Joel Osteen - Dealing With the Root of Our Problems

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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with something funny each week, and I heard about this
hill billy family. They've never left their small town, never
watched TV, never listen to the radio. But one day
they decided to take a vacation to New York City.
And on the first day, the father took his son
to see one of the huge buildings and they were
so impressed by it that they were especially intrigued by
the elevator.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I didn't know what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
And they saw this older woman walk up and punch
the button, and all of a sudden, the walls opened up.
She stepped inside this little room. When the walls closed,
they were standing there just kind of contemplating what they
had just seen. Well, a few moments later, those walls
opened back up again and outwalked this beautiful twenty four
year old woman. The son, almost in disbelief, he said, Dad,

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what happened? Dad said, I don't know, son, but go
get your mama.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
All right, hold up your bible. Say it like you
mean it. Ready, this is my Bible. I am what
it says I am. I have what it says I have.
I can do what it says I can do. Today
I will be talked the word of God.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I boldly confess my mind is alert, if our heart
is receptive, I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
God bless you. We've been talking about how important it
is that we face the truth about ourselves and not
go around making excuses.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
For our behavior.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's so easy to want to pass the blame and
to try to just justify the way we are but
as long as we're not taking responsibility, we're not going
to experience God's best. And too many people today just
live on the surface. They never really look inside and
get honest with themselves. In other words, they don't ever

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get down to the root of the problem.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
They just deal with the fruit.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
They're negative, they can't get along in relationships, they've got
low self esteem, and so they're always trying to fix
their behavior. They're always trying to fix the bad fruit.
And that's good that they're trying, but many times that's
only temporary, because as long as we've got a bad root,
we're going to continue.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
To produce bad fruit.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
And the scripture here in Hebrews twelve, verse fifteen, it
talks about how we should not let a root of
bitterness spring forth and contaminate our whole lives.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I think of it like a weed.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
You can go out and pull that weed all day long,
but if you're just breaking it off at the surface
and you're not really getting down to the roots, then
in a couple of days you're gonna have that same
weed to deal with again. And I'm challenging us today
to go deeper and not just look at what we
do we need to ask ourselves why do I do this?

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Why am I always so defensive? Why do the smallest
things set me off? Or why do I go around
feeling like I always have to prove myself to everybody.
When we really get to the root and start dealing
with the source, then we can change, Then we can
get free. Now I heard about this man that owned
a bunch of horses, and one day one of these

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horses accidentally kicked a wood fence and scraped its leg
very badly, just tore that leg up. And so the
men took the horse to his barn, and he cleaned
the wound up and bandaged that leg real good. Now,
a couple of weeks later, he noticed that the horse
was still being very bothered by that leg, So he
called his veterinarian up and they got the horse started

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on some antibotics, and he began to do much better.
But a month or two went by and he noticed
that that wound just still had not healed up. Matter
of fact, it looked worse than ever, and so he
started him on some more antibotics, and he was fined
for a few weeks. But then it happened all over again.
The wound just wouldn't healed up. And this happened like

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three or four times over the course of that year. Finally,
this guy loaded up his horse and he took him
down to the veterinarian's clinic.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
He knew he had to go deeper.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
He knew he had to find out why this wound
wouldn't heal. And so the veterinarian put the horse under
anesthesia and he began to.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Examine the wound.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
And while he was digging around, he reached in there,
and all of a sudden, he pulled out this big
chunk of wood, about the size of a golf ball
that had been buried way up inside the horse's leg.
So every time that horse went off the antibiotics, that
infection just kept coming back. See, really, they had been
treating the symptoms rather than treating the true source. And

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this is what we do many times.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
We just try to fix the surface things.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, let me just clean up my behavior, let me
just turn over a new leaf, and I'm gonna try
to start being more friendly. I'm gonna try to not
manipulate people anymore. I'm gonna try to not get so
angry and get so upset and again, it's good that
we're trying, but so often, just like in this situation,
we're not dealing with the real source, and so no

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matter how much we try, that issue just keeps coming back. Now,
we've got to learn to get to the real source,
and we need to examine our lives and let's find
the areas that we constantly struggle in. Is it really
our spouse at fault, is it really our circumstances, or
could it be that we have something like this horse,

