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And if you're ever in our area, please 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.720 stop buying. Be a part of one of our services. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.640 I promise you we will make you feel right at home. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.520 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.560 about this pastor. He was new in town and he 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.560 was going door to door inviting people to his church. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.840 He knocked on this one door he could tell someone 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.720 was home, but no one would answer. So he took 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.240 his business card out and he wrote on the back 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:32.760 the scripture reference Revelation three twenty. The next Sunday, after service, 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.200 someone handed him the same card. Under what he had 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.280 written was the scripture reference Genesis three ten. Here's what 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:44.160 they say, Revelation three twenty. The pastor's words, behold, I 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.040 stand at the door and knock. If anyone answers, I 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.240 will come in. The reply was Genesis three ten. It said, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.520 I heard your voice, and I was afraid because I 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:55.160 was naked. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.640 Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.360 I am what it says. I am. I have what 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.760 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:05.280 I can do. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.600 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.920 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.960 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.480 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.959 you promised. When we face difficulties, one of the best 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.080 things we can do is find a promise in the 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:33.040 scripture and remind God what he said about us. God, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.400 you promised I would lend and not borrow. You promised 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.360 my children will be mighty in the land. You promised 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:46.120 with long life you would satisfy me. Isaiah said, put 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.880 God in remembrance of his promises. It doesn't say put 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.279 God in remembrance of our problems. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.920 It's easy to complain God. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.880 These people at work aren't treating me right. God, my 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.080 back's been hurting. God, these kids get on my nerves. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.040 It's okay to be honest with God, but don't just 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.400 pray the problems. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:08.720 Pray the promises. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.000 If you're only telling God what's wrong, it's limiting what 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:13.720 he can do. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.880 Follow up the problem with a promise. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.800 God, my back has been hurting, but you promised you 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.800 would restore health unto me, So thank you that healing 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:24.360 is coming. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:25.280 God. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.239 These people at work are leaving me out, not giving 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.880 me credit, but you promised you would be my vindicator. 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.240 You promised the trap the enemy set for me, they 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.880 will fall in themselves. So I'm going to stay in 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.599 peace and let you fight my battles or God, my 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:46.080 dream seems impossible. I don't have the connections, the resources, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.160 the experience. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.279 If you stop there you'll get stuck. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.560 Follow it up with a promise. But God, you promised 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.640 your favor surrounds me like a shield. You promise whatever 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.200 I touch would prosper and succeed. You promised you would 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.080 open doors that no man can shut. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:05.120 See. 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.599 God is not obligated to bring to past what we say, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.200 but he is obligated. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.320 To bring to past what he says. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.599 When he hears his promises coming out of your mouth, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.039 angels go to work, favor is released, miracles are set 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.279 into motion. When it says, put God in remembrance of 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.680 his promises. It's not because God has forgotten what he said. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.039 It's not for his sake. It's for our sake. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:38.040 God knows when you start declaring his promises. When you 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.159 start speaking what he's said about you, not only will 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.960 faith rise in your heart, but it will change your perspective. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.080 You won't have a victim mentality. You will have a 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.279 victoria mentality. You'll know this sickness is no match for 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.039 my God. This trouble at work cannot stop My purpose. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.440 You'll know God being for you is more than the 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.839 world being against you. But most of us we have 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.800 the first part down. We're good at telling God our problems, 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.160 but you have to follow it up with a you promised. 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.640 The more you talk about the promises, the less you'll 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.160 talk about your problems. Now, I start off every day 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.120 simply thanking God for what he's already promised over my life. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.080 Father, thank you that you promised. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.679 No good thing? Will you withhold? Because I walk up rightly. Father, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.200 you promised the path of the righteous. Our path gets 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:38.520 brighter and brighter. If you're spending more time talking about 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.239 your problems than you are the promises, then that's. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:42.880 Out of balance. 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:48.720 Maybe you're not seeing things turn around. You're not seeing healing, promotion, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:54.560 vindication because you're reminding God of the wrong things. You're 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.680 telling him what didn't work out, how bad the medical 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.599 report is, who left you? Try different approach, Take a 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.760 break from telling God everything that's wrong. And there's nothing 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.919 wrong with asking. But God already knows your needs. He 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.040 knows our thoughts before we think them. At some point 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.240 you have to switch over to thanking God for what 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.720 he's already promised. My sister Lisa and her husband Kevin, 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.960 tried for years to have a baby. Lisa went through 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.680 all the fertility treatments, had a couple of surgeries, did 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.600 everything she could. Finally, the doctor said there was nothing 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.520 more they could do. They wouldn't be able to have children. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.400 Lisa could have been depressed and told God how bad 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.480 it was. Instead, she made a list of all the 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.920 promises she could find concerning children. She typed them out, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.640 put them on her bathroom mirror. It says in Psalms, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.440 God will make the baron woman a happy mother of children. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:58.440 Isaiah said, your children will be like olive shoots around 0:07:58.480 --> 0:07:59.080 your table. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:04.040 Roonomy said the fruit of your womb is blessed. All 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:05.240 through the day. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.400 Instead of complaining, God is not fair, why can't I 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.600 have children, Lisa didn't pray the problem. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.120 She prayed the promises. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.720 Lord, you promised you would make me the happy mother 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.960 of children. It's very powerful when you take it off 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.440 of what you want and put it back on what 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.320 God said. God, you promised the fruit of my womb 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.720 is blessed. You promised children are a heritage from the Lord. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:38.359 The scripture says God watches over his word to perform it. 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.360 It doesn't say God watches over our complaints. He watches 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:47.240 over our begging. Please, God, you got to turn this around. Yes, God, 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.360 is concerned. He sees the wrongs, but what moves him 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:56.199 to act is when he hears his promises. Seven years later, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.840 Lisa received a phone call from. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.400 A friend that a home for girls. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.080 She said, Lisa, I don't really know why I'm calling you, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.600 but we have this teenage. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.560 Girl that's about to give birth to twin girls. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:15.199 We were wondering if you would be interested in adopting them. Well, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.200 Lisa's husband, Kevin, is a twin It's always been his 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.760 dream that he would have twins. They adopted those girls 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:27.920 at birth, then adopted another son. Today, just like God promised, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.640 Lisa is the happy. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.920 Mother of children. Lisa says, God is so good. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.280 I have three children and I never had to get pregnant. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.880 When you declare the promises, children will find you good, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:47.040 breaks will track you down. Whatever you're believing for. Do 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.560 like Lisa and. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.320 Make a list of the promises. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.400 Put it on your phone, your computer, your bathroom mirror 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.600 all through the day, remind God what he promised. If 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.360 you're fighting an illness, it's easy to talk about the sickness, 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.839 what the doctor said, how it doesn't look good. Sometimes 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.679 we know more about the problem than we do. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:10.440 The promises. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:15.360 We spend hours researching it on the internet, learning everything 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.120 that could possibly go wrong. Why don't you take fifteen 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:24.040 minutes and google scriptures concerning about what you're facing. God, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.600 you promised I would live and not die and declare 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.720 the works of the Lord you promised. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.720 You are Jehovah Raphah, the Lord, my healer. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.920 You promised by the stripes of your son, Jesus, I 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.880 am healed. If you're struggling with an addiction, you've had 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:40.840 it a long time. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.040 You don't think it'll ever change now. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:47.280 God, you promised that you have destroyed every yoke, You 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.640 have broken every bondage you promised the enemy I see today, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.720 I will see no more. You promised whom the sun 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.960 sets free is free. Indeed, so Lord, thank you that 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.240 I am free. That's not just being positive, that's reminding 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.440 God what he said. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:05.400 I talked to a lady. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.280 She was at odds with her teenage daughter, and this 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.079 lady would come down to the for prayer very often. 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:15.680 She was always upset, discouraged. I did my best to 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.360 cheer up and try to convince her to keep believing. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.960 But more than coming for prayer, it seemed like. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.400 She just wanted to tell me how bad it was, 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.680 how her daughter was being disrespectful. I told her what 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:33.000 I'm telling you, Constantly talking about the problem is not 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.760 doing anything productive. You need to find a promise and 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.600 remind God what he said about you. I gave her 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:44.920 the promise from Proverbs thirty one. It says children will 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.199 rise up and call their mother blessed. Well, at that time, 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.679 her daughter was calling her every name except blessed. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.479 But this mother started. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.520 Going through the day, Father, you promised that my children 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:03.160 will rise up and call me blessed. She found other promises. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.400 Children are a gift from the Lord to be enjoyed. Father, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.880 thank you, you promised that I would enjoy my children, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.000 that I would have. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:12.960 Fun with my daughter. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:17.240 She did this month after month. Didn't see any sign 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.000 of things changing. That's what faith is all about. If 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:21.800 you can see. 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.120 It, it doesn't take faith. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:28.000 Two years later, this daughter had a complete turnaround. It 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.360 was like she was a different person, kind, loving, respectful. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.840 Today she and her mother are the best of friends. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:37.439 They do everything together. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.640 Now, when this mother says God, you promised my children 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.920 will rise up and call me blessed, she's not saying 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:45.680 it by faith. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:46.319 Anymore. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.760 It's become a reality. God brought the promise to pass. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.800 The scripture says God is not a man. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.680 That he should lie. Has he ever spoken and failed 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.680 to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.720 God has never failed in the past. The good news 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.760 is he's not going to start with you. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.120 Stay in faith and stay open. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.000 It may not happen your way or on your timetable, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.840 but God knows what he's doing. He is faithful to 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.000 his word. I talked to a well known actor. He's 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.359 an elderly gentleman, and he was very down on himself. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.120 He said, joel Ama has been I never get any 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.040 good roles anymore. I've peeked and it's all downhill from here. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.640 When you speak defeat. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:41.240 Over your life like that, you are inviting bad breaks, disappointments, lack. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.240 Zip it up and find that you promised God. You 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:49.240 promised my latter days will be better than my former days. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.559 You promised your favor. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.800 Is not for a season, but for a lifetime. You 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.760 promised you would bring me to a flourishing finish. We 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.920 need you not just alive, but passionate, doing great things 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.720 your whole life. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.040 You may have had some bad breaks. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.280 Maybe you went through a loss or somebody walked out 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.440 of a relationship. You could go around with the chip 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.840 on your shoulder him self. Pity God, why did this happen? 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.120 That's going to keep you defeated. Turn it around, Father, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.560 you promised you would give me beauty for these ashes. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.880 You promised weeping endures for a night, but joy comes 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.760 in the morning. You promised in Isaiah that because I 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.280 got a double dose of trouble, I would get a 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:37.520 double dose of favor. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:38.640 So Lord, thank you. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.240 That I'm not just coming out, but I'm coming out better. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.840 When you prayed the promises, God will make up for 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.600 what was unfair. Like Joseph, he'll take you from the 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:50.920 pit to the palace. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:52.160 Like Ruth. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.640 He'll take you from working in a field to own 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:55.240 in the field. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:56.560 Like David. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.480 He'll take you from the background to the foreground, being overlooked. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:02.960 To being in charge. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.160 Now, pay attention to what's coming out of your mouth. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.480 Are you talking more about the problems or about the promises. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.400 What you're bringing to God's remembrance will determine whether or 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.400 not you reach your destiny. In Second Kings, Chapter seven, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.920 the Israelites were surrounded by the Syrian army. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:24.960 They had cut off their food. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.400 Supply, clogged up the streams that flowed into the city. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.320 They were waiting for them to starve, and then they 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:31.920 would go in. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.400 And take the city. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.000 The prophet Elishah showed up and said to the Israelites, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.960 by this time tomorrow there will be so much food 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.840 you'll be able to buy a loaf of bread for 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:50.400 one penny. The officer assisting the king said, Elisha, that's impossible. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.880 We're surrounded by a huge army. We're outnumbered, we have 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.840 no food, we're starving. There's no way, Elisha said, it 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:05.040 will happen. God has promised it, but because you doubted, you. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:05.720 Won't see it. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.680 There were four leopers sitting outside the city gates. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.600 They thought to themselves, we have nothing to lose. We're 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:14.720 gonna die anyway. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.080 Let's go down to the enemy's camp and see what 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:22.880 they're doing. As they were walking, God multiplied the sound 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:24.240 of their footsteps. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.480 It sounded like a huge army was approaching. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.640 The Syrians panicked and took off, running for their lives. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:32.720 They left their. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:37.520 Food, their supplies, their equipment. The leopers went back and 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:42.080 told the Israelites. The officer that didn't believe was in 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.640 charge of the city gates. When he opened them to 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.200 let the people out, they were so excited he got 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.960 knocked down and was trampled to death. He never saw 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.320 the promise come to pass. Now, don't make the mistake 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.240 like that man and talk yourself. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:00.720 Out of what God has promised. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.840 His attitude should have been, God, you said, by tomorrow, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.719 we'll have bread for only a penny a loaf. I 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.199 don't see how it can happen. It seems impossible, no 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.240 way in the natural. But God, I know you're a 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.440 supernatural God. I know you can make a way. Well, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.879 I don't see a way. God doesn't ask us to 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.320 figure things out. All he asks is we believe. When 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.119 He puts a promise in your heart, don't think of 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.800 all the reasons why it's not going to work out. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.359 Sometimes you have to turn your mind off. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.480 Faith is not always going to make sense. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.240 What God says is not always going to be logical. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.560 If you reason it out, check with the experts, read 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:50.000 all the reports, you will miss God's best. We think natural. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.680 God thinks supernatural. He's not limited by what limits us. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.760 God cauts fire to not harm the three Hebrew teenagers 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.879 the furnace. That doesn't make sense, but he's God. He 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.000 called Sarah to have a baby at eighty years old. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.679 He parted the sea for the Israelites. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.840 They went through on dry ground. God healed my mother 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.680 of terminal cancer. God gave us the Compact Center when 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.480 all the odds were against us. Now, don't let your 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.520 natural logic talk you out of what a supernatural god 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.520 can do. The scripture tells us we need to have 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.960 child like faith. Children don't try to figure things out. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.040 When you tell your. 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.200 Child you're gonna buy them something or take them someplace, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:41.320 they don't worry. They don't wonder if you have the means. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.919 They don't lose sleep over whether it's gonna happen. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:45.000 They trust you. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.399 When our daughter Alexandra was about ten years old, she 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.520 loved to go to Disneyland, and we hadn't been in 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.800 several years. And one night I was putting her in bed, 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.920 she said, Daddy, can we go to Disneyland again? Almost 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.280 in passing. I said sure we can. She said, you promise. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.880 I said yes, I promise. She smiled a retal big. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.760 I kissed her and put her in bed. The next morning, 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.800 early before I woke up, she came running in our room. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.639 Didn't say good morning, Dad, didn't say how are you, 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:18.960 didn't say I loved you? 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.080 She said, Daddy, when are we going to Disneyland? 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:27.520 It was never if, it was always when she had 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.000 so much confidence in me. She knew I wouldn't break 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.399 my promise. She knew it was only a matter of time. 