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Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 28 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to be with 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 4: you today. And if you're ever in our area, please 30 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 4: stop buying. Be a part of one of our services. 31 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 5: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 32 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 33 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 4: about this church service one Sunday morning. Everything was going 34 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 4: great until a bolt of lightning hit the sanctuary. When 35 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 4: the smoke cleared, Satan himself was standing at the podium. 36 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 4: People panicked and took off, running as fast as they could. 37 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 4: Everyone that is, except one lady. She sat in the 38 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 4: front road, just as calm as can be. 39 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 5: Satan was appalled. He said, lady, do you know who 40 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 5: I am? 41 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 4: She said, I sure do. He said, aren't you afraid 42 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 4: of me? She said not in the least bit. He 43 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 4: said why not? She said, why should I be? I've 44 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 4: been married to your brother for thirty years. Say it 45 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 4: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 46 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 4: what it says I am. I have what it says 47 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 4: I have. I can do what it says I can do. 48 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. I 49 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,920 Speaker 4: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 50 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 51 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 4: bless you. 52 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about living at rest. 53 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 4: Rest doesn't mean that you're on vacation and you never 54 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 4: do anything. We all have to work and deal with 55 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 4: challenges and interact with different people, but we're supposed to 56 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 4: do it from a place of peace, not stress, stylet, 57 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 4: worried and fighting everything that we don't like. Hebrews four 58 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 4: tells us to enter into the rest of God. That's 59 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 4: a place where we know God's in control. We know 60 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 4: he's fighting our battles. But here's the key. Once you 61 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 4: enter this rest, you're not going to automatically stay there. 62 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 5: Life is full of peace dealers. 63 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 4: There will always be people and circumstances trying to pull 64 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 4: you out. If you're going to live in peace, you 65 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 4: have to put up some boundaries and not allow everything 66 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 4: in You can't watch the news twenty four hours a 67 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 4: day and expect to stay at rest. Your mind wasn't 68 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 4: meant to take in all the tragedies, accidents, killings, over 69 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 4: and over. 70 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 5: That's going to pull you out of rest. Do yourself 71 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 5: a favor, turn it off. Be careful what you feed 72 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 5: your inner person. 73 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 4: If you watch all the news about the price of 74 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 4: oil going down and they offs and banks, it's going 75 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 4: to cause you to live stressed out, worried. 76 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 5: On edge. 77 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 4: You can't feed on negativity and discouragement and expect to 78 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 4: stay positive. 79 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 5: And faith filled. 80 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 4: I like to watch the news, of course, to know 81 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 4: what's going on in the world, But after about fifteen minutes, 82 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 4: I've learned everything I need to know. 83 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 5: I don't keep taking it in again and again. 84 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 4: The twenty four hour news. Most of that repeats every 85 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 4: thirty minutes. It was designed for people flipping on and off, 86 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,799 Speaker 4: not to watch over and over. 87 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 5: Put on some good news. 88 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 4: Feed your inner person, encouraging things that build you up 89 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 4: and cause you to say positive, hopeful and inspired. One 90 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 4: Friday night, Victoria and I went to watch this movie 91 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 4: about a war. 92 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 5: It was very violent. 93 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 4: Heads were being blown off and people being tortured and 94 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 4: families ripped apart. And I went in there in peace, 95 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 4: simply wanting to be entertained. But when I left, I 96 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 4: was on edge. Jah felt like I had been run 97 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 4: over by a truck. That whole night, I. 98 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 5: Dreamed I was in the middle of that war. Victoria 99 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 5: kept waking me up. Joe, you're having a nightmare. Wake up. 100 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 4: What we take in through our eyes and ears eventually 101 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 4: gets into our subconscious mind. If you're taking in all 102 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 4: the negative violence, discouragement. 103 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 5: That's going to depress your spirit. 104 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 4: The next day, I had to get up and finish 105 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 4: preparing my message for Saturday night, and I learned my lesson. 