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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.560 Welcome to the Joe Lostein podcast Help Let's continue to 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.520 share the message of hope with those all over the world. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.520 Visit Joelostein dot com slash give hope to give a 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:50.600 gift today. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.320 Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.000 your homes and if you're ever in our area, please 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.800 stop by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.720 These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.280 right here at Lakewood, and we would love to have you. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.600 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.639 about this husband and wife. They were celebrating their sixtieth 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.880 birthdays together when an angel suddenly appeared and said that 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.160 God was going to grant them each one special request. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.080 They were so excited. The wife said, my request is 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.280 that we'd be able to travel all over the world. Poof, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.360 when the smoke. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:32.880 Cleared, she had tickets in her hand. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.280 The husband put his head down in shame, said, my 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.720 request is that I'd be married to a woman thirty 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.120 years younger than me. And poof, when the smoke cleared, 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.120 he was ninety years old. And that's what he gets. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.799 So here we go. This is my Bible. I am 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.440 what it says I am. I have what it says 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.239 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.440 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.799 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.799 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.440 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.960 how bad do you want it? The dreams God has 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.239 placed in your heart, the promises He's spoken to you 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:23.040 are not going to come to pass without opposition, without delays, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.400 without people trying to talk you out of it. There 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.280 will be plenty of opportunities to get discouraged, to lose 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.800 your passion and think that it's not meant to be. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.120 But if you're going to reach your destiny, you have 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.560 to have a made up mind. If you give up 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.400 after the first time, or the fifth time, or the 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.240 thirtieth time, what that really means is you didn't want 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:47.040 it bad enough. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.800 There should be something you're believing for that. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.800 You are relentless. You are not moved by how impossible 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.200 it looks. You're not discouraged by how long it's taken. 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.800 You don't give up because people told you no. Your 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.280 attitude is if I have to believe my whole life, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.840 I am not going to stop believing. I am not 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.520 going to take no for an answer. I'm not going 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.280 to settle for mediocrity. I'm going to keep pursuing what 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:19.000 God put in my heart. You can't be passive and indifferent. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.320 You have to have a holy determination. It's more than 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.800 just your will. It's a fire on the inside, a 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.640 knowing that it's supposed to be yours when everything says 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.159 it's not going to happen. Instead of getting discouraged, you 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.080 kick in to a new gear. Normal people would give up, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.839 normal people would settle, But you're not normal. You want 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:46.200 it on another level. When David was seventeen years old, 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.040 the prophet Samuel anointed him as the next king of Israel. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.560 But David didn't go to the palace. He went back 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.680 to the shepherd's fields, where it was lonely. He was overlooked, 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.680 mistreated by his family. When he finally did go to 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.839 the palace to serve King Saul, Saul became jealous of 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.839 David and tried to kill him. David had done no wrong, 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.720 yet he had to live on the run, hiding in caves, 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.920 spending months out in the desert. He could have been discouraged, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.480 thought God, this isn't fair. You anointed me to be king. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.719 Nothing is working out. But David didn't have a give 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.559 up spirit. He didn't feel sorry for himself. He didn't 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.040 let circumstances talk him out of it. He had a 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:38.440 warrior mentality. His attitude was I am not quitting, I 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.680 am not settling for mediocrity. I know there is greatness 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.080 in me. I'm going to become who God says I am. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.400 One reason he took the throne is he wanted it 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.360 bad enough? How bad do you want what God has 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.280 put in your heart? Bad enough to outlast the opposition? 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.279 Bad enough to overlight look some insults, bad enough to 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.960 do the right thing when the wrong thing is happening? 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.440 Do you want it bad enough to keep pursuing even 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.599 when circumstance is saved, It's not going to happen. Many 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.800 of the difficulties we face, the delays, the times it's 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:22.760 not fair. That's simply a test God is seeing how 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:23.880 bad do you want it? 