Taking The Limits Off of God

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They went to God 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.600 and said, God, we've decided we no longer need you. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.000 We can clone people, we can transplant hearts, we can 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.720 do all kinds of things once considered miraculous, and God 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.400 just patiently hurt him out. Then God finally said, well, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.120 I want to challenge you to a man making contest. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.200 The only rule is you have to make man out 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.359 of dirt. The scientists agreed, and they quickly reached down 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.720 and picked up a handful of dirt. God said, not 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.640 so fast. Go get your own dirt. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.639 All right, Hold up your Bible. Say it like you 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.880 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what is 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:00.280 he says. 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:00.600 I am. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.799 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.600 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.840 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.600 is alert my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:19.680 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.520 to talk to you today about taking the limits off 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:23.000 of God. 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.200 God wants to do new things in our lives. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.679 He's a God of increase, and we should always be 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.320 rising to new levels. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.280 But it's so easy in life to get stuck. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.880 In a rut and to just settle for the status quo, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.720 and we kind of think, well, I've reached my limits. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.600 I've gone as far as I can go. This is 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.360 as happy as I'll ever be. My marriage will probably 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.160 never get any better than this. But if we're going 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.400 to continue to increase and really experience God's best, we 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.480 have to get our thinking lined up with God's thinking. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.040 And the scripture says here in Psalm seventy eight, verse 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:04.240 forty one, that the people limited the Holy One of Israel. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.200 Think about that, the God who is less, the all 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.000 powerful God, the creator of the universe, He can be 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.440 limited how by our thinking. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.120 He can be limited by what we believe. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.360 And a lot of people don't realize today it's their 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.480 own wrong thinking that's keeping them in mediocrity. Well, I 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.240 don't think my child could ever do what's right, or 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.120 I don't see how I could ever get out of debt, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.039 or juel, I've been sick so long, I just don't 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.720 see how I could ever really get well. Now. It's 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.720 that kind of negative mentality that will keep you right 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.039 where you are. You have to change your thinking before 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.600 your life is going to change. This is where the 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.360 children of Israel really missed it. God brought them out 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.760 of slavery, He did miracle after miracle. But when they 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.960 got out in the wilderness, the first thing they said was, Moses, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.560 can God furnish a table for us out here? In 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.080 other words, can God provide for our needs? Can God 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.680 really take care of us? Can God protect us from 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.120 our enemies? And it was that kind of wrong thinking 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.360 that kept them from ever going in to the Promised Land. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.400 And no matter what comes our way in life, we 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.640 should never say can God. Our attitude should be God can, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.760 and I know God will. My child may not be 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.839 doing right, but I know God can turn them around. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.280 My finances may be low today, but I know God 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.960 can make a way. My health may be deteriorating, but 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.760 I'm not worried. God made my body. I know he 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.960 can restore health back into me. See, let's don't do 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.080 like them and go around saying can God. Let's be believers. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.279 God can and God will. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.400 And if I were to ask you today, if you 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.120 believe that God can do anything, every one of us 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.600 would lift our hands. But the real test is are 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:52.360 we at peace? 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.559 Are we in rest? Are we positive? Hopeful, expecting good things? 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.760 A lot of times we say with our mouth we're believing, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.680 but by our actions were showing that we're not. Anytime 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.440 we're negative, worried, discouraged, that's a sure sign that we've 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.280 gotten out of faith. Now, I heard a story about 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.039 this famous tightrope walker. One day, they stretched a cable 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.080 across Niagara Falls, pulled it real tight. When the conditions 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.720 got just right, he got a wheelbarrow and he pushed 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.880 it on the tight rope across Niagara Falls and all 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:27.560 the way back. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.320 The crowd went wild. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.039 They couldn't believe it. Then he got his German shepherd, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.080 put it in the wheelbarrow and did. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.440 The same thing. Next one of his sons got in 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:39.240 the wheelbarrow. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.000 He pushed him all the way across on the tightrope, 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.560 all the way back, and throughout the day, different members 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.960 of his family got in that wheelbarrow, and he did 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.640 the same thing. Later in the day, this tightrope walker. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.960 He noticed a man in the crowd that was so excited. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.720 He could tell he was his biggest fan, and so 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.400 he went over to him and said, sir, you think 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.240 that I can do this again. The guy kind of laughed. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.960 He said, I don't think you could do it again. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.919 I know you can do it again. I've been watching 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.680 you all day long. He said, well, do you really 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.880 believe I could do it just one more time? He said, yes, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.240 I'm absolutely sure you could do it one more time. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.560 He said, no, you don't really believe that I can 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:18.120 do it again. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:19.760 The man kind of got offended. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.400 He said, what are you talking about. I've been watching 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.320 you for hours. I am absolutely, positively, one hundred percent 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.400 sure you can do it again. He said, all right, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:33.480 get in the willbarrow. That man said, now that's a 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:38.840 different story. See he believed with his head, But real 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.680 faith is of the heart. When we're really believing deep 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.360 down in here, we know that we know that we 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.400 know that God is in control and he is going 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:49.320 to take care of us. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.280 And I am asking you today to get in the willbarrow. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.080 You've seen God do it in the past, and. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:57.840 You know God's going to do it in the future. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.480 Quit living your life worry negative, discouraged. You've got to 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:07.480 turn those situations over to God and simply believe. Well, Joel, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.560 I'm on a tight budget. I just don't see how 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.160 I'm gonna make it with these high gas prices. Now, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.240 you need to remember who your God is. He is 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.200 the all powerful creator of the universe. And God is 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.000 not having a down year because of the economy. He's 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:24.960 not up there in the heavens saying, oh man, these 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.960 gas prices are missing me up gab. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.160 But would you go get me another tile? 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:29.680 And aw. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:31.240 No. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.360 God is in control. There is nothing too difficult for him. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.360 And when we believe, all things become possible. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.040 I love the time in the scripture when Peter didn't 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.200 have money to pay his taxes. Jesus simply said, Peter, 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.360 go down to the lake, and the first fish you catch, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.559 there's going to be enough money for both yours and 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.600 my taxes. He went down there, sure enough, that's exactly 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.880 what happened. I don't know about you, but I'm thinking 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.640 about going fishing tomorrow. But I'm asking you to be 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.280 a believer. You may have big problems, but we serve 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.800 a big God. Your enemies may be. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.640 Powerful, but our God is all powerful. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.160 You need to remember who you are. You are a 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.800 child of the most High God. You have the DNA 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.959 of a champion. On the inside. Royal blood is flowing 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.679 through your veins. You were not created to be average. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.800 You are not created to barely get by dragged through life, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.079 negative and depressed. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.400 You have seeds of greatness on the inside. God has 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.120 filled you with his can do power. You are well 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.679 able to do whatever God has called you to do. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.800 You need to put your shoulders back, hold your head 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.000 up high, and start thinking like a victor and not 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.600 a victim. When you're a victor, you know that any 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.559 adversity in your life is not permanent. It's temporary. It 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.679 didn't come to stay, it came to pass. Don't you 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.600 dare sit around thinking well that this is never going 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.680 to get any better. I don't see how I could 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.560 ever accomplish my dreams. No, You've got the greatest power 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.400 in the universe on the inside of you. Get a 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.679 vision for it. Our attitude should be I am a 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.319 can do person. There is nothing in my life that 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.160 I can't overcome. And it's only a matter of time 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.000 until this situation turns around. See if we will get 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.280 our thinking in line with God's thinking that our best 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.839 days are not behind us, our best days are in 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.760 front of us. And it says in Ephesians that God 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.360 wants to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can even 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:36.040 ask or think. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:36.760 Now. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.400 The place says that no person has ever seen, heard, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.360 or even imagined the wonderful things that God has in 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.640 store to them that love the Lord. I know that's you, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.600 but it's all according to how we believe. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:51.800 Now. I love what God said to Moses. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.040 One time, the people were complaining out in the wilderness 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.960 that they didn't have any meat to eat. They were 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.240 tired of the manner the bread that God was given 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.240 them every morning. And so Moses went to God and said, God, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.560 the people don't like this manna anymore. They want meet. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.680 What do you want me to tell them? And God said, Moses, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.280 you tell them that's no problem for me. I'll give 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.439 them the meat for the next two months straight. And 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.400 Moses was shocked. He said, God, what do you mean 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.360 even if we butchered all of our flocks and all 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.480 of our herds, we wouldn't have that much meat. And 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.400 God simply said, Moses, let me ask you a question. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.360 When did I become weak? He was saying, did I 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.720 somehow lose my power? Don't you remember that I spoke 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.000 the worlds into existence? Don't you remember that I am 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.439 Jehovah Jirah, the Lord your provider. Did you forget that 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.480 my name is el Shaday, the God who is more 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.720 than enough? Moses, when did I become weak? God simply 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.280 sent them quell for the next two months, and they 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.120 had meet every single day. And we need to keep 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.080 it in perspective. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.959 Our father created it all when he said let there 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:00.480 be light. 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.640 It came at one hundred and eighty six thousand miles 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.240 per second, still coming today. One time Moses asked God 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.960 what his name was, and God simply said, my name 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:11.640 is I am that I am? 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.079 He was saying, I am anything you need. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.840 I am your health, I am your strength, I am 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.959 your wisdom, I am your provider, I am your deliver 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.920 I am your victory. I remember growing up, my father 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.760 used to say, if gas goes to a dollar a gallon, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.240 and if bread goes to a dollar a loaf, God 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.800 will still take care of us now. I thought, if 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.240 Daddy could only see us now. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:39.400 But you know what God did it. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.000 For us in the past, He's going to do it 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.839 for us in the future. I think about this new 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.840 facility that God has blessed us with. It cost about 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.600 one hundred million dollars for us to renovate this place. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.400 Twenty five million a loan was for the air conditioning 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:53.560 and mechanical system. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:54.800 When I first got the. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.080 News of how much it was going to cost, after 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.920 I got up off the ground, I thought to myself, 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:02.719 how in the world are we ever going to pay 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.240 for this? And I started trying to figure it all out. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.599 We raised this much over here, and do this, and 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.319 do that, do the other. I finally figured by the 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.920 time I'm ninety three, we could have it paid off. See, 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.719 our natural mind wants to try to figure everything out, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.480 but that's not our job. Our job is to believe. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.199 Our job is to stay in an attitude of faith. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.560 And so I went back and I started remembering how 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.320 God had helped my father all down through the. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.080 Years to build different sanctuaries. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.360 When I was nine or ten years old, we built 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.000 a sanctuary that costs about one hundred thousand dollars, and 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.679 back then that seemed impossible, but God provided for our needs. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.360 Fifteen twenty years later, we built that sanctuary that cost 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.360 around ten million dollars, and once again. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.480 God made a way. We paid that all. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.480 Well, this facility cost about one hundred million dollars, but really, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.560 what's another zero to God? He owns it all where 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.880 he is. They made streets out of gold. Now I 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.240 want to stir your faith today. Quit sitting around thinking 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.839 about what you can't do, and start thinking about what 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:09.920 God can do. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:11.800 You and God are a. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.760 Majority, so some of you today you're stuck in that 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.120 old rut and all you can see is more of 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.440 the same, more disappointments, more mediocrity, more struggling. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.680 But you have got to get rid of that limited mindset. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.600 I've found you will never rise higher in any area 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.400 of your life unless you first make room for it 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:35.160 in your thinking. You've got to start seeing yourself accomplishing 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:40.040 your dreams, start seeing yourself overcoming that obstacle, see yourself 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.000 paying your house off. God has a big plan for 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.920 your life, wants to take your places that you've. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.400 Never dreamed of. But we have to get in agreement 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:49.600 with him, and the. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.080 Scripture says in Isaiah fifty four, verse two, enlarge the 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:57.040 place of your tents. Let the curtains of your habitations 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:02.920 be stretched forth. Spare not strengthen your cords, lengthen your stakes. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.920 God is simply saying, make room for more, make room 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.640 for increase, Get up every day expecting to rise higher, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:12.600 Start expecting things. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:13.800 To change in your favor. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.720 That verse goes on to say, when you do this, 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.360 then your life will break forth, then you'll rise to 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.440 these new levels. But God is implying here, if we 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.520 don't do the stretching, if we don't do the enlarging, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.320 then it's not going to happen. First place we have 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.240 to make room is in our own thinking. Well, you say, Joe, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.240 what if I believe and nothing happens? Well, what if 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.960 you believe in something does happen, And even if it 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.840 doesn't happen on your timetable the exact way you would like, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.840 you'd still be better off to live your life in 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.200 an attitude of faith, positive and hopeful, than to drag 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.920 around defeated and depressed. I can tell you it's not 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.560 going to happen in that frame of mind. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.720 Now I know when my father went to be with 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:55.160 the Lord. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.000 I didn't think that I could get up here in 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.480 minister I said, God, I've never preached before, I've never 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:01.440 been to seminary. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.560 I thought of excuse after excuse why I couldn't do that. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.080 I finally had to quit dwelling on that junk, and 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.280 I started saying every day I am annoyed, I am 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.240 well able to do what God's called me to do. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.840 I am strong in the Lord. What was I doing. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.359 I was creating a new vision on the inside. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.680 I started seeing myself up here successful. At first, I 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.360 was as nervous as can be. I felt like I 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.040 had to hold onto the podium. I started seeing myself 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.560 calm and at peace. I tell myself every day I 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:33.880 have the favor of God. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.280 People like me. I will succeed. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.240 Had I not made room for it in my own thinking, 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.280 I don't believe that i'd be up here today. When 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.200 you say, Joel, I've got a lot of obstacles in 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.520 my past, I've got a lot of problems. That's why 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.440 I'm kind of down. But let me help you to 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.920 have a new perspective. You remember when God told Moses 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.560 to go tell Pharaoh to let the people go. God said, Moses, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.440 don't get upset when he doesn't cooperate with Pharaoh is. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:02.640 Going to tell you no. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.440 Think about it. God already knew what the answer was 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.680 going to be. He already knew what was going to 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.320 happen before it ever happened. That tells me that God 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.200 is in control of my enemies. As long as I'm believing, 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.720 I am in a controlled environment. My enemies are not 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.680 in control. God knows what they're going to do. God 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.359 is in control. So if I'll just keep believing, if 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.080 I'll just keep trusting, then at the right time, God's 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.960 going to change things in my favor. That's why we 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.560 don't have to live worried. We don't have to get 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.720 upset and lose our joy if things are not happening 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.960 as fast as we would like, or if a door 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.639 is not open, if somebody is telling us no. We 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.639 don't have to be afraid of a sickness, afraid that 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.439 the enemy is going to get the best of us. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:52.200 The scripture says that we live under the shadow. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:52.720 Of the Almighty. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.480 God is protecting us, guiding us, directing every one of 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.399 our steps. He is in control of our life lives. 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.680 He's even in control of our enemies. I was reading 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.800 about this little fish. It's actually called a Moses soul. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.160 It's a small flounder that's found over in the Red Sea. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.400 Also in those waters are some large sharks, and these 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.320 sharks would typically like to eat a fish of this 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.920 particular size and weight. But back in the early seventies, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.639 a group of researchers discovered something very interesting about this 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.120 little fish. They found that the sharks could not eat 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.000 it because God had given this little. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.640 Flounder a unique protection system. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:42.000 Whenever it senses danger, it naturally releases poisonous toxins from 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.880 its glands, and these toxins literally caused the shark's jaws 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.959 to freeze. It showed a picture of this shark had 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.840 his mouth wide open, the flounder right in the middle. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:54.880 You could tell he was coming in for the kill. 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.240 All you had to do was bite down. There was dinner. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.639 The only problem was he couldn't do it. Put something 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:04.119 in that little flounder to protect him, and as long 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.440 as that shark was near his jaws were frozen. He'd 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.879 have to get away for a few seconds. Then they 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.280 would release and come back to normal. Now, I thought 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.680 about that little flounder when he's in the shark's mouth. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.159 His blood pressure doesn't go up, he doesn't. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.680 Run, try to call nine to one one, he doesn't 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.520 get the press there on just my luck. I knew 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:25.800 this is gonna happen to me sooner or later. No, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.400 he knows there's something special about him. He knows God 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.840 ordained before the foundation of the world that he would 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.560 be protected from that type of enemy. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:36.840 So he just rests in who God. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.920 Made him to be, doesn't get upset, doesn't get worried, 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:40.760 doesn't get frantic. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.640 He just keeps pressing forward, enjoying his life. He knows 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:46.360 everything is going to be all right. 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:48.760 And if you and I could ever just get a 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:53.320 real revelation that we are children of the most High God. 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.359 God did not just give you a unique protection system. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.960 He breathed his very life in the year. He has 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.520 crowned you with his glory and honor. He has surrounded 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.199 us with his favor. He's given his angels charge over us. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:09.480 Everywhere we go. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.280 These mighty warriors are protecting us. But it seems like 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.080 sometimes that little fish has more faith than we do. 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.920 When we get in trouble. When we get in difficult situations, 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.080 we get afraid. Well, I don't know if I'm gonna 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.040 make it out of this, Joel. I got a bad 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.120 report from the doctor. They're talking about laying people off 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:28.760 at my company. 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.080 I don't know what I'm gonna do. Don't quit worrying 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.560 about that. God is going to take care of you. 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.960 You have something in you much greater than that little fish. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:41.080 The scripture says, no weapon that's ever formed against you 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:45.560 is going to prosper. It says when the enemy comes 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.200 against you, one way, God will defeat him and cause 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.920 him to flee seven different ways. God's put something in 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.040 you and me that causes us to always rise to 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.080 the top. He said, we are more than conquers. What 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.880 the enemy means means for your evil, God will turn 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.000 it around and use to your advantage. Now, why don't 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.800 you start trusting him? Why don't you really believe that 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.240 he's in control of your life? When those old, negative, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.240 discouraging thoughts come, it's not gonna happen for you. You're 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.240 never gonna rise higher, you'll never get married, you'll never 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.880 get well. Do you know how to release those poisonous 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:23.320 toxins in your own life. 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:24.160 Like that little fish. 