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In this uplifting message, Joel wants to give you the tools to move forward in confidence into your bright future God has in store. He will show you biblical principles on how to let go and quit reliving the past so that we can receive the new things God wants to do in our lives and move forward into His blessings and goodness.----Visit https://joelosteen.com to receive daily updates and encouragement from Joel Osteen.----Have you followed Joel Osteen on Instagram? https://instagram.com/joelosteen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It helps keep the 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:45.280 ministry going. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:02:00.200 Enjoy the message. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.320 Well, God bless you and welcome. Thanks so much for 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.800 letting us come into your homes. And if you're ever 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.200 in our area, please stop by. These are the finest 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.919 people in all of Houston, Texas right here at Lakewood. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.320 We'd love to have you visit. But thanks for tuning 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.959 in and thank you again for coming out today. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.200 And I'd like to start with something funny, and I 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.480 heard about this college professor. He was going to prove 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.000 to his class that there is no God. He said, God, 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.080 if you're real, then knock me off this platform. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.880 I'm giving you fifteen minutes to do it. Every minute that. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.919 Went by, he taunted God, I'm still here, God, I'm 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.000 waiting the last minute. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.320 Three hundred pound football. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.920 Player walking down the hallway overheard him. Came running toward 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.800 him full force, put his shoulder down, knocked the professor, sent. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.040 Him flying off the platform. Professor got up in the day, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.680 said what in the world do you do that for? 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.160 The football player replied, God said he was busy, so 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:02.240 he sent me. Old your Bible up, say it like 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:02.800 you mean it. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.799 This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.520 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.040 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.800 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.040 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:23.040 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.680 to talk to you today about moving forward. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.480 It's easy to go through life. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.680 Looking in the rear view mirror, focused on what didn't work. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.560 Out on who heard us, on the mistakes we made. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.920 If only I would have finished college, If only I 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.040 would have spent more time with my children, if only 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.040 that company wouldn't have laid me off after twenty years. 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.000 That's just not right. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.160 But as long as you're living in regrets, focused on 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.000 the negative things of the past, it's going to keep 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.520 you from the bright future God has in store. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.880 You've got to let go of what didn't work out. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.440 Let go oh of the hurts and pains, Let go 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.840 of your disappointments, your failures. You can't do anything about 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.400 the past, but you can do something about right now. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.720 And whether it happened twenty years ago or twenty minutes. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.000 Ago, let it go and move forward. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.120 If you keep bringing negative baggage from yesterday into the day, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.840 it will poison your future. You may have had an 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.520 unfair past, I'm not debating that. What I'm saying is 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.800 you don't have to have an unfair future. You may 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.279 have gotten off to a rough start in life, but 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:36.960 it's not how you start that matters. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:41.000 It's how you finish. Don't let what somebody did or 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.839 didn't do for you be an excuse to live sour. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.240 Don't let a bad break, a divorce, a betrayal, a 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.680 bad childhood cause you to settle where you are. Move 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.359 forward and God will pay you back. Move forward and 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.839 God will indicate you. Move forward and you'll come into 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.400 a new beginning. Nothing that's happened to you is a 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.279 surprise to God. The loss of that loved one didn't 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.360 catch God off guard. The business that didn't make it, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.200 the relationship that didn't work out did not stop God's 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.040 plan for your life. Now, the real question is are 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.760 you going to get stuck, fall into self pity, become bitter, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.360 let the past poison your future, or are you going 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.160 to shake it off and move forward knowing that your 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.640 best days are still up ahead. In your automobile, there's 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.600 a big wind shield in the front and a very 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.440 small rear view mirror. The reason the windshield is so 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.159 large and the rear view mirror is so small is 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.000 because what's happened in your past is not nearly as 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.919 important as what's in your future. Where you're going is 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.919 much more significant than where you've been. But if you 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.279 stay focused on the past, you'll get stuck where you are. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.720 And this is the reason a lot of people don't 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.320 have no enthusiasm for life. They're dragging around all this 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:09.080 negative baggage from the past. Somebody offended them last week, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.400 they've got that stuffed in their resentment bag. Last month 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.800 they lost their temper, said some things they shouldn't have. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.280 They've got that in their guilt and condemnation bag. Ten 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.960 years ago they lost a loved one. They still don't 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.200 understand it. They've got that hurt and pain in their 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.880 disappointment bag. They carry around their bag of regrets, all 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.560 the things they wish they would have done differently. They've 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.120 got their divorce in a specific bag. Been mad at 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.120 their spouse for years. If they went to take an 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.240 airline flight, they couldn't afford it. They've got twenty seven 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.200 bags they drag around with them everywhere they go. Friends, 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.279 life is too short to live that way. Learn to 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.920 travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.320 the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.599 your spouse for what they said. Forgive your boss for 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.880 being rude. Forgive yourself for the mistakes you've made at 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:07.800 the start. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:08.119 Of the day. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:13.080 Let go of the disappointments the setbacks from yesterday. Start 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:17.600 every morning afresh and anew God did not create you 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.880 to carry around all that baggage. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.520 Some of you have been holding on to it for years. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.160 It's not going to change unless you do something about it. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.840 You got to put your foot down and say that's it. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.000 I'm not living in regrets anymore. I'm not focusing on 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.240 my disappointments. I'm not dwelling on who hurt me, on 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.600 what didn't work out. I'm letting it go and moving 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.760 forward with my life. See, we should focus on what 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.960 we can change, not what we cannot change. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.480 What's done is done. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:54.200 If somebody offended you, mistreated you, disappointed you, you can't 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.840 undo that. You can either get bitter, pack it in 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.040 a bag and let it weigh you down, or. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.560 You can forgive them and go on. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.680 If you lost your temper yesterday, you can either beat 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.160 yourself up, carry around the guilt and condemnation, or you 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.840 can ask for forgiveness, receive God's mercy, and do better today. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.600 If you didn't get that promotion, you can get sour, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.520 go around with a chip on your shoulder, or you 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.240 can shake it off knowing that God has something better 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.720 in store. No matter what happens in life, big or small. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.480 If you will learn to let it go and move forward. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.439 Then your past. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.680 Doesn't have to poison your future. I met a lady 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.559 after the service a few years ago who had been 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.920 through a divorce. We prayed several times that God would 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.960 bring somebody new into her life. One day she met 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.800 this man, fine godly man, very successful. She was so 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.720 happy about it, but she made the mistake of dragging 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.040 all of her negative baggage into this new relationship. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.400 She was constantly talking. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.240 About what she'd been through and how she was mistreated. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.080 She had a victim mentality. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.440 The man told me later she was so focused on 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.240 her past, so caught. 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.839 Up in what she had been through. He couldn't handle it. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:13.720 He moved on. 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.480 That's what happens when we hold on to the hurts 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:18.600 and pains of the. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.600 Past, it will poison you everywhere you go. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:26.320 You cannot drag around the baggage from yesterday and expect 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.880 to have good relationships today. You've got to let it go. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.000 Quit living life looking in that rear view mirror, start 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.400 looking out the great big windshield. You may have had 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.280 some bad breaks, but that did not stop God's plan. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.079 For your life. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.600 He still has something amazing in front of you. When 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.760 one door closes, if you'll stay in faith, God will 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.319 always open up another. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.280 Door when one dream dies. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.800 Don't sit around self pity talking about what you've lost. 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.520 Dream another dream. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.800 Your life is not over because you lost a loved one, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.640 you went through a divorce, you got laid off. You 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.080 wouldn't be alive unless God had another victory in front 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.360 of you. Now, quit mourning over what you've lost, Let 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.600 go of what didn't work out. 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:16.800 How do you let it go? 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.560 Quit thinking about it, Quit talking about it. Quit reliving 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.160 all the negative things that have happened to you. When 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.400 those pictures come up on the movie screen of your mind, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:33.360 change the channel. You have the remote control. You don't 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.600 have to watch everything that comes up. If you keep 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.000 reliving negative memories, thinking about how unfair it was, how 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.520 could they do that to me? That wound will never heal. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.120 Every time you think about it, you're reopening it. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:50.559 The mind is very powerful. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.800 When you replay negative experiences, you will feel the same 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:59.120 emotion as when it first happened. Before long, you'll be sad, angry, 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.880 depressed better. I know people when that picture comes up 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.320 on the movie screen of their mind, the negative memories 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.000 instead of quickly changing the channel. They go, pull up 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.560 a chair, so to speak, get a bag of popcorn, 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.199 watch it for the next fifteen minutes. The scripture says, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.800 think on things that are pure, things that are wholesome, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.160 things that are of a good report. If you're going 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.320 to keep moving forward, you've got to be disciplined in 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.080 your thought life. The negative memories will try to replay 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.800 again and again. You've got to guard your mind. Some 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.760 of you would go to a new level if you 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.880 would simply start changing the channel. Quit replaying the disappointments, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.079 quit reliving the bad breaks. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.559 Every time you watch that you think. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.600 About it, you're reopening the wound. It's making it more difficult. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.520 I walked into a government building one time. There were 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.520 two sets of double doors about fifteen feet apart. They 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.920 were both automatic doors. When you walk through the first 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.120 set of doors, you had to let them totally close 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.560 until the next set of doors would open. As long 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.360 as I stayed that that first set, the second set 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.480 would not open. It's the same principle in life. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:12.559 If you're sitting. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.440 Around nursing your wounds, feeling sorry for yourself, you're not 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.600 going to see anything new. You've got to let those 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.960 doors totally close. Let go of the disappointments, let go 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.440 of the failures. You cannot change the past, but you 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.200 can change the future. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.719 If you'll move forward, you'll see the new things. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.199 God wants to do. And this is what the scripture says. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.240 God will give you beauty for ashes. Here's the key. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.640 You have to let go of the ashes before you 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:48.760 can receive the beauty. Ashes represent our broken dreams, our failures, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.760 our disappointments are hurts. We all have our share of ashes. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.880 As long as you're holding onto the ashes, thinking about 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.240 the disappointment, mad at somebody, bitter the past, then you 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:05.480 won't receive the beauty, and exchange has to take place. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.120 It's an act of faith to say God, I'm forgiving 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.880 this person that hurt me, or I lost my biggest client, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:14.920 but I'm not going to have a chip on my shoulder. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.480 My friend betrayed me, but I'm going to keep a 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:22.280 good attitude. That's when God can give you the beauty. Well, Joel, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.600 they hurt me too badly. I can't forgive them. That's 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:26.920 a heavy price to pay. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.079 If you won't let go of the old, you can't 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:30.960 receive the new. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.080 Well, we prayed for our mother, and she didn't get 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.960 healed like your mother. We don't understand it. I don't 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.240 claim to understand it all. I'm simply asking you to 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.120 let go of the ashes, let go of the disappointment, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.480 let go of the blame. Take those ashes, your broken dreams, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.800 you hurt, your failures, even your questions. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.600 Put them into God's hands and say God, it wasn't fair. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:56.000 They hurt me. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.640 My dream didn't work out, but I refuse to live 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.760 life looking in the rear view mirror. You promised me 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.760 beauty for ashes. So right now I'm releasing the bitterness. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.480 I'm forgiving the person that hurt me. I'm letting go 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.280 of the disappointments. I know a man that lost his 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.320 wife over ten years ago. She was killed in an 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.480 automobile accident. It's a very tragic situation. Now, of course, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.120 there's a normal period for grieving. That's a part of 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.200 the healing process. That's the way God made us. But 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.920 some ten years later, this man was still grieving. He 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.120 let a season of mourning turn into a lifetime of mourning. 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.640 He ended up a very bitter, angry man. What happened. 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.160 He's holding on to the ashes God wants to give 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.240 him beauty, but because he won't let go of the old, 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.120 he can't receive the new. The enemy would love for 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.240 you to spend your whole life sitting in the ashes, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.840 Bitter over a relationship that didn't work out, angry over 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.560 a job you didn't get, feeling sorry for yourself because 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:03.200 of a loved. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:03.680 One that died. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.480 No turn loose of those ashes. If you went through 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.080 a divorce, let it go. God has somebody better in 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.880 your future. If you weren't treated right growing up, let 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.040 it go and God will make it up to you. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.040 If you lost a loved one, they're up in heaven 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:22.280 right now celebrating. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.600 You know what they would want me to tell you. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.120 Move forward. 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:31.240 Quit mourning over something that's over and done. Quit mourning 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.760 over what you cannot change. If God wanted them to 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.920 still be here, they would still be here. If God 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.360 wanted you to have that position that you didn't get, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.920 you would have it. Shake off the self pity, shake 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.240 off the disappointment. The apostle Paul put it this way, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:53.040 forgetting what lies behind, I strain toward what lies ahead. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.000 That word strain indicates it's going to take effort. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:59.080 You go through a bad break. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.440 A laws easy thing to do is sit around talk 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.040 about how bad life's treating you. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.000 But if you're going to keep moving forward, you've got 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.240 to have a strong will. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.400 You've got to rise up like Paul and say that's it. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.240 I am not holding onto these ashes. I know what's 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.480 in my future is greater than what's in my past, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.960 So I am pressing forward in life. This is what 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.120 the prophet Samuel had to do. Samuel had invested a 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.720 lot of time and energy into his relationship with Saul. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.880 Back when Saul was a young man, Samuel chose him 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.040 at the Lord's command to be the next king of Israel. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.640 Samuel took Saul under his wing. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.240 He did his best to. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:46.240 Make sure that Saul would succeed, but unfortunately Saul wouldn't 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.800 walk in obedience and God rejected him as king. Well, 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.640 you can imagine how Samuel must have felt. He had 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.000 put all this time and effort and energy into Saul, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.720 and now it looks like it was all a big 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:04.520 wayte of time. I'm sure Samuel was heartbroken sitting around 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.040 feeling sorry for himself, thinking about what didn't work out. 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:09.720 In first Samuel. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.600 Sixteen, God said Samuel, how long are you going to 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.560 mourn over Saul? God is asking us the same thing. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.440 How long are you going to mourn over what you've lost? 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.439 How long are you going to be discouraged over a 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.760 relationship that didn't work out, over a job you didn't get, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.639 over somebody that hurts you. There is a problem with 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:36.520 excessive mourning. It stops God from releasing the new things 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.760 he has for you. God told Samuel, fill your horn 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.119 with oil and. 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:42.920 Be on your way. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.640 I am sending you to the house of Jesse. I've 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.400 chosen one of his sons to be the next king. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.920 God was saying, Samuel, if you'll quit mourning and instead 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.200 get up and start moving forward, I'll give you another king, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.400 Saul his first choice. But just because Saul wouldn't walk 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.520 in obedience, God didn't say I'm sorry, Samuel, Saul blew it. 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.960 That ruins everything. No, God always has another plan. And 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.840 if you'll quit dwelling on the disappointment, quit feeling sorry 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.840 for yourself, and instead do what the scripture says, fill 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.199 your horn with oil. That simply means put on a 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.640 new attitude, put the smile back on your face, get 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.399 the spring back in your step, get your hopes up, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.760 start expecting God's goodness. That's when you'll see the new 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:37.720 things God has in store now. Samuel could have said, God, 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.720 I can't do it. I'm too heartbroken. They hurt me 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.480 too bad. I spent too much time with Saul. If 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.720 he would have done that, he would have missed out 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.399 on choosing David, one of the greatest kings that's ever lived. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:50.880 Just like with. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.720 Samuel, what you may think right now is a big disappointment, 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:57.439 a big stumbling block. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.040 God is going to turn it into a step stone. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.160 To take you into the greatest days of your life. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.600 I have a friend that was married for many, many years. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.359 One day he came home and his wife had left 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.240 a note on the kitchen table saying that she had 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.320 fallen in love with somebody else and was moving away. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.280 Of course, he was very devastated. When I saw him, 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:22.600 he looked twenty years. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:23.600 Older than he really was. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.960 He said, I don't understand it. I love this lady. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.520 I'll never find another person like her. He thought he 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.760 had seen his best days, and he grieved that loss. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.320 He went through a season of mourning, but he didn't 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.520 let it turn into a lifetime of morning didn't happen overnight, 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.119 but eventually he got his passion back. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.720 He put on a new attitude. He made the decision 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:49.120 he wasn't going to live. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.040 Life looking in the rear view mirror, kept moving forward. 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.119 About three years later he met this beautiful young lady. 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.639 They ended up falling in love getting married. Old Joel, 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.080 I have never been this happy in all of my life. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.199 I never knew what true love really was. And this 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.760 is the way God is. If you'll let go of 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:14.240 the ashes, not get bitter, God will do something greater 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.720 than you've ever imagined. When my father was alive, I 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.960 used to tell Victoria, I wonder what's gonna happen to 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.719 me and what's gonna happen around here when my father 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.600 goes to be with the Lord. My father and I 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.000 we had traveled the world together for seventeen years. I 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.119 worked with him day in and day out here at 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.920 the ministry. He'd come over to our house many nights, 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.040 we'd have dinner, go watch the Astros play baseball. 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.040 Much of my world was built around my father. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.080 In the back of my mind, I thought, when my 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.040 dad dies, it will never. 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:49.320 Be as good as it is right now. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:52.479 When my dad went to be with the Lord nineteen 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.679 ninety ninety suddenly had a heart attack. I mourned the 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.040 loss of my father, but I didn't get better, didn't 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:00.000 have a chip on my show. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:01.880 I didn't feel cheated. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:06.359 I knew the number of my father's days God had fulfilled. 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.400 I knew it was a part of God's plan. 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.720 And I say this very respectfully because I still love 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:16.520 and miss my father. But what I thought would be 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.000 my darkest hour turned out to be my brightest hour. 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.600 I thought I could never be as happy and fulfilled 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.000 as when my dad was here. But like with Samuel, 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.560 God had another plan. God had something better for the 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:32.680 new season. 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:33.000 Of my life. 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.200 When you go through a loss of disappointment, it's easy 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.080 to think it'll never be like it used to be. 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.480 If you'll stay in faith and keep moving forward, you're right. 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:45.960 It won't be what it used to be. It will 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:46.840 be better. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.160 Than it used to be. That's the way our God is. 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:50.640 That's beauty for ashes. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.239 Now my question, are you still mourning over something that 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:00.120 you should be over. If you'll fill your horn with oil, 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:03.440 put on the new attitude, start moving forward, you will 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:07.159 see the better things that God has in store and 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:09.280 in life, we all have to deal with some kind 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:11.840 of loss, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.520 loss of a dream, loss of a relationship, and it's 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.000 tempting to feel like something was taken away from us, 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:20.400 something was stolen. 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.240 You can have one of two attitudes. 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.000 You can say, God, it's not fair, I don't understand it. 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:28.639 How could you let that happen to me. 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:32.359 You can get angry, bitter, past blame, but a much 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.080 better approach is to take that loss and sow it 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.919 as a seed. Say God, i don't know why this 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.880 was taken away, but I'm not going to let anyone 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:46.760 steal from me. I'm sowing this as a seed, trusting 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:47.400 you to. 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.400 Bring me a harvest. In other words, you didn't get 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.000 a promotion that you deserved. 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.960 Don't get bitter, have the attitude nobody stole this promotion 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.520 from me. God, I'm sowing it as a seed, believing 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:01.680 that you'll me an even better position. 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:04.040 A relationship didn't work out. 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:07.520 God, I'm not going to live my life sour thinking 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:11.159 that I've wasted months or even years of my life. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:14.440 I'm sowing this as a seed, knowing that you will 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:18.040 bring the right person into my life. See, you can't 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.480 have a victim mentality. Oh man, I've been robbed. My 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.840 loved one was taken away. No turn it around, give 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:27.600 it to God, Sow it as a seed, and you'll 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.280 be amazed at what kind of harvest God will bring you. 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.960 I saw a story on the news several years ago. 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:35.840 About this young mountain climber. 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:39.120 He was in a remote section of Utah, hiking through 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.919 the canyon all alone, when suddenly this eight hundred pound 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:48.560 boulder shifted and his right arm became stuck. For five days, 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:51.160 he tried everything he could to free himself. 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:55.159 Had a small pocket knife. Hour after hour he chipped 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.119 away at that boulder to no avail. 0:23:57.840 --> 0:23:59.760 When that didn't work, he tried to use some of 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:04.199 him climbing equipment to somehow shift the rock again. It 0:24:04.240 --> 0:24:07.920 wouldn't even budge. On the third day, he ran out 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:11.760 of food and water. By this time, his arm was 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:15.480 no longer alive. He had no feeling in it, had 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:19.400 no blood going to it. For days, it was cold, hard, stiff. 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.960 It looked like he was going to die with it. 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.840 Didn't seem like there was any way out. But on 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:30.200 the fifth day he made a decision to do the unthinkable. 