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As he continued to rant 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.960 and raid, the agent was just as calm and polite 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.040 as can be, acted like it didn't even bother her. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:24.080 He left. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.200 The next man stepped up said to the agent, Wow, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:28.760 I am so impressed. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:30.360 You must be a Christian. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.000 How could you possibly be so kind to him? She 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.880 smiled and said, oh, it's not hard. See he's going 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.520 to Detroit, but his bags are going to Bangkok. Say 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.400 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.880 am what it says I am. I have what it 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.400 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.760 can do. Today I will be taught the word of God. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.639 I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.360 I will never be the same. Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.160 I want to talk to you today about what's. 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:06.920 On your throne. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.679 We all face situations where we don't see how they're 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.280 going to work out. The medical report wasn't good, our 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.919 child got off course, we had a set back in 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.239 our finances. If we're not careful, we'll let that problem 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:22.360 consume us. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:23.920 And that's all we think about. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.399 We go around worried, stressed out, we can't sleep at night. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.399 The whole time God is in control. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.360 But the mistake we make too often is we take 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.920 God off the throne and we put our problem on 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.720 the throne. What you constantly think about, what you're giving 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.960 all your attention to, you're putting it on the throne. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.440 When you're always thinking about the goodness of God, and 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.600 you go through the day thanking him, knowing that he's 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.240 fighting your battles, you're worshiping God. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.160 It's the same principle. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.920 If you go around worried about your problem, wondering how 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.160 it's going to work out, stressed out over your health, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:10.280 reliving in offense, you are worshiping the problem. Your whole 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.160 outlook would change if you would simply take the problem 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.480 off the throne and put God back up on the throne. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.200 You may be facing an illness. It's easy to go. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:26.320 Around letting the medical report play over and over thinking 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.920 of all the reasons why you're not going to get well. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.880 The more you dwell on it, the more discourage. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.359 You're going to become. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.600 You have to take the medical report off the throne. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.200 You may be fighting cancer. Don't let cancer get on 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.280 the throne. Don't let that sickness become bigger than our God. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.120 When David faced Goliath, he never called him a giant. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.960 He never said, look how big he is. He's so strong, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:54.680 I don't. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:55.120 Have a chance. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:05:01.640 He called him an uncircumcised philistine, played his size. The 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:06.520 truth is Goliath was giant. He was twice David's size. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.160 But David understood this principle. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.480 He didn't put Goliath on the throne. He kept his 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:13.560 God on the throne. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.039 He said to Goliath, you come against me with a 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.680 sword and a spear, but I come against you in 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:25.000 the name of the Lord, God of Israel. Hanswer has 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.520 a name, but there is a name that's higher. That 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.520 sickness may be big, but it's no match for our God. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:33.760 Keep him on the throne. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.560 Quit thinking about how big the problem is, and start 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.560 thinking about how big your God is. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:45.720 Medical science doesn't have the final saying. People have limitations. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.320 God is limitless. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:52.000 We are natural. God is supernatural. He has all power. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:56.320 He can do what medicine cannot do. But here's the key. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.960 If he's not on the throne, you're not giving him permission. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.440 God works where there's an attitude of faith. You can't 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:09.120 have the medical report on the throne, live in worried, stressed, afraid, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.560 and have God on the throne at the same time. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.200 There's just room for one. What's on your throne. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.440 Cancer would love to get on the throne. The past, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.880 a mistake you made, your insecurities and offense. It's time 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.600 to dethrone those things. It's time to put the Most 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:34.240 High God back where he belongs on your throne. He's 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.680 in control. He has you in the palm of his hand. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.920 Nothing you're facing is too much for him. Instead of 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.680 dwelling on all the negative, the worry, the past, the problem, 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.520 the addiction, start dwelling on the greatness of our God. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.200 David said, I don't look to the mountains for help. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.120 I look to the God who. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:55.880 Made the mountains. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.279 And it's a powerful thing when you can say God 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.360 created the universe, You spoke worlds into existence, you flung 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:05.600 stars into space. 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.359 And God, I know You're bigger than this. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.560 Sickness, greater than this addiction, more powerful than this problem. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.440 What are you doing putting God on the throne. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.480 My grandmother, on my father's side of the family was 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.760 a very feisty woman. She lived out in the country 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:27.120 and didn't have much education. She only stood five feet tall, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.880 but she would fight a tiger, and later in life 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.000 she went to the doctor for a checkup. He ran 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.440 some tests and said, Miss Hosting, I'm sorry, but you 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:42.560 have the beginning stages of Parkinson's disease. My grandmother didn't 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.120 know what Parkinson's was, but she knew she didn't want 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.880 any part of it. She bristled back and said, very sternly, sir. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.080 I do not have it. I refuse to have it. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:55.720 I'm too old to have it. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.280 Grandmother went home and lived another fifth fifteen years and 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.320 never did have Parkinson's disease. 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.640 And I realized we can't. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:12.360 Just wish something away. But there's a spiritual principle. If 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.160 you allow something to become big in your mind, if 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.600 you let it consume you, you are giving it permission 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:20.320 to happen. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.520 Be careful what you put on your throne. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:29.360 Don't give sickness permission. Don't give debt, lack struggle permission. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:34.080 Don't give hurt and offense permission. We can't stop these 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.160 things from coming, but we can keep them from getting 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:38.040 on the throne. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.079 We don't have to let them consume us. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.760 If my grandmother would have gone around worried thinking about 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.720 having Parkinson's, expecting to go downhill. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:49.680 She probably would have. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.480 In the scripture, Job said the thing I feared came 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.840 upon me. He was saying what I gave permission to, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.280 what I made big in my mind came to pass. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.160 Don't make the problem big. Do like David downplay it, 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.679 keep it off the throne. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.240 Maybe you've been through an unfair situation. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.320 Somebody did you wrong, they cheated you in a business deal, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.160 they walked out of a relationship. Instead of letting it 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.280 go trusting God to be your vindicator, you held on 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:28.559 to it. Now you're living offended, no passion, replaying the hurt. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.640 The problem is you have the offense on the throne. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.200 As long as you think about it, replay what didn't 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.640 work out, it's going to sour your life. You have 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.160 to take that hurt. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:43.520 Off the throne. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.920 Nothing that's happened to you has to keep you from 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.760 your destiny. God wouldn't have allowed it if it was 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.200 going to stop your purpose. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.679 But it's easy to focus. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.920 On what didn't work out. Live offended. Try to pay 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.880 people back. Prove to this that we can make it 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:05.760 without them. Quit letting that consume you. They hurt you once, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.000 don't let them continue to hurt you by holding onto it. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.280 That's over and done. This is a new day. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.440 If you will take the hurt off the throne and 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:18.839 put God back on the. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.160 Throne, He'll be your vindicator. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.760 He'll take what was meant for harm and use it 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.120 to your advantage. He said he would pay you back 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.760 double for the unfair things that have happened. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.000 But you have to do your part. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.880 Take the disappointment off the throne, take the bad break, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.880 off the offense. God knows what happened. He's a god 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.920 of justice. He wants to make up for the wrongs. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.600 He said, your latter days will be greater than your 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.760 former days. What's on your throne, the hurt, the offense, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:53.640 the bad break. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.400 It's time to dethrone those things. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.120 The truth is, we all go through unfair situations and 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:02.839 things we don't understand. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:04.880 God is sovereign. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.600 It's interesting the word sovereign has the word rain in it. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:14.640 Our eign God was showing us even when things happen 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.400 that don't make sense. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.120 He's still in control. He's still directing our steps. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.880 When the medical report wasn't good, when somebody did us wrong, 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.880 when we lost our main client. God is sovereign, He 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:32.000 reigns over those circumstances. It's easy to go around bitter 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.880 and discourage. But if you'll put God back on the throne, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.000 he'll start raining. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.800 He'll give you beauty for those ashes. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.520 He'll bring you through the difficulty better than you were before. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:45.600 This is what Joseph did. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.520 He went through one bad break after another, didn't make sense. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.240 He was doing the right thing, but he was betrayed 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:58.360 by his brothers, sold into slavery, falsely accused, put in prison. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.000 He could have been discovered. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:05.400 Thought this isn't fair, but he understood that God is sovereign, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.080 that things are going to happen that we don't understand. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.240 He kept being his best, and despite all the people 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.520 trying to push him down, God caused him to rise up. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:22.160 People don't determine your destiny. They cannot stop God's plan 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.679 for your life unless you allow them to. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.040 And God gave Joseph favor. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.920 The Pharaoh liked him so much that he brought Joseph 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.560 out of prison and made him the prime minister of Egypt, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.680 Joseph went from being a slave to being in the palace. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:44.000 That's the sovereignty of God. He reigns when life isn't fair. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.160 You may be in a situation now that doesn't make sense. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.320 You were doing the right thing, but the wrong thing 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.760 has happened. Are you going to let. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:58.559 Bitterness get on the throne, self pity, discouragement, or are 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.440 you going to be a Joseph and keep God on 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.920 the throne knowing that He is sovereign and that it 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.680 is all working for your good. It takes faith to 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.040 believe that God is in control. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.000 When things seem out of control. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.720 You have to dig down deep and say, God, I 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.400 don't understand it, I don't like it, but. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.960 I trust you. I believe that you're directed by steps. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:28.040 Psalm forty seven says God reigns over the nations. The 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.040 right attitude is God, you not only reign over the world, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.280 but you reign over my circumstances. You reign over my health, 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.920 over my finances, over my children, over my enemies. That 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.720 opposition may look like it's bigger, more powerful. They have 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.920 more resources, more influence, But when you have God on 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:53.959 the throne, he is more powerful than anything that's trying 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.439 to stop you. One angel in the Old Testament defeated 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:02.160 one hundred and eighty five thousand of the enemies of God. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.200 The forces that are for you are greater than the 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.840 forces that are against you. Now keep doing the right thing. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.840 The battle may be taken longer than you thought. Joseph 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.640 went through thirteen years of injustice before he saw vindication 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:25.200 and promotion. Keep being your best where you are. God 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.440 sees what's happening. He's collected every tear that you've shed. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.960 Your time is coming, Your due season is on the way. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.800 Like Joseph, you're not going to just come through the difficulty. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.680 You're going to come out promoted, vindicated to a new 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.119 level of your destiny. 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.160 Perhaps you have a child that's off course. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.840 You could worry loosely, believe the lies that he's never 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:51.680 going to change. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.280 Or you can say, God, you reign over my child. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.560 You have a hedge of protection around him. Thank you 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.720 that my seed will be in the land. Let God 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:07.200 reign over your circumstances, keep him on the throne. Your 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.440 finances may be down, business is slow. Instead of complaining, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.040 turn it around. God, you reiin over my finances. Thank 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:21.440 you for bringing customers ideas, creativity promotion. God, you said 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.280 no good thing would you withhold because I walk uprightly? 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:30.120 You said whatever I touch would prosper and succeed. That's 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.640 not just being positive. That's putting God on the throne. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.800 That's letting him reign. Or with your dreams, your goals, 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.680 you may not see how you can accomplish them. You 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.640 don't have the experience, the connections, the funding. Instead of 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.280 giving up on it, God, you reiin over my dreams. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.000 Thank you for taking me where I can't go on 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.360 my own. That you're opening doors that no man can shut. 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.800 That you're bringing divine connections people that will want to 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.440 help me. If you want God to reign, you have 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.200 to keep him on the throne. Sometimes the reason we're 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.240 not seeing favor is we have doubt on the throne, 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.400 thinking of all the reasons it's not going to happen, discouragement, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.400 what people have told us self, pity, we've had bad breaks. 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.080 Take all the negative off the throne. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.520 God wants to reign in your life in a new way. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.800 What he has in your future is going to boggle 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:31.400 your mind. It is bigger, more exciting, more rewarding than 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:32.560 you've ever imagined. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:34.960 He's saying to us today. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.880 Take the worry off the throne, take the bad break 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.480 off the throne, the disappointment, the offense, and put. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.520 Me back on the throne. He's bigger than what you're facing. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.880 He's more powerful than those enemies. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.280 He's a deliverer. He's a provider. He's a healer, he's 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.160 a waymaker. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:54.600 He is sovereign. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.760 He reigns over everything that comes into your life. He 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.920 ain't not of sentate, but if he allowed it, he's 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.840 in control. He knows how to bring good out of it. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.520 If you'll put him on the throne and let him reiin, 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:15.160 he'll start raining down blessings, raining down, favor, raining down, healing, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:16.679 raining down vindication. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.800 Friends, Rain is in your forecast. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.359 I can see through my eyes of faith on that radar. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.280 Rain is headed your way. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.400 God is about to turn situations around that looked permanent. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.720 You didn't think it ever changed. Go get ready. Rain 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:40.000 is coming. Breakthroughs are coming, New levels are coming. That addiction, that. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.000 Sickness that you've been dealing with for years. Things are 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.320 about to turn in your favor. Freedom is coming, Healing 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.480 is coming, not able to get ahead. The debt, the 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:55.159 lack good breaks are coming, Increases coming, Abundance is coming. 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.760 You may not see how this can happen. Don't worry. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.720 God is sovereign, he reigns. He has ways to do 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.040 it you've never thought of. Now do your part and 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.600 keep him on the throne. When you're tempted to worry, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:10.960 thoughts tell you all this. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:12.480 Isn't going to happen for you. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:17.240 You'll never get well, never accomplish that dream. Recognize what's happening. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.360 The doubt, the worry, the offense. It's trying to get 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.000 back on the throne. You have to put your foot 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.680 down and say no thanks, You are not welcome here. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.600 My throne is reserved for one, the most high God. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:32.200 But here's the key. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.239 Every morning, the problem will try to get back up 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.240 on the throne. You don't take it off once and 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.600 then you're done. You have to keep it off all 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.840 through the day. Worry will try to creep back, in discouragement, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.479 self pity. There's always something trying to get on the throne. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:54.280 God sit in Isaiah. If you'll keep your mind stayed 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.840 on me, I will keep you in perfect peace. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:18:59.560 He was saying in effect. 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.360 If if you'll keep me on the throne, if you'll 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.560 say no to the worry, no to the doubt, no 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.600 to the offense, then you will live a peaceful, victorious life. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.560 I talked to a lady that had worked for this 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:16.160 company for many years. Her supervisor resigned and she applied 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.800 for the position. Out of all the candidates, some from 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:23.520 other states, she was the most qualified, Plus she had 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.919 the advantage of knowing the company and knowing all the people. 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:28.520 She was well liked. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.359 Everyone was certain she would get the position. Much to 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.639 her surprise, she was turned down. She could have gotten bitter, 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:42.200 felt slighted, thought that's not fair, but she understood this principle. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.119 She didn't let bitterness get on the throne. She knew 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:50.000 God was directing her steps and that he had closed 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:54.080 those doors on purpose. A few weeks later, out of 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.480 the blue, she received a phone call from a company 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.040 that she had never met. They asked if she he 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.520 was interested in a position. The pay was the same 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.960 as the promotion at her company. She didn't really want 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:11.160 to leave because she knew everyone there, but she applied anyway. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.240 They called back and said, we'd love to have you 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.639 and if you'll accept We're not going to pay what 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:17.360 was listed. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:19.760 We're going to pay twenty five percent more. 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.400 She took the job and said, Joel, I've never been happier. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:25.879 It's been a perfect fit. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:31.320 When you go through disappointments closed doors, you'll be tempted 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.399 to put the offense on the throne, the self, pity, 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:39.280 the bitterness. Don't fall into that trap. God is ordering 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:40.320 your steps. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:42.920 He can see things that you can't see. 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.840 The disappointment, the closed doors, they are a test. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.480 God is seeing what are you going to do. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.720 If you'll keep your mind stayed on him, you'll pass 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:58.040 that test, and like her, you'll come into promotion, healing, 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.719 vindication that you didn't see coming. 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:06.000 What's on your throne? Are you living? Offended, discouraged, upset? 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.160 I wonder how much higher we would go, how much 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.720 more favor we would see if we would simply keep. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.480 God on the throne. 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.840 Sometimes we're putting ourselves on the throne. We're stressed out, 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.439 trying to fix everybody in our life, make a dream 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.840 come to pass, make our house sell, make ourselves get well. 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.960 You need to take yourself off the throne. You don't 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.399 have to make everything happen in your own strength, and 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:39.400 too often we're frustrated by things that only God can change. 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.760 We're worried about something we have no control over. Take 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:47.080 the pressure off and live from a place of rest. 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:51.760 His yoke is easy, His burden is life. You can't 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.440 make yourself get well. Use common sense, but don't live 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.639 stressed out thinking you have to do a thousand things 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.040 perfect right before you can get better. 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:04.160 God is the healer. 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:07.840 Your intentions are good, but you need to come down 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:08.760 off the throne. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.520 Quit putting so much pressure on yourself. 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.560 You will get well sooner if you will live in 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.080 peace knowing that God is in control. 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.560 He reigns over your health. 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.080 That tells me if it's not your time to go, 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.320 when you're in faith, then that sickness cannot take your life. 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.800 The scripture says nothing can snatch you out of God's hands. 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.840 Do your part, but don't live frustrated trying to make 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:38.639 things happen that only God can make happen. We can't 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.040 make people do what's right. We can pray for them, 0:22:42.400 --> 0:22:45.160 we can encourage them, but we can't control them. 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:47.080 They have their own free will. 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.960 Come down off that throne and say, God, you reign 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:53.800 over my loved one you reign over my child. 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:57.199 Thank you that he will fulfill his destiny. You have 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.480 to turn them over to godw as. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.800 You're on the throne worrying upset, then God will step back. 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:07.919 But when you put him back on the throne, not 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:11.720 only will you live more peacefully, but God will fight 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:12.480 your battles. 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.119 Second Chronicles, Chapter twenty. 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:19.480 King Jehosaphat and the people of Judah were surrounded by 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:21.000 three major armies. 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:22.960 They were out numbered ten to one. 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:28.240 They could have panicked fallen apart, but Jehasapat called everyone 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:32.400 together to pray. He said, God, we have no power 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:34.880 to stand against these vast. 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:36.480 Armies in our own strength. 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:40.280 He didn't deny the problem, he didn't act like it 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:45.119 didn't exist. He admitted they were outnumbered, but he didn't 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:45.760 stop there. 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.520 He went on to say, we don't know what to do, 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:52.000 but our eyes are upon you. 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:55.840 And there's nothing wrong with saying God, this problem is 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:59.760 bigger than me. These enemies are more powerful. But don't stop. 0:23:59.800 --> 0:24:03.560 Then follow it up with but God, my eyes are 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:06.840 upon you. I may not have the power, but God, 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:07.399 I know. 