Making Plans To Live A Blessed Life

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Make it count with Perdue Global produce online 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:59.720 University for working adults start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.440 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.600 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.280 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.000 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:21.840 for God's very best in your life. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:25.880 Well, God bless you. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.440 It's a joy to come into your homes, and if 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.039 you're ever in our area, please stop by and be 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.480 a part of one of our services. I promise you 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.080 we'll make you feel right at home. I say it often, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.080 but these are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.720 right here at Lakewood, So come out whenever you can. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.880 But thanks for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.000 I'd like to get started each week with something kind 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.440 of funny. And I heard about this couple. They'd been 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.440 married for over sixty years. They were at a church 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.920 fellowship and somebody asked them the secret of their success 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.000 and how they'd been married so long. The man told 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.320 how he always treated his wife with respect, and how 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.360 he took her on trips all over the world. He said, 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.560 in fact, for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary. I took 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.240 her to Beijing, China. Everybody kind of clapped. When men 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.840 spoke up and said, what'd you do for your fiftieth anniversary? 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.639 He said, I went back and picked her up. All right, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.400 hold up your bibles. Say it like you mean it. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.799 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.920 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.600 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.799 taught the Word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.360 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:46.520 the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.600 Living seed of the Word of God. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.080 I'll never be the same, never, never, never, I'll never 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.920 be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.639 want to talk to you today about footing the right 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.639 actions behind your faith. It's not enough to just believe. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.440 We have to take it one step further and start expecting. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.840 When we're expecting, we're making plans, we talk like it's 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.120 going to happen. We act like it's going to happen. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.880 Just like a young couple that's expecting a baby. They 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.120 make all these preparations. Why because a child it's on 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.359 his way. The fact is they haven't seen the baby, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.600 they haven't touched it yet. They have enough faith in 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.520 the doctor's report to start making these preparations. And God 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.320 has put dreams in every one of our hearts. We 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.880 all have things that we're believing for. Believing to overcome 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.000 an illness, believing to get out of debt, believing. 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.400 To accomplish our dreams. But here's the key. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:50.120 We have to go beyond believing. True faith has actions 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.440 behind it. If you're sick, you need to start making 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.920 plans to get well. If you're struggling in your finances, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.720 start making plans to prosper carriages on the rocks, start 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.040 making plans. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.160 To see that relationship restored. Put your faith out there. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.320 A lot of times we're believing one way, but with 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.560 our actions we're doing just the opposite. We have to 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:16.719 understand our faith will work in either direction. Now I 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.320 know people they're making plans to get the flu at 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:21.320 the grocery store. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:22.679 Well, it's flu season. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.719 I better pick up some of this flu medicine just 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.760 in case. After all, it was bad last year, got 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:28.640 lucky and didn't get it. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:29.840 But I'll probably get it this year. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.240 They talk like it's going to happen, they take it 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.599 one step further and put actions behind their faith behind 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:37.520 the flu medicine. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.600 A few months later, they've got it. See their faith worked. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.200 They believe for it, they expected, they made plans, and 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.920 they get it. Faith will work even in the negative direction. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.240 And I'm not saying to go overboard. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.200 We have medicine at our house, but I don't think 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.839 we should run down to the pharmacy every time a 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.839 television commercial comes on announcing flu season, is here. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:01.320 Ready to get it. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.600 It's funny sometimes we put more faith in that than 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.800 we do in what God says. The scripture says no 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.800 weapon formed against us is going to prosper. I love 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.760 what it says in Psalms. A thousand may fall at 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.520 my side, ten thousand at my right hand, but it 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.240 will not come near my dwelling. That means everybody at 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.039 work may be getting the flu, everybody at school may 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.520 have it. But I believe God has put a hedge 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.960 of protection around me. And I'm going to stay in 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.120 faith and not make plans to get it. And you know, 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.640 if we read the news long enough and watch all 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.760 the studies. If we're not careful, they'll just about talk 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.600 us into having heart disease and high cholesterol and diabetes. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.520 Well you know what they say, Joel, One in four 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.039 people get cancer. Maybe that's true, But why don't you 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.240 believe to be one of the three that don't get 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:50.960 it instead of the one of the ones that do 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.320 get it. It is just as easy to believe for 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.560 the positive as it is the negative. And I want 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.960 you to start making plans to live a long, healthy 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.800 life when you face sickness. We all have things come 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.880 against us, but don't just give up and start making 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.040 plans to live with it. I've heard people say, well, Joel, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.240 I'm learning to live with my arthritis. I'm learning to 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.600 live with my high blood pressure. No, that's not your 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.039 high blood pressure. That's not your sickness. Quit taking ownership 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.560 of it and start making plans to get well. Our 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.760 attitude should be this sickness didn't come to stay, It 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.640 came to pass. Now I know with long life, God's 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.400 going to satisfy me. So I declare it by faith. 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.880 I'm getting better and better every day in every way. See, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.719 don't give up, don't quit dreaming. Got to keep the 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.560 vision in front of you. I love what a friend 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.240 of mine did. Both of his knees were crushed in 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.159 an accident. The doctor told him he would be fortunate 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.960 to ever walk, but he would certainly never run or 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:53.919 play sports again. 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:55.480 He was so disappointed. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.400 But after being in the hospital for over three months, 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.920 when he got out, the first thing he did was 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.680 go up and join a health club. He took a 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.520 step of faith. The fact is he couldn't go up 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:07.760 there for over a year. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.000 He was too weak. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.800 But he made up his mind he was not going 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.800 to just sit back and plan on staying in that wheelchair. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.640 He was making plans to be up walking again. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.200 That was over five years ago, and little by little 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.800 he got stronger and stronger, and today that young man 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.960 can outrun me. He defied the odds. What happened He 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:33.320 went from believing to expecting. He started making plans to 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.280 rise up out of that. He could have easily let 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.040 the negative words sink in, just convince him to give 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.480 up settle for mediocrity. Maybe you've had some negative things 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.280 spoken over you, But what I'm saying is don't let 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:48.600 those negative. 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:49.120 Words take root. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.200 Keep believing God has you in the palm of his hand. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.960 And remember, faith is always in the now. Get up 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.000 every morning not saying well, I know one day God's 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.360 going to work. One day, God's going to turn this around. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.240 Now we should be saying, Father, I thank you that. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.880 Right now you're working in my life. I think you 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.280 that right now, I'm getting better. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.200 Right now things are changing. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.360 In my favor. You've got to stay in the now. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.560 Faith is always in the present. But a lot of 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.960 times we're making preparations. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:21.239 For the wrong things. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.520 I had a man tell me how his father, when 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.120 he got up there in years, he had a terrible 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.000 time with his eyesight. He got to the point where 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.840 he couldn't read anymore. And this was very common for 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.679 the older people in their family. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.120 Several of them had that. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.880 And this man was doing exactly opposite of what I'm 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.960 asking us to do. He was already making plans to 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.440 have it himself. He said, Joel, I love to read, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.120 so I've started buying all of my books on CD now. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.240 That way I can listen to them just in case 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.240 something ever happens to my eyesight. Now, that's making plans 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.960 for the wrong things. That's putting your faith in the negative. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.000 That's what allows it to come to pass. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.840 I told him, you need to keep buying regular books 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.040 that you always read, and even if you're older, don't 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.240 start buying these large print books just cause some of 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.160 your friends. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.840 Are and it makes it a little easier for you. Now, 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.400 if you don't need it, don't take the easy way out. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.160 And even if you do need it, put that off 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.920 until you cannot read that other print anymore. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.240 Don't give up any ground. I like what Victoria did. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.360 She's always had real good eyesight twenty twenty vision, but 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.880 over the last couple of years she's had a little 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.520 difficulty reading things up close. And I've tried and tried 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.679 to get her to go see the eye doctor, but. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:38.760 She just wouldn't do it. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.440 She could not stand to think about the fact that 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.600 her vision might be going down a little bit. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.040 Well, finally I talked her into it. He said it 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:47.559 was nothing. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.920 She just needed the lowest power reading glasses kind you 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.520 can buy over the counter at the grocery store. But 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.880 still it has been like pulling teeth for her to 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.360 ever even give in to wearing those things. I love 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:02.880 the fact she's not gonna just sit back and accept it. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.160 She stands against it. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.120 She has put it off, and put it off, and 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:07.920 put it off. I mean, we'll go to a restaurant 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.959 and you'll have to hold the menu way back here. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.200 It's like my dad used to say, God, you're either 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.880 gonna have to heal my eyes or linked in my arms. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.640 But my point is she. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.520 Doesn't just sit back and say, well, I guess I'm 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.880 getting older. I guess my vision's going downhill. No, she 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.240 is not making plans for defeat. I read a study 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.160 the other day had this big chart that showed how 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.880 at different ages certain things started to decline. According to 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.600 the research, when we get to be twenty five thirty 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.440 years old, our hearing starts to go down so much 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.760 every year, and we lose so much muscle mass every year. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.120 Our brain cells decrease by a certain percentage every year, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.120 on and on. And if you let that junk take 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.840 root and you start believing it and acting on it, 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.560 that's what allows it to come to pass. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.079 I heard somebody the other day said, Joel, I. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.160 Just turned sixty and I can't hear as good as 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.200 I used to. And I knew this day was coming. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.320 Everybody told me my hearing would go down. No, you 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.920 are agreeing with the wrong voices. Quit putting your faith 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.720 in the wrong places, and start agreeing with what God 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.440 says about you. Says there in Deuteronomy thirty four, verse seven, 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.120 talking about Moses, when he was one hundred and twenty 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:22.040 years old, his eye was not dim and his natural 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.000 strength was not abated. That means he could still see clearly, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.440 he could hear clearly. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.080 He was strong and healthy. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.719 I don't know about you, but I'm gonna believe to 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.800 live out my days like Moses. Instead of listening to 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.760 all these negative reports, let me give you a different report. 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.880 Let me give you a study found in God's word. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.760 It says, in effect, at sixty, you're still. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.319 Supposed to hear well. At seventy, your mind. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.000 Is supposed to be as sharp as it was when 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.760 you were twenty five. At eighty, you're supposed to be 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.120 full of joy, full of life, full of energy. Why 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.080 don't you start making plans to live a long, healthy, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.360 satisfied life. I remember about fifteen years ago we were 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.320 remodeling the old sanctuary, mainly the platform area, and at 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.880 that time my father would have been seventy years old. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.400 One of the architects I was working with, he said, Joel, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:14.959 your dad's getting a little older. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:16.320 Don't you think we. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.760 Should put a wheelchair ramp up to the side of 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.760 the platform, just in case he's ever in a wheelchair? 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.120 And he meant, well, he's a very nice man. But 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.160 I thought to myself, you don't know my father. If 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.000 he heard you say that, he would chase you. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:29.840 Out of this county. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.600 Because my dad, in no way, shape or form, was 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.800 ever planning on being in a wheelchair. And I'm asking 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.240 you today to not make plans for defeat. Don't make 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.439 plans to get old and being over and not be. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.560 Able to do anything. Keep your faith out. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.600 There, talk health, talk long life, and then put some 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.080 actions behind it. I know a man he's in his 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.719 nineties and he still lives at home alone, and his 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.880 bedroom is on the second floor. That means every day, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.240 several times he's got to go up and down those stairs. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.520 His children, his grandchildren have tried to talk him in 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.120 to move it into one of the empty bedrooms downstairs, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.560 but he won't do it. His mind is made up. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.120 He said, Joel. I know if I give in, I'll 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.800 never be able to go back up those stairs. And 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.840 I know we have to use common sense we have 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.320 to be realistic. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.600 For to what I'm saying, it's just don't make plans 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.160 for defeat. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.800 Everybody around you may be getting old and cranky and 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.600 this doesn't work, and that doesn't work. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.520 But let me tell you that doesn't have to be you. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.400 You can be the exception believed to live a long, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:35.960 healthy life. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.360 I know my father. He never wanted to live if 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.240 he couldn't preach. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.240 He didn't want to retire. He didn't want to kick 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.280 back and take it easy. He made plans to preach 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.040 right up until he died. He used to tell me, Joel, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.840 I will never have a stroke. He was saying that 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.760 by faith, because he struggled with high blood pressure his 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:00.120 whole lifetime. He would say, I'll never be incapacitated. I've 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.920 never come to the place where i cannot preach. And 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.520 do you know my father preached just eleven days before 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.960 he went to be with the Lord. God gave him 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.199 the desires of his heart, but he had his faith 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.040 out there. He was believing he was going to be 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.720 productive right up unto the day that he died. And 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.440 it's easy to think, well, Joel, this is just a 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.480 part of getting old. This doesn't work that doesn't work, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.200 can't see, can't hear cranky? 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.440 No, don't fall into that trap, especially the cranky part. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:29.720 There's enough cranky people. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.080 Make plans to be healthy, to be full of joy, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.680 to be productive, right up to the day God calls 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.840 you home. I love what Caleb did when he was 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.320 eighty years old. He said, God, give me another mountain. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.120 He was saying, God, give me something else to do, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.920 give me another assignment. Notice, he was planning on living 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.520 out his life in victory. He could have said, God, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.560 just let me retire, and my back's hurting, can't hardly 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.520 see anymore. Medicare wouldn't pay that latest prescription. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:59.440 I'm so aggravated. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.120 I'm pretty sure Caleb wasn't wearing one of those things 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.600 around his neck that says. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.320 Help, I fall in and I can't get up. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.240 No, he was strong, he was energetic, ready for the 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.800 next challenge. Let me tell you you're never too old 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.760 to do something for God. You wouldn't be here if 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.400 God didn't have a purpose for you. You're not just 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.080 taking up space waiting to go to Heaven. Get your 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.240 joy back, get your enthusiasm back. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.400 Don't plan on the withering up. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:32.880 No, make plans to live every day joyful, vibrant, healthy, productive. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.480 An older couple came to our leadership conference a couple 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.480 of months ago, and during the question and answer session, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.640 they stood up and the man said, Joel, we're not 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.640 real sure what we're supposed to be doing at our age. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:45.920 They were in their nineties. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.560 This man was dressed to a tea, his skin looked great, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.680 had on a hat. His wife was the epitome of 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.520 grace and beauty. I mean, you've never seen a sharper, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.000 more striking looking older couple. And I told him, one 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.160 thing you need to do for sure is just go 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.040 around and let other people see you. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.600 Be an example. Your joy, your health, your peace. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.440 Your victory is an inspiration to others. I said, you 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.800 need to let the younger generation to them. That's anyone 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.080 under eighty. You need to let them see how you 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:22.680 can be up there in years and still be healthy, joyful, peaceful. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.200 I mean they inspired me. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.320 I tell Victoria every week, I'm believing for at least 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:33.840 forty more good years of strong, productive ministry, forty years 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:39.360 of sharing God's word, encouraging people, building the kingdom, not 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.840 thirty good years, and then the last ten my back's hurting. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.560 This doesn't work, that doesn't work. No joy, no peace. No, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:46.840 I got my faith out there. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.120 I'm believing, at eighty years old, I'm going to be 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.280 just as good looking as I am right now. I'm 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.080 believing I'm gonna still have my hair, still be telling 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.840 my jokes, still be making fun of my brother Paul, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.960 kidding him that his dentures are loose. And I've got 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:08.480 here and he doesn't. I'm making plans. I'm making plans 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.359 to live a long, healthy, prosperous, joy filled, abundant life. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.000 Why don't you do the same thing. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.080 I've told you about these three sisters, ages ninety six, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:22.560 ninety four, and ninety two. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:23.679 They lived together. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.359 One day, The ninety six year old draws a bath 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.080 and puts one foot in and pauses. She yells, downstairs, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.520 I can't remember if I was getting in or getting out. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.359 The ninety four year old says, I don't know. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.880 I'll come see, And she gets halfway up the stairs 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.160 and says, I can't remember if I was going up 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.119 or coming down. The ninety two year old shook her 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.639 head and said, man, I hope I never get that. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.600 Forgetful. She knocked on wood for good measure. Then she said, 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:49.000 hang on. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.760 I'll come help both of you as soon as I 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:51.720 see who's at the door. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:55.919 Let's believe we're not going to get like that. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.280 We got to believe that our mind is going to 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.879 be sharp, We're going to be healthy, we're gonna be 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.439 productive right up until the day that we die. But 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.640 we have to get beyond these stereotypes, these strongholds. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:09.640 Well I'm getting old. 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.840 There goes my health, my vision, my hearing. No, our 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.840 faith is going to work in either direction. I know 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.400 a lady that went through a very extensive medical checkup, 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.679 and at the time, she was about seventy years old, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.920 and they'd compiled all her information and then they gave 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:30.639 you an average life expectancy based on their findings her health, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.919 her genetics, her family's history. They told her she'd probably 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.840 lived to be around seventy five years old. Well, that 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.480 was only another five years. You might as well have 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.199 told her she was gonna die. The next day, she 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.960 got so depressed she wouldn't come out of her house, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.280 lost her joy, lost her peace. Basically, she had just 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.399 quit living her life. This went on month after month. 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.080 One day her family brought her up here and I 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.280 was able to tell her what I'm telling you today. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.720 Don't make plans for the war, don't let the negative 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:02.560 words take root. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.439 God can do what men can't do. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.320 And I found sometimes these experts, even though they are 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.200 fine people, they can be wrong. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.359 And I started pumping her full of faith. What today. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.600 That lady is eighty one years old and as healthy 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:20.040 and vibrant as can be. I saw her not long ago. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.000 She said, Joel, I've already beat it by six years. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.200 I said, yeah, and when you make it to ninety, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:26.840 we're going to have a real party around here. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.760 Don't let those negative words take root. And it's important 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.520 to set a high goal for your life. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.480 My father always believed that he would live to preach 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.359 into his nineties. He didn't quite make it, but he 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.879 used to say, I'd rather shoot high. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.880 And missus little than shoot low and make it. Keep 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:45.560 a high goal. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.960 I used to play basketball with a gentleman that was 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.760 in his seventies. He was in great shape. He could 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.720 run up and down the court with the twenty year old. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.520 One day we were talking. He said, Joel, that's kind 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.439 of funny. When I was forty, told me that my 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.960 knees wouldn't hold up playing this much, but I just 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.880 kept playing. And at fifty he told me my back 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.720 would start hurting if I kept running and jumping like this. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:10.480 But I just kept on. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.119 At sixty, he told me I could never keep up physically, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.000 but I can still run with the young guys, he said. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.520 I went back at seventy. Finally, he told me, just 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.119 keep playing as much as you want too. I laughed, 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.040 and I said, how long are you going to play? 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.200 He smiled and said, I'm gonna play until I get old. 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.880 And I like that because old is in your mind. 