Living The Resurrected Life

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Always a joy to 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.320 come into your homes. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.240 We love you and we're believing for God's very, very 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.840 best for your life. If you're ever in our area, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.240 stop by and be a part of one of our services. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:00.400 We would love to have you. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.840 But thanks for tuning in today, Thanks for coming out. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.280 I like to get started each week with something kind 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:06.320 of funny, and I. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:06.960 Heard about this. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.760 Husband and wife they were driving down the road and 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.760 they saw this sign that said Nacodochius forty miles ahead. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.360 They begin to argue over how to correctly pronounce the 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.440 name Nakodochus. The husband got so upset he finally said, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.120 when we get there, I'm going to stop and prove 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.200 to you that I was right. They drove silently for 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.520 the next thirty minutes. When he got to the town, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.119 he pulled into the first little fast food restaurant. 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.000 They both marched up to the counter. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.880 He said to the young lady working behind it, my 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.760 wife and I have been arguing for the last thirty minutes. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:44.600 Would you please, very slowly and very clearly, tell us 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.560 how to pronounce the name of this place. The young 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.400 lady's eyes got real big. She leaned over the counter 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.760 and said, Burger Keen. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.600 All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:00.120 mean it. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.720 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.919 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.640 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.920 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.280 is alert, my heart is receptive, I will. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.920 Never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.320 I want to talk to you today about living a 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:29.760 resurrected life. Every person goes through adversities. We've all had 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.680 unfair things happen. We didn't get a promotion we deserve, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.400 we lose a loved one, a friend betrayed us, or 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.680 maybe a marriage didn't last. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.840 And it's easy to get negative. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.520 And bitter and lose our enthusiasm for life. So many 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.040 people are living in the past, focused on who hurt 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:50.280 them and how. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:51.160 Unfair it was. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.320 They go around with a victim mentality, always blaming somebody else. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.680 But understand, you are not defined by your past. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.800 You were prepared by your past. 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:09.560 Every challenge you've been through, every adversity you faced, God deposited. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.120 Something on the inside. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:15.600 Your character was being developed, strength was being increased, vision 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:20.520 was being enlarged. With every difficulty, you can experience a 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.359 new level of God's goodness. You may have had unfair 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.040 things happen, somebody did you wrong, or maybe you've made 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.680 poor choices that's brought trouble on yourself. But if you 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.440 can just see it the right way, you are not 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:35.920 defined by your past. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.120 Your past is getting you prepared. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.400 One of the best things that I've ever learned is 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.359 nothing in life happens to me, it happens for me. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.640 In other words, God would not have allowed me to 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:49.960 go through it if. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.240 He didn't have a purpose for it. 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.520 He wouldn't have allowed that adversity to come if he 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.280 didn't already have a plan to get good out of it. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.880 And even though it's difficult, even though it may be unfair, 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.200 if you'll keep the right attitude, it's not only going 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.640 to help develop you into who you really are, it's 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.640 going to get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.200 It did not happen by accident. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.239 All things work together for good when you love the Lord, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:18.840 and it doesn't say. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.159 That all things are good. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.520 It may be uncomfortable, you may not like it, but 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.920 if you'll stay in faith, God will use it. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.360 To get some good out of it. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.120 And maybe you've gone through a major setback in your health, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.839 in your marriage, in your finances, but don't let that 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.640 set back become the central focus of your life. Now, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.440 keep your new goals in front of you, keep your 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:47.240 dreams alive. Jesus endured the pain of the Cross by 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.599 focusing on the joy that was set before him. What 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.240 are you focusing on today, what didn't work out? Who 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:55.920 hurts you how unfair it was? 