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If you're ever in our area, I hope 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.680 you'll stop buying be a part of one of our services. 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.480 These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, right. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:02.160 Here at Lakewood. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.080 Come out and be apart, but thanks for tuning in, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.520 and thank you again for coming out today. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.800 And I like to start with something funny. And I 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:10.519 heard about. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.840 These three people, a Russian, an American, and a blonde. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.520 They were talking one day and the Russian proudly said, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.840 we were the first ones in space. The American said, well, 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.000 we were the first ones on the moon. The blonde 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.720 said that's nothing. We're going to be the first ones 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.760 on the sun. The Russian, the American. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:32.400 They laughed. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.760 They said, what are you talking about. Can't go to 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.280 the sun. It's too hot, you'd burn up. The blonde said, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.600 We're not that dumb. We're going to go at night. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.960 Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.440 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.400 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.040 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.840 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.200 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:06.079 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.120 to talk to you today about how yes is in 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.919 your future. When God laid out the plan for your life, 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.920 he lined up the right people, the right breaks, the 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.680 right open doors. He already has your yeses planned out. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.040 Yes to that promotion, Yes to that clean bill of health. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.280 Yes you will get married. Yes you are accepted into 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:31.680 that college. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.320 You may have been told no a. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.360 Thousand times, but God has the final say, and he says, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.360 yes is coming your way. Yes you will accomplish your dreams. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:47.280 Yes you will overcome that addiction. Yes, your children will 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.680 fulfill their destiny. Yeses are in your future. 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:51.960 Now here's the. 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.160 Key on the way to your yes. There will be nos. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.360 You have to go through the nose to get to 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.440 your yeses. The mistake many people make is they get 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.200 discouraged by the nose and they quit trying. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.320 They worked hard but didn't get the promotion. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.480 They prayed and believed, but didn't qualify for the new home. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.680 They put time and energy into a relationship, but it 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:18.520 didn't work out. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.240 Now they think it's never going to happen. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.520 No, you have to go through your closed doors before 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.400 you get to your open doors when you come to 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.479 a no. Instead of being discouraged, the right attitude is 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.200 I'm one step closer to my yes. What if you 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.320 could see into your future and you knew you had 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.640 to go through twenty nose before you came to your yes. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.359 Then when you faced a disappointment, a setback, the loan 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.080 didn't go through, you didn't get that big sales contract. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.320 If you knew your yes was only twenty no's away, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.640 you wouldn't give up. You just check it off and say, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.240 all right, that's one no out of the way. Now 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.800 I'm only nineteen away from my yes. Rather than being discouraged, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.240 you would be encouraged. But too many people, because they've 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.839 hit several no's in a row, they've lost their passion, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.839 they've lost their fire. You've got to get this down 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.760 in your spirit. Yes is in your future. You may 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.080 have been turned down, delayed, overlooked, that was all a 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.000 part of God's plan. The no is simply a test. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.599 Are you going to get discouraged and settle where you 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.799 are or are you going to keep moving forward knowing 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.719 that yes is are coming your way. I had a 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.480 man tell how his supervisor was about to retire and 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.400 he and two other people were in line for his position. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.279 He had the most seniority. He'd worked for the company 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.880 faithfully for many years, but he got passed over for 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.359 the promotion. They chose a younger, less experienced person. He 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:02.080 felt cheated, didn't seem fair, but he understood this principle. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.880 He knew there were already yeses in his future, put 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.320 there by the creator of the universe. He didn't get bitter, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.919 he didn't quit being his best. He shook it off 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.960 and kept working under God. About two years later, the 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.520 vice president of the company retired and they offered him 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:26.240 his job. His position now is many levels higher than 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.039 that old supervisor position. Friends, God knows what he's doing. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.479 You may be in a know right now. The relationship ended, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.159 you got passed over for the promotion, you lost a 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.640 loved one. You got to dig your heels in and say, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.799 I may be in a know, but I'm not gonna 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:45.640 get discouraged. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.599 I'm not gonna give up on my dream. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.719 I know a yes is coming, favor is coming, healing 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.719 is coming, promotion is coming. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.240 I am not going to get stuff in a know. 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.640 I know yeses or in my future. That's what the 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:06.080 scripture says. All of God's promises are yes and amen, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.039 and we should get up every morning and say Father, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.080 thank you for some yeses today. Yes, I'm healed, Yes 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:17.760 I'm free. Yes, I'm surrounded by your favor. A read 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:22.559 a statistic. Ninety percent of all first time businesses fall, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:28.840 ninety percent of all second time businesses succeed, But eighty 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.160 percent of people never try a second time. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:33.320 What happened? 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.520 They get stuck on a no, They got discouraged and thought, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.480 well it didn't happen last time is never going to happen. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.960 They failed to realize they were one. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.240 Know away from seeing it succeed. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.720 I wonder how many of us give up a few 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.640 nos away from seeing a dream come to pass. What 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.400 if you knew you only had to go through three 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.800 more knows and then you would meet the right person. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:01.600 You'd probably go out. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.400 And find people to meet just to tell them no, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.640 get them out of the way. I have a friend 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.760 that wanted to start a new business. He'd tried it 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.960 on a small scale and it had worked. Now he 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.120 needed a bank to get behind him, loaning money to 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.480 buy some major equipment so he could really get it 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.960 off the ground. He went to the bank that he'd 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.720 used for many years. Everyone knew him, they loved his 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.880 business plan. He had proven results on that small scale, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:30.720 but money was very tight. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.120 They turned him down. The first no. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.400 He could have gotten discouraged and given up, but he 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.360 went to another bank. The second bank told him the 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.520 same thing. It's a great idea, it's just not for us. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:47.080 Ten banks turned him down. Twenty banks said no, thirty 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.560 banks said no. You would think he'd get the message, man, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:51.680 this is not gonna work. 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:52.800 You're wasting your time. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:53.439 No. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.280 When God puts a dream in your heart when he 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:57.160 gives a promise. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.240 On the inside and deep down you know, oh. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.480 That you know you're going to succeed. You know your 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.520 family's going to be restored. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:06.680 You know you're gonna get well. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.360 Then, like this man, you realize every no simply means 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.800 you're one step closer to your yes. Thirty one bank 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.240 said no, thirty one bank said you're not for us. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.040 But Bank number thirty two came along and said, we 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:22.880 really like it. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.680 We'll take a chance. Yes, we will do it. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.760 God had his yes, but he had to go through 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.880 thirty one nose to get to it. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:33.040 You don't know. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.920 You may only be five knows away from your yes. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.199 Or who knows, maybe the next person you meet will 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.320 be your yes. The next college you apply to will 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.720 be your yes. The next time you resist the temptation 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.319 you'll break the bad habit, it'll be your yes. It 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.240 was one city council member that voted for us, that 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.000 gave us this beautiful facility. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:09:59.880 Just one pushed us over the ear. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.160 We had to go through a lot of nose to 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.560 get to that yes that we needed. You could be 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.040 one yes away from being thrust. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:10.840 To a whole new level. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.360 Don't you dare get stuck on the no Keep believing, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:19.320 keep dreaming, keep hoping, keep taking steps of faith. I 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.200 heard zig Ziggler talking about being persistent. Zig is up 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.680 in his eighties and still a great blessing to many people. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.040 One day, his flight was canceled because of bad weathering. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.600 He went to this hotel very late at night and 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.079 said to the young lady, I. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:34.680 Need a room. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.400 She checked and checked and did all this research, but 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.280 she said, I'm so sorry, sir. All of our rooms 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:46.080 are occupied or either reserved for somebody coming tomorrow. The 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.640 first no Zig said, oh, come on, I'm a good customer. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.199 I stay at your hotels all the time. You got 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:52.800 to make an. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.520 Exception for me. She went back to work and tried 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:56.120 her best. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.800 But the second no Zig asked to speak to the manager. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.160 He came out and looked through some books and did 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.200 some other things. But the third no he said, I'm sorry, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.040 we just don't have any rooms. Zig thought about it 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.000 a moment, went back over to the manager and said, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.040 let me ask you a question. If the President of 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.480 the United States showed up at the hotel tonight, would 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.960 you have a room for him. The manager kind of 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:22.240 laughed and said I'm sure we would. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.720 Zig said, well, I'm pretty sure he's not coming. 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.440 Let me have his room. After four nos, Zig got 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:34.920 his yes. Stay persistent. You may have seen the beautiful 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.400 actress Janine Turner. She's been in our service as a 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.600 very nice lady. She told how from the time she 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.360 was a little girl, she had a dream of becoming 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.600 an actress. She loved singing and performing, entertaining it. She 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.600 got involved in modeling and doing limited roles, but nothing 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.040 like she had in her heart. From the time she 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.800 was fifteen to the age of twenty seven, she went 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.880 to up to four all auditions a day, every week, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.920 month after month, even year after year, with no success, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.000 nothing substantial, just limited roles, a commercial here and there. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.800 She calculated, during those twelve years she had been told 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.760 no over a thousand times. You're not what we're looking for. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.400 There's not a role for you. This is not your strength. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:27.960 All this disappointment, this rejection. Most people would have gotten 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.360 stuck on one of those no's, but not Janine. Her 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.240 attitude was, that's just another no, out of the way. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.640 Now I'm closer to my yes. She kept pursuing what 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.760 God placed in her heart and one day when she 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.920 had just a few dollars to her name, she didn't 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.520 know what she was going to do next. The main 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:51.280 producer from a major network called. He said, we're starting 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.840 a brand new prime time drama. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.319 We think you would be. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.960 The perfect lead actress. We're going to call it Northern Exposure. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.520 That show was a huge hit. It was that big 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.280 break that launched her career. 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.080 But she had to go through a thousand nose to 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:09.840 get to that one. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.199 Yes, you may struggle with an addiction, a bad habit, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.040 you think, Jel, I have tried a thousand times to 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:17.520 break this. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.240 I'm asking you to try one more time. How do 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:22.959 you know the next. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.600 Time is not going to be your Yes, you can't 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.480 let the nose discourage you. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.920 Don't let the closed doors convince you to give up 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:33.360 that it's never going to happen. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.439 Most likely we won't have to go through a thousand 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:38.800 no's like Janine. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.480 My question is are you willing to go through a dozen? 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.920 Will you keep trying if five banks turn you down? 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.680 Will you stay in faith if the medical report is 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.440 not good three times? Will you take a chance on 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:56.880 meeting somebody new if a relationship didn't work out, twice before. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.280 If you're going to keep moving forward, we have to 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:01.160 keep this on the. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.080 Forefront of your mind. Yes is in my future. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.920 Yes I will get married, Yes I will be promoted. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.280 Yes I will fulfill my destiny. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.040 That's what a friend of mine did. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.440 She and her husband had been trying to have a 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.280 baby for many years, and they'd been through all the 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.600 fertility treatments, done everything they possibly could, with no success. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.920 And this went on year after year. At that time, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.400 she was the head of our children's ministry. When my 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.680 father went to be with the Lord and I stepped 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.520 up to pastor the church back in nineteen ninety nine. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.760 They had been trying to have this baby already for 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.160 more than twenty years. Think of all the nos she 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.040 had heard. Every time she took the pregnancy test, hoping 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.400 that it had come back positive, but it didn't. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.920 The answer was no. Her medical doctor, sorry, you're not pregnant. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.160 The fertility specialists, no, it's not working. She heard no 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.560 again and again. One day we were in a meeting 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.320 about the children's department. She made the comment, I have 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.040 a good assistant trained, because when I have my baby, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.000 I'm gonna have to be out for a little while, 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.040 and I thought I was missing something. 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.920 I didn't know that she was pregnant. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.280 Afterwards, I said to my sister Lisa, she was in 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.360 the meeting. I can't believe she's going to finally have 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:20.080 a baby. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.000 Lisa said, no, Joel, she's not pregnant. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.720 She just talks like it and thinks like it and 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.000 acts like it. Me being the great man of faith 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.920 that I am, I thought, that's kind of far out 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.520 to really believe you're gonna have a baby at your age. 