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.840 This is what weeds people out. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.760 If you're overcome by problems, you let circumstances push you down, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.520 people talk you out of it. You're not going to 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.560 have the strength or the courage to sustain where God 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.240 is taking you. You have to be like David. Don't 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.640 have a weak mentality, have a warrior mentality. You have 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:51.120 to be more determined than the opposition. If you give 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.400 up every time things don't go your way, you didn't 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.640 want it bad enough. You have to dig your heels 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.520 in and say I am in this for the law haul, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.840 I know what God has spoken to me. I will 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.760 get well. I will accomplish my dream. I will meet 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.120 the right person. You're not moved by what's not working out, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.360 by how long it's taking, or by who's not for you. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.480 You know who is for you, the most High God. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:24.000 In March chapter ten, Jesus was leaving Jericho. A great 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.760 crowd was following him. There was a blind beggar on 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.320 the side of the road named Bartimaeus. When he heard 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:36.120 all the commotion, he started shouting, Jesus, son of David, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.800 have mercy on me. The people around him told him 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.360 to be quiet. You're creating a scene. He's going to 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:49.120 get upset. They saw Bartimaeus as insignificant. You're just a beggar. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.000 This man, Jesus, he's not going to be interested in you. 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:58.040 He's the hottest celebrity around. He's on TMZ every night. 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.200 The more they tried to quiet him, the scripture says, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.560 the louder he shouted. About that time, Jesus stopped, turned 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.640 and looked at him. Can imagine they thought, we told 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.400 you you should have been quiet. He's annoyed. He's going 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:12.280 to let you have it. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.440 Jesus smiled and said, tell him to come to me. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.280 They were amazed. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.520 They said Bartimaeus, he's not upset. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.120 He's calling you. They brought him to Jesus. Jesus said to. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.720 Him, what is it that you want me to do 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:26.200 for you? 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.800 Bartimaeus said, I want to see. Jesus told him, go 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.520 your way. Your faith has made you hold Instantly he 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:38.560 could see. Here's my point. There were other blind men 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.640 on the road that day. There were other sick people 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.160 in the crowd. Yet Bartimaeus was the only one that 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.920 was healed. Why he wanted it more than they did. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.640 He wanted it so bad he didn't let people talk 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.400 him out of it. When they tried to push him down, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.520 discourage him, he shouted even louder. If he would have 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.240 listened to them, he would have missed his miracle. Are 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.240 you letting people talk you out of what God put 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.720 in your heart? You can't get well. You saw the report. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.640 You'll never get out of debt. You've reached your limits. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.120 You can't start that business you want to accomplish your dreams. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.559 You have too much opposition. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.600 Do like him. Let that go in one ear and 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:21.280 out the other. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.240 Ignore what they're saying. They don't determine your destiny. God does. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.600 But if Barnabas would have been passive and indifferent, thought, hey, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.840 I'm blind, it's just a bad break. He wouldn't have 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.880 received his sight. He had this passion, this fire on 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.320 the inside that said this is your day, this is 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.040 your time. He rose up and took that step of faith. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.800 If you're going to see what you're believing for, you 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.200 have to be willing to do what other people want do. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.920 Other people may not believe when it looks impossible. Other 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.280 people may settle where they are. They may get discouraged. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.640 Tell you don't bother praying, don't bother believing, No use 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.520 getting your hopes up. You're wasting your time. You have 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.880 to do like Barnabas and say, God, this looks impossible, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.400 but I know you can do the impossible. The odds 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.320 are against me, but God, I know you are for me. Well, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.200 I put in three applications, all three companies turn me down. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.000 I don't think I'll ever find a job. I say 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.720 this respectfully. You don't want it bad enough. Well, I 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.640 dated two girls. Both of them told me I wasn't 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.280 their time. I don't think I'll ever get married. You 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.439 don't want it bad enough. There are several million other 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:43.319 girls out there. Well, I want to get well, but 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.640 the medical report says I'm not going to make it. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.160 When the odds are against you, you have to want 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.079 it on a new level. How bad do you want 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.240 to get out of debt? Bad enough to not buy 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.560 things you can afford, bad enough to not try to 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.000 keep up with your friends, bad enough to honor God 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.480 by tithing your income. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.200 How bad do you want that promotion? 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.040 Bad enough to get to work early, bad enough to 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.319 do more than what's required, bad enough to take that 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.000 online course to sharpen your skills. I don't want to 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.120 take another course. I don't want more work. I just 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.160 want the promotion. You don't want it bad enough. You 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.040 have to stand out in the crowd. The scripture says 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.760 Daniel distinguished himself. He was so excellent in his work, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:37.160 so sharp, had such a great attitude that he stood 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.440 out among all the other young men. The king put 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:41.719 him in a position. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:42.520 Of great leadership. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.760 But it doesn't say God distinguished him, God made him excel, 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:52.120 God made him stand out. It says he distinguished himself. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.760 He was willing to do what the other young men 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.320 wouldn't do. Wasn't so much that he had more talent, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.760 more Gill. It was the fact that he wanted it 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.839 more than they did. How bad do you want your 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.480 children to stay on the right course? Bad enough to 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.680 bring them to church each week, bad enough to get 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.120 them up and dressed on your day off and have 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.800 them in children's classes. We don't think twice about having 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:25.280 to get our children up for school, have them dressed, fed, ready, 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:30.160 sometimes by seven in the morning. Their schooling is incredibly important, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.560 but I could argue that their spiritual life is even 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.840 more important when they grow up learning to honor God 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.280 as a person of excellence and integrity, knowing that they 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:48.280 are fearfully and wonderfully made, knowing that they are surrounded 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.360 by favor. Those seeds planted in them will affect them 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.000 for the rest of their lives. Every time you bring them, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.920 you are showing them by example to put God first place. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.120 How bad do you want your marriage your relationships to 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.520 work out? Bad enough to bite your tongue when you 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.360 feel like telling them off, bad enough to clean up 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.720 a mess that you didn't make. There are new levels 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.920 in front of us, but much of it depends on 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.000 how bad we want it. God is not going to 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.760 do everything for us. We have to do our part. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:28.240 When Lazarus died, Jesus told his family roll away the 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.599 stone and A'll raise Lazarus. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.480 Jesus could have moved the stone. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:34.200 He's God. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.120 He wanted to see how bad they wanted it. 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.080 You can pray God, help me to feel better. I 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.360 don't have any energy. God, I'm always so tired. Are 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.760 you eating right? Are you exercising? Are you getting enough sleep? 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.920 Are you living stressed and worried? If you'll roll away 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.679 the stone, then God will do what you're asking on. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:01.040 But you can't override natural laws and expect to live 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.760 a blessed, healthy life. Do you want to get well 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.120 bad enough to not drink forty three colas a day 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.319 and sleep three hours a night? Let me move on. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.959 You want to get Do you want to break that addiction? 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.760 Bad enough to not hang around those people that are 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.600 pulling you down causing you to compromise, which all I 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.560 know these friends aren't good for me, but I like 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:25.520 being around them. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.040 You don't want it bad enough. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.800 God is not going to free you until you roll 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.720 away the stone. When he sees you doing all you can, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.600 then he'll make things happen that you can't. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.200 But if you're not willing to do the natural. He's 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.840 not going to do the supernatural. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.320 Your destiny is too important to spend it with people 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.000 that are not making you better. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.760 Who are you allowing to influence you? 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:57.160 Are they challenging you, inspiring you, pushing you forward? You 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.000 don't have time to waste with people that bring out 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.120 the worst in you. Life is flying by. We don't 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.280 get a do over. This is it? Well? What if 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.320 I hurt their feelings? What if you miss your destiny? 