"A Formula For Victory" with Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection at one time in our life for another we have all experienced wounds disappointments failed relationships physical pain financial troubles and so much more deep wounds require deep healing scars are a testimony of God's ability to heal deadly wounds scars mean this is what I overcame this is what how bad it was and this is how good god has healed me this month with your gift of any amount requests Jenson Franklin's new product the deep healing path including his powerful message deep wounds deep healing and a unique set of healing confession cards through this series you'll learn how to trust God with your deepest wounds and experience his supernatural healing you are an overcomer request the deep healing pack today on a preach for just a few moments this morning from Genesis chapter 41 I want to talk about this this story because in the dream that pharaoh had that joseph was to interpret was the skinny cows and the fat cows representing the interpretation of that was seven years of famine and seven years aplenty the fat cows being the years of greatness and plenty and the skinny cows representing bad days so so what you have is I believe that speaks to us today is that all of us in life are going to have good days and bad days all of us in life are going to have good times and bad times and and what I want you to understand is the Bible is a manual for successful living not just in the good times but it teaches us how we are to think to live to react to the good times and the bad times the times of Plenty and the times of scarcity the beautiful seasons of our life and the extremely ugly times of our life the principle that I'm going to share with you today can save your marriage the principle that I'm about to give you can save your family your job your relationship with God even your relationship with this church God wants to give you spiritual success and the proper interpretation of Joseph's dream would be the secret to Egypt's survival and the secret to his own family survival God showed him the way I want you to handle the bad times is by recognizing and it all depends on how you handle the good times the way you handle your good years will determine if you survive the bad years in other words you must learn to maximize the positive if you're gonna get through this famine that's coming Joseph was saying in the interpretation if you don't learn how to maximize the good times and minimize the bad times then you won't make it through the family you see the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts was poured out upon the disciples in the upper room and I want you to understand that if you don't get the Holy Spirit saturating your upper room which is your mind and your thinking when the bad times come you will become cynical you will become critical you will become depressed discouraged you will become negative and we need a baptism in our Upper Room of the Holy Spirit we need a spirit baptized brain to deal with the bad times and not lose focus of the good see I guess what I'm trying to say to you is this in the dream that the skinny cows ate up the fat cows and in other words here's what I want you to get this is the main point if you don't watch it you allow the bad times to eat up the good times and you begin to take on a belief system in your mind that begins to defeat you we need spirit baptized brains so that we will think right especially in the bad days because if I think right I will do right if I think right I will act right one man said we need a checkup from our neck up I like that if you don't get a checkup from your neck up you'll become guilty of stinking thinking and you begin to allow the bad to swallow up and eat up the good and that's not God's will for you to allow that to happen we are victorious and more than conquerors not just in the good times but we're more than conquerors in the bad times if you don't let the bad eat up the good I want a sanctified mind not just sanctified from lust and unclean thoughts but I want to sanctify mine that is the mind of Christ that when bad times and debt disappointments and damaging news comes to my life I don't allow the bad to eat up all my joy and all my salvation and all of my freedom and all of my baptism in the Holy Spirit all the things that I've got going for me if I don't watch it I can let the bad thing swallow up the good things even in church 2nd Timothy 2 and verse 20 says in a great house everybody shall a great house there are vessels of Honor and vessels of dishonor see when you come to church you can let the bad that you don't like swallow up all the good in a great house and there's vessels of honor and dishonor and then he says there's vessels of gold there's vessels of silver there's vessels of wood there's vessels of clay and the devil likes to highlight the one problem you have he wants you to focus on the hypocrite or focus on the thing you don't like or notice that clay dirt thing and forget about the gold and the silver and all the good things and let the badge eat up the good but I don't care what you focus on God's Word has declared it's a great house and so is your house and so is your family and so is your marriage but if you allow it the bad can eat up the good if you can't give me a Pentecost story man I'll take a Baptist nod right now I'll take her I'll take anything on get from but I'm preaching better than you're letting on say I have a great house but the enemy wants you to only see the dirt in your house the dirt vessel he doesn't want you to see there's gold in there there's silver in there there's other great things in there just just let that bad eat up the good and have a miserable day thank you Satan and every day we get up like that and let God and let the bad eat up again you are alive you have a destiny you have a promise you have the Word of God you have you you have the Holy Spirit in you and he's greater don't let the bad eat up the gun Charles Dickens wrote a book called A Tale of Two Cities and he begins at my saying it was the best of times and the worst of times and I challenge you to listen to those words because that's the truth in many people's lives today for some of you these are the