Freedom From Your Past

0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.600 Hi, this is Jolan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.680 to the podcast and thanks. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.440 For supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have an. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.480 Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.080 God bless you today and enjoy the message. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.000 Well, God bless you and great to be with you today, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.520 and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.520 week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.440 and you can come visit us in person. We'd love 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:28.920 to have you be a part of one of our 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:30.680 services'd I like to. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:31.720 Start with something funny. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.199 And I heard about this lady that was out shopping 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.680 with her husband and he asked her to not buy 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.640 any more new clothes. She saw this outfit in the 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.559 store window and decided to try it on, and she 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.520 liked it so much she secretly bought it. A couple 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.479 of days later, the husband discovered it. Said, honey, I 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.080 asked you to not buy any more clothes. She said, 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.239 I didn't mean to, but when I tried it on, 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.760 it looks so good. Satan tempted me and I just 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.240 couldn't resist it. But he said, WRI didn't use the 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:00.680 scripture and say get behind me. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:01.120 Satan. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.000 She said, I did, but he told me it looked 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.399 even better from a distance. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.320 Say like you made it. This is my Bible. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.000 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.479 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.280 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:21.399 of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:26.120 heart is recepted. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:27.120 God bless you. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.080 I want to talk to you today about freedom from 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.440 your past. We've all had negative experiences that could hold 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:40.240 us back. Mistakes we've made, times we've compromised and done 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:41.160 things we shouldn't. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.000 We can end up living in regrets, guilty, down on ourselves. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.520 Sometimes it's what other people have done to us. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:55.360 Hurts, betrayals, what they said, they've left, scars and wounds 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:00.360 that contain our future, cause us to feel inferior, not worthy. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:05.280 Some people have gone through trauma, dysfunction, a rough childhood, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.360 a toxic relationship. They can take on this false sense 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.200 of responsibility, thinking they're to blame, and hey, I must 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.160 not be good enough or they wouldn't have treated me 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:20.359 that way. It's easy to become imprisoned by our past, well, 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.480 we don't move forward. We have these skeletons in our 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.400 closet and we live afraid in hiding. What if someone 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.679 finds out, He's going to be shame and embarrassment. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:32.359 Here's the good news. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.560 Nothing in your past has to stop your future. No 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.760 mistake you've made is too much for the mercy of God. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:45.239 No hurts you've been through, no injustice, no trauma has 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.200 stopped what God has purpose for you. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.400 He has beauty for those ashes, but you have to 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:52.400 step into it. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.880 You can't live looking in the rear view mirror and 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.520 reach your destiny. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:03.519 How much power are you giving to your past? Guilt, hurts, mistakes, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:04.640 the threats. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.320 When we've been through negative things, it's easy to develop 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.799 a fear that is going to happen again. Don't get 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.919 in that new relationship. You may get hurt another time. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.720 You can't be in leadership. You can't accomplish your dreams. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.600 You made too many mistakes. That's the enemy doing what 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.200 he does best, trying to convince you to use your 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.040 past to shrink back so you won't become who. 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.960 You were created to be. Don't believe those lies. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.520 You know who wrote almost half of the books in 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.000 the New Testament, a man named Paul. He used to 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.640 be called Saul. He was the biggest enemy of the church. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.240 He hated believers, even had them killed. He was constantly 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.160 making threats, telling them they're going to be arrested and 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:54.280 put in prison. But in one moment, God changed his life. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.760 He went from Saul to the apostle Paul. But Paul 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.920 could have lived in regret. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:01.000 Think it. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.760 I can't do anything great. I can't lead believers. I 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.760 used to hate believers. I can't write books promoting Christ. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.880 Have too many skeletons in my closet, done too much wrong. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.760 If Paul had become imprisoned by his past, we wouldn't 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.240 have half of the New Testament. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.000 What will we miss out on if you let the 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.480 past keep you from sharing your gifts? 