1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: The Minute Drink. If you enjoy today's message, why don't 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 2: you be a blessing and share it with a friend, 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 2: reappreciate you, and pray for God's very best in your life. Well, 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 2: God bless you said joy to come into your homes, 7 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 2: and if you're ever in our area, please stop by 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. 9 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 11 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: about this senior citizen. He was driving down the freeway 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 2: in his brand new Corvette with the top down, going 13 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: eighty miles an hour when he saw flashing red lights 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: in his rearview mirror from a state trooper. Without thinking 15 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 2: about it, he floored it took it up to one 16 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour. He heard the sirens behind him, 17 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 2: finally came to his senses and pulled over. 18 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: He said, officer, I am so sorry. 19 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: I don't know what I was thinking. The trooper said, listen, 20 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 2: it's Friday, four o'clock. My shift is over in thirty minutes. 21 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: If you tell me a reason why you were speeding 22 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: that I've. 23 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: Never heard before. I'll let you go. 24 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 2: The man thought about it and said, Officer, years ago, 25 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: my wife ran off with a state trooper and I 26 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 2: thought you were bringing her back. The officer said, have 27 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 2: a great weekend. Say it like you mean it. This 28 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 29 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do 30 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be 31 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 32 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 33 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name. 34 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: God bless you. 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about kiss it goodbye. 36 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 2: There's a lady in the scripture named Naomi. She left 37 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 2: Bethlehem with her husband and two sons because of a famine. 38 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: They moved to the city of Moab. They had plenty 39 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: of food. 40 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 2: Life was good until her husband unexpectedly died. She never 41 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: dreamed she'd be a widow. Ten years later, both of 42 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: her grown. 43 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: Sons passed away. 44 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 2: She was so discouraged she decided to move back home 45 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 2: to Bethlehem. She told her two daughters in law, Ruth 46 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 2: and Orpah, that they should move back to their hometowns 47 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: as well and start a new life. Ruth said, no, Naomi, 48 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 2: I'm staying with you. I'm going to Bethlahem to help 49 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 2: take care of you. The other daughter in law, Orpah, 50 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 2: took her advice and said she was going to leave 51 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: and move back home. You would think Naomi would have 52 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 2: been a little sour and thought, after all I've done 53 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: for you, Orpah, you're going to leave me now at 54 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 2: my lowest moment. You can go get remarried, you can 55 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 2: find another job. 56 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: I'm an old. 57 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 2: Lady who's going to take care of me. She could 58 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:55,639 Speaker 2: have felt betrayed insulted. Instead, the scripture says Naomi kissed 59 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 2: Orpah goodbye. Orpah represented the broken d the hurts, the disappointments, 60 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 2: the things she didn't understand. Naomi was saying by that kiss, 61 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: life has thrown me a curve. It hasn't been fair, 62 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 2: but I'm at peace. I know God is still in control. 63 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: And if you're going to reach your destiny, you have 64 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: to learn to kiss things goodbye. 65 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 2: You're not going to understand everything that happens. People may 66 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 2: walk away. Life may not turn out the way you thought. 67 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 2: It's easy to get bitter, hold a grudge, lose your passion, 68 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: or do like Naomi. 69 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: Kiss the bitterness goodbye. 70 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: Kiss the person that left you goodbye, Kiss the dream 71 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: that didn't work out goodbye. God wouldn't have allowed it 72 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: to happen if he didn't have something better up in. 73 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: Front of you. But sometimes God will close the door. 74 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: He'll move people out of your life. 75 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 2: There are people and opportunities that were ordained for your 76 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: past that are not ordained for your future. 77 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: They were right for a. 78 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 2: Season, but that season can come to an end. The 79 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: key is how we handle the closed doors, how you 80 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: handle the disappointments, how you handle the. 81 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: People that treated you wrong. 