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Tuning In to the Voice of Victory

Joel Osteen
April 20, 2023 31m 37s

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The voice of victory is found in God's word. You can accomplish your God-given dreams. If you want to live in victory, you have to stay tuned to the right channel. Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit  JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.320 appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your line. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.560 Will God bless you. It's always a joy to come 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:52.400 into your homes. 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.520 We love you, we pray for you every single day, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.880 and even though we may not know you by name, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:58.680 we feel like. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.400 You're a part of our extended family. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.960 If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.000 by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.320 But we would love to have you. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.920 Thanks so much for tuning in, Thanks again for coming 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.480 out today. And I like to start with something funny. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.480 And I heard about this group of elderly ladies. They 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.919 were way up in their eighties and they were driving 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.520 down the freeway when they were pulled over by a 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.920 police officer. He said to the driver, ma'am, do you 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:27.920 realize you're only going thirty five miles an hour? She said, yes, Officer, 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.800 I realized that. And he said, well, why are you 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.440 going so slow? She said, well, the sign says thirty five. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:34.760 He kind of laughed. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.800 He said, no, ma'am, that's the number of the freeway. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.520 This is Highway thirty five. And by the way, why 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.359 do these other ladies look so terrified? The little old 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.440 lady grinned and said, because we just got off Highway 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:48.120 ninety five. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.760 All right, hold up your Bible say it with me today. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:55.400 This is my Bible. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.360 I am what it says, I am, I have what 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.120 it says I have, can do what it says I 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.400 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:09.600 I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.720 I will never be the same. In Jesus's name God 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:14.280 bless you. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:16.280 I want to talk to you. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.680 Today about tuning in to the voice of victory. There 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.640 are all kinds of voices and all kinds of thoughts 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.000 we can tune into. It's just like with a radio station. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.959 There are hundreds of different frequencies in the air right 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.440 now all around us. If we had a receiver, we 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.840 could tune in to station after station. You've been in 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.600 your car before and something comes on that you don't 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.920 really like. It's no big deal. You don't make yourself 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.400 sit there and listen to it. You don't just endure it. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.720 You simply hit a button and switch over to a 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.400 different channel. It's the same principle in our thinking. All 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.880 through the day, hundreds of thoughts are coming into our mind. 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.200 Many of these thoughts are negative and discouraging, things like 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.520 you'll never accomplish your dreams, you'll never get well, you'll 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.240 never get married, you'll never get out of those problems. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.120 Many people don't realize you don't have to stay on 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.360 that channel. Just because a thought comes into your mind 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.400 doesn't mean that you have to dwell on it. If 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:24.680 that thought is negative, discouraging, condemning, you simply need to 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:29.320 tune off that frequency and find a different channel. There's 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.960 a channel that I call the voice of victory. It's 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.560 found in God's word. It says you are blessed, you 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:43.200 are prosperous, you are forgiven, you are healthy, you have favor, 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.760 you can overcome your obstacles, you can accomplish your God 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.960 given dreams. If you're going to live in victory, you 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.040 have to stay tuned to the right channel. This is 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:59.159 why many people have no joy, no energy, no enthusiasm. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.239 King is wrong. When we think sad discouraging thoughts. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.720 Studies tell us that our serotonin level goes down and 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.839 it causes us to feel sad. It's not just in 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.960 our head. It affects our moods. It affects the way 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:19.720 we feel. But when we go out each day positive, hopeful, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.680 excited about our future, knowing that God is in control. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.080 As we think those thoughts, endorphins are released throughout our 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.360 system that cause us to feel happier, to have more energy. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.280 It puts that spring in our steps. