1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:06,280 The Lord everybody good to see you in God's house. 2 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,160 It's where we come. It's not just habitual, but it's 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:16,000 a place of strength that regardless what your week may 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,360 have served you, you can come to a place that is consistent. 5 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,920 His presence. His presence is consistent. 6 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,920 You can find hope there and you can find a means of reprieve 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,840 from life, right? We all need that sometimes. 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,520 I know some people like, oh, if you just knew what my week was 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:39,600 like. That's the reason why I show up 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,520 on Sunday. I just get in His presence and I 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,120 can just kind of hit the pause button on everything else. 12 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,080 Amen of life. Hallelujah. 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,280 Going to be turning to the book of Deuteronomy chapter #11 14 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,560 appreciate everybody's prayers for my back and feeling better. 15 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,640 My massage therapist. I'm thankful for the gifts that 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,000 God has given her, Amen, because she helped me out tremendously. 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:04,720 Now in the moment, it felt like she was killing me. 18 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,280 Matter of fact, I thought she's going to have to help me turn 19 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,600 from my stomach to my back. I'm serious. 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,040 But as the day went on, I start doing better. 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,200 So I thank God for the knowledge that people can acquire Amen to 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:21,520 help. Amen. 23 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:27,480 Deuteronomy chapter #11 I'm going to read the first 7 verses 24 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,320 of this chapter today. Therefore thou shalt love the 25 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,520 Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes and his 26 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:38,760 judgments and His commandments, alway, and know you this day. 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,360 For I speak not with your children, which have not known, 28 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,760 which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your 29 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,600 God, His greatness, His mighty hand, His stretched out arm, and 30 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,280 His miracles, and His axe, which He did in the midst of Egypt, 31 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,560 and to favor of the king of Egypt, and to all his land. 32 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,800 What He did into the army of Egypt, and to their horses and 33 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,960 to their Chariots. How He made the water of the Red 34 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,000 Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you. 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,520 And how the Lord have destroyed them unto this day. 36 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,560 And what He did unto you in the wilderness, until you came into 37 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,880 this place, what He did and to Dathan in the Byram, the sons of 38 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:23,520 Liab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened her mouth and 39 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,200 swallowed them up in their households, in their tents, and 40 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,840 all the substance that was in their possession in the midst of 41 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:34,160 all Israel. But your eyes have seen all the 42 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,920 great acts of the Lord which He did. 43 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,440 Kind of set, Lord, just the stage where we are. 44 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,680 Israel's on the verge of crossing the Jordan into their 45 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,360 land of promise. Moses is speaking to them. 46 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,800 But here particular, and I'll talk about this here in a little 47 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,960 bit here particular, he's talking to the ones that have 48 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,600 made their way through the wilderness, wasn't born in the 49 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:09,320 wilderness, but have seen some of these things that you can 50 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,760 only imagine. Their parents stood at the very 51 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,840 same place, intimidated with fear and did not crossover. 52 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,840 You'd only imagine some of the thoughts and feelings and 53 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,400 memories that are conjuring up within their hearts and minds. 54 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:28,280 So Moses is really speaking to them and some memories that they 55 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:35,960 had trying to get their mind fastened on the right memories 56 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,440 to be able to do what they're about ready to do. 57 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,320 Here's what I know this morning about every single one of us 58 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,240 sitting across this place. We all have some memories. 59 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,240 None of them, not all of them are things that we smile about 60 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,320 and are encouraged from. Some of them are intimidating. 61 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,000 Some of them are even menacing. And so I want to minister this 62 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,760 morning, rehearse the right story. 63 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:12,320 Rehearse the right story. Can we go to the Lord right now 64 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:17,480 and pray? Father, I thank you because 65 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:23,560 you're mindful of us. Holy Ghost, I'm asking God for 66 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,880 your aid and your help, Lord Jesus, in this place this 67 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,560 morning. God, your mindset, Lord, it's 68 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,960 higher than mine. It's greater than mine. 69 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,280 Pray, O Lord, help me just to follow your will, Lord Jesus for 70 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:42,200 the next few moments. God, let your words speak. 