106 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 4: I can't take that in the night before and. 107 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 5: Be my best the next day. 108 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 4: You need to be aware of what's pulling you out 109 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 4: of that rest. 110 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:39,919 Speaker 5: Sometimes it's our own choices. 111 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 4: If you get on social media and you're constantly comparing 112 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 4: your life to everyone else's, that's going to discourage you. 113 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 4: You'll never feel good about who you are as long 114 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 4: as you're competing with others, because there'll always be somebody 115 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 4: more beautiful, more talented, more successful. 116 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 5: That's a peace stealer. 117 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 4: Put up a boundary and say I am not going 118 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 4: to live in somebody else's world, obsessed with what they're doing, 119 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 4: where they're going, what they're eating, what they're driving. 120 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 5: I'm gonna run my own race. 121 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 4: Listen, you can miss your destiny caught up in somebody 122 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 4: else's life. Successful people are too focused on their own 123 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 4: race to look around to see what everybody else is doing. 124 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,159 Speaker 5: Quick comparing it'll pull you out of your rest. 125 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 4: I say this respectfully, but some people are peace stealers. 126 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 4: They're high maintenance. They're always having a problem. Every time 127 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 4: they call, they're having a major crisis. They expect you 128 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 4: to come running to bail them out, to encourage them. 129 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 5: To keep them fixed. They're good people. 130 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 4: You love them, but you shouldn't allow them to continually 131 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 4: dump their problems on you. 132 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 5: If you don't put up a. 133 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 4: Boundary, they won't be the only one unhappy. You'll end 134 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 4: up unhappy. And I'm all for helping people, loving them, 135 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 4: taking time to care, But some people won't deal with 136 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 4: their own issues as long as they can dump it 137 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 4: on you. 138 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 5: That's the easy way out. 139 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 4: As long as you'll bail them out, you feel sorry 140 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 4: for them, you let them unload their burdens, they'll do 141 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,679 Speaker 4: it again and again. What they're doing is they dump 142 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 4: it all on you, and then they go home and 143 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 4: go to bed, while you stay up and worry. 144 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 5: About what are we going to do about this? Here's 145 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 5: what I'm saying. 146 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 4: It's easy to take on a false sense of responsibility 147 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 4: where you jump every time they call, try to keep 148 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 4: them fixed. But you are not responsible for other people's happiness. 149 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 4: Don't let their unhappiness keep. 150 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 5: You from being happy. 151 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but I have enough drama 152 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 4: in my own life. I don't need somebody else's drama. 153 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 4: If they won't make good decisions, if they want to 154 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,559 Speaker 4: live upset, bidter, offended in a christ that's this mode. 155 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 4: That's their choice. You can't stop that. But you shouldn't 156 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 4: let them control you and make you feel guilty if 157 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 4: you don't help and let them call you all hours 158 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 4: of the day. You are not a garbage can. You 159 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 4: have to protect your peace like a business. You need 160 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 4: to have hours of operation, times when you're open, times 161 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 4: when you're closed. I'm open for them from two to 162 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 4: four in the afternoon, when they call you at eight 163 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 4: o'clock at night, when you're in peace, spending time with 164 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 4: your family, enjoying your children. That phone rings, Normally you'd 165 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 4: rush over and answer it, get all up tight, No 166 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 4: next time, Sorry, not open for business right now, you mean, Joel, 167 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 4: don't answer the phone. Yes, that's why God created voicemail. 168 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 4: Don't let their crisis steal your peace. 169 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,319 Speaker 5: Have you noticed some people are alarmist. 170 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 4: Everything is a major problem, a major They need you 171 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 4: right now. 172 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 5: Tomorrow will be too late. They have a spirit of alarm. 173 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 5: If you don't put up a boundary, you'll get pulled in. 174 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 4: They'll get you all stirred up, stressed out. Won't fall 175 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,599 Speaker 4: into that trap. If you don't make them respect you, 176 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 4: you'll be dealing with this same issue twenty years from now. 177 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 4: Your destiny is too important to let people who are 178 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 4: not dealing with their own issues hold you back. Recognize 179 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 4: that's a peace dealer. You need to make some changes. Well, Joel, 180 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 4: what if I hurt their feelings? 181 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 5: What if you miss your destiny? 