The Power of a Little Bit of Hope | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of jensen franklin media ministries you're still going to do everything god called you to do don't you lose hope don't you say well the world's all messed up and everything's messed up and college is messed up and school was messed up i promise you god's gonna fix it i want to share today a message that god has laid on my heart i don't have time to go into it and read it but in first samuel 30 there's this story i preached on it many times it's the story of david at ziglag what happened at ziglag was a fire that burned down his house and everything that he had the amalekites kidnapped his family it was the lowest point in david's life his men spoke of stoning him they had followed him all their life david i believe at that moment was suffering from post-traumatic stress seriously let me just give you a lead up to it when he was a teenager his own father didn't believe in him his father had eight sons and when the prophet came and said one of your boys is going to be king of israel he called for all the boys to be considered and looked at except for david he left david in the field because the father didn't even believe in his son named david jesse the father didn't believe in his son named david he said he's not he made up his mind that he was not king material these other boys are talented and gifted but that one will never amount to anything not only that but when he finally made it to the palace as a musician to play for king saul he suffered tremendous workplace harassment when spears started coming at him because the king became jealous david thought to himself i know how i'll fix this i'll marry the king's daughter because marriage fixes everything only to complicate his already complicated family dynamic of a father-in-law who hated him now he married the daughter of that king and the bible said that she despised him and she criticized him continually every day of his life mocking him and criticizing him doing it publicly i don't mind if charisse tells me private things but when she does it in public it embarrasses me and i'm sure i embarrass her a lot but do you understand what i'm saying what is going on and then on top of that the bible tells us that they had a son or a daughter and the daughter was molested by a family member post-traumatic stress the power the pain of when a family goes through something like that if that's not enough they had a son and the son rose in a takeover attempt of the of of the kingdom and was killed in the process family fighting family family attacking family in the middle of all of this trouble if that were not enough after family fights family and all of this stuff david in post-traumatic stress after losing everything in his house burning down problem after problem setback after setback i think on a bad day the enemy called him at a amazing weak time and david commits adultery david kills the has killed the husband of the woman that he committed adultery with and got pregnant he hits the lowest point in his life and it's in that moment there at zig lag when he's finally at the zenith of of of all the crisis one after another set back after setback after setback and now he's at the lowest day when the when the ashes are there his family has been kidnapped his home is burned to the ground his men are speaking of stoning him the bible said that david encouraged himself in the lord his god he encouraged himself isn't it amazing that that he was going through the same thing the mighty men were going through that talked about stoning him and they stopped blaming themself at some point and they turned and started blaming him but the reaction was totally different instead of turning on one another they turned to god he turned to god and began to encourage himself in the middle of discouraging circumstances now here's where i want to go i want to talk to you for just a few minutes left about the power of a little bit of hope the power of a little bit of hope there's a doctor and you can research it who who who studied people who had been through tremendous setbacks in life divorces or abuses or rapes or or bankruptcy or losing everything and he did this this study and here's how he did the study this he came up with a term called learned helplessness learned helplessness this is a psychological term now listen to this what what they did is they noticed how that people in india trained elephants they get them when they're little they they take a chain and put it on their leg and it's chained to a post the cement in the ground and that little baby elephant will go as far as the chain will let it and then it can't go any further and at some point it tries over and over and over until it can't go anymore and and it finally stops trying as the elephant gets bigger and larger and larger amazingly they put them in a traveling zoo or something and all it takes is a little steak a wood stake driven into the ground with a piece of rope on its ankle this massive elephant half the size of the stage that i'm on he will walk and when he feels the tug of that rope he will stop because mentally he's learned what they call learned helplessness i give up i'm not even going to try even though he's mighty enough to just fling his leg and he could go anywhere he wanted to go but they have learned helplessness they said in the same study that they took they took rats and they put rats in water now listen to this and those rats were swimming and they swam for 10 minutes and then they drowned he got some more rats i don't know where he got them he might have got them from new york i'm not sure where he got them but but but he got rats and he put them in water again and this time at about nine and a half minutes those rats were just really holding themselves and you could see the panic you could see that they knew they were about to go under the water and at nine and a half minutes he reaches in and pulls them out and dries them off