71 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:47,240 Let your word find us. I pray today, God encourage 72 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,040 someone, strengthen them, Lord, by the power of the Holy Ghost 73 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,720 and the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah. 74 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,640 You may be seated this morning in Jesus name. 75 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:04,400 Deuteronomy, the book of Deuteronomy. 76 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,360 It's, it's like the, it's the Deja Vu book. 77 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,440 That's what I would affectionately call it the Deja 78 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:14,480 Vu book, because as you read the book of Deuteronomy, you're 79 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,000 starting to read some things like men. 80 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,600 I've heard this before. I've, I've, I've, it seems like 81 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:21,920 I've already passed through this story. 82 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,480 Did, did they happen to, you know, do a little error in my 83 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,760 Bible and just reprint one of the other books and just happen 84 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,760 to slap Deuteronomy on it? It's almost like the, the the 85 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,440 Deja Vu book. As a matter of fact, by many it 86 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,000 is even called the book of remembrance. 87 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,640 The word Deuteronomy itself means second law or repetition 88 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:47,360 of the law because we see that Moses is repeating or referring 89 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,760 and even we see the, the containment of the statement of 90 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,080 the 10 commandments all over again in the book of 91 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,560 Deuteronomy. It's like, I thought that was 92 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,960 Exodus 20. And so he is re familiarizing, 93 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:01,640 Amen some to some of these laws. It's not new laws. 94 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:07,040 It's just rehearsing what God had already said, what God had 95 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,880 already done to now what predominantly maybe is a new 96 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:16,680 generation of Israelites. But over and over again we read 97 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,440 through the book of Deuteronomy and Moses says stuff like 98 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,880 remember, that is a phrase that is constant. 99 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,280 He says do not forget. He says recall, and he wants 100 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:30,320 them to recall, recall what the Lord has done. 101 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,000 And so the entire book is a retelling and a reminder. 102 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,840 And it is Moses's final message to the children of Israel that 103 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,400 he has LED for such a long time. And it's been instrumental in 104 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:46,880 being a deliverer for them out of the House of bondage. 105 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,400 And his audience that he is speaking to is really a mixed 106 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,160 bag of Israelites. We OFT times say, and this isn't 107 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,920 totally correct, but we OFT times say that the wilderness 108 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,600 generation, they died off in the the the wilderness due to their 109 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,400 unbelief. But that's really only partly 110 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,440 true. According to the Scripture 111 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,760 record, the Bible says in Numbers 14 and verse 29, this is 112 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:19,280 Moses speaking to the Israelites for the first time that they had 113 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,960 come to this Jordan River with entertaining the idea of 114 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,000 crossing over. He said your carcasses shall 115 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:31,080 fall in this wilderness and all that were numbered of you 116 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,480 according to your whole number from 20. 117 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:39,360 Here's here's the breaking point from 20 years old and upward, 118 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,880 which have murmured against me. So we can't paint with a broad 119 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,000 brush and say all that generation died in the 120 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:52,640 wilderness, all that generation 20 years and upward died in the 121 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:54,960 wilderness. But that means there were some 122 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:00,040 19 year olds and there were some 18 year olds that were going to 123 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,800 survive during the time of the wilderness 40 years later, 124 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,880 right? 40 years later, being 59 years 125 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,240 old, 58 years old, and their feet was going to stand in the 126 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:16,280 same soil that their parents and grandparents had stood in, and 127 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,160 they were going to be contemplating the same things 128 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,360 that they contemplated just 40 years removed from that moment 129 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,840 standing there. And so Moses is speaking then to 130 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:32,240 a mixed bag of Israelites, some who had been at the Red Seed 131 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,880 Crossing and some who had not, some who had been slaves in 132 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,159 Egypt, though very young and sons who had not, some who had 133 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:45,440 seen some different wilderness happenings and others who did 134 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,280 not. We understand in Scripture, we 135 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,880 oftimes go to the Joshua and the Caleb, right? 136 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,720 We know that they survived those wilderness journeys. 