worst of times but you're not recognized and it's also the best of times you're rebuking me in your mind right now why I'm talking to you and that's what I'm talking about because this book does not want you to give in to your fear and your defeat in your hopelessness that's a lie from Satan and you got to recognize where it's coming from so it was the best of times in the worst of times where the Bible predicts in second Timothy chapter 3 and verse 1 in the last days perilous times shall come we're in those last days but then Joel at the same time not Joel Osteen he's my buddy but Joel the prophet prophesied that in the last days the same last days that perilous times are coming in the last days I will pour out my spirit on all flesh so it's possible to have the best days and the worst days at the same time your worst days can become your best days with Jesus you're my worst days were the days that God got the best anointing out of my life my worst days is when he gave me my greatest messages my worst days when he felt like our family was falling apart was when God was going deep in me and forming things in me that would help thousands of people and I'm saying to you that God has a way of taking the worst days and making them the what you have to do is make up your mind you're not gonna let the bad eat up all the good Philippians four and verse eight finally my brother whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of a good report if there be any virtue if there be any praise think on these things don't let the bad eat up the good think on these good things that's why the Bible said put on the helmet of salvation that means we ought to walk around in these kinds of days we're living in spiritually looking like this and whatever hell brings against us all we have in us is the Word of God that says it is written it is written it is written it is written the good is gonna overcome the bad the good is gonna triumph over the attack when the enemy comes in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord will put a barrier and say you cannot go any further somebody give God a shout of praise if you believe it this is for somebody under the sound of my voice praise God sanctify your brain with the Word of God don't let the enemy get you to maximize the bad and minimize the good Daniel chapter 3 everybody was bowing down to Nebuchadnezzar's decree except three Hebrew boys they would not bow Shadrach Meshach and Abednego and I want to give you a formula for success three plus fire equals four that's a good sermon title right there there were only three Hebrew boys that were put in the fiery furnace until there was fire there were only three but three plus fire equals four and when they got in the fire they met the fourth man and that fourth man was Jesus sometimes listen to me sometimes the only way you can get where God is is to get in the fire sometimes you cannot get to God without going through the fire and three plus fire equals four and I'd rather have Jesus with me in the fire than be in the palace without Jesus because Jesus plus nothing equals everything but everything - Jesus equals nothing if you've got Jesus you shall recover it all somebody give God a praise don't let the enemy eat up the good everybody take a praise break I feels like something's back to break loose a new joy a new anointing a new faith a new encouragement a new anointing through the fire sometimes the only way you can get where God is is to get in the fire millions of people bowing down watch this but Nebuchadnezzar gets transfixed on the three that were standing and he forgets about all the good that was going on in his in his heart what he desired he doesn't see the millions that are bowing down he just gets fixed and the bad in his life starts eating up the good focus on that one bad thing and you don't begin to take over all the massive good things that God is doing in your life if you're not careful you'll let the bad eat up the good I thought about the book of Esther and how that even when it seems like God is not there God is there the scripture said that Esther came to the kingdom for such a time as this and what was happening is there was an evil man by the name of Haman and he had a decree because he was very powerful that when he rode through everybody was to bow down and show him honor he was the King's right-hand man and everybody in that city of Babylon did it except for one Jew named Mordecai and when all of the others were bowing poor ol Haman noticed that one juice standing and he let the bad eat up his good back one June so got ahold of him that he began to plot and he began to strategize how I can not only kill him but I'm gonna kill all the Jewish race I'm gonna wipe them all out because that one guy didn't show me the honor he was supposed to show me one day the Bible said that Haman this evil man was in the presence of the king and the King asked him a question he said oh he said I want to ask you something Haman he said I I have somebody in my mind that I as king want to show great honor to what would you do if you wanted to honor what should the king do to show great honor to this man that I'm thinking of right now and Haman about burst the the the buttons off of his shirt because he thinks he's thinking about him and he oh let's play this game I'll tell you what I would do Oh King I would get a white stallion and I would take the Kings robe and I would wrap it around that man that the King wanted to honor and I would put him on a white stand and I would have somebody take the bridle of that horse and walk through the streets announcing this is the man whom the King honors bow down to him and all of the sudden the King said what a fabulous idea that's what I want you to do to Mordecai that you can you imagine and all of a sudden God turns the table you know the story how that Haman hung on his own galas that he had made to exterminate Mordecai and all the Jewish race the plot turn and now he hung and to this day the Jews have what is called the feast of Purim which is a celebration of how God delivered the race in other words they they have a feast and they give gifts on the feast of Purim to this day the Jews do to relive and celebrate listen what didn't happen we're pretty good at giving