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This is not an 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.759 offer to buy your self securities, nor is it investment, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:30.760 legal or tax advice. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.959 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.160 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.840 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.559 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:56.680 for God's very best in your life. Oh God bless you. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.680 It is always a joy to come into your homes. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.840 We love you and we just appreciate being able to 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.560 spend this next few minutes with you. If you're ever 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.040 in our area, please come out and be a part 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.120 of one of our services. We like to have a 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.560 good time out here at Lakewood and these are the 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.280 finest people in all of Houston right here. So come 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.000 out and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.200 But thanks for tuning in. I like to start with 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.840 something funny, and I heard about this little girl. She 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.400 was sitting on her grandfather's lap. She noticed how wrinkled 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.200 his face was, and as she contemplated the difference between 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.000 hers and his, she asked, granddaddy, did God make you? 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.720 He said, yes, honey, he made me a long time ago. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.200 She then asked, what did he make me? He said, sure, honey, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.799 God made you just a little while ago. She thought 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.080 about it a moment, said granddaddy. God's getting better, isn't he. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.800 All right, hold up your Bible, say it like you 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.240 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.240 I am. I have what it says I have. I 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.000 can do what it says I can do. Today I 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.320 will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.399 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.240 never be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.800 I want to talk to you today about having a 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.639 different spirit. Too many people go around negative and discouraged. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.280 They focus on their problems, what they can't do, and 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.000 how they'll never accomplish their dreams. And if we're not careful, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.800 we'll let that same spirit rub off on us. I 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.000 found it's easy to be a part of the majority. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.080 It's easy to just go with the flow and think 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.360 we've made too many mistakes. Our problems are too big, 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.040 the economy is too low, we never get any good breaks. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.800 That's the way everybody thinks, Joel. Yes, but here's the key. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.040 You're not everybody. You're a child of the most high God. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.720 He breathed his life into you. God has surrounded you 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.120 with his favor. You were never created to be average. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.560 God put in you a different spirit. We're not supposed 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.280 to be a part of the majority. We're supposed to 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.680 be a part of the minority. That means everybody around 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.240 you may be complaining. They may be singing a sad song, 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.839 but don't join in their party when they complain about 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.520 how bad life is treating them. Your attitude is I'm 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.000 just grateful to be alive. I'm too blessed to be stressed. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.560 When they talk down about the company. Just turn it around. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.560 I'm glad that I at least have this job. I'm 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.200 grateful that I'm healthy and strong enough to be at 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:41.240 work today. See, anybody can complain, anybody can find fault, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.599 but God wants us to have a different spirit. You 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:48.080 have to look for the good, be grateful for what's right. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.839 You may work around people that are very negative, or 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.880 perhaps you even live with someone like that, but you 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.159 don't have to allow them to steal your joy. I 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.720 heard somebody say, don't be a thermometer that just measures 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.960 the temperature. Be a thermostat that changes the temperature. In 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.960 other words, when you go to work this week, people 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.440 may be singing the blues, complaining about the boss, complaining 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.240 about the economy, talking about how bad somebody's treating them. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.919 Don't join in and say how you think you have 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.159 it bad. Let me tell you about my problems. My 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.800 teenager wants straighten up. I think I'm gonna have to 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:30.200 have surgery on my back. My insurance is double. We 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.279 didn't qualify for that new home we really wanted. Know, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.160 when you talk defeat, you draw in defeat. Have a 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:41.480 different spirit. You're not a thermometer. Don't let them influence 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.880 you and draw out the worst. You're a thermostat, You've 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.680 got the spirit of the living God on the inside. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.160 Your attitude should be Yes, I may have some problems. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.360 Yes it may be difficult, but I know this too 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.800 shall pass. Yes, it's true I may have to have surgery, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.520 but I know God's going to bring me out better 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.520 off than I was before. No, we didn't qualify for 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.520 that new home, but I'm not discouraged. I know God 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.600 has something better in store. That's a thermostaff You didn't 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.000 let them pull you down. You pull them up. And 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:19.680 I've discovered just as negativity is contagious, faith is contagious. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.600 Just like complaining, being discouraged, and having a sour outlook 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.960 is contagious, so is being hopeful, being positive, being faith filled. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.039 Here's the key. The more they talk defeat, the more 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.280 you need to talk victory. The more they complain, the 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.159 more you need to praise. The more sour they look, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.360 the more happy you need to look. Don't let them 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.719 infect you. You can infect them. We know how in 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.560 the natural. Certain diseases are contagious. We can catch a 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.760 cold from someone, we can catch the flu. Sometimes we'll 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.839 get a shot that will vaccinate us and make it 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.479 less likely for us to contract that disease. You may 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:07.279 work around negative, sour people, but the best vaccine you 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.000 can take is to get up every morning with the 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.960 song of praise in your heart, thank God for what 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.960 he's done, and then go out with a smile on 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.679 your face. Focus on what's right, not on what's wrong. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.360 Be excited about your future. What are you doing. You're 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.600 taking a vaccination that will keep you from those negative, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.520 toxic people, keep you from being influenced by them. After all, 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.880 we can't expect to live in a bubble and never 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.680 have any kind of negative influences. But we can take 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.160 our daily vaccination. When you know you're going to be 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.440 in an extremely negative environment, you need to take more 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.880 of that vaccine. When you're going to that family reunion 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.800 and you know what relatives are going to be there, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.920 you better take a double dose. Some of you. When 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.600 you go to your mother in laws, you better take 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:57.320 a triple dose. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:07:58.640 Not me. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.120 I've got a great mother in law. But how do 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.600 you increase your dosage? Turn up your joy, turn up 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.040 your praise, turn up your expectancy. When they say we 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.920 never get any good breaks. We're just poor and defeated. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.000 Say no, no, speak for yourself. I'm blessed, I'm prosperous. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.320 I've got the favor of God. Goodness and mercy are 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.920 chasing me down. Well, we come from the wrong family, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.080 we're the wrong nationality. We just live in the wrong country. No, 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.480 not me. I come from the right family. I'm a 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.080 child of the most High God. I am fearfully and 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.920 wonderfully made. Who my parents are doesn't determine my destiny. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.880 God determines my destiny. Where I was born, how I 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.320 was raised, the country I'm living in right now. None 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.199 of that can keep me from becoming all God's created 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.000 me to be. Well, Joel, I've got big dreams, but 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.920 I just don't have the resources. I don't have the 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.000 right connections. I don't know the right people. No, I 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.920 don't know about you, But I've got friends in high place. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.360 The creator of the universe is my heavenly father. He's 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.760 directing my steps, He's breathing in my direction. He holds 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.080 victory in my future. When you think like this and 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.440 you talk like this, you are taking a vaccine that way. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.719 When those negative comments and thoughts come to try to 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.200 steal your joy and steal your vision, sour your life. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.000 They will bounce off of you like water off of 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.880 a duck's back. Why you've got the shield of faith, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.160 You've got the sword of the spirit, God's word coming 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.400 out of your mouth. I know today, I'm not looking 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.120 at thermometers. I'm not looking at people to get talked 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.680 into being defeated, dragging through life with no enthusiasm, letting 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.880 every negative influence pull you down. Now I'm looking at 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.120 people that have a different spirit. I'm looking at a 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.560 bunch of thermostats. When you walk into the room, you 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.480 change the atmosphere. When you get there, the whole place 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.200 lightens up. You bring it up. Why is that your 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:07.199 joy rubs off on others, Your enthusiasm lifts the discourage. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.520 Your grateful spirit silences the complainers. Your report of victory 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.840 drowns out the report of defeat. I remember this gentleman. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.679 He was an older man that used to attend Lakewood 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.680 years and years ago, and he was in his eighties 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.720 when I was a teenager, and he was always so happy, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.240 always had a smile. He was a very kind, soft 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.720 spoken man, very gentle. He loved to quote the scripture 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.000 he had this English accent, and whenever I'd see him, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.840 he'd call me over in his warm, friendly way, and 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.640 he would quote a passage of scripture. He knew no strangers. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.679 He was a friend to everyone. One day, when he 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.520 was in his early nineties, he was on an airplane 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.920 to go visit some relatives in another state, and he 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.720 sat next to this man that was very negative, extremely sour, 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.040 very condescending. Everything this man said. The man had a 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.440 negative rebuttal for it. When he talked about how blessed 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.760 he was, the man talked about how miserable his life was. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.680 When he talked about the family he loved and couldn't 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.560 wait to see, the man talked about how he was 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.000 divorced and even now it's strange from his own children. 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.880 When he talked about his health, how he was still 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.200 going strong in his nineties, the man told how he 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.840 always felt tired and run down. You could not find 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:31.160 two more opposite people. My friend, this older gentleman, he 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.800 made up his mind he was not going to let 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:38.520 that negative, complaining spirit infect him. And after they talked 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.880 a little while, the man got his newspaper out, and 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.840 my friend got his Bible out and began reading it. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.360 When the man saw the Bible, he started making all 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:52.640 of these very sarcastic comments. He told how he was 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.640 an atheist, he didn't believe there was a god, and 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.520 thought the man was just wasting his time, and on 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.920 and on. Friend didn't get upset, he didn't argue. He 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.120 just stayed in peace, calm, cool and collected, and he 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.120 told the man he was going to be praying for him. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.280 The man laughed even more sarcastically and said, oh, don't 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.360 waste your time. About an hour into the flight, the 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.439 plane hid an unusual pocket of air and it began 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.400 to drop thousands and thousands of feet in a few seconds. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:29.200 Anything that wasn't tied down shot up to the ceiling. Passengers, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:34.200 flight attendants, food purses, it was all stuck to the ceiling. Well. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.079 My friend was wearing his seat belt, but the man 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.679 next to him wasn't. And when he looked up he 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.800 saw this man stuck up on the ceiling. His eyes 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.880 were like twice as big as normal. He looked scared 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.640 to death. The first thing he shouted to my friend 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:55.160 was pray, pray. My friend said, I didn't think you 0:12:55.240 --> 0:13:00.160 believed in God. He said, I do now, just pray. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.640 When he came down a few seconds later, his attitude 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.680 had totally changed. He listened to every word my friend 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.920 had to say. What am I saying? God has a 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:15.360 way of getting people's attention. You may think nothing is happening. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:20.240 You're being your best each day. You don't complain, you 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.960 always have a good report. But it looks like you're 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.880 just wasting your time. The people around you, some of 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.680 them are so sour, so hard to get along with. 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:33.080 No God is working on those people. That seed is 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:38.479 taken root. Keep letting your light shine, keep being a thermostat, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.320 and at the right time, God will make sure the 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.800 temperature in the room comes down. I remember one time 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.040 I called this pizza place to order a pizza. I'd 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.440 called this restaurant dozens and dozens of times year after year. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.800 When you call, the first thing they always ask for 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.319 is your telephone number. This young lady answered the phone 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.960 and told the name of the restaurant, and I said 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.160 to her, very friendly, very politely, hello, my phone number 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.560 is seven one three, And I gave her the rest 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.839 of my number. When I did, you would have thought 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.600 I just totally insulted her. She practically screamed in my ear. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.800 In the most rude voice you can imagine, she said, sir, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.720 I am not ready for your phone number, and when 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.920 I get ready, I will ask you for your phone number. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.320 I wanted to say, lady, I will give you my 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.400 phone number. Whenever I feel like giving you my phone number. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.560 I will call you at midnight and give you my 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.480 phone number if I want to. But down in here, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.320 I didn't want to hear it, but I could hear 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.760 that still small voice coming up saying, Joel, be a thermostat, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.160 not a thermometer. You may have walked into a room 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.680 that's two hundred degrees, but you have the controls you 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.480 can bring it down. I thought to myself, yeah right, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.720 it'll take me six years with this lady. I realized 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.480 she didn't have anything against me. She just having a 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.240 bad day. Something was irritating her. So I decided I 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.880 was going to do everything I could to cheer this 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.040 old goat up, I mean, this young lady up. I 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.280 started thinking of everything I could possibly compliment her on, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.880 and god knows, I had to use my imagination. I said, ma'am, 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.840 I just want to thank you for answering that phone 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.880 so quickly. And taking such good care of me. And 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.560 you guys make the best pizzas in the world, and 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.720 your delivery is always on time. You run such a 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.280 great organization. On and on I went telling her all 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.280 these lies, I mean, encouraging her. Do you know by 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.160 the time I got finished, she was throwing in hot 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:53.280 wings and doctor Pepper's and coupon for more pizza. I 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.840 had won her over what happened, I became a thermostat 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.640 instead of a thermometer. The scripture says, you'll overcome evil 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.600 with good. Now I'm asking you today to have a 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.120 different spirit. There are a lot of negative, critical, rude, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.360 short tempered people. You don't have to let them infect you. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.320 You can infect them. Don't be a part of the 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:21.680 majority living the minority. One time in the scripture, Moses 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.800 sent twelve men in to spy out the Promised Land. 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.640 The people of Israel were camped right next door, and 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.600 they were so excited about going in. But after forty days, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.040 ten of the men came back the majority with a 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:39.160 negative report. They said, Moses, the people are too big. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.640 There are giants in the land. We don't have a chance. 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:47.160 We'll never defeat them. That negative report spread throughout the 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.400 rest of the camp, the people begin to murmur and complain. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.920 They got down and discouraged. But one of the other 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:58.440 spies was named Caleb. He came to Moses and said, Moses, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.960 we are well able to defeat these people. Let us 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.800 go up at once and take the land. We can 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:09.640 do it. His report was exactly opposite. Isn't it interesting? 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.800 Both sides saw the same land, the same people, the 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.800 same circumstances, yet they had totally different views. How could 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.040 their reports be so unlike? Here's how Caleb had a 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.640 different spirit. He saw things through a different perspective. They 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.800 were focused on their giants. Caleb was focused on his God. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.440 He did his best to cheer the people up. He 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.440 told them, we're well able, let's go now, but they 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.600 just wouldn't listen. God was so put out with those 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:45.600 two million people, he said, because they didn't believe, because 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.240 they chose to live negative and sour, none of them 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.800 would make it into the Promised Land. But in numbers 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:57.720 fourteen twenty four, God said, my servant Caleb is different 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.680 because he has another spirit. I will bring him into 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.280 the Promised Land, and his descendants will receive their full 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.959 share in the Land. Notice it says he had a 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.879 different spirit. What does that mean? He wasn't like the majority. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.400 Everybody else was complaining, yet he had a good report. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.040 They were all shrinking back in fear. He was moving 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.640 forward in faith. They were talking defeat. He was talking victory. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.920 God calls that a different spirit. That's what I want 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.359 God to say about you and I. Those people at Lakewood, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:39.120 those people that are watching, they have a different spirit. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.119 Everybody else is talking about how bad the economy is, 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.880 but you and I are talking about how great our 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:51.840 God is. Other people are complaining, down and discouraged, overwhelmed 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.639 by their problems. But you and I are at peace. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.960 We're full of joy. We've got a spring in our step. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.440 We know God is in complete Confl's wrong. The giants 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.720 may look big, but we have a different perspective. We 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.359 know our God is bigger. It may look impossible, but 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.040 we know, like Caleb, we are well able. When you 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.919 have this kind of attitude, God will say about you 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.919 what he said about Caleb. Look at my son Bob 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:24.040 down there. Business is slow. He should be discouraged, he 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.119 should be complaining, but he's got a smile on his face. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:31.360 He's not moved by the circumstances. He's got a different spirit. 