Tell Yourself A New Story

0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.880 No one likes to talk about money. Am I saving enough? 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.040 Can I buy a house? Am I paying too much 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.760 in taxes? Will I be able to retire? What if 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.360 you could unlock insights about your finances in less than 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.840 five minutes, with a clear picture of where you stand 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.720 today and where your money can work harder. Now you 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.759 can visit facet dot com to take the free quiz 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.400 and get your financial wellness score today. That's Facet dot com. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.360 This ad is sponsored by Facet. Fast Wealth in Corporated 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.280 is an sec registered investment advisor. This is not an 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.080 offer to buy your self securities or is it investment, 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.080 legal or tax advice. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.960 You're ready for a comeback, and with Purdue Global you 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.200 can do more than take classes. You can take charge 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.520 of your story, of your career, of your life, Earn 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.559 a degree you can be proud of, and get an 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:48.559 education employer's respect. It's time, your time, not just to 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.960 go back to school, but to come back and move 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.840 forward with Purdue Global, Purdue's online university for working adults. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.920 Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.240 He'll forget about the video game you gave him on 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:02.840 his birthday. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.039 Wow, thanks Grandpa. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.280 But He'll never forget how you invested in his future 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.280 with the units stapp. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.840 Wow, Thanks Grandpa. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.600 The units stap makes it easy for grandparents and family 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.319 friends to give funds to a child's investment account for 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.760 a limited time. Download the uns stap and use the 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.840 code I heeart fifty at sign up to receive a 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.400 fifty dollars bonus when you find your account. That's code 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.400 iHeart fifty when you sign up at unest dot co 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.319 for a fifty dollars bonus. See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.120 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.959 God says he has beauty for those ashes, that he 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.880 will pay you back for the wrongs. You wouldn't be 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.280 alive unless he had something awesome in front of you. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.920 Don't let circumstances, what didn't work out, what you don't 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.960 think you have, convince you to live with the wrong story. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.880 Your story is setting the limits. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.960 For your life. Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.280 Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:56.960 the ministry. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.440 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.000 blessing share it with a friend. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.040 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.200 your line. 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.359 Well, God bless you it's great. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.639 To be with you today, and I hope you'll stay 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.880 connected with us during the week through our daily podcast, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.480 our YouTube channel, social media. We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.320 It's not like to start with something funny. And I 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.120 heard about. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.520 This positive farmer and this negative farmer. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.520 When it would rain, the positive farmer would say, Lord, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:29.160 thank you. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:30.359 For water and our crops. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.120 The negative farmer would say, yeah, but if it keeps 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.400 this up, it's going to rock the roots. It was 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.760 always so negative. One day they went bird hunting together 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.040 in a boat. Positive farmer just got a new bird dog. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.280 So proud of him, he shot up bird, fell in 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.400 the water. Said to the negative farmer, watch this. The 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.240 dog jumped out of the boat, ran on top of 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.480 the water, picked up the bird, ran back on top 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.040 of the water, put it in the boat. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.600 Said to the negative farmer, what'd you think? Negative farmer said, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:01.799 I should have known it. That dog can't even swim. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:04.440 Say it like you mean it. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.720 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.560 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.160 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:17.120 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.520 is alert, my heart is recepted. I will never be 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:25.680 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.880 to talk to you today about tell yourself a new story. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.640 We all have a story of how we see ourselves 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.720 and how we see our future comes from how we 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:40.160 were raised, what people have said, our successes and failures. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.200 For some people, their story is negative. I've been hurt 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.920 too much. I can't love again. My family's had a disadvantage. 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:50.440 I'll never be successful. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.400 Have big dreams, but I don't have the talent, the experience. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.240 You know what's stopping you your story. You're being limited 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.520 by what you're telling yourself, what you believe about yourself, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.720 how you see your circumstances. The story that you've written 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.320 will override what anyone else says. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.080 It's even more powerful than the facts. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.000 You can be incredibly gifted, you have a great personality, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.400 but if you tell yourself that your average, you. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.320 Don't have much to offer. Your gifts won't come out 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:24.120 like they should. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.000 Is the story you're telling yourself keeping you from rising higher? 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.160 Why don't you tell yourself a new story? The scripture 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.480 says God is the author and finisher, of your faith. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:37.760 He's the author. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.560 Psalm one point thirty nine says all of your days 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:43.919 were written before you were born. 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.839 God has already written your story. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.159 The key is to get your story in line with 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:50.880 his story. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.320 God says his plans. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.400 For you are for good, to give you a future 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.920 and a hope. He calls you a masterpiece, valuable. Victori 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.719 is an overcomer. He said what was meant for harm. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.320 He's turning to your advantage. You may have been through 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.159 bad breaks, things that are not fair. The enemy would 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.640 love to author your story. He would love to rewrite 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.520 what God says about you. You need to take that 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.320 pen back, cross out all those lies, and tell yourself 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.280 a new story. God says he has beauty for those ashes, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.359 that he will pay you back for the wrongs. You 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.960 wouldn't be alive unless he had something awesome in front 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:32.279 of you. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.960 Don't let circumstances, what. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.239 Didn't work out, what you don't think you have, convince 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.520 you to live with the wrong story. Your story is 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.120 setting the limits for your life. Now, quit telling yourself 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.200 that you'll never be successful, never get out of debt, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.760 never meet the right person. Tell yourself a new story. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.120 I'm made in the image of God. I'm crowned with favor. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:57.720 I'm a masterpiece. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.320 There is greatness in me. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.560 Whatever I touch prospers and succeeds. Blessings are chasing me down. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.599 My latter days will be better than my former days. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.880 That's the story God has written about you. Is your 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:17.560 story contradicting his story? Have you let people, circumstances, doubt, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.920 negativity rewrite your story. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.720 Don't let someone else become the author. 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.839 Take that pen back and tell yourself a new story. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.440 When my father went to be with the Lord, I 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.279 knew I was supposed to step up and pastor the church. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.480 The problem was the wrong story was playing in my mind. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.640 I'd told myself for years, I can't get up in 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.320 front of people. I was too quiet, didn't have the training, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.520 the personality. I wouldn't know what to say. All these thoughts, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.840 said Joe, look at your father. He was strong, bold. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.160 Outgoing, he had a lot of experience. No one's going 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:55.960 to listen to you. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.039 I had to do what I'm asking you to do, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.400 and telling myself a new story. I went back to 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.640 the one who had written my story, the one who 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.560 breathed life into me, the one who knew me before 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.280 I was formed in my mother's wound. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.680 I said, God, I'm going to let you be the 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:15.960 author of my story. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.040 I'm going to believe that I'm strong in the Lord 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.160 and the power of your mind. I believe I can 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.600 do all things through Christ, that I'm. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.320 Equipped, empowered and anointed. Lord. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.320 Think you that my gifts will come out to the 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.280 full that you've raised me up for such a time 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.960 as this. When you get your story in line with 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.480 what God says, things will happen that you couldn't make happen. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.160 I wouldn't be up here today. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.000 If I had not told myself a new story, if 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:50.280 I'd let that fear, intimidation insecurity keep playing. Don't let 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.320 the wrong story keep you from your greatness. Well, Joel, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:55.720 I can't lead my department. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:57.800 I can't get up in front of people. 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.560 I'm not that talented who told told you that? Where 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.520 did that story come from? Could it be that a 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.560 wrong story is keeping you from rising higher? 