Change It | Pastor Scott Thomas

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I hope you're encouraged where's the

coffee drinkers in the place any any

coffee drink look at

that okay let me ask you this how many

of you drink your coffee black nothing

in it where are those

people there's your coffee drinkers

right there there's your coffee drinkers

right

there some of y'all put like you add

some coffee to your

cream like you're not even sure what

they put in your coffee you just like

what it tastes and they told you it was

coffee so you believed them but the

truth is ain't nothing at Cindy loves

the smell of coffee loves the smell she

cannot stand the taste of coffee we've

I've tried for 30 years I've tried for

30 years and so it just doesn't work and

for that reason for that reason in our

house I have a

curig because I can make one cup at a

time now I'm not mad at making a pot of

coffee and there's some days that I just

feel like it's that day and so I I will

handle that pot myself but but you

sometimes when you just need that single

cup of coffee it just nothing like

hitting that in fact in the mornings

usually what I do is I wake up and I

kind of make my way to the

kitchen and when I get in there I make

my cup of coffee and it gets my day

going in fact the other day I went in

there and and stumbled my way in there I

can almost do it in my sleep right reach

over grab one of the pods put it in

there close it hit that 12 ounce boom

done I was making a great cup of coffee

the day and I was over in the kitchen

you know you can you can hear the water

heating up and then you can tell him

like here it comes

like and I hear I

hear and here it's

pouring and it was different I looked

over and there was no cup in the

curig I am squirting coffee out

everywhere how you know I woke up quick

I woke up really

quick and man I'm grabbing the

cup the cup was

um was right in the cupboard above

it it just wasn't in position under it

it was so

close but being close wasn't enough to

catch everything that it was pouring out

right it was

close and it had the ability and there

was nothing wrong with the CG it was

working fine it was squirting coffee but

I just wasn't in position to receive

what it was kicking

out I want to talk to you today for a

few minutes about changing your mind so

you can change your life repositioning

some things so that you can actually

receive what it is that God has for you

here's what I want you to understand

when when the curig was spitting out

coffee on the counter it wasn't the cu's

fault and I did not throw away the curig

because it did not work the way I wanted

to I didn't blame the curig I didn't

throw it away in fact I didn't even

stopped drinking coffee because it made

a mess I realized that the issue was not

on the CG's side the issue was on my

side I didn't do my part to receive

everything that it was put kicking out

can I just encourage you with something

today there is nothing wrong on God's

end of what he's pouring out for our

life right

the only issue we have in life is not

being in the right position to receive

everything he's pouring out he is always

giving God's God's good stuff is always

flowing the his Blessing in your life

watch this it's not a lottery God is not

having to redecide every day if he's

going to bless your life God initiated

blessing and walked away from it the

blessing is Flowing

done the way you and I receive is when

we get under where his Blessing is

flowing in other words do it God's way

get God's results the blessing is always

flowing but based on how close we are to

where he's pouring it out determines

whether we get splashed with his

Blessing or whether we get filled with

his Blessing how do you want to be

saturated with the blessing of God in

your life anybody okay good if your

neighbor did not raise their hand tell

them I'm taking yours also I'm just

that's just kind of how we're rolling

here God is always pouring it out in

fact in fact God has released two

Heavenly stalkers according to Psalm

Psalms 23 · chapter mention

chapter 23 goodness and mercy are going

to stalk you all the days of your life

that's what my Bible tells me God has no

problem blessing your life in fact

that's exactly why he sent his son Jesus

to bless to upgrade to increase and

Advance your life but you and I have a

responsibility to get in the proper

position to receive what he has many

times though in my life

maybe you can relate I've made bad

judgments about

God and bad decisions in my

life because I had a wrong

perspective on God and my

situation anybody ever had a bad

attitude that's a good place for

everyone to raise your hand right now

everybody everybody wiggle a toe raise

your hand

something if you didn't raise your hand

