Called Into The House

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.360 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.160 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.640 If you enjoyed today's MESSI, why don't you be a 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.199 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.240 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:50.960 your line. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.960 come into your homes and if you're ever in our area, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:55.880 please stop by and be a part of one of 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.000 our services. I promise you we'll make you feel right 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.720 at home. I like to start with something funny, and 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.520 I heard about this man. He was driving through an 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.240 intersection that was monitored by cameras. If you ran the 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.880 light or broke the law in any way, would take 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.200 your picture and you'd receive a ticket in the mail. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.200 So he made sure to go through it extra slowly, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.440 not break any laws. But he noticed the camera flash 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.760 took his picture. He thought, that's not right. He turned 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.320 around and drove through it again, even more slowly. Once 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.280 again it took his picture. He thought, this thing's messed up. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.360 They cannot give me a ticket. Out of spite, he 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.760 drove through it three more times, each time waving at 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.240 the camera with a big smile. A week later, he 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.880 received five tickets in the mail for not wearing his 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:46.800 seat belt. Say it like you mean it. This is 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.720 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.080 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.799 it says I can do. Today I will be taught 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.840 the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.040 my heart is res accept it. I'll never be the same. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.639 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:11.400 to you today about called into the house. Sometimes we're 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.240 doing the right thing, but it doesn't seem like it's 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.240 making a difference. We're being our best, honoring God, but 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.400 we're not making much progress, not getting good breaks, our 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.440 dreams aren't coming to pass. It seems like we're being overlooked, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.720 and it's easy to get discouraged. Think God must have 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.880 forgotten about us, especially when we see other people who 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:38.600 are being blessed, promoted meeting the right person. Thoughts tell 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:43.240 us it's because they're more talented, they're more attractive, they 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.640 come from an influential family. Just accept where you are. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.360 These thoughts try to make us feel insignificant, push us down, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.440 so we'll settle for mediocrity. This is what happened to 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.840 David in the scripture. He was the youngest son of 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.920 a man named Jesse. He had seven older brothers, and 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.119 as a teenager, he got stuck out in the shepherd's 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.080 fields taking care of his father's sheep. He spent his 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.360 days feeding the animals, cleaning up their mess, protecting them 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.960 from harm. It was boring, lonely. His brothers were in 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.479 the military, where it was exciting and prestigious. They wore 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.880 a uniform each day, had respect and honor. When they 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:33.400 passed by, people admired them. Nobody thought of David. Nobody 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:38.480 celebrated him. In their eyes, what he was doing was insignificant. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.800 They discounted him, thought as just David. He's the youngest, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.960 he's small, he's not talented. He'll never do anything great. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.440 They looked on the outside. What they couldn't see was 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.400 what was on the inside. David had a heart after God. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.479 He didn't complain, he didn't slack off because nobody was watching. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.640 He didn't get bitter, go around with a chip on 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.240 his shoulder. He was his best right where he was 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.080 in the natural. Didn't look like he would ever get 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.920 out of the shepherd's fields and do something significant. Every 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:18.320 circumstance said he was stuck. His brothers looked down on him, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.720 his father didn't believe in him. All the odds were 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.960 against him. But one day God told the prophet Samuel 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.120 to go to Jesse's house and anoint one of his 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.840 sons as the next king. When Samuel showed up, the 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.760 first one he saw was David's oldest brother, Ediab. He 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.960 was tall, good looking, had a great for seek, very 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.000 impressive Samuel thought, it's got to be him. Look at 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.400 that kid, he looks like a king. But the scripture 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:53.240 says God said to Samuel, do not consider his appearance 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.440 or his height. He is not the one you look 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.160 on the outside, but I look on the heart. Next 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.080 son came by, Samuel said, it's not him. Next one, 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.000 not him, went through all seven. Finally, Samuel asked, Jesse, 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.120 do you have any more sons. Jesse said, yes, I 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.760 have my youngest son, David. He's out in the shepherd's fields. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.240 But I know it's not him. He's not strong and 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.039 impressive like these other sons. They serve in the military. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:27.000 They're skillful, they're talented. David not so much. He's okay, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.200 taking care of a few sheep, but not much more. 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:36.039 He discounted. David saw him as insignificant, didn't even bother 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.080 inviting him in. But just because people leave you out 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.000 doesn't mean God leaves you out. People may overlook you. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.720 They may judge you by the outside, your height, your weight, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.200 your skin color. God looks on the inside. The good 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.279 news is God has the final say. Promotion doesn't come 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.920 from people, it comes from the Lord. And people may 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.200 bypass you. They may not give you the time of day, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.839 but they cannot stop what God has ordained for you. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.640 If you'll keep being faithful, honoring God, He'll take you 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.160 from the background to the foreground. People may try to 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.840 push you down, God will lift you up. They may 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.080 try to hold you back. God will thrust you forward. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:24.040 People don't determine your destiny. God does. When Samuel heard 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.440 that Jesse had another son, he asked him to go 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.480 get him. Jesse sent a messenger out, and I can 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.280 imagine David sees this man way off in the distance, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.160 coming toward him full speed, and David thinks there's something wrong. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.800 Is there an emergency? The messenger shows up and says, David, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.160 your father needs you immediately, come with me. They take 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.400 off running together back to the house. When David arrived, 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.200 the moment Samuel saw him, he said, that's the one. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.160 He's the next king of Israel. All those years David 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:04.080 spent out in the show Shepherd's Fields, he felt ignored, insignificant, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.880 looked down on his family, discounted him, didn't give him 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.400 any credit. It looked like that would be his destiny. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.480 But in one moment everything changed. What happened. He got 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:22.280 called into the house. People ignored him. God said, I 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.480 have my eye on David. People discounted him. God saw 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.200 his potential. They looked on the outside. God looked at 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.880 his heart. He saw David doing the right thing when 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.239 the wrong thing was happening. He saw him being faithful 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.400 even when it looked like he wasn't going anywhere. You too, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.280 may feel like you're being overlooked, left out. The people 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.800 that should be for you should be cheering you on 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.440 doing just the opposite, discounting you, trying to push you down. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.920 Don't worry. Your time is coming. God is watching you. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:01.920 He sees your faithfulness, your dedication. You're in integrity like David. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.480 You're about to be called into the house. You're about 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.760 to see doors open that you could never open. You're 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:13.160 about to see vindication where God honors you in front 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.319 of people who were trying to make you look bad. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.520 You're going to see new levels of influence where people 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.640 that once disrespected you, didn't give you the time of day, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.199 now they look up to you. Now they admire you, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.240 ask you for advice. David was just minding his own 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.440 business this day. As far as he was concerned. It 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.839 was just another day at work, nothing special, taking care 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.120 of sheep, keeping them from wild animals. Suddenly his whole 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.840 life changed. It happened unexpectedly. You may think it's just 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.480 another ordinary day, going to work, coming home. You don't 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.160 know what God is up to. You never know when 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.040 that messenger is going to show up saying you're needed 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.920 in the house. You didn't see it coming, You weren't 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:01.400 expecting it. Suddenly you meet the right person. Suddenly the 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.160 medical report says cancer free. Suddenly you get that break 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.240 that thrust you to the next level. You were called 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:12.680 into the house. What's interesting is David wasn't dreaming about 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.000 becoming a king. He wasn't praying that one day he 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.160 would lead a nation. He never thought he would defeat 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.120 that giant and become an overnight national hero. He was 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.760 a shepherd boy from a low income family. That influence, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.880 that kind of favor never entered his mind. What God 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.360 has in store for you is much bigger than you've imagined. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.400 We pray for things that seem reasonable to us. We 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.200 asked for healing and protection, to meet the right people. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.160 That's all good. But God has blessings that you've never 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.080 asked for. If He showed you all that was in 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.680 your future, it would boggle your mind. If you'll do 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.480 like David and be your best where you are, you 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.680 won't have to chase promotion. Promotion will chase you. You 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.880 will have to go after blessings. Blessings will come after you. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.800 When you keep God first place, the scripture says you 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.800 won't be able to outrun the good things He has 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:17.160 in store. One of the keys is to stay faithful 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.480 where you are. Don't wait till you get out of 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.120 the shepherd's fields. Then you're going to be your best. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.120 When you get a more significant position, then you're going 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.280 to give it your all. You have to be excellent 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.320 on the level you're on right now, pass the test 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.000 in the small areas. If David would have slacked off, 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.080 done a half hearted job, he wouldn't have been called 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.680 into the house. And if you're not excellent on your level, 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.960 then you won't see promotion and increase. A friend of 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.880 mine started pastoring a church in the hills of West 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.520 Virginia in his late teens. Many Sundays there were only 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.239 seven people in the congregation. He taught a Bible class 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.760 each week with three people. Year after year went by, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.400 and not too much changed. He had an incredible gift 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:12.079 for ministry, very anointed, very powerful, but only a few 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:17.840 dozen people really recognized his gift. Most discounted him thought, ah, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.360 that's that young pastor. He doesn't have much to offer. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.080 He was very poor. He drove a car that had 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.160 holes in the floorboard where it had rusted out. You 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.760 had to keep your feet up so they wouldn't touch 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.000 the ground. He was not only the pastor of the church, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.960 he was the janitor as well. He would vacuum it, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.600 clean out the restrooms. He knew he had more in him. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.280 He knew he was going to make a greater impact. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.800 But he didn't slack off because he wasn't where he 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.880 wanted to be. He didn't say, when I get a 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.080 bigger congregation, I'll be my best. When I get some recognition, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.720 when these people start realizing what I have to offer, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.240 then I'll give it my awe. He was his best 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.920 right where he was. Some people in this small town 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.360 tried to discourage him, told him that he would never 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.360 make it as a pastor. He was too poor, didn't 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.640 have the training, the experience. They discounted him, tried to 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.280 make him feel insignificant. But one day. Through a series 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:23.239 of unusual events, part of his message ended up on television. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.040 The owner of a Christian network saw it and said, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.720 I want that man on my network all the time. 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:35.120 Overnight he went from an unknown, small ministry in West 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.800 Virginia to a platform reaching millions of people today. Our 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.720 friend TD Jakes doesn't have just a couple dozen people. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.640 He has thousands and has impacted the world. What happened 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.760 He got called into the house. People tried to hold 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.240 him back, his own thoughts told him, you'll never get 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.360 out of this limited environment. But he understood this principle. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.000 If you'll be faithful where you are, then when it's 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.800 your time to be called, when it's your time to 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:11.760 be promoted, to be healed, to be vindicated, all the 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.840 forces of darkness cannot hold you back. And like him, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.440 many of you have been faithful. You've done the right 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.320 thing when it was hard. You haven't listened to the 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.960 negative voices trying to discourage you. But nothing has happened. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.600 You're still in the shepherd's fields. Does it look like 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.160 you'll ever get the break you need, ever get well, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.360 ever meet the right person. You may feel overlooked, but 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.760 God is saying I haven't forgotten about you. Samuel is 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.240 on the way. You're about to be called into the house. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.840 I'm about to do what medicine can't do. I'm about 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.800 to restore what the enemy's trying to steal. I'm about 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.840 to take you where you could not go on your own. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.800 Now do your part. Keep being excellent where you are. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.960 If God can't trust you to be faithful in the wilderness, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.200 how can he trust you to be faithful in the 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:11.240 Promised Land? And those things that are not changing, people 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.920 dismissing you. Those times where you feel like you're doing 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:19.840 something insignificant, those are times of testing, times of proving 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.480 where you have to show God what you're made of. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.040 That's when your character is developed. It's easy to slack off. 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:31.640 Now this doesn't matter, it's insignificant. Nobody is watching. You 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.040 have to pass small tests before God will release big things. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.600 If you're not excellent on the level you're on, you 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.160 won't get to the next level, and you may not 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.120 like where you are. You know you have more in you. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.520 It's taken longer than your thought. But God knows what 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:53.280 he's doing. He's closely watching you. If you'll keep passing 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.880 the test, staying faithful where you are. It's just a 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.960 matter of time before you see that messenger show up 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:06.200 suddenly unexpectedly, like Bishop Jakes. Seems like another ordinary day, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.080 but the right person sees you, and your whole world changes. 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:15.080 Like David, somebody he didn't even know, the prophet Samuel 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.640 came looking for him. God knows how to get you 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.800 to where you're supposed to be. He's already lined up 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.080 your samuels who will search you out to be good 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.040 to you. Well, you said, Joe, I'd love to believe 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.600 this sounds good, but you don't know my situation. I 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.680 don't come from a prominent family. Neither did David. I 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.800 don't know anyone influential that can give me a good break, 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.760 open a door. Neither did David. I don't have a 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.120 good position. I'm doing something that seems insignificant. So was David. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.080 If you see what you're doing is not important, not significant, 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.120 most likely you won't do it with excellence. What makes 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:59.120 it incredibly important is the fact that that's where God 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:03.040 has you. Now, You're not there by accident. It holds 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.720 the key to you risen higher. Samuel won't come looking 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.919 if there's not excellence where you are. You don't have 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.439 to do it better than somebody else. Just do it 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.439 to the best of your ability. Knowing you're not working 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.480 under people, You're working under God. I talked to a 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.800 lady recently. She had been sick on and off for 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.680 two years. She had to take a leave of absence 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.840 from her job. She's a registered nurse for over thirty years, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.439 has been a model employee with the same company. She 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.920 felt badly about having to miss so much work and 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.280 not having the income was difficult on her family. She's 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.639 a single parent mom raising two children. After two years, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.120 she was cleared to go back to work, but when 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.879 she showed up, her supervisor told her that she didn't 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.120 have a job anymore, that position had been filled. After 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.680 putting all this time into this company, she was going 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.440 to lose her benefits, her seniority have to start all over. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.760 It seemed like those thirty years went down the drain. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:11.320 Her teenage children said to her, mom, You've always taught 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.359 us that God is in control, that he's going to 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.080 take care of us. These last two years. We haven't 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.000 missed a payment on the house, we haven't gone without 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.719 What makes you think that God is going to fail us. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.280 Now She's been years speaking faith and encouragement into her kids. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.600 Now those seeds of encouragement were coming back to her, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.840 and instead of being negative, thinking God's forgotten about me. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.080 Never dreamed I'd be unemployed at this age. She believed 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.760 that God had her in the palm of his hand, 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.719 that he would open the right doors. A couple of 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:51.119 weeks later, her boss's supervisor called the house. This lady 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:55.600 didn't call the company. The company called her. This boss, 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.919 this Samuel so to speak. Said I'm just checking with you, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.560 wondering when you be able to come back to work. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.840 The lady was puzzled and said, what do you mean 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.640 I came back? They told me I don't have a job. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.720 She said, are you kidding? Of course you do. You 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.800 come see me, you can start tomorrow. What was that? 