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That's code iHeart fifty when you 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.920 sign up at unest dot co for a fifty dollars bonus. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.080 See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.679 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.720 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:38.440 the ministry. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.920 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.479 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.520 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:46.240 your life. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:48.040 God bless you. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.640 It's great to be with you today, and I hope 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.080 you'll stay connected with us during the week through our 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.480 daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.280 come visit us in person would love to have you 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.000 be a part of one of our services. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.640 I like to start with something funny, though, And I 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.960 heard about this archaeologist in New York. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.799 He dug down ten feet and found copper wiring dating 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.200 back one hundred years. He concluded that New Yorkers had 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.760 a telephone network over one hundred years ago. Not to 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.919 be outdone, and archaeologists from California dug down twenty feet 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.520 and found copper wiring dating back two hundred years. He 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:30.120 concluded that Californians had a communication network one hundred years 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:31.359 earlier than New Yorkers. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.920 Upon hearing this bubba from Texas. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.040 Dug down thirty feet on his farm and found absolutely nothing. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.840 He concluded three hundred years ago Texans had already gone wireless. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.720 All right, y'all say it like you mean it. This 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:49.639 is my Bible. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.520 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.120 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.960 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.720 of God. I boldly confess. Yes, my mind is alert, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.040 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.799 In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.880 to you today about clear vision. Many people are not 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:18.160 reaching their potential, not because they're not talented, not because 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.720 they don't have favor it's because their vision is limited. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.200 They don't see themselves. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:28.560 Accomplishing their dreams, being blessed, living healthy. But you will 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.919 never rise any higher than the way you see yourself 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:33.959 through your eyes of faith. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.480 You need to see yourself the way you want to be. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.880 You may be fighting in illness, but you need to 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:41.040 see yourself healthy. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.840 You're struggling in your finances, you. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.680 Need to see yourself out of death, with an abundance, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.120 being a blessing to others. If you're dealing with an addiction, 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:55.840 don't let that negative image take root. Don't see yourself defeated, dysfunctional. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.600 Can't break it. Get a new image. See yourself free, see. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:05.080 Yourself whole, See yourself as an overcomer. Your inner vision 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.440 is setting the limits for your life. The pictures you 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.600 keep in front of you in your imagination, that's what 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:16.480 you're moving toward, even subconsciously, just like a magnet, you're 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.479 being pulled toward what you're seeing. You may struggle with 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.080 low self esteem. Sometimes you feel inferior, like you don't 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.680 measure up. You have to change that picture. Get in 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.080 agreement with how God sees you. He said you are 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.640 fearfully and wonderfully made. He calls you a masterpiece, one 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.800 of a kind. Why don't you get your image in 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.599 line with God's image. If you'll change your pictures, you'll 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.880 change your life. If you'll have the right inner vision, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:51.080 see yourself strong, talented, favored with the bright future, then 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.960 you'll reach the fullness of your destiny. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:58.640 How do you see yourself lacking? Negative, a victim. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.120 I've been through so much. Life's not fair. I'm just 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.760 struggling to make it. That's the wrong picture. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.720 God said he has beauty for those ashes. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.719 He said he'd pay you back double for the unfair things. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.800 Get rid of the image of a defeated you, a 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:18.400 lonely you, a victim. You start seeing yourself has restored you. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:19.719 I blessed you. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.960 How happy you are coming out better you. You're moving 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.320 toward the picture you have in your mind. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.120 Make sure that picture is something that you want. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.880 Sometimes on my phone, I'll go through the pictures and 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.760 start deleting that one's blurry, that one's not frame right, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.360 that one has my brother Paul in it, that one 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:41.320 I don't look good. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.240 Have you noticed you can have a picture with six 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.080 other people, but you zoom in to see how you look. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.520 If you don't look good, if it's not flattering, those 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.080 other people can look fantastic. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.360 Delete. I don't want to see myself that way. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.479 How about having that same attitude when it comes to 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.000 the picture in your mind? That image comes up of 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:08.080 you inferior, unattractive, not talented. Delete no room in my files. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.880 I see myself as valuable, a masterpiece, one of a kind. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:17.479 That image of you lonely, never meeting anyone, no companionship. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.640 Delete, that's not my future. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:25.600 I see myself happily, married, having children, loving, laughing, dreaming. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.240 That picture comes up with you sick, weak, enduring. Don't 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:35.680 give it any room. Get a new image. See yourself healthy, strong, vibrant, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.960 accomplish in dreams. See a lot of people want a 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.919 better life. But you can't give birth to what you 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.839 haven't conceived. You have to conceive it on the inside. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.119 Then God can bring it to pass on the outside. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.560 When my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she was 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.360 very frail, her skin was yellow. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:56.640 Her voice was weak. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.240 There was nothing medically speaking that could be done. You 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.480 can imagine the pictures that were trying to dominate her mind. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.359 She told how in the middle of the night, thoughts said, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.240 you can be buried in that new pink dress you 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.160 just bought. She had to fight those negative images. One 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.520 thing she did is she put pictures of herself up 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.800 all over the house from a time when she was healthy. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.680 She had her wedding pictures on the refrigerator in the den. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.800 On her bathroom mirror, she had a picture of her 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.120 riding a horse in Montana. She had a big smile, 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.880 having so much fun. I came home from college and thought, 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.280 what are all these pictures doing up? Do you know 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.200 what my mother was doing? She was creating a new 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.600 image on the inside. When she looked in the mirror, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.920 she saw death staring back at her. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.760 Defeat, sickness, I'll never get well. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.640 But when she looked at those pictures, she saw herself 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:57.320 the way she wanted to be, healthy, vibrant, enjoying her family. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.200 What you see, the image that you're creating in your 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.320 mind is what you're moving toward. My mother felt weak, 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.120 but she saw herself strong. The diagnosis was a few 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.960 weeks to live, but she saw herself. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.520 Healthy, living a long life. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.960 It didn't happen overnight, but she started moving toward that 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.920 image she had in her mind. She got better and 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.480 better with no medical explanation. Today, forty two years later, 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:30.320 she's just like those pictures she saw, healthy, whole and vibrant. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.480 Pay attention to the images you're seeing. You can't see 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.040 yourself sick and get well. You can't see yourself with 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.760 lack and struggle and have abundance. You need to see 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.400 yourself blessed, the. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.240 Head and not the tail, lending and not borrowing. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.640 You can't see the dream being too big, giant, too strong, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.120 the addiction too great. You need to see yourself as 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.240 well able as a giant killer, a history maker, a 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.880 barrier break. I was eighteen years old and I was 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.640 driving down the freeway one morning coming to church. All 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.040 of a sudden, there was this huge downpour. Didn't start 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.280 off a little slow, sprinkle a little bit. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.200 It was like the heavens opened up. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.280 I reached over and turned my windshield wipers on like 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.600 I always did, But nothing happened. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.040 They didn't move. I looked out and couldn't see a thing. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.000 I jiggled the lever, pushed it, nagled it, but still 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.320 nothing here. I'm going sixty miles an hour and I 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.920 have no idea where the road is. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.560 In a panic, I rolled down my window. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.320 Looked outside the best I could, rain hitting me, and 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.360 I slowly began to pull over. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:39.800 To the right. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.679 I was just driving blind, hoping that I wouldn't hit 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.800 another car. There wouldn't be a ditch or something parked 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.040 on the shoulder. By the grace of God, it was 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.640 all clear, and I parked there and waited for. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.920 The rain to stop. Here's my point. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.720 My engine was working fine, my tires were fine, my 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.200 steering was fine, had plenty of gas. The only thing 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.880 stopping me was my windshell wipers. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.160 I had all this ability. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.480 To move forward, this vehicle, this horse power, but my 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:14.160 vision was blurry. I couldn't see this seemingly small thing 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.360 kept me from where I was going. The same way 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.880 in life, you are full of potential. God has given 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.160 you gifts and talents. He's lined up the good breaks, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.000 the right people, everything you need to fulfill your purpose. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.720 For sometimes we're not seeing our greatness because. 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.320 Our vision is limited. We've let how we were raised. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.320 What someone said, the bad break, the betrayal, cloud our future, 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.120 the problem is not with who you are. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.319 You're a masterpiece. It's with what you can see. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.440 If you're going to reach your potential, you have to 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.040 make sure your windsheer wipers are working. You have to 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.560 constantly be clearing out things that are hindering your vision. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.199 Maybe you got off course, you made some mistakes, and 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.080 now guilt and shame will try to block your vision. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.080 Man, you don't deserve to be blessed. Look what you did. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:09.520 You're unworthy. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.120 Just accept where you are now, get your windsheer wipers working. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.160 You're forgiven, You're redeemed. God's mercy is bigger than your mistakes. 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.400 He doesn't remember the negative things of your past. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.600 Now you have to do your part. Clear out the guilt, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:26.440 clear out the shame. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.120 Start seeing yourself as worthy, as forgiven. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.640 As a child of the most time. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:37.479 Or perhaps discouragement is clouding your future. You've been through disappointments, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.360 things didn't work out, people did you wrong. It's easy 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.120 to let that hinder your vision to where you're not 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:45.560 believing for anything good. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:50.280 You're not expecting things to improve. Get your windsheer wipers working. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.840 You have not seen your best days. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.600 The enemy wouldn't be fighting you if he didn't know 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.760 something awesome was in store. That's why he's trying to 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:03.120 limit your vision so you don't see the amazing future 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.320 that's ahead. Do yourself a favor wipe that away. I 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.440 love what Paul prayed in Ephesians, that the eyes of 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.360 our understanding would be enlightened so we could see the 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.360 amazing future to which we've been called. He was praying, 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.520 in one sense, that our windshield wipers would work, that 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.160 our vision, that the eyes of our understanding would be clear. 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.360 Your vision may have been clouded by what people have 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.960 said negative words. You're too small, you're too old, not 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.480 talented enough, you don't have what it takes. Lady told 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.640 me how she went to a job interview, this position 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.480 that she really wanted. She was qualified, she had the training, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.440 but they came back and said, I'm sorry, you just 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.360 don't have the personality for this job. You're not outgoing enough. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.920 She let those words start to cloud her vision, thinking 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.200 I'm lacking, I'm at a deficit, I'm not at the 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.400 par I told her what I'm telling you, get your 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:07.040 windshield wipers working. People don't determine your destiny. What they 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:12.200 said doesn't stop God's plan. That door closed because. 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.360 He has something better coming. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:13.880 Now. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.520 Don't let the better get stopped because the negative. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.000 Report has blurred your vision. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.880 Moses sent twelve men to spy out the promised land, 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.160 and ten of them came back and said, we can't 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:25.559 go in. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:27.280 The people are big. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.160 We were in our own sites as grasshoppers, and so 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.080 we were in their sight. Notice the picture they had 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.680 the opposition. They are giants, they are powerful. They saw 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:44.040 them as undefeatable. But as for us, we're grasshoppers. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.160 Man, we're weak. We don't have the size, the talent, 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.000 the experience. They'll crush us. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.520 When in fact, they were the ones that were powerful. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.040 They were the ones that had the favor of God. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.960 They were the ones that were destined to take the land. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.840 What was the problem. Their windshield was blurry, their vision 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:07.960 was distorted. It's significant that they saw themselves, of all things, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:12.040 as grasshoppers. A grasshopper has wings. 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.000 But it can't really fly. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.480 He can go a little way, it can't fly any distance. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.800 Notice how the enemy wants you to see yourself. You 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.240 have wings, but you can't get off the ground. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.000 Sure you have potential, but you're just a grasshopper. You 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:28.280 never do anything great. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.720 The opposition's too big, the sickness too strong, the dream, 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:33.520 there's no way. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.880 Look what you're up against. Well, that's the wrong image. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.480 You are not a grasshopper. The scripture says. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.040 You will mount up with wings like an eagle. You 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.880 are created to sword, to rise above what's trying to 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.520 stop you, to overcome what's holding your back, to leave 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.760 your family better than it was. But it's going to 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.320 come down to this. Do you see yourself as a 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.480 grasshopper or do you see yourself as an egle? Well, Joe, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.680 these people at work, they're not fair. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.640 They don't like me. I'll never get that promotion. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.840 No disrespect, but nice to meet you, mister grasshopper. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.240 That's going to keep you on the ground. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.200 The Israelites wandered in the desert forty years because they 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:18.560 saw themselves the wrong. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.480 Way, limited, lacking, not enough. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.880 Don't let that grasshopper image keep you from soaring. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.960 You're an ego. Get in agreement with God. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.920 Yes, these people are doing me wrong, but God is 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:32.800 my vindicator. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.400 I know God is fighting my battles. Listen. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.360 Promotion doesn't come from people, he comes from the Lord. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:43.440 The scripture says, touch, not my anointed, you're his anointed. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.960 God being for you is more than anything coming against you. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.400 And yes, we all have opposition, things that are not fair. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:52.960 But you need to see. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.760 Yourself as an overcomer, as more than a conquer as 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.560 the victor and not the victim. But I don't think 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.040 I'll ever get ahead man, with the pandemic, with inflation, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.360 how could I ever pay my house off? What you're 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.200 really saying is I'm a grasshopper. The enemy would love 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.840 for you to go through life thinking that you're limited. 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.960 You're at a disadvantage. You can't fly, you'll. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.480 Never get married, you'll never accomplish that goal. But what 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.120 if you discovered those wings on your side are not grasshopper. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.600 Wings, but they are eagles wings. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.120 What if what's limiting you is not your circumstances, not 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.200 other people, not how you were raised, but how you 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.920 see yourself. What would happen if your windshow wipers started working, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.640 your vision cleared up, and you started seeing yourself for 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:44.680 who you really. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.640 Are, A son, a daughter of the Most High God. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.280 You have greatness in you. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:55.440 You were created to reign in life, to be healthy, strong, valuable, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:56.920 accomplished dreams. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:58.600 Overcome obstacles. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.920 I'm asking you to get rid of that grasshopper image and. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.680 See yourself the way God sees you. I know things 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:07.840 try to cloud our vision. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.159 Disappointments, mistakes, we made, bad breaks. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.359 Get your windshield, wife for working. This is a new day. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.359 Clear out the doubt, Clear out what people have said. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:22.000 Clear out that bitterness, that mediocrity. Nothing that's happened to 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.800 you has stopped God's purpose for your life. As your 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.159 vision clears, you'll start moving in to the new levels 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.000 of flavor and blessings that belonged to you. This is 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.120 what Jeremiah had to do in the scripture. God had 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.000 a great plan for his life called him to speak 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:43.360 to nations to impact the culture. Jeremiah was a young man. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.760 He felt unqualified. He didn't come from an influential family. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.440 At first, like the Israelites, he started making excuses, said God, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:53.800 I can't speak to nations. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.320 I'm too young. I wouldn't know what to say. God 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.600 touched his lips and said, don't worry, I'm gonna put 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:01.800 my words in your mouth. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.560 God will never ask you to do something and not 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.679 give you the ability to do it. He wouldn't have 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.960 told the Israelites to go into the Promised Land if 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.119 those giants were going to defeat them. The truth is 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.800 the giants didn't defeat them. Their grasshopper image defeated them. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.919 This was about to happen with Jeremiah. He saw himself 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:28.240 as not able, limited, lacking. God said to him in 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:32.480 verse eleven, Jeremiah, what do you see here? 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:33.160 God had just. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.879 Promphes out an amazing future, that Jeremiah would leave his mark, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:38.640 that he would impact nations. 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:40.359 You would think that would be enough. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.360 God said it, He promised it, But it all came 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:44.399 down to this question. 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:46.560 What do you see, Jeremiah. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.800 Jeremiah got his windser wifers working, He said, in e fact, 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.600 wait a minute, this doubt is clouding my future. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.320 This fear, this insecurity is distorting my vision. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.240 He answered back, something interesting, he said, God, I see 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.920 the branch of an almond tree starting to bud. It's 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.959 coming out of late winter, blossoming into full bloom. He 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.480 was saying, I see growth, I see new opportunities. 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:14.480 I see me stepping into new levels. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.200 Because his vision cleared, he went on to impact nations 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:24.360 to blossom and bloom, just like God said, Like with Jeremiah, 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.280 God has given us all these incredible promises. He said, 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.439 no weapon formed against you will prosper. He said he 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.120 will restore health and heal you of your wounds. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.920 He said your children will be mighty in the land. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.760 He said you will lend and not borrow, that your 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.240 latter days will be better than your former days. All 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.320 these amazing promises, But that alone is not enough. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.879 God is asking you, what do you see. It's not 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:52.959 just up to God. 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:57.440 How you see yourself, your future, your children, That's what's 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.320 going to determine what will happen. I don't know, Joel, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.840 my children are so off course, or this medical report's 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:05.359 not good. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.560 I can't start my own business. I don't have the connections. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.800 Don't do like he did. Get you wins, your wipers working. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.159 Clear out all the excuses, the doubt. Can't do it. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.600 Too big, too late, not enough, And see yourself the 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.200 way God sees you. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.200 You are well able, you are strong in the Lord. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.280 God is going before you. Goodness and mercy are following you. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.840 Favor is surrounding you. You can run through a troop 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:37.720 and leap over a wall. See yourself as victorious, as prosperous. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:38.440 As more than a conquer. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.359 When my father went to be with the Lord, I 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.439 knew I was supposed to step up and pass through 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.160 the church, but I didn't have the training, the experience. 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.160 I like being behind the scenes. I'm more quiet and reserved, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.840 and my father tried to get me up many times 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.200 to speak, but I didn't know this was in me. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.920 You have to be willing to accept the new things God. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:00.720 God is going to do. 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.600 His dream for your life is much bigger than your own. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.120 Where God is going to take you the doors he's 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.679 going to open, the people you're going to meet. Its 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.480 gold to be more than you've ever imagined. Like Jeremiah, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.920 I thought I can't do that. I saw myself one way, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.080 at one level, but God had a whole new level. 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:26.320 I had to quit seeing myself as limited, unqualified. Thoughts 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.680 would tell me it's never going to work out, trying 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.440 to cloud my future. I had to keep my windshield 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:35.719 wipers going. I can do all things through Christ. I'm equipped, empowered, 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:36.480 and anointed. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:36.880 Lord. 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.080 I thank you that You've raised me up for such 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:42.359 a time as this. Through my eyes of faith, I 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:46.280 saw myself excelling. I saw the church growing, I saw 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.280 people being help I had to conceive this new image 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.960 that God was planting in my heart. One night, about 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.800 three months after my father had passed, when I was 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.080 doing my best to keep my courage up so I 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.080 could keep going, I had a dream. 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:03.560 Better description would be a nightmare. 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.240 In this dream, the church was full, It was packed, 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.040 but when I went up to speak, everyone got up 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:13.720 and walked out of the building right on que not saying. 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:16.239 A word, just filing out. I woke up in a 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:20.320 cold sweat. The enemy will work over time to. 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.680 Try to get negative, defeating images on the inside. The 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.760 scripture talks about casting down wrong imaginations. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.880 That means getting rid of the wrong pictures. Pay attention 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:36.160 to what's draining your faith causing you to shrink back. 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:37.360 Be insecure. 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:41.560 Those are imaginations you need to delete. Don't let that 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:46.680 picture distort your vision. A few months before my father passed, 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:50.119 Victoria had a friend that told her about a dream 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:53.960 she had. In this dream, she saw me up speaking 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:57.360 in front of this large stadium filled with people. Everyone 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.560 was weeping, but she said Joel was up there, the 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:05.520 people leading them. Everyone was listening so intently. Out of 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:07.480 those two dreams, I chose. 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:10.560 To believe her dream. I let that kickture take root. 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.320 You get to choose which. 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:18.719 Images are going to influence you. You can see yourself defeated, 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:24.399 failing not enough, or you can see yourself prospering, rising higher, 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:29.400 accomplishing new goals, setting new standards. That will be these 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:32.679 times like with me, where you have to enlarge your vision. 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.600 God didn't create you to reach one level and get stuck. 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:39.560 You're going to come to places where you may feel 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:43.880 over your head, unqualified. That's a sign that God's about 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:44.800 to take you higher. 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:47.240 Be open for greater things. 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.040 To see yourself at new levels, going where you've never gone, 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.080 doing what you've never dreamed. Sure, doubt will come. You 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.240 can't do that, it's out of your league. People may 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.600 tell you you can't accomplish that. No one is your 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.800 family is that blessed, that's successful. 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:07.280 That influential. Keep your winds, your whippers going. 