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.920 And some of you wonder why you're feeling blood and 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.560 why you don't have the energy and the enthusiasm for 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.440 life that you used to. It's because you're tuned in 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.920 to the wrong frequency. You can't go around all day 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.880 thinking I can't stand my job, and I'm so overweighted, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.120 and I'll never get out of debt, and nothing good 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.039 ever happens to me. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.680 When you think those thoughts. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:03.240 Your faith, your energyhusiasm is being drained out, just like 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.760 a big vacuum. It's pulling out all the good things 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.039 God put in you. You'd be amazed at how much 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.120 better you would feel, how you'd get your joy back 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.560 if you just get up each day and instead of 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.039 being passive and just thinking the first thought that comes 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.080 to your mind, Oh man, it's going to be another 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:26.520 lousy day. No, stay on the offensive. Learn to think 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.919 thoughts on purpose. Don't let yourself talk to you. Start 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.920 talking to yourself. Get up in the morning and make 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.600 a declaration of faith. This is going to be a 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.320 great day. I know God has directed my steps. I 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.080 have his favor, Goodness and mercy are following me. I'm 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:49.240 excited about this day. When you do that, you'll be happier, stronger, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.440 and you'll see God's favor in a greater way. Pay 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.640 attention to what you're thinking. Some of you have been 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.120 tuned in to the worry channel for so long you 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.880 could be a lifetime you could own stock in that company. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.280 Well, Joel, i can't help it. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.360 I'm worried about my children, worried about my finances, worried 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.120 about my health. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.440 No, there's a much better way to live. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.840 When those thoughts of worry come, you've got to make 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.680 a decision that you're not going to dwell on them. Instead, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.120 use that as a reminder to thank God that he's 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.600 a work in your life. Just switch the channel and 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.320 begin to thank God that he's arranging things in your favor. Friends, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.920 you control the doorway to your mind. When we go 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:37.640 around worried, thinking negative thoughts, Really we're just making matters worse. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.520 We're not only going to feel bad, but we're drawing 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.120 in more defeat, more mediocrity. You need to draw that 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.160 line in the sand and say that's it. I've worn 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.840 out the dial on the worry channel. I'm done listening 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.840 to the not going to happen network. I'm switching over 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.800 to the voice of victory. So all in what we 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.320 choose to dwell on, but he does us wrong. One 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:05.400 voice says, get even pay him back, hold a grudge, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.920 don't ever speak to them. If we dwell on those thoughts, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.680 it'll end up poisoning our own life. But there's another frequency. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.920 It says God is my vindicator. He'll make my wrongs right. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.600 What was meant for my harm, God will use to 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.800 my advantage. That's the voice of victory. When we make mistakes, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.200 one voice says. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.960 You blew it. You're done. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.920 You're never gonna be blessed. You can't expect anything good. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:35.439 Another voice says, i'mforgiven. God's mercy is bigger than any mistake. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.360 My best days are still out in front of me. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.760 It all depends on what voice we're choosing to tune into. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.559 Some people have been tuned into the wrong channel for years. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.520 Some families have been on the same negative station. 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.600 For five or six generations. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.840 It's time for somebody to rise up and retune that dial. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.760 Somebody needs to break that negative cycle and say this 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.400 is a new day. As for me and my family, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.960 we're going to live in victory. We are not going 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.120 to endure life. We're going to enjoy life. But it 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:14.520 all starts right here. What channel are you tuned into? Well, Joel, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.400 I'm just an average person. I'm just ordinary. I don't 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.920 never do anything great. No, you're on the wrong channel. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.640 If you tune over to the voice of victory, you 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:26.559 would hear I'm one of a kind, I am a masterpiece. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.120 I have seeds of greatness. I'm gonna leave my mark 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.400 on this generation. Pay attention to what you're thinking. Maybe 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.080 you're driving through a nice neighborhood and you see a 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.240 beautiful home and that thought comes to your mind. You'll 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.040 never have a house like that. You'll never get ahead. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.720 Nobody in your family is successful. You got to change 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.800 the channel. Guard your mind. If you dwell on thoughts 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.120 like that long enough, your own thinking will keep you 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.079 from God's best. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.320 Learn to switch over to the voice of victory. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.400 God, you said, if if i'd keep you first, you 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.480 would give me the desires of my heart. You said, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.880 no good thing will you withhold because I walk up rightly. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.160 You said, in due season, I will reap if I 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.120 just don't give up. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.520 So, Father, I want to thank you that my due 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:15.760 season is on its way. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.720 I know my time is coming. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.160 That's what it means to be tuned in to the 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:25.400 voice of victory. And it's amazing how we can train 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.640 our ear to hear what we want to hear. And 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.600 some people are so trained to hear the negative they 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.640 just latch onto it. Whenever a thought comes telling them 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.880 something discouraging about themselves or their family, they just swallow it. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.160 Hook line and sinker gets them defeated. They go around 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.560 all depressed. But then there are other people that have 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:51.199 trained themselves to latch on to these positive, hopeful thoughts. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.280 They can have a thousand negative thoughts bombarding their mind. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.760 It's never going to get better, business is slow, nothing 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.080 is changing, all these negative thoughts. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.920 But then one thought comes, one. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.040 Simple phrase that says, your future is going to be 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.600 brighter than your past. They weed through all those other 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.800 thoughts and they latch hold of that one faithful thought. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.920 That's the way we need to be so disciplined in 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.480 our thought life. We can weed through one hundred discouraging 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.840 thoughts and grab hold of one encouraging thought. We have 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.079 to have our ear trained in the right way. We 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.439 have at home two little dogs. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.760 That live with us. They're Shazzoos. One is named Daisy 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:39.160 and one is named Spirit. That's Spirit there. She's a 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.320 beautiful little dog. They say. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.040 Dogs over time begin to take on the looks of 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:50.199 their owners. And it's funny My brother Paul owns a bulldog. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.480 But I'm amazed at how sensitive. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.439 Spirit's hearing is. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.200 She is so tuned in to her surroundings and to 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.040 hear people coming to the front door long before they 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.720 get there. She'll start barking ten or fifteen seconds before 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.240 they ever ring the doorbell. She has trained herself to 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.280 hear what she wants to hear. And little Spirit loves cheese. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.760 When we're in the kitchen and we get the cheese out, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.160 it's in that little ziplock bag that it comes in. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.400 Spirit immediately comes running, sits at our. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.199 Feet and waits for her piece of cheese. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.920 There have been times when the whole family is in 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.440 the kitchen. There's all kinds of noise, all kinds of sounds. 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.320 Somebody's getting the cereal, somebody's getting chips, the blenders go, 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.559 and somebody's wrapping up food. Spirit sits there as calm 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.240 as can be, never even flinches. But the moment we 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.720 touch the cheese, she comes to attention. Her attitude is 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.360 it's my time. Now, I am ready for my snack. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.080 There have been times where I have tried to sneak 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.480 a piece of cheese out of the refrigerator without her hearing. 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.200 And I've told my children watch this. I'll open up 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.960 the refrigerator. I don't even get the cheese out. I 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.520 leave it there so. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:04.679 It won't make any noise. 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.520 And very quietly and delicately, I try to open up 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:12.800 that ziplock bag. Spirit is in another room thirty feet away, sleeping. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:18.199 But you cannot fool that dog. She either has supernatural 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.160 revelation or she has great ears, but it is impossible 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.840 to keep her away. Why is that she has trained 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.679 herself to hear what's important to her. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:30.440 She doesn't care if. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.880 I get the bread out it makes noise. She doesn't 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.320 care if I get the chips out or the lettuce. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.800 It's wrapped in the same type of package. None of 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.560 that matters, goes in one ear and out the other. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.360 All she's concerned about is the cheese. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:44.400 And she is. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.920 Keenly aware of that sound. My question to you today 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.280 is what sound are you tuned into. Some people have 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.200 developed a habit of hearing the negative. They're drawn to it, 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.439 almost like they feed off of it. A thought it's 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.319 gonna be a lousy day. They just swallow the bait. Oh, yes, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.640 it's gonna be a lousy day. They wake up in 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.040 the morning, the thought comes, you're depressed today. Oh yeah, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:13.440 I'm depressed today. Now you gotta retrain your ears. You 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.559 are hearing the wrong things. Start tuning out the negative, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.920 and start listening for those faith filled thoughts when you 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.560 get up in the morning. If you'll ignore the negative 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.600 long enough, eventually you're gonna hear this is the day 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.080 that the Lord has made. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:31.640 This is gonna be a great day. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.200 Just as we've trained ourselves to hear the bad, we 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.680 can retrain ourselves to hear the good. When those negative 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.920 thoughts come. Just say, no thanks, that's. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:42.160 Not for me. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.760 Well, you've reached your limits. You're never gonna go any further. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.960 No thanks, I'm not dwelling on that. Well, you'll never 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.280 be blessed. You know the mistakes you've made. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:51.920 No thanks. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.600 I can hear a different sound. It says I'm forgiven. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.080 Well you don't look well. I heard you got a 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.280 bad report from the medical office. Yes, that's true, but 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.000 I'm not dwelling on that. I can hear another sound. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.480 It says God's restoring health. Unto me, Well, you'll never 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.720 pay off your house, you'll never get ahead. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.120 You see the price of gas. No thanks. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.560 I can hear a different sound. It says God is 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.360 my supplier. God is providing all of my needs. I 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.440 will lend and not borrow. You may have to weed 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.480 through one hundred negative thoughts before you come to the 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.560 right sound, the voice of victory. That's saying you are blessed, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.600 you are prosperous, you can. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:31.360 Do all things. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.320 Your best days are still ahead. Latch on to those thoughts. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.880 When you hear those faithful thoughts, do like little Spirit 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:39.960 and just come running. 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.880 Say hey, that's for me. I believe it, I receive it. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.280 I am well able. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.920 Learn to play those thoughts over and over in your mind. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.760 Some people they've been playing the wrong thoughts their whole lifetime. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:58.000 I'm unattractive, I'm undisciplined, I never get any good breaks. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.520 Life's not fair. I'm just a victim. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.120 No, you need to let those thoughts bounce off of 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.160 you like water off of a duck's back, just like 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.360 Spirit sat there unfazed by the sound of the bread 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.960 and the chips and the cereal. You need to just 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:17.800 keep dismissing those thoughts. Eventually you will hear the right sound. Eventually, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.080 somebody's gonna open up the cheese. You're gonna hear the sound. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:22.560 I'm talented. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.680 Like an alarm, something will go off down in your spirit. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.960 You rise up and grab hold of it. Hey, that 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.040 thoughts for me. I am talented. That thought will come. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.480 I'm more than a conquer I can overcome this challenge. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.920 Grab hold of those thoughts. What am I saying? Weed 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.040 out the negative thoughts and learn to latch hold of 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.760 those positive thoughts. I was watching a report on television 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.760 the other day about bats, and there's this certain type 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.280 of bat that lives in the jungle and one of 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.960 its favorite foods is a small frog. And it showed how, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.400 in slow motion, the bat would swoop in, pick up 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.000 that frog, take it back to the cave to eat. 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.880 But what was interesting is all these frogs looked exactly alike. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.920 You could not tell any difference with the natural eye. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.359 But some of these frogs were poisonous, and if the 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.280 bats ate the poisonous frogs, it would eventually kill them. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.280 The only way they could tell the difference was by 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.400 the sound that the frog made at night. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.720 All the frogs had this high. 