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Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.080 If we let these negative comments play in our mind, 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.720 they will keep us from becoming who we were created 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.720 to be. No one can make you think something. You 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.119 get to choose what you're going to dwell on when 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.960 those lives come saying you're not attractive, you don't have 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.240 a good personality, you're too old. You can dwell on it, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.880 let it poison you, or you can ignore it and 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.960 not give it the time of day. Hi, this is 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.240 Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast. And 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.960 thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.480 If you enjoyed today message, why don't you be a 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.040 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.080 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:11.079 your life. God bless you. It's great to be with 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.160 you today, and I hope you'll stay connected during the 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.720 week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.399 We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I like to start 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.560 with something funny, and I heard about this single man. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.840 He was sitting on an airplane next to a beautiful 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.560 single lady. They struck up a conversation and he asked 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.320 what kind of men she liked. She said, well, I 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.000 like Native American men with their high cheek bones and 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.239 golden tan skin. Plus I like Jewish men they're so 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.880 brilliant and successful. And I like good old boys from 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.160 the South with their long Southern drawl. What's your name, 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.480 he said, My name is Geronimo Bernstein, but my friends 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.600 call me Bubba. Say it like you mean it. This 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.280 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.120 I have what it says I have, I can do 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.840 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.800 taught the Word of God, I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.239 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:20.320 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.280 to talk to you today about death to the negative. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.639 We all have discouraging thoughts telling us what we can't do, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.720 how we're not going to get well, we'll never meet 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:35.560 the right person. Sometimes people speak negative words, say things 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.640 that can limit our life. A friend of mine wanted 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.200 to become a doctor, but he was told by his 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.000 high school counselor that he wasn't smart enough, he didn't 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.800 make good enough grades, he should try something else. If 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.480 we let these negative comments play in our mind, they 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.760 will keep us from becoming who we were created to be. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.800 No one can make you think something. You get to 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.120 choose what you're going to dwell on when those lives 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.800 come saying you're not attractive, you don't have a good personality, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.040 you're too old. You can dwell on it, let it 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.920 poison you, or you can ignore it and not give 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.880 it the time of day. In the scripture, David faced 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.480 all kinds of opposition, people speaking defeat over him, thoughts 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.400 saying that he had never reached his destiny. How did 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.360 he keep his mind filled with faith. He said in 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.400 Psalm thirty eight. My enemies lay traps for me. They 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.640 make plans to ruin me, But I am deaf to 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.800 their threats. I choose to hear nothing at all. If 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.560 you're going to reach your potential, you have to become 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:47.000 deaf to the negative. When threats come, discouraging thoughts, people 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.360 speaking defeat. You have to do like David and choose 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.080 to hear nothing at all. Don't give it the time 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.640 of day, let it go in one ear and out 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.159 the other. That's what my friend did in high school. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.880 Years later, this counselor, the same one that told him 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.920 he wasn't smart enough, brought his mother to the doctor. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.120 He walked in and saw my friend. Said, don't I 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.280 know you from somewhere. My friend said, yes, I'm the 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.560 student you said would never become a doctor. He treated 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.400 his mother and build him twice the normal amount. People 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.279 don't determine your destiny. Don't let them talk you out 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.200 of what God put in your heart. You have to 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:34.760 become deaf to the naysayers. Death to relatives that tell 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.520 you you can't accomplish your dreams, Death to coworkers that 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.039 make demeaning remarks, say things to belittle you. The enemy 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.279 will use people to try to keep you from your purpose. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.720 They may be good people, they may love you, but 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.839 they don't see what God put in you. They're judging 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.160 from the outside. They don't realize what's on the inside. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.120 God put greatness in you. When David was out in 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.680 the shepherd's fields as a teenager, he knew he was 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.800 going to leave his mark, but the odds were against him. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:12.040 He didn't come from an influential family, wealth, connections, education. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.160 He was a shepherd stuck out in the country by himself. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.279 If I can imagine, at night, he would look up 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.480 at the stars and he could hear God speaking to him, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.520 telling him that he was going to do something great, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.120 that he was destined to lead a nation. But when 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.320 the prophet Samuel came to annoint one of his father's 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:37.240 sons as the next king of Israel, his father Jesse thought, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.440 it's not David. He's too young, too small, he's not 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.760 talented enough. David felt the sting of his own father 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.200 not believing in him. It's one thing when a friend 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.800 discounts you, a coworker puts you down, But when your 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.120 own family, someone that should be for you. They speak defeat, 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.680 tell you how you're not that talented you can accomplish 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.480 the dream. Those words carry more weight. You have to 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.040 dig down deep and say, I am not going to 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.720 let what they're saying take root. They may be my family, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.840 but I'm not going to let their doubt convince me 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.480 to settle for less than what God's put in me. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.400 Paul said in Romans, so what if they don't believe? 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.120 Will their unbelief make your faith of no effect? And 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.520 sometimes we're wanting people to believe in us that are 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.040 never going to be for us. We long for their affirmation, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.320 for our family to cheer us on, a friend to 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.040 encourage us. But it's just the opposite. You have to say, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.520 like Paul, so what if they don't believe, They're not 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.320 going to talk me out of believing. I love them, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.920 but I'm going to be deaf to their unbelief. These 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.920 are tests we have to pass. You won't have everyone 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.400 cheering your own. There will be doubters, naysayers, people that 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.000 are close to you that don't think you can accompon 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.360 what God put in your heart. If they don't believe, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.800 you don't need them they didn't put the dream in you. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.640 Be respectful, but be deaf to their unbelief. The quicker 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.840 you get rid of it, the better you'll be. If 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.000 you start thinking about it for a day, dwelling on it. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.240 Maybe what they said is right. Maybe I will never 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.200 get out of these shepherd's field. Maybe I won't break 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.440 this addiction. Maybe my business has seen his best days. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.760 Or maybe I should just learn to live with this sickness. No, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.640 what you should do is become deaf to the negative. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.319 You can't play defeat in your mind and have victory. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.120 You can't think sickness and have health. You can't dwell 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.400 on thoughts of lack and have abundance. Samuel told Jesse 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.640 that the King wasn't one of the seven sons that 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.520 were standing before him. These sons were all tall, impressive, strong, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.560 but God doesn't look on the outside. Don't be intimidated 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.920 if you feel like you're lacking in some area. You 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.599 are only taller, had a better personality, came from a 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.079 different family. If you were as smart as that coworker. No, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.559 you have everything you need to run your race. You've 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:15.679 been fearfully and wonderfully made. When God created you, he 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.760 matched you with your world. He put everything you need 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:24.160 for your assignment. You're not lacking anything. You're the right size, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:29.360 the right nationality, the right age, the right personality. When 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.680 people try to tell you otherwise, thoughts try to convince 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.760 you that you're at a disadvantage, you were short changed. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.160 Look at you, David. You're too small, you're too young, 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.480 you don't look like your brothers. That's a good time 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.959 to become death. Tune all that out and tune in 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.000 what God says about you. You're one of a kind. