The Yoke Destroyer

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:31.560 Hi, this is. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.399 Joel on Wednesdays. We bring you the best of I 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:35.880 hope you enjoy the podcast. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.960 Oh God bless you. It's a joy to come into 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:52.640 your homes. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.279 And if you're ever in our area and please stop 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.360 buy and be a part of one of our services. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.560 These are the finest people in all of Houston, says. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.440 Right here at Lakewood. Love to have you. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.200 But thanks for tuning in today and thank. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.120 You again for coming out. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.799 I like to start with something funny and I heard 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.600 about this husband and wife. They were celebrating their sixtieth 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.680 birthdays together, and an angel suddenly appeared and said that 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.800 God was going to grant them each one special request. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.920 They were so excited. The wife said, my request is 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.480 that we'd be able to travel all over the world. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:27.320 Poof. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.040 When the smoke cleared, she had tickets in her hand. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.359 The husband hung his head in shame, said, my request 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.359 is that I'd be married to a woman thirty years 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:38.040 younger than me. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.840 Poof. When the smoke cleared, he was ninety years old. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.280 Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.480 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.400 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.000 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.880 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.160 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:07.160 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.160 to talk to you today about the yoke destroyer. The 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.799 word yoke is used several times in the scripture. They 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.359 were more familiar with this term because they used oxen 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.840 all the time. A yoke was something they put around 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.200 the neck of an ox to help control the animal. 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.480 It limited its movement. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.400 The ox started to get off course, the yoke could. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.960 Pull it back. It was a constant burden. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.280 Even though the ox was very powerful and incredibly strong, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.520 this small yoke could keep it from doing what it 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.920 wanted to do. Some people don't realize it, but they're 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.760 living with a yoke around their neck. They wonder why 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.920 they can't get ahead, why everything's a struggle. It's because 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.640 of the yolks that are dragging them down. Negative words 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.680 that were spoken over you can become a yoke. Every 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.680 time when you start to step out, you hear that parent, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.640 that coach saying you're not that talented, you don't have 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:06.360 what it takes. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.760 It plays again and again. Eventually you shrink back. That's 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.360 a yoke. In a relationship. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.800 You want to love that person, but your mother got 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.080 hurt in the past, and the last person did you wrong, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:25.000 and you just can't trust anybody. Another yoke. Some yokes 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.839 have been passed down to us. I know a young 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.919 lady that grew up with a father that was unfaithful 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.200 to her mother. She saw her dad run around on 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.320 her mom and made her so upset. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.520 She got to the point where she hated her father. 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.160 She couldn't stand the man. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.200 He'd brought so much heartache and pain into the home. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.920 She and her sisters were confused, bitter, and angry. She 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.279 couldn't wait to get old enough to move out of 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:55.640 the house. At eighteen, she left home, got married, they 0:04:55.680 --> 0:05:00.000 had several children. A few years later she started running 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.680 around on her husband. She did the same thing to 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.680 her children that she hated so much about her father. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.680 That's a yoke being passed down all through life. These 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.120 yokes are trying to come on us, a yoke of depression, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.680 yoke of low self esteem, a yoke of compromise. And 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.280 if we're not careful, we'll live burdened down. Everything is 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.560 a struggle. We're working hard, but we can't get ahead. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.200 What's the problem. We have all these yokes that are 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.120 controlling us. And this is what happened to the Israelites 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.560 they were facing the Assyrian army in Isaiah chapter ten. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.240 The Israelites had gone through all kinds of heartache. They 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.359 had lived out in the wilderness, been mistreated, taken advantage of. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.000 Now they think, here we go again. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.640 This is the way our life is always going to 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.760 be one struggle after another. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:56.839 They had been wearing. 