137 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,520 We understand that. But so did every individual that 138 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,880 was under 20 years old. They were not taken away. 139 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,320 They did not die. Their funeral did not happen in 140 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,200 the and so now as they approach the Jordan River for the second 141 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,120 time, they represent a very large sector of the adults that 142 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,400 are standing there at the edge of Canaan, at the edge of the 143 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,320 land, a promise. And unlike those that were born 144 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:28,800 in the wilderness, these people have a memory of Egypt and they 145 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:33,000 had perhaps a keener recollection of the wilderness 146 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,440 happenings. As a matter of fact, according 147 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,640 to verse number two of our text today know what Moses he he 148 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:45,280 makes some defining words about whom he was really speaking to. 149 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:50,160 Moses tells him he says, I'm not necessarily addressing Israel's 150 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,760 children right now. I'm I'm not necessarily 151 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,360 addressing, but the the the, the, the ones that were born 152 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,040 during the wilderness journeys or of the most of the newest 153 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,960 generation of Israelites. He says no. 154 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,240 He says I'm talking to those who did not die in the wilderness. 155 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,000 I'm talking to those who made it through experience. 156 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,760 Some stuff has some memory of past things. 157 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,720 He says I'm talking to you. He speaks to those that have 158 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,800 memories of the things that are listed in those seven verses of 159 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,040 the chapter that I read to you today. 160 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,800 He wanted to speak to people that had some memory because 161 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:33,240 Moses understood that memory is very powerful, but not all 162 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:40,480 memories are empowering someone say man memory oftimes becomes a 163 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,160 lens through which we look and through which we interpret Amen 164 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,840 life going forward. That the idea is if something 165 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:53,040 hurt you before you naturally pull back from that and avoid 166 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,760 that because you have a memory and you don't want to be hurt 167 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,880 again. If some nothing brought you joy 168 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,840 or some type of excitement than some people chase those type of 169 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,760 things because they remember how that made them feel. 170 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,920 Memory, it shapes how we trust, it shapes how we love, how we 171 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:18,240 fear, how we dream, all based upon memory. 172 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,520 Because memory is not just what happened to me, it's how I 173 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:27,560 remember what happened to me that often decides how I react 174 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:33,760 and how I go. It influences what I'll do next 175 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,280 based upon a memory of something from the past. 176 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:42,120 This is an old illustration, but I think it serves well today 177 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,920 and, and it's true in circuses and parts of Asia, young 178 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:50,520 elephants are often trained by being tied with a strong rope to 179 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,800 a stake in the ground. And as a baby elephant, they'll 180 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,160 tug and they'll pull up on that rope that they are tied to in 181 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:58,800 that stake that is in the ground ground. 182 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,120 And they'll strain with all of their might and strength, But 183 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,480 the rope and the stake is driven too deep and it's too strong for 184 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,400 them. And so that little baby elephant 185 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,360 eventually just gives up pulling on that. 186 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:16,120 But the shocking part is this is that when the elephant grows up 187 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,600 into maturity, into that larger mass in size that it will 188 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:24,240 become, it is undoubtfully strong enough to RIP the rope 189 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,120 from the ground and pull the stake from the ground. 190 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:32,320 But they say it never tries again to do that since it's 191 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:37,640 little stature, because the memory of its failure doing it 192 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,040 when it was young is stronger than the muscles that it's 193 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,720 developed in its mature body. Amen. 194 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:48,360 The elephant's mind is still chained even though it's body 195 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,960 and it's ability is really free from that. 196 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,280 It's not the rope that's holding the elephant there. 197 00:12:54,480 --> 00:13:00,200 It's it's memory. Why someone say Amen? 198 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,920 It's it's memory. I came across something the 199 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,880 other day I was doing Friday. Some of this stuff was coming on 200 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,640 my mind before we were going to to the conference. 201 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,600 And I came across something else again that kind of underscores 202 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:16,720 this. It was a very well documented 203 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:21,320 experiment by two students of MIT that were going for their 204 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,000 doctorate program and and they proved the power of memory in, 205 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,880 in many instances, the power of memory from the past to control 206 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,880 our present. And what they did is they 207 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:36,120 implanted a lab mouse, as I know the poor mice always get it. 208 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:41,520 They implanted the lab mouse's memory within the brain of 209 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,880 another lab mouse. All right. 