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And I like to start with something funny. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.760 And I heard about Tom Brady, the star quarterback for 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.040 the New England Patriots. He made it to heaven and 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.480 God showed him his house and it was a one story, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.760 modest house on a rather small lot. Later, Brady was 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.680 looking around and he saw this magnificent house on an 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.040 incredibly big lot, and right in the front was this 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:34.880 huge statue of Tim Tebow surrounded by fountains, and everything 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.680 was decorated in orange and blue, Tebow's team colors. It 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.920 even had a huge swimming pool in the shape of 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.080 a broncho. Tom Brady said, God, I don't mean to 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.320 sound ungrateful, but I've won the Super Bowl. How come 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.040 his house is so much bigger than mine. God said Tom, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.600 that's not Tebow's house, that's my house. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.720 Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.160 This is my I am what it says I am. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.960 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.640 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.400 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.639 is alert my heart is receptive. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.560 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.120 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.399 hitting the delete button. Our mind is like a computer, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.720 and how we program it will determine how it's going 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:33.160 to function. You can have the most expensive, powerful computer 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.680 you can find, but if you put the wrong software 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.040 in it, it's not going to perform up to par. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.080 In the same way, many people are not living a 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:48.440 victorious life. Not because their hardware is defective, not because 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.080 there's something wrong with them, but they've allowed their thinking 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:57.040 to become contaminated. They start believing the lies. I'm not talented, 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.760 I don't have a good personality. Too many mistakes. I've 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.839 reached my limits. Just like a virus can slow down 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.960 a perfectly good computer, our wrong thinking can keep us 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.000 from our destiny. If you're going to live in victory, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.680 you've got to know how to hit the delete button 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:21.039 that thought comes you're just average, your ordinary. Delete, I'm 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.520 a masterpiece. I'm one of a kind. You've seen your 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.560 best days. It's all downhill from here. Delete. My future 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.080 will be brighter than my past. You've made too many mistakes, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.240 You're all washed up. Delete I'm forgiven. God's mercy is 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.040 new every single morning. Some of you, if you just 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.960 start hitting the delete button, your life would go to 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.320 a new level. You can't go through the day thinking 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.400 negative thoughts and expect to live in victory. Your life 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.520 is going to follow your thoughts. Romans twelve two says 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:59.200 to renew your mind with God's word. That simply means 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.440 your software with what God says about you. God says 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:09.240 you're blessed, you're talented, you're equipped, You're forgiven, You're more 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.679 than a conquer all through the day, That's what should 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.400 be playing in our mind when thoughts come saying otherwise, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.160 No big deal, Just hit the delete button, don't give 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.039 it the time of day. I know this man that 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.800 had a very successful company for many years. Everything was 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:30.200 going great. Then the perfect storm hit. The economy went down, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.080 a competitor moved close by. He lost a big client. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.960 Long story short, he had to close his business. When 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.560 I'd see him, he wasn't the same person. He'd lost 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:46.080 his fire, lost his enthusiasm. Those thoughts were playing over 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.400 and over in his mind. You're a failure, you let 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.680 people down, You've seen your best days. I told him 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.200 what I'm telling you your software has become contaminated. You 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.320 have to start deleting those thoughts that are telling you 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.520 you're a failure. See, the enemy is called the accuser 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.839 of the brethren. He'll try to remind you of every 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:14.600 mistake you've made, every disappointment, every weakness. He knows if 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.159 you're against yourself, you will never fulfill your destiny. You 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:24.400 have to delete the condemning, accusing voices. Listen, we've all 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.719 made mistakes, we all have things that we wish we 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.720 could do over. But the past is the past. Quit 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.160 beating yourself up. You're not supposed to go around feeling 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:40.000 wrong on the inside. Turn off the negative recording that's 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.240 reminding you of everything that you're not. Delete those thoughts 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.840 and put on a new recording. I am forgiven, I 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.279 am accepted and approved by Almighty God. I have a 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:56.600 bright future. I am a masterpiece. Sometimes it's not our 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.760 own thoughts that are holding us back, it's the negative 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:05.040 things other people have spoken over us. Words are like seeds. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.440 If we dwell on them long enough, they'll take root 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.400 and become a reality. And in life, there will always 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.520 be people telling us what we cannot become. How we 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.760 don't have what it takes. How our dreams are not 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.360 going to come to pass. Too often we latch on 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.840 to the negative and we develop what the Scripture calls 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.120 a stronghold. That's a wrong thought, that's keeping us from 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.920 our destiny. And I know people that had something negative 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.160 spoken over them twenty years ago and it's still impacting 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.520 their life. A parent told them, you'll never be successful, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.120 a coach said you're too small, you don't have what 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:51.600 it takes. A coworker, you'll never break that addiction. Instead 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.000 of hitting the delete button, they played it over and over. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.960 Now it's keeping them from God's best. You need to 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.840 take inventory of your thought life. What are you dwelling on? 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.240 What do you believe about yourself, your family, your future? 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.680 Ask yourself, where did these thoughts come from? Do they 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.720 line up with what God says about me? In the 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.840 Book of Genesis. In the Garden of Eden, one time 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.000 God couldn't find Adam, and even God said, Adam, where 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.720 are you? Adam said God, we're hiding because we're naked. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.080 God answered back, something interesting, He said, Adam, who told 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.120 you you were naked? In other words, who told you 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:39.160 something's wrong with you? God? Immediately knew they had been 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.840 listening to the wrong voices. God is saying to us today. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.920 Who told you you're not talented, Who told you you'll 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.800 never be successful, Who told you you've made too many mistakes? 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.400 You need to delete those thoughts. Those are the wrong voices. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.720 They will contaminate your software. This is what my father did. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.280 When Daddy was seventeen years old, he gave his life 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.640 to Christ, the first one in the family. He told 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.840 his parents that God had called him to preach and 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.320 he was going to go out and start ministring. The 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.800 dream was burst on the inside. His parents were cotton farmers. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.480 They had lost everything during the Great Depression. Daddy grew 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.560 up extremely poor, no money, no education, no future to 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.319 speak of. His parents. They were good people, but they 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.360 were limited by their own experiences. They said, John, you 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.280 better play it safe and just stay here with us 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.880 and pick cotton. What they were really saying was, John, 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.680 we're just a have rich people. We don't really have 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.760 what it takes. John, You're going to get out there 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.360 and you might fail. And of course, my father loved 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.560 and respected his parents, but he let those words go 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.960 in one ear and out the other. His attitude was 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.760 this is where I am, but this is not who 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.520 I am. I may be in defeat, but I am 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.520 not defeated. I am a of the most high God. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.640 Day after day, he kept hitting the delete button. Those 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:11.040 thoughts told him, you have no future. Delete. God's plans 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.040 for me are for good, to give me a future. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.679 You have no money. Delete, I'm blessed. Opportunity is coming 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.520 my way. You don't have the education. It's impossible. You'll 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.320 never get out. Delete, delete, delete. God is making a way, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:30.040 opening up doors, connecting me to the right people. He 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.840 reprogrammed his software, and he went on to touch the world. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.199 Some of you are allowing what somebody said about you 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.640 to hold you back. I've learned there will always be 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.080 people to try to throw water on our fire, to 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.800 try to push down our dreams, some negative voice to 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.559 try to keep your seeds of greatness from flourishing. You 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.040 got to get good at hitting the delete button. Listen, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.600 you are not who people say you are. You are 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.760 who God says you are. That's why we start off 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.480 every service by saying I am who God says I am. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.920 What we're really saying is I am not who my 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.720 neighbor says I am. I am not who my cousin 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.160 says I am. I am not who my critic says 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:18.360 I am. I am who God says I am. When 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.840 the prophet Samuel came to David's house to choose the 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.840 next king, David's father, Jesse, lined up very proudly. All 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:32.080 of his sons, all that is, except David. Jesse didn't 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.520 even bother to bring David in from the shepherd's fields. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.720 He was saying, David's too young, he's too small, he's 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.840 not talented, he doesn't have the experience. All my other 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:49.320 sons are big, strong, impressive. But the scripture says God 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.400 doesn't judge the way people judge. People look on the outside. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.640 God looks on the inside. You may not be as 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.840 quote impressive as somebody else. Don't worry about it. God 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.160 put in you exactly what you need. Other people may 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.800 not see it, but Almighty God can see it. Eleanor 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:13.439 Roosevelt said, no one can make you feel inferior without 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.839 your permission. People may have tried to push you down, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.240 leave you out, make you feel insignificant. Let that bounce 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.600 off of you like water off of a duck's back. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.800 David's own father didn't really believe in him. He didn't 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.440 even have the courtesy to go get him from the 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.600 shepherd's fields to at least let Samuel take a look 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.080 at him. David could have let that rejection cause him 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:45.360 to feel inferior, intimidated, not valuable. No, David understood this principle. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.920 He knew how to hit the delete button. His father's 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.600 voice came to him, saying, you're not as good as 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:57.600 your brother's. Delete. You're not big enough. Delete, you're not talented. Delete, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.520 You'll always be stuck in the shepherd's fields, elite. If 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.760 David would have allowed his father's voice to become a stronghold, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.280 we wouldn't be talking about him today. Let me ask you, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:14.160 are there any viruses that are contaminating your computer? Are 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.160 you allowing what people have spoken over you to hold 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.040 you back? The scripture tells how we've got to pull 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:26.320 down these strongholds. We can't stop the negative voices from coming, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.200 but we can choose whether or not we're going to 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.000 dwell on them. God's given each one of us a 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.640 delete button. I talked to a man that was raised 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:39.400 by a very negative father. His father was always putting 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:43.040 him down, telling him what he couldn't become and this son. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.920 In his twenties and even through his thirties, he couldn't 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.839 seem to get ahead. Life was always a struggle. Had 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.680 a college degree, but he couldn't get a good job, 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:58.280 couldn't keep a steady relationship. He told how his father's 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.199 words were always in the back of his mind. You'll 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.000 never be successful. You don't have what it takes. Even 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.280 on his death bed, his father looked at him and said, 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.600 your brother never amounted to anything, and you won't either, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.640 last words he ever heard his father. Speed For years, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:21.280 he went around angry, inferior. He wouldn't take a new position. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.280 He didn't feel qualified. He was too afraid all these 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.080 bondages because of the words that were spoken over him. 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.520 We know the importance of a father's blessing and what 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.960 weight and what importance that carries, but unfortunately some people 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.480 don't receive that blessing. One day he heard me talking 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.840 about wrong mindsets and make sure you don't have things 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.200 that are holding you back. He realized his father's words 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.200 had become a stronghold. He started hitting the delete button, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:56.040 reprogramming his software. Instead of you don't have what it takes, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:01.000 delete I'm equipped, I'm empowered, I'm well able. Instead of 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:05.640 you'll never amount to anything. Delete. I will fulfill my destiny. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.560 I will become all that God's created me to be. Today, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:14.200 this gentleman is extremely successful, has a beautiful family. They 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.920 volunteer at our services. Everything changed when he started hitting 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:23.080 the delete button. Maybe, like him, you didn't receive your 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.240 earthly father's blessing. The good news is you have your 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:32.320 heavenly father's blessing. Almighty God is saying to you, you 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.800 are my masterpiece. You are one of a kind. You 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:41.440 have seeds of greatness. You are equipped, strong, talented, beautiful. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.000 That's what should be playing in our mind. No matter 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.240 who tried to tell you otherwise a parent, a friend, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:53.440 a coach, a neighbor, Delete that and reprogram your software. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.280 You are not defective. You are not flawed. You have 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.280 been fearfully and wonderfully made. I know some of you 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:05.640 have been through unfair situations. People have spoken things over 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.000 you that they had no business saying. You could easily 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:14.080 go around feeling bad, low self esteem, low self worth. No, 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.480 don't ever let what someone said or what someone did 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.200 keep you from knowing who you really are. You are 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.320 a child of the Most High God. You have royal 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.000 blood flowing through your veins. God has crowned you with 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.280 his favor. People may have tried to push you down 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.600 and make you feel insignificant, but that does not change 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.000 who you are. You are still the apple of God's eyes. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.160 You are still his most prized possession. God still has 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.080 an amazing future in front of you. If you will 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.000 hit that delete button, get rid of any strongholds, God 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.440 will take what was meant for your harm, and he 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.200 will use it to your advantage. The Psalm has said, 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.080 even if my father and mother forsake me, God will 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.920 adopt me as his very own child. I know a 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.359 lady that for many years struggled with her self worth. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.440 Growing up. She never felt like she was good enough 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.879 and like she fit in and come to find out, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:18.440 these insecurities stemmed from being a child born out of wedlock. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.000 Her mother and father weren't married, and as a little girl, 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.760 one day she saw her birth certificate and a little 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:29.480 box was checked that said not legitimate. That phrase became 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:34.240 ingrained in her thinking all through her childhood her teenage years. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.920 Anytime she tried to move forward, those words would come 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.480 up in her mind once again, You're a mistake. Nobody 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.080 even wanted you. You're not valuable. She didn't know any better. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.639 She believed that lie. It was affecting her personality, her attitude, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.840 even her marriage. One day she heard this truth that 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.080 you're worth and value doesn't come from people. It comes 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.440 from Almighty God. She said. It was like something exploded 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:06.920 on the inside. She recognized those words were holding her 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.840 back in bondage, and she decided to start hitting the 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.800 delete button when those thoughts came saying you're not valuable, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.639 you have no future. Instead of dwelling on it and 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.720 letting it depress her, she reprogrammed her software. I'm not 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:25.200 a mistake. I'm not an accident. God chose me to 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.720 be here before the foundation of the world. I'm accepted, 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:33.320 I'm approved, i am valuable. Her attitude was, no matter 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.240 what my birth certificate says, I know I am legitimate. 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.920 Almighty God breathed his life into me. Today she's living 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:46.000 a blessed, free, confident life. Make sure there are no 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:50.119 strongholds that are keeping you back. I've learned anytime we 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.200 try to move forward in faith, there will always be 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.879 people trying to contaminate our software. They may not do 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.040 it on purpose, but they'll tell you what you can't 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.840 do and why it's not going to work out. And 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.919 my cousin tried and felled, and my grandmother died of 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.320 that same disease. The negative voices will come out of 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.640 the woodwork. But remember God didn't put the promise in them. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.120 God put the promise in you. Don't let people talk 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.680 you out of your destiny. For years, while Carl Lewis 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.560 was training for the Olympic Games, all the experts said 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.200 a person would never be able to jump thirty feet 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.320 in distance. The scientists had done their studies, ran all 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.400 their calculations. According to their research, no one would ever 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.760 be able to jump that far. A reporter asked Carl 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.679 Lewis what he thought about it. He said, yes, I 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.040 know the experts say it can't be done, but I 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:51.040 don't dwell on it. I know, talk like that has 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.280 a way of sinking down to my feet. He was saying, 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.920 if I dwell on that long enough, it's going to 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:02.240 reprogram my software and convince me this impossible. Carl hit 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.320 the delete button and went out that year to jump 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:09.120 over thirty feet and break the world record. I say, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:14.199 this respectfully. But the experts are not always right. The 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.719 experts told my mother she wouldn't be alive today. The 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.000 experts told us we would never have this beautiful facility. 