182 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 4: God didn't call you to keep everyone happy? 183 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 5: And sure, do your part. 184 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 4: Be a giver, go the extra mile, but don't become 185 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 4: a garbage dump where you allow someone to always dump 186 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 4: their burdens on you. 187 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 5: That's out of balance. 188 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 4: You have to protect your emotional energy. You have a 189 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 4: limited supply each day. Taking in all this extra drama 190 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 4: involved in things you should never be involved in, you're 191 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 4: not going to have the emotional energy for what you 192 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 4: need for your dreams, for your children, for your assignment. 193 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 4: I'm not saying to be selfish. I'm saying be wise. 194 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 4: You can't fix everyone. You can't make people do what's right. 195 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 4: You're not called to straighten everyone out. You're not the savior. 196 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 4: We already have a savior. 197 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 5: I've learned. Some people don't really want to change. 198 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 4: They like the attention it brings to have you at 199 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 4: their becking call. 200 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: Now. 201 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 4: A lot of times, instead of helping them, we're really 202 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 4: enabling their dysfunction. 203 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 5: We're doing them a disservice. 204 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 4: If you don't bail them out, maybe they'll start taking responsibility. 205 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 4: If they can't reach you every three minutes, maybe they'll 206 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 4: learn to encourage themselves. Life is too short to go 207 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 4: through it being controlled. You couldn't spend all your time 208 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 4: trying to straighten everybody out. Some of your relatives that 209 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 4: are upset with each other, they're going to be upset 210 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 4: thirty years from now. Don't waste your valuable time being 211 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 4: upset with them. They don't want to be happy, that's fine, 212 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 4: but don't let them keep you from being happy. Turn 213 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 4: it over to God and enjoy your life. Years ago, 214 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 4: I had a friend that I grew up with, and 215 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 4: over time our passed went in different directions. I joined 216 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 4: the basketball team, and he got involved in other things, 217 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 4: and he resented the fact that I wasn't around as much, 218 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 4: And several times he tried to straighten me out and 219 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 4: told me how I wasn't giving him as much time 220 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 4: as I should, and why wasn't I. 221 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 5: There for him? 222 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 4: On and on, and I went overboard to try to 223 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 4: be good to him, but nothing I did was good enough. 224 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 5: I could have. 225 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 4: Moved in and been his roommate, and he had still 226 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 4: found something wrong. And one day I realized he's counting 227 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 4: on me to try to keep him happy. Now I 228 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 4: already have a full time job trying to keep myself happy. 229 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 4: Every time he had called, I'd get up tired on edge. 230 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 4: What have I done wrong? 231 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 5: Now? What does he need? 232 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:11,599 Speaker 2: You know? 233 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 4: Of course, as a friend, you want to help people 234 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 4: or wanted to be responsible. 235 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 5: But after about five years of doing this, I learned 236 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 5: what I'm telling you. 237 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 4: I can't reach my destiny spending all my time trying 238 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 4: to keep him happy. 239 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 5: I don't have the emotional energy for all of his drama. 240 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 5: And I say this very respectfully because he's a good man. 241 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 5: But I realized he's a peace dealer. 242 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 4: I made up my mind I wasn't going to go 243 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,559 Speaker 4: the next twenty years like that. I put up some boundaries. 244 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 4: I quit running every time he called. I quit feeling 245 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 4: guilty when I couldn't meet his demands. Eventually he got 246 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 4: upset and started talking. 247 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 5: About me went his own way. But here's the point. 248 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 4: Sometimes you have to make hard decisions to reach your destiny. 249 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 4: My personality type is I want everybody to like me. 250 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 4: I'll never tell you no, I want to please you. 251 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 5: But I've learned. 252 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 4: You can't fulfill your assignment trying to please everyone. If 253 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 4: you're trying to keep everybody around you happy, the one 254 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 4: person who will not be happy is you. Well, Joel, 255 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 4: what if they get upset and start talking about me. 256 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 5: They won't be the first, and they're not going to 257 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 5: be the last. 258 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 4: I would rather have people upset with me than to 259 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 4: not become who I was created to be. If you'll 260 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 4: put these boundaries up, you'll live more peacefully, you'll be 261 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 4: more effective, and you'll move quicker. 