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God Remembers You
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It’s easy to feel forgotten or insignificant when we're still waiting for our dreams to come to pass. But the Scripture says God never forgets us. He sees every struggle and trial, and He's working to lead you into victory. Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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He rewards people that seek after 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.920 Him and I believe that's you and you here as well. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.960 And if you're ever in our area, come by and 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.320 see us. I promise you we'll make you feel right 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.040 at home. But thanks for tuning in today. I like 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.200 to start with something funny each week. And I heard 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.040 about these three ministers. They were out in a boat 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.680 fishing one day, and one of them said, we never 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.800 get to let our hair down. Let's each tell the 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.160 area that we struggle in the most, our greatest sin, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.400 so we can pray for each other. The first minister said, well, 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.320 I hate to admit this, but I got a big 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.880 problem with gambling. Sometimes I sneak out at night go gamble. 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.040 The second minister said, I've got a big problem with cheating. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.480 I hardly ever pay my taxes. The third minister just 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.200 sat there quietly. They waited and waited and waited. He 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.799 wouldn't budge. They said, listen, we are not leaving till 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.120 you tell us your greatest sin. He said, all right, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.079 my greatest struggle is with gossiping, and. 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:56.680 I can't wait to get off this boat. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:02:59.239 All rid. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.200 Hold up your bible, say it like you mean it. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.839 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.760 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.520 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.600 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.120 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.840 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.920 to talk to you today about how God remembers you. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.120 It's easy in life to feel forgotten, or at least 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.160 to feel insignificant, like our hopes and dreams don't really matter. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.000 We all go through seasons where we're not seeing any progress, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.680 No new doors are opening, no breaks are coming our way, 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.880 just more the same month after month, even year after year, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.560 and so often we lose our enthusiasm, we get discouraged, 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.520 and we drag through life thinking nobody's interested. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.160 This is never going to change. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.400 Had a man tell me recently, Joel, I've been praying 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.080 about a situ situation for years, but I don't see 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.760 anything happening. What was he saying? I feel forgotten? Another 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.160 lady told how she had been in an abusive relationship. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.960 She was so beaten down she couldn't even look at 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.000 me with her head down, she said, I don't feel 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.760 like I matter anymore. Let me ask you, have you 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.599 ever felt forgotten? Have you ever prayed and prayed but 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.520 it seemed like God was on vacation. Have you ever 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.240 had those seasons when everybody around you is being blessed, 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.520 but you're not seeing any good breaks. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.799 Seems like you've been left out. Or maybe you're. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.200 In a relationship, you're married, but you feel all alone. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.080 You have a smile on the outside, but on the 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.520 inside you're empty. Nobody knows, and it seems like nobody cares. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.320 It's easy to feel forgotten, but there's a great promise 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.080 In Isaiah forty nine point fifteen, God said, I will 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.160 never forget you. I have carved you into the palm 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:03.120 of my hand. What news today is you are not forgotten. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.760 You may have had that sickness for years, looks like 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.520 it's never going to change. But God knows every lonely night, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.120 he sees every tear you've ever shed. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.159 He's got your. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.400 Carved into the palm of his hand. You are not forgotten. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.640 Maybe you have a dream in your heart, but every 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.160 time you try, seems like one door after another closes. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.640 Looks like it's never gonna have, looks like it's over. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.359 But no, God has not forgotten about you. In fact, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.159 even right now, he's working in your life, arranging the 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.160 right people, the right breaks, the right opportunities, and at 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.440 just the right time in your due season, You're going 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.039 to see that dream come to fulfillment. Maybe you're a parent, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.440 you're raising your children, You're making all kinds of sacrifices 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.599 so their dreams can come to pass. But know this, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.719 God has not forgotten about your dreams. He has not 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.240 forgotten about the goals that you put on hold. Your 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.840 children can go further. He sees those sacrifices. He's saying, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.120 I'm not only going to help your children succeed, but 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.960 I'm going to help you fulfill the desires of your 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.680 own heart. Now, I want you to get your hopes 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.000 up today. Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.919 People may forget you, but God will never forget about you. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.680 People may do you wrong, people may betray you, people 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.640 may leave you when you need them the most. But 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.520 God is the friend that sticks closer than a brother. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.479 And when life deals you a tough blow, when you pray, 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.760 but the heavens are silent when it's taken longer than 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.000 you think, you need to remind yourself of this promise. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.200 God has not forgotten about me. He is not forgotten 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.200 about my hopes and dreams. He's not forgotten about the 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:51.880 unfair things I've been through. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.000 He's promised he'll pay me back double. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.120 He's not forgotten about my years of sacrificing, my years 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.920 of giving, my years of serving, all those seeds that 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.800 you've suwn. It's just a matter of time before you 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:09.200 reap your harvest. You remember that famous song by Nat 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.480 King Cold, Unforgettable. That's what I'm saying today. You are 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.400 unforgettable to our God. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:16.760 You matter to him. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.880 He has carved you into the palm of his hand. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.360 When God looks at you, all he can say is 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.760 that's my masterpiece. That child makes me proud. That young 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.360 person brings a smile to my face. That single parent mom, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.640 she brings joy to my spirit. Our attitude should be. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.720 I am not going to drag through life negative, defeated, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.680 feeling alone, left out, forgotten. I know God remembers me. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.880 I talked to a lady one time. She was here 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.679 in town for cancer treatment there at the medical center. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.000 She was from a smaller city, and she was very 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.000 nervous about the treatment to begin with, and she was 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.240 nervous about being in a large city all by herself. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.720 She was gonna have to be here for at least 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:01.520 three months. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.400 In the first couple of weeks, she felt so alone, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.400 nobody to talk to, like she had been forgotten, and 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.840 her dream was to come to one of our services. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.160 She always watches us on television, but she didn't know anybody. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.840 She didn't have a ride. Also, she had. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.320 Special medical needs that made it even more difficult to travel. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.480 But one day in the cafeteria line there at the hospital, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.240 she overheard the couple behind her talking about how they 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.360 come out to Lakewood each weekend, and just in passing, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.480 she said, boy, I sure like watching it on television. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.760 That couple said, how about this, We'll come by and 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.679 pick you up this Sunday and bring you to a service. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.120 That was a dream come true. She was thrilled they 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.440 brought her. She told how when she walked in all 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.400 she could do is weep and weep. The greeters gave 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.600 her a hug at the door, and when they found 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.160 out she was a visitor, they brought her down. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.920 And sat her on the very front row. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.360 She was so excited, she told me afterwards, Joel, I 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:08.040 got to sit right by your brother. Paul. I apologized. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.520 She said, you're right, he's not near as good looking 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.679 as you are. She didn't say that, but I know 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:21.720 she was thinking that. But what was that God remembering her, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.400 having the right people at the right place, letting her 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:26.880 know she was not forgotten. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:28.960 Here's how laquid people are. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.960 They said, we'll come by and get you every Sunday 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.440 as long as you're in town. For three months, she 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:39.400 attended our services. Friends, you are not forgotten. I think 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.400 about Joseph. He was betrayed by his brothers, he was 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.440 falsely accused by a lady, spent thirteen years in prison 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.199 for something he didn't do. I'm sure he must have 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.719 felt God's forgotten about me. Look how my life has 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.480 turned out. I thought I had a dream, thought I 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:57.120 had a promise. 