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:35.120 I'm gonna take him into his promised land. Or look 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:39.880 at my daughter Maria. She's got big dreams. It looks impossible, 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.679 it's taken a long time, but she's not worried. She 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.480 doesn't have a chip on her shoulder. She's hoping, believe in, expecting, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.920 She's in faith. She's got this different spirit. I'm gonna 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.280 take her into her promised land. I love what happens 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.400 when we have a different spirit. God promises here that 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.440 you will not only be blessed, you will not only 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:08.080 accomplish your dreams, but your children, your descendants, will receive 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.720 their full share in the land. That means because you're 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.280 a believer and not a doubter, because you see the 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.399 possibility and not just the problem, because you choose to 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.080 be a thermostat and not a thermometer, God says you 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.479 and your children will see his blessings, his favor, his 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.600 increase in ways like you've never even dreamed of. Think 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:36.760 about David. How could he possibly defeat a giant nearly 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:41.080 twice his size. He had a different spirit. Everyone else 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.800 was afraid. They were focused on the size of the giants. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.919 David was focused on the size of his God, and 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:49.960 when he told them that he was going to go 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.880 in and face Goliath, they tried to talk him out 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.639 of it. They told him all the reasons why it 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.960 wouldn't work out. It's funny sometimes when you need encouragement 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.240 the most, your friends and family members will give it 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.080 to you the least. They'll tell you all the reasons 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.800 why you can't do it, why you're gonna fail, why 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.720 you just better play it safe. You gotta do like 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.240 David and just shake that off. They said, in effect, David, 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:17.959 you better not get out there. You better be careful. 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.920 You're gonna get hurt. Goliath is too big to hit. 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.879 David said, no, no, he's too big to miss. David 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.520 had a different spirit. He looked at Goliath, and, just 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:32.600 like Caleb, he made a statement of faith. He didn't say, 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.960 I don't know. He is pretty big. I don't have 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.320 much training, I don't have any experience. I hope this 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.040 works out. No, he said, Goliath, this day I will 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.960 defeat you and feed your head to the birds of 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:49.720 the air. The reason David and Caleb could have this 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:55.359 unshakable confidence was because they knew who they were. They 0:21:55.440 --> 0:22:00.840 knew they were children of the most High God, anointed, equipped, empowered, 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.320 And when you really understand who you are and what 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.359 you have on the inside, you won't go through life 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:12.640 complaining talking about how bad life is, discouraged by your coworkers, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.040 talked out of your dreams by your family members, upset 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.560 because nobody's backing you up. No, you'll be like Caleb. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.199 You'll have your shoulders back, You'll have your head held high, 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.280 You'll have a smile on your face. There may be 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.240 some giants in your path, but your attitude will be 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.520 I am well able. I will overcome this sickness. I 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:36.920 will break this addiction. I will get out of debt. 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.800 I will fulfill my God given destiny. What is that 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.680 a different spirit? There's a young lady in our church 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.119 by the name of Vanessa. She's a medical doctor. About 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:52.399 fifteen years ago, she began to experience incredible pain in 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:56.040 her joints, all through her arms, her shoulders, her knees. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.439 It got so bad she could hardly stand it. She 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.520 finally had to have surgery on her knees and course 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.280 she was hoping it would get better, but it continued 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:07.920 to get worse. She was so crippled that she had 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:11.240 to walk with a cane. She said, she looked like 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:15.560 a ninety year old woman. What's interesting is her father 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:19.680 had the same disease in his early twenties. He died 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:23.680 from complications of it at forty three. Her grandmother was 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:27.280 a paraplegic. She had the same problem. It looked like 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:31.080 this was Vanessa's destiny. When she would come to church 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.320 at the old facility, it would take her forty five 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.359 minutes to walk from the parking lot to her seat 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:40.439 in the auditorium. She'ld have taken her three or four minutes. 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.480 During the week, she would get up at three o'clock 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:46.760 in the morning to start loosening up her joints and 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:49.400 getting dressed so she could be to work at eight. 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:52.879 She could have easily sat back and thought, too bad 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:56.840 for me, I'll never get well. The giants are too big. 