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.720 Then I remembered Abraham and Sarah. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.960 God gave Sarah a baby at eighty years old. If 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.000 God could do it for Sarah, he could do it 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.040 for my friend. The good thing about having a baby 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.680 at that age is when they're teenagers, you won't remember it. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.360 She didn't let the nose discourage her. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.680 Twenty nine years later, she went to the doctor for 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.000 a routine chekha. He said, congratulations, you're pregnant. You're not 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.960 gonna have one baby, You're gonna have twins. They had 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.480 a double portion. God had the yes she needed, but 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.200 it was twenty nine years down the road. Most people 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.400 won't go through that many nose to get to their yes. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.680 Not because they're not determined enough, but they don't really 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.120 believe that yes is there. They've heard the nose so 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.520 long it's convinced them that's the way it's always going 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:30.760 to be. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.960 Now, God wouldn't have put the dream in your heart. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.120 He wouldn't have given you that promise if he didn't 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:38.800 already have a plan. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:39.760 To bring it to pass. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:44.320 God already has a baby in your future, promotion in 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.800 your future, healing in your future, the right person in 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:48.440 your future. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.720 My question is will you stay. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.760 In faith and not let your nose talk you out 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.600 of your yess. I've learned we have to go through 0:16:58.640 --> 0:16:59.120 the nose. 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:00.160 I wish yea. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.720 I could tell you if you prayed hard enough, if 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.720 you came to church enough, if you stayed in faith, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.679 then you wouldn't have any closed doors. You wouldn't have 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.679 to go through any nose. You'd never have a setback. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.640 That's not the way God ordained it. The nose are 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.800 a test of our faith. If we're going to pass 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.359 that test, we have to set our face like a 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:25.840 flint and say I will not be discouraged by any setbacks. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:27.520 By how long it's. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.160 Taken, by what the medical report says, by people trying 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:32.239 to talk me out of it. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.400 I'm in it for the long haul. I know, yes 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:36.800 this or in my future. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.520 I read where researchers put a barracuda and a Spanish 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.440 mackerel in the same fish tank. Normally, the barracudah would 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.679 immediately devour the much smaller Spanish mackerel, but in this experiment, 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:58.199 the researchers put an invisible glass partition between the two fish. 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.280 So when the barracudah saw all the Spanish mackerel and 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.560 went in for the kill, he slammed in to that 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:10.080 glass partition, bruised his nose again and again. Eventually the 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.000 barracuda got the message that he wasn't going to be 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:14.359 able to eat that other fish. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.639 He gave up and he quit trying. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.320 At that point, the researchers quietly removed the glass partition. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:26.359 Now nothing was separating the two fish. What's interesting is 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:31.240 the barracudah never once harmed the Spanish mackerel. They lived 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.160 happily ever after, side by side that same fish tank. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:41.120 What happened is the barracuda became conditioned in his thinking 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.240 that it would never work out. All he had heard 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.720 was no no, No, He didn't. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.360 Think there were any yeses in his future. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.200 He just had to try one more time and he 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.560 would have come into his yes. He would have had 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:58.240 a nice fish dinner. What happened to the Barracuda happens 0:18:58.240 --> 0:18:59.080 to many of us. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.480 Hit the wall so many times, so to speak. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.760 In other words, we tried to break the addiction for years, 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.040 didn't work out, worked hard, but didn't get the promotion. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.480 Pursued a dream, but the door closed Like that Barracuda. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.879 We've let this stronghold convince us that's never going to happen. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.800 How do you know that God has not removed the 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.080 glass partition that was holding you back? How do you 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.880 know that the next time you try is not going 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.000 to be your yes. That partition may have been up 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.879 for twenty nine years, but God can remove it in 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.119 a split second. You'll never know unless you keep trying, 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.399 you keep dreaming, you keep pursuing what God put in 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:44.119 your heart. In the scripture, there was a great drought 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.040 in the land. The prophet Elijah went to the top 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.919 of Mount Carmel. He prayed and asked God to end 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.479 the drought. After he prayed, he said to the people, 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.080 I can hear the sound of an abundance of rain. 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.720 He was saying, an effect, there's a yes in our future, 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.880 rain is coming. He told his assistant to go look 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.080 on the other side of the mountain to see if 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.400 they could see any sign of rain. The assistant went out, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.680 came back a little later and said, no, Elijah, there's 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.159 not a cloud in the sky. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:16.720 It's perfectly clear. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.680 Elijah didn't get discouraged, think, oh, man must have heard 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:21.280 God wrong. 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.679 Notty rain coming. What are we going to do now? 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.680 When he heard that, he said, all right, that's one 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.760 no out of the way. Now go back and look again. 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:35.200 The assistant went back out came back with the same answer, Elijah, 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:39.280 no rain. Elijah said, that's fine. Two nose out of 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.359 the way. Go back and look again. 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.120 Three nose, four nose, five nose, six notes. 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:49.040 On the seventh time, the servant came back and said, Elijah, 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.960 this time I saw a small cloud in the sky. 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.760 Wasn't much, just the size of a man's hand. Elijah said, 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.560 you better get your raincoat, get your umbrella. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.320 Rain is coming our way. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.720 See it may be a small, yes, a faint yes. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:07.399 Barely see it. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:11.720 Yes, But when you're expecting things to change in your favor. 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.520 When you know God has yes in your future, it 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:19.000 may be a small sign, but by faith you'll latch 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.840 onto it. That's my yes. Other people may not see it. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.239 Other people may try to talk me out of it. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.480 Other people may say I'm just too positive, too hopeful. 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.480 That's okay. I'm a believer and not a doubter. 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:33.080 I know that's my yes. 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.800 It wasn't any time before the heavens opened up and 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:42.040 they saw the abundance of rain. But had Elijah given 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.480 up on the first, know, the second, no, the sixth, know, 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:47.240 it would have never happened. 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:48.400 Think about this. 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.560 When Elijah sent his assistant out to look, that was 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.640 an act of his faith. Faith is what causes God 0:21:56.720 --> 0:22:00.919 to move. There are yeses in your future waiting for 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:01.520 you to. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:02.400 Come looking for them. 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:06.480 Not once, not twice, not a few times. Keep looking, 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:10.959 keep expecting, keep dreaming. You gotta have a made up mind. 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.879 You are in it to win it. You're not gonna 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.320 let people talk you out of it. You're not gonna 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.400 give up because it didn't happen on your timetable. You're 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:22.760 not gonna settle for second best because a few doors 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.639 have closed. I was reading about Thomas Edison when he 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:28.000 was trying to invent. 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:28.520 The light bulb. 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:33.280 He failed on his first two thousand attempts. Two thousand 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.280 times he tried it and it didn't work out. Two 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.639 thousand times. He was told no. He could have given 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.720 up and quit, but he just kept looking for that one. 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.439 Yes. After he invented it. 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:49.280 A reporter asked him about all of his failures, all 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:53.240 those experiments that didn't work. He said, listen, I never 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:57.359 failed once. I just found two thousand ways that wouldn't work. 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.439 You may have had some set disappointments, tried something that 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:06.080 didn't work out. That was not a waste of your time. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:11.120 Everything you've been through has deposited something on the inside. 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:15.439 God doesn't waste anything. You are not defined by your past. 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:19.200 You are prepared by your past. Just because you've had 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.680 some nose that doesn't disqualify you. 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:23.840 Yes, it is still in your future. 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:28.080 When you hit your big yes like Edison, all the 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:32.199 other nose are going to become insignificant. Now, don't go 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:35.639 around feeling bad about yourself because you're not where you 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:39.440 want to be. Don't focus on the disappointment, the failure, 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.960 the mistake, that was all a part of God's plan. 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:47.639 It's getting you prepared for your yes. You keep moving 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:52.880 forward being your best, honoring God, determined, persistent, and God 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:54.880 promises you're going to come into yes. 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:57.000 When I was growing up. 0:23:57.240 --> 0:24:01.280 My mother always wanted a swimming pool in our My 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:05.200 father was very generous. He would buy her practically anything, 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.960 but a swimming pool was the one thing. 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:10.879 That he did not want. He said, Dody, a swimming pool. 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:13.560 It's a lot of money, it's a lot of maintenance, 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:15.360 it's dangerous, on and on. 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:17.560 He gave her this resounding no. 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:21.720 What's funny is that when in one of my mother's 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.080 ears and out the other, it no more phased her. 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.359 She acted like she didn't even hear it. About a 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.520 month later, my father and I were in the backyard 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:31.400 playing baseball. 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:33.639 My mother came out with a tape measure. 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:38.320 She started measuring things, putting down some markers. She said, John, 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:40.840 if we angle it, I think it'll fit just right 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.440 right here, said Dodi, what. 