82 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: Sometimes instead of kissing them goodbye, we smacked them goodbye, 83 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: good riddance. I didn't like you in the first place. 84 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: Don't let the door hit you on the way out. 85 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: Naomi could have turned away angry, thought I'm not going 86 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 2: to kiss you. 87 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: Orpah. 88 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 2: Some friends you are That would have kept her from 89 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: the new things God had in store. She moved back 90 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 2: to Bethlehem with her daughter in law, Ruth. Ruth married Boaz, 91 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,799 Speaker 2: a wealthy man that owned all the land. 92 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 1: They had a baby. 93 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 2: Naomi took care of their son like he was her own, 94 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 2: after all she had been through, all the broken dreams, 95 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 2: all the loss. While holding the little baby, Naomi said, 96 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 2: in a fact, I never dreamed I could be this happy, 97 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:08,160 Speaker 2: this fulfilled. Her latter days were better than her former days. 98 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 2: God knows how to give you beauty for ashes. He 99 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 2: knows how to turn mourning into dancing. But it would 100 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 2: have never happened if she had not kissed or Pa goodbye. 101 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 2: Are you at peace with your past or are you 102 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 2: bitter over the loss, upset because your plans didn't work out, 103 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 2: holding a grudge because that person walked away. It's time 104 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 2: to kiss some things goodbye. Don't bring bitterness into a 105 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 2: new year. Don't bring self pity. A chip on your 106 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 2: shoulder that was in your past. It doesn't belong in 107 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 2: the future. You cannot embrace the new things God has 108 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: in store as long as you're holding on to the old. 109 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,120 Speaker 2: My father went to be with the Lord back in 110 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine, some twenty years ago. I lost one 111 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 2: of my best friends. I still miss him, but I 112 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 2: realized the loss of my father is in. 113 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: My past, It's not in my future. 114 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: If I would have brought all the hurt, the questions, 115 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 2: the self pity. 116 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be where I am. You won't have the 117 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: strength to move forward if you're weeping over what's behind. 118 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 2: It takes a lot of energy to think about the past, 119 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: relive the hurts, wonder why it didn't work out. That 120 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 2: person you lost, If they were supposed to be here, 121 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 2: they would still be here. If somebody left you, I 122 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 2: say it respectfully, you. 123 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: Don't need them. 124 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 2: If it didn't work out the way you had planned, 125 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 2: it wasn't supposed to. God's ways are not our ways. 126 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 2: Will you trust him when it doesn't make sense? Start 127 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 2: kissing things goodbye. You spend enough energy on the past 128 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 2: that doesn't take you anywhere. Kiss that disappointment goodbye. That 129 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 2: door didn't close by accident. God is directing your steps. 130 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 2: It was either not the right time or because he 131 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 2: has something better. A friend of mine owned a very 132 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 2: successful business. 133 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: For years. 134 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 2: He was a leader in his field and saw all 135 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: kinds of growth and increase. He had big dreams to 136 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 2: leave his company to his children to continue the legacy. 137 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 2: After twenty five years, things started to slow down. The 138 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 2: competition around him increased, so he started working harder, going 139 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 2: in earlier. 140 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: I would call him and. 141 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 2: He was meeting with staff at six in the morning. 142 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 2: He was determined to make it work. He did everything 143 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: he possibly could. But God is called the Alpha and 144 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 2: the omega, the beginning and the end. We get excited 145 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: about the beginning, talk a lot about God. 146 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: Doing a new thing, but we don't hear a lot 147 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: about the omega the end. 148 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 2: But just as God opens doors, sometimes God will close 149 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 2: the door. 150 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: He'll bring things to an end. 151 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 2: And this can be hard for us because it feels 152 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: like a setback after all the hard work. 153 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: My friend's company didn't make it. He was so discouraged. 154 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: For several months he would hardly talk on the phone. 155 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: He told me how he felt like a failure. 