From Patient to Physician

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.560 Welcome to the Joe Lostein podcast. Help Let's continue to 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.520 share the message of hope with those all over the world. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.520 Visit Joelostein dot com slash give hope to give a 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:49.920 gift today. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.520 Well, God bless you. Thanks for letting us come into 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.280 your homes, and if you're ever in our area, please 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.920 stop buy and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.559 I'll promise you we'll make it feel right at home. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.480 I like to start with something funny and I heard 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.280 about this group of elderly ladies were way up in 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.880 their eighties. They were driving down the freeway together when 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.040 they were pulled over by a policeman. The officer said 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.040 to the driver, ma'am, do you realize you're only going 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.440 thirty five miles an hour? She said, yes, officer, I 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.200 realize that. He said, well, why are you going so slow? 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.520 She said, because that's what the sign said. He kind 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.720 of laughed and said, no, ma'am, that's the number of 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.200 the freeway. This is Highway thirty five. And by the way, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.640 why do these other passengers look so terrified? She smiled 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.760 and said, because we just got off Highway ninety five. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.360 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.040 I am what it says. I am. I have what 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.480 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.120 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.160 of God. I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.440 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.320 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:10.359 about from patient to physician. We've all had times where 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.160 we've seen God's goodness. We weren't feeling well. The medical 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.720 report didn't look good, but God turned it around. Now 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.079 we're healthy and whole. Or we lost a loved one. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.639 We didn't think we could go on, but God gave 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.000 us strength and peace, and here we are stronger than ever. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.440 At one point we were the patient. We needed healing, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.600 we needed restoration, we needed favor. God made a way 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.000 where we didn't see away, and we're grateful that He 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.160 brought us out. We know that was his goodness. But 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.640 here's the key. It's not enough to just be a 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.520 grateful former patient. You have to take it one step 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:54.600 further and go from patient to physician. You've been healed. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.520 Now go help somebody else get healed. You broke the addiction. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.880 Help someone else break their addiction. Your son got back 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.600 on course. God entered your prayers. Go help that mother 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.480 that's struggling with her son. Encourage her, Speak life into her. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.120 Let her know that God did it for you and 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.400 he can do it for her. God didn't heal you 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.560 so you could be well. That's one reason, but not 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.280 the only reason. He healed you so you could become 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:29.039 a healer. He didn't bless you just so you could 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.440 be blessed. He did it so you could become a blessing. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.720 He favored you so you could show other people favor. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.719 He brought you through the loss, He gave you a 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.000 new beginning so you could help others make it through 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.040 their loss. And it's not enough to just bask in 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.359 what God has done, thank him for his goodness, and 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.520 that's fine, but you have a responsibility to help someone 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.680 else in that same situation. You're no longer the patient, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.840 you become the physician. A friend of mine has had 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.799 real bad back pain. It's been on and off again 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.800 for a couple of years. He recently found a new 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.880 doctor that he really likes. And what made him so 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.080 special is this doctor has had the same back pain 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.680 that my friend had for over ten years. He's gone 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.599 through several surgeries and now his back is perfectly healed. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.480 My friend was excited because this doctor had been through 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:32.600 what he's going through. Some things you can't fully understand 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.960 by taking a class or by reading a book. But 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.440 when you've been through the pain, through the laws, through 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.480 the struggle, that experience gives you a unique perspective that 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.720 others without it don't have. They can't fully appreciate it. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.040 I don't know what it's like to struggle with an addiction, 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.360 or to go through chemotherapy, or do I have been 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.919 raised in abuse and dysfunction. I haven't been there. I 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.320 can encourage you, I can chew you on. But when 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.720 you've been through something, You've been through cancer treatment, you've 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.840 been through a divorce, a loss, a rough childhood, in 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:15.120 one sense, you've been given a gift. You are uniquely 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.560 qualified to help someone else in that same situation. You 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.360 know what it's like, the pain, the discouragement, the battles 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.840 they fight in their mind. You can help them in 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:32.080 a way that others can't. God has done it for you. Now, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:37.440 don't stay a grateful patient, become a physician. Reach out 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:42.880 to them. Your encouragement carries more weight. You're speaking from experience, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.120 You've been there, Paul said in Corinthians. The comfort we 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.359 receive in our difficulties, we can share that same comfort 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.680 with others in their time of need. And we all 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.960 have something to give because we've all been through things, 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.640 and it doesn't have to be something big, something tragic. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.080 You made it through that tough course in college. You 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:09.400 worked hard and studied. That friend came over and helped you. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.440 You prayed and believe you were the patient. It wasn't easy, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.720 but God breathed on your efforts and you passed that course. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.200 Now maybe you have a friend in that same situation. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.080 They don't understand it. They're stressed, they're struggling. You're no 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.520 longer the patient. Now you're the physician. God brought you 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.200 out not just for your sake, not just so you 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.360 could shine. He brought you out so you can help somebody. Y'all. Shine. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.640 Take time to mentor them, give them your notes, your strategy, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.440 your tips, send them an encouraging text. Do what you 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.160 can to help them pass. Every one of us have 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:55.360 had experiences that qualify us to be the physician. I 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.120 know what it's like to stand in faith when your 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.920 mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. I know what it's 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.200 like to lose a father that you dearly loved unexpectedly. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.239 I know what it's like to step up and pastor 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.760 a church when you don't feel qualified. I know what 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.680 it's like to fight for the Compact Center when a 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.760 company much bigger and stronger is against you. I know 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.120 what it's like to ignore opposition and critics and do 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.920 what God has put in your heart. God has brought 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.200 me through those things. He's given me strength when I 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.600 was weak. He opened doors that I couldn't open. He 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.040 healed my mother terminal cancer. He'd given us the Compact 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.920 Center when every expert said there wasn't a chance. I 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.960 recognize God's goodness in my life, but I don't just 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.760 thank him for it. I'm not just a grateful form 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:53.520 or patient. I become a physician. Practically every week I 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.760 talk to other pastors that are about to step up 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.600 and pastor a church, maybe unexpectedly. I'm no expert, but 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.800 I tell them what I know that I didn't feel qualified. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.920 I didn't have the experience, but God gave me the grace, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.080 and he'll give them the grace too. People tell me 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.280 often how when they've heard me talk about making it 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.480 through the loss of my father, that's helped them to 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.480 make it through the loss of their loved one. God 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.080 told Abraham, I will bless you and you shall be 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.880 a blessing. It infers if you're not going to be 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.240 a blessing, then you're not going to be blessed. The 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.960 two are tied together. God is saying I will heal 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.280 you if you'll become a healer. I'll free you if 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.760 you'll help somebody else break that addiction. I'll give you 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.880 the Compact Center if you'll help other people accomplish their dreams. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.400 He's saying, I'll deliver you from being a patient if 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.400 you'll make a commitment to become a physician. And it's 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.600 not only about being good to others, but the way 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.080 you're going to keep your blessed is by being a blessing. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.440 The Scripture says give and it will be given to you. 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.480 If you're not giving away what God has given you, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.080 then that blessing is not going to continue in the 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.080 way that it should. And this is the reason some 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.800 people don't keep their healing. It's not because they're not grateful, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.640 it's because they're not helping anyone else. If you will 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.840 give away healing, healing will always come back to you. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.800 God freed you from that addiction. If you want to 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.760 stay free, go help somebody else get free. Keep giving 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.240 away what God has given you. My mother was healed 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.720 from terminal cancer back in nineteen eighty one. For over 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:48.360 thirty years, she's been healthy, whole, and strong. One reason 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.640 is she didn't stay a grateful form or patient. She 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.600 didn't just go around and say Lord, thank you that 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.160 I'm well. That's the first step, but she went to 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.920 step two and became a physician. For you years, she's 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.680 gone up to the medical center every week to pray 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.679 for people that were sick. Her encouragement carries more weight. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.320 She tells them, I've been where you are. I've been 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.560 given no hope. I was told I had a few 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.640 weeks to live, but God has the final say. Every 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:22.440 month here at Lakewood, she has different healing services. She 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.440 keeps giving away what she's been given no wonder. She's 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.960 almost eighty five years young and still going strong today. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.680 At one point, we were all the patient. We were lonely, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.240 we were fighting in illness. We were believing for dream, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.360 working hard, being our best, and God made it happen. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.720 Now we're blessed, we're married, we have the Compact Center, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:51.080 my mother is well. We're grateful, but we can't stop there. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.440 We have a responsibility to help somebody else get well, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.640 help them get their compact center, their promotion, their spouse. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.760 We've switched from being the patient to becoming the physician. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.880 Now we're looking for people. We can lift people, we 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.760 can speak light to their darkness, healing to their brokenness, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:17.360 freedom to their strongholds. Back then we needed healing. Now 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.360 we are the healer. We needed encouragement. Now we are 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.960 the encourager. We needed a miracle. Now we are their miracle. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.600 If you'll let what God gives you flow through you, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.880 then he'll continue to give it to you. But it's 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.400 tempting to think I got the compact center God. I'm satisfied. God, 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.600 you brought me Victoria. I'm happily married. You bless me. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.120 That's going to cause us to get stagnant. If you're 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.760 not giving anything away, nothing new is going to come. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.600 And whether or not you keep the blessing, the healing, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.079 the favor, the influence depends on what you do with it. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:01.199 When you're always lifting people, encouraging some one making their 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.360 life better than blessings are always going to come to you. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.240 I know this young lady that was raised in a 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.440 dysfunctional environment growing up, her parents weren't around, and she 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.000 was taking advantage of and passed from foster home to 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.840 foster home. It was a very unfair situation that she 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.520 had no control over. By the grace of God, this 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.400 loving family took her in. They spoke life into her 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:33.280 and nurtured her instead of becoming a statistic, bitter and angry. Today, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.640 she's healthy and whole. She got married, graduated from college, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.680 she has three beautiful children. She's extremely grateful. She knows 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.920 that's God's goodness that was protecting her and bringing the 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.319 right people. But she didn't stop with just being grateful. 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.520 She's constantly helping other young ladies that were like her, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:01.000 mentoring them, having them over to her house, making them shopping, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.680 making them feel valuable and loved, telling them that how 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.960 they were raised doesn't determine who they are or where 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:13.520 they're going. What's she doing being a healer? She's not 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.439 just a grateful former patient. She's not just saying look 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.080 what God has done for me. She's gone on to 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.280 step number two. She's become a physician. No wonder she 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.680 continues to see blessings and favor. She keeps giving away 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.000 what was given to her. One reason God could bless 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.920 her is he knew he could trust her to take 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.760 the restoration and share it with others. He knew she 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:45.240 wouldn't stay a patient, she would become a physician. I 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:51.240 wonder if we're not seeing healing blessings favor increase because 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.400 we're not committed like her to give it away. God 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.200 is saying to us what he said to Abraham. I 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.400 will bless you if you will make a commitment to 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.720 be a blessing. I will restore you. I will even 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.960 make the enemy pain. I will take what was meant 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.080 for harm and turn it to your advantage if you'll 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.000 do like her and help restore others. I talked to 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.080 a lady whose son was killed in a rack while 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.880 he was serving. She was so devastated she didn't think 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.960 she could go on. Month after month of grieving turned 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:32.120 into year after year, bitter, depressed, angry. She couldn't understand 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.680 why it happened. She would hear me talking about how 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.040 life is not always going to make sense, but how 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.000 we have to keep moving forward, how you can't let 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.360 a season of morning turn into a lifetime of morning. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.520 And I know that's not easy. I haven't been there, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.520 but I know living depressed and bitter is only going 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.880 to pull you down and make it worse. When she 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.160 would hear me say that God is in control and 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.560 that he has new beginnings, she would get so angry 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.120 she would scream at the television, Joe, you don't know 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.600 what I've been through. Deep down, she knew what she 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.600 was hearing was true, but the pain was so real. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.800 After six years of listening week after week, she finally 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:23.000 decided to move forward. She got involved with a program 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.560 that helps veterans and people that have been wounded in 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:31.360 the military. She started a chapter in her hometown. She said, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.320 I cannot tell you how blessed I am and how 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.880 much I have received from helping these families in need. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.240 She ended by saying, I want to apologize for screaming 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.760 at you all those times. I thank god I couldn't 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.040 hear it. But here's my point. When she made the 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:54.800 decision to help others, that's when her healing came. As 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.240 long as she was bitter, angry, focused on how unfair 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:03.760 life was, nothing got better. It's when she decided to 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.880 become a physician to reach out to others. Then God 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.800 gave her beauty for ashes, joy and fulfillment like she 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.480 never dreamed. Is God waiting for you to be a 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.399 blessing so he can really bless you? Is He waiting 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.120 for you to give away healing, give away encouragement, make 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.600 somebody else better? Then, like this lady. He's going to 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.560 take you to a level that you've never imagined. Luke, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.879 Chapter twenty two, Jesus said to Peter, Satan has tried 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.960 to sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.679 you that your faith would not fail. When you have 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:46.639 turned again, strengthen your brother. Jesus was telling Peter that 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.119 forces were trying to keep him from his destiny, but 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.240 he prayed for him and Peter was going to make it. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.960 Then he said something significant. When you have turned again. 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.880 That means when you come out of this trial, when 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.439 you're on the other side, blessed, free, restored, What are 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.800 you to do strengthen your brother? He was saying, use 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.120 what you've been through to help somebody else get stronger. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:19.639 Every blessing, every healing, every breakthrough was not designed just 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.680 for you. It was to strengthen your brother. You would 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.119 think Jesus would say, Peter, when you get out, go 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.439 to the temple and celebrate, call some friends and have 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.840 a victory party. You're free, you're healed, you're blessed. Instead, 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.760 he said, when you come out, go strengthen someone. God 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.320 gave health back to my mother. You know what she's 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.439 been doing the last thirty seven years strengthening people. God 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.080 gave me the grace to step up and pastor when 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:50.960 I didn't think I could do it what I've been doing, 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:56.600 strengthen in others. Whatever God has brought you through, whatever 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.879 he's turned around, whatever he's made happen that you couldn't 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:05.080 make happen, that's an opportunity to strengthen someone. Maybe you've 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.960 been through a divorce, your heart was broken, you didn't 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.400 think you could go on, didn't look like there were 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.520 any good days up ahead. What you may not have 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:19.000 realized is, like with Peter, Jesus was praying for you 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.639 that your faith would not fail. It's one thing to 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.080 have people praying for you, have a friend praying for you, 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.960 a pastor, a priest, a rabbi. That's all good, But 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:33.359 the scripture says Jesus is at the right hand of 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:37.720 the Father praying for us. You wonder how