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Freedom From Wrong Mindsets

Joel Osteen
March 9, 2023 31m 16s

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Wrong mindsets can limit us from becoming everything God created us to be. Let go of the limiting thoughts and get in agreement with what God says about you!  Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit  JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 uness dot co. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.640 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.680 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:38.400 the ministry. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.840 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.440 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.440 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.200 your life. Will God bless you? It is always a 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.080 joy to coming to your homes. We love you and 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.400 we're praying that you're going to have a blessed, prosperous year. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.400 If you're ever in the Houston area. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.280 I hope you'll stop by be a part of one 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.560 of our services. I promise you will make you feel 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.240 right at home. But thanks for tuning in today. I 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.320 like to get started with something funny each week. And 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.400 I heard about this man that was very stingy with 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.760 his money, and just before his death, he made his 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.680 wife promise that she would have him buried with the 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:20.079 fifty thousand dollars he had saved. The wife reluctantly agreed. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.200 At the funeral, just before they closed the casket, the 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:24.080 wife put in a. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:25.440 Small wooden box. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.680 Her friend said, surely you didn't just put the money 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.240 in there, did you. The wife said, of course I did. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.200 I'm a Christian. I promised him I would do it. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.760 I can't lie, so I did it. She said, you 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.480 mean you just buried fifty thousand dollars. The wife said, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:46.919 I sure did. I wrote a check. All right, hold 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.960 up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.720 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.840 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.560 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.880 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.480 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:11.359 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.560 to talk to you today about breaking free from wrong mindsets. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.959 Many times we don't realize it's our own thinking that's 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.960 keeping us from being our best. God is constantly trying 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.040 to plant new seeds in our heart, telling us that 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.600 we can accomplish our dreams. We can break an addiction, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.679 we can overcome the past, but too often, because of 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:39.200 the wrong software, those seeds cannot take root. Instead of 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:44.040 agreeing with God and thinking can do thoughts, possibility thoughts, 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.360 well able thoughts, we do just the opposite. We think 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.800 I can't do that. I'm not talented, I'm too old, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:55.400 I've been through too much. Our software is contaminated. You 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.560 have to examine your thought life. 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.240 What are you thinking about? 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.360 Have you allowed strongholds to convince you this is as 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.040 good as it gets and you're never gonna go any further. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.160 Well, Joel, I'll never get well. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.000 I've had this sickness for years, or I'll never get 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.000 out of these problems. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.320 I'm just learning to live with it. Now. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.599 Recognize those are wrong mindsets that are keeping you from 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.040 rising higher. Just like a virus can contaminate a computer, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.440 a stronghold can contaminate our thinking. One of the best 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.720 things we can learn to do is hit the delete button. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:32.520 We need to clear. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.279 Out all that can't do it, not able to not 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.800 good enough thoughts unless we program our thinking with what 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.279 God says about us. God says we are well able. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.239 God says we can do all things through Christ. God 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:52.800 says we are strong, talented, creative, redeemed forgiven. You have 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.919 the seed of Almighty God on the inside. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:57.960 You've got to make up your mind. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.800 You're gonna break free from every wrong mindset and you're 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.240 gonna step into a new season. You're gonna step into 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.160 more favor. You're gonna step into better health. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:09.560 You're gonna step. 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:14.720 Into divine connections. You're gonna step into supernatural opportunities. It 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.799 may have been one way a long time, even for years, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.760 but the good news is this is a new day 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.680 and God's ready to do a new thing. You've gotta 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.839 make room for it in your thinking. Some of you 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.200 have gotten stagnant. You've given up on your dreams. You 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.680 don't think you'll ever get that house you really wanted, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.240 or that you'll ever be well or ever get out 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.240 of debt. And now that lie is playing over and 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.359 over telling you it's all downhill from here. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.279 You tried and fell too bad. You're never gonna get married, 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.000 you're too old. This is the way it's always going 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:48.240 to be. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.640 Now you need to keep your hand on the delete button. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.000 You have got to guard your mind and make sure 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.080 you don't allow those thoughts to take root. They will 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.799 set the limits for your life. I've had people tell me, Joel, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.240 God can't bless me, I've made too many mistakes. No, 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.520 find the delete button, get rid of that thinking and 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.679 replace it with I am forgiven, I am redeemed. God's 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.040 mercy is new and fresh every single morning. Well, I 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.160 can't accomplish my dreams. I don't have the connections. I 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.040 don't have the resources, I don't have the education. No, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.720 hit the delete button. You and God are a majority. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.520 God has already lined up the right people, the right breaks, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:30.880 the right opportunities. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.880 He has favor in your future. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.880 Well, I don't have a good personality. I'm not very outgoing, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.040 I'm not very attractive. Now you need to start deleting 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.479 that junk and start reminding yourself. I am one of 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.240 a kind. I am the apple of God's eye. There 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.640 is not another person in this world like me. That's 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.839 what it says in Romans twelve, verse two. To renew 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.720 your mind with God's word. That means to reprogram your 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.440 software with what God says about you. When any kind 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.840 of thought comes telling you that you can't rise any higher, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.120 or trying to make you feel less than or like 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.200 it's never gonna get any better, just be quick to 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.240 say no, thanks, that's not for me. That may be 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.520 the way it's been, but that's not the way it's. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:15.960 Going to stay. 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.200 I know who I am, a child of the Most 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.200 High God, and I've already made up my mind. I'm 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.440 going to become everything God's created me to be, and 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.360 I'm will have everything God's intended for me to have. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.000 You got to have that attitude of victory. You got 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.600 to know deep down you are well able to do 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.640 what God has called you to do. I think about 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.960 how little children start off so excited about life. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:42.680 They've got big dreams. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.400 They're going to be an astronaut, a scientist, a teacher, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.200 a singer, a ballplayer. They believe they can do anything. 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:55.760 They're not intimidated they're not insecure. They're bold, they're confident. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.840 They've got that spring in their steps. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:58.760 You know why. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.800 They just came from their creator. Their thinking has not 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.000 been contaminated. They can feel those seeds of greatness. But 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.200 too often, over time, as they get older, they start 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.800 to get reprogrammed. Somebody tells them what they can't do, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.600 what they're not going to become. The environment starts to 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.600 push them down. A coach says they're not good enough 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.240 to play on the ball team, and their self esteem 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.720 goes down. They see somebody more attractive and they start 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.280 feeling inferior. Little by little, all these things begin to 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.960 distort who they really are. Before long, instead of thinking 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.359 those same possibility thoughts. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.800 They think, I'll never do anything great. I'm just average. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:44.920 I'm just ordinary like everybody else. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:50.280 That's what's happened to many people today, very subtly, very slowly. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:55.240 They've been programmed for mediocrity. The dreams they once had 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.800 have now been pushed down. They used to believe they 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.040 were going to leave their mark on our generation. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.040 They could feel their sense. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:07.320 Of destiny, but now the enthusiasm, the zeal for life 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.720 is gone. When we find ourselves stuck in these ruts, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.439 not believing that we're going to rise any higher. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.600 We have to ask ourselves, why do I. 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.360 Think this way? Who programmed me to feel inferior? Who 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.000 programmed me to give up on my dreams? Who programmed 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.280 me to think that I could never lose this weight? 