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:11.240 You are all powerful. When you keep God on the throne, 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:14.000 you'll be in peace. When you could be panicked. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:18.360 You'll be praising when you couldn't be complaining. God told 0:24:18.400 --> 0:24:22.199 Johasapath to put the singers and the praisers out in 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:26.800 front and to march toward those three enemy armies. When 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:30.520 they hurt all the commotion, they got confused and begin 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.480 to fight among themselves. They ended up killing each other. 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:38.040 When the people of Judah arrived, they didn't even have 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:41.719 to fight. They just went in and gathered up the spoils. 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:45.560 It took them three days to bring the supplies the. 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:46.639 Treasures back home. 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:50.720 Like with them on your own, the problem may look 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:52.600 too big on your own. 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:55.920 You can't beat the cancer on your own. You'll never 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:59.360 break the addiction. The good news is you're not on 0:24:59.400 --> 0:24:59.920 your own. 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:03.720 You have the most powerful force in the universe on 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:07.639 your side. What are you worrying about? What are you 0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:12.080 losing sleepover? What have you given up on? It's time 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.720 to put God back on the throne. He's bigger than 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:19.160 what you're facing. He has ways to turn it around 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:22.199 that you've never thought of. You may not know what 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:25.520 to do, but when your eyes are upon him, he'll 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:28.120 make a way where you don't see away. He'll help 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:32.159 you defeat enemies that are bigger and more powerful. The 0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:35.240 other day, I was at the airport trying to download 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:38.600 something on my phone. Before we took off, the little 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:43.159 icon in the center kept going around and around, buffering, 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:47.560 trying to load. I kept watching it, waiting and waiting. 0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:49.960 All it was doing was going in circles. 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:54.600 Finally it stopped buffering after about three minutes, and it said, 0:25:55.160 --> 0:25:59.960 lost Internet connection. When we worry, it's like we're buffer. 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:03.280 Our mind is going around in circles. 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:04.480 What are we gonna do? 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:08.200 What if it doesn't work out? This obstacle is too big? 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:12.640 Like my phone, The problem is you've lost your connection. 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:16.439 You need to reconnect back to your source. 0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:19.560 God is saying, put me. 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:23.600 Back on the throne. I'm in control of your life. 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:29.960 I'm directing your steps. Already have the solutions. God has answers. 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:34.280 But when we worry, our mind is so cluttered we can't. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:38.200 Hear what he's saying. The scripture says, be still and 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:41.800 know that he is God. Take the worry off the throne. 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:47.720 Worry drainer energy, takes your creativity, steals your joy. Quit 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:51.440 thinking about the problem and start thanking God that he's 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:55.200 working instead of buffering. What if I don't make budget, 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:58.240 What if my health doesn't improve, what if my child 0:26:58.320 --> 0:26:59.040 gets off course? 0:26:59.119 --> 0:26:59.960 Here's the difference. 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:03.080 Father, Thank you that you're restoring health back into me. 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:05.919 Think you that my seed will be mighty in the land. 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:08.879 Think you that I will lend and not borrow? What 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:12.240 are you doing? Reconnecting back to your source? 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:16.399 The Psalmist said God inhabits our praises. 0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:20.040 One version says he's enthroned in our praise. 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:24.080 When you give God praise, you're putting him on the throne. 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:29.159 Friend's life is too short to live, worried, overwhelm, my problems, 0:27:29.240 --> 0:27:32.440 upset because somebody hurt us. I'm asking you to take 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:36.280 that off the throne and put God back on the throne. 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:38.920 Quit buffering and start praising. 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:42.920 If you'll keep your mind stayed on him, I believe 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:47.439 and declare, like jehasafath, You're not only going to defeat 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:50.520 enemies that are bigger, but you're going to gather up 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:55.640 the spoils. God is about to increase you in unusual ways. 0:27:56.000 --> 0:28:00.280 You're going to rise higher, accomplish dreams, and reach the foot. 0:28:00.560 --> 0:28:04.479 Of your destiny in Jesus' name. And if you receive it. 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:05.800 Can you say amen today? 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:10.360 Well, I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:12.040 Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:13.560 Would you pray with me? 0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:19.720 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 0:28:19.760 --> 0:28:23.520 into my heart. I'll make you my lord and save you. 0:28:24.920 --> 0:28:25.240 Friends. 0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:27.840 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:31.520 born again. Get in a good Bible based church, Keep 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:33.560 God first place, Victorian. 0:28:33.600 --> 0:28:36.359 I'll be right back to speak a blessing over you. 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:40.520 Joel in Victoria. 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