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.600 The experts told David he could never defeat Goliath. And 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.040 of course we should stay open, listen to good advice 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:33.000 and wise counsel. But God's ways are not our ways. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.320 Sometimes God will drop things in your heart that don't 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:41.119 make any sense, things that go against normal logic. Years ago, 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.840 my father tried to build a new sanctuary again and again, 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.520 but every time he went to get started, he felt 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.920 a check in his spirit. He knew it wasn't the 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:56.320 right time, so he waited year after year. Finally, in 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:00.400 nineteen eighty seven, when Houston was in the greatest resession 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.960 our city has ever seen. It was two weeks before Christmas. 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:06.720 My father had just gotten out of the hospital from 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.000 having an open heart surgery when he heard God whisper 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.760 in his ear, now is the time to build. All 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.640 the experts said, no way, this is the worst possible 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.919 time to get started. You'll never raise the money in 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.399 this economy, plus your health this week, it's gonna be 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.159 hard on you as you recover on and on. My 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.000 father listened to their advice, but when he left he 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.000 said thanks, but no thanks. He hit the delete button. God, 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.560 you say now is the time to build, We're gonna build. 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.040 They went on to build that sanctuary in a little 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.320 over a year, totally dent free. I like this saying 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.840 faith begins with stuffing your ears full of cotton. Don't 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.800 let people talk you out of it. A college student 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.240 told his professor he had an idea to start an 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:57.560 overnight shipping company. The professor dismissed it. That's not a 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.960 good idea. That company would never get off the The 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.440 student hit the delete button and started the company anyway. 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.840 He called it Federal Express. It's done pretty good. Thomas 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:14.000 Edison invented the phonograph. He told the world it has 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:18.719 no commercial value. Even Thomas Edison was wrong. All the 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:22.800 experts told a young man named Emmitt Smith that, at 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.439 five feet nine inches tall, he was too small and 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.199 too slow to play professional football. Emmett grew up in 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.199 a low income family, lived in public housing. Most of 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:37.639 the scouts said it's not going to work out. But 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.320 emmittt knew how to hit the delete button, and he 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.479 went on to rush for more yardage than any player 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:49.000 in NFL history. Emmittt has won three Super Bowls. He's 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:51.960 in the Hall of Fame. Plus he won Dancing with 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:59.240 the Stars, and that's important. What are the experts telling 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:02.160 you that you can do. You're too tall, too short, 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:04.880 too young, too old. It's not a good idea. Why 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:08.359 don't you delete all the negative voices and let Almighty 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:12.440 God be your expert. After all, he controls the universe, 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.800 he knows what he put in you. He's the one 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:19.320 that can bring your dreams to pass. Heard a story 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:23.439 about a young boy named Theodore Gizl. He loved to draw, 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.560 had a very vivid imagination, and every spare minute he 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:31.440 spent drawing pictures and cartoons. His dream was to become 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:35.439 an artist and create children's books. In high school, he 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:38.919 took his first art class. When the teacher saw his 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:43.000 work and how it was so cartoonish and so playful, 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:47.000 he said, son, he'll never be an artist. This is 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:51.159 not your gift. This looks like child's play. Theodore dropped 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:54.359 out of the art class but continued to draw. He 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.480 took his first children's book to a publisher, but they 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:00.920 said the same thing. This is not something people are 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.240 going to buy. It's too cartoonish. He went to another 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:08.200 publisher and another. He was turned down twenty nine times. 