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.120 But Joel, I've got too many skeletons in my closet. Now, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.200 when you ask God to forgive you, he cleans your clauset. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.719 You can move forward in faith. All the threats. You're 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.159 gonna be embarrassed, You're not worthy. It's gonna happen again. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.400 They've been taken care of. What's trying to harm you 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:45.960 has already been defeated. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.680 That's just the enemy trying to keep your paralyzed by 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.120 the past. Break out of that box and step into 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.040 the greatness that. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:55.120 God has for you. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.840 In the scripture, Nimrod was the great grandson of Noah. 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.000 He'd heard all about the huge flood that covered the 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.200 earth and how his grandfather and seven of his relatives 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:08.560 were the only one spared. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.600 Was a traumatic event. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.640 Even though he lived two generations later, it had a 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.200 major impact on him. He was afraid that it might 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:23.080 happen again. He lived in fear, worried, traumatized by an 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.839 event that his relatives went through. Studies show how trauma 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:32.000 can be passed down, things that your ancestors dealt with 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.960 you weren't even born, but your DNA can be affected. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.760 Researchers studied the Holocaust survivors. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.960 The people that went through it weren't. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:48.640 Just traumatized, but they found their children, their grandchildren down generations, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:53.920 were still experiencing the fears, the threats, the triggers. Even 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.039 though they were safe, even though it was behind them, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.719 they still had to deal with the feelings, thoughts, the imaginations. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.159 And it wasn't like they're just being weak. Come on, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:05.000 get over it. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:10.080 These were real issues, not just mental but biological. Their 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.159 DNA was affected. You may wonder why you have to 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:18.760 deal with certain tendencies low self esteem, can't trust people 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.400 in a relationship, always afraid they're gonna leave, or not 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.800 thinking anything good will ever happen, like a spirit of 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.240 oppression makes you want to shrink back. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.520 Those can be traits that have been passed down. Here's 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.680 the key. God has raised you up to break them. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.680 You're the one to put. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:46.360 A scot to generational limitations and to start generational blessings. Justice, trauma, dysfunctions, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.320 wounds can be passed down, so can blessings. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.600 Favor, confidence, victory. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.640 You don't have to let the past dictate your future. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.080 You can break free instead of a new standard. Genesis 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.760 eleven tells the story. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.719 Of the Tower of Babel. It's believed that Nimrod is 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:07.360 the one. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.600 Who built it, says huge skyscraper that reached up to 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:15.600 the heavens. Many Jewish scholars believe the reason Nimrod built 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.960 this tower was not just to get close to God, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.200 but to have a high place to go to in 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.000 case it flooded again. He was building this structure out 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.600 of fear so he could escape what could be coming. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.720 He didn't have a big boat like his great grandfather, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:33.240 but he. 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:34.040 Had this tower. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.360 He didn't realize God had promised the earth would never 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.160 flood again. He had heard all about the water, but 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.000 he hadn't heard about the rainbow. How many things are 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.480 we planning out of fear of what's happened in the past. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.800 I can't break this addiction. All my relatives struggle with it. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:57.880 I'll never have lasting relationships. We all go through breakups 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.680 or I can't take this stuff of faith. Oh, nobody 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.240 in my family successful. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.400 We're doing like Nimrod, building up walls. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.560 Defenses based on negative things in the past. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.520 It's interesting that God brought the Tower of Babbel down. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.080 They couldn't finish it. It is enough being destroyed. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.600 We've all been through floods, have hurts, made mistakes. There 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.720 may be negative things that have been passed down, but 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.720 God is showing us here. You don't have to live 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.000 in fear of the past. What if it happens again? 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.040 What if someone finds out? What if that threat comes 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.520 to past? I better shrink back, put up some walls, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:44.040 make plans for defeat. Don't be a nimrod. I'm gonna 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.839 set a nincompoop. Don't be a Nimrod. Don't spend your 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.520 life here in the past, paralyzed by what might happen. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.640 You can't step into your future. If you're building towers 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.400 of babbel trying to escape the next flood, tray of 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.000 what could have happen. Know when the fear of your 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.280 past tries to hold you back, get your discouraged. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.920 Look up in the sky by faith. See that rainbow. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.760 God is saying it's not gonna flood again. I've taken 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.319 care of your past. I've cleaned your closets. I've forgiven 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.400 your mistakes. I've plan beauty for the ashes, joy for 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.840 the morning, healing for the hurts, new beginnings for that loss. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.480 Don't waste your time building a tower of babble, making 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.640 plans to escape the hurts, to escape the trauma, escape 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.200 the flood. If you're gonna build anything. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.480 Build a tower of hope, a tower of faith. Believe 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.280 that your past is forgiven, that the threats are gone. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.600 That's what's held you back, has been broken. That you 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.880 are free to step into the favor, the blessing, the 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.160 joy that God is destined for you. When the Israelites 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.480 were delivered out of slavery, they left Egypt and headed 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:01.400 toward the Promised Land. After years of abuse mistreatment, these 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.920 two million people were finally freeing. As they were leaving, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.280 I can see them rejoicing, giving high fives, so excited. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.960 But then the Pharaoh changed his mind and send his 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:18.760 army chasing after them. Well, Pharaoh represents the past, the hurts, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.840 the traumas, the injustice. The past will always come chasing you. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.079 The Israelites were trying to get into their future. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:28.839 They knew God had opened this. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.079 Door, but they couldn't escape the past. Pharaoh's men were 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.240 catching up, and they could hear the hoof prints from 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.280 the horses getting closer and closer. Anytime you try to 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.920 move forward, don't be surprised if you hear the past 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.679 chasing you, reminding you of the mistakes you've made. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.079 You can't expect anything good. You don't deserve it. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.199 The hurts, the wrongs, those that walked away, It's gonna 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:58.600 happen again. Those are the hoof prints. The enemy whispering 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.640 lies trying to get you're paralyzed by the past. The 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.400 Israelites came to a dead end at the Red Sea, 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.760 and they're past caught up with them. The Pharaoh and 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.800 all the chariots just a few miles away, looked like 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.680 they'd be recaptured. But God will never let your pass 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:16.959 dictate your future. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.600 He will always make a way of escape. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.000 You may hear the hoofprints of your past chasing you now. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:25.800 You try to move. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.880 Forward, but there's always that guilt, the fear, that nagging 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.079 feeling you're gonna get hurt again, or that mistake will. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.560 Always haunt you. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.439 Can't seem to get past your past. That's what happened 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.480 to the Israelites. They had nowhere to go. Then suddenly 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.760 the Red Sea parted. God made a way where they 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.440 didn't see away, and these two million people walk through 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.360 on dry ground. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.800 That could have been the end of the stories. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.600 The waters closed up kept the Pharaoh in his army 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:56.480 on the other side. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.040 That would have been a great miracle, But God knew. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:03.040 The the Israelites would always be looking over their shoulders, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.360 living in fear, knowing that Pharaoh's army could show up 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.800 at any minute. God didn't want them to be focused 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.920 on the past, living with that threat, wondering what might happen, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.640 So we left the Red Sea open, Pharaoh's army came 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:24.120 chasing full speed ahead. I'm sure the Israelite thought, oh great, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.840 they're gonna catch us. Now we made it through, but 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.040 they're faster than us. But then right on queue, the 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.120 walls of water came crashing down. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.280 All the enemy drowned. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.240 Not one of them survived. Now the Israelites never had 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:40.720 to fear the Pharaoh again. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:42.480 The threat was gone. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.920 Maybe you've had some hoofprints chasing you, and every time 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.760 you try to move the head, you hear the past coming, 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.160 reminding you of all your mistakes, the threats, what's not 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.079 gonna work out Like. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.640 God did for them. He's taken care of your past. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:01.840 You don't have to live. 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.760 Looking over your shoulder, letting those hoofprints cause you to 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.680 shrink back, trying to build a tower in case it 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.679 happens again. This is a new day. That threat has 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.320 been taken care of. Now here's the key. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:16.400 You have to. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:21.000 Change the images you're allowing in your mind. Many times 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:26.199 we're letting negative memories play. Times we've been hurt, trauma, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:30.480 we've experienced that DNA that's passed down of what our 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.040 relatives went through. That's on the movie screen of our mind, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.480 reminding us of the hurts, the failures. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.760 But you can't move forward when you're looking back. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:46.559 Turn off all those images and start seeing yourself blessed, happy, 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.280 in great relationships, accomplishing. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.000 Your dreams, rising to new levels. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.800 See the enemy wanted the Israelites to always see themselves 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.600 as runaway slaves. God free, But you're still a slave. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.560 You're still inferior, at a disadvantage. He would love for 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:10.800 the negative things in your past to determine your identity, 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.920 how you see yourselves, your worth, your value. If you've 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.040 been mistreated, he'll whisper it's because you're not valuable. That 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.000 person walked out on you, broke your heart. He'll whisper, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.240 you're not attractive, You made mistakes. God, off course, you're 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.960 not worthy. Don't believe those lies. Nothing that's happened in 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:36.320 your past has lessened your value. You are still a son, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.960 a daughter of the most oi God. You are still 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:46.320 a masterpiece, one of a kind, a prize possession. Nothing 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.800 you've been through, no trauma, no hurt, no injustice, has 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.120 stopped the purpose God has for you. Nothing has canceled 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.560 your assignment. You are not defined by your past. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.080 You are prepared by your past. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.320 If God allowed it to happen, then it deposited something in. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.640 You that you're going to need for your future. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.080 Now you have to do your part and keep moving forward, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.440 keep making plans for the good things that are in store. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.800 And sure at times we're gonna hear the hoof prints, 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:22.120 you're gonna feel the past chasing you. That's just a memory. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.440 It's just an imagination. You have to learn to cast 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.880 them down. It's not telling you the truth. That's the 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.800 enemy trying to get you in fear of the past, 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.920 running from the what ifs? What if Pharaoh catches up, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.080 What if my mistakes come back. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:38.520 To haunt me. 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.680 What if these waters don't part Joel like they did 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.640 for the Israelites. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.000 I'm gonna get hurt again. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.680 God is saying to you what he said to Moses 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.240 at the Red Sea. The enemies you see today you 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.480 will see no more. Your past has been taken care of. 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.760 All those that were trying to stop you. The guilt, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.360 the hurts. The God took care of that at. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:02.800 The Red Sea. 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.000 You don't have to live looking over your shoulder, hiding 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.200 from mistakes, intimidated over what you've been through, you can 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.000 be like the Apostle Paul, leave the past behind and 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.480 step into the great things God has for you. When 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.680 I was in the ninth grade, I tried out for 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.240 the baseball team. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.440 And i'd played second base. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.120 All through Little league and growing up, and I was 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.800 pretty good. I always made the all star team. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:30.880 But when I got to. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.200 High school, my friends were growing much taller than me, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.600 and I started my freshman year at four feet eleven 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.560 inches tall. Some of my friends had passed me up 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.000 by foot. I went to tryouts. I gave it my 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.200 very best. The next friday, the coach called me in. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.120 He said, Joe, you're a good player, but you're too 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:50.880 small to. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.840 Play at this level. You're not gonna make the team. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.479 I was so disappointed. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.160 All my friends were on the team and the coach 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.800 didn't mean anything wrong, but what I heard was, Joel. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:02.800 You're not enough. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:09.000 You're limited, You're at a disadvantage, You're inferior. Words can 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.240 create wounds. What's been spoken over you can leave scars 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.040 that keep you from stepping up to who you were 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.120 created to be. In This caused me to shrink back 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.560 and not be sure of myself, and I wasn't as 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.520 outgoing and more reserved, thinking, maybe there's something wrong with me. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.480 The enemy loves to use things people say and exaggerate them, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.080 blow it out of proportion to where it limits us 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.240 and becomes a stronghold in our thinking. But I've learned 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.560 what you say about yourself is more powerful than what 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.679 anyone else says about you. You believe what you say 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.919 more than what others say. But sometimes we get in 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.479 agreement with the negative things that have been spoken over us. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.760 That begins to determine who we are. Whenever I started 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.879 to move forward, i'd hear that coach. 