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.760 She got called into the house. Samuel came looking for 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:24.040 her friends. God knows how to vindicate you. Somebody's trying 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.920 to hold you down. Don't worry. God can go over them, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.440 or he can go around them, move them out of 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.080 the way. Bottom line, God will get you to where 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.680 you're supposed to be. David's own family didn't believe in him, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.760 his father thought he was not tall enough, not talented enough, 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.560 not smart enough. The good news is when God is 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.680 ready to call you, he doesn't go check with your family. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.880 He doesn't go ask your cousin do you think they 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.040 have what it takes. He doesn't consult with your boss 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.040 if it's time to promote you. God doesn't need people's 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.800 approval to do what he wants to do in your life. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:05.560 If people don't believe in you, that's okay. The God 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.280 who created the universe, the one who matters He does. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.560 Your family may not encourage you, You can encourage yourself. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:18.760 People may not celebrate you, learn to celebrate yourself. I 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.119 know a man that was raised in Latin America. His 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:27.080 parents were missionaries to Mexico, very faithful, dedicated people. At 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.200 the age of three, his father was killed in an accident. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.760 His mother decided to stay in Mexico and continue on 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.960 the ministry while raising four small children. One day, when 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.680 they were in the States visiting relatives, they went to Washington, 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.280 d C. To take in the sites. As a young boy, 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.399 he stood on the sidewalk in front of the White 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.320 House in such awe, thinking about how the president of 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.720 the United States lives in there. He looked through the 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.200 iron fence and he could see people in the windows 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.960 of the White House going about their business. He thought 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:06.040 about what it must be like to be on the inside, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.280 all that power, prestige, influence. It was impressive enough being 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.880 on the outside. He could only imagine how important those 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.760 people were on the inside. To him. It was a 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:23.480 huge contrast from his humble missionary environment during Mexico, where 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.640 people had so little. Over the years, this young boy 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.600 discovered he had a gift of music and singing. He 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.520 could write incredible songs and play the piano. He became 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.280 a well known worship leader in Latin America, holding concerts 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:43.600 with thousands of people. A while back, he was invited 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.919 to the White House to sing for the President at 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.919 an official state dinner. As he sat on the platform 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.600 with world leaders and shared his gift, he couldn't believe 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.919 he was there. He never dreamed, as a little boy 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:03.520 raised by missionary with very little income, that one day 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:07.560 he would be inside the White House. During a break 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.840 in the program, he left the dinner and went out 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:15.159 into the hallway. He found the same windows that he 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.320 had seen people through some thirty years earlier. He looked 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:24.400 out and saw people standing behind the iron fence where 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.440 he had stood as a little boy from the outside 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:32.159 looking in. He started waving and waving. He said, I 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:35.199 wanted to tell them I was where you are. You 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:38.440 never know. One day, instead of being on the outside 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.400 looking in, you may be on the inside looking out 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.720 when you get called into the house. You don't know 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.760 where God is going to take you. But sometimes when 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.600 we see a person on the inside, in other words, 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:56.960 they're blessed, prosperous, influential, we think that will never be me. 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:00.359 I don't have the talent like him, the connection, the 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.720 good looks. None of that matters to God when you 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.920 have a heart to know him, when your best right 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:10.320 where you are, one touch of God's favor can take 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:13.280 you from the outside to the inside. You may not 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:17.920 realize it. You already have royal blood flowing through your veins. 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:21.680 You're wearing a crown of favor. God breathes his life 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:25.639 into you. He didn't create you to stay on the 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:29.960 outside to live in the shepherd's fields. Sure, there are 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:33.399 seasons that we go through tests we must pass, but 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:37.160 don't let that become permanent in your thinking. God has 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:40.440 already lined up the samuels to come push you into 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:44.119 your destiny. You may be on the outside, but get ready, 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:49.040 God's going to bring you to the inside. Growing up, 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:52.440 I used to admire my father. He was my hero 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.320 and had little children. We would travel with my parents. 