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.720 Your body may age, but if you'll stay young in 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.040 your heart, it'll help your body to age even better. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.960 This man had the heart of a twenty five year old. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.720 I mean he was always grateful, always happy, always in 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.840 a good mood. You could tell he wasn't making plans 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.520 to get old and worn out, nothing working right. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:56.680 He was planning on living out his life joyful, vibrant, 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:57.639 in good health. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.879 And I know some of you have a history of 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.840 certain illnesses in your family. I was praying with somebody 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.639 last week and she told how her grandmother had a 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.879 certain illness and her cousin had it and her uncle 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:11.800 had it and it had shortened all of their lives, 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.239 and naturally she was concerned about it. But you have 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.000 to stand against things like that. 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.600 You can be the exception. You can be the one 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.280 to start a new standard for your family. Here's what 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:23.760 you gotta do. 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:25.680 You got to think different and you've got to take 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:26.600 different actions. 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.400 You cannot prepare for defeat and expect to have victory. 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.640 Keep your faith going in the right direction. 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:37.680 I remember my grandmother on my father's side, Grandmother Osteine. 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.240 She was a very feisty lady, one of a kind. 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.720 She only stood about five feet tall. One time, when 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.680 she was older in life, she went to see her 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.880 doctor and he said, I'm sorry, missus Ostein, but you're 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:53.600 in the beginning stages of Parkinson's disease. Well, grandmother Ostine 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.040 didn't really know what that was, but she was sure 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.280 she didn't want to have any part of it, and. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:21:59.919 So she bristled back. She got real s. 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.919 She said, listen here, doctor, I'll not have that. I 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.240 refuse to have it. I'm too old to have it. 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:09.080 And she went home and do you know, my grandmother 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:13.040 never did have Parkinson's disease. She just kept doing what 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.440 she'd always been doing, planning on living a long, healthy life. 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:22.080 She didn't let the negative words take root, and I realized, 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:25.440 we can't just necessarily wish things away, but we can 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.480 decide what we're going to plan for. We can plan 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:31.399 to get old and lose our sight and lose our health, 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.400 or we can plan to live a long, healthy, blessed, 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.399 prosperous life. What are you planning for today, sickness or 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.040 divine health, to barely get by, or to be blessed, 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:44.840 to stay where you are, or to rise higher and 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:49.240 really accomplish your dreams. Every one of us, according to 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.080 our actions or even our inactions, we're all making plans 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:57.280 for something. There's an interesting story in Second Kings about 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.639 a widow. Her husband has died and she didn't have 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:03.440 any money to pay her bills, and now the creditors 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.560 are coming to take her two sons as payment. The 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:08.959 only thing she has of any value is a small 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:12.119 pot of oil. Elisha, the prophet showed up at her 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.200 home and he told her something interesting to do. He said, 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:18.000 go out to all your neighbors and gather up as 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.760 many of these large empty containers that you can find, 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.600 these big jars that used to hold oil, and he 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:28.120 told her specifically, don't get just a few, get as 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:31.640 many as you can possibly find. And in the natural 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:34.040 it seemed like she was just wasting her time. This 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:37.400 lady had enough problems. She lost her husband, she didn't 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:39.760 have any money, the creditors are on her back. But 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:43.040 Elisha knew he had to get her faith going in 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.080 the right direction. She had been sitting around long enough 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.080 preparing for defeat. Now he was trying to get her 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.600 to start preparing for victory. And so she gathered up 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:55.920 all these empty containers, got them home, and Elisha told 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.920 her to pour the oil that she had into one 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:01.439 of the other containers. And it looked like she was 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.080 just gonna transfer it from one to the other. But 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:07.800 the scripture says her oil never ran out. She kept 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:12.800 pouring and pouring and pouring. God supernaturally multiplied it until 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:17.200 every single container was completely full. The fact is, if 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:19.800 she would have gotten a dozen more containers, they would 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:20.640 have been full as well. 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:23.080 Friends, we are the ones that limit God. 