A Healthy Soul

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Thanks for listening to 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.440 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.920 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.480 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.560 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:50.400 your life. God bless you. It's great to be with 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.840 you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.360 during the week to our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.920 social media, and you can come visit us here in person. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.760 I'd love to have you be a part of one 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.720 of our services. I like to start with something funny, 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.000 and I heard about this elderly gentleman he'd had a 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.200 hearing problem his whole life. He went to the doctor 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.880 and was fitted with this new, state of the art 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.799 hearing aid where he could hear one hundred percent. A 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.400 few months later he went back for a checkup. The 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.680 doctor said, Wow, your hearing is perfect. I bet your 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.040 family is so excited that you can hear again. He said, no, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.040 I haven't told my family. I just sit around and 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.160 listen to the different conversations, and I've changed my will 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:37.080 three times, saying, like you mean it, this is my Bible. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.800 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.240 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.040 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.200 of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.520 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.200 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.160 about a healthy soul. Spend a lot of time and 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.359 energy taking care of our physical body. We try to 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.160 eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, and that's all important. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.320 We want to feel good, but we don't spend enough 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.120 time taking care of our soul. We don't realize how 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.800 much our emotions, our attitudes, our thoughts are affecting us physically. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.800 The scripture says, I wish above all things that you 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.639 succeed and be in good health, even as your soul prospers. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:35.080 This links being healthy physically, having energy vitality, to how 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.280 healthy your soul is. If your soul is unhealthy, it's 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:45.880 going to spill over to the physical. If you're living stressed, worried, bitter, guilty, angry, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:51.600 those negative emotions are not just affecting your relationships, your creativity, 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:56.240 how productive you are, but they're weakening your immune system. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.960 Your cells are not fighting off sickness like they should. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.000 Ninety percent of all doctor's visits to a primary care 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:08.680 physician or stress related. You can't sleep at night, your 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.920 food won't digest, you have ulcers. Much of that goes 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.680 back to your soul not being healthy. You're worried night 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.760 and day about that child, stressed over your finances, holding 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.000 a grudge over that person that did you wrong. You 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:29.039 don't realize you're making yourself sick. All that negative energy 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.599 is poisoning your soul. Because your soul is unhealthy, it 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.760 starts to spill over to the physical. You wake up 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.160 in the morning, you wonder why you're still tired. Why 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.760 you don't have any energy, It's because your mind worked 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:49.359 all night. Your body laid there, but your mind wrestled, wondered, reason, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.159 what if, how could I? What may happen? You're trying 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.799 to control things that you can't control, trying to fix 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.599 people that you can't fix, Worried about a problem that 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.120 may not even happen, or even bitter over something that 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.040 took place twenty years ago. You can't take in all 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:15.160 those toxins and not be poisoned. You can't let anger, unforgiveness, guilt, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.440 worry dominate your life. If you'll get your soul healthy, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.680 you'll get your energy back. If you'll quit letting the 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:27.200 negative emotions rule, then many of these physical elements will go. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.560 It's all interconnected. In my late twenties, I developed this 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.359 redness between my eyes and all around the top of 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.000 my face and made my skin flake and it's very itchy. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.160 It looked really bad, and I tried creams, motions, different 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:46.080 face soaps. Nothing improved. I went to a couple of dermatologists. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.120 They gave me prescriptions that would help control it. That 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.240 lessened it, but it never went away. A couple of 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.800 years later I went to a different doctor. He said, Joel, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.920 I know exactly what's causing it. It's stress. You're living 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.560 too uptight, you have too much pressure. I can give 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.279 you more medicine, but until you change, until you get 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.320 more balanced, it's not going to go away. I was 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.280 you hung, had all this energy. I thought, I'm not 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.320 under stress. I'm fine. Sometimes we can't see what's poisoning us. