't believe it. 366 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 5: It was thousands of times more water than he had. 367 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 5: He hopped a little more and came to a lake. 368 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 5: He stood there in amazement, hopped a little more and 369 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 5: came to the ocean, where as far as he could 370 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 5: see miles and miles of water. He began to realize 371 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 5: his vision was so limited. He thought he had it all, 372 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 5: But all he really had was a drop in the 373 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 5: bucket compared to what God wanted him to enjoy. 374 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 4: God's dream for your life. 375 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 5: Is so much bigger, so much larger, so much more 376 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 5: rewarding than you can imagine. You haven't touched the surface 377 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 5: of what God has in store. But too often we're 378 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 5: like that little frog. We've been enclosed in our own 379 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 5: little well. Our vision is very limited. It's called our environment, how. 380 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 4: We were raised. 381 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 5: All we've known is certain way of thinking, certain way 382 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 5: of living. It may not be bad, but God has 383 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 5: much more in store. I'm asking all of us, like 384 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 5: that little frog, to go a little further than you're 385 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 5: used to, break out of your box and look out 386 00:21:54,160 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 5: over the horizon. Dream bigger, Think bigger, See bigger. God 387 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 5: has oceans that he wants you to enjoy. I have 388 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 5: friends that pastor a church in another state. When they 389 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 5: first started their church, they barely had anything. They were 390 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 5: living in a tiny apartment, no furniture, practically could hardly 391 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 5: pay their rent each month. They would both work during 392 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 5: the day and then on Sundays about fifteen people would 393 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 5: come to their apartment and they would have church. This 394 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 5: went on year after year with no growth. They were 395 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,719 Speaker 5: very tempted to get discouraged. They knew God had put 396 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 5: something bigger in their heart, but didn't look like it 397 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 5: was going to happen. But rather than sit around in 398 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 5: their little apartment every night feel sorry for themselves feel 399 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 5: like failures, they did something interesting. They would drive down 400 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 5: to one of the big fancy hotels in their area. 401 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 5: They didn't even have money to pay for parking they'd 402 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,479 Speaker 5: have to park way down the road and walk the 403 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 5: rest of the way. They would go into that hotel 404 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 5: lobby and night after night just sit there and dream. 405 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 5: They wanted to put themselves in an atmosphere of victory, 406 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,239 Speaker 5: an atmosphere of success. As they would look around at 407 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 5: all the beautiful surroundings, they would begin to thank God. 408 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 5: One day, you're going to bring our dreams to pass. 409 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,120 Speaker 5: One day we're going to be pastoring a church with thousands. 410 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 5: What were they doing enlarging their vision? They got out 411 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 5: of their will to help expand their thinking. Today, twenty 412 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 5: five years later, they're living their dream. They're pastoring a 413 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 5: very successful church like them. You may be at a 414 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 5: place that doesn't seem very good. What you see on 415 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 5: the outside doesn't match what God's put on the inside. 416 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 5: But don't sit around in self pity, depress, discourage. Go 417 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 5: out and find some place you can dream. Go to 418 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 5: the park and watch the sunset, look up at the 419 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 5: stars and think about God's goodness. 420 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 4: To get out of that well. 421 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 5: Find someplace that inspires you, someplace where your faith will 422 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,879 Speaker 5: be elevated. And that's why it's important to come to 423 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 5: a church like Lakewood where people are going to build 424 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 5: you up and not tear you down. Where people are 425 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 5: going to challenge you to rise higher, to become all 426 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 5: God's created. 427 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 4: You to be. Becausten. 428 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 5: I know people they come home from work every night 429 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 5: and watch the same depressing TV shows week after week 430 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 5: and wonder. 431 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 4: Why nothing gets better. 