210 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,480 So they took some memories of 1 and they implanted it into the 211 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,000 mouse of another within the brain of another lab mouse. 212 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,360 And that memory, the exchange of the memory of one mouse to 213 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,840 another, controlled the present actions of the mouse. 214 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:07,600 That it didn't occur to the first time they took this is a 215 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,720 possibility. They took memory cells. 216 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,880 They took memory cells in particular of a bad experience 217 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,440 from a mouse and put it into a different mouse that didn't have 218 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,360 that experience. But when they put that mouse in 219 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:26,760 the context of where the first mouse had been when that memory 220 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:32,760 first happened, that mouse reacted to the environment in a 221 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:38,640 timid, scared way because of the bad experience and the bad 222 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:43,480 memory. It was just showcasing the power 223 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,560 of memory. Someone came in. 224 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,400 See, there's some memories in our life that haunt us more than 225 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:56,200 they do help us. Psychologists tell us that 226 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,720 negative memories stick more strongly in our brains than 227 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,240 positive memories do. That's the reason you'll be 228 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,560 quicker to think about what negatively has happened to you. 229 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,720 That's the reason why you'll be quicker to remember your failure 230 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,520 than you do your success. That that's the reason why 231 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,520 you'll you'll remember your fall rather than you climbing the 232 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,840 rung of the ladder. It's called negativity bias. 233 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,600 It's the way that the brain has conditioned itself to survive. 234 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,480 Because when we remember pain and we remember danger, Amen. 235 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,280 From past experiences, it's supposed to be a protective 236 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,360 thing really for us in the future. 237 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,600 It's supposed to be a survival type of trait. 238 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,280 But something that was meant to be protective to us and our 239 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,200 generation has become paralyzing to us. 240 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,680 So now as a person recalls A traumatic memory and something 241 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,120 that has all these emotions that are intense. 242 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,240 Amen. That's this sewn in the fabric 243 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,560 of that memory. And allow me just to get a 244 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,760 little nerdy here today. You have in your brain the 245 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,800 amygdala, right? It's the fear center of the 246 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,440 brain. It kicks in when you begin to 247 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,480 recall that negativity from something, a memory of something 248 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,000 that was passed. And as a result of it, your body 249 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,760 begins to experience what you experience. 250 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,000 Whenever that occurred, it starts happening again. 251 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:19,840 Your heart rate increases, Your muscles tightening tighten. 252 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,360 The thinking Amen becomes foggy. That's the reason why some 253 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,240 people freeze and overreact and sometimes shut down when they're 254 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:34,560 facing something that feels familiar to a past wrong or a 255 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,560 past circumstance. They call them today triggers 256 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,600 because it's not just even the fact that that that you are 257 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,920 recalling the memory. You are in reality and the 258 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:51,400 emotional part of your body, reliving the memory. 259 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,880 Science tells us that negative memories can cause mental ruts 260 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,440 in our brains. The brain will repeatedly 261 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,120 rehearse what went wrong over and over. 262 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,319 By doing so, it is reinforcing the emotional impact of that 263 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:10,480 moment in our brains. It's almost like you remember, 264 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,280 and I know this won't speak called generations here, but you 265 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,079 remember the old vinyl records and you get a scratch on it and 266 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:19,720 that little needle's going along and it just skips back to that 267 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,040 same spot. It skips back to that same spot. 268 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,560 It skips back to that same spot, and negative memories have that 269 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,920 type of impact on your brain. It's like you can't get past 270 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,720 that spot. It skips back there and it skips 271 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,280 back there, and it's making it hard to imagine a different 272 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:41,400 outcome, a different tomorrow. I'm feeling the Holy Ghost come 273 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,680 here right now. A different future. 274 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,520 Amen. Maybe for an environment that 275 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:52,000 seems very, very familiar to you, it can shape your identity. 276 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,800 They can shape your belief system. 