You Are A No-Lack Person

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It's a joy to 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:50.600 come into your homes. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:51.480 We love you. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.720 If you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.040 a part of one of our services. I promise you 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.080 we'll make you feel right at home. But thank you 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.800 for tuning in today and thank you again for coming out. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.320 I like to start with something funny and I heard 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.480 about this minister. He was walking down the street and 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.240 he came upon this group of young boys that were 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:11.800 surrounding a small dog. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:13.480 He asked what they were doing. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.160 They explained they were having a contest, and whoever could 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.800 tell the biggest lie would get to keep the dog. 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.640 The minister launched into a ten minute sermon on lying, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.880 starting with don't you know lying is a sin? And 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.600 ending with when I was your age, I never told 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:30.000 a lie. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.240 There was complete silence. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.560 Just when he thought he had gotten through to them, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.600 the youngest boy spoke up and said, all right, give 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.480 him the dog. Hold up your bible and say it 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.440 like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.880 what it says I am. I have what it says 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.600 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.840 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:57.160 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.920 I will never be the same. In Jesus name, God 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.440 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.960 how you are a no lack person. When God created you, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.320 he put in you everything you need to fulfill your destiny. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:18.000 You have the talent, the creativity, the ideas. You are 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:24.840 full of discipline, focus, self control. You have strength, determination, resolve. 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.880 The creator of the universe has crowned you with his favor. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.640 If you're going to live a victorious life, you have 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.480 to see yourself as a no lack person. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:37.440 How you see. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.880 Yourself will determine what kind of life you live. If 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.200 you go around thinking, I'll never get out of debt, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.960 I'll never have enough, what you're really saying is I'm 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.760 lacking talent, I'm lacking ability, or I'll never lose this weight, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:56.360 I'll never break this bad habit. You're saying I'm lacking discipline, 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.560 I'm lacking self control, I don't have enough. If you 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.440 see your self lacking, it will set the limits for 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.320 your life. Psalm thirty four to ten says those who 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.360 trust in the Lord will never lack any good thing. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.200 Deep down, you have to know that. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.640 You know because you trust in the Lord, you are 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:21.200 a no lack person. Almighty God brethed his life into you. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.479 He's already equipped and empowered you. You may have difficulties, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.440 but it's not a surprise to God that dream is 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.880 not too big. You have the talent, the strength, the determination, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.120 the focus. You are well able to fulfill your destiny 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.960 so important how you see yourself. You may be dealing 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.400 with the sickness, but understand you are not a sick 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.279 person trying to get well. You are a well person 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:50.760 fighting off sickness. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:52.599 Health is your normal state. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.279 You may be struggling in your finances, but you're not 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.000 a poor person trying to get ahead. You're a successful 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.640 person fighting off poverty. Abundance is your normal stake. You 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.359 may be struggling with an addiction. You've had it many years. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.920 Don't see yourself as an addict. Don't let that image 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.680 become ingrained on the inside. You are not an addicted 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.479 person trying to get free. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:19.800 You are a free. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.599 Person fighting off an addiction. Freedom is your normal state. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:24.880 Let me tell you. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.719 God didn't make anyone addicted, insecure. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:29.880 Depressed, mediocre. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.760 That's not who you are. God made you as a masterpiece. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:39.159 Get a new image. Start seeing yourself strong, healthy, accomplishing 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.359 your dreams, living his abundant life. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.360 This is what the people of Israel had to do. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:49.680 They had spent years in slavery, being mistreated. All they 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:55.320 had known was struggle, lack, oppression, defeat. But when God 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.080 brought them out as they were leaving, God caused their 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.440 captors to give them their gold, their silver, their jewels. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.839 They didn't leave empty handed, they left loaded down. What 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.599 was God doing? Why did he want them to leave 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.279 with all this treasure? They were going out into the wilderness. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.120 There was no place to spend it out there, no 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.719 grocery stores, no malls. God was wanting to develop a 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.919 new image on the inside. God had these parents to 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.440 put the gold and the silver on their little children. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:34.039 These children, all they had ever seen was defeat. It 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:38.440 was ingrained in their thinking. We're poor, we're second class, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.040 we'll never have enough. One by one, the parents would 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.919 call their little daughter over and put a beautiful gold 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.360 necklace around her neck. The little girl would brighten up, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.400 A new sparkle would come into her eye. She would 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:56.719 see herself valuable, important, like a queen. The parents would 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.280 call their little boy over and put a gold ring 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.480 on his face. The little boy would stare at that 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.480 ring in amazement. I could imagine for the first time, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.279 these children put their shoulders back. 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.000 They stood up tall, carried. 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.440 Themselves with a new confidence, a new sense of value. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.560 They had been pushed down for years and years, told 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.440 they would never amount to anything. But now that image 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.560 was beginning to change. They got rid of a slave mentality, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.720 barely get by a mindset, and they started seeing themselves as. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.120 The head and not the tail, as above and not beneath. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.360 What's interesting is these parents, they never did make it 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.960 into their promised land. They thought their giants were too big, 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:48.000 they didn't think they could overcome their obstacles. But these children, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.040 the ones that had a different mindset, the ones that 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.720 knew they were no lack people destined to do great things. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.480 They were the ones that went into the promised land. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.080 You today, if you would just change the way you 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.240 see yourself, you would rise to a new level. Maybe 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:12.040 like them, you come from a family of struggle, lack, addictions, depression. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.360 All you've seen model growing up was mediocrity. But if 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.320 you could just change that image and start seeing yourself 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:26.760 as a no lack person, strong, valuable, confident, talented, successful, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.040 than like these children. Because you have an image of victory, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.880 an image of abundance, God will. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.840 Take you places that you've never dreamed of. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.000 I've learned you will never rise any higher than the 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.760 image you have of yourself. Start seeing yourself as a 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.200 no lack person. When I was a little boy, my 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.160 father went out and bought a brand new car. We 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.720 were so excited we couldn't wait for him to get 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.200 home so we could see it. And we were all 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.960 standing at the end of the driveway looking down the 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.280 road waiting for my father and saw him driving up 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.520 in this new car, and as little kids, we all 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:04.400 jumped in the car. 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.040 We owed and awed, and. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.560 My dad drove us around the neighborhood. Daddy was so 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.240 proud of this new car. 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.040 He's just beaming with joy. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.600 Later that night, my father was watching television and a 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.240 commercial for a car came on the screen, but the 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.760 camera only showed very tight shots, so you didn't know 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.839 what kind of car it was advertising. It showed a 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.760 close up of the engine, talked about how it had 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:35.160 the most powerful efficient engine made, showed a close up 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.000 of the shocks the suspension, and talked about how it 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.920 had the latest, greatest shocks smoother ride than any other car. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.000 The more my father watched, the more depressed he got. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.600 He thought, I bought the wrong stinking car. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.800 This car can run circles around my car. Just when 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.000 he was about to get sick to his stomach, the 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.679 camera pulled out wide and the car they were advertising 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.680 the exact car my father had just bought. He was 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.200 sitting in our driveway. What's my point? Sometimes we don't 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:11.440 realize what we have. You're not average, You're not ordinary. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.439 Your maker is the creator of the universe. He didn't 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:21.000 give you a weak engine, a cheap transmission, a rough suspension, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.559 a second class paint job. He put in you everything 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.680 you need to perform at your highest level. You have 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:32.960 the talent, the looks, the determination, the favor to overcome 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:37.400 any obstacle, to accomplish every God given dream. That don't 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.360 be like my father and not realize what you have. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:45.480 You're not lacking, You're not limited. You have everything you 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:51.000 need to live an overcoming life, a blessed, prosperous, faith filled, 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.640 abundant life. And yes, you may have some obstacles in 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.680 your path, but the good news is the power that 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.080 is for you is greater than any power that's trying 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.000 to stop you. Now we've got to rise up and say, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.040 I'm not settling here. I know who I am, a 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.240 child of the Most High God. I'm over become everything 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:12.560 that God's created me to be. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:15.440 This is what David did. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.600 When he saw Goliath taunting the people of Israel. Something 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.360 rose up on the inside, said David, this is your time. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.079 You were born to defeat Goliath. He heard his destiny 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.080 calling out. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.640 But David could have thought of a thousand reasons why 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:36.280 he couldn't fight Goliath. God, I'm lacking the experience. I 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.679 don't have the military training that Goliath does. God I'm 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.280 lacking the size. He's four feet taller than me. God, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.520 I'm lacking the equipment. He's got a full set of armor, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.079 a big shield, a big sword. David could have talked 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.760 himself out of it and missed his destiny. No, David 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.760 understood this principle. He had the right image on the inside. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.400 He's the one that said, the Lord is my shepherd, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.600 I shall not want. He was saying, in effect, I 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.760 know I'm a no lack person. Even though Goliath was 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.480 much bigger in the natural, he didn't have a chance. Yet, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:18.000 the scripture says David ran toward Goliath. Most of us 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:19.800 would have said, all right, God, I'll do it, but 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.360 give me a couple of weeks to think about it. God, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.719 let me come up with a strategy at least to 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:25.520 sneak up on. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.120 Him and surprise him. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.240 No, when you really understand you're a no lack person 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.719 and the greatest power in the universe is backing you up. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.560 You won't run from your enemies, You'll run to your enemies. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.280 In other words, you won't run away from college thinking 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:41.080 it's too hard. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.520 You'll run to it knowing that you're well able. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.120 You won't run away from that management position thinking you're 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:47.960 not qualified. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.640 You'll run to it knowing that you are equipped. This 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.880 is what David did. He ran toward Goliath. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.720 I could imagine the other soldiers were thinking, where is 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.840 David going in such a hurry? What's the big rush? 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.880 And they see David running straight toward Goliath. They think, boy, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.800 David has lost his mind. He has been watching too 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.200 much Hawaii five. Oh, he's gonna get crushed. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:11.280 Now. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.120 When you dare take steps of faith and you do 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.800 what you know God's asking you to do. You don't 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.679 go in your own strength. You don't go by yourself. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.640 The creator of the universe is right there beside you. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.920 When Goliath saw how. 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.760 Small David was, he began to laugh. He said, am 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.840 my dog, that you'd come at me with a stick. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.280 David said, that's fine, Goliath, you can laugh now. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.360 But you're not gonna be laughing in a moment. I'm 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.560 gonna feed your head to the birds of the air. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.960 This young teenage boy, David, with no experience, defeated this 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:50.400 huge giant named Goliath. Maybe today, like David, you're up 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:55.199 against some big obstacles, a legal battle, financial difficulty, an addiction, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.679 a sickness. It looks so much bigger, so much more powerful, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.360 the natural. You don't have a chance, But you've got 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.000 to do like David and remind yourself that you are 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.800 a no lack person. You have the talent, the wisdom, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:15.000 the favor, the determination to take down any enemy. When 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.960 you make a move and say no, this battle is 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.480 not going to defeat me. This sickness is not going 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.640 to steal my joy. When you run toward the enemy, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.800 Almighty God will be right there to make a way 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.240 where it looks like there is no way. He will 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.480 help you accomplish what you could not accomplish on your own. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.600 Now in the tough times, don't have a weak, defeated mentality. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:42.240 Be a warrior. You've been armed with strength for every battle. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.400 The size of your battle is an indication of the 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:47.600 size of your future. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.400 If you have a big problem. Don't get all upset. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.960 That just means you have a big future. You know 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:59.480 what made David King Goliath. Goliath was strategically placed in 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.560 David's path, not to defeat him, but to promote him. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.240 Quit saying I can't take this anymore. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.280 It's just too hard. I don't know how I'm going 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:08.760 to make it. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.400 No, instead of falling apart, do like Clint Eastwood when 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.240 you face difficulties, go ahead, make my day. I know 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.480 what's on the other side of this is promotion. Increase 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.320 new levels. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.560 Of God's favor. Listen to how Paul put it. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:28.400 I am ready for and equal to anything through Christ, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.359 who infuses strengthen to me. That should be our attitude. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.040 Anything that comes our way, I'm ready for it. I'm 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.280 up to it. Any dream God puts in your heart, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.320 it may look impossible, but you are equal to it. 