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.560 Or are you focusing on your dreams, your goal knowing 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.920 that your best days are still out in front of you. 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:07.800 And those adversities, even though they may look like stumbling blocks, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.320 God can use them as stepping stones to take you 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.080 to a higher level. Everything you've gone through in life, 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.880 every adversity, every lonely time, God was depositing something on 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.279 the inside. He's getting you prepared, and you wouldn't be 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.240 who you are today. You wouldn't have the depth, the maturity, 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.680 the insight if it were not for those things. Keep 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.800 it in the right perspective. We are not defined by 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.080 our past. You're not defined by how you were raised, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.280 or by how somebody treated you, or even by the 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:41.719 mistakes you've made. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.880 You are prepared by your past. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.719 Now I'm asking us today to shake off any kind 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:53.000 of self pity, shake off bitterness, shake off going around offended. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.480 Life is too short to have a victim mentality. And 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.280 you may have seen one of your dreams died, You 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.640 lost a loved one, lost a marriage, lost your enthusiasm 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.800 in life, But here's how God works. You've been through 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.760 the death, you've been through the burial. Now it's the 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:14.880 third day. It's time for your resurrection. If you're going 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.080 to live this resurrected life, you have to have a 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.280 resurrected mentality. In other words, I may have been cheated 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:23.760 in a business deal, but. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:24.440 I'm not bitter. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.880 I'm not sour. I know that didn't happen to me. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.920 That happened for me. God said he would be my vindicator. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.960 He said he would pay me back double. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.880 For every injustice. So I'm not going to drag around defeated. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.120 I am stayed in faith knowing that that just qualified 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:41.760 me for double. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.760 Or in your health, maybe you're facing a sickness. It's 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.800 been that way a long time. The medical report doesn't 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.880 look good. You should be down and discouraged. But no, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.680 I know this isn't happening to me. It's happening for me. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.280 God is in complete control, and I believe he's not 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.920 only going to turn it around, but he's gonna bring 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.160 me out better off than I was before. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:05.200 Stay in faith. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.520 Or like I said, maybe you've made poor choices. You've 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.040 made some mistakes. That's opened the door to trouble. And 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.320 now that condemning voice, the accuser keeps telling you you 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:17.400 blew it. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:18.280 It's your fault. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.400 You can't expect anything good. No, You've got to shake 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.840 that off and say, I may have brought trouble on myself, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.800 but I know God's mercy is bigger than any mistake 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.080 I've ever made. Now, I am not gonna live my 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.880 life guilty. I'm not giving up on my dreams. I 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.600 know I'm growing, I'm learning, and in the end, God's 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.640 gonna use it all. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:39.479 To my advantage. 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.760 Have that resurrection mentality. You are a child of the 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.560 Most High God. Nothing can happen to you. It can 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.920 only happen for you. It's all a part of God's plan. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.200 And even when it doesn't seem like it's fair, God 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.680 said here in Isaiah sixty one, verse three, he will 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:02.080 give you beauty for your ashes, joy for your mourning. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.960 Some of you may feel like today all you have 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.720 is a bunch of ashes. Nothing in life has turned out, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.720 none of your dreams have come to pass. That simply 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.800 means you've been through the death, You've been through the burial. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.000 Now it's time for your resurrection. And the good news 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.440 is it's not over until God says it's over. He 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.640 still has a way to bring your dreams to pass. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.080 Why don't you get in agreement with him? Why don't 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.719 you shake off that victim mentality. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.920 If we will have the right perspective, it takes away 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.560 all the power of the enemy. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:36.720 When things come against us. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.360 In the natural, we should get down and discourage, go 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.360 around complaining defeated. But when we understand this principle that 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.200 eventually God is going to get some good out of it, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.400 and even though it's difficult, God's depositing something on the inside, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.200 then we can have a smile on our face even 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.560 when our plans don't work out. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:58.440 We can be in peace. 