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.560 He knew he had to cut off his arm if 0:24:33.560 --> 0:24:35.760 he was going to be able to live. He put 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:37.080 a tourniquet on up here. 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:41.920 Somehow, some way, he amputated his own arm. He then 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:46.400 walked for two miles. Somebody ran into him. Miraculously, his 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:50.320 life was saved. And in a sense, we all come 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:54.080 to places like this in life, where something is over 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:55.040 and done. 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:57.800 There's nothing more we can do about it. 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:01.760 We may not understand it, it may not have been fair, 0:25:02.240 --> 0:25:04.560 but none of that changes the fact that it's no 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:08.359 longer alive. We can either hold on to it and 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:12.320 let it drag us down and defeat us with it, or, 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:15.600 like this young man, as difficult as it may be, 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:20.200 we can choose to break free move forward. 0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:22.040 So we can experience a new beginning. 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:26.680 If something is dead in your life, don't die with it. 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:30.160 If something is over and done, don't hold on to it, 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:33.560 let it go. Say God, they hurt me, it wasn't right. 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:35.639 But I'm not going to dwell on it. I'm not 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:38.160 going to relive that memory. I'm gonna cut it off 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:39.159 and move forward. 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:43.360 Sometimes you have to take bold measures to keep making progress. 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:45.840 If a dream died, don't die with it. 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:49.480 Cut off the broken dream, cut off the relationship that 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:53.359 didn't work out, cut off the self pity, the unforgiveness, 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:58.119 the negative attitude. Where you're unwilling to walk away is 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:02.000 where you're going to become stuck. In the scripture, Job 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:04.840 went through a nine month period where everything that could 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:05.680 go wrong did. 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:08.720 He lost his health, his business, his. 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:12.200 Family, and at one point, it says, he sat down 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:17.080 among the ashes. He was so overwhelmed, so distraught. He thought, 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:20.720 this is it. I'll never be happy again. When you 0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:24.200 go through a loss, a disappointment, there's nothing the enemy 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:27.359 would love to see you do any more than to 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:31.480 sit down among the ashes, get bitter, hold on to 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:35.480 something that's dead, lose your enthusiasm for life. That's what 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:38.680 Job did for a period of time. He sat down. 0:26:39.160 --> 0:26:42.520 But here's the whole catch. Job didn't stay down. He 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:46.359 got his fireback, got his passion back. He rose up 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:49.639 out of those ashes. He said, this may be difficult, 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:53.320 but I know my Redeemer lives. I know my God 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:55.240 is still on the throne. 0:26:55.520 --> 0:26:56.120 I know I. 0:26:56.080 --> 0:26:59.440 Wouldn't be alive unless there was something greater in my future. 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:03.919 The scripture says Job came out with twice what he 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:08.080 had before. Some of you today life hasn't turned out 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:12.600 the way you had hoped, gone through some unfair situations. Now, 0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:15.920 like Job, you're sitting in the ashes, holding on to 0:27:16.040 --> 0:27:18.680 something that didn't work out, bitter discouraged. 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:21.240 God is saying, if. 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.760 You'll let go of the ashes, if you'll put on 0:27:23.800 --> 0:27:26.840 a new attitude, I'll do for you what I did 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:30.040 for Job. I'll not only bring you out, but I'll 0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:33.960 bring you out with twice what you had before. Isaiah said, 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:38.600 because you've got a double dose of trouble, your inheritance 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:41.880 in the land will be double and your joy will 0:27:41.920 --> 0:27:47.199 go on forever. Friends, your future starts today. Don't you 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.639 dare go through life looking in that rear view mirror, 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:54.919 look out the great big windshield in front of you. 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:59.760 Your life is filled with possibility. There are incredible opportunities 0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:02.639 in of you. You may have had some bad breaks, 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:04.919 but always remember God has. 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:08.840 Promised beauty for those ashes. Now do your part. Let 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:12.280 go of the ashes. Quit reliving negative memories. 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:15.720 Don't let us season of mourning turn into a lifetime 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:19.640 of morning. Be bold to cut off whatever didn't work out, 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:22.560 whether it was thirty minutes ago, thirty years ago. 0:28:23.000 --> 0:28:24.800 Let it go and move forward. 0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:28.440 If you'll do this, you will feel a heaviness lift 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:28.840 off of you. 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:29.520 Now. 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:33.080 I believe and declare the rest of your life will 0:28:33.119 --> 0:28:36.040 be the best of your life. God will take what's 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:38.760 meant for harm and use it to your advantage. You 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:43.680 will overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become everything 0:28:43.880 --> 0:28:45.040 God's created you to be. 0:28:45.440 --> 0:28:48.080 In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say 0:28:48.160 --> 0:28:48.760 him in today? 0:28:50.280 --> 0:28:53.400 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.360 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:57.800 Would you pray with me? 0:28:58.400 --> 0:29:03.760 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:04.520 into my heart. 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:07.240 I make you my Lord and savior. 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:11.000 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:14.120 got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.200 Keep God first place. 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