It’s interesting as little children, we start off with big dreams.
We’re going to be an astronaut, an architect, a scientist, a singer, Little boy told me last week that he was going to design airplanes.
He knew everything about avionics. As a child, we have no limits We believe we can do great things.
But over time, our dreams start to get watered down. People tell us what we can’t do.
Go through disappointments, things that are not fair. Life starts to rewrite our story.
We let the negative taint how we see ourselves. What we’re capable of.
We end up settling for so much less than god has for us.
Pay attention to the story you’re telling yourself. Go back to what god put in your heart.
He wants you to dream again, to believe again, to love again.
Don’t let a wrong story limit your destiny.
Don’t believe that lie that says, just live with the sickness, the depression, I’ll never get well.
Never go to college. Never meet the right person. Let me just make it through life.
Tell yourself a new story. You can still accomplish your dream. You can still get well.
Still meet someone awesome. Still go to new levels. Delete that old story. Get rid of that limited thinking.
That’s what’s stopping the new things god has in store. This is the mistake the Israelites made.
God brought them out of slavery, parted the red sea, and took them toward the promised land.
Was a great day. Their dreams will come into pass. They were finally free.
But the problem is they always saw themselves as former slaves. At a disadvantage.
We’ve been through too much.
Every time they faced opposition, they complained They were afraid at the promised land.
God told them he would give them the victory, but they said Moses, the people are too big.
We don’t have a chance. Let’s go back to Egypt. Let’s go back to be enslaved.
Notice how powerful a wrong story is.
After being in slavery, mistreated, abused, they said we wanna go back to that same environment.
They came out of Egypt, but Egypt never came out of them.
If you don’t change the story, you’ll tell in yourself you’ll go back to things that don’t make sense.
God delivered them from the pharaoh. He brought water out of a rock. They saw firsthand his awesome power.
Seems so logical, so easy for them to say, this is a new day. God has done great things.
We’re free. Let’s go into the promised land. Instead, they kept that slave mentality.
The story they told themselves was, we’ll always be defeated. This is our lot in line.
But I love the fact that the children of these Israelites had a different story.
Their attitude was we’ve seen the suffering, being mistreated, wandering through the desert.
That may be what our parents accepted, but that is not our story.
We’re going to go into the promised land. We’re going to eat the fruit. We’re going to live in houses.
We didn’t build and enjoy the blessings God has in store for us.
Their parents saw themselves as former slaves.
These children saw themselves as sons and daughters of the most high god.
Not at a disadvantage, but surrounded by favor.
40 years earlier, their parents turned around from the promised land. Wandered in the desert.
Now these children went into that same land, defeated the opposition, and lived there in a place of abundance.
The difference was the story they told themselves. Their parents could have gone in.
They could have enjoyed years of god’s favor but they let their doubts, their fears, their opposition, rewrite their story.
Don’t do like these parents. Don’t let a wrong story.
What you’ve been through, what looks too big, what hasn’t happened, convince you that you can’t defeat your giants.
You can’t accomplish your dream. You can’t be healthy, successful, fulfilled. The enemy got your pen.
He’s altering the story god wrote for you. Get that pen back, cross out all those lies.
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