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:11.359 Don't let that distort your vision. They can't see what 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:14.320 you see. God didn't put the dream in them. He 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:17.359 put the dream in you. Now do your part and 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:23.040 conceive the increase, Conceive the abundance, Conceive the possibility. 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:24.360 Friend of mine was in. 0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:28.000 Hawaii on vacation and this guide was driving him and 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:31.400 his wife around, showing them the different sites. They came 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:33.879 to this one place, and the man pointed to the 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:34.760 top of this hill. 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.960 There was a beautiful house overlooking the. 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:43.040 Ocean, palm trees, green grass, big windows, just like a postcard. 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:46.680 So magnificent. Now, friends said to the God just. 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:50.119 In passing, I can't even imagine living in a house 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:54.000 like that. He heard something on the inside, just an 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:58.680 impression say don't worry, you never will. He was kind 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:02.119 of taking a buyer. Thank God, is that you he felt. 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:04.960 God say, yes, son, it's me. And as long as 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:08.280 you can't imagine it, as long as you can't see it, 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:11.960 it's never going to happen. I wonder how many of 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.320 us are missing the great things God has in store 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:19.159 because our vision is limited. I can't imagine having a 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:22.359 good jar Joel in my business with inflation the stock 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:23.119 market down. 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:24.480 Can imagine my. 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:28.000 Health improving after what the doctor said. Can imagine this 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:31.760 relationship work? And I can imagine my children doing anything great. 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:36.280 Instead of letting your imagination work against you, why don't 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:38.720 you look out through your eyes of faith. 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:42.520 And let it work for you. God created the universe. 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:47.040 He spoke worlds into existence, He's not limited by what 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:47.760 limits us. 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:49.760 The right attitude is. 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:53.280 It may seem unlikely, but I can imagine me getting 0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:57.000 healthy God did for Joel's mom. I can imagine me 0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:00.920 to find the odds out, running, playing a long life. 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:04.560 I can imagine me paying my house off. I can 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.800 imagine my business expanding. I can imagine leaving an inheritance 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:12.919 to my children's children. Maybe you're single, you'd like to 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:15.880 get married. It's been a long time. The enemy would 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:19.880 love to paint that picture of you lonely, discourage, left out. 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:23.720 No delete that picture, create a new image. I can 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:27.280 imagine me happily married. I can imagine. 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:32.040 Someone awesome, tall, dark, handsome, godly, fun, friendly and rich. 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:35.920 I can imagine you're thinking that I might as well 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:36.280 say it. 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:41.960 I can imagine laughing, loving, a blessed marriage. 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:44.320 I can imagine my children excelling. 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:47.840 I can imagine them leaving their mark or Yes, I've 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:49.800 had this addiction a long time, but you know what, 0:26:50.000 --> 0:26:52.760 I can imagine me breaking it this year. I can 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:56.840 imagine me free, whole and clean. If you watch all 0:26:56.880 --> 0:27:00.440 the news these days and negative report the economy, maybe 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:03.679 a recession that can cloud your vision, you have to 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:06.679 look out through your eyes of faith. I can imagine 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:12.120 having a blessed you, a productive, bountiful, abundant, fever field year. 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:13.560 Friends. 0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:16.480 God is going to take you further than you've ever dreamed. 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:20.840 But it's going to start on the inside. Like with Jeremiah, 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:24.760 He's asking you, what do you see? What image do 0:27:24.840 --> 0:27:28.480 you have of yourself, your family, your finances, your future. 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:31.840 You're moving toward that picture you have in your mind. 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:36.439 Maybe you're being limited because you're not seeing the right things. 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:38.280 Your vision has been clouded. 0:27:39.000 --> 0:27:43.080 My encouragement is get those windshear wipers working, clear out 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:47.439 all the negative, limited, not enough, too big, never gonna happen, 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:48.520 and go back. 0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:50.400 To what God says about you. 0:27:50.400 --> 0:27:55.000 You need to see yourself prosperous, blessed, healthy, in shape, 0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:59.639 achieving goals, building the kingdom, being a blessing, not a 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:03.840 hooper image having wings but can't fly, but an eagle 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:09.680 image sorry, overcoming, accomplishing, a victor and never a victim. 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:13.159 If you will see it, I believe and declare you 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:16.080 will be it. God is about to step in and 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:17.359 do something unusual. 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:21.840 New doors are about to open, Negative situations are turning around, 0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:26.040 breakthroughs are coming healing is coming, favor is coming, the 0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:30.200 fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, and if you 0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:31.720 receive it, can you say amen? 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:35.600 Today I'd like to give you an. 0:28:35.520 --> 0:28:38.440 Opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. 0:28:38.880 --> 0:28:39.920 Would you pray with me? 0:28:40.640 --> 0:28:45.360 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:48.840 into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:49.920 --> 0:28:52.240 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:55.960 born again. 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