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.840 He says you're a masterpiece. You're made in the image 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.319 of God. He's crowned you with favor. You have royal 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.719 blood flowing through your veins. You're gifted your talent. You 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.360 have everything you need to fulfill your destiny. As soon 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.200 as Samuel saw David, he said, that's the one. He's 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:13.160 the next king. God has already lined up people that 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.160 can see your greatness, people that will speak destiny into you, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.920 people that will open doors you can't open, use their 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.760 influence to take you higher. But here's the key. Most 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.599 of the time, first you'll encounter the critics, the naysayers, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.240 family members who try to discourage you, If you're going 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.280 to see Samuel, you have to become death to all 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.800 the others. It's a test. If you start letting the 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.280 negative play, you'll get discouraged, give up on dreams, live 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.520 below your potential. Don't fall into that trap. Start tuning 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.320 out all the lies people have spoken over you. Tune 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.840 out those negative thoughts. The enemy whispers in your mind, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:00.520 trying to diminish you, make you feel unattractive, not valuable, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.640 not worthy. The enemy works over time in this area. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.199 He knows if he can keep you in a limited mindset, 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.240 feeling less than thinking you can't do something great, then 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:16.319 he's won the battle. If David had believed what his 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.319 father spoke over him, that he was too young, not 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.720 talented enough, that he was just a shepherd, he would 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.880 have gotten stuck out in those fields. David did what 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.000 we all have to do. He tuned out the negative. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.960 He kept his mind filled with faith. Every thought said 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.559 he was stuck, family members putting him down. I can 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.199 hear him out in the fields. Father, Thank you that 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.920 you being for me is more than the world being 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.120 against me. I am strong in the Lord. I'm well 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.600 able to fulfill my destiny. What you promised will come 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.719 to pass. Your life will move in the direction of 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:58.079 your most dominant thoughts. If you think I'm successful, you're 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.040 moving towards success. I have the favor of God. You're 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:06.640 moving toward good breaks, divine connections. I am fearfully and 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.880 wonderfully made. You're moving toward confidence, strength, honor, or. I 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.679 am healthy and whole. You're moving toward health, vitality. Pay 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:21.200 attention to what you're dwelling on. That's where you're going. Well, Joel, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.439 this pandemic has really slowed my business. I don't know 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.800 if we're going to make it. You're moving toward failure, lack, struggle. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.880 Why don't you turn it around? Father? Thank you that 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.439 whatever I touch will prosper and succeed. That what was 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.199 meant from my harm, you're turning to my advantage. I've 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.720 been singing a long time. I don't think I'll ever 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.400 meet the right person. You're moving toward loneliness, defeat. Try 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.400 some new thoughts. What God said about you? Father? You 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.040 said no good thing? Will you withhold because I walk 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.840 up rightly? You said it's not good to be alone. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.880 So Lord, thank you that you have someone awesome come 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:04.120 in my way. It's significant that Samuel anointed David in 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.720 front of his father and brothers, the father who didn't 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.360 believe in him, the father that left him out in 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.680 the shepherd's fields, in front of the brothers that made 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.040 fun of him, tried to make him feel small. If 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.679 you'll become deaf to the negative comments, God will bless 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.640 you in front of the people that tried to push 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.839 you down. He'll honor you in front of those that 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.000 said you didn't have what it takes. He knows how 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.080 to prepare a table in the presence of your enemies. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.080 Now promote you in private. He'll promote you with those 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.319 that didn't believe in you. Will see you honored in 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.400 new levels of influence in favor. When we were trying 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.199 to acquire the Compact Center, there was a man that 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.240 was very influential in the city. He knew everyone. I'd 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.160 never met him, but I thought if we could get 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.640 him on board, it would be very helpful. So we 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.760 made some contacts and he agreed to meet. I went 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.959 to his office and told him what we wanted to do, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.839 and I thought he would be happy for us, give 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.720 us some good advice, But it was just the opposite. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.640 He wasn't friendly at all. He was very matter of fact. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.199 He even said, I don't think Lakewood being in the 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.679 Compact Center is a good idea at all. He went 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.600 on and on telling why it wasn't right and how 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.080 it wasn't made for a church, and especially not Lakewood. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:29.240 He came from a very strict fundamentalist background. He didn't 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.600 like the fact that I smiled so much. I thanked 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.200 him for his time, smiled real big and left and 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.800 at first I was discouraged. His words played over and over. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.800 It's not a good fit. The city's not going to agree. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.160 Wasn't made for a church. If you don't take control 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.240 of your thought life, then negative will continue to play. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.800 A few days later, I woke up that morning and 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.160 something rose up on the inside, like the apostle Paul. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.520 I said, so, but if he doesn't believe he's not God, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.200 he doesn't control my destiny. I'm not going to let 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:11.760 his unbelieve cancel out my faith. I started becoming deaf 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.080 to what he said. Like David, I chose to not 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.720 listen to his threats when they came up tried to play. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.720 I would switch over to faith Father, thank you that 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.440 you are fighting our battles, that you are making our 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.680 crooked places straight, that no group, no person, all the 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.880 forces of darkness cannot stop what you have planned. I 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.160 tuned out the doubt, the negative comments, and I kept 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.880 my mind filled with faith, filled with hope. Three years later, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.240 against all odds, the city council voted for us. Here 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.320 we are today. People don't have the final say God does. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.480 Don't let their negative comments, their doubt, talk you out 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.120 of what God put in your heart. Two thousand and five, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.560 we had our grand opening weekend here at this place. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.920 After the service that Sunday, I met a man that 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.360 owned a large law firm here in town. He was 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.920 so happy for us. He gave me a big hug 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.400 and congratulated us. He said, Joel, I brought some of 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.080 my lawyers with me to celebrate. I looked over and 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.560 there was this man that had told us we would 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.600 never get in. I just smiled real big. I wanted 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:26.240 to say, nanny, nanny, boo boo. But if you'll stay 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.760 deaf to the negative, God will promote you in front 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.560 of those that said it would never happen. And here's 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.560 the thing, they're not bad people. They just can't see 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.480 what God put in you. Don't fault them, don't be disrespectful, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.400 but don't let their doubt cancel out your dream. David's 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.400 father asked him to take lunch to his brothers who 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.600 were in the army in another city. When he arrived, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:57.040 he heard Goliath, the champion of the Philistine army, mocking 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.520 the Israelites. For forty days. He would come out every 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.840 morning and shout these threats and make fun of them. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.320 The Israeli men were terrified. They would run and hide. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.080 Something rose up in David. He said, who is this 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.399 man that he would defy the armies of the Living God. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.360 God will put things in you that don't make sense 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.840 to others. They all ran and hid. But David had 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.840 a boldness, a courage, a dream that he would defeat Goliath. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.680 He told King Saul that he wanted to fight him. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:33.360 Instead of being excited, King Saul said, David, you're only 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.879 a boy. You're too young and inexperienced. Goliath has been 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.840 fighting since before you were born. Most people would have 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.200 been talked out of it. Most people would have given up, thought, yes, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.520 he's right, what was I thinking? But David understood this principle. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.920 He's the one that wrote, I've become deaf to the negative. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.200 I don't pay attention to the threats, the doubts. I 0:17:56.400 --> 0:18:02.040 choose to hear nothing. And King Saul the expert basically 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.879 told David to go back home that he didn't have 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.200 what it takes. If David would have taken that advice, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.080 he would have never reached his destiny. There will always 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.560 be not only a giant before you go to a 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.560 new level, but there will be people telling you that 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.040 you can't conquer it. There will be King Sauls telling 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:26.640 you you're too small, too inexperienced, the sickness is too big, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.560 the addiction too powerful. The King Saul may be a coach, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.040 an expert, a boss, a relative, a friend. They may 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:40.479 mean well, but those negative words are a test. Are 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.760 you going to let them take root and keep you 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.760 from your goliath? If you run from Goliath, you're running 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.119 from your destiny. Just because they don't see how it 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.360 can happen doesn't mean that you can't do it. They're 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.280 sizing you up in the natural. They're looking at what 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.480 you can do by yourself, with your strength, your talent. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.119 You may be limited, but what they don't realize is 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.280 you're not on your own. The most high God is 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.240 breathing in your direction. His favor is on your life. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.840 When David went out to face Goliath, all he had 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.440 was an ordinary slingshot. Didn't look like much, but a 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:24.080 slingshot with God's favor is more powerful than an automatic weapon. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.800 Goliath had a huge spear, a full set of armor, 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:33.680 a shield, a helmet, ray ben sunglasses yeezy. When he 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.760 saw David, he laughed. He said, am I a dog? 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.080 That you'd come at me with a stick. Everything in 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.880 David's mind was saying, turn around, you're a fool. You're 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.119 gonna get killed, But David was deaf to it. He 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.880 chose not to hear it. When your closest to the victory, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.880 the threats will be the loudest. David slung that rock, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.160 hit Goliath in the forehead, knocked him unconscious. He became 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.080 an overnighth hero. None of this would have happened if 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.680 he had not learned how to take control of his 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.800 thought life, not dwell on the negative things the father 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.160 said about him, Not let what King Saul said. You're 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.360 just a boy to play over and over. If you're 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.200 going to reach the fullness of your destiny. You have 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.600 to do like David and not let the negative take root. 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.879 If you start dwelling on it, those lies will become strongholds, 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.159 and you'll believe I'm just a boy. I can't defeat 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.920 this giant. The medical report said, I'm not going to 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:36.040 get well. I guess I can't beat this sickness. My 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.119 counselor said, I'm not that smart. I can't become a doctor. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.879 You have to start being deaf to some things. When 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.760 you hear that thought, you're never going to break that addiction. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:51.000 Excuse me, is someone saying something You're not attractive, nobody 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.159 wants to be around you. Like David, I choose to 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.800 hear nothing. You have to be deaf to doubt, death 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.800 to discouraging thoughts, death to negative comments. Keep your mind 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:05.520 filled with faith, hope, filled with what God says about you. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.600 March chapter five, a man came to Jesus named Jyros. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.640 He told him that his little daughter was very sick. 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.680 He asked Jesus to come to his house and pray 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:20.480 for her, and Jesus agreed and started following him. On 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:23.280 the way, Jesus was stopped by a woman that had 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.679 been sick and he took time to pray for her. 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:30.160 There was one delay after another. Finally someone came from 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.200 Jyrus's house and said, don't bother Jesus anymore. It's too late. 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:39.520 Your little girl has died. The scripture says Jesus overheard 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:43.400 what they were talking about. He said to Jyros, don't 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:47.800 listen to them. Just trust me. There are always going 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.400 to be voices of doubt discouragement that contradict what God 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.840 told you. What people are telling you may be true. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.560 They have the facts, but God can override the facts. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.120 God can do what medicine cannot do. He can make 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:07.040 streams in the desert. He can prosper you in a pandemic. 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.680 He can free you from that addiction that seems permanent. 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.560 He can defy what the experts say. He's God. He 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.920 controls the universe. He parts red seas, he brings dead 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:22.719 things back to life. He takes shepherds and makes them kings. 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:28.040 He took a popcorn salesman, my father, no future, no education, 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:32.080 and made him a pastor that would impact nations. Don't 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:35.440 let the facts talk you out of what the Most 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.200 High God has promised you. The reason he's called the 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.840 most high is because He's higher than anything that's trying 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:47.040 to stop you. The facts may say you're addicted, it's permanent. 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:52.080 God says, override the facts. Freedom is coming. The facts 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.960 may say you've gone as far as you can. God says, 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:57.680 I'm about to open doors you've ever dreamed, but open it. 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.640 I'm about to catapult you ahead. The facts may say 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.879 you can't get well. God says, I made your body 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.720 the number of your days I will fulfill. The facts 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.840 may say you can't get the compact center. The opposition 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:15.600 is too big. God says, no person can stand against me. 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:19.760 What I have spoken will come to pass. How much 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.560 further will you go if you'll simply start being deaf 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:27.280 to the negative, not dwelling on all the facts, you 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.679 may be up against big obstacles Today you could easily 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.200 be talked out of your dreams like Gyros, seems like 0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:37.640 it's too late. You could never get well, never start 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.440 your business, never see your family restored. God is saying 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:44.680 to you what he said to Gyros. Don't listen to 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:48.720 those things. Just trust me. You may hear it, but 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:51.280 you can ignore it. Don't let it get down on 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:57.160 the inside. Negative words, doubt, unbelieve. Those things poison your faith. 