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something that we're not dealing with that is causing us
to quote be infected. And this is especially important in relationships.
A lot of people today have a root of rejection.
They've been through hurts in the past, somebody did them wrong,
and rather than letting it go, they hold on to
it and it ends up poisoning their entire life. I

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know people that have a root of insecurity. This causes
them to go around all defensive and they're always trying
to prove to everybody who they are. And sure, we
can try to correct all these things on the surface,
but really that's just like trying to put a bandage
on that horse's leg is going to keep coming back
until we get to the real source.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I knew this couple.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
They were always having problems in their marriage, and the
main thing was they just had a terrible communicating and
almost every time they got into a discussion and this
husband didn't agree with the wife, then this lady would
get very defensive. She'd get all upset, lose her cool.
They'd end up having a great dig argument, and the
husband was constantly saying, why can't you just let me

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have my opinion? Why do you have to get so
upset when I don't agree with you. This went on
year after year and was just tearing them apart. But
one day, this lady decided to really get honest with herself.
She decided to really look down on the inside, and
she began to realize the reason she was all defensive

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was because she was so insecure. She had been through
a lot of hurts and pains in her own life.
She'd had a lot of rejection from a previous relationship,
and now every time this husband didn't agree.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
With her, she felt like he was rejecting her.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
She took it personally, and so she would try to
control him and manipulate him to keep that from happening.
But as she began to realize the true source wasn't
that they couldn't communicate. It was the fact that she
was so insecure and over time didn't happen overnight, but
as she began to deal with these feelings, and as

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she began to ask God to help her, little by
little things begin to change.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
But see, the whole key.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Was she got to the root of the problem, and
once she took care of the bad root, then eventually
the fruit took care of itself. And we have to
understand that most of our problems have deeper roots, not
all of them. I know, sometimes it's just our lack
of self control. But I think we'd be amazed at
how many times things affect us in a negative way

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and we're over here just trying to deal with the fruit.
We're just trying to deal with the surface, and so
we end up going year after year having to face
these same difficulties. I think about the children of Israel.
They never got to the root of their problem, and
it kept them out of their promised land.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
They wandered around.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
In the wilderness for some forty years for what should
have been an eleven day journey, and it was in
part because they never got honest with themselves. The root
cause of their problem was that they had a victim mentality.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
They had been through a lot of.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Unfair things, spent years in slavery, and so now they're
going around.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
With the chip on their shoulder.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
And they were always blaming Moses, blaming their circumstances, blaming
the past, blaming the food, blaming their enemies. It never
dawned on them that they were a part of the problem.
It never dawned on them to look inside and really
get down to the route. And do you know, they
kept going around the same mountain year after year after year,

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never making any progress. And some of you today, you
have been stuck at this same place in your life
far too long. Negative, hard to get along with, defensive, critical. No,
it's time to get up and get going, and our
attitude should be God, show me the truth about myself.
I don't want to be at this same place next year.

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And God, if I have things holding me back, show
me what they are.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
God help me to change, help me to get to
the root.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
See, I'm challenging us to get on a journey to
really get honest with ourselves, not make excuses.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Not try to pray everything away.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
No, let's go deeper so we can get to the
source and really get free. Now, I believe that God
is knocking on the door of new rooms in our hearts,
maybe rooms that we.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Haven't let him in before.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
The only way he'll come in is if we invite
him the doorknobs on the inside. And I found we
can allow God in some rooms of our heart, but
we keep him out of these other rooms. It's because
some of these rooms can be painful. It's where our
hurts and wombs of the past are. It's where our
weaknesses and shortcomings are. There's whole a lot of times

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we just keep these rooms all locked off. In other words,
we make excuses for our behavior. We blame other people.
We're negative, critical, hard to get along with low self esteem.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Hey, man, that's just the way I am.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
No, God continues to knock, and if we want to
come up higher, if we want to really get to
the source and not have this reoccurring infection like that
old horse, then we got to look inside and allow
God in every room of our heart. And by that
I mean when we have these feelings that we don't like,
rather than just hide them and try to bury them away.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
In one of these rooms.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
The best thing we can do is just be honest
and say, God, why do I feel this way? Why
can't I get along with my spouse? Why do I
try to manipulate everybody?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
God? Why I always have to have my way? Or
why do I get upset so easily?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
And if you will be honest and be willing to
face that truth and not hide behind all these excuses,
let me tell you, God will show you, and as
you begin to act on that truth, then you can
come up higher. And I'm asking us to let God
in every room of our hearts. If you're impatient, just
be honest and say, God, show me why I'm so impatient.

