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I like to start with something funny, 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.919 and I heard about this college professor he was going 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.720 to prove to his students that there is no God. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.160 He said, God, if you're real, then knock me off 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.240 this platform, and I'll give you fifteen minutes to do it. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.880 With every minute that went by, he taunted God, God, 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:31.000 I'm still here. I'm still waiting the last minute. Three 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.040 hundred pound football player walking down the hallway overheard him. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.720 He took off, running full speed toward him, put his 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.000 shoulder down, send him flying off the platform. The professor 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.200 woke up in a daze, said, what in the world 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.600 did you do that for? The football player replied, God 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.880 said he was busy, so he sent me. Say it 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.880 like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.520 what it says I am. I have what it says 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.280 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.679 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:09.160 boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.280 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.520 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.600 call it in. It's not enough to just hope something 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.280 happens just believe a dream will come to pass. Just 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.000 think positive and that situation will turn around. You have 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.120 to take the next step and call it in words. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.520 Give life to our faith. When you're sick, you need 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.440 to call in healing. Father. Thank you that you're restoring 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.520 health back into me. Think you that by your stripes, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.360 I am healed. That's not just quoting scripture. That's calling 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:52.160 in health, calling in wholeness. If you're struggling in your finances, 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.440 you need to call in abundance. I am blessed, I 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.480 am prosperous. Father. Thank you that you're supplying all of 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.400 my needs. Thank you that you're a more than enough God. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:08.280 You just called in promotion, called in opportunity. Maybe you're 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.440 single and wanting to meet someone. It's fine to pray 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.280 about it, it's fine to believe. Why don't you call 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.000 in that spouse? Father, Thank you that you have someone 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.440 awesome come in my way. You said no good thing? 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.160 Would you withhold? Because I walk up rightly? You have 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.479 to call in divine connections. You can be specific. I 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.359 call in someone loving, someone kind, godly, good looking, well 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.800 off fun. As long as you can back it up 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.320 with scripture, you can call it in well, Joel, I 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.680 can't just say things and it's going to happen. It's 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:48.279 already happening. You are who you are today in part 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.080 because of what you've been saying about yourself, because of 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.080 what you've been calling in well. I don't never get 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.520 out of debt. My business is so slow. You just 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.440 called in lack, called in struggle. I'll never meet the 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.520 right person. I hadn't had a date in years. You 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:10.320 just called in loneliness. Pay attention to what you're calling in. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.800 The scripture says, we will eat the fruit of our words. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.880 What we're constantly talking about, we're inviting into our life. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.920 Don't invite defeat. Don't invite lack. If you're struggling with 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.760 an addiction, don't say another time. I'll never break this 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.200 bad habit. I've had it so long. You need to 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.800 start calling in freedom all through the day. I am free, 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.400 I am clean, I am whold. No weapon formed against 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:46.640 me will prosper. You can't call in defeat and have victory. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.880 You can't call in lack and have abundance. Start calling 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.640 in what you want and not what you have. The 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.159 scripture says, let the weak say I am strong. It 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.280 doesn't say let's weak, Say I am weak. Why that's 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.040 calling in more weakness. You have to call in strength, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.839 call in vitality, call in passion. Don't go around saying 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.719 I am so tired, I never have any energy. I 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.120 don't know what's wrong with me. All that's doing is 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.760 making it worse. You're calling in more of what you 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.000 don't want. Turn it around. I am strong, I am 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.560 full of energy. I will run and not be weary. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.279 I will walk and not fame. Don't say what you feel. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:38.719 Say what God says about you. Well, I look so old. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:43.080 I'm getting so wrinkled, so out of shape. It's all 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.919 downhill from here. That's calling in more oldness, more wrinkles, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.839 more eggs, more pains. That's going to aid you before 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:56.360 your time. Every day you need to say I am young, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.479 I am energetic, I am sharp. My youth is being 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.919 renewed like the eagles. That's what God says about you. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.200 You've probably seen the New Face app on social media. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.280 It ages you, shows you what you could look like 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.760 in forty years. Somebody sent me a picture of me 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.400 forty years older. It's funny. I look just like my 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:28.080 brother Paul. Now. I don't know about you, but I'm 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:34.440 calling in youth. I'm calling in hair, good looks, good memory, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:40.040 plenty of energy, strong muscles. I was at a pastor's event. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.000 There was a gentleman that had been in the ministry 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.440 over sixty years. We asked him to stand so we 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.520 could honor him. He popped up out of that chair 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.880 like he was a teenager. We asked how old he is? 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.840 He said ninety one. He looked like he could be 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:02.680 sixty five, barely had any wrinkles, big smile, joyful personality, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.840 full head of hair. He had to buy it, but 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.760 it looked good on him. What are you calling in? 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.960 Don't go around talking about how it's not going to 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.560 work out, how bad the medical report is, how your 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:21.120 children aren't making good decisions. A lady came down for prayer. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.360 She told me how her teenage son is off course, 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.080 and how you wouldn't listen to her, and how he 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.600 was running with the wrong crowd, and on and on. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.000 She came back the next week and went into more detail. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.679 I would see her out in the lobbies, same thing, always, 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.400 how bad he was doing, how much trouble he was in, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.760 how he wasn't doing good in school. And it's one 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.800 thing to tell people so they can agree with you 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.400 in prayer, but you can't keep talking about the problem. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.760 She didn't realize she was calling in defeat. She was 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.920 calling in more trouble. We were praying for victory, but 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.400 she was canceling out our prayers. She was eating the 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.480 fruit of her words. And one day I told her 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.760 what I'm telling you. Instead of talking about how bad 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.160 he is, start saying Father, thank you that as for 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.440 me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Thank 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.720 you that my son will fulfill his destiny, that he 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.720 makes decisions that honors you, that he has great friends, 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:27.200 that he's kind, respectful, and focused. She started doing that. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.640 It didn't happen overnight. But do you know today that 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.439 young man is exactly what she said. He is kind, respectful, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.760 he has great friends. He volunteers for us. What made 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.320 the difference when she changed what she was calling in. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.400 You can pray for victory all day long, but if 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:52.120 you're calling in defeat, it's going to cancel out those prayers. Well, Joe, 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.240 my coworkers don't like me. I don't really have a 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.640 good personality. Nobody wants to be around me. Zip that up. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.520 You've been made in the image of Almighty God. He 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.439 calls you a masterpiece. You have something to offer that 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:13.360 nobody else has. But every time you discount yourself, you're 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:19.720 making yourself unattractive, unfriendly. You're calling in insecurity. Why don't 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.280 you start saying under your breath, I am well liked. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.360 People love to be around me. I have a great personality. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.360 God's favor is on my life. When you speak that out, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.240 it not only allows it to come to pass, but 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.280 it gets down on the inside. You cannot call in 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.400 negative things about yourself and feel good about who you are. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.200 When I took over from my father, all of a sudden, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.000 I was on television. My first thought was, nobody's going 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.120 to listen to me, nobody's going to watch I was 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.200 very insecure. But one thing I've learned is to not 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.360 speak out the negative. You may think it, but don't 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.640 give it life by saying it, don't call it in. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.040 Instead of verbalizing that, I would say, Father, thank you 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.559 that when people turn me on the television they can't 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.000 turn me off. Thank you that people like me, that 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.760 people are drawn to me, that people are being helped 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.319 by me. I've said that every morning. For the last 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.920 twenty years. Now, practically every time I'm out, someone will 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.320 stop me and say, Joel, I don't like TV ministers. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.600 I'm not a religious person, but I was flipping through 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.800 the channels, and when I turned you on, I couldn't 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.160 turn you off. I think to myself, I called you in. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:47.640 You have to call in favor, call in influence, call 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.800 in your destiny. The scripture says, with our words, we 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.920 can bless our future, or we can curse our future. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.680 I wouldn't be up here if I had cursed my future, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.720 if I had kept saying what I thought, nobody's going 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.520 to like me. I had to call in what God 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.959 says about us, that we are surrounded with his favor, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:13.160 that whatever we touch will prosper and succeed. Don't go 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.239 around saying, well, I'll never live in a nice neighborhood, 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:21.439 I'll never have a nice house. Call in a nice house. Father. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.520 Thank you that you have a house already picked out 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.800 for me. You said, because I delight myself in you, 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.600 you will give me the desires of my heart. So 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.720 thank you that new house is on the way. That's 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:40.240 not just wishful thinking. That's releasing your faith. In your business. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.840 You need to call in customers, call in the clients 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:48.200 you need, call in opportunities you have not because you 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:52.080 ask not. You could say you have not because you 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.840 call not. Are there things you're not receiving because you're 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.880 not calling? And I'm not saying to get out about 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.520 and call in fourteen houses and seven wives? But what 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.439 do you need? One is hard enough, I mean one 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.960 is good enough. What do you need? I'm not gonna 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.080 look at Victoria now either? What do you need to 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.320 accomplish the dream God put in your heart? It shouldn't 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.880 be bigger than you could do on your own. If 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.280 you can do it without calling anything in, then it's 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.520 not big enough. Maybe you need to call in that scholarship, 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.240 that school you want to attend, Call in that promotion 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.440 that you've worked for, Call in that business you're dreaming about, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.000 Call in that orphanage that you want to build. We 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.160 had to call in the Compact Center. When this building 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.400 came across our path. It seemed impossible. I thought, there's 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.520 no way we can get it. It will be too expensive, 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.160 it's too prominent, the city will never let a church 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.240 have it. But sometimes God will bring things across your 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:04.600 path that are far beyond anything you've imagined. The key 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.160 is to not cancel out the greatness of God's favor 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.920 with a limited vision and negative words. Well, I don't 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.439 see how it can happen. We don't have the finances, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.480 I don't know the right people, I don't have the training. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:23.240 You may not, but God does. Now do your part 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.080 and call it in. Father, Thank you that you're taking 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.680 me where I couldn't go on my own. Thank you 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.960 that you're opening doors that no man can shut, that 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.520 good breaks are chasing me down, that the right people 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:41.000 are headed my way. We called in favor. God sent 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.520 us divine connections, people that use their influence to help 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.280 us get the building. What you need may be big, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.440 but we serve a big God. He wouldn't have put 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.480 the dream in your heart if he couldn't bring it 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.720 to pass. Maybe he's just waiting for you to call 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.360 it in, to use your words to release your faith. 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.160 When David faced Goliath in the natural, he didn't have 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:12.960 a chance. David was a teenager, small in stature. He 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.480 had no formal training, no military experience. All you knew 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.000 how to do was to take care of sheep. Goliath 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:26.040 was the Philistine's most skilled warrior. He was almost twice 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.960 David's size. He had a full set of armor. His 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:34.640 sword weighed twenty pounds, almost eight times the normal amount. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.160 David had no armor. All he had was a slingshot 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.360 and the favor of God. But here's the key. Having 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:47.200 favor alone is not enough. You have to activate it. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:51.400 You have to call it in. When David heard Goliath 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.680 taunting the Israelites, something rose up in him. He said, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:16:00.240 who is this uncircumcised philistine? That he would defy the 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.040 armies of the Living God? Right there, God put the 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.360 dream in David to defeat Goliath. He went and told 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.360 King Saul. You would think that Saul would have been 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:16.040 excited he finally had someone to step up. But Saul 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:21.840 said in One Samuel seventeen, David, don't be ridiculous. There's 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.680 no way you can fight him and possibly win. You're 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.120 just a boy. He's been a man of war since 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.640 his youth. Was hard enough for David to get his 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.960 courage up. Now the people that should have believed in 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:41.080 him did just the opposite. Sometimes the reason people are 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.680 not for you, the reason they don't encourage you, is 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.800 because God didn't put the dream in them. He put 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.760 the dream in you. They can't hear what you hear. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.640 They don't feel what you feel. They may love you, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.280 they think they're doing you a favor, trying to protect you. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.520 But when God had spoken something to you, there is 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:08.040 an anointing of favor, a blessing and empowerment that will 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.720 cause it to come to pass. David looked Goliath in 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.199 the eyes and said, this day I will defeat you 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.200 and feed your head to the birds of the air. 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.760 What was he doing? Calling in victory, calling in favor. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.520 He reached down and picked up a smooth stone. When 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.560 he slung it, I can imagine it hit Goliath between 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:34.320 the eyes, knocked him unconscious. David went over, took Goliath's 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.879 own sword and finished him off. When you face challenges, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.720 it's so important what you're saying. David could have looked 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.600 at Goliath and said, King Saul was right. What was 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:52.000 I thinking, I'll never defeat him. I'm sure those thoughts 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.919 came to his mind, but he understood this principle that 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.560 what he spoke out he was calling in. If he 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:05.680 spoke the negative, he was calling in defeat, limitations, weaknesses. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.640 That's why he stayed on the offensive. I will defeat you. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.760 When you face an illness, you need to declare I 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.120 will defeat this cancer. I will live and not die. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.760 You have to call in that healing. It doesn't say 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.719 let the weak think I'm strong When, Joel, I believe 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:30.800 I'm healed. That's important. But believing alone is not enough. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.040 Take the next step and declare, I am healed, I 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:40.160 am whome. Perhaps you're in a situation like David, where 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.720 the odds are all against you. It's easy to get discouraged, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.360 talk about how bad it is. No more than ever. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:52.040 You need to start calling in victory, calling in breakthroughs, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:57.480 calling in suddenly, Father, you said when darkness overtakes the 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:02.080 righteous light will come bursting. I know one touch of 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:06.200 your favor can suddenly turn this around. So I call 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.440 my business blessed. I call myself free from this addiction. 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:15.240 I call my children serving God. I call in abundance. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:20.080 I call in healing. I call in breakthroughs. Don't complain 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:24.160 about not having it. Start calling it in. Declare what 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.640 God says about you. Well, Joel, what if I call 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.520 it and it doesn't come, then keep calling. When my 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.800 mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Do you know how 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.520 many times I heard her say I am healed, I 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.800 am free from this cancer. Thousands of times the first 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.199 couple of years. When she said it, it seemed just 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.920 the opposite. You would look at her and think, you're 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.879 not healed, you don't look well. But when you keep 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:58.160 calling in healing, keep calling in freedom, keep calling in abundance, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.320 what you're calling is on the way. May not have 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.840 happened yet, but there will be a time where you 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.040 see what you've been saying. Now, almost forty years later, 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.879 my mom is still healthy and home. But don't be 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:18.960 discouraged by what's not changing. Let that challenge you to 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:23.439 call it in even stronger. God is faithful to what 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:27.280 he promised. When you're calling in what He has spoken 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.400 over you, you can rest assured it is on the way. 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.639 This is what I had to do. When my father 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.840 went to be with the Lord and I stepped up 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.359 to pastor the church. I was afraid and intimidated. I 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.240 had never ministered before. Every thought told me how it 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.960 wasn't going to work out, how I didn't have the training, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.480 how nobody was going to listen. I was tempted to 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:54.840 verbalize my fear and talk about how I felt unqualified. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.600 But I did what I'm asking you to do. All 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.159 through the day, ie the negative, but I said the 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:06.880 positive under my breath. I was constantly saying, I am 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.680 strong in the Lord. I can do all things through Christ. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:16.000 I am equipped, I am empowered, I am anointing. At 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.359 that time, what I was saying, none of it felt 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.680 like it was true. For months, even the first couple 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.120 of years, I was still insecure, still afraid, not sure 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.440 if I could do it. But I kept calling in courage, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:35.160 calling in favor, calling in the anointing. Today, twenty years later, 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:40.600 I am what I call myself. I'm asking you to 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.960 start calling in what you want to be. If you're 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:50.120 intimidated like I was, then call in courage. I am strong, 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:54.120 I am well able. Don't go the next twenty years 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:58.359 calling in the negative. Put your faith out there. Call 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:03.600 in greatness in new levels, Call in your dreams, call 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.040 in your gifts. You've heard the line from the movie 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.200 if you build it, they will come. God is saying, 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.760 if you'll call it, it will come. If you'll call 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:18.160 yourself blessed, blessings will come. If you'll call yourself healed, 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:23.320 healing will come. If you'll call your children fulfilling their destinies, 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:29.320 their destiny will come. Number Chapter thirteen, Moses sent twelve 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:33.840 men to spout the promised land. After forty days, ten 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.639 of them came back and told Moses how it was 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:41.280 an amazing land, more than they ever imagined. The clusters 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.199 of grapes were so large it took two people to 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:48.119 carry them. They had struggled all those years out in 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:52.200 the desert, where it was hot and dusty, limited resources. 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.760 Now they had finally made it next door to the 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:59.399 land flowing with milk and honey. It was a land 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:04.040 flowing with resources. And God had already promised that he 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.840 was going to give them the land. He was going 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.560 to defeat the enemy. They just had to go in 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.879 and take it. But these ten spies went on to say, Moses, 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:19.040 the people are huge. They are so powerful. We will 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:23.600 never defeat them. We felt like grasshoppers compared to them. 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:29.080 They felt weak. But instead of calling themselves strong, they 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:33.200 called themselves weak. God said he would give them the victory, 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:38.400 but they called themselves defeated. God can call you one thing, 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:43.000 but if you call yourself something different, you can override 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:47.600 what God says not because we're that powerful. But God 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:52.080 works where there's faith. God calls you blessed. But if 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:56.040 you go around saying I'm not blessed, I can't get ahead. 