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If you're ever in our area, please stop 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.880 buy and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.280 I promise you will make you feel right at home. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.760 But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.720 again for coming out. I like to start with something funny. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.760 And heard about this scientist. He said to God, we've 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.440 decided that we no longer need you. We can clone people, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.080 we can transplant hearts and do all kinds of things 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.160 once considered miraculous. God said, that's fine. But to prove 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.359 you don't need me, let's have a man making contest. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.639 The only requirement is you have to make man out 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.320 of dirt. The scientist said, great, and he quickly reached 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.560 down to pick up a handful of dirt, and God said, 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.880 not so fast. Go get your own dirt. Hold up 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.960 your bible. Say it like you mean it. This is 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.919 my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:52.239 I am. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.920 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.560 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.280 taught the word of God. I boldly can. My mind 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.480 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:09.320 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.000 to talk to you today about there's another ingredient coming. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.320 We all face disappointments in life and situations that we 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.959 don't understand. It's easy to get discouraged and think, why 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:25.200 did that happen to me? Why did that friend betray me? 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.000 Why did I get laid off? Why wasn't I raised 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.400 in a good childhood like you? Joel? No, life is 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.360 not always fair, but God is fair, he said in 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.320 Romans Ad, all things work together for good to those 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.720 that love the Lord. The key word is together. You 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:50.800 cannot isolate one part of your life, one divorce, one 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:55.880 bad childhood, one disappointment that in itself may not be good. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.680 But God is not finished. Your life is not over. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.520 You had a bad break. Don't get stuck where you are. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:08.320 There's another ingredient coming. That means the right people, the 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.960 right opportunities are in your future. If you'll get your 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:16.400 passion back and start moving forward, you'll see what God promised. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.719 It will all come together and work out for your good. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.240 When our children were small, one of their favorite things 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.840 to do was make chocolate chip cookies. We had done 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.080 it so much we didn't even have to look at 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.039 the recipe. We knew exactly what to put in. Jonathan, 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.640 just five or six years old, he would get the 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.760 brown sugar, the butter, the eggs. Little Alexandra just three 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:45.320 years old. She'd get the flour, bacon, soda, vanilla. We 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.520 were very precise to put in the exact amount in 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.599 the exact order it was called for. One time, about 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.080 halfway through making a batch of cookies, I realized that 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.760 we didn't have any bacon soda. I didn't feel like 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.200 going on up to the store, so we decided to 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.039 not put the bacon. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:03.760 So to end. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.200 I thought, no big deals, just a tea spoon. We'd 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.880 put two and a half cups of flour. What difference 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.280 was a little teaspoonful going to make? But when we 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.600 took the cookies out of the oven, they were as 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:20.440 flat as could be, had not risen one bit, totally tasteless. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.720 What was the problem. An ingredient was left out? A 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:29.480 small amount made a huge difference. Some people are bitter 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.240 on life because they haven't waited for all the ingredients 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:38.240 to come together. God is the master chef. The recipe 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.840 for your life has already been established. The scripture talks 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.360 about how God has planned your days for good from 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:50.120 beginning to end. God knows exactly what to add and 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.560 when to add it. He's not going to do like 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.120 I did and leave out an important ingredient. He's going 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.880 to put in just the right amount at just the 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.479 right time, so you can become everything He's created you 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.800 to be. But sometimes in life it may feel like 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.679 things are flat. It's flat in your career, flatten your marriage, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:14.760 flatten your finances. But don't get discouraged. There's another ingredient coming. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.080 All God has to do is add some of his 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.120 bacon soda and you'll rise to a new level. You 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.040 may have seen the chef on television, Chef Emerald. He's 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.760 very animated. Whenever he adds an ingredient, he says, Bam. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.240 Just imagine at the right time, God, bam adds a 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.359 little favor to your life. It's not flat anymore. Things 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:42.080 begin to take off. BAM. A good break, BAM, a healing. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.080 You're lonely, that person left you, BAM, A divine connection, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:51.080 somebody better. Maybe your child's off course, Joel, I don't 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.479 know what I did wrong. I raised him in church. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.640 I just don't understand it. No, you didn't do anything wrong. Relax. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.920 There's a Bam coming. Knows how to get him on 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.640 the right course. He's not going to stay in the pit. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.960 At the right time, God will add just the right 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.440 ingredient that will cause him to rise up and fulfill 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.240 his God given destiny. I don't know about you, but 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.240 I'm expecting some bams. Listen, you have not seen your 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.560 best days. You have not reached your full potential. God 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.640 has ingredients come in your way that will thrust you 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.280 to a new level. He has ingredients that are going 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:32.920 to cause everything to make sense. When God brings it 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.920 all together and you see the fullness of what he 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.000 was doing, You're not gonna worry about who hurts you, 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.680 what you lost, how unfair it was. You're gonna look 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.240 back and say, Wow, God, you're amazing. You had it 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.840 all figured out. Your plan was better than my plan. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.560 You gave me beauty for ashes. You made a way 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.360 when I didn't see a way. You had just the 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.360 right people show up at just the right time. Why 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.520 don't you trust him? You may not understand something right now, 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.920 but one day you will. It's going to all come together. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:14.280 The mistake we make too often is we isolate one incident, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.600 and it causes us to lose our passion. I had 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.040 a lady tell me recently how her husband of many 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.400 years left her for another woman. She was so devastated. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.920 She couldn't understand it. And I know that's hard, that's painful, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.400 but that is not the end. If that person leaving 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.680 was going to keep you from your destiny, God would 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.120 have never allowed it. And this may be hard to swallow, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.959 but if they left you, you didn't need them. If 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.160 they walked away, they weren't a part of your destiny. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:55.479 There's another ingredient coming. Somebody better, somebody that God ordained, 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.920 Somebody that will treat you like a queen or a king. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.400 Somebody that will value you, celebrates you. Somebody that cannot 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:08.840 live without you. And there's something called the gift of goodbye. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.880 They may think, they may think they did you harm, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.120 but they're doing you a favor. Blow them a kiss. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.319 Don't ever look back. Just keep moving forward. Now, some 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.240 of you. You got to quit mourning over what you've lost, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.680 Quit being discouraged over what didn't work out. It's not 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.199 over until God says it's over. Now. I heard somebody 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:36.440 say God always ends on all is well, So if 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.520 all is not well in your life, that simply means 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:43.520 it is not the end. Keep moving forward. Another ingredient 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.120 is coming. A lot of times like this, lady, people 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.280 are soured on life because they can't understand why something 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.720 has happened. But everything is not going to make sense 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.360 if you isolate it, if you look at it just 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.680 on its own, you'll get discouraged. I have to remind 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.920 yourself it is not yet all come together. It's not 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.520 supposed to make sense by itself. Imagine my children when 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.559 they were smaller, wanted to make some chocolate chip cookies, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.560 but we didn't have time to bake them. So I 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.240 got the ingredients out and gave them to Jonathan to 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.560 eat separately. Jonathan, here's a cup of brown sugar. Eat this, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.640 wash it down with this tablespoon of vanilla. Here's the 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.360 raw eggs. When you're done with that, here's two cups 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.080 of flour. And okay, here's your two sticks of butter. Now, Jonathan, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:39.480 you officially have chocolate chip cookies on the inside. Somehow 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.600 it doesn't work that way. The key is it has 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.120 to all be mixed together in the same way. You 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:51.000 cannot isolate one part of your life and think, oh, 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.800 this tastes bad. I went through a divorce, I had 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.160 a lousy childhood. I started a business that felled. I 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.560 had to take a year of chemotherapy. Look what I've 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.280 been through. That's not supposed to taste good by itself. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.320 You gotta wait for God to bring it all together. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.760 He's got another ingredient that he's gonna add to your life. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:17.200 That person that left you, that's painful, that's bitter on 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.320 its own. But when God brings it all together and 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.920 brings you somebody greater than you ever dreamed of, You're 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.600 not even gonna miss that old goat that left you. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.560 All the bitterness will be gone just a matter of 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.640 time before it comes together. The person that lied about 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:40.040 you tried to ruin your reputation by itself. That tastes bad. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.280 But that's only one ingredient. God knows how to vindicate you. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.480 God knows how to make wrongs right. He can prepare 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.560 a table before you in the presence of your enemies. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:55.520 When it all comes together and you're promoted, living your dreams, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.880 fulfilling your destiny, it will taste good. When you face 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.680 that sickness, maybe having to take the treatment, it's easy 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.880 to think, man, God's not even concerned about me. Look 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.480 what I'm going through. No God has you in the 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.240 palm of his hand. He said, no weapon formed against 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:17.120 you will prosper. Weeping may endure for a night. Here's 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.520 the promise. Joy is coming in the morning. God is faith. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.880 It may get tough, you may face some situations that 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.120 are bitter. But if you'll stay in faith and not 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.720 let the bitterness get on the inside, God says, I'm 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.320 not at a loss. I have another ingredient that can 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:42.120 turn the bitter into sweet. Several years after Victory and 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.880 I were married, we received an unexpected tax bill in 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.119 the mail. The man that was doing our tax returns 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.960 lived in another state. He wasn't familiar with a certain 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.680 tax law in Texas. Now we owe thousands and thousands 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.400 of dollars. To make matters worse, over half of what 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.720 we owed were in penalties. Thought God, this is not fair. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.840 I hired a professional. He messed up. Now I'm having 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.199 to pay for his mistakes. We were discouraged. We were 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.960 a young couple and we were trying to save money 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.760 for a down payment on a home. This was going 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.800 to take all of our funds. We ended up finding 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.760 this man to help us get it straightened out. He 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.920 was a tax attorney for several weeks. He was at 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.360 our house every night, going over the documents, filling out 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.280 new forms. We would eat dinner together, run errands together. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.679 We ended up becoming very good friends. Ten years later, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.960 I was working in the television department here at Lakewood. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.440 A man stopped me before service and said, Joel, my 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:50.040 cousin has a construction permit for the last full power 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.840 commercial television station in Houston. He'd like you to be 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.520 a part of it. As you know, a TV station 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.880 in a major market is extremely valuable. Know where to start? 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.160 I was young. I thought I don't know anything about 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:08.480 negotiating a contract for a TV station. Then it dawned 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.920 on me. I'll call my attorney friend, the one I 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.400 met during my tax problem. In three months, he handed 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.720 us a contract. The station was ours. We put it 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.520 on the air. Eventually my father went to be with 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.160 the Lord. Now I was the pastor. Three years later 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.280 we acquired the Compact Center. This place. We found out 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.520 it was going to cost about one hundred million dollars 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.200 to renovate, so we decided to sell the television station. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.360 We sold it for a huge profit. It was those 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.840 funds that were instrumental in us renovating this place. What 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.160 I want you to see is when it all comes together, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.560 it'll make sense. That tax problem on its own was 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.680 very bitter. It didn't seem fair. But had I not 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.200 had that problem, I would have never met the attorney 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.440 and become good friends. Without the attorney, I would have 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.440 probably never pursued the TV station. Without the television station, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.400 we may not have been able to renovate this facility 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.880 like we really wanted to. Friends. God knows what he's doing. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:18.200 He's got it all figured out. In life, you will 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.120 face situations that don't make sense. On their own. It 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.760 seems bitter. You may think, like I did, God is 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.320 not fair. Why is this happening? Let me assure you 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:34.680 God has a plan. There's another ingredient coming somewhere down 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.480 the road in a month, in a year, in twenty years. 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.400 You're going to see God work it all for your good. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.520 When you face these situations that don't make sense, it's 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.680 very powerful to say God, I don't understand it, but 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.280 I trust you God. It doesn't seem fair, but I 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.200 know you're fair. I'm not going to get better. I'm 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.440 not going to lose my passion. I'm going to keep 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.880 pressing forward knowing that you are in complete control. Here's 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.960 what I've learned. Nothing in life happens to you, it 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.800 happens for you. God wouldn't have allowed it if he 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.240 didn't have a purpose. If that person that left you, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.640 if that bad break, if that sickness was going to 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:21.080 keep you from your destiny, God would have never permitted it. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.480 The enemy is not in control of your life. God 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.200 is in control. The enemy can't even touch you without 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.280 asking God for permission. Keep the right perspective. Instead of 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.400 getting bitter discouraged. No, our attitude should be this is 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.080 not happening to me, It's happening for me. God said, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.480 he is going to take what's meant from my arm 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.760 and use it to my advantage. It may be bitter 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.760 right now, but I know a secret, another ingredient is coming. 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.280 I heard about a man that was out in his 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.560 boat and a big storm came up and his boat capsized. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.960 He ended up stranded on a deserted island. Month after 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.879 month went by. He was so miserable all by himself. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.280 Just when he thought it couldn't get any worse, when 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.679 he was out gathering food, one day he came back 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.360 and the little thatched roof hut that he built had 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.000 caught on fire. He sat there and watched it burn 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.719 to the ground. It was like pouring salt in the wounds. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.199 He said, God, I give up. I asked you to 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.000 help me in One bad thing after another happens. About 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.280 that time, he looked way off in the distance. He 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.959 saw a boat coming toward him. He perked up. It 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.960 got closer and closer. Sure enough, it was the coastguard 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.119 came and rescued him. He was so thrilled, got on 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.720 the boat, gave everybody a big hug. Said to the captain, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.720 how in the world did you find me? The captain said, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.879 we saw the smoke from the fire that you built. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:00.240 Sometimes what we think is a disappointment is God God 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.919 simply getting us in position to go to a new level. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.800 I didn't like the tax problem, but I sure do 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.600 like being in the compact center when your huts on fire. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.320 If your hut ever gets on fire, keep the right perspective, 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:20.560 don't start complaining. God wouldn't have allowed it unless he 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.199 had a purpose. May not make sense right now, but 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.919 one day, when it comes together, it will make sense. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.359 In the scripture, there's a lady named Naomi. Her name 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:36.479 means my joy. Every time someone said hello Naomi. They 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.520 were saying, hello, my joy, Good morning Naomi, good morning, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.880 my joy. She must have been a very happy, joyful person. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.040 But Naomi went through a series of losses. Her husband died, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.760 it's very devastated. Her sons were killed in a battle. 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.200 All these things came against her. She made the mistake 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.400 of letting the bitterness get on the inside. Yes, there's 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.800 a proper time for grieving, but you can't let a 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.960 season of mourning turn into a lifetime of morning. Her 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.840 attitude was, I've been through too much. My dreams are 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.760 all shattered. Never be happy again. Just leave me in 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.959 my pain. She was so discouraged that she changed her 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:28.600 name from Naomi Tomorrow Marraw means sorrow. Now. When somebody 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:32.080 said hello Naomi, she said, don't call me that. I 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.200 don't have any joy, I don't have any hope. Call 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:40.240 me by my new name, sorrow. Like Naomi, you may 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.320 have been through a loss, maybe a dream has died. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.720 My challenge to you is don't let life change your name. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.439 There's another ingredient coming. God still has something great in 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.719 your future. He has not forgotten about you. God sees 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.800 every sparrow, every little bird that falls to the How 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:05.760 much more is God concerned about you? I've learned the 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.520 depth of your past is an indication of the height 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:13.040 of your future. When construction workers are going to build 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.400 a large skyscraper, they have to first go down deep 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:20.399 to lay a foundation. The taller the building, the deeper 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.040 the foundation. You may have been through an unfair situation, 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:28.040 lost a loved one, friend betrayed you, you're dealing with 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.040 the sickness. It would be easy to get discouraged and 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.760 just settle there. So you have to realize God's going 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.440 down deep because he has something big in your future. 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.720 You may be low right now, but He's getting you 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.320 prepared to go high. There are new levels of joy, 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:50.760 new levels of influence, new opportunities, new relationships up ahead 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.640 of you. Now, don't do like she did and let 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:58.600 what you've been through become your identity. Don't become known 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.359 as the person that had answer, the person that lost 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.360 a loved one, the person that went through that bitter divorce. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.320 Now that's not who you are. That's what you went through. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.360 You are a child of the most High God, created 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:15.760 in his image with a destiny to fulfill. Your name 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:21.280 is not sadness, sorrow, defeat mediocrity. Your name is victory. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.480 Your name is joy, your name is favor, your name 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.840 is abundance, your name is bright future. No matter what 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.040 life deals you, you got to have the attitude I 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.680 am in it to win it. I may have been 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.560 through a lot, but I've come too far to stop now. 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.720 I am not gonna get negative. I'm not gonna live bitter. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.919 I'm gonna keep moving forward. I know what's in my 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.840 future is greater than what's in my past. Listen, God 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:52.080 is not going to allow one event or one person 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.400 to ruin your life. Your destiny cannot be stopped by 0:21:56.560 --> 0:22:01.800 bad break, an injustice, and unfair situal. All the forces 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:06.560 of darkness cannot stop what God has ordained. Yes, you'll 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:09.760 have to fight off the bitterness, the self pity, the resentment. 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:14.840 But if you'll keep moving forward, the right ingredients will come. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.400 The Psalm has put it this way. When you keep 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:23.280 your hope in the Lord, you will never be disappointed. Yes, 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:28.040 we may have temporary setbacks. Sure will have temporary disappointments. 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:32.520 But if you'll keep hoping, trusting, honoring God, then you 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.439 will see how God will work it all together for 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:40.000 your good. You will not be permanently disappointed. One time, 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.960 Moses was leading the people of Israel through the wilderness, 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.040 and they had been traveling for a long time, a 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:51.320 great distance with no water. They were extremely thirsty, tired, hot. 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.200 They didn't know if they could make it. They finally 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:57.159 came to a river. They were so excited it was 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:01.359 like a dream and oasis rushed over to get a drink. 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.239 But when they tasted the water, it was bitter. They 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:09.000 couldn't drink it. It was too sour. Can imagine how 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:12.920 disappointed they were. But God had a plan. He told 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.119 Moses to put a certain type of tree in the water, 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:20.199 and when he did, the bitter waters were turned sweet. 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:23.480 Now they could freely drink as much as they wanted to. 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:29.160 God is saying, even when life turns out bitter, even 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.840 when it's unfair, I'm not at a loss. I still 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:36.560 have an ingredient that can turn your bitter waters into sweet. 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:40.520 This is what happened to my father. He was married 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:45.200 at a very early age. Unfortunately the marriage didn't work out. 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:49.760 He was devastated. He thought his days of ministry were over. 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:53.119 He didn't think he'd ever have a family. It's like 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:56.440 the people of Israel. He came to the water, thought 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:59.359 his dreams were coming to pass, only to find out 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.960 the war were bitter. Life didn't turn out the way 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.520 he had hoped. Every voice told him you're a failure. 