Latest / THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER / The Importance of a Right Outlook - Part 1 - Jan 6, 2013 - The Potter’s House of Dallas

Transcript

The Importance of a Right Outlook - Part 1 - Jan 6, 2013 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We were having a day off and we were just
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: chilling around the house and I was cooking something that
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I'm retired from. But only under duress and stress and
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: picketing of my children and my wife, I go in
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: there and come out of retirement and stir up a
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: little something. And this particular day I've made a banana pudding.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. it was, it was, it was savaged kind
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: of stuff, make you slap your mama. And so we
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: took a big picture of it and put it on
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Facebook and people started telling what they were doing and
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: their stories and how their families represent this lady wrote
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: this most amazing, uh, piece about her family and her
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: traditions and, and, and even, uh, about her love of
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: the ministry and so forth and so on lady out
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: of Nashville. And, uh, I was so moved by what
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: she wrote that I wished I had said something back
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: and didn't. I prayed and said, Lord, if I ever
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: get a chance, I'm going to say something back to
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: that lady. And then she hit me up on Twitter.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: When I pray for something, even something as simple as that,
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: and God does it, I get all teary-eyed. Just exciting,
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: you know. And I got a chance to talk to her.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: And so we started communicating back and forth, me and
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: this lady. I didn't even know who she was. And
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: in the course of the conversation, she direct messaged me
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: and told me, she said, not that it matters, but
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: I think I should tell you, I'm blind. And I thought,
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: how could you describe life so beautifully and be so
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: happy in your spirit and in your heart and talk
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: about singing and cooking and family and and the feel
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: of the sun on your face and all of that,
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: and be blind. I was amazed by this woman, and
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: I talked about her so much. Oprah had her on
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: her show. The lady is completely blind, and she's always
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: on Facebook and Twitter encouraging other people. I used her
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: this morning to say to you that the vision I'm
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: talking about is not the vision of That you go
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: to an eye specialist to perfect. Put contacts in. Get
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: glasses over. That's important too. But that woman becomes proof positive.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: That your outlook is not always determined by physicalities. But
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: rather by your in look. This is the part of time.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. I'm
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: Bishop T.D. Jackson, excited and delighted to have this opportunity
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: to be in your life and to share the word
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: of the Lord as we step into a brand new year.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: You know, whenever I get with my wife and we
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: start talking about our family and where we're going as
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: a couple, she always wants details. Who, what, when, where, why, how?
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: And I tell her, girl, you got to walk by faith.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: Since she's not around today, let me tell you, there
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: are some moments that I walk to and wonder, Lord,
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: I sure would love to have some details. But God
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: is not always big on details. The truth of the
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: matter is, if you're going to walk with God, you
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: have to walk by faith. I'm going to share a
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: series that will help you to become more comfortable in
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: the process when God doesn't give a lot of details.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: The series is Blind Faith. And I want you to
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: understand the importance of the right perspective, the right outlook,
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: and how to move into the new year With the
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: right outlook for the future. Take a look at this
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: and get your heart ready for what God is about
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: to do next in your life. Paul does not pray
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: for the opening of physical eyes. He prays that the
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: eyes of our understanding in Ephesians 1, that the eyes
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: of our understanding might be enlightened. He said, I pray
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: that your inner eye would open up. He said, I
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: pray that the eyes of your understanding. I didn't know
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: my understanding had eyes. He said, yeah. He said, I
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: pray that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened that
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: ye may know what is the hope of your calling.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: What is the riches of his inheritance in the saints
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: us who do believe. He didn't pray about other people
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: at all. He didn't pray about circumstance. He didn't pray
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: about who was going to be president. He didn't pray
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: about none of that. He said, what's going on in
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: your world is not your problem. It's what's going on
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: inside of you that's killing you. I pray that the
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: eyes of your understanding be enlightened. Isn't it so easy
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: to blame outside stuff for inside turmoil? You're the reason
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: I would have done further if mama would have done so.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: I would have done this if dad would have done so.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: I would have been further if he would have loved me.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: I would have been better if he would have been
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: a good partner. I could do this if we could.