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:58.120 I must have been wrong. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.800 No, those times when things aren't going our way, those 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.400 are seasons of testing. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:04.840 What are we made of? 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.840 What kind of attitude are we gonna have? Are we 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.600 gonna get negative, bitter, blame God? Or are we going 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.040 to stay in faith knowing that God has us in 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.400 the palm of his hand. Joseph had a gift of 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.439 interpreting dreams, and one day in the prison he interpreted 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.079 the dream of one of his cellmates. He told Pharah's 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.680 butler that this butler was going to get out in 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.600 three days time. He said, listen, I've done you a 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.480 favor by interpreted in this dream. Do me a favor 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.400 when you get out, tell Pharaoh about me. Sure enough, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.000 the butler got out three days later. But wouldn't you 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:44.200 know it, he forgot all about Joseph. And sometimes the 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.720 people that owe you the most will forget about you 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.360 the quickest. But don't worry. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:49.359 Don't get discouraged. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.720 Just because they forgot about you, does it mean God 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.079 forgot about you. It wasn't long after that that Joseph 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.920 got out, he got promoted. I love what he said. 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.000 What was it from my hearm? God used to my advantage? 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.720 When you in those difficulties, doesn't look like it's ever 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:10.920 going to change, keep reminding yourself. God has not forgotten 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.319 about me. Several years ago, our little niece Savannah was 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.640 spending the weekend with us. Little Savannah was probably about 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.319 seven years old at that time. This is my sister 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.480 April's daughter. And on Sundays, Victoria and I take different 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.160 cars to church. I come a little bit earlier, and 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.120 in the middle of the song service. I leaned over 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.840 to Victoria and said, where is Savannah sitting? She said, 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.400 I don't know Where did you put her? I said, 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.080 I didn't put her anywhere. I didn't bring her. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.640 You brought her. Her eyes got real big. She said, no, Joel, I. 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.280 Thought you brought her. My heart sunk. We left my 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.400 little niece at home all by herself. My mind began 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.600 to raise all these crazy thoughts. I just watched the 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:56.439 movie the week before, home alone. I didn't know if 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.120 she was there hollering and screaming. I didn't know if 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.720 she had left and gone to the neigh I didn't 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.880 know she'd be scarred for life. Here I'm in the 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.640 middle of a service, trying to look spiritual, trying up 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.000 here holy on the inside, I'm in a total panic. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:15.720 I can already see the headlines. Pastor arrested, leaving child 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.840 home alone. We didn't know whether we should call the 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.600 police or what we were at the other campus thirty 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.200 minutes away from our home, and we finally got in 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.520 touch with my brother in law, Kevin. He lives close, 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.199 and he ran to my house as quickly as possible. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.520 When he got there, there was little Savannah sitting at 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.800 the back door, just as peaceful as can be, had 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.640 a smile on her face, not the least bit worried, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.800 not the least bit upset. First thing she said to 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:46.319 Kevin was I knew you would remember me. She was saying, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.600 I knew it's just a matter of time before somebody 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.120 showed up. I asked her later, Savannah, weren't you worried? 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.320 Weren't you afraid? Weren't you upset? She said, no, Uncle Jojo, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:01.960 my mother has left me before. I thought, that's where 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.600 I get it from April. But I thought, if we 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:10.000 could just have that same kind of childlike faith when 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.319 we feel alone, when we feel forgotten, when things aren't 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.679 going our way, Instead of getting negative, bitter into self pity, no, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.240 shake that off and say, like little Savannah, I'm not worried. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.120 I know God remembers me. I know it's just a. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.200 Matter of time before he shows up and turns it around. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:33.080 That phrase God remembers you is found seventy three times 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.439 in the scripture. It doesn't just mean that God doesn't 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.200 forget about you. It's more significant than that. When God 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:44.080 remembers you, it means he's going to overwhelm you with 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.720 his favor. He is going to surprise you with his goodness. 