262 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 5: Into your destiny. 263 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 4: But when you tell someone I love you, but you 264 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 4: can't call me every three minutes, I can't keep you 265 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 4: cheered up. 266 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:50,559 Speaker 5: I love you, but. 267 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 4: I can't keep bailing you out again and again. If 268 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 4: they get upset, they really want your friend. They were controllers, 269 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 4: They're a manipulator. They like you for what you can 270 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 4: do for them, not for who you are. You don't 271 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 4: need friends like that. Make a change, and God will 272 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 4: give you true friends. Here's the key. If you're doing 273 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 4: all the giving and never receiving, that's out of balance. 274 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 5: Heart. 275 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 4: Somebody say, if you surround yourself with people that need 276 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 4: you more than they feed you, then that's a red flag. 277 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 5: The longer I live, the more I realize. 278 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 4: The importance of having the right people in our lives. 279 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 4: You won't reach the fullness of your destiny with people 280 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 4: that are constantly dragging you down. You're having to always 281 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 4: spend your time and energy keeping them fixed, keeping them encourage. 282 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 4: You need people who feed you, people that inspire and 283 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 4: challenge you. People who are happy where you laugh and 284 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 4: have fun, people who are consistent, not living a crisis mode, moody, 285 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 4: up and down. 286 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 5: But people that are stable. 287 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 4: I read a study that said for every happy friend 288 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 4: you have, you are twenty percent more likely to be happy. 289 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,720 Speaker 4: If I understand this right, If you can just find 290 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 4: five happy friends, there's a good chance you're going to 291 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 4: be happy. This is what the scripture says, if you walk. 292 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 5: With wise people, you will become wise. 293 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 4: It's true in the negative, just like the positive proverb says, 294 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 4: if you hang around a gossip, you'll become a gossip. 295 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 5: Think of it like this. 296 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: For every peacetealer you allow in your life, you are 297 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 4: twenty percent more likely to live stressed, on edge, to 298 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 4: have a crisis. I'm asking you to find happy friends. 299 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 4: I'm not saying you have to cut people off never 300 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 4: speak to them again. I am saying you should put 301 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 4: up some boundaries. You don't have to make a big 302 00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 4: announcement like I did. Just little by little, spind life 303 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 4: less and less time with that person. 304 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 5: If you don't get the wrong. 305 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 4: People out of your life, you'll never meet the right ones, 306 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 4: Especially in your inner circle. The people who are closest 307 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 4: to you need to be stable, consistent, happy, godly, responsible 308 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 4: people that move you towards your destiny. Like iron sharpens iron, 309 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 4: you make each other better. And this is the reason 310 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 4: many people are stuck. Who do you have in your life? 311 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 4: What are you giving your time and energy to putting 312 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 4: out fires, trying to keep someone happy? Feeling guilty because 313 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 4: you can't meet their demands. That's going to wear you out. 314 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 4: It's time to make a change. You can't please everyone. 315 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 4: We see this principle with Jesus. 316 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 5: After a long day of. 317 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 4: Teaching the people and praying for them, the scripture says 318 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 4: he left the crowds and went away to rest. There 319 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 4: were still many people that prayer, many needs that had 320 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 4: not been met. I'm sure some of them thought, wow, 321 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 4: we traveled all this way and he didn't even wait. 322 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 5: To pray for us. He let us down. 323 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 4: Jesus wasn't being rude, he wasn't overlooking needs. He was 324 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 4: taking care of himself. He knew he needed to get 325 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 4: away and get quiet so he could be refreshed and restored. 326 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 4: There will always be people that need you. Somebody that 327 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 4: needs rescuing, needs encouraging, needs your help. 328 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 5: If you try to meet all. 329 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 4: The needs, you'll end up run down over time, even 330 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 4: burn out. Your number one priority is to keep yourself healthy. 331 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 4: You shouldn't be pressured into doing things that you know 332 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 4: are going to wear you out and over time even 333 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 4: keep you from your destiny. If Jesus was willing to 334 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 4: walk away from needs to protect his peace to stay 335 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 4: at rest, then we need to be willing to walk 336 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 4: away from things that we know are stealing our peace. 