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: Isn't it so easy? To blame the outside. Paul said
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: I got one big prayer for you. I pray that
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: you get your head on straight. That's an African American
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: colloquialism for. A substitute for a Jewish expression. The eyes
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: of your understanding. Be enlightened. That you have an epiphany.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: That your eyes be open. That you may know. What
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: is the hope of his calling. What is the riches?
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: What is the hope of his calling? Let me go
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: through one thing at a time. What is the hope
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: of his calling? What you were created for. What God
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: hoped for when he made you. I want you to
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: know that. I want you to know what God hoped
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: for when he made you. Because if you don't know
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: what God hoped for when he made you, then how
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: can you say you're successful? You might be successful at
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: doing something that you weren't even created to do. What
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: did God hope for when he made you? I used
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: to go in the kitchen and cook stuff and whatever
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: it was, I called it. I didn't know what it
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: was going to be. Just whatever it turned out, that's
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: what it was. You got to learn, you know. I
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: created some stuff. I can't recreate it, but I created
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: some original dishes. I didn't have what the cookbook called for.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: I just threw in something else. What is this? Well,
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: it's a beef splendor. Most of us live our lives
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: just throwing in whatever's handy and then calling it whatever
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: we need to call it. But what did God hope
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: for when he created you? What did he have in
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: mind for you to do while you're here? Could you
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: be busy doing stuff that don't even matter and neglecting
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: what you were created to do? He said, I pray
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: that the eyes of your understanding might be enlightened, that
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: you might know what is the hope of his calling.
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: And second thing, that you might know what is the
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: richest of his inheritance in the same. That you might
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: know what God planted down inside of you, your own
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: hidden treasure. Or are you so busy seeing what's good
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: about other people that you don't see what's good about you?
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: What God placed down inside of you? What gifts lie
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: inside of you? What is his inheritance? Not your inheritance.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: What is his inheritance in the saints? I want you
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: to know that. I want you to know that God
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: took his inheritance and hid it down in your trash.
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: There's treasure in your trash. Do you know good if
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: you don't know that? The third thing, he said, I
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: want you to know what is the exceeding greatness of
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: his power to us who believe. How much power God
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: will invest if you believe. Wow. He said, I want
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: you to know that. I just want you to know.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not giving it to you. I just want you
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: to know how much power God would invest if you believe.
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: That's some great stuff. Jesus healed blind people, blind people
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: over and over and over again. He's not after disease
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: on the outside. He's after disease on the inside. He's
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: trying to tell us how important it is that you
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: get your head on straight. That's either your understanding being light,
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: that you might know some stuff. That I'm going to
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: say it this way, that your in look determines your outlook.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: He takes a guy like the apostle Paul and meets
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: him on the road to Damascus, knocks him off his beast,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: takes away his sight on the outside, but flashes neon
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: signs on the inside. And Paul is bright on the inside,
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: though dark on the outside. So dark that he had
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: to be led by the man he was leading on
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: the outside. But all of them sat at his feet
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: to hear about the light he saw on the inside.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: Are you hearing what I'm saying? This particular text that
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this morning is, to me,
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: the Magna Carta of blindness, the healing of blindness. It
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: is so unique, first of all, because of the methodology
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: whereby Christ heals him. It's so base. It's so vile.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: Some say they could not take it. For God to...