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.520 Who programmed me to think that I'm only average? Where 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.800 did those thoughts come from? Could it be that you've 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:40.240 accepted wrong mindsets because of the environment you were raised 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.240 in or the people that you grew up around. Understand, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.760 just because something seems normal to you doesn't necessarily mean 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.040 that it's normal. In other words, just because all the 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.719 people you grew up around were negative doesn't mean you're 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:56.800 supposed to be negative. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:57.640 That's not normal. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.800 Just because some of your friends didn't have dreams and 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.360 goals and they didn't make much out of their lives, 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.840 that doesn't mean it's okay for you to do that. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:07.600 That's not normal. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.760 Or how about this, Just because other family members had addictions, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.240 bad habits, or because they went around with low self 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:21.079 esteem feeling inferior, don't make the mistake of thinking that 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:21.800 that's normal. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.600 That is not the way you were created to be. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.480 Too often we just accept it it's been this way 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.200 so long we don't even realize that it's not God's best. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.640 If you've been in an environment, or maybe you're even 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.920 now in an environment with people that are negative, low 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:43.640 self esteem, inferior, little dreams, little goals, a defeated mindset, 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.319 you cannot afford to let that become normal to you. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.760 You have to ask, have I allowed myself to be 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:57.400 programmed for mediocrity? Am I only accepting average in my career, 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.040 in my marriage, in my self esteem, in my attitude? 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.600 The good news is it's not too late to change, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:06.760 if you will get rid of those. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.560 Strongholds and come back to who you really are, a 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.360 child of the Most High God, full of possibility, full 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.400 of potential, strong. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:17.719 Secure, confident. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.640 If you'll get in agreement with God and start believing 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.760 you can rise higher, then you can still accomplish everything 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.160 that God's put in your heart. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.319 You're not too old. Moses was eighty years. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.920 Old when God called him. You haven't made too many mistakes. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.800 Jacob was known as a deceiver, yet God used him 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.720 to do great things. You haven't been through too many 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.439 unfair situations. Joseph spent thirteen years in prison for something 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.040 that he didn't do, and yet God brought him out 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.040 better off than he was before. What am I saying? 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.040 There's still time for you to fulfill your destiny and 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.560 leave your mark. Quit listening to those lies that are 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.600 telling you you've reached your limits and you've gone as 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.200 far as you can go. Now, let me tell you, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.360 you wouldn't be here today if God didn't have something 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.679 else for you to accomplish. God wouldn't have He wouldn't 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.320 have given you the breath to breathe this morning, if 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.560 he didn't have another victory in front of you. You 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:23.319 have an assignment somebody to impact, a new mountain to climb. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.719 You are a person of destiny, not just here to 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.120 take up space. You were created to make a difference, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.480 to live in abundant, a rewarding, a fulfilled life. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.079 But it all starts right here. 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.480 If you don't think you're talented, you'll never have the 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.360 confidence to step into your God given destiny. If you 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.240 don't think you're attractive and you don't have a good personality, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.920 you'll never meet the people God intended for you to meet. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.560 If you don't think you can break that addiction, you 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.720 never will. If you think you've reached your limits than 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:00.760 you already have. Recognize those are wrong mind sets that 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.600 are trying to keep you from your destiny. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.839 It's not that you cannot. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.880 Go any further, it's you just convinced yourself that you cannot. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.840 Until you get rid of that thinking, until you start 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.640 hitting the delete button and clearing all that junk out, 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.600 it'll keep you right where you are. I have a 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.320 friend that was cleaning out his ear one day and 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.319 he accidentally pushed too hard and he burst his ear drum. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.400 It was extremely painful, and he fell to the floor. 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:28.480 In a few minutes. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.000 When the pain subsided, he tried to stand up, but 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:31.520 he couldn't. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.520 Every time he got up, he was dizzy. He would 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:35.480 go right back down. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.839 It's because the ear drum, as small as it is, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:44.240 if you puncture it, you'll lose your equilibrium. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.160 And you won't be able to stand up. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.200 Just this one little thing in our ear affects our 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.800 whole sense of balance. You can be strong, you can 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.720 have energy, you can be coordinated. Everything else is fine, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.040 except this one little thing is off. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:01.840 Same way with our thought life. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.439 Our thinking is equivalent to our equilibrium. God has given 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.960 every one of us gifts talents, potential, you are full 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.720 of can do power, You have the seeds of greatness 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.319 on the inside of you. But if something as small 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.640 as our thinking is off, it can keep us from 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.920 becoming what we were created to be. Not because we're 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.520 not talented, not because we don't have what it takes, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:34.320 simply because we've allowed the wrong software to contaminate our files. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:38.320 Just one thought telling you that you're inferior, you don't 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.080 have what it takes. If you allow that. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.000 Thought to take root, it can keep you off balance 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.400 your whole lifetime. Just one thought saying you've made too 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.880 many mistakes. Nothing good's ever going to happen to you. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.200 If you believe that lie, it can keep you from 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.360 your God given destiny. One thought saying your problems are 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.840 too big. You'll never get out of this mess. That's 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.880 the why it's always going to be that thought. If 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.720 you let it, it can keep you from pressing forward 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.360 and experiencing the great things God has in store. That's 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.960 why it's so important to take inventory of your thought life. 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.440 Identify any wrong mindsets that are holding you back, and 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.640 when those thoughts of defeat insecurity come, be quick to 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.040 hit the delete button. Just say No thanks, that's not 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.360 for me. Those thoughts telling you you're never gonna accomplish 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.040 your dreams, Man, no thanks. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.720 I can do all things through Christ. I am well able. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.360 Those thoughts saying, you know what, you're not good enough, 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.600 you're a little bit inferior. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.760 No thanks. I know I'm accepted. I know I've been 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.440 approved by Almighty God. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.240 Well, you're never gonna get out of debt, You're never 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:44.640 gonna get ahead financially. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:45.560 No thanks. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.800 I know everything I touch prospers and succeeds. I know 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.080 God's making a way even when it looks like there 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.120 is no way. All right, how about this one, man, 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.360 God's not pleased at you. You're never gonna be blessed. 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:58.400 No thanks. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.720 I know God's not mad at me. God's madly in 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.640 love with me. I know my past is forgiven, my 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.200 future is right. So I'm stepping into a new season. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.840 I like what Carl Lewis did. He won several Olympic 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.960 gold medals in the long jump, and for years while 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.520 he was training, all the experts said that a person 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.840 would never be able to jump over thirty feet. The 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:27.040 scientists had studied it and ran their calculations. According to 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.560 the research, no one would ever be able to jump 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.720 that far. One day, a reporter asked Carl Lewis what 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.720 he thought about it. He said, yes, I know all 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:39.440 the experts say that it's impossible, but I don't listen. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:40.320 To that kind of talk. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.560 I know thoughts like that have a way of slipping 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.160 down to my feet. He was saying, if I dwell 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.680 on that long enough, I know it's going to convince 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.880 me that I can't do it. And if I don't 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.040 think I can do it, I know I'll never be 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.960 able to do it. He was exactly right. If you 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.680 don't have the victory on the inside, you'll never have 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.680 it on the outside. Later that year, he went on 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.800 to jump over thirty feet and break the world record. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.520 Let me ask you today, are you. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.320 Allowing thoughts to sink down to your feet, to your emotions, 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.080 to your ability to stifle your potential? Now learn to 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.119 do like he did and start hitting the delete button. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.560 All the experts may have told you how impossible it 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.000 is and how it's never going to get any better, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.159 but know this, God always has the final say, and 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.680 God would not have put that dream in your heart 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.760 if he didn't already have a way to bring it 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.880 to pass. He wouldn't have given you that promise if 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.480 he wasn't already planning on fulfilling it. This is one 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.440 thing that I loved about my father. My dad grew 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.960 up in extreme poverty. They had no money, He had 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.560 no education, no future to speak of. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.840 He could have just settled right there. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:57.159 He had been programmed for defeat, program for mediocrity, program 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:57.920 for poverty. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.080 He didn't know any better. All he had ever seen 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:02.399 the people. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.679 That raised him, his parents and family. They were good people, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.480 they were loving and kind, but none of them ever made. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:10.520 Much out of their lives. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.000 My father could have just stayed in that same trap 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.440 and thought, this is just who we are, poor defeated people. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.760 This is our lot in life. But thank God, at. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.720 The age of seventeen, when Daddy gave his life to 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:28.560 the Lord, he began to reprogram his thinking. Deep down 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.040 in here, something said to him, you were made for 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.120 more than this. You weren't created to barely get by. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.040 You weren't created to have to constantly struggle. He could 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.960 feel the seeds of greatness stirring in his spirit. But 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:46.320 every voice said it's impossible. Every voice said, you'll never 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:47.560 get out of this environment. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.440 All the odds are against you. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.760 But my father dug his heels in and he didn't 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.920 allow those strongholds to take root. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:56.600 His attitude was. 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.720 This is where I am, but this is not who 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.440 I am. I may be in defeat, but I am 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:06.199 not defeated. I am a victor and not a victima. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:11.520 Day after day, he kept hitting the delete button, those 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.640 thoughts telling him you have no future. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:14.440 Delete. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.240 God's plans for me are for good, to give me 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:18.480 a future and a hope. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.120 But you have no money. Delete. God is supplying all 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:22.800 of my needs. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:24.679 He's making a way when it looks like there is 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.960 no way. Yeah, but you don't have the education. It's impossible. 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.720 You'll never get out of here. Delete, delete, delete. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:33.760 God is opening up new doors. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.000 He's bringing the right people into my path. I will 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:42.359 fulfill my destiny. He reprogrammed his thinking with thoughts of faith, 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.439 thoughts of hope, thoughts of victory. He broke out of 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.960 that defeat. He broke the curse of poverty in our family. 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.440 He set a new standard for us to live by. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.680 Who told you you have to stay in the projects. 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.560 Who told you the way it's been is the way 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.280 it's always going to be Who told you you can't 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.719 accomplish your dreams, Who told you you'll never break that addiction? Friends, 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.440 You've got to start hitting the delete button. You've got 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.800 to start programming your mind with the favor, with the victory, 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.639 with the blessings that rightfully belong to you. It doesn't 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.160 matter what it looks like in the natural. You may 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.320 have a thousand things coming against you. You may have 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.800 a thousand excuses in the natural to just stay where 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:25.200 you are. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:26.960 But I'm asking you to do like. 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:31.240 My father and break out that defeated mentality and start 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:34.000 believing that you're gonna rise above every challenge. 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.440 You're gonna overcome every obstacle. You are not gonna settle. 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:42.280 For mediocrity, but you're gonna accomplish every dream, every desire 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.240 God to put in your heart. Can you get a 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.280 vision for it? 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:47.919 It all starts on the inside. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:51.879 It's good to ask God to show us if we 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.800 have mindsets that are holding us back. A lot of 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.560 times we don't even know why we think like we think. 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.440 We just accept it again, it's because of the way 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.480 we were raised or what we saw. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:03.360 Model growing up. 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.639 But that doesn't necessarily mean that it's right. We have 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.520 to be bold enough to ask why do I think 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.680 this way? Why do I think. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.000 I could never be in management? 