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If you 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.880 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.600 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:54.200 put God's very best in your life. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.520 Welcome. It's a joy to come into your homes each week. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.320 We love you and we know that God has great 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.360 things in store for each one of you. And I've 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.440 been saying it almost every weekend. We're believing that two 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.639 thousand and six is going to be your best year 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.280 so far. So you get in agreement with us, and 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.560 I know God's going to do great things in your life. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.800 Hey, come out and see us whenever you can. Don't 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:16.919 come through Houston. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.560 Without stopping by. These are the finest, most blessed friendly 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:21.520 people in all the town. 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.919 Come by and see us sometimes. Hey, God bless you. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.920 I like to start with something funny each week. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.680 And of course you know these are not doctrinally correct, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.000 especially today's just to make us laugh. But I heard 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.200 about these three men, a Baptist, a Catholic, and a Charismatic. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.880 They suddenly died and went to heaven, and Saint Peter 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.720 met them and said, I'm sorry, guys, your living quarters 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.320 are not ready quite yet. He didn't know what to do, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.280 so he called Satan and asked if he would keep 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:48.680 them for. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:49.119 A little while. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.639 Satan reluctantly agreed, and a few hours later Satan called 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.680 back and said, Peter, you've got to come get these guys. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.280 The Catholic man is forgiving everybody, the Baptist man is 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.920 saving everybody, and the Charismatic has already raised enough money 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:08.040 for air conditioning. All right, hold up your Bible, say 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:08.880 it like you mean it. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.440 This is my Bible. I am what it says, I am, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.639 I have what it says. I have. I can do 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.320 what it says I can do. Today. I will be 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:19.639 taught the word of God. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:24.960 I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.040 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.640 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.400 stirring up the gift that's on the inside. Every one 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.360 of you is full of incredible potential. God has put 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.760 seeds of greatness in you. He's given you dreams and desires. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.120 You have something to offer that nobody else has. But 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:55.200 too often we allow adversities, disappointments, and setbacks to push 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.520 these things down, and we find that we're not pressing 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.000 forward anymore, we're not stretching, we're not believing to rise 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:03.760 any higher. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.120 And it's interesting. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.240 I've seen some of the most gifted, talented people around 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:16.440 go through some of the most unfair, unfortunate experiences divorce, abuse, neglect. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.320 It's easy to think, why is this happening to me? 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.160 What did I do to deserve any of this? Well, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.400 here's what it is. It's because the enemy knows what's 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.560 on the inside of you. He knows what you're carrying. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.000 He's going to do everything he can to keep that 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.359 seed from taking root. He doesn't want your gifts and 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.160 talents to come out. He doesn't want us to accomplish 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.400 our dreams. He wants us to drag around live. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.599 In a very average, mediocre life. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.800 But understand this, God did not create any person without 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.320 putting something extremely. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.400 Valuable on the inside. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.800 And life may have tried to push you down through disappointments, 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.480 through setbacks, through divorce. In the nat sure, you don't 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.599 see how you could rise any higher. You don't see 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:04.920 how you're ever going to be happy. You need to 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.760 dig your heels in and say, no, I know what 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.400 I have on the inside. I'm a child of the 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.240 most High God. I'm full of his can do power. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.280 I'm gonna rise up and become everything God's. 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:16.760 Created me to be. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.160 See Paul told Timothy to stir up the gift. You've 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.279 got to stir up your gifts, stir up your talents, 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.240 stir up the potential, stir up your dreams. 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.240 It's up to you and some of you. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.680 These gifts and talents and dreams, they are pressed down 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.080 beneath depression and discouragement, beneath negative voices, people telling you 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.320 that you can beneath weaknesses beneath failures. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:41.520 They're pressed down. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.680 But the good news is they're still in there. Now 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.720 you've got to do your part and start digging them out. Now. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.520 I love what God said in Isaiah. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.440 Forty three to nineteen. Behold, I am doing a new thing. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:59.159 Now it springs forth. Can you not perceive it? You 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.200 may have had more in your share of unfair negative experiences, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.080 but know this, God wants to do a new thing. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.880 He wants to give you a new beginning. Don't give 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.120 up on your dreams. Don't go around thinking that you've peaked, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.680 you've reached your limits in life. Well, Joel, you don't 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.919 know my situation. I've gone as far as my education. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.520 You don't know my family. No, I may not know 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.000 any of that, but I do know our God, and 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.080 he is an all powerful god. He has more in 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.240 store for every one of you. And my question for 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:34.000 you is can you perceive it? Can you make room 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:34.400 for it? 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.800 First place it starts is right here in our thinking. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.960 If your thinking is limited, then your life is going 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.279 to be limited. Well, you said, Joel, I've gone through bankruptcy. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:45.359 I tried and failed. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:46.640 Well let it go. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.200 This is a new day. Well, my marriage didn't work out. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:51.640 I'm so disappointed. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.320 Never dreamed i'd be here in life. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.000 Well, that's unfortunate, but it's not the end. When one 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.600 door closes, God will always open up another door. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:00.840 God wants to. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.679 Give you this new beginning. He still has a great 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.080 plan for your life. But you know when that's going 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.400 to happen. Whenever you quit looking back, whenever you quit 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.080 grieving over what you've lost, there's nothing that will keep 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.880 us from the good things of God anymore than living 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.360 in the past. Years ago, I went into a government 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.160 building and there were two sets of double doors. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.160 They were about fifteen feet apart. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.400 They were both automatic doors, and when you went through 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.520 the first set of doors, you had. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.600 To let them totally close before the next set of 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:33.320 doors would open. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.880 As long as I stayed at the first set, the 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.120 next set would not open. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.280 I had to go beyond that. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.480 And really it's the same way in life. You have 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.160 to let go of your disappointments, let go of your failures, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.760 let those doors totally close. It's nothing you can do 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.040 about them anymore. You cannot change the past, but you 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.280 can do something about the future. And what's in front 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.680 of you is much more important than what's behind you. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.520 And I believe that if you will have the right attitude, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.320 you will give birth to more. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.480 In the future than you've lost in the past. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.200 Quit looking back. This is a new day. It may 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.800 seem like those dreams have died, but God can resurrect 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.320 it your dead dreams. He is a supernatural god. And 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.720 when we believe, all things are possible. And some of 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.520 you feel like that life has kind of knocked you 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:27.640 down through disappointments, through unfair situations. But whatever you do, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.040 don't stay down, get back up again. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:31.520 That's yourself all. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.880 If you can't find anybody to encourage you, you've got 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.800 to learn to encourage yourself. Get up in the morning, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.640 put your shoulders back, look in the mirror and say, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.000 you know what, I've come too far to stop now. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.800 I may be knocked down, but I'm not knocked out. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.040 I'm gonna get back up again. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.840 I know I'm a victor, not a victim. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.360 See, you've got to keep yourself stirred up if you're 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.200 going to see these new doors begin to open. I 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.800 know too many people that are living in the land 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:00.600 of good enough. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:01.480 Joel. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.040 I don't like my job, but it's good enough. My 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.640 husband and I we don't get along, but he's good enough. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:07.400 We're surviving. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.320 I'm not using my gifts, I'm not doing anything I like, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.320 but it's good enough. At least I'm working. No, don't 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.600 ever let good enough be good enough. Keep pressing, keep 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.679 believing you've got great. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.680 Things on the inside. You were not made to be average. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.600 You were made to excel. You were made to leave 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.040 your mark on this generation. Every day you need to say, 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.760 I am talented, I am creative, I am annoying it, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.600 I am equipped, I am well able. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.600 I will see my dreams come to pass. Declare it 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:39.160 by faith. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.840 But understand, throughout life we will always have forces opposing 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.440 us to try to keep us from becoming all God's 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.880 created us to be. And many times the adversities, the 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:54.240 unfair situations, that's simply the enemy trying to discourage us 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.360 and to deceive us into giving up on our dreams. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.080 And you may feel like you're at an empty p 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:01.240 in life today. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.719 Not much is going your way. You've been through difficulties. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.960 But I believe God has brought you here to begin 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.600 to restore you, to encourage you, to fill you with 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.360 his hope. He wants to resurrect your dreams. He wants 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.679 to do a new thing, and I want a light 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.560 of fire under you today. You have a gift on 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:25.520 the inside. You are talented, You are creative. That's exactly 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.560 why the enemy is trying to push you down. To 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.559 keep your gifts, to keep your creativity, to keep your joy, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.240 your smile, your personality, your dreams from ever coming out. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.000 He would love for them to lie dormant your whole lifetime. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.280 But thank God, it's not up to him. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.280 It's up to you. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.720 And you may have gotten off to a rough start 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.200 in life. You may have had more than your share 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.280 of unfair things happen. But it's not how you start 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:51.920 that counts. 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.040 It's how you finish. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.199 Why don't you shake off the past, shake off that discouragement. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.480 God is still in complete control of your life. He's 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.040 got you in the palm of his hand, and if 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.120 you'll keep your trust in him, he promised that no 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.400 weapon formed against you will ever prosper. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.800 It may seem unfair, it may be difficult. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.679 But he said he'd turn it around and use it 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.520 all to your advantage. Don't get complacent, don't let good 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.600 enough be good enough, keep. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:21.480 Yourself stirred up. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.520 The forces that are for you are greater than the 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:25.719 forces that are against you. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.360 The scripture says, weeping may endure for a night, but 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.040 joy is coming in the morning. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.920 You got to get your dreams back, get your fire back. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.600 Don't just survive your marriage, get a new vision for it. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.640 Today we'll just drag into work doing the same thing. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.680 Start taking some steps of faith. You've got more in you. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.240 Push yourself a little bit. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.680 May not have happened in the past, but this is 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:50.240 a new day. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.400 If you'll keep pressing, hoping, believing, not only will you 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.640 rise higher, but you'll see things begin. 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.160 To change in your favor. Well, you say, Joel, I 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.520 tried and fail. We'll dream another dream. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.880 Well, I've suffered a big loss, a big setback. Get 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.880 back up and go again. That's what we all have 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.040 to do. I think about Adam and Eve. They went 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.000 through a great disappointment. Their son came killed, their son able. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.880 You can imagine how devastated and distraught they must have been. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.960 But they said in Genesis four, verse twenty five, God 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:27.120 has appointed another seed unto us. They were saying, in effect, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.880 we may be knocked down. We feel like we've been 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.040 wiped out. But we're not gonna stay down because we 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.480 know God has another seed. And in your difficult times, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.600 when you don't feel like it could get any worse, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.439 you've got a bad report from the doctor, a relationship 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.400 didn't work out, God is saying to you, take heart, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.600 I'm going to appoint another seed. I'm going to do 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.680 a new thing for everything that you've lost, everything that's 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.840 been stolen, everything that's been taken away. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.720 Know this, God has another plan, another seed. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.360 And the reason God uses the word seed is because 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.760 that talks about the future, That talks about what's coming. 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:09.800 And if you can just do your part and let 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.800 go of the old and instead start pressing forward, you 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.400 will give birth to more in the. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.160 Future than you've lost in the past. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.079 But I see so many people they have a tough 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.280 time of letting go what lies behind. They're always focused 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.400 on who hurt them and how unfair it was and 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.840 why this happened to me, And the whole time their gifts, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.840 their talents, that dream is just being pressed down. All 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.360 the potential is lying dormant on the inside. This is 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:39.240 what almost. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:39.960 Happened to my father. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.320 My dad was married at a very early age in life, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.600 and unfortunately it didn't work out. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.320 And of course we're not for divorce. I don't believe 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.040 that's God's best, but you know as well as I do. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.360 Sometimes it happens. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.600 You can't unscramble eggs, you can't undo the past. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:57.880 You've got to let it go and move on. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.280 But my father was so devastated. He felt like his 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.720 days of ministry were over. He didn't think he'd ever 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.080 have a family again. He basically thought that he had 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.080 ruined his life, ruined his future, and he was just 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.079 sitting around depressed, defeated, dejected. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.360 But one day he did what I'm asking you to 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:18.960 do today. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.280 Instead of settling for good enough, instead of staying focused 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.480 on his mistakes and dwelling on all his failures, he 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.720 let it go. He told me, the hardest thing for 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.680 him to do was to receive God's mercy. See, the 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.840 enemy would love to sit on your shoulder and remind 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.800 you of every mistake you've ever made. But the Bible 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.480 says that when we confess our sins, God not only 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.160 forgives us, he. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.800 Doesn't remember them anymore. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.200 And so if somebody keeps bringing up your past, you 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.160 need to know it's not God, And if God let 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.880 go of it, why don't you. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:55.560 Let go of it. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.760 That's what my father did. One day, he got up, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.840 dusted himse off. He said, yes, I've made some mistakes. Yes, 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.000 I've made some poor choices. But I know God has 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.000 another seed. I know he's got another plan. And it 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.160 wasn't long after that that he met my mother. Eventually 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.120 they got married and over the years God blessed them 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:23.520 with four average children and one exceptional child. I didn't 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:29.520 say as me, but God gave my father a new beginning, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.680 He gave him a second chance that he went on 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:33.760 to touch people. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.200 All over the world. He went on to do great things. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.960 But I was thinking about how many people today, like 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:45.920 my father, are sitting around wallowing in their mistakes, feeling guilty, condemned, frustrated, 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.040 feeling like they're washed up in life, and the whole time, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.200 their gifts, their talents, their dreams are being wasted. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.160 No, please don't let that be you. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.760 If you've made mistakes, know this God is the god 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.640 of a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.359 And I'm not saying to take the easy way out 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:05.640 and bail out of a marriage. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.360 Or you stick with it, make it work. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.880 But if you're already past that, if it's already over 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.240 and done, what I'm saying is, don't you dare sit 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.040 around thinking that life is over and that you're never 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:16.760 going to be happy. 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.400 No, God has another seed. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.200 He wants to give you that new beginning, and your 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.040 best days are not behind you, they are in front 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.280 of you. Quit looking back, quit living depressed, receive God's mercy, 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.560 start pressing forward in life. See when you drive home today, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.840 you've got a big wind shield on the front of 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.000 your car, and. 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:38.880 You've got a little bitty rear view mirror. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.520 And the reason the windshield is so large and the 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.000 rear view mirror is so small is because what's happened 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.000 in your past is not near as important as what's 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:56.720 in your future. Where you're going is much more important 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.840 than where you've been. But if you stay focused on 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:01.960 the past, you're gonna get stuck right where you are. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:03.760 How do we let go of the past? 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.359 Quit thinking about it, quit talking about it, Quit reliving 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:08.760 every negative experience. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.040 I think about David. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.160 One time he had a little baby that was very, 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.560 very sick, near death, and so David prayed and prayed 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.680 for a whole week he didn't eat, he hardly slept. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.200 But unfortunately, at the end of the week, the little child. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.800 Died, and they thought David would be so distraught and 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:26.920 so devastated. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.679 But it's interesting what he did when he got the 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.320 bad news. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.920 He got up off the floor, went out and washed 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.960 his face, put on some new clothes, got something to eat, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.840 and went to the temple to worship. And his men 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.760 were so surprised. They thought he'd go around depressed month 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.840 after month. But no, David made a decision to just 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.960 accept it and move on. One of your dreams has died. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.919 Of course, there's a proper time for grieving, but at 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.520 some point we've all got to do like David. We 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.560 got to get up, dust ourself off, put on some 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.720 new clothes, start pressing forward life. Don't let the disappointment 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.520 become the central theme of your life. You've got to 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.040 quit mourning over something that you can't change. God wants 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.240 to give you that new beginning, but you have to 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.919 let go of the old before you'll ever receive the new. Now, 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.720 I know, sometimes we hear those voices telling us we're 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.879 never gonna rise higher, We're never gonna see our dreams 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.720 come to pass. It's been too long. Don't ever believe 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.680 those lives. I love what Caleb did. When Caleb was 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.520 a young man, he and Joshua were the ones that 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.920 told Moses, we are well able to. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.040 Take the Promised Land. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.680 But it was the other ten spies that said, no, Moses, 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.919 the people are too big, and they talked Moses and 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:42.719 the rest of the children of Israel out of it, 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.439 and they never did make it into the Promised Land. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.080 But now Caleb is eighty five years old. This is 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.720 some forty years after this encounter. And what I love 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.320 about Caleb is he still hadn't given up on the 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.200 dream God put in his heart. A lot of people 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.879 that age would be sitting back in a rocking chair 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:03.879 thinking about the good old days. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.919 But not Caleb. He kept himself stirred up. You know 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:07.440 what he did. 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.600 He went back to the exact same place, the same 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.240 mountain where those others refused to go in, and he said, God, 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.280 eighty five years old, give me this mountain. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:19.520 He would say it. 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.960 In effect, I don't want another place to live, I 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.080 don't want something easy. I've still got this dream in 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.720 my heart. Forty years later, he's still pressing toward it. 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.680 The interesting thing is that mountain had five giants living 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.040 on It. Looked like he could have found a place 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.040 that had maybe one enemy, two enemies. But Caleb said, no, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.320 I don't care how many enemies there are. God promised 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.080 me this place, and even though it's forty years later, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.879 I'm gonna keep pressing. I'm gonna keep believing until I 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:50.320 see that come to pass. That's the kind of attitude. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.760 We need to have. We give up too easily. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.719 Well, Joel, I didn't get the promotion that I've been 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.440 praying for. I don't guess it's gonna happen. My husband 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.320 and I we can't get along. I guess it's over. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:04.080 Keep pressing, keep believing. You've got to keep yourself stirred up. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.680 You've got the gifts, the talents, the dreams. It's when 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.560 we get complacent that we don't see them come to pass. 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.000 Another important key to reaching our full potential is we 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.879 have to put ourselves in an environment so the seed 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.040 can grow. I know people that are extremely talented, They've 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.520 got incredible potential. Their whole problem is the people they 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.679 hang around. If you hang out with people that are 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.320 lazy and undisciplined, people that don't have any dreams, people 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.680 that are negative and critical. Then by the environment you're 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.800 choosing to put yourself in, it's. 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:40.280 Going to keep you from rising any higher. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:44.040 You cannot hang out with negative people and expect. 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:44.960 To live a positive life. 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.400 And if all your friends are depressed and defeated, they 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.720 don't have any dreams, You've got to make some changes. 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:53.600 You're not going to pull them up, They're going to 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:54.640 end up pulling you down. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:55.359 Now. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.440 I know you love your friends, but the best thing 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.560 you could do is break away from people like that 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:01.280 and put yourself in. 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.440 A healthy, positive, faith filled environment. 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.760 This is extremely critical because it doesn't matter how great 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.600 the seed, if you don't put it in good soul, 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:13.400 it's not going to take root and grow. 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:14.879 Now. I know people. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.600 I know people today that are living in a very 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:25.520 abusive environment physical abuse, emotional abuse, verbal abuse, and they 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.520 just stay their year after year after year. The person 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.800 is very dominating and controlling. They're afraid to leave, afraid 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.439 they'll be lonely, afraid they'll never beat anybody, and so 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.200 they stay in a very abusive relationship. 