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:13.480 All the experts said it's not marketable. But publisher number 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:16.960 thirty decided to take a chance. Instead of using his 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:22.160 normal name, he chose the name doctor SEUs. Doctor Seuss 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:25.320 went on to sell more children's books than any person 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:30.119 in history. Are the experts telling you you can't accomplish 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.479 your dreams. You can't get well, you can't get out 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:36.000 of debt, you can't go back to school. No, like 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:40.240 doctor Seuss, start hitting the delete button. God didn't put 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:43.360 the dream in them. He put the dream in you. 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:47.200 You have what you need, the talent, the strength, the wisdom, 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:49.800 the favor to do what God has put in your 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.480 own heart. When my father went to be with the 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.360 Lord and I stepped up to pastor the church, all 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:59.520 the experts said, he can't minister. He's never done it before. 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:03.400 He's too young, he doesn't have the training, never been 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:09.240 to cemetery, I mean seminary. He doesn't have that booming voice, 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:13.040 he doesn't have that dynamic personality. On and on, day 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:16.240 after day, I had to hit the delete button. I 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:19.320 remember one time I was in the front lobby after servicing. 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:22.520 I just finished my message. This was like the second 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:25.840 or third time that I ministered. I overheard these two 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:30.360 ladies in the lobby talking. One said he's not nearly 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:33.360 as good as his father. The other one said, yeah, 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:36.639 there's no way this is ever going to last. Those 0:25:36.680 --> 0:25:41.439 words were like daggers. I was already intimidated, insecure. That 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:43.800 was like the last thing that I needed to hear. 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:48.520 But I realize now sometimes God allows things like that 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:52.240 on purpose. Those are tests of our faith to see 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:55.840 what we're made of. When I heard that, something rose 0:25:55.960 --> 0:25:59.000 up on the inside and I thought to myself, you 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:01.680 may not think it's a last, but what you think 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:04.760 doesn't really matter. I don't need your approval. I have 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:11.080 Almighty God's approval. Today, twelve years later, they're gone and 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:18.439 I'm still here. And you know the funny thing is, 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:23.840 I don't miss them. Start hitting the delete button. It's 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:27.679 not gonna last. Delete. It's impossible delete. You don't have 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:31.760 what it takes. Delete. Read about a gentleman named Daniel. 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:36.399 He was born with a learning disorder. He has severe dyslexia, 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:40.000 where he has trouble recognizing words. He can barely read, 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:44.440 barely write. Plus he has coordination problems. He couldn't tie 0:26:44.480 --> 0:26:47.000 his shoe or button his shirt until he was in 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:51.120 the fifth grade in the nineteen sixties. When he grew up, 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:55.520 the teachers referred to him as being mentally retarded. Some 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:57.879 of the students would make fun of him, call him 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:02.800 name slow, dumb, though it looked like he would sit 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:06.120 on the sidelines of life and let that disability hold 0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:09.479 him back. No, not Daniel. He knew how to hit 0:27:09.520 --> 0:27:13.280 the delete button. He didn't let the negative comments take root. 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:17.200 Today people don't call him dumb, they don't call him slow. 0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:21.400 They call him Governor. Daniel Molloy is now the governor 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:25.919 of Connecticut. He can still barely read. He says writing 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:30.840 is almost impossible. But just because you have a quote 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:34.560 limitation that doesn't have to keep you from your destiny. 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:38.199 Start hitting the delete button. You are not who people 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:40.720 say you are. You are who God says you are. 0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:45.239 Reprogram your software, get rid of any strongholds that are 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:48.840 keeping you back. Friends, Your life is going to follow 0:27:48.960 --> 0:27:52.400 your thoughts. Some of you have had this negative recording 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:56.240 playing over and over in your mind. I'm asking us 0:27:56.520 --> 0:28:00.720 to change the recording. Put on what God says at you. 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:04.280 You are blessed, you are forgiven, You are talented, You 0:28:04.359 --> 0:28:09.120 are a masterpiece. Don't let any viruses contaminate your computer 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:12.119 if you will be quick to hit the delete button. 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.520 Keep your mind filled with thoughts of faith. Like David, 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:19.600 you will overcome every negative word spoken over you. Like 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:23.160 the governor, A limitation won't hold you back like em 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:26.920 ittt spent. The experts won't determine your destiny. God will. 0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:31.439 I believe and declare you will rise higher, accomplish dreams, 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:35.520 overcome obstacles, and become everything God's created you to be. 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:39.200 Do you receive it today? We never like to close 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:42.720 our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:28:42.800 --> 0:28:44.960 the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:50.920 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:56.200 into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:58.640 if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:02.800 born again a good Bible based church. 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