it's because you have a bad attitude

right now

we it's amazing how our day how we we

are just so fickle we can be high low in

out up down love it hate it we we can be

all over the place and that's within the

first 10 minutes of the day like like

it's just we're all over the place and

if we're not careful we will begin to

look at God through all that erratic

mindset and we wonder why there's no

Advance we wonder why there's no Victory

we wonder why there's no strength and

foundation in my life when my life life

is all over the place concerning God let

me tell you something I know about you

you have a theology about God everybody

does everybody sees God a certain way

and you have decided or are deciding

again whether he's good and faithful or

whether he's dropped you and failed

you everybody has a Theology and it's

critical for you and I to continue to

build build a proper theology so that it

will hold us in difficult times in other

words we stop blaming the CG and we

start repositioning the

cup we see this perspective shift the

importance of it massive in the Book of

Genesis chapter 29 uh it's a story of a

Genesis 29 · chapter mention

guy named Jacob he sees this beautiful

lady this beautiful girl named Rachel

like dang and and and wants to be with

her and so always like okay y yo I got

to find her daddy and and laan who

happened to crazy as in the Bible days

this was all good like uncle laan look

your girl man she is all that I need

Rachel I need Rachel lean goes all right

I'll give you Rachel but you got to work

for me for seven years work seven years

and you can have her seven years okay

let's go let's go so so laben goes all

right this work worked for me so Jacob

works for seven years and then all of a

sudden wedding day comes

and then there he walks down the aisle

he's so excited he says I do runs back

to the house flips the veil off of

Rachel's head only to find out it's not

Rachel it's Leia her older daughter her

older sister he he laan had shifted

things and he married Leia off instead

of Rachel you talk about a dysfunctional

family he's now married to Leia wait a

minute I signed up and I worked seven

years for Rachel yeah I know but I

needed to get Leia married first

surprise welcome to the

family but but Rachel Yeah well yeah you

can marry her too but I need seven more

years like Laban turned his daughters

into a business do you understand and

Jacob was so enamored so like I got to

have Rachel like dang okay he worked 14

years for Rachel which is nothing I've

been working for 30 years for Cindy so

it it it it happens it happens all right

I'm just saying saying I'm just

saying and and every year has been worth

it Cindy every year has just been better

and better and better I

amen here here's what I want you to

understand Leia is married and that's

what I want to talk to you about Leia's

life for a minute one of the Bible

figures that is most overlooked but has

so much impact that I want us to

understand her story today she she had a

life that was difficult for her to walk

and live in an attitude of

gratitude she went through some tough

stuff had a okay so watch she had she

grows up with a gorgeous sister

according to the Bible Rachel was

beautiful she was beautiful and and and

and as beautiful as she was uh Leia the

Bible gives us some language that tells

us that probably she was not as

beautiful so you got a comparison things

going on with sisters and you got

insecurities stuff going on and and I

this it's tough growing up and then Dad

had to actually trick a man into

marrying Leah because no men were lined

up and now she is the undesired wife of

a man and she's sharing this man with

her sister how you know that they she

was not Puerto

Rican I'm going to tell you something

thing no no no like that's not

happening so now she's she's the

undesired wife her sister is the desired

wife and Jacob and Rachel are always

going on dates and Leah is sitting at

the house like this is going on and now

Leah is trying to win Jacob's attention

win Jacob's Love by giving him

babies I'll birth him men and and as

long as I give him kids he's going to

turn his heart to me and and we see Leia

living this out and and according in the

Bible if you study your Bible for those

of you who understand there are 12

tribes of Israel Jacob was the was the

father of Israel and 12 sons 12 tribes

of Israel Leia produced eight of the 12

like this girl had it going on she was

fertile Myrtle do you understand like

like she's she's having babies but watch

this but her mindset was twisted while

she's having them it's it's a wreck in

fact the Bible gives us insight into

Leia's mindset while she's having babies

she's she had a tragic attitude while

naming her the Bible says her first

son's name was Reuben and she says I had