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: spit in your eye. Let me ask you, how many
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: people have ever been spat on? It's an unforgettable experience.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: It might have happened when you were seven years old
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: on the back of a school bus, but here you are, 47,
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: you still remember that gook sliding down your face and
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: what it said and what it meant and how you
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: reacted when they did it. How many of you who
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: raised your hand and you've been spat on, you smiled
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: through it. No, it's not something you smile about. It's
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: degrading to agree. It's insulting to you spat on me
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: like I'm dirt. Jesus spat on him. And the dynamics
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: of the healing are so unique. First of all, we
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: don't see him healing any other blind man quite this way.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: Each one of them he healed differently. He does not
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: want us to develop a recipe for healing blindness because
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: each of us has an awakening a different way. Some
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: people get it through the music. Some people get it
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: through the words. Some people get it through a conversation.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: We have different ways of coming to a moment of
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: greatness where we see things. Some people get it at 20.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: Some people, they get their selves together at early ages.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: They spend their life on top. Other people, by the
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: time you get any sense, you're too old to do
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: anything about it. Paul says, when I was a child,
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: I thought as a child, spoke as a child, understood
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: as a child, understood as a child, understood as a child.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: I love your understanding being a lady. Understood as a child,
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: understood as a child. I could see like a child,
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: saw everything like a kid.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Kids are
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: always selfish. It's inherent in youth. It's selfish. The whole
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: world is about them. Me, me, me, me. When I
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: became a man, when I became what? A man. When
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: I evolved into adulthood, how do you know? I put
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: away childish things. It could be possible that your life
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: is littered with childish things while you pray adult prayers.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Your prayer life could exceed your vision and your whole
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: life could be faltered. And that's interesting to understand that
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: God doesn't heal everybody the same way. Some of you
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: are in the process of being healed and trying to
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: straighten out everybody else. You're marshals and deputies over everybody
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: else's spirituality. While the truth be told, deep down inside,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: you have barrenness in your womb, discouragement in your heart,
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: and God is not finished with you. And I'm not
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: implying that you have to be finished in order to
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: minister to people, because if that were the case, I'm
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: going to go sit down. What I am saying to
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: you is that you become a judge, jury, and a
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: hangman over people while you are still afflicting yourself. Because
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's easier to fix other people than it is
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: to fix yourself. This is an amazing story. And it's
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: so big and it's so bold because it also lets
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: us know that healing is progressive. One touch doesn't always
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, one touch doesn't always do it. One
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: coming to the altar might not always do it. One
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: time having hands laid on you might not always do it.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: That you could be functioning up under a first touch experience.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: Perpetrating to see better than you do. And that's why
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: it's good. I get distracted by all of that. And
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: when I get distracted by all of that, I miss
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: some significant information. Jesus has come to Bethsaida.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: Still to come. on the potter's touch.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Could you not heal this blind man in Bethsaida? Why
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: did you take him out of Bethsaida to perform the
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: miracle when you're God of the whole earth? What do
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: you want the blind man to see about his environment?
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Because until the blind man sees his environment correctly, His
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: outlook will never change. The emptiness of an open heart
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: creates a cavity for God to fill. But a closed
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: mind never receives anything from God. The only difference between
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: you and the person you admire is the perspective they
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: have on life.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: let me lead the way, it's time for blind faith.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: around your neck and leave you limited. so that they
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: can have fellowship and you can have failure. If you
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: your outcome.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: For helping us reach others with your best gift, we
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: would like to give you Blind Faith, four insightful messages
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: on DVD, and as a bonus, receive pecking orders on
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: DVD with a 2013 photo calendar reminding you that God
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: wants to position you for impact, expose you to powerful experiences,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: give the courage to step out in faith, I.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Think the perspective is critical in order for you to
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: be an overcomer, to be victorious. It's not what happens
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: to you. It's how you feel about what happens to you.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: The ability to manage problems and situations is what determines
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the CEO from the janitor. I've been both. And I
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: can clearly tell you, the higher up you go, the
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: more problems you encounter. And your ability to have proper
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: perspective under fire is critical. And frankly, it takes discipline.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Because no matter who you are, where you are, the
