Pushing People Up

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.600 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.399 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.880 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.440 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.480 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.840 your life. Well, God bless you. It is a joy 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.520 to have you here. We welcome you and those of 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.240 you viewing as well. We love you guys and are 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.880 just believing for God's very very best in your life. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.960 If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll come 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.640 out and see us and just appreciate you. Tuning in today. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.280 I like to start with something funny each week. And 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.760 I heard about this teenager. He had just gotten his 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.119 driver's permit and he asked his dad if he could 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.560 borrow the car. The dad said, son, I'll make a 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.600 deal with you. If you bring your grades up, read 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.840 your Bible every day, and get your haircut, I'll let 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.400 you borrow the car. Months later, he came back and 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.680 asked about the car, and the dad said, son, you 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.240 brought your grades up, you've been reading your Bible, but 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.440 you still haven't gotten your haircut. The son said, well, Dad, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:32.200 I've been thinking about it. Moses had long hair, Sampson 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.600 had long hair, even Jesus had long hair. The dad 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:40.440 said yes, son, and they walked everywhere they went. Hold 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.280 up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.119 is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.280 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.040 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:56.320 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.840 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:04.520 the saying in Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.200 to talk to you today about pushing people up. There 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.399 are people that God brings into our lives that hold 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.560 the key to our promotion. They hold the key to 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.200 us reaching our full potential. But these are not people 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.320 that are there to help us, to give us breaks 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.080 and to open new doors. It's just the opposite. These 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.960 are people that God puts in our path so we 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.080 can help them, so we can show them favor and 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.440 help them get to a new level. They are divinely 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.680 connected to our destiny. We won't go higher until we 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.320 help them go higher. God's waiting for us to sow accede. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.240 And if you will push them up and help them succeed, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.080 it's all connected. The higher they go, the higher you're 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.680 going to go. If you will help others fulfill their dreams, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.520 God will help you fulfill your dreams. On purpose. God 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.840 will put people in our life. May be a aabor, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.760 a co worker, a student from another country, or even 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.040 a cashier at the grocery store that you see each week. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.120 You may not realize it, but that person could be 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.520 connected to your destiny. If you will take time to 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.960 invest in them, to encourage them, to use your influence 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.480 to push them up. Then as they go higher, you're 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.520 going to go higher. When you sow those seeds of 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.440 kindness and help others improve, It's just like a boomerang 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.800 is going to come right back to you. That's what 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.560 it says in Ecclesiastes eleven to one, give and your 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.280 gifts will come back to you. That means when you 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.719 give favor, you're going to receive favor. When you give 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.080 your influence and open doors for others, you're going to 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.680 receive more influence. People will open doors for you. When 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.680 you help somebody get better, somebody will be there to 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.640 help you get better. And every one of us should 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:00.320 have a project. Somebody we're believing in, somebody we've taken 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.680 under our wings. We're encouraging them, We're giving them advice, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.240 introducing them to our contacts, doing everything we can to 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.360 help them become the best that they can be. It 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.839 may be a coworker at the office, at the job site. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.599 You could easily help that person go to a new level. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.960 They just need a little mentoring, a little training, a 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.840 little advice. Well, Joe, I'm busy, I've got my own goals. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.560 I've got my own challenges. I don't have time. No, 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.760 you need to see it a different way. Your increase 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.160 is linked to that person. God brought them into your 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.080 path for a reason. If you will push them up, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.960 God will make sure you get pushed up. What you 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.400 may happen for others, God will make happen for you. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.159 We were never created to live in grown where we 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.960 just focus on ourselves, and this is what limits many people. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.799 They think inward. But when you take time to invest 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.520 in someone else, you go out of your way to 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.599 give them a break. Maybe you introduce them to somebody 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.000 they would never normally meet. What you send out is 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.839 going to come back. That's when God will open the 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.680 right doors for you. He'll bring the right people into 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.240 your life and those seeds that you're sow and they'll 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.800 not only come back, they will come back multiplied. Let 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.960 me ask you today, who are you pushing up? Who 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.240 are you investing in? Who are you promoting? Who are 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.960 you helping with their dreams? Look around, there are people 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.799 in your life that hold the key to your promotion. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.640 I realize I am where I am today because people 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.479 have pushed me up, People have invested in me I 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.239 think about all the seeds that my parents have sown, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.839 all the times they've encouraged me and told me that 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.039 I could do anything. Think about all the meals my 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.719 mother cooked growing up. I mean it took a lot 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:54.400 of work to heat up those TV dinners. I think 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.600 about how my grandparents on my mother's side, they made 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.080 great sacrifices for us children. When my parents were out 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.640 of the country, they would always stay with us, and 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.719 grandmother and Grandaddy were always building me up and telling 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.120 me how great they thought I was. I found a 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.760 note from my grandmother the other day. I was nine 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.720 years old. It said, Darling Joel, you are so sweet. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.480 I've never seen another young man like you. I must 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:25.240 admit my grandmother didn't get out much, but they invested 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.720 in me. I remember specific Sunday school teachers that took 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.040 time to impart into my life. A baseball coach that 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.760 went out of his way. He'd swing by and pick 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.680 me up and take me to practice, take me to 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.520 the batting cages. When I was nineteen and I first 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.920 started working here doing the television production, there was an 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.320 older gentleman, very experienced, very knowledgeable. He took me under 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.800 his wing and He taught me everything that he knew 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.880 about production. And if you could see all the people 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.960 that made me into who I am today, they wouldn't 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:03.440 fit on this platform. Brothers, sisters, parents, cousins, friends, relatives. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.200 The fact is none of us got to where we 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:11.160 are by ourselves. Somebody pushed us up. Somebody made sacrifices 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.560 so that we could go further. Somebody put in a 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.480 kind word when we were down. Somebody gave us a 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.920 break when we needed it. Well, you say, Joel, I 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.240 wasn't raised in a good environment like you were. Maybe not, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.000 but you wouldn't be as far along as you are 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.040 if somebody somewhere didn't go out of their way to 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.080 help you. Well, my father left us at an early age. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.600 Maybe so, But your mother stepped up. She worked twice 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.599 as hard to give you everything you needed. Or maybe 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.840 those grandparents came into your life to give you guidance, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.560 or that coach took you under his wing to help 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.120 you succeed. Nobody makes it alone. You may think you 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.360 got that good position, you got that break just because 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.640 you were lucky, But listen, luck didn't have anything to 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.600 do with it. It wasn't a coincidence. Somebody in your family 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.439 line was praying. It may have been a great great 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.920 grandmother you didn't even know, but she prayed that her 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.000 seed would be blessed. And today God is honoring that 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.920 prayer through you. Somebody pushed you up, or you wouldn't 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.800 be where you are now. One of our goals should 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.920 be to reach out and push somebody else up. Should 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.960 be a continual cycle. We're doing our best to help 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.640 someone else be better. We're going out of our way 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.000 to give a break. We're using our influence to do 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.320 something good for somebody. And as we sow those seeds, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.480 God is orchestrating another person's steps to be there for us, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.520 to give us a break, to put in a kind 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.440 word when we need it. When we're pushing people up, 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.040 God will make sure that we're going to get pushed up. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.559 I read a story about a little boy by the 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.520 name of Andy Valdez. He grew up in a single 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.559 parent home. They didn't have too much, and so he 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.880 would sell newspapers on the street corner. This was back 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.920 in the early nineteen sixties. During the summer, little eight 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.000 year old Andy go to the same street corner Main 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.319 Street and Second. He would make three cents of paper. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.120 After four or five hours, he'd usually come home with 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.680 a little more than a dollar. There was a gentleman 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.840 named Jack Keller that owned a printing shop across the street. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.480 Every morning, Jack would pass by a little Andy, but 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.559 he already had his paper. One day, Andy got his 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.320 nerve up and he said, hey, mister, why don't you 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.360 ever buy your paper from me? That kind of took 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.320 Jack back, and he laughed. He said, I don't know, 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.599 maybe I'll start. That man not only began buying a 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.640 newspaper from him, but he took little Andy under his 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.480 wing and began to mentor him. He met with his 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.480 mom and asked if he could come help at the 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.680 printing shop. She was thrilled. At eleven years old, Jack 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.880 started taking Andy to the country club where he belonged, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.080 and he taught him how to play tennis. Andy would 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.720 hear some of the other kids joking behind his back 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.800 about his clothes, about his race, about how he was different. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.880 Jack would tell him, don't worry about that, Andy, you 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.120 don't have a problem. They have the problem. He instilled 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:07.040 confidence and self esteem into this young man. Andy got 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.560 better and better at tennis. In fact, when he graduated 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.480 from high school, he was offered a full tennis scholarship 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.000 to a major university. Nobody in Andy's family had ever 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.840 gone to college, and Andy decided that he was going 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.680 to become a lawyer because all the people at the 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.120 country club that were nice suits were lawyers. He said, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.320 the lawyers dressed better than the drug dealers in my neighborhood. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.520 Today it's no longer Andy, it's Judge Andrew Valdez. He's 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.200 not only a lawyer, he's a state district judge. One 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.679 of the things that Judge Valdez is known for is 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:48.720 he started all these youth mentoring programs, helping other troubled teams. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.720 Now he's reaching out helping teenagers that were just like him. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.959 And what's interesting is over the years, Judge Valdez lost 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.960 contact with his friend Jack. He began to wonder about 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.000 and worried about how he was doing. So he went 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.560 back to the printing shop, couldn't find him. Went to 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.880 the home where Jack lived, but he had moved. He 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.600 even checked the death records, assuming that he could have died. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.760 Still nothing. For six years, Judge Valdez looked for his 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.120 friend Jack. One day, he was at a grocery store, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.600 and he saw this old man over in the corner. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.319 He was about to be arrested. He was homeless, disoriented, 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.120 had the health problems. When they looked at each other, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.240 their eyes met. He said, Jack, is that you There 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.720 was a small smile. Jack was in the early stages 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.560 of Alzheimer's. He had wandered from his home and lost everything. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.560 Now it was Judge Valdez's time to return to favor. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.320 When you give your gifts will come back to you, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:51.600 Judge Valdez. Judge Valdez took Jack in, got him a 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.480 place to live, and hired somebody to take care of him, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.240 to feed him, to watch over him. For the next 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.000 four years until Jack went to be with the Lord, 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.400 Judge Valdez would go visit with him time and time again. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.320 He said his favorite thing was to walk in and 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.760 see Jack reading the paper, sitting there eating dinner. That's 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:14.520 where it all began to lose. When you push people up. Today, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.480 Judge Valdez is pushing other young people up. Why because 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.920 Jack pushed him up. When you take time to invest 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.800 in others, it starts a chain reaction. Not only will 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.640 you come up higher, but all down the line people 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.840 are going to be impacted. You never know the difference 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.480 you make when you take time to care, when you 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.520 take time to make someone else's life better. It may 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.120 seem like something small, but very often it'll have a 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:45.120 domino effect. It'll keep giving and giving. Let's develop a 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.680 lifestyle of pushing people up. Let's get in a habit 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.720 of looking for people we can be good too. Doesn't 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.120 have to be something big. Wherever you go, give a smile, 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.640 brighten somebody's day, give a compliment, Hey, you look great today. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.120 Or if you see someone sitting alone by themselves, don't 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.040 stay in your same group, reach out to them, invite 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.959 them to dinner. We should always be looking for ways 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.160 to push people up. Remember, the higher they go, the 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.199 higher we're going to go. Here's the key. It may 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.800 not be someone under you, they may be over you. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.000 You're tempted to think, well, all I'm doing is making 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.120 my company rich. All I'm doing is making my boss 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.280 look good. I do all the work and he takes 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.160 all the credit. Had a lady tell me the other day, Joel, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.200 my supervisor takes all my ideas. I'll work for two 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.000 days planning, strategizing, meeting with people and She'll walk in 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.880 a room and present it like she was the one 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.520 that did it all. I told her what I'm telling you. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.200 You got to look at it differently, your sowing seeds. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.280 The higher you help your supervisor go, the higher you're 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.800 gonna go, the better you make that person look. Eventually, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.680 it's gonna boomerang right back to you, and God's gonna 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.560 get you to where he wants you to go. You're 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.040 gonna get the credit that you deserve. I think about 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.880 in this Elisha. For a long time he took care 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.720 of the prophet Elijah. Elijah was much older than he was, 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.520 and Elisha was basically bringing him food and water, just 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.280 doing these menial tasks. And here Elisha was a young man. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.360 He had big dreams and goals. He wanted to do 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.400 something great in life. I'm sure some of his friends said, Elisha, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.480 what are you doing wasting your time taking care of 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.560 this old man. Why are you spending all your energy 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.640 trying to make him look good. You need to go 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.720 out and do your own thing. But Elisha understood this principle. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.520 He knew his destiny was linked to Elijah, and the 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.920 higher Elijah went, the higher he was gonna go. So 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.280 he just kept pushing him up and pushing him up. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.520 When it came to the end of Elijah's life, he 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.920 was caught up in that whirlwind taken to heaven, and 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.080 as he went up, the mantle that he had came 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.480 down on Elisha. Not only that, it was a double portion. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.360 Elisha had twice the annoying twice the he did twice 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.000 as many miracles as Elijah did. That's what happens. When 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:09.080 you push people up, blessings are gonna come down. Don't 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.560 ever be intimidated to invest in those that are ahead 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.800 of you. A lot of times we think, well, Joel, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.680 they don't need my help. They're successful, they should be 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.440 helping me. They don't need me to give them a break. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.160 They got so much favor or that church, they got 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.400 so many people, they don't need me to serve. No, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.400 it's just the opposite. If you'll get linked up to 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.880 the right people, just like a train, the higher they go, 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.800 the higher you're gonna go. When you push people up, 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.680 the blessings are gonna come down on you. For seventeen years, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.480 I work behind the scenes here with my father doing 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.560 the television production, and I say this very humbly but 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.080 I always did my best to make my father look good. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.200 I know I was called to be here. I didn't 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.080 understand it all at the time, but I realize now 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.840 my destiny was linked to my father. The more I 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.600 pushed him up, the more it was pushed me up. 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.560 I would spend hours working on the lighting, adjusting one 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.879 little slash, making sure it was perfect. I would go 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.760 to my parents' house every Saturday night and pick my 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.680 dad out a suit and tie to wear. I wanted 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.600 to make sure it looked good on television. I'd seen 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.600 some of the other things my father had picked out. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.520 I mean, put it this way. My dad loved color. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.159 If you've been around here very long, you remember at 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.879 the old campus, the blue buildings, the red buildings, the 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.359 orange buildings, the yellow buildings. Because a friend came by 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.679 and said, John, you ought to paint this place like 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.800 a rainbow. My father took him seriously. I still haven't 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:42.479 forgiven that man. When we remodeled the platform area at 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.760 the other facility, I had my father come in stand 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.280 behind the podium, make sure it was the right height, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.520 the right width, make sure everything was sized properly. I 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.879 never dreamed one day I would be standing behind the podium. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.760 Never dream one day the lights would be focused on me. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.200 But that's what happens. When you push people up, you're 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.280 sowing seeds. The higher you help them to go, the 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:09.120 higher you're going to go. Some of you today, this 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.240 may be the reason you're not seeing God's blessings and 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.920 favor like you should. Are you pushing anybody up? Are 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.760 you making someone look better? Are you investing in that friend? 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.800 If you're not swing into others, you don't have any 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.320 good seed in the ground. We need to be on 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.800 the lookout of who we can be good to. Remember, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.479 God sends people as the key to our promotion. It 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.679 may not be a family member, It may be a friend, 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.399 may be a neighbor, may be a young man selling 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.800 newspapers on a street corner. In the scripture, there was 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.119 a lady that lived in a certain town, and every 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.439 so often Elisha would come through that town. She started 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.840 noticing him, and she began to feel this desire to 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.560 help him, a desire to be good to him, to 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.679 make his life easier. She sensed that her destiny was 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.399 linked to Elisha, and so she simply invited him to 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.040 her house to have dinner with her and her family. 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.399 Then she offered him a place to stay. Elisha was 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:10.760 gracious and he accepted that. The next day, after he left, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.600 she said to her husband, let's add a room to 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.400 the house so anytime Elisha is in town, he'll always 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.400 have a place to stay. She reached out to him 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.199 from the kindness of her heart and they built that 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.720 spare bedroom, and time and time again, Elisha would come 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.840 and stay with her family. This lady wasn't trying to 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.400 get anything. She wasn't trying to manipulate him into doing 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.880 something for her. She was simply investing into his life, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.240 pushing him up, making it a little bit easier on him. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.600 And one day, while Elisha was staying there, he said 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.640 to his servant, go find out what this lady wants. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.200 Go find out if there's anything she needs. I want 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.120 to be good to her. That's the way God works. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.480 When you're good to other people, God will cause people 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.840 to want to be good to you. It may not 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.760 even be the same people. You may sow a seed 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.600 and do good for someone or some company for a lifetime, 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.399 yet you never receive anything in return from them. But 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:12.600 don't get discouraged. The way God works is you cannot 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:16.400 give without it causing a chain reaction. When you push 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:21.800 people up, it sets a series of events into motion. Somewhere, somehow, 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.800 God will cause a person to feel a need to 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.360 be good to you. They may not even know you, 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.119 they may be in a different city, but all of 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.800 a sudden, they have a desire to show you favor, 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.600 a desire to give you a good break. It's those 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.280 seeds of kindness that you're showing. This servant came back 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.840 and said, Elisha, the lady doesn't want anything. She's perfectly happy. 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.920 But Elisha wasn't satisfied. He said, go back and ask 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:47.840 her again. I want to do something good for her. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.480 He was determined. It's because you can't sew a seed 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.960 without it bringing you a harvest. The servant finally came 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.640 back and said, okay, Elisha. She said she's never had 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.120 a baby, but she's an old lady and her husband's 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.560 even older than she is. That's impossible. Lysia said, that 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.360 doesn't matter. You go back and tell her. By this 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.600 time next year, she's gonna have a child. The servant 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.840 went back. When he told her, the lady laughed and laughed. 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:16.080 She thought it was a joke. She said, tell a lie, 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.280 She'd quit kidding with me. That'll never happen. But sure enough, 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:22.399 a year later she was showing off her new baby boy, 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.760 A dream come true. What am I saying today? When 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.760 you are good to people and you develop a lifestyle 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.760 of pushing them up, God will bring your dreams to pass. 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.600 Doesn't have to be something big, even small things. When 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.760 my mother was a child, she had polio. She had 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.240 to wear braces on her legs so she couldn't run 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.639 and play sports like the rest of the children. Not 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.440 long ago, she met an old friend that she hadn't 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.000 seen in over sixty years. They had gone to grade 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.760 school together. This lady reminded my mom when they would 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.719 play softball as little kids, and my mother was up 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.199 to bat when my mother would hit the ball. This 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.720 was the lady that ran the basis for my mother, 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:07.320 just a small thing, just pushing her up, making her 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:10.240 feel a part. One time, Moses was on a hill 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:14.200 overlooking this battle taking place. He was holding his rod 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.600 up in the air. As long as he had his 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:19.480 rod up, the people of Israel were winning. But the 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:21.919 battle went on hour after hour, and he got tired. 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:25.200 When he put the rod down, the Amalekites would start 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.320 to win. Moses couldn't take it anymore. He's just too tired. 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:31.920 When Erin and her saw what was happening, they ran 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.919 up the hill, got on each side of Moses, and 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:39.120 they held his hands up for him. Because they stepped 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:43.720 up and did something seemingly insignificant, the people of Israel 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:46.359 went on to win the battle. You may not be 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.199 able to do something big. Maybe you can't add a 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.199 room to your house or give somebody a job, but 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:55.520 you can run for a child that's not able to 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:58.679 you can't hold up somebody's hands. In other words, you 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.359 can give somebody a ride to work, to church. You 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:05.240 can babysit someone's children, or you can teach someone tips 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.359 about what you know in your field. There's all kinds 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.679 of ways we can push people up and understand. It 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.600 doesn't have to be something big in order to make 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.920 a big difference. Probably nobody has done more to help mankind, 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.399 at least in the field of medicine than doctor Michael 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:25.760 de Bakey. He has spent his lifetime studying the heart. 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:29.000 Many of the procedures that linked in our lives today, 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.840 even the artificial heart, were developed by doctor DeBakey. But 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:35.600 do you know where it all really started. When he 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:39.280 was a little boy, way back in the early nineteen hundreds, 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:43.040 his mother taught him how to sew. She took time 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:47.280 and invested into him. Little did she realize that small 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:50.520 seed that she planted in an eight year old boy 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:54.040 would one day grow and develop, and those hands would 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:56.800 become one of the most skilled surgeons that's ever lived. 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:01.720 Take time to invest in those around you. Here's the key. 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.719 Start with your own family. Make sure you're pushing up 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.680 those that are closest to you. Don't take them for granted. 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:12.120 I wouldn't be half of who I am today if 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:15.240 it was not for Victoria. She's always pushing me up. 