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.600 There is no obstacle too big for you, no dream 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.880 too great. Get this down in your spirit. You are 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.480 a no lack person. Victory is in your DNA. You 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:59.920 have the genes of a winner. Almighty God has infused strength, talent, value, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.880 confidence into each one of you. I have a friend 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.840 that's taken chemotherapy for the third time. He's lost most 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.720 of his hair, and he's a little bit thinner. But 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.560 he is not a complainer. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:12.600 He's a warrior. 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.160 His attitude is this sickness is not going to get 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.920 the best of me. I am ready for and equal 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.680 to anything that comes my way. I love his attitude, 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:28.440 it says in Corinthians. These light afflictions are but for 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:33.600 a moment. Every adversity we face, we should see it as. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:34.600 Only being light. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.160 Now it may not feel light, it may have been 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.840 a big disappointment, a major setback. But when you look 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.240 that trouble in the eye and by faith say hey, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.320 it's no big deal. That person leaving me, that person 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.680 that did me wrong, is not going to ruin the 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.640 rest of my life. It's only a light affliction. When 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.400 you do that, all of Heaven comes to attention. Because 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.160 most people get down, discourage, they live with a chip 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.000 on their shoulder. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:04.440 But when you shake. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.439 It off and say no big deal, it's just a 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.360 bump in the road. I know God still has something awesome. 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:10.840 In my future. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.840 Then, like David, you'll not only come out, but you'll 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:14.680 come out promoted. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:15.640 You'll come out. 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.920 Better off than you were before see every adversity as 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:25.240 being light, and then number two, see it as being temporary. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.399 The scripture says, it's but for a moment. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.600 You may have had that same addiction for the last 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.840 twenty years, but don't make the mistake of accepting it 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.800 as the way it's always going to be. When you 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.320 get used to it, you quit stretching, you quit trying 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.879 to change, and that's what keeps us from God's best. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.239 I know this couple. They were believing to buy a 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.000 new house and they found one that they really liked, 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.080 but for some reason, the financing didn't go through and 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:54.280 they got turned down. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:56.760 This happened three different times. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.520 Each time it was something very odd, but it stopped 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.040 the whole deal. They've been in their apartment year after year. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.120 They have three children. They were tempted to think it's 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.400 never going to change. What's the use of even trying? 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.600 This is just our lot in life. No, deep down 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.919 they knew that it was only temporary. They stayed in faith, 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.800 and last week they brought me a picture of their 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.920 brand new, beautiful home that they just moved into. They said, Joel, 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.280 this is God doing more than we could ever ask 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:26.720 or think. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:28.080 Now along the way. 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.679 You may hit some setbacks, but don't believe the lies 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.240 that are telling you it's never gonna change. You're never 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.040 gonna get the house you want, You're never gonna get well, 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.000 never gonna see that breakthrough. No, every day remind yourself 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:44.760 it's only temporary. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.560 It's not going to last forever. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.879 In fact, there's a scripture that says the things that 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.680 we see are subject to change. You may have been 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.880 turned down a dozen times, but the good news is. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.960 It's subject to change. God is still on the thront. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.960 The next time you apply could be the time it 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.640 all works out. The next time you resist and don't 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.280 give into that addiction could be the time you break 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.840 totally free. The next person you meet could be the 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.600 person of your dreams. Keep believing it's not permanent. It's 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.920 interesting in the scripture. Many times when Jesus prayed for people, he. 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.920 Asked how long they had been that way. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.359 He said to the man he was crippled laying at 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.840 the pool of Bethesda, how long have you been here? 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.280 The man replied thirty eight years. Jesus asked a woman 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.920 that has all been over how long she had been sick? 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.680 She replied eighteen years. These parents brought their grown son 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:42.360 to Jesus. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:43.120 He was blind. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.800 Jesus said, how long has your son not been able 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:47.400 to see? 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:48.879 They said, since his birth. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.879 Why was Jesus so interested in the length of time? 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.200 Why didn't he just heal them and move on. It's 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.560 because Jesus wanted us to see how nothing is permanent. 