156 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 2: He had all these plans, but it didn't work out 157 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 2: the way he thought. 158 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: Now I told him what I'm telling you. 159 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 2: The best thing you can do is just kiss it goodbye. 160 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: Don't bring a failure from yesterday into today. If one 161 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,239 Speaker 2: dream dies, get back up and dream another dream. 162 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: He got his. 163 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 2: Passion back and went out and started a consulting business. 164 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 1: All kinds of doors begin to open. 165 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:46,199 Speaker 2: Today he has more clients, more influence, more opportunities than 166 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 2: he's ever had. His new company is many times more successful, 167 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 2: than his own. When life doesn't turn out the way 168 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 2: you thought, remind yourself God is still in control, and 169 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 2: instead of being sour losing your joy, kiss the disappointment goodbye. 170 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: Quit reliving mistakes. 171 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 2: You've made, things that you wish you would have done different, 172 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 2: wondering why it didn't work out. Like my friend, you 173 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 2: may have done your best, given it your all, but 174 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 2: it didn't succeed. Accept it as God's plan and move on. 175 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 2: Our attitude should be God, I trust you not just 176 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: with my successes. I trust you with my failures. I 177 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 2: trust you with the betrayals. I trust you with the 178 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 2: things that don't make sense. When you kiss the past goodbye, 179 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 2: it releases you into your future. 180 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: You have to be at peace with what's behind you. 181 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 2: It's not enough to just move forward, angry, bitter, mad 182 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 2: at God. That's why Naomi kissed Orpah. It was symbolizing 183 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 2: this is painful. 184 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: I don't like it. 185 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: I feel betrayed, but I'm at peace. Takes sure surity 186 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 2: to kiss things that. 187 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: Don't feel good. This is what the prophet Samuel had 188 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: to do. 189 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 2: He spent years mentoring a young man named Saul. He 190 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: took him under his wing, and he trained him to 191 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: become the next king of Israel. You can imagine how 192 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 2: proud Samuel was when he saw this young man, now 193 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 2: grown and leading the Israelites. Everyone looked up to King Saul. 194 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: He was tall and handsome, he looked like a king. 195 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 2: But over time Saul got off course. He made poor decisions. 196 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 2: He eventually lost the throne. Samuel was so disappointed. He thought, God, 197 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 2: I put all this time and energy into him. I've 198 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 2: invested my life, and it seems like it was all 199 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 2: a big waste. You would think God would say, I 200 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 2: understand Samuel, too bad it didn't work out. But God 201 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,839 Speaker 2: didn't let him feel sorry for himself. He said, Samuel, 202 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 2: how long are you going to mourn over Saul? God 203 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 2: is asking us, how long are you going to mourn 204 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 2: over what you've lost? 205 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: How long are you going to be. 206 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 2: Discouraged over who hurts you and what you didn't get 207 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 2: and the boss that wasn't fair. I don't believe in 208 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 2: giving people the right to feel sorry for themselves, not 209 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: because they don't have a good reason. Some people have 210 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 2: gone through things that nobody should have to go through. 211 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 2: But I've learned if you stay in self pity with 212 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 2: a chip on your shoulder, thinking you have a reason 213 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 2: to live. 214 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 1: Defeated, you will never see the. 215 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 2: Vindication, the restoration, the promotion, the favor that belongs to you. 216 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: God wants to pay you back for what was unfair. 217 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: Don't sit around in self pity. 218 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 2: Kiss the bad break goodbye, Kiss the unfair childhood goodbye, 219 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 2: Kiss that injustice goodbye. God told Samuel fill your horn 220 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 2: with oil. I am sending you to the house of Jesse. 221 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 2: I have chosen one of his sons as the next king. 222 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,239 Speaker 2: God was saying, Samuel, if you'll kiss this disappointment goodbye 223 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 2: and start moving forward, I'll show you the new King. 224 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 2: One of your dreams may have died. That didn't stop 225 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 2: God's plan. He has another dream. One relationship may not 226 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 2: have worked out. If you'll kiss goodbye the old God 227 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 2: will show you the new. David went on to become 228 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 2: the greatest king that ever lived. When God makes up 229 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 2: for what you lost, it's not going to be less than, 230 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 2: it's not going to be equal, it's going. 