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If you get around somebody and you feel resentment toward him,
you start to want to be critical and have a
fault finding spirit.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
First thing we should do is say, God, show me
why I don't like this person? What's wrong on the
inside of me?

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Now? I don't know about you, but I don't want
to go around that same mountain another year.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
I want to come up here.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
I want to enter into my promised land. I heard
about this young lady. She'd gotten married and for the
first several years of her marriage, she could not have
a healthy relationship with her husband. For some reason, she
could not physically give herself to this man. She loved
him very much, but she just couldn't seem to stand

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for him to get close or to even touch her.
And of course it was just ruining their relationship. And
she'd tried time and time again to change, but she
just couldn't do it. And one day she really got
on with herself. She allowed God to come into that
room of her heart and she said, God, why do I.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Feel this way?

Speaker 1 (13:07):
What's wrong with me? Why can't I be a normal wife?
And she told how. Not long after that, she had
a dream, and in this dream, God reminded her of
something that had happened to her when she was a
small child. She saw herself down at the lake swimming,
and all of a sudden, these boys came over.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
And took advantage of her.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
They did her a terrible injustice, and she was so
angry and so filled with hatred toward them. She began
to scream out, I hate you, I hate you, and
I'll never let another man touch me as long as
I live. When she woke up from the dream, she
began to realize she still had all this hatred in her.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Heart toward those boys.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
It was buried way down here on the inside, and
now it was affecting her relationship with her husband.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
And she knew it wasn't going to be easy.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
But if she was to have a right relationship, she
was gonna have to deal with that unforgiveness. And she
was bold enough to just make a decision right then
and there to release all that hurt and pain. She said, God,
you know it's not fair. You saw what they did
to me. But God, I'm not gonna let it continue
to poison me.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm gonna let it go. I forgive them right now.
She said.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
From that moment on, she was able to have a
healthy relationship with her husband. But see, she could not
get free by just trying to deal with the fruit.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
She had to get down to the root.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
And once she got rid of that bitter root, then
she could break out of that bondage. And I'm not
saying that we should go back and relive every negative experience.
I'm not saying to go back and open up every
wound of the past. But I am saying we have
to make sure that we're not carrying around all this
junk on the inside. And if you have areas in

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your own life when you constantly struggle and you just
can't seem to get free, like this lady, then you
need to ask God to show you what's holding you back.
Ask God to show you if you have any bitter
roots that you need to get rid of. And if
God brings something to light, then you've got to be
bold enough like this young lady to just deal with it. Friends,

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God wants us to come up higher. You can be happier,
you can have better relationships, you can break free from
anything that's holding you back. But you've got to do
your part and be honest and face the truth about yourself.
And let's not be like the children of Israel and
go year after year thinking it's somebody else's fault. I

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know some of you today, you've had some very unfair
things happen in life. Maybe you've had some bad breaks
like this young lady, and I'm not minimalizing that. But
if you will handle that in the right way and
not get bitter and not start making excuses, and God's
promised he'll not only turn it around, but he'll use
it to your advantage. He'll bring you out better off

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than you were before. You know, digging out these roots
can be painful. The easy thing is to just stay
up here on the surface. The easy thing is to
not change, because, let me tell you, there's a pain
associated with coming up hire. It's uncomfortable to be honest
and really deal with these issues. It can be uncomfortable

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to have to forgive when it was somebody else's fault.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
And it's hard.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Sometimes to admit I'm holding on to the bitterness, or
I'm defensive because I'm so insecure, or I'm hard to
get along with because I'm dragging all my baggage from
the past. As we shed these superficial layers and really
get honest, we're gonna feel a little pressure. But please
understand that discomfort is only temporary. It's like a growing pain,

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because once you get past that, you're gonna go.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Up to a new level of victory.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
And I found the pain of change is much less
than the pain of staying in mediocrity. Are you allowing
God in every room of your heart? He won't come
in unless you ask, But if you ask him and
just say, God, show me why I am this way? God,
show me what's going on in my life. If you

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do that, God, I'll show you, that's when you can
really begin to get free. And some of you today,
you've gone year after year not really being happy. Well,
you need to be honest enough to just say, God,
show me what it is. Am I relying on other
people to make me happy? Do I have unrealistic expectations?
Am I only going to be happy if I get married?

