Getting Up So God Can Bring You Out

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That's you, or you 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.880 wouldn't be viewing. You wouldn't be here today, but just 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.840 so glad to have you. And if you're ever in 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.800 our area, stop buying see us. I promise you it 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.640 will make you feel right at home. But thanks again 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.920 for tuning in and coming out. And I like to 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.440 start with something funny each week. And I heard about 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.440 this elderly lady. She came into church one Sunday morning, 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.720 and the friendly usher greeted her and said, ma'am, where 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.880 would you like to sit? She said, I would like 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.119 to sit on the very front row. He said, oh, no, ma'am, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.840 you don't want to do that. Our pastor is very boring. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.440 He'll put you to sleep. Let me seek you somewhere else. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:34.680 She was appalled. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.600 She said, sir, do you know who I am? He 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:37.959 said no. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.480 She said, I am the pastor's mother. He hung his 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.880 head in embarrassment. Finally he looked up and said, ma'am, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:45.799 do you know who I am? 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:46.520 She said no. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:52.480 He said, thank God, all right, hold up your bibles. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.240 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:56.680 I am what it says. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:57.000 I am. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.200 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.720 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.959 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.520 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.280 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.440 to talk to you today about getting up so God 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.840 can bring you out. Life has a way of pushing 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.560 people down. We all go through disappointments and set backs, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.959 and sometimes unfair things happen. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.000 A relationship doesn't work out, a. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.200 Friend betrays us, or maybe you worked real hard but 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.640 you didn't get the position you deserved. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.560 Life is not always fair. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.440 It's easy to get discouraged and lose our joy, lose 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.920 our enthusiasm. And if we're not careful, we'll develop the 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.160 wrong mindset. We'll think we'll never rise any higher, we'll 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.440 never get out of this problem. We've had so many 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.920 unfair things happen to us. But we have to realize 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.000 even though life is not always fair, God is fair. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.480 He is a god of justice. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.640 He sees every wrong that's ever been done to you. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.440 He sees every person that's ever hurt you, every unfair situation. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.360 And the good news is if you will stay in 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.040 faith and not get bitter, God has promised he will 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.599 pay you back for every injustice that's ever been done 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.320 to you. He said he would take what was meant 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.120 for your harm, and he'll turn it around and use 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.240 it to your advantage. And the great thing about God 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.880 is if you keep the right attitude, he'll not only 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.760 bring you out, he'll bring you out better off than 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.719 you were before. He wants to make the enemy pay 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.719 for bringing that trouble into your life. Now. I know 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.440 some of you have had unfair things happen in your finances, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.000 in your health, in the way you were raised, and 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.479 it's easy to get that chip on your shoulder and think, man, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.520 why has this happened to me? But instead of dwelling 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.720 on your disappointments and what didn't work out and who 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:56.880 hurts you, you. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.240 Need to draw the line in the sand and. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.920 Say it's paid back time. I have rights and privileges 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.440 because of who I am. I am a child of 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.320 the Most High God, and i may have had unfair 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.880 things happen, but I'm not going to live my life 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.320 negative and defeated. This is a new day, and I'm 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.520 taken back what belongs to me. See, we have to 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.599 have this warrior mentality. We have to dig our heels 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.920 in and fight the good fight of faith. Too many 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.240 people get stuck in a rut. They went through a 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.479 broken relationship, they weren't raised in a healthy environment. One 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.680 of their dreams has died. Now they've just settled where 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.240 they are. It's taken the wind out of their cell, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.560 and they think, well, Joel, I had my chance, but 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.839 I blew it, or I didn't get the break that 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:41.760 I really wanted. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.279 I guess this is just my lot in life. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.440 But no, God wants to restore everything that's been stolen. 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.839 He wants to restore your joy, restore your peace, restore 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.720 your health, restore your finances. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.000 But here's the key. You have to get a vision 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:58.480 for it. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.960 You have to get your hopes up, get your thoughts 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.359 in words, going in the right direction. We can't just 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.400 sit back and think poor old me. We need to 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.680 have a restoration mentality. That means we get up every 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.840 morning hoping, expecting, believing. We know God's going to pay 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.480 us back. We know good things are in store. I 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.760 talked to a young man a while back and he 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.040 told how growing up he was passed from home to home. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.520 He didn't know his parents, There wasn't any stability, not 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.520 any kind of family atmosphere. Now he was bitter, negative, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.120 blaming God, blaming other people. And I told him what 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.200 I'm telling you, God wants to pay you back for 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.040 that injustice. He still has a great plan for your life, 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.720 but you will never see it. As long as you're 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.200 going around negative, bitter with that chip on your shoulder. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:52.720 You have to let it go. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.640 If you're constantly dwelling on the breaks you didn't get 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.000 and what didn't work out, you will develop a wrong 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.919 image on the inside. You will start to see yourself 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.840 as a victim rather than a victor. You may have 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.160 had unfair things happen, people may not have treated you fair, 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.760 but know this, you are still. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.600 The apple of God's eye. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.880 You are still his most prized possession, and no person, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:26.240 no circumstance, no unfair situation, can keep you from fulfilling 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.480 your God given destiny. In fact, God said in the 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.440 Book of Joel, I will restore the years that have 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.040 been stolen. You may have lost years in a relationship 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.160 that went sour, years working on a job that you 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.440 weren't treated right, or like this young man, years in 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.840 a negative childhood. Well, God wants to restore those years. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.480 He wants to make that up to you. Why don't 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.360 you get a vision for it instead of giving up 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.360 on your dreams thinking I'll never be healthy again, I'll 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:57.360 never be happy again. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.560 Now you need to rise up and say, I know 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.200 God has good things in store. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.720 He is a God of justice, and I believe my 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.600 payday is on its way. That's how we activate God's 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.400 power by believing, by staying full of expectancy. Some of 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.880 you today, you need to get your fire back. Don't 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.800 have a weak, defeated mentality when trouble comes. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.960 Be a warrior. You may have been through a lot, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.680 but that's the way you need to see it. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.720 I've been through it. I'm not staying here. It's not 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.360 going to change my image. On the inside. I know 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.000 who I am, a child of Almighty God. I am 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.600 a victor and I'm not a victim. This is what 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.480 God told the children of Israel. They've been in slavery 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.960 for years and years. They were very mistreated and forced 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.080 to work in terrible conditions. And God said to him, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.400 they're in Exodus three seventeen. I have promised to bring 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.640 you up out of your misery. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:53.360 Now. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.160 I believe there are two keys to this promise, two 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.520 words up and out. In other words, you have to 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.000 get up before God can bring you out. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.680 Change always starts. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.360 On the inside, and if you don't do your part 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.280 and get up in your attitude, get up in your hopes, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.720 in your expectations, in your visions. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.520 Then God can't turn things around. There's an order to it. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.760 God says, get up, expect good things, stay full of hope. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.680 Then I can turn things around. And understand. Getting up 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.960 is a choice. When you wake up in the morning, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.440 you can think, man, I don't want to go to 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.840 work today. My back's still hurting, I don't know why 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.160 all these things have happened to me. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.520 Or you can get up and say, this is going 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:38.440 to be a great day. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.560 I have the favor of God and something good is 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.600 going to happen to me. If you will start today 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:50.400 in faith, with your hopes up, full of expectancy, that's 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.120 when God can turn around negative situations. But how we 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.200 approach life is totally up to us. One man wakes 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.600 up and says, good morning, Lord. Another man get and says, 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.840 good Lord this morning. Some of you, the only thing 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.680 that's keeping God from doing something new is you've lost 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.040 your enthusiasm, You've lost your fire. You don't think it 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.000 could ever change and you could ever be healthy in 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.640 You didn't get the break you wanted, and you don't 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.679 think you'll ever get out of debt. Now you've got 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.640 to get up on the inside. You're waiting on God, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:22.800 but God's waiting on you. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.760 Hey, you said, Joe, you just don't know my situation. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.480 Maybe not, but I do know our God. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.360 He flung the stars into space, he spoke the worlds 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.760 into existence. Surely he can give us three dollars for 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:40.200 a gallon of gas. Anything you're facing is subject to change. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.360 God can turn that situation around one touch of his favor. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.680 Why don't you be a believer and not a doubter. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.839 You got to get up on the inside. I love 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.600 the story in Mark chapter five. This lady had been 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.360 sick for twelve years with a bleeding disorder. She'd gone 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.680 to many doctors, spend all of her money, but she 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.200 continued to get worse. One day, she heard that Jesus 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.400 was coming through her city. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:04.680 You know what she did. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.280 She got up on the inside. Her circumstances had pushed 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.840 her down on the outside. Physically, she was weak and feeble. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.760 Mentally she was tired and run down. Emotionally she was drained. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.800 She had every excuse to live negative and defeated. She 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.040 could have gone back home and said, too bad for me. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.760 Life's just not fair. I tried, but nothing worked. No, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.880 she understood this simple principle. If she would get up 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.800 on the inside, then God could change things on the outside. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.720 The scripture says, she kept saying to herself. What was 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.760 she saying? I'll never get well? This is going to 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.959 be a waste of my time. Nothing good ever happens 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.360 to me. No, she kept saying to herself, I know 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.000 when I get to Jesus, I'm going to be healed. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.360 I know good things are in store. I know my 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.920 best days are still out in front of me. She 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:03.960 was full of hope and expectancy. She had this restoration mentality. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.520 Let me ask you today, what are you saying to yourself? Well, 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.040 I don't think I'll ever get out of this problem, Joel. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.160 I seem to always get the short end of the stick. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.319 I don't know if I'll ever be healthy again. You 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.480 know you have to change what you're saying. Stop talking 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.560 about the problem and start talking about the solution. Life 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.160 may have dealt you some tough things to deal with, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.360 but your attitude should be I know God. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:29.240 Is gonna pay me back. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.559 My health may be going downhill, but I know God 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.600 can do what men can't do. My finances may be 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.160 kind of low today, but God is supplying all of 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.160 my needs or my child. He may not be doing right, 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.480 but as for me and my house, we will serve 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.520 the Lord. You got to quit letting yourself talk to 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.880 you and instead start talking to yourself. When this lady 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.400 saw Jesus coming down the street, there were so many 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:54.599 people around. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.640 Him she couldn't get to him. 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.880 She could have easily had that defeated mindset, thought, just 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.480 my luck, come all this way, can't even get to it. No, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.400 she was more determined than that. She wouldn't take no 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.240 for an answer. She started pushing her way through the crowd. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.520 Here. She's tired, she's. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.560 Weak, she doesn't feel well, but she just keeps pressing forward, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.040 moving people out of the way. When she gets to Jesus, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.520 all she can do is reach out and touch the 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.160 very bottom of his robe. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.080 The scripture says. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.720 Immediately power flowed into her and she was made completely well. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.880 Jesus stopped and looked at her and said, ma'am, your 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.840 faith has made you whole. He said, in effect, because 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.520 you got up on the inside, because. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.040 You had such expectancy, you. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.120 Drew the supernatural power right out of me, we can 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.360 do the same things. Some of you today, like this lady, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.800 you have every reason in the natural to have that 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.160 chip on your shoulder wonder why something didn't work out 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.160 and why your child got off track. But I'm asking 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.880 you to get rid of that defeated thinking. You have 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.520 to get up before God can bring you out. It's 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.240 interesting with the children of Israel, when they were in 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.800 slavery all those years, being so mistreated and forced to 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.199 work night and day. They had been that way so long, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:18.480 they started seeing themselves as slaves. That's all they had known. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:23.800 Generations of defeat, mediocrity, hardship, suffering. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.520 It had become ingrained in their thinking. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:31.400 Now they see themselves as victims rather than victor's and 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.120 in turn, that's all they expected. More defeat, more failure, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.520 more heartache, more suffering. God knew he had to change 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.560 their image on the inside. One day, God said to Moses, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:48.040 you tell my people, I have seen their affliction. I've 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.280 seen their heartache and pain, and I am coming down 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.080 to deliver them. I believe God's saying the same thing 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.840 to each one of us today. I've seen every unfair situation, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.560 I've seen it, every tear you shed, I've seen the time. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.760 You've done your best, but it just didn't work out. 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.960 The good news is God is saying, I'm a god 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.200 of justice, and I'm coming down to make your wrongs right. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.080 I'm coming down to change things in your favor. But 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.800 here's the key. We have to be in a position 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:18.640 to receive. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.920 In other words, we have to have the right image 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:26.240 on the inside. These people, at least the adults, they 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.760 never did make it into their promised land. God brought 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.720 them out of slavery, but slavery never did get out 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.800 of them. For generations, they had been programmed, We're just slaves. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.840 We just barely get by. We always get the short 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.320 end of the stick. Their wrong image kept them from 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.240 God's best life. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:46.680 May have tried to push you down. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.120 Maybe like them, you spent years in bondages of sickness, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.440 lack mediocrity. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:54.880 Now you're attempted to. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.120 Kind of feel like a victim and like you'll never 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.440 accomplish your dreams. Let me tell you what you got 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.560 to do reprogram your computer. You got to start seeing 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.800 yourself as the head and not the tail, as above 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.000 and not beneath, as free, and not bound, as well 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.880 off and not barely making it. You have to have 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.200 the right image if you're going to become everything God's 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:19.280 created you to be. 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:20.440 Because here's the problem. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.160 Even if God brings you out and you see yourself 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.480 the wrong way, it will only be temporary. You'll go 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.080 right back to the way you were. That's what these 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.640 people did. God brought them out of slavery. They were 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.200 finally free from all that heartache and pain, but on 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.680 their way to the Promised Land. Practically every time they 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.760 faced adversity, they said, Moses, please, just let us go 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:45.600 back to Egypt. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.720 Just let us go back to the way we were. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.160 Why would they want to go back to being mistreated 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.280 and working night and day. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.400 You know why? They had the wrong image On the inside. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.440 They didn't see themselves as children of the most tie God. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.720 They didn't see themselves as more than conquers. They saw 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:07.440 themselves as weak, defeated, not able to They had a 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:12.399 slave mentality instead of a warrior mentality. They were constantly 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.480 telling themselves, we'll never make it. Our enemies are too big, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.520 we don't have what it takes. And see our faith 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.880 works in both directions. You're gonna get what you're believing 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.040 for if you have negative, limited thinking, and you go 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.000 around telling yourself, Joel is never gonna happen for me. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.640 I'll never get well, I'll never get out of debt. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.560 You are setting the limits for your life. I'm asking 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.639 you today to get up in your vision. See yourself 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:46.399 as God sees you, strong, successful, victorious. You may be 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.280 in poverty, but don't ever let poverty. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:50.320 Get in you. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.760 You may have struggled with the sickness for years, but 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.840 you need to see yourself healthy and hull. Or maybe 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.119 you have had unfair things happen, but don't see yourself 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.240 as a victim. Start seeing yourself as a victor. Get 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.240 an image of God paying you back and bringing you 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.960 out better off than you were before. When Moses sent 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.240 twelve men to spy out the Promised Land, ten of 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:14.119 them came back and. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.159 Said, Moses, we don't have a chance. 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.720 We felt like we were grasshoppers compared to them, and 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.600 it's interesting why they would choose a grasshopper. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.720 I believe it's significant. They could have said we felt 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:27.080 like a. 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:30.159 Dog, or a mouse, or a tiny little ant, but 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.880 think about a grasshopper. They all have wings, but they 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.800 can't all fly. I believe these men down deep. They 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.440 knew their potential, They knew that land belonged to them. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.880 They knew they were supposed to be victorious. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:48.639 But the problem was they saw themselves the wrong way. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.560 If you're going to make it in to. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.600 Your promised land, you have to have the right image 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:58.400 on the inside. You have to see yourself strong, successful, happy, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.919 healthy and hall and some of you, like these people, 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:07.520 you've come from generations of addictions and low self esteem, mediocrity, lack, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.080 constant struggling. If you don't rise up and do something 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.639 about it, it will not only affect you, it'll affect 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.840 your children and future generations. I know with my father, 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.280 he grew up in extreme poverty. His parents were cotton farmers. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:27.080 They lost everything they had in the Great Depression. Many 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.160 times they didn't have enough food to eat. They would 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.840 just share all the children one small glass of milk. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.680 My father went to high school with holes in his. 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:36.960 Pants, holes in his shoes. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.840 That was before it was fashionable today it being style. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.360 My grandmother made ten cents an hour washing people's clothes. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.359 She worked fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.760 So my dad grew up with this poverty mentality. 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.399 He didn't know any better. He'd become ingrained in his thinking. 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:57.840 That's all he expected. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.000 Year after year, struggled, barely got by, barely had enough 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.560 to raise his family. But one day he began to 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.480 realize he was not supposed to drag through life barely 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.320 making it. He saw the scripture God takes pleasure in 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.760 the prosperity of his children. Jesus came that we might 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.399 live an abundant life. My father drew the line in 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.639 the sand. He said, enough is enough. This is what's 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.120 been passed down to me. But this is not who 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:27.560 I am. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.679 I am the head, and not to tell I am above, 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.640 I'm not beneath. I am blessed. I cannot be cursed. 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:37.160 What was he doing. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.119 He was changing his image on the inside. He was 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.800 making room for the good things of God. His attitude was, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:49.080 it's payback time. My family has been robbed. We've lived 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.119 in defeat and mediocrity long enough, and I am not 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.960 going to settle where I am. I'm coming up higher 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:56.800 and I'm going to set a new standard. 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:58.199 He did exactly that. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.960 Because my father took that step of faith, he broke 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.439 the curse of poverty and lack in our family line 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.480 and some of you, like my father, you need to 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.120 rise up and say the enemy has stolen from our 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.040 family long enough, but this is a new day. I 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.040 not only know who I am, I know whose I am. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.000 I am a child of the most High God. I 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:24.000 know I have been created to live his abundant life 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.240 and then get a vision for it. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:31.320 Abundance of joy, abundance of peace, abundance in your health. 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:35.480 Abundance of good relationships, abundance in your finances. It starts 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.440 right here in our thoughts, in our vision, in our self. 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:40.679 Image, in what we're expecting. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.320 A few years before my dad went to be with 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.439 the Lord, we drove back to the little farm he 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.960 was raised on in East Texas. He just wanted to reminisce, 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.760 and we found the school he went to, and we 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.040 found the little well on his property, and somebody told 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.639 us where some friends of his lived that went to 0:21:58.680 --> 0:21:59.760 school with him. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:00.760 And we drove by this. 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.159 One house and there was this older gentleman out in 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:03.840 the front porch. 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.239 My father hollered out, hey, is that you so and so? 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:07.119 And he said it is. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.960 My dad went over there gave him a big hug. 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:13.080 They hadn't seen each other in over sixty years and 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:13.919 I'll never forget. 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:17.320 And I don't mean this wrong, but that man had 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.040 not made anything with his life. 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.000 He had stayed in the same defeat in mediocrity that 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.439 my father was raised in. And I don't mean that 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:27.680 he wasn't a good person, because he was. But my 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.840 point is God has so much more in store. We 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.600 went by and saw two or three other people, same thing, 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.480 good people, but no victory. One man was living in 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:40.159 I don't even know if he had caught it. A 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:42.200 shack had water dripping down from. 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:43.240 The ceiling into a bucket. 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.199 Another man told how he got laid off when he 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.400 was twenty eight, hadn't held down a good job since then. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.720 And I thought, here, my father was raised in that 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.920 same environment. He came out of those same negative conditions, 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:00.879 yet he rose up and made something significant with his life. 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.920 What was the difference. God is no respector of persons. 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.760 The difference was my father got rid of that limited mindset. Dad. 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:14.200 He developed a new image on the inside. He stretched 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:14.879 his faith. 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:18.720 He expected God to do good things, and he saw 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:22.080 God taking places that he never even dreamed of. God 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.400 will do the same thing for each one of us. Well. 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.320 When Pharaoh finally let the children of Israel go from 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:31.760 their slavery. That in itself was a great miracle. I'm 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.240 sure they were excited about being free, but remember God 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:38.040 never brings us out the same way we came in. 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:42.280 He told the Israelites to ask the Egyptians on their 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:45.560 way out for their gold and their silver, and God 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:48.320 caused them to have favor with the people, and they 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.400 freely gave them what they asked for. What was happening, 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:54.560 God was paying them back for four hundred and thirty 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:58.560 years of working as a slave. They were getting everything 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:02.920 they rightfully deserve. And see, God is keeping all the records. 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:06.040 That's why you don't have to worry that you're not 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:08.199 going to get what belongs to you. You just have 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.680 to keep doing your very best at the office. People 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:14.520 may overlook you. You're doing the work but not getting 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:17.960 the credit. You're attempted to get frustrated and worried about it, 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:22.200 but no, God sees what's happening. If you'll just keep 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:25.199 doing the right thing, God has promised he will make 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:28.640 it up to you. And what's the usual is why 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.719 would God tell them to take the silver and the gold, 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:35.240 after all, where they were going out in the wilderness, 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:38.720 in the desert. There weren't any grocery stores, wasn't any 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:41.199 place to spend it, weren't any malls, no galleria. 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:43.560 Sorry, Victoria. 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:45.760 It seemed like that was just going to be more 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:49.359 to burden them down. But God instructed them to put 0:24:49.359 --> 0:24:53.119 the silver and the gold on their children. Think about it, 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:59.480 these children, all they had known was heartache, suffering, lack, mediocrity. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.720 I can see them call their little daughter over and 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:06.399 put a beautiful gold necklace around her neck. How that 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:09.680 must have made her feel. I can see her standing 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:11.840 up tall. I can see a new sparkle in her 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.920 little eyes. They called their sons over and put gold 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:18.439 rings and silver rings on their fingers. Maybe some of 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:21.760 them for the first time begin to put their shoulders back. 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:24.359 They had been so beaten down and told they had 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:28.520 never mounted to anything. Now they start to see themselves differently. 