337 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 4: In March chapter four, the Disciples were in a boat 338 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 4: on the middle of a lake when a huge storm arose, 339 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 4: and they were so afraid and so worried. They said, somebody, 340 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 4: go wake Jesus up. We're going to die. Jesus, as 341 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 4: you know, was asleep in the hall of the boat 342 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 4: at rest in the middle of the storm. They came 343 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 4: in all frantic, Jesus, Jesus, wake up, We're about to drown. 344 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 4: He woke up, spoke to the storm, and everything calmed down. 345 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 4: What's interesting is these disciples had seen Jesus heal a 346 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 4: paralyzed man, cure the leper, do all kinds of miraculous signs. 347 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 4: You would think since they had seen the miracles and 348 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 4: Jesus had just told them let's go to the other 349 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 4: side of the lake, they would believe they would make it, 350 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 4: but doubt crept in, fear crept in. They panicked and 351 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 4: woke Jesus Us up. Like with these disciples, there will 352 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 4: always be people that try to get us out of 353 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 4: our rest. They may be good people, they may mean well, 354 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 4: but they tend to focus on the negative, blow things 355 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 4: out of proportion, see everything as a crisis. If you 356 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 4: allow them, they'll get you all wrought up, all stirred up. 357 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 4: You have to put your foot down and say no, 358 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 4: I'm staying at rest. 359 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,199 Speaker 5: Don't wake me up with your worry. 360 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 4: Don't wake me up with your fear, don't wake me 361 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,959 Speaker 4: up with your doubt. I know God is still on 362 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 4: the throne. He brought me through in the past, and 363 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 4: he'll bring me through. 364 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 5: This next time. 365 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 4: Now, the situation in the natural may be a crisis. 366 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 4: I mean they were in a storm. Say well, Joel, 367 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 4: I got a bad medical reporter. Your child is off course, 368 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 4: your business has gone down. But when you know the 369 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 4: God who controls the universe is on your boat, the 370 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 4: God who speaks to storms and they'll obey, is right 371 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 4: there with you, then you'll have a different perspective. You 372 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 4: won't let circumstances pull you out of rest. You won't 373 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 4: let people who are panicing and stressed out cause you 374 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 4: to panic. 375 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 5: You won't stay focused on the size of the problem. 376 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 5: You'll stay focused on the size of your God. 377 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 4: Now, don't let your own negative thoughts wake you up 378 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 4: from your rest. Don't let people wake you up with 379 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 4: their worry their doubt. Stay in peace, and God will 380 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 4: do what he promised. He'll get you to where you're 381 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 4: supposed to be. But how we respond in the storms 382 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:38,719 Speaker 4: of life, in the difficult times, that influences how people 383 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 4: respond around us. If Jesus would have woke up all panicked, 384 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 4: oh wow, this is really bad, those disciples probably would 385 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 4: have jumped overboard. 386 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 5: Boy, if he's worried, we're really worried. 387 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 4: But because he stayed at rest, not only could he 388 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 4: bring peace, but people around him calm down. When you 389 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 4: live at rest, your family will be more peaceful. When 390 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 4: you don't get stressed out at the office when everybody 391 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 4: else does. 392 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 5: People around you will calm down when. 393 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 4: You're stable, consistent, in a good mood despite what's going 394 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 4: on around you, Like Jesus, because you have peace on 395 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 4: the inside, you'll bring peace to the outside. Now, don't 396 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,479 Speaker 4: let people wake you up with their negativity. Like at 397 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 4: a hotel when you don't want to be bothered, you 398 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 4: put the do not disturb sign out on the door. 399 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 4: Why don't you put a do not disturb sign on 400 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 4: your life? You're announcing I'm staying at rest. Don't wake 401 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 4: me up with your turmoil. Don't wake me up with 402 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 4: your drama. Don't wake me up with your fear. Tell 403 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 4: those peace dealers look at the sign on the door, 404 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 4: do not disturb. 405 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 5: I have entered into the rest of God. 406 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 4: A couple of years after I started ministering, I was 407 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 4: at home in my office Saturday afternoon, finishing up my 408 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 4: message for that weekend. Victoria and our small son Jonathan 409 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 4: at that time had taken my car up to the 410 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 4: car wash to. 411 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 5: Have it cleaned. 