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.800 To put a stop to the enemy, you start speaking 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.480 God's word. I know I am more than a conquer 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.000 God's plans for me are good and not evil. 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:33.600 I am the head and not the tail. 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.600 You just keep giving God praise, keep smiling, keep having 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.680 a good report. Well I heard you weren't feeling well. Yes, 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.960 but I know God's restoring health back into me. Well 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.359 I heard you're talking about laying off people at your company. 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.000 That's right, but I know when one door closes, God 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:50.040 will open up another. 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:54.240 Door for me. Well, somebody said, you're thinking about teaching 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.480 in the children's center. You really think you can do that. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.080 I don't think so. I know so I am annoying it. 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:01.480 I am a quipped I am full of God's wisdom. 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:04.680 And if you'll stay in that attitude of faith, given 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.960 God praise, meditating on his promises, speaking words of faith 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.680 and victory, then just like that shark. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.159 The enemy cannot close down. He can't harm you. 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.159 God always causes you to try him. Remember, God is 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.280 in control of your life. He's even in control of 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.320 your enemies. It may be an enemy of sickness, but 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.280 you know what God made your body. 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:28.920 He can correct what's wrong. Trust him. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.120 May be an enemy of debt, an enemy of lack. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.320 God can give you one idea that'll thrust you to 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:37.920 a whole new level. God can cause you to bump 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:41.080 into somebody that offers you a new position that totally 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:45.159 turns things around. God wants to do unusual things in 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:49.080 your life. He wants to show himself strong. The scripture says, 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:53.040 why don't you dare to believe him? Take the limits 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.119 off of him, stay in faith, and remember all it 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:58.359 takes is one touch of God's favor. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:22:59.920 I know this friend of mine. 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:03.280 He's an older gentleman, and a few years ago he 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.440 lost his wife of many many years. Not too long 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:10.080 after that, he met another beautiful lady. They decided to 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.159 get married, and this gentleman had a real desire to 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.240 furnish his house with new furniture, just so they could 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:19.399 have a fresh, new start, a new beginning. But he 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:21.400 was retired and he didn't know if that's the best 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:22.879 way to spend his money, and. 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:25.560 So he just turned that over to God. Never told 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.000 anybody about it. He just kept it to himself. 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.480 And the scripture says in Psalm thirty seventy four that 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:35.680 if we will delight ourselves in the Lord, God will give. 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:37.080 Us the desires of our heart. 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:41.240 One translation says, he'll give us the secret petitions of 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:44.600 our heart. Notice we don't have to struggle to get them. 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:48.440 We don't have to live upset and frustrated trying to 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:52.280 make everything happen. If we'll just be believers, if we'll 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:54.800 just keep God first place and keep doing our best, 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:59.479 God promises he will give us those secret petitions. Well, 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:02.560 month after month went by and he didn't see anything happening, 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.880 but he didn't get discouraged. He just kept believing, kept 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:09.119 being faithful, kept being good to people, and God works 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.639 in mysterious ways. Certainly this isn't gonna happen like this 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:13.679 for every one of us. 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:15.480 But one day his son. 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:19.320 Called and said, Dad, you'll never believe what happened. I 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:23.920 just won the lottery thirty seven million dollars. Later, the 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.520 son not only bought his dad a new car. He 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:28.879 didn't buy him just new furniture. He bought him a 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:32.520 brand new house. Friends, God wants to do more than 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:33.880 we can even ask or think. 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:35.680 God is not limited. 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:39.520 We limit him with our own thinking and I'm not 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:43.200 telling any of you to go play the lottery. I 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:45.200 know some of you are thinking, thank you Lord, that's 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:46.240 a word I needed today. 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:47.280 Just give me the numbers. 