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:10.760 You blew it. Nothing good is in your future. But 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:16.800 the scripture says God's calling is irrevocable. You may make mistakes, 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:20.159 you may go through some failures, but God does not 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:24.200 change his mind. His calling is still on your life. 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.760 He still has a destiny for you to fulfill. If 0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:30.520 you fall down, you got to get back up and 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:34.280 get in the game. God has another ingredient that will 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:38.360 turn your bitter waters into sweet. My father shook off 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:42.880 the self pity. He received God's mercy. He quit listening 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:47.400 to the condemning voices. He started moving forward. One day 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:51.160 he was at the hospital visiting one of his church members. 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:54.880 He saw a beautiful young nurse that he had never 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:58.760 seen before. It was my mother. He was so taken 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:03.159 by her. He would look for any possible reason he 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:06.160 could find to go up to that hospital. I mean, 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:09.760 he would go visit your great uncle's third cousin's next 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:12.600 door neighbor if you ask him to. He was almost 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:15.160 hoping that some of his church members would get sick, 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:17.720 so he could go up to the hospital. My mother 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:20.720 didn't realize what was going on. She told her nurse 0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:24.800 friends that pastor has the sickest congregation I've ever seen. 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:28.560 One day, it dawned on her he was up there 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:31.440 to see her. Long story short, They fell in love 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:34.920 and got married, and God blessed them with four average 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:42.119 children and one exceptional child. I didn't say his me. 0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:48.120 He went on to have a ministry that spanned fifty years, 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:50.680 touched the world. He was married to my mother for 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:55.359 forty four years. What happened God added another ingredient. It 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:58.479 was my mother that turned the bitter waters into sweep. 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:05.399 Some of you, like my father, you've gone through disappointments. 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:10.040 Maybe you've made poor choices, and now you're beating yourself up. 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:14.040 No passion, no dreams. You've got to get back in 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:19.840 the game. It starts by forgiving yourself. Receive God's mercy. 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:24.480 Quit listening to the condemning voices. That mistake did not 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:28.800 stop God's plan. Shake off the self pition, move forward, 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:33.040 and you'll see God at another ingredient. David put it 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:36.280 this way, I have pitched my tent in the land 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:40.040 of hope. My question, where have you pitched your tent? 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.680 Do you know God has another ingredient? Do you believe 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:46.240 that together it's all going to work for your good? 0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:50.320 Or are you doing like Naomi and letting life change 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:54.800 your name? Can't understand why something has happened Now, you've 0:26:54.800 --> 0:26:58.439 got your tent pitched in the wrong location. If you 0:26:58.480 --> 0:27:01.000 want to see God's favor, if you want to see 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:04.600 God add new ingredients, you got to pack up your belongings. 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:08.560 Move out of the land of discouragement. It's time to 0:27:08.680 --> 0:27:13.320 leave self pity estates, move out of the nothing good 0:27:13.359 --> 0:27:16.359 ever happens to me subdivision, and come on over to 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:18.960 the land of hope, the land of faith, the land 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:23.600 where you know bams are in your future. When life 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:27.000 tries to push you down, when you face situations you 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:30.840 don't understand, don't isolate them. Don't try to figure it 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:33.560 out and say, oh man, this doesn't taste good. Remember 0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:37.480 that's not the whole recipe. That's just one ingredient. God 0:27:37.520 --> 0:27:40.439 wouldn't have allowed it unless he had a purpose. Like 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.639 the hut on fire, like my tax problem. It's not 0:27:43.800 --> 0:27:47.119 happening to you, it's happening for you. God's going to 0:27:47.240 --> 0:27:51.080 use it to your advantage. Many of you have been faithful. 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:54.159 You pass the test, done the right thing when the 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:57.399 wrong thing was happening. You need to get ready. God's 0:27:57.400 --> 0:28:02.000 about to add an ingredient person you've been waiting for. BAM. 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:05.159 They're about to show up that problem this dogged you 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:09.760 for years BAM, a breakthrough BAM, vindication that sickness, that 0:28:09.880 --> 0:28:12.560 chronic pain you thought you had to live with BAM, 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:16.240 healing BAM, a new beginning or maybe that dream you've 0:28:16.240 --> 0:28:19.880 been believing for BAM, A good break BAM, a divine connection. 0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:24.560 I want you to go out expecting some bams this week. Listen, friends, 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:29.160 if you will keep your tent pitched in the land 0:28:29.200 --> 0:28:33.360 of hope, God promises you will never be permanently disappointed. 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:36.119 At just the right time, He's going to add just 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:40.320 the right ingredients. I believe in declare together. It's going 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:43.720 to all work out for your good. 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