Be A Barrier Breaker

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It's joy to come into your homes. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.360 And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.120 be a part of one of our services. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.840 I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.960 I thought it was something funny, and I heard about 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.160 this kindergarten teacher. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.920 She was teaching her students. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.280 About self esteem, and she said to the class, anyone 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.520 that felt dumb, she asked them to stand up. She 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.280 didn't think anybody'd stand. She'd make the point how no 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.959 one is dumb. But about that time little Johnny stood up. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.480 She thought, oh no, Now what am I going to do? 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.680 She said, Now, Johnny, do you really feel like you're dumb? 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.280 He said no, ma'am. I just hate to see you 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.799 standing there all by yourself. Say it like you mean it. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.040 This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.800 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.400 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:44.120 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.320 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:52.240 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.120 to talk to you today about being a barrier breaker. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.919 So often we let our environment how we were raised. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.800 People's expectations of us set the limits for our life. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.880 We adapt to what's around us. If you take an 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.120 oak tree seed and plant it in a two foot pot. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.720 That oak tree will never become what it was created 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.000 to be, not because there's something wrong with the seed, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.000 but because of the environment that it's in. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:22.880 It's easy to just. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.520 Fit in, go with the crowd, be like everyone else. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.920 But God didn't create you to be average. He created 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.640 you to stand out, to go beyond the norm, to 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.680 leave your mark on this generation. You have seeds of 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.840 greatness on the inside. You're supposed to go further than 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.080 the people that raised you. You're supposed to live better, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.440 be more successful, set a new standard. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.320 You may be in an environment. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:56.640 Where people have addictions, low self esteem, depression, poverty. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.040 You can't stop that. 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.000 But here's the key. Don't let that become normal in 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.440 your thinking. If you accept that as who you are, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.080 it will keep you from your destiny. And the scripture 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.960 talks about how we are in the world, but we 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.760 are not of the world. You may be in a 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.560 limited environment, but you don't have to be of it. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.520 Don't let that environment get in you. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.719 If you see struggle, lack, poverty long enough, your mind 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.599 can become conditioned to think this is who I am. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.800 I'll always struggle, I'll never have enough. No, that's where 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.080 you are. That's not who you are, and that may 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.440 be what's been normal. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.960 The good news you're a burial breaker. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:43.000 You have the power, the favor, the talent, the ability 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.360 to break out, to go further. 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.800 God breathes his life into you. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.520 He calls you the head and not the tell Don't 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.960 let your mind become conditioned for mediocrity. Don't let that 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.279 change who you really are. Sometimes people will try to 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.640 put us in a box, tell us things like you 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.320 can't start that business, you don't have the resources, You'll 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.400 never afford a nice place to live, never get well, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.560 never meet the right person. Because their thinking is limited, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.400 they'll try to put their limitations on you. You have 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.400 to put your foot down and say, I refuse to 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.760 be mediocre because people around me are mediocre. I refuse 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.839 to be addicted, depressed, have low expectation. I know I'm 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.400 a burial breaker. I'm gonst set a new standard. It 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:36.720 starts in our thinking. Nothing will change until you make 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.520 up your mind. You are not going to accept mediocrity. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.000 Why don't you take the limitations off yourself. You have 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.520 so much potential. Break out of that box and try 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.160 something new. The enemy would love to keep that potential 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:56.160 from ever coming out. He'll use bad breaks, negative comments, 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.680 people circumstances to try to keep you from believing in yourself, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.520 believing that you can rise to the next level. Many 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.320 people have let their mind become conditioned to think that 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.160 they've reached their limits. They're just average, they'll never do 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:12.919 anything great. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:14.480 What's happened? 