Reuben and oh he's here good because God

has seen the suffering and the

Affliction I'm going through well praise

the

Lord and then her second son she had

another son named Simeon and Simeon she

said this God has heard that I'm not

loved okay then she had a third son

named Levi and she said this here's what

she said in in the Bible when when when

Levi gets here maybe my husband will now

become close to me like she's so hungry

for approval hungry for acceptance allow

me to be a part I'm suffering I feel

alone I'm pushed out we see Leah

bleeding publically she's pouring her

heart out she was a wreck having babies

and just bleeding emotionally cuz she

was in such pain but her fourth child

something happened on the fourth one she

had a son named

Judah and when Judah came something

flipped between child three and child

four because Judah she she then said

this now I will praise the

Lord I don't know I don't know what if

there was a scenario that flipped

between child three and child four but

I'll tell you what did flip Leah's

mindset she went from woe as me and

throwing pity parties and complaining

and being the victim to all of a sudden

now I will pray praise the Lord her her

situation was the same don't miss this

don't miss this her situation did not

change her circumstances were still bad

it was wrong but her life shifted

because she changed her perspective on

life she went from her

situation to God's goodness she changed

her mind and do you know what we have in

the Bible in Genesis

Genesis 29:35

29:35 Leah here's some Bible trivia for

you Leah is the very first person

recorded in history to praise

God the very first one Judah his name

means

praise the very first one to praise

God can I tell you something

circumstances do not decide your life

right if they do you'll live owned and

you'll live as a victim for the rest of

your life keep whining and keep crying

all of us are going through it baby deal

with it we've all had our hearts broken

we've all been dropped we've all been

attacked we've had things said about us

we've had wrong done to us going through

things that no one understands we've had

bad news from the doctor we've dealt

with some stuff that has hurt and dug

deep and we all go through some has

anybody had that perfect life that you

never had one issue in your life because

I would just encourage you keep living

it's coming it's called life we we don't

control the circumstances that's why

it's critically important that you can

control your mind while you're in the

circumstance because if you're not

careful you can derail in the middle of

even a good situation I I grew up in a

time frame when we didn't have a whole

lot we didn't have much we we I lived in

the time when we used to go to our

neighbors and borrow stuff anybody know

what that's like like you had to go go

get this from the neighbor's house yeah

okay good I grew up wearing hand me-

Downs some of y'all don't even know what

a hand me- down is so when I was really

really young my mama made my clothes I

didn't wear Armani I wore my mommy

that's what I wore she she made she made

my little jumper outfits and all that

kind like I that she made my clothes and

then I started wearing hand-me-downs

hand-me-downs means somebody else wore

it out before you got the chance to put

your hands on it and so all my new shoes

the bottoms were already scuffed up on

them all my I've got pictures of me

playing t-ball t-ball in a pair of zipup

boots and that's what I was that's what

we had that's what I did we didn't know

we were poor until somebody told

us we didn't we didn't we didn't have a

pot if you don't get it just ask

somebody older than you they'll

understand like the situation was bad

but we were so

happy life was

good we laughed our family was together

and and and and God supplied because our

neighbor had it amen

and that's just how we

lived and then and then at the same time

you can see people who seem to have it

all they got the money they got the job

they got the three cars they they got

the and and there's nothing wrong with

having that stuff but I've seen people

in that scenario that have no joy and no

peace and complaining and life is

falling apart and they're losing why

because circumstances and things do not

determine the strength and the hope and

the joy of your life it's how you see

life are you under it or on it are you a

victim or a Victor which one is it who

who are you are you living out here and

you're mad because nothing that God has

for you seems to be working or are you

living where it's being poured out and

you're being filled every day of your

life Paul tells us how to change our

perspective the book of Colossians

Colossians 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2 veres 6 and 7 check this out