231 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: To be better. 232 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 2: Just because it hasn't turned out the way you thought 233 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 2: doesn't mean you have to settle for second best. God 234 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 2: has to come up with a plan. Be God already 235 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 2: knew what would happen. He knew every door that would close, 236 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,959 Speaker 2: he knew every person that would walk away. He knew 237 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 2: how you'd spend time and energy. But a dream not 238 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: come to pass. All that is getting you prepared for 239 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 2: where God has taken you. Now, don't get stuck mourning 240 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 2: over Saul, disappointed over a bad break, bitter because of 241 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 2: a loss, Kiss it goodbye. Move forward, and you will 242 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: see your David's. You will see more than you can 243 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 2: ask or think. When we were trying to buy property 244 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 2: to build a new sanctuary, twice the land we found 245 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 2: was sold out from under us. We had an appointment 246 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 2: at eight o'clock in the morning to close on the 247 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 2: first property. We showed up at seven point forty five. 248 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 2: The secretary walked out and said, I'm sorry, the owner 249 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 2: sold the property last night. 250 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe that he didn't keep his word. 251 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 2: I went home so disappointed, and I told Victoria what 252 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 2: happened and how we didn't have the property, and how 253 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 2: we'd never be able to build, how we were stuck, 254 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 2: how we couldn't keep growing. I had a sad song, 255 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 2: and I thought I was convincing. She looked at me 256 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 2: and said, Joel, God is still on the throne. 257 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: This is not a surprise to him. 258 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 2: We are going to stay in faith and believe something 259 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 2: better is coming. 260 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to feel 261 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: sorry for myself. The flesh likes to have a pity party. 262 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 2: She was telling me what I'm telling you, kiss it, goodbye, 263 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 2: move forward. When things happen like that that you don't understand, 264 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: you can be sure God is up to something. He 265 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 2: is working behind the scenes. Now I came back to 266 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 2: a place of peace. I knew if God wanted us 267 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 2: to have that property, no person could have stopped us. 268 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: And just the opposite, if God doesn't want us to 269 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 2: have something, all of our efforts. 270 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: Won't make it happen. He's the Alpha and the Omega. 271 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: He knows how to not only open doors that no 272 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 2: man can shut, he knows how to close doors that 273 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 2: no man can open. 274 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: Are you upset over a door? God closed? People? 275 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 2: He moved out of your life. A dream he didn't 276 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 2: let come to pass yet. Six months later, we received 277 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 2: word that the Compact Center was coming available. Right then 278 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 2: I knew why those doors closed. Buying property would have 279 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 2: been second best. That would have been keeping Saul. The 280 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 2: compact center is David, more than we can imagine. I'm 281 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 2: asking you to be at peace with your past, Peace 282 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 2: with things you don't understand, not bitter, not angry, not 283 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 2: with a chip on your shoulder. Maybe you didn't have 284 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 2: a good childhood. Nobody was there to speak faith into you. 285 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 2: God knew how you would be raised. That's not going 286 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 2: to keep you from your destiny. It's leading you to 287 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 2: your destiny. Kiss it goodbye and move forward. You can't 288 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 2: become who you were created to be with a chip 289 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 2: on your shoulder, thinking that you're at a disadvantage. If 290 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: you'll take the hand you've been dealt and make the 291 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 2: most of it, God will open doors you couldn't open 292 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 2: favor on your life, will take you where you couldn't 293 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 2: go on your own. Why don't you kiss the self 294 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 2: pity goodbye, Kiss that condescending spirit, goodbye, Kiss always having 295 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 2: to be right? 296 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: Goodbye. 297 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: Don't bring a bad attitude into a new year being sarcastic. 298 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: Some people can wear designer clothes, put on makeup, have 299 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 2: nice hair. They look great on the outside. The problem 300 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: is none of that can cover up what's on the inside. 