A New Mindset

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See terms and conditions at 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:29.840 UNEs dot co. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.199 You have to get a new mindset. Start believing bigger, 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.559 dreaming bigger, expecting bigger. You're not limited by your circumstances, 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.199 by the pandemic, by your bass, by how you were raised. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.559 One touch of God's favor will catapult you ahead. Hi, 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.319 this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.920 podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.400 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.960 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.520 Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best your life. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.440 God bless you. It's great to be with you today, 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.440 and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.720 week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.319 We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I like to start 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.119 with something funny, and I heard about this eighty five 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.959 year old man. He was out fishing one morning and 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.280 he heard a voice saying, pick me up. Looked around, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.640 didn't see his body, thought he was dreaming. Heard it again, 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.560 pick me up. He looked down and saw a frog. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.840 He said in amazement, are you talking to me? The 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.880 frog said yes, pick me up and kiss me, and 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.520 I'll turn into a beautiful bride. The man quickly picked 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.600 him up and put him in his front pocket. The 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.880 frog said, wait a minute, I said, kiss me and 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.720 I'll turn into a bride. The man said, no, thanks. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.320 At my age, I'd rather have a talking frog say 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.320 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.600 am what it says I am. I have what it 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.080 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.279 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:10.080 I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.240 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.760 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.560 a new mindset. It's easy to get stuck in life 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.800 and think that we've gone as far as we can. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.799 We can't break the addiction, we can't get well, we'll 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.920 never accomplish a dream. What's holding us back many times 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.079 is our own thinking. Jesus said you can't put new 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.359 wine into old wine skins. Wine skins in that day 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.760 were made out of leather. When they got old, the 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.079 leather would become hard and rigid. If you put new 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.960 wine in it, the wine would expand and cause the 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.480 wine skin to burst. This is saying you can't have 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.160 a new life with old thinking. If you think you've 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.000 reached your limits, then you have think the problem is 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.200 too big than it is. If you think you'll never 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.880 meet the right person, you probably won't. It's not that 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.239 God doesn't have blessings favor increase. It's that your wine 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.360 skin is old. You have to get a new mindset. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:21.040 Start believing bigger, dreaming bigger, expecting bigger. You're not limited 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:25.120 by your circumstances, by the pandemic, by your boss, by 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.320 how you were raised. One touch of God's favor will 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:33.400 catapult you ahead. God took David, a shepherd boy from 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.680 a low income family, and turned him into a king. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.560 He gave Abraham and Sarah a baby when they were 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.760 almost one hundred years old. He healed my mother from 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.440 terminal cancer. He gave us the Compact Center when all 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.760 the odds were against us. He has things in your 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:55.480 future that will amaze you, Paul said in Ephesians. In 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.680 the ages to come, we would see the surpassing greatness 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.360 of God's favor. We are living in the day Paul 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.800 talked about. We are in the agis to come. This 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.760 is when God has far and beyond favor, favor that 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.560 you've never seen. But my question is, is your wine 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.719 skin keeping you from receiving the new wine? Is limited 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.240 thinking keeping God from pouring out the fullness of what 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.400 He has in store. Why don't you get a new mindset? God, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.560 I don't see a way, but I know you have 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.200 a way. The medical report doesn't look good, but I 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.800 know you're my healer. Struggling in my finances, but I 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:40.320 believe abundance is coming. This dream looks impossible, but I 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.320 know you can open doors that no person can shut. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.920 Acts Chapter three, There was a man who had been 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.479 crippled since birth. Every morning, people would carry him to 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.400 the gate of the temple so he could beg He'd 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.240 been doing this for years. All he had known was 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.640 to get up, go to the temple, ask people for money. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.200 He was stuck in a negative routine, just going through 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.480 the motions of life, not expecting anything to change. In 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.480 a sense, he had an excuse, I'm crippled. I'm at 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.320 a disadvantage. I didn't get what other people got. When 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.800 someone passed by, he'd hold up his cup. Can you 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.240 spare some change? Can you help me out? Every once 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.760 in a while, someone would throw in a few coins. 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.880 Next person that went by, same thing. He'd hold up 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:32.719 the cup, jiggle around the coins. This cup was his life. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.000 This cup was how he survived all through the day. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.880 Hundreds of times as people entered the temple, he didn't 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.000 have to think twice. He was on autopilot, just put 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:47.240 out his cup. One day, Peter and John were headed 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.080 up to the temple to pray. As they passed through 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.440 the gate, there was this man, just like he always did. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.120 He held up his cup asked them for some money. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.880 Most people just passed on by, didn't pay any attention, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.520 but Peter stopped and looked at the man. The man 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.839 looked up and thought he was going to get a gift, 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.120 but Peter said, silver and gold, have I none. He 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.560 was saying, put down your cup because what God is 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.440 about to do is not going to fit in that cup. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.000 I'm sure at first the man was kind of disappointed. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.440 Why did you stop? Why did you get my hopes up? 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.280 If you're not going to do something for me. Peter 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.240 went on to say, I don't have any money for you, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.680 but in the name of Jesus, rise and walk. Peter 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.920 didn't ask the man for permission. He didn't say, would 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.279 you like to try to walk? I think maybe you 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.040 were healed. He took the man by the right hand 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.599 and pulled him up. I can see his cup get 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.760 knocked over, the few coins fill out. He doesn't know 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.160 what's going on. This has never happened. No one has 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.360 ever spoken faith over him, No one has ever told 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.760 him that he could walk. His wine skin his thinking 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.680 would going tilt, tilt, tilt. This man, Peter is telling 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.080 me to get up. Doesn't he know I'm crippled? Doesn't 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.320 he know I'm limited by this cup? My routine is 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.920 to beg I'm at a disadvantage. I'm dysfunctional. Why is 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.520 he telling me to do something that I'm not able 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.480 to do? As he was contemplating at all, trying to 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.520 figure it out, Peter pulled him up. Instantly, his legs 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.440 were healed, his bones and ankles became strong. He couldn't 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.720 believe it. He started walking. Then he took off running, jumping, dancing, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:39.000 thanking God. It's significant that he had to put his 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.080 cup down before he could receive the miracle. He was 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.800 hoping to get a few coins, but God had a 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.000 blessing where he had never had to use the cup again. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.840 He was thinking maybe he could get enough change to 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.240 get some new crutches, but God was thinking, I have 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.920 a new set of legs. I'm gonna do something you've 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.239 never seen. I will show you far and beyond favor. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.040 How many of us, like this man have our cup. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.600 We may not be crippled, we're not begging, but we're 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.800 in a negative routine, stuck in a rut, not expecting 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:18.720 things to change. We've gone through disappointments, had setbacks. Now 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:23.360 we've lowered our expectations, watered down our dreams. We let 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.560 what hasn't worked out, be an excuse to settle where 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.560 we are. I can't have a bless your Joel. We're 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.559 in a pandemic. I'm just trying to survive. The medical 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.640 report's not good. I'm just learning to live with this sickness. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.160 I can't break this addiction. Everyone in my family has it. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.720 God is saying, get rid of your cup. The blessings 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.920 he has for you cannot be contained in a cup. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.320 As long as you have a cup mentality, you'll be 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.679 sitting at the gate thinking that you're stuck at the 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.200 mercy of other people, hoping someone will give you a break. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.000 You don't need people. Yes, God will use certain people, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.680 but people are not your source. Quit looking to your cousin, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.040 your neighbor, your friend, your pastor start looking to God. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:14.360 People are limited. God is unlimited. People can give you 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.240 a short term fix, but God can take you from 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:22.000 being crippled to walking, from borrowing to lending, from addictions 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.400 to freedom, from sickness to hell, from lack to abundance. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.400 Peter took the men by the arm and pulled him up. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.160 If he had not forced him to get up, the 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.280 men would have never walked. He'd never seen the miracle. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.800 If he had sat there and thought about it. This 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.040 cup's okay, least I'm surviving. I could never walk. I 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.520 was born this way. Now, God sent me today to 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:51.080 pull you up. Quit making excuses. Quit coming up with 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.760 reasons why you can't be successful, can't get well, can't 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.080 live free, can't get married, can't go to the new level. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.320 Get rid of that cup. You weren't created to just 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.520 get a few coins here and there. Survive, make it through. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.680 What God is going to do in your life will 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.960 not fit in a cup. You may be limited, but 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.280 God is unlimited. He's about to do something that you've 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.280 never seen. The scripture says he will open the windows 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.360 of heaven and pour out blessings that you cannot contain. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:31.160 That cup cannot contain the blessings, favor healing that belongs 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.720 to you. The reason Peter told the man to put 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.760 the cup down, that he didn't have any silver in gold, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.880 was to show us that a cup mentality will keep 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.440 you from the fullness of what God has in store. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.080 Is your thinking limiting your life? Are you missing out 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.640 on favor healing, new relationships because you're holding a cup 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.200 hoping for some change? When God wants to show you 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.520 the surpassing greatness of his favor. Don't go into a 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.840 new year with low expectations. Have a bigger vision, get 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.840 your hopes up. You have to give God permission to 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.600 bless you. This is what my father did. He grew 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.199 up with a cup mentality. His family was very poor. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.640 They were farmers, and they lost everything during the Great Depression. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.960 He had to drop out of high school to work 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.679 on the farm. All he had seen was defeat, lack, mediocrity. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.920 Looked like that was his future. But at seventeen years old, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.880 he gave his life to Christ. The first one in 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.520 the family. He felt God calling him to become a minister. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.400 He had no training, no money, no connections. When he 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.120 told his parents, they said, John, you're making a big mistake. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.079 You're going to get out there and fail. You better 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.160 stay here on the farm with us. Sometimes good people 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.840 will try to convince you to keep your cup. They've 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:02.640 had a coup, they've been limited, they've accepted mediocrity. You 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.880 have to put your foot down and say no, thanks, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.240 this cup is not for me. I'm not watering down 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.640 my dreams to match my environment, not letting how I 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.920 was raised set the limits for my life. I'm not 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.320 going to lower my expectations to what I think will happen. God, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.920 I know that you are all powerful, that you have 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.439 a great plan for my life. Take the limits off 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.120 of God, and take the limits off of yourself. Who 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.520 says you can't do something great, Who says you can't 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.840 start your own business, Who says you can't get well, 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.079 who says you can't go where no one in your 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.359 family has gone. God is calling you to be a trendsetter, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.680 a difference maker, a barrier breaker. You don't need that cup. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.400 Quit looking at what you lost, what you don't have. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.559 The odds may be against you, but the most high 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.679 God is for you. He's breathing in your direction right now. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.720 You're not on your own. You and God are a majority. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.240 Nothing can stand against him. What he has purpose for 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.960 your life will come to pass. Now. Get in agreement 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.520 with God. All he needs to work with is mustard 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.000 seed faith. You don't have to have great faith, just 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.960 a little bit of faith. God. I believe you can 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.680 take me where I can't go on my own that 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.280 I'm about to see the surpassing greatness of your favor. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.200 My father told me that when he was seventeen, he 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.560 made up his mind that his children would never be 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.360 raised in the defeat and poverty that he was raised in. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:43.240 What happened he got rid of his cup. Victory starts 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.600 in our mind, Abundance starts in our thinking. He had 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.640 no reason to believe that nothing look promising in his future. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.160 This is what faith is all about. God. I believe 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.240 you can open doors I can't open. You can bring 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.800 talent out that I haven't see. You can make streams 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.280 in the desert. You can take what was meant for 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.800 harm and turn it to my advantage. He left the 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.520 farm at seventeen, didn't have a car. He had to hitchhike. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.840 He began ministering in the prisons, the senior citizens' homes, 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.920 on the street corners. God opened door after door. He 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.400 went on to pastor great churches, and he and my 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.000 mom founded Lakewood. He pastored here for nearly forty years. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.360 Where would I be if my father had not gotten 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.520 rid of that cup? Had plenty of excuses to live defeated. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.600 We're poor, We're in a depression. I had to drop 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.360 out of school. God knew everything that would come against you, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:46.760 every bad break, every disappointment, every hurt. If you'll get 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.360 rid of your cup, he'll make up for the wrongs. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.400 They won't keep you from your destiny. They will launch 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.520 you into your destiny. When my father was seventy five, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.000 we drove back to Paris, Texas, where he was raised. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.360 He wanted to reminisce and showed me where he grew up. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.440 We went out on the land where his farm used 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.120 to be and we found the old well. He showed 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.200 me where he went to school. Before we left, we 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.400 drove around to see if we could find any of 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.320 his friends. We got an address and we pulled up 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:22.240 to this one place was very run down, dilapidated, didn't 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.960 look like it was livable. Daddy knocked on the door 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.440 and this man answered they hadn't seen each other in 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.400 sixty years. We went in, sat on these old stools 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.640 and there were several buckets on the floor to catch 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.120 the water from leaking from the roof. The floor had 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:43.280 holes in it, broken windows, boarded up. Men told my 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.600 father how he'd worked at the boat docks a few 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.640 years then he was laid off, hadn't been able to 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.440 find any work. That day made such an impression on 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.040 me I thought about how he and my father were 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.920 raised in the same environment, same poverty, same school, same hardship. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.880 But my father had gone on to make a great 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.360 difference with his life, to set a new standard, to 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.840 bring his family into abundance. The difference was one man 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.880 held his cup, my father got rid of his cup. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:20.240 One man lowered his expectations to match his environment. He 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.720 lived with excuses, settled for the status quo. He was 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.720 a good man, but he was just hoping for a 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:30.120 few coins. He stayed stuck where he was. It's interesting 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.480 that God didn't love my father any more than he 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.240 loved that man. It wasn't God holding him back. It 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.720 was his cup. It was an old wine skin. He 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.400 couldn't see the new things that God had in store. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.520 When your vision is limited, your life will be limited. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.040 It's amazing what happens when you get rid of your cup, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.200 when you enlarge your vision, when you believe big, when 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:59.480 you pray bold prayers, when you dream great dreams. God 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.280 said in so open your mouth wide and I will 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.600 fill it. Are you asking for coins so you can survive? 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.520 When God is wanting to give you new legs so 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.720 you can run, Why don't you get rid of that cup. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.000 You're not limited by how you were raised by what 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.480 didn't work out. If that was going to stop your purpose, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.320 God wouldn't have allowed it. It's a test. Are you 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.960 going to settle for the cup, live with a limited mentality, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.520 or are you going to do like my father? Get 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.480 rid of that cup and believe for the greatness God 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:38.160 put in you. You can still become all God's created 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.480 you to be. When you're in agreement with God, He'll 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.880 make things happen that you couldn't make happen. He'll open 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.199 doors you couldn't open. He'll cause opportunity, good breaks, the 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:53.760 right people to come looking for you. Second, Kings, there's 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.440 the story of a widow. Her husband has died and 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.360 she's run out of funds to pay your bills. Now 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.600 the creditors are coming to take her sons as payment. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.600 All she has of any value is a small jar 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:12.160 of oil. Elisha, the prophet came by and told her 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.919 to go to her neighbors and borrow as many empty 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.440 containers as she could find. He specifically said, borrow, not 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.080 a few, get as many as she can. She went 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.359 out and gathered maybe a dozen containers and came back 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.080 Elizsha told her to take the little oil that she 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.320 had and pour it into one of the empty containers. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.520 Didn't make sense, but she did it. She filled up 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.320 the first container, then another, and another and another. The 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.560 oil never ran out until she finished filling up all 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.000 the containers. She went out and sold the oil, had 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.960 plenty to pay her debts. The key praise in this 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:56.040 story is borrow not a few. She determined how much 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.160 oil she was going to have. The oil only ran 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.640 out when she didn't have any more containers. That's why 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.000 God told her borrow not a few. If she had 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.040 borrowed twice as many containers, she would have had twice 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.240 as much oil. What if she had said, Elisha, I've 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.439 got this cup, let's just use it, she'd only had 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.159 a cupful of oil. God was showing us this principle. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.400 If you'll open your mouth wide, he will fill it. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:29.680 He has an unlimited supply. Too often, because of disappointments, delays, 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.080 things that haven't worked out, we've watered down our dreams. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:38.760 We've lowered our expectations. We're not stretching believing for great things, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.479 believing to get well. God has the oil, but we 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.879 don't have the containers. He's saying to you what he 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.600 said to this woman. Borrow not a few. Don't shortchange yourself. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.440 Don't live with a cup mentality. I'll never get out 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.960 of debt. God, just help me to pay my bills. 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.639 Our family will never get along. Help us to not 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.280 kill each other. No pray, bold prayers. God is going 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.399 to fill the containers that you bring him. It's not 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:12.040 a supply problem, it's a capacity problem. Are you putting 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.720 limits on what God wants to do in your life. 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.000 Are you focused on what you think can happen only 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.600 in your ability. You're looking at the natural. But God 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:26.240 is supernatural. He controls the universe. He parts red seas, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.560 He brought water out of a rock. He fed thousands 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.840 with two fish. Don't base your containers on what you 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.479 can do. Base it on what God can do. I 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.600 know a lady. She's a single parent mother, and she's 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.920 gone through some health issues and had some tough times. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.879 Her home was damage in a storm, she had to 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.040 start all over. But despite all of that, she would 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.440 be at Lakewood every week with her children. They didn't 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.200 have much, but they knew God was on their side, 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.040 that he could make a way from the time her 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.359 son Troy was a little boy. He had a dream 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.120 to go to college. He didn't look like this mother 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.960 would be able to afford it. The odds were against him. 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.520 But he didn't have a defeated mentality. He could have thought, 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.520 we're poor, I'm at a disadvantage, I'm limited. But he 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.280 got rid of the coup. He didn't make excuses to settle. 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:21.879 He didn't let other people talk him out of it. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.199 All growing up, he would tell his friends that he 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.480 was going to get a scholarship. His goal is to 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:32.080 become the secretary of State. Other students would look at 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.080 him like he wasn't all there, like there was no way. 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.880 Didn't bother him. He just kept believing it, declaring it, 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.760 thinking like it was going to happen. When he graduated, 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.480 his mother brought me a newspaper article. It talked about 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:51.280 how Troy was awarded not one scholarship, not two, not five, 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.680 not eight, He received nine scholarships worth one point three 0:21:55.760 --> 0:22:01.760 million dollars to attend Georgetown University just for his bachelor's degree, 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:06.159 but for his masters and his doctorate. I was driving 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.520 down the freeway and I saw billboard. It had Troy's 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:13.359 picture on it with his graduation hat. The caption read, 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:18.520 meet our next Secretary of State. Both of her sons 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:22.760 received full scholarships. When you get rid of that cup, 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:27.119 God will open the windows of heaven. You have not seen, heard, 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.560 or imagined what He has in store. Don't let a 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:34.520 limited mindset keep you from the abundant life that belongs 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:38.280 to you. This is what happened with the Israelites. God 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.800 brought them out of slavery. He delivered them from the Pharaoh. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.919 He took them toward the Promised Land, but they complained. 