so then just as you received Christ

Jesus as Lord continue to live your

lives in him rooted and built up in him

strengthened in the faith as you were

taught and overflowing with

thankfulness how is it that I live my

life strong I don't just accept Jesus I

pursue Jesus when you said yes to Jesus

ladies and gentlemen that was just the

beginning you've not arrived that's not

the Pinnacle It's Not Over You Don't

Coast from this point on no no no if

you're going to live this blessed life

this Abundant Life this life of Victory

this life properly positioned you and I

have to as Paul said continue in him

that means I got to keep showing up that

means I do things oh here we go here we

go whether I feel like it or

don't that means I decide my way into

feelings instead of feeling my way into

decisions it means I start doing what I

know I need to do not what I feel like

doing

so I show up on Sundays because it's the

Lord's day and I will bless the Lord in

I will be in the house I don't have to

Red decide every week because it's what

I do I will show up and I will worship

God and sometimes I'll even feel like it

but I'm going to worship nonetheless why

because I need Scott needs to hear

himself worship and call God your name

is the highest your name is the greatest

I need to hear me say those things it's

good for Scott to say those words I need

to serve I need to give I need to pray

it's me continuing in my faith and do

you know what that does for me the Bible

says I'm rooted I'm stronger and I'm

overflowing in

thankfulness you want to live stronger

in life do the right thing set them in

motion get in position so that

everything God is pouring out can hit

your life and your feelings are optional

that's what makes us

adults anybody go to work and you don't

feel like

going hands down but you went

anyway hands down and they gave you a

paycheck at the end of that week look at

that you did something you didn't feel

like and didn't want to do but it still

paid

off I need you to understand the same

thing operates spiritually when I show

up and I do maybe not what I feel like

but what I need to do because he's good

and he gave it all my life has been

changed I'll bless the Lord at all times

his praise will continually be in my

mouth my soul will make her boast in the

Lord The Humble will hear thereof and be

glad oh magnify the Lord with me and let

us exalt his name together and if you

feel like it that's a

bonus but we do it anyway somebody shout

anyway perspective matters Jesus and

Bible become my f focus and then change

happens in my lifestyle so now I start

identifying God's grace in the middle of

my grief I'm going through grief but

waves of grief brings waves of grace and

I realize he's good I recognize that

there's still strength in the struggle

the struggle doesn't leave but I'm

stronger than the struggle I'm good I'm

coming out I don't live in bitterness

Envy blame I'm not living in that in

that in that situation where I'm just

angry ladies and gentlemen if you're

living there it's going to kill you it

will drain you will eat you from the

inside out you're not made to live that

way you got to get your mind above it

you can't live under the feeling under

the emotions so that it's running your

life you got to change your mind so you

can change your world change your focus

from you to Jesus from the problem to

the promise from this to that and when

you change your mind you start to

outlive it despite the circumstance come

on Leah come on Leah and know the

circumstances are still bad and you're

still dealing with Rachel in the house

and you're still dealing with things

with Jacob he's a he's not the husband

that he should be but get your head

above it Leia do not live as a victim

for the rest of your life change your

mind now I will praise and I will

worship God when you get your mind above

it everything starts to flip turn and

change in your life that's what this

what it tells me before gratitude is an

action it's first a perspective

if you don't have the right perspective

you'll never be grateful right that's

true how you see something decides how

you'll

respond you ever gone to a restaurant

with somebody and they ordered food that

you can't

stand like oh my God are you ordering

that like oh go and they sit there and

they eat it in front of

you your response if Cindy doesn't like

something she goes like like that that

that's her Pat response like but you

know I'd appreciate if you wouldn't do

that while I'm eating like I just

ordered that I'm going to eat that like

that doesn't

work like how you see something decides

how you respond to

it politics like like okay like like

that that I I get that the Dallas

Cowboys like like there's some things

that I'm sorry oh I came out didn't it

but but but how

you how you see things determines how

you respond watch this

church many of you years ago could not

stand the the idea of church you you

push back you're like I'm out I'm free

I'm I'm out and look where you are today

you're sitting in church and you're

listening to things about God and you're

hearing music sung about him and you're

posturing your heart you keep showing up

I'm telling you ladies and gentlemen

you're doing better than you think you

are because you're moving towards him

and it's a perspective change so the

real question is not are you grateful

the real question is what do you see in

life if attitude and feeling are

controlling my perspective if I'm just

riding the wave of feelings then that

means God is going to be moody in your

life God is going to be unpredictable

and unreliable and can I tell you

something it's impossible to trust a god

like

that because he might he might not be

faithful he might he might not be true

but if faith and his word are

controlling your perspective not the

circumstance

then God is good right and God is

faithful and and that means god is aware

of what's going on and God is Not only

involved God is working for me even in

the silence he's working and when you're

serving that God it's irrational not to

trust that

God it's all based on perspective one

makes me suspicious of God the other

makes me trust him with everything I've

got we have to make sure that our

perspective is proper Leah changed her

mind about God and it changed both her

life and her Legacy listen to

me I found something just the other day

that i' never seen before in the Bible

and I'm so excited to share it with you