God thanks for all the things that he did and has done but when's the last time you thank God for all the things that didn't happen your destiny listen to me carefully like Haman one thing one person one offence one hurt can begin to so consume you that you can lose your destiny you can just be destroyed because you won't let it go maybe they did do you wrong but don't let the bad eat up the good in the rest of your life maybe you were abused but don't let the bad eat up the good maybe you did go through a divorce but that doesn't mean God is finished with you maybe your husband or wife did pass away our child did die in a tragic accident or some horrible thing has happened in your life and and the enemy Satan wants you to be transfixed and not let it ever go and never give you a right to enjoy another day of your life and what a trick of the enemy that is not the voice of the Holy Spirit let it go turn to some howdy beside you and say let it go don't let the bad eat up the good let it go if you're in the woods and a poisonous snake bites you your leg begins to swell you've got a decision to make you can get ticked off at that snake and start chasing him all through the woods trying to get him back for what he did to you and in doing so you're killing yourself and speeding up your own death by doing that or you can let God handle the snake and you go find the Great Physician and let him heal you some of you are so worried about the snake and you don't understand the definition the definition of unforgiveness and and wanting revenge Thank You Holy Spirit the definition of unforgiveness is I'm going to drink this poison so it'll kill my enemy and you're letting the bad eat up the good you're so bitter at that husband that left you that you you don't even see you've got beautiful children you've got a healthy body God is for you and God is with you and God is going to help you don't let the bad destroy the good in your life I want to close with this Joseph illustrates so powerfully the decision you have to make about revenge and unforgiveness about letting the bad destroy the good in your life you talk about somebody who had a right to be offended Joseph is it is thrown into a pit and stripped by his own brothers sold into slavery then he goes to Potiphar's house and hit and Potiphar's wife lies on him commit accuses in fall so he's in prison and stays in jail for four eighteen years for crime he did not commit while there he meets a butler and a baker and they promise him when I get to Pharaoh because of the way you've interpreted the dream to get me out of here I will get you help I will not forget you but the Bible said they both forgot him but here's what's so beautiful and so powerful about this story Joseph now has been raised up 14 years later and he's in the palace and he is he has the keys to all of the silos the world is in a worldwide famine and history records that the population of the earth would have perished had Joseph not preserved the human race with the dream that of storing up in the years of good so that you can handle the seven years of bad you cannot get ahead by getting even and that's what Joseph understood Joseph wept privately but then he came back out and then Genesis 42 and nine and when he looks at him this is the part - gets me and Joseph remembered the dream had that been me I would have remembered the betrayal I would have remembered the woman who lied on me I would have remembered the prison I rotted in for 14 years for crime I didn't commit I would have remembered the butler and the Baker who forgot me when I needed them to remember me I would have remembered all the bad things but Joseph made a decision to not let the bad eat up the good and the Bible said he remembered the dream I'm saying to you today when he remembered the good when he focused and was transfixed on the good you minute for my evil god minute for my good I'm not going look on the bad I'm gonna look on the good it saved his family it saved his nation it saved his destiny and I'm saying to every one of you that if you're going through bad times your enemy Satan wants you to be transfixed on the bad times and let the bad times eat up the good times you've been through drug addiction you may be still addicted alcoholism and Satan says just let the bad times keep eating up the good times eaten up eaten up you're destroying your family you're destroying your destroying relationships the bad is eating up the good but here's the great thing when Jesus steps into your life he's the good thing he's the best thing that ever happened to me and suddenly he stops the bad and where ever bad has happened please listen to me where sin abounds grace does much more about or failure abounds forgiveness much more about where sin abounds grace does much more about where there's tremendous bad there is more good wherever the enemy has done bad God says I am so much bigger than the bad and I can take and reverse things if you just give me your life he remembered the dream I'm through preaching but I want to say to you that you can get free from your past I want to say to you that the way you get over old relationships is new ones and the Lord would say to some people under the sound of my voice behold I do a new thing and don't let the bad eat up the good new thing I'm ready to do in your life trust me worship me praise me honor me don't just don't just love me when I'm blessing you but love me this is a test don't you see this thing's gone your trouble is gonna push you into your destiny there are things that you're gonna get in God that you can only get by going through the fire life is real vivid alive beating breathing it happens behind closed doors and there's joy there's laughter chaos lifelong friendships are forged love is found moments cherished and never forgotten life is a gift and together we are real family real friends real people experiencing real life is free chapel this program has been brought to you by the friends and partners of Jenson franklin media ministries for more information on this broadcast or for additional resources go online at Jenson Franklin dot o-r-g

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Length: 28min 31sec (1711 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 17 2014