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.480 Why do I think I can't write that book that 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.040 God's put in me. Why do I think I'll never 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.240 go to college? Why do I think I wouldn't be 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.880 a good parent. Those are strongholds very often that had 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.679 been passed down for generations. The problem is we just 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.320 accept it. We take it as the final say. If 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.479 we could just realize why we think like we think 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.520 very often, that would set a spree. I heard about 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.280 this young couple that had recently gotten married, and the 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.040 man noticed that every time his wife cooked a hand, 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.119 she cut the ends off of the hand. He thought 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.440 that was kind of strange and wondered why she would 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.879 waste the hand like that. And one day, while his 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.960 wife was making a hand, he got his nerve up 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.600 and said, honey, why do you cut the ends off 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.760 of the hand. She got kind of defensive and said, well, 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:05.720 my mother made the best hams in the world, and 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.640 she always cut the ends off the ham. He said, well, 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:10.800 that's fine, but do you know why she did it? 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.560 She said, I have no idea. He said, can we 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.000 call your mother. She said sure, So they called the 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.680 mother and he explained it, my wife's cutting the ends 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:20.800 of the ham off, and she said she does it 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.320 because you always did it. Can you tell me why 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.760 you cut the ends of the ham off? The mother 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:29.280 got kind of defensive. She said, well, my mother made 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.639 the best hands in all the world, and she always 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:34.840 cut the ends of her ham off. He said, well, 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:36.520 that's fine, but do you know why she did it? 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:38.560 She said, I have no idea. He said, well, can 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:39.440 we call grandmother? 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:39.920 Sure? 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:42.359 So they call the grandmother and he explained how my 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.600 wife cuts the end of the ham off of She said, 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.520 she does it because your daughter did it. And your 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.080 daughter said she does it because you do it. Grandmama, 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.520 Can you tell us why you cut the ends of 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:54.439 your ham off? She said, yeah, that's easy because my 0:22:54.560 --> 0:23:00.960 pant is too small. Let me ask you today, are 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:06.360 you cutting the ends off and you don't even know why? 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:10.840 Are you just accepting things because that's the way it's 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.840 always been. I'll never be successful, Joe, Nobody in my 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:16.480 family's ever been successful. 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.600 Why not? That's a stronghold. You can get a bigger pen. 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:25.119 Your parents, your grandparents, they've paid the price. So you 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.920 could live better than they. Why don't you step into 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.400 a new season. Why aren't you enlarge your thinking? Well, 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:33.680 I grew up in this small house. That's all we're 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:34.159 used to. 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:35.600 Now this is a new day. 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.560 God wants you to leave your children more, get a 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:39.399 bigger vision. 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:41.920 Hit delete on those limited dreams. 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:45.960 Well, I'm negative, I'm depressed, I'm discouraged, Joel, because my 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:47.399 mother was always this way. 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:49.160 Now you've got to make up your mind. 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:51.679 You're not gonna pass the same things down. Set a 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:52.480 new standard. 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:55.560 Ask yourself, why do I think like this? Could it be? 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:58.520 You've allowed a stronghold of form and you don't even 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:00.960 realize that it's a stronghold. It's just the way it's 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.560 always been. Things like I'm not planning to go to college. 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.320 Nobody in my family's going to college, Joel. Or I'm overweight, 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:11.240 I'm out of shape because everybody in my family's overweight 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:14.040 and out of shape. I've got low self esteem. I'm 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:15.080 insecure because that's. 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:19.040 All I've ever seen. No, don't just accept it. Reprogram 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:22.240 your software. The way it's been is not the way 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:23.159 it has to stay. 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:27.720 I heard about this large dog she was pregnant with puppies, 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:30.320 and one day the dog was running across the street. 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.160 She got hit by a car and both of her 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:36.480 back legs were broken. The dog just dragged herself out 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:38.760 of the street and back to the little home where 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:41.600 she stayed. As the weeks went by, she began to 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:45.879 slowly recover. Her back legs had finally healed up, but 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.520 because they were never properly reset, she had never gone 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:52.679 to the veterinarian. Now when she walked, she would just 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:56.840 drag her back legs. She couldn't walk properly. The joints 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.640 were messed up, the legs were off stiff. The only 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:01.960 way she could get around is just basically to pull 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:04.120 her back legs along behind her. 