and feeds them and gets them comfortable and they stay there for about an hour or so listen he put them back in the water and this time they didn't swim 10 minutes they swam 18 minutes and then they started getting that panicky look and so he pulls them out and he puts them gets them warm and takes care of them and puts them back in the same tank of water and they swam 30 minutes he keeps doing this and literally those rats swam 37 hours and this psychologist said if you can learn helplessness you can learn optimism and hope and the rats have come to preach to you this morning that if you can get a little bit of hope you can keep on swimming you can keep on believing you can stay in faith but sometimes you just need a little bit of hope because faith is the substance of things hoped for the the smallest level of faith first blank you need to fill in is hope the smallest level of faith is hope faith is not mountain moving faith at first it just starts with you're hoping for something you're hoping to see your kid get off drugs you're hoping that your marriage is gonna get better you're hoping that a door is gonna open you're hoping that you're gonna meet somebody that'll love god as much as you you're hoping that you're going to get a job in this economy faith in its smallest embryo stage begins with hope you cannot lose hope it's the power of a little bit of hope the thing i believe those little rats got to thinking at nine and a half minutes the second time you know what we're just gonna keep on swimming because i know from experience there's a hand that's gonna reach in and when i can't take it anymore it's gonna take me out it's going to provide for me it's going to comfort me and every time they would get to the point of the voice saying give up they made a decision i'm not going to lay down the helplessness i know there's a hand that's going to lift me up again if he saved you before he'll save you again if he's provided for you before he'll provide for you again take a praise break and give god a shout of praise watch this i'm sorry if i'm screaming especially to those of you at the front but you'll be all right all right so then the military took this man's study and they spent 145 million dollars developing a program for soldiers who had been through tremendous dramatic experiences maybe losing limbs or or all kinds of battle situations or addictions and they spent 145 million dollars to come up with this program uh a university in south carolina and west west point uh science they all came up with this thing called perma and you've got the outline and let me give it to you and i promise i can do it in seven minutes let's see i've got five points i can do it in seven minutes are you ready say i'm gonna get something out of this say i'm glad i'm in church right now all right are you ready for this now now what got me is it took them 145 million dollars and i'm not putting it down it's amazing but everything that they came up with is right out of the scripture and it's called perma it's an acronym p-e-r-m-a it's the program it's called perma you can look this up and it represents five things that has to happen look at me everybody for somebody who's had a setback to have a comeback america has had a setback every family under the sound of my voice has had a setback probably we've been living in hell for six months ladies and gentlemen how many of you have had setback after setback well here's how you come back from a setback it's called perma and the p represents positive emotions they talked about how that if a person is going to come out of the depression and out of the trauma and out of the pain and out of just talking about it all the time and what happened and how bad it was they've got to get in their life in the midst of trauma and crisis positive emotions and they don't call it this but i want to tell you what positive emotions are it's called the joy of the lord nehemiah chapter 8. he said in psalm 16 he shows me the path of life and at his right hand in his presence his fullness of joy and at his right hand are pleasures forevermore he said in jeremiah chapter 15 that his word was sent to me and it was a rejoicing in my heart for i am called by his name the way that you get positive emotions is you begin to focus and this is what they said in the study that blew my mind they said you must you must it helps to find a hero character much like in greek mythology this is what the study says of someone who went into hades went through hell came out and shows you how to live and i'm sitting there reading that and i'm thinking my god i know somebody who went to hell and came out of hell and shows me how to live and they said in doing that you can find a new identity well i've come to preach today that there is one who is able to give you joy in john the 17th chapter or the 16th chapter jesus said the joy that i give you shall remain in yourself he said may it remain in he prayed to the father and said father let the joy that i give them remain inside of them you can have joy all by yourself listen to me this morning i refuse to let any of you precious people leave here with those negative defeated beat up emotions it's time for some positive emotions called the joy of the lord is my strength now i'm going to tell you the next point is how you get into it how many of you would like to have positive emotions again get up with a smile again instead of growling at each other say hello good morning positive emotions the second thing is called engagement actually said that and they use this word they say they said if you're going to overcome you cannot keep isolated at some point you've got to engage at some point you got to come off of the bench and get in the game of life again at some point you've got to quit soaking in your sorrows and licking your wounds and you've got to get up and engage and then they they actually say this in that study perma they the guy on the part of engagement uses these words you got to get back in