301 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 2: If we would work half as much on the inside 302 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 2: as we do the outside, we'd be much better off. 303 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 2: But if you don't kiss a bad attitude goodbye, the 304 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 2: problem is you'll be at the same place next year 305 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 2: as you are right now. And sometimes we're waiting for 306 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 2: God to change things. 307 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: God is waiting for us to make a decision. 308 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 2: You have to put your foot down and say, I 309 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: am not coming into a new year with old thinking. 310 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 2: I am kissing the chip on my shoulder goodbye. I 311 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 2: am kissing the guilt goodbye. I'm kissing a barely get 312 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 2: by mentality goodbye. When you kiss it, this means in 313 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 2: your mind you're putting an end to it. You're saying, 314 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 2: this addiction is not going to control me anymore. 315 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: I am free. 316 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 2: Well you've made a lot of mistakes, yes, but I've 317 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: kissed them goodbye. I am not living in regrets, beating 318 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 2: myself up. I am forgiven, I am redeemed. I'm wearing 319 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 2: a robe of righteousness. Well, you've always been in dysfunction. 320 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: That's how you were raised. 321 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 2: You've always been hot tempered, you've always been angry. 322 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 1: Yes, that's how I was raised, but that's not who 323 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: I am. 324 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 2: I'm kissing that goodbye. I'm putting an end to what's 325 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 2: been passed down. I'm breaking the generational curse, and I'm 326 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 2: starting the generational blessing. You need to announce to that dysfunction. 327 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 2: You may have been in my twenty eighth eighteen, but 328 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 2: I have bad news. 329 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: You are not in my twenty nineteen. 330 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 2: Mediocrity, depression, bitterness, anger. I'm kissing you goodbye. I won't 331 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 2: be seeing you this year. We are parting ways. Hate 332 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 2: to say it, and not going to miss you. See 333 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 2: you not gonna be your kiss loneliness. Goodbye, Father. Thank 334 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 2: you that you have somebody awesome already headed my way. 335 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 2: Thank you that the right person is chasing me down. 336 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 2: Goodbye lack struggle, not having enough. You were in my yesterday, 337 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 2: but sorry you're not in my today. 338 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: Father. 339 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 2: Thank you that I will lend, did not borrow. Thank 340 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 2: you that whatever I touch will prosper and succeed. Maybe 341 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 2: you need to kiss goodbye to the way you see 342 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 2: yourself inferior, unattractive, not a good personality, not talented enough. 343 00:18:53,560 --> 00:19:00,920 Speaker 2: Kiss that wrong self image goodbye. Victory starts in your thinking. Abundance, hell, freedom, 344 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 2: it starts. 345 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: In our mind. 346 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 2: You can't think the same way and expect different results. 347 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 2: Start embracing who God says you are. You are fearfully 348 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 2: and wonderfully made. You are a masterpiece. You have been 349 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 2: crowned with favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 350 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 2: Nobody in this world has your same fingerprints. You didn't 351 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 2: come off an assembly line. You are an original, one 352 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 2: of a kind, made in the image of Almighty God. 353 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 2: I wonder where you could be at this time next 354 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 2: year if you'd start kissing things goodbye, kiss the offense, goodbye. 355 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 2: Quit letting people hurt your feelings, Quit letting what they 356 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 2: say ruin your day. 357 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: Tune it out. 358 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,399 Speaker 2: They have a right to say what they want. You 359 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 2: have a right to ignore it. You shouldn't let that 360 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 2: get down in your spirit. Well, Joe, I'm praying that 361 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 2: these people at work will quit talking of me. I 362 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 2: don't want to discourage you, but they may never quit 363 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 2: talking about you. They are jealous of the favor and 364 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: blessing on your life. Take it as a compliment. They 365 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 2: don't talk about average people. They talk about exceptional people. 366 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 2: They don't talk about people that aren't doing anything. They 367 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 2: talk about people that are taking new ground, people that 368 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 2: are making a difference people that stand out. It's a 369 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,479 Speaker 2: test God is seeing if you're ready to go to 370 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 2: the next level. Are you going to get upset start 371 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,719 Speaker 2: thinking about how you're going to pay them back, or 372 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 2: are you going to kiss it goodbye and keep running 373 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 2: your race enjoying your life. Those adversaries are getting you 374 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 2: prepared for your destiny. 