277 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,280 That's the reason why people get caught in the vice of saying, 278 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,960 well, I'm not good enough. I always mess up. 279 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:07,040 Nothing ever works out for me. I'll never get past this. 280 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,920 It's the power of memory. Some of us, and maybe all of us 281 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,280 to a certain degree, have those things where there's one failure 282 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:24,400 from your past that overshadows your future. 283 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:33,440 Someone say yes. Moses knew something about 284 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,080 memory. He understood that memory is a 285 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:41,360 weapon. It'll either fight for you or it 286 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:46,400 will fight against you. It'll either be your sword or 287 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,480 it'll become your chain. Israel standing on the edge of 288 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,920 the Jordan River. They're facing these fortified 289 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,480 cities. They're facing the giants that 290 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,880 they remembered even their parents talking about 40 years 291 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,280 ago. They understood that once they 292 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,960 cross that Jordan, there are still several, several battles 293 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,960 to be had. And as Moses stands there with 294 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,280 those who had memories of the past and he addresses them and 295 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,840 talk to them, he wasn't trying to put new weaponry in their 296 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,840 hands. He wasn't trying to give them 297 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,840 new suits of armor or a fresh sword or a spear to crossover 298 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,200 the Jordan whip. He wasn't even trying to give 299 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:31,760 them a new strategy, a man to handle new blueprints that they 300 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:35,160 could go by. No, he reaches in the past and 301 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:40,560 he grabs an old story, their story that they could build upon 302 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,640 that they could launch forward from. 303 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,120 Can someone say man? He says, Moses says, look at it 304 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:49,520 first. He says I'm not talking to those 305 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,960 who don't know. I'm not talking to those that 306 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,560 have no memory what I'm talking about, He says, But I'm talking 307 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,200 to people that saw God's greatness. 308 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,880 I'm talking to people that remember his mighty hand. 309 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,800 I'm talking to people that remember his outstretched harm. 310 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,560 I'm talking to people that went through the wilderness and ate 311 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:15,120 the Manor and drank the water that came from a flintstone. 312 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:19,320 I'm talking to the people that knew what it was like to walk 313 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,920 through the Red Sea with walls of. 314 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,360 Water on the left and on the right. 315 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:27,000 I'm talking to people that seen their enemies drown. 316 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,240 That's the what the words with the memory of that verse 4 says 317 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:39,160 and how the Lord have destroyed them speaking the Pharaoh in the 318 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:45,440 army unto this day. It's a fascinating phrase. 319 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,960 It's that phrase as I've been reading this year in the 320 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,600 contemporary English Bible. It's that phrase that brought me 321 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:57,160 to this message today. The NLT says it like this. 322 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,800 He destroyed them and they have not recovered to this day. 323 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,040 The CED, which is what I'm reading this year, says Egypt 324 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:11,680 still suffers from that defeat. In other words, the memory of 325 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:18,080 God's power for Egypt crippled their future. 326 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:24,120 It wasn't just about the army drowning in the Red Sea. 327 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:31,440 There was a psychological defeat that every time they thought 328 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:36,280 about it and the hands got sweaty and the trembling of 329 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,800 night sweats, you know, in the dreams at night came in that 330 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,240 they could not recover from that divine blow that was by God. 331 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,440 And the same Red Sea that opened to the Israelites became a 332 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,960 watery grave. Amen to Egypt, the same memory 333 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:56,520 that empowered a people, Amen also on the other side of the 334 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,720 coin, paralyzed a people. And so Israel's memory in this 335 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,600 moment was to propel them forward while Egypt's memory 336 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,320 haunted them. And so it is though, ladies and 337 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,640 gentlemen, with each and every one of us. 338 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,360 Memory is either paralyzing to you or it's propelling to you. 339 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,240 It'll or hunt you or it will arm you. 340 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,320 The same mind, that same region of your brain, Amen. 341 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,200 That rehearses. Amen. 342 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,120 Sometimes victories has the capability of rehearsing 343 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:31,400 defeats. Not everything about Egypt was 344 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,560 good that Israel faced. But Moses says, as we're 345 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,720 standing right here, you can't stand here and think about the 346 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,720 whips. You can't stand here and think 347 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,000 about the taskmasters. You can't stand and here and 348 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,920 think about the babies that were thrown in the Nile River, he 349 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,320 says. You got to think about the 350 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,240 victory. You can't think about the 351 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,200 negative. You can't think about the 352 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,720 failure. You got to think. 