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:19.320 Instead of breaking out, They've adapted to their environment. I 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.800 saw a study that was done with fleas. Researchers put 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.839 all these fleas in a container and then put a 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.520 lid on the top. The fleas immediately tried to fly out, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.600 but they hit the lid again and again. Before long, 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.880 they realized they were stuck. At one point, the researchers 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.640 removed the lid, but much to their surprise, the fleas. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:44.760 Didn't try to fly out anymore. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.320 They had hit that lid so many times they had 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.159 become conditioned to think. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.280 That they couldn't get out. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.600 Even though the lid was off, they didn't even try. Sometimes, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.040 like these fleas, because of the environment we're in, times 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.760 we've tried and faelled what people have told us. We've 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.720 become conditioned to think we can't do anything great. We'll 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.280 never accomplished the dream we'll never get back in shape. No, 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.120 it may not have happened in the past. You may 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.560 have tried and hit that lid a few times, but 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.960 can I tell you the lid is coming off. It's 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.440 time to try again. You were not created to live 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:30.080 contained to get stuck, recondition your mind. That's what happened 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.280 to a friend of mine. He got off to a 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.600 rough start in life. He grew up in the projects, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.680 very poor, with hardly any guidance. His father wasn't in 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.600 his life, and his mother had her own struggles. Because 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.120 of this poor home situation, he was labeled by the 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.880 state as a child at risk. That phrase from the 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.080 time he's a little boy had played over and over 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:56.040 in his mind. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.680 It had become ingrained in his thinking. There's no future 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.800 for me. I'm a child at risk. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.119 He continued to go downhill and getting into trouble, doing 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.400 what the rest of the crowd was doing. Everyone around 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.160 him was defeated, depressed, addicted. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:13.240 He fit right in. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:18.080 He adapted to his environment. Your life is going to 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.200 follow your thoughts. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.000 He believed he was at risk. He became at risk. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.640 If you believe you've reached your limits, then you have 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.120 If you believe you'll never get well, then you won't. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.040 Because your mind has become conditioned with limitations. It will 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.559 keep you from your highest potential. You have to get 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.440 rid of these thoughts that are holding you back. You 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.280 may not see how you can do it in your 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.160 own ability, but you're not. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:46.000 On your own. 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.840 You have the most powerful force in the universe breathing 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:55.400 in your direction. God created you to rise higher, to 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.640 break barriers of the past, to overcome bad habits, to 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.040 be freed from generational curses. People may have labeled you 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:11.359 at risk, average, less than, but God labels you well, able, equipped, anointed, creative, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:16.559 a masterpiece. The good news is people don't determine your destiny. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.400 God does what they said about you. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.120 The environment you're in now, how you were raised, cannot. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.160 Keep you from your purpose. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.080 God is already taken into account every detail of your life, 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.880 every bad break, every negative comment, how you were raised, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:34.760 what somebody did. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.400 He's factor that all into his plan. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.079 If you will stay in faith, instead of holding you back, 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.120 it will propel you forward instead of defeating you. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.480 It'll make you stronger. God knows how to take what 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.640 was meant for your harm and use it to your advantage. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.439 One day, this young man got in trouble in school 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.000 and he was sent to the school counselor. She tried 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.440 to reason with him, but he wouldn't listen. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:01.840 She wouldn't give up. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.439 She kept on trying and trying. Finally, he said to her, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.840 why are you even bothering with me? I'll never do 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.760 anything great. I've been told my whole life I'm a 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.920 child at risk. She looked him in the eyes and said, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.160 listen to me. You are not a child at risk. 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.800 You are a child at possibility. When he heard that, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.959 something ignited on the inside. Sat up in his chair 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.120 said to her, what do you mean at possibility? She said, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.119 you are full of potential. 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.880 You are smart, you are talented. There's so much you 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.679 can become. His whole life, he had heard just the opposite. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.320 His mind had become conditioned to think, you'll never get 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.160 out of the projects, you'll never be successful. That day, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:53.080 a stronghold was broken in his thinking. He reconditioned his mind. Today, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:57.440 this young man owns his own business, very successful. Plus, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.560 he goes around to schools and speaks to others students 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.640 who are considered to be at risk. He tells them 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.880 what the counselor told him. You're not at risk, You're 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.319 at possibility. My friend del Toro mc neil's right here 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:17.880 on the front road. But like with him, people around 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.040 you may accept mediocrity. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:20.840 They may be. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.360 Fine with being average and having little goals and working 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.720 at an okay job. But don't let that spirit rub 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.680 off on you. That is not who you are. You're 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:31.439 the exception. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.360 You're a barrier breaker. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.120 You are not limited by your education, by how you 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.000 were raised by that environment. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.079 God has destined you to rise higher. He's destined you 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.760 to go to the next level. This is what happened 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:47.600 with my father. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.400 He was raised very poor on a cotton farm during 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:55.800 the Great Depression. At Christmas time, his family was the 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.040 one that received the Christmas basket that went to the 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.600 poorest family in the school. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:03.479 He could never drink. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.080 A full glass of milk. They couldn't afford it, only 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.760 a fourth of a glass, plus they had pour water 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.520 in it to make it last longer. But at seventeen 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.640 years of age, my dad gave his life to Christ, 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.240 the first one in the family. He told me, Joel, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.079 I made a decision that day that my children would 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.679 never be raised in the poverty and lack that I 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:31.160 was raised in. He changed his mind. Everyone around him they. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.440 Were good people, but they were limited. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.959 Their mind had become conditioned to accept not having enough, 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:43.200 struggle lack. The problem is, if you accept it, you 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.920 won't do anything about it. It's easy to get comfortable 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.680 with mediocrity and just adapt to our environment. As a teenager, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.040 my father felt something stirring on the inside. It was 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.240 those seeds of greatness. Every circumstance said he was stuck. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.760 He'd have to stay on the farm, pit cotton the 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.720 rest of his life. But instead of adapting to that environment, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.359 his attitude was, this is not my destiny. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.080 I am better than this. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:16.000 I refuse to live mediocre, wearing hand me downs, receiving 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.160 the Christmas basket. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.840 I know I have seeds of greatness. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.959 I have potential, I have creativity. The most tied God 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:25.440 breathe life into me. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.280 Now. As a teenager, he left the farm. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.280 He had to hitchhike, but he went out and started 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.440 ministering in the jails, in the senior citizens' homes, making 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.800 a difference wherever he went. He went on to break 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.800 the curse of poverty in our family, and he took 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.439 us to a new level. He was a barrier breaker. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.560 He knew he was made for more. Instead of just 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.320 fitting in be like everyone else. Why don't you start 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:57.080 seeing yourself as a barrier breaker, as the exception. You're 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.800 supposed to stand out, You're supposed to rise. Maybe everyone 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.640 in your family is depressed. 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.240 Accept you. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.679 You broke out, you're happy, you're full of joy. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:14.040 Everyone is addicted. Accept you. You're free, you're clean, You're 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.600 helping others. Everyone is struggling, can't make ends, me, can't 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.000 get ahead. Accept you. You're blessed. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.880 Good breaks are chasing you down, Opportunities are looking for you. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.400 Your gifts and talents are coming out in greater ways. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.520 Why is that you're the exception? 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:35.640 Not arrogantly like you're better than someone else, but a 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.120 quiet confidence, knowing that you were made for more. See 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.800 if my father would have accepted that as his lot 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.520 in life, I wouldn't be standing here today. Are you 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.080 accepting things that are less than God's best? Have you 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.480 adapted to a limited environment? You have big dreams in 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.640 your heart. You know there's a new business in you, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.680 a management position, a book, a better house. But you're 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.240 doing as good as your friends, you've gone as far 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:07.080 as your family. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.560 No, don't settle there. Break out of that mold. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.680 Nothing will be more sad than to come to the 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.480 end of life and realize what we could have become 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.520 if I'd have just lived with an out possibility mindset 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:26.160 instead of this at risk mentality. Couple of years before 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.480 my dad went to be with the Lord, we drove 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.240 back to Paris, Texas, where he was raised. Daddy wanted 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.920 to reminisce and showed me where he had grown up, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.720 and we went out onto the land where his farm 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.560 used to be. The house was no longer there, but 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.520 we found the well, and he showed me where he 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.160 used to pick cotton, where he went to school, and 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.880 before we left town we drove around to see if 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.000 we could find any of his friends. We pulled up 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:57.280 to this very run down house. Really, it was nothing 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.560 more than a shack. It didn't even look livable. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.480 There was this older. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.320 Gentleman on the front porch, not wearing a shirt, just 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.360 kind of killing time. My father went up and said, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:08.560 I'm John Ostein, Are you so? 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.520 And So? It was his friend. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.400 They hadn't seen each other in over sixty years. He 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:19.120 invited us inside, and the place was very dilapidated. There 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.200 were buckets on the ground to catch the water dripping 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.560 from the ceiling, broken windows boarded up. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.520 We went and found several other of his friends. It 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.280 was the same situation, extreme. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:35.760 Poverty, defeat, mediocrity, and they were good people. But it 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.680 hint me how they had not made anything out of 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.680 their lives. They had made the mistake of adapting to 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:48.160 their environment. They accepted the limitations they were born into. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.560 One man told how he had worked a little here 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.040 and there and had odd jobs worked down at the 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.600 boat docks, barely making it. Another had been laid off 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.960 twenty eight years earlier, not able to find any more work, 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.240 lived off a handouts, no goals, no dreams, no resources. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.800 Now they were at the end of their lives. They 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.240 had not tapped into their potential. That day made such 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.240 an impression upon me. I thought about how my father 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.399 was raised in the same environment. He came out of 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.639 the same mold, same depression, same poverty, same school. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.680 But Daddy went on to touch the world, pastored great churches. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.879 He made a difference with his life. I saw firsthand 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.639 what would have happened if my father had accepted the 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.120 life of defeat he was born into. If he had 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.879 not put his foot down and said, I may have 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.920 been born into mediocrity, but I. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:45.840 Am not settling here. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.480 If he had not reconditioned his mind, he would have 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.840 been sitting right there with the rest of those men. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.760 Friends. Don't go through life and miss your destiny. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.720 You weren't created to get stuck, to settle, stay at 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.240 the same place year after year. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.520 You were created to excel. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.000 There is potential in you right now just waiting to 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.280 come out. You have gifts that will cause new doors 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.880 to open, talent that will bring new opportunities. Get rid 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:19.760 of low expectations. Quit making excuses to settle where you are. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:25.280 You may be in some kind of limited environment dysfunction, addictions, depression. 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.679 The good news you don't have to stay there. That 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.440 is not your destiny. Somebody may have labeled you at risk, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.119 but the creator of the universe labels you at possibility. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.320 You've gone as far as your family as your friends. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.240 That's good, but don't settle there. You're the exception. You're 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:47.960 supposed to go further. Dare to take some steps of faith. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.720 Life is flying by. You don't have ten years to 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.119 wait around the odds may be against you, but the 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.560 most high God is for you. His favor on your 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.080 life will cause you to go where you could not 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.399 go on your own. If you're going to be a 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:04.680 barrier breaker. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.359 You have to get rid of excuses. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.199 I read about an eight year old boy that was 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:13.200 born in Kansas in the early nineteen hundreds. During the winter, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.520 he and his brother would go to school early to 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.560 light the fire in the classroom so that it'd be 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.080 warm when the rest of the students arrived. But one morning, 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:28.040 someone accidentally put gasoline in the kerosene container that he 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.240 used to start the fire. When he lit the match, 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.199 there was a huge explosion. His brother was instantly killed. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.639 The teacher came running and found this little boy unconscious, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.399 with the lower half of his body burned beyond recognition. 