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:59.399 When my dad would speak at large conferences from us 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:03.080 several thighs and people, and everybody loved my father. Afterwards, 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:05.000 they'd want to come up and shake his hand, and 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:08.960 I watched in the distance, was so proud. I used 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.640 to think I could never do what he does. He's 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.800 so smart, so talented, so creative. I came back after 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:20.240 college and spent seventeen years working behind the scenes doing 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:24.400 the television production here at Lakewood. I did my best 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:28.240 to make my father look good. But God doesn't want 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:32.800 us to go through life just celebrating others. He wants 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:33.879 you to be celebrated. 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:34.720 Now. 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:37.679 I never dreamed I would do this. I never prayed 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:40.560 that one day I would be up here. I didn't 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:43.679 think this was in me. But when Daddy went to 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:46.160 be with the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, I got 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:49.520 called into the house. I discovered talent that I didn't 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.879 know I had. Now I'm no longer on the outside 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:56.440 looking in. I'm on the inside looking out. Here's my point. 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:03.280 Sometimes thoughts will tell you you belong on the outside. 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:07.200 You know that blessed life, that prosperous, abundant life. That's 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:10.000 not for you. That's for those people that are more talented, 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:13.359 that have more beauty, that have more than you. Don't 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:18.000 believe those lies. You didn't get left out, You weren't shortchanged. 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:22.280 God put greatness in you. There are gifts and talents 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.359 you've not yet tapped into. There are new levels in 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:30.119 your future. Keep being faithful, Like David, your time is coming. 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:33.800 You're going to be called into the house. My friend 0:25:33.920 --> 0:25:36.840 John here on the front row, ran camera for us 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:40.640 at Lakewood for over twenty years. It was always faithful, 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:44.000 always had a smile, a kind word, somebody we could 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:47.159 count on. And I noticed through the years that John 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:51.399 moved very slowly. I thought that was just his personality. 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:55.440 I didn't realize that he didn't have the strength. At 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:59.800 ten years old, he was diagnosed with that defective heart, 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:04.080 didn't work, got to the place he couldn't walk upstairs, 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:07.439 drive his car, had to have medicine flowing into him 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:12.240 twenty four hours a day, intravenously. Last December, he was 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:15.880 so weak ended up in the hospital. The doctor told 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.760 him that his heart had finally given out. His only 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:22.760 chance of survival was a heart transplant. He was put 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:26.400 on the waiting list. Typically that takes up to a year. 0:26:26.960 --> 0:26:29.960 Problem is, John didn't have a year. Some of our 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:34.520 cameramen send him my message about how God can accelerate things, 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:38.720 make it happen quicker than you thought. That seed took 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:42.679 root in his spirit. Three weeks later, the doctor called 0:26:42.920 --> 0:26:45.320 said John, we have a heart for you. He had 0:26:45.320 --> 0:26:48.800 the transplant. Today, he's here. He says, he feels better 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:52.040 than he's felt in forty years. He can climb stairs, 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:57.080 he can drive again, life again, live again. John got 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:02.600 called into the house the news today. God has your number, 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:05.959 He has the heart you need, He has the healing 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:08.800 that belongs to you. He has the baby with your 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:12.000 name on it. You may be on the outside, but 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:15.639 God's about to bring you to the inside. Like John, 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:18.720 You're gonna look up and say, I feel better now 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:22.480 than I felt in years. Like me, You're not going 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:26.159 to just be celebrating and admiring others. You're going to 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:30.720 be celebrated. Friends. There are blessings in your future you've 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:34.119 never asked for, you've never thought about. You may not 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:36.840 see how it can happen. You feel like you're stuck. 0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:40.639 You're in the shepherd's fields. But God has not forgotten 0:27:40.680 --> 0:27:44.360 about you. If you'll keep being your best where you are, 0:27:44.920 --> 0:27:48.480 I believe and declare you're about to be called into 0:27:48.480 --> 0:27:51.600 the house. New doors are going to open. The right people, 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:55.719 show up, problems, turn around. The fullness of your destiny 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:59.520 in Jesus's name, if you receive it today, Can you 0:27:59.600 --> 0:28:04.360 say I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:07.600 Jesus the lord of your life. 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