412 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 4: I had a white Lexus that used to be my father's. 413 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 4: It was given to me when my dad died, and 414 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 4: it was a beautiful car. Even though it was six 415 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 4: years old. It didn't have one scratch on It looked 416 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 4: brand new, and I went to great links to make 417 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 4: sure it stayed perfect, especially since it meant a lot 418 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 4: to me. Victoria took it to the same car wash 419 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 4: that we always drove through. It's one of those super 420 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 4: soft ones where the brushes don't even touch the car, 421 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 4: it just freezes it with water. Unfortunately, in the middle 422 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 4: of the wash, the machine malfunctioned. This big metal arm 423 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 4: came crashing down on the front bumper. Then it drug 424 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 4: it across the hood, over the windshield, over the roof, 425 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 4: to the back of the car. It put a deep 426 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 4: scratch about a foot wide the whole length of the car. 427 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 5: When Victoria got back to the house, she. 428 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 4: Wasn't gonna tell me until after the Saturday night service 429 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 4: so that I wouldn't have to think about it. 430 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 5: She was in the garage looking at it. 431 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 4: But our son, Jonathan, he was about six years old, 432 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 4: he had a different plan. He got out of that car, 433 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 4: took off running ninety miles per hour, came busting in 434 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 4: my office, said, Daddy, Daddy, you won't believe it. 435 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 5: Mom just totally ruined your car. 436 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 4: I said, thank you, Jonathan for being so diplomatic about it. 437 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 5: But evidently he. 438 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 4: Didn't see the do not disturb sign on my door. 439 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 4: What am I saying? 440 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 5: Life happens. There will be. 441 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 4: Plenty of opportunities to wake up from that rest, and 442 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 4: even though people and circumstances may bypass that do not 443 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 4: disturb sign. 444 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 5: You have the final saying. 445 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 4: You have to dig your heels in and say, naw, 446 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 4: I'm staying at rest. I know God's still on the throne. 447 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 4: I am not gonna lose my peace over something I 448 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 4: cannot change. 449 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 5: But how many times. 450 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 4: Do we let small things pull us out of that rest? 451 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 4: We get caught in traffic? A coworker was rude, somebody's 452 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 4: talking about us. Don't let that get on the inside. 453 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 4: You'll never keep away all the peace stealers. 454 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 5: If you're waiting for. 455 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 4: Them to change, and traffic to change, and your boss 456 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 4: to change, you'll live stressed, worried your whole life. 457 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 5: They may never change. Here's the good news. You can change. 458 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,239 Speaker 5: You can enter into this rest. You can put that 459 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 5: do not disturb sign on. 460 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 4: Despite what comes against you, make up your mind you're 461 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 4: gonna stay in peace. One time I couldn't find the 462 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 4: remote control for our television at home. I had looked 463 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 4: everywhere and went in the kitchen, thought somebody had carried 464 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 4: it in there, and looked under the cushions of the couch, 465 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 4: and finally I called. 466 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 5: Victoria asked her if she had seen it. She said no. 467 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 4: The last time I saw it. It was right where 468 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 4: it was supposed to be, and kept looking and looking. 469 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 4: About fifteen minutes later Victoria call go back and said, 470 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 4: I found the remote control. I said, good, where is it? 471 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 4: She said, in my purse with me here at target. 472 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,399 Speaker 4: I was the one that put it there while we 473 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 4: were moving some furniture. But I was tempted to wake 474 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 4: up from my rest. That do not disturb sign I found. 475 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 4: Most of the time, it's not for other people, it's 476 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 4: for you. 477 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 5: It's to remind us to stay in peace. Are you 478 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 5: allowing things to pull you out of rest? 479 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 4: Anyone can be peaceful when everything's going their way. 480 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 5: The real test comes when life happens. 481 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 4: When the remote control is at target, when the car 482 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 4: wash puts an extra racing strip down your car, when 483 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 4: the disciples come rushing in panicking. 484 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 5: We're in a storm. This is really bad. The easy 485 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 5: thing to do is to panic. 