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.000 She pulled him out of the fire, thinking that he 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.919 was dead. Somehow he had survived. He lost most of 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.160 the skin and muscles on his legs. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:54.520 His mother was. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.359 Told if he did make it, he would be crippled, 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.200 never able to walk again. But this little boy was 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:06.600 a fighter. Against all odds, he survived. He made up 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.040 his mind he was not only going to walk again, 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.440 but he told everyone one day he would run again. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.600 His favorite scripture was found in Isaiah forty. They that 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.760 wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. They will 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.960 run and not be weary. They will walk and not faint. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.320 As an age year old boy, he had a spirit 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.760 of faith. He believed he could divide the odds. Months later, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.600 he was sent home from the hospital with no feeling 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.840 or movement in his legs. Every day, his mother would 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.600 take him outside in the wheelchairs so he could get 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:45.400 some sunshine. One afternoon, when she wasn't watching, he grabbed 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:50.000 onto the picket fence and pulled himself up state by steak. 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.920 He began to drag himself along. He did this day 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:58.600 after day, teaching himself how to walk again. They didn't 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.199 have physical therapy for him to go to. He was 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:05.199 his own physical therapist. Two years after the accident, he 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.520 stood up for the first time. Wasn't long after that 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.119 he was not only walking, he began to run. He 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.760 became extremely fast in college on the track team. He 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.320 won so many medals he became known as the Kansas 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:25.520 City Flyer. Nineteen thirty four, Glenn Cunningham, the young man 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.040 that was told he had never walk again, broke the 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:29.520 world record. 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:30.120 In the mile row. 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.480 If you're going to be a barrier breaker, you have 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.639 to get rid of the excuses. Quit thinking about what 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.760 you didn't get, what you can't do, how the odds 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:42.000 are against you. 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:44.080 You and God are a majority. 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:49.080 You have what you need. You're a barrier breaker. You 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.040 can defy the odds. You can beat the cancer, you 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.200 can break the addiction. You can start the new business. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.400 You can go further than the experts have told you. 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.000 Like Glenn, you have to recondition your mind. 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.359 Instead of dwelling on all the negative things people have 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.280 set about you, dwell on what God says about you. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.439 I will run and not be weary or instead of 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.920 you can't break that addiction. I can do all things 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:17.640 through Christ, whom the sun sets free, is free. 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.399 Indeed, instead of ah, Man, you've reached your limits. This 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.560 is not for you today. No, the path of the 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.880 righteous gets brighter and brighter. God's plans for me are 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.159 for good and not evil. To give me a future 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.879 and a hope. Nothing will happen until you change your mind. 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.040 Glenn could have laid there thinking, Wow, too bad for me. 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:37.920 I lost my legs. I'll never do anything great. We 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:42.160 wouldn't be talking about him. Are there strongholds keeping you back? 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:46.800 Have you adapted to an environment? Letting what people have said, 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.879 what's around you set limits for your life. God is saying, 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:54.920 this is a new day. You're a burier breaker. I'm 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:57.080 gonna take you further than you've imagined. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:22:58.040 I'm gonna help you. 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:01.360 Set a new standard. You going to defy the odds. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:04.639 Now do your part. Let this seed take root in 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.600 your spirit. Don't talk yourself out of it. Get in 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:08.720 agreement with God. 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:11.360 For years, experts said. 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:13.560 No one would ever be able to run a mile 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:17.600 under four minutes. They studied the human body and thought 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:21.760 it would collapse under that much pressure. Scientists said it 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:25.760 was not only dangerous to try, but it was literally impossible. 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:30.399 But a young man named Roger Banister didn't believe the 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:34.359 negative reports. He didn't let his mind become conditioned to 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.560 think that it couldn't be done. In May of nineteen 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:41.359 fifty six, he made history by running a mile under 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:46.560 four minutes. What's interesting is, forty six days later, someone 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:48.280 else broke the four minute mile. 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.240 Within ten years, three hundred and. 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:54.439 Thirty six people had run the mile under four minutes 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:57.800 time hadn't happened for years. Now it was happening all 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:02.199 the time. Why was that the barrier was broken in 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:02.840 their mind? 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:06.240 For years? They believe what the expert said. 