you made 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.480 it through that tough time, how you made it through 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.679 that loss, how you broke that addiction that seemed like 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:47.400 it was permanent. Here's how the creator of the universe 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.560 was praying for you. We've all come through things that 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.119 should have stopped us. We've all seen good breaks that 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.159 we couldn't make happen, doors open that we couldn't open, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.400 a broken that we couldn't break on our own. Now 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.159 we're on the other side. What's our responsibility. What are 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:12.320 we to do? Strengthen someone, Strengthen that person that has cancer, 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.919 Strengthen that friend that's going through a divorce, Strengthen that 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:21.200 coworker that's fighting an addiction. Strengthen that neighbor that's lonely. 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.840 We should live on a mission. I'm out to strengthen 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.679 somebody today. I'm going to encourage someone. I'm going to 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.440 help heal someone. God's brought me out. I'm not going 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.359 to stay a grateful form or patient. I'm going to 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.840 become a physician. God's blessed you. Now help somebody else 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.600 get blessed. God delivered you. Why don't you help them 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.439 get delivered? And yes, it's okay to stay a patient 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.879 for a little while. Of course, we all have difficulties 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.119 and fight battles. We need encouragement, people to lift us 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.440 when we fall, carry us when we're weak. There are 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.400 seasons when we're a patient. But when God turns it around, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.320 when he brings us out. Now we're blessed, we're healed, 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.560 we meet the right person. We need to shift into 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:15.200 a different mode. Now, I'm looking for somebody to strengthenm 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.960 I'm looking for somebody to bless. I have a story 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:23.320 to share, I have encouragement to give, no more, I 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:27.240 need something. I'm a patient and it's not just a 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.040 grateful mode. God's been good to me. We have to 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.760 shift into this physician mode. Who can I bless? Who 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:37.479 can I help heal? Maybe my son was off course 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.679 God turned him around. Lord, thank you for that. Now 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.960 where's another son I can go after? Or God, you 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.960 gave us the compact center. You made a way when 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.960 I didn't see a way. Where is somebody I can 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.280 encourage with this? Where is a pastor I can call 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:57.159 that doesn't think he'll ever get his building. As long 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:02.040 as you let the blessings keep flowing, the encouragement, being 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.400 good to people, comforting them, helping them to overcome, then 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.119 the blessings will keep coming in, the healing will keep coming, 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.600 the right people, the joy, the fulfillment. Now I'm not 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.399 saying you won't have difficulties, but as you give away 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:22.880 what God's given you, as you strengthen others, you will 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:26.879 always have the strength that you need. But sometimes we 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:32.000 can live ingrown focused on ourselves. We're grateful, we thank 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.639 God for his goodness, but that's not enough. That's not 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.080 going to cause it to sustain. The real test is 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:44.359 are you strengthening someone? Are you taking time to encourage people? 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:47.160 Are you going out of your way to be good 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:51.400 to them? Maybe they need to be in an uplifting environment. 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.000 You go pick them up and bring them to church. 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:58.520 You just strengthened your brother. The truth is none of 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.720 us got to where we are on our own. Somebody 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:06.359 encouraged you. Somebody brought you to church. Somebody took time 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:10.160 to teach you, to train you. Somebody believed in you. 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:14.040 They took a chance and gave you a position. Somebody 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.840 prayed for you. It may have been a great great 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:20.080 great grandmother. You've never even met them, but they were 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:24.159 instrumental in you being where you are today. They helped you. 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:27.760 Why don't you go out and help somebody else. Keep 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.919 giving away what God's given you and it will always 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:34.199 come back. My father grew up in a family that 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:37.800 didn't have anything to do with God. They were good people, 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.879 but faith wasn't a part of their life. In his 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:44.800 teenage years, he was partying and staying out all night, 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.520 not doing well in school, but he had a friend 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:52.439 named Sam that was always talking to him about the Lord. 