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.400 What if they keep you from becoming who you were 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.200 created to be. They may not want it bad enough. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.880 They may be okay with mediocrity, compromise and barely getting 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.840 by in life. That's their choice, but that's not who 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.920 you are. You have seeds of greatness. You're destined to 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.640 leave your mark. You weren't created to fit in, to 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:38.680 be average, to live with addictions, dysfunctioned, lacks struggle. You 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.600 were created to stand out in the crowd, to be 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.000 a cut above. Now do your part and distinguish yourself. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.040 Be willing to do what others want to do. Yes, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.200 it takes discipline. Yes you have to say no to 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:58.000 carnal desires. But the pain of discipline is less than 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.600 the pain of regret. It's hard to bite your tongue 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.800 not say what you feel, but that pain is less 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.960 than the pain of having someone you love walk away. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.000 It's hard to lay off the junk food, things that 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.560 are not good for you. That pain is less than 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.120 the pain of not being healthy. It's hard to break 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.680 away from a friend that's pulling you down, but that 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.920 pain is less than not reaching your dreams. And one 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.560 of the saddest things is to come to the end 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.560 of life and wonder what I could have become. What 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.960 if I wouldn't have let those people taught me out 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.720 of my miracle? What if I would have broken away 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.960 from those friends that were causing me to compromise? Where 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.560 would I be? What if I would have treated my 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.360 spouse with respect? What if I would have taken that 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.880 step of faith in my career and not played it 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.440 safe all the time. You don't have to wonder. You 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.760 can start right now. It is not too late to 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.880 become who God's created you to be. The question is 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.880 do you want it bad enough? Stir your passion up. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.800 Make this decision. I Am not going to live complacent, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.840 accepting mediocrity passive. I'm going to pursue what God put 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.399 in my heart. I'm going to take steps to grow. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.480 I'm going to come up higher in my relationships. There 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.919 was a young man that was raised in a small 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:26.040 town in Pennsylvania. Nobody in his family had ever left 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.639 that area. They all stayed and worked there locally. But 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.440 this young man had a dream to go to college. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.560 He knew he had more in him, but he came 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.040 from a limited income. He didn't have the funds or 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.239 the connections. But instead of giving up and accepting that 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.720 as his destiny, he went to the local phone company 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.040 and he got the phone directory for New York City. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.040 That's where he wanted to go to school. But he 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.600 had to find a job. He found a company that 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.199 had three hundred and ninety three locations in the New 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.000 York area. He decided to write each one of them 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.480 a letter asking them for a job. He didn't have 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.679 a computer or a typewriter, but for the next month 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.760 he wrote about fifteen letters a week, telling the company 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.240 that he would do anything from sweep the floors to 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.640 clean out the warehouses. Month went by and he didn't 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.720 hear anything. Three months nothing, six months still nothing. It's 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.280 kind of discouraged when he turned eighteen, he convinced his 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.320 parents to let him take the train to New York 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:37.040 City to follow up with that company. He arrived in Manhattan, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.880 he went to one of their largest locations in Times Square, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.200 told the person in charge who he was and how 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:45.760 he had applied for a job. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.480 And was wondering if they were interested. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.439 The person informed him that all the hiring took place 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.200 at their corporate headquarters a few blocks down the street. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.840 That's where all the applications went. He walked into this 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.320 big skyscrape, this huge building. He told the reception is 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.119 his name, and asked if he could see the person 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:10.080 in charge of hiring. She called upstairs, and much to 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.959 her surprise, they said yes, send him up. He stepped 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.000 off the elevator. They brought him to this large executive 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.720 office with big beautiful windows looking out. He was so nervous, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.560 so out of his element. He told the executive, my 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.199 name is so and so, and I was wondering if 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.240 you received the letter I wrote asking for a job. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.880 The executive turned to his side desk, put his hand 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.959 on a big stack of papers, said yes, we received 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.399 your letter, all three hundred and ninety three of them. 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.280 We knew you would be coming. You can start tomorrow. 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.200 That young man not only worked his way through college, 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:55.159 but when he graduated, he became a manager for a 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.480 whole region of their stores. How bad do you want it? Well, 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.080 I put in four applications, they all turn me down. 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.960 You have three hundred and eighty nine left to go. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.720 The difference between a dream and a wish is a 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.840 wish is something you just hope it happens, but a 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.959 dream you put actions behind. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.040 The scripture says faith without works is dead. 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.360 He could have wished he could get a job, wish 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.200 somebody would hire him. Wished he could go to school. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.960 Wishing isn't going to get you anywhere. He was willing 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:34.040 to do what others wouldn't do. The people that succeed 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.359 don't always have the most talent, the most education, the 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:43.440 most opportunity. Many times they simply want it more than others. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.119 You have to pursue what God put in you. Being 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:50.760 passive and indifferent will keep. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.320 You from your destiny. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:57.440 Jesus said, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness will 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:02.200 be filled. Here's the principle. If you're not hungry after anything, 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.240 you're not going to be filled. Are you hungry to 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.240 get well, hungry to accomplish the dream, hungry to meet 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.840 the right person. You can teach people to have faith, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:16.480 you can encourage them to believe, but you can't make 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.680 people be hungry. This has to come from the inside. 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.800 You have to know you are a person of destiny, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.919 that there is something bigger in front of you. Do 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.399 you want it bad enough? Or are you coasting? Have 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.200 you let people talk you out of it? Bad breaks, disappointments, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.320 still your passion cause you to settle. Well, my business 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.879 didn't make it. That's why I'm down. How do you 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:43.600 know your next business is not going to make it? 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:46.800 The medical report says I'm not going to get well. 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.800 There's another report. It says God is restoring health back 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.399 into you. Are you hungry for it? You may have 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:58.640 had some setbacks, but you have to be relentless when 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.239 it comes to what God put in your heart. If 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.840 you let people talk you out of it, delays, disappointments, 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:08.480 then you didn't want it bad enough. Sometimes we talk 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:11.919 ourselves out of it. It's too hard. Can't write that 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.400 many letters. I don't have a computer. It's amazing what 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.359 we'll do when we want something bad enough. When I 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:23.480 met Victoria, I was madly in love. I thought, this 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:26.080 girl is one of a kind. I am not going 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.720 to let her get away. I would do anything she wanted. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:32.960 I would go to the mall with her, follow her around, 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:35.960 hold her purse while she tried things on. I don't 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.840 even like the shop. I didn't mind it one bit. 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.840 I was with her one time when we were first dating. 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.000 She asked if I wanted to go work out at 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:49.560 five thirty in the morning. I thought, no, I don't 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.480 want to go work out at five thirty. I want 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.640 to sleep without missing a beat. I smiled real big 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:57.399 and said, I'd love to go work out at five thirty. 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:01.359 I'll be at your house at five point fifteen. I 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:05.119 was lying, but I was in love. Here. I was 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:07.959 driving down the road four forty five in the morning, 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:12.000 as happy as can be. Never complain. One time I 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:15.120 was about to see the girl of my dreams. When 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:18.280 you want something bad enough, you'll do things that you 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:23.879 normally wouldn't do. If you think I wanted her that bad, 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:28.800 you should have seen how bad she wanted me. I 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:33.960 made myself laugh. I can't think of any examples, but 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:38.560 I know she did. What am I saying qut, telling 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:42.360 yourself it's too hard, it's too early, I've had too 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:43.320 many setbacks. 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:46.440 You can do what you want to do. 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:50.119 Don't miss your destiny because you didn't want it bad enough. 