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:10.040 They were convinced in their own thinking that it couldn't happen. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:13.879 Once that barrier was removed, they were able to do 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:18.480 things that seemed impossible. Has your mind become conditioned to 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:22.360 think you can't accomplish your dreams, you can't get well, 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:26.040 you'll never break that addiction. If you'll do like Roger 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:30.760 and recondition your mind, start thinking better, believing that you're 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:34.640 a can do person, knowing that you have seeds of greatness, 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:38.320 you too will break barriers that you thought were impossible. 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:39.719 And here's the beauty. 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.240 When you break a barrier, you make it easier on 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.960 those that come after you. You're paving the way for 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:49.200 your children, for your relatives. That's what it means to 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:52.200 set a new standard. That's what my dad did when 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:55.720 he broke that curse of poverty. He took our family 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:59.240 to a new level. Because he broke that barrier, I 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:02.720 was able to start much further along. When my dad 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:04.879 went to be with the Lord, he left us with 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:09.400 that eight thousand seat auditorium. I could have settled there 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:11.760 and thought this is okay, I'm doing as good as 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:12.320 my parents. 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:14.680 But I did what I'm asking you to do. 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:17.760 I stirred up my gifts and said, God, I know 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.280 I'm not supposed to stay at the same level as 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:20.880 my parents. 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:22.280 I took a step of faith. 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:25.880 God opened the door to this place, the former Compact Center. 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:30.199 It's several times larger than our former facility. That's the 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:33.720 way it's supposed to be. God is a progressive god. 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:35.960 He wants every generation to increase. 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:38.880 There was a young. 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:42.399 Man in the scripture named Hezekiah. He was raised in 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:47.320 a very dysfunctional home. His father was Ahaz, king of Judah. 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:50.639 He set up idols for the people to worship. He 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:53.320 was a very hard king and cruel to the people 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:57.760 because he didn't honor God. The nation went downhill became 0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:02.439 very poor. Five different armies came against Judah. They lost 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:07.080 every battle. The place was decimated. You would think AHAs 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:10.639 would learn his lesson, turned to God asked for his health, 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.920 but it was just the opposite. He closed the doors 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:17.480 of the temple. He began to sell off the sacred treasures. 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:24.000 Hezekiah was raised in this environment of compromise defeat mediocrity. 0:26:24.560 --> 0:26:27.000 He could have turned out like his dad. He could 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:31.440 have adapted to that environment. But Hezekiah understood this principle 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:35.879 when he became king. The first thing he did, before 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:41.240 repairing the roads, before getting the economy going, Hezekiah reopened 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:41.800 the temple. 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:44.840 He turned the nation back toward God. 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:49.160 His father chose to compromise, chose to push people down. 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:54.119 But Hezekiah's attitude was i may have been born into mediocrity, 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:56.840 but I'm not settling here. I'm going to put an 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:59.560 end to this generational curse, and I'm going to start 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:05.000 a rational blessing. Hezekiah was a barrier breaker. You may 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:08.760 be in some kind of limited environment. If Hezekiah were 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:11.440 here today, he would tell you. 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:12.000 You don't have to stay there. 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:16.639 How you start is not important. How you finish is 0:27:16.680 --> 0:27:21.480 what matters. Do yourself and your family a favor, break 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:25.760 out of that mold. Don't pass negative things down to 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:26.760 the next generation. 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:28.960 You can be the difference maker. 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:32.399 You can be the one that sets your family on 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:36.120 a course to honoring God, a course of blessing, favor 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:40.200 and victory. I'm asking you to recondition your mind, get 0:27:40.320 --> 0:27:42.720 rid of strongholds that are keeping you back. You're not 0:27:42.840 --> 0:27:44.840 at risk, You're at possibility. 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:48.280 Stir up your seeds of greatness. Be a barrier breaker. 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:52.600 If you'll do this, I believe and declare, God is 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:55.080 going to breathe on your life in a new way. 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:59.920 You're going to go beyond barriers of the past, Overcome obstiteate, 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:04.800 accomplish dreams. You're gonna become everything God created you to be. 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:08.280 In Jesus's name, And if you receive it, can you say, 0:28:08.440 --> 0:28:13.080 men today, we never like to close our broadcast without 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:16.119 giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:16.639 your life. 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:21.440 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:21.600 --> 0:28:22.720 repent of my sins. 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:29.800 Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:31.440 if you prayed that simple prayer, we. 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:34.360 Believe you got born again. 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