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:00.440 They can keep you from seeing the greatness of God. 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.800 Jesus continued on to the little girl's house. He could 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:07.520 have stopped and thought, oh man, I waited too late. 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.920 I messed up. But God won't give you a promise 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:14.600 that he can't bring to past. He doesn't change his mind. 0:24:15.320 --> 0:24:18.960 All the circumstances may say otherwise. Doubt will try to 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.600 play louder and louder. You have to be more determined 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:26.160 than the doubt. Tune it out when it comes. Switch 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:29.600 over to praise Father. Thank you that you're working behind 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:32.520 the scenes. Thank you that you're making things happen that 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:37.080 I can't make happen. Lord, I trust you. Jesus told 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:39.920 the people that the little girl wasn't dead, she was 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:43.800 only asleep. They began to laugh and make fun. He 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:46.679 ignored that too. He went in and prayed for her, 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:50.240 and she came back to life. There may be things 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:55.719 that look like they're dead in your life, dreams, relationships, promises. 0:24:56.040 --> 0:24:59.040 You used to believe. But it's been so long it 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:03.160 feels too late. What you think is dead is only asleep. 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:06.560 If you'll get your fireback, God is still going to 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:10.240 bring it to pass. It's going to be uncommon, unusual, 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:14.600 something that you didn't see coming. Years ago, we had 0:25:14.640 --> 0:25:17.639 some rabbits in our backyard at home. They lived in 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:20.480 this little fenced in area. I noticed one of the 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:23.919 rabbit's nose was swollen. I thought maybe it had been 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.680 bitten by something and it would go down. But the 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:29.200 next day it was more swollen, the next even more. 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.200 I took it to the veterinarian and they gave some 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:35.640 antibiotics and said it should get better. A week later, 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:38.760 it was even more swollen, looked like a big growth. 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:43.320 This time they put a scope up its nose. They 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:46.440 discovered that a fly had laid an egg in the 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:50.760 rabbit's nasal passage. That larva was growing and about to hatch. 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:55.119 Once they removed the larva, the rabbit was fine. This 0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:58.160 is the way the enemy works. He tries to plant 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:02.560 lies in our mind, negative comments. You're too small, David, 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:06.040 you're just a boy, Joe. You'll never get the compact center. 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:10.119 The opposition's too big, Gyrus, it's too late. Just accept it. 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.200 It's not going to work out. If we believe these 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:16.600 lives dwell on the doubt, they will infect our thinking 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:19.680 and This is what happened to Gideon in the scripture. 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:23.880 He was hiding in the wine press afraid. An angel 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:27.040 came to him and said, mighty hero, the Lord is 0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:29.719 with you. You are to lead the people of Israel 0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:33.840 against the Midianites. Kiddeon thought, I'm not a mighty hero. 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:37.440 He said to the angel, I can't lead this army. 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:40.880 I come from the poorest family. I'm the least one 0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:44.560 in my father's house. You can tell what he'd been 0:26:44.640 --> 0:26:48.120 listening to. You can't do anything great. You come from 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:51.879 the wrong family. There's nothing special about you. If you 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:54.919 let that play long enough, it will infect your thinking. 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:58.960 The angel spoke faith in the Gideon, convinced him to 0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:01.640 change his mind and believe he was a mighty hero. 0:27:02.320 --> 0:27:05.320 He went on to do great things. But how many 0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:08.640 of us have believed the lies. You're not that talented, 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:13.000 you're not attractive, you can't be successful. You need to 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:16.880 ask yourself, why do I feel this way? Who told 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:19.680 you you can't do great things? Who told you you 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:22.719 can't get well? Who told you you've gone as far 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:26.080 as you can? That wasn't God. That was a lie. 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:29.720 That's infecting your thinking. The way you get rid of 0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:33.200 the infection is by dwelling on what God says about you. 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.840 You are strong, you are talented, you are valuable. Your 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:41.480 future is bright, your dreams are on the way. Now, 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:44.480 the next time one of those lies come, just say no, thanks, 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:47.679 that's not for me. You have to guard your mind. 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:51.680 Don't let any infection get in. Start being death to 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:56.120 the negative, death to the discouraging thoughts, death to the naysayers. 0:27:56.480 --> 0:28:00.680 If you'll do this, I believe and declare like that 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:03.480 infection is going to clear up and you're going to 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:07.800 become a mighty hero like David, despite what people have 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:11.000 said about you. You're going to defeat giants. 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