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:31.919 I believe the reason God had them put that on 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:35.560 those children is so they would develop a new image 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:39.400 on the inside. Now, when those children looked at each other, 0:25:39.640 --> 0:25:42.080 they didn't see themselves the same way. They didn't see 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:46.399 themselves as poor, defeated, not able. To Little by little, 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:50.000 they got rid of their slave mentality, and they started 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:53.200 seeing themselves as the head and not the tail, as 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:57.920 above and not beneath, as victors and not victims. Do 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:01.639 you realize their parents never did make it into the 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.479 Promised Land. They didn't think they had what it takes. 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:08.600 They didn't think they could defeat their giants. But these children, 0:26:09.080 --> 0:26:11.879 the ones that developed a new image, the ones that 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:14.640 got rid of their slave mentality, the ones that got 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:17.240 up every morning hope and believe in expecting. 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:20.919 They're the ones that went into the Promised Land. Some 0:26:20.960 --> 0:26:21.760 of you, like them. 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:27.800 You've come from generations of lack, mediocrity, limited vision. Your parents, relatives, 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:30.119 they were good people, they were loving and kind, but 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.560 they were stuck in that rut. I'm asking you today 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:36.359 to be the one to make a difference, be the 0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:40.040 one to set a new standard. You can affect generations 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:42.879 to come. I know when I was growing up, my 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:45.760 father built a sanctuary that held a thousand people. 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:49.800 It was a big deal. I thought, this is so large. 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:53.000 Ten years later he built a sanctuary that held eight 0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:56.600 thousand people. First time I walked in it, under my breath, 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:58.760 I thought, we will never fill this place up. 0:26:58.880 --> 0:26:59.639 It is huge. 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:04.320 Fifteen years later it was too small. God supernaturally gave 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:09.280 us this place, the former Compact Center. Today, it doesn't 0:27:09.320 --> 0:27:12.680 feel big at all. It just feels normal. Three or 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:15.760 four years ago, I was driving down the freeway. Our son, Jonathan, 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:18.080 he was seven or eight at the time. He said, Daddy, 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:21.000 one day, I'm going to get the reliant stadium that 0:27:21.080 --> 0:27:25.080 holds seventy thousand people. Do you see what happens when 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:28.480 we get rid of defeated limited thinking. 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:31.520 It not only affects you. 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:35.600 It affects your children and your grandchildren. They'll believe for 0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:39.040 things that you never even thought possible. Now I believe 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:41.439 today it can be a turning point. Some of you 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:45.159 have allowed these negative mindsets that have been passed down. 0:27:45.200 --> 0:27:47.800 To rob and steal from you. So you need to 0:27:47.920 --> 0:27:51.000 rise up and say it's payback time. That may have. 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:53.000 Happened in the past, but it's not going to happen 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:55.359 in the future. I know who I am, and I 0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:59.200 know what belongs to me. The Scripture says in Isaiah 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:04.280 eyes shine for your light has come. Does it say 0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:07.360 your light will come? Says your light has come? You 0:28:07.400 --> 0:28:09.640 just simply have to turn it on. In other words, 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:12.000 you just have to believe. You just have to expect 0:28:12.119 --> 0:28:14.560 good things. You just have to know who you are. 0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:17.560 You know what I'm doing today. I'm trying to flip 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:20.600 your switch. I'm trying to convince you that God is 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:23.359 a god of justice and he will pay you back 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:27.880 for every unfair thing that's happened. Don't have that grasshopper 0:28:27.960 --> 0:28:31.200 mentality having wings but not being able to fly. 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:34.159 You're not a grasshopper. You're an eagle. 0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:38.520 You are created to sore, created as a victor and 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:42.000 not a victim. Why don't you get up on the inside. 0:28:42.440 --> 0:28:44.440 If you'll get up, God can bring you out. 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:47.720 It may not happen overnight, but God's a faithful God. 0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:49.280 If you'll keep being. 0:28:49.080 --> 0:28:53.520 Your best, hoping, believing, expecting, Like the lady with the 0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:56.680 issue of blood, just keep pressing forward. If you'll do that, 0:28:56.960 --> 0:28:58.920 God will do for you what he did for the 0:28:59.040 --> 0:29:01.560 children of the israel Lights. He'll not only bring you 0:29:01.600 --> 0:29:04.040 out of every bondage. He'll not only pay you back 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:07.000 everything you deserve, but he'll take you in to your 0:29:07.040 --> 0:29:09.840 promised land and you'll live that life of victory that 0:29:09.960 --> 0:29:11.040 rightfully belongs to you. 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:12.400 Amen. Do you receive it today? 0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:16.920 We never like to close on broadcast without giving you 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:19.880 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:29:20.080 --> 0:29:24.360 Would you pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:29:24.520 --> 0:29:29.440 repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:33.000 you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:36.120 simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:38.760 a good Bible based church. 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