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.000 This yoke for years, so much so that they had 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.440 gotten comfortable with it. But verse twenty seven says, it 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.400 shall come to pass that the burden will be taken 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.520 off of your shoulders, the yoke removed from your neck, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.640 and the yoke will be destroyed. God was saying to them, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:22.279 this is a new day. You're not going to continually struggle. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.760 You're not going to live defeated. I'm not only going 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.200 to remove the burden. I'm going to destroy the yoke. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.000 From that day forward, they stepped into a new level 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.520 of their destiny. What they used to struggle with wasn't 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:41.640 a struggle anymore. That constant pressure to overcome enemies was 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.760 lifted off of them. God gave them favor to conquer 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.800 opponents that were much bigger and more powerful. Instead of 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.280 being looked down on and mistreated, they were respected and 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:55.719 given what belonged to them. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.760 What happened the yoke destroyer showed up. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.520 God is saying the same thing to us that he 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:04.280 said to them. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:09.000 You've struggled long enough. You've dealt with that addiction long enough. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.960 You've been dogged by those family problems long enough. I 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.679 am going to take away that burden. I'm not only 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.760 going to remove the yoke, I'm going to destroy the yoke. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.240 In other words, it's not going to come back. That 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.360 depression is not going to dog you your whole lifetime. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.480 That addiction that keeps getting passed from generation to generation, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.600 the buck stops with you. That sickness that looks like 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.720 it's going to be the end. Now this is a 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.920 new day. The yoke is being destroyed. The burden is 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:41.840 being removed. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:42.840 Now. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.280 Some of you have been living with a yoke your 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.680 whole life. It's been passed down to you. Maybe you 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.240 don't realize it. Can't seem to get ahead, struggling in 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.040 your marriage, children won't do what's right, low self esteem, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.600 that's all you've known. But God said to the Israelites, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.680 i have seen the affliction of my people, and I'm 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:03.800 coming down. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.400 To deliver them. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:11.000 God sees every yoke, every unfair situation, everything that you 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:11.760 struggle with. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.560 He doesn't just sit back and say, well, too bad. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.040 No, he says, I'm coming down to do something about it. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:19.800 You don't have to worry. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.840 The yoke destroyer is on the way. God is saying 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.960 I'm coming down to put an end to that struggle. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.800 I'm shifting things in your favor. I'm delivering you from addictions. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.040 I'm removing the burden and setting you free to walk 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.440 into the fullness of your destiny. Friends, the God we 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:44.880 serve is a yoke destroying, burden removing God. And like 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.880 the Israelites, you may have struggled in an area for 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.000 a long time, but don't go through life thinking this 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.040 is the way it's always going to be. I'm always 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.040 going to struggle in my marriage, Joel, I'm always gonna 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.360 have to fight this depression. 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.160 I'm always going to be lonely. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.840 Now, it says in the Book of Job that God 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:08.240 has set an end to that trouble. God has already 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.640 set an end to the difficulty and into the sickness 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.760 and into the loneliness. Don't get comfortable with it. You're 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.200 not going to wear that yoke your whole lifetime. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.560 Our God is in the yoke removing business. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.560 Now, let me ask you, what could you accomplish without 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.720 that yoke of compromise holding you back? What could you 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.680 become without that yoke of small. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.720 Thinking I've reached my limits. I never get any good breaks. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.200 Where could your family go without that yoke of addiction, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.280 bad habits that keep getting passed down. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.120 You owe it to yourself to get free. 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.520 You don't have time to go another year letting that 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.559 yoke weigh you down. Your destiny is too great, your 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.199 assignment is too important. You got to draw the line 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.480 in the sand and say this is a new day. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.600 Every yoke that is holding me back is being destroyed. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.600 That yoke of sickness that keeps getting passed down is 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.319 being destroyed. Just because mother had it and grandmother had 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.320 it doesn't mean I'm gonna have it. I know the secret. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.959 The yoke destroyer has come down. That yoke of debt 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.120 and struggle is being destroyed. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.000 I am the head and not the tail. I will 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.240 lend and not borrow. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.679 I am getting this yoke off of my neck. I'm 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.280 gonna live my life free. There was a lady in 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.720 the scripture named ray Hab. She was a Canaanite woman. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.800 The Canaanites were descendants of Noah's son. Ham Him was 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:47.240 the one when he saw his father Noah drunk and naked. 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.520 Instead of covering him up and down playing it, he 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.720 went out and told everybody made it worse when Noah 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.480 found out, he cursed Hand and all of his descendants. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:05.800 Years later, this lady Rahab is a prostitute living in Jericho. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.120 Her family is under this curse as a descendant of Ham. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.160 She could have thought, just my luck, it's been passed 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:19.520 down to me. I'll always struggle, I'll always make poor choices. No, 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.040 she did something to break that curse. She got that 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:27.120 yoke off of her neck. One day, Joshua and the 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:32.200 Israelites were about to attack her city of Jericho. Joshua 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.320 sent two men in to spy out the land. Somebody 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.360 noticed who they were and told the authorities. Just as 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.640 they were about to be captured, Rayhab took the spies. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.360 In and hid them in her home. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.800 They said, since you've helped us, when we come and 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.560 attack the city, we're going to spare you and your family. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:00.240 Even though Rahab had all this negative baggage so she 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.240 was living a dishonorable life, she made a decision to 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:09.280 honor God. That one choice changed the course of her 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.920 family line. That day, God removed the yoke that had 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.600 been holding her back. That day, God broke the curse 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.960 that had been in her family for generations. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.160 Now here's how good God is. Rayhab went on to 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.440 marry a Jewish man. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.400 They had a son named Boaz. Boas had a son 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.640 named Obed. Obed had a son named Jesse. Jesse had 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:38.359 a son named David. This means Rayhab, a former prostitute, 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.800 is in the family line of Jesus Christ. This is 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.880 what happens when you make decisions to honor God. The 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.480 yoke is removed and you step into the fullness of 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.640 your destiny. Now, some of you, like Rahab, are one 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:00.800 decision away from getting that yoke off your neck, decision 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.560 away from breaking a curse that's been in your family 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.920 for generations. Don't put it off. You've been wearing that 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.840 yoke long enough. Today is your day. This is your 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.600 time to come out of that yoke of compromise, making 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.720 poor choices, giving into temptation. 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.000 You're better than that. You can set a new standard 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:21.840 for your family. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.840 This is the time to come out of that yoke 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.400 of loneliness, those thoughts that keep telling you you'll never 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:29.440 meet the right person. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.360 You're too old, it's too late. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:35.240 Now this is a new day. Things have shifted. Get 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:36.960 ready to meet someone new. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:38.160 Do your part. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.120 Honor God, be friendly, and I declare that yoke of 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:47.120 loneliness is being destroyed. God is removing that burden. This 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.440 is your time to come out of that yoke of 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:53.840 family problems, Struggling in your marriage, children won't do what's right, 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.280 no peace in the home, strife the vision. I declare 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.480 that yoke is being destroyed. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.600 God is doing a new thing. 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:08.160 He is releasing healing, forgiveness, joy, peace, victory. This is 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.680 your time to come out of that yoke of average. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.200 God never created you to be ordinary. He created you 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.760 to leave your mark on this generation. God wants you 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.720 to do something big. He wants you to go further 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.479 than anyone in your family. You have seeds of greatness 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.640 on the inside. Now I declare that yoke of average 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.120 that's been around your neck is coming off. God is 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.080 about to thrust you to a new level of your destiny. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.680 It's going to be exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.080 You're going to see the. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.760 Yoke destroying burden, removing power of our God like never before. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.440 This is a new day. Yokes of depression that have 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.480 robbed you of your happiness are being destroyed. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.920 Yokes of sickness, chronic pain are being destroyed. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.080 Yokes of fear. It's holding you back. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.920 Lack of confidence, intimidation are being destroyed. That yoke of 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.120 compromise that keeps getting passed down like father, like son. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:11.720 No, they're being destroyed. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.640 From now on, it's going to be like heavenly father, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:21.080 like son. If you will receive this into your spirit, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.320 not talk yourself out of it, it will ignite your 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.040 faith and become a reality. Otherwise you'll think, oh, Joel, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.880 that was good, I enjoyed it. No, it's got to 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.800 go beyond being encouraging to being This is from me, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:35.840 this is my destiny. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.520 Something new is being birth. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.120 Yokes are coming off of me, chains are being broken. 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:45.560 I am stepping into the fullness of my destiny. That's 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.920 what happened to a young man in the scripture named Ishmael. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.920 He was the child that Abraham had out of wedlock 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:57.400 with his maid Hagar. Abraham was trying to help God 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.760 out and bring about the child that God had promised them. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.359 In fact, it was Abraham's wife Sarah that told him 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.560 to sleep with Hagar. They had this little son named Ishmael. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.640 And we've heard the teachings on be patient, don't get 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.560 in a hurry, or you'll give birth to Ishmael and 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.280 not the promised child Isaac. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:18.680 But think about this. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.320 Ishmael didn't get to choose who his mother would be. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.080 He didn't get to choose where he would be born. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.520 He couldn't help the fact that he was the child 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:33.560 of Abraham's mistake, and eventually Sarah gave birth to Isaac, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.920 the promised child. I'm sure that Ishmael played with his 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.240 little brother Isaac. 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.920 They were in the same family. They didn't know any better. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.920 But over time Sarah became very angry and bitter toward 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.480 Hagar and started mistreating her. Here Abraham is in the 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.840 middle of it, trying to keep two women happy. 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:55.880 If he's you. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:01.440 Know, that's hard's If he's nice to Hagar, Sarah gets upset. 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.080 If he ignores her, then Hagar gets mad. He can't win. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.320 There's all kinds of dysfunction in this family. You think 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.480 you've got some family baggage, it's nothing compared to this situation. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:17.520 It got so bad that Sarah gave Abraham an ultimatum. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:22.199 Either Hagar and Ishmael goes, or I'm leaving. But I 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.680 am not staying here with that woman, your mistress. Hagar 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.720 Abraham says, come on, Sarah, you're the one that told 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.159 me to sleep with her. She said, doesn't matter. You 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.280 should have known better. That's a woman. Don't do what 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:35.640 I say. 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:36.320 Do what I mean. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:43.879 Abraham, against his will, he sent Hagar and Ishmael out 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.040 into the desert. I can imagine Ishmael is playing with 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.520 Isaac out in the front yard, having a good time, 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.960 like that done many times before Hagar. His mom comes 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.480 over and says, come on, Ishmael, we gotta go somewhere. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:00.600 They start walking out into the desert with a loaf 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.840 of bread and a canteen of water. Ishmael is confused, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.119 wondering what in the world's going on. A few days later, 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.000 they're out of food, out of water, about to starve 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.760 to death. The scripture says that God heard the cry 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:20.040 of Ishmael. Not God heard the cry of his mother. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.639 Not God heard the cry of Abraham. God heard the 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:29.680 cry of this little boy born into dysfunction with all 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.600 kinds of negative baggage. But God had a plan for 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.280 Ishmael's life. God said he would bring out of him 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:38.320 a great nation. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:40.440 Isn't it interesting? 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.000 Even though he wasn't the promised child, even though he 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.879 was seen by most as a mistake, God in his 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.639 mercy said, Ishmael, you may have gotten off to a 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.320 rough start, you may have a lot of dysfunction, but 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:56.760 I'm still your God. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:58.840 I still have a plan for you. 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.800 I am going to ye remove that yoke that's holding 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.120 you back. I'm going to lift those burdens that were 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:08.960 put on you, and I'm gonna cause you to fulfill 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:09.720 your destiny. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:10.760 Now. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.520 Like Ishmael, you may have a good reason to settle 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.480 where you are and thank God, Joel, I'm never gonna 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.040 do anything great. If you knew what I have to 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.639 deal with, if you knew the struggles, the dysfunction in 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.679 my family line, no just life with Ishmael. God still 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.160 has something amazing in. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.160 Front of you. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.960 No injustice can keep you from your destiny. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.120 No bad break, no person. 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:38.280 The God we serve is a yoke destroying, burden removing God. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.800 If you'll get your passion back and keep moving forward, 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:46.520 making decisions that honor God, he will still make something 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.080 great out of your life. No burden is too heavy, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.159 no yoke has been there too long, God said to 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.800 the Israelites, after years of abuse and slavery, this day 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.360 I am ro away the reproach. God is saying to you, 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:09.040 this day i am destroying yokes. This day, I'm breaking strongholds. 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:14.280 This day I'm setting you free. I'm rolling away the reproach. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:19.200 That means God is removing the guilt, the shame, the fear, 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:20.240 the intimidation. 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:24.400 He's removing the burdens, and he's releasing healing. 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:30.240 He's releasing favor, He's releasing new beginnings. In Genesis chapter 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.359 thirty four, there's the story of a young man named Levi. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.160 He was one of Jacob's sons. One day, his sister 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.760 went to the town of Shechem. She was attacked and 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.879 abused by these men. Word got back to Levi and 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.640 his brother Simeon. They decided to take matters into their 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.240 own hands. Their father, Jacob, wanted to handle it more diplomatically, 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.720 but these boys were so enraged and so furious. Levi 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.800 went to the town of Shechem and trick the people. 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.480 He said that he had come in peace and he 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.199 wanted to overlook the matter, but that they would have 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.040 to make a covenant with Jehovah. That meant all the 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.119 men would have to be circumcised. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.120 The men of Shechem agreed. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:20.520 While they were recovering from their circumcision, Levi and Simeon 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.959 went in there and wiped out the whole town, killed 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:28.400 everyone in retribution for what a couple of men did 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.359 to their sister. Their father, Jacob was so angry at 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.760 them they almost started a war. At the end of 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.120 Jacob's life, he's on his deathbed about to pass. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:41.800 He calls all of his sons in. 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.840 Normally this is when he would give them the blessing. 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.960 This was extremely important, especially in those days. But Jacob 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.560 looked at Levi and said, I'm not. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.000 Gonna bless you. 0:21:55.000 --> 0:22:00.760 You are stubborn, hot headed, angry, violent, You trick those people. 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:02.200 You're just a deceiver. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:09.280 Instead of blessing Levi's future, he cursed Levi's future. Years later, 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.960 Moses is on top of Mount Sinai. God had just 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:15.800 given him the Ten Commandments. He comes down from the 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:21.080 mountain side. The Israelites are worshiping a golden calf, having 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:26.400 a big party, celebrating dancing. Moses said to his brother Erin, 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:30.440 what in the world are you guys doing. Erin said, Moses, 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.800 we got bored waiting for you. We threw some gold 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:37.160 into the fire and this golden calf came out. 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:39.320 Something rose up in Moses. 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.200 He pulled his sword out, lifted it in the air, 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:43.880 and shouted, who. 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.280 Is on the Lord's side? 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:46.439 Now? 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:50.960 Of all the people there thousands of them, The scripture says, 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:57.040 the sons of Levi raised their hands, the least likely people. 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:02.200 Their father had made mistakes, their grandfather had cursed their future. 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.480 They had aled this baggage, all this dysfunction. Yet they 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.840 rose up and said, in effect, this is a new day. 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:14.040 We're getting this yoke off of our neck. We're breaking 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:19.880 this curse. We are on the Lord's side. Because of 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:23.000 that decision, God was so pleased with them. 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:27.240 From that day forward, all the priests would come through 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:28.560 the tribe of Levi. 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:33.119 They were cursed by their grandfather in the book of Genesis, 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.600 a few books over in Leviticus, they are. 0:23:36.440 --> 0:23:38.520 The most blessed, honored people. 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.520 What am I saying, what's been passed down to you 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:45.760 doesn't have to keep you from your destiny. What your 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:49.480 relatives did, they may have made poor choices. But when 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:53.120 you rise up like the sons of Levi and say, hey, 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:55.359 wait a minute, I'm on the Lord's side. 