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:26.480 Let me challenge you have a big dream for your life, 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:31.080 make provision for abundance. Well, Joel, I'd love to pay 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:33.480 my house off. I'd love to get out of debt, 0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:35.320 but I don't see how it could happen for me. 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:37.680 I've gone as far in my career as I can go. 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:40.200 I'd love to send my children to college, but it's 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:44.520 so expensive these days. No, are you making any provision? 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.600 Do you have a savings account opened up? Do you 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:51.000 have any containers? Well, Joel, that'd be kind of foolish 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:52.960 to have an account and not have anything to put 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:53.239 in it. 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:55.960 That's what this lady did. You got to take a 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:56.760 step of faith. 0:24:57.000 --> 0:25:00.040 It's not enough to just believe. Put actions behind and 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:00.600 your faith. 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:01.920 Do what you can. 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:05.479 Are you being your very best on the job, showing 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:09.000 up early, going the extra mile, doing more than expected. 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:13.639 Are you dressing for success? You may only have one suit, 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:16.320 clean it up, press it and wear it like you 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:20.480 own the place. Are you talking successful, Well, everybody gets 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:23.480 promoted except me. They're talking about laying off people at 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.480 my job and Joel, last week my washing machine broke. 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:29.479 If it's not one thing, it's another. Now that's only 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:32.800 preparing you for defeat. Change your attitude and change what 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.320 you're saying. Start saying this is going to be a 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:39.080 blessed year. I know great things are in store. Goodness 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:42.440 and mercy are following me. God's favor is surrounding me. 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:47.120 I am expecting increase, promotion, abundance in this new year. 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:49.280 Then don't start there. 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:54.040 Do like this little lady and start making plans to 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:59.439 prosper make preparations to succeed, not to fail. I know 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:01.520 when my father went to be with the Lord back 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:03.879 in nineteen ninety nine and I stepped up to pastor 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:06.800 the church, one of the first things I did was 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:10.520 to cancel our weekly television time. I thought, I've never 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:12.199 preached before, and I'm sure not going to get on 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:15.920 television and preach. And so I called our representative from 0:26:15.960 --> 0:26:17.960 the main national network that we were on. He was 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:20.080 a good friend. I told him what had happened, how 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:20.880 we were going to have to. 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:21.919 Cancel our broadcast. 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:25.240 Well, the fact is I was making plans for defeat. 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:28.320 I was making plans to not do very well. I 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:30.840 didn't think I could preach. I didn't think anybody want 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:34.119 to listen to me, so I put actions behind my faith. 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:36.919 The problem is I was using my faith in the 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:40.600 wrong direction. I got home that night and told Victoria 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:42.240 it just in passing what I'd done. 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:44.920 She said, Joel, you did what you need to get 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:45.760 that time back. 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:48.760 People all over the country are waiting to see what's 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:51.840 going to happen to Lakewood. When she said that right 0:26:51.880 --> 0:26:52.879 down in here, I knew that. 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:54.000 I knew that it was right. 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:56.440 Long story short, we were able to get it back, 0:26:56.480 --> 0:26:59.000 and today the broadcast goes out all over the world. 0:26:59.359 --> 0:27:03.040 But a lot of time, times, a lot of times, 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:07.680 with our own actions, we are limiting God. And had 0:27:07.720 --> 0:27:10.240 I not taken a step of faith in the right direction, 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:13.520 I don't know if we'd be on television today. We 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:16.920 cannot prepare for defeat and expect to have victory. 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:18.919 And some of you are kind of like I was. 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:23.000 You're preparing to fail, preparing to barely get by, preparing 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:23.919 to lose your health. 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:25.520 Now I want to challenge you today. 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:31.639 Start preparing for good things. Prepare for success, Prepare for abundance, 0:27:31.680 --> 0:27:35.239 Prepare for victory, Prepare for a long life, Prepare for 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:35.919 good health. 0:27:36.359 --> 0:27:38.360 Get your faith going in the right direction. 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:42.920 Remember, with our actions, or even our inactions, we're all 0:27:42.920 --> 0:27:46.040 making plans for something. Now I'm asking you today to 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:51.480 start making plans to live a blessed, prosperous, healthy, joy filled. 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:53.320 Abundant long life. 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:55.960 I know if you do this, God will do more 0:27:55.960 --> 0:27:58.200 than you can even ask or think. He will pour 0:27:58.240 --> 0:28:01.040 out his blessings in favor and you'll live that life 0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:02.640 of victory God has in story. 0:28:02.640 --> 0:28:04.159 Amen, do you receive it today? 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:08.159 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:11.000 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:16.000 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:21.480 repent of my sins. Come into my heart, wash me clean. 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:26.240 I make you my Lord and savior. 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