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.639 He wanted it to be forever recorded for generations to come, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.080 so that we would know it's never too late. You 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.879 may be facing situations right now that have been the 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.200 same way year after year. Looks like it's never going 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.280 to change. No, God is saying, I can still turn 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.119 it around. I can still. 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.119 Bring that dream to pass. 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.800 I can still bring the right people across your path. 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:28.359 I can still heal your body, restore the relationship. I 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.560 know a young lady that got off to a rough 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.200 start in life. She came from a very dysfunctional family 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.879 and all she had ever seen was poverty, addictions, depression. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:41.920 Sixteen years old, she had a baby and had to 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.679 drop out of high school and looked like that same 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:48.600 negative cycle in her family was permanent, it would continue 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.639 on for another generation. She found a little place to 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.280 live try to raise her son, but she didn't have 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.840 any money, any family supporting her, and she ended up 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:02.240 on welfare, barely make it living in poverty. She would 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.399 attend our services here at Lakewood each week, and she 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:07.640 would hear again and again, how you. 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.760 Have seeds of greatness on the inside. 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.879 How you have the DNA of a winner, and where 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.560 you are is not where you have to stay. She 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.440 began to change the way she saw herself. She created 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:23.480 an image of success, an image of victory, and those 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.399 seeds of greatness begin to take root. She didn't just 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.840 sit back and accept the status quo. She went out 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.440 and got a job at a local high school cafeteria, 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:39.760 punching lunch tickets, making minimum wage. She wasn't satisfied. She 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:43.080 went back to school and got her ged. She still 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.800 wasn't satisfied. She decided to go to college. She would 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:49.240 work during the day and go to college at night, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.040 and in four years she graduated from college with honors. 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:54.960 She still wasn't satisfied. 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.840 She went back to college and got her master's degree. Today, 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.760 she's not on well anymore. She's the principal at the 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:06.320 same school where she started off working in the cafeteria 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:07.760 punching those lunks ticket. 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:10.160 What happened. 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:15.800 She saw that poverty, lack mediocrity not as permanent, but 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.679 only temporary. Like David, she ran toward the enemy. 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:21.000 She rose up in. 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.640 Faith, and Almighty God breathed in her direction. I love 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.600 what she says. I used to be on welfare, but 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:29.480 now I'm fair and well. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.320 Have a big vision for your life. 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.320 Don't get stuck in a rut and except that where 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.639 you are is the way it's always going to be. 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:41.080 Do like her. 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:45.199 Break out of your box. Believe that you can rise higher. 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:48.480 God wants you to set a new standard for your family. 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.520 Too many people have a narrow, limited vision. Was at 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:54.560 the mall years ago with a friend of mine, and 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.359 every other word he would say, I can't afford it. 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:00.880 We were looking at some sporting good equipment. He said, 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.400 I can't afford it. Looked at tennis shoes, I can't 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.879 afford it. Looked at this shirt, I can't afford it. 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:09.320 I finally said, if you keep saying that, you're. 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:11.320 Never going to be able to afford anything. 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.159 He was setting the limits for his life with his 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:17.760 own thinking. The truth is I couldn't afford half the 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:20.159 stuff we were looking at either, But I've learned you 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.480 don't have to announce it to the world. And if 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:25.240 you're going to use that phrase, at least follow it 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:28.919 up with two simple words. I can't afford it right now. 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:31.960 In other words, it's just a matter of time. I 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:35.800 know I'm a no lack person. At some point I 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:40.480 will come into my abundance. Be careful what comes out 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:43.760 of your mouth. Don't go around talking about how high 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:46.040 prices are and how you're never going. 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:49.040 To make it. If you talk lack, you're gonna have lack. 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.920 The right attitude is prices may be high, but God 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:54.359 always supplies my needs. 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:57.200 Business may be a little off, but I'm not going under. 0:23:57.320 --> 0:23:58.160 I'm going over. 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.400 God always causes me to try have that report of victory. 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:06.320 Had this young couple one time They asked me if 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:09.000 I would pray that this furniture that they liked would 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:12.320 go on sell. They had been watching it a long 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:14.320 time and they knew if it went on sal they'd 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:16.879 be able to buy it. After I thought about it 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:20.240 a moment, I said, instead of praying that it'll go 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:23.560 on sell, I would rather pray that God will bless 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:26.080 you in such a way that, even if it doesn't 0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:29.280 go on sel, you'll still be able to buy it. See, 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:32.359 God owns it all. It's not about us trying to 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:34.840 make things come down so we can afford it. 