The Power of Diligence

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I can do what 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.680 it says I can do. Today, all be taught the 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.760 word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.200 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:59.880 I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever living 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.960 seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same, never, never, never, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:06.720 I'll never be the same. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.040 In Jesus' name, God bless you. You sound great as usual. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.200 I want to talk to you today about being a 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:19.840 person of diligence and not having a lazy, passive attitude. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.760 It's so easy to get complacent in life to where 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.560 we sort of wish we had something, but we're really 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.880 not doing anything about it. We're not actively taking steps 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:29.480 toward it. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:30.160 Well. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.960 I wish I had his physique. I wish I had 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.760 muscles like that man. But the problem is while we're 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.680 at home at night watching TV, eating a little popcorn, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.920 he's at the gym working out. He's diligent in that area, 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.280 and we're passive. When you're diligent, you do what you 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.760 know is right and not just what you feel like doing. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.560 When you're diligent, you are determined to just keep on 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.760 keeping on no matter what comes against you. You don't 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.200 have that week not able to attitude. You don't give 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.280 up and get discouraged because something is hard or because 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.920 it's not happening as quickly as you would like. No, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.560 a diligent person just digs its heels in and keeps 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:16.080 on pressing forward. But too many people today want everything easy, 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.800 and so they end up falling into that trap of 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.480 having a lazy, complacent attitude. They're wishing for a whole lot, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.279 but they're not doing anything about it. Well, Joel, I 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.159 wish I knew more scriptures. I wish my house was clean, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.440 or I wish my hair looked like her hair. No, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.480 quit wishing and start doing something about it. Especially nowadays. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.440 If your hair is dark, you can make it light. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.919 If it's straight, you can make it curly. If you 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:47.240 don't have any you can go buy some. Quit looking 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:51.840 at your neighbor. My father, at the age of seventy five, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.760 he still had real, pretty light brown hair, and one 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.960 day somebody asked him how he did it and why 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.920 it wasn't gray. He said, listen, brother, faith without wor 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:00.760 works is dead. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.200 You've got to put some actions behind your faith. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.520 And what I'm saying today is quit being passive and 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.200 start doing something about it. You can live a healthier life. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.840 You can be more successful, you can have a better attitude, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.560 you can have a deeper relationship with God. But let 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.400 me tell you, it's gonna take some hard work. It's 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.960 gonna take some time, some effort, some energy. You may 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.680 have to get up early and stay up late. You're 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.320 gonna have to pull your blood, sweat and tears into it. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:30.560 But friends, the. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.000 Fact is, you cannot get something for nothing in life. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.440 You can out expect to live in victory without being 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.400 willing to put something into it. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.920 It's gonna take being extremely diligent. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.720 And I realize most of you here today are hard workers. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.320 Most of you would not say that you have a 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.599 problem with being lazy. But I've found that we can 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.960 be diligent in certain areas and at the same time 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.000 be passive and complacent in other areas. You may be 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.680 very diligent about getting to work on time and providing 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.120 a great living for your family, but you're lazy when 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.479 it comes to guarding your mind and thinking the right thoughts. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.919 Or maybe you would never have a house that's not 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.159 neat and clean. You're diligent in that area, but you 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.800 tend to be lazy when it comes to taking care 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.479 of your finances, or lazy when it comes to taking 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.080 care of yourself spiritually. We all have areas that we 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.520 can improve in. And like I said, it's so easy 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.680 to get complacent. Well, Joey, this is just my lot 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.120 in life. It's not even worth trying to change. No, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.800 you've got to shake yourself out of that passive mentality. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.200 Anything in life that is worthwhile. Number one is going 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.800 to take some work, and number two, it's not going 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.640 to happen overnight. You've got to be in this for 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.359 the long haul. Anybody can be excited at the beginning, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.200 that's easy, but it takes a diligent person. To finish, 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.680 you got to be determined and learn to press through. 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.080 The disappointments in life. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.560 You've got to press through those dry seasons when you 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.440 don't see anything happening. You got to press through the 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.880 difficult times when you don't feel like having a good attitude, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:09.000 you don't feel like. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.320 Having a smile on your face. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.200 Some of you today you're just about to give up 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.160 on the dreams that God has put in your heart. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.000 It's been so long and you haven't seen any results, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.640 and now you're starting to get passive. Maybe you've struggled 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.400 with an illness for a long time, and once you 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.480 really believed you were going to get well. Once you 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.920 were very aggressive about it, but now you've gotten complacent 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:32.880 and you're just learning to live with it. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:34.800 Or maybe at one time. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.960 You were determined to get out of debt. You were 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.160 so determined to get ahead financially, but now you just 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.520 don't think it's ever gonna happen. You've had so much 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:47.160 come against you. No, don't get passive, don't be complacent. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:48.760 You've got to stay diligent. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.000 You've got to keep doing the right thing, even though 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.760 you may not be seeing the right results. You got 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.000 to keep coming to church even when you feel like 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.840 staying home in bed. You've got to keep praying and 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.440 leave and keep that smile on your face even though 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.000 you feel like just giving up. See, you've got to 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.960 learn to press past the things that are trying to 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.800 pressure you into quinton. A diligent person just keeps on 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.280 keeping on. And let me tell you, anytime you try 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.920 to go forward in life, you're gonna have opposition. Anytime 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.680 you try to make progress, the enemy is gonna come 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.680 against you. He's not gonna roll out the red carpet 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.720 and just let you fulfill your destiny. You're gonna have 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.960 to be determined. You gotta be persistent. We need to 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:35.240 have that bulldog mentality. Our attitude should be this may 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.040 be tough, and I may not like it. Nothing may 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:39.880 be going my way, but you know what, I Am 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.959 not gonna give up. I'm gonna dig my heels in 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.680 and keep fighting the good fight of faith. Some of 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.120 you today you have just about given up on one 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:49.040 of your loved ones. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.240 You used to really pray and believe for that person. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:53.559 You would go out of. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.760 Your way to sow those seeds of hope and encouragement 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:57.400 in his heart. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.959 But it's been so long and you have. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.280 Seeing any results, and how you're kind of getting tired. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.800 That's that old lazy passive spirit trying to come on 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.080 you when you say, Joe, I just don't think he's 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.800 really ever gonna change. No, I want to light a 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.480 new fire on the inside of you today. You gotta 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.480 get your zeal back, get your enthusiasm back. Anything worthwhile 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.120 is gonna be some hard work. You gotta make up 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.440 your mind and say, you know what, I'm gonna stick 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.800 with this thing until I see it come to pass. 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.440 I don't care how I feel, I don't care what 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.160 everybody else is saying. I'm gonna just keep on keeping on. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.720 I'm gonna keep believing for God's very best. And understand, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.280 before something gets better, many times it's going to first 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.400 get worse. You may be praying and praying for your 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.480 marriage to get better, but don't be surprised if you 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.240 don't have more adversity than ever. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.320 That's the way the enemy works. 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.640 He wants you to just give up and settle for mediocrity. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.520 Or maybe you're praying for a child to change and 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.120 you're getting up early. You're doing everything you can, But 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.200 it seems like the or you do, the worse he acts, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.280 the worse grades he gets, and the worse he treats you. Listen, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.719 that is a test of your faith. Are you going 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.800 to give up? Are you gonna get complacent and say, well, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.960 at least I tried, Or are you gonna be diligent 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.079 to just keep on keeping on? The Scripture says in Ephesians, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.880 when you've done everything you know how to do, just 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.480 keep standing strong. There are gonna be plenty of things 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.000 in life that we don't understand. There are going to 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.600 be plenty of things that don't make any sense. But 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.760 our attitude should be God. Even though I don't know 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.080 why this is happening to me, I do know that 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.200 You're still in control, and so I'm not gonna get discouraged. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.560 I'm gonna keep a smile on my face. I'm gonna 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.600 keep my head held high, and I'm just gonna keep 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:44.600 standing firm. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:45.800 And remember this. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.400 The enemy always fights you the hardest when he knows 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.920 God has something great in store for you. So you 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.240 need to make up your mind today You're gonna keep 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.040 on believing no matter what comes against you. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.160 You gonna keep praying. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.640 You're gonna keep coming to church, You're going to keep 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.280 doing the right thing, even though you may. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.200 Not be seeing the right results. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.040 Friends, don't ever lose the fire that's on the inside 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:08.319 of you. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:09.880 Don't ever lose your zeal. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.600 It says in Romans, never be lazy, but serve the 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.200 Lord with enthusiasm. 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.600 But the truth is, it takes a lot of hard 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.240 work to live a life of victory. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.960 You've got to be disciplined in your thoughts, disciplined in 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.160 your actions, disciplined in the words you speak. I mean, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.680 it's a full time job. And that's why so many 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.120 people just take the easy way out. Their attitude is 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.880 I don't want to have to stand strong. I don't 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.440 want to have to get up early and read my 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.120 Bible and pray, or I don't want to have to 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.520 treat that person right. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:43.600 That's being rude to me. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.800 Man, No, you've got to shake off that old complacent 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.520 mentality and start having some backbone, dig your heels in, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.680 and if you have to start talking to yourself. The 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:58.240 Bible says that David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.000 When you feel that old passive attitude trying to come 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.839 on trying to make you lazy and get all discouraged 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.320 and down. No, you need to just say I'm not 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.080 gonna let this thing defeat me. It may be tough, 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.560 but I know this too shall pass. I know I 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.760 can withstand this. I can't overcome in any situation. See, 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.360 you got to talk to yourself and just keep fighting 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.960 the good fight of faith. And one of the keys 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.320 to living in victory is consistency. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.560 You gotta be diligent day in and day out. You 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:30.280 should not be. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.160 Up one day and down a couple of days. Have 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:37.400 some stability in your life. Be consistent, and don't ever 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.000 tell yourself that you can't do it. When those are negative, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.559 depressing thoughts come to your mind and they will telling 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.360 you that you're not gonna make it. You're not gonna 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.120 ever get any good breaks, Your dreams are not gonna 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.320 come to pass. No, you need to write then, not 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.360 a minute later. You need to immediately get that junk 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.120 out of your mind. Quit dwelling on those thoughts and 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.920 start dwelling on thoughts of faith and victory. Just start 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.199 saying in your mind, Father, I thank you. I can 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.760 do all things through Christ. I think that you have 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.320 good things in store. I know this is going to 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.480 be a great year. I can already see my victory 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.280 is on its way. See, the first place we lose 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.640 the battle is in our own thinking. And some of 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.520 you need to reprogram your mental computer today. You need 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.200 to quit thinking those old, negative, defeated thoughts and start thinking. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.520 Some can do thoughts. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.960 It says they're in Proverbs twenty one, verse five in 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:37.240 the amplified the thoughts of the steadily diligent are always 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.520 toward plenteousness. In other words, when you're really diligent, your 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.680 thoughts are only going in one direction, and that's forward. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.440 You're not lazy, you're not complacent. When you're diligent, your 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:54.720 thoughts should be towards success, toward crossing the finish line, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.240 toward being all that God's created you to be. As 0:13:58.280 --> 0:13:59.920 I said, some of you are just about to give 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.280 on what God's put in your heart. My message today 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.040 is you got to get your fire back. You got 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.640 to shake off that lazy, complacent spirit and start pressing forward, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.960 start believing for God's very best. Well, you say, Joel, 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.520 it's so hard, and I've been doing it for so long, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.440 But no nobody said it was gonna happen overnight. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.680 Nobody said it was going to be easy. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.280 And it may be difficult now, but if you will 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.880 do the right thing anyway, then later on you will 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.160 reap the benefits. I was thinking about a good friend 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.360 of mine. He's in the television business, and many years 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.920 ago we were editing this project together and we needed 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.200 some real warm piano music. And he said, that's no 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.360 big deal. Let me get to a piano and I'll 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.520 see what I can come up with. I didn't even 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.520 know he could play the piano. And he came right 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.520 down here and got on this piano and he played 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:52.760 like nobody I'd. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:53.440 Ever heard before. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.800 And I said, man, that was great. I wish I 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.560 could do that. He said, oh, Joel, you could. It 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.520 just took me about fifteen years to learn. 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:02.400 He said. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.920 While you were out goofing off, when you were growing 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.360 up playing ball, having fun with your friends, I was 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.000 at piano lessons learning how to play. In other words, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.960 he was willing to pay the price. He was willing 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.400 to do something that I wasn't willing to do. He 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.280 was saying, in a fact, I put. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.600 Some blood, sweat and tears into this thing. This took 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.800 my time, my effort, my energy. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.880 And see, your inspiration needs to always be backed up 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.320 with perspiration. Really, there are two kinds of people in life. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.120 There are dreamers and then there are doers. You may 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.280 have a big dream for your life. I hope you do, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.440 but all it is is a dream if you're not 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.200 willing to put any action behind it. And a lot 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.480 of people today want a nice life, but they're not 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.520 willing to do anything about it. And when you see 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.080 somebody that has what you want, don't you dare get jealous? 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:55.360 Don't you dare say? 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.560 Well, I don't know why they get all the good breaks. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.360 I don't know why they're so talented, How do they 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:01.560 get to drive that nice car? 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:02.840 Why are they always happy? 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.400 No, you can have just what they have if you 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.800 are willing to pay the price, if you are willing 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:12.480 to make the same sacrifice. This, friends, God is no 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.440 respector of persons. He gives every one of us an 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.760 equal chance. And yes, I realize in one sense some 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.080 people are born with more advantage. But I know people 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.480 that have come from overseas to this country. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.440 Without a penny to their name. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.040 Yet today they're happy, they're fulfilled, they're living at the 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.080 top of their field. The point is, no matter what 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.440 family you come from, no matter what breaks you did 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.400 or didn't get in life, don't use that as an excuse. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.080 You can live a life of victory. You can be 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:45.520 happy and fulfilled. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.160 You can see your dreams come to pass if you 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.160 want it bad enough. But you're going to have to 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.400 be disciplined when it comes to how you spend your time. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.920 You've got to be disciplined with who you hang around with, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.280 because if you hang around with others, they're lazy, undisciplined people, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.480 people with no goals or dreams for their life. They're 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.240 gonna steal the dream right out of your heart. You've 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.160 got to be disciplined in what you give yourself to 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.679 be disciplined when it comes to how you handle your finances. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.199 I hear people say all the time with Joel, I 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.400 wish I had some money in the bank. Well, it's possible, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.879 but it may be a little painful. You may have 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.280 to suffer a little while and not go out to eat, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.879 and not buy that new outfit, and not overstretch with 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.840 a car payment. You can't really afford what I'm saying. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.680 It could be a little uncomfortable. It could be painful. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.760 It's gonna take discipline, But if you will make the 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.480 sacrifices right now, then later. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.280 On you're gonna reap the rewards. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.160 But I found most of the time we're not concerned 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.560 about later on, so we just do what we feel 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.359 like right now, Joel, I don't feel like working hard 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.199 at the office this week. Well, later on, when they 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.320 go to promote somebody, they may pass you by. Well, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.760 I don't feel like taking time for my spouse, I 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.560 don't feel like communicating with her. Well later on, that 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.920 may very well cause you some major problems. You got 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.720 to pay the price today to have a happy life 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.640 later on. And it's not always going to be easy. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.800 You're not always going to be comfortable. 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:15.680 But you got to. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.840 Discipline yourself to do the right thing even though nobody's 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.400 watching you, and even though nobody is. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:23.160 Cheering you on. 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.480 For instance, when you go to the office this week, 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.080 you should work hard even though the boss is an 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.600 in and even though all your other co workers are 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.080 goofing off wasting their day. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.400 Well, you say, Joey, everybody. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.320 Else is doing it, Why can't I? No, you're not 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.360 everybody else. You need to sew a seed for later on. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:44.000 If you will do the right thing today, then later 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.200 on you'll be going places while those other people are 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:51.119 unfortunately just stuck there in mediocrity. If you'll treat people 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.120 right today, even though they don't deserve it, later on 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.639 you'll reap the benefits. See, God is keeping all the records. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.120 He sees everything that you do. He sees the mornings 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.440 you get up early to do the right thing even 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.280 though you don't feel like it. He sees the times 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.159 you bite your tongue even though you felt like telling 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:10.880 somebody off. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:11.840 God sees that. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.040 And when you just keep sowing those seeds of a 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.320 disciplined life, you keep doing the right thing day in 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.240 and day out. One day you're going to see things 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.240 begin to change in your favor. One day you will 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:25.840 see your dreams begin. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:26.520 To come to pass. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.000 Well, you say, Joel, I've been doing the right thing 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.480 for so long and I'm not seeing any results. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.560 I don't think it's ever going to get any better. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.520 I just challenge you again. You got to dig your 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.720 heels in and keep on keeping on. The scripture says 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.960 in Galatians six', nine don't get tired of doing what's, 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.160 right for in due, season you shall reap if you faint. 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.200 NOT i love That it doesn't say you might, Reap 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.480 it says you shall. Reap that's a promise From Almighty. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.320 GOD i like to think of it kind of like 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:00.159 this big boulder that you're trying to break, into and 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.000 you got this big, Sledgehammer and every time you do 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.879 the right, thing you're taking another swing at that. Rock 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.560 every time you discipline yourself to not buy something that 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.040 you want, it or every time you get up early 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.080 to pray for that, child every time you treat somebody 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.800 right even though they didn't deserve. It every time you do, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.560 it you're taking another. Swing and day after, day as 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.399 you're diligent to press through the disappointments and you just 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.240 press past the fact that you don't see anything, happening 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:30.800 every time you do, it that's another. Swing and you 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.080 may look at that rock and, think you know, What 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.760 i'm not even didting this. Thing i'm just wasting my. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.800 Time it's never going to break. Into but, no one 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.520 day you're gonna take another. Swing one day you're gonna 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:43.480 do the right thing one more, time and all of a, 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.600 sudden that rock's will break right. Into but the fact 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.200 Is it wasn't just that last swing that did. It 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.760 it was all those other, swings day after day of 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:57.399 being diligent that caused that rock to break. Open and 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.000 even though you didn't see anything happening on the out side, 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.280 side on the, inside changes were taking. Place on the, 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:07.520 inside progress was being. Made but really you saw the 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.520 results all at one. Time but that was a culmination 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.560 of all the right choices that you had been disciplined to. 