353 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,400 You got to rehearse the right story. 354 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:12,480 Someone say Amen to the Lord so lastingly destroyed Egypt and 355 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,760 ringed them lasting impact on the future. 356 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,600 They never be able to bring back those drowned Egyptians. 357 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:30,840 When Moses speaks those 7 verses in this chapter, he doesn't 358 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:36,720 bring up to this next generation of the negativity of Egypt. 359 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:46,680 He doesn't bring up the hardships per SE of the 360 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,880 wilderness journey of the Fiery serpents. 361 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:55,640 Doesn't mention that. He doesn't mention their failure 362 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:02,640 of making a golden calf. He doesn't mention their failure 363 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:10,000 of immoral alliances with Moab. He talks to them about their 364 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,840 victory. Someone say, Amen. 365 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,720 Can I tell you that all those memories were there, both the 366 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,560 good and the bad. All those memories were there, 367 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:24,600 Amen. Both the victories and the 368 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,960 defeats. And sometimes, as humanity in 369 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,640 our brains are, they'd have been quicker. 370 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,120 Amen, to call to memory the negative, unbidden, unwelcome 371 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:38,200 negative would arose quicker than the positive. 372 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,960 Moses, God knew this. Moses was instructed. 373 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,320 Don't talk to you got to talk to them about the good things. 374 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,960 You got to talk to them about the positive things. 375 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,880 Their feet is where their parents feet stood. 376 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,720 They're going to remember how their mom and dad and 377 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,040 grandparents didn't crossover. They're going to remember the 378 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,240 report of them saying there were giants and we're too small and 379 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,200 we can't do this. They're going to remember all of 380 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,720 that negativity, and they're going to become frozen and 381 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,840 stymied in their place if they don't rehearse the right 382 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:20,720 memories. He would remember. 383 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:27,680 They would remember the 10 spies 40 years earlier and how all 384 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:35,680 that played out. They would remember that, they 385 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:41,240 said in numbers 13 in that moment 40 years ago, he says. 386 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,520 We are like grasshoppers in our own sight. 387 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:52,040 They would remember. They would remember if they 388 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,240 looked back at Egypt. They would remember how strong 389 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:59,240 Pharaoh was. They would remember how entire. 390 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,440 They would remember all the funerals that they attended in 391 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,560 the wilderness because of a lack of faith and unbelief. 392 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,520 But Moses is standing here and he's not. 393 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,880 He's not just being like Israelite historian here. 394 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,560 He's he's not being a history teacher in this moment as much 395 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,520 as he was fighting for their minds and for their memories. 396 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,800 It's what happens in our real lives. 397 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,200 Your, your, your fear is recycled, just a recycled 398 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,160 memory. Matter of fact, some of the 399 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:38,480 greatest fears we have is from an episode we had earlier that 400 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,760 created a feeling and some unease and that recycled fear. 401 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,520 Just a recycled memory. Doubt, right? 402 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,400 You rehearse the defeat and there comes the doubt. 403 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,800 I've been right here before. I had something similar to this. 404 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,360 I didn't do it. It didn't turn out well. 405 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,080 Doubt, I can't do this. I couldn't do it. 406 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:11,320 But doubt, Worry, huh? Old wounds, worry. 407 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:17,240 Can I tell you this morning that faith is the result of a 408 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:24,040 recycled testimony? Faith is remembering the right 409 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,480 things. David understood this principle 410 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,480 when he had already lived part of his life as a young lad. 411 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,960 And he goes to the valley of Allah and he's going to face 412 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,920 Goliath. And Saul pulls him to the side, 413 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:47,360 hearing word about about this plan, about this tenacity from 414 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:51,560 this young man, about going up against what everybody else is 415 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:56,000 running away from. And David tells basically Saul, 416 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,760 the emphasis, the force, the the what it was that drove him to do 417 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,080 this. He said in First Samuel 1737, he 418 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,920 said, the Lord hath delivered me out of the paw of the lion and 419 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,560 out of the paw of the bear, and he will deliver me out of the 420 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,480 hand of this Philistine. You know what David was, he was 421 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,680 harnessing the right memory because I guarantee you as a 422 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,960 shepherd boy, it wasn't always that story. 