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: heart trembles with fear. Your mind races with possibilities. But
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: if you can discipline yourself to hold on to your
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: perspective while you are under fire, you can overcome anything.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: That takes discipline, not emotionalism. You can't dance your way
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: into this. You have to be sober and be vigilant
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: because you're under fire. Your perspective is being attacked. The
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: enemy is trying to make you think that you are
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: not coming out or that you don't have what it
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: takes or that you can't do it or that you can't,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: you can't, you can't. But if you can hold on
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: to your perspective and be disciplined enough to keep the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: car in the middle of the road even though the
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: wind is rocking from side to side, you'll drive through
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: the storm. And when the storm is over, you'll still
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: be standing. They brought him a blind man. I don't
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: know who they were. The Bible never tells us who
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: they were. But thank God for they. God will always
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: give you a they. Might not be a mama. May
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: not be a father. There are many people in here
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: right now who've never known, never known the love of
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: a father. That's so amazing to me as a father.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: It's so amazing. I cannot describe to you How big
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: that love is. And how different that love is from
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the love of a mother. Totally different. And there are
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: some people who never had that. They cannot even fathom
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: what that would be like. My wife and I have
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the same kids. Our reaction is totally different. She does
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: stuff that I could never do. I do things that
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: she could never do. We love so differently that sometimes
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: our love gets into hand-to-hand combat. She wants to go
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: in and nurture the kids. And I want to discipline them.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: She wants to go in and sue them. And I
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: want to kill the perpetrator. And we're just arguing. And
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: she said, get some medicine. I said, no, get a gun.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: We must protect the village. Kill anything that comes near
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the gate. We love violently. Passionately. I will tell you.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Some people have never known that kind of love, that protective,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: provisionary propensity of masculine love. A man, a good man
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: defines himself by his ability to protect and provide for
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: what he loves. Whether you want to go to Bible
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: or go in the jungle, a male is a protector.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: He fights for the food. He brings in the stuff.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And when a man can't protect it and can't provide,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: he is biversely emasculated. Some people have never known that.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: They don't understand that. And even though later they get
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: married to a man, they are married to an alien.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Because they think that he's a woman in pants. Don't
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: make your man your girlfriend. understand what hurts him it's
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: different from what hurts you but equally as important to
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: him because he won't tell you and if you ask
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: him what's wrong he's gonna say nothing Some people have
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: never known the love of a mother. That's amazing. Nothing
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: like the love of a mother. A good mama will
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: go to hell and back for you. Yes, she will.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about some of this stuff we see today.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: They're just women having babies. There's a difference between a
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: woman having a baby and a mama. When you a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: real mama, when you a real mama, everybody else can
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: turn their back on that baby. Everybody else can walk
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: away and a mama will climb through hell's kitchen and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: snatch her baby back. You ain't been in a fight
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: till you done messed around and messed with one of
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: them kids. Some people have never had the benefit of
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: all of that support around them. They've never had a
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: perfect environment for them to experience these types of support mechanisms.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And yet, they survive. Miracle upon miracle. Didn't get water,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: didn't get sunlight, plant still grew. Against all odds, here
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a little, there a little, surviving off of whatever you
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: could get, however you could get to get up on
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: your feet, you made it anyway. And instead of grieving
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: over what you didn't get, you ought to celebrate the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: fact that in spite of it, I still made it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. That's amazing. That's amazing. When I look around
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and I see you, I can see why you made it.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You got watered. You got sunshine. You got carried down
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to school. Somebody helped you with homework. Somebody went down
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: to watch you play football. I guess you did make it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: But look at me. I made it too. By myself,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: on my own, dirt in my fingernails, tears in my eyes, confused,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit crazy, but I am here now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I know what I just said represents a portion of
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: this congregation and I wish you would blow your cover
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and give God a praise that you made it anyway.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: He'll get it to you, even if it didn't come
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: from the places that other people got it from. He'll
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: always send somebody who cares about you. This is a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: poet who cares about this blind man. They're doing business.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Who cares about this blind man? There's a bunch of