375 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: Where you're going, there will. 376 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 2: Be opposition, critics, people trying to pull you down. The 377 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 2: good news is no weapon formed against you will prosper. 378 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,040 Speaker 2: They cannot stop you. The forces that are for you 379 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 2: you are greater than the forces that are against you. 380 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,879 Speaker 2: Stay on the high road and stay focused on what 381 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 2: God has put in your heart. You don't have time 382 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,479 Speaker 2: to get distracted by all the negative chatter. What people 383 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 2: think about you is none of your business. What they're 384 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 2: saying shouldn't concern you. There'll always be somebody that doesn't 385 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 2: like you. 386 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: Kiss it goodbye and keep moving forward. 387 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 2: Now, there may be some relationships you need to kiss goodbye. 388 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 2: I'm not talking about your husband or your wife. Somebody 389 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 2: just thought they got their word for twenty nineteen. Your 390 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 2: time is too valuable to spend it with peace stealers, 391 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,959 Speaker 2: people that try to get you all riled up, or 392 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 2: with dream killers, people that tell you what you can't become, 393 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 2: or with compromisers, people that cause you to give in 394 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 2: to temptation. Joel, I've had this friend a long time. 395 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: If I don't hang out with them, they may get upset. 396 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 2: What you're unwilling to walk away from is where you'll 397 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: get stuck. If you don't kiss the wrong people goodbye, 398 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 2: you'll never meet the right people. And if someone is 399 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 2: not adding value to your life, making you better, pushing 400 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 2: you toward your destiny. 401 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 1: You need to make a change. And sometimes it's just 402 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: a new season. 403 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 2: The friends you had five years ago may not be 404 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 2: the friends you need now. Everybody can't go where you're going. 405 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 2: It doesn't mean they're not good people. You've just outgrown them. 406 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 2: You're going at a faster pace. If you continue hanging 407 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: around them, it will limit your growth. You need to 408 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 2: gradually spend less and less time with them. Naomi's daughter 409 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 2: in law Orpam, she was a good person. 410 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: Naomi loved her. 411 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 2: They had spent years together, but Naomi recognized ORPA's part 412 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 2: in her story was over. She didn't try to talk 413 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 2: her into stay. If someone is supposed to to be 414 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 2: in your life. 415 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: You can't make them leave. 416 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 2: And if someone leaves easily, they're not supposed to be there. 417 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 2: Quit trying to talk people into stale. 418 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: You don't have to. 419 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 2: Convince anyone to love you, to call you, to come 420 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 2: see you. 421 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: You are a gift, you are a prize. You have 422 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: something amazing to offer. 423 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 2: If they don't want to be there, that's a sure 424 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 2: sign they're not supposed to be there. God has people 425 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 2: already ordained that you can't make leave. People that want 426 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 2: to celebrate you, people that love spending time with you. 427 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 2: If somebody wants to leave, let them leave. Your destiny 428 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: is not tied to the people that walked away. Be respectful, 429 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 2: but kiss the orphers goodbye. God told Abraham to leave 430 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 2: his relatives and move to a different city. I'm sure 431 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 2: he loved his relatives. For a season, everything was fine. 432 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 2: But when God was about to promote Abraham and do 433 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 2: something big in his life, he knew his relatives and 434 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 2: the people where he lived wouldn't be able to handle it. 435 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 2: The people closest to you may not see the greatness 436 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 2: in you. 437 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,479 Speaker 1: When they're familiar. They can dismiss. 438 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 2: You as just being ordinary, And sometimes you have to 439 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 2: kiss people goodbye so you can become all you were 440 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 2: created to be. 441 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 1: This is what my father had to do. At seventeen. 