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.840 Never once did she say, Dad, can I check the 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.000 finances to see if we can afford it? 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:40.960 Dad? 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.359 Can I check your schedule to see if you had time? 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.320 Or what if we can't get the flights? What if 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.680 the hotels are book what if it doesn't work out. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.439 She didn't worry about any of the details. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.760 She didn't concern herself about how it was going to happen. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.119 Why she knew her father would take care of that. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.280 She knew I wouldn't have promised it if I couldn't 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.640 do it. Now, the truth is, I'm human. I could 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.920 let her down. I could break the promise, not keep 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.560 my word. Yet she has this incredible trust in me. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.399 What if we had that same kind of trust in 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.760 our heavenly father, knowing that he cannot go back on 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:27.840 his word, knowing that he cannot fail. God, you promised, 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.480 as for me and my house, we will serve the 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.199 Lord you promised. I will lend and not borrow. You 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.879 promised I will recover. Now I'm not going to worry 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.600 about how it's going to happen. I'm not going to 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:44.239 live stressed because I don't see anything changing, wondering if 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:45.200 it's going to work out. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.080 God, I trust you. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.239 I believe you are true to your word and in 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.720 your perfect timing, in your own way, you will bring 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:58.600 this promise to pass. That's childlike faith. You're not trying 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.600 to figure it out, not wondering if God has the means, 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.640 does he know the right people, What if the obstacle's 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:06.200 too big. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.320 He's God, He created the universe. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.879 He wouldn't have promised it if he wasn't going to 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.639 bring it to past. We see how faithful God is 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:16.720 to his promises. 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:17.520 With David. 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.680 God promised David that one of his relatives would always 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.359 be on the throne of Israel. Twenty three years after 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:29.480 David died, his son Solomon was on the throne but 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.560 not making good choices. He had married foreign wives he 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:38.280 wasn't supposed to. Now he started worshiping their idols. God 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.560 says Solomon. I would normally take this kingdom away from you, 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.719 for you have done wrong in my sight, but I 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:50.440 will not do it for your father David's sake. God 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.040 was saying, Solomon, you don't deserve this mercy. You've gotten 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:54.679 off course. 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:56.040 But I made a. 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.240 Promise to your father, and I am a God that 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:01.520 keeps my promises, even to. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:02.200 A dead man. 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.520 Three hundred and five years later, another one of David's 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.439 relatives was on the throne, King Hezekiah. He was in 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:14.360 great danger. An army had surrounded Jerusalem. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.720 There was no way out. Looked like the people were doomed. 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:22.400 At the last moment, God sent an angel that wiped 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:26.160 out one hundred and eighty five thousand of the enemy troops. 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:30.600 Hezekiah and all the people were spared. I can imagine 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:32.040 Hezekiah thinking. 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.440 God, what did we do to deserve this kind of favor? 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:37.400 God says Hezekiah. 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.200 There was a man that lived three hundred and five 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:44.159 years ago. He's dead, he's gone, but I made a 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:47.760 promise to him that one of his descendants would always 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.280 be on the throne. And I am the God that 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:55.119 keeps my promises. Even three hundred and five years later. Now, 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.080 maybe you're standing on a promise that hasn't come to 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:03.200 pass yet. If God would go to such great links 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:06.320 to keep his promise to a man that was dead, 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:10.000 how much more is God going to keep his promises 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:10.280 to you. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:13.400 Stay in faith and keep. 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:17.440 Reminding God what he promised, keep bringing it to his remembrance. 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:20.720 Like David, you're going to see the faithfulness of God. 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:24.119 You're going to see those promises come to pass. In 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:28.359 Genesis thirty two, Jacob was about to meet his brother Esau. 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:34.040 After many years of being estranged. Jacob cheated Esau. He 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:38.199 stole his birthright, tricked their father into giving him the 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.760 blessing that belonged to Esau. Esau was so angry that 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.760 Jacob had to flee to another country for his life. 