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.760 When God remembers you, it means he is going to 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.040 show up and show out like you've never seen before. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.280 That's what happened to a young lady in the Bible. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:58.880 Her name was Rachel. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.120 She wanted to have a child so badly. She tried 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.400 and tried, but just couldn't conceive. Her wound was burn 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.840 and back in those days, a woman was really looked 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:10.360 down on if she couldn't give. 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.360 Her husband a child. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.840 It was like it not only brought shame to her, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.480 but it brought shame to her husband. Year after year 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.280 went by and Rachel felt so alone, so empty, like 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.280 she was less than she was supposed to be. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.320 To make matters worse, her sister Leah. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.600 Kept having baby after baby. It was like rubbing salt 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.680 in the wound. But one day something happened that turned 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:40.120 everything around. The scripture says that God remembered Rachel. Isn't 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:44.360 it interesting It doesn't say that Rachel remembered God. And 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.520 of course it's good when we reach out to God 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.400 when we remember him, but it's even more significant when 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:55.040 God remembers you. God is so merciful when we don't 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.360 feel like we have any more strength to believe, when 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.400 we prayed so much, we can't pray any longer. When 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.760 we've gotten so discouraged, we just give up on the 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.760 promise and think it's not meant to be. That's exactly 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:11.240 where Rachel was. But notice what happened. God remembered her 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:16.080 and answered her plea and gave her a child. Friends, 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.960 when God remembers you, it doesn't matter how long it's 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.200 been that way, doesn't matter how impossible it looks. God 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.760 is going to turn it around. You may feel like 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:30.280 Rachel today, alone, forgotten, empty. Maybe you've given up on 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.000 a dream. You've already accepted the fact that you're never 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:35.280 going to be able to have a child. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:36.520 You're never going to. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.960 Go back to college like you wanted to, you're never 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.080 going to be successful in your finances, in your marriage. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.200 You've written it off. But understand, just because you write 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.560 it off doesn't mean God writes it off. God remembers 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.280 not only you, He remembers the dream he put on 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:59.560 the inside. He remembers the goals, the promises, your deepest desires. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.040 You may have already said I'll just forget about it, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.960 but God says, no, no, no, I remember it. I'm 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.080 the one that put the dream in you, and I 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.080 still have a way to bring it to pass. I 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:11.080 heard about this lady. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.880 She was about to lose her house. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.840 She had been laid off and couldn't make her payments, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.040 and eventually it was foreclosed on, and now the bank 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.520 was about to put it up for auction. She had 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.880 already accepted the fact that it was over, that that 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.880 chapter in her life was through. She was doing her 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.320 best to deal with it, but down deep, she was 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.920 very heartbroken. That's where she had raised her children. She 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.400 was a single parent mother, and I'm sure she felt 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.880 kind of like Rachel, alone, forgotten, like nobody really cares, 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.760 and just to get some kind of closure, she went 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.760 to the auction where they were selling off these homes, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.240 including her own. While she was there, all she could 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.040 do is weep and weep, seeing her house up there 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.720 on the docket to be auctioned off. And while she 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.800 was weeping, a lady close by noticed something was wrong, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.440 came up and ask her what was going on, and 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.040 she explained how she had lost her job and now 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:05.600 her home was about to be solved. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.800 The lady asked which home was it, she pointed to it. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.600 When it came time for this home to be auctioned off, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.320 the lady bid on it, and bid on it, and 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.600 bid on it. She eventually won the bid, and now 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.000 she owned the house of her new friend. She turned 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.679 to her and said, I came here to buy my 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.040 son a house, but I realize now God sent me here. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.960 To buy your house and I want to give it 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:30.439 back to you. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:37.120 Think about this. That lady came in their heart broken. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.639 She was expecting to say goodbye, expecting to see it gone. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.960 But God had other plans. He made a way when 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.520 it looked like there was no way. What was that 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.399 God remembering her. Some of you today you have written 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.840 off dreams, You've given up on promises that you know 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.879 God's put in your heart. But God is saying he 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.120 has not forgotten about you. He still has a way 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:02.760 to turn that situation around. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:04.320 Even if you were to. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.440 Lose your house you don't know, God can send somebody 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:08.720 to buy it and give it back to you. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.560 He can bring you a new house. 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.400 If you were to lose your job, God can give 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.760 you a better job with better benefits, making better money. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.639 If somebody were to walk out of your life, God 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:24.080 can bring somebody better into your life. God remembers you, 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.439 He remembers the dreams. He's placed on the inside. He 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.359 remembers the destiny you were created for. He remembers the 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.600 assignment you've been given. People may try to push you down. 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.560 Sometimes our circumstances will make us feel like we're alone 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.320 and forgotten. But all through the day we should go 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.399 around saying, Father, thank you. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:46.480 That you're remembering me. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:51.840 You're remembering your promises, you're remembering my dreams, you're remembering 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.600 my destiny. I know this man that was out taking 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.800 a height through the woods and he got caught in 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.960 a terrible snowstorm. Man was a good person. He was 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.480 nice and kind, but he didn't really give God the 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.560 time of day. He's just living his own life, doing 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.000 his own thing. Then this storm, it got so bad 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.240 that he lost all sense of direction. It was quickly 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:18.280 getting dark. He wasn't an experienced hiker. He didn't have 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.600 the proper gear. He was just out trying to get 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.680 some exercise, and he knew he couldn't survive out there 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.960 all night in the cold. He began to get disoriented 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.920 and sleepy, common conditions when your body starts to shut 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.120 down because. 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:32.359 Of the cold. 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.359 He saw this small crevice in some rocks and he 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.400 went over and laid down. He woke up the next 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.920 morning as warm as toast. When he regained consciousness, much 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.000 to his surprise, there was this huge, shaggy dog that 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.080 had come in there and curled up next to him. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.600 That dog acted just like a heater. He didn't know 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.960 where the dog had come from. There was no dog 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.600 there the night before. But if it had not been 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.560 for that shaggy dog, he wouldn't be alive today. Now 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.239 that gentleman is outspoken about his faith, he has a 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.919 ministry of his own. Everywhere he goes, he tells people 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:09.720 what God has. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:10.200 Done for him. 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.880 Friends, God knows your purpose. He knows what you were 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.080 put here to do. And even when people don't give 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.880 God the time of day, even when they just live 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.960 for themselves, God has not forgotten the destiny He created 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:26.400 them for. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.119 I think about a young man in South Korea. He 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.520 was dying. He had tuberculosis. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.879 One of his lungs had collapsed. As he laid in 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.240 his bed at home in so much pain, just waiting 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.680 to die, he began to call out to his different gods. 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:44.080 One by one. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.640 He cried out to this God, please help me. There 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.800 was no answer. He called out to another God the 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:55.800 same thing, and again and again and again. Finally, in desperation, 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:00.439 he said, if there's any God up there anywhere, I 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.159 don't ask you to heal me. I just ask you 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.560 to show me how to die. He was afraid to die. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.920 A few hours later, a young college student walking through 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:16.280 the neighborhood felt what she called an unexplainable love drawing 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.080 her to his house. She went up to the door, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.560 not even knowing really what she was doing. A lady answered, 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.159 she said, I know this sounds very, very odd, but 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:28.119 is there anything I can pray with you about? 