423 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,720 I guarantee you as a shepherd that there's not probably every 424 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,480 sheep that he could always rescue. 425 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,760 But in this moment, he's not thinking about the ones that he 426 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,280 lost, he's thinking about the times he was victorious. 427 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,520 He said I've taken one out of the paw of the lion. 428 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,240 I've taken one out of the paw of the bear. 429 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,760 And this uncircumcised philistine is not going to be 430 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,720 any different than pay. What are you doing, David? 431 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,640 I'm rehearsing the right memory. I have a choice. 432 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:52,960 I could rehearse when I was defeated. 433 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,880 I could rehearse when I failed. I could rehearse when I gave up. 434 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,600 I could rehearse when I tripped. I could rehearse when I failed. 435 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,160 But I'm choosing right now to rehearse the right memory 436 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,720 because not everything from my past has been bad. 437 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,680 He didn't have been. A new strategy grabbed a hold of 438 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,280 an old story, an old testimony of a win. 439 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:26,000 Joshua stands besides Moses, and he would later say to the people 440 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:32,040 in Joshua one and verse #9 Have not I commanded thee, Joshua 441 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,920 speaking, Be strong and of good courage. 442 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:40,680 Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord by God is 443 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,440 with thee, whether so ever thou goest. 444 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,800 Joshua's one of those ones that had memory of all of the former 445 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,880 that was there along the way. Concerning the former, Joshua 446 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,480 Amen was using memory on his side. 447 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,480 He remembered the plagues. He remembered their deliverance 448 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,280 from the Red Sea. He remembered the Walls of 449 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,480 Jericho falling down flat. He remembered all that. 450 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,320 Listen to me today. There may have been a period in 451 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:21,520 your life when you failed, but that doesn't mean everything 452 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,560 during that period of your life was a failure. 453 00:30:34,070 --> 00:30:37,750 Hear me, We condition this society. 454 00:30:37,750 --> 00:30:40,630 Humanity really does this. It's bad that we do, but we do. 455 00:30:43,190 --> 00:30:47,590 People fail and so we throw out every success and victory they 456 00:30:47,590 --> 00:30:50,990 had in the same time period of their failure along with their 457 00:30:50,990 --> 00:30:56,440 failure because they failed. Does it mean everything during 458 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:03,120 that time period was a failure? And so then Brother Malone, as a 459 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,280 result, we go forward in life and that the negativity 460 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,800 humanistic system of us wants to be skipping over to the same 461 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,720 thing on that time period. That only concerns failure, and 462 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,360 it makes our steps slow and our surety and our confidence 463 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:19,880 lacking. Amen. 464 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,440 But I'm here to tell you today, even in the moments when you did 465 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,200 fail, there were other things prior to that happening that 466 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,000 were successes, if you will, that were wins, that were good. 467 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,760 It is up to you. We must choose what story we're 468 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,360 going to rehearse. That doesn't mean the failure 469 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:37,680 does. That didn't happen. 470 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,840 It just means I'm not going to live my life defined by it. 471 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,560 I'm not going to live. I'm not going to empower that to 472 00:31:45,640 --> 00:32:00,440 have power over my future. Someone say, man, stand for me 473 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,440 today. I'm going to hold you much 474 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,600 longer. Your memory is a weapon. 475 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,160 Fighting for you or fighting against you. 476 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:16,680 There may be some of you today. You have one foot straddling if 477 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:21,080 you will, into the wilderness and 1 foot planted in the 478 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,640 promised land, right? Almost feel torn between 2 479 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,920 worlds. Promise. 480 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,520 It's there. Todd said it 40 years earlier. 481 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:38,800 It's there, but I got memories of that time and you're in this 482 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,600 mode of in between almost stuff that got my foot there, but I'm 483 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,720 still work foot in the the wilderness and all we got it 484 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,680 really to to point to keeping us in that stage. 485 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:56,720 Is this our memory? One thing holding us back, our 486 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:08,720 memory, not Pharaoh, not giants, not walls, but a memory to this 487 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:14,000 congregation this morning. It's time for you to fight for 488 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,640 your mind. It's time for you to take your 489 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,840 memory back. It's time for you to choose what 490 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:30,480 you will remember. And let's just allay all the 491 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,840 thoughts and feelings. Let's let's think this real 492 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,560 quickly. You're not starting from scratch 493 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,480 because you do have pieces of a old story that you could stand 494 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,200 on if you choose to remember them. 495 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,120 You've seen his hand before. You should survive some battles 496 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,600 that you should not have made it out of. 497 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:02,000 Your memory is a weapon. So, Brother McGee, what's the 498 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,760 thing, ladies and gentlemen, if we can just bow our heads today? 