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:26.280 Pitched chirping sound, but the poisonous frogs were just slightly 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:30.399 higher pitched than the non poisonous. These bats were so 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.800 keen they would sit over to the side and study 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.399 the frogs for five or ten minutes, very carefully, listening intently. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.679 They had to determine what sound was coming from each frog. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.320 At one point, there must have been twenty frogs in 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.760 a little bitty area like this, and this one bat 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.800 was so perceptive and so tuned into the right sound. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.480 He swooped in there and picked out the one non 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.640 poisonous frog in the midst of a dozen or two 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.159 dozen poisonous frosts. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.119 How could he do that? He had trained his ear 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.719 to tune in to the right frequency. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.560 That's the way we need to be so disciplined in 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:12.520 our thought life. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.040 We don't take the enemy's bait. We only tune in. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.200 To thoughts of hope, thoughts of faith, thoughts of victory. 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.040 When those jealous thoughts come and say, well, why do 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:24.000 they have everything? 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:25.200 That's not fair? 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.480 They're so talented, they're so blessed, you've got to realize 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.120 that thought is not making the right sound. It may 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.919 look good, you may be tempted to bite into it, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.439 but you've got to be so keen, so aware that 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.480 you realize that's a poisonous thought. When those thoughts come 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:47.359 saying you're undisciplined, you're slow, you're unattractive, you're never going 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.680 to get ahead. You may be tempted to sit around, 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.560 have a pity party, think about everything that's wrong with you, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:59.440 But don't bite into that bait. Recognize those are poisonous thoughts, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.600 and they may give you some temporary satisfaction. But when 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.040 we dwell on thoughts like this, it'll eventually keep us 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.199 from our god given destiny. Now I'm asking us today 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.880 to be extremely aware of what we're thinking about. What 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.480 kind of thoughts are you allowing to take root, poisonous 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:23.440 or non poisonous, helpful or harmful? Have you trained your 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.159 ear like little spirit to hear the cheese and ignore 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.040 all the other thoughts? Are you being perceptive like those 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.520 bats to leave the poisonous thoughts alone. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.760 You have to guard your mind. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:39.080 You control what you're going to think about, it, says 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:43.280 in Philippians four, verse eight. Think on things that are pure, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.199 things that are wholesome, things that. 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:47.240 Are of a good report. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.919 Now I've learned you cannot think negative, discouraging thoughts and 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.680 expect to live a positive life. Your mind is one 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.879 of the most powerful and valuable things that God has 0:19:58.920 --> 0:19:59.520 given you. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.320 You have to program it with the right software. Here's 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:03.160 the key. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.440 If you will keep your mind filled with the right thoughts, 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.160 there won't be any room for the wrong thoughts. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:10.720 You need to on. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:15.840 Purpose think good things about yourself, your family, and your future. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.280 It is not enough to just not think negative thoughts. 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.240 If you don't keep your mind filled with these faith 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.399 filled thoughts, then those negative thoughts will constantly try to 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:25.880 take over. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.399 You need to stay on the offensive. In fact, it 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:29.800 says in. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.800 Isaiah, if you will keep your mind stayed on me 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.080 God's talking, I will keep you in perfect peace all. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:38.480 Through the day. 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.159 We should go around meditating on what God says about us. 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.639 I am forgiven, I am blessed, I am prosperous, I 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.640 am annoyinged, I have favor. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.200 Good things are in store. 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.080 When your mind is filled with the right thoughts, then 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.399 when the wrong thoughts come, there'll be a no vacancy sign. 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.119 They won't be able to get in. 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:03.160 You go through the day meditating on God's goodness. You're 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.920 expecting his favor, You're excited about your future. Then when 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.720 the can't do it thoughts come the not able two 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.040 thoughts you're not good enough thoughts. They may not, but 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.880 the answer is sorry, no room, no vacancy here. 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:20.160 This is a powerful way to live. 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.280 You're saying, I'm deciding which direction my life's gonna go. 