the flow and i thought well that's the flow of worship we've got to engage the presence of god again we can't let these singers this morning do all the praise and we've got to engage the presence of god and when i engage in praise when i engage his presence i engage my hope i engage my faith i engage my will to keep going and to believe i'm saying to somebody that you're closer than you think you are to your breakthrough and you almost felt like giving up and you probably still are questioning in your mind it's been so long it's never going to change but the lord sent me to tell you about the rats this morning that they kept on swimming because they knew there was a fateful hand that had always provided and it's not going to fail you now it will deliver your children your family your home your business god is on the throne but we've got to engage him in worship so here's how we do that this is how i fight my battles that's why you have to turn people off and you just lift those hands and when they sing it in another moment we're going to sing it and we're going to engage the presence of god the third thing that the r stands for is relationships god says at some point or this psychologist says it but the bible backs it up he didn't know he was preaching a good sermon outlined that if you're going to come back from your setback you've got to get to a place that you develop relationships with people again get your relationships strong we need each other one can put a thousand to fight two ten thousand if any two of you will agree i need you i need you you need me the devil's always done he ain't he dividing us isn't he tearing us to pieces i don't care where you come from or what you like or you don't like i need you turn to somebody and mumble through your mask i need you i need this relationships the r p e r relationships the m stands for mission if you're going to overcome your setback and have a comeback you got to have a little bit of hope like the rat but at some point you need a mission you need something bigger than yourself there it is the church the kingdom the cross if you're gonna get past that divorce and the hurt if you're gonna get past that that failure if you're gonna get past that addiction you need a mission and he said i know the plans that i have for you plans of good and not evil to give you hope and to give you a future you've got a mission young people you've got a mission teenagers god has not changed his mind about your calling and your purpose just because covet has hit you're still going to do everything god called you to do don't you lose hope don't you say well the world's all messed up and everything's messed up and college is messed up and school was messed up i promise you god's gonna fix it just keep on swimming little rat almost done but the last one the a stands for accomplishments got to have some wins you need a fresh victory when you just get hit and hit and hit and kicked and beat up and beat down and you go to work and all hell breaks loose you come home and all hell breaks loose you get an irs letter you get this you get that and it's like good god you just need a little accomplishment i just need one little sign that you're with me lord the bible said we are more than conquerors you know what a conqueror is let me give you a hypothetical a conqueror is somebody who let's say you lived in the poorest neighborhood in a pitiful house drugs violence immorality maybe didn't have anybody in your whole family that made it out but you became a conqueror you went to school you stayed in school you graduated went to college fought your way through kicked loose learned optimism instead of helplessness got a little bit of hope and kept on swimming and got all the way out now you got a big old house and you're blessed beautiful family that's a conqueror but can i tell you what is more than a conqueror a conqueror is when you get out more than a conqueror is when you go back in and you say i'm going right back to the hell hole that i came out of i'm gonna buy that old drug house and i'm gonna turn it into a rehab and i'm gonna grab all these people who say they can't get out and i'm gonna pluck them out and pull them out because i'm more than a conqueror i'm not just coming out i'm going back in and pulling somebody out come on and shout right there you missed a good chance how many of you were former alcoholics let me see your hand how many of you were former drug addicts you couldn't you couldn't shake it your mama and everybody thought there's no way you'll ever change but you know what god's gonna do you're gonna be a conqueror but he's not gonna stop there you're going to be more than a conqueror and you're going to see accomplishments like you never dream clap your hands and praise god if you believe [Music] we are so honored that you would decide to join us on kingdom connection today this service was so special to us that you just watched as a church body because it was the first in-person gathering we had had on the east coast in six months the presence of god was so real and i believe it was real in that room right where you are if you felt god pull on your heart at any point in this broadcast and you would like to make jesus christ your lord and your savior i want to invite you to pray with me right where you are prayer is powerful right where you are say these words lord jesus i give you my life i believe in you i believe you died and shed your blood to cleanse me from all my sin i am forgiven by faith in your name jesus jesus be my lord be my savior and i thank you i praise you change me turn me around in your name i pray amen and amen if you pray that prayer we would love to hear from you that's why we do what we do and i believe today that america needs the message of jesus christ like never before we're at a tipping point in our nation's history and we as a ministry are also 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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 04 2020