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.040 Make and, see when you're diligent to just keep on keeping, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.080 on you just keep, praying you keep, believing you keep 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.640 doing the right. Thing you may not see anything happening 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:28.879 with your natural, eyes but you can rest assured in 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.879 the unseen, realm in the spiritual, world changes are taking. 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:34.760 Place the miracle is set into. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.639 Motion for with every seed you, Sow god says you 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:41.240 are going to reap a. Harvest and so my message 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:44.040 today is you got to keep on keeping. On don't 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.640 fall into that trap of being, complacent don't get, lazy 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:51.680 don't get. Passive you've got to stay aggressive because anything 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.760 in life worthwhile is going to take some time and 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:55.399 effort and. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.000 Energy it's gonna take some, blood sweat and. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:00.840 Tears it's gonna take you doing something that you just 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:05.119 don't really feel like. Doing always remember when you're tempted 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.240 to give, up just say you know, what it's never 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:07.480 going to. 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.720 Happen i'm just wasting my. Time, no when you stand 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.720 in faith one more, day that could be the day 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:14.680 the whole thing breaks. 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.080 Open it could just take one more time of doing 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:20.520 the right. Thing you don't know how close you could 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.320 be to your. Victory so just keep on keeping. On 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:27.600 don't allow yourself to get lazy and complacent and to 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:31.399 have that passive. Attitude, really In, america in one, sense 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.400 we've gotten kind of. Spoiled we live in a right now. 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:40.480 Society we want everything. Immediately we've Got Michael wave, ovens 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:45.080 fast food, restaurants overnight. Delivery have you noticed how everything 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:48.600 is geared towards speed and. Ease you don't even have 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:50.720 to get up to change the channels on THE tv. 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:54.200 Anymore got that remote. Control the whole household would shut 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:57.960 down if you lose a. Remote we can order our 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.320 groceries now through the internet and have them delivered to our. 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:02.600 House don't even have to get. 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:06.760 Out think about all the conveniences that we have today 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:10.520 that people seventy or eighty years ago didn't HAVE i 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:13.520 know my father growing up on the, farm they didn't have, 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:17.119 electricity they didn't have air, conditioners they didn't have washers and. 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:21.000 Dryers there have been so many great advances made over 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.480 the last few years that have made our lives so 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:25.360 much easier and so much more. 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:27.959 Comfortable AND i think it's. Great i'm all for. It 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:28.240 we're so. 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.720 Blessed BUT i do believe we have to be careful 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:35.800 that we don't allow all these conveniences to cause us 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.360 to develop a wrong way of thinking where we kind 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.800 of get lazy and we expect everything to be easy 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.679 and we want everything right. Now, no, friends there is 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:48.680 no substitute for good old fashioned hard. Work you've got 0:23:48.680 --> 0:23:51.000 to be willing to pay the. Price, well you, Said. 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:53.399 JOEL i had to drive thirty minutes to get to 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:57.199 church today in my air conditioning, car sitting on my 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:01.200 nice padded leather. SEATS i got to go home today 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:05.600 and mow my lawn on my riding lawnmower with MY 0:24:05.680 --> 0:24:09.200 cd player playing music in my. Ears FOR i got 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:11.080 a sink full of. DISHES i gotta take them out 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:13.359 of the sink and put them into the dishwasher and 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:16.560 hit the start. Button and that's a lot of. Trouble i'm, 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:17.440 exaggerating but. 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:17.800 You get my. 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:21.800 POINT i heard about a domestically challenged. 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:24.120 Husband he wanted to wash his new. 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:26.960 Sweatshirt so we went into the utility room and he 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:30.240 hollered upstairs to his. Wife what setting DO i use 0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:32.919 on the washing? Machine she, said it depends what does 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:38.800 it say on your? Shirt he hollered, Back dallas. Cowboys but, 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:41.240 seriously if we're going to be All god wants us to, 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:43.560 be we gotta have more than good. 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:45.000 Wishes we gotta have some. 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.520 Backbone we got to be, diligent be willing to work. 