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:29.440 It was the mother. 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.280 She began to weep and weep she said, yes, my 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:33.920 son is on his deathbed. 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:35.480 That lady went in. 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.080 She prayed for the young man, and that day that 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.879 young man gave his life to Christ. To make a 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:45.720 long story short, God supernaturally healed him, and today, many 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:49.320 years later, he is the pastor of the largest. 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:49.919 Church in the world. 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.879 Doctor Paul Jungi Cho has over five hundred thousand people 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.720 in his church in South Korea. What am I saying? 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:03.560 God has not forgotten about you. He knows the calling 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.280 on your life. He knows what you were put here for, 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:09.600 and you need to do everything you can in the natural, 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:14.119 but what you cannot do, God is going to supernaturally arrange. 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:17.359 I'm sure that young man felt alone and forgotten and 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:20.119 all that pain and all that suffering. But what he 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.880 didn't realize was there was a creator that knew him 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.120 before he was ever born, a God that had already 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:31.200 purposed that he touched thousands. Sickness tried to stop him. 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.040 But sickness is not too big for our God. What 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:36.560 is it that you think. 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:37.920 God cannot do? 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:40.480 Do you have a family member, a relative that you 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.399 think is too far gone. Do you have a coworker, 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.920 a friend, a neighbor that you think is just too sarcastic, 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.440 too cynical, too much of a partier. No, God has 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:54.399 not written them off. God remembers them. And when God 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:58.480 remembers supernatural things are going to happen. I want to 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:01.680 breathe new life into your faith today. You may be 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:04.919 here like that young man, feel like you'll never get well, 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.400 you'll never get over that sickness. But no, we serve 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.239 a God that is not limited to the natural. You 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.919 have an assignment, you have a destiny to fulfill, and 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:17.679 no matter how bad it looks in the natural. No 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:21.200 matter how many obstacles are in your path, God has 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:24.600 not forgotten about you. He is not going to take 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:27.840 away his calling on your life. You may be living 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:32.040 far below where you're supposed to, You may be far 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:35.280 away from where you know in your heart God wants you, 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.119 but you might as well get ready because the Most 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:41.040 High God is not going to write you off. And 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:45.359 when God remembers you, all the forces of darkness cannot 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:49.760 keep you from fulfilling your purpose. Sickness can't stop it, 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.879 a disappointment can't stop it. Another person can't stop it. 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:56.440 God said He's going to lift you out of the pit, 0:23:56.960 --> 0:23:59.080 set your feet on a rock, and put a new 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:02.200 song in your heart. You need to get your fireback 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:05.080 and start expecting to fulfill. 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:06.840 The dreams that you once had. 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.240 It may look like those dreams have died, but God 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:14.000 can resurrect dead dreams. Those promises may have been pushed 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:18.399 down by disappointment, by an unfair situation, by sickness, but 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:21.439 God has not forgotten about you. And when the Most 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:25.000 High remembers there is nothing that can keep you from 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:28.240 your destiny. There was a little girl born into a 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:32.520 very dysfunctional home. She was abused and neglected. There was 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:35.919 no consistency in this family. She'd never really felt what 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:38.680 true love was all about, and in the natural, all 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:41.720 the odds were against her. Didn't look like she would 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.679 ever amount to much. It got so bad as a 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:47.560 young girl she asked the authorities if she could be 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:50.720 removed from her own home. The judge studied it all, 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:54.040 and he had her place in foster care. This young 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:58.560 lady felt alone, confused, and forgotten. Several months later, she 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:01.520 agreed to be a part of a special program. She 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.840 would be adopted by a single parent mom living in 0:25:04.880 --> 0:25:09.640 a small community dedicated to helping other foster care children. 