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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.119 Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.800 this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:51.160 I hope you enjoy this message. We are here today 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.880 and we thank you for everything that you've done. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:54.840 We thank you You. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.160 Aren't good God, and we will worship you all the 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.480 days of our life in Jesus' name. Amen. You know 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.720 I was thinking about this earlier and I just want 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.760 to encourage you with this thought. You know, sometimes in 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.680 life we try to make things happen on our own. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.000 We're looking for our good breaks, we're looking for the 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.560 right people, we're looking for opportunities, and that's all good. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.840 But when we're struggling to make things happen, I believe 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.440 that that is not good for us. So let's take 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.240 another approach, and that approach would be all through the day, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.360 just under your breath, when you're feeling like you're struggling, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.000 when you're wondering when you're gonna get that good break, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.160 what are your prayers going to be answered? If you'll 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.920 just stop and say, God, I receive everything you have 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.400 for me. God, You've got good things stored up for 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.520 me today. And I'm not going to struggle and I'm 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.800 not going to worry, but I'm just going to be 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.440 in a receiving mode. When you go into a meeting, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.840 thank you, Father, I receive everything I need for this meeting. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.000 When you go in to see your family after a long, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.760 long day's work, take one deep breath and say God, 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.320 thank you. I'm receiving everything I need to be a 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.920 good husband, a good wife, a good mother. Thank you 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.240 Father that I don't have to struggle, but I'm just 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.560 receiving you. See the Bible says, no good thing will 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.840 he withhold for those who walk up rightly. God's not 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.120 withholding your answers. God's not withholding those good breaks. He's 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.440 not holding onto those prayers waiting for you to get 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.720 it right. If you see it or you don't see it, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.120 you should always be receiving what God has for you. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.680 I believe that's how we're going to live that exceptional life. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.400 You know, someone asked me why did you name your 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.560 book Exceptional You? And see it is because I believe 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.920 that each one of us have been called to live 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.400 this exceptional life that Jesus came to give us. I 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:55.040 believe that God is an exceptional God, and he fashioned, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.600 informed us, and created us into his exceptional image. He 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.920 felled us with gifts and talents. He gave us qualities 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.800 so that we could produce the exceptional in our life. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:14.119 You see, we're not common, we're not ordinary. We're exceptional. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:19.279 You are fearfully and wonderfully made, and God has you 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.920 on a path that is uniquely your own. We're all 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.640 in a different path, because no two paths are alike. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.200 But God's got us all on the road to victory. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.920 You see, we can't lose sight of whose we are 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.280 and who we are. You see, when we lose sight 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.920 of who we are, we take these God given attributes 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.120 and we have a tendency to reduce them down in 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.040 our own minds. We think we're not good enough, we're 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:52.520 not qualified enough. But you have to live this truth today. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.800 You are exceptional because God made you that way. See 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.080 God formed you, and he fashioned you, and he he 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.840 says you are exceptional. In Ephesians one four, it says 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.320 that God chose us before the foundation of the world. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.320 He adopted us to be his very own, not because 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.960 he had to, but because he wanted to. And in 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:21.159 that adoption he brought us in to a family, his family. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.599 He not only placed tremendous value and worth on our life, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:32.039 but he labeled us property of God. Your identity today 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.640 is a child of the most High God. When you 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:41.080 understand who you belong to and you really value what 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.680 God is placed on the inside of you, that's when 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.600 you're going to be able to stand up against challenges, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.039 overcome obstacles. See, you're not going to be tossed to 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.480 and fro wondering if you're good enough. Is God helping me? No? 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.039 You know, the creator of the universe is in full 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.120 control of your life, and his thoughts are for you. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.279 You are for good and not evil, to give you 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:07.440 a future and a hope. Don't disqualify yourself when God 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.560 has already qualified you. Sometimes we discount what we have, 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.320 but God will never discount us. In Matthew, he tells 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.720 a story about Jesus. He had fasted forty days and 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:23.080 forty nights. He was led into the wilderness and he 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.839 came upon the enemy. Now he was weak, he was hungry, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.320 he was tired. He was vulnerable. See how I say 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.719 that word vulnerable. My kids make fun of me so 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.200 much because I don't know how to say that word vulnerable. Okay, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:44.320 let's move on. He was facing the enemy, and you 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.159 know it's interesting because the first thing the enemy did 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:53.919 was challenge his identity, challenge who he was and his worth. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.159 He was hungry. So the enemy offered him some stones 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.800 and said, if you are the son of God, turn 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:07.680 these stones into bread. If you are the son of God. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:13.960 See questioning who he was, challenging his worth, his value, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:19.160 his capability. See we know that Jesus could turn stones 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.680 into bread because we see later on in that chapter 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.440 that he took a little boy's sandwich and he fed 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.200 five thousand with it. See, he could make some bread, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.440 but he wasn't going to make anything that the enemy 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.000 told him to make. He wasn't going to answer to 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.400 the enemy. He wasn't going to accept his challenge. You 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.560 know what he did. He answered him with this. It 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.320 is written, man shall not have lived by bread alone, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.720 but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.840 of God. You see, the enemy is still roaming around. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.360 He's still trying to challenge and disqualify us. We don't 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.040 have to prove ourself. We don't have to answer to him. See, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.680 Jesus wasn't going to get out of his timing. It 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.560 wasn't yet his time. God hadn't told him to multiply 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.080 the bread. God didn't tell him to turn those stones 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.760 into bread. The enemy was trying to get him to 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.760 step out of his time and do something to prove 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.440 who he was. You see, you and I don't have 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.640 to prove who we are to any enemy, to any opposition, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.320 to any circumstance that we're facing. You may be facing 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.360 a challenge right now, you don't have to prove yourself. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.680 The enemy may be saying, if God loves you, then 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.840 why are you going through this? If God loves you, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.840 if you are a child of God, why are you divorced? 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.880 You see, he wants you to take a fits and say, God, 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.120 why am I doing this? But when you know who 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.800 you are, you can say God, I know, and we'll 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.920 get through this, and I'm gonna come out of it 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:59.199 better more qualified than I went in. You see, don't 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:05.120 forget who you are and who you are. You are exceptional. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.360 I love this story I heard Joel's father tell. It 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.719 was a story about he and his friend Jesse, and 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.080 they went to a high school football game where Jesse's 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.160 son was playing ball, and so Jesse was so excited 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.200 to take Daddy, oh that's what I call him, to 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.280 see his son play football. So they're sitting in the 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.439 bleachers and this young man was having a bad day 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.120 out on the field. Every time he would get the ball, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.920 he would just fumble it. Anytime he tried to get 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.800 it down the field, he just seemed to drop it 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.800 or or someone would just take it from him. So 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.480 he had one more chance, and they're sitting on the 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.839 edge of their seats and he got the ball under 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.200 his arm, gonna take it down the field. He stepped 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.840 to the right, and he stepped to the left. All 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.840 of a sudden, these two big old guys came and 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.200 just tackled him, just took him to the ground. Well, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.560 my father in law was like, Oh, what do I do? 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.840 What do I say? You're sitting there so quiet, a 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.120 little bit embarrassed for Jesse. And then a few minutes 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.960 later he felt this his elbow going in his ribs, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.000 and he looked at his friend Jesse, and Jesse said, John, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.600 did you see my son's two good moves? You see 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.520 that was a proud father, a father who was cheering 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.920 his son on, even on a bad day. And sometimes 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.960 we think that God is sitting in the bleachers just 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:26.320 watching us fumble through life, just seeing why can't they 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.520 get it right? Almost hanging his head in embarrassment. But 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.160 can I tell you you, sir, a good God. You 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.920 have a loving, heavenly father who not only cheers you on, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.080 who not only supports you, but he came down from 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.960 heaven to help you along the way. It's up to 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.920 us to make a decision. We are exceptional. Hey, just 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.679 because you're exceptional doesn't mean you're not going to face challenges, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:57.160 but through those challenges you can develop these exceptional attitudes, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:02.160 these exceptional choices, because real to produce exceptional is all 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.240 about your choices, and it's about your attitude. You see, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:10.120 God wants you to have an attitude of victory. He 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.720 doesn't want you to have an attitude of defeat. See, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.880 every day we have the opportunity to hit the reset button. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.679 God's mercies are new every single day. We can adjust 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.000 and we can align ourself to God. If you feel 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.640 yourself getting off course, just make the necessary adjustments to 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.000 get back in line with God. He's right there. He's 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.040 cheering you on. He is saying, get up and go again. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:40.240 You see, you can't fail unless you quit. Don't disqualify yourself. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:45.720 You know, when we walk in this exceptional, this exceptional life, 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.800 we are giving an invitation for those around us to 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.840 come in and be exceptional. We're giving them permission to 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.400 be exceptional. Why is that? Because when we know who 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.240 we are, we reflect who we are on other people people. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.560 That means we don't judge. That means we have mercy, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:08.600 We extend grace. They see our influence and it allows 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:13.160 them to have a picture of exceptional that they can follow. You. See, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.320 I believe that our friends and our family are watching us, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:22.040 and we have a tremendous influence. So know this today, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.880 you are exceptional because God made you that way. In fact, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.920 I believe I'm looking at exceptional people right now because 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.840 if you weren't exceptional, you wouldn't be sitting here today. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.320 You wouldn't be pressing through those obstacles and those challenges 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.280 you're facing. You wouldn't be coming to this altar believing 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.720 that you serve a God that can help you. You See, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.600 if you weren't exceptional, you would have already quit and 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.880 you'd have already given up. So I just believe today, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.960 because you are exceptional, God is helping you produce that 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:58.120 exceptional life. You will overcome your challenges, You will defeat 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.199 every enemy. You will go to new levels. Because if 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:06.240 God is for you, who dare be against you? Amen? Amen. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.720 He's an awesome God and we love him so much. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:13.679 Today, thank you for listening to the Joel Ostein podcast. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.640 Help us continue to share the message of hope with 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.720 those all over the world. Visit Joelostin dot com slash 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.840 give Hope to give a gift today. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.720 Thanks for listening to the podcast. Be sure to subscribe 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.839 so you can get all of the latest messages. No 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.080 that we pray for you. 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