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.840 Even when we should be stressed out. We can be 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.400 good to people even when they're not being good to us. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.040 You may have a boss, a friend, a child that's 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.640 kind of hard to get along with. Sometimes you have 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.520 to look at him and just say it in faith, 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.360 you are not happening to me. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.200 You are happening for me. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.680 They may not understand it, but don't bother explaining it 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.480 to him. And this may seem kind of funny, but 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.960 some of my enemies I need to thank them the 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.640 most some of them, I need to write them a check. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.040 They don't realize how God has used them to stretch me, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:31.199 to grow me. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.360 Up, to help me have a greater confidence in Him. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.160 I've told you how when we were trying to acquire 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.360 this place, one of the main business leaders in the 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.319 city told a friend of mine, it'll be a cold 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.040 day in hell before Lakewood ever gets the Compact Center. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.079 That man doesn't know what he did for me. When 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.960 I see him, I need to buy his dinner McDonald's. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.000 Probably. I don't know if. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.079 We'd be here today if it were not for him. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.840 God used him to light a new fire on the inside, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.680 to give me a new determination, a new passion. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.600 He didn't happen to me, He happened for me. 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.560 At first, I was thinking, Wow, we've got a lot 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.480 of things coming against us, and looks like our opponents 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.320 are very big, very powerful. But I had to shake 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.839 that off and say, no, if God be for us, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.959 who dare be against us? The bigger they are, the 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.400 harder they fall. We didn't have a victim mentality. We 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:31.040 had a victor mentality. But too many times when it 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.800 looks like one of our dreams has died, we just 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.720 give up, we stop believing. I've seen people that miss 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.280 God's best because they never get past. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:41.559 The burial stage. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.079 They go through a disappointment, something doesn't go their way, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.880 and instead of letting it go knowing that God has 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.520 another plan, instead of getting a fresh vision for their life, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.880 they waller around in self pity. But you'll never get 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.559 to your resurrection. You'll never get to phase three if 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.360 you don't get it passed the death and the burial. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.400 In other words, you got to have the attitude. I 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.559 did my best, I gave it my all. For some reason, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.800 it didn't work out. Now I am not going to 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.800 sit around the rest of my life and mourn over 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.439 something that I cannot change. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.520 That's over and done. So I'm on regroup. I'm on refocus. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.880 I know I've been through the death, I've been through 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.880 the burial. I'm getting ready for my resurrection. I'm getting 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.840 ready for the new thing God's going to do in 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.480 my life. And most of the time, the reason God 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.560 closes a door when we're walking in obedience and being 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.120 our best, it's because He has something better in store. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.720 But when we get sour, when we don't get our 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.640 way and we live bitter offended negative that stops God 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.520 from bringing the new thing. We have to be able 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.240 to say God, even though I didn't get my way, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:50.319 I trust you. 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.679 I know you know what's best. 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.160 For me, and I believe at the right time, you 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.600 will give me the desires of my heart. Several years 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.280 after Victoria and I got married, we sold the house 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.880 we were living in and moved to another place, and 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.040 the people that bought the house several months later, they 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.480 filed a lawsuit against us. They were having a problem 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.560 with the outside sewards, and they not only sued us, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.440 but they sued the builder, the architect, the realtor, the plumber, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.880 like five or ten different people, everybody they could think of. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:21.880 And I knew that we didn't do anything wrong. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.960 We were not at fault, but I was so distraught 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.679 over this lawsuit. It went on month after month. I 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.240 remember I had to go downtown and give my deposition. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.200 I was so stressed out and so nervous, thinking this 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.520 is the worst thing in the world that's ever happened 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:37.720 to me. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.680 And at that deposition it took me like two hours. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.200 After I got finished, I was so nauseated I couldn't 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.040 even drive home. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.320 I'd allowed it to upset me that much. Well, about 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:49.080 six months. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.720 Later it was all thrown out and we were totally cleared. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.960 But during that whole time, I was thinking of how 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.400 bad it was, and just how this is not fair, 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.160 and God, this is just wasting our time, on and on. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.360 I saw myself as a victim. But about three years 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.720 later I begin to see what God was doing. When 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.880 we signed the least for this place, a company filed 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.240 a lawsuit to try to keep us from moving in. 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.240 I realize now God was getting me prepared Back then. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.680 When I went to give my deposition concerning this place, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.600 I was as calm as I could be. And I 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.600 know if I had not gone through that other lawsuit 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.640 and seen how it all was going to work out, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.560 I wouldn't have been as confident. I wouldn't have been 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.520 as ready when it came to something that really mattered. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.600 What I'm saying is, when you go through tough times 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.640 you don't know what God's getting you prepared for, don't 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.040 be shortsighted and think, Oh God, why is this happening? 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:45.880 This is not fair. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.320 No, God would not have allowed it if he wasn't 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.600 going to get some kind of good out of it. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.960 It may be ten years down the road you look 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.640 up and think, Wow, if I hadn't I had that adversity, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.640 I wouldn't have met this person, induce me to this person, and. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.000 On and on. God hasn't all figured out. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.720 And some of you right now, the thing that you're 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.800 fighting against, the thing that's got you so stressed out. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.000 If God were to take it away, you wouldn't be 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.040 prepared for what he has in store. It would keep 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.480 you from going to the level he's trying to get you. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.200 To keep it all in perspective that coworker you don't 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.080 like that job you dread going to, it's not happening 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.040 to you. It's happening for you. God's getting you prepared 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.320 for greater levels. What has a great impact on whether 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.640 or not it happens or how long we stay there 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:41.160 is our attitude when we go around sour complaining God, 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.440 why am I always getting these bad breaks? 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:44.680 No, stay in faith. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.000 Just say God, I know you're in complete control of 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.800 my life. And no matter how tempted I am to 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.720 be disappointed, I am not going to be a victim. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.520 I am not going to go around negative blaming other people. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.680 I know You've got me in the palm of your hand. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.920 And I believe one day I'm going to look out 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.200 and see how this has all turned out. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.720 For my good. Stay in faith. I know this pastor. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.440 Friend, he had a man in his congregation. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:12.960 That was always having a problem. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.280 This man was always complaining to him about something and 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.760 just always in need. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.920 And he finally got tired of it. He was praying. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.360 He said, God, would you just move this man to 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:24.160 another church. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.320 He is draining all my strength, draining all my energy, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:28.320 taking all my time. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.320 He said. He heard God speak to. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.680 Him right down in here, and God said, no, I'm 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.480 not going to do that. That man has kept you 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:40.000 on your knees like nothing I've ever seen before. It's 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.440 not happening to you, it's happening for you. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:43.840 Thank God. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.080 We don't have anybody like that around here. Okay, maybe 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.200 one person, but they're not here today. But the fact 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.080 is we grow in the difficult times. That's when our 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.280 character is being developed. Yeah, it's fun being on the 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.120 mountaintop where it's easy, but we're not being stretched. It's 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.920 when we have to dig our heels in and overlook 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.640 an insult and forgive a wrong and do the right thing, 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.680 even when people aren't treating us right. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:11.760 That's when we're growing. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.040 And I'm not saying to believe for tough times, but 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.680 when they come, I've already made up my mind. I'm 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.600 not gonna get sour, I'm not gonna get bitter. I'm 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.240 gonna get better. I know God is trying to deposit 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.359 something on the inside. We've got to go through the 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.919 valley in faith, knowing that it's taking us to a 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:30.679 higher mountain. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:31.320 Now. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.600 I love what David said, though I walk through. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.000 The valley of the shadow of death, he didn't say 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.000 though I live in the valley, though I'm stuck in 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.080 the valley, though I probably die in the valley. No, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.840 he said, this valley is temporary. I'm not gonna die 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.640 with these problems. This too shall pass. And the fact 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.280 is every one of us is going through. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:58.359 Something, a health issue, financial difficulty, a struggle at work. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.800 We all have something in the natural that could steal 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.600 our joy and cause us to be worded. But we 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.480 got to keep the perspective like David and say, no, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.400 I'm going through this. This didn't come to stay. It 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:12.200 came to pass. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.080 Now, all through the day, you need to remind yourself 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:16.800 this is temporary. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:18.120 This is just a season. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.000 I may be lonely right now, but I'm not gonna 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.720 stay lonely. I know God's gonna bring the right person 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:28.119 into my life. Or I may be wounded emotionally. I 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.120 may be hurting on the inside, but I'm not gonna 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:31.800 stay wounded. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:33.360 I know God is the. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.600 Restore of my soul. He's gonna bring healing and give 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:41.520 me beauty. For these ashes, you have to keep yourself encouraged. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.560 Don't settle in the valley that is not your permanent address. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.840 It says in Psaw eighty four, passing through the valley 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.400 of Weeping, you will find pools of blessings. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.440 What does that mean? When you go through the valley, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:57.680 when you go through. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.400 Difficult times, if you will stay in faith, God will 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.120 take those tears and turn them into pools that will 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.000 actually refresh you. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.879 You look up and think, man, I should be down, i. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.480 Should be stressed out. I've got so much coming against me. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.680 But I'm happy. I'm at peace. I'm expecting good things. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:17.760 Why is that. 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:22.000 It's because you're tapping into those pools of blessings and 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:23.159 God is refreshing you. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:24.080 Now. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.360 I know sometimes when we go through loss. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.120 It's easy to feel like we've been robbed, like something's 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.399 been stolen from us. You lose a loved one, loss 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.360 of a marriage, even the loss of a childhood if 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.040 you weren't raised in a good environment. And when we 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.440 go through a loss, we can have one of two attitudes. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.000 We can say, God, this isn't fair. Why did this happen? 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.240 It doesn't make any sense. 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.400 We can get bitter, negative, live life, angry and offended. 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.480 But a much better approach is to take that loss 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.840 and sow it as a seed and just say God, 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.800 I don't really know why that this has happened to me. 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.560 I don't know why this has been taken away, But God, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.080 I'm not gonna allow anyone or anything to steal from me. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.879 I'm giving it to you as a seed, trusting that 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.480 you will bring me a harvest. Don't have a victim mentality. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.639 Maybe you didn't get the promotion you deserved. Just say God, 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:23.080 nobody stole this promotion from me. I know you control 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.280 the whole universe, and even though it wasn't right, God, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.919 I'm giving it to you as a seed, trusting that 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.080 you will bring me an even better promotion. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.880 Or how about a relationship that didn't work out. 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.120 God, I'm not gonna sit around bitter for the rest 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:38.560 of my life thinking about the. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.200 Months and the years that I've wasted. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.480 I'm giving this relationship to you as a seed, believing 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.840 that you will bring me divine connections, the right people 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:48.800 into my life. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.320 You cannot have a victim mentality. 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.199 Hey I lost my loved one, I've been robbed. No, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.720 just turn it over to God. Give it to him 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.439 and you'll be amazed at what kind of harvest he 0:20:59.480 --> 0:20:59.960 can bring. 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:02.160 I think about Jesus. 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.440 Before he came to the resurrection, he had to go 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.439 through the Garden of Gasemone, the road to Galgatha, and 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:13.720 the Cross. Those were his biggest challenges. The enemy always 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.879 fights us the hardest when he knows we are closest 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.439 to our victory, and many times on the way to 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.120 our resurrection, on the way to our dreams being fulfilled, 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:25.439 we'll go through these. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.760 Same type of things. And it's interesting. 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.280 When Jesus prayed for Peter, he didn't pray that he 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.920 would never have to go through anything difficult. He prayed 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:38.520 that his faith would remain strong. And in the garden 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:42.679 of Gasemone, Jesus was so distraught over what he was 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.679 about to face. He was in such agony in his 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:49.600 spirit that he swept great drops of blood. He said, Father, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.840 if you're willing take this cup from me, nevertheless, not. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.720 My will, yours be done. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.280 It was there in the garden that he made a 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.439 decision to hold on to the promise that God had 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.000 put in his heart. In fact, there was a war 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:09.080 going on on the inside. Everything in him was telling him, 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.399 you're not gonna make it. There's no way, it's too tough. 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:15.760 But when he made the decision to stay in faith, 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:16.720 God sent. 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:18.760 An angel that began to strengthen him. 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.760 You may feel like you're in the garden right now. 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:25.159 Everything has come against you. You don't see in the 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:27.959 natural how you could make it. But God is saying, 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.760 hold on to that promise. Keep believing, keep hoping, keep praying. 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.359 You are close to your victory. On the road to 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:40.320 be crucified. They made Jesus carry his own cross, but 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:44.119 he had been so beaten down, so mistreated, he couldn't 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.000 carry it the whole way. He fell down under the 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:50.919 weight of his cross. The message is you don't have 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:55.159 to be strong one hundred percent of the time. Sometimes 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:59.560 the cross we're carrying can be extremely heavy. The accusing 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.159 voice will tell you if every day is not a 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.159 perfect day, if you don't stay in faith every minute, 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:07.359 keep your joy and keep your peace, and you're. 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:08.280 Just not strong enough. 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:13.080 But it's always encouraging to remember that even Jesus fell 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.119 down under the weight of his cross, a man by 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:18.840 the name of Simon came and helped him to carry you. 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:23.119 God will always send somebody across your path to be 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:25.880 there for you in the time of your greatest need. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.240 Maybe today it's my voice telling you you can make it. 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:31.040 There are better days up ahead. 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:35.760 But the enemy will tell you this. He'll tell you 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:39.199 you lost your victory, you had a bad day, you 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:41.960 had a pity party, you lost your temper, you yelled 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:45.879 at your kids on God's saying, that's okay, you're human. 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:48.240 I know what it feels like to fall down. I've 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.879 been there. Just get back up again. You've got a 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:56.160 resurrection coming. They nailed Jesus to the cross, and as he. 0:23:56.200 --> 0:24:00.280 Hung there, he felt so lonely, so dejected. He cried out, 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:04.520 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? He 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:08.080 asked a question, but he didn't hear any kind of answer. 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:11.440 Sometimes heaven can be silent. 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:13.200 You pray, you. 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:17.000 Believe you're doing your best, but you don't see anything happening. 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:20.639 You're hurting on the inside. It looks like it's over. 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:25.560 But in those silent times, something powerful is happening down 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:29.359 in here. God is stretching you. You're developing a greater 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:32.960 confidence in him. Your mind will tell you it's over, 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:36.159 it's never gonna happen, but something will rise up in 0:24:36.200 --> 0:24:39.600 your spirit that says, no, God is still on the throne. 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.359 This is not happening to me. It's happening for me. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.440 And even though it's not fair, even though I'm discouraged, 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.000 deep down, I know that I know I've got a 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:50.000 resurrection coming. 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:52.359 I know God can still turn this around. 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:56.000 As Jesus hung on the cross in all that pain, 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.240 the soldiers made fun of him, locked him, ridiculed him. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:04.280 In spite of all that suffering, in spite of the disrespect, 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:08.040 he looked up to Heaven and said, Father, forgive them. 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.480 They don't know what they're doing. He forgave his enemies. 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:15.080 Then he committed his spirit into his father's hands. 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:16.879 They put him in the grave. 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:21.680 I'm sure the forces of darkness were celebrating, rejoicing, thinking 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:24.639 they had finally won the victory. But they didn't realize 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:28.680 it's not over until God says it's over. God always 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:32.720 has the final say. He controls the whole universe. That 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:36.280 was on Friday, but three days later, on Sunday morning, 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:39.080 Jesus came up out of that grave. He said, I 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:42.400 am he that lives. I was dead, but I am 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:47.920 alive forevermore. He went on to say, because I live. 