Break Through The Barriers of the Past

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So after a month recovery, I saw her 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.600 and immediately I wanted to know, how is your foot? 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.240 She said to me, I'm now going to physical therapy. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.880 And then she began to tell me a little bit 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.160 about her physical therapy sessions. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.120 And she said to me, when I first got to. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:23.360 Physical therapy, my therapist said, this, does your foot hurt 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.920 right now? And she stopped and said, no, I'm not 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.800 in any pain right now, And she said. She looked 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.280 right at me and said, if you're not in pain, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:40.600 why are you limping. It kind of took her aback 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.720 for a minute, and she said, well, I'm trying to 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:45.960 protect my foot. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.400 I don't want to hurt it again. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.560 I don't want to do anything that'll cause me any 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:58.400 more pain. Can you understand that line of thinking today? 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.520 I certainly can. You know, when you're in pain, the 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.120 last thing you want to do is start acting like 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.760 you normally did. The last thing you want to do 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.840 is step out in boldness. The last thing you want 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.520 to do is go out on a limb, because you 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:19.440 certainly don't want to hurt yourself again. That physical therapist 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.840 looked at her and she said, I need you to 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.600 quit limping. She said, if you don't begin to do 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:33.720 and walk like you normally do, your foot will not strengthen, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.840 those ligaments will not go back in place, and you 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.560 won't be able to do what you want to do. 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.560 You won't be able to walk like you did before. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.280 You'll always walk with a limp. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.320 I just want to encourage every one of us to 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:59.520 not allow pain hurts discouragement to cause us to walk 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.120 within a emotional limp. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.280 Pain comes to all of us. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.480 Discouragement is a part of life, but we have to 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:13.920 understand that God is bigger than all of those things combined. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:23.120 You see, my friend didn't even recognize that she was 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:24.119 walking with a limp. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.800 She had to have her therapist tell her. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.560 You see, what she had done is she had formed 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.599 what the Bible calls a stronghold in her mind, a wrong. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:37.880 Way of thinking. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.080 She was on the thinking pattern that she could never 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.120 walk on her foot the way she used to, that 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.480 it would always be less than that, this foot. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.120 Would always be weaker than the other foot. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.119 She had to understand that she could be strong again. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.839 Then she had to work through the process. She had 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.160 to begin to believe, She had to begin to do 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.640 the work. She had to begin to step out and 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.760 watch things change. You see now she is well on 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:19.080 her way to recovery because she made the choice to 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:24.080 walk through that process and recognize she could be strong. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.680 And you know what, we all have to break those 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.479 barriers of the past. We have to break those mindsets 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:35.440 that says it'll never be good again, You'll never find 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.040 another husband the. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:44.880 One you had left you. Those wounds, they hurt, they're real, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.400 but they're a lie. They're a lie. You gotta believe 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.280 that you can be strong again. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:58.080 If you feel yourself shrinking back in fear, shrinking back 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:02.640 because you've been hurt of afraid to try again, you 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.880 can pretty much realize that. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.680 Is the enemy lying to you. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.000 Because God never decreases, He always increases. 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.520 God is the God of increase. 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:20.320 But it takes courage, it takes determination, and sometimes we 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.960 need to check ourselfs to make sure we're not walking 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.919 with a limp. We need to make sure that that 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:32.720 response wasn't out of pain, that response wasn't out of defense, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:39.000 that that response was out of strength, confidence, and love, so. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.080 That we can keep walking this walk of faith. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:48.080 Listen, don't allow your past to define your future. It 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.880 doesn't have to set the pace for your future. A 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.400 friend of mine was telling me about her young daughter 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.840 in law and how she had just found out that 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.040 she was pregnant. The whole family was so excited. Her 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.760 son was just thrilled. The young girl had wanted a child, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.960 so it was just the best news she could ever 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:13.080 think of. As everyone was celebrating and all happy, it 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:17.200 was only a short amount of time before she realized 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:22.960 she miscarried the baby. You see, she was devastated. Her 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:28.480 celebration turned into hurt and pain. She began to question God. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.200 She began to doubt herself. She began to think, am 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.440 I ever gonna have a baby? Maybe I'm not capable 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.400 of having a baby. She told her husband. She said, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.000 I don't want to try again, She said, I don't 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.000 want to go there. I'm afraid that I can't make 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:48.280 it through another painful situation like that. You see, she 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:53.239 began limpy. She began limping, She shrunk back. She didn't 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.440 act like herself. She wasn't the lively, vibrant woman that 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.960 she once was. It began to affect the entire fear. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.520 You see, she was limping because of a pain that 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:12.720 she had felt. Wasn't long after that she found serious 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:18.200 xem and she began to listen to the. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.720 Messages of hope, of a faithful God. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:27.040 Of a loving God, a God of strength, a God 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.240 of purpose. Day after day she listened to these messages, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.320 and it began to break down that wrong pattern of thinking. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:40.640 It began to build courage in her and determination. She 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.960 began to think, can I do this again. In fact, 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:50.920 the defeat and the doubt turned into hope, faith and victory. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.720 She told her husband, I want to try again to 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.920 have a child. I believe that God loves me. I 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.080 believe that I can do it again. And do you know, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.640 recently Christie and her husband Josh just gave birth to 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:13.240 a beautiful baby named Mia. She fought through that barrier 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.240 that would try to stop her, that would try to 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.280 defeat her, that would try to change the course of 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:25.960 her destiny, her relationship with her husband and her family line. Listen, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:31.400 she had to make the choice to walk through the process. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:37.480 Pain is real and it hurts. But let me tell you, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.720 God is the mender of broken hearts. He can heal 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:46.320 what hurts. He can make you stronger than you've ever 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.760 been before. You can't allow a bad experience to trick 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.840 you into thinking you're gonna have a bad life. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:55.720 You got to rise up. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:10:00.199 In the strength of Almighty God and recognize, Hey, this 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.320 is a limp. I wasn't designed to limp. I was 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.200 designed to run. I was designed to move. I was 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:13.560 designed to move forward in the things of God. My 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:17.600 little nephew, Christopher, he's a big old kid, I'm telling. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:18.760 You that boy is so big. 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.000 He plays high school football, and when he started, he 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.680 he played the defense and that's a really rough, tough 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.400 spot to play. And when he would come home the 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.280 first couple of times, he realized the next day he'd 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.319 have bruises on him and he'd think, oh man, these bruises. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:38.920 But he'd go back out there again. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.920 He come home, he said, I got these these bruises, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.120 but I did my best. I did good. The next 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.760 day he'd go back out there. He'd come home, he said, 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.359 I don't care about these bruises. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.520 We won. We won. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:11:00.400 You see, he realized from experience that those bruises didn't 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.480 have to stop him. Those bruises may be part of 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.720 the game, but you know what, He's on the winning team. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.120 And I want you to know today, there may be. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:11.640 Bumps, there may be bruises. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.520 They come to all of us, but listen, you've got 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.680 one more powerful on your side. You are on the 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.520 right side of God, the winning side of God. You 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.520 got to say, these bruises don't matter. They're not stopping 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.240 me because I am gonna win. I'm gonna come through. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.199 I am going to break through the barriers that are 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.920 trying to hold me down. Do you know, God said, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.000 I haven't given you a spirit of fear. Every setback 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:49.560 releases fear. Every past hurt promotes fear. Fear is not 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.000 of God. Everything that you won't do comes from fear. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.840 Every excuse you make comes from fear. Fear of being 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.600 taken advantage of, fear of being laughed at, fear of 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.360 being hurt again. It's a root of fear. And God said, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.440 I haven't given you fear. So when you feel fear, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.800 you got to understand that's the enemy trying to make 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.480 you limp. He's trying to make you not reach the 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.959 fullness of your destiny. God said, I've given you power. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.440 You got the power of the most High God on 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.200 the inside of you. Go through the process. He said, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.200 I've given you love. Can I tell you that his 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.960 love broke the curse of sin and death, that his 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.800 love is the one that breaks the change. There's nothing 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.960 greater that you can have than the love of Almighty God. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:50.120 He said, I've given you a sound mind, a balanced mind, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.520 a mind that is able to discern truth from a lie, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:00.240 truth from a lie, fear from faith. Today, if you 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:05.360 have the power to discern fear and faith, and I 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:10.440 believe that you're gonna walk in faith. Sometimes we just 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:15.160 need a reminder that we can be strong again. Listen, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.960 don't limp through this life, not when you can run 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.880 through this life, not when you got the force of 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.199 the most high behind you. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:29.920 You are on the women team. Amen. Amen. 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