and if you already knew this then please

don't tell me you already knew cuz I'm

already excited about it but I got to

show this thing to you watch this watch

this the first three children that Leah

had she was self-focused again I told

you she had she had nine kids eight of

them were Sons for the eight tribes but

watch this nine kids her first three she

was self focused Ruben her first son she

said I'm suffering her second son Simeon

she said I'm not loved the third son

Levi she said I am alone and then

everything changed with that fourth kid

everything changed her perspective on

life changed she stopped living under

the circumstance and got on top of it

because her fourth child's name was

Judah Judah means praise and because she

went god-focused Leah said this in in in

Genesis she says this now I will praise

the Lord something shifted not her

circumstances because when you read the

Bible her situation stayed the same but

she started seeing it different she

stopped living outside of what God was

pouring out and got back in position to

receive what he had now her fifth child

he was name was issachar it means means

reward her sixth child was zebulun his

name means honor her seventh child

finally she had a girl named Dina means

I have been Avenged number eight was Gad

which means good fortune number nine was

Asher which means happy ladies and

gentlemen after she decided now I will

praise the Lord reward honor Revenge

Good Fortune happy all took place in her

life and gave her a brand new world that

she was living in that was not under the

circum stand but ruling and reigning on

top of it but that's not all it gets

good

her oh that's bad English but I'll go

Paul Harvey on you the rest of the story

here is what here's what I need you to

understand Leah's Legacy is missed by

most people today we don't understand we

should be celebrating Leia because

listen to this Judah her fourth son who

it all changed when she got to number

four his name means praise and later on

whenever Jacob was handing out blessing

and speaking over his son just before he

died he said that the tribe of Judah

will be like a lion which means every

enemy that rises against Judah Judah

will consume them any enemy that attacks

Judah from behind Judah will stand

strong and destroy the lion of the tribe

of Judah all the through through through

Judah judah's lineage then produced a

man named David this little boy killed a

giant one day with a sling and he worked

his way up and all of a sudden God

positioned him to become the king of all

of Israel and then through King David's

lineage came a a boy and a girl named

Mary and Joseph and they had a son named

Jesus and it was through through David's

lineage that Jesus comes on the scene

and can I remind you he is called the

son of David he is our savior he is the

king of kings and in Revelation he is

called the Lion of the tribe of Judah

who rules and Reigns in all authority

ladies and gentlemen here's what I'm

telling you Leah is the matriarch of our

faith so this Christmas before you start

saying thank God for Mary I need someone

to give some love to Leah today and

thank God somebody overcame their

situation and didn't live under it but

changed her mind and got on top of it so

that we can live in this Legacy his name

is Jesus and I've got news for somebody

today you're not living your life by

yourself you don't live in a vacuum

you've got to get your head above the

situation because there's a legacy

coming behind you your kids are watching

your family is watching nieces and

nephews and brothers and sisters are

watching and somebody in your family has

got to rise above it and set a new

Legacy as for me in my house we will

serve the Lord get on top of the

situation no more victims in this house

no more small living no more small

thinking I know it's bad and the

circumstances are bad but circumstances

do not determine my life my mind my joy

my praise my hope my strength my present

my future my promise my king My Savior

My Joy his faithfulness Mercy grace

truth it's all on my side I've got a

Reason To Praise

Him somebody sh out change your mind

change your mind change your

mind can I tell you something crazy

about this story you Leah's

name means

weary I'm

tired situations have worn me

out any ever been tired from fighting

life stuff news

circumstances

finances doesn't matter if you're single

if you're married if you're

desperate we all go we all get

weary but Leah learned I can't allow my

name or my condition to make me live

under everything God promised I can have

and I'm changing my theology I'm calling

God

good I judge that he is good and if I'm

going through it he's going to make it

for make it work for my good and His

glory I will come out the other side of

this stronger and better oh I got news

for somebody the year is not over he can

still turn some things around in your

life in this year before you get to a

new calendar I'm telling you right now

your mind can change your family can

change your circumstance can change

because when you change your mind it

starts changing everything around you

here's what I need you to know the Bible

is fighting for your

mind so is the enemy of your

life cuz whatever controls your mind

controls your

world you change your mind you change

your world and as long as you and I are

flopping the Bible says a doubl minded

person is

unstable in all their

ways I'm up I'm down I'm in I'm out it's

good it's bad I love I hate and we we

can't figure out why life isn't

strong I'm going to tell you something

it's going to sound a little bit

crazy but do you know what it was that

established my faith like I had never

had it strengthened

before was when Cindy and I lost our two

kids when we lost Isaiah and

Gabrielle that

hit rocked

me it rocked

me I'm a pastor at that time I'm

preaching God's power his ability to

heal his faithfulness his goodness and

two of my babies

died you want to talk about a conflict

of

circumstance where I'm trying to

declare this

when stuff around me doesn't look right

doesn't feel

right you're not looking at somebody

who's just had it easy and it's all been

good oh no I've cried I've had real

conversations with God but can I tell

you it was the

continuing that Paul talked

about I'm going to go back to church

today not because I feel like it but the

last thing I need to do is run from God

in this mess instead of to God

I got to get back where he is again

