Meditating On What God Says

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I like to start with something funny, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.680 and I heard about this man. He was driving through 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.679 an intersection that was monitored by cameras. If you ran 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:21.560 the light or broke the law in any way, it would. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.000 Take your picture and you'd receive a ticket in the mail. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.600 So he drove very slowly through the intersection, made sure 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.840 he didn't run the light, but he noticed that the 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:30.840 camera flashed. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.200 He thought, that's not right. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.519 He turned around, went back through the intersection even more slowly. 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.480 Once again, it took his picture. He said, this thing 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.040 is messed up. They can't give me a ticket. Out 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.600 of spite, he went back through the intersection three more times, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.760 each time waving at the camera with a big smile. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.320 A week later, he received five tickets in the mail 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.640 for not wearing his seat belt. Hold up your Bible 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.840 and say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.600 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.120 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.880 I can do. Today I will be taught the word 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.040 of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.520 heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.000 God bless you. I want to talk to you today 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.360 about meditating on what God says. The word meditate means 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.359 to think about over and over, and studies tell us 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.840 that we talk to ourselves up to thirty thousand times 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.800 a day. There's always something playing in our minds. We 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.960 need to pay attention to what we're meditating on. Really, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.760 meditating is the same principle as worrying. When you worry, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.400 you're just meditating on the wrong thing. You're using your 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.960 faith in reverse. If you go through the day worried 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.080 about your finances, worried about your family, worried about your future, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.520 because you're allowing the wrong thoughts to play, it's going 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.600 to cause you to be anxious, fearful, negative, discouraged. The 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:10.240 whole problem is what you're choosing to meditate on. Friends, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.080 you control the doorway to your mind. When those negative 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.760 thoughts come knocking, you don't have to answer the door. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.880 You can say no thanks. I'm going to choose to. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.400 Meditate on what God says about me and today, more 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.080 than ever, there's a lot. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.640 Of doom and gloom. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.880 If you watch the news very long, you can get depressed. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.760 The stock market, the economy, the debt crisis. One phrase 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.760 I saw in several newspapers last week was total fear 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:39.960 in the marketplace. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:41.720 People are panicked. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.640 If you go through the day thinking about how bad 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.160 it is, I wonder if I'm going to make it, 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.320 and what if I lose my job, what if my 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.600 retirement goes down. If you dwell on that, you're going 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.680 to be stressed out. And I like to watch the news. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.080 I'm not saying to hide your head in the sand, 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.440 but I've learned not to meditate on the negative reports. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.320 Philippians four to eight says, think on things that are wholesome, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.520 things that are pure, things that are of a good report. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.520 If it's not a good report, don't dwell on it. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.039 That's going to poison your spirit. Instead of replaying the 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:25.400 doom and gloom over and over, replay what God says. Yes, 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.559 the financial situation may be a little shaky, but God 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.080 says he will supply all of your needs. He said 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.440 he will prosper you even in a famine. He said 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.520 he will open the windows of heaven and pour out 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.599 blessings that you cannot contain. Now go through the day 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.160 meditating on that. Get your mind going. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:45.919 In the right direction. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.359 After all, the economy is not our source. God is 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.279 our source. We may not know what all the future holds, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.359 but we do know who holds the future. Our trust 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.560 is not in the stock market, not in the economy, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.240 I say it respectfully, not even in the government. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:05.960 Our trust is in the Lord. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.800 David said, some trust in chariots, some trust in horses, but. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.679 Our trust is in the name of the Lord, our God. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.320 In modern times, it'd say some trust in their money, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.120 some trust in their job, some trust in what the 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.680 economists say. But our trust is in the God who 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.520 created it all. Our trust is in Jehovah, Jirah, the Lord, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:34.480 our provider. When you meditate on that, you won't have 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:35.680 total fear. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.799 You'll have total peace. You'll be at total rest. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.640 You know God's in control and he can give you 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.120 total victory. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:44.080 But it all. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.880 Depends on what's going on in our thought life. You 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.120 can meditate on the problem, or you can meditate on 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.159 the promises. You can meditate on the news reports, or 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.840 you can meditate on God's report. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.800 What you allow to play in your. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.560 Mind and will determine what kind of life you live. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.560 God said in Isaiah twenty six y three, if you 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.320 will keep your mind fixed on me, then I. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.240 Will keep you in perfect peace. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.480 Notice there's a way not only to have peace, but 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:21.480 to have perfect peace. How keep your thoughts fixed on him? 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.280 Some of you would go to a new level if 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.320 you'd pay more attention to what's playing in your mind. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.520 If you can't go through the day thinking, I hope 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.160 my child straightens up, and what's going to happen if 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.200 I get laid off, or I might not overcome this illness. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.040 When you dwell on that, you're not going to have peace. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.520 Meditating on the problem doesn't. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.200 Make it better, It makes it worse. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.240 You've got to change what you're dwelling on all through 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.120 the day, go around thinking God has me in the 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.040 palm of his hand. All things are going to work 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.240 together for my good. This problem didn't come to stay, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.760 it came to pass. Many are the affliction of the righteous, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.640 But the Lord delivers me out of them off. When 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.920 you meditate on that, you'll have greater peace, greater joy, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:08.000 greater strength. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.480 The apostle Paul understood this principle. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:17.320 He said, I think myself happy, happiness, starts in our thinking. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.680 Paul had been through a lot of disappointments. He'd been shipwrecked, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.600 put in jail, mistreated. Yet he wasn't focused on his problems. 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.760 He wasn't meditating on how bad it was, replaying all 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.720 of his disappointments. No, he's the one that said, thanks 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.920 be to God who always causes me to tryumph, I 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.240 am more than a conquer His mind was filled with 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.679 thoughts of hope, thoughts of faith, thoughts of victory. He 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.920 was saying, it may look bad, but I've learned this 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.440 secret of how to think myself happy. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:52.480 Some people have. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.680 Thought themselves depressed. They focused on their problems so long. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.920 They've thought themselves discouraged. They've watched so many news reports, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:02.720 they've thought themselves afraid. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.400 The good news is, just as. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.360 You can think yourself depressed and fearful and negative, you 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.560 can think yourself happy. You can think yourself peaceful. You 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.160 can even think yourself into a better mood. The scripture 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.040 tells us a rise from the depression that has kept 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:21.720 you down. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.719 Rise to a new life. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.080 The first place we have to arise is in our thinking. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.160 You have to put on a new attitude. Don't go 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.720 through the day thinking about your problems, dwelling on who 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:35.200 hurts you. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:36.960 That's going to keep you discouraged. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.319 You've got to start thinking yourself happy. In other words, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.840 all through the day, we should be going around thinking, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.959 my best days are in front of me. Something big 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.959 is coming my way. What's meant for my harm? God's 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.000 going to use to my advantage. My greatest victories are. 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:52.920 Still in my future. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:59.840 On purpose, think power thoughts, I'm strong, I'm healthy, I'm blessed. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.560 When you wake up in the morning and those thoughts 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.360 come telling y'all you don't want to go to work today. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.360 You've got so many problems, You've got so much coming 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.720 against you. More than ever, you need to kick it 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.760 into gear. This is going to be a great day. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.199 This is the day the Lord has made. I'm excited 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.240 about my future. Something good's going to happen to me today. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.160 See here's a key. Don't ever start the day in neutral. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.559 You cannot wait to see what kind of day it's 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.160 going to be. You have to decide what kind of 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.839 day it's going to be when you first get out 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.760 of bed in the morning, before you check the news, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.320 before you check the weather, before you check to see 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.080 how you feel. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.920 You need to set your mind in the right direction. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:44.560 This is going to be a great day. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.240 If you don't set your mind, the enemy will set 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.080 it for you. He'll remind you of how bad you 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.840 have it, and how many mistakes you've made, and all 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.280 the people that have come against you, on and on. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.439 Very often, the way we start the day will determine 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.320 what kind of day we're going to have. If you 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.520 start it negative, discouraged, complaining, you are setting the tone 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.679 for a lousy day. You've got to get your mind 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.040 going in the right direction. Your life is going to 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:19.000 follow your thoughts. If you get up thinking nothing good 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.560 ever happens to me. I never get any breaks. I'll 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.280 probably never get out of death. I don't think I'll 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.439 ever meet the right person and get married. That's what 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:33.960 you're releasing your faith for. Jesus said, become what you believe. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.600 If you believe you'll never meet the right person and 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.240 get married, unfortunately you probably want. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:41.480 Your faith is working. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.320 If you believe you're going to get laid off, don't 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.679 be surprised if you do. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.480 You're going to become what you believe. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.160 I'm asking you to believe what God says about you. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.319 Believe that you're blessed. Believe that your best stays are 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:57.960 in front of you. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.960 Believe that you're strong, healthy, talented, creative, well able. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.839 Get rid of those wrong thoughts that. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.880 Are contamidating your thinking, and start meditating on what God 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.800 says about you. David said in Psalm one, if you 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.000 will meditate on God's word day and night, then you 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.360 will be like a tree planted by the water. Your 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.320 lief will not wither, but you will bear fruit in 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:31.240 every season without fail notice, not in some seasons, but 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.480 in every season. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.720 That means even if the economy goes down, you'll still 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:37.560 be bearing fruit. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.400 It means when others are going under, you'll be going over. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.640 When others have total fear, you'll have total peace. When 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.880 others are complaining, you'll have a song of praise. When 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:53.440 others are surviving, you'll be thriving. The message translation says, 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.200 when you meditate on God's word, you will always be 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.800 in blossom. That's God's dream for you life, that you 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.400 always have a smile, that you're always in peace, that 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.400 you're always excited about your future. And no, it doesn't 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.280 mean that we'll never have adversities, but in those difficult 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:17.240 times because you have your thoughts fixed on him deep down, 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.640 there'll be a confidence, a knowing that everything is going 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:21.400 to be all right. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.840 You know, God is still on the throne. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.160 He's fighting your battles, and you're not only gonna come out, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.480 you're gonna come out better off than you were before. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.640 I have these friends that live in another state. The 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.840 man works in cells for a large corporation. Recently, he 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.760 got a huge promotion that he'd been hoping to get 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.280 for a long time. They were so excited, but it 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.400 meant they had to move to a different city. The 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.520 problem was the housing market in their area was very down. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.200 Hardly anything was selling. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.640 They couldn't afford two house payments, so they had to 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.120 sell their house before he could really take the promotion. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.960 And instead of getting discouraged and thinking, well, just our 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.560 luck got the promotion at the wrong time. Our house 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.960 is never going to sell, they kept their mind filled 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.000 with faith. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.120 All through the day. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.199 They go around saying, Father, you said your favor surrounds 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.240 us like a shield. You said we would always be 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.760 in blossom. You said you would prosper us even. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.040 In a famine. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.480 There were over sixty homes for sale in their neighborhood. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.200 In the last seven months, only three houses have sold 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.360 in the natural It didn't look good, but they put 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.200 their house on the market, and two weeks later they 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.520 had a contract to purchase their home. They talked to 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.480 the new owners and out of curiosity, they ask him, 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.960 why'd you choose our house? They said, well, we looked 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.080 at over thirty houses in the neighborhood, but when we 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.600 drove by your home, it just seemed to jump out 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.480 at us. And when we went inside, we felt such 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.280 a peace. We knew this was supposed to be our house. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.680 That's what happened. When you meditate on God's promises, you 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.960 will always be in blossom. In other words, your property 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.120 will sell when others are not selling. You'll get well 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.640 when the medical report says you want. You'll be promoted 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.840 even though you're not the most qualified. Why is that 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.840 You've got your mind filled with God's word. When you're 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.200 in agreement with God, the creator of the universe goes 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.680 to work. God will cause his favor to shine down 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.760 on you. He will cause your house to stand out 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.040 in the neighborhood. He will cause you to be. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.040 At the right place at the right time. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.600 Making sure that you succeed. Bottom line is you're going 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:46.240 to become what you believe. Take inventory of what's playing 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.400 in your mind. If you go around thinking, well, Joe, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.960 my house is never going to sell, you should see 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:52.720 my neighborhood. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:53.480 Joel. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.160 I'm afraid I'm never going to get well. I'm afraid 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.240 my child's gonna go off from the wrong path. Your 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:03.320 faith is going to draw in the negative. Job said, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.840 the thing I feared came upon me. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:07.880 Just as our. 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.520 Faith can work in the right direction, it can work 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.160 in the wrong direction. I heard about this lady. She 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.080 bought a new plant for her bedroom. It was a 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.960 six foot ficus tree. She loved plants, she had them 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.160 all over her house and she was very experienced at 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.040 taking care of them. But she said the first morning 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.239 she woke up and saw the new plant in her bedroom, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.960 she thought to herself, this plant is not. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.680 Going to make it. It's not going to live. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.280 That negative thought came out of the blue, and she 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.720 made the mistake of dwelling on it, thinking about it 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.960 over and over. She even told her husband, I think 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.920 I've wasted my money on this plant. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.120 I'm just afraid that it's not going to live. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.000 He said, what are you talking about. All your plants 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.440 have lived. Why would you say that? 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.080 She said, ah, something just tells me it's not going 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:57.600 to make it. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.880 Three weeks later she went on over to the plant, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.160 and for no reason, the leaves were starting to turn yellow. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.320 A few days later, the leaves had all fallen off. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.880 A few weeks later, the plant had totally withered. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.080 Up, completely died. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.879 One day, she was thinking about it, and she said 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.880 God spoke something to her, not out loud, but an 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.040 impression down in here. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.720 God said, I just want you to know you kill 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:28.199 that plant with your thoughts. And she heard that. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.439 Chills went up and down her spine. See, when we 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.240 dwell on the negative, we're releasing our faith in the 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.040 wrong direction. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.120 She told her husband. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.359 I know you're gonna think I'm crazy, but I think 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:42.560 I killed. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.040 This plant with my thoughts. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.000 He looked at her very strangely and said, all I 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.879 can say is I hope you're thinking good thoughts about me. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.080 Pay attention to what's playing in your mind. Here's what 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.920 I've learned. If you'll fill your mind with the right thought, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:01.440 there won't. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.040 Be any room for the wrong thoughts. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.960 When you go around constantly thinking I'm strong, I'm healthy, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.600 I'm blessed, I've got the favor of God. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.880 Then when the negative thoughts. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.800 Come knocking, there will be a no vacancy sign, sorry, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:17.800 no room for you. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.520 They won't be able to get in. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.480 I was traveling overseas with my father to India and 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.080 our plane was delayed because of weather and we missed 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.360 our connecting flight over in Europe. It was late at 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.920 night and there was a hotel at the airport and 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.240 we went up to the counter and my father asked 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.840 the young man for a room, and he checked the computer, 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:42.000 but he said, sorry, sir, we're totally full tonight. Well, 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.520 my dad wasn't about to take no for an answer, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.920 and he said, can you please look again, We're really tired, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.520 we really need a room. He checked and checked again, 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.800 he said, sorry, no vacancy, totally full. My dad asked 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.920 to speak to the manager and he came out and 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.639 went through the same exercise and even went back in 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:00.680 the back. But he came back and he said, sir, 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.240 I'm sorry, we don't have any rooms. My dad said, 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:04.280 we're just gonna. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.639 Be here a few hours. Can't we have some place 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:07.119 to stay? 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.320 The manager looked at my father and said, Sir, I 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.520 can't make anyone leave the hotel. 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.440 We are totally full. That's how it is. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.919 When you keep your mind filled with God's word, that 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.520 thought of fear comes knocking. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.440 You're not gonna make it. The problem is too big. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:25.280 Let me in. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.359 Give me a room to stay now, just like that 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.879 hotel manager. Sorry, fear, no vacancy, no room. You're going 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:34.560 to have to go somewhere else to stay. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.960 That thought. You'll never sell your house. Have you seen 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:38.520 the market? 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:43.080 No vacancy. God's favor surrounds me like a shield. You'll 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.639 never get well. Have you seen the medical report? No vacancy. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.160 God is restoring health unto me. Well, you've seen your 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:55.560 best days. No vacancy, this hotel. This mind is filled 0:19:55.640 --> 0:20:00.119 with thoughts of faith, hope, victory, increase, abundance, restoration, and 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:06.000 there's no room for doubt, unbelief, anxiety, fear, depression. You 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.399 need to take inventory of who's staying in your house, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:14.760 who's occupying your rooms. If you give fear a room, 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:17.080 then faith gets left outside. 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:18.680 There's not room for both. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.720 If you give I can't a room, then I can 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.240 is left outside. If you give lack barely get by. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.640 I'll never make it a room. Then increase promotion, abundance is. 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.320 Left at the door. Get rid of the wrong thoughts, 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.240 and let what God says about you have a permanent home. 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:40.600 Think of it like this. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.320 When you go to bed at night, you lock the 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.800 doors to your house. You don't want any strangers coming in. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:50.439 That's where you live, that's your home. You need to 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.200 have that same thinking when it comes to your mind. 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.000 This is where I live, this is who I am, 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.879 this is my future. I'm not going to let just 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:02.520 any thought come in and have a permanent home. I'm 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.200 going to guard the doorway to my mind and only 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:07.159 give a room. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.240 To thoughts of hope, thoughts of faith, thoughts of victory. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:11.840 Heard it put like this. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:16.440 If you owned an apartment complex and you rented out 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:21.400 eighty percent of the apartments to drug dealers, thieves, cheaters, 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:26.000 and the other twenty percent to normal law abiding citizens. 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.720 After a few months, the drug dealers and cheaters would 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.280 run off all the normal people. 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:33.400 Same way in our thoughts. 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.760 If you go around thinking about how bad it is, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.800 dwelling on your problems, all that you don't have, how 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.119 tough your future is, going to be All those negative 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:48.240 thoughts are going to run off any positive thoughts. You've 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.399 got to quit renting out space in your mind to 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:52.280 your problems. 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:54.120 Quit renting out. 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:57.560 Valuable space to self pity. Don't rent it out to 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.160 can't do it not going to happen thought. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:04.359 You only have so much space in your mind. Some 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.000 of you today you need to serve an eviction. 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:12.159 Notice, tell those negative thoughts you've occupied my rooms long enough. 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.880 I've got a new renter coming in. My new renter 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.040 is faith, joy, pease, healing. 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:20.840 My new tenant is victory. 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:25.359 I'm not saying to deny the negative reports and act 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:29.480 like they don't exist. I'm simply saying, don't dwell on them, 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.639 don't let it consume you where that's all you think about, 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.280 all you talk about, learn to downplay it. You remember 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.399 in the scripture when Jesus was headed off to pray 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.160 for a person that was very sick, but he kept 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.919 getting delayed. Finally, these people came back and said to 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:50.280 the disciples, who were very close to Jesus standing there, 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.159 they said, tell Jesus he doesn't need to come any longer. 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:58.600 It's too late. The person has already died. The scripture 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:02.600 says Jesus overhearing but ignoring. 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:06.840 In other words, Jesus heard the negative reports, but he 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.879 didn't let it take root. He didn't meditate on it. 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:12.800 He didn't get discouraged. He didn't turn around and go 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:16.760 back home. No, he knew people don't have the final say. 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:21.480 God has the final say. Sometimes, in order to stay 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.520 in faith, you have to ignore a negative report. You 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.400 have to ignore what somebody said about you. 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:28.920 You have to. 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:31.920 Ignore what your own thoughts are telling you. You may 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.800 hear it, but you can do like Jesus and choose 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:37.520 not to dwell on it. When I stepped up to 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:41.560 pastor the church, every thought in my mind told me, Joe, 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.680 you can't do this. You're not a minister. You're gonna 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:47.640 get up there and look like a fool. I heard 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:50.479 the thoughts, but I chose not to dwell on it. 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:52.600 I meditated on I can. 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.440 Do all things through Christ. I am strong in the Lord. 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:59.560 If God before me, who dare be against me? When 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:02.280 you get it in agreement with God, you will fulfill 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:06.080 your God given destiny. When we were trying to acquire 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:10.120 this beautiful new facility, many people told us it's never 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:13.399 going to happen. You're wasting your time. Joy, You're not 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:16.800 going to get that building. I heard the reports, but 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:19.120 I let them go in one ear and out the other. 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:21.080 I didn't pay any attention to it. 