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.440 We have a blind spot. We can look in the 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.080 mirror and see things. I have this redness, I have 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.080 this blimish. We can see the physical, but we can't 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.600 see what's happening on the inside. Your inner life is 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.080 more important than your outer life. What's going on in 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.240 your emotions, how you feel about yourself, what you're allowing 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.760 to play in your mind, that's affecting what's happening on 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.080 the outside. I was treating the symptom, but not the cause. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.880 I thought, just fix the outside, just clear this redness up, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.440 but it kept coming back. One day I got honest 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.400 with myself. I looked at all that I was doing. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.440 I was married to Victoria. That was incredibly relaxing, and 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.480 I'm not even gonna joke about that one. We had 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.000 a two year old son, another baby coming. We had 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.320 moved out of our townhouse and were remodeling this older home. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.120 I had traveled several weeks to India with my father, 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.280 was working long hours at the church trying to get 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.840 the TV ministry going. I didn't realize it, but I 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.600 was living under all this pressure, this stress. Much of 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.320 it I was putting on myself. I like to go fast, 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.720 work hard, accomplish goals. But here's the key. You are 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:40.000 responsible for your own emotional well being. It's not up 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.600 to anyone else. Your spouse can't keep your soul well. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.000 Your doctor, your friends, your parents. Nobody has control over 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.880 your soul except you. In one sense, not even God. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.360 He's not going to make you forgive, make you not worry, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.520 force you to not live angry, offended, guilty. These are 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.080 choice is that we have to make. My question today 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.920 is is your soul healthy? We can see your looks, 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.360 your talent, your personality, but what's going on inside? Are 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.440 you at peace? Are you turning things over to God? 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.119 Do you know that you're valuable? Is your heart free 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:24.400 from bitterness, offense? Or is their worry, guilt, insecurity, self pity. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.320 Look what I've been through Joe, I'm angry. Yes, I 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.840 have this chip on my shoulder because these people did 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.560 me wrong. That's poisoning your soul. Like with me, you 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.800 may not be able to see it. Sometimes we've gotten 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.080 used to these negative emotions. We've adapted. We wonder why 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.079 we don't have energy, why we can't sleep, why we're 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.000 not creative. You have to get honest with yourself. You 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.120 have to look inside and ask why am I so jealous? 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.880 Why can't I celebrate my friend's success, Why am I 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.160 so easily offended? Why do I argue so much? Or 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.520 why don't I feel good about myself? Lady told me 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.480 how every time she and her husband had the smallest disagreement, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.240 she would blow up, get loud and come unglued and 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:15.400 be this huge ordeal. The men couldn't understand why she 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.080 was so on edge and so easily angered. Over time, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.200 it had become too much their relationship was falling apart. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.040 As a teenager, she had been in a relationship with 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.959 a young man that really hurt her. He suddenly broke 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.560 up and said some things that were very derogatory. She 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.800 felt rejected, like she wasn't good enough, and instead of 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.440 letting it go knowing that God is our vindicator, that 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.760 what people say don't determine who we are. She held 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.959 on too that offense. It was poisoning her spirit, making 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:54.120 her insecure and easily offended. When you don't let go 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.200 of things, they never healed. Anytime her husband didn't agree 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.880 with her, it was like touching a bruce. She would 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.360 push back and lash out. One day, she did what 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.439 we all have to do. She got honest with herself. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.240 She looked inside, said why am I like this? Why 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.000 do I get upset so easily? She realized it was 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.960 from the pains of the past, from things that weren't 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.520 fair that she hadn't dealt with. She made the decision 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.520 to get the unforgiveness out, the bitterness, the resentment, the insecurity. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.640 That was the turning point. As she got her soul healthy, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.640 her relationships became healthy. Today she and her husband are 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.920 happy and enjoying life. What am I saying? Pay attention 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.480 to your inner life. It's easy to adapt to things 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.560 that are poisoning us and we don't realize it. We 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.400 end up going through life just treating the symptoms. If 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.679 we would get to the root cause and get our 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.200 soul healthy, then God said we will have good health 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.520 and good success. Now a question we need to ask 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.319 ourselves is, am I I'm making myself sick? Am I sabotaging 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:08.000 my relationships? Am I limiting my potential? Holding myself down 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:13.320 because my soul is unhealthy. Hebrews says, make sure that 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:18.360 no root of bitterness springs forth and defiles you. It 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.560 describes bitterness as a root. A root is underground, you 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.520 can't see it, but if you let it grow, it's 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.960 going to spring forth. A bitter root will produce bitter fruit. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.280 What's on the inside is going to show up on 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.000 the outside. We try to fix the fruit. We deal 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.080 with the symptom, but the fruit is not the real problem. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.760 We need to go to the source and get rid 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:47.400 of the root. Proverb says, guard your heart, for out 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.800 of it flow the issues of life. One of our 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:55.280 main responsibilities is to keep the toxins out, keep those 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:00.560 roots from springing up. Offenses are going to come, workers 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.640 will come, disappointments, hurts, jealousy, anger. You can't stop it 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.160 from coming. The question is are you going to let 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.760 it take root, get down in your spirit, contaminate your joy, 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.960 take your energy, open you up to sickness, trouble, defeat, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.959 O keep your soul healthy. You have to be an 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:27.120 active gardener. Pull up those roots, pull up that in unforgiveness, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.360 pull up that insecurity, pull up that guilt in condemnation. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.040 Don't let your soul become poisoned. If your soul is bitter, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.400 your life will be bitter. Why are you letting that 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:44.280 worry take root? Losing sleep, living stressed out? You've seen 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.120 God take care of you in the past. You've seen 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.199 him make ways where you didn't see away. You've seen 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.720 him provide in a pandemic, give you peace in a storm, 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.000 favor in the fire. He did it back then, He's 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.600 going to do it again. He didn't bring you this far. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.280 Leave you where you are or why are you holding 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:08.520 onto that guilt? Beating yourself up over past mistakes? God 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.600 has forgiven you. Why don't you forgive yourself? God doesn't 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.959 remember it. Why don't you quit remembering it? God has 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.680 moved on. Why don't you move on? Why are you 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.240 jealous over that coworker that got the promotion, that friend 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.640 that you think is more talented, more beautiful, more successful. 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.720 Now you're finding fault, critical, feeling bad about who you are. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.040 God blessing them doesn't mean he's not going to bless you. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.840 God didn't run out of favor, He didn't forget about you. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.720 He has things in your future better than you've imagined. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.240 But don't let that jealous root keep you poison. Pull 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.400 it up, keep your heart pure, celebrate their success. When 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.280 your soul is healthy, God can trust you with more 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.080 or Why are you still upset over something that happened 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.760 twenty years ago? You're still holding a grudge over who 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.360 hurt you, who walked away, what you didn't get that 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.280 didn't stop God's plan. What they did is not going 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.400 to keep you from your purpose. God knew it was 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.280 going to happen, and he already had a plan to 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.400 bring you out better, to give you beauty for the ashes, 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:23.479 joy for the morning. Pull up that root of disappointment, resentment, 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.600 self pity that's poisoning your future. Don't just deal with 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.240 the symptom, get to the root. Learn to live from 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.280 a place of faith. God. I trust you. I know 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.600 you're in control. You're fighting my battles, You've ordered my steps. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.200 You have a good plan for my life. Lord. I 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.640 thank you that you're my provider, my protector, my waymaker, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.080 my deliver, my vindicator. God, My life is in your hands. 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.040 That's how you keep your soul healthy on a regular basis. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.240 You have to pull up the roots, get rid of 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.760 the toxins, guard your heart. There was this man that 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.600 owned all these horses, and he was out riding one 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.480 day and this large tree branch had fallen across the trail. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.120 As his horse went to jump over it, it didn't 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.880 quite clear and the horse scraped its back leg very badly. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.280 The men took him to the barn, cleaned up the womb, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.760 put some antiseptic on it, wrapped it up. A couple 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.040 of weeks went by and he noticed the horse was 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.800 still bothered by it. He had the vet nearing come 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.240 out take a look at it. He put the horse 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.120 on antibotics. He began to improve, but a few months 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.400 later the infection came back. The horse could barely walk. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.160 They started another round of antibotics, and like the first time, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.600 the leg got better. The wound began to heal, but 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.360 three months later the wound was reinfected. This happened again 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.640 and again. The owner finally decided to take the horse 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.480 to the clinic find out what was going on. They 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.360 put the horse under anesthesia, opened up the wound. They 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.480 found this huge piece of wood about the size of 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.720 a golf ball, buried way up in the horse's leg. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.440 Every time he went off the medicine, the infection would 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.720 keep coming back. They were treating the symptoms, but until 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.520 they went deeper, until they got to the root of 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.960 the problem, it wasn't going to go away. And we 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.680 treat symptoms because we can see the symptoms. It's obvious 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.640 have red between my eyes. I need some medicine. We 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.520 have to go deeper. We have to deal with the root. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.560 I can't get rid of this headache because I'm so worried. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.600 I'm so stressed. I'm making myself sick. I can't get 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.680 along in this relationship because I'm insecure. I don't feel 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.480 valuable or I'm not reaching my potential because I'm mad 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.080 at myself. I'm living in regrets thinking about where I 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:49.320 should be get that infection out. As long as the 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.000 root is there, the fruit is going to be bitter. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.080 And the good news is you control what's in your soul. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.200 You can't control what happened to you, what someone did, 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.119 but you can control how you respond, what you choose 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:09.159 to dwell on. Is there some infection, some toxins that 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.640 are keeping you from getting well, Some bitterness, worry, guilt 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:18.359 that's keeping you stuck where you can't flourish. Sometimes we 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.439 can't get along in a relationship because we have a 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.760 root of pride. We think we're right all the time. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.760 We won't listen to others' opinion, we never apologize. We're 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:32.320 hard to get along with. Contentious. That's one of those 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.640 toxins that we can always see. You have to look deeper. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.760 It's under the surface. When your soul is healthy, you're 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.200 loving and kind, You see the best in others. You're 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:48.240 the peacemakers. You let them be right. David said in 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.240 Some One nineteen. God, keep me from lying to myself. 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.720 That's one of the most powerful prayers we could ever pray. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.240 That takes as much faith as God. Give me the 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.439 compact Ciner. God, help me to be honest with myself. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.560 Help me to look in the mirror and see where 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.840 my soul is not healthy, Where I need to change, 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.960 where I need to forgive, be more kind and understanding, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.000 Where I need to quit letting people take my joy. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.600 Where I need to get over what happened three years ago, 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.399 or where I need to quit beating myself up to 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:27.639 see myself as valuable, attractive, a masterpiece. My prayer is, God, 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:32.080 don't let us go through life lying to ourselves. It's 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.879 one thing to be dishonest with others. That's certainly not good, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.840 but don't lie to yourself. Don't sweep things under the rug. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.000 Make excuses for why you're angry, bitter, jealous, hard to 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.960 get along with. There's no fault in being there, but 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.320 there is a fault in staying there. It may be 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:55.320 your explanation, but don't let it be your excuse. Joel, 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.600 I have this ongoing injury because I scraped my leg. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.800 Or get the wood out and move forward with your life. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.320 Why I'm bitter because my loved one died, No, pull 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.040 up that route and go out and do great things. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.160 Make them proud by leaving your mark. I'm stressed because 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.960 my finances, my children, there pressure at work. You can't 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.280 control all that. Don't let circumstances be an excused to 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:24.320 live worried, on edge, short with your children, Get back 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:28.960 in balance, get your soul healthy if you'll look inside 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.359 and deal with things that are stealing your peas taking 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:37.200 your joy, causing you to compromise. As your soul gets healthier, 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.840 physical healing will come, Your gifts will come out in 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:45.080 greater ways. Your relationships will be better, New doors will open. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.560 It's interesting that David prayed that prayer about not lying 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.040 to himself. Maybe it's stemmed from the time he had 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.800 an affair with Bathsheba. His men were out fighting a battle. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.760 He stayed back in the palace. One night he went 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.680 on to off of the roof to get some fresh air, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.520 and he saw this beautiful girl taking a bath. Instead 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.080 of walking away, not going there, he went and got 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:12.200 the binoculars. She was a married woman, but David sent 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.800 for it. She ended up getting pregnant. David tried to 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.680 cover it up. He had her husband come home from 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.879 the battle, but he was so loyal he wouldn't sleep 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.640 with her. While his colleagues were out fighting, David told 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.000 the commanders to put him out on the front lines 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.359 where he wouldn't be protected. He was killed in the battle. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.959 David took Bathsheba as his wife. He thought everything was fine. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.560 He covered it up, no big deal. But the problem 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:44.240 with burying negative toxins is they never stay buried, those 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.720 toxins will eventually come back up and begin to poison 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.760 your life. For the next year, while David was lying 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:56.000 to himself, pretending that nothing was wrong, his health began 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:00.679 to deteriorate. He was sick, weakly. He had been strong 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.679 his whole life. He was a warrior, but now his 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:08.560 soul was unhealthy. The guilt, the shame, the compromise started 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.439 to affect his physical body. He finally got honest and 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.679 admitted his mistake. He said, God, create in me a 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:21.320 clean heart. God, forgive me of my wrongs. He was saying, God, 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.760 I'm not hiding anymore. I'm going to deal with these 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.760 toxins that are poisoning my soul. The beauty of our 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:34.240 God is He's merciful. He'll forgive you. God restored David. 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.359 He got his health back, his joy back, and he 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.200 went on to fulfill his purpose. But until you get 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.439 honest with yourself, deal with what you know is holding 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:48.000 you back, you're going to be limited. As your soul 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:51.720 gets healthier, your body is going to get healthier. You're 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:55.639 going to have more energy, more vitality. David is the 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:59.240 one that wrote in Psalm twenty three. He restores my soul. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:05.200 Your soul may feel broken today, wounded, hurt from mistakes 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.640 you've made, or from what someone else did, But your 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.760 soul can be restored when you get honest with yourself. 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:18.080 You release what you need to release guilt, worry, anger, jealousy. 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:22.720 Then healing will come, joy will come, Peace will come. 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:28.960 I believe even now God is restoring souls. Emotional healing 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.600 has taken place. Healing from the hurts, the pains of 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:37.400 the past, what wasn't fair, the loss, the heartache, Healing 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:42.600 from self inflicted wounds, mistakes we've made, regrets we're living in. 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:48.639 Healing from tormenting spirits, from mental illness, from anxiety, from depression. 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:52.200 God is doing a new thing. Forces that have held 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:56.320 you back are being broken off of your emotions, your attitudes, 0:22:56.400 --> 0:23:00.440 your thoughts. You are not going to live wounded. He's 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:04.480 restoring your soul. Your latter days are going to be 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:07.320 better than your former days. You're about to step into 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:13.160 a new level of joy, peace fulfillment, abundance, victory. Don't 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:15.879 believe those lies that it's too late. You've made too 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:18.879 many mistakes, You've been through too much. No, the best 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:20.960 part of your life is still in front of you. 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:24.400 We knew a man growing up that loved to play 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:28.240 the piano. He was very talented, but he suffered from 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:32.600 rheumatoid arthritis. Over the years that kept getting worse and worse. 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.560 Got to the point where his fingers were all bent 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.840 over like he was making a fist. He couldn't open 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.320 them anymore. All of his joints were swollen. Of course, 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:46.040 he couldn't play the piano. He was so discouraged. He 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.840 used to play for hours, and now that dream was gone. 