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.919 But friends, I don't believe that's God's best. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.359 And as I said, I'm all for sticking together and 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.760 trying to make things work out. But understand, God did 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:51.040 not create you to be mistreated and abused many times. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:55.680 That is just a negative cycle that just keeps getting repeated. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.080 Your mother was in an abusive. 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:01.440 Relationship, and now you are, and unless you make some changes, 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.080 your daughter will be as well. Now. I've had people 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:06.320 tell me, Joel, I don't know why I'm drawn to 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.440 people like this. I get out of one bad relationship 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:11.600 and I get into another. When this twice is bad 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:13.600 or I know I should get out. I know it's 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.199 not good for me, but I just can't leave. I 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.240 feel kind of guilty. Now, listen, you have a responsibility 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.240 to keep yourself healthy and home. 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.320 You have a gift. God has entrusted you with his talents, 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:27.639 with his dreams. 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.480 It may be painful, but the best thing you could 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.560 do is get away from somebody like that. Don't allow 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:37.800 somebody to treat you that way. You are extremely valuable. 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.680 You are made in the image of Almighty God. When 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:43.280 you say, Joel, if I take a stand, do what 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:46.280 you're saying, set some boundaries, they may leave, they may 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:46.840 walk away. 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:49.399 Truth is, I'd be the best thing that could ever happen. 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:54.400 I heard somebody say there's something called the gift of goodbye. 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:58.480 That means when somebody like that chooses to leave, you 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:00.480 may not realize it, but they just did you a great, 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:04.200 big favor. Don't look back, keep looking forward, getting ready 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:05.720 for the new thing God wants to do. 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:06.720 In your life. 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.800 And all of us at times will have people that 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:12.719 leave our lives. 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.520 And they may not be bad people. It's just that 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:16.240 season is. 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.000 Over and we may not understand it. But God knows 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:22.520 what he's doing. Maybe they're holding us back, Maybe they're 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:25.240 keeping us from spreading our wings. Maybe they're not being 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:28.080 a good influence. And I found sometimes if you don't 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:30.560 keep things stirred up, God will stir up things for you. 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:32.480 When somebody leaves your life. 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:36.040 A relationship's over, a business partner, a friend, a neighbor, 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.120 a co worker, don't take it personally, don't get upset, 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:41.760 don't try to talk them into staying. Let God do 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:46.600 the new thing. Understand your destiny is not tied. 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.280 To the people that walk away from you. You may think, man, 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:51.399 I need them, Joel, They're a great friend. 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:53.919 I count on them. He's a great business partner. Now 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.240 you don't have to have them to fulfill your purpose. 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:58.879 And when God is finished with something, there's no amount 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:00.000 of glue that can hold it together. 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:01.520 You might as well let it go. 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:05.120 Do like David, wash your face, go out and get 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:07.840 ready for something new that God wants to do. You 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:11.240 have to keep yourself in a healthy environment, even physically. 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.640 If you tend to struggle with discouragement and depression. Don't 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.640 sit around in a dark house all day long thinking 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:22.000 about your problems, having a pity party. Open the windows, 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:25.159 let the sun shine in, put on some good praise music. 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:29.400 You've got to create an uplifting, positive environment. When you're 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:32.320 tempted to get discouraged, don't you dare go find five 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:35.680 other friends that are discouraged and sit around talk about 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:39.480 your problems. Find somebody to cheer you up, find somebody 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:40.040 that's happy. 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:41.840 Come out here in Lakewood. We'll do it. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.400 But get around people that are going to inspire you 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:50.439 to rise higher. You have to be careful who you 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:53.200 associate with. Do you know people can steal the dream 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:55.960 out of your heart. I think about how many people 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:57.720 told us that we'd never get this facility. 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:01.920 Business leaders, experts, JOD don't waste your money don't waste 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:04.439 your time. It's not gonna happen. I could have easily 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:04.879 given up. 