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.680 When our children were younger and one of their friends 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:26.679 was talking too much and they didn't want to hear it, 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:28.520 they'd put out their arm and. 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:29.800 Say, talk to the hand. 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:34.080 That meant you're talking, but I'm not listening. That's what 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:36.840 we need to do when the negative thoughts come in 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:39.840 your imagination. Just put out your arm and say talk 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:43.000 to the hand. You're talking, but I'm not hearing you. 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:45.479 You're trying to rent a room, but I'm telling you 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:50.359 no vacancy. Here was watching a football game several years ago. 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:52.080 It was the playoffs, in. 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:54.360 A very important game, and there were only a few 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:58.400 seconds left. The visiting team was down by two points 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:01.080 and they were about to attempt to field goal to 0:25:01.160 --> 0:25:04.720 win the game. The kicker was on the field lining up, 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:08.280 getting ready for the biggest kick of his life. The 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:13.479 opposing fans were hollering at him, screaming, jeering, trying to 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:16.960 distract him. Just as he was about to kick, the 0:25:17.040 --> 0:25:20.320 other team called time out to give the fans more 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:24.040 time to try to intimidate him. They started playing in 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:27.399 the stadium on the big screen all the times this 0:25:27.600 --> 0:25:32.240 kicker had missed before, even years back. They replayed all 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:35.240 of his failures, and every time he missed, the whole 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:36.680 crowd would go crazy. 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:40.440 With eighty thousand people screaming against him. 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:43.320 He stepped up and kicked the ball right through the 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:47.880 uprights and won the game. Afterwards, a reporter asked him 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:51.680 how he could handle the pressure with so many thousands 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:54.800 of people screaming against him. He said, you know, it's 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.280 kind of funny. I didn't hear anybody screaming. I just 0:25:58.400 --> 0:25:59.919 kept telling myself, you can do this. 0:26:00.160 --> 0:26:01.199 You've got what it takes. 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:05.720 The reporter said, well, what about on the big screen 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:07.919 when they were replaying all your failures. 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:09.840 He said, oh yeah, I saw that, but I didn't 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:11.840 pay any attention. I just ignored it. 0:26:12.880 --> 0:26:15.840 In life, there will be times where it feels like 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:17.440 every voice is. 0:26:17.400 --> 0:26:19.720 Telling you you can't do it. 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:23.800 It's not going to work out, you'll never overcome this problem. 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:28.920 It may be physical voices people around you, critics, naysayers, 0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:33.280 or it may just be voices in your mind, thoughts 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:36.960 trying to discourage. You don't be surprised even if the 0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:41.400 enemy starts replaying your failures, replaying the times that you've 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:44.960 missed it, replaying all your disappointments. Listen, you got to 0:26:45.000 --> 0:26:47.960 do like this young man. Dig your heels in. You 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:51.560 may hear the negative reports, but choose to ignore it. 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:53.919 People don't determine your destiny. 0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:54.800 God does. 0:26:55.200 --> 0:26:58.800 If you'll get in agreement with God and not let 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.919 those distractions pull you off course, let me tell you 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:04.000 God will get you to where he wants you to 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:08.119 be friends. The first place we lose the victory is 0:27:08.160 --> 0:27:11.760 in our own thinking. You may feel like eighty thousand 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:15.439 voices are screaming against you, saying it's never going to 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:15.960 work out. 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:18.840 This problem is too big. You might as well just 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:20.360 settle where you are now. 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:23.359 Put your hand out. Tell those negative thoughts talk to 0:27:23.400 --> 0:27:23.879 the hand. 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:26.399 They want to rent a room, show them the no 0:27:26.520 --> 0:27:28.960 vacancy sign. If you'll keep your. 0:27:28.840 --> 0:27:32.480 Thoughts fixed on what God says, you will overcome those 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:36.040 obstacles and accomplish your dreams. That's what it says in 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:39.639 Joshua Will one eight. If you will meditate on God's 0:27:39.720 --> 0:27:44.320 word day and night, you will prosper and have good success. 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:48.439 The whole key is what's going on in your thought life. 0:27:49.080 --> 0:27:50.520 What are you meditating on. 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:54.359 Make a decision with me that you're going to keep your. 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:59.119 Thoughts fixed on what God says. On purpose, think power thoughts. 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:03.840 I'm strong, I'm talented, I'm creative, I've got the favor 0:28:03.920 --> 0:28:07.320 of God. Remember, you're going to become what you believe. 0:28:08.160 --> 0:28:11.320 Get up every morning, set your mind in the right direction. 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:16.080 Don't meditate on the problem. Meditate on the promises. Learn 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:21.040 to think yourself happy, think yourself peaceful, think yourself victorious. 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:25.200 Victory starts in our thinking. If you'll develop this habit 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:28.360 of meditating on what God says, here's what's. 0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:28.840 Going to happen. 0:28:29.160 --> 0:28:32.280 You're going to have perfect peace, you will always be 0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:36.119 in blossom, you will prosper, you will have good success. 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:38.160 And I believe in declare you. 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:41.600 Will overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy. You're going to 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.160 become everything God's created you to be. 0:28:44.280 --> 0:28:48.680 Amen. Do you receive it today? We never like to close. 0:28:48.360 --> 0:28:51.960 Our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus 0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:54.240 the lord of your life. What you pray with me, 0:28:54.840 --> 0:29:00.280 just say Lord Jesus. I'll repeat of my sins, come 0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:05.560 into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 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