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:01.280 But not Vanessa. She had a different spirit. She dug 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:04.360 her heels in and said, like David, this thing is 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:07.840 not going to defeat me. I'm going to become everything 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:11.280 God's created me to be. I will live and not 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:15.919 die and declare the works of the Lord. And it 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:19.760 didn't happen. Overnight, But little by little she got better 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:24.240 and better, and today Vanessa is perfectly normal. She's as 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:29.080 healthy and whole as can be. What happened. She rose 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:32.400 up in faith and broke that curse off of her 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:35.720 family line once and for all. And now her children, 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:39.199 her descendants are all going to be better off because 0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:42.760 she chose to have a different spirit. You may be 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.919 facing some kind of giant in your life today, a 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.080 giant in your health, a giant in your finances, a 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:53.080 giant in your relationships. But I'm challenging you. Don't be 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:56.160 a part of the majority and think this is too 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.239 much for me. Don't be like the ten Spies and 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:02.480 say this is too big. I don't have a chance. No, 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:05.880 God would not have allowed that challenge if you were 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:09.000 not well able to overcome it. He would not have 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:11.520 put the dream in your heart if he had not 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:15.879 already equipped you with everything you need to succeed. You 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:20.840 got to shake off a defeated mindset, shake off discouraging comments, 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:25.840 shake off those negative thoughts. That obstacle is no match 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:29.040 for you. You have the seed of Almighty God on 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:33.720 the inside. There is victory in your DNA. The favor 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:36.800 of God is surrounding you right now like a shield. 0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:42.159 And know this, right past that giant is promotion. On 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:45.240 the other side of that difficulty is a new level 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:49.600 of God's victory. That adversity was never meant to destroy you. 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:52.960 It was meant to promote you. But you got to 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:56.639 do your part and have this different spirit. You cannot 0:25:56.680 --> 0:25:59.919 afford to sink down into self pity and think, why men, 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:03.320 this is not fair, Why I always get these bad breaks. 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:05.760 Now you've got to dig your heels in, look at 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:08.760 that adversily like David and say I will defeat you. 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:12.280 Stand strong like Caleb and say I am well able. 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:17.880 If you will have this different spirit, this can do mentality, 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:21.239 then all the forces of darkness cannot keep you from 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:24.399 your God given destiny. And some of you right now, 0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:27.840 like the people of Israel, you are camped right next 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:31.640 door to your promised land. You are close to your victory, 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:35.600 but the obstacles look bigger than ever. It looks like 0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:39.119 there are giants in your land. You could easily just 0:26:39.160 --> 0:26:42.320 turn around and give up like they did, But you 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:45.480 have to realize the reason the enemy is fighting you 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:49.680 so hard is because your victory is within reach. Don't 0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:54.159 talk yourself out of it. Don't let negative comments discourage you. 0:26:56.200 --> 0:26:58.639 This is not the time to complain. This is the 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:02.480 time to have a different sphere. It's interesting. Out of 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:06.320 the twelves fives, only two had a good report, and 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:10.600 I found it's about the same statistics today. In general, 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:14.879 eighty percent of people will see the problem, only twenty 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:18.960 percent will see the possibility. Eight out of ten will 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:21.440 try to talk you out of your dreams. Eight out 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:24.160 of ten will want to complain and settle rather than 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:27.439 move forward in faith. But I'm asking you to not 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:29.720 be a part of the eighty, be a part of 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:33.680 the twenty. Let's be like Caleb and say everybody may 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:37.840 say this is impossible. Everybody may be complaining, trying to 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:40.439 talk me out of it. But no, I have a 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.640 different spirit. I have a made up mind. I Am 0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:45.840 not going to give up on the promise God put 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:49.480 in my heart. I know right past this challenge is promotion. 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:52.719 So I'm going to stay in faith and keep pressing forward. 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:56.200 When you do that, God promises you will not only 0:27:56.280 --> 0:28:00.520 rise higher, but your children, your descendants will see God's 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:05.280 goodness in a greater way. All because you didn't live 0:28:05.359 --> 0:28:09.199 in the majority. You chose to live in the minority 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:12.320 and some of you today you need to get your fireback. 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:15.800 You've let people talk you out of your dreams. You've 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:19.520 let family members damp in your faith. You've let coworkers 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:22.359 steal your joy. You need to draw that line in 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:24.920 the sand and say this is a new day. If 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:27.720 they want to complain, they can complain, but I'm not 0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:30.680 joining in. If they want to live negative and sour, 0:28:30.800 --> 0:28:33.639 that's fine, But I'm living my life in faith. If 0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:35.639 they don't want to believe, that's okay, but they're not 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:38.080 going to stop me. I am a believer and not 0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:41.480 a doubter. I am a thermostat and not a thermometer. 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:46.160 If you'll learn to have this different spirit than just 0:28:46.280 --> 0:28:51.720 like Vanessa, you will overcome obstacles that looked insurmountable. Like David, 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:56.120 you will conquer enemies that looked impossible. And like Caleb, 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:59.880 even though everyone is settling around you, you and your 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:03.320 children will make it into your promised land. You will 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:06.600 fulfill your God given destiny. Amen. 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