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:02.720 You heard the. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.920 Voice, joel, you're too small, you're not enough, you don't 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.879 measure up. It was like those hoo friends. The past 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:12.080 will always come. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.400 Looking for you. Whenever you run. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.520 Towards your future, you'll hear those thoughts chasing you, reminding 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.320 you of negative things people have said, what you can't do, 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.120 how you're not that talented, No one your family's been successful. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.600 That's the enemy trying to trigger the trauma, get you 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.600 to shrink back, think. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:34.439 That you're not able. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:40.040 He uses negative voices, negative experiences. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.320 To try to sabotage your future. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.000 He knows God has amazing things in front of you, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.959 so He's gonna work over time to try to deceive 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.520 you into looking back, reliving hurts, afraid of the mistakes, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.000 hiding your gifts, letting those wounds keep you on the sidelines. 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.520 Don't fall into that a Nothing in your past has 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:03.520 stopped your future. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:09.640 Nothing anyone is said, nothing they've done, no mistake you've made. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.280 You can still reach your highest potential. 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:13.960 But you have to. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.840 Learn how to ignore the hoof prints. The threat has 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.040 been taken care of. Your past is in the red sea. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.280 What was trying to stop you. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.000 God has put an end to it. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.200 Now quit believe in those threats and move forward in faith. 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:30.640 And that's what I did. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.520 I stopped letting the coach's words play in my mind 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.400 all throughout the day. I started telling myself who God 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.880 says I am. God, you said I'm just the right size, 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.560 that I have been fearfully and wonderfully made. You said 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:50.720 that I can do all things through Christ, that I'm strong, talented, favored, anointed, 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.680 a giant killer, a history maker. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.160 Destined to leave my mark. 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.480 When you tune out negative voices from the past and 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.159 start to declaring what God. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.440 Says, about you. 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.720 You'll step into a future bigger, brighter than you've ever dreamed. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.200 Little by little, I kept reprogramming my thinking. I never 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.840 did play baseball in high school, but many years later 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.879 I stood at second base in Yankee Stadium for our 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.760 Night of hope. I may have been too small to 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:25.840 play baseball, but I wasn't too small to speak to 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:26.800 a whole lot of people. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.800 Do you need to get free from what someone has 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:35.080 spoken over you? A coach, a teacher, a parent, a friend. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.240 They don't determine your destiny. God does. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:43.359 But if you're rehearsing negative voices, that's going to create 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:45.359 a stronghold that will. 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.280 Keep you from the great things that belong to you. 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.720 You have to get in agreement with God, reprogram your 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.480 thinking with what He says about you. When Moses was 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.439 a young man, he knew he was supposed to deliver 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.119 the Israelites out of slaps avery. He was born a Hebrew, 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.840 but he was raised in Egypt in the palace by 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:06.800 the pharaoh's daughter. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:12.119 One day he saw an Egyptian foreman mistreating a Hebrew slave. 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.040 He didn't think anyone was watching. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.080 He's going to stand up for the Hebrews and he 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:21.120 killed the foreman. You can do the right thing at the. 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:25.600 Wrong time, and it's a mistake. People saw what Moses did. 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:27.320 He had to flee for his life. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:32.200 He spent years hiding in the desert, running from a mistake, 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:37.240 running from his past. Sure, he felt guilty, down on himself, 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.280 thinking that he had missed his destiny. For forty years, 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.120 he hit his gifts, hit his talents, hit his dreams. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.639 Anytime he tried to move forward, there was the past. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.919 Don't put you done, Moses. You don't deserve to be blessed. 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:52.480 You blew it. 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.960 Sure, there are consequences for bad choices. He had to 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:01.119 take a detour into the desert. But mistake don't cancel 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.919 your destinies. God doesn't right you off because you're not 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.560 where you're supposed to be. He's going to give you 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.520 another chance to do what he's called you to do. 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:15.359 After forty years, God showed up in a burning bush, 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.959 said Moses, now is the time to deliver my people. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.560 Go tell the Pharaoh to let them go. I can 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:25.960 imagine Moses thought, no, thanks God, I'm not going back there. 