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:58.440 I'm not under this curse. I'm under the blessing. 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:01.040 I'm not going to keep wearing this yoke that's been 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:01.720 passed down. 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:06.919 I know my God is a yoke destroying, burden removing God. 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:11.080 When you have that kind of attitude, God will bless 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:15.400 you and your family line in spite of past mistakes. 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:18.560 And you may have had relatives that really they made 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:19.760 it more difficult on you. 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.120 Maybe you're the first one. 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:25.600 That's really stepped up to honor God in your family. 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:30.199 The good news is the first generation that breaks the 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:34.639 negative cycle is the generation that gets paid back for 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:38.479 everything that should have been theirs. God is keeping the 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:43.320 record everything He has stored up for your family that 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:44.720 they didn't tap into. 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:46.720 That doesn't just go away. 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:49.920 God doesn't say too bad, they made poor choices, they 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:55.200 missed out on my best. No, God has been accumulating everything. 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:56.480 That belongs to your family. 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:00.360 If your parents and relatives would have honored God, if 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:03.400 they would have lived a life of excellence and integrity, 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:08.160 all the favor, the good breaks, the wisdom, the opportunity 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.760 that they missed out on is still in your account. 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:14.600 And if you will be the one to rise up 0:25:14.640 --> 0:25:18.600 and honor God and set a new standard then God 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.840 will pay you back for everything that should have been yours. 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:24.880 This is what happened with the Israelites. 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:28.320 They had been in slavery for four hundred and thirty years, 0:25:28.440 --> 0:25:32.400 ten generations. God raised Moses up as their deliverer. 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:33.640 As they were. 0:25:33.640 --> 0:25:37.960 Leaving the country, some two million people, the scripture says 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:42.960 God caused them to have favor with their captors, and 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:47.600 they gave them their gold, silver, and livestock. They didn't 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:52.480 lead there empty handed, They left loaded down with God's blessings. 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:56.240 That was God paying them back for four hundred and 0:25:56.359 --> 0:26:01.160 thirty years of working as a slave. So the injustice 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:05.560 he knew what they were owed. It was all accumulating. 0:26:06.240 --> 0:26:09.880 When this one generation rose up and said, in effect, 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:13.040 we're on the Lord's side. We're not gonna stay here 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:17.480 in mediocrity. We're heading toward our promised land. They were 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:20.280 the ones that got paid back not only what they 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:24.399 were owed, but everything their ancestors had missed out on. 0:26:25.119 --> 0:26:29.000 Our attitude should be God, I'm bold enough to believe 0:26:29.359 --> 0:26:32.240 that you will pay me back for everything that should 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:35.840 have been mine. God, every dream that our family missed 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:41.040 out on, every opportunity that the enemy stole, every injustice God. 0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:44.680 I just want to thank you. That is payback time. Now. 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:47.720 Some of you have a whole lot in your account. 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:52.960 It's been accumulating for generations that I believe today because 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:55.360 you're on the Lord's side, it's about to. 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:56.840 Be released into your account. 0:26:57.119 --> 0:27:00.120 You're gonna see God's favor in a new way. 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:04.560 Today. The yoke destroyer has showed up. 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:11.119 Yokes of depression, sickness, fear have been destroyed. God is 0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:14.520 removing the burdens that have held you back. No more 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:17.719 one step forward and two steps back. That yoke has 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:22.560 been destroyed. No more passing dysfunction from generation to generation. 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:24.240 That yoke is destroyed. 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:28.840 No more bad habits being held back by compromise year 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:29.480 after year. 0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:32.200 The yoke destroyer has put an end to it. 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:36.680 And no more wearing that yoke of average, mediocre ordinary. 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:40.600 That yoke has been removed from your neck. Now you 0:27:40.600 --> 0:27:43.080 need to get ready. You're about to go where you've 0:27:43.119 --> 0:27:46.200 never gone before. You're going to see what you can 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:50.080 become without that yoke. You're going to make better decisions, 0:27:50.280 --> 0:27:51.680 You're going to accomplish more. 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:54.840 You're going to live happier, more fulfilled. 0:27:54.760 --> 0:27:58.400 Like the sons of Levi because you're on the Lord's side. 0:27:58.560 --> 0:28:01.639 God is going to honor you and your family like 0:28:01.840 --> 0:28:06.240 Rahab in spite of past mistakes, You're still going to 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:09.800 do something great, and like the Israelites, God is going 0:28:09.840 --> 0:28:12.919 to pay you back for everything that should have been yours. 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:18.000 I believe and declare that the yoke destroying, burden removing 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:21.200 God is about to thrust you into a new freedom, 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:24.920 a new level of your destiny. You will become everything 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:28.119 He's created you to be. In Jesus' name, if you 0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:32.439 receive it, can you say him in today? 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