486 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 4: With them, get all upset. Recognize what's happening. Those are 487 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 4: peace stealers trying to pull you out of your rest. 488 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 4: This is what happened with the Israelites. God had just 489 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,199 Speaker 4: delivered them out of slavery. They were headed toward the 490 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 4: promised land. Life was good, until the Pharaoh changed his mind. 491 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 4: He and his army came chasing after them. The Israelites 492 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 4: ended up at a dead end at the Red Sea. 493 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 4: They had nowhere to go, looked like they'd certainly be 494 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,199 Speaker 4: recaptured or maybe even killed, and they begin to panic. 495 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 5: They were so afraid. 496 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 4: The scripture says they were terrified and said, Moses, why 497 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 4: did you bring us out here in the. 498 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 5: Desert to die? 499 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 4: Moses knew if they would have stayed upset, fearful, worried, 500 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 4: that would have stopped God from working. He said to 501 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 4: the people, don't be afraid. The Lord will fight for 502 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 4: you if you hold your peace. 503 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 5: And remain at rest. 504 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 4: Notice there was a condition. God will fight your battles 505 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 4: if you'll stay at rest, if you'll quit worrying about 506 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 4: the medical report, if you'll quit being upset over the 507 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 4: contracted and get if you couldn't being stressed by those 508 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 4: people that talking about you, If you'll remain. 509 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 5: At rest, God will fight your battles. 510 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 4: I'm asking you today to identify the peace stealers in 511 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 4: your life. What's causing you to be stressed? Are you 512 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 4: carrying a load that you're not supposed to carry? Allowing 513 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 4: someone to dump their burdens on you trying to be 514 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 4: the savior. 515 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 5: Turn that over to God. Don't let them pull you 516 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 5: out of rest? 517 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,120 Speaker 4: Are you allowing traffic people a grouchy boss to upset you. 518 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 5: They may not change, but you can change. 519 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 4: Put up this do not disturb sign, not just for others, 520 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 4: but to remind you to stay in peace. 521 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 5: Friends. 522 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 4: Life is too short to go through it letting peace 523 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 4: stealers determine our destiny. If you'll make this decision with 524 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 4: me that you're going to live at rest, you'll not 525 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 4: only enjoy your life more, but I believe and declare 526 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 4: God will do for you what he did for the Israelites. 527 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 4: He'll part red seas, He'll restore your health. He'll bring vindication, promotion, 528 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 4: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name. If you 529 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 4: receive it today, can you say amen? We never like 530 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 4: to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity. 531 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 5: To make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you 532 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 5: pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of 533 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 5: my sins. Come into my heart. I make you my 534 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 5: lord and save you. Friends. 535 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 4: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 536 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 4: born again, get in a good Bible based church. Keep 537 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 4: God first place. He's going to take your places that 538 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 4: you've never dreamed. 539 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 6: As a thank you for your support of our ministry 540 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 6: this month, Joel and Victoria would like to send you 541 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 6: a copy of Joel's new three message series, Anchored to Hope. 542 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 7: When you're anchored to hope, you're not moved by your circumstances, 543 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 7: are worried because things are changing as fast as you'd like. 544 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 7: You have your trust, your confidence, your hope in the Lord. 545 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 7: You know he'll get you to where you need to be. 546 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 4: Your best days are not behind you, They're still out 547 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 4: in front of you. Request this resource. It will help 548 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 4: you stay anchored to hope. 549 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 6: Request your copy of Anchored to Hope today at Jill 550 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 6: Lustein dot com or call eight eight eight five six 551 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 6: seven Joel. 552 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 8: Eleven years ago, we were trying to add another child 553 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 8: to our family. We soon found out that my wife 554 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 8: had some medical issues. What we've learned through this ministry 555 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 8: is that God is the God of the impossible. Not 556 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 8: only is my wife healed and we were able to 557 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 8: add little baby girl to our family, but just recently 558 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 8: we've added a baby boy. 559 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 4: Your support is changing lives. Thanks for partnering with us. 560 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 4: We appreciate your prayers, your generosity. It's making a difference 561 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 4: around the world. Know that Victoria and I are praying 562 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 4: for you and your family. 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