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.400 I can't make a's in school. I'm not that smart. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.000 All I can make or sees. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.520 You have to realize the enemy has taken that pen and. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.920 Rewrote your story. I can't break this addiction. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.120 I'll never get out of this neighborhood, never accomplished my dreams. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:29.360 It's too late. As long as you believe that story, it's. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.320 Going to become a reality. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.280 God didn't create you to just get by survive life. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.800 He created you to excel, to leave your mark. He said, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:44.000 you are to reign in life. Victory starts in our mind. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.120 The scripture says, be careful how you think, because your 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.320 thoughts run your life. Your story is setting the limits 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.880 for your life. God came to Moses after he had 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.280 been living in the desert for forty years, said Moses, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.640 go tell Pharaoh to let my people go. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:03.800 Moses said God, I. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.679 Can't stand before Pharaoh. I stutter, have a problem with 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:08.319 my speech. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:09.920 You know I don't speak well. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.640 God said Moses. Who made your tongue? Who made your mouth? 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.760 Do you think God would ask you to do something 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.120 and then not give. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.280 You the ability to do it. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.280 Do you think he would choose you to be here 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.480 at this time in history and not give you everything 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.959 you need to live a victorious life, to overcome obstacles, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.920 to leave your family better than they were before. What 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.840 was Moses's problem? He had the wrong story. He was 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:43.880 telling himself I'm unqualified. I'm at a disadvantage. I have 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.600 these limitations. The story you believe is the story that's 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.959 going to come to pass. When you tell God what 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.960 you can't do. God, I can't get well, you saw 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.400 the report. I can't start my business. I'm not that talented. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.320 I can't do something significant. I come from the wrong family. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.880 God says to you what he said to Moses. Who 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.080 made you, who wrote your story, who gave you your gifts, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.760 who picked out your family, who lined up your good breaks, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:14.840 who planned. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:15.400 Out your days. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.280 The creator of the universe, the god who spoke worlds 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:20.280 into existence. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:21.760 He's your author. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.160 He's written your story. You're not doing life on your own. 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.600 Go back to what he says about you. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.400 It's interesting. As little children, we start off with big dreams. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.800 We're going to be an astronaut, an architect, a scientist, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.040 a singer. Little boy told me last week that he 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.800 was going to design airplanes. He knew everything about avionics. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.760 As a child, we have no limits. We believe we 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.439 can do great things. But over time our dreams start 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.160 to get watered down. People tell us what we can't do, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.560 go through disappointments, things that are not fair, life starts 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.480 to rewrite our story. We let the negative taint how 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.360 we see ourselves, what we're capable of. We end up 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.840 settling for so much less than God has for us. 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:16.800 Pay attention to the story you're telling yourself. Go back 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.400 to what God put in your heart. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.280 He wants you to dream again, to believe again, to 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.400 love again. Don't let a wrong story limit your destiny. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.359 Don't believe that lie that says just live with the sickness, 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:31.560 the depression. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.559 I'll never get well, never go to. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.959 College, never meet the right person. Let me just make 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:42.000 it through life. Tell yourself a new story. You can 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:46.319 still accomplish your dream. You can still get well, still 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.200 meet someone awesome, still go to new levels. Delete that 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.320 old story. Get rid of that limited thinking. That's what's 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:55.440 stopping the. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.120 New things God has in store. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.480 This is the mistake the Israelites. God brought them out 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.959 of slavery, parted the Red Sea, and took them toward 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:05.959 the Promised Land. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.760 Was a great day. Their dreams were come into pass. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:11.160 They were finally free. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.640 But the problem is they always saw themselves as former 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.720 slaves at a disadvantage. We've been through too much. Every 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:25.480 time they faced opposition, they complained they were afraid. At 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.120 the Promised Land. God told them he would give them 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.760 the victory. But they said, Moses, the people are too big. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:33.400 We don't have a chance. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.120 Let's go back to Egypt. Let's go back to being slaves. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.080 Notice how powerful. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.080 A wrong story is. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:47.040 After being in slavery, mistreated, abused, they said, we want 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.520 to go back to that same environment. They came out 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.520 of Egypt, but Egypt never came out of them. If 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.760 you don't change the story you'll tell in yourself, you'll 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:58.439 go back. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.959 To things that don't make sense. God delivered them from 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:02.600 the Pharaoh. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.560 He brought water out of a rock. They saw firsthand. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.160 His awesome power seemed so logical, so. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.640 Easy for them to say, this is a new day. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.440 God has done great things. We're free. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.600 Let's go into the Promised Land. Instead, they kept that 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.360 slave mentality. The story they told themselves was. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.880 We'll always be defeated. This is our lot in life. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.920 I love the fact that the children of these Israelites 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:35.320 had a different story. Their attitude was we've seen the suffering, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.680 being mistreated, wandering through the desert. That may be what 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.280 our parents accepted, but that is not our story. We're 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.760 going to go into the Promised Land. We're going to 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.080 eat the fruit. We're going to live in houses we 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.439 didn't build and enjoy the blessings God has in store 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:56.600 for us. Their parents saw themselves as former slaves. These 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.560 children saw themselves as sons and daughters of the Most 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.800 High God, not at a disadvantage, but surrounded by favor. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:10.000 Forty years earlier, their parents turned around from the Promised 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.600 Land wandered in the desert. Now these children went into 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.520 that same land, defeated the opposition, and lived there in 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.920 a place of abundance. The difference was the story they 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.960 told themselves. Their parents could have gone in, they could 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.640 have enjoyed years of God's favor, but they let their doubts, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.760 their fears, their opposition rewrite their story. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.280 Don't do like these parents. Don't let a wrong story. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:39.640 What you've been. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.760 Through, what looks too big, what hasn't happened, convince you 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.960 that you can't defeat your giants, You can't accomplish your dream, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.400 You can't be healthy, successful, fulfilled. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.440 The enemy got your pen. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.840 He's altering the story God wrote for you. Get that 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.800 pin back, Cross out all those lives. This is what 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.000 my father did the story he was told growing up. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:06.200 The story he. 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.640 Saw model was we're poor, We'll never do anything significant. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.720 The odds are against us. His parents were farmers. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.360 They lost everything in the Great Depression. They were doing 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:23.400 their best to survive. I understand tough times come. Life 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:27.240 can throw us curves. You may be in poverty, but 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.960 don't ever let poverty get in you. Don't develop a 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.680 poor mindset where all you believe for is just enough 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.200 to get by. Don't accept that as your destiny. God 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.040 has an abundant life for you. He knows how to 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.880 make streams in the desert, how to bring you out 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:49.440 of struggle and lack give you a bountiful life. Maybe 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.280 you need to change the story that you're telling yourselves. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.200 Seventeen years old, my father gave. 0:15:56.000 --> 0:16:00.520 His life to Christ, the first one in his family money. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.760 He had to drop out of high school to work 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.280 on the farm, no future to speak of, but something 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.920 came alive on the inside. He made a decision at 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.640 seventeen that his children would never be raised in the 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.520 poverty and lack that he was raised in. What happened 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.440 He started telling himself a new story instead of you're 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.400 stuck in this environment, you'll never get ahead, never make 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.320 anything out of your life. His attitude was, I'm destined 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.040 to do great things. The favor of God is on 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.640 my life, opening doors no person can shut, taking me 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.680 where I can't go on my own. He felt God 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.240 calling him to become a minister. He told his parents 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.320 he was going to leave the farm and go out 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.280 and start speaking. They said, John, all you know how 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.760 to do is work on the farm. You better stay 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.880 here with us. You're going to get out there and fail. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.320 They knit well, But you can't let other people. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:57.560 Put their story on you. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:03.000 Don't let their defeat, their negativity, their limited vision keep 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.440 you from believing. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.760 That you can rise higher. People are not the author 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.439 of your story. God is. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.480 He called you, He anointed you, He put the dreams 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:18.240 in you. Other people may not understand. They may try 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.800 to talk you into watering down your dream. Keep the right. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.320 Story playing in your mind. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.720 My father left that day, and that started a journey 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.880 that was more fulfilling and more rewarding than. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:31.800 He ever imagined. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.479 He ministered for over fifty years and saw God's favor 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.520 in amazing ways. Maybe, like my father, the environment you 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.520 were raised in has tainted your story the people you. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.560 Grew up around who you're with now. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:50.280 Don't believe ormont accept mediocrity. You have to be the 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.640 one to break out of the rut. Don't let that 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.960 negative story limit your life. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.040 That was fine for them, but this is a new day. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.080 Want you to go further. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.600 He has things in your future that are much greater 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:05.920 than you can imagine. 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.040 Now get in agreement with him. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.800 Quit telling yourself that you're limited. You've gone as far 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.159 as you can. You'll always struggle. No, tell yourself a 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.359 new story. Have an abundant mentality. Lord, thank you that 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.479 my cup runs over, that I live under the open 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.960 windows of heaven. That you take pleasure in prospering me. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.439 That I will leave an inheritance to my children's children. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:31.639 I read about this bear. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.879 He had been raised in a twelve foot by twelve 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.520 foot cage all of his life since he was a 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.399 little common. During the day, he would pace back and forth, 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.840 back and forth hours at a time. One day he 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.720 was discovered by the authorities. They made arrangements for him 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.719 to be taken to a zoom was a large area 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.879 with big pools of water, rocks to climb on, green 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.520 grass everywhere you look it's like a dream setting. They 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.800 transform to the bear opened the cage so excited, but 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.560 the bear wouldn't get out of the cage. They had 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.840 to push him into the green grass. They thought eventually 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:10.679 him take. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:15.280 Off running, exploring the new surroundings. But all the bear ever. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.480 Did was walk in a twelve foot square, never went 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.640 to the pools, never climbed the rocks, never. 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.720 Played with the other bears. 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.040 He got out of the cage, but the cage never 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:30.360 got out of him. His story was I'm stuck, I'm limited, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.639 I can't go any further, when the truth is he 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.920 had a whole field to play in. The story you 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.880 tell yourself is very powerful. How we were raised, what 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.360 we saw, modeled the environment we're in. 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.159 Can create these boundaries. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.760 In our mind where we adapt to what's around us, 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.720 even though God has all kinds of amazing things in store. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.439 If you tell yourself that you've reached your limits, you 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.399 can't get well, can't accomplish a dream like that bear. 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.639 You'll miss the fullness of your destiny. The story you 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.119 tell yourself is the story that's going to come to pass. 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.600 My encouragement is the cage is open. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:19.320 God has a big life, for you, favor opportunities, great relationships, 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.080 get in agreement with him, tell yourself a new story. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.760 You don't have to figure out how it's going to happen. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:30.040 All you have to do is believe. March chapter five. 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.960 There was this lady that had been sick for twelve years. 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.600 She'd gone to the best doctors, spent all of her money, 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.320 but nothing at helped. The story she was telling herself 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.520 was this sickness is permanent. 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.320 It's nothing else I can do. It's just bad luck. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:47.960 She continued to go downhill. 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.600 One day, she heard that Jesus was passing through her town. 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:57.120 Despite how she felt, despite the circumstances, she told herself 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.000 a new story. She said, when I touch the air 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.960 edge of this robe, I'm going to be healed, the 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:03.800 scripture says. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.080 She kept saying to herself, I'm going to get well. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.200 Healing is coming. Things are about to change. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.040 She deleted her old story and started telling herself a 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:18.119 new story. Faith began to rise in her heart, and 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.360 she kept saying, healing is coming. She began to make 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.480 her way through the crowd. When she touched his robe, 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:28.679 instantly she was healed. Like this lady, you may have 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:29.840 a good reason. 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.040 To have a negative story. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:36.040 You're facing a challenge and your health, your finances, or relationships. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.720 It's easy to let defeated. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.920 Thoughts can't do it. Thoughts, it's never going to work out. 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.959 Thoughts play in your mind. That's when you have to 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.080 do like her, dig down deep and say no, I'm 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:49.200 deleting this story. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.680 I will be the exception. I will get well. 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.760 I will see my family restored. I will break this addiction. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.480 I will lend and not borrow. I will accomplish my dream. 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.560 Give God something to work with. You can't have an 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.760 old story and see the new things he wants to do. 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:13.200 Many times, our story is limiting us. What we're telling ourselves. 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.240 We're looking at it in the natural, But God is supernatural. 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:19.600 This is what faith is all about. 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.639 That's why God said to Moses, who made your tongue? 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.040 He was saying, Moses, you're looking at it only with 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:26.960 your ability. 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:31.760 Don't you realize I have all power. I created the universe. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.320 Nothing can stop my plan from coming to pass. God 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.120 has already written your story. Yes, there will be ups 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:44.640 and downs, challenges and victories, but there's nothing you'll come 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:48.719 up against that he doesn't already have a solution. He 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.520 won't let you get in a problem that he can't 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.560 bring you out of. The key is to not let 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.920 that wrong story take root in difficult times when nothing 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.680 is changing. It's taken longer than your thought. It's tempting 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:07.159 to get discouraged, bitter water down your dreams. You have 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:10.800 to keep telling yourself, this is not permanent. It didn't 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:12.679 come to stay, it came to pass. 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:14.040 I'm an overcomer. 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.880 God always causes me to triumph. This is not going 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:21.080 to stop me. Victory is headed my way. 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:22.040 There was an. 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:26.200 Experiment done with the high school in California. The principal 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:30.120 told three teachers, since they were the most effective teachers 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.520 in the district, they had the highest ratings, they were 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:37.359 chosen for a new program out of thousands of students. 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.119 They were going to take the top ninety students, the smartest, 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:44.919 most talented, with the highest IQ and put them in 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:45.760 a class. 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:46.320 With these teachers. 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:49.960 They could teach them at a faster pace. The teachers 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.840 and students were so excited knowing that they were the 0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:56.040 brightest in the school. At the end of the school year, 0:23:56.520 --> 0:24:00.600 these three classes had learned thirty percent more. 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:01.280 Than the other students. 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:05.440 They were thirty percent further along in math, reading, and science. 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:06.840 It was a huge success. 0:24:07.720 --> 0:24:11.080 The principle then informed the teachers that they didn't have 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:14.520 the top ninety students in the district. They had simply 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:19.640 randomly chosen these students. The teachers felt really good about themselves, 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.159 thinking they were so smart they had done such an 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:26.600 awesome job. Then the principle informed the teachers that they 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:30.400 weren't the most effective teachers. They were randomly chosen out 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:34.240 of a half. The point is when you tell yourself 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:37.600 a different story, when you tell yourself that you're made 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:43.560 in the image of God, smart, talented, favored wise, you're 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:47.480 going to see new levels of your destiny. You may 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:50.560 not realize it. But the only people we allow in 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:54.720 Lakewood we have a very strict policy. The only ones 0:24:54.760 --> 0:25:01.240 we allow online serious sexem are the smartest, healthiest, most creative, 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:08.600 most attractive, most generous, most valuable, most blessed people. We 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:12.880 have great confidence in you. We see you the way 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:16.520 God sees you. The only thing that's holding some people 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:19.840 back is the story that they're telling themselves. 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:22.800 Well, I'm not that talented, I'm. 