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.160 They were negative. They didn't think that they could make 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:52.800 it in. They ended up wandering around the same mountain 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:57.679 for forty years. They became conditioned in their thinking to 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:02.320 not expect anything good in a rock. We're stuck out here. 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:07.479 We'll always struggle, be in lack, have this hardship. Before 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.639 they went into the Promised Land. God had to change 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:14.960 their mindset. He told them in Deuteronomy, you have passed 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:19.639 around this mountain long enough. He announced to them that 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:22.159 they were about to break out of the rut, that 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:24.840 he was about to do something new, that they were 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:27.679 not just going to dream about the Promised Land, but 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:31.040 they were going to live in the promised Land. It's 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.680 significant that God didn't just take them in, didn't just 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:38.399 surprise them. He had to get them to change their mind, 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:41.359 to get their hopes up, to break out of that 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:45.800 cup mentality and get a vision for abundance, for favor, 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:49.640 for victory. Now, you may have struggled in some areas 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:53.520 a long time. You've done your best to pray, believe, 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:56.800 fight the good fight of faith, but nothing has changed. 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.840 You feel stuck, like it's never going to happen. God 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.399 is saying to you what he said to them. You 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.439 passed around that mountain long enough. He's about to do 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:10.800 a new thing, something that you've never seen. But you 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:13.480 have to do your part and get a new mindset. 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:15.000 No more. 0:24:15.320 --> 0:24:18.159 I'll never get out of this problem. The obstacles are 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:21.840 too big. I'll never get ahead. Never break this addiction, 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:25.560 never meet the right person. Don't let that old wine 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:29.679 skin keep you out of your promised land. There's nothing 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:34.359 more powerful than a changed mind. You can change jobs, 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:39.359 change relationships, change your looks. The calendar can change. We 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:42.280 can go into a new year, but if your thinking 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.840 is the same, nothing will be different. Why don't you 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:49.040 change your mind, break out of those ruts that have 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:53.080 held you back. Have a new perspective. God is putting 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:57.919 an end to what's restricted you. No more wandering, no 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.840 more seeing the promised land and not experiencing it. You're 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.920 about to go into your promised land. It's going to 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:08.520 be better than you've imagined. You're gonna see houses that 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:13.199 you didn't build, vineyards that you didn't plant. Promises that 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:16.080 you've given up on are still going to come to pass. 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:20.360 Dreams that seem impossible are still going to happen. Now, 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:24.160 when those thoughts come saying it's been too long, it's 0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:28.040 never going to happen, just tell doubt. I've changed my mind. 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:31.400 I know what God promised is on the way. I'm 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:35.520 a believer and not a doubter. Tell fear, I've changed 0:25:35.560 --> 0:25:39.679 my mind. Not gonna live worried, stressed, afraid. I know 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:43.400 God has me in the palm of his hand. Tell guilt, 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:47.879 shame the past. I've changed my mind. I'm not living 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:54.080 condemned listening to the accusing voices. I'm forgiven. I'm redeemed, restored. 0:25:54.280 --> 0:25:58.800 My future is right. Tell lack struggle, not having enough. 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:02.600 I've changed my mind. That is not my destiny. I 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:05.840 will lend and not borrow. What I touch will prosper 0:26:05.920 --> 0:26:11.280 and succeed. Abundance, overflow, increase is coming my way. Or 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:13.040 when thoughts tell you this is going to be another 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:17.520 average year, nothing good is in store, don't expect anything different, 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:22.880 Tell discouragement, tell low expectations. I've changed my mind. This 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:25.920 is going to be a blessed year, a bountiful year, 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:29.280 a favor filled year. Something good is going to happen 0:26:29.320 --> 0:26:33.280 to me. When you change your mind. When you get 0:26:33.280 --> 0:26:37.280 in agreement with God, angels go to work, Miracles are 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:41.240 set in motion, healing, breakthrough, favor comes looking for you. 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:46.000 My challenge today is don't let a cup mentality keep 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:49.359 you from living an abundant life. What God has for 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:52.800 you cannot be contained in a cop Get rid of 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:57.120 low expectations, Quit making excuses to settle where you are. 0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:00.880 You've gone around that mountain long enough. If you'll get 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:04.480 rid of that cup, I believe and declare. Like the 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:08.200 crippled man, you're about to see God do something unusual. 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:11.920 Not a few coins to sustain you, but new legs 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:16.119 so you can run like the widow woman, supernatural provision, 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:20.280 like the Israelites. 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