because when I look over the landscape

of my life the only hope I have of even

making it through is if I've got two

handfuls of Jesus because if I lose him

I've lost everything and so I know what

it was to stand in church lift hands

feel empty in my head and my heart and

sing worship to God while my heart was

screaming no but I had to keep moving

and it was in those moments of just

pressing and trusting and pressing and

and talking to him and crying and

letting my heart bleed that I begin to

feel his comfort and his love and his

strength he began to heal me from the

inside out and you're looking at a man

right now who's got scars all over him

and I can tell you I love him today like

I have never loved him in my life and

because of the pain I went through I can

tell you this I feel that my faith today

is standing on a firm foundation that is

not up and down and in and out it's not

circum substantial I love you and I hope

you love me but if you leave me today

I'm good baby because I'm loved and I'm

he's the one that I love is holding me

and you and I can both live with that

assurance and that strength that

regardless of what happens in your

nation in your family on your job in

your relationships you can know that

everything is going to be all right

because the one I'm looking to is the

one who's actually holding me I can't

live outside of his BL are you kidding

me this is the only way I get through

get back under where he's being poured

out there's nothing wrong with his

blessings there's nothing wrong with his

strength his hope his healing his Joy

his love his grace his Mercy his promise

his power it's flowing continually stay

under the spout and let him fill your

life with every good and perfect gift

would you stand to your feet in this

room

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refocus your

mind your attitude onto God's goodness

not what you see or feel but on his word

in fact Philippians CH 4:8 tells us this

look at this here's what it

says fix your thoughts on what is true

and honorable and right and pure and

lovely and admirable think about things

that are excellent and worthy of praise

why because God's word is telling you

what you think about is what you'll

become whatever controls your focus

Masters your life I've got to make sure

he's the focus of who I am and where I'm

going I need distractions of

righteousness I've got to set some

things in motion that I don't have to

decide based on the circumstance I've

just decided I'm in church on Sundays I

have decided I will worship God I have

decided I'm serving I'm honoring him I'm

giving I've if I don't it's the way that

he holds me when I get handfuls of him

so God focused

life it redefines my life and my

situations I I I call it something

different same situation I just Define

it differently God is good he's going to

bring me through number two when you

have a god-focused life he keeps you

strong in tough times you're stronger

than the issue you're coming through

everything's going to be all right and

number three

you grow unshakable

faith that you take the hits in life

that would have rocked you years ago but

today even when I don't understand him

God is good nothing can steal my victory

as long as I'm focused on him in this

room today there's some people that are

struggling been through some stuff going

through some stuff right now taking some

hits bleeding in some areas of your life

I get it life is tough it's it's not

made for the faint quite honestly life

is above your pay grade to

handle you were not built to handle life

without

Jesus God would have been an idiot to

create you and I and to be able to do

anything outside of him no he made us to

know him therefore he creates us and

there's a plug that he pulls out of our

life something's missing something's

missing and we try to put everything in

that plug except for him but the moment

I come back to him I realize he's

everything I want he's everything I've

always needed and I'm living stronger

than I should and my struggling and my

wrestling is less because he takes the

battle the battle is not yours the

battle is the Lords here's what I'm

trying to tell you today folks change

your mind reposition your mind

reposition your life so you can receive

everything he has father I pray for my

friends in this room for all those that

are are watching online today that are

in a struggle for their

life they're they're they're they're

they're they're wrestling with day in

and day out the emotional turmoil the

hits seem to be piling up on so many

levels like Leah feels stuck in a

situation and there's no hope

out so God here's what we've decided

since we can't change our circumstances

we choose to change our mind and I will

put my mind on you I will set my mind on

things above not on things below I I

have determined that the Giants I'm

looking at are not bigger than the

promise that you made to me we can take

this land we can overcome we can have it

all today we will renew our mind we will

set it higher than the situations in our

life because we trust you it's not in

how strong I am it's not my education

it's not my money it's not my networking

it's my hope my faith and my trust in

you that makes any of this worthwhile so

today God I pray for my friends that are

struggling in this room that are in a

painful scenario I pray you challenge

them to lift their mind above it and

show them what it is to stand strong in

the middle of it only for you to elevate

them above it and bring them through it

today God I pray for marriages today God

I pray for business owners today I pray

for moms and dads and kids I pray for

the singles I pray for all of those

today God who are in that place of

struggle and difficulty and I pray you

would Elevate them and let them feel

that hope and strength that only Heaven

can give Infuse them with the reminder

that you're here that you love them that

you're fighting for them that we've

never been alone not one day and if we

will change our mind and begin to say

now I will praise the Lord everything

can change in our life today God I

declare that over your people bless them

love them heal them strengthen them make

them greater than the issue they're

going through so that it becomes a

Hallmark trophy in our lives that if you

did it once before you can do it again

you're faithful and you're good we thank

you for this today in Jesus name amen

amen amen amen

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