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: men down here, sweaty men, dragging in big fish. It's musky.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: It's rowdy. It's funky. And yet there's a day. Did
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I say that? Oh, it's out. Can't do nothing about it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: There's a day. Pray for me. You got to intercede
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: harder because it's not working this morning. There's a day
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: in your life. Wouldn't it have been something if the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: blind man hadn't listened today? I ain't going nowhere. Ain't
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: no need. I made it this far. Leave me alone.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: They brought him to Jesus. Jesus has come to Bethsaida.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: They brought him to Jesus in Bethsaida. And Jesus, the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: first thing he does is turn around and takes him
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: out of the village, out of Bethsaida. You just got here, Jesus.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, you got stuff to do. You came to Bethsaida.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: You come with your troops and your staff and your team.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: You just got to Bethsaida. They brought him a blind man.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And the first thing Jesus does is lead him out
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of what he just came into. I am so distracted
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: by the blindness that I forgot to look at the environment.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Why does Jesus turn right around on his heels and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: walk out of what he just walked into when he
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: sees a blind man? He led him out of Bethsaida.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And healed him. But I say, God, are you not
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: God in Bethsaida? Could you not heal this blind man
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: in Bethsaida? Why did you take him out of Bethsaida
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to perform the miracle when you're God of the whole earth?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: What do you want the blind man to see about
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: his environment? Because until the blind man sees his environment correctly,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: his outlook will never change. Jesus brings the blind man
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: out of Bethsaida, brings him outside the city, and then
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: takes nothing. He says, your healing will take nothing once
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I get you out of your environment. Let me tell
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you how easy. He spat on him. He said, my
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: spit is better than the wealth of Bethsaida. God's foolishness
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is better than the wisdom of this world. And you
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: are trying to have a God experience in a worldly environment.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: They led him out of Bethsaida. And when he got
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: him out of the environment, he spat in his eye. Jesus.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Some people say, you know, normally you spit on me.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: he's still working on me I'm not there yet I'm
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: very open about this I'm not there I'm in stages
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of recovery I need my medicine if I don't get
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: my treatment I have a reaction and if you spat
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: on me I can't guarantee the whole ghost might stand
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: up I don't know there's two of them folk down
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: in there they argue all the time depending on who
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: win what you would get might get prayed for might
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: get punched How you like Vegas? Hope you're a gambler.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Odds are against you. Might not get through this real well.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Jesus spat on him. Why doesn't this man get angry?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Because there comes a time in your life that you
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: have been blind so long, you don't care what it
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: takes to get out of your situation. You simply want out.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Being insulted is a luxury for people who are not
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: in trouble. When you are in trouble bad enough, you
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: cannot afford to be insulted. We'll be right back after this.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: The emptiness of an open heart creates a cavity for
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: God to fill, but a closed mind never receives anything
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: from God. The only difference between you And the person
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you admire is the perspective they have on life.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: When the one who gave you sight says, follow me,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: let me lead the way, it's time for blind faith.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Don't allow people to anchor you down as an albatross
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: around your neck and leave you limited so that they
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: can have fellowship and you can have failure. If you
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: are disciplined in your perspective, you will be victorious in
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: your outcome.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: For helping us reach others with your best gift, we
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: would like to give you blind faith. For insightful messages
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: on DVD and as a bonus, receive pecking orders on
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: DVD with a 2013 photo calendar reminding you that God
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: wants to position you for impact, expose you to powerful experiences,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: give the courage to step out in faith and the
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: knowledge to make a difference. Just visit our website or
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: call 1-800-BISHOP-2 today.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: The world is in chaos. Our churches are under fire.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Our leaders need a new set of tactics and strategies.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Let them know. It's coming.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: T.D.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Jakes presents Pastors and Leaders 2013. No church left behind.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Sign up today.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I'm out of time. I've got to stop there. But
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: it is so important that you understand the outlook is
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: critical to walk by faith and not by sight is important.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So many people put their life on hold for years.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: waiting to see their way clear, they absolutely never get there.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I pray that you will really get this in your heart,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: not just your head, but in your heart and step
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: into 2013, not waiting for signs and wonders and see
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: your way clear and let it rain on the carpet.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You got to have blind faith or you can't go forward.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: God bless you. I'll see you next time. Same station,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: same time.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: This is the part we're stuck in.