432 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 5: Now, if you're going to enlarge your vision, you got 433 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 5: to get out of a limited environment. Put yourself somewhere 434 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 5: bigger than you are right now, that atmosphere of victory 435 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 5: of success. I heard a famous rapper being interviewed on 436 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 5: television years ago. The interviewer ask him why his lyrics 437 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 5: were so filled with hatred and violence, and why he 438 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 5: always talked about killings and shootings and muggings. He said, oh, man, 439 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 5: I'm just rapping about life. That's the way the world is. 440 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 5: The truth is, that's not the way the world is. 441 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 5: That's the way his world is. That's the way it is. 442 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 5: The six blocks around his house. If he had drive 443 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 5: three miles down the freeway, he'd see people loving their families, 444 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 5: people going to colleges, people starting businesses, people fulfilling their destiny. 445 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:27,160 Speaker 5: What's the problem His vision is being limited by his environment. 446 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 5: All he's got to do is get in a different environment, 447 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 5: an environment that inspires him instead of depresses him. I 448 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 5: have friends that run an orphanage in a very poor nation. 449 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 5: Every Friday, they go down to the slums and they 450 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 5: take these children to the beach. They call it dream 451 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 5: Day as the children play in the sand and the water, 452 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 5: and they look at the beautiful ocean and they watch 453 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 5: the magnificent sunsets. They talk to them about how God 454 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 5: knew them before they were formed in. 455 00:25:58,640 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 4: Their mother's womb. 456 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 5: They have seeds of greatness on the inside. They speak 457 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 5: vision into them. They're finding that these children from the 458 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 5: slums are overcoming incredible odds, getting scholarships to colleges, breaking 459 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 5: out of poverty, becoming leaders. 460 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 4: In the community. 461 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,640 Speaker 5: Proverbs twenty nine to eighteen says where there is no vision, 462 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 5: the people perish. Doesn't say where there's no money, where 463 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 5: there's no opportunity, where there's no talent. What limits us 464 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 5: is a lack of vision. If you're going to enlarge 465 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 5: your vision, you need to get around other dreamers. Get 466 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 5: around people that are going places, people that inspire you 467 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 5: to rise higher. If you're the smartest one in your group, 468 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 5: your group is too small. 469 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 4: You've got to get out of your well. 470 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 5: You need to be around people that know more than you, 471 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 5: people that are doing more than you. 472 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 4: Don't be intimidated by them. 473 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 5: God brings people into our life to help expand our 474 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 5: Only small minded people get jealous. Only small minded people 475 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 5: try to compete and prove that they're really better. 476 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 4: Now. 477 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 5: Don't be insecure, be inspired. The right attitude is. 478 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 4: Hey, God, if you did it for them, you can 479 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 4: do it for me. 480 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 5: It makes a difference who you associate with. Elisha hung 481 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 5: around Elijah and he got a double portion. Joshua Will 482 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 5: hung around Moses and he went into the Promised Land. 483 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 5: Samson hung around compromisers and he missed his destiny. You 484 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 5: got to get around other dreamers. Your vision is going 485 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 5: to be greatly impacted by who you choose to associate 486 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 5: with friends. What's in your future has much to do 487 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 5: with what you can see. I'm asking you to see 488 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 5: yourself blessed, prosperous, strong, healthy, talented, successful, accomplishing your dreams. 489 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 5: Don't get stuck in a rut and just see. 490 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 4: More of the same. 491 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 5: You may have been through dissappointments, but this is a 492 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 5: new day. Your greatest victories are still in your future. 493 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 5: Now make sure what you put in that picture frame 494 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 5: is too big for you to accomplish. 495 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 4: On your own dream. Big enlarger vision. 496 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 5: If you'll keep the right picture in front of you, 497 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 5: instead of having something pulling against you, it'll be pulling 498 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 5: for you. 499 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 4: Like Abraham. 500 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 5: Even though it looks impossible, God will bring the promise 501 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 5: to pass, and one day, instead of just having the dream. 502 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 4: You'll be living the dream. 503 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 5: What you see will become a reality. In Jesus' name, 504 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 5: Do you receive it today? We never like to close 505 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 5: our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus 506 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 5: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 507 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 508 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 5: into my heart, wash me clean. I make you my 509 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 5: Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, 510 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 5: we believe he got born again. 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