499 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,880 The thing is this, You must rehearse the right story. 500 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:17,800 Moses says, let me rehearse God's works and miracles and his 501 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:23,320 mighty acts that you were Privy to, that you experienced. 502 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:29,159 Let me rehearse the faithfulness of God. 503 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:35,040 And he says as you rehearse that memory, go on and walk into your 504 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:43,840 future victory and listen for please, I don't want to be 505 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,360 misunderstood or misconstrued here today, Pastor. 506 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,159 He's just insensitive. And that is not my, that is not 507 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,320 my heart today. Please, I don't, I don't want to 508 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,560 be misunderstood as like, well, you know, I really have some 509 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,400 things that, you know, really conjure up some emotions in my 510 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,760 past and it, it is crippling. And I don't doubt that one bid. 511 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,040 I don't doubt that one bid. So please, I, I don't have this 512 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,640 mindset and adage. I'm just saying like, we'll just 513 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,160 get over it, you know, go on. But that's not, that's not what 514 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:16,280 I'm getting at. I'm just saying when that 515 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:21,720 happens, whatever means, whatever tool or gimmick, 516 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:24,240 however you must go about it whenever that happens. 517 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,480 It's like with the record. If you can just pick the needle 518 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:37,160 up, I know it just skipping on that same line, same line, same 519 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,040 part of your life. But if you can just pick that 520 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,680 needle up and just place it in the next track over. 521 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,640 There's some that's not heard every song on your record yet 522 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,520 because you've allowed it just to get to that point where it 523 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,640 skips and it skips and it skips. Hallelujah. 524 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:12,440 I'm here to tell you today there is a merciful God that's wanted 525 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,920 to empower you to lift the needle up and just set it on the 526 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:35,280 next track and hear a melody. This soldier is open today. 527 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,880 There's not one of us don't to have some accusing memories. 528 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,000 There's not one of us that don't have some accusing memories that 529 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,600 try to dictate our future, that our mind just defaults to. 530 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:53,200 Oh, but with God's power and God's faithfulness, he's wanting 531 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:58,000 us to go back to those same eras of time and pick out the winds 532 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,160 and pick out the successes and pick out. 533 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,160 Oh yeah, by Shia a story. Sorry to remember. 534 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,400 I know your context may feel similar to where you felt 535 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,280 before. I know your context may feel 536 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,440 similar to where you were before when you faltered. 537 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,680 But it don't have to be the same story. 538 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,520 Don't let the emotion of the past overwhelm you for what God 539 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,520 is wanting to do in this moment. Now crossover toward it. 540 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,960 You crossed over the Red Sea. Crossover toward it. 541 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,880 There's something on the other side of this boundary of water 542 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:56,560 for your life. Come on, let's talk to him. 543 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,160 If you're praying at the altar for at the Pew, I wish right now 544 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,120 we could just press in here for a moment. 545 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,280 The Holy Ghost is here. The Spirit of the Lord is here. 546 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,960 I'm wondering if we can just press in right now for a moment. 547 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,600 Could someone that prays start to lift up their voice in some 548 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,480 prayer right now? Could someone go to God in some 549 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,240 prayer right now? Hallelujah. 550 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,200 Let's petition the heavens right now. 551 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,080 Hallelujah, God, I have the choice. 552 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,160 I have the choice. God, am I going to dredge up the 553 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,520 negative or how am I going to dredge up the positive? 554 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,000 God, am I going to be held hostage by my failure or I'm 555 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,920 going to remember. Lord, your faithfulness and how 556 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,680 you brought me through some things, help me remember the 557 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,480 right things. Come on, Sir. 558 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,880 Come on, ma'am. Young and old alike. 559 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,280 It doesn't matter if you're single. 560 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:45,880 It doesn't matter if you're married. 561 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,520 It doesn't matter if you're a grandparent. 562 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,040 God is reaching today.