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We 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.600 had this huge red umbrella that we drilled down in 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.440 the sand. We'd put our beach blanket out, get our 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.280 ice chest, get our spot ready for a day at 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.120 the beach, and as soon as it was set, I'd 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.480 take off to the water. I could spend hours out 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.320 in the waves just having such a good time. And 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.320 one day I had been out there, seems like for 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.800 several hours. In fact, I had made it to the 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.520 second sandbar. Now, if you know what those sandbars are, 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.600 they're deep spots, and then you get on the sandbar 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.840 and it's like you're on the shore. You can be 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.320 way out and you can be just up to your knees. 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.400 So I had made my way all the way out 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.680 to the second sandbar. I wanted my family to see 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.519 me from shore because I thought I am really done 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.840 well today. So I stood up and I began to 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.160 wave my hands looking for my family. I was searching 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.560 everywhere for where our spot was, where we had set 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.960 that red umbrella. When I realized I could see a 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.800 lot of people, I could see a lot of things, 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:08.160 but I couldn't spot my family. Well, I got kind 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.839 of panicking as a little girl. I thought, I gotta 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.040 find my family. Where did they go? So I swam 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.839 as quick as I could, worked really hard to make 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.840 it to shore looking for my family. Or walk to 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.880 the left all the way as far as I could 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.400 couldn't find them, turned around, walked to the right, looking 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.040 and looking for my family. When at a distance I 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.920 spotted that red umbrella, And can I tell you, as 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.960 a little girl, that was a happy moment for me. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.280 I thought, there they are, I'm safe, and everything is okay. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.040 You see, what I didn't realize was when I was 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:50.840 out in that water, those undercurrents were slowly taking me 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.720 down the beach. It was so subtle. I was playing, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.880 minding my own business, but they just drugged me all 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.000 the way down the beach, about two to three hundred 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.160 maybe more feet down the beach. I didn't even realize 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.640 what was happening to me. You know, in life it 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:16.480 can mean much like that. There are undercurrents in life 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.920 trying to drag us off, get us off course from 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.760 where we are supposed to be. I hear these comments 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.320 a lot. I was raised in church, my whole life. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.039 I went to church. I don't know how I got 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.560 so far away from God. Spoke to a woman the 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.160 other day. She was telling me how happy her marriage 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:43.040 was until they begin to argue, until they begin to 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.640 not be able to see eye to eye. She said. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.880 We were so happy at first, she said, but now 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:55.080 we've drifted apart, We've separated things just aren't the same. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.919 You see, those are the results of the undercurrent that 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:05.120 are trying to destroy our life to get us off course. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.000 And those are the things that we need to pay 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.520 attention to because they can be so subtle we don't 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:16.680 even realize that they're happening. Undercurrents can be many different things. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.760 Can be hanging around with the wrong people, the wrong friends, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.039 go in places, and being with people that don't have 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.560 the same values that you do. This is what the 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:35.120 Bible says about that. It says bad company corrupts good character. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:42.440 It actually says, don't be misled. Don't be misled. Undercurrents 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:49.880 can be bad attitudes, can be selfishness, laziness, anger. See, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.480 these are the things that can separate families. These are 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.280 the things that can cause us to lose good jobs, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.320 successful careers. You see, if I would have just paid 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:05.000 attention to where I was in relation to where that 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.960 rud On Bella was, I could have kept my position. See, 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.520 the undercurrents were there and they were dragging me off, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.360 because undercurrents will always have that tendency to drag us. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.880 But I could have made the necessary adjustments to get 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:26.159 back in line. See, I could have positioned myself back 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.719 to where I needed to be. I think about Sampson 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.600 in the Bible. Many of you know his story. The 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.640 prophets predicted his birth. He was a man that had 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:43.760 an amazing destiny lined out for him. He had this 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.520 supernatural strength that God had given him. He was talented. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.000 God had positioned him in an amazing position. But he 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:57.200 was weak in his morality. He got his eyes on 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:02.679 the wrong things. He let his guard down. You see, 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:08.720 he didn't keep the position that he had. Those undercurrents 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:14.280 in life dragged him off, and he never was everything 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.920 he could have been. Can you imagine if he would 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.920 have just got up during the day at some point, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.360 if he would have just said to himself, am I 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:29.120 on the right course? Am I focused? Am I aligned 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.360 with my purpose? Am I treating people right? Am I 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.239 respecting what God has given me? And am I walking 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:42.040 humbly before him, honoring him with what I do? Can 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.040 you imagine if he would have done that, the life 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.560 he could have lived. See, he would not have had 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.239 to suffer so much pain, and he wouldn't have ended 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:57.480 up in the hands of his enemy. You see, we 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.280 all need to deal with these undercurrents. See they don't 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.800 go away. Life is full of undercurrents. Life is full 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:11.360 of distractions, temptations. You see, we all make mistakes, we 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.960 all fall down sometimes, but we don't have to stay down. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.000 We can realign and readjust ourself. We just got to 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.800 be willing to ask ourselves the questions every day. Am 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.560 I fulfilling my destiny? Am I honoring God? You know 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.120 it's kind of like getting off your diet and eating 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.800 some ice cream and then you go, well, I'm so 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.720 off my diat I'll just go get the whole gallon. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.760 You know, we do this sometime. In fact, they say 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.680 that most of life is just habits. Can I tell you, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.079 we've got to look at our habits. We've got to 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.679 see if these habits are serving us, serving our family, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.320 creating the life that we were in intended to have. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.800 You know, sometimes these things just seem small and insignificant. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.920 But can I tell you it's so small things that 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:11.079 aren't taken care of that can do damage. Throwing our 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:16.000 words around, being disrespectful in a relationship, saying things that 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:20.120 we want to. You see, you could say to yourself, look, 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.800 I'm just letting off a little steam. They know I 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.600 love them, They deserve it. They shouldn't have done that. See, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.040 we can make excuses for these little things all day long, 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.120 showing up to work late, thinking, you know why boss 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.319 isn't here. He doesn't even come till eight thirty. I 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:39.920 don't know why he expects me to be here at 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:45.560 eight o'clock surfing the internet when the company is paying you, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.680 not being your best. See these seem small, But these 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.160 are the small things that can turn into big issues 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.920 in our life if we're not careful. The scripture says, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:04.280 it's the small foxes that spoil the vine. See, it's 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.040 those things that we don't always pay attention to. They're subtle. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.280 They like to cause us to move from the position 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.040 that we are supposed to be. You see, if you 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.640 found yourself drifting in areas today, I want to tell 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.440 you you can refocus. You can realign yourself. It's not 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:29.960 too late to correct. You can start today. Listen to 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.080 what it says in Colossians three too. It says, set 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:37.800 your mind on things above, not on earthly things. You 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.400 know what that means. It means set your mind on 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:45.360 the higher things. Set your mind on the things of value, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.680 the things of importance, the things that enricher God given destiny. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.400 You are full of gifts and talents. You gotta set 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.760 your mind on where you want to go with those 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:01.839 gifts and talents, creating an atmosphere that brings joy and 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:08.160 love and forgiveness. You see, just like that red umbrella 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.680 marked my spot. If I would have just set my 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.920 mind on it, I could have kept my position. We've 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.520 got to set our mind on honoring God. Set our 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.160 mind on living a life of integrity. Set our mind 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.160 on fulfilling the dreams that God has put in our heart. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.120 Don't think they're too big. You've just got to set 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.240 your mind on them and they'll come out of you. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.880 You know. Today, let me just say this, The Bible says, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:47.040 lay aside those weights, those sins that's so easily come 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.000 against us to get us off course. Listen, God knows 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.079 how easy it is. You are not a failure. If 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.560 you have sinned, you are not a failure. If you've 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.480 moved out of your direction. There is no mistake that 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.280 you've made today that will take you from your destiny. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.360 God loves you with an everlasting love, and he's saying 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.720 it is easy. So you have to set your mind. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.080 Maybe you need to ask for forgiveness. 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