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.800 What God put in you is worth fighting for. It's 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:58.479 worth being uncomfortable for a season. It's worth having to 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:02.040 stretch to get up early, to try it again, to. 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:04.080 Do what others aren't willing to do. 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:08.440 My grandmother on my father's side of the family was 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:12.679 a very feisty woman. She was a real character. She 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.080 grew up way out in the country, and she and 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:19.040 my grandfather were very poor. They didn't have much education, 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:22.600 but there were really great people. But later in life, 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:27.360 my grandmother took up chewing tobacco. She liked to dip snuff. 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:30.960 You didn't know I came from such a sophisticated background. 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:34.800 One time someone asked my father if you could chew 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:37.960 tobacca and go to heaven. He said, yes, but you'll 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:42.440 have to go to hell to spit. My grandfather couldn't 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:45.800 stand it. He begged her and begged her to stop. 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:49.720 She said, Jack, I just can't do it. I've tried everything. 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:54.040 I'm hooked. This went on year after year, nothing seemed 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:57.919 to help, and my grandfather was desperate. He finally told her, 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:01.320 Ellie May, I will give you a thou dollars if 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:04.960 you will stop dipping snuff. Back then in the forties, 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:08.720 a thousand was like twenty five thousand to day. She 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:12.480 wanted the money so badly she tried everything she could. 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:16.280 She still couldn't stop. Well. Eventually my grandfather died. He 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:19.280 went to be with the Lord, but my grandmother didn't 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:23.320 like being single. Ellie May wanted to find herself a man. 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:27.480 She met this man that was twelve years younger than her. 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:32.080 She was so excited. He was handsome, had a great personality, 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:35.960 more than she could imagine. But she started thinking, if 0:25:35.960 --> 0:25:39.680 he finds out I dip snuff, he will never even 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:41.920 ask me out on a date, much less marry me. 0:25:42.680 --> 0:25:45.399 Do you know how long it took Ellie May to 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:50.480 quit dipping snuff? That long? She did it instantly. She 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:55.959 didn't go the snuff dippers anonymous. She didn't have any withdraws. 0:25:56.680 --> 0:25:59.359 What she couldn't do in years, she did in a 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:03.320 split shot back all because her want to God big enough, 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.520 like my grandmother, you can do whatever you want to do. 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:13.080 The question is how big is your want to? You 0:26:13.119 --> 0:26:16.800 can break that addiction if you really want to. You 0:26:16.840 --> 0:26:19.880 can forgive that person that hurts you. You can make 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:22.960 your marriage work, you can write that book. You can 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:26.960 accomplish your dream if you want to bad enough. Your 0:26:27.040 --> 0:26:29.840 will is one of the most powerful things you have. 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:33.520 When you make up your mind to do something, God 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:37.240 will breathe on your efforts and give you strength that 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:41.400 goes beyond your natural ability. It's not just willpower, it's 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:44.760 the blessing of God helping you. But it kicks in 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:48.399 when God sees you doing all you can do, taking 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:51.720 steps to come up higher, forgiving the person that did 0:26:51.760 --> 0:26:55.800 you wrong, trying again after a disappointment. That's when you'll 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:59.320 see God make things happen that you couldn't make happen. 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:03.760 But I wonder if you've convinced yourself you can't do 0:27:03.840 --> 0:27:07.560 something that you really can do. I don't have the discipline, 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:10.240 I don't have the talent. God is saying you can 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:13.119 do it. It's in you, but you're going to have 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:16.480 to dig down deep and put forth the effort. It 0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:20.439 may not be easy, but your destiny is calling you 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:23.640 have greatness in you. Don't let people talk you out 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:26.960 of it. Don't let circumstances convince you that you can't. 0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:29.880 There are new levels in front of you. There are 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:35.520 great relationships, healing, promotion, abundance. My question is how bad 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:39.280 do you want it? I believe I'm looking at hungry 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:42.120 people today. I'm looking at people that have a made 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:46.480 up mind, people that are relentless. I believe and declare 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:50.480 because you'll want to is big enough. Like Barbibas, you're 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:54.280 going to see God suddenly turn things around. Like David, 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.520 You're going to outlast the opposition and take your throne. 0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:01.080 And like my grandmother, you're going to great barriers that 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:03.960 have held you back and step into a new level 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:08.120 of your destiny in Jesus' name, and if you receive it, 0:28:08.280 --> 0:28:11.800 can you say it? Men? Today, I'd like to give 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:15.040 you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:20.280 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:21.960 repent of my sins. 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:26.800 Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:28.160 --> 0:28:30.679 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:34.040 got born again. Get in a good Bible based church 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:37.960 and keep God first place. 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