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:20.520 In these days in families, there's competition in marriages, competition 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:23.960 in families. But if we can just realize the higher 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:27.160 we help others go, the higher we're gonna go. It's 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:30.400 all connected. I've got to tell you my brothers, sisters, 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:34.320 brothers in law, sisters in law, they're always encouraging me, 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:38.920 so loyal, so supportive, no wonder, I'm so blessed. They 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:41.639 inspire me to want to return the favor. That's the 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:44.959 way it should be. Push your spouse up. Push your 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:47.840 children up, Push your cousin up, push your nephew up, 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:53.840 push your grandparents up. Start with your own family. One 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.480 more I left out, push your mother in law up, 0:24:56.640 --> 0:25:00.919 and not out. I read a story Glory about a 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:04.879 young man named Patrick Henry. He was born with no eyes, 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:08.399 totally blind, and he had no ability to walk. He 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.760 couldn't fully straighten his arms and legs out. His parents 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:15.440 were so discouraged, but after a few months they discovered 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:19.320 that little Patrick had an incredible gift for music. He 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:22.800 actually started to learn to play the piano at nine 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:26.000 months old. He grew up and not only became a 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:29.439 concert pianist, but he was a world class trumpet player. 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.800 He went to the University of Louisville and they invited 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:35.399 him to play in the marching band. Of course, he 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:38.679 couldn't march, he couldn't walk, he couldn't see. He was 0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:42.320 in a wheelchair. But that didn't stop him. His father 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:46.600 resigned from his daytime job and he took an overnight 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:49.280 position at the mail company so he could be there 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:53.159 to help his son. The father attended every band practice, 0:25:53.320 --> 0:25:56.879 he learned all the routines. I'm talking about a marching band, 0:25:57.400 --> 0:25:59.600 not putting his child on the sideline and letting them 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:03.480 march around him. This father would push his child in 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:09.920 a wheelchair in perfect formation, zigging, zagging, grooving, moonwalking. You're 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:12.840 talking about pushing people up. When you watch them on 0:26:12.880 --> 0:26:15.159 the field, you would have thought the father was the child. 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:17.800 He was so happy, he had a big smile just 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:22.159 maneuvering that wheelchair. He told later, when their child was 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:24.680 first born, he and his wife said, God, why us, 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:27.120 What did we do to deserve a child like this? 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:30.639 Now they asked the question in a different light, God, 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:33.399 why us? What did we do to deserve such a 0:26:33.440 --> 0:26:35.920 great child like this? A child that could bring us 0:26:36.040 --> 0:26:40.560 so much joy, so much happiness. Let me ask you again, 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:44.720 are you pushing anybody up? Are you encouraging your family? 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:48.639 Are you investing your time and energy making someone else better? 0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:52.040 Look around you. There are people in your life that 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:55.800 are connected to your joy, to your peace, to your dreams. 0:26:56.000 --> 0:26:58.880 They hold the key to your promotion. If you'll help 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:02.040 them go higher, then you're gonna go higher. When you give, 0:27:02.160 --> 0:27:05.120 your gifts will come back to you. I heard somebody say, 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:09.200 if you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:13.080 you want happiness for a month, get married. And I 0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:17.200 didn't say this. If you want happiness for a year 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:21.520 inherit a fortune. But if you want happiness for a lifetime, 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.719 help others. I'm asking us today to develop a habit 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:30.800 of pushing people up. When you take time to invest 0:27:31.000 --> 0:27:34.919 in someone else, it doesn't go unnoticed. Every minute you 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:37.800 encourage that friend, every mile you go out of your 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:40.399 way to do a good deed, every penny you spend 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:43.320 to make someone else better. God sees that he's keeping 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:46.280 the records. He's not only gonna pay you back, He's 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:49.520 gonna multiply what you've sown. When you push people up, 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:51.760 you might as well get ready. The blessings are gonna 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:54.560 come down. You're gonna get breaks, You're gonna see favor. 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:58.320 New doors are gonna open. I believe because you're a giver, 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:02.080 because you're looking at for others, You're gonna see your dreams, 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:05.600 your desires. Every promise God put in you, your goodness 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:08.080 is gonna boomerang right back, and you're gonna see those 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:10.800 promises come to pass. Amen. Do you receive it today? 0:28:11.720 --> 0:28:16.480 I know you do. Well. Let's pray together, Father, I 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:18.399 thank you for what we've heard. I know it falls 0:28:18.440 --> 0:28:21.359 on good ground, the people of Lakewood. I pray Father 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:24.080 that we go out of here just seeing the world 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:27.000 in a different life, being on the lookout for somebody 0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:29.560 we can bless. Father, help us to be aware of 0:28:29.600 --> 0:28:32.280 those people that you've brought into our lives that are 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:36.200 connected to our destiny. Father, we commit today we're gonna 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.560 use our time and energy to help other people go higher, 0:28:39.720 --> 0:28:41.720 and Father, we know we can out and give you 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:44.160 as they go up, We're gonna go up. So I 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:46.520 thank you Father that our eyes are open, that we 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:49.440 will continue to give, and that we will become everything 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:52.160 that You've created us to be. In Jesus's name, I 0:28:52.200 --> 0:28:55.680 pray thanks so much for listening to today's message. 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