0:25:10.160 --> 0:25:14.760 She began to excel in school. She became an honor student, 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:18.320 a leader that the other children looked up to. One day, 0:25:18.359 --> 0:25:21.320 she was invited, along with the other leaders that ran 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.800 the foster care community there, to be on a national 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:28.600 talk show. On this program, the host asked her, what 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:31.920 are dreams and goals for the future were This young 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:35.280 lady said, my dream is to one day go to 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:39.040 Harvard University so I can help others like so many 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:42.440 people have helped me. A few days later, she got 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:45.320 a call from out of state the lady said, I 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:47.119 saw y'all on the program this week. 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:48.720 I have a question for you. 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:53.919 Would you accept a scholarship to Yale University instead? The 0:25:53.960 --> 0:25:57.119 young lady agreed, today she's headed to Yale. 0:25:57.320 --> 0:25:58.080 What am I saying? 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:01.560 No matter who's tried to push you down, no matter 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:05.760 how many unfair things you've been through, God has not 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:09.520 forgotten about you. He said, he would be a father 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:13.560 to the fatherless. When people do you wrong, Your heavenly 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:16.479 father will defend you when you need a good break. 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:20.280 Your heavenly father will show you favor when it looks impossible. 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:23.560 Your heavenly father will make a way where it looked 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:26.919 like there was no way. Doctor Bill Henson was the 0:26:26.960 --> 0:26:29.600 pastor of the Methodist church here in town for years, 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:33.040 good friend of our family. He told how when his 0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:35.679 children were younger, he went out to pick up the 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:39.159 newspaper one morning and he saw a baby owl lying 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:41.840 on the ground. His kids ran out to look at it, 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:43.760 and they wanted to pick it up and hold it, 0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:46.400 but he cautioned them not to until he found out 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:49.040 more about the little owl. He called a friend of his, 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:52.040 a local veterinarian. He asked about how you should take 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:54.040 care of it and any information on the owl. And 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:59.040 the veterinarian said, sometimes the strong winds can blow the 0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:01.679 owl out of the neck, or sometimes the owl is 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:04.719 just over confident and tries to fly before it's able. 0:27:05.080 --> 0:27:07.520 But he said, in any case, it's good you didn't 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:08.400 try to pick it up. 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:10.560 Doctor Henson said, why's that. 0:27:11.119 --> 0:27:12.919 He said, because if you go out and look up 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:15.760 in the trees, there's a good chance you will see 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:20.000 a mama owl looking down closely watching that baby owl. 0:27:20.440 --> 0:27:22.000 So of course they ran out there as fast as 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.040 they could. They looked up, and sure enough, in the 0:27:24.040 --> 0:27:27.080 top of this pine tree, there was a large mama 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:31.560 owl with these huge eyes staring directly down at them, 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:34.360 just like she was ready to swoop in and protect 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:37.240 that little baby. She's just standing on guard at attention. 0:27:37.920 --> 0:27:41.040 The veterinarian went on to say, even if it means 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:44.080 giving her own life, if something were to try to 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:47.320 harm that baby owl, she would do everything she could 0:27:47.440 --> 0:27:50.359 to protect it. And the good news is, just like 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:54.879 that mama owl, your heavenly father is looking down right now, 0:27:55.200 --> 0:27:59.680 closely watching over you. Sometimes in life you may feel 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:03.560 like this strong winds have knocked you down. At times 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:06.600 you may feel like you're alone and forgotten. But if 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:09.280 you can just remember to look up, you'll see those 0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:12.240 heavenly eyes looking right back down at you. You'll see 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:15.719 those eyes of love, those eyes of compassion, just waiting 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:19.600 to rescue, to protect, to defend. Now, I want you 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:22.520 to have this confidence today that no matter where you 0:28:22.680 --> 0:28:25.960 are in life, no matter what comes against you, you 0:28:26.040 --> 0:28:29.879 are not alone. You are not forgotten. God remembers you. 0:28:30.520 --> 0:28:33.760 He remembers the dreams he's put on the inside. He 0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:37.359 remembers the promises you're holding on too, He remembers the 0:28:37.400 --> 0:28:42.320 sacrifices you've made. You are unforgettable to our God. When 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:46.960 God remembers you, just like Rachel, supernatural things are gonna happen. 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:50.320 The dark clouds are gonna give way to the sunshine. 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:53.880 The bar and womb is gonna conceive. The shaggy dog 0:28:54.000 --> 0:28:56.560 is going to keep you warm. Who knows one phone 0:28:56.560 --> 0:28:58.880 call may lead you to a major university. 0:28:59.360 --> 0:29:00.440 And if you'll start your. 0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:03.040 Faith up and believe that God is watching over you, 0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:06.520 believe that nothing can keep you from your destiny, then 0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:09.120 you're gonna see God show up and show out in 0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:12.560 amazing ways. He is gonna give you favor to accomplish 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:16.280 your dreams. He's gonna supernaturally heal your body. 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