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:25.159 Not as smart as my cousin, I can't run a 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:28.840 business like my friend. I can't write books like you do, Joel, 0:25:29.040 --> 0:25:31.720 who knows what you can do? If you'll start seeing 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:36.160 yourself differently, I'll tell you something funny about me. Every 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:40.359 since I started ministering over twenty years ago, every time 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:43.520 I get up to speak wherever I go, I think 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:48.119 to myself, everyone here loves me, Everyone here thinks I'm great. 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:52.160 I know I'm naive. I know everyone doesn't. But that's 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:55.760 the story I tell myself. Do me a favor. Leave 0:25:55.840 --> 0:26:00.440 me in my ignorance. That's a lot better then get 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:03.600 it up insecure, intimidated. 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.240 I don't think they're gonna like me. They're not gonna 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:08.360 listen to me. I hope I'm not boring them. 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:12.760 The story I tell myself is, Joel, you're anointed, you're favored, 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:18.200 you're blessed. I don't say that arrogantly, but in humility. 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:21.760 The story you need to tell yourself is God breathed 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:22.720 his life into me. 0:26:23.440 --> 0:26:24.600 I'm a masterpiece. 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:27.520 I have something great to offer this world. I am 0:26:27.600 --> 0:26:30.520 fearfully and wonderfully made. 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:32.000 Most of you are wonderfully made. 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:36.200 My brother, Paul, he was fearfully made. You can't reach 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:42.880 your destiny, discounting yourself seeing everyone else is smarter, greater, prettier. 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:47.320 Can I tell you you're awesome, You're talented, you have 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:51.560 a great personality. You're gonna do something amazing. If you 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:53.560 don't believe in yourself. 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:55.280 It's going to limit your life. 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:58.800 Sometimes we have a false sense of humility. Everyone else 0:26:58.920 --> 0:27:00.439 is great. It's just little me. 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:02.439 No God hand pitch you. 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:06.240 He chose you to be here, He crowned you with favor, 0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:10.000 He put gifts in you. Your fingerprints are like no 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:14.320 one else's. You're a designer's original. No, you're not better 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:17.320 than anyone else, but you're not less than anyone else. 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:19.680 Tell yourself a new story. 0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:23.840 I am valuable, I am favored, I am attractive. 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:25.800 I have a great personality. 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:29.720 People like being around me. You have enough people in 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.520 life against you. Don't be against yourself. 0:27:33.600 --> 0:27:37.280 Are you telling yourself the right story? Joel? I stutter? 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:41.960 I have this weakness? So did Moses who made your tongue? 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:44.919 Do you think a limitation is going to keep you 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:49.040 from your destiny? That God somehow short changed you, that 0:27:49.080 --> 0:27:52.600 you're lacking in some area, not a chance? Well, I 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:56.680 have this sickness, this addiction, this problem at work. I'm 0:27:56.680 --> 0:28:00.159 not saying deny it, act like it's not there. But 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:03.640 like the lady with the issue of blood, tell yourself. 0:28:03.200 --> 0:28:04.000 A new story. 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:07.800 Healing is coming, freedom is coming, breakthroughs are coming. 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:11.480 Like that bear. Are you living with a limited. 0:28:11.160 --> 0:28:15.040 Mentality because of how you were raised or the environment 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:17.880 you're in now, I'm here to tell you the. 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:21.320 Door is wide open. God has awesome. 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:24.879 Things in your future. Make sure your story lines up 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:28.560 with his story, because the story you tell yourself is 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:31.480 the story that's going to come to pass. If you'll 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:35.439 do this, I believe and declare, like the children of 0:28:35.480 --> 0:28:38.800 the Israelites, you're going to go into the Promised Land. 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:44.120 You're going to see favor, overcome obstacles, accomplish dreams, and 0:28:44.200 --> 0:28:48.320 reach the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name. And 0:28:48.400 --> 0:28:52.520 if you receive it, then just say amen. I'd like 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:55.280 to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord 0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:56.040 of your life. 0:28:56.360 --> 0:29:00.840 Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, come 0:29:00.840 --> 0:29:06.040 into my heart. I repent of my sins. I'll make 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:07.480 you my Lord and savior. 0:29:08.760 --> 0:29:11.080 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:14.080 born again. Love to send you some free information on 0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:16.000 your new walk with the Lord. You can text the 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:18.960 number there or go to the website. I hope you'll 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:22.360 get into a good Bible based church and keep God 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:23.120 first place. 0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:26.200 Thanks so much for listening to today's message. 0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:29.120 I hope you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest 0:29:29.120 --> 0:29:32.600 podcast to keep you encouraged and inspired all through the week. 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:35.000 Help us to continue to share the message of hope 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:36.520 with those all around the world. 0:29:36.800 --> 0:29:38.400 Visit Joelosting dot. 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:41.040 Com or click the link in the description to partner 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:41.800 with us today. 0:29:42.040 --> 0:29:44.480 We hope you'll share this message with a friend and 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:47.400 be sure to follow us on social media. We're praying 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:47.800 for you. 0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:50.880 I know God's best is still ahead. We'll see you 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:51.400 next time.