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:52.159 Hard don't always look for the easy way. Out be 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:56.320 determined and learn to stick with. It it says In ecclesiastes, 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.800 five verse, three a dream comes to pass with much 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:04.120 business and painful. EFFORT i think about my. Parents they 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:08.080 spent forty years of their, life With god's, help building this. 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:12.000 Church other ministers used to come, by say to my, Father, 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.680 pastrostein tell us the secret of your, success how can 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:18.639 we have a big church like? Yours daddy would always 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.639 tell him the same, thing spend forty years pouring your 0:25:21.640 --> 0:25:23.000 blood sweating tears into. 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:24.080 It be a person of. 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.399 Integrity love, people and you'll have just what we. 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.760 Have but most of the time that's not the answer. 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:32.440 They were looking. For they wanted overnight what took him 0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:36.600 forty years to. Build they wanted immediate results without having 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:38.879 to pay the. Price but, see you got to be 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:40.800 disciplined in making an. 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:44.840 Investment in your. Future. Today life is a, marathon not a. 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:46.439 Sprint daddy was. 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.880 Committed he didn't care how hard it. Was he didn't 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:51.840 care how much sleep he. Lost he didn't count the. 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:53.320 Hours he just got the job. 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:56.000 Done he preached whether he felt like it or, not 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:59.199 whether there was eighty people or eight thousand, people he 0:25:59.240 --> 0:25:59.760 gave it as. 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:00.600 All he didn't think. 0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:03.840 Twice this was his dream and he was determined to 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:07.919 see it come to, pass And god rewarded his. Diligence but, 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:11.199 REALLY i don't say this in a wrong, sense but 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:14.919 a lot of people today have give me something for nothing. 0:26:15.000 --> 0:26:18.120 Mentality god's put the dream in their, heart but they're 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:20.199 sitting back waiting For god to hand it to them 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:23.480 on the silver. Platter they don't want to be, Inconvenienced 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.040 they don't want to break a. Sweat they want all 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.919 the benefits without making any of the. SACRIFICES i like 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:34.800 What Thomas edison. Said he, said many people miss opportunities 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:39.080 because those opportunities come wearing overalls and look like a 0:26:39.080 --> 0:26:41.280 lot of. Work, friends if we're going to be All 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:43.919 god's created us to, be we got to be, disciplined 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:46.240 and we've got to be willing to work. Hard AND 0:26:46.320 --> 0:26:48.680 i realized there's a balance in What i'm. Saying we 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:51.879 should not work all the, time but we should have 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:55.280 a diligent, attitude and we should not back down. 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:56.199 Because something's a lot of. 0:26:56.240 --> 0:26:59.160 WORK i was reading about a certain kind of, tree 0:26:59.240 --> 0:27:03.080 A chinese. Bamboo when you plant the seed of this, 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:06.840 tree you have to water it and fertilize it every 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:10.080 single day or it will not. Grow and for the 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:13.560 first four, years even though you're continually feeding it and 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:17.240 continually watering, it it barely even grows at. All but 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:20.680 what's interesting is in the fifth, year the tree will 0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:21.680 shoot up to. 0:27:21.840 --> 0:27:23.880 Ninety feet, tall all in one. 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:27.480 Year the problem we have many times is we want 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:29.960 fifth year results without doing the four. 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:30.520 Years of hard. 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:33.720 Work you've got to be willing to invest in your future. 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:37.719 Today you've got to put forth some, weeks some, months 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:41.040 maybe even years of hard work to develop your potential 0:27:41.200 --> 0:27:43.480 and to really see those dreams come to. Pass so 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:46.200 let me just challenge you, again dig your heels in 0:27:46.359 --> 0:27:48.960 and be a person of, diligence shake off that old 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:53.680 lazy passive, mentality and start being a doer and not 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:54.000 just a. 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:55.920 Dreamer, remember your. 0:27:55.800 --> 0:27:59.560 Inspiration has got to be back with your. Perspiration AND 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:01.760 i Know god speaking to some of you even now 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:05.040 about areas where you've been lazy and. Passive and it's 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:07.800 my prayer today that a new fire is being lit 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.120 on the inside and that you'll go out of here 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:13.080 more determined than. Ever that you're not gonna just sit 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.879 back and settle for. Mediocrity you're not gonna look for 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:18.200 the easy way, out but you're gonna stick with it 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:19.800 and be All god's created you to. 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:19.879 Be. 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:23.840 Friends if you will live a disciplined life and press 0:28:23.960 --> 0:28:26.600 past the disappointments and the things that are trying to 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:29.320 get you down and instead just sow the seed for later, 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:32.800 on Then god will reward your. 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