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:04.880 Well. 0:25:04.880 --> 0:25:08.080 Eventually the little puppies were born. They seemed to be 0:25:08.160 --> 0:25:11.639 healthy and home. They were running around playing here and there. 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.520 But about three weeks after their birth, they begin to 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:18.880 notice that the puppies were walking just like their mother. 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:23.080 They were dragging their back legs. They thought possibly they 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.680 had been hurt in the accident as well. They took 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:28.000 the puppies to the vetinarian to have them checked out. 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:32.080 The vet said, there's nothing wrong with these puppies back legs. 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:36.240 They were perfectly normal. What was the problem. Those puppies 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:39.800 were copying their mother. They didn't know any better. In 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:42.199 their mind, that's the way they were supposed to walk. 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:46.199 That's all they'd ever seen modeled. Many times, that's just 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:49.320 what's happened to us. We don't even realize it. But 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:53.080 the reason we do things, our attitude, our mindsets, the 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:57.080 way we respond, is because we're emulating what we saw 0:25:57.119 --> 0:25:59.960 growing up. The people that raised us, the people we were. 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:04.000 Now we're copying their same behavior. And maybe they were 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:07.800 good people, but perhaps they had issues that they weren't 0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:11.560 dealing with. And if we're not careful, we'll take their 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.800 same issues and pass them down to our children. They 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.520 had addictions, now we have addictions. They had low self esteem, 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:21.160 Now we have low self esteem. They always dragged their 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:24.600 back legs, Now we're dragging our back legs. You may 0:26:24.600 --> 0:26:27.199 be struggling with things right now, you think, why do 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:27.959 I think like this? 0:26:28.000 --> 0:26:29.320 Why do I have these issues? 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:33.760 But it's very freeing to realize, just like those puppies, 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:36.360 there's nothing wrong with your back legs. 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:40.959 That's simply a wrong mindset that you've allowed to form. 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:44.320 Now as you get your thinking straightened, out, Your legs 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:48.879 will straighten out. Understand, God didn't make you faulty. He 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:52.760 didn't make you less than He created you in his image. 0:26:53.040 --> 0:26:56.720 He made you as his own masterpiece. He has crowned 0:26:56.760 --> 0:27:03.119 you with honor and favor. He has equipped you with talent, creativity, potential. 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:07.040 Don't you dare go around dragging your back legs. You're 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:10.720 not supposed to go through life with addictions, little dreams, 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:14.480 low self esteem, a defeated mindset. That's not who you 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:17.640 really are. That may be the way you've been trained. 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:21.119 But the good news is you can be retrained. You 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:24.480 can renew your mind. And as you do this, you'll 0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:27.679 learn not only to walk correctly, but you'll begin to run. 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.720 You'll break out of bondages and you're gonna step into freedom. 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:35.520 You'll break out of mediocrity and you're gonna step into excellence. 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:38.560 You'll break out of barely getting by, and you're gonna 0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:41.720 step into abundance. Why don't you make a decision with 0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:44.520 me today that you're gonna step into a new season. 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:49.280 You're stepping into promotion. You're stepping into better health, You're 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:53.200 stepping into confidence, You're stepping into strength. You're stepping into 0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:56.639 supernatural opportunities. You've got to make room for it in 0:27:56.720 --> 0:28:00.000 your thinking. It all starts right here and some of you. 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:03.360 If you just get rid of one wrong mindset, one 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:06.879 wrong thought, you'd get your equilibrium back and you'd go 0:28:06.960 --> 0:28:09.800 to a whole new level. You got to examine your 0:28:09.840 --> 0:28:13.000 thought life. Be willing to ask why do I think 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:15.840 like this? Why do I have these issues? And when 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:19.040 you find those strongholds, be quick to hit the delete button, 0:28:19.280 --> 0:28:22.600 reprogram your software. If you'll learn to get rid of 0:28:22.680 --> 0:28:26.680 these wrong mindsets and you'll start thinking, can do thoughts, 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:30.360 possibility thoughts, well able thoughts, then your life is going 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:32.840 to follow your thoughts. That's when God's going to pour 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:36.440 out his blessings in favor. You're gonna overcome every obstacle. 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:37.840 You're gonna defeat every enemy. 0:28:38.160 --> 0:28:41.240 Now I believe and declare you're gonna see every dream, 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:43.280 every desire God's put in your heart. 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:44.800 It will come to pass. Amen. 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:49.480 Can you give a lord a shatter praise today? We 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:52.520 never like to close our broadcast without giving you an 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:55.680 opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 0:28:55.760 --> 0:29:00.800 you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus of my sins, 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:07.000 come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:29:07.040 --> 0:29:09.360 if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:12.520 born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:15.160 God first place. 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