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.560 He attended Lakewood and one day he heard my father 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.240 speaking about forgiveness and how important it is that we 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.080 don't hold onto these hurts, and how that can poison 0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:03.240 our life. This man felt convicted. He had held something 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:06.320 against his parents for years. He felt like they had 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:09.120 done him wrong, and instead of letting it go and 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:13.520 showing mercy, he let that bitterness take root. He wouldn't 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:16.639 speak to them, shut them out of his life. He 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.159 thought that was the best way to handle it. He 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:23.440 didn't realize that was poisoning his soul. When your soul 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:27.359 is unhealthy, it can affect you physically. That day, he 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:29.840 made a decision that he was going to forgive his 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:33.879 parents make things right. Went to their house and his 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.159 mother was weeping as father hugged him, so happy it 0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:40.160 was an answer to their prayer. And this man told 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.680 how he felt this heaviness, this weight lift off of him. 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:47.040 He had gotten used to it. He forgot what it 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:50.360 was like to be free and not have that bitterness 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:53.399 in the back of his mind, always poisoning his joy. 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:58.040 It was great that his parents wanted reconciliation. They were 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.000 happy to have their son back. But there may be 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:04.280 times where the people that did you wrong don't want 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:06.840 to reconcile. They don't want to have you back in 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:10.200 their life. That's okay. You're not forgiving for their sake, 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:13.920 You're forgiving for your sake. Forgive so you can keep 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:18.640 your own soul healthy. Let it go so that negative 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:22.639 root doesn't spring up and contaminate the rest of your life. 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:26.520 They hurt you once, don't let them continue to hurt 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.480 you by holding on to it. Let God be your vindicator. 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:34.159 He sees what wasn't fair. He knows who did you wrong, 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:36.399 and he knows how to make it up to you. 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.000 He knows how to bring you out better than you 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:42.760 were before. Over the next few months, much to this 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:47.440 man's surprise, his fingers, little by little started opening up, 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:51.159 the swellings started going down. He got better and better. 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:54.000 A year later, he could sit down and play the 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:57.800 piano like he had never missed a beat. It's amazing 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:01.040 what will happen when our soul gets help health, When 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:04.200 we get free from the bitterness, the guilt, the stress, 0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:08.120 the worry. That's when healing is released. That's when you'll 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:11.720 see good success, the blessing of God in new ways. 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:15.160 And I realize not all sickness is from a lack 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:19.160 of emotional well being. But anytime you face sickness, you're 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:21.679 going to have to be strong in your emotions, in 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:24.760 what you allow to play in your mind. When my 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:28.439 mother was sick with cancer, she wrote letters to people 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:32.080 that she thought she may have offended, asking them to 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:35.040 forgive her. She was making sure that there were no 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:38.679 toxins in her spirit, that nothing she was doing was 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:43.160 poisoning her emotional well being. She knew the emotional will 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:48.359 affect the physical. She even watched cartoons, funny programs that 0:26:48.400 --> 0:26:51.879 would make her laugh. The scripture says a merry heart 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:56.679 is like taking medicine. Being joyful brings healing but a 0:26:56.760 --> 0:27:00.920 broken spirit dries up the bones. You go around discourage 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:04.240 and defeated. Man, this medical reports so bad, I don't 0:27:04.240 --> 0:27:07.520 think I'm ever going to get well. You're helping that sickness, 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:11.359 you're giving it life. But when you're cheerful, when you 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.359 know God's in control, when you're thanking him when you 0:27:14.400 --> 0:27:17.840 could be complaining, you're laughing when you could be crying, 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:22.199 that's sending healing to your body. I believe many of 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:26.800 these diseases would go away, headaches, high blood pressure, digestive 0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:31.200 problems if we'd start taking our medicine, laughing, being joyful, 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:35.280 good nature. We focus a lot on the outside, but 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:40.240 today I'm asking you to look inside. Is your soul healthy? 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:44.240 How are you spending the day positive, hopeful, grateful? Or 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:48.679 you weighed down with stress, burdens, worry. How can you 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:52.440 be creative when you're using so much energy for the negative? 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:58.159 How can your immune system work properly when you have bitterness, anger, regrets? 0:27:58.760 --> 0:28:01.560 How can you be the mother, the father, the leader 0:28:01.600 --> 0:28:05.440 you'll call to be when you have these toxins poisoning 0:28:05.480 --> 0:28:09.119 your spirit. It's time to get honest with yourself. Don't 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:13.399 go another year letting something you have control over. Hold 0:28:13.440 --> 0:28:17.679 you back, get your soul healthy, pull up those bitter roots, 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:21.960 start turning things over to God. 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