Living A Life Worth Remembering

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These are the finest 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.800 people in all of Houston, right here at Lakewood, So 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.200 come out and see us. But thanks for tuning in today. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.120 I like to get started each week with something funny. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.359 And I heard about this elderly man. He had had 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.160 a serious hearing problem for years and years, could hardly 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.720 hear anything. And one day he went to the doctor 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.360 and he was fitted with a new type hearing aid 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.639 to where he could hear one hundred percent. A month 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.519 later he went back for a checka and the doctor said, man, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.119 your family must really be happy. Your hearing is perfect. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.680 He said, no, I haven't told my family. I just 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.000 sit around and listen to the conversations, and I've changed 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:54.639 my will three times. All right, hold of your Bible. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.440 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.600 I am what it says. I am have what it 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.200 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.480 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:11.760 I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.000 I will never be the same in Jesus' name, God 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.560 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.119 living a life worth remembering. So often we think I'll 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.239 never do anything significant. I'm just a business person. I'm 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.880 just a school teacher. I'm just to stay at home mom. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.240 But really that's the wrong mindset. You're not just anything. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.680 You're a child of the most high God. You have 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:43.600 seeds of greatness on the inside. Somebody needs what you have. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.280 Somebody needs your gifts and talents, somebody needs your love 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.720 and encouragement. You have something to offer that nobody else has. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.600 And if you don't rise up and do your part, 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.600 this world will not be as bright a place as 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.160 it should be. You have to ask ourselves one hundred 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.320 years from now, will it have made a difference that 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.480 I lived. Did I get up every day and give 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:13.000 it my best, pursuing my dreams and goals. Did I 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.760 keep my heart of compassion open, helping others, giving, caring, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.560 serving our attitude should be. I'm going to leave this 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.880 place better off than it was before. I'm going to 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.039 make a difference with my life. If we're going to 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:32.279 live a life worth remembering, we cannot make little plans. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:37.800 Don't make little goals, little dreams. Have a big vision 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.440 for your life. It all starts right here. You'll never 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:45.080 rise above the image you have of yourself. You have 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.280 to make room in your thinking for the life you want. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.560 It has to be conceived on the inside before you'll 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.440 ever receive it on the outside. And God is constantly 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.720 trying to plant new seeds in our heart, constantly trying 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.839 to get us to enlarge our vision, to know who 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.400 we really are, to know what we can accomplish. And 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.440 God said there in Isaiah forty three nineteen, behold, I 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.360 am doing a new thing. Can you not perceive it? 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.680 The reason some people never reached their full potential is 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.320 because they don't have a vision for it. They're limited 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.279 in their thinking. So like this man I heard about. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.480 He was out fishing one day and he noticed another 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.119 man across the bank fishing as well. And he saw 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.520 that every time this other man caught a big fish, 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.640 he would throw it back, but every time he caught 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.400 a small fish, he would keep it. This went on 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.839 all day long, and the more he watched, the more 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.080 curious he became. Finally he got his nerve up and 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.039 went over to him and said, Sir, I just don't 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.080 understand it. Why do you throw back the big fish 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.200 but you keep the small fish? The man said, Oh, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.880 it's simple. All I have is a ten inch frying pan. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.400 That's the way some people are today. Instead of getting 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.840 a bigger frying pan, instead of changing their thinking and 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.000 making room for the great things God has in store, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.039 they just throw it back, so to speak. Oh that's 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.120 too big for me, Joel, I could never be that successful. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.839 I could never handle that responsibility. I could never have 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.560 that kind of impact. What's the problem. Our frying pan 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.600 is too small. We gotta get rid of our limited thinking. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.520 Make up your mind with me. I'm gonna leave my 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.080 mark on this generation. I'm not gonna just make a living. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.200 I'm gonna make a difference. I'm gonna impact other people's lives. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.200 I'm gonna be a giver and not a taker. I'm 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.240 gonna leave this place better off than it was before. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.680 We have to realize we draw in what we constantly 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.880 think about. If we go around thinking that I'll never 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.320 do anything significant, I've reached my limits gone as far 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.760 as my education allows, I'll probably never get out of that. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.040 Joey come from the wrong family, not that talented No, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.599 you've got to change your thinking. You've got to know 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.000 who you really are. A child of the Most High God. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.320 You have all kinds of potential on the inside. You 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.760 can accomplish things that you've never dreamed of, but you've 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.840 got to get a vision for it. You got to 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.200 know deep down in here the favor of God is 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.000 surrounding you like a shield. You are full of can 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:33.640 do power. You have wisdom, strength and ability. When opportunities 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.680 come across your path. You feel the dreams and the 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.520 desires rising up. Don't shrink back think I can't do that, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.520 that's too big for me. No, dare to take that 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.160 step of faith. Dare to believe. After all, if you 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.560 can do it in your own strength, you don't really 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.720 need God. That doesn't really take faith. But if you'll 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.520 get out of your comfort zone and stretch to the 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.360 next level, that's when you'll see God show up and 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.480 do great things in your life. We've all heard the saying, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:06.160 you're not everyone, but you are one. You can't do everything, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.920 but you can do something. I'm asking you to make 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.080 a difference with your life. In the Book of Judges, 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.840 there's a lady by the name of Deborah She was 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.360 living in a city that was filled with violence and 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.760 all kinds of wrongdoing. It had gotten so bad you 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.480 couldn't even travel on the main roads. People were constantly 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.120 being harassed and attacked. But one day Deborah decided that 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.480 she was going to make a difference. She had a 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.840 big vision here. She was a woman. Back in those days, 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.160 women didn't have the leadership roles like they have today. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.200 Deborah wasn't wealthy, she didn't have anybody backing her up. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.400 She didn't have a special police force. All she had 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.199 was a desire to make a difference. The scripture says 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.319 the highways were unoccupied. The city was starting to shut 0:08:55.400 --> 0:09:01.840 down until Deborah, a mother in Israel around think about it, 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.080 a mother, There were certainly more powerful people there, people 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.160 with more influence, more expertise. But this mother decided she 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.719 was gonna make a difference. Her attitude was God, an 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.840 I are a majority, and I'm not gonna just sit 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.960 back and watch things go downhill. I'm gonna do what 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.720 I can and trust God to do what I can. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.720 When she rose up, her action triggered other people to 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.000 get behind her. That's what happens many times. Your actions 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.720 will stir people out of complacency. If you'll dare do 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.959 what's in your heart, other people will get behind you 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.679 and help you to make a difference. But we can't 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.760 have the attitude. Well, I'd love to help, but I'm 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.600 just a mother, Joel, I'm just a student. I'm just 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.560 a young person. I just graduated from college. Know, you 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.480 have the most powerful force in the universe on the 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.760 inside of you. You can make a difference. And what 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.640 I love about Deborah was she was a catalyst for change. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.120 She saw a need and met it. She didn't let 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.240 it overwhelm her. If she'd have had that ten inch 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.920 frying pan she had thought too bad, can't do anything 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.760 about it. No, she rose up and made a difference. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.200 We need to have that same attitude. I may only 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.360 be one, but I can be a catalyst for change. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.840 I'm gonna live a life worth remembering. A friend of 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.800 mine is a medical doctor. He specializes in internal medicine, and 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.559 he's got a very successful practice here in town. And 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.440 he's always had a desire to help the less fortunate. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.000 But he could have easily thought there are so many needs, 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.280 what can I do. I'm just one person. I don't 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.640 have a big organization like Deborah, I don't have anybody 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.520 backing me up. No, He realized that feeling down in 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.360 here was something God put on the inside. One of 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.200 the ways God leads us is by the desires of 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.800 our heart. When you have a desire to do good, 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.120 a desire to see change, or a cop towards someone 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.360 or some cause, that's God leading you. That's an indication 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.600 of what you should do. So about ten years ago, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.560 this medical doctor, instead of just thinking about it, he 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:17.800 started taking his vacations and traveling overseas to third world countries. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.559 He would work in the clinics help treat the sick. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:25.680 He got his medical suppliers here in town to donate supplies. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.080 All it took was a phone call. They were glad 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.080 to do it. He had ended up taking two or 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.640 three suitcases full of medicine with him every year. His 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.520 outreach overseas grew. It got to wear these medical companies. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.280 They weren't just giving him two or three suitcases full 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.880 of medicines. They were giving him big crates. He couldn't 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.800 carry it anymore. He had to ship it over time, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.880 other doctors and other organizations got wind of what he 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.280 was doing. They joined forces with him. It continued to grow. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:59.560 Last year because of his efforts, thirteen million children in 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.360 Africa received a pill to keep them from getting a 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.920 deadly parasite. One doctor, just an average ordinary person in 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:13.400 the natural touched thirteen million lives. He told how there 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.120 are three hundred million children right now that need this pill. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.440 This year, they expect to treat forty million of those children. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.120 He said, Joel, We're not going to stop until every 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.680 one of those children get the treatment they needed. Just 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.280 one doctor. What happened. He rose up and said, I 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.160 can make a difference. When his time here on this 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.640 earth is done, he will have lived a life worth remembering. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.760 I'm asking you to do the same thing. Be a 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:45.360 catalyst for change in your family, in your neighborhood, at 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.280 your school, at your office. Don't just think, ah, there 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.520 are so many needs. My family's always been this way, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.440 My school is so negative. They'll never change. No, you 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.800 can make a difference. God has you where you are 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.440 on purpose. You can touch people that nobody else can. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.440 Pay attention to what you're feeling down in here, and 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.280 then take the limits off of God. Quit telling God 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.920 what you can't do, and let God tell you what 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.160 you can do. God will never ask you to give 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.000 what you don't have. When He puts a dream in 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.760 your heart, he will always equip you with everything you 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.680 need to accomplish it. And if you'll just dare take 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.000 that step of faith, you'll see how God has already 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.079 made crooked places straight. He'll open up doors that you 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.360 never thought would open. He'll cause people to go out 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.000 of their way to be good to you. And even 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.720 when it looks impossible, even when you don't see a way, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.320 God will supernaturally make a way. You have everything you 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.080 need to make a difference. The seed of Almighty God 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.960 is on the inside. Sometimes we think, oh, only the 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.800 powerful ones will make a difference, Only the strong, the talented, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.640 the good looking. After all, they come from the right family, Joel, 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.400 they have the right name. I don't have what they have. Yes, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.240 that may be true, But the good news is you 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.599 have what you need. You are anointed, you are equipped, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.000 You are empowered to do what God's called you to do. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.760 You may not touch thirteen million children, but you can 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.360 influence a dozen office workers. You can impact one young 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.200 man that doesn't have a positive role model. You don't know. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.000 You may touch one person and that person will touch 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.440 many many others. I know my father, he wasn't raised 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.240 in church. He grew up during the Great Depression. His 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.360 family they were good people, they just didn't know anything 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.480 about God. He didn't have any kind of spiritual upbringing. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.800 And as a teenager there was a young man by 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.120 the name of Sam Martin. Sam would get to school 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.720 early every morning and write scriptures on the blackboard, and 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.000 my father and a lot of the other students would 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.840 make fun of him. They thought he was kind of 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.400 far out. That didn't bother Sam. Week after week, he 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.720 kept showing up early, writing no scriptures, doing what he 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.400 felt like he was supposed to do, making a difference. Well, 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.440 one day, at the age of seventeen, my father was 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.360 walking home from a nightclub at two o'clock in the morning. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.520 All of a sudden, he began to think about God 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.760 and eternity. The seed was planted by Sam. He went 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.720 and found him and said, Sam, what's wrong with me? 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.240 Why do I feel this way? The next day Sam 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.960 took my dad to church. The end of the service, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.160 the minister asked people to come forward to receive Christ. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.480 My father wouldn't go. He's too scared. Sam leaned over 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.440 and said, John, if you'll go, I'll go with you. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.640 That was the day that forever changed my family line. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.080 Because of Sam Martin, we got out from under the curse. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.240 Today we're living under the blessing. What's interesting to me 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.280 is Sam became a minister like my father, but he 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.440 never had the size of ministry my dad did. Sam 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.440 never had a big church, he never had a big following. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.280 Yet think of the impact he made by simply touching 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.320 my father. He'll get a reward for every person my 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.480 dad helped, every person I'm able to help. Fifty years later, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.840 Sam wrote a book. On the cover was a picture 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.080 of he and my father at the age of seventeen. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.800 His title was I Touched one and he touched millions. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.680 And you never know. You never know who you're touching 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.080 when you sew into that one person at the office, 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.080 that one young man that's discouraged. You can't do everything, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.080 but I'm asking you to do something, make a difference 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.920 wherever you go. The true joy in living is in 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.640 helping others. Now, I want you to feel your sense 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.040 of destiny. You can accomplish things that nobody else can. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.760 You may be teaching students but you don't know one 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.360 of those students may impact nations. You'll call may be 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.520 to raise a child. You're a stay at home mom. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:07.120 You don't know that child may influence millions. We don't 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.679 read much in the scripture about Pharaoh's daughter, just the 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.240 fact that she went out and found a little baby 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.840 floating down the Nile River. She was kind and caring, 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.879 took him in. It was Moses. Little did she realize 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.479 he would become one of the heroes of faith. I 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.240 believe she'll get a reward for impacting his life. When 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.200 you sew into those around you, you're making a difference. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.720 You're living a life worth remembering. There's a young man 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.520 that attends our church, and he was in an accident 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.840 many years ago and wasn't supposed to survive. Miraculously he 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.439 made it, but he lost his ability to drive. He 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.280 can't see very well, and he had to relearn his 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.240 motor skills and some of his speech. And when we 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.040 moved the church from our other location to this place, 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.280 he couldn't take the bus anymore. For some reason. It 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.159 didn't run from that place to our new place. But 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.600 I love the fact that he didn't just give up 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.679 and say, too bad for me. He went down week 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.840 after week to the public transportation meetings and he told 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.919 them that they needed to run the buses on Sunday 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.600 morning so he could get to Lakewood. He was passionate 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:23.640 about it. Here in the natural. He didn't have money, power, influence. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.080 All he had was a desire to make a difference. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.560 They told him again and again, I'm sorry, sir, but 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.520 there's just not enough demand to run the buses on 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.560 Sunday morning. He wouldn't take no for an answer. He 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.400 went out and got a petition, went door to door, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.240 had people sign it, took it back to the board, 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.120 they voted on it. Long story short, Today the buses 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.120 run on Sunday morning, all because one young man decided 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:54.160 to make a difference. See, he knew the secret. When 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.600 God puts something in your heart, he always gives you 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.880 what you need to accomplish it. He'll give you the favor, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.480 he'll give you the words to speak, He'll give you 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.040 the strength. It may not happen overnight. You may have 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.640 some obstacles. The critics and naysayers will probably come out 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.320 of the woodwork, But don't let that keep you from 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.639 pressing forward. When somebody tells you, no, You've got to 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.320 do like he did, and go back and ask again. 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.000 I found the favor of God will cause people to 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.640 change their mind. God's favor on your life will cause 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.560 people to wanna be good to you. It'll cause you 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.960 to be at the right place at the right time. 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.840 You may only be one, but you and God are 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:40.760 a majority. Today, thousands of people have transportation on Sunday 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.000 mornings because of one young man. He's making a difference. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.360 He's living a life worth remembering. And in the natural, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.800 he just a plain, old, ordinary person like you and I. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:55.280 But remember, God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.800 Why don't you make up your mind. You're not gonna 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.080 live an average life. You're not gonna sit back and 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:05.840 be complacent. When down and here you feel passion towards something. 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:10.399 Recognize that's God leading you to make a difference. A 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.720 lot of times we think, well, what's my two cents 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.520 gonna count? He could have thought, this is the fourth 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.960 largest city in America. They're not gonna change the bus 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.040 route for me. I'm just one person. Yes, you may 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.440 only be one, but with God's favor, with his anointing, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.439 with his strength, with his wisdom, with his power, you 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.240 can do great things. If God before you, who dare 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.640 even be against you? I remember when when we were 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.800 trying to acquire our new facility here, the former Compact Center. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.040 We needed ten votes from the city council members to win. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.520 The night before we only had nine. Looked like we 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.639 were gonna lose, But at the last moment, a young 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:55.360 Jewish council member changed his mind and he voted for us. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.359 It was his vote that gave us the victory. I 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.720 was talking to him later and I asked, what was 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.720 it that caused you to change your mind? After all, 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:07.480 he'd been against us for nearly two years. He said, Joel, 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.280 although you were very persuasive, thousands of your members called 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.720 my office, it wasn't any of that. He told how 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:18.840 there was this elderly Jewish lady that he had known 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.439 since he was a little boy. He hadn't talked to 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.639 her in years and years, but the night before the 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:29.000 main vote, out of the blue, she called him and 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:32.399 told him, in no uncertain terms, he was to vote 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.239 for Lakewood. He said, it was that phone call that 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.879 changed my mind. And what's interesting to me is I 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.000 don't know that lady I've never met her, never talked 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.760 to her. She may not even realize it, but it 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.960 was her three minute phone call that caused us to 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:53.080 have this facility. She made a difference. She was only one, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.920 but it just so happened. She was the right one. 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:58.359 She was the one God annoying it. She was the 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:03.280 one that touched his heart. Sometimes we think, well, I'm 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.320 not the most qualified, Joel, I'm not the most talented 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.080 one for this job. I'm not the most eloquent speaker. 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.160 That all may be true, but none of that matters 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.880 when you're the right one. None of that matters. When 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.200 God's annoyted you to do it. You can do more 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.119 with one touch of God's favor than you can do 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.200 in your whole lifetime in your own efforts. What I'm 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:26.560 saying is, when you have a desire down in here, 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.480 know that God's annoyed you to do it, He's going 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.200 to give you the favor. He'll cause people to hear 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:35.960 the right things. You've been empowered to accomplish your dreams. 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:40.720 Most of the time, it's not ability, it's availability. Are 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:43.320 we willing? Will we dare get out of our comfort 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.520 zones and stretch to the next level, you have to 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:51.280 realize God has matched you with your world. In other words, 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:56.119 He's given you everything you need to fulfill your destiny. 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.840 You may not feel like sometimes you're able to do it. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.439 That's okay. You have to get beyond your feelings and 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.240 know right down in here I have the seed of 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:09.520 Almighty God. God will never ask you to give something. 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:13.560 He'll never put a dream in your heart without first 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:17.320 equipping you with everything you need on the inside to 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.040 accomplish it. So even if you don't feel like you 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:23.399 have the wisdom, the talent, the ability, you've got to 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:27.200 just remind yourself, no, God has matched me with my world. 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.440 He's already put in me what I need. I heard 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:34.159 this minister illustrating this point before the service. He handed 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:36.560 a man a twenty dollars bill and he asked him 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:39.440 to secretly put it in his wife's bible to make 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:41.760 sure she didn't see him doing it. It was a 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.400 small church, everybody knew each other. During the sermon, he 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.280 asked the lady to stand up. He said, ma'am, do 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:51.120 you trust me? She said yes, I do. He said, 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:53.000 will you do what I ask you to do? She 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:55.800 said yes, I will. He said, well, please open your 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.400 bible and hand me a twenty dollars bill. She kind 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.240 of crings and, oh, I'm so sorry I don't have 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:04.439 a twenty dollar bill. He said, ma'am, do you trust me? 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.040 She said, yes, I do. He said, will you do 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:09.160 what I ask you to do? Yes? I will. Then, 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.240 please open your bible and hand me a twenty dollar bill. 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:15.840 She opened it up, and much to her surprise, there 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:18.560 was the twenty dollar bill. She couldn't believe it. She said, 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:21.720 how did it get there? He smiled and said, I 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:25.320 put it in there. And in the same way, God 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.719 will never ask you for something without first putting it 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:31.199 in you. If you have a desire, if you have 0:24:31.280 --> 0:24:34.040 a dream, you may not feel like you're able to 0:24:34.080 --> 0:24:37.840 do it. You may not feel like you have the strength, 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:41.000 the wisdom, the talent. But if you'll dare take that 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:44.840 step of faith anyway, you'll discover things in you that 0:24:44.920 --> 0:24:47.879 you never knew you had. This is where many people 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:50.840 miss it. This is why many people are in mediocrity. 