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.400 I'm deciding what kind of mood I'm gonna be in today. 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.000 I'm deciding what kind of attitude I'm gonna have some 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.919 of you need to have a major house cleaning in 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.920 your mind. You need to get rid of the negative, discouraging, 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.440 condemning thoughts so you can have room for the can 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.480 do well able all things. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:46.840 Are possible thoughts. There's not room for both. 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:53.600 The scripture says choose this day blessings or curses. When 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.199 we keep our mind filled with the right thoughts, we 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:58.280 are in effect choosing blessings. 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:00.600 We're choosing joy, choose victory. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.040 But when we go around passive and we just think 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.000 the first thought that comes into our mind, that's when 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.960 the no vacancy sign comes down and we end up 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:12.840 missing out on God's best. Now, I want you to 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:16.639 form a habit of filling your mind with praise, filling 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.639 your mind with thanksgiving. Go out each day expecting good things. 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.919 And even when you have disappointments, when you go through setbacks, 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.520 and we all do, don't get all down. They go, ah, 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:30.240 I can't believe this. No, just turn it around. God, 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.040 I know you're still in control. 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.399 You've got me in the palm of your hand. 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.879 You said all things are gonna work together for my good. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.200 And even though this is difficult, I know this too 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:41.959 shall pass. 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:43.560 It's only temporary. 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:47.480 Keep that no vacancy sign up. Every one of us. 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.040 At night, when we go to bed, we lock the 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:53.600 door to our house. We don't want any strangers in there. 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:56.840 That's important to us, that's private. Well, I have the 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:00.480 same attitude concerning your mind. This is where I live, 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:03.560 this is who I am, this is my future. I'm 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:05.720 not gonna allow just anything to take root. 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.400 I'm gonna make sure it's the right sound. 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:12.040 I'm staying tuned to that voice of victory. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:13.600 I heard somebody put it like this. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.880 If you owned an apartment complex and you rented out 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:22.399 eighty percent of those apartments to drug dealers and thieves 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.800 and cheaters, and you rented the other twenty percent to normal, 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.920 good law abiding citizens. After a few months, the drug 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.640 dealers and cheaters will run off all the normal law 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.879 abiding citizens. It's the same principle in our mind. If 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:42.520 you go around thinking about your problems all day, how 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:46.360 tough your future is, and what you don't have, all 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.959 those negative thoughts are gonna run off any positive thoughts. 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:54.600 You've got to quit renting out any space to your problems. 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:58.920 Don't rent out your valuable space to self pity or 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.959 to can't do it, not gonna happen thoughts. 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.120 You only have so much space. 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:08.600 You need to take inventory of what's occupying your mind. 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:12.680 Some of you today you need to serve an eviction notice. 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:16.440 Tell those negative thoughts. I'm sorry, but your time here 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:21.520 is up. Your stay is officially over. I've rented to 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:24.600 you long enough. But I've got a new renter coming in. 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:28.160 He's called the Voice of Victory, and he needs all 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:33.160 the space that's available. One time in the scripture, Jesus 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:35.480 was on his way to pray for a sick person, 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:38.640 but along the way he kept getting delayed one thing 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:42.240 after another. Finally these people came up and said, tell 0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:44.840 Jesus he doesn't need to come anymore. 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:48.920 It's too late. The person has already died. I love 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:49.199 what it. 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:55.320 Said Jesus, overhearing, but ignoring. In other words, he heard 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:57.680 the bad report, but he didn't let it take root. 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:01.160 He didn't meditate on it. He didn't get down, turn around, 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.840 go back home. Why he knew it was the wrong sound. 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:09.600 He was tuned into a different frequency. He understood his 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:14.600 destiny didn't depend on what other people said. Sometimes, in 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:17.679 order to stay in faith, you have to ignore a 0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:20.919 negative report. You may hear it, but you don't have 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:24.440 to dwell on it. When I first started ministering, after 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:27.359 I took over from my father, every voice in my 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:28.320 mind was. 0:25:28.320 --> 0:25:30.520 Negative, said Joel, you can't do this. 