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You guys not only sound good, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:51.360 but you look amazing. You look like champions. My friend 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.480 had foot surgery and the doctor told her that she 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.560 would have to stay off of her foot for about 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:02.120 a month. So after a month of recovery, I saw 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.960 her and immediately I wanted to know, how is your foot. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.639 She said to me, I'm now going to physical therapy. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.240 And then she began to tell me a little bit 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.960 about her physical therapy sessions. And she said to me, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.040 when I first got to physical therapy, My therapist said this, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:27.800 does your foot hurt right now? And she stopped and said, no, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.840 I'm not in any pain right now. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.640 And she said. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.920 She looked right at me and said, if you're not 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:40.400 in pain, why are you limping. It kind of took 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.560 her aback for a minute, and she said, well, I'm 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.280 trying to protect my foot. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:48.760 I don't want to hurt it again. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.919 I don't want to do anything that'll cause me any 0:02:53.000 --> 0:03:00.360 more pain. Can you understand that line of thinking today, I, sir, certainly. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.440 Can you know when you're in pain, the last thing 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.520 you want to do is start acting like you normally did. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:08.919 The last thing you want to do is step out 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.640 in boldness. The last thing you want to do is 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.720 go out on a limb, because you certainly don't want 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:16.840 to hurt yourself again. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.400 That physical therapist looked at. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:25.520 Her and she said, I need you to quit limping. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.760 She said, if you don't begin to do and walk 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:34.400 like you normally do, your foot will not strengthen, those 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.600 ligaments will not go back in place, and you won't 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.640 be able to do what you want to do. You 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.920 won't be able to walk like you did before. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.560 You'll always walk with a limp. I just want to 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.720 encourage every one of us. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:59.520 To not allow pain, hurts, discouragement to cause us to 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.680 walk with an emotional limp. Pain comes to all of us, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.360 discouragement is a part of life. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.320 But we have to understand. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:14.280 That God is bigger than all of those things combined. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.479 You see, my friend didn't even recognize that she was 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:24.520 walking with a limp. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.200 She had to have her therapist tell her. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.960 You see, what she had done is she had formed 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.159 what the Bible calls a stronghold in her mind, a 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.760 wrong way of thinking. She was on the thinking pattern 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.680 that she could never walk on her foot the way 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:49.599 she used to, that it would always be less than that, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.360 this foot would always be weaker than the other foot. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.479 She had to understand that she could be strong again. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:00.839 Then she had to work. 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:06.359 Through the process. She had to begin to believe. She 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.080 had to begin to do the work. She had to 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.799 begin to step out and watch things change. You see 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.520 now she is well on her way to recovery because 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.920 she made the choice to walk through that process and 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.440 recognize she could be strong. And you know what, we 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.039 all have to break those barriers of the past. We 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.640 have to break those mindsets. That says it'll never be 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:37.800 good again. You'll never find another husband the one. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:38.680 You had left you. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:47.679 Those wounds, they hurt, they're real, but they're a lie. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.680 They're a lie. You gotta believe that you can be 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:52.640 strong again. 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:58.479 If you feel yourself shrinking back in fear, shrinking back 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:03.240 because you've been hurt, afraid to try again, you can 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:04.240 pretty much. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.080 Realize that is the enemy lying to you. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.360 Because God never decreases, He always increases. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.920 God is the God of increase. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.680 But it takes courage, it takes determination, and sometimes we 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.360 need to check ourself to make sure we're not walking 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:25.360 with a limp. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:26.960 We need to make. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:31.360 Sure that that response wasn't out of pain, that response 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:37.880 wasn't out of defense, that that response was out of strength, confidence, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.760 and love, so that we. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.440 Can keep walking this walk of faith. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:48.440 Listen, don't allow your past to define your future. It 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.280 doesn't have to set the pace for your future. A 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.760 friend of mine was telling me about her young daughter 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.279 in law and how she had just found out that 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.720 she was The whole family was so excited, Her son 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.120 was just thrilled. The young girl had wanted a child, 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.320 so it was just the best news she could ever 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.520 think of. As everyone was celebrating and all happy. It 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.560 was only a short amount of time before she realized 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:23.360 she miscarried the baby. You see, she was devastated. Her 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:28.840 celebration turned into hurt and pain. She began to question God. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.560 She began to doubt herself. She began to think, am 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.200 I ever going to have a baby. Maybe I'm not 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.760 capable of having a baby. She told her husband. She said, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.160 I don't want to try again. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.120 She said, I don't want to go there. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.720 I'm afraid that I can't make it through another painful 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:51.080 situation like that. You see, she began limpy. She began limping, 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.000 She shrunk back. She didn't act like herself. She wasn't 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.040 the lively, vibrant woman that she once was. It began 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.880 to affect the entire family. You see, she was limping 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:10.280 because of a pain that she had felt. Wasn't long 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:17.040 after that she found serious xem and she began to 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:22.760 listen to the messages of hope, of a faithful God, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.400 of a loving God, a God of strength, a God 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.680 of purpose. Day after day she listened to these messages, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.680 and it began to break down that wrong pattern of thinking. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.000 It began to build courage in her and determination. She 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.320 began to think, can I do this again? In fact, 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:51.320 the defeat and the doubt turned into hope, faith and victory. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.080 She told her husband, I want to try again to 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.280 have a child. I believe that God loves me. I 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.280 believe that I can do it again. And do you 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:05.760 know recently Christie and her husband Josh just gave birth 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:12.920 to a beautiful baby named Mia. She fought through that 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.480 barrier that would try to stop her, that would try 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.520 to defeat her, that would try to change the course 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.920 of her destiny, her relationship with her husband and her 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:29.160 family line Listen. She had to make the choice to 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:36.160 walk through the process. Pain is real and it hurts. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.880 But let me tell you, God is the mender of 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:44.200 broken hearts. He can heal what hurts. He can make 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.760 you stronger than you've ever been before. You can't allow 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.800 a bad experience to trick you into thinking you're gonna 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.200 have a bad life. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.080 You got to rise up. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:00.520 In the strength of Almighty God and recognize, Hey, this 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:01.200 is a limp. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.880 I wasn't designed to limp. I was designed to run. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:07.760 I was designed to move. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.480 I was designed to move forward in the things of God. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.439 My little nephew, Christopher. He's a big old kid. I'm 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.160 telling you that boy is so big. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.040 He plays high school football and when he started, he 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.480 played the defense, and that's a really rough, tough spot 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:27.920 to play. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:29.800 And when he would come home. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.400 The first couple of times, he realized the next day 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.760 he'd have bruises on him and he'd think, oh man, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.240 these bruises, but he'd go back out there again. He 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.320 come home, he said, I got these bruises, but I 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:45.280 did my best. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:46.400 I did good. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.719 The next day he'd go back out there. He come home, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.760 he said, I don't care about these bruises. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:52.400 We won. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:53.880 We won. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:11:00.720 You see, he realized from experience that those bruises didn't 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.880 have to stop him. Those bruises may be part of 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.079 the game, but you know what, he's on the winning team. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.720 And I want you to know today, there may be bumps, 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.320 there may be bruises. They come to all of us, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.520 but listen, you've got one more powerful on your side. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.400 You are on the right side of God, the winning 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.560 side of God. You got to say, these bruises don't matter. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.680 They're not stopping me because I am gonna win. I'm 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.320 gonna come through. I am going to break through the 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.160 barriers that are trying to hold me down. Do you know, 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.400 God said, I haven't given you a spirit of fear. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:48.880 Every setback releases fear. Every past hurt promotes fear. Fear 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.080 is not of God. Everything that you won't do. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.960 Comes from fear. Every excuse you make. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.280 Comes from fear. Fear of being taken advantage. You have, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.800 fear of being laughed at, fear of being hurt again. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.680 It's a root of fear. And God said, I haven't 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.720 given you fear. So when you feel fear, you got 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.720 to understand that's the enemy trying to make you limp. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.560 He's trying to make you not reach the fullness of 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:24.120 your destiny. God said, I've given you power. 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