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Am I allowing my circumstances to keep me down? God
show me the truth about myself. You got to get
to the source.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
I was talking to a.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Man not too long ago, and he told how whenever
he went to enjoy his life and just relax and
have fun, he felt guilty about it. He kind of
felt condemned, like he was doing something wrong and he
didn't know why. But over the years since he didn't
understand this, he just engrossed himself in his work. He
became a workaholic, not taking any time for himself, not

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taking any time for his family. And it was all
because of these feelings of guilt.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
His life was so out of balance.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
This one on year after year, But one day he
decided to let God in that room of his heart.
He decided to really get honest and he said, God.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Why do I feel this way?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
And he began to realize that growing up, his father
was very strict. He came from a military family, and
this dad didn't allow any fun in the house.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Everything was serious, and he didn't really know what.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
It was like to have a normal childhood. He was
just taught to work, to be serious, no playtime, and
he realized he'd become just like his father. Those thoughts,
those attitudes, those habits were what he had learned early on.
Not that they were right, but that's all that he
had known. And once he recognized what the source was

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and he recognized what was going on, he was able
to break that heaviness and really start enjoying his life
like God.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Wants us to.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
But we have to understand there can be a lot
of bondages that have been passed down from previous generations.
And it doesn't mean that the people weren't good people,
but a lot of the things that we struggle with today,
we can look back and see how they've been in
our family line for years and years. Bad habits, negative thinking,

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wrong mindsets, addictions, and unfortunately, those things can just keep
getting passed down from generation to generation. Some of you,
no doubt, you can look back in your family line
and see divorce as far as you can see. Or
maybe you can look back and see addictions strongholds. You know,
low self esteem, anger, violence, and today you're struggling with

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those same things.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
It's not enough to just deal with the surface.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
You've got to really get down to the root and say, God,
I'm taking authority over these things in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
We're not going to be bound by these bondages anymore.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
And I know some of you have come out of
a family where there was abuse. Maybe somebody else calls
you a lot of heartache and pain. The people that
raised you are somebody you were in a relationship with.
They made very poor decisions and now you're having to
deal with it. I know that's not fair, but please
don't let that be an excuse. You can come up higher,

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you can set a new standard. And we hear a
lot today about the generational curse, but we need to
talk more about our generational choice. Somebody may have made
bad decisions, but thank god, we don't have to perpetuate it.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
We don't have to continue that on.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
We can be the one to do something about it.
We can be the one to change. And just remember,
with every right choice you make, you begin to overturn
the wrong choices of those that have gone before you.
And your parents, your grandparents, your relatives. They may have
struggled with addictions and low self esteem and anger. Your

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attitude should be this is a new I'm drawing that
line in the sand. That's for me and my family.
We're gonna live under the blessing and not the curse. See,
you've got to get down to the source of that thing,
and you can just sit idly by and be passive.
I had people tell me, well, Joe, this is just
the way we've always been. Now you know what I found.
You will never change what you tolerate. You gotta get

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fed up. You gotta come to the point where you say,
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
And we may have been this way a long time,
but I'm not gonna dance around this issue. I'm gonna
get to the source and I'm gonna start making better
decisions for me and my family.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
And the sad thing is that junk will.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Keep getting passed down until somebody rises up and does
something about it.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Why don't you be the one.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
You can make a difference for generations to come. But
one of the first things is we got to quit
making excuses. We got to quit blaming the past. And
you may have been through a lot of junk. That
may be the reason you struggle with bad habits. You
have trouble in relationships, and you have low self esteem.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
That may be the reason. But don't use that as
an excuse to stay the way you are. Take responsibility.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I know too many people today They've had unfair things
happen and they go their whole lifetime allowing that to
poison them. They're angry, they got to chip on their shoulder,
just like the children of Israel. They go around hard
to get along with, and they always use that as
an excuse. Well, Joel, if you've been through what I've
been through, you would act this same way. Now, that

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may be the reason you act that way, but thank god,
you don't have to stay that way. You can come
up higher. But you got to take responsibility. You've got
to be willing to face the truth and say, you
know what, this is not right. They may have done
me wrong. But I'm not supposed to live upset and angry.
I'm not supposed to live hard to get along with God.