442 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 2: He knew he had more in him, but his parents 443 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 2: told him to just stay on the farm and pick 444 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 2: cotton with them the rest of his life. And they 445 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 2: loved my father. They were trying to protect him, but 446 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 2: they couldn't see his seeds of greatness. They didn't see 447 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 2: a man that would touch nations. They just saw their son, 448 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 2: nothing special, He just one of us. My father very 449 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 2: respectfully kissed them goodbye and went out and started ministering. 450 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 2: God opened amazing doors, and he went on to leave 451 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,959 Speaker 2: his mark. Don't let people talk you out of what 452 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 2: God put in your heart. When you come to the 453 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 2: end of life, You're not going to have to stand 454 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 2: before people and give an account. 455 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,879 Speaker 1: You're going to stand before God. 456 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 2: I would rather disappoint people than disappoint God. I would 457 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 2: rather hurt a few feelings than to miss my destiny. 458 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: Is there something you need to kiss goodbye? 459 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 2: A hurt, a bad attitude, an area that you're compromising in. 460 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,360 Speaker 2: Don't bring it into a new year. That's in your past. 461 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 2: Does it belong in your future? The Apostle Paul said, 462 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 2: forgetting what lies behind, I press. 463 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 1: To the high calling. 464 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 2: If there's a high calling, that means there's a low calling. 465 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,160 Speaker 2: You can go through life holding onto hurts, wrong attitudes 466 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 2: with people that are not good for you, but that 467 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 2: will keep you from new levels, from the high calling 468 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 2: that belongs to you. It's time to start kissing things. Goodbye, 469 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,120 Speaker 2: Kiss that failure, goodbye. 470 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: This is a new day. 471 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 2: Kiss guilt, goodbye, you've been forgiven. Kiss the bad break goodbye. 472 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 1: God has something better. 473 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 2: If you'll do this, I believe and declare you're about 474 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 2: to come into the high calling. New doors are going 475 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,479 Speaker 2: to open, new relationships, favor, healing, breakthroughs, the fullness of 476 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 2: your destiny in Jesus' name, and if you receive it, 477 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 2: can you say him in Today? 478 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: I'd like to give you. 479 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,639 Speaker 2: An opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 480 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: Would you pray with me, just say, Lord. 481 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 2: Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 482 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 2: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you 483 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 2: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. 484 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 2: Get in a good Bible based church, and keep God 485 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 2: first place when we face challenges. It's easy to feel 486 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 2: like God has forgotten about us. We don't see anything happening. 487 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 2: God's telling us it's not going to work out. But 488 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 2: God is not called the Great I was or the 489 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 2: Great I will be. He's called the Great I Am. 490 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 2: In my new book, he Is I Am, you'll discover 491 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 2: that God is with you in every area of your life. 492 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 2: I Am is always in the present, not at a 493 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 2: later time. God is working in your life right now. 494 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 2: I Am means I am your healer. I am your provider. 495 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 2: I AM your waymaker. Whether you're facing a challenge or 496 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 2: pursuing your dreams, stay in faith. 497 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: The Great I Am is right there with you. 498 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,879 Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift 499 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 3: of any amount this month, we would like to send 500 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 3: you a copy of Joe's book, he Is I Am. 501 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,479 Speaker 3: God is for you here and now. Are you in 502 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 3: need of protection or provision today? Jesus assures us, I 503 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,400 Speaker 3: Am the good Shepherd. Does the path ahead seem uncertain 504 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 3: or dark? Jesus declares, I Am the Light of the world. 505 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 3: Do you feel like your career, calling or marriage just 506 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 3: beyond hope? Jesus promises, I Am the Resurrection and the life. 507 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 3: With every im statement. You'll discover more about who God 508 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 3: is and what He has made available for you, not someday, 509 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 3: but today. Request your copy today and watch God's promise 510 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 3: come alive. No matter what you face, He is here 511 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 3: and now for you. Be sure to request your copy 512 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 3: of He Is I Am. God is for you, here 513 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 3: and now today. 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