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:35.840 It's about us. 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.600 Believing to come up higher to where we're supposed to be. 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:43.639 The same God that can cause it to go on 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:46.480 sell can bless you in such a way that you 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:48.600 don't have to sit around and wait for some kind 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:52.080 of discount. Now, I'm all for getting good deals and 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.880 getting things on sale, but don't have a cheap, narrow 0:24:56.160 --> 0:24:59.640 vision that will limit what God can do in your life. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.399 When I was eight years old, I went to a 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.440 department store with my father where he was buying a suit, 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:08.320 and the man waiting on us found out that my 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:11.639 dad was a minister, and he said in a very 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:15.480 demeaning way, like we were second class. Will you know 0:25:16.160 --> 0:25:18.359 if you can't afford it, we can give you a 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:23.160 minister's discount. Well, my father was raised in extreme poverty. 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:25.960 He came out of the Great Depression, and they didn't 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:28.560 have enough food to eat growing up. Daddy had to 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:30.960 put cardboard in his shoes as a little boy because 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:35.120 they had holes in him. When this man said, sarcastically, 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:37.680 we can give you this discount. It rubbed my father 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:39.760 the wrong way. I could see it in his eyes. 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:42.840 Daddy thought to himself, I am not a beggar. I 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:45.400 don't need a handout. I'm a child of the most 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:46.240 High God. 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:48.040 It wasn't out of arrogance. 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:51.960 It wasn't out of pride, but more out of a 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:56.679 confidence of who he was and who he represented. He 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:59.480 looked at that salesman in the eyes and he said, no, sir, 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:01.960 I don't take a minister's discount. 0:26:02.280 --> 0:26:04.159 Do you know who my father is? 0:26:05.200 --> 0:26:07.800 That man stepped back, like Daddy came from some kind 0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:09.840 of influential, well to do family. 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:13.000 He didn't know. Daddy wasn't talking about his earthly father. 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:17.879 He was talking about his heavenly father. He was saying, 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:21.640 in effect, this is a new day. I've stepped out 0:26:21.640 --> 0:26:24.960 of poverty and lack. The God I serve doesn't need 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:27.760 a discount. He's well able to take care of me. 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:32.720 He's all shadow of the God who is more than enough. Friends, 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:36.639 God doesn't want you to be dependent on a handout, 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:41.359 a discount, a blue light special, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:45.280 leftover bread, hoping that things will come down so you'll 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:46.280 be able to afford it. 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:49.119 That's not who you are. Have a bigger vision. 0:26:49.560 --> 0:26:52.200 God has an abundance in front of each one of you. 0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:54.840 He's the God of more than enough. 0:26:56.200 --> 0:26:59.000 You may not be there just yet, but what I'm 0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:02.040 asking you to do is to not settle where you are. 0:27:02.880 --> 0:27:06.320 It says in Deuteronomy that God gives you the power 0:27:06.480 --> 0:27:10.080 to get wealth. There are seeds in you right now 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:16.000 that can bring an abundance, gifts, talents, skills, ideas, creativity, favor. 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:20.120 God didn't leave anybody out. You've got to remind yourself 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:23.159 you are a no lack person. You are blessed, you 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:26.760 are prosperous, you are well able, and yes, you may 0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:29.480 be having to have some kind of assistance right now, 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:32.800 but if you will have this attitude before long, instead 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:35.320 of taking a handout, you'll be given a handout. 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:37.840 Instead of borrowing, you'll be the lender. 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:43.000 Now I know today I am looking at no lack people. 0:27:43.480 --> 0:27:45.000 You are full of talent. 0:27:45.080 --> 0:27:51.040 Creativity, courage, strength, ability. You have been anointed, accepted and 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:54.600 approved by the creator of the universe. Now get up 0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:58.680 every morning and remind yourself I am a no lack person. 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:04.199 See yourself strong, healthy, accomplish in your dreams, living the 0:28:04.240 --> 0:28:07.120 abundant life. Keep the right image in front of you 0:28:07.560 --> 0:28:11.240 when you face difficulties. Remember you are ready for and 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:13.680 equal to anything that comes your way. 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:15.520 It's temporary, it's light. 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:19.080 Almighty God has infused strength into each one of you. 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:22.479 If you will see yourself as this no lack person, 0:28:22.760 --> 0:28:25.760 then like David, you will defeat every giant. You will 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:29.320 overcome every obstacle. You will accomplish every God given dream. 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:31.840 Now I believe and declare you're going to live that 0:28:31.920 --> 0:28:34.000 life of abundance that God has in store. 0:28:34.080 --> 0:28:35.760 Amen, do you receive it today? 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:40.360 We never like to close without giving you an opportunity 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:42.400 to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:47.000 Would you pray with me, say Lord Jesus, I repent 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:51.600 of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:54.520 my lord and save you. Friends. 0:28:54.520 --> 0:28:56.920 If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:28:56.960 --> 0:29:00.360 born again. Get in a good Bible based church, God 0:29:00.440 --> 0:29:03.120 first place. He's going to take your places that you've 0:29:03.160 --> 0:29:07.120 never dreamed of. 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