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:07.040 I could have thought, you know what, they're probably smarter 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:09.240 than me in this area, and maybe I should just 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:11.879 let it go. But I said, no, God, I believe 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:14.000 you put this in my heart, and I'm not gonna 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:16.919 look up fifty years from now and say, I wonder 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:19.600 what would have happened if I just believed. I wonder 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:21.200 what would have happened if I hadn't. 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:22.320 To let them talk me out of that. 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.359 I can't think of anything worse than coming to the 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:27.400 end of your life and having a bunch of regrets. 0:25:27.640 --> 0:25:29.879 What could have happened, what might have happened, what should 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:33.160 have happened. I remember one consultant that we hired. Every 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:35.640 time we met, he told us all the reasons why 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.680 it wasn't gonna work out. He always had a negative report. 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:41.000 One day I got smart enough to say, you know what, 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:41.720 we don't. 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:45.160 Need him on our team. He is contaminating our environment. 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:47.040 He's pulling everybody down. 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:52.280 You've got to surround yourself with people that encourage you, 0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:55.440 people that build you up, not a bunch of negative 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:59.840 critical can't do it. People and sometimes the people that 0:25:59.840 --> 0:26:02.119 were discourage you the most are the people that are 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:05.760 closest to you. I think about David when he told 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:09.040 his older brother Eliad that he wanted to fight Goliath. 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:11.000 Eliab tried to put him down. 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:13.440 He said, David, what are you even doing out here 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.240 on the battlefield. You're supposed to be at home taking 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:19.119 care of our father's few sheep that he's left you with. 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:22.080 Tried to make him feel small. He's really saying, David, 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:24.280 you're never going to do anything great. He don't have 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:27.359 what it takes. And David had to make that choice. 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:29.600 Was he going to believe that lie or believe what 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:32.119 God put in his heart. He could have said, well, 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:33.000 maybe he's right. 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:34.080 I'm just a kid. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:36.760 I don't feel too talented. Maybe I will get killed 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:40.479 out there. But no, David said, Eliab, I don't care 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:42.640 what you say about me. I know who I am, 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:44.800 I know what God's put on the inside of me. 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:48.000 I'm going to step out and fulfill my God given destiny. 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:49.000 He did just that. 0:26:50.440 --> 0:26:53.520 Isn't it interesting that even Jesus had to leave his 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:56.480 hometown of Nazareth because the people were so filled with 0:26:56.600 --> 0:27:00.320 unbelieving He even knew if he stayed in that negative invironment, 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:01.480 it would hold him back. 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:02.840 You may have. 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:06.320 Family members, cousins, aunts, uncles, relatives, brothers, sisters. 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:07.240 They're good people. 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:09.720 You love them, you treat them with respect, but you 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.720 know you cannot be around them on a daily basis. 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:15.800 You have to love them from a distance, because listen, 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:20.640 life is too short to be pulled down by negative, jealous, 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:23.879 cynical people. It doesn't matter how great your gift is, 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:27.680 doesn't matter how great that seed is. If you don't 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:30.600 put it in the right environment, it's not gonna take 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:33.199 root and grow. It's not gonna really flourish. You need 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:36.560 to hang around other dreamers, hang around people that are 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:38.840 gonna help you become all God's created you to be. 0:27:39.720 --> 0:27:42.800 The good news today is God has already given you 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:45.920 everything you need to live his life of victory. He's 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:48.360 put the seeds of greatness on the inside. 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:49.920 Let me challenge you again. 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:53.760 Stir up your gifts, stir up your talents, stir up 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:54.520 those dreams. 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:56.240 God wants to do a new thing. 0:27:57.119 --> 0:27:59.040 You may have been through more than your share of 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:02.000 unfair situations, but you've got to let the past be 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:05.560 the past. This is a new day. Remember God has 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:09.600 another seed. He can resurrect those dreams. There are good 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:12.560 days up ahead. Why don't you make a decision to 0:28:12.640 --> 0:28:15.320 do like Caleb. Dig your heels in and keep pressing, 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:19.160 keep believing, keep stretching until you see it all come 0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:19.719 to pass. 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:20.280 Now. 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:21.359 I know this, If. 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:24.920 You'll stay in the right environment and keep yourself stirred up, You're. 0:28:24.720 --> 0:28:26.119 Going to rise higher and higher. 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:28.280 You're going to see your gifts and talents come to 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:30.640 the full and I believe you'll live that life. 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:32.359 Of victory that God has in store. 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:36.600 Amen. Or We never like to close our broadcast without 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:39.200 giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:43.040 your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:49.360 come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 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