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I'm asking you.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
To help me to change.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
If you have that attitude, God will always help you.
Thinking about this lady, she came up to me in
the lobby one time and she said, Joel, I wish
you would pray for me. I'm about to get married
again for my fifth time. I didn't laugh like y'all did,
and she said, I want you to really agree that
this man will be the one that finally starts treating

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me right. I wanted to ask her, have you ever
thought about what the common denominator is in all these marriages?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
It's you something wrong on the inside.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
But after we prayed, I asked her, does anybody else
in your family struggle with these same kind of difficulties?
She said, oh, yeah, Joel, my mother's been married four
times and she's just about to get another divorce. And
I thought, that's just what the enemy loves, for us,
to keep passing this junk down for generation to generation.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
It's like a negative cycle.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
That he sets up, and if we don't take responsibility
and do something about it, it'll just keep repeating itself,
and our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren will all have.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
To deal with it.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Now. I don't know about you, but I want to
put a stop to everything that I can. If I
have bad habits, if I have insecurities, if I have
wrong thinking, I want to be honest and open enough
to deal with it.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
And not make excuses.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Not blame my past, not blame my parents, not blame
my circumstances, not blame my spouse. No, you know what,
I can't change any of that, but I can change me. Hey,
you say, Joe, if you just knew my family, we
are so dysfunctional. We have so many bad habits, We
got so many messed up people.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
No, I say this very respectfully, but I really.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Believe today almost every family has a little bit of dysfunction.
Don't use that as an excuse. We all have things
to deal with. I mean, I come out of a
good family, but y'all know, my brother Paul.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
We all have things to overcome.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
You know, I hear people tell me, Joel, you know
I'm all depressed because my parents were so depressed. Or
I'm hot tempered just like my father. I'm a worry
wart because my mother always worried. Now that's a cop out.
You can change. Let me tell you.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
You are a child of the most high God.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
You have on the inside of you right now, the
greatest power in the universe. You can break any addiction,
You can overcome any stronghold, you can defeat any bondage.
The scripture says in First John four to four, greater
is he that's in you.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Than he that's in the world.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
That simply means there is not an obstacle on this
planet that you cannot overcome.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
You can fulfill your God given destiny. You can accomplish
your dreams.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
And yes, you may have had a negative history, but
please understand you don't have to have a negative future.
What's important is not where we've come from. What's important
is where we are going. One of the main ways
we can honor God is by taking responsibility for our
actions now, not blaming our past. It's not blaming our circumstances. No,

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look inside and say, God, show me the truth about myself,
Show me where I need to change.

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See, we got to get down.

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To the root so that we don't just go through
life trying to pick off the bad fruit.

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Some of you keep going around that.

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Same mountain again and again, and until you get to
the real source and do something about it, nothing's going
to change. I'm asking you to let God in every
room of your life. Don't just live on the surface.
Go a little deeper. Take time to find out why
you do what you do. And yes, it may be
because of what you've gone through. It may be because
of what somebody has passed down, but don't use that

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as an excuse. Take responsibility, rise up and do something
about it. Let's pass down good things to the next generation. Friends,
I want you to enter into your promised land. I
want you to experience the good things of God. And
I know if you'll do your part and face the
truth about yourself, get to the source of the issue,
and make adjustments when you need to. If you do that,

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and I can promise you, you'll have better relationships, you'll
be more fulfilled, you'll be happier, and you'll live that
life of victory God has in story.

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Amen, if you receive.

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It, Can you give a lord a chat of praise today?
We never like to close on broadcast without giving you
an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Would you pray with me.

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Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins.

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Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,
if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you.

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Got born again. Get in a good Bible based church.
Keep God first place. He's going to take your places
that you've never dreamed of.

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