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:59.840 I never get any good breaks. What you're calling in 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:04.520 and will override what God promised. God said you have 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:09.680 been fearfully and wonderfully made. He calls you confident, secure, 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:13.919 well able. But if you say I'm not that talented, 0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:16.679 I'm not as smart as my sister, I don't have 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:21.680 a good personality, what you're calling in will override what 0:24:21.720 --> 0:24:25.359 God has spoken. If you're going to become who you 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:28.800 were created to be, you have to get in agreement 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:33.480 with God. Don't cancel out the amazing plan he has 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:37.679 for your life by calling in the wrong things, like 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:43.440 with the Israelites. There are blessings, good breaks, healing, freedom 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:48.080 that God has already promised to give you. He didn't 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:51.640 say if you're strong enough, if you know the right people, 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.399 if you don't have any opposition. None of that is 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:59.280 a condition for what God promised. He's going to give 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:03.640 you the land, give you the spouse, give you the healing, 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:07.160 give you that house that you're believing for. It may 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:10.880 seem impossible. You can't do it on your own. But 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:14.400 you're not on your own. Don't make the mistake they 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:17.399 did and start talking about how it's not going to 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:20.960 work out. I don't know. I think I've reached my limits, 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:23.800 gone as far as my career as I can. I'll 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:28.360 never get well, never break the addiction. That's calling in defeat, 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.520 that's calling in limitations. If it's going to happen, you 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:36.600 have to call in what God promised, Call in victory, 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:41.840 call in healing, call in abundance. Why don't you call 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:45.560 in that baby you've been believing for. Father, you said 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:48.760 the fruit of my womb is blessed. You said you 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:52.040 would make the Baron woman a happy mother of children. 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:54.640 So think you that the baby that has my name 0:25:54.720 --> 0:25:58.000 on it is coming in. That's how you make it 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:02.600 in to your promised land. These spies said, we felt 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:07.280 like grasshoppers compared to them. Imagine what God must have 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:12.040 thought here. He had delivered them out of slavery, parted 0:26:12.040 --> 0:26:15.720 the red sea, brought water out of a rock, created 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:19.040 them in his own image. Yet they were saying, we're 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:23.800 just grasshoppers. They didn't realize they were calling in fear. 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:29.080 Before long, they had this grasshopper mentality, no wonder they 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:33.120 felt weak and intimidated. They called it in. You may 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:38.320 have big obstacles, dreams that seem impossible. You too could 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:43.000 shrink back, live intimidated. No, put your shoulders back, hold 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:45.679 your head up high. You are a child of the 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:49.440 most high God. Dare to call in what he says 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:53.280 about you. Father, Thank you that I am a victor 0:26:53.560 --> 0:26:57.080 and not a victimue. Thank you that you always caused 0:26:57.080 --> 0:27:00.479 me to triumph. This obstacle may be big, but I 0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:04.360 know you're in control. You're fighting my battles. That I'm 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:08.600 coming in to my promised land. There were two other spies, 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:14.320 Joshua and Caleb. They had a different report. They said, yes, Moses, 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:17.800 the people are big, but we know our God is bigger. 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:21.000 We are well able to take the land. Let us 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:25.360 go in at once. What's interesting is Joshua and Caleb 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:29.240 were the only ones out of those two million people 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:33.159 that ever made it into the Promised Land. All the 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:36.960 others died out in the desert. It's not a coincidence 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:41.120 that they were the only ones that called in victory. 0:27:41.440 --> 0:27:45.439 Are their promised lands? You're not entering because you're calling 0:27:45.560 --> 0:27:49.399 in defeat instead of victory, talking about how it's not 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:52.920 going to work out what you don't have. It's time 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:56.320 to change what you're calling in. You're going to eat 0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:59.879 the fruit of your words. I'm asking you to be 0:28:00.160 --> 0:28:04.040 a Joshua, be a Caleb and call in what God 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:07.520 says about you. Let me help you get started. Receive 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:13.760 this into your spirit. I call in healing for you, wholeness, restoration. 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:20.160 I call in strength, energy, vitality, your youth being renewed. 0:28:20.880 --> 0:28:28.440 I call in confidence, courage, and ability. I call in blessings, favor, promotion, 0:28:28.840 --> 0:28:33.040 and abundance. I call in that business you're believing for 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:37.800 that property you need, that house you're dreaming about. I 0:28:37.960 --> 0:28:42.680 call in a spouse for you, somebody awesome, a divine connection. 0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:46.560 I call in that baby you were told you couldn't have. 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:51.440 I call in children that are off course. I call 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:56.560 in a fresh anointing, fresh vision for your life. Now. 0:28:56.560 --> 0:29:00.760 I believe in declare, like Joshua and Caleb, you're about 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:04.920 to enter into your promised land. Get ready. What we're 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:09.160 calling in is on the way in Jesus' name. If 0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:13.360 you receive it, can you say amen? Well, I'd like 0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:16.600 to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:20.920 of your life. Would you pray with me, Just say, Lord, Jesus, 0:29:22.120 --> 0:29:26.920 I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:31.160 make you my Lord and savior. 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