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:29.800 They know what I did. I'll get arrested, I'll be 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:33.800 put in prison, I could be killed. He was saying, God, 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:34.879 I've got all. 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.920 These skeletons in my closet. I need to stay in. 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.880 Hiding where it's safe, so no one will find out. 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:45.680 God has a way of cleaning your closets. You don't 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:47.840 have to live haunted by your past and. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:49.440 Afraid to move forward. 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:53.960 His mercy will cover your mistakes. Moses was telling God 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.160 all the reasons he couldn't do it. And I'd been 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.640 through too much and the opposition was too big. God 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:03.119 said him in Exodus four, do not be afraid to 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:06.520 return the Egypt, for all those who were trying to 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:07.879 kill you are dead. 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:10.080 Moses was living. 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:14.480 In hiding, afraid of what might happen, running from his mistakes. 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:18.320 God showed up and said, Moses, I've already taken care 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:20.680 of your past, all those. 0:23:20.560 --> 0:23:23.000 Things that could have harmed you. I put a stop 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:23.400 to it. 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:28.240 Are you doing like Moses, running from your past, hiding 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:32.280 because of mistakes, living in regrets. God is saying to 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.680 you what he said to him. Don't be afraid. 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:39.840 I've taken care of your past. You don't have to live. 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:44.320 Feeling guilty, unworthy, afraid of what someone will say. 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:47.800 God has you covered, get back in the game. 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.800 There's not a mistake you've made that has stopped your purpose. 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.399 You may hear some hoof prints, a favor's army past 0:23:56.480 --> 0:24:00.920 chasing you, reminding you of the hurts, the trial, all 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:04.600 that is headed to the Red Sea. God has taken 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:10.000 care of every threat, every mistake, every injustice, the negative 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:11.040 things in your past. 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:15.520 That's dead. What's trying to stop you is done. 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:18.040 Now you have to do your part and go back 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:22.320 to Egypt. That means go back to dreaming, go back 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:25.240 to loving the people God's given you, go back to 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:28.960 believing that you're worthy, go back to living with passion, 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:34.240 with faith, with expectancy. You don't have time to waste 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:36.200 being a prisoner of your past. 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.520 You have a destiny to fulfill. There's a calling on 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:40.919 your life. 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.920 If Moses had gotten stuck in the past, he would 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:47.600 have never delivered the Israelites. It had never parted the 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:51.000 Red Sea, never seen manna in the wilderness, never had 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:52.280 water come out of a rock. 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:53.879 What am I saying? 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:57.960 The best part of his life happened after a failure, 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:00.720 after he'd spent years. 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:04.160 Running from his past. Who knows where God will take you? 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:07.760 If you'll go back to Egypt, if you'll quit running 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:12.240 from your past, dwelling on the herbs, reliving the trauma, 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:16.800 hiding your gifts, fringe. Your past is cleared, not in 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:19.560 the Red Sea, but on the Cross two. 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:20.359 Thousand years ago. 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:25.000 All those things who were trying to harm you, that's done. 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:29.520 There's a rainbow in the sky. Not gonna be another flood. 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:35.280 No use building a tower, building walls, building defenses, planning 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:39.280 on more trauma. Why don't you receive the mercies, receive 0:25:39.359 --> 0:25:43.280 the forgiveness. You may have some ashes, but God has 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.280 some beauty coming. Pharaoh may have chased you through the 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:47.800 Red Sea, but there's a. 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:49.480 Promised land awaiting you. 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:54.800 And I know the trauma was real, the injustice, the betrayals. 0:25:55.119 --> 0:25:57.399 I'm not making light of that, but you have to 0:25:57.440 --> 0:25:59.480 be aware of the enemy's schemes. 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:01.919 He would love to convince you. 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:06.760 To shrink back like Moses, spend years hiding your gifts, 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:10.480 living in regrets, afraid of what might happen. 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:14.040 No, it's time to come out of hiding. The best 0:26:14.040 --> 0:26:16.640 part of your life is still in front of you. 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:19.399 You would not be alive if God did not have 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:24.199 greater victories in your future. I believe and declare every 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:27.639 bondage of your past is being broken off of you 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:28.359 right now. 0:26:28.520 --> 0:26:35.040 Guilt, shame, fear, trauma has to go. Strongholds of what 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:35.640 people have. 0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:40.160 Spoken over You are coming down no more imprisoned by 0:26:40.240 --> 0:26:43.400 your past. You are going to be empowered by your 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:48.160 past to reach the fullness of your destiny. In Jesus's name, 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:52.600 if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like 0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:55.400 to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:56.359 of your life. 0:26:56.560 --> 0:27:00.280 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:27:00.400 --> 0:27:01.640 repent of my sins. 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:05.920 Come into my heart. 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