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:56.520 Sam would get to school early and write scripture verses 0:23:56.560 --> 0:24:00.320 on the chalkboard. My father was so embarrassed, but no 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.760 matter how many times he told Sam no, he wouldn't 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:07.600 leave him alone. Sam stayed after him. At the age 0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:11.720 of seventeen, Daddy was coming home from a nightclub two 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:14.800 o'clock in the morning. He looked up at the stars 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:17.280 and began to think about God and what he would 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:20.639 do with his life. Next morning, he called Sam and 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:23.320 said he wanted to go to church with him. The 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:26.439 end of the service, the pastor invited people to the 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.840 front to receive Christ. My father wanted to go, but 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:33.360 he was too afraid. Sam said, John, if you'll go, 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:37.160 I'll go with you. They walked down the aisle together 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:41.480 and my father gave his life to Christ. Fast forward 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:46.320 some forty years later, my father was a successful pastor 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:50.760 with the church of thousands known around the world. One night, 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:53.879 he went to a friend's church across town to hear 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:57.520 a special speaker. He arrived late, so he sat in 0:24:57.560 --> 0:25:00.440 the back. He looked down the road and I noticed 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:03.880 this young man that looked very troubled. He was planning 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:06.760 on speaking to him when it was over. But in 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:09.160 the middle of the service, the young man got up 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:12.840 and walked out. My father felt so strongly about it. 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.280 He got up and went looking for him. He looked 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:19.000 all over the lobby and couldn't find him. He went 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:21.119 out in the parking lot and searched and searched. He 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:24.399 wasn't there. Came back in and checked the restroom, opened 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.760 the door. The young man was standing there. He said, 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.600 I know you don't know me, but God has a 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:33.640 plan for your life. He has something for you to do. 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:37.359 He sent me after you to let you know that 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:41.520 he cares about you. The young man started weeping and weeping. 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:46.280 He was addicted to so many drugs, so depressed that 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:49.720 he was planning on ending his life that night, but 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:53.199 decided to go to church one last time. By the 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:56.440 grace of God, my father was there. That night was 0:25:56.480 --> 0:25:59.639 a turning point, a new beginning. The young man. Not 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:03.160 only he got free, but he too became the pastor 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:07.960 of a lord's church. Here's my point. Forty years later, 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:12.359 my father was still giving away what had been given 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:15.560 to him. If it had not been for Sam, he 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:19.400 would have missed his destiny. My father wasn't just a 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.840 grateful form or patient. He didn't just go around saying, 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:25.960 look what God has done for me. He became a physician. 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:30.000 He lived with this attitude. I'm on a mission. Sam 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:32.840 tracked me down and changed my life. Now I'm gonna 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:36.280 track somebody else down and help change their life. I'm 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:40.480 gonna strengthen my brother. No wonder. My father lived with 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:45.080 favor and influence God's goodness. He kept letting what was 0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:49.199 given to him flow to others. God knew if he 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:52.439 would bless my father, he could trust him to be 0:26:52.520 --> 0:26:56.199 a blessing. He knew if Sam would be relentless and 0:26:56.320 --> 0:26:59.479 track him down, that my father would live with that 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:03.480 same anaude when it came to helping others. Can God 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:06.919 trust you to be blessed? Will you pass it on 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:10.399 and be a blessing? Can He trust you with healing? 0:27:10.840 --> 0:27:14.879 Will you become a healer? Can He trust you with influence, 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:18.600 with new levels, with freedom? Will you let what He 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:21.920 gives you flow out to others? I believe he can. 0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:27.520 I know I'm looking at faithful committed, trustworthy people, not 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:32.080 just grateful former patience. I'm looking at physicians. You may 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:35.439 not realize it, but you're a healer. You're a lifter, 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:39.600 You're an encourager. You're a blesser. And I believe and 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:44.240 declare as you strengthen your brothers, as you strengthen your sisters, 0:27:44.560 --> 0:27:47.120 not only are they going to rise higher, but you're 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:49.960 going to rise higher. You're going to see new levels, 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:55.520 a blessing, healing influence, favor, the fullness of your destiny 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:58.919 in Jesus's name, and if you receive it, can you 0:27:58.960 --> 0:28:03.440 say amen? Today I'd like to give you an opportunity 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:06.679 to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you 0:28:06.720 --> 0:28:11.280 pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:16.280 my sins, Come into my heart. I'll make you my 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:20.560 lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:23.280 we believe you got born again. Get in a good 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:27.280 Bible based church, and keep God first place. 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