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:49.720 You can live. Also. 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:53.320 God has an abundant life in store for each one 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:53.680 of us. 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:56.160 But many times on the way to. 0:25:56.200 --> 0:26:00.640 Our victories, just like Jesus, will experience some of these setback, 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:03.879 some of these difficult times. You have to remind yourself 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:07.000 it's not happening to me, it's happening for me. God's 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:11.520 getting me prepared on the inside. He's depositing strength, courage, 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:15.480 and ability. Keep your eyes focused on your goals, says 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:19.720 in Hebrews. Now faith is you have to have a 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:23.560 now mentality. Not one day I'm going to be happy. 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:25.600 One day God's gonna work. 0:26:25.400 --> 0:26:26.280 In my life. 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:29.760 No, now is the time to release your faith. The 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:33.159 fact is, right now God is working in your life. 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:37.200 Right now, God's arranging things in your favor. Right now, 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:40.000 God's trying to fill you with his strength. Stay in 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:44.840 the now. That's what activates God's power. You remember when 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:48.480 Mary and Martha were at the tomb of their brother Lazarus. 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:50.920 He'd been dead for four days, and they were there 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:55.280 crying so distraught. Jesus finally showed up and said, I 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:59.200 am the Resurrection and the Life. They said, yes, Jesus, 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:02.480 we know in the last days you'll raise our brother 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:04.679 Lazarus from the dead when we all go to heaven. 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:08.120 Jesus said, in the fact, no, Mary, no Martha. I'm 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:12.000 not talking about in the last days. I'm talking about today. 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:15.200 If you'll roll away the stone, I'll raise your brother 0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:19.160 right now. He was saying, I am a right now God. 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:22.320 A lot of times, like these ladies, we're believing one 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:24.959 day God's gonna do something great in my life. One 0:27:25.080 --> 0:27:28.120 day God's gonna resurrect my dead dreams. Now, we have 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.280 to get out of that one day mentality and let's 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:33.920 start believing that today God's. 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:34.680 Gonna do something great. 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:39.320 Today, God's gonna open up supernatural doors. Have a now mentality, 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:42.399 And I know some of you have been through the 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:45.280 death so to speak. You've been through the burial, You've 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:48.600 had people lie about you, lost friends, gone through disappointments, 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:49.520 face sicknesses. 0:27:50.000 --> 0:27:53.240 But God didn't take you through everything. He took you 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:55.080 through just so you could. 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:59.600 Come out beaten, down, bedraggled, half dead. Well, how you doing, brother, 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:04.240 All good under the circumstances. Now it's time for your resurrection. 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:07.400 It's time for you to rise up and take everything 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:11.240 that belongs to you. If you've been crucified with Christ, 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:14.520 you can be raised with Christ. The enemy may have 0:28:14.560 --> 0:28:17.080 done his best, but his best will never be enough. 0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:21.000 You've got to shake off the past, shake off every disappointment, 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:24.680 shake off every injustice, shake off every failure. 0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:26.680 Let today be a new beginning. 0:28:27.200 --> 0:28:30.280 You may feel like you're in the garden, down and discouraged, 0:28:30.560 --> 0:28:33.800 but take heart, you've got a resurrection coming. You may 0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:36.720 have fallen down under the weight of your cross. God 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:39.640 is saying get back up again. You're close to your victory. 0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:42.560 You may even feel like you're on the cross. Your 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:45.880 dreams have died. Everything's coming against you. You've got to 0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:49.600 get a new perspective. Nothing in life has happened to you, 0:28:50.000 --> 0:28:51.120 It has happened for you. 0:28:51.600 --> 0:28:53.760 God has you in the palm of his hand. 0:28:54.240 --> 0:28:56.520 He is going to take what was meant to destroy 0:28:56.600 --> 0:29:01.240 you and use it to thrust you into your divine destiny. Remember, 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:04.400 you are not defined by your past. You are prepared 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:09.600 by your past. Every adversity, every obstacle, God's depositing something 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:13.320 on the inside. If you'll live this resurrected life, you 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:17.240 won't have a victim mentality. You will have a victoria mentality. 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:18.360 And even when. 0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:20.640 Things come against you, you'll still have a smile on 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:21.200 your face. 0:29:21.600 --> 0:29:24.600 You'll know God's not only gonna turn it around, but 0:29:24.680 --> 0:29:27.680 He's gonna give you beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, 0:29:28.000 --> 0:29:31.280 and in the end, you're gonna come out stronger, happier, healthier, 0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:34.200 better off than you were before. Amen. Do you receive 0:29:34.200 --> 0:29:34.640 it today? 0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:39.920 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:42.720 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:47.360 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:48.640 repent of my sins. 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:53.600 Come into my heart. 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