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.320 They talk themselves out of it. Think about even Moses, 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:57.720 when God told him to go stand before Feah and 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:00.800 tell him to let my people. Got first thing Moses 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:04.200 said was God, I can't do that. I stutter. I'm 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:06.960 not a good speaker. I love the way God answered 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.760 him back. He said, Moses, who made your tongue? Who 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:14.120 made your voice? God was saying, in effect, Moses, I've 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:17.280 already put it in you, Just do it. God told 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:20.960 Gideon he was gonna deliver the people of Israel. God 0:25:21.000 --> 0:25:24.360 called him a mighty man of valor. Gideon said, no, 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.520 not me, God, I'm the least one in my family. 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:31.600 Everybody's more talented than I am. Noticed he had a 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:34.720 ten inch frying pan. He needed to go down to Walmart. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:39.240 He needed to enlarge his vision. Don't let the size 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.879 of your dream intimidate you. Don't let the fact that 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:46.840 there are naysayers in your path keep you from pressing forward. 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.639 I love what the apostle Paul said. People were trying 0:25:50.680 --> 0:25:52.920 to talk him out of his dreams and telling him 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:56.000 what he couldn't do. He said in Romans, what if 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:59.920 they don't believe? Will their unbelief make the promise of 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:03.480 God of no effect in my life? What he was 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:07.560 saying in my Texas translation was so what if they 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:11.160 don't believe? The promise is not in them? The promise 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:15.960 is in me, and that's the attitude we need to have, respectfully, 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:18.920 But so what if they don't think I can do it? 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:21.480 So what if they're trying to pull me down? So 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:24.560 what if they're criticizing. I'm not gonna let their sour 0:26:24.600 --> 0:26:27.720 attitude cause me to give up on my dreams. I'm 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:30.920 not gonna let their unbelief keep me from leaving my mark. 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:34.360 In other words, just because they have a ten inch 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:36.640 frying pan doesn't mean I have to have a ten 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:40.240 inch frying pan. Anytime you go to do something great 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.520 in life, anytime you step out of your comfort zone, 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:48.119 it stirs up the jealousy in small minded people. You 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:50.960 have to accept the fact not everybody's gonna cheer your 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:55.640 own Not everybody's gonna be excited about your dreams. Sometimes 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:59.600 you just have to encourage yourself when people are criticizing. 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:02.719 Don't sink down to their level. Be an eagle and 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.720 rise above it. I read where the first time Billy 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:09.080 Graham ever went over to England some fifty years ago, 0:27:09.560 --> 0:27:12.360 the press was so negative. They said, we don't need 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:16.359 your religion, we don't need another minister. One reporter said 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:19.760 to him, how can you even justify coming over here 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:23.119 on a big ocean liner. Seeing that Jesus wrote a 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:27.080 donkey everywhere he went, Billy Graham said, if you'll find 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:29.399 me a donkey that can walk on water, I'll be 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:35.120 the first one to buy it. Don't change for your critics. 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:39.359 Stay true to who you are. Mother Teresa said, people 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:43.000 will criticize you for doing good, but do good anyway. 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:46.399 Make a difference in your world. Live a life worth remembering. 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:50.679 The prophet Jewel said, wake up the mighty men. I 0:27:50.760 --> 0:27:53.280 believe I'm looking at the mighty men and women of 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:56.800 God today. You are full of strength, full of wisdom, 0:27:56.880 --> 0:28:00.640 full of can do power. There is no thing in 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:05.320 your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish. 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:07.960 Why don't you take the limits off of God? Get 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:10.520 rid of the words I can't, I'm not able to. 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:13.920 That's too big for me. No God has matched you 0:28:14.080 --> 0:28:17.439 with your world. He's already put in you everything you 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:20.359 need and everything you're going to need. To make a 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:23.240 difference to leave your mark, but it starts right here. 0:28:23.640 --> 0:28:26.000 Get rid of a ten inch frying pain. When you 0:28:26.040 --> 0:28:28.440 have a dream down in your heart, dare to take 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:31.439 a step of faith. You may only be one, but 0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:34.600 remember you and God are a majority. And if you'll 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:37.000 have a big vision for your life and not just 0:28:37.080 --> 0:28:39.840 live for yourself, but live to make a difference in others. 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:42.960 When you do that, God will take your places that 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:46.080 you've never even dreamed of. He'll promote you, he'll increase you, 0:28:46.480 --> 0:28:48.760 and when it's all said and done, you will have 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.160 lived a life well worth remembering. Amen. Do you receive 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:56.240 it today? And we never like to close our broadcast 0:28:56.400 --> 0:28:59.080 without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord 0:28:59.120 --> 0:29:02.680 of your life. Would you pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, 0:29:03.680 --> 0:29:07.880 I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:11.680 make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:14.440 that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get 0:29:14.480 --> 0:29:17.280 into good church, keep God first place. He'll take your 0:29:17.280 --> 0:29:18.960 places that you've never dreamed of. 0:29:19.560 --> 0:29:23.000 Thank you for listening to the Joelus Deine podcast. 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