0:24:49.240 --> 0:24:52.879 That's all you're gonna remember from my sermon. No, we 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:56.080 never encourage people to play the lottery, but if you 0:24:56.160 --> 0:25:01.439 do play and win, make sure you tithe. We'll forgive 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:06.960 you after you tithe. This gentleman told me, Joel, three 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:10.080 things I always tried to teach my sons. Don't smoke, 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:12.840 don't drink, and don't gamble. And you know what, two 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:17.000 out of three is not bad. But God wants to 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:20.920 give you the secret petitions of your heart. Number one, 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:24.440 you've got to be obedient, be a person of excellence, 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:29.160 have integrity, treat people right, and always keep God first 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.280 place in your life. And number two, you have to 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:36.080 take the limits off of God. Believe for his best, 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:38.920 get up every day expecting good things. 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:41.840 Well, Joel, this would never happen for me. You don't 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:42.440 know my luck. 0:25:42.520 --> 0:25:45.440 Man, I never get any good breaks. You're right, it's 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:46.320 not going to happen for you. 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:47.760 This is for believers. 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:50.960 You got to get out of that negative mindset. Your 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:54.720 life will not change until your thinking changes. And every 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:57.680 morning before we leave the house, we should say out loud, 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:01.080 something good is going to happen to me. This is 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.680 the day the Lord has made, and I believe his 0:26:03.880 --> 0:26:06.359 blessings are going to chase me down and overtake me. 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:09.920 Go out in an attitude of faith. Well, Joel, what 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:11.560 if I go out and I get stuck in traffic? 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.159 What if I have a lousy day that doesn't change anything. 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:16.760 You still give God praise. You still think him that 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:19.760 you're alive. You think him that tomorrow will be better 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:23.080 than today. We've got to learn to take the limits 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:26.280 off of God. Growing up, we knew a man by 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:29.440 the name of Casey Jones. He was in the business 0:26:29.520 --> 0:26:32.880 of moving houses. Sometimes you see the big houses going 0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:35.840 down the freeways. That's what Casey did for a living. 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:39.000 And he was a very unusual man. He would believe 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:42.400 for anything. And one day he and his men were 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:45.400 moving this big house and they had traveled several hours 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:48.320 way out into the country. When they finally got to 0:26:48.400 --> 0:26:53.280 their destination, Casey realized he had forgotten the main chain 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:56.159 that he needed to unload that house, and he was 0:26:56.240 --> 0:26:59.600 so disappointed. They were miles and miles from the nearest town. 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:01.720 It's getting late in the day and he didn't want 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:03.560 to have to come back the next day, and so 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:06.680 he decided to pray. And the men that were with 0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:08.720 him they kind of laughed. They said, Casey, what are 0:27:08.760 --> 0:27:10.720 you going to pray about? He said, I'm going to 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:14.240 pray and ask God to give me a chain, and 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:16.959 all they really begin to laugh. They said, Casey, are 0:27:17.000 --> 0:27:19.080 you serious. What do you think God's going to rain 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:21.399 down a chain from heaven? He said, I don't know, 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:24.240 but the Bible says we have not because we asked not, 0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:26.360 so I'm gonna ask. So he just bowed his head 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:28.560 and said, God, I know you love me. I know 0:27:28.600 --> 0:27:31.560 there's nothing too difficult for you, and so I'm just 0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:34.920 asking you to somehow someway give me a chain so 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:36.399 it don't have to come all the way back out 0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:39.600 here tomorrow. Now, they were standing on the side of 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:42.119 this country road and a few feet in front of 0:27:42.200 --> 0:27:44.920 them there was a sharp curve in the road, and 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:47.760 about that time, this old beat up pickup truck came 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:51.119 barreling down the road, going much faster than it should 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:54.600 and it had its tailgate open. And when that pickup 0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:58.600 truck took the curve going too fast, a chain slung 0:27:58.680 --> 0:27:59.159 out of the. 0:27:59.160 --> 0:27:59.919 Back of the pickup. 0:28:01.920 --> 0:28:05.639 It slid right across the road and curled up at 0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:06.680 Casey Jones's feet. 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:08.840 He picked it up and said, here's my chain. Boys, 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:12.639 let's go to work. Friends. 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:17.240 God is a supernatural God. He can do what men 0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:21.760 can't do. When we believe, all things become possible. I'm 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:24.360 asking you to take the limits off of God. Quit 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:26.000 trying to figure everything. 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:29.280 Out and just believe. Get in the wheelbarrow. You've seen 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:30.359 God do it in the past. 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:32.520 He's going to do it for you. Get in the future, 0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:34.439 but you've got to make room for it in your 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:38.120 own thinking. Remember, no matter what comes against you in life, 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:42.080 God is in control. He's even in control of your enemies. 0:28:42.520 --> 0:28:44.840 And if you'll be a believer and keep the limits 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.440 off of God, you will overcome any obstacle. 0:28:47.680 --> 0:28:50.120 You'll rise higher and higher. 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