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:44.320 Are you talking about? 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:47.159 She said, that swimming pool we're going to get, it 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:49.560 would fit right here. He said, I have told you 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.120 a thousand times, we are not going to get. 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:52.800 A swimming pool. 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:57.200 You are wasting your time, just like Elijah. My mother 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:01.600 heard no after no, after no. She could have easily 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:04.199 gotten stuck on one of those nose. She didn't do it. 0:25:04.480 --> 0:25:07.439 She kept believing. She knew there was a yes in 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.199 her future. That summer, we were in another city. My 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:14.280 father was speaking at this big convention. My parents were 0:25:14.280 --> 0:25:18.400 in the hotel lobbying. This businessman came up and introduced himself. 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:22.520 During the conversation, he said, I build swimming pools for 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:27.240 a living. My mother's eyes got this big. She said, 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:29.800 how you doing, old buddy, old pal. We've been waiting 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:33.080 for you. He said, Pastor, I would like. 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:34.800 To build you a swimming pool. 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:37.960 My dad said, oh, sir, that's so kind of you, 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:40.439 but we really can't afford it, and we may not 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:41.600 have room in our backyard. 0:25:41.680 --> 0:25:44.240 On and on the whole time my mom was shaking 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:44.680 her head. 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:48.040 Yes, he said, Pastor, I don't want you to pay 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:50.800 for it. I want to give it to you. Surely 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:54.639 you'll let me give you a swimming pool. Several months later, 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:57.359 while we were out of town, he and his crew 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:01.000 came into the city. They put this beautiful underground swimming 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:02.200 pool in our backyard. 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:05.280 When we came home, we couldn't wait to get in it. 0:26:05.760 --> 0:26:08.760 All of us kids ran jumped in it. My mother 0:26:08.840 --> 0:26:11.560 got in it, and here came my father. I'll never 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.720 forget my mother said, John, don't even think about getting 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:20.200 it in my swimming pool. There are yeses in your future, 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:23.600 but you've got to go through the nose first. 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:26.080 I say this respectfully. 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:31.320 Sometimes the people closest to us, our friends, our family, 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:35.840 can be the least encouraging, the least enlarging. What happens 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:39.400 is God puts dreams in our heart that are bigger 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:41.639 than we can accomplish on our own. It's going to 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:44.720 take his hand of favor. The people close to us, 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:48.119 they know us very well, and so often they'll only 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:52.120 look at you in your natural ability, your strength, your. 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:53.800 Talent, your finances. 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:57.240 They'll think that's too big, you can't do that, that's 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:00.000 way over your head. And of course we should all 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:03.480 be respectful and take advice. But when God's put a 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:06.640 dream in your heart, don't let anyone talk you out. 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:09.359 Of it, not even somebody that's close to you. 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:14.840 My father meant well, he was very generous, but because 0:27:15.000 --> 0:27:18.120 he couldn't afford the swimming pool, he tried to put 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.520 those limitations on my mother. He was looking at it 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:25.920 in the natural, But we serve a supernatural God. There 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:29.480 are yess in your future that you won't have to 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:29.919 pay for. 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:31.600 Yess that you. 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:34.439 Don't earn, you don't work for, You don't have to 0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:37.920 buy it. It's simply the favor of God. Yes is 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:41.560 chasing you down. Like this man, the yes will come 0:27:41.600 --> 0:27:44.640 looking for you now. Many of you, like my mother, 0:27:44.920 --> 0:27:48.440 you've stayed in faith, You've been determined, you press through 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:51.480 the nose. God is saying you're about to come into 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:55.320 a yes. Something big you've been praying about, a dream, 0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:59.280 a goal, a relationship. It's about to show up. New 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:02.000 doors are going to open. The right people are going 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:06.199 to sert you out favor healing, promotion. Yeses are going 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:07.080 to track you down. 0:28:07.960 --> 0:28:08.200 Now. 0:28:08.240 --> 0:28:10.920 You may be in a no right now, but don't 0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:14.480 get stuck there. Keep looking for your yes. If you'll 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:18.080 go out each day expecting yeses to come your way, 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:21.920 then like Elijah, I believe and declare, you're going to 0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:24.719 come into the abundance of what God has in store. 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:26.679 Promises will come to pass. 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:32.600 Favor release breakthroughs in your health, finances, relationships, new levels 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:37.440 of God's goodness. Yess are coming your way in Jesus' name. 0:28:37.840 --> 0:28:39.840 If you receive it, give the Lord a shout of 0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:40.480 praise today. 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:40.800 Amen. 0:28:42.960 --> 0:28:45.880 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:48.720 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:50.200 Would you pray with me? 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:56.040 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 0:28:56.040 --> 0:28:59.520 into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:03.640 You prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got born again. 0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:06.320 Get in a good Bible based church. God's going to 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:08.200 take your places you've never dreamed of. 0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:41.960 Did you know you can be happier enjoying watermelon? 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