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:49.879 He lived with his uncle Laban, working for him for 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:54.399 nearly twenty years. In spite of the mistakes, God blessed 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:58.360 Jacob in a great way. He'd become very wealthy. Now 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.120 he had his own family, his own flocks and herbs. 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:05.320 He wanted to return and move back home, he said 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:07.320 word Esau said. 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:08.480 That he would meet him. 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:12.800 You can imagine how nervous Jacob was, He's about to 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:16.399 see this brother whom he's wronged and taken advantage of. 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:20.240 He didn't know if Esau was still angry trying to 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:25.960 get revenge was a huge chance. Jacob said in verse eleven, God, 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:30.920 please rescue me from my brother Esau. I'm afraid he's 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:34.080 trying to kill me and all of my wives and children. 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.880 He could have stopped there and just prayed the problem, 0:24:38.440 --> 0:24:40.600 but Jacob understood this principle. 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:41.720 He went on to. 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:46.280 Say, but God, you promised to treat me kindly and. 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:48.120 To multiply my descendants. 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:53.520 After all the bad choices, all the greed manipulation, what 0:24:53.600 --> 0:24:56.920 did he do? He went back to a promise God 0:24:56.960 --> 0:24:59.840 made to him as a young man and said, God, 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:02.240 you promised you would be good to me. 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:04.000 He met Esau. 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:08.000 Esau not only forgave him, but was very kind to 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:08.960 him and. 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:10.160 Welcomed him back home. 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:14.840 What if we had this same boldness like Jacob, in 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:18.240 spite of our mistakes, in spite of the times we fell, 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:22.520 instead of living down on ourselves, giving up on our dreams, 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:26.600 we would say, God, you promised to be good to me. 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:30.919 You promised to restore what was stolen. You promised to 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:35.600 forgive me and not remember my mistakes. Put God in 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:39.879 remembrance of what he promised. Not what you feel, not 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:43.120 what you deserve, not what a relative said, but what 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:49.000 God said. Saul eighty six says, God is full of kindness, 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:50.600 great in mercy. 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:53.520 The Lord is good to awe. 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:56.120 God made the same promise to you that he made 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:59.320 to Jacob. God, you promised to be kind to me. 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:03.640 You promised me a future filled with purpose and fulfillment. 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:08.000 God is not holding your mistakes against you. Don't go 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:12.639 through life holding them against yourself. When Moses was leading 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:16.720 the Israelites through the desert some two million people, God 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:19.800 told him to go up on Mount Sinai. That's where 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:21.600 he received the Ten Commandments. 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:24.080 He was up there for forty days. 0:26:24.600 --> 0:26:29.320 He left his brother Aaron in charge. The people got restless. 0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:31.600 Said Erin. We don't know if Moses is ever going 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:32.240 to come back. 0:26:32.840 --> 0:26:36.240 Let's make some gods out of gold that we can worship. 0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:40.720 Aaron had them melt down their jewelry, their ear rings. 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:43.200 They made a calf out of gold. 0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:48.200 They started partying, drinking all kinds of debakery. 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:50.600 God was so angry he. 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:54.520 Was about to wipe them all out and only spare Moses. 0:26:55.240 --> 0:27:00.080 The scripture says Moses pleaded with the Lord and said, God, 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:04.239 remember what you promised, that our descendants would be as 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:07.320 numerous as the stars in the heavens, and that they 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:11.919 would possess this land forever. The next verse says God 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:16.000 withdrew his threat and did not bring the disaster that 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:20.440 he planned. That's how powerful it is when you remind 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:24.240 God what he promised. If Moses had not said, God, 0:27:24.320 --> 0:27:27.919 you promised, God would have wiped them all out. Now 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:31.400 I wonder if there are blessings we're not seeing healing 0:27:31.640 --> 0:27:37.080 promotion increase because we're not reminding God of his promises. 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:40.360 We're praying for God to do it. We're asking him 0:27:40.359 --> 0:27:43.159 to turn it around. And that's good. But when you 0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:48.359 say God, you promised, something powerful happens. The creator of 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:52.320 the universe goes to work. Chains are broken, forces of 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:56.080 darkness are pushed back. Nothing can stand against our God. 0:27:56.960 --> 0:28:00.199 He said in Genesis twenty eighth, I will be with 0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:05.000 you constantly until I have finished giving you everything that 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:10.240 I promise. God is saying to you today, everything I promised. 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:11.000 You is on the way. 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:17.720 Healing is on the way, Promotion vindication, freedom, despouse, Get 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:20.560 ready for God to show out in your life. Get 0:28:20.600 --> 0:28:25.240 ready for new levels, for breakthroughs, for fever. I believe 0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:29.639 and declare new doors are about to open, problems are 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:33.320 turning around. What's hindered you in the past will hinder 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:37.440 you no more. 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