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:33.200 You're not a minister. You're going to get up there 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:36.199 and look like a fool. I heard it, but I 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.400 chose to ignore it. When we were trying to acquire 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:42.920 this facility, the former Compact Center, we heard all kinds 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:46.439 of negative reports. People told us we were wasting our time. 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:50.000 I'll never forget it. At this one meeting, this one man, 0:25:50.080 --> 0:25:52.560 he was an expert on it all. He was telling 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:55.760 all the reasons why it wouldn't work out and how 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:58.520 impossible it was. And I sat there and I was 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.840 staring straight at him. But the truth is I wasn't listening. 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:04.480 It was going in one ear and out the other. 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:07.000 I knew that was the wrong sound. 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:09.840 That did not line up with what God put on 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:10.760 the inside. 0:26:11.640 --> 0:26:12.800 It's okay to hear it. 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:15.960 We can't stop the negative reports and the negative thoughts 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.320 from coming, but we can do like Jesus and choose 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:20.160 to ignore it. 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:21.480 Don't let it phase you. 0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:25.600 My children used to say when somebody was talking a lot, 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:27.720 they didn't really want to hear it, and of course 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:29.760 they were just kidding, but they'd hold up their hand 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:33.520 and say, talk to the hand. That meant you're talking, 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:34.680 but I'm not listening. 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:37.679 That's the attitude we need to have in our. 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:40.960 Mind, in our imagination when those negative thoughts, negative reports come, 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:43.440 just put your arm out and say, talk to the hand. 0:26:43.960 --> 0:26:47.119 You're talking, but it's not taking root. I remember this 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:49.679 one man, a friend of mine. He was giving us 0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:53.800 all the legal perspective on acquiring the Compact Center. The 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:57.439 more he talked, the more depressing it God. He finally said, 0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:01.560 my conclusion is there's a very small chance. 0:27:01.520 --> 0:27:03.320 That you will ever get that building. 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:06.600 I smiled and said to the friends sitting next to him, 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:10.320 excuse me. Did somebody just say something I thought I 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:13.400 heard somebody talking. We all laughed, but deep down, I'm 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:16.400 in it. I heard it, but I chose to ignore it. 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:21.080 I knew I only have so much space up in here, 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:24.040 and I'm not gonna rent out any space to doubt, 0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:29.800 to unbelieve, to discouragement. If you're going to become everything 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:33.160 God's created you to be and really accomplish your goals, 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:35.720 you're going to need all the space God's given you 0:27:35.840 --> 0:27:38.359 up here for can do well able. 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:41.000 All things are possible, thoughts. 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:42.879 And we should be so tuned to that voice of 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:46.199 victory that when these negative thoughts come, it's just like 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:49.639 somebody speaking a foreign language. Somebody came up to me 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:53.159 speaking German. I wouldn't think twice. I wouldn't give it 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:56.240 the time of day. I don't understand that language, so 0:27:56.320 --> 0:27:59.480 I would immediately tune it out. I may hear it, 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:02.560 but it's not gonna register. That's the way we need 0:28:02.560 --> 0:28:05.560 to be when those thoughts come saying you're never gonna 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:08.680 break that addiction, you're never gonna get well, you're never 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:09.360 gonna see. 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:10.439 Your dreams come to pass. 0:28:10.880 --> 0:28:13.520 We should be so tuned to the voice of victory, 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:16.440 even though we hear it, it doesn't register. 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:18.920 It goes in one ear and out the other. 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:22.200 Somebody says to you, like that man said to us, 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:25.399 it's never gonna happen. Just say, excuse me, did you 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:29.520 say something? I don't understand that language. I don't speak 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:36.080 doubt and unbelief. The language I speak is faith, victory, increase, promotion, favor, 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:42.320 divine connections, supernatural opportunities. Let me ask you, what sound 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:46.080 are you tuned into? What's playing in your mind all day? 0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:49.680 Your life is gonna follow your thoughts. Don't make the 0:28:49.760 --> 0:28:52.080 mistake of just thinking the first thing that comes to 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:56.520 your mind. Be disciplined and weed out the negative, and 0:28:56.680 --> 0:29:00.800 like little spirit, listen for that sound of victory. Some 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:04.280 of you would see your life drastically improve if you 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:06.760 